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Ink Slings.
—Bill McKINLEY’s buom, like the
St. Paul, is likely to run a ground for
want of sufficient water under it.
—Since the Hog Combine carried
the recent primaries in Philadelphia
even Mart Quay is losing confidence in
reform.
— While Utah will have a cannon in
the Senate it is not supposed that it
will amount to much except the noise it
may make.
—The United States Senate is con-
firming the impression that a fifth wheel
to a wagon is about as useful and equal-
ly as ornamental.
JouEN WANAMAKER sailed for Pales-
tine last Tuesday. Holy Moses, what a
holy time there will be when holy JoHN
reaches the Holy Land.
—If the spiritualists would call up
JAMES MONROE on the spook telephone
he might tell us what he thinks of all
this racket about his doctrine.
—What a sad case it would be, af-
ter all the care the Major has bestow-
ed on it, if ForRAKER’S fog-horn should
blow the McKINLEY boom to pieces.
—Iv willbe well for McKINLEY to
keep his eye on FORAKER’s snickersnee.
He may find it inserted ucder his fifth
rib, as was JOHN SHERMAN'S expe-
rience.
-—It is hardly probable that because
the Republicans are trying to pass a
‘horizontal’ tariff bill they intend to
put Col. BiLL MORRISON on their Pres-
idential ticket.
— WorcorT, the Republican Free
Silver Senator from Colorado, who gave
"the MoNRoE doctrine such a drubbing
the other day must have been ‘bought
with British gold ?”
—The fellow who offered the reso-
lution to impeach ambassador Bayard
has su completely disappeared from
sight that he must have drawn the
hole in after him.
—The report that Chief ALEXANDER
TALL, treasurer of the Osage tribe, is
short over $3,000 in his accounts, is
proof that tbe Indian is advancing in
the art of civilization.
—The new Democratic United
State Senator from Mississippi, whos®
name is MONEY, should be authority or
financial questions. In his politics at
least be is sound Money.
—DBrother JONATHAN could not join
JomN BuLL in a naval demonstration
against the Turks without disregarding
‘Washington’s warning against the
danger of foreiga alliances.
—The Venezuela commissioners hav-
ing got down to their work at Washing-
ton we would advise the British lion to
await with becoming resignation the re-
sult of their deliberations.
—There is one individual up in Cam-
bria county who don’t believe that “the
more man has the more he wants.”
He’s the chap whose wife presented him
with triplets on Tuesday last.
—-The talk about making General
Mires the Republican candidate for
president looks as if the old party isshort
of iesues and will be forced to make an-
other campaign on the bloody shirt.
—PFourteen murder trials are
scheduled for the next Luzerne county
court. The only use of the proposed
new Quay county would have been its
dividing this murder business with
Luzerne.
—Drury College refused an en
downment of $1000 because it was
made in beer. If it had been half a
million of Standard oil swag, offered
by JorN ROCKEFELLER, it might have
been accepted.
— What a high stepping and top lofty
dame she must have been who objected
to the great-great-grand-daughter of
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN joining the
Colonial Dames because the was not of
respectable ancestry.
—The death of Prince BarTTEN-
BERG was a sad thing for the British
royal family, but think what the Brit-
ish public will have to endure when
the new Poet Laureate gets out his
funeral ode on that subject.
—The manufacturers who assembled
in National Convention in Chicago last
week showed no disposition to allow
themselves to be put on the grid-iron.'
The amount of fat that will be fried out
of them for campaign use this year will
be very limited.
—Time is effacing the cock-sure
feeling with which the Republicans
regarded the political prospect some
months ago. By the time the present
Congress adjourns they will be won-
dering whether they have any chance
-at all of electing a President.
—If the drinking of beer shortens hu-
man life, it does not appear that the
making of it abreviates the earthly pil.
grimage of the maker, as EHRET, the
great New York brewer, died the other
day at the ripa old age of 87 years. No
doubt he partook liberally of his own
brewing.
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VOL. 41
BELLEFONTE, PA., JAN. 31, 1896.
NO. 5.
Insults to American Republics.
