Beworeaic Wat BY P. GRAY MEEK, Ink Slings. —S. S. stands for STONE and SWALLOW and it stands for sinking ship, too. —The closer we get to the election the closer the SWALLOW vote crowds the fig- ure 0. —When Quay takes the stump the world knows that that is all there is left of the old plum tree. —The latest yellow book issued by the French government threatens to give England the yellow fever. —Philadelphia will never be in a position to genuinely celebrate a peace jubilee until she gets rid of that public building com- mission. —DMaine ain’t the only Commonwealth on the coast. She calls herself the Pine Tree State, but what is the matter with the plum tree State. —It isn’t so much the STONE that is about his neck that threatens to drown QUAY this fall as it is the dust that he has been trying to throw in the public eye. —The emperor of China is said to be suffering with albuminuria, incipient phth- isis and great debility and his condition is reported to be serious. Is it any wonder ? —The war investigating probe is not likely to go deep enough into the diseased parts of our army organization to bring out any of the information that the people really ought to have. —Chairman ELKIN is beginning to find out that it is going to take something more than glory to win the fight in Pennsylvania this fall. At least the kind of glory that the war department has to parade under. —If real honest, intelligent work, and the most undoubted gualifications amount to anything with the voters of Centre county MITCH GARDNER ought to have 1,000 majority when the returns are all in. —Its beginning to look as if HALL would be elected by every county in the district. Even little Forest, that has never been particular how noisome a dose was pre- scribed for it, is holding its nose when it is told it must stick to ARNOLD. —With horse doctors as heads of the hospitals at Chicamauga, drunken mule drivers as nurses for the patients and sick men lying out in the rain without as much as a tent fly for a covering the war in- vestigation board will have a pretty hard time white washing some one. —“‘I seen my duty and I done it”’ might have been remarked by the editor of the Philadelphia Zimes, after he wrote that leader on ‘‘The Doubtful State Battle’’ for Wednesday's issue of that paper, but it is not likely that the Zimes was wakened up by a sense of duty at all, it was more of an effort to get in ous of the wet. —When you cast your vote for J. K. P. HALL, you will have the satisfaction of knowing that you have voted to have your district represented by one of its most hon- orable and successful business men ; by one of its largest and most humane em- ployers of labor; by one who will not shame you by any act or deed of his and by a man who will intelligently and faith- fully guard its every interest, under any and all circumstances. —Just now the fellows who are after boodle are changing their candidates every time they meet any one who will listen to them. If Republican and with Republi- cans they are against ARNOLD : If Demo- crats they can see objections to HALL that inspires them to oppose him—and when you get to the bottom of their purpose, it is simply to bleed some one, to sell their vote. And yet we talk of the manhood and principle of American voters. —People are coming to the conclusion that JOHN DALEY and ELI TOWNSEND do not know enough to know that the voters of the county have a right to be informed as to what may be expected of their Repre- sentatives at Harrisburg. And the con- clusion is about right. In fact we have never heard of either of them being ac- cused of knowing much, if anything, about the right of anybody, but there is a chance of their knowing more than they do now on the morning after the election. —When some fellow who is expecting to be fixed with ARNOLD’S money, tells you that JIM HALL, or any one connected with him in business, ‘runs a pluck-me- store,’’ tell him politely, if he can under- stand polite language, that he is mistaken. He may not know enough to know what that means and you may have to tell him, that it is notso. There is no such establish- ment, or skin shops allowed about any of his many enterprises and the fact that his own twelve hundred employees are the most enthusiastic and earnest supporters that he has gives the lie to this dirty attempt to prejudice the laboring men against him, in a way that any decent man should be ashamed to repeat it. —The election of a Governor has noth- ing, whatever, to do with the money ques- tion, the tariff, or the endorsement of a national administration. We are fighting, this fall, for Pennsylvania’s honor and it remains to be seen whether the State is to continue as a stench in the nostrils of the sisterhood or to be redeemed and elevated to her rightful place. The money question can be settled when the time comes, so can the tariff, but Pennsylvania’s honor must be restored now while it is possible to dethrone the boss who has betrayed it. If QUAY is to triumph this fall it will be his last battle. He will be too old to fight again in six years and Pennsylvania must now free herself, or go down in history with the author of her shame