S. T. SHUUKRT & E. L. OKVIN, Editor*. VOL. 6. tTTtr Centre democrat. AO T*rmm ll.&Opr Annum In Adf^no# DE MOCRATIC STATE TICKET. CONGRESSVIA N AT LA ROE. GEN. W. H. H DAVIS TIIK Democratic Convention, of West Virginia, have instructed their Delegates to the National CoDvention t to vote for Samuel J. Tilden, for the Presidential nomiuate. THE New York Herald, says the strife in that state is open and squtrly between Arthur and Blaine and that it is to Arthur's credit that he is not booming himself, nor using patronage or influence in his own behalf. MAJ. GEM. HARTRANKT has select ed the site of the Gettysburg battle ground, for the encampmeut of the National Guards, in August next The encampmeut wili be in a twohun. dred acre field, about a mile south of the town. • THE Hon. 8. R. IVale, of Lock Haveu, is named by the I/n-k Haven Democrat as a candidate for Congre*s, in this district. If a change in the representative of the district is to be made, it would be very difficult to find one more comjteteiit and deserving than ex-Senator IYale. COL. R. G. INUKRSOI.L, of Wash, ington, who was so unmercifully beat eu by the negro, Turner, for delegate to the Chicago Republican Conven tion from that city, is now hailing from Chicago and seeking elections from the Western Metropolis, where gnat piety, and sound principles are j>er. baps more highly appreciated. THE fact may in due time become apparent to the friends of the "Plutn ed Knight," that instead of capturiog the machine in the late convention, the machine, by its quiet and adroit movements, captured the "Knight' 1 with all his forces. Matt Quay is an experienced eugineer and work" to win, while allowing his opponent- to do the blowing. mm ♦ m THE rules of the Republican party in Tioga county, requires that all can didates for office shall be announced ia the public papers at least ten day* before the primary elections, and all votes given for candidates not thus an nounced, shall not be counted by the county convention. This is bringing it to fine points, probably in the inter ests of the publishers. SESATOH MILAM, of Lancaster, one of tho ring of the last session, who defied the constitution and refused to apportion the State in accordance with the directions of that instrument, ha" been nominated for re election. Milan in the Senate is a mere tool of the ring, withont ability to bt anything but a slave to the mandates of the boss, whether that mean* corruption of official perjury. ■■ ♦ TIIK filibusters are again at work in Cuba. Agurro, their leader, is said to be steadily gaining ground, having had several successful encounters with the Spanish troops. The insurgents number .a resectable force and sus tain themselves by levying contribu tion upon the farmers and planters. Filibusters from the United States are under survt ilance of U. 8. vessels from Key West and New Orleans. ■ ' PRESIDENT ARTHUR'S boom for the succession, is gone up. The majority of delegates from his own state of New York, to the National Convention is against him. The delegates chosen, t are divided between Blaine, Arthur and Edmunds, the latter probably holding the balance of power between ths President and Blaine. The New York Herald of the 21st inst., however, publishes an authentic statement of the delegates thus far chosen in the different states, which places Arthur in the lead of Blaine fc 113, and claims that the latter is loa- ing ground in the New Knglaml states. 'I TIIK appointment BY President Arthur of Mr. Charles E. Coon a* a*- ' nixtant Secretary of the Treasury is commended in all quarters, an well for the rijie experience, good character and capabilities, (lie appointed hriugs to the service, an for the triliute it af fords to the civil service reform. Mr Coon was an employe of the Depart naent, Had steps up upon hiii merit*, and not upon hi* efficiency in the alum* of party drill. - m* ♦ —• - THE Staie H< publican prist take* different view* of the effect of the late Slate Convention, hut the i. or. ity seem to reach th tclu-ion tliat it was a very weak Lt.j.u tor Blaine, and not the satisfactory and hariuon- J ious gathering desired by his friends. The Stalwart bosses were present and managed adroitly to satisfy the friends of the "Plumed Knight" with the shell, while they took the kernel. Mr. Blaiuc will not he called from his lit erary pursuits. A DI*PATCH from Washington says i that Mr. Blaine is very much embar rassed