She Centre jfeworrat BBLLEFONTE, PA. The Lr(Ht,Cheapest end Beet Peper PUBLISHED IN CENTRE COUNTT. TIIK CENTRE DEMOCRAT la t.ub lahwl r)r Tburaitey niomlnn, • Bellefuiit.-, < nitre < ouiily, Pa. TKKMft—Oewib In BdTAnr# - Si BO If not paid in advanco* U OO A LI V K PAPER—d*oUd to tho luterotta of tb whole i*Hple. I'lymmU mad* within three njontha will he con sidered In Advance. No pAper will he discontinued until arrearageaare paid, eacept at option of puhliahera. Papers going oat of the county must he paid for in advance. Any pereoa prtxrurln* na teucaah anlwcrlhrra will he sent a copy free of charge. Our •*tensive circulation makea this paper an un usually reliable and profitable medium fbrauvertiaing. We have the most ample facilities fur JOB WUKK and are prepared to print all hinds of Ikwht,Tra t. Programmes, Posters, Commercial printing, Ac., in the Ducat style and at the lowest possible rates All advertisements for a less term than three months SO cents per line for the first three Insertions, and ' c >uts a line for each additional insertion, special notices one-half more. Kdltorial notli re 15 cents |>er line. |J>c VL NOTICIS, in local columns, 10 cents per line. A llbaral discount Is made to |ters*>ns advertising by the quarter, half year, or year, as follows : w reim th. Hrril>org I-triot. The present recorder's olliee of rhiln delphia is an extravagant and unneces sary office created by the legislature of 1878 as a profitable place for Hon. M. S. i.'uay in return for his valuable ser vices through many campaigns to the Cameron managers. Before the act of 1878 the recorder's office was compara tively unimportant and inexpensive. By that act powers theretofore belonging to other State officers were given to the recorder. He was given the appoint- i roent of mercantile appraisers, and the sole power of their removal. He wa given the power to advertiso the ip praiser's lists for four weeks in six news , papers of the city. This alone took yearly f60,t)00 front the State treasury, lie was given the power to hear appeals from the action of the appraisers. By thit means a premium was put upon improper taxation, as under the act be fore the apipeal was heard the shop* keep>er was obliged to lake an oath be fore the recorder that he had been ini 1 properly taxed. For this oath lie s< charged a fee which went into the pock et ot the recorder. The office was al togethe paid by fees which were said annnaily to reach anywhere from $75,- 000 U>sloo,ooo. The extravagance of I the office, its shameful impositions, it. useless and unnecessary character, and the fact that it was created solely for the benefit of one or more politicians, cam ed a storm of indignant protest from 1 the citizens and taxpayers of Philadel phia and n demand for the repeal of the I obnoxious act of 1878. Accordingly two bills for that purpo.e were prepared by the Citizens' Commit i tee of One Hundred and presented in the House of Representatives for the abolition of the office. These wen known as House bills Noa. 274 and 275. i The former. No. 274 was a bill totally j repealing the act of 1878. The latter. No. 275, provided the method for bring ing suit to recover delinquent license-, and substituted the serving of notices personally ujion all persons ap-p-raied instead of advertising the lists which it totally abolished. These bills were op posed by all the " rooster'' element in the House. They resorted to every means p>o*sible to defeat the passage ot tho bills. Fillibustering. disorder, per sonsl abuse, and the most disgraceful proceedings were of nightly occurrence when these bills were called up* for p> sage. Hut the united press of I'hiladel phia was in their favor, councils p-asscd resolutions asking their passage, th>- Committee of One Hundred sent a del egation to Harrisburg to urge their p sage,and they were finally p-assed dep*ile all oppiosition, the friends of the meas ures in the House being under the able leadership of Hon. Charles *S. Wolf, of Union county, Hon. Edward Law, of Philadelphia and Hon. J. B. Niles, of