Ink Slings.
Hastings and Quay have both had their
day,
Now let Democracy reign supreme;
And haste to the call for the battle this fall,
When we'll serve them both in a tureen.
—The WATCHMAN said last week
that QUAY would win.
—Niagara Falls has been harnessed,
go they say, but we'd like to know who
put the crupper on and buckled up the
belly band.
—Won’t it be nice with AL DALE,
Vic. GRAY and “BULLY” WAGNER as
dispensers of Republican patronage
in Centre county.
—As things have turned out there is
every evidence that ‘the swelled head
in politics” don’t go with the Republi-
cans of Pennsylvania,
—ABE MILLER expressed a desire to
see HAsTINGS’ defeat, not long ago.
Wonder what the Governor’s friends
will do for MILLER ?
—Great is the pity that HASTINGS,
friends won’t have an opportunity to
retaliate on QUAY, as they did when he"
forced DELAMATER on Pennsylvania.
—What a God-send it would be if
the QUAY cohorts would meet political
death from trichiniasis after that awful
gorging on the ‘Hog Combine,” on
Wednesday.
—1It is eaid that BiLL Livox was Lord
High Executive sympathizer at Harris-
burg, on Wednesday. Being in the
business he knew just how to act at the
“Hog” killing.
—We would respectfully announce to
Mr. MALIN that his “friend” is effect-
ually “out of politics” now and hence
forth mysterious looks and whispers will
not be needed.
—The man who dies without paying
his debts lives longer in the minds of
people than the honest individual who
owes no man a cent when he shufiles
off these mortal coils.
—ABE MILLER, the Republican can-
didate for Prothonotary will not stand
much investigation. There is a very
marked ‘‘yellow streak’ in his coloring,
the portend of which we will give to
the public when the proper time comes.
—It wasn’t so very long ago that
Miss MackAy puschased her title of
Princess and agreed to take Prince Co-
LONNA into the bargain. Though she
paid dearly. for his title she has just
agreed to pay $12,000 a year to get rid
of him again.
—The. trade papers are teeming just
now with accounts of bright prospects
for glass workers. Furnaces, every-
where, are preparing to go into blast, a
blast too that will knock the wind out
of Republican defamers of Mr. WiLsON
and his tariff measure,
—There were twenty-five thousand
Knights in parade at Boston, on Tues-
day. What a crowd for the Hub and
how those aesthetic Bostonese residents
must have regaled themselves with the
sight. To think that they would have
to rub up against common people too.
—The Pittsburg Times complains
that there are thirty million bushels of
coal awaiting ‘‘the June freshet’” for
shipment from that place. This state
of affairs seers to indicate that the min-
ers in that region are supplying more
coal than old mother nature can make
water to carry off.
—-The forty-fifth star is soon to be
added to the flags of America. The
war department has sent out orders to
incorporate it in the flag to represent the
State of Utah, that is to be admitted on
July 4th next. After Utah becomes a
State there will be but three more
territories to admit, viz: Oklahoma,
Arizona and New Mexico.
-—Don’t let any blandishments fool
you into believing that HENRY Quia-
LEY is fit to be District Attorney. He
would be a very nice boy, if he was’nt
such a dude and if he did’nt live in
HASTINGS’ house, but then the fact that
. he might be a nice boy under conditions
that do not exist, does not make him
eligible for the office of District Attor-
ney.
— Young COWDEN, the 16 year old
Hollidaysburg boy who has stirred up a
sensation by claiming that STELLA
Law, a Philadelphia girl, drugged him
and married him the other day, ought
not to have let go his mother’s apron
strings. It is really ashame that such
innocent little fellows should be al-
lowed to become the dupes of designing
women.
—The Altoona Tribune found enough
spare time ‘between its fitful jumps, from
QUAY to HASTINGS and from HAsT-
INGS buck to QUAY, to suggest TmEo-
DORE ROOSEVELT, of New York, asa
good Republican candidate for Presi-
dent. There can be no question about
his moral qualifications, but it would
be too bad to have a country ruled by a
fanatic who won’t allow women to be
on the streets of a city after sun down.
