sl)c Centre A Democrat SHUUKRT & FOUNTKR, Editors. VOI.. Site Crntrc gtwotrat. Txrmi $1.50 per Annum,in Advance. S. T SHUGERT and R. H. FORSTER, Edilort. Thursday Morning, June 10, 1880. Democratic State Ticket. FOB 81 I'KEMB Jl'DOl, UEoKUK A. .lENKS, of County. roB Al HI Toft OEMMUL, HoIIKRT P. DBCHKHT, of Philadelphia. 808 INOKRSOI.I. has been in attend ance at the Chicago Convention, and is forced to modify his views very materially, lie is now satisfied there is a lull. Evidence of its existence in the convention was so manifest that Robert could no longer doubt. ENGLISH, the desperate outlaw of Elk county, is still at large. lie is fully armed, and expresses his deter mination not to lie taken alive. He spent two nights last week ou the low er brauch of the Sinuemabouing, and talks freely of the murder be com mitted. HEBREWS need not apply. Lacli micr, proprietor of the St. Mafks Hotel at Staten Island, N. Y., has giv en notice that no Hebrews need apply for accommodation at the St. Mark, during the present season. It will doubtless caus/great distress in Jeru salem when it is known that a nar row minded blockhead up in New- York cannot afford to divide bis hos pitality with the Israelites. DAVID MOCAT, of Philadelphia, one of the Pennsylvania representatives at Chicago, seeking the nomination of the pluiued knight a the Republican can didate for President, is to lie placed upon trial for gross election frauds on his return. He endeavored to avoid a trial by techuical objections to the bill of indictment, hut the court has overruled them, and this President maker will havu to go upon his trial. Mount may go to the penitentiary, hut that wilj not keep Republican politi cians from prating about a pure bal lot. What a pure set they are! • Now for the Greenbackcrs! Chi cago is favored with another National Convention this week. The Grecn hdekera went into council there yes terday, and it is to be hoped they will he more orderly than the conven tion in session during the last ten days. Those choice spirits of order and decency, Kalloch and Kearney of California, are to participate iu its deliberations, which assures calm and intelligent consideration of the im jsirtant issues to be discussed. The leading candidates for the I'residential nomination are B. F. Butler, of Massa chusetts, and the decayed humbug of Pennsylvania, Hendrick B. Wright, with, perhaps, Frank Uughes and Brick Pomcroy, hid in the woods a dark horses. THE Wallace committee, says the Washington Void, which has done good service in exposiug the rascalities of election deputy marshals, and the bribery and corruption prevalent in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, has lieeu authorized to continue its valu able labors during the recess of Con gress. There is much work for this committee yet to perform. It has brought to light many startling facts. It has shown—so conclusively—that the sole purpose for which the election deputies have been employed has been to increase the Radical vote, not only at the cost of the public treasury, but the expense of decency, good order and outrageous violations of personal lilierty. There are few more disgrace ful chapters in our political history than the testimony of Ilepulican offi cials in relation to work of deputies in New York and Philadelphia, while the story of disfranchisement aud in timidation in Rhode Island and Mass achusetts has given the country a viv id conception of the possibilities of Radicalism. But the field has thoroughly worked. The facts adduc ed are but suggestive hints of what is to come. "KqL'AL ANI) KX ACT it'STICK TO A LI, MKN, OF WIIATKVK.It BTATK OR PKRADAHION, KKLIOIOCK OK POLITICAL.J<*(feroii. Ourflold and Arthur. After a week of acrimonious ami desperate conflict between the cohorts of Grant, Blaine ami Sherman, the convention at Chicago, on Tuesday afternoon, settled the contest by casting aside the prominent candidates aud placing the honors of a nomination upon the shoulders of GeiKfFal James A. Garfield, of Ohio. This was ac complished after thirty-five ballots had becu taken iu which the members of the convention adhered to their fa vorites with remarkable tenacity. Starting with the first ballot on .Mon day, Grant had .'lO4 votes, Blaine 284, Sherman, fl.'l, Edmunds 34, Washburne 30 aud Wimloin 10. On the 35th ballot, Grant had 313, Blnine 257, Sherman 111), Edmunds 11, Wash burne 33, Windom 3, and Garfield 5. At this point came the break. Weary with the week's strife and convinced of the hoplessness of the effort to nom inate Blaine, the friends of the plumed knight stampeded almost in mass to the reverend soldier statesman of Ohio and secured his nomination—the form al ballot, the 36th, resulting as fol lows: Garfield 301), Graut 306, Blaine 42, Sherman 3, and W ashburne 5. Associated with