Tioga county. The bills were sent over to the Senate for pns.age, when the re lation of Davies and (ircer to measures of Reform soon became ap.parent. In the Senate, Apiril 21, 1881, A, ItHve JitmrJ, * olumeii, p*age 1236, Sena tor Gordon offered a resolution to in struct the committee on municipal af fairs to report House bills 274 and 275 and place same on the calendar, said bills having been in possession of the committee unrep*orted fifteen days or since April 6. The vote was as follows on the resolution : AVB —Alxanla< ed ti|on the calendar. Senator Greer again voted with the jobbers, but Davies "dodged" the vote. He waa in the senate and ia recorded as voting upon another bill, five minutes alter his "dodge" upon the recorder's bill. The full vote on the resolution to discharge was as follows: Vtas n->.tt.-ii>-ii. I ni.-rv t • rlurt.Oordun,llnuljf, tlr,f. Hell. Herri.-i, 11-H-.n. Ksuttriiaii, l-alril. Mclleiirjr, Nrlaii, li- Sl-.-.ier, St.-wart, Tlm-hkm, NV "I errt.'li JI N.r- ~M.-s.rs- Arnh.-lt, CM*lin.n. (V-i-.-r, ORKKK. lUrr, Knfsr, Lanta, Lswrsit.M.-Cnn km, N. sell. N- inter, I'srker. 11. yl.Mru, 1(..1.riU, L- > r. Smile), Sinitli. Cpt-riiuui, If. Tlie house piassed a bill, No. 271, re piealing the act creating the useless, ex travagant and iniquitous office of re corder as at piresetit constituted. In the senate this re|>ealing bill waa so amended by the committee on tuutiici |*al a Hairs that the repealing clause waa stricken out, ami the office with all it* offensive powers continued at a salary of SIO,OOO a year. '"n the discus-ion of thin bill in the senate, a motion was made by Senator Gordon to strike out the Senate amendments and restore the House clause entirely rejiealitig the of fice. Senators DAVIES and GKKKH spoke and voted with the " roosters for continuing the office. The vote on Mr. Gordon's annulment was us follows : Aim—Motur*. Coxa, KxerKart. fJ- r l *. 11*11. Il#rt*r. Ilultirt), l*ainJ. N*rl ti, N irn, 2i|K><>r, StW*rt, TItoISMMI. W Ivfrt'dH—l >1 asm AUsaadtr,Arnl II B - ('* • I • r, lA VIKS, 4ira*ly, OKKKH. <• r•! Ilur. J .. • Km fer. UnD MCrt hn, M- 11 •**r y, M Knighl % l Noill, Mjrlih, V N>iiiT#r I'crk- r H >rt, H-**, fU>)#r, tkbaatUrljr, Bmilj, Einlth, A motion w:ia then mad.* to reduce the salary pirovided for by the Gill front SIO,OOO to ;$5,000. Tliis waa defeated. Then the effort waa made to reduce it to $7,5000. This also was defeated. Sena tors DAVIES and GREER voting each time with the "roosters" against the reduction and in favor of the $1(I(8RI salary, a* much as the nntiual piay of the governor and more than that of any ; judge in the commonwealth. Cameron ami the Irish. illArrULurg Patriot. It has never been charged by any human being that the hand League of Pennsylvania has been sold, or could be consciously sold to the ring bosses. But Col. McClure ha* shown bv theevidenco already published and we understand there is pdenty more behind—that De- I laney and Condon entered into a cor rupt bargain with Cameron to deceive | and betray honest Irishmen into the I hands of their hereditary enemies, namely, the federalist know nothing ; ring-republican p arty. That these men | are quite cat-able of such an act i well : proved by similar attempts in the p-ast winch it i- unnecessary to dwell upon nt p*resent. That Delaney or Condon or I anybody else could mislead n intelli j itent Irishman to sueh a crime against j in* race and country is beyond belief. The attempt lm cetiie to nothing of | course. The exp-o.ure only serves to I show the disp-osilioti of the t'atneron ring, and the base mean* to which it is , ready to resort to save Beaver from de I teat which the managers confess t y this extraordinary action they plainly for-.e, ; This is the whole of it. Delaney and : Condon would no doubt have failed in I their infamous purpose, pocketed the ring monev and accounted for the oh i -tinary of the Iri-h by telling the t-ose that the hostile attitude of the Arthur administration haaleen maintained too long and that the eleventh hour re nioval of Lowell was too manifestly a trick to deceive anybody. They would ! linvn laid the blame rf the miscarriage ot their vile scheme upion the anti Irish administration ; but they would have had the ring cash in their dirty p-ockets, and. unexpm-wd. might have gone on in such commercial transactions in the honor of decent, inr.oc.