The Columbian.
J. E. BIttonbondor., ) "
BLO0M3BUKQ, PA.
FRIDAY, JULY 6, 1889.
William Walter Phelps, of Now
Jorsoy, has heun appirntod Muiis'or to
Gornnny, nnil Col. A. Louden Snow
don of Philadolphi.i, will go a? Minister
Resident and Couaul General to Sorvin,
G 'oeeo and Roumanh. 'I'ho President
is taking good care of his friends.
DEMOCRATIC STATU CONVENTION-
No formil announce innut of Uio day
on which tho aiproaohing IX'inocrriti'c
State Convention will bo nclel hai bion
made, but the in-nibers of tho cxooutivo
committee have authorized Chairman
lustier to make tho call for tho first
"Wbdnoaday in September. Tho con
vention will bo held in the Grand Optra
House in this city and wili nominate
a candidate for tho oflioo of state treas
urer. The material from which tho conven
tion will select tho candidate is abund
ant and excellent. Among those men
tioned as possible) candidates before
tho convention are It jprosontativo
Wherry of O'linbjrland county, He-
resentativi Cl.iy of U:k, John S.
l.ivis of Philadelphia E. A. liiglor of
Clearfield, J. F. IVmplo o! Greene, J.
B. Larkin and D. O. liarr of Pittsburg,
E. F. Korr, of Hodford, and Homer J
Humes, of Crawford. Mr. Wherry's
attack upon the management of the
sinking fund makes him a promino.it
figure. Ex Senator Humes' authorship
of the law by which moneys in tho
sinking fund aro required to bo invest
od in tho stato and United States bonds,
also makes him a formidable candidate.
The other gentlemen aro equally well
known nud each havo strong points of
nvilability. John S. D.wis U very
popular in Philadclphia,John Ii. Larkin
has made an admirable postmaster for
Pittsburg, D- O. Rarr is an excellent
finannoier, E. F. Kcer is a prominent
lawyer and successful business man
J. F. Templo is known tho stato over
as a former auditor general, and Cap
tain Clay is one ot tho most prominent
members of tho present legislature.
Tho convention can bardly mako a
mistake if it confine its choice to the
gentlemen named. Rit local favorit
ism should not be permitted to inlli
once tho selection of a candidate. Nor
should tho convention raise any issue,
either in its platform or iu the roeird
of its candidates, except that which
tho election of a stato treasurer natur
ally and properly involves. Tho demo
cratio platform and an undoubted saint
nominated as the domocratio candidate
thero would bo danger of a popular
reaction against both. It may be well
though for tho convention to declaro
itself on tho liquor question, as that
is an issuo already raised and pressing
ior solution ana ono which has some
boaring on tho subject of the raising
of revenue, a matter which tho stato
tieasurer is obliged to consider in his
official capacity. But thero is certainly
no occasion tor lng"ins anything into
tho.,oanvas that does not pertain direct
ly or indirectly to tho character of the
oflico to bo filled. Patriot.
DEATH OF GEN. CAMERON.
HK NRVHIl RAI.LII'.l) I'll )M HIE TAHALY1IO
STH01CE.
Gen. Simon Cameron died Wed
nesday evoning, Juno 20, sho.tly after
,, TTT I .
ootiucK. ins last momeuis were
peaceful, and up to a short timo beiore
the end he appeared to bo conscious of
m Burruuimiugs. inuring uio uay lie
had shown a desire for food, which
was given to hiin in small qiantities.
He experienced no trouble Bwnllowing.
But tho wonderful constitution, which
through ninety years ha 1 withstood all
kinds of assaults, had been undermined
boyonel tho hope of assistance.
Tho General's vitality was a great
surpriso to tho doctors, who, all day
before, were encouraged to hope that
hp might snrvivo until tho return of
his son, Senator Cameron, who sailed
that day from Liverpoolr Tho dcsllo to
Bee'liT? son appoarcd to be uppermost
in the aged statesmans mind. For
several days previous to tho attack, ho
regretted his absunco and longed to
havo him with him.
Around tho bedside, when tho last
summons camo, M-oro his daughters,
Mrs. MnoVsagh and Mrs. llnldetnan,
ex-Attoriioy-General MaoVeagh, Simon
B. Cameron, grandson, and wife, Jas.
Cameron, son of the senator, Mrs. Da
vid Watts, a granddaughter,, and his
old body.scrvant. John, who for- years
watched over tho aged General with
tho greatest solicitude. General Cam
eron was buried at Harrisburg, where
his wife is interred.
