BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
MCKINLEY’S DRIVING SONG.
—I'm drivin’ my band wagon, wherever it goes,
For I know every inch of the ground ;
Let the silver bugs buzz and the golden hugs
glow
As a “straddle bug” I'll tumble ’round.
—It is said that the summer girl will
make a fad of knitting at the shore this
summer. Yes she will, “nit.”
—QUAY declares that he is still a candi-
date for President. He is likely to remain
a candidate to the end of the chapter, too.
—Many a good man lost his bearings so
far, on Wednesday night, that, started for
the tabernacle, he rounded up at the circus.
—In the presentation of QUAY’s name
our Governor will at least have an oppor-
tunity of making himself heard at St.
Louis.
—An old Ferguson township Democrat is
in a quandary as to how HASTINGS and AL
DALE agreed after they had crawled into
the same hole.
—There is a rapidly growing sentiment
in Centre county that free silver wouldn’t
be the worse calamity that could befall the
government.
—ToM PLATT hasn’t had the wind
knocked out of him by long odds. He
seems the only Republican in sight who is
inclined to talk much. :
—MCcKINLEY’S band wagon can’t roll
over the country with two gold and two
silver tires without putting the Republican
outfit in danger of being retired.
—The feeling that the tabernacle would
be a nuisance is fast being wiped out and
in its wake there is coming an almost uni-
versal conviction that it will prove a bless-
ing.
—The Mikado of Japan is reported to be
contemplating a visit to America. While
here the Cuban junta might get some val-
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA.,
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MAY 29, 1896.
NO. 22.
Advice That Should Not be Heeded.
The Philadelphia Record has taken upon
itself the duty of counseling a bolt on the
part of the advocates of a single gold stand-
ard at Chicago, provided their ideas are not
adopted as the platform and principles of
the Democracy.
That this journal has the right to advise,
just as it sees proper, no one will deny,
but in counseling a division of the party,
with the dissensions and defeats such a
course would bring, it speaks only for it-
self and the very limited and doubtful po-
litical interests it is known to represent.
In this matter it in no way veices the sen-
timent or wishes, of the great Democratic
masses of this State, nor can it wheedle
them into following a little, narrow,
money-worshiping faction that imagines
the principles of the party, established by
JEFFERSON before this country had a bank or
coined money, are all wrapped up in the sin- | order.
gle interest of the few who deal in money,
as a commodity, and whose profits are en-
hanced as it can be made scarce. ,
If the Record was the accredited repre-
sentative of the organization, for which it
now pretends to speak, its warning, possi-
bly, might be taken as the voice of the par-
ty behind it. Unfortunately for it—fortu-
nately for the Democracy—it has paraded
its ‘‘independence’’ and boasted of its
‘right’ and ‘purpose to oppose the party
policy, whenever that policy did not ac-
cord with its views, so often and so loudl Y
William Wobbles with the A. P. A,
MCKINLEY appears to be a general wob-
bler. His weakness in that respect on oth-
er questions besides that of the currency
fully entitles him to the name of Wobbling
WILLIAM. The manner in which he wob- dividual. While he was a resident of
bles in regard to silver attracts the atten-
tion of the country. On which side of the
fence his unsteadiness on the silver ques-
or whether he will be | punishment by the French authorities
able to maintain his balance on the top | which had control of that country.
rail, is now one of the most interesting
questions in politics.
But it appears that McKINLEY wobbles
in his relations with the A. P. A. There
is no question that he has been endeavor-
ing to play an underhand game with the
dark-lantern gang, in such a way as to se-
cure their support and at the same time
impress the Catholics with the belief that
posed to this new Know-Nothing
The A. P. A. profess to have four
million members. It would be a grand
thing for him to secure the vote of so large
The Catholics control an
It is desirable to
tion will land him,
an organization.
immense voting force.
have their support also. Therefore, WiL-
LIAM wobbles between the A. P. As and
the Catholics.
