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Terms, 82.00 a Year, in Advance.
Bellefonte, Pa., Aug. 28, 1896.
P. GRAY MEEK, - - EbpiToR.
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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.
TOR 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,
George W. Rhine,
John C. Patton,
William Weihe,
Judson J. Brooks,
John J. McFarland,
C. H. Aikens,
Seymour S. Hackett,
Harry Alvin Hall.
John H. Hickson,
John B. Storm,
Thos. A. Haak,
Chas. F. Reninger,
Chas. H. Schadt,
Thomas R. Philips,
Charles F. King,
John K. Royal,
William Stahler.
Democratic County Ticket.
FOR CONGRESS.
J. L. SPANGLER.
{ JAS. SCHOFIELD,
{ ROBERT M. FOSTER.
For Sheriff—W. M. CRONISTER.
For Treasurer—C. A. WEAVER.
For Recorder—J. C. HARPER.
For Rejister—GEO. WW. RUMBERGER.
i; {P. H. MEYER,
ForCommissioners— DANIEL HECKMAN.
For Auditors— { FoANE
For County Swrveyor—J. H. WETZEL.
For Coroner—W. U. IRVIN.
For Assembly—
Colonel Spangler for Congress.
On the 7th ballot at Ridgway, on Tues-
day, Col. J. L. SPANGLER, of this place,
was chosen as the Democratic candidate
for Congress, for this, the 28th district.
This action of the district conference will
meet with the hearty approval of a large
majority of the Democratic voters of the
district, and Col. SPANGLER will, and
should, receive the cordial and earnest sup-
port of every man who wants to redeem
the country from the rule of a Republican
Congress and the shameless profligacy and
extravagance that characterizes the acts of
that party when in power.
Col. SPANGLER is known to our people
asa good lawyer, a wide-awake and suc-
cessful business man, a fluent speaker and
a charitable citizen. He is young, ambiti-
ous and progressive. He knows the needs
of the people. He has the intelligence to
understand what would be best for the
masses, and knowing and understanding
these is fully equipped to represent the
district in a manner that would be to the
best interests of the public as well as to his
own credit and satisfaction.
Col. SPANGLER was born and brought
up a Democrat. He began his political
life as associate editor of this paper while a
student at law. He filled the position of
district attorney, and prior to his relin-
quishing the practice of law to engage in
an active business life, gave promise of be-
coming one of the leading attorneys of this
section of the State. He has proved his
business ability by the success that has
placed him in easy circumstances. His
knowledge of men, his connection with
business enterprises, his practical exper-
ience as an employer of labor, his intimate
acquaintance with the needs of the work-
ingman, and his general information upon
all subjects, taken in connection with his
ability as a lawyer and speaker and his
energy and industry as a man, fit him well
for the position, and give promise that he
will make not only a creditable but an in
fluential and leading member of Congress.
On the money question, which is now
the all absorbing question with the people,
he is pledged by the resolutions of the
conference nominating him, and by his
speech accepting that nomination, to act
and vote in such a way as will carry out
the principles and fulfill the pomises of the
Chicago convention. This of itself should
secure for him the support of every Demo-
crat in the district, and of every Republi-
can, who believes in a change of financial
methods for the benefit of the people.
That Col. SPANGLER will be elected
there can, or should be no doubt. His op-
ponent, Mr. ARNOLD, of Clearfield, if suc-
cessful, would vote against and oppose
any change in the financial methods of the
country that would promise relief to our
industries and our people. Col. SPANGLER
would vote for such change as would bene-
fit the masses. Mr. ARNOLD would vote
and work for wasteful and extravagant leg-
islation, that imposes vicious and ad-
ditional taxes and burdens upon the tax-
payers, while Col. SPANGLER would vote
against them. Mr. ARNOLD would favor
a return to the MCKINLEY tariff laws,
with all the agitation and uncertainty that
the reopening of this question would bring.
