21) r d£h jßrmoirrat. SHUGKItT & FOBBTEB, Editors. RB VOL. 3. v Skt (Centre fUmorat. Term* St.ftO par Annum.in Advance, a. T. SHUQERT and R. H. FORSTER, Editor*. Thursday Morning, November 3, 1881. Democratic State Ticket. STATE TREASURER, HOR. ORANGE NOBLE, of Erie county. Democratic County Ticket. ASSOCIATE JCDOES, JOHN O. LARIMER, of Spring, JOHN K. RUNKKL, of Potter. PROTHOROTART, J. CALVIN HARPER, or Beilcfonte. suxßirr, THOMAS J. DUNK EL, of Ruh. REGISTER, JAMES A. McCLAIN, of Boggr. RECORDER, FRANK K. BIBLE, of Spring. TREASURER, DANIEL C. KELLER, of Potter. COURTT COMMISSIONERS, A. J. GRUST, of Unionviile, JOHN WOLF, of Mile*. COURTT AUDITORS, JOHN S. PROUDFOOT, of Milwburg, F. P. MUSSEU, of Millheitn. THE Democratic State and County ticket to be voted in Centre county next Tuesday contains the following names : ORANGE NOBLE, for State Treasurer; JOHN "K. RUNKI.E and J. GIBSON LARIMER, for Associate Judges; — THOMAS J. DUNK EL, for Sheriff; DANIEL C. KELLER, for Treasurer. J- CALVIN HARPER, for Proiltonotary; JAMES A. MCCLAIN, for Register; FRANK E. BIBLE, for Recorder; AN DREW J. GRIEST and JOHN WOLFE, for Commissioners,ahd JOHN S.PROUD FOOT and F. PIERCE MUBBBR,/or Au ditors. Go to the polls fellow Demo crats, and vote for them ! They are all worthy men and deserve your support ! Onto has gene to the rear ! It is New York now. The president and two members of the cabinet — Folger and James. FOR the office of Associate Judges, don't forget JOHN K. RUNKLE and J. GIBSON LARIMER. They are both ex cellent citizens; arc men of sound judg ment and will make faithful and compe tent Associate Judges. Give them your votes r SENATOR WARREN MILLER, the Rood pulp monopolist, is on the stump for Gen. Baily the boss candidate for State treasurer. FOR Proihonotary, about every per son in the eounty will vole for that effi cient and popular official, J. CALVIN HARPER, who during the past three years has proved himself one of the best officers the county ever had. MR. WILSON was the Republican postmaster at Lynchburg, Va. He is an ex-Union soldier, and because he refused to surrender his party and principles to Mahone and repudiation, President Arthur has removed him from office and appoints a repudia tionist in his place. DON'T forget THOMAS J. DUNK EL when you go to the election on next Tuesday. A vote for him will be a vote for a deserving young man I He will make an excellent Sheriff. THE Republican boseea are just get ting themselves to believe that Wolfe is actually a candidate for State treas urer, and are beginning to abuse biro rouudly as a disorganizer. They com plain that he endangers the parly. He certainly endangers the homes. But Wulfe claims that be is fighting for the interests of the Republican party and to rescue it from ring rule. A VOTE for JAMES A. MCCLAIN for Register will be a compliment welt be stowed. He is in every respect well qualified /or the office of Register and should receive every Democratic vote in Centre county. Ma. BLISS, the associate attorney in prosecuting the Star route thieves,says the testimony against the plunderers is mart convincing. It will require very strong evidence to convict and punish these contributors to the Republican election funds. "KQUAL AND 151 ACT JUSTICE TO ALL MEN, OF WHATEVER STATE OR PERSUASION, RELIGIOUS OR POLITICAL. "-Jsff.Mon FOR the office of Recorder the party could not have a Letter candidate than FRANK E. BIBLE. He should have a large majority. He has every qualifi cation for the place and trill make a very successful and popular officer. Vote for FRANK E. BIBLE. The State Treasurer. While the present is what is com monly called an "off year" in politics, and the State campaign has been per mitted to drift along with little or no excitement, voters should not regard the only State office to be filled at the election of next week a trilling and petty one, and, in a spirit of indiffer ence to results, remain away from the polls. On the contrary they should realize that the office of State Treas urer is a most important public trust, embracing large responsibilities and serious duties, and it is a matter of grave coucern to the citizens of the State that a properly qualified man fills it. Its functions involve the re ceiving and disbursement of millions money |>aid annually into the treasury by the taxpayers, and the custody of these millions should ouly be entrust ed to a man of sterling integrity, of tried business capacity and of more than common intelligence. Voters, think of this high trust! It should bring you out and induce you to vote for a proper candidate. And now, we ask you, who meets the necessary requirements of the position in a higher degree than the candidate presented by the Democratic party? In ORANGE NOBF.F. the party justly feels an honest pride. He is "a self made, self-reliant man who, without powerful friends or extraneous aids to push him along, baa worked his way by the exercise of bis own rare pow ers from an humble position in early life until he is at this day regarded as one of the most