Sfljje Centre 4£h Semorrat. SHUGERT & YAN OHM Kit, Editors. VOL. L He Centre jpmwat. 'forms 51.50 por Annum, in Advance. S. T. SHUGERT & J. R. VAN ORMER, Editor*. Thursday Morning, August, 17, 1882. Democratic State Ticket. FOR GOVERNOR, KOBERT E. PATTISON, of Phila. FOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, CHAUNCY F. BLACK, of York. FOR JUDGE of tho SUPRKME COURT, SILAS M. CLARK, of Indiana. FOR SECRETARY of INTERNAL AFFAIRS. J. SIMPSON AFRICA, of Huntiu'g. FOR CONGRESSMAN AT-LAUGE, MORTIMER F. ELLIOTT, of Tioga. Democratic County Ticket. FOR CONGRESS. Hon. A. G. CURTIN. of Centre. [Subject to the decision of the District Conference.] FOR STATE SENATE. Hon. C.T.ALEXANDER, ofCentre. [Subject to the decision of tlie District Conference ] FOR ASSEMBLY. lIENRY MEYER, of Miles, ■ ' B. F. HUNTER, of Benner. FOR JURY COMMISSIONER. J. H. TOLBEItT, of Walker. FOR CORONER. H. K. HOY, M. D., of Bellefontc. The Democratic Platform. The Democratic party of Pennsylvania, holding fast to the faltlt thatail power not delegated by tho Con stitution is reserved to the States and the people; up holding the sanctity of personal liberty, tho security of private property, and the right of local self-govern tneut, demanding honesty and economy in the ad ministration of government and the enforcement of nil the provisions of the Constitution by the Legisla ture and the Courts of the Commonwealth ; declaring ■■gainst monopolies and in sympathy with labor seek ing iu protection, and in favor of the Industrial inter ests of Penuiylvania at all times, do solemnly protest ngainst evils which the policy of the Republican par ty ami the insolence of its long possession of office have tlius brought upon the country ; therefore, First—We do protest against what is called the boss t-ystem, and also the plundering of officeholders by tissessments of money for political purposes. Public t.llices are the property of no iwrty, but are open to • very citizen who is honest, capable, and faithful to lite Constitution, qualification* which Jefleraou do < lured were requisites for office. Second—We protest against the spoils system. It Is a prostitution of lite office* of the people so that they become the mere perquisites of the politicians. Third—We denounce all-repudiation. State and Fed eral, because it is dishonest and destructive of that public morality upon which are founded the existence tmd perpetuity of our free institutions. It should lie made odious, and Hie political party that aids it and tiia l Is it with office deserves public condemnation. Fourth—We denounce spoliation of the State Treas ury and immninily by pardon of those convicted of crimes, whose acts were flagrant subversions of official trusts and wrongs done the people. Fifth—We believe the Republican party, as now or ganized and controlled, is based on fraud, force and corruption, and there can he no hope of true reform except hy the force of ttie ballot box excluding it I rum place and power. Sixth—Tho Democratic party demands of the Leg lalature an honest just, and true apportionment. Seventh—Upon these declarations we invite tha co operation of all honest citizens who with us desire tlie reestablisbnient of honest government. •' IN HOC RHINO VIN'CES. " THE husbAnd of Agues Jenks, the famous Louisiana witness, has obtained ttn appointment in the Interior Depart ment, through the influence of Senator Kellogg. SNOW IN AUGUST!—A vessel in Lake Erie on Friday morning last, encoun tered a snow B'orm which covered it's decks to the depth of six inches. The steamer was moving at a rapid rate and in a few minutes escaped from the cold wave to a warmer teuiperature. HUBBLE has Bent $lO 000 of the money he has wrung by assessments from the government employes, to Mississippi to carry the election for Chalmers, the man the Republicans discarded for cheating the negroes. The contributors are not pleased with the disposition of the funds. • . THE situation in Egypt is summed up in few words. England has required the Sultan to declare Arabia rebel. Arabi accepts the situation and con tinues his preparations to give respecta,. bility to the title. Just as like as not He will assimilate the forces sent by the Sultan to confront him. IN a recent speech Mr. Conkling de clared that"the tendency in govern ment is too profuse, perhaps lavish ap propriations of the public money. In the affairs of government and in the affairs of business, unless I greatly mis take the lesson, the need and the ad monition of the hour