Q
Ink Slings.
—Monday ended the reign of the
ground-hog, and he wound it up with a
good big snow.
—People who are not fools should
never act foolish. There are enough
fools in the world as it is. :
Z-With PATTISON a8 a candidate for
President Pennsylvania could well
be listed among the doubtful States.
—XKentuckiabs are thoroughly sick of
Republicanism already. There need be
no wondering as to what column the
next presidential electors from that State
will be in.
--Lycoming county chickens are
reading the band writing on the wall
this week. The Methodist conference
is 1n session at Williamsport: ~~
—1It is little wonder that the expres-
sion: “You're a stinker” has- become
so much used, for really it best expresses
the common opinion of the cigarette
smoker.
—The average Republican worker
has to keep his eyes open now-a-days
lest he crawl into bed with the wrong
presidential people. It is a wise one of
them who knows where he is at.
—The story might be true about good
old St, PATRICK driving all the snakes
out of Ireland, bul we’ll bet there were
mors seen over there on Tuesday than
the patron Saint ever drove out of the
emerald isle.
—They say that politics makes strange
bed-fellows, but we do hope that MARY
ELLEN LEASE'S announcement for
lieutenant governor of Kansas won't
get her into such a compromising pre-
dicament with any of her brother Popu-
lists out there.
—About the evening of the i5th «of
next month, the first day of the trout
eason, there will no doubt be a revival
of the opera “Princess Bonnie.” At
least that!part of it in which the song,
‘‘the biggest fish I ever caught wes the
one that got away,” figures. -
—--Poor old Quay ! there is trouble
brewing in bis own camp now-a.days
and what, with trying to be President
and trying to keep his lieutenants from
scrapping the ‘old man” bas far
more to do than facetiously wink his
left optic at HasTiNgs.
—The Cubans have sprung another
game on the blundering Spanish. Not-
withstanding the vigilant efforts of the
latter General GARCIA has slipped out of
this country and will soon be heading,
th e rebels on the island. The Spaniards
are almost asslow at discovering Cuban
tricks as the English are at seeing jokes. |
—The Chicago Infer-Ocean has an-
nounced that Quay is dreadfully in
earnest in his fight for his party’s nomi-
nation for President. Though Inter.
‘Ocean is supposed to mean between the
seas, that journal had better do better
than try to make its readers believe
such bosh, else they will advise it to
change its name to mean at ses.
—When a fellow gels married in
South Carolina that ends it. No li-
conse is required, no record of the nup-
tials is kept, and, best of all, no divorces
are granted {for any reason whatever.
There can be no experimental unions
down there. When a fellow ora girl
makes a bad job of their selection for a
life partner they have no way to shyster
out of it. :
—The friends of Spain, who have
been fighting the plan to bring about a
recognition of the Cuban belligerency
by the United States, stirred up a
mare’s nest when they asserted
that the revolutionists have neith-
er organization mor men. It has
started the statisticians to work with
the result that the revolutionists are now
said to have 43,000 men, who are in
possession of the major portion of the
island. =
—:¢Mark Twain,’’ whp is really SAM
UEL L. CLEMENS, is i 40 be sick
in a foreign land, ~~ Woe sincerely hope
that his illness will’ not prove serion®
and we are-thankful it is not in France
that he finds himself over-taken by
physical collapse. You know it was
e people of the latter country that he
recently started to thinking so hard by
saying that most of them do not know
who their fathers are, and the problem
must bave been so hard to solve that the
probability is that they would let him
die if he had .to depend on them for
care. BR :
—Catch-penny correspondents are
sending out all ¥nds of political stories
about the Democracy , of Contre county
in its relation to presidential possibili-
ties. The latest story is to the effect
that the delegates to the-State conven-
tion next month are to be instructed for
WHITNEY. Who will instruct them,
we would like(to know ? The delegates
will not bear\jnBjructions because the
body that will choose them has no au-
thority to give them and if the delegate’
represent the sentiment of the county
they will pe for PATTISON, whether he
is a candidate or not. Not because of
any dielike for Mr. WHITNEY, but be-
cause of a laudable pride in and love for
our ex-Governor.
| VOL. 41
| to lead the party to victory.
