Sbc Centre fflrtnocrat. ■ NIUGKRT A. FORSTEK, Editors. gVOL. 2. plltc Cfuiw .Hrmocr.it. I Term, $1.50 per Annum,in Advance. $. T. SHUGERT and R H. FORSTCR. Editor*. Thursday Morning, October 14, 1880. I Democratic National Ticket. FOR I'RRNI DOT, EjkriNKIKI.D BCOTT HANCOCK, of lVntivUanii. roft vim PRMIDETT, WILI.IAM 11. ENGLISH, of liidUn*. ELECTORS. Ijjtbrrt V. M >ngh*n, Ih-nrjr K. Pnvlw, VfRIU ||. ft*UjrforU, tL-orn* A. Pwal, John Ulsvin, A Drain M H-ut,,ti, Eaflmi'i v >' John P Linl Me M Campbell, John S. Mfll-r, mtlc iHtiW'tt, iJohn O. Sxion, 111 John c*|%in M. I WftMrn, Jam** A.J ItUrllADftli, iffigSgihwii 0. Jainr*, ChrUilopher Mag**, (£3#, rgf Fillrrt, Hubert M. Olhaon, I'.y sttttr- 1 • MiSparnui, William H T> tin lap, Ajtfi ft-; J. Mitrtln, Itarry W. Wil*>u, G*ring*r, Samuel Griffith, Rftui I i Tunirr, J ILmm Th"tuj*ot). EHH' kJ. Ilinniiighatii, j Domocratic State Ticket. fuR M*RKMK Jt'tMiß, ■ GEORGE A. JEN KS. of JrfWaun County. FoR AUDITOR OB9KR4L, I ROiIRRT P. DEC IIKHT, of Phllftdolphl*. Democratic County Ticket. roR CORORTM, Hon ANDREW O. CURTIN, of Ontr* U'unity. FOR ASKMIAT, Hon. J. P. GRPHAKT,of B*ll*font*, I 1100. W. A. MURRAY, of !Urri FOR DltTTßli T ATTORRRT. 1 WILLIAM C. HEINLE, of B*U*fonU. FOR rot jrrr t RVITOR, SAMUEL BRUGGKR, of Unlonvllt*. Tuesday's Elections. Elections were held in the States of Ohio, Indiana and West Virginia on H nSßsduy. The result in Ohio is in f 1 fltvor of the Republicans as was ex pected ami conceded by Democrats. Tbe latest despatches from Indiana in k dicate the election of Landers and the Mflfe Democratic State ticket. West Kflßpnia elects a Democratic Govcrn- MVlt is expected that the Democrats gain Congressmen in Indinna.and JiirlOhio will carry Republican districts. I Owing to the Republican gerrymander \ In the latter State there will l>e a I change in the delegation in favor of I the f Republicans. The Republicans | gain in the towns in both Ohio and Indiana where the repeaters got in ihfir work, but in the farming dis .He* the Democrat" make gains. The malt is gratifying to the Democracy [> tpd assures the success of Hancock. GBMR with or without Indiana, Hancock ■WI win in November. New York, Bw Jersey and Connecticut, are sure BMpf him, and probably California, Ne- Hut and New Hampshire. BTIIE Springfield H>-publican , a can 'ft Republican journal of Massachu sums up the fate of some of the issues injected into the catujmign BBM : "Hancock's character came out Sherman correspondence un- Mmehcl: he dismissed the rebel claims agHUI a short letter; Grant's absurd that Hancock's ofKeial conduct by Presidential ambition is by the very source from which KHBIIK. The alleged falsification of proves to have been with nHniasis ; the charge that the rebel are hostile to pensions is the record of the enormous pension arrearages." Hpr to last week the meanest advo ■KH of sectionalism under the banner bloody shirt, were the Ilepubli 'l politicians of Philadelphia. Find that it could not he a winning card and that this issue of hate fll lost its usefulness, and if longer A Hjtinucd might alienate the trade of IMUBouth to more liberal marts, suddenly drop it and raise the of hypocrisy. It is now doctrine of a protective tariff 1 Kjfijjpcli they propose to advance under leadership of a free trado for President. Verily, could not go beyond this. Hj* Free Trade Cobden Club to the candidate for the Pennsyl- Hfilia Protectionists, is decidedly re- BBphing, and marks a degree of con- not to be prond of! "EQI'AI. ANII EXACT JUSTICE TO AM. MEN, or WHATEVER STATE OR I-KKBUAMION, RELIUIOUH OR POLITICSI.."—JtItofw.n Congress. From all purls of the 2<)tli district we have the most undoubted and con clusive evidence that the Democratic party is rallying earnestly and enthu siastically to the support of Ex-Oov. C'urtiu. In the excitement of a Presi dential year local candidates are apt to be overlooked, but Gov. Curlin is making a thorough canvass of his district, bringing himself face to face with the people, and iu every locality in which beappears he is greeted with such demonstrations of favor and en thusiasm as leave no doubt that he will receive the hearty and undivided support of his party at the polls. In the district it is only a question us to whether his majority shall be three thousand or four thousand. Between Gov. Curtin and the gen tleman the Republicans have placed in nomination against him there should be no question in the mind of any Democrat. Gov. Curtin is an able, well-versed and experienced statesman, has a national reputation gained by years of arduous and patriotic service to the country iu its greatest time of need when the very life of the government was in peril, and will make a represen tative that any constituency might well regard with the warmest