-nt and wtiolly | unconscious inhai-v them, desert their democratic friend, at d incur liie.leadly odium of an alliance with the Cameron ring at the very time when i's p.orver is rlearlv about to l.e omp-lel. ly lie.(rov ed. But they have other and higher reason* for sp-tirning His hi.---k band* whieh are held mil to them through the perfidious creatur. s who La gsined to deceive them. The republican p-nrty i* the historical enemy of Irishmen ami the cruse of Irel-nd. The federalists, from whom the republican* Lonat their descent, were the British party. They hs.ted and dreaded the Irish from the beginning. When they proprosed a p*ro- La ion of twenty tear* before natural izatton the blow wi s aimed at the oh noxious Irish, lie alien law and the ■edition law were both intended to operate in the same direction. But the democracy under -leifer*on stood then, as it has ever *ir,ce, like a wall of fire, between tp,e Irish and their p-ro British foes, and the Irish are more than ever devoted to tho broad principle* of -lef ferson—home rule un-l personal liberty —for they lie at the very foundation of all their struggle* both in the old coun try and in this. Ami who ask them to strike down tho democracy now f The descendants of the old Federalist, the leaders of the Know Nothing party, the men who would have deprived them of tho very vote# tbev now seek to huy, and who hissed up tlie ignorant, and cruel prejudice as to birth and re ligion to the point of bloodshed and church burning. When the Democrat* of Pennsylvania, following the tradi tion* and upholding the catholic prince plea of Thotna* Jefferson, were defend ing the civil and religiou* right* of our adopted citizens and their children, Himon Cameron, the founder of the present dynasty, and the other besse* and sub-bosses who *land behind the Beaver ticket, were pirowling through the Know Nothing lodge*, taking mid night oaths and inducing other* to take them, to practically disfranchise every foreign born citizen, and especially to proscribe and persecute to the last ex treme the Irish and the Roman -Catho lic*, whether foreign born or native. On the other hand the Democratic ticli ut represents all that Mr. .le(Vernon con temleil for in the way of civil anil re ligious toleration against the bigoted and aristocratic Federalist* from whom these republicans claim their shameful dcacent. That ticket contains, among others equally entitled to the confidence and respect of our Irish (ellow citizens, the name of the BOH of the most con spicuous defender in America of the cause ol the I,and League and o! Ire land, Jeremiah Sullivan Mack. If the candidate for lieutenant governor has ; labored in the same line less promitu nt ily and less effectively than his distin i guished father he has labored none the : less honestly and faithfully. We imagine j that between these tickets and their to spectivo "promoters" descent Irishmen will have small difficulty in making 1 their choice. Lite I alitor Movement. The Lancaster Inulliyeneer stales I lint since the first organized movement of workingmen in politics in this State, forty years ago. it has been their niisfor tune almost uniformly to be either mis led or betrayed. In the expressive word* of Judge l'.lack in a recent famil iar talk upon this subject, enriched by interesting reminiscences and earnest | words of sympathy with thedaiiy toiler : i •• Labor in this country for more than a third of* century has been like a blind : giant, thrashing itself in its just jury, i apparently unable tosee and know when where and bow to strike in order to se cure redress of undoubted and blight ing grievance*." And that is pre emi ! ncntly the situation in Pennsylvania to day. Honest sympathizers with the ' toiling