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Tarnas 81.60 par Aaanw.la Advance.
8. T. 9HUGERT .ad R H. FORSTER. Editor*.
Thoradaj Morning, November 10, 1881.
The Result in Centre County.
The tabulated election returns of
Centre county, which we present to
the readers of the DEMOCRAT this
week, show that the Democracy of
the county have good reason to con
gratulate themselves on the result of
last Tuesday's work, except in the
single fact that there is a large falling
off in the vote as compared wilh the
party vote of last year. Every can<!'-
date on the Democratic ticket is elect
ed by a fair majority. The following
are the official pluralities in the county :
Noble over Buily 1147
Runkleover Kimport 652
1-ariroerover Kimport 438
Dunkel overGregg 1231
Keller over Gebhart 1119
Harper over Fleming 1697
McClain over Williams iOB3
Bible over Gray 12i2
Griest over Campbell 1286
Griest over Raukin 2021
Wolf over Campbell 164
W|fe over Raukin 1898
Proud foot over Hughes 1099
Mueeerover Hughes. 975
With ibis result the party may be
well satisfied, and look forward to
future contests in the firm assurance
that old Centre still stands solid in
the column of Democratic counties.
MR. J. C. HARPER, leads the Dem
ocratic ticket. His vote is 3808 while
the vote for Noble books up but 3491.
His plurality over the Republican
candidate is 1697 and bis majority
over all the opposition is 1375. Mr.
Harper has filled the office of Pro
thonotary for three years and the re
sult of last Tuesday is a splendid en
dorsement to receive from the people
of the county.
WOLF received one hundred and
eighty-five votes in Centre county for
Btale Treasurer. Before the election
it was difficult to find out who inten
ded to vote for him. Bince the elec
tion so many claim the credit of hav
ing done so that if all tell the truth
his vote should have beeu about three
times as large as the returns make it.
THE citixen of the District of Co
lumbia have adopted means to erect
and establish a memorial hospital to
perpetuate the memory of President
Garfield. They are receiving liberal
subscriptions from the public, and
Mrs. Garfield has expressed approval
of the, object and promises to be one
of the contributors.
How. JOSEPH C. BUCHER, is re-elec
ted President Judge of the judicial
district composed of Union, Snyder
and Mifflin counties by a large ma
jority. Judge Bucber has presided
in this district for ten years past and
his triumphant re-election is a tribute
to bis ability, impartiality and integ
rity that was well deserved.
THE Portland Argut says that Jus
tice Clifford did leave a very elabo
rate history of the electoral fraud com
mission, which will be given the pub
lic as soon as bis son W. H. Clifford,
has time to examine it carefully.
THE bitter fight in the Republican
party of Centre county over the office
of Commissioner results in the elec.
lion of Campbell over Rankin by a
majority of 735.
THE vote between Campbell and
Rankin, Republicans, for County
Commissioner is as follows : Camp
bell 2264, Rankin 1529. Campbell
over Rankin, 735.
FIELD MARSHAL COOPER I*ay now
be considered first in the figh? for
the itepublican nomination for Gov
ernor. The machine will be run ex
clusively inhis interests.
IN the Perry and Juniata judicial
district, Barnet, Democrat, U elected
over Junkin, the present judge, by
390 majority.
"EQUAL AKD EXACT JUSTICE TO ALL MEM, OF WHATEVER STATE OR PERSUANIOH, RELIOIOCB OR POLITICAL."-Irttnoß
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The November Election.
Elections for Blate and County offi
cers were held on last Tuesday in a
number of Sutes. At this writing it
is supposed that in our own Bute Bai
ly, Republican, (has been elected Bute
Treasurer by a small plurality over
Noble, the Democratic candidate.
Wolfe, independent Republican, has
received from forty to fifty thousand
votes in the Bute, one-third of which
were cast by Democrats. Daily's plu
rality will not exceed five thousand, so
this result, with Wolfe's diversion in
favor of our party, canoot be charged
to the Republicans, but the responsi
bility for it must rest upon Democratic
voters who foolishly forgot what was
due to their own candidate and threw
their votes away.
