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BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—-Election promises, like spendthrifts,
are soon broken.
—-If every man were honest the
‘world would die of ennui.
—The man who saves his pennies now
will have dollars to pay for coal when
the enow falls.
—FirzsiMMoNs is started talking
again. It is a wonder he doesn’t get
the pneumatic tire.
—Because a woman makes a poor
farmer it doesn’t follow that she should
have skinny calves.
—At this season of the year the
butchers throughout the country are
generally “on the hog.”
—The Republicans and Mormons
having fused in Utah there cari be but
one out-come. Many Republicans.
—Have a house cleaning at home be-
fore you tell of things you have seen
through your neighbor’s dirty windows.
—Among the possibilities. QUAY in
the presidential chair, AL. DALE post-
master at Bellefonte and Vic. GRAY
“letter dispenser at Philipsburg:
—The Philadelphia papers speak
of “cheaper gas” being “in sight”
down there. It must be a peculiar
variety, indeed, if it can be seen.
—The West Virginia girl who shot
her lover because he was jealous of her
must have thought she was doing a
. charitable act 1n putting bim out of his
misery:
—BILL NYE was rotten egged at Pat-
terson, N. J., one night last week. He
didn’t recognize the antiquated hen
fruit, that cracked on his head, as being
jokes of a very laughable nature.
—Great Britain's carnivorous nature
requires the annual expenditure of $800,-
000,000 for its satiation. Her war de-
-.partment has not returned the costivity
of JonN BULL'S cannibalistic pro-
pensity.
—BoB INGERSOLL once said : ‘‘when
Kentucky goes Republican I will be-
lieve that there is & place of future pun-
ishment.” Under such a doctrine Re-
publicanism and damnation must go
hand in hand.
—The Philadelphia Times thinks that
the Democratic parly is dead, beyond
recovery. Let us see, didn’t the Times
say the same thing about the Republi-
can party three years ago ? Verily it is
ag fickle as the wind. :
—Baturday was field day at Vassar
college and the six hundred maidens of
that swell institution, all clad in bloom-
ers, disported themselves in various
athletic feats. ‘Piano legs’ and ‘‘pipe-
stems,” enough to make one sigh ; but
nary a vision of all those shapes was
there for any man’s eye.
— When the duke and duchess of
Marlborough start to riding around
Blenheim, that said to be magnificent
old castle in England, behind the four
milk white mules the duke pur-
chased down in Kentucky there is nC
doubt but that they will cut a pretty
wide swath. It will be a novel turn-
out, with more ass than anything else.
—WiLLtam MEYER “was sent to jail
at Wichita, Kansas, on Saturday, for
contempt of court. He refused to taste
beer after having been subpeenzd to
give expert testimony as to whether
some seized liquids were really beer. It
is not unusual for fellows to be sent to
jail for tasting too much, but this is the
first instance of a man’s ever having
been committed for refusing to taste any
beer.
—The Governor’s Thanksgiving proc-
lamation appears elsewhere in this is-
sue and is very much the same in tone
as those of his predecessors, but
there is more significance in it, as com-
ing from him. In advising the ‘‘reunit-
ing of the family circle’ the ‘‘strengthen-
ing of the ties of home and fireside’’ the
Governor has possibly forgotten that in
many homes in the Commonwealth,
where lamps will be used on that day,
the Thanksgiving for his dear oil will
not be very sincere.
—The fact that in Massachusetts,
where the highest order of intelligence
is supposed to prevail among women,
only about one-ninth of them voted at
the recent election, when the question
of their own suffrage was the issue,
seems to indicate that the more sense
they have the less they are inclined to
commingle with politicians and poll
loafers. By refusing to even countenance
the question the Massachusetts women
have driven another spoke in their
wheel of good sense.
—LiLLIAN RUSSELL'S re-appearance
in tights on the comic opera stage crea-
ted no end of excitement in Chicago, on
Monday night. It would have been a
matter of little moment to the public
had LiLLiAN not stood a law suit with
her manager, several years ago, when
The Fog-horn Prophet of Ohio.