No man ever wielded so command
ing an inlluenco and power in Pennsyl
vania politics ns Simon Cameron. jfl
was tho last of a lino of political lead
ers' in ttio two great parties who wok
obovod by largo misses of men as im
ijusiuy us uuiuierB ouey uicir oiuce
and officers their general.
Before Simon Cameron laid dow
the sceptor of his power in Pennsylva
nia he, not tho Pennsylvania Railroad
nominated its Uovernors, Congress
nion, Senators and Representatives
in im t, wnen no at last grew weary
01 public life, ho handed his boh into
Ins seat in tho Senate, as if it woro
pieco of family property. Politioal
rivals and opponents protiHtcd and do
nouueed. Tho Loehiel chief faced
tho storm unmoved, while evory hill
Bide and valley rang with tho thfiant
shouts of Clan Cameron. No tariff
baron, howevor rich or powerful, over
presumed to dictate to him what ho
should say or what ho should do. One
and nil, they came to receive ord
era, not to give them. Presidents and
cabinets courted his support. No
man's a.lvicu was more sought nud
more followed. Ho wan a leader of
leaders in party councils and party
management, ms Knowledge ot men
was profound and no one knew belter
than ho how to regain what had been
lost or preserve what had been won.
lie never abandoned n friond, II
rarely forgave au enemy. Honors
and offices were the legitimate rowards
of party scrvioo and belonged to those
who had won them. This was his
theory, at, indeod, it was the theory of
all his oontcmporarioi. lie began his
political life as a Jackson Democrat,
ana his mrthoas were ns autocratic .is
thosoof'Old Hickory" himsolf, Ho
was proud of his suutuh eliwciit, and
uo Highland chieftain over stood by
Ids clan more loyally than ho did by
his political adherents, This system
of politioal feudalism has almost on
Urely passed away? indeed it may
now b said to be buried in tint torn
of tho last of tho great politioal ba
rons. in ( Atiri'ii.
Simon Oiinr-rein, uu grandfather ot
General (hmoron and first of tho fam
ily to scllln in Pennsylvania, came to
Amerio.t about tho - year 17-10 and
found a homo in Donegal township
Lauuaster county. Ho was a Sooth
man and a Presbyterian nnd ho found
oooupntion iu tilling tho land, which
then balougcd to tbo llttlo Presbyter
ian Church still standing at that
place. His life was hard, nut probab
ly not so hard in hU now home as it
had licon in old Seollaud, and little is
known ot ids family. Ills cldust son
was Ch.ii K-i', th father of Simon, nnd
he had ii' l.-.nt ono other son, who
siihsequHiily became n well-to-do
farmer, for of htm young elm on bor
rowed the mo. icy to make his start iu
business, diaries Cameron bocamo a
tailor and lived in Maytown, a few
miles distant and near tfiu Susquehan
na liver, and there, on March S, 179!),
Simon Cameron, his youngest son, was
born.
In 1807, when Simon was a lad of
eight, Charhs Cameron removed his
family to bunbury, tho journey being
made by boat, slowly an i with great
d.tlioulty, and there, after a couple of
years' struggle with increasing adver
sity, tho family s' parated and tho chil
drcn began to shift for tlioimolvis.
Simon went to live witli Dr. drahl, a
physician of Sunbury, who seems to
havo treated tho boy with great kind
ntss and who desired him to enter tho
medical profession.
In 1815 he sought a situation ns
piintor's apprentice m tho cilice, of tho
Gazette, a weekly Domocratio news
iapur then published at Northumber
land by Andrew Kennedy, and when
released from his agreement by the
Sale of tho establishment two years af
ter, wet.t to Ilariislmrg and took a im
ilar place in tho oflico of tho 1'cnnsyl
vama Republican, owned and edited
by Jamutt PeaLock.
In 1821 ho went down to Doylcs.
town, and by a keen plan, formed a
combination of tho Doylestoicn Dem
ocrat ami Bucks County Messenger,
and tho firm known- as Ca eron &
Milllin continued the paper in too name
of Democrat, tho youugmari who was
scarcely out of his apprentices! ip bo
coining ostensibly the senior proprietor
of what was then, and has always since
l .. ; . T-
ueun, unuui uio most liupuriam. uemo
crane papers or the btate.
