' vlljf SHUdKUT \ FORSTKR, Editors. VOL. 2. 5k (Centre democrat. N_3 Trm 11,50 per Annum, in Advinoc. t 8. T. BHUOERT and R. H. FORSfER, Editor.. * i t Thursday Morning, August 12,1880. j u Democratic National Ticket. ro nmnm, W INFIELD BCOTT HANCOCK, of Prun.)lroni*. J ,. vies rsmniot, t WILLIAM 11. EMILISH, of Indiana. Il ELECTS IKS- AT L A Rll R. R. Funnel Mi-imtfhan, William 11. I'Ujfonl. II KLRCTOR#. • lHit. Did. i K 1. John Bl#tin, IV GiHif|{<* A. 2. lidvln A. Pur, l* A. M It* nton, Jolu M. CitniptaU, IT. J P. l.lnUtn. I .. 4. tiill*-* IHillct. I*. John S. Miller, i 1 f. Johti N. I'*. J. O. Savti.n, | . f. Klwln Walilut., ill. C. M Bower. * 7. Nathan (' Jati.en, *il. I A.J lltichanan, ; . H. Ofur|9 PilWrt, '/2. Christopher I Jam* 0 Mrgpmtii, £l. Rohan M.OtWoft, r |. Alfred J. Martin, 24. Thoniaa BrmUvrd, | 11. AtUm tlernticer, iV llarry W. Wll*n, v 12. Frank Turner. 2*l. Samuel Griffith, It. IV J. 11 II K Dftt m. Democratic State Ticket* rut at mint Ji'Wi, i ' OKuIUiK A. JEN KM. of Jaflaraon Count jr. j r.R At'MTnft ocsifttl* ROBERT r. DECBERT, of Philadelphia. _______—_____ Democratic MUSH Meeting. \ We are requested by J. L. Spangler, 1 Ksi|., Chairman of the Couuty Commit- ' tee, to announce that tin usual annual ' mass meeting of the Democracy of, Ceutre county, will he held in the i 1 court house, in Bellefonte, on Tuesday i 1 evening (the first week of court), Aug. i' 24, I*Bo. The announcement of the speakers from abroad will he made in our next issue. The meeting will also be addressed by ex-Governor Andrew . G. Curtin. j i Oub thanks arc due Hon. Samuel ( J. Ilandall, Speaker of the House of | Representatives, for valuable public , documents. 1 , _ 11 Tn Y: Republicans have brought to ; bear all their guns, of both great and i , small calibre, ou Gen. Hancock's let-j, ter of acceptance, but witfiout being able to make a breach in the struc- , ture, or weaken a point in the defences , which that noble letter sets up as tbe ! I sum total of Democratic principles. •, WHEN our esteemed friend, Mr. A. O. Furst, next airs his views upon the taritr question in public, we trust he will not try to show intelligent farm- j ers bow dreadfully they will be affect- i ed by a repeal of the duty on uheat/ j They will certainly largely discount his intelligence, or believe that he en- ; tertains a very poor opinion of thcir'a I if he does. AN Ohio Republican newspaper gravely remarks that Gen. Hancock may be more popular in Texas than :, Jefferson Davis. No doubt of it. He is also more popular than De Golyer j, Garfield, the bribe-taker, in nil the 1 States where any intelligent apprecia tion of Republican sentiment is the ; ruling motive to govern the people. SENATOR WALLACE opened his cam paign at Reading, on Monday last, where he addressed an immense meet- , ing of the sturdy Dcmocrncy of "Old Berks." Like all the efforts of Mr. Wallace, bis speech fairly bristled with facts and figures showing the extravagance, profligacy and corrup tion of the Republican party and proving the absolute necessity that now exists for a change of adminis tration. We will publish an abstract of the speech next week. THE Bellefonte Republican does not reassert its little lie about the appoint ment of a registration assessor for Ferguson township with quite so much directness as it did last week and the ' week before. It now resorts to inuen do. "We are not persuaded that the j record of the court did not on Tues day, the 27th ult., show the appoint ment," Ac. The writer of the Repub lican articles knows, as well as he knows his own name, that no such ap pointment was ever made; that there is not and never was a " record of tlie court" on the matter, and that no such decree as he alleges was ever signed or made by tbe court This is all we shall say on the subject, wheth er the Republican persists in repeating the falsehood or not "■QUAL ANM KX ACT J VATIC* TO ALL MEN, OF WHATEVER STAT* OR PKISUASION, KM.MiIOLn OR POLITICAL. "—Jrfffrtoa. Credit Mobilicr. The sons of Onkcs Amos, remarks | the Harriaburg Patriot, have perform ed n pious duty in an effort to rescue | the memory of their father from the odium that has been cast upon it by the Credit Mobilicr scandul. Tliey u have just published in the Bostou " Herald a communication in which the history of the Credit Mobilicr is re- " luted at length and the argument j