<2% Centre A oemomit, SHUGKRT & FORSTER, Editors. VOL. 2. £nitre Torrnn 51.50 par Annum, tn Advance. S. T. SHUGERT and R. H. FORBTER. Editor.. Thursday Morning, May 13, 1880. Democratic State Ticket. r* at mix. Ji'&nt, OEORUK A. JKNKB, of J fferoii (Viinty. rit Aimtoa or.ximi, ROHKRT P. PECU KRT, of PhlladrlpbU. Democratic State Committee. The list of members of the Democratic Sute Committee not having been complete e<i at the State Convention, it i* respect fully requested that each member of the committee send his nme and P. O. address to the undersigned nt Lowisburg, Pa., n* soon as possible. A. 11. DILI., Chair'n. Tito Ourtin-Yocum Contest. The Congressional contest front this district was called up in the House of Representatives on last Saturday. Mr. Boltshoover, of the Cumberland dis- t riot of this State and a member of the Committee on Elections was given 1 the floor, aud he mnde au able and exhaustive argument in favor of the right of Gov. C'nrtin to the seat now occupied by Mr. Yocutn. The debate wax continued through Monday,and ou Tuesday a vote was reached. To the surprise of every one this vote awarded the seat to Mr. Yocutn. A synopsis of the proceeding* on Tuesday reads ax follows : Mr. Springer then called up the Curtin- Yocum election case. A gwxl deal of op qxwition was man if#-ted on both side# of the house to any extended debate, and a mo tion wa* made by Mr. Weaver that all de bate close in one minute. Sir. Colerick, who held the floor, declined to yield for that motion, but at the clo*e of 4ii# speech in favor of the contestant, a similar motion wa* made by Mr. Overton and it Wa# agreed to. The previous question was then ordered and Mr. Springer claimed the closing hour, yielding hit time, however, to Mr. Ryon (Pa.,) and Mr, Hpeer, who s|x>ke in sup port of the majority report. Then the House proceeded to vote upon the resolution#—the lirat one being taken on an amendment offered by Mr. Springer to the minority resolution declnring that Mr. Yocum is not entitled to the eat— }oa 75, nay* 113. This result is a surprise to the De mocracy of the twentieth district. With nn abiding faith in the justice of Gov. Curtin's cause they cannot imagine why twenty Democrats could lie found iu a Democratic House of Representative* so recreant "to duty and party fealty ax to vote in favor of the sitting member. The full fact* of the case we do not have before us and therefore forbear further comments until next week. It is enough to know that by a vote of 113 to 75 Andrew G. Curtin has been slaughter er! in the house of his supposed friends. We herewith append & black lixt of the reputed Democrats who voted against him: Aik-n, South Carolina Jfew, Indian*. Brrv, California. ORatlly, Vork. Hoick, W laron.in RU haniaoii. A Carolina. Origin, Tran.nM r. Ktchmou'l, Virginia. Cal.tw-H, K-ninrky. Singialoo I 111 no) < t'lialinar*, Mllaal|>|*. Sh.#l<t..D, Mlaala-ippl. K-liuti, (feorgla. Xtrphrna. <i.,.rgla ifenklr, Maryland. Sferroaon, lllinoi*. ll>Mt*it#r, Indiana. Slrmon#, Arkanaw. Mill*, T* Wright, Prnnaylrania. THE Anti-tbird term National Con vention which came aff at St. Louis last week, is said to have been conspic uous only for the absence of leading in fluential men of the Republican party, and may be considered a failure. This was not the kind of convention that politicians are eager to patronize. They might slip tip. Grant might pull through, aud the weight of a pro testing convention might become very inconvenient and heavy to carry. HECRETARYHCHURZ recently inform ed a gentleman that if Gen. Grant was nominated at Chicago be should imme diately retire from the Cabinet, or at least give the President au opportuni ty to appoint a new Secretary of the Interior. Mr. Bchurz will do this in the contingency named because he will not support Gen. Grant, and he takes it for granted that the administration would. "KqUAL AS!) KXACT JUST ICR TO AI.L MIS, OK WHATEVER STATE OR I'KRSUAKIOX, RELIOIOCM OR POLlTlCAL."—Jefferson AnUrow O. Curtin It is perhaps unnecessary for us to say to the numerous readers of the DEMOCRAT, that we deeply deplore the result reached on last Tuesday, hy the National House of Representatives in the contest of the distinguished gen tleman whose name heads this article and tho sitting member, Mr. S. 11. Yocura. It will be very difficult to ! convince the Democrats of the 20th j Congressional District of I'ennsyl- j vania that Governor Curtin was not 1 legally elected to speak for them in the couucils of the Natiou. There is a deep seated and firmly rooted con viction emboded in the minds of thir teen thousand true and faithful Dem ocrats in this district, which precludes the possibility of leading them to believe that the judgment of the | lower branch of Congress is either just j or conclusive as to the right of An drew G. Curtin to le a member of j that body. The evidence submitted ; was of such a character as to make ; Tuesday's action almost inexplicable. Certainly, if the Democratic majority, on the eve of an important presiden tial election, wished to alienate aud j render