<IIK tTcntvc il&i Qcmucrat
SHUtiERT & FOHSTKR, Mi lorn.
VOL.
She (Centre jPriuocrnt.
Term* tI.AO per Annum, in Advance,
s. T. SHUQERT and R. H. FORSTER. Editor,.
Thursday Morning, August 19,1880.
Democratic National Ticket.
FOR PRK4IMCNT,
MINFIF.LD BOOYT HANCOCK, of !'< nuajrhfttiia. j
roR Viri I'll*l PINT,
WILLIAM 11. KNGLISII, of IIKUAUA.
FLKCToUN AT L AlttiK.
R. K.nimrl Muinttfhan, William 11. IMavfonl.
KLKCTORB.
IHst. I>i;t.
1. John S*livh. I V Gvonp A. Pot.
2. Klts in A Pu\ I*'* A. M. Ib-iitun,
X John MCHIIH'IM 11, 17 J. P. Linton,
4. Uilltf I*. John S. Mlll*r,
V John N. Moffat, PL J. O. Hal ton,
•i. Ktlttin Watrfon, (\M. llo-r.
7. Nathan C. Jania, -I. I. A. J. Buchanan,
M. (in.rgs filbert, -J (*hrttoDhir Mug.,-,
9. Jimrst}. McSfiarln, 2-L lth*rt M CIiIMMUI,
10. Alfrn| J, Martin, -4. Thoma* llnulfurd,
11. Adam (iwrtngfr, *JA. Harry W. Wilms,
12. Frank Turner. •*. Samuel Griffith,
11. I*. J. Birmingham, 27. J llowi Tho(n|>*on.
It II B Ban*.
Democratic State Ticket.
roR HI PRBMK JPfMJI,
GKoKCiK A. JKNKN, of Jaflferaon County.
roR AUDITOR OKNBRAL,
ROBERT P. PKCQBRT, of Philadelphia.
HANCOCK and ENGLISH.
DEMOCRATIC
MASS MEETING
The Democracy of Centre county,
and all who are in favor of the elec
tion of Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock
and William 11. English to the Presi
dency and Vice Presidency of the
United States, arc invited to meet at
the COURT HOUSE, IN RF.I.I.KKONTE,
On Tuesday Evening, Aug. 34, 'SO,
to hear the issues of the cauqiaign dis
cussed. *
The meeting will be addressed by
ti&Jpliowijig_ableand umuicui speak
ers :
Col. ROBERT P. DKCHERT, of
Philadelphia, the Democratic nominee
for Auditor General, and a gallant
soldier of the late war.
Hon. LEWIS C. CASBIDY, of
Philadelphia.
Ex-Gov. ANDREW G. CURTLN,
of Bellefonte, and others.
Bemembsr the Hero of Gettysburg.
Democrats, rally to the support of
sound Principles of Government; for
an Honest Administration ; Economy
in the Public Expenditures; the Su
premacy of the Civil over the Military
Power; a Free and Full Ballot and a
Fair Count; no Partisan Election
Laws, and the Protection of Labor
against both the Cormorants and the
Commune,
A pleasing feature of the meeting
will be a grand
Torchlight Procession.
TURN GUT, Democrats, in your
f might! Come with Banners, Flags
and Music! Come in Wagons, in
Carriages, on Horseback and on Foot!
J. L. SPANOLER, Chairman.
IT is said that in Indiana the Re
publicans arc making arrangements
to import negro voters from Kentucky
for the October election. A vigilant
police is on their track, and the enter
prising darkies and their employers
may have causes of regret before they
reach the end.
ROBERT CHADWICK, one of the Re
publican nominees for the Legislature
in I>elaware county, is published in
Bates' history as a deserter from the
army. If he were a Democrat, this
would be a very grave objection to
his election. But as a Republican, it
is perfectly proper and in character.
It is only the sneaks of the army and
those who stood off at long range to
thunder anathemas at their fellow
citizens who were not called into
service, whom the Republicans prefer
for political offices. Garfield, the
staff soldier, is a fair specimen of this
class.
"JCV|UAI, ANII KXACT JUSTICE TO AI.L MEN, OF WIIATEVEB STATE OR L'KRHUAKION, HKLIOIOU* OR POLITICAL. "—Jrfferaoti
HEAVY ASSESSMENT. The Republi
can State Central Committee, of In
diana, it is said, assessed their candi
date lbr Governor, Mr. Porter, in
tho sum of $10,0(10 for campaign ex
penses. Mr. Porter objected to the
i amount as not at all proportionate to
; his pile.