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA., MARCH 20, 1896. | NO. 12.
Billion Dollar Expenditures,
Republican congressional extrava-
gance may find encouragement in the
fact that England has at last a biilion-
dollar Parliament. Notwithstanding
the vast extent of the British empire
the annual expenditures authorized by
; Parliament has been greatly less than
the appropriations of an American
Congress, but thia year the Parliamen-
tary estimates reach the unprecedented
figure of £100,000,000, which is practic-
ally $£500,000,000 of American money,
or a billion dollars for the two year's
term for which our estimates are ad-
justed. ?
Republican profligacy should not
point to this English expenditure as a
justification for their reckless waste of
the revenues of this government, a
waste which had its effect in bringing
on the financial derangements and
business prostration from which the
country is gradually recoveriog under
a Democratic administration in spite
of the efforts of a Republican Congress
to prolong the calamity. © The cou:
gressional spend thrifts of the g.o. p.
should know that when this English
Parliament authorizes a billion dollar
expenditure it is for the special pur-
pose of almost doubling the strength
will cocnduce to the protection and be
ot substantial benefit to the British
empire, After his object has been ge-
cured the usual moderation will be
observed in English government ex-
peuditure. —
The billion dollar lavishoess of-a
Republican Congress is for quite a di$
ferent purpose. It furnishes no per-
manent benefit to the country. While
it was squandering hundreds of mil
lions of dollars the navy was being al-
lowed to go to wreck and ruin and no
fortifications were being erected to de-
fend the costs. The money was actu-
ally wasted in numberless forms of
useless and unnecessary expenditure,
chiefly with the object of maintaining
the necessity for a system of tariff tax.
ation. ;
When the purpose of a billion dollar
expenditure by an English Parliament
is compared with that of au American
Republican Congress, the difference is
easily seen,
S—————————
The Right Man Will Be Found.
Inflated by their imagined certainty
of electing the next President the Re-
publican candidates for that high of-
fice can be counted by the score. In
addition to euch leading aspirants as
MoKiNLEY, MorTON, REED and ALLi-
SON, almost every State has its favorite
son who ie ready to be hit by any
chance stroke of presidential lightning,
besides a number of dark horses that
hope to be trotted out on the home
stretch. So thoroughly have they per.
suaded themselves that the next Presi-
deat is their's that almost every Repub-
lican politician has been overtaken by
presidential dizzinees.
The Democrats are in a calmer
frame of mind on -thie subject, but
while they are keeping very quiet they
are likely to be more demonstrative
later on. No one need be surprised to
see a great change in the situation be-
tween vow and the meeting of the
Democratic national convention.
There is no lack of material from
which a strong candidate can be seler
ed whose election will be facilitated by
the conduct of the present Republican
Congress and the over confident folly
of the g. 0. p. The selection will be
made from a list of such strong and
capable men as Secretary CARLISLE, of
Kentucky ; ex-Gov. Wu. E. RusseLL,
of Massachusetts ; Postmaster General
WiLLiam M, WiLsoxn, of West Virgin.
ia; Gov. MarraEW’S, of Indiana ; Vice
President, A, E. Stevenson and Col.
Wa. R. Morrison, of Illinois ; ex Gov.
CaMPBRLL and Attorney General Har-
MON, of Ohio, ex-Gov. Davi R.
Franois, of Missouri and ex-Gov. Ros-
ERT E. Parrison, of Pennsylvania.
From this array of statesmen can be
selected a candidate who at the out-
come of the campaign will be found
capable of beating any of the echem-
ing avd dickering politicians who are
trying to over:reach each other in the
struggle for the Republican nomina-
tion.
Democratic prospects are brighten-
.ing, sud the right man will be found
I
of the British navy, a measure that |
McKinley Buys Up the Lot.
When Tou REED was put in control
of the present House of Representa:
tives, by being placed in the speaker's
chair, bis first impulse and chief object
was to use the advantage of his posi
tion in such a way as would assist his
ambition of being elevated to the
presidency. He calculated on making
the speaker's chair the horseblock
from which he would vault into the
presidential saddle, and to this end he
has directed all his congressional
management. The public have ob-
served how, from the start, he arranged
that there should be ro legislation that
would interfere with his presidential
programme, and particularly that
nothing should be done that would re-
lieve the financial stress or improve
the business sitnation, in Srder that a
Democratic administration could de-
rive no credit for an’ improvement of
the times.
