FRED KURTZ, -~- EDITOR
Both Blaine and the Blaine presiden-
tial boom are gaining in strength,
The resignation of Quay has cansed a
split in the Lewistown Gazelle —the copy
that reached us last week was split side
ways
D. F. Fortney writes a logical letter
upon the subject of a constitutional cons
veotion, which will be fonnd in this iss
80e
The Centre county printed blanks
fraud, exposed by the RErORTER, Was
only the Philadelphia steal on a smaller
scale,
There is considerable agitation in sev-
eral counties regarding illegal fees as-
serted to have been taken by certain
county officials. In Lancaster it is
sought to make fee-grabbing an issue in
the contest for Judge, and in Montgom~
ery and Chester it has received the at-
tention of committees of the bar sppoiut-
ed for the purpose,
Well said by the Altona Tribune:
The individual who spends his time in
bar-rooms, pool-rooms, cigar stores, or
on the street corner, denouncing heart-
less capitalists and enlarging on the
miseries of the laboring man, while his
wife maintains the family by taking in
washing, haso’t much influence with
those who know bim,
All the burdensome taxation is attrib
ntable to robbery on the part of officials,
in high and low places. If our public
servants, natiooal, state, county and
township, were honest as a rule, millions
of dollars would be saved to the public,
aud taxation be so light as to leave no
room for complaint.
The astounding rascality in Philadels
phia demaods that close investigation be
made to ascertain how many counties in
our state are free from similar practices
of corruption and robbery by public of
ficiale, As to illegal fees, Centre county
hes complaints sffecting late officials,
which were exposed by the Rrrorres.
Watch! is the word.
Cincinnati's first year's experience
with the truant law, requiring all chile
dren fourteen years old and under, to
attend school, is said to be satisfactory.
The enforcement of the law increased
the school attandasnce by more than a
thousand pupils. Fines to 1he extent of
only $150 have been collected for the in-
fractions that bave been detected and
punished.
Beware of inangurating strikes. At
Chicago, on Friday, the trial of John
Stakely and Dennis McCardy, indicted
for conspiracy, resulted in a verdict of
guilty,
tence, which was possible, the men were
fined $100 each. The defendants are
railroad conductors who were instramen-
tal in causing a four days’ strike io the
Chicago & Eastern lllinois railrosd in
November last,
Several farmers and grangers give us
hearty approval of the article in last
week's REPORTER, headed, “Fair Play,”
and think it is a subject that needs ven-
tilation at every gathering of farmers.
The class of fellows who swindle and
prey upon the farmer are always around,
and constant caution is needed to pre~
vent these rascals from successfully
playing their game, At each gathering
of the grangers an address should be de.
livered by the State master, or some one,
full of caution, in view of past swindles,
against the frands and tricks of these
candidates for state's prison. Why has
this been neglected ?
The Republican Treasury Department
has decided that Congressman Niedring-
haus can import Welsh laborers to make
American tinplate of British material,
Mr. Niedringhans contends that his in-
dustry is an exception to the law, be-
cause it is not yet established and be
canse he cannot procure the necessary
skilled labor in the United States, And
yet he and his Republican friends have
over and over again asserted that he and
other tin-plate makers are producing
large quantities of plate from native
material and by native workmen. More-
over Niedringhaus says that his present
workingmen (whom he cannot procure)
are about to strike, There is a decided
difference between Niedringhaus seek-
ing a duty on tinplate and Niedring-
haus seeking cheap labor, To permit
a Republican Congressman, however, to
import cheap labor in order to build up
a downtrodden Republican industry and
to refuss to a church the privilege of en-
gagiog a foreign clergyman because he
comes under the Alien Labor Act are
entirely consistent with Republican
methods,
Quay Not in the Fight,
The Philadelphia Times says: The
Bardsley paralysis still keeps the leaders
of the Republican party shakiog aod
move of Senator Quay in resigning from
the national committee has sent their
blood coursing a little more lively
through their veins. Asit is understood
in Philadelphia by those in a position to
know it means that Colonel Quay is not
in active politics this year, not even in
Pennsylvania politics. He proposes to
think and read and fish and meet his
friends, but the ticket this year is not to
be known as a Quay ticket, and the at
this time anticipated defeat will not be a
Quay defeat,
It is not to be supposed he proposes to
drop out of polities for good and all, nor
that he will not be found at the head of
his followers when the proper time
comes. But this year the Senator is not
in it. The money for the campaign will
not be Quay money even by implication;
there will be no occasion for any attack
upon Quay methods, for he will not em-~
ploy them. The candidates will be
named by the convention, and will be
the Republican candidates or somebody
else's candidates, but they will not be
Quay candidates.
