eijc (Centre A Democrat SHIftJERT ic VAN OHM Kit Editor*. VOL. 4. . *Sltt Crntrc jOfwctral. Terms 51.50 per Annum, in Advance. 8. T. SHUGERT A J. R. VAN ORMER. Editor*. Thursday Morning, June, 1, 1882. THE Independents, or half-breed# have a majority of one on the one-leg issue raised by the stalwarts. Duff ami Merrick are both onc-lcggcd veterans. State Convention has been called to re-asserublc at liar rishurg on tho 21st of June, for the purpose of nominating a candidate for Congressnian-at-large. A UEBPECTIHLE old lady of I-Ajwis towu, widow of Peter Marks, commit ted suicide on Friday last. She was in her sixtieth year, and was supposed to be iu the enjoyment of good health. No cause is assigned for the nodi act. CAMBRIA county has a new Court House. It was dedicated last week with great enthusiasm, Robert S. .John son being the orator of the occasion. It is claimed to lie the finest structure of the kind in the Commonweal ill. Good for Cambria. PROFESSOR BAIRD of the Smith sonian Institution, has asked Congress to appropriate $30,000 for the fish exposition to lie held in Loudon in 1888. llis application is favorably received by the foreign affairs commit tee, who it is said will report a hill favorably. GEN. W. S. HANCOCK and Gen. William Franklin have been ou a visit to Judge J. 8. Black, at his resi dence in It is not difficult to imagine what a royal greeting these distinguished soldiers would receive from the no less distinguished and eminent statesman. EITHER BOSS (Juay, Tom Cooper or Christ Magee would lie proper men to pupply the vacancy on the machine Republican tickek By selecting one of these representative stalwarts for Congress-at-large, Senator Cameron could measure the extent of his per sonal popularity in Pennsylvania. IT is announced that a Philadelphia business man is to succeed Marshall on the machine ticket for Congrcssman at-large. John Wanamaker is among those named and will probably lie the man. The Boss when in Philadel phia the other day, it is said, called upon him and offered the prize, and urged it# acceptance. THE HON. PEKKIFER F. SMITH, the senior member of the Chester county bar, died suddenly of heart disease in the court house in West Chester on Thursday last. Mr. Hmith was seven ty-four years of age, a man of fine at tainments and quite prominent in his profession. He represented Chester county in the I/Cgislature in 1862 and 1864. CAMKROK declares his purpose to smash all tariff bills and "kick up the devil" generally, if the business men do not rally to the support of his management and dictation of the par ty machinery. He is the Bos*, as well as a smasher, and will not tolerate inter ference in his ranch. "Shoot the de serters" is the order, and Senator Mitchell, John Stewart, and other "half-breeds" will do well to Ire warned. The lion is aroused and * thirsts for blood. THE Independent candidate* are all life-long opponents of the Dcmoc fc racy, and very earnest in deprocating ■ Democratic aseendeney in the State. K But they want a share of the offices IP now monopolized by the stalwarts, and have no objection to steal some of our cherished principles to use as bait to • catch Democratic vote*. The Demo crats may applaud all their efforts to get the offices away from the stalwarts, and if it will add to their happinewt, allow them to chain Don Cameron in the lunatic asylum and drown Bom Quay in the Delaware, but they cannot afford to desert their guns and their principles to swim in Republican pud ales this year. Tho Republican Nominations. THE Independent Republicans have certainly placed in nomination a strong and unexceptionable ticket, comparing most favorably in jKiint of übility with that of the Cameron ticket. They are for Governor, Senator John Stewart of Franklin county; Col. I-ievi Bird Duff of Allegheny, fur Lieutenant Governor ; Major George W. Merrick of Tioga, for Secretary of Internal Affairs ; Hon. George Juukin of Phila delphia, for Supreme Judge, and Col. William McMichael of Philadelphia, Congressmau-at-large. The war of factions iu the Republican party is now fully equipped nnd cannot be compromised short of the triumph or unconditional surrender of the Came ron power in Pennsylvania. The leadership of the Republican party has been slavishly accorded to the Camerons for many years, descending from father to son, is now in issue and apparently can only IK- determined by a square fight or a cowardly retreat ou one side or the other. W ill Came ron surrender? On this subject the Harrisburg Patriot remarks. "I n questionably the action of the Inde pendent Republican convention puis the ascendancy of Cameron in grent peril. If the regular Republican State ticket should be defeated the result would lie a staggering blow to the senatorial dictator. But a defeat of that ticket by the Democrats, while it would greatly weaken Cameron's power, would hardly be comparable to the fatal stroke which would lie de livered in the election of the Indepen dent ticket, if such a thing were possi ble. The withdrawal of the regular ticket on any pretext, with or without the assent of those who made it, would prove equally disastrous to the future of Cameron. That would simply mean