Terms, 82.00 a Year, in Advance.
Bellefonte, Pa., Oct. 30, 1896.
P. GRAY MEEK, . = Epitor.
Democratic National Ticket.
FOR PRESIDENT
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN,
of Nebraska.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT
ARTHUR SEWELL,
of Maine.
Democratic State Ticket.
FOR CONGRESSMEN AT-LARGE,
DeWITT C. DeWITT, of BRADFORD.
JEROME T. AILMAN, of Juniata.
FOR ELECTORS AT-LARGE,
THOS. G. DELAHUNTY.
THOMAS STERRETT.
“A. H. COFFROTH, Somerset
LOUIS M. IRELAND.
FOR DISTRICT ELECTORS,
John H. Keenan, John M. Carroll,
Albert M. Hicks, Chas. J. Reilly,
James J. King, J. P. Hoffar,
Thos. McCullough, Lucien Banks,
John Hagen, A. J. Brady,
George W. Rhine,
John C. Patton,
William Weihe,
Samuel W. Black,
Judson J. Brooks,
John J. McFarland,
C. H. Aikens,
Seymour S. Hackett,
Harry Alvin Hall
Michael Delaney,
John B. Storm,
Thos. A. Haak,
Chas. F. Reninger,
Chas. H. Schadt,
Thomas R. Philips, -
Chas. D. Kaiser,
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 Register—GEO. W. RUMBERGER.
P. H. MEYER,
DANIEL HECKMAN.
FRANK HESS,
B. F. KISTER.
For County Surveyor—J. H. WETZEL.
For Coroner—W. U. IRVIN.
For Assembly—
ForCommissioners— {
For Auditors— {
1t Would be Folly.
Democrats don’t trade. There is no oc-
casion for it. Every candidate on the
county ticket will be elected and all that is
needed is the straight vote for them. Don’t
listen to the stories that will be told you,
at the last minute, about imaginary slash-
ing that there will be done in this or that
place. There will be no occasion for cut-
All of the men are good and
See
ting.anyone.
thoroughly competent for the office.
to it that you vote for them and watch out
for stories.
There will be all manner of tales afloat
on election day. Pay no attention to them
but get a move on and don’t stop until
every voter has been gotten to the polls.
Let us warn you against a slump. If there
should be any stay-at-homes among the
Democrats there will be defeat sure. No
matter what the condition of the weather
turn out and get your neighbor out with
you. Remember that the large percentage
of the opposition is centered in the towns
and in districts where they will be gotten
out under any consideration, so you must
do your part. The country precincts are
the ones in which the greatest work will
have to be done. The distance to the polls
is greatest and it is most difficult to get the
voters out. Leave no obstacles unsur-
mounted this time. Let us show the
world where Centre stands.
Above all things don’t trade and don’t
let yourselves be deceived by those who
will try to make capital out of everything.
It will be folly, it will be disastrous for
you to trade or cut.
vote in the county is polled, and polled
straight, we will have a wondeyful victory
. to record next week.
Don’t let Centre fall behind in the mon-
strous sweep that is going to make Mr.
BRYAN the next President of the United
States and that is going to make the rights
of the people triumphant.
If every Democratic
Look Out for Him.
We would ask the voters of this section
of the State to keep their eyes open for an
individual known as the Rev. W. H. GuT-
WALT, formerly of Haines township, this
county, at present said to be a resident of
of 309 Eleventh St., N. W., Washington,
D.C. What christian denomination he is
now tip we do not know, but. we are
told that while he is paid by a congrega-
tion on C. Street, South West, Washington,
for preaching the gospel, that he is putting
in his time out in Clearfield county elec-
tioneering for MCKINLEY and tighter
times, and trying to organize ‘‘A. P. A.”
societies. A minister who will descend to
this business is a man who needs watching
closely.’ Needs to be watched morally, fi-
nancially, politically. Keep your eye
skinned for GUTWALT and don’t have too
many things around loose when he is
about.
——-If ‘‘there is no honor in politics”
why are you a candidate, Mr.\ FISHER ?
Are you doing dishonorable things to secure
your election ? 7
Equal iA (0 A ane Special Priviges 0 Je.
Candidate Fisher Says ‘“There is
No Honor in Politics.”
Voters of Centre County Will You Read what One of Your Former Neighbors
Has Concluded ?
29 EucLID AVE., CLEVELAND, OHIO.
Oct. 27th, 1896.77 :
Dear Sir :
Two immense Bryan meetings were held here last night. Not since the great out-
pouring of the people to hear Wm. J. Bryan has there been such crowds as greeted ex-
Congressman and present Democratic candidate for Governor, the Hon. George Fred
Williams, of Mass.
