<TI)f Centre Democrat.
NIIUGKRT & FORSTEII, Editors.
VOL. I.
®he (UentM flrmocral.
Terms 51.50 par Annum, in Adv.noe.
S. T SHUOERT .ltd R H. FORSTER, Editor*.
Thursday Morning, August 14, 1879.
Democratic State Ticket.
STATS THKAStmxa,
DANIEL O. HARK, Allegheny county.
THE tramp law passed by the leg
islature of Pennsylvania, last winter,
will go iuto effect to-morrow. It will
probably tend to stimulate an immi
' gration of undesirable persons into
adjoining States.
WILL Petroff take the stump for
Butler? If "Previous Question"
Hooten wants to have a rousing carn
pnign let him start Petroff out iu the
coputry to explain how his good, kind
friend Butler saved him from deserved
disgrace by voting against his expul
sion from the House last session.
LATEST returns from the Kentucky
election indicate that Dr. Blackburn,
(Democrat,) for Governor, will have
40,G00 majority, which is a larger ma
jority thau Governor McCreary obtain
ed four years ago. The Republicans
have gained several members in both
branches of the General Assembly.
This result was due to local questions
which were sprung up in the respect
ive .Senatorial and Legislative dis
tricts iu which the Republicans were
triumphant.
A PHILADELPHIA dispatch announ
ces the arrest of Charles B. Salter, one
of the persons charged with corrupt
solicitation in connection with the riot
damages bill before the Legislature at
the last session. Salter entered bail
for bis appearance before the court of
Dauphin county at its next term. It
is also stated that William H. Kcmble
was notified to enter bail for his ap
jiearance on a similar charge. These
men were both badly smirched in the
evidence taken by the investigating
committee last spring, and if guilty
they should not be ]>crmitted to escajie
punishment.
SENATOR BLAINE don't think much
of Congressman Fisher's political
judgment. The statesman from Hun
tingdon has been left in temporary
charge of the National Republican
party, with headquarters in Washing
ton. His eagle eye has swept the po
litical horizon from the sand lots of
California to the bleak coast of New
England. He hastily ran his eye
aloDg the line which marks the course
of the roaring Arostook, and remark
ed that the Republicans would lose
Maine. That sort of prophecy don't
suit the leader of leaders at all, and he
has intimated in a mild way that Mr.
Fisher can't kill Presidential candi
dates in that way. He says in sub
stance that while Congressman Fisher
may be a great man, that "there are
more things twixt Heaven and earth,
Horatio, than thou dream est of in
thy philosophy"
EDWARD MCPIIERRON, at present
editor of the Philadelphia /Yes* and
formerly clerk of the House of Rep
resentative at Washington and chief
of the Bureau of Statistics, has risen
to explain one of the damaging
charges concerning his official integri
ty contained in the Glover report.
The /Vess has sedulously maintained
that the report did not amount to any
thing; that Glover was half fool and
half knave, and yet its editor in chief
has found it necessary to wade through
six columns of his paper in a labored
effort to show that he was not guilty
of the venality so specifically charged
against biro. There is an impression
getting abroad that ex-Congressman
Glover made an exhaustive, and what
is of more practical value, an hooest
investigation, and every effort to be
little the report and detract from its
value by attacking it* author wilt
prove futile. John Sherman, stand
up; your name comes next upon the
list.
"XtJUAL AND KXACT JUSTICE TO ALL MKN, OF WIIATKVKK STATIC OR I'KRM;ANION, RKLIOIOL'H OK roLITICAL."-,fritor*i>
Tho Republican Platform.
The third resolution of the Re
publican platform is as follows :
Third. We declare our implacable
hostility to the repeal of the national
lawn which protect tho purity of tho
ballot box and secure fair elections, tho
election of Congressmen and Presiden
tial electors being clearly subject to na
tional control. Any attempt to throw
oH'that control is simply an effort to es
tablish fraud at national elections.
