Dewar Mada |
8Y P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
— Vote for WETZEL, KEPLER and ROBB.
— BRYAN is still making speeches and
every speech makes thousands of BRYAN
votes.
— Georgia went Democratic by 50,000,
a sure indication that that part of the South
is still solid.
——The Philadelphia Zimes has come
out for Bryan and henceforth will be a
straight Democratic paper.
—Jiv CorBETT and his wife are report-
ed to have made up their differences and
are living together again. How happy
New York sassiety ought to be.
——WETZEL has been tried and found
to be an honest, faithful, capable repre-
gentative of the people. Why put in his
place men who are pledged to be the rep-
resentatives of DAN HASTINGS.
—QuAY'’s flaming cross must have burnt
his fingers. He began what was to have
been a stumping tour of the State at West
Chester on Tuesday night and the very
next day he said he was tired stumping.
—1It is reported that President McKIN-
LEY has requested HANNA not to make
any more trust speeches. We don’t believe
such a report, because the President doesn’t
seem to have backbone enough to tell
HANNA that he must not do a thing.
—The seven hundred employees of the
Reading Iron Co. at Danville have agreed
to return to work at a reduction of 25 per
cent. in their wages. This means that
they will have to have a quarter section
cut out of their dinner pails or they won’t
be full.
——SAM DIeHL and JOHN MURRAY
can tell you what it means to belong to a
party that is run by one man. Both of
them thought that the Republican voters
of Centre county would have the say as to
who would be the legislative nominees,
but they found out they were not even
consulted by the boss.
——Hon. WILLIAM M. ALLISON, the
Republican nominee, is a gentleman and a
scholar, but that doesn’t overshadow the
fact that he was given a place on the ticket
at the dictation of one man, and to the
exclusion of others who had spent their
time and money; thinking that the Repub-
lican party in Centre county was a free or-
ganization, instead of a catspaw for HAST-
INGS. : :
—If HANNA has really deposed boss
PLATT as the dictator of Republican poli-
tics in the Empire State and set himself up
as the alpha and omega of the organization
the QUAY and Insurgent forces in Penn-
sylvania had both better keep an eye open
for the fat old trust defender from Obio.
It would be just like him to come right in-
to Pennsylvania and demand the spoils of
office that his party receives in this State.
——Every member of the board of di-
rectors and every official of the New York
ice trust, behind which Republicans try to
hide the sins and robberies of all other
trusts, is a Republican. Not a single
Democrat had a vote at its organization,
nor is there one who has an official voice
in its management. Just remember these
facts when you hear Republicans talk
about this Democratic (?) trust.
—QUAY says that if BRYAN is elected
“his firm underjaw and black eye will
close your mines and factories and adverse-
ly affect your wages.’”’ He said this in a
speech at Lewisburg on Wednesday night,
but he didn’t dare say who had already
closed the anthracite mines of this State
and adversely affected the wages of
thousands of others and that at the very
moment he was talking fifteen hundred
plumbers were quitting work in Pitts-
burg. :
—We hope that the agitation that is
springing up in many parts of the State in
favor of the whipping post’ will ‘bear fruit
in the adoption of that eighteenth century
method of punishment. Here in Centre
connty we have numerous offenders for
whom a term injail has about as much ter-
ror as banishment to the Sultan’s harem
would have for ex-Congressman ROBERTS.
In fact there are many who court jail sen-
tences, but a few lashes at a whipping post
would be a very different thing. :
—QUAY started across the State with his
cross of fire on Monday night. He began
the march at West Chester, but will prob-
ably get switched off se that he ends it up
on Indian river. As he remarked, him-
self, his ‘career had mot been exactly
pleasant sailing upon summer seas,” but
the majority of people will take exception
to his statement that he has had no time
for recreation. There has been more recre-
ation than anything else in QUAY'’S sena-
torial career.
—MARK HANNA says that anyone who
puts a straw in the way of the settlement of
the coal miners’ strike ought to be hanged to
the nearest lamp post. The strikes area
very serious proposition to MARK just uow.