But this venture was soon at an end
Tho Bucks county Democracy was bar
monized aud Simon longed for a wider
tieiu. Wiiiuu tho year ho soul out at
a net profit ot about a hundred dollars
and with that as his sole capital went
to Washington and took a caso in the
olhco ot tho Aational Intelligencer
llo worked assiduously during tho win
ter of 1821-2 and probably acquired
some valuable idaas as to the profits of
publ o printing contract-, for in tho
spring ho returned to Harrisburg, bor
ro ed $400 of his uncle, bought an in
terest in the Republican from his form
cr employer, James Peacock, changed
tno namo to ttio Jiitctligencer and
probably under tho inspiration of Inn
ham, vigorously supported Calhoun for
tno Presidency. Jt was hero that Cam
eron first attained the realization of his
ideal system for tho conduct of practi
cai pontics, xnrouaii his personal in
lluenco and tho power of his paper ho
secured tho appointment, of Sta'e Prin
ter, an olhco which, though less re-
markablo then for oxtravagauco and
peculation man at the present time,
was still Bufhciently remunerative to
enable tho careful piin'erin three year
to acciuuulalo enough teady money to
justify him in undertaking important
construction contracts m tho Pennsyl
vania uauai, men just chartered
AS A CONTRACTOR.
Tho printing business was soon aban
doned for the moro lucrative) canal con
tract0, and for many years tho groat
nyBtem oi internal improveinenlwliicli
cost tho Siato over $10,000,000. had no
moro enrm st and ronsistent advocate
than Simon Cameion, and thuo was uo
moro frequent or successful bidder for
desirable contra Is than ho. Up and
down tho Susquehanna, up tho Juniata
ana on tno western division ho had Ins
men at work.
Tho feasibility of steam railways had
just been practically proved aud the
country was on tho threshold of tho era
of railway development. General Cam-
eron saw, with thi sagacity of a clear.
practical mind, that railroads m 1831
were as indispensable to tho develop
mont of tho resources of tho Stato as
canals had been a decade before, and
he recognized that tho pecuuiary ad
vantages to bo gained in the construc
tion auu suDscqucnt operation of tho
roads were far greater than could ever
accruo irora tno canals
Simon Cameron at once bocan an
energetic advooaoy ot railroad comma
nication between Philadelphia and the
imuuio auu western part ot the State.
Ho organized and was largely interesl-
in iuo oouHiruotion or tno railroad
between Ilarrisburir and Lancaster, of
tho Lebanon Valley Road, and of tlio
road between Harrisburg and .Simbiry,
afterward consolidated as the Northern
Central, with tho roid from Harrisburg
iu nauimore, tno control ot wincn Hen.
Cameron by shiewd operations wrested
irom uaiumoro capitalists aud held as
a Pennsylvania enterprise.
riiAcriCAi. l'oi.trics.
IIo took an activo part in the Presi
(Icntial contest of 1820, and all subso
qu -lit contests until ho handed over his
power to his son. Ho was one of tbo
chief promoters of tho Baltuuoro Con
OMiion of May,1832 the first Nation-
ul Convention ever held bv nnv noliti
cal patty which put in formal nomi
nal ion party candidates lor ttio cilices
of both Preside nt and Vieo l'rcsidi nt.
nud practically abrogated tho tradition-
ni lunctions ot our cumbrous oleotoral
niRohine. From that day until after
tho third term struggle of 1880 thero
ui ver was a National Convention of
the party with which, for tho tnno bo-
nig, he identified himself, whether Dem
ooiat, tariff Democrat, Native Ameri-
cau, Whig, or Republican, that Simon
uninoron was not prccont with a Penn
sylvania delegation moro or Uss under
his personal inlluenco nnd Iooknm for
any commuaiicn or trnelo which should
redound to his porsonal advanta"o or
that ot his son and political heir.
in 18J ho was nppointcd Indian
Commission! r. and in his treaty b-
tttouii tho Winnebago Indians and the
Uniied .Stales, ho inndo upwanls of
$1UU,UIMJ.
