neat,
S. T. SHUGER’ I'& E. L. ORVI
8, Editors.
“EQUAL AND EXACT JUSTICE TO ALL MEN,
OF WHATEVER STATE OR PERSUASION, RELIGIOUS OR POLITICAL,
ed efferson
TERMS :
BL50 per Annum, in Advance.
VOL. 6
BELLE FONT E, PA., THURSDAY, MAY
2
ay
1884.
NO. 21,
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"The Shai Denacrat,
Rasmus 81.50 por Aunumin Advance uy authority for the ‘declaration that lon, who returns from Europe to-mor- |
{ Mr, Hewitt's tariff bill, presented last
DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET.
CONGRESSMAN-AT-LARGE,
GEN. W. H. H DAVIS,
OF BUCKS COUNTY.
THE ELECTORAL TICKET.
ELECTORS AT LARGE
B. J. Mctiramm
H. B. Plummer,
DISTRICT BLECTONS
L John Slavin, 15. George 8. Purdy,
~ John P. J. Sevsendorf,[16. P. K, Ackley,
i, Jolin W. Lee, 7. John P, Levan,
. Herbert J. Horn, hs. Eira). Parker,
. Richard L. Wright, 19. E. I Mumma,
i, John H., Brinton, 20, A. BUD,
. Wm Stahlor, 21. Franklin P. James,
8. Charles ¥F. Rentschler, '22. J K.P. Duff,
, HH. M. North, 23. Joan Swan,
. Harry G. Stiles, 23. A.B. Winternitz,
. A.J. Broadhead, Jr, wo Jubn H. Hill,
2. F. V. Rockalsliow, 2. Wm, A. Farquer,
3. No cholee, * 125. AJ Greenfield,
. George IL. Lrwin;
Richard Vaux,
Tie Democratic State Convention
of New Jersey, speaks for the old tick: |
ot, Tilden and Hendricks.
— A A———
{
{
i
{ reduce the tariff would be useless this |
Ine | is seeking additional strength.
|
{first in
lin Chicago on We
[if he can warp in the
{ Prohibitionists and
!
|
|
|
|
|
hiracetves quite merry
| the first National Convention
of hosts of
whole country,
->
Tur Evening Star of Washington
week, will not be reported from the |
|W ays and Means Committee. The
| Committee profess to be satisfied that |
any attempt to pass a bill that would
gassion,
a Ay A—
Mays. Gx, Bex.
the field. He has captured
f the
nlizts, wh met
5 last. Now
Greenbackers, |
organiza
to act
| season, the Anti- Mon
other
| tious, too wise and goody-zood
friends throughout the |
| Saturday, bas this to say:
|
i
i
F. Burren is the |
|
|
|
|
A WASHINGTON correspondent of
“Senator
John Sherman went over ¢ Philadel-
phia to-day to see Senator Don Camer-
hung this tale:
Thereby is
| Blaine, having concluded that he con-
row.
not be nominated, or that if nominat-
{ ed he cannot be elected, has determin-
He i
given to understand that Don Camer-
{on is for Logan, with Arthur for sec-
ond choice, and with a strong feeling
against Blaine. He will
Sherman for Arthur his second
choice, knowing very well that Don
as
|C ameron’s first choice cannot be nom-
| inated,
| with the leading political parties of |
| the country,
opportunity to display the versa
tility of his talent.
PORISRIOIRPRTC Ea
“Republican make
SOME
papers
and bappy
Frep GRANT expresses the opinion | over the dispute of Democrats on the
that he and his father and
brother | tariff.
It is no doubt funny, as ‘well
Bevjamin may bave a;
| weeks past,
However this may
Arthur men are more confident and the
Blaine men more uneasy than
The Southern Press.
The
Free Trade journals of the
| North, and particularly that portion
|
were great fools to entrust all they pos- | as foolish, but our Republican friends |
sessed in the bands of a reckless spec { do not seem to he much better united
ulator and a comparative
Very few persons will doubt the accun-
racy of this opinion.
rn Ap AGI——
A caLL for a mass meeting, signed |
|
by several hundred of the business men | |
of New York, was issued last week to | Prominent statesmen and presidential
endorse the addsinistration. There js | probabilities as a set of thieves and
some evidence that Arthur is pot will. | corruptionists,
|clusively to our umited,
ing to surrender his state to Maine
and Vermont without a struggle,
i cs tA MA
Tae Sevate Pevsion Committee
have decided not to confirms the ap-
pointment of Ho Mi Vauderslice as
Pension Agent at Philadzlphia. Itis
believed that the appoivtinent will be
given to A. Wilson Norris, if the re.
moval of Gen. Sickles is insisted on
by Col. Quay.
