NIIUtiEKT A VAN ORMER, Editors.
VOL. 4.
ttlu (Cfttftf jOmwtrat.
Terms 51.50 per Annum, in Advance.
S. T. SHUGERT & J. R. VAN ORMcH, Editors.
ThnrwUy Morning, October, 5. 1882.
Ileuiocriitlc Slate Ticket.
FOR GO I'EHNOK,
ROBERT K. PATTISON, of Phila.
FOR LIRUTKNANT GOVERNOR,
CIIAUNC'Y F. BLACK, of York.
FOR JftHJE of tlin .HL'I'RKM K GOt'KT,
SILAS M. CLARK, of Indiana.
FOB SECRETARY of INTERNAL AFFAIRS.
J. SIMPSON AFRICA, of Hunting.
FOR OOKGRRSSMAN-AT-LARGB,
MORTIM ER F. ELLIOTT, of Tioga.
Democratic I'ouuty Ticket.
FOR CONOTLESS.
Hon. A. G. CtJRTIN, of Centre.
R<)R STATE SENATE
Hon. C.T.ALEXANDKR, ofOntre.
(Jjulijfct lo tin* tlrt iiiou v( till* District Coiiffrcnrf.] j
FOR ASSEMBLY.
HENRY MEYER, of Miles,
B. F. HUNTER, of Beuner.
FOR J CRT COMMISSIONER.
J. H.TOLBERT, of Walker.
FOR CORONER.
11. K. HOY, M. D., of Bellefoute.
The Democratio Platform.
Th* I>*morrmt|r |*rty of P*nnylvanU. hoMin? fiwrt
t.< th faith that Ail p<>rr not tJflsg*tl ly (lit Con
■ iitution !• reserve. J l> ih Htntfii and the p*opl: up*
holding thi* wknrtlty of liberty. tit* Mcnritjf
of private property, aixl thi* riifht of lot-mi wlf p>reni
-18-lit. dr>m*ndis hourly an l aroootny In th<* *!
in In Intuition of gnvwrnmfut and tb* Fnf'rcrrn*it of
all the prutlnlon* of tlia Constitution hy the legiU
tore and the Coortu of the Commonwealth . (WUrittjc
Nktiutc uionop lie* end In ayra|*th? with labor *e-k
ink' ito protection, and iu f**ur of the indu* trial Inter
est of IVnniylrania at ail time*, do tolemnly pn-te#t
eeila which the policy of the Rep ibltcao par*
tj and the Inaolence of tin long pr***i<>n of offfaa
liare tho# brought upon th* country ; therefore,
Elrt—We do pr*>tet ac*inet what li rwlled the UMM
•ytem. and alao the plundering of offh #>lnWer by
'tiniit* of money for political pnrpoaee I'ullir
ofTV-ee are the property of no party, but are "fen to
erry rltiren who la b >neat. capable, and faithfnl to
ttie U.restitution, imlltcatlnhl wlyt b Jefferwm 4e
flare*! were fnr office
#wnl—We protect agamat the ipoiU ayttem. It
I* a prostitution of the office# of the peonle so that
ti.ey become the mere permitimtea of the p*>lltirtan
Third— W'e denounce all repudiation, Btate and fed
eral. Ij*rane It ia dih'>nt and 'UmUneUf of th*t
public morality upon which are founded th# <Siator
ami p*rptu)ty of our free institution*. ItthouM \—
made odiooa, and the political |wrty that aid* it and
abet* it with "AW deaerrea public roodewinatkn
fourth —We denounce •p.itk>n of the State Treaa
ury and irammnity hy panion of th.we convicted of
Crimee who acta were P.agrant •nbfenrim* of official
i.7 **ta ami wrong* done th*. pwpi*.
fifth—W'e believe the Republican pwrty. aa now or
paiii&ed and controlled, t* k*| on fraud, force ami
Corrupt low, ami there can be no hope of trne reform
evpt hy the force of the ballot boi excluding It
from place and nower.
Stitb—The Democratic party demand* of the Leg
Mature an boneat Juat. and true apportionment
S-trtith -L'|eo theae dec la ration* we invite tbe co
operation of ail boneat ' iiM'-rt* who with oa tleire
he reeatabii*hment of honwat government.
