alljc t£cntre A Democrat. SHIUERT A VAN OHMKLL, KtlUont. VOL. 5. ffht C nitre jflmocrat. Tor ma SI. 50 per Annum, In Advance S. T. SHUCERT A J. R. VAN ORMER, Editors. Thursday Mornine, April 19, 1883. Contro County Democratic Com mittee) for 1883. BIHTH'T. !*. K. O. ADMIMH. j 11,.11.-f..nt- K W. •' M Ksiclilltis llsll"-fnt*. •• s. W. . Cbss. Smith .. .... " W. W. . s. A MeQotsttoo.. ■oward . Ira" . Loatksn Howard | •• Jam." I' Jont-s Mlt—tiiir*. Mlllhriiu " F 1* >1 .I.~T Mlllh-LM Phllind.urc IW. . O.H ll.rltiif.-r I'tUllpst'Ori! ■> W s.l Srhllll.lt .1 W. A. V.Carpat,tar... Unioovill* txiro. P. J. M.-IMttald . Klrmlna. Ilaimar tap. Wm. lahln Hallof..nla. tw|. Krsuk T Adam* Mil-stiiir*. Burtt>i.l twp Hmirjr Moakar Pitta Olantt. Coll-Ks twp. John IL*.p L*im.|.t. Ctirtln twp. John MHT.wkatr 11..tn..1ii K.-rftlKit, O. I* J. T M'-Cortlllrh Stat.. ' "llaff.. .. ji I" I, W.Walkrr K. k sprout* (Ir-ttx K. P. ,l..hn OoMruit Kpritttf Mills. •• N I'. Wot. I.nar ..Karni-r Mill. BIIIH : i' L. a. Nam Woodward. I \V p Oan a.w.r \ar..nt.ttrf. Half Moon tap. .1 M Qrlfllti Kt..rtn.t..o Harri. twp H W. M-yar IkwlaLnr*. Howard lap John tllenn. Howard. Uuiton twp. J .htt 0 Milra .....Julian. Libartjr tap Jantaa P Idol, Illaio harl Marl..,. tap. J J Hoj Wslk.T, Mtlaa ;twp. Kilt. K Kl.afrr Madta-nl ur.- I'att. n tap. Axnew Setters Jr. rllmora. . P..rut twp. I' It.Stcwer 001-tirn Pottar N P. !' J Mever Cantra llail t p Samnrl Slark TnawyTlll.- ! K.iatt N P William Cnllrn... PhlllpaLnrr I g p J T Iwrl) sandy RMe. Snow Shoa twp, Wm R Hayor. Knw Snoa. j Sprtntt twp K C. W.wal Ileltefonte. Taylor twp. llaphnrn lllowrr* y.,w|.r t'lilou twp. K K Kiitrrl.il Kirntltif Walkar twp J.,aph Kmarlrk lliihlrrahora Worth twp. M S. Spotta Port Matilda ,(' II KIN I. H Chairman. W. Matt Wuiir, Hrr*ury. IT i reported from California that the fruit crop of that section is more promising than ever before for au itn niense yield ; aud that great prc|ara tions are being made to handle it, by increasing the number of cannaries. ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS in his wrill estimates his estate at #12,000. j After so mauy years spent in active 1 public life, mostly in Congress, this modest accumulation speak* volnme* for the purity and excellence of the distinguished Georgia statesman. IT is said that there are now two hundred cotton manufactories in the South. This is notice to New England that the results of the war have mate- ! rially changed the locality of success ful work in this industry. The rot ton mills must go to the cotton Ileitis. SENATOR KE1.1.000, of Iui*iana, claims the paternity of Rutherford 11. Haves as a first-class fraud in the Presidential office. Hut Aliunde Joe Rradley contested the claim success fully aud should not be deprived of the glory it gives him. It'* a thing to boast of! How THEY no IT! We have the authority of the Washington /W that a government official cut down the pay of two old and faithful employes in order to make room on the pay-roll for a colored man, whom he set to work in his own stable. This is only one of many provident officials. SECRETARY FOLDER is recovering health, which will be very satisfactory to all the country, except those patri ots who harbored an ambition to step into a dead niau's shoes. Our distill- J guisbed Senator does not want them now, and poor Ncw's hopes were blast ed by the appointment of a Postmas ter General from Indiana. THE Radical /Vr** of Providence R. I. says, "The Republican party must do something or die." es, hut every time it does anything death ap proaches nearer. If it were to retire its ADo*sei siid frauds ami try to he honest for a season or two, it might prolong its days some, but it seems incapable of this kind of effort "to do some thing." It will have to go ! THE latest returns from Michigan show that all the fusion (Democratic and Greenback) candidates are elect ed, instead of only half, as at first re ported. The overpowering Republi can majorities that distinguished this state in the days of Chandler, have dwindled into a minority, and