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BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings, ~°
Yes, yes, we've a Governor named —
He tries to boss all—whom he can;
Succeed though he may,
*Twill be but a day,
Till his name becomes **Billy-be—"
—To get rich and remain honest are
two different things.
—HasTINGS and his friends got it
where MINNIE wears her beads, on Sat-
urday. or
—The failure of the rice crop in Japan
is not likely to affect the quantity of
political soup there will be for Republi-
cans, everywhere, this fall.
—Georgia promises to be the great
peach growing State of the Union in
the future. Should this prove to be the
«ase what will become of the Delaware
peach crop liars’ job.
—CoxEY has been nominated for
Governor by Ohio Populists. Should
he be elected Mrs. CARL BROWN, ‘the
angel of peace,” will more than likely
want to roost on the Capitol at Colum-
bus.
—The total vote at the primaries
in Clinton county, on Saturday, show-
ed a good majority for HASTINGS,
though Quay delegates were elected,
hecause most of the precincts were for
him.
_ —It is but fitting that our new
cruiser “Columbia” should be the fast-
est boat of her type afloat. Her re-
markable trip across the Atlantic last
week has made her indeed ‘the gem of
the ocean.”
—A Punxsutawney inventor has
what he cfaims to be a perpetual motion
machine and the Spirit predicts & great
fortune for him. Possibly it, like a
good many others we know of, is in his
head and not marketable.
—Grauting that QUAY will not make
a fight on the Governor’s Superior
court judges in the convention, can
HasTINGS stillafford to stick to ORLADY
in the face of the scorching he received
in his own courty of Huntingdon.
— Prince GEORGE of England is said
to have such a craving for cigarettes as
to lead him tosmoke from forty to fifty
of themin a day. If Victoria holds
on a little longer she will see another of
her would-be successors laid away in
the royal bone pile. .
—The people of Pennsylvania are
paying Governor HAsTINGS $10,000 per
annum ; they are paying B. F. GILKE-
sON $6,000 per annum, they are paying
Jays H. LAMBERT $3,000 per annum,
‘What for? Surely not for truckling in
dirty factional political fights.
—City papers manage to divide bon-
ors with their country cotemporaries at
this season of the year. The annual
sea serpent on his visit to the coast wa-
tering places is a fit rival, for notoriety,
of the monster black snakes and -rattlers
that invariably turn up to scare huckle-
berry parties in the rural districts.
—The woman who is now boasting
through the columns of the papers that
she never struck a blow in anger in her
life, though she is the mother of a large
family of children, says she simply
made them take castor oil and rhubarb,
whenever they did anything naughty.
She must have had those poor kids on
the run most of the time.
—The recent consolidution of the
Baldwin locomotive works company, of
Philadelphia, and the Westinghouse
electrical company, of Pittsburg, has
started another discussion as to the ap-
proach of the time when electrical loco-
motives will displace those propelled by
steam. There is no denying the super-
iority of electricity for rapid transit, es-
pecially over the line to eternity.
—Notwithstanding he had read “Tril-
by”’ through six times Governor Brown,
of Maryland, was defeated for a renomi-
nation the other day. Just why hav-
ing pored over DuMaurier’s latest work
go -long should have made him any
more worthy we are at a loss to know,
but some writer has coupled the two in-
cidents together in a way that would
Lave one the sequence of the other.
. —Senator McQuUOWN, in his Rafts-
man’s Journal, is berating certain
Clearfield county Republican editors
for having sold the support of their pa-
pers to the “Combine.” We always
have thought, and think so yet, thata
paper that can be purchased, for what-
~ ever amount, is not worth any price
that is paid for it; yet we have heard
rumors already that would seem to
class Senator McQuowN among the
people who live in glass houses.”