In the event of his nomination “petti-
coats at the polls” would do worse for
Mr. RoosEvELT than they did for Han.
RISON last time.
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VOL. 40
Self-Condemned.
No matter what has been the result
of the Republican State Convention—
whether the breach has been closed or
made wider—the fact remains that
the leaders of the two factions have
furnished evidence out of their own
mouths sufficient to prove that none of
them are fit to be at the head of the
State's government, and that a party
managed by such characters must nec-
essarily be demoralized and de:
bauched.
They have openly charged each oth-
er with almost every offense that the
lowest order of politicians could be
guilty of, and is there any reason ‘o
doubt the truth of their charges?
They have gone up and down the
length and breadth of the Common-
wealth, all summer, bearing testimony
against each other as to the political
crimes they have committed. Their
mutual accusations have included
such offenses as bribery, falsehood,
treachery, theft and personal “assassi-
nation.” It has been a campaign of
crimination aod recrimination, which
has thoroughly exposed the rascality
and corruption of both factions, and
left the leaders without a shred of char-
acter that decent politicians or honest
public men would want to own.
These mutual exposures will have a
good effect in acquainting the people
with the kind of men who have been
exercising political control for years.
There has been Democratic testimony
to their utter worthlessness, but it can
be no longer doubted since they have
confirmed it themselves by their own
charges and counter charges.
———
Strikes Don’t Last Long Now.
A gratifying peculiarity of these
Democratic times is that strikes do
not last long. A majority of the in-
dustrial proprietors are voluntarily in-
creasing the wages of their workmen,
but in the few cases in which it is nec-
essary for the.men to resort to a strike
the employers don’t hold out long.
Business is too brisk and the demand
for goods too lively for their mills to
remain idle.
An illustration of this is furnished
in Philadelphia where some weeks
ago the weavers were refused an ad-
vance in their wages, in consequence
of which they struck In McKINLEY
times such a strike would have re-
mained unsettled until the workmen
were starved into going to work again
at wages probably lower than those
against which they struck. But in
the recent Philadelphia case one mill
after another conceded to the demand
for increased wages, and the machin.
ery is rattling away as merrilv as ever.
Things are not as they used to be.
They are difterent now.
SS ANY
Democratic Files.
Here is a little economic incident
that will hardly be interesting to ca-
lamity howlers. The Pittsburg file
works, one of the most extensive in the
country, which went out of operations
not two years ago, when the Democrats
had “ruined the country,” but ten
years ago, w hen a high tariff was in
full swing, has gone to work again
making files.
During those ten years there was
nothing to interrupt the ‘beneficent
effect” of Republican protection. The
tariff went on increasing and in-
creasing in the amount of its duties.
But still the file business didn’t offer
inducements enough for that Pittsburg
file works to resume operations.
But it appears that the situation has
been go improved and such encourage-
ment is afforded to all kinds of indue-
try under reduced duties of a Demo-
cratic tariff, that the proprietors of the
Pittsburg file factory, after an idle-
ness of ten years, have concluded that
it will pay them to begin making files
again.
Probably one of their products will
be an especially rough variety of
rasps to be used on the McKINLEYITES
and for which there will be a great de-
mand in next year's campaigu.
——Every Republican in this sec
tion should show his apprecia-
tion of a good thing by howling him-
self hoarse for a Boss and the “purer
politics,” the gut gangs of Philadel-
! phia and Pittsburg, will insure under
the leadership of Quay.
Balfour and Bi-metallism.
It is well known that Mr. BALFOUR,
who is next to the highest officer in
the new British Ministry, entertains
very pronounced sentiments in favor of
bi-metallism. He is at the head of a
very strong party in England that op-
poses the exclusive gold policy which
prevails in the monetary system of
that country, and favors the restora-
tion of silver to its full function in the
circulating medium of commercial na-
tions.
