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BY PRP. GRAY MEEK.
The Loss of Maryland Laid at Gor-
man’s Door.
BaLtiMore, Nov. 6.—Congressman
George L. Wellington ,chairman of the
Maryland Republican state committee,
sums up the results of yesterday as fol-
lows: “The people of Maryland are
tired of Gorman and Gormanism, of
Rasin and Rasinism, and yesterday
they backed their sentiment with their
ballots.”
Chairman Talbot, of the Democratic |
state committee, said to-day: ‘The
chief cause of the Republican victory
was the hostility to Senator Gorman
throughout the city and state.”
The Republicans not only elected
their entire state and city ticket, but
they have carried the legislature,
which will stand in the lower Louse,
68 Republicans to 24 Democrats, and
in the senate 15 Democrats to 11 Re-
publicans. Among the candidates for
the seat of Senator Gorman most promi-
nently mentioned are Charles J. Bona-
parte, the reform leader of this city,
and Congressman Wellington. Lowa-
des will have about 16,000 plurality in
the state. The Baltimore city vote for
governor complete is: Lowndes, Re-
publican 55,110 ; Hurst, Democrat,
43,-327; Levering, Prohibitionist, 2,-
377; Andrews, Populist and Socialist,
433. For mayor: Hooper, Republi-
can, 53,116 ; Williams, Democrat, 45,
247; Atwood, Prohibitionist, 1,973;
Golden, Socialist Labor, 384.
Campbell ‘Simply Snowed Under in
Ohio.
CoLumBus, Nov. 6.—Chairman
Kurtz, of the state Republican execu-
tive committee, said to-night that of
the 112 members of the next house of
representatives the Republicaus would
have 87 members sure and the Demo-
crate 25. This estimates admits the
election of Davis, Democrat in this
county, whose plurality by the unoffi-
cial returns is only three. The senate
will stand 30 Republicans and 7 Demo-
crates. This is allowing that the two
districts, the Second and the Thirty-
second, in which there is some doubt,
have elected Democratic serators.
This is probably true, and gives the
Republicans a majority on joint ballot
of 85. Hoeffer, Republican candidate
for representative in Darke county,
was defeated by 72 votes. :
Chairman Anderson, of the Demo:
cratic state committee, admits a Re-
publican plurality of 80,000 to 90,000.
The causes that produced this result,
he says, are the same that were in
force in 1893 and 1894, unrest among
the people, dissatisfaction as to finan-
cial conditions and the serious effects
of the recent panic and disturbance of
trade and business. However, he add-
ed, the Democracy 1n Ohio are united,
and although defeated, are not dis-
mayed.
Nebraska Is for Sound Money.
OMAHA, Neb., Nov. 6—Returns from
the state upon the vote cast for judge
of the supreme court are being receiv-
ed with unnsual slowness. The par-
tial returns indicate the election of
Judge Norval (Rep.) by 10,000 plu-
rality. Upon the other hand Governor
Holcomb and J. W. Edgerton, chair-
man of the Populist state central com-
mittee, assert that Judge Maxwell has
been elected. The vote of the admin-
istration, or sound-money wing of the
Democratic party, is four-fifths of the
entire party vote of the state, probably
25,000. This is a surprising feature of
the election. It means an anti-silver
delegation to the national convention.
Omaha and Douglass county were
captured completely by the A. P. A.
Republicans.
Iowa Democrats Beaten by Over 70,-
000 Plurality.
Des Moines, Ia., Nov. 6.—Ilowa is
Republican this year by from 60,000
to 70,000 plurality. Returns from 73
out of 99 counties show that General
Drake (Rep.), candidate for governor,
has gained 23,000 over the Jackson
vote tor governor in 1893. The same
ratio means that he will carry the
state by a little more than 60,000 plu-
rality. His colleagues on the Republi-
can ticket are running much ahead of
him, however. The general assembly
is oyerwhelmingly Republican, assur-
ing the return ot Senator Allison. The
Democrats attribute their defeat to the
silver issue, they having indorsed gold
.and Cleveland.
