BY P. GRAY ME=Z=K.
20,000 Majority in Bryan’s Own State.
Henry Watterson has Displayed the Greatest
Work of a Great Brain in Quitting the
Boltocrats, for a Private’s Rank in
Democracy. Kentucky Demo-
eratic by 20,000.
The Returns from Ohio a Rebuke to McKin-
ley and His Hanna.
i
116,153 Votes in Pennsylvania for Swallow is |
a Pointed Slap at Hastings and his Spend-
thrift Administration.
85,308 Plurality for Van Wycke in New |
York City and a clean Sweep all over .
the State.
The Mother of Presidents the Mother of
Democracy. Virginia 4s Ours by
50,000.
Two Little Capons ‘for County’ Chairman
Gray and Jesse Cleaver.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
_ BELLEFONTE, PA.,
NOV. 5.1897.
TS TTI
The General Result Favorable to the
Democracy.
No hope was entertained of the Demo-
crats being able to overthrow the strongly
entrenched Republican machine in this
State, but there was reason to expect that
as a consequence of the general misrule
and disgracefully corrupt methods in Re-
publican state government there would be
a material reduction in that party’s vsual-
ly immense majority, and the result of the
election on Tuesday has justified that ex-
pectation.
When there has been a falling off of
more than a hundred thousand from the
Republican majority at the last Governor's
election, and the Republican plurality is
many thousands less than was the majority
last year, when MCKINLEY carried the
State by nearly three hundred thousand
for gold monometallism and a monopoly
tariff, it must appear that the Democrats,
| with free silver endorsed in their state plat-
{ form, have made a substantial gain in
Pennsylvania, notwithstanding the apathy
of an off year.
It is true that with such a record as that
made by the Republicans in the state gov-
ernment it is astonishing that they should
be able to poll as large a plurality as they
did at the recent election, but there has
not yet been sufficient time for the people
to fully experience the injury of the Mc-
KINLEY national policy. Its monetary
contraction and tariff oppression will have
their effect next year on the popular vote.
But it was in New York that the Demo-
cratic banner was crowned with a most
signal victory. The great metropolis has
been redeemed from the control of sham re-
formers who were the mere instruments of
a corrupt Republican boss. Greater New
York starts her new municipal career under
the rule of the party to which it has been
declared to rightfully belong by a magnif-
icent plurality of over 80,000. The elec-
tion of a Democratic mayor, with an entire
Democratic city government, puts New
York back in its old place as the leading
Democratic city of the union.
| The Empire State participates in the
| splendid triumph of its great metropolis.
McKINLEY’Ss majority of 300,000 in the
State has been wiped out and in its stead is
| a majority of over 50,000 for the Demo-
court of appeals.
| Surely the result in New York city and
| State is a forecast of national victory for
the Democratic party.
The contest in Ohio for the overthrow
| of HANNAism was a close one, and al-
though it may require an official count to
«| determine the political complexion of the
Legislature in which is involved HANNA'S
return to the Senate, yet the fact that Mc-
| KINLEY’S last year majority of 40,000 has.
been reduced over one-half and the Demo-
crats had to contend with the power of the
new administration in MCKINLEY’S own
State, against a boodle fund unprecedented
in the history of political contests put
into the State by HANNA, the result is
virtually a Democratic victory.
The Democracy have done gloriously in
other quarters.
They have brought New Jersey back
into the Democratic column.
Democratic majority. - du i
* The Republican majority in Massachu-
setts has been. largely reduced, as has, also
been the .case in Iowa, where that party
| loses twenty-one members of the Legisla-
ture, and gets through with a majority of
less than 20,000 for its state ticket.
Maryland, that last year gave to Mc-
KINLEY a majority of 16,000 probably
elects a Democratic Senate and House. thus
securing the return of Senator GORMAN
to the U. S. Senate. bs
Kentucky gets back into the Democratic
the face of the fact that the gold Démo-
crats had an independent ticket in the
field. i
Nebraska stands by the Democratic plat-
form by a larger majority than last year.
