ha Demonic it BY P. GRAY MEEK. HATE i Ink Slings. —Oh, gentle spring! Oh, lamb like spring * We'd indite to thee a poem ; It all delinquents in the land, Would pay printers what they owe ‘em. —Mr. MiLLs wants to seize Cuba. Does he long to be a CAESAR? —Did any one ever hear of a person jumping from a train that was not go- ing at least forty miles an hour ? —Two Salvation armies in America will be very apt to encourage a bass drum and tambourine trust. .—Whenever a person wants to move about quietly he puts on a pair of gums. The same result is not exge- ri enced with a woman's tongue and her gums. . —The earth-quake shccks that were felt in Maine, on Sunday evening, were more than likely caused by the rush of McKINLEY wind into the REED presie dential vacuum. —Pittsburg is all worked up over her new free bridge, but it hasn’t haif the sighs that the little one has that spans the alley between the court house and jail in that city. --“MorToN and sound money” has the right kind of a ring for a campaign slogan. ' It is the cound of the chink in Levy's bar'l that the Republican Jupas is waiting to hear. —A great many women will dis cover by next week that their husbands are just about the dearest creatures on earth, at least they will palaver them in that way until the Easter bonnet is bought. —The United States governraent Las every reason to be discreet when it comes to war talk. It isall right enough to resent insults, but would the people think it all right to give a second set of feet to the pension octopus ? —ALFRED AUSTIN, England’s poet laureate, has disguised a spring poem under the head ‘Is Life Worth Live ing 7” He would have heen very apt to have found out that it isn’t had he tarried in his publisher’s office until tbe effusion was read over. —The happiest faculty QUAY seems to poscess is that of settling the disputes of his hench-men by confiscating all bones of contention. He will effect a happy (7) dencuement in tke ANDREWS- Lec fight for the state chairmanship by being made chairman himgelf—if no more satisfactory thing can be done. —The insignificant little whipper- snappers who thought they were mak- ing a name for themselves by voting censure to such a man as ambassador TroMAs F. BAYARD, will find thata time will come when they will have to tell the public who they are, while BAYArD’s name will be known as one of the greatest statesmen of bis lime. —About the most ridiculous thing we have heard of for some time is the an- nouncement tbat pick-pockets did a land office business during the recent ses- sions of the Central Pennsylvania Meth- odist conference in Williamsport. Why you might as well try to tell us that newspaper men would prove fat prey for the slick fingered gentry. — PATTISON would be a strong nomi- nee for President for more reasons than that of his stainless public and private character. If be should head the Demo- cratic ticket in the next national cam- paign his strength in Pennsylvania would be great enough to necessitate the use of all the fat fried from the mil- lionaire protection monopolists in this State right here in Pennsylvania, leav- ing the Republican national committee short of the enormous amount of boodle usually sent into other districts. —TroMAs HuGHES, the author who created the character of Tom BrowN and told the story of his own life at Oxford and Rugby, is dead. No work even published for juveniles met with greater success than bis and none are freer from anything unfit for the youth- ful mind. His books found favor be- cause of the ridiculous escapades of the school boy teeming with healthy, active life, but from every dilemma the hero emerged in a way that incites all read- ers to manliness. For forty years “Tom Browx at Rugby” bas kept the dead author's name in the minds of the world’s children and it will be more lasting than any shaft that could be erected to his memory. —Because the Pittsburg Times has had the energy to incorporate an even- ing edition the other papers of the Bmoky city are accused of trying to ‘squeeze’ it by preventing its sale at the news stands. In other words they are trying to raise a boycott on the new evening paper. If the report be true, and it is simply a fear of honest com- petition that has prompted such un- friendly action, the Evening News is as- sured of a permanent place in the jour- nalistic circles of Pittsburg. There is only one way to mest competition and that is to outstrip it in a fair race for public favor. Had the other Pitts- burg papers welcomed the Times’ new venture it would have been evidence that they did not fear it. Gn” EB tiara Vv i Spawls from the Kaystone. —Charged with keeping a speak-easy in ; his furniture store, John B. Johnson was ' sent to Norristown jail. —Frightat the upsetting of a lamp by a —Williamsport pulpits were filled Sun- day by the Methodist ministers, who were / attending the conference there. 