VOL. LXII. THE CENTRE REPORTER FRED KURTZ, RS ERASE 0 - EDITOR It any one desires to know what “Pan- American delegates” means, we can tell them, that it means that the delegates are just now in the pan and not yet in the soup = ————— The Lewisburg Saturdey News rejoices over its snccess and improvements. We join in the gladness, Bro, Foeht, and like to read your paper, and congratulate you on your “go ahead.” TSAR The Williamsport Daily Gazetle and Bulletin of the 9th, tion of the industries, growth and ty of that city. It is a credit to that handsome city as well as to the enter. prising proprietors of the Gazette and Bulletin, edi= beaun- is an illustrated RR SSIES Pan, in Greek, means “all.” Pan. American congress, means all the Amer- ica’s congress. The Pan-American cons greee now traveling over the United States, is composed of delegates from all the North, Central and Bouth American governments. ———————————————————— It is to be hoped that the Republicans believe what they say about tariff re. form having no effect ou the elections this fall, for if they do they will hang on to that war tariff another year and then it will be too late for them to collect th of their party for the presidential contest in 1892 policy ¢ scattered rempants The Commissioners should buoy a cheap edition of a Letter Writer, to be nsed in that office, and Hende son study the first commandment half an hour before each meal and before going to bed—it might bring about a vest reform in the Commissioner's office which has become a stench in the nostrils of the people and a!l are holding their noses shut, A temperance lectare from Wilkess barre: On Thursday bight Margaret, the wife of Patrick Cannon, of this city, jndulged ip a spree daring which she procured a bottle of whiskey and wand ered away into the mountains back of town. Her absence was not discovered until this morning when search was made and she was found lying frozen to death n the woods where she had disrobed thinking herself at home. Persons living but a short distance away heard her moan but were unable to locate her. Thongh twenty-four years have elapsed since the close of the war, it is a re markable fact that the number of pens gionars on the roll is now greater than it ever was before. It has increased by 186,087 daring the last six years, The average amount paid to each pensioner is $121 69, which is higher than in any recent year, The total amount paid for pensions during the year 1588 reaches the enormons sum of $88 275.113, an in crease of about $10,000,000 over the pre vious year, The Republican council at Rio de Ja neiro decided a few months ago that the anniversary of the French revolution was the most propilions occasion on which to proclaim the republic. The leaders of the party were so confident of success that they ordered a number of Republican flags to be made. In the new flag the imperial crown is replaced by a Phrygian cap. It is reported that Dom Pedro recently expressed to his prime minister the opinion that the government had not much longer to live. Among the causes that led to the revolution were the ty« ranmical measures to which the govern ment resorted in order to secure the re tara of its supporters at the last elec. tions, when many electors were arrested and imprisoned, William J. Arkell, proprietor of Judge, called at the postoffice department and tried to convince Assistant Postmaster General Clarkson and General Hogan that no law wounld be violated if he were permitted to use postage stamps for advertising purposes, Mr, Clarkson got down the statute, which provides that the face of the stamp must not be muy tilsted, unlessby a postoffice official previous to mailing, and that no ats tachment whatever can be made. Mr. Arkell declared tha: he wished neither to mutilate the stamp nor to make the sitachment, He simply desired to print advertisements upon the back of the stamp previous to the placing of mueil sge thereon. He was not a little as- tounded at being informed that an Eng. lish firm had offered $1,000,000 for the privilege he sought. The New York editor had offered $100,000 a year for four years. He is in doubt whether he could bid higher or not. Dirty Politics Rebuke THE MEANS EMPLOYED BY THE RING ORs GAN. ~PRIVATE CITIZENS SLANDERED,~ AND CANDIDATES ABUSED AND MIS- REPRESENTED BECAUSE THEY WERE DEMOCRATS From the Centre Democrat, The election is over and while the re sult is exceedingly gratifying to the Democratic party, not only in the coun- ty, but in the whole conntry, it is amiss to review the campaign in county. Until the last three or four years, for a great while before, most of the political campaigns in the county were ina great degree conducted decently, with fair moderation due regard for the private character and integrity not only of the candidates but of all who were more or less prominently ens gaged in the contests To beastly abuse the opposing candidates aod valgarly attack private citizens who took part in the campaign was not thought a neces sity