3ljc it cut re flnnocral. S. T.snr(;KHT\ K. L. OHMS. Editors. VOL. 5. Or (f nitre Term* 51.50 pnr Annninin Advnnoe. Thursday Moraine, September 13,188? STATE TICKET. FOR AUDITOR OKNF.RAI., (•apt. ROBERT TAGOAIIT, of Warren County. FOR ST ATE TRF.A SI" RKR, Hon. JOSEPH POWELL, of Bradford County. COUNTY TICKET. FOR ASSOCIATE JPDOF. I>r. J. It. SMITH, of Ferguson Township. FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEY W. C. HEINLE, of Rellefonlo. FOR COUNTY St.'RYFY"H ELLIS L. (ITVIS, of llellefonte. SENATOR VOORHEKS, of Indiana, is retained to defend James Nutt in his approaching trial for the murder of N. L. Dukes. THE three cent postage stamps are to go the first of next month. They ought to have the companionship of the threo cent coin as a nuisance to he abated. COOPER, STEWART A CO., at tin rate of ten dollars a day, have labored very successfully for another cyclone similar to the oue that struck the "grand old party" last fall. WHY is it that no where do the "grand old party" or its organs clamor for the "old ticket." It certainly can not be that the g. o. p. fail.-- to appre ciate Hayes and Wheeler, who stole the Presidency aud Vice Presi lency in 1876. THE Springfield Republican admon ishes its party that "it i * high time for the old party of moral ideas to wash up an<l become decent again." But will Gould, Don Cameron and such, collect ami furnish the soap as they did in 1880. THE Boston Republican I'rev, growing determination to defeat Gov. Butler, is ably off-netted by a growing determination on the part of Butler and his friends, not to permit it to be done. The campaign in the Bay State will therefore be a h"t and lively one. IT is intimated that some of the junketing parties at the public expen.-e which have leen out during the sum mer, will have extraordinary good luck, if they do not collide with nn obstruction in the comptroller's office, or the bulletins of a committer 'of congress. A WIOWAM erected at the Richfield Springs, New York, to accommodate the State Convention is to have the capacity to hold 1<"00. That will prob ably lie ample for a respectable fu neral : hut a few years ago it would have been insufficient for an ordinary town meeting of the g. o. p. THE Buffalo Krprett thinks it would not bo at all safe to "leave Blaine out of the calculation, while reckoning up the candidates and the chances of the / next Presidential campaign." The Plumed Knight is not so deeply in volved in authorship, or so dreadfully alarmed by Stalwart bluster as to fore go his interest in the next National Republican convention. "KEEI- the rascals out," is the read ing given to the New York iS'un's ad monition "Turn the rascals out," by that goody good editor, It. Smith of Cincinnati, the same conscientious patriot who appealed to the Dorsey committee in 1880 for 150,000 to lie "judiciously placed— two-thirds on elf. lion day." To "keep the rascals out" as well as to "turu the rascals out," is the mission of the Democracy in the next fourteen months. It is one of great importance to the future of the country, and in the light of the politi cal history of the Republican party for the last decade, cannot fail of suc cess. A Roontcr Journalist. Ijong centuries ago, the wise Aesop told a great truth iu his table of tin- Jackdaw ami the Peacocks. '1 he Daw, ambitious to elevate his lot ami ring among his betters, followed the birds of Juno and carefully preserved their fallen hut beautiful plumage to stick among his own dull tail leathers. For a short time he actually succeed ed iu passing himself of as a genuine peafowl, soon however the cheat wa discovercd, and the poor braggart was chased from the llock with ignominy by his lute compuuions. We have a daw in Pennsylvania. Ten years ago in the Legislature of 1873 there was a trickster from Philadelphia, a rooster of the roosters, who scratched the spoilt dunghill at I iarri-burg lor pi-k -ings, n* vigorously as any of tlu- city 1 tloek. Since then as editor of the Philadelphia 77.a- < lis ha- been palm ing himself off as a reformer upon the . I public. The character does not suit , Aleck ami recently he has cut a sorrv j figure for reform. He has attacked the , .