oe
a
Ink Slings.
—Will the poor people of Centre
county endorse HASTING’S for signing
the oil bill by voting to make his pet
their district attorney.
—QUIGLEY is very unpopular at his
old home in Eagleville, where he is ac-
cused of having forgotted the boys with
whom he once ran barefooted.
—A gold craze has struck Nebraska.
Poor, ill-fated State. What a God-
send it would be if the report were real-
ly true and the starving populace would
become suddenly rich.
—A new carriage in which our
Governor rides cost $1,500, He'll
hardly look at poor little ¢‘Dandy’’ and
that yaller BRADLEY wagon when he
gets home from Harrisburg.
—In Texas an extra session of the
Legislature recently saved the honor of
that State. In Pennsylvania it would
be different ; an~exira session of qur
Legislature would well
know what it would mean.
—The eternal fitness of things is seen
in the report that KELLOG, the most
promising candidate for half-back on
the Cornell foot-ball team, “will hardly
make much at the game’ because the
poor fellow has a bald head.
—The Clearfield county farmer who
conceived the idea of clessing a baby
show under the heading, ‘articles of
domestic manufacture,” deserves a
medal for long-headedness from the
county agricultural society out there.
—The consolidation of the three
big street railway systems in Philadel-
phia marks the beginning of the end of
whatever of comfort and efficiency of
service that city has enjoyed from her
street railways in the past. Where
there can’t be competition there will be
little regard for public needs.
—If there is any reason under the sun
why a Democrat should vote for either
ABr MILLER or HENRY QUIGLEY we
would like to know of it. Both of
them are unfit for the offices to which
they aspire and would have to either
neelect their work or hire it done at an
auditional expense to the county.
—The Democratic land-slides in the
cities of Indianapolis, Ind.,and Chatta=
nooga, Tenn., augurs well for great
Democratic victories this fall. The tide
has turned and Democracy will be car-
ried on to victory. Get to work every
one of you in Centre county. All we
want is to get the vote out. Victory
will then be assured.
—The proposed action of the Ameri-
can Kennel club, whereby the exhibit
of dogs with cropped ears and tails will
be forbidden at future bench shows, is
another step toward the more humane
treatment of dumb animals, though it
will detract much from the ferocious
looks of bull dogs. When cropping
stops there will be a ‘tail-holt’’ by
which the latter class of canines can be
pulled out of fights.
—The Democrat seems to have effect.
ually answered the Gazette's charge
that the Democrats have not befriended
the old soldiers. ‘When a comparison is
made the truth reveals itself that our
party has given more to the defenders of
the Union than the Republican party
has, and if ABE MILLER tries to enlist
your sympathy, because he is a battle
scarred veteran, ask him why his own
party hasn’t looked after him.
—In 1890 there were 5249 Demo.
cratic votes polled in Centre county,
while last fall there were only 3967.
The difference of 1282 is what we want
to get out next month. With the same
vote that we polled in 1830 the Demo-
cratic ticket would bave a majority of
462 over a Republican vote as large as
was HASTING’S vote of 4787 last fali. It
was abnormally large, however, so you
see it is merely a question of getting out
the vete. See that it is done.
—Scientists are trying to prove that
the Garden of Eden was at the north
pole. We are not much exorcised over
the exact spot where ApAM and Eve
held forth, but we would just like to
drop » remark about the utter ridicu-
lousness of this north pole location.
Doesn’t the bible say that Eve’s only
raiment was a fig leaf. Now whether
she wore it in the shape of bloomers or,
a8 tradition would have us believe, in
the shape of a miniature apron, anyone
would know that in a north pole region
ghe would soon have perished.
—1It is not often that an editor gets
caught in any of the little games he at-
tempts to play, but CHARLEY BAN-
GERT of the Falls Creek Herald, is one
of the unfortunate. About two weeks
ago he started a ‘big potato contest’’ in
which he induced farmers to bring in
all the big potatoes they could find and
run the chance of getting the paper
for a year. A few days ago CHARLEY
became the father of twins and now
every one ie ‘“‘on to’ the potato contest
racket. The twins appeared before he
had scooped enough potatoes to do them
all winter.