luke-wnrm a large and influcn- | tial body of Democrats, the vote on theCurtin-Yocum contest is susceptible i 'of intelligent explanation. The ablest j lawyers on both sides of the House > concurred in the opinion, that the tes timony was absolutely conclusive, as j to the claim of the contestant. There j never was at any stage of the investi- i gation, the slightest doubt expressed by the really responsible members of! the House as to the fairness and just- j ness of Governor Curtin's demand, ou behalf of his constituency, for the seat wrongly and fraudulently filled by another. It would reflect no addition al honor upon a man—whose name is emblazoned, for all time, upon the pages of American history as one of the grandest figures who ever made patriotic self-sacrifice and devotion to state and country a virtue to be emu lates! and venerated —to occupy a seat in the Congress of the I'oited States. The full measure of his honorable am bition was filled to overflowing, and in every household in the land the name of the great War Governor was spoken with hated breath, while the maimed soldiers, stricken orphnus and grateful bcnificinries of the magnificent charities he inaugurated fur the bene fit of those who had suffered while fighting to the death for the flag he loves so well could find no words with which to pour forth their boundless gratitude to the man, who spent the best years of his life in their behalf. When the party to which he hail given his allegiance became so corrupt as to make it dishonorable for au honest man to be identified with it, Governor Curtin resigned the commission which he held at it* hands, as the Minister Plenipotentiary to one of the proudest and most powerful courts of Europe, and returned to his native country to join with Sumner, Greeley, Dooiitlle, Trumbull, Palmer and otheo* in a re volt against its methods. He at ouce heartily co-operated with the Demo cratic party. In 1872 he gave his cordial and enthusiastic support to Charles R. Buckalew, the Democratic candidate for Governor, and also gave his adherence to tho Democratic Na tional ticket. From that time until the present he has consistently advo cated the men and measures put forth by the party of constitutional freedom. In 1876 he carried the banner of Democratic reform through the great States of Indiana and Ohio. Thomas A. Hendricks was unstinted in his praise of the admirable manner in which Governor Curtin conducted the campaign in his State, and attributed to him much of the tucCess which crowned the cause of Democracy in that memorable contest. He has cheer fully given his time and money to further the aim* of the party which he baa honored hy bestowing upon it the mature judgment of his ripened years. He is the tried and trusted friend of BELLEFONTE, I'A., THURSDAY, MAA' 18, 1880. all the great leaders of the Democratic party, aud bo can well afford that the House of Representatives should stul tify itself by refusiug to place bis name upon its roll of members. It is not our intentiou to review the action of the House or to revert to tho causes which made this contest a ne cessity. Those inside the Democratic party who so far forgot themselves as to levy war upon Andrew G. Curtin in 1878 cau now draw all the satisfaction that Tuesday's result will afford them. It may not be improper to say now, that no man in this district can ride iuto power over the dead political hotly of Governor Curtin. There is a Nemesis inside the Democratic party in this dis trict which will pursue with unrelent ing bate the parties who have connived at the overthrow of one of the noblest men who ever lent bis name to a politi cal cause. Now we will see the jackals flock around the wounded liou and glory in his fall. Rut have a carc. This chapter is ended, und another and more interesting one is about to lie commenced. Its finale may uot lie so gratifying to political traitors. It may lie more dramatic, and it cer tainly will be more satisfactory to men who contemn treachery. THE colored Republicans of the South, who compose mainly the Re publican vote of that section, arc very earnest in claiming the right to pre sent the candidate for Vice President ou the Republican ticket. This recog nition of the colored people of the United States who form so prominent a part of the voting strength of the party, is certainly reasonable and due to them. When they offer so able a mail, one so unexceptionable, both in character and position, as Senator Bruce, of Mississippi, the claim has force and may not b4 dir missed with a sneer. The Republican party do not hesitate to proclaim their right to the colored vote, but recognition of Republican equality when offices are to lie disposed of, is rarely made in favor of the colored voter. Here is an opportunity, however, that chal lenges Republican sincerity, and from which the colored voters may learn a useful lesson as to what extent they arc regarded—whether as the mere freatures or slave* of party will, or party equality. THE third-term army have met many apparent reverses during the last week, but