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.