Michi gan can no longer be counted to swell the column of spurious Republican ism. Two successive state elections attest this fact. "KqUAL AN It EXACT JUSTICE TO ALL MEN, OK WHATEVER HTAI K OH I'KKKf ANION , KEI.KIIOL'K OH I'OI.ITH'A L. "—Jsffsrsfat,. Tho Attldudo of the Colored Voter. George T. Downing (colored,) who -at beside Charles Sumner holding his hand when he died, ami was restaura , teur of the House fourteen years prior ft) 1870, mace speeches in Rhode Is land for the Democratic candidate tor gubernatorial honors. Downing says j the Republican party as a friend of | the negro is a stupendous fraud. He | advises his race to abandon it. He ! insists that Southern processes of re j construction were only methods em -1 ployed to rob blacks ami whites and i invest Republican leaders with offices. He does not forget that the same Re publican party fastens u larili' system 011 the country which robs the negro fin everything ami "protects" him in nothing. Cannot some devout spiritist tell what the shade of Charles Sum ner thinks of it?— Am* rutin J!cyiM< r. Indications are not wanting that the intelligent colored men of the country" ! like Mr. Downing, arc coining to a realizing knowledge of the true in wardness of Republican love for colored voters —that they have no in [ terest in the colored men beyond their | votes. This i- clear by the uniform [ failure to recognize the colored man '> iu any official position where the Re | publicans have the power, iu connec tion with the colored vote, to accord such recognition. Iu I'euusylvania, land indeed iu nearly all the leading | Northern States, sham Republicanism have triumphed only hv the colored vote which they held under what Mr. Downing correctly characterize# a# a "stupendous fraud." Detach these and the Republican party are a* help less to control official patronage as the i colored man to whom they deny equal rights under party organization. 1 ON Wednesday of In-t week, the Stalwart* in the Senate, under the i lead of Cooper, were mtieh elated bv a victory they achieve*! over the Dem ocrats. The hilltorc|Mo! the I'hila. delphia Recorder art coming up in or ! dor <>n second reading, Coojs-r sue j credt "1 in in* iirporatiug -• vera! amend ment* to the hill, rendering it entirely ' worthies- as a r> lorm no a*ur* -one of which w to continue Recorder Lane 111 otli o I"r -0111 \-JI-, ami pas-d it in tbr.t sliupo. This of course *■ re ceived by I.am- and hi- Stalaait friends with much g!"e and rejoicing a- "in- of their pmud-*t achievement* lin I* gii-lativ" legerdemain. Rut their triumph \\n- of-In rt duration,ami 1 n Thur-dav met a *ii>l"!> 11 ami unex pected rcver , alien ?!.< vote upon which I i>•• Hlliciulloeiil.* wre udoptf 1 and the i>ii 1 passed was r ■< "iii leretl- The amendments ol COOJNT wore then reject" d, and the hill pn-scd a third rending. The Record'r net. got up expri-siv to eiwlnw a bo-s henchman at the expense <>t the tax-payers of ! Philadelphia, will have to go. Tin: Connecticut I/cgislature pro poses to compel the railways of that state to i-"<ue pa--e to judges and leg islators without quest ion or condition. They desire to be under no obligation to the courtesy of these corporations, . and will settle the case as to free rill ing ou the highway principle —"your money or your life." IF the Congressional apportionment hill passed by the Democrats in the House becomes a law, it will require 29,400 Rep. votes to elect a Congress man, and 31,400 to elect a Democrat. 1 Would it lie jmssible to devise a bill fairer than this? Certainly Republi cans have no just reason to find fault with it, when they are accorded a ma jority on a very doubtful title. Tho hill offered by the House, is one of ab solute fairness, and is not framed in the interest of wrong, as was jhe act upon which the members of congress were apportioned for the ten years past. It is time we had some little honesty and fairness in this thing, and we do uot abandon the hope, that there are enough meu in the Senate of Pennsyl vania, who can look higher than the slums of politics in the performance of legislative obligation as represen tatives of the people, to see that jus tice is done iu apportioning the representation in Congress. ItKbLKFONTK, I'A., THURSDAY, AI'RII, !'