SHUGKRT \ VAN OHM Kit, Editors. VOL. 4. ilk Crntrt Terms t1.50 per Aunum.in Advance. S. T. SHUOERT & J. R. VAN ORMER. Editor*. Thursday Morning, June, 22, 1882. RECENTLY the army worm took possession of a Kentucky railroad in such numbers that it was necessary to stop the train to remove them, before it could safely proceed. HON. CIIARI.EB K. BOYI.E, of Fay ette county, has received the unani mous nomination as the Democratic candidate for Congress in the twenty first district. This is the district which has been discreditably repre sented by Morgan S. Wire. PRESIDENT ARTIU K, who could not appoint a "half-breed" or Independent Republican, and did not care to be guilty of so marked a discourtesy as the appointment of a stalwart post master in Senator Mitchell s town of Wellsboro, got over the difficulty by appointing a woman. THE 150 th anniversary of the or ganization of the Grand Lodge ot Masons of Pennsylvania, is to be cele brated in Philadelphia, on Saturday next. The procession under command of Gen. Hartranft, will be on llroad street, and the addresses and cere monies at the Academy of Music. THE: Democracy of Adams County present the name of the Hon. William McClean, of Gettysburg, as a candi date for supreme dudgeon the Dem ocratic ticket. Judge McClain has a distinguished reputation as a Common Pleaa Judge, for legal ability ar.d in tegrity of character. He will not dis credit the choice of the Convention if it should fall upon him. THE: President has approved the sentence passed by the Court Marshal, dismissing Flipper, the negro lieuten ant from the army. He was treated with great leniency in the trial and every means used to save him, but without effect. The proof against him of stealing and lying was too plain. If he had been a white man he would have been dismissed a year ago. THE raid made by the Republican Congressional campaign assessment committee upon the page boys and other employes of the capital for two per cent, of their wages, has been sup plimented by a similar raid upon the printers employed in the Government printing office at Washington. They must all "stand and deliver." Gui teau's President authorizes the robbery. SECRETARY FOLOER is having a general overhauling of the Treasury Department, with a view to ascertain the efficiency and capacity of the force employed in the various bureaus and divisions. It is supposed a large num ber of changes will be the result of his investigations about the Ist of July. There are, no doubt, a number of "half breeds" who will have to surrender to the stalwart column. "UNCLE JAKE: ZEKH.ER" to the front! The Democracy of Butler county, have nominated the Hon. Jacob Zeigler, of the Butler Democrat, for the legislature, and they did well. He is not only the best parliamentarian in the Htate, but has the ability, the vim and experience to take a high rank as a member of the next House of Representatives. His election is a foregone conclusion. *YHB President has appointed the Utah commission. He has probably improved some on his tariff commis sion. He names Alexander Ramsey, of Minnesota ; Algernon 8. Paddock, of Nebraska: G. F. Godfrey, of Iowa; Ambrose B. Carleton, of Indiana, and James R. Pittigren of Arkansas, as the party to reconstruct the polyga mous government of Mormondom and prepare the way to introduce it as a Republican State of the Union. The commission is com|>osed of three Re publicans and two Democrats. Salary $5,000, the job to last until Utah is admitted. The Campaign of Morality ami Purity. In his speech at Harrisburg, General Heaver, the Cameron Republican can didate for Governor of this great Com monwealth, said, "There is to he 110 de fense in this campaign, if you please. It means morality, purity. It means victory." .lust what the Geuerul meant by this campaign meaning "mo rality, purity," is not by any means clear. If he means "because I, Gen eral Heaver, am the candidate, and that in the campaign I represent no thing hut myself," the declaration, while it runs high with egotism, is with in ordinary bounds. Hut the Geuerul is the standard hearer of the Cameron wing of the Republican party, what ever it is he represents. If this party means morality and purity, then the General represents these commendable traits of political, as well as private character. If, on the other bund, it means corruption of the public service as well as of the people ; if it means the prostitution of public office to base personal ends ; if it means the subju gation of a great political party to the will and control of one man, and he the great arch-corruptiouist of the age; if it means the establishment and per petuation