That windy public character, fire-
alarm Foraker, of Ohio, has had his
head turned by the result of the elec
tions and breaks out into foolish
prop hesy, predicting that the country
will not see another Democratic ad-
ministration for 30 years.
That would certainly be a sad thing
for the country ; but it cannot be be-
lieved that the supreme ruler of human
affairs will band thie nation over, for
that length of time, to the control of the
machine bosses, and the spoliation of
the political boodlers and the mo-
nopoly promoters, from the effect of
whose plundering policy it is_ slowly
recovering under Democratic manage-
ment. 3
Why should the American people be
subjected to such an affliction, with
the dreary prospect of its being pro-
longed for thirty years?
ForakEer's foolishress is displayed
by his elation over deceptive election
indications. That the Democra's
were pretty generally defeated this
year is true, but the same cause pro-
duced their defeat last year by greater
majorities. Though stil large the
majorities against them are much less
than they were a year ago when the
calamity influence bore with’ its fullest
force upon the political situation.
Nothing can be plainer than that its
force is weakening. The public mind
is not vet as fully assured of the bene-
fits of Democratic measures as it will
be after it shall have another year's
experience with them, when the ca.
lamity impression will be entirely eradi-
cated, and the Republican majorities
attributable to it, which were greatly
reduced this year, are likely to be en-
tirely swept away.
It is true that the disaster to the
Democrats this year included their de-
feat in the Democratic States of Ken-
tucky, Maryland and New Jersey, but
this was largely due to the disposition
of the party to divest itself ot the evil
of alleged boesism, and the disinclina-
tion of a large part of its membership
in those States to approve of unDemo-
cratic practices in its management.
There is a significance in this that can-
not be comprehended by a Republican
politician like FORAKER to whom par-
ty management without bosses and
machine methods is incomprehensible,
but he will discover to his surprise
that the Democracy of these States
will be the stronger from the purging
of a self-inflicted defeat, and will be in
line with their usual Democratic ma-
jorities at the next election.
The Ohio wind bag, however, is
fooling himself no more than are the
other Republican leaders with the idea
that the Democratic party has been
knocked out for the next thirty years.
A year hence they will see what asses
they made of themselves in entertain:
ing such an expectation.
For Colored Men.
There are about sixty colored voters
in this town who read the WatcamaN
—some times, We hope they will
hunt it up this week and read the fol-
lowing taken from the daily papers of
Saturday last :
ArsANy, N. Y., Nov. 8, 1895—It is noted as
something extraordinary that Mr. James C.
Matthews, a colored fellow-citizen, has been
elected to a judicial position in Albany, N. Y.,
as the candidate of the Democratic party by a
majority of over 2,000. Itis the first instance
of a colored man being elected a judge in a
northern State. During Mr. Cleveland’s first
administration Judge Matthews was appointed
to the profitable office of register of deeds of
Washington, but the Senate drew the color
line and refused to confirm him.
After they have read and pondered
over the fact that the Democrats have
elevated, to one of the highest positions
in the country, one of their own race,
let them try if they can to point to a
single place of honor that any colored
man has been given by the Republican
party, outside of certain southern
States, where the colored vote was so
large that it could elect whomsoever it
wished ? Hunt up your records, preju-
diced colored voters, and tell us when
the white Republicans of the North
have done as well by you as did the
he tried to force her into a character that |
had to wear tights. She claimed then
that nature had been too lavish with
her. The accounts of her Monday
night's appearance did not state whether
she has since had the “take off.”
Democrats of Albany in the election of
Mr. MarTHEWS as judge ?
——1It is to be hoped -that the news-
papers are not going to do the silly
baby McKEE act over the little CLEVE-
LANDS, simply because their sweet
mother took them to see ‘‘the Brown:
ies,” W ednesday night.
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Abuse That Does Cleveland Credit.
Since the elections are over and
things have turned out as they have,
there are lots of wise fellows pushing
to the front to tell what brought about
the result. Among these knowing
characters is infidel Bor INGERsoLL,
who says that the odious character of
CLEVELAND has been the cause of the
Democratic defeats.