—— GY A———.
Tae financial avalanche
swept through Wall street, N. Y.
week, was alarming while it lasted,
and left some disastrous and hops
wrecks in its track, but the panic has
now passed and the “bulls” and “bears”
will again bob up serenely to their ac-
customed occupations, nnmindful of
the failures of the avaricious imbeciles
who risked their all to attain sudden
and unearned riches,
A ————— I —
A PETITION very numerously signed
has been presented in the U. S
Senate, praying that Geoeral Fremont
be placed on the retired list of the
army. Gen. Fremont may have de
served well when connected with the
array, but he left the service over a
quarter of a century ago, for other
pursuits. , Gen. Graot did the same
however, and if his case a meritorius
one so ought Fremont’s to be.
ee————
GETTING AWAY WITH THE SUR-
PLUS! There is added to the Indian
appropriation bill, as passed by the
Senate, $35,000 more than the amount
reported by the Senate committee on
appropriations. This makes the whole
amount of the Senate's additions to
the bill $865,000, and the total
amount appropriated for the Indian
department $6,300,000, about $930,
000 greater than the appropriations of
last year. The surplus must go.
less
Harrier Lowe Jounsox, she who
so gracefully and so acceptably presi-
ded and did the social honors of the
White House, during the administra-
tio her uncle, President Buchan.
be reollected as a lady of hand
Bpome prescace and rare attractions,
who immediately after the death of
' Mr. Buchanan, married Harry E,
Johnson, a popular Baltimore banker
of high character. Two years ago
they lost their two only sons, whose
deaths occurred within short time of
each other, and now the husband, af-
Wo weeks of illness of pneumonia
which |
stranger, | {on the vexed question, if their leading |
{organs in the east and west are to be
| considered exponents of Republican
Besides, the Democrats
00 occasion to denounce their
sentiment,
have
This is reserved ex-
harmonious
opponents— Blaine, Edmunds, et al,
SENATOR Saprx, chairman of the
Republican National Committee, is
announced as one of those who went
by the bosrd in the financial crash.
Au obscure man from the West, with-
out experience or training in political
bitelee, Te was Seiad “@hairman be
cause of his reputed great wealth and
the convenience his barrel would be
to the party, now that the grand old
, last | party is somevhat hampered in its us
His
failure will be quite a disappointment
to those who expected the sivews of
war from the liberality of the million.
aire if, in their resentment, they do
not require his abdication of the hon-
or. Crash is the motive powcr of
Republican politics, and lame ducks
will not count much as leaders.
Tae report, remarks the Pittsburg
Post, that Don Cameron favors the
nomination of John Sherman for
President is a confirmation of the
maxims of his father, pever forget
your friends. There is nothing like
keeping a good thing im the family
whea you can, and in this case it
would be a safe harbor for the Camer-
on dynasty, if successful. Don could
be provided for in the cabinet, and
his numerous friends find good places
in which to earn an honest livelihood.
But the young man will soon be on
the ground and able to speak for him-
self, not only on the political situation
but make good his margins on stocks,
as he has been to some extent a dab-
bler in that uncertain lottery. As re-
sults prove, he shows better judgment
in going for Sherman than he did for
Grant, so 80 far as financial matters go.
Ir is very “probably a fact that
many of the brave men who are mem.
bers of the Greely relief expedition
thought much of the fame and notor-
iety that would attend the success of
their efforts when they volunteered for
the lservice, It seems not unlikely
that the mefchant marin. may fore
stall them. Stiraulated by the offered
reward of $26,000, two whaling ves-
sels have already started from New-
foundland on & search for the Jaan.
nette survivors, and two more are
about to follow them. Experts de
clare their prospects to be excellent,
and as they will reach the North wa-
ter near the extremity of Baffin's Bay
some thres weeks before tho govern-
ment's vessels, the friends of the naval
search party are rather Sespondont
sal resources by civil service,
{obo ge vas lure,
| ments of the south on the Morrizon
the |
| daily circulation of the Southern press |
| as essential that the innocent depositor
i
H
§
i
{and his followers.
