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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.
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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.
From the Philadelphia Record.
The New York Times yc<aarday
printed an interesting estimate, based on
present indications, of the probable
standing of the Republican and Demo-
cratic delegates from all the states on
the money question in the next national
conventions. The following are the
totals :
For Sound Money. For Free Silver.
Republicans... 584 322
Democrats “473 433
The logic of the situation, it this
guess be anywhere near the truth,
would indicate a temporary abandon-
ment of old party lines. If both par-
ties should name sound money candi-
dates, and thus divide the sound money
vote between them, it would afford a
great opportunity for the concentration
of the strength of all the tag-rag-and-
bobtail elements that hung loosely in
the rear of the two great organizations
to put Coxey or Sibley or sore such in
the White House.
This Is Owl Wrong.
From the Williamsport Sun
It has been discovered that after the
state of Pennsylvania has expended
$100,000 in hawk and owl bounties un-
der the impression that the killing
of these birds removes obnoxious
pest from the farms of the state, the
hawks and owls are not guilty of half
the offenses laid at their doors. An
investigation proves that 95 per cent.
of the tood of the hawks and owls is
field mice, grasshoppers and crickets,
which do a great deal more damage to
farm crops than the hawks and owls.
The law giving bounties for the de-
struction of these birds should be re-
pealed at once.
Not in the “Road Improving Business.
From the Clarion Democrat.
The defeat of Hon. A. W. Smiley's
road bill seeme to indicate that the
legislature at least is tnot in favor of
improving the roads of the state.
About the only thing the legislature
wants to improve is the main chance
by making new offices and enlarging
salaries of old ones.
ar—
We Refer This to Representative Wom.
elsdorrf,
From the Atloona Times.
The news from the island of Cuba is
more or less conflicting, as it has been
ever eince the present rebellion begun,
but is is plain amid the conflicting
stories that the rebels have little or no
support from the best people of the
country. It is not likely that their up-
rising will exist for many months
longer.
ren ——————
Where Justice Is Wanting in the Bal-
ance.
From the Scranton Times.
Judge Harry White wins the India.
pa county court again for ten years
through a legal contest with Judge
Blair. This is to be greatly regretted
since the continued presence of such
men as White upon the bench causes
people to lessen their respect for it.
Spaw!s from the Keystone,
—There are in Reading 1100 army pen-
sioners.
—0il took another tumble Tuesday go-
ing down to $1.50.
—Lightning struck and killed a daugh.
ter of George Givens.
—Joseph Meller was killed by a Lehigh
Valley train near Delano.
—The furnacemen at Sharpsville have
joined the Sharon strikers.
—Carbondale is about to organize its
first National Guard company.
—A train at York ran over Mrs. Charles
Gartman, cutting off both her feet.
—Norristown’s school board has placed
copies of Trilby in the school library.
—By the bursting of an emery wheel
Thomas McCrea was killed at Pittsburg.
—While lying in bed at his Sunbury
home, Harry Bourne shot himself to
death,
—Wahile using oil to light a fire, Mary
Murphy, of Blairsville, was burned to
death.
—Sheriff Elwood T. Carr, of Delaware
county, is seriously iil at his Radnor
house.
—Commencement essays and orations
will be abolished by the Allentown High
School.
—Bull Keller, confined in the Pottsville
jail, charged with burglary, attempted
suicide.
—Painter John Felzer fell from the
Reading railroad bridge, and was fatally
injured.
—A United States engineer discovered
that Erie's port is not filling up with mud
as was feared.
—The Cleveland Wood Turning Com-
pany will open an office at Colebrookdale,
Berks county.
—Fifteen-year old Jennie Strunk fell
from a tree into the canal at Sunbury and
was drowned.
—Attempting to board a freight train
at Pittston John Kelly, aged 25 years, was
fatally injured.
—The forest fires in the Western part of
the State continue, destroying much val-
uable timber.
—Compulsory education will necessi-
tate the erection of several new school
houses in Reading.
—The annual convention of the State
Commandery, Knights of Malta, is in ses-
sion at Freeland.
—With a bullet near his heart, fired by
himself, Charles Smith was found dying
in the York Park.
—The Robert Wilcox public library, at
Girard, Erie county, which cost $11,000
has been dedicated.
—On Memorial Day, Reading’s $50,000
Young Men’s Christian Association build-
ing will be dedicated.
—Lancaster City was ordered by Court
on Saturday to pay to the county 74,584.
34, after long litigation.
—Michael Jay was killed and two Itai-
ian laborers seriously injured by a fall of
rock near Uniontown.
—Patrick Mooney, an engineer on the
Wilkesbarre & Easton railroad, was run
over and killed at Pittston.
—Johhstown’s street lighting cests $30,-
000 & year, and there is a clamor for lamps
at $50 instead of $100 each.
—Poor director Day, of Schuylkill
county, has been indicted for assaulting
the wife of the almshouse baker.
—Representatives of the Union and
Holland Presbyterian churches, at Pitts.
burg, agree to favor consolidation.
— James Fisher one of the accused men
figuring in the Reich murder trial at
Wilkesbarre, established an £libi.
—A dozen men in Lindner’s shoe fac:
tory, at Carlisle, who were plotting 2
strike, were promptly discharged.
—Within a few years, 20 persons who
were never indentified have been killed
on the railroads at or near Reading.
—A steam shovel on a freight car
struck the Walnut street bridge at Read-
ing, partly demolishing the structure.
—President E. D. Warfield, of Lafayette
College made an address before the stu.
dents of Albright Institute, Myerstown.
—The Spang heirs have regularly or:
ganized at Reading, to chase the phan-
tom fortune, that has lured them for
years.
—With his head in a shallow pool of
water by the roadside, at Taylor's Run,
Lycoming county, Charles Curran was
found dead.
—An alibi is the defense that James
Hendricks tried to prove Saturday at hus
trial for the murder of Barney Reich,
Wilkesbarre.
—George W. Cormeny, of Lancaster,
died from the effects of injuries received
by being struck by a nozzle while work-
ing at a fire.
—Runaway coal cars struck and killed
track-walker John Wanto near Pittston:
Edward Ulrick, a companion, was se-
riously injured.
—The Cunard Coal Mining Company, of
Philadelphia, was given permission to
change its name to the Morrisdale Coal
Mining Company.
—Charles and Henry Delaney, two of
the men connected with the blind pool
exposed, have been convicted of conspira-
cy at Pittsburg.
—A committee of Williamsport citizens
will try to devise plans for securing the
money to carry out Major Raymond’s
flood protection plans.
—John McManus, of Thurlow, won the
cadetship to West Point Military Acade-
my, by a competitive examination in the
Sixth Congressional District.
—The body of a man who is supposed to
have perished in the February blizzard
was found by trout fishermen on Young
Woman's Creek, Lycoming county.
—Harry Thatcher, a student of Lehigh
University, was seriously injured by an
explosion of sulphuric and acetic acid
while experimenting in the laboratory.
—The trustees of the Norristown State
Hospital will go to Harrisburg to oppose
Senator Gobin’s bill changing the method
of selecting the managers of that institu-
tion.
—A charter was granted to the Philips-
burg Fire Brick Company of Philadel:
phia, capital £10,000, the incorporators be-
ing Frank Wigton, Charles H. Allowy, Al-
pheus M. Walker, Frederick H, Richard-
gon and Harry F. Watson, of Philadel-
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