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Bellefonte, Pa., July 24, 1896.
P. GRAY MEEK, - - Eprror.
Democratic National Ticket.
"FOR PRESIDENT
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN,
: of Nebraska.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT
ARTHUR SEWELL,
of Maine.
Democratic State Ticket.
FOR CONGRESSMEN AT-LARGE,
JOHN M. BRADIN, Washington Co.
BENJ. C. POTTS, Delaware Co.
FOR ELECTORS AT-LARGE,
WILLIAM M. SINGERLY, Philadelphia.
JAS. DENTON HANCOCK, Venago.
A. H. COFFROTH, Somerset.
GEO. W. GUTHRIE, Pittsburg.
FOR DISTRICT ELECTORS,
John M. Carroll,
Samuel Dickson,
Chas. J. Reilly,
Albert M. Hicks,
John M. Campbell, J. P. Hoffar,
James J. Ryan, Lucien Banks,
John Hagen, A. J. Brady,
John H. Hickson,
John B. Storm,
Thos. A. Haak,
Chas. F. Reninger,
Chas. H. Sa
Thomas R. Philips,
Charles F. King,
John K. Royal,
William Stahler.
George W. Rhine,
John C. Patton,
William Weihe,
Judson J. Brooks,
John J. McFarland,
C. H. Aikens,
Seymour S. Hackett,
Harry Alvin Hall.
Democratic County Ticket.
FOR CONGRESS.
J. L. SPANGLER.
Subject to the decision of the district conference.
(JAS. SCHOFIELD,
| ROBERT M. FOSTER.
For Sheriff—W. M. CRONISTER.
For Treasurer—C. A. WEAVER.
For Recorder—J. C. HARPER.
For Register—GEO. W. RUMBERGER.
ForCommissioners— ! DBE El AAR.
{ FRANK HESS,
|B. F. KISTER.
For County Surveyor—J. H. WETZEL.
For Coroner—W. U. IRVIN.
For Assembly—
For Auditors—
Mr. Singerly’s Bolters.
MR. SINGERLY has at length got his
‘‘bolt’’ launched. It did not come with
cyclonic swiftness, nor is it of such propor-
tion that the cramped space of a hack of-
fice will not accommodate it. It has been in
embryo for months. It has been suckled
with the tenderness of a babe. It has been
coaxed and encouraged with the persistence
and earnestness of evangelistic effort. ' It
has been exploited as an uprising of the
people and as the representative of all that
was good, and honest, and patriotic in pol-
itics—as the Thermopylae of the govern-
ment’s credit against which the wild eyed
‘fanatics of the West, and the unshaven
hordes of ‘‘Anarchy and Socialism,’ all
over the country, would dash themselves
and their doctrines to pieces. It has been
boasted about until it became a question,
with its sponsors, if the limits of the Com-
monwealth were sufficient within which to
marshall the hosts of dissatisfied patriots(?)
who would rally around Col. SINGERLY’S
standard of revolt. It is here at last in all
its glory and graatness. It got itself to-
gether last Friday, hang-man’s day, in the
back office of the money lenders of Phila-
delphia and consisted of five bank presi-
dents, six attachees of trust companies, ten
corporation lawyers, one country judge,
one rail-road director and one other indi-
vidual, whose vocation could not be ascer-
tained. Twenty-four in all.
— And there are 400,000 Democrats in
Pennsylvania.
What an illustration of the influence (?)
of Philadelphia’s two flunking papers the
Record and The Times.
What an impressive lesson for men who
imagined they moulded public sentiment,
and commanded public confidence.
"Twenty-four holters, ont of 400,000 Dem-
ocrats ? :
Verily the tailors of Tooly street’ still
live, ‘and brother SINGERLY is their mouth-
‘piece.
The People are Seeking a Remedy.
There is a condition of affairs existing in
the country that has set the people to
thinking, particularly the farmers.
Outside of a limited class but few are
prosperous in a land whose natural resources
should ensure general prosperity. Labor
is ‘but scantily rewarded. In too many
cases the working people have scarcely
more than a subsistence. The farmers also
are not receiving an adequate return for
their toil. ‘Within the last ten years farm
lands have greatly depreciated in value
and the price of farm ‘products is not more
than half what it was but comparatively a
few years ago. :
This depression of the farming interest is
not confined to the West where complaint
among the farmers is universal. It also
exists in this State and in every other. In
New York State, where the location of
agricultural property should tend to pros-
perity, ninety per cent of the farms are
encumbered, and it is alleged on good au-
thority that in a majority of cases if the
mortgages should be foreclosed the mort-
gage holders would he obliged to take the
farms in payment.