unrebuked. STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. BELLEFONTE, PA. OCTOBER 28, 1898. __NO. 42. Bright Democratic Prospects. As the day for electoral expression draws | nearer the prospect of the election of GEo. A. JENKS and the entire Democratic state ticket grows brighter. What at the be- ginning of the campaign could be regarded as a bare possibility has now assumed the appearance of a reasonable probability. There is everything to encourage this hopeful view of an election in which is involved so much that is vitally important to our State. The intelligence and con- science of the responsible citizenship are at last aroused against the continuance of con- ditions in the state government that are as barmful to public interests as they are de- grading to public morals. The deliverance of the State from the protracted rule of self-serving corruptionists and political criminals appears to be at hand. That the State is about to have better .| government will be due not to the sole agency of one political party, but it will result from the better sentiment of all parties uniting for the overthrow of a dom- ination that made the entire citizenship of the State the victims of a band of political thieves. The Republicans who had to share this injury with the members of other parties have suffered additionally from the odium of thieves being the leaders of their organization. It is this that puts thousands of them in the fore front of the referm movement, and a large percentage of these thousands will support the candidacy of GEORGE A. JENKS, as giv- ing the best appearance of reform. As regards his own party there is now no longer a doubt of its being solidly loyal to its state candidates. Its nominee for Gov- ernor is in himself the embodiment of the honest principles and civic virtues indis- pensable to good government. There may have been Democrats whose doubt as to the success of their candidates inclined them to vote outside of their party as the course most likely to enable them to deal a blow at the corrupt machine, but this doubt has been dispelled by the manifested strength of their state ticket and the re- markably developed popular confidence in their gubernatorial candidate. The Democracy is for GEORGE A. JENKS and the full state ticket, and with the aid of the large reform element outside of the party there is reasonable ‘assurance of the election of the Democratic state candidates and the overthrow of the QUAY machine. An Insulting Claim on the Soldiers. That the QUAY spell binders are trying to use the recent war to bolster their cor- rupt machine is offensively shown in the kind of representation they are making to the people. Though the war is over and the Spaniards have been whipped, the can- didate of the boss is claiming that the fruits of the victory would be lost if he should not be elected Governor and the machine allowed to continue its corrupt govern- ment. Another plan of operation they have adopted with the object of turning the war to political account, is to claim the grati- tude of the soldiers who were out in the service, basing the claim on alleged favors done them. For example, at a STONE meeting at Bradford, on Wednesday even- ing of last week, after QUAY’s candidate had concluded his harangue, W. J. SCHEFFER, of Chester county, who was with him as an assistant spellbinder, refer- red to the candidancy of General GOBIN, in his speech, saying: ‘‘We want you people to take care of General GOBIN in this cam- paign as we have taken care of your Six- teenth Pennsylvania regiment.’* From this it was to be inferred that favors were done the Sixteenth regiment for which there should he a political return. No other construction could be put upon this proposition than that politics had something to do, with the treatment of the soldiers, for upon what else could be based a claim for votes in such a connection. It was a demand on the gratitude of the Six- teenth regiment and its friends, to be re- paid with votes, for the exertion of a polit- ical pull by which its discharge from ser- vice in Porto Rico, and its return home, were secured. If this was not the con- struction that was intended to be put upon it, how else could it be claimed that those soldiers were under obligations to a politic- al party ? This appeal to soldiers to vote the Quay ticket on account of an alleged favor was so indecent that the speaker: had scarcely made it before it was greeted with a storm of hisses and other indications of distrust. The indignation of his hearers was excited by the intimation that the discharge of the gallant Sixteenth was a political favor for which they were required to make repay- ment in votes. : But this circumstance of the Sixteenth regiment being asked to vote the Quay ticket as the price of their being ordered home and relieved from service, was in keeping with the kind of army manage- ment in which everything was made to respond to political pulls. But the Six- teenth deserved its discharge, and it is not willing to thank the Republican politicians for it. Why They Fight Him. If HENRY WETZEL was a different kind of a man ; if he was an individual who could be