But it appears that in his communica-
tions with the secret organization McKIN-
LEY can’t preserve his balance. The trans-
actions assume a wobbling appearance.
The first publication in regard to their con-
nection with each other was to the effect
An Ungrateful Character.
Ex-Consul WALLER, who was rescued
from a French prison by the friendly inter-
position of the CLEVELAND administration,
seems to be a rather ungrateful sort of in-
Madagascar, and after he had ceased to be
a consulor agent of the United States, he
committed acts that rendered him liable to
In consequence of those acts he was im-
prisoned. The United States had no juris-
diction in his case. It had no more actual
right to interfere than the French gov-
ernment would have in case of a French
subject rendering himself amenable to the
law in this country. A great fuss, howev-
er, was made by the political enemies of
the administration because WALLER was
detained in a French prison. The object
Was to create the impression that an Amer-
ican citizen, who was suffering a wrong at
the hands of a foreign government, was re-
ceiving no protection from the CLEVELAND
administration.
While this clatter about the WALLER
case was at its height WALLER was liber
ated from his FRENCH prison, and imme-
diately upon his regaining his liberty he
published a letter in which he thanked the
President and Secretary OLNEY for the in-
terest they took in his case and’ for their
successful actions to secure his liberation,
He acknowledged that he had committed
‘in the hope of collection are ugly,
A Qucer Sort of a Paradox. ¥
From the New YorlgSun.
One of the most touching instances of a
generous i. in the cause of missions
comes, naturally and appropriately enough
from Ohio, and specifically from fhe toss,
of Cuyahoga Falls. The merchants of that
Place, weary of bad debts and eager to
plant thorns in the bosoms of ball debtors,
solemnly made over to the Womgn’s Mis-
sionary society such accounts as they re-
garded as valueless. What a cheerful gift !
Freely they parted with what was worth-
less. Could charity be exercised at cheaper
rates ? Still, there were the germs of humor
and of a possible revenge in the idea. The
Cuyahoga Falls philanthropists believe that
the lives of those debtors will be
happy by dunning visits from sionary
women. Perhaps. Yet whois I ly to be
more anxious to pay his debts
are transferred to a stranger and®
consideration ? And if the missio
they hope to collect but a cold
And if they are comely, who will be fool
enough to pay and so shut himself off from
further Tish ? The Woman's Mission-
ary society no great prospect of gettin
rich suddenly, but the Cuyahoga Falls rn
deserve mention for their skill in giving
away without losing.
Stop One or the Oth ers
From the Philadelphia Times. :
The Press says that the $30,000,000 of
American gold now in the Russian treas-
ury “would never have gone there if Demo-
cratic agitation of free silver coinage had
not forced the successive issues of light
weight dollars and treasury notes to the
amount of $560,000,000, which in fifteen
years doubled the currency to be kept lev-
Spawls from the Keystone.
—An elevator in a Reading iron mill crush-
ed to death Gottlieb Masanch.
—Lawrence Fitzgerald, a track-walker, was *
killed on the”railroad near Easton.
—A fine equestrian statue of General Han-
cock will be unveiled at Gettysburg on June
5. v
—Company G. Fourth regiment at Potts-
ville. re-elected captain James W. Umben-
shower.
—Norristown’s burgess fines bicyclers who
fail to carry lamps at night $2.50 for each
offense. :
—Having just been released from the in-
sane asylum, John Jerka hanged himself at
Schwenksville.
—Ex-clerk of the courts John J. Toole, of
Shenandoah, was appointed county detective
of Schuylkill.
—The Bedford county Sunday school con-
vention will be held in the Reformed church
in Schellsburg on June 4 and 5.
—The 80 members of the Union League, of
Philadelphia, who visited Gettysburg, in-
spected the battlefield Sunday morning.
—One of the victims of the fiendish Home-
stead poisoning, W. A. Williams, has just left
the hospital, after nearly four years of suffer-
ing.
—Secretary of internal affairs Latta and
adjutant general Stewart visited Philadelphia
to attend the Antietam monument board
meeting in major Warwick’s office.
