“Ink Slings.
w —The message sounds exactly like
CLEVELAND.
—As Christmas time grows on apace
the bad boy takes on the good boy’s
face.
—There will be no room for doubting |
our assertion that Czar REED will
promptly exile every Democrat he can.
—MARK TWAIN says the Arabs will
take anything but a jobs We suppose
he is right, but he need’nt blame the
Arabs for being the only people with
such a failing.
—Because the women have published
a woman’s edition of the Bible they are
being called anarchists in religion. If
blowing up is the chief aim of anarchy
then women are anarchists in’ every-
thing. :
—The result of Republican trouble
makers having been out of a job was
seen when two hundred and seventy-
two bills and eleven joint resolutions
were introduced in the Senate the first
day of its sitting.
—Professor DYNCHE, of the Kansas
university, has turned up with a deter-
mined plan to find the north pole. Now
such a foolish undertaking does not
seem so foolish when inaugurated by a
man with such a name.
—The Sultan of Turkey is said to be
in misery because he fears the powers
have decided to depose hiwi. If they
would behead him, as 80 many Chris-
tians have been in his heathen land, he
would have something to be in misery
for. ,
—1It is too bad that the English papers
do not coincide with President CLEVE-
LAND'S views,as expressed in his last
message. For the Republicans are forth-
with deprived of the pleasure it affords
them to say that he is hand in glove
with Jory BULL.
—Governor HASTINGS went to Gettys-
burg, Wednesday, “to inspect the new
monuments recently put up on the bat-
tle field. Being such a hero, himself,
he is eminently the proper fellow to ap-
prove the shafts that commemorate those
who have gone before.
—The question of a pardon for JOHN
BARDSLEY has come before the public
at last and we suppose that such as are
urging this clemency on the board of
pardons will apologize for their actions
by saying be has as much right to a
pardon as any other criminal.
—Possibly no festal day, known to
‘America, has degenerated so much in
its purpose as has Thanksgiving.
Originally designed as a day of prayer-
ful thanks to our Creator, for the many
blessings He has bestowed, it has become
so perverted in purpose as to be a gala
day for gluttons.
— We have never thought much of
Davip B. Hiri, since he played ob-
structionist in the 53rd Congress, but we
could’nt help thinking, ‘‘them’s my
sentiments too,” when we read his
Minneapolis speech. DAVE does'nt
think it is right that four-fifths of all
the good government department offices
should be manned by Republicans.
Neither do we.
—The Pittsburg Times repcrts that
‘the representatives of the powers at
Constantinople,had another'meeting yes-
terday (Monday) to disctss the question
as to how they could do nothing most
gracefully.” ‘Were it not that the necks
of so many poor Christians are at stake
we would suggest that the Times advise
them to wait and watch the new Re-
publican Congress.
—Mexico’s President has drawn the
line on bull fighting. Are we to be-
lieve from this that & moral reform has
really swept over DiAz, or, may-haps,
the failure to get bulls that were fool-
ish enough to charge the banderillero
has been the real cause. If the truth is
known the bulls have lately shown
more sense than the Mexicans and as
they won't fight ary longer there is of
a necessity an end to the bull fighting.
—The conviction of WALTER S.
LANGERMAN for criminal assault on
Miss BARBARA AUB, in New York,
will be a great injury to the cause
of justice in that city. Though
the man was known as a wretch,
capable of doing anything, the young
woman has since confessed herself guilty
of perjury in his accusation and he is
now free and she a convict. This sim-
ply goes to show that even justice fails
in her search of truth.
—When that colored minister, who
aspired to be chaplain of the House at
‘Washington, gets over the effect of his
knock-out he will realize what a goose
he has been. He might have known
that the only use the Republicans hava
for the colored man is for his vote.
They dont need them at any other time
and demonstrated it in a very effective
way in the election for chaplain, on
Tuesday, when the highly respectable
and intelligent colored divine received
onlyjtwo votes from the two hundred
and forty-four Republican members,
whose election was possibly, only,
through the vote of his race.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA., DEC. 6, 1895.