GEN. GEORGE C. WTNCOOP, a veteran o'
f
the late war and the war with Mexico
died suddenly in Pottsviile, on Friday
lut, of apoplexy, aged seventy five.
GEN. HEAVER still thinks the Stalwart
ou'-look is rosy and bright, and that
the Independent avalanche is not much
of a storm after all and will soon blow
over. We like the General's faith and
grit even if we do not like hi* politic*
and associations.
SENATOR FOLDER'S position is not a
pleasant one. If be allows himself to
he driven oil the Republican ticket in
New York on account of the frauds of
the machine ring which nominated him,
it i* beleived that Arthur will force his
retirement from the Treasury Depart
ni-ut.
THE Bradford NumLiy New* is owned
and edited by Republicans and says:
When a man exhibits such unmistak.
able ability in handling and controlling
the vast fiscal affairs of a city like
Thiladelphia as has Controller Paltison,
it is tolerably clear evidence that ha baa
a head that would fit him for Governor
of a great state.
COL. HBNET MCCORMICK, of Harrisburg,
bas received tbe unanimous nomination
if the Democrats of Dauphin, Lebanon
in<l Northumberland counties (or Con
fess. This nomination was most worth
|y bestowed and is as creditable to tbe
|i*trict as it i* complimentary to the
hie and high toned gentlemen who is
rithout solicitation its recipient. His
pponeot in the race is Hamuel Barr tbe
rivate secretary of J. Donald Cameron
nd a henchman familiar with all the
licka of the master. The district is
rgely Republican but it is believed tbe
pet ion of Colonel McCormick is among
b probabilities as a triumph of merit
id capability over ohicanery and the
Igrading methods of boss politics and
Irsonal dictation,as represented in Mr.
A Campaign of Cash.
It i* no longer a secret, say* the Phil
adelphia lime*, that the one remote
hope yet cherished of electing lienerul
Heaver Governor is based on the expen
diture of an unprecedented amount of
money to corrupt the voters and pol
lute the ballot. The platform upon
which General Beaver was placed, and
which he affectsto respect, is openly
trampled upon before his eyes, and he
dare not question the of the boss
masters to degrade their candidate and
demoralize the Republican party.
It is proclaimed thepretneptory assess
uients have brought into the treasury
of the Cameron machine fully SItXt.OtJO;
that the famed 300 Grant Guard of Chi
cago, of which General Beaver is one
have been culled upon to swell the as
sessment robbery, and the business
men are harassed from day to day to
add their contributions to the largest
corruption fund ever raised in Pennsyl
vania.
It i* on open secret that Senator
Cameron last week mado his cosh con*
tribution of #20,000 to the Beaver fund,
and every otticial, Federal and State,
and every expectant under the Camer
on power, is compelled to contribute to
aid in securing a Cameron victory by
shamless debauchery.
There are not less than one hundred
and fifty thousand Republicans in
Pennsylvania today who are more than
offended at this insolent defiance of tbe
Republican declaration of principles,
and tbia proclaimed attempt to supply
the los* henrst Republicans by tbe
purchase of the corrupt ragged edge
element* of all parties. There can le no
legitimate use made of one fourth the
money tbe Crrueron machine has col
lected, and the V-old attempt to save
thuhos.s system by unexampled debauch
efy of the elective franchise, is multi
plying Independents ten-fold faster
than the machine is gaining corrupt vo
ter* by a campaign of cash.
General Heaver can't be blind to this
startling aspect of his campaign, and he
will he held fearfully responsible for his
tolerance of it. He is esteemed honest
and he is expected to assert his integri
ty hy washing his bands of the con
tempt of hi* platform and the purity of
the ballot, exhibited hy those who are
responsibly directing his contest. Gen
eral Heaver'* election hy corruption
would be a graver calamity to him than
a stainless defeat ; hut the one cause
that is now most potential in swelling
the Republican revolt, is his manifest
dependence upon and deference to the
most corrupt methods ever employed in
our political conflicts.
