em —— Ink Slings. ——They say that CLEM is thirty in. —Mr. DALE'S efforts to get to Congress can at least be credited with briefness, if not much brillianey. —It is now said that Col. REEDER finds his end of the olive branch not only wilted but p2infully thorny. —The protocol seems to have gotten the exact range of candidate STONE'S flags and ammunition magazines. —1It will not necessarily make the cab- inet meetings more mysterious or difficult to see into if DAY lights out of it. —Blessed protocol. It not only brings peace to the country, but insures a desired and, it is hoped, a long vacation for the war poet. —If Mr. STONE could only secure COR- BETT’S press agent he might be able to keep his war issues to the front, even in the time of peace. —October 1st is to be Chicago day at the Omaha exposition and weather forecasters have already ordered up the wind storm flags for that day. —The fighting part of the war may be over, but indications are strong that the campaign for plunder will be along and vigorous one. —The result shows that Col. REEDER could distinguish a cyclone from an ordi- nary wind cloud and knew when to strike for the storm cellar. —It is generallly believed that SAnp- SON’S confirmation will experience rough sailing through the windward passage of the Senate. —Dr. SWALLOW, like the bass drum ar- tist of the country band, is working hard to keep up the noise, if he don’t add much to the music of the occasion. —As the boys who have carried the flag are about through with their job, the fel- lows who are for the appropriations may be looked for at the front hereafter. —Mr. DALE may not be much older, but he knows a vast deal more about the grati- tude of his fellow Republicans in the county than he did this time last week. —If they had only removed the splinters from thesliding board, the Governor’s sore- ness would naturally have been of shorter duration and much easier to heal. -—Secretary ALGER may be responsible for the deplorable condition of the soldiers in the fever stricken camps, but who is re- sponsible for ALGER? You ought to guess this the first trial. —Late information from the front veri- fies the reports that no efforts to repair the severed cables or restore communication be- tween the HASTINGS and QUAY forces in the country, have yet been made. —Now that CAMBON is through with his peace negotiations between this country and Spain, what’s the matter with his be- ing called in as mediator for brother WAN- AMAKER and boss QUAY. —Talking of the negotiations for Cuban independence, is there no sympathetic soul willing to come to the front and ask the recognition of a little independence for the boss ridden Republicans of Pennsylvania. —Judging from the general expression there would have been but little crape bung out in this country if Spain had cap- tured Secretary ALGER and his war depart- ment, prior to the signing of the protocol. —And now Governor HASTINGS’ friends claim that it was because of DALE'S weak- ness, and DALE’s followers are sure that it was on account of the Governor’s unpopu- larity, and the God’s truth is they are both about right. —After all, annexation may not prove such a bad policy for our people. The de- sire of Republican rascals to hold office in the newly acquired possessions may give honest men a chance at controlling govern- mental affairs at home. Its a small hope, but the Lord be thanked for it. ARNOLD said ‘CLEMENT DALE is a very estimable gentleman and I consider myself under lasting obligations to him for faithful services in the past.”” Now CLEM said, only a week before, ‘‘Understand that ARNOLD is not a very grateful man for ser- vices rendered.”’ You see the two had the same notion about the ‘‘services rendered,’ but their ideas didn’t gee on the matter of gratitude at all. —We would suggest to the Republicans of Montgomery and Chester counties, who seem to be in such straits about combina- tions to elect their legislative candidates, that they try their hand on the eastern penitentiary. We don’t know anywhere else where so many men will be found who are in such full accord with Republican ideas or where a combination for thieving purposes could be more easily effected. —In giving praise to the new heroes whom this war has raised up for American adulation have we not, to a certain degree, neglected those brave and noble men, the privates in the regular army? Some of those who have fallen in battle have left no friend to mourn. Homeless, wretched and almost without hope they have gone into the service years ago and become noble men. Learning to revere the flag that floated over their barracks and to regard it as their one treasure it was love for it that flowed out with their warm life’s blood be- fore Santiago. Temacrl TRO UR Vy _VOL. 43 The Irony of Fate. As long as Governor HASTINGS wore the QUAY collar and acted as the subservient tool of the corrupt and overbearing boss, as he did all through the first year of his administration, the Republicans of the county could find no words of commenda- tion too strong or flattering in which to ex- press their approval of his course. It was during this year that he signed the increase of salary bills ; the increase of office bills; the consolidation of electric railway bills ; the pipe line bill and more other vicious and thieving legislation than was ever fastened upon any State in the same length of time. He was then under the thumb and acting under the dictation of the boss. It was QUAY’S legislators, and it was QUAY’S henchmen who were to profit by it. For some reason or other a break came. Governor HASTINGS threw off the collar of the boss. We do not know why or does it matter now. The meeting of the second Legislature under his administration showed a gather- ing of legislative roosters such as had never met before to rob the people and disgrace the Commonwealth. They were friends and henchmen of boss Quay. They met to do his bidding and they did it. Not a man in the country but knows that it was the most corrupt body of Legislators that ever took the oath of office ; not a voter in the State, with intelligence enough to get into the dry when it rains, but is acquaint- ed with the many and disgraceful efforts that were made to rob the treasury and plunder the people, and not one of them but knows, just as well, the fact that every act of vicious legislation introduced had the sanction and support of boss QUAY. To his credit, be it said, Governor HASTINGS stood between that QUAY Legis- lature and the treasury. He vetoed bill after bill that it passed to rob the State. He refused to allow the claims of fake in- vestigating committees. He prevented the raid of the bird book thieves on the treasury. He peremptorily stopped the pay of the padded employee roll, and in scores of instances saved to the people of the State thousands upon thousands of dol- lars that was attempted to be taken from the treasury for the benefit of those who were still doing thie biddings of the boss. And what do we see as a consequence here at home ? Simply, an overwhelming majority of his party crying him down and denouncing him as if he had committed an unpardon- able sin ; every candidate that he favored driven from the ticket; every friend who endorsed his efforts to prevent corrupt leg- islation and official thievery, defeated ! As long as Governor HASTINGS helped the thieves to rob the people, he was right in the estimation of the Republicans of Centre county. When he refused to aid the robbers or obey the dictates of the boss, his party de- feats and denounces him. Such is the record the Republican party of Centre county has just made. Such is the irony of fate. He Wants Them to Forget. The man whom QUAY has put up for Governor has a poor opinion of the com- mon sense of Pennsylvania’s citizens, if he believes that they will accept his views in regard to the last State Legislature. In his opening speech of the campaign, among other things that discredited his honesty and sense, he said : “They charge the last Legislature with corruption, but that can have nothing to do with the coming elec- tion. That Legislature is dead and gone.” It is thus seen that the machine candi- date does not attempt to defend that Leg- islature. He virtually admits its worth- less character, but wants the people to for- get its many iniquitous actions and again entrust with power the party that has af- flicted the State with such Legislatures. He appears to think that it is sufficient that “‘that Legislature is dead and gone.” But are not the machine leaders headed hy the party boss, arranging to elect another onelike it? Can there be any improve- ment expected when the wires are laid in every legislative district to elect men who will be as much under the control of QUAY, and as much disposed to serve the corrupt interests with which he is allied, as were the Republican members of the last Legislature? Though QUAY’S nomi- nee wants the people to forget the last law- making body that disgraced the State at Harrisburg, they are not willing to let it slip so easily from their minds. Its mis- deeds will keep it in their memory and warn them against electing another which, along with a Governor who would also be the property of the party boss and the ser- vant of the machine, would continue the bad government the reform of, which is de- manded by the highest interests of the State. ——The protocol which Col. REEDER and little PHIL signed was intended to bring about a suspension of hostilities while the Governor would get things in shape, but it didn’t. BELL STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. ee ar pe Its Inherent Bad Character. It would have been contrary to the nat- ural order of things if there had not heen scandalous management of this war by an administration that came into power through the expenditure of the millions by which MARK HANNA bought the chief magistracy of the nation for McKINLEY. Whether in peace or war, an administra- tion conceived in the rottenness of the hoodle methods by which McKINLEY was elected, will display its inherent nature. The influences that placed the present presidential incumbent in the position he occupies acted from motives of personal gain for those who put their money into his election. Such characters as HANNA and ALGER are the true representatives of the predominant policies of such an