dfljc Centre ;*§&. iHrmorrat,
SIIKiKHT A FOKSTKII, Editors.
VOL. 2.
TlUc ifnvhT srmotv.il.'
Term* 51.50 pr Annum, in Advanoe.
s. T SHUGERT tud R. H. FORSTER. Ediforv.
Th irsday Morning, February 26, 1880.
THE friends of Sherman have or
ganize.! a campaign club in Washing
ton City to promote tho candidacy of ;
the Louisiana Fraud Manager for j
President. C. W. Moulton, the broth- j
ci in law of the Secretary, is the lead- ,
iug spirit, and it is their intention to
establish branches in the principal
cities. .
THE Hon. R. E. Trowbridge, of
Michigan, has been nominated by Mr.
Haves as Commissioner of Indian Af
fairs vice Mr. Hoyt removed. Mr.
Trowbridge was a member of Con
gress several years, and it is believed !
will make a good Commissioner. At
least it is to he hoped that dishonesty I
will not continue to be the rule under |
his administration of that office.
JoiIS < 'ESSSA, of Bedford, has been j
apjmintcd chairman of the Repuhli
can State Central Committee. He is |
a fitting representative of the party
who controlled the late State Conven
tion, nnd adopted its platform of hy- ;
pocrisv. A more unscrupulous fraud j
and dissembler could not he found
within the bounds of the common
wealth.
THK Nat ioual Greenback State ( om
mittec hnd a meeting at Harrisburg on
Friday last,and decided to hold a State
Convention in that city on the 22d of
March next. Whether this meeting is
for the purpose of appointing assignees
and making final arrangements to go
into bankruptcy, or to rally the scat
tered forces of the Greenback party
for another great effort for victory,
will apjiear in due time.
THE Donnelly-Washhurne contest
in the House of Representatives seems
to lc a hard nut to crack hy the Re
presentative from this district. The
Greenbackers, with whom he is direct
ly identified, resolved to support Don
nelly against Washhurne, the sitting
member, and our member finds it dif
ficult to split himself so as to obtain
the needed aid from both these parties
to maintain his own position in Con
gr-ss. He may as well act boldly and
vote as he feels.
IT is said Gen. Sherman is taking
an active part in the effort to defeat
favorable action in the ca*e of Gen.
Fitz John Porter, nnd has ordered
Mitj. Gardner from Governor's Island,
N. V., to Washington, to assist in the
opposition to Porter. Just like this im
pulsive egotist and meddler. But any
thing he can do will have little weight
with sensible members of Congress,
when they come to consider the great
wrong General Porter has borne for
▼ears. He must, and will have re
dress.
SENATOR CONK LINO was a delegate
to the Republican State Convention of
New York, which met yesterday. His
great rival George William Curtis de
sired to lie, hut was defeated in his dis
trict. Since the former was present
to booet the Grant boom, the latter
should also have also been there to
boot it. Both are able ami distinguish
ed representatives of opposite factions
in the stalwart ranks, and a meeting
lietween them would have been inter
esting.
K. M. BOYNTON is contesting for
the seat now held in the House of
Representatives by Mr. Long, of
Massachusetts. General Butler is the
attorney for the contestant, and has
filed a brief of eighty-five pages in
the case, alleging repeating, ballot-box
stuffing, iutimidation and unjust ex
clusions by Republican officials of the
ballots of poor men who were legal
voters, and claims a plurality for
Mr. Boynton of 170. This brief also
claims the disfranchisement of 10,000
additional men, white citizens of the
United States in this one district
►Honest Elections From a Repub
lican Standpoint.
Among the many beautiful senti
ment* given to the world through the
medium of the Republican platform (
in this State, none were more grace- I
fully rounded, or breathed nn air of
greater sincerity than those relating
to honest elections and a pure and un
fettered ballot. No one, carefully
reading the declaration of principles
put forth by the assembled genius of
latter-day Republicanism at Harris
burg can fuil to he deeply impressed
by the air of studied melancholy
which "marks the significant protest of
our antagonists against any further ;
indulgence in systematized fraud in
the conduct of elections. A meek
and contrite spirit of repentance for
the past struggles for supremacy with
the budding promise of a complete re
generation which is to find its full frui- !
