BY P. GRAY MEEK.
om um—
Ink Slings.
—The Cuban war still goes on. The
death rate has not Leen materially in-
creased, however.
—Since QuAY has a new son-in-law
we wonder if the exalted RICHARD will
be relieved of any cf his duties as agent,
~~" for his pap.
—&'he doctrine that “all the world
loves a lover’ is—~exploded so far aS
McKINLEY and REED sare concerned
with HARRISON.
—A McKeesport theatre is being con--
verted intc a brewery. Not a very rad-
ical change after all for the step from a
concert hall to a beer brewing establish-
ment is purely mecha nical.
—Ezx-burgess McGLuckY, of Home-
stead, who has undertaken the self-im-
posed task of ruining ANDREW CAR.
NEGIE will find that neither his bark
nor his bite will have much effect on the
millionaire iron manufacturer.
—Fashionable New York is just now
showing itself at a dog show and the
pity is great that some of the simpering
noodles over there are not caged and ex-
hibited in the poodle class. Let us see,
no, that would be a disgrace to sensible
dogs.
—HARRISON’S letter, in which he
emphatically denies all rumors to the
effect that he is out for presidential
honors again, is the best evidence that
he prefers tospend his declining years
at’ the conjugal and not the political
Mecza.
—An exchange remarks that Quay
has touched the Hon. WILLIAM A.
StoNE with the finger of preferment
for gubernatorial honors. If this be so
what is to become of the ambition of
that red plumed angel of peace, the hope-
ful Tros. V. CoOPER, of Media ?
—1It was a good deal easier job to pull
the St. Paul off that Long Branch
sand bar than it will be for the Repub-
lican party to attempt to haul their
craft, if it contains either. REED or ,Mc-
KiINLEY, off the bar that public éenti-
ment will heave up between it and the
wharf in Washington.
—An ex-State Senator has just turned |.
up as defendant in a bribery case in
Ohio who stated to the court that he
was too poor to retain & lawyer to de-
fend himself. Now, in Pennsylvania
things are different. The State and not
its Legislators becomes poverty stricken
in Pennsylvania.
— With SuLLivaAN falling from a fly-
ing passenger train and CORBETT being
thrown down stairs by an irate firemen
pugilisticstock has been knocked about
in a way that gives great public satis-
faction and enjoyment. It is known
now that there are some things in the
world that can get ahead of such
bruisers.
—A new whistle that can be heard
for a distance of thirty miles is to be
placed on Sing Sing prison to sound a
warning whenever any prisoners escape.
It is said to have ear splitting power
which, if true, will leave all that com-
munity, within a radius of thirty miles,
with the ear marks of Sing Sing the!
very first time a blast is sentout from it. ’
—1It is probable that JUSTIN McCAR- '
THY will resign the leadership of the
Irish parliamentary party at itd meeting
in London tomorrow and tbat THos.
SExTON will be chosen to succeed him.
Ill health from over-work in the Irish
cause will be the reason of the change,
if it is made. Alas, how many men
have worn themselves out fighting for
the forlorn hope of the Emerald isle.
—Ambassador BAYARD'S prompt
denial of the statement that he bad au
thorized President CLEVELAND to pre-
sent his resignation, should a resolution
censuring his official conduct be passed
by Congress, proves him to be a good
deal bigger than the body thal is trying
to defame him. The United States
bave few BAYARD’s, the greater pity
that there are so many addle-pates like
some who constitute the 54th Con-
gress. :
—If the report be true that the Em-
peror of Germany is only waiting until
grand-mother dies before he attacks
England we certainly admire the chiv-
alric forbearance that stays his hand
against 8 woman. WILLIAM evidently
has a more wholesome dread ot the fe-
male tongue than of the booming of
English guns, but we fear that the im-
petunous young ruler will not have pa-
tience to hold out until the demise of his
long-lived grand-ma.
—It was a noteworthy fact that the
great American line steam-ship St. Paul
ran aground on St. Paul’s day, the 22nd
of January, which among superstitious
people has always been regarded an un-
lucky day. It will be remembered that
the St. Paul stuck on her stays at
Cramp’s ship-yaid, Philadelphia, at the
first attempt to launch her and when
the old sailors looked on her dogged de-
termination not {o stick her nose into
the Delaware they said: “Its a bad
omen. A boat that sticks will always
bave bad luck.” Verily, their super.
stitious remark seems not to have been
ill-grounded.