Col. SPANGLER would oppose such agita-
tion. In short, the one by his party plat-
form is pledged to support the interests of
corporate trusts, of money lenders, and of
the few ; while the other is pledged to such
legislation as will best benefit the masses
"and fairly and properly protect the interests |
of all.
economic demand. It said long ago that
right as a principle.
achievements a possibility ?”’
Way we preserve our organization.
with the American Federation.
“There is no doubt,”
this year, where.jt will do the most good.
ed insdhe least by the federation.
was gained by declaring themselves.)
Ls 1 Si.
The American Federation Pledged to It Long Ago.
“I would not so advise them,’’ says Mr. Gompers.
come out in advocacy of a principle for which we have long ago asserted ourselyes,
is no reason why the American Federation of Labor should, at this time, lose its dis-
tinctive force and hecome an annex to a party. The trouble, with previous national
labor organizations, has been that they have allowed themselves to become amalga-
mated with party machinery. The American Federation of Labor is the only or-
ganization that does not lose its head during a campaign.
the federation has declared for a great principle, it should be left with each individ-
ual member to think out that solution and act at the polls as he pleases. In that
In previous campaigns the labdeerganizations,
that have gone before us, have come out with their lines of battle disrupted and with
almost as great work of organization on hand as they had in the beginning. Not so
I can safely predict that it will come out of this
campaign without the least show of injury to its organization.
Mr. Gompers goes on, ‘‘that a great many of the members
will feel obliged, on account of our declaration foi silver, to vote for Bryan and Sewall
There is no doubt that « moral obligation of
that kind will rest on many of them. That is their lookout, and they will not be influenc-
If they do not act that way, héwever, I fail to see what
BY PRESIDENT SAMUEL GOMPERS.
The American Federation of Labor, long ago, declared for the free coinage of silver
as an economic demand, just as it has declared for an employers’ liability law as an
it believed the free coinage of silver was
‘Would you not advise the members of your organization, now that you have an
opportunity to achieve this principle, to support the party which can make its
*‘Just because a party has
We believe that when
‘Do you think the cause of silver strong enough to win #*’
i “I should say,” says Mr. Gompers, ‘‘that it stands an excellent show of winning,
and I will say, furthermore, that in my
STRONGER EVERY DAY.”
opinion, its chances ARE BECOMING
| ——The only fellow in the bolters con-
| vention at Philadelphia, on Tuesday, de-
| claiid himself a Democrat, was unceremo-
' niously mustered out of that body without
further provocation.
——The Philadelphia bolto-crat conven-
| tion did not strike much terror to the heart
| of the true Democracy in Pennsylvania.
| Brother SINGERLY and his little band will
| soon begin to realize that there are fools
and that they are not among the least of
them. :
——When a man like WILLIAM JEN-
NINGS BRYAN offers to make a statement
showing whence every fee he has ever re-
ceived came, there can be hut one conclu-
sion, and that is : that even if he isan ‘“‘an-
archist,”’ or ‘‘repudiationist’’ he isan honest
man. And, after all, what more of a re-
quirement is needed in a President of a
free people.
—Some one should have pulled CoCk-
RAN’S coat tail a little sooner, before he got
off that offensive remark about the ‘‘farm-
and ‘‘labor with their jaws”’. BOURKE is
if he gets off many such insulting flings
his speeches won’t be worth the smallest
fraction of the money they cost.
——MARK HANNA took the embargo off
allow him to address a delegation of visit-
ing farmers.
date had told those farmers how he had
government bonds in silver. But HANNA
wouldn’t allow his candidate to revive
such recollections at this time.
—‘‘The crime of 1873,’’ like the murder
committed by MACBETH, will not down.
The accusing conscience of the kingly mur-
derer cried, ‘‘out damned spot,” but it
could no more be obliterated than can the
evidences of the monetary crime committed
twenty-three years ago in this country, the
nancial distress and in the paralysis of
every department of labor.
