2 BY P. GRAY MEEK. Ink Slings. { mas —There is a decided difference betyeen being ina ‘brown study’’ and having a ‘‘hrown taste.”’ ! —A new United States Senator was sworn in on Tuesday. Will he be a sugar spec- ulator, a gold sycophant or a tariff tinkerer ? —Snow and frost in the® Northwest were unhappy reminders that the winter months "are not the only ones that have a cinch on the flannel business. —The Providence Journal insists that the DINGLEY bill is catering to the Ger- mans and canary birds because sauer-kraut and canary bird seed are on the free list. —There are very few fellows who meet with as cool receptions as Lieut. PEARY, the Arctic explorer, does, yet there “are fewer who have the same tenacity to stick to abad job that he displays. —Secretary GAGE predicted, in his St. Louis speech, that there will be an imme- diate advance of prosperity. but the country "is not rejoicing over the sight of the ad- vance agent and his bill car. —Angle-worms and tangle-foot are the greatest essentials on a fishing expedition. How strange that angle and tangle should be so near alike, with only a t's difference and that very ‘tea’ that makes angle tangle. —T.ondon notion eis has record of “a man who thought himself to death.” He must have been an American who went over there and then thought he heard the hum of the industry that was to resound through the land after MCKINLEY'S elec- tion. —One of the features of the Queen’s jubilee ceremonies will be the creation of a lot of new dukes and earls. The American demand is getting greater than the English production and they have to make them to special order now to keep up with the idiotic heiress’ cries for more. —Dr. LockwooDb, of Dunlo, drank some nux vomica, the other day, just to show a “hesitating patient, for whom he had pre- scribed it, how harmless it was. The doctor is dead. Yes, it killed him and we believe all the more firmly in the old adage that a doctor’s mistakes are always buried. —The Mercersburg constable, who shot and killed a desperate negro character, who was resisting arrest, will never live down the horror of baving killed a human being, but if there is anything in extenuation re- lieving the consciousness of having done such a deed the fact that the whole town went his bail ought to furnish that. —New York city sends BooTH-TUCKER, head of the Salvation army, to jail for keep- ing a disorderly house when that very “disorderly house’’ has probably been the means of saving that city millions of dollars and many lives by reducing crime, through the conversion to God of those prone to commit 1t. —“Liar!” ‘“‘Perjurer!” and other like epithets are not exactly the nicest wording in which to express opinions of certain State Senators, yet that is the way some of them are being called off now. With scandal in our national Senate and scandal in.our state Senate our Republican insti- tutions are apparently breeding license for too much lee-way. —’'Tis indeed a pity that a greater in- centive is not offered for oratorical effort in the Bellefonte public schools. One gentle- man has led the way and the results are certainly such as should warrant others in establishing prizes. There is no accom- plishment that is quite so valuable to a young man or young woman as the faculty of being able to express their thoughts fluently. —Things are beginning to shape up out in Ohio and it looks - very much as if the Democrats will have a sweeping victory in the fall. HANNA is to be knocked out and the failure of he and his side partner to produce the much boasted prosperity 1s- what is going to do it. BRYAN isin Cleve- land now and this visit has done much to cement the breach in the Democratic ranks. All that remains to produce victory is a thorough union of the party against the common enemy. —The cold water party is in session in Altoona and as is always the case the dele- gates are making a great fuss over what they intend doing. No need of such dec- larations. Everybody knows just what the Prohibitionists will do. They will vote the Republican ticket, most of them, when the time comes and keep up the reputation they have always had for howling one thing and doing another. We have great respect for the women Prohibitionists, but | the men are not faithful. —*‘Pull down the wall that a high tar- iff constructs and make trade as free as pos- sible,”’ says A. B. FARQUHAR, the great im- plement manufacturer of York, and then J. R. G. PITKIN, delegate from the New Orleans boards of trade to the commercial congress in Philadelphia, says: “There is necessary, first, a protective tariff and, sec- ond, an active foreign trade.” Now did you ever hear of such rot as this jasper from the South talks. The idea of a high- er tariff and then a larger foreign trade, as if the two went hand in hand. The higher the American tariff wall the harder it is for American products to scale it and it stands to reason that no, foreign country is going to play at the one-sided game, of tickling us without being tickled in return. Demacralic I: ald _VOL. 42 The Junketing Abuses A letter protesting against any more legislative junkets has been issued to the voters of the county by president HOOPES, of the Chester county branch of the na- tional league of business men. The reason given for the protest is the impropriety of such junkets at a time when there is a deficiency of state revenue. - What else could president HOOPES ex- pect of the kind of men his party sends to the Legislature than that they should idle | away their time in junketings, and spend the public money in the manner he com- plains of ? When the Representatives whom the Republican party selects to make the state laws are the henchmen of a political boss and the instruments of a party ma- chine, it is folly to look for faithful public service on their part, and useless to con- demn them for indulging in idleand waste- ful practices, which are in keeping with their general character and conduct as Representatives. This junketing abuse is not a new thing with Republican Legislatures. They have indulged in it at every session for years past ; yet this abuse, together with others equally reprehensible, has not prevented the Republican majority in the State from sending such characters back to the Legis- lature to repeat and continue their cen- surable proceedings. By continuing to invest such characters with the legislative