By P. GRAY MEEK. Ink Slings. —The political kickers’ season has about closed. —Ladysmith still refuses to fall into the arms of her dutch admirer. —It’s the pie counter now that is so in- tensely attractive to Ohio Republicans. —Possibly Mr. CARNEGIE might be in- duced to drop a library into Bellefonte’s Christmas stocking. —The silence of the Republican papers about the result in Maryland, is almost as doleful as it is dense. —1If we could only believe all the news- papers say our boys must be close to AG- UINALDO’S 5-yard line. —Since the stars have been out of prac- tice so long we don’t wonder at their hesi- tancy in showing how they can shoot. —It’s beginning to look as if decency and a fair election in Philadelphia would make a touch down before the game is over. —AGUINALDO’S hopes of success in the long run are possibly based on the fact that he has already proven a most successful runner. ——The commotion in the ring’s camp shows what an exact range the North Amer- ican has got on the common enemy’s fortifi- cations. —It’s beginning to look as if Senator QUAY might find more of his Philadelphia friends in the penitentiary than in the next Legislature. —Senator THURSTON'S announced mar- riage is not likely to work any political change in the Senate if it does make anoth- er vie in that body. —If it wasn’t for ‘‘troubles of their own’’ in Philadelphia, what a rip-roaring time the Republican papers would have ahout the Kentucky elections. —Our recent victories in the Philippines, like the Republican victory in Ohio, have proven to be mostly in the imagination of the fellows who reports them. —The events of the past year and the prospects of the penitentiary for so many of his followers, indicates that Mr. QUAY’S rabbit foot has lost its charm. —Considering the condition of the coun- ty since the wet season set in in Luzon, it ought’in to be a hard thing for our boys to get a foot hold in that country. —TFor a Republican victory, such as Re- puclican papers claim they had in Ohio, it seems to take a deal of a lot of work and a wonderful waste of wind to get the public to see it. ""— Judge MITCHELL does not intend los- ing any time in drawing his salary. He resigns his present judgeship to take effect the day the salary of his new position be- gins. —The smarties who imagine the are spoiling BRYAN’S chances in the presiden- tial race by classing him with AGUINALDO evidently don’t appreciate what a runner AGGIE is. —Mr. McKINLEY’S literary bureau is evidently working over time. During the past week it has entrapped AGUINALDO six times; surrounded him four times ; driven him to the mountains ten times ; and whipped him a dozen times each day. And all thisin a week and the war still goes on. —The newspapers have 1t that the perfect and complete organization of both the In- dependent and Democratic parties is to be began at once. Come to think about it, we have been given this promise before. —After remembering that a JONES in Ohio, a BROWN in Kentucky and a SMITH in Maryland were the controlling powers in the recent election, we can better appre- ciate the strength of an undecorated name. — Afflictions never come singly. Before we can reconcile ourselves to a longer sub- mission to the rule of the ring, Congress will be on our bands again. Surely, the way of transgressors is hard, and ‘‘we the people’’ are the transgressors. —It’s a good long way between the two places, but strange to say the QUAY Re- publican papers, of Philadelphia, know much more about the way the elections were conducted in the back counties of Kentucky, than they do of how they were run in the wards in which they are pub- lished. Such longinquity of vision is truly amazing. —Speaking of trusts, and then judging from the way things went in Ohio last week, Mr. McKINLEY would be wise to invest a little of his trust in Providence and not so much in the voters of his native State. —Between protecting its appointees, who were caught repeating at the election in Philadelphia, and keeping its literary bu- reau up to the scratch in its denunciation of alleged Democratic frauds in Kentucky, the administration at Washington has heen kept fairly busy the past week. —It is strange how the circulation of news is sometimes limited. As yet the fact of the stuffing of ballot boxes, the ar- rest of QUAY repeaters and the general de- bauchery of Republican election officials about Philadelphia has not reached the ed- itorial department of the Philadelphia Times. At least no sign is given, that those in charge of that great reform sheet shave ever heard anything about these mat- ters. Curious, ain’t it? STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. Democratic Encouragement. A closer view of the recent November election discloses much that should be en- rouraging to the Democrats. The aggre- gate result, when considered in detail, loses the appearance of an endorsement of Rep- ublican politics that was claimed by Mec- KINLEY’S supporters upon a premature es- timate of its significance. Take Ohio for example. It was there that the strength of McKINLEYISM was put more directly to the test than in any other of this year’s State elections. In the Ohio fight the support of the McKINLEY policies