When the agricultural people are in this
plight it is needless to say that the general
class of working people are comparatively
in a worse condition. Thousands of man-
ual toilers are out of employment or work-
ing at wages insufficient to furnish a de-
cent living, while on the other hand the
tariff-fed trusts are prosperous and growing
more numerous.
In this state of affairs the people are
forced to the conclusion that something is
radically wrong. The tariff managers have
been accustomed to tell them that they
need more protéetion, but the high rate of
duties under both the last and the present
tariff affords enough proof that it is not on
account of the want of sufficient tariffing
that the country does not prosper. The
trouble must lie in some other quarter,
and the people are becoming compelled to
attribute it to defects in our money sys-
tem.
They have a right to believe that our
currency has been so juggled in the inter-
est of those who have secured control of the
money market, and for the benefit of the
creditor class, such as the bankers, brokers
and money speculators, that the large mass
of the people who compose the other class
are being driven to the wall.
This is becoming the popular convie-
tion, and those who are suffering from this
condition of affairs propose to find a remedy.
Republican U. 8. Senator Teller’s Formal
Declaration for Bryan.
When United States Senator HENRY M.
TELLER, of Colorado, walked out of the
St. Louis convention, on the 17th of June,
followed by U. 8. Senator FREDERICK T.
DuBois, of Idaho, and other men who had
been prominent in the leadership and coun-
cils of Republicanism for years, their future
course could only be surmised. It required
courage for such men to face the hisses and
insults of those with whom they had fought
in many a grand campaign, but their plea
for silver had fallen on deaf ears and they
could no longer support a party that struck
down one section of the country while it
elevated another.
They might have been called radicals,
extremists, heretics, anarchists, whatever
you will, yet they had a purpose and were
Lonest in it. So honest that they left the
party with which they had had life long af-
filiation to wait until the Populist or silver
parties would adopt principles which were
more in accord with the views they enter-
tained. They did not have to wait that
long, however, for the Chicago conven-
tion, in championing the cause of the
masses, championed their cause, as well,
and the letter Senator TELLER wrote to
| Mr. BRYAN, on Saturday, sets all specula-
tion at rest as to where he will stand in
the coming fight.
DENVER, CoL., July 18, 1896.
“Hon. W. J. Bryan, Lincoln, Neb ?”’
“Dear Sir.—I congratulate you on your
nomination at Chicago. I think the country
is to be congratulated also. I need not assure
you that your nomination was more than
satisfactory to me. I think we shall be able
to consolidate all the friends of free silver in
your support, and if we do this I believe you
will be elected, although I do not overlook
the tremendous power that will be put against
us in this campaign. All the power of money
and organized wealth, corporations and
monopolies of all kinds will be against us.
Justice is.on aur side, and this is the cause of
the people. It isa contest for industrial in-
dependence and for freedom from the domina-
tion for foreign powers and foreign cap-
italists, and it does not seem possible that in
such a contest before the American people
justice should fall and wrong prevail. I do
not believe we shall fail.”
CORDIAL SUPPORT PROMISED.
“I think I can promise you the cordial
support of the western silver men who have
heretofore acted with the Republican party,
and if you get that I think all of the Pacific
{ coast and intermountain States will be with
! you.”
“I will not offer any suggestions to you
save to advise you that, as you were nom-
inated without pledges of favor or privilege
to any one, you maintain that position and
make no pledges or promises, so that you
‘may go into the great office of President of
the United States without the embarrassment
that follows pledges and promises, even if
they are such as may be properly carried
out.”
“It will afford me pleasure to place myself
at the disposal of the national committee to
make speeches in your behalf, as my' health
will permit, where and when they may think
I will do good. Iam, very respecefully,”
“H. M. TELLER.”
Singular View of the Issue.
The Philadelphia Times, which has be-
come quite a zealous supporter of McKIN-
LEY, notwithstanding the abominations
implied in his candidacy, thinks that the
champion of tariff spoliation ‘‘struck the
marrow of the great issue before the peo-
ple of the United States’’ when he got off
such a platitude as this: ‘‘Financial dis-
honor is the threatened danger now, and
good men will obliterate old lines of party
in a united effort to uphold American hon-
or.”