tion in the misty future, and as the I
rounders, repeaters, false personators,
lightning calculators ami ballot box
thieves crowded to the altar to receive
the benediction of Cameron a* the (
High Priest in the new tabernacle of j
reform, hope for the triumph of the j
new dispensation heat high in every j
breast. "A free and pure ballot," de- ;
maud our virtuous friends, "thorough- j
"lv protected so that any man entitled j
"to cast a vote raaj do so, just once at
"each election without molestation, j
"moral or physical, on account of his j
"political faith, nationality or the j
"hue of his skin," No fault can
possible tie found with this admirable
deliverance. The most captious critic
finds himself at once disarmed by this
suave, mild nnd dignified recital of
the rights and immunities ol the elee- j
tor. Here the Hindu followers ofj
Buddha and the disciples of Boh In- j
gcrsoll enjoy equally with the hosts of
orthodoxy, the benign blessings of
suffrage, while the dark browed sons
of the African desert are placed side
by side with the haughty, fair-haired
Anglo-Saxon. What could be more
Democratic ? What more inherently
Republican ? And then, Oh ! mighty
pirit of "Gopher Bill !" we invoke
thy presence, each man is to vote "jwt
once." Well for you that the frown
ing walls of Chester county's jail hides
your anguish from the gaze of an un
sympathetic world as you receive this
unkindly cut at the hands of your
friends. But not content with this, we
find further on the following, "Hon
"est elections. The people having the
"virtue and the patriotism to govern i
"themselves, our government must de- j
"pend for it* stability upon honest
"elections. Until a man is considered
"infamous who cast* an illegal vote
"our government will not be safe, and
"whoever deprives a citizen of his
"right to vote or of the legal effect of
"his vote is a traitor to our govern
"ment." Stand up, David Mouat, se
lect councilman from the fifth ward of
Philadelphia, and clerk in the office
the Prothonotary, and answer to the
charge of high treason prefered
against you by the Representatives of
your pnrty in State convention assem
bled. You are charged under oath
with altering election returns, stealing
ticket* out of ballot boxes and substi
tuting others in their stead, of threat
ning election officers and forcing them
to nullify the will of the people by
making false returns. The platform
of your party says the man who does
this is a traitor to his government and
you are the first malefactor called
upon to plead to the grave indictment.
This man Mouat is a power in Re
publican politics in the Metropolitan
City of Pennsylvania. He is the close
friend of J. Donald Cameron and is
cheek by jowl with the men who aro
•mnipotent in shaping the policy of
the Republican party of the State.
We will sec now whether the protes
tations in favor of honesty in elections
which we have quoted above, are the
embodiment of Republican sentiment
or mere glittering generalities signify
ing nothing. Mouat is a delegate to
the Chicago convention with full
Kgt' At. AMI. KXAfT Jt'STICK TO ALL MEN, OT WHATEVIH STATIC OR PERSUASION, RKLIOIOL'H oK POLITICAL. "-J.fl.r.,
BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1880..
fledged instructions Jo vote for Graut
and do the bidding of his master.
Cameron can but illy spare such a
well conditioned henchman und it will
lie interesting to note the contest be
tween the exigencies of pnrty upon :he
one linnd and the inexorable judgment
of the law upon the other. Mouat is
accused hy the election officers of
both parties and there can he no
charge of partisanship made to
break the force of the damning evi
dence ugainst him. The fifth ward
luid been the scene of many disgrace
ful exhibitions of fraud and violence
in the elections of the past, hut it was
left to one of the City law makers on
last Tuesday a week to render all else
respectable hy coutrast. The Repub
lican platform and Republican sincer
ity arc on trial now in the person of
Mr. David Mouat. It is in no spirit
of prophecy -that we predict the tri
umphal vindication of Mr. Mount and j
the consequent half masting of the flag
of reform upon the part of the party.
In Docp Sea.
It is alleged '.hat 186,000 citizens of]
Massachusetts arc disfranchised, con-!
trary to the fourteenth amendment,
for non-payment of taxes, for being j
unable to read and write the English j
language, etc. Speaking of this, the !
Washington l'o*t remarks:
"Th Fourteenth amendment of tho i
Constitution of Ilia United States und the I
law of 1*73 make it the duty of Congrcaa
to diminish the representation of Maiw
chusetls proportionally, and w ill cost that
Stnte their members of Congress and the'
electoral college unless the present legisla
ture, now in session, shall restore the bal
lot to those disappointed citizens. It ig
one of the revenges which lime brings
uMund that the State which flrst proposed
and adopted the Fourteenth amendment,
to force negro suffrage on the Sogtb.
rhould be the Hrst to he punished hy tfc
operation. The Radical party of the
Stale is between tho davit aol IDs
sea. If !>• ♦' frm Hose tlM.WliiMl,
the Slate is delivered over to the
racy. And if they decline to do it, they
htee their Congressman and an equal num
ber of electors."
