m* tffntrr fir mortal SHUGERT A. FORSTER, Edilors. VOL. 2. (Crntrr growrcat. Terms SI.ISO per Annum. In Advance. S. T. SHUGERT and R. H. FORSTER, Editor*. Thursday Morning, June 24, 1880. Democratic State Ticket. roft *1 PRIME JUtHi*, (JFOItOF. A. JKNKB, f JpfTonson Gmutjr. FOR AUDITOR OBMRRAL, ROBERT P. liKOHERT, of PhlUilclpliU. MR. TILIIEN'S letter declining a rc nominatiou for the Presidency by the Cincinnati convention will be found iu another column. Like everything that bears the impress of Mr. Tilden's name, it is a carefully prepared and well written document and will com mand universal attention. SECLUSIVE and aristocratic James Milliken, in his speech at the Court House, on last Thursday evening, praised De Golyer < iurfield for Imving ouee been a plow boy, and as coming from "the people. It's only after the "plow boy" has received the Republi can nomination for President of the United .States that Mr. Milliken is "willing to take him to his bosom. "Plow boys" are not iu his line. ALL efforts, says the Washington Pod, to explain away the ugly facts of Mr. Garfield's record serve only to make them more conspicuous, and to demonstrate their utterly indefensible character. It would lie better for his frieuds to frankly enter the plea of guilty iu his Imhalf and appeal to the generosity of the voting masses to cov er his transgressions with the broad mantle of tolerant charity. A WASHINGTON despatch to the Re publican newspapers'asserts that "Gen. Garfield as soon as he ascertained that the Credit Mobilier scheme was in con flict with his duty as a legislator he dropjied all connection with it" The trouble with Garfield is that he did not "drop all connection with it" until the disgraceful "scheme" was exposed and received, as it deserved, the righteous indignation of the public. He held on to his dividend for a long time. GENERAL BEAVER said in bis rati fication speech, that a prominent Geor gian told him in Chicago, that if Gen eral Grant was nominated, Feltou, Stephens and Speer of that State, would support him. These gentlemen are all Democratic memlK-rs of Con gress. We question the veracity of General Beaver's "distinguished" in formant as to Mr. Speer. Stephens and Felton might have, and possibly will, throw themselves into opposition to the Democratic party. Felton is an "independent" and Stephens is a de cayed monument of the past, but Lmory Speer is a Democrat, and his whole career in Congress refutes the imputation that lie will under any cir cumstances, be found acting in oppo sition to the universal sentiment of his jieople. AT the recent serenade given to Gen. Garfield, at Washington, after his return to that city from Chicago, he appeared before the department of fice holders, who made up the crowd in attendance on the occasion, leaning upon the arm of Becor Robeson, Sec retary of the Navy under the Grant administration and at present a Re publican member of Congress from New Jersey. There was a propriety in Garfield und Robeson thus grad ing themselves arm in arm before the public that will be duly appreciated. Robeson's management of the navy department was the most corrupt and scandalous in the history of the gov ernment His career of eight years as head of that department was a con tinued series of corrupt jobs and vio lations of law. It was therefore emi nently proper that so notorious a rep resentative of the principle of official debauchery should present to the ad miring place holders of Washington a candidate for the Presidency tainted with the disgraceful scandals of the Credit Mobilier and the De Golyer paving contract. "KqL'AL AND EXACT JUSTICE TO ALL MK.K, Of WII ATE VKK STATE OK I'KRHUAHION, HKLIOIOUB OH POLITICAL."—JaVmoa The Adjournment of Congress. It WON said ut the close of the 45th Congress by our opponents that the whole session hud beeu a conspicuous failure and thut the ]>eoplc would Jet the seal of their condemnation upon the party for whom the majority iu that Congress had spoken. The re-election of another Democratic Congress effect ually dissipated the charge of inefli ciency uud corruption so glibly charged upon the 45th Congress by the Repub lican press. There was one honorable exception to be found in the New York Evening Pott, which fruukly acknowledged that the 45th Congress had made a memorable record iu that it had utterly extcrpated the corrupt and powerful lobby built up and fos tered by the Republican party while in jtower in the House. The i'od further said that not a vestige remain ed of the old Huntingdon, Gould ring that had so long and faithfully de bauched legislation in the interest of the giant monopolies controlled by these men. Upon this voluntary trib ute to the great work accomplished by the 45th Congress, coming as it did from uu uncompromising Republican journal, the Democracy were disposed to rest their case, and the judgment rendered by the people in the follow ing elections more than justified their confidence. Rut to the 46th Congress so far as it has progressed will come' a whole volume of unstinted praise. While