But what Reep particularly paid at-
tention to was to carry favor with the
southern Republican members, an un-
usual number of whom, with Popu-
listic tendencies, had been landed in
the House by the -tidal wave of '94,
He wes careful to favor them in mak-
ing up the committees, and waa won-
drous kind to them in other ways in
which a speaker can make himself
gracious. In doing this his purpose
was to make such a favorable impres-
sion as would ensure him the southers
delegates to the national convention.
But in working this scheme Tuomas
overlooked the fact that brother Mc
KinNLey had his agents at work oper-
ating upon the purchasable material
that usually constitutes southern dele-
gations to Republican national conven-
tiong, and the speaker now discovers;
to his great disappointment, that not-
withstanding hie dickering with their
Congressmen, the southern Republi.
cans have put their delegates in the
market, eubject to the offer of the
highest bidder, and that the MoKiNLEY
tariff boodle has bought up almost the
entire lot.
will bid higher for them when they
get to the convention remains to be
\
seen. Brother Morton has a capa-
cious bar'l and there is no telling
{ what be may be able to do with it
{ when he geta it on tap at St. Louie.
{ e——
Why Was Cuba Omitted ?
A query that is now interesting
political circles is, what was McKIn-
LEY’S object in prohibiting anything
being eaid in his Ohio platform in favor
of the Cuban patriot ? It is said that
such ao expression was desired, but he
refused to allow it to go into the doc-
ument. *
It is easily understood why he di-
rected the currency plank to be so con-
structed that it would mean anything
or nothing at all. There was an ob-
ject in desiring to please all sides on
the question of coinage. If the silver
men could be made to believe that he
favored free silver, votes could thereby
be gathered in from that quarter. It
-the goldbugs of the East could be put
.under the impression that he was for
the gold standard, it would be the
means of securing their powerful eup-
port. And if those who prefer bimet-
allism could be impressed with the be-
lief that he was favorable to the doub-
le standard, it would make him solid
with the bimetalliste. ;
- It was this comprehensive design to
suit every shade of opinion on the cur.
rency question tbat induced the draft
ing of a plank whose purpose was to
please all, although in the end it would
deceive everybody; but what was
MoKinLeY's object in excluding Cuba
entirely from his platform ? Probably
he didn’t think it worth while to waste
a plank on people who had no votes.
Deceptive Declarations.
There was never a more striking
case of dishonest politica than is dis-
.played in the Ohio Republican plat-
form and designed to serve the politi-
cal interest of MoKiNLey. The plank
relating to the currency has no other
object than that of deception, having
been drawn in a way that renders it
susceptible to different and: Qppoeite
interpretations.
It is, however, in keeping with Mo-
KinLey's position on the silver ques
tion. The great tariff champion bas
been* straddling that question ever
did not have a political purpose, or-
Whether somebody else’
since the beginning of the silver agita-
tion, and his Ohio platform is purpose
ly worded so that it may appear to be
for free silver, for the gold standard, or
for a croes between the two, the intea-
tion being to satisfy the silver miners
of the Rocky mountain States with-
out offending the goldbugs of Wall
street.
* But the day is past when such strad-
dling declarations can succeed iu _de-
ceiving the popular intelligence. The
peogle have a recollection of the Min-
neapolis straddle of the coinage ques-
tion, in 1892, which was interpreted in
the Senate, some weeks ago, by three
different Republican Senators .in three
different ways. The subterfuge in the
recent Odio platform is meeting with
general condemndtion. Many of the
Republican newspapers are declaring
that on so important a question as that
of the currency McKINLEY can not
satisfy the people with such juggling.
In the present condition of public sen-
timent a straddling platform is caleu-
lated to do a candidate or a party more
harm than good.
Tots.
A Political License Law.
