BY P. GRAY MEEK. 7 eo B As ; : \ = Ee Spawls from the Keystone. PLOrTALL ke TR a l= | —The commissioners of Somerset county —~reO i J 2 have contracted for the ballots to be used at \ “A the coming election, at a cost of over $400. mm Ink Slings. ——Vote early Democrats, so you can help others. -_This is a battle ofghe people. Get to the polls early and see that the people are heard from. ——Democrats be on your guard. Watch every move the opposition makes. Check- mate it if you can. : ——The Gazette's smart man has strip- ped MILLER of all claim for the office of Sheriff by admitting that he is incom- petent. ——WOMELSDORFF’S friends have been ordered to cut CURTIN in return for the order that has gone out to let PHIL go and work for HARRY. ——ToM FISHER, candidate for county Commissioner, says ‘‘there is no honor in politics.”> We hope he is not stooping to anything dishonorable to secure election. ——Will the laboring man allow him- self to be hood-winked this time. It is the last chance we have to advise our read- ers what to do. Vote for silver. ——Have you got any of the WANAMAK- ER-WOMELSDORFF money yet? They say JOHN is putting up for PHIL, in order to secure his vote in the United State’s Sena- torship fight. ——To vote the ticket straight put one X mark in the circle at the top of the sec- ond column of your ticket. The one mark will do the whole business, but be sure and get it in the circle. ——The two Ws do stand for the two WILLIES, but in this county they don’t at this particular time. They mean WANA- MAKER and WOMELSDORFF for that is the combination that is working together in this county to down CURTIN. ——“Der schmart boo’ might make very gratifying reading for the posterity of the smart editor of the Gazette, but the Rebersburg correspondent of the WATCH- MAN hasn’t time to waste reading the autobiographies of bombastic editors. ——CURTIN is going to suffer by the WANAMAKER-WOMELSDORFF combina- tion. Of coursethey don’tintend to fight HARRY directly, but they don’t intend to let PHIL suffer and that means that he will be boosted wherever it can be done, uo matter who suffers. ——WOMELSDORFF was told when the QUAY-HASTINGS fight was going on in this county that unless he turned in for the latter he would regret it. True to their words the HASTINGS people have sent out the word that WOMELSDORFF must be de- feated. CURTIN is their man, body and soul, and all are to center on him. ——ToM FISHER, a very nice Quaker gentleman from Unionville, must be get- ting down to things dishonorable, in order to help along his campaign. He told a gentleman at the business men’s picnic, at Hecla, that ‘‘there is no honor in politics.” If Mr. FISHER really believes what he said we would advise his running-mate, Mr. RIDDLE, tolook out for RIDDELL. ——RALPH BINGHAM the boy orator of America was in town, Monday night, and entertained a fair audience. While RALPH'S paper makes a ‘display’ of the fact that he is not the boy orator of the Platte we have dollars to doughnuts to stake that he would even discard the title he guards so jealously if such crowds as have been greeting BRYAN all over the country would turn out to hear him tell funny stories. ——To secure the election of a Sheriff who will faithfully and satisfactorily fill the trying duties of that office—a gentle- man who is neither arrogant nor dyspeptic— and who knows how to meet and treat peo- ple respectfully and decently, you should vote for W. M. CHRONISTER. He is one of the best known and most popular, as well as one of the most worthy young men in the county, and we predict, that when elected, which he will be on Tuesday next, that he will prove one of the most efficient officers that ever filled the position of high Sheriff of Centre County. ——As tax-payers of Centre county you were grossly deceived and betrayed by your representatives at Harrisburg two years ago. They voted to increase your taxes, in order that new offices could be creat- ed and higher salaries paid to the do-noth- ings who were appointed to fill them. They voted to increase the price of the coal-oil you use as light, they voted against your interests in every way. To re-elect these men is a crime against yourselves. They are both asking re-election. The last men that any honest citizen of Centre county can vote for as Representatives are CUR- TIN or WOMELSDORFF. They have heen tried. They proved worse than failures. ——Both Mr. RUMBERGER, who is a can- didate for Register, and CAL HARPER, who is a candidate for Recorder, have filled offi- cial positions in the court house. If there isany man who had public husiness to transact with either of them, and did not find them prompt, obliging and correct, we would like to have him speak out that the public m#f know. The campaign is about closed and no one has dared to say that either of these gentlemen, while in office, was not a most faithful and accommodating official. They are the same good fellows personally that they are officially. They have been tried. They have proved them- selves as good officials as ever served the pub- lic. “They are the men you should take a great pride ir voting for next Tuesday. emacralic BO i ewan VOL. 41 STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. BELLEFONTE, PA., OCT. 30. 