§Pjje Centre i*£& democrat SHUGERT \ FOKKTKR, Keillors. VOL. 2. Elir Crntrr j!)mount. L_ Terms ti.&O per Annum, tn Advance, t. T. SHUGERT and R. M. FORSTER. Editor*. j* Thursday Morning, November 11, 1880. THE DEMOCRAT has quite a large list of campaign subscribers whose f time will expire this week. We should like to place as many of theui f as possible upou our regular list, aud I hope they will favor us with their I support. We have reason to believe | that all were pleased with our paper I during the campaign, for u number I have already signified their intention | of continuing their subscriptions. Let , f us hear from you, gentlemen, by pos i, tal card between this aud our issue of I next week. We shall endeavor in the j future, as wc have iu the past, to make I the DEMOCRAT a useful and interest v ing newspaper. [ "A PLAHUE o' both your houses" is (what the Democracy of the United Btates should say of Tammany nud i Irving Halls. GEK. IIALRY WHITE, of the Indi ana I )istrict, has been defeated for re- I Predion to Congress. Gen. Harry will ; be quite lonely unless some new office ; turns up for which he can aspire. (Ho is always on hand. I GALUSHA A. GROW claims that fif ty six members of the next Legislature jkre instructed for him for United DHtatcs Senator, and he expects a large Sparc of those who are uninstructed. Bin due time we shall know whether ■Mr. Grow's calculations are worth 1, anything. In the mean time he should ■ remember that "there is many a slip Betwixt the cup and the lip." MR. HAYES last week issued his | proclamation fixing thanksgiving day 1 for this year on Thursday, the 25th H instant. This proclan atiou has this 1 week been supplemented by another Bfrom Gov. Hoyt recommending to the people of Pennsylvania a devout ob- Ulervance of tile clay. Gov. Hoyt's will be found in another %4olumn. ft STANLY WOODWARD has been elect- Bed to the Luzerne judgeship. He has Kaeryecl in the office during the lost Spear, by appointment of Gov. Hoyt, * acceptably to the district, as his elec- Hpon indicates. He is a Democrat and °f Hon. Geo. W. Woodward, I some years presided in our 1 subsequently as Chief .Jus e Supreme Court. day after the election Secre rts telegraphed the result to Longstrect at Constantinople. ;t no doubt smiled as he rcal thc Republicans of the Unit c had succeeded iu doing failed to do at Gettysburg in of our Lord, 1863. There are been another despatch rat Hong Kong. Probably i. reaty of the United .States 3 Celestial empire has not •ogated, and it would seem :e the election some of the Turing interests" of the coun eing "conserved" in the mat .liinese cheap labor," just as leld said they should be. A ning company at Patterson, s already introduced Chinese into the concern, and it is K! the silk manufacturers of i place are contemplating a ge in their employee. Work who permitted themselves to I into voting the Republican [ainst their political convic ough fear of the threatened i in wages in the event of tic success can now reflect e effect of "free trade" in labor at their leisure, and we f will profit by the reflection smber it in the future. "ETJVAL ANL) KXACT JT'HTK'K TO AI.L MEN, OV WHATEVER HTATK OR PERSUASION, RELIGIOUS OR POLITICAL. "-i*non Gen. Garfield's Administration. Assuming that (ten. Garfield is to be tho next President, whether fairly or not, speculations as to the character of his administration are now rife and j seem to he the topic of generul dis cussion by the press. No one doubts the brilliant ability of the President elect, but many do have serious appre hensions that he does not possess suf ficient independence of character to divest himself of the Grant and Conk ling compact, which is believed to en viron him, and act upon his own im pressions of right and duty in building up a policy of administration advan tageous to the whole country —North, South, East and West, alike. This seems to be the salient point to which all look with anxiety. If the new President, as many fear, is handi capped by a mortgage to Grant, Conk ling, Cameron A* Co., instead of rely ing upon his own mind and resources independent of this ring of despera does, then there is little hope of a decent administration of the Govern ment in the next four years. Hut if (iartield has the manliness to throw off the entangling alliance with the Grant bosses in the control of his administration, we may all re joice that a man of his ability heads the Government, instead of the ignor ant, brutal and debauched aspirant for imperial honors, whom he defeated at Chicago. The