Demorraic anon
BY RP. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—Chicago councilmen are legislating
against bloomers as a female attire.
This is strange, since Chicago is called
the Windy city and it is usually more
wind than anything else that fills the
average girl’s bloomers.
—The probable cause of the appor-
tionment bills’ defeat lies in the fact that
the Republicans were unable to gerry-
mander & congressional, senatorial, ju-
dicial or legislative snap for every little
fly-by-night politician in the party.
—A passenger yacht, named
“TRILBY,” tipped over at Buftalo on last
Saturday morning and five men were
drowned. It seems cruel to jest over
such & misfortune, but we can’t refrain
from’ believing that McGINTY will be
glad to hear BEN Bort down at the
bottom of the sea.
—Governor HasTiNGs finds himself
in an extremely embarrassing position
just now. The garb bill has passed the
Legislature and only awaits his signa-
ture to become a law. He will have to
sign it, but in doing so he will bring
down upon him the wrath of hosts of
those who helped encompass his elec-
tion.
—Last Sunday afternoon a Curwens-
ville girl was sitting in a boat on the
mill pond at that place when a large
bass jumped out of the water and land-
ed in the boat, at the maiden’s feet.
The good people of the town up the
river are at a loss to explain this rather
unusual piscatorial episode and it seems
strange that none of them have realized
how easily the fish might have been de-
ceived in thinking the fair boater a little
fly.
—Massachusetts hopes to abate the
tramp nuisance in the establishment of
a 2000 acre farm of wild land, to which
all hoboes, who appear in the Bay State,
will be sentenced for terms varying
trom a year to longer periods. They
will be made clear it off. Yankee in-
genuity again asserts itself, for in the
face of such a condition of things the
average dusty idler will prefer other
parts of the country to a life ala
Davy CROCKETT, in Massachusetts.
—While the failure of the Republi-
can Legislature to pass apportionment
bills at this session will be a distinct
violation of the constition it is far bet-
ter that it be so than that the nefarious
gerrymanders they proposed should be
passed. The constitution has long been
violated i this respect by the Legisla-
ture, so the State will excuse this furth-
er evid ence of culpability in preference
to having thousands more of her voters
disfranchised in congressional, senatorial
and judicial elections.
—All last Fall it looked as if HasT-
INGS, MAGEE and MARTIN -were plan-
ning Quay’s downfall, but the wily
politicians managed to carry the water
on both shoulders until Tuesday night
when it spilled and the rupture opened
in earnest. The trio are in favor of
passing apportionment bills to which
QUAY 18 opposed and a battle royal will
be the outcome. One good that will
possibly result from the fight will be the
defeat of the judge’s retirement bill,
which it is thought QUAY will now en-
com pass.
—The Pennsylvania State College is
in a fair way to receive $212,000 appro-
priation from this session of the Legis-
lature. The committee on appropria-
tions cut the request for $375,000 down
to the amount that has already passed
second reading in the House. This
drop will be a sore disappointment to
the many friends of the institution who
recognize its good work and deserts, but
the amount that it is likely to get will
help the College along very well toward
the accomplishment of the end of broad-
er education in view.
—One hears malapropisms in almost
every quarter now-a-days, but the worst
that has come to our ears for some time
is credited to a woman whose husband
owns a little stock farm up the country.
Her effort to sink the now famous Mr,
Lzirer, of Washington, into oblivion
found its birth in a battle two of the
horses on the farm indulged in one
morning. She was out in the farm
yard when the two vicious horses began
fighting a battle royal and a few days
afterwards she announced to friends in
this place that they had had a very ex-
citing “hors de combat” up at home.
— When the venerable Representative
Geo. V. LAWRENCE asserted that “no
graduate from The Pennsylvania State
College had yet adorned the bar, the
pulpit or the bench’ he displayed a la-
mentable ignorance of the nature of the
work done at that institution. Until
very recently the College had been a
distinctively agricultural and technical
institution and offered no classical course
in its curriculum. Within the last few
years, however, more has been done in
this line, aud we need but direct Repre-
sentative LAWRENCE’s attention to three
members of the class of ’89. One in
Pittsburg, one in Schuylkill county and
another in Bedford county, all of whom
silver coinage of the United States to
| facture into money the thirty-five mil-
have already graced the legal profession
and whose names, even he will see
honored before he dies.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 40
BELLEFONTE, PA., MAY 31, 1895.