by reiHirts from his canvas sers that the sale of his books is large ly injured by the engraving it con tains of Rutherford B. Hays. This would certainly be a serious objection to a b > >k UIIICAS purjxisely designed to to illustrate a fraud or exhibit a ' phis," for the rogue* gallery. The some dispatch als > says Mr. Biainc is seriously contemplating leaving the picture out of the future edition". Well, such is life. THE election of the Hon. Win. A. Wallace, who wa< not present at the late StLtc Convention, as a delegate at large to the Democratic National Con ventioti, was a compliment well merit ed and shows the unfaltering confi dence in which he is deservedly held by the Democracy of Pennsylvania., Chosing integrity and ability and fidelity as represented by this distin guished favorite of the people, the members of the Convention did them selves honor. Indeed the whole dele gation selected, is one of unrivaled excellence and ability. IT seems to be determined that the Hungarian miners in the Anthracite coal regions must go. Riots have oc curred, ami more seri on one* arc ap prehended, that may demand the er vi:es of the Home Guards. It does not aj pear that th" Hungarians are objected to because they are Hangar-, ians, but I era use they work for less pay than other laborers can airni to do, who desire to l.ve ami ke *p their . . — families like human beings, ami not like animals. The high protectionists who import this kind of cheap labor t i compete with the labor of the rouu* try, may see the day when its (heap mas may not be so desirable. ♦ - - TIIF. CUIAVANH MOVING! The In diana Democratic Association held a meeting in Washington, last week to receive the boom, and bring the Hon. Joseph K. McDonald more prominent ly to the front as a candidate for Presi deiit. They passed the following revo lutions : lit mined. That we recoguircd in the Hon. Joseph E. Mi Donald a patriot, a statesman and a Democrat who has ever been faithful to his party and hit country. Re mined, That, in the judgement of this association, the nomination of Mr. McDonald for the Presidency by the Democratic National convention would establish harmony in the party throughout the country, and would re sult in the success of the Democratic principles at the approaching Presi dential election. Upon these Senator Vorhees made an exhaustive r.nd eloquent argument to the country in favor of the nomin ation of Mr. McDonald and the ira p irtAtico of harmony and suocess, to rescue the government from the cor nipt and oppreasive oligarchy which has so long dominated it. the Republican • primary in iCNtwford county, Blaine had 4,750 BO for Arthur, as the ißnUhtill choice. "EIJCAL AMI) XXACT JCSTICK TO ALL MIX, Or WIIATXVXa STATM O* r BBMUASIOM, RBLIOIOL'S OS POLITICAL."—Jatr*<,k BKLLKKONTK, PA.. THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 1884. Tho Wot-Dog m Politics. The proverbial wet-Jog is obnoxious iiiontly In-cause lie come* unbidden in to decent company Mini con la mm a ten it, by *liking I'ruin himself foul hu uiiiity. The element of tbia cauiue uu|M>|ularity may be lunniiwl up in these facta: that he cornea uu- I bidden to where he ia not wanted ; that he is foul with stagnant moisture; that he is particular to shake himself when hu cau befoul the largest num ber at one aud the same time. The ef fect of this prop, noiy ia to disgust the dog's temporary aoctety. It relieve* the dog, but it scatters the crowd. Huch animal* there are in politics- They lack the shaggy coal, but they scatter the filth all the sanm. 1 li.-y relieve the itching iu taeir own dis eased political skins, by wallowiug in the purlieu* of personal vitupera tion and scandal ; they find relief and pleasure, of a pcrculiar sort, in shak ing from themselves, shower* of invec tive and abuse, upon those who have been theirs and the party's bcuefaet ors. They art- tho breeders of disorgan ization ; they are the festering sores; they are the kicker* ; they say "we cannot, and you shall notthey mut ho continually placated, consulted, teniporir.