pcos » Democeaic lfc BY PRP. GRAY MEEK. Ink Slings. —The Emperor of Germany made two speeches last week, Wind is wind, the world -over. —If Massachusetts must have a man in line for presidential lightning, why not BARRETT. ? He would be the least loss. —Mr. Secretary OLNEY, having launched his little boom.let, it kind o’ makes ex-Governor RUSSELL’S bee a dis- mal gloom-let. —All this fuss about ROENTGEN and his discovery is unwarranted, why there isn’t a gambler alive who hasn’t seen X raise for years. —McKINLEY seems to have the pull on the Georgia delegation to the St. Louis convention, but that won't pull him through by a great deal. — When Brooklyn women ‘‘refuse to meet BERNHART as a woman’ they arouse curiosity as to an anatomical con- dition that is bard to explain. —-The indications point to an early adjournment of Congress. That body seems to have concluded, with Senator SMITH, of New Jersey, that ‘‘the most popular thing it can do is to adjourn.” —The Philadelphia papers are hav- ing a great time fixing up who is to be the next representative in Congress from this district. Useless worry. When the time comes the Democrats of Cen- tre, Clarion, Clearfield, Elk and Forest counties will settle the question. —The days of hero making are done. Every man has to push himself up in these times. It often proves as futile as the attempt of the i lift him- self by his boot straps,/ but men cap’ find time, in the general scramb eminence, to put their shoulde, others as they used to do. —Tkhe late talk of the silver Repub- licans breaking awsy from the regular organization of the g. o. p., unless it adopts the bisfetallic plank, at the ratio of 15} to-1, might result in putting a silver. ining to the dark cloud that has been lowering over the Democracy and casting shadows over its hopes. for under — Bellefonte gets notoriety in almost every way, but no one will believe the latest report to the city papers that the town is getting so good that church congregations are piling collection bask- ots to overflowing with silver and greenbacks. Such carrying on would be decidedly unheard of and noteworthy, but Bellefonte ain’t guilty. —Several weeks ago the WATCHMAN asserted, when it was mentioned that the Governor’s conversion to QUAY would make him United States Sena- tor, that CAMERON would succeed him- self. We did’nt expect such a turn to be taken so soon, but it is the fact that Don is laying bis plans for another term, and he will get it too. —A significant latin quotation was that : “timeo Danaos et dona ferentes,’ which QUAY send to a friend in Phila. delphia, the other day, in answer to the latter's query as to whether it would’nt prove advantageous to make some of the late recruits from the combine camp national delegates. While ils transla. tion is thus: ¢‘I fear the Greeks even when bearing gifts,” there is a signif- icant similarity between that word “Danaos’’ and the sur-name of a certain recent fiopper to the QUAY cause. —The hopeless defeat of the Repub- lican tariff bill, in the Senate, on Tues- day, is evidence conclusive that the Re- publicans fear the result of tampering with a law that is becoming more satis- factory every day. Since convening they have not done a thing but pass appropriation bills and the probability of adjournment without any more legislative action to their credit is grow- ing greater with every succeeding ses- sion of Congress. There is great ground for Democratic hope in this, because they are spiking their own guns on the ques- tion of a do-nothing Congress and bad as was the body that sat in the 53rd its work will prove very salutary to Democ- racy, when compared with that of the 54th. —The Democrats of Centre county are confronted with a condition that only the most judicious action and the greatest prudence will enable them to dissolve. There need be no occasion for alarm as to the result of next fall’s elec- tion if the men who bave it in their power to do so will forget selfish person- al interests in a wholesome Democratic desire for party good. The Democracy must be represented by a ticket the per- sonal of which will rally every element to its support. Old sores must be left in their healing condition, for just as sure as there is an inclination to involve the party in local fights there will be dis- astrous results. We are not discourag- ed by the out-look. On the contrary issues are so shaping that in national politics there is much of encouragement and it would be a fatal mistake to leave the county drift into a condition of dis- ruption when discretion in action at this time would prevent such a disaster. ‘money.” There was no doubt as to his | _VOL. 41 STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. BELLEFONTE, PA., FEB. 28, 1896. Cameron and His Silver Question. The Republican papers of Philadel- phia and Lencaster county that are de- manding a vote of censure on Senator CaMERON for the position he has taken on the silver question, the Phila- delphia Press, for instance, saying that he has ‘humiliated and disgraced” the Republicans of Pennsylvania, are talk- ing very foolishly in view of the fact that it is not known what the position of the Republican party ison the silver question. In what way has Cameron disgraced the party by his course in regard tosil- ver when that party has no avowed policy or unequivocal standing oa that issue ? There is not one of the presi dential