al)c Centre orm or rat.
■SH l T (i HUT & FORSTKR, Editors.
■VOL. 2.
itlK (Cmtvf 31rmocr.it.
t1.60 per Annum. in Adv.n.a.
Bt. SHUGERT and R. H. FORSTER. Editor..
■Thursday Morning, October 7, 1880.
■ Democratic National Ticket.
rOR FRKJIIhENT,
■wmTKI.D SCOTT HANCOCK, of Prini.jrlVMii*.
ro or* PtraiDiST,
WILI.IAM 11. KNUUBII, of ImUnnn.
ELECTORS.
K. Mimaghan, IHenry K. Pavl*,
■BvlUinm 11. IMajfonl, George A. Poet,
- Mr* in, A Dram >1 lLnton,
\. Pur, John P. IJnton,
■■H i M Campbell, John S. Miller,
- Pallet!, John i). Saituh,
■BoI m M 'fD t. i nitio M llimer,
BBHwan! \V*|.|en, .Unit** A J Buchanan,
til r. JiOlN, < hrlatophrr Mntfrr,
2<' Ftllierl, H .Drrt M llibsoii, t
- O. M. B|mrrmn, William B Putilap,
gpHfrfr'* i J. Martin, Hnrr) W. Wilton,
tUringer, Samuel Griffith,
H|rs; lit Timor, J R-* Tliotn|*on.
Hptn k J. Birmingham,
Democratic State Ticket.
r>'R 61 PR KM I JUIXII,
OKOIMIK A. JKNK9. .if J*lT*ron Count*.
rR Am TOR ciisirai,
RttltKßT P. DKCHKHT, of Pliltßdrt|.lil.
Democratic County Ticket.
roR I HRQRRM,
■ linn ANDREW <l. CIKTIX, of C-otr* Count*.
rOR AUtMRLT,
!ln. J. P. OKPIURT, of B*ll*f..nt*,
lion. W. A m iI!tAY, of lUrri-.
POR 81-TRI' T ATTORSRT,
WILLIAM C. II BIN I.E. of Drill-font*.
TOR cni stTt MRVRtroR,
f^^^MMttal^JlKtY(lElEjud^l2!t<ui*tll*^^
I IN Ohio anil other parts of the
■West, the Republicans urge the elec-
Bjtbni of Garfield on the ground tbat be
Hs a Free Trader, while in Pcnusylva
fT-ilia he is presented as a Protective j
■ranlf man. The Republicans in the
■West are consistent because they have
■B< n. Garfield's public record to sus-
I. tain them. In Pennsylvania they are
I. hypocritical and present him as a I'ro-
Httctive Tariff inau, in the luce of this
Bveo-nl, to deceive the thoughtless and
■fan informed.
I THE Supreme Court of the State
placed the seal of its coiidetnna-
Kon upon the tyranny of Judge Pat-
Bjfjtrson for disbarring Messrs. Steinman
■ami Hensel, editors of the I*anca*ter
K mdelligeneer ami also Attorneys-at-
RLaw, from practicing before the courts
■of Lancaster county. The opinion of
■the court is by Chief Justice Shars-
Hrood and concludes with an order
■Reinstating the disbarred attorneys.
■Thus is justice done to these gcntle-
Bsien at lost.
I The Philadelphia Inquirer haasud-
Bd< niy discovered tbat the entire plan
■pi the Republican campaign is a fail-
Itri'. ami mournfully and piteously dc-
a change of front. The Inquir
■r has beeu one of the most ultra of
ftapcrs and its columns for
■bears have teemed with vituperative
■ •landers of the people of the South,
gpts bloody shirt has been as ensanguin-
Bpd as anybody's and it has not nllow-
Bkl successful rivalship iu its teachings
ft of hate. Now in this supreme mo-
of its party's peril it is compell
■|d to the humiliating acknowledge
■pent that it has persistently been
a policy that is obnoxious
|Bo many of its readers. We welcome
Hshis cry of distress from the Inquirer
■p one of the encouraging signs of the
Of course, it has come too
Bpte with its olive branch, but therein
jßk* a useful lesson.
■ JuDOEKEI.LEY.in his recent speech
Kin Philadelphia, accepting the Re
■jkuhlican nomination for Congress in
■bis district, complains that the Cob
■len Club is now expending a large
■fcmount of money in the printing and
of free trade phamphlets
Bin this country. Well, that is the
of the free traders, however
■puinoying it may be to have our own
■peculiar views interfered with from
■jlbrond. But has it occured to Judge
Bpvelley and the advocates of protec
■lion that they are doing directly more
K|o advance free trade theories than
■could be accomplished by the circu
lation of foreign phamphlets by the
■support they give to a member of the
Club for President of the
■United States. Garfield's record in
proves that he is in full ac-
I- cord with the views of bis club. Be
Hbonsistent, gentlemen.