Garfield, we have the name of Chester A. Arthur, of New- York, for Vice President. This ticket is by no menus a strong one. On the Republicans it has fallen with a cobl chill. Many may regard it as respectable, though very few have received it with anything like enthu siasm. (iarfield is a man in the prime of his years—being alxmt forty-eight— and has for a long time been in pub lic life. He began his career as a lawyer and preacher, and was for a short period connected with a literary, iustitution. lie served iu the Union army during the war of the relied ion, but gained little or no distinction as a soldier, Before the close of the war he was elected to the lower branch of Congress from the strong Republican district of the Western Reserve, com posed of the counties of Ashtabula, Geauga, Lake, Mahoning and Trum bull, and has continued a member of the House ever since. At the last session of the Ohio legislature he was chosen United States Senator to suc ceed Mr. Thurman whose term ex pires on the fourth of March next. While Ciarfield has learning and ability, he lacks force of character, and there is much in his public record that will not stand the light of day. As soldier he was more useful as a member of a military commission formed to convict than a* a fighting man in the field, and it was while serving on n hoard of thnt kind thut he aided in passing an unjust sentence upon Fitz .John Porter. In his civil career, as a member of Congress, there are also dark spots that will trouble his friends to wash clean. For in stance, in that disgraceful credit mo hilier business his name was found in the celebrated memorandum book car ried by (lakes Ames. It can also be charged that he figured with one I)e (Jolyer in n swindle upon the city of Washington through a pavement eon tract. These things will require ex planation before Mr. (larfield can be regarded by the people of the United Status as one worthy of their confi dence and support. He served as a leading member of the infamous elec toral commission that aided so much in cheating the people out of their honestly elected President in 1876. This will likewise be remembered and must be avenged by every lover of fair play and of bouesty in public af fairs. Chester A. Arthur, the tail of the ticket, is a New York politician at one time connected with tbe custom house in that city. He has never done anything to show special fitness for the Vice Presidency and why he should have been chosen for the place over men like Hawley and Woodford, or even Bruce, is hard to understand. The Chicago managers have done their work in a manner that is entirely satisfactory to Democrats. They have placed before the country a weak ticket that is certain to lie defeated. BKLI.EFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, JUNE 10, IHKO. Answor tho Questions < 'eusus enumerators here as well as elsewhere seem to have some difficulty in some cases in securing the proper answers to their questions. Many people seem to be ignorant of the fact that answering these questions is com pulsory upon them. The law upon this subject is very explicit and it is published below for general informa tion. In order that the census enumerator may have authority to compel the full replies to the questions for inform ation, a section of the law regulating the census fixes a fine or imprison ment for non-compliance. The act states: SKI . 14. That each anil every person more than 20 vear of age, belonging to any family residing in any enumeration district, and in case of the absence oi the head* and other members of any such family, then any agent of such family, shhll be, and ench of tbe party is required if thereto requested by the Superintendent, supervisor or enumerator, to render a true account to tho lx-t of bis or her knowledge of every person belonging to such family, in the various particulars required by law, arid whoever shall willfully fail or refuse shall be guilt}* of a misdemeanor, and upon condition shall forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding SIOO. And every president, secretary, treasurer, general agent, or managing director of every corporation from which answers to any of the sched ules provided for by this act are herein re-juired, who shall, if thereto requested by the superintendent, supervisor or enum erator, wilfully neglect or refuse to give true and complete answers to any of the inquiries authorized by this act, such offi cers or agent shall forfeit and pay a sum of not less than SSOO, or more than SIO,OOO, to bo recovered in action of debt, in any court of competent jurisdiction, in the name and to the use of the United States, and in addition thereto shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof -hall he imprisoned for a term not exceed ing one year. HKC. 6. That >ll