Thousands were turned away from Music Hall where seven thousand eager listen-
ers cheered the champion of the people’s cause from the Old Bay State.
Another audience of like size was assembled at Haltnooth’s hall, and four over-
flow meetings were held in the streets. Many a heart beats for Bryan beneath a Mec-
Kinley button.
Owing to the demands made on the speaker his time was not long at one place,
but during the half hour I listened to him I never heard a clearer and more concise out-
lining of the so called ‘‘Articles of Anarchy’’ as layed down by the people in the Chi-
cago platform. :
There is not a flaw in a single one of them ; and the enfranchised .citizen of this
country, that is convicted and has honor and backbone enough to assert those convic-
tions at the polls, will cast his ballot for William J. Bryan, the upholder of ‘‘equal
rights for all and special privileges to none,’’ and the enemy of the existing gold stand-
ard and the money sucking syndicates.
Let me quote you the first paragraph of Mr. Williams’ speech.
“My Fellow Citizens.—I cannot stand before you as an honest or even a respectable
citizen. There was a time when I was both honorable and respectable * * * Why
has this change come about in so few months, why has this honor and respectability
been turned into dishonor ? Perhaps it is because I have left a past of honor, in the
service of the dollar, for a place in the ranks of humanity.”
Many of the citizens of Centre county with whom I came in contact during my
annual visit in that section were apparently shocked at the position I assumed in this
campaign and not a few considered me as reflecting upon my early training. I can
disprove the latter by calling attention to the fact that the G. O. P., ever since its
organization, up to the time when its present platform was dictated by trusts, syn-
and the operators in Wall street, has been in favor of a double
standard. In fact it still believes such to be right, but we must have the consent of
foreign nations. Such is as absurd as it would have been for our forefathers to have
elected a President and then sat down and waited for England to announce to the
world that a new and independent nation, known as United States of America, would
now do business on their own account.
All honor to the men who have espoused the cause of the people, and have taken
up the fight because it isan honorable one.
Politics is honorable, but it is the dishonorable politician that causes the shadows
If I mistake not I overheard, during my stay in Centre county, a remark made by a
leading Republican candidate for county Commissioner, and he does not live a thous,
and miles from Unionville, that ‘‘there is no honor in politics.”” Now if he is in a busi-
ness, which he deprecates in such a manner, it were better for his own conscience and
that of the public at large that he withdraw before it is everlastingly too late, other-
wise, if elected, he may be compelled to draw three dollars a day from the county
treasury while engaged in budding blueberry blossoms on his blackberry bushes.
F. 8S. BURKET.
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dicates
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An Outrageous Insult. | Vote for Yourselves Once.
The American people were never sub- | Farmers and laboring men it is about
jected to such an insult as has been offered | time you are voting for yourselves once.
to them by MARR HANNA'S direction that
on a certain day previous to the pending
election the American flag, the emblem of
this free nation, should be unfurled in the
interest of a party that would subordinate
the will of the people to the power of
wealth in the government, and would
convert the republic into a plutocratic
oligarchy.
This black-guard labor smasher and
heartless oppressor of the working people,
who owes his position as a ruffian mil-
lionaire to the brutal manner in which he
has trampled upon the rights of the sailors
on the lakes and the coal miners of Ohio
and Illinois, makes the astounding prop-
osition that the flag of a free country
should be used to cover the conspiracy of
a set of plutocrats like himself to put in
presidential office a man upon whom they
havea mortgage and who would serve
them as a tool for the promotion of their
schemes of monopoly and usurious control
of the currency. ”
Is it possible for the American citizen to
think of the flag of his country being put
to such use without his disgust and his
anger being equally excited? Is it not
absolutely shocking that a bloated pluto-
cratic rough, who has no other interest in
his country than the money which he and
his rapacious class can make out of it by
subjecting it to the pillage of trusts and
money lenders, should propose to desecrate
the stars and stripes by employing them
for a political purpose in a campaign in
which he is striking at the very heart of
the free institutions which that flag repre-
sents, by his deliberate use of the most
colossal corruption fund that the Republi-
can party has ever employed for the de-
bauching of the ballot, and by measures of
intimidation and coercion that are intend-
ed to retain the suffrage of a large class of
citizens ?
It was a patriotic American statesman
who advised the shooting of any man who
should dare to haul down the American
flag. What should be the treatment of a
chargeter like HANNA who would disgrace
the flag of the free by using it in the base
service of the trust monopolist and Wall
street money shark ?
GET Out THE VOTE !—This is the
important thing to see to now, Demo-
crats. Let other districts and sections
attend to themselves. You attend to
matters at home. Remember that a
full vote means a glorious Democratic
victory.
