Lite Ccaftf <§mflrwt. BELLEFONTE, PA. The Largest, Cheapest and Best Paper FUHLIHIIKD IN CENTRIC COUNTY. TIIK CKNTKK DEMOCRAT is pub ll.hial evory Thursday morning, at Bollsfolita, Csntra county, PH. TERMS—C*h in advance, $1 BO If not |>!d 111 advance. 8 OO Payment! mode wtlliln throe month, will he con sidered in edynnce. A LI VK PAPER—devoted to the Intereiti or the whole people. No peper will lie discontinued until arrearage! ara paid, except at option of publishers. Papers going out of the county must lie pahl for In advance. All) person procuring us tencash subscribers will be sent a copy free of charge. Our extensive circulation makes this paper an un usually reliable ami profitable medium foranvertliing We have the most ample facilities for JOII WORK and are prepared to print all kinds of Hooks, Tracts, Orograminee, Posters, Coiumen-ial printing, Ac., in the uest style and at the lowest possible rates. All advertisements lor a less term than three mouths 20 cents per line for the ft rat three insertions, and O cents a line for each additional insertion. Special notices one-half more. Editorial notices 15 rents per line. A lilieml discount is made to persons advertising liy the quarter, half year, or year, us follows: Mj * SPACE OCCt'PIIK. s|2 J Oue inch (or 11 line* tliU s■*>,s* 112 Tvro iut ht*. T 1 !." Throe Inched W 15 4jttir>r column (or Inches) 12120 110 Half column (or 10 inches) -'Vi Oue column (or 20 Inch**) |OSJ.H 100 Foreign advertisement* muitt he paid for before In sertion, except on yearly contract*, when half-yearly pay men in in advance *ill he required. POLITICAL NOTICE-*, to cents per line each insertion. Nothloinserted for lee* than 6o cents. lit".-*INE. - H NOTICES, in the editorial columns, 15 cents per line, each Insertion. LOCAL NOTICES, in local columns, 10 cents per line. Announcements. LEGISLATURE. We are authorized to announce that COKBTRR Mt'NSON, KFTTJ., of Phili|xihuri{, will lie A candidate for the Legislature, subject to the decision of the Dem ocratic Comity Convention. We are authorized to announce that D. C. WILT, Rs4| n of Millheim, will he a candidate for the LogUU lure, subject to the decision of the Democratic County Convention. We are authorized to announce that It. F. HUNTER, K*| , of Benrer township, will he a candidate for the Legislature, subject to the decision of the Democratic County Convention. We are author-zed to announce that Hon. J. P. CEP II ART, of Bel'efo ite, will lie a candidate for the Legislature, subject to the deris'on of the Democrat'c Comity Convention. We are authorized to ar ion nee that lion. W. A. MURRAY, of H.trii* township, will lw a candidate for tue Legislature, subjec. to the decision of t >e Denn* cratic County Convention. DISTRICT ATTORN P. Y. We aie authorized to announce that WILLIAM C. II KIN LP., Ksq., of Bellefonte. will ►- a candidate for District Attorney, subject to the dei-iaion of the Demo cratic County Convention. TO VOTERS. The 2d of September is the last day for registration and assessment. The assessor of each district is required to be at the election-house on Wednesday and Thursday, September Ist and 2d, from 10 A. M. to 3 p. M., and from <> p. M. to 9 , p. M., to perfect the list. All persons entitled to vote should /ositions, far removed from possi ble danger or trying ordeals, audaci ously flings this brazen insult in the teeth of the brave soldier who has periled his life ujon a score of battle fields, facing innumerable dangers and undergoing hardships of which John Sherman never dreamed, as he drew magnificent salaries as a civil servant of the government. He seems to have forgotten that his own brother, like wise a soldier and now the official head of the army, and the recipient of the second largest salary paid to any official in either the military or civil service, was also "educated and fed at the public expense." That he likewise has sjent the greater por tion of his life in the service of the United States government, and 'has been bountifully rewarded at the hands of the people. Secretary Sher man has another brother who long occupied official station, and would yet, in all probability, be wearing the judicial ermine had he not forgotten the historic example of Francis Bacon and learned, when it was too late, that the judge who listens to the voice of the tempter and gazes ujmn the allur ing gold of the bribe giver, can have no place save that which he earns in the time-softened memories of men. Whom the gods would destroy they | first make mad, and surely disap ! pointed ambition and wrath nursed until it has become a consuming fire, have overthrown the