IT is said that Colliding has deter
mined to make some sjieeches in favor
of the tail of the Republican ticket,
and will ignore the head—that is, if
the Chicago ticket must go forward,
he will drive it tail foremost. Hcburz
and the great Roscoe agree perfectly,
j only ihat Sclmrz embraces the head
and cuts off the tail.
——
EDITOR IIALSTEAD, of Ohio, is hard
to please when he says tltifct Mr. Gar- ■
field "has no record to run on." Why,
where is his war record, his tariir re
cord, his Credit Mobilicr record, his
De Golyer record and salary-grab re- l
cord? Are these not sufficient to |
commend him to the most exacting i
member of the party who stole the !
Presidency from the people ?
JUDGE POKTKR, the Republican ,
candidate for Governor of Indiana,
has been |>olitely requested to contrib- ;
ute the neat little sum of ten thousand |
dollars to the corruption fund in that
State. Considering that the assessment
is nearly if not quite equal to the
Governor's salary for the entire term,
it is little wonder that the party man
agers had some difficulty in securing a
candidate who was willing to bleed to
the required extent. It's a pity so
much money should be wasted. In
diana will go Democratic, as usual,
and there will lie distressing vacuums
in otherwise healthy bank accounts as
the grand army of Republican con
tributors figure up the coat on the
day after tfie election.
GF.N. MCDONALD'S revelations of
the St. Louis whisky ring, in which he
was an active participant as one of
the Government officials in the Grant
administration, is now having a run I
of the press. He implicates Rabcock >
and other officials deeply in the cor
! rupt transactions and claims that all
their acts had the concurrence and in
j fluencc of the President himself. "Set i
| a rogue to catch a rogue" is an old
I rule, and perhaps an effectual one.
Rut we prefer not to hunt in that
kind of company and will await fur
ther developments liefore publishing
the details in proof that they were all
a set of rogues together, from the
chief down to the lowest subordinate.
THE Republicans of Maine, remarks
the New York World, have always
denounced terrorism and declared for
the right of public assembly and free
speech, and they have providently
catered to the Tciajierancc vote with
resolutions savory and nutritious as
the cast wind. It is interesting, there
fore, to bear the veteran Prohibition
ist, Neal Dow, using such language as
this:
"The first temperance meeting I ever
attended was broken tip by a mob in
Portland, twenty-five years ago, but the
mob failed in its purpose. Since that
day we bad no tem|>erance meetings
mobbed in Maine until the 22d of this
month, when a temperance convention
was mobbed and broken up at Augusta
by roughs and rowdiea led on by Re
publican officeholder*. The conven
tion was driven to adjourn because its
business could not be transacted in con
sequence of the violence and outrage
of this mob. The mob of twenty-five
years ago was Whig. This one was Re
publican, deliberately planned and car
ried out in the supposed interest of the
Republican party, I very much mis
take the temper of the temperance men
of Maine if they continue to uphold a
party which tramples upon the dearest
rights of citixens."
If such language hal only been
used about a Republican meeting at
the .South, now 1 We know that Gen.
Dow's candidacy is as welcome to the
Republicans of Maine as a snow-storm
in harvest, for even if he polls only the
500 votes they allow him Garfield will
be "dishedbut we cannot account
for this effectual taking of steps to
keep him in the field. Unless, that is,
that Mr. Blaine wants to take a bond
of Fate as to Mr. Garfield's funeral in
November.
BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, AUGUST lit, 1880.
The South.
It appears by the census returns
that the labor aud expenditure of
money by certain fanatics of the
North to colonize negroes in tho North
ern States have failed to make the
i slightest impression UJHIII tho aggre
gate of ]M>pii!atiou in the South. It
is true a few hundred poor negroes
were induced by these wild schemes of
immigration to leave their sunny
homes and settle in Kansas and In
diana, but withal, the South instead of
being depopulated bus increased in
numliers so as to be likely to gaiu in
representation in Congress, while the
New Knglaud and a few other North
ern States will probably fall behind.
Thus the immigration scheme lias turn
ed out to be a poor investment of labor
and money. It is not only iu popula
tion that the South shows a surprising
, growth, but in all the elements of
: material prosperity it is rapidly nmk
, ing up for the devastations, poverty
' and distress that fell upon it in couse
i quence of the late war. At the recent
I convention of bankers held at Sara
toga, a very interesting paper was read
by Mr. W. 11. I'utterson, of Georgia,
upon the present condition and the
future prospects of the South. He
sketches its wonderful recuperation,
and also pictures its present social and
business condition with a master hand,
showing the relations that exist be
tween the two races, and the rapid
progress of manufactures and agricul
ture. In conclusion he says:
"Cotton production has increased and
the article meets with ready aalc. The
evila ot defective transportation have
disappeared, and splendidly equipped
railroads now thread the South in all
directions. Manufacturing interests]
have taken new life, utilising the im-'
rnense water |N>wer and cheap fuel.
