—— » 2 TE s c Spawls from the Keystone. ve roms Democratic afclpan, ' e —The contract for a soldiers’ monument at ug ~~ / < Ebensburg, has been let to a Philadelphia BY P. GRAY MEEK. Ink Slings. —CHARLES DICKENS was evidently thinking of the coming of SAM MILLER into the world when he wrote ‘Life is short and why should speeches be long.” —WANAMAKER is out for Governor, at least, so his own words say ; but WANA- MAKER’S running for Governor, will be done in the old Republican way—of with- drawing when he makes terms] with QUAY. —WANAMAKER’S ‘‘such a man as you and your associates agree to represent’’ will probably be Mr. PETER A. B. WEID- NER. If the plans miscarry, however, and Allegheny STONE wins at Harrisburg then the Philadelphia merchant will probably remain on the ticket. —Would you believe it, secretary of state JOHN SHERMAN succeeded in dous- ing his assistant DAY’S glim long enough, on Monday, to get his own name in the Washington dispatches. It must have been very gratifying to the public to learn that JOHN is still living at Washington. ——Some of our blantant gold friends who were calling the silverites anarchists and government destroyers, last fall, might profitably turn their attention Washington- ward and learn a lesson in patriotism. The American mind may vary on questions of finance, political economics and govern- ment, but it is a unit on patriotism. —Mr. WEBSTER FLANNAGAN, who asked the tart question: ‘“What are we here for, if not for the offices,” has just been made an internal revenue collector for the third district of Texas. WEBSTER seems to have had the right idea of things, from his own stand point, and it is quite evi- dent that he has gotten the McKINLEY administration imbued with ic. —England says she’ll be with us in the event of war with Spain, that is, she will give us her moral support. England is great at giving things that don’t cost her anything. When the whole world was contributing to the relief of the Johnstown flood sufferers, and even the Sultan of Tur- key sent a thousand dollars, Queen Victo- ria’s heart swelled to most double its nor- mal size and to relieve the strain she sent her sympathy. —The Khedive of Egypt has a menag- erie filled with the ugliest animals he can find and he takes a great deal of pleasure out of naming them after people he doesn’t like. What an innocent fellow the Khe- dive must be and how harmless. Now in this country when a man doesn’t like an- other he stands up and calls him an ass, a snake or a white livered hog and anything else he feels like—if he is the bigger of the two. ——Out in Troy, Ohio, a few nights ago a young colored boy killed himself while trying to drink thirty glasses of whiskey on a wager. He succeeded in downing eighteen and then the Democrat, in writing his obituary, said ‘‘he was a worthless fel- low, anyhow, and no good.”” The ‘no good” depends entirely upon the kind of whiskey he was drinking. There is some on sale right here in Bellefonte that any man who drinks half of eighteen gldsses of it and lives is a dandy. —The sentence committing the two In- dian girls from the Carlisle school to eigh- teen months in the eastern penitentiary for having attempted to set fire to their school has been commuted to twelve months im- prisonment in the county jail. While penned behind iron bars the dusky daugh- ters of the plains will have ample time to consider the thought that fire in water is all right when given to the big braves, but fire in a school room filled with Indian girls is all wrong. The brilliant and logical argument with which WILLIAM J. BRYAN faced the United States supreme court in his defense of the validity of what is known as the Nebraska maximum law seems to have had no effect upon that judiciary. It has handed down an opinion that the law is unconstitutional and cannot be put into force. The maximum law is one fixing a maximum rate that can be charged on freight carried by railroads in Nebraska. It would have proven a blessing to the great wheat shippers of that State, but then the laws that are good for the people are not good for the corporations and the corporations hold the winning hand, even in our courts. —Well, the expected has happened and JoHN WANAMAKER is out for Governor ; that is to say JOHN is out for a purpose. From the first no one expected that that Bourse meeting would result in his becom- ing a bona-fide candidate, as the Republi- cans are not so anxious for reform in state government as they would like to appear and are the last fellows who would jeop- ardize their chance of electing a Governor, when it comes down to a test. Mr. WAN- AMAKER’S letter accepting ‘‘the call to duty” was given to the public yesterday and is as transparent as a moon-beam. He discloses the whole purpose of the. Bourse meeting when he says ‘‘If this action of yours in bringing me into the field creates, discord within party ranks it will cost me nothing to step aside, at any time, for such a man as you and your associates agree to represent.’”” So Mr. WANAMAKER con- fesses that his candidacy is to be just, as it was intended to be, an attempt to defeat QuAY and not an honest effort toward purer state government. 4 Demacrali STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. BELLEFONTE, PA .. MAR. 11. 