Cuauxcy M. Depew has been called
10 account by the Brazilian Minister
at Washington for his indiscriminate
strictures upon the South and Central
American republics of which be spoke
in general terms of contempt, CHAUN-
cy is accustomed to be very free in his
remarks, and when he showed so little
able nationalities as Brazil, Argentine
and Chili in the same category with
such burlesque republics as Nicaragua,
Salvador and Honduras, it was proper
that he should be called down by the
Minister of one of the insulted govern-
ments.
Brazil, whose representative at
Washington resents the affront, is a
Republic of sixteen million inhabi-
tants and boundless natural resources,
and at no distant day will take its
place among the great powers of the
earth. Argentine shows almost the
vigorous growth of the United States,
both its population and wealth -being
rapidly on the increase under a firmly
establiehed and well regulated govern-
ment, while Chili is among the pro-
greseive nations. of the world, Mr.
Depew made a great mistake in dis-
paraging such nationalities by con-
founding them with the half-breed Re-
publics of Central America in remarks
intended to depreciate President CLEVE"
LAND’S maintenance of the MoNRoE
doctrine for the protection of American
countries against European aggression.
But if the genial CHAUNUY made a
bad break in this matter, needing an
apology, what is to be thought of the
expressions of Senator WaLcorr, of
‘| Colorado, who in his official capacity
and on the floor of the United States
Senate, indulged in similar sweeping
and indiscriminate strictures upon the
South American nations. Coming
from such a quarter and from a person
in his official station, there could not
have been a more wanton and unwar-
ranted ineult offered to friendly na-’
tione. When itis considered that this
abuee of the South American Repub-
lics was called forth from this Re-
publican Senator by political jealousy
of the position taken by a Democratic
President, iu support of a great Amer-
ican principle, his conduct becomes the
more censurable, and should be dis-
armed by the body of which heis a
member as an amend due to those in-
sulted.
—-The reason a great many of the
newspapers of Pennsylvania were better
the past two weeks than usual, is that
their editors were absent on a jaunt to
Florida, and the office devil was doing
the clipping.
The Free Silver Party.
A line is to be drawn between the
Free Silver party and the Populiste,
although thev have been acting to-
gether on most points and entirely
agree on the question of free silver
coinage. Both will have national
conventions for the nomination of
Presidential tickete, but it is probable
that there will be an agreement be-
tween them in candidates.
Those who support the silver policy
are numerous in some sections of the
country and are to be found in both
the old parties. The Populists are en:
tirely wedded to the free coinage of
silver. What member of free silver
Democrats and Republicans will leave
their old party affiliations and allign
themaelves with a distinct silver party
remains to be seen. Both will be ef-
fected by it in some sections, The Re-
publicans will more seriously feel the
defection in what are called the Silver
States, which have been Republican
in their politics but would be surely
carried by a free silver candidate for
President who will very likely be
TELLER, a present Republican Senator
from Colorado. In no section is ther
the same certainty of the Democratic
party being injured by the silver move-
ment, but there is no question that it
will be a disturbing factor in the com.
ing Presidential contest that will have
more or less of an effect on both the
old parties.
——There ought to be enough terri-
tory on the eastern continent to satisfy
the earth-hunger of the European pow-
ers without their trespassing upon the
hemisphere which the American. eagle
has taken under his wing. The old
bird won't stand it.
diecretion as to include such respect.
A Mischievous Measure.
There was no occasion for Senator
Davis to rush into the arena of the
Senate with an amendment to the
MonroE doctrine. The principle laid
down by President MoNrOE does not
require the emendations that may be
given it by Senatorial tinkering. When
President CLEVELAND in his measure
stated the position of the United States
relative to the encroachment of foreign
powers on this continent, of which
England's Venezuela claim was an ex-
ample, he covered all that was in-
tended in the original design of the
doctrine.
The resolution of Senator Davis is a
meddlesome and mischievous attempt
to so extend the application of the
MonroE principle as to burden this
government with duties that neither
its honor nor its interest requires it to
bear. It would make the United
States the guardian and sponsor of all
the South American Republics. It
would require our government to as-
sume a protectorate that would compel
it to back them in all the broils they
might get into with European powers.
This is more than MoNRoE ever bar-
gained for. It would be a burden and
a nuisance to the United States.