NOT having time last week to notice
the card published in the litpuhfican tn
which wo* appended the names of our
esteemed neightairs Col. Keller, and
Captain Mullen, wo take pleasure in
transferring it to our column* of thia
week with the remarks appended by
the Watchman in which paper the card
was intended to be published. In the
article* published on the subject referred
to and which have so excited a few mem
bers o( the Post we disclaimed any inten
tion of assault upon the Post proper, but
called attention to the actions of some
member* which we believed had a ten*
dency to throw suspicion over the insti
tution injurious to its solemn obligation*
as a non-partisan order. The informa
tion we had came from a creditable and
reliable soarcn, and as we were satisfied
that the (acts given were susceptible of
full ascertainment amongst themselves
wo felt no obligation to comply with the
term* of Mr. Keller's card to name in
dividuals to be rubject to persecution.
The facts we gave, Including the pledge
certified from the Republican head
quarters, we esteemed sufficient to satis
fy reasonable intelligence that we did
not speak at random. But a* our neigh
bor of the Watchman has been more lib
eral in bia effort to gratify them, we can
have no ol.jection to turn the case over.
Fmss ths Watrhmsn.
Erldenre Furnished Them.
Ei.lT>,* Ducaxuni! Warrants— tw* Era : Two
wssks •*<■ tn sritrls sppmnsl In Ihs (Nam
linfttit making far# rhs'(st again*! ths msoih.ni
nt ihs U. A. M. .A Ibis loon sad annniy. In Ihs lans
#f emit pops' Ihsi wssh th-s. rhnrpss tor "win
niA.hr dsnlsd" l.y ssssrsl msmbsrs of Orsyc l'l,
nhn Im4 Mnltlsd In Ihs organisation nf Punts tlinmsh
r.l ths ramniy. Ws osrs sssnrsd hp Ihs sdllios of thai
fil>sr thai Ihsy v*n In promotion of pruof. sustaining
UIS shargst mr nUriM 'l sod that (lists proofs would bs
pnl.lishsd In Ihn nstlltson of Ihnr pspnr. Wn hats
wnilnd Inn works sspnrllnß si Irani lo bn fhrntthe.l
• lib Mm nam* nf Ihn psrwm from whom lbs Informs
Hon WES dnrtvsd, bat hast anno notblaa bat lbs nab
lijsllon of a "pstltkm" lbs satstna. a nf whlrb and •*•
•ellf bow coptsa uf II csma Is bs In pom. mho. of ssr
lain msmtisrs at Ihs IMth Nxgtmsnl bat hnsn fatly
sxplsfnsd hy J. R. M(Carlo*;. Ws now tlnsfr* In my
In all whom If may wnrtrs thai If nay nsnWr of Ihs
Grand Army nt Ihs Rnpablbf avor cirenlslod or ra tstd
In ho rlrcnlnlsd In My tots mm of any Post In o*o
fr* county any psUibm nr plmlg* asking ttoitsr* tn
fa'or of nny cao.li.Uln tor poliik-nt Often, roth mam-
"KMUAL ANI> EXACT JUSTICE TO ALL MEN, OK WIIATKVKIt STATE OK I'KKKUAHION, RELIGIOUS OK POLlTlCAL."—Jeffsfkoa
BHLLKFONTK, PA., THURSDAY, OCTOI'.KK, .**,, 1882. *
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lifti>ll ssj Istcslliis uaSla* lo nm n.
Msuibav ft Uia G, A. It in saj sttsaipi tn iu
Ksnlsatliin f>.i lln* km |w>lllh .la >|lt
Ii- flltlil.lisrl 11, at nil- mil! a.- Janiamt nl II ~ . .It. i.
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c-nniraitui Itni Jl< |u,,i|a<i uiil, tli- n i,,,*.■: it..nr
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ANNA MI tLrs,
8. 11. MILIUMS
Thn above we |iulili-h at tlt-< r.niiieat of
the gentlemen sbn 'i/ it The
has heri.tof.ir'> ri-fra'ned frrnu isiinc m i
thing N | II -ii the O! j. i-t in tm Ii tlii- r--| r> -
-i-niaiivi-s nf the < A I', r'-ler sop..-itiv
■V, tint they u- in an inrmit it, tl,.*ir
ilvir.' to know it i N• i In-ing IDKL' •■■d
into nay I"■ -• t (.y i in. nil-.-r, w i i .iir
ply alnle what w>- I ve been told nr.- In. •,
nnd We give the (.uini-s . nnrie. l-d wi-h
them, for their information
!*' ina r tour week- nil" when tl .-
I'o-t we orgKiiizmt nt Pine (rove, H ; \
of the f ,, .'•r whi.-h G< n. 11.-nv. r' friends
tia\e hind Jnun -F. M'Cartnev to peddle
ov-r the eouMy f>r signatures, pledging till
soldiers wbn sign II |s vol* f.-r <--u B*sv.