A Farcical Investigation.
Philadelphia is now the scene of a
ridiculous farce that is being played by
a so-called investigating committee,
The ostensible object of this body of
Senatorial investigators isto overhaul
the methods of the city’s municipal ad-
ministration and expose the corrupt
practices of those who control its gov-
ernment. How this ig’being done may
be judged from the motive that ac-
tuated the appointment of such a com-
mittee,
Nothing was more remote from the
original object of this movement than
the desire to uncover and correct
abuses, it having had its origin in a
fight between two corrupt factions.
One of these gangs thought it could
gain an “advantage over the other by
securing the appointment of a com-
miftee that would threaten to expose
the rascalities it practiced in the city
government. The gang so threatened
could be put aad kept in a hole by
such a whip held over it by the other
faction, but the idea of making ex-
posure that would “burt the pariy”
wag never entertained by the investi
gators.
That there was no intention of an
earnest investigation was proven by
the fact that although this committee
had been appointed early in the sum-
mer it allowed political considerations
to defer its getting to work until after
the election, and now that it has put
itself down to its alleged business it is
careful not to thrust its probe into the
city’s municipal system in which the
most rottenness is known to exist.
Witnesses are called to prove facts
which everybody is acquainted with,
such as that the city paving is badly
done ; that charges are made for ma-
terial that is not delivered ; that the
street cleaning is not performed ac
cording to contract ; that the garbage
is not properly dispcsed of, and that
the city is made to pay for work that
has not been done.
These irregularities have been so ap-
parent and so well known that they
did not require an investigating com-
mittee to disclose them ; but while
these pretending investigators are tri
fling with these self-evident facts, they
are careful that their inquiry shall not
extend to the corruption that pervades
the entire municipal management. A |
few delinquent contractors will be ex-
posed,- but care will be exercised to
conceal the fact that the treasury of
the city is made the spoil of the ring of
politicians who control the party ma-
chinery ; that contracts are given to
henchmen who support the machine
and divide the spoils with the mana-
gers ; that the city elections are ma.
nipulated in the interest of this system
of spoliation ; that the councilmanic
function is chiefly employed in’ ena-
bling corporations and monopolies to
rob the city and oppress the citizens,
and that the heaviest burden of the
taxpayers consists of the contributions
they are forced to make for the en.
richment of the ringsters who have ge-
cured the political control of the mu-
nicipality.
This is tke basic corruption that un-
derlies the municipal government of
Philadelphia, but it will not be
reached by the probe of the senatorial
investigators. They will merely re-
port some irregularities in contracts
that will be represented as being of a
character that can be easily reformed
“within the party ;’ the mayor will
promise “to use his influence” for the
election of ‘‘good men” to councils;
the fend between the factions, from
which the investigating committee
originated, will be fixed up in the in-
terest of harmony, and the fanatical,
tariff crazy population of the city will
go on voting for “protection,” and roll-
ing up majorities at their municipal
elections in support of the party ring-
sters who rule and rob them.
—————————————————
Moving for Bardsley's Pardon.
A petition for the pardon of JonN
BARDSLEY, (the notorious embezzler of
public funds io Philadephia, is now
before the pardoning authorities of the
State and it may be expected that
among the next acts of this State
administration will be the liberating
of the State’s most notorious criminal
before he has paid one-third of the
penalty imposed upon him for his
crime,
The movement for such a defeat of
the ends of justice is being conducted
by some of the leading Republican
officials in Philadelphia, prominent
among whom is General Louis Wag:
NER, president of the board of city
trusts and a commissioner of the sink
ing fund, who, in such a position, sets a
bad example in asking for the pardon
of a man who, in an office similar to
his own, betrayed the public trust by
embezzling money committed to his
charge. General WaGNER, as a pub-
lic official, displays a dangerous de-
moralization in setting no stronger
mark of condemnation on such an of-
fense than he displays in moving for
the pardon of the offender.