New Jersey wipes out the Republican
majority it gave MCKINLEY but a year
agoand elects enough of Senators who will
hold over to secure the next House and
Senate and thus make certain of the elec-
tion of a Democratic United States Senator.
| Surely over these results the Democracy |
| have reason to rejoice.
i They point encouragingly
cratic success in 1900.
to Demo-
| Similar Cuban Policies.
While the situation in the island of Cu-
| ba has undergone some change since the
| present administration has beeen in power
| it is not to be attributed to the exertion of
any influence different from that which the
CLEVELAND administration brought to
bear upon the Cuban question:
There is an evident ‘weakening of the
Spanish supremacy in the island. The in-
surrectionists have gained in the fact that
they have been able to hold. their ground
against the utmost exertion of their enemy.
The resources of the latter are becoming
exhausted. There is an increasing defi-
ciency in their financial means of carrying
on exhaustive military operations,and every
day it is becoming more difficult to supply
cratic staté candidate for chief judge of the |
the recruits needed to maintain the Span-
ish force on the island.
that renders the situation less encouraging
to the Spanish government than it was
six months ago. It is on this account that
there is an appearance of a change of poli-
cy on the part of the Spanish authorites. A
relaxation of the brutal force that was em-
ployed against the insurgents is now ob-
servablee. WEYLER’S barbarity has in a
measure been repudiated by his recall, and
a more conciliatory disposition manifests
itself in the offer to give the Cubans an au-
vonomous government if they will abandon
their rebellious course and return to their
old connection with Spain as loyal sub-
jects.
This is certainly a change from the situ-
ation that existed earlier in the year when
WEYLER ravaged the island like a barbar-
ian and displayed a determination to crush
the rebellion by methods that shocked the
civilization of the age. But to what extent
is the MCKINLEY administration to be
credited with exerting an influence condu-
cive to this change? There is no evidence
from outward appearances that it has pur-
sued any other policy in regard to Cuba
than that which directed the action of Pres-
ident CLEVELAND. The obligations of
neutrality have been similarly enforced by
both administrations. The one has exer-
cised as close a restraint upon filibusters as
the other. If CLEVELAND paid attention
to every complaint of the Spanish minister.
about violations of the neutrality laws Mc-
KINLEY does the same. Neither adminis-
tration has put itself to much trouble in
righting the wrongs done to Americans in
Cuba. The outrage perpetrated upon
doctor Ruiz, when CLEVELAND was Presi-
dent, remains unredressed by MCKINLEY,
and Senorita CISNEROS was released from
the horrors of Spanish imprisonment not
by the interference of the powers at Wash-
ington but by the daring enterprise of the
proprietor of an American newspaper.
While the Cuban problem is being solv-’
ed by the progress of events it appears to
be the policy of President MCKINLEY to
let it drift the same as CLEVELAND did:
But it is remarkable that what the the Re-
publican jingoes denounced as wrong when
done by CLEVELAND is in their view en-
tirely right “when it is MCKINLEY that
does it. 7 ‘ ? ?
columns by over 20,000 majority and: in
Nothing could more strongly indicate the
arrogance of wealth and the presumption
inspired by successful hoodle methods in
politics than the conduct of MARK HANNA
during the recent Ohio election. He as-
chase. Every word and action of his during
the campaign clearly indicated his convie-
tions to him for the election of MCKINLEY,
and that the right to control the voters of his
‘State was due him for having supplied the
money that carried the last presidential
election. 2d
It is natural that a man who takes so low
a view of politics, reducing it to a question
of money, should be insolent and untens-
. _. | onable in making his demands, and he be-
Virginia gives more than an old time.