<*d with, coaxed, caj -Is-*!, pat ted on the hack, —but they always, iu cvitably, play tho "w. :-d >g." One of the ro >-t striking trit* of tins meanest of tb- little politician*, is always to bring tln-ir pc raonal quar rels with neighbors into |s>litios,aud in stead of fighting them out iu a coura geous, manly and open manner, call upon every ono sul*>ervietit to thorn, for favors ss customer*, etc., to take sides against neighbor* with whom they have no quarrel and thus eu gendor strife, animosities and jealoui - ics, ami break up oib>rwi happy and content*)) neighborhood*. They are disturbers, never leaders. They have no party feally. Thev give their party no financial support; nvira! support or influence tlioy gener ally have none. Those whom the pnr ty look to for leadership, are generally the objects of their vituperation. Luckily our good party in this county, at the present time, ia ml much cursed with the wet-dog They appear to be confined m< stly to the Republican party in Centre coun ty. For a psrty that has been, and promises for many years to be, in a hopeless minority, there would seem to fe small u*e for balers or disturb ers. I' d they do cxit. Lvery year the U'-publi an party mnk< i: nom inations, aud it* feeble i fT rf- toward* MICCC-S. Every year they get left by the wayside, ami the Democratic ma jority increases. Whenever a Repub lican a*-nines to le a trader, to fake an active part, to give of his time or <> r his money, either of principle or personal advancement, he is set upon by the i l.i * we have described, ami he generally retires disgusted. There arc a few mall Republican 1 plums to be handed around each rear, ' such as chairman of the county com mittee, delegate to the State conven | tion, member of the Rate committee, i delegate to tho National convention, 1 and the like. For these there is gen erally a scramble. Sensible mm rcc ' ognizc the right of the hard workers and influential men in the party, to these positions, but here is always the I wet-dog's opportunity. The deserving man is set upon, abused, ami vilified ; aud if he get* away with the honor, he gets his share of the mud. We are not wanting for illustra tions. Take the case of Chairman Keller, the late Republican delegate to the Harrisburg convention. It was sought to defeat him on the ground that be coald not he trusted to repre sent his party as a delegate. A pub lic meeting was called osteustbly iu the interest of Blaine, but rqpdly I for ibe purpose of beating K UrrJ A , committee of ten was selcoted ; it Kid secret, meetings: it called eaucu* lul< side of the party organisation ; it set up a candidate, attacked Keller's char acter, —aud (all the same; Keller was triumphantly ele -ud, sent to Harr s burg, offered the resolution instruct ing for Blaiue, diJ the square thing all 'round, and came borne in time to see the same clique act the wet-dog again, in another way, vis: by refus* iug to pay Brother Tuten for the hand bills tbey had printer! when they were acting the part of the wet-dog with Keller. Tuten got his pay, because be started a subscription paper, and the regulars helped him out ; never theless he kuows what a damp canine ia when he sees it James Milliken, Lq , was treated in much the same way. The Repub lican press through the *tate was pret ty unanimously iu favor of sending him as a delegate at large to the Chicago convention. Milliken was in New York when tho couuty conven tion took place. He is a wheel-horse ; be gives time, money ami valuable ansis tanee in every campaign. He is hon orable, able and willing. He never kick*, never wants office, and altogeth er i* a valuable piece of timber to have lying around the Republican kitchen, when the Republican keitle i* put on ami expected to boil. Fear ing that he might have this empty honor of ib legat)-at-large thrust upon him, a resolution wu< sprung in the CnUU convention, at its close, in structing the delegate* to vote for W. I*. Duncan for said o!fice. Of ccur*e it wont through, because nobody saw whom it aimed at until it was passed. Mr. Duncan is a very good man, hut his efforts at Hlatesmanship in Bellc fontc were confuted exclusively to the passage of the obnoxious "cow ordi nance" when a member of council, and that hardly entitles him to go to Chicago ; but he was used to wipe up the Milliken floor, all the same, at the Harrishurg convention. Milliken was uominatcd and actually elected adele gale-al-large, having more voles than IK*. hut Secretary I'earson and Boss ({uay counted him out, ami lye was declared elected. Probably Mr. Milli ken thinks the wet tings are not all in Centre ounty. As a political fact or, the wet-dog is a non-essential, hut who will ay how he may be exter minate)! ? ♦ ■ The Philadelphia Reeord, believes that "when the protective