ifcntrt A Democrat.
SHUGERT & VAN ORMER, Editors.
VOL. 4.
Site fjkwamt
Terms 51.50 per Annum, in Advance.
8. T. SHUGERT & J. R. VAN ORMER, Edilort.
Thursday Morning, August, 24, 1882.
Democratic State Ticket.
FOR GOVERNOR,
ROBERT E. PATTISON, of Phila.
FOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR,
CIIAUNCY F. BLACK, of York.
FOR JUDGE of tlio SUPREME COURT,
SILAS M. CLARK, of Indiana.
FOR SECRETARY of INTERNAL AFFAIRS..
J. SIMPSON AFRICA, of Hunting.
FOR CONOUESSMAN-AT-LARGE,
MORTIMER F. ELLIOTT, of Tioga.
Democratic County Ticket.
FOR CONGRESS.
Hon. A. O. CURTIN. of Centre.
{Subject to the decision of tlio District Conference.]
FOR STATE SENATE.
Hon. C.T.ALEXANDER, of Centre.
(Subject to the decision of tlio District Conference.]
FOR ASSEMBLY.
HENRY MEYER, of Miles,
B. F. HUNTER, of Beuuer.
FOR JURY COMMISSIONER.
J. 11. TOLBERT, of Walker.
FOR CORONER.
H. K. HOY, M. D., of Bellefonte.
The Democratic Platform.
Tho Democratic party of Pennsylvania, holding fast
to the faith that ail power not delegated by the Con
stitution i reserved to the StuteH and the people; up
holding the sanctity of personal liberty, the security
of private property, and the right of local self-govern
ment , demanding honesty ami economy in tho 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
against monopolies and in sympathy with labor seek
ing its protection, and in favor of the industrial inter
ests of Penuiylvania at all times, do solemnly protest
against evils winch the policy of the Republican par
ty and the insolence of its long possession of otlice
have thus brought upon the country ; therefore,
First—We do protest against what is called the Isms
system, and also the plundering of officeholders by
assessments of money for political purposes. Public
offices are the property id no party, but are open to
every citizen who is honest, capable, and faithful to
the Constitution, qualifications which Jefferson de
clared were requisites for office.
Second—W'e 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 denounce ulbrrpudiatioii, State and Fed
eral, because It is dishonest and destructive of that
public morality upon which are founded the existence
and perpetuity of our free institutions. It should be
made odious, 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 of
crimes, whose acts were flagrant subversions of official
trusts and wrongs done the people,
w Fifth—We believe the Republican party, as now or
ganized and controlled, is based on fraud, force and
corruption, and there can be no hope of true reform
except by tho force of the ballot box excluding it
from place and power.
Sixth—The Democratic party demands of the Leg
islature an honest just, and true apportionment.
Seventh—Upon these declarations we invite the co
. - wpi*nUiou of all honest citizens who with us desire
the rccHtablishment of honest government.
•• IN HOC 810 NO YTNCKS. •
m m -
THE Charabersburg Public Spirit
an influential Republican newspaper'
has taken down the stalwart ticket,
and now floats the Independent banner-
GEN. BEN. BUTLER is the Green
back candidate for Governor of Mass
, ackußetts this year. What party he
will serve next year is yet past finding
out.
THE Pittsburg Post, noting the pre.
seuce of Hon. Silas M. Clarke in that
city, says : "Three mouths hence we
hope to write him Judge Clarke, and
no Pennsvlvauian will have cause to
regret his elevation to the Supreme
bench. He is the mould of man that
great judges are made out of."
FOR once, says the Springfield (Ind.)
Republican, Don Cameron has met a
man who can out-hog him in the spoils
work. His name is John D. White, o*
Kentucky, and he got 21 of the 24
pension clerks appointed from his state
the other day, against 15 to Cameron.
Mr. White is endowed with a "30(J
medal."
THE Committee of One Hundred
in Philadelphia have renewed their
reward of last year for the detection
and conviction of election frauds.