But it has been said from the begin-
ning of the BARDSLEY case that
higher officials than himself were
involved in his wrong doing, and
that he was, during the time the extra.
seesion of the Senate was investigating
these rascalities, promised a pardon
from the next Republican Governor, if
he would refrain from exposing them.
This pardon, of course, could not be ex-
pected from the Democratic Governor
who was then in office ; but a Gov-
ernor and pardon board, suitable for
the purpose, is now in power, and
BarpsLEY demands the fulfillment of
the conditions upon which he has
kept silent. It is eaid that he is be-
coming’ impatient and threatens the
scamps, who are involved with him,
that if they do not carry out their con-
tract he will demand to go before the
senatorial investigation committee and
peach on his pals.
This is sufficient cause for the earnest
movement that is now being made to
give the old embezzler his freedom,
and this is the right kind of a State
administration to extend relief to a cul-
prit who threatens to criminate lead-
ing Republicans if he is not granted a
pardon. The kind of honor that ex:
ists among thieves will eveatuate in
BarpsLEY's liberation.
The Turkish Atrocities.
The cruelties practiced upon the
Christian subjects of the Sultan by the
barbarism of the Turks is 2 grievance
to humanity and shocks the civilized
sentiment of the age. If Turkey was
an impregnable power, go strong in its
{ might that it could defy outside inter-
ference and commit its outrages with
impunity, there would then be some
substantial reason why its Christian
people should be allowed to suffer, but
in view of the fact that she is a brok-
en down and decrepit power, continu-
ing to exist only by the sufferance of
the stronger nations of Europe, the
permission that is given her to perae-
cute her helpless Chrietian population
is a disgrace to the Christian powers
that have so long stood by and seen
this barbarism being perpetrated.
This culpable inaction is entirely
attributable to the jealousy that exists
between the great powers of Furope.
They are kept from moving for the
punishment and dismemberment of
Turkey and the deliverance of her
Christian subjects, by a fear that in
the division of the spoils one would
get more than another. In 1877,
Russia had Constanticople within her
grasp, and would have annexed Ar-
menia, which is now the scene of the
atrocious treatmeat of Christians, Eng-
land, Germany and other leading pow-
ers interfered and maintained the Turk-
ish power in the countries which it has
80 long abused.
England has been the principal of-
fender in upholding the Turkish na-
tionality and consequently the oppres-
sion of Christian subjects, Her India
interests make her jealous of every ac-
quisition of territory that Russia may
make in Asia, and from so selfish a
motive she would prefer that Turkish
misrule should continue than that
Russian influence should advance to-
wards the borders of ber Indian pos-
sessions.
Shawe may drive England into
changing her policy in this matter
but up to this time she is largely re.
sponsible for the Armenian and other
Christian blood that has been shed in
Turkey.
AAT ALA —
—Pittsburg’s “Jack the hugger”
has been caught. It is altogether
probable that the streets out that way
will not be so crowded with women
for a while, at least./
|of tie opposite party are allowed to
Official Misdoing.
The conviction and sentence of
county commissioner JouN Hurp, of
Blair county, for mal-administration
ir. office is an object lesson the like of
which has not,been afforded the pub-
lic for some time. It too frequently
happens that men who have been elect-
ted to places of public trust and emolu-
ment take advantage of the confidence
reposed in them. There are many
ways in which public officials}attempt
to enrich themselves under the system
commonly known as “picking” and it
is to be regretted that so many cases
of these pernicious practices come to
light. Familiarity with any offense
seems to lessen its gravity, particular-
ly so with this class. Men whose
honesty none have dared question
have fallen into the habit of “picking,”
unconecious of the crime they were
committing, but when once the fruits
are realized there is sufficient incentive
to continue and on a more remunera-
tive scale.