Demacral
_VOL. 40
BELLEFONTE, PA., OCT. 11, 1895.
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
NO. 40.
Democrats of Centre County.
This time three years ago, you, with
the people of the county generally,
were suffering from the effects of Re.
publican mis-rule as no people any-
where on the face of the globe had
ever before suffered.
Factories of all kinds were at a
standstill ; mills were idle ; furnaces
were fireless ; mines were closed up ;
the wages of the few working men
who could find employment were go-
ing down, down, down ; the prices for
agricultural products were lower than
ever known before ; strikes were uni-
versal ; tramps blockaded the high-
ways ; the militia was in arms as at
Homestead, keeping the starving
populace in order, and on every hand
was the evidence of euch distress and
such times as had never before been
experienced, and we pray God never
again may be felt.
This was under Republican rule and
the result of Republican laws and ad-
ministrations.
You as Democrats were not back-
ward in telling your neighbors that
the condition of affairs then, was at-
tributable to the mis-rule ot the party
in. power. You believed what you
were saying, and you were right.
You demanded a change of admin-
istration and many of your neigh-
bors voted with you for a change.
It came. With it is coming the pros-
perity you predicted. On every side
and from every quarter comes the evi-
dence of revived industries, of restored
confidence, of better times. Theres
demand for the products of your farms
and the prices of that which you raise
are advancing ; furnaces that were out
of blast then are now working day and
night ; every ore ming in the country
it being worked to its utmost capacity ;
wages have increased—tramps have
decreased ; factories and mills and
mines have started up and every part
of the country has evidence of the wel
come change you worked for and se-
cured.
Republican politicians are trying to
| pubhc affairs in
steal the credit that belongs to you |
and your party—the credit of securing |
the better times and the general pros. |
perity that now blesses the ccuntry. |
They eay it is the consequence of their |
success last fall ; that the people had
no confidence in Democratic principles
or Democratic rule and that the pros-
pect of going back to Republican
methods and Republican domination
has brought about the change for the
better.
You know how wrong this claim is.
You know how false it is. You know
that the bettered condition of affairs is
traceable alone to wise Democratic
laws and to careful and economical
Democratic administration.
Shall this claim of the Republicans
be sustained? It ie for you to say.
The result of the elections four weeks
hence will tell. A Republican victory
would mean that the people believe it
was Republican success last fall, and
not Democratic legislation, that secured
us the better times. Can Democrats af-
ford to allow this belief to take hold of
the people? Can they afford to be
robbed of the credit that is due them,
and have the country go back to its
condition in 1892?
This is the question we leave to you,
Democrats of Centre country? Is
your party right? If so show, that
you believe it by getting out every vote
you can to sustain and encourage it.
——Col. Francis JORDAN for {many
years president of the board of truet-
ees of The Pennsylvania State College,
was practically financially ruined by a
decision of the supreme court, on Mon-
day. The Harrisburg Telegram, the
property of his son, had passed into
the hands of the sheriff when Col. Jor-
DAN endeavored to secure himself, for
the heavy endorsing he had done for
his son, by levying on a $20,000 press
purchased in Chicago. The Dauphin
county court decided in his favor, but
the decision has been reversed and the
old gentleman is a great loser.
——Two better, more conscientions
and painstaking officials have never
served Centre county, in their respect-
ive capacities, than prothonotary
Smita and district attorney SINGER.
They are both candidates for re-elec-
tion and if the best interests of the
tax-payers are to be served they will
be elected.
w
A Worthless Endorsement.
Its endorsement by the Republican
state committee can hardly increase
the public confidence in Quay’s prom-
ises of reform. That committee -is
chiefly composed of henchmen who
graduated in machine politics under
the old Boss himself, and with such a
reputation their endorsement of his re-
form program amounts to about the
same as one bankrupt endorsing the |
notes of another.