In the Bute of New York the Dem
ocrats have achieved a victory over
the Republicans, electing their Bute
ticket by a fair majority and carrying
both branches of the Legislature. Re
publicans have been elected to G>n
greas in the districts heretofore repre
sented by Miller and Latham, elected
to the United States Senate. The
Democrats carry the two vacant New
York city districts, eiectiog Hardy
over Murphy to the seat of the late
Fernando Wood, and Flowers over
Astor to the seat made vacant by the
resignation of Morton, appointed Min
ister to France.
One of the most exciting and inter
esting contests of the fall campaigns
occurred in Virginia between the
Democrats and Mahone's Repudiation-
Republican coalition. We are sorry
to say that the latest returns from the
Bute indicate the triumph of the Co
alition by a decided majority over the
Democrats. This unfortunate and dis
graceful result is mainly due to the
aid received by Mabone from the Fed
eral administration in the way of offi
cial patronage and the lavish use of
money furnished by the loyal patriots
of the Union League of New York.
The Democrats claim to have car
ried the Bute of Wisconsin, electing
their Bute ticket by a small majority.
Maryland and Mississippi go Demo
cratic by large majorities.
In New Jersey and Connecticut the
elections were for members of the
Legislature, and the indications are
that the Republicans have succeeded
in electing majorities in both Btatea.
Massachusetts is Republican by the
usual majority. MionesoU and Ne
braska are also Republican by about
twenty thousand each
WE are gratified to leant that W.
W. Rankin was elected Associate
Judge of Clinton county. An excel
lent man for the position.
BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1881.
The Ameriren Register.
We have received the third end
fourth numbers of the American Heg
iMer, a weekly Democratic journal
which has recently been established in
Washington city, under the auspices
of Hon. Jeremiah 8. Black and other
eminent Democratic statesmen and
writer*. The publication we believe i
is under the immediate supervision of
Mr. William Aydelotte, of Philadel
phia aud Col. A. H. McCardle, a dis
tinguished Southern journalist. It is a (
valuable journal, conducted with mark
ed ability and rare judgement, and
should be extensively circulated. Asa
specimen of its editorial ability we
take the following article upon the :
degeneracy in public affairs that
have come upon the country under
the rule of the Republican party. The
Regie! er says
"It requires no rery high order of
intellect to direct the affairs of a nation
governed by either force or tbe strata
gy and machinery of perty. But under
popular government of a people of in
tellectual derelopment and culture, tbe
higheel order of stateemanship and the
roost enlarged views of public policy are
essential. The nature of man as a free
man, bit condition and state of intelli
gence and civilisation, the great ques
tions of foreign and internal policy
bearing upon the business interests of
the country, and the strict observance
of the public faith and honor, are mat
ter requiring profound rontideral'ON and
comprehensive statesmanship. But to
govern a nation by force or the machi
nery of party require# simply adroit
ness, skill, and cbioanery in party tac
tics. Thus tbe ruling principle, which
is tbe voice of the majority, can be and
ia often circumvented and defeated by
stratagem. Among tha various devices
of party chicanery, that of caucus legis
lation ia tb most effective and faul.
By tbia political atratagem the consci
entious judgment of a majority of a leg
ialative body, acting under the aoletn
nitiea of an official oath, ia overcome,
and lawa are enacted by a minority, or
in other words, laws are passed which
are against the conscientious judgment
of a majority of the whole legislative
body, if left free to act. Tbe unscrupu
lous partisan always acta upon the de
baaing idea that the end will justify the
mean*. The line of distinction between
the mere politician or partisan and the
statesman ia wide and deeply marked.
Tbe statesman ia devoted to hie coun
try nod ite interests—the partisan to
his party and its success. The atatee
raen devotes bis life to advance the
welfare of his country—tbe partisan
would sacrifice his country and revolu
tionise ite government to save hia party.
