» + F. E. & G. P. BIBLE, Proprictors. UEQUAL AND EXACT JUSTICE T¢ VOL 7. The Centre Democrat, Terms 81.50 per Annumin Advano® FRANK E. BIBLE, Editor DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET. FOR STATE TREASUREP, CONRAD B. DAY DEMOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET. FOR JURY COMMISSIONER, JOHN RHONE. FOR QURONER, br, H. K. HOY. THERE'S many a slip "twixt the nomi nation and the election, — Times. der if the gallant Colonel hasn't been there himself, - A little original editorisl matter in the Democrat & Sentinel of Lewistown would help that paper amazingly. it, brother Fosnot, _ Tuirry marriage licenses were grant- ed in Philadelphia the first day of Octo- | law ber which was the day the new went into effect. And it wasn't a good day for marriages either: -— Tue Democratic city ticket in Phila- de!phia was completed by the nomina- tion of Dallas Sanders for Sheriff Simon R. Snyder for city Treasurer. There is reform in the city nominations and this year, ns HA Sox-iN.Law Twombley was not being left in the railroad deal. $3,000,000 was gently dropping into his hat, which the people of Pennsylvania would have paid rates. Thrifty ! “Horatio.” in increased freight Twombley !, Thrift] Thrift cf —————————— Tus Marrisburg Patriot has donned a new suit of type and spread itself out one column, making an eight column paper. Every Democrat living on the line of a railroad, should take the daily Patriet Its democracy pure and healthy, aad its pages ably edited. It should be the party organ in the central is part of the State, “f grieve in civil serviee reform and its application in the most practicsble form attainable, among other reasons because it opens the door for the rich and the poor alike to a participation in public place holding. And I hope the time is at hand when all our people will see the advantage of a reliance for | such an opportunity upon merit and fitness instead of a dependence upon the caprice or selfish interest of those | who impudently stand between the peo- | ple and the machinery of their govern- | ment.” — Grover Cleveland. Like the lit- tle boy who pasted the Lord's prayer on the head board of his bed to save time, we say “O Lord them’s our renti- ments.” ee ————— "Coxmap B. Dar, Democratic candi- date for State Treasure has created a favorable impression wherever be has gone by his practical good sense and | erimination in order to be profitably | the absence of all the wiles, dodges, and | . contortions of the politician. Mr. trade is comfortably wrapped in the | left to adorn the shades of Won- | Try Railroad Tyranny. A Putriot, from Philadel; hin, dated O) tober special dispatch to the Harrisburg “An instance of the tyran fth, says ; ny of railroad companies to those who are so unfortunate as to be within their It of a power, has just come to light here serves to show how the industries | state can be hampered and how millions of capital can be prevented from find- A of capitalists in this city who had had ing profitable investment, number a large experience in the manufacture of iron, desired to enter into that busi- ness again, and proposed purchasing | { the iron ore beds in Centre county, this state, for the sum of $400,000, They also proposed LO erect blast fur Nace | upon the location at ac and wo hold In reserve $200,000 for working capital. The furnace was to have a capacity of 100 tons per day, and they figured that they could manulac ture iron at that point at a piofit, but when they came to inquire into the cost of freights over the railroad, it was discovered that they were so high that the capitalists could not pretend to manufacture snd competes with others. When the Beech Creek tended into that county the project w road was ex- As again takeu up, but had to be abandon ed as there is a prospect of that road going into the hands of the Pennsyly he whole story of B f ellefonte's the boundless, a central ntained in above, ces almost mn with regard to eastern pos ' western markets, coal, iron ore lumber, and everything that is Hi up except competing railros eto the | great tries, 1 town and county sleeps, w hil and greatly favored communi It wal 11 estab! move on, 8 not have af at Bell en gracually improving ious kinds here, or th be SIX OF in seven years, The positio her resources and facilities as a m Wau breaking | | ' ' ight mMibions st of $400,000, ! | ‘ Bosphorus, Turkey liberty i {Oris Such » out of t} here is a contiguity ken by any natura nity ol Interest, of which will ulw AYS UuILe of Eastern Europe | If Servia demands im because the political country do not co limits the bulk ol Sex ple The Roumapians of the Servians sie a branch hey Me ing peoples bat d Fer fron tions of Weastern | ope, 1 now well shorn of Lis Bucopean ons | L politics 4 hare f+ wenstern shores o I fs maintained al W het bayon« is, Furope Ww in Spain, | facturing town would entitle her to, is y and manu. denied her by unjust discriminat No repre sinter 4 ars dare exhorbitant freight rates, facturing establishment hundreds of thousands of doll marcy of place ilsell at the railroad corporation, even rates of freight were offered. The laws of trade demand competition in freigh’ rates as well as anything else, long is this Rip Van Winkle sleep to be {kept up? We can hardly invite, under