or considered a virtne, To uphold the candidates, keep their virtues and the work they had done, with their abil- ity to fill the places for which they had strongly advocate be principles of the respective parties was, by good men of both parties, con- sidered all that was required on the part of the respective party papers, The better nature, and sterling qualities of men in both parties not the and and been nominated and ware appealed to and aroused in the interest and rallied to the support of the party standards, and it was thought not nec- indeed it was deemed in taste, if not considered exceedingly val- wantonly abuse vilily either candidates or parly workers, Our peo~ ple better for this kind politics, they began to better und lerstand each other as Democrats and Republ Bat this kind of politics in Cen- tre county was broken in upon in 1585, to real. essary, bad gar, to or were all the of cans, The Democrats have been slow ize that men like Governor Beaver, Judge Farst, Col. D. Keller, with others, contributed largely to establish a new Republican paper 8 r [now the ring ors gan] in the county and put at its head a man of mean principles and low in- stincts. Then began an inquisition into the private life of every man io the Dem ocratic party and whether private citizen or public officer and however pure in his character, simply they were Democrats, most maligned, stam ped as liars and thieves, their every because be abused, however lofty, misrepre sented. Public officers who had proven themselves faithful, was anpurchasable must be their good names trad: records perverted. This kind of journalism of course cap tured the vulgar. and for a time in a measure seemed to destroy the aseend- ency of the in the county. To lie and misrepresent by this ne journal was consid ered a virtue, To say that it had received hundreds of let tera from Democrats who were and whose integrity caricatared, wed and their Democratic party diseatisy tied with their party nominations, when they were all written in the office by the editor, was considered good politics, to publish remarks, made by Democrats on the street or in their offices to their neighbor and friends, was supposed to be smart. To inhomanly sssauit men in their private characters, because they chose to take part in the campaigns on behalf of the Democratic party was the occasion of a louder guffaw from Beaver, a more sanctimonious look from Furst and milder whisper of extreme satisfac tion from Keller, while the other cons tributors to the establishment of thering organ more gleefully than ever rubbed their hands at the success of their enter. prise. Because Democratic election of ficers saw fit to do their whole duty un- der their oaths they were stigmatized as ballot box stuffers and drankards, when no liquor bad at any time passed be. tween their teeth. Persons who under the direction of the officer who admins istered the oath to the elector, were stig- matized as forgers, when their act was perfectly pure . 28 in strict accord with the law. Local officers, because they had been honest and faithfal in the dis- charge of their duties, rendering a fall account of every transaction, were branded as boodlers and embezzlers. The assaults made on the candidates of the Democratic party were as unholy as they were uncalled for, The District Attorney was ruthlessly amsailed be- cafise he gent the only person, beside tite prosecutor, who saw the occurrence, before the grand jory, It was asserted in the most solemn manner that for so doing he could be prosecuted for mali a- sance in office, and the people were urged vot to vote for Mr. Meyer's re- election. All this was done in the face of the fact that the truth in each case was within the reach of the depraved wretch who edits the ring organ. This year's campaign hes besn no exception to the manner in which the pions leaders of the “God and morality’’ party in town have permitted their respects. Because C.M. Bower, J. L. Sphtigler and D, F. , PA., Fortney saw proper in the interest of their party and in commendation of its candis dates, to address personal letters to a large number of intelligent and faiths ful Democrats throughout the county, their private and professional life is misrepresented with all the bitterness, brutality and vulgarity that the ring could command. Because dur- ing the summer, in the exercise of his andgment as a good citizen, Mr. Foriney saw fit to advocate the adoption of the Prohibitory Amendment, and when in the exercise of his judgment he saw fit to do, as he al support and advocate the election of the Democrati, ticket, he is singled out and attacked with extraordinary malignity., It was all right for Col, Keller, Judge Furst, W. F. Reeder, J. L. Hamill and all Republicans who supported the Amends ment more zealously than Fortney, to give their hearty aid, support and prayer to the Republican party, even to the advocating of the election of their for Associate Judge. In them it was no crime to support the reg- uiar party