otherwise well j balanced brain of the great Secretary, ' who, by his ill tempered speech, I has invoked the destruction which surelv awaits his candidate in the mel ancholy days of November. The peo ple of the United States will then | strike a balance sheet. They will i charge General Hancock with all ho has received at their hands and will give him due credit for the forty-one years he has spent in their Rervice. j There will lie entries on that sheet ! which will tell of Molino Del Key, Uherebusco and gallant deeds under Mexico's tropical sun, and there will also be mention of Williamsburg, An* tietam, Reams Station and Gettysburg. The balance will be so large against the people that, true to their honest instincts in favor of paying all their honest indebtedness to the uttermost farthing, they will elect Hancock President of the United States and ask him to square the books. THE Ilellcfonte Republican, under the heading of "Why the South is Solid for Hancock," keeps standing at the head of one of its columns what purports to be an extract from a speech delivered by Wade Hampton, at Staunton, Va. Inasmuch, however, as Republican speakers and writers seem to be conducting this campaign upon the principle that a lie well stuck to will anwer all the purposes of the truth, it is probably labor lost to call the attention of the editor of the Republican to the fact that he thus places before his readers each week are intentional and malicious forgery. Nothing of the kind is to be found in the speech of Mr. Hampton as it was reported at the time of delivery, and he has since, over his own sigpature, denied that he uttered the sentiment attributed to him. THE Republican Southern outrage mill has become almost useless from the death of material to feed it. In stead, they have established a slander mill, now running on full time. The New York Tribune furnishes the grists, and the small-fry hebdomadals do the bumming. Our neighbor of the Re publican baa been engaged. LETTER FROM PITTSBURG. The Canvass In the Went—Peculiarities of the Campaign—Dan Rougher ty's First Npeech—Wilmot, Vic IMolette and Grow. g|**'lnl Oom-pouilon<- of the I>*cmT. PITTXIH.RO, Aug. 24, 1880. —The old smoky town is all life now, and more Rtnoke and more noise and business, and the greater satisfaction. Add to the smoking fires of industry we have at night the thousand of torches of the political procession. Up to this time the evening parades have been princi pally by the youngsters who manage to get tin torch lamps well supplied with oil. There are over one hundred and fifty Democratic clubs alone in the various wards and divisions, all prepar ing for a regular street outburst in Sep tember. What hot months September and October will be, politically, is pres saged by this early preparation. THE NEW COUNTY COMMITTEE was called for Saturday by Hon. .lames 11. Hopkins, chairman, and the good work systematically pushed. (Jen. Moorhead, "Old Slackwater," as he used to be called, is chairman of the Republican committee. He is a foeman worthy of Sir James' steel, as he has many warm personal friends, and since the death of Mackey seems to unite all factions in the Republican ranks. Hut even his popularity cannot hold Republicans from declaring for Hancock. Many of them, like the rich brewer of Philadelphia, prefer to sup port Hancock quietly, rather than start a whole regiment after them, begging their return or threatening the most dangerous consequences. Hut the tide seems against them. The flop of Gen. Pearson is only an index of what is going on in the rank and file of the men who were soldiers. It does not seem to bo isolated case* among the Pennsylvania reserve* who were under Hancock during the war, but in every department of the army all over the United States. THIS IIASCOCK CANVASS is not like any of the last five Presiden tial campaign* that we have had. The people this time seem to spring into organizations like magic. The National and Congressional Committee* have been carefully collecting names of active men with their P. O. address for month* to be used a* a nucleus for a splendid spread of au organization, entering in to every precinct or election district in the United States, when all at once the cyclone of a general political uprising Htrikes them, and for the present at least their gossamer thread* of an or ganization are hid. The club* and pole raisings, the meeting* and speeches are going on now like the wild suige* along the sea shore. It doe* seem ft* if no amount of official trap setting, or o putting out line* or manipulating, wr any good in the presence of a storm such as is now