BHUGKRT *v FOKSTKIt, Editors.
VOL. 4.
She Centre ;?mocrni
Tarmi $1.50 per Annnm. In Alltbm.
♦
S. T. SHUOERT and R. H. FORSTER. Editor..
Thursday Morning, February 16,1882.
Centre County Democratic Com
mittee — 1882.
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It, 11. FORSTKR, Chairman.
11. A. M. Kil. Swr-Urr
THE life of a babv elephant must
be quite precious am! valuable, when
Itanium can afford to obtain an insu
rance upon the one recently born in
bis menagerie, of three hundred thou
sand dollars. The premium he pays
is fifty thousand dollars for one year.
TnF. tragedy enacted in Washing
ton on the second of July last, does
not seem to imffcso any restraint upou
the gaiety ami disispation of its socie
ty circles. These BTC unusually active,
and are liberally patronized by the
successor of the assassinated Presi
dent.
THE repudiation doctrines of Ma
lione have been fully endorsed in the
Wis latnre of Virginia, by the pas
sage of the Riddleberg bill. Thus, by
the aid and co-operation of the stal
wart administration at Washington,
the Old Dominion is disgraced and the
integrity of public credit has received a
wound that may infect other burden
ed Commonwealths, if it docs not prove
a source of annoyance to some of the
money kings who invest so heavily in
stalwart supremacy.
The Montrose lirjmblican says that
General Beaver i a " Providential can
didate." If this le the rae, it is the
first time, in a great many years, that
Providence has interested himself in se
lecting Republican candidates. Many
people think the"other fellow" has gen
erally made the nominations. — Doyle*-
toicn Democrat. Thnt's so, and if Don
Cameron and Matt Quay are not chain
ed in some dark corner on the 10th of
May, the "other fellow" will select the
Republican candidate again.
A PIHTOI, AFFRAY took place at
Washington on Thursday evening last,
resulting fatally to one of the attack
ing parties. A. M. Soteldo, jr., who
it appears was clerk to the Committee
on Railroads in the Senate and also a
correspondent of several prominent pa
pers, with bis brother, A. C. Soteldo,
made an attack upon Clarence M. Bar
lon, the managing editor of the Na
tional Republican for some articles
published in that paper reflecting upon
his character and standing. Both the
Soteldoa appear to have been well ar
med for conflict when they invaded
Mr. Barton's office and were prompt
iq making known the hostile purpose
of their visit. The firing commenced
and was kept up until Mr.' Barton and
the elder Soteldo were shot, the latter
fatally, the former severely, but not
slangorously. It is supposed that the
j bail which proved fatal to Hoteldo
-was from the pistol of his brother and
was intended for Barton. Ho far as
■we can see, there is nothing kindly to
be said of the attacking party, and
the offensive character of the articles
that gave rise to it, leaves the other
■party with very slight claims to sym
patliy. It is only another drawing in
"lottery of assassination," and some
greedy stalwart will draw a small prize
through the committee on railroads.
"■OCAL ASII KXACT JUSTICE TO ALL MM, OF WIIATXVICR STAT* OK PKMUASIOX, HJELIOIOOS OK FOLITICAL."—
"State Larcenies."
For a pome time past that able ami
uncompromising Democratic journal,
the Lancaster Intelligencer, has been
waging an active, earnest ami aggres
sive warfare against the extravagance*
ami peculations of the ring of bold
and adroit politicians who control the
affairs of the State at Harrisburg. It
is an old story. For many years it
has been a well established fact, though
a fact that lias never seemed to rnnke
much impression upon the public
mind, that not only open and reckless
stealing has been the rule with the of
ficials of the dominant party that has
for so many venrs had the manage
ment of the various departments of the
State government. Through the loose
practices that have grown up in the past
years of Republican control, thousands
of dollars have been filched from the
treasury without warrant of law, and
in ways and through cunning devices
that can only be characterized as down
right and unmitigated theft. Thc.-e ras
cailv practices have long been known,
but tbeexjKjsures that have been made
of them, usually in the heat of politi
cal campaigns, have never been of
much consequence in the outcome of
of the elections. They have passed
over the heads of intelligent voters as
an idle puffofair, and the ruling dynas
ty of the Common wealth has nlways
managed to maintain its power to
plunder the public. We sincerely hope
the work of the Intelligencer will bring
forth better results in the near future
than those that have followed efforts in
the same direction in the past. The
Intelligencer has an able ally in this
cause in the veteran editor of the Clin
ton Democrat, ami we think it is full
time that every Democratic new-pa
per in the State takes an unflinching
stand upon the ground on which our
friend and neighbor so firmly plants
his feet in the last issue of his excel
lent paper. U|mui this subject Mr.
