Democrat, ‘EQUAL AND EXACT JUSTICE TO ALL MEN, OF WHATEVER STATE OR PERSUASION, RELIGIOUS OR POLITICAL." =Jefferson TERMS : $1.50 per Annum, in Advance. S.T.SHUGERT & E. L. ORVIS, Editors. VOL. 6. BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1881. NO. 23. The Gratre Democrat Terms $1.50 per Annum in Advance DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET. CONGRESSMAN-AT-LARGE, GEN. W. H. H DAVIS. " OF BUCKS COUNTY. THE ELECTORAL TICKET. ELECTORS AT LARGE. B. J. McGramm. H. B. Plummer, DISTRICT ELECTORS. 15. George B. Pardy, 116, P, K. Ackley, 117, John P, Levan, 118, Bera D. Parker, 0. KE. D. Mumma, . A. HL. Dill, Richard Vaux, 1. John Slavin, 2 John P, J. Sensendorf, 3, John W, Lee, . Herbert J. Horn, 5. Richard L. Wright, . John H. Brintun, 7. Wm Stablor, |21. Franklin P. James. . Charles ¥. Rentschler, 122. J. K.P. Du 9, H.M, North, 21, Jonn Bwan, a . Harry G. Stiles, 24. A. B. Winternita, . A.J. Broadhead, Jr, 25, Joh H. Hill, 2. F. V. Rockafellow, 2, Wm. A. Farguer, 3. No choice, * 21. A. J. Greenfield , George IL. Irwin; Tue new pension bills reported in | venture to say he has come to nosuch Congress as favorably considered by the ccumittee of the House and Sen- ate, it is said will swell the annual ap- propriations 8150,000,000, EE — is Tue Chicago Tribune publishes a | list of 108 Federal officers from the | | southern states who served as dele- | gates to the Republican convention. This did not include those from Vir. ginia, but is enough to show that the “Bread Brigade” are on the alert. > NortHiNG definite is known before going to press as to where the light- | ning will strike at the Chicago con- | vention now in session. Blaine and Arthur seem to be preity evenly bal anced, the chances, perhaps, slightly in favor of the former. -_— Ir the Democratic convention de- termines to nominate » New York man, aud Gov. Tilden declines abso- | lately, Gov. Cleveland will most like- ly be the man to whom the high honor will be awaeded to lead the Democra- Tue bank swindle at Pittsburgh de velopes wonderful capacity in Riddle, the president of the Peon bavk as a ' scoundrel of the first order. He ap- pears to have deceived and duped his | trusting friends with lavish reckless. ness, and proves that if he had pos { sessed the same unlimited credit and influence of the Grant Ward concern in New York, he would have shamed the paltry 814,000,000 of that swindle. But Riddle’s genius being somewhat circumscribed, he can only show a de- | ficit of $1,250,000, —— - Ix the contest for the demucratic { nomination of Pres Judge in the | Forty-ninth Judiciu: Jiswriet, com pgs ed of the counties of Huntingdon and | Centre, Judge Hoy, the present incum- | bent, bas concluded to withdraw, throwing the contest practically bes | tween Mr. Petriken and Hon, M! | Baily.— Pittsburgh Poet. Without consulting Judge Hoy we conclusion. Why should he? Helis a good Judge, an honest, upright i | man, against whom no exceptions will | lie, as fairly entitled, and as deserving of favorable consideration of the De mocracy as any capable man in the district. tl A A— | Some one having denied that troops | were assembled in Washington by | Grant during the controversy in Con. gress over the electoral count in 1877, the Albany Argus explains it as fol lows : “The forts aud barracks within or just beyond the Capital city are legal ly not ‘Washington,’ but some of them | are geographically within it and all of | the others are just without it. Togeth | er they dominate aod surround it. In { them were massed over 4,000 regulars | noder the worst partisan commandants | that then defiled the military service, | and the cannons were trained on the | city. The known and now disavowed | purpose was to effect by force, if neces | sary, the conspiracy to count in Hayes {and to count out Tilden. That con- | spiracy had its head in Grant's Cabi- Most appropriately at this juncture the New York Sun draws attention to the existence of the record of a sol- emn oath in the office of the Secretary of the United States Senate which reads thus : “1, George F. Edmunds, do solemnly swear that I will impartially examine and consider all questions submitted to the Commission of which I am a mem. ber, and a true judgment give thereon, agreeably to the Constitution and the laws ; so help me God." The Commission