"It is a melancholy reflection that
tbe degeneracy and downward tenden
cy in our own public affairs, and especi
ally in tbe elections since this Republi
can parly came into power, have be
oome very manifest of lata yean, and
yet the people are either unconscious
of it or indifferent to it. Tbe high
tone, elevated sent men, and dignified
bearing, formerly characteristic of our
public men, have given way before tbe
selfishness and violence of party
spirit. Men get office and plaoe
now by artifice and persona! noli
citation. The electiona of prom
inent official* are secured by promises
of place and office to voten,which ia n
better in prinotnle than buying vote*
with money, ami yet this ia deemed to
I be all right. And in tbe quadreaaia
national oonleal for the Presidency the
whole country ia in commotion on the
matter of the distribution of the offices,
honors and emoluments of the govern
ment. It has become a great popular
struggle every four years, not for the se
lection of the greatest and beat man,
nor for great measures of public policy
to advance the welfare and happiness of
the people, but for the spoils of party
in the distribution of the offices as re
wards for partisan services; and civil
service reform and retrenchment, pro
posed to correct this enormity and de
gradation, are ridiculed and pronounced
impracticable by partisan leaders.
"Tbe dangers of those mere struggles
of ambition and cupidity, of thia parti
san violence and of these sectional par
tie*. cannot be overestimated. The de
sire to wield the immense power and
troneyed resources of this vast country
furnishes potent motives to stimulate
cupidity and ambition. When the pas
aiont and animosities of a great people
are aroused men do not stop to reaaon
and contemplate the consequence*.
Ilow true tbe adage, which history eon
firm*. that "eternal vigilance on the
part of the people ia the price of their
liberties." I .el these danger* be cir
cumvented and averted by a wise fore
thought and precaution. The happines*
and future greatness of this country,
and the cau*e of civil liberty through
out tbe world and for ell lime to come,
demand Ibis at tbe bends of tbe peo
ple."
TUB Ilarrioburg Patriot, referring
to the testimony taken at tbe Pitney
investigation of tbe Treasury Depart
ment, which Mr. Hberman re mm* I to
have published with the report called
for by bia resolution, says: "The tes
timony of a cabinetmaker named
Brown (not Arthur) ia produced to
show the cause of John Sherman's
persistent opposition to the transmis
sion of the evidence connected with
the report of the Treasury investiga
tion. Brown's sworn testimony is ac
companied with his account for work
and labor done by him while employed
in the Treasury Department and paid
by order of Frank Ilcssler, superin
tendent of the Treasury cabinet shop.
The work was done on Secretary Sher
man's residence and stables in nine
teen specified days, running along from
May, 1878, to January, 1879, and was
charged to the third auditor's office,
I register's office and other bureaus of
tbe treasury. But before it can be
credited that a secretary of the treasu
ry could be morcaoary and dishonest
eoough to |iermit such petty practices
in his own interest John Sherman
should have a hearing. It ia in tbe
highest degree probable that he can
give a satisfactory explanation of a
matter which, if the inference so free
ly made from the testimony be true,
would be disgraceful to him and to the
fact that Brown made these charges
for his work and that they wete paid
from the funds which he designates
do not prove any knowledge of or
complicity with the petty fraud on the
part of Secretary Sherman. Brown
might charge for his work the Osar of
Russia or the Pope of Rome, but that
would not prove that he ordered it
John Sherman doublleas knew of the
existence of this testimony of Brown,
and if he bad an explanation he should
have made it at once instead of stub
bornly resisting tbe presentation of
the evidence with tbe Pitney report
That is what has given ground to s
maoy reflections upon him. Still it
cannot be believed that be bad any
knowledge of tbe larcenous practices
to which Brown's testimony points.
Pkesiiikwt Arthur, has shown his
contempt for the Senate by commis
sioning Ktralhan, Mahone's repudia
tion postmaster at Lynchburg, since
the adjournment It will now be in
senate to return the com
plimentWid sbcm their contempt for
the President by rejecting the Post
master on their re-assembling iu De
cember. In this case, Arthur removed
a crippled Union soldier, who is a Re
publican, because be had tho manli
ness to refuse to be a Mahonc repudi
ationist, and appointed a Mahone re
pudiate, who was formerly a Demo
crat Tbe Senate, at least tbe Demo
cratic portion of that body, refused to
concur in the appointment and it fell.