—The factional fight that is now con-
vulsing the Republican party in this
State will more than likely resultin a
victory for the “Combine.” However
the result determines, the trouble will
have disclosed one thing and that: that
Senator QUAY had a better idea of the
way the State stood on the question
than did his opponents. His claims are
being substantiated nearly ‘every day
and in fact so closely are his followers
hewing to the line, he predicted for
them some time ago, that the adminis-
tration force is really scared.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
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VOL. 40
Contrast the Dates!
the midst of the operation of McKin-
LEY'S ‘protective’ tariff, alleged to
have been intended particularly for the
benefit of wage earners, a large port sn
of the State was convulsed hy a riotous
strike against an arbitrary and oppres-
sive reduction of wages. Homestead
was the focal point of the disturbance,
but there was general cause for dissat
isfaction, on account of reduced wages,
in all the lines of manufactures.
It is well to note again that this
state of affairs existed three years ago
while MoK1NLEYISM was in full swing
and CLEVELAND had not yet been re-
elected.
In contrast to this, mark the tollow-
ing intelligence frora the same region
that was disturbed by the bloody strike
against a reduction of wages in 1892,
the dispatch being dated Pittsburgh,
August 3, 1895 :
“The biggest wage advance for years
was to-day voluntarily given the union
puddiers. The advance will affect
about 3000 puddlers in the Pittsburgh,
or First district, and correspondingly
raise the wages of the puddlers south
and east, and everywhere where there
is an organized iron mill. Altogether
about 10,000 puddlers will have their
wages raised. Later the benefits will
accrue to at least 30,000 finishers.”
This is not an isolated case, but is
merely a continuation of the advance
in wages that has been going on in all
the industries since the WiLsox tariff
went into effect. It is proper to note
that this big advance of wages was not
forced, but was “voluntary.”
Were there ever such chuckle heads
as the men who believed that a high
tariff was necessary for the interest of
labor ? Were there ever such howl-
ing frauds as the calamity wailers who
canvassed Pennsylvania last fall ? Was
there ever such a completely used up
politician as Bir McKINLEY ?
Ond of Quay’s Sins.
Among the charges which the Hasrt-
INGS organs bring against Quay is
that the old Boss, in his capacity as
Senator, did'nt act right in regard to
the bill that was intended “to protect
the colored citizens of the Unica in the
free enjoyment of the .constitutional
right of suffrage at congressional and
presidential electione ’
This is the way a Combine organ
puts it, but boiled down it means that
Quay was not in favor of the Force
bill, and therefore not entitled to Re-
publican confidence and support.
Among the many sins with which
QuAY is being charged by the opposite
faction this is the one which can be
most easily forgiven by honest Ameri.
cans, for in fact it may be included
among his very limited number of
political virtues. Both Cameron and
Quay declined to support the Force
bill. What their motive was for this
“one good act does not clearly appear,
nor is it necessary that it should be
questioned. It was at least meritor-
ious, and that is sufficient to subject it
to the condemnation of such politi-
cians as compose the Philadelphia
‘Hog Combine” and constitute the fol-
lowing of the Standard oil Governor
of Pennsylvania.
——No better illustration of the
demoralized condition of Pennsylvania
Republicanism could be furnished than
is presented in the fear that the State
convention will be stampeded by a
gang of roughs in the interest of GILKE-
soN. It is represented that Hastings
and his crowd are apprehensive of de-
feat in the convention, and are arrang-
ing to pack the hall. with a rowdy ele.
ment that will intimidate the delegates
into electing GILKESON chairman of
the State.committee. This is the rep-
resentation that is being sent out by
the Quay supporters. It is no doubt
an exaggeration, but indicates the char-
acter of the fight that is going on.
However there is every reason to ex-
the factions get together for the final
scrap.
——Of the 897 votes cast at the pri
maries in Hazleton, on Saturday, Hasr-
INGS got only 200. We know where
two of these came from. The minister
who made the Governor's inaugural
prayer contributed them.
About this time three years ago, in
pect the hottest kind of a time when
What Use for It, Anyhow ?
Within the last few weeks large
quantities of pig iron have been ship-
ped from Sharon and other points in
western Pennsylvania directly to Eng-
land. -Ia view of such a fact even the
most thick-headed high tariff advocate
may ask “what use is there for a tariff,
anyhow ?”
It has been bellowed through Penn:
sylvania especially that if there was a
manufacture that above all others need-
ed the protection of a high tariff it was
the iron manufacture. This was one
of the representations that kept up the
big Republican majorities in this State.