It is not unnatural that Bos should
regard GROVER CLEVELAND in an un-
favorable light. The wan who can-
not appreciate Gop ALMIGHTY and has
a poor opinion of Jesus CHRIsT, ie not
likely to know what constitutes a
good man, or understand the charac:
teristics of worthy people. Bon has
abused every personage in the Bible
from Moses to St. PauL, except Jupas
Iscariot, whom be hasn't pitched into,
probably on account of a fellow feeling
between them, and when his black-
guardism has been directed against
such high characters it is not probable
that GROVER CLEVELAND will be injured
by it when it is turned on him.
The fact is that INGERSOLL is one of
the shallowest persons of this genera-
tion. The man who makes blasphemy
a profession must have a weak mind.
There is not much to be expected of
the common sense of an individual
who is willing to risk his soul for the
money he makes out of infidel lectures,
and the satisfaction he derives from
the applause of ribald audiences before
whom he ventilates his blasphemy.
Deserved Punishment.
It can hardly be doubted that if
GorMAN, Brice, HiLy, Smita, Mur:
PHY, and that partnership of sugar
trust Democratic Senators, had been
true to the tarift reform pledge of their
party, and would have supported the
WiLsox tariff bill, as it came from the
House, which would bave insured its
early passage, the political situation
would now be much more favorable
for the Democratic party.
But for the sake of pet industries, in
which they were interested, their oppo-
sition to the Wirsox bill caused two
months of exasperating delay and dick-
ering in the Senate, and resulted in an
emasculated tariff bill which fell far
short of the reform which the party
had expected, leaving the public mind |
in a condition of indignation and dis-
gust.
The Democratic party bas suffered
from this condition of public feeling
ever since. But while the party has
been punished for no fault of its own,
it is politically just that these men,
who have been treasonable to its prin-
ciples, and false to its pledges, should
be visited by the punishment that falls
directly upon them persosally. HiLL's |
career in New York has been attended
by disasters ever since his tariff trea.
son and this year he is overtaken by
the defeat which he was so largely in-
strumental in bringing on, Murruy
going down with him. In Ohio and
Maryland Brice and GORMAN are over-
whelmed in a disaster from which the
party which they betrayed will in time
recover, but to them itis to be hoped
that recovery will be impossible.
The party, though temporarily in-
jured by it, will in the end be strength-
ened by a defeat that had to be en-
dured for the punishment of its trai-
tore.
Their Improved Condition.
Mr. Samuel GoypERrs, one of the
labor leaders in this country, has been
over to England and upon his return
he reports that the condition of Amer-
ican workmen is tar superior to that
of their English brethren.
Mr. GompErs might also observe
that the condition of the American
working people has in no way been
impaired by the advent of-a Demo-
cratic tariff policy.
They have no reason to strike for
higher wages since increased wages
come to them voluntarily. There are
now no shut-downs nor lock-outs, as
there is so much work for the mills
aud factories that they can’t afford to
be idle.
In addition to this advantage to the
workingman, under a Democratic tariff,
the cost of his living has diminished
while his wages have increased. He
can buy more with the money he earns.
These are improvements in the con-
dition of American workmen since the
Democratic tariff went into effect
which it would be well for Mr. Goxp
BRs to make a note of.
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_STATE RIGHTS AND
VOL.40 BELLEFONTE, PA
FEDERAL UNION.
, NOV. 15, 1895.
NO. 45.
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Why We Should be Thankful.
Governor Mortox, of New York, is
one of the Republican aspirants for the
presidency, and as the Republicans
are basing their claim to the next
President, and their restoration to the
control. of the government, 8% the
charge that the Democratic adminis
tration has ruined the prosperity. of
the couutry, the Governor commits
something like a blunder, that con.
flicts with this Republiban claim,
when he declares in his Thanksgiving
proclamation that there 18 reason for
thankfulness on account of “the gen-
eral prosperity of the people.”
The calamity howlers, who expect
to make another campaign on the al
leged business ruin and distress of the
country, ought to call the Governor to
account for acknawledging that the
country is in a ‘prosperous condition.”