What occasion is there for reform
in this State, anyhow ? What is out
of joint, and who put it out? Ever
since the beginning of the war, a peri
od of thirty-five years, public affairs in
this State have been almost exclusive-
ly in the hands of the Republicans.
There has not been a law, a policy, or
any measure of legislative action in all
that time, that did not come from a
Republican source. If there have
been mal-administrations, bad laws,
bad executive action and bad manage-
ment of the State revenue, that party
must be responsible fordhem, and that
there has been all this has been ad-
mitted by their promises of ‘reform.
If there was nothing wrong there
would he nothing to be reformed. But
are the men who have produced a cor-
rupt condition the proper ones to puri-'
fy it?
Quay has been at the head of this
party in the State for years, and has
controlled its policy. After having
been chiefly instrumental in putting
the condition in
which they are, he now announces
that he is going to reform them. Are
not his pretensions a good deal like
those of an old bawd who should an-
nounce her intenfion of bringing about
a reformation of the virtue in a com-
munity which she had done so much
to impair ?
The Farmers Won't be Fooled.
That the Republicans want to fool
the farmers in one more campaign is
evident from an assertion in the reso-
lutions of the New York Republican
state convention to the effect that they
have been “robbed of millions of dol-
lars through free wocl and the reduc-
tion of the tariff upon agricultural
products by the WiLson tariff bill.”
That tariff has been in operation a
few weeks over a year. During that
year, including the fiscal year between
June 30, 1894 and June 30, 1895, the
imports of articles of food and live ani-
mals amounted in value to $363,228,
274, as against $379,795,536 in the
preceding year which was exclusively
under the McKINLEY act.
If the farmers have been “robbed”
it must have been by the importation
of foreign agricultural and animal
products, and yet itis seen that dur-
ing the past years, under the WiLson
tariff, the value of such importations
was over sixteen million dollars less
than during the McKINLEY year.
The Republican - politicians think
that any lie will do to fool the farm-
ers, and they have no regard for facts
and figures when they get one up for
campaign use.
A Record to be Proud Of.
The two leading acts of Democratic
policy under the CLEVELAND adminis-
tration has been the repeal of the
SHERMAN silver purchasing law and
the enactment of the WriLson tariff
bill. The results of these two acts
speak for themselves.
The first relieved the finances from
that disorder and panic which over-
took them when the treasury was be-
ing drained by the enforced purchase
of silver which the government had
no use for.
The other relieved the country from
the effects of an oppressive tariff law
that fostered monopoly, depressed la:
bor, and increased the cost of the nec-
_essaries of life.
The consequences of these two
Democratic acts are seen in’ the re-es-
tablished credit of the government,
and the easy condition of the finances
as the effect of their being placed on a |
sound basis ; and in the improvement
of business, the increased employment
of labor, the advancement in wages,
and in general prosperity taking the
place of hard times.
With such a record the Democratic
' Centre, that they will never hear them
party can safely ask the country to ren-
der its verdict at the polls.
| parallel, they had to resort to an as-
Personal Liberty in New York.
The line of policy assumed by the
Republican party in New York is
something unprecedented in American
politics. It has declared openly and
unblushingly in its platform against
personal liberty.
The people of that State are suffering
from the infliction of a sumptuary law
that restrains their personal freedom.
This enactment was intended as an ex-
cise measure, but it has been perverted
to the purposes of fanaticism and is
used as a meaops of individual and eo-
cial annoyance. It applies to all the
State, but bas been made particularly
oppressive and offensive in New York
city.
By the enforcement of this intoler-
ant measure a harmless indulgence is
converted into a penal offense. The
common citizen is hounded like a
criminal if he is suspected of indulging
in his favorite beverage on an inter-
dicted day of the week, while the
wealthy are placed above such perse-
culion by their pecuniary condition.
The humble beer saloon is watched by
the police, while liquor is allowed to
flow freely in the aristocratic club
room.
It is contended by the upholders of
personal liberty and equal rights that
this law, originally intended for reve-
nue, is being directed from its legiti.
mate object, and is not only being
made an instrument of Puritanical
bigotry, but a means by which the
private rights and eocial freedom of
the citizen are violated, and is doubly
obnoxious on account of its discrimina-
tion between different classes.