it has not accomplished any measures of great National importance it has conscientiously ami carefully addressed itself to such legislation as would best benefit the country with out distracting it by augry discussion or embittered persona! autagonisms. While it will be universally regret ted that the deputy marshals bill did not become a law, there is great satisfaction to be found in the fact that the veto of this measure was a direct snub to General Garfield whose amendment the Democracy had accepted. One of the most im portant facts demonstrated by the two sessions of the 46th Congress, was that no leader on the Republican side was found able to cope with the parliamen tary leaders of the majority. Mr. Garfield was accorded the mantle of Mr. Rlaine as the head and front of his party upon that gentleman's pro motion to the Seuate, but he has had the humiliation of seeing the only measure he introduced during both sessions endorsed by the Democracy and repudiated by his own party.. This was certainly an anomalous posi tion for a great party leader to find himself in at the close of this arduous session. In Kugland when such a thing occurs the leader thus over thrown is compelled to resign and new men are brought to the front. Rut here, under the enlightment of free institutions, the defeated leader in Congress is advanced to the head of his party and with the cruel marks of his discomfiture still upon him is brought conspicuously forward as the standard bearer of the party he had but just lead to disaster. The Demo crats, with a clear majority in both branches patriotically submitted a bill for the count of electoral votes, to the end that the dangerous scenes of 1876- *7, during which the busiuess interest of the country suffered untold loss by the agitation and uncertainty that succeeded the election, should never again be re-enacted. But the Repub lican minority resorted to disgrace ful filibustering and defeated action upon this most just and much needed measure. In every instance in which the ma jority have come in conflict with the executive they have been absolutely right and be wrong, as he took the pains to demonstrate in the message submitted vetoing the deputy mar shals bill. The "political" bills passed were not intended to inure to the ben efit of the Democratic party, bat to prevent any further arrogation of un constitutional power upon the part of BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, -JUNE 21, 1880. tlio Federal government. The reduc tion made in the appropriations for the last fiscal year but carries out the promises made by the Democratic party to the people that when it cuine into power economy would be prac ticed and retrenchment enforced. Al together the Democratic masses have reason to congratulate their represen tatives in congress for the able, faith, ful and conscieutous manner in which they have discharged their resjionsible duties during the dual sessions of the forty-sixth CYmgress. Democratic National Convention. The Democratic National Conven tion met at Cincinnati on Tuesday, and shortly after twelve o'clock was called to order by Kx-Senator Bar num, chairman of the National Com mittee. After an impressive prayer by Rev. C. W. Weudt, Senator Bar num, by the unanimous request of the committee, announced that Hon. Geo. I loudly, of Ohio, had been selected for temporary Chairman. As Mr. Hoadiy ascended the platform he was received with hearty cheers. He made a ring ing speech which was received with great applause by the convention. The usual committees were then appointed and other preliminary business trans acted, when, at 2 o'clock, the con vention adjourned until 10 o'clock, A. M., Wednesday. The convention met yesterday pursuant to adjourn ment and proceeded immediately to effect a |>eruiaueut organization. The committee on organization reported in favor of Ex-Gov. J. H. Stevenson, of Kentucky, for permanent Chairman, with oue Vice President from each State and continued the Secretaries, reading clerks and other officers of the temporary organization. This report was adopted and the [>ermw nent officers assumed their duties. The first business taken up by the conven tion was the consideration of the re port of the committee on contested seats, there being two reports from the committee iu the case of New York—the majority agaiust giving seats to the contestants and the minor ity in favor of seating twenty of them. After a sharp discussion of the merits of this case there was a call of the States on the miuority report und it was rejected by a vote of 205 in favor and 457 against its adoption. The report of the majority was then adopted, aud the committee on resolu tions dot being ready to report it was decided to receive nominations for candidates for President and the roll of States was called over for that pur pose. The following arc the names presented in the order in which their States were called : Field, of Califor nia ; Bayard, of Delaware; Morrison, of Illinois; Hendricks, of Indiana; Thurman, of Ohio; Hancock, of