VOL. 4
_ BELLEFONTE,
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. >
Far From Being a Certainty,
The Philadelphia Times concedes
entirely too much when it says that
“it ia fortunate that the next Senate
will be strongly Republican, so that a
Republican President, who scems cer
tain to be elected, can be in position to
assume entire responsibility {for legis-
lation,” etc.
There is nothing in the political
situation that wakes it appear sure
that the Republicans will elect the
next President. It is true that since
1892 there have been elections that
were attended with sweeping Republi-
can majorities, but their results were
far from indicating a permanent politi
cal condition, and their ultimate ef:
fect, as bearing upon the next presi-
dential election, is more calculated to
be injurious than beneficial to the.
party in whose favor they seemed to
have been so decigive.
The deceptive influences that pro.
duced the tidal wave of 1894 will have
entirely lost their effect by the time
the next presidential election comes
off. It will be impossible to make the
average voter believe thatthe reduc-
tion of the McKINLEY duties was the
cause of the hard times. With the
<industries in a satisfactory condition
the calamity howler will be unable to
influence the gullible by representing
that the WiLson tariff ruined the
country ;‘in fact he will not bave the
face even to attempt to howl. There
is quite enough intelligence among the
people to reach the correct conclusion
that other causes, independent of tariff
influences, were largely instrumental
in producing the financial and indus-
trial collapse that overtook the coun-
try, and that intelligence is every day |
becoming more convinced of the fact |
that Republican financial and cur-
rency legislation, extending
business interests.
President will be a Republican than
that recent elections were carried by
large Republican majorities, the pros-
pect loses its certainty by the disap-
pearance of the influences that pro-
duced those majorities. It is a mis
take to suppose that the calamity ar.
guments can have the effect this year
that they had iwo years ago. There
i8 a reserve of common sense among
the people that will enable them to
comprehend the truth of the situation.
As to the mora! effect of recent Repub-
lican victories, the mere fact that they
carried the last general election by a
sweeping majority, is no more of an
assurance to them that they will carry
the election this year than was the-
Dem ocratic-victory'in 1892 a guarantee
that the Democrats would be victorious
the year following.
The political situation never before
furnie hed such good reason for a
change of public sentiment. We can
not agree with the Times that the next
President seems certain to be a Repub-
licao.
The Colored Men are Not to Blame.
The practice of Republican presiden-
tial aspirants in buying the colored
delegates from southern States is a
most pernicious and degrading means
of paving the way to the greatest office
within the gift of the American peo.
ple, yet it is eo common as to be given
little attention by the public. It has
already been announced that Rgep
bas secured control of the Louisiana
delegates, McKINLEY claims those
from Arkansas and a special Morton
emissary is now in Alabama negotia-
ting for the representation from that
State.
If colored men can equeeze anything
out of these aspirants they are certain-
ly not to blame. For all the fidelity
of their race to the Republican party
they receive no recognition, whatever,
and who will gaivsay these attempts
at getting some share of the spoils upon
which their white brethren have fat-
tened after their votes have placed
them in positions of public eminence.
"Tis true that there is danger in the
practice, that it will eventually react
against the stability of our institutions,
but when the crisis comes we musi
remember the men and the party that
precipitated it.
——— Subscribe for the WaTonMaN,
|
back |
through a eeries of years, was the fac | *° ’ :
a most en affected the | bis official seal to matters of which be
r . i knows nothing, or can be made a tool,
As there is no other reason why it of some power, to purpoly deceive
should "seem vertain™ that the pext the public, by the assurance that such
| an official is faithfully and fearlessly
Might Have Been Worse.