The reasonable demand is made by
those who suffer from this law that
the people shall be allowed to deter-
mine by popular vote, for their differ-
ent localities, whether there shall or
sball not be a discontinuance of its
operations. The Republican -State
convention has declared its opposition
to this principle ot popular sovereignty.
It denies to the people the right to de-
termine a question that involves the
highest principles of free citizenship,
and put itself on record as the up-
holder of Puritanic intolerance, sump-
tuary restriction and fanatical oppres-
gion.
——There will be no trouble in giy-
ing a good old-fashioned Democratic
majority in Centre county this fall, if
the Democratic vote is brought to the
polls. The people are with us and all the
Democrats need to do is to have grit
enough to get out and vote. AND THIS
THEY INTEND TO DO.
mE SE————
An Unconsitutional Court.
It could hardly be otherwise than
that a law, conceived with such a par-
tisan design as that contemplated in
the formation of the superior court,
should have some great constitutional
defect about it, and this defect is point:
el out by M. E. OLmsteap, Fsq. of
Harrisburg, one of the ablest constitu-
tional lawyers in the State, who main-
tains that the provision of the law
which practically limits the vote of
the elector to six candidates when
there are seven to be elected, is con-
trary to the constitution, which in-
sures to every qualified voter the right
to vote for a candidate for every elec-
tive office, except such offices as are
expressly excepted in its provisions.
It was the outrageously partisan in-
tention of the framers of this law to
secure for the Republicans six out of
the seven judges of the superior court,
and in their endeavors to effect this
grossly indecent purpose, which as a
specimen of partisan meanness has no
sault upon the fundamental law of the
State.
There may not be time enough be-
fore the election for the supreme court
to act on the question of the constitu-
tionality of the law that has created
this new court, but the people should
render their verdict in regard to it by
defeating the candidates put forward
by the schemers who ‘devised this un-
constitutional law for a partisan pur-
pose. 22
——Last fall the Republicans had
the bulge on us and haven't got done
crowing about it yet. This is our fall
and Democrats should be prepared to
snow them under so deep, here in old
crow again.
a
Loyalty From a Southerner.
Extracts from Henry Watterson’s Speech at
the Louisville Camp-fire.
Comrades—for under the star flower-
ed flag of the Union all who truly love
il are comrades—in the name of the
city and State I bid you the heartiest
welcome.
I have been in every State and terri-
tory of the Union, and I can truly say
that I never came away from any one
of them where I had not found some-
thing to make me proud of my country,
Allthat I do contend for is that you
will find here more kind of good things
and more of them than you will find
anywhere else on the face of the globe.
Let the dead past bury its dead. You,
at least, have no reason to complain.
You got away with as many of us as we
got away with you. The brave men
who have gone to heaven have long ago
settled the account before that court
where all is made right that so puzzles
us here.
“God reigns and the government at
‘Washington lives.”” That should satis-
fy us all. If there is any more fighting
to be done, let’s go and lick England
and take Canada ; let's go and lick
Spain and take Cuba ; let’s go and lick
creation, and make the unspeakable
Turk vote the American ticket We can
do it. Shoulder to shoulder, with the
world before us and old glory above,
who shall stop us ?
‘No surrender,
No pretender
Pitted together in many a fray.
Lions in fight
And linked in their might,
The North and the South will carry the day.”
All that is wanted in this great land
of ours is for tho people—the plain peo-
ple, as Lincoln called them—to realize,
from Maine to Texas, from Florida to
Oregon, that there is nothing whatever
to divide them. They are the same
people.
The monstrosity of slavery out of the
way, the Nation having actually had
its new birth of freedom, ‘what but
ignorance and prejudice is to hinder the
stalwart American in Minnesota from
taking the hand of the stalwart Ameri-
can in Georgia and calling him ‘‘broth-
er?” ° Both came from a common
origin—good old Anglo-Saxon and
Scotch-Irish stock, and are welded to
together by common interest and a
common destiny. Bone of one bone,
flesh of one flesh, national aspirations
and fellowship. God made this conti-
nent for us and consecreated it for free-
dom. The transfiguration of ‘nature
not less than the transfusion of blood
clearly indicates the will of God. Who
dares dispute his awful works ?