IT is announced that Mr. Blaine
will retire from the State Department
about the close of the preaeot mouth,
and that he baa no deaire to avail him
self of the usual courtesy of foreign
official travel, in order to break his de
scent from high official dignity av home.
He will remain in Washington dur
ing the winter and devote his energy
and ability in arranging an aggressive,
and no doubt successful campaign
against tbe stalwarts for 1874.
IT is said that Gen. Grant brought
home, in presents, from his trip around
the world sufficient goods to furnish
the first floor of his palatial mansion
in New York, in the must gorgeous
style. What he will do with the
large stock collected in this oouutry, |
as our national beggar, will be a diffi
cult conundrum, unless he go to auc
tion. As a national or memorial
mendicant the people of the United
States can well dispenae with his ser
vices as a third-terra president Uncle
Sara could not afford to requite so
many personal favors.
GREAT interest was felt in tbe re
mit of the contest for county commis
sioner between tbe candidates of the
Republican party, and the election of
Henry C. Campbell by so large a ma
jority over Rankin b a triumph for
the Bellefonte RrpuUican which the
stalwart wing of the party should not
underrate or belittle.
TERMS: sl*so per Annum, In Advance.
JOHN CESSNA it it mid is defeated
for Judge in the Kedfonl and Somer
"t District- Although a Republican
district, actively canvassed by this ar
rant demagogue in all its parts, the
people decide that his services are not
needed in the courts of justice. The
Hon. W. J. Baer of Somerset, the
Democratic candidate, it appears was
more acceptable.
IT is believed that Geo. Edward F.
Beale, of California, now of Washing
ton, will be Secretary of the Navy
under the stalwart administration.
Gen. Reals besides being an active
and trusted adviser of Grant and Ar
thur, is a gentleman of great force of
character, and will no doubt be a lead
ing factor in shaping the Arthur ad
ministration.
Wen. Lee's L*t Official Order.
| from UM St. Loati POM Dnpatcb
At the neat meeting of the Histori
ml Society, the third Sunday of the
present month, Col. A. W. Slayback
will present the following valuable relic
the nature of which is explained in the
subjoined letter to the Colonel from
Untied States Senator Vest:
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct., 31, 'Bl.
CO i.. A. W. SLAPBACK :
US A a SlB —Will vou be kind enough
to preteot to the Historical Society of
Mimouri tbe accompanying n#pr? It
is the original order of Oen. K. E. Lee
disbanding tba Army of Virginia. It
waa placed in mi hands by one who,
like you and myself, waa loyal to tbe
cause for which that army fought and
who accepted in good faith tbe results
of iu defeat, f received the trust, but
upon reflection I think that a paper so
valuable to the historian and antiqusri
and. tbe last record of an army unqual
ed in hisaory for it* achievements,
should be deposited with a society per
menent in iu duration and devoted to
yreserving the correct history of each
aucoeeaive age. Truly, eu., G. G. VEST.
TBI oanta.
HCAOUC ABTSXS, ARHT OP Noamta*
VIWINIA, April 10, 1805.
General Orders No. 9.
After four years of arduous services,
marked by unsurpassed courage and
fortitude, the Army of Northern
Virginia has been compelled to yield to
overwhelming number* and recourses.
I need not tell the brave survivors of
so many hard fought tatties, who have
remained steadfast to the last, that I
have consented to this reeult from no
distrust of them ; but feeling that valor
and devotion oould accomplish nothing
that would compensate for the loes that
must have attended the continuance of
the contest, I determined to avoid the
useless sacrifice of those whose past ser
vice* have endeared them to tber coon
the termsol the agreement officer*
and men can return to their home* and
remain until exchanged. You will take
with you tbe satisfaction that proceed*
from the consciousness of duty failhfal
ly performed, sod I set neatly pray that
a merciful Ood will extend to you His
blessing aod protection.
With an increasing ad mi ration of
your constancy devotion to your eoun
try. and a g restful remembrance of
your kind and generous consideration
lor myself, 1 hid you all an attecUooale
farewell. R. E. Las, General.
NO. 45.