The Governor, himself, should see how
he has discounted the calamity scheme
by making such an admission.
But he certainly is right in calling
upon the people to be thankful for the
prevailing prosperity. Business has
generally revived ; the industries are
in full and active operation ; labor is
in greater demand than it has been for
some years and its remuneration has
been increased ;: the cost of the neces-
saries of life has been reduced, while
wages have been advanced, and in
every respect there is evidence of a
prosperous condition. Although this
situation, existing ander Democratic
rule, contradicts the calamity represen-
tations of the Republican politicians,
it is proper that Governor MoRToN
should acknowledge it and call upon
the people to be thankful for it.
Allegheny's Majority.
Allegheny county’s majority of 22,
500 furniehes food for reflecticn.
The people of that county, particu-
larly of Pittsburg, are entirely con-
Republican Mormons.
From the Pittsburg Post.
We congratulate the esteemed Ga-
zette on its good opinion of the moral-
ity and intelligence of the people of
Utah. It is coincident with their vot.
ing the Republican ticket under a
pressure from the Mormon church
duly delivered at a secret meeting of
the priesthood at Salt Lake City a few
weeks prior to the election. It was
80 unmistakable that the Democratic
state convention was reconvened to
consider the advisability of withdraw-
ing its state ticket, knowing full well
the folly of waking a fight against the
power of the church. Instead of with.
drawing the ticket, however, the state
convention made a declaration denounc.
ing the unholy alliance. Utah was
carried by so large a majority for the
Republicans because of this alliance
with the Mormon church. One of its
candidates for United States senator
is George Q. Cannon, a leader, of the
Mormon church, a convicted polyga-
mist, and the one who, according to
the best authority, was mainly instru-
mental in fusing the Republicans and
the Mormon church. It may last or
it may not last. Next year the church
may look out for other allies. The
Gazette seeks the consolation, ignoring
the abeortion of its party in Utah by
the saints, that the result there was
due to wool and the tariff. It isan
easy way to let itself down. But with
the success of the Mormons in captur-
ing the Republican party, securing to
that party in all probability a ma.
jority in the United States senate,
when the two Mormon-Republican
free coinage senators take their seats
in January we will not have heard the
last of that church in politics. It has
been established as a factor, and this,
in some respects, is worse than the
“twin evil” of polygamy. It forecasts:
future trouble.
Massachusetts Women Won't Vote.
From the Doylestown Democrat.
The vote in Massachusetts, last
Tuesday, on the question of woman
suffrage. was very significant; and
shows the women of that State to take
very little interest in confetring the
right of suffrage on their own sex.
The figures show that in 19 cities,
10,896 women registered, but only one-
scious of the utterly corrupt character
of their county and city administra!
tion. They know that the local polit. |
ical machinery is run by a set of dis- |
honest party leaders, and they have |
just had a case of official embezzle- |
ment that is in keeping witly the gen-
eral practices of their Republicdn poli-
ticiang and office-holders; and in addi- |
tion to euch evidences of worthless and |
| corrupt county and city government, |
| they have had an exhibition of what a |
| Republican state Legislature and Gov- |
| ernor could do in official profligacy |
{and general mal-administration ; and
| yet, in the face of all this, and as a
: shameful endorsement of it, they poll
the disgracefully large Republican ma-
jority of 22,500. =
If their industries were languishing ;
if their mills and factories were suffer-
ing from stagnation, and their working
people were idle, or toiling for low
wages, a reason for this vote might be
found in the alleged responsibility of
the Democratic tariff policy for such a
depressed condition ; but under that
tariff policy, every industry of Alle
gheny county is flourishing and ber
workmen were never more fully em-
ployed nor better paid.
This immense Republican majority,
under these circumstances, has no oth-
er significance than as an exhibit of
the effect of partisan fanaticism upon
those who have been brought under
its influence. People affected by it to
such an extent as these Republican
majorities indicate, have lost their ca-
pacity for self-government, and the
fact that this is the condition of so
large a mass of citizens as the Repub:
lican party consists of is a serious
menace to our popular institutions.
The Twenty-eighth Democratic.