was the Electoral Commission of 1877, oath, there is reason to believe, was devised by George F. Edmunds him- self. It is absolutely certain that he subscribed to it. Among the ques. tions submitted to the commission of which George F. Edmunds was a member were two of supreme import ance: Was the vote of Florida cast for Tilden or for Hayes? Was the vote of Louisiana cast for Tilden or for !? Jostead of impartially ex- Hayes? | amining and considering these ques | tious, the Commission refused to ex-| Eight { members steadily voted to violate the oath which they had George F. Edmunds was one of the His vote shut the door of justice and right. | amine or consider them at all. just taken: in the When the storh eight. face in George F. Edmunds swore orto alie? rl A———— Tae democracy, however they will not permit the Republicans to fraud issue, by which the people were famous Electoral Commission by whom in these words : The severest blow ever dealt at the cyto victory. His success over the net and its agents in both Houses of | liberties of the American citizen and stalwart forces by 100,000 majority is not a bad starting case. —— ]—— Tae Greenback party met at Indianapolis, on Wednesday of last week, and made National convention of is their nominations for President and Vice President. The lucky mea des ignated to lead the forlorn hope in the coming campaign, are as follows: For President, Gen. Banjamin F. Batler, | of Massachusetts, and for Vice Presi. | dent Gen. A. M. West of Mississippi. | —-— — IT is reported that ex-Senator T. C. Platt has avowed his willingness to come forward and produce undoubt- el proof of the charge standing against Stanley Matthews ever since he was appointed to the Supreme Court, that his appointment was pro- cured by virtue of a bargain whereby a $300,000 contribution was made the campaign fund of 1880, Ir is said that a lecture of Col. Bob Ingersoll, delivered in Philadelphia has been submitted to eminent attor- neys for an opinion whether it does not subject him to prosecution under the law against blasphemy. Perhaps it is only another dodge of the Stal- wart infidel for a little more advertis- ing for the campaign this fall. He always manages to be at the front when a Republican President is to be elected. Sexator Voornges takes an en couraging view of the Democratic prospects in the coming struggle. He says: “I think the situation better now than few weeks ago. [am glad 1 sed old Virginia coming up on the tariff ¢ i all right. You will seo Indiana come up right, too, I think the chances for the election of a President by the Democrats better now than it has been for years. I the | { oungress, in the persons of Republi- can visiting statesmen, as well as its implements in the infamous eight of | the infamous Electoral Commission, c— I A— Tue New York Times orial article on Lawyer Ker's testi- in an edi t m ony before the Springer committee, in which that gentleman quoted Mr. IR. T. Merrick as stating that reorge Bliss, one of the government | prose cutors, wanted him to “let Dor | sey go," says : “George Bliss is Ches- | Stephen Dorvey was one of the most | audacious of the star route thieves | The President's friend, who was em’ | ployed by the Department of Justice at 8150 a day wanted to let him go. The Republican party might as well | somivate Dorsey himself at ‘Chicago a8 to nominate the President to whose complacent toleration of the studied and deliberate mismanagement of the star route trials the men who plander. immunity from the punishment they #0 richly deserved.” Cou. J. A. T. Burssing, the dis bursing officer of the Post Office De- partment is a defauviter to the amount of $45,718 of the public money en, trusted to him. He has been arrested and failing to give bail in $45,000, is imprisoned. This pablic thief is from Illinois. It is » curious fact that the two im- mediate predecessors of Burnside, E. Olmstead and Frank M'Cartney were removed from office for embezzling public funds, and it is about time the department would find an honest man who can realize the fac: that the funds of the government committed to their care are for the pablic use, and not for Mr. | Ir. | ter A. Arthur's nearest political friend. | uy : {order of President Gran: to prevent | | the perpetuity of our Republican justi. | | tutions was the theft