"KIUAL and KXACT JUSTICK TO ALL MBN, Ot WIIATKVKR STATIC OH PERSUASION, RXI.IOIOUS OK I'Ol.lTl< A1,."-J.ff w ,n
Tho Congressional Nomination.
The DEMOCRAT of last week had
barely time to announce to its readers
the result of the deliberations of the
Congressional conference which met
at Lock Haven on Tuesday, the '2Bth
ultimo. In another part of this week's
issue will be found a detailed account
of the proceedings of the conference.
From first to last a spirit of harmony
and good feeling prevailed that was
highly creditable to all who took
part in the deliberations of the con
ference. The conferees were of an un
usually high order, they being in every
case representative men. Though it
was evident from the first that the
choice of the conference would fall upon
Gov. Curtin, yet there was no undue
haste shown au<l the merits of all the
candidates received thoughtful consid
eration. That Andrew G. (.'urtin was
named as the nominee for Congress in
the 20th Congressional district we con
sider a matter for general congratula
tion. Never has any man done better
or more conscientious work for the
Democratic party than Gov. Curtin has
performed since 1872. Thoroughly
imbued with the principles of the
party, and in cordial sympathy with
its leaders, he has been u potent and
powerful instrument in shaping the
sentiment of the country and recalling
the people to a sense of the danger of
continuing in power a debauched Re
publicanism. No man ever doubted
the sincerity of Gov. Curtin's Democ
racy save for a purpose, and while
those who were impugning his fealty
to the party and taxing their ener
gies to defeat its candidates, Gov.
Curtin was carrying the standard of
Democracy from the Delaware to
Erie and doing yeoman service
for the Democratic State ticket. The
people judged between Gov. Curtin's
calumniators and bis own acts, and de
cided tbat he was a much better Dem
ocrat than those who called his sin
cerity into question. The Congres
sional conference was not troubled by
doubts upon that subject. They rec
ognized the magnificent services of
Gov. Curtin to the party and they de
termined to rebuke that spirit of petty
spite and malice which had marked
him for its own. As soon ns the nomi
nation had becu made Gov. Curtin ap
peared before the conference and in an
exceedingly happy speech accepted the
honor. In the course of his remarks
he said that he bad told General Han
cock iu 188 that if he received the
Democratic nomination for President
then he would support him, that he is
in entire sympathy with the Demo,
cratic party and its policy and believes
its accession to jiewcr necessary for
the prosperity and good of the coun
try. His speech throughout was ad
mirable and at its close he was loudly
applauded. Andrew Reed, of Miftiin,
then addressed the conference. His
speech was able and its sentiments ap
propriate, and he made a most excel
lent impression. At the conclusion
of his remarks he shook hands with
Governor Curtin and pledged his best
efforts for the success of the nomina
tion. J. K. P. Hall, of Elk, also
enme before the conference and in a
speech, that from its earnestness and
eloquence carried conviction with it,
assured Gov. Curtin that little Elk
would do her whole duty. The most
kindly feeling prevailed and there
were mutual congratulations over the
auspicious result reached by the con
ference. With the earnestness with
which Gov. Curtin will lie supported
in all portions of the district, and the
entire harmony which now prevails,
coupled with the good work the Gov
ernor will himself do, his majority in
the district is only a matter of thou
sands
IT is announced that the Presiden
tial party, now running a hippodrome
on the Pacific, will not return to
Washington before the 7th of Novem
ber. Who cares? The party is only
a fraud at best, and it matters little in
what part of i'ncle Ham's domain it
demonstrates.
BELUEFONTE, I*A., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1880.
Indiana and Ohio
Before the uext issue of the DEMO
CHAT reaches its readers the solution of
the problem in the October States
will have been reached, and the decks
cleared for the final aud decisive battle
of November. There can bo no two
opinions us to the effect of the result
in the great commonwealths of Indi
ana ami Ohio on the 12th of October,
upon the verdict in November. If
Indiana shall vote for the Democratic
candidate for Governor by a decided
majority and Ohio trembles iu the
balance and is saved to Republican
ism by a no greater majority than that
given their October candidates in
1870, there will be no exhaustive
struggle iu November. Such a result
will be accepted by all as virtually de
ciding the contest and thereafter it
will be a mere matter as to Iluucock's
majority in the Electoral College.