Cotton milla are appearing everywhere
and all well employed. Iron interests
are augmenting, the rolling mills turn
ing out iron and ateel rails, fish plates,
bolts, nuts, spikes, nails, bridge and '
bar iron. Mining, too, is extending. !
and needs only increased capital and
skilled labor to make it a leading fea- i
lure of Southern industry, lastly, the 1
i banks need more capital to aid planters
1 and others. But even if this is not
! forthcoming from other sections thelm- I
provements thus happily begun will be
successfully continued."
This state of affairs is suggestive
auil may well challenge the sober re
flection of sensible people to deter
mine whether, instead of waging an
impracticable sectional crusade ngninst
the Southern people, all, both North
and South, will not be the gainers in
the general prosperity of the whole
country which a comity of good will
nnd reciprocal interest must inspire.
No part of this great country can be
crippled by the dissensions of sec
tional bate and discord that will not
fall with equal weight upun all, and
it seems strange now that the leaders
of a great political party can bo so
blinded in their own folly nnd so reck
less of the general welfare as to meet
and resolve to conduct a political cam
paign on such issues. Rut such is the
position assumed by Gen. Garfield and
his admirers in the New York confer
ence. They have determined, eigh
teen years after the close of the war,
again to float the "bloody shirt," and
stir up sectional animosity between
the North and the Houth. The stu
pidity of furnishing this evidence of
weakness and desperation, can only he
accounted for on the assumption that
"whom the Gods seek to destroy, they
first make mad." Their doom is scal
ed, and the words of Garth Id himself
in sober moments when the Presiden
tial bee was not buzzing in his ear arc
prophetic of that doom. When he
said "the man who would attempt to
ride into power by the revival of sec
tionalism will find himself without a
party," be uttered words of truth and
soberness, and he cannot avert dis
aster that sentiment.
THE fellow that asserts that Gar
field did no service for the De Golyer
fee of $5,000, is unjust to the great
Republican fttatesman. He spoke to
Shepherd on the subject 1 He swears
he did I Shepherd gave the contract
and Garfield secured the pay from the
public Treasury.
Tho Groat Democratic Mass Moot-
On Tuesday, August 2-4, 1880, will
be held the first grand rally of the
campaign in Ceutre county. Eminent
speakers from abroad will be present
on that occasion ami a royal time
may be expected. < 'hair man Spangler
is rapidly perfecting his arrangements
and It is safe to say that nothing will
be left undone to make this one of
the greatest gatherings of the kind
ever seen in this Democratic county.
Among the many gentlemen who have
been invited ami are expected to
*j>eak to their fellow citizens of Cen
tre county on that evening are : Hon.
('. Cassidy, of Philadelphia,
Col. Robert P. Decbert. our candidate
for Auditor General, Hon. W. S. Sten
ger, of Cbaniltersburg, Hon. R. Milton
Speer.of Huntingdon, Hon. Robert P.
Allen, of Williamsport, and others.
There will be a grand torcbligbt pro
cession aud brilliant illuminatiou in
the evening. Come, DemocraL, ami
show the opponent.- of good govern
ment that you are in earnest, aud that
you w ill not allow the good old strong
hold of Centre to lag iu the great
movement of the jieople which is to
place Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock in
the Presidential chair. Come in vour
might ami swell the ranks of the
grand army of constitutional freedom.
TAXINO OKFICIAI.S. The Govern
ment officials have been osscsm-d bv
the National Republican Committee
2-5 per cent, on their salaries for the
months of August, September and Oc
tober, and Mr. Haves' civil service re
iorm order is now interpreter! to uu-an
fpay or git." It is said the commit
tee expect to raise £1 ,'>oo,ooo from
thiir and other sources. Civil service
a very handsome dividend
from Mr. Tilden's salary and the act
ing President should not hesitate to
apply it.
THERE seems to be a dearth of out
rages in the Bouth this season and the
Radicals are unhappy. The only out-
rages reported thus far have been the
caes of three negroes, two of whom
were mobbed for voting the Demo
cratic ticket, and the other for mak
ing a Democratic speech. They may
do better hereafter. The mill set in
motion by Garfield and his friends in
New York has not yet got into active
working order.