influenced, fooled or bought to do any wrong thing, the opposition of the Republicans would not be half as bitter towards him as it is. The leaders of that party in this county, who are working in the interest of their boss, know the kind of a man he is, and know how little would come of their efforts to have him betray any trust, and because they know that his every effort and vote would be for the best interests of the people, and which would necessarily be against the interest and wishes of the State robbers, they are using every means in their power to accomplish his defeat. There is nothing that they can stoop to do, that they are not willing to try, to get votes against him. And this is all because of his sterling honesty and his admitted integrity. If he was a weak, irresolute, or easily influenced person, or careless, doless and unambitious, it would be different. And it is just because of the qualities he has that he should be elected. He is in- telligent, broad-minded and conservative, and is imbued with such moral principles that no power under the sun would induce him to do what he thought or knew to be wrong. He would cast no vote for thiev- ery or oppressive legislation. He would give no support to measures that would rob one class of people for the benefit of an- other. His voice and his vote would be at all times against every steal, no matter in what form it was presented, or who it was intended to fleece. We have had many good and reputable Representatives from this county in the state Legislature but it has been many, many years since we have had one who was a better one than Mr. WETZEL will prove to be. He knows the needs of our people. He understands the efforts and purposes to make them ‘‘hewers of wood and drawers of water’’ for interests that come in conflict with the best interest of Centre county farmers and Centre county workingmen, and he has the will and the courage to de- fend and standby the welfare of those he will be chosen to represent. No boss will crack his lash over his shoulder, nor will any ring dictate his actions. that the Republicans don’t like. It is because of this that Democrats should and will elect him by an over- whelming majority. —A cleaner, better, more capable ticket has never been placed in nomination by the convention of any party than is the Democratic county ticket this year. The Injunction Usurpation. The public mind has reason to be alarmed by the encroachments upon the civil rights of the people which are being made by some of the United States judges who are committing usurpations which justify the position of the Democratic party against government by injunction. " Take for example the recent action of judge E. S. HAMMOND, of the United States circuit court at Cleveland, in grant- ing an injunction in the interest of the wire trust against the wire drawers who were engaged in a strike concerning wages. His decision denied to these men certain rights that are clearly guaranteed to the people by the constitution, and inalien- ably belong to every American citizen. A judge may justifiably exercise his au- thority for the prevention of unlawful violence, but in this case judge HAMMOND usurped the authority to interdict peace- able action on the part of the workingmen. He assumed to exert his judicial power, not merely in prohibiting the strikers from resorting to force for the attainment of their object, but his injunction was also directed against their using peaceable per- suasion and orderly representation in in- fluencing their fellow workmen to adopt a course that might make their strike suc- cessful. No Legislature would have the constitutional right to pass a law that would thus abridge the liberty of the citi- zen, yet here is a judge who takes it upon himself to enforce such unconstitutional authority. ? What makes this judicial usurpation the more dangerous and odious is its being ex- erted in the interest of so unlawful an or- ganization as a trust. There was a time when such an en- croachment upon the rights of the citizens would have excited a public ferment, but that was at a period when Democratic principles prevailed, and before the public mind had become familiarized with such outgrowths of Republican politicians as plundering trusts, and judges had not been encouraged to sustain such monopolies by suppressing the rights of the working peo- ple. —If you want a good penman, a re- liable accountant and a courteous gentle- man to keep the records in the prothono- tary’s office you will have to vote for M. I. | GARDNER. It is (this independenee rand manheod. Claiming Credit for What He Did Not Do. Congressman ARNOLD'S friends are claiming great credit for him for the num- ber of pensions that have been granted to persons in this district since he was elected to represent it in Washington. It is well there is some one thing they can claim credit for him for attending to, but it would have been better if they bad picked out some duty that required the attention of the Congressman, rather than one that did not. The fact is a Congressman, under the present pension laws, has as little to do with securing pensions as the organ blown in