beating all over the coun try. It in the cause and the condidate. Nothing but a similar combination could produce a like result. Mere wire pulling would not do it, and he who can do nothing else but lay fine plan*, i* comparatively lost when the active | fight is going on, a* it i* at present. It i* ju*t in a time like thi* that Wallace ! can show hi* superiority. He can kick up Ned in a quiet way with anybody, and when the waters are out and the ; storm covers the land, he can go front and make himself heard. I notice his Norristown speech ha* been pretty generally copied by our Democratic paper*. Hut this campaign will try the wind of the best of them. THERE ARE TOF.NO MEN in every county in the State who should be brought to the front this year in ac tive service, speaking. It wiil all go to swell the grand old army. Let the old men remember that it is to these young inen that we mu*t leave the care of the party, ami encourage them to try and fit themselves in every way for it. A little encouragement will otten get as a good speaker, whilst a trifling or con temptous remark may throw a good cause in the shade *>7 driving valuable supports from it. noraitCßTT S FIRST SPEECH. The eloquent Dougherty who nomi nated Hancock at Cincinnati, in his lecture* tells a very funny story on himself how he attended a political meeting in Philadelphia to speak his first public rpeecb. He laid he was modestly on the bills as among the "and others'' who were to address the meeting. Wm. 11. Wittee, ("has. W. Carrigan, and several other big guns; at that time each bad a line apiece on the bills, but Dougherty was hid away among the "and others." This did not daunt him, however, and as the bright lights mostly fail to come in on time, Chas. J. Ingersol took young I>ougherty by the hand, and after asking hi* name several times, introduced him. Dough erty gotofT a few sentences and then he fainted stone dead. Hut he kept going to the political meetings, among the "and others," and he can now draw as big a crowd as any man I know of. It is a rare treat to hear him. rORNEr AND DOI'GHERTT both left us at the same time, and now come back together. They went off on the Douglass split. They are the point ers back, for a good many others. Penn sylvania is really a Democratic State. Out of fifteen Presidential elections that were held previous to the war the old Keystone soured up thirteen times for the I'emocralic candidates and but twice against them. In the Seymour fight, 1868, Wallace, then Chairman of the State Committee, tried to get Dough erty back. Several conferences were held, but Dougherty was for the legiti mate results of the war, he was for ele vatingOrant. Well, Grant was elevated, and Dougherty and other admirers of the silent soldier blushed at his sur roundings, before the administration closed. This time the two Dromios, Forney and Dougherty come without coaxing, and with them many others. Forney's magazine baa jumped tip in circulation Immensely since his come over. Another straggler who might as well oome back as not is OAJ.CBIIA A. fIROW. He went off with David Wilmot, how ever, which wan earlier than the Forney Douglass troubles. The Wilmot proviso business demoralized that whole north ern tier of counties on us. Kradford, Susquehanna, Potter and McKean. "Jump in Vic," said Wilmot to Vic. Piolette, "jump in, you shall go to Con gress and i will bejudge but Piolette shook his head and the two Democrats separated. Wilmot went to Congress as an anti-slavery Democrat, and wasafter ward* a judge. Piolette still lives but could never strike it |>olitically. He \made plenty of money building rail roads, but he never seemed to know just when he could interfere in politics to the greatest advantage for himself. Perhaps it was all to bis advantage that he never got what be most desired. He is *till vigorous enough to look after one of Wilmot's pets, Galusha A. Grow, in a political way. KEYSTONE. Texts From Hancock's letters. When fraud, violence or incompe tence controls, the noblest Constitutions and wisr-.t laws are useless. The bayonet is not a fit instrument for collecting the votes of freemen. It is only by a full vote, free ballot and fair count that the people can rule in tact, as required by the theory of our Government. Take this fouada tion away and the whole structure falls. The great principle* of American lib erty are still the rightful inheritance of thi* people, and ever should be. The right of trial by jury, the haUat rorpu *, the liberty of the pre**, the free dom of speech, the natural right* of persons and the rights of property, must be preserved. The