This crime can be accounted for in
two ways. In the first place honest
men are often elected to an office the
salary of which would be sufficient to
maintain them if they were content to
continue living in the style that had
satisfied them previous to their political
preferment. The tendency of humanity
is upward, however, and such an one
scarcely finds himself installed io office
until he begins to have new wants, al-
together incommensurate, which his
salary will not procure. There is but
one thing to be done, if there is not a
dogged purpose to deny such wants,
find a way to increase the income.
When a man once determines on such
4 course the ultimate end is easily
foreseen, unless he happens to be
shrewd enough to thoroughly cover
his tracks.
. The other failing, 80 often found in
public officials and which is largely re
sponsible for this frequent resort to
“picking,” is the idea that an incum-
bent has not made the most of his op- |
portunity if he has not become practic-
ally “fixed” for life during his tenure
of office. There is a mistaken idea |
as to what a salary is for. It is not to !
pay a man twice as much as his serv-
ices are worth, but merely to procure i
one who will be capable of attending '
to its duties in a satisfactory manner.
If men would make up their minds,
before they seek office, that election
thereto is not an evidence that the
people have voted them a life annu-
ity or that they are expected to live in
different style than when they were
nothing more than aspirants there
would be less trouble of this sort and
fewer men compelled to undergo the
ignominy of public disgrace.
A Cause of Apathy.
The Louisville Courier Journal has
learned from reliable authority in the
departments at Washington that, al-
though this is a Democratic adminis-
tration, the Republicans still have
eight-tenths of all the best offices in
those departments. This estimate
might be too high, yet there can be no
doubt that many of the most responsi.
ble places are held by men who are
not in political accord with the admin-
istration.
Such an arrangement might agree
with the finical ideas of those who
believe that politics contaminates the
civil service, but it conflicts with the
practice of those old Democratic
worthies of the past whose action
showed their conviction that the
policy of a political party can be car-
ried out only by those who believe in
its principles. ANDREW JACKSON was
a conspicuous exemplar of the old-
fashioned” Democratic practice of en-
trusting responsible official service, un.
der a Democratic administration, to
none but those who adhered to and
maintained its measures from political
conviction.
In these days, when Democratic de-
feats are being explained hy attributing
them to Democratic apathy, might not
the cause of much of that apathy be
traced tothe circumstance that under
a Democratic administration members
fill places that should be filled by
Democrats ?
——1If you want printing of any dis-
cription the WATCHMAN office is the
place to have it done.
. The President's Message.
From the Philadelphia Times.
President Cleveland's message to
Congress is a plain, matter-of-fact, but
vigorous presentation of the important
question upon which Congress will be
called to act. It gives an elaborate
presentation of our relations with all
foreign governments, and we give the
full text of what he says about the in-
surrection in Cuba, the atrocities in
Turkey, the Venezuela dispute and
other important international ques-
tions. The President ia very emphatic
in his expressions relating to the mur-
derous outrages prepetrated upon the
Armenians in Turkey, but the tone of
his didcussion of the Cuba question is
in accord with a severe interpretation
of international obligations rather than
with the unmistakable sympathies of
the American people.
TITRE PAIRS
Republicans Have No Use for the Col-
ored Mam, Except for His Vote.
From the Phila. Evening Telegraph, (Rep.)
One incident of the Republican House
caucus will not pass without notice. A
prominent and seemingly quite popular
colored clergyman of Reon aspir-
ed to the position of Chaplain. He re.
ceived just two votes. Itis the same
old story, somewhat emphasized in this
particular. The colored man and broth-
er owes much to the Republican party,
but its leading politicians do not want
the account to get into awkward shape.
They do not propose to make such rec-
ognition as might be embarrassing un-
der certain circumstances. The water
pail and the tin cup may still be util-
ized during the procession. Prominent
places of honor will be reserved. There
is nothing like keeping the colored vot-
er on a string. The next Republican
President will have a fine chance to
make a new departure, should he be a
man of courage and fairness. A repre-
setative of the colored race in the
Cabinet would make a sensation, and
yet stranger things have happened.
cam ————— et m————
Young Man, Think Well Before You
Speak.