admin- istration, and acting upon so pliable a sub- ject as the man whom they had put into the presidential office, they had but little difficulty in giving the management of the war a direction that served the interests of the politicians, the army contractors and the fathers of rich men’s sons, while it brought suffering to the soldiers and dis- grace to the Nation. Why should there not be shocking abuses in the army with such a man as ALGER at the head of the war department? Scandals are inseparable from his connection with public affairs. He is as much of a political boodler now as he was when he bought up JOHN SHERMAN’S nigger delegates in a Republican national convention. He holds his position in the cabinet as a reward for his heavy contribution to the HANNA boodle fund, and though the decent sense of the country demands that he should be turned out, McKINLEY durst not do it on account of pecuniary obligations, even if he has not become reconciled to the HANNA and ALGER methods. —_—e Imperialism in the State Campaign. Chairman ELKINS, of the Rupubli- can state committee, has the same desire as is entertained by the other machine lead- ers to run the campaign on issues that have nothing to do with the affairs of the State. He wants to raise a hullabaloo about mat- ters that have no connection with a state contest, though their use as a screen be- hind which the machine rascalities may be hidden cannot be denied. With this ob- ject he declares that “the United States stands at the threshold of a new govern- mental policy and we must see to it that Pennsylvania stands guard, with every man in his place.” Now the fact is that the governmental policy in which the people of Pennsylva- nia are most concerned is not the land grab- bing scheme to which ELKINS refers, but a reformed policy in the government of the State that will stop the corrupt practices of the machine leaders and secure more hon- est acticn on the part of our Governors and Legislatures. When the public affairs of the State are corruptly managed, and the interests of the people are sacrificed for the benefit of the gang of thieves, it is an insult to their in- telligence for the chairman of the state committee to attempt to divert their at- tention from such a condition of affairs by calling on them to- “stand guard, with every man in his place,” in support of the new imperial policy of the Republican party. TE ——— ——The ingratitude that was shown in Saturday’s fight left no mistaking the character of some men. There are fellows fighting Governor HASTINGS who owe him for every bit of political picking they have ever had. It was ever thus in politics. Se —————— Collapse of the War Issue. The Republican politicians who pro- posed to run their state campaign on the war as the leading issue, find themselves deprived of ammunition by the sudden collapse of hostilities. There can’t be any excitement gotten up in rallying around | the flag after the enemy have laid down their arms. The machine managers are welcome to all the advantage they can get out of the war as a campaign issue. In the support of the government as against the Spanish eneny no party can claim superior merit, for all classes of our citizens were equally loyal and patriotic, but for those shocking abuses in army wanagement that were more harmful to our soldiers than the bul- lets of the enemy, and caused greater suf- fering and loss of life, the blame rests alone with those Republican politicians through whose influence the war was made to serve their political designs and personal gain. The war is practically over, and its speedy termination is due to the exhaus- tion of a surprisingly weak enemy, and not to the superior management of the officials under whose charge our brave soldiers were subjected to the most abuseful treatment. The shameful record that ALGER has made, without reproof from McKINLEY, is about all that is left of the war, and it is not cal- culated to be of much advantage to the Re- publican machine managers as an issue in the pending state campaign. EFONTE, PA.. AUGUST 19, 1898. The Proof Still Continues. The Kansas farmers who talked of get- ting up a testimonial for Jas. LEITER in recognition of the benefit he did them by raising the price of wheat, are beginning to see how foolish such a demonstration would have heen. LEITER'S operation was nothing more than a gambling per- formance that resulted in no substantial good to any one. Wheat is selling for sixty cents, a price at which it is likely to remain unless af- fected by phenomenal conditions of the market, such as that which LEITER at- tempted to take advantage of by cornering it, and met his ruin. The western farmers, who believed that he was their benefactor by raising wheat from a long continued de- pression in price, were as much mistaken as were the Republican politicians who pointed at dollar wheat as proof that the market value of farm products could go up permanently to a high figure under the present monetary figure. LEITER'S performance was a pure case of gambling, and proved as unsubstantial a basis for the high price of wheat as the gold standard has proven to be. The pres- ent value of that cereal is