impulses of pride and admiration. With the Democratic party he is iu hearty ac cord, and has been a prominent figure in all the efforts that have been made for reform in the interests of the peo ple and 11 pure administration of the affairs of government. He came to the Democratic party iu 1*72 because he believed it was the only party that could secure to the people of the Unit ed States the blessings of popular rule and freedom from the encroachments of a centralization of power that was and is to-day, fast sapping the founda tions of Constitutional government as it came to us from our fathers, and rob bing the States nnd the people of their guaranteed rights and liberties. We have nothing to say against the personal standing and character of the man pitted by the Republicans against Gov. Curtin. But certainly when the relations of the two men to the public are regarded no comparison can lie drawn that will not show that Gov. Curtin is an incalculable distance be yond his opponent in ability, fitness, experience and political belief to hon estly and truthfully reprcscut the principles that the jicoplc of the 20th district wish to see enforced in Congress. Democrats, in voting for a person to represent you in the Congress of the United States, you have a plain duty before you. We know you will not be unmindful of it on election day. Gov. Curtin will be your representative by a majority that will honor him as well as yourselves. SENATOR* BAYARD and Wallace, in their speeches iu Philadelphia on last Saturday evening, picked up the gauntlet no airily thrown down by the Republican managers aud addressed their remarks to the business men of Pennsylvania. The Delaware Senator! in a masterly and logical manner, at* swered every argument advanced at the recent meeting of Republican bus iness men, while our own Senator took the people into his confidence as he discussed the tariff question in all its bearings and relations. When such men as Bayard and Wallace, who are known as staunch friends of sound currency, safe and legitimate banking and a taritr that will not do violence to any interest in the laud, appear upon the hustings to answer the John Welshes and Joseph Whartous who are put forward by Republican ne cessity to alarm business, the people will generally understand that the danger is not imminent. Wallace represents protection to American in dustry on the Fiuance Committee of the Senate, while Bayard is tbe firm and steadfast advocate of a high standard of fiuanciat honor. Busi ness will not allow itself to get panic stricken so long as such men can be found to answer for Democratic legis lation. BKLLKFONTK, PA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1880. Gophart and Murray. It is most important that the voters of Centre county should tuke care of their legislative nominees. Without considering either the personal worth, stainless character or exceptional fit ness of the gentlemen placed iu nomi nation by the recognized authority of the Democratic party, the great im portance of the coming session of the Legislature and its direct bearing upon both National and State interests should spur every Democrat in Centre county to do all in his power to en compass the success of J. P. Geplmrt and W. A. Murray. Perhaps there never existed greater necessity for Democratic ascendency in the law making branch of the State govern ment than now. The debauchery and crime which follow obediently iu tbe wake of Republican domination has deservedly made tbe very name of the Pennsylvania Legislature a hissing and a reproach. When sickening cor ruption and venality held high carni val in the halls of legislation, and men, whose reputations were consid ered unassailable, yielded to the temp ter and drank deep from the cup of personal gain, our honored representa tives came forth front the fiery furnace of trial, without fear and without re proach. Every consideration of pub lic concern demands their election, and the voters of Centre county will be untrue to themselves and forgetful of their real interests if they fail to cordially and earnestly support Messrs. Geplmrt aud Murray. They have been weighed iu the balance nml not found wanting, aud considering the peculiar relations that John P. Harris and W . J. Thomjison liear to the tuatcfifl ioArt- of the people, it is best to keep them as far removed as ! possible from contamination with what these aristocratic representatives lof Republican exclusivcnes- might call —the masses. Our Republican friends have only followed their gov erning instincts by placing in nomina tion these very clever gentlemen. \f .t simply recall the truth of history when we say that the Republican party have ever been careless of the interests of the people, ami we are certain thnt in all