These disfranchised citizens are j
counted as part of the basis of repre
sentation, aud if they are eliminated ;
from that basis the .State will lose \
three members of Congress and three
electors. This is certainly not a pleas
ant out-look for that stalwart State.
SOME time ago it seemed that the
Presidential office was again to lie
1 thrust upon Gen. Grant unsought —
that all the Republican aspirants were
voluntarily to retire ami beg the
"greatest living American" to accept
the office, and as the "strong man,''
save the country. He was not to de
i scene! from his seat of grandeur, away
above the clouds, but to quietly amuse
himself and await the triumph when
his grateful countrymen shouted in one
voice, "Give us hack our old comman
der" —when' Chicago's convention un
animously proclaimed him the one man,
whose overwhelming popularity alone
could meet ami antagonize the pre
vailing Democratic sentiment which
gives stalwart Republicanism so much
anxiety and trouble in establishing
the Empire of their hopes and pray
ers. But what a change has a few
weeks wrought! The great man has
had to descend from the sublime
perch he had assumed, to scramble as
other men in political mud pools for
Grant delegates to the Chicago con
vention. Because of the mean char
acter and doubtful honesty of his
contestants, Blaine and Sherman, he
may be successful*hut he will have to
fight for every inch of ground he oc
cupies in its attainment, nnd then his
fight has ouly commenced. The great
Democracy will then become his an
tagonists, and the battle will not be a
j sham for amusement.
A COMMITTEE of the Honse was
recently raised to investigate the De
partment of Agriculture. Mr. Le
Due, the Commissioner, has made an
elaborate statement of the disadvan
tages under which this service has la
bored and detailing the needs and
want* of the Department, which the
sub-Committee deem entirely satisfac
tory. Everything therefore, being
lovely, Mr. Le Due can now be certi-
fled as a proper person to ornament
the "kitchen cabinet" if the tlr facto
President is in want of another politi- i
onl adviser.
Tho Hunted Czar.
The news that came from Europe
last week, of another desperate attempt
to take the life of the Czar, Alexan
der 11, of Russia, again forces upon
tho records of time a thrilling illustra
tion of the truth of the trite saving
that "uneasy lies the head that wears 1
a crown." The family at '
this season of the year occupies the '
Winter Palace at .St. Petersburg, and
the conspirators Bought to accomplish
their aim hy blowing up the building
with dynamite which they had in '
some mysterious way placed in the 1 1
has ement. Immediately over the place
whore the explosion occurred was a
room occupied by the ini|erial guard, 1
consisting of about 120 meu, and above 1
that was the dining hull. The Czar, '
it seems, usually dines at six o'clock. I '
Fortunately the dinner on that day i '
had been delayed a short time aud his j 1
majesty was just about to enter the ' '
room when the explosion occurred, '
killing, according to the accounts', ojght '
persons and dangerously wounding '
lorty-hve. All the members of the
iinpcriul family were mercifully saved, j 1
Of his line, Alexander is personally
oue of the best who has ever occupied
the throne. Essentially autocratic I
aud des|iotic in practice ami by tra
<Ulion as the govermcnt of Russia has
fir ages been, the present Czar has not
Aeti dead to the demand of advanc- j
is civilization. His government to-
A- is much better thnn when he rc
<®> d it fnjtn his predecessor. To him,
fljph>ia is indebted for many notable
reioruis ui toe system cal
culated to enhance the welfare of his
millions of subjects, ami these reforms
i have undoubtedly liettercd their con- ,
ditiol!. Oue of the first great striih* I
jin the progress of the mighty events
I that have marked his reign—a work
nobler in all the attributes of humnni
! ty than will be placed to the credit of
any other crowned head of the pres
ent era—was the emancipation of j
serfs. This alwive all else should en- j
dear him to his people. But other
, changes have marked his career. From
him also Russia has received elective
j assemble, a system of trial hy jury
in the courts, and improved education
| al facilities such as were never en- \
| joyed in the country before. Acts like ;
, these indicate a man that works for
I
the good of those over whom he rule*,
and it would seem that he should he
the most popular monarch Russia has
ever had. Yet it is a veritable fact
that this man lives in constaut dread
of death at the hands of cunning, des
perate nnd determined foes in his
own land—probably in his own house
hold. Ever in his mind is the fear of
poison, the dagger, the bullet nnd the
scores of other menus to extinguish
life that have been devised by the
ingenuity of men. He dare not go
abroad and is not safe even in his own
palace. The attempt that was made
upon his life last week was a piece of
cold-blooded diabolwn as cunning nnd
atrocious in design ns anything of the
kind the mind ran well conceive of;
and that he, together with tho mem
bers of his imperial family and his
royal visitors present in the palace,
cscnped death or serious injury is al
most miraculous and is a matter of
congratulation.