NO. 22.
Be More Explicit, Gentlemen.
If Secretary CaruisLe, Comptroller
Eckres aad others who are on the
stump advocating what they consider
“gound money,” would only be a little
more confidential with the people, and
tell in plain and explicit language
what they mean by that term, they
might make converts to their financial
theories and with much less trouble
than they are now doing.
The ordinary mind comprehends the
fact that our present silver dollars, con-
taining 371% graing, the intrinsic or
metal value of which is but 68 cents,
will to-day, purchase just as much in
any market of the country as will a
gold dollar. And thisis too in the face
of the fact, that the government has
refused to recognize silver as a “coin,”
such as was contemplated for the re-
demption of treasury notes; that its
representatives are denouncing it as a
“dishonest” or “debased”” dollar, and
are decrying and discrediting it to the
greatest extent possible. This fact, in
addition to the truth that every one
acknowledges that while a silver dollar,
discredited as it is by the power that
should protect it, and said to be worth
but 68 cents will pay just as much in-
debtedness as will a gold dollar, 1s
what makes its standing with the peo-
ple, and creates doubts in the mind of
the ordinary individual of the correct-
ness of the theories, about intrinsic or
commercial values, ae a basis of
money.
What the advocates of a single stand.
ard basis propose to substitute for
this dollar—the dollar that the
Democracy has always considered the
“dollar of our daddies,” is a matter the
public is anxious to ascertain. We
must have dollars and fractional parts
of dollars. If intrinsic, or metal val
ue is to be the basis of these, as meas-
ured by gold, what is to become of the
five hundred millions of silver coin
now in use? Is it to be declared of
but halt the value it now represents?
Is it to be gathered up, recoined and
made into almost double its present
size in order to be of the actual value
stamped on each piece ? Is the entire
be changed with every fluctuation of
the price of the metals out of which it
is made in order that it will at all
times be worth, for all purposes, the
amount it is supposed to represent ?
Or it we are to have no more silver
coinage, and all money is to be based
on the value of gold, what are we to do
for a fractional currency— halves,
quarters and dimes—how are they to
be made that they will always be
worth intrinsically their face value,
with the metal out of which they are
stamped continually fluctuating in
commercial value?
When six banking concerns can cor-
ner the entire gold supply of the
country, twice in two months and com-
pel the government to go to Europe
and borrow, in order to maintain its
credit, what is to become of the debtor
class, when the basis of all our money,
is placed atthe mercy of these finan-
cial sharks to control as they see prop-
er?
These are questions that may seem
of trivial importance to the great fi-
nancial heads that are now enlighten:
ing the country on the money issue?
They are such, however, as you hear
the ordinary business man ask, and
the sooner they are explained and ua-
derstood, the sooner the public will be
ready to accept the theories of the
monometalists, and those who are be-
lieved to be working in their interests.
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Won't Need a Mint.
The Philadelphia papers are clamor:
ing for the commencement of work on
the new Mint in that city. Most of
these same papers are denouncing the
proposition to remonitize silver as an
effort to flood the country with a de-
based currency. Now if we are to
have no more silver coinage, what the
the deuce is the sense in spending mil-
lions of dollars to build a new Mint.
Any old establishment of the kind
anywhere in the country will manu-
lions of gold this country produces
annually, and if silver is to be tabooed
as money, as the Philadelphia papers
demand it shall, there will be no more
need for a Mint in that city than for
a storm-shed in Heaven.
Lawless Refusal to Pass Apportion-
ment Bills.
It is no wonder that lawlessness is
becoming rampant in this country
when State Legislatures act in open
defiance and with perfect contempt of
the organic law. The constitution is
the highest law, upon which the or-
ganism of the State is based. It regu-
lates, defines and restrains all other
law, and therefore it should be held in
the highest respect and its provisions
rigidly observed. But the disreputa-
ble majority that constitutes the law
making power of this State repudiates
and epurns the higher law of this com-
monwealth, known as its constitution,
committing thie outrage deliberately
and with full knowledge of the import
and effect of such lawlessness.