Should Indiana, however, record her
verdict forjudge Porter, the Repub
lican candidate for Governor, and
should Ohio endorse her Presidential i
aspirant by a vote tbat goes up high
into the thousands, then the struggle
for supremacy iu November will be
the most desperate of modern |>olitical
battles. The final success of the I >em
ocracy by no means bangs upon the
slender thread of success in the Octo
ber States. General Hancock can i>e
easily elected without the votes of
either Indianu or Ohio, aud should
the result in these States be adverse
to his cause in October he will lock
horns with his opponents in a death
grapple for the great Atlantic States
of New York, New Jersey and Con
necticut. While it is needless to deny
that defeat in Indiana would be a seri
ous cTieck to the grand onward move
ment of the Democratic hosts, yet it
would not he necessarily fatal. It is
otherwise with our opponents. Should
they suffer defeat iu Indiana and bare
ly escape it in Ohio, General Garfield
would have an equal opportunity of
becoming King of Rulgnria a of
reaching the Presidency of the Unit
ed States. Republican leaders under
stand this and have staked their all
upon the throw of a single die iu In
diana. The managers of the Indiana
canvass upon behalf of the Republi
can candidates are the most astute and
able in that party, and they command
exhaustions resources. Impressed by
the conviction that the Hoosier State
must be wrenched from her Democrat
ic moorings in order that debauched
Republicanism shall remain in j>os
scasion of all the vast power and pa
tronage of the Federal Government,
the Republican leaders have thrown
themselves into the breach and are
fighting with the desperation which is
born of despair. The mighty bank
ing and corporate interests of the
country, the special pet* and benefi
ciaries of Republican power, are pour
ing vast sums of money into every
avenue of corruption and are endeav
oring to buy a further lease of official
favor. All the potent machinery of
the Federal Government is brought
into play and the sovereign people of
Indiana are confronted at every point
with the humiliating supervision of
Federal officials, looking dispassion
ately over the whole field the strug
gle appears to be a roost unequal one.
What with the lavish use of money,
the importation of thousands of ne
groes and the army of office holders
in tho thickest of the fight, it would
seem as if the gallant Democracy of
Indiana could not prevail against the
cohorts of power and patronage. But
notwithstanding the great odds Indi
ana will vote for the Democratic State
ticket in October. Hendricks aud
McDonald and Voorhecs and English
arc everywhere in this battle, and
where they lead the people understand
they can follow with honor. There
can be no question as to Indiana being
a Democratic Htate upon a fair poll
of the vote, and this year with the un
exampled popularity of Hancock to
aid them the brave Democracy of In
diaua will render a verdict of so de
cisive a character us to confound the
enemies of constitutional government
In Ohio the Republican leaders are
alarmed ami panic stricken although
it is difficult to divine the cause. The
Democratic canvfss there has been
quietly ami noiselessly conducted by
congressional districts ami there bits
been 110 special effort put forth by the
State committee, but for some reason
or other, the Republican leaders have
beaten the long roll and hoisted the
signal of distress. The greatest dan
ger to the Republican ticket appears
from their own statements to I*3 the
apathy and indifference of the people
to the success of Garfield, and in sonic
localities actual hostility to him. The
latter is especially the case in Gar
field's own congressional district and
here the greatest efforts have been put
forth within the last few days. Conk
ling, New York's imprimis Senator,
flanked by Grant and I*)gan, has been
calling the wayward R< publicans of
the \\ estern Reserve from their re
membrance of Garfield's shortcomings
as a Congressman. Blaine's fog horn
is faintly heard through the mist of
fusion plurality in Maine and Carl
Schorr. is making speeches in German
for a night. If the Republican
State ticket is not saved by all these
appliance* the reverse will be a seri
ous one indeed. Altogether the pros
pects of the frieuds of good govern
ment and peace between the sections
are more than flattering. If all the
ign;of the times do not fail we will
mingle our congratulations with those
of thie numerous readers of the DKM
o< ajar neat week over a splendid Dem
ocraflc triumph in Indiana and a
prascal sut-4-em in Ohio.
1
Tho Mysterious Number.
1878. J. A. G.—
MR. KVARTK, in his sjiceeh in New
N ork last week, said, "Four yenr* hence
the jtcople will think the Mine of (lor
field os they think of If'iyrn now." This
is not claiming much for Mr. Garfield.
It is true his reputation is badly dam
aged by his party friends, who charged
him with swearing falsely to cover his
transactions in the Credit Mobilier
business—that his greed allowed him
to take the De Golycr bribe of
and cnuse the Treasury to be swin
dled to the amount of millions. It is
nlso true that be took a prominent
part in making up the false returns of
Ijouisiana, and then got himself placed
on the 7 to 8 electoral commission to
prevent the exposure of these returns,
and insure the success of the fraud he
and his associates then prpotrated.