candidates that is not afraid to declare his séntiments on the sily question. They can't be coaxed-into opening their heads on that-subject. Their leading cnt, fo REED, however, is known to hive proposed a scheme by which free silver and a high tariff should be‘hitched together as a J can issue. All recent Re- “platforms have been mere es of the silver issue. At this ry moment the free silver element is in control of the United States Senate, because the Republicans allowed them to have it as part of a bargain. Re publican Senators are the very back bone of the silver force in the Senate, and last week when the bond bill was overslaughed in that body by a free sil- ver substitute the Republican Senators who helped to do it included CARTER, the chairman of the Republican na. tional committee. In view of that fact don’t Republi. can editors make asses of themselves in demanding that CaMERON should be reprimanded for having “humiliated and disgraced” the Republicans of Pennsylvania on the silver question, when the party itself bas a record on that iseue which, on account of its equivoeation, dishonesty and coward- ice, ought to be a humiliation and die- grace to a party that has any preten- gions to a reputation. CaMERON has at least been consist ent. For years he has been known to be in favor of what is called ‘‘cheap gilver views when a Republican Legis: | lature re-elected him to the Senate, for : he never attempted to conceal them. | When a Republican state convention declared itself in favor of ‘cheap money,” as it did in the HasTINGs campaign, by demanding a circulation of $40 per capita, it would not be very becoming for the convention this year to reprimand CAMERON for supporting the same kind of monetary doctrine by his silver policy. Another Jingo Falsehood Exposed. The jingo politicians who have been*f abusing the President by gross mis- representations of his foreign policy, have again been brought to grief, 1f not to shame, though it can hardly be be- lieved that shame is a feeling which they are capable of experiencing. Among the subjects of vilification to which the President was subjected by his unscrupulous detractors, was the WALLER case, in which he was represented as neglecting the rights of an American citizen who was suffering wrongful imprisonment at the bands of the French authorities. Since bis release, which was brought about by the earnest interference of the state de- partment, WALLER himself says : “Im am grateful for this opportunity to thank the President of the United Statest, the state department at Wash- ington, and United States ambassador Eustis, as well as secretary ViGNaUD and Newton Eustis, of the United States embassy, the latter of whom visited me at the prison.” He has great reason to be thankful, for the documents in his case show that his conduct rendered him clearly amenable to punishment at the hands of the French authorities, and it was only through the earnest solicitation of the administration that his pardon was granted as an act of grace and a matter of courtesy to this government, otherwise he would have suffered the full pevality of his offense. Thus the utter viciousn ess of anothér jingo misrepresentation is exposed. The Philadelphia Inquirer has developed a surprising littleness in its recent attempts to strike the late com- bine leader through The Pennsylvania Quay’s Presidential Candidacy. It can’t be poesible that MaTT. Quay is in earnest in his preeidential can- didacy. Venturesome politican as he is, he would hardly venture to expose his tattooed reputation to the merciless scoring it would be subjected to in a presidential contest. He is far from be- ing thin skinned, but he baen’t the hide of a rhinoceros, and it may be believed that he would fear to en: counter such an ordeal. His boom, therefore, may by regard- ed as a trick to cover an ulterior pur poce. With the Pennsylvania delega- tion instructed for him be secures the ownership of it, and can use it in any trade that may insure his own political advantage. By a judicious dicker he can manage to exert a commanding influence in the distribution of the spoils, if the candidate with whom the deal is made should be elected, by which not only his henchmen may be provided for, but a cabinet position secured for himself, It is not at all likely that the Quay boom is intended for any other pur- pose ; yet the pretense is made that he is an actual candidate, and we have the contemptible spectacle of his hench- men largerly endorsing him, as if there was an earnest intention on his part to secure the nomination. There could not poseibly be ‘a more miserable ex- hibit of abject subserviency than the letter, signed by all the Pennsylvania Republican Congressmen but three, addressed to the Bose, urging and en- dorsing his candidacy, which, whether intended as a sham or a reality, is dis- graceful to the endorsers. Twenty-five of the twenty-eight rep- resentatives from Pennsylvania, head- ed by that old fossilized political fraud, GaLusHA A. Grow, and tailed by the apology for a representative from this district, solicit the most corrupt and dissolute politician of the country to be a candidate for the high office of President of the United States, and pledge themselves to aesist in elevating him to the position that has been oc- cupied by WasHINGTON, JEFFERSON, LincoLNy and GraxTt, and is now 80 honorably fllled by Grover CLEVE LAND. . Could