All that was necessary was to send out
a gang of howling speakers, proclaim-
ing that the Democratic “free traders”
intended to strike down the iron in-
dustry, and the bulk of the population
of this State was stampeded into vot
ing the Republican ticket. Hastings
and his corps of calamity wailers did
that very thing last year, and a pretty
experience the people have since had
in the kind of Legislature and state
administration that resulted from it.
The present condition of the iron in-
dustry is a nice commentary on all this
howling. The Democrats have most
materially reduced the tariff on iron.
The average duty has been cut down
at least one-half, with a beneficial
rather than an injurious effect. The
iron production has in consequence
taken a decided boom ; furnaces and
works that were closed or partially sus-
pended under the McKINLEY tariff
have been putin operation with in:
creased forces of workmen who are
paid iocreased prices, and the crown-
ing wonder is the exportation of pig
iron to England, something that was
never known nor even dreamed of un-
der the highest Republican tariff.
In viéw of these facts it‘ may indeed
be asked, “what use is there for a
tariff, anyhow 2”
——The most patriotic speech that
has been madé€ in this broad land for
years and one that should start all
carping bigots to thinking was one de-
livered by a girl in a New Yok garret
the other day. The great tailors’
strike in that city, a strike not for bet-
ter wages, but for more air, more light
and more humanity, had enlisted the
sympathy of the women workers
who joined the men. As is usual the
meetings of the strikers were frequent.
ed by walking delegates, those parasi-
tes of organized labor, and agitators of
other stamps; among them was Emma
GoLDMAN, the notorious female An-
archist. She begged to address the
tailoresses, atone of their meetings,
but was promptly squelched by their
vresident, Miss FREEDMAN, a patriotic
est working girls, and you are not a
working woman. We are able to take
care of ourselves and we wan’t no An-
archy here. We have lots of girls,
who can talk just as well as you can,
who will give us better advice, so you
will please get out of the room.”
Would that every organization in the
land had a Miss FREEDMAN at its head.
There was more of “old glory” in
those few sentences she uttered than
all the wild harangues ot paid patriots
ever embody.
-—1It must be admitted that there
was a combination of unfortunate cir-
cumstances for the “Combine” last Sat-
urday in a number of counties. In
Huntingdon the Governor was badly
slashed by the Braver statesman
scoring a sweeping victory. Consider:
ing that this happened in a county
where one of his Superior judgeship
appointments was intended to have a
powerful effect’ it was a pointed rebuke
to the Governor for attempting to use
the courts for political purposes. The
result in Clinton county also w as not
flattering to Hastings, and showed
that shezdid not appreciate the honor
of being the birth place of a “favorite
son.”
——State Senator Porter, of Phil
adelphia, announces his intention to
retire from politica. He no doubt feels
that he can now afford to go out of
political life after haviog made a very
good thing of it. In combination with
that other Philadelphia patriot and
statesman, Davip MarTIN, he has
made politics pay, and can now retire
for the enjoyment of private life, re-
taining, however, an interest in a num-
ber of profitable city contracts.
a
little Jewess, who said : “We are hon- |
BELLEFONTE, PA., AUG. 9, 1895.
Was Dave Martin Tempted ?
A large amount of space is occupied
in the organs of the Republican fac
tions by a controversy about an alleged
proposition made by Quay to DAVE
Martin. It is charged on one side
that Quay sought an interview with
MarTIN with the object of fixing up
the difficulty that has broken out in
the party. As an inducement for the
head of the|Philadelphia Combine’ to
baul off and stop fighting, and to re-
turn to the old relations he bore to his
former leader, Quay is represented to
have offered to stop the proceedings of
the committee that has been appointed
to Lexow the Philadelphia city govern-
ment. He even offered, it is asserted,
to send the committee to Europe at
his own expense, in order to get them
out of the road and prevent them from
being troublesome.