—Mrs. Edward Hasson, of Philadelphia,
who desired to remove the body of her hus-
band from a Catholic to a Protestant cemetery,
in Berks county, was temporarily restrained
by the court.
—J. C. Berry, who has charge of the mail
route between aill Hall and Loganton, has
sent in his resignation, to take effect June
30. Mr. Berry’s term does not expire until
a year hence.
—Colonel Henry A. Fonda, of Milton, a
railroad manager and banker well known in
central Pennsylvania, died Saturday night of
Bright's disease, aged 74. His funeral took
place at Milton Tuesday.
—What was left of the Johnstown Times,
-after creditors had their hands well laid on a
paper cutter, press, stone, roller-top table, a
lot of chairs, shafting and an awning, the
sheriff disposed of under the hammer for $225.
uable pointers from him as to how to con-
quer the Spanish, whom it speaks, and know that it is only | dark-lantern interest and consequently the’| in treating him as it had done, and admit- | The memory of our contemporary organ throwing some pieces of iron over the fence
for the one man who is its owner and the | A. P. A. had decided to boycott him. | ted that he escaped the full infliction of de- = ems to bh hanny iy dshrive, ; k to- he did not notice his children in the alley,
personal and . corporate interests with | This was followed by a report that a better served punishment only through the inter- by i oe ay of and a large piece of it struck his 10-year-old
which he is associated. understanding had been established bhe- cession of the American Minister in Paris calls the Democratic agitation for free sil- daughter on the head, severely crushing the
The Record will learn, after the Chicago | tween them and that he had been taken off at the instance of the CLEVELAND adminis- | ver. He voted for the free coinage of sil- | skull.
convention, that the Democratic masses be- | the A. P. A. black list. Then there were | tration. ver and he voted for the passage of the —Joseph Harvey, of Castanea, recently
lieve their party to be bigger and broader | other rumors showing that MCKINLEY was | This was what WALLER admitted im- i. vias sliees Yaw li, Pol removed from Bald Eagle creek some of the
—The eastern bankers and the western
silver miners may fight to their hearts con-
tent, but that doesn’t effect us. We are
still receiving the old silver dollars, when-
ever they are presented.
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i hat he had declined t liate with the | acts Far] : i i
that the Democratic people understand for that he had declin o affiliate wi 1€ | acts that warranted the French government | o] with gold.” —Friday, while Jona Dando, of Derry, was
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A Art oe St se pert SSeS
—That cyclone struck St. Louis just | than any one issue that interested parties | doing his accustomed wobbling in this mediately after his liberation, in the first gress, hut voted to pass it, and succeeded | timbers used in constructing the cribbing of
eighteen days too soon. It would have
been better had the storm not broken there
until the Republican national convention
should have convened. :
—The sweet girl graduate was in her ele-
ment yesterday. It is a question whether
the matter of an education seemed half as
important to her as the thought that she
was the cynosure of all eyes for the time
being.
—Governor BRADLEY has been indicted
for fracturing the law of Kentucky, by a
grand jury in his home county, which
may raise. It will also discover that the
Democratic voters of the State are no more
disposed to abandon their party and desert
its organization, at the dictum of eastern
money-lenders or western mine owners,
than they were two years ago, when its
proprietor, as the head of the Democratic
ticket, advised that the flag be lowered,
and the party surrender and disband be-
cause a rotten congressional district, in his
own city, determined to keep up its dirty,
factional fights. At that time the Record
would have had the people of the State be-
dark-lantern business. An official state-
ment was made by the governing hody of
the A. P. A. in session at ‘Washington that
he “fully and unequivocally indorsed the
principles of the order.”
the organization was not satisfied with
this statement and, accordingly, after the
adjournment of the regular convention,
delegates from twenty States got together
and adopted a resolution expressing their
want of confidence in McKINLEY, to which
the following was the preamble :
Whereas, Major McKinley did, on May 14, 1896,
But a fraction of
flush of his gratitude for the favor that had
been done him. Since then he has return-
ered a lecture in Philadelphia in which he
denounced the administration for not hav-
the hands of the French authorities,
WALLER is a colored man who will be
hired by the Republicans to go about the
country and retail this stuff during the
campaign. The methods of the G. O. P.;
in a presidential contest, are very dirty.
