BY RP. GRAY MEEK.
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Ink Slings.
Now the proudly strutting turkey
Is growing slightly jerky,
AS he catches daily glimpses of the hatchet ;
From that blade his thoughts go changing
To his neck, trim and ranging,
Where he knows Thanksgiving time will
make him catch it. or
—The new woman will have her own
weigh if she has to drop a nickle in
. the slot to get it.
—A vote for MILLER means a vote
for a man who is inno wise competent
to fill the office he seeks.
—Remember that you can vote for on-
ly six candidates for judge of the super-
ior court. The supreme court has ruled
thus.
—SHERMAN’S book, like SHERMAN'S
march to the sea, is a work that will
tickle his friends and embitter his ene-
mies.
—A cold storage company at Wilkes-
barre has gone into the hands of receiv-
ers. This chilly weather probably pre-
cipitated such a move.
—The old woman tactics of the Ga-
zette are creating much laughter among
the people who read that paper. - When-
ever it finds itself cornered it cries ;
Liar, liar, liar. .
—The announcement that a five per
cent dividend has been declared in fa-
vor of the Keystone national bank
creditors will not be sufficient extenua-
tion for the pardon of BARDSLEY.
: —The Blair county commissioner,
who has been convicted of malfeasance
in office, will realize that public office is
a public trust” by the time he pays his
fine and is removed from his position.
—A Kansas theatrical company is
playing the ‘“‘fatted calf’ through the
West. The ambiguity of the name
leads us to wonder whether it isn’t an
advertising dodge of some pad manu-
facturing concern.
—-The latest gossip among writers has
it that Max O’RELL intends to retire
and live in seclusion for the rest of his i
days. We sincarely trust that MARK |
TwAIN’s combing down had nothing to
do with this step.
—ZRepublican political tactics will
corrupt anyone. The latest is from
Ohio where a minister, who wanted to
Demaera
To Your Tents. O Isracl!
Democrats, it will be only about ten
days from the day this issue of the
WATCHMAN reaches you until the elec-
tion ! .
Do you realize how short the time
is?
Do you appreciate the importance of
the questions at issue here in Centre
county ?
Do you fully conceive of the work
that is to be done?
In their cowardly, quiet way—the
same way in which a skunk robs your
hen roost—the Republicans are work-
ing to steal the county again. They
are doubly anxious to succeed this fall
in order that a different result may not
be taken as a rebuke to their state ad-
ministration. This is their great fear.
They don’t want Centre county—the
home of Governor HasTiNGs—to speak
out against his coal oil legislation ;
against the increased state expendi-
tures that have been created since he
became Governor, or against the gen-
eral debauchery, extravagance and
corruption that have characterized his
ad ministration.
The truth is, the leaders of the Re-
publican party here, in the county,
wouldn't care a bobee 1f both their lo-
cal and state tickets were snowed un-
der to the extent of 1,500 majority if it
wasn’t that they fear the resultjwould
reflect upon their Governor and his
acts. They are ae sick of paying
twelve cents a gallon for the oil that
furnishes them light as” are the Demo-
crates. They feel the extra taxes re-
be re-elected to the Legislature, offered
to sell his vote to a Democratic nominee
for United States Senator for $1,500.
—Do the voters of Centre county in-
tend electing QUIGLEY to be district
attorney ? Vote for him if you want to
endorse HASTINGS the man who made it
possible for the Standard oil company to
take whatever it pleases from your
pockets.
—Mrs. JaMEs BrRowN PotrTER has
declared that ‘society is shallow, dull
and heart breaking, and art is the only
thing worth living for.” If this is
really a conviction with her, and many
critics are to be believed, it is a great
wonder that she doesn’t lie down and
die.
—If the Gazette thinks the fact of
Governor HAsTINGS having bestowed
his friendship on QUIGLEY is enoufh to
warrant that young man’s election to
the district attorneyship, its editor ought
to talk to some Republicans in this
town who reveled in this friendship (?)
previous to the Governor's election.
