aljc Centre A Democrat.
SIIUGERT & TAN ORMEK, Editors.
VOL. 4,
®Jw ffftuftt ftaflttirt.
Terms 51.50 per Annum, in Advance.
S. T. SHUGERT & J. R. VAN ORMER, Editors.
Thursday Morning, July, 27, 1882.
Democratic State Ticket.
FOR GOVERNOR,
ROBERT E. PATTISON, of Phila.
FOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR,
CHAUNCY F. BLACK, of York.
FOR JUDGE of tlio SUPREME COURT,
SILAS M. CLARK, of Indiana.
FOB SECRETARY of INTERNAL AFFAIRS. •
J. SIMPSON AFRICA, of Iluutin'g.
FOR CONORESSMAN-AT-LARGE,
MORTIMER F. ELLIOTT, of Tioga.
The Democratic Platform.
Tho Democratic party of Pennsylvania, holiliug fast
to tin* faith that ail power not delegated by the Con
stitution is reserved to the States ami the people; up
holding the sanctity of personal liberty, the security
of private property, and the right of local self-govern
ment , demanding honesty and economy in the ad
ministration of government and the enforcement of
all the provisions of the Constitution by the Legisla
ture and the Courts of the Commonwealth ; declaring
against monopolies and in sympathy with labor seek
ing its protection, and in favor of the industrial inter
ests of Penniylvania at all times, do solemnly protest
against evils which the policy of the Republican par
ty and the insolence of its long possession of otllce
have thus brought upou the country; therefore,
Fltst—We do protest against what is (filled the boss
system, aud also the plundering of officeholders by
assessments of money for political purposes. Public
offices are the property of no party, but are open to
every citizen who is honest, capable, aud faithful to
the Constitution, qualifications which Jefferson de
clared were requisites for office.
Second—We protest against the spoils system. It
is a prostitution of the offices of the people so that
they become the mere perquisites of the politicians.
Third—We denounco albrupudiution, State and Fed
eral, because it is dishonest and destructive of tin t
public morality upon which are founded theexisteucc
and perpetuity of our free institutions. It should be
made oilious, and the political party that aids it and
abets it with office deserves public condemnation.
Fourth—We denounce spoliation of the State Treas
ury and Immmnity by pardon of those convicted f
crimes, whose acts were flagrant subversions of official
trusts and wrongs done the people.
Fifth—We believe the Republican party, ns now or
ganized and controlled, is based on fraud, force and
corruption, and thefe can be no hope of true reform
except by the force of the ballot box excluding it
from place and |>ower.
Sixth—The Democratic party demands of the Leg
islature an honest just, ami true apportionment.
Seventh—Upon these declarations we Invite the co
operation of ail honest citizens who with us desire
the reestablishment of honest government.
" IN HOC BIOKO VIM 88, •
THE speech of Governor Curtin on
the subject of the reduction of taxes,
will be found on the second page of
the DEMOCRAT.
MR. BRAINARD, of Erie, the Re
publican nominee for Congress in the
Erie district, is anti-Cameron, aud was
nominated against the influence of the
boss, who favored Watson, of Warren.
THE Hon. Alexander H. Stephens
was nominated by the State conven"
tion as the Democratic candidate for
Governor of Georgia, by a vote of 825
to 8 scattering on different favorites.
JUDGE PERSUING, of Schuylkill,
announces in reply to the members of
the bar of that county, that he will be
a candidate for re-election before the
people, without regard to any political
party.
THE Republican papers outside of
Pennsylvauia, seem to be almost en
tirely against Cameron and the ring
management of the party. So they
would be in the State were it not that
Cameron controls the offices, and with
the consent of Arthur dispenses the
plunder where it will do the most
good to the Stalwarts.
SENATOR MITCHELL being inter
viewed by a correspondent of the
Albany Argus, expressed the opinion
that as the parties are at present con
stituted in Pennsylvauia, Democratic
success this fall would be preferable
to a regular Republican victory. The
Senator is sharp enough to realize the
fact that his party is corrupt and can
only be reconstructed and saved from
utter demolition by defeat.
GEN. CUITTIFL, who as a Federal
official was recently convicted in New
York for collecting money from office
holders for political purposes, filed a
motion for a new trial, alleging the
unconstitutionality of the Federal
statute under which the convictiou
was made. The court in banc, unani
mous as to the validity of the law,
have dismissed the motion in arrest of
judgment and refused a new trial.