{ Mobile Register.
bill. Beventy-five per cent. of
condemned the policy of Morrison
Says the
¥
Lynch-
¥
burg Virginian :
»
* »
we would urge car repre |
“sentatives in coogress to address
“themselves to the work of securing |
“the repeal of the internal revenue |
“Jaws.”
very Northern states which refused to
accept ihe tariff policy of the new
Kentucky statesman. *
Take away from the Southern democ-
racy, those who favor such protection
as was demanded by Clay, Calboun,
Clayton, Polk and Jackson, snd we
will find every Southern state in the
hands of the Republican party.’ —
“It appears from & |
look at the situation,
aud his supporters are determined to
rule or to ruin the party.
not so much in love with the tariff bill |
batched by Mr. Morison, as they are
in love with themselves and their own
conceits, Had they the real interests
of the country and the absolute suc-
cess of the Democratic party at heart
- * = ¥
inetead of their own selfish ends they |
would listen to the voice of reason
and show a willingness to meet their
Democratic compeers on safe equitable
ground which would be acceptable to
the coaservative men of the party, the
masses, and especially the business io-
terests of the country.—Atlanta Jour-
nal,
Speaker Randall was right when he
said that the Morrison bill was a pal-
pable confession of inability to han-
dle the intricate problem at issue or
else a rash eagerness to do what was
at ounce uncalled for, unwise and un-
fortunate. It appeared to be agita-
tion only for the sake of agitation—
always a mistake.~Augusta Chronical
and Constitutionalist,
The democratic platform of “Free
Trade” Virginia, demands the “uncon:
ditional and immediate abolition of
the internal revenue system, and a
tariff for revenue limited to the neces
sities of the government economically
administered and so adjusted in its ap-
plication as t~ prevent unequal bur.
dens, encourage productive interests at
home and afford a just compensation to
labor, but not to create or foster mon.
opolies.
Let our contempories be fair to
their constituents in this matter, Mis
representation will net win a bad
cause. The South is not a free trade,
and never will be, her industries are
us varied, though not us extensive as
those of the North, her policy as rep.
resented by he great men of the past
is clearly stated by the 6th oc 7th
plank of the Virginia platform. That
she is iz favor of an adjustment of |
the tariff that will Snvase asthe dy
anlage of all is ji nally
i
|
18 |
i
ask Don |
{ Cameron whether he cannot substitute
{own account or forming
be, the |
| by Benator Cullom’s bill,
10r | officials, especially inclusive of the di- |
| rectors, should be held
| countability for the
Is lefale
| . “ » : . 0 Ie r gelaica
| of democratic press, which inclines in | 779°" ¥
| that direction have wilfully or through
ignorance misrepresented (he sentir |
! guarded, dol
{shall be protected.
“And now |
“The democracy cannot elect {
a President except by the aid of the
that Morrison
They are |
{ Tue flarry and financial scare which
run so high on Wednesday of
| week, in New York.
|
last
has subsided—
ington Post sees in this experience the
| necessity for more restrictive legisla
|
i
| ti on upon all these banking concerns, |
{It remarks: “It is a singular finan
{ ed to support Sherman, and the latter | | cial anomaly, indeed, that a National
| |
Jank of the United States should not |
| be as safe as an ordinary State Sav.
That it is not 0 indicates
the that
cannot be too speedily remedied.
{ings bank.
| a radical defect tn system
Not only the president, cashier and
teller of a National bank, should be
prohibited from speculating on their
any specula
to a stricter ac-
due performance
of their duties and placed under such
rigorous disciplinary regulations as to
ions and failures impos
sible.
18
It is not enough that the public
on the "¢
the
cent holder shall suffer no loss,
lar for dollar,
nnd .
It
culation of a bank, so that
18
He
| money in a government bank,
| his own risk, but with the
| that it will be held as a sac-ed and in-
puts
not at
| violable trust. It is incumbent upon
i the Government to see that his ac
| count is made secure against spoila-
of one per cent., to make good the |
speculative losses of a bank president |
out giving to this matter the attention |
itso much deserves. The relations
between the pedple and
should be those of confidence aud not |
suspicion, of safety instead of
or.the president's private bucket shop. | =o presideticy
Congress should not adjourn with- |
|
|
but all bank |
| nee d” is
ir- |
his |
Assurance |
| service for his country.
i
{ for 8500,000 and other
. . . ! vanced on
tive partnerships outside, as proposed |
The Lesson of the Failure
There a
. i s {a1 sy of } f Carn n
| many of the speculators and rotten | the failure of the firm of Graut and
| firms having collapsed. But the Wash: | ;
| ious re flection.
| Ward which afford material for ser.