jp frugality, fore sight and care. We have more need of the break than of steam in a good many ways just now." The late Congress furnished astartling illustration of the truth of Mr. Conk ling's declaration. The Stalwart bosses who controlled that body, knew noth ing of the use of the "break" and plied the "steam" with the utmost abandon ment of consequences. To tax and rob the people seems to be the highest am bition of our Stalwart statesmen. What Pattison Would Do. At a recent meeting in Philadelphia, S. Davis Page, esq., one of the most eloquent leaders in the Reform move ment in that city, made a speech in which he presented the case most forci bly. After speaking briefly of the cir cumstances of Mr. Pattison's nomina tion, the condition of the two parties at present, and the many misdoings of the Harrisburg administrations, Mr. Page continued: "If men like Pattison were sent there, there would be no such repetition of crime. The Uovernor of Pennsylvania is a very important factor in making the laws. Through his veto he can con trol nearly all legislation. If the Gov ernor feels that hi 3 responsibility is to the bosses and not to the people, he will sign bills to please corporations and others than the people. But if Robert E. Pattison, or somebody as big as he, were at Harrisburg, do you think there would be Euch legislation ? Take the recorder's bill, which I consider one of the most iniquitous measures ever in flicted upon the people of Pennsylvania. There was no necessity for it. It was created for the party that wa3 benefitted by it, and could never have become a law if Pattison had been Governor. About the same time another bill was passed, ostensibly for Philadelphia—the delinquent tax bill. Its only object was to draw money into the hands of those who held the office. Do you sup pose that Pattison would ever have signed such a bill—a bill that has been so hard upon the poor, hard-working people?" Cries of "No!" arose from the enthusiastic Thirtieth Warders. "It is for such reform that you are bound to support this man Pattison. He is the embodiment of reform." Mr. Page also exhorted his hearers to give the rest of the ticket an equally generous support. They Don't Like It. The stalwart journals, remarks the Harrisburg Patriot, are not at all pleased with the official record of Controller Pattison. The fact that under his up right and vigilant administration of the important municipal office which he has filled for nearly five years the debt of Philadelphia has been greutly re duced, the expenditures of the city government largely lessened and the tax rate materially lowered, gives them no pleasure whatever. "He is an hon est man," they admit, "but what of that ?" they ask. "There are plenty of honest men who cannot be elected Gov ernor,". they reply. But it often hap pens that men of sterling integrity in private life are debauched when they become officeholders. They do not hold the public interest as of the same sanctity as private right ; or in an evil hour they succumb to the arts and im portunities of personal and political friends. Robert K. Pattison's public career, however, proves him to be not only an honest man but one who can not be swerved from his integrity by any influences however powerful. On this very account he is the man whom the people prefer for the highest office in their gift; and most likely for the same reason he does not suit the tastes of the stalwart editors. The latter would have been suited better by a Democratic candidate whose public acts did not proye him a man of high moral courage. They don't like Pattison's record, hut just what to do about it is their difficulty. It is ns unassailable as the character of the man is unimpeach able. TL - women who failed to obtain ap pointing- thunder the recent act allow- I ing clerks to the Pension office,"Lave held an indignation meeting in Washington, and resolved themselves into a "Woman's National Labor Organ ization." They denounce Secretaries Teller and Lincoln, who are not favora ble to the employment of women in the Departments, in measured terms, and promise an aggressive warfare until they have placed upon the gates of the capitol and upon the doors of the De partments the startling words, "No one man power rules here; and equal rights under the American flag to the women of this nation." Poor Teller and Lin coln ! The Amazons, with blood in their eyes, are after their scalps. THE State of Alabama does not ap pear to be very badly Mahonized yet. The Democrats have elected all the State officers by majorities almost be yond computation, and all the mem bers of the Senate and House, except about twenty. "EQUAL AND EXACT JUSTICE TO ALL MKN, OF WHATEVER STATE OR PERSUASION, RELIGIOUS OR POLITICAL."