WE copy with great pleasure, in
another column of the DEMOCRAT,
articles that have appeared in the
Harrisburg I\tiriot and the Wilkes
harre Union Ijcader favoring the nom
ination, by the next Democratic State
Convention, of Edward Herrick, Esq.,
of Bradford county, for Auditor Gen
eral. Mr. Herrick is the present able
and efficient chief clerk of the Auditor
General's office, and from a personal
acquaintance with him we can most
heartily endorse the commeudations of
both the journals named. We know
him to he a gentleman of the highest
integrity, of pronounced ability, and
one of the best officials the State hits
ever had. He is decidedly strong and
popular in the portion of the Slate to
which he belongs aiTd would draw
many votes from the Republican can
didate. Mr. Herrick is in the line of
promotion, ami we believe it would ho
a wise move on the part of the con
vention to place him in nomination.
THE Democratic county committee,
of Clinton county, met at Dick Haven,
on rucwlay, of last week, and elected
Col. W. 11. Moore delegate to the
State ('on vent ion. Thin in an excel
lent selection. (xl. Moore will repre
sent the Democracy of Clinton ably
and acceptably. We notice that the
committee also elected Senatorial con- j
force* and instructed them to support I
Mr. (ieorgc J. F. Ramrn for Sena
torial delegate. It may have been all
right for the committee to pay this
compliment to Mr. Itamm, but cer
tainly Clinton county is not entitled
to the Senatorial delegate this year,
and we trust this action of the com
mittee is not to be regarded as a seri
ous move to assert a claim of that kind, j
Centre county ha* a clear right to the
Senatorial delegate which should not
l>e disputed, and will a*k for fair play
at the hands of the conference. We
make these remarks in order that there .
ntav be an understanding of the mat
ter in advance.
AT the meeting of the National
Democratic Committee, held in the j
city of Washington, on Monday last,
the 22d of June was the time fixed
for holding the National Convention
of the parly to nominate candidates 1
for President and Vice President, and 1
findniwti selected the nlncc* for j
the Convention to meet. Kepreauuta- j
lives were present from a number of
other cities to ask for the convention
and otr>r such inducements to infiu
\ ence the actiou of the committee as
their various localities afforded, but on
the first formal ballot, Cincinnati car- i
ried off the honor, the vote standing, ;
Cincinnati, 24 ; Chicago, 8 ; .St. Dm is, j
14: Washington, 1; blank, 1. The
1 meeting of the committee was har- j
amnions and its action in all respect
judicious.
CHAIRMAN SI'KINCEH from the
committee on elections submitted the
the majority report relative to the con-'
| tested election ease of Curtin vs. Yo
; cum on Tuesday of the current week.
' The report is substantially the same
indicated in last week's DEMOCRAT.
It declares the election mill and void
and remands the matter baek to the
peopff of the district for adjudication.
The minority report of Messrs. Calk
| ins and Weaver declares Mr. focum
entitled to the seat hut there is anoth-
I er report made by Field, Republican,
of Massachusetts, the provisions of
which we are unable to state. The
; reports were ordered to be printed
and action in the House may he cx
|>ccted at an early day.
—
HON. JOSEPH H. WAKEAM died
suddeuly at his home in Ijcwistown, on
, Friday evening last, of paralysis of
the liraiu. Mr. Waream was a well
known and popular citizcu of MifHiu
county, who at various periods of his
life filled important trusts in that
county. He alsq represented at one
time, the district com posed of the coun
ties of Centre, Huntingdon, Mifflin
and Juniata in the State Senate, and
also served gallantly as a soldier in
the Union army during the war of
the rebellion. An exchange truthful
ly remarks that he was a warm heart
ed and chivalrous mau and had many
friends throughout the State.
WE were exceedingly glad to hear
that our old and valued friend, 11. L,
DiefTenhach, Esq., of Lock Haven,
was unanimously elected an alderman
for the second ward of that city, at
the municipal election held on the
' 17th instant. His election in this
manner was a compliment as well be
stowed as It was'justly deserved.
TKRMS: $lJ>O |M*r Annum, in Advance.
THE Department of Su]crfriieudencc
of the National Educational Amsocia- "
tioii hail a meeting at Washington lu-t
week, with representatives from nearly
ali the States. I'rof. Wickershani, of
IVnn*y 1 vania, ami nine others, were
ajip tinted a committee to take into con
sideration the formation of a National
Council of Education, with instruc
tion* to report a plan of organization
to tin- Board of Directors of the Na
tional Teacher*' Association in July
next.