With every new one that breaks out he
sees McKINLEY’S chances drifting
further on the sea of uncertainty and it is
little wonder that he would ‘have those
who precipitate or prolong strikes strang
up. After the election it will be different.
It McKINLEY gets in HANNA won't carea |
picayune whether labor has to starve in
strikes or whether the dinner pail has any-
thing in it or not. ; ;
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA., OCT. 5, 1900.
Supporting Those Who Sustaln Him.
JRE
Mr. ANDREW CARNEGIE is back from
Skibo Castle to tell the people of this
country that the hope of the business in-
terests and the welfare of wealth is in the
re-election of McKINLEY. The business
interest that Mr. CARNEGIE speaks for
particularly is the great armor plate trust
that is now demanding $450 per ton for
armor plate that can be produced for less
than $200, and the wealth, the welfare of
whieh he is so seemingly anxious about,
is that which he has already accumulated,
and which he hopes to add too, through
government contracts at the excessive
prices he has been allowed, and expects to
secure, through the favoritism of Mr. Me-
KINLEY’S heads of departments.
Last spring, when Mr. CARNEGIE was in
this country gathering the harvest that he
annually reaps from his over-grown trust,
Congress had not passed the act anthoriz-
ing the Secretary of the Navy to contract
for thousands of tons of armor plate.
There was a question then about the quality
of some of the plate that his concerns had
been furnishing the government. Much
of it had heen pronounced imperfect and
the amount to be paid for it was in dispute.
Under the impression that he was not to
receive the sum demanded, and that no
other contract would be given for some
time, his political views took loose rein
and ran in other directions than those of
selfish interests and the welfare of wealth.
He could afford to look at conditions as
conditions existed for the people. He
could find no good in McKINLEY’S re-
election or purpose. Untold dangers and
never ending troubles he predicted would
be the result of a continuation of his
policies. Then imperialism and militar-
ism threatened the foundation of our gov-
ernment and blighted the hopes of future
generations. Then everything near and
dear to the American heart demanded that
McKINLEY and all that he stands for be
defeated.
But that was when there were no merce-
nary opportunities offering to warp his
judgment and no contracts in the balance
to weigh against the welfare of the people.
It is different now. Mr. CARNEGIE
hopes to receive $450 per ton for a prod-
net that costs him far less than half that
amount and. the prospects of that hope
hinges upon his support of the administra-
tion that has the contract to let. *
In the minds of trust magnates money
is much more important than all else. It
is this that guides and governs the actions
of the chief of Skibo Castle.
Where the carrion is, there will the
vultures be gathered.
It is this that makes the CARNEGIES,
the ROCKEFELLERS and the beneficiaries
of trusts generally for McKINLEY.
Possibly the people will be wise enough
to see that what is for the welfare of trusts
is mot what is best for them.
If they are, Mr. CARNEGIE’S demand for
the re-election of McKINLEY will but
show, them that the right road for them to
travel is the one different from that he
‘would have them follow. ;
"Deserves no Sympathy.
The farmer who believes it a political
duty to vote even a portion of the Republi-
can ticket can care but little for his own
interests. hfe :
If he votes for the head of it he casts his
ballot to endorse imperialism, with its ever-
lasting and ever increasing taxation. He
gives approval to militarism, that loads him
down with standing armies and paves the
way for the conscription of bis own sons.
He endorses trusts, that rob him at every
turn ‘and sustains tariffs, that add to the
price of everything he purchases and leaves
his products and labor to the competition. of
the wide world. Eqs
If he casts his vote for the state ticket,
that will appear in the same column with
the McKINLEY electors, it will be taken
as an endorsement of every corrupt practice
and purpose of the state ring. It will be
a ballot to encourage the efforts of those
who. have disgraced the State and robbed
its people for years past; to endorse the
looting of the public school fund that
favorite bank balances might be greater,
‘and the local school taxes higher; to con-
done the effort made to ‘lessen the value of
pure butter by protecting the smug-
glers of oleomargarine; to say that taxa-
tion shall remain as it is and that all efforts
to equalize it,s0 that corporate capitol shall
bear its equal share of the burdens of goy-
ernment, shall be strangled in their incep- |
tion.