WE direct the attention of our rend
ers to tho second page of this week's
issue of the DEMOCRAT, upon which
will IK- found abstracts of the brilliant
speeches delivered last week by Sena
tor Wallace at Rending and Norris
town. Both of these able efforts of
the distinguished .Senator should re
ceive a careful reading. They are
replete with solid and unanswerable
reasons why Hancock ami English
should be elected.
"Tin Republican party has been grad
ually improving the character of the
public service. "—IUUt/onU Republican.
Yes, by putting into office all the
active thieves in the great crime of
1876, by which the Presidency was
stolen from the man elected by the
people and a receiver of stolen goods
forced into the White House.
THE Republicans seem to be con
cerned about the "counting out" as
they are pleased to term it, ihat has
taken place in Alabama. Well, con
sidering that thev had no ticket in the
field, it is hard to understand why they
should complain or to conceive exact
ly how the counting out, so far as it
affects them, could have been done.
But such bosh deceives no one.
To judge from the way a correspon
dent of the Bellefonte Republican
squeals and squirms over the Demo
cratic meeting held at Marsh Creek
school house, on last Thursday even
ing, the "fourth rate lawyers" who
spoke on the occasion must have done
considerable damage. Patience, gen
tlemen ; the end is not yet.
DEMOCRATS, remember TUESDAY
evening next,
—* s ,
Hayes and Garfield
I here have been three Republican
Presidents, Lincoln, Grant and Hayes.
Lincoln and Grunt were legally and
constitutionally elected; Hayes was
counted in by the Electoral Commis
sion. Both Lincoln and Grant were
unanimously re-nominated at the close
of their first term ; Havew' name was
not presented to the < bit-ago conven
tion, and during the entire balloting
be received but a single vote. Why
has Hayes no following? Has he
separated from bis party as did Tvler,
Fillmore and Johnson v No, be has
been in perfect accord with bis party
on all measures. Has bis administra
tion been so corrupt as to render his
name infamous, ami thus drive away
his own party? No, it has been a
great improvement in that respect
upon the one immediately preceding
it. Has bis cabinet been mixed up
with the sale of Post tradersbips and
the \\ hiskey Ring frauds as Grant's
was? No, whatever we as Democrats
may think of the ability of Haves' ad
ministration, we are compiled to ad
mit that it has lx-en free from those
foul scandals which so disgraced the
name of America in all civilized coun
tries during the eight years of Grant's
administration. Why then did no one
in the Republican party propose to
nominate Hayes, when it had been the
uniform practice to give a President a
unanimous re-nomination? There has
l>een no such breach between Hayes
and the Republican leaders as occur
red between Lincoln and leading men
during the war ami between Grant
und Humner and others. Excepting
the removal of a few subordinate offi
cers, such as Cornell and Arthur, no
cause of disagreement has existed be
tween Hayes and any influential lead
er of bis party. He ha done every
thing his party demanded of him,
however desperate it wa s , even to the
crime of infanticide, for he ha strang
led his own infant "Civil Service Re
form." Why then, we ask again,
was there no one to demand or even
favor his nomination? There is but one
answer to the question. He was never
elected President, ami for four years
ha been usurping an office belonging
to another. All intelligent Republi
cans, either openly or secretly, admit
this. No j>erson v'sjudug to be above
the mental condition of an idiot now
seriously pretends that Hayes was
elected. He stole the Presidency and
the party dare not attempt to carry
that load in n campaign. Hence Hayes
himself and even- other prominent,
man in the party at once recognized
the impossibility of Hayes' re-nomi
nation and election. The nomination
of Garfield wa an accident, not pre
meditated. It was made without
thought, in the excitement of a stam
pede. No one at the time thought of
his connection with and responsibility
for the Presidential steal of 1877.
Glad to escape the evils of a third
term on the one hand and the scandal
of the Mulligan embroglio on the
other, the delegates rushed to the
nomination of Garfield as the only
port of safety. Yet he was one of the
majority of the Electoral Commission
who but three years before had stolen
the Presidency ami given it to Hayes.
Garfield had been selected by the Re
publican members of the House as a
fit instrument to do this work. The
choice was no doubt made because of
his connection with the Credit Mobilicr
and De Golyer affairs and the facility
with which he had foresworn himself
before the Poland committee. It was
necessary to have s trtsn who would
not shynk at peijury. He had to
take an oath to support the Constitu
tion and to decide according to right
and justice, and after taking that oath
was expected to wholly disregard it,
trample the (Constitution under his
foot and utterly ignore both right and
justice. The Republican members of
the House knew Garfield and selected
him to do the infamous job, and he
did not disappoint their expectations.