They can tell him what. it is.
—The fellows who are continually
poking fun at mother-in-laws will find
8 boomerang in the fact that Joux S.
‘WricHT, of Burnside, Pa., who has to
answer a charge of counterfeiting could
find only one person in the country
who would bail him. And that one
was his mother-in-law. Here is one
case, at least, where this much abused
class proved itself unworthy public
ridicule.
— Wednesday's Pittsburg Times, the
Republican administration paper in the
western part of the State, came out with
a long account of CARNEGIE’ having
secured a contract to furnish 1,100 tons
of double forged armor plate to the
Russian government ; the contract being
procured in competition with the big-
gest manufacturers in England and
Germany. So much for American abil-
ity to compete in the world’s markets
\ ithout the nourishment of McKin+
LEY’S robber tariff.
—A candidate who is too dumb to:
distinguish an unraturalized Hungarian
from an intelligent looking American
voter ought to be ashamed to ask the
people of Centre county to make him
their district attorney. Last Friday
QUIGLEY went out to the VALENTINE
iron company’s works to electioneer and
just for fun, the gentleman who was show.
ing him around introduced him to a lot of
Huns, all of whom QUIGLEY seized up-
on ard asked them to throw a stone in
his garden. ‘Twould have been better
had he asked those wondering Huns to
quired to pay the increased salaries of
Republican officials as well as do
Democrate, They know that they
BELLEFONTE, PA.
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
Why He Should be Rebuked.
The reason given by the Republican
county leaders why this county should
give a Republi¢an majority this fall is
the very strongest reason why it
should roll up an old time Demo-
cratic majority.
Hastings having carried the county
a year ago his supporters contend that
a Democratic majority this year would
be construed as a reprimand of his
state administration, which they claim
ought not to be.
But does not Hastings, both as a
politician and as an executive officer,
deserve rebuke ? -
Should he not be rebuked for the
misrepresentations he made in last
year's campaign, when he sounded the
howl of calamity through the State,
and deceived the people in regard to
the cause of the business depression ?
Should he not be rebuked for the ef-
forts he ‘made to retard the return of
prosperity in order to gain a political
advantage, and for his misrepresenting
the Democratic tariff policy which has
since revived the industries of the
country ?
Does he not deserve a reprimand for
his profligate increase of the state ex-
penses ; for the unnecessary offices
created and salaries enlarged, in which
he was chiefly instrumental ; for the
prostitution of his executive power to
such corporations as the Standard oil
compaay, the city street railway com-
binations, and other
like character ?
Is be not worthy of the severest re-
bule for so using his official signature
that light is made dearer in every
household, and laboring men going to
and from their work on street cars
must pay increased fare ? ?
Should not censure.be heaped upon
him for fastening a useless and expen-
sive court upon the State for no other
object than to set up a political ma-
chine that will drag the judiciary
through the mire of partisan politics ?
Will his supporters have the face to
have local candidates, neither of whom
deserve their party support and oeither |
of whom are competent to fill the |
positions they were: named for, and |
were it not for the political effect on
the aspirations of Governor Hast |
INGS, that an overwhelming reversal :
of last fall's majority would have, :
they would gladly see the county go
back to ite former Democratic stand- :
ing and would ofter no resistance.
But with all the resistance they can
offer : with all the eueaking work they |
can do ; with all the appeals they can |
make to the rank and file of their
party, they can't get the honest people
of this county to say by their votes or
by staying away from the elections,
that they approve of a party, and its
legielation, that almcst doubled the
cost of every man’s light in the county:
that added to the taxes of every name
upon the tax list ; that placed the en-
tire State at the mercy of corporations
and that refused to do do the slight.
est thing for the farmers, -the laborer
or the public generally.