‘ing of that base nature, it is’ not astonish-
ing that he should have been so presump-
tuous as to Have declared that WILLIAM
J. BRYAN should be punished with impris-
onment for daring to make speeches in a
State which HANNA appeared to regard as
his political property. In one of his ha-
rangues, some days before the election, the
boodle hoss of the Buckeye State charged
Mr. BRYAN with having come into his’
State for the purpose of “arraying ‘the poor
against the rich, declaring that - ‘‘any man
who makes statements tending to incite
the people against their fellowmen : ought
to be in the penitentiary.” x
ion of this industrial monopolist and: po-
litical huckster;.who was guiity of the
great crime of corrupting a presidential
election, a public leader who dares to come
into Ohio and speak against the rapacious
combination of venal politicians and preda-
tory monopolists who are robbing and op-
pressing - the people is a disturber of the
peace and deserving of imprisonment,
How much more advantageous it would
| be for the greedy promoters of trusts, the
| syndicates of avaricious money changers,
| the absorbers of tariff benefits, the subsidy
grabbers, and the looters of Pacific rail-
roads, all of whose rapacious interests are
i represented by this man HANNA, if there
i no leaders of the people to arouse
public opposition to their thievish schemes,
and if such enemies as WILLIAM J. BRY -
AN, whose voice is raised against their sys-
tem of plunder, could be adjudged guilty
of inciting the poor against the rich and be
thrust into prison.
| An oligarchy, with the trust magnates
and money lords in control, would sup-
plant our popular institutions if the band-
ed interests of monopoly and privilege
could succeed in filling the prisons with
those who should dare resist their scheme
of governing the many for the benefit of
the few.. ]
This is the condition of affairs in Cuba |
sumed the air of an autocrat to whom the
allegiance of Ohio was due by right of pur- |
tion that the country was under obliga- |
It would thus appear that, in the apin-
The Present Status of the Money Ques=
: tion.
Since the rather wild election excite-
ment is over it may not be ahead of time to
givesome attention to the money question
which will employ the minds of the Amer-
ican people with an increasing degree of in-
terest from this time on until there shall
be a more definite settlement of it by the
result of the election in 1900.
But little has been done by the McKIN-
LEY administration towards the fulfillment
of the pledge in the Republican national
platform that there should be an endeavor
to secure an international agreement in be-
half of bimetallism. A commission has
been sent to Europe, ostensibly in the in-
terest of silver, but it is evident that its
sending was but a perfunctory performance,
and that President McKINLEY cared but
little whether it effected anything or not.
The commissioners may have been suffi-
ciently in earnest, but it doesn’t look as if
the President was serious in the matter.
It turns out that our bimetallic mission-
aries have signally failed in the object for
which they went abroad. Their failure
has been attended with the humiliation of
having been badly snubbed by the English
gold-bugs. They have been made to un-
derstand that the Lombard street money-
changers find the gold standard such a
profitable thing for their interest that they
cab’t be expected to surrender it however
much it may be injuring the United States.
The world owes money--lending England
some fifteen or thirty billions, and as the
demonetization of silver has about doubled
the interest which her debtors have to pay,
in no way are the English capitalists dis-
posed to forego this advantage by the adop-
tion of bimetallism which would ‘scale
down the interest-bearing power of their
money and bring it to about the level of
what is just. In snubbing our commission
they have given their American debtors to
understand that SHYLOCK proposes to
exact the fullest pound of flesh.
There is no indication that this gives
| President MCKINLEY much concern. I
does not appear that the commission re-
ceived any earnest backing from him ; in
fact no backing at all, for it is a fact that
the bimetallic commissioners had hardly
started for Europe before secretary GAGE
‘began arranging for the reorganization of
our currency system on a permanent basis
of gold monometallism, with the retire-
ment of the greenbacks and the issuing of
gold bonds for their final redemption.
It can’t be. expected ; that this adminis-
‘tration will do anything for silver, al-
though pledged to it: by the party plat-
form. The people will have to doit for
themselves in; 1900: . :
' An Attempt to Dodge Responsibility.
The tendency of corporations to: divest
themselves of responsibility to the public,
from which they receive their right to ex-
exist, is one of the phases-of the constani-
ly increasing corporate encroachment upon
the rights of the people.