.i. IKS:!. Republican DtHHonwloiiH The Republican journals in New j York are discussing the "harmony' question ami their success in disposing of it is somewhat akin to that wh'uli has attended the < ll'irts of Senator Cooper ami Colonel (Jtiav to effect a reconciliation of the warring Republi. can element* in Pennsylvania. The more talk of "harmony" the h -s hope of healing dissension. The Albany AVpress reads tlie New York '/Via /s, Kvenimj Albany Journtii, Buffalo Kr/ir "n and other 1 Republican journals "entertaining the same fiscal view- 'out of the party, jlt suggests t lint those journals "join I hands with the New ork World and Loui.-ville Courier-Journal and other ' advocates of a tariff for revenue only. This is harmonizing with a vengeance I It was predicted in these columns j not long since that Die Republican I party would In- in greater peril ofj ! division on the tariff' que-tion than the j 1 ' Democracy. The w ide aud irrt-eon-I 1 cilable differences between the hading Republican journals of the country, . notably tboM of New York, point tol I the verification of this pr"lit tioti. AN irrepressible contlict within the Re • publican party on the tariff' i* imli -1 cater) by the utterances of those jour- 1 i t.als ami it i* not at all likely that it . will be fought out liefore the close ofj i the next presidential canvass. It is evident that the Republican national convention will not dare to ■ imert a square protective tariff plank in its platform. It will either evade the subject and content itself with in sincere and meatiiiiglcs- platitudes pretending to favor "American labor, ' or will declare for a revenue tariff ' with the muni r-trrh ntfcYfrt* crimination in favor of home industry. Rut it will not take the ground that n tariff' for protection a- distinguished from a tariff for revenue is the true policy of the I "nit<'l Slates. Mark the prediction.— Itnrri*bur<j I'atriot. 'I itr industry of the 'Committee of one hundred" on tlie eve of the elec tion !a*t fall, is made apparent by the fact that they dej>oi|ed -VO.oOt) more packages in tin- Philadelphia po-t-ofli< < than the capacity of the office was ca pable of distributing. Of the packag"-* deposited a tew day I "fore the election titwore "li-trihuted bv tie- car rier, ami half a ton left on hand for the committee to < art out for -"ale a* waste pa]M-r. THE Massachusetts statesmen, Rout- ! well, Dawes and Hoar, who have been so eloquent in Congress, in their shrieks of manufactured horrors of 1 "Southern outrages," may'now study with profit the developemcnts which I Governor Butler's veto has unearthed in the "TT'wksbury Alms House." j While these men were lielching anath' i emits again-t the Southern people for alleged wrongs upon the "man ami brother," tueu, women ami children were permitted to die of want ami hru- j tality in the Massachusetts state poor house, ami it- officials nt the same time driving a profitable trade in the corpses of the state victims. The con trast i not plca-ant, hut the lesson should he profitable. Governor But ler, we presume,has only fairly begun j the great work he has in view, ami ; from the specimeu thus far given, the poor of the hay state may prav Got) that he may lie spnrcd to continue it to the end. ■ - ' i-i'ii H. J. GII.MORK, has beeu nomina i ted by the Democracy of Fayette county as the candidate for Assembly, ! to fill the place mnde vacant by the de clination of Dukes. It is believed that the Republicans will not make a nomination. HENRY I). M'DANIKI. is the nomi nee by acclamation, fthe Democra cy of Georgia as the candidate for Governor, made vacant by the death Governor Stephens. The Republi cans have decided not to put a csndi date in the field. idcitoE 11 HESIIAK, the M-W Postmaster Octjeral, cannot escape greatness now 1 Indiana most have a Republican uandi date ffir