Pennsylvania. A ballot was then taken resulting as follows: Hancock, 161 ; Bayard, 165 ; Payne, 1M) ; Field, 65; Thurman, 64; Morrison, 62; Hendricks, 47 ; Tilden, 30. After this first ballot the conven tion adjourned until Thursday morn ing. The vote of the Pennsylvania delegation was cast for the following candidates: For Jewett, 1 ; Field, 1 ; Seymour, 3; Randall, 1; Hancock, 28 ; Bayard, 7 ; and Tilden 15. At this writing—Wednesday evening—it is impossible to predict who will be nom inated. It is gratifying to be able to state, however, that while the contest is earnest and animated, the best of feeling prevails and everything bids fair for results that will be entirely satisfactory to the party. The nomi nees will be such as cannot fail to lead the party to a grand victory in November. OAKEH AMES is dead but yet he livetb,—-in that little memorandum book, which is now making the pious heart of Garfield yearn for that age of the world, when the records of passing events were inscribed on the leaves of the trees. If that custom still pre vailed what a tornado would sweep through our forests. GOVERNOR FOHTKR, of Ohio, seems to be so much concerned about his friend Garfield, the Republican can didate for President and the Credit Mobilier business, that he is continu ally making explanations that don't explain worth a cent. Foster says that one of the principal objects of his late visit to Washington was to confer with Judge Wilson, who was a member of the Credit Mobilier inves tigating committee, respecting the charges against Gen. Garfield, and lie asserts that Wilson " went over the entire ground and gave facts to show that the charges were absolutely false." Gov. Foster might have ascertained the fucts without going to so much trouble. The Poland investigating committee embodied them in its re port to the lower branch of ( kingress; and so far from showiug that "the charge* were absolutely false" the re port of this committee fixed the truth of them upon Garfield so firmly that he has never beeu able to explain tbem away. In his testimony before the committee Gen. Garfield made the following sworn statement: " 1 never owned, received, or agreed to receive any stock of the f'redit Mo bilier or of the Union Pacific railroad, nor any dividends or profits arising frotn either of them.— Garfield nmrn UituMny be/ore the Poland Committee, Jan uary 14, 1873. Now what did the committee find to have beeu the real state of the facts ? The following is the report of the committee so far as Garfield is con cerned : The facta in regard to Mr. Garfield, as found by the committee, are that be agreed with Mr. Ames to take ten shares of Credit Mobilier stock, but did not pay for tbe same. Mr. Aines received tbe eighty per cent, dividend in bonds and sold them for ninety-seven per cent., snd slso received the sixty tier oent. cssh dividend, which, together with the price of the stock and inter est, left a balanoe of S3'JV. This sum was paid over to Mr. Garfield by a •ettVE wl Hi* •srgssntMrtwrau, end Mr. Garfield then understood this sum was the balance of dividends after paying for the stock.— The Poland Committee't Report, January 18, 1873. Did General Garfield swear to the truth? Or did a committee, of his own party wilfully pervert the evi dence before them to make a false charge against a fellow member of Congress? Certainly the committee did not make a false report. Its truth has never been denied, and pub lic sentiment will decide that it is rather late in the day for Gov. Foster to lie goiug " over the entire ground " with members of the committee to prove a different slate of facts from those reported by them to Congress. ■ ■■ ♦ THERE is a striking contrast, re marks the Harrisburg Patriot, be tweeu the worldly wisdom and craft of the late James A. Bavard, of Dela ware, and the lamblike innocence of James A. Garfield, in the matter of the Credit Mobilier. When General Garfield was solicited to take some of the Credit Mobilier stock he consent ted and took his share of the profits, as the Poland committee reported, though he afterwards pretended to be entirely ignorant of the nature of the operation. In his extreme simplicity he never supposed he would be called upon to act as a representative on a question in which the interests of the corporation would he involved. When Mr. McComb invited Senator Bayard to invest in the Credit Mobilier he made the following reply dated Jan uary 14, 1868, which ia printed iu the report of the committee on the inves tigation : "l received this evening your letter of this date, informing me that Mr. Amee, of Massachusetts, had SI,OOO or $2,000 of stock in the Credit Mobiiier for me. My son (now Senator Thomas K, Bayard), in a letter which I received this morning, informed me of your short conversation with bim, and that it was to your friendly feeling I was in debted for the subscription to what you tell me is ort say of this letter: "We commend ft all men the letter of the venerable Senator Bayard in response to an offer of some of the stock." Had General James