Why Deny Them Such Rights.
From the Doylestown Democrat.
The latest news from Cuba is to the
effect the insurgents have organized a
government with a President, members
of the cabinet and generals for the
army. This is all very well, and just
what other people do, when setting up
for themselves, but the most important
consideration is can they maintain this
dignity ? From the way Spain is hedg-
ing in the insurgents with troops and a
double cordon of gunboats, they may
expect one of the toughest struggles of
recent times before they succeed, if they
succeed at all. Organizing a govern-
ment, if only on paper, will give the
cause of the patriots some strength, and
should this be followed by the United
States granting them belligerent rights,
the insurrection will immediately as-
sume a significance it could not other-
wise have. With belligerant rights it
would not be long before Cuba would
have armed cruisers on the high seas.
If money be needed to fit them out,
plenty of it can be found in the United
States.
The Legacy of a Dead Politician and
General.
From the Washington D. C. Intelligencer,
General Mahone's total disappear-
ance from Virginia politics would
leave the Populists free from a certain
reproach in ‘their recent connection
with one who has brought too much
trouble on the State, and even to his
own friends, to impart anything but
unpopularity to any new movement.
Mahone’s enemies have been unfair in
attempting to rob him of his military
reputation which he won with gal-
lantry and ability all during the civil
war. But his political career stamped
itself upon the State in euch charac-
ters as cannot be anything but discred-
itable to his associates in any recent
movement. The Republicans and
Populists have his legacy of a very
shrewd plan of coalition against unfair
elections and they will be better oft
witbout the author of it.
Five Hundred Gudgeons.
From the Easton Argus,
It is reported that 500 young men
were misled by a report that a rich
Chinese merchant proposed to pay a
fortune to any American who would
marry his daughter. That ai least is
the number of letters directed to the
mythical Chinese Croesus, lying un-
claimed in the San Francisco post-of-
fice. Two things are ‘proved by the
instance. One is that newspapers are
wonderful advertising mediums, even
to the solicitation of a husband. An-
other is that there are plenty of per-
sons who can be tempted into the most
ridiculous acts by the glare of sudden
riches.
——Subseribe for the WarcaMan
and get all the news of the county.
Spawls from the Keystone.
-—Lebanon’s reservoirs are empty.
--The State firemen have deserted
Reuding and gone home.
—Greensburg is trying to raise funds for
the erection ot a hospital.
—York county’s fair this Sl more
successful than for many years.
—Reading’s smallest man, Jeremiah
Ludwig, 39 inches tall, died of old age.
—A child at Kenilworth thrust a hair.
pinin A. 8S, Shantz’s arm, and he may
lose it.
—The Hanover Record says that apples
are selling for five cents a bushel in that
region.
—While assisting at an Allentown fu-
neral, on Saturday, Mildrum Conner drop-
ped dead.
—A bursting fly wheel in the Home-
stead electric light plant killed engineer
John Bowman.
—The Pennsylvania state council of
Daughters of Liberty met Tuesday at
Johnstown,
—It is expected that Spangler’'s new
school house will be ready to occupy by
Monday next.
—Pottstown Hospital managers elected
T. J. March a trustee to succeed the late
Henry G. Kulp.
—Pottsville is again without funds,and
a loan of $10,000, the limit allowed by law,
will be created.
—Caught between a mine prop and a
car at Pittston, Charles Williams—syas
squeezed to death. o
—Charged with passing counterfeit sit
ver dollars at Punxsutawney Jack
Wright was jailed. —
—Over 100 Poles, Huns and Italians were
naturalized on Saturday in the Schuyl-
kill county Courts.
—While putting paper in a stove at
Lebanon the little daughter of Charles
Field was fatally burned.
—Secretary of the Commonwealth
Frank Reeder and his tamily have re.
turned to Easton from Europe.