DeifTenbarh gives timely notice to all
prospective candidates for legislative
honors which they will do well to
heed. We copy from the Clinton
Democrat as follows:
We mot cordially second the rugge#-
tions of tlie InUlhgtnrrr nd now Rive
for notice that we will support no in so
f.r senator or represent ive from Ihts dis
trict who will not pledge himself to do
what he can to stop the.e "Stale lar
cenies." not only by protesting and
voting against every one. toil moving so
to amend the app'Oprtslion hills as to
cot them up by the roots and forever
illiterate them, and by calling the yeas
and nays upon all propositions in which
the stealings are involved. In the cam
paign of HJB the writer of this, with
the assistance ol Maj. Forsier. now one
of the editors of thef'tSTK* Rkmocrat,
prepared elaborate statistics exposing
thee thefts, had them printed in the
papers, and sent condensed tables con
venient for use to all the stump speak
ers wo could reach. For a time the
feature promised to become prominent
in the contest and to have marked in
Huence. hot Col. and the itepub
lican leaders were adroit enough to
adopt issues in reference to federal
financial measures and the Ilemncratic
orators were fools enough (generally ) to
drop their own and accept the lie
publican gige of battle. This year we
hope to see the state larcenies made a
prominent issue hv the Democratic
leaders, orators and newspapers, and
also hope they will not again permit
themselves to he driven from it. The
same sort of federal issues ought st the
same time he made and driven home to
the heart of every voter If the people
mean to sustain thieve, let them know,
at least, who the thieves are. It is for
such reasons as these that we have
nrged the selection a bold, aggressive,
(lighting candidate for governor, of
abundant ability and knowledge. With
such a candidate and upon such issues
fully exposed the Democracy can and
must win.
The Khode Inland legislature pro
< (Ktics to enact n stringent law tor the
prevention of bribery at elections in
that .State. No particular movement
seems to be on foot, however, to en
franchise the citizens of Ilhode Island
who arc deprived of a vote because of
an unjust property qualification. It
is all well enough to erect safeguards
against frauds, but would be still bet
ter to tear down the barriers that
stand betweeu honest men and the
polls.
IiI.AfXK and the administration are
having very interesting squabble over
Houth American diplomacy. On the
whole, we are inclind to tbinkJßlaine
has the best of it.
BKLLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, FEBIU7AKY IG, 1882.
Tho Apportionment Bill.
Speaking of the hill reported from
the committee of the census to appor
tion the Representatives in Congress,
which calls .for 320 members, and is
one for every 156,2*5 inhabitants, the
Washington /'*' remarks: "If there
were noKiate lines each Member would
represent just that number of people
occupying contiguous territory. Rut
a- the a-isigiiiuonts have to ho made to
States, there are fractions always left
after dividing the population of u State
by the number of inhabitants eulillcd
to a Representative. Rv this plan
obviously there nrc not a sufficiency of
constituencies of the required size isi
the different State* to include the
whole number of Members to which
all the States are entitled. The method
heretofore pursued has heeu to assign
the remainder of the Members, so far
as they will go, to those States having
tho largest fractions after the division
referred to.
Under the hill rejmrtod by Mr.
Prescott, however, a new system of
computation, calbnl after its author,
the"ScHtoh method," has Ireen invoked.
An attempt to explain it would take
up too much space, to say nothing of
the probable iilt|xMibility of making
it clear even to the most intelligent
reader, fiy it hut six States are af
fected, California, Rhode Island, Flo
rida, New York, Pennsylvania and
Illinois. According to the old plan
tie first three States each retain a
member, which, by the new method,
goes to each of the last three. By as
signing 320 members to 49,371,280
people, it is intended that every Con
gre—man shall represent a constituency
of 154,2*5, as near as may be. Under
the old method, California, Rhode Is
land, Florida. New York, Pennsyl
vania and Illinois would have a mem
ber for a population respectively of
114,1 Li, 138,26.1, 134,746, 154,020,
152,900 and 153,893, New York's rep
rescntative population being within
259 of the number required, Pennsyl
vania and Illinois close up and Flori
da the farthest off, being 19,539 short.
Rv the new scheme the Representative
population of these Klates is as follows:
California, 172,938; Rhode Island,
276,531; Florida, 269,493; Xin York,
149,496; Pennsylvania, 147,680, and
Illinois, 146,565. These last three
States are farther from the required
number by this method than the other,
while of the first'three California hss
93,261 inhabitants not represented at
all, Florida, 115,208, and Rhode Island
122,246. The fairness of such an ap
portionment is not particularly strik
ing.