tariff reso lulion wa* concocted at Harrisburg it probably written with a pencil That part of it which declares that protection htv "guarantor 1 aju*t ami adequate scale of wages " to working men i such a frig >r.fic lie that the ink w<>u!d have turned to ice on the p n of the writei." Bvt> asjurie- get t'l be, the /%•//'/ phia li'frjrd thinks none of them ever made a more outrageous decision than the tight "judge*" of the Doc toral ciimmi-*ii>n, selected from the .Supreme court am! Congress, aud on this account our contemporary is will ing to put up with jurii-s longer The impression made by that out rageous decision has not been (Taccd. ami will not be in the mind* of this generation at least. A DEMO) RATH: contemporary say* Mr. Blaine speaks in his book of "Mr. Bulk's superb blundering in Mexican affairs." That "blundering," as he call* it, secured to the Union the Rate* of Texas, California, Nevada, Colorado and the Territories of New- Mexico, Utah and Arizona. After Jefferson's purchase of lx>ui-iana it was the grandest achievement in our national history.— DmUt/ Sun. With such specimen* of Blaiuc's literary labors, it is not out of place to pronounce his hook a fraud, a mere Mulligan affair after all. ■' IT is announced that Judge David Davis, has determined to maintain bis old position and sit upon the fence as a passive observer of political events ; that he see* no advantage at least in identifying himsolf, with tho active work of the O. O. P. of questionable raft hods. COWOBKMIMAK BaYNK, of PltUbu + although ap|M-ariug in the Ilepuhl. n ' , Convention with a delegation elected Iby a majority of t-iiiz n*. wa* no | match for Chii*. Mujit an! Mutt, I hey hid the machine. It wheel* were well greased, and when iu working order iu Republican Conven tion, i* invincible. Bayue aud his delegation of citizens found it so on thi* occasion, and step)**! to the rear, ; like "little men." A MAHHA) IICMCTTH woman, remarks a contemporary, who when in that State favored woman suffrage, chsng. Ed her mind after becoming a resident ami voter iu Wyoming. According to her observation tho only effect of women suffrage in that Territory is to give a married man two votoa instead of one and an additional vote for each grown up daughter. Women will not attend primarm*, ami at.regular elec tions the married women take their tickets from their hubamls and vote tbcru without scratchiug. But the most interesting featuie is that the women of Wyoming generally think voting a bore anil do not want to have anything to do with it. The witness hern-if i* a Republican, and frankly •ays she votes only to offset a Demo cratic worm a's 'ballot. Wh.-litis women of the country want to vote it will be difficult resitting their de mand*, hut there arc millions of mile* yet btiw>-en the present and that stage. ..i Iv our own country the Qovern ruent, instead of -landing a* an im" partial arbiter amid confliclsof matur ing opinion ami contending interest* ha* itself descended into the arena, cquipjied with all the weapons of par lisaitship. Its myriad* of officeholders, it* alliancea with or against vast pecu' niary interewl*, its unlimited command of moury levied from ita dependent*, and contractors, have sufficed to de termine the majority in every case but one. In that case it collected military force* around the t apitol.and by ibis and other methods intimidated Congressional representatives of the majority of the (>coplc to relinquish the truita of their victory and to surrender the Goverment to the control of the minority. No re-form of aduiinistra tion is possible so long a* the fiov- n nieot i* directed by a party which is und-r the dominion of fain.- doctrines, am! animated by pecuniary iotrnvts in the perpetration of existing abu-o "S. J. TII.DES." I MIL IIurKIVH bill to establish a Bureau of La!>or pa—ed the House on Fii-lay last by a vote of I*'J to \'J. The House ha* thu emphasized the doclriue of the Democracy to the cause of the working people. The Harrishurg Patriot, refering to this hill justly remark*: While a bureaucratic government i* to IK- deprecated, some *■ rt of of lieial machinery for the collection and publication of lalmr *tati.