QUAY IN 1892,
Such is the understandiog of the sitna-
tion by the friends of Mr, Quay, and it
is the thought that a policy bas been in~
angurated that gives them something to
gO on lesting on their oars in 1801,
there is a feeling that with defeat or
slight majority, Matthew Stanley Quay
and Matthew Stanley Quay's friends will
have to be called upon to save Pennsyl-
vania for even James G. Blaine in 1892,
There is no question among his friends
in Philadelphia, that Quay is temporar-
ily out of politics, to resent the treat-
ment he bas recieved and to punish,
should the opportunity arise,
We think we can observe prices of real
estate slowly on the advance. That it
has reached its lowest figure is undoubt.
ed. Our farmers can look forward to
better times. Their lands are certain to
rise in value and prices for grain are
bound to become better, This is not
going tocome all in a lump at once, but
its coming will be gradoal. This couns
try will never again see suck low prices
for grain, as it has seen in the past few
years. These low prices were caused by
the occupation and caitivation in twenty
years of 200,000,000 acres of the finest
agricultaral land under the san, in the
prairie states of Obio, Indians, Illinois,
Kapeas and Nebrasks. This body of
land cannot be duplicated in this coun
try, and the resuit will be that as our
population is rapidly increasing and con-
sumption is coming up to production the
prices of grain will be steadily maintain.
ed. In years to come we will see the
United States not only consuming every
bit of corn and = heat they can raise, bat
actually importiog these cereals.
The Cleveland Leader, having made
the ridiculous assertion that “tin plate
has already been reduced from 50 cents
to §1 50 a box mills are being erected
and greater reductions will follow,” the
Plain Dealer made inquiry at “one of the
best known tin-working establishménts”
in that city, The reply was that for the
quality of tin plate used for roofing and
general tinning work the Cleveland con-
cern had paid $11 a box bafore the pass.
age of the McKinley bill, An invoice of
eight boxes of the same quality received
last week was billed at 17 50 a box. In-
stead of the price being “reduced from
50 cents to $1 50 a box,” it has been in-
creased $6 50 a box, or over 59 per cent.
No honest merchant, either Democrat or
Republican, will deny that there has
been a coomderable advance in the price
of imported tin plate during the past
year,
-
Trade from our lake ports direct to
Europe is about {0 be established, Colo-
nel 8, C, Reynolds, the millionaire grain
merchant of Toledo, bas just returned
from Evgland, where he has succeeded
in organizing a company with a capital of
$2,500,090 to operate a line of steamers
direct from Toledo and other Lake Erie
points to Liverpool. A branch line will
he run between New Orleans and Liver.
pool in the cotton carrying trade. The
Lake Erie steamers will carry flour and
grain, The management of the Toledo
flouring mills has made arrangements to
ship to Liverpool by water, two-thirds of
its output of 5,000 barrels a day. Colo~
nel Reynolds is president of the new
steamship company.
Kansas farmers are holding their
wheat. A late despatch from Topeka
says: Very little wheat is flowing east
ward from this State. Alliance leaders
aftribute this to the circular sent out
from Washington, advising farmers to
hold their grain, In the southern part
of this state, where the yield was the
greatest, wheat has been threshed, and
Just enough has been sold to pay press
ing debts, while the balk of it has been
put in store houses to await higher pri.
oon,
HALL.