was made the specific issue. Yet it is seen that the Republican State ticket, which was presented to the public choice as the representative of those policies, comes out of the contest with a minorty of about 50,- 000 on the popular vote. That which was cast for ‘‘Golden Rule’” JONES was as em- phatic in its expression againt McKINLEY- ISM as was the vote cast for McLEAN, both together amounting to a majority of over 50,000 polled adversely to the principle of McKINLEY and his party. Is there anything in this Ohio result, as an index of popular sentiment, that should be regarded as clouding the prosperits of the Democracy in the next Presidential contest ? If we turn our attention to another part of this year’s political field we observe a performance in Nebraska which should give encouragement to the Democrats and to all who are opposed to the political and mo- nopolistic abuses of the Republican party, and the imperialism of McKINLEY, as dan- gerous to our free government and popular institutions. While McKINLEY was vir- tually condemned in his own State by a vote which if it had been united would have defeated the Ohio Republican ticket by a large majority, the leadership of WIL- LIAM J. BRYAN gained a victory in Nebras- ka which retrieved that State from Repub- lican control and put the seal of its con- demnation upon the imperialistic and plu- tocratic schemes of the McKINLEY admin- istration. Surely there is Democratic encourage- ment in the Nebraska achievement, as con- trasted with the Republican failure to se- cure a popular endorsement of McKINLEY- 18M in Ohio. Though there is an appearance of Demo- cratic failure in Kentucky it cannot be doubted that the majority against the Rep- ublicans would have been large if there had not been a division in the Democratic vote, and that in Presidential issues Kentucky can be relied upon for a Democratic major- ity of at least 25,000. The sweeping victory gained in Maryland shows how Democracy can assert itself when its force is united. Even in hide- bound Massachusetts the fight made by the Democrats in the recent State election on the issues of the Chicago platform greatly reduced the Republican majority, and in Pennsylvania a decline of the Republican strength was seen notwithstanding the sup- port it derives from the corrupt methods of machine politics. Viewing the entire field of the recent State contest, it presents features of en- couragement to the Democracy, and strengthens the hope of those who regard the overthrow of McKINLEYISM as essen- tial tc the preservation of our free govern- ment. It Won’t Work. Since the Republicans have been caught at the dirty work of stuffing the ballot boxes and debauching the elections, gener- ally in Philadelphia, there seems to be an organized effort on the part of the news- papers of that party to lessen the henious- ness of the offenses by an attempt to di- vide the responsibility with the Democrats. It may be true, as they assert, that for years Democratic leaders have been cognizant of their crimes. It may be equally true that no effort by the Democratic organization has been made either to prevent or expose them, and it may also be true that certain individual Democrats have profited by them. Admitting these charges, in what way can that mitigate the offense for the Repub- licans ? They have had absolute control of the registration of votes. They controlled the boards of elections that said who could and who could not vote. They handled the ballots, counted the returns and certified to the results. They had undisputed control of every precinct board that committed a wrong, and had the right and custody of the tickets and papers connected with the election. They had the courts that finally passed all the returns and the district attorney who could cover up or prosecute, for such offenses as the heeler’s of his party were guilty of. The Repub- lican party reaped the benefits, and if any individual Democrat profited by this dirty work, it was simply a bribe given for the purpose of making its accomplishment the easier and safer. The effort to divide the responsibility of this most infamous work, will prove a dismal and a deserved failure. BELLEFONTE, PA., NOV. 17. 1899. Wholesale Ballot Debauchery. The voting machines that are being gradually introduced in the New York State elections are reported as rendering complete satisfaction both in recording the votes quickly and correctly, and in pre- venting dishonest electoral practices. Such machines, or some similar device that will help to preserve the purity of elections, are now the most urgent necessity of these times when the chief use made of the ballot box is to serve ends of corrupt politics and to strengthen the hold of machine bosses on public affairs. When the old system of voting prevailed, that enabled the elector to deposit separate tickets for the different candidates, it was thought that it admitted of irregular prac- tices that required correction. As aremedy for alleged abuses under that system, which were more or less real, but to a consider- able extent imaginary, a new ballot sys- tem, based on the Australian plan, was in- stituted, with a result that is seen in the terrible abuses