F.E. & G. P. BIBLE, Propriet Ors. URQUAL AND EXACT JUSTICE TO ALL MEN, OF WHATEVER BTATE OR PERSUASION, RELIGIOUS OR POLITICAL." —Jaflorson TERMS : $1.50 per Annum, in Advanes- VOL 1. BELLEFONTE, PA.. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1885. The Centre Democrat, Torms 81.50 per Annumin Advano FRANK E. BIBLE, Editor STATE TICKET DEMOCRATIC FOR STATE TREASURER, CONRAD B. DAY DEMOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET NER FOR JURY COMMISSI JOHN RHONE YOR CORONER, Dx. HK. HOY Gex. Beaver to M.S. Quay: “Dear Matt, you can’t talk.” . - : : Two more printers want to starve in Bellefonte. As they are both Republi- cans, let em starve. -> Wox'tr Tom Cooper send us one of his cow slips. We are jest dying for a beautiful yaller cow slip. ins Arr that remains of shirt” is now in the possession of that | the “bloody | animated skeleton, John Sherman of Olio. “Fen slips” SAYS “Slips Cries i marbles. Conrad B. Day steps int ury at Harrisburg. y - Jyo. L. 8S ULLEINAN, wife ly general “boss” of the p in the McC against a sna 8h nick McCaffrey. champion of the rir y who has no idea of ine manipulation. a politician whose been spent in manipulating the ma- chine and who has no idea of business, now which do you want in the Treas urers office at Harrisburg rr —— J. A. FeipLER, the agreeabls Me. young tention to the city department of Williamsport Sun and Banner eveniog A. gentleman who devotes his at- the was in Bellefoute on Saturday and speut some time with Mr. R News, The milk in the above cocoa nut, is Cassidy, of Canton, Ohio. the new paper. The following resolation was un- animously adopted by the Republi can convention as a party deliverance on the question of anti-discrimination, railroad monopoly and the supremacy tad: . : . > of the constitution. It takes the cake. | Platform on which the Republicans of Resolved that.........in view of...... We...oeresi0ur well-known.......! and heartily............which preme and... hilt. eines South Pennsylvania the democratic party Matthew 8. Quay....c.s..patriot and Statesman law .«. Y ander .eeeesschis connection with board .. pardon + wees legislative bribery. - - SECRETARY STENGER's speech convention seconding the nomination of Conrad B. Day, was one of most brilliant gem's of oratory ; in his earnest, eloquent statement of the issue ’ presented to the people of Pencsylvan. ia, by her great railroad corporation will long be remembered who had the good fortune to he He was, no doubt, spurred to the effort in. by the opposition of the “tender feet,” on the committee who through fear or sympathy did not want a cor It poration pamed in the platform ] Lae was a grand effort, and worthy of leadership of the administration forces, Owe thing was very evident in the con vention and that was, that it was an administration body. Its was good, and fresh from the people, There was a noticeable absence of the “politician,” his place was filled by persone! the farmer, mechanic, laboring, and sw business men of the party, and barring the politician, Pattison has no oppo sition in his party. masses who look on the the executive department as a matter conduct of Cassidy in the { In the bills in {they have discovered what the French | which is intended to bring | platform since the adoption of | Re the | by Lose The Democratic | Who is Responsible Republican journals all over the State in their blind zal for party suc cess, profess to doubt the sincerity of Gov. Patt'son and Attorney Gen. proceedings against the Pennsylvania, the South Penneyl- Beech { ‘reek equity recently roads, filed vania and the call a coup d'etat, a stroke of policy the anti-monopoly into Democratic fold all and anti-discrimination people. Such may be the effect, but cur oppouents should give us credit for sincerity in the matter of anti- discrimination and Democratic the of The Democrats as a anti-monopoly. Every new constitution has had a plavk that kind in it. party have made every eff. to irt pass {neede d legislation under the railroad have been foiled by the Republican party. . ] [ » section of the constitution aad The anti-discrimination measure of last winter was pressed by the Demo 3 cratic Senators and Representatives and was defeated by the Rs publi un I'l f tl | at eo Stat e legis publ ire ican in both and what effort h ford re lief {to Lt! Wf Has it ever yablican party in favor been quest Under the leadership of crimination ! platform is as silent on that as a clam. its present chairman the anti—diserim- killed political sapremacy ination bill was last winter, F'wel ve years of under the new constitution is time enough to develope a policy on a like that What is the record of the republican party in great question that time? Is it not against all legis lation intended to enforce the provis i008 of the constitution in relation to railroad and canal ¢ mpanie:? On what party