abdication by the latter of bis present position a the leader of the party in the State. It would mean the surrender of the Kepuhliran or ganization into the hands of his ene mies who would then lie enabled to prevent his re-election to the United States .Senate. What then will the threatened Republican dictator do to be saved ? Will he fight or fly? Will he defend bis position or surrender without a battle? He must take one or the other horn of the dilemma. There is no middle course by which he can escape. He may perhaps content himself by looking after the legisla tive tickets and let the candidates for State offices take care of themselves. He understands to perfection the Nopoleonic method of beating his enemy in detail and has practiced that peculiar kind of strategy more than once to the sorrow of his Democratic opponents. Kven with the Republican party divided he may believe himself equal to the task of clectiug a legislature friendly to his interests. With that accomplished he could laugh his enemies to scorn, lie would then he able to dictate {he legislative and congressional apportionments and thus entreneh himself so strongly that no future independent movement would give him serious trouble. It would therefore seem a safe prediction to say that Cameron will fight; not on the line of the State ticket, not in any open attack on the independent move ment, but in nmhuscade for the cap ture of members of the Legislature. If the Independents would drive him out of his stronghold they roust attack him in the legislative districts." MARSHALL TALK* 1 He was inter viewed the other day in Philadelphia, and expressed entire sympathy with the Independents hut feels bound in honor to vote for Beaver, having been present in the convention and consen ted to his nomination. With this ex ception, he will not raise his band in favor of the Republican ticket, and does not feel under obligation to vote for any man upon it. He does not believe that any compro mise between the opposing factions of the Republican party is posrible. "KqUAL AND KXACT JVHTICK TO ALL MKN, Or WHATEVKK MTATK OK I'KKXf ANION, KKLIUIOI'H OK POLITICAL. "—J<-II public officials, ha.* been convicted by a New York .Jury. This illegal plunder baa l>een a general practice of the Republican bosses, and formed no inconsiderable part of their meaus of raising the immense sums by which to purchase party success at elections. The verdict of the New York jury is a timely one and may serve as a warning to partisan bosses and others that the independent sen timent of the country arc beginning to look with disfavor upon these viola lions of the statutes —these demands upon the fears of person* who happen to lie in public a* well as private em ployment, subject to proscription and dismissal if they fail to acceed to the oppressive requirements of assessment committees. It also furnished one feint glemmer of hope at least, that the "stand and deliver" principle of Republican politics is beginning to as sume a somewhat dangerous aspect, and may inspire their victims with sufficient independence to judge for themselves the amount, if any, tbey can or ought to abstract from their private resources for political purposes. They have not bad this privilege, and the Republican Congressional committee have just issued their circular demand ing 2 per cent, on salaries for the fail campaign. Oumoron Aginst Camoron, The Cameron ratification meeting I that met under the name of a conven tion 011 the 10th of May declared a* I the sense of the Republican party, " that we condemn the use of patron ; age to promote personal ends, and re quire that all office* bestowed within the party shall be upon the sole basis of fitness." This declaration in itself ! would seem to be fair enough. It par takes strongly of the flavor of civil ser , vice reform, so ardently taught, but so shamefully neglected by the unexam pled fraud known as 11. 11. Hayes. If the principle contained in the declara tion were to be carried out, Cameron would at once lose hi- hold upon power and instead of being regarded a pow erful and unscrupulous leader of the Kepuhliean party lie would bo a pigmy among small men. That there is a de mand in the Republican party for re form, and that in relation to the very question contained in the first rexolu- i tion of the platform adopted at liar risurg no sane man doubts. The de mand for reform was so strong that even Came ron, used as he is, to defy public opinion, was willing and anx ious to cater to, and did in every line, and in each revolution of the platform that day adopted. Hut the delegate of the convention have scarcely reach ed their homes until Cameron Ix-gir* to practice directly the reverse of the principle declared in the platform and upon the good faith of which he ak for hi* party a new lease of power. Wiley, the revenue collector of l>an caster, a faithful officer is turned out ami Knuffman. a machine man, tak< - his place. Rutan, one of Cameron's lieutenants, gets his marshal-hip, and the civil service promised is again set at naught: Jackson is nominated to the place so long, faithfully and hon estly filled by Sullivan, and the decla ration "that confident and faithful