h.
8Y P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
He dared to be a DANIEL,
Though he didn’t stand alone,
He dared to think himself king bee
When he was but a drone,
—There is another dead duck in the
political pond.
— When rascals fall out honest men
get their dues. A Democratic omen
for this fall.
— ABE MILLER, the Republican can-
didate for Prothonotary, is tickled over
Hastings’ downfall. ABE has always
had it in for DAN.
—There ie nothing but the brightest
prospects ahead for Democrats. Repub-
lican dissension and business prosperity
are good conditions that confront us.
—Even MALIN eays: “It’s all up
with us.” For the enlightenment of
any who don’t understand the above ;
tus,” in this case, means MALIN, Hasr-
INGS et al.
—The Governor’s pat candidate for
District Attorney will hardly use coal-
oil to grease his campaign with. Coal
oil would havea bad effect on the troub-
led political waters of this county.
—International troubles confront us
again. France has one of our citizens
penned up, England is getting hot over
Nicaragua, China won’t protect our
missionaries and we are having pen and
ink scraps with State officials on all
sides.
—The St Louis has proven herself
the fastest vessel afloat. She carried
the stars and stripes at the rate of 23.6
knots an hour, in the English channel,
on Tuesday. Like the Legislature that
saw her launched the St. Louis is get-
ting away with everything in sight.
—An Alabama judge has decided
that if a young man puts his arm
around a marriageable girl’s waist it is
prima facia evidence that he bas pro-
posed. It might have been a sign when
that judge was younger, but now-a-
days—most men would become verita-
ble BLUE-BEARDS were it true.
—The announcement that real Mexi-
can bull fighting is to be a part of the
amusement provided by the managers
of the cotton states exposition, at At-
lanta, has brought considerable censure
down upon the heads of those in charge.
They have been equal to the emergency,
however, and are now flooding the
country with the announcement that
nothing is to be killed in the fights—
not even the bull. :
—It is said that a Centre county vet
eran is very much worried be-
cause he has lost his buck-tail and
won’t be able to have that mark of dis-
tinguishment when the famous old regi-
ment holds its reunion at Lock Haven,
next month. It ought’nt to be hard to
get all the buck-tails that anyone could
carry now-a-days. Quite a number
could be located through the guidance
f the commitment docket in the Pro-
thonotary’s office.
—It is a noteworthy fact that Gov-
ernor HASTINGS paid the fines of nine-
teen vagabonds, who were in jail at
New Castle, Del., last Monday, and
thereby insured their immediate release.
Why? We sincerely trust that it
wasn’t because they were all Philadel-
phians and his act was prompted by a
hope that they would all return, forth-
with, to the city and vote for him at
the primaries that were held there next
day. It looks that way, though, don’t
it ?
—1It might be well for the people of
Pennsylvania, as well as those of neigh-
boring States, wo have been watching
the factional strife in the Republican
party in this Commonwealth to ‘be for-
warned of any shyster act that the ad-
ministration might be forced to under-
take. There is every probability that
if QuAY wins over HASTINGS, in the
fight now on, the latter will endeavor
to laugh it off and say he didn’t care
much ; that the convention chairmanship
was all he was after. Remember, how-
ever, that the Governor refused such a
proposition to settle the trouble and
there can be nothing but the defeat of
his highest hopes should QUAY succeed.
— Whatever the outcome of the fac-
tional strife that is now rending the Re-
publican organization in Pennsylvania
the people of the State will have had an
opportunity of seeing the innermost re-
cess of the corrupt machine that has
dominated this State for years. If the
combine wins, it will be the supremacy
of debauchery. If Quay wins, it will
not be any particular confidence in his
assertion that he is for ‘reform in poli-
tiesyi’ but rather a rebuke to the most
extravagant administration of state we
have ever known. It will be a rebuke
to a policy that bas made the judiciary
a political weapon; a rebuke to a man
who has created fat officas for his hench-
men at the expense of public schools,
asylums and charitable institutions, a
rebuke to Standard oil favoritism that
has put luxuries on the tables of mil-
lionaires and left those of the common
people without necessities.