The Liquor Question Figures in Kan-
sas.
Kansas City, Kan., Nov. 6.—Kan-
sas City returns to-day show that the
Republicans made praciically a clean
sweep of the etate, carrying a majority
of the counties entire and electing
many of the officers of the others. C.
E. Holliday, Independent candidate for
chief justice, admits David Martin, his
Republican opponent. will have 40,000
majority, Chairman Breideothal, of
the Populist state central committee,
eays the returns show Populist gains
over last year.
Ex-Chief Justice Horton said to-
day : “The result of the election here
shows the people want re-submission
of the liquor question.”
Democrats Get Some Crumbs in Utah.
Sarr Lake, U. T,, Nov. 6.—The Re-
publicans elected the state ticket and
carried the legislature by a safe major-
ity. The state central committee has
received returns from 163 precincts,
covering portions of 23 counties and
the most populous parts of the terri-
tory, giving Allen (Rep.), for congress,
16,363 ; Roberts (Dem.) 15,712, a ma-
jority of 651, which it is claimed will
be increased to 1,000. Well's major-
ity for governor will be considerably
larger. The Democrats won in the
judicial district, of which this city is
8 part.
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Pennsylvania's Degradation.
There is nothing in the result of
Tuesday’s election in this State that
can be gratifying to Democrats who
are faithful to their party. There is
much in that result that should give
the truly patriotic citizen uneasiness,
and discourage those who had hoped
that honest government and a better
condition of political morals might be
restored to Pennsylvania.
It was not expected that the Repub-
lican party, an organization so thor-
oughly entrenched in power and forti-
fied by the spoils of office and the
wealth of favored corporations and
monopolies, would be entirely over-
thrown in a State which it has so long
dominated ; but standing before the
world, by the confession of its own
leaders, as thoroughly reeking with
corruption, there was reasonable
grounds for believing that its majority.
would be greatly reduced.
When the two jarring factions of
this rotten Republican organization
were engaged in their recent fight for
the control of their corrupt party ma-
chinery they accused each other of
political offenses which should have
condemned them forever as party lead-
ere. Their charges and counter
charges against each other amounted
to an admission that they were but op-
posite gangs of boodlers and corrup-
tionists fighting for the largest ehare
of the party spoils.
In addition to this self-confession of
the leaders, the state administration
and Legislature gave the rankest exhi.
bition of corruption and general profli:
gacy that ever disgraced any civilized
‘govern ment. The public expense was
shamefully enlarged to furnish offices
for party henchmen ; tribute was ex-
acted from every household to increase
the profits of such a commercial cor-
morant as the Standard oil company,
and the state money was so used for
private speculation that the payment
of appropriations for the support of the
public schools had to be suspend-
ed. All these outrages etood out to the
public gaze, clear and distinct in their
naked repulsivenees, and those who |
perpetrated them did not think it nec-
essary to either deny, defend, or exter-
minate them.
In view of these facts nothing was
more reasonably expected than that the
people would rebuke the outrageous of-
ficial misconduct and flagrant abuse of |
executive and legislative power that
has characterized Republican state
rule, and for this reason it was believ-
ed that public disapprobation would at
least reddce the usual majority of the
| party responsible for such mal-admin-
istration and official immorality.
There was a time when the merest ap-
proach to such misconduct in state ad-
ministration would have produced a
political lard slide ; butsuch has been
the degradation of public sentiment
by long familiarity with boodling pol-
itics and corrupt political practics that
the Republican majority in the State is
in no way diminished in consequence
of them, but rather appears to be 1n-
creased as an approval of euch out-
rages in executive and legislative con-
duct.
Poor old Pennsylvania is wedded to
the political corruptionists who mis-
govern and plunder her. She should
be prompted by duty and self-respect
to expel them from her high places,
and to discard the party that has
equally injured and disgraced her, but
at every state election she reiterates
her preference for them, and imitates
the dog that habitually rolls in the
putrefaction and delights in the stench
of its favorite carrion.
