The Centre Democrat, THE OENTRE DEMOCRAT id pub- lished every Thursday morning, at Bellefonte, Centro ounty, Pa, y TERMS Cash {n advance 1t not paid in advance... A LIVE PAPER-devoted to the interests of the ole people. fs od se made within three months will be con- sidered io advance, No paper will be discontinued until arrearages are paid, except ax option of publishers. Papers going out of the county must be paid for in advance, Any person procuring us ten vash subscribers will be sent a copy tree of charge, Our extensive circulation makes this paper Al une usually relinble and profitable medium for wertining, We have the mot ample facilities for JOB WOR and are prepared to print all kinds of Books, Tracts, Programmes, Posters, Cummercial printing, &c., in the atest style ano at the lowest possible rates All advertisements for a lows term than three months 20 cents per line for the first three insertions, and 6 cents o line for each additional insertion. 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Man ning, Chairman of the Demacratic State Com In my June 18, 1880, addressed to the delega- mittee of New York: tion from the state.of New York, to the democratic national convention, | said: “Having now borne faithfully tl service and wesring the marks of share of labor and care in » public its burdens, I desire nothingso much as an honorable discharge. I wish to lay down the honors and {oils of even quasi party leadership and to seek the repose of private life, In renouncing the nomination for the presidency | 80 with no doubt in my mind as to. the vote of the state of New York or of the United States, but because I believe that it is a renunciatfon of re-election to the presidency. To those who think re. do my renomination and re-electi®n indis- ! pensible to an effectual vindication of the right of the people to elect their rulers, violated in my person, I have ac. corded as long a reserve of my decision | 8; possible, but I connot overcome my | ugnance to enter into a new engage. t which involves four years of cease less trial. The dignity of the presidental office is above a merely personal ambi. tion, but it creates in me no illusion. Its value is a great power for good to the country. [ said four years ago, in ac- cepling the nomination: Knowing as | do, therefore, from fresh experience how great the difference is gliding through an official routine and working out a reform of sftém: and policies, it is impossible for me to con template what needs to bedone in the federal administration without an anxious sense of the difficulties of the undertaking. If summoned by suffrages of my country-men to attempt this work, I shall endeavor with God's Lelp to be the efficient instrument of their will.” A DETERMINATION UNALTERED IX YEARS, FOUR Such a work of renovation after many years of misrule; reform systems and policies to which I would cheerfully have sacrificed all that re mained to me of health and life I fear beyond my strength, such a of is now that time well known to you and to others, and when at Cincinnati though respecting my wishes yourself, you com municated to me an appeal from many valued friends to relinquish that pur pose, | reiterated my determination un conditionally. In the four years which Lave since elapsed nothing has occurred to weaken but everything to strength. en the considerations which induced my withdrawl from public life. To all who have addressed me on {he subject my intention bas been frankly com municated. Several of my most confi. dential friends under sanction of their own names have publicly stated my de termination te be irreversible. That | have oceasion now to consider the question as an event for which I have no responsibility. The appeal made to me by the democratic masses with ap. parent unanimity to serve them once more, is entitled to most deferential consideration and would inspire a dispo- sition to do anything desired of me, if it were consistent with my judgment of duty. | believe that there 1s no in. strumentally in human society so poten. tial in iwinfluence upon mankind, for good or evil as the governmental machinery for administering justice and for making snd executing laws. Not all the irr institutions of oe my devote Mg atta od Fry Wk | | letter of my full | between | the | My pur | pose to withdraw from further public | service and the grounds of it were at | fruitful in benefits as the rescue and pre. servation of this machinery from the perversions that make it the instru. ment of copgpirnoy and fraud against the most sacred rights snd interests of the people, For fifty years as a private citizen, never contemplating an official career, I have devoted at least as much thought and effort to the duty of influ. encing aright the action of the govern: mental institutions of my country as to all other objects. 