VOL. 40 _
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
“BELLEFONTE, PA., AUG. 23, 1895
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NO. 33.
The Choice Between Two Evils.
The concluding stage of the disturb:
ance between the Republican factions
indicates the probability that Quay is
going to come out on top. This result
will not be due to the influence of any
political virtue possessed by that notor-
ious party manager. He is the same
corrupt machine politician he has al-
ways. been, since he acquired control of
the Republican organization in this
State. A jleopard could change his
spots about as easily as Quay could
change his political character. His
probable victory will, in addition to its
other significance, prove that in
the management of party machinery
he is superior to the political appren-
tices whose swelled heads led them to
believe that they could turn the Boss
out and run the shop themselves.
A fight between these factions pre-
sents merely a choice between two such
evils as the control of Quay or the su-
premacy of a combination like that of
Hastings, MarTiN and Macee. Al-
though the one has no redeeming vir-
tue, the other is so thoroughly mis
trusted by the people that preference
for the former is made possible
That the rank and file of the Repub-
licans are against the Combine has
been made sufficiently evident by their
votes, wherever they have been allowed
an expression on the issue between the
two factions. The primaries, where a
direct vote. was permitted, have shown
a decided preference for Quay, which
can have no other meaning than that
the Hastings administration has in-
curred the disapprobation of the party
that put itin power by such an im-
mense majority.
There is abundant reason why repu-
table Republicans should be disgusted
with a state administration which
must share with a reprobate Legisla-
ture the blame for the profligacy, ex-
travagance, corruption and imbecility
that characterized the proceedings of
the last session.
If the Legislature increased the state
expenses, by creating new offices and
increasing official salaries, it was the
Governor that instigated that repre-
hensible proceeding, in order that party
workers might be rewarded and his
personal following be
venal Legislators were eager to pass
bills desired by monopolistic corpora.
tions, the Governor was just as ready
-| to approve them wirh his signature. If
an unnecessary Court was called into
existence, by an act of legislation, the
Governor, after giving his-assistance to
that bad piece of work, promptly made
use of the judicial appointments for
the promotion of his factional designs,
thereby committing a gross prostitu-
tion of the appointive power,
His entire administration has been
converted into a factional machine, op-
erating with the foolish design of se-
curing the unattainable object of a per-
sonal ambition. As his chief assistants
and advisors in this work he has
chosen the most notorions lobbyists of
Pittsburg and Philadelphia.
These are the reasons why the Re-
publicans, where they have been given
a chance'to vote on this tactional issue,
have given a decided majority for
Quay as against Hastings. There
being no other alternative they prefer
the leadership of so discreditable an
old Boss to that ot a thoroughly de-
bauched and disgraced state adminis-
tration.
It is not Quay’s strength, nor any
confidence the people have in him,
that has brought the results he is now
elated over. It is the pitiable weakness
of and distrust in the administration
that has done the work.
—Governor Hastings has visited
a Delaware prison and made himself
solid with the convicts. While at New
Castle inspecting the Naval Brigade,
last Monday, his curiosity led him to
visit the county jail where the whip.
ping post is located. The presence of
his Excellencv attracted the attention
of the prisoners, a number of whom
asked his assistance on account of
their being Pennsylvanians, and whose
release depended upon the payment
of fines. The Governor paid the fines
of seventeen of them, who gratefully
started for Philadelphia at once, and
no doubt were on hand on Tuesday at
the Republican primaries, and voted
early and often in the interest of the
i Hog Combine,
enlarged. If,
A Sensible Conclusion.
A Democratic silver conference was
held in Washington last week, it be-
ing composed of members of the Dem-
ocratic party, who are in favor of free
silver coinage. The conclusion it came
to did not indicate that the party is
going to suffer to any extent from de-
fection on the silver question.
