Demorraic atc,
BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—This is the season that Mr. I. ToLD-
vouso knows the most about it.
—One thing is certain and that is that
farmer CREASY still has his farm to fall
back on.
—Mr. BRYAN’Ss foot-prints are as unmis-
takable in Kentucky as they are in Nebras-
ka.
—As an endorsement of the McKINLEY
administration it wasn’t so everwhelming
after all.
—Evidently the voters of the county
knew JAKE HERMAN better than preacher
RHOADES did.
—The election is over and the less you
have to do with post mortems the happier
you will be.
—Since the JEFFRIES--SHARKEY event,
Friday of last week might appropriately be
designated Pounders day.
—As a whole the result in the State is a
very fair endorsement of the rice-dyke rec-
ord of an epauletted coward.
—SHARKEY is not the only man who is
now experiencing what it is to have the
event over and the result against him.
—While General WHITE may be in com-
mand at Ladysmith every thing else looks
rather black for the British in that neigh-
borhood.
—There is no particular reason why oth-
er women should be jealous because of the
general attention Ladysmith is now at-
tracting.
—The fellow who got ‘‘left’’ on Tuesday
can comfort himself with the thought
that he is not the only one who didn’t get
what he was after.
—FISHER’S salary may not be as large
hereafter but his knowledge of the opinion
of the people as to his fitness for commis-
sioner will be much more extensive.
—The campaign in Centre county this
fall was the cleanest ever known to have
occurred when so many important county
offices were ab stake.
—There are a multitudes of men to-day
scattered over the country who know
much more how it feels to get licked than
they did this time last week.
—The manner in which SPEER and
BRUNGART carried Bellefonte is conclusive
evidence that the people of the town are
ready to honor a favorite citizen and give
their mark of approval fo a clean campaign-
er.
—The President went home to vote,
which was the right thing for him to do,
but judging from the returns from the
other States in which elections were held
there are some people who think he is not
doing the right thing in other matters.
—The arrest of JOHN X. RAY, on sus-
picion of being a repeater over in New York
on Tuesday, turned out to be a case of mis-
taken identity. Now if they had ‘‘pinch-
ed’? Mr. X. RAY for taking a peep into the
ballot box there might have been more
ground upon which to establish a charge.
——When the people of Pennsylvania
throw away a chance to help themselves,
such as they had on Tuesday, all hope that
there is anything good left among the’
masses is blighted. Pennsylvania wants
rotten rule and treasury plundering be-
cause it has voted to continue it.
—It is expected tkat the last big battle
of the Philippine campaign is now on and
when it is over AGUINALDO will be beaten
off hislast legs. That is, it is expected.
We have heen expecting a great many ca-
tastrophies to befall AGGIE since we get
acquainted with him, but he has a surpris-
ing faculty of averting them.
—Our other hoys in the Philippines,
when they hear the returns from Pennsylva-
nia, will understand that skulking behind
a rice-dyke is just as honorable in the esti-
mation of the voters as is the bravest work
at the front when a fight is on. At least,
that was the voice that spoke loudest at the
polls on Tuesday.
—The Prince of Wales has just celebrat-
ed his fifty-eighth birthday and he hasn’t
had a chance to sit at the head of the Eng-
lish family yet. Though he has clearly
outgrown the high chair it is beginning to
look as if dear old Vic will hold on ’til
ALBERT EDWARD is too near finished to
‘make the right royal potentate he might
have been, had he been given an earlier
«chance.
—It is said that when KRUGER first
went to South Africa he was a man of such
redoubtable courage that he fought and
killed lions with nothing more than an or-
.dinary hunting knife. This might all be
true, but the old man has his hand on the
wrong lion this time. The British lion and
the South African lion are entirely differ-
ent birds and OoM PAUL will understand
‘the zoological difference in a very short
time.
—The efforts of the Republicans to make
it appear that the results in Kentucky, Ne-
braska, Ohio and Maryland were not re-
bukes to the administration are something
wonderful to look upon. Before the elec-
tion they heralded the anticipated vote as
an endorsement of McKINLEY and bis
Philippine policy, but now that things are
not as they anticipated it is amusing to see
how they are trying to get out from under
the load that they had built up to topple
.-over on themselves.
"VOL. 44
A Revival of Democratic Hopes.
Taking the election all in all Democrats
have good reason for encouragement in the
results of Tuesday last. He must be a
hopeless pessimist who cannot see a weak-
ening of Republican power and a promise
of better things, politically, for the near
future.