The people who had hoped for a dif-
ferent result in the election of supreme
court judges, last November, have rea-
son now to feel that even a greater mis:
take might have been made than the
election of PETER P.SyiTH. Two or three
weeks ago, judge YERKES, who, during
last fall's campaign, seemed to be the
popular favorite with the Democrats
and who every one predicted would
receive the highest vote on the Demo"
cratic ticket, aired his judicial robes
out-side his own district, by presiding
over one of the criminal courts of
Philadelphia. For some unexplained
and, to us, unexplainable reason, when
closing the business of the court, he
spreads himself upon its records as a
voucher for the promptness, the im-
partiality and faithfulness, as a pub-
lic official, of the district attorney of
that city. —
When it is remembered that’the rec:
ords of the very court over which judge
YERKES presided, show that an indict-
ment, found by a grand jury against a
police officer for “‘criminally assaulting
a little girl,” has been pigeon-holed in
the district attorney’s office for over
five years ; that other indictments,
found by grand juries against as
sessors for the fraudulent registration of
voters and against others for false reg-
istration and padding the registry lists,
have been virtnally set aside by the
failare of the district attorney to do
his duty ; that election officers who
have flagrantly and opeuly violated the
election laws go about that city uon-
molested and without fear of prose-
cution, and that to-day there are more |
uncaught and unpunished criminals,
within the city of Philadelphia and
within the reach of the power of this!
i same district attorney than in any city
on this continent, it looks very much
as if judge YERKES, is willing to put
performing his duties.
In either event, judge YErRkEs has
made such an exhibition ot his care-
lessness, or unfaithfuiness, as a judge
that the Democracy of the State may
congratulate themselves that even
Peter P. Smith found more support-
ers in the State last fall than he did.
Foreign Entanglements,
the United
The government of
States should be careful not to drift |
away from one of its earliest principles. |
It was WasHiNGTON who warned it |
against the danger of toreign alliances,
and during the whole course of our
history up to this time the leading
etatesmen of the nation have recog-
nized the wisdom of that precaution.
But there is no telling to what ex-
tent some of our later-day statesmen
may carry the government in a depar-
ture from the wisdom of the founders
in regard to foreign entanglements.
The Senate has recently been a perfect
hot-bed of schemes not only for the |
regulation of the affairs of this con-
tinent, but for a meddlesome inter
ference in matters on the other side of
the Atlantic. The Senate chamber
has recently rung with the oratory of
buncombe statesmen who have de-
manded not only that the United
States should snub the’ English in
South America and-sit down on the |
Spaniards in Cuba, but should also
take a hand in the Transvaal difficulty,
and give the Turks to understand that
their conduct towards the Armenians
‘would not be tolerated.
There is no question that in pre
venting the encroachment of European
powers upon this continent our gov-
ernment has a duty imposed upon it
by a regard for its own safety as well
as by the claim which the weaker
American republics have upon it es the
strongeet representative of the system
of (ree government which they have
alike adopted. As long as this duty is
discreetly performed, keeping within
the limits of our obligation io our
weaker neighbors, it accords with a
wise national policy that’ has been
recognized since.the time of President
Monroe and recently confirmed by
the action of President CLEVELAND .
but when a position is assumed, as has
recently been done in the Senate, that
is calculated to encourage and lead to
interference in European affairs, it
looks like a dangerous disregard for
the warniog of WasHINGTON.
PA., FEB. 7, 1896.
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1
A Logical Effect.
1
| A political fact that is plainly ob-
{servable is the rapid decline of Mo-
Kivrey as a presidential probability.
| His chance of getting the nomination
| is every day becoming less. This may
| appear eingular in view of the circum.
| stance that he has planted himself es-
| pecially on the policy which is claim-
(ed to be the leading principle of Re-
| publicanism, and which, in considera-
tion of his being the author of it, gave
him the claim to being considered the
{ logical candidate.
| Two years ago when the McKINLEY
| bill wae repealed, and direful predic
i tions were made as to the ruin which
| that repeal was going to bring about,
| McKiNLey was regarded as the cham-
| pion who would lead the tariff forces
i back to victory in the next presiden-
[tial contest. Republican enthusiasm
| for him was so great that no other
| candidate was thought to have a chance
+against him. That he was pretty thor-
oughly convinced of this himself was
shown by his taking advantage of the
logic of the situation by bringing him-
self out early as a presidential candi-
date.