—What a surprise it would be to those
ver money, if they could become aware of
tutional money are denounced in these
degenerate days as lunatics, swindlers and
anarchists, and what would be their indig-
nation if they could know that such de-
nuyciation orgininated with a gang of
moNey-grasping plutocrats for their own
selfish interest.
——Republican campaigners, who claim
that ruin would overtake the country if
the gold standard were removed, must
think that the people don’t know that
from the time the government was started
until the commission of the crime of 1873,
the one standard of money did not prevail
over the other, but silver stood side by
side with gold in furnishing the money of
the country, and no artificial constriction
enabled a money trust to control a limited
currency for its own profit and to the dis-
‘advantage and impoverishment of the
people.
——Look over the costly presents at the
VANDERBILT-WHITNEY wedding at New-
port, on Tuesday. Reflect on the amount
of money that was squandered on the cere-
mony. Estimate, if you can, the wealth
that was represented there, then put on
your thinking cap and decide for yourself
whether a class of people who look upon
laborers, farmers and merchants as not
much better than somethipg to walk upon
should be believed when they tell you that
a gold standard is the only thing that will
save this country. A gold standard 1s the
only thing that will make such extrava-
gance possible to them, while the masses
are daily being made poorer paying the
| tribute.
ers who conspire against honest money’
well paid for laboring with his jaws, hut
MCcKINLEY’S mouth this week so far as to .
It would have been a pleas- :
ant reminiscence if the Republican candi-
voted for the STANLEY MATTHEWS resolu-
tion which declared in favor of paying the
effects of which are manifest in general fi-
who prescribed the constitutionality of Sil-
the fact that the stpporters of that consti-
Out For Bryan.
Prominent and Influential Republicans are for Him,
i And the Masses are, too.
i Many prominent and influential Repub-
{ licans have repudiated the Republican !
i platform of gold monometallism, money
[ stringency and hard times. Judge S. C.
| Parks, of Cleveland, O., whe was a dele-
| gate to the First National Convention of
the Republican party, and who has since
been an active Republican, has come out
for Bryan. Judge Parks roceived his title
by virtue of appointment from President
Lincoln as a Justice of the Supreme Court
of Idaho.
He resigned this position and was later
appointed to the Supreme Bench of New
Mexico, and by his own request was trans-
ferred to the Bench of Wyoming by Presi-
dent Arthur. Judge Parks said a few days
ago :
‘It was an evil day for the Republican
party when it abandoned the financial
policy of its founder, demonetized silver,
deifled gold and inaugurated the practice
of abusing, belittling and ridiculing mine-
owners, mining and miners. As a rule the
* miners are sensible, intelligent and patri-
otic men. Upon the controlling issue of
this campaign, Bryan stands upon the
Lincoln platform of gold and silver.
“I do not believe that wejwill have per-
manent peace and prosperity in this coun-
try until silver is restored the position
in our financial system in {which it was
placed by the founders of tha Republic. I
expect to vote for Mr. Bryan) and I have
reason to believe that there\are a great
many Republicans who will d§ the same.
It is a great mistake to underrate him.
His own merits and the action of the con-
vention which have nominated him have
made him the foremost man in this coun-
try to-day. >
F. Lewis Marshall, of Orange county,
Va., a relative of Chief Justice Marshall
and for many years the most prominent
Republican in that county, and for several
years the county chairman of that party
, repudiates McKinley and the Republican
platform and will vote for Bryan and
, Sewall. >
+ John Hale, the leading agriculturist
{and specialist of Conneticutt, last week
' created a sensation in Hartford by announc-
| ing himself for Bryan. He has been a life
; long Republican, and a member of the
: Conneticutt, Legislature. He said—‘‘I
! will probably vote for Bryan. I met him
i in Nebraska five years ago and he struck
I'me as a very brilliant, earnest young man.
| I believe that in this fight he is the repre-
| sentative of the creators of wealth, who
; have none, as against the men who do not
| create, but have it all. This is only the
| beginning ; the fight will go on, even if
| Bryan be defeated. The Democrats has
: placed itself in accord with the people,
i and I am with the producers.”