does the responsibility rest’ Surely not on 8 party which has not in twelve years had for one moment full control of the law mak- {ing power of the state. Now therepub- | lican organs of the state have the cheek | to call what has been the settled policy | f the Democratic party of the state | | for the past twelve years, a Coup d'etat | | A stroke of policy intended to {the unwary. Why did not the brill- catch i | Pennsylvania could stand, and with some show of reason call the move= of the | ment for a judicial solution | policy? Thereis a bond of Union between the republican machine and | the monopolies of Pennsylvania which is as close as the siamese ligament, a community of interests, which \ ¥ fattens and makes arrogant, both and which grinds under the heel of despotic and lawless combinations of plunderers the business interests of our state, Will it take another twelve years to open th ; f the Republican machin eyes of our pe ple to the crimes — — book war has been the school board, which settled the matter last week to amns of the Tne school transferred from it newspapers and the deciples of Esculapius and Galen | " ay o entered the arena of literary war- managed by the medical gentleman, “When doctors disagree who shall de- ad cae, If parents and children aren't sick of the whole business in less than ‘a year, it will be a matter of surprise, The law is a fraud and » delusion, and the only question involved in the whole business is which publishing house shall get the most plunder out of the state, Every publishing house of any prominence in the country had its paid agents at Harrisburg lobbying the bill through, and now that they [ have it, they set to work to get whole communities jangling and quarre | lant and strategic Quay formulate a | vexed railroad question, A stroke of fare to decide’as to how the thing was | Jonrad B. Day The nomination of Conrad B. Day | | as the Demoeratic candidate for State | Treasurer says the Pliladelphia Times had some days, and clearly forshadowed for the been Convention in nominating him simply gave form to | what was the settle! parpose of the party. test for the honor of leading the party There able and popular men who were uis- in the coming struggle. were cussed for the candidacy and several who would have accepted it if volun is tarily tendered to them ; but it ® notable fact that there were no aggres he is sive candidates in the field and enabled to exercise } net party WAS soundest judgment in namiog ym petitor of Mr. Quay. Mr. Days nomination was an emi the of the He stronger than any of the other worthy peniiy wise act on part Pennsylvania Democrats, 18 men suggested for the position, simp ly because he is an undoubted Demo erat thout a public record bey Yes " 8 n to make against the Kepablican can. there admittedly doul Had they attempted to match r with a shrewd and aggressive they would come h In ability, audac ity and re. sources (Quay is more thon Dem would attempt to fight a match candidate who by his only promising Wr ROY oCratlic him own methods, and the {ine of attack was by sl arp contrast fn the candidates thems between the ves ese and Tre as ay won his nomination by buaair the State Mr ' Ah Amos unanimous v ry OJ . ie solely as {the ablest representative machine | leader in the St and he stakes the Slate, | interests of himself and his party sole. ly on the issue of vitalizing the party th { and leading 1t by aod Such a candidate has vast e most aggressive desperate political methods. resfoqQroes workers of the State, and he will call out a fuller in the active Republican Republican vote than could any less poli therefi re, aggressive man in a decided off | tical Year. There WAS, There was practically no con. | ing men of Renovo will | gle to defend a violated A square contest between partisan and business qualities in a public place, and Day will be elected or de feated as business or partisan interests shall be m wt acceptable to the voters in November next, HENAN What Renovo Won't Do Renovo News “It is hardly probable that the work. vole away no! The Pennsylvania Railroad Company has their bread and butter. Oh been Renovo's backer since her birth and her citizens and proj don't § ire | and reduce the value of their property wrly wners propose to | hemselves by voting for the present Democratic platform.” Renovo's working no! men ‘vote away their bread and bat I'l mm ih must be ties jor vi visiteel 0 cOTp : . " " as individaals. The law FAMOUS 88 Wel 18 no re specie r f persons, whether It be a man witl | 1! ’ A sOUi Or withou ne Renovo cannot “vote away her bre and batter.” but she can vote Ant wh at 1 iearer, the ni [he The plain and simple asthe alpha- the con i Cis P73 issu jure the pe ple, iti It the people, against corporate aggress ion on the rights of the bet. 18 stitution made by We ple. Again we say it is not a war on the