A. Garfield been actuated by the nice sense of houor that marks this letter he would not stand before the country in his present lamentable plight as a sharer of the bribe of flakes Ames seeking to save himself by prevarication and falsehood. THE I'ittsburg Commercial-Gazette says that "Garfield is only an alleged free trader." Hid Mr. Krrett, the editor of the Commercial-Gazette think so when he refused to vote? for this alleged free trader for Speaker of the House of Representatives ? ♦ TII.IIE.VS FA HOI S LETTER. A Patriotic Review of Politics Pant and Present. CINCINNATI, June 20. —T0-night the New York delegation held a meeting at the Grand Hotel, and organized by choosing Daniel Manning chairman, and H. B. Halliday secretary. Mr. Peckhaui read the following letter from Samuel J. Tilden : NKW YORK, June IS — To the delegates from the iStatr of JVVX? York to the Demo cratic Xational (Jonvention : Your first as sembling is an occasion on which it is proper for me to state to you my rela tion to the nomination for the Presi dency, which you and your associates are commissioned to make in behalf of the Democratic party of the United States. Having passed my early years in an atmosphere tilled with the tradi tions of the war which secured our Na tional independence, and of struggles which made our continental system a government for the people and by the people, 1 learned to idolize the institu tions of my country, and was educated to believe it the duty of every citizen of the Republic to put his fare allotment of care and trouble to public affairs. I fulfilled that duty to the best of my ability for forty years as a private citi zen. Although during all my life, giving at least as much thought and effort to public affairs as to all other objects, I have never accepted official service except for a brief period and for a special purpose, and only when the occasion seemed to require of me that sacrifice of private preferences to public interest*. My life has been substanti ally that of a private citizen, it was, I presume, the success of efforts, in which as a private citizen I had shared, to overthrow a corrupt combination then holding dominion in our metropolis and to purify our Judiciary, which had become its tool, that induced the De mocracy of the State in IST4 to nomi nate me for governor. This was done in spite of tiie protests of a minority that the part 1 had borne in those reforms had created antagonisms fatal to me a* a candidate. I felt constrained to accept the nomination as the most certain means of putting the power of the gubernatorial office on the side of reform and of removing the impression wherever it prevailed, that the faithful discharge of one's duty as a citizen it fatal to hit usefuluess as a public serv ant. The breaking up of the canal ring, the fietter management of our public works, the large deduction of taxes and other reforms accomplished during my administration doubtlesa occasioned my nomination for the pres idency by the Democracy of the Union in the hope that similar processes would be applied to the Federal govern ment. From the responsibilities of such an undertaking, appalling aa it seemed to me, I did not leel at liberty to shrink. In the cenvaaa which en sued, the Democratic party represented reform in the administration of the Federal government and a restoration of our complex political system to the pure ideas of its founders. Upon these issues the people of the United Statea, by a majority of more than a quarter of a million chose a majority of the elect ors to cast their votes for the I)emocrat io candidates for President and Vice President. It is my right and privilege here to say that I was nominated and elected to the Presidency absolutely free from any engagement in respect to the exercise of the powers or disposal of its patronages. Through the whole period of my relation to the presi dency I did everything in my power to elevate and nothing to lower the moral standards in the competitions of parties. By what nefarious means the basis of a false oount was laid io several of the States I need not recite. Tbeee are now matters of history, about which whatever diversity of opinion tuay have existed in either of the great parties of the country at the time of their consummation has sinoa prac tically disappeared. 