Gen. Curtis was accordingly sentenced
to pay the penalty, 81,000, provided
by the statute, and be iu custody until
paid. "Dear HubbellV' assessments
of course will provide the dimes to
releive Curtis.
The Next Governor.
Robert E. l'attison formally ac
cepts the nomination iu the following
terse letter, addressed to the committee
appointed by the State Committee to
notify him of his nomination as the
Democratic candidate for the office of
Governor:
DEPARTMENT C'ITV CONTROLLER, PIIILA
DEI.ruIA, .July 24, 1882—GENTLEMEN : I
have just received your letter of July
21, advising me of the action of the
democratic state convention. I accept
the nomination for governor, and if
chosen for the office by the pople I will
strive to perform its duties to theirsatis
faction. Respectfully yours,
ROBERT E. PATTISON.
Mr. Pattisou's letter of acceptance
says the Times is a model of what such
a letter should be. It is in leess than a
hall'dozen lines, but it says all that he
had to say and says it well. "I accept
the nomination for Governor, and if
chosen for the office by the people I
will strive to perform its duties to their
satisfaction." That is all ; yet therein
is a whole platform—honest govern
ment in the interest of the people.
The Governor of the State has little
to do with anything else than this.
Questions of national policy are not
within the range of his official duties,
and all present questions of State poli
cy are summed up in just the two
points clearly stated in this brief let
ter —the choice of officers "by the peo
ple,'* not by the machine, aud the per
formance of official duties for their
satisfaction, not for the satisfaction of
bosses or party workers.
This is what Mr. Pattison's candi
dacy really represents. It was because
of his modest but unswerving and im
partial discharge of his public duties
as Controller that he was nominated
for the greater office, aud this simple,
business-like letter gives the most com
plete assurance that he understands
precisely what the Coiumouwealth will
expect of him and that the honors he
has won or may win cannot turn him
aside from his devotion to honest gov
ernment.
Honest government, enforced by an
honest and fearless Chief Executive,
is wliatPeunsylvamia wants. A candi
date like Mr. Pattison does not need to
make any more specific pledge than
this, because his record is known of
all men and the call that has been made
upon him really means that he shall
apply to the government of the State
the principles and methods that have
done so much for the better govern
ment of Philadelphia. A single
sentence from such a man is worth
whole columns of reform theories and
political platitudes from the average
candidate.
GEN. BEAVER said among other
things iu his speech at Bristol, that he
never sought the nomination for Gov
ernor, and that he would "rather give
810,000 iu cash now to be let alone, to
apply himself to his own private
affairs, to his little family aud to the
neighbors to whom he is attached, the
manufacturing interests in which he
is concerned and the profession which
he loves." To please "a very small
man" it is cruel that the General
should he compelled to make these
sacrifices. But the Htalwart organiza
tions now so rich l>y virtue of Coop
er's assessment, that the 810,000 can
have no charms aud he will have to
stick aud bear it, until the Democracy
can have an opportunity to relieve
him in November.
THE Republican has commenced to
show its teeth and begun its usual
growling in earnest. Because Mr.
Pattison happenod to be born in Mary
land, our esteemed contemporary calls
him "rebel " and uses other ungentle
manly language when it has occasion
to refer to the only mau whom the
red-nosed Republican blackguards of
Philadelphia ever feared. The next
Governor of Pennsylvania can staud
this sort of mudslinging if the readers
of our neighbor can. Of course, the
intrepid Democratic Controller of Re
publican Philadelphia was quite young
when he was horn and had little or
nothing to do with the choice of loca
tion.
"EQUAL AND EXACT JUHTICK TO ALL MEN, OK WHATEVER STATE OR PERSUASION, RELIGIOUS OR POLlTlCAL."—Jefferson.
EKLLEFONTE, FA., THURSDAY, JULY 27, 1882.
THE Republicans in Congress still
continue their dastardly raids upon
the legally elected Representatives
from the south. Last week they stole
the seat of Mr. Tillman of South
Carolina, who was elected by a majori
ty of 12,000, and gave it to a negro
named Smalls, who had served a term
iu the penitentiary, and was repudia
ted by a majority of his race in the
election. This was a peculiar case of
party vandalism, one at which even
the conscience of the Stalwart chair
man of the Committee on Elections
revolted in expressions of its enormity,
although he succumbed to the caucus
pressure and voted with his party to
"throw conscience to the devil." Still
this poor negro penitentiary bird is to
be com misserated when we reflect that
he is to he associated for a full session
of Congress, to which he had no show
of election, with Robeson and Keifer,
and those who follow their leadership.
