F. E. & G. P. BIBLE, Proprietors. URQUAL AND EXACT JUSTICE TO ALL MEN, OF WHATEVER STATE OR PERSUASION, RELIGIOUS OR POLITICAL. 'wJeflorson, TERMS : $1.50 per Annum. in Advance w——— - VOL. BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1885. NO. $ =o The Centre Democrat, F | Terms 81.50 per Annum in Advance FRANK E. BIBLE, Editor, TT DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET, SARI CONRAD B. DAY. FOR STATE TREASURER, | | | DEMOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET —— i FOR JURY COMMISSIONER, JOHN RHONE, POR CORONER, Dr. H. K. HOY, “Vors for H. K Hoy for coroner, -> Vore for John Rhone for jury missioner, com- | - — Nor a Democrat should remain away from the polls. -_— Every mau who is opposed to the violation of the constitut for Conrad B, Day. ->- on should vote Tae Republican Platform, Press and Republican Orator road deal. Wh Mr. Quay is silent. What does v so i€ on the Rail mean ? we f interests Dg x wn and co he mean? ur reader your te peting Conrad B. Day. ie AG— wr yi of tl lines of Tae railroad i ont sts. Of LE, Ui 2 ¢) temiy { ALit a | industrial intere outrage now ves many years, blood : | } ¥ " Pinkston Sherman, stained nether 5116 rtant i fair count,” 5 8 Bau and our distinguished townsman ver, How is this: “Two well-known, active and ze white men shall on duty at each precinct on the the election, one of whom to keep in his possession a roll of Republisya volers of his precinel, each voler éomes up nis Lickel 1s ehown to this man. HOuUs rat rt Now General do you call that 3 ballot? Stick ¢ losely science when you answer tl srs i— Taz masterly argument, of Attorney | (General Cassidy before Judges Simonton and Mepherson on the railroed deal was | a solid blow between the staggered the great railroad bull, commonwealth and her officers do not | propose to stand idly by and see the | railroads of the commonwealth in lation of the constitution, the rights of | eyes that | vio- | the people, and the laws of rade, pass | into the hands of one giant monopoly. Nor can the Attorneys for that corpor- ation, shut the eyes of the court to the enormity of the crime by specious rea soning; competing and parallel roads | known to the veriest school boy, to be such, cannot be made to appear the op- | posite. There is a higher power in the | great state of Pennsylvania, than the Pennsylvania Railroad, Iti ple. und put the seal of your condemnation | 8 the peo-| Turn out citizens of Pennsylvania | on corporation outrages, by defeating | iss tool, M. 8, Quay. Vote for Conrad | B. Day. Vorenrs of Centre county, are you go- | ing to put theseal of your approval of corporate aggression, on the rights of the people of Pennsylvania. On the open flagrant and unblushing violation of | the constitution of your state by a great | corporation? Are you going lo put the | seal of your approval on corporate in. | timidation of voters? On the whole- | sale attempt at the purchase of votes, | by mesns of free ticket over railroads ? If you are, vote for M. 8. Quay, if not vote for Conrad B, Day. Are you going to throw yourselves on the mercy of a great corporation that owns every mile of railroad in your county, which taxes the products of your farms and mines, out of the markets of the world by ex orbitant and unjust freights, and which pxacts a tribute from every inhabitant of the county ? If you are, vote for M. 8, Quay, if not vote for Conrad B. Day, If you are to be bound hand and fool and crushed beneath the wheels of the great Pennsylvania juggernaut, vote for M. 8.Quay. The greatest corporation of the world has joined hands with the Republicans for the election of Quay, The issue is fairly joined, It is Conrad i. Day and popular rights against M, 8, Quay sod corporate aggression on popular rights, Which will you have’ { siderable attention, i 80, {into Smearman, { blow The | { ican papers, a | of that party to foster i railroad, ar [the expense of | Democratic | the inviolability of {or off his patrons? turn ; lies? No! surely not, | ree: ved in the shape { road corporal { from Is it Justice ? The cases of McClain and the former convicted of murder in the | first degree, and the latter of murder in the second degree, are attracting con” Both are the There is a differ- re sult of intoxication. ence in the degree of the crime com- mitted, at least the two juries thought | McClain in company with | drunken compinions got into a row and lin the fight McClaio plunged a knife | home of the McClain entirely igoorant of the he convicted, and the went result had struck, He was arrested trie gentence of {ried, death passed upon him. Laporte, 100 was drunk; he and his ling home; whether s : i itercation or not wii own, although that there was a quarrel it Laporte bea Nay, of his friend make sure victims thr ii - Why is it of quietud« ish ‘‘apeaking stl some of our Deme eraticexchang es that is suggestive of railroad passes gp inte of Repub- and subserviency Th ) corporal r ests, 8 14 not surpr t has been ng 4 the poliey of at the people, but why any the growth i all other monopolies rarer should not lift up its | voice in defence of the