thirteenth, fourteentli and fif teenth amendments to the Constitu tion of the United States, embodying the results of the war for the Union, are inviolable. If called to the Presidency, I should deem it my duty to resist, with all my power, any attempt to impair or evade the full force and effect of the Consti tution, which in every article, section and amendment, is the supreme law of the land. Thi* Union, comjosing a General Government with general j>ower* and State Governments, with Stale jowers for purpose* local to the Slates, is a polity the foundations of which were laid in the profoundest wisdom. This i* the Union which our fathers made ami which ha* been o respected abroad and so beneficent at home. The war for the Union was success fully closed more than fifteen years ago. All classes of our people must share alike the blessings of the Union, and are equally concerned in its perpetuity and in the proper administration of putdic affair*. We are in a state of profound peace, i Henceforth let it be our purj>oe 10 cul- I livate sentiment* of friendship and not of animosity among our fellow citizens. As one people we have common in j tercet*. A sedulous and scrupulous care of the ' Public Credit, together with a wise and ! economical management of our Govern mental expenditure*, should be main j tained. in order that labor may be light ly burdened and that all persons may be protected in their right* to the fruits of their own industry. Let us encourage the harmony and generou* rivalry among our own indus . trie which will revive our languishing . merchant marine, extend our con merce J with foreign Nations, assist our mrr j chants, manufacturei t and producer* to develop our vast natural resource*, and ! increase the prosfienty and happiness ! of our |eople. Public office is a trust, not a bounty j !>etowed upon the bolder. The basis of a substantial, practical Civil Service Reform must first be es < tabiished by the people in filling the elective office* ; if they fix a hijh stand ard of qualifications for office, rnd stern ! ly reject the corrupt and incompetent, : the result will be decisive in governing the action of the servant* whom they intrust with appointing power. No form of government, however carefully devised, no principles, bow ever sound, will protjr Thou A Hendrfcki, at Marlon, I ml. Garfield's nomination means the en dorsement and approval in the most positive and offensive manner possible of the Presidential fraud of 1876-7. He had more to do with it than any other man, and was the only man who occu pied toward it a double relation. After the election Garfield went to New Or leans by request of Gen. Grant, without authority of law, as a partisan. He went there to assist hit psrty in making up a ease, and after his return to Wash ington, of all his associates be was the only man who took his seat upon the Electoral Commission. By evary senti ment of fair play ha should have been excluded from the jury box. By hi* own sworn statement of what he did in New Orleann, Garfield had charge of the re turn* from Went Feliciana Pari*h. In one of the inner room* of Packard'* Custom House he did uis work, examin ed the affidavit*, and when they were not sufficiently full, he prepared or had prepared additional interrogatories to nring them within the rule* adopted by the Returning Board. The testimony so received by Garfield, went back to the Returning Board, and the result was that West Feliciana with its Democrat ic majority WHS thrown out. In Wash ington, Garfield's vote was that Congress could not go behind the returns thus made. As agent for his party he help ed to make returns by manipulating the evidence; nnd as juryman for the na tion he held such evidence as conclu sive and binding. ♦ A Base Fabrication. Frotn the Washington I*naf. For the past two weeks, the Republi can press has beer, circulating an alleg ed report of Senator Hampton's speech at Staunton, Va, in which the following occurs : " Consider what Ist? ami Jackson would do wrre they alter. These are. the same princi ples /or whieh they /ought /our years. lie member the men who poured /orth their l*fc blood on Virginia's soil, and do not abandon them now. Jiemembrr that upon your vote, depends the success of the Democratic ticket." This has been printed in every Re publican paper, ha* been put in big type at the head of their editorial col umns, and has been printed in huge posters for country circulation. We have the authority of Senator Hampton for the declaration tiial he said nothing of the kind. It is a malicious, mean he, made from whole cloth and put in circulation with full knowledge that