Another peculiarity of the new sys
torn i worth nothing. Dividing the
population of New York, Pennsyl
vania and Illinois by 154,2850tid the
product is respectively 32, 27 and 10.
Kach of these States have an extra
Member, on account of the large frac
tion remaining over in the division,
which puts the representation at 32.
28 and 20; hut the improver! system
| of calculation gives those .States each
one more, making them 34, 20 and 21.
The three extra members must repre
sent the 330,715 inhabitants of Cali
fornia, Rhode Island and Florida, who,
hv this compound and complex arith
metic, are left out in the cold, for
Purely they speak for nobody in their
own Stales. The aggregate popula
tion of New York, Pennsylvania and
Illinois is 12,4-45,305, not enough for
81 members, yet the new method al
lows them 84, requiring a population
of 514,675 greater than they have.
California, Florida ami Rhode Island
are given only 7 Representatives, al
though their aggregate population
authorises 0. Ry the new method
these three large Htatea obtain three
Members to which they are in no way
entitled, the luaa falling upon the three
small Htatea; while by the old plan
the three large Htatea have their pro
per number of Representatives, the
three small Htatea securing in the ag
gregate only one extra member.
Illustrations may be multiplied, hut
enough arc cited to show that while
the figures used by Mr. I'rescott's com
mittee to holster up the Kenton method
may not exactly lie, they do most em
phatically prevaricate ami mislead.
Absolute justice and fair dealing
suggest another consideration. The
first two and the fourth S'nte in popu
lation can not gain much by the addi
tion of one member each to their al
ready large numbers, while the reduc
tion of the representation of Florida
and Rhode Island each from 2 to 1
will lie severely felt, especially bv the
former, whose territory i- larger than
either of her vastly more populous
si-tors. No sueli result should lie
brought about, especially when, in or
der to accomplish it, a new plan has
to he adopted so manifi -tly unfair and
unjust." •
Electoral Bill.
Mr. Hewitt, of New lurk, introdu
ced in the House on Thursday last, a
hill designed to carry out the provi
sions of the Constitution in the elec
tion of President and Vice President.
It provides that the electors shall meet
and cast their votes on thesecoud Mon
day in January, and that between the
day on which the electors are chosen
and the day on which they are to vote,
the title of the office of elector of anv
person claiming to have been elected
-hall l>e determined and certified to
the Executive of the .State by such
State authorities, ministerial or judi
cial, or in such manner as the State
shall prescribe by the law. in force en
the day of choosing the electors, and
every such determination shall be con
clusive on question of fact or of Slate
laws in the counting by Congress. The
bill makes regulations for the meeting
of the two houses in joint convention,
and provides that when an objection
to any vote shall lie submitted in wri
ting and signed by ai lent one senator
and one member, the two houses shall
separate and come to a decision there
on, which decision shall l>e announced
to the joint eenventiou, and no vote
shall Ire received except by the affir
mative votes of Ihi|Ji house*. The joint
meeting shall not lie dissolved until the
count of the electoral vote shall be
completed and the result declared.
Notwithstanding the decision or dccla
tion provided f.r, the title to office of
any person so declares] to be elected as
President or Vice President and the
title of any claimant thereto may lie
tried and determined hy an action
brought in the name of the United
States, in the nature of a quo warran
to, in any Circuit (•brt of the Unites!
States, with a right of appeal to the
Supreme Court. The hill was referred
to a select committee.
Nepotiam nt Washington.
The soldiers' and sailors' league iti
Washington the Iforrisburg I'atriot
remarks, have effectually returned the
fire iu their rear by expisiiig the nepo
tism o some of the official advocates
of the repeal of the penfion arrearages
act. Their organ, the National f'rre
I'rr*, has begun the weekly publica
tion of lists to show the extent of the
practice of nepotism in the civil ser
vice. From these lists it appears that
the meritorious family of Shermans
draw fifty separate salaries from the
government. Justice Harlan of the
supreme court of the United States
has a son in the post-office department,
a nephew in the treasury, and a rela
tive holding a war department clerk
ship. Commissioner Rnum's zeal for
maintaining the internal revenue tax
es is partly explained by the fact that
he has a brother, a son, and a nephew
in the bureau. Almost as deserving a
government family as the Sherman's
is the French family, the names of
eight of whom, headed by the Assis
tant Hccrcfary of the Treasury, are
published, who draw #17,4440 in an
nual salaries in Washington. Not
less than thirty of the French family
ate said to be profiled for hy the pub
lic treasury. Twenty names of the
Kirk wood family \* 11 < > draw wilarie.*
from the government ivre given which
got* t.i show that the Ik a<l of the fami
ly lias availed himself of his advant
ages since becoming secretary of the
| interior. Commi-sioner of I'a tents
Marble has provided for four of his
! relatives, nhose names and places are
given. Assistant Secretary Jiell of the
j interior department is suid to have
twenty-six relatives in government
| employ. Ihe Marr family, one of
whom is chief clerk of the post oflice
department, has ten representative*
; who are known to draw government
ulurh- in Washington. These lists
are to lie published until the whole
I system of government nepotism is ex
|*>*e<l. Jhe old soldier* look a-kanee
at any system of civil service reform
which tends to fasten forever so manv
i barnacle* on the government. Tin v
insist that the fir-t arid mo*t important
step toward true civil service reform
is in cleaning out the departments of
the favorites who owe their po*ition*
not to merit, hut to family influence.