millions are not satisfied that it has been relieved by the progress of the 1 present political laU-r movement. For if that movement is organized sincerely | in the interest of later it* present man i agement is a blunder, and as Chairman ; Cooper tmasts. it is managed in the in terest of the lb-publican hopes, it is a conspiracy, and its results will be most disastrous to the workingmen. .It is evident the lalavring niaases are not in of!ned to vote for Armstrong merely to help Cameron, as chairman Cooper a* *crt*. and the sooner the laboring man realizes this fart the belter. Cameron and Cooper are engineering this Arm strong move and advancing money to keep it up, exacting to use it as a sort of annex to the Stalwart party. If tins was not the case Cooper would not man i ifest so much concern in a movement of this kind, a movement at variance with ! the views and wishes of the Democratic party. We agree with the editor of the Lrie Herald when lie says that Beaver, i Armstrong Bnd Heath and Jat ret, have !no right to affect indignation at Demo ! crats for putting this construction upon . their movement. They have only to thank tlm Beaver campaign manager for a timely and overwhelroingexposure of the purposes in which their move ment is to be manipulated, no matter what different purpose it wns originally intended to verve. In his elation at the work of the Philadelphia convention Mr. Chairman Cooper " gives the whole | thing dead away" in an interview in j which lie is reported as saying : I think that Armstrong will pool from fo.eting and the state had paid to clean and put ISM the old floor cover log it wa* found m lie missing when scarab was mad* for it. Curtains that •re taken down are never put up again and mysteriously disappear. Armchairs are replaced with new one*, and those which have probably not been used more than one season, and are good as new, are sold to favorite* at a merely nominal price or shamelessly carried off. Many a house of some ring thief or the chamber of his mistress, ha* been furnished with carpets, furniture and decorations, bought and paid for out of the stale treasury of Pennsylvania. But one who can recall the lists of •upplie* published in the Intelligeneer from time to time, which are naked for hy ottr state officials, will be filled with wonderment at the varteiy of them and the quantities in which they ute asked for. Many of these things are of a per manent character and should not n.-.-d I replacing oftener than once in ten years, j But they are bought, orat least paid for, t annually. We have heard of state olli enls who could not use or carry off ull t his plunder.who would lake in its stead trom the contractor gold watches for themselves and silk dresses for their ; wives. A coal contractor was caught some years ago delivering 1,200 pounds i ot cos I to the ton for the state, and the scale upon which this thieving has been curried on at the state capital induce* the belief that the swindle tuns lip to ■ tetis of thousands of dollars annually. Somehow or other it has been kept concealed from the public. Occasional ly a i|unrrel among the robhets h-is out | some of their secret*, but even this b noon ad justed and the " squeal, r i* silenced. It needs a cour igenu-cand in telligent man. vested with high official authority, to let in the light upon the rottenness nt the state capital. This community some time ago heard with astonishment how things hud been going on for years at the countv prison. Philadelphia is shocked nt the relations : in the almshouse management. But all of Pennsylvania is interested in a dis closure of affairs at llarrieburg They need to be turned inside out. The ds partment* must I e cleaned and fumi gated. Ike rat* that have so lotlg itlfc* ted them must be scattered. Municipal refoim in Philadelphia be gati with the advent of Patti-on into otßce. Netted y pretends that he has j accomplished it single handed, but he and his administration first made it ' possible. Not step has been made j except in the line of Ins work, not a reform has been accomplished save bv bis cooperation. On the other hand , the men who are supporting Beaver aie the Phippaes of the city. They have j plundered the municipality and grown ! rich upon it* spoils. They np|*anl Pallison and his work ; their insolence and corruption drove tens of thousand* of honest Republicans to his support, and with their aid the ring hi. 1..