a church has to do with the salvation of souls. Under the pension laws now, and which laws had just gone into effect when Mr. ARNOLD was first elected to Congress, it requires only proof of service in the army for ninety days and of an honorable dis- charge, together with the physician’s cer- tificate of disability, to fix the status of the pensioner and insure his name being placed upon the rolls. With either of these re- quirements the Congressman has nothing at all todo, nor did Mr. ARNOLD have. He might, if at any time he was sober enough, have fooled around, wrote letters and pre- tended that he was just killing himself with work and worry in the interest of the old soldier, but whether he had been liv- ing or dead, or whether he was drunk or sober, made not a particle of difference in the disposition of the case. No man who has received a pension dur- ing the past six years is under any obliga- tion to him or to any other Congressman. They got their pensions by virtue of their service in behalf of their country, and up- on the certificate of the board of medical examiners as to their disabilities, and any -effort to have them or the public believe that it was not soldierly service, but con- gressional influence, that secured them the pension, is a reflection upon the service they rendered and an insult to the pen- sioner. If the pension was earned why should the Congressman’ hold you under obliga- tions for securing what your own valor and risk and hardship entitled you to? ..——We have often charged that even the highest offices in thie land ave held for barter, just as so much political merchan- dise, but we never expected that a Repub- lican United States Senator would admit such a deplorable condition. In his speech in Philadelphia, last Friday night, Senator PENROSE said : “JOHN WANAMAKER is a disappointed candidate for office, now pa- rading through the State with malignant falsehood and venomous spite to help tear down and destroy the great Republican organization from which he ONCE EXACTED AT A PRICE the high position of a cabinet officer.”’ Contemptible and Offensive. Could anything be more contemptible than the kind of argument which the sup- porters of the QUAY machine find them- selves compelled to resort to in support of the state ticket which the boss has put in the field ? When the people are demanding that corrupt governmental management in the State shall be reformed, what could be more offensive to their intelligence than to be told that they had better dispense with such reform as the result of an election that would bring it about would interfere with the policies of McKINLEY’S administra- tion ? When party managers have to resort to such arguments it is a sign that they are on their last political legs, and that is just what is indicated by QUAY’S candidate for Governor insulting the voters of the State by such an expression as the fol- lowing in one of his stump speeches : “Don’t you know that if this State and other States go Democratic this fall the President will be compelled to modify his policy and plans toward Spain? Don’t you know that Spain is waiting to hear from our November elections, hoping that she will re- ceive comfort and support by them? Don’t you know that if the country goes Demo- cratic this fall Spain will increase her de- mands?’ Such an assertion as this is an outrage upon the common sense of the people, and is in keeping with the low estimate of the popular intelligence shown by Republican leaders and organs in the kind of bugaboos they employ to influence the public mind. Here is the nominated representative of the rottenest state government that ever exist- ed, telling the people who suffer from its abuses that if they adopt measures through the ballot box for the reform of such cor- ruption it will have a bad effect on the Spaniards in the peace negotiations. If this were not so confoundedly insult- ing to the intelligence of the people its ab- surdity might furnish occasion for laugh- ter. —If brother HARTER really intends vot- ing part of the Democratic ticket, as is rumored he does, he will not be near as lonely as some people may imagine. There are scores of better Republicans than he ever could be, going to do the same thing. The Grand Army Endorses Hall. There is no class of voters in this con- gressional district among whom the mat- ter of a Congressman is more talked about than the veterans of the late war. There are people who would have you believe that ARNOLD is the only friend the old soldier ever had, but if you care to look in- to the real status of affairs you will realize that he has never done anything more for them than any other man would have done under the same circumstances, and possi- bly, not as much, for you all know his weakness and it is not unreasonable to sup- pose that many an opportunity to help a deserving soldier was neglected by him be- cause he was not in a condition to attend to it. J. K. P. HALL is not making a parade of his services to the veterans, for he is one of those plain, modest men who does what he thinks is right without any ostentatious show. Yet his past consideration for the boys in blue has been