made that (Jakes Ames did nothing U throughout tbe whole transaction that ' was not entirely consistent with up- " rightness and honor. Tbe immediate ( occasion of this production is the ap- j pearance of extracts from a forth- ' * • t coming biography of Gen. Garfield in | which a labored uttcnipt is made to ' controvert the testimony of Oakes Ames before the investigation com- „ mit tee as well as the proofs of his ; f fatal memorandum book. After reviewing the history of the ; t construction of the Pacific railroad " with all the financial difficulties at- t tending it, and with the distribution ! ' of Credit Mobilicr shares among me in- , here of Congress "as an act o r friend- j' Iv good will," the sons of Oakes Ames J tell how tiie transaction was divulged I through a suit in a court. When this ' controversy became known tlicy say ( " most of these Congressmen to whom 1 ,„, i t Oakes Ames bad agreed to sell stock t became alarmed. Sonne returned their ' stock and got back their money with j , interest; some declined it, and some ' c afterward* denied that they had ever 1 j agreed to take it." To this last class ' | bclougs Gen. Garfield who swore he ' " had never owned, received, or agreed to receive any stock of the Credit t Mobilier or of the Cniou Pacific rail- f road, nor any dividends or profits 4 arising frwio either of tlicm." The memorandum book i-f Oakes Ames showed the payment to him of a divi- ! dead of $329, and the Poland eom- ' mittee so reported. Garfield further ! swore that he never heard of the ! Credit Mobilier until told of it by ' Judge Bluek in 1870, when the roc- J ords of Congress show that he had participated in a debate with Wash hurne ami others in the House in which the whole character of this construction company nnd their prof- < its are reviewed. In this debate Gar-1 field was on the side of the Creslit ; Mobilier. j The pious sons conclude that there was a panic in Congress under the influence of which, " brave men be came cowards, truthful men prevari cated, honest men acted like convict ed pickpockets, while the meanest men in Congress assumed airs of pharasaical superiority," and that in that panic there was " but one man in Congress who would neither lie, nor prevaricate, nor conceal." That man was Oakes Ames. Without pausing to inquire here whether the Republi can candidate for President became ! " a coward " or " prevaricated " or "acted like a convicted pickpijcket" or was otic of the Pharisees, it must be regarded as strange that these gentle men should at this late day attempt to brave the public judgment which at the time rightly estimated the corrupt character of the Credit Mobilier trans action. They do not regard it as General Garfield and his defenders do. Whilst the latter deny and resort to every device to escape from the re proach of the Credit Mobilier the former come to tbe front anil argue that the transaction was fair, honest and legitimate in every respect GENERAL WEAVER, the Green back candidate for President, will soon be as noted for his verdancy as he was before tbe Alabama election for his pretensions. He was in Cin cinnati last week, and was utterly credulous as to the great Democratic triumph in Alabama. He claimed that his party was re-enforced by 90,- 000 Republican vote* and 25,000 Democrats, and Democratic sucoem conld only be obtained by fraudulent ly counting out. BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 1880. In 1870 a plot wan successfully laid and carried out by the Republican* to defeat the will of the people and pre- ( vent the installation of the Democrat* ( legally elected President aud Vice ( President of the United Ktatcs- . To ( avoid another civil war the Democracy allowed tho fraud to be cousuinmated. ;j Forbearance in this WHS wonderful | aud perhaps criminal, but it can never ] be reiH-atiil. An uttempt now, under , any pretence whatever, to abridge the , proper expression of the people's will, < or to prevent due weight aud inttu- ( once to that expression, will fall with , dire punishment on the party which t puts it in motion. A correspondent of the Brooklyn Ragle refers to the last i method that is to be tried to defeat I, the popular will. He says : " It hits leaked out that an infernal and infamous scheme has been set on foot by the Republicans to subvert the will of the people and carry the