Such being Mr. BaLrour’s position
on this question, and it having been
expected that he would make some
movement towards putting it into
practice after his party got into power,
it is a decided disappointment to the
bi-metallists, and in fact is considered
by them as a going back on his princi-
ples, for him to acnounce in Parlia-
ment, as he did lastzweek, that he is
unable to pledge any action on the
part of his colleagues in favor of call-
ing an international conference with
the object of adopting a double stand-
ard in place of the exclusive gold poli-
cy that row prevails.
This is by no means an abandon:
ment of bi-metallism by Mr. BavLrour,
but the fact is that he, as a practical
politician, sees the impracticability of
making the silver question a party ie-
gue in England. He adopts pretty
nearly the course of the practical poli-
ticians in the United States, who have
quite generally concluded that the sil-
ver question is an issue over which it
is neither necessary nor expedient for
political parties to contend. The coin-
age of silver at a fixed ratio may event.
ually force itself upon the nations as a
financial and commercial
and when that occurs the fixing of
that ratio by international agreement
will naturally and necessarily follow.
The Ruinous “Free Trade” Tariff.
A remarkable industrial situation is
noted by Mr. Josern D. WEEks, who
is an authority on such subjects. The
increasing activity of English iron
mills he says is the result of the ina-
bility of American mills to fill orders.
Because the American iron men have
more orders than they can handle the
depressed English iron trade is becom*
ing more active.
It used to be said that a high tariff
was needed to protect the American
iron manufacturer against English
competition, but under a Democratic
“free trade” tariff the English iron
trade finds it difficult to hold its own
against American competition. It
seems to be able to do it only when
the American mills have more work
than they can do.
This is indeed a curious way of be-
ing ruined by a “free trade tariff.”
SE ———————————
The Revival of a Tariff Town.
Pottsville has always been noted for
its strong tariff sentiment. The im-
pression has long prevailed in that lo-
cality that this world would scarcely
be worth living in if there were not
high tariffs to tax its inhabitants, and
it was on account of such views that
the people of that town erected a
monument to HeNry Cray because of
his advocacy of a protective tariff—
probably the only tariff monument in
the world.
Times have recently been very dull
in Pottsville, as has been the case all
over the country under the McKINLEY
policy, but a Republican newspaper
of that town notes.the fact that “to-let”
signe are not as numerous as they
were, and takes it as an indication of
improved times. It predicts that the
people of Schuylkill county will be as-
tonished at the increase in population
when local officials take the census
again, and says that new houses are
going up, new mines are being
opened, and new industries of various
kinds are being established.
All this is in progress under a
Democratic “free trade” that was go-
ing to ruin the country, according to
the lamentation of the wailers, Has7-
INGS last year made a particularly ca-
lamitous demonstration in Pottsville in
which he pointed to its suspended
industries as an evidence of the de-
structive effects of the Democratic tar-
iff policy. If.there was any truth in
what he said on that occasion, those
dead industries should not now be un-
dergoing such a wonderful resurrection
under an administration which was
represented as having caused their
death.
necessity,
BELLEFONTE, PA., AUG. 30, 1895.
NO. 34.
An American Belshazzar.
Young WaNAMAKER's recent royal
feast in Paris, which rivaled in ex-
travagant sumptuousness the high-
priced feeds of the ancient Roman vo-
luptuaries we read of in history, has
attracted the disapproving notice of
European journals. The company he
entertained was nota large one, but he
expended $20,000 in his snobbish am-
bition to surpass the costly entertain
ments usual in that fast city.
The comments that have been ex-
cited by this foolish expenditure of
money agree in alluding to the good
that might have been done with so
large an amount of money if it had
been applied to a worthier object.
How much more worthily it would
have been used if it had been devoted
to purposes of education or charity.
How much suffering it might have re-
1 lieved, and how the world might have
been made better by that $20,000 if it
had been expended for a nobler and
more useful purpose than gorging a
dinner party at the extravagant cost
of a thousand dollars a plate.