—JeffoMoii BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 1882. Figures that Speak. Tho annual appropriations for ten fis cal years, as officially reported by the treasury department : 1873 Republican 5154,210,751 I*74—KepubllcMi CoiiKreM* 172 290,790 187r —ltejiulilicHii 1fi.'i.017,75* I*7o—Htj|itililicHU Congress 147.714.1Mh I*77—Democratic Hotine 124,122,010 I*7* House 114.009,4*3 1879—Democratic House 172,010,819 1880—Democratic House 102,404.047 I*Bl—Democratic ConjcreHw 1'M,UN,212 1882— Democratic Congress 177,889,214 Average for ten years $153,380,053 This year' 6 appropriations, as stated 'by the chairman t>( the Senate commit tee: 1883—Robvsoniaii Coiigrr** $204,21X1,097 Well, what are you going to do about it? When Secretary Chandler goes aboard the Tallapoosa to start on his arduous journey of exploration among the navy yards, he will put his feet upon the deck of a Itobesnuian vessel of 050 tons that has cost tlie people EIGHT HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS. Here are the amounts that have been expended in the construction of an excursion boiU for government officials : Construction and repair 53G3.K34 Equipment 200,515 Original machiner/ *3.939 Kt pairs, uew boilers, Ac 209,801 Total COtt of tlie Tallapoosa 4798,149 Maine builders take contracts for wooden ships at about $5O a ton, and earn fair profits at that rate. The Talla poosa has cost the people under the Rohesonian system something like $l,. 200 a ton. Some of the greatest men known in our | üblic history were entrusted with the duties of office at an early age. William Henry Seward was nominated for governor of New York in 1834, when lie was hut 33. DeWitt Clinton was of tlie same age when his brilliant career in the Senate of that State was crowned by his election to the Senate of the United Slates. Jefferson was but 33 when he wrote the Declaration of Inde pendence and 36 when be was elected Governor of Virginia. Webster, Clay, Calhoun and Hamilton were men of mark at 32. Pattison and Reform against Beaver and lfossism. These are the command ers. THE CHALLENGE. John Stewart, the Independent Republican candidate for Governor, lihh challenged Gen. Beaver, the Stalwart ring candidate for the same office to a discussion of the issues involved in the canvass which both wings of the harmonious Republican party are now making in Pennsylvania. Chairman Cooper announces that Gen. Beaver will treat the challenge with silent contempt, and that there will be no joint discussion. Discretion in the case is perhaps the "better part of valor." But still John Stewart is not the man to be treated with contempt. He is capable of heavy blows and will give them with a will under such cir cumstances. lie knows all about the villainous corruption of the Republican management in Pennsylvania, and bar ing set out as a Republican to correct and reform them, he is not likely to be silenced by contempt or discourtesy. It is true, Mr. Stewart's condition is some what difficult of acceptance, when he requires that their appeals must be made "to the enlightened judgment of the people"—an idea long since obsolete in Republican politics, and not one the boss management are ambitious of re viving. PHELPS, a Democratic Congressman from Connecticut, has already been driven to a defence of his vote for the River and Harbor Bill. If the Demo crats of Connecticut are as honest as they ought to he to entitle themselves to be called Democrats, they will drive him into private life. The mere fact that his State got a small moiety of the great steal is no excuse for hii participa tion in the larceny and the perjury of the act. The plea of bribery as an ex ruse for felony should not be received by Democrats, at least as a sound de fence. EX-SENATOR DOHSIV of star-route fame, is the Secretary of the Republican Na tional committee. It is rumored that he has been invited by the committee to resign, which he has declined to do on the grouud, doubtless, that he is just about as honest aa the leaders of the party generally. If be stole from the government, he spent the money freely to elect the Republican Presi dent. Voluntary Contributions. Besides the logic of facts, the very letter of the assessment circulars con victs the Republican campaign