In every State where national questions
were forced as the issue, by the Republi-
cans, and an endorsement of the policy of
the administration was made the test, dis-
couraging losses for the Republicans are
shown. Particularly was this the case in
Ohio, the home State of President McKIN-
LEY and in Nebraska the home State of
candidate BRYAN. Both of these States
were declared to be pivotal States, the votes
of which would show the trend of public
sentiment as to candidates and policies of
the coming presidential campaign. The
vote has been cast and we now know what
that sentiment is. While not overwhelm-
ing it is plain and decided enough to show
the most decided partisan that the Mc-
KINLEY administration, has not strength-
ened the Republican cause, nor has its
policies proven popular with the people.
In Ohio, where all the power of his high
position, with its official patronage, its
trusts and its combinations, its proclaimed
prosperity, and its promises of future fav-
ors, were relied upon to securean over-
whelming endorsement, the result shows a
loss to the Republicans of over 20,000
votes.
In Nebraska, where every effort was made
to defeat the Democracy, in order to point
to that defeat as evidence of a demoralized
and despondent party, and to show that
the people were satisfied with the present
condition of affairs, the result proves just
the reverse. In this State the Democratic
gain is larger in proportion than were the
Republican losses in Ohio. In other States
it was the same and not in a single instance,
anywhere, has Mr. McKINLEY’S adminis-
tration been shown to be as strong or popu-
lar as he was when a candidate three
years ago.
On the other hand, wherever national is-
sues were resorted to and the endorsement
of the policy. of the administration made
the test the losses to the Republican party
were such that when applied to the States
that are considered doubtful will place
every one of them in the Democratic col-
umn.
Surely the elections of Tuesday, if they
can be of any significance at all, must be
taken as a finger-board pointing to Repub-
lican defeat in 1900.
Tne First Civil Government in the Philip-
pines.
On Monday, November 6th, the first
autonomous government in the Philip-
pines was established at Bacolod, on the
island of Negros. The elections had been
held on the 20d of October and MELECIO
SEVERINO, a native, elected Governor in a
total vote of over five thousand. He, with
the three judges, twelve councilmen, audi-
tor and secretary of state, was inducted
into office by Gen. SMITH, of the U. S.
army, and three days of celebration fol-
lowed the event.
On the surface it seemed highly satis-
factory to American sovereignty, but at the
same time the new government was being
organized a revolution was being given
birth in the northern part of the island.
There a religious charlatan has gathered a
force of bandits about him and while net
of sufficient strength to overthrow they
will nevertheless harry the officers of the
young administration to such an extent
that it may eventually result in a wide-
spread uprising.
While this will probably appear of no
consequence to the imperialists it is very
convincing evidence to those not biased by
mock patriotism that there will be no end
of trouble for our government, if it at-
tempts sovereignty over the.islands. And
that such is the intention is proved by Gen.
SMITH’S own remarks after the inaugural
ceremonies. He said that it was of the
utmost importance that the Filipinos
should be taught to recognize the sover-
eignty of the United States. The gravest
danger, he added, threatening a peaceful
administration is intrigue among the insular
politicians, and he declared that the United
States government must for years keep con-
trol of the Filipinos in order to prevent
such conditions from existing.
There seems to be no room for doubting
the intention of the administration to
maintain sovereignty over those islands,
and if Gen. SMITH’S remarks are to be
considered of any value there is no room
for doubting the terrible expense it will
be to the United States to do so. They are
costing us millions of dollars every month
now and if we are to continue there in-
definitely, trying to allay all the petty
tribal fights and jealousies of the natives,
what a burden they will certainly become.
Imperialism is evidently the settled
policy of MCKINLEYISM, unless the ominous
signals flashed up in Pennsylvania, Mary-
land, Ohio, Kentucky and Nebraska, on
Tuesday, are seen by the President and
his flag 1aising mania is sidetracked in
order tosave him the presidential chair
in 1900.
STATE RIGHTS AN
BELLEFONTE, PA., NOV. 10, 1899.
D FEDERAL UNION.
TUESDAY'S VERDICT!
THE BEGAN OF THE END I [NPERIALISI.
Republican Losses Everywhere.
Democrats Increase their Majority in Nebras-
ka, Win Maryland
and Reduce the Re-
publican Strength in Nearly all the
Republican States.
PENNSYLVANIA, that gave a majority
of 300,000 for McKinley, now gives a
majority in support of his policy of less
than 100,000.
OHIO, that furnished a Republican major-
ity: of 66,000 for
its President, now
shows less than 45,000 majority as an
endorsement of his
administration.