It is not desirable that men of great
wealth should be close with their
money. In their cases a liberal ex-
penditure is commendable ; but both
in the misapplication of the money ex-
pended and in the bad effect of the ex-
ample, young WANAMAKER'S Paris
dinner may be classed in the same per-
nicious category with BrLSHAZZAR'S
feast.
—
O, That “This Cup Might Pass From
Me.”
The friends and adherents of Gov-
ernor Hastings will now be expected
to turn in and shout for a ticket made
by those who have heaped all manner
of abuse upon him ; to hurrah for and
support those who have discredited his
administration and blackened and be-
smirched his personal character as
well as his political and official re-
cords ; to assist in rolling up a major-
ity. for Senator Quay's organization,
that it may be credited to the “match-
less leadership” of the man who has
led this fight against the Governor ;
to exert their influence and devote
their time to bringing about a result
that will strengthen the power of the
Boss and give him the absolute dicta-
tion of the vote of Pennsylvania in the
next National Republican Convention.
All this and more will be expected.
Great is the Boss. \
But O, how bitter the cup presented
to the lips of those who were not with
him !
ET ———
Corn and Democrats.
—
From accounts received from all
parts of the country this is going to be
the greatest corn year on record. The
prospective corn yield everywhere is
represented as being simply immense.
Republicans used to think it very
Swart to say, ‘more rain more corn,
more corn more whiskey, more whis-
key more Democrats.” So far as the
whiskey is concerned, we deny the log-
ic of this deduction, and would remark
that the way Republican politics are
run in Centre county, whiskey is an
important factor even in their judicial
elections, to say nothing of campaigns
run in the Hastings’ interest: But to
get back to the original question, this is
going to be a phenomenal year for corn
and from the manner in which the Re-
publicans are fighting among them-
selves, it promises to be a great year
for the Democrats.
——The New York Herald has been
interviewing Gov. McKINLEY and
forced the high tariff champion to ad-
mit that “our industries are all grow:
ing and we havea bright outlook for
the future.” The business outlook is
certainly bright, but for that very rea.
son the same cannot be said -of Mc-
KiNLEY's political oytlook. If the
country is prospering under a Demo-
cratic tariff policy, of what use is Mc-
KiNLey and his tariff? Without a
general condition of business calamity
the presidential prospect of the Ohio
tariff champion can’t be anything but
gloomy.
——Of course the Republican voters
of Centre county will “rally round”
the standard that has been raised
aloft by the toughs and criminals of
the larger cities in the interest of Boss
Quay and “purer politics.”
Whoop er up Boys !
It will now be in order for the ad-
ministration and its friends to off with
their coats and whoop’er-up for Hay-
woop for State Treasurer. Boss Quay
is now at the head of the Republican
organization. The State Treasurer has
the command of millions of dollars to
deposit among banks where it will do
the most good. Haywoop is the Boss’
creature. His deposits will go
where the Boss dictates, and as every-
thing is to go Quay’s way, the fellows
he has downed, and downed with
butcher knife and broad ax, may as
well strengthen his hold still more, by
voting to place the State Treasury at
his command. Let ’em all hooray for
Havywoop, and the Boss who emites
them ?
ie ——_—_>
The Country Editor.
From Harper’s Magazine.
Whatever may be the truth or the
falsity of the stories that are told of the
scarcity of funds in a country editor's
pocket or the scarcity of food in his
stomach, the stories are always told, and
neither the progress of education nor
the growth and development of the
press seems to have any effect upon the
crop. One of the latest comes from
Kentucky, where the mountain editor, at
least, rarely developes into a Cresus or
an Apicious, and this one is concerning
a mountain editor. A subscriber has
remembered him very kindly, and a
day or two later a visitor called at his
office.
“Can I see the editor ?”’ he inquired
of the grimy little “devil” roosting on
a high stool. r
“No, sir,” replied the youth on the
stool. ‘He's sick.”
““What’s the matter with him 7’
“Dun’no,” said the boy. “One of
our subscribers give him a bag of flour
and a bushels of pertaters t'other day,
and I reckon he’s foundered.
Seeing Life in Philadelphia.
From the Philadelphia Record.