The constitution clearly requires
that as soon as it can possibly be done
after every census there shall be an
apportionment of the State into dis-
tricts necessary for the purpose of rep-
resentation. This requirement has
been intentionally and systematically
disregarded during a long course of
years. Five years have passed since the
last census was taken, and although
sworn to observe the constitution in
this, as in every other respect, this Leg
islature deliberately continues, to vio-
late the higher law by refusing to pass
apportionment bills. It proclaimed
itself to be a lawless body, and openly
perjured itself before all the world, by
its action last week in defeating those
bills.
The influence that in this matter is
more powerful with these Legislators
than the authority of the constitution
is the claim of the Republican poli-
ticians. The organic law, on the one
hand, directly and peremptorily orders
them to apportion the State. The Re-
publican politicians, on the other
hand, tell them not to do it, as 4 new
arrangement of districts would conflict
with their political and personal inter-
ests. Between these opposing authori-
ties, that of the constitution and that
of the Republican politicians, the for-
mer is kicked aside contemptuouely
by those who were sworn to observe it
and who will go home as perjured a
set of rascals as ever went unwhipped
of justice.
Disgraceful Subservience.
Nothing so completely demonstrates
the abject and comtemptible character
of the present State Legislature as its
thorough subjection to the will of
Quay. The general worthlessness of
the body that is disgracing the Legis-
lative function at Harrisburg is uni-
versally recognized, but in no particular
is it more obvious than in its slavish
obedience to its master.
The question with the Republican
majority in that body is pot, what do
the people want, but what does Quay
want? They don’t concern themselves
about the public interest, but give their
exclusive attention to the political in-
terest of the boss. “What will Quay
think of it?" “will it meet with Quay's
approval 7 “when will Quay be
here ?”’ and similar questious -indicat-
ing absolute subservience, are heard in
the Legislative circles at Harrisburg.
The most disgraceful incident of this
slavish condition is PENROSE'S commit.
tee calling on Quay to receive his in-
structions as to how the whitewash
shall be applied in the Philadelphia
investigation.
Rough on McKinley.
The general revival ot the industries
ought to be stopped out of regard for
Governor McKiINLEY's sensibilities.
Just think how badly he must feel
about it. The worst of it all is that
this offense to the great champion of
protection is being committed in his
own State, where the Youngstown
ironworkers have been given an ad-
vance in their wages, the Hocking
valley miners have been similarly fav-
ored, and every department of labor is
aggravatingly active. This isn’t treat:
ing MoKiINLEY right.
——The Republican Legislature, that
was to be a model for economic work
and a short session, is still fighting over
the little it has left in the treasury, and
will adjourn about the middle of June,
with the deserved reputation of being
one of the most profligate ‘and corrupt
bodies of law-makers that ever met in
Harrisburg. If anybody, anywhere,
has a good word to say for it, or its
actions, it is full time that word was
spoken.
Pennsylvania's Iron Industry.
In the great revival of industry that
is in progress under the Democratic
tariff the renewed activity of the iron
business is conspicuous. In this con-
nection nothing is more worthy of at-
tention than the disadvantage which
the furnace men of eastern Pennsyl-
vania labor under in the matter of iron
ore.
In the Pittsburg, Mahoning and
Shenango valleys, Buffalo, Cleveland
and Wheeling districts, the furnaces
are being worked to their utmost
capacity. At the Duquesne works of
Carnegie & Co. four new furnaces are
being pushed to completion as fast as
possible, to take advantage of the in-
dustrial revival, the output of each of
which will be from 350 to 400 tons a
day. One hundred tons a day was
considered a big enough output for a
furnace in McKINLEY times.
All these furnaces are west of the
Allegheny mountains and enjoy the
advantage of cheaper transportation of
the Lake Superior ore required for
steel purposes. This advantage is
denied the iron trade in the eastern
part of the State for which the haul
from the lake region is too long and
expensive ; yet notwithstanding such
a drawback the Pennsylvania steel
company at Steelton, which barely es-
caped bankruptcy under the McKINLEY
tariff, has sprung into renewed life
since the passage of the Wirson bill.