Why is it that the McKiNLEY boom,
launched under such apparently au-
gpicious circumstances, is peiering out,
with a possibility of its not being long
enough to reach the nominating con-
vention? Tt is because the actual
logic of the situation has turned against
him. The tariff that has succeeded
the one which he originated has prov-
ed to be a benefit to the country in-
stead of the injury upon which he
based his claim of vindication. His
{own party leaders are beginning to eee
that they can make no fight in a presi-
dential contest on the basis of a
monopoly tariff, and the logical effect
of such a eelf evident fact will be the
shelving of Bie McKINLEY as a pres:
| idential candidate.
But is it not likely that the effect of
such logic will extend still further ?
measure upon
ple, and was equally
By the time their party’s nomi
pating convention egy it will
"be found unsafe to nomfoate any of
| the mer who were leaders in the per-
. petration of the McKINLEY fraud, and
{the g. o. p. will try to save itself from
| defeat by shelving Reep along with
| McKiNrey.
the American peo-
Rather a Dear Price.
The action on (he bond bill by the
Senate has been a very costly piece of
business to this country. It has not
i even the excuse of effecting its object
I by the passage of a free coinage bill,
| for the coinage bill that was substituted
| for the bond bill bas not the ghost of a
I chancé of becoming a law. There is
| no probability of its passing the House;
‘and even if it could go through that
I body it would certainly be vetoed by
| the President. oo
tion will be to mske the taxpayers of
the country ‘pay about fifty million
dollars of excessive interest. This is
paying rather dear for the privilege
which the Republicans haye given
half a dozen Senators from rotten-
borough States to hold up the legisla-
tion of Congress.
A Wide Straddle.
That is queer reasuning on the
part of the Philadelphia Z¥mes, of last
Saturday, that agrees with the minority
of the Senate election’ committee in
reporting that Dupont, of Delaware, is
not entitled to a seat in that body. and
yet concludes that the adoption of the
report of the majority of that commit-
tee, which would give him the seat
would work no wrong or establish no
dangerous precedent. As a straddler
the Times makes every effort to be an
unlimited success.
~——Minister TERRELL has demand
ed $100,000 indemnity of the Sultan
of Turkey for the destruction and
pillaging of American miesions at
Marash and Kharput. The high and
mighty ruler of the Ottoman empire
might put up a few of his wives to
raise the wind for this demand.
——The importance of attending
the spring elections is paramount to
any other duty you may have to per-
form. Self government is an Ameri
can’s heritage and he should rot cast
it away.
———
Simamomerar
Tuomas B. Reep was a partner
of McKINLEY in forcing that monopoly
implicated. |
The only effect of the Senate's ac- |
It Costs Money to be Governed.
From the Harrisburg Patriot.
Secretary of internal affairs Latta
bas prepared a report showing the
taxes paid last year by the people of
Pennsylvania for the maintenance of
State, county, city borough, and town-
ship governments. The report con-
tains returns from the commissioners,
of every county except Schuylkill, and
is the most complete and comprehen.
sive ever issued by the department on
the subject of taxation. .
‘The consolidated returns show that
the total amount of taxes collected for
the support of the poor was $1,593,755,-
93. This amount Is levied and collec-
ted directly and does not include all
money expended for the purpose.
There was appropriated during the
year from the county treasuries for the
support of the poor in counties having
almshouses $742,664.06, which added
to the amount collected directly makes
a total of $2,336,410 99. The amount
collected during the year fdr the con-
struction and repair of streets, roads
and bridges was $9,019,185,77.
In the sixty-six counties making re-
port it is found that the common
schools have made necessary the levy
and collection of $11,930,907.91. This
does not include the amount received
by the school districts direct from the
state treasurer: The amount of taxes
collected for purposes other than those
already mentioned was $25,373,290.87.
This includes the amount expended by
the several boards of the county com-
missioners for the support of the coun-
ty governments. The counties mak-
ing return collected $47,917,140.48 in
taxes for all purposes during the year.
Under special subjects of taxation it
is found that personal property has
been make to pay $2,733,279.33. There
have been collected on occupations
taxes to the amount of $1,084,828.60.
The total amount received durin
the year from licenses was $4,943,937.
65. Of this amount Philadelphia col-
lects $2,484,181.56 and Allegheny coun-
ty $993,898.26.
The total amount of taxes for the
year collected on the real estate of rail.
way corporations was $741,293.66.