-tate administration, ami for what ? j To gratify m< re personal spleen against j one man, whoso integrity in office, has i given the lie direct to his vilest slan der-' A- no one in powor has unlit d ; this expose of himself, in his petty rage he ha- prostituted his paper to the m anest calumny and falsehood. He knows the Governor does but his duty when he obeys the plain explicit com mand- of the constitution, and insist* upon apportionment, why then doc ! M'Clurc join in the radical yell against ibiin? He knows as d>-s every mind, above the intellectual grad- of an id; t. | that ii i- the ultimatum of the Senate that obstructs legislation, yet heap ! plauds the revolutionists. But wha* ! is the constitution ativ - We know where lo- i n ■ ). t 1 | crow for Cameron, who de-pi-- s him. | But r- member Met !ur<- i- - nly a i •• ter * > rug his neck and Democrats boycolt ttie Tunes. THE II publican party ha- outliv-d ir- mi-sion,says tie New York HVo I- bus disposed of all its prominent j candidates. Grant is dead. Hnyt-is i dead. Garfield is dead. Blaine has ! gone into literature, (tinkling has bocn set aside, so has Bristnw. Win i dom has failed in the attempt to build up a new Stock Exchange and gme •to Eurojie. Sherman has been out -1 witted by Foster. Cameron has, in I political parlance, "lost his grip." Col tax died of Credit Mobilier. All—all are gone. The "stall fed ox" still rats at the public crib, but torpidity stimu lates death. The hope that the Re- publican party may find new issues j and still live can not he, realized. I)i'Ht!*i< the absence of Bos* Cooper j and John Stewart on Wednesday of last week, tin- Senate passed a joint resolution presented by the Democrat-* ic Senator of Cumberland, to stop the pay of members nfter the 10th of Sep tember until apportionment bills lie passed, created considerable panic to the obstructionists. The Bos* was im i mediately recalled to devise means to ! overcome* the indiscretion of hi* subor j dinatcs in allowing even this smnll at tempt at legislation, and to recall them j to the obstruction duty he has imposed j upon them. On Thursday morning as the result of hi* instruction* a motion was made to reconsider the vote by which the resolution passed. The reso lution was allowed to stand however adding a* additional a requirement that their pay lie appropriated forthwith. | The House also passed a similar reso ! lution to stop pay on the 10th, hut 1 made no condition*. The ten dollar* a day must go and so must the ulti matum. MR*. HAYEK' husband, the verita ble, 11. B. who drew the salary of Mr. Tilden the President elect in 1870, a*, pires to be the successor of Senator Pendleton in the Senate of the United Stales. In 1881 he went into obscurity for life. He will never emerge, and if he did would be entirely useless. "KUUAt. AM' KIAI T JCHTUK TO AM. MXN, OK WIIATKVKH STATU OH I'KRM'ASION, KRLIOIOI'B OK I'OMTICAL."—J'fffKon. IJKLLKFONTK, PA., TIH'IISDAV, SKPTKMISKK 13, 1883. Contro County Railroads. The history ol nil railroad enter prises in this ceiiiity, until within one year, ha- been wonderfully similar l'lie Bald Kit -le Valley railroad,origi nally called the "Lick Have.i and Tyrone railroad," then changed to "The Tyrone and Lock Haven rail way," was originated by citizens of Centre and Clinton counties, and the people of the-.- two countii* raised large sutu- of monev f< r it-* construc tion. All ela -t- of cisi/'ii .farmer-', merchant-*, manufacturer-, mechanic* mid professional men contributed ail their spare means, and some of tin in all they had in the world, toward* the construction of this road. Dr. William 1 ndcrw iod and Thomas Wilson, "f Centre, and Samuel Brady of Clinton, are in ianctsi f men who w- re actually impoverished by tl.i ir inv- -Hneiit- in tiiis road. It was finally mortgaged to raise money with which incomplete I it. The road was sold on this mort gage for the i.oiiiiiiu! sum of 821,000, and the Bald Eagle Valley railroad I company organiz (I upon it- Irum hi-- .*. j The money to lini-li the road wa | ea-iiy rai-'ii upon a mortgage of tin ; in w company, and the stock was dis i tribute') "where it would d > the nn -t ! good,' at the nominal price ' : 8- per share, while the original contribu tor* to the Lock Huvui and Tyrone I railroad w. re h it < ntircly nut in the I cold. Since the completion 'I ti.i road i'.s annual net ' truing* have < x cceded -ix p r centum up a tin- entire c-bt of the i >ad, iu tiding all the money -unk hv the <>i . ginal lontril'.i tors. It i- i. w paying s,t !<:.