that prevail in our State elections. The evil connected with the present plan of voting is not due to inherent defects in the systems, which, if its original design were enforced and its provisions complied with, would furnish a reliable safe-gnard against electoral irregularities. Its in- troduction as a defence against corrupt elections was opposed by the Republican machine politicians of the State until they saw that by rejecting its best features and adding to it such as would suit their pur- pose, the Australian plan of voting could be converted into just the sort of appli- ance that would enable them to run their machine perpetually through the agency of a corrupted ballot. The rascally ma- chine Legislators deliberately set to work in getting up something that could not be beaten in turning out such majorities as the interest of QUuAyvism would require, and the result is the ballot iniquities that are perpetrated at every election in the Republican strongholds. The fruit of this villainy is particularly observable in Philadelphia where itis ad- mitted by the local Republican press that from 50,000 to 80,000 fraudulent votes are counted at every election, the number be- ing regulated by the necessity of the party that gets the advantage of this fraud. There is a pretense of punishing the ballot thieves who are hired to do this nefarious work, but there is no earnest intention of breaking it up. Since the last election a a batch of these miscreants have been ar- rested, among whom is the Republican deputy coroner of Philadelphia, who is charged with having started the voting in his precinet by putting two hundred fraudulent ballots in the box asa solid foundation for a heavy Republican vote. Notwithstanding all that had been said about this fearful electoral debauchery in Philadelphia the repeaters, personators and ballot box stuffers more numerously and openly rendered their fraudulent serv- ice to the machine than at any former election. What this condition of affairs is leading to, and will inevitably result in if not checked, is a question that should furnish a subject for serious reflection to those citizens who still retain a hope that our free institutions and popular government may not be utterly destroyed. The Situation in South Africa. The strict censorship of dispatches from South Africa makes it difficult to obtain news that can be relied upon relative to the situation there. Up until yesterday, however, it appears that the cities garri- soned by the English forces are all safe and well provisioned to stand until the arrival of the large numbers of reinforcements now on transport. Aside from the two disastrous engage- ments at Majuba Hill and Glencoe the English have suffered no serious loss, though the Boers have brought them to a full realization of the fact that they are foes worthy the name and fight with a stubbornness begotten of a determined in- tention to be subjugated only when they have lost all. They have displayed shrewder generalship than her Majesty’s officers and, basing the assumption on the tricks already resorted to, it is only natural to concluded that they will make a desper- ate effort to strike a decisive blow before the English can land their reinforcements. The conspicuous feature of the campaign up to date has been the regularity with which Great Britain has anticipated what the Boers have not done. The Afrikanders are capable fighters and clever strategists, if they may be judged by what they have accomplished. It is to their interest not merely to destroy lines of communication and make the advance of fresh British troops difficult, but also to destroy the forces before them. They have been as careful to cut off the avenues of retreat from Ladysmith and Kimberley as to de- stroy the avenues of approach. From this it appears they intend to attempt the de- struction or capture of the garrisons at those places without unnecessary delay. The English opinion to the contrary does not modify the apparent intention, nor will it prevent an attempt to give that intention force. An Unlikely Removal. Reports are in circulation to the effect that certain influences in the Republican party are operating for the removal of MARK HANNA from the chairmanship of the party’s national committee. An im- pression prevails that, as its leader, he is doing the party more harm than goed, a belief that has been strengthened by evi- dences of the injurious effect of his leader- ship in the recent Ohio State election. It is charged that his open advocacy of the trusts and his defence of monopolistic poli- cies excited an opposition, particularly among the working people, that seriously affected the party vote. This injury was especially observable in his own county of Cuyahoga where the heavy opposition vote that wiped out the unusually large Repub- lican majority wasan expression of popular hostility to HANNA as a supporter of mo- nopoly and the chief director of the corrupt methods of plutecratic politics. It is for this reason that some of the Republicans are talking about forcing this obnoxious representative of the money power from his position of party leadership. Though some of them may sincerely wish that this should be