This creditable representation of the
Republican in Congress, have now
probably completed their outrages for
the present session by depriving Mr.
Shelley, of Alabama, of his seat. He
was contested by a man named Smith,
who died iu Washington during the
pendency of the contest, and the most
they could do was to declare Mr.
Shelley's seat vacant. Mr. Beltz
hoover, of Pennsylvania, made the
speecli in behalf of Mr. Shelley, re
viewing the case from a legal stand
point, aud citing at length from the
evidence to show that the witnesses
who testified for Smith were not only
ignorant in the extreme, hut irrespon
sible, and had flatly contradicted each
other. These outrages upon honest
representation also brought Governor
Curtin to his feet in an impassioned
speech addressed mainly to the Repub
licans in protest of the disastrous
course they- were pursuing, and the
eminent danger of revolution if con
tinued. If it was decided to punish
the people of the south, he hoped the
Republicans had accomplished their
object and would stop right here. The
House was crowded while the Gover
nor spoke, aud he was much applauded
by the Democrats.
THE prosecution of the star route
thieves in the Washington court, drags
heavily with hut little prospect, if any,
of punishment to these public robbers.
A Mr. Walsh was placed upon the
stand a few days ago and gave very
damaging testimony iu the case, prin
cipally involving Brady, the late As
sistant Postmaster General, which if
sustained, would seem to block his
chances of escape, even with all the
power and influence surrounding him.
Great efforts, however, are being made
to discredit the witness and destroy
the force of his evidence with- the
jury. Wealth and parly influence are
powerful levers wheu used to protect
the favored political henchmen of
party frauds, and these fellows know
too much of the villanies of the Re
publican management, to doubt that
that influence will not be used to the
fullest extent. Walsh's testimony
bears evidence of being straightfor
ward and truthful, but we pity him
nevertheless. They will make him to
appear as a greater villain than the
thieves themselves, and equal in men
dacity to Robeson, of New Jersey.
THERE seems to be a glimmer of
hope that Robeson's plunder naval
bill will fail to pass before the ad
journment of Congress. This would
be hard upon the navy officers and
put them to some inconvenience, but
the country can better afford to in
demnify tbem for losses in obtaining
their pay at a discount, then to place
millions at the inercy of Robeson. His
uusavory record is sufficient to damn
any bill he engineers or any expen
diture he can control.
THE Boston Herald , thinks that if
Keifer, Robeson Hiid Hubble, are the
Republican leaders in Congress, it is
time to try another party. A large
number of honest Republican, have
come to about the same conclusion,
but do not confine their* objections to
the unsavory skunks nomed by the
Herald.
CHAIRMAN HENSEL is announced to
address the Montgomery couuty Dem
ocrats at their annual meeting on the
Ist of August. Mr. Hensel is a live
Democrat, au able speaker, and will
interest and instruct any audience he
fore whom he may appear. But, if
we may suggest, speech making is not
now the business challenging the earn
est aud early attention of Mr. Hensel.
He is chairman of the Democratic
State committee, and as such is
charged with the control and entire
management of the campaign. The
duty properly performed is herculean.
To him the party rightly look for
leadership and such management as
will bring complete victory. Means
must he secured, the party organized,
pluns laid and carried out to poll the
lull vote, with many complications
even at this early day foreshadowed
by the movements of the eaemy, which
will tax the physical endurance of the
chairman aud his highest intellectual
powers to meet aud overcome. For
this he should reserve his strength aud
leave the speaking duty of the cam
paign to well chosen and discreet men
selected to aid him in the good work.
The movements of the ring Republi
can chairman might properly now
attract the counteracting attention of
Mr. H. A systematic aud charac
teristic effort is now being made by
the Stalwart organization to capture
the laboring vote, while at the same
time they expect by the business cry
and the tariff' howl to hold the vote of
the business men. The cry of fair
wages and good times so potent in
1880, loses its effort to some extent,
hut the wily foe are not without de
vices to obtain the same results. This
was demonstrated the other day in
Clearfield, when a trusted emmissary
of the Cameron-Beaver ring appears
n3 the chrropion of strikers. Nothing
but political necessity took the Came
ron lieutenant to Clearfield. It was
from no respect entertained for labor
ers, but purely to deceive those who
are struggling for just compensation
aud induce them to vote for the men
and the party who have ever been
their oppressors.