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in passing it over the veto of President
Hayes.
We beg to commend to our wobbling
contemporary the suggestion of the observ.
ant boy to his father, who insisted that his
paternal ancestor should = ‘‘either stop
ing done anything for him when he was in | Swearing or stop praying, he didn’t care
much which.”
Where Am I At?
An Old Story That is a Good One.
The recent performance in N ew York of
the ‘‘Messiah’’ recalls the story of the old
farmer who went to hear it for the first
time and indignantly left the hall soon af-
ter it began because, as he explained to his
a bridge pier over forty years ago. The tim-
of time, but was as sound as the day it was
cut.
—Patrick Kane, the well known progres-
sive citizen of Renovo, will be a candidate for
the nomination of associate judge at the com-
ing Democratic county convention in Clin-
ton. Mr. Kane when serving Clinton as
county commissioner made a good record for
himself."
—PFlorence Fuhrer, alias Elmer Fordish,
alias Elvin Ford, who shot and killed Mich-
ael F. Niland at Yoder’s siding, a short dis-
ber had been under the water for that length
to a committee of the national advisory board in No_Occasion for Secession.
simply goes to show what a bad thing the | lieve that the success and prosperity of the | ¢ity of Canton, 0. state that he heartily ap- er -.. wife. ‘“‘the show was so shameful.” He tance east of Rockwood, Somerset county, the
South regards a Republican Governor to be | Democratic party was of less importance proved the principles of the A. P. A., and on the The Republican Senators and representa- | Said that he didn’t know what the play or night of March 2, 1892, committed suicide by
at best. than who should draw the salary of a Con- following day gave an interview to the press de- | tives from the silver States, who support fhe Sash wae dont, Dus he sty Sh hanging himself in his cell at the western
gressman for representing the political heel- | nying that he had met such committee, thus giv- | yh, gjjver interest, are treading on danger- Were a oi of old maids at the front of the | PeRitentiary last week.
ers and tradersof the third district. It js | 478 the lie to the report of the committee, which ous ground when they begin to talk about stage bellowing at the top of their voices, —An experienced teacher says the pupils
was composed of honorable and truthful gentle- Ss . a
secession if the balance of the country will | “Unto us a child is born,” and then at the | 1 have access to newspapers at home, when
the same with it now on the money question. | pap. t
The same narrow conception of what In making to the committee of the A. P. | not comply with the monetary interests of os of og Sane ado of To. on ne compared with those who do not, are better
a iihy ont, ey readers, better spellers, better grammarians,
Democracy means ; the same limited idea A. a statement acknowledging his approval | their section. Representative BELFORD, Wonderful !”’ :
of what the party was organized for ; the | of their principles and the next day, in a | of Colorads, some days ago indulged ina | You see, the old man was very much | read more understandingly and Shtain 3
same contracted view of the situation, is press interview, denying that he had made | direct threat that the silver States would | mistaken. Yet, arguing from his premises, | practical knowledge of geography in almost
i in its eff i h TRY hav : : he was just right. The trouble was that | half the time it requires others. The news-
again put forth in its efforts to assist the such a statement, MCKINLEY showed that [ have to secede from the Union if the free. he SANE Know where toa ps. DEpeT By Serial ub Ions Shr
—If some of Russia's poor peasantry and
exiles had been given the $40,000,000 that
were squandered on the coronation exer-
cises at Moscow, the other day, there
would have been some cause for genuine
thanksgiving among them.