it was a dirty falsehood. The Republican managers have started out with a deter initiation to make the campaign on vil lainous calumnies. They have hired and are paying experts to conduct and utter lie* in their interest. They pay no heed to exposures of their villianies. Their organs |ersist in uttering lies lliHt have been nailed fifty times ; nor will they copy this authoritative declar ation of Senator Wade Hampton that lie said nothing at Staunton or else where, that could possibly be tortured in to the shape or meaning given it in the alleged extract above quoted. Independent in Streak*. From th* X*w York T< I* gram. General Garfield on the way home from his pilgrimage to New York, on the tiain read a newspaper containing Senator David Davis a letter favoring the election of Hancock. "That .Judge Davis should support Hancock' General Garfield remarked, "i perfectly natural. He jKvsed awhile a* an independent, but be was independent in streaks only." It may strike the American public that Mr. Garfield'* description of the Illinois Senator and ex-Judge is a pretty good description of himself. Mr. Garfield has been often inde{>endent in streaks. Many times in Congres* his word* have had the flavor of a states manship somewhat broader than the stalwart partisanship of the men with whom be trained. He was one of the first prominent Republicans after Lin coln and Horace Greeley—a long way after—to declare that the war is over, that its issue* are all settled and that the business of statesmanship is to set the recuperative processes of agricul ture, commerce and manufactures at work. Often, in the crisis of some fool ish old sectional debate, when crafty Republican mischief-makers had suc ceeded in striking fire from the hearts of the representative* of the recon structed section. General Garfield would rise and with a few good nature.! and judicious words take the wind out of the sails of his stalwart brethren, and allay the angry waves which that wind had raised. But unfortunately for him self and perhaps for the country Mr. Garfield wa* independent only "in streaks." He was not independent enough to lay aside the partisan and act judicially in the matter of the eleo torsi commission. He wa* independent in advising Democrats how to draft a bill for the regulation of the freedom of the polls, but he was not inde]>end ent enough to sustain them when they had adopted his advice. He was not independent enough to give hia]>arty in this campaign the advantage of hia in dependence and his own best judgment. He has just been independent enough to offend machine Republican leaders and narrow Itepublican voters, but not enough to gain or to deserve the confi dence of moderate Democrats and of independent voters. There has been too much atreakineas in Garfield's in dependence. I'uxsled Mast. Fmm the N. Y. Kxprm, A**. 17, ISSn. The most puuled cartoonist, juat at present, is Mr. Thorns* Nasi, of the ■loumal 0/ Civilisation. It is a notable fact that since the opening of the cam paign he has not onoe drawn the figures of the Republican nominees. Tertians he remembers that cartoon of 18i3, when be portrayed Garfield as a Credit Mobilier thief, and cannot see exactly how to get around the record. But what to do with Hancock is the thing that pussies him. He is naturally a man of strong onnvictions and honest in hit impulses ; so it is that he cannot be brought to libel, and does not know how to caricature the hero for whose record he has so profound a respect. In every cartoon he baa drawn, General Hancock appears the embodiment of all that ia grand and noble. The current number of Harper's Weekly , however, contains a cartoon that muat serve as a double edged sword. General Hancock is rep resented aa standing in a graveyard filled with numberless graves, and on the headstone of one is inscribed "Reb els killed in front of General Haooock's line (2d Corp*)." The descriptive lines at the bottom of the cartoon sue, " The Silent (I>emocraticl Majority. General Hancock will mis* them on election day." It would be aomewhat difficult to discover whether this is intended to drive away Democratic, or to secure Republican votes for the General. It is a good deal like e case of paying your money and taking your ohoioe. Gen. Garfield'* Credit Mobilier Record. From his own SUM rn testimony before the Poland Von nit tee, Jan. 14, In 73. / never owned, received or agreed to re. Ative any stock 0/ the Oretli'. Mobilier or of the Union Pan fir Hait.cul Tver any divi dends or profits arising from either if therr. From Judge Poland's rejtort, Feb. JM, I*7-5 —(iar'field's esiimony perjured. The