-t t< n ' per centum upon itaenlirt i oat. Equity, justice ami i mmoii horn-tv would give a iiiir proportion oi am v-b ''t-nml-uiMi the nt upon this rond before it went iut > the hands of the pre-i nt company. The "Tyrone and Clearfield raii* r>ad" from Tyrone to Philip*hurg. 1 was in a great measure built by the people of this rounty and others, through the in-trumcutality of Judge • latin T. llnle. Front Pliilip-hurg t-- Clearfield it was entirely graded by the pe pie of Clearfield county. It also ha- bet n sold U|>oti a tu rtgnge giv II t r the money to put the *up r structure upon it, and the original I contributor* nre not represented its stockholder* in the present road. It i* now earning more than the inter'-t upon the whole ci-t from the Ingin j ning. The "I/ewisburg and Tyrone rail way," formerly the "Lewisburg, Cen tre ntul Spruce Creek railroad," has n similar history, except that it ha* never been completed and for this rea son alone, i* not paying annually a sunt equal to the interest upon it- en tire cost. It also has been sold upon .ii mortgage, and the citizens of this "county who contributed over two hun dred thousand dollar* towards its con struction, have neither railroad nor dividend* upon their investments. Each of these three railroads i* now practically owned and absolutely con trolled by the Pennsylvania railroad company, which corporation j* annu ally receiving the earnings of these road*, which honestly belong to the people ol this county who furnished the money to build the roads. If any individual had acted toward* our peo ple as this corporation basso repeated ly done, hard name* would have been applied to him on every hand, aud he would have been lucky to baveeacaped indictment in our criminal court*. A year ngo to-day a charter wa* taken out for the "Susquehanna and Southwestern railroad"—the name of which ha* since been changed to the "Bench Creek, Clearfield nud South western railroad." This road run* from Jersey Shore, in Lycoming county, through Clinton and Centre countic* to the farther coal field in Clearfield county. From Jeraey Shore to the Motdtannon, a distance of aixty five miles, the road i* already nearly completed and train* will be running I I regularly within a few month*. No : c itizen of either the; four counties of Lycoming, Clinton, Centre or Clear field ha* been asked to contribute one dollar toward" the conduction of this road. The right of way wherever any damage was clone to private property has been promptly paid for in money. This road when finished will develop the whole northern side of our county. The; llellcf'onte and Buffalo Run railroad has been all graced this Hum mer, with two branches nearly finished, making th* aggregate length of the road bed ul>out twenty-two mile*. The tie- are' now lieing delivered and the road wid undoubtedly be finished and running early next year. With the building of the Nittany Valley road freetn Bedlefontc to Mill I lull, giving the Bcllefontc and Buffalo Bun a con nection with the; Bee eh ('reek, Clear field and Southwestern at that point, we will have a eoinjeeting line of rail retails to all point* east. No citizen of this county ha* lieeti akeel to contrib ute anything tej these; !a-t twe> railroads except for the right of way. We hope this year will he the In-ginning ef a new era in the experience of the; |K-O plo of thi* county in railroad build* ing, in which our people will get thee benefit* of railroad* without being fh e e i-d out of large turn* of nioneV for the benefit of a grasping and heart le - corporation. THE I ffert* of the administration TEE h'Hik on to the S euth through Mabone < 'haltnc r anil < 'ash, thri e distinguished demagogues, repr< -s ilting Virginia, South Carolina and Mississippi, brought up by plunder, eh*-- not ap pear to pan out worth a cent. The eh-gust both in the North anil in the S mth, more than overbalance* any 1 gain obtained from the personal fob lowing e; these despised traders. W i are indebte-el for a cirrular of the Pcnn-y Ivania State College, loca -0 i in this county, for I**2 " I, eon taining a statement, with other infor mation relating to the institution, of of the (our- of instruction, condition a lniis-ion. AT. Tlii* institution for - viral year- ha- been the object ef bitter jealou-ic* atnl -even- critici-tn in diifi re tit parts of the state, which wo !' lieve. in nicest e a-e - were e ntirelv unnieriteil But n<>w under the man age me nt or direction of it- prise nt dis tinguished and acconipli-he*i head, the fault* eif the pa-t, it thev e xistrd, shemlel not deprive the present of a tair trinl and a generous confidence- It i- a state institution, and the emi nent standing of Prof. Athorton, gives assurance