commit tees of falsehood when they pretend that contributions from office-holders are voluntary, or are intended by them to be so understood by government em ployes. The Philadelphia Times makes this reference to the subject, and intro duces the following testimony as to the practices in Pennsylvania : "The first general order from Hub bell and Cooper for the office-holders tide-waiters, nurses and scrub-women to hand in their party assessments, asks (or voluntary contributions, but it is careful to say that the robbery is ap proved by ail high officials from Presi dent down. Those who fail respond will be jogged later on in tlie campaign, and the last call, before decapitation of the non-payers, will be a copy of Chair man Cessna's last order in 1880, as fol lows : PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 25, 18S0. "DEAR SIR —Our books show thai you have paid no heed to either of there quests of the committee for funds. The lime for action is short. 1 need not say to you that an important canvass like the oue now being made in a State like Pennsylvania requires a great outlay of money, and we look to you as one of the federal beneficiaries to help bear the burden. Two per cent, of your salary is Please remit promptly. "At the close of the campaign we shall place a list of those who have not paid in the hands of the department yon are in. "Truly yours, "JOHN CESSNA, Chairman." DON CAMERON'S organ at Harrisburg propounds very easy questions, when it asks "What has the Democratic party ever done for labor?" "Was the Demo cratic party benefitting labor when it was running the slave pens and putting labor up at auction for the benefit of the idle, haughty, aristocratic southern mas ter?" "When the Democratic parly at its last national convention resolved in favor of a tariff for revenue only, was it in favor of American or British labor?" To which the Patriot, the able organ of the Democrats at the Slate capitol, answers very fully and very justly as follows: "The Democratic party passed the first Homestead bill; the Democra tic party added to the national domain all the magnificient territory acquired in the Louisiana purchase, the great empire of Texas and the golden hills of California. The Democratic party of Pennsylvania originated the common school system, abolished imprisonment for debt, passed the first exemption laws and as the records of the Republi can legislatures will show, supported labor in every legitimate and reasonable way. 2. The Democratic party was not a pro slavery party any more than the Whig party of which the Telegraph was formerly the state orgun. The slave holding "aristocrats" of the south were Whigs. The Fugitive Slave Law was the work of Henry Clay, the leader of the Whig parly and wus passed when the Whig party was in power. The Democrats were simply in favor of up holding the "compromises of the con stitution" which even Thaddeus Ste vens said he respected. 3. The Demo cratic party once enacted a tariff for revenue which stood the test of a fifteen years' trial, from 1846 to 1861. Under that tariff the country prospered, labor was content, no strikes disturbed the prosperity of industrial establishments and no labor unions were found to be necessary. And now, pray, what has the Republican party "ever done for labor?" Why it voted away to gigantic railroad corporations the greater por tion of the imperial domain added to the national territory by the Democra tic party. It taxed the workingman's clothing, food and drink in order that the treasury might overflow for spolia tion by its favorites. It made revenue laws which it is pretended "protect" labor hut which result in making the "rich richer and the poor poorer" and under the ojwration of which a hun dred thousand workingmeo are to day out of employment. It has increased the cost of government in every depart ment and thus burden labor with op preesive taxation. Although in unin terrupted power for twenty-one years in the state and federal governments it has refused to respect the demands of the working class for legislation looking to the betterment of their condition. It doea not lie in the mouth of any Federal Republican aristocratic syco phant of the money power to ask what the Democratic party has done for labor." Stalwart Machine Fusions. The Stalwart fusions this year exhibit some strange companionship. Keptidia tor Mahone, who was the champion of the oppressive laws against the colored citizens in Virginia, is now the Stalwart champion and