our county there can not bo found two men who arc less interested and acquainted with the necessities of the Jieople, than John P. Harris and Win. J. Thompson. Significant Figures. •329 marks the Credit Mobilier perjury, •5.000 the I)e Golyer bribe, 7 to 8 the consummation of the fraud pre parer! hy Garfield and his pals at New Orleans, nnd ratified hy Garfield and his seven associates in the capitol at Washington, stamping Fraud in indelible characters upon the AM/ Republican to occupy the Presidential office. THK candidate set up in opposition to Gov. Curtin hy the Republican Congressional Conference of the 20th district, which met at Lock Haven on Friday last, is Thomas 11. Esq., of Clearfield. Mr. Murray is a lawyer by profession and a man of some ability. He is a bitter and ma lignant politician and should not com mand a singlo Democratic vote in the district. His speeches are extreme in radicalism—the bloody shirt, ridicule of the Houth aud vile abuse of Demo crats being the burthen of all be ut ters. At Lock Haveu, and also at Bcllefonte, he had the monstrous au dacity to compnre Gen. Hancock, the hero and the patriot, to Benedict Ar nold,. tbe traitor of the Revolution, and a man capable in a public speech of an outrage so insulting to decency and intelligence should be remember ed and treated accordingly at the bal lot box. Mr. Murray will not repre sent the 20th district in Congress. Garfield and tho Election Laws. One of the most eloquent and tell ing speeches ever made hy Gen. Gar field in Congress, remarks the Washing ton Pout, was his caustic review and scathing condemnation of the election law which the Administration is pre paring to use in his interest. General Garfield frankly admitted that it was a partisan enactment; that, while pur porting to he in the interest of justice, it was in the interest of the party in power. He proposed to make it non partisan, and the Iletnocrutie majority, desiring only common fairness, cheer fully acceded to his suggestions. Gen. Garfield said : "I>et us have the Fed eral officials who are to surround the polls selected from both parties and | appointed hy the Judiciary, HO that they cannot exert all their influence j on one side." The Democrats in both Houses of !<A)ugrcH* commended the proposition aud put it into a hill. .Mr. Hayes, in obedieuce to the demands of the Rad ical element of his party, vetoed this 1 suggestion, on the ground that it was a rider to an Appropriation bill. The Democrats scut it back to the White House, solitary and alone, ueither riding nor ridden, and Mr. Hayes vetoed it again. He professed to find | reasons fur this high-handed, unpre cedented and unwarranted use, in abuse, of the kingly prerogative of | his stolen office. But there was not a man iu Congress, or iu any intelligent j community, who did not know that the ; reason assigned by Geueral Garfield | fur amending the law—the fact that it was a Republican election ma, jne —was the sole cause' of Mr. Hayes' determination to keep that infamous statute unaltered. Thrae are the fact* in relation to the Federal election law under which the right of self-govern ment has been trodden under foot for years past. The statute is covered all over with General Garfield's emphatic condemnation. It is a Republican device to enable the minority to keep on top. But the majority will not he put down this time. All who are en titled to vote must ami will deposit J their ballots, and woe betide the men who try to impede a fair election in any State. , DEMOCRAT#, whenever Republicans talk to you about the tariff, and ak you to vote for Garfield on the ground thnt he is a tariff man and in favor of protection, call their attention to the following facts in his record as a mem lier of Congress: In IH/W! he made a speech in favor of the British free trade system of 'collecting im|>ort duties fmm *as few articles as possible, including, how ever, such articles as tea, coffee and sugar. It was in consideration of the doctrines advocated in this speech that Mr. Garfield wa made nti honorary member of the British Cobden Club. In 1870 be said in a discussion with Judge Kelley, of Philadelphia, ti|on the question of the tariff that "As an abstract theory of political ecoaomy frcc trado has many advocates and much can be said iu its favor ; nor will it be denied that the scholarship of modern times is largely on that side; that a large mojority of the great thinkers of the present day are leading in the direction of what is called free trade." In 1870 he voted to reduce the duty on pig iron from td per ton to •7 per ton, which was a direct vote against protection and the iron producers of Pennsylvania. 