The Rev Dr. King, of Vineland, N. J.,
* has bolted McKinley and the gold standard.
F. K. Brown, “a Republican of twenty
years’ standing; writes to the Bal-
timore Sun that he will support the
Chicago nominees. He is for free coinage
of gold and silver. Rev. J. R. Wheeler,
D. D. of Cumberland, presiding elder of
the Frederick District of the Baltimore
Conference, Methodist Episcopal church,
though a Republican for forty years, has be-
come a convert to free silver and has de-
cided to vote for Bryan.
200,000 Idle.
Among the banners carried by the dele-
tion from Pennsylvania that visited Ma-
Jor McKinley on Saturday, at Mr. Hanna's
expense, was one inscribed to this effect :
“We represent 200,000 idle men in Penn-
sylvania.”’
This was supposed to be a Republican
argument. To our mind it constitutes the
strongest sort of a Democratic argument.
We now have the single gold stand-
ard and 200,000 or about one-
sixth of all the men in Pennsylvania are
out of work. The Republicans propose to
eontinue present conditions. The Demo-
crats propose to radically change them so
that we will have rising prices instead of
falling prices, and rising prices always
bring prosperity to the farmer and the
wage-earner.
You cannot scare those 200,000 idle men
who have no money at all, by telling them
that free silver will lessen the purchasing
power of a dollar, nor can you win the sup-
port of those who have to work, by uttering
the same threat when they realize that the
additional purchasing power, which a dol-
lar now has, is at the expense of their idle
brethern and the poor farmer.
Workingmen have a sense of justice
which is quite as high as that of Mr. Hanna
and his ilk. In fact if you are seeking for
the highest examples of brotherly love,
you must look among the poor.— York
Gazette.
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Read the WATCHMAN.
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| Bryan’s Great Day at Albany.
| Biggest and Most Enthusiastic Demonstration Ever
| Seen in the Capital. Streets Black with Folks,
Magnificent Ovation at City Hall Square Preceded
| by Dinner at Hill's. Thousands of Cheering and
| Appreciative People Listened to a Masterly and
| Eloquent Speech.
|
ALBANY, N. Y., Aug. 25.—The ovation
given Bryan in Albany will go down in
history as the greatest ever seen in the
capital of the state. Upwards of 18,000
people greeted him at the depot and 20,000
more cheered the party through the city.
In the early morning visitors to the num-
ber of 5,000 arrived from the town on hoth
sides of the Hudson, Cohoes, Troy Sarato-
ga and Schenectady. The majority were
Democrats, but plenty of Republicans were
in the crowd.
In side the gates of the depot, ready to
welcome Bryan, was the committee of 100,
composed of the prominent men of the city,
headed by ex-Senator Norton Chase and
Collector Louis W. Platt.
RUSH TO SEE BRYAN.
| When the train came in the crowd made
| a rush for the rear car, in which the Bryan
| party was seated. Chairman Chase carried
! a bouquet of flowers for Mrs. Bryan, and
| as she stepped from the inside of the car to
| the platform, he handed it to her. As the
{ carriage containing Mr. and Mrs. Bryan,
| Mr. Pratt and Norton Chase, was driven
| into Broadway, the street was not simply
| packed with people, but was black.
| As the carrige was driven up the broad
| drive to the stoop at Wolferts Roost, Sena-'
| tor Hill greeted Mr. Bryan very cordially
and assisted Mr. Bryan from the carriage
| and escorted them into his home.
| Inside were Supreme Court Judge D.
| Cady Herrick and wife ; Louis W. Pratt,
{ the collector of customs, and wife ; Norton
| Chase, chairman of the city Democratic
| committee ; General F. P. Earle and wife
| and James Oliver.
