<II)c Cent re Democrat
8. T. SHUGERT & E. L. OBYIS, Editors.
VOL. •">.
k T.rnii SI. AO per Annumin Ailvnnce,
Thursday Mornine, September 27,1883.
STATE TICKET.
TOR AUDITOR OKNKRAI.,
Capt. ROBERT TAGOAUT,
of Warren County.
FOR STATK TBKASriIKK,
Hon. JOSEPH POWELL,
of Bradford County.
COUNTY TICKET,
roil ASSOCIATK JUDOK
I>r. J. It. SMITH,
of Ferguson Township.
FOB PISTHICT ATToIIS"BY.
W. C. HEINLE,
of Ilellefonte.
MB COUNTY SURVEYOR
ELLIS L. I'HtVIS,
of Bellefonte.
Thk stalwarts of New York, it i*
said, had the late convention pretty
much to themselves, and that the gen
eral absence of the Independents, or
half-breeds, has a signitieauce that is
udt born of harmony or the success of
the nominations made.
THE Cameron mules are still kick
ing the constitution tiro hour- a week
in the Pennsylvania senate chamiwT.
Boss Cooper is the leading trick mule,
but Stewart and Lee are apt in learn
ing and always useful. They get 8 !•>
each for the two hours acting in the
ring-
It is rumored that Senator-elect
Uiddlebcrg has determined to revolt
against the Federal patronage in Vir
ginia being all given to Mahone —
that he will claim his full share of the
plunder, or play the devil generally
with the nice little arrangements of
Arthur ami his midgit boss.
Whitelaw Kr.tr>, editor of the
New York Tribune, is said to be a
candidate lor United States Senator.
It is more than probable that there
may be a slight impediment to Mr.
I Reid's advancement. The Republi
cans have not, nor are they likely to
have a majority iu the New York leg
islature.
PROP. Doih.K, the statistician of
the agricultural department, expresses
himself hopeful of the corn crop. He
thinks the late frosts have not very
seriously damaged it, and the acreage
is much greater than in former years,
which he estimates at 2,o00,0(M) more
than in 1882, leaving considerable
margin for any damage the crop may
I sustain.
THE government spent the summer
fishing in the mountains of the west,
while the cabinet junkettcd all around
j the coast in government vessels. The
government has now changed the base
of operations, and foreign embassies
| who may lie seeking interviews will
| find the government on the eastern
I fishing grounds during the fall months,
probably about Newport.
V The Philadelphia Record compares
" "Mr. Senator .John Stewart to a loco
. motive built for independent work on
I a narrow guage line, that has been
I pushed on a broad guftgo track. He
has derailed himself and has been
I thumping over the ties ever since lie
T went ofr on the ultimatum switch. IN
I his present plight he is of no use to
1 anybody.'' And it might be added is
despised in his helplessness as a useless
L wreck.
Gen. Orkhham, of the Postoffice
I Department, is getting into hot water
ft in his fight with the Louisiana lottery
W management. He has issued an order
that no registered letter addressed to
M. A. Donaphin, or the New Orleans
National Bank, nor any money order
1 payable to either shall be delivered
through the post ofiice. This looks
very much as if the Postmaster Gen
eral ia constituting himself a national
oensor. He may have the right to
close bis department agaiust a business
authorised and legalised by fhe laws
pf Jjoqitintni, for it seems increditahle
THAT to distinguished an official would
issue such an order uolcss he had a
strong legal base to sustain him.
Tho Grungo and the State Collogo.
We take it for granted, that our
farmers, are in earnest, when they for
mulate a platform, they are not theor
ists hut men of practice —and in
their platform we see much that bears
this out. When they cry out against
the revolutionists in the Legislature,
and demand that the work for which
tho Governor has called it together—
should he done, they show that they
have uo respect for nonsense —and in
deed most parts of their public decla
ration of principles show this same
strong sense of right—and if we differ
from them in any particular, it is not
because we do not have full recogni
tion of and respect for the honesty of
their intention. But in one respect we
. must take i.-.-ue with tho State (range.