1871, he voted for a joint resolu tion which passed the house of repre sentatives providing that after its pas ■•Rc no tax or duty should be levied or collected on foreign coal. In 1872, be voted against the pro position to place tea and coffee upon the free list, and in the same prear vot ed for a ten pei cent, roductiou upon wool, iron and steel, and tqion all manufacturea of iron and steel. This ia the record. Read it, and then say whether Garfield should be classed a* a protectionist or a free trader. Democratic I'eiision Itecord. It in a principle with the Radical ; party that pensions arc an act of sovereign gratuity hy the government. 'I he Democrats believe that pensions are not a gratuity to the soldier, but a debt due him from the government. Hence the difference between the two parties in dealing with {lensiouers. I The Democratic position is infinitely the most lilo-rul. As an indication, 1 note the following record of the brief 1 period during which they have hud 1 control of < Congress: Ist. Ity act of August 15, 1876, pen ; doners were allowed, whenever needed, artificial limbs or commutation there for, at expiration of every five years, I and the necessary transportation free j to have such limits fitted. | gd. Jty act of March 1878, the pen sioners of the war of I*l2 and their i widows were all allowed the sum of | sß.l*) per month. 3d. Jty act of .June 3, 1878, pension ; ers who hnd lost both feet, both hands or sight of both eyes were allowed and raised to #72.(* l per month. •111). Ity act of March 3. iB6O, all pen sioners were secured arrearages of {ten sion to date from the time of wounds received, or disease contracted while in 1 the service. sth. Ity act of March 1, 1879, aoldiers who were deprived of their {tensions by reason of being in the civil service of the United Mutes were under said act | allowed their {tensions. ] 6th. Ity act of March 3, 1879, the act of .fune 7, I*7B, was extended so as to include a!) soldiers and sailors, who lost both feet, both hands or sight of both I eyes, which entitled all such soldiers to #72.00 per month. "j 7ih. Ity act of March 3, 1879, ail pen i sioners, either on the rolls, or thereafter ; put on, for amputation of leg at hip joint were allowed a monthly {tension ; of #.;7.60. The lower branch of Congress l>e- I came Democratic ia 1875, and the j Senate in 1870, and the above arc the seven acts as they appear from the records of a Democratic Congress, for I aud in favor of the peusioncd soldier, during and since the year I*7B. F •it A NTs silly talk about Gen. Han cock, through the medium of the | Rev. C. 11. Fowler, is receiving alsiut the same fate that followed all the ! other attempts to discredit the public jor private record of the Democratic candidate for President—total failure to obtain the political capital desired, but positive disgrace and discomfiture to the |<arties seeking it. After the experience of the New York Tribune and other stalwart papers in demand ing the private letter of Gen. Hancock to Gen. Sherman, one would have supposed that even Grant, in nn ajier dinner interview with a Iwsotted preacher, might have been more dis creet. Trying to belittle a man whose intellectual endowments the (lower of his party bad already tested aud whose character as a soldier and officer they found to be impregnable in its purity and patriotism, Gen. Grant only ex hibited his own intellectual littleness and dishonor as a soldier, without adding anything to his partv to avert the doom which awaits it. "this inter view has called out The correspondent between Grant as General of the Army and Hancock as the General in com mand of the sth Department at New Orleans, which cqaMsnly reflects no marked credit upon the former, nor does it detract from the well-earned fame or statesmanship of the latter. If the Republicans are satisfied with this contribution of Grant to the , campaign, the Democracy may be equally satisfied that there was a rol licking preacher on hand, possessed of more teal than discretion, to place his crazy criticism upou record. - ■ THE bloody shirt being no longer available as a party issue, our Repub lican frieuds have discarded it, and taken to hard lying as a substitute- One of the orators on a recent occa sion, wc understand, asserted broadly that the aoldiers in the late rebellion from the North, with very few excep tions, were Republicans, and that the l)eraocrats who were present in that unpleasantness, and so unfortunate as to fall in battle, "were all shot in the back." The fellow who is credited with making this assertion could not speak from personal observation, for during the entire period of the war, though he was a healthy, able-bodied young man, no power" could have forced him withiu filly miles of a | battle field. But it is common for those who know least of battles to prate the most about them. TERMS: #1.50 