in most cases have re tained a straggling adherence that may ultimately ennblo them to recover position. The great battle now is in Illinois. It is likely to be the cul minating point in the decision of the final result at the Chicago convention. Grant is in personal command, but is pressed with great spirit by the Mulli gan Guards, who seem to be organized in great force, well disciplined, and encouraged by many successes in vari ous section* of the State. But still the Duke of America is a commander of rare ability. He may meet re pulses, but, like General Taylor, is never conscious of defeat, and until the final action comes off in the Illi nois convention the Mulligans cannot count a victory. This, however, will lie a final decision of the result of the cauvass for the Republican nomination for I'resideot. If Grant loses his own State his case is hopeless, and he will probably retire from the field, a wiser man than lie entered it, in realizing that the unwritten law of the Republic, acknowledged by Washington, Jeffer son, and other small men who preced ed him in the Presidential office, is not a mere myth. VERY disastrous oil Rod forest fires are prevailing near Bradford, McKean county. A large number of oil wells have been destroyed, and many tanks holding firom ten thousand to twenty five thousand barrels have been burated and their contents released in lakes of burning flame. The destruction of houses and other property has been very great. Tho Lato Veto The impression seems to prevail very generally that the Fraudulent Executive not only committed a dis astrous political blunder in vetoing the deficiency bill, on account of the fair and equitable proposition it con tained for the appointment of deputy marshals, but also made an egregious ass of himself in assigning as the reason for so doing that be could not approve a Hill having a rider upon it. At the same time he approved the army appropriation bill, with the rider to prevent the employment of the troops as a police at the polls. This gave full proof of the hypocrisy of his reason* for the veto, and stamp ed the act a* that of a fool or knave, in eithel view one discreditable to the Executive, and not defensible by hi* partisans. The proposition itself, be ing so fair and unobjectionable, pro viding for the payment of deputy mar shals employed at elections when ap pointed by the District courts in equal numbers from the different parties, and requiring them to bo of good moral character, was framed by Mr. Garfield, accepted by the Democrats and incorporated in the bill ax a fair adjustment of a vexed question, and an admitted wrong. Rut the Fraud's veto has re-opened the fight, and in vited a context in which be and bis party can gain nothing but dishonor ami defeat. Congress cannot surren der and vote to permit the funds of the Government to lie used for the pur ine of employing n partisan police fdpee to *upervie the elections of the |)ople. If such ofti< , er* arc needed to secure fair elections they certainly should not hg appoiutcd in the exclu sive interests of a single political pnr tv. This fart will commend itself to UAr'judgment of *NTV fair minded ntan iu the county, and that it may be known to our reader* what it was that Hayes vetoed, we present the rider precisely nx it passed Congress. It is a resolution in these words : " Remit etd, Thst hereafter special Depu ty Marshal* of Elections, for performing soy duties in reference to any election, •hall receive the mm of fp.-r day in full for their compen-alion, aid that all appointments of such Deputy Marshals •null he made hy the Circuit Court of the United Slates jor the district in which such marshals are to perform their duties ; hot should there ho no >es*i<>n of the Cir cuit Courts in the States or districts where Such marshals are to b appointed, then and in that case the District .Judge# are hereby authorised to convene their IV.urt# ft>r the aforesaid purpose, said deputies to he appointed in equal numbers from the different political parlies, and tho |>er*<>n* So appointed shall be well known residents Cf the voting precinet in which their duties are to be performed. ' As we before remarked, this propo sition came from Garfield, and when first presented to the House, wax, with a few exceptions, endorsed even by the Republicans, and to-day the Republi can press is not slow to acknowledge the blunder of Mr. Have*. The Phila delphia Evening Telegrajth, an able and thoughtful Republican journal, iu the Ipotirxe of its comments upon the veto, makes the following forcible remarks upon the merits of the rejecter! resolu tion ami the wrong sought to Ire reme died by it: " We think that every intelligent, fair minded man, who prefer# an bone*l method of doing thing* to a di*hone#t one, and who believe* that it can be better secured through the intervention of the eminent judge* of the Ignited State* Circuit or District Court* than through the average United HtaUw Marshal, will *ay that the principle therein sought to he made the law i* wi#e, Ju*t and fair. First of all let it be