-tics has be come necessary. The tariff question which is sure to lie prominent in politics for some years | cannot be intelligently s. tiled unless the relaiiou* between capital and labor arc accurately ascertained. The census report* throw much light on the subject of labor, but as they ae made up only once in ten years they arc not so satisfactory as the investigations ofa properly rege lated lalmr bureau would prove. It is therefore to be hoped that the Hopkins bill will pass tho senate and become a law. The workiugmen should know whether they arc helped or hurt by existing laws and there is no way by which they may he so thoroughly and correctly informed as by the system proposed iu this bill. It is sol ire) y safo to venture the predictiou that if this bill becomes a law and the bureau organized under t does iu whole duty the protection humbug will be exploded and Mr. llopkios will then-alter be elected to congress without proclaiming himself better protectionist than hit opponent. TKKMH : $1.50 |mt Annum,in Advance. Items of Intercut Scrlt fit fr i, r.gmg in Huntingdon rwo deaths occurcd recently from the The repair shop* of the Beech Creek is ho.*ian K. lei Laugh, of Piltaburgn, iom toil led auicide by taking Pruaaic acid, 1 riday. He.waa ibe aonof a-Bilby ■nd re| ected ;parents. No cause is known for the raab act. It waa decided at a matter of 1} <• gen eral paaaenter agents of all the roada leading into Cotumhua. Ohio, Friday to fi* the rale* for peraon* attending Naij >nal Convention t .Chicago, and the Greenback convention ot lodian* ape!.*, at half ralee The elevated railroad of New York, being inadequate to tb demand, of tL.- 12-1,000, people doing business at the southern end of the i.land. it ia now l-ropoeed to build an >rode railroad l-*nr a h the aurfate of Broadway, A powili-r iniit near sli.moain con ■t fin / t/j ' | # dcr, p*ji o >entci dent I'oium, and .nguier Smith. The ire communicated to an adjoining u Ming con Mining over ,>kt keg. of • wder h'nwin/ i|,e building to atoms. A pair of ahari er are traveling hrough . •m<* the ea-tern counties nt i. St.ite , ictmi r.ng the un u-poct • g. The Wayne.hr • K-cnrd tells they get in thier ra-cally work: A couple of tuen called at the houto a Mr. Kr.r.-r w,tli a quantity of " d pt e*n> ' riruio t. g "er.])v, aliicb they inited on selling him. He had no uee for the gnoda and of course refused to buy. Tbey finely asked to IpT6 iht foods in care of Mra. Kriner. She consented to take i charge of them until called for. Before , having tbey said tbey would Ultra I few lim*. , n writing aUting the fact that tb. g-iod- had been left in the fatni y'a caie, wnich Mr. K'in.r ngned. It since turned out ib.t be rigned a note for fIOO, which the villains sold to a Hagerdown broker. Mr. Krinor t.a taken up the b gus note, and now want* a purchaaer for the good, at, we [•rerume, m t any price."— Fret Prat. A<• range of P roi. of ilu.baadry waa • rg.ni* din Turbett and Fayette towiinhipa JuniMt.i county week l-efore last. Mir Ca iie B. K 1.-ure. having failed to got, admission to pre, drear a lawyer before the eonrta of Philadelphia, bar made spp! at , h e Delaware ennnty ciurt. It i t ported thai loth silver and copper have been found nrar Bieh. field, Junmta c>untv. Daniel Hawr. one of the three well known 1 lawn brothers, die l in Jnniat.i c onnty lat Wednesday. He wa the youngest of t„- brother,and w>. aged over a-0 j earn. •ohn W. a baggsgemastor >n the Pennsylvania railroad, who had been in the employ of the company for twenty five years or more, was struck at (. lutab a by an engine on Thursday, •nd fatally injured. Hi* Stated that most of the so csllod 'ardinrs which are eaten in thi. country arc nothing more or ]e it an .mall herring, j re* rrnl in cotton, ccd oil and made gay with French lab,la. Sutiatica published by the Penna. State Sunday School nvroeiatkin give the number of Sunday Schools in the State at k,H7, with M 1,73*. teachers officers and scholars. Philadelphia has V2 fundav S.-boola and an attend tree of 1*4,7*2 Scholars; The work of removeng the boilies of the entombed mineis at Pocahontas, V irginia, ha. t>e, ti going on for several days past. Most of the bodies are hor ribly mutilated and the sconce presented when the bodice are brought out of the mine are horrible aim beyond diecrip tion- The corooors Jury has eionor* ted the mining 00. from all blame. A State balmy convention composed of trprcsentatives of the labor organisa tions and granges of Illinois met W rdncsday, in Chicago. Involutions were adopted favoring the |>awags by Congrosaof the Foreign Shipping bill far the better protection of a merlesn sail ors. NO. 17.