II)r Centre Democrat S. T. SHUGERT & E. L. OBYIS, Editors. VOL. 5. JThr Crutrc democrat. Terms $1.50 per Annum in Advnnoo, Thursday Momine, October 4, 1883. STATE TICKET. FOR AUDITOR OEN KRAI., Capt. ROBERT TAGGART, of Warren County. roll STATE TREASURER, Hon. JOSEPH POWELL, of Bradford County. COUNTY TICKET. roil ASSOCIATE JUDGE Dr. J.H.SMITH, of Ferguson Township, roil DISTRICT ATTORNEY W. C. II F.I NLK, of Bellefonle. rR COUNTY SURVEYOR ELLIS L. OHVIS, of Bellefonle. REMEMBER Til VT MAT SATURDAY I* THE LABT DAY Toll THE PAYMENT OK TAXRX IN ORLIEK TO HE ENTI TLED TO VOTE. THE Cameron mules of the senate will find "ultimatum" an expensive luxury, when they settle with the peo ple in November. The cost of the article is charged up against them and must be accounted for. THE Cameron Republicans still kick the constitution seventeen min utes twice a week in the senate cham ber, for which they expect to draw ten dollars for each day of the week from the treasury of the state. THE Republican ultimatum is IS REIM RLU AN*, ti DEMOCRAT- and two doubtful Congressional districts : To enforce this monstrous dishooes ty and "inequality," the Cameron clan in the Senate block legislation, defy the constitution, and violate their oaths. THE President will have to do some stradling to retain the allegiance of both the senators from Virginia. His contracts with Mahone, it is announced will not hold Riddleberg as a "Me too" of the midgit statesman. The President will have to divide the ex ecutive plunder equally between these , heroes of repudiation. LIEUT. GEN. SHERIDAN is to suc ceed Gen. Sherman as (Jeneral of the Army on the Ist of November. When Sheridan has reached this exalted position of uselessness and leisure, ho may find time to do justice to the memory of that great and matchless deceased officer, Gen. Thomas. JAY EYE-SEE is now the king of the turf, and he has well earned this title by heating St. Julien at New York one day last week in three sepa rate heats. Jay-Eye-See is only a five- ; year-old colt, and has already made the extraordinary record of 2.10 i at Chicago, the next to Maml S. IT appears tho handsome and dis tinguished attorney general of the ' United States, is also furnished with a vessel for junkettiug purposes, and entertaining his family and friends at the expense of the public treasury. It is to he hoped that congress will in stitute some inquiry into these shame abuses. If our public men arc great and exquisite in adornment, they need not, like Holgate, Ire thieves. -- A WASHINGTON correspondent is credited with the information that n very ungallant ghost, is in the habit of showering stones upon the residence of a widow lady near that city in tight of the Capitol, it pursues its unmanly annoyances in day light, and being invisible to the police, their in* . vestigation have been fruitless, al though they sec tho stones fly and , light upon the widows house commenc ing promptly at 4 o'clock. The vera cious correspondent does not pretend to account for the phenomena, nor why that particular widow is selected for the amusement of the ghost. If it is amusement it wants, why not throw the missels at Arthur or Ben Brewster or some other radical who need stiring up. "KqUAL AND KX ACT JUSTICE TO ALL MKN, OK WIIATKVK.K STATU OH 1-KHM'AHION, XKLIUIOUB OH I'oLlTlCAl."—Jrlhrsua. Bollofonto's Now Road. The Buffalo Bun rond is now com pletely graded—money bus been in vested in it, and they who have so in vested are men of push and business and do not intend to loose their inves ted capital. The Pennsylvania will not buy it for two reasons : Ist the location does not suit their plans of extension ; 2nd the present owners in the main are not friendly to that sys tem. Wo enu be assured therefore, that it will have connection with the Vanderbilt system. It looked a week ago, as if its extension would ho the line down Nittany Valley, and the DEMODRAT favored thi- route energeti cally, as being most advantageous to the county at large. This project for the present at least has been abandon ed, owing to the difficulty, which was met in securing the right of way. How will the new linu affect Belle- , : finite ? We think now more advan- I tageously than the abandoned line. What we must have is cheaper fuel as ; well as competition in freight.-. The Vandcrhill system i- now being com pleted up Beech Creek ; from the near est point mi that road to Bellefonte is Ifi miles : from Bellefonte to Mill Hall is 26 miles ami from Mill Hall t<> Beech Creek 7 miles making a total of 63 miles, thus giving the Bald Eagle I route the advantage of 17 miles, being le-s than one-half the distance fir car rying coal and coke to our furnaces. This in itself is a big item. It would ' also hringus lit miles nearer the eastern < market and give us that much advan tage in our competition with other manufacturing jioint*. Tin re has been - one finr t \pc-- -d, bst our ores should L>- taken to Mill Mali and l>< manufactured there; the new route ) would make any such scheme almost | impracticable. We asked ouieof the Buffalo Itun K. B. men whello r they would abandon tho ore fold eaat of Bellefonte or not. Tin y told us, that in case they Imihi tin ir main lint through Mile-burg, they then would ■ construct a branch up Armor's Gap to tap the* ore within n radius of six or seven miles. Bellefonte is nil right in any event, and with the comple tion of either route we can predict for her a future of busy activity and pro gress. Wi; have often heard of the rig -r of Jersey justice, but the arrest of a four f year old hoy for taking the ginger cake of a seven year old boy, and hold ing him for tho action of the Grand Jury is a sublimity of justice, hard to realize. et it is said such a rae re cently occurred. In the name of jus tice what would become of Robeson ! of New .