Stale I for Garfield, it is this: That a law is j to be passed by Gov. Cornell's extra ; session ot the legislature, to bo called | ostensibly to patch up the lax clause of the corporation law, passed during the last session, so that a majority vote of counties shall control the Presidential vote—that is. we will snv, King's county will pive Hancock 20,000 miyority; j thee 20.000 votes will not count any more than the majority in State. The ' Republicans know lull well that the vote Hancock will get in New York ' and Kings will give him the State by an j overwhelming majority, hence this sub-' tie and ingenious mode of destroying the majorities, for with them destroyed I they have good reason to hope the j country counties wilt easily be carried for Garfield. It seems to me this con templated proceeding by the Republi cans ought to be and can be so thor oughly ventilated that they will not dare to carry it out, or attempt to per- j pet rate another such a fraud as in 1870." GiuFIELD swung far enough around j llie circle on hit homeward journey j from New York to reach 'the great Chautauqua camp meatiug of the Young Man'* Christian Aaaociaiion, on last Sunday. Schuyler Colfax was I also there and was one of the orators ' of the day. Garfield was satisfied with a simple introduction to the vast | audience. Colfax was presented by t Mr. Stuart as " iny dear brother in j the Ixird," while the Presidential nom inee was only our "Christian brother, j Gen. James A. Garfield, of the United j States Senate." It was exceedingly appropriate that Christian brethren like Colfax and Garfield should thus j come together, but it may be consider ed doubtful whether their presence on . the Lord's day at a religious gather ing was any credit to the occasion. Roth were brethren in their dealings with Oakes Ames and their consequent , connection with the Credit Mobilier scandal, though Colfax has shown a slight degree of modesty by retiring to a certain extent to the shades of private life. Garfield-Colfax, Colfax- Garfield ; a noble pair of brothers! The Republicans have at least the good taste to ascribe the authorship of General Hancock's letter of ac ceptance and of Order No. 40, to able aud accomplished statesmen. The Dayton (O.) Journal believes that ; Samuel J. Tilden wrote the first for j Northern consumption, and the New j York Tribune charges the other to | the fertile pen of Judge Black, for the j Southern market. Now, who wrote j his letter to General Sherman? It seems to have an authorship equal in ability to the others and is good read ing for all times. Garfield and other prominent Republicans of loose polit ical morals, might study it with profit. The fact is, General Hancock ha* kindly furnished some very valuable literature lately, embracing whole- | some views of constitutional Republi can government, and it is to be regret- | ted that the stalwart advocates of a strong government, and bayonet con trol of elections, do not s£etn to appreciate hia efforts in that direction. But the masses do, and are preparing to give emphasis to their approval in November, and " don't you forget it." "We are in a state of profound peace ; banoeforth let it be our purpose to cultivate sentiments of friendship and not of animosity among our fellow oitisens,"— f/aneoek'i Latter of Accept ance. A Presidential Hippodromo. General Garfield has returned to the peaceful quiet of his Ohio home ; after having been exhibited to delight ed audiences from the lakes to the seu. Marshall Jewell is to lie con- j gratulatcd upon the unmistakable gen ius he possesses as u caterer to the tastes of the amusement loving pub lic. He succeeded in pluciug on the road one of the most unique and startling combinations that ever con- i fronted the American people. Of course, De Golyer's attorney was the chief attraction, and the honor of lead- j ing him out and showing off his paces before the multitude was carefully divided among those who arc known as of his own political household. There was Con irer with his storied fog ' horn, Ren Harrison in faultlessly j fitting kids, Godlove 8. Ortli, redo- , lent with the aroma of Venezuela claims and the immaculate and irre- , preamble Murat Ilalstcad, who tele graphed to his pn|>er from Chicago that Garfield could not be nominnted i _ i because bis record was against liim. j These were the incn who did the grand and lofty tumbling and pre vented the whole show from being absolutely stupid. This trip of Gar field's to the Last to confer with the j magnates of his party was Jewell's dernier reeort. Kverything was at sixes and sevens and nothing but a heroic remedy would meet the cac. Had Alabama cooed like a sucking dove instead of thundering her indig | nant protest against unholy alliances, the pilgrimage of Garfield toward the rising sun would never have become j necessary. The result must have been i a great disappointment. He had hied {himself to New York upon the prin -1 r iples of Mahomet and the mountain. | lh- u.