Ia its controversy with England on
the Venezuela question this govern:
ment has the advantage of being on
tenable ground. President CLEVELAND
bas given it that advantage by keeping
within the reasonable requirements of
the MoNRroE doctrine, aod he is justi-
fied in having it to be understood that
he regarded the Davis resolution as
“mischievous, inopportune and unfortu-
nate,”” Its effect, if paseed, would
be to complicate rather than to. sim-
plify our relatione with European pow-
ers relative to the affairs of this con-
tinent.
—The report that German warships
are to bo sent to. Venezuela is piling it
rather heavy on our little South Amer-
ican neighbor. Is it expected that she
can lick England and Germany togeth-
er ?
Reed's Rules Turned Down
The tyranical rules of the House of
Representatives adopted by the Billion
Dollar Congress to enable Czar Reep
to count a quorum, and force the Me-
KINLEY tariff bill through by despotic
measures, has been abandoned by the
ministration as speaker, it being thus
practically admitted that it could not
be made to work without gross unfair-
ness. With the present immense Re-
publican majority it is not found ne’
cessary for the speaker to resort to the
gag measures which he employed to
brow-beat a Democratic minority that
was not as small as the present one.
The House goes back to a rule for
counting a quorum that was proposed
some years ago by a Democratic Con-
gressman, Hon. RanporrH Tucker,
and opposed at that time by Rep.
Uuder this rule it will be the duty of
the Sergeant-at-arms to bring in absent
members, and their presence is to be
noted by the clerk at roll call. Their
presence being thus assured, their can
be no question of their helping to make
a quorum even if they refuse to vote.
This is different from REEp’'s rule
of counting hats, overcoats, or
members as present who were miles
away from Washington. As the Mc-
KINLEY tariff was a gouge all through, ’
it required the Speaker to resort to
such a gouge game to put it through.
—The Utah Senators are in favor of
free silver and unlimited coinage. It is
not surprising that the representatives of
Mormonism should be as free and easy
in their financial as in their matrimonial
views. ’
Getting Warm.
A local option campaign is about to
break out in Ohio with unusual fervor.
A law having passed the State Legie-
lature applying the question to sub-
divisions of cities and counties, the
temperance people have girded them-
selves for the strife. The churches
throughout the State are forming a
grand union to advance the cause.
Prayer-meetings are pouring out their
petitions in its interest, and the Re-
publican politicians are damning the
unlucky circumstance that threatens
to disturb the politics of the State in &
Presidential year.
Reed's Silver Views.
The question of silver will undoubt-
edly bea very prominent factor 1n the
coming Presidential contest. It has
been before the public for some years
and persistently continues to” keep to
the front. Efforts of powerful party
leaders to suppress it, so that it might
be stopped from being a disturbing ele-
ment, have proved ineffective. It is
pervagive enough to have a large sup-
port in both the old parties, andit is
strong enough to capture a United
States Senate that might have been
Republican if the cowardice of the Re-
publican leaders had not surrendered
the control of that body to the silver
element, which dominates it, and finds
itself able, with Republican consent,
to put the breaks on the wheels of leg-
islation and to hold the financial situ-
ation in a suspense that is injuriously
affecting the business condition of the
country. :
That an element with such an in-
fluence will be a strong factor inthe
next general campaign does not require
saying, In view of its unquestionable
prominence, as well as of its ticklish
character in a political sence, it will be
interesting to observe how the Repub-
lican leaders shall manage to adjust
themselves to it. They have so far
succeeded in keeping in the dark on
the silver question, but the time is
coming with distressful rapidity when
they must come out of their holes.
