Centre Democrat. (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, September 07, 1882, Image 1
Klll'tiKKT \ VAN OHMKit, Editors. VOL. 4. jriic it nitre fltmotvni Terms 51.50 per Annum.in Advance. S. T. SHUGERT A J. R. VAN ORMER. Editors. Thursday Morning, September, 7, 1882. Democratic Stute Ticket. von GOVERNOR, IJOIiKUT 10. PATTISON, of Phila. volt LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, ( lIAL Nt'Y 1\ BLACK, of York. KOR jrnUKoftlie St't'RKM K COt'KT. Si LAS M. f LA UK, of Indiana. volt SK'TIKTAKV INTKRNAI. AW A IKS J. SIMPSON AFRICA, of lluntin'g. VOK CdMIKKSSM\N-AT I.ARGK, M( UITIM KU 1 : \ KLLK >TT, of Tioga. Democratic ('otittlj' Ticket. VOIt CONGRESS. lion. A.(. CURTIN, of Centre. j*hl : t< tilt loti.t II of tlio IlUtrii t (s.lll'Tcl, I>ii >f \TK SEN ATK. U a. C.T. A LEX AN DER, of Centre. IMP j.t i • tli" !• ii i • f !!♦* PUtrtct Confer*it* • ' Kill ASSKMUT.Y. IIKNUY MEYER, of Miles, 15. F. HUNTER,of Hcuner. FOR Jlltv COMMISSIONER. J. 11. TOLBERT, of Walker. VORCOBONKR. 11. K. HoY, M. D., of Ilellefonte. Tlic Democratic Platform. TV IV tn --ntic purler of IVnjr Irani*. hot ill ng f.nt to th faith '.hat a I |nw.-r not d*-fefcatwl ty th* ►titnt n I t" the HtM- HTKI Hl* |*ro|i|e; •♦■ r .<• - TI tty of twrwn*l IIIHTIT, th* wnrlljf .? fr\4ntr pruj■••My, and the light of loml wlf-g'vern iii.-i(t. d unn.lttijf Itoneaty and eron my In the •! i*i•. -oration f Kofintuient •to! th* enforcement of ikll the j ruviion of the O tuttuition by the l#gUl tur - m l tlinOoartM of thContinoowi*lth . declMrtng igftinat Monopolfe* and in ayrnpathv %Ith Ui r ** -k I- k its protection, •nil in f*r.>r • f tt)*-indn*tri*l inter *• f PcniilylviiriiA at nil tim*e, do Mlemnty protmt 14 rtt eril whirh the iMiliry of the Republican | *r tjr I the iiwotenre of It* i i.g po*e**ton >■( office 1 k • thus brought |*n the • Minify ; therefore, yir^t—Wo do intent Oi:.*lnt *h*t it (-all**! the •j >ni, and nl*o the plundering of officehoWem ly m - * TIL*" uta of money for political par }*••*•. I'ti'dlc iff ea are the property rf no I arty, tut an j•n f. er-ry *li> t honeet, capable, and faithful t th r.nstitntlon, •|n*hflratk'ti* which Jeflervon de eta ! Were re|tj*ite* for office. ,1-W- protet agmiriet the poiU y*t*m. It i a pr -titntiun of tbrOft'M of thr po| I" so that tnev become the mar.* peT'tuieitee of the politician*. r ,j .. denit>ftr* all repudiation, Htet and er lecaoee It i diabotieet ard •ieetno titre "f that ! morality upon whirh are f inied the eiiat*>nr • x> -. rpetuit) f ©or free inatitatioti* It h"uld t#e ~ iftii>ii, tod the poltthal party that aid* it and at t* it witt ..ffl -e deaerree pnhll-condetjinalbn. > i,'th-ivs 'liuonn e apodatioi) of the State Tr aa ur. * I tmmrnnity by pardon of th<ae ronvi< tel <>l tt vhrae acta w ere fl igrant uhveraion of official tr *'• ai d wrong* done tli*- i-eople. fth-~We talieve the RepoMkan party, m now or ra I end controlled. l laaed /© fraud, force oi l i r-iptioß, and there can 1n no hope of trie ei ; t by th*> ftifce of the ballot bus egrlqdln* It fr> i fda# e and power. ith-—Th- Ie*n<-*mte party demand* >f the bl Hi'., an honeat ami fine app*>rth ument. V nth— 1 pon theae !•< laratlon* we invite the co t\ iti- n f all h n-*t ritlten* who witli ua draire th r italdiahment of hefteit |t>vemmetit. •• in MM am taw# * Si.i HITTAKY FOUJER, of the Treas ury ih partmeut, speaks out liko a lit tl • man. lie says if he gets the nom iuatinu fur Governorof New York he will accept. THE Independent Republicans of Maine have established a newspaper at Portland in the interest of liberal principles uml honest politics in oppo si'ion to the boss machine management so prevalent in the Republican party. KKM/XHI ANI> ACKUEN are oppos it g candidates for Congress in Louisi ana. They both have unsavory rec ord", am] it would not be at ail dis ti—ing to the country if some decent tl ir<! man would start 'up and retire both. THE Republicans are highly dis gu-teil with the fusion of Grecnhackers ainl Democrats in Maine, but quite satisfied with Republican co-partner il ip with Readjusters in Virginia and Greenbackers in Missouri, Texas and other States. THE Washington correspondent of tl c lioston Hrrald has had shown him by "an ex-con federate Virginia read ju-tcr" the assessment papers served on liim up to date. The unfortunate employe's salary is 8150 per month. First, his exchequer was reduced S3O by Jay llubhclPs little two per cent- Then came Mahone's No. 1, for three ]s r cent. 815. Next his congressional district committee modestly requested the trilling