7. v 3 = - A i . bet dog resulted in the sudden death of J | James Price, of Pottsville. —A joint railroad brotherhood conven” y/ p “. , tion, representing several States, will be y/ y/! » , held at Erie next Thursday. STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. —Joseph Whythes fell I50 feet down a i chute at Burnside colliery, near Shamo- VOL. 41 "BELLE FONTE, PA., MARCH 27, 1896. kin, and escaped with a few bruises. , —While attending the funeral of Mrs, NO. 13. The Censure of Ambassador Bayard Considering the evident motive and the partisan character of the vote of censure passed by the House of Repre- sentatives on ambassador Bavarp there is but little reason for him to treat it with the respect that would be due to an hooest and unmalicious ex- pression of that body. Rank partisan malice was the motive of that vote, itg only object being revenge for his hav- ing spokeu truthfully of the pet policy of the Republican party. The ambaesador’s expression that drew forth this exhibition of partisan spite was embraced in the following passage in an address which be deliv- ered befcre a public audience in Eng- land : ; “In my own country I have witnessed the insatiable growth of that form of state social- ism styled protection, which I believe has done more to foster class legislation and create inequality of fortune, to corrupt public life, to banish men of indeperdent mind and charac- ter from the public councils, to lower the tone of national representation, blunt public con" science, create false standards in the popular mind, divorce ethics from politics, and place politics upon the low level of a mercenary scramble than any o{fgr single cause.” This is a terrific arraignment of the economic system that has been main. tained in this country by the Republi- can party, but 18 it not true in every particular ? It may be questioned whether the ambassador acted with the best judgment in exposing, before a foreign audience, the disgraceful details of such a system of spoliation and de- moralization practiced in his own country, but there can be no question that he drew a correct picture. Its burning truth wae what excited the rage of those who are responsible for that system, and prompted their vote of censure. That “the form of state socialism styled protection fosters class legisla tion, as stated by ambassador Bayar, is proven by the tariff legislation that bas benefited the few at the expense of the many, and by the class of benefi- ciaries that have crowded the com. mittee rooms of Congrese, successfully urging the passage of tariff bills to promote their special interests. That it “creates inequality of fortune’ needs noother proof than the colo: =al fortunes of those whoee trusts and monopolies are maintained by protection, while the wages of workmen scarcely afford a decest living.” That “it corrupts public lite” is evidenced by Senators interesting themselves in the profits of sugar trusts enhanced by differential duties ; by the presidential candidates depending for their election upon the corruption funds contributed by tariff beneficiaries to debauch the ballot, and by the influence which the wealth that has grown up under this protec- tion system is able to exert upon the action of Congress. That it “*banishes men of independent mind and character from the public councils, and lowers the tone of national representation,” needs no other demonstration than the Congress now in session, which by its neglect of public business, its low par- tisan aims, the inferiority of its mem- bership, and its general good-for-noth- ingness furnishes a sample of the kind of ational representation that is swept into the capitol by the tidal wave of a tariff victory. That it “blunts public conscience and places politics upor the low level of a mercenary scramble” has been fully demonstrated by the action of campaign managers whose consciences have been so blunted that they could see nothing wrong in using immense corruption funds ina presi- dential campaign, such as the $400,000 which Wanamaker collected and contributed as boodle to elect Haxrrr 80N in the interest of protection, and by the disgraceful competition, with Mc- Kinrey in te lead, that is now iu progress in buying up the delegates to the next Republican national conven- tion, Every word uttered by the ambas- sador about the Republican tariff system was true to the letter, and it wae its truth that enraged the rascals, who maiutain that system of robbery and corruption, to