1898. NO. 10. Why ? Why would not an agreement and plat- form on the following lines be conservative enough, broad enough and Democratic enough for ALL Democrats, within the State, to stand together upon during the coming campaign : 1st. The recognition of the right of the National Convention to declare the principles and define the policies of the party on all ques- tions over which the general government has control, and the acknowledgment of the bind- ing force of these declarations upon state and local organizations until re-affirmed or modi- fied by the same authority. 2nd. That the campaign for the state ticket be made on state issues exclusively. 3rd. That all questions or issues that are decided by the votes of Representatives in Congress, be submitted, by resolutions of the state convention, to the several congres- sional districts of the State, for such action as the delegates or conferees of the respective districts may take. 4th. That the candidates for Congressmen- at-large, whose names will be upon the state ticket, be pledged to vote on all political ques- tions as the Democratic congressional caucus may determine. With a platform that acknowledges what no Democrat will deny—the right of the na- tional convention to voice the sentiments of the party ; that places its state ticket on a platform pledging its candidate only on such issues and to such reforms as pertain to, and can be enforced in the offices, for which they are nominated, and that recognizes the right of the Democrats of each congres- sional district to pledge their candidate for representative in Congress as the sentiment of the party in the district demands, there should be no trouble in getting the party into the condition of making a harmonious, hot and hopeful contest. The WATCHMAN is conscientious in its be- lief in the principles enunciated in the Chi- cago platform but with the hope of uniting, not only all Democrats but all other good citizens, in the support of a state ticket, as against the rottenness, and debauchery, and disgrace of Republican boss rule, it is wil- ling to fore-go the formal re-declaration of these principles, so far as the state ticket is concerned, and trust to the sound Democracy of the several congressional districts to see that our candidatse for representatives are duly pledged to their advocacy and support. ‘Why could we not all unite on the above basis ? Mr. Cleveland’s Bad Advice. In writing to the gold Democrats who held a conference in Philadelphia last week, counseling them to put a state ticket in the field on a gold basis, ex-President CLEVE- LAND claimed that he was prompted to give them such advice by a desire ‘‘to see our country blest with safe money and a suitable financial system.’’ This was certainly a commendable aspira- tion, abstractly considered, as it is of great advantage to the country to have safe mon- ey and a suitable currency, but what is of greater moment to the people of Penn- sylvania, as a result of their state election, is the deliverance of their state government from the control of a corrupt political ma- chine. While the people can do this by their action in an election of state officers, the issues involved in such a contest can have no bearing upon the question of safe money and a suitable financial system. The Democrats want better government than the Republican machine politicians are giving the people of this State. If Mr. CLEVELAND can convince them that they may attain this object by running their campaign on the money question, and that they will be more certain of overthrowing the Republican corruptionists by dividing their party into conflicting gold and silver factions, he may succeed in getting them to conduct their campaign in that way. But common sense Democrats do not be- lieve that the money question is involved mn the coming state contest, and are con- vinced that the only way to restore good government to the State is to conduct the campaign on the only issues that pertain to such a contest. ——Convinced of the hopelessness of an undertaking which would inevitably have starvation as its only result, the New Eng- land cotton mill workers have in a large measure abandoned their strike and made the best possible terms with their capital- istic taskmasters. They were not prepared for the ordeal of matching their slender resources against the unlimited means of the mill owners in such a trial of endur- ance. In such an encounter those who work with their hands must yield to the superior advantage of a class who can draw’ on their capital and live comfortably wheth- er the mills run or not. Labor must work or starve. This overpowering fact was not duly considered by the cotton workers when they believed that their strike would force higher wages from mill owners who had been favored with higher tariff duties. It was but a repetition of the past ex- perience of labor in such matters. The strikers are going back to work, willing to accept the reduced wages, but in no way inclined to be satisfied with that sort of prosperity. Apprehended Disgrace. There was great reason to apprehend that the Maine outrage would be patched up in some mercenary and pusillanimous manner that would be disgraceful to Amer- ican honor and humiliating to American pride. Such a fear