They demand, that the character of the
management of the State College
I should be radically changed and that
it should become an institution entire
ly devoted to the public instruction
° | of agriculture and the mechanic arts
and that all other courses of studies
- -t be eliminated from its curriculum.
are not going to argue on the pro
priety of this pnpo.-cd change—that
is a matter of opinion merely—but
upon its practicability. Can the Col.
; lege comply with the wishes of the
Grange ami survive? We say not. A
very superficial view of theact of Con
gress will corroborate our position.
Notwithstanding all the talk concern
ing the monies given the institution by
the state, the State College depends
almost entirely upon the land nrri]>t
fund, which depends upon the faithful
carrying out of the provision of the
•jo ct of congrtM and that net donates
j the f ">OO,iMM) which the college now
! enjoys, 011 this condition : that she give*
j instructions in the classics and all
I other branches ofn liberal education
as well as agriculture. We can't afford
to forfeit this sum now. But as soon as
; the Grange will rai*e another half a
million and donate it to the Pennsyl
vania Htate College their proposition
i may receive a fair and careful dis
cussion. But we will go one step
further, and say that the college gives
every opportunity to the student of
agriculture t<> study hi- art and science
—that far more money is appropria
ted to this branch of the curriculum
than to any of the others—and that
nowhere in the I nited States are their
i better opportunities for the farmer's
sons, and yet they of all classes in the
commonwealth avail themselves least
of its advantage*.
IT sectns to worry the Philadelphia
/Yes* to think that the politicians and
leaders of the Democratic party com
mit a dnnocratir error in depending
upon the independent Republicans for
votes to elect their ticket. To allay
the anxiety of the I'reiw, Chairman
Hensel of the Lancaster Intelligencer,
very properly remarks: "It is an
i error on the part of the /Ves to ns
sume that the Democrats arc depend
ing upon any such thing. At the last
State election there were nearly ns
many votes polled for Mr. Pattison as
the combined vote for Stewart and
Beaver ; an analysis has proved that
nearly all the votes cast for Pattison
were Democratic votes. Nobody seems
to expect that either party will poll as
full a vote this year a last, so that it
becomes a contest as to which party
will poll the larger percentage of the
vote it cast last fall. For many rea
sous the chances favor the Democrats.
They have remained united, aggrrs
j sive, hopeful and organized. The pro
cesses of Republican reunion have
' been painfully slow. In the regular
session of the Legislature the most
notable antagonisms were those of the
Stalwarts and Regulars of the Senate;
and when, upon the main issue of the
campaign, tho reform of the treasury
management, the Republican policy is
found to be a continuance of the pres
; cnt regime the I'rem will find that In
dependent Republicans will mostly ait
ou the fence and watcb the processiop.' 1
1 ——
THE ultimatum Senators wero in
session 17 minutes on Tuesday.
"RQUAL AND XX ACT JVBTICK TO AI.I. MEN, or WIIATRVKU STATK OR I'KKHUASION, KKMOIOU* OH POLITICAL."—JrfTerson.
iiki.lkiontk, IW., Thursday, si;i>tkmi;kj{ 7, ihkl
Coul and Railroads.
Relow i* the return of coal cent
over the Tyrone Division of the Ponn
sy I van in railroad lor the week ending
Sept. If), lxx:i.
TO** ;
K"f the vu-rll 17,''*7
Baiiio iinis* Imtt v u • -til
!M-r ••!%*• '• K'|
Pnvlotialjf daring lliiyHu I,® 2 #l3
.Sump title lu-1 v u , t *T •I♦
lrrn>M. 4 • .. . .
i T..UI 111 I**! 1 • I*l
j ."giiiic time Untw.ti • >7
Dwmii
OTHER ri.EIGHTS
i Lam!*! 73 can
I MldCflUliaotll Irrigate 1 • ••
Forty-seven thousand and eighty
| seven tons is every pound of coal that
| went out front ihis region for the week ■
ending Saturday la-t, again-! filly-six j
thoUMind nine hundred and eleven
tons the same time one year ago. This
i* indeed discouraging to all who take j
an interest in the advancement of this '
great coal field.