of the boss system and its rule, with all the evil consequences that must sooner or later follow, then the General is their representative, and whatever assaults they bring he must bear. To try to esca[e thy consequences of their evils as he did in his speech at Towanda on Thursday of la-t week by declaring " that in this eaiupaigu no roan shall question tuy mauhood," is worse than nonsense. The General having thus put himself on the record, we may properly enquire what C'ame runism is iu this Stale. For full half a century it has been a stench in one form or another in the nostrils of the people of the Commonwealth. When tfc< elder Cameron was entrusted with n commission to the Winnebago Indi ans, his transactions were so covered over with fraud ami corruption that the department of war would in no wise recognise what lie did. Every time he ha* been a Senator in Congress, his way to the Senate KU the result of the purchase of some members of the leg islature. Daniel Dougherty in his Lancaster speech in 1878, details how ; in 1845, by securing a combination of ! Whigs, native Americans, ami the pur-1 chase of a few others, he succeeded in defeating George W. Woodward, the i Democratic candidate for the U. S. Senate ; how in 1864, after Bigler's de feat, he became a Know Nothing, and as such, tried to obtain the nomination of that party asacamlidateforthe U.S. Senate; how twenty-eight members of that party refused to *up|>ort him, and in giving to the public their reasons for refusing to do so, declared that Im was a man whose whole history was but the history of intrigue ; a man who has defied all party obligations; a man in whom there is not character enough to impose on credulity itself; n fit representative of nothiug good, and as n fit representative of no honor able principle." How in 1857, by the purchase of Lebn, Wagonseller and Mnneer, he again became a Senator ; how as Secretary of War, he was dis missed by President Lincoln and cen sured by a Republican House of Re presentatives, for his corruption in of fice in the dread hour of our country's history, and how again in 1863, he had, after much negotiation, arranged for the purchase of the vote of T. J. Boyer for the purpose of again secu ring his election to the United States Senate. This is only an outline of the beginning of the Cameron Republican party in this State. When the younger Cameron came on the stage, as Secre tary of War, under Orant, in 1876, this power and policy and party was greatly increased in strength. The news Secretary of War was a delegate to the Cincinnati convention; he there sought to enforce the unit rule and by its means and the arbitrary use of new er, the Plumed Knight of Republican "XUItAL ANl> XXACT JVBTICX TO ALL MKN, OS WIIATKVKII KTATK OR I'KBSI'ASION, HKLIUtOI'S <K I OI.ITK AL.*'— BELLEFONTK, PA., THURSDAY, *1 I NK 22, 1882. ism, Janies G. Blaine, was slaughter ed ntid Haves, afterwards known as the unparalleled fraud, was given to tho country a- the Republican candid ate for Pri -idtnt. Afterward", for the purpose of overawing the people at the polls, ho quartered the army in the South, ami was chief among the con spirators who defrauded the people out of their regularly and lawfully elected President. At Chicago in 188 ft, the Cincinnati performance was repeated) but, if possible, it was made more ob noxious to the j.'-ople, by the efforts of Cameron and others to violate the unwritten law of tl> land, urn! make Grant President f"r a third term. And now in order that he may he strengthened in his hold u[>on the jaro ple, daily, almost hourly, we hear of faithful public officers, at his instance, being removed, and his henchmen put in their place". Does any one stand in the way of his supreme party con trol? He goes to the President, and the obstacle is removed. Is a legisla ture to he intluenced, hi- agents are ready —his inducements are overwhel ming. A judge is in the way, the par don board must release his friends— no one needs to know the transaction which a moment will fini.