You have it in your power, Demo-
crats, to say whether this county will
endorse by its vote, the sins, the
shortcomings and the outrages upon
the tax-payers by the last Republican
Legislature and its Governor. You
have the vote to rebuke, repudiate and
condemn them, if you get il out. It
will take some work, but who among
you will refuse to do his full share to
show what this county thinks of the
acts we hdve referred to. Scores of
honest Republicans stand ready to
help you. Times and circumstances
“arein your favor. Your manhood,
your self-respect, to say nothing of your
own interest or fealty to your party,
calls you to go to work and show that
no quiet-sneaking, midnight efforts, on
the part of your opponents, can place
your county in the position of endors-
ing an administration and Legislature
that everyone of you condemn from
the bottom of your hearts.
Democrats, to work !
See your neighbors!
Get them to work!
Get-home those who are away !
Arrange to have every Democrat at
the polls, and show the world what
Centre county thinks of corporate sub-
Z
have thrown some eense, instead of
stones.
serving, official extravagance and coal
ask the people of this county to give a
Republican majority in order that
such a record as this may be endorsed?
{ Does not such a record deserve the
8everest rebuke that can be given by
the heaviest Democratic majority ?
An Iron.Clad Fact.
to ponder on the fact that in the year
i of our Lord, 1895, under a Democratic
tariff, the United States has taken
(the lead of all other iron producing
countries,
* During the month of September, just
past, the 229 furnaces in blast reached
the tremendous weekly output of 200,-
000 tons. Just think of what an im-
mense amount of iron that is, the la-
bor it furnishes and the wealth Tt pro-
duces. There can be no question
about its quality, as it was produced
under a Democratic policy. Demo-
cratic iron seldom, if ever, has any
blow holes in it.
The September output of ‘iron is 50,-
000 tons~mor Por week than in the
corresponding month last year, and it
is away ahead of the best year of the
McKINLEY period.
It will be difficult for the Republi:
can politicians to explain away these
facte. They are too big to be pooh-
poohed, and too plain to be overcome
by misrepresentation. This clean cut,
unvarnished, undeniable fact stands
out in bold relief, that with the re-
moval of almost half the Republican
duties on iron, the largest production
of that metal is attained ; and this has
been accomplished, not by any disad-
vantage imposed upon the workmen,
not by any reduction of their wages to
make up for the loss of “protection,”
but the daily wage has been actually
increased.
Republican high tariff theory is
knocked out by this hard-fisted Demo-
cratic fact.
There are many, very many,
reputable soldiers here about Belle-
fonte, who knox Mr. A. V. MILLER.
| Why didn’t he get some of these as
vouchers to his integrity as a soldier
and to the fair treatment of his men,
in place of falling back on ex-police-
man Fourk ? Everybody here knows
JosHvua well, and because they do is
what surprises them at MILLER refer-
ing to him as a certifler of disputed
statement.
oil legislation.
monopolies of.
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, OCT. 25, 1895.
What Is Involved. z
This is a quiet election, but ¢ in-
volves a great deal that is of practical
interest to the voters. It presents to
them an opportunity to determine
whether an outrageously extravagant
and profligate administration of the
State government is worthy of their
approval or their condemnation. .
Will they cast their votes in such a
way that the result of the election will
be construed as an approval of the in-
crease in the number of state officials
and the enlargement of salaries that
have added many thousands to the
ancual expenses of the state govern-
ment ?
Will they deliberately go to the
polls and disclose by their ballots that
they approve of the DELANEY profli-
gacy in the management of the public
grounds and buildings, and the reck-
less extravagance in furnishing the ex-
cutive mansion ?
Will their suffrage be exercised in
commendation of the partisan job that
has imposed a useless court upon the
State at an expense of many thousands
of dollars ?
Will their elective franchise be used -
to endorse a policy of treasury man-
agement that keeps four millions of
the State funds in favored banks to
draw interest that is divided between
the bankers and the treasury ring,
while the public schools and charita-
ble institutions must wait until these
speculators with the public funds are
ready to hand over the money out of
which they sre making a private prof-
jv?