1 have never accept. ed official service except for a brief period for a special purpose and only when the occasion seemed to require from me that sacrifice of private prefer. ences to the public welfare, I under- took the state administration of New York because it was supposed that in that way only could the executive pow: er be arrayed on the side of the reforms, to which as a privatecitizen | had given three years of my life. HIS CONTROLING PURPOSE IN IRT6, [ accepted the nomination for pre $1 | dent in 1876 because of the general con | viction that my candidacy would | present the issue of reform which the | | demoeratic majority of the people de | sired to have worked out in the federal | | goverment as it had been in that of the | state of New York, 1 believe ywagh then d that | to renovaty { bad strength en the administration of the government | of the United States and at the clo f © 0 {| my term to hand over the great trust to y successor faithful to the same policy rey HT ted f hough anxious to seek the 120 1] n | | vertbhel« | private life I ne the idea that every pe the ad communicating | involves a duty, In reply to dress of the committee | my nomination I depicted the difficulties of the undertaking likened feelings in engaging in it to those of di entire consecration of and my n soldier entering battle, but withholl the powers to the publi years under the demoralizing influence of In Be of continuous mal-administration testine war and of bad finance have syst | of the United States with the cancerous growth of fulee construction and cor iL fected the whole governmental om | | | classes have rupt practices. Powerful acquired pecuniary interests in the offi cial abuses and the moral standard of the people has been impaired. To re | dress these evils is a work of great diffi | culty and labor and cannot be accom plished without most energetic and ef ficient personal action on the part of | the chief executive of the republic. which it ia desired I should uaderiake would { embrace a period of pearly five years, { nor can | admit any illusion as to { burdens, | The canvass and sdministration their Three years of experience in the of municipal New { endeavoring to reform | government of the city York, | and two years of exper Ve od | ing the administration of 1h ence in rennvat fate | wit) \ {| New York have made me famil » { the requirements of such work, | present time the considers o 1880 have be induced my action in | imperative, [| ought not to » » | | strength to carry through { task which have no! BE CANNOT ASSUME THE LAROR To reform the administration of the | federal government, to realize our ideal and to fulfill the at o Ish €X pe ® Bh, A of the people would indeed w they could slone compensate, the wri | ices which the undertaking would is | volve. But in my condition of advan i ing years and declining strength 1 fee ability to plish those objects, | | gonstrained to say definitely that | can | no assurance of my h com am, therefore, not now assume the labors of an admin istration or of 4 canvass in no wise that best gift of heaven—the occasion and the power sometifies be | stowed upon a mere individual. Grate | ful beyond all words to my fellow | pountrymen who would assign such a | beneficent function to me, | am consol ed by the reflection that neither the democratic party, nor the republic for whose future that party is the best guarantee, is now or ever can be, depend ent upon any one man for their success ful progress in the path of their noble destiny. Having given to their welfare whatever of health and strength I pos sessed or could borrow from the future and having reached the term of my oa pacity for such labors as their welfare now demands | but submit to the will of God in deeming my public career for ever closed, (Signed. ) Sawver J. Tivos, i J u— - The Storm In the Cumberland Valley. Canvisie, Pa, June 11, Besides the heavy wash out of the Camberland Val ley railroad west of here last evening, a large district of the country was flooded and an immencs amount of damage was done to fields, crops and fences. Barns ware struck by lightning and burned to the ground. In this place the lightning struck several houses, hooking about a dozen of persons, some tery severely, the most destructive this seetic : for years be st | wer is a trust and | under valuing, | General Davis Accepts. —n General W. W. H, Davis having been notified of his nomination as the Demo- oratic candidate for Congressman.al- Large he acoepted in the following let. ter to Mr Speer, President of the Allen town convention: Doyiesrown, Pa, June 13, 1884, Hon, R. M, Speer, Chairman Democratic State Convention;—My Dear Sik:—I am in receipt of your letter of the 5th inst. informing me of my nomination as can. didate for Congressman-at Large, Al though unsought, and made against my repeated protest, 1 feel it to be my duty to accept; and will meet defeat or victory with equal cheerfulness, The country feelsthe necessity of thor. ough, practical reform in the national administration; a reform that shall rasch down to the very bottom. The Repub lican party have tocome 80 corrupt in their (quarier ol a century of unrestrain ed license, they would f1ll to pieces but for the eohesion of public plunder, | The machinery of government 1s loaded down with poli ied barnacles, which Death of Mr. Clymer. HE FALLS THE VICTIM OF A PARALYTIC ATROLE, Reavina, June 12,—Hon, Hiester Cly. mor was stricken down by an attack of apoplexy at his residence in this city at 6 o'clock last evening. Every expedi. ent known to medical practice was in- voked during the night to restore his faculties but they proved fruitless. The distinguished patient remained in a comatoes condition until seven o'clock this motniog when he died without s word, dle seemed to suffer no pain, and At no time showed signs of con. scipfisness, The attack was marvelous, | sudden, He seemed in his usual health ’ yesterday, and attended to his manifold butiness engagements and duties as usual, The attack came without the | | slightest premonitory symptom. For the past few weeks Mr. Clymer cling to it like leeches, When that party assumed power it wes led by earn. est patriotic men, with principles that challenged public confidence; now, the | leaders have no higher ambition than the spoils of office and war of factions. Recently, these spoilsmen, with unpre cedented impudénce, nominated one | their own number for the Presidential I'o curd the evilse mmplained of, half-way measdres will not do must be a radjesl change everywhere in | reforms we must hew to tha line, They | { who would / re the government, te th place itin hands, lon that f of | office, thers WOU Must un When this shall have Jefferson, clean y been « Lhe motto of Thomas “the whole art of government con ing ho be the chin the corner in the great work of adminis trative relora, When Jeffs bis mmeorial indictn Bai {ing of England { he charged among other things that he bad “rected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither harass our people and eat out tl that he had * i the wilitary independent of, snd super | ior to civil power ; besides * sde with sll paris of the world,’ The Republican party have been guilty lof all these things, and much more, ! They have doubled the number of offi cers and largely increased the salaries; and we find men country who went into offices poor and | came out rich, Numerous offices have | Leen created + | posijie al hacks and personal friends, n tives of profound peace, they have made tue military superior to the eivil power, by wrresting citimens with an armed force without a warrant, and sometimes shooting them down when they refused to yield cheerfully to ar bitrary suthority. If we areto believe n be f est.” will stone of n drew n&t the} ent swarms of officers to er sub stance ;’ our tu soldiers were brought to the capital to | prevent those, lawfully elected to the { highest offices, taking their seats ; but | perjury did its work, snd the army was [ saved the disgrace of further participa. ung in the greatest crime of the century. When the government was turned over to the Republicans in 1861, our foroign commerce, fostered by Demoeratio pol. oy, was next to Great Britian in ton- nage. Since then it has steadily fallen off, and, at the present rate of decrease, will soon disappear from the ocean, The Republican leaders bave been so absorbed with schemes for plundering {the treasury, and plotting for partisan supremacy, every vital interest has been neglected, and official corruption allow | ed 10 go on unchallenged. Departments fare run in ihe interests of prety, and | slip-shod, corrupt methods have been | introduced into nesrly every branch of | the public service. As one result of | | this general neglect, the peoble are still | | burdened with a war tax of one hundred | | millions, and are obliged