successful, influential and reliable business men of the State. Careful, cautious and energetic in all his private business operations, his name is the synonym of honor aod in tegrity, and to an unbounded degree he enjoys the respect and confidence of lieople of that portion of the State in which he has lived for many years and with whose important productive industries he has been extensively identified. The liberal portion of the Republican prem freely admit that he is an exceptionally good man for State Treasurer. The Philadelphia North American has said that much in his favor in its editorial columos, and the Pittsburg Dispatch says that if he is elected "his well-known integrity of purpose and business methods consti tute a guarantee that the trust will be faithfully executed." The convention at Williamsport did high honor to it self and to the Democratic party when it placed so excellent a candi date as ORANGE NOBLE before the people, and it now remains for the party, and all independent voters who desire a careful, judicious and honest administration of the busioeas of the treasury, to rally to his support. It is scarcely to be doubted that the election lies between NOBLE and BAILY. Should BAILY succeed he will be the creature of the machine and will do its bidding in all things that may be demanded of him. He was made by the machine and must, as a matter of course, be its servile toot. NOBLE will be the trustee of the people, uninfluenced by rings and uo awed by powerful politicians. Mr. WOLFE, the independent Republican candidate, deserves credit for the bold at d manly fight he is making against machine power and corruption, and he will have a considerable following in bis party; but a Democratic vote for him only helps to defeat the purpose be has in view. He does not expect to he elected, and therefore Democrats should not throw their votes away upon him. It is their duty to vote for their own candidate. He hi honest aod capable, will be faithful and efficient in the performance of every duty that BELLEFONTE, I'A., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1881. may devolve upon him, and, with WOLFE'S diversion in his favor, has a bright prospect of success. Demo crats! to the polls! Vote for ORANGE NOBLE! DANIEL C. KELLER is the very man to handle the county funds during the next three years. He is honest and capable and will make a splendid Coun ty Treasurer. Give him the full vote of the party on next Tuesday. The Election. A brief word to the iX-mocrncy of Centre is not inappropriate. Are you ready for the contest of ballots to come off on Tuesday next ? We have a good ticket, composed of men not only competent to fill the various of fices for which you have designate*] them, hut deserving your cheerful en dorsement and most active support We, therefore, urge each Democrat to be prompt at the polls and vote the whole ticket, without scratch. The effort will be made to induce Demo crats to substitute individual Repub licans upou the ticket. Do not do it. The candidates, fairly placed in nom ination by your party, arc entitled to your vote. They represent your prin ciples as well as your party, and should have your sustaining ballot. Every candidate ou the Democratic ticket is fully equal in capacity ami fitness to his conqictitor on the oppos ing tickets, and requests to substitute your political opponents should be viewed as impudent ami In- rejected. If the Republicans have a fight among themselves as to the proper man for County commissioner, or any other of fice, it is a matter of their own. I/et them settle it themselves, for them aelves, aod by themselves. Demo crats, vole the Democratic ticket It is a good one, and need* the addition of no Republican to make it better. It is your own ticket, brought forward by your own representatives to give voice to your own preference and party principles. ANDREW J. GUIEST and JOHN WOLFE are just the men to have in the Commissioner's office. Democrats / give them a hearty support! They will con duct the business of the county to your entire satisfaction Don't scratch cither one of them ! IT appears that the record of Judge Folgcr, of New York, who has been called to the Treasury Department by President Arthur, like that of all Re publican statesmen is not above sus picion. Home dark lines are found in his conduct as a public officer which may require explanation before he can gain entire confidence as the custodian of the nation's Treasury. When As. ■istont Treasurer of the United States at New York he disbursed some three million dollars' worth of internal reve nue stomps in sealed packages, fur nished by the O mmissioner of Inter nal Revenue for the government, in which Folger had no personal owner ship except as a disbursing officer. On retiring from office he settled his ac counts and made no claim for commis sion for the distribution of these pack ages. An afterthought, however, and a reluctance to lose his grip upon the the public treasury, induced him to file a claim for 9184,934.95, which was rejected in the Court of