: they become his tools, it's
independent voters should rally to
For a great many years many of you have
been voting to protect other’s interests, and,
while men engaged in manufacturing and
other enterprises have grown wealthy and
can give thousands of dollars yearly to buy
votes to continue conditions most favorable
to them, you have made barely enough to
pay your taxes and school your children.
You may call it calamity cry or what-
ever you please, but to-day there is not one
of you who reads this article who can sell
your farm, its products or your labor for
half what it would have brought fifteen
years ago. With all your work and the
saving help of your families, with all the
skimping you have done you have not
made as much money in ten years as one
of these goldite manufacturers or bankers
will give to the MCKINLEY corruption
fund.
Had you not better try to vote for your
own interests omce? And when some
devoted goldite tells you thata vote for
BRYAN and free silver will hurt the man-
ufacturer or the banker, just tell him that
if these classes have to rob you to keep
from getting hurt, that hereafter they will
have to take just what they get, that you
propose taking care of yourself and family
first.
The Word Has Gone Out. .
; — ae ar Oa
The last issue of the Philipsburg Ledger,
now a working Republican organ in the
county, contains the following :
When the chief executive of the State
stoops from his high position to coerce can-
didates for public office by threatening to use
the party machinery to defeat them unless
high time that
the sup-
Doster the man who refuses to be bought or
Jullien, WOMELSDORFF is that man. - Vote
or him.
There can be but one conclusion drawn
from the above and it is that the HASTINGS
people have declared war on WOMELSDORFY
and his friends, in turn, are renewing their
fight against him. On this side of the
mountain the word has gone out that
WOMELSDORFF must be slaughtered and on
the other side CURTIN has been ordered for
the slaughter. There is no denying that
such a fight is on when a Republican paper
openly asserts it.
——HECKMAN and MEYER are the men
you should - vote for for Commissioner.
Don’t desert either one of them. They
are both honest, practical farmers and can
be depended upon to look after the county’s
finances with that economy that has char-
acterized past Democratic administration.
——Remember to vote as early as youd
can. It is the best plan to get to the polls
early, for then you can turn in and help
get some one else there.
——SCHOFIELD and FOSTER are gentle-
men. Neither one of them have offended
a soul in this campaign and both should
be elected.
——Farmers vote for your own interests
this time.
"of 16 to 1.
Goldbug Impudence.
Among the many false charges made by
the minions of the gold interest none is
more false and impudent than their charge
that the free silver movement is an attack
upon ‘‘national integrity’’ and the ‘public
faith.”
This is repeated with parrot-like itera-
tion, but is backed by nothing stronger
than mere assertion. They fail to show in
what way the gold standard is necessary
for the defence of ‘‘national integrity.”
They are unable to give a single reason
! why the ‘‘public faith’’ is involved in the
| maintenance of gold monometallism, or to
prove that it would be violated by the bi-
metallic policy that would include the free
coinage of silver.
The double standard, gold and silver on
an equality, was in force from the begin-
ning of the government until twenty-three
years ago. In all that time was there no
‘‘national integrity’ to be defended. Sil-
ver was recognized as the equal of gold in
our monetary system, and its coinage was
free, for more than three quarters of a cen-
tury. Was there no ‘‘public faith’’ that
required protection during that long
period ?
These gold impostors talk as if the coin-
age of silver was a novelty, a revolutionary
project, an experiment fraught with dan-
ger, instead of its having been a coequal
part of our original monetary system and a
source from which the country was sup-
plied with a large portion of its currency
under provision of the constitution. They
talk as if the gold standard had been the
exclusive measure of value from the foun-
dation of the government by which the
country has been insnred continual pros-
perity, instead of its having been smug-
gled upon the American people, less than a
quarter of a century ago, by a sneaking
legislative trick, with the gradual decline of
the country’s prosperity as a consequence.
Nothing could exceed the rascally impu-
| dence of the goldites in their bellowing for
| the preservation of the national integrity
and public faith by the gold standard.
There was never a pledge of the ‘‘public
faith’’ that requires the exclusive gold sys-
tem of currency, and there is no promise or
obligation of the nation, involving ‘‘nation-
al integrity,’’ that will be broken by re-
storing the full monetary power of silver
and the employment of that kind of coin in
the payment of the government’s debts.
The government of the United States never
bound itself to pay in gold, but it promis-
ed to discharge its obligations with ‘‘law-
ful cein,” and in order that there might
be no misunderstanding as to the meaning
of its promise to pay in ‘‘lawful coin’ the
nation’s Legislature, by a joint congres-
sional resolution, declared that payment in
silver would be a lawful fulfillment of its
obligations.