the present condition of affairs, capital | ists to invest their money here. What | guarantee can we offer them against { unjust freight discrimiostion 7 If iron { could be manufactured for five dollars per ton railroads could increase the cost to ten and twelye by freights on coke and coal to the furnaces, and on | the manufactured article to the marketa, | } Board of employed. Our venerable How | lw that he ae nen if had an Boyle, y ngressn {smart to decive a Pres teapable of “amazement and indigation | : " : jas Mr, Cleveland is, and he ace ly told the Pre wat Ts rding ident the w hoe ankness, It is said with the utm {that President Cleveland did not much encouragement to the he pe thay Rutter woald be vindicated with an of | fice, but remarked : “I don't believe in | { hounding a man to his grave for a slip | Lin his life years ago, but at the same time | | this administration can't undertake to | defend every man's character for hum." | There is no doubt that Mr. Cleveland {is right in this, | an old charge by an upright life, the business of vindication by fppa int Mr. Ratter should be private life | ment to office, Days personal appearance indicates his | arms of morpheus: Our own moneyed |, Connelsvilla, — Times, plain practical business habits; and nothiog gives more encouragement to the voter than to know that in Mr, | Dection with the Reading ean be had a | jor the management of John M, PI | men make no move to overcome the { difficulties that stand in the way, Con. i] — Tur Harrisburg Telegram, which un ace Day he has & business man with Lusi. | few miles further east than the proposed |, forged rapidly to the front of San ness methods, Contrasted with Mr, Quay whose whole life has been spent “Resistence to tyranny is obedience to | portrait of Curtin McClain, in the whirlpool of politics, Mr, Day has decidedly the advantage. The practi- cal politician will do to run a conven- tion or manipulate a ward but to man- age the business affairs of the people he cannot be rusted. Ox of the most carefully edited of our exchanges is the “Allentown Demo- We always open and read its peges with delight. We were particu. larly pleased with an article in its edi. torial columns under the caption of “Take Your Choice.” The article in question voiced our sentiments exactly, We were pleassd with it when we read it in the “Allentown Democrat,” indeed we were as much pleased and delighted when we saw our old friend there as we were when our own brain gave birth toit in the Crates Drwoorar of Bept. 17th, L heart did not beat lighter, nor was the music in our soul less sweet, when we saw it “solid” in our Allentown namesake, We recognized our child although its name was not given. Now brother Democrat, to make our cup of bliss full to over flowing just give us erat.” 2 credit when you clip from us, Of course it wos an oversight, and we will pardon you this time, but in the futur. if you wish us to preserve our good naturg, give us credit for our brain work, | Beech Creek connection. Wake up! God." awhile? Why not serve the Lord - —— Eastern Europe. The Balkan trouble which promises to disturb the peace of Europe and effect the equilibriam of the Turk, is not a question that ean be definitely settled western Europe and Russia. The last war between Russia and Turkey, left the latter broken. shattered, and at the mercy of her conqueror, The treaty of San Stefano ghich was preliminary to that of Berlin, settled nothing: and the treaty of Berlin changed the political map of Eastern Europe without set. tling a single question of the many which were liable at any time to involve Europe in a war, By itterms, Bulgaria was mado a tributary principality, io be governed by a Prince (not a member of any ruling dynasty) elected by the people. South of the Balkans and be- tween Bulgaria and Turkey is interject. ed the autonomous provinee of East. ern Roumelia under a christian govern: or-general appointed by the Porte with the assent of the powers, Bosnia and Herzegovina are placed udder the eon- Montenegro are independent and their boundaries enlarged at the expense of by the diplomacy of the great powers of | trol of Austria, Roumania, Servis and | day journals, last week published the the young man now under sentence of death for the murder of Smearman at Newton Hamilton a year ago. that of a boy of sixteen, pleasant, of en and frank-—anything but the face of one who would do deliberate marder. The Telegrgm is making a gallant fight for a | re-hearing by the Pardon Board of Mo- | Clain's case, and considers him innocent. We hope the Board may give the oase another hearing. No harm can come if he is guilty, in the delay of the ven- geance of the state, but inestimable wrong may be done by not giving heed t0 the Telegram's appeals, We are heartily in accord with our contempo- rary, and bid it God specd in its efforts, Let McClain have another chance and let the newly discovered evidence be presented to the Board. —— | UU, ~Tux article on “Centre County Iron" in last week's Democrar should have been credited to the Record, ; “ : Ex-Governor Moses, of South Car. olioa, has been sentenced to three years in the Massachusetts State pris. on, . - ts t— The Earl of Shuftsbury died inLou- (don at the age of eighty. He had been il bat a short time, lent wo