people will watch with interest for developments the selection of his constitutional advisers will indicate. If he surrounds him self with honorahlc men and good in fluences, theu should he receive the consideration he will deserve, but, ou the other hand, if he loads himself with the unfragraut crew that marked Grant's second term ns a scandal aud disgrace to the country, we may ex -1 pect dark days and prepare for a fight for the integrity of Republican insti tutions against entrenched villainy of no small power or capacity in 1884. The Democracy will hope for the best, prepared to accord to the new President honorable and fair confi dence for a faithful, independent ad ministration of the Government, for which he possesses great capabilities if houestly directed, but will relax no watchfulness to detect and defeat nil approaches to the "strong government" sought by the stalwarts as the result of a third term for one who has al ready degraded a first and second term of the Presidential office. 20th Congressional District- Offi cial. The return judges of the 20th Con greaional district met in the Court house at Rellefonte, on Tuesday last, to compute the returns and sign the certificates of election required by the law. The official returns show a maj ority of 2,989 for Andrew G. Curtin. The following table presents the vote of each county in the district: Curtin. Murray. Centre 4,669 8.620 Clearfield 4,790 8,382 Clinton 8,077 2,340 Elk.. 1,496 828 Mifflin 1,948 2,102 Union 1,477 2,291 17,461 14,472 14,472 Curtin'a maj 2,989 THE papers announce that General Hancock "accepts defeat bravely." Gf course he does. Every thing he does is bravely done, because honestly done. If Mr. Hayes and the Repub lican party in 1870 had accepted de ! feat in the same spirit, the country | would not now be degraded by having ! condoned an infamous fraud in the election of General Hancock's com petitor. U. 8. HENATOR HITCHCOCK is the Western aspirant to succeed Carl Hchurz in the Interior Department. It is said that the German statesman has not succeeded in placating the imperial Roscoe, and will have to re tire on the advent of the new admin istration. BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1880. Is Thoro Fraud ? The returns of the election in the j city of New York present certain peculiarities that must strike the mind of any one who will take the trouble to examine them as somewhat astound ing and suspicious. We do not desire to be classed among those who are ever ready to raise the cry of fraud on , any slight pretext that may arise to account for a defeat at the JKIIIS ; ami without good reasons, therefore, to suspect the perpetration of a great outrage upon the ballot we would not ! now direct attention to the remarkable facts shown by the figures we ure ask ed to accept as the vote of the jieoplc of that great centre of population. We know the Democratic party docs not wish to reach power through the com- ; mission of acts of perfidy like those of which the Republicans were guilty in lHjfi iu their desperate and wicket! determination to keep possession of the Executive branch of the government after Samuel .1. Tilden had beeu hou estly elected to the great office now wrongfully nud fraudulently held by Rutherford R. Haves ; wc know that by no act of wroug or violence against the expressed will of the majority would the party desire to see any can didate forced into a position of dignity and authority; but when the defeat of the party is based upon published results that seem unaccountable und impossible of attainment in any other way than by means of knavery in the conduct of an election it becomes an imperative duty to arouse the country to a sense of the danger that surrounds our free institutions. Shall fraud and force continue to con trol our elections? or shall the repre sentatives of the people in Congress be equal to the occasion, and boldly say that another fraudulently elected can didate shall not fill the Presidential j office ? The fact that shows evidence of fraud in New York city is the re markable aud unnatural growth of the Republican vote since 1870. It cannot be accounted for by n change of political sentiment for the reason that there is a fair increase in the vote cast for Gen. Hancock over that given for Mr. Tilden. First, at the last Presidential election the total vote of thccity wa 171,091, of which num ber Tiki en received 112,500 and Hayes 58,561. At the recent elec tion the yet incomplete returns show that about 210,000 votes were polled, divided as follows: Han cock, 