-H,otain was there, noly across 1 the hall from the room of the Re -1 publican Presidential candidate, but it might as well have been in the j clouds. The great accidental was ! denied even the jwor privilege of kneeling at the feet of the lordly Conkling. True, Blaitic was there, , Cameron was plainly visible and i Digan was oppressively present, but nowhere could be seen the Seuatorial Adonis without whose help the battle in New York is hopelen*. It was the ' play of Hamlet with the Prince of j Denmark closely immured in the I green room. The decision of the conference was that the campaign j should be conducted a la Killpatrick, with the bloody shirt and plenty of money, and this in face of Garfield's declaration that the man who would attempt to ride into power bv the re vival of sectionalism would find him self without a party. The whole thing was a political exhibition of weakness, and a the Republican can didate turned his face toward the father of wnter* he must have been oppressed by a feeling akin to that which burdened the spirit of Richard lefore the battle of Rosworth field. 1 The show is over and the curtain falls only to be lifted again in November ' as the actor makes his last bow to the public. ' THE friends of free trade in Eng- I laud and Scotland are quite jubilant over the nomination of Garfield as the Republican candidate for President Being a member of the "Cobdcn Club," it is not surprising that the British free traders should be elated with the hope that one of their number may be President of the United Bt*tes, even if he is to reach that exalted station by I 9 | the votes of the American protection ! ists. But they had better not build their hones too high. There arc many 1 formidable obstructions in Mr. Gar field's road to success that will never he surmounted. Gen. W ii.v.iam O. Butler, of Ken tucky, died atCairolton that State, on Friday, at the age of eighty-seven. He served at the Battle of New Or leans, and in the Mexican war, where, for a time, he commanded the Ameri can army in the Valley of Mexico. He was in Congress from 1839 to 1843, and waa the Democratic candidate for Vice President, on tho ticket with CAM, in 1848. AT last our excellent contemporary, the Bellefonte Republican, condescends to admit the words "Credit Mobilier" i and "De Oolyer" into its columns. In a burst of uugry indignation at the wicked Democrats, it asserts that J "when asked their policy npon the tariff they answer, Credit Mobilier; upon finances, De Golyer," uud it is "upon these two falsehood* they (the aforesaid wicked Democrats j expect to win public fuvor." It will be in order for the Republican now to explain to its readers how "these two falsehoods" 1 originated. 8o far as the Credit Mo ' bilier is concerned, we would respect fully refer our contemporary to the rejKjrt of a Republican congressional ! committee, of which one Judge Poland, ' of Vermont, was chairman, whenever I it desires information in regard to that particular "falsehood." lu the mean- ' ; while it can digu-t the following ex j tract from the report of that commit- j j tee : "The fact* in regard to Garfield, as found by the committee, are that be j agreed with Mr. Amen to take ten shares of Credit Mobilier stock, but did not ; pay for the same. Mr- Ames received the 80 per cent, dividend in ironda and sold them for 97 per cent., and also re ceived the GO per cent, coh dividend, j which, together with the price of the I stock and intercut, lett a balance of $329. This turn was paid over to Mr. Gertield by • check on the sergeant-alarms, and ; Mr. Garfield then understood this sum was the balance of dividends after pay | ing for the stock." For information in regard to the | De Golyer "falsehood" it