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.
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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.