“ F. E. & 6. P. BIBLE, Proprietors. EQUAL AND EXACT JUSTICK TO ALL MEN, OF WHATEVER STATE OR PERSUASION, RELIGIOUS OR POLITICAL. ==doflerson. VOL. BELLEFONTE. PA.. THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1885." TERMS : $1.50 per Annum, in Advance o——— NO. 39, The Centre Democrat. Torms 81. ry Annumin Advano | . Vora tir 3a nactainiv one aging, | # vis Toxue$1.80 yo | in Hume's Hall on Tuesday, at 2 pr. |™ delegates is certainly encouraging. {ions office of Jury Commissioner Mr ) Editor FRANK E BIBLE, Hap the new marriage IRw been in force last week, the poor, unprotected polish girl would not have been made ret i ot Justice of | ia TT ie! | the victim of an ignoran | Mr. Reifsnyder of Millheim, secre. | the peace and a laciviowus negro. Rh - J. N. Casaxova eof Philipsburg was elected a member of the State Central committee, Mr. Casanova is a promipent democrat who devotes cousiderable time aad mouey to the party. of the Siate Central Committee. -— Dr. H. K. Hey. was renomioated | for coroner, The Dr. is a rising young physician, and has beea more attentive to the duties of "his office than any of his predecessors. an office he should perform all the duties pertaining to the position. —— - Ix another column will be found a letter from President Cleveland to e | fellow out West who signed a man’s | petition for appointment and after- | wards wrote the president protesting | against it. ~ After reading Cleveland's letter, if_he-<don’t stick his head in the sand to hide himself he has less sense than cheek. “He is not qualified mor- ally or professionally,” says the letter writer, yet knowing the man's eatire | unfitness he signs his petition and would shuffe the responsibility from his own shoulders to that of the presi- dent. If any man ever had any doubt as to the intentions of the Presi- dent to reform the civil service by re- moving incompetent and corrupt men and appoiating in their stead, compe- tent and honest men, all doubt will now be removed by a persual of his letter. - —- Tur demand of certain of our Pem- ocratic comtemporaries for a campaign of persoualitiey against Quay is the silliest thing we have seen. Mr. Quay’s record is well known, and be is ome of | those politicians who has pever at tempted ta @onceal his objective peint by a subterfuge or lie. For thie we admire him. His public record is vulaerable but an attack of a personal nature will got keep one Democratic vote away or take ove republican vote from bim. There are other, greater and more vital issues for the demoe- racy than a “personal campaign.” If our contemporaries will go back to the “personal” campaign of 1880, they will remember that we got badly left on it. Buta more recent and cer tainly more vile personal campaign was that waged by the republicans | against Cleveland and with the same result. The wide awake intelligent | politician knows full well .ithat the day of personal vilification in politic- al contests has gone by, and the party which has no other issue had better | The voters | close out at public sale. of Pennsylvania are too intelligent to be carried away on such flimsy pre- texts, monopolies have raised the issue with | the people of our state, and the demo- cratic party bas but to be true to ite principles, and go off on no wild goose chase after an “issue.” The inviola- bility of the constitution, in every word, phrase, clause and sentence, anti discrimination and anti-monoply. These are the questions that are en raging the attention of Peonsylvanians, and not Mr. Quay’s personal charac. ter. Let us have no false issue, no campaign of slander or personalities, no throwing of mud but a square rty deliverence on the questions now Pefore the people. If some of our able Sonny ile Who udm fo be ping in an darkness for an Bn on w fen to fight the next political battle, will take up the defeat of the Wallace anti-discrimination bill last winter, and the salo or transfer of the Beth Qresk aid South Ia oh roads, paralle competing lines, in open violation of the fundamental law of the state, on all of which the republican platform is silent, they. will find the issue, He will be an active member | He be- | lieves that when a man is elected to | The railroad and telegraph | | M. with every precinet in the county L. T. Mun- | son of Bellefonte, was elected presi. represented except ove. dent and Mr. Wyche of Rush, and aan . ’ | taries. Geo. W. Rumberger was | made reading clerk. After roll call | i 1 » {nev and Messrse Lehman, | Harvey and Runkle commiflee on | resolutions. While the committee was prepar- | ing the resolutions, the balloting for iary commissioner began, on the third | ballot, Mr. John Rhone Spring township was nominated. H. K. Hoy of was renominated for coroner er and B. F. Hunter were delegates to the convention next year Hon. Adam Hoy was elected chair- elected man of the county committee, olutions which were enthusiastically RESOLUTIONS The Democracy of Centre | in Convention assembled unanimously declare, 1. Opposition to the open violation of | constitution in the sale and | parallel an already overgrown corporetion tothe irreparable injury and damage of the people of the commonwealth, We invoke the judicial power of the state to prevent the perpetration of this outrage upon the people, 2. Opposition to discrimination in freights by abatement draw-back or otherwise. 