function encourage- ment is given to such abuses as the ap- pointment of the ANDREWS investigating committee, whose proceedings have been nothing more than along continued junket. The members of that committee have been enabled to loaf around Philadelphia, off and on, for the last two years, at an ex- pense of $468 a day to the State, if the big appropriation asked for to defray the ex- pense shall be passed, of which there is every probability. The committee that for the past two months has been going through the coal regions pretending to investigate the con- dition of the mine laborers is another junket. It does not require investigation to discover that the condition of that class of workmen is deplorable. The fact that they are robbed and oppressed by the pluck-me store system and the manner in which their’wages are paid is so patent that it need not be investigated by a com- mittee. Much of the wrong to which this kind of labor is subjected could have been prevented, long ago, by legislation that would have shielded it against the wrongs practiced upon it, but Republican Legis- latures could not be brought to enact laws that would conflict with the interest of corporations and wealthy employers. This junketing committee that is travel- ing through the mining regions will do about as much for the mine laborers as has been done by Republican Legislatures in the past. Its principal object is to make an appearance of doing something for the working people, and to give its members. an outing at the expense of the State. A report will be made recommending some sort of legislation that will be so framed as to enable the mine owners to evade it in the same way that they evade the act re- quiring monthly payment of wages and prohibiting company stores. The heavy expense of the committee’s useless tour will be paid by the State, and will help to increase the deficit in the state treasury caused by Republican extravagance and profligacy. It is well that president HOOPES, who is himself a Republican, should protest against the junketing abuse, but he should know that the only way to stop that and other legislative abuses is to turn out of power the parfy that has been encouraged to commit these wrongs by the approval which the people have accorded them year after year at the polls. When such un- faithful public servants are backed by a majority at every election, what else can be expected than that they will continue their wrong doing ? The Bill for Fitting Up Grace Church. The prosecution against doctor SWAL- Low is still pending. As all the world knows, that reverend gentleman is con- fronted by the penalty of the law for hav- ing dared, in his editorial capacity, to make the charge that crooked business was being done in some of the departments at Harris- burg, particularly in that which has con- trol of the public grounds and buildings. His general charges, which did not trans- cend the liberty which a due regard for the public interest allows to the press, brought down upon him the wrath of the entire state administration, which manifested it- self in a number of libel suits ; but the party who was particularly insistent upon a vindication of his official character by process of law, was BILLY DELANEY, super- intendent of public grounds and buildings, whose suit against reverend SWALLOW has not. yet been determined by the blind- folded goddess who holds aloft the seales of justice. While the question whether doctor SWALLOW was justified in charging super- to $16,531.68. = STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. "BELLEFONTE, PA., JUNE 4. 1897. intendent DELANEY with extravagant, if not corrupt, conduct in his management of public buildings is still suspended in the court, the superintendent hands in to the Legislature his charges for having put Grace church in condition to be occupied by the Legislature. The size of the bill almost took away the breath of a lawmaking body that is not easily scared hy extravagant charges. Even the Legislature that has been scatter- ing the state money right and left, regard- less of an empty treasury, was stunned by DELANEY’S figures, which amounted to $56,590.36. This was an amount almost sufficient to have built the church from the corner stone up to the top of the steeple, and if it took all this’ money, merely for the inside fixing needed for the temporary use of the Legislature, the cost of a new capitol, on the basis of DELANEY’S figures, would run into millions. The work done in the church did not ap- pear, even to the liberal minds of a QUAY Legislature, to warrant such charges. It was difficult to understand how the little temporary desks in the House could have cost $18.40 apiece, and the larger ones in the Senate $37.60 each, amounting in all The painting did not seem to be of such artistic finish as to call for an outlay of $4,322.25. Nothing but a heated imagination could conceive the heating ap- paratus to have cost $12,872.96, and a bill of $4,322.65 for lumber and carpenter work could be based en no other hypothesis than ‘that indicated in representative NESBIT'S resolution that called for an investigation of the charge that lumber which had not been used was put in the bill, a resolution that was quietly pigeon-holed. Superintendent DELANEY’S suit against doctor SWALLOW, which is still in “court, may vindicate his official reputation by in- flicting a penalty upon the reverend gentle- man. Yet it will strike the public mind as a singular circumstance that-an official exculpated by such a vindication should have brought in a bill for repairing Grace church which astohished even a Republi- can Legislature, and compelled the House committee on public grounds and ‘build- ings to hand it back to the superintendent for’ revision.’ I11 Timed Violence. The workingmen at Wilmerding, in the western part of this State, who, the other day, tore down pictures of President Mc- KINLEY on account of the delay of pros- perity, did not act wisely, although there can be no question as to the energy of their action. They were emplovees of the WESTING- HOUSE air brake company who had been thrown out of employment by reason of the works being closed for want of orders. Their discharge provoked them to commit this act of violence to the President’s pic- ture, while they denounced his advance agency as a fake and his prosperity as a fraud. In all probability these same workmen were among the number ‘who swelled Mc- KINLEY’S majority. They helped to elect him, and they should now not get into a rage because he does not do what they should have had sense enough to know he could not perform. He was nominated by a party that had all the trusts, monopolies, corporations, bank syndicates and pluto- cratic gold-bugs working for the success of its nominee, and a little reflection at that time, exercised with a reasonable degree of common sense, should have convinced these laboring people that if that nominee should be elected President these’ great monied interests would have to be served and not the interests of poor workingmen. There is nothing now left for these dis- appointed WESTINGHOUSE employees to do, at least for the present, but to grin and bear their situation. Major MCKINLEY was elected to serve the interests of quite a different sort of people. A stiff tariff will be enacted that will increase the profits of the beneficiaries who contributed the money for his election, and this is about the only prosperity that those who put their money up for the election of the Republican Presi-- dent are interested in. We would advise the disappointed work- ing people who voted for MCKINLEY not to show their anger by tearing his pictures, Rather let them show that they have learn- ed a lesson that will prevent them from being again fooled iato the belief that a party that is run by trusts and bank syndi- cates, and looks to that source for its cam- paign funds, will do anything for the benefit of working people. —The CAMPBELL bill, that is before the present Legislature, fixes a tax of three cents per day on all unnaturalized male residents of the State over twenty-one years of age, and the employer of such people to collect the amounts. Though the bill has passed sed¥nd reading in the Senate it will hardly become a law, since it has already been held that no law requiring employers of labor to be tax collectors, when not elected as such, can be constitutional. ——Sub soribe for the WATCHMAN. county. pa mm Similar Cuban Policies. Newspaper readers have a recollection of the manuer in which the CLEVELAND ad- ministration was abused by the Republican organs for its Cuban policy. It was repre- sented as being indifferent to the wrongs of the Cuban people, if not in actual sym- pathy with their Spanish oppressors. It is remembered how President CLEVE- LAND was denounced for not assuming an attitude of hostility to Spain in compliance with a resolution of Congress that would have put the résponsibility on his should- Gers if trouble had ensued. Nor is it for- gotten how he was censured for alleged’ neglect of American citizens who were said to have been the victims of Spanish op- pression and cruelty. All this clamor was so recent that it is easily remembered, but not a word is heard’ from that source at this time when Presi- dent MCKINLEY 18 pursuing the same course that brought such censure upon CLEVELAND. The neutrality laws are be- ing enforced just as CLEVELAND enforced them. Fillibustering expeditions and sup- plies of warlike munitions are prevented from going to Cuba, just as they were inter- dicted by the CLEVELAND administration. If American citizens are imprisoned, out- raged and oppressed by the Spanish au- thorities there is nothing more being done at this time to prevent or avenge it than was done before MCKINLEY got into office. If President CLEVELAND failed to recognize the belligerency of the Cubans upon a reso- lution of Congress, a similar resolution passed by the Senate is prevented from be- ing brought before the House by speaker REED, who is nodeubt carrying out, in this matter, ghe wishes of the President. Thus it is seen that the present adminis- tration is pursuing a course with regard to Cuba just like CLEVELAND'S. The Repub- lican organs that censured the one are now making excuses for the other, although the course of both is similar. Favoritism in Administering the Law. The administration of the law in this country is getting into such shape that it has different treatment for different kinds of offenders. The law that.is applied to the wealthy does not appear to be the same as that which is applied to people in hum- bler circumstances. An example of this discrimination is fur- nished by two cases in Washington. The broker CHAPMAN, who was sentenced to thirty day’s imprisonment in the Washing- ton jail for refusing to testify before the Sen- ate committee in regard to the sugar trust scandals, isallowed, during his confinement, all the luxuries that wealth can purchase. His jailor has fitted up his prison ‘‘parlors’’ with palatial sumptuousness, and every- thing is done that may contribute to his ease and comfort. In contrast to this, a resident of Wash- ington named BALL was put into the dis- trict jail for a bailable offense about the time of CHAPMAN'S incarceration. As he was a poor and uninfluential person he could not furnish the bail that would have released him ; but he was not a convict as CHAPMAN was. Being a person in humble circumstances, the request of his friends to supply him with something better than prison fare was positively refused, while the keeper of the prison allowed the rich- broker to revel in luxury. > Another instance of discrimination in the treatment of those subject to the law is | furnished in New York. Last week the leader of the salvationists was arrested for being too noisy in his religions perform- ances, and as he wasn’t backed by wealth, he was adjudged to be an offender and sub- jected to punishment. This, however, was not the kind of treatment accorded to the SEELEY bacchanals, in whose case the pros- ecution for immorality that shocked the public some months ago has not been pushed. The prosecuting officer of the city of New York, the same functionary who was so prompt in putting the law in force against poor BOOTH-TUCKER, the salvationist, announces his intention of _dropping the suit against wealthy SEELEY and his licentious companions, as he thinks that gentlemen of their wealth and stand- ing have been punished enough by the publicity that has made the incident un- pleasant to them. Our country is getting in a bad way when such discrimination is shown in ad- ministering the law. The Primaries Tomorrow. Don’t forget that primary elections will be held in every precinct in the county to- morrow afternoon and that