< rsey if the same measure of justice were applied to him, for crimes against the government of the United ■States as Secretary of the Navy. Tho Pittaburg A. M. E. Con^>ronco j Bellefonte is fn-t becoming a favorite locality for conventions. Our bracing mountain air, cur lovely mountain scenery,and the size and reputation of !our hotels all recommend us to the stranger, and we rejoice that this is so. Now we welcome the forty or fifty representatives of the Pittsburg con j ference of the African Methodist Epis copal Church to the hospitality of the city. Bishop James A. Shorter of Ohio is here with some eloquent clergy men. The conference began on Wed nesday and continues over Sunday. We recommend our colored friends to have their seion in some other build j ing on the 7th. Their own is not largo j enough to hold those of us who wish to listen to the learned Bishop. Wc ; as a people aro much interested in the ! work as it progresses in this branch of ' our population, nnd would like to have this opportunity, to learn what has been done (for much has been done) and what they propose to do in the future. We can't but see that tho colored man is fitting himself every year more fully for citizenship, both spiritually and mentally. It is a great work, and they are helping themselves. Wc wish them "God speed." IiKLLKFONTK, I'A., THURSDAY, OUTOIiKIt 4, IHKI. Public Monoy for Public UHCK Only. Ttic platform of the IVnn-ylvsniii IJi-m -ocrstir Suite Convontinn for 1 il>-<-tdr<-s thiil IT 111, ID MONEYS AUK Foil ITIILIG I SKS. "Tho long continued *'"i '■* *nd spolia. lion of lh Stutn Treasury and defiance of Inw by ili management make ci"iitial h radical ri-form M> ihui large funds shall not be accumulated by Ibn taxation of tho peo ple and distributed among favored deiH,t. tori)-* of tile State official*, but that nil surplus In excess >f tho immediate to-ee--i -tie* of the State (iovernment shall b in vested in intere-i-hearing State or Federal securities until u may he applied to the extinguishment of the Slate debt To obviate the "public* abuses ami spoliation of the Siuto Treasury" re furred to iti the platform, th<- Humes law tva-) passed nt the regular sen-ion of IK*:;, ami approved by Gov. Patti son. Thi- law provides fur the invest ment of the surplus levenuc in the sinking film I, which amounts to over 82, • UK),iif)t>, ill o-eurities that would -life- Iv yield a revenue to the state for the , benefit of the tax payers of the whole Mate, instead of r> v nue to the indivi dual ofiiial* ami parti-an corporations chosen by these officers to bundle the large sums for their mutual benefit. , Against the paaaags of thii righteous and just law the Republican member*) of the legislature, with the < x< option ■>f two or three Inch pendent*, arrayed themselves under the lead of < 'ooper in the senate, ami the silent opp< -ition of Nile.-, the Republican candidate t r auditor general, in the hat . Ami why? first brcan*e it form 1 the base of suppln - for the r rruptinii • 1< eli HI fund* from the hai.ks to w hicli it was loam-d by the Stilt- freastirer, ami scrotal because it wa- a - nirce r,f profit to the treasury ring, ami tin .corporations who had tin-manipula tion of the funds with whi. In thi* opposition t > the pa—age of the law. the Republii au member* wa re aided by a lobby < rgnni/.< >1 by < hri-- Magee, the author of Liv- v a- a ran ilidate for State Treasurer. But tin law pa--ed, and the -peculation i hlocked *o far as law can c< ntrol men notoriously r-ckh-* of legal and con -titutionai requirements, a- th *e who now lead ami govern what ought t > be and would be an honc-t and re -pr-ctable party, if such leaders wen confined to the cells where wrong doer* ami public plunderers are -uppo* il to undergo merited discipline. The fact is notorious, that for some years the speculation in Mate funds has been a scandal attached to the management of the treasury depait ment of the commonwealth, in which its reserved funds have been loaned out simply to accumulate interest for the bent fit of the treasurer, his politi cal allies, ami the banks favored with his patronage. To correct thi* abuse, Mr. Humes and the Democracy did nobly in passing the bill in question against the united opposition of the treasury ring, its lobbies nnd vassals in the legislature. The Republican party are now in the field with candi dates for Auditor General and State Treasurer who were opposed to the pas sage of this law, and it may be assu med are opposed to its enforcement, while the Democracy present candi, dates in the person of Capt. ROBERT TAGOAUT for Auditor General, and the Hon. JOSEI'H POWELL for