officers should not lx> removed except for cause," stand* only to show the hypocricy the Harrisburg convention is willing and ready to practice upon the people of the commonwealth. If there had not been, and was not now a strong demand for reform in the Republican party, these declara tion* would never hare been adopted. It is presumes! by the chief boas and his lieutenants that by holding out these pledges to the people they will, at least once more, ratify at the polls the work of their convention. The practices of Cameron a* against his theory to-day, are a* cruel and cautious hut a* determined and devil ish as they were at Chicago ; the same bitterness, selfishness and intolerance that led to aassination, because it paved the way to murder is shown now in the management of the party- A man belonging to the Pennsylvania ' delegation at Chicago who does not wear one of the bronze badges made for the .106 need not apply. For exer cising their manhood they are pro scribed, or to use the language of the vulgar, "spotted," and Cameron in his late interview in Philadelphia declared "that these damned independents must IK? crushed." In view of this we would like to know what the decent Republicans arc going t do ? There are men in the Republican party that we know despise hypocricy. They hate being controlled by a boss, and yet they have never once protested. They have al ways alleged that it was belter to bear all this hypocricy, to endure all the power of the I>OM and its system than to have the Democratic party in power, or even vote the Democratic ticket, hut now these men have a ticket made up of men who have been more faithful to the Republican party than any of the bosses, or any man on the boss ticket, a ticket made up of men just as loyal to the'country as any man on the boss ticket, a ticket with men on it whose honesty, ability and integrity is superior to the men on the bom ticket, and what is more, men who dare to assert their manhood and ■how they are meu. THE DEAD-LOCK is virtually ended, and of course Mackey, smirched with the most disreputable forgery and fraud of the record upon which he claims a scat, will be admitted by the majority. This was accomplished by an arbitrary ruling of the speaker, which allowed the rules of the House to lie changed by a majority vote to suit the case. The rule ujiou which the Democrats acted WILS one drawn up by ( Jencral Garfield, and served the purposes of the Republicans dur ing the time they were in the minority as protection against any oppressive acts of the majority made in the heat of contending interests, and so re spected by tho Democrats. In this manner tho Republicans triumph now, hut their triumph may ho counted for grief hereafter. Precedents made to tie-dilute the accomplishment of wrong tul acts, may be troublesoui# and annoying under a change of circiiia. stances. I lie-.; violent proceedings on the part of the Republicans is not in spired only fur the purpose of seating men in < iingress who were not elected by the people, but is to open the door fur a swarm of lobby jobs, now ma tured and maturing, which they could not venture uj>on without bridling the minority. Amongst these outrages ujstii the rights of States and public propriety is the admission of Dakota a* a State. The following protest to the proceedings of the majority, signed by one hundred members was presented bv the minority : W !*:%, The minority of the House hsv<- heretofore, under the rules of the House, successfully n-isted the efforts of the majority to consider the esse Mackey *. 'I t ' nnor, tecue s proper hearing h* not granted to the contevee hy the <' iinnuttee on Elec tion*. as to the allegations of forgery and fraud in the evidence submitted by the contestant ; and Whereas. The majority, in order to prevent and avoid such investigation, have prooeeded to change the rules in a manner not provided for in the rule* which alone they can or ought to he changed : and Whereas, The Speaker has made a ruling which Justine* a proceeding un known to the principles of constitu tional and parliamentary law and sub verire of the rights of the minority. Therefore, The undersigned represen tatives of the people hereby protest against the proceedings of the majority and the rulings of the Speaker as un justifiable, arbitrary and revolutionary, and expressly designed to deprive the minority of that protection which has been established as one of the great movements of the representative system by the patriotic labors of the advocates of parliamentary privileges and civil liberty. THE President has been in New York some days fixing up political complications, which appear to lie about as badly mixed there between the stalwarts and half-breeds, as in Pennsylvania. The personal super vision of the Presidential Boss was no doubt much needed to prevent bolts against stalwart boss supremacy. THE exigencies of the war brought •bout the freedom of the slaves. Abo lition was not th" voluntary and con scientious art of the Republican party. The necessity, after the war, created by the majority of the whole vote being againtt the Republicans, gave the freed men the ballot. It wan not a concession of justice to