3. The adoption of a platform by the state convention oa the single issue of anti-discrimination, 4. The democracy of Centre county representatives in Senate, na ssembly and Congress to follow where an honest and fearless chief magistrate has “dared to lead in the reform of the Fagrant abuses Republican rule. endorse the policy of theadministration { and commend Grover Cleveland for the faithful observance and maintenance | of his pledge of reform m administra- | tive methods made before his election. 5. The fidelity, ability and conscien tiousness with which Hon. Robert E. | Pattison has met and discharged his | duties as chief Executive of this state | and especially his use of the veto power | in defeating vicious legislation entitles | him to the highest admiration of the | people of the state. i The Democracy of shis i 6. county cn { Hon. A. G. Curtin, who ia eeason Yout of season [(aithfully guards cares for the interests and his people, | 7. We heartily commend the course lef Hon's. Wm. A. Wallace, John A. { Woodward and Leonard Rhone, Sena { tor and Representatives in the Legisia ture of Pennsylvania for their honest advocacy of the measure to break the discrimination in freights by roads, and snd welfare of ! rail- Ihe following delegates were pres eats; Bellefonte, ¥. W_ LT. Manson, Thos Shanghensy Micha | $r Bellefonte 8. W Joha Hofer Bellefonte, W. W J Milesbiurg Bor Millheoim Bor Reifenypder Howned Boro Abram Weber Philipsburg, Ist W..L. 6G. Lingle Philipsburg, Md W.C. A. Faulkner, Henry Lebman Philipsburg, Md W_ John Walton Unionville Boro. L. J. Biag Benner Twp. ~ Robert Corl, McKnight Jr Boge Twp, BPH. L Harvey, Jou LL. Neff Boggs twp. W. Wo Frank Adams, A. Fetaer I Burnside—Owcar Molt Curtin—=Wm. J. Binger, College Tw Wm. Forster, John WH. Williams Eecguson, PoeB F. Botton! AG. Archey, I. W D.FF tiney, Koofe Harvey Adama James BK. Prondfoot J.C. Smith WK. Alexander, J. BH R. FF. Haster, Robert Ferguson, W_P.Henry Garner, Gregg, F. PW. Yearick, John 8 Hoy Gregg, 8. FP «J, 0 Condo, J, V. Heckman, [Daniel Partges, Emanuel Zotile, Samael Harter, Mateos Twp, W. P-Houry H. Weaver, Noah Cron. fmy Her, A. J. Stover al nen Twp, KB PoeMichasl 8 Peidier, John J Orndoet, Hall Moon, Win. Bei) Hacrls Twp, Michaol Weber Howned Twp, Michas! Confer, L. G, Runkle Hatton Twp, John §. Mile Mberty Top, James 1, Delong Marion Twp, J. J Moy, F. A Weight Miles Twp. William Walker, William Kreamer, John Wolf, W. Hl, Corman, John Hosterman Patton Twp, George Glenn, Penn Twp, HB Duck, Benj. Kerstotior, Sam TArd wotter, N, P., Jacob Wagner, A. O. Ripka, 0, D Runkle ' Potter, &. PP. . Wm, Bowes, Jas man, jr. Das'l Decker, Rash, N. FP, Orin Vall, John B. Long. D. G, Wyehe Rash BP. Jacol Clare Bnow Bho BP. Jack Bwin Snow Bhos, WP. Micha! Keli, Frank Turberty Boring Tel, John Garbrick, Wm, Woods, W,. HII Taylor, J. A. Hass! Union Twp 5 K. Emmerich GP. Hail Walker Top . Frank Emerick, B. F. 8hafer, John Miller, PK Fisher Worth Twp, W. I. Cronlster, Jacob Willams For an off year it was the largest * hn. Fags Potter, PF, NM, lee, John Danber , Hi. Reading. : {convention we ever witnessed and the entire harmony which existed all through ls a matter of congratulation to the Democracy. The personel of the president app inted D. F. Fert. | Fisher | and (. | M. Bower, L. G. Lingle, D. C.Kell- | The | | committee reported the following res. | applauded and unanimously adopted. section 4, of article seventeenth of the | transfer of | and competing railroad lines to | pledge themselves their nominees and | and corruption of twenty-four years of | We enthusiastically | mmend the distinguished services of | ' , the printing of tickets, stickers and alll up | Democratic County Convention. | the convention was above the general | average, and the large number of . | The Now Rules. | The new rules pr posed by the late | Cunvention for the better government | proval of every earnest Democrat in | the county. The necessity for their | adoption has been apparent to all who | have had the interest of the party at heart. Some time after the election the DEMOCRAT called attention to the importance of business management in the expenditure of campaign funds, | and to the unfairness and injustice of | post-election assessments of candidates by party papers. The sceds sown then have borne fruit in the shape of rules adopted by Tuesday's convention | The DeEMoonaT levied po assessment on candidates because it considered the system one of plunder, little bet. | ter than picking the pockets of one's riends, and entirely out of with the