State Treasurer, who favor and demand the reform provided for by its provisions. It is a vital and important issue of the campaign, aad no one who desires honest administration, whatever his political affiliation, should fail to give a hearty and cordial support to the candidates pledged to correct the abuses referred to. WE publish the prospectus of the Harrishurg Patriot. It ia the central organ of the Democratic party of Pennsylvania. Edited with great ability, bright, and always filled with the latest news from every quarter, which it convey* to the interior of the state many hours in advance of the Philadelphia and New York papers. We kuow of no better daily newspa per to recommend to our friends. Our Strootß. We are not going to complain of the condition of the htrec-ts, barring the result* of the heavy rains, they w ill pa-* muster —but our interview with the police officers and with the sheriff, the testimony of our own eyes and the complaints of many citizens, show that not only has there been no improvement in the recent pa-t in our street morals, but on the contiary u considerable if not u serious retro gression has taken place. This thing w ill not do. Bellefonte must not .-ufh-r even the suspicion of rowditn-*. She HU* IK* n a town of home.*, where men can live in perfect quiet, free from all liie care and anxiety which lawless in -s entails. 'I hi- has been her boa.-t, and we cannot afford to let the report go abroad that it i* otherwi-e. We implore our landlord* to aid us. We •Jo not think thai anyone of them would conscientiously ofiend in this particular. < en rcporltd in a singe evening. ' We can't blame our j dire force, it i* efficient hut Hl tirely too small in case of any emer gency. ihe magistry of the law must !>•- made *arrecratic State < '.invention met nt Budaloon Thursday last, ami organi/ 1 for victory at the polls iu N ivember. All the different factions which occasionally internptcd 1 the sucui■ * of the party in New York, Tammany, Irving Hall, and the coun ty Dem cracy, participated harmoni ously in the nomination of the candi date* to compose the Democratic tick et. The platform of the la-t state convention wa* reaffirmed, and the proposition that the |>eople should Ik tnxe! to raise a surplus fund for the Federal Government to distribute ni. long the stnti * was seven ly denounc ed and the administration of Gov. Cleveland, was endorsed as one of the best the state ever had. The candi dates nominated were Isaac 11. May nard for Secretary of State; Alfred C. Chapin for Controller ; Robert 11. Maxwell for Treasurer; I)enoi* <1 Brien for Attorney General, and Nathan Sweet for State Engineer and surveyor. This harmonious nomination and the high character of the candidates seals the fate of spurious Republican- | ism in the Empire State this year, nnd opens a brilliant out look to the De mocracy in tho more important strug gle before them for honest government j in the Uresidential election, to come off next year. The cloud is breaking! The lawless disregard of constitutions and laws and justice, which for more than one dccado lias so marked and distinguished the op|tosition to the 1 Democracy, is about to receive the condemnation it has earned. The "g. o. p. " in its shameless defiance having stole the Presidency in 1876, and bought it iu 1880, aud arc still violating the constitution, particularly in Pennsylvania, and robbing the peo ple of their dearest rights, could not • expect longer immunity. It must go. RATHER cool these mornings. Mn. REALM: ha* leased hi* mug uificent house iu Washington. He de fires, no doubt, to accustom himself to a more humble residence preparatory to that of the old fashioned domicile culled the "White House." But Mr. Blaine is not a<• anditatc ? Not he. THE Washington monument, which for many year- has been in course of erection at Washington t'ity, is ap proaching completion, and will, it i* believed, attain a height of 410 feet before the cold weather set* in. The ( monument proper will he 500 feet high, with a pyramidal cap of gla-* 50 feet high, and will rank as the most impo-ing structure of the kind in the ! world. Il* entire completion is ex piated in I**l. or the spring of I**s. DIXON, Republican candidate for governor of N> w Jt rsey i* a judge of the courts, and withal a very prudent man. He di - not think the chances i of election sufficiently bright to justify I liitn in giving up his judgeship. He holds fa-t to the "hird-in-hand" while pursuing the one iu the hush. This, , at least, show* commendable foresight j and It i- getting firmly fixed in the minds * of the people, that the election of TAG- ' GAHT and POWELL is the effective c means of thorough* protecting tho funds of the state from the vandalism c of the Rings that surround the man- ! ngement of the Slate Treasury—that the "public money's are for public j uses' and not for the political epccu- ; lators and jobliers. I ♦ •T> Ih* IMiUir of fh* Ihmorrst ) ' Tho Qrantro and tho State Oollogo " We were at the Grange pic-nicon the t top of Nittany mountain a couple of jli weeks ago, and one Whitehead, said to fi tie from New Jersey, startled us by an h attack upon our State College, before g an audience of Centre county people we