fact* fn regard to Mr. Garfield, *< found by the committee, are that he agreed with Mr. A me* to take ten shares of Credit Mobili-r Stock, hut did riot pey for the same. Mr. Ames received the eighty p-r cent, dividend in frond* and sold them for ninety-se/en percent, and also received the sixty per cent, cash dividend, which together with the price of stock and inter est, left a balance of $<529. This sum was paid over to Mr. Garfield by a check on the scrgeani-nt-rins and Mr. Garfield then understood this sum was the balance 0/ die id* rids after paying Jor the stock. From tin- New York Times, February IS, 1*73. Messrs. Kelly and Garfield present * most distressing figure. Their particip*. tion in the Credit Mobilier affair it cornel . rated by the most unfortunate contradic tion* of testimony. From the New York Time., February '30,1*7 s. The character of the Credit Mobilier w no seceol. The source of it* profits was very well known at the time Congre.s --1 men bought it. Though (lakes Ames may have succeeded in concealing his own mo tive, which was to bribe Congressmen, ; their acceptance of the stock was not on that account innocent. The dishonor of the act, a* a participation in an obvious fraud, still remains. Home of thei.i have indulged in testmonv with reference to the matter which has been contradicted. The committee tmrtly rejects thr te.stin my of several of t/.' members. This ran only be done on tb*- ground that it is untrue. Put untrue let. tii -onygiven under outh is morally, if not | legally, perjury. It is the clear duly of Congress to visit with punishment *ll who took Credit Mo bilier slock from Gakes Ames. From Ihe N< York Tribune, February I*7 !. James A. Garfield, of Ohio, had teri shares; never paid a dollar; received $-5 *'!<, which, after the investigation began, he was anxious to have considered as a loan from Mr. (fakes Ames to himself. Well, the wickedness of ail of it is that these men betrayed the trut of the people, deceived their constituents and, by evasions and falsehoods, confessed the transaction to he disgraceful. Fn-rn Uis X*w Yurk Tribune, F< b. 30. I*7X. Mr. Ames establishes very clear!v the joint that he was not alone in this offense. If he is to be expelled /or bribery, the men who were bribed should go with him. Old Proverb* with New Readings. From tb* New York Sua, Au*. I'.', IvS. Adapted to the view* of the Republi can national committee. Dishonesty is the best policy. Money makes the machine go. It is never too late to spend. l'ut none but Übio men on guard. Jewell ioveth a cheerful giver. The kisses of a Conkling are deceit ful. It's a wise candidate that knows bis own heart. Washington is paved with good inten tions. A bribe in the hand is worth two in (he hush. Garfield is not so black as he is paint ed. It's a poor fool that won't swear both ways. A loan by any other name would I smell less sweet. Never look a campaign contribution ; in the mouth. Jove laughs atGarfield's vows Little voters have long ears. Of the dead (Oake* Ames) nothing save what is had. The nation was made for Ohio and not fhio for the nation. Like as a Jewell in a swine's snout, so is a handsome chairman without disc re I lion. i|. T. P. A Campaign Lie Nailed. w Ana HAMPTON'a VIBUINIA sriti 11. I Willi h wilt uruordiUf to Wlul tb* l<>rg*ry ami*. <-m. MU r*iMi bin at j ™ I anaal (" JW IK (H Tnnalder uhui l** t"! I "asm* f lb* *r*ul nt*. ' J lU kaun uouM A. ,"of \ irginu Ik BOW (but ** tb*y tilt*. N "both siibw sr urn*,* it, "lb* mm* principle. f " Oil. local fl,ht I know •• which tk*y fou*l.t f-r " lb*r* or* bonus t SMU MJ - lour ynsrw lt*-a.*0.1-or "true in both your far'th* niuti who |.ur*il "Uoas. I tit b*ih-r yon " forth thrtr lit* Wood * "b* R*u4iM*r or FutMb-rJ Virginia. soil. uxl * now drawing the comfortable salary of $7,500 ea Mr. Havre' minister to Turkey. Meanwhile the Onion soldier who won the luittle at Gettysburg and saved Pennsylvania and the North from in vasion, is being denounced by the He publican press as a traitor and rebel sympathizer. Somehow it seems a* if thing* had been mixed. Want* le Hear Sherman. From tb* N* w York Star. Gen. W. T. Sherman ia reported a* saying that hia "letter to Gen. Hancock in 1876 was merely to assure him that he would not be removed from Govern or's Island." Now It does not seem f all probable that Gen. Hancock would have written a lengthy political *•*? in reply to a dry end formal notifica tion of this sort. Did Gen. Sherman send only one letter at that time? At all events, if the correspondence is of to innocent a character, why does not Gen. Sherman authorise the publication of hie share of it.