may refer to the report of the evidence taken before I the Glover investigating committee. It will there lie seen how Garfield re ceived a five thousand dollar fee for his official influence as chairman of the committee on appropriations, and that "he spoke to Hbeppard a Unit it." That is, aUiut the paving contract that was awarded to the frieuds who so kindly paid him the $5,000. TifßOtmtt the kindness of J. G. latrimcr, Esq., of Pleasant Gap, we are enabled to lay before the readers of the Democrat a letter received by • him from Gdonel John W. Forney, in which Mr. Forney gives his old frieud I two strong reasons why he is to-day ! supporting Winfield Scott Hancock j for President. The following is the J letter: Philadklpni a, August 7, 1890. Mr Dkir Larimer:—l have your kind letter of the 3d of August, dated at Itellefoote, and I answer it by sending r it to your old home at Pleasant Gap, Centre county, Pa. ! I return to the democratic party aim , ply because 1 am animated by an irre sistible sense of gratitude to the man . i who, I believe, saved my native Stale from Confederate invasion, and to an ' equally irresistible desire to promote ' peace and reconciliation between the ! i North and South. And if our people do not carry out the idea, I shall then believe that the Republican party wo* • insincere when it offered pardon to the South. I send you several papers, and am ! always glad to hear from yon. and desire i p you to remember I am. Sincerely your friend, J. W. FOMXIT. J. O. Larimer, Esq., Pleasant Gap, 1 Centre county, Pa. | Examinations or Teach ers for 1880. , —County Superintendent Henry Meyer, I has issued his usual card Announcing the ' examinations of teachers for the various i schools of Centre county. They will be held a* follow*: IWUMont., Tmki, Auftral 8. I'hlllpat.urf ud Rash, Phlltpabsrg, Waduaadav, An ful XV I Taylor, lli.r.l. Furnara, Thursday, Anns! IS. Worth. Fori Matilda. Friday, Aucu.r *7. ! Ilusu.ii. Julias Fsmerr. Saturday, Aucual J* Snow *!.. and Ihirustdr, Snow Sboa, Tuasday An rt. , Csiourllla and futon, folonitll., Wednesday, Smtaa ber I. Mltsaburv sad Milest-urg. Thursday. Saptaru- I bat 2. Librriy, Ractrrllla. Friday, Saptarnbre X. 5 Walkar. lluhlaraUnr (. Monday. Sapr-mlar S. How-ard and Osnla. Howard. Taaaday, *a,Haw.bar T. ! Martun. Jarkwwrllla, Wadnaadar, Srnfawla-r S. p Sprliif. Valaalinw' aebw.l houaa. Thursday, Safdaar Aanuar, Knot 1 achnal bowaa, Friday, *n*,rHilar la ' Fattou, Waddla'a at bond b-aaa, Tarda/. Sayoaaihar 14. llaMoona, StoratXowa, Wadnaadar, SryNel-i IA. Farfoatn. Plna Hrura, Thursday. Siyt—Our IS. I (V.llasr, Laiuont, Friday. *(duahrt IT. Harria, ttnalaUwrg, Saturday. Mrftaarhor IX I lladsaa. tunjaSsr*. Monday, S|dawr|ioi SI Millhatm and Pann. Mlilbatm, Tui day. Saptaaaltar tl. times, Pann Hall, W—iaauJar. Saylamtur U. , P-utar, Orrtra Hall, Thnmdsy.SapManlur A Mllaa, Ralrrahum, Salarday, Saftaaahar IX A special examination to All vacancies will be held at the Superintendent's office, Bellefonte, Friday, October 8: but anpli- I cants must come recommended by at least four directors of tha districts in which they intend to teach, and give a reason for not having attended the district examina tion*. Examination* each day will commence at 9 A. M. -, applicant* will have to be present in time, and some of tba director* should also be present in time to make out a list of applicants to he examined. ' H. Meter , County Superintendent, Rirsrsbvru, Pa., July SI, 1880. TEHMB: $1.50 jmt Annum, in Adtaiice. ADDITIONAL. LOCALS. iJr.ATii expected. Hl* funeral took place ycfterday, and ' amongst thou; of our citixen* who went to I Clearfield to pay the last tribute of respect | to hi* honored remain*, we noticed Ex i Gov. Curtin, 8. T. Hhugert, of the DEMO i'lai, and I*. Gray Meek, of the VcfcAmaa. ! The following sketch of his life we take j from the ilarrisburg Patriot : William Bigler waa born at Shermans burg, Cumberland county, Pa., in Decem ber, I*l3. Hi* parent* were of German extraction, and whilst he vu very vouag • they removed to Mercer county," having pure hand a large tract of land there. The , title of tbi* land, however, proved defect ive, and tbey loft all but a small farm. This reverse of fortune *o affected the fath | er that he did of grief, leaving hi* wife to j bring up a family of nine children. In 1830, after receiving a m