S. T.SHUGERT & E. L. ORVIS, Editors. “EQUAL AND EXACT JUSTICE TO ALL MEN, OF WHATEVER STATE OR PERSUASION, RELIGIOUK OR POLITICAL. weJoflersop TERMS : $150 per Annum, in Advance. r+ VYOL.6. BELLEFONTE, PA, THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 1884, NO. 26. A The Centre Democrat, Terms 81.50 per Annum in Advance DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET. | CONGRESSMAN AT-LARGE GEN. W. H. H DAVIS. OF BUCKS COUNTY. THE ELECTORAL TICKET. ELECTORK AT LARGE B.J. McGramm H. B. Plummer, DISTRICT ELECTORS . John Slavin, 15 2 John P. J. Bensendorf,' 186, . John W, Lee, 7, . Herbert J. Horn 18 5, Richard L. Wright, 19 B. John H. Brinton, | Wim Siahlor, 121. Franklin P. James, 22, J. K.P. Duff, | ZL Joun Bwan, 24. A. B. Winternits, 25. Jub H. Hill, | Wm. A. Farquer, A.J. Greenfield, E hard Vaux, George B, Pardy, | P. K. Ackley, John P. Levan, } Bera D. Parker, E. D Mumma, | A. H. Dill, rar SET . Charles F. Rontsghlor, . H.M. North, 0, Harry G. Stiles . A.J. Broadhead, Jr, 12. F. V. Rockalellow, po i. Bichard Rahu, 14. George H. Irwin; CoNGRESs is working hard on the | Appropriation bills, and hopes to be | able to adjourn about the 3rd of July. Ex-Sexaror Pomeroy, of Kansas, otherwise “Old Tom,” has been nomin- | ated by the Prohibition and ‘Anti-Ma- | gonic Convention at Chicago for Presi- | dent. He is a healthy candidete of a healthy combination. | rl tae IT is said Blaine has already two | brothers, a son, three nephews, two cousins, and nine of his wife's rela- tives on the federal pay roll. If elect- | ed, of course the balance of the con- | nection, including the sisters and aunts, do. Since the declination of Mr. Tilden and the meeting of the New York State Convention, public opinion see ms to be settling down in favor of the nomination of Senator Bayard Gov. Cleveland, and it is probable now or that the main struggle at the Nation. l al Convention on the 8th of July wil he centred upon these distinguished | {custom and prejudice has heretofore | | and that he be placed on the retired rivals for the Presidency. Either will good Indeed so unexceptionally are all the distinguished men named for the Democratic nominations that it is difficult to have a preference. The magnificent ability, the unsullicd public record and gris’ expericace and pure life of the D ware Senator, cannot be discounted by any one, and if the choice fall upon him, we can in- vite comparison with thé Republican | | candidate with pride. GEN, Winniam McCaspres, well | known to many of the people of this county, whom he has frequently ad- dressed, died in Philadelphia last week. He was oue of the bravest soldiers of the late war, serving in the Peunsyl- vania Reserves in which he attained high honor only by his courage and efficiency. His death was the imme: | diate result of wounds received in the service, After the war he was a member of the State Sena'e, and sub- al Affairs and served with distinguish- ed ability in that department from LJ - » [| [ atable, and some of them kick lustily. | Among those dissatisfied are the Inde- | pendent, Boston Congreqationalist, | Christian Leader, Baptist Weekly, and | It to see our moral teachers open their {eyes a little to the fact that the “grand | Chridian Union, is encouraging | are not all the “moral excellence” that [shrouded them in the religious press, | This is & fair as well as a proper be- | | ginning, and may in time lead to the | | knowledge that a Democrat is not a | { wild, ravenous animal, preying upon | the innocents in church and state, but | a man endowed with great principles, haviog the interest of both at heart, | {as the highest object to be attained by | honest, open, manly and consistent | conduct. One that seeks honesty and | fairness in the administration of State, as he does truthfuloess, sincerity, con- sistency and piety in the church. That | is the standard by which a true Dem- | ocrat may be measured at all times, et ea—- A — Joux A. LoGax is now the Repub- | lican candidate for the Vice Preside n- | cy on a declaration that “the Repub | lican party has gained its strength by | "quick and faithful response to the de- mands of the people for the freedom and equality of all men.” Six years | sequently elected Secretary of Intern: | after the organization of the Republi. can party John A. Logan supported | lin Congress the Slave Code bill, “in | {1875 to 1879. He was a lawyer of | terms,” says