such as to be a guar- antee that if elected to Congress he will do even more for them. The following resolution, voluntarily adopted by the Grand Army post at St. Mary’s, will show what Mr. HALL’S feel- ings for the veterans are : HEADQUARTERS OF THE Lieut. M. W. LucorE Post, No. 216, | GRAND ARMY oF THE REPUBLIC. DEPARTMENT OF PENNSYLVANIA. J ST. MARY'S, Pa., October 24th, 1898. It having come to our notice that a report was in [circulation that Hon. James K. P. Hall, Democratic candidate for Congress in this district, is and has been unfriendly to the old soldiers, with the intention,undoubt- edly,of injuring his prospects for the election, we feel that, while we do not desire to bring the organization into political controversy, it is our duty to correct so false and erroneous an impression, and desire to say that, on the contrary he has never been asked for a dona- tion for our benefit to which he has refused to respond liberally ; that he has always stood ready to assist, and has assisted many of our comrades in innumerable ways, preparing pen- sion papers, etc., without any compensation whatever. Further that, this Post has occupied his building for the last fifteen years without re- munerating him in any manner. If this is unfriendliness to the old soldier we wish there were more of them. W. B. HARTMAN, M. D. Post Commander. L. H. GARNER, Post Adjt. SEAL. S—— Think of it, not charging any rent for his building for a period of fifteen years. Does that look as if he was not friendly to’ the soldiers. Wouldn't you rather believe that such a man is a truer friend than is the fellow who is continually prating about what he has done for you, when he has actually done nothing more than the functions of the office to which youn twice elected him require. Coming Over to Jenks. One of the most notable indications of the tarn of public sentiment in favor of the Democratic candidate for Governor is pre- sented in the change of the Pittshurg Leader from its long-standing position as a QUAY organ to that of a strenuous op- ponent of the machine and an ardent sup- porter of GEORGE A. JENKS. The Leader is one of the most influential Republican journals in the western part of the State, but as the evidences of machine rascality became each day more apparent, it began to balk in the QUAY barness, and last week it dumped the whole QUAY cara- van over board, and came out squarely and earnestly for the Democratic state ticket. After declaring that it ‘washes its hands of the whole sneaking, jobbing, wire-pull- ing, law-twisting Republican outfit in this State,’ the Leader declares that it turns to GEORGE A. JENKS with a sense of relief. It says: “The platform on which Mr. Jenks stands is a substantial and a timely one. It is con- fined to state issues—legislative corruption, misuse of public moneys, demoralization of public offices and other crying evils too well known to require detailed mention here, and the principles which it embodies appeal to all honest voters without distinction of party. In behalf of this platform and of the emi- nently worthy candidate nominated thereon, the Leader from now until election day pro- poses using its best efforts, and we feel that they are enlisted in a cause the merit of which no citizen of Pennsylvania with an ounce of wit and a corresponding modicum of frank- ness can afford to challenge.’”’ The reasons that have brought this Re- publican organ to the support of the Demo- cratic state ticket are effecting thousands of honest Republicans in the same way. ——The Philipsburg Ledger says that when candidate SWALLOW stepped off a morning train during a wait in that place, one day last week, his presence didn’t even cause a ripple among the crowd ordinarily gathered about the station. The preacher candidate is finding out that the people have come to realize that voting for him is not going to bring about the desired end of state reform. Dr. SWALLOW deserves credit for his courageous fight, but he can never be elected Governor of Pennsylvania on a Prohibition ticket. ——The election of a reform Governor in Pennsylvania will be a great thing for the State, but it will be a good work only half done if a reform Legislature is not elected with him. Vote for FosTER and WETZEL. Spawls from the Keystone. —Heating apparatus for the new court house at York will cost nearly $20,000. —Reading’s free library was formally opened Saturday. It contains about 13,000 books. —A train at Portland, Northampton county, killed Moses Schug, of Pontiac, Mich., who was East on a visit. —The infant child of Emma Johnson, of Allentown. died in agony, after drinking from a bottle of carbolic acid, which it found in its play. —Howard Buoy, colored, of York, was found dead, with his neck broken, in the barn of George W. Yancey, by whom he was employed at Reading. —A board flying from a circular saw struck Daniel Krapf, of Coleraine, Luzerne county, in the face, knocking out one of his eyes and otherwise disfiguring him. —A little daughter of Mrs. Lauver, of New Buffalo, Perry county, was severely injured by a stable door falling on her. One of her legs was broken and her head cut. —Andrew Schilling had