SIIUUKRT A FORSTKR, Editors. VOL. 2. She (Cnittr stroocr.ff. Terms 81.AO per Annnm. in Advance. S. T. SHUGERT and R. H. FORSTER, Editor*. Thursday Morning, June 17, 1880. Democratic State Ticket. Volt t PRBMR JtllMlK, OKoRiiK A. .IKNKS, of JcfTVrwou County. rk AVUITOR o.ssiblo means, attempted to convince aud sat isfy the masses of the people that there was a plain and clear distinction be tween the principles and policy of the Republican party and " QrantUm That the former was not resjNmsible for the latter; aud that the people might safely elect a republican Presi dent, without any danger of |>erpetu ating "Grantism." The managers of the campaign upon that side, recogniz ed the absolute necessity of this course. The lawlessness aud corruption of Grunt's administration had made even his name odious to the people. It was therefore necessary to impress the peo ple with the idea that the Republican party was not responsible for his crimes, and that the reforms demand ed by the people could be made "in side the party." It is hardly neeces sary to say that the Republican lead ers did not believe this; that they did not intend that "Grantism" should cease with his administration ;or that obedience to the constitution and laws, and official honesty and integrity should ever be reinstated as the poli cy of the Federal Government. That all these proiniscs.of reform were made for the sole purpose of ohtaiuing votes the sequel abundantly shows When the election was over, and it wa* known that a majority of nearly a million of the white voters of the Union and more than quarter of a mil lion of all the voters had distrusted their promises of "reform in the party" and had therefore voted for Tilden and Hendricks, nil the leaders of the Re publican party united iu determining to thwart the will of the people, and reverse the decision of the majority. We say all the leaders united in this. They ditlered among themselves only as to the means of doing it. Morton and his followers, being the more bold and fearless portion of the party, pro posed to do it oj>enly and boldly, by having the President of the Senate count Hayes in regardless of the protest of the House of Representatives and enforcing that count by the army. C'onkling, Edmunds, Hoar and their followers, less bold, but more cunning, proposed to accomplish the same result through the agency of the "Electoral Commission." The Democrats, know ing that Tilden and Hendricks were elected, and believing that Senators, Representatives and Judges of the supreme court, when bound by an oath to decide according to law and justice, would recognize the obligation of that oath, accepted the "Electoral Commission." In accepting this tri bunal, the Democratic statesmen dem onstrated how feebly they realized to what a fearful extent "Orantism" had been impressed upon the minds and hearts of all the Republican leaders in eight years. Contempt for law, and utter disregard of official oaths, and a corrupt use of public money, are tbe cardinal and distinguishing traits of "Orantism." The whole mass of Repub lican politicians had become thorough ly imbued with all of these traits. Hut before the electoral commission was created, the whole power of Grant's administration had been used to falsify the returns of enough Stales to enable the commission to count Hayes in. Portions of the army were sent to South Carolina and Louisana to pro tect the returning board in their work of fraud and forgery. Commissioners were sent by Grant himself into the necessary number of State*, to aroint ami encourage the returning board to commit these crimes against the peo ple. Would he have done this, had he supposed the principles and prac tices of his administration would le re pudiated by bis successor? Would Don Cameron, then Secretary of Wnr, have sent his faithful friend und agent, H. W. Mackey, to Florida to purchase a member of the returning board to make a return so foul and fulse that it was repudiated by the He publican supreme court of that State, if he hnd know n that he would be dis missed as Secretary of War, aud the practices whieli (Jrant had approved would no longer be tolerated in the Cabinet of his successor ? No. Then no doubt existed that "Grantism" was to lie perpetuated, otherwise the "great fraud" would never have been perpetrated and the people's choice, Tildcn and Hendricks, would have been peaceably inaugurated. Hut Hayes was not a leader. He was a small man, a weak man, but in clined to be honest. He was induced to take the office to which he knew he was not elected, because of the good be was told he could do the country without destroying the Republican party. He believed that the reforms promised should be realized, and