"PA.
Jowish Exiles Arrive In Boston,
From Boston, 28th inst., it is announs
ced: The Russian Jews who came here
on the steamer Kansas, and who are de-
tained at this port by the requirements
of the new immigration law, told in an
interview through an interpreter yesters
day, of the persecutions which drive
them from Russia. The crowning piece
was the burning of their hamlet, which
was thus described:
It was a little farming settlement, four
Russian miles from Viele, containing
eighteen houses, with their barns and
outbuildings. Jaly 18th, about midnight
a dozen or so Russians from the city
came trooping down upon them and set
fire to the whole seitlement, Fourteen |
of the Jews were burned to death, while
twenty were fearfully burned. TheJevs
armed themselves with stones and sticks
and gave chase. The Russians were
thoronghly surprised at this, because
they were accustomed to have their own
way with these people. Ope young man
whose mother had been cruelly burned,
took a crowbar and attacked three of the
Russians. He killed two of them and
struck the third one such a blow that he
died in an hour. All the time the Rus.
sisns were rushing wildly about, shout»
ing “Kill the Jews! Kill the Jews!” In
the midst of this turmoil the officers
from Veile, attracted by the blaze, came
into the settlement and arrested the
young man who had killed the three
Russians and also captured the other
Jews. These were to be tried there on
Jaly 20th, and probably will be sent to
Siberia.
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Mr. Bookwalter, of Ohio, who traveled
in Earope, relates the following, which
gives a lesson on farm life: One day
while gazing at the picturesque scenery
Declines to be a Delegate.
Bxruevonrte, Pa, July 31, 1801,
Hon. Fred Kurtz:
I am much obliged for kind words you
used, in the Centre Rerorrer of the 25rd
in reference to myself for delegate to the
proposed Constitutional Convention
from this distriet. It looks absurd to go
through a campaign, incor the necessary
expense, when, by the time the election
is over the office for which you are a
candidate, may not exist. The trath is
there is no real necessity for such a con-
vention and the expediency of holding
a convention for the sole purpose of re.
vising and amending the constitution
when there is no necessity for it, is
greatly to be doubted,
Taking the expression of the people as
and index there is no demand that the
present constitution be changed, except
in so far as it relates to the numbering
of the ballot. An examination of the
proposition to change the requirements
of the constitution in this respect will de-
monstrate, that there is no foundation
for it, under the law, as it now stands.
It is not the numbering that reveals the
secrecy of the ballot. Three men cons
slitu'e the election board. They are
the only persons who, in any manner,
have access to or handle the ballots,
The clerks simply write the names of
electors and keep tally upon counting
the vote. The clerks, overseers, (if any)
and election officers are sworn to secre
cy, and any clerk, overseer or election
officer who shall disclose how any elec.
tor shall bave voted, unless required to
do so in judicial proceeding, shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor, which upon
conviction would subject him, or them,
to a fine of $1000 and two years im
prisonment.
from the window of a first-class compart. |
ment of a train in Switzerland, he be~
came interested in watching the numers |
ous villages which were to be seen at]
close intervals, as the train sped along. |
He noted that the farmers in Germany,!
France, Switzerland and other continen-
tal countries seem to gather close togeth-
er in villages, instead of living a life of
isolated loneliness in solitary farm
houses on their farms, He thought as
he sped by one pretty village after anoth-
er, what a contrast these pretty little
towns, with their town hall, their parish
church, their gay stores and comfortable
residences formed, to the lonely farm
house in which he had peeved the dull
days of his youth, on the Wabash bot
toms in Indiana. These little agricul.
tural villages or communities, which are
80 charming a feature of farm life on the
continent interested him, and he resolv
ed to make a close study of them. One
end of the matter was that he gave deep
study to European farm life and was de-
lighted with the sociability and oppor-
tunities for society and amusement
which exists amoag the continental far
mers. Instead of living miles apart and
getting to town once every week or two,
as the American farmers do, the Euro.
pean farmers live in villages—agricultar-
al communities they are called. They
go to their farm work in the morning
and return in the evening, When they
return home they find mirth, music and
society. There is a viliage band, a vil
lage debating society, a public library, a
parish church, a singing society, and
many other social organizations, which
make life worth living, The evening in
one of these continental villages is gay
with the sound of fiddle and guitar and
the lively feet of the dancers.