both his arms and several 1ibs broken by being whirled around a revolving shaft in which his clothing be- came entangled, in a colliery at Hazleton. —After a mysterious absence of more than six months farmer Samuel Nissley. of Dru- more township. Lancaster county, yesterday reappeared at his home, but had nothing to say of his travels. —While walking in the streets of Shamo- kin Friday night, Charles Gilbert became en- tangled in a broken telephone wire, which had fallen across a live trolley wire, and he was terribly burned by the electric current. —A teamster named O’Neal, of Chaneys- ville, Bedford county, recently hauled a wal- nut log to Everett which measured twenty- five feet in length, forty-eight inches at one end and thirty-eight inches at the other, and contained 1,645 feet of lumber. —The old Farmers’ and Drovers’ hotel, at Fleetwood, Berks county, has just undergone a strange metamorphosis. The bar has been taken from the bar room and a pulpit placed there. The Menonnites will hereafter use the old building for a church. —The shirt manufactory of Meyerhoff, Son & Co., at Pottstown, will be enlarged and its capacity greatly increased. The firm which now employs 200 hands in Pottstown, will probably remove its cutting and laundry departments from Philadelphia to Pottstown. —Within the past two;weeks James Corboy of Bedford, has shipped forty-five head of the finest horses that have left that place in years. They were brought up in Bedford county, and the prices paid were better than those prevailing during the spring and sum- mer. —By the storm of Friday night and the succeeding high water George H. Dauler, Jr. of the Chalybeate Springs, Bedford, lost more than 1,000 bushels of corn. Other farmers .| lost heavily. A railroad bridge near Cook’s Mills, Bedford county, went down with five cars on it. —Andrew Mull disappeared on August 20th from his home in Larimer township, near Meyersdale, Somerset county, and no trace of his whereabouts can be learned, al- though searchers have scoured the woods for ‘miles. He started on a hunting expedition, and it is supposed that the gun was acci- dentally discharged, killing or wounding him. ' —Hon. J. W. Smith, of Lock Haven re- ceived a letter stating that gas was struck in No. 2 well at Gaines one day last week. The gas was struck at a depth of 650 feet and was so strong as to blow all the tools and stones fifty feet into the air above the sur- face of the- ground. After the gas had ex- hausted itself, drilling was begun the next day. —While a girl out near;Sanborn was sitting under a tree last Sunday waiting for her lover, a big bear came along and apprcach- ing from behind, began to hug her. She sup- posed of course that it was Tom, and so just enjoyed it heartily and murmured, ‘“Tighter,”” and it broke the bear all up, so he went away and hid in the forest to get over the shame. —James Curry & Son, of Johnstown, last week, closed a deal for the purchase of 1,600 acres of the best timber land{in Scalp Level district. The price paid was $15,000. The tract is about four miles fromjWinber and contains 65,000,0000 feet of lumber. It is said the Pennsylvania railroad will build a branch from its Dunlo and Scalp Level ex- tension to the tract. —John Landers, of Renovo, has an inter- esting relic of the Revolutionary War in the shape of an officer’s sword. It is one of the ~ery finest of the styles then in vogue, and the date 1776 is plainly stamped; upon the hilt. The News says Mr. Landers secured the valuable relic several years ago at Charl- ton, Lycoming county He has since been offered but refused $1,000 for it. —Bears are plenty in the mountains this fall and stories of big killings are the regular thing. James and Harry Schofield, two of the most intrepid hunters of the DuBois re- gion, up to Wednesday of last week had suc- ceeded in bagging five bruins. On the 13th of October they bagged one bear. On the day after they brought two and on the fol- lowing Wednesday two more fell before their rifles, making five inside of a week. They were all shot on Laurel run. ¢ —A verdict for $29,548.99 was recorded in the Blair county court yesterday against the Aetna Mining company on a suit brought by the banking house of Gardner, Morrow & Co. to recover on an overdraft bank account 12 years old. The defendant firm, which is composed of J. K. McLanahan, T. H. Lewis, John Manning and A. 8. Morrow, attempted to plead the statute of limitation to the bank’s claim. —Elias Corle a well-to-do farmer, of Bed- ford county, met death in a strange manner Saturday. Mr. Corle was subject to epilep« tic fits and while carrying two buudles of corn fodder across a small stream on his farm was overcome and fell into the water. The fodder falling into the stream dammed up the water until Mr. Corle’s body was sub- merged, he managing to keep his head above the water. Though conscious he was power- less and lay in the chilly water over an hour before help came. After being taken from the stream his body became rigid and he soon lapsed into an unconscious state, remaing in | that condition until death came a few hours | later.
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