Mh. HiXTziiixiVKit, tht able and
indefatiganlu Kepresentntivc in (on
gre-* from the Carlisle district, ha* a
pending amendment to the apjiorliou
rnent bill requiring Stat' * to be redis
trictwl without gerrymandering. • :i
this fair and hon<-t proposition, he
made a sjh--< h on Monday la-t, for a
brief re|mrt of which we are indebted
to the correspondent of the I'hiladcl
phia Time*, as follows :
"Mr. llcluboover was of the opinion
thai if this could be accompli-10-d u
would be more imjiortant and (!i lent
in securing just representation to the
|*eop|e than any measure which has
eyer been enacted. There had been a
great deal of earnest contention almut
the loss of a single representative m a
few of the Slates. Hut what difference
would it make to the great Common
wealth of i'enn>yKama whether *'•#
gets twenty eight or twenty nine mem
Iwrs, if her Legislative can so distribute
the number as practically to doftan
<-htse one-half of hercituens and leave
them without representation ? Tina
unfair distribution of members is. said
the S|waker. no n> wot Tense in the ser
vile satrap of the modern boss. No re
|>ect is paid to the ratio of representa
tion or the contiguity of territory. • Vun
lies are torn into fragment! and dislri
kuted by townships and half townships
to meet the exigencies of the vilest
partisan frauds Counties widely sepa
rated are joined by narrow etnpa of land
running through intervening counties,
and thus connecvd. are called eontigu
u> terrttorv and erected into districts.
Take the Kleventh district in l'ennsyl
vania. Here three democratic counlie*
are taken in one section, all contiguous
and containing about 4.000 democratic
majority. Not satisfied with swallowing
up this large surplus of the minority
the leaders want more, and while there
is abundant contiguous territory they
do not take it, but run a niarveloulv
constructed line over the two large in
tokening counties, wr< stinc therefrom
in the passage twenty and one half
townshi|>a, containing 1,500 democratic
majority, so as to strike and take in two
other large democratic counties, with
3,00 democratic majority.
"Thua we have, continued the speak
er, a district, without a parallel in the
famous history of fraudulent apportion
inent, in the shape of a dumb hell,
gathering up in its peculiar serpentine j
1 contiguous area at>ut nine thousand i
democratic majority. This district, as
i it appears in the |>olitical text book,
coni|>osed of five cpuntie* end parU of 1
two counties, is bad enough, but as it j
appears on the map and to the people
of the Blate it is the ma-terpiece of that
matchleas band of political conspirators
who have run the machine in Pennsyl
vania for years and Iteloie whose sublime
genius lor Iraud their feeble imitators
in all the other .States grow green with
envy. It is the ideal which delights
the dreams of the machine ruan as he \
contemplates it by day and the fetish
before which he how* at night in adora
tion of the marvelous woik of his mas
ter hand. The Tenth district i another
interesting work of the great gerrytnan
derer'a hand. There we have two large
continguous counties with sufficient
imputation for a district with f> 000 iVtn
ocratic majority. They are not satisfied
with that, but go over into an adjoining
county and wrest therefrom eleven
townships, containing 2.000 democratic
majority, and attach these to the dia
trict, already large enough, making it
run above the ratio, and with 8.000
democratic majority. This is done so
that the remainder of the county,
which is otherwise democratic, from
which the eleven townships are taken,
may become Republican, and being at
tached to its adjoining county may se
cure a Republican Congressman from
what would otherwise have lieen a (air
l>emocratio district. How do these
things affect the representation of O.s
great Common Wealth in which they are
|>erpetrated T
"In 18X0 the democratic party polled
(07,(28 votes and elected seven mem
bers of Congress. The Republican par-
TEKMN: $1.50 JUT Annum, in Advinrp,
.
ty polled 410.704 vote. an'i elected
I wen i v m*rnberi. It took .'<o.92* vote*
to elect a Democratic Congressman and
only 2-7 l' oto elect a Republican. Thu*
a large proportion of the people sr
disfranchised and unrepresented, ari'l
a great crime i committed against the
fundamental principle, of representa
tive government, against the spirit and
purpose of the <'on.litulion and against
j llie highest right* of the people. This
amendment will provide a remedy which
the irfmiiou* politic.! burglar cannot
break through without endangering the
| representation of hi* State."