"Tt i for wrongs, that fall heaviest upon
‘himself, that the farmer votes to endorse
or encourage when he votes the Republi
can presidential or state ticket.
/ And yet there are intelligent, well mean
ing men among them who continue vot-
ing against every interest they have, sim-
ply’ because political ‘prejudiee inclines
theny ‘thas way: - 11 d6ite md teh
As long as there are such there will be
men for whose acts no excuse can be made
and for whose condition sympathy : would
be wasted.
1
| them.
Has Found His Level.
JAMEs H. EcKLES, whom Mr. CLEVE-
"LAND pulled out of obscurity in Illinois
and gave some prominence and importance
by making him his comptroller of the cur-
rency, is said to be preparing to make
speeches for McKINLEY. This, to those
who know him, will be no surprise ; neith-
er will it, to the least extent, change the
political atmosphere of the country. This
creature of greed, for it is purely greed that
actuates his every effort, never voted but
two straight Democratic tickets in his life,
and these were cast before his appointment
to office. While drawing a salary as a
Democratic official he never opened his
month for his party and during the last two
years of his official existence he made no
pretense of being a Democrat. As comp-
troller of the currency his chief efforts
were pnt forth to cover up the rottenness
that existed in financial institutions under
his control, and in conspiracies with de-
faulting National banks to deceive the
public as to their actual condition.
It was this diminutive specimen of polit-
ical manhood and this colossal example of
official turpitude who addmitted on the
witness stand, in the case of the fleeced de-
positors of the Chestnut street National
bank of Philadelphia, that his department
had evidence of its rotten condition a year
prior to its failure, but refused to expose it
for fear of the effect it would have
on the efforts the gold Democrats were
making to defeat Mr. BRYAN. That this
physical and political tom-tit should ap-
pear on the stump in defense of an admin-
istration, that is run by the trusts it bas
given birth to and in the interest of the
public thieves it has pushed to the front, is
fitting in every way. It is but the joining
of hands of men of like greed and like pur-
poses ; the combination of individuals of
the same low grade of political morals
and the same lack of political principle.
In the company of the EGANS, the NEELY’S
and their likes, JAs. H. ECKLES has but
sought his equals.
The Democracy may well congratulate
itself that he can no longer be pointed to
as part of it.
——1It was an easy trick to force ALLI-
sox and THOMPSON onto the Republican
ticket, but it won’t be so easy to make the
Republicans of Centre county vote for
They have too much manhood to
be driven, like cattle, by the lash of one
man.
Politics in Place of Prosperity.
After a close down of over three months,
in order to reduce supplies on hand that
there might be an excnmse for increasing
prices, the American Steel and Hoop com-
pany, one of the greediest trusts in the
country, started its mills on Monday,
with the prices of the different kinds of
iron they manufacture advanced over 15
per cent. and the wages of their men re-
duced $1.37} cents per ton.
The Republic Iron and Steel company,
another concern of the same stripe,
started a number of its mills on the same
day and with a similar reduction of wages
for its employees. M4) ;
That they could well afford to start up
when they can make their. iron at $1.87
less, ‘and put it on the market at 15 cents
| more, per ton than they were getting when
they closed down, it don’t require any ar-
gument to prove. But that this starting
up is going * to help along Mr. HANNA'S
campaign ' we have very serious doubts,
much as he may point to it as evi-
dence of MeKINLEY prosperity. The
fact that the greed of these eoncerns had to
be satisfied by the reduction of the wages
of their workingmen before they would
move a wheel, and the additional truth
that only certain’ mills, located in States
where political effects are needed, were put
in operation, shows how. little prosperity
had to do with these concerns.