done, the impossibility of removing him from his place of power should be apparent to the generality of Re- publicans. HANNA is at the head of the party because he rendered a service that was indispensable to its success in putting McKINLEY in office. It was he whose ekill in fat frying secured the money that carried the last presidential election. His service in raising the corruption fund for the next presidential election will he needed and his advocacy of the trusts and other monopolies indicates the source upon which he relies for the bhoodle with which it is proposed to re-elect McKINLEY. The Republicans who are dissatisfied with HANNA'S leadership, believing that it is hurting the party, overlook the fact that his methods exactly comport with the party’s policies. The interest of the money power and the privilege of monopoly are the chief ol jects of government under Re- publican wudministration. The brutally open manner in which HANNA employs these agencies to effect political ends may bg offensive to the better sentiment of the country, but that depraved kind of public policy known as McKINLEYism depends for its maintenance upon the appliances which HANNA knows so well how to bring to bear upon presidential elections, and therefore, his removal from the national chairmanship would be the last thing that McKINLEY would consent to. Schkley’s Malicious Treatment. Secretary LONG reflects but little credit upon himself and the navy department by his letter to the President in which he re- hashes the charges devised by the enemies of Admiral SCHLEY to injure the reputa- tion of that gallant naval officer. It would seem that the navy clique that did SCHLEY the wrong of promoting an of- ficer of inferior grade over him at the be- ginning of the war with Spain, can’t for- give him for not being crushed by their hostile determination to keep him down. Their favorite SAMPSON, unfairly preferred, failed to accomplish anything worthy of note as the head naval commander, the un- successful bombardment of San Juan and the killing of the Matanzas mule having been his principal achievements, while fortune repaired SCHLEY’S wrong by giving him the chance of being the leader in win- ning a great naval victory. The people understand the motives of the men in the navy department who are trying to depreciate the fame and hesmirch the laurels of the hero of Santiago. They know that ill will started with the un- deserved advancement of a favorite over him, and that the spite has increased in consequence of their failure to put SCHLEY down, growing into actual malice on ac- count of the distinction he gained by his victory over the Spanish fleet, while the pet of the navy clique is unable to show a laurel gained in the war. But whatever may be their feelings Sec- retary LONG can find no justification for the charges against Admiral SCHLEY in his letter to President MCKINLEY. Nothing could have been more contemptible than the story, invented for a defamatory pur- pose, that was intended to show cowardly conduct in the commander of the ship that bore more marks of the enemy’s shot than all the rest of the fleet put together, and there was unpardonable spite in represent- ing as cowardly that movement of SCHLEY in the battle which the Spanish Admiral testifies as having been the manoeuvre that doomed his fleet to destruction. That Secretary LoNG should continue to display the malice of the navy depart- ment to one of our greatest naval officers, is simply disgraceful, but that the people understand the motive of this official per- secution, and resent it, is shown by the applause with which they greet Admiral SCHLEY wherever he makes his appear- ance. -—-Subscribe for the WATCHMAN. "NO. 45. The Value of Publicity. From the Press and Printer. John Wanamaker’s recent contract to pay the Philadelphia Record $100,000 for a page advertisement every day in the year is itself of the best sort of advertising. This great contract is the subject of universal comment and remark. but it is only a small part of the newspaper advertising done by this house. In New York the advertising bills of Wanamaker are as high as in Phil- adelphia. He is therefore taking up the business of the first American merchant prince, A. T. Stewart, where the latter left off. One of the chief causes of Mr. Stewart’s success was his liberal advertis- ing and he was the pioneer in this branch of merchandising in this country. When Judge Hilton took control of the Stewart store he stopped advertising in the news- papers, believing that the name of the house was so well and favorably known that it was unnecessary to call daily at- tention to it. A few years of this sort of business management was enough to destroy the property and it was eventually sold under the hammer to John Wanamaker. Mr. Wanamaker had not taken posses- sion of the new business before he began advertising it freely in the New York pa- pers. And he has kept advertising daily ever since. The result is that despite the discouraging prophecies of many of Mr. Wanamaker’s friends his store in New York is doing a larger business than his store in Philadelphia and a much larger business than it ever did under the man- agement of Stewart. The street