The members of the conference,
among whom Senator Harris, of Ten-
nessee, was the most prominent, were
candid in declaring that their object
was to secure the endorsement of free
coinage at the next Democratic nation
al convention and the nomination of a
free coinage candidate for President.
In the declaration of this purpose they
exercised their undoubted right to ex-
press their sentiments on a question
which is clearly an open one. The
party, as a party, is not committed
either for or against the coinage of
silver.
Bat the conference, with commend-
able fidelty to the Democratic organi-
zation, further declared that if their
views in regard to silver coinage
should not be accepted by the nation-
al convention such action would in no
wise affect their allegiance to the
party, nor prevent them from accept-
.ing its platform and supporting its
candidates.
This is the right position and it will
be found generally adopted by Demo.
crats in the next national campaign.
It is becoming evident that the mone-
tary question is not going to be settled
as a political issue. Silver is drifting
out of the domain of politics, and is as-
suming the character of a great inter-
national interest, which no nation can
determine single handed, but which re-
quires inter-national action and agree-
ment to bring it to a practical and ef-
fective solution.
Both Are Guilty Alike.
The cowardice of Senator Quay and
his followers is shown in their efforts
to saadle all the corrupt and villianous
| work of the last Legislature upon the
| administration. The Lorp knows that
' Gov. Hastixgs and his Combine have
' enough to answer for in the settlement
| of their own sins against the interests.
{of the people and the honor of the
Commonwealth, but to make them
solely responsible for the joint acts of
the Combine and the Quay gang, is
I like punishing the thiet for the crimes
of the receiver of stolen goods. In
their just and bitter condemnation of
the debauchery and corruption and ven-
lican people should not forget that not
one of the acts of which they com-
plain, and which the Governor is
rightfully denounced for approving,
could have been enacted without the
Both factions are alike responsible for
the disgrace they have brought upon
the State, and the debauchery that
held high carnival among Republican
Legislators.
Things Are Different Now.
For the year eading June 30, 1894,
a McKINLEY year, the difference be-
tween the deposits and withdrawals
at the New York savings banks showed
a net loss of $35,000,000. For the
year ending June 30, 1895, a WiLsoN
year, the difference at the same banks
showed a net gain of $15,000,000.
Business with savings banks is done
principally by working people, and
this increase of deposits compared with
the loes of the previous year, shows
the improved condition of the common
people under a Democratic administra-
gion.
In looking back at the prostration
of the McKINLEY period and compar-
ing it with the present condition, it
may be truly said that things are dif-
ferent now.
» —It is the opinion of C. P. Hunt:
INGDON, who is one of the best judges
of business matters, and has been
studying the situation in this country
and Europe, that we have entered a
remarkable era of prosperity and will
have five or six of the best business
years this country has ever seen. Such
a prospect is naturally gratifying to
those who predicted and hoped that
Democratic administration of the gov.
ernment and Democratic fiscal policy
would be attanled with rainoas coase-
quences.
ality of the last Legislature, the Repub- |
aid and support of the Quay crowd. |
Gratitying to Democrats.
Dgmocrats derive much pleasure
from takizg a retrospective glance at
the course of industrial events since
the adoption of the Democratic tariff
policy, and a prospective view of the
still greater benefits of that policy
which the future has in store. .
Every department of industry shows
its beneficial effects, but particularly
gratifying are the splendid achieve-
ments of the woolen schedule under
the Democratic tariff. There is no
mistaking such a beneficent manifesta-
tion as the advance in wages, in at
least fifty woolen mills since the pres-
ent season set in.
In addition to this benefit, effecting
the individual interests of the woolen
workere, free wool and lower duties on
manufactured woolen goods have given
a great impetus to every branch of
that industry. During the eleven
nonths, that ended with the first of
May, the expanding business of our
woolen mills required the importation
of over one hundred and eighty million
pounds of wool, a quantity which ex-
ceeded the importation of wool during
a corresponding period under the Mc-
KiNLey tariff by one hundred and
thirty-six million pounds.
