§Pjje Centre i*£& democrat
SHUGERT \ FOKKTKR, Keillors.
VOL. 2.
Elir Crntrr j!)mount.
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Terms ti.&O per Annum, tn Advance,
t. T. SHUGERT and R. M. FORSTER. Editor*.
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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 <piestiou of doubt
that her electoral vote was fuirly and
honestly cast for Garfield.
Mr. Bki.tzwhivkk, of the ('umber
land District, has been re-elected to
Congress by a largely increased ma
jority. He was very violently oppos
ed by Mr. Little, a Methodist preach
er, sine of the Professors of Dickinson
College, and very disreputable means
resorted to to procure his defeat, with
the above result.
The Fort)•Seventh Congress.
I'OMTiCAt. coni-i.r.*ion or tiie next house
or HECRESKNTATIVES.
The annexed table showing the po
litical character of the next National
House of Representatives by States, has
been carefully compiled from the most
authentic reports and advice*. It will
be seen that neither the Democrats nor
Republicans have a majority in that
body. There are 140 straight Demo
crats, 143 straight Republicans and 10
Green backer* and Independents. lif
these last the two members from Maine,
three of the four from Missouri, one
from Pennsylvania, one from New York
Hnd one from lowa, eight in all, will
vote with the Democrats on all ques
tions affecting the sectional issue and a
msjority of the House may be calcu
lated on as safe against any attempt ol
the Republicans to force through any
radical measure. The list by States is
as follows;
States. Dem. Kep. O.AI.
Alabama 8
Arkansas j 4 j
California ."5 1
Colorado ; I 1
Connecticut 1 1 8 1
Delaware j 1 1
Florida 2 1
Georgia ... it | ].,
Illinois G 13
Indiana ; 6 8
lowa 8 : )
Kansas 3 j
Kentucky | 1 I
Louisiana..... & ]
Maine. ] .1 2
Maryland 6 1 J
Massachusetts 1 111 !
Michigan '
Minnesota 3
Mississippi
Missouri II : ; 4
Nebraska ; 1
Nevada...... j 1
New Hampshire ! 3
New Jersey 3 4 -
New York. 12 20 1
North Carolina 7 1
0hi0... r ft jft
Oregon. 1
Pennsylvania 7 18 2
Khode Island 2
South Carolina 5 •
Tennessee j 8 2
Texas.. I j
Vermont 8
Virginia. 7 2
West Virginia. j 3
Wisconsin j 2 0 !
144) 143 10
Thuiiksghing Day.
GOVERNOR HOVT ISSUES HIS PROCLAMATION.
The following proclamation in regard
to Thanksgiving day was issued Irotn
the State department on Monday.
A PROCLAMATION.
The President of the United States
by proclamation has recommended the
people to meet on Thursday, the 251h
day of November instant, in their re
spective places of worship, to make ac
knowledgments to Almighty God for
His bounties and his protection and
offer Ilim prayers for their continuance.
To the dwellers in all the nation have
been alloted "health, wealth and pros
perity throughout all our I (orders; peace,
honor and friendship with all the world :
firm and faithful adherence by the
great body of our population to the
principle* of liberty and justice which
have made our great dam as a nation,
and to have the wise institutions and
strong frame of government and society
which will perpetuate it."
To the contented, happy inhabitants
of peaceful Pennsylvania have been ac
corded special groundsof Thanksgiving.
All our vast and varied industries bare
been prospered, and the toiler has
everywhere found adequate rewards for
labor.
It has been put into the hearts of the
people to. apprehend how society is a
great unit in which the welfare of one
is the welfare of all, and how no man
or clAas, or interest can receive ityury
without injury to all. Patienoe in trial,
oonfldence one in another, courageous
purpose* of persistent industry, the
recognition in all our productions and
in all our traffic, that we are children of
a common Father, have exalted the four
millions of our own people into a
wondrous illustration of the power of
a free Christian commonwealth. Let us
sll turn ourselves to a devout obeerv
ance of the recommendation of the
President.
Given under my hand and the great
seal of tha State at llarrishurg this Bth
day of November, A. I). 1880, and of
the commonwealth the 105 th.
Henry M How.
By the Governor.
M. 8. Qcav, Secretary of Commonwealth.
TERXN: $1.50 per Annum, in Advunw.
The I'ciinsylvHiilu Result.
OFFICIAL BAJOKITIKH FOR I'RKMIIEWT KK
FORTE!* IN ALL BCT TWO rOI'XTIES,
The following table of majorities by
counties is official, with the exception
of Greene ami Sullivan counties :
QAKKItUi MAJORITIES. | HASWE MAJOEITIU.
AIL-Klkiix A<Um. Cl*.
Anii.if..„r 7 Ki Ihdford K.-.
1, Berk. 7,7 si
Bllr IjUMI Harks . . ±\i
Bradford i t 3u < umtiria MM
But lor Ml Cul.a ( OUA
#.*, Ontr* r.4
Chln :i,774 CI via. J,vi
Crawford I, .4'. ricarfMd ljr£i
Dsupblo i]B4 Cll.ton MB
Wiri i,vs. o.iurul.la itm*
Brt. 2,1"' i >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.
<n Thursday last William E. Wallace,
son of Senator Wallace, was married to
Miss Yeakley. a niece of George B.
Goodlsnder. of the < learfield JlrpuUiran.
at Clearfield.
A preliminary meeting of graduate*
of soldiers' orphans' schools will beheld
in llarrisburg. Herein be r 30th and 31st,
fo arrange reunions of all the graduates
of such schools.
Bishop Simpson of the M. E. church
says that the value of the Church's
property in 1885 will bo nearly SBO,-
000,000, which the Bishop considers
is a wonderful increase in a century
considering that Methodism began with
nothing.
The ground beneath the village of
Sebaatopol, near Pitts ton, settled on
Friday a distance of five feet and con
siderable damage was done to property.
Work in the mines beneath the village
has been suspended temporarily, and
great excitement prevails among the
inhabitants.
The six-days walking contest for the
Astley belt, which l>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.