1896. NO. 43. A Hounded Platform. In no way do the opponents of the Dem- ocratic party .more plainly display their purpose to mislead the public understand- ing than by their reckless misrepresenta- tion of the platfrom put forth by the Chi- cago convention. Although that document is open to the examination of all intelligent citizens, and its declarations are set forth in the clearest terms, the Republican organs, as well as the subsidized mouthpieces of the Bolto- cratic faction, persist in putting a false in- terpretation upon its expressions with such cool impudence in their misrepresentation as to indicate utter contempt for the intel- ligence of the masses. They represent it to be revolutionary in its purpose, incendiary in its doctrines, an- archistic in its spirit, subversive of law and ‘| order, thoroughly undemocratic and de- structive in its general tendency. Does it occur to the journalistic minions of MARK HANNA, who have coolly deter- mined to keep hammering away with these false charges, that the people can read, that they are able to understand what they read, that with this Democratic platform plainfy before them their intelligence enables them to detect the falsehood and comprehend the base design of those who so recklessly and foolishly misrepresent it ? The people can see for themselves that the platform upon which WILLIAM JEN- NINGS BRYAN has been nominated for President is the most conservative and pa- triotic document that was ever issued by any political party ; that it is a deliverance -| which expresses not only the Democracy of JEFFERSON and JACKSON, but also the Re- publicanism of ABRAHAM LINCOLN. The first plank declares against the cen- tralization of governmental powers for self- ish interests and insists upon the dual scheme of government intended by the founders of the republic. Is there anything undemocratic in that ? Isit a declaration which either THOMAS JEF- FERSON or ABRAHAM LINCOLN would have condemned ? Is it anarchistic? Does it tend to subvert law and order? On the other hand, is it not a most conservative declaration ; as it would conserve the in- stitutions given by the fathers of the re- public to the nation which they founded ? The four succeeding planks relate to the currency that should be common to all the people of the land. - Was it revolutionary or anarchistical for a majority of the repre- sentative convention of the Democratic party to declare for a kind of money which it believed would conduce to the best in- verests of the country? Was there any- thing of an incendiary character in its de- mand for the restoration of a currency which was authorized by the constitution, but had been removed from the coinage of the country, with no request of the people for such removal, and no party, section or popular interest asking for it, but effected underhandedly and in a manner that had every appearance of a crime? Does it be- come the parties guilty of that sneaking act of demonetization to charge the Demo- cratic platform with advocating ‘‘dishonest money’’ when it demands the restoration of the double standard of gold and silver, which the people had the advantage of from the beginning of the government un- til silver was stricken down without a sin- gle voice from the ranks of the people ask- ing for such an act. Where is the anarch- ism, the incendiarism, the revolutionary and seditious intent of the demand that the people shall have the money of the con- stitution restored to them ? The sixth plank denounces the McKIN- LEY system of tariff robbery, and demands a tariff exclusively for revenue. Is not this the long established doctfine of the Democratic party? Is it anarchy to de- nounce a system that creates the trusts ? The seventh plank supports the princi- ple of taxing wealth, in due proportion, for the maintenance of the government, and deprecates the action of the United States supreme court for reversing ‘‘the uniform decisions of that court for a hundred vears”’ in its deciding against the income tax law. IS this position in regard to the supreme court more revolutionary and an- archistic than the opinions openly given by two members of that court that its deci- sion in that case was fraught with evil that at some future time would return to i plague the nations? Were the dissenting | judges anarchists and incendiaries ? The eighth plank declares against the im- portation of foreign labor to compete with American labor in our home market. Does that express the spirit of anarchy ? The ninth plank demands that the au- thority of government shall be exerted to prevent the formation of the trusts and pools that are securing control of the lead- ing railroad systems to the detriment of public interest. | GOULDS, the VANDERBILTS, the HUNTING- | TONS, and the other rascals who are steal- | ing the profits of our railroads say that this lisa revolutionary proposition ? | extravagance of Republican billion dollar g P Will anybody but the | ciates in Congress who have squandered the people’s money ? The eleventh plank is based on the doc- trine of State sovereignty and the right of local self government. What principles of Democracy does that plank violate, when it renounces ‘‘arbitrary interference of feder- al authority in local affairs?’ What principle of freedom does it impugn when it declares that the citizen cannot, without violation of the constitution, be brought before a court for trial by a mere legal form known as an injunction, contrary to the law that entitles him to a trial by jury? This is the plank which MARK HANNA'S subsidized organs denounce as being par- ticularly anarchistical and revolutionary, but it is inspired by the spirit of the con- stitution, and is based on the most vital principles of civil liberty. Itis the very quint-essence of Democracy. The twelfth plank demands that the gov- ernment shall not discriminate in favor of any of its debtors ; the thirteenth sustains the pensioning of worthy soldiers ; the fourteenth recommends the admission of those territories that are still out of the Union ; the fifteenth expresses sympathy for the struggling patriots of Cuba ; the sixteenth declares against third Presiden- tial terms, and the seventeenth and last recommends the improvement of the Missis- sippi river and other great water ways by the general government for the commercial interest of the country. In these last planks is anybody able to detect the slightest trace of anarchy, or the faintest indication of an incendiary pur- pose ? At the close of the campaign we have gone over the Democratic platform, plank by plank, a task that has been imposed upon us by the systematically villainous misrepresentations of the doctrines of that document. No party platform was ever before falsified with such persistent and reckless mendacity. The hired agents of the trusts and bank syndicates, and the paid pimps of MARK HANNA’s literary bureau, made up their minds at the start to overwhelm it with lying denunciations, to hound it with falsehood, to howl it down as the production of anarchists, rev- olutionists, and conspirators against law and order, when the testimony of its own contents, as the most Democratic, the most patriotic and the most conservative deliver- ance ever issued by a political party, re- futes the methodical lying of these menda- cious hirelings. GET OUT THE VoTE !—This is the important thing to see to now, Demo- crats. Let other districts and sec- tions attend to themselves, You at- tend to matters at home. Remember that a full vote means a glorious Dem- ocratic victory. What Bryan’s Election Means. What Bryan’s election means is not hard to figure out. In short it means more money for the people. More money to pay the wages of labor ; more money to purchase the necessaries of life ; more money to pay taxes, and doc- tor bills, and grocer’s accounts ; more mon- ey to make improvements ; in fact it means money enough to make business and to do business with. Did you ever know a time when money was too plenty ? The plentier it is the easier you can get it, and the more your- selves and families will have with which to get that which you need. r~ More money is what the country wants and needs. There can’t be too much. The more you have the more comforts you can give your family—the more enjoyment you can have yourselves. It is the scarcity of money that makes times hard ; that makes prices low ; that makes work scarce and wages scanty. If money was plenty, business would be brisk, and we would all be better off. Gold-bugs will tell you that money, if plentier, would be worthless. Did you ever hear of it being so plentiful that it would not buy anything that was for sale ? If it will buy what you want and need, that is all you want it for; and it could never be so plentiful that .t would not do that. In addition, this government never issued, or never will issue, a valueless dollar. The man who says it will, discredits his own country and doubts the honesty of the gov- ernment under which he lives, Are you afraid you will have too much money in case more is coined? If so you should vote to continue times as they are, by voting for MCKINLEY. i The tenth plank denounces the profligate | | | Congresses. Was such censure prompted by | an incendiary motive ? Who will think so | a He and his backers are against more money ; against higher wages ; against better times for the masses of the people. They want and they declare for the ‘‘continuation of the existing standard’’— the continuation of the kind of times you now have. Is this what you want. If not vote for more money by voting for W. J. BRYAN. except ToM REED and his rascally asso- | Organized Disturbance. The{gold-bug papers have been trying to make all