Its output of pig iron last month was
phenominal, one of its furnaces turn-
ing out 200 tons each day, while the
combined product of two others for the
month was over 12,000 tons made of
Cuban ore. But why should that com-
pany be put to the expense of a duty
on that ore? Itis true the duty has
been reduced one-half by the Demo-
cratic tariff, but if the imported ore,
absolutely necessary for steel produc.
tion, were allowed to come in free, it
would not displace a pound of Penn-
sylvania ore at the Steelton or any other
Pennsylvania furnace, for the two do
not come in conflict.
This is the question that comes up
in considering the wellfare of the iron
business of eastern and central Penn-
sylvania, which is handicapped by
heavy freight charges on the lake ore:
Why should it be put to a disadvan-
tage, with no corresponding advantage
to any other interest ? The Pennsyl-
vania iron ore interest is not injured
by the use of bessemer ore, whether
that ore be brought from Lake Su-
perior or from Cuba. The largest
amount of Centre county ore is used
by the Carnegie company in conjunc-
tion with the Lake "Superior article.
Could there be anything more foolish
than to tariff the imported ore that is
necessary for the prosperity of the iron
business of the lower part of Pennsyl-
vania ? Republican Congressmen from
this State have been guilty of folly,
and the§ will repeat this foolishness
it the special bill to put iron ore on the
free list shall be brought up again at
the next session of Congress. Their
tariff prejudice has paralyzed their
common sense.
Cameron’s Flag Still Floats.
The result of the recent Republican
primaries in Lancaster county shows
that Canmzronisy is still on deck and
the Winnebago flag flies as defiantly as
ever, The contest was between the
CameroN and anti-CAMERON factions
on the question of a district attor-
ney nomination, and the CAMERONIANS
won a complete victory. It is consid-
ered a set-down for merchant Wana.
MAKER, whose ambition for the United
States Senatorship, as against CAMERON,
was represented by the defeated can-
didate. Money was never more plenti-
fully used at a Lancaster county elec-
tion. Some of the voters openly boast-
ing of the amount of boodle they got
for their votes, and declaring that
never before had there been so profit
able a primary in the old Republican
stronghold. The result, however,
proved that Cameron overbid the
pious Philadelphia politician, who
wants to succeed him in the United
States Senate.
——Mocnday’s papers announce that
the second largest cotton mill in the
world is to be erected at North Adams
Mass., the coming summer. Work upon
it already being commenced. And
this too under the operations of a Demo
cratic tariff bill.
Rivals in Infamy.
From the Pittsburg Post.
The Democrats oi New York, city
and state, are evidently pulling them-
selves together for a thorough reorgani-
zation and a battle this year and next
in the line of their historic efforts
when rallying from the reverses inci-
dent to bad leadership. The Republi-
can, as a reform party, either at Al
bany or in the metropolis, has not been
a bewildering success. The party
seems to be about as badly split up
now a8 the Democrats were in 1893
and 1894. When Dr. Parkhurst and
his associate crusaders, of the highest
ideals in politics, declare that the Platt
rule, now controlling the Republicans
of New York, is infinitely worse than
Tammany, it is time to look out for
breakers. We know of only one legis-
lature in the Union that is more sav-
agely denounced for its incapacity and
corruption than the late Platt legisla-
ture of New York, and that is the
Quay legislature of Pennsylvania, and
it was not elected as a reform body by
a long shot.
Growing in Popularity, Even in the
North.
From the Altoona Tribune.
The town of Danville, Ill.,, was the
scene of a disgracefal mob murder ear-
ly last Saturday morning, the victims
having been two young men who were
accused of having committed an assault
upon a young woman on the previous
Thursday night. The mob when ap-
pealed to let the law take its course, ex-
cused their murderous conduction the
plea that if the two young fellows were
convicted Governor Altgeld would par-
don them. That wasa trivial excuse.