t> pay five mil. lion dollars to five thousand officers for | { enllecting the same, Our revenue system needs careful re vision to reduce taxes and lighten the | | burdens on labor. In time of peace the | | money to earry on the government | | should be raised from duties on imports | snd every other method of tsxation | | abolished, The tariff is a business ques. | | tion ; should be adjusted on business | | principles, and no longer permitted tb | be the football of parties, Stability is | more desirable than high duties, While | Congress has only authority to tax for | | revenue, the practice of nearly a cen- tury sanctions « neourage men 10 homs | tadustries by ine dental protection, but not 1o foster monopolies Protection | in some shape the silver cord that | { runs through the warp snd woof of our system of free government, and cannot | be overlooked in adjusting the tariff | within the revenue line, Genuine tariff reform is impossible while the internal | | revenue laws are in force. The tax | | raised by them is not needed, the sys | | Lem is vicious, its enforcement oppres- | { sive, and it should be repealed at the earliest possible moment. When this | odious war tax is out of the way, the | deck will be cleared for something bet. | ter to follow. | If elected, 1 will support all just | measures calculated to Dt taxation, relieve labor of its burdens, and encour age economy in public affairs, [1 will obey the will of my constituents on all questions in which they have an interest. I remain, Yours respectfully, W. W. H. Davis, SA] — Nothing More Than A Knave. “Th jobbing, corrupt element in the party which, sees in politics simply a means of distributing dividends out of the national exchequer and to which all politioal issues are simply devices to dis. tract publie attention from their in. dustry, has long been slowly coming to # hosd, in the fashion of a tumor, in Mr. James G. Blaine. * * No voter dares to tell his friends or his family that he is going to vote for a man know. ing him to be = koave. * * That Mr, ne cannot be elected we look [improvements about his residence, He | cheerful | the | shock came yifeeted to render | eutiing off | afterwards resided, in all parts of the | rovide places for | | was re elected in 187476 sad *78, where iin personally superintended a number of was also engaged in the fron of he there was actively business during all which was and evidence of the predisposing causes ol wiliction that so rapidly earthly carcer, He was conver Sing wila {a few friends last evening when the that rendered him uncon scious. The news of his sudden death startled the comunity and many ex pression of sympathy were tendered by his friends and neighbors as well as by all the people of the Mr, city. Clymer was a native of Ber county. Pa. where he was born Dever He and was ber 1827 was a graduate Princeton admitted to the bar in Reading in 1847. In 1551 he changed his location to Pottsville, where he prac ticed his profession until 15856, when he returned to Resding, where he always Originally a whig, wisted himself with the de to he early BFS mocratic party, snd was a delegats convention of | the democratic national 1860. In the fall of 1860 he was chosen to the state senate to fill the unexpired who bad been elected to congress, and he con inued to represent Berks county in | term of Mr. Muhlenburg, iti i , | resigned to accept the democratic nom ination for governor. He had been a | prominent candidste for the Guberos . | torial nomination in 1863 and was the the testimony of one of the conspirators | but Judge Woodward was finally taken As & compromise, Mr. Clymer entered the state senate | when there were but six democrats in | | the body, including himself, and he ab} { once took the leadership of his party, | a position which he well maintained | even when such men as Wallace were | by his side. He was always dignified | and able in debate, courteous to his | fellow senators, and highly respected by | all parties. He made a most vigorous | enmpaign for the governorship in 1856 against Govervor Geary, stumping every section of the state, but he was defeated In 1872 he was elected to congress, and he was admittedly the democratic lea der of the Pennsylvania delegation and one of the accepted democratic leaders | of the house, He was the most formida ble competitor of Mr, Wallace in 1875 for the United States senatorship, but finally yielded to the decided expression in favor of his competitor, It was prey gererally understood then that Clymer should have the field it him but it brought only the empty honor of a nom ination that did not give an election. 