<II)c Centre t§£h Clemocrat
B.T.BIIUUEKTA: K. L. OltVlS, Editors.
VOL. 5.
Che Centre democrat.
Term* 11.50 par Annum in Advsnoe.
Thursday Moraine, October 11,1883.
STATE TICKET.
FOR AUDITOR ÜBNKKAL,
Capt. ROBERT TAGGART,
of Warren County.
Ron srvTK TKKASURKR,
Hon. JOSEPH POWELL,
of Bradford County.
. COUNTY TICKET.
FOR ASSOC!AT K Jit DOE
Dr. ,1. It. SMITH.
of Ferguon Township.
FOR DISTRICT ATTORN KY
W. C. HEINLE,
of Bellefonte.
FOR cor NTY SURVEYOR
ELLIS L. OR VIS,
of Bellefonte.
FRANK HATTON, the first assistant
postmaster general, recently expressed
his opinion that the "civil service re
form is a fraud." It looks so, while
such frauds as Hatton are kept in re
sponsible positions to gabble his deli
ance of the civil service law.
THE Ohio Republicans are dared
and cannot make out what did it.
Deacon Smith charges the defeat to
the wool growers ; Marshall Halstead
to the wine growers; Senator Sherman
to Calico Foster, while Foster is so
dumbfounded that he cannot think nt
all. It is simply reaffirming a decree
registered a year ago that the Repub
lican party must go!
THE election news in low a improves
as the smoke of the campaign clears.
The Democrats have elected Judge
Cook to congress in plnce of Cutis,
deceased Republican, The Republi
can majority for Governor will be
small, and the chances even for tbt
legislature, "This result from a ma*
jority of 80,000, is not a Republican
victory to be proud of.
THE Democracy of Onio have done
nobly. It is now the turn of the
Democracy of Pennsylvania, and the
honest men of all affiliations, to strike
for good government and honest rep
rescutation. The revolutionists and
ultimats of the senate who have
usurped control and degraded the "g,
o. p.'' of Lincoln and Sumner, mu.*t
go! Tom Cooper's incapacity to lead
an honest party is becoming more ap
parent every day.
THE Hon. Edgar A. Marble, the
commissioner of patents, has resigned
although repeatedly requested by the
secretary to remain. Mr. Marble is
an able man and administered the
affairs of that great bureau in the
interiordepartment with signal ability.
He is to be superceded by Mr. But
terworth, of Ohio, who will bring to
the discharge of the duties a vigorous
mind and great legal attainments and
experience.
THE result in Ohio left some mourn
ers among those who went to that
state to aid the triumph of the "g. o.
k p." Of these Senator Plumb, of
and Register of the Treasury,
Hfex Senator Bruce, of Mississippi,
PlWcems to need consolation. A corres
pondent savs: "The first is quite
crushed. He speaks of the disaster as
a perfect cyclone. 'Now, in Kansas,'
he Mid, 'we only got hit just a little
bit, and on the next rouud we will
have recovered our wind, and we can
floor our e.oemy. But ycu in Ohio
have been knocked down, and the
D mocrats are on the top with both
knees on your stomach and tbeir claws
on your wind pipe. And what ia
more, it looks to me as if they'll stay
there. Massachusetts will be the next
to go.' Ex-Senator Bruce is almost
dead, and says he will take the first
train for His compa
triot, Walter 8. Thomas, the colored
orator and a clerk in the last senate,
tried to cheer him with quoting some
lines beginning with 'Truth cruhed to
earth will rise a.ain,' hut the Missis
sippian evidently did not view it in
that light.' 1
Our Rail Roads.
Oil Tuesday the 9th instant, there
was a meeting of the directors of the
Bald Eagle Valley R. It. Co., held at
the office of the Pennsylvania It. It
Co., in Philadelphia. At this meet
ing the directors who are in the Penn
sylvania Co submittal a proposition,
that the Bald Eagle Valley Co.
should endorse or guarantee the
Bunds of the new company organized
to build the rail road from Bcllefoiite
to Lemnnt. This was opposed by the
county directors to wit; Messrs. Cur
tin, Irwin, Blanchard, Gamble and
Duffey, unless the Pennsylvania Com
pany would agree to finish the Peons
valley It. It. from Spring Mills to
Lemont; so there would be a rail road
connection for the new mad at its
Southwestern terminus. Mr. Mackev,
the President of the B. E. V. It. It.,
took no decided stand, hut oscillated.