Those offered at this early date are
particularly directed as a caution to
dishonest assessors. The Committee
k show that there is to be no let up in
B their determination to have honest
t elections in Philadelphia. A short
experience has encouraged a hope that
the people of that great city are learn
ing to govern themselves, and that in
due time they will be able to get along
comfortably without the intervention
of ring bosses, rounders or repeaters or
any other agencies of the great Cam
eron dynasty in control of the city or
the commonwealth.
The Sato Ticket.
The Democratic Slate ticket has
now been before the people about six
weeks. It has been hailed by the un
qualified approbation of the entire
Democracy of the State, and no one in
the opposition has ventured an opiu*
ion that the gentlemen composing it
lack qualification for an intelligent
performance of the duties assigned to
the position for which each has beer,
selected, nor impugned the excellence
of character we claim for them in the
communities where they are best
known to the people. They are all
men of mark with political and busi
ness records positively unchallenged
and unassailable without falsehood.
To have such a ticket upon whom to
confer our suffrage, composed of men
of unexceptionable merit and fairly
selected by the people themselves
where the election of each is a positive
guarantee of reform and economic ad
ministration, may well excite honest
pride and gratulation to every honest
Democrat in Pennsylvania. The mag*
nificeut management of Mr. Pattison
our candidate for Governor of the
financial affairs of Philadelphia, by
which he saved millions to the tax
payers of the city and leleascd them
from the power of the ring thieves,
a (fords reasonable assurance of what
he can aud will do, if elected, Gov. for
t ie Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in
reforming the extravagance of its ad
ministration, and the shameless pecula
tions upon the public treasury, which,
even when detected, are allowed to go
unpunished. Strict accountability will
be required of all, persons upon the
pay rolls, will be compelled to perform
the duty for which their pay is draw iq
and their names not merely placed upon
them and fraudulently vouched to
swell the pay of cei tain favored m"in*
bers of the Senate and House, as has
been publicly charged. The Pardon
Board will not then be a mere court to
discharge criminals or protect bribe
takers or lobbyists who corrupt legisla
tors, nor will it turn convicted scoun.
drels in the street at the door of the
Penitentiary merely because they hap
pen to be useful politicians and control
wards in the interest of party. As a
tribunal of mercy to correct error and
right wrong when made apparent, the
Pardon Board is all right, and it needs
just such a man as Mr. Pattison and
those with whom he will officially
associate to establish and confine it to
the appropriate sphere.
terms of the
Senators, expire this fii'l: U1 district,
Joseph B. Kcnuedy, D.; 4th district
Horatio O. Jones, It.; fith district, A
Wilson IN orris, It.; Bth district, Wra i
J. Newell, It. ; 10th district, Joseph
Thomas, II.; 12th district, Lewis lioy
er, It.; 14th district, C. S. Kauli'man
It.; 10th district, Kvan Holber, I).; 18
district, William Beidlcman, I).; 20th
district, George B. Senmuus, It.; 22d
district, Allen Craig, D.; 24th district,
E. J. Henry, I).; 20th district, Wil
liam N. Nelson, I).; 28tU district
James 11. Ross, I).; 80th district, John
Parker, G. It.; 32d district vacant
D.; 34th district, C. T. Alexander, D.;
36th district, Frederick Grof, I).; 38th
district, John G. Hall, D.; 40th dis.
trict, T. B. Schatterly,; 42d district,
Hugh McNeill, II.; 44th district, J. C.
Newmyer, It.; 40th district, G. V.
Lawrence, It.; 40th district, J. W*
Lee, It.; 00thdistrict, Rob
erts, It.
The successors to these Senators will
have a vote in choosing a successor to
Senator Cameron, the stalwart boss of
the Republicans. He will of course
make a vigorous effort to re-capture
all the Republican districts ntid hold
their allegiance to the Cameron dy
nasty, hut he has gravedifficulties con
fronting him, and will be more likely
to loose than win in the race. All the
Democratic districts are considered
safe, with fair and judicious nomina
tions.
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at once.
"EQUAL AND EXACT JUSTICE TO ALL MKN, OK WHATEVER STATE OR I'KRSUASION, RELIGIOUS OR POLITICAL.Jcfforson
BELLEFONTE, I'A., THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 1882.
ROBERT E. PATTISON.*
TUo man who possesses the courage of his convictions, and
to whom reform is not an nn meaning, an idle platitude.