understood that the clause which the President rejected, without making any criticism whatever upon it* merit* i* not a Democratic measure, hut a Republican one the work of that staunch Republican, Denoral (tsrffeld, elected by the Repub lican voters of his district not long ago a* a Republican Representative, and since elected by a Republican Legislature a* a Republican Senator. No one question* his Inyalily to hi* party or to hi* country, and he i* the sole author of the wicked rider to the Deflciency bill which the President vetoed." The clause relative to the appoint ment of deputy marshals will now probably be passed in a separate bill and presented in that shape for ap proval, and if agaiu vetoed will be conclusive that the Republican Ex ecutive is determined to force Con gress to provide an election fund from tha treasury for the employment of political bummers to corrupt and con trol the elections in the interest of the Republican gnd that the exe cution of the Federal election laws must.be partisan, aud not general for the public benefit, as contemplated by the bill. If the Republicans, to ob tain an unfair political advantage, can ■ aflbrd to go to the people on the issue this cose will present, and defeat the passage of the deficiency bill, the De mocraey can well afford to let them try the experiment. Au extra session, called by the Fraudulent President to correct bis own stupid blunder, should carry no terrors to the Democracy. If the polls must be policed by Federal authority, let the poliee be non-parti* ] san, or nt the cost of the parly axing ! them. THE retired lixt of the United States army is quite resectable in its propor tions, and the amount paid is very considerable. From a statement just prepared at the office of the adjutant general, it is shown that there are five major-generals,eighteen brigadier-gen" ends, fifty-nine colonels, thirty-four lieutenant-colonels, forty-nine majors, one hundred and forty-three captains, seventy-seven firsj lieutenants, fifteen second lieutenants and eight chaplains on the retired lixt. Up w December# 31st last the aggregate amount paid to these officers from the date of being placed ou the retired list was $5,910,- 378. The largest annual pay to a retired major-general is $5,625; to a brigadier-general £4,12-1; to a colonel $3,375; to a lieutenant-colonel 83,060; to a major $2,62-); to a captain $2,100; to a first lieutenant $1,575.50; to a second lieutenantsl,47o.so; to a chap lain SI,BOO. The large majority in all the grades receive the largest pay. It should be stated that the number of major-generals <>n the retired list has I been reduced to four by the death ; within the la*t few days of General Heintxelman. THE Chicago, or Cook county, Re puhlicau* had a free fight on Monday last at their county convention, which resulted in the withdrawal of the Grant delegates, the organization of two con ventions and the choice of a double delegation to the Sintc Convent ion. The friends of Blaine and Washburne united and with the aid of the chair man of the county com mi tiee obtained control, although it is claimed that the third-termers equaled in number the amalgamated force*. Thi* was an important convention with a *ufficieut number of delegates, when thrown to either of the candidates, to coutrol the result in the State. The end is not yet —the fight will lie renewed in the State Convention. THE " strong-minded " in motion. The Washington branch of the Nat ional Women's Suffrage Association, has appoint**! two District delegates to attend each of the National Con ventions. Those appointed for the I)cmocratic Convention at Cincinnati are Mrs. Sarah J. Messcr, ami Mrs. Sarah A. OlcutL Whether they are Tilden men, is not stated, but we in fer they arc, as he is the only eligible bachelor on the list of democratic aspirants. THE Ohio Democracy . have hon ored themselves in giving a solid delegation instructed for Senator Thur tnan for President, They could not have conferrcd this compliment upon a better man, or one more deserving the bearly confidence and highest respect of the whole country. THE report of .Senator Wallace upon the disfranchisement of foreign born citizens iu the State of Rhode Island will be found upon the seventh page of this paper. It is a paper that will repay the reader who gives it a careful study. We hope that every one will read it. THK iron boom, which run up to high figures in the early spring, seems to have collapsed. Within ten days, according to the Pittsbnrg Pod, twenty furnaces in that city have gone out of blast on account of thl glutted market for pig-iron. TERMS: #1.50 per Annum, in Advnnfe. GENERAL NEWS. Senator Krmen trout, of Heading, will write a history of the Pennsylvania German*. The data will be furnished by Professor Home, of Kerks county. The jiresent daily production of slate quarries along the Pougbkeepsie and New Kngland Hail way* is 120 carloads, and this can be doubled when the company is ready to more the slate. William P. Haingerfield, presiding judge of tbe Superior Court at San Francisco, dropped dead