{ The party sat down to dinner, Senator
| Hill at the head of the table, with Mr.
i Bryan on his right and Mrs. Bryan on his
| left ; Judge Herrick, the close personal
. | friend of Cleveland, sat by the side of Mr.
| Bryan, while Mr. and Mrs. Chase were on
| the side of the table vith Mrs. Bryan;
| General Earle and Mrs. Earle sat at the
| end opposite Senator Hill, while the others
| were grouped around the table. After din-
i ner Mr. Bryan was drivan to the City hall
park, where 12,000 people had been wait-
ing for more than two hours to hear him.
After the applause had subsided.
NOMINEE BRYAN’S SPEECH.
Mr. Bryan said: “Mr. Chairman and
Fellow Citizens—In the presence of this
immense audience it is hardly necessary to
announce that the presidential campaign is
open for business. It gives me great pleas-
ure to be permitted to address even fora
short time the citizens of Albany and this
vicinity. I esteem it a privilege to be able
| to defend in your presence the policies
which I believe will bring prosperity and
happiness to the American people. ~(Ap-
plause.) In this land of free government
people express themselves through party
organization. It is the only way in which
we can give effective force to our conven-
tions. Without party we fight without
hope of success. . Parties meet in their con-
ventions, adopt their platforms and go
forth to the people appealing for the suf-
frages of those who believe that through
that party and by the policies expressed in
the platform they can best serve their coun-
try and protect their rights. The Demo-
cratic party at Chicago met in convention,
and there the majority of the Democrats of
the United States, speaking through their
legally chosen representatives, laid down a
platform and nominated a ticket. It is
not to be expected that a person will al-
ways find in any platform all that he de-
sires and nothing which he does not like.
But when a citizen comes to vote he acts
with that party and indorses that platform
| which gives to him the best assurance of
securing the most important things which
he desires. (Applause.)
NOMINEE ON THE PLATFORM.
‘It is proper, aye, more, it is necessary,
that the candidate who stands upon a plat-
form shall indorse the utterances of his
platform, and I stand before you to de-
clare in your presence that I endorse every
word and every syllable of the platform at
Chicago.- (Appause.) But while I do so
I expect in this campaign the support of
many Democrats who are not willing to
to endorse all that the platform declares
for. (Applause.) In a campaign there
is always some overshadowing issue ;
there is in a campaign always one great
paramount question which, more than any
other, will determine the allegiance of
those who support the ticket, and in this
campaign appeal-with confidence to those
people who are opposed to a longer continu-
ation of the gold standard policy in the
United States. (Applause.) Our oppon-
ents have at last taken a definite position
upon the money question. The Republi-
can platform, adopted at St. Louis, declares
that the gold standard must be maintained
in this nation until other nations shall con-
sent to its abandonment. We believe that
that declaration, which commits us te.a
gold standard until other nations come to
our relief, is equivalent to a declaration of
the gold standard, because we do not be-
lieve that other nations will take pity
upon us before we take pity upon our own
people. © We have then to consider this
question : Ought the American people to
submit longer to a gold standard ? (Cries
of ‘No, No.’)
Campaign Lies Nailed.
Mr. Bryan's Connection With the Omaha World-
Herald.
Omaha, - Neb.,, Aug. 26.—The World-
Herald in an editorial this morning address-
ed ‘“To the newspapers of America,’ says:
“‘Two falsehoods concerning the World-
Herald and Mr.Bryan are being so widely
circulated and innocently published, that I
ask as a matter of fairness this correction :
‘‘One falsehood is the pretense that Mr.
Bryan was connected with the World-
Herald in 1893 at the time that this news-
paper opposted free coinage at the present
ratio. Mr. Bryan did not become editor of
the World-Herald until September, 1894,
and at that time the World-Herald openly
reversed its former policy and came out for
free coinage at the present ratio.
‘The second falsehood is in attributing
the following language to the World-Herald
whereas in point of fact it originated with
the New York Sun and -was quoted from
the New York Sun by the World-Herald :
“Every one who has money at his
dispesal can protect himself against
loss through free silver by converting his
money into land, houses, and merchandise
of various kinds. If, besides, he borrows
more money and uses it for the purpose,
he will make a profit on the transaction at
the expense of the man from whom he hor-
rows.