that he could produce them. He had heard so often during the campaign thnt "Grautism" and "Republicanism" were two different things that he believed it, and supposed that he wa* put in office by his party to save it from the corrodingaud destroying principles of his predecessor. When he came to form his Cabinet, he retained none of the old members. Home of them, in cluding Cameron, had to be fairly kicked out. Of the seven cabinet ministers ap|>oiuted, a majority of them, Kvarts, Devens, Schurz and Key had opposed Grant's last election. Hayes was pledged to "civil service reform." He soon issued his celebrat ed civil service reform order. This we believe he did in good faith. He soon learned, however, that the lead ers of his party never intended thnt the reform they had so luviahly prom ised should be carried out. Had Hayes, with his principles, been a "strong man," he would have reform ed the Government in spite of his party. Hut being a very weak man, the stalwarts soon hud him bound hand and foot. They, however, had beeu deceived and were disap|>ointed. When Hayes in the formation of his cabinet ignored the prominent men who surrounded Grant, they entered into the great conspiracy to put Grant back into the Presidency, and never again to trust to the accident of an election. Great sums of money were raised, a government vessel was taken, and Grant was scut to study the despot isrus of Europe and Asia, civilized, semi-civilized and barbarous, iu order better to qualify him for the role he was to play in this country. The time of his return, the receptions, his tour to Cuba and Mexico were all nrranged as part of the machinery by which his nomination was to be forced upon the party. That successful, it was de termined that votes should not stand in the way of his inauguration. Thirty-five electoral votes were to lie given to him in New York by the legislature. Emissaries were to l>e sent to the Houth, wherever the negro population was large, to stir up strife and to produce collisions between the black and white races, in order that the new Secretary of War might have an excuse for sending troops there to prevent an honest election. And if the worst came to worst, Wheeler, the Vice President was to count Grant in, in return for his having been counted in, and the army and navy were to be used if necessary to keep the people in subjection. This was the plain pur pose of the Grant leaders. TTiia is what they have been working at for more than three years. This is the great peril which was averted by the defeat of Grant at Chicago. Let the people rejoice, not at the nomination of Garfield, but at the failure of the "Great Conspiracy," to overthrow the Republic. KyirAL AND KXACT .ICSTICR TO AM. NIKN, or WHATEVER NTATK OR PERM!'ANION, REMOIOCH OR I'OMTH A1.."-J.ff,.,n BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSSAY, JUNE 17, 1880. A Model Civil Borvioo Reformer The duplicity of the leaders of the Republican party iu dealing with the people is well illustrated by the nomination of Chester A. Arthur for the exalted and importaut office of Vice President. In the platform made at Chicago they resolvff that "the Republican party, adhering to the principle affirmed by its last Na tional convention of res|>ect for the constitutional rules governing ap pointment* to office, adopts the decla ration of President Hayes that the reform of the civil service should be thorough, radical and complete." I'pon this platform of civil service reform they immediately proceeded to place a man to receive the votes of the country who less than two years ago was bounced out of the custom house at New York, because of the grossly cor rupt manner iu which he administer ed its affairs while filling the position of collector of customs. How does it read ? For Vice President—Clieater A. Arthur. The following is the tes timonial of character written out by the present administration, upou which he stauds before the country. "You have made the Custom-House a centre of partisan political manage ment.'--/J. /I. lloyrt Ot Collector Arthur, January 31, 187 ' J. _ " With a deep sense of my obliga tions under the Constitution, I regard it as my plain duty to suspend you in order that the office may be honestly I administered. '—A. II Haye* to (Jbl/.ctor Arthur, Jair/ary 31, 1879. "Gross at>u*esol administration hare continued and increased during your incumbency.''— John Sherman to Collect or Arthur, January 31, 1879. " Persons hare been regularly paid by you who hare rendered little or no service; the expense* ot your office hare increased, while its receipts bare diminished. Bribes, or gratuities in the shape of bribe*, have been received by your "Ul.ordinate* in aeveral branches of the custom-house, and you bare in no case supported the effort to correct these abuses."