.
It Pays to be Honest.
The editor of the Independence (Kan.)
Star sued a delinquent subscriber for
eleven dollars. The delinquent claimed
that he never subscribed for the paper
and did not propose to pay. The Judge
instructed the jury that if the evidence
disclosed the fact that the delinquent
had taken the paper from the office, or
csused it to be taken, they should find
for the plaintiff, It cost the man nearly
a hundred dollars to settle what eleven
dollars would have paid. It pays to be
honest even with printers,
HAA HAI MASA AS
Republican Convention,
The Republican county convention
met in the court house on Tuesaday morn-
ing and only about fifty out of the 120
delegates were present. Little interest
was manifested in the convention as
very little was to be done. The office of
Jury commissioner was the only thing
of importance and Mr, Bamuel Aley, of
Marion township was nominated by acs
During all the years that the present
constitution and the laws made in pur
suance of the provisions relating to elecs
tions have been in force, no case, to my
knowledge, bas been reported where the
election board or any member of it, in
any district in the state has been arrests
ed or prosecuted for revealing how any
elector voted,
An experience of a number of years as
J udge of the Election, in the district in
which I live, leads to the conclusion
that the secrecy of the ballot is revealed
altogether by the manner in which the
tickets are printed. By the difference
in the type used in printing the words
“State Ticket,” or “County Ticket,” any
watcher at the window can tell what
ticket the elector is voting. By this
means it is that the employe or the boss
of labor undertakes to tell how his em
ploye voted, and if the ticket polled did
not contain the heading of the employ-
er's or boss’ party ticket the laborer was
called to account, especially if he was
employed in one of our tariff protected
institutions.
I do not wonder that this manner of
using the ballot to coerce the laboring
men of our State to vole against their
sense of right and justice bas called from
them a loud demand for the preserva
tion of the secrecy of the baliot. But is
not the demand sufficiently met by the
provisions of the law recently passed re-
lating to ballot reform, at least, until the
constitution oan be amended in the
manner provided without a convention?
It is well known to the citizens of the
commonwealth that at the general elec
tion held in October, 1872, the last, but
one under the constitution of 1838, im-
mense frauds were committed in the
city of Philadelphia. The ballot-box
staffer, the ballot thief, the repeater and
forger of election returns got in their
work effectually and with wonderfal res
sults, So much so, that about three
weeks afterwards the Press of that city,
in an article headed **Masks-off,” clearly
showed that in one ward alone the elec-
tion bad been altered, so as to make a
difference of at least three thousand
votes in the result, Large as the Res
publican majority was, in the city that
year, it is the belief of many people that
it was the resuit of frand, forgery, theft
and repeating done on the day of the
election,
, These fearfal results impelled the con
vention which framed the present con
stitution to do what it could to prevent
fraud and as far as possible, secure the
purity of the ballot. This gave birth to
the clause in the constitution requiring
the ballot to be numbered. Since its
adoption the ballot-box stuffer and the
forger of election returns, bave dis.
appeared {rom the politics of the State,
while the repeater, in many instances,
has boen discovered by means of the
and closed the proceedings by the read
ing of the usual resolutions which were
drafted by a commitiee
MIS 5 550
Open for Challenges
A base ball club has been organized at
Centre Hall and the boys announce their
intention of readiness to tack le anything
in the world, and are open to challenges.