car con- ductors have orders to stop their car and announce Wanamaker’s. This single es- tablishment has restored retail business to the locality where it formerly flourished. Mr. Wanamaker is the best judge of the causes of his phenomenal success and he at- tributes it to constant attention to details and to advertising. In thisact of publicity to attempt to build up commercial success without regular advertising is to be handi- capped by deliberate neglect of the most important single factor in creating trade. It is such contracts as Wanamaker has made with the Philadelphia Record that enabled him to continue to do a colossal business. How McKinley Was Endorsed and the Ring Won its Victory in Pennsyl- vania. From the Phil’a Press (Rep.) One of the methods by which eiection frauds have been perpetrated in some of the wards of Philadelphia for years has been pretty fully exposed in the evidence taken before Magistrate Eisenbrown on Friday afternoon. To those who have had some knowledge of these methods the “sx- posures present little that is new, but they will be a revelation to the people at large, who have been regularly defrauded by the system of election crimes that has heen per- fected by local machine bosses. The statement made by one of those ar- rested for the crime shows that 1n the Thir- teenth division of the Seventh ward, where there has not been an honest election for years, men who were brought here from Washington acted as election officers; that before any citizen had appeared at the polls to vote the ballot box was stuffed with 200 marked ballots; that afterward fifteen more marked ballots were stuffed in the box; that of the 339 votes returned from that division only 124 had been honestly cast, 215 being fraudulent. The evidence also implicates an ex-member of the Legislature —one who steadily voted for Quay at the late session—in the crime of marking the ballots with which the box was stuffed. This, in brief, is the story of the crime committed in one division of the 1000 vot- ing divisions of the city. The statement that it is possible to re- turn 80,000 fraudulent votes in this city, and that it has been done, so often repeated in these columns, has been received in- credulously in different parts of the State by those who were unable to comprehend the elaborate plan to cheat the people which is steadily maintained in most of the downtown wards. If a single elec- tion division can return 215 fraudulent votes it can be readily, seen how 80,000, or more than 80,000, may be piled up with- out encroaching upon any division where there is a disposition to hold an honest election. The twenty-seven divisions of the Seventh ward alone, on the basis of the operations in the Thirteenth division,could return a fraudulent vote of 5000. Discriminating Against Decency. From the Springfield (Mass.) Republican. Quay’s Colleague Penrose says he has as- surances from Senator Spooner, of Wiscon- sin, a member of the Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections, that the Pennsyl- vania boss will be seated without opposi- tion. Itis difficult to believe that the Senate will so stultify itself. It refused only a year or two ago to seat ex-Senator Corbett, of Oregon, a man of the highest character and attainments, on precisely the same grounds presented in the Quay case— that the Government of a State has no con- stitutional power to fill a Senatorial vacan- cy when the Legislature has had the oppor- tunity and failed to meet it. Toseat Quay after that is to say to the country that the Federal Constitution in the view of the Senate discriminates against the choice of decent men as Senators and in favor of cor- ruptionists like the Pennsylvania boss. Losses That Cannot Be Made Good. From an Unknown Exchange.. The Republican party has parted com- pany with some of its strongest leaders or they have parted company with the Repub- lican party. A year ago Thomas B. Reed, George F'. Edmunds, Eugene Hale, Senator Mason and Senator Foraker were potent in the councils of their party. Today they are almost without recognition in them, while there are loud calls for the resigna- tion of Mason. The change is due to differ- ence of opinion upon the expansion policy of the president. It remains to beseen how Hanna, Platt and Quay can make up to the party what it has lost. The loss of able leaders whose personal records were clean cannot be compensated for by the methods peculiar to the Hanna, Platt and Quay politicians. Spawls from the Keystone. —Children at play in an old barn near Myerstown found the dead body of an un- known tramp. —~Cumberland county teachers will hold their annual institute at Carlisle, from De- cember 4 to 8. —Rev. J. Harper Black, D. D., presiding elder of the Williamsport district, is ill with typhoid fever. —Possibly the oldest voter in this state is William Henry McDowell, Chambersburg, a relative of ex-President Harrison. Tuesday last he cast his sixty-sixth vote. —The strike of the Jermyn miners at Old Forge and Rendham, Lackawana county, gives signs of extending to the men employ- ed at the mines of William Connell & Co., the Temple Coal & Iron Co., and others of the individual operators near by. —The Greeensburg