dispenses Arthur's pa tronage for that State. Fx Congressman Chalmers, the Con federate Brigadier who has been the target of every Stalwart orator and or gan as the Fort Pillow butcher, and who was lately kicked out of Congress for defrauding the colored voters, is to be the Stalwart leader in Mississippi, and supported as an Independent adminis tration candidate for Congress. The Hubbell assessment robbery is to divide liberally with Chalmers, to bring him back to Congress for welcome from the party that kicked him out. In South Carolina Ex-Judge Mackey, who followed the fortunes of tho thiev ing carpet-baggers as long as they could do any stealing outside of prison, and who flopped over to the Democrats when the carpet bag brigade was routed, is to Ire one of the Stalwart revolution ists. He is to be supported for Congress by Hubbell's assessments and Arthur's offices in the Fifth district, and Colonel Cash, the murderer of Colonel Shannon, is also helping the Stalwart revolution in the same State. Ex Governor Moses can't be utilized for this campaign, as he is still in jail in New York for theft. In New York, the Stalwart-Tammany fusion is complete, and Arthur, Conk ling and Cornell have made common cause with John Kelly to save the sink ing fortunes of the machine. The plunder of New York city is bartered to Kelly by the Stalwart leaders, and Kelly barters to them the Irish -Demo cratic vote. In Pennsylvania the Stalwart con tracts are not yet perfected, but they boast that thirty thousand Democratic Labor votes are to be delivered to the Cameron State ticket, or more than that number neutralized by throwing them away on a Labor candidate dictated by the Bosses. After the assessment rob bery shall have been exhausted, to raise money for debauching the election, the business men will be appealed to for money to be expended on a few corrupt Labor demagogues, who will be hired to disturb industry, estrange employers and employed, and demoralize laborers by idleness to make them ea-y victims of political speculators. Business men are expected to pay for disrupting the legitimate business of the State, inciting disorder and polluting the ballot. The picture is not one on which hon est citizens will look with pride, but it has the one vital merit of truth.— Phila. Times. THE Clinton Democrat, the organ of the Democracy of Clinton county, pays the following compliment to our representative iu Congress: Democracy of Clinton county pr.m a graceful and deserved compli ment to .an able ami distinguished leader by its unanimous vote to return Ex Governor Cut tin to Congress from this district. The man who must lead us to victory in this Congressional district at tlie coming election must have a clear re cord as a man and be a statesman of superior qualifications. He must be in full sympathy with the reform platform of the party. He must command the confidence of the workingmen, pro ducers and capitalists. He must have breadth of views, clearness of percep tion, decision of character and the cour age to act as emergencies demand. Such a man is our present represen tative, the Hon. Andrew G. Curtin, whose brilliant record nnd able services reflect not only credit upon the twen tieth district but the State at large. There are few men to be found in Con gress who are as well informed as he on all great national questions of the past aa well as the present and it is with no small degree of satisfaction that we see the field entirely clear for his return. He will receive the m6st hearty support of Clinton county. Centre county in convention Tuesday unanimously de clared him to be its choice and other counties of the district will doubtless heartily supplement this action at their primaries and in convention. From present indications we feel sure that this district will again send Mr. Curtin to Washington by an increased majority to serve, we hope and believe, in a House in which the Democrats will have a good working majority. WE don't believe any one in this dis trict doubts the propriety and the ne cessity of sending ex-Governor Curtin back to Congress, hence let the Demo cracy of Mifflin couxty also declare for him, and make his nomination as nearly unanimous as it is possible to make it. A better or more talented representa tion we cannot get.