During the Presidential oamnaii'ii of
l&ll tho tariff had been tlio leadintr
issue, nud feeling iu Pennsylvania was
particular! V violent. Tho Demne.nitu
swept tho St .lu, but In tho largo Dem
oorauo inajoiity in tho Lfgislaluro
thero wero many strong uroteciionisls
who reoiL'nized Simon Cameron as a
loader in that branch of tho party, anil
ho formed the bold plan of winnirtr tho
Senatorial prize by a coalition buwcou
tho Whig, Tariff Democrats and Na
tive American j. Georgo W- Wood
ward, of Luzerno county, afterwards
Chief Justice of tho Supremo Court of
..PfTpDilJ
Pennsylvania, was tho regular nomineo
of tho Domocratio ciuous nnd was a
man singularly fitted by oliarnotor and
nblllty to adorn a seat in tho United
States Senate. Cameron's combination
was, however, strong enough to nooom
plish hii own election, in spite of the
rcfuxal of four Whigs and two Notlvo
Americans to vote for him. Tho con
tent was a bitter one, nnd tho hostili
ties it engendered wero novor ontlroly
allayed whllo tho principals lived.
Simon Cameron ontored tho Senato
as a Democrat who had deliberately
botrayed his own party aud dofeated
one of its best men, nnd Prosldent
Polk at first ignored him entirely in
tho distribution of Federal patronngo
in Pennsylvania! but C.imcioii soon es
tablished himself on a footing of such
strong intimacy aud friendship with
tho leading Sonalors that ho was
enabled to dofeat tho confirma
tion of nominations obnoxious to him
self. President Polk recognized the
merits of George W. Woodward nnd
scut in his name to the Senato for ouo
o' the JuHloes of the United States
Supicmo Court, but Cameron's combi
nation was so strong, nnd his appeals
to his associates to recognize "tho cour
tesy of tho Senato" so porBistont, that
ho was enabled to defeat Woodward's
confirmation in a Democratic Senate.
Appointments for Postmaster and Col
lector in Philadelphia, were also defeat
ed by the same means, until nt last
Piesulent Polk was forced to recode
from his position and to reooguizo and
consult Senator Cameron in tho distri
bution of Federal patronage in Penn
sylvania. In tho campaign of 1850 Simon Cam
eron acted with tho Free Soilcrs and
headed tho Fremont electoral ticket in
Pennsylvania. Tho Democrats carried
the Lgis!atiiro by a majority of threo
aud a Sonator was to bo elected to suc
ceed Richard Brodhead. John W.
Forney was the Democratic nomineo,
and thero seemed to bo no doubt of his
election. Tho Free Soilers, however,
wero bitterly opposed to Fornoy per
sonally, accusing him of having fraud
ulently carried tho city of Philadelphia
against Fremont, and when Cameron
olaimcd that ho could, if nominated,
beat Fornoy, his suggestion was eager
ly listened to.
On tho first ballot tho Whigs and
Fieo Soil men cast their votes for Cam
eion, as agroed, and thre Democrat',
Lebo, of Schuylkill ; Maneer, of York,
and Wngonseller, of Schuylkill, also
voted for him, and he was elected.
In 1800 Simon Cameron reoeived the
indorsement ol tho Pennsylvania Ro
publican Convention for tho President
ial nomination and went to the Nation
al Convention at Chicago with a dole
gation chosen in his interest. As tho
balloting progressed a portion of the
delegation wero anxious to transfer Uio
vote of Pennsylvania to Abraham Lin
coln, but Cameron and his friends de
manded n promiso to make him:Secro
tary of the Treasury as the prico of
their snppirt. They wero fina'ly ii.-
uuceu uy swell ana tne otuer Lincoln
managers to accept the assurauou of
Cabinet position, without specifying
wliat department it should be, provide
that the majority of the Pennsylvania
delegation in Congress thonlt givo
uonorai uamcron tiieir indorsement.
v nen ii uccamo Known, alter l.inoolu
election, that his friends had pledged
him to Caiueion the most vigorous uro-
tests wero made by many of tho leading
iicpuuucans ot tno state. The
of bwett and Ins other friends had.
iiowever, btcn so diuinct that Lincoln
was finally compelled to yield and
named General Cameron as his Secre
tary of War.