G. M. HITCHCOCK, ‘‘publisher’’.
——Subscribe for the WATCHMAN.
| Clure, H. H. Schreyer and W. T. Achen-
| bach.
|
A Mexican’s Silver Views.
What He says About the Value of the White Metal
Dollar in Mexico.
PARKERSBURG, W. Va., August 24.—
Vinton P. Safford, superintendent of the
Mexican Northern railroad, with head-
quarters at Escalon, Mexico, who is visit-
ing relatives in this city, in an inter-
view said : “I am a Republican in politics,
but if I were now a resident of the United
States I would support Bryan and Sewall
and vote for the restoration of silver.
We can buy jnst as much with a sil-
ver dollar in Mexico. as we ever did.
When the Mexipan dollar was worth a
dollar in gold We could buy a bushel of
wheat with it, and in the United States
that same dollar, which is now worth 53
cents in gold, will still buy a bushel of
wheat. I have been in Mexico six years,
and I can get just as much coffee, sugar,
ete., for $1 now as could six years ago.
The fact is I believe that the American
gold dollar is worth more in this country,
and not that the silver has depreciated.
‘Prices in Mexico are still up to the
standard they were 20 years ago, but the
Mexican dollar buys just as much as it did
then. I believe that if the United States
had not gone to the gold standard, wheat
would still be selling for $1 a bushel.
The purchasing power of the Mexican dol-
lar has remained the same. The United
States dollar has been forced up. A com-
mon laborer in Mexico gets from 50 cents
to $1.50 per day ; mechanics, $150 to $175
amonth ; engineers, $200 to $280 ; conduc-
tors, $150 ; clerks and stenographers, $100
to $175, and mine carpenters, $7to $8a
day, These wages are paid on the railroad
and in the mines, of which I havea per-
sonal knowledge. Flour sells at $8 a bar-
rel, as it did when I went to Mexico.
‘‘These prices, remember, are in Mexican
dollars. I have seen it stated that on the
Sante Fe road, section hands in the United
States are paid $1 a day in American
money, equal in value to a gold dollar,
while Mexican section hands were paid a
dollar worth only 52 cents. That is true,
but it must be remembered that the Mex-
ican section hand is worth only half as
much as the sturdy American laborer. I
have no interest in any silver mine and I
speak from observation and experience.’
A Plea for Moderation.
The Pittsburg Christian Advocate, the
official organ of the Methodist church in
Western Pennsylvania and the adjoining
states of Ohio and West Virginia, enters a
brave and earnest protest against the ex-
travagance of language of the goldites in
describing a large class of American citizens
as repudiators, anarchists, socialists, revo-
lationists, simply because they believe in
free silver and are in favor of Bryan’s elec-
tion. It has particular significance be-
cause of the ridiculous display Bishop New-
man has made of himself in his insulting
diatribe aimed at those who enjoy the su-
preme luxury of differing from the bishop’s
opinions on an economic question, on which
the wisest men of Europe and America
agree to honestly differ. The Pittsburg
paper says :
Whichever side of the controversy the
voter may thoughtfully and conscientiously
choose, no one for that reason is justified in
questioning either his patriotism or his
morality. The money question is one upon
which the highest authorities differ. In
truth, for a quarter of a century, the special-
ists of the ruling nations of the world have
held high debate as to the ratio the precious
metals should hold to each other as money.
That this debate should assume an acute form
with us is only to say that we are Americans,
and inclined to excess of feeling.
We are led to these reflections by noticing
that some preachers are attemptidg to settle
this vexing problem in their pulpits. Even
one of our bishops is reported by the daily
papersas doing the same thing. In the latter
case we cannot credit the correctness of the
words attributed to the speaker, We know
that such things do not usually lose anything
in the hands of the average reporter—rather
the contrary. Of course, no bishop of the
Methodist Episcopal church has the slightest
shadow of authority to bind or loose anyone
but himself in political matters. Utterances
which can be construed to imply such au-
thority would only tend to minify his per-
sonal influence, and to harm the cause he
seeks to serve. Again we say, brethren,
keep cool !—Pittsburg Post.