there be a more disgusting exhibit of servility to boss rule, or a more striking illustration of the low level to which Republican sentiment has been reduced ? Smothered in the Senate. Senator ALpricH is the Republican manager of the tariff legislation in Congress, and his admission, which was made on Monday, that the Ding- LEY tariff bill is dead, it having been smothered to death under the Senate’s free-coinage substitute, announces the termination of a congressional farce that deserved no better end. This tariff bill wae gotten up by Reep and his associates to put the Democrats in a hole. The President had asked this Congress for legisla- tion that would ‘provide the adminis- tration with means to maintain the public credit. The Republican mao- agers thought it would be a good time to slip in a tariff bill pretending that it wag what the President had asked for. They called it a revenue measure, but it was a high tariff MoKinre: dodge figuring under a disguise. It has not answered its purpose of putting the Democrats in a hole, but has placed its originatorsin a very awkward dilemma. It passed .the House with a rush, it baving taken but three hours and forty minutes to put it through, but it has been lying in the Senate for weeks and bas at last been put out of the way by the Populists and silverites substituting a free eoin- age bill for it. The fate of this tariff bill indicates what will be the outcome of the gen- eral proceedings of this Congress. It is a body that wes elected on a fraudulent issue and its eatire couree will be a fraud. By the time it winds up its see- sions it will’ have pretty thoroughly ruined the presidential prospects which the Republicans have been counting on as a dead certainty. —— The Pittsburg Times will kindly- bear in mind that it admitted, edi- torially, a few days ago, that the busi- vess ‘‘pacic is a memory in the East.” There should ‘be no calamity howl from State College. that quarter now. Contrasted Foreign Policies. It is really encouraging to observe the progress which the English mind is making towards the conclusion that the Venezuela boundary dispute has got to be settled by arbitration. When ee CLEVELAND notified the Eng. ish government that that was the way in which the matter in controversy would have to be adjusted, the English people flew into a passion at what they considered impudent interference. But they have greatly cooled down on the subject. Parliament bae met since then and some of the more sensible and clearer headed memberg, particu- larly Sir WiLLiayx Verxox HARCOURT have shown up the absurdity of the claim that England's position in the cage is incontestible. When it is shown in the House of Commons that the boundary line has been changed seven times by the British authorities during the pending of the contention, and every time as an encroachment upon Venezuela's territory, it is begin- ning to dawn even upon the dull Eng- lish intellect that England has been engaged in a dirty job of land stealing from which she must back out as gracefully as she can. This is a great triumph for the for- eign policy of this administration, probably the greatest that was ever achieved by the state department since the formation of our government. This English land-pirating bad been going on while the Republicans were in power without anything being done to stop it, but GROVER bringgit up with a round turn by a single message. What hae any Republican adminis- tration got to show that will begin to compare with this achievement. How- ever, we ought not to overlook the brilliancy ot Harrison's achievement in the line of foreign policy. His ad- ministration was distinguished by two dazzling performances. It is a matter of history how he pushed the Behring sea claim with such effect that the ar- bitrators found damages in favor of England to the amount of $4,5000,000, and laughed out of court the Harri- sonian claim that the United . States owns the geale in Behring sea in the same sense that a farmer owns the pigs in his barn yard. Ob, it was a magnificent Republican interpretation of international law. It was a splen- did stroke of Republican diplomacy. They went for damages and got mulcted to the amount of nearly five million dollars by disinterested arbitrators. Another, and the only other case of foreign policy during the Harrison ! administration, was the sneaking con- spiracy in which it engaged for the overthrow of a friendly government in the Hawaiian island, with which we were at perfect peace at the time, Not only were the American minister and the American navy employed in this conspiracy, but the American flag was prostituted to the dirty business of set- ting up a government of foreign ad veoturers and sugar speculators against the wishes of nine-tenths of the legiti- mate inhabitants of the islands. These were the only two perform- ances, the Bebring sea fiasco and the Hawaiian conspiracy, that illumi- nated the foreign policy of the Harri- soN administration. How does it com- pare with CLEVELAND'S bringing the proud British nation to its knees ? ——The adoption of the LixtoN amendment to the Tndian appropria- tion bill, on Monday, ought to be the cauee of much gratification to all peo: ple. There is every reason to believe ‘that an end hae been made of the dan- gerous practice of appropriating pub- lic money to sectarian schools as it is hardly probable that another attempt