Honest suffrage, e>pial rights, tho unity
of the nation and the supremacy of Na
tional Government in all matters placed
by the Constitution under its control
ran be maintained only by the Republi
can party which is alone committed to
their defence.
This is the most important resolu
tion of the scries; for, although
somewhat obscure, in it may be found
the real issue l>etwecn the two great
parties; besides, the real feeling and
purposes of the radical party are
stated with more than usual candor
and frankness. They declare their
"implacable hostility" to the rejwal
of the national election laws. That
they are implacably hostile to the re
peal of these laws, no one who watch
ed the course of their leaders during
| the extra session of Congress can for
one moment doubt. The stalwarts
| arc undoubtedly in favor of the Fed
! eral election laws which now exist
and of others that will give to Feder
al otlicers sujiervision and control of
j elections by means of which they
! can prevent the people from turning
; the Radical party out of power.
| This is the secret of their "implaca
ble hostility" to the repeal of these
laws.
The whole of this resolution is
clearly predicated upon the proposi
tion contained in it, viz: "the elec
] tion of Congressmen and Prcsiden
j tial electors being clearly subject to
| national control." If this proposi
tion cannot be sustained the whole
doctrine of the resolution must ne
cessarily fail. Is the election of
Congressmen clearly subject to the
control of the National government?
lias the Federal government or any
department or officer of it, under the
constitution, the right to say who
may or who may not vote at an elec
tion for a Congressman ? The Dem
ocrats say, no ; the Republicans say,
yes. This is a simple, plain and di
rect issue which can only lie deter
mined by an ap|>cal to the constitu
tion itself. The provision of the
constitution upon the subject reads
as follows:
"Art. 1, Ren. 2. The House of
Representatives shall be ooui|>osed
of members chosen every second
year by the people of the several
States, anri the elector* in rich State
*haU have the qualification* requisite,
for elector* of the mo*t numerous branch
of the State Jjcyi*lature."
Hy this provision the right to say
who may vote for Congressmen is
clearly given to the several States,
and not to the Federal government.
The whole power of the Federal gov
ernment cannot confer the right of
voting for Congressman upon a sin
gle individual if such individual has
not the right under the constitution
and laws of his State. Neither can
the Federal government deprive any
one of the right of voting for a Con
gressman, if he possesses the qualifi
cations of a vote in his State. The
qualifications of electors for members
of Congress may not be the same in
any two States of the Union. Neith
er Congress nor any other depart
ment of the Federal government has
any power to compel uniformity in
this respect.
As each individual* therefore de
rives his right to the elective fran
chise from the constitution and laws
of bis own State and not from the
Federal government he must neces
sarily look to his own State and not
to the Federal government for the
protection of this right. We be
lieve it to be a universal proposition
under oar ftornplex system of govern
ment that the rights of individuals
derived from the State are to pro
tected and enforced by State laws ;
while the right* of individuals deriv
BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 1879.
cd from the Federal government are
to lie protected and enforced by Fed
eral laws. It would lie no more al>-
Btird for the States to claim the con
trol of the rights of a person under
a patent derived from the Federal
government, than it is for the Feder
al government to claim the control
of rights of persons derived from
the constitution and laws of a State.
So much for the election of Congress
men. Now for the election of Pres
idential electors. The following is
the constitutional provision:
"Art. 2, Sec. 2. Each State shall
appoint in mi<7i mantu r ax the Leyixla
tare thereof may dircrt, a number of
Senators and Representatives to
which the State may he entitled in
Congress ; hut no Senator or Repre
sentative, or person holding an office
of trust or profit under the United
States, shall lie appointed an elec
tor."
Under this provision of the Con
stitution the Legislature of each
State has absolute control over the
appointment of Presidential electors.