MARYLAND, that gave 32,000 majority
for McKinley, repudiates both him and
his Imperialism, and gives 15,000 major-
ity for the Democratic condidate for
Governor.
NEBRASKA re-asserts her opposition to
Republicanism and increases her Demo-
cratic majority from 13,000 to 18,000.
IOWA shows its opposition to the policy
of the present administration by reduc-
ing its Republican majority from 65,-
000, in 1896, to less than 45,000.
KENTUCKY, that was torn by contend-
ing factions, debauched by Republican
patronage and coerced by military in-
terference, elects a Democratic Gover-
nor.
(For full and latest returns sce page 4.)
mremm— rm
A Black Eye For McKinleyism.
When the sup porters of the present ad-
ministration come to remember that their
entire efforts in the campaign just’ closed
were made to secure an overwhelming en-
dorsement for President McKINLEY, they
will have no reason to feel proud of the
result. After contending for months that
the only question involved was the ap-
proval of the policy of the administration
" at Washington it will not do for them now
to presume to say that the great falling off
in the Republican vote in this State is
due to either the record that the ring had
made, or to the unenviable reputation of
their ‘‘cold footed’’ candidate. For neith-
er of these were taken into account. On
every hand among Republicans, it was ‘‘we
must stand up for the administrat.on :’’
They knew they had weak candidates and
that their party within the State had a
rotten record. They believe that McKiIN-
LEYISM, which henceforth must be synony-
mous with trusts, expansion, imperialism,
and are a large standing army, was popular
and in behalf of these they appealed to the
people. Against the protest of Democrats
and against the desire of the better class of
Republicans they thrust McKINLEY, his
policies, purposes and policy into the cam-
paign, and they now behold the result. A
reve —
State that gave him almost 300,000 majori-
ty, three years ago, now rolls up less than
half that amount in approval of his policy.
A State that furnished 728,300 votes to
make him President, now is able to coax,
drive or buy less than 500,000 to vote to
endorse his acts and to demand his re-
nomination.
A clean cut loss of over 200,000 votes in
this one State alone ! Surely if ever an ad-
ministration received a black eye, that of
President McKINLEY has in the recent
election in Pennsylvania.
Proving Their Own Treachery While
Trying to Incriminate Others.
In its attempt to keep an eye on the var-
ious counties of the State the Philadelphia
Press ought not to be taken as infallible
when it has so much on its hands. But it is
not more than reasonable to assume that it
ought to know more of the situation in
Centre county than it displayed in ite issue
of the 6th. After accusing the QUAY ele-
ment of treachery to the regular Republi-
can county ticket it concluded with the
rather ridiculous proposition that ‘‘Centre
has indicated a strong tendency to become
a settled Republican county recently.’
And then proceeds to clinch the assertion
by stating that HASTINGS carried the coun-
ty by 800 when a candidate for Governor,
NO. 44.
McKINLEY followed, two years later, with
a majority of 400; while it turned around
and gave 800 against STONE last fall.”
The Press figures fairly well but its polit-
ical logic is away off, if it hopes to prove
the treachery of the QUAY people by any
such deductions as these. If HASTINGS
carried the county by 800 he must have
had the undivided support of his party in
addition to the large number of complimen-
tary Democratic votes he is known to have
received. McKINLEY not only got his full
party vote, but he got the bulk of the gold
Democrats in Centre and profited by the
Democratic stay-at-homes. Last fall,
when Governor STONE was before the peo-
ple asan avowed QUAY candidate, he lost
Centre county by 776, notwithstanding the
Democratic vote was more than two hun-
dred short of what it was in 1896 when Mec-
KINLEY carried the county by over four
hundred.
It this would show anything it would
prove beyond cavil that the QUAY people
swallowed their bitter doses and voted for
the party ticket when it came to election
day. But when the QUAY candidate was
up, however, it was quite a different mat-
ter. The HASTINGS element fought him to
a finish, as the result shows, and how the
Press hoped to prove the treachery of the
QUAY side by emphasizing the treachery of
its own adherents we are totally unable to
understand.
In Line with our Present Policy.
From the Boston Advertiser,
If the ‘‘rebellion’” in the Philippines is
ever subdued, it will be necessary to find
some new duty, some novel work, for the
proposed standing army of 100, 000 men.
Our relations with Spain are now cordial,
and Spain once had a title to Mexico. The
inference is almost self-evident. Why
should not the United States buy that title
and proceed promptly and vigorously to
annex Mexico? This suggestion will cer-
tainly be hailed with delight by every true
believer in the doctrine of inscrutable fate
and the j jingo policy.