Address all communications to Caplain
sent to the Penitentiary,
The hue-and-cry raised against this
provision of the constitution, surely
comes from a misapprehension of its efs
fect on the secrecy of the ballot. No
eloctor’s vote is revealed through its
operation, If in a contest, it is neces:
sary to recount the vote and it should
be revenled how any man voted, it is
done in the interest of justice and good
ball Olub, Centre Hall, Pa, and it w
receive attention.
1891,
have voted sgainst the wishes of their em-
ployer or boss six months or more after
the election, ifit should then be discover.
ec that they had done so. If discharg-
ed at all, it is done immediately after
the election while the heat and excite-
ment of the campaign still exists,
On this point let the constitution
stand as it now is, but let all the ballots
be printed and distributed at the public
expense, with the names of the respecs
tive party candidates in seperate cols
umns; the ballots to be delivered to the
voter within the polling place by sworn
officers; prohibit the use of any other
than the official ballot, and let the voter
in preparing his ballot be guaranteed
absolute privacy. As I understand it,
the ballot reform bill passed by the last
legislature substantially contains these
provisions. It is not perfect and never
will be, but as necessity and experience
may require, let it be amended and per~
fected until it shall accomplish ite full
purpose,
Bec.4—Article VIII of the constitution
has done more to preserve the purity of
of the ballot, to break up fraud, disclose
forgery and discover the repeater, at our
elections than any law or constitutional
provisions we have ever had. It ought
not to be changed.
In some quarters it is contended that
there ought to be a convention to make
provision to enforce the Beventeenth
article in the present constitution. It is
strange that the enforcement of any
article in any constitution, which makes
provision that the Legislature shall pro
vide by law for properly carrying it into
effect should have to be enforced by a
constitutional convention. The same
argument is used in reference to the
provisions of the constitution relating to
senatorial and judicial apportionments,
There is only ome provision that
should be made in reference to these
several articles of the constitution.
Every senator and representative is
sworn to “Sappeort, obey and defend the
constitution of the Commonwealth as
well as the constitution of the United
States.” It is therefore the sworn duty
of every senator and representative to do
whatever he can to honestly and faithe
fully carry into eflect every provision of
the constitution. It can be done, all that
is needed is to honestly try.
There showld be 8 clause in the con-
stitution making it perjury on the part
of ever man, who as senstor or repres
sentative, takes the oath perscribed and
who fails to support laws to carry out the
provisions of the constitution, and the
record of their voles against antisdiscri-
mination bills, fair apportionment bills,
to prohibit the granting of free passes
by railroad companies to any person ex
cept employes of the company to be used
in evidence against them,
Under such a provision the good peos
ple of the state, who care nothing for of-
fice, but desire to enjoy the benefits of
good government could amuse thems
sevies by sending the senators and rep-
resentatives who violated their oaths, to
prison. Not more thad one or two ses
sions of the Legisiatore would go by
until laws would be enacted providing
for the rigid enforcement of all the pro-
visions of the constitution as it now
exists,
This is about all the change that
should be made in the constitution. The
proposition is so radical that it is not
likely to be adopted by avy convention.
This being #0, I do not see the need of
going to the expense and risk of having
a convention fo tinker at a constitution,
which time and experience have demons
strated is an excellent instrument.
It is no argument against the constito~
tion, as it now is, to say that we have
bad it for 17 years and some of its pros
visions remain unenforced, That is en
tirely the fault of the people. If they
would send men of exalted character,
ability and honesty to the legislature,
laws would be passed that wonld accom-
plish the porposes of the constitution,
Another objection to a convention at
this time exists in the fect that never in
the history of our State have the cor-
porations had so much power and so
firm a grasp upon the people. Give
them the opportunity, by calling a con-
vention, and they will destroy every line
of the fand amental law which restricts
their power. If the people are wise
there will be no convention called by their
permission, after next November,
The people of our county are now
against a convention and I hope they
will continue to be, and show it in the
returns of the coming election.