— -John Sherman to Collector Arthur, -/anuary 31, 1879. Could a blacker picture of official delinquency be drawn ? According to Mr. Hayes, the custom house, under the administration of this man Ar thur, wa- turned into a political ma chine, and it became ueeeroary to re move him iu order that the office of Collector might lc "honestly adminis tered." John charges that he continued nnd iucrcaseil "gross abuse* of administration ;" paid sala ries to pcrsous w ho never rendered ser vice* to the government, and permitted his subordinates to take bribes. This is the mark made by Arthur as collec tor of customs under the Have*' ad ministration, hut notwithstanding its discreditable character he was consid ered by the Chicago convention a fit person to he one of the representative* of civil service reform. He is honored with n nomination for the second office in the gift of the people, but we much mistake the temper of the time* if this model specimen of a dishonest public official, and the impudent and hypo critical pretense with which he is pa raded before the public, do not receive a lasting nnd salutary rebuke next November. The National Convention of the Greenback Labor party, including representative* of the Women'a Rights and Social or Communist or ganizations, met at Chicago last week, aud after four days and one night of noise and confusion placed the follow ing ticket in tho field : For President, Gen. Jar. B. Weaver, of Iowa; for Vice President, Gen. E. J. Chambers, of Texas. The convention passed the usual resolutions denouncing the finan cial system of the government and everything else that docs not square with the peculiar whims of the var ious shades of fanaticism of which the body was composed. Gooo nominations at Cincinnati will insure the overthrow of radical ism in November. This is something for which to hope, and somethiug for which to work. With the defeat of the Radical party, it goes at once to pieces, and the pernicious influences and practices it has thrown into the Federal government will be forever eradicated. Wili.um M. KvAItTH has sent a message to the Senate, signed by Rutherford 11. Hayes, in which the de facto President refuses his assent to i the bill providing for the appointment of Deputy Marshals by the Tubed j .States Courts. It will be rememl>ered that a hill containing the same pro i visions as the one alluded to, was ftlso | vetoed by Mr. Haves on the ground i that it was attached to an appropria tion bill. His ground of objection was that it was a rider, but lie intimated at the same time, that if the bill came ■ to him as a separate proposition he would give it his approval. The pres ent standard bearer of the Republi can party bail previously said from his place in the House, that the pres ent system of naming these marshals ( was odious und unjust, and that the up|>ointiuenU should be entirely non partisan. The man who is religiously drawing Mr. Tilden's sulary, has de lilierately slapj>ed the face of the re sponsible head of bis |>arly t aud has as usual stultified himself aud given the lie to his own words. The vetoed bill, provided that the uppoiutmcut of these unneaessary officers should be made by the judges of the Circuit Courts of the Tnited States, and should he taken in equal proportion from each of the political parties. We give the exact language of the pro|>osed law, as to the character of the men to l>e chosen: "Thnt they shall be Veil known citiaens, of good moral charac ter and actoai residents of the voting precincts in which their duties nre to be performed, and shall not be candi dates for any office." Asa specimen of hypocritical and *{>ecious reasoning this last message is the most disgrace ful thai ever came from the same questionable sou ere. Of course noth ing better could be exacted. Ho ob viously just a measure could not pos sibly command the arocut of the man who stole the highest office in the gift of the American jteople. It is gratifying to uote the excel lent character of the nominations for State office* that have thus far been made by the Democrats of the West ern State*. Iu Indiana, Hon. Frank I binders heads the State ticket as the candidate for Governor. He has ser ved faithfully a* a Democratic repre sentative in Congress, has a record for integrity that cannot be assail ed and, next to Governor Hendricks, is the strongest man with the peo ple iu the State. His nomination insures Indiana for the I)cmocrats this fall beyond the shadow ot a doubt. In Illinois, the same honor has hoen confered upon Ex-Senator Lyman Trumbull, after Douglass, the ablest representative that State