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Y MEEK.
Ink Slings.
--GROVEK has just three hundred and
sixty three days more to serve. Will
his successor be a Democrat ?
—-The latest announcement to women
is that ‘tight garters make red noses.”
Now who fingered around and found
that out ?
— Mr. ex-Secretary WHITNEY thinks
he doesn’t want to be a candidate for
President. This is not to say that he
wouldn't like to be President.
—The Boston Herald but voices the
unspoken sentiment .of the country
when it says : “if QUAY and PATTISON
are rival party candidates for President
Massachusetts will cast ber vote for
PATTISON.
—A Hawk Run Frenchman, named
Desire Mite, jumped off a rapidly
moving train, the other day, snd has
died from the effects. From his actions
one would believe that his name should
have been DESIRE death.
—There is one consolation in a mul”
tiplicity of candidates. The stream of
professional beggars is diverted from its
ordinary channel and the dear people are
given this rest, at least, at the expense
of those who would serve them.
--The Sena te’s passing of the resolu-
tion asking the President to recognize
the Cubans es belligerents, on Friday,
had almost as aggravating an effect on
Spain as the red flag of their matadores
has on the bull that is led into the Plaza
des Tores, in Madrid, every Sunday.
—The Arkansas paper that con-
demned lynching because a mob hung
two of its subscribers in one night could
not have paid a grander tribute to 1is
dead patrons. From the very nature
of the case the world will know that
they must have been prompt paying
subscribers,
—Spain decided very soon that a
war with United States wasn’t exactly
what she was after, though her hot
blood had carried her almost into it.
It is perfectly right for foreign govern-
ments to make just as much show as
they please, but when it comes down to
bluffing UNcLE SAM, why they're going
to get called down every time.
—Present appearances seem to point
to ‘the ‘fact that Kansas is not large
enough for Mrs. LEASE and the Hon.
JERRY Simpson to dwell peaceably to-
gether within its confines. Notwith-
standing JERRY's well known undaunt- |-
ed courage MARY ELLEN could lick
him clear out of his socks, if she should
“happen to catch him with any on.
—Some of the newspapers of the
country think it is a waste of money io
spend $25,000, as was done the other day
when the yacht Coronet was sent off to
Japan, carrying a party of scientists
who are going to observe a two minute
and forty second eclipse of the sun that
is to occur next August. What is this
paltry sum in comparison to the mil-
lions annually spent by another class
who want to see the blood on the moon.
—A remarkable result, as the out.
come of the last election, is reported
from Chester, where JEssk H. BLAKE-
LEY, the Democratic nominee for
mayor, kas abandoned his party be-
cause there were not enough Democrats
there to elect him. As Chester is a
strong Republican city the Democrats
down there are well-rid of a would-be
standard bearer who has displayed so
little sense.
—PERRINE'S comet, that was reported
to be heading for earth at the rate of
1,600,000 miles per day, only a short
time ago, has failed to materialize.
Some pessimistic astronomers had tried
to frighten the world by telling it that
the advancing body ‘was going to knock
poor old mother earth into smithereens.
It. haen’t done it yet and we're of the
opinion that itis going to take mora
than a ball of fire with aslashing tail to
do our old earth up.
—The old theory that ‘‘the only good
Indian is the dead Indian’’' is fast be-
ing exploded by tha practical results at-
tained atthe U. 8. training school at
Carlisle. There they take the son-of-
the-forest in all the uncouth habiliments
of eavagery and at a maximum cost of
$100 turn him out a refined gentleman,
prepared .o cope with his white brother
in any of the avocatior: of a civilized
people. As statistics show that it bas
cost the government $100,000 a head to
kill Indians it is far cheaper to educate
them and save funeral experees.
—The idea of the President as a mod-
erator at a meeting of Presbyterians in
New York, on Tuesday night, struck
part of the country as being very singu-
lar. Nothing so remarkable in his
taking part in & movement to help along
the cause of home missions. It is a
great delight to see the highest officer
in the land encouraging one -of the
noblest works, but we trust his heart
will not confine its fellowship for the
poor here, alone, but that it will reach
away to Cuba and have sympathy for
the patriots who are struggling for gov-
ernmental salvation over there.