— Under the code ‘‘a moral box on the
ear’’ is sufficient cause for dueling in Ger-
We Amore ‘ rr interests it has closer to heart than it | he was as much disposed to wobble on the coinage of silver should not be allowed, —_—— saodom Hite
many. e mericans are not so sensitive. has those of the great party it pretends to dark-lantern question as on the currency. and Republican Senator STEWART, of Ne- | We Trust this is Not a Mistaken View 2
Even a plain, old fashioned, paternal box of It. —Over th r of the residence of C. R.
speak for. In this matter it is no better, Is it possible that the American people | vada, while deprecating such extreme lan-
on the ear never produced more than a co-
pious flood of tears from the average youth
here.
—Mr. RICHARD HARDING DAvis, the
New York pet correspondent, got beyond
his depth at the coronation of the Czar of
Russia. Dick is all right at love stories
but he got all wrong when it came to re-
porting the religious services that are nec-
essary to crown a Czar.
—Compressed air motors are heralded as
the future propellers for street cars. Judg-
ing from his great ‘silence what a vast
amount of compressed air MCKINLEY must
have stored up just now. He would make
a fine motor, if elected President. He
or broader, than the TILLMANS of the
South or the TELLERS of the West, and will
live to learn, as these advocates of the other
extreme will, that Democratic principles
are not confined to the narrow and sordid |
limits that would be designated for them
by Wall street interests, on one hand, or
owners of silver mines, on the other.
Whatever the Chicago convention may
do, on the money question, will be acqui-
esced in by the Democrats of this State.
They know and feel that the party was
founded before and will live after this
issue is settled—that there is no cardinal
principle at stake in the disposition of the
question and that a Democratic party to
will so far lose their senses as to elevate
such a wobbler to the presidential chair ?
The Industrial Peace.
The most intelligent business men and
the most enlightened financial intellects
are coming to the agreement that we do
not need any more tariff legislation on Mc-
KINLEY lines and that further agitation of
that question would be disastrous to the
business interests.
Among the better informed business men
who do not want the injurious disturbance
of another tariff campaign, is Mr. ANDREW
CARNEGIE, who is probably the largest
manufacturer in the United States. A few
guage, intimated that something of that
kind might happen if silver wasn’t
treated right.
We would advise these intended Repub-
lican secessionists not to imitate the ex-
ample of JEFF DAVIS and the other con-
federate leaders by breaking out in rebellion
because they can’t have things as they
want them. It wouldn’t look well for
any of the ‘‘truly loyal” to become seces-
sionists and rebels as this late day, and,
besides, they would be whipped back into
the Union as were the southern secessionists
over whose offense Republican hands were
held up in such holy horror.
The silver question, like every other
From the Williamsport Sun.
Filibustering expeditions continue to un-
load arms and ammunition in Cuba, and
the Spanish authorities are powerless to
prevent the landing of the munitions of
war. The Cubans, aided by a number of
Americans now on the island, are making
good use of the arms sent them, and each
day sees the end of the war for Cuban lib-
erty draw nearer. Weyler and his butch-
ers are now confined to fortified towns and
the trocha, with the prospects of further
decimation of their ranks by yellow fever.
Spain’s cause is lost, and nobody knows
this as well as Spain herself,
He Must Have Been a Dandy.
From the Pittsbuurg Dispatch.
A gentle little church fight that has just
Gearhart, Lock Haven. a pair of robins have
built their nest, curiously enough in the
spouting under the eaves of the roof, and al-
most under where the gutter empties therein.
Wednesday during the down-pour of rain the
mother robin bravely sat over her young,
though completely surrounded by a flood of
water, thus sheltering them from the rain
and from the wind.
—Two weeksagoa German who gave his
name as Samuel Barner, and who said his
home was in Switzerland, came to the resi-
dence of Jacob Cryder in Nittany valley and
asked to be allowed to remain over night.
He was permitted todo so, and during the
night was taken ill. His sickness developed
into typhoid fever, and Friday last he died.
His funeral took place on Saturday. The
would make everything go but the wheels | defend and enforce Democratic principles weeks ago he made the following remark to [question connected with the currency, is nn anos hash bis sis man sal Te ad Wall TET oq titl
of industry. is of a thousand fold more importance to | a representative of the Ion Age, the lead- | susceptible of regular and orderly settle- is. The congregation dispensed with the country.