Philadelphia and Pittsburg are the
only localities in the State where real
estate of railway corporations is sub-
ject to taxation for certain local pur-
poses. The taxes on real estate of cor-
porations other than railways amount-
ed to $1,863,835.41.
I —————
Has the Zenith Been Reached?
From the Philadelphia Times.
The pension appropriatioa for the en-
i suing fiscal year amounts to $141, 000,
1 000 in round figures. As the reduction
| from the previous year is nearly $3,000,
000 the indication is that the maximum
' has been reached unless new legislation
is adopted extending the pension system.
During the last fiscal year the total pan-
sions paid aggregated $140,000,000, and
$9,500,000 of this amount was disbursed
in the Southern States. The greatest
state credit is that of Ohio, the pension.
| payment reaching $15,553,567. Than
i comes Pennsylvania with $12,469,416,
{ New York $12, 321.771, Indjana $10,
| 534,082, 1llinois $9,927,647, and Mis-
souri $7,834,876. The paymerts in
Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and
Indiana amounting to $50,983,836, were
almost double the disbursements during
the first year of the Hayes administra-
tion, which were covered by $26,544,415
for the entire country. The $28,027,983
required for total payments during the
last year of Grant’s second term, which
amounted to $28,580,157. 3
Fragrant Flowers Plucked from an
Orator's Bed.
From the New York Sun.
The garbage talk of Mr. Tillman
should not make the country forgetful
of the jets of Jioneyed and perfumed
speech spirited by the Hon. William
F. Vilas. He'took the bad taste out
of the mouth of the country and filled
it with the milk of paradise. His
similes trooped sweetly by with choco-
late pistache on their lips like school:
girls going to a matinee. His meta-
phors rustled along on wool slippers,
soft as the snow and brilliant as the
rainbow. A speech that moved on
golden casters to the mood of flutes
and soft recorders. “Like dreams that
wave before the halfshut eye or gay
castles in the clouds that pass, forever
flitting in the summer sky, always
dancing before the vision,” so, to bor-
row hie own words, his speech flitted
and danced.
Official Absentees.
From Herbert Welsh's City and State.
Auditor general Mylin was the first
to retura from the jaunt with Quay to
the latter's retreat in Florida. He
turved up for duty to-day, and the
others of the Hastings cabinet, who
were off while the Governor was brac-
ing up in the southwest, are expected
tomorrow. There has been coosider-
able comment about the course of sec-
retary Reeder in absenting himself so
long after hus recent trip to Europe and
the going away of the state officials at
one time has created much discussion
in the line of multiplicity of offices and
the cutting down of expevses. Those
who are here and see the methods of
work at the capitol are outspoken in
their criticisms of the profligacy of the
party in power. 2
\
paid out in Pennsylvania and Ohio dur-
ing the year 1895 nearly equals the suni’
Spawls from the Keystone,
—Eagle Hill coal mine at St. Clair is on
fire.
—Thereare in Pennsylvania 33 tin piate
establishments, :
—A powder mill will be built at Brad.
ford by S. M. Johnson, of New York.
4
—It snowed over the greater part of
Pennsylvania Monday and Tuesday.
—Stepping in front of a train at Easton
Jacob F. Richter’s life was snuffed out in.
stantly. y
—The Homestead prisoner, Hugh Demp-
sey, was released from penitentiary on
Friday last.
—Berlin, Somerset county, will vote on
the project of new water works at the
coming election.
—Joseph Cregle and John Gable were
killed by a fall of coal in the West End
mine at Mocanaqua.
—The court decided that the Union rail-
way company must sprinkle Chester
streets, as provided by ordinance.
—Being chastised, S. Williams, a Pitts-
ton miner, shot at coal inspector George
Bryant three times, but missed him,
—Thompson Bros, of Milroy, have
leased the Keller planing mill in Lewig-
town, and will use it for a knitting fac-
tory.
—The strike at the Eleanor iron works,
Hollidaysburg, was declared off, the pud-
dlers returning to work at the former
price, $3 a ton.
—Governor Hastings has issued a requi-
sition on the Governor of Ohio for Her.
man Walter charged with larceny in
Westmoreland county.