It may provide for an election by the
people, which is usual, or it may elect
the electors hy the Legislature as
was done in South Carolina for sev
enty years, or it may direct any oth
er mode of appointment it may see
proper. The olllce of Presidential
elector is a State office under State
laws over which the Federal govern
ment has no control whatever. All
of this was decided hy the electoral
commission only two years ago. The
decision of this tribunal ought to he
authority with the atalwarta,although
it went so far in its elfort to cover
up fraud that it forfeited the respect
of every one else, for it not only de
cided that the Federal government
has no control over the election of
Presidential electors, hut that neither
Congress nor itself could inquire
whether the person claiming the right
to vote as a Presidential elector had
actually ever been duly elected or
appointed na such or not; that al
though the certificate of Presidential
elector was obtained by fraud or was
an actual forgery, still no department
of the Federal government could go
liehind it, or inquire into its validity.
How docs this decision of the elec
toral commission upon this subject
comport with the doctrine of this res
olution of the Republican platform *
Will our neightior of tlx; Jiejiubliran
explain and reconcile these two dc.
liverances of his party ?
When Governor Curtin and the
other gentlemen sent to New Orleans
hy the Democratic National Com
mittee, in Uic fall of 187fi, invited
John Sherman and the other gentle
men appointed by President Grant to
co-operate with them in seeing that
a fair and honest canvass was made
of the votes cast for Presidential
electors in Uic State of Ixjuisiana,
Sherman and hia co-conspirators re
fused to do so, and predicated their
refusal upon the ground that this
would lie an unwarranted interfer
ence in the afTaira of a State; that
the State authorities of Louisiana
had exclusive jurisdiction over this
subject. Surely at that time Sher
man and the other stalwarts never
dreamed that the election of Presi
dential electors was "clearly subject
to national control."
After the adjournment of the elec
toral commission, one of its radical
members, Judge William Btrong, of
infamous memory, wrote to a South
ern friend defending the action of
the commisaion and holding that an
decision—any attempt on
the part of the Federal government
to inquire into the honesty or legali
ty of the elections in Florida, Louis
iana or South Carolina—would have
been "an infringement upon the sa
cred doctrine of State rights."
To these extremes of opposite
doctrines have the Radical party been
driven within a little more than two
years in tbeir efforts to justify and
maintain illegal and fraudulent cleo
toins by which the will of the majori
ty of the American people is set at
defiance.
BOTH the political and social worlds
arc convulsed over the startling story
that comes from away down nt Nar
ragansctt Pier, litre it is said the
modern Adonis, the curled nod js-r
-fumed Conkling, New York's Henior
Senator, barely e*cu(>ed the deadly
contents of an improved shooting np
paratus by ignominious flight. The
legend runs that ex-Senator and ex-
Gov. Wm. Hprague of Rhode Island,
returned to his home at Narragansett
Pier, on last Friday, only to find the
sweet-scented Conkling making the
greatest effort of his life, byway of
destroying the last lingering remnant
of a home the venerable ex-Governor
had left to him. It appears that Mrs.
Sprague, who is a daughter of the late
Chief Justice Chase, eared more for
the fine physique, rourtly manners
and handsome face of Senator Conk
ling than she does for the obi age,
honorable life and blameless reputa
tion of her husband. The gossip from
Washington is scarcely fit for public a
tion, telling, as it d.s-s, the particulars
of lis- questionable relations which
exist between one of the most widely
known of our public men, and the
daughter of one of the most conspic
uous publicists who ever lived in
America. Senator Conkling lias nev
er been a popular man with the
masses, but while he failed to attach
the people to him in his public career
they have always respected him as a
man of gnat ability, personally spot
less, alike in |>ub!ic and iu private
life. Now that the curtain has been
lifted and this ugly skeleton exposed,
the little regard the country had for
the imperious Senator from New York
will develope into contempt, retnem
bcring, as {icople will, that he is allied
to one of the ablest and l**t families
in New York, with a home circle that
embrace* attractions enough to bind
any one in the golden meshes of domes
tic tranquility and love, bo much for
its social aspect. As to its political
significance it will sulfite to say that
there is one presidential candidate lew
than there was last Thursday night.
Not that the men who make Republi
can nominations would seriously ob
ject to Conkling's immorality, hut ex
pediency will suggest the propriety of
quietly dropping the gentleman out of
sight.