about the nor- mal figure under conditions brought about by the demonetization of silver, and al- though there maybe an occasional advance in the market on account of scarcity of the crops abroad, and such characters as LEI- TER may cause an occasional spurt, wheat at 50 and 60 cents will continue to prove the close relation between the price of sil- ver and the price of farm products. The Grotesque in the Republican Con vention. Everybody recognizes some of the ridicu- lous and inconsistent situations in which the leading Republicans of Centre county found themselves, on Tuesday, but here are some that have probably never been thought of. Wasn't it singular that JOHN G. Pratt, of Philipsburg, should have nominated Mr. ARNOLD ? It was no longer ago than May 24th than Mr. PLATT was calling JACK DALE any old thing and yet there he was, hand in glove, with the new Nap. What did that committee do ‘“‘at the rear of ‘the court house ?"’ It was wonderfully inconsistent for a convention that had repudiated Governor DAN to turn around and endorse him. The ARNOLD people commended the econ- omy of the administration of state affairs. Fortunately no allusion was made to the economy in the Centre county campaign. To those who thought far enough back it seemed like the irony of fate that judge FURST should have had to tote around resolutions that were probably writ- ten by judge Love. How about that thirty. Do you think CLEM might be in ? The kind of comfort that the HASTINGS people get out of the fight is about as cold as the weather around the north pole, yet they freeze onto it and hug themselves, be- cause they have anything consoling left. They say, now, that it was a HASTINGS convention and he could have done most anything he liked with it. Could he though ? —————————— — ‘Git there” isn’t likely to get very far on the dark lantern platform he must be standing on, judging from his speech on Tuesday. Speak out ELI. Let the people know where you are at. Certainly the old cat basn’t got the tongue you used to waggle so freely in every convention be- fore the last one. A New Job for the Proof Reader. The editor the Lewisburg: Journal gets up on his hind feet in a recent issue of his paper and displays his asininity in the fol- lowing paragraph : The State College authorities claim that they were ignorant of the matter inserted in their cat- alogue, and that the expensive plates, costing from $500 to $800 each, showin cows, skunks, owls, eats and flickers were all wickedly put there without their knowing anything about it. = A pret- iy excuse, indeed. It has been suggested that the Leaislotie pass a law giving them the privi- lege of reading proof of their generally useless publications before they are sent out. It is possible that they ‘‘read proof’’ of skunks pictures down in Union county, but we doubt if there is another spot in the State where such a suggestion would be made as a remedy for Republican thievery. Other localities understand that it was Mr. QUAY’S henchman, Dr. WARREN and Mr. QUAY’S superintendent of state printing, Mr. RoBINgON, and Mr. QUAY’S state printer, Mr. BuscH, who are to blame for this attempted steal, but the Union county idea is that the proof reader who failed to properly scan the grammatical con- struction, the orthography and the punc- tuation of a skunk’s picture is the fellow who should be held responsible. We al- ways thought they had queer ideas down in Union county or they would never vote, as they have done so persistently, for Quay and his thieving gang. We don’t wonder now that they do. . I ——— -—Subscribe for the WATCHMAN. NO. 32. Let the Expense Be Halted. From the Baltimore Sun. One of the inevitable and immediate re- ee EEEEEEE———— Spawls from the Keystone. —J. H. Mackey, of Co. G, Wiliamsport, who was brought to Williamsport from Camp Alger last week, afflicted with typhoid fever died Monday night. He was 18 years old. —Early Friday morning burglars effected an entrance through the rear door of the DuBois postoffice and robbed the money drawer of nine dollars. No stamps were taken. —Near Turbotville, Saturday, William Menges, a young farmer, was kicked by a horse and died shortly after. He is sur- vived by his wife and two children. His funeral took place Monday. —The Lycoming county Democratic pri- maries gave Judge Metzger and Senator Cochran flattering endorsements; Otto G. Kaupp for district attorney, John Engler for Assemblyman. Jarrett led in the contest sults of the appointment of incompetent officials in the supply and staff depart- ments of the army has been extravagance and waste, if nothing worse. Our three months’ war, it is said by competent Judges, bids fair to prove one of the most expensive wars ever waged by any nation, and this largely owing to the absolute recklessness with which the people's money has been spent. It has not been a case of saving and the spigot and bunghole have been kept wide open. Unnecessarily large bills for the transportation of troops and supplies have been incurred by the injudicious choice of locations for encampments, apart from the sanitary objections, which in most every instance, have condemned the locations as unsuitable. Want of