was not unreasonable when appearances indicated an intention to juggle the investigation of the crime, and to create the impression in advance that the destruction of the American ship swas due to an accidental cause. The American mind had reason to suspect that a disgraceful course was in contemplation when a member of the cabinet, the head of the navy department, authorized it to be published that there were no indications of Spain’s complicity with this outrage and that she could not be held ‘‘officially’’ re- sponsible. A shameful line of action could be apprehended when MARK HANNA, the confidential adviser of the President and the keeper of his political conscience, was letting it be understood that there was nothing in the Maine case that could not be fixed up by the payment of money. All these surface indications depressed the minds of the American people with the fear that their country was going to be dis- graced and humiliated in the treatment of a matter that involved the national honor. This fear had its original justification in the course pursued by this administration in the treatment of the Cuban question during the past year, every measure having been marked by weakness and indecision, and every movement adjusted more for the benefit of the stock jobbers than for those interests of national honor and human li- berty that are inseparably connected with this Cuban struggle. It may occur, however, that the very nature of the crime committed in Havana harbor, its flagitious character, the deep treachery of its conception and the bar- barity of its execution, followed by a defiant demeanor on the part of the per- petrators, may be too much for even this administration to condone for a money compensation. The aroused feeling of the American people may be too dangerous to be forced by men in authority who would be willing to huckster the blood of those murdered American sailors for a sum of: nation for the advantage of the stock market. Or it may be that an administra- tion, which for more than a year has pursued a course more Spanish than Amer- ican in its treatment of Cuba, may, at last, be aroused by a truly national and patriotic spirit to a course of action that will not only redress the wrong which our country has sustained in the destruction of her battle ship, but will confer the boon of freedom upon the people of Cuba. If President McKINLEY shall arouse himself to such a truly American lin® of action he will have the support of the American people. He will he backed by the Democratic party without whose sup- port no foreign enemy of the Republic was ever conquered. New England Incivism. If we are to have war with Spain our principal instrumentality of warfare will be our navy. It will be from our naval arm that the enemy will receive the severest blows. Such being the fact it would be an unpatriotic if not criminal neglect to allow the nation to drift into a war with Spain without making every necessary provision for the efficiency of the navy ; yet there is a coterie of New England statesmen, of whom speaker REED is the principal, who have opposed the needed naval equipments in the very face of a war with Spain. REED won't allow the passage of a bill that proposes to make the small addition of 1500 men to our deficient force of sailors, and he is backed in this unpatriotic op- position by BOUTELLE and HALE, the whole trio being from the down east State of Maine. Why there is such an unpatriotic dis- position in the New England States when our nation has a difficulty with a foreign power. is a subject of interesting inquiry. One of the motives for REED’S action in the case of Cuba is his disposition to pro- tect the interest of the money changers. He would sooner have Cuban freedom trampled under the heel of Spanish tyranny, and the American navy blown out of water by Spanish torpedoes, than to raise a fuss about it that might disturb the operations of the eastern stock jobbers. In addition to so sordid a capitalistic spirit as this, these New England naval obstructionists appear to be pervaded by the same unpatriotic spirit that put their section practically in disloyal alliance with Great Britain in our last war with that for- eign enemy, and infused into the New England heart the hope that the American soldiers who were fighting under the old flag in Mexico would be ‘‘welcomed by bloody hands to hospitable graves.’”’ This incivic spirit- always prevailed in New England when this nation, under the direc- tion of the Democrtic party, was conquer- ing the foreign foes of the Republic. Encouraged to Do His Duty. It is now to be hoped that when Congress shows a truly American spirit, and offers to back the administration with all the money and military appliances that may be needed in the pending emergency of a war with Spain, the President will not hesitate in assuming the position of decided national assertion to which he should be encouraged by such popular support. It is true that he has been weak-kneed in his Cuban policy, but there is no longer any excuse for such weakness when the People’s representatives have already ad- vanced him fifty millions of dollars as a starter to a vigorous American policy in dealing with the Cuban difficulty. With such congressional backing, and the