The ‘‘financial dishonor’’ which McKIN-
LEY alludes to in this expression is the res-
toration of silver to its old standing in the
currency of the country. In all his speeches
and public acts on the money question, be-
fore the pressure of the eastern capitalists
put him on a gold platform, he advocated
and supported a more liberal monetary use
of silver. His personal preference would
have been for a silver plank in the Repubs
lican platform, but as the controlling pow-
er in the party preferred to make it gold,
the Republican candidate is constrained to
declare that the silver policy he so recently
favored threatens ‘‘financial dishonor.’
long continued position in regard to silver,
such a declaration borders on imbecility,
and yet the Philadelphia 7imes, which is
willeg to accept all atrocities of McKiIN-
A were condoned by sucha
driveling sentiment, thinks that it has
struck the marrow of the great issue before
the American people. Cor. MCCLURE ap-
pears to have formed a very singular idea
of what the great issue before the Ameri-
number of millionaires is multiplying and
can people really is.
In Defence of Personal Liberty.
We are neither an admirer nor defender
of DEBBS, who got himself into trouble by
his leadership in the Chicago railroad riots,
nor do we approve of the general methods
of professional labor agitators, but there
was a feature in the DEBBS case, as disposed
of by judicial process, that must be con-
demned by all who wish to preserve the
safe-guards of personal liberty provided by
the constitution, and we are glad that it
was referred to in that part of the Chicago
platform which denounced ‘‘government
by injunction as a new and highly danger-
ous form of oppression.’’
DEBBs was charged with an indictable of-
fense, but upon its becoming obvious to
his prosecutors, partly governmental and
partly corporate, that he could not be con-
victed by a jury, they adopted the ‘‘revolu-
tionary and anarchical’’ method of resort-
ing to an injunction, by means of which he
was brought before a judge who proceeded
to try him by a process that was sure to
convict him and inflict a punishment
which the constitution and the legal guar-
antees of personal liberty never designed to
have inflicted upon a citizen without the
verdict of a jury.
DEBBs might have merited the punish-
ment, and it might have been a misfortune
that a jury could not have been found to en-
force justice in his case, but it was a great
violence to the regular process of the law,
and a menace to the safety of the citizen,
to have resorted to irregular methods of
procedure to ensure his punishment. If
the constitutional right of trial by jury
could be overborne in the case of DEBBS,
there is not an American citizen whose
personal liberty cannot be sacrificed asa
matter of legal expediency.
It was eminently Democratic for the
platform of a Democratic convention to
protest against the removal of the safe- |
guards that protect the personal liberty of |
the American citizen.
Silver for the Payment of Bonds. |
Out in Kansas there isa Republican can-
didate for Congress, named CURTIS, who
has the courage of his convictions. He is
convinced that the restoration of silver to
its ancient and proper position in the cur-
rency of the country would be beneficial to
general interests, and he conducts his con-
gressional campaign on that line notwith-
standing the surrender of his party ‘to the
gold influence of Wall street, New York,
and Lombard St., London.
Mr. CURTIS has been in Congress for
quite a while and he calls attention to the
fact that in 1878 a resolution, known as
the STANLEY MATTHEWS’ resolution, for
which he voted, passed the Senate and the
House, its expression being as follows :
Resolved, That all the bonds of the United
States issued under the acts of Congress of
July 14th, 1870, and January 14th, 1875, are
payable, principal and interest, at the option
of the government of the United States, in
silver dollars of the coinage of the United
States containing 412} grains each of stand-
ard silver, and that to restore to its coinage
such silver coins as a legal tender in payment
of said bonds, prindiog and interest, 1s'ifot in
violation of the public faith nor in deroga-
tion of the rights of the public creditor.
Mr. Curtis is of the opinion that if it
was good doctrine in 1878 that certain
bonds of the United States could be paid
| which ought to alarm all who are
good doctrine at this time.
Those bonds were made payable in
‘“‘coin.”” Both the Senate and House de-
elared, in 1878, that silver wasassuitable a
kind of ‘“‘coin’’ as gold for their payment,
but it has been only since Wall street and
Lombard street, combined, were allow-
ed to manipulate this matter in the RoTHs-
CHILD and ICHLEHEIMER interest that it
has been discovered that the use of any-
thing but gold for the payment of - these
bonds would be rank repudiation and a
gross breach of the public faith.
Want in Every Town.
By James Wolfenden, Lock Haven, Pa.