proper provision and preparation of the necessary facilities for transportation have caused expensive de- lays, and the congregation of supplies at points where the men were not needed, or couldn’t be reached when needed, and, in the case of perishable articles of food, the loss of enormous quantities spoiled and condemned to be thrown away. Ill-con- sidered and conflicting orders for the move- ment of troops—orders not infrequently no sooner issued and made known than re- voked, because, it 1s assumed, of personal influences or a ‘‘private pull” exerted to procure their revocation—have not only tried and exhausted the patience of officers and men, but have involved the future waste of rations ordered to he cooked, but never eaten, to say nothing of the time of chartered transports ordered hither and thither, for no purpose, but all ‘‘charged for in the bill.” When the war cloud then loomed large and black upon the horizon Congress was thought to have done a very liberal and patriotic thing in placing $50,000,000 at the President's disposal in order to put the country in a state of preparation for war. When the war revenue hill was introduced provision for an additional revenue of $100,000,000 to $200,000,000, with a con- tingent provision in case of necessity for an issue of $400,000,000 of bonds, was thought to be ample for a war expenditure to cover 12 months. Now there are those who es- timate the cost of our three months. di- version at not far from a billion of dollars. Nobody, in fact, knows how much the war has cost or is costing per month, per week or per day. And, apparently, at Washing- ton nohody cares. It is spend—spend— spend. The country’s credit is inhausti- ble—why, then, stop at a few thousands or a few millions of dollars ? But, by and by, there will a day of reckoning come. The bills will come and will have to be paid. It will be found that certain individuals, certain classes of persons, ai. profited largely by the war—have heen made rich, thanks to their personal relations with parties in power at Washington and the in- fluence they have been able to bring to bear. But how about the millions who have no ‘‘pull”’ or “influence,’”’ who have made nothing out of the war, who will only have their dead to mourn and the bills to pay? In the interest of the great, the overwhelming majority of the American people it is high time to call a halt and to say that when the fighting and the shoot- ing cease the spending and the wasting should cease also. — He Knew Him. From the Meadville Messenger. About twenty years ago an old gentle- man of wealth and without an y family, re- sided at Brookville. Like many others he neglected making a will until he became very sick. Then he divided most of his estate among his relatives, giving each a liberal share, but also bequeathed a hand- some sum—about $20,000, if we remember correctly—to churches, schools and other charitable objects. A few days after he made his will his physician informed him that he could not live a week. The law of the State makes void all bequests to churches and charities where the devisor dies within thirty days of the date of mak- ing the will. The old gentleman added a codicil to his will, revoking his bequests to churches, schools, etc., and instead be- queathed the total sum $20,000 to Geo. A. Jenks, without reserve. After his death, when the property came into the hands of Mr. Jenks he turned it .over to the institu- tions named in the will and carried out to the letter the desires of the deceased. Such incidents show the confidence peo- ple have in Geo. A. Jenks, who have known him long and intimately. He is the kind of a man required for Governor of the State. A Few Whys that May Need Expla- nation, From an Unknown Exchange. Why did the government pay $362,000 for the collier Merrimac, in bad condition, that cost only $102,000 7? Why was Sena. tor Hanna's brother paid $102,000 for a yacht that cost only $48,000 ? Why did the Navy Department offer Mr. Vander- bilt $250,000 for a yacht that cost him only $60,000? How did a wealthy New Yorker get $150,000 for an old hulk that was raised out of the mud to besold to the gov- ernment? Why were certain contracts made for transportation of troops at a rate of $12 a man when responsible bidders had offered to do the work for $7.29 a man. Will Speak for Himself. From the Milton Record. . The Republican press of the State is try- ing to put a good many things in candidate Jenk’s mouth but they fail to create any impression among the voters. It might be better for the prospects of the machine ticket this fall if they could get their own candidate to keep his mouth shut. When Jenks opens his there will be no uncertain- ty about what he says. Westward the tide of empire takes its way and we have Hawaii. But it would have been better for the country had the tide heen stemmed before it got so far for prothonotary. —J. Lee Schwer, a member of Company G, Williamsport, died at Fort Meyer, Sunday, of typhoid fever. He was 19 years old. He leaves a widowed mother, a brother and sister. The remains will be brought to Wil- liamsport for interment. —A few daysago W. E. Bickell, of near Jersey Shore, was engaged