THE tendency tow ards extravagance
in public affairs is the great evil, ifnot
the great danger of the times, it is
not confined to the National Gove ir
rucnt from which we have just bad
such evidences of reckless waste, but
it is the great evil in the State Govern"
incuts, and needs the reforming bauds
of the people in the states as the start"
jug point of general correction. Ec
forra in the state government will force
reform in the general government.
In no state perhaps is it more needed
than in Pennsylvania where the cor.
ruptions of the Iling rule, bossed and
manipulated by Cameron, have made
us a by-word and reproach to common
honesty every where. Here then it is
proper to begin, and with this great
"object in view, the Democracy of the
state have planted themselves upon a
reform platform, and called to the
front the magnificent reformer, who by
honest adherence to duty ami law, has
already saved millions to the people of
Phihuleiph a, and re-established hou"
est government where fraud and mis
management and peculation was the
rule for many years. Let the people
rem.tuber ut the November election
that Robert E. Pattison is the man
p! Jged by word and deed to restore
ourstate affairs to honest methods and
economic administration, and then vote
accordingly.
WOOD-PULP ML KLKit's letter SAYS
the N. Y. World, to a Postmaster in
Montgomery county in deienso of the
River and Harbor sieal demonstiates
that he entertains very singular ideas
of the duties of the Government. The
theory advanced by him is that tbe
United States Government is a busi
ness concern and that its principal duly
is to get as much money as possible out
of the people and into the Treasury
and then devise means to spend it on
creeks, streams and ponds. Huch a
thing as relieving the people of taxa
tion does not enter into his theory or
practice. The people should be taxed
to iucrease commerce, and because the
enormous revenues derived from a war
tariff and a war system of internal rev
enue are now excessive, those taxes
should be expended on all maimer of
wild projects, so tnat taxation may be
kept up.
It is also the theory of the Republi
can majority in Congress, ami most
iaithfully did they work up to it in the
last Congress under the lead of Robe
son and Keifer.
SENATOR HOAR of Massachusetts
occupies several columns of small type
in a newspaper, to explain why he
voted for the River and Harbor steal-
It amounts to this, that he obtained
some of the plunder to open and slock
a mud-turtle pond or some other equal'
ly meritorious enterprise in his state.
ONE of the extravagant follies in.
augurated a few years ago, was to au
thorize the erection of monuments to
the Governors of the Commonwealth.
The immediate object was to secure a
monument to Gov. Geary, and could
not lie decently done at the expense of
the Commonwealth, without including
all who had served in the Executive
office. It was wrong then, without
merit or the shadow of excuse. It is
wrong yet and should end just where
it began. It is now announced, that
the Governor, Secretary of State and
Secretary o! Internal affairs have just
approved a design for a monument to
Gov. Simon Snyder. This of course is
to he followed by others to enable some
euterpiising speculator or political
hummer of the Republican persuasion
to turn nn honest penny over the
graves of those who have long since
gone to rest, and whose places of in
terment are already marked in such
manner as their friends deemed ap
propriate and proper.
1 HI-: Republicans of the Springfield*
Ohio, district have nominated Keifcr
for re-election to Congress. After de
grading tbe office of speaker, and or"
ganizing the committees in theinterest
of jobs and fraud, even Republicans of
Ohio, might shame of returning such
a fellow to Congress. The fact that
the House of Representatives for the
first time since the foundation of the
Government, adjourned without adopt
big the usual complimentary resolu
tion for honorable and faithful perfor
mance of duty of the spreaker's great
office, is a low record to carry before
tbe people.
GEN. RKAVER'H acceptance of J no.
Stewart's challenge to discuss the
principles of the Republican party to
which they are both so ardently at
tached, is not yet ready. The Gener
al will be on band, however, as soon
as he can discover that the party has
any principles fit for discussion. At
present the article is exceedingly
scarce and badly mixed. This is
about the only apology we can frame
for the failure of our distinguished
friend to promptly meet and squelch
the Independent champion on 1 the
forum.
"WANT to buy a mule?" queried a
farmer of a country editor. "No;
what the deuce do I want of a mule ?"
asked the astonished paste mnuipulator.