However overwhelming was the de.
feat of Democracy at \he recent elec-
tion it is very gratifying to note that
our congressional district, the 28th, is
Democratic at least. Last fall it gave
ARNoLp a Republican plurality of
1,797, while the result on the recent
vole for state treasurer shows a Dem-
ocratic majority of 168.
Such a narrow margin, in a district
made up of five counties, might appear
insignificant to some, but we can see
plenty of comfort in this turn around
of 1965 votes in a twelve-month. Tt
goes to show that the Democrats are
still in the majority and had we taken
the vote on ebunty officers, instead of
that on state, a majority of one thou-
sand would be disclosed.
| received.
third of them went to the polls and
voted in favor of municipal sufirage.
{ In two cities scarcely one-ninth voted,
and in one, Fall River, only 300 voted
of 2,127 registered. The test of
woman suffrage in Massachusetts was
the severest blow the cause has ever
Nowhere was it more ably
championed with such little result.
Shooting in All Directions.
From the Montesano, Wash. Economist.
Though John Sherman is univers-
ally recognized as a “cold” man he
has succeeded in warming up a lot of
politicians by his new book. Having
nothing more to gain or lose political
ly, the old Mephisto is telling secrets
that show what 2 lot of rascals com-
pose the leadership of the “great” Re-
publican party. Old John was one
of them himeelf, and one of the worst,
but the temptation to get even is too
great even for his foxy nature and be
‘‘equeals on his pals’ in a way that has
caused a mighty commotion among
the Oily Gammons of our politics,
Welding a Golden Chain.
Faom the Easton Argus.
Sir Julian Pauncefote, British am-
bassador to America, is quoted as say-
ing after the Marborough-Vanderbilt
wedding breakfast that “another gold-
en ring has been welded to bind Eog-
land and America together.” There
isa decided golden ring about all the
weddings of American heireeses to
titled foreigners, but then marriages in
this country do not count for anything
in national affairs, American parents
may gain social distinction by the ex-
change of money for a title for their
daughters, but it is foolishness to hint
of national alliances by such ex
changes.
The Difference Between the Parties
From the New York World.
A Republican paper comments upon
the election under the heading ‘‘Demo-
cratic Bossism Downed.” It is to the
credit of the Democratic party that it
has nearly everywhere thrown off its
bosses. The Republicans, on the other
hand, have elevated and confirmed their
bosses— Quay in Pennsylvania, Platt in
New York, Coxin Ohio, with Elkins,
Manley, Clarkson and all the rest. It
will be discovered that this contrast will
tell in next year’s election. We are
bossed too much. Democrats have re.
sented it, and Republicans are certain to
do so.
Who Will Get Them Out ?
From the Williamsport Sun.
This year 154,000 Democrats and
18,000 Republicans stayed away from
the polls in New York. Evidently the
Democrats of New York do not love
bosses any more than those of Mary-
land and New Jersey. With those
Democratic, votes at the polls New
York will be a Democratic State next
year.
—How can these smokeless
cigarettes, they talk about, be smok.
A Democrat will succeed ArNoLD.
ed?
Spawls from the Keystone,
—Deer are plentiful in Pike county.
—Pittsburg now has a good government
club.
—Reading wants a Board of Public
Works.
—An industrial school has been estab
lished at Titusville.
—There are 47 building and loan asso-
ciations at Reading.
—Falling under a train at Shamokin,
John Purnka lost both feet.
—Schuylkill county teachers are hold:
ing their institute this week.
—Andrew Carnegie will build a library
at Homestead to cost $400,000.
—A train at Shamokin ran over and
badly injured Byron Derkin.
—The threatened cavein at the Ply-
mouth mine has been averted.
—Franklin county teachers began their
institute Monday at Chambersburg.
—Prohibitionists talk of holding their
National Convention at Pittsburg.
—A nail, which he ran into his hand,
killed George Camp, of Stroudsburg.
—Lutherans who desire a Bishop at the
head of their church are in convention at
Lancaster.
—The Gilberton station of the Philadel-
phia & Reading Railroad was burglarized
Friday night.