Spain is very much in need of money,
and would probably sell her title to Mexico
for much less than she was forced to ac-
cept for her similar title to the Philippine
islands. Even if, for any reason whatever,
Spain should be squeamish i in this matter,
it would be easy enough to find a. pretext
for the conquest of Mexico.
membered that the American flag was once
raised in Mexico, and certainly wherever
the flag has been raised if must remain for-
ever. Still further, there have been some |
border riots within the past two weeks,
and two Americans have been captured
and taken to Mexican prisons.
Ae matters stand, therefore, there is
every possible jingo justification for anoth-
er war. It would not be convenient just
at this moment to begin hostilities, because
Aguinaldo and his little army in Luzon
have first to be captured and shot or burn-
ed over live coals. That task will take
some time, because General Otis will not
listen to any proposals from the insurgents
for peace, and has even refused to admit
within his lines the envoys who come to
beg for peace. The Filipino campaign
must be fought out to the bitter end, no
matter how much time, or money, or life it
takes.
Some time next year, however, the
Mexican campaign can be begun. Of course
it is not necessary to point out the great
possibilities of trade that lie to the south
of the Rio Grande. Mexico has rich mines,
great coffee plantations, fertile stretches of
mesa land where cattle by the thousands
can be raised for the beef trust. Really it
is strange that the proposition has not been
made public before. It is to be hoped the
Mexicans will submit peacefully to their
fate; but if not, they know what to expect.
How, and Which of Us are Prosperous?
From an Unknown Exchange.
Truly we are prosperous. That is, some
of us are. The others donot count. They
are calamity howlers, anarchists. Wehave
got an enormous quantity of foreign terri-
tory, even at the ends of the earth ; like-
wise several millions of cheap labor Which
we did not have to import. And, ‘‘By the
Eternal,”’ quoth Mr. McKinley to the flag-
raisers at Washington when Congress was
not in session to approve, ‘we will never
give them up.’” This prosperity we cer-
tainly have because we have paid for it,
and we shall be paying for it during the
next fifty years. We also paid the ex-
penses of a learned commission to the peace
Congress of The Hague, and while they
were astonishing the earth with the i
of their plans for preventing war and stop-
ping bloodshed other of our commissioners
were shooting down Filipinos and refusing
them arbitration, lest they should ask for
liberty.
Again we are prosperous—suffocated
with it. Listen: “Owing to the increase
of wages, the price of tin plate has advan-
ced.” ‘In consequence of the advance in
tin plate, the price of labels bas risen.”’
‘‘Because labels have risen in price canned
goods have gone up a few points.” ‘The
sudden rise in the price of canned goods
has sent the price of meat up 2 or 3 cents a
pound.” The lift in meats has dragged
up the price of sugar, coal oil, cotton
goods, leather, boots and shoes, milk and
flour, and coal is now a cent a bucket more
than before.”” Bread remains at the same
price, but to offset the rise in wages 15 per
cent. of cheap cornmeal is added. It is
just as nourishing to the bread eaters, be-
sides being more profitable to the miller.
The fact is we are awfully prosperous.
Wall street openly claims to have made
$30, 000, 000 out of the prosperously drunk-
en people who barrahed for more of it at
the Dewey celebration. The Chinese
pagans cleared $100,000 out of the great
dragon so proudly dragged through the
streets of Chicago at the autumn festival,
and nobody knows just how much the faro
banks realized. ;
It wiil be re- |
‘Spawls from the Keystone.
—A lot of new coke ovens are being con-
structed at Vintondale. The Vintondale
company owns 13,000 acres of coal land, and
if the coal proves of coking quantity it is
said 1,000 ovens will be built.
—Aaron Embick, of Sugar Valley, Clinton
county, haswon renown this fall as a hunter
and trapper of bears, having so far slain six.
The last one of the six was killed Saturday.
One that he had killed last week weighed
over 300 pounds.
—Oil City has made some financial profit
by keeping the Sabbath day holy. Since
April 1st, the authorities have received $300
from fines imposed on fruit dealers and soda
water sellers, who persist in opening their
stores on Sunday.
—Out of a flock of 180 sheep, says the
Landisburg correspondent of the New Bloom-
field Advocate and Press, owned by Kennedy
& Corl, of that place, twenty-seven were
killed and eight crippled by worthless dogs
one night recently.
—White Nixon, former editor and owner
of the Houtzdale Observer, who sold his paper
about eight months ago and went to Mexico
to seek the fortune that is but rarely found
in the printer's stick, is about to return
home on account of his failing health.