Pennsyl vania Railroad Company, it is a strug. constitution | Such a struggle as conquered magna boa eA wrta from King John at Runnymede and preserved liberty to Eoglish spea- i ) | King prople. but one standpoint (rom which to give | battle to Quay, and that was by giv. ing him his vantage ground as a lead. er who regards all public s of and power, and contrasting him with positions as legitmate source party profit a competitior who has no official par tisan record and whose candidacy is a public proclamation in favor of Presi dent Cleveland's policy that offi st, to be tered only on business principles. Mr the requirements of a ea: public e¢ Is a public tru adminis Day fully and broad! fills pre sented for a business ad ministered on business principles, and he possesses every quality necessary | to unite the oposition to th can eandidate, He and trained only methodical, faithful business man, and he will un. doubtedly poll a large vote in this |city. The result of the contest will Republi hou $, ( apable Rs A : |velope. If the Democratic party | shall get over its spoils wrangles and earnestly unite and poll its vote for depend largely upon causes yet to de- | | business men and business methods in | | public trust, it ean make the battle | not only interesting but probably | doubtful; but if it shall profess devo. tion to business administration in pub. { lic oMoe and drag the party down to | violation of the letter and spirit of | nor —— Tue Philadelphia Times and Press may not be edited in the Pennsylvan- ia railroad office, but there is a tone about their railroad articles that seems like an inspiration fi [1 cle with neither the name to it, yet be- tween the lines, could be read “Penn- sylvania Railroad No 1 the Times of Monday was an arti or Roberts subscribed Company.” 1bt as the Times that im SAYS assume the ponsi- it has done” That it will contend that it has done for anything nothing, and means to do nothing in violation titation.” Well, it would hardly go ioto the courts and if Lhe cons plead guilty. lw lawyers may know as much about the constitution as does Attorney Geu. are pald to say that the Coustitution has not been and will not be violated the deal. Penn's R. R. lawyers will in not be considered authority on the | constitution any more than the Times. But what excites the disgust of our people is that the Times which usually is found on the side of the people and whose editor, Col, McClure is 80 clear on all other questions, should be so cloudy on this.” Col. MeClare will hardly say that a sale of the stock or franchises of the South Penn, road to the Pennsylvania company is not in m that direction. | of Cassatt | com. | Camidy, but they | Democratic Convention Hannrsn cratic state convention was called to or der this morning atl ha fi gt 1006 clock the opera house being pave kod and «ver hundred d R. P. temporary our legates bein Allen, of Lyeoming, w IRIran He was escorted to the Wright of Lycoming Piolett, Fhe various commities were then inted, alter whic convent LOOK A recess until Fhe convention did» time, but when cilled to order tendan ob C. © WAS as argent in the of Westm laroey, 1” was elected permanent the u ual number of v relaries were spp Mr, fu ney on ia Lentiemen 3 Ehest er y corporations bave been grad snd the people have been indo gent the limit has | 1 reached and the me has come wi i behooves be demanded that e restriclion Inw enforoed. the laced in the constitution hese encroachments irichions I i AN, Who is responsible that these restrictions lie on your statute boeks a fead letter? ferr The speaker then re ed to the state of affairs that originat- { ed the megna charts, and of the Pennsyls referred in rms of denunciation the South nnsylvania sale to An Fhe speaker in closing referred to Vanderbilt as a marauder, and said a | wooden man, a straw man, a blind mule { and two Hungarians could gets char- ter for a railroad and with it the right If | Pennsylvania railroad wasn't conosived f eminent domain the Southern in « juity it was brought forth It was started as a in sn “squeezer” on the The farms stroyed by these marauders can never Pennsylvania railroad de- | be restored. It is as infamous a scheme | a2 the Credit Mobilier and of the same character, The committee on resolutions repor ted the following platform THRE PLATIORN, he Democracy of Pennsylvania convention assembled declare hearty approval and principles adopted | n their support of the d by the Chi "20 Dem- ocratic Convention, July 9, 1884 . they favor an honest and efficient civil service a fair and just revision of the tariff, and a through reform of the methods of ad- ministration which obtained under Rep- ublican rule in strict sccordance with [ the terms of the Chieago platform upon | which Grover Cleveland | President and Thomas A Vice President of the United States, Democratic reform administration