The abilities are set
“The
will fall cheifly upon individoals who
h the firm”
ock
eniid
as high as $10,000,000, Josses
have invested money wi
the
men iY Ie
statement of its St
“Some g men, are in
for still lar
a . 4 a:
ger sume,’ says a clerk of the fallen
house,
A
publican Evening Post that
Ward in the
LJ
“prominent banker |
Cirnnt
were
y
habit of pledgir
1 oor ' “4 i
the securities hypothecated with them
for loans larger than the amounts ad.
' ro
gUuch secur.
OF #4 cured by
dis
CUssl
| Ward's trans which heard
{ in Wall street and elsewhere
actions are
, the words
it. .0ns. ip ! :
‘swindling’ and ‘robbery’ are freely
the assertion of
Post in its article on the
The y il
These are painful stories.
lustrate in a striking manner the evil |
that
of that toadyism to distinction,
hero-worship, that passion for power, |
| whil
that insatiable greed for wealth, that
its
that recklessness in its dissipation,
unscrupulousness in acquisition,
which have grown upon the country |
as a result of arrogant and igal
prod
Republican rule.
As a soldier Grant did magnificent
| Grant engrafted semi-imperialism upon |
| his party, and planted the seeds of a |
tion to the amount of even a fraction |
{1
have since bad an alarming growth.
When be stepped from the high el-
the
f Wall street, why did
ooseness of official morality which
into
muddy pbol «
| people flock around him there and lay |
{of his inexperienced sons? Because |
re lessons in the details of |
8 1
Exchange ]
[| been closer
As president |
| Bound
Business Principles
I
Rule.
the
Amd
prev
all the excitement that
throughout
the week there have been no nore fail-
bias
ailed in financial eire'es
ures in ie
gitimate business than usual.
who are engaged
wr .
Meo in honest
and who have been prosecuting
en.
terpris
their business on sound principles have
fear: oi
this is just now the rule
United
little reason for and outside
|}
LOCK operators
the Miales to a
H
Ail {
thao it has been 1
I'bere ha
of evniits mun business
y
"
or
Y Years, been bo peril
extension «
ven, and sh jong ax there is not
we can
inno dan ge rof any widespread com
1d or industrial depression.
———-
Items of Interest.
* A —
The Parke rel
1,
editoro f Lhe
irsg [ron W
rk shave
lhe Media American
in that
esses to have rcea a ghost
resides
resjaer
f Christi
4
an Horst,
town, banon
rot bed o
Lehigh Va ley coal ( ompany
ried to hay
county,
£100 in gold.
i5
| 10.000) a¢
in the
¢ purchase
and
res
eoal | Snow
Lambin
le hunting
Harry 24
By
13
'
in Corry,
aged
recently
harged his rifle and mor-
wounded Miss Kate Conners
A Lewistown lunatic set fire
coal oil that hed escaped from a barrel
{ and was runnin By
years
rats
sccidently disch
tally
lo BOT OC
g down the gutter
| good luck a big Gre was averted,
The Cambria Iron Company has re
{ceived an order from the Cinciannati
New Orieans and Texas Pacafic Railway
for 15,000 tons of 60 pound rails.
| Dr. J. Nelson Clarke, a prominet
{ physician of ITarrisburg, hat been arres
{ted and held to bail for hearing on the
| charge of taking illegal fees in Sve pen-
| sion claims,
A paper read before the Forestry
jeongress on Thursday estimated the
"the Macks | thein savings aL his feet modethe feel | cost of the milroad tips, used in the.
United States every seven years st
| they were talented, shrewd and cau. | $14,784,000,
danger: | tiok
Otherwise the sooner the national sys |
| tem is disposed of “the better.
>
Tug officers of the
New Eng and
i
inaugurated a movement to secure the
tobacco.
to unite in its favor,
Co-operation from the New York To-
bacce Board of Trade have been re
ceived and a movement
)
i
for coalition with southern and west.
ern politicians and tobacco men.
meeting to complete arrangements will
he held at Hartford on Saturday. It
will favor abolishing the tobacco tax:
the discharge of 2,000 government
employes to save $2,500,000 expenses
and an annual $30,000,000 revenue.
The New Eogland growers have an
association of over one thousand, and
and ample funds. They are embold.
ened by securing protection against
Sumatra tobacco, which saved Ameri:
can growers over a million during the
past year.
Barkis is Willin'.