the St. Louis Republican, | will be provided for from the Federal {fine ability, and as a brave warm’ | “more sweeping than slavc-owners treasury. — A — | hearted man, of high integrity, he | themselves were willing to employ.” | drew around him a very large circle |On January 24, 1850, Hon. John A. Manose says he “likes Blaine. | of warm and ardent friends who will | Logan said in the National House of Shouldn't wonder! He liked Arthur, ! continue to cherish recollections of | Representatives : too, as long as his liking could be com- pensated by patronage and plunder. The autumn frosts however, may coo) the temperament of the great Repu. | diator and relieve him of the unnat- ural sentiment now oppressing him as the result of Blaine's magnetism. : cp : AT a meeting of the Norfolk Club at Boston, Jast week, an attempt was made to commit this Republican or- ganization to Blaine and Logan, but of the first eight speakers, three, in- cluding the Secretary of the club, de. clared their intention to bolt the tick- et. The latter offered to resi the club thought it might as well gn, bat let apatters stand as they were, and it was R80 ordered. the » - OF the Sedelia Missouri) Demoerat from sev. letters received by enty-five leading Democratic editors of that State, stating their preference for the Presidency, nearly three-fourth favor the nomination of Cleveland, ten want Bayard, while the others are scattering in their choice. For Vice President, one-half for McDonald, while Hoadly, Palmer, Cleveland, Morrison, Slocam, Butler, and Rose- cran, are mentioned favorably, Tar members of the Fenian Broth- hood at Chicago put no faith in the leged circular of James Stephens, | pommending an armed ivasion of | | “Buck McCandles,” as he was famil- iarly called in brightimemory. Tur Blaine editors try to console themselves by asserting that the bolt- | ing Republicans in New York, Massa- } husetts o, means little, serious effect and elsewhe on the Mr Blaine—that he can be elected without and can have no result, ro odanger the success of New York or Massachusetts. Such a miracle has never yet been performed in the interest of the Republican par- ty, nor is it likely to be now when sailing under a platform of fraud and false pretense in the lead of a dema- gogue whom the ablest and most con- spicuous men and journals of the par ty denounce as notoriously unserupu lous, corrupt and unworthy, These editors put too much faith in the eraft of their leaders, when they claim even a chance of success without the aid of of solid investigation among the people, both these States, This is the vear as it is also the year of reform of gov. ernmental abuses, — Burxsive, the disbursing agent of the Postcflice Department, recently ar- rested for embezzlement, it seems was a thief from the commencement of his service in that Department several years ago, and what is remarkable the immediate successor of two thieves discharged for their peculations, Be- | gland, with aerial accompaniments sides his embezzlement of the public | the shape of dynamite balloons | funds, he stole and sold, during his | | “Let me tell you if it passed it | would put in the penitentiary such men as you bave in your part of the country (Northern Illinois) who band together and conspire for the purpose of stealing fugitive slaves ; it will put in the penitentiary such men as you then adopt measures and pledge themselves have who call meetings and to go into sister states for the purpose of inciting servile insurrections ; It is for the purpose of reaching such men as encouraged your John Brown, and pressed him on in his treason to the country; it is for the purpose of reach ing your irrepressible conflict men who have engaged, if not directly, in. directly, in murder, in everything hat is disreputable, dishonorable, dis. graceful, and shocking to humanity. [ understand, further, that pretended ministers of God have recently preach. ed the death Brown, and have held him wp as a sermons on of John martyr in the great cause of free dom, 4 — — Wnex Gen. Simon Cameron Years ago, savs Uncle Jake Zeigler, “kicked” against Democratic nominations, we are old enough to remember that it of the | Democratic party, “all these indepen. dents will eventually support the ticket.” Well, they didn't support the ticket and the party was beaten. In a late interview which the corres. | was said by the ‘wise men” i ld party,” aod