er, i/--is .—II in Ihr /ya/ys risitit ll t thnt p!are
G.-orge Ib-rtierliiig, of Pine Drove, n mem
ber of the P..,'.. ran. iii s!l probability, tell
how it got there. Gmirgs Hiker, of Col
lege township, who .ri->i(--i/ it /.V thr
/>j-/i/e r.e.—i tmntadlatelv nf-er tbe b i-in.-
of the Lxlge wns over, requeating the sig
natures of members of the Post I" it,
might b<- M" t i t-ll ale-iit '! The na-io >
of Dr. Christ, of Lament. John Stuart, of
State College, and Dr. Fobrr, of Boals
hurg. were iqion it at the time Mr. Haker
*s< soliciting 'ither names. These gentle
men. or some of thein, inav have signe.l it
that evening and be able to give some in
formation al-oiil it.
We have te-en thus minute in the name#
furni-h.il us, #.. that the gentlemen signing
the above letter may a-a-rtain for them
ss-lve. ahetber there rr was a political
pledge presented in ov Post in Centra
county bv niv members of tbe lh-t.
It i for them new to show why that \
nleilge an. | reaent—l in the /' s( r> tn nf
/'in' tirxire by George Baker, a member,
or U> but up and admit that their recent
effort* t< establish (, A. It, wherever
they can find a soldier, mean more than
they want the public to know.
IT is announced that Gen. Heaver ha#
made over sixty speechea since he
opened hi* canvass for Governor. Now,
in how many of these sixty speeches has
tbe General commended that plank of
the platform of ihn 10th o( May Oonvrn
tion which condemn party assessments?
In bow many 1 as he denounced Chair,
man Cooper for the unblushing vio'a
tion of thnt creditable plank of the
platform? In what speech did he ad
vooate the civil service plank or de
nounce the use of official patronage to
promote personal ends? In hi* speech
accepting the nomination, he promised
to carry these reformatory doctrines into
every couniy of tbe Commonwealth.
Una he done *o ? It ia positively assert
ed that he ha# in no instance objected
to the ba e rMmj circular* of Hub! ell
and Cooper, or denounced the u© of
the pa'ronage place-l in the hands of
Cameron by the administration and
used to pfr-rce submission to the rule of
the bosses. It is perhaps, not too late
yet to show some appreciation of the
solemn promise he made in hi* first ad*
drea# by emphatic condemnation of the
robberies commuted, presumably for hi®
benefit, through the Stale Committee.
If he tail* t<> do so, the conclusion is in
evitable that the promise wo* not can
didly made—a mere pretenae unworthy
hi* character at an honest conscientious
man.
GEN. BEAVER was announced to speak
at a man meeting in Philadelphia on
Saturday evening Inst, on "Slate issue*."
He made a speech but it appears he en
tirely avoided the grave i*ue* he was
announced to discus* and branched off
into his usual campaign twaddle about
the tariff and the certainty of hi* elec
tion. Of course the audieuce was dis
appointed and the Stalwart candid to
for Governor failed to gather the laurels
he had the opportunity to pluck by in
telligeni discussion of the interesting ia
sues he ha* heretofore evaded. The Timet
speaking of the General's speech make*
this remarkable statement. "He evident
ly appreciated the necessity of meeting
public expectation on the subject, a*
be gave part of Saturday to a versatile
journalist in the preparation ofas|>eech
that was printed and sent to the public
journals; but he failed to deliver the
pech or to discuss it* main features,
and the result was tho publication of a
pretended *|wch in the prm* the .Visa.
tiay Itepyldir and lierhapa other journals
that sn not delievered."
Ir is announced that RoscoeU.mkling
will not B|ieak or t ike an aoiive part in
the (Mtiv.sa of New York. It will he
a I >nety affair in the absence of the el
oquent voice of th retired statesman,
lie probably does not love Judge Fol
ger very ardently and is not altogether
clear that Lieutenant Arthur thould be
boosted for 1884 instead of the greet
Uoeooe himself.