in raising a barn on his farm. While in a stooping position a piece of falling timber struck him on the upper part of the hip bone, crushing it and forcing it into the body several inches. His condition is critical. —The Messrs. Novensky, proprietors of the Montoursville, Lycoming county, panta- loon factory, have been awarded a govern- ment contract. They will make 50,000 pairs of pantaloons for Uncle Sam’s soldiers. Work on the trousers will be commenced as soon as the goods is received and the entire contract filled as soon as possible. —Johnstown was to have a shovel factory, but the industry has gone glimmering. A telegram from the Flood City says: “The secretary of the local board of trade called on the school trust on Friday and was informed that they would try, if possible, to prevent the manufacture of any shovels here, but that they thought well of the plan to operate the plant for some other purpose.” —Saturday night Robert Stryker and John Laveson, of near South Williamsport, were returning to their homes from Williamsport. When Laveson entered his home his com- panion was walking on the railroad track to go to his home which was farther down the road. It it supposed that he either sat down on the track or was struck by a train while walking. His body was found Friday morning ground to pieces. He was about 20 years old. —Arrangments have been completed for the holding of the fourth annual reunion of the Reformed church people at Brush Creek church, Westmoreland county, on Wednes- day, August 24th. The old Brush Creek con- gregation was the first of that denomination formed west of the Allegheny mountains. There on June 22nd, 1762, in the old log school house, which was afterwards burned by the Indians, the first call fora Reformed minister was drawn up. The first regular pastor was Rev. John Weber. —Another development in the war stamp business is a claim set up that a stamp must go with every prisoner committed to a county almshouse from outside the county. This view of the law is taken by the Armstrong county authorities, and the first war stamp prisoner was transferred to Claremont, in Allegheny county, on Wednesday, his com- mitment paper bearing a 25 cent stamp on the upper right hand corner. The question is also being agitated in Crawford, West- moreland and other western counties. —(Gaines, Tioga county, isexperiencing an oil boom excitement. Oil has been struck in the well drilled by E. Matwell. While drill- ing in the second sand at a depth of 800 feet, the liquid was found. It is said that 100 gallons was taken from the well Thursday by means of a bailer. The well flows from eighty to 100 gallons every ten hours and is gradually increasing and work will be com- menced at once to either pump the well or shoot through this sand. This is at the same depth that oil was found in the last well drilled, and although some salt water is found it does not in any way interfere with the flow of oil, as has been the case in the other wells drilled in that vicinity. —A strange case of somnambulism occurred to twelve-year old Lloyd Harris, of Danville. He was with a camping party along the river, near Cameron, and while asleep after the mid-day meal, was seen to arise from his hammock and start to walk across the fields toward the canal about two hundred feet distance. His movements were noticed to be peculiar, but he was given no particular consideration until he was seen to wade directly through a swamp and finally plunge into the waters of the canal. A boatman rescued him, completely exhausted, and as he was sinking for the last time. Young Harrissays he was not aware of anything he did until awakened by the water strangling him. —A man has been carrying on a swindling scheme in towns of this section. IIe repre- sented himself as an agent for a millinery es- tablishment in Lebanon. He was selling outfits to make artificial flowers and said he would forward the wax, silk, wire, thread, scissors and 100 moulds to make 150 in ad- vance. He stated that he would be around the next day to give a lesson of an hour, and would continue for a week. The students in the art were to work one hour every day for a week and at the expiration of that time they would receive $2.00 for their labor. He succeeded in interesting a number of ladies who are still waiting for the return of the swindler, who left the same day and since then nothing has been seen or heard of him. —The ‘‘scorcher” is again at it. The Williamsport Gazette and Bulletin tells of the brutal conduct of one in that city on Satur- day evening last. It says: A ‘‘scorcher’’ was responsible for another accident Satur- day evening. Miss Rose Martin, of Hepburn street, was about to cross the street at the intersection of Park avenue and Hepburn street. She did not notice a wheelman who was coming out Hepburn street at a rapid pace. The fellow struck her on the side and she was knocked against a lamp post by the force of the blow. She sustained an ugly gash on the right side of the head and sev- eral bruises about the body. The wheelman was thrown, but immediately remounted his west. wheel and rode off.
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