fines arid penalties im puted by this act may be inforced by in dictment or bjr appropriate action at law in any court of competent jurisdiction where such olf'nnces have lieeh committed or forfeitures incurred. THE EATON BILL, providing for the 1 appointment of n commission to revise I the tariff, has passed the Senate. The commission is to lie composed of nine members, to he appointed by the Pres ident, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to receive as compensation 810 jor diein when on actual duty, with actual traveling aud other necessary expenses, aud with power to nppoint a stenographer and messenger. It is to "fake into consid eration and thoroughly iuvestignte all the various questions relating to the agricultural, commercial, mercantile, manufacturing, mining and ibdustrial interests of the United States, so far as the same may be necessary to the establishment of a judicious tariff, or a revision of the existing tariff, and the system of interu&i revenue law, upon a scale of justice to all interests; and for the purpose of fully examin ing the matters which may come be fore it, said commission in to visit such different portions and sections of the country as it may deem advisable." The commission is required to make final report of the result of the inves tigation on the Ist Monday of Janua ry, 1881. If the bill passes the House iin|>ortant results may accrue from this commission in fixing a more uni form and equitable rate of duties. At any rate it will have the merit of tiding over a vexed question which tho present Congress seems to approach with great tremor, even so far as it is asked to relieve the country and the public intelligence from some most unwarranted and unnecessary bur dens. But even delay in this particu lar may be compensating, if the com mission is honestly chosen, and will honestly investigate with a purpose of eliminating the tariff question from party politics, and so far as possible relieving the people of onerous du ties laid with a view to enrich partic ular interests at the expense of the masses. A tariff for protection mere ly is wrong in principle, never can be stable or justifiable, and in the end works disastrously to those who ex pect to profit by it, and is a down right oppression and fraud upou the people generally. 1 111 ~ ——- C/ONKLlNO,Cameron,Logan! "Fare well, a long farewell, to all our great noes!" The Republican Platform The platform of priuciplcH adopted by the Republican* at ("hicago weem* to be a* wishy-washy as the ticket made up of (iarfield and Arthur. Even leading Republican newspupors are disgsuted with it. Heur the New York Times: When the Committee on Resolutions turn from their account of the past to coniider the present and the future, they fall, we regret to suy, even further below tho level of the task assigned them. They fail to clearly understand the issue* which are actually involved in the pending contest, and they ap pear incapable of formulating the sen tirnoot anil conviction of the party with reference to them either with accuracy or vigor. For tin* failure and for this incapacity sincere Republicans have a distinct right to criticise them with severity. The committee unque* tionably bad a vague idea of the gener al views of the party—its conviction that the National Government ha* the power and should assume the duty to protect every citizen in the free and complete exercise of tb suffrage in na tional elections and its desire tiiat the results which have been obtained from the financial policy of the Government while under Republican control should he made secure; but upon both these subjects they have expressed them selves with singular lack of precision and completeness. They make not the remotest reference to any possible poli cy for the future regarding the curren cy, either the legal tenders or the silver. Their illusion to the tar ill' is a foolish repetition of the platform of 1 870, and eiiostl that they have no conception of the change which has taken place in the sentiment of the party and of the whole country since then, or of the duty and the obligation whicb present themselves in this connection at the preeCnt moment. s, the conspicuous for its tniiiadroil cieer and its obvious spirit of buncombe. It iadntendad to catch votes on the Pa cific taoast, but bids for sectional votes are aot in order in a national platform, and tiiia one adds to the fault of tiar lltsl of ambiguity amounting almost to .to purity . Tl.o rMolution mIU nothing sufficiently definite for legisla tive action, hut only seems to ask what a purely local and by no means entire ly rational sentiment for the moment require*. Another of the declarations which do not express the general senti ment of the parly is that in favor of an amendment to the Federal Constitution forbidding appropriations by the sever al States in aid of sectarian schools. However op|>osed so such appropria tions Republicans as individuals may he and they arc not entirely unanimous even in this—not one in a thousand of the parly lias even considered the no tion.of forbidding them in the Federal Constitution. The pro|*>sition is an ill considered one; it i* not a fair ex pression of any con viction of the party, and it does not deserve a place in a . national platform. 