This immense importation of raw
material means more extensive opera-
tions for the mill owners, more work and
better pay for the workmen, and cheap.
er and better fabrics for the people, as
most of the wools imported are of the
higher grades. That this has not in-
volved any loss to the American sheep
raizer is proven by the fact that while
these importations have been going on
the price of American wool has ad.
vanced two cents a pound.
There could not be a more splendid
vindication of the Democratic principle
of free raw materials. It is based on
the economic fact that by giving our
manufacturers the advantage of raw
materials from whatever quarter they
may be obtainable, manufacturing op-
erations are given such a stimulus that
our home raw materials are included
in the increased demand, they being
involved in the effects of the general
prosperity.
Contrary to the Republican doctrine
that high duties are necessary for
American industry, the reduction of
the tariff by the Democrats-has placed
the woolen manufacturers in the best
position they have ever occupied, has
increased the wages of the workmen
and given them more to do, and will
supply the American people with a
better quality of woolen goods at lower |
prices. It extends similar benefits to
other branches of industrial produc-
tion. :
These effects of their tariff policy
are certainly gratifying to Democrats,
who, while carrying on their campaigns
of education, had to suffer so much
mierepresentation and abuse from
parties “interested in maintaining a
wonopolistic tariff.
Quay Demands a Fair Count.
Boss Quay takes the right position
in asking that there should be a fair
count and no gouging in making up
the roll of delegates to the State Con-
vention, ‘and that the State Com-
mittee should be previously called to
gether tor that purpose.
In such a matter, as a practical pol-
itician not over-stocked with honesty,
“he knows how it is himself.” From
long personal experience and practice
in the methods of crooked politics he
is fully competent to judge how there
may be such a rascally manipulation
of the rell asto make a majority for
the side that does the manipulating,
although it may really have the small-
est number of fairly elected delegates.
GILEEsoN, as chairman of the State
Committee, is in a position to do this
kind of work,
Quay evidently understands the na-
ture of his opponents, when he warns
them against cheating in the count;
and GriuxesoN justifies the suspicion
that there is going to be crooked busi-
ness in making up the roll by declin-
ing to comply with the request that it
should be done by the State Commit-
tee. Itis true that this would be an
unusual proceeding, but the instinct of
an old practical machine politician,
like Quay, teaches him that in this
case he has an unusually slippery set
of political rascals to deal with.
Expensive Dan.
From the Uniontown Genius of Liberty.
A gentleman who saw the review at
Glencairn remarked that the boys
made a magnificent, warlike appear-
ance. But the governor and the staff
officers will have a chance to learn
something more about the actual real-
ities of war next month when we take
that trip south. We will have a great
time, and will enjoy some new sights.
Theg speaker referred to the tour
that Governor Hastings will take in
September when he accompanies the
old goldiers to the Chickamauga bat-
tlefield. His excellency bas made up
his mind that he will go in his most
royal state when he takes that trip,
which will be largely in the nature of
a junketing tour, The late legislature
appropriated the sum of $5,000 to pay
the expenses of the veterans who will
represent the Pennsylvania regiments
but before the chief executive would
sign the bill he made the peremptory
demand that the expenses of himself
and staff be paid from that appropria-
tion, He insisted on going on the
trip and taking a large party with him,
including not only his staff but many
invited guests. ;
His most excellency is now said to
demand no less than ten rooms and a
parlor at the Look Out Inn which
will cost not less than $60 a day. Be-
sides this trifling item the governor
will have carriages for his party, and
inasmuch as they are very scarce, the
liverymen are going to charge $5 a
seat. This, with other enormous ex-
penses for the king and his retinue will
go a long way toward exhausting
the Appropriation, 80 the commission :
of old soldiers appointed for this pur-
pose will have to go afoot. One of the
members of the commission sdid :
“Inasmuch as ‘General Hastings
never saw a battle, it was thought best
to give into his demands, so that he
could fully and with the utmost ease
view the many places where the blue
and gray made red the green fields of
the western conflict. Truly the com-
mander of the Hog Combine is not dy-
ing from too much modesty.