It will be particularly interesting to
observe how the Honorable TroMas
Brackerr Reep will plant himself on
this issue when ‘the urgency of his
Presidential candidacy will no longer
allow bim to keep under cover. Al-
though he has established something
of a reputation for franknees and
courage, and showed himself to be a
| bold lemder when he had » chance to
| domineer over a minority in the
House, yet when brought to face the
silver question he has met it only with
{ cowardly evasion, and has allowed the
| tail feathers of his courage to droop as
! abjectly as a sick chicken’s.
i But the approaching Preeidential
{ emergency requires something definite
. trom THoMAS, and to remove doubts as
| to what views he holds on silver, Sen-
ator CHANDLER, who is one of his chief
+ backers for the nomination, makes the
following explanatory announcement :
| “Speaker Reed is not willing at this time to
; agree to the unlimited coinage of silver at the
present Houee under REED's own ad- | Present ratio by the United States alone; but
he is opposed to the gold mcnometallism of
Cleveland and Carlisle, and in favor of the Re-
publican bimetallism, to be secured by the
most feasible means, and with the least pos-
sible delay, so that gold and silver, admitted
to nnlimited coinage at an agreed ratio, shall,
together, constitute the standard money of the”
world’s values.”
This is about as clear as mud. Be-
ing entirely incomprehensible, it does
not rige even to the dignity of a strad-
dle. As nobody knowswhat ‘“Repub-
lican bimetallism” ig, the g. 0. p. never
having enlightened tie public on that
brand of its monetary policy, either by
deed or word, and as “equal ignorance
prevails as to what it would consider
“the most feasible means’ of bringing
its bimetallism into operation with
“the least poesible delay,” CHANDLER'S
explanation does not remove the doubt
that envelopes THoMas B. REED’s po-
sition on the silver question. It rather
thickens the fog that conceals his sil-
ver views.
Silence that Means Much.
Mr. GLapsToNE says he has his
opinions on the Venezuela question,
but does not think there is occasion
for making them public. It is not dif
ficult to gather from this that they are
not favorable to the position taken by
the English government. If he thought
that SALISBURY 's position was right he
would be the last man to withhold bis
approval, but his sense ot official pro-
priety will not allow him to say auny-
thing that might embarrass the min-
istry. Mr. GLADSTONE was Dever in
favor of the policy that has induced
England to grasp everything within
his reach. It willbe remembered
that he was opposed to the English
occupation of Egypt, for which he was
soundly abused by the Tory jingoes,
and if the Grand Old Man were to
speak his mind it would be found that
be disfavors the land grab [which the
Eoglish are endeavoring to perpetrate
in Venezuela,
—That the Russian bear should get
away with Turkey is enough to make
the British lion growl.
Democratic Opinion Drifting That
Way.
From the Lebanon Star.”
Ex-Governor Pajtison’s name stands
at the head of the editorial columns of
the Sunbury Democrat as the next
Democratic candidate for -President,
which in the opinion of the Columbia
Independent, expresses a decidedly
popular desire which will soon assume
the proportions of a genera. demand.
There is no doubt of the fact that ex-
Governor Pattison is the coming man.
His popularity isnot by any means
confined to his own State, for already
other States are turning to him as the
strongest and most available candidate.
For example the Charlotte (North Car-
olina) Observer, in refering to him says:
“It is not surprising, in view of his
popularity in his own State and his
splendid standing in. the eyes of the
Democracy of the Union, that he is
much discussed in connection with the
presidential nomination next year.”
Ex-Governor Pattison stands to day
one of the ablest and foremost Demo-
crats in the land, and when the cam.
paign fully opens no doubt many
States will endorse him as the standard
bearer of the Democracy for 1896.
Whether he would accept the nomina-
tion we do not know, but in any
event he should be the unanimous
choice of the Pennsylvania delegation
to the next National convention.
How the Tariff Affects Wool.
From the Baltimore Sun*
How little the tariff affects prices
received by our farmers is shown by
the fact that in 1857, with wool free,
the price was 53 cents; in 1859, 59 cts;
in 1868, under a duty of 60 per cent.,
42 cents ; in 1875, under a lower tariff,
50 cents. Since 1875 there has been a
steady decline, though the high tariff
was continued. In 1890 the tariff was
put higher, but wool continued to fall.
In 1892, while the McKinley act was
in force, prices fell from 30 to 50 per
cent. A classof wool which Senator
Allison found worth 95% cents a pound
in 1881, was in 1889 worth 73} cents;
in 1892 it was worth 63 cents ; in 1893
it was worth 55 cents, and on March
1, 1894, before wool was made free, it
had tallen to 45% cente. In view of
facts like these it is futile to expect res-
toration of former prices of wool from
tariff tinkering. The probable gffect
of a duty, in oe light of the record, is
a further decline of domestic wools.