ever had in the Tnited States Senate, where he served for twelve years. The nomi nation of Mr. Trumbull means work, and place* Illinois in the list of doubt ful States, with a reasonable probabil ity that it will be carried by the Dem ocrats. All that the Democratic party now needs to bring a decisive and spleudid victory to its banners this fall is careful aud judicious action at Cin cinnati next week. There is an earn est call for good nominations aud a sound enunciation of principle*, and we have an abiding faith that the party will not be disappointed in either. Wk don't deem it a matter of any considerable importance to the Amer ican people, whether or not Caleb N. Taylor, or W. A. M. Grier wan the original Garfield man. Taylor always has opposed everybody that anyone else was for. Therefore it might seem pro bable that Taylor was the rnah. But Luzerne county is entitled to all the honor which clusters around the dis ooverer of the great friend of Dc Gol yer. Bucks must now close her pater nal arms about Taylor and hold him in reserve for future Presidential con quests. Grier was the Moses who led the Republican legions into Garfield's camp, and unto him is due the reward. Render unto Csasar the things that are Canari, and lot the irrepressible con flict between Bucks and Luzerne cease. The ides of November will bring but little comfort to either I iik venerable Ex-Senator .James A. Hazard, father of the present Sen ator '1 homas F. Hayard, died at his residence iu Wilmington, Delaware, on Sunday morning last, at the age of eighty-one years. Ex-Senator Hay ard was an old time statesman of great ability and sterling integrity of character. The Philadelphia Timet remarks that "more than a decade has passed since he retired from public life and his mantle fell upon the shoulders of his now more distinguish ed son ; hut the example that he set in eighteen years of (Jougrcroioual life will endure for a long while to come. Ihe best renicml>ered incident of bis life, after nil, is that connected with that source of woe to many other statesmen, the Credit Mohilier busi ness. Of all whose names were involved in that scandal he alone came out with clean hands. When some of the sUK-k was offered him as a matter of IMTsoiial friendship hv an adventurer (aot Mr. Onkes Amesj, the venerable Hayard declined to receive it, as he "could not consistently with my views of duty vote upou a question in which I had a pecuniary interest." It is a strange co-incidence thai the death of this good man should lie nearly simultaneous with the nomination of one who did accept the stock under the same circumstances for President of the United Slates. James A. Hay ard was a Christ iau statesman in the l**"t sense of that abused word." lIITHHEIX EKRETT, the rotum] t'on , greesman from I'itUburgli. and pro i prietor of the Commercial-Gazette of that city, with his colleague, Col. Tom ! Bayoe of Allegheny, refused to vote i for I)e Golyer (iarfield w hen he was i the caucus nomiuee of their party for speaker of the House. Wm. I>. Kel ! ley, the stalwart mc-iubcr from the i fourth Philadelphia district, joined his disgruntled party associates from the ' western wilds and sulked in the corri dors of the capitol while the vote was I* ing taken. Kiae up, gentlemen, and tell au impatient public how very anx ious you are to fall weeping upon the breast of the Chicago nominee. "Bit Jltil'>. Una h- lliatv, An-I ii'oe fto poor (• IVI him How aptly ami impressively do these words deseril>e the preeeut state of our defeated ( ss#r ! Even ficner al Ik-aver could not, in the course of his reception s|K>cch on last Friday 'evening, fresh from the frav at Chica go, find it in his heart to utter one word in behalf of his beaten, bruised ami disgraced favorite, after having so nobly stood by him through thirty-six ballots in the convention. "Alas, tinw are the mighty fallen !" ADDITIONAL LOCALS. —Judge Wagner was the most conspic uous figure at the night exhibition ot the circus. lie was seated in an arm chair in trout of the band, and with bis expansive chest covered with an elegant, flowered buff vest, prevented a picture at once strik ing and crushing. lie was taken by the vast audience to be the proprietor of the show, and as such was the cynosure of all eyee. His remarkable resemblance to Adam Forcpaugh was doubtless the cause of the mistake. —The Journal informs us that the ven erable James Sayrcs and wife, well re membered in Beliefone, are at present maiding at the home of their son-in-law, Mr. K. M. Sturdevant, in I'hilipaburg. —J. N. Casanova, Ksq., left for New York on Friday, and from thence will proceed to Cincinnati aa delegate to the Democratic Convention. 