—The condition of Major Grant Weid-
man, who is seriously ill at Lebanon, was
better yesterday.
—Only about half of the counties, have
sent their official election returns to the
State Department.
—To wind up a wedding feast at More"
wood, Martin Borza shotand killed Jo-
seph Hardsick.
—Less wood choppers are now employ-
ed in Clearfield county than have swung
axes there ina long while.
—Death has taken nine of the Albert
family at Stroudsburg, in two years—the
last one, Frank, fell from a roof.
—Railroad companies that have failed
tomake their annual reports will be pros-
ecuted by the Com monwealth.
—William Tyler was Saturday appoint-
ed fourth-class postmaster at Doutyvil le,
vice A. W. Kerstetter, resigned.
—Wounds received at the second battle
of Bull Run caused the death of H. H.
Gregg, at Kennett Square Monday.
—W. C. Sproul, an editor of the Chester
Times, has come out as an active rival of
Jesse M. Baker for the State Senatorship.
—Owing to the scarcity of water at Ash,
land the electriclights are cut off at mid.
night and the town remains in total dark.
ness.
—The recent hard times are given as
the reason for the large decrease in the
number of Supreme Court cases this
year.
—After technical objections had been
overruled George Windish was placed on
trial at Wilkesbarre for the murder of his
wife at Pittston.
—Stella Kemper, one of four persons
thrown from a carriage ina runaway ac-
cident near) Reading, was so badly hurt
that she may die.
~There are so many typhoid fever
deaths at Pittsburg that a: scientist urges
suits against health officers for permit-
ting bad water to be used.
—It is believed H. E. Forney, son of
Landlord Forney, of Lebanon, who was
hit with a stone thrown through a wine
dow a few days ago, will die.
—The Susquehanna river was so low at
Clearfield last week ‘that a young man
named White road across the bed of the
stream on a bicycle without getting
wet.
—By applying to the State, Amos
Strohl, of Carbon county, received five
acres of ground that have heretofore
been unoccupied and not owned by any-
body. :
—Clearfield ladies are considering a
public library project. Phey have the
promise of over $100 from a citizen of that
town if they succeed in maturing their
plans.
—John Smith, of Muncy, the chief wit-
ness in the railroad damage suit which
ended in a verdict of $10,000 for Mrs. J. T.
Hess, has been arrested ema charge of
perjury.
—There are some fear of lynching in
the case of John Paine, a negro, who
feloniously assaulted aged Mrs. Mary J.
Nichols (white) ; but he was safely jailed
at Uniontown. :
—The next Postmaster of Altoona is
one of the things that is worrying the
good people of the Mountain City. Even
some of the Republicans are interested
more or less in just who he will be.
—Altoona councils bave a general ordi-
nance under consideration which con-
templates a general revision of its sewer
system for the purpese of extensive en’
largements of old and the addition of
new conduits.
—Agents for the Pennsylvania railroad
company have obtained options on sever-
al thousand acres of land along the line
of the South Fork branch, and it is said
the company intends to develop the coal
in that territory.
—The city of Williamsport loses alj
the cases it carries into court in which it. -
is engaged: as a prosecutor of street rail-
road and steam heating companies, on.a.
question. of digging up its streets far
necessary purposes.
—There was trouble in a DuBois family
a few days ago over a christening, in
which a number of Poles took possession
of the house and before they could be
quieted, broke each other’s heads and: de-
maolished the furniture.
—On admissions made by Frank Wil
son, who was arrested for the mwder of
Henry Bonnecke a few days ago, in. Scran-
ton, James Farrell, of Altoona, was alse
taken into custody, charged with being
an accomplice. The other aceused per.
son is still at large. Bonnecke was mur:
dered at Altoona last spring.
—A barn and all its contents including
three horses, was burned in Kittanning
township last Friday. The barn was the
property of the widow of the late James
Stitt: Stitt was indicted for the burning
of Bowser’s barn last spring and hung
himself last June, a short time before his
trial. Barn burning has become so no
torious in Kittanning township that in.
surance companies have cancelled many
policies recently among them being
Stitt’s.