sup- port of the American people, he should abandon any intention that may have been entertained by him and his counsellors to settle on a cash basis a question affecting the honor of the nation. He should reject the idea that the destruction of a national vessel by unprecedented treachery is the kind of injury that may be repaired by an indemnity, and that the murder of Amer- ican sailors can be condoned by the pay- ment of blood money. These are objects too sacred to be made the subjects of mercenary huckstering. Congress appears to have been excited to a proper pitch of patriotic feeling in the treatment of this emergent situation. It looks as if President McKINLEY is also trying to bring himself up to the level of his duty in this emergency. Even Czar REED, who reluctantly allows patriotic considerations to outweigh the capitalistic interests, and whom the Spaniards con- sider ‘‘too good for a Yankee,’ is forced to abandon the obstructive tactics by which he proposed to suspend the measures nec- essary for the national defence. Present appearances encourage the peo- ple to hope that those in authority at Washington will no longer yield to in- fluences that have made their past Cuban policy a disgrace to the nation. If, with all the backing which a patriotic and loyal people are ready to give them, they shall shirk their duty by bartering the honor of this nation and turning down money, and compromise the honor of thf the cause of Cuban freedom, they will have to shoulder a load of odium such as was never borne by any who have wielded the powers of government. The Acquittal of Sheriff Martin and His Deputies. It was not an unexpected verdict, the acquittal of sheriff MARTIN and the one hundred and two deputies who helped him enact the bloody tragedy at Lattimer, the little coal mining village near Hazelton, on the 7th of last September. Their trial was begun February 1stin the criminal courts of Luzerne county, with judge STANLEY WOODWARD presiding, and in many ways has been the most notable case known in the records of our courts. Over one hundred men were charged with the murder and felonious wounding of twenty-one striking miners, who had disregarded the proclamation of sheriff MARTIN, calling upon them to dis- perse, when banded together to march from colliery to colliery to urge other miners to strike. The case set up by the prosecution was that the miners were not unlawfully assembled and that they had not violated the riot act. Had they been able to prove this sheriff MARTIN and everyone of his deputies would have been guilty, as in- dicted. As it developed, however, the testimony showed that there had been rioting in that vicinity and that the min- ers had refused to respect the order of the high sheriff. Under such circumstances no other verdict than an acquittal could have been looked for. The case was a peculiar one. It involved a fine conception of the intent of the riot act and has had no parallel in its possible effect upon the institutions of our land and the rights of citizenship. However guilty the sheriff and his deputies might have been a conviction would have carried with it a quasi license that would have resulted disastrously to the peace of communities wherein is employed a large foreign labor element. Under the law, had one member of that posse been guilty of murder every in- dividual composing it could have been held for the same crime, but while all have been acquitted and the ends of justice best sub- served a feeling that a great moral wrong was done at Lattimer must still linger in the hearts of those who, while respecting the majesty of the law, deplore the ruthless slaughter of so many men. No other verdict than an acquittal was expected from the first. The ends of good government will be aided by it, but let the horrible affair be a lesson to all, who are in a position to be called in a similar duty, that the dignity of the law is not upheld by shooting fleeing men in the backs, nor is it necessary to kill a score or more in order to disperse an unarmed party of a few hundred. ——Subseribe for the WATCHMAN. A Pleasing Danish Custom. From the West Chester J. effersonian. The dietetic hygienic Gazette calls atten- tion to the Danish custom, which during the summer holidays sends the school children of the cities to the country and those of the country to the cities. “The parents of the country and the cities swap children temporarily, so that the city children are strengthened and made happy in the country, while the people in the cities show their little visitors the sights and get up little festivals for them. In this way Copenhagen sends 10,000 school children to the country and entertains the same number in exchange.” The custom of ‘‘swapping’ visits between city and rural relatives and friends is a general one in this country, but, as a rule, the city people prefer to pay their visits to the country in the summer, and the country people prefer to pay theirs to the city in the winter. The custom of giving the poorer classes of city children a summer vacation in the country has also become an established one in many parts of the United States, but the Danish idea is even better, inasmuch as it provides a recipro- cal arrangement that confers happiness and benefit on city and