The following are the official figures
of the appropriations made for the dif-
ferent departments of the state gov-
ernment, for the first year of the Hast-
INGS administration, in excess of what
was required for the last year of the
Parrison administration :
Auditor General's o
State Treasury............. 19,000
Department of Internal 26,410
Banking Department .,. 97,400
Adjutant General's offic 6,000
Factory Inspectors....... 28,000
Harbor Master’s office, Phil 7,300
Public Buildings and Grounds..
State Reporter's office
Total ex0ess,........c.c00 000i via $257,375
Will any voter who has regard for
the financial ‘interest of the State, as
well as for his own personal interest as
: : _. | a tax-payer, deliberately and in his sane
At this particular juncture it is well |
mind, go to the polls and put iu a bal-
lot that will endorse such reckless, ex-
travagant and indecent waste of public
money ?
A vote cast for the Republican tick-
et will be such an endorsement.
There 1s no getting away from it. It
will be that, and nothing else.
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A Great Cainpalgn Factor.
There is apparently but little being
done by either party in this campaign,
but in reality the work that is being
effected on the side of the Democracy
is immense. There is no noise attend-
ing it. Itis not accompanied by torch
lights or brass banda. It does not re-
quire the expenditure of campaign
money. Silent, unobtrusive, it never-
theless is doing campaign service with
immense effect.
Thie great campaign worker is the
Democratic tariff. When the people
see that under its influence business
has revived, mills and factories are
overrun with orders, workingmen are
fully employed, and their wages have
been increased, no campaign speeches
that could be addressed to them could
appeal more powerfully in behalf of
the party whose policy is producing
such satisfactory results.
Its appeal to the voters is the more
powerful because it was but so recently
that HastiNes and his corps of ca-
lamity howlers went through the State
claiming that this tariff had ruined
the industries and prostrated the busi-
ness interests,
The people allowed themselves to be
deceived last year, but the very gross:
ness of the deception, as now exposed
by the beneficent effects of the tariff
that was so shamefully misrepresented
in last year's campaign, is turning the
public mind in the right political di-
rection.
It is in this way that the Democratic
tariff 1s doing great campaign work.
ET E——————
—If you wapt {printing of any dis-
cription the WATCHMAN office is the
place to bave it done.
Hastings and the Miners.
From the Philadelphia Times.
“The miners of the Clearfield soft
coal field must see by this time that
something is wrong with the state-
ments of the orators during last year’s
campaign. They know that within
three weeks after the election their
wages were reduced ten per cent. The
_L.miners likewise know that they have
suffered from two reductions since then
and that during the past three months
if the average pay was four dollars a
week it was a good one. The tariff of
fifty cents a ton is still on the sched-
ule. It was never taken off and when
the advice of the orators to vote to
keep it on was given there was no
chance to remove it. Yet“the Cape
Breton miners of Nova cotia, where
coal is free and open in competition with
the markets of the world, are paid 69
cents a ton, equal to $65 or $75 a
month. This is quite a difference over
the Clearfield rate of 35 cents a ton
and a possible $25 a month. The
Clearfield miners have doubtless
learned by experience that the tariff is
a tax bounty in which they bave no
share.”
Thus another Republican promise
has been broken. Candidate Hastings
last fall was very solicitous about the
welfare of the miners, and in pathetic
tones pleaded that those hard working
coal diggers should give him their
votes for governor, as by so doing good
times would be assured them. While
the few who understand the tariff
question, see the ridiculousness of
claiming that a state administration
can control the laws of supply and de-
mand and of regulating the tariff rates,
yet all will remember that the tariff
question was the burden of Candidate
Hastings’ talks. Deceived by his ar-
guments that the tariff was the -su-
preme iesue in the State campaign,
the miners voted for Hastings, What
has been the result ? Reductions and
strikes | The workingmen did as they
were urged to do; now let Governor
Hastings explain why, instead of the
good times he assured them, they-
have only become more and more pov-
erty stricken.
But Governor Hastings cannot give
a satisfactory explanation. But the
people can see the deception that was
practiced. Such deception should, be
punished. Punish it by cutting aloof
from the Republican party of falsifiera
and deceivers, Vote the straight
Democratic ticket.