125,000; Garfield, 85,000. It will thus be observed that while Han cock's vote is 12,000 more than Til den's, the vote of Garfield is iucrensed more than 20,(KX) over that cast for Hayes—the Democratic increase being about 11 per cent., while the Republi can increase, without a change of pol itical belief on the p£l of the people, is about 45 per cent. It will require strong proofs to convince any thought ful man that such a result could be honestly obtained. Hut to comedown to particular districts of the city the case is still worse than this. In eight of the districts, namely the sixth, seventh, tenth, thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth, nineteenth and twentieth, the total Democratic vote in 1876 was 01,884 ; Republican vote at same election, 17,840. Now the tables stand Demo cratic 41,303; Republican, 31,438 — the Democratic increase boing 29 per cent., while the Republican goes up to 76 per cent. In the first district Til den's vote was 4,358, Hancock's, 5,048, Hayes', 2,635, Garfield's, 4,69s—Dem ocratic increase, 16 per cent; Repub lican increase, 75 per cent. But the most astounding specimen of the same thing is to be found in the third dis trict where Tilden's vote, 4,120 was increased to 5,245 for Hancock and Hayes' vote of only 905 was forced up to 2,737 for Garfield, showing the Democratic increase to be only 27 per cent, while the Republicans confouud us with a gain of over 200 per cent. It is seriously charged that the some state of facts exists throughout the en tire state of New York,and that with in its limits not less than 40,000 fraud ulent votes were cast for Garfield. Hut this exhibit is sufficient for our purpose at this time, and we ask in all candor and earnestness is it not suffi cient to excite grave suspicion of fraud? Is not a searching investigation an un avoidable necessity of the day? It will he for Congress to take the mat ter in hand and ascertain the truth. The rights of the people are at stake, and if the startling and significant figures above presented cannot be ex plained upon grounds of fairness and honesty the electoral vote of the State should be cast aside. Did tho Radicals Steal New York ? Laugh as they may over the procla mation that has just been issued by the Democratic State < 'ommitteo, in New York, with reference to suspected frauds iu that State, says the Wilkes barre I'nion- l.failer, there are few Democrats who will not applaud the prompt, decisive aud determined ac tion of Chairman Fowler. It is stated ujKin good authority that the vote in certain localities is largely in excess of the legal votes determined hv the recent census returns, and it is charg ed that the grossest frauds have Iktii committed by the Republicans. It is further intimated that large Inslies of illegal voters were colonized in New- York city and Brooklyn under orders of the Radical managers and that the aggregated frauds really turned the vote of the State. The ringing notice sent out by the committee, and which appear* else where, is accompanied by the sneers and jibes of the Radical press already, who yell out at the top of their lungs, ' The Death Shriek,' 'They Die Hard,' ! and so on. This, too, in face cf the great crime perpetrated by their party j four years ago, when the very man j who they claim is elected President of these United State* was the main in- I strument in furthering the electoral frauds, and who was one of the chief thieves who connived to steal the Presidency. Under the circumstances Chairman Fowler has a right to de mand a thorough investigation, and honest men all over the laud will ap plaud him for what he is about to do. As Democrats we ought to see to it that thin election is not stolen from us. As Democrats we should stand on guard from now until it is settled that New York State has fairly and honest ly cast her electoral vote for Garfield. If one iota of fraud is anywhere dis- I covered, let it be proclaimed to the world in thunder tones. The time ha* g.ne by for any more meek sub mission to the mad ringsters of a cor rupt party who arc as ready to steal a State as a sneak thief is to take the nickles from the eyes of a dead man. Let the investigation proceed, say we. There is no doubt in our minds that the Republicans have committed great frauds in the Empire State, and these should le unearthed. We sincerely believe that the State is thoroughly Democratic, and that she honestly cast her vote for llaucock. If she did do this we want to know it, aud the proc lamation of the State Committee will probably result in