The object of the Raing’s bill, which
has been passed by the New York
state Legislature, is simply a disgrace
to the party through whose influence
it hag become a legislative enactment,
It purports to be a bill for the regula-
tion of the liquor traffic, but its real
object is to regulate that traffic in the
interest of the Republican party by:
converting the liquor sellers into a
grand army of Republican party work-
ere. This obnoxious purpose does not
appear on the face of the bill, which
provides for the licensing of liquor
dealers in a manner similar to the
usual provisions of enactments in-
tended to regulate the traffic, but whem
it takes the licensing function from the
courts and confers it upon 8 com:nis-
sion that will receive its appointment
from a political source, it is not diff-
cult-4o see that the object is to put the
licensing power to political use.
: In the present political situation in
A Fear of McKinley.
From the Chicago Tribune.
Business men do not believe that the
ripping up of the tariff is the most im-
portant question of the day. They think
the currency question should be settled
first. They are convinced that the tide
of returning prosperity which set-in last
year would not have been checked had
it not been for dispute as to the sound-
ness of the circulating mediam. To
their minds the first condition of the re-
turn of good times is the removal of all
doubts on that score. A. canvass con-
ducted with the McKinley bill or some
measure patterned after it as the sole
issue may not appeal to business men.’
Willit have an inspiring effect on the
younger element of the Republican
party, which voted against the Mec-
Kinley Iaw in 1892? “Will not that
element look on the programme as a
slap in the face, and invitation to ab-
jure, to recant - and to confess that a
grievous ein ‘was committed by them
four years ago? Will these younger
men “take their medicine’’—eat their
crow and say they like it —when asked
to support the father of the bill they
voted against in 1892?
——
Specimen McKinley Check,
From the Springfield (Mass.) Republican.
S10 {ihe party) stands for a commer-
cial policy that ‘will whiten every sea
with the sails of American vessels flying
the American flag.” This is from the
Ohio Republican platform, and 'is a fair
exhibition of McKinley check. In 1860,
66 per cent. of the foreign trade was
carried in -American vessels flying the
American flag ; in 1889, after nearly 80
years.of this commercial policy which
whitens the seas, etc., for percentage of
the foreign trade carried in ‘American
ships was 14 per cent. When the Mec-
Kinley act was passed, intensifying this
commercial policy, the ntage fell
to 12.5 per cent, in 1891, to 128 per
cent. in 1892, and to 12.2 per cent. in
1893, It evidently needs only a revival
of this policy in its full measure to drive
the American flag from the seas com-
pletely.
IER BARA EA
And Its Not Much Better Here.
From the Philadelphia Times.
Those who think that the western
farmer’s lot is one of joy unconfined
are wofully mistaken. A’ farmers wife
who lives in one of the most produc-
tive counties of Kansas writes: «I
suppose with the present price of grain
it will take the whole proceeds ef the
crop to pay help. I will give you: ‘the
price of farm products here : Cern,
18} cents per bushel ; oats, 12} cents
New York State the appointment of
the licensing commissions, as provided |
by the New York law, will be largely
if not entirely under Republican con.
trol, and with the exertion of such an :
influence upon the liquor interest
every applicant for a license and every
one who may wish to have his license
continued, can be made to feel that
his interest will be greatly dependent
upon his politics, Where liquor deal-
ers are numbered by the tens of thou.
sands no political machine more power-
ful than this could be put in operation.
To perpetuate Republican power in
New York State this outrageous bill
has been passed.
Reproving Its Own Party.
The Philadelphia Ledger is 8 Re-
publican journal that is disposed to be
honest, and will reprove ‘the delin-
quencies of its party when occasion re-
quires such reproof.
ward in condemning the pernicious
course that has been taken by the
present Congress in playing with poli-
tics instead of legislating for the public
interest. It ia particularly severe in
condemning the Republicans in the
Senate for having entered into a dis.
reputable deal with the Populists in
order to secure the loaves and fishes of
patronage in that body, by which deal
they completely blocked all legislation
reiating to the reveouee and the cur-
rency. :
The Ledger -ontrasts this conduct
with the position of President CLEVE-
LAND and his cabinet who have been
left uneupported in their efforts to
maintain the public credit and prevent
tbe financial situation from drifting to
ruin,
The President has calied upon this
good-for-nothing Congress for legisla-
tion that would relieve the country
from the effects of previous bad Re-
publican fiscal and currency laws, but
has called in vain. It would rather
go on playing politics, preferring that
things should drift on in an unsettled
and depressed condition in order that
Republican campaigners may have the
advantage of a false issue in charging
a Democratic administration with the
‘responsibility for the derangement of
the business gituation.