ald ry | give | A man can live down | but | . Capital invested must be free from dis | 4), people are growing awfully sick of | people who never become depositors in | McClain's face is | LITICAL. =Joflersoy TERMS: $150 per Annum. in Advanes OCTOBER 8, 1885. NO. 40. (RLY) ‘ompany give in their siford and over ohne vay i which an with §6, oPray equaled erring the + thousan i the Ssuth nia people four per cent on igeport bonds in » be pid for their young msn Twom- oH Lo the tune ATE, ANA Dis Wile » Lid | wase which: prohibits compelling or parallel Chey now seek 10 violate the in t wh adoption they could i prevent, — — Wx are in receipt of a pamphlet from | the TSiale | on Postal lar bharities Aid Association" Banks, and a circu- Miss Edith Wright, | chairman of the Pennsylvania branch SRVIDgs letter from Postal Savings Banks are now in opera | tion in England, and most of her colo | nies; Belgium, Japan, [taly, the Neth- erlands, France, Russia, and Switzer. { land, and their success has been assured. | ordinary banking institutions because their deposits must necessarily be small, who would take advantage of the postal savings bank system, and thus lay away a little money each year. The subject will com e before Congress this winter. when we hope to call the attention of our Member to the report of the com- mittee of the 47th Congress, which is very thorough, p—— i — Driving Out.Foreign Labor Husrixopox, Ost, 4.—The last of the Italian and Hungarian laborers have | been driven from employment at the furnaces and mines at Saxton, and have left the place. The operators were well satisfied to get rid of these foreigners, especially as American workmen of- fered themselves on as advantageous terms. The employes of the Kemble Coal and Iron Company at Riddlesburg, which failed so disastrously last year, have since been idle, A strong preju- nies was the result of the eraployment of foreign workmen, which showed it- self in some persecution of them and occasional violence, and which, with the willingness of the employers to make a change, led to the filling of the places of all of them with American operatives.—Tribune, a ——— A —— - «Brother Tuten of the Republican, be called the Fountain, Just when it will come out, we do not know, but it is to be a first class paper, and eatirely de- void of polities, to be devoted to Liter. ature, Art, Temperance and general reading. Look out for the Fountain, - —. AIO——— ~Dont forget the Drwocrar Book reasonable rates, and all work guaran teed, proposes starting a Saturday paper to! Bindry. All kinds of binding done at | There are hundreds and thousands of | i 1 7 R Le gal Urochets Last here not harp practice at the iW ne . ava of Ji rk, Gammon & S¢ apr, ind probably long prior to tht, the publie have been ourts have been filled to have We are not surprised (0 leary thot the de familinr and the ( th those evasive tech: pr \$ the occasion demands, the leg yession NAY Fe Course fendants in the Attorney General's in- be vade Lis pleadings, under the terms junct oa suits are said to about to if the supreme law, by denying that the parties named are, implicated in the matter he sets forth | in the one ; and, in if any, is instance hat the true defendant, not i parallel and competing line under the terms of the law upon which the ged that ‘'ompany, not the aint if relies It is to be ur Pennsylvania ( noeylvania Railway, Penns « the puschaser that itis if the South ylvania Road, he former is operating west irg and is therefore. not a parallel or mpeting line; that the true terminus the South Pennsvivania cast of ete, other rds, the Ml imagined that the beast nd oot ny had | venient foil of the railway com een ir gene- 8 10 on occasion might be | » évade the responsibility of the bh! act in » transaction in whic dodge bad ancied, preadventure, that this ancient i it the decline of bogus transporta. fact might choose to its own work-——we vice had been away for good, { with | Lon companies, Car companies, elo, which bave robbed the stockholders of { the road itself and enriched the officers | and Directors. Bat, no, that useful old man-of-all-work has not been retired from aclive service, and now reappears | to do duty for the Vanderbilt deal to the that might arise were its aller ego, its other | avoid legal complications self, at the frogt as the high contract ing party in the premises. Stale as this dodge has grown we are | less surprised by far that it should from { torce of habit have been pressed into { service now, than that the manifest in- | ference from that fact in this instance | should have escaped the shrewd bevy of superserviceable legal gentlemen the | Pennsylvania Railway always has about {itto run and do its bidding. If it be necessary, convenient or politic to push | to the front in the Vanderbilt deal the Pennsylvania Company in place of its | kangaroo mother in whose pouch it | hides and lives, then that act is a plain | recognition of the efficacy of the con- stitutional provisions without any fur- ther legislative enactment against the merging of parallel and competing lines, That confession by implication is a great point gained by the plaintiff in this case, of the substantial identity of the two culty whatever in establishing its utter futility in any Court. The same rule (leaving