Glass company’s plant, that has been closed down for along time, and recently purchased by the new National glass company trust, will be started up No- vember 20. It will give employment to about 200 men, —Twenty looms for Renovo’s silk mill ar- rived in that place last week and will be stored until the building in which they will be operated in temporarily can be put in readiness. The superintendent of the mill is expected to arrive in a few days. —The Lilley manufacturing company, of Chester, a textile mill and one of the oldest mills in that city, was closed down on Satur- urday and will not be started again. The reason given is that it cannot profitably com- pete with mills of the same kind in the South. —Rural free mail delivery in Delaware is on the increase and is meeting with more fa- vor daily. Last month 4,890 pieces of mail were delivered and 853 collected, or double the number of pieces delivered and collected in July—certainly an excellent showing. —A telephone message to the Tioga county commissioners from Arnot states that there is one case of smallpox in that borough and that 13 persons have been exposed. They have been quarantined and every precaution is being taken against the spread of the dis- ease. —The store, dwelling house, barn and other outbuildings of W. B. Potter at Kart- haus, Clearfield county, burned down last Wednesday. About one-half the stock was saved out of the main store room and part of the furniture. The loss will be heavy, with a light insurance. —Miss Anna Mohr, a maiden lady seventy- five years old, at Vera Cruz, Montgomery county, is probably the oldest woman corn husker inthe state. On Thursday of last week she husked twenty-five shocks in half a day, and thinks she has pretty nearly es- tablished a record. —As he tried to board a moving freight train at Bridgeport, Montgomery county, Daniel McCaul slipped and fell beneath the cars. He rolled between the rails and stretched himself flat. More than a score of cars passed over him while he lay motionless and he escaped with his life, but had a foot badly crushed. —John F. Meginnis, the veteran journal: ist and historian of the West Branch Valley, died suddenly at his home in Williamsport, on Saturday evening of heart disease. He and his wife celebrated their golden wed- ding two weeks ago. He appeared in his usual good health until just before his col- lapse. He was seventy-two years old. —Anthrax has broken out among the cat- tle in the vicinity of Wilmore, Huntingdon county. Already a number of deaths have occurred. In what manner the cattle caughv the disease is a mystery, as they had been running to pasture in clover and had not been mixed with strange stock {nor permit- ted to run on strange lands. —Grace Methodist Episcopal chureh, in which the legislature of 1897 held its session after the burning of the capitol, was rededi- cated on Sunday with impressive services. The sermon at the morning services was preached by Bishop John F. Hurst, of Wash- ington. Governor and Mrs.” Stone gave a dinner party at the executive mansion last evening in the bishop’s honor.} Ex-Governor and Mrs. Pattison, of Philadelphia, were among the guests. —Gemer Jones, superintendentjofi: Lehigh Valley and Wilkesbarre Coal companies, working at Audenreid and Honey Brook, where the famous strike culminated in the Latimer shooting two years ago, and at which mines there have since been numer- ous strikes, has been superseded (by William Mack, of Wilkesbarre. On Saturday night several thousand men of whom fJones had charge paraded and gave expression of their delight over their old superintendent's de- position. —The Quay Republicans of Allegheny county do not propose to elect any but Stal- warts to the Legislature, next year, if they can help it. They are putting these two questions to prospective candidates, and de- mand an unequivocal answer: ‘If elected will you pledge yourself to enter the Repub- lican caucus for United States Senator ?”’ and “Will you abide by the result of that cau- cus?” In the event of a negative reply it is proposed to defeat the candidate for nomina- tion, if possible. —(Coroner’s Physician Miller, in making an autopsy on the body of Frank McDermott who died at Norristown on Saturday last, made an unexpected discovery when he found that McDermott had three separate lungs. Both Dr. Miller and Dr. Herbert Arnold, who assisted at the autopsy, say that they never before saw the like. The three lungs were removed and will be sent to the University of Pennsylvania museum. The extra lung was of good size and fully developed. — About 50 heirs of James Herrington, of Crawford county, who, in 1831, pre-empted 160 acres of land in what is now the heart of Chicago, are about to inaugurate a contest for the possession of the property. They base their claim on a quit-claim deed which is recorded from Herrington to his son, Jas. Herrington, Jr., and which they allege was forged by the younger Herrington, who ob- tained possession of the property in 1835. The property is valued at $300,000,000 and the new Federal building, the corner-stone of which was recently laid by President Mc- Kinley, is located on the tract. :
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