Bosrox, May 16.—~Gen Butler has
written to Mr. Shively, of South Bend,
Ind, the secretary of the National
Anti-monopoly committee, as follows:
“My Dgar Sir: I have your let
ter of the 1st inst. which I found upon
my table upon my return home from
an absence from the state, I am in
this state of mind: If there is any
portion of the people of this couniry
desirous to vote for me for president
I shall not oppose their doing so, and
they may do it in anyway they see fit,
for it is their business to vote as they
believe and not mine to direct them,
Therefore while I do not deem it prop-
er for me to take any part in putting
my name before any body of men asa
candidate for any office, I shall great
ly appreciate any action of the peo:
i i ————
repeal of all internal revenue taxes on cial ability.
The growers and packers in {cident of their father's presidency
the trade throughout the country are {might have been respectable dry.
Assurances of | goods clerks in Galena.
18 financiers? Notatall, Wea
| told by the Times that while Grant
| bas a fortune of 8250000 and an in.
re
| come of 815,000 a year untouched, he
| Tobacco Growers’ Association have is hopelessly poor and irretrievably in |
Hence he cannot possess finan- |
His sone, but for the ae- |
| debt.
They
{ no qualifications as successful specu.
|
lators,
has started |
i
i
{ built up on a name.
i
Aj
| vietims are flunkies'—N.
The firm of Grant & Ward was |
Its $10,000,000
liabilities were due to toadyism. Its
Y.
-
A Voice From the Tomb.
That eminent political eadaver, says
the Harrisburg Patriot Hon. W. M. Evarts
has risen from his grave to recall to the
public memory the fact that he was the
fraudulent Secretary of State in the
stolen Presidency of Ruotherford RB.
Haves,
Fraudulent in public life he is false in
his utterances from his political tomb,
This ghostly emanation from the dead
and damned administration of the
usurper Hayes revisits the glimpses of
the moon to say that the panic of 1837
and that of 1857 were produced by a
departure from the theory of a protec.
tive tariff.
Anti-Democrat and notably whig his.
torians give the lie to his ghostship,
These tell us that the panic of 1837 was
produced by tho battle made by Andrew
Jackson against the United States bank,
As for the busines depression of 1857
everybody knows that it was caused by
a bank panic started by the failure of
the “Ohio Trust Company” on whose
affairs the tariff had sbout as much
effect as a fireman of the Sublime
Porle.
We put Ihe testimony of another
dead man against that of the defunct
Evarts—one physically aithough not
politically dead, for his name is yet ter.
rible to the Stalwarts “as to the Mos.
lem was the Cigl.” James A. Garfield
declared ox the floor of Congress in re-
iv to Judge Kelley that the country
never prospered as it didunder the low
tariff of 1846 for the ten years succeed:
|
have
World. | |
—George Goczy, a Hungarian, liviog
{in Johnstown, thrashed Michael Zerhin
{another Hi ung ian, be
{ to pay $40 wh
the
disired to marry,
Tus
its B®
erook edness
{ficial
ause ho refused
demanded as
whom Zerbin
rich Gracay
price of his sister,
New York
Feeni Hg Post
4
informs
epublican { that one half the
of Digine as a public of
has not been told, although it is
satisfied that what the people kaow al-
| ready would de feat bim asa candidate,
| This is serious talk for a Republican
| organ of such ability and influence ag
{ the Peat to use,
Ace to the following statistics
this State is improving in morals. The
| court statistics of Pennsylvania for 1883
| show that there was a decrease in the
| number of persons charged with crime
over the preceding year of 371, a de-
crease of the number of trials of 921
and a decrease in the number of con.
victions of 100. It cannot be said that
the last was a particularly unfavorable
year for crime. On the contrary, human
nature was just as human last year in
Pennsylvania as ever, and there was
more of it, as the population increased,
There was greater deprescion in business
than during the preceding year, more
hands thus being idle for Satan to find
in mischief, In spite of these untoward
circumstances the eriminal business of
the courts declined about 2 per cent. in
the number of crimes charged and over
3 per cent. inthe number of convictions.
Pittsburg Post
Tax Towaxva Journal! saysthat s mum:
ber of tax-payers in Bradford county
have filed exceptions to the last finan’
cial report o/ the county, and that an
investigation is to be held. It
claimod that some of the charges
brought against the county Ly the com.
missioners were illogal and should not
have been paid. The Journal says “that
t is not expected that any large errors
or discrepencies will be discovered dur.
ing the reign of the present officials, but
it is intimated that from 1879 to 1881
there was some crookedness and that
from eight to ten thousand dollers dis
appeared annually, aed no satisfactory
r. haz ever been made,” In
riends
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