Why the management of the IVuti
r-y 1 vim iu company will, by the with-!
holding of ears from, our shippers, I
give to its enemies *urh convincing I
proof that it- facilities are inadequate
to the necessities of the region, is some
thing wo cannot fathom : and, if it
were not that we know In-iter front
their own lip-, w- would sup|M>*e that
the small amount that has gone for
ward was from the want of orders by
our shippers; hut we have been us-
I -tired that it' the ears could have bet u
supplied nearly double this amount
would have been shipped.
With the large increase in the num
ber of colleries, the extension of all
its branch' and a greater demand
than ever for our coal, the company
thus tacitly admits that it is not m ar
ly n- well prepared t > facilitate the
interests of our shipper- as it wu- the
same time one year ago. when it-ent
forward nine thousand • ight hundred
and twenty-four tons more than it did
the past wck. It causes its best!
friend* t . tie-pair of In r, and silences
all argument in op|x -itioti to the build
ing of another road into our region—
whether competitive or co-operative—
something to help out tie ••• who have
their money invested in our region ami
who are sustaining daily In—-- from
this compulsory inactivity ; and, n
w>- have said before, the great wonder
with its friends i- that it would begin
t - weaken in this way at this particu
lar time, in the face of the extra-.r
dinary efforts the Vanderhilt road is
making towards completion that may
take hold of this freight the l'ennsyl
vania i rejecting.— /in- He.
< hir brother Rrishin, of the linnl!?,
in the foregoing article gives Init a
faint glimmering of the truth. Why 1
this scarcity of ran? I- it I>ocausr
the F. R. R. Co. have no cars which
could he sent into the region'' C r
tainlv not. For the corresponding j
week of la-t year they furnished
nearly -">00 more cars then they did
la-t week. Surely they have no less
cars this year than last. I- it Irccause
they arc short of motive power to !
move the cars they have. They surely
have as much motive power as they
ever had at any previous date. What
then is the reason ? Simply this, the
managers of the railroad are not tli*-
looted to furnish a sufficient number of
cars to accommodate the region-,
Why? Ik-cause the scarcity of cars
hurts the small operators the worse- i
A large percentage of the cars daily
received arc marked "special assign
ment," and are all delivered to a few
large operators, and are not charge!
iu the general distribution. The same
favorites then receive their full pro
rn'o of the enrs for general diatrihu*
tion. This haves the small operators
who taumt get into the "special as
signment" ring, with less than half
the numix rof cars in proportion to
the capacity of their mines, which the
large operators receive. The result
is the business of these small operators
is interfered with, they are prevented
from fihii g the orders they have and
(hey dure not bid for large orders be
cause they well know they cannot get
the cars to fill them. The undoubted
policy of the present management of
the l'enna. R. R. Co. is to mi*A out
the small operators in our coal regions
Is this to the interest of the stock
holders of the road? Certainly not. Rut
if the wholo bituminous coal bußinesa
in this region of the state ran bo con
centrated into a few bands it will bo
so much easier for the fbw gentlemen
composing the ring of managers, to
•
! arrange to rtceive their large divi
dends from the coal monopolists. As
long as there ure fifty or more inde
pendent collieries this is impracticable.
Rut the scarcity of cars is hut one
of the evils the operators are now suf
f'erit-g. The rates of freight are fixed
so high us to take all the profits of the
! business. ()n the above 17,0*7 tons
the railroad company received an
average of one dollar per ton over and
above the actual cost of transporta
tion, while there was left to the opera
tor no more than an average of five
rent* per ton profit. Among indivi
| duals this would he called robbery.
| Surely we need another railroad into
our coal fields--and that a competition
road— not one that will co-operate with
, the F. It. It. in robbing our people.