This wag certainly a very tempting
offer, but the organs of the “Combine
allege that MARTIN, in the honesty and
integrity of his nature, spurned it and
defied the Boss to do his worst. Con-
scious of having manipulated the af-
fairs of the city for the best interests of
its citizens, and wit fhe special object
of preventing RA like crooked-
ness in raiding the city treasury, be
was not afraid of investigation, and he
plainly told Quay that that was the
way be felt about it. Consequently he
rejected the overtures that were made
to him.
This is the story as told by the “Com-
bine” organs. Oa the other hand Quay
denies having had such an interview
with MARTIN and repudiates the entire
story.
This incident is interesting to the
public only in its showing the situa-
tion as it exists between the two fac-
tions. It is an evidence of the irrecon-
cilable nature of the breach between
them, and as such it is something over
which those who want good govern-
ment restored in this State have reason
to rejoice.
The Sisters of St. Josepb, who
had been teaching in the public schools, |
in the vicinity of Gallitzin, and .on ;
whose azcount the religious garb bill !
was conceived, passed and approved,
have just refused a request to continue
teaching, so asto make a test case as
to the constitutionality of the law. They
say they have no desire to violate a law_
of the Commonwealth, however iniqui-
tous it might be. The Sisters have
shown more sense in this one conclu-
gion than all the fanatical bigots, who
are stirring up dissensions against
them, can exhibit in a life time.
Letting Well Enough Alone.
There is every prospect that in the
elections next year the Democrats will
have the advantage of prosperous
times. The people will be so well
satisfied with the situation that they
will ‘be disposed to let well enough
alone.
In regard to the tariff it will be
found that the policy of a Democratic
administration has had a beneficial ef-
fect. There can be no question that
the impetus that has been given manu-
factures by the WiLsoN ta riff will be
continued, and that Isbor will be amply
employed at good wages. With busi.
ness booming and wages satisfactory,
both labor and capital will be opposed
to any tariff disturbance. There will
be a general demand for a continuation
of the industrial peace and business
stability which a Democratic tariff
policy has inaugurated.
The same condition and feeling will
be found concerning the currency. The
revival ot business has relieved the
monetary stringency. Money will be
abundant for all the purposes of trade
and industry, and in the easier circum-
stances that will exist the people will
be content to wait for an extension of
the use of silver through an inter.
national agreement.
The Republicans could be re-instated
in power only by disturbing the im-
proved situation. Their. return to
power could only mean the restoration
of the McKINLEY tariff policy. They
will ask the people to have tic whole
disturbing question fought over again
in Congress and the business of the
country enveloped in doubt and un-
certainty.
The people will not be willing to
have this done, but will prefer to let
well enough alone.
NO. 31.
Centre Sticks Up for Her Own.
From the Tyrone Times.
Centre county remains true.—Phil-
adelphia Press,
es, Centre county has always been
true when any nomination was to be
got by a Centre county man. Centre
county Republicans never carry their
county unless 8 Centre county Repub-
lican is a candidate. At other times
Centre county remains true to the
Democratic party. Centre county is
just now true to the same instincts, and
is doing her level best to put the Re-
publican party into shape for being
egregiously licked this fall ; or so near-
ly so that it will be supplicating Quay
to come to the rescue. Thanks to the
good sense of the remaining counties,
Centre county will not be able to ruin
Republican prosperity. The Republi-
cans of this state will never discard
their greatest leader for a nonentity in
the shape of Gilkeson.
of raving political insanity is impos-
sible.
Encouragement from Tennessee.
From the Columbia Independent.
Representative McMillin, of Tennes-
see, is enthusiastic over the Democratic
outlook in his State as well as in the
country at large. Hesays: “The peo-
ple of Tennessee are in the best of
humor over the magnificent crop and
the improved condition of business.
Our iron furnaces are in active opera-
tion, and that is about the best evi-
dence of business revival. I feel confi:
dent that a new era of industrial pros-
perity ie about to set in, and twelve
months from now we will have forgot-
ten all about the great panic. In fact,
it will be surprising if 1896 doesn’t turn
out to be a regular boom year. The
good times will bea powerful ally of
the Democratic party in next year's
struggle. With the nation enjoying a
high degree of prosperity it will be
difficult to rob the party in power of
the credit.”
She Got the Hugging Later.
From the Osceola Leader-Courier.