1* THK FlKl.lt. The iufamous Bto 7 Electoral Commission is now fairly in the field. The nomination of (iar field by the lk-publican National Con vention mukcs the fraud by which the Presidential office was stolen and the verdict of the people at the bal lot box set at nought a rfireef issue. The Republican nominee was an ac tive member of that commission, and contributed largely in consummating the fraud. The challenge thus made will be cheerfully met by the Democ racy, with a determination to vindi cate the integrity of ofir free institu tions, as well as to render odious the traitors who assailed them by the out rageous acts in which the Republican candidate was one of the infamous 8. GEN. GORDON, who recently resign ed his seat in the United States Senate, ma<|e a speech at a recent reception given him at Augusta, Ga., in which he confessed that he was an aspirant for Vice President, but declared it was on Mrs. Gordon's ticket, and that the Senate over which be will preside is composed of the little Gordons at his subnrban home near Atlanta. THE friends of Bruce, the colored Senator from Mississippi, so auxious for his nomination for the Vice Presi dency, had a painful experience at Chicago. They learned to their sor row that when nominations for high offices are to be made, "no niggers uoed apply." BLAINE was the first to send con gratulations to Garfield. We do not believe the third termers had any to extend in that direction. THE field of honor must L>e a curi ous patch of ground, (joss ami liyan, our own dearly beloved exernplurs of the noble art of punching, met a short time ago and punished each other severely with their fist-'. The papers all called the place on which they made beasts of themselves the field of honor. The other day the Marquis Gil I)e Olivers and the Count lie Lurili, two Spanish noblemen, hied them selves from the enervating sun of Cas tile to Belgium, where Mr. Gil J)e Olivers succeeded in sending Mr. He Lardi to the happy hunting grounds. The cnblegrnm which announced this pleasant item of "news had something to say about the field of honor. Fol lowing closely upon this the intel ligence reached us that M. Henri Rochefort, the huiii.thcd Parisian jour nalist, and M. Koechline, had met on the field of honor on the Belgian frontier, and that M. Henri Roche fort hud enriched the soil of the German dependency to the tune of several quarts of good, rich, red blood, the result of an incision made by the deftly handled sword of M. Koech line. The field of honor was also casually mentioned in connection with this inspiring information. Altogeth er the field of honor is getting badlv mixed up, and we suggest that an in- ternational commission composed of Gow, Ryan, Hilly Kd wards, l'aul I>e (assagnac, M. 1 I<*i>ri Hocbefort aud the Marquis Gil I)*- Oliver* be called to settle the houndaric!< of thin much abused "field." THE Springfield Republican, in an editorial on Mr. lioar'a wild and inco herent tirades against the Democracy, reminds that narrow-guage -talesmen of "the evil of appointing under Fed eral power number lex* official* in doubtful rilio, of ono |*rty and par tixan in character, to exercise uoi merely National authority but wide- Hweeping aud often corrupt party in fluence upon the rexult of elections." In the same connection the Republican say* the Democratic party "cut down the ex|>en*es 8 |O,on was not equal to it. The elephant was too large and obstreperous. RITIIKHPORII B. HAYES received one vote in the Chicago convention, and the Philadelphia Time* thinks the man who inflicted that indignity upon him should have been taken from the convention nnd put into a Federal office without a moment's delay. THE Reverend General DeGolyer Credit Mobilier Electoral Commission | Garfield will not make the strongest candidate for President ever nominated for that exalted position, and our Re publican friends will be convinced of that fact long before next November. WHEN the famous stock jobber, Jay Gould, found that he couldn't secure Blaine h took the next best for his purposes that was before the conven tion. His friends forced the nomina tion of Garfield. "OITR OI.D COMMANDER," retiree to the quiet shades of Galena, and his peaceful slumbers will ne'er again be broken by visions of a third term. THE Plumed Knight took it all this time without a sun stroke. TERMS: $1.50 per Annum, in Advance. hit lii. CISTSI liiMoci.r. The Battle of the Bosses. When the l'lumed Knight takes the water, and it forced unconditionally to surrender to Sherman's first lieutenant as a last resort, and kick at Grant's 306 co horts by securing the nomination of Gar field, of Ohio, for the Presidency after the 85th ballot, satisfied that Cameron and Conkling's " unit rule " and " third term " is jkj!itical)y kilt, arid our "old command er" laid upon the shelf for all time to come by the fusiliers and stipendiaries, white and black, of the Convention, the result may be considered the political death of both Grant and lilaine. fio mote it he. But whut is to become of Cameron s little chieftians in this county ? What {.art will they act? True, they acted faithfully to Cameron's commands, a* they are in the habit of doing whenever he sounds the clarion. In due time he will no doubt give them the cue they are to play, and it will be their obeisance to obey —as he has their fealty and servility. W*Ki-nn V SAXDS SHOW. —Of Wt-UL A Sand*' Oiow, which will l>e in Jielleforile, tablihment made a better diiplay on our itreeti yenterday morning than ever occurred on a iimilar occasion. Thousand* of poople lined the itrcet#, and every window seemed full of expectant humanity, with three band* playing, plumea waving, beautiful iadier, gallant knight* in armor, and an uiually brilliant array of cage*, van, chariot*, I'te chief* in hunting eotum* mounted, the electric light engine, iteatn piano play ing it* lively strain*, cameU in harness, rnirth provoking mardi gra character*, and certainly the largest and tmalbwt elephant* ever oen here ; enortnou* crowd* attended the afternoon and evening bow. The entire exhibition was the moot satis factory that ha* ever vikited Leavenworth, the management fulfilled all the promise* made by them through their advertise ment*." ODDS AND ENDS. Mr. A. J. • aaaatt haa been promotes! from Third to First Vice President of the Penniylvania Railroad in place of Mr. ItoberU who succeed* OoL Soott aa PrMwiant Mr. Haye* h.ia approvod the bill ap propriating SIOO,OOO for an emblematic and commemorative monument over the site of Cornwall)*' surrender at Yorktown, Va. A three-year old daughter of Archi bald Thompson, of Brandywine Village, Pel., we* burned to death on Sunday by her clothing catching fire from tome matches with which she waa playing. Mr*. Joseph Pushnell, of Titusville, died in that piece the other day from e singular cause. Her father died of erysipelas last week and her blood was poisoned by kiasing bis dead body. Mrs. RushnelPa little daughter, File, kissed her mother and is not expected to live. The Kmpress of Russia died when asleep and none of the members of the Imperial family were present, as they were not aware that her death was so near. y the czar,and eighteen grand dukea. Ir. Renjamin Becker, of Pottsville, who ha* reached hi* 80th year, ha* been admitted with bis wife to the Schuylkill t'ouuty Almshouse. He twice amassed a fortune and lost it each time in spec illation. At one time he was superin tendent of the almshouse of which he ia now an inmate. Col. A. C. Noyes, who holds a claim of H'iOO against the M. K. Church, of We*t|Krt, haa agreed to cancel the claim if the congregation will raise money enough to put the church in re pair. The Colonel once replied to a minister who asked him whether be belonged to the Church at that place, by saying that "the cburoh belonged to me." A Pennsylvania paper says that Col. Thos. A. Scott has never been a heavy holder of Pennsylvania stock until re cently, when he increased hi* holding* to a matter of two thousand shares. He is believed to be worth $3,000,000 to $5.000 000, and hia income ia put at $*200,000. The Philadelphia ledger says it has no means of verifying this statement, but presumes it is correct. The mints are still turning out $2,- 000,000 of silver a month, and the dead mass in the treasury vaults weighs over five hundred ton*. This ia in the New York sub-treasury alone, where there are $28,000,000 in silver. It pus ties the treasury department to know where to store it all. Merchants don't care to have it in circulation but still the stamping prooess goes steadily for ward. An ezcadet, who resigned from West Point beduM he whaled a colored cadet, relate* the little incident at follow!: "Subsequently, in discussing the matter, myself and P. D. Grant, who was in my claim, bounced the color ed boy and gave him a severe drubbing, beating him over the head with a tent peg and laying him up for a time. An investigation into the aflair was had, the matter of beating the colored boy was sifted down to myself and young Grant and we were both notified that we oould resign or be discharged. P.itber young Grant or I had to go and I went. NO. 24.