80 saya the Phil ipsbtirg Journal. —Last Friday, Mr. Baldwin, the gen eral P, 4 1, K. R. superintendent came to town from Snow Shoe, and, after tarrying a few hours at the Rush House was called for by a special train, leaving town at at five o'clock. —No diacovery in the history of the world has aroused the people more and claimed the attention of medical men, equal to the discovery of the wonderftit ingredient contained In the Day Kidney hi. „ — l The Borough fathera have given the Spring Engineer a neat green boat wharala to clean out vegetable growth, and ha, very sensibly, baa anchored It in the mid dle of the spring that boys may not be ex posed to danger by using it. TERMS: JHT Annum, in Advanrc. Young man and older parent as you reml iliii 1er and more destruc tive. Night life in our large cities is a dark problem, whose depth and abysses and wbirl[>ooU make us start back with horror. All night long tears are falling, blood is streaming. Young men, tell me where and how rou spend your evenings, and I will write Vou out a chart of your character and final destiny, with blanks to insert your names. It seems to me an appropriate test would be, "Watchman, what of the night?" Policeman, pacing thy beat, what of the night ? What are the young men of the city doin< at night I Wnere do they spend their evenings? Who are their associates? What are their habiU ? Where do they go in and what time do you see tbem go out? Policemen, would the night life of young men commend them to their employers ? Would it be to their credit ? Make a record of the night* of one week. Put in the morning paper the name* of all the young men, their habita and haunt*, that are on the street* for sin ful pleasure. Would thera not be hama and confusion T Some would not dare to go to their place of business ; tome would not return home at night; aotne would leave the city ; some would commit sui cide. lie member, young men that in the retina of the all-aecing Eys there ii noth ing hid but tball be revealed on the laat day." —Very pertinently doe* the WaUMman call attention to the abuse of the public ichool ground*. Beautiful indeed, are theae becoming, and that cattle ihould roam over them at large i* wrong. Naturally enough, the blame U soonest laid to the teacher*. I>*t u* *ae how just* ly. On an average twenty-live hundred children open the gate* once a day to the •hutting of which each time—the oniy safeguard—no living teacher or director or citixon could attend and do anything el*e. That teachers are not to be held responsi ble fur damage is hereby made most clear, while an examination of the ground* and th* gate* with tk*ir latckf* will toon sug gest the cause and the remedy. Nothing would so satisfactorily settle the matter as the erection of a substantial turn-stile. Directors think on thia, and editor across tbo way, be thou Muses Meek, or Saul Furey, learn that a wise physician points always and primarily not to the disease but to the remedy. Mr. Robert McCalmont had hi* bug gy smashed by a runaway horse show day. "Nell" is a proud steed of Conk ling niein and step but when the camp bell's a-coming she took to her heels, knocking buggy to pieces, and nearly running into Mr. John P. Harris' car riage. Mr. McCalmont came to town to Uke home a new buggy but fortunately had not yet hitched Uy it Robert, drive ilower. Mr. George Skinner, assistant barber in the shaving saloon of William Mills, visited Buffalo Run last Sabbath a waek, and while there gave a quite interesting address to the members of Waddle's I niun Sabbath School. George, keep growing in this good work. —A new fast train kas been pal on the Pennsylvania railroad, called the Chicago Express. It leaves Philadelphia at9a.ii., Harrisburg. 12.90 r. M., Huntingdon, 8.05, Tyrone, 8.86, A1 toons, 4, arriving at Pittsburg at 7.20 r. and Chicago at 8.30 the next morning, making the run In 23) hours. —We are the authorised agents for the sale of the Geiaer thresher and separator, with horse power or Peerless steam engine, at low prica* and en favorable terms. We are also agents for the sale of the Ueehner patent level-tread bona power, for one or two horses with paUat speed regulator, with little giant thrasher aad cleaner. All warranted to do good work. 28 21 ALEX AKHE* A Co. —Wa advise all persons to order foil and winter clothing rwrfy. Our heavy weights will be on sale May Int. 18-tf. Monmoxinar * Co., Tailors. —MaJ. George D. Pifor, of Philadelphia, has been spending n weak with hte many friend* of Beltefonte. W* presume the Major combines business with pleasure and no doubt receives, as he deserves, hte foil share of patronage. On Tuesday he gave the DEMOCRAT a pleasant call. 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