President. Hut what will the Republican editors of t), >t State do with Senator Harrison, now that they are declaring lor .ludgc (iresham '! THE Star-route trials are being drawn to a close. The testimony of the de fendcnU, or rattier their dentals, is concluded, anil the prosecution began to offer testimony in rebuttal on Friday I morning lust. The argument of coun sel will probably continence next week. Tin determination ol Mr. Little, the State Librarian, to retain the services of Mr. Orwig, the pr<-"-tit gentlemanly as •islant, i as creditable to hi good judg ment u- it i complimentary to a very deserving man and a faithful accommo dating official. Iltviv; acquired a competency, Mr •lay 'loubi announces hi* retirement from husim-'s. He lias accumulated a I fortune of Jlist.OtKi.issi which will ena J tile him to live comfortable, an i to take jin the contemplated trip around the world. M iJ < -it l'liiri-s has returned from 1 an ada. and the taker 'My may again be happy. He was not received with that courtesy and attention which his pie vious services as a Republican tss leader seemed t" entitle him. but was 1 thrust without hail into Moyamt t.s.ng j prison. J<E BRADY who ha* been <>i< trial in Dublin for come time, for the mur der of Lord (iavctidish and Mr. Burke j ha* Ikk-ii convicted ami sentenced to 1- hung. The other alleged conspirators : HI the I'hoonix I'.trk tragedy, are also tube tried ami will no doulit meet the j saute fate, except the villain who tum- iufuTuar to ave hia own faithlear. net k. Tin: Government is evidently !*'• giniiiiig to tire of Brewster's ridiculous and unsuccessful iai<l* u]*>n the Dem ocrats of South Carolina, if not of tlx frilled tnte*ma!i himself, an<i it ha.* t>ecn giveu out that there i- no more money available to l>e sja-nt for that purpose. He ha* already (Kjuandercd largt) sums iu this business, much of it a* n iM n'ioii fund for defeated Con gr -smen, and hns nothing creditahle to slow f,,r it in return. DlfTßtllt TIND THE Ml leU.s. —The famous ".'''Mi" medals are now being distributed. It apjw-ars they have been at S<-nator Don Cameron's house in llarrishurg sitter- the eve of the In d> [M-ntlent convention, nearly a year ago. One or two of the faithful who were at the Senator's house when they 1 arrive, were handed the ornaments with Alt injunction of secrecy and the 1 balance held for a more propitious st ftsoti for distribution. That time the Senator belir-vtsa has tH'W nrrived Mouat's, of course, will Ire quite orna mental to his court dros at Cherry . Hill. Alfer-tioii of at row for Sheep, Naturalists have given us much aliout (he uncommon (reakof animals nn<l liirils and tlieir associations, ami now there comes to us a true account of the unnatural behavior of a crow, which, . "luring the entire winter, has for-aken its feathered companions arid taken tip 1 its winter quarter- with a flock ol sheep >n l.orin Wilcox's farm, about two miles this side of'ixford. A great in ; titnacy has sprung up between the crow and the lambs, and the crow hop* about tlie backs of the flock with a ! deal of fvmiliaritv So great is the at. 1 tachment t hat the lambs exhibit great uneasiness it his crowship is not perch •*d upon one of their back*. During a storm or at night, when the flock ir ; driven to the fold, the now hops upon ! the hack of one ol the sheep and goes with thrtn into shelter, and is seen in the same position next morning, ready to go out with th flock. Tho bird is fat and sleek, and his plumage is bright' . glossy and as black as jet. Mr. Wilcox says that his sheep never did lietler than they have this winter, and they are perfectly tree from licks.—Norwich TeUgraph. KIOTO u G. B. Gt'W, of the Ches ter county Drmocral, is named a* n candidate for Auditor General. IloHquiCKcat in Paco I he I'hiln<ic!