Cameion went to St. Petersburg
Minister, but returned in the winter
1803, when a Uniied Stales Senator
was to be chosen to succeed David
Wilmot. The Legislature was Demo
cratio by one majority and Wilmot
would havo been unanimously renomi
nated nad not Uameron assured tho Ke
publicans that he could .f nominated.
overcame tho Democratic majority and
ueieat jnaric3 it. liuckaiew, the Demo
cratio nnminee. Party spirit ran high
and Uio Republican wero finally in
dueed to give Cameron the nomination
IIo entered into negotiations with
Thomas Jeffoisou Boyer, a Democratic
lsepreseutativo fiom (Jleurneld county.
and; scorduig to Boyer's subsequent
lo-uiunny ueiore tne uouse, offered
sucjes-uvcly five, ten, fifteen and final
ly twenty thousand dollars for tho
vole which was necessary to his election
Boyi r aereed to vote for Cameron, but
when tho ioint convention SRaemlilpii'
the galleries and lobbies of the Hom
wero filled with Democratic imrtianna
iuny resoivoa to prevent or signally
punish any such treason as had been
shown in 1815 by Lebo, Maneer aud
Wagouseller. On tho i oil-call Boyer
voted for Buokalew and Cameron was
defeated. It is but fair to say that
Buyer always maintained that it was
never his intention t j vote forCamtruii
TT. 1 .1 .
iih saiu no kiiuw mat uaraeron was
lookiiig for a purchasable Democrat
and that ho entered into and nrolou
the negotiations for the purpose of pre
veuuiig uameron irom uudiug a man
who would actually take the monev
aui carry oui ino nciaiious scheme.
....I .L - .
1 his view of Hoyrr s conduct was no
eepted by his Cleat Held constituents
tor ths-y subsequently indorsed his
nctinn by electim; bun to llin Stale
H' in-.
i the result of Bover's tesliiunuv
befoiu tho Hiiis", a resolution was
passed renin stinirlhe, Governor to uaiisd
cinnirial proceedings to be instituted
by the Attorney General against Sim in
Cameron, William Urobst, Henry
n'l. .. 1 r l t . .
Jiieiuria nnii jonn J. railersoti. of
whom the last threu had boon tro-bj.
tweens in the negotiations. Tho case,
nowever, was not nroscculod.
in 1800 tho Louislatiire of Ponnsyl
vania beeoino republic in, and General
Camoron was chosen as United State
ounlor, which position l.o hehl until
18(0 when it was transferred to his
son.
IN ItKTIItEJIKNT.
With
his reticreni'.'nl
in 1877, his
long political eiaroor was ended
Ho
traveled a groit deal during these later
years, ami in 1877, acoonipanied tho
late loimrd W, Jerome and a few
oiner irienus, ho made his first trip to
fiuropp, lu March last ho celebrated
his ninetieth birth day at his home in
Hariisburg, on which occasion the
Legislature of Pennsylvania adopted a
congr;tnlatorv resolution and tho
members paid their reepeots to him in
a body.
General Cimcr m had thioo sons. J.
Brnal Cameron, who din vountri Simon
and J. Donald, tho present Senator.
who is now iu Eurono. and threo
daughters, Rachel, who married James
Burnsido and died many years nuo!
Margaret, tho widow of Riohard S. Hal.
dfiiun, and Virginia, tho wife of
Wnyno MaoVeaijIi. Mrs. Cameron.
who was a ilaughtsi of Peter Brua, of
Berk, county, died some years ago.
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WASHINGTON LETTER.
From ourltcgnUr Correspondent.)
Washington, July 1, 1889,
Hard son's conscience or the force of
the oritlolsm lie has recently received
for Suuday junketing, I don't know
which, perhaps a llttlo of both, caused
mm to spend yesterday in tho Whit
House, notwithstanding tho fact that
up to b nday morning ho had intondcd
to spend tho day at Capo May. Ho
oould not, bowover,wltbBtand the temp
tatiou of tnkiiin a fun rido to Haiti.
more and return Saturday afternoon to
meet his wife and grand-children. This
week tho family go to Deer Pork one!
Uo goos to Woodstock, Connecticut, to
assist in celebrating the Fourth of July,
i.ots moro ireo rnlliondlng.
At lost an antl-Mahono Virginia Ro
publican has got something. John S.
Wise has succeeded in getting his son
appointed a oauel to West Point.
Now that tho now fiscal year has bo
gun Republicans here nru looking for
the speody discharge of every Demo
crat in tho Government sorvice. who
not preteuled bv tho civil Bervioe law.
and as many of tho latter as displaced
union veterans can uo louuu lo alio
oecd under tho rctcut order of Harri
son.