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Spanish Pride and Brutality.
Nothing could be more characteris
tic ot the pride and bratality of the
Spanish character than the manver in
which the action of the American
Congress in regard to Cuba is treated
by the Spanish people. I: was entire
ly in keeping with this character that
the American coneulate at Barcelona
was attacked by an infuriated mob
and the Americau flag trampled in the
mud, and violent demoastrations of
hostility to the United States were
made in the principal Spanish cities.
This sort of conduct contrasts rather
unfavorably with the cool and self-
contained manner in which the Amer-
ican people accepted the action of the
Spanish goveroment when it hastened
to recognize the belligerency of the
southern confederacy at the outbreak of
the American rebellion. The smoke
of the bombardment of Fort Sumpter
had bardly cleared away before Spain
accorded full recognition to the rebel-
lious confederacy as a belligerent pow-
That act of hers did not throw the
American people into a rage hike that
which now prevails in Spain over a
mere discussion in our Congress about
recognizing the belligerent rights of
the Cubans. There was no mobbing ot
Spanish contulates and no trampling
of the Spanish flag in the mud. The
contrast shows the difference between
the conceitedly sensitive and bra-
tally trucu'ent Spaviards, and the
cool, common sence and self restraint
of the American people.
Nothing could be more ridiculous
than the impotent rage expressed by
the conduct of the Spanish mobs in
giving vent to their hostility to the
United States on account of the action
in Congress on the Cuban question.
The more intelligent of their public
men may understand the utter folly of
Spain's going to war with this coun-
try, but the great mass of Spaniards,
in their conceited ignorance, have
no conception of the contemp-
tible weakness of their own na
tion as compared with the mighty Re-
public of the westera coatineat.
Our Duty to Cuba.
The United States government owes
a duty to the Cuban people which it is
morally bound to perform, whatever
may be the restraints of international
law. Certain rules governing the re-
lations of nations may require that this
government should stand idly by and
see a long oppressed and vainly strug-
gling people have the chains more
firmly riveted upon their limbs.
Those regulations may not only re-
quire that it should be an indifferent
spectator of such a wrong, but it
should be vigilant in preventing any
assistance being given by any of its
people to those struggling patriots.
Such may be the obligations ot inter-
national law, but the higher obliga
tions of human right, and the claims
of men fighting for their freedom, im-
pose a different duty on the govern-
went of an enlighteaed and bumane
republic.
Spain has proved herself unfit to
rule colonial dependencies. She never
had a territorial possession of that
kind that she did not make the victim
of her rapacious oppression. The gov-
ernment of ber colonies has been a
prolonged outrage upon every princi-
ple of right and justice. Cuba is the
last of the American possessions held
in ber remorseless grasp. The year
1878 saw the sad conclusion of a ten
year’s bloody but ansuccessful struggle
to free that island from the tyrannical
sway of the Spaniard. After such a
protest against oppreesion there should
have been xome improvement in the
method of government, but it became
even worse, again driving the Cuban
people to another maddened effort to
throw off.the yoke. When the insur.
rection was in progress, twenty years
ago, the attention of the American
Congress was called to the inhumani-
ties that were being practiced by the
Spaniards to trample out the spark of
freedom that had been kindled on the
given more right thao the moral obli-
gation to the people who were spilling
their blood for the freedom of their |
country. Might was allowed to tri:
umph over right, with the result that
to-day there is a re-enactment of those
bloody scenes.
island, but the claim of neutrality was |
Will the United States |
allow the tyrant and despoiler to
triumph again ?
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
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VOL. 41 BELLEFONTE, PA. MARCH 6, 1896. NO. 10.
For Politics Only.
The present Congress ie earning for
itself abont as worthless a reputation as
was gained by the recent Pennsylvania
Legislature. It is emphatically a *‘do-
uothing’’ Congress. Its purpose when
it convened was to do as little legisla
tion as possible, its chief object teing
to play with its legislative function for
a political object, such being the plain
import of speaker REEp’s announce’
ment at the beginning of the seseion
that it would do but little if anything
more than pass the appropriation bills.