_ ,
llow to Secure Success
If there i <n • fact more than any
otli.-r tiuiti* recognised and acknowl
edged l.y all, it j the fact that a full
Dcinoi ratio vote will ecure Democratic
fiuroeiN. In thi campaign it i not a
qiic-tiun el-out how many voles wo can
make, or how inany conveita we can re
cure. a much an can we have every !hm
icraltr vi,ir ni the pol/i T With a full vote
there can bo t lit one reoult—an over
wlx lining victory for the entire Dem
ocratic .•> Vi t ; mid a lull vote can be re
cur- -I if tbe Democratic organization
in I ili Democratic people but do their
duty.
It i* work that WIIIK, hut to poll a full
Democratic vote at the c oning election
will require but little work on the part
of each individual, if ALL who feel an in
terest in the m "con of right put their
•houlder* to the wheel und help slong
the good call e.
The regiatration of voter* cloed no
on the 7th of September, and there may
be Democrat* who*e names, through
ctirelemne.r, have been left oil" the regis
try b'cik. Thin does not neceassrily
prevent them voting. If they have paid
a state and county tax within two year*
they cau vote as readily a* can any one
else, by simply proving that they have
resided within the district in which they
offer to vote sixty day*. These unregis
tered Democrat* should bo made to un
derstand this fact.
Another important matter just at this
time, and the most im|ortant that De
mocrat* .have to attend to, is the pay -
men of taxes. No man can vote unless
he has paid county tax within
two years, nr y jys ■/ on or Silur.l iy
thr 7th day of ftcfoLer. Men can vole
who are not registered,but the payment
of either State or county tax, a* above
stated, is an ah*nlute nsrruify, and there
is no way* of getting around it, unlets
you wish lo lose your vote.
There is no man so mean as lo dis
franchise himself for the pittance of
Slate tax he is required lo pay to secure
a vote.
There is no man so poor who cannot
raise the few cent* the Htate imposes a#
a voting tax ; if there are any, any Dem
ocratic neighbor will tend bim tbe
amount necessary to qualify him to vote.
It is the poor men and the careless men
who want to be seen after at this time,
IMI RIGHT NOW I* THE TIME TO ATTEND
io IT. See your Democratic neighbor
and ask him if he ha* paid his taxes. If
he he* not urge him to do so at once. It
is all important. If he ha* not the
money to do so loan him tbe neces
sity amount, and if you are not able to
lo#n it to hint get some Democratic
neighlior who i* to do it and to do it at
once,
A single Democratic vote in each dis
trict f the State for want of payment
of taxes may lose us the victory. Are
you aware of this (act working Demo
crau? Now is TIIE TIME TO PREVENT
•ecu A RESPLT and lear in mind all the
time, that a full Itemoeratie vote intvret an
overwhelming /><•—-ro/i,- victory.
Til* Republican* of New York appear
to be in a high old Mate of excitement
over the nomination of the recent .State
Convention which it i alleged the Stal
wart* carried only by frond. There i* a de
mand not only from the half-breed* but
from many Stalwart*. that Secretary
Folgrr, the nominee for Governor, de
cline the nomination and that the con
vention he recalled and a new ticket
lie placed in the field, F-iljer refine*
and theia are plenty of Republican*
promi*.ng him defeat from one to two
hundred tboitaand majority. All agree
that Folger i* a competent and proper
roan, hut hi* nomination being foul and
unclean, cannot be endured this year
when the people are demanding re'
form and decency. Republican |*ilitn-*
in the Empire State pre*enl healthy in
dication* of a general mah-up aa the
reult of the disreputable work of ila
rn -chine politic* in which all acquit the
nominee lor governor a* a direct partici
pant. Arthur had better staid at the
White House,
Kova lim • ag> w< vere excited by the
statement th it the widow of Ahrilnn
Lincoln wa* in reduced circumstance*
and suffered severely l.y the public neg
ieet which failed U> endow her with the
wealth of other Presidential widow*.
Ifer eon, Secretary Lincoln, the other
dy entered bond* a* administrator of
her pertounl estate, In the sum of# I art,-
QUO,which gova to ehow that the wee not
a pauper or in danger of the suffering
which the public were led to believo
i would follow if Congress did eot ootne
i to the reeeue.
Voters, Think of This.