|ihi 1 lleeonl recently prin ted an edition on the Spring elections, and guv 1* the reasons thereof. What was said, was true, Lot not enough was *a:d to explain why spring elections, ail over the country, should so nearly fol low in the track of November. the true res-oii. of the ballots being thrown against the Republican party, is that the party lot- filled its mission and is about to go into history. This the voter-, themselves, know. The par tv, in opposition to the Democratic, has never en joyed I lie full confidence of the country, from the formation of the gov eminent to the present time. It ha* never been a party of fixed, broad, cath olic views on the questions of public policy. but, like soinc medical men, b* beeif a political specialist, i'such term jbe allowed. It has always rested on a single idea, and when that was wrought to a conclusion the party came to an end. 't his was the case with the old Federal party, tounde t on ifamiltonian views of the Constitution, and the at tempt to establish a -trong government in the sen-"- of having its strength at the center instead of among the people. Ihe same i- the history of the Whig party; the Know Nothing party, etc. They w etall based, and organized, upon a single idea, which, lor the mo ment. had the popular ear : or. in op |>OMtion to a lit)"- of public policy pur sued by the party then in power. The very singular fact is here presented, that, at each change of tactics, by the party in opposition to the Democratic, a new name was assumed. The old natue was consigned to history the old platform to the waste basket, and the banners to the rag merchant. In all the history of politics the party, which indulge- in frequent change of name, proves its foundation upon the sand, and that it has not one enduring prin ciple, The Republican party is not ex erupt from the infirmities of its ances tors. .Itist before its birth there wa* a breaking up of the parties, and frac tions of parties, in opposition to the I 'en <s racy, and it * brought into the wo* : upon the single issue of oppose ! tion 10 slivery. The institution had f>e. come a-landing reproach and it wa 1 not difficult to popularize the opf<o*i | tion to it. The men. who created the Republican party, announced no other I doctrine in their creed. Rack of this, however, were office and plunder, held out to the rank and file to keep them from straggling, the party having car ned out the purpose of its creation, there i* nothing left for it to do, but die and go to that undiscovered country prepared for defunct political organiza tions. 1 lutsule of the slavery question, it never had a single claim tq>on the confidence of the country. Its ideas of constitutional government are as dis jointed as a child's on astronomy ; in administration, it is both corrupt and extravagant, and labors tinder the de lusion that the heaviest taxed people are the happiest. It has never shown sny regard for the Constitution, in peace or war, when it stood in ita way, being a firm Ifelievt-r in the doctrine that "the end justitiea the means." The Republican party, in its history of al most twenty five years of continuous power, lias not itiauguiated a single public policy that reached beyond the party rut. Like individuals and .States, the Republican parly lias ltved its day and is now sinking into its grave. For i the last ten yeais. it has only lived n|>ot: j 'ts past traditions and glories, but the I recent ex|>ositioo nt its corrupt prac tices, wherever it has had power, has alienated the voters who only followed it because oI these traditions. The load ; has liecome to heavy for honest patti -ans !ong<-r to carry, and they are leav ing it to its fate ; tefnsing even to tarry at its side while the grave digger pre pares its place ol sepulture. I'eace to its ashes."