From the Columbia Independent.
Young wan, when you are courting
your girl don’t make to many promises.
Don’t say “these little hands will never
do a stroke of work when you are mine,
and you shall have nothing to do in our
house but sit all day and chirp to" the
canaries,” as if any sensible. woman
could be happy fooling away time in
tnat sort of style. A girl has a fine re-
tentive memory for the soft things
and silly promises of courtship, and
occasionally, in after years, when she is
bending over the wash tub or patching
the west end of your trousers, she will
. remind you of them in a cold, sarcastic
tone of voice.
CT ——————————
Honored With the Red Hat.
From the Doylestown Democrat.
At a secret consistory held at Rome
on Friday, the Pope presiding, nine
new Cardinals were created, one of
them being Satolli, the papal delegate
to the Roman Catholic Church in the
United States. The Pope, in the
course of his allocution, dwelt upon
the gravity of the situation in Turkey,
and added that the Holy See was not
indifferént to the distress of the Ar-
meniauns, but desired to see the vari
ous people of the Ottoman empire gov-
erned upon principles of equality and
equity.
The Difference.
From the Frankfort Gazette.
“A lawyer in a court room may call
a man a liar, scoundrel, villain or
thief, and no man makes a complaint
when court adjourns, but if a newspa-
per prints such a reflection on a man’s
character, there isa libel suit or a
dead editor. This is. probably owing
to the fact that people believe what an
editor says, while what the lawyer says
is regarded as so much elander paid
for in cash.”
For Bellefonte Skeptics.
From the Easton Argus.
The frauds of spiritualism haye
been so often exposed that it seems
impossible that anyone should have
faith in the alleged manifestations.
The arrest of a supposed spirit and
medium in New York and the very
material resistance of both will add to
the number ot skeptics, but it would
be folly to believe that spiritualiem
will find no more dupes.
CR REE
The People Would Settle 18,
From the Detroit Free Press.
There is being a good deal of anxiety
waeted over the discussion of a third
term for President Cleveland. He can-
not nominate himself and should it
transpire that the people want him for
the place we know of no higher au-
thority to which an appeal could he
taken.
RATE ASRS
Strap Oil Needed.
From the Irwin Standard.
Many of our exchanges are strongly
in favor ot a curfew bell, at 9 o'clock
in the evening, to hustle the kids off
the streets. When we were a kid our
mother used a piece of barrel stave for
a curfew, which brought ue in quicker
than any bell would have done, and if
mothers do their duty there would be
ro need to ring bells,
Spawls from the Keystone,
—Ralph Edmundson was found dead in
bed at Norristown. :
— Falling coal in a Pittston colliery
mortally crushed Matthias Kingla.
—Lack of water closed the East Leb.
anon Iron Mill Saturday evening.
—A sugar beet factory backed by $150
000 capital will be built near Milwaukee.
—Rushing coal in Packer Colliery, near
Shenandoah, killed Joseph Wichnisky,
—A fall of coal in a mine near Pine
Grove crushed lifeless John Urnbenhow.
er.
—A naked lamp exploded gas in a Pitts
ton mine, fatally burning John Ro-
zinei.
—Reading people are pleased over the
new law creating a department of public
works.
—S8t. John's Catholic Church at Altoona
extensively repaired, was rededicated
Sunday. ’
—A Lehigh Valley Railroad locomotive
ran down and killed Charles Valkert, at
Easton.
—There was another airing at Pittsburg
Monday of the Anti-Cruelty Society
scandal. ?
—The wages of Schuykill miners this
month will be eight per cent, below the
$2.50 basis.
—Having eaten paris green, Jacob
Markey, of York township, York County,
soon expired.
—The Carbondale Herald says the re.
markable thing about that town is the
“moral cleanness.”
—Highwaymen robbed and dangerous-
ly shot Mr. Verdigran, a young farmer
near Greensburg.
—An alibi saved James Fisler, on trial
at Wilkesbarre for complicity in the Bar-
ney Reich murder.