that the capabilities of the j college for good will be fairly tested. At h ast he should not be; condemned before the opportunity is given him to prove hi* efficiency, a* we sec some of , our contemporaries are disposed to do, doubtle-s as the re sult of the unworthy prejudice* existed by the clamor of j enemies in the political contest of last fall. I in: New York Sun of Monday, has tlii* to say of the canelidaey of Mr. Tildeu : "No doubt it is a great mis fortune, but Mr. Tilden is out of the question as a candidate for I**4. If he were able and willing to assume that place many things would lie plain and easy which are now doubtful and dif- j ficult ; but these doubts and difficul- j tics are not to be overcome by obsti nately denying their existence and ! blindly running into a ntt of impossi- , bililies Mr. Tilden will not be a can ditatc, and n candidate must be found. 1 here is uo niHti within our knowledge who possesses the epialificnlions that belong to him. There is no man who commands the public confidence as he does. There in no man whose name would set aside minor controversies within the party on the one hand or command such wide spread and hear ty confidence from the people on the other. But while this is so it seems to us a mistake to persist in advocating his nomination when wo know his con sent can not be obtained. Who, then, shall lead the Democracy in 1884 ? PurtiCß and Corporations ' Speaking of a proposition to form a people's party composed of the in. dependent and thoughtful men of both the leading parties of tin- country, in order to control the dominating influ ence of corporations in the affairs of state, the Washington I'url makes the following sensible and timely remarks • "Tickets and platforms are made by conventions whose delegates are chosen by primaries open to all members of tin* party. If the people who find fault with the action of conventions wuld consent to abate something of their dignity and go into the primaries they eouhl outvote the rabble that generally controls those assemblages. Of the ten million voters in the 1 nite el States, it is a large estimate to say that one million have any direct agency in nominating candidates for office. All the rest have no choice further than to express a preference between two competitors. They leave the local bosses, who are still a great power in the land, to run the party machine. And when the machine has ground out it* ticket, thousands of men who have let their case go by de fault, ri-e up and condemn the results for which their neglect i- responsible. So long a* we have parties—and we don't see how parties are to be dis pensed with—the character ol the men who get into office will depend on the personnel of the primaries. If the I re>|K'ctable majority leaves the prima ries to the management of the disre putable minority there will be no im provement. That there is a growing sentiment in favor of 'restricting the advances of corporation interests' is undoubted ly true, but the time has not yet ar i rived, and may never come, when thi,, fix-ling will have force enough to give birth to a new party —we mean a party in fart, not in name, a party capable of taking the field with a r a souable hope of success. The evil complained of is one that cannot In- cured by a very sudden or impetuous movement. The interests ! of all the people are intimately asso ciated with the interrs-t- of the corpora tions. The general prosperity of the country would lie blighted if the great corporations were ruthlessly stricken down. Manv of them are grasping and holding two or three times as much of the products of the general industry as they ought to have. They dictate legislation and, to some extent, own the courts of the country. The great problem is, how to icgulatc ] the corporations so a* to give them a i fair chance—how to cure existing evils without creating greater ones. The /W hopes that the reform needed will be inaugurated and suc cessfully carried out under Democratic j rule. I'nder Republican rule we have seen the corporations having their own way in all things—electing Presidents, control ing congress, meddling with the selection of the judiciary, dictating veto messages. and insolently lording over the people. This is one of the chief reasons why the people demand | a change--why they seem to have de termined upon sending the Repuhli ' can party to the rear. But when the Democratic party finds itself charged with the duty and responsibility