In the face of these facts how brazenly
impudent is the goldbug contention that
.the free silver movement is an attack on
“national integrity,’’ and that the ‘‘public
faith’’ and ‘credit of the government require
the maintenance of the SHYLoCK gold
policy of the Wall street bankers.
Senator Cameron and Free Silver.
There can be no question as to the sin-
cerity of Senator DoN CAMERON'S belief in
the great benefit the country would derive
from the free coinage of silver at the ratio
He certainly has not adopted
his news from political expediency, for he
openly expressed himself as in favor of free
silver long before it had chrystalized into
a political question, and when he met with
nothing but opposition and condemnation
on account of it from his gold-plated as-
sociates in the Republican party.
His position in favor of free silver coin-
age is unquestionably .the result of his
honest and sagacious convictions. For the
past ten years he has consistently and earn-
estly advocated that monetary policy and
stood up for it bravely in opposition to his
own party, whenever the question was
brought up in the Senate.
Those who misunderstood Senator CAM-
ERON, and we admit to being among the
number, thought that he had some sinister
motive and was trying to serve some tem-
porary expediency by adopting so
anomalous a position on this question for a
Republican Senator ; but the steadfastness
with which he has adhered to it, is evi-
dence that he has taken his stand 1n conse-
quence of an enlightened and firm convic-
tion of the benefits which the country
would derive from the remonetization of
silver and the enlargement of our circulat-
ing medium that would result from it.
It is not often that Senator CAMERON ex-
presses himself oratorically on the floor of
the Senate, but he had occasion to make a
speech in favor of a more liberal treatment
of silver in our monetary system, which at-
tracted the attention of the London Fi-
naneial News, and that paper commented
upon it in these words : ‘‘Senator CAMERON
points & plain moral when he remarks that
if the United States would venture to cut
herself adrift from Europe and take out-
right to silver she would have all Amer-
ica and Asia at her back, and would com-
mand the markets of both continents.
The barrier of gold would be more fatal
than any ‘barrier of a custom house. The
bond of silver would be stronger than any
hond of free trade. There can be no doubt
about it that if the United States were to
adopt a silver basis to-morrow British trade
would be ruined before the year was out.”’
This coming from such a source is a great
tribute to Senator CAMERON'S financial
sagacity, and it is decidedf concession to
the wisdom of the positiol taken by the
Democratic party on the silver question,
which proposes to recover the advantage
whigh this country, has lost by becoming
subsprvient to England’s gold policy.
MR. BRYAN ON THE RELATION OF THE
DOLLAR TO WACES.
NEW York, Oct 28.—(Special.)—Will the purchasing power of the
working man’s dollardecrease? William J. Bryan, in response to the Jour-
nal, answers the question, so important to all wagé-earners, and points out
the fact that, instead of becoming smaller, the fruits of labor will be greater
and of more value to the laborer.
Question—¢¢Is it true that assoon as we get free silver the purchasing
power of the workingman’s wages will decrease ?
Answer—¢‘That is a question that is propounded by the manufacturer-
employer, who seems to be terribly afraid that under free coinage he will
have to get his men for less wages than they are working for now. I pant
to say that, in the same sense in which the words are used, I reply NO !
There are two things to be considered.
“If you take the purchasing power of a single dollar, it will be less;
bat at the same time a great many workingmen are working on half time
and many are not able to find work at all, and you must remember that
when you decide whether the purchasing power ofthe workingman’s wages is
decreased you mugt take what the workingman will receive in dollars under
free coinage and compare it with what the workingman receives in dollars
now under the gold standard.
““More than that, you also have to consider that under the present con-
ditions, when a man loses his job, it is hard to find work again, and that
every man who finds employment is menaced by idle men increasing in
number, who stand ready to take his place on a moment's notice.
“We insist that the conditions that will be brought about by the free
coinage of silver, the increased demand for work in order to supply the
goods which will be consumed when the people are prosperous under bi-
metallism, and the increasing wages which will come with a greater demand
for labor—we insist that, when these things are considered, the working -
man will receive more dollars, and that he can buy more with. the larger
wages which he will receive under free coinage than he can buy now with the
few dollars he receives under the gold standard, and then his employment
will be more permanent.
‘Let me give you a test. [challenge you to find an instance where
the laboring man ever suffered because of the bimetallic standard. They
tell you that prices will rise. I believe that general prices will rise, They
tell you that that means suffering to the workingman. TI want you to look
back over the period when we had rising prices, and you will find that
those times were the best times that the working man ever had, because he
not only had more steady employment and better wages, but the property
that he had also rose, whereas to-day if his wages buy more per dollar the
property that he owns goes down in value as the dollar goes up.