Mirages Seen Not Far Away.
F rom the Glen Campbell Comet.
On Tuesday afternoon s railroad boss
on the P. & E. railroad near this place,
witnessed a very strange sight; one not
often seen in this section. He stated to
us it was about 38 o'clock on the day
mentioned when his eyes were attracted
by a picture (as he called it) in the sky
northeast of this place, which was a per-
fect likeness of the large cut at McGee's
Mills, and just as he was watching it
with wonder, he was still more surpris-
ed to see an explosion in the cut, and
still more surprised to hear the report of
the explosion in a few seconds later in
the direction of McGee's.
He claims he distinctly saw the smoke
and rock flying through the air.
The above was related to us Wednes-
day by the gentleman who’ witnessed
the strange sight, but we are unable to
givethe gentleman’s name after securing
it, oa account of mislaying our pass
book. .
The cut which he claims to have seen,
is the one in which five men lost their
lives three months ago.
One day recently, as Mrs. D. H. Bee,
of Marion Centre, was watching the
clouds in the sky, she saw a mirage, or
reflection, in the sky which looked like
two gentlemen in a buggy passing along.
So distinct was the mirage that one man
wore a plug hat, and the harness on the
horse could be plainly seen. This is a
very rare occurence in this part of the
country.
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Six for Us and Half a Dozen for John
Bull.
From the Lancaster Intelligencer.
Scare headlines in many papers an-
nounce aggressive action on the part
of the British in Venezuela, but it is
reassuring to hear the comment of the
British Westminster Gazette that if the
Monroe doctrine is ever questioned by
European powers Great Britain will be
found with the United States in sup-
port of that doctrine, and not against
it. This appears to mean that John-
ny Bull has given up all hope of grab.
bing any more territory in America,
but is exceedingly anxious to bang
on to all that he can possibly imagine
to-be his.
A Citizen's Duty.
From the Doylestown Democrat.
It is a duty you owe the Common-
wealth as a citizen and a true man to
go to the polls on the 5th of Novem-
ber and assert yourself for honest gov-
ernment, Let no excuse keep you
away from the polls, and let no petty
party boss persuade you that Quay"
and misrule can give to the people of
Pennsylvania a respectable and honest
administration of its affairs.
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A Mistortune Indeed.
From Truth,
If theres say mishap that can wring {from the
sou
An anguished and heart-rending wail,
"Tis to patiently wait for the tunnel to come,
And then find that she’s lowered her veil!
Spawls from the Keystone.
_
—It snowed Monday at Hazleton.
—A train near Shamokin ran over and
killed Mrs. John Deshay.
ville lost both feet under a train.
—A fall of coal in a Shenandoah mine
crushed to death Albert DeKrelin.
—Some orchards in Westmoreland
county contain 5,000 bushels of apples.
—When sentenced for tampering with a
witness at Easton Edwin Schug fainted.
—Safe crackers got 4150 from 8S. 8.
Jones’ office at Shrewsbury, York coun-
ty.
—A reunion of the survivors of Scott's
artillery will be held to day at Hazleton.
—A trolly car at Harrisburg dangerous:
ly injured Jacob Long, of Mechanics-
burg.
—Thieves stole $150 worth ot clothing
from George F. Spangler’s store, at Cata-
wissa.
—The Eisenhuth Dam, at Morea, is the
only source of water supply Pottsville
has left,
—The Attorney General during the last
three months collected for the State only
$16,704.55.
—It was necessary to flood the burning
mine at Plymouth Tuesday but the fire is
not out.
—In a fight at Lebanon, Benjamin S.
Kenan was dangerously stabbed by Phil
McConnell,
—Robert Blanchard, the fifth victim of
the recent Wilkesbarre mine explosion,
died Saturday.
—Northampton county Institute opened
Monday at Easton with Superintendent
Hoch presiding.