——Even if we did lose both States
we are glad that the Democrats of New
Jersey and Maryland had the courage
to stand up against what they believed
to be wrong. When political ringsters
attempt to subvert the will of the peo-
ple then they should be crushed, just
as they have been in those States, It
is a great pity that Pennsylvania Re-
publicans are not imbued with a little
of the Democratic determination for
right that has cropped out in New
Jersey and Maryland.
——In boes ridden Pennsylvania,
where no respect, whatever, is paid to
public wishes, the people keep on en-
dorsing the bosses, but in Maryland
and New Jersey things are different.
Seeking a New Issue.
There could not be better evidence
th at the Republicans are hard up for
issues upon which to maiotain a polit-
ical standing than their efforts to ex-
cite popular feeling on questions con-
nected with our foreigu relations.
Having lost the confidence of the peo”
ple on the tariff and currency issues,
their leaders seek to create a sentiment
bostile to the European powers, and
to inspire the public mind with the be-
lief that their party is the only one
that is disposed to defend American
honor and interest as against foreign
imposition and encroachment.
It is in pursuit of such a far-fetched
issue that statesmen like Senators
CHANDLER, of New Hampshire, and
Lobge, of Massachusetts, clamor for
hostilities with Great Britain. The
claring war against England through
the columns of a newspaper which he
controls, representing in his manifesto
that a conflict with that country i8
necessary ; that it must come off with-
in twenty years at the furthest; that
we should conquer and annex Canada,
and that the sooner that conquest and
annexation are effected the better.
This kind of talk, coming from a
private individual, would be considered
a person in so high and responsible a
position as that of United States Sena-
tor it is pernicious, as well as foolish,
and it is additionally calculated to be
harmful in its effect when endorsed by
another Republican United States Sen-
ator, LopGE ,.of Massachusetts.
These are not the only examples of
the disposition of Republican politi-
cians to embroil this country in for.
eign difficulties for political effect,
The entire gang of that ilk, supported
by the party organs, have been abus-
ing President CLEVELAND for not get.
ting into trouble with our old friend
and ally, the Republic of France,
account of the WaLLErR case. They
because it does not actively interfere
in the couflict between Spain and the
Cuban insurgents, and their wrath is
expended upon the national authorities
American honor and interest for not
i taking up the quarrel of every petty
former has committed the folly of de-
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The object of this advise is evident.
i It is intended to create the impression
i that the administration is deficient in
| American sentiment and feeling. Its
| purpose is to arouse and embitter the
| patriotic instinct of the American peo-
| ple against their President who in these
| international questions is only doing
"his duty as required by hie vote of
office. .
The conspirators who are engaged
in this incendiary business know full
well that there are obligations of inter-
national law which the President is
bound to respect and be governed by.
They are fully aware that in his official
capacity he basno right to interfere in
the Cuba affair without the authority
of Congress, and that until the people
speak through their representatives,
giving him directions to act in bebalf
of the Cuban ‘patriots, he can do noth-
ing but enforce the neutrality which
international law and our treaties with
Spain require.
As regards the other foreign matters
for which they are denouncing the ad-
ministration such as the Venezuela
boundary dispute and the WALLER
case, they are questions which will
amicably settle themselves without
loss of American blood or American
honor, as was the case with the Nicar-
aguan embroglio with England, into
which the Republican judges would
have precipitated the United States at
the risk of a bloody war.
The fact is that if this administra
tion should embroil the government in
the difficulties with which the Repub:
lican politicians demand that it should
meddle, they would be the first to de-
nounce the President for a usurpation
of power and wouldlclamor for his im-
peachment. But fortunately for the
country it has a President who under-
stands his duty and acts for its best
interest without neglecting its honor.
The object of Republican jingoism
is fully understood by the people and
has-no effect in influencing their senti-
mente.
Another Tariff Scheme.
The intention of resuscitating the
McKiNLey tariff policy has by no
means been abandoned by the Repub-
lican politicians. Movements looking
towards the restoration of high protec-
tive duties may be looked for in the
strongly Republican House of Repre-
sentatives that will convene next month
and be presided over by Tuomas B.
Rep.