#
TEIIM8: ptT Annum, in Arivancp.
When the entire Republican party
admit that ll aye*, lor receiving the
Htolen Presidency, was incapable of
being now elected to the office, shall
any honest man support Garfield who
wa one of the high! whose names
must go down iutoeverlasting infamy ?
If the old saying that the "receiver is
as bad as the thief" be true, the reverse
of it is also true, that a thief is as ha I
as the receiver, and Garfield therefore
deserves and should receive the same
measure of condemnation that would
be meted out to Hayes.
Tho Legislature.
EDITOR* CENTRE DEMOCRAT : The
time is fast approaching for tbe Democracy
of the county to meet in convention to
place in nomination persons to represent
us in the Legislature, and we beg leave to
name through your column* B. F. llunter,
Ksq., of Bonner township, as a suitable
person to be placed U|*>n the ticket. 31 r.
llunter has all his life earnestly labored to
advance the interests of tbe Democratic
party in Centre county. W® know him
personally to be an honest and intelligent
man and are confident that be would make
an excellent representative. He is a farmer,
and besides adding strength to the ticket,
he would faithfully and honestly represent
us in the councils of the State. Hoping
that you will give space in the DEMOCRAT
for this announcement, we are most res
pectfully yours, dec.,
3!AST DEMOCRAT- or HAI.F M'KIK.
HOWARD, PA., Aug. 18, IKBO.
KDITOR* DEMOCRAT The Belfefonto
lirpublifan, of last week, published a letter
from this place, over the signature of
"JACK," in which the following language
occur!: jg ,
I would like to know why a pauper ha
not tho right to vote. I assert he has, but
here in this neighborhood one of the MliM
•ors, the initials of whose name it J. "ST.
Hall, a Democrat, of course (no Republi
can would resort to such methods to carry
•■lections by fraud), has refused to place
the name of a Republican on the registra
tion because- he tsa pauper and because Re *
claims lie has H6 right to vote. When .
men are elected to office tbey should trv to
become acquainted with the law, or* at
least do as much as read the Constitution
of the United .Slates, wherein be will find
that all male citinen* of the Unite.] States
over twenty-one years of age have the
right to vote.
"JACK'S" unqualified assertion that a
pauper ha* a right to rote, u abundant
evidence that he knows nothing whatever
of the qualification# of elector#, albeit he is
backed up in hi# assertion by the R*publ'i
eon's editor. If either "JACK,*' or the
Rspublitan'n editor, will arieo and explain
Iwiw a citixcn of the United State#,
over twenty-one year# of age," who ban
not "resided in the State one year immedi
ately preceding the election,''or who haa
not "re#idod in the election district where
ho shall offer to vote at lea#t two months
immediately preceding tho election," or
who ha# not "paid within two year# a
State or county tax, which shall have been
assessed at least two month# and paid at
leat one month before the election," ha* a
right to vote, even though be be in posses
sion of their *int <pta mm of pauperism, I
will yield the point. JACK'S statement
that Mr. Ilall "has refused to place the
name of a Republican on hi# registration
because he is a pauper, and because he
claims he has no right to vote ' justifim
the charge against him of willful falsifica
tion. The name of the particular peraon
to whom he refers, and whom he stigma
tines as a "pauper," because painful dis
ease has incapacitated him for labor, and
compelled him to rely upon the public for
support, is on the registration list, was
placed upon it at the proper time, and Mr.
Hall doe* not, and ha* not, at any time,
claimed that he has no right to vote.
"Jack s' culminating point of stupidity,
ignorance and misrepresentation is only
reached in the last lines of the paragraph 1
have quoted, in which be "asserts" that
by the Constitution of the United State*
ell male cilUens over twenty-one yean of
age have the right to vote, and prompt*
the suggestion that he ibould add the final
syllable of the name of the animal whcea
abbreviated title be adopt* as a worn de
plum*, and write himself in fall the jack*
ass that be proves himself to be. The
Constitution of the United States contains
no line nor word which prescribes the
qualifications of electors, or guarantees to
any man the right to vote, or in any way
limits the right of each Bute to decide for
Itself what shall constitute the qualifica
tions or disqualifications of its own cilia*n
to vote, excepting in the fifteenth amend
ment, which declares that the right "shall
not be denied or abridged on account of
race, color, or previous condition of servi
tude." Perhaps it would be as well for
"Jack" to follow the advice he so freely
tenders Mr. Hall, and "read the Constitu
tion of the United States."
OosvtirtmoK,
NO. 34.