The story now goes that a Philips
burg girl, while picking raspberries,
met a bear among the briars. She
turned to run and tore her dress on a
briar 80 a8 to expose her patent wire
bustle. The bear, mistaking the bus-
tle fora circus cage, struck for tall
timber, leaving the. girl to-go without
hugging until a dry goods clerk closed
his store at 8 o’clock that evening.
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‘Hauling Coals to New Castle.”
From the New York World.
Shipments of 1,400 tons of fine pig-
{iron from Ohio furnaces to England
seem a little like ‘sending coals to
Newcastle.” It must seem rather hard
on the “pauper labor of England.”
And a very neat satire it makes on the
“protective” duty of forty cents a ton
on iron ore extorted from the House by
Gorman and the other railroad and
mine agents in the Senate.
Maybe They Were'nt Bloom ers at All,
From the Clearfield Public Spirit.
That a Pubnxsutawney girl six feet
tall, who is visiting in Clearfield, ap-
peared the other evening in red flannel
bloomers, and set an example of beauty
that Clearfield girls should strive to
imitate.
Judge Williamson Wins.
Hux~TINGDON, Aug. 6.—The Repub:
lican county convention here to-day
nominated George B. Orlady for su-
perior court, Judge W. M. Williamson
for district judge, R. A. Laird for asso
ciate judge and T. J. C. Ripple for
sheriff. Thomas W. Montgomery and
Frank H. Henderson were elected dele-
gates to the State convention with in-
gtructions for Quay.
Quay’s Day in Crawford County,
MEADVILLE, Pa., Aug. 6.—To-day was
Quay’s day in Crawlord county at the
Republican primary election. Five
Quay candidates were in the field, with
no organized opposition. The dele-
gates probably elected are Julius By-
ler, of Titusville; Oliver Saeger, Frank
P. Ray and Wesley Best, of Meadville.
Franklin County for Quay.
CHAMBERSBURG, Aug. 6.—The three
Franklin county delegates to the Re-
publican state convention, who were
elected before the opening of the bi
factional fight, met to-day and pled
themselves to support Senator Quay for
chairman of the state committee.
More Quay Delegates Chosen.
HARRISBURG, Aug. 6.—W.
Meetch, J. H. Milhenny and Georg.
Dennison were elected Ssiegnies ‘to the
state convention by the Republican
county convention to-day. They were
uninstracted, but are favorable to Sena-
tor Quay for state chairman.
B.
Elk County Republicans for Quay.
Ripgway, Pa, Aug. 5.—The Elk
county Republican convention held
here to-day was harmonious and the
delegates elected were instructed for
Senator Quay.
Such an act
Spawls from the Keystone
—Easton Grand Army men will hold a
big picnic on’ September 27.
—Tobias Pottsdamer committed suicide
by drowning near Pottsville.
—Herbert Kreider fell from a bridge at
Reading and was fatally injured.
—Whooping cough is terribly severe in
some parts of Clearfleld county.
—A lost bqy found tramping the streets
of Easton refuses to give his name.
—Samuel J. Etter fell under a trolley
car at Lancaster and had a leg cut off.
—Hailstones as big as hickory nuts fell
near Lancaster during Sunday’s storm.
—Engineer Funk was killed by his en-
| gine jumping the track near Finlayville-
—Because George Shollstruck his sister,
at Shamokin, John Hummels shot him in
the leg.
—Daniel Curtis, a Scranton tailor, drop-
ped dead at Hazleton, while walking the
streets, 1
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—Judge Pershing will do all he can to
suppress the issuance of bogus mine cert if-
icates.
—The son of Joseph Berger has been
lost in the woods, near Stroudsburg since
Sunday.
—The Knights of the Mystic Chain will
hold a reunion at Houtzdale, on Saturday
August 31st.
—George Yeager, charged with the mur-
der of Daniel Stetzel, at Reading has
been discharged.
—Printer William Woods, of Rankin,
near Pittsburg, fell from a train and was
fatally injured.
—Gamblers have become bold enough
in the vicinity of Pottsville to work the
shell game on Sunday.