of President Cleveland and his cabinet. We recognize in their official aots a resolute determination to vindicate the pledges upon which the President was | elected, To this end wo affirm bis clear and indisputable right to promptly re- move officials wh pave prostiiuted the public service for partisan and personal | ends, The thorough reform of abuses and searching investigations already [ made in the several departments of the | Federal Government give assurance {that the present administration will secure for the country that thorough | organization of the civil service which will effect an honest, practical and effi- cient administration of the Government. Third ~The adwginistration of Gover Pattison, by the firm and honest | the constitution, unless he is one of | execution of the laws; the faithful snd war elected | Hendricks | Second —~We cordially approved the | ¢« to maintain and enforce the Con ution; Appoint the peopl sti to secure a just and bonest ment; to guard (he interests of LO secure economy and hon the St 1 ' ely In f ite governmentand to re orm lopg exist'ng shus ind deep! als Linequaitties in the "an Four Fyery legitim ste «flort of la- bor to better its condition, t/ evhance it com-~ support of importa gn pauper he rome rewards and protect 1 ghits mands the D Veinocratic sympathy and party. lhe contract of fore i'd the Lion under abhor is an evil whieh died by judicious legislation Fifth We favor the enforcement of the Constitution of Pennsylvania in sho its every article and section and especially lem nd the regulation by law in aceor- dance the rewith of the carryit stions of the State the tax laws; the appropriation of pub- HE Rone) s g corpor- the equalization of an hon ate Treasury he Lo public Uses Only mansrgement of the St vd rigid enforcement of 1 laws gov- We denounced ftheConstits inte the Sout Creel ' 2 Hailros pprove i mmonmn tl snd Attorney GG and preserve the rights of the | g A » under the Const) great vaely adopted, Rppiaure ns Dang In order, | ymed by W, 1 and seconded by Mr, wm. ne 0 opposition, and vominsted by accl wa then adjourned si ama: al —— WW AI— Russia has issued a decree making the Greek Church the established re- ligion of the Baltic provinees, Protest. (aniism will be tolerated says the dis patch, and children of mixed marriag- es are to be trained in the Greek |church. There is no where on the | face of the globe outside of the United | States religious liberty, The tolera- | tion granted to catholics in protestant | countries or to protestants in catholic countries is considered a mere act of clemency on the part of the govern. |ment. Religious views at varisnce { with the established church are toler. aled simply because it would be troub- lesome to suppress them. The union | of charch and state is the one great bar to religious liberty, the ambition of those having the care of souls to | care for the persons and property of their flocks has ever been a stumbling block in the way of Christianity. The religions training which fails to incul- cate in the minds of its devotees a due respect for the religious opin. ions of others, is a burlesque on re ligion, and a libel on the life of the week and lowly Savior of men “Whatever creel be taught Or Tas eo trod Man's Icha e nlone Is the reacie of G may not be orthodox in doctrine, but there is a whole ser- Byron's lines (mon in them for religious bigots and intolerant governments. More crimes | have been committed in the name of | religion than in the name of liberty Religious liberty is only an accom. | plished fact in our own country, Here | the right to worship God according the dictates of ome's conscience is an inherent, inalienable right: The word “toleration” has no place in the dic. tionary of American religious liberty. — C—O A —— Digp «In this city, August 26, of insanity Campalon Sues, aged six weeks, Duried from the St. Cloud | rigid use of Lhe veto power in the inter | est of reform and economical goverment challenges the respect and commands the confidence of the people, ‘We " wily approve of the Gove mor a his off n thelr business, have every confidence in Lhe | Governor, and no patience with the | 1 and politicians who oppose | ling | the slimy sluices of the spoilesman, it | iy paid abtorneys o that SompaBy; Hed ie Jimes sympathies are undou bie | must be content to reduce 8 MA : Uinines ma | edly with the railroads, but that fact Fhe | should not make it unfair in its state. 1 be monies, ’ Hotel. No flowers. — Record, Funeral November 3rd, “Passed in his Slips,” “redheaded and hopeful” to the last, wd over the adoption of books. EE —— a — . " * . we Wedding onrds and all kinds of prin- { jority one-half or two thirds m spollsmer ' Democrat off the actiol hie 1res, Ng 66 Lae CENTRE 0 | I88u between Day and Wu \Y W ol advisers
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