will ever he made to procure appro- priations for such purposes. It wae happily settled on Monday and the question is one that all will be inclin- ed to leave buried in the satisfactory grave that has been made for it. —The Boorr’s are out of the salva- tion army in America. When they took command the army was looked upon as a most ridiculous organization and was held up as a thing of public contempt. To day it isa powerful en- gine of christianity and its good effects are being realized, daily, in nearly every city in the land. The salvation army reaches a class of people that no other ! christian agency under the sun can touch. Ephemeral Fame. From the Pittsburg Tic es. Cripple Creek, in Colorado, rose so as to fill the nation’s eye in a day, and Marcus, in Wachington, is about to do likewige. It is in the northwestern part of the State, near the junction of the Kettle river with the Columbia and on the border of the Colville Indian reservation, soon to be thrown open to the fortune-hunters. They are thicker than three in a bed, and many'of them can’t get shelter for love or money, but in spite of the weather are com- fortable with the thought of the mil- lions buried in the reservation, gold, silver, cinnabar and whatnot to the end of the list of a dozen minerals. It half of the expectations are realized Cripple Creek will eink into inaignifi- cance, and who shall say they will not all be realized ? If they are in a reson- able measure it will give the State a boom which is very much needed, for, like southern California, boasting of its prosperity when the panic was worst in the East, now when it is a memory in the East it is a present fact in the West. The reservation is a email spot on the map of the Slate, and yet is nearly as large as Rhode Island, and a deal more mountainous. Cripple Creek was a bonanza to Colorado, not only in the precious metal 1t yielded, but in the courage and hope which it gave to the people of the State. We may believe that Marcus will be as much to Washington. But one of these days the big strike will be made in a laboratory of the effete east, when a way is discovered to reduce the refrac- tory ores in thousands of tons nearer to civilization, and which can be had for a song. Fewer than four years of the century remain, and in this fin de Jens period great things are to be oue. A Man Who Would Please Singerly. From the Philadelphia Record. There is no Democrat in the United States who better deserves the nomi- nation for the Presidency than John Griffin Carlisle. He is one of the fore- ‘most men in the country, and one of the ablest and purest of our public men, The Record would support him with all the energy of which it is capa- ble. On all of the political and eco- nomic issues which now divide public opinion io the United States Mr. Car. lisle stands committed to sound Demo- cratic policies. On the particular issue of finance, which should be settled at the next election, his speeches made last year in Kentucky and Tennessee have put him in the forefront of the battle. No other men hasrisked so much or dealt so clearly -with the mon- ey question. With him as a candidate there could be no evasive platform. On Bill Nye's Death. From the Williamsport Sun. The death of Edgar William Nye re- moves from us a real humorist who created his own style and who never had a successful imitator. The editor of the Sun can testify to the generous- nees of his warm heart, to which he ie under lasting obligations for kindly en- couragement in earlier days of strug- gles and trial in journalistic work, He wag'to humorous prose what Eugene Field was to bumorous poetry,” To | quote from the tribute of the London Punch when Artemus Ward died, ‘‘Hath he gone to the land of no laughter. The man who has made mirth for us all 2” As Hastings Views Him Now. From the New York Sun. The Hon. Matthew Stanley Quay, resting serenely in the arms of his friends, fanned tenderly by the Penn- sylvania Republican delegation in the House of Representatives, and watch- ing placidly the scowls of the Hon. David Martin and the Hon. Chris- topher Magee, is more than an idyll, a poem ; he isa pastoral tableau, a thing ot sweetness and light. Why He Won't Go-Back. From the York Gazette. The fact that Congressman-at-large George L. Huff, of Greensburg, re- fused to sign the petition to Senator Quay, urging his candidacy for Presi- dent, means that a new Congressman- at-large will be elected this fall. Mr. Huff's chances ot re-nomination had already been in hgzardous shape and he may not now even be a candidate. According to Hoyle. From the Chicago Record. Rule 19 of chapter 2 of Mr. McKir- ley’s “Book on Politics” states that when one candidate has taken a ma- jority of the tricks and has four aces and a pocketful of trumps left it is not according to Hoyle for the other can- didates to play partners. ——It is a great pity that Firzsiu- MoNs didn’t have CorBETT in front of him when he struck the blow that ended MAHER. If Bon would only lick CorBETT, then get some one to beat him right good the country, at large, would feel as if it had gotten even at least. ——Read the WATCHMAN. Spawls from the Keystone —Burning gas fatally roasted John Du- losky in a Plymouth mine. . +The cost of the Sullivan—Wyoming Judicial contest was $11,146.96. —Extensive improvements are to be made to the Mann edge tool company’s plant at Lewistown. —Thomas Fellon, who was