It would have been no difficult task to
lynch them after conviction and pardon.
This lynching business is sure to spread
unless summary example is everywhere
made of men who take the law in their
own hands. The experience of the
south shows that mob law always re-
sults in an increase of crime, and that,
too, of the very crime for which most
of the lynchings take place.
McKinley’s Defeat in Ohio.
From the Pittsburg Post.
Ex-Governor Foraker had his innings
at the Ohio Republican cgnvention.
His was the controlling Fonioot
Sherman’s nor McKinley's. "He nomi-
nated his own candidate for Governor
—his devoted personal friend, the
millionaire who provides him with the
sinews of war—and then had himself
nominated for the United States Senate
to prevent Sherman and McKinley
dealing from the bottom of the pack,
as on other occasions. McKinley put
all his eggs in the presidential basket,
and his chances of the nomination are
no better than Reed’s, Harrison's, Al-
licon’s or Morton's. Foraker has got
the Senatorship sure it the Republi
cans carry the State this fall, and they
probably will, :
The Same Old Flim-Flam. The Same
Old Sucker.
From the Butler Democratic Herald.
When will people learn to leave card
sharks alone ? The latest Butler county
victim in this line is Christian
Schweinegruber, of Harmony. Chris-
tian went to Zelienople on Monday to
see Hunting’s circus, carrying $440
with him. He ran across a familiar old
farmer who inticed him into a game of
cards and Christian is now ahead $440
worth of wisdom, but minus that
amount of cash. When he discovered
that he had been fleeced Schweinegru-
ber went to ‘Squire Niece, of Harmony,
who sent him to Butler on Tuesday
morning, where an information was
made before 'Squire McAboy against
three unknown men for defrauding the
affiant out of his money. The victim is
a young man and has only been in this
county a few years.
Ex-Representative Shaffer Takes a
Stand on the Money Question.
From the Renovo Record.
The Eastern prees are a unit for the
maintenance the “gold standard,” but
the party which fails to give an ex-
tended recognition to silver as a money
will find when the votes are counted at
the next Presidential election that it
will be defeated. The west and the
south are almost a unit for bimetalism.
They recognize that the silver dollar is
an honest dollar, and the working peo-
ple will not allow the gold grabbers to
crowd it out of circulation. The peo-
ple are in favor of a safe and prudent
use of both gold and silver.
Distributing Fish.
The state fish commission is distrib-
uting a great many million fish in the
state streams from the hatcheries of
Erie county. Eighty millions were
put in the Youghiogheny, the Cone-
maugh and the Mononghela last week.
The superintendent has distributed in
the interior streams 3,000,000 brook
trout, 2,000,000 European ground trout
and 100,000 hybrid. The state fish
commission has decided to try the
propagation of blue pike for state
streams and the inland lakes. The
eggs will be taken at Lorain and San-
dusky.
Talk is Cheaper Than the Carriage.
From the Philipsburg Bituminous Record.
J. N. Casanova is talking about pur-
chasing an electric carriage. The cost
is $4,000.
Spawls from the Keystone.
—Aged Mary C. Lowe was found dead
in bed at Altoona.
—Aged Mary C. Lowe was found dead
in bed at Altoona.
—Commencement week at Muhlenberg
College, Allentown, will begin on June
16.
—The appropriation of $170,360 for the
Huntingdon reformatory has passed both
houses.
—The bakers of Williamsport resolved
to advance the price of bread to five cents
a loar.
—Erie reformers declare that Councils’
and Executive offices there must be in-
vestigated.
—In many of the collieries of the state
incompetent and careless laborers are
being discharged.
—A new steam plow tested at Waynes-
boro turns furrows aggregating 40 feet in
width at one time.
—The Hanover Coal Mines, near Wilkes-
barre, have shut down, throwing out 200
men and boys.
—After being sent to the Reading sta-
tion house Edward Hitchins made three
attempts to commit suicide.
—If enforced the Compulsory Educa:
tion law will compel 3)0 more pupils to
attend school in Clinton county.
—A train at Ashley, Luzerne county,
killed young Henry Kline, and his mother
witnessed the horrible accident.