CHAUNCY- DEPEW has given the: latest
‘instanceof this disposition to evade corpo-
rate responsibility. He is the president of
the New York Central railroad upon which
‘occurred the terribly fatal accident at Gar-
‘risons, some weeks ago. If the casualty
could ‘be ascribed to any remissness in the
management, or was chargeable to the im-
-paired condition or’ defective construction
‘of the road, the company would be bound
‘to make such reparation to those injured
by the accident as the payment of damages
would ‘afford. ls
' But the astute CHAUNCY advances a
claim in regard to the cause of the casualty
that would relieve his corporation of pecn-
niary responsibility for the injury done,
He assumes that the accident was caused by
.dynamiters who used an explosive t@ weak-
en the roadbed, their object being to plun-
der the train that would consequently be
wrecked. If he can secure the acceptance
of this claim, thereby exempting the corpa-
ration from responsibility, it would have a
great effect in the question of damages.
The rich corporation would save thousands
of dollars, but there would be no compen-
sation for the injury to the victims of the
accident.
This scheme of the, president of the New
York Central is evidently an after thought.
The explanation of the cause of this fatal
occurrence, that was given by officers of the
road immediately after it happened, attrib-
uted it to the weakening of the roadbed
by the water of the Hudson river which
had been affecting it for forty years. Such
a cause would render the company amen-
able for neglect in not exercising greater
care in detecting such an impairment of the
roadbed. But damages would have to be
paid for an accident resulting from such an
avoidable defect, and therefore CHAUNCY
proposes to save the money of the wealthy
corporation by shifting the responsibility
upon imaginary dynamiters.
The way that the courts have been
brought under corporate influence would
not make it very. surprising if president
DEPEW’S theory of the accident would re-
ceive official approval.
m—
WT Te Oye
Cornelly Has Been Sentenced.
JAMES CORNELLY, convicted at the Au-
gust session of having set fire to the armory
of Co. B., in this place, was sentenced to
undergo an imprisonment of five years and
six months in the western penitentiary, at
solitary confinement and hard labor.
CORNELLY. appeared before the court for
sentence, last Monday morning, and be-
fore it was pronounced his counsel, former- !
judge Furst, made a plea for clemency in
the matter of the sentence.
As to the guilt or innocence of the pris-
soner there is still as much, if not more,
question in the minds of the people of this
community as existed before the trial. The
case excited more than usual interest in
the trial and it will be recalled that the
entire prosecution was built up on the
testimony of A. W. GILLESPIE, the young |
detective from Pitishurg. There was
nothing of a corroborative evidence pre-
sented and as the character of GILLESPIE
had been ‘‘successfully impeached’’ it was
the general impression of those who were
watching the trial that the verdict of guilty
had little justification. Inasmuch as it
was wholly based on GILLESPIE'S testi-
mony, for that is all that was incriminat-
ing, the integrity of the detective should
have been shown to be beyond reproach.
Instead of that we find him to be a man
whom citizens of his own town have sworn
that they would not believe on oath.
Bellefonters, themselves, have seen him
maudlin drunk on our streets and the very
night before the jury convicted CORNELLY
on his evidence he was standing on the
steps of the Brant house, with a drawn
revolver, swearing that he would ‘‘blow”’
one of the young men of Bellefonte ‘‘full |
of holes.”
These are the only testimonials we have
for a man who has sworn away another’s
liberty for a period of five and one-half
years. The WATCHMAN does not pretend
to pass on the guilt or innocence of the
prisoner, but it does insist that a sorry
parade of justice has heen made in Centre
county in the trial and conviction of
CORNELLY.
Judge GorpoN, of Philadelphia, only
recently addressed the following scathing
denunciation’ of the unreliable work of
private detectives in a case trying before
him in that city. He was condemning the
evidence given by detective SILCOX :
“It would be wrong,” he said, “to allow
the facts of this case to pass without the
strongest judicial condemnation. It is shock-
ing and alarming to contemplate: the fact
that the administration of eriminal justice in
any part should be in the control or guidance
of convicted and unregenerate criminals. I
have now had before me three cases in which
notorious criminals have been acting in the
capacity of private detectives.
convicted of burglary, one of larceny, and
another of obtaining goods by false pre-
tenses. And the present applicant is new
under indictment for a similar crime.