Knorrnous increase of expenditures in
I'ennsylvania in twenty years iu the fol
lowing items:
n-sMc eaivrisu.
IN IKM IHS COM ru ... .EZWI.AWMIZ
la IMOtWaart *u tRMI
lieiiw r.-o- iiH
In I -so ||,. ,K|e>rie ,ri. 12*,22'W1
LU I**o LH- RKJ,E!,,E. WERE M.4OMJO
letrsaas *zIZ.7T.U
111 OIU or UuitLstios.
lo two tbe sspsnse* vers .0(7.1.',
In IKiiiliieijehM, wen . IT7,JMAS
I te I esse I4l*,:a2.fru
K Mam.
Is l*--l Ihr s( wwi 7 1'.'.'.Wl 74
In IMXI Uie (XJWt www MViw:. i-'l
I ncresse
• leiwics ur mrtsTaiwr* or wtuisur.
ts IISO (as gUVJM ■
iu we ws> tiijmjn
Itirreue ... IM-.A, II
roevtsTius or m .T.rr
In I**o wu 4.>;7*r.
In 1MI l.mtll
lie re*.e l,x:v.:i
The increa-ie of population was a lit
tle more than 47 per cent., and by mak
ing their own calculations they will see
that the expense of public printing in
creased nearly eight fold ; that the ex
pense of penitentiaries, legislation and
the judiciary have been increased more
than three fold; and the expenses oj
the departments have quadrupled. Tbia
i* a matter of serious consideration, and
it is the duty of every voter who desires
honest government to ponder the mat
ter well before he casta his vote in favor
of the boss influence which is responsi
ble for this great and unprecedented ex
travagance. It is not needed for the
honest conduct of government, but is
applied in the way it will do tbe most
good for keeping them in power. The
increase of |iopulation doe* not account
for it but downright robbery of the pub
lie money.
Tub Harrttburg I'atrwt rivalling of
two excellent and deserving candidate*
whom lb* honest and sensible people of
Dauphin will delight to honor because
of the honorable manner in which they
come before them, refer* to the despic
ably mean practice which ha* become *o
general |and i *o discreditable to the
manhood of candidate*, or would bo
candidate* travelling round boring for
rote* or soliciting nomination* *ay* :
" There are two candidate* for ini|>ort
ant office* whose example in refusingjto
make personal *olicitalion of rote* may
if endorser! by the people, hare great
influence in re*toring the good old rule
that "the office should *eek the man
rather than the man *eek the office."
We allude to Colonel Henry McCormick
democratic candidate for oongrea*. and
Hon. \V. R. Horgas, democratic candi
date for representative in tbi* city.
A*ide from the principle involved it i*
a matter of practical importance to men
who cannot aflbd to devote their time
to politic* that professional office-seek
ing should be restrained within decent
bound*. Few workingmen and a* few
business men can spare the time to
make a personal canvass for office. The
consequence is that a large claa* of cit
i*ens are practically debarred from be
coming candidate*, and thi* i one rea
son why party nomination* are often
conferred ujion unfit and unworthy per
son*. Ibwidea the personal solicitation
of vote* by candidates i* a nuisance to
to the public. Tbe anxiou*office-hunter
often trespasses upon the tun* of the
man of work and buines*. There i*
not a political canvas* in which the time
rpent by workingmen, farmers, tner*
chant* and other* in giving |>olite audi
ence* to electioneering candidate* is not
worth thousand* of dollar*. Thi* is a
point well worth the consideration of
the intelligent voter. In these day* of
political reform the practice of buxatng
and button-holing the dear people which
h* been in vogue ought to conte in for
its share of public reprobation."
If the people will properly sympa
thise with tich honorable course a* the
l'.ithnl refers to and give a wide berth
to personal solicitation* they will soon
get rid of the detestable bore* who an
nually annoy them and secure a higher
standard of official representative*.
THI fi*p*Uten of this place never
oan tell the truth on political questions.