—Speakers at the Cumberland county
Sunday school Association in Carlisle say:
“There is not enough Bible taught.”
—Deaf and unable to hear the approach-
ing danger, agéd Mary Garrahan was
killed by a train in Luzerne borough.
—It is said there is considerable inter-
est in Cambria county over the possible
find of a silver mine near Johnstown.
—Williamsport cannot afford to pave
its streets at present, its load of indebt-
edness having reached its legal limits.
—Grand Exalted Ruler of the Elks,
Meade D. Detweiler, of Harrisburg, says
that order’s factions will be cemented.
—Flocks of owls are seen in all parts of
Jefferson county and are much dreaded
by the poultry breeders of that region.
—Freight Conductor Francis Huntzing-
er fell from a Philadelphia & Reading
train near Rockville and lost both legs.
—Paxton is the name of a new post of-
fice in Hopewell township, Huntingdon
county, with George Brumbaugh post-
master.
—John E. DuBois’ mill at DuBois has
turned out 444,000 feet of sawed lumber in
one day, which breaks all sawmill rec.
ords.
—The Central Pennsylvania company’s
telephone line to Lewistown is being
equipped entirely with long distance in”
struments
—Williamsport continues to have more
or less trouble in collecting money to de-
fray the expenses of its centennial cele-
bration.
—The county commissioners of Tioga
county recently let contracts for the con-
struction of six bridges, the aggregate
cost being &12,700.
—The colleries of the Philadelphia &
Reading and the Lehigh Valley Compa-
nies work three days this week, commenc-
ing on Monday.
—It keeps the towuship constable of
Lycoming county busy running down and
arresting people engaged in passing
counterfeit money.
—The Governor re-appointed Senator
Gobin, of Lebanon county, to be Briga-
dier General commanding the Third
Brigade for five years.
—George P. Hamilton, with his wife and
seven children, has just reached Willams.
port, having driven I600 miles from the
western end of Kansas.
—Dr. Samuel A. Martin, formerly of
Lincoln University, was impressively in-
augurated as president of Wilson College
Chambersburg, Tuesday evening.
—The wealthiest physician in West-
moreland county, aged Dr. G. H. Lomison
of Greensburg, was killed by a plunge
from a window during an attack of verti
g0.
—'Squire William Shubert, for 59 years
organist of Longswany church, Berks
county, has sued to recover $259.50, which
is the salary the church is said to owe
him.
—At Montoursville Thursday 5 year-old
Walter Else fell on a stone step and bit off
nearly a third of his tongue. What will
be the result of the painful injury isnot
yet known.
—The business outlook for Portage and
vicinity is brightening up. The mines
on Trout Run are making fair time and
people are feeling much more confident
and cheerful.
—An old tunnel, started at Tower City
40 years ago, is to be driven through the
mountain by the Reading Company to
Rausch Gap, and will open upa rich
tract of coal land.
—An Indian grave was opened Friday
in a field near the mouth of Pine creek by
relic hunters. A number of articles of
Indian workmanship were found, allin a
good state of preservation.
—The tannery at Lilly is going to be en-
larged to about twice its natural ‘size.
The annex will be of Humelstown brown
stone with Tennessee marble trimmings
and will be in full blast for '96.
—A Nittany valley correspondent states
that there are many fields of grass in that
section almost ruined by “sorrell.’” The
farmers are discussing the cause and
some way to prevent its growth.
—The South Fork Record says itis re-
ported that the Peunsylvania Railroad
company has purchased 1,000 acres of
farm land around Scalp Level. It is said
that the farm of Messrs. Bantley and
Shaffer of Johnstown were sold at a good
price.
—The basest creature on earth lives in
Clearfield. He went into the new ceme-
tery at that place a few days ago and af-
ter gathering up all the glass jars, vases,
etc., that had been placed on the graves
for holding flowers, took them and
smashed them on a headstone.
—The DuBois Courier says the drillers of
the Falls Creek oil well were at work
Friday drawing the casing and every-
thing of value will be taken away. The
machinery will be set up on Boon’s
: mountain, where Brockwayville parties
are interested in putting down a wild
cat well.