Another negro has succeeded in got
ting a prize. This time it is Fred
Douglass, who has been appointed
.Minister to unyu. Tno appointment
is creating much dissatisfaction among
tho rest of the darkies, with whom
Douglass has been very unpopular ever
since no married a white woman,
Han lson has compelled Secretary
witidom to oppoint W. JH. Meredith
of Chicago, superintendent of tho Bu
reau of Encravintr and Printing, al
though Windom had a man of hit own
for llie place. Tho fight was long and
bitter, and at last Harrison informed
Windom that Meredith must be ap
pointed even it tie nad to nave a now
Secretary of tho Treasury. This brought
"ruuy aown on ms marrow nones very
tpilckly, as StarroutoDorsey's wild oat
achemo whioh ho had been trying lo
boost for sever d years, offered no in
duccmonts, when compared with tho
salary and perquisites, particularly tho
latter, ot tne secretary ot tne Treasury,
sour urspes Uon Cameron don
waut to bo re-elected to the Senate,
was his father, Simon Cameron, now
dead, who put him there and kept him
there. Don would hardly be elected a
county road supervisor if ability only
was consiaerea. unto, "granny liiair,
who lias suddenly como to the conolu
sion that he will save tho Now Ilsinp
shiro legislature tho trouble of defeat
ing him by declining toagain ha a can
didate for the Senate, Tbo Senate will
not find it difficult to survivo the loss
of these two men.
This is a "protection" administration!
see how it protects Amerioan labor and
capital 1 in giying out a contract for
550,000 enameled bricks to be used in
the construction of the new National
Library building in this city the con.
tract was given to an English firm be
cause by remitting the duty they can
oo ueuverca ncre a utile cheaper tha
they oan be bought in America. 8
could almost everything else, and tht
question naturally arises, why should
tbe Government do what it refuses to
let the people do 7
In tho langnago of slang it may be
remarked Hint, them am "nn rtina" r..,
the present civil service commission
and that it intends to 'run the machiuo
or 'bust the boiler.
The indictments against Dorsev.
Brady et a1, in the famous Star route
cases which havo been cumbering tho
court records for seven or eight year
have all been nolle prossed.
Blaino has told bis man William
Walter Phelps, lust appointed ministc
to Germany that he might lake his own
time about going to Berlin. But
inii t his own time he ii taking ; it is
tha peoples. He was Qualified as mm
ister the day he was appointed and his
eaiary oi $i7,ouu a year began.
A.iuuuw uiiiisu ueiuiucr eviueniiy
has no idea of makius anv such blunder
Tha nnn. II. ll.l. ' .. . 1 ,
is iora sanicvuie, ins immediate sue
-r . . .... -. .
oessor, did. Ho lias bought a farm
near this cily, and not satisfied with
haying becomo a tar-pever in th
United Stales he proposes to co with
mo presmont ana bis nartv to tht
Fourth of July celebration at Wood
stock. If Sir Julian keeps on he will
certainly be very solid with the "bojs.
Ihe New York politician!
jumped on Harrison again. Friday
a... I kj.. J . . T Y .
nuu uuiurutty, juorion. iiiscocir. uennw
auu a 101, more oi tne "Dig guns were
i , . - ' , - i
hero in the interest of the various can-
didatea or the New York Federal ap
poiutments. It was stated Saturday
I hat a slate bad been agreed upon, at
any rate most of tho New Yorkors
went home, but the anoointmonts
i , t
uaveu i. ueen maae yet.
ino Haytian government recently
captured an Americau Bteamer and for
a time refused to release her. but were
only too glad to do so and pav a cash
indemnity of $5,000 when Commander
Kellogg of the U. S. 8. Ossipe, gayo
them the choice of doing bo or having
Port-nu-Priuce bombarded. The money
was paid aud tho vessel released. What
eeriso there was in keeping news of
this character from the public I cannot
bee.
BDPEE11E OOUET DEUISIUN
OONCKUNINIl WHOLESALE I.ICKNsES.
Tho supremo court, sittincr in Phila.
ueipuia, on Friday granted tho per
, , , , - . . '
emptory mandamus asked for bv thn
Prospect brewing company, requiriug
' i-uuiv ui ijuuiier hch'iihis 10 grant a
brewers' liceuso to the cornoration for
me present, year, uiuct Ju-lioe I 'ar
son deliveied tho opinion iu tho cane.
the courso of whioh bo handled the
license court without cloves for the use
of ineaninIoss aeljectives in its return
me writ, ana Held that tho L-rent
ensure ion allowed llie eiuarler sessions
i , ... "
u ticalinent of retail applicants was
not conferred by thoeailier aci relat.
ug to tho granting of licenses to brew.
ers. I ho court reversed tho iuik'inent
of the license court of Allegheny county
n tho oases of fifteen bottlers and fur
or live wbo'oealo dealers, who took out
writs ol certiorari. A procedendo was
awarded iu these cases, which is ronlv.
nlent to au oidur d reeling the insuauce
of licoiKos.
