Er NNO BY RP. GRAY MEEK. Ink Slings. —The big cyclone in Iowa last Thursday was something more than 8 mere silver blow. —Some say lite is nothing but a span. If this be true the bridge of sighs must be on the suspension order. —The frequency with which war clouds roll up in foreign lands is only equaled by the frequency with which they disappear again. —Talking about having money to | burn, the followers of JEFF DAvis had plenty of it after LEE laid down his arms at Appomattox. —A revolution has broken out in Equador. Goodness, the revolution spirit seems to be spreading. Let us hope that it won't get as far as Pennsyl- vania. -—There was a royal shaking up in Italy Monday night when the rail-road carriage, in which King Humbert and Queen Marghareta were sleeping, ran off the track. —A Chester Republican club recent- ly celebrated its fifth anniversary with a planked shad supper. Let us see, this same club must have had crow soup on its second anniversary. —The Legislature having refused to legalize public boxing contests it looks very much as if it delegated to itself the right to do whatever scrapping is need- ed in Pennsylvania. —Those Jersey glass-blowers who struck because they could’nt have ice- water to drink must be peculiar fellows. Now if it had of been beer, why that would have been different. —The Legislature has killed the bill for the appointment of a Depaty Audi- tor General. Was this a mistake or are the Legislators at last beginning to un- derstand that they are public servants and not public fleecers. —When his nibs, the Prince 0’ Wales, comes over to Newport this summer it might be well to show him a few specimens of the idiotic An- glo-American that has come into exis- tence through his unwitting leadership. —The Pittsburg Times remarks that “the Legislature will sweat it out to the first week in June—if not longer.” Yes, dear Zi%mes, but don’t you think it can afford a little sweating after having made it so hot for the people of the State ? —A battle royal between a bull and a lion had been advertised to take place at Monterey, Mexico, on Sunday. A large crowd paid to see the sight, but the lion showed more sense than any of the persons concerned in the affair, it refused to fight. —C(Centre county has a jingo represen- tative at Harrisburg. The other even- ing WOMELSDORRF undertook to have resolutions of sympathy for Cuban revolutionists passed by the Legislature. It would be well if speaker WALTON would tell him that the federal govern- ment will tolerate no such jingoistic demonstrations. But if he must have resolutions of sympathy passed for some persecuted people—why not for those of Pennsylvania, who are driven almost to distraction by this very Legislature. —The terrible grip the gold people have on our government is becoming manifest again in the movement now on foot to force another issuance of bonds. The MORGAN-ROTHSCHILD syn- dicate, having the option on any bonds issued before October 1st, is paying a premium on refined gold and gobbling it up at the rate of from two and one- half to three million dollars per month. The natural channel has been diverted from the the U.S. mints and it is but reasonable to suppose that a shortage in the reserve will follow and necessitate another loan. —After all the Democratic party does not exist merely for winning and the spoils that follow a successful con- test. 1ts history is one of defeat rather than victory, but in its great battles for purer government the country has its rock of salvation. Were it not for the indomitable spirit that has always characterized Democracy in her campaigns for right our government would undoubtedly have fallen in its own rottenness long ere this. To the party of JEFFERSON, to the party of JACKSON then let the honor be for the stability of our free institutions. —Dr. KEELEY, the gold cure ‘dis- coverer’’ is in a predicament. The oth- alten Aemocratic STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. "NOL, 40 “BELLEFONTE, PA, MAY 10, 1 q @ 2? YAN, ’ lang 895. Will the Sore be Probed? Senator PENROSE's proposition to probe Philadelphia's municipal sore has excited a variety of conflicting feel- ings. Those who believe that the city government is rotten to the core, and have no interest in concealing the cor- ruption, want an investigation. PEN- rosk and hie clique are chiefly con- cerned in showing up the iniquity of the other Republican faction. If they could confine it to that point they would wish it to go no farther. There are interested parties who would suffer personally from an expo sition, and from thie quarter comes the bitterest opposition to LExow proceed" ings. These are the fellows who, if investigation were followed out to its logical conclusion, would go to the penitentiary. When a member of the city council last week, probably from a spirit of mischief, offered a resolution inviting investigation of the city ‘gov- ernment, a panic ensued which sub- sided only after an almost unanimous vote was cast against so dangerous an invitation. The Republican politicians, as a rule, are opposed to the PENROSE movement. The ground of their objection is that it would hurt the party. The organs in the city that are loud for municipal re- form between elections, also disfavor investigation for the reason that the party would be injured in consequence. This opposition is the strongest evi: dence that rottenness awaits the pry- ing eyes of an investigating committee; that the probe would penetrate a mass of curruption. If everything was pure and sweet and clean, what would there be to disclose that would burt the party? How could injury come to any one? But when there isso much aver- sion to investigation the conclusion is unavoidable that the fear of exposure is widespread, and that the apprehen- sion of Republiean . politicians and municipal ringsters is the motive for concealment. But after all, how far these proceed- ings shall go will depend upon the will of Quay. The movmement for LexowINg the city administration sprang from the hostility between the two Philadelphia Republican factions. Desire for the public good could not be tive. The political interests as well as the personal fears involved in this matter will either defeat the resolution to investigate the methods of Republi can city government in Philadelphia, or will manage to convert such an in- vestigation into a farce. 