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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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)! ?
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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.
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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<j company are to be erected at
Jer-ey Score.
I'he national convention of the Prehi
■ it-on Motne Protection parly will )*,
beid July 23rd.
I <i" I hi) tdelpbia poat office baa liri-n
removed to it* new and bandiotne
building, at Niritb and Cbralnut atreet.
•>.*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 >e<l
••cently, killing Sjpcr>ntci 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.