the capital possible out of the ruf- fian treatment to which Secretary CARLISLE was subjected at Covington, Kentucky, by a set of hoodlums who represented nothing but their own disorderly disposition. Their conduct is universally condemned by the Democratic party, and by no one more so than by the young champion, who is leading the people in the battle for their rights. ° This fact is well known to the McKIN- LEY journals that represent the Covington incident as characteristic of the free silver movement but had no words of condem- nation for the cultured young goldite aris- tocrats of Yale college, who insulted the Democratic candidate for President, and outraged the right of free speech by their riotous conduct that prevented him from exercising his constitutional privilege of addressing the people. The outrage committed upon Mr. CAR- LISLE was the act of roughs, stirred up by the animosity of a local Kentucky political feud, and in no sense was it of a represent- ative character; but the conduct of the Yale students, coming as it did from an ed- ucated source, represented party, as well as class, hatred for the movement of the peo- ple against plutocratic domination, and a fixed purpose to insult and brow-beat the leader of that movement. It was, more- over, in keeping with the domineering and brutal kind of campaigning adopted by the minions of MARK HANNA in the treatment of the Democratic presidential candidate. In his marvelous progress through the West the gold-bug managers could meet him in no other way than by deliberately organized disturbance. The ruffian, MARK HANNA, could resort to no other plan to counteract the overwhelming impression made by the champion of the people than the brutal device of calling opposition meetings where Mr. BRYAN was expected to appear, and by the confusion and noise made by his howling crowds and brass bands endeavor to prevent the matchless voice of the great leader and champion from being heard. How this dastardly programme of precon- certed turbulence has been carried out in sndiana, Ohio and Illinois and other west- ern States, is detailed by the correspendent of the New York World, who accompanied Mr. BRYAN’S party and who can not be charged with exaggerating for political ef- fect, as the World is opposing BRYAN. He says that at many places these disturbances were ‘‘on the verge of riot, notably at Muncie, Indiana, where the MCKINLEY crowd jeered and hooted at Mr. BRYAN as he passed.”’ And writing from that scene of disorder, created by HANNA'S turbulent plan of opposition, the World correspondent says : ‘Never has Mr BRYAN shown his strong qualities to better advantage than to-day. All through the savage tumult he has been serene and undismayed. Af times he has been for 10 minutes continuously sur- rounded by yellow ribbons and Republi- cans shrieking MCKINLEY’S name in his face. Whatever else Mr. BRYAN may be he is a man of steel nerves. The mob seems to inspire him, and the more brutally hos- |. tilea’ crowd is the calmer and bolder he grows.”’ This is the kind of opposition which this brave and courageous champion of the peo- ple has been made to encounter and not only from the crowd of roughs, which MARK HAXNA’S money has been able to rush in on his meetings, but also from the well dressed young goldite ruffians of Yale col- | lege. And yet they, whohave resorted to such brutal campaign methods, are trying to make political capital out of the indig- nity offered to Mr. CARLISLE growing out of the customary roughness of Kentucky politics. Democrats Don’t Trade. An effort is being made by those ap- pointed to do the work for the Republican ring of this place to aid the election of part of the Republican ticket in the county by trading. This is the only way in which they hope to elect any part of it. If Demo- crats are only wire enough to understand that trading is not necessary to the success of any of their candidates, that it is only by such means that the Republicans hope to secure a partial victory—and vote their own ticket straight, we stand ready to guarantee the election of every man upon it. Theg way to win a complete and over- whelming victory in the county is for every Democrat to get to the polls early, and vote the straight ticket. There is no good in trading only to cheat yourself. There will be no result from it only such as will aid the enemy. Don’t trade, Democrats. None of your ticket needs such efforts and you can only aid in defeating yourselves. The word has been passed all along the Bald Eagle that WOMELSDORFF must be sacrificed and CURTIN returned to Har- risburg. HASTINGS must have a man there who will he for him. atm— The Last Hope of the Money Kings. Defeated for President they are now Trying to Capture Congress. Anticipating the defeat of their candi- date for President the gold standard advo- cates are turning their attention particu- larly to the election of Congressmen whom they know will vote against free silver. They feel that McKINLEY is