"Wall," replied the granger, "I seed
an item in your paper last week which
said that you wished folks wouldn't
talk so much through your tellyfome>
as you had only one pair of ears; so I
thought I'd fetch down another pair
and then you'd have a team." When
the farmer got outside and dug the
paste out of his left ear he felt thank*
ful that he wasn't a mule.
I'attisou oil the Stump.
Inquiry Ims been made as to whether
Mr. Pattison will "take the stump."
Chairman flensed, in List interview with
a New York Herald man the other day,
said :
Since his nomination Controller Patti
son h',s remained steadfast at his desk,
attending regularly to the important
daily duties of the office. He will, no
doubt, be seen and heard during the
campaign at some points, hut not to the
neglect of the duties to which he was
elected and is paid to perform for the
city of Philadelphia. The uprightness
and consistency with which fie. lias dis
charged them will not he interfered
with by any claims upon his time or at
tendon by the .State Committee, nor
will he forget them in his campaign.
He did not attend the convention which
nominated him, lie has not been swerved
from his straightforward official course
by any considerations of his candidacy,
and he will do nothing in the campaign
to forfeit the respect which the dignity
an<l honesty of his public career have
gained for him from peopleof all kinds."
Mr. Pattison will "take the stump."
Probably not before the loth of Sep
tember, or thereabouts, but that will be
time enough to show the people that
his sticking so closely to bis desk is in
spired by conscientious convictions of
duty, and not by incapacity to talk well,
or fear to be seen or heard. Kobert
hmory Pattison is at least the peer in
intellect of either of bis competitors.
He has a thorough comprehension of
the issues of the hour and a power to
discuss them intelligently, which, when
he undertakes it, will confuse and con
found those who have pronounced him
too young a man for the position to
which he has been nominated. We do
not promise you an orator like Clay or
Webster; but you shall hear, when Mr.
Pattison "takes the stump," one whose
understanding of the history and needs
of his state and country is a complete
understanding, and whose conception
of and ability to fully explain the man
ner in which those needs can best be
met, will win ununimous applause from
Democrats and fair and reasonable men
generally, while it provokes consterna
tion in the ranks of the Boss Cameron-
Jay llubbell 300 cohorts. — Union Leader,
Apprehended Indian Troubles.
WASHINGTON, August 20.—There is no
disguising the (act that considerable
uneasiness exists in army circles over
the recant Indian demonstration in the
west. General Terry, who is in com
mand of the division of Itakota, is
scarcely so successful in Indian fights as
General Crook, who commands the divi
sion of Arizona, and beside that an
estimate of the strength of the com
plaining Indians shows that they num
ber pretty well toward 5,000 fighting
men. Their warriors are said to be well
equipped and it will take a very con
siderable body of troops to successfully
cope with them. The experience of the
army has been that in Indian fighting,
where the Indian has all the advantage
of position in his own territory, it takes
two soldiers to every Indian. To get
together 8,000 troops at one point in
the west is a feat which has not been
accomplished for many years, for to be
entirely (rank, as all good newspaper
correspondents should be, that is pretty
nearly half ol our array. The leaders
of these hostiles are said to be very
shrewd and able warriors, and unless a
compromise can be effected the result
may lie quite serious.
Tin: Independent Republican can
didates will this week open an aetiv"
speaking campaign in different parts
of the State, and will no doubt afford
the Stalwarts food for reflection on the
inconsistency of their platform of
principles and the assessment circulars
of Chairman Cooper now flying about
wherever there is a Government em
ploye demanding 2 per cent, of his
pay for campaign purposes.
Tills is a good year for Democrats
to vote straight, and avoid hickiug and
rivalry. A reasonable degree of pat
riotic forbearance and intelligent labor
will pay a large dividend to the pub*
He morals of the country, as well as to
its prosperity in driving out the horde
of plunderers whe have invaded every
avenue of the Government.
Cou BAYNK, of Pittsburg, is mak
ing iiis canvass for re-nomination to
Congress iu defiance of Cameron and
his boss ring of Stalwarts, and seems
to bi quite confident of success.