TIIE committee appointed by the
legislature to prosecute and, if possi
ble, bring to punishment certain per
sons who endeavored to secure the
passngc of the $4,000,000 riot bill by
corrupt means, had a meeting nt liar
ris burg, this week, to arrange the de
tails of the prosecution. Mr. Wolfe,
of Union county, is the chairman of
this committee. He announces that
the case will he vigorously pushed,
and expects the trials to come off* in
the courts of Dauphin county some
time in September. It is sail! the
committee have engaged Senator MaL
Carpenter, of Wisconsin, Hon. Jere
miah H. Black, and Frank B. Gowau,
President of the Philadelphia and
Reading railroad company, as attor
neys for the prosecution. If this is
correct it has a look of business, aud
means that some of the gentlemen
against whom the prosecution* are di
rected may have more trouble to
escape than they have hitherto antici
pated.
THE Republican begs the question
entirely. How the Democrats of Cen
tre county may have treated "certain
Democratic aspirauts for Senatorial
honors" has nothing whatever to do
with Samuel Butler's war record ; and
the DEMOCRAT never claimed votes
for Mr. Barr on the ground of services
in the army. When it does so it will
lie prepared to show when and where
he served. Come, now, since you say
Hamucl Butler "shouldered his musket
like a true patriot, and plaoeS his life
in jeopardy, that the Government
might live," please answer our in
quiries. When did Samuel Butler
shoulder his musket? How long did
he carry it? ID what battles of the
war did he put "his lift; in jeopardy,
that the Government might live f
Nt uiitor Walluce Interviewed.
HIE EE AI, JAM I E A Of THE IAT IN NATIONAL
roLiTica.
A llrrald reporter interviewed Seiia
tor Wallace recently in New York. In
answer to a question hji to the real is
sue*, he said :
"Homo rule aud finance. Local gov
ernment in our aim. and it is really the
only living inxuo at present before the
iioople. A government 'of the ptsople
by the people' i* what we want and
mual have. Klectors in their several
dintricU and localities must be free to
vote as thny like and must be relieved
from the presence and force of Federal
influence and dictation. Finance will
take care of itself. The country is now
prosperous. In another year it will be
more ao. And by that time commerce
will have so regulated the money ques
tion that it will have completely disap
peared. That is, all the apparent ditli
cultie* in tlieway will have settled down
into a natural channel. Our time re
sembles in a great measure that of
Jefferson wnd Hamilton. In 1800 and
1801 the public mind was filled wilh
similar questions to those now demand
ing sole tion at our hands. If we remain
true . i'l steadfast to that principle of
the fi>r itaelf we must win, but
we < ynnot in any other way. A man
must i be Et liberty to vote the way lie
wishe# nd must be free to talk aloud
to hi* friend on election day on what
he considers his rights and privileges
without being afraid that a marshal or
oth.rr Federal officer will put his hand
upqfn his shoulder and move him off.
I-octk' government, or, as it isaometime*
calF*"'b 'home rule,' is what the country
will' 1 " and what we will give it. The
pedT'b' ''Eve grown impatient at the in
( ~Jsant thrusting of the Federal arm
jnfl° their local matters, and are deter
'° destroy the advancing system
0 f w-entraliiation. They look with a
jeal} ,u * on 'be increasing influence
of iif !,IM, ''d capital, and are getting rn
tivei"' 'be influence of huge mono(>o
liea.*' , . ,
.. Ihen you think the application of
the borne rule system will satisfactorily
srraY?* *" difficulties t"
..jVlo. The j>eople will then feel and
see tP'T * rp governing
not bf in B governed hy
es. "''l undersund OW|l
needs ,n oTer y section and o Uftr pc r 0 j
the co€ n,l 7 W'r 'be r „ m .
Ed v rV l '"y ma, > bck, Li
and ll:J 11l ; ,n ( nd Ac argument,
put for* ar '* "by j, e Wl ]|
see and tj whftt j eff-WOB
said wh/ 1 * nOW ®%ubtantial issue."
j,Viwer. "f'^| nnro ] a Xlr.