——1If you want printing of any de
goription the WaTcEMAN office is the
It is not back- P
per bushel ; potatoes, 25 cents ; butter,
9 cents per pound ; eggs, 7 cents per
dozen ; lard, 8 cents per pound. We
are not getting rich. We merely live.”
Worse Than ‘“Indelicate.”
From the Chambersburg Spirit.
There is not, usually, much courtesy
paid by vhe managers of one presidential
boom to the managers of another boom
but the recent effort of McKinley's
managers to collect money from Penn-
sylvania manufacturers to promote Mec-
Kinley’s candidacy is something away
beyond the ordinary. Pennsylvania
Republicans have a candidate of their
own, and it is altogether indelicate for
the Ohio man to try to take the cam-
paign contributions which should be
given to Pennsylvania’s candidate.
No Protection for Labor.
The foreign goods that compete with
the—goods of our manufacturers and
trusts are heavily tazed at the custom
house, but foreign laborers are admitted
free of duty.
In what industries is labor worst
aid ? Where are there the most
strikes ? Where are Pipkerton detec-
tives employed to shoot down working-
men ? In the highly protected mining
and manufacturing industries. —Ez.
It Will Find Rest In “Teddy” Roos-
© velt’'s Pockets.
From the Williamsport Sun. iy
The new political party;- clept—the
“National Reform Party,” adjourned
yesterday, after adopting a Jiasform
that embraces all the issues of all the
rties that now exist or have evér ex-
sted. The platform is a great deal
larger than the party, and the prospects
are that the National Reform party will
not need a very large grave when ‘the
ides of November come around. -
Its the Same Whenever Tried.
From the Free Port (Ill) Bulletin.
The civil reformers in Chicago still
keep up their admiration for Swift as a
reform leader. ~ As long as this is done
the people of the State can have no ad-
miration for Chicago reform. “A blind
man can see that Swift’s reform is all
pretense, and that he neither reforms
anything nor intends to. i
A Suggestion Worth Trying.
From the Philadelphia Record.
__If the Senate should cut down its ex-
penditure for bay rum and substitute
therefore bromo-caffeine or some other
safe sedative, it would be surprised at
its improved success in shoving war
clouds around the horizon.
It Seems to Be a General Maizdy. |
From the Du Bois Express.
The office itch is getting as bad: in
Clearfield as in’ Indiana and Jefferson
place to bave it done. . ps
counties.
epawls from the Keystone,
—The Baptists are about to erect’
church at Patton. >
burg is being much improved.
—Mrs. Jacob Willet, of Hanover, drop-
ped a lighted lamp and was burned to
death, ~o
—Huge snowdrifts have caused serious
blocks on the railroad in the slate regions
of Northampton county.
—Thieves broke into the Central theatre
Bethlehem, but were put to flight by a
band of Indians showing there.
—The gas and oil well. that waz being
drilled along Anderson creek, Clearfield
county, has proven a dry holé, The dri
went toa depth of 2.250 feet. : 5
~—C. M. .Osman, representative of the
Pennsylvania building and loan associa.
tion of Altoona, is under bail at Hazle-
ton, charged with embezzling $400,
—Dr. B. H. Warren, the state Economic
Zoologist, findsthat the white grub worm
has been doing much harm to potatoes.
German potash is recommended as a
remedy.
—The Ancient Order of Hibernians, of
Scranton, celebrated St. Patrick’s day
with a parade and convention. William
county board. .
~The river has frozen over for the
fourthtime this winter. From a point
above Westport to Hyner it is open, but
it is closed.
—Ira Weller, aged 19 years, whose home
isin Mifflintown, while walking on the
Pennsylvania railroad track near Mexico
recently was struck by Atlantic express
and instantly killed.