inaugurating an in vestigation which will go clear to the bottom of the matter. For weeks past all the Radicals who have been in this neighborhood from abroad, and who were known to be potwesaed of some of the secrets of the State, have so openly declared their positive knowledge as to the issue in New York, that a suspicion was long Ago raised in the minds of experienced Democratic politicians that all was not right, and that these men were acquainted with plota on foot to cap ture that State, and their positive as surances of Radical success there let! to a belief that they were cognisant of means to be adopted that meant that frauds and corrupt practices were to play their part in stealing the vote for Garfield if it became necessary. We shall watch the progress of the investigation with deep solicitude, aud we advise our friends everywhere not to give up all hope of New York until it is put beyond any itiil.!Mi.') J.cill Foraat 4;, Kik sir, Franklin 41 . Fayrttr.. .... I,'im Huntingdon 74k Fult/.n Mt Indian. LV* Umn> z."7ii Lancnstrr k.7<> JrfT.raori j'ai Lawrwuos 2 "-ISI Juniata M: ladiannn 1,*24 Ir-lilfh 2.17 . lankaaanna 1• 7 Mum. 1.M7 Mefc.-aii I rrrsaaliik 1,4..1 Mar. ar ... . l.srtl Moor*. 2,427 Mifflin. 1 Jti Montour 6".r7 Montgomery 1 V.rttiarnj/toii. ........ n,r2 I'rrry 14.. S'orUiuurLarland .... I.tkt*. I'titladrlplila 28.75.! I'ika 7K'. Foliar :<. * bujrlkrll 2.171 Snyder ftg-, Snlllr.u ft Branaraal.. l.&Vr Warn a 2< Bua.|nalianrja 1,22*. Weatmorsland m * Tioga.. I} :ept Wyoming Iki • loio" 7V* Vork 1.711 Venango,.... Aln Warran 1 .sir' WaaLiiiKVsii an Total Nn.OZIIj Total 44,."i Slarfl' td'a pi urnllty, 3A,#i37. GENERAL NEWS. The Court House in process of erec tion at Scranton is to cost *250,000. Three inches of snow fell on Sunday afternoon, at liallas, Texas. This is the first snow storm this early there since 1861. I'uring the week ending November 2, the Itethlehem Iron Company turned out 2,909 gross tons of Bessemer steel ingots. In Towanda the average death of children is three a day from diphtheria. There were sixteen funerals there in five days. The vote in Clarion county fell off about 1,000 because of that number of men going off with rafts two days before the election. In the oil regions the |>eople are thinking that there wiil be an increased demand for petroleum next year, and are already talking about $2.50 oil. Farmers in the northern oountiea who experimented with the amber augar cane were very successful, and the plant will be continued next year on a latger scale. egan on Monday of last week at Agricultural Hall, Ix>ndon, was concluded at KF4O o'clock Saturday night with the following scores; Howell, .'•36 miles; Littlewood, 470 miles ; I>ob ler, 450. Howell beat Frank Ilart'a record of 565 miles at 10:34 o'clock amid great excitement and cheering. About eight thousand persona were present at the finish. The receipu for the week are estimated at £1,200. Edwin Booth made his first appear ance as Hamlet at the reconstructed Princess' Theatre. I.ondon, on Saturday night and was well received. The house, which is very spacious, was full, but not overcrowded. Mr. Booth was called before the curtain after the first act, twice after the second and again at the conclusion of the performance. Ilia acting in the ghost scene in the first act excited great enthusiasm. lie was on the whole, well supported by the com pany. Miss Serard's performance aa Ophelia was exceedingly successful. The audience was fashionable and included a few Americans. Mr. Bancroft, the actor, was also present. Mr. Hooch, the lea see of the theatre, ar the fall of the curtain made a speech thanking the audience for the reception tendered Mr. Booth. A dispatch from Portland, Oregon, says ; Colonel J. Richardson, one of the leading spirits of the Utah Northern Railroad, was in the city this week and he brings information, which mav be relied upon aa authentic, that Jay Gould and associates of the Union Pacific Railroad have raised all the necessary funds and completed all the arrange ments for building a standard gauge rail rood from Oregon to Boise City, Ida ho Territory, a distance of about 250 miles. The narrow gauge road from Ogden, already built to a point forty miles north, will be utilised by laying a third rail. The railroad will be com pleted within eight months. The Grande Konde branch of tho Oregon Railway and Navigation Lines to Baker City, Oregon, will be oompleted about the same time and there will then re main only one hundred miles to com plete another transcontinental railway. NO. 40.