Down in Alabama, where a number of
the mills belonging to these trusts are locat-
ed, no movement has been made to start
any of them. : Alabama is a Democratic
State and the vote is not changed or con-
trolled by the starting or stopping of an
iron mill. Ohio, Indiana and. Illinois, are
in doubt, and in these States all the mills
‘of these two concerns are to be run on full
time, until the election at least.
It is one of the ways the trusts have of
helping those who help them, although
they do it at the expense of the public and
their workingmen.
~ Possibly there are people who will be
idiots enough to believe that this starting
of the trust's mills, is an evidence of pros-
perity. There are those who are green
enough to believe anything.
——THompso¥ turned his back on hia
old friends, the QUAY people, to be one of
DAN HASTINGS cat’s paws. Are you go-
ing to vote for such a man to represent
you at Harrisburg? =~
—Vote for mien who are not bound to do
‘the bidding of one man at Harrisburg.
WerZEL and KEPLER are not the creatures |
LHR ELLE
Another One on the Way.
Mr. HANNA goes on denying that there
are trusts, and the trusts go on forming,
and growing and fleecing the people, just
as if there wasno HANNA to be made a liar
of or no political prospects to darken by
their sordid greed.
The latest one of these to be organized,
or about to he given birth to, is the stove
trust. It is spoken of by those who are to
be its sponsors and beneficiaries as a
‘Mammoth Stove Enterprise’’ and not asa
trust. Itis to have the ear marks of in-
dustry about it, but its principal pride will
be the size of its financial paunch, and its
chief desire the satisfaction of its craving
for the earnings of others.
The winter is coming on. The people
will need stoves. The masses must have
them, for the use of steam, hot air and such
kind of heatas can be furnished independ-
ent of the stove maker, is for the few only.
The many must continue the use of stoves,
or freeze, and where are financial pickings
easier to gather than from the pockets of
the many—the people?
On the 16th of the present month repre-
sentatives of 400 stove making concerns
scattered over the country are scheduled to
meet at the Auditorium, Chicago, for the
purpose of forming a National Stove Manu-
facturing Company, to be capitalized at
the modest sum of $60,000,000 and bond-
ed ta double that amount.
Think of it! Four hundred stove con-
cerns iin one ! A single stove manufactory
for tk is entire country ! A single power to
fix the price and terms forall the stoves the
eighty millions of American people must
use—a power greedy to voraciousness and
in pogition to crush and control all compe-
tition.. ‘What a field for the avarice of
combined capital ! What a prospect for
the gratification of the gluttony for riches
that grows under the fostering care of Me-
KINgEYism.
And still HANNA insists that there are
no trusts. hi
Well, the stove buyers of this country,
who, after the 16th of the present month,
must use a trust furnished stove, manufac-
tured from tariff protected and trust con- |.
trolled metal, are very liable to ascertain
that there are such organizations as trusts,
and to understand exactly what a trust
means and why Mr. HANNA is so anxious
to fialeé believe that there are none.
——WETZEL and KEPLER are gaining
ground every day. The intelligent people
of Centre county have enough independ-
ence to resent such methods as were re-
sorted to by HASTINGS and a few others at
the last Republican county convention.
Out For Bryan.
The Philadelphia Times, in a most forci-
ble editorial, on Monday last,shows its de-
testation of McKINLEYism and frankly an-
nounces its purpose to support BRYAN,
and give its efforts and influence to the
cause of the people and Democracy here-
after. In its announcement it attempts
no excuse for its former advocacy of Me-
KINLEY, but in plain words, and with an
earnestness that shows the depth of its
conviction, admits the error of its judg-
‘ment, and pledges its most earnest work
to assist in undoing the wrongs that Re-
publicanism is fastening upon us as a peo-
ple. There is no discounting the effect
that this determination of the Times will
have upon the political situation, not only
here in Pennsylvania, but throughout the
entire country. It has always been a'great
paper. It can be nothing else while Col.
‘McCLURE remains at its head ; and the
vigor with which it strikes out in defense
iof the cause of the masses, and against the
greed of trusts and imperial ambition, is
evidence of the good work it can do, and
its determination to do to the extent of its
power that which it undertakes.
