sl)c Centre A Democrat
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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. <n the other hand
tb* committee have teen fit to intro
duce several declarations which in no
wis* reflect the general opinion of the
part#, and which are calculated to ex
cite'dissent and confusion. Of these,
that* against the Chinese is, perha]>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,<KH),IHMI a year at
the critical jx-rifKl when a surplus rev
enue was necessary to the accumula
tion of a fund with which to resume
*|ecie payments, and after the Repub
lican party had utterly failed to res-
IKind to the demand for retrenchment."
t is a* gratifying as it is exceptional
to find so much truth ami candor in a
journal of the Radical faith.
THE I-HEWTIOE HONK! Don has
fallen and fails to meet the expecta
tions of his admirers, llis inefficien
cv as a lieutenant, and his whinin
apjtcals to lie spared removal from his
chairmanship will disenchant many
who looked upon him as the great
mogul in Pennsylvania politics. He
ought not to have vcfitured so far from
home without the companionship of
the paternal Cameron. The manage
ment of a great menagerie in Chicago
is quite a different thing from the con
trol of a monkey show in Pennsylvania.
I>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,
<m Monday, Juno llth, the Leavenworth
Katies* Tim**, of April 14th, ha* thia
to ay :
" The above named e>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. <n Saturday the remains of her
Imperial Majeaty were conveyed to the
palace chapel in an open collin. borne
t>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.