beaten and that the only way to defeat the will of the people is to secure a majority in Congress. This would be as effective in maintaining the gold standard and preventing legis- lation favorable to silver, and the general prosperity of the country, as to elect their President. The trouble for the people’s side on this important question is, that they must se- cure both the President and Congress. They have the Senate but with either the lower house of Congress or the chief Executive against them, there will be no hope of ac- complishing anything that will bring financial relief. Those who are in favor of a continuation of the present standard and of a continua- tion of existing conditions—of scarce mon- ey, low wages and low prices—are en- trenched behind the act of 1873. The re- peal of that act can be as effectually pre- vented by the action of Congress as by the veto of the President ; consequently to de- feat such measures as will benefit the peo- ple, it is only necessary for the gold-bugs to secure either the President or Congress. The former of these they have lost hope of electing ; to carrv the latter is their last resort. It is admitted on all sides that the next Congress will be exceedingly close. Both sides now claim they will have a majority of its members. No one knows which claim is right. It is certain, however, that what- ever majority ‘there may be one way or the other it will be small. ONE vorE MAY DETERMINE ITS FINANCIAL COM- PLEXION. It is for this vote thatthe phu- tocrats and others in favor of the gold standard are fighting, AND IT IS RIGHT IN THIS DISTRICT, THAT THEY ARE FIGHTING FOR THAT VOTE. This is why the great effort: is being made to defeat Col. SPANGLER. He is for free silver—openly, pronounced, pledged, and we will add honestly and sincerely for it. His opponent—ARNOLD, is opposed to it, is pledged to and will vote against it if elected. Under ordinary circumstances the inter- ests and the individuals who are now put- ting up their money and making such desperate efforts to secure the election of ARNOLD, would not turn their hands to assist his success. His closest friends ad- mit his unfitness for the position. Those who are strongest for him know of his utter incapacity, the greater part of the time to intelligently represent anybody, in consequence of habits that he seems unable to throw off. And yet with his acknowl- edged unfitness, with his moral weaknesses, and with all his disgraceful short-comings, there never were such efforts put forth to elect a man to Congress as are now being made in the interest of ARNOLD. Money is furnished in unstinted quantities from the general campaign fund of the ‘gold standard people ; speakers without limit have been poured into the district ; news- papers have been purchased ; personal friendships set aside, and every trick that schemers can invent has been brought into service to secure success for ARNOLD. We ask you, honest silver men, would’ such efforts be made if the election of a Congressman from this district was not of supreme importance to the cause for which these advocates of scarce money are con- tending ? It is for this alone that they are work- ing—to secure the control of Congress, and prevent such financial legislation as BRY- AN’S success will promise. It is of the utmost importance, then, to every man who believes in free silver— who wants better times—who expects bet- ter prices—who asks for more work, and would have better wages—to give his earn- est and active support to Col. SPANGLER, and add one more vote in Congress to the side that is battling for these results. ABE MILLER has but one campaign plea ayd that the bloody shirt. oR ab ata RE A in 5 sr a The ballot boxes used heretofore will not hold half the blanket ballots, and the com- missioners have decided to use dry goods boxes. —Near Moshannon ‘Tuesday morning Stephen Anderson, aged 16, while filling a can with powder from a keg, was killed by an explosion resulting from a spark from his lamp falling into the powder. The barn took fire from the explosion and was destroyed. The father in attempting to rescue the boy was also badly burned. —A man who is known as “Doc” was shot and killed near Vandyke yesterday by a brother hunter who was in the woods with him. The man who was shot was crawling from behind a log, when the other hunter, . mistaking him for a live turkey, riddled him with a charge of heavy shot. The injured man lived but a short time. —The bids made by various publishers throughout the State for printing and furn- ishing ballots for the forthcoming election show a wide range in prices, For instance : Cumberland county will pay at the rate of $9.23 per thousand for some 26,000 ballots ; Dauphin county will secure her ballots at the rate of $8 per thousand, while Allegheny county’s lowest bid so far received calls for $16 pet thousand. Perry county’s ballots will be printed for $145. —A fatal accident occurred on the Wyom- ing valley traction lines at 1 o'clock