Publications on bankers’ combine de-
monetizing silver, to change the face of
United States bonds reading payable in
coin, and thereby making it gold, to en-
hance the holders’ profits and place greater
shackles on the debtor people to pay two
| for one berrowed.
United States paper currency has been |
withdrawn from circulation and interest-
bearing national bonds issued for the same,
which enables national banks to obtain
three per cent. interest on their idle cur-
rency and the additional six or more per
cent. when discounting labor notes.
The violation of the constitution on
silver free coinage has changed the forms
of trade barter from the producer naming
the price to the purchaser dictator of terms.
The real labor money of the world,
silver, isin proportion of fifteen to one of
gold, and it is the fruition of honest labor
toil, with the pick, shovel, drill and sledge
hammer, requiring two hundred fold more
workers and consumers of coal, iron, cot-
tons, woolens, food, etc., labor products
than is required to publish bills of bank-
ers’ credit of promise to pay (no coin).
Labor, labor, labor demands silver
free coinage of the only available metal to
obtain a steadfast trade and in parity with
the world’s ratio of honest labor money
and thus create a greater demand for lahor,
products of forest, farms, mines mills and
profitable patronage of every American
trade. ~
Considering MCKINLEY’S recent and |
We have the home market to capture on
| woolens, cottons, etc., for additional labor
| occupation to the tune of $600,000,000 an-
| nually, which by the equitable rights of
| home labor and capital of American mark-
| ets for our own people in that intelligent
{ order of national remuneration.
Miners with the Democracy.
| Chances are that Bryan Will Carry a Republican
County.
CUMBERLAND, Md.—July 22.—The
| miners of George's creek mining region are
| for free silver without regard to party.
{ This has always been considered a sound
| money county, but hundreds who have
| heretofore been identified with the Repub-
lican party will vote for Bryan. This
{ county went Republican last fall by 1,900
| majority. Reports from the agricultural
| portions are that 10 out of every 12 farmers
| are in favor of free silver.
in silver dollars, without the government !
| being guilty of repudiation, it is equally |
Th .
Were Jefferson and Jackson Anarchists, too? They Instituted Reforms.
From the New York Journal.
Toryism is an instinct, a temperament, which is found in all countries and at all ep-
ochs.
And it always exhibits itself in the same way. It takes alarm at every sugges-
tion of reform, and its first impulse is to assail the motives of the agitators who attempt
to end old abuses, and to bury them under a torrent of vituperation. We have had
three great periods of political advancement in this country before the present one—
those marked respectfully by the triumphs of the Jeffersonian Republicans over reaction-
ary Federalism, the final establishment of the widest popular government under Jack-
son, and the abolition of slavery. In every case the voices that are now shouting ‘‘Ja-
cobinism.” ‘‘Revolution’ and ‘‘Anarchy’’ had their counterparts shrieking precisely the
same epithets. With only a change of names, but not of language, a Federalist diatribe
in 1800 would have passed equally well for an anti-Jackson manifesto in 1828, a pro.
slavery pronunciamento in 1856, or a McKinley ‘‘savior-of-society’’ proclamation in the
present year.
In many cases the Tories of 1396 are the lineal successors of those that libelled Jeft-
erson and Jackson and stirred up the mobs to lynch abolitionists. Two of our New
York contemporaries, the Evening Post and the Commercial Advertiser, date back to the ear-
ly days of American politics. They saw the same horrors then that they seenow. It is
the most persistent case of tremens on record.
In the campaign of 1200 ‘Marcellus,’ supposed to he Hamilton, predicted in the
Commercial Advertiser that Jefferson, if elected, would turn out every Federalist office-
holder, “tumble the financial system of the country into ruin at one stroke,” and thus
of necessity stop all payments of interest on the public debt and bring on ‘‘universaj
bankruptcy and beggary.’” He would dismantle the navy, so that ‘‘every vessel which
floated from our shores would be plundered or captured.” The sacred veterans of the
Revolution, deprived of their pensions, would be seen “starving in the streets, or living
on the cold and precarious supplies of charity.” The officers of the government, unable
to collect their salaries, would resign, and counterfeiting would be practiced with im-
punity.”’
Nothing much worse has heen feared from the election of Bryan. Yet Jefferson’s
election was the beginning of the most prosperous period this country had ever known,
and the results of the experiment pleased the people so well that the very name of the
opposition party died out, and when, in the course of a quarter of a century, fresh po-
litical divisions arose, there had to be an entirely new start, since the whole Union had
hecome Jeffersonian.