him for juatice'a sake. With the 5,000,000 additional votes thus secured they hare managed to re tain control of the Kxecutive depart ment, and, with the exoeption of three sessions, of the legislative department of the government. The judiciary, Grant and Hayes made sure of by pack ing the supreme bench with the un worthiest men who ever in the history of the government occupied seats upon it. The three seasions of Congress, above refetred to, promised a purer govern ment, lower taxes and happier people. Charles NordhofT, an intelligent Repub lican. and lor years Washington cor res pondent of the Kew York 7/eraU, said of these sessions i "The Democrat* have starved out the lobby, and Washington Is as dull as peace and prosperity can make it. Whereat the starved out lobby la great ly disgusted and longs for the return of Grant and a Republican Congreaa." The Republican Congress baa been secured, the lobby is back, and Arthur's notions of government are but a second edition of drant's. I his la briefly the history of the two parties. We commend It to the serious consideration of our young men, eon vineed that an honeet comparison of their records cannot result unfavorably to Democratic hope*.— WUktdmrt Ijt*d r. TKHMS: $1.50 per Annum, in Athum-c. GENERAL NEWS. The Ca*ey farm at Deer Park, I*ong Island, haw just been purchased by Ulynse* S. Grant. Mr*. Mary A. I,e Bau Berger will contest the will of her brother, the late Cornelius J. Vanderbllt. There * a young lady who follow* the fashion ao closely that she will not eat oyster* unless they are scalloped. The Massachusetts legislature after failing to prut* a salary grab bill, owing to the stuborne** of the senate, closed their lata session by a grand drunk ! 11 is reported at Newport that Con • gressmen Mchane, of Maryland, and Hewitt of New York, will occupy cot tiges there during the Summer. What Summer? An ex|>o*ition of "funeral imple ments," such a* hearses, coffins and grave clothe* i* called to amuse the good people of Rochester during the latter part of June. A decree ha* been entered in the court of Washington county,lt. l.,divo! ing Mr*. Kate Chase Sprague from Wil liam Sprague, giving Mrs. Sprague the custody of her three daughter, and per mitting her to resume her maiden name. Ssys the Denver TrJune "Ex-Cover* nor Routt, of this State, is mentioned very strongly a* the next minister to Mexico. The idea i* an excellent one. Routt deserve* something of this Ad ministration if no one ebe doe*. He was a Stalwart before Ouiteau made Slalwartium popular," The jury at Wilmington, Del., in the case of .Tames Redden, colored, charged with criminally a*aulting a young whito girl, after being out twenty-four hours, yesterday returned a verdict of guilty. He was sentenced to be hanged on Fri day. August 25. After the verdict wax rendered he confessed hut guilt. The National Committee of the Gree nback La tor party, in it* address to the American j-eople, adopted at St. I-ouin, requests Mr. Arthur to veto the bill re chartering the national bank*, should it pass the Senate. The President would about as soon pardon Guiteau as to do this, and it would be quite as fatal to his administration. An infernal machine, containing pow der and a fuse, was found on the porch of the office of the Wttk-ly Noct, at War rensburg. Warren county, New York. An attempt had been made to fire the fuse. An inscription on the machine warned the editor to leare the town. He bad offended some by the utterance of temperance principles. A published opinion of Attorney Gen eral P-rewster as to the ineligibility of ex Secretary Kirkwood to appointment on the Tariff Commission abowa that the President at first deaired to appoint him. but the question of ineligibility having been suggested the matter was referred to Mr. Brewster, who examined the point, and decided that the objec lion waa well founded. The doorkeepers, page boya and oth er Government employes of the Capitol have received circulars from the head qusrtera of the Republican Congression al Committee soliciting contributions of about 2 per cent, on their salaries for use in the fall campaign. The rate at which the contribution* are suggested will take about 124 out of the annua! salary of doorkeepers, and about |lO out of the pay for the aeasion of the page boys. The jury in the case of Franklin llor. ton against Algernon 8. Sullivan, Pub lic Administrator of New York county, which was tried in the Kings county Court returned a verdict in favor of the plaintiff for #21,000. The suit was for the reoovery of the value of dimonds tolen froni the plaiotifTa store and traced to the possession of John IX Grady, who died inteetate, his property passing into the hands of Mr. HuUivan at Public Administrator. Henry Johnson, who kept General Andrew Jackson supplied with water during the battle of New Orleans and who cleaned the warrior's sword the next day, is living in Oberlin, Ohio, at the age of 100 years. Johnson was sold on the auction block in King and Queen county, Virginia when eighteen and served Colonel I>ick Taylor until transferred to General Jackson'* house hold, lie did not have the honor of acting M 'tenets! Washington's body* servant. NO. 22.