—The awful calamity that befell St. the country than is any ‘‘gold”’ or “silver” ing American industrial publication: “I | ment at ‘the polls. It is a question in pastor’s services, whereupon he filed a bill —C. F. Clark, a stack painter, and Mary
Louis, on Wednesday, is a horror the mag- | Platform that is likely to be suggested or | agree with George B. Roberts, president of | which there can bea legitimate division of oF ins. A RO Wns Hoh on ie Waznor hic SResthoart: who resides at Mill
nitude of which none but those who are | could be adopted at Chicago. the Pennsylvania railroad, who i8 a typi- opinion. It furnishes no occasion for re- Ro ied ian ia too Hall, became involved in a quarrel in one of
eye witnesses will be able to realize. It — cal man of affairs of this country, and in- | bellion, and no reason for party bolts or much. It may require another lawsuit to | the rooms at the Brainard house Monday
reminds us, of Pennsylvania's mountain | Tromble 1 .th the Colored Delegates. deed of the world, since he is at the head of | splits. We believe that the people will | determine who is in the right. afternoon, during which the young woman
protected districts, how thankful we should the largest organization and gives employ- | settle it satisfactorily. Vipera alleges that Clark assaulted her in an angry
be that natural wind breakers prevent such ment to more labor than any ‘other man, I np a Y Oresperons,; manner. The girl’s screams caused several
fury of the elements. agree with him when he says that the tariff
About 100 colored delegates will appear
in the St. Louis convention from the Russian and American Czars. We have the authority of Mr. JAMES M. | men torun to her assistance. Clark was after
RT southern States and there are indications ar They have been having high jinks with SWANK, the leading statistician on the | wardsjailed and Tuesday morningat the hear
ED hoi ue Ry '" | that trouble is brewing concerning them, That there is a large class of thoughtful | the coronation of the Russian Czar in Mos. question of metal production, that the | ing Alderman Anthony held him for court in
y € P can nominee | Most of them have beer bought up in the b 3 d all the world has bee tchi 1895 was th test year in the iron | the sum of $200.
for President hasn't the courage to open his | . ; men who fear the effects of again plunging | ¢OW, and all the world has been wa 10g | year 1835 was the greatest y.
e : © courage to open-his | interest of the Ohio candidate, but as they the country into tariff agitation, and | the proceedings from far and near. It oc- | and steel trade that this country has ever| —Nathan Dorman was the victim of a
mouth on the paramount question of the | are 3 purchasable commodity an attempt are desirous of industrial Peake is | curs to us that those Russian ceremonies | seen. It was the first year under the WiL- | dreadful accident in Watts township, Perry
currency. Does MCKINLEY think that the may be made to buy them again by the op- | te must excite sad reflections in the mind of | Sox tariff and the volume of production in | county. While out driving his horse ran off,
American people elect Presidénts merely to . evidenced by the call for a convention of excite € min xr 5 : : £
ponents of the tariff NAPOLEON. i i Tom R It must grieve him to think | every department of iron and steel was un. | and in trying to get out of the age neo
satisfy the ambitions of aspirants? If : is obj representatives of boards of trade, agricul | TOM REED. It must grieve him ME | svery departing : ’s legs slipped between the spokes of
satisfy of aspirants ? 8% | Itis probably for this object that the ae ; that after he had established his right to be | precedented Dorman’s legs slippe con Po.
he is a woefully mistaken Sil . tural associations, business firms and man- alter he establis 1S igi Pprecedented. the wheel. He was dragged for a mile, his
y It man. Silence is | golgred brethren from the South have been Tk : it | the Republican C f thi try th This revival is the more gratifying as fol- | the Wheel. : : 3
golden sometimes, and possibly MCKINLEY invited toa barbecue at Washington, on | “2cturers, which is to be held in Detroit, | the Republican Czar o 18: contiiry: the HS TeViyA, grat ying body going around with every revolution of
expects to have his construed in that way. | the 1st of J ii ol go | on the 2nd of J & to forma permanent | MCKINLEY craze struck his party and in- | lowing the slump that attended the OPE” | the wheel. Although nearly every bone in
€ Ist of June, where it is arranged to organization whose object will be “‘to take | terfered with his being crowned. Such re- | tions of the MCKINLEY tariff. There is no | 3c body was broken, he was conscious when
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But if he does he isa coward for beating
about the bush in such a manner.