Even after Jefferson’s election the alarmists continued their gloomy predictions for a
time. The Evening Post, which from its very earliest days has had the habit of collect-
ing its valuable opinions in pamphlet form,
putting them on sale in its counting room,
and then suppressing them when it finds it advisable to alter its course, attacked his
otherwise the Post, was that :
| first message in a series of articles signed ‘‘Lucius Crassus.” The verdict of Crassus,
The message of the President, by whatever motives it may have been dictated, is a performance
welfare of our nation. It makes, or aims
anxious for the safety of our government, for the respectability and
at making, a most prodigious sacriflce of constitutional en-
ergy, of sound principle, and of public interest, to the popularity of one man.
To complete the similarity between that time and this, the clergy was as active in be-
¥
half of ‘‘order and property’ then as now.
eralism from a thousand pulpits.
The political preacher was expounding Fed-
The Rev. John Mason, the fashionable exhorter of
New York, suspended a fast day sermon to exclaim :
Send us, if thou wilt, murrain upon our cattle, a famine upon our land :
stroy our cities ;
Napoleon Bonaparte,
send us pestilence to de-
5 send us if it pleases thee, the sword to bathe ourselves in the blood of our sons ; but
spare us, Lord God Most Merciful, spare us that curse—most dreadful of all
curses—an alliance with
So detestable were the Republican doctrines thought to be that the men who held
them were cut by their Federalist acquaintances. Social persecution was added to po-
litical proseription. The families of the Republican leaders were harrassed. During
the absence of Elbridge Gerry in France, in 1793, the model of a guillotine, stained with
blood and bearing a headless effigy, was repeatedly set up before the window of his
young wife in Cambridge.
When Jefferson was elected, the people in the stanch Federalist sections despaired of
the republic. They expected to see the government crumble to pieces about their ears.
But to their astonisment the republic went on, greater, more powerful and more honored
than ever. And so it will go on after the election of Bryan. The historian of the twen-
tieth century will relate the outbreak of the curious hysteria of 1896 with the same
amusement with which the historian of to-day tells of the delusions of 1800.
mrs
Republican United States Senators De-
clare for Bryan and Free Silver.
The Republican delegates who left the
convention of their party at St. Louis be-
cause it ignored a claim which they ‘advan-
ced with perfect good faith have at last
announced their position. At Manitou,
Col., on Monday, they gave out the follow-
ing manifesto to all advocates of free silver.
“We deem it fitting that we have heretofore af-
filiated with the national Republican party and
who have rejected the financial plank of the plat-
form adopted at St. Louis and refused to support
the nominees of the convention should state our
Position in the presidential campaign and gave
sriefly our reasons in support thereof.
“When certain delegates to the national repub-
lican convention repudiated the financial plank of
the platform and withdrew from the convention,
we determined that we would give our support to
such candidates as should appear most willing
and capable of aiding in the restoration of silver
to its rightful place as standard money.
“The democratic party has, at its Chicago con-
vention, taken a position in its platform so pro-
nouncedly favorable to silver, Ah has named can-
didates of such unquestionable convictions in fa-
vor of the bimetallic policy and of such high per-
sonal character, that we have determined to give
them our support. We support such candidates
because they represent the great principles of bi-
metallism, which we believe to be the cause of
humanity, of civilization and the paramount ques-
. lion now before the American people.
“We therefore announce that we shall, by voice
and vote, support Messrs. Bryan and Sewall for
president and vice president, and we Appel to all
citizens, and especially republicans who feel as
we do, that gold monometallism would be of last-
ing injury to the country, to act with us in secur-
ing their election.
“The democrats who believe in the gold stand-
ard are announcing their intention to support
McKinley or proposing to puta third candidate in
the field for the avowed purpose of aiding Mr.
McKinley's election. A great number of leadin
and influential democratic journals have declare
they will support the republican nominees. It is
evident there is to be a union of forces on the part
of the advocates of the gold standard to elect Mr.
McKinley and a congress favorable to him which
will support the financial policy outlined in the
republican platform. . .