Such a design is fore-shadowed by a
scheme for the revival of McKINLEY
taxation which M. S. Quay is exploit-
ing. The project of this huckstering
politician is to create a requirement
for more revenue by spending large
amounts of the public money in the
construction of internal improvements.
His scheme is to spend between thirty
and forty millions of dollars a year in
building ship-canals and improving in-
tand waterways throughout the coun-
Iry, it being his calculation that such
an interest in these works will be crea-
ted as to produce a powerful influence
in favor of an increase of tariff duties
to raise the revenue required for their
construction,
This is a very fair specimen of the
Quay style of statesmanship, which is
inherently tricky and corrupt. Public
sentiment ie to be demoralized by offer-
ing the plunder of thirty to forty mil-
lion dollars a year, to be lavished in
the building of ship-canals and internal
waterways, an expenditure that will re-
quire the public revenue. to be main-
tained -by tariff duties. It was largely
with the object of rendering the Re:
publican;high tariff a fiecal necessity
that pension expenditures were heaped
up to such colossal proportions, and it
is Quay’s scheme to add to this ex-
pense an extravagant syetem of in-
ternal improvements that will neces.
sitate an increase and perpetuation “of
tariff taxation.
It is not probable that the people
will consent to such a scheme. Al:
though they have had but a year’s trial
of the effects of tariff reduction they
have felt its benefits in the impetus it
has givee to business operations, in
the increased wages it has brought te
the working people, and in the reduced
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who are represented as being false to . To every household,
1 readily consent to part with these bene-
They will not
fite, and return to av oppressive sys
tem of tariff taxation that will be re-
quired to raise the revenue which
i would be squandered upon a combina-
tion of rapacious contractors in the con-
struction of internal improvements.
Defective Ballot Laws.
A ballot law should not only protect
the voter in his right of sufirage by en-
abling him to vote secretly, but it
should also enable him to vote easily.
Unfortunately the new system of vo-
ting is far from being perfect in answer-
ing these requirement.
The provisions for Secrecy-arq eva-
ded, and there are many voters who are
unable to handle the blanket ballots
with facility. It is easy enough to
vote a straight ticket by making a mark
in the circle, but it is impossible for
some voters ‘0 manage the marking
when they wish to make a discrimina:
tion in the candidates they intend to
vote for.
But if this defect exists in the ballot
system of this State it 13 but a trifle in
comparison with that of New York.
In that State the ballot law would
seem to be intended to confuse and
mystify the voter, whose liberty of
choice among the etandidates 1s 80
hampered that it is almost impossible
to vote anything by a straight ticket
without serious risk of invalidating the
whole ballot. As it is described by a
New York paper, a mark too much,
the striking out of an objectionable
name, a slight difference in a lead
pencil’s color, may compel the inspect:
ors to cast out an honest ballot as
void. In every respect itis cumber-
some, awkward, clumsy and confusing,
and more calculated to defeat than to
assist the right of suffrage.
Such a ballot law is a wrong and an
injustice to the free citizen, as it makes
his exercise of the franchise a com-
plicated and difficult process, when it
should be simple and easy even to the
unintelligent. New York’s ballot sys-
tem has this defect in the most marked
degree, but the ballot in Pennsylvania
is far from being free of defects that
might be remedied. A
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Internal Trouble in the G. O. P.
As a sample of the kind of harmony
G. O. P. it is announced that the
friends and supporters of BENJaMIN
HARRI1s0N for the next Republican pres-
idential nomination have determined
to antagonize the political influence of
boss Quay in Pennsylvania and boss
Pratt in New York,
These two leaders have united to pre-
vent the pomination of HARRIsON.
They have not as yet given out who
their choice is, but they are not back-
ward in letting it be known that it is
not the Indiana aspirant for another
term. Their leaning seems to be to-
wards Reep and the chances of the
bull-dozing ex-speaker would be great-
ly strengthened if the delegations of
Pennsylvania and New York should
be added to the solid support which he
expects from the New England States.
Quay and Pratt have set themselves
up as the President makers of their
party, and it is a nice commentary on
the boss-ridden condition of the Re-
publicans that it is conceded that three
or four leaders have the power to dic.
tate their presidential nomination.