'1 hi: \\ illiamsport Sun and J!inner
, "agrees with the cxprt-d oj tin ion of
a cotemporary that there .-ecru.- now
1 *
nothing for the Democratic legislator
to do hut to remain at their posts
waiting for wisdom and respect for the
laws to seize the Republicans and
eoinjcl them to the performance .f
their solemn duty. '.Justice travels
with a leaden heel' but it is sure to
catch up sometime."
"Wisdom and respect for the laws"
departed with Cameron's instructions
to his slaves in the senate, and can
probably only he restored when the
honest men of the party can have an
' opportunity to deal with the revolu
tionists who so recklessly betray
their confidence. In the mean time
the Democracy can only stand firm to
I duty and their constitutional obliga
tion*.
fur. chief w..rk of the (rirl mule*
iu the senate is to demonstrate that
under - tir republican form of govern
ment, 2-1.000 Republicans must have
the same power in the selection of
members of congress of II.RQO Demo
crats, and in the State senate that Id,*
'MMi Republicans inut equal '2l.into
Democrats. To secure this inequality
>f representation, CoojM-r, Stewart V
; Co. proclaim their ultimatum and
; block legi-laliou.
I r is published in the stalwart jour
nals that pertect harmony prevails in
both faction* of the N w York Re
publicans—stalwarts and half-breeds.
It is probably the calm which precedes
ihe storm, as it i* known that a great
gulph passes between them—that the
bridges are flown, nnd it is doubtful
whether the vitality of the g. o. p. now
j in delicate health, can endure a suffi
l eicnt time to nllow repairs.
Let It Not bo Forgotten.
In all the blather and fuss of Re
publican journals alwmt the legislature
remaining in session there is one thing
tßat the people must not for an instant
forget.
The Democrats in the legislature
are. standing tip manfully and boldly
and determinedly for the people's right
of Kqual Representation ami are not
governed hy partisan spirit or motive.
The twenty-six Republican senators
under the lead of Ross Cooper say that
the people shall not ho accorded their
right of Kqual Representation. They
now flatly refuse to pass any appor
tionment hills at all. They will do
nothing hut stay in session a half-hour
two days in the week and expect
thirty-five dollars a day for doing so-
This is a fact that cannot be men
tioned too often and that no fairmind
cd man in either party should permit
himself to lose sight of.— Hnrridturo
I\ilriot.
THE Democratic outlook in Vir
ginia is most encouraging. Reports
from committees in all parts of the
state are highly satisfactory, and in
dicate that great changes have taken
place in portions of the state hereto
fore* overwhelmingly under the infill,
ence of Mahotie. The Democrats are
jubilant and sanguina of success in re
storing the state to iu old Democratic
bearing*-
*
$ '
M utosi;, lias made the urnial forced
ansmments upon the Virginia clerks
■ in the Kxecutive departments in sup
port of the state election, without in
terference on the part of President
Arthur, Hi* bargain with the little
bos repudiator overtop* any respon
sibility the civil service law places
upon hi in and also raises the presump
tion that the Federal Kxecutive is not
a very enthusiastic friend of that law.
HON*. I'EO. I). Koiiinhon is chosen
by the Massachusetts Republicans to
lead the fight against Jb-n !•'. Ruth-r
1 for the governorship of that state
Adams, Fierce and other candidate*
"pokei) of having declined. This con*
test, judging from the acrimony that
runs through the proceedings of the
convention when referting to the gov
ernor, will be one of exceeding bitter
ness, in which old Ren, if he has not
lost his wonted vim, will be equal to
the emergency, striking back from the
shoulder.
Tin: colored voters in New York
and Ohio are bolting in large num
bers from the Republican party.
| Having demanded political equality,
and reasonable recognition in the die
tributiou of |xlilical favors in vain,
they now declare their independence
and firm deterraiuatin "not to Ik
dragged behind the republican cart
auy longer," merely to swell the tri
umph of a party whose majorities are
made by their adherence, and whose
appreciation cease- at the jkills.