— lkty'entwn Itrmorrot THE New York llrrohl "toes not think j it would be advisable to send lfoscoe j Conk ling and .fame* (*. Rlaine back to i Congress, where they never could agree, : when the country is getting along so well without them. The one is doing : good work in the practice of law—the other in literature, it would be a mis take to recall them to public life. These distinguished bosses, representing re spectively the Stalwart and half breed divisions of the "grand old party" may not concur in the views of the Herald when the time come* for the selection of candidate* for the bs monious party. TOMS: $1.50 per Annum,in Advance. IT i* just coming to the understand ing of the people that the present At _ torney General of the United .State* i* t a genius—a great man in frill*, and • j can afford to do thing* that no other ' person would think of doing. It seem* thai he has placed a contest** for a seat in (Jon grew, upon the pay-roll* of the Attorney f ieneral'* office as a spe- JJ eial deputy to prosecute hi* own case. . ( ould eccentricity or official dignity • . get beyond this ? 1 HI. llepuhlicans of the Senate have not yet got their courage up to 4 the duty ot making au honest appro tionrnent. 'I he House ho* shown a c commendable degree of fairness, and * if the Senate will respond in the same -pirit, very little time need be wasted * in passing a satisfactory bill credita -1 hie to them us representative* of the | people, and gratifying to all fair minded men in the state, whether Dem* ocrat or Republican. t M.NATOI: K1.1.1/S.I, certainly com -1 milled a grave indiscretion when he i boasted that his own right hand saved the Presidential election to the Itcpub i can* in I*7'>, if he sought to claim sympathy or influence jurymen in the , trial he i* now booked for. The I>ern ocrats cannot accord him any re*je* t e ) for counting Tilden out, nor will the i Republican* cease to curse him for "(counting Hayes in. The act was as j i infamous in either case, as connection j with the Star-route conspiracy in rob „ bing the treasury, for which he ia to j be tried by a jury of his countrymen. 3 IT is announced that Senator Don ( atneron with his family, will shortly j sail for Europe, to be al*ent one year, where we hope he may enjoy much pleasure and invigorated health. Jt s ! i* also said that Mr. H. >V. Oliver of Pittsburg, succeed* to the political > fortune* of the Senator in Pennsylva -6 nia a heir apparent to the succession. N\ e pity Oliver. He has a rough road to travel. In assuming the political liabilities, he also assumes the boss „ ship of the inharmonious partv which r he will find burdensome and not a pleas* ut l i manage a* thev formerlv I were. A mi.i. has been introduced in the legislature to make the manufacture , nt 'd sale of Infernal machines and oth , or devices to destroy life and property a crime punishable by fine and im . prisonment, when criminal intent is > shown on part of the manufacturer. ' Thi* bill should pass. This countrv has no need for infernal machines for ! it* own use or for commerce. We MM* it slated that one manufactory at least , J these dynamite infernal machines are , ojcnly made and sold in Philadelphia i | to any person who may desire to pos , *<>* them, and tbi* tact itself is sufli i cient to the restraining influ ' ence of law , and applied direct to such i cas*. 1 1 HK New \ ork Sun has this to *av . *if the < Jhiti slaiesnien and of their hope , and fears : "Charles Foster, the pres ent Governor of Ohio, would like to b* re-elected and theu turn hi* eye to word a Presidential nomination. It is said .John Sherman would no doubt j cons* n! to run for Governor with the same object in view, if he did not feel the chance* of failure overshadowed the chuuces of success, Mr. Sherman's political strengib has not been listed on a pipular vote for more thmtwon years. and he shrinks from presenting himself as a candidate before such a mixed ma-s of voters as thecitir.cn* of ()liio are at present. The success of Have* made him the Republican can , didate for President in 187<>. Hayes. however, was beaten by a popular ma i jority of 250,000 ami by a majority of : ; white voters of more than a million. 1 This is not encouraging for the Re publican aspirants to the nomination for Governor of Ohio, hut by carrying ( their ticket in that state the Democrats will effectually set at rest all doubts f and anxieties which now trouble the mind of several eminent members of the opposite party." NO. IG.
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