TERMS: $1.50 per Annum, in Advance.
A DEMOCRATIC Ma.-s Meeting will
lie held at the Court House on Tue.--
day evening next. It will he addressed
by Chauncy F. Flack the Democratic
candidate tor Lieut. Governor, ami \V.
I . Hensel the Chairman of the State
Central Committee and others.
IT is believed that Arthur will util
ize all that is in the civil service to
capture the nomination for Governor of
New York, from Cornell. This is
doubtless the leading object of his
mission to New 5 ork. Secretary Fol
ger is probably the heir apparent.
lIEI'ItIiSENTATIVE MARSHAL!, of
Huntingdon, has obtained his reward.
I3y the gruce of the boss he has been
appointed Deputy Surveyor of the
Port of Philadelphia. He is one of
the Representatives who votedsteadily
against the sentiments of his county in
the Senatorial contest last year.
A TRAVELLING GOVERNMENT. On
Monday la-tthe Cabinet met in New
\ ork and held a session at the house
of the President, The next session, it
is announced, is to be at Newport. It
may be advisable to have one in
Maine and two or three sessions in
Pennsylvania. Stalwart politics in
both these States are somewhat disor
ganized.
THE STATE GRANGE PIC NIC to
continue several days, commenced
\\ illiams Grove in Cumberland
county, on Monday last. It is
largely attended, and is probably one
of the finest exhibit of agricultural
products and implements ever made in
the state. All the candidates for Gov*
ernor and Lieutenant Governor have
been invited. Commissioner Loring
of the Agricultural Department is to
be present and Chairman Hensel of
the Democratic .State Committee de
livers an audresson the subject of ag
ricultural.
CONGRESSMAN BAYNE, of the twen
ty-third district, who has been walking
about Pittsburg ever since the ad
journment, with a cb : p on his
shoulder defying his Stalwart enemies
to a test of strength, is gratiiied at last.
B. C. Christy has stepped to the front
us the champion Stalwart to adminis
ter rebuke to the Independent Repub
lican ( for contumacious
disregard of the mandates of the ac
cepted Republican boss of Pennsylva
nia. Christy was a member of the
Legislature in 1874 and 1875. Ho
was a blatherskite then aud caunot be
a very dangerous rival now.
IT appears quite a formidable and
well-matured plot has been discovered
in Choctaw county, Ala., in which
the negroes were banding together to
murder all the white population of
that county. It is said they numbered
400 and were regularly office rod in
divisions, and the time fixed for com
mencing the bloody work when the
people were expected to be in "camp
meeting unprepared for resistance.
Ihe conspiracy was accidentally de
tected and the immediate danger av
erted by the arrest of the leaders, and
the prompt execution of the priori] al
conspirator.
Funeral or the Late Senator II ill.
ATLANTA, Ga„ August 19.—The re
mains ot Senator 11,11 were buried at 4
o'clock this afternoon. The escort con
sisted of the Atlanta Bir nn<l the Sena
torial committee. There was a line of
carriage®. >nd Ittllv 20,000 people assem
• led on t be streets to see the proaesainn.
I'he remains were placed in a bronxe
cisket exactly like the one in which
President Garfield was buried. At hsl'-
oast 10 the remains were carried to the
First Methodist Church under escort of
100 members of the Atlanta bar and a
committee of Senators, composed of
Messrs. I.smar, ot Mississippi; Hoot:, of
Kent'icky ; Morgan, of Alabama; Pul
ler, ot South Carolina: .lohnston, ofVn
ginis: Pendleton, of Ohio, and Congress
men Pettihone, of Tennessee, and
Rrumm, of Pennsylvania. At the
ohureh the sermon was preached by
Rev. 0. A. llvsns, after which the pro
cession was formed and proceeded to
the cemetery. The procession was ntade
up of State and city oflieials and other
prominent people. The streets were
thronged with people to see the pro
ceyrion not one-twentieth being able to
get in the church. Mayor Koglish ac
ted as Chief Marshal, with several promi
nent men as aides. The pall bearers
were the most prominent men in the
State. All business was suspended, and
the most sincere sorrow was exhibited
on every side.
NO. 33.