The boternor's \eto.
The Governor with held his approval
of the concurrent resolution instruct
Ing the appropriation committee of both
houses to report an apppropriation bill
for senators and members, up to and
: including Sept. lbtb , to report no other
appropriation bill except for officers and
| employe*. Ha objects to the resolution
on the ground of unconstitutionality
ami calls attention to the fact that the
law provides that the members shall j
, receive $lO per diem at each adjourned
or [>ecial session, and that it is not in
the legislature to diminish that com
[-en*tion. The reason for the dissent
of the Governor are clearly stated in
the following extracts taken from the
message;
' VIOLATION' (II TIIE COXSTITI TION.
It is in violation of the constitutional
provision requiring a separate organira
lion of the two house* of the 1/egisla
tore, t'nder the Constitution of 177'.
the General Assembly consisted of but
one body. The Constitution of 171X1
divided the General Assembly into two
houses, each having an independent
; organization. This separation has been
i continued until the present time under
the amended Constitutions, and the
existing Constitution, in the 2d section
of the third article, recognize* the com
mittee of the respective bodies a* esen
tial and necessary in perfecting legist*
tion. The Senate has no j-ower or
control over the House Committee, and
the House has none over the Senate
Committee*. The concurrent re*o!ution
presented to me i* not only futile, and
void of any conclusive effect upon
either House, but violates the oonstitu
tional principleof separate orgsmzation,
and is a clear and distinct departure
from former precedent*. H the inno
vation here attempted should obtain
currency of a practice, it would result
in the entire obliteration of the tunc
tion* intended to be exerci*ed by the
Committee* of the two Hou*e in the
consider*tion of legislation and destruc
tion ot their independent and *eparate
| character contemplated by the Consti
union. This reason alone would be
sufficient to withhold my approval of
the resolution, but there are other ob
jection- to it equally cogent and conciu
sive.
Wlir IT WAS l NCON*TITt TIOSAU
The resolution contain* two distinct
provision*. < ne is an in*trurtion to
the committee* to report a hill of a eer
'ain character and for a definite amount.
I have already stated my objection* to
thi* branch of the resolution, The
other pruviaion is an instruction to the
committee* to report no other appro
prtalion for the pay to Senator* and
member* after September 10th. In thi*
instruction lam a*ked to join. If this
branch of the resolution is intended to
affect the compensation of member* a*
fixed by the act of Assembly, it suggest*
several legal inquiries to me, called
upon, as I am, to give it validity by my
signature. The act of Assembly of May
11th, A. D„ 1874, provide* that the
1 "eompen*atinn"of member* of the Leg
ialature "shall be ten dollars per diem
at each adjourned or special saaaion."
The act was the law at tba lime of the
election of all the member* of the pre*
ent Legislature. The I.lth 'section of
the 3d article of the Constitution pro
vide* that "no law shall extend the
term of any public officer, or increase
or diminish hi* salary or emolument*,
after bis election or appointment." It
i* true the resolution before ma is not
TKK.MN: $lJiO per Annum,in Advance.
in the forrn of a law, but if it ha* any
purpose, or can have any possible effect,
in it concluding provisions, it is that
there shall not be any law passed mak
mg provision for the payment of the
compensation of Senator* or members
after September Kith. If the members
of the Assembly shall lie entitled to any
pay for this session, it is not competent
for the Legislature to deprive them of
it in whole or in part. In other words,
if a public officer has a b-gal claim to
compensation lor any period of time, it
n not within the power of the Lr-gisla
lure, by the passage of a law or reaolu
lion, to diminish that compensation by
the refusal of renumeration for a part
of that time.
SOT iiir. won * lOK wiu< a TIIE SESSION .■-
< ALI.EH,
This session of the Legislature was
convened by me solely for the purpose
of having a clear and most vital com
mand ol the fConstitution executed by
the lieneral Assembly. In my procla
mation convening the two houses, I
designated the sutjects for legislative
action, and cited the mandate of the
fundamental law imposing upon the
Legislature the imperative obligation
for the paasage of Apportionment laws.