country children alike at a season of vacation when ‘‘outings’ are the rule. A visit to a city is just as much of a treat and an advantage to a country boy or girl as a vacation among the fields and woods is to the town-bred youngsters. There is pleasure and education for both in this system of temporary exchange, op- portunity for new ideas and suggestions, which stimulate and feed the brains as the change of scene strengthens and refreshes the body. Such intercourse also brings city and country people into closer and more friendly relations and tends to create mu- tual interest and sympathy. The Glorious Work of Reform. From the Mercer, Western Press. With Senator Quay trying to get a good hard push at the button so that he can shape matters his own way, the Hon. Bill Andrews acting as chief ticket seller for the W. A. Stone show and the Hon. Dan Hast- ings pushing the capital commission into court we are furnished an impressive illus- tration of how the great work of reform is going along in the Keystone State. Mean- while the Hon. Thomas V. Cooper is swal- lowing in buttermilk and waiting for some one to take in seriously his gubernatorial manifesto. * EE wer ——— What Should be Their Only Object. At this time the object of all good citi- zens of Pennsylvania should be to secure good government for the State. Very few will deny that Pennsylvania is badly. gov- erned. It is generally admitted that there is maladministration in every department, and common sense will concede that the party that has had almost exclusive control for many years past is responsible for this misgovernment. The party is ruled by a combination of corrupt politicians, work- ing with the regularity and force of a ma- chine, rendering it obvious that under such direction the public affairs of the State must be managed with the object of serv- ing corrupt personal interests, rather than for the promotion of the public welfare. There is but one way of ending this vicious government, and that is by supres- sing the corrupt agencies that are produc- ing 1t. These derive their power and op- portunity for the commission of public wrongs from the party which they con- trol. It should therefore be plain to all citizens who are averse to this state of af- fairs that the correction of this evil can be effected only by the defeat of that party. This cannot be done if the elements op- posed to machine state government are di- vided. The good work can not be accom- plished if those who want to accomplish it allow themselves to be divided by issues that have no bearing upon state affairs whatever. There is an element in the Republican party that is sincere in its de- precation of machine misrule, and wants to bring about the correction of the pre- vailing abuses. Why should they be de- terred by a difference of view in regard to tariffs and money standards from joining with another element that equally aims at reform in the state government? There is no reason for such a separation of reform Republicans from the Democrats who also want to overthrow the debased political machine that misrules the State. And when such a duty, due to the State, is imposed upon them, least of all have Dem- ocrats a right to divide their force by a dif- ference of sentiment on the money ques- tion, an issue which in no way affects state government. Taking this view of their duty, and with a sensible understanding of the only way in which machine rule in this State can be overthrown, it must be evident to practical Democrats that the advice given by ex- President CLEVELAND, that the gold Demo- crats of this State should put a state ticket in the field representing their preference for the gold standard, would divide the party by an issue that would be impracti- cable in its effect upon the currency and would have no bearing upon state matters. Such a movement might gratify the ex- President by arraying a part of the state Democracy on his side of the money ques- tion, but it would assist the corrupt re- publican machine to maintain its hold on the state government. This would be pay- ing dearly for the gratification of maintain- ing the gold standard as an issue in a con- test with which it has no practical connec- tion. firm for $15,000. —There have been more than 300 penitents at the altar in the BM. E. church at Clearfield, and the meetings have apparently lost noth- > ing in interest. ? —Judge Martin Bell, of Blair county, or- dered the rules of court amended last week so as to admit wsmen to the study and prac- tice of law in that county. —The secretary of the McKeesport school board and the truant officer have brought suit against three fathers in that place for violating the compulsery education law in not sending their sons to school. —The superior court convened at Harris- burg Monday afternoon and will continue in session three weeks. There are twenty-eight cases on the list for argument. No decisions were announced Monday by the court. Sarah McFarland, an ‘aged resident of Grazierville, while gathering coal along the railroad near her home on Saturday was struck by an engine and instantly killed. The remains were picked up and carried to her home. Sister Mary Gabriel, of the Order of St. Jo- seph, while returning from visiting the sick Wed. evening with