could not understand why he should t do so, and es|>ecially when he knew no fi more about the college than a China man just landed upon American soil. J I'pon further examination we found a that the whole organization had at- " faulted the college. The burden of the n complaint against the college ia that it d will not make farmers out of the young w men who graduate there, whether the fa young men are willing or not. I'racti oal agriculturist* it ahall and must turn h out or go down. They proceed on the tl theory that It ia a place to teach agricul p ture and nothing else. The William* d Grove P. of 11. platform demands "the h re organization of the Sute College, so © that iU exclusive work shall be to give tl instruction to young men and women h TERMS: $1.50 JMT Annum,ln Advance. of ail classes, who way wish to fit them selves for Agricultural an'l Mechanical pursuits, BO a* to put our Agricultural College on an Cjual and aimilar basis with the Bpecial schools for the profes sions, leaving elaxsir literary training to the schools of literature," If this dccla ration should be literally carried out, the college would be compelled to clone its doors in lens than a month for the want of students. W hen the college was first opened for j the admission of students the great burden of the curriculum was agricul ture. and the effort was made to make . it so | radical, that the young men were to be taught not only how to rni* a little "hrne, mud and manure together to raie a stink, clean stables, raise j pig', Ac., but to cook and wash dishex. i he then management soon found that when young men wanted an education to carry them through life it took something entirely diflerent, and this plan waa abandoned because it had to j be. Two young men present themselves at the door of this college, we will .y each twi nty years of age. The one the •on of the most eminent granger in the I county, who is well known to be an in telligent, practical farmer. The other the son of an intelligent, practical mer [chant in-me of our large cities. How do they stand ' The farrn<-r' con know > : "H about practical farming, he knows i when seed time and harvest come -. ho 1 know, how the ground must be plowed, i harrowed, rolled and cullivati d to pro : luce good results ; he understands per fectly well when the seed must be sown I and planted in order to reap a bourn. I ul harvest. In short he has ail the practical knowledge and the actual [work of the agricultural.si absolutely grown ,n him as part of his natur-, and i dl he needs to make him the full grown 1 rnan and a citizen of the highest order, s a few y.,, r , schooling to train the | mind to work and think out to their | full fruition the problems of which be i has already the actual experience, and he will go any distance from home rather than to a college where he must by actual work go through that which .0 already know better than any one j • ■-n !• rh him. Now take tiie mer ant'- boy. In many tb.ng* he i* ih- ad of the farmer's son. He knows ■rit tl solid paved street- and high walla ■r> lut he know- nothing of the soil or ! power to pioduce. nor when it is -eed time or harvest. If he want" to be an agriculturist it :• necessary for him to go through the actual work, in order that he may know that an agriculturist needs much more than theory. Hut • uppop neither of thc,e young men want to make agriculture their life bus ne, what would you have them do! I urn away from this college because it must an i shall turn out ngriculturists and noth.ng else. Another mistake our friends have fallen into is that this college wa founded to teach nothing but agriculture and the mechanic arts. 1 his was only to be a leading object, without excluding scientific and class.c ai studies and to include millilary tactic*, and this by authority of the act of congress under which it was founded. "ur friends also demand that the college ahall give instruction in the mechanical arts. The authorities of / the college would gladly do this if they could. Hut it will take money, and in stesd of the grangers endorsing the Governor's action in vetoing bills giving aid to the college, they should join in asking the legislature to appropriate one year at least ttO.OOO lo aid in carry ing on experiments relating to agricu! ture, and the next year fkk>,(>o< to estai lish a mechanical department, so on from year to year until the college shall have become so great that it than reflect greatness on our great commonwealth. One thing more, Mr. Whitehead said they demanded the change of its name from "Pennsylvania State College ' to something like an "Agricultural and Mechanical School." Change the name, and why ? What more appropriate than "Pennsylvania State College, ' and shall not Pennsylvania with all her great in dustrie*. boundless resources and vast wealth, have a college that shall bear her own honored name, and one, too, that shall in the near future be ao en larged that her sons and daughter* can there be instructed in art, scfence, literature, agriculture and in every in dustry capable of being carried on with in her border*. Thi* is the kind of a college Pennsylvania need*, and thi* 1* the kind of a college the granger* should help to obtain. NO. :vx