sum of 822.50, or one and one-half per cent., and this was shortly followed by an intimation from the county committee to the effect that a voluntary contribution of 810 more s >uld tie quite acceptable. The last * is Mahone's No. 2, for 8100, to be pi Jd on or before October 15. The U tal is about fourteen per cent, of the d jrk's yearly salary—B2o7.so in all. Organization of Posts, O. A. R. We lonrnjthcre have been organized in this county since May last, six or seven G. A. R. posts. This unusual activity of organization at this par ticular time,gave rise to suspicion that the order was being used improperly, probably thoughtlessly, in politics. In the Post, neither by word or deed is politic* approached or allowed, but the members who go from lilaco to place to organize new Posts, we are informed, carry with them blanks, with printed loadings, which contain a pledge to support and vote for (•moral Hcuvcr for (iovcrnor. These pledges are industriously circulated before the organization of the new Post begins and every possible effort made to get old soldics to pledge t hen - selves to support and vote for Gem r al Heaver by signing the papers. To induce some to do so the nrgunn nt is used that it is a mere forme lily and without stopping to think the uuwury are caught. The truth is, that all summer the members of Gregg Post have been used tints to advance the interest of the Stalwart candidate. We have no objection to the men who he long to this organization individually supporting Gen. Reaver if they think they are right and agree with him in |K)litics, but when they use the organ ization under cover of extending its usefulness as an engine to advance the political ends of a particular candi date, no matter to what political party he may belong, they are stepping be yond the bounds of the organization and arc building a road which will lead very soon to its entire destruct ion. We are informed what is here complained of, has been done wherever a new Post has been organi zed during tbe summer, aud we men tion it to put old soldiers who believe honestly in the nsefulrjess of the or ganization, on their guard, that they may not lie drawn into pledging them selves to support candidates they would not otherwise touch or vote for under any circumstances. THE thieves of the Philadelphia Almshouse have come to grief at last. For a number of years they have been suspected of carrying on an ex tensive system of robbery by the con nivance of the officials and contract ors selected to furnish supplies. A conscience-stricken contractor named Matthews, now discloses the villany. Major Phipps, the Superintendent, was arrested and held to hail in 85000 for hearing, hut failed to np|>car, and his bail was forfeited. The depreda tion of these scoundrels are known to lie heavy, reaching up to several hun dred thousand dollars, and is the out crop of the boss ring polities prevail ing in that city, and which Pattison and the Committee of One Hundred have been so earnest in exposing. The pursuit of the Almshouse thieves has ouly commenced and is not likely to end until a number of favored ring politicians nre safely lodged in the Penitentiary. The detectives nre on the track of the absconding superin tendent who is believed to be in New York watching his chances for a Eu ropean voyage. WHAT is called the *' .Shoestring District" in Mississippi, from which Chalmers, after cheating the negroes out of their votes, was returned to Congress and kicked out by the Re publicans, is now the Republican can didate begging the negroes to vote him iu again, is composed of twelve counties stretched along the Mississip pi River 300 miles. It it said the demagogue will have more trouble to cheat tbe negroes t6 vote for him now than he had to defrAud them on the former occasion. "My dear Hubbel " is his backer this time with voluntary contributions from scrub women and waiter boys. ■ i' MR. HEY DRIERS .ayethe Democrats will carry Indiana. MR, Harrison says they will not. Mr. Dorsoy not being present and his star route barrel needed for other purposes, wo are in clined to believe Hendricks. "KUt'AI. AND KXACT JISTKK TO ALL MKN, OK WHATKVKR KTATK OH I'KRBUAHION, KKI.IUIOUH OH I'OMTlCAl.."