THE CHIKK JUSTICE'S VIRWB.
Chief Justice Paxsou dtlivercd two
elaborate opinions covering the points
raised in the severnl cases. In tho
easo of Mnry E. Pollute, a whole sale
dealer in P.ttsburg, ho dtlivercd an
opinion holding that iu tho granting of
wholesale llceusey the court of epiattur
sessions had not tho large discretion
conferred upon it by the retail act, but
quaittied, limited discretion, and is
confined to tho iuiiuiry whether the
pplicaut is a citizen ef the United
States, of temperate habits and good
moral character, and that where no ro.
monstranco or objection appears on tho
record tbe lioenso should bo granted.
"It scarcely needs argument i" ho
says, ii tho Prospeot brewery decision,
"to snow me propriety oi mis ruling.
uio recoro. aid not tmow tne resaoa ,
BLOOMSBURG, COLUMBIA COUNTY, PA.1
for tha refusal of tho liconso it would
bo impossible to rovlow the notion of
the lower court, howevor arbitrary or
Illegal It might havo bcon nnd ns to
suoh matters a quarter sessions judgo
would sit as absolute n despot ns tlio
emperor of China."
After rogroltiiig tho fn'luro of tho
act to prccotlbo a set form of prnotlco
in suoii oases, no continues t "A caro
ful examination of tho act lends us to
tho conclusion that, In tho nbsenco of
any remonstrance or objec'ion on tho
record, it is tho duty of tho court to
grant a wholesale license j and the ob
jection must be limited to the three
disqualifications alroady alluded to.
Such n rcmonstrnnco or objection should
uo in writing and pinceet on file, so
that it form, with the petition, the
pleadings in the case. Thero Is then
an Issue of fact brforu the court to be
decided, as in other eines, upon tho
evidince. There whs neither remon
strancu nor objection upon tlio record
against the granting ot this lio-msc.
there Has uo i-Mieleforo thu eouit.
There was no disputed question of faol
for it to decide1, and tho not eloes not
confer upon tlio coutt of quaiter ses
sions tho power of a roying commission
to inquire as to mailers not propeily
btfoio it, and in no way connected
with the petitioner's right lo a brewer's
license. As there was no issiiu before
tho court, it follows thai necessarily
thero could havo been no valid findings
of fact. Wo might well, therefore.
discard the entire return e-f tho learned
judges of the court of qnnrlor sessions
to the writ of alternative mandamus.
mi.-. .. .
iiiui.wo may not seem wanting in- re
spect to them I will pioceod to ils con
sideration." After stating tho legal rulo that such
returns are required to be most exact
in their language, aud most full atnl
preciso on their statements of fact, for
tho reason tha they are not permitted
to bo gainsaid, tbo chief justico contin
ues : '-Keeping in view tho fact that
tho objections to tho petitioners' appli
cation must be confined to the eiues-
tions (1) citizenship, (2) temperate hab
its, and (3) good m iral oharacter, I
will briefly consider this return. As
preliminary tho judges say : 'Boforo
deciding said application, said court
deemed it to be its duty to del jrmiuo
whether the applicant was n citizen of
tho United States, of temperato habits
aud good moral character, and a fit
person to receive a license. The first
three matters were proper subjects of
inquiry, but tho fourth was a matter
with wbioh the court had nothing to
do. They havo nothing to do with it
becanto this act of tho 21th of May
confers no such power upon them, ft
is incorporating into tho wholesalers
act a provision of the retailers' act.
The key to the wholo difficulty may
perhaps be found in this assumption of
a discretion which is not found in tho
law, and is applicable only to the caso
of retailers. The fitness of a man te
have a wholesale license depends upon
his haying the threo qualifications be
fore mentioned, not upon the opinion
of Ihe court on other matters outside
of them."