another sister, was struck at George's crossing, at Lilly, by a train and thrown about 50 feet. When picked up life was extinct. Her companion had a narrow escape. Sister Mary was 53 years of age. —Russell G. Smith, of Renovo, died in the Williamsport hospital Sunday of appendi- citis. The young man becameill last Friday. The disease developed so rapidly that by the time he reached the hospital on Saturday he was in such a shape that he could not be operated on. He was 32 years old and leaves a wife and two children. —The contract for the addition to the Odd Fellows orphans’ home, at Sunbury, has been awarded to Simpson Bros. of Sunbury, at their bid of $2,745. There will be two ad- ditions—one 16 x 42 and the other 35 x 40 feet, both two stories high. They must be completed by July 1st. The capacity of the home will be fifty orphans, after these addi- tions are erected. —DMac Timberlake, a colored man of Wil- liamsport, swallowed two dozen raw eggs in four minutes and a half. The eggs belonged to a farmer named Decker, who after attend- ing market Saturday had twenty-four eggs at his disposal. Not knowing what to do with them, he told Timberlake that if he would swallow them in ten minutes he could have them for nothing. —Miss Norris, of Mount Union, last week obtained a verdict of $225 against W. G. Ew- ing, of that place, for having sold her salt- peter instead of epsom salts, which she took as a medicine, and from the results of which she almost lost her life. Mr. Ewing did not deny making the mistake, but alleged the young lady was only in bed one week from the effects thereof. —It is estimated that the new liquor li- cense law will increase the state revenue about $600,000. The cities of Philadelphia, Pittsburg, and Allegheny, in which retail liquor license fees have been increased $100 for state purposes, will add at least $10,000 to the revenues. The new methods of taxing beer according to the number of barrels pro- duced yearly is the chief source of the ine crease. —There is no truth whatever in the report that the Patton Coal Co., has secured an or- der for 400,000 tons of coal from the govern- ment to be delivered at Key West in 60 days. In an interview with Mr. Kerr he denies the story, and is also authority for the statement that the government is buying their coal for $1.30 per ton F. O. B. at Philadelphia, and that it is impossible for his company to get anywhere near such a low figure. —Business men are warned to be on their guard against a man representing himself to be president of the international advertising agency of New York. He pretends to have for rent a nickel in the slot machine from which, if a proper coin is dropped, postage stamps and an envelope is said to be forth- coming. He solicits advertising on the out- side of the machine and, having secured them leaves town with the money collected and that is the last of the schemer and no ma- chines are placed in position. —At Coudersport Friday sheriff Gillen heard a suspicious noise in the jail. He pro- ceeded at once on a trip of inquiry and caught David Hicks, a desperate character awaiting trial for forgery, in the act of saw= ing the bars in the bathroom. Further in- vestigation showed that the bolt fastening the corrider had been sawed in a way to al- low the door to be easily opened and yet pre- vent the cut being seen. But for the sher- iff’s timely discovery, the nineteen prisoners in the Potter couuty jail would be fugitives. —Major general Nelson A. Miles, of the United States army, telegraphed the P. R. R. officials at Altoona asking how many pieces are in a class L locomotive of the standard type. His question has no war significence, it being understood that he wants to make sume sort of a comparison between a locomo- tive and a disappearing gun carriage. The counting of the pieces require but a few hours and was done at the Juniata shops. It was found that in all there are 20,006 pieces in one the big “‘L’s.”” This includes screws, rivets, nuts, washers and the large pieces. —Edward J. Riley, until Monday morning assistant car clerk in the general superin- tendent’s office of the P. R. R. at Altoona, drank an ounce of laudanum that evening and died a short time after 12 o'clock Tues- day morning. He had for some years been addicted to the drinking habit. Recently his mother died and since that time his intem- perate habits became more marked. On this account he was discharged from his position with the railroad company. He brooded over his discharge all day Monday and in the evening swallowed the laudanum. He leaves a wife and two children. —Last fall Maurice Stayer was employed by the directors of Woodbury township, Bed- ford county, to teach the Paradise school. For some reason Mr. Stayer incurred the dis- pleasure of the patrons and pupils, and for the last three or four weeks no onc has at- tended the school, but the teacher has been on hand each day. He has been asked to re- sign, but has refused to doso. A few days ago some of the citizens nailed the door shut and took the stovepipe down and broke it. The directors, hearing of what had hap- pened, opened the door and mended the stovepipe, and now Stayer is still holding the fort. The directors are in a quandary.
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