Finally Geo. B. Roberts, President of
the I'. It. R., was called in and he
admitted at once, that the conditions
required by Gov. Curt in and his fel
lows were reasonable and altogether
proper. Whereupon the committee
previously appointed, consisting of,
Messrs. Kca-s, Greco and Curtin, was j
continued, and enlarged by the addi- ,
tion of Mr. Roberts, and the powers
of the Committee extended so as
to include the right to select the must
feasible routes. This latter is by some
supposed to look towards the possible
purchase of the Bellefontc and Buffalo
Bun Bail Road. Since the meeting in
structions have been received by Mr.
Mackey, to proceed at once to secure
the right of way along the Igao
Branch route. This would indicate
that the Pennsylvania B. B. people
do not expect to get the Bellefoule
and Buffalo Bun roads.
Oue thing however is clear from
this action at Philadelphia, or rather
from the want of advice, that the P.
B. B. people do not intend to do any
thing during the year 1883. They
have spent the whole working season
I of the year in talking and suggesting
: and provising, until winter is now
nearly upou u, and are evidently de
termined to bridge over the few re
maining weeks of working weather,
ami then they will commence prom
ising loudly what they will do as
soon as spring comes. During the
winter they will study up plausible
excuses for doing nothing in the
spring.
On Saturday night a meeting of the j
directors of the Bellefontc and Buffalo
Bun Bail Iliad Co., was held iti
Bellefontc, at which the company
adopted the line located from Belle- j
fonte to Mileshurgnn the East side of
Spring Creek, a branch of the B and
B. B. Bail Bond. This insures them
a connection with the Vaudcrbilt road
either by the Nittany Valley or Bald
Eagle Valley routes.
A few days ago Judge Mayer filed
an opinion in the case of ihe Susque i
haima and Southwestern 11. B. Co. vs.
Pennsylvania and Western B. 11.
Go., ami granted an injunction to re
strain the latter from interfcreing in
any measure with the coustructiou of
the Beech Creek Bail Road.
The survey of the route from
Bellefonte to Beech Creek, wo under
stand, has been completed. What
next?
It has not yet been determines)
when the new depot for the B. E. V,
R. R. at Bellefonte will lie commenc
ed, but we are assured by Mr. Roberts,
President of the P. R. R. R. Co., that
it will be completed for the tri-cen
teunial of the lauding of the Pilgrims
which will occur in 1920.
CnAtRMAtf HENSF.L has made ar
rangements for an active and vigorous
campaign during the next three weeks.
Candidates Powell and Taggart will
give active attention to the work
through the state, and Ex-Speaker
Randall, Lieut. Gov. Black, Senator
Humes, Attorney General Cassidy and
Senator Wallace are booked for the
war. , |
"Kql.'Al, AND KXACT JUSTICE TO ALL MKN, OK WIIATEVKH NTATK OR TKHRUARION, KKI.IOIOUH OB POLITICAL."— Menvn.
BKLLEFONTE, l'A„ THURSDAY, OCTOI'.ER IK, 1883.
Why Ohio IN a Drniucrullc State,
Because the old iu*K of tlio great
reputdican party, which used to roll up
H* majorities hy tens of tlinuxandn in
Uliio, nre dead and gone. BCCHUKO the
reputdican leader* lIHVO proved fl*e to
ihe principles ef freedom and equality
which captivated the western heart and
placed Lincoln in the presidency. lo
calise long power has made them inlol
erani, avaricious, corrupt. Because
they have shown a di-position to hold
on to power against the will of the pen
pie and in violation ol the principle
which demand* a change of parlies as
Ihe basis and the bulwark of republi
can litierty. The verdict of < thio speaks
the doom of this parly of dead isues
and perverted principles. The victory
is indeed a glorious und important one
fur the democracy, because it shows
that the people arc not afraid to trusi
that prty with power. Yet it is not
alone or altogether a democratic victo
ry. It i* fur better. It is a victory for
honest government, for real reform, tor
economy in public expenditures, for
equal taxation ; a victory of the people
over corporations, monopolies and priv
ileged wealth. It is a viclorv shared
try men who. having been republicans
on principle, are now democrats on
principle, and won under a leader who
was a sturdy champion of human free
dom and a staunch supporter of the
1 Union cause in the dark hours of the
nation's peril. Such a victory is trul)
a triumph of reputdican government
over the jaiwer of patronage, of preju
dice, and of corporate wealth. I'
proves that when the people's liberties
and rights are threatened their patriot
ism can manifest itself as effectively
through their ballots as through their
bayonets.— AVir Itiri World.