—Mrs. John L. High, who mysteriously
disappeared from Reading, has been
found near Lancaster.
—Burglars made away with valuable
silverware from the residence of William
Freeman, at Williamsport.
—Frank Heller, of Williamsport, is
charged with bigamy by one of his desert-
ed wives living in that city. -
G. D. Gearhart has been appointed
fourth-class post-master at Natalie, vice
G. T. S. Welden, resigned. z
—Employes extinguished the fire in the
Pettebone shaft of the Delaware, Lacka-
wanna & Western Coal Company.
—John Irving was fatally and John
Danko seriously burned by an explosion
of natural gas near Pittsburg.
—Coal inspector Sturdevant, of the Le-
high Valley Railroad, was killed in ‘the
round houses at Wilkesharre.
—Engineer Herman Myers was killed
and Fireman John Fritz frightfully scald-
ed by a boiler explosion,at Peckville.
—Governor Hastings appointed Gwilyn
M. Williams, of Wilkesbatre, inspector of
mines in the Fourth Anthracite dis-
trict.
—The State Board of Agriculture will
investigate an alleged epidemic of Texas
fever among cattle in Huntingdon
County.
—The Grand Army men of Lancaster,
Lebanon, Berks, York and Chester Coun:
ties will have a reunion at Lancaster in
October.
—Moses Labar,. who abducted 14-year:
old Lydia Counterman, at Stroudsburg,
has been arrested, and the girl returned
to her home.
—Patterson Danner, aged 13, and Frank
Kirke ,aged 10 years, ran away from their
homes, at Harrisburg, and were caught
in New York.
—Rev. W. M. Jennings, pastor of the
Baptist church at Curwensville, has re"
ceived a call from the Memorial Baptist
church of Altoona.
—The: reunion of the 49th regiment
Pennsylvania Volunteers will be held in
Huntingdon on Tuesday and Wednesday,
October 15th and 16th.
—The State Order of Chosen Friends,
held its convention at Altoona Tuesday
and elected S. K. Wagner, of Latrobe, a
delegate to the Supreme Council.
—One of the female bootblacks of Will-
iamsport caused a scene in that city, by
being too familiar with a married man
whose wife objected to the intimacy.
+ =The 5-vear-old-son of Councilman
Kane, of Pittston, struck a percussion cap
with a stoneand was perhaps fatally in.
jured by the explosion that followed.
—The Conestoga Boulevard, over a mile
in length, will be opened this week
and will affor. the people of Lancaster
one of the best advantagesin the State.
—The employes of Leisenring & Co.'s
colliery, at Minersville, have agreed to
devote one day’s wages to the family of
any employe meeting death by accident,
—Because the noise of its machinery
drove tenants out of the Exchange Hotel
at Reading the Metropolitan Electric
Light Company has been sued for dam.
‘ages.
—Judgments were entered in Hollidays-
burg Friday for 16,000 against Charles T.
Askew & Co., a prominent clothing and
dry goods firm of Altoona, Executions
for $9,000 were issued to the sheriff.
—Though North Manheim Township
School District has #2000 in its treasury,
and 4 mills are levied for school purposes :
the School Board voted down a resolution
toincrease the school term from six to
seven months.
—Catholic priests in the western part of
the state have united in asking Bishop
Phelan to have the order of St. Vincent at
Latrobe stop brewing beer. The order is
very old and large and is worth #$60,c00,-
000.
—A Stroudsburg editor says one of
Henry Bragger’'s cows recently gave
birth to a creature that has the body and
legs of a calf and the front feet of a goose,
with toes and claws. It also has wings
and has a bill. It has teathers on its head
instead of hair. It bleats in the day like
a calfand at night utters cries like a
goose. .
—John M. Reynolds of Bedford, owns
the Spring Meadow farm, which contains
over four hundred acres, mostly bottom
land, and on which one of the most won"
derful springs of the country has been lo"
cated and developed. This spring, from
which the farm and the post office derive
their names, is almost three quarters og
an acre in size, and the water is from
three to fifteen feet deep. It is remark’
ably clear the smallest pebbles being vis®
ible at its greatest depth.’