of the Presidency | | by the Republican party in 1576. That { fraud will forever be a stain on our his | tory as a people; it can never be effaced | nor should it ever be pardoned. [t was { a deadly thrust aimed at the life of the republic. An unconstitutional com | mission, created to override the will of the people, accomplished its purpose by ia vote of Sto 7. According to the re | velations of Preeidoat Garfield, the | army of the United States was concen | trated in and around the capital by the representatives of the people from | electing » president in the mods pro | vided in the Constitution, the rankest | usurpation being practiced by a mili {tary tyrant. The usurpation was ‘con | summated & nd the assassin of self gov ernment woereseverally rewarded out of the public treasury, and as yet the | greatest fraud of the century has not been puniehed, To redress this wrong | ! Democracy in the coming Presidential the earnest co-operation of every Demo. erat and every American citizen’ ——— A — SmerMax’s budget of “bloody shirt” literature upon which he relied to make him President has been made up, and according to the best accounts, a beau: tifal batch of stuff it is. He and Laphan, have filed their report on the disorder that prevailed at the Dan- ville, Va, elections last fall. As ex’ pected it is intensely partisan and made up in direct opposition to the in- telligent and reliable evidence adduc- ed before the committee. As a matter of course, Sherman has done the best he coald to discredit the white citizens of that place, and conceal the riotous conduct and outrages of the Mahone negroes which led to the disorder, by charging that it was due to a deliber- ate purpose on the part of the Demo erats to overawe and prevent the ne gro from voting, This view is not sus The form of the | name of God, did heswear to the truth | i might afford it in view of other issues, | plead the statute of lisiitation on the | defrauded of their legally elected Pres- | dent in 1876. The recent meeting at | : ti Tammany Hall, New York, demon- | ¥0a¢ the plain people of these United | strated this by denouncing in appeo- | priate terms the work of the ever in- | that shameless fraud was consummated | becomes the paramount duty of the | creditable the report of the majority the committee, remarks of the N.Y, Times, a leading republican paper, upon it, may be inter- esting. It says: “A careful correspon dent of the Times made an investiga- tion of the Danville riot immediately after the distressing occurence. Cer. tainly the facts as brought out during the investigation and by impartial cor’ | respondents do not warrant the con- | clusion that the Danville riot was the | result of a conspiracy vor the culmin- | ation of a long series of events design- {edly leading up to what was intended | | {to be a general massacre, Yet this is | what the majority of the Senate inves- | tigating committee would have us be | lieve. They point to a now famous | Danville circular, to attempt to ‘boy. { cott’ the Coalitionists and their color (ed contingent, and to a systematic scheme for the division of the Coali- tionist vote by a revival of race preju- dices, as conclusive proof of a an in- tention to terrorize the colored people and drive them from the polls, There! {is no trustworthy evidence to sustain | this view of the case, ! > Gould and Tilden It is rather gratifying to note, re | marks the Pittsburg Post that Mr. Jay Gould is not a believer in the “old ticket,” and thinks “there is no serious thought of renominating it.” Mr. Gould is very sharp on Wall street, and knows all that is going on there, but his ignorance is dense about His distaste to the “old ticket,” is natural. Mr. Til den would hardly permit him to name | States are thinking. one of his long string of attorneys for a seat on the Supreme Beoch, and very likely would insist on prompt payment of the hundred millions the Pacific roads owe the government. In fact we don't see how Mr. Gould can | think complacently of the election of any Democratic candidate, “old tick et” or new ticket. He would give his hundred thousand dollar contribution to the 1880. of Hy in as he Aid in party monopolies and corporations, once said he helped Democrats Democratic districts and Republicans in Republican districts, referring to if they would help