—Henry Smith and wife, of Orangeville,
Lancaster county, celebrated their fiftieth -
wedding anniversary on Sunday by giving
a big family dinner, at which were present
their seven children, eleven grand children,
and one great grand-child. Mr. Smith is 74
years of age and his wife 79.
—VWith five sticks of dualin in his boots
Benjamin Mistoo, a miner, near Shamokin.
on Saturday to work. He was alone in No.
5 slope, when by the explosion of the stuff he
was blown to atoms. It is believed that he
fired one of the sticks in a blast and the con-
cussion set off the others in his boots.
—The Misses Rider, daughters of a farmer
residing on Short mountain, in Blair county,
have just made the record of husking 1,300
bushels of corn in eight and one-half days.
Of course the young ladies were precluded
from piano playing while pulling the whisk-
ers and exposing the corn that had already
been shocked.
—Besides a stranger who was found by a
brakeman lying asleep between the tracks in
the Pennsylvania railroad yard at Williams-
port, was found a satchel full of money,
mostly in bills. When aroused the fellow
appeared ill at ease, seized the satchel and
hurried away to the station just in time to
board a train for the north.
—A paper is being circulated in Clarion
asking the citizens to subscribe for stock in
the Allegheny Valley railway, under an
agreement that if $75,000 is secured an exten-
sion of the road to Clarion will be built.
The petition is in the hands of the board of
trade and the prospects are good for securing
the sum of money needed.
—While the two children of James Piper
were hunting for a ramrod in the cupboard
in the second story of their house in Upper
Horse Valley, in Perry county, a lighted
lamp they carried was accidentally over-
turned. The building was set on fire and
completely destroyed. The household
goods were saved after much difficulty.
—In an attempt to steal articles from a
show window through a broken glass Daniel
M. Peer, the 14-year-old son of James Peer,
of Johnstown, at 5 o'clock Friday morning
was shot near the heart by J. M. Bucher, a
grocer, whose place of business is about 150
feet from the Peer home in that city. The
boy ran homeand died in half an hour.
—John Bower, the 12-year-old son of Ed-
ward Bower, breaker boss at Midvalley and
mail carrier between that village and Mt.
Carmel died on Monday from fright. Sev-
eral days ago he was driving the mail wagon
when one of the horses stumbled. The boy
almost fainted from fear. When he reached
home he collapsed and steadily grew weaker.
—The revenue collections in the Twelfth
district of the State for October, amounted to
$138,727.52, a gain of almost $10,000 over the
same Sth last year. Almost all of this in-
crease was made on the sale of beer stamps.
The collections during the month were $94,-
815.91 for such stamps. From cigar and
cigarette stamps $9,719.17 was realized and
from tobacco, $11,916.57.
—During the term of court closed at Wells-
boro fourteen divorce suits were instituted,
breaking the record in Tioga county.
Some of these divorces are due to hasty mar-
riages entered into by eloping couples, who
in half an hour can get across into New York
State, where no license is required. An-
other feature of the local divorce mill is that
many of the petitioners came from New York
State, where the divorce laws are more
stringent than those of Pennsylvania.
—The work of surveying about 10,000
acres of coal land recently purchased by J.
Mitchell in West Taylor, East Taylor and
Jackson townships, Cambria county, was be-
gun last week. Mr. Mitchell bought his
coal for about $10 per acre, and it is said that
he has already been offered $20 per acre for
it. It adjoins the Baker holdings on the
north, reaching almost to the Nanty-glo.
The Cambria Steel company has option on
about 20,000 acres adjoining this coal.
—While building new abutments for the
bridge on the Pennsylvania railroad, just be-
low Hauxhurst’s a stream pump was placed
in service to clean out a ten foot hole. After
running the pumps for about five minutes it
became clogged, and on examination proved
to be full of fish and minnows. During the
day thousands of minnows were pumped out
and fish, mostly suckers and catfish, ranging
from six to eighteen inches in size, were
plenty enough to supply all the workmen
and anybody else who cared to take them.
—The large farm house on the farm of
Mrs. Mary O'Neill, relict of Peter O'Neill,
in Munster township, Cambria county, and
occupied by the family of her son-in-law—
Mr. James Buck—was burnt to the ground
about noon on Friday. The fire,
which is supposed to have caught on the roof
by aspark from the flue, had gained such
headway that the roof was about falling in
when it was discovered by the family, and
the house was in such a location that it could
not be seen by the neighbors ; nevertheless
the family succeeded in saving most of the
furniture.