1876, and was given In 1880 Mr. Clymer was succeeded in congress from the Berks county distriot by Hon. Daniel Ermentrout, and after that time practiced his profession in Reading. Duriog his last term in con- | gress Mr, Clymer was married to Mr, | » o 3 : i Von Schreeder, of St, Louis ; he leaves | | no children. The crowning act of his | Tos Plates congressional life was his presentation to congress of the special committee's | report touching the rasealities of Wil W. Belknap, Premdent Grant's sectetary of war, which created a great | wensation throughout the lead, liam -— Curtis On Blaine. New York, June 11.~This week's Harper's Weekly, out to day, has the fol. lowing editorial on the Republican nominations at Chicago: The nomina tion of Jame (1. Blaine although doubt less satisfactory to the majority of the Republican party ought to alarm honest Republicans as showing how dangerous. ly far the Republican standard has fall. en. The nominations at Chicago made against the most friendly remonstrance have forced upon Republicans the con. viotion that the great objects of the Re. publican party honest ‘and economical administration, peaceful and honorable foreign relations, the progressive puri. faction of the public service at home, wise reduction of the reverie, and the scone of general security which springs from the elevation of the administra tion are not to be expected from Repub lioan success. To this statement it is no reply (hat lew is to be i ! from (he Demograts. names ol no apparent | ended his | highest candidate on the several ballots | 4: « w— aw aroused the desp and general protest of Republican conscience must bear the re- sponsibility, Fidelity to the Republi can prineiple requires indifference to present success, and Harper's Weekly which more than any has not hesitated in the interest of public morality and of party pur fication to oppose other | Republican vpominations eannot sus tain the significant one sgainst which it hus +0 earnestly protested, and which is a practical abdication of the Republican character of purpose, The kindly face of Lineoln, whose portrait hung in the hall, seemed to watch the proceedings of the convention with sion and it bad disappeared from its place before the nomination was made,” ad PIR LL, The Managing Man Three months ago ex-Senator Dorsey, | 1 the great “soap” man of 1880, wrote to Congressman Springer suggesting the { supply the Houle Committee with evi dence [4 re hat Jetter ex-Senator Dorsey says Elkine, United ew York, has probably a larger knowl than any other person of all the Star route m and the money E. Spencer demanded of the late J. W. Besler and myself $12,000 to pay Mr. Elkins for the purpose of avoid ing indictment and prosecution, and | replied that 1 would not pay a penny and never did. B. E 5 edge th 4) “ elon {ters pala Lyeorge 8 who has a larger knowl any other person of all the Star route matters and the moneys paid Elkins acted as the (en is the same 8S, B who nt the Chicago Convention Jaine movement, Blaine forces and eral-in Chief of the the managed the business of recruiting from the Southern delegations. He has be | already selected as the director of Blaines canvass, and is a candidate for Chairman who marshalled en of the Republican National Committee, | ERT BUTTS PRAOTICAL HERB HARNESS NAKER, | Hic 8r., NEXT DOOR TO BERZER's | i | | the senate until March, 18846, when he | Mear Marker. | Is prepared to do all kinds of Fancy | 3 | and Heavy Harness Making st | Reasonable Prices and -IN THE- Most Skillful Manner. Repairing done with neatness and dispatch We challenge competition in prices and workmaaship. Give us a trial and be convinoed, All work guaranteed before leaving the shop. 1-3m, Extraordinary BARGAINS IN IRON-STONE CHINA i AND TABLE GLASSWARE. |, 5] ILKINSON, &et | k 1b. Baking Powder W. i CHINA, GLASS, Jenier in sad and | Groceries, Provisions, &¢, PI Pt EA FA ’ §. BROWN. JR. & C0. No. 3 and B Bishop St., witness who might be able to arding the Star route matters i | [1 Bellefonte. an | nir of earnest solicitude and apprehen- | GROCERIES, |B PROVISIONS, FLOUR & FEED, SALT, FISH, Sc. jank Building, | ™~ CHEAPEST STORE buy (Groceries n this BEC= tion of the State. 10 + LOOK At a OUR PRICES: 4 bbl. % 2 00 1 Lake Herring, 1- 1 Sack Best Roller Flour 40 3 Cans String Beans 25 ““ Lina Corn | ‘ 1 3 Tomatoes Granulated Sugar 1 Can Finest Californias Peaches “ Apricots 1 Pears } pounds Sultana Prunes | 1 gal. 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