1 refused to ran som from the returning boards of the southern States the documentary evi- TERMS: $1.50 |H*r Annum, in Advance. dence by the suppression of which and by the substitution of fraudulent and forged paper* a pretext was made for the perpetuation of a false count. The constitutional duty of the two house* of Congress to count the electoral vote* as cast, and to give effect to the will of the people as expressed by their suf frages, was never fulfilled. An elector al commission, for the existence of which i have no responsibility, was formed, and to it the two house* of (ingress abdicated their duty to make the count, by law enacting that the count of the commission should stand as final, unless overruled by the concur rent action of the two houses, it* false count was not overruled, owing to the complicity of a Republican Senate with the Republican majority of the commission, controlled by iu Republi can majority of eight to seven. The electoral commission counted out the men elected by the people and counted in the men not elected by the people. That subversion of the election created a new issue for the decision of the peo ple of the f'nited States transcending in importance all questions of adminis tration. It involved vital principles of ; self-government through elections by the people. The immense growth of the means of corrupt influence over the ballot-box, which is at the disposal of the party having possession of the executive administration, had already become a present evil, and a great dan ger tending to make the election irre sponsive to public opinion, hampering the power of the people to change their rule and enabling the men holding the machinery of the government to oontin iue and perpetuate their power. It was rny opinion in 1876 that the opposition attempting tochange the administration needed to include at least two-thirds of the voters at the opening of the can vass in order to retain a majority at the election. If, after such obstacles bad been overcome and a majority of the people had voted to change the admin istration of their government, the men in office could still proceed to a false count founded upon frauds, perjury and forgeries furnishing a pretext of documentary evidence on which to base that false count, and if such a transac tion were not only successful, but if after allotments of its benefits were mate to its contrivers, abettors and apologists by the chief beneficiary of the transaction, it was condoned by the people, a practical destruction of elections by the people would have been accomplished. The failure to install the candidate chosen by the people, a contingency con sequent upon no act or omission of mine and beyond my control, has thus left me for the last three year* and until now, when the I>emocratic party, by the delegates in the national conven tion assembled, shall chooae a new lead er, the involuntary but unnecessary ; representative o&ahis moinentuousissue, as such denied the immunities of public life without the jtowers conferred by public station, subject to unceasing falsehood' and calumnies from the partisans of an administration laboring in vain to justify its existence. I have nevertheless steadfastly endeavored to present the same to the Democratic party of the United Slates. The su preme issues before the people for their decision next November are whether this shall be a govenuentby the sover eign people through election or a gov ernment by discarded servants holding over by force and fraud ; and I have withheld no sacrifice and neglected no opportunity to uphold, organise and consolidate against the enemies of the representative institution of the great party which alone under (iod can effect ually resist the overthrow. Having now borne faithfully my full share of the la bor and care in public service, and wearing the marka of iu burdens, I de sire nothing so much as an honorable discharge. 1 wish to lay down the hon ors and toils of even quasi party leader ship, and to seek the repose of private life. In renouncing a renomination for the presidency 1 do so with no doubt in my mind as to the vote of the State of New York or of the United States, but because I believe that it is a renuncia tion of the re-election of the preaidency. To those who think my nomination and reelection indispensible to an af fectual vindication of the right of the people to elect their rulera, violated in my person, I have aooorded as long a reserve of my decision as possible, but I cannot overcome nay repugnanoe to enter into a new engagement, which involve* four years of oeaaelaas toil. The dignity of the presidential office is above a merely personal ambition, but it createa in me no illuaion. Iu value is a great power for good to the country. I said four years ago, in accepting the nomination : "Knowing as 1 do, thera fore, from fresh experience how great the difference is between gliding through an official routine and working out a reform of system* and policiea, it ia impossible for me to contemplate what reeds to be done in the Federal administration without anxkxu sense of the difficulties of the undertaking. If summoned by the suffrages of my countrymen to attempt thia work, I •ball endeavor with God'a help to be the efficient instrument of their will." Such a work of renovating after many years of misrule, such a reform of systems and polioiet to which I would cheerful ly have sacrificed all that remained to me of health and life, ia now, 1 f*r, beyond my strength. With unfeigned thanks for the honors bestowed upon me, with a heart swelling with emotions of gratitude to the Democratic masses for the support whieh they have given to the oause I represent and their oon fldenoe in every emergency, I remain your fellow citisen. SAXVXL J, TtLbtX. NO. 26.