Garman Issues a Call.
State Convention Will Reconvene September 10.
WILKESBARRE, Pa., Aug. 24.—The fol-
lowing call for the reconvening of the
Democratic State convention at Harrisburg
on September 10th next was issued by State
chairman John M. Garman, at his head-
quarters in this city to-night. ‘The
Democratic State convention will meet at
the opera house {in Harrisburg, on Thurs-
day, September 10th, 1896, at 12 o'clock
noon, for the purpose of nominating can-
didates for representative-at-large, and for
presidential electors where vacancies may
exist by reason of resignations or other-
wise ; for the adoption of a platform in ac-
cordance with the principles declared by
the national Democratic convention held
in Chicago in July last, and for the trans-
action of such other business as may be
necessary and proper. In accordance with
section 7 of rule 6 of the rules of the Demo-
cratic party of Pennsylvania this conven-
tion shall be composed of the delegates who
constituted the last preceding Democratic
State convention, which met at Allentown
on Wednesday, April 29.
JoHX M. GARMAN, Chairman.”
Black Named.
SARATOGA, N.Y. Aug. 26.—The New
York Republican convention, upon the
third ballot this morning, nominated Frank
Black for Governor. His selection was a
compromise between the adherents of Geo.
W. Aldridge and Hamilton Fish.
It is stated that Platt, fearing a revolt in
the event of Aldridge’s selection, cast his
influence for Black, who is but little
known.
The nomination is not well received and
Democrats say that Black’s selection weak-
ens McKinley in New York.
The fierce struggle has left a very bitter
feeling which is expected to result in a
revolt in many of the lake counties.
ADDITIONAL LOCALS.
THE BUSINESS MEN’S PIcNtC. — The
Lock Haven business men have expressed
their willingness to join with Bellefonte
in making the picnic at Hecla a howling
success. -The stores and business houses
will all be closed on the 9th, the day of
the picnic, so keep it in mind that you buy
what you need before that day. The fol-
lowing committees have been appointed to
arrange for the celebration.
Committee on speakers : Jared Harper,
Frank B. Stover, Hammon Sechler, Samuel
H. Williams and Joseph L. Montgomery.
On music : George VW. Rees, Edward Rich-
ards, B. C. Achenbach, Frank E. Nagihey
and W. A. Lyon. Onamusements: John
D. Sourbeck, Shem Spigelmyer, J. I. Mec-
——The Pennsylvania division of the L.
A. W. will hold its fourteenth annual
meet in Pittsburg, on September the 10th,
11th, and 12th. Receptions, lunches, races
and many hospitalities are offered the
wheelmen who attend, and the prizes are
well worth striving for.
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A Bic ONE—The ballot that will be
voted at the coming election will be the
largest of any yet seen since the Baker
ballot law went into effect. Printing it in
as concise and small a form as possible, it
cannot be less than 22 by 34 inches, and
may possibly be much larger. The num-
ber of parties in the field is what causes
the increase in size. Already there are
eight columns to be provided for and if
the sore-headed Democrats, who have en-
listed under the banner of gold bugs, can
get enough of signers to place a ticket in
the field, there will be nine columns re-
quired. The parties and their candidates,
as they will appear on the ballot, are :
Republicans, McKinley and Hobart ; Demo-
cratic, Bryan and Sewall ; Prohibition,
Levering and Jones ; National, Beatty and
Southgate ; People’s, Bryan and Watson ;
Socialistic Labor, blank ; Free Silver,
Bryan and Sewall. In addition to these is
the blank column for the general scratcher,
and what ever space the scarce money
Democrats may demand.