on the bench from heart disease, recently. He was a native of Virginia and was .V< year* of age. A mining company at St. Claire, 111., dis|>en*ed with the service* of a hun dred men at fl a day by the use of jabor saving machinery : but the gain is not yet apparent, for they have had to employ fifty men at $2 a day to guard the machinery. On Friday last Secretary Thompson embarked on the United States steamer Tallapoosa, accompanied by a number of members of Congress, and proceeded to Norfolk, to visit the Knterprise com mander, J. O. Selfridge, which has'just arrived from the Mediterranean. The Secretary of War proposes legis lat ion at this session of Congress creat ing in his office a "land title division," to collect, record and file the transfer deeds to the department of land occu pied for millitary purposes, the estimat ed value of whirn is now about $200,- 000.000. Joaquin Miller has been to California, an<l is shocked by the social decadence and business dry-rot in San Francisco, and remarks that nothing erer happen ed so disastrous to the Pacific States as the building of the Pacific railroad. It became at once a sort of siphon, which let in a stream of weak and worthless people, and gave the bravo young States there all the vanities and vices of the East, with none of the virtues. Intense excitement prevails about New Hanover, five mile* north of Pottstown, over the continued absence of an 8 year old daughter of 11. M. Yost, a farmer. The child disappeared a week ngo, and her parents thought he bad gone on a visit to her grand father, Hon. Isaac F. Yost, who lives a mile or so away; hut this was not the case, and now it is believed she ha* lecn stolen. Search is being made in every direction, but no clue as to her whereabouts has yet been obtained. It is asserted by letter writers at Hot Springs, Ark., that there are more rogues of every degree, confidence men oF su perior audacity, and young men without visible means of support, to the acre in Hot Springs than in any other section of the country of equal population that can be named. A young clergyman from Texas, who was trying the hot water, found himself in hotter water than he ex|*ected. He was invited up the mountain side to see a magnesia spring just discovered. In half an hour he was minus his silver watch and wallet containing all his money. At last Saturday's session of the Women's Foreign Missionary Society, t Columbus, < duo. the several branches reported their total receipts for the past vear as follows : New England branch, sl2 019; New York branch. 113.174; Philadelphia branch. s<"> 500 ; Baltimore branch. $12,; Northwestern bianch, $16,737, and Western branch, $9,670. I This is the largest collection made in any year since the organisation of the - society. Helegatca were received from the missionary organisations connected with the Episoopal Church, the Ameri can P-oard and Union Society. Col. Fred. Graut is reported as saying recently to a prominent Illinois Repub lican: "My father says that there may come a time in the history of the Re public when it may l>e to the vital in terest of the jteople of this country to nominate a President for a third term, and when precedents set by Washing ton and Jefferson would stand in the way of the common welfare. It there fore becomes important to get that ob struction to the safety of the Republic out of the way. My father says he is in a position to make that trial and win that victory against a pdhlic superstition about a. dangerous precedent. Mr. James Rednath, who bu lately been traveling in Ireland aa a oew*p per correspondent, gave a lecture in New York on laat Thursday night, on "The Irish Famine and the Irish Land lord*.'' Famine and landlords, be aaid, "were the twin curaee of Ireland. The real cau*c of the periodical famine*." he argued, "were landlord abeolutiam and absenteeism and unrestrained rack rent*. By the present system 6,000 or 7,000 landlords got out of the land #90,000.000 a year, while they did noth ing but hunt a fox or the peasants. The government which permits this ex tracted #35.000,000 more, and there waa left only about $50,000,000 to feed and clothe 5,000,000 inhabitant*." At a meeting of the directors of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company in Philadelphia laat week, Oeorge B. Rob erts waa elected a member of the Board and president of the company, vice Col. ncolt, to take effect June 1. - A committee waa appointed to submit at tha next meeting a revised organisation for the management of the company. Mt. Roberta began his connection with tha company as rod man in the engi neer corps in 1851, leaving the service of the company in 1852, and tor ten yean after waa actively engaged in the construction of various important rail way lines in Pennsylvania. In 1862 ha returned to the seta iue of the company and waa chosen assistant to the presi dent on account of his marked admin istrative capacity. In 1869 ha waa elected fourth, in 1872 imnd, and in 1874 flrat vice-president, a NO. 20.
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