-h. This is substantially what General Beaver represents as the Cameron Re publican candidate ldr Governor Cameron's example moulds directly ami indirect]v thousands of depen dents, it he robs, they will pilfer ami steal. If the monarch lie a plunderer the subjects will follow the ways of the court an 1 the example of the crown. Beaver denies that he i- a subject of Cameron. The evidence against him is very strong, and if la-longing to Caiueron were a crime cognizable iu our courts, Beaver would surrlv be convicted. The manner in which he became a candidate for the United I State* Senate i* yet fresh in the minds of the people. The manner in which he was made the machine candidate for Governor i equally familiar to all- From Washington he wa announces a- < '.micron's choice. lie never denied it, hut t > an interviewer just a week | before th* Harrishtirg ratification ] meeting, the General said"lx fore I de* j terininod to lv< a candidate I went to j Cameron, and -aid to him that if lie ; would not oppose me I would le a i candidate that i* to say "by your grace, Donald, not otherwise." ♦ How t'NKiNb! The Philadelphia Time* la>t week revived the terrible ! arraignment of the "Cameron dynasty' * by Daniel Dougherty. This week the Time* brings out a speech made by the distihguished Attorney General of i the United States, Mr. Ilenj. F. Ilrewt i ter, which is far from being compli | mentary to Senator Don Cameron and I his method* ami claim* to bossship of the Repuhlican*of Pennsylvania. This is the "uiikimlest cut of all." Brews ter is now a high official in the stal wart administration, in condition to j be in high favor with the bom who is ; a first lieutenant of the Presidential boss, ami it is not pleasant to have j these forgotten memories revived. The j honest utterances of an indignant law yer are not the literature to suit the wiley counselor of a stalwart Presi- J dent. Tut: rumor cornea front Washing ton that the Pennsylvania boss is be ginning to weaken, and has promised the stalwart President to make an efTort to compromise with the Inde pendents. This he can doubtless do by "stepping down snd out," acknowl edge the infamy of the lioss rule, pledge present reform and withdraw his ticket. Any other course seems to be hedged by difficulties. To save hiipaelf and his ticket, be will have to induoe the Independents to eat "crow diet" the balance of the year, to ac knowledge that they are not Indepen dents after all; that they did not mean what thoy said in their late convention; that the whole was a mere piece of innocent strategy to compel tbe borne* 1 in: \\ u.-hington /W, speaking of the recent ass -smeuts of the Congres sional eoinpaign committee, ami the partisan arguments used to justify this I system of raising campaign funds, I says very truthfully: "In nil hut this uurrow parti-an sense, however, the system is dangerous ami depraved. It robs the government employe of that perfect sense of independence j which every American citizcu ought to have. It reduces him to a condi tion bordering upon serfdom. It is demoralizing to all his instinct* of manhood ami self-assertion. It is a -pet-it - of intimidation and terrorism —ot the very e--ence of despotism— I ami all the power which the Republi can party has gathered from this source during the long period of it* supremacy, has been won at some <-x --pense to the honor and dignity of the government, and to the deterioration of the wholesome public sentiment of the country. Mr. Huhbell may tell us that these iiAscs-ments are not in the nature of ; forced contributions, hut he knows i (letter. The employe who declines to | respond becomes a marked man at once. I here are a hundred hungry men in the corridor waiting for his place, only too ready to discount their -alaries at whatever rate Mr. Hubbcll may dictate ; and the hesitating clerk or messenger, or laborer, or floor sweeper, or water-boy within, whose bread ami butter depends upon his stipend, has but one alternative. There is no use in attempting to deny or dis guise these facts. Theyexi-t in Wa-h- I ington ami their ramifications extend all over the country, leading to one common sewer of corruption. For this system the Republican ' party, which a* a partisan organiza tion, approaches m-arcr perfection than any the world has ever seen, is origi nally responsible. It has grown with the growth of the Republican party; it has become part and parrel of it ; | it will continue as long a* the Repub lican party exists and will only cease with that process of reform which in the wisdom of Divine Providence must sooner or later decree tin Repub lican party's dissolution. THE: President has filled up the tariff commission by the substitution of Mr. Boteler, of Virginia, for Gov. Phllpa, of Missouri, who declined, ami Mr. McMnhnn, of New York, for Mr. Wheeler who also declined to servt- It makes little difference who are members of this commission, or how incapable of performing the work they are sup(>oscd to be charged. The whole thing i* a fraud—a mere subterfuge on the part of Congress to evade n pressing ami important duty in the considerate n of a vexed question that ought to have received their prompt ami candid attention. If the tariff laws need revision to correct errors ami avoid unjust discrimination, rendered necessary by the mutation* of time ami circumstances, the need wa* immediate, ami Congress the pro per tribunal to perform that duty— not to be committed to a roving, in capable committee, such H* has been designated, for the pur|Hc of indefi mite delay. It is an arrant humbug, ami shames the intelligence and ffi ciencv of tho American Congress. THK Philadelphia Record ha* IHCII removed and i* now issued from the magnificent building, !!