All these dark transactions, as well as
others that might be mentioned, mnke
a record not to be envied by an lu.nmt
man. Rut for Mr. Cvarts to claim
that it requires four years to raise Mr.
Garfield to the standard of the fraud
ulent incumbent of a stolen office—to
the level of an unmitigated fraud,
whom no party defends, is cruel, and
presents a hopeless prospect indeed for
penitence.
THE nomination of Gov. Curtin for
Congress completes the ticket o be
voted by the Democrats of (Centre
county on the second day of Novem
ber. This ticket —National State and
County—is composed throughout of
material of which the Democratic
party may well be proud. There is
not a name upon it, from the peerless
soldier who stands at its head for the
exalted honor of the Presidency of the
United States, down to the excellent
citizen named for Giunty Surveyor,
that should not command the cordial
and zealous support of every Demo
cratic voter in the county. To work,
then, Democrats 1 From the present
hour until the election polls close bo
active and untiring in your efforts!
Organize in your boroughs, your town
ship and your school districts 1 See
that every Democratic voter gets to
the polls on election day ! The tide
is running in our favor, and with
proper efforts on our part it will not l>e
stayed. I>et us all do our duty, and
after the election we will rejoice to
gether over a glorious victory !
♦
IT will be well to remember now
that the most potent argument ad
vanced in favor of the re-election of
President Grant in 1872, was that a
change of administration would un
settle values and seriously disarrange
the business of the country. Then,
as now, the fears of the capitalists
i were cunningly played upon, and
then, as now, they rushed frantically
to the front with lavish contributions
of money which was swelled into a
vast corruption fund with which to
avert the threatened change. And it
will certainly not be forgotten that
the election of General Grant was
closely followed by the most gigantic
financial upheaval of which we have
any record. The most powerful and
most trusted banking institutions in
the laud were swept from existence
and their fall beggared hundreds of
thousands of the very capitalists who
clnmored roost loudly against a change.
Jav Cooke A* Co., Henry Clews A Co.
ami others who were most closely al
lied with those in power were the
most conspicuous of the bankers whose
failure entailed the greatest degree of
suffering and distress among the peo
ple. All classes and all sections felt
the irou hand of this unparalleled
calamity, and it is well to remember
that Cook and Clews were among the
heaviest of the subscribers to the fund
which was to be used to prevent a
change, and thus insure a further lease
of prosperity to the business interests
of the country. The lesson taught in
1872 will not be unheeded now ami
the demagogues w ho are again endeav
oring to frighten timid capitalists will
discover that the conservative busi
ness men of the country understand
that our prosperity exists rather in
spite of a Republican administration
than from its aid.
PENSIONERS, look at this! Repub
lican politicians pretend to be the es
pecial friends of soldiers and pension
ers. Many of you have lately received
the arrearages of which you had been
deprived by the five years limita
tion. It required a long struggle to
bring about the repeal of the limita
tion that thus kept you out of your
rights. I'pon this question where did
James A.Garfield stand? Upon the
20th of January, 1872, this same Jas.
A. Garfield who is now the Republi
can candidate for President made a
speech in Congress against the passage
of the arrearage bill in which he op
posed the interests of soldiers and
slandered the pensioners in the follow
ing words:
"Now shall we. by one stroke of the
pen, by one act that it took us but a
minute to pass, make our pension laws,
and all pensions under those laws,
revert back to the period when the
injury was received, and at a single
blow add more than thirty two million
dollars to the expenses o( this govern
ment without any investigation at all?"
• * * "The man who gets up a
thoroughly rotten case, would, when he
started out to lie, do so strongly and
unscrupulously, and hence his papers
would be prepared in the most com
plete and convincing manner."
Now who is the soldier's friend?
Ponder, soldiers, nud remember Han
cock.
HENRY WARIJ BEECHES and Bob
Ingersoll on the stump iu Indiana for
Garfield. This is a strong team prop
erly yoked—one the infidel of religion,
the other the infidel of matrimony,
When Bob repeats the question "What
shall I do to be saved ?" Henry Ward
will answer, "See Elizabeth and vote
for Garfield."
TIIK Solid South is speaking in
very solid terms of npproval in favor
of Geo. Hancock's recently expressed
views on the subject of Southern
claims. His views at this time only
trouble Republican politicians. They
are entirely satisfactory to the De
mocracy.
Fourteen thousand persons are now
employed on th Pennsylvania rail
road.
TERMS: $1.50 |K*r Annum, in Advance.
HAH FIKLD.
i Fron tli* N*w York Hun.