—Johnstown is experiencing a building
boom at present. Many new residences
are being erected.
reducing the death rate from diphtheria
in Allegheny county.
—The alleged Scranton murderer, Cri-
sengo Merola, was brought home from
New England Saturday,
—John Mortoceio was convicted at Eas.
ton of killing Orifrio Sachetti and sent to
prison for five and a half years.
—The propietor of the suspender fac-
tory at Williamsport says the plant will
not be removed from that city.
—General John R. Dobson, of Phenix-
ville. has been placed on the roll of re-
tired officers of the National Guard.
—Managers of. two Pittsburg railway
companies fixed a day for stockholders
to hold the proposed consolidation.
—Of 213 public school teachers in Coi-
umbia county, 241 Monday attended the
Teachers’ Institute at Bloomsburg.
—After a trial lasting a week, John
Wisniski was convicted at Scranton of
second degree murder for killing Felix
Davidjak.
—John 8S. Scallin, a well known ball
player died at Osceola, on Friday. He
was centre fielder for the Lancaster club
this season.
—Harry, son of Rev. M., L. Smith, of
Huntingdon, shot four turkeys and five
squirrels on the first day of the present
hunting season.
—Governor Hastings has granted a res-
pite until November 26 for A. W. Wood.
ley, who was to have been hanged in Al-
legheny county Tuesday.
—J.J. Murphy, of Pottsville, bas been
appointed Deputy Revenue Collector of
Sehuylkill County, vice Alexander Mec.
Donald, of ITeckschervilie.
~John O. Boyle, of Pottsville, who
stumbled over a loose board at Mahanoy
City and was injured, was awarded $1000
damages against the borough
—Survivors of General Gobin’s regi-
ment, the 47th, held a reunion at Ifarris-
burg and elected Francis Danefer, of
Allentown, president.
—It is stated that the shops of the Tus
carora valley railroad will be built ag
Blair's Mills, Huntingdon county, the
present terminus ot the road.
—The Keystone wheel club, William -
sport, has disbanded aftera four years’
existence. All the club's property has
been disposed of at private sale.
—The site selected by the Commission-
ers upon which to erect the Pottsville
Public Building has been approved of by
Secretary Carlisle at Washington.
—It is said that Colonel Colquitt, Chief
of Internal Revenue Agents, will report
that the charges against Collector Grant
Herring, at Scranton, were unfounded.
—Fifty railway companies in the State
have made their reports to the Secretary
of Internal Affairs. They are due Nov ~
ember 1, with a $6000 penalty for any de-
lay.
—The Philadelphia express on the
Pertsylvania railroad Friday night
struck and killed Arehie Hammor, a €ol-
ored man, whose residence was at Pat:
ton.
—Andrew Patriek, of Glen Campbell,
has invented an excellent mining car
brake and they are now being plaeed on
the Glenwood coal company’s cays at that
place.
—The Evangelical Association filed two
bills in equity against the United Evan.
gelical Association to oust the latter
from the churches at Tower City and Fre -
mont.
— President H. J. Hoffman, of the Holl.
man File Company, Pittsburg, and want-
ed at Chicago for alleged perjury on a
$4800 contract, gave himself up in New
York city.
—The work of turning the Baltimore
Southern Railroad into’ a bread guage
track has been completed at Delta, and
the people there celebrated the event
Tuesday.
—J. D. Hateh, of Lake Pleasant, Erie
county, dug 238 bushels of potatoes from
three fourths ofan acre of ground and H.
C. Titus raised 13 bushels of corn from six
rods of ground. ’
—The Huntingdon News says that when
the boiler at the Juniata sand works ex.
ploded during the fire, a freight train
was passing within about tifty feet of the
burning building. The red hot iron frag-
ments struck the cars and set one of then:
on fire, but the flames were extinguished
A brakeman was standing on top of a car
and was knocked down by the force of the
explosion but was uninjured.
—Brakeman Thomas O'Brien at Potts -
—Anti.toxine is credited with greatly”