In thU week's issue it says "tiie Waltk
•w* ha* not the courage of tbe CanTM
DIVOCKAT to declare for free trade, tbe
settled policy of tbe party," and that
we labored to prove that "all the •tales
men that ever fired in thk country
were free trade advocate* and that doe
trine ia the beet for the Democratic par
ty." We said nothing of the kind. We
TE11M8: p*r Annum, in Athanw.
tried to iliow that the election of a
(iovernor of Pennsylvania had nothing
to do with the (antl and in discussing
tiiiit we did .how that in saying what
the Jtrpubl,r„n did ahout the tariff of
1M.!2, IMJi* and 1h46 it wna riiisslst ,ng
hiatorioal facts. something public jour
nals should not do. Then we quoted
from eminent Republicans to show that
in tins Republican parly there was a
great diversity of opinion on the tariff,
and the best men of that party wanted
the tariff revised. In support of the
statement that the Republican party
i* much divide'! on the question of tar
iff, we quote from the speech of Hoi •
L. W. Hail, made at Steeltoti, on Satur
day. Mr. Hall is a life long Republican.
He said "ninny of the Western, South
ern, and New Kngland Republicans are
for free trade. In Pennsylvania, a large
majority of both parties are for proter.
tion.' It is a well known fact that the
Legislature of lowa, in March lart, j aw
ed a joint resolution instructing their
Senators and requesting their Represen
tatives in Congress from that State to
vote against any increase of duly on
steel blooms and wire rods. The legis
lature that passed this resolution con
tained a ItepubJican majority of ninety
six on joint ballot. < >ur position is thus
made very strong. We repeat that
there is a wide difference of opiuion
among the eminent Republicans of the
nation on the tariff question, and that
when Reaver raised the tariff issue, he
raised a question with which candidates
for Governor have nothing to do,
A Proven Part.
There is no work you can do from
now until the 7th of October that will
have such telling effect upon Ibmo
cratic prospects as to go out and e„
that the taxes of all the democrats m
your neighborhood are paid. We have
all along promised our democratic peo
ple a glorious victory in oaae a full vote
is foiled, and a full vole can only be
bad by seeing that every democrat is
properly prepared to Tote. Tha it tke
Umt to attend to that matter. After the 7th
of October it will be too late. There
are other matters you can easily put off
until after that date, but this must be
attended to, and sow is the time, and
lot are the one to do it. go at it at once.
I*°n t wonder whether it is being done
over in a neighboring ward or township,
but go and ATTIMI TO Tocaow* IIITI<-T.
d>tbers are doing it elsewhere, and the
j only place you are asked to bother
sfwut is in your own election district.
This is meant for any democrat that
reads this paper.
1 I nited State* flMtioo Suptr'if.
or in Philadelphia, Edward Gonegan
and Frank .lobnvlon, have been held to
an*wer at the next term of Court, upon
the charge of making fraudulent re
turna of voter in the Fourth Ward of
that city. The evidence tbowa that
out of thirty two peraona returned aa
living in one houae only three were
found there, that tut two votera lived
in another houae where twenty bad been
regiatered, that in another only aix of
twenty regiatered had been found, and
in another boure there were but eleven
votera out of thirty aix returned. Thia
ia the way the machine worka which haa
carried aloft the Ilepublican flag for the
laat twenty yeare.
PATTIWIX'S apeecb ia full of golden
texie. Here ia one of them:
It ia a miatake to auppoao that the
favorable deciaion of the Pardon Board
ia conclusive upon the Executive. The
recommendationa of that board are ad
viaory merely. By the fundamental
law the final power to grant pardona ia
veated in the Governor, who alone ia
roapursaihlc for the exerciaeof thia giate
duty.
The plain reading of thia ia that the
Kemhlea and other roguea who violate
the law. or rob the Treasury of the peo
pie, muat nut rely upon the Executive
for protection, if Pattiaon i* Governor.
Natcaroa .Jao. G. Hann. of Elk coun j
ha been re nominated for the Senate in
the thirty-eighth district, Hia,election
of course, ia ateured. He ia a native
of Centre county and ranka among the
alien member* of the Senate.
MAYORS AND RATI IIKI.OILH MTYR
Mr, Cleveland the Democratic enndi
date for Ooveruor of New York b
Mayor of tho Citjr of Buffalo, and a
batchelor. Mr. Iltll, |hc I Vtnocmiic
candidate for Leiutenant Ooveruor, ia
Mayor of the City of Elmiru, and aleo
a batcbehir. Both tnarriagable and
doubllm will be both in the market,
immediately after the election. Don't
forget it, girla, and put in your hot
NO. 39.