— Lewistown Press. PROFESSOR KSMARCU, an eminent Ger man surgeon, has published a lectine delivered by him before the Physiologi cal Society at Kiel, in which he takes the position that President Garfield might be alive only for the treatment he received hy the attending surgeons. If the Professor is correct, then Qui teau's claim that the doctors and not the bullet was the immediate oause of desth, had more method than madness in it. OUT of forty-five of the new appoint ed Pension olerka, assigned to Per nay I vania members, Cameron scored four teen—Mitchell, 00. TERMS: $1.50 per Annum, in Advance. ITEMS. A Massachusetts paper calls Governor Long, ''the present encumbrance." A Pittsburg firm is turning out glass slabs for use on furniture in lieu of marble. In Illinois potafoes are offered for twenty-five cents per bushel for fall de livery, with no takers. Lx Secretary Bluine is announced to makespeeches in every county in Maine before the election in September. A Liberal League has been organized in Milwaukee to take part in the cam paign on the anti-prohibitionist side. bast year Texas was obliged to buy com. This year it is estimated she will have an excess of fifty million of bush els. Bishop Lopechi, of Three Rivers, Canada has forbidden the ladies of his congregation to wear curls under a pen alty of committing sin. A woman in Rome, Georgia, ha made from the juice of one watermelon, a pint of thick, golden syrup. It is be lieved that sugar can be made from the melon. Charlie Haines and A. C. Cander, two boys of Houston county, Ga., fought a duel with pistols the other day on ac count of a girl. Haines, the challenger, was killed, and Cander fled. In the Twelfth Illinois district, the Democrats nominated Mr. I. M. Riggs, for Congress, on the fifteen hundredth and twenty-first ballot. It took a week to make the count and declare the re sult. •Sept. 21st is the date fixed by the Democracy of New York, to form .a ticket. They invite the participation of all who seek a return to sound Dem ocratic principles, to be represented by delegates. A memorandum of agreement be tween the United States and Mexico providing for the reciprocal crossings of the international line of troops in pur suit of hostile Indians was promulgated on Thursday. Mr. Win. Veal, a citizen of Twiggs county, Ga., lost his wife last week, making the third wife in less than four teen months. The first died May 11, 1881 ; the second July 28, 1881 ; the third July 29, 1882. A successor to the oyster, the extinct ion of which is from time to time pre dieted, has been found in Washington Territory, and is a huge soft-shell clam. The now aspirant to gastronomic favor when dug out of its home is said to re semble a plump duck. The edges of the shell are separated by a breast of flesh, which is cut into slices, relied in meal and fried, the flavor being equal to the beet oyster, while it is very ten der, juicy and sweet. THE Philadelphia Times says : ''Patti son is an awfully provoking candidate for Governor for the Bosses. He doesn't whirl himself around as the fragment of a circus; he doesn't babble like Beaver ; he won't talk to interviewers ; he simply attends to his business and expects the people to attend to theirs. If the people elect him Governor, as they are more than likely to do, he will lay down his pen in the Controller's office, shut up his books, take a run up to Ilarrisburg and begin there just as lie began in Philadelphia five years ago, and thenceforth the atmosphere about the Capitol will be very cold for legisla tive jobbers, Treasury plunderers, par don advocates for ballot-thieves and Bosses generally. It is trying on the machine leaders to find a candidate for Governor who at tends to his own business and says nothing to nobody ; but they will have to stand the grief until their greater grief shall be very clearly foreshowed in the inaugural address of the young est Governor the State has ever bad." SII.AS M.CI.ARKK, the Democratic can didate for Supreme Judge, besides be ing one of the soundest lawyers in the State, is also one of the best and most practical agriculturalists. Ho will raise one thousand bushels of wheat and rye on his form in Indiana county this year, lie is just the article our people need a good termer-lawyer on the Supreme Bench. SOME of our Republican friends affect to be at a loss to know whero Senator \\ allace is in the present campaign. They may "possese their souls in peace" on that subject. The honored Penn sylvania Statesman will be where he has ever been—in the front rank of Democracy, and when the proper time come his voice will be heard in no doubtful notes—be assured of that, NO. 32.
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