people and for their constitution we cannot see, If the railroad pass is | to shut the editor's mouth to corporate { greed and outrage, then he had better sell out, Does he live off the railroad, We all have annu- | al passes, now what is expected in re subserviency to railroad compan- If that the consideration, our pass is subject to re- in call at any time, The Dexocrat gives more than value of advertising ; obligations rail- It is not unde: to any mn. It speaks out fear- { lessly against railroad aggression on the rights of the people and it wouldoppose just as strenously amy oulrage on the rights of railroads, There is scarcely a | reader of a county newspaper who does not know that the editor holds a pass a railroad Company, What { does the subscriber think of the silence | of his paper on a question which is of vital importance to him? Is there not a suspicion in his mind that the editor is afraid of losing his pess and wisely thuts his mouth ? The usefulness of the press is impair- ed when it shows symptoms of cowardice or cringes to those in power, The Democratic press should take strong grounds against aggressions on the rights of the people. Better give up your pass than lose your subscription list, Do your duty by your palrons, your party and yourself, Speak out, Why this silence ? — Vore for John Rhone for jury com: missioner, . - Atty. Ggn. Cassidy is going for the Bedford and Bridgeport R, R, Laporte, | some | ! with, none stood Laporte's | Death of Prof Montgomery. | Normal School, at Millersville, died in | Denver Colorado on the 21st, inst | There are many former students of the with {| Millersville school who will read | | sorrow of the death of the quiet unassu ming gentleman who literally wore him | self out in serving that institution, It was the writer's pleasure and good for tune to have spent lwo years and a half | And in all that time dealing with the wild, under his care and instruction, and reckless” boys of a boarding scl nothing, ruffled the calm serenilyof h temper, Of all the instructors of youtl wo have ever came in cor out more boldl conscientious, painstaking, and f.M In a letter to the wr ful teacher than Pro ntgomery. iter, written sey months ago he ex res Laat whe eRiion whelher 1 roads or canals are paralied or il BLA, WHA deinanae be decided by sivil | case the partly comj Cases, In this iainant is the { the | monwealth of Pennsylvania, but { common law right of the defendants a jury trial will hardly be disputed Up till quite recently they showed lit | tle disposition for a jury trial, but as Prof, J. V. Montgomery of the State | Marshall on Quay eee Hon, Thomas M. Murshall “Gilori- | ous Old Tom, our Republican friends | delight to eall him singularly clear i i | and concise in defining his opposition Quays changed, Lt to Col. election. "1 am un- | , a letter to the 0 lepublicans, BAY in Philadelphia anti-Quay in my opposition Lo machine men and machine messure doubly has braio power to wor is nentiy the unscra- US IAC 3 pri ¢ ' ‘ M hall says, */¢ WOrk mischiel AO BETIOUS 8 TI | A ceded, Just as MACKEY 8 was, nercn 8, and Lhere in tiy Lhe re presen ithe h pe \ { their defenses broke down. one after | is] | another, they began to consider this | What better chance { would they have before an honest and | mode of escape. | intelligent jury than in the decision of ’ ?! Is | an upright and learned Judge! | there a jury of twalve honest and senasl- Commonwealth that | would not decide that the Pennsylva | { ble men in the : { nia Railroad and the South Pennsylva- | nia are parallel and competing linea? | | Perhaps it is imagined that a jury | might be confused by the devices and | indirections by which the Pennsylva- { nin Company, the Northern Central | and the Bedford and Bridgeport road Companies are made the agents of | their owner and master. | no danger of such a thing under the in structions of the Court, Judge Simon- | ton tore away the pretenses of the rail road conspirators when he said of these | subordinate railroad agents that the | simple question is parties for whom this (transaction was | carried out?” The only possible an. swer to this question is, the Pennsylva- nia Railroad Company, Transferring | these cases 10 a jury may cause some delay, but cannot change the inevita ble result. Constitutions are made for plain people, and the citizens of Pean- sylvania thoroughly comprehend the issue involved in this controversy in spite of the clouds of legal artifice and chicane that have been raised around it. In attempting to trample under foot the Constitution of Pennsylvania the railroad conspirators have entered up- on a journey in which succes, if it were possible, would not compensate for the perils and risks, Record, me I——— Tur Bloody Shirt racket having work- ed well in Ohio the collar of that gar- ment, is now in use in Philadelphia, and our own gallant Beaver flourishes the remnant, There is a very close connection between the bloody shirt and the tail’ issue in Penasylvania, und the two aye being worked together, Rail- | But there is! “Who are the real | y domestic affairs of her tax A, Wares health