Three months have already elapsed
and oothing has been done but at-
tempts to dig political holes for the
administration to fall into. This is
the base motive for with-holdieg legis
lation that is needed for the correction
of a disordered currency and for the
maintenance of the public credit. It
is the purpose of that worthless body
to refuse the financial relief which the
necessities of the government require
in order that the administration may
be compelled to resort to loans and
thus enable the Republican party to
go before the people in the coming
campaign and say that a Democratic
administration bas increased the pub’
lic debt. It is aleo ite purpose to pro-
long the financial disorders and pre-
vent the restoration of business confi-
dence by its inBetion; 80 that a situa-
tion may be continued that will afford
a basis for a calamity howl.
This is the firet Congress in the his-
tory of the country whose sole purpose
has been politics. Its every move"
ment is for politics only. The most
vital interests are neglected or pervert
ed to the object of re-clecting a Repub-
lican President and regaining the spoils
of office. Ite exclusively political
motive was shown when the President
asked it for legislation that would re-
lieve the depleted condition of the gold
reserve consequent upon the exhaust-
ive payment of the government de-
mand notes, a measure absolutely
necessary for the maintenance of the;
public credit. Political trickery
prompted it to answer this appeal by
bringing forward a bond bill which
those congressional politicians knew
could not be passed, and a tricky
tariff billl, disguised under the pre-
tense of its being a revenue measure,
but designed to restore McKINLEY tax-
ation. Both of these bills that were
clearly intended for a political purpose,
have been buried in a ditch which Re-
publican Senators helped to dig.
In addition to this trifling with the
most vital interests of the government
and the people for political eftect, this
do-nothing and good for nothing Con-
gress is making a travesty of the na.
tional honor by urging jingo meas
ures of international policy with the
object of having an effect upon the
popuiar vote in the approaching presi-
dential election.
The political record of the body now
in session at Washington must surely
meet with public condemnation ; but
while it is proving eo injurious to pub-
lic interest and so disgraceful to the
national reputation, the Democrats
don’t object to these tricky congres-
sional politicians having all the rope
they need to hang themselves.
A
Washing Dirty Linen.
Nothing could have been more re-
freshing to the Democratic taste than
the fight which the Republicans had
in the Senate last week on the silver
issue. It was a beautiful display of
dirty political linen which their Sena-
tors vainly attempted to wash in the
sight of the public, but it wouldn't
wash worth a cent.
In that amusing wrangle the conten-
tious Senators exposed the duplicity
that was resorted to in getting up the
last national platform of the g. 0. p.
on the subject of silver coinage, show-
ing that the plank on that subject was
a contemptible straddle, and was in-
tended to be such to effect a deceptive
object.
The chief actors iu the senatorial
gilver set-to were Carter and SuEkr-
maN, while Hoar othere joined in
to make it more lively and interesting.
CARTER, who, by the way, is the chair-
man of the Republican national com.
mittee, was one of the five Republican
Senators who helped to smother under
a free-silver substitute DiNGLEY'S great
double back action, horizontal, for
revenue-only tariff bill, patterned
after the McKINLEY plan. He was
called to account for preferring free
silver coinage to the great protective
tariff policy of the g. 0. p., and was
threatened with being read out of the
party. This was rather a singular
threat to be made against the chair-
man of the party's national commit-
tee, but he defended himself forcibly,
claitning that when he supported free
silver coinage he stood on the plat.
form enunciated by the party's last
national convention. He claimed that
be knew that the platiorm meant free
silver, for he was one of the committee
that got it up and they knew what they
were about.
This explanation did not suit” broth-
erSHEMMAN, who replied with great
excitement, declaring that CarTER's
interpretation of the platform was _en.
tirely erroneous, as it meant the gold
standard, and nothing else. But
brother Hoar would not agree with
SHERMAN's statement that the platform
was exclusively intended for the gold-
bug interest, but claimed that it was a
sort of betwixt and between declara
tion ou the bi-metallic plan.
During the progress of this interest:
ing equabble, in which the Republican
leaders exposed the straddling charac
ter of the currency plank in their last
national platform, it is not to be sup.
posed that the Democratic Senators
were not highly entertained.