vent their spite by a vote of censure. But at the very time they were making this exhibition of malicious rage the truth of Bavarp's charge, that the protection scheme is replete with demoralization and de- bauchery, is substantiated by the pub- lic accusation of Republican Senator CHANDLER that MoKINLEY has re ceived a large fund from the manu- facturers who want a restoration of his OEY kind of protection, which is being used in buyiog up delegates to, the nomi- nating convention, and no less promi- nent a Republican leader than Tom Pratt, charges McKiNLEY's traveling agent Mark Hanna, with going through the country with this boodle, on a mission of corruption in MoKin- LEY’s presidential interest. BavarD’s words are verified by Re- publican testimony. : —— The Pittsburg Bargain. The Republican party in Penunsyl- vania has long been recognized as be- ing rus, if not actually owned by a few bosses who control it for their own political and personal advantage. This fact is practically acknowledged by the members of the party when they vote for candidates furnished them by their bosses through the manipulation of nominating conventions. They delude themselves with the idea that they ex- ercise the free right of suffrage, but it is a right that is limited to voting for the nominees, selected for them by a higher power. This system of bossism used to be controlled by the CameroN family, but it is now centered in Quay, A condition of servitude so disgrace- ful is an old fact with which everyhody is familiar, and which the Republicans, themselves, have become so used to that they have ceased to be ashamed of it, but an especially disgraceful illus. tration of this political condition hav ing recently presented itself in Alle- gheny county in the fight between the “two factions of that Republican strong: bold, the question naturally arises whether such a state of things can ex- ist in a party that makes pretensions to being free and intelligent. In the ruction that is going on be- tween the Quay and MAGEE factions it is disclosed that there was a written agreement between—the contracting parties by which the Republican voters were made mere “chips” in as dirty a game of politics as was ever played for official spoils. A aritten contract was entered into, signed, sealed and delivered, wherein the ownership of the party voters was as coolly taken for granted, and disposed of in the way of bueiness, as if they were so many cattle, the agreement being that Quay should hand Pittsburg over to be plundered by a ring of rapacious poli ticiane in consideration of their helping him to maintain his political control over the State. In making such an arrangement of course it was calcu- lated that the party voters should be used a8 mere chattels in carrying out its provisions. This treaty had been in force since “1889, and it was renewed as late as January of last year, but the fight over the chairmanship last summer having set the rascals by the ears, the bargain was terminated, and one of the parties has been indiscreet enough to divulge the terms upon which this corrupt alliance was maintained. Protection and Free Silver. A delegation of Philadelphia manu- facturers have been on to Washington where they made a log rolling arrange- meat with the iree silver Republican Senators to unite protection and free silver in a combined campaign issue, These’ manufacturers remember the advantage they enjoyed when under McKINLEY's protection they managed to make a fortune every year without being compelled to increase the wages of their workmen. They want tha, tariff bonanza restored to them, and they are willing to enter into an ar- rangement with the silver producers to help each other in the mutual pro- motion of their respective bonanzae, The silver men may consider them- selves justified in entering into such an arrangement. They have seen the long continued pmtection of the manu- facturer’s interests. They have ob- served how pig iron, and steel rail, and other products of mill and-factory were given the benefit of a high tariff policy, and they have a right to con- clude that if such favors are being granted they ehould have a share of by free coinage. Their joining in a log- rolling arrangement to couple free sil- ver and protection is justifiable from their stand point, but what 18 to be thought of Philadelphia Republican manufacturers being willing to sacrifice the gold standard for the sake of Mo- KiNLEY tariff plunder ? them by having their product favored’ Fat Frying Already Begun. Charges made by Senator CHANDLER, of New Hampshire, against the Mc- KINLEY managers for their “fat-frying” method of raising money to secure the nomination