—Jottrrwti BKIXKKONTK, PA.. THURSDAY, SEPTK.MBIO It 7, 1882. DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FOR SUPREME JUDGE. | SILAS M. CLARK, of Indiana. THE Washington correspondent of the New York Sun has been making a tabular estimate of the relative strength of parlies in the next ( "tig ress with the following re>ult : Dem ocrats, 17b; Republicans, 13b; and Independents 7. The official return may vary the figures some. CHAIRMAN HEATH of the National Labor party has addressed letters to the chairmen of the Democratic, Re publican and Independent State Com mittee, challenging them to select one or more jwrsons from each organiza tion to meet speakers whom he will name, jointly to discuss the principles of the respective parties throughout the state. GENERAL REAVER is credited with the declaration that if elected Gover nor he will not he controlled by the bosses. Well, we hope that declara tion will he ratified if this misfortune fall upon the State ; but it is some what strange that the bosses should set up a can liilatc and press him for election, to disregard them when elect ed ? It is not their usual method of doing up that kind of business. THE New York Time* refuses to IK? comforted bv the assurance of the san guine Republican candidate for gnv nor in Pennsylvania, of 50,000 stal wart majority, and expresses* a belief that the rhances of Republican suc cess in Pennsylvania. Ohio and Maine, are very gloomy. The impressions of I the Timr* are more than prophetic. This is a year for Reform and bad for | lioss-macbine politics. CONGRESSMAN RAYNE, of Pittsburg, whom Ross Cameron and the Admin istration had doomed for defeat, has carried his district for nomination by a large majority over Christy his stal wart competitor. This is the boss' first experience before the people against an Independent congressman who dared to antagonize him and act upon his own convictions of duty. It will probably not he the lat, and that he and the administration will IK? wi.->- er at the close of the campaign. The contest generally in Allegheny shows that the IndciKUidcnts nre 110 mean factors in determining results. • THE two Republican candidates for governor of Pennsylvania sre actively in the field, but have not yet come to gether to discuss the issues that divide their adherents into factions. Htcwart it appears, devotes himself to argu ment and the questions involved in the campaign. Heaver avoids them, and puts in the time in hand-shaking and familiar remarks upon the weath er observing, as fur as possible, the in junction of Boss Quay, " Dear Rea ver, don't talk." Rosa machine poli tics is undoubtedly a case in which there is " wisdom in silence " on tbe part of those who represent them and our friend, the General, has caught it. MR.. ROUND*, the Public Printer, a few days ago sat down upon the Vir ginia dictator and crushed the little viper so far in his department is con cerned. Mahono attempted to levy his 5 per cent, assessment upon all the printers in the employ of that bureau from Virginia and who had already paid the Iluhhcll assessments. Rut Rounds called a halt, ami informed the employees that no one should be displaced for refusing to n.-poml to to Mahone's demand. PHIITH, the stalwart superintend ent of the Philadelphia aim- house, has disappeared and is now a fugitive from justice. President Arthur, Secre taries Chandler and Folger, and the Ism! knows how many more stalwart officials, have disappeared from Wash ington. Some of them are in posses sion of vessels belonging to the United States, and may he hiding about New ork and on the coast of Maine, where the river ami harbor thieves arc hold ing a jubilee over their spoils. THE Philadelphia Timr* speaking of the endorsement >f the Greenback candidate for governor by the late La bor Covent ion, intimates thnn a for midable revolt from the action of that IMHIV will be developed at an early day. There has been no cordial re sponse, says the Timr A, from the Trade and Labor o~ganizations to the action of the Convention, making a State nomination in direct opposition to the proclaimed |Milicy of the Knights of Labor. On the contrary, a number of the most trusted and intelligent Labor ineo of this city and elsewhere arc now considering how best they ran extricate the Knights of Labor from the false and probably fatal jMisition they were apparently involved in liv the nomination of a candidate for Governor. They have ten votes to one of Greenbackers, ami they see that they are made to depart from their declared policy to serve a little faction of Greenbaekera that has ev erything to gain ami nothing to lose. They see, also, that the Cameron Rosses at once proclaimed their tri uniph in the trade uml Labor Conven tion by forcing a State nomination, and that has intensified the opposition of the honest Labor people who mean, first of all, to give no aid, direct or indirect, to Ross monopoly. They ac cept the declaration of Mr. Chance, a delegate from this 'city, that the par ticipation in |K)liticsdates the downfall of the Knights of Labor, and they will, at an early day, take positive steps to retrieve the blunder ami res cue tbe Knights of Labor from the fate, of all previous Labor organiza tions which were dragged into politics, A formidable revolt is now inevitable, and it will voice with emphasis the intelligence and integrity of tbe Labor jHjople of (!