ticket. Bat for a Democrat who supported the Amendment to again turn to the support organ ways has done, candidate of his partly was a his assailed, crime and to destroy influence and power he must be {snounced as a hypocrite, his life, private and pro- fessional, distorted and misrepresented, All this is called polities by the Re« For this more publican leaders of Centre county, time campaigns conducted to succeed. The boorish and brutal the ring organ the gentlemen in bringing a in way seemed could rats, 5 be, to ward Democ more the who it into eminently pious were instrumental existence rejoiced, ‘his kind of politics conld not go on The and never should brotality They defeat forever unrebuked Democratic papers never did turn this kind of guardism in kind and even suffered in the ho that Republicans, who claimed to be honest and were regarded as respectable res and black- have waited pe citizens in the community would call a halt on their offspring and do what they could to instil a little decency in the editor and organ. We had waited long ugh, the Republicans believing that there was that kind of politics of course « amtingeld it. It was the Democratic treatment of ti success in for compel better and party The remedy is the same relied ipon 80 much by papers to gir candidates workers believe in like little those who ho-me-opa-thy, “like is cured by In a dignified manly way we tried of ths remedy this fall, We could remain no We had treated the Republican party, office hol lers, candi- dates and party workers, sideration and were disposed to do so bat their misdeeds and malfeasance office became that we were bound to let the public know what was being donee When we assaulted office holders, capdidates and party workers it was done without malice, and with such an array of facts and fignres, the exposure of open viclation of the law and such bold corraption that the ring organ, candidates, holders, and party workers went down on the first round under an average majority of 1.083. For instance, while all we said was true, it was not pleasant for us to ex- pose the debauch of the chairman of the Republican Committee, and Feidler with others at Snow Shoe, It'was not agree. able, yet jt was our duty to bang up so that the public might see the peculation and corruption of the Sheriff, and the im- becilily of the Republican Board of Commissioners, We honestly hope that the people who have been floeced by the Sheriff will comapel him to refund, We understand that the fee bill of 1868 provides no penalty for collecting more than legal fees but every one who has paid more fees or cost than was lawfal can recover the same from the Sheriff in civil proceedings before & justice of the peace, We gave such abundant proof of the charges made that the people believed them, and already the Sheriff has been made to disgorge some of the illegal fees heretofore taken, and in cases referred to in the Democrat, As a journalist we mean fo treat every body decently. We will continue to adv ocate the principles of the Demo- cratic party and support ite candidates, as well as expose the corruption, im« morality, and missdeeds of Republican office holders. Ali this is our plain duty. We have no desire to attack ridicule or vilify private citizens or Republicans who may be mskiog for office. Bot when it becomes necessary, for the public good to know the exact qualities of a candidate, the Democrat will be the fearless advocate for the people. See the ad. of the Pittsburg Post, in this issue, The Post is the leading Democratic daily of this state, and a live paper, besides ite able editorials, it gives ull the telegraphic news, The Weekly A silent longer, with fair cons in 80 great office weekly, 1889 A Republican on the A Abraham Tariff. | Interesting Clippings, minister A prominent contractor who does busi. {ness all over the State has employed a to crew of 12 men for six months, and on den of Maine, and afterward reappointed | reckoning np matters preparatory to a by full | final settlement for the year the foll communion with the Republican party, 10g figures were brought to and then appointed by President Arthar,| Ten of the 12 use ill should certainly be accepted a8 good | i for plug tobacco for these 10 was more authority. Bueh a man is Hon. Hi sgh | than the flour bill for tie entire crew, McCulloch, secretary of the treasury | : under three Republican presidents, and | outside of cigars, and got al before the organization of that party a|$01 worth of Hour. The Henry Clay Whig. incre «ible, and yet it is verily | In an article of some length in the New| Dr. A. H. York Times, Mr. McCulloch discusses th eo this city, is located in the situation of the country in respect to the|5am, a little spongy bo ly tariff, immigration, the race question and | base of the brain, which the matter of Federal interference with efforts of physicians elections States, Quoting in the to sscertain outset Ralph Waldo Emerson's saying atomy. that “the Whigs had the best men and | doctor, he