_ That the Democracy is to be congratn-
‘lated on this most important acquisition
goes without exying: It shows the ‘diree-
‘tion in which the political tide is running.
It will awaken every Democrat to a full
sense of the situation. Iv will encourage
and enthuse those who are making this
great fight for the welfare of the people
and will serve as the reserve force of an |
army that appears when most needed and
its work can be most effective. Verily
there is hope for those who war against
imperialism, trusts and militarism.
A Costly President.
ei
It is now stated that the imperial cam-
paign corruption fund has reached the co-
lossal sum of $41,000,000.
Mr. McKINLEY'S total vote in 1896 was
7,104,779. ' Ttis not expected to be as large
in November as it was at that time, but if
it should be, Mr. HANNA, should still be
able to pay each voter $5.75 who casts his
“ballot for him.
Mr. McKINLEY may not be a very high
priced man but it seems to be taking consid-
‘erable of a sum to convince the people tha!
they want him for President. ' i
——Bubsoribe for the WATCHMAN.
Republican extravagance.
‘respect and
CY
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NO. 89.
Licensed Prostitution in the Philippines.
From the Easton Sentinel.
‘William E. Johnson, special correspon-
dent of the New Voice, writes to that paper
from Manila a vivid description of the state
regulation of vice that has been put in
force there by the United States military
authorities, which is revolting beyond
description.’ : :
Rev. Wilbur Crafts, D. D., publishes a
letter to the same effect from a Methodist
missionary, whose absolute reliability is
vouched for by Rev. A. B. Leonard, D. D.,
secretary of the M. E. board of missions.
Henry B. Blackwell, in commenting up’
on this abominable law in the Woman
Journal wrote : ¥
“It discloses the shamefal fact that the
state regulation of vice, which exists no-
where in this country, having been abol-
ished years ago in St. Louis by an uprising
of the good women and men of that city,
has been introduced and is being openly
enforced by the army authorities in the
Philippines. :
Houses of prostitution are established,
maintained and supervised by the United
States. To this depth of moral degrada-
tion has the curse of militarism already de-
graded our government. A system out-
grown in England and rejected in Ameri-
ca is to-day in force in the Philippines.
This hideous disgrace to manhood, this
cruel insult to womanhood, this menace to
domestic purity, this system of personal
degradation, is almost always the accom-
paniment of ‘a standing army. !
Will the women of America thus submit
to the misuse of their taxes in thus legal-
izing vice in Manila? If so, their children
and children’s children will have to pay
the penalty. ‘When thousands of diseased
and demoralized soldiers return to Ameri-
ca to draw life pensions and marry intio-
cent girls, the vengeance of violated law
will fall heavily upon the American peo-
ple.
This state of affairs is a striking object
lesson in the need of woman suffrage on
the ground that it would make the intro-
duction of that system impossible, It'isa
significant fact that Major Ira Brown (let
his name be infamous) has recommended
to bis official superiors a more general and
elaborate system of regulated vice, which
has been favorably considered, but post-
poned until after next November, for fear
if permanently put into effect it may cost
the administration votes.””" * 3
The National American Woman Suffrage
Association has sent a strong protest to
President McKinley, who is’ commander-
in-chief of the army, to put a stop to this
national disgrace. Set?
' Imperialism Comes High.
From the St Louis Republic.
It-will amaze the average American to
Spawls from the Keystone.
—The quartet of counterfeiters who were
placed in the Clearfield jail by Detective
Flynn and his assistants, were transferred
to the Ridgway jail Saturday by U. S. Mar-
shal Blair.
—While gathering chestnuts Saturday, 16-
year-old Frank Plankenhorn, of Williams-
port, fell from a tree twenty-five feet to the
ground. His right leg was broken and he
was injured internally. He may not re-
cover.
—Contracts were signed Monday at Bed-
ford for the sale of the Bedford Gazette the on-
ly Democratic newspaper in the county. The
new owners are R. C. McNamara, Samuel
Working and William L. Ryan. Mr. Mec-
Namara will be the editor. The price paid
was $9,000.