—The Lehigh Valley shops at South
Easton have been ordered toshut down
two days this week and tq work eight
hours a day until (urther orders, Over
500 hands are employed,
hile assisting to remove scrap iron
from a car at the Lebanon bolt and nut
works, Jocob Eichberger had his skull
fractured by the cable breaking and the
bar hitting him in the head.
~The will ot George Schwab, of Potts.
town, gives $200 to the Emanuel Luth.
eramggburch and $100 each to St. Peter’s
Lutheran mission, of Stowe; St. James’
Lutheran mission ; Pottstown cemetery
company and Pottstown hospital. :
—~Voters of Pennsylvania will next No°
vember elect 30 congressmen, 25 state
senators, 204 assemblymen, besides help
elect the president and vice president of
will elect a United States senator.
—Mrs. Harry F. Doebler, of Williams-
port, died on Thursday from trichiniasis,
a disease arising from eating diseased
pork. The case during the illness of the
Iady attracted a great deal of attention,
the diagnosis of the case .by the. attend-
ing physician proved correct.
—W. F. Eckbert, proprietor of the Park
house at Curwensyille, died Friday eve-
ning after suffering from an attack of
| grip only about a week. His death was
very sudden and unexpected, as his case
was not considered dangerous until a
short time before he died.
—The largest walnut tree ever hewn in
| Pike county was cut down recently near
Milford by Wm. Angle, of Washington, N.
J., for gunstocks for the United States
government. The first sixteen feet will
make 2000 feet of lumber and will furnish
enough gunstocks to supply a regiment.
—Some of the people in Spruce Valley,
near the home of John M. Wigton, are
hunting coal with some degree of possible
success. R. C. Clofson is confident that
it generally known. We hope the ener-
getic Spruce Valley people have struck a
bonanza.
—Minnie Swagner, of Altoona, who put
rat poison in the coffee from the effects
of which her uncle died and the lives of
three other relatives were endangered,
has plead guilty to murder in the second
degree in tlie Blair county court. She is
but 12 years old and will be sent to the
reformatory.
—It is stated that Ebensburg may be
considered when the location of the an.
of Pennsylvania is selected. An exami.
‘nation of the country in the vicinity of
Ebensburg has been made and it is said
that several places in that locality could
not be surpassed for completenessof nat-
ural advantages good water, beauty of
scenery, etc.
—While traveling as a passenger on
western express Frank F. Bnsh of Johns’
town, a postal clerk on the Bald Eagle
branch, was robbed of a draft for §70 and
$55 in cash, which were taken from his
pocket while he was asleep. Bush did not
rone; having gone to Altoona and return-
ing on Harrisburg accomodation. He
stopped payment on the draft, but it is
not likely he will find the cash.
—Saul Davis Selig, 8 Russian Jew ped-
‘ler, aged 40 years, drove under the lower.
ed gates of the Ridge avenue crossing of
‘the Allentown Terminal railroad Wed-
nesday evening and was struck by a 3
Jersey Central passenger train. He and
his horse were killed. His son Reuben,
aged 10 years, bad his skull crushed and
will die. Another son, Morris, was cut
about the head and will recover.
—The house in which the commission-
ers of Bradford county met to adjust the
torn down to make room fora more mod-
ern building. It is familiarly known as
the old Funk tavern, and was built in
1759 or 1760, and is the oldest house in the
town of Bradford. The house had an
immense triangular chimney, which put
stone enough to build a small house.
—The bituminous coal operators ot the
Clearfield region met Wednesday at the
office of the Berwind-White company in
Philadelphia, and effected a district or-
ganization, John Lloyd, of Altoona, who
has been chairman of the varions prelim-
inary meetings, was elected president,
and a sub-committee was appointed to
select the other officers. All of the Clear-
fleld operators have identified themselves
with the organization, which is for the
purpose of regulating the local trade-as
well as giving it representation in the re:
cently formed bituminous coal associa-
ping to tidewater. ’
tion, composed of the six districts ship.
~The Presbyterian church at Ebens-
Dawson was elected president of the
from. the latter point to Lock Haven
the United States. The legislature chosen .
he has found the stuff but does not want -
nual encampment of the National Guard
notice his loss until after arriving in Ty-
second assessment in 1773 is soon to. be
the fireplace in a corner and contained -