‘All of these lawless men had crept into
the administration of the law under the
‘guise of private detectives, and all of them
had abused their powers, violated the law,
‘and invaded the liberty and rights of citizens,
even to the extent of committing fresh crime.
| Not only that, but. when ‘the licenses of some
of them had been revoked they had imme:
diately been employed by other detectives as
‘managers,’ as in the present case. Nothing
could be more Topugnant to the prineiples of
right, justice and the security of the citizen
than such a condition of affairs. T said it is
alarming, and the term is not too strong. The
citizen may well tremble when he knows
that unrepentant convicts become the agents
of the law for the service of process, the de-
tection of crime and the arrest of persons.
‘As detectives these men are authorized to
serve warrants in criminal cases and this
fragmentary authority is what gives them
the official character necessary to make them
potent agents of evil. Irresponsible, unsuper-
vised, independent. they sneak and push and
intrude into the lives and houses of citizens,
and as spies, propagators of litigation, sug-
gestors of gvil, and holding the threatening |'
process of the law in their hands, they
harass and plunder and op ress. I sincerely
hope that the act of assembly authorizing the
creation of such dangerous auxiliaries of
justice will be’ revoked or amended at the
next session of the Legislature.” :
An appeal has been carried to the
superior court and a stay has been granted
through which an application for a new
trial ‘will be made. It is returnable on the
second Monday in February, so that it will
not be known whether a new trial is to be
granted until that time. If it is not
granted the sentence will date from last
Monday.
As True as Gospel.
From the Eldorado, Kansas, Republican.
No man who lives on meat was ever
known to lick his wife or ask for a divorce.
Adam got into a row, right off, because he
had no hog meat. butter or black bass. |
Napoleon lost Waterloo because the allied
forces had bacon for breakfast, the morn-
ing of the fight ; the French had vege-
table soup. The South had to give in at
Appomattox because they were out of meat.
No war can be successfully waged without
hog meat. Americans are the most frisky
people on earth, hecause they eat the most
hog meat. Ingalls would have gone back
to the Senate had he not lived on oat meal,
baked apples and blind robbin. A vege-
table diet woman is as cold and clammy
and unlovable as a turnip. If you wish
to put roses in the cheeks of your girls,
| vitality in their every motion and brains
in their heads feed them meat. If you
want your boy to get a job and hold it, go
to the front and amount to something, give
him bacon grease, ham fat or tallow three
times a day. The world is full of cranks
who are always setting up some new fad
about hay soup # 1d corn fodder tea. s
——Subseribe for the WATCHMAN.
One had been:
i Spawls from the Keystone.
i
—Snow fell at Clearfield on Saturday, the
| first this season.
—Two Lehigh Valley freight trains collid-
ed, Tuesday night, at Laury’s station. The
| damage is estimated at $15,000.
—The equal suffrage society, of Chester
county, yesterday elected Mrs. Hannah Ba-
ker, of West Chester, president.
—ZEight tramps took possession of a freight
train a Pen Mar Wednesday and drove a
| crew off. Two of the party were arrested.
| —A hanging lamp fell on Mrs. Henry
| Banishaw, at Bridgeport, Sunday night.
Her clothes were ignited and burned from
her body.
—Enoch Hardy, aged 17, was killed at
MeKeesport Saturday night by a trolley car
used by an All-Hallowe’en party to which
he belonged.
—Henry Seivert, after shooting twelve
rabbits Wednesday, accidentally killed his
$75 dog with the charge which he fired at
the thirteenth.
—Forks township, Northampton county,
inaugurated a good roads movement on
Tuesday by voting $2000 to the improvement
of the Delaware river road.
—James Burns, his wife and three chil-
dren, on their way to Philadelphia, were
discovered half famished in a hox car at
Altoona Wednesday.
—The state grange, Patrons of Husbandry,
will meet in the Harrisburg opera house on
Thursday, November 11, at 2p. m., to re-
ceive and welcome the delegates from na-
tional grange.
—In his descent from his hay-mow Joseph
Wilmer, a Volant, Mercer county, farmer,
became impaled on a wagon thill, which
penetrated his abdomen, producing fatal in-
juries.
—Josiah W. Cramer, a fugitive from
Franklin county justice, surrendered to the
sheriff Wednesday, a mental and physical
wreck. He was'recently convicted of assault
and battery on his daughter.