“To those who believe in bimetallism,
which means the equal treatment of both
gold and silver at the mints of the nation,
there is but ona course to pursue, and that is to
unite all the silver forces to oppose with all our
might the candidate representing the policy which
we believe is fraught with disaster to the nation
and ruin to the people. Gold monometallism
means the shifting to gold alone as Smary mon-
ey all the burdens of commerce and credit form-
erly borne by gold and silver, and the world’s
stock of these metals has always been about equal
in amount, it means the doubling of the burden
on gold. Doubling the burden upon gold means
the doubling the demand for the same, and doub-
ling the demand of necessity doubles the value
thereof. This gradual shifting to gold of all the
burdens of both gold and silver has caused a
gradual and steady increase in the value of every
dollar redeemable in gold and hence a gradual
and steady decline in the value of every commo-
dity that is measured hy that dollar.
“‘The representatives and supporters of Mr. Mc-
Kinley consented to the insertion in the St.
Louis platform for the gold standard this declara-
ration for bimetallism. = ‘When the leading com-
mercial nations of the world should consent, but
until that consent was secured, the gold standard
must be maintained. It is well known that this
eonsent cannot be secured from Great Britian and
that such declaration for bimetallism means noth-
ing with this limitation upon it. Mr. McKinley
consented to the declaration for the gold standard
in the platform and in his recent speeches has ac-
cepted it, and he has become the advocate there-
of; he has shown by his speeches heretofore
made that he understood the danger of the gold
standard and the distress which would be inflict-
ed upon the American people by its adoption and
vet he pledges the people to support and main-
tain that system, and fasten upon them: all the
evils of the financial system which he has hereto-
fore repudiated if they will make him president.
Whatever may have been his attitude on thé
money question in the past, he must inevitably
hereafter support the same financial system that
the present democratic administration has, and if
elected, must continue the policy of Mr. Cleve-
land in the sale of bonds in time of peace. Hence
with the successor of Mr. McKinley we may look
for a continued increase of the public debt and
the sale of bonds to maintain, the.gold standard.
“That the condition of the country is not satis-
factory, all admit. The producers of wealth are
not receiving fair and proper compensation for
their labor whether in field, factory or mine ; en-
terprise has ceased, values are constantly declin-
ing, labor is unerhployed, discontent and distress
prevail to an extent never before known in the
oy of the country, and no reason can be
a ———————— er TT SE ————.
found for such an unhappy condition save in a
vicious, monetary system. Those who profess to
deplore the present financial condition and op-
pose the free coinage of silver are divided in
opinion as to the cause of the present condition.
Some declare that it is because we have too much
tariff, others that we have not enough, while the
fact exists that every gold standard country in
the world, whether if has a high or low tariff, is
now and has been during recent years in the
throes of a financial panic, and every silver stand-
ard country compared with its former condition
is enjoying an industrial developement and de-
gree of prosperity hitherto unknown in its hist-
ory. While thus differing in opinion, they unite
in Seserine that the gold standard must be main-
tained until foreign countries shall signify their
willingness that the American people shall exer-
ercise the right of free men and create a financial
system of their own. If we overlook the humila-
tion and degradation we must feel on account of
such a declaration of financial dependence we
may well inquire when the consent of the leading
commercial nation will be obtaitied.
‘‘No one who has read the proceedings of the in-
ternational monetary conferences that have al-
ready been held or who has examined the im-
racticable propositions presented at these con-
erences can for a moment believe that any inter-
national bimetallic agreement can ever be made
with the consent of all “The leading commercial
nations of the world.” When will Great Britian,
controlled as she is and ever will be, by the cred:
itor classes, who collect vast sums of money for
interest due her and her citizens who buy of us
annually many more millions than she sells to us
and whose interest it is to make the Moun] ster-
ling purchase as much of our products as possi-
ble, consent that we shall he financially indepen-
dent as we are supposed to be politically indepen-
dent. When did the creditor classes of Great
Britian ever give up or in any way yield an ad-
vantage such as they now possess through the
maintenance of the gold standard. There is no
hope for international bimetallism until the Unit-
ed States shall establish bimetallism for itself,
and when that is done, international bimetallism
can be secured without the consent of Great. Brit-
ian, The United States on all other subjects of
legislation acts independently of any nation on
earth. By what process of reasoning is its right,
authority, ability to legislate upon the most im-
portant subject with which it has to deal, ques-
tioned, or denied.
‘With a nation equal in wealth and power to
one-fourth of the world, it is cowardly to say that
we must ask the consent of Great Britian to estab-
lish a finaneial policy of our own. Believing as
we do, that a return to the monetary system es-
pecially recognized in the constitution as com-
pletely provided for by the law from 1792 till 1873
affords the only hope for the betterment of the
distressed condition ofall the classes except those
who live by the increment that money loaned
gives to those who loan it, we appeal to all classes
to rally to the support of the only eandidate whose
success indicates any hope of relief.