5 A KATE TTT ——Appearances seem to confirm the report that ex-Post-master General political honors. It has been observ- ed that he has been paying unusual at- tention to Governor HasTINGs, a cir- cumstance which has led to the theory that he wishes to gain the Governor's influence in aesisting his Jesign in the United States Senatorship as the suc- cessor of Senator CaMERoN. It could hardly have been with the object of furthering his mercantile enterprises that he gave an entertainment to the Governor at his residence in Philadel- phia at which the members of the Legislature also were guests. It is not unreasonable to attach a political significance to such an incident, par- ticularly when it comports with pre- vious rumors. TTR ————. —— Street Commissioner WARING, of New York, was a rash man when be declared the Grand Army of the Republic to be a collection of bummers. So sweeping a denunciation could not fail to excite the anger ot the old sol- diers who compose the G. A. R. He would have come nearer to truth if he er day a judge in Kansas summoned | him to appear and reveal the secret of | his cure. Before he had time to comply with this summons a U. 8. judge, in the Wisconsin district, granted an in- junction restraining Dr. KEELEY from | divulging the chemical analysis of bis | bi-chloride of gold concoction. Tt is certainly a case of “damned if you do, and damned if you don’t,” now with the doctor, but that federal judge must have been ‘fur ninst’’ the administra. tion, else he would’'nt have denied the country’s knowing what the gold cure really is —O, we are off our base, it is the currency and not the d. ts. that the administration has a gold cure for. bad said that the Grand Army of the Republic has been untortunate in not being able to keep out of its organiza- tion a large bummer element that has done much to subject it to adverse criticism. The true soldiers who form the basis of the G. A. R. deserve the i gratitude of their country. CT —— — The inventor who has sworn to kill himself if his perpetual motion ma- chine does’nt work, when he tries it on Mey 20th, will be very likely to realize what perpetual motion is when he wakes up on the great day and St. PETER starts him down below to begin shoveling coal. associated with such a factional mo- | i local acts. WaNaMAKER is looking for further of salaries. Unconstitutional Apportionment. It is evident that the Legislature is going to prolong the Republican dis- regard for the State constitution in re- spect to the passage of apportionment bills. In this matter the organic law has been virtually treated as a dead letter by the dominant party, with every appearance that this session will show the same contempt for the con: stitution. The congressional and legislative districts have for years been shameless gerrymanders. Their object has been to defeat fair and honest representation for the purpose of securing a partisan advantage. Fairness is not even pre- tended. It has been a bold, bad, bru- tal determination to commit a w¥rong because the wrong-doer has the power to commit it and will profit by its com- mission, This crime against the prin- ciple of equitable representation has been prolonged in defiance of constitu- tional provision for the passage of ap- portionment bills at regular intervals. There has been nothing of the kind constitutionally done ig this State with- in the last twenty years. The present Legislature is not going to do better in this matter than its pred ecessors have done. A congressional apportionment bill has been reported which makes no material change from the present one-sided arrangement. The two extra Congressmen to which the State is entitled, and which in the two congressional elections since the last census have been disposed of by general election, are placed by this bill in Philadelphia and Allegheny coun- ties where they will surely be Repub- lican. The late period in the session at which the bill has been reported makes it probable that it will not be passed, with the equal probability that the other apportionment bills will have a similar outcome. The dishonest pur- pose of the dominant party will be just as well served by leaving the present gerrymanders stand as they have done for years past. The State Legislature has been in session over four months and the sum total of ite labore, up to date, con- sists in the passage of twenty-nine bills, nearly all of which were private or Of this trifling amount of legislation a large percentage was for the creation of new offices and increase The Governor exercised his veto powers on six bills, The bird book bill was among those against which he directed a deadly shet, but the Standard oil company was a bird upon which he saved his ammunition. The Failure of New County Schemes. The *‘new county’ projects have not met with encouraging success in the Legislature. A number of them were presented, the projectors evidently be- lieving that the loose legislation pre- vailing at Harrieburg gave their schemes a good chance to succeed. They appear to have been mistaken in this expectation. The bill to create a new county out of Lackawanna, Wayne and Susque- hauna counties, with Carbondale as the county seat, has been killed in committee. The one that proposed to ornament the map of the State with a Quay county, made out ot parts of Lu- zerne and Schuylkill, reached a votein the House, but failed for want of a con- stitutional majority. These failures are likely to settle the fact that Pennsylvania wants no more new counties. There was a time when on account of the inconvenient size of old counties, and undeveloped means of communication, new formations were needed, but that time is passed. Rail- roads and the general improvement ot thoroughfares give easy access to coun- ty seats, and telephones are bringing them within talking distance {rom any point. The sum and substance ot these new | county schemes is that they are intend- ed to confer upoa certain towns the ad- Are They Forcing Another Bond Issue ? The announcement that the Mor: GAN-RorrscHILD syndicate is paying a premium for refined gold has divulged the fact that the natural channel of the gold cut-put of the