When atalnnrt nainUi with fright grew dumb,
A A nut hia fatal thrust* wot borne,
Who rataid the ImA to ki—>his thumb '
T a Garfield.
Who aald, nay, awore on M/ml hook,
Unbrlbed vaa he, jet tribe he took ?
W ho ll-d, who hraaeoed while h- *h<.k *
Why OirfkHd,
In eril lay when Forte wa lord.
And toola w*re to ahaje the fraud.
Who Blood w reedy at the word,
A* Garfield
Pwe|t on with Tltne'a rernor*|e• flow.
Chained t> their crime, theae namea *lull g<.;
Wella, Chandler, Aliunde J#*-
And Garfield.
I Au evil rer-ord un forgot,
From hwd t/ heel le-amirclmd with hlol.
And now a candidal*, h< H v-n wot ?
Yea, Garfield !
A word with you, the peatllent rout
Of lothjing thieve# wh, irhitti and lout,
fraud* high and low ; fltep down and iit
With Garfield
ADDITIONAL LOCALS.
Mr. Linn Harris ha* been at homo for
tho two week* purt Ho f|mrt( a cano and
h nobby hat.
—A Bishop street girl wishes she was a
boy because she would like to wear aome
"f tho handsome clothing on display at the
Philadelphia Branch.
—The new boardwalk between the res
idence* of Mr. Pontius and (ien. Beaver,
on ( urtin street, is a vast improvement,
s it completes a continuous walk between
Allegheny and Spring street*.
—Secretary W. ¥. Boeder inform* us
that the agricultural exhibit at the fair
this year is vastly superior to any ever
before made in this county. No person in
the county should mis* seeing it.
Mr. Thomas Shaughensy, a young
man employed in Cridcr's box factory
wan <juito severely cut in the face by a
board on Tuesday afternoon. The saw at
which he was engaged came in contact
with a knot, when the board was pre.
jected upward, the sharp edge striking
him in the face.
—The Democrat is under obligation* to
Mr. Joe. 8. Merryman, of Hillside Farm,
Taylor township, for a p>air of beautiful
apple*. We cannot class them, but ther
are magnificent specimens of fruit, and if
they are ordinary sample* of what Mr.
Merryman can do in the way of fruit
culture we incline to the opinion that he
might bear off any prixc offered at a county
fair.
—When you come to the fair call at
Lyon A Co.' and see the largest and finest
stock of overcoats that can be found out
side of Philadelphia. We have them at
s2. ?*. and $3.75. We have brown beaver
overcoats at $5.26 and sfi.6o. You can't
boat them anywhere else at $7.50 and SB.
\N e have the finest blue and black beaver
overcoat*. We have a reversible overcoat,
two sides to wear out. or two coaU in one.
We have the best chinchilla overcoats at
S<VOO you ever saw ; they are worth $8 to
$lO. We can show you over $1 ,HOO worth
of overcoats. Lrow & Co.
A M ran Kkpiblhak Trick.—We
have been informed that a party of despi
cable miscreants at Clintondale stole the
handsome American flag suspended across
the street at that place by the Democrats
previous to their mass meeting of last
Saturday. This is the meanest trick of
the campaign that we have yet heard o?
in this section of the Slate, and the low
bred scoundrels who were guilty of it
should be kicked out of decent society
whenever they are discovered.
—A report, current in some parts of the
county since the meeting of the Demo
crstic County Convention and calculated
to do groat wrong and injustice to Mr. B.
F. Hunter, of Benner township, is prompt
ly snd emphatically denied in a card from
that gentleman, which appears below.
With people who know Mr. Hunter it was
scarcely necessary to go to the trouble of
publicly denying a story of that kind.
His position in the Democratic partv is
£• H" "•J'b'isjied by years of active,
faithful work in its bebalt for any one to
cast a doubt upon hit fidelity at this late
day:
Banana Towxamr, Oct. &, 1880.
Kdito r* Cents* Democrat: ft ham Uu>lr
come to my knowledge that a report was
circulating in different parts of the oountv
stating that 1 was an independent candi
date for Assembly against the regular
nominee of the Democratic party. I take
Ibis method to inform my friends through
out the oountv that I am not a Democrat
of thst class, but will, according to my an
nouncement, abide by the decision of the
Democratic County Convention. Mv first
vote was cast for Franklin Pierce an 4 ever
since that time I have been laboring for
the success or Democracy and have lent
my enure support to the Democratic
ticket, and will continue to do so til! the
end. Before closing I will embrace this
opportunity to render my sincere thanks
to numerous friends throughout the county
for their cordial support during my lata
campaign. lam mpectAilly, etc.,
B F. Heats*,
NO. 11.