Democrats the best principles,” Mr. t mind, and is the MoCulloch traces briefly the history of houee of electricity, both parties cabinet by succeed Fessens| appointed Lincoln Andrew Johnsor, when in OW light: tobacco, and the 1 The men consumed £53 worth of tobacco nit +3 ong with |} fact ‘he soul, says Bleve corpus i the defied the itnated at in their endeavors in the its uses in the human ans “The corpus callosum, says that seat of the able great reservoirand store which is abs ted “is the imperist trac Passing by what he says from the blood in the arteries, and c on other subjects, we ns come to his diss | veyed throogh the nerves np the spinal cussion on the tariff question Mr, McC ieord to the corpus call m."” Aroostook for a tariff for reve in the top of a pine tree with prote The Reg | water, He climbed up are for a tariff for protection, with reve- eagle's nest. That is precisely | very smooth way €0 able a man as Major McKin. similar to those used by telegraph ley defined the Republican policy, The|men. When he got to the nest Republicans, Mr. McCalloch urges, taken ill lescend look the tarifl as means of sup. 0! pressing foreign competition and sustain} it as 8 means of giving our manufactur- ers control of the home market, The Democrats, on the other hand, have al] 0! ways favored a tariff for revenue only, |( They have held that congress, under i tation, has no authority t to manufacturers, functions not going Ley the raising! It has no right to effect in-| directly what the constitution prohibits | chains. doing directly. The govern-| ment's nee | of revenue will always, the | Democrals require a tariff | which in practice will give incidentall ly! a wide margin of protection to our man eould afacturers. “On this point” Mr. Me says, “the Democratic party | premature, now stands where the Whig party stood when was parties, the Ww bigs were A man in three with incidental illoch says spent nue, Liou. 90 feet to publican successors get an It was a Norway with bark, and he pine, une as the incident. the he was and for fear dared not « upon Daniel Moyer, residing on the Lahigh Mountain at Emaus, has become a raving manise through He inf ry hi tod had eomm religions ex overwork, unicated to he Me BACs vs that iI LOA to make m the famil rontld be reanired to impose jrifices, alarmed, ite snmmond a | dati protect ond ned strength of revenue, nader control, it from The w ug {at the supposed fact that the late Samuel Jd. [ie ier yrise which is being expressed contend, a dis lawy er onid be not draw up pass the test of the The doen ust been pronounced invalid ye court is yet to be passed upon by There are art of appeals and it is possible who favor that body wi ] reverse thes jpreme ronrt trade party, nor will there be for years, and sustain the wil . We have noticed for {f ever. Mr. eo may Culloch ment which Henry Clay its leader.” | pren men in both be adds the co free tiade, but there is no free {some time past that the judicial system the of New Yi are | for the purpose of our McC stingance of the fully. It is held ljostice and enriching the manufacturers no longer need protec Tilden's wish as to the tion. Production being already io exs| property is will known, but the lawyers, cess of the demands of the home marsiaided by the peculiar character of the ket, there is no reason to stimulate it) jaws of New York, have been =ble to farther; the growth of tr usts to limit|pick flaws in its construction, and unless prodoction is a sign that doties on fm~{ the court of appeals reverses the supreme ports to encourage the bailding of fac- | court, his intention will tories, ets, are no longer required. Then the law will be enforced, | What is required in the interest of manu. thwarted, the lawyers be remunerated facturers, wage-earners and the peopleithe contestants satisfied and a generally is a lower tariff, wider produce | publie enterprise prevented. The moral tion and entrance into foreign markets of all this is that a rich man who wants Jeing the greatest producing country in {to make sure of having his designs the world, our prosperity will be besy| carried into effect should distribute his promoted by engaging in international |property during his lifetime. trade, Mr. McCulloch holds, in con.! Mr. Tilden was a great and wise man clusion, that “the present tariff is al war {and knew what he was about, and had with the best interests of the country-lone of the best lawyers in his state to It is continued,” he adds, “by being |aesist him in making his will, disposing made a party question and the free use|of his now property, and did it wisely. of money in elections,” but ils day are|Butthe lawyers, the lawyers the lawyers nearly numbered. And so say we all.ipjck a flawso themselves get a fat Down with the war tarifl, in the interesi| nick at the pile, s thing getting so com- of trust and monopoly.