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r ' "" \ c*m"
A lad*, j lt f from I'etroit. Mich., and
her gre# D od was being an invalid.
She los'Ave tc l 'Ttunity in slating that
she cat* not/Minnesota to rectijerafe.
She did*" 'hesitate to enter into a con
Ti-rat4<A"4ith any person she came in
giving advice, climatolog
ical or Siysiological, to invalids, and
seeking *ie same front those of robust
constitution. Her conversation was al
ways prefaced with the introductory
inquiry, ao common to visitor*, "Ihd
you come here for your health T" Hbe
thus addressed a stalwart, ruddy, visag
;ed young man at the dinner table of
the Metropolitan a few days since, and
the following dialogue ensued :
"Yea. madam. I came here probably
the weakest |>eraon you ever saw. I
had no ]A*of my Itmba, in fact my
tones spiwbul little tougher than car
tilages. I had no intelligent control of
a single muscle, nor the use of a sing.e
faculty.
"Great heavens f" exclaimed the as
tonished auditor, "and you lived V
"I did, miss, although I was absolute
ly toothless, unable to articulate a single
word, and dc|>endent upon others lor
everything, being completely deprived
of all power to help myself. 1 com
racnced to gain immediately upon my
arrival, and have scarcely exjwrieneed
a sick day since, hence I can conscien
tiously recommend the climate.''
"A wonderful rase?" said the lady,
"but do you think >our lungs were af
fected f"
"They were probably sound, twit pos
sessed of so little vitality that but for
the most careful nursing they must
have ceased their functions.*'
"I hope you found kind friends,
sir t"
"Indeed I madam ; it is to them
snd the pure air of Minnesota that I
owe my life. My father's family were
wilh me, but unfortunately my mother
was prostrated with a aerere illness
during the time of my greatest pros
tration."*
"How sad I Tray, what was your diet
and treatment!"
"My diet was the simplest possible,
consisting only of milk, thsl being the
only food my system would bear. As
for treatment, 1 depended entirely up
on the life-giving properties of Minne
sota air, and took no medicine except
an occasional light narcotic when very
restless. My improvement dated from
my arrival. My limbs soon became
strong, and mv sight and voice came to
me slowly, and a full set of teeth, regu
lar and Arm, appeared."
"Remarkable—miraculous! Surely,
sir, you must have been greatly reduocd
in flesh t"
"Madam, I weighed but nine pounds.
I was bom in Minnesota. Uood-day."
The yellow fever etill seem* to be on
the increase at Memphis. On Tuesday
twenty-two new eases of the dreadful
scourge were reported and six deaths.
On Saturday last the disease wee official
ly dec).red to b# epidemic by the au
thorities of the city.
TKBMN: jut Annum, in Aiivmir>.
GENERAL NEWS.
.Schuylkill county lias ton militia corn
panic*.
During the last vear there were 926
inmate, in the Berks county priaon.
Governor Bishop, of Ohio, ha* been
looking over the Bradford oil fiehla.
Philadelphia contributed sixty-four
prison era to the Berks county jail dur
ing the last year.
The hospital for the insane at Dan
ville ha* aliout four hundred and fifty
two inmates at present.
In Reading a woman |>aaaing along
the street* puffing away at a cigar at
tracted a great ileal of attention. The
fairy female war from tba township of
Maxatawny.
The striking employes and the pro
prietor! of the Hudson Iron Company,
at West Stock bridge, Mass., have com
promised for *1.12j per day, and the
men returned to their work un Tues
day. >
The Democrat* of the First district,
San Francisco, Saturday evening, nomi
nated for Congressmen Charles f\ Hum- •
ner, short hand reporter of the Supreme
Court, vice Judge Robert F'errall, who
declined.
Norfolk, Va., ha* a haunted house.