THE fanatical fools who had control
of public affair* in the days of rccou
struction, immediately after the war
passed in Congre*# w hat they called a
civil rights bill, which proposed to
| regulate social customs and senti
menu. This law has been pretty cs
setitially a dead letter, made so by the
I good sense cf the colored man whom
it was intended to capture for political
ues. failing to demand forced admis
sion to societies where unreasonable
prejudice debarred bint. This law
which only intensified this prejudice,
lias now Ieen declared unconstitution
al and void by the Supreme Court of
I the United States, ami it now remains
for the colored man to wrork his way
I tip in the social standing of citizen
ship, by g<N>d conduct and intelli
gence, which he is rapidly doing.
COOPER, the red-headed chairman,
affects to In- jubilant over the result ill
Ohio, a* a harbinger of triumph to the
"g. o. p." in I'ctinsylvania in Movent
j Iter ! No one but the stupid ultima
tum leader in the Pennsylvania senate,
will see it in that light. The ultimat s
defiance of the constitution and their
di-regard of the political rights of the
people, may be more potent than the
I Ohio election, but both together the
blow to the Republican party will |e
j crushing in Pennsylvania. The revo
lutionists are crated in their folly
and now perhaps ran do nothing to
avert the doom. But still they might
take Ohio's hi..t and plead for mitiga
tion. *
Jl'txtE HoADLY is the first Demo
cratic governor ehosen in Ohio on the
eve of a Presidential election, since
the Republican party came into exist
ence. This is a significant fact full of
hope I Allen and Bishop were elected
during the life of the Republican
party, but the election of neither of
these preceded a presidential election
or held their office* during a presiden
tial campaign. The cloud is breaking!
THE malaria which prostrated
Judge Iloadly during the canvas in
Ohio, is now transferred to his compet
itor, Judge Foraker. and his friends
An extended residence at the head
waters of Salt River may give health,
is not contentment and wisdom.
THE Boston Advertiser thinks poly,
gamy should be "torn up by the roots."
SUBSCRIBE fur the DEMOCRAT.
Republican** Must Face tho Huoioa
Law
The Philadelphia Record remarks :
"Mr. Secretary Stenger, who is er officii)
a member of the Board of Sinking
Fund Commissioueti, made a speech
in Pittsburgh on Saturday night,
which will require soute attention from
liis political opponents. Ilechargid
ibat bis associates in the Board, State
Treasurer Baily and Auditor General
Lemon, are not carrying into effect
the Humes law in accordance witb it*
letter und spirit. This law provides
hat the unexpended balance in the
Sinking Fund shall hereafter be in
vested in state loans, if practicable,
and, if not, in United States bond*.
The average balance in the Sinking
Fund is about two million dollars. In
*tead of investing this, or anything
like this amount, Mr. Stenger charges
dial the inajoiity of the board have
inaugurated a [ml icy of investing only
i wo hundred thousand dollars a month,
and that thus fur only four hundred
thousand dollars have been invested
under the law. State Treasurer Baily.
when asked why he has not executed
the law, declares that it is "impracti
cable," and the Secretary of the com.
monwealilt, a* a member of the Board
of Sinking Fund Commissioners, con
tends that it is not impracticable. Mr
Stenger asserts that if Joseph Rowell,
the Democratic candidate, becomes
"date Treasurer he will execute the
law in its true spirit, and that Mr.
Lirsey, if elected, will follow the ex
ample of his predecessor.
In this is at least one issue joined in
*tatc politics, and it will have to he
met. Mr. Stenger charges that Sta'.e
Treasurer Baily, Cashier Livsey and
' Chairman Cooper were all actively
( opposed to the law when before the
legislature, and that Mr. Kites, the
Republican candidate for Auditor
General, "stole away from his seat and
dodged the vote." From this Mr.
I Stenger conclude* that in the election
of Livsey and Niles this important
law would be left to the tender mercie*
of its enemies. If the law cau be
evaded now. the Secretary fears that
some device will be adopted, under
i the pica that the law is impracticable,
to prevent any further investments of
the balance in the Sinking Fund. He
therefore urges the election of a State
Treasurer and Auditor General in
; Piwell ami Taggart who will cordially
unite with the Secretary of the com
monwealth in ordering the entire sum
in the Sinking Fund, together with
what is in the general Treasury in ex
cess of five hundred thousaud dollars !
to l>o invested in bonds of the United J
States without any delay.