—The Clearfield Monitor says ‘Let usall
be thankful * * that the poor house is al-
most completed. +
—Lancaster city Republicans elected
Alderman D. L. Deen chairman of the
executive committee.
—There were granted this year 625 char-
ters by the State, of which 478 were for
manufacturing concerns.
—Centre county farmers will hold insti-
tutes at Rebersburg and Unionville, from
January 14 to January 18.
—The Schuylkill Controllership fight
was carried to Harrisburg for argument
before the Attorney General.
—Altoona, which has had water only
four hours a day for two months Satur.
day went back to full ration.
—Beginning Monday the Philadelphia
& Reading colliers at Shenandoah return.
ed to nine hours’ a day work.
—William Martin, foreman of the car.
penters on the Beech Creek, is a candidate
for the Jersey Shore postmastership.
—By falling on a board walk at Potts.
town the wife of ex County Commission:
er Hiram Burdan was seriously injured.
—By a Court decision at Easton the
Bowman Evangelicals obtain posses-
sion of the Bethel Mission Church at that
place.
—Of the 1063 foreign corporations that
during the year opened branch offices in
Pennsylvania more than half located in
Philadelphia.
—Felix Schuler, aged 85 years, was sent
to jail av Shamokin, charged by his son-
in-law, Emanuel Gotschall, with threaten:
ing todo him bodily harm.
—Coal Operator T. D. Stein, who cheat:
ed his mmers at Idlewood, Allegheny
County, by false weights, was fined $500
and sent to jail for three months.
—Oscar Conrad, of Craighill, Susque-
hanna County, in climbing a fence on his
return home from hunting was killed by
the accidental discharge of his gun.
—Confessing that he had criminally
assaulted 12-yearold Emma Mahan,
Evan P. Brabson, aged 16, was sentenced
at Lancaster to the Huntingdon Retorm-
atory. >
—A peculiar disease has made its ap
pearance at Williamsport, fatal in most
instances, which perplexes and con"
founds the medical fraternity of that lo-
cality
—William Edwards of Williamsport,
shot his wife the other day because he
was jealous of her without a cause. Her
neighbors represent her as an upright
woman.
—Philadelphia €ity Commissioners will
to-day visit the Attorney General at Har-
risburg to hold a conference regarding
the local act relating to sealers of weights
and measures.
—John Thompson, aged 12 years, son of
David Thompson, of Glen Campbell, on
Friday fell from coal tipple No.3 at that
place and was killed. He was engaged
in trapping at the time.
On what is known as Vallamont Knob,
in the suburbs of Williamsport, a half
“mile trotting course is to be constructed,
which when finished it is claimed will be
the finest in the state for the speeding of
horses.
—Nicholas Clark, a shoemaker aged 63
years, was killed in his shop on Wednes-
day night at Mahaffey, it is alleged, by
William Dayton, a railroad man. The
men were alone when the act was com-
mitted, and no one knows the motive:
Dayton did not know his victim was
dead until he w=:s arrested.
—The State board of undertakers had a
consultation in Harrisburg on Friday
with Deputy Attorney General Elkin in
reference to several points raised on the
new law governing undertakers in the
cities of the commonwealth. The board
proposes to have licenses in the hands of
all undertakers under its jurisdietion be-
, fore December 7. Undertakers whe have
| not taken out license before that time will
! be required to undergo an examination,
{ for which they will be charged a fee of
| $25,
i tn July 18%, Jacob M. Smith, a farm-
er living a few miles from Penfield, set a
mink trap on top of a chestnut post to
catehran owl that was earrying away his
, fowls. The next morning the staple was
‘ broken off and the trap was gone. On
Thanksgiving night this year Smith set
another trap and at 7 o'clock he found in
it a large owl. When he killed it he dis.
covered his other trap and chain fast to
its left leg, the bird having carried them
for over five years. The owl measured
four and one half feet from tip to tip of
wings. re
ER A Ae NAL. AR
a TV]
om.