1 am not and will not be a candidate
for delegate, 1 hope however that the
people, not only of the county but of the
state, will see to it that the very best
men are chosen for delegates both in the
senatorial districts and at large. A con
NO. 20
ment Lo the Farmers’ Encampmen at
Uretua,
For the growing and powerful meet-
ing at Mt. Gretna, August 16th to 22d
inclusive, the Pennsylvania Railroad
will place on sale August 15th to August
22d, good to return until August 24th,
excursion tickets at a rate of a single fare
for the round trip. This will spply to
that territory bounded by Lutherville
south, Canandaigua north, Bryn Mawr
east, and East Liberty on the west. I
is anticipated and intended that the
agricultural and horticultural display
this year will exceed anything before
held.
A liberal arrangement of special train
service will apply from August 17th to
224 inclusive, when a special will leave
Harrisburg for Mt. Gretna at 9.00 A.
M, aod returning leave Mt. Gretna at
5.50; and from August 18th to 21st in-
clusive a special will leave Lancaster at
9.156 A. M., returning leave Mt. Gretna
at 6.10 P. M., with special connection
Lancaster to Columbia snd Frederick
points.
t.
Marriage Licenses.
Following is the list of marriage li-
censes issued during the past week from
the register’s office Bellefonte:
Calvin Corl and Blanche Jordan, both
of State College.
Lawrence 8, Williams and
Thomas, both of Philipsburg, Pa.
Lowry Shope, of Milesburg, and Ellen
Taylor, of Buffalo Run,
Charlies Watson and Eva McGinley,
both of Milesburg, Pa.
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A Wicked Town.
The Pennsylvania Bible Society made
& convass of Reading for the purpose of
supplying the omission to those families
where no Bible was found in the house,
A thorough canvess of the city was
made, and 1615 families were found
without the word of God in any shape.
Where the agent could induce the pur-
chase of the Bible he sold the book, but
in many instances it was found necessas
ry to make gifts, as less than one-third
would buy.
Mary
ER
SUMMER OOMPLAINTS,
Multitudes of children every summer
die from what is known as Summer
Complaint, Diarrhea, Cholera Infantom,
and Dysentery. Humpherys’ Specifics
Nos, FOUR, FIVE and SIX are safes
curing thousands.
A Rolling Stone
Gathers no moss; neither does the dust
light on the Philad. Branch's new stock
of clothing for spring snd summer, as
customers keep it moving at figures
which captivate all.
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photos, §1 per dozen, at
sees (FMI. Gis 1
be found at A C. single's shoe store,
Bellefonte, and a very 1a oc assortment
to sciect from. He handies no shoddy
goods and full return guaranteed.
~—Do you want to secure genuine
bargains in clothing and gent's furnish
ing goods? lewins, at the Philad.
Branch, Bellefonte, can save you consid
erable money.
~The Pennsylvania Railroad Com-«
pany has given notice that no tramps
will be allowed to rid on freight trains.
Trainman will be held accountable for
all fares of those who ride,
New clothing, new hats, new fur
nishing goods, everything new for the
coming season is now opened and ready
for your inspection at the Philad,
Branch, Bellefonte.
eA DOWEpaper is always printed in
a rash, There is always something in
it that should be left out; something left
out that should be in: sometimes too
quick to act, but with all its faults and
shortcomings there is more education in
a bright newsypaper than there is in a
novel. You will find that the brigtest
boy on practical sensible every day
questions is the boy who prefers newss
papers to novels,
EE
An inexpensive fan will raise just as
cooling & wind as an expensive one,
Ba I WR A
The Blaine buvom is growing very
rapidly and it looks as if Harrison wes
to be shelved.
ALL MA Mis
The Republicans of Centre county, in
their convention on Tuesday, 4th, ens
doresed the Harrison administration and
the McKinley William, This is com.
mitting hari-kari,
When Baby was siek, we gave her Oastortn,
When she wae 8 Child, she cried for Castoria,
When she became Mies, she clang to Onstoria,
" . Gaston