its tattooed leaders | ‘The policy propoged is directly con- trary to the views which Mr. Stephens has all along been known to entertain and the startling embellishments of his circular are supposed to be the work of some “Milesian Munchausen” ut the other end of the cable, ———— A masoriry of the committee on Election in the House, reporting in favor of the seating of Chalmers from the second district of Mississippi, is a document somewhat remarkable, but truthful, if not complimentary, to file in the urchives of Congress. It de clares that Chalmers “is hypocritical # his politics, deceptive in his man- pers, and unworthy of a seat in Con- gross, but that be was elected and the ve are only judges of thatand ble for the sotion of his tpon whom the blame selecting such & man.” ¥ encumbency, carpets and paper be longing to the Department to one single dealer, as appears by the books and checks of the dealer, to the amount of $21,000. His thieving so fae ax yet discovered, runs up to $70, 000. That such & state of affairs could exist for a series of years without dis- covery, shows a shameless lack of po- lice management of the Department. The Navy Department is now making about the same kind of exhibitions, only more so, and goes to proves that a general investigation and renovation is needed in the whole machinery of administration, to which the people of the country should now give their wt. tention in the selection of honest and conscientious agents, Tue religious press, because of their inate prejudice to Democracy, has generally thrown the weight of their influence to the Republican nominees for office, But it appears the nomina- tion of Dlaine'is a dose not at all pal- had with the General, he made the | same remark in regard to the Repub- liean kickers against Blaine that waa made against himself and his friends thirty years ago, by the Democrats. Strange coincidence! If the Republi- can kickers do not support the ticket, and the party be beaten, the General can go down to his grave assured of the fact that “history repeats itself.” But it may be possible he reasons from what has hitherto been a known fact, that Republicans are much more easi- ly whipped into the traces than old mocrats were. True, very true. The General tried “bos rule” : : 3 = 1i31El | pondent of the Philadelphia Times | Justice at Last! The bill for the relief of Gen, Fitz John Porter as amended by the Sen- ate has heen concurred in and passed in the House by a vote of 158 to 81, and is now with the President for ap- proval. It authorizes the President to nominate Gen. Porter to his old po- tition as Colonel in the regular army, list ; but to receive no back pay. This of shamelessly wronged and traduced of- ficer 18 all right as a vindication of high merit and undoubted bravery, and is, we believe, all that en. Porter asked or craved, whatever more he was justly entitied to. The friends of Gen. Porter, as well as all other fair-minded, candid men | throughout the country, will approve the act which as far as can be now, repairs a great wrong doce to a gal- | lant soldier and gentleman, and re- leases his name from an undeserved stigma of dishonor imposed through ignorance and malignity. — — An Issue that Cannot Die, a————— The Utica Observer, truthfully and forcibly says: “It is a false impress Lion that the withdrawal of Tilden eli- | minates from our canvass the living issue which the decision of the Electo- ral Commission created. That issue is aod should remain as potent as ever, and will survive Mr. Tilden himself should the Republican party remain | in power until after his death. Every individual, North, South, East and West, who voted for Samue] J. Tilden in 1876 has a personal griev- ance to satisfy. The God-given right of every voter who supported him in that centennial campaign was deliber- ately and crimioally outraged by the party in power. The instincts of man- hood, not to speak of politics at all, command the Democracy to put in its national platform a plank so eloquent that it will force every self-respectir Pe man who stood by Tilden in 1876 10 vindicate himself this vear by helpir Eg to punish the criminal.” It certainly would have been a high gratification to the Democracy to have met this issue under the immediate banner of the venerable philosopher, statesman aod patriot, whom they elect. ed and who, by the foulest frauds and con- to the Presidency in 