stabbed at Ashland by Patrick Wilson in an election fight, last Tuesday has fled. —The Du Bois Courier hassént out a very handsome twenty-page women’s edition with excellent illustrations. —The sheriff of Luzerne county has re- ceived letters from a man named Derin” ger, in Philadelphia, demanding large sums of money. —Mrs. Charles Freeman, who died Sun- dayat Moyer Station, was the largest woman in Schuylkill county, weighing nearly 470 pounds. & —The Councils of Williamsport will likely make appropriations this year amounting to §107.830, of which $20,000 will g0 to street paving. —Suit for $17,0J0 damages was brought at Wllkesbarre by Mrs. Jeanette Young against the Pennsylvania coal company for the death of her husband in the mine. —Blair county has the honor to be the first to erect a monument to her soldiers and egailors under the act of 1895. It will be dedicated at the semi-centennial ofthe county, in June. —Policy holders object to S. P. Light for receiver of the United Brethren aid society, at Lebanon, and their attorneys protested against his bond. Light was solicitor of the society. —There are 1,076 building and loan as- sociations in Pennsylvania, with 233,655 share-holders. Pennsylvania leads all the other States in the number and wealth of such associations, —A few days ago the dead body of Asa Knupp was found in the woods near Jones’ Mills, in Westmoreland county. While chopping wood he was struck by a falling branch of a tree and killed. —The votors of the town of Ligonier areof the sensible kind. They decided by a majority of twenty eight to author: ize the authorities to issue bonds to the amount of $25,000 for a new water sup- ply. —Rev. R. Craighead, of Meadville, has been lying seriously ill for over two weeks, Dr. Craighead, who has not been in active service for many years, is one of the oldest ministers in the Erie Presby- . tery. —The conscience of some unknown Mifflintown resident has troubled him to the extent of sixteen dollars worth. At least that is the amount the Washington authorities credited to him in the “con. science fund.” —The Y. M. C. A. building at New Cas. tle, whieh closed some time ago, owing to a lack of patronage, is open to the public again. The debts have all been paid and the institution placed on a good paying basis. —At Warren the proposition to bond the town for $100,000 to build a water plant was carried by 875 to 123. The Dem. crats elected four councilmen and jus- tice of the peace. elected five councilmen, high constable and auditor. —In.a contest at a church fair at Port Carbon between mine foreman McDon ald, Manhaoy City; Michael Flan&gan,- Silver Creek, and John Curran, Branch- dale, for a set of mine instruments, the friends of the contestants turned in $1405.60, $1330.25 and $104.25 for the respect ive competitors. —M. LL. Bowser, a juror in the Ritenour murder case, recently ended in Greens burg, has been arrested on a complaint in which he is stated to have said ‘he would lie up in that jury room and rot before I would sign a verdict of guilty against Sy Dip smaula kill a woman as bad as’ Mrs, Ritenour.” He denies the charge, but was required to give $1,000 bail. —A few days ago William: Walley and A. P. Brothers, of Farmington township, Clarion county, were out hunting wild cats, they encountered a lynx and brought himdown tothe ground. He is a splendid specimen, and the only one captured in Pennsylvania in the past twenty-filye years. So rare is the lynx that no bounty is offered. The people are flocking in to see the animal. There are only a few traveling shows that exhib- it specimens of the lynx. —Dr. Hindman, of DuBois, reports a re- markable coincidence... He was called tc: attend che families of two brothers, Har- vey and Judson Brady, both of whom re- side but four doors apart. Both homes were gladdened by the arriyal of new members of their respective families a girl baby at the home of Harvey and a boy at the home of Judson. Phe children were born within two hours of the same: time. The coineidence, hewever, does not end here. The two couples were also married upon the same day six years since. —On the farm of ex-sheriff George R- Yorgey, close by Iron Stone Station, Berks county, stood until} quite recently a tall, stately oak tree, to which there was quite a history attached. This old tree was mentioned -in deeds 150 years ago, and may have been a century oll at that time. Its spreading branches furnished shelter for many a weary traveler before the railroad was built, and no doubt it often sheltered a band of aborigines when they inhabited that section. The oll landmark fell a victim to the winds a few daysago. ~The other morning Cyrus Wakeman a young farmer living near Harmony. Beaver county, while on his way Lome from calling on & young woman, and while passing through a piece of woods, threw a lighted match to the ground. Instantly bright flames shot up from among the rocks, which so frightened the young man that he imagined he saw all sorts of strange things, so he took to his heels and fled. An investigation was made, and it was discovered that when the burning match was thrown in among the rocks it had ignited a jet of escaping natural gas. Until the matter was ex. plained, however, the neighborhood was greatly excited, and a number of the more superstitions had called a prayer meeting. The Republicans
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