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MITCHELL ANSWERS FURST.—The reg-
ular meeting of the Bryan and Free Silver
club was held in the Court House, Tues-
day evening, and the room was crowded,
many being obliged to stand. Owing to
the absence of both president A. L. Gar-
man and secretary George R. Meek, there
was little business transacted but the en-
tire time was given over to Ira C. Mitchell,
Esq., who made an address in answer to
the one delivered by ex-Judge A. O. Furst
before the McKinley club last Friday
night. Mr. Mitchell spoke a full hour
and three-quarters and the opinion
of all present was that his address was the
best and most convincing argument heard
in Bellefonte this campaign on the great
issue before the people. Mr. Mitchell
presented the question in such a plain and
simple, yet logical style, that not one in the
large audience of hearers but could easily
follow and understand him. In speaking
of the low price of farm products he em-
phasized the assertion that it was not.cheap
wheat, potatoes, corn, ete., but dear money
that was causing the depression. He also
ridiculed the idea advanced by Mr. Furst
that what would give a fifty-three cent
dollar to the laboring man—making them
that much poorer, would make those who
paid out the dollar just so much the richer.
All in all, the address was a most able one,
and its very logical conclusions cannot fail
in strengthening the attitude in favor of
free coinage of silver and the entire Demo-
cratic ticket.
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State College and Vicintty.
Arthur, B. Gill is visiting at Evanston,
IIL.
Miss M. Johnson, of Boalsburg, is visiting
her friend Elizabeth Stuart.
University Inn Proprietor, Philip D. Fos-
ter, is home after a pleasant sojourn at At-
lantic City.
Prof. and Mrs. W. A. Buckhout have re-
turned from a protracted visit in the New
England States.
Miss Emma Kuhn has returned home to
Boalsburg aftera very pleasant visit with her
friend Elizabeth Stuart.
Dr. H. T. Fernald and family are with us
again, after a very pleasant vacation spent at
Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y. :
Dr. W. T. Keith has returned from his
home at Riverton, N. Y., and resumed his
work in the chemical department.
The sympathy of the entire community
goes out to Mr. and Mrs. John F. Garner
for the loss of their youngest child, Ruth
Mansfield, who died August 22nd aged 5
months and 21 days. The funeral on Sun-
day afternoon was attended by a large num-
ber of friends. dee
The Presbyterian Sunday school picnic, at
Hunter’s park, was quite well attended and
everyone had a good time. Your scribe had
dinner with jolly Abram Markle, who with
the Pearces, Thompson's and Baily’s dis-
pensed open handed hospitality at one of the
pavilions. At the ball game in the afternoon
the Sunday school defeated the Band 9 to 7.
Decker, Markle, and Sam Garner pitched
quoit for hours with the zest of boys of ten.
Some rested in the pavilion and listened to
the band ; some strolled about the walks or
lounged on the rustic seats, between the great
trees ; and others watched the little ones—
and some not so little—paddeling about the
lake, having such a jolly time. The picnic
was a success from start to finish.
Upon the return of the picnickers, they
were surprised to hear that they would like-
ly have to pay extra for the use of the park.
As it had been granted them for a pleasure
picnicand used for a “Kuhn hunt.” One of
the hunters came home badly broken up.
Pine Grove Mention.
Mrs. Priscilla Yearick, of Woodward, is
visiting her aged father, Geo. Kustaborder.
John Close, one of College township's solid
Bryan men, tarried a while last Saturday to
talk silver. :
On Monday, Henry Fye sold his farm to
John Witmer. The dicker hasbeen going on
for some time.
$43, was realized for the window fund by
the sale of ice cream and cake at the picnic
last Saturday.
Rev. Aikens entertained Revs. Pohlman,
Warner and G. P. Goll, atthe parsonage,
while they visited this part of the county.
J. Herbert Ward, Sunbury’s artist, came up
to attend the farmers’s institute on the 22nd,
and took a goodly number of snap-shots of
the grove, the picnicers and the lawn.