of the high tarift cham- pion, is creating considerable teeling in the Republican ranks. CHANDLER is a Republican himself, and being familiar with the boodle methods of his party, he might be supposed to have become used to them ; but he cannot restrain himself from openly declaring that wken a quarter of a million is con- tributed by the manufacturers to help McKINLEY's boom it cannot be intend- ed for an honest purpose and can have no other object than to purchase the votes of delegates to the nominating convention, Efforts are being made to keep CHANDLER quiet by those who fear that his exposure of the fat-frying that is going on will injure the candidacy of tbe tarift champion, and denials are made that any contributions have been received from the millionaire manu- facturers, but the New Hampshire Senator repeats the charge, in a com: munication to the Washington Post, and says that he can produce the proof that a fund of $250,000 is being raised from that source to corruptly secure the nomination. Since such boodle methods are cus- tomary in Republican presidential campaigns it might strike our readers as singular that a Republican Senator should object toit, but it would seem that his objection is not on actount of the immoral and corrupt character of such practices, but, as he puts it: “For manufacturers to contribute large sums of money to be expended in nominating Mr. McKINLEY over any other candi- date hitherto named would be a most unjust and uncalled for proceeding.” The Senator does not appear to ob- ject to the political immorality in- volved in such a prcceeding—only to its unfairness to the other candidates. H&helving the Favorite Sons. There is a lively time with the bat- tle ot the booms in the Republican party and one by one the favorite sons are being knocked out of the way of the leading candidates around whom the fight will centre in the nominating convention, i MAaNDERSON has been laid oft the shelf in Nebraska, the state convention having concluded that although he might be a favorite son’it preferred to give the state delegation to McKINLEY. Minnesota has géne back on Davis, and to sympathiziog friends in Wash- ington the Senator explains the loss of his State’ by attributing it to the at- tractive influence of MoKINLEY'S boodle. CuLroy, of Illinois, finds that his posing as her favorite son did not secure the delegation of that State, most of whom have yielded to McKin- LEY’s peculiar method of persuasion. ELkiNs’ boom in West Virginia hardly amounted to as much asa boomlet, and Quay, who is put forward as the favorite son of Pennsylvania, never in- tended bis candidacy to be anything more than a movement by which he would be enabled to handle the state delegation for dickering purposes. Thus, as the time for the St. Louis convention approaches, ‘the favorite sous are being thinned out, leaving the fight to be fought between McKINLEY, REED, ALLisoN and Morton, with the chance of its being won by the candi- date who will be able to buy up the largest number of delegates to the nominating convention. | ——The attacks that are being made on the man RuTHVEN, who is traveling through the State giving lecture’s on Catholicism, came to a climax at Dun- wore, & mining town near Scranton, on Monday, when the man was assaulted on the street by a mob. He defended himeelf with a revolver and was promptly fired upon by the crowd with the result that three men were shot. When he was in this part of the State the WaTcHMAN endeavored to dissuade any of its readers from going to hear him, -beexuse it felt that he was an im- postor. We are siucerely sorry that members of the church he preyed on should bave been guilty of such a breach of law and order. If they had met his stories with contempt it would have been far better. To resent his vile imputations in such a way only en- courages the bigots who would de- fame a great christian church. Barbara Stoneroad, at Lancaster, Joseph Newgard dropped dead of heart disease. --Rumors of a proposed reduction in the working hours at the Altoona shops were denied by Pennsylvania Railroad officials. —Dickey, Moore and Kelso of Brock. ville, has given a contract for sawing 50,000,000 feet ot timber on a tract in Elk county. —Governor Hastings has signed the death warrant of Frank Morris, of Fayette County, May 26 being set for the execution. —When detected burglarizing a Wil- liamsport bar.room, Benjamin Taylor fought himself free with a club, but was later captured. —A large number of log drivers have al. ready assembled at Penfield Elk county, where they are awaiting a flood on which to drive logs. —With imposing ceremonies Tuesday the Emaus high school boys hung Genera! Weylerin