THE seventeenth anniversary of the i
establishment of tho Grand Army of |
the Republic in this state, will be cele
brated in Philadelphia on the 24th
inst., by a grand parade to take place
atone o'clock. Posts from all part*
of the state, as well as from the de
partment* of New York, New Jersey,
Maryland and iKdaware,are expected
to be present. The commander in
chief and staff will be in attendance,
and in the evening there will be a gen
eral camp fire at Industrial Art Hall
THE New York Tribune takea a
philosophical view at least, when it
. says that "the Republican who build
any hope* on Democrat tic dissention is
almost invariably a disappointed nian
. on the moruing after the election."
This fact was pretty clearly illustrated
in Ohio last week.
"How IS THAT FOR HIGH F ' The
Democrats last week elected a Demo
cratic governor and both branches of
the Ohio legislature. This affords food
for reflection to the ultimatum revolu
tionists at Harriahurg. They will do
well to heed the warning.
Gov BUTLER, of Massachusetts, has
opened his campaign for re-election
with three speeches a day only. But
he will be able to increase the number <
to a dozen as he becomes interested in
the canvas*. |l
Evidence of lt* |> ult I f *a n Statesman
ship.
Secretary Folger tell* the Dewipipcri
(hat the balances in the treasury are
now upward* of $15.1 (XXJ COO, and re
nue* continue to pour in to the amount
of about $1,000,000 a day.
"We continue to have an overflowing
treasury and more money than we
know what to do with,'' says the secre
lary.
This money come* out of the pockets
of the people. Every man who buys a
pound of (Uigur, a suit of clothes, a p„ir
of hoots, a gallon of whbky or a paper
of tobacco, contributes towards th i -
overflowing treasury and add* to the
government puzzle of what to do with
the money.
Every man who feela the pressure of
heavy rent knows that he pay* more
than he ought to pay because of the
taxes which are imposed to swell this
enormous and embarrassing surplus
revenue.
What will the government do with
it? Hush the payment of a debt *1
ready too greatly reduced at the ex
pense of the taxpayers of today?
Lavish it on extravagant and corrupt
appropriations? Squander it in vision
ary and impractical schems ? Steal it ?
It will le disposed of in some such
way, and for this the people are loaded
down with taxation, industries are par
aliied and the progress of the couniry
is retarded. This is republican states
mauahip. iVmc York World.
HON. JOHN H. OKVIK, cf Helle
fontc, President Judge of the Forty
ninth Judicial district, has declared
his intention of resigning and of re
suming the practice of law. It i
intimated that he will become the law
partuer of Senator William A.Wal
lace.
We clip the above paragraph from
the Pittsburgh /Vf. Not having con
sulted Judge Orvis on the subject, we
cannot vouch for the truth or fiction
of the rumor floating about and now
given by the /W. We can only 'ay
that if true, the 'JIHh judicial district
will lose one of the brightest judge" in
the state, while the profession will gain
a legal mind in practice equal to the
best, one capable of grasping all the
intricacies of the law with a master
hand. We do not credit the story of
the partnership, however, as neither of
these distinguished lawyers would lie
likely to pool their issues in practice.
CHRIS. MAKEE'I man, Livsey, and
John Stewart's man, Ntles, ledh agree
as to the manner of disposing of the
state funds, and are both hostile to the
Hume's law, which requires the money
to bo invested for the benefit of the
(seople in state ornatioual bonds. This
large sum in the sinking fund averag
j i"g $2,000.000, has boon usei hereto
fore to acruminulate interest for the
Treasury ring and pet Iwtikors. It is
the people's money, and the Dcinqf
! crarv favor the law which gives to the
I
people its acrumrnulation to relieve
their burdens. The SUIT way to effect
this desirable ohject, is to let Livsey
iand Niles severely alone and vole for
("apt TAUOART for State Treasurer,
and JonF.ru POWKM. for Auditor Gen
oral. They favor the Humes' law,
and will carry out iu provisions in
1 good faith.
THE g. o. p. have been very em
phatically admonished both in Ohio
and lowa, that the tidal wave of last
year is still onward. The t iftimatistA
of Pennsylvania are now in the swell,
with breakers ahead that menace ab
solute destruction.
THE Democracy of Mifflin county
have placed a good ticket in nomina
tion. North A. Stone, for prolhono- 1
tary; T. 11. Sherman for register and
recorder ; M. M. McLaughlin for dis
trict attorney ; K. M. Taylor for poor
director; John Hwartrell for county
surveyor,and C. T. Waters for coroner.