‘Remember that the laboring men have never indorsed the gold stand-
ard in any nation that has had it; and when you see the beauties of the
gold standard presented to laboring men by people whodo not labor ; when
you find that the blessings brought by the gold standard are so disguised
a financier has to spend all the time during the campaign pointing out those
blessing to the laboring man, who cannot discover them when they are
pointed out, you will understand what the gold standard has done for the
laboring man.’’ :
WILLIAM J. BRYAN.
CE EY senso
Three Cheers for John ‘Bardsley
The Republican convention in Philadel-
phia reassembled to nominate a substi-
tute for JAMES L. MILES, who was forced
to withdraw as the nominee for Sheriff by
the decent sentiment of the city, proceeded
to nominate another tool of DAVE MARTIN
in the person of coroner ASHBRIDGE, who
as a member of the combine, is but slightly
less objectionable than MILES.
The character of the convention that
nominated ASHBRIDGE was quite clearly
indicated by its giving ‘‘three cheers for
JOHN BARDSLEY’’ after it had completed
the work for which Boss MARTIN had
called it together.
Nothing could indicate a lower degree of
political degradation than such an open
demonstration in honor of a public thief to
whom ten years in the penitentiary would
yet be due, and which he would righteous-
ly have to serve, if had not been for the
sympathy of a Republican board of pardons
and Governor.
Honest people of Pennsylvania, think of’
such a character receiving an ovation from
a political ¢onvention ! When theft is thus
honored, what may not be expected in the
way of public robbery from such a party ?
If JoHN BARDSLEY, who robbed the
treasuries of Philadelphia and Pennsylva-
nia of nearly a million dollars, is regarded
as a proper character to be cheered by a
Republican convention, will not the Leg-
islators and public officers of ‘that party
have reason to conclude that they will re-
ceive the approval and cheers for their par-
ty for any act of profligate expenditure or
pillage they may commit.
Cheers for JOHN BARDSLEY can be logi-
cally construed as approval for any acts of
wasteful extravagance and pillage which
the next Republican Legislature may per-
petrate. A party that can make such a
demonstration over a pardoned thief, could
easily condone and approve the stealing of
$100,000 from the state treasury, through
the form of an appropriation, to pay the al-
leged expenses of boss QUAY’S sham sena-
torial investigating committee.
This is the moral that can be drawn
from Republican cheers for JOHN BARDs-
LEY, and if the people would protect them-
selves from the effects of such demoraliza-
tion they must wipe out the Republican
majority in the Legislature.
A vote for CURTIN or WOMELSDORF is a
vote to endorse the pardon and profligacy
of JOHN BARDSLEY and to place the Legis-
lature at the mercy of the ring that cheers
his name. :
WHAT THE ELECTION OF BRYAN WILL
BRING ABOUT.
An Ohio Firm Will Advance
Wages if Silver Wins! Re-
publican Manufacturers Who Will Vote for William
Jennings Bryan.—Their Remarkabte—Action.
Newark, Ohio, has a company employing labor that, instead of attempting to co-
erce its employes or trying to induce them to vote for MoKinley, is generous enough
to admit that, under the free and unlimited coinage of silver and gold, WAGES
WILL GO UP, not down.
This company has posted a promise at its factory. The company is the Central
City stove works, the following being a copy of the bulletin :
To Employes : Notice is hereby given that in case of William J. Bry-
an’s election as president of the United States on November 3, 1896, this
company will immediately thereafter
ment an advance of TEN per cent. in
give the employes in every depart-
their wages.
C. W. CUNNINGHAM, President.
C. W. Cunningham, president and manager of the company, said that he and
nearly all his employes have been life-long Republicans, but that they are for BRY-
AN AND FREE SILVER.
The heaviest stockholder, W. N. Fulton, although a banker, is an enthusiastic
silverite. Mr. Cunningham said that the
notice had been posted because the com-
pany realized that UNDER FREE COINAGE INCREASED BUSINESS WOULD
JUSTIFY INCREASED WAGES.
President Cunningham, who is a practical molder, then went on to show how
molders’ wages prior to 1873 were 50 per cent. higher than they are to-day ; how, af-
ter silver was demonetized, there was a gradual decline until the passage of the Bland
Allison act in 1878, which revived the west, increased demand for molders’ products
‘and resulted in increased wages. Business depression six years later caused another
decline. In his opinion nothing will restore permanent prosperity but the RESTOR-
ATION OF SILVER. In concluding Mr. Cunningham remarked :
“Do you know of any factories offering increased wages if McKinley is elected ?
Idon’t.”