> Chestnut street, just erected by the enterprise of Mr. Singcrly, it* proprietor and pub lisher. To keep up with the elegance of its surrounding*, this excellent journal ia dressed in a new suit of type which makea it presentable in the beat circle* of journalistic beauty. It need ed no adornment, however, to com mend it to the public aa ranking with the beat, a* it ia the cheapest reliable journal published. The wonderful success of the Record illustrate* what well directed enterprise can do to place in poet* a ion of every one, front the banker to the beggar, the news and literature of the times on equal terms. to divide with them the spoils of office heretofore held by ('am< roil and his pals to their exclusion. These ad missions, we fancy, Don and Arthur will have difficulty in drawing from Mitchell, Stewart and other leaders iu the Independent rank". If their de liverances in the platform given to the public were honest touching civil ser vice reform, ami w<- believe they were, they would compare badly with some of the appointments made by Arthur and Cameron IK-fore and since the con vention, a to || as the a-M -sment (ir culars sent out under the endorsement of Arthur ami the stalwarts to Federal offices, demanding corruption money. 1 liese would not be at least encourag ing elements of compromise of views -o widely at variance. Opposition to a—essments ami the u-e of patronage to control party nominations and elec tions were emphasized in as much force as op|Ms*itioD to bos- control, ami it would seem that they place the ('resident and the Ixws iu the same boat, and entitle the d<-irc ot each to about the same consideration from the Independent Republicans. < h it old friend, Brother Stahley, of the Gettysburg Compiler, has a habit of uttering the right words at the right lime, and i* now sound a" ever when he says, "Democrats of Penn sylvania should Is-ar in mind that they have nothing whatever to do with the controversies now going on in the rank- of the Republicans. Both their tickets are compost d of men who have no sympathy at all with Democratic principles or measures, therefore no honest Democrat can for one instant regard the outbreak in any other light ' than a fight between factions, both of which agree on general principles. ! The Democracy have been hilling their time, fully convinced that the day would come when the people them sclve-, disgusted with the tyranny of IM-- rule ami the pmtligai >• of the sjKiii- H-!tin which have become a par>arcel of the Republican ad ministrations everywhere, would ari-< in their majestic wrath and overturn the cormorants who have so long fat tened at the public crib to the great detriment of the people's interests ami to the absolute danger of liberty itself. The time long anticipated by Demo crats has arrived." THE postmaster at Springer Riticbc Texas, acknowledged the receipt of the 1 assessment circular of the (ongre*- -ional campaign committee making ibe 2 |MT cent, demand on hi- -alary. Instrad of making a remittance of the amount demanded, he informs the • arnpaign robbers by letter, they are welcome to his office, hut he will not ! contribute a dime to the corruption fund. These demands lieing made with the endorsement and under the ■auction of the assassination President, and the funds much needed iu Penn sylvania and other States, few officials will have tho independence of the Texas postmaster. A CORKEAPONDKNT in the Harris burg Patriot, makes a strong appeal in favor of the nomination of Col. A. K. McClure as a candidate for Congrewsman-at-largc on the Ih-mo eratic ticket. Alec Would make a stirring Congressman. capable of great achievement* a* A Statesman. But would not contact with the "hourbou Democrats" worry the life out of him, and thus deprive the couutry of the most useful and valuable independent journalist of the age. Barring this danger, we know of no one whose election to Congress would be more creditable and desirable as a public benefit. WK see it stated in some papers that a caucus of Pennsylvania politi cians was held in New York, to for mulate and set up a Democratic ticket. We doubt the accuracy of these state ments, else the names of the parties would be given. But whether true or not, let the warning be emphasised that tbe Democracy of Pennsylvania are not in temper to look kindly upon "set-ups," or anything that bears tbe 'I KIDIS: £L."