The reaolutions adopted endorse the
reform admiuialralion of Gov. Pallia
soo, and commend his courageous
stand for eronomy and a just appor
tionment; condemn the obstructive
and revolutionary course of the Re
publican senators; approve the action
of the Democratic house, and endorse
the course of Governor Curiiu in con
gress.
TKHMS : * I ..M ) JH*I Annum,ill Ailium-n.
The I iii< rmil Tixti.
L* Speaker Rinduir* speeches in
Ohio, wherein he look grouri'i for the
extinguishment of the internal revenue
•yatem, have attracted much attention
in tha country, and hate not lessened
the perplexity ol the Republican man
gi-rs on the subject. What attitude to
lake hn for nome tirne been a trouble
•oraa question. million* on mil
lion* in the Treasury that are not need
ed, why should not these taxes be wiped
out ? Were C'ingress, a* it should. Ie
I fore Christmas, to repeal the internal
revenue laws, the rno-t potent political
i agency in the hand* ol liie Republicans
would be drairo)ed. 'I he revenue i*
not needed, and the machinery n most
pernicious. Ihe collecti-.n of the tax
f give* employment to an army of official*
1 How to manage u with reference to the
j grand reckoning of the Presidential
! campaign i* troubling R -publican lead
era not a little.
Ihe New York <SW Washington
correspondent aay there ,* no doubt
ih.it the Republican policy will bo
• lisped to favor these taxe*. Tbia la no
; time to dispense with tiie machinery or
i iurn out the army of offi ml*. 15- 'idea
] the Wniaky Ring, between whom and
the Administration there I* an under
•landing, are opposed to the removal o'
the tax. That done, the whiaky mo
| nopoly would be ended. V.ewing the
; question in this aspect, a high revenue
official, according to the coricpondent,
was emphatic in <xpressing the belief
tha; the whisky tax would not he
touched. I his, there is good ground
for believing, i to be the Republican
Administration policy at the coming
I I session of Congress — PtU-'mrj Post,
for Cooper's Conveniences
The two session* a week scheme of
1 , the Senate i probably arranged for
■ i the convenience < I It >* < jopvr, who is
• at pre-ent giving much m >re aliention
i ! to the campaign work for the mac itne
r ■ -iste ticket than the per f ormnc of
. hi* sworn duty hs a member of ibe Sec
I ate. I bu* the work imposed upon the
| legislature tiy the Constitution > made
to await the piea'Ute of the Stalwart
i manager.
-iiator < ooper spend* four or five
day* a week *1 the headquarter* of the
Republican state Commute* j n Pbila-
I J-lei, hia and give* from thirty to sixty
[ Hi iijtes weekly to the work which the
, special session of the Legislature was
j called to perform. Thus the people of
| the State are robbed of the time which
i their representative* should devote to
leg isi a I ion, in order I ht Senator < nope r
niy proceed with hi* electioneering of
the Stalwart tick- t.
Tin* sort ot thing must 1-e very agree
able to I lie tax payer* who are to loot the
1 bill of expense which the mumm Cooper
and hi* le||ow conspirator* sp*in*t *f
portionment *re piling up. It must be
exceedingly edifying, too, to the Inde
pendent and reform lb put I rat,* w hose
creed require* that psny interest mint
i be subordinated to the popular wed-
I ""mall wonder thai the lr.de| endent* o'
| la*t ye*r complain of the appointment
■ of Co'-per a* Chairman of the Republi
can State Committee.— //amdur? /V
j trior.
Urn African fellow-citizens of Ohio
| fiMthcd Ihe color line in that state
considerably tbia fall. Many ol the
colored people voted fur liondly, the
Democratic candidate fur governor.
It *i the most sensible act tbev evt r
did. The colored voter* are beginning
to realise the fact that they owe no
gratitude to the Republican partv —
that they are uot mere slaves but men
and citizen*.
THE following nml similar resolu
tion* have been pn--nl by the house :
"That the *enatc be earnestly and
respectfully requested to npfeitut n
conference committee to act with a
similar committee on the part of the
house, to adjust the dillorcnocs existing
Itetwcen the two bouses on the subject
of senatorial apportionment, to the end
that the people he secured their
representation in the legislature."
llow ia it received by the Republi*
can senate! Cooper and Stewart
shouts "ultimatum." All the mulea
kick and the performance closes. No
respect is due to public decency. Trick
mule performance a few minutes twice
a week, is all that is left now of the
respectability of the Pennsylvania
senate.
NO. 11.