Thurs- day morning, at Wilkesbarre, in which one woman was killed and two women and a boy seriously injured. A car for Pittston jumped the track and fell upon its side, pin- ioning four of the passengers under the wreck. Julia Walsh, aged 20, both legs cut off, died; Maggie Curley, aged 29, cut on head and injured internally ; Julia Curley, aged 20, arm broken; Dennis Hoban, aged 17, leg broken and internal injuries. —Two rough looking men terrorized the residents of Elk Run Junction, near Punxsu- tawney Saturday. They entered the house of a man named Brink, knocked Mrs. Brink down with a revolver, shot her and also one of her daughters. The roughs then left for Big Run, where they encountered constable Dan Bilmeyer and Harvey Dicky, the latter two men having received notice from Punx- sutawney to arrest them. The toughs opened fire on the officers and shot Bilmeyer in the arm and Dickey in the side. The toughs made their escape. The officers had their wounds dressed. —Some time ago an article was published which stated that the cost of stopping a train had been figured up carefully, and was found to be about $2. As there are atleast 6,000 regular stopping places for freight and pas- senger trains on the Pennsylvania road, ac- cording to the estimated cost of $2 for each stop, the company loses $4,380,000 annually by stops alone, or that in other words, it costs more than to make the run between sta- tions and pay the wages of the train crews. Recently another estimate has made the cost of stopping a train 60 cents, and even this would run up into millions of dollars on the Pennsylvania system in a year. —Rev. David J. Beale, D. D., was installed pastor of the First Presbyterian church of Northern Liberties, Buttonwood street above Fifth, Philadelphia, on Tuesday. Among the ministers participating were Revs. Robert H. Fulton, H. O. Gibbons and Loyal Y. Graham. Dr. Beale, who is well known in this com- munity, was born at Bealetown, Juniata county in 1837. He graduated at Princeton and the Union Theological seminary in N. Y. Has been stationed at Wilmington, Del., Bal- timore, Frederick and was at Johnstown at the time of the flood, when his church was used as a morgue. His wife was Miss Mary Moore and his daughter graduated at Welles- ley in June. —Mr. Emanuel Wilvert, of Sunbury, has lately discovered a new and very rare metal known as cadmium. In investigating a vein of zinc ore near that city, he made the dis- covery and sent it to an expert minerologist. who pronounced it cadmium of good percent- age and zine, silver .and lead. Mr. Wilvert has long contended that strange minerals ex- isted in our mountains and has discovered obsidian and cadmium, the first time it was ever known to exist here. He says there is an abundance of cadmium on lands leased by him, connected with zine ores. Cadmium is a tin white metal, malleable and ductile and its salts are used in some lines of medicine, and is very rare. —Alvin Holes, of Curwensville, is proba- bly the greatest fisherman in Clearfield county. This year he presents a record that cannot be beaten along the Susquehanna any- where. During the trout season he secured 1,500 speckled beauties; 800 he caught in Bear run, Greenwood township, and 700 in Heiner rin. He has on exhibition 150 eel skins, the result of this year’s catch, and has caught 135 bass, all of which were secured in a distance of one-fourth mile from Curwens- ville dam to a point below the Susquehanna house. Forty-four bass were caught while standing on one stone, and six of these 44 were over 19 inches long. This isno fish story, but can be verified by Curwensville citizens whom nobody dare challenge for truth and veracity. —The man with the pencil was at it. He had heard that the smallest ballot to be voted this year would be eleven columns wide, or twenty-seven inches long. There are about a million registered voters in Pennsylvania, and the law provides that there shall be one and a half ballots for each vater, or 1,500,000 in all. Added to this number there are 250,- 000 specimens. The man’s pencil scooted over the paper rapidly and after a while he stopped figuring and said: “There will be printed for the use of the voters of the State under the law, oné million, seven hundred and fifty thousand ballots, the smallest of which will be twenty-seven inches long. I have reduced the number of inches to miles, and find that if the ballots were placed end to end they would cover 773 miles.” Just think of that distance in ballots. Twice across the State of Pennsylvania. Paste one end of the continuous ballots on the city hall, Philadelphia, and it could be carried across the State to the city hall at Pittsirg, wound around it once and then taken back to Philadelphia again. That con- tinuous ballot could be fastened to the dome of the capitol at Harrisburg and stretched to New York and back to the capitol and then there would be some left for good measure. ld
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