out the famaliar rule of mani- fost agency in this instance) which, it is claimed, would render illegal and not binding the contracts of the Beech Creok-Reading-Clearfield Coal Com- pany combination, will invalidate the performances of the Pennsylvania Rail way-Vanderbilt-Pennsylvania Company deal, viz, the identity of the parties in the management of the first and last named concerns, A second and equally transparent plea is put in in bar of the injunction against the absorption of the Beech Creek ostensibly by the Northern Can- tral. Tt is said that the Northern Cen - tral is not a parallel or compeling line ; { it runs north and south and the Beech Creek east and west ; that the Penn. eylvania railroad does not even own a majority of the Northern Central stock, and hence is a separate and distinet concern, This latter allegation is vain in point of faet, the other, | is true owner. | And so far as the avoidance | . ] concerns goes, there should be no diffi | for two reasons : The man wgement of the Northern Central 15, and has heen ¢ or vesrs, under superior control of the Pennwyivania, and the rosd is Ke undeniably part of the Pennsylvania Yelm All common point, as ne Lhe Philadelph a and Erie these lines where they meet at a Harris. burg and Williamsport, use the same for instance lations, and the trains are handled by the switchmen ; the engines and cars house under a common roof, The for- mer officers of the Northern Central have been promoted and transferred to the on rates the all of them were moved un- It the general management main line ; the chief officers ind the of freight and passenger fare are both roads are the sam same as if {der one name, is these latter cir- { cumsl MICes ~ and looking to a common head and run on a common policy aud in a esmmon interest —to which the provisions of the | Constitution refer. No one ean doubt— no one does doubt—no one denies snd maintaios the denial, but the Pennesyl- All And if the Beech 10 a parallel and vania Railway is the parent stem, roads lead to R nome, Creek 1s 1 competing the Northern Central in point it ceria nly isin the ser “8 on was meant to apply to tle Valley, another off- » Pennsylva arrying the kind of owShoe and Philipsburg, h Creek was to hau from th rarficld Moreov: ! marke! Company's Beech Creek's out! ribward, after le # by the ent AV ng L P ww Pine Creek Road, Norther rr Haven line ess ally parallel to Lhe entral, thence by the ( owah Auburn Road neva, to the of Central rning, | jue and the Corn’ Central, into and Western line throughout niral terminat initial impet the f of which i» all DOF lors | Pennsylvania, But to SIVE S08) attack in detail fo $ © 3 Ui We reansvyivania s these succes pperadoes Railway's conventional legal pleading (again and again in one form or another brougot to bear in its various invest gations in the past pur, public, it looks st contests, will have no part iM no! to the pose ihe while 3 1 ti gr (£41 egal in the matter | nor lot Parties or plat- forms will not affect them, perhaps Bat out of all this tricke ry and evasion the intention and endeavor to avoid | the law and escape its confessed force and obligations becomes apparent. The Constitution was framed in the interest of the people, meant to restrain unjust discriminations by the roads, and, above all, restrain the vicious effects and op- pressions of monoply. No splitting of hairs, or perversion of terms, or fooling with phrases can take that intention out of the terms of the Constitution. No man can assert, no Court will hold, when the facts are sifted, that the Pennsylvania Railway in both these deals is not preparing to absolutely control the properties it has purchased and put down all rivalry from whatso ever source which might spring out of | their possession in other hands, whether it be a rival trunk line connecting at Harrisburg with the Reading and tren. ding thence to New York and Phila. delphia from Pittsburg and the West, or whether it be to cut off Clearfield soft coal going by way of the Catawissa to the Eastern markets. And precisely this kind of thing the railway provisions of the Constitution were franed to pre. | vent, Now, public sentiment has this in. fluence upon this kind of thing : it may, in view of all this perfidy and lawlessness, prepare itself to see that stringent laws are passed, in obedience to the Constitution, which shall cover such oases, provide the necessary pen alties and processes, and put them in bands of their proper law officers to execule. Meanwhile, just such tricks as the railway lawyers are playing be. fore high heaven in tne interest of their masters, have a tendency to unite the people, without distinction of party, in the maintenance of their rights, the protection of their interests and the defense of their Comstitution. We fancy that, instead of dampening pbulic feeling on these subjects and on this issue, the paltry trifling of these legal experts, even should it prevail with the courts (which we do not for a moment believe), will have a stimulating effect upon popular sentiment in the end that will make itself felt in a manner that will be trismphantly effectual. It is the issue of issues, and the people will rise to a realizing sense of that fact in the near future,
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