Some of these leaders had a meeting
in New York some weeks ago, promi-
nent among whom were the two bosses
from Pennsylvania and New York, and
the general impression is that what
was done on that occasion would de-
termine the choice of the candidate for
President. Could anything be more
characteristic of a party that has sub-
mitted itself to machine management ?
Immediately afier Quay had defeat-
ed the “combine” factionists last sum-
mer be indulged in considerable swag-
gering over his determination that
Harrison should have no support
from the Pennsylvania delegates in the
national convention, and 8p generally
was it admitted that the ownership of
that delegation belonged to the boss,
that HarrisoN himself considered it
useless to look for any support from
this State, which, together with
Pratt's opposition in New York, was
go discouraging to him that be hardly
allowed himself to be considered as
even a receptive candidate.
But his friends in Pennsylvania ap-
pear to be picking up courage and to
be making a movement against Quay’s
domination. A number of them held
a private dinner in Philadelphia last
week at which it is believed there was
arranged a programme -of opposition
to the Beaver statesman’s carrying
the Pennsylvania delegation to the na-
tional convention in his pocket, to be
used to suit his own political interest
and personal grudge, At this dinner
were WANAMAKER, BLkINs, editor
S»itH, Dave MARTIN and other mem-
bers of the combine, except HasTINGS,
who there is reason to believe has been
so cowed hy the drubbing which the
boss administered to him last summer
that he had not the eourage to putin
an apperance at this auti-Quay gather-
ing. Tt is reported, on good authority,
that $200,000 was pledged to be used
in securing delegates to the national
convention who will oppose any can-
didate that Quay may favor.
Isn't this big sum of money char-
acteristically Republican ? A eorrup-
tion fund is al ways the first thingon a
Republican program. But these Har
RISON couspirators, who propose to
purchase delegates, may find that the
boss can beat them at their own game,
however much he professes to be op-
posed to the corrupt use of, money in
politics.
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The Republicans nearly bad a
clean sweep on Tuesday. Among the
crumbs for the Democrats are New
York city, Centre county, a judge and
sheriff in Huntingdon and the. county
ticket in Clearfield.
--A French inventor is father of a
bicycle that can be taken apart and
neatly packed in an ordinarily large
valise. If science keeps on the wheels
some people have in their heads will be
used as a medium of locomotion.
— With DUVANT, Horues, Cor-
BETT and FrrzsiMMmoxs all knocked out
to be proud of.
We went down all over the
country, on Tuesday, but not quite =o
far as we did last fall.
| —=Do you read the WATCHMAN,
that prevails among the leaders of the
in one week Justice has made a record |
Spawls from the Keystone
—Mrs. Anna Schmurr, of Scranton, ate
poison and died.
—The Pottstown Nickel Plating com-
pany began business Saturday.
—There are in Reading 55.0 electric
poles with 2500 miles of wires.
—Accusedy-of being a whitecapper,
Frank Sweency was held at Pittston for
trial.
—Slattery Brothers, of Tuscarora, Sat-
ur day put their new colliery into opera.
tion.
—Young Lewis Hartung, son of a Hones-
dale brewer, committed suicide by shoot-
ing.
—President Wilbur, of the Lehigh Val-
ley railroad, is bear hunting at Snow
Shoe.
—In a Pennsylvania railroad freight
wreck, near Tyrone, 2) cars were partly
demolished. ae
—Thomas B. Shaw, the new deputy fac-
tory inspector at Chester, is an anti Robi-
son man.
—Telegraph operator, George S. Plum
was crushed to death while coupling cars
at Reading.
—Dr. Thomas J. Patterson, of Law-
renceville, who shot himself last Sunday,
has since expired. :
—R. A. Fredenburg has been appointed
postmaster at Stickney, viee Mrs. M. J.
Hunter resigned.
—Ashland borough council has decided
to enlarge the storage reservoir to twice
its present capacity.