I HI: Committee of Agriculture in
the House have retried a hill favor
ably, for the creation of a Department
of Agriculture with a Secretary and
Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, ut
the same salary allowed theae officers
in other departments. They also re
port a hill recommending a bureau of
Annual Industry to prevent the t-x
--jiorlation of di-eused cattle, and the
spread ! infectious diissN*.
1 in. \\ et t bester Jeffcrtoii i<in adds
the Hon. llobert K. Monaghan to the
list of able and deserving men already
named a- Democratic candidates for
(iovcrnor. No one can question Ito
hert s ability, bis honesty or bis fideli
ty. Like the other gentlemen named,
be would make a most excellent and
faithful executive.
The Deadlock at Albany,
Aiin M , N. V., February 9. During
: 'he ineffectual >l! *rt to eject a t'lerk of
Assembly today, Mr. (ioddard, Repub
lican, ot I.iurene, tn.de speech in
* hicti he asserted that a number of lie
putdicans, including hirji*elt. ti ad deter
mined that about enough time had been
wasted in the flickering for patronage
between the Democratic factions, ar.d
indicated ttiat it the difference* were
riot soon selt'ed these liepublican.
would, settle the matter for the Demo
crats. It i* believed this warning will
be productive of an early cessation of
(he unseemly wrangle for office.
7 ll r report made to the Committee of
'•ne Hundred yesterday by ita stub-
Committee on the Prosecution of Kiec
' Own Frauds, i* an interesting document
j to all classe* of ciiin-ns, and should be
•penally instructive to the unpri-oned
bail it thieves of the oily. The subcom
mittee was appointed on the 221 of
February, IKsi. with Mr. HDnkenburg
us cb iirnian. aided by Messrs. Mcflrrsn .
Morton. Corwon, Danish and Wood, an <i
they have done a great work toward
the I roleoti n of the puritv of rheballot.
The subcommittee have considered
case* ol alleged election frauds, of
which 17 hare been convicted and sent
lo prison. 9 were acquitted. 4 lull* were
ignored, fi are fugitivea from justice 7,
indictments remain to lie tried and 12
warrants of arrest have not yet been
served tiecause the | ersons wanted ae
not to l-e found. It i* due lo the com
mittee to say that they bare success
fully inaugurated the first systematic
plan of arresting election frauds in thi*
city, and the public will be gratified to
learn that the good work will he prose
cuted with equal vigor in the future.—
I Tme*.
ADDITIONAL LOCALS.
—A correspondent at Millbetrr, to
whom we are extremely thankful, send*
lus the following "Scraj*
Our colored population is on the in
crease.
Uncle "Ben of the Jou ttnl i a candi
date for the legislature.
| The game of "One hundred embossed
| letters" is "all the go." Parties not well
versed in the construction of words ctne
out .
Mr. J. 11. Aumsn has assumed control
of the primary school, since the de|rture
of Mr. M. I. .lamison, for the West,
Prof. Auman is an efficient teacher, and
will do good work, among the young
Americans.
Hon. M . K. Alexander, late member
of the "do nothing" party Jn Millheim,
has taken charge of the Tke school, in
J I'enn township, Mr. Koiuh, their tormer
teacher, having resigned. Prof. A. w ill
no boubt cause "a rattling among the dr*
bones" there.
Mr. Chares Sturgis has removed from
this place to the genial town of Lewisburg,
where he w ill continue bis trade of watch
maker and jeweler. Mr. tslurgis is a clever
man, and a good Aechanic. We wish him
abundant success.
The protracted meeting now in progress
in the Evangelical church ia doing n good
work, Judging from the numbet of seeker*.
Mr. J. R Hartrofl bas added a largo
boll to bis already* fully equipped manu
factory. Wc presume iu primary object
is to cail bit bands together, and know its
secondary one to bo to startle all within
two squarse of It.
—lf you do not patroniae Harry Green,
commence to do so at once. His stock
commands universal praise both on accvunt
of Its admirable selection and excel lent
quality. Harry Green is the name that
charms tbe smoker's ear and bids his sor
rows cnass.
NO. 7.