— Pittsburgh Post. mon, with the lawyers as to bring the profession into disrepute, We areinformed from recipients of them, that there are other letters which reflect as favorably upon the Commis. sioners’ office as the preity one printed in last week's Reronren. Apropos is the statement made to us by the respected and venerable Henry Gast, that when he plead with the Com missioners against the wrong of raising the va'uation of his wild lands from $3 to £12 per acre, when lands far more valoable along side of his were assessed at only one-fourth of his, and that he was ready then and there to sell his land for one half the assessed valuation, that the only satisfaction he got from the Commissioners, was “that they laughed at him.” What brutality! Then along with the mulishness, profanity and vulgarity that prevails among these officials, is it a wonder that decent Republicans in diss gust vote against their party and scores of others refrain from voting? so Brazil a Republic. Brazil bas quietly chaoged from an Ethpire under Dom Pedro to a Republic. Emperor Dom Pedro was notified of the desired change and he took a steamer and sailed for Portugal, the king which is his father-in-law, There was no bloodshed. From latest information all is quiet and the new re publican government has the sanction of every Brazilian province, objections to tariff alioch’s wrk seems to bave been founded present defeating the end of stated very that lawyers. disposition of his ba defeated uations great . WP pn Brutal. We have not indulged in criticiam of Gov: Beaver's doings simply because there is enough of that in his own camp, whether just or unjust, is not for us to enter into. But the Governor's sigoature to the bill raising the salaries of county com. missioners from $3.00 to $4.50 per day is a grave mistake and will be disapproved by 90 out of every 100 citizens of this commonwealth. What should induce the Governor to sign such a bill, we cannot cogeeive—of all bills before him we would have picked out this one as sure to receive his veto. Three dollars per day is big enough pay for any board of commissioners in this state, now or hereafter, and for such a set as we have in Centre county it is just $2.75 too much, We are glad that under the constitu. tion the increase of salary will not affect present incumbents, as it might induce Henderson and Decker to sit day and night, and Sondaye, and have them score 780 days for the year instead of 365, which latter, it seems, they are straining every nerve to fill, The next legislature owes it to the tax ridden people of our state to repeal this act raising the salaried of commissioners to $4.50 per day. Gov. Beaver you erred in signivg the! 3 bill, Bs ——— in We would not be surprised if obmny | L1 Decker would yet enter suit for $5,000] Dost damages against Henderson and the thing Fiedler, for polling b him, . The official totals of the election, thie county, for president in 1888 state and county ticket in 1889, ’ in as f Englis} grant ol ¢ 3 | Bouth Africa i | earnes! fheing n English promoters az fhe new én there may not be ¥ € » 1 # mpany, If the new o enterprise succeeds, the greal lying between the T sub-tropi- oo ey sratvasl Cal region ransvaal d the sakes will not be Dateh great le } Eog- 1 Bi ritish colos of Af rue Alanual training new education. Neo Old grunting, scowling Sitting Ball has one insuperable objection to “being Christianized. Prayers, sermons and pious tracts alike have no effect on his if he to turn Christian, the old sinner would have to give up all his wives but one. obdurate heart because, were — that desirs share rains in bools or shoes, go to Mingle’s shoe store in the Brockerhoff house block, which is the place to get anything in that line at low- est prices and every article warranted, or money refunded, if not found as rep- resented. Mingle keeps none but first class goods, ~The big water pond in the square of this town at every rain, besides a shame, is a nuisance, and the people live ing along its shores should report it to court, and an order toshate it would be issued in short metre. The spot has been changing from water pond to mud puddle, right along for several years, There is a way to make the anthorities attend to this There are some pave ments too, that have kettles of water at every rain, into which pedestrians step ankle deep at night onl at day, which should be abated along with lake Michis gan in the centre of town. lf you want a good roaster and baker, go to McFarlane's hardware store, in Bellefonte, They sell 7 first-class article at from £1 to $1.50 for Nos. 4, 8, and 6, all warranted to do the work in satisfactory manner. People are foolish for paying such high prices for these when they can be had so cheap. on ’t buy till you call at McFarlane's, where thing is sold low. They have a lot of heating stoves which they offer at ote bargains. The Regu- lator Cook and Apollo Range are still kegping the lead--nothing can equal Either of the Ste B engravings, “ Evangeline,” the Glen" or “The { Stop, ** without ad on them, size x24 yah wit Jha 80 Sent ot the 28 deal Tooth Powder.
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