principles of honesty and decency. the will furnish tickets and ‘ Hereafler County Committee stickers” for county ! the candidates, snd no assessments for tickets be levied. The appointment of a Treasurer by or “services” can the County Committee, who shall not be a member of that body, and who shall have castody of the funds, is a wise provision. as is the election of As | a whole, the new rules will remedy an | abuse long felt, and which might have | shipwrecked the party at some future | 3s. . disinterested persons as auditors. | time, | The Democracy of the county is to | be congratulated on the wisdom of the | convention which adopted these rules, | They have yet to be adopted by the | next county meeting, but no man can afford to oppose such healthy amend- ! ments, full : That the following be adopted by this convention and be recommended for adoption by the party at the first mass meeting which shall hereafter be held by the Democracy of the county as amendments to the for the better government of the party, aad to be known as Rules 17, 18, 19 Below we give the rules in Rules Rug 17=The county committee shall | assess for campaign purposes the candi dates for the several offices, which said assessment shall be made 20 as to cover other necessary and legitimate expenses | of the campaign, and no eandidate shall | be subject £0 an assessment or charge | J Ee for any other service on support whatsoev | er. Nor shall the committee lay any | unreasonable or unjust assessment uj | on any candidate or candidates, ! Ruwk IS Fhe county committees shall at its first meeting in each and every year hereafter elect a Treasurer, who shall not be a member of the standiog committees and who shall be the custodian of the funds of the com mittee and shall pay out said funds for necessary and legitimate campaign ex. | penses on orders drawn upon him by the chairman of the committee and at tested by the Secretary, Runs 19<The commitiee shall at the first meeting in each and every year | elect three competent persons neither { of whom shall be a member of the com { mittee whose duty it shall be to audit the secounts of the committee | and make report thereof on or before the first of January of each year. Which | said report shall be open to the in spection of all Democrats | found upon settlement of said accounts in the hands of the Treasurer shall be paid to his successor in office — — Chairman Hoy for Chairman of the County Commit« tee, will meet the hearty approval of the party all over the county. It is a mark of confidence which is entirely deserved. Judge Hoy will make one of the best chairmen we have had for many years, and the party ean depend on it, that there will be no trading or underhanded work in the next cam. paign, There will bo a lively tussle in Old Centre next fall, with the Judge at the helm, with war paint on: If the county don't get a shaking up it will not be the fault of Judge Hoy. It was a wise choice, and the handsome thing to do on the part of the democracy. of the party, will meet the hearty ap- the | keeping All balances | The selection of Hon, Adam Hoy | John Rhone. LJ The Democrats of Centre Mr | Rhone is a poor man and has receat: | John Rhoue of Spring township. | . ly been so unfortunate as to lose his hand, He is a representative of the laboring class and a well educated gentleman and stirling democrat, He will command more than his party the We have every reason to believe that | ha h 80 filr as he rued th strength in comming struggle. is conc @ jury wheel will be filled by a good class met. There have beea complaints {on the part of those connected with our courts as officers, attorneys, plain. the chara tiffs aud defendants of ter have drawn We hop fm 3 1 f tut made in Lae iH been as of many who stich ecomrelaiut jurors, ' NO will be —— IN the new act passed for raising | revenue by taxation the Legislature neglected to provide compensation for the extra work put oan Recorders and Prothonotaries by the provisions of the bill. Quite a number of officer addressed Niles, Audit matter. throughout the state have letters to Hon. J. B in regard to the r General, We append a circular letter addressed to the and Recorders of the state. The failure to provide compensation for the addi- different Prothonolaries tional work was clearly an oversight {on the part of the Legislature. The following is Mr. Nile's letter: “Dear Sm: I have received nu- merous inquiries concerning the com- pensation to prothonotaries and record |ers of deeds for the performance of | the daily duty imposed upon them by the general revenue act. Through an | inndvertance no provision was made {in the act for the service you are call- | | ed upon to perform. This is to be re- | gretted, but if the duties prove oner- {ous I have no doubt the next legisla. | tures will provide compensation for | past services and make sutiable pro | vision for the future, and I shall be glad to aid in presenting the subicet for their