—The explosion of a boiler at Shamokin
fatally injured engineer Daniel McIntyre
and caused $2000 money damage.
—Picking a dynamite cartridge with a
key and exploding it, Joseph Beamis. of
Pittston, was critically mangled.
—A charter was granted to the Pocono
spring water ice company, of Naomi
Pines, Monroe county ; capital, $100,000.
—For stealing $18 from a Montgomery
county man William Moore, of Philadel-
phia, was sent to prison for 18 months.
—Owing to the heavy death rate ag
Scranton, the health board urges all the
people to boil all the water they drink.
—The Evangelical association in Leb.
anon county has begun a lawsuit to oust
Rev. W. H. Hartzle from St, Paul's church
—Little Corson Laukhoff, living on the
Wesh Mountain, Lancaster, was shot and
critically wounded by Milton Fryberger.
—The Middleburg Post says it is again
rumored that the railroad laid out from
Selinsgrove to Mifitintown will shortly be
built.
—Rev. H. C. C. Astwood, colored, of
Harrisburg, will sue the school board for
turning his children out of a white
school.
—Owing to the frequent suspensions of
work at the colliery, Oscar Stein, a miner,
near Pottsville, committed suicide with
poison.
—Elwood Gray, accused of stealing a
horse from Mrs. R. A. Gould, of West Not.
tingham, was captured near Oxford on
Saturday.
—The body of ex-Senator John W-
Hughes, who was murdered at Antonito,
was taken to his Sharon home for burial
Monday.
—Captain M. N. Baker, of Corry, and
Miss Cora Stuchfield, of Allegheny coun-
ty, have been appointed deputy factory
inspectors.
—Last Thursday little Irvin Bauer, son
of Samuel Bauer, at Pottstown, was sent
ona trifling errand, and he has not yet
returned.
—Il1 health caused Frank Anthony,
employed in the office of the Carpenter
Steel Works, Reading, to commit suicide
with poison.
—The Pittsburg bureau of health Mon-
day reported seven new cases of scarlet
fever, six of diptheria and eleven of
typhoid fever. .
—The Evangelical Lutheran Minister-
ium of Pennsylvania is in session at Or
wigsburg, with Rev. H. A, Welier, of that
place, presiding.
—Peter, a 12-year old son of William
Eisel, a Homestead merchant, fell from a
third story of a new building Monday and
received fatal wounds,
—Damages for $1850,50 were recovered at
Pottsville by C. B. Wagner from the Le-
high & Wilkesbarre coal company for
culm washed upon his land.
—Rev. E. D. Weigle, paster of the first
Lutheran church, Altoona, who resigned
to go to. Mechanicsburg, has changed his
mind and will remain where he is.
—A Philadelphia tobacco dealer, Eli
Shertzer, will be tried at Lancaster on a
charge ofswindling a bank by alleged
false pretense in rating his financial cone
dition.
— Another ineffectual attempt was made
Saturday at York to sell the tidewater
eanal and columbia dam to satisfy
claims of $1,000,000. A bid of $30,000 was.
. made.
—The first National bank of Kane has
been organized by C. H. Kemp, M. W.
Mofiit, E. Swanson, J. II. Groves, G. W.
Campbell, T. KX. Hoskins, C. H. Heim, W.
J. Armstrong.
—Harry W. Hannah was nominated
without opposition, Monday night by Re-
publicans of the Fourth ward, Pittsburg
to fill the unexpired term in select coun-
cil of Henry Metzgar, deceased.
—Mise Corr, of Marion Centre, Indiana
county, who was tried for killing her 2
year old child last spring by throwing it
into a well, was found not guilty, the jury
declaring her to be weak-minded.
~The Hollidaysburg city councils grant.
ed a water supply to the car shops, loco-
motive works and 5,000 employees of the
Pennsylvania railroad company at Al-
toona during the continuance of the wa-
ter famine in that city. Hollidaysburg is
the only town in Juniata valley that has
a good water supply. Six communities
are dependent upon the local resevoir.
an