{ie State.' THE Stalwart machine tieket in Philadelphia will probably lose two or ibree hundred of their usual fraud ulent voles by tbo exposure <d the pauper iliji-ves in tbe Alius-housand the (light of i'hipps, the worthy agent ot the bo ( 'AI.KIN-, th" Keili r :,;,d lb-is -oil l liiruii i) oi the ejection coiiiiisittee 01 tbe House, has been iiuuiinnt"d lor re-el.etii.il in Indiana. Ot'cout-e Re p-iblicaiis cannot dispense with th • services oi < Y.ikin- in <-a e- w :u-rc li rge in ijoi ilii-s art to !.c i iioi--i in order to se.it Rcjitlhiiouli t o'lgl.--iol.al tt o nip", wit iiout i h irnrt i riir merit. WHEN the que-:, ,11 1-1 f, .1 tai l-; of Armstrong, the G. ■< nbin-k eaniiidnie tor (iuvmor, v -is eicb. r eo-i-i-leraii-iii in the 1.. i !„•! r ( --n ■ n'ion, a delegate reprcsentiug tbe " S!.. • < "utter* !'-liffi< iI e'.ti .1 " m -and dt-iivi red a short, -<-1.- and siguificant speech. 11.- said; "I is li- vc that I- -iii-.-t and e\ -, n iability are the be.-t security that a cainlidate will. if elected, deal justly with the workingmaii. Knowing tliis. I vote here as I will vote on election day, tor Robert K. I'atlison for (iovcrnor. THE issues involved in the present jsMitical campaign are too iinportant and too plainly marked to fail to meet the candid consideration of the people of Pennsylvania. The reck less waste which has characterized our public ad ministration ; the disregard of law and fairness which has so largely entered into the measures of choosing its agents and representatives under the rule of Ross machine politics, has long called for the correcting hand of the power whose edict cannot be disregarded. It is in the interest of this needed reform and economy ;of fair elections and a just responsibility of official agents; an honest application of the public moneys to the public services without supernumaries to "eat out the sub stance of the people" that the Demo cratic party have brought to the front candidates of known ability and well attest'd honesty, pledged to the best of their ability to correct the abus< s and irregularities so rife and demoralizing to public moral". Mr. Rlack, the able and accomplished candidate fir Lieut. Governor, in his late speech said : "The battle now to he fought is not one for mere partisan victory ; its object is the reform of the State gov ernment in all its departments and clean hands only must be put to the work. The nomination of the gal lant I'attison —the stainless young leader, who stands at the head of the reform column in Philadelphia, mentis precisely that and nothing else. Like the Rlack Knight of old, come to re- I store the rightful sovereign to his own, j this bold tribune of the jaxiplo, will be i found thundering at the gate of the ring citadel, battle-axe in hand, and when he makes his lodgment within, the 'black flag of the bosses' will be displaced by the purest political ban 1 ucr that ever floated on any Incize. jOur Republican friends snail have no | reason to complain of us. If we do not give them what we promise, 1111 ab solutely pure and honest government — they have the power to turn us out, and all deeent. citizens wi I help them to do it. Rut there is little danger of that They tried PattLou once, aud, instead of finding reasons to part with him, they discovered many powerful reasons for adding thousands of Re publican votes to his previous niajori ty. The Iwgintiing of reform in this Slate WHS the adoption of the new con stitution which, despite the most tre mendous exertions of the fiug, receiv ed something like 150,000 majority. In the convention which framed that beneficent iuslruincut, Clarke aud Elliot were tall figures and devoted laborers. Every liue of it is dear to them ; they arc actuated by its spirit; anil tbeir influence will if ne cessity be exerted to complete the ty fornis which they so auspiciously be gin." TCIt WS: |MT A tililim, In AlhmMV. An Owolititfou Itit; Issue. There w ii- one hundred millions <ii -HI j!11in ili<- lr. H>l\l ry ami the J - |iuli!ii nit !..:i ri vk' i w it nnd felt tin n -traint. Appr priation- fur all ]>tir ]'*■-' •!