favorable consideration. AqQUILLA Joxs : the new post-mae- ter of 1ndianapolis has been exonera- ted by the eivil service com mittee. Mr. Jones found but one Democrat Re- were in the Indianapolis office. Our publican centemporaries who { looking for a fight between President [Cleveland and Vice President Hen dricks will have to exercise consider shle patience as the “racket” is even brewing. C—— Signing Papers not A most interesting and instructive correspondence, in which the Presi. deat expresses some sound opinions with characteristic emphasis, has jost got the A time ago a vacancy was to be filled in into newspapers, one of the Federal courts in the West, and ome of the applicants for the place had such strong ivdorsements from the most influential people of the distriet, including two Judges of the State Supreme Court and other high dignitaries, that the President, after and the | Treasurer at the end of each eampaign, | careful consideration’ concluded that | he must be the best man and accord. ingly appoicted him. Not long after he received a letter from one of the persons who had sign® {ed the application, saying that the | community had read of the appoint- | ment “with astonishment and regret, | if not pain,” and that “none were more astonished than those who had | signed his petition.” The writer re- gretted to say that he was one of these, but he had “signed it thinking there | was no chance for its reaching even a consideration.” “Not a man whose name is on iL,” he continues “had the remotest idea that his appoint ment was possible. Not one would have appointed him if he had the ap- pointing power. He is not qualified, morally or professionally.” In fact he was so unfit that they took in for granted that the President would find it out in some way and #0 there could be no harm in their signing bis re. commendation, As might be expected, the Presi. > dent declines to have the responsibil have | The county Convention assembled | young and active democrats present | placed in nomination for the impor thus thrust ity him and he spenks hi® mind with an emphasis upon { that can only be described as red hot, { Here is what be writes: I read your letter of the 26th ulti- mo with amazement and ind’gnation, There is but one mitigation to the perfidy which vour letter discloses and | that is found in the fact that you con fess your share in it. I don’t know whether you are a Democrat or not, but if you are the erime which you | confess is the more The idea that pledged to give the p ernment and fficers and en- gaged in a band-to hand fight with the bad elements of both should be betrayed by unpardonable. this administration, onle bet ‘er gov. better those who fought to be worthy of implicit trust is short | atrocious and such treason to the peo- | nle and wo the party, ought (0 he ! ished by imprison nent, Your confession comez ton late be of immediate nse to to the public ser. vice and | can only that this is not the first deceived and misled while ime | have been by lying and treacherous representations, you are the first one who has to frankly own- ed his grievous fault. If any comfort y be extracted fi A urance vill® As ' FAV I is t mn uare welcome 10 IL, No facsimile is req 1 r $3054 1r si 1.44 the aulhenticity of this letie the marks of Grover Cleveland e of it is the great Men profess to believe in individual respon- ver it, and the for er because it is all true who sibility and who would not willingly wrong will sign petitions for anything and every- tell a lie or do a public thing, simply because they are too in doient or timid to refuse, and they are very much surprised when they find themselves taken at their word. This is one of the greatest difficul. | tirs with which a conscientious officer | has to contend. It is impossible for | President to know personally every | man in the United States. He wust | accept the apparent judgement of the | community in which a man lives. | And yet, when he has been wilfully No wonder such things excite the Presi. dent's anger. His letter ought to be read and taken to heart by everybody who is in the habit of recomending unfit men to office or signing hi name to anything that he does not know to be right and true.