1876, spiracies of a party of men repre senting the Republican party, was not But the fail ing strength of the aged statesman ad pe rmitted to occupy it monished him that in jusice to his party, and the great interest now in- volved, his duty was imperative to de- cline the honor so unamiously offered. This act of woselfish patriotism, un, paralleled in the history of the party pot only endears the grand old man to | his countrymen, but instead of illim’ inating the isue, makes it endariog with the life of the Republican party. The frauds canno: be condoned. —— Souk of the Republicans are taking credit to themselves for discovering | in their pational | and incorporatin platform the well-grounded popular opposition to large foreign land hold- ings in this country. To Mr. Hop kins, a Pennsylvania Democratic Con- gressman, is due the first public alarm sounded on this question, and the first bill introduced to prevent it.—Lan- caster Intelligencer, The same may be said of the pro- posed Bureau of Labor, also claimed by the platform of hypocrisy as evi dence of Republican sympathy with the loterest of the laboring man, which was introduced by Mr. Hop. kine and passed the Democratic House sometime before the meeting of the convention, - EE —— — — A Logan Reminesocence. From the Greenburg Arges. “To hI with Blaine,” sid Gen, Logan, when accosted by a Leader re porter at the Union depot, Pittsburg, two years when the latter at tempted to interview him as to Blaine's chances for the Presidency, Well, that is all right; but Logan has concluded to keep the tattooed E TEAS, hy statesman company on the journey. a { Cleveland | action to the Democratic party. | the contrary, while If not Cleveland, Whom ? The Boston Herald, iu an editoria] favoring t Presid | dacy Ne Ww Y« If he is not nominated, it will be for no other reason than that the Demo: cratic party does not want an honest reformer in the White House, And if that is its position, the Independe nt will not aid it. land for the SAY the cand Governor of irk: Nothing that the Democratic party has d me, contemplates doing, or is likely to do, warrants any such state The “an honest House,” for the Presidency, elect him and put the White House. If Goy. -well and good—if another ment, Democratic party want White and intends to nominate reformer in the one him in just as well and just as good. If the party prefers somebody else than Gov. Cleveland, az it has a perfect | right to do, and will do if it see fit, he will be Cleveland, and the latter will not be re , jected because be is an bonest reform. |! | er. No Independent newspaper, or, so far as we know, Independent voter, has undertaken to dictate its course of On these elements have been willing to offer advice and generally advice worthy the most care- | ful consideration, there bas been a disposition on all sides to avoid any- thing that looked like dictation on the part of these men who are not Demo- crate, and who would, under ordinary circumstances, be supporting the Re. publican nominees. tiou is the Herald, Grover Cleveland 1 a good man, aod would undoubtedly make a mag- nificent President. we may nominate him. Jut there are other men in the Democratic party fully as good, equally as hooest, and just as capable as he t assume the | . 1 es and weighty responsi- the one gre foe n the at The National ( wil fis 11 ¢ monti CAreluliy « uation lose attention t mands of the ocension, ad form, nominate candidates mit its work to the peopl ; " tollioer tl y nieingencs in ner him 2 luis subpena ro tl peed Merrick it and trie 1 to get losler not will be remembered, was after a letter written by Dorsey to the doubt the losler, telling him how to divide money There is no room for that Blaine was the friend, and Democrats on the committee want bring this out, not because they sup to the Star route frauds, bul because they want to he had, A Washington special to the Chiesgo Times pose Blaine was a party show the kind of friends SAYS | It has been understood Vere for the | last three years, by all persons posted in the Star rout investigations. that it was Blaine's influence that procured the ar rangement whereby the Government did not prosecute the Parker Salisbury combination of Star routers, but agreed to submit the oase of the Government against them to arbitration, not the first step toward which method of adjust. ment has yet been taken. Blaine is re lated to some of