jmt Annum, in Advance. The pitol in becoming a recognized instrument of jh>l iti<-al warfare in In <liunn. The shooting Jat week of Sheriff Mt< lorkle, at Shelbeyville, ly a Republican rough, i* evidence of that fact. Had the same thing occurred in the South tije change* rung uj*on Southern harharisrn ami the shot gun bv Republican spoolers and editors, from now until the November election, would be without limit. ADDITIONAL LOCALS. —There urn good* at the Philadelphia Branch .tore that will suit everybody. —The ladie* of Howard have presented the Hancock Club, of that place, with a ! beautiful flag, which I. rendered doubly i valuable because it it the production of the ladies' own skillful fingers. —A brilliant wedding between a hand some and wealthy young lady of Snow Shoe, this county, and a young gentleman of iiarrisburg, will occur at the former place to-day. Next week we will have the I pleasure of announcing the names of the | contracting parties. ' —A frame dwelling house situates! along the side of the mountain in the vicinity of the toll gate, between this place arid Miles burg, caught fire on Saturday from an J over-heated stove pipe protruding through the roof and was burned with most of iu contents to the ground. Because of it* elevated position it was found impossible to reach the house with a sufficient supply of water to produce any effect. The build ; ing was owned and occupied by Mr. An drew Kmmcl. Mr. Isaac S. Frain, one of Marion , township s enterprising citizens, made a visit to Canada last fall, where he purchas ed a large number of the excellent sheep I for which the Queen's dominion is so famous. If is success at that time was to satisfactory that he has determined to re |.cat his visit and will start next week on a similar errand. Those desiring to add a few thorough-bred sheep to their present n rk should await the return of Mr. Frain j as be will be able to supply them with the very best to bo procured in the world. | —fearful lest the good people of Belle ! fonto might Dot know of his august and imposing presence in their midst, Old Frenchy duly announced in the Morning i Sew of Tuesday that he is on hand. Ho 1 makes his arrival public by low and scur | ri'Ous abuse of one of our citizen* in tbe | columns of the .Vwi-i journal to which , he is an important and valuable attach,, b"t!i in its editorial and local departments It is to be hoped that Old Frenchv sup! plied himself during his absence with a supply of perfumery that will last, at least until after the November election, and that' there will therefore be no further occasion lor bit absence until then. —Under the caption of "A Model Vet eran the Morning New of last Tuesday was guilty of an outrageous wrong to Mr. Kmanuel Noll, of Hoggs township. Be fore giving publicity to the foul charge made against Mr. Noll by some petty, ma lignanl political partisan, willing to In jure his neighbor to gain a small party advantage, the editor would have done well to inquire into iu truth. Fortunately Kmanuel Noll stands prepared to vindicate himself to the complete satisfaction of any one who will examine his discharge papers. He served two eniistmenU in the army— the first being for nine months in the 181 st I'ennsylrania regiment and the rswond in the 1H1 Pennsylvania cavalry. While in the latter regiment he participated with It in every battle and skirmish in which It was engaged from Cold Harbor In IW to fSs* " , ™* nd ' r • Appomatox in April, iw>.s, and yet, because an unfortunate cir cumstance, after there was no longer an armed foe in Virginia, placed him for a JT in t * fal * >e must be libched for the sole reason that be prefers to be a Democrat and is not ashamed to show the fact by parading in Democratic processions. DBATB IW A TRRXSBIHO Machine.— John A. Buck, son of Mr. David Buck, of near Warriorsmark, Huntingdon county, mot his death on Thursday of last week in a very horrible manner, of which Mon day's issue of the Daily Nrv, gives the following account: "Mr. Buck b(tf his premises for several days past a ten horse power threshing machine, and at the time of tbe accident his son was etigagwl In pitching wheat from a mow \o the men below to be fed into tbe tbrmher. Whether he attempted to jump u> the floor, or approached too near tbe edge of the mow and dipped off, ft is not known The men beard e cry, and on looking up were horrified to see him descend feet !T W \! h * Bouth wf T*rator. At the machinery was running at full !jVi- _ anfortonsie m „n met a terrible and almost Instant death. The lower part ef bis body, up to his waist, was actually torn Into shreds and distrib uted through tbe machinery, making a spectacle both ghastly and shocking to look upon," " NO. 12.
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