— Philadel phia Times. —— A—— The State Should Intervene deceived, he is held accountable. It is within the power of the Gov- ernor of Peonsylvania to prevent the consummation of the gigs ntic conspir- acy by which the Beech Creek and South Railroads are being brought under the control of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, in flagrant violation of the Constitu- Pennsylvania tion of the State and in disregard of the rights of the people. The Van- derbilts and Depews, claiming the ex. clusive right to the carrying trade of New York the Roberts, Thompsons and Cassatts, who assume the territory of Pennsylvania, have rend State, and to exercise a similar power over ered themselves liable to eriminal in. dictment., They are offending against the spirit and letter of the organic law of the State. They are welding into one combination companies which { control the transportation business of | | their crime ? communities that are insured by the solemn guarantees of the Constitution against the absorption of parallel or competing lines. They have bargain. ed among themselves to do what the Supreme Court of the State has de clared to be an illegal act—a criminal conspiracy in restraint of trade and against public policy. Why should they be permitted to work this wrong while other offenders who have wrought less damage to the public are brought to the bar of justice?! Does the enormity of their misdoing excuse Or is the Pennsylvania Railroad Company to be allowed to break the law because it is the most powerful corporation in the State! Are its officers free from the restraints which thould bind all citizens? Are no considerations of public good or private right to be respected by these creations of the State! It can be truly sald that the Guber. parties, | pun, | all | his | | natorial chair of Pennsylvania is oc- cupied by one who is conspicuously free from all entaogling and improper | alliances. His utterances and his ad- | ministiative acts have been marked | with a determination to faithfully car- [ry out every provision of the State | Constitution. He has done much to He the has en- Treasury. | He has labored to enforce a heaithy | purify our legislation. {deavored to protect | respect those form the him now or principles which of Let the opportunity which offers for exacting from our bulwark society, embrace railroad kings a rigid compliance with the fundamental law of the State. Philade lphia Record. > The Beech Creek Road The Lock Haven Democrat of Mon day, prints the f. “wl 1s following : Beech Creek road has been sold to the Pennsylvan- it true that the ia railroad company 7” was asked of Hon. 8. R. Peale to-day. No sir, it is not, A proposition hes | been made by the Pennsylvania rail to bay it has cepted except by such stockholders as The Pennsylvania railroad company road company the Beech Creek road, Liat not been ad have other purposes to serve. extremely anxious to get this property aud the newspapers in their interest have been industriously publishing that they bave got it, and that th® | road will be turned over to them in & | short time. They have not got it and | they will not get it if it is in our pow- er to prevent it and I believe it is in our power to do so. because it is the Ido not object Pennsylvania rail | road company that seeks to absorb | the Beech Creek railroad, but I ob ject to the idea of concentrating all transportation lines throughout Penn- | sylvania in the bands of any one com- I feel that it would | disastrous to pany. vers the business interests of Clinton, Centre and Clearfield coan- ties to destroy the healthy competi | tion that exists between these tw val railroad lines, re I went into this enterprise for the purpose not only of benefiting myself but for the purpose of openiog up a new avenue for the bitaminous to market Clearfield county with all her mineral | wealth had but one railroad, and her [traffic was in the absolute control of | one corporation which did not fail te use the power it possessed. By the construction of the Beech Creek road the coal business bas been greatly stimulated as has business geverally coal ready through the section reached by it Large investments have been made upon faith in this line being a compet ing lice with the Penns. R. R. lines and a large business has been throws upon theroad. I am informed that agents are now going about among the shippers on the Beech Creek road asking shippers to contract their traf fic to the Pennsylvania railroad as the Beech Creek road was sure to fall nto their hands. It strikes me as rather peculiar that these contracts | should be sought for if they were sure of the Beech Creek road. So all | along the line between here and the | eastern markets the agents of compe | ing coal companies have been visiting | the customers of the several coal com- panies that ship by the Beech Creek line and these agents have been en deavoring to take away the customers | 80 shipping by the Beech Creek line on the argument that the Beech Creek railroad was about to fall into the bands of the Pennsylvania R. R. Co, | and that thereafter the companies of whom they had been purchasing coal would not be able to fill their orders. Here we have the thought that the Beech Creek road is to be used not for the purpose of affording equal facili | ties to all shippers, but, on the ocon- trary, to a favored few. It cannot be that the people will submit to the stating suditel and mastery of any one trans on compan what ever hw A be a [can not, with sclf respect, abandon the in terests of the le Ww whom we have made our pledges and who have in their money relylog on our good faith,
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