Three months and more have expired
since then, and instead of the passage
of the laws commanded by the people
in their <institution, I am presented
with a resolution concerning the amount
of pay the members shall receive for a
session the duties of which are as yet
undischarged. I am impelled to these
observations not only by the unusual
character of the resolution itself, but
also by the unusual time at which it ha
been taken into consideration by the
Legislature. It Las been customary,
Heretofore, for the appropriation bill to
be passed and 'ent to the Governor at
the close of the session, when most of
the duties of the Legislature were finally
performed, and the rest in a forward
state of completion. This resolution
reaches me at a time many days after
the day on which the Legislature was
assembled, and when important and
mandatory constitutional duties still
remain unexecuted. 'I he question of
the pay of members is the ]eat import
ant matter relating to this session. Ibe
paramount subject that should engage
the legislative attention is the execu
tion of the constitution, under which
the two bouses exist and the whole gov
ernment of the slate coheres, by accord
ing to the people in all sections and of
all interests their imjortant right to
fair, equal, just and timely represents
lion in the balls of legislation It would
be better to hold in al>eyance any dis
cussion of the question of pay while
such a duty, so solemnly enjoined, re
mains unperformed.
AN sri-lAI. lOR Jt TICE AMI SICIIT.
If the Legislature, from any reason,
should again fail to comply with the
command of the fundamental law, the
people cannot be fairly and justly rep
resented in the legislative councils of
the state and I'nion before the year
18k". Neither bouse ha the right to
assume an attitude calculated to bring
about so deplorable a condition of affairs.
I must, therefore, in the effort to carry
out the injunction of the constitution
that 1 "shall take care that the laws be
faithfully executed," urge upon the
Legislature the ini;>ortance of the obli
gation under which it rest# to perform
a plain constitutional duty. A spirit of
fairness, candor and non-partisansbip
should actuate the members of both
branches of the Assembly in the per
formance of that duty. Killigencc
• hould characterise them as well. For
either House to resolve to meet only at
frequent intervals, and then but for a
short time, is likely, even if net intend
ed, to prevent the requirements of the
law from being fulfilled. 1 trust, for
the sake of the fair fame of our Com
monwealth, for the respect we hold
among our sister states, and to save us
from the reproach of being unable to
execute our constitutional form of gov
ernment. that the Legislature will soon
discharge its duties with fairness and
justness, and thus bring to a speedy
conclusion this session, already too long.
IT ia not likely that there will be aa
full a vole jKilled this year in Pennsyl
vania a there was last fall. There i*
neither the incentive nor the disposi
tion to the same political excitement as
there was then, bach party has in the
meantime had its natural increase of
voters, and the struggle between them
this year will be to poll the largest j-o
sible proportion of their respective
votes. From the results of such exer
tion the democrats have nothing to fesr.
The total vote which they mustered last
year was in the aggregate substantially
as many at the combined vote of the
two Republican candidates and the run
ning majorities of the opposition in thia
Sute for the past ten years havo not
been more than about twenty thousand,
which it really only one in forty, and to
reverse it scarcely needs the change of
an average of two persons in each elee
tion district in the State. F.very person
familiar with politics knows ttisl there
are always more than that whose votes
are uncertain. Now there is no reason
this year to apprehend any IVtuncratic
defection ; there is no valid reason to
expect perfect Republican union ; all
tha signs point to greater apathy in the
opposition ranks than in the I>etnoc
racy; in fact, many of the majority
Democralie counties report unusual ac
tmty and interest, and the secession oi
people who believe that eight month*,
of Democratic administration h#v vin
dicated the wisdom of a change and are
resolved to extend it to othet depart
roents of the stale government The
duty of Ibis year is to get out the vote
—the vote tbet was polled for and elec
t'd the state ticket last year %
NO. :*B.