of i regulating these great corporations in ! such a manner as to promote the gen ; eral good, it will find itself face to face with the most difficult problem that our law-makers have ever tried to solve." A OBOROIA Republican complains that the Postmaster General "thinks 1 the Republicans of the South are a lot of blackguard scoundrels." Mr. Grea- I ham is a right straight independent | thinker, but he is doubtless led into 1 error of the general character of the < Republican people of the Boutb, by I forced association with the bosses, set f over them by the administration. But q Mahooe. Chalmers and Cash are not <i lair specimens. n TERMB: SIJiW per Annum,in Advance. Tho Roßpowtbility. It is idle for the Republicans of the senate to attempt or hope to evade t!i<- tull arid entire responsibility for tin expenditure of erery dollar that the protracted tenon oj tin leyielature ca pote* upon the taxpayer* of tin ttalr. When it in considered that the Repub lican legislature of IH>5l, in order to retain the unfair advantages derive! Irorn the infamous and unjust gerry mander of 18,:{— 7-1, declined to obev the mandates of the constitution by the passage of fair and just apportion ment bills a- demanded by that in strument ; and when it is remembered that the Republican majority of the senate holding over and elected under that unmitigated fraud, still held the power and used it with unscrupulous exaction to obstruct the passage of such apportionment a- decency and fairness demanded at the regular ses sion of I**3, there can be no difficulty in locating the responsibility of the extra session. This failure of the senate to comply with the constitu tional requirements, imposed the ne cessity upon the Governor in a faithful discharge of duty under his oath to support and defend the constitution" to call an extra session of the legisla ture. The session was accordingly called and the legislature has been meeting and adjourning under that call without result for many weeks, at au ex|ienditure of 93,000 per day. Why is this ? Simply and only be cause the controlling Republican ma jority in the senate in obedience to the command of their absent boss, deter mend that no just apportionment bill should be pas*<d, and therefore re fused to legislate with the house, or entertain any proposition of com promise. As an obstructive measure purely, th*v set up a bill a- their ultimatum more infamous and more subversive of the rights of citizens than the apportionment of 1*73-1X74. The object of this was obvious. It was not expected to be accepted by the Democrats of the hou'-e, indeed they knew that the house could not with any honor or propriety entertain the degrading offer. Hut notwithstand ing the insulting position of the senate, the Democrats of the house have offered many propositions of com* promise, liberal and generous in the extreme, in their anxiety to discharge the constitutional duty resting upon them, andt o end the session and save to the people the cost of its continuance, but the only response on the part of the i obstructionist is Cooper V Co.'s de grading ultimatum introduced merely as an excuse to prevent the passage of a proper bill, and to retain the outrage ous gerrymander by which a large portion of the people of Pennsylvania are disfranchised. Against this wrong the house is justified in standing out to the last moment of time. It is announced that Deputy Secre tary .John C. New is disgusted, and is about to resign and return to Indiana. Mr. New it is intimated is disati-fied with Secretary Folger, who perhaps has more regard to the interest of the public in the administration of the Department than to party, to suit the views of the Indiana Stalwart. Tiik Hon. Samuel .1. Randall, is serving as foreman of the Grand -Jury ip Philadelphia this week. He of course could have been excuses!, as others were, either as a member of congress or as a lawyer, but called as ajuror, Mr. Randall did not forget that he is also a citizen, subject to its duties whether in high or humble po sition. Such is democracy. Anothkr officer gone wrong. In formation it received at the War De partment that First IJeut. John M. Porter, of the Third Cavalry, station, ed at Fort Thomas, Arixona, has de failed to the amount of 91,000 and fled to parts unknown. He acted as quartermaster, subsists nee officer and ordnance officer, and was a graduate of West Point from Alabama. NO. Ml
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