-en driven into the last ditch. When the cellar and store room of tfie I'liipp* j mansion were uncovered the Philadel phia nngster* saw that their day of doom had conte. Now for Harnsburg !/. in j - iter lute ". /rue. r. Ite fit riling flic Iliad. II rk of t' ' An i\t Ma.■hint. | \\ VITA* k ON nil amour or A nzuu ri. ■itvt NK THAT wii.l. AX viuoaot'st.r ax- SUNTXLL. IIISUOI' SIAI-M.N'S TXATIKOM. Tlie<'oo|>er machine committee lit* | been guilty of several a*inine moves ; unce it took down it* shutter* and open ed its shop for business, but the one that j ni'st merits condemnation is the wilful and unmanly nt tempt to bemirch the character of the father of Candidate I'attion, who ere this ha* been "gather -••I to his father*." It is sometime* *f* to attack a dead man, and ometime it is not. W here the dead maq hx friend* who hold hi* mem rv in scred remetn I.ranee and are able to defend it, and where the dead man. 100. leaves behind him o large a constituency a* did liev. Robert 11. Pattison. such a proceed itig is mo*t impolitic. The Cooper ma chine committee, in it* anxiety to get in blow at the Democratic candidate for governor, it* arsenal being painfully litre of ammunition, strikes at him over the grave of his father. It accuse* the fntlt ; er of cherishing disunion and southern j -entitnents during the late "war be tween the states." Then, to follow aline 1 of logic, it implies that the father, being rebtd sympathizer, so must the son. 'inly an ody show that the conference marched "in a body to the office of the mayor, and ther took* that oath. In the pulpit a* well a* out ot it, Mr. Path •*n is remembered as an enthusiastic supporters of the federal arms. Again, at the time of Iwe's invasion of I'enn j •ylvsnin, the Methodist preachers of the city, including Mr. Pattison, resolved at one of their weekly meeting*, held In tfie I'nion rbutch,on Fourth street, to off-r their services to Governor Curl in to repel the rebel snvance. Subsequent ly the patriotie father of the Democrat ic candidate apyieared, fuliy equipped and waving a I'nion flag, ft *eems that the service* of the fighting preacher# were not accepted, but this did not de ter Mr. Pattison from going to ihemctn orahle field of (ietlyshurg, where he ad ! ministered to the sick, comforted the dying and made himself useful in a hundred ways to Mead's army, lie was also an active promoter of the Christian commission.— Philadelphia Sunday Mer rtiry. - - ■ ♦ "" %*" Magnificent promises sometimes end in paltry performance#," A mug nificent exception to this is found in Kidney-Wort wbirh invariably performs even mere cure* than ll prom ts. Here ia a single instance : " Mother hat re covered," wrote an lllinoi* girl to her Kastern relatives. "She took hitters for a long time but without any good, S.v when alien she heard of the virtue# of Kidney Wort she got a box and it ha* completely cured her liver complaint." *Tnx surprising success of Mrs. Lydta V.. l'inkham's Compound for the several diseases peculiar to women forcibly il lustrate* the importance of her heneft cent discovery and the fact that she know* how to make the most of it. Dr. Haskell. ♦ —i• KMr LOT no more quack doctor* and quack medicines, rely wholly no Ps- Mrs*. i — ~ RESERVED FOR THE BEE-HIVE. l roiirft ia an onunually mi% valuable number of thi* oxL j and farnAu* journal. We notiE ; laiil change* in the new and inA 1 rover, fine paper, ami nuperior fiA I the many engraving-. It i* n 1 number, containing a large prernW ! hint filled with runny n Grcund l.ime tone t Col, M. C. Wield, on Kn |aging 9 j'orn Fodder; Mr. Orange .lud'l, on •Top*, and l'rice*. etc.; and I). I. 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