■• i< f k'• -.-Iv ii.cn a-i il with* ■' l l l ttppuri lit 11 ; - :u J <i>r tln; < • ti<ritoii inn i< i| ■ 1 tii til.nil- | i Djilt . Tin' Mini I• t1 R I.J njipr JPI i uir 1.. ;I,|- J A-.;; i- >■l,oi;7, . r >77,b_'l 111<>11- tilllll 1"! 1 J, I L.II IIVI I >!>,<>< ILL "Hire i. an I s 1. In- ; :ir! v *liicli i* .• i-1 - I i :In- < itravillain*!' Jin- ■ IM . i!.- ■l ii lit make Villllllill' It* 1 '•; i l: ' i- ■>, in ■ fn v:iin lii ill - -> lin.- -1 - ■ I'tiT t'til Mai.in-' Ii • li't'l |I IV tlin pail nl truth. I'ul I' II i , I,k- 111111 • I l, " v i.l lit " siiitl i!i" people justly nitii IIHIII i a■ tliis 'iiitin-! >ll- raid iip'/n t! • <>> -nun v. The II I i'v I:i ; tin- ; .AM I t'i -i *■ il." r<''-id id ('mi^ri lt could In-ve i<< 1,'.. i IN;,, a,- -UNIT UJM.II ILIC TN:I-. "13 -:ii it - '.ii lit. It i-ini-c ratli-r in i" rtm: I: rutin.-atioti of J,I -r.-Ol.al aim- than t - protect the iuteri--in of the public. I hero is MI earthly OXCUM lor instance, for the increase of over seven millions in the appropriation for rivers and harbors, for there is an unexpended balauce of four millions of !u-t years appropriation for that purpose. JJut it is useless for the jmo people to murmur. Thev must act. Members of (ongro- are public ser vant- and when they fail in their duty their plact* should le filled by more competent and faithful men. The majority should he held responsible politically and the recreant mc-rnlx rs of the minority personally for the sins of this disreputable congress. Ix-t them prepare to record a just and mem orable verdict at the ballot box. IHi Lou.sville ( hurter-Journal, notic ing the opening of the campaign in Maine by a number of Republican speakers, takes the edge off their dis interestedness by tabulating the politic it salaries of the following fifteen : .1. Warren Keifer, Speaker of the House; Charles Foster, Governor of Ohio; Fred. I Mug I ass, Tinted States Marshal; Geo. R. boring, Commissioner of Agriculture; Green lb Itaum, Commissioner of In ternal Revenue: Representatives Frank Hiscock, John A. Kasson, benjamin Rutterworth and J. R. Lynch ; Senators H . b. Allison, P. H. Plumb, K. If. liol lins, Warner Miller, J. R. Hawlev and AV illism \Y indom ; total compensation drawn from the taxpayers, $74,01111 an- Dually. Not an Office Seeker. Mr. Putlison has pursued a dignified, i manly course since his nomination, giv ing the same persona! attention to the duties of bis office that he bad beforo ' hi" nomination for governor, lie never 'ought the office for which he is now a I candidate, and his actions since his nomination show him to be a believer , iu the doctrine that the people should i he allowed to make their own choice | from among the candidates in the field. I The honor conferred on hirn by the 1 llamsburg convention did not turn his : head or make him turn his back on the trust the people of Philadelphia con fi led to his care, and the good sense ho has shown since lie became the I>emo cratic standard bearer has "won him | g >ldeo opinions from ail sort* of people." j !f lie is elected governor, of which | there appears now to be no doubt, it jc.n lie sai l with entire truth of him i that the office sought the man and not I 1 lie man ihf i flice. Tim return of revenue for the fiscal year ending 30th dune. ISSiI, which amounts to over <400,000,000, remind* one of the historical anecdote of Itiucb er, alio, when from the top of St. Paul's lie beheld the vat city of London stretched out before him, exclaimed, "Mci (foil ! what a place for plunder.'' The man who surveys the administra tion of our government might well ex claim : "My God ! wtmi a great nation for paying taie." A ration of 52.000- 000, with a standing army of only 35,- 1000 men, wiib a navy that less than a year ago felt Infill* road? to cope with the navy of Chili; with an interest charge ot only <Boiooo 000— in short, with an expenditure all told, (utile*-, there are pension and river and harbor gratis) of tint more than <250.000.000 aqueexes over <400.000,000 of taxes out of the people annually. While in Ger mmy, with a standing army of nearly a million men. a growing navy, an army of officeholders and an impeital court to sup|H>rt, the Germans actually grum ble at being taxed and refuse to vote further burdens. Is it not time for the sovereign American people to put on the brake and to elect men to state of fice who, like Controller Patiison. have so discharged their trust that public debt, department expenses and tax rates have decreased every year ? so.