" —The two plain American tourists, who
arrived in Odessa, Russia, on Wednesday,
and were received by the mayor of the city
and a guard of honor and found themselves
dined and wined without cost, must have
had their eyes opened to the grandeur of
editorship when they learned that they had
been mistaken for CHAS. A. DANA, editor
of the New York Sun. It was a great joke
on DANA that he should have been knock-
ed about as ordinary tourists are, while
some other fellows were enjoying the
“blow out’’ our admiring Consul, at that
place, had planned for the reception of the
great editor.
SF.
capture them in the interest of Toy REED.
Most of them have promised to attend and
something might be done with them on
the occasion of this entertainment if they
are given the right kind of feed. A liberal
supply of possum would put them in ex-
cellent humor to support the candidate in
whose interest the feast would be given.
But the colored delegate is most suscepti-
ble to the influence of a money argument.
He goes to Republican national conven-
tions for cash and the candidate with whom
he makes the last dicker usually gets his
ote. MARK HANNA has the stuff to pre-
vent those representatives of southern Rew
publicans from straying away from Mc-
KINLEY at St. Louis.
the tariff out of politics.”
Every business in the country is interest-
ed in that object, and there is a timeliness
in calling this convention immediately pre-
vious to the meeting of a political conven-
tion at St. Louis which theatens to inflict
the country with business turmoil and in-
dustrial confusion by the nomination of a
candidate who, while he straddles the more
important question of the currency, will
calculate upon making his election by re-
viving the tariff disturbance and howling
It is about time that the business inter-
ests of the country serve notice on the Mc-
flections must naturally have the effect of
making the would-be Republican Czar jeal-
ous of Czar NICHOLAS who had no Russian
MCKINLEY to interfere with his corona-
tion. :
It is said that the proceedings at Moscow
cost $40,000,000, all spent in a week’s time
and for a single show. With such a chance
for squandering money, and others of a
similar character, how a billion dollar Con-
gress would be able to spread itself in Rus-
sia. But Tod REED would have to be at
the head of it to do full justice to such an
opportunity of making the money fly. But,
seriously speaking, the expenses of imperial
Russia do not begin to equal the outlay of
KINLEY campaigners that this disturbance
will not be tolerated.
this free government under Republican
rule.
branch of production that is represented as
being more dependent upon protection
than the iron and steel industry. And yet
it is seen that it revives from a condition of
great prostration under a highly protective
tariff to unprecedented activity under low-
er tariff duties.
A gratifying feature of this revival is
that much of the iron and steel product of
the last year found a market abroad, and
that the operations were not attended by
the strikes and labor disturbances that pre-
vailed during the entire continuance of the
McKINLEY tariff. The immense iron and
steel product of last year was not marred
by the riotous and bloody interruption of
Homestead incidents.
rescued, but he died soon afterwards. Dor-
man was forty years old.
—The dwelling house occupied by C. C.
Foster, near Dudley, Huntingdon county,
was totally destroyed by fire on Sunday
morning, the 10th inst., the fire originating
froin a defective flue in the kitchen about 11
o'clock. The family were unable to save any
of the furniture. Mrs. Foster was sick and
eit was with some difficulty that she was res-
cued. One of the children was in bed, and
knew nothing of his danger until his father
came to his rescue. The building was a two-
story log structure known as the Charles
Barnett property, owned by the Broad top
Coal and Iron company. The lossis about
$1,200. Mr. Foster had his furniture in-
sured for $400.