—A letter from W.L. Hicks, Esq., of
Tyrone, to his son Howard speaks of the
splendid sport the forests of Washington af-
ford, and rehearses in brief some of his hunt-
ing experiences since he landed in that state.
The catch up to date of the letter was two
elks and two antelopes.
—The 23rd annual reunion of the Seventh
Penna. Volunteer Cavalry association will be
held at Watsontown Tuesday and Wed-
nesday, Oct. 23rd and 24th. Business meet-
ing 3 p. m. Tuesday, Oct. 23rd. Card orders
for reduced railway fare will be mailed on
applieation not later than October 20th, by
the seéretary.
—A few nights ago, William Kester, a
glassblower of DuBois, was driving to his
home, near that place, when he was held up
by four men. Two of the men held his horse
while the other two with drawn revolvers
made Kester hold up his hands. They
searched his pockets, but all that they got
was a penny. They then allowed Kester
to drive on.
—The low stage of water in the pool of the
Lock Haven dam has brought to light near
the boom island a box car that was brought
there by the big flood of 1889. During the
years since that deluge the car has lain ab
the bottom of the river unnoticed. An in-
vestigation of the car shows that it contain-
ed barrels of cement, but where it came from
is a mystery.
a
—In opening the high school at’ Harris-
burg Thursday, Principal Baer gave a short
talk on the use of cigarettes, showing where
they were injurious and the bad results
which follow the practice. He added that
the high school was no place for a cigarette
smoker. He was not wanted there, and in
the future any scholar caught using them
would be instantly dismissed.
—The drouth near Mahaffey is doing much
‘damage to the late crops. The Susquehanna
river at that point has dwindled toa mere
‘brook in size and fish are dying by the
wholesale. Railroad traffic is impeded by
the scarcity of water, locomotives being com-
‘pelled to go forty miles fora supply. Hun-
dreds of wells have dried up, and pure drink-
ing water is a rarity. As a consequence
typhoid fever has set in.
—With his dogs faithfully watching by
his dead body, James Chapman, aged 19, was
found in an old house near his father's
home, on Jacoby mountain, Lycoming coun-
ty Sunday. Inthe young man’s right side
‘was a terrible wound caused by a heavy
learn that the net increase of new offices
a ally oreated hi the “iss Raguid ion ‘charge of buckshot. Chapman, accompanied
nual salaries aggregating some $2,593,015. | by ‘two dogs, had gone out” coon hunting
.77 ; that there was also an net increase
of $2,641,647.84 annually to pay the’ sal-
aries of new officers out of ‘‘lump’’ appro- |.
priations, and that the sum of $133,529075
further added to the tax burden to meet
the increase of salaries of Federal office-
holders already in office. These several
items reach a total increase of $5,368,193.36
—and all for new offices created or salaries
increased.
1t is not strange that under this system
of reckless extravagance the last Republi-
can Congress, with the approval of Pres-
ident McKinley, increased the appropria-
tions, exclusive of Spanish war expenses,
by $24,624,841.48 over the amount appro-
priated for the last fiscal year. It is not
strange that, with the National Treasury
thus thrown open to: Republican looters,
the first three years of: President McKin-
ley’s administration show an increased
cost to taxpayers, above the ' cost : of the
last three years of President Cleveland’s
administration, and exclusive of the esti-
mated expense of the war with Spain and
with the Filipinos, of @$84,329,549.12.
And it is certain that this rate of increase
in ordinary expenditures will be maintain-
ed in the closing year of Mr. McKinley's
administration, which will inevitably ex-
ceed the Cleveland administration, in its
cost to taxpayers, by at least $100,000,000.
There is no showing in all American his- |
tory to equal: this staggering exhibit of
It is, indeed,
imperial. i 1 ;
An imperial President and. his imperial
Congress have been swift to place upon the
American people the first stamp of empire
—a tremendous tax burden for the benefit
of imperial bureanerats and the strenigth-
ing of the imperial machine. When it is
Saturday night. It is supposed that he acci-
dentally shot himsely.