GENERAL NEWS.
I'arnell call* Kentucky ''the Ireland
of America."
Simon <'anmron will, it he live* to the
Mth of March, be kl year* old.
Ihe < incinnati Miller*' Exposition
will begin on May 31. and close June2ft.
A national convention of -larch ronti
u fact urea, representing £100,000,000
capital, will meet at ''inciruiati, on
March 3.
During the recent riae in the Alleghe
ny and Monongahela river* at Pitts
burg, .,OUO,OOO bushels of coal wcie
washed out.
'I'll" grant of SIOO,OOO by the Domin
ion Government toward the Irish re
lief lurid passed the House unanimous
ly on Friday.
The cotton mill of Verienden Broth -
•-m, near Cheater, was burned down on
Thursday afternoon. The loan is esti
mated at $75,000.
Hon. John M. Broad bead, of Wash
ington, formerly Second t'omptroller of
the Treasury, die<l j n South New Mark
et on Sunday night.
I pin Montreal the smallpox ha* bro
ken out among the horses. Bright s
disease and cerebrospinal meningitis
will be in order next.
Ilev. Dr. Charles P. Bush, of New
York. Secretary of the American Board
of foreign Missions, died suddenly at
Albany, Sunday, of rheumatism ol the
heart.
The West Chestefettapera report the
death in that place, 9n .Saturday morn
ing, of Ann Scarlet, a maiden lady aged
l<>j years. "Aunty" Graham is still
living in West Chester, and is 103 years
old.
"It went for a song" will hereafter
hardly express the extreme of cheap
the other day by tlte fcit'*sl .
to Adelina Patti for singing one song
at her soiree.
The New Jersey Midland Railway
was sold at auction on Saturday to
Charles Parsons, chairman of the pur
chasing committee of the New Jersey
Midland Railway first mortgage bond
holders, for $2,500,000.
The Cincinnati Southern Railroad
was opened on Monday to Chattanooga
i for treight business and Cincinnati
marked the event by a display of bun
ting and tiring artillery. One hundred
cai loads of freight started on the pion
eer train.
i )n Saturday the School Board officers
j of Cleveland, Ohio, commenced making
arrests with a visw of enforcing the
' Mate law punishing employers for hav
| ing children under 14 in their employ
i during school hours when not compell-
J ed to work on account of poverty.
The Pennsylvania steel works at Bald
win, east of Harrisburg, turned out on
1 Thursday, in 21 hours, tour hundred and
forty-two ton of *teel in seventy-one
heats, the Biggest day's woik ever done
in any steel works in the country.
Washington's birthday was celebrat
| ed by a military parade in which the
Mobile cadets participated. The Wasb
! ington Artillery celebrated their fortieth
j anniversary by the ceremony ot the un
veiling and dedication of a monument
!in Metairie cemetery. The attendance
was large, the lloral decorations attrac
tive and the ceremonies imposing.
A Cleveland, Ohio, despatch says:
| At three o'clock Monday afternoon
1500 barrels of oil escaped from a tank
at the Standard oil works. No 4 Broad
way, took fire, and a furious eonflagra
tion ensued, which threatened to envel
op the entire works at that point, the
company's central and principal works.
Biasing oil was Hosting on the creek
and river, making huge streams of (ire.
In the Court of Quarter Sessions at
Lancaster, on Monday, the cases of the
> ; Commonwealth vs. Peter iierdic were
called top trial, but the counsel for the
commonwealth announced that they
| had decided not to proceed with them,
j hut enter nollt pmsf/ui* upon all the
bills of indictment found and pending
against Herdic in lanca*ler county.
This disposition was approved by the
court, and lierdic was discharged.
A special meeting of the New York #
Chamber of Commerce was held on '
Saturday, when the subject of erecting
a suitable monument in Wall street to
commemorate the inauguration of Geo.
Washington as first President of the
United States was referred to a commit
tee to ascertain if a suitable aite could be
procured, and also what means could be
adopted to carry the project into execu
tion.
A fire broke out Friday night in the
fiveatory iron front building, 384 and
38$ Broadway, New York, and when
the roof fell in two firemen—Thomas
I). Dougherty and John F. Caaaidy
were thrown into the biasing abyss.
They clutched at the aide* of the build
! ing, but could not retain their hold,
and fell amid a cry of horror from the
spectators. The loss is said to be sl,-
050,000. The Ixtrillards owned the
building, valued at SSO 000. Hasen,
Todd* & Co.. lose $4Oi),000: Dickerhoff,
Ruffloer k Co.. $250,000; James Wilde,
Jr., * Co., $350,000,
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