—John White and his wife Amelia, at
Wilkesbarre, have separated, after 14
years of wedded life, she claiming that
he has been living with another wife 30
years.
—There is a man 50 .years old in the
Montgomery county almshouse, who
boasts. that he has never done a day’s
work in bis life, and he says he never
will,
—The superintendent of public instrue.
tion has completed his appointments of
committees on permanent eertificates for
the several counties, under the provis-
ions of the act of 1895.
—Thirty prisoners werc brought to the
Huntingdon reforniatory from Philadel.
phia on Saturday, which swelled the
number of inmates to over 503, and total
eonsecutive number to 2,001.
—At Atkinson’s Mills, Mifllin county,
a woman claims to have made a fine quali-
ty of molasses from corn cobs. One who
has partaken of the product pronounces
it superior to the best maple syrup.
_ —At the request of physicians who be
lieve that many of the articles of infants’
food contain deleterious materials the
department of agriculture at Harrisburg
has ordered the analysis of a large num-
ber of samples of this class of goods on
sale within the State.
--After living to the age of 105 years,
Mrs. Reidy, of Wyoming, Luzerne county
on Saturday sufferad a paralytic stroke:
which temporarily affected her speech
and right rand. She was very much im-
proved to-day, had recovered her speech
and talked cheerily with those around
her.
—Willinm Gahagan, an aged and re-
specteds citizen of Walker township,
Huntingdon county, died on Friday, 21st
aged about 83] years. Funeral services
were held Sunday morning at his resi-
dence, at 9 o'clock, conducted by Rev.
Slinghoft, his pastor, after which the
body wasinterred in the eemetery at Mec-
Connellstown. ol
—The secretary of agriculture is nre-
paring for the Governor 2 brief state.
ment of the status of the agricultural so-
cieties of the commonwealth. ' His books
show 161 county organizations, sixty
threé being represented by members on
the state board of agriculture, and which
under the act of 1851, are entitled to a
county bounty.
—It is reported that the Bhitalo and St.
Mary’s railroad, which Hall & Kaul are
building from Clermont to St.Mary's will
also be extended to connect with the Erie
somewhere in the vicinity of Mount Jew-
ett. With the completion of the pro-
posed extension the Erie will have a di.
rect line into the Toby Valley via the
Buffalo, St. Mary's and Southwestern.
—On the evening of the 31st ult., a large
number of friends and members of the
Reformed church, at McConnellstown,.
Huntingdon county, gathered at the par-
sonage for the purpose ot giving a recep.
tion to Rev. C. H. Slinghoff, and bride,
who arrived on the evening train, and af-
ter congratulations an elegant supper:
which had been prepared was partaken
of. After an hour or two of social enjoy-
me nt they all retired to their homes, feel.
in that it was good to be there.
—The Pennsylvania railroad has just is.
sued orders for the construction of twen-
ty-eight new locomotives at the Altoona
and Juniata shops. Six class U switch
engines and twelve class M heavy shifters
will be built at the Altoona shops, and
eight class L heavy fast passenger en-
gines and twelve of the new compound
moguls will be built at the Juniata shops:
A number of the shifting engines and mo-
guls will be for lines west of Pittsburg,
and five. of the new class L engines will
be for the Panhandil¢’
—William O’Brien, aged abeut60 years,
an unele of Mr. William O’Brien, the city
clerk of Johnstown, was found dead in
bed at his boarding house, 174 New street,
Johnstown, at an early hour Monday
morning. He boarded with his relative,
Mrs. Ann Highland. His wife and one of
his daughters were among the persoas
who perished in the great flood, and his
son John dropped dead in the Twelfth
ward, Johnstown, a few days ago. He
was a life-long member of St. John's
Catholic church. f—
—We received oflicial notice this week
that the directors of of the Juniata Val-
ley campmeeting association have made
arrangements with Rev. A. R. Lambert,
of Huntingdon, to take charge of the
meetings this year, with the full under-
standing that the gates will be open on
Sunday and everybody invited to tent,
and those who cannot make it suit to
tent to &t least attend some of the ser-
vices on the ground. * * * Lambert is
the right man in tho right place, and, if
he is accorded the proper ministerial
and financial support he desérves, there
will be much good done at the coming
campmeeting.
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