<) JUT Annum, in Admnce. ap|>ea ranee of hotting. They expect to have entire confidence in the intel : ligence sent direct from the people to the State convention to formulate and present for tiieir suffrage, candidates who are not only distinguished for their capabilities, but whose honesty and devotion to the great principle* of the Democratic party, and whose record will he a guarantee of economy and reform in every department of the government. We have enough of boss government. Let u* trva little jdain, honc-t administration for the sake of the novelty of the thing. MA HONK, who the Federal admin istration choae to boss the Kepublican* of \ irginiu, like the Pennsylvania bo--, is realizing that the boating busi- I ncss ip somewhat heavy and uneertain .this year. The straigbtout or inde jiendent Itepuhlieans of that State, j reinforced, have determined to run straigbtout Itejmblican candidates for Congress in every district, without re gard to any little arrangements of the administration bos-. THE laborers in motion. The dem onstration of organized labor in Pitts burgh on Saturday last, was undoubt ; edly the largest assemblage of the kind ever held in Pennsylvania. Ninety-six assemblies of the Knights of Labor were in line, and the whole procession were supposed to number between thirty and forty thousand— all demanding fair compensation for ; their toil. Good order prevailed throughout. A QCESTIOJ* of veracity is pending between Senator Don Cameron, the boss, and John Stewart, the Indcjien dent candidate for Governor. Came ron, through his henchman, Congress man llarr, charges that Stewart solicit ed Cameron's interference and aid in obtaining for him the Mexican mission or some other public position. To this claim Mr. Stewart makes the follow ing reply in his Pittsburgh speech : "Never by myself or any other, by uttered speech or written word, have I asked from < the (ameront)either father or son any favor or service, political or otherwise, and I challenge them and the,r henchmen, adherents and depen i denU to prove to the contrary, I there may be no doubt about this mat ter, I remove every restriction from private if there be any, every restriction from private con versa j tion, if there t.e anv. and ask onlv that witnesses shall speak the truth. Before that Baal I have never bowed and never ] will." The boa h* lh? floor! Tearher'* Awulin. The Pennsylvania Stale Teacher*' A ••octal ion will hold iu next Annual Meeting at Pottville, on Wtdoridir, ; Thursday, and Friday, duly 5, ft, and ?! ' next. The exerctae* will l-e both inter | eating and inatnictire, and may beura | rned up under the following heading* 1. I'amaar Woaa, conaiating of paper and diacuaaion on ' M inner* for little ! folk*," "Organnation of Primary | Soool*," "Primary Teaching," "The S i ( ence in KSetueutary School*," and ex- I emplification* of work in language ant] Arithmetic by a cla* of |>upil*. Noa*at. Sc nooa Wnxa. consisting of 1 paper* and di*ou**ion on "The Province of our Model School*." "The Ideal Nor | tnal .School Cour*c," and "Teacher*' In j alitute*," 3. Ilicnta Eotcariox, conaiating of ' paper and di*cu*i.>na on "Education and I'ultuie.' "Organnation of '<*). lege*," and other euhjecU. One of the main teaiurn* of the *e •ion wjil Ire on the evening of the aixth, j the "Exnmrinx no Oi *.* Knt*<i-" t>v a cia* of ltuia>n y >*/*/ from the Training ,VrW/| at (itrkti . These exi r n*ee have fa-en arranged in *ueh a man ner a* to illustrate the peculiar charact er Of the pupil*, aa well aa the method* of teaching employed in the Training School. Two pleasant and cheap excursion* have been arranged —one to the efce hore, the other to afford thoee who are not familiar with the *uhject an o| por tunity to aee how anthracite coal i* min ed and prepared for market. Kxouraion ticket* will he no Id for all the leading railroad* in the State. For "order*" and particular* on thiaeuhject apply to J. F. Sickel, (ieraantown, Pa. You are cordially invited to atund. feme, and bring your friend* with you. The prospect are for a large attendance. For further particular*, ad drew San't A. Rata, (7,airman if Rx. ibmmu >t+ The Temperance Amendment Con vention. which H to have been held in Norri*town on Wednesday, ha* boon postponed until Jnly 6. The midaummer ataaion* of tho Uni ted State* Circuit and Dittrict Goorti began at Williamport yootorday. NO. 25.
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