—The men, who were assisting in running
the limes on the Hopkins’ forestry reserva-
tion have returned to Lock Haven. They
state that they never saw the like for snakes
in that section of the state. They report
that a Mrs. Ransdorf killed this season fifty-
three rattlesnakes and three copperheads;
Theo Huff and his sons killed on Fish Dam
run forty-three rattlers, aud that another
party killed nine blacksnakes and thirty-six
rattlers. One of the latter had twenty-six
rattles.
—The sheriff of Lycoming county has been
compelled to get after some people who have
been violating the fish laws. During the
past summer the river and other streams
throughout the county have been covered
with fish dams and other similar unlawful
devices. They have taken thousands of fish
from the water in’ this manner.’ This is a
too common complaint. The sheriff has not
‘Vet arrested anybody, but he gives notice
that he will make arrests if his proclamation
is not respected. |
—FEarly Wednesday morning Dayton’s
large shoe factory in Williamsport was de-
stroyed by fire. The origin of the flames is
not known, The loss on building, stock and
machinery, is placed at $190,000; eighty per
| cent of which is covered by insurance. Sev-
‘eral of the surrounding buildings among
them the First Baptist chapel, were damaged
tothe extent of $10,000, all of which are
partially covered by insurance. Five fire-
considered that this outpouring of millions’| men were injured. The firemen were pout-
of dollars for supeifluons officials in the
civil service is yet to be supplemented by
the imperial war budget, the American
people will begin to realize what empire
means in dollars and cents. 7
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What They Are Working For.
From the Baltimore Sun—Ind. Dem.
Mr. Bryan Has emphatically subordivat-
ed silver and states that it sinks into in-
significance when compared with the ne-
3
cessity of preserving our free institutions
and republican form of government. It is
the imperialists who are trying to make
silver an issue in order that they may ac-
quire foreign territory, hold millions of
Asiatics as ‘‘subjects,’’ heap favors mpon
the trusts, vote subsidies to ship owners,
legislate for privileged classes and band
the country over to the pl stoeratic ele-
ments which have been exploiting it dur-
ing the administration of Mr. McKinley.
A Shock that Was Probably Felt in
Centre County.
From the Philadelphia Press. fake
The appointment of ‘Governor Stone's
‘law partusr to the vacancy on the Supreme
court bench has been a great’ shock toa
‘group of political judges of the Common
‘Pleas ‘courts. ' They dou’s see how the
‘Governor could be so ungrateful as to over-
look them when they ‘have not hesitated
to sacrifice both’ judicial ‘dignity and the
confidence of the r
Quayism. It was a'severe blow, and they
regard the Governor's. personal selection
with much disfavor.
le to serve T
ing water on the interior of the building,
when one of the high standing walls fell
over. The men made a basty scramble, but
‘several were struck by the falling bricks.
—The funeral of the late Judge John J.
Metzger took place at: 2 o'clock: Monday af-
ternoon from the family residence, on West
Fourth street Williamsport. It was one of
‘the most largely attended ever held in Wil-
‘liamsport. The services were conducted by
Rev. J. M. Anspach, pastor of St. Paul's
Lutheran church, assisted by Dr. E. J. Gray,
president of Dickinson Seminary, Services
at the grave in Wildwood - were conducted
by the Masons. A largely attended meeting
of the bar was held at the court house in the
morning, at which eulogistic’ speeches were
made by many judges and lawyers.
—About a year ago farmers in half a doz-
‘en or more townships of Washington county
gave an option at from $16 to $20 an acre on
coal lands embracing some 50,000 acres.
The option expired on Monday last, bat
previous to that time a demand had, been
.magde for the lands by. the holder of the
“option. . The farmers, however. had conclud-
ed that as they did not want to part: with
‘their property at the price fixed—it is now
‘considered to be worth a great deal more—
they will fight the matter in the court.
] he basis of legal contention on their part
will be that the options were taken separate:
ly and not collectively, a distinction in’ such
cases not easy to comprehend.