effigy, riddled the dummy with bullets and then cremated it. —A Pittsburg trolley conductor refused to accept a Columbian half dollar and ejected the passenger, who got a verdict for $100 against the company. —While walking on the Pennsylvania railroad near Stewart's station, Alle- gheny county, John Davis, of Summit, near Scranton, was killed by a train. —Owing to the sickness of two impor- tant witnesses the Apna Dickinson suit, at Scranton, was postponed until the September term of the United States Cir- cuit court. —The enterprising women of Mt. Car. mel on Saturday got ouu the edition of the Ledger newspaper, making an excep- tionally bright journal in the interests of the Women's Christian Temperance Union. —The last body of the thirteen victims Out of the Way of McKinley's Car of Death. From the Pittsburg Post. Senator Cush. Davis, of Minnesota, ie the first of the favorite sons to take himeelf out of the way of the McKin- ley juggernaut, which promises to crush all who impede it at St. Louis, The others will follow in due time, for your favorite son desires to stand well with the incoming administration, and his friends especially desire that he should stand well. and so have a voice in distributing the rewards. Bradley, of Kentucky, Cullom and the other fa- vorite sonnies will disband their cor- poral’'s guard in due time, and we would not be surprised to see Senator Quay take time by the forelock and, before the convention meets, make his peace with the Ohio idol. It he does not, supposing Me- Kinley nominated and elected, on the principle of gratitude generally recog- nized at such times the “old guard,” led by the sagacious Magee, will sweep the platter. Tt is sad to say it, but it looks very much as it Magee and Flino would cut more ice at St. Louis than the Senator from Saint's Rest. All On the Make. From the Philadelphia Record. By far the worst figure in the Quay- Flinn negotiations for political owner- ship of Allegheny county is cut by the Republican manufacturers and work- ingmen of that-great industrial centre. As the correspondence reveals, they are as much the objects of traffic and bar- ter as the pig and bar iron, glass and nails which they produce. While the manufacturers of Pittsburg think they re leaders of political thought and opinion, they are merely pawns and counters in the game that is played un- der the table for control of a politi- cal and municipal affairs. In fact, these great manufacturers do not count for so much politically with their bosses as do the newly naturalized Hungarians and Sclavonians in their mills. A$ the iron and steel, nail and glass workers of Allegheny county are not ~wanting in self-respect and pride, they cammog but deeply feel the humiliation of thei po- sition as exposed in the negotiations for their ownership. But will they have sufficient publig spirit to resent the in- sults and wrongs heaped upon them and their community ? Or do they not care how or by whom they are governed, so that they get a little Boge tan A Dangef Flag. From the Montesano, Wash., Economist. A state exchange, which is devoting most of its editorial space to grooming torial candidate, informs its at it must select a man who “is for honesty.”” The expression is ortunate, says the West Coast Trade. onest men are not so scarce in this state that the people become noted for this quality when possessed in proper proportions. We have in mind the case of an old farmer named Booker Doug- las who started a store down in Bodain- ham, Me. He was so conspicuously horest that he became noted for it among Portland wholesalers. He trad- ed on it to the extent of $15,000 in- ninety days; two weeks ago he was overhauled within a few minutes ride of Canada. Look out for the man who becomes “noted for honesty.” ered Tuesday. The mutilated condition of the bodies show the unusual force of the explosion which was caused by mine dust. . —Dan Allen an inmate of the Cambria county almshouse, pried open the tran som over the door of his room at an early hour in the morhing last Tuesday and escaped and unto this time his where: abouts are unknown. n —Charters were issued at Harrisburg Tuesday for the Victor manufacturing compamy ; capital stock, $1000. Lehigh Granite company, of Luzerne county ; capital stock, $200,000. Doylestown Trust company, of Bucks county ; capital stocks $250,000. —Louis Rosenberger, convicted at Kit- taning ot larceny, assault and battery and breaking jail, was taken to the Riverside penitentiary to serve a nine year and six month's sentence. He makes the sixth member of the family occupying "cells in the penitentiary. —C. H. Reed, a well. known and pros perous hardware merchant residing in