Claims and the decision was affirmed in the Supreme Court of the United Slates. These •tamps were placed in Folger's custo dy as a disbursing officer, for which he was paid a salary, aod the attempt thus to double on his pay is not calcu lated to inspire confidence now that he is entering upon the discharge of the duties of the high position to which Arthur has called him. The new Sec retory Is a Grant stalwart. FOR Auditors, vote for JOHN S. PROUD FOOT and F. PIERCE Mvmr.n They are both excellent accountants and will see that the accounts of the county VOTE for ORANGE NOBLE for State Treasurer ! The public funds will be safe in his hands. He it an able, hon est and incorruptible man ! An Ext'a Session. The Washington Pott, reviewing the work of the late extra session of the United States Senate, remarks that "the necessity for the election of a President pro tempore of the Senate, in order to have a constitutional suc cessor to President Arthur before the first Monday in December, was the sole cause of the meeting of the Sen ate in special session on the 10th of October. On that day, in accordance with statute and precedent, the Demo crats elected Senator Bayard presiding officer of the body. After the adtnis siou of the three new Senators from New York and Rhode Island the next day, there was really nothing of spe cial importance for the Senate to do. But the Republicans, though realizing their inability to displace Mr. Bayard by one of their own men, conceived the idea of utilizing the ambition of Senator David Davis for that purpose. If they oouldn't whip the other fellow they could at least make faces at his sister, which was far better than no demonstration at all. The scheme was a good one, success standing for good ness. By a total abstinence from vot iug, a favorite proceeding of the Illin ois Senator, he was duly elected Presi dent pro tempore, after having aided the Republicans to secure a majority on the several standing committees. The only other vacancy to be filled by an election was the office of Sec retory of the Senate. Mr. George C. Gorham was the Republican candi date and Mr L. Q. Washington he came the Democratic nominee. Kach party waited for the other to introduce the subject until it became apparent that neither would, when a Demo cratic caucus decided to propose ilyu Chief Clerk Francis E. dared acting m u ic credit a resolution ' 3 of course, was whereupon Mr. Sbober was office as a representative of the p!9S and harmony prevailing in the Up per House. While the .Senate was in session the President sent in, for convenience only, many nominations, most of them ! appointments by the late President during the recess, which could just as well have waited (ha regular meeting in December. About the only excep- I tion were the two Cabinet appoint j meats, and the original one by Presi j dent Arthur, at the suggestion of Ma hone, of Clifford Statham to be poet roaster at Lynchburg. This was about the last, and, considering the motive, the worst nomination of the session- The Republicans, in keeping up a dead-lock for two days, undertook to sustain a Federal appointment made for the express purpose of aiding the Mahone repudiation ticket in Virginia, the appointee being an ex-Confederate soldier and Readjust**, to take the place of an ex-Union soldier and Re publican. The Administration men in the Senate were only too glad to retreat from their unenviable position, aud allow the tired Senators to go homo. Outside the election of a President pro tempore the actual work of the Senate was not heavy and very little of it was necessary. Politically the Democrats came oat ahead. Their conduct was decent, manly and con sistent, while the Republicans added largely to their well-earned reputation of sacrificing any political principle, however sacred or how long adhered to, for the sake of a temporary party success and a better bold upon patron age and power." DEMOCRATS of Centre county! Do not forget that next Tuesday is election day / Turn out, one and all, end do your duty to your candidates, your par' ty, your county and jew State/ THE leaders of the Republican party at Washington have just given the people of the United Slates an other touching instance of the sincer ity of that marvelous love which they have always professed to feel for the the Union soldier, especially on the stump and in party platforms about election limes. It appears that for twelve years past the office of postmas ter at Lynchburg, Virginia, has been filled by John F. Wilson,who through out the war was a Union soldier, serv ing in an Illinois regiment and losing an eye by a bullet wound received in one of the battles in which his regi ment took part. He has filled the of fice in a manner highly satisfactory to the people of Lynchburg, and a large majority of the most respectable and influential |rofessional and business men of the place sent a ]>etition to the President asking for his retention. Well, Wilson being a strong Republi can and a gallant Union soldier, of course was retained ! Do you think