The Foundation of Prosperity.
From the New York World.
The doubting Thomases as to pros-
perous times have need to look at the
facts, With a corn crop “wath $111,
000,000 and other crops in proportion,
the country couldn't be otherwise than
prosperous it it would. Our exports of
agricultural products alone will bring
more than two billion dollars of wealth
to us this next year. All our factories
are running on full time. Wages are
being voluntarily increased on every
hand. Our iron mills are unable to
supply the demands made upon them,
and their rejected orders are going to
Europe, where they will pay wages
that must come back to us in payment
for bread and meat. Prosperity is the
normal and usual condition of the
great Republic. Depression and hard
times are accidental and unfrequent
incidents
Is Silent On That Subject.
From the Pittsburg Post.
A leading wool dealer of Philadel-
phia, Mr. L. M. Whiddin, just return-
ed from a tour of observation of the
the wool-growing districts of the west,
says the western wool dealers will get
$6,000,000 more for their wool this
year than they expected.” This news
should be conveyed to McKinley to il-
luminate his next calamity speech.
But we forget. McKinley has dropped
calamity oratory, and is now eloquent
on every subject but the tariff.
Yes It Do.
From the Butler Herald. .
The most prominent Senator of the
New Ycrk Legislature is Senator
Lexow, and he has within the past
two weeks declared that if the present
prosperity of the country continues it
will prove that the Republicans are
wrong on the tariff issue and have
been all the while. Senator Lexow is
not & Democrat, but a protectionist
Republican, formerly of the most ex-
treme type, but he is also a reformer.
The world do move.
Heading Toward the Farmer.
Froin the Phila. Record.
The exports from this country in
1894 exceeded those of 1893 by over
$40,000,000 ; and as three-fourths of
th e commodities sent abroad consisted
of farm products, the farmers should
be in as good humor as are the manu-
facturers over the results of Tariff Re-
form. At last prosperity has headed
for the open fields.
An Impossibility Under a McKinley
Tariff.
From the Cambria Freeman.
An Alabama firm secured a contract
for water pipes for Tokio, against bid-
ders in England, Germany and Bel-
gium, What has become of the Eurc-
pean pauper labor law now? This
kind of thing was never done under the |
McKinley law, let it be remembered. |
|
1
——If you waut printing of any dis-
cription the WarcaMAN office is the
place to have it done.
Spawls from the Keystone.
—A new Board of Health has been or.
ganized at Shenandoah.
—Grasshoppers are eating the buck-
wheat in Pike county.
—Illness caused Sylvanus Klapp, ‘at
Stoudsburg, to commit suicide.
—An electric shock from a trolley wire
at York killed Charles Anthony.
—Reading bicyclers have clubbed to-
gether to buy wheels at first cost.:
—A bicycler at Douglassville ran down
Mrs. Frances Good, fracturing her leg.
—After a red-hot fight Reading’s School
Board voted to change the text books.
—An explosion ofgasin a Girardville
mine blew out the life of Patrick Howe.
—A severe storm visited Allegheny
county Sunday, doing considerable dam-
age. *
—Mennonites baptized a number of
converts in the river at Spring City Sun-
day.
—In six months there haye been 21:2
births and only 996 deaths in Schuylkill
County.
' —Failing to hear an approaching train
at Reading, Henry Fasig, 2 painter, was
killed.
—Natural gas has been struck at Toby-
hanna, Monroe county, on Charles Wen-
ner’s farm.
—Pottsville citizens want their wards
to be known by numbers instead of names,
at at present.
—Thrown from a carriage by a runaway
team at Mt. Carmel, J. W, Pershing wag
fatally hurt.
—A pillow rolled upon an infant, Doro-
thy Sullivan, while she slept at Shamo-
kin, suffocating her.
—Suffering from melancholia in the
Lancaster Insane Asylum, Mrs, Mary
Grog strangled herself.
—Three prisoners, Frank Neal, Louis
Roseburger and Michael Wright, escaped
from the Kittanning jail.