—Democratic county chairman Trescott, of
Luzerne county, is investigating the allega-
tion that mine bosses purposely worked em-
ployes until a late hour Tuesday evening to
iprevent them from voting.
—The Emporium man who died in the
Klondike gold field recently was not Thomas
Pelky, as previously published, but T. H.
Belanger, another member of the party that
went out from Emporium. Mr. Pelky is
alive and well, and expects to arrive home
‘next year.
—At Johnsonburg Thursday evening, Gust
,Ahlbeck, the liveryman at that place, shot
himself in the right temple. The rash act
was committed in the office of the stable.
Mr. Albeck was a respected citizen, and no
cause can be assigned for the suicide. He
was 44 years old, and leaves a wife and two
children.
—John II. Kline, Jr.,, and Frank Smith,
| two Penfield hunters, were out hunting on
Laurel Run and Kline pulled his gun after
| him when getting under a log. It was dis-
| charged and the load of shot lodged in his
right arm. Dr. Kline, his father, and Drs.
Hays and Smith extracted the shot as far as
possible and fear that ‘amputation may he
necessary. :
—Peter Kangusky, a Pole, who accidently
shot himself while hunting rabbits in Cam-
bria county, died at the Philipsburg hospital
on Saturday afternoon. The accident oc-
curred one week ago Sunday. The load en-
tered his right shoulder. His wound had no
dressing until he was taken to the hospital
on Friday, and was badly infected. On Sat-
urday afternoon an artery, which had be-
come decomposed, bursted, and death from
hemorrhage followed. The - deceased was
.aged 40 years and was employed as mine boss
—DMiss Sue Berkey of Duneansville, was ar-
rested in Altoona Tuesday evening for shop-
lifting. Last Saturday evening she went in-
to William F. Gable & Co.’s store and exam-
‘ined the capes but:didn’t buy one. ' After she
had gone'asealskin cape valued at $35, was
missed. The theft was reported to police
headquarters Monday. Tuesday evening
about 6:30 o'clock Chief Foust caught the
woman at Eleventh avenue and Fourteenth
street. She had the stolen cape under her arm
She was taken to Gable’s store, where she
‘burst into tears and said she had not intend-
ed to keep it, but had merely taken it home
‘to try it. She was led to the police station,
sobbing,
—Tuesday afternoon, between 3 and 4
o'clock, Charles Zimmerman, a Tyrone boy,
18 years old, had a thrilling ride, witha
miraculous escape from death. Zimmerman
went up from Tyrone and spent the day in
Altoona, and went to the lower yard to board
a freight train to ride home. About two
‘miles west of the city a brakeman came
along and told 'the boy to get off. In at-
‘tempting to dismount his foot caught in the
stirrup and he was dragged along probably
100 feet or more before he succeeded in free-
ing himself. Zimmerman said he was
dragged a mile. It doubtless seemed so to
‘him. He was taken to the hospital there,
suffering from a mass of bruises and lacera-
| one on the top of his head. His injuries,
however, are not serious. His accident may
tend to discourage further riding on freight
cars, so far as young Zimmerman is con-
cerned. '
—A special from Greensburg says for some
time past there had been a big fish disporting
itself in the waters of the Conemaugh - which
has defied all attempt at capture. It has cre-
ated considerable excitement and every pos-
sible effort was made to take it, but all proved
futile until Tuesday, when a man named
Weddell succeeded in landing him near Liv-
ermore. After a terrific struggle Mr. Weddell
brought the fish to the bank. It was a pike
and measured five feet six inches in length
and weighed thirty-five pounds. Owing to
the stagnancy of the low water the fish had
become weakened and his capture was not as
difficult as it would otherwise have been. It
was the biggest fish caught in this part of the
country for years. The big pike of the Con-
emaugh has been seen at intervals nearly
every season for years. Some said he was
six feet long, others eight, and even twelve.
‘He could never be induced to bite. This is
probably the same fish.
in 8S. I. Fries’ colliery at Glasgow. He leaves,
a wife in Poland and a: brother at Glasgow.
tions to his back, a cut over his right eye and .
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