THE Fifth Army Corps have made
a stirriug appeal to Congress that
justice he done to Ceu. Fitz John
Porter, without further delay. He
has been fully vindicated by the
searching investigation of a commis
sion of the ablest officers of the
army, and the neglect of Congress to
restore him according to the recom
mendation of that commission is un
paralleled for its cruelty and injustice.
THE committee of conference on the
river aud harbor bill, has cut out
some few of the smaller steals and re
duced the bill about three hundred
thousand dollars, hut still leaves the
appropriation over nineteen millions.
This is done in deference to the gen
eral protest of the people. But the
committee retain the wrong end of the
plunder, to be satisfactory. It is the
nineteen million they should lop off to
be entitled to a decent* degree of re
spect from the country.
THE Supreme Court of Connecti
cut lias decided that women Lave a
constitutional right to practice law in
the courts of that State. The question
was raised by Miss Mary Hall, who
for several years has been a student in
the office of a Hartford attorney, and
on examination was found duly quali
fied to practice, so far as legal acquire
ments were concerned. She applied
for admission to the bar, but the court
having no precedent for it, declined to
admit her. The Supreme Court, hav
ing decided in her favor, Miss Hall's
admission to the bar will of course be
grautcd. Another victory for wo
man's rights.
THE Attorney General is equal to
the occasiou. lie furnishes an opin
ion to justify "my dear Ilubbell" in his
raid upon the private means of the
capitol pages, the laborers, the teachers
and maids of the Indian schools, for
party funds to elect Republican Con
gressmen. Well, there is no reason
why the ornamental Brewster should
not also he useful.
CONGRESS has appropriated §15,000
to aid the President in reforming the
Civil Service. Better they had given
it to " My Dear Hubbell " under oath
to relieve the teacher aud nurse-women
of the Indian School at Carlisle, and
the poor laboring men upon whom the
party exactions lay so heavily for
campaign funds. The appropriation
sno good in Arthur's bauds.
THE eccentric George Lear, of
Bucks couuty, late Attorney-General,
after all his vagaries for and against
the boss rule of the Republican party >
now offers to stump the State in sup
port of the Cameron ticket provided
Cameron will dismiss a certain Fed*
eral official in Philadelphia who
had the temerity to write him down an
ass. Don is a " very small man," but
he is not idiotic enough to put Lear
on the stump.
GEN. BEAVER was*certaiuly indis
creet in acknowledging that the Boss
of the Republican party iu Pennsyl
vania is a " very sma/il man." Intel,
lectually it is true, bi/t Don is power
ful in methods as well as in stature and
strategy, and this may compensate his
followers for adhering [blindly to his
lash notwithstanding the Republican
candidate's disparaging remark. He
is the son ,of [his isire and was early
educated in the pse of his tricks in
about the same way that a mule is
trained for the circus.
General Items.
S
Cincinnati Consumed last year seven
million dolls/® worth of beer, or about
one hundred and forty millions of
glasses.
An lowa paper urges that the profani
ty and tobacco chewing of the boys is
not worse, than the use of slang and the
chewing gum by the girls.
The legislative, judicial and executive
appropriation bill, as agreed upon by
the conference committee, calles for
*20,000,000. k
Washington! July. 25th.—The Hous-e
to day refusJ^ to Agree to the conference
report and harbor bill, and
pend ; to reconsider the vote
adjcwrred.
The Hon. George P. Marsh, the Amer
ican Minister to Rome, died suddenly
on Monday last. Minister Marsh was
a very learned man and has been in the
dsplomatic service of the Government
for many years.
The Independent Republicans have
revolted in Maine and are discussiug the
call for a new convention. They are
holding a secret conference and the re
sult of their deliberations has not yet
transpired.
The cavalry group for the Lincoln
Monument, which will be shipped from
Springfield, Mass., to Springfield, 111.,
is ten and one-half feet high and weighs
5,500 pounds. The cost of the entire
monument will be *206,550.
The four mammoth apartment houses
to be erected on the Navarro property,
Seventh Avenue, New York, are to be
nine stories high, and will be known as
the Lisbon, the Madrid, the Cordova and
the Barcelona, yielding an annul rental
of *200,000.
The Arkansas State Gazette takes Alex'
ander 11. Stephens to be "a man who
can spread over Georgia and a large
portion 'of the United States without
getting thin in the region of the lirad."
John Arnold wrote on an order of the
Supreme Court at Indianapolis, "The
Court may go to the devil," and sent
the document back to the Judge. For
this he was sent to jail for ten days.