him, and that was the ex. | tent of his politics. But a Democratic President will not help Mr. Gould and | his gang of pirates, and well he knows the fact. So Mr. Gould and the “bus- iness influence” he represcats will be | found bolstering the Republican cau- 'didate and contributing of their ili- gollen gains to corruptly promote his | election. {the New York Legislature, | | influence” | others are the representatives, instead | of being in a condition to further the election of any Presidential candidate, is on trial iwell. As matters stand its indorsement is rather to be shun- ved than desired. We would as soon have a certificate from the combined faro gamblers of the Ugited States as from the combined Wall street gam. blers, masquerading as “busines men.” Tux New York Sun thus presents one of the great issues of the ap proaching Presidential campaign : 1876 -uBOORD OF HISTORY 1884 Living. —8amuel J. Tilden, Thomas A. Hendricks and the issue of the fraud of 1876, Dead, —~Zach Chandler, Oliver P. Morton, James A. Garfield, E. W. Horton, . Haye 6d W PU erie ub | = Wedding cards and all kinds of priate in view of the evidence given before | As the report of Lapham and Sher- man is to bea campaign document, the | The alleged Wall street “busines | of which Gould, Sage, | Canadia forests allowed to compete | summer kitchen has just been razed ed the treasury of niiliions owe their | campaign. To attain this end we ask | Ward, the Grants, Vanderbilt, and { Bpon equal terms with our own forests | ¢.. (1,0 purpose of making repairs and | Butler's Second Nomination. { second nomination of Governor Ben- Jamin F. Butler for President tender- | {ed him by a political organization | (somewhat more widcly known and a i | little stronger in numbers is of no | { more real consequence than the first. | | With no other backing than that of | | Anti-Monopolists and Greenbackers | {the Massachusetts sensationalist will | play no more important part in the | | canvass than that of his predecessor in | i the bonor four years ago. Butler does not care a | straw for a political support like this | except so far as it shall enable him to | accomplish in the whole country ends | similar to those gained in Massachu- In other Of course setts, words he as Was a Massachusetts Greenbacker in order that a plausible reason might be urged | why Massachusetts Democrats should nominate him for Governor, so he is a Greenbacker-at-large as an excuse for an appeal to the Democrats of the | Union for a Presidential nomination. The scheme has all Butler's boldness and contains a large measure of his | | shrewdness ; but it will not work, Apart from the thousand and one reasons which might be urged why { Butier would be as unsuitable a can- didate as the Democrats could pomi- | nate, the experience of the Greeley campaign convinced the most obtuse that it is not and never will be a safs | operation in politics for a party to run the certain risk of losing a large pro- | portion of its voters for the doubtful chance of enlisting a lot of wavering uncertain outsiders. As Butler is a delegate to the Dem- ocratic National Convention, and of course pledged to support its ecandi- dates, the wal with which he will support the nominees of | the July convention, even at the risk conscientious of injuring his own political prospeai- ty, will be so overpowering as to be very touching, if not funny. The role of candidate of Lwo par- ties and advocate of the election of the nominee of a third, is one which no- f body but Buttle r could gracefu That he the nn t nf ¢) Wie mast of Lh lly as 5 ! 4 Fume Will appear in iL for be i8 FCASON SOCmMs to be settled by circumstances over which he has no ¢ yatrol. - Herald calls attention to _ h not too soon be unders'ood by the coun The H is given to Lhe Tux Boston | B n a most important quest y wh CAD { states that unless some { relief lumber trade by Canadian lum navery few years our most valus- ble forests will have disappeared forever. Every acre of pine and spruce in the United States has been measured ; and it it oeraain that before tea years have | | passed all our Northern pines and | | spruce will have been manufactured | {into lumber if the present daty upon such lumber is not removed, and the lin supplying the United States with | building materiale. This is protection | | carried to the utmost limit of absurdity, | { One of the greatest and most important | sources of the prosperity of this country | is placed in imminent peril, not to pro- | duce a necessary revenue, for practically | thedaty produces no revenue worth | considering, but to enrich a few thou. | and Wealthy landowners and manu. moturers. It is this abuse of protection that is characterised in the Ohio plat. form as fostering monopolies. The Penn Bank. stots ITS SPCOND COLLAPSR- CROOK + REDNESS DISCOVERED, Prevssuno, May 27.