—Mrs. A. B. Brown has been appointed
fourth-class postmaster at Reafren, vice
James Patrick, removed.
—Walking on the track of the jLehigh
Valley Railroad, J. H. Tompkins, of Pitts-
ton, was run over and killed.
—Being seized with cramps while swim-
ming in the river at Plymouth, young
Richard Davis was drowned.
—While fishing with a friend at Le Roy,
Bradford county, Polk Hickok committ-
ed suicide by drowning himself:
—Thieves stole 8100 worth of tobacco
and cigars from the Philadelphia & Read”
ing warehouse, at Hellmandale.
—A society has been formed at Tremont
to mark the sites of former Indian vil-
lages in Schuylkill county and vicinity.
—Accused. of passing counterfeit ten.
cent pieces William L. Dunmire, of Punx-
sutawney, was sent to Blair county jail.
—In a fight at Fordham, on the Monon-
gahela River, Peter Ferris was shot and
severely injured by Abraham Minney.
—A burglar whom George Steinbacher
found in his bedroom at ,Williamsport
fired a bullet through the latter’s clothes.
—Strikers at Creedmore mine of the
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company, °
near Pittsburg, returned to work Friday.
—The body of a man was seen floating
in the Delaware River at Taylorsville,
Bucks county, but it could not be recov-
ered. 2
—Surviving veterans ofthe Forty-eighth
Regiment, who served throughout the en-
tire war, held a reunion at New Philadel-
phia.
—At Shamokin Thomas Edwards was
struck by a trolly car, and William Ja-
rass by a locomotive each receiving fatal
injuries.
—Hundreds of Irishmen from Western
Pennsylvania met at Pittsburg and advo.
cated physical force to free Ireland from
British rule,
—It is feared that little Russell Gar-
recht, of Brooklyn, who was recently bit.
ten by a dog at Easton, is suffering from
hydrophobia.
—While working on a Pennsylvania
Railroad train at Columbia, Brakeman
William B. Cqok, of Harrisburg, fell and
was cut to pieces.
—Lightning killed a cow at Boliver Run
McKean county, while D. Dykeman and
his little son were milking, and both were
badly shocked.
—Miss Ella Templin; of Birdsboro, who
it was thought was fatally injured by
having a chair pulled from under her,
isnow able to walk.
—Lancaster Court decided that the ri-
val Evangelical denominations at Man.
heim occupy alternately the Seybeg)
Church temporarily.
—DBecause the girl's parents objected to
their marriage, Miss Jessie Cutts and Gus
Strauss, of Limestone, Lycoming county,
fled to New York and were wed.
—Edward O'Donnell, of Shenandoal,
has served as gatekeeper for the Lehigh
Valley Railroad for fifteen years without
losing a day, not even Sunday.
—F. C. Job, elected a State delegate in
the Third district of Schuylkill county, is
arranging to take every delegate who
voted for him to the State Convention.
—The fifth annual convention of the
Williamsport District Epworth League of
the Methodist Episcopal church will be
held in Mifflinburg, Pa., on September
13, 14 and 15, 1895.
—The oats crop of John Jonas of Nip-
penose valley, was threshed last week.
Tliree hundred sheaves turned out sixty
bushels. The entire crop averaged sixty-
six bushel to the acre.
—Thieves entered three houses at Falls
Friday night. Two suspicious characters
were arrested, but as there was no proof
of their having been conngeted with the
robbery they were released.
—A robber broke into the residence of
P. B. Zentmyer at Clearfield, a few nights
ago and got some money, watches and
jewelry. He escaped, but not until after
a scuffle with Mrs. Zentmyer. who dis"
played considerable nerve.
—During the prevalence of a terriffic
electric storm in Huntingdon county on
Friday Melvin B. Crum, aged 22 years,
and two horses were struck by lightning
and instantly killed. The young man
had been plowing in a field and sought
shelter under a tree. The tree was struck
and literally splintered to pieces.