The Indianapolis Times is convinced
that " the time has come for the people
in their sovereign capacity to uuite for
the assertion and protection of their
rights against the steady and alarming
encroachments of corporations."
The New York Star thinks "every
right-minded preacher of the Gospel
should take plain and (tositive ground
with the workinguten in the present
struggle against the monopolies."
An Arkansas woman who was lined by
a magistrate *8 for using abusive lan
guage to a neghbor, had no money but
the obliging justice took tweut)>one
steel traps in full payment of fine aod
costs, ami the no less obliging attorney
who represented her in the trial took a
spotted dog for his fee.
TERMS: $1.50 per Annum, in Advance.
W. F. Eastman, of Butte Creek, Ore
gon, has a tooth which weighs eleven
pounds. Ife found it in the bed of a
stream. It belonged to some extinct
kind of beast.
In the First Nebraska Congressional
District, which includes the cities of
Omaha and Lincoln, there are ten can
didates for Congress already in the field.
Representative J. I'roctor Knott is
definitely announced as a candidate for
the Democratic nomination for Govern
or of Kentucky at next year's election.
Ilubbell hns called on the poor work
men at Hell Gate to contribute their
pittance to the Republican corruption
fund. No doubt the contributions would
be heavier i( he should assess those in
side the gate.
A Lancaster county farmer owns a
horse which has lived for more than a
year without a tongue. The animal
was a valuable one, and the owner did
not like to kill it, and to his surprise it
lived and thrived. It eats all kinds of
feed and keeps in good condition, but iB
not compelled to do any hard work.
Speaker Keifer recently intimated
that nothing would induce him again
to run for Congress except his duty to
his constituents. Gen. Kennedy, who
is also an Ohio politician of the Stalwart
stripe, has kindly volunteered to relieve
the Speaker of the responsibility which
weighs so heavily upon his honest con
science.
Here's a chance for Ilubbell an
Cooper. Mrs. Garfield is about to receive
the residue of a year's Presidential sala
ry. If Indian nurses and scrub-women
are to be robbed, why not fire the assess
ment circulars at Mrs. Garfield? Mrs,
Lincoln unfortunately died before the
party tithe-gatherers could strike her,
but Mrß. Polk is yet alive and the recip
ient of annuity from the government.
For the information of Field Marshal
Cooper we state that her post office ad
dress is Nashville, Tennessee.— Times.
The Tax Question.
We have the admission of the repub
licans in Congrees that there ought to
be a reduction of taxation and a revision
of the tariff. The House bill for the
abolition of certain stamps and the
taxes on banks is a recognition of the
fact that the people are now subjected
to unnecessary taxation and the senate
amendments to the bill reducing the
duties on Bessemer steel and sugar is
an acknowledgment that the tariff
needs to be reformed. The bill autho
rizing the appointmeet of a tariff com
mission is also a surrender of the re
publican position on the subject of pro
tection.
It is a little late however, for the ad
ministration party in congress to make
these admissions. The Republican con
gressmen must have known last Decern,
ber, when the reports of the heads of
departments were laid before them
that tbe revenues largely exceeded the
financial requirements of the govern,
ment and their first care should have
been to alleviate tbe unnecessary and
cruel burdens of the people. If they
had honestly intended to make a prop
er and judicious reduction of the feder
al taxes they would have begun the
work immediately upon the assembling
of congress. But they postponed the
matter from day today and from month
to month, until now at the heels of the
session they propose to rush through
congress a hastily drawn and ill digested
measure which it may be found
necessary to repeal at the next session
when the whole subject of federal taxa
tion will be considered. The revenue
question is decidedly and admittedly
the most important that could have
engaged the attention of congress and
the idea that it should be disposed of in
the midst of the rush of business at.
the close of the session is unworthy of
the merest tyro in statesmanship.
While it may seem a good thing to act
on principle of the Irishman's advice
to his son on the young man's first visit
to the fair, ''Whenever you see a head,
hit it," and to lop off such taxes as
the majority in congress are willing to
strike at, yet in vietg of the fact that our
system of taxation is greatly mixed and
complicated the better policy certainly
is to consider the entire subject and to
make the revision with the purpose of
doing justice to every interest. This
might have been done at the present
session of congress if the majority in
stead of devoting months to partisan
matters and other months to the pas
sage of bills for the depletion of the
treasury had given proper attention to
the subject ot taxation.— Harrishurn
Patrol
NO. 29.