Facts for the Calamity Howler,
From the Philadelphia Times.
The sale of thirty thousand ponnds
of Washington county wool at Clays.
ville to a Wheeling houseon Eastern
account for twenty cents a pound, is a
uoteable event in the wool market the
past week. Independent of thej fact
thatit is a direct advance of seven
cents a pound over the rates that pre-
vailed in the last year of the McKin-
ley law, the figures show the progress
and activity in wool manufacturing
and the benefits accruing to the flock-
master under the Wilson tariff sched-
ule. It is noted that almost directly
following the passage of the new tariff
act the price of domestic: wool advan-
ced from eleven to filteen cents, and
later to eighteen cents, and this in a
section where the most violeat opposi-
tion obtained toward any change in
the wool schedules.
An Inherited Republican Blessing ?
From the Philadelphia Record.
Cheap labor comes high. Penusyl-
vania has paid dearly for the irruption
of eemisavages imported by her pro-
tected manufacturers and mine owners
to cut under the ordinary wage rate.
The turbulence of these contract labor-
ers in Western Pennsylvania is chronic
and costly. In Luzerne county there
are fourteen murder trials awaiting the
action of the Courts. It is a nice ques-
tion whether the enlarged cost to the
community in preserving order is not
greater than the saving affected by
monopolits in employing foreign
labor.
A RT
It’s. What the State Needs.
From the Wilkesbarre Leader.
There seems to be a growing im:
pulse favoring the whipping poss for
wife beaters. It is a drastric and
severe mode of punishment, bud it is
about the only one fit for the man
who gratifies his spleen on a peor wo-
man by brutally assaulting her. The
culprit should be punished in she yard
of the county prison and his humilia-
tion published to the world.
The Magnetism of a Bar'l.
From the Boston Herald. |
The announcement that candidate
Morton is after Southern Presidential
delegates is well calculated to carry
terror into the ranks of his rivals for
the nomination. Governor Morton
possesses more of the stuff that at.
tracts the average Southern delegate
than any other man in the list.
Po
And This too Under a’ Democratic Ad-
ministration.
From the Iron Age.
The product of pig iron in this!
country during the last six months ot
the year just closed amounted to 5,
385,750 groes tons, which is greatly in
excess of any previous record.
espawls from the Keystone.
—Duncannon has a new Board of Health.
—Reading will hays a Masonic hall to
cost $65,000.
—Pennsylvania’s exhibit at Atlanta has
been returned.
—The Braddock Wire works yesterday
resumed operations,
—Reading’s assessed valuation increas-
ed §1,000,000 last year.
—Ofiicers are gunning for counterfeiters
at Derry City, near Bradford.
—The shortage in the Pittsburg City
Attorney's office may exceed $20,000.
—Henry Booth, a Schuylkill county
engineer, thinks he swallowed a lizard.
—An 1ce flood in the Allegheny river
did considerable damage at Oil City and
Franklin, :
—The Westinghouse Electric works, in
Allegheny county, will start on: full time
before February 1.
—Perry county hag a debt of $55,492.04
having increased it last year by the ad-
dition of $4,036.36.
—Twenty thousand heads of cabbage
were raised at the Huntingeon Reforma-
tory farm the past year.
—John Fox, aged 90 years, a resident of
-Renovo, while shoveling snow on! Thurs-
day afternoon fell over dead:
—The new registration of voters in
Northampton county shows 23,901, of
whom 4355 are in Easton.
—Al. Sturtzman, an Altoona detective,
has fallen heir to $2,500, of which he had
no previous expectations.
—According to the lists of the Assessors
sent out to the various election districts
there are 37,742 voters in Berks county.
—C. H. Watt, a Bradford oil well driller,
leaves with a crew of men, this week for
Africa, to drill a well for oil in that re.
gion,
—Judge Waddell, of Chester county,
says boroughs not divided inte wards
should elect seven new councilmen this
spring. =
.—Elijah Duvall, aged 21 !years, of near
Ray's Hill, Bedford eounty, died of poi-
son administered by his own thand on
Tuesday.