An unfortunate native of Baltimore,
who came to this city on Friday to
take inthe sights, saw enough of Phila.
delphia in the first two hours be was
here to last him as many weeks. He
was crossing Chestnut street diagonal-
ly at ‘Sixth, with his pocketbook in
hand, and just as he reached the curb- |
ing the receptacle, with all its valua-
ble contents, fell from his hands and’
disappeared in the inlet. After a fu-
tile effort to raise the iron cover the
owner of the lost pocketbook hired a
street laborer to fish for it with a tin
can attached to a string. To cap the
climax he was run over by a carriage
while standing in the street superin-
tending the operation. The Baltimore
man has an idea that Philadelphia is
not such a slow place after all.
And It Is the Newspaper Men's Own
Fault.
From Punxsutawney Spirit.
The sun never goes down on the
head of the country newspaper man
without his baving had from one to 2
dozen requests to. donate his advertis-
ing space for some purpose or another.
Everybody wants free advertising.
Even the state and national govern-
ments want their proclamations print-
ed free. The government dead-heads
it nowhere excepting with the newspa-
pers. The newspaper man does more
gratuitous service and gets less thanks
tor it than anyboby under the bended
heavens. \
It Pays to Farm.
From the Pittsburg Post.
The wheat crop of Minnesota this
year is put at 62,000,000 bushels, and
of North Dakota at 68,000,000. The
income to the two states trom this crop
alone is put at $84,000,000. Including
their other cereal crops, and the hay
and potato harvest, the total agricultu-
ral income of Minnesota and North
Dakota for the year 1895 is estimated
at $147,700,000. This shows the way
wealth is dug out of the ground in
these states which a generation ago
had to import flour and meat for their
meagre population.
An Ambassadorial Shaking Up.
From the Williamsport Sun.
The administration is showing a
commendable spirit in determining to
deal harshly with those derelict Amer-
can ambassadors and ministers in
China and France. Denby and Eustis
have exhibited a carelessness of Ameri-
can interests in their respective stations
that calls for censure and the people
will be pleased to learn that the ad-
ministration has decided to call these
recalcitrant representatives to account.
RESTON
A Prophet is Not Without Honor Save
in His Own Country.
From the Pittsburg Post.
Telegrams to the numerous Pittsburg
police officials and their friends in Har-
risburg: “Public order at home yes-
terday was exceptionally good, and
promises to continue so until your re-
turn.”
—If you want printing of any dis-
cription the WATCHMAN office is the
place to have it done.
Spawls from the Keystone
—Tyrone has had five suicides within as
many years. 5
—The next meeting of the State Pardon
Board will be held on October 16.
—A charter was granted to the Gale
Manufacturing Company, of Warren :
ca pi tal, &80,0c0. \
—W. Galenski, as the result of a quarre]
at Pittsburg, jumped from a window and
was seriously hurt.
—About 1.000,600 tons of coal, loaded on
boats, are stranded in the Allegheny and
Monongahela rivers.
—Farmers over a large section of East.
ern Pennsylvania rejoiced over a heavy
rainfall on Tuesday.
—An increase of $60 has been made in
the annual allowance for clerk hire in the
Harrisburg Post Office. :
—Aged John Caffrey wandered about on
the mountains at Altoona three days
without coat, hat or shoes. rE
Another effort is making at Titusville
to form an independent oil company to
compete with the Standard.
—There are 118 cases of typhoid fever in
Pittsburg hospitals that city having a
horrible death-rate record.
—During the week ending August 2 the
total output of coke from the Cambria
county fields was 2,832 tons.
—The large tannery at Irvona burned on
Friday last, and the town was at one time
threatened with destruction.
—Schuylkill County lawyers will on
Saturday’ officially boom Judge O. P.
Bechtel for Superior Judge.
—Reading’s great German festival of
the Cannstatter Society opened Monday
and continued until Wednesday.
~The body of David Wazzid, who prob-
ably fell from a railroad bridge near
Lancaster, was found Monday.