The other night a large crowd of per
sons gathered on a porch of the house
to see what the ghost would do, when
the porch gave w-av, precipitating tire
crowd to the ground, injuring several of
Ihe.n. -
Two boilers on the towboat, jggfi
ley, exi.lodrd while passing N"-w ''um
ber land, a abort distance, from Wheel
ing, \N. \ a., on Saturday morning. The
pilot, the Captain * Kon an j Thorna*
I'rinceare missing, an d it is supposed
they are killed. ,
A Mary Morgan,
collided with a j, ; xiuce freight steamer,
I mile above Fort Dele
ware. on Friday- night. A largo hole
WUh sl *ve in the Pierrepont and sho
•sf'Jfwjth 3/FIO basket* of jeschM ar d
"'iter produce on board. The pa* sen
ders and crew of the Pierrepont were
taken on board the Mary Morgan.
Nome time ago General Miles captur
ed a number of half-breed Indians
from Canada, who were suspected of
selling liquor and ammunition to In
dians on thia side of the line. He in
quired of the War Department what
•bould be done with the.s.and the Sec
retary of War referred the matter to
the Secretary of State. Mr. Everts hf*
replied that in view of aH the circum
stances of the case that the Indians le
allowed to return to f'anada. This
entitle will be pursued, and General
Mile* will be instructed accordingly.
The name of Edwin Forrest is now to
be made even more famous than it was
by the great actor, a Mr. Banner, edit
or of the New York owns a
horse by that name that on Friday
afternoon last trotted a mile in the fast
est time ever made. The first quarter
was made in 0.32}. the half in 1.0&J, the
three quarters in 1.38} and the milo in
2.11}. This performance v< made on
the three-quarter mile track on Mr.
Bonner's fanm near Tarrytown. It is
the fastest time ever made and will
likely remain so during this season, un
less indeed Edwin Forrest shall eclipse
himself.
A Shocking Scene.
rionv *T a nr*XE*n—■corrtw KNOCKED
ovaa AND Tilt coarse THUS N OIT.
Anntasi, Vs., August B. —Yesterday
the funeral of an obi and highly es
teemed colored woman, Jane Ciarl.,
look place at Union Hall Church, in
this county. An immense crowd was
in attendance. It had been arranged
that the Bov. Bob Cook of Lynchburg,
should conduct the funeral services,
but when the vast concourse of rela
tives and friend* of the deceased got
in the church they found a strange
preacher in the pulpit. The Society of
Suiter* of Sarah, to which the deceased
had belonged, insisted on having Kev.
Mr. Cook, while the relative# demanded
that the preacher in the pulpit should
go on, and so ordered him. The parties
threatened to pitch the preacher out of
the window. Then a fleree fight took
II ice in the church, in which both men
snd women took part. In the struggle
the coffin was knocked over and the
corpse thrown out on the floor. This
horrible sight did not slop hostilities,
but the relatives fought until they drove
every member of the ftoriety out of the
church. It was then found that the
preacher had fled, and the burial took
place without a preacher. Several par.
ties were seriously hurt.
To John Sherman.
EXBCCTIVS MANSION,
WASHINGTON, June 22, 1877.
Pin: I desire to call your attention lo
the following paragraph hi a letter ad
dressed by me to the Secretory of the
Treasury on the conduct to bo oleerved
by officer* of the Genera) Government
in relation to the elections:
",Vo officer thai I b roywtrW or prrmittnd
io iakt pari in 'As man%prmmt w poitiirat
orpamimtiaaa, fssnu/i, amrrah-m*, or tiro
turn cmmpaiffnt. The right to vote snd ex
press their views en public questions, either
orally or through the press, is not denied,
provided it does not interfere with the dis
charge of their official duties. No ananas-
Mgirr roa POLITIC* i. composes on om
ens* on srnonninaTns SUOVLO nn at
uownn."
This rale is applicable to every dr.
Krtment of the civil service It should
understood by every officer of the
General Government thai, he is ex pec -
ed to conform his conduct to its to*
quirements.
Vury respectfully, R. A UATU.
NO.