“Let the merchant and business man, whose
dwindling and lessened profits have, despite his
cares and economy, brought him face to face
with prospective bankruptcy and ruin: the 1%
fessional man whose best efforts scarcely afford
him compensation for his labor alone ; the farmer
the continually falling prices of whose products
have left him no returns for capital invested and
work performed, and last but not least, let the
grand army of laboring men, =o called’ the artisan,
the mechanic and the miner, and every one who
depends upon his daily labor for his daily bread,
look about him and observe the great number of
those who vainly seek for a chance to work—upon
the great army of enforced idlers—and one and
all resolve to try, not an experiment (for bimetal-
lism is not an experiment), but rather a return to
a policy that throughout the vicissitudes of our
nation’s infancy, through the internecine struggle
of its manhood kept us a great, free and prosper-
ous nation, in which the labor was not only re-
spected and employed, but was so compensated
that want and distress, such as now weigh upon
us, was unknown. Let the lesson of slavery, too
recent and too plain to be gainsaid or denied, be
heeded, and let there be no fear that a system
that so wonderfully protected labor, developed
business enterprise and secured to the nation a
contented and prosperous people in the past, will
do aught but bring to us a return of like prosperi-
ty, the predictions of disaster of our opponents to
the contrary notwithstanding.
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“Profoundly impressed with the importance of
the issues of this campaign, for ourselves, and
our associates, we respectfully submit the fore-
going to the candid considerailon of the Ameri-
can people.”
[Signed] H. M. TELLER,
Frep D. Dusois,
LEE MANTLE,
CHARLES 8, Harmaay,
Epcar Wilson,
Joux F. SHAFROTH,
‘A. M. STEVENSON,
Committee.
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——Subhseribe for the WATCHMAN.
ADDITIONAL LOCALS,
—The most enjoyable entertainment
ever given by local talent in Bellefonte
will be ‘the Midway,” in the Armory,
next Tuesday and Wednesday evenings.
It will be a take off on that great amuse-
ment enterprise at the World’s Fair at Chi-
cago and will have many of the most pop-
ular features. There will be villages of
Germans, Javanese, Dahomeyans, Irish-
men, Turks, East Indians, the streets of
Cairo and everything except the dance-du-
ventre, which will be left out. There will
be a camel to ride and ‘‘Hagenbacks’’ ani-
mals to perform for you. The price of ad-
mission is only 10 cents.
All Through Brush Valley.
It is a boy that makes Mr. John Royer smile so
serenely.
Miss Eva Moyer is housed up with a severe case
of the mumps.
Mr. and Mrs. Jas. K. Moyer are visiting friends
at Bloomsburg.
Henry Wolf, of Mifflinburg, visited his brother,
John Wolf, last week.
Allen Zeigler returned from the western part
of the state, this week. \
Mrs. Weaver, of Bellwood, is visiting her
brother and mother at Wolf Store.
Jasper Brumgart, of Rebersburg, is one of our
able silver students and advocates.
Jared Kreamer, of Centre Hall, and Mr. Stamm,
of Boalsburg, were in our valley this week.
Forest Emerick, came home last week from
Luzerne county, from his ‘“hay-making” visit.
Mrs. Royer and her daughter Mame, of Bell-
wood, are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Calvin
Morris.
Prof. Harry Couser, of Sunbury, is visiting Dr.
Bright, and engaged in a series of microscopic
examinations. :
Sup’t. Gramley reports having spent a very
pleasant and profitable time at the State Teach-
er's Association.
Miss Pellman, of Hartleton, who graduated at
Bucknell University inthe year '91, is visiting
her Madisonburg friends.
The Madisonburg merchants have originated a
method of advertising when they say “Saitan is
after you.” “Come to our plaice.”
Hon. Willis Bierly, and Rev. Mumma attended
the Sunday school picnic held last Saturday near
Booneville. Both gave very able and interesting
addresses.
Cornelius Stover, of Rebersburg, is one of our
practical silver men. He arranged for the poli-
tical meeting held at Madisonburg. Such Demo-
crats are in great demand.
Let every one of our Madisonburg people turn
out on the coming Tuesday evening, to hear Hon.
