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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<RJT meritorious
■ fia. wust go for noth
-1 ; T/-
*. : T- .Hfraceful nomination of
Repudiator, to be
Lynchburg, Virginia, in
I place of Wilson, a Republican and
Union soldier who has held the place
for twelve years, failed to be confirm
ed by the Senate before the adjourn
ment of that body on last Friday.
This result was owing to the determin
ed stand taken by the Democrats of
the Senate against confirmation. The
failure to get the nomination through,
however, made no difference with
President Arthur. Immediately after
the adjournment Statham was re-ap
pointed to take Wilson's place. The
faithful Union soldier bad to make
way for the Repudiator. Thus is Ar
thur's administration tied to the tail
of Mahone's repudiation kite.
SPEAKING of the duty of electing
a proper man to the office of County
Treasurer the Beilefonlc Republican
remarks that "the first question that
should be asked is not is he Demo
crat or Republican, bat is he honest
and capable." Well, ask that ques
tion of Daniel C. Keller, (he Demo
cratic candidate. Every truthful man
who knows Mr. Keller will answer,
"Yea, he is both honest and capable."
Democrats, therefore, do not have
occasion to look outride of their own
party to find a proper man for whom
to vote for that important office.
SAMUEL T. GRAY, one of the Re
publican nominees for Associate Judge
publishes a latter in this week's Re
publican, addressed to John I. Raskin,
Chairman of the Republican county
committee, declining to be a candidate,
The action of Mr. Gray leaves a va
cant place on the Republican ticket
which has thus tor not bean filled.
As Ruckle and Larimer are certain
to receive large majorities, our Repub
lican friends probably think there m no
use in going to the trouble of selecting
a tn>|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 <!©
and are content to permit the Repub
licans of the coaaty settle it them
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