Inferior Presidential Thnber.
We observe some of the Republican
papers comparing the great amount of
presidential material in their party
with the scarcity of Democratic timber
suitable for presidential use. * From
this they draw the flattering conelu-
sion that their party is postively over- |
stocked with ability of the highest
order, while the Democrats can show
but a meagre array of statesmen fi-ted
for the Presidency.
There is certainly no scarcity of
presidential candidates in the Republi-
cau party, bat the quality does not
| fact that a Spanish paper clutches at
equal the quantity. The number of
entries in the race is unusually large,
but po track ever displayed such a
acrubby set of plugs. There is nota
first-class nag in the lot, not even
Reep or McKintey. The Maine
candidate never made a display of
statesmanship, except to brow-beat a
monopoly tariff through the House
by despotic rules, a performance that
was more becoming to a bully than to
a etatesman. McKINLEY, who at best
is but a second-rate Ohio politician,
has no other distinction than that of
being the suthor of a tariff that in its
four years operation helped to disor
ganized the business interest and de
range the industries, and has been re-
Pirdiated by the people.
Reep and McKINLEY being the best
of them, what must be thought of the
other third and fourth rate party hacks
that are being trotted out on the Re-
publican track for the presidential
race? Morton, of New York, does
not lack the quality of respectability,
but when’ that is said itis about the
limit of hie presidential qualifications.
Age makes him venerable, but does
not improve his fitness for the office in
which he would be used by the young:
er and shrewer politicians of his party.
After MorTON comes the promisc uous
riff-raff of “favorite sons,” of whom al-
most every Siaie is presenting at least
ope, and these help to make up the
splendid array of presidential talent
which the Republican: papers are
boasting of as belonging peculiarly to
their party. A sweet-scented speci
wen of thi kind /of presidential tim-
ber is presented jn the person of Marr
Quay, the boss of Pennsylvania, whose
conception of stateamanship“ever rose
above a political dicker.
The abundance of Republican can-
didates does not show abundart abil-
ity, but rather indicates the low plane
to which the Republican idea of presi-
dential fitness has descended. It also
indicates that they have become so
cock-shure of the next President that
they believe that any scrub they may
nominate can be elected. This ac-
counts for so many scrubs coming for.
ward as ‘favorite son’ candidates. The
confideroe, that 18 producing such a
crop of inferior aspirants is likely to
be knocked out of the rotten old party
long before the cantpaign shall have
closed.
——Read the WATOHMAN.
Women Have Enough to Do Bossing
the Schools.
From the Philadelphia Press.
The refusal of the Iowa Legislature
last week to consent to a constitutional
amendment granting suffrage to wo-
men shows that the advocates of this
cause are still active. Little, compar-
atively, Las been heard of the question
this year, partly because only a small
number of Legislatures are in session,
and partly, it is claimed, because so
many States have “favorite son” can-
didates for presidential nominations
and their friends at home are anxious
that no radical legislation shall be en.
acted and give people abroad the opin-
ion that cranky ideas are popular.
Another reason is probably the ever.
whelming majority given in Massa-
chusctts’last November against any
womao suffrage proposition. The wo-
mep in Iowa already have the right to
vote for school officers, and it is proba-
ble that they will have to content
themselves with this limited privilege,
at least for a few years to come.
Stop Ridiculing Our Governor.
From the New York Sun. .
The proclamation of the Hon. Daniel
Handsome Hastings, Governor of Penn-
syivanis,” urging the citizens of that
C ~monwealth to plant trees and lay
ou. forests on Arbor day, is full of sense
aad poetry, and there is more in it than
meets the ear. On Arbor day every
Pennsylvania Republican, who is not
still a minion of the hog eombine, will
insert into the grateful soil a grain of
mustard seed, emblematic of the promis-
ing boom of the Hon. Matthew Stanley
Quay, 8 boom to grow, to shadow the
earth, to overspread the heavens; to
reach even into Philadelphia. Beneath
that boom Mr. Quay sits, smiling at his
own earned increment, winking placidly
at the future and St. Louis, and tender-
ly fanned by the Pennsylvania Repub-
lican delegation and the house of repre-
sentaives, always barring the Hon. John
Dalzell.