Willis R. Bierly, of North Dakota, lecture on the
financial problem. Ladies are cordially invited.
Hon. Willis Bierly will lecture at Loganton this
evening, at Coburn to-morrow evening, at Tylers-
ville on Monday evening, and at Madisonburg on
Tuesday evening. About a dozen people of Belle-
fonte, and among them James Schofield and Re-
corder Smith, came over to attend the Centre Hall
silver meeting which was a large gathering held
in the Grange auditorium.
Centre Hall.
Friday, July 23rd, is the day set apart by the
Reformed 8. 8. for a picnic. A large crowd and a
good time is anticipated.
The silver question was discussed by Prof.
Bierly in the Grange auditorium Monday night.
The night was rainy, but the attendance fair.
Rev. Davis, of Presbyterian faith, has been
among those of his kind for the past few weeks.
The charge, however, has not settled upon the
matter of giving him a call.
Boozer Bros, livery is in demand this week.
Every horse and conveyance being engaged for
the entire week. The livery is a well kept one,
and is largely patronized by traveling men, who
find this the most convenient point from which to
‘‘do” a large portion of the county.
On Saturday last, quite a crowd went out to the
ball ground with colors flying and the band play-
ing but they returned with heads down and their
bouquets wilted after seeing the boys beaten by a
score of 8 to 11 by the Lemont and Boalsburg
team combined.
The National encampment at Lewistown was at-
tended by many of the young people in and about
Centre Hall. “Among others were the following ;
Will Shoop, Edwin Ruhl, George Mowery, Squire -
John Dauberman, G. O. Geise, Prof. E. J. Wolf, C.
F. Denninger, Clyde and John Meyer, Dr. J. F.
Alexander, Emily Alexander, Grace Alexander,
Tacy Kreamer, Jennie Odenkirk. S. W. Smith
and wife and J. W. Wolf and wife.
Among those who are visiting the charming vil-
lage of Centre Hall are ; Roxie and Helen Mingle,
May Runkle and Lola Strohm, all of Bellefonte.
Prof. H. F. Bitner and family, of Millersville,
Mrs. W. McCormick, of Charleston, S. C. for-
merly Miss Mame Meyer of this place. Mrs.
Sam] Heckman and daughter, of Lock Haven, nee
Miss Jennie Kreamer of this place. Miss Bous-
man, of Millersville, Henry Gross Yearick, of
Phila, and G. W. Mingle, of Fair Plains, Iowa.
An opportunity was given the public a few even-
ing last week to part with their money, and there
was no distinction made as to the kind or shape,
at the poverty social held by the Reformed and
Lutheran churches. The poverty social was a
new feature, and both head and stomach were
"feasted. The program openéd with a beauti-
ful solo, by Mrs. H. F. Bitner, of Millerstown Nor-
mal school. Mrs. Bitner exhibited rare musical
talent, and is a credit to the institution at Millers-
town. As is always the case, Miss Emily Alexan-
der took the house by storm when she rendered
one of her favorite songs, and to please the au-
dience appeared a second time. Miss Florence
Rhone and Mrs. 8. W. Smith recited in a very
satisfactory manner and were heartily ap-
aplauded. Prof, E. J. Wolf and Master Harry
Bitner, son of Prof. H. F. Bitner, of Millerstown,
came in for a share of the honors by performing
several pieces on the banjo and mandolin. Misses
Mamie Kreamer, Tacy Kreamer and Emily Alex-
ander formed an excellent trio. The sum real-
ized by the affaif was a round $30,00. The Luth-
eran festival proved an excellent money gatherer,
their cash till showing near $60. gross receipts.
The new Reformed church is now completed
ready for the furnishings. It is without doubt one
of the finest and prettiest churches in the county.
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Pine Grove Mention.
Robert Barron Fry and his bride spent a
few days very pleasantly, this week, among
his old associates here.
D. G. Meek, teller in the Blair county
bank, of Tyrone, accompanied by his mother
Sundayed at the hospitable home of D. G.
Meek at Fairbrook. Th
Farmer David Otto says another silver
Democrat has arrived at his home. Ex-
county commissioner H. C. Campbell is an
out and out silverite.
John Gummo and Frank Graham had a pu-
gilistic encounter one day last week, and it
just cost Gummo $12.75 for giving young Gra-
ham a pair of black eyes.
Quite a number of our people attended the
encampment this week at Lewistown, and
came home delighted with the kind treat-
ment shown them while away.