—Charged with performing a criminal
operation that killed Miss Cora Rapp, of
Reading, Dr. H. A. Hepler was arrested
and held for trial.
—Seizing an electric wire that had
dropped to the street in Reading, little
Grace Rauch was shocked into insensibil.
ity, bat recovered quickly.
—Matrimony should be on the jump in
Tyrone, as one of the leading shoe deal.
ers offers a marriage license free with
every pair of shoes purchased.
—The Lewistown school board has de.
cided to admit a limited number of non.
resident pupils to the high school at the
rate of three dollars per month.
—Tamaqua Borough Council Tuesday
night decided to accept the offer of an
electric light company for furnishing s0
arc lights at 75 per light per year.
—The Pennsylvania Steel company on
Saturday paid its workmen at Steelton
£105,205, their semi-monthly wages, being
the largest pay roll on record there.
—Ex.Congressman Ermentrout, of
Berks, has secured rooms at a William-
sport hotel for 50 Dc¢mocrats from his
county who will attend the State conven-
tion.
—Edward Campbell, the young man who
was injured on the railroad near Arden-
heim on Friday ‘morning, died the same
day. His body was sent to Mount Union
for burial.
Hollidaysburg has a boy aged 6 years
who weighs 125 pounds. His name is
Willie Fitz and his father has been offer.
ed $82 a week to place the boy on exhibi-
tion, but refused.
—The P. R. R. ticket office at Birming-
ham, was again entered by burglars the
other night. They got in by cutting out a
panel of the door and stole a quantity of
tickets. The safe was not disturbed.
—The Bloomsburg car manufacturing
company received an order on Wednes
day for two hundred cars for the Lehigh
coal and navigation company, and one
hundred for Frick & Co. The company
anticipates a big contract'from an English
firm.
~A bug resembling a leech is said to
cause much trouble to the fish in the
Juniata. The leech fastens itself to the
back of the fish and makes a raw streak
from the head back, The fish when thus
affected swim near the surface and are
easily caught.
—The test well being drilled at Rou
lette, Potter county, has developed into
gasser of considerable importance. The
vein was struck at a depth of one thou-
sand two hundred feet, and as near as
can be estimated with the appliances at
hand they have a pressure of 600 pounds.
—Charles W. Shiargle, of Altoona, a
brakemen on Pittsburg division of the P.
R. R,, fell from the top of the box car,
while adjusting a brake, and was run ove
er by the train. Death was almost in:
stantaneous. He was about thirty-five
years of age and-leaves a wife and five
sons. ‘
—The Nippenose News is authority for
the statement that Mrs. Mary R. Zimmer.
man, of Sugar Valley, aged 76 years, one
day last week cut two huadred yards
swaths in an oats field with a cradle. Her
grand-children, the sons and daughters of
’Squire Bower, of Rauchtown took up the
grain after her.
—Burglars entered the residence of J.
C. Hazlett, on North Brown street, Lewis:
town, last night, and stole two suits of
clothes, a gold watch and a small sum of
money. The clothes were recovered this
morning. Mr. Hazlett has a clue of who
the robbers are and arrests will very
likely follow.
—William McLaughlin, of this city, was
nearly killed by the cars to-day while
stealing a ride on a Lake Shore train near
Ashtabula. He was riding on the bum.
pers, and the train slackened up, catching
his leg and nearly cutting it off. The
doctors amputated his limb. His recov-
ery is doubtful.
—A man was found dead in the cornfield
of William Bailey near Tyrone Friday
morning. A blackjack was found near
him and the back of his head had appar-
ently been battered in with the instru-
ment. Near him was found a book in the
Hungarian language on the fly leaf of
which was written Hudak Mihaly.
—A two day’s tournament of the North-
western Volunteer Firemen’s association
closed at Bradford, Pa., Friday with a
hub race. The leader of the Salamanca
running team, while the races were in
progress fell, the followers plled up over
him and one of the men was struck on
the side with the hub of the cart and kill-
ed. Another was so badly injured in the
accident that he will die. He is now ly-
ing at the Riddell house.