—It is estimated that there are enrolled
in the public schools of Pennsylvania.this
season 1,075,000 pupils,
—In a freight train wreck at Evans
city, engineer Simpson and brakeman
Flood were badly injured.
—It is now feared that David Dough-
erty. of near Williamsport, was murdered
and did not commit suicide.
—Some of the nail machines at Sunbury
mill were started last Wednesday and
the mill is again turning out nails.
—A vote was taken at Girardsville on
Tuesday to decide upon a proposed loan
of $12,000 to erect a new school building.
—After escaping the dangers in a mine
for 30 years, Frank Beman was killed by
an explosion in a Pittston colliery on Sat-
urday.
—By falling from a ladder, engineer
Frank Kulp, of the Pottstown gas and
water company’s pumping station, was
seriously injured.
—Robert P. Linderman, president of
the Bethlehem Iron company, succeeds
the late Eckley B. Coxe asa trustee of
Lehigh University.
—While arresting a man at Lebanon,
Constable Sattazalm was so badly bitten
in the hand that it was feared amputa-
tion would be necessary.
—Operations for appendicitis, have be-
come frequent in the towns and cities
of the state, the majority of which are
successful if done at the’right time.
—The question is being agitated of
building tracks around Reading, so the
Philadelphia and Reading may not need
to run its coal trains through that city.
—The Busler brothers, two well, known
hunters of the lower end of Nippenose
Valley, In one day recently killed a bear
that weighed 305 pounds, twelve pheas-
ants and two raccoons.
—John Smith, an aged farmer, living
near Johnstown, suicided at his home on
Thursday morning by hangingihimself to
a bed with his handkerchief. Smith had
been in ill health for a long time.
—Master mechanic F. B. Smith, of the
New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio railroad,
located at Meadville, has resigned to ac-
cept a position as general master me-
chanic of the New York, New Haven &
Hartford railroad.
—Crazed by liquor, Thomas Reilly, of
Russell City, near Kane, poured a kettle
of boiling water down the back of his
helpless wife, then beat and stabbed her
until she was almost dead. The woman's
life is despaired of,
—The Clearfield Monitor says that the
prospects for the letting ot the Pittsburg
and Eastern railroad on beyond Glen
Campbell this fall has about vanished and
further building in that direction will
not goon until spring.
—The earthquake which shook up the
western part of the state early Thursday
morning was felt in Lock Haven. Per-
sons who noticed the windows of their
houses rattle could not account for it at
that time but believe now that the rat-
tling of the windows was caused by the
earthquake.
—J. P. Swope, of Alexandria, Hanting-
don county, caught an unusually large
wild eat in his trap in Diamond Valley
Friday morning last. It measured fifty.
four inches in length, from the front feet
to the hind feet. This makes the seven.
teenth wild cat that Mr. Swope-has dis
patched thus far this season.
—Thieves are terrorizing Ligonier wal.
ley farmers, killing cattle, skeep, hogs,
ete., for the farmers. Henry Smith, of
Fairfield township, last week had a.steer
killed and the: hind quarters carried
away, and on Monday night Jake Mur-
phy had two hogs butchered For James
Snodgrass they killed a steer and. two fat
wethers.
David Daugherty of near Collumsville,
committed suicide Thursday by hanging
himself in his barn, where he was found
by his son in-law, Willaxd Smith. He was
a well to do farmer about 70 years old.
He was deranged in mind, his eonstant
fear being that his family, to. which he
was devotedly attached, would eome to
want.
—Phe Mennonite churches of Pennsyl.
varia which have been holding their con-
ferences in the Biouch chureh at Davids®
ville, came ont strongly on the poor
house question, and in terms forcible de-
eided that the congregation of that de-
nomination will keep their own poor, and
that they will assist in keeping the poor
of other congregations when possible.
—Satnrday afternoon last, David Con-
fer, a boy of 13 years of age, was out in
the woods near Cato, on the Beech Creel
railroad, accompanied by his grand.
father. The lad had a gun but the grand.
father had none. While jounreying
through the woods in search of
small game they came across a big black
bear which the boy shot and killed. The
bear weighed about 200 pounds.
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