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We've Been in the Business Before.
From the Lancaster Intelligencer.
Our cable advices from Spain quote
a leading newspaper of Madrid upon
the proceedings of our Senate, and the
suggestion that Spain is not without
allies is significant. It is unlikely that
Spain could find any allies willing to
belp her to hold on to Cuba, bat the
once at that straw of hope gives an im-
: preesion of drowning despair. Spanish
, papers speak of us as a trading people
, with no warlike capabilities, but, per-
haps, upon second thought, it may oc-
cur to them that the people of the
United States would not be forced like
the Cubans to depend upon cora
knives for weapons.
TE i ERSTE
Striking Where Spain is Weakest.
| From the Philadelphia Times.
Nothing so completely tells the
story of the work’of the Cubans to gain
independence than the statement that
| only thirty-two of the 361 important
sugar factories of the island ot Cuba
are runving. Their declaration to cut
off the government revenues and so
strike a vital spot in the contest is very
near true. The normal oatput of
Cuba, in the sugar product, is 1,500,
000 and this has been reduced to 100,
000 tons. The insurrection in this
phase alone has acquired a magnitude
that costs Spain this year at least
$30,000,000 in the tax income
that has been such a necessary feature
in past government revenues.
It is a Horse of a Different Color Now,
From the Lebanon Star.
The Republicans seem to be greatly
astonished to learn that President
Cleveland may call an extra session
of Congress if the present session
ignores financial legislation. The
President should do that very thing,
The republicans knew exactly what
was wanted whén they were out of
power, and now that they control Con.
gresa they wish to eneak out of the re-
sponsibility by doing nothing. =
Where § ence Spends Its Money.
From the Somerset Democrat.
The expedition for the purpose of
seeing the sun obliterated for two win-
utes and forty seconds in Japan in
August next, which began yesterday
with the departure from New York of
the yacht Coronet, will coat $25,000.
“Eclipses are costly affairs,”’ says the
Philadelphia Record, “but science gets
enough light out of them to make
each important one yield vome gleams
of profit on the bright side of her
ledger.”
Political Dirty. Shirt Transportation.
From the Westmoreland Democrat.
It is charged that a Pennsylvania
Congressman sends his laundry
through the mails under his official
frank. Much as we deplore this abuge
of the franking privilege, it is, at
least, pleasing to know that the Peunn-
sylvania Congressmen occasionally
change their shirts and try to"look re.
spectable. To feel that way is certainly
not the portion of many members of
the present do nothing Congress.
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B ¢ oralicc fate jit g —DuBois councils have purchased a
ro a 2 new fire engine for $3,10. The town now
= =e To 2 has three steamers.
—The project fora poor house in Clarion
county was defeated at therecent election
by the close vote of 2,7:9 t0 2,659, :
s —In Luzerne county 162 liquor license
applications were refused and 1,076 grant-
ed, an increase of 112 over last year.
—The county commissioners of Berkg
paid out $265,115 in orders the past year.
The item of principaland loans amounted
to $59,209 and election expenses were
#9,826.
—On Thursday Amos O. Caven, a prom
inent citizen of Derry, died suddenly of
heart disease. He was engaged in the
banking business, and leaves a wife but
no children.
—August Hanner, of Nippenose Valley
one day last week killed two copperhead
snakes which he found under his wood
pile. The snakes were frozen stiff when
found by Mr. Hanner.
—The Dallas Union agricultural associa”
tion, of Dallas, Luzerne county, with next
fair dates arranged for September 29, 3°,
October 1, 2, will issue an exceptionally
fine catalogue this year.
Desire Mite, of Hawk Run,the French- .
man who was so badly hurt a few days
ago by jumping off a fast moving train,
has since died. The family are heart
broken over the very sad affair.
—Antis Ellis, of Alexardria, Hunting-
don county, has been bound over in the
sum of $800 for his appearance at court on
the charge of setting fire to his house and
barn in Porter township, on June 20th
last.