-<The directors of the defunct Penn Bank this morning took posession of the individanl accounts of the concern and made dis- coveries which show why the second vollapse came #0 soon and sudden! There is the accounts one of Wi & Co., which overchecking to the extent of No such firm is in ] { 3 552 TH g i i The Washington Post says of the | i Items of Interest. A Now Jersey firms is to erect glass works at Royersford. Henry 1. Benword is in j«il at Easton awaiting trial for bigamy, Wyoming, offers $100 premium for the first woman settler- A Perry county man recently killed » rattlesnake which sported twenty-two rattles, Mrs. Aramintha Brolson died nea’ Oxford, Chester county, on Friday last, sged 102 years. On Friday last a severe hail storm did Cosmopolis, | considerable damage in various sections {of Perry county, Eli Heiney, one of the Buzsrd gang | has been found guilty of robbery at Ephrata, Lancaster county, John Kinney has eloped from Gaths- ville, Lehigh county, with Miss Liwie Guth, a young sister of his wife, W. V. McDonald, of New York city, fell over the Canadian bank of the river at Nisgara Falls and was killed, The plaving mill of Howard, Purdy & Howard, Willi by a boiler explosion on Monday. lev. F. C. H. Laupe, pastor of the Williamsport Lutheran church, died on Saturday evening last from an attack of vmsport, was wrecked } raio feve r. On bunday morning last Mr, R. 8. Minick, of New Bloomfield, was knocked down snd severely injured by a vicious steer, He will recover, Maggie Murmon, aged 5 years, and ber sister, aged 3 years, were fatally | burned st Heiplers, Schuylkill county recently, while playing with fire, On Sunday a 13-year-old dauglder of Robert A. Ramsey, of Huntingdon, died and on Monday a 12-yearold daughter followed her sister to the spirit world. William Slawson, a well known resi. dent of Armetrong township, Lycoming county, has been removed to the Dan- ville asylum on scoount of violent in- sanity During a row at a Hungarian wedding in Pottstown on Saturday night, Samuel Fryer was badly stabbed, for which Jno. lomach snd John Hillman were ar rested, Wheatland, ti James Bachanan, been sold by Mrs. Harriet Love Jobn ve home of President near Lancaster has ton, the President's niece, B. Willson. The dsmage caused by the floods in Your to George - theastern Spain is very great, hundre destroyed and d and nine dwellings bave been 514 io jured in the pro- vince of Murcia alone Michael Tovery, of Walsoutown, aged 14 years, was recently sentenced at Sun- bury to four years imprisonment for at, tempting to wreck trains on the Phila delphia and Erie railroad. Catherine Love, supposed to be 105 years old, who has lived for many years at No. 145 Baxter street, New York, WAS Ye sterday declared insane by a com- mission in Lunacy, and it was ordered | that comittee be appbinted. She owns | property valued at 10,000. Twenty years ago six silver spoons and a silver butter kaife were missed from a table in the house of Mm, N° Crandall, at Coboes, N. Y., and suspi- cion rested upon a servant girl. The the missing silverware has been found uninjured in & rat's nest, H. F. Duncan, editor the Daily Press, st Lexington, Ky., was convicted yester- day in the Circuit Court and fined $200 for libel in publishing a card by B. J, Treacy which reflected on Circuit Court Judge J. R. Martin. The proof showed Duncan was absent at the time and the publication was made without his knowledge or consent, President white, of Cornell Universi ty received a letter yesterday from Hiram Sibley, wakiag the following donation to the university: For an od. ditional building for the Sibley Mehoan- fe Art School, $30,000 for increased equipment, $5000: for an (ncreased en. dowment for the same department, $50,
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