so ? Not much! The arrangement did not suit Billy Mabone. The Union soldier, though a Republican, refused to become a Repudiator, and Billy Mabone at once thought the place would just suit one of his own follow- j crs, Stat ham by name, a Repudiation Democrat and an ex-Confederate sol dier. With the control of the Federal offices in Virginia in his hands, under his corrupt bargain with the "powers that be at Washington, Billy Mahone had "the bulge," so to speak, upon the poor postmaster. Marching to battle under the "old flag" was of no ac count! Faithful services to bis coun try could not save him! Billy Ma hone must have his man ! Billy Ma hone asked for the removal of Wilson and the appointment of Statham, and Presideot Arthur was base enough to promptly make the change! Ob, the shaune of it! Republican politicians should no longer prate aliout the dear j Union soldier, for it has become a cer jtainty that when political ends are to j be subserved, evyvso mean aq end as ifcri" * in war on ■jr. B-UIOW|haf fYWjfdrt* TKBMS: $1.50 [HT Annum, in Advance. IT may be said of Jan. A. McClain, the Democratic candidate for Register, that he is essentially a laboring man, and that in sympathy and interest he stand* among the "sons of toil." Ry the death of bis father he was left at an early age to depend upon himself, and he was not long in striking out to make his own living. At the age of ten years he first found employment with Charles McCafTerty, then exten sively engaged in building, as the driver of a horse and cart. We next find him delving in an ore bank, and after that as a clerk in a store in the employ of his uncle at the State Col lege. lie remained in the store three years, and then came to the planing mill in liellefonte, where he learned the trade of a carpenter, working there also three years. It is during these three years that we have an interest ing insight into the real character of James A. McClain, which shows in a striking light the real stuff that is in the man. Anxious to get on in life, he at this period determined to be come a telegraph operator. The time at his disposal was after working hours, and after his day of toil he utilized the hours of night in mastering the mys teries of his chosen occupation. In time, by pluck and perseverance, he liocame an expert operator, and was not long in finding a situation in which to follow his new pursuit. He entered the employ of the Pennsylvania rail road company a* agent at Julian Fur nace, ou the ltald Ragle division, where he remained for several years. In JH74 he was changed to Milesburg, at which place he served the company faithfully and efficiently as agent and dispatcher until his removal to Bnow Shoe during the past summer,at which place he fills the same position. H>a life has been one of hard labor and faithfui service in every position of life in which he has been placed. He has always enjoyed, to the fullest ex tent, the esteem and confidence of bis employers, and will exhibit the same efficiency and fidelity in performing the important duties of the trust that will be conferred upon him by the people of Centre county next week, which has so cotnmendably marked his. past career. The laboring men of the county should give him a hearty support. THE Bellefonte Republican IS oat spoken for the election of Henry C. Campbell to the office of County Com missioner on the Republican ticket, and bitter in its oflfflfcion to John I. ( Rankin. It is a hot fight between j the friends of the two candidate*, and las it is a family fued we do not be j lieve that Democrats should have any | thing to do with it. Let the clashing | factions fight it out themselves, and | decide the battle to suit theroslves. Hands off, is our position, and we trust that every Democrat in Centre county will plant himself firmly upon the same ground. We object, therefore, to the effort of the Republican to con nect prominent Democrats with either side of the quarrel.. We are satisfied that such charge* have no foundation in fact and are unjust to the gentle men named in connection with them by the Republican, IT is announced by the Washington correspondence that General James A. Beaver, of this place, is mentioned in connection with the goverothip of Ari zona. The office is recently vacated by the resignation of Gen. Fromoat. No doubt Gen. Beaver will be pressed for this position by our disinterested Senators, as much tor his superior qualifications, his excellent civil and military record, and the opportunity it would afford to get the General out of tbe way of tbe Boss* candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania. Cooper will be happy to see Beaver moving towards tbe setting son. WE are authorised to say that the charge made in a communication pub lished in the Bellefonte Republican of this week, that J.C. Harper, William Tobias and W. C. Heinle arc working tor the election of John I. Rankin, is false in every particular. These gen tlemen regard the contest between Rankin and Campbell as a party fight with which they have nothing to