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VOL. 2.
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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.