"It appears that at the hearing in tho
court below, the main question was as
to the manufacture and salo of a mild
form of beer nailed "Ambrosia.'' The
petitioner set out testimony as to it at
some length. Tlio court returns that
his statement is incomplete, inaccurale
and misleading, but as it fails to show
in what respect tho teturn is clearly in
sufficient. Tho return then further
states: 'Tho court did find from the
evidence that during the year of its
license then about to expire, the com
pany, through its chief executive offi
cers, charged witli thu conduct of its
business, bad caused to be browed an
intoxicating malt liquor, for tho pur
pose of selling the samo to unliceiist.il
dealers u tho city of Philadelphia, to
bo by the latter ugam sold in this city,
in violation of the laws of this com
monwealth; that said intoxicating mall
liquor, thus biewed, had been solel by
thu company to numerous unlicensed
dealers in theexpectation that the same
would bo sold by them iu (his city in
viola ion of law: thai through its taiei
officers, said i onipany by false repre
sentations as to thu charaoier of said
liquor, bad indued divers unlicensed
dealers to purchase tho same from it;
and that saiel liquor thus puiohased had
been Bold in the city of Philadelphia
by said unlicensed dealers. It is to bo
observed that this return is entirely
outside of tbo caso. It had no bearing
upon either of the three qualifications
required .of a wholesalo dealer, and
beat rotcra to a rambling inquiry not
properly before court. The liceuso
which the company held, authorized
them to manufacture and sell boer to ,
any person who was willing to buy, (
licensed or unlicensed, and it must not
be forgotten that tho particular beer
rofcrred to was ambrosia, which ap
pears to contain only a little over ono
per cent, of alcohol. Tho return is,
moreover, vague and uncertain; we aio
not told what false repi estimations
were made by the company in regard
to tho characler of tho boer, and mere
adjectives are entirely out of place in
a return to a writ of alternative) man
damus. Nor does this portion of the
return allege a violation of anv law of
Ibis commonwealth. I have dwelt up
on it at greater lenctn man was necna.
sary, becauso it had evidently much to
do with tbe action of tlio court below."
Ibe return then proceeds: 'The
court did find TAT that tho said com
pany had conducted its business then
expiring in violation of law; B that
saiu company was not a tit person to
receive the liccuse applied ten; and Cj
that so far as it was possible for a cor
poration to possess any moral charac
ter, it did not possess a good moral
character. As to the first of these
three subjects, what law has the com
uany violated I Tho return docs not
liiforin us. Instead of fact, wo are
given a mere conclusion of law. The
averment is bo vacuo that it has no
forco whatever. Io regard to the sec
ond branch, I havo already said that
tbo fitness of the company to rcceivo a
license was not in tho discretion of tho
court below unless from ono of three
causes of disqualification before m n-
Bone Fertilizers, for the work done,
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FOR SALE BV '
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tioncd. A return generally that tho
applicant is not a fit poison to rccive a
.brewer's license, without specifying for
; . t. , . 'I . -,
wnui cause, is uau ior uncertainty, anu
is, moreover, evasive. The return does
say, however, that 'so far as it is possi
ble for a corporation to possess a mor
al character, it did not possess a good
moral character.' It is diffijult to treat
this proposition seriously, yet it is tho
only mailer iu this return which gives
oven color of legality to tho refusal of
this license. That a corporation an
invisible-, intangible thinu art artificial
being croaled by law, can havo a char
ne'er of nuv kind is a novel proposition.
That tho learned Judges below so re
garded it is evident by tho qualification
in their return. But tho corporation
has cfficeis aud a board of directors. If
tho court below had found, upon evi
dence, and so returned, that said offi
cers and directors wero n.l men of
good moral character, I apprehend that
tho return would have been sufficient.
At tho samo time 1 doubt wht thor any
ouo of the learned judges below would
havo been willing to put his namo to a
return that they were men of bad mor
al character. Tho return that tho cor
poration hai not a good moral charac
ter is insensible.
'There is nothing else m the return
which requ'nen comment. Our con
elusion is that it sets forth no valid
reason why Ihe petitioner should not
bo licensed Tho former writ was al
ternative. Tho writ of peremptory
mandamus is now pwarded. It will
probably be found unnecessary to issuo
it."
-The CtilrC ni-Haon IUI tilt, gienl uo-
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article Itself. It Is merit that wins, and tha
fact that Hood's Samiiarllla actually ac
complishes wli.it Is claimed for It, Is what
has given to this mediclno a popularity and
sale greater than that of any other tarsapa-
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IVICI Ik VV II lb fler before the public.
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IKood'n Marwnpnrllln Is sold by all drug
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