—At the session of the Criminalleourt in
Luzerne county, which {began on. last
Monday, fourteen murder cases were on
the list for i i
—Central ‘Pennsylvania 0daa Fellows
will ask the State Grand’ lodge for per-
mission to build a home for orphans and
widows at Sunbury.
—About 10,000 persons find employment
in Clearfield county mines. In 1891" they
worked on an average 227 days, in 1892, 212
days, in 1893, 186 days, and in 1894, 134days.
—Mrs. J. W. Newson, of Clearfleld, was
found dead in her bed on Thursday morn.
ing last. She was about 49 years of age
and had retired the night previous in
good health.
—If the last will of Mrs. Anna R. Aspin.
wall of Pittsburg stands the hospital of
the Protestant Episcopal church of Phil-
adelphia will receive her entire estate,
valued at $3,000,000.
—Edward Wilson, night foreman on the
steam shovel at the railroad grading at
Bixler’s just East of Lewistown, was
struck and instantly killed by fast’ line
west on last Saturday evening.
—Maiss Quay, daughter of Senator Quay,
who was married in Washington on-Wed-
nesday to Mr. Davidson, is small, with
dark and delicate features. The Fennsyl-
vania Senator has two other daughters.
—The National Editorial association at
St. Augustine, Fla., chose Galveston for
the next meeting place. R. R. Thomas,
Mechanicsburg, Pa., was elected: presi.
dent ; treasurer, James G. Gibbs,. Ohio.
—The Altoona and Philipsburg railroad
is complete to Ramey and the track is
graded half way between. Ramey and
Janesville about two and a half miles. As
soon as the weather permits it®will be
pushed to completion.
—Mrs. Betsy Kriner, aged 72, and her
daughter Sarah, agea 52, were both’ buried
at Redfern, Clearfield county. The moth-
er was the first to die; and the knowledge
of her demise caused the daughter to be
stricken with heart disease.
—The DuBois Express says Mrs. Dunlap
of Narrows creek, started fenSabula on
Tuesday and when she reached there: her
six months old baby which she carried in
her lap, was found dead. She does not
know how it happened.
—Israel Miller ead Williara.-Moere;. track
men employed by the Pennsylvania rail-
road company, were struck{ by a train
near Mountain Grove, a short distance
below Williamsport, Friday morning, and
both were instantly killed.
—Acting for a syndicate George M.
Dimeling of Clearfield, has purchased
from John England, of Philadelphia, for
$70,000, a tract of 1,750 acres of virgin tim-
berland in Brady, Bloom and Union town.
ships, Clearfiodd county, on. wich there
are 35,000,000 feet of wood.
—Between 400 and 5600men: employed at
the coal mines at Vintonville, Cambria
county, went on a strike, on Monday ow-
ng tothe coal company having engaged
a doctor under a guarantee of $00 a
month for attending to t®eillsand ail-
ments of the miners, and the [subsequent
action oa the past of the company in
deducting $1 each from the men last pay
day.
~The committec on finance of the
Wilkesbarre Council estimates the ex.
penses for the coming year to run (that
city will be $198,777.78; the resources to
be $259,820.21. The valuation of taxable
property is $8,750,886, upon whicha levy
of 19 mills has been assessed for general
purposes, to realize $122,015.94, and 3 miles
for the sinking fund. This isabout seven,
mills less then Bellefonte tax-rayers put
up.
Maine cireusand which was being shipped.
loose in the baggage car of the west-bound
morning passenger train on the Philadel-
phia and Erie railroad just after leaxing
Kane Monday. The occupants of the car
fled, leaving the beast in full possession,
and the news being conveyed to the pas.
sengers in the coaches, a semi.panic en-
! sued, which continued all the way to
| Erie. When the train arrived at Erie tho
| services of Jesse Howard, sn animal
| trainer, were secured, and he entered the
car with a short rope and a= iron bar. The
leopard, however, had feasted to, his full
on some oysters which were in the car,
"and submitted peacefully tQ being taken
' to his cage.
—A leopard belonging to the Walter
to winter quartersat Geneva, Ohio, broke ,