—At a meeting of the trustees of the
Central Presbyterian church, at Norris,
town, it was determined to fix the price of
the structure at $22,600. The congregation
will remove and the Masons are nego-
tiating to purchase their presemt prop:
erty.
~The East Broad Top railroad bas re-
ceived a new engine, which will take the -
place of No. 5, whieh is out of service and -
has been torn up. The new engine is a
beauty of the same style and general ap-
pearance, and abous the same weight, as
No. 9.
—It is reported that oil has been struck,
atthe test well onr Anderson creek, in
Clearfield county. The rumor has it that
at a depth of 1,500 feet the sand was sat -
urated with oil. There is considerable
excitement in the yieinity ¢t the well
over the news.
—Berks county farmers are offered but
18 cents a bushel for potatoes, and thous:
ands of bushels are stored in eellars in
anticipation of an advance. It is said
that there is little hope of an advance, as
the surplus crop still in the hands of the
producers is the largest en record.
—Samuel Culby,of Rote, indignansly de-
nied that he attempted to commit suicide
by hanging Wednesday night. He says
that the report must have been started
by certain enemies and i# he learns the
name of the party who originated the
story he will do him bodily harm.
--George Smith, who resides in the
wilds of Elk county, has during the past
sixty years, killed in the wilderness of
that and Jefferson counties14 panthers,
500 bears, 3) elk, 3,000 deer, 500 catamounts,
520 wolves and 600 wild cats. He has kill-
ed seven deer in a dayand as many as five
bears in a day.
The Pennsylvania agrieultural works,
of York, in the past few days have made
some heavy shipments. An export order
of a number of carloads of plows were
shipped to Buenos Ayres, South America -
Among other shipments two: carloads of
plows were shipped to Sowth America to
a different firm.
—The construction of a cigar box.may
seem to be a very simple matter to the
novice, but the box passes through nine
teen different processes before it is ready
to receive the cigars. The lumber is
imported from Cuba and Mexico, the
first-named country furnishing sewven-
eighths of the product.
—Colonel A. K. McClure’s first news-
paper was the Juniata Sentinel, established
in 1846. The material cost $500, and he
started with a subscription list of abeut
500. In the fifty years that have inter.
vened the Colonel has made some eon -
siderable noise in the newspaper world.
As an editor he has grown with the
times.
—The trustees of a church.in Qil Gity
have received a score or more of applica-
tions from ministers who are anxieus to
fill its vacant pulpit. The applications
come from all sections, including Texas,
North Dakota and New York city. This
would indicate that the reputation of the
church and city is good, observes the Erie
Dispatch. :
—An engineering corps, numbering six-
ty-eight officers and men, will be organ.
ized at New Castle as part of the National
Guard, and may be in shape to attend the
next encampment. Four of these new
companies are to be organized in the
State, and New Castle will have one of
them. There is no other company of the
National Guard there..
—The hardware merchant who laid in
a stock of nails about one year ago was a
wise man, and if he had a large quantity
he has found business quite profitable.
Then a keg of nails was purchased for 90
cents, now the same nails are sold for
$2.50 a keg. Monday another rise in the
price of nails of all kinds went into effect:
which will average 16 cents on every keg.
The increase has been due to the demand.
—Presbyterians in this eity and else-
where will be pleased to learn that the
committee appointed by the last general
assembly of the Presbyterian church to
raise $1,000,000 as a fitting memorial of the
twenty fifth anniversary of the reunion
of the two branches of the church, have
already reeeived half of that large sum.
One hundred thousand dollars more has
been pleged, and a similar sum is in
sight, making only $307,000 more to be se:
cured in the three remaining months.
Judge Beaver, of Bellefonte, is a mem-
ber of the committee. tr
—The success of the true uniformity
agreement in the Pittsburg coal district
is at last assured. Forty operators, rep"
resenting seventy per cent. of the entire
tonnage, affixed their signature, Saturday -
and, as it will only requirc twenty five
per cent. more of the tonnage to make it
effective, the question may be regarded
as definitely settled. Vice president Cam-
eron Miller, of the national miners’ organ-
ization, says he is rejoiced at the out-
come, a8 it will be the death blow to
strikes, disturbances and discontent in
the district.