Orbisonia, Huntingdon county, died at 8 o'clock Monday morning of catarrh of thestomach. He had been seriously ill with that affection for three or four weeks, and his death a fortnight ago would not have been a surprise —More than six hundred letter carriers attached to the Philadelphia postoffice, or men who have served as carriers in previous years, were made happy Wed- nesday by a participation in the distribu. tion of nearly one hundred and fifty thou. send dollars, which had been allowed by the court of claime to Philadelphia letter- carriers on account of overtime, and which had been provided for in the gen- eral deficiency bill which passed congress two weeks ago. v —David Sweeley and the other members of his family narrowly escaped sufioca- tion by coal gas generated from the cook stove during the night. Mr. 8wceley wa? the first of the family to awakeand it was fortunate he awo ke when he did asa few minutes more of inbalation of the gas would have rendered him insensible. The fresh air which came in through the windows and doors, which were flung open, soon revived the sufferérs and they were all right again in a few minutes. Did You See This, Mr. McKinley. From the Somerset Democrat. Another illustration of the damaging effects of the Wilson tariff on American manufactures is shown in the state- ment that the Carnegie company has jus ured a good paying contract for 10, tons of eteel rails for Japan. They ‘successfully contended against the competition of the world, and came out ahead. And yet some so called patriots are working for a res- toration ot the McKinley bill, which effectually prevented such contracts. — . One Way of Being Heard. From the Greensburg Argus. Neither ambassador Bayard nor sny of his triends are losing any sleep over the house resolutions. The little fel- lows must bave their fun, and the am- bassador is not the kind of man to in- terfere with their pleasant pastime. EE ——— The World’s Great Gaming Resort. From the Clearfield Republican. The Prince of Monaco has renewed his concession of the Casino at Monte Carlo for another fifty years on con- dition that he receive $400,000 a year rental instead of $300,000. 2 And He is Not the Only One. From the Wilkesbarre Union Leadei® Laureate Austin was once a Catholiz, but is now an Agnostic. He is de- scribed as tolerant, unobtrusive and al- most indifferent to all questions of dog- ma, and has not very much faith in his own poetry. ee ———————— Four New Battle Ships. —John Moore, a wagonmaker of Wil. liamsport, has been missing from home for over three weeks. The Gazette and Bul- letin says that any information regarding the missing man will be gratefully re- ceived by his wife at 575 East Third. street. Moore is 53 years old weighed 125 paunds, and is 5 feet 3 or four inches tall, gray hair and mustache, blue eyes, light complexion. He was dressed in gray trousers, long black overcoat, blue flannel shirt, black necktie, black slouch hat and felt boots. a —Three boys of Edward Evane, of Cam- bria township, Cambria county aged 13, 9 and 7 years, were playing in their father's barn last Saturday. They were startled by hearing an unusual noise in a pile of corn fodder, when a second later a big rat scampered out of the fodder, followed closely and rapidly by a huge blacksnake, which evidently intended to make his dinner of the rat, but the latter was too swift and escaped, The boys, through. fright and excitement, allowed the snake 1 toescapeintoa pile of straw. The boys declare that the snake is fully seven feet long. —A tenant house at Huntingdon Fur. nace, Huntingdon county, owned by the Shoenberger estate and occupied by John Fryer and wife, was burned last Tuesday afternoon together with all its contents. Mrs. Fryer, the aged wife of the tenant, 3 + was in the house and presumably was be built on the Pacific coast, one torpedo asleep When the fire stared: u yas ines h ississippi | fore with the utmost culty that she on the Gulf, and one on the Mississippi re ny S ss Liiculny Thal ene river. : | was she was terribl burned from the Five of the torpedo boats are to have : waist ap. Dr. Holme, of Spruce Creek, aspeed of at least twenty-five knots, ' was summoned, and gave her careful a ini 3 tion, but after intense suffering, the and the remaining ten,” the highest 13120 USD After fnionse suffering, the speed possible. night. : : WAsHINGTON, March 23.—The house committee on naval affairs to-day com- pleted the section of the naval appro- priation bill providing new vessels for the navy. It is provided that one of the four battle ships recommended shall in the Dubois mine explosion was recov-- 1 iganar
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