country has been diverted from the United States mints for some time. The amount of the gyndicate purchases represents about two-thirds of the entire out-put and to gecure this a premium, ranging from one-sixth to one-half cent, is being paid. This bait has secured ‘to the wealthy bankers nearly all the gold smelted in the country except that of the Pacific coast. : Such a condition of affairs is not cal- culated to be passed over without ser- ious consideration by those interested in the condition of our treasury de- partment. The last issue of bonds, to the amount of $62,000,000, which was given entirely to the MorGaN-RoTHS cHILD syndicate, has already been clos- ed out, except those to the amount of $11,000,000, for the payment of which the purchasers have until August lst. Since this firm has been practically buying the entire gold out-put of the country for some time, this balance could be wiped out at any moment. Under the last bond purchase the syndicate was given an option on any other bonds the government might be forced to issue, prior to October 1st. Under such conditions it can readily be seen that the ultimate end of this absorption of the gold by foreign bank- ers will be the forcing of our govern- ment to another issue otf bonds. $8, 000,000 profit has rewarded the pur- chasers of the last issue and it is alto- gether likely that their greed for anoth- er fat haul will prompt them to squeeze the treasury as soon again as possible. It will be very easy to bring about such a result. The geld reserve in the treasury will be exhausted by these sharks the moment they have taken up ile last bond of their recent purchase, then there will be but one course to pursue : Isecue more, for these same fellows to gobble up and speculate | with. It is siogular that our finances have fallen into such a condition that a few bankers can force an extremity at will. And it is just this condition of affairs that has given rice to the great silver agitation that is shaking the country from one end to the other. It would seem, t00, that the silver people have more ground for making the demands they do than we are willing to concede them. And since the gold people are given carte blanche to exhaust the government in such ways would it be more than jumping from the jaws of Charybdis into those of Secylla if the silver men should trumph ? EAL GE, ——1In another column of this issue will be found the arnouncement of W. J. SiNGER’s desire for a nomina- tion for the office he now holds. Mr. SINGER'S career as District Attorney has been a clean one and he will carry a record into the convention in June that his party need not be ashamed of. He has been a faithful, hard working official, who has given his best effort to the fuifillment of his public duties and now asks that his party tender him the renomination he has labored to merit. SAE TA ATI ——The office of “truant catcher," under the FARR compulsory education bill, wouldn't be the most desirable of- ficial position that a citizen could oc- cupy, as it would require both wind and bottom to run down the active kid whose aversion to going to school would give additional fleetness to his youthful legs ; yet $2 a day would be such a tempting consideration that there would no doubt be a scramble for the position of “attendance officer.” The qualification for such an office would lie principally in the legs of the official. CICA RT ——The report that the pawnbrokers | of Philadelphia sent $6,000 to Harris- vantage of being county eeats, and to create new sets of county officials, but the benefit to be derived would rot | compensate for the extra expense. a boost to such projects it was propos- As | ed to call one of them Grow county, | and to another the name of Quay was to be attached, but the people do not want new counties created for the glory | of politicians, however prominent. burg to be used in killing a bill that af- fected their interests, if true, would seem to indicate that they entertained the impression that the average lawmaker has his price. The present Legisla- ture has so many real sins of commis- sion and omission to answer for that it is hardly fair to eaddle upon it the ad- ditional charge that the members are io the market with their votes. Is Some One Cornering Gold? From the Pittsburg Times. Is the Morgan-Rothschild syndicate trying to force another issue of bonds by cornering the gold which would otherwise go to the mints? The affirmative answer is based upon these facts and assertions: That the treasury officials, during the last couple of months, noticing 8 decline in the amount of gold deposited at the mints, discovered that it was going to indi viduals in New York, who were offer- ing a premium for it; that the last bonds have been nearly paid for, the syndicate having turned over $51,000, 000 of the $62,000,000; that it has under its contract an option on any new bonds which may issued prior to October; that the gold production is increasing at such a rate that the gov- ernment would be independent of the syndicate unless the gold was cornered; that as it cleared at least $8,000,000 out of the last issue there is a strong temptation for it to attempt to force another before its right under the con- tract expires. All We Can Ask. From the Philadelphia Evening Telegraph. Spain has apologized. That is enough. It is for us to accept her apology frankly and with good grace. The Allianca incident, that at one time looked decidedly threatening, may therefore be considered closed. It is to be regretted that a carping spirit has been shown by some of our contemporaries respecting this matter, and snarling criticism indulged in, di- rected against the Governments of the two countries concerned ; but the right- minded people of both countries will rejoice that the affair has been honor- ably and peaceably settled. As Val entine says in the play, “Who by re- ‘“pentance is not satisfied, i8 not of “Heaven nor of earth.” Spain, is not in a very penitential mood, to be sure, but she says she regrets the incident we complain of, and is very sorry it oc curred. That expression of her senti- ments is all we can ask, and we can well afford to rest satisfied. How the Parties Stand on the Money Question. 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