the people in that com. bination, and aecording to Dorsey him. self, Steve Elkios knows all that is worth knowing about these Star route matters, There is a good deal of amusement here over Kellogg's story as repeated yesterday by both Merrick and Bliss, that the £20,000 given to him by Price, tne mail contractor, was a political con- tribution. Price isa Missourian, and a son of old Sterling Price, the Confeder ate General, and isa violent Democrat, Four years ago he sent General Hand. oook a feather from a Rocky mountain eagle which he shot, with which to write his iosugural address, That he should have contributed $20,000 to the Repub. Tan 0% 10 the Repub. L& * deemed a fine joke, p of he nomination of Mr. Cleve | as honest a reformer ar: Gov, | (al | { fall of coal on Friday morning and in The ouly excep For this reason | to | Items of Interest Searlet fever preva rd county, cut worm has appeared Aware o« ion g 1 rn in Del uoty, Arthur received the LL. D. de ¢ from Princeton college yesterday, Francis M irphy will temp Je week John Walk county, recently begin a series of BIC tures in Chicago next of Romansville, Chester captured a milk-white squirrel Bartholdi's colossal figure of liberty is the likeness of his mother, rejuvenated and modified Mr. Sj versary will irgeon’s 50th birthday ann be the occasion of a jubilee in London to-day. Among the new insect arrivals is an nounced a destructive moth which in fests the cranberry patch, Steps are being taken at Pittsburgh to secure the transfer of the Ft. Wayne railroad to the Pennsylvania company. Joseph M. Hutchison, of Logan town! «hij , Blair county, recently found seven Iver watches under a log on his farm. Grasshoppers are so thick between som and Latrobe, near White Rock., that the Indians gathered fifty bar. ley sacks full and had a feast. Riley R. Brink, who has been wanted in Perry county for arson ever since 1574, has at length been arrested and lodged in the New Bloomfield jail. reorge Story, a miner at Tunnel ool- liery, Ashland, was caught in a beavy stantly killed. recovered. His body has not been | Cattlemen in Herkimer and Ogeida | counties, N. Y., are becoming alarmed {over the incressed mortality among young eattle. Pleuro pneumonia is said to be the cause. Samuel Thomas, who was an inmate of the Chester county almshouse in 1800, having been put again put there as a waif, was in the iostitution a few days since, He is without means of support: Tames Mertz and others of Kutztown» nity, who were recently ar lating the fish laws by ex- have in the river, ted for the same offense. ! 0 of Cherry ud by lom I'he horse len at the same time re » day or two afterward. the negro who eloped eKE ARO with Jewess, has been H in of Larne who f Ann Cay anangh, of Con the back of a che ritien on ard, in which e had to tw in the Courts of Montgomery county, be jueaths thing sl brothers, is She died before she could affix ber name, and the brothers ask that the ment be recognized, 20. instru ~The state min- convention in session here has re ceived information from Buchtel, Hook. ing valley, today that the operators | have posted a redaction to 60 cents for | mining, to take effect June 23. | dent { will go out on that date, (oLUME Tune ers Presi. McBride states that the miners | Adam Funk, of Lebanon, recvatly captured a black bass weighing 2 pounds and 15 ounces. William Swayne, of Kennet Square, landed one recently which weighed 4 pounds and measured 21 inches in length and 12 inches around the girth, Samuel Chandler, of West Chester, landed a black bass from the Brandywine which measured 17 inches in length, The Conneleville coke producers’ as- sociation on Friday decided in view of the unsatisfactory condition of trade to further restrict production by closing down ten per cent. of the ovens. This will reduce production twenty-five per cent, ss fiften per cent. of the ovens have been idle since the formation of the pool. They decided to make no change in the selling price, A Boston indy is making a presiding officer's gavel of rare wood and stone of historical value. It will contain a frag ment from Washington's tomb, marble from Coesar's palace in Rome, and a piece of a torch found in thd wolf's den oo cupied by General Putman at Pomfret, Conn, The gavel is to be ued at the National Democratic Convention, and is 0 be pr od to the snocessful Presi 3
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