than usual He re,0f the state Id and ] | which his great abilities as a leader and i 1 Ww his lead ill take more | ition in the polit and nation, which He | statesman demand that he should as will foll | heart ly, and small i sume, the boy y leaders w | back seats, Nothing would be gratifying to the Democracy of Pennsyl- | leader once more in the battle. When Wallace leads, the lines will close up in ry Mr. his vauia than to see their ol front of Pennsylvania, and viel will perch | > 1 on our banners to stay. Wallace {owes it to himsell and party, to | take the position that has been vacant ginee his retirement, Will he do it ? —A——— Mrs, Grant Greatly Grieved | Puiranerrmia, OM, 27. <The widow | of has grieved by the public discussion of the Mrs, | Sartoris. The Public Ledger is authoria- oh to say that all reports to the eflect that Mrs. Sartoris has applied or con. templates applying for a divorce or separation from her husband, are entire. ly without foundation and are oruel wounds to her feelings. ER — i More Fiendishnoess. General Grant been greatly daughter, 81. Louis, Mo,, Oot, 206,-~Another ex- plosion on the street car line took place to-night. This time on the Mound City Road, fully three miles from where the outrage of last night was committed. The explosion was not #0 severe as the previous ones, but one of the front wheels of the car was broken and the driver was knocked over, but he was not hurt, There were no passengers in the ear. Chief of Police Harrigan, has offered £500 reward for the eapture of the parties concerned in these outrages. { shindes in Joseph's cont | tionally. Pooh-Bah Roberts. Company,” and we have to into the corner to talk to him as Presi One of the best things we have read | dent of the Northern Central Company lately is Attorney-General Caswidy’s ap- { the an e next day in the corver in some plication of a scene in the new opera, | other capacity “Mikado,” to Mr. Roberts’ various and varied character as president of some same thing must be { thirty different railroad companies lbhat gentleman is president of more The following illustrates the difficulties under which Mr. Roberts labored in testifying before | to get at what the railroad examiner THE MULTITUDINOUS PRESIDENT. The peculisr relations of Mr. it is difficult to follow, When | “Well, of how many companies president 1" Hoberts asked, Bre You ny recoliection is Lhat he answered, “Thirty or forty, he did not remember them all, lid not want to make the book of the testimony any bigger by pursuing the A airy. ir. {0 nlerpoiate President pany the laiiroad Cor Pook, Speaking as your etary, I would say that as the city will have to pay for it, don’t stint yourself “6 Private beris.—As the Pennsylva silroad Company will have to pay for mt stint yourself; do it weil Ko Exactly as the city will bave pay for it. That is your advice? Pook to of the Exchequer, | am bound that due economy is observed, Ko Oh, But you mid just “Don’t stint yourself: do it well.” Pook As Private Secretary. Ko And now you say that due econ- omy must be observed, Pook As Chancellor juer, Mr to see of the Roberts Now, no maiter what | | tell you as President of the Pennsylva nia Railroad Company. I, as President f the Pennsylvania Company, want you to see that this is done constitu Ko Come over here where the Chan- | cellor can’t hear us. (They cross the Now, as my solicitor how do you | stage.) A wivise me to deal with this difficulty? Pooh Oh, as your soliaitor. | companies then there were colors and tof the Northern Cer a! As Private Secretary. Ofcourse | you will understand that, as Chancellor | now, | { tween them, | i " which they will have. Exche- | If you eall Mr. Frank The mson, the He the Pennsylvania Raileoad Compas heis V repeated, in the Vice President of ce President | Company, and he is Viee Pres sundry other companies, It is al impossible M4 ! vou allow hoodwink you with they b chosen to these Fd ntlemen to the names that ve adopt, | they wi Ut 1 leit the { he moment stated this case in a esurt there iid not be a Judge in Christendom the were who would not what Who whole ant, inter the not the naps the 7 40 mys- ested in this schen What ie is a . 1 South rennsylvar going to trouble i* no real th Penr syl. and ianned ve idea as the ietermine between inder which », the people or the presents the pow- all the heartles tendencies whic Dsy represents the and It ult to decide be. [t may be the last chance if liberties, MT monopoly | triumphs when the issue is so directly Now, you see, here is where the high | contracting parties in the transaction before us speak their purpose. Oh, as your Solicitor, 1 should have no hesitation in saying “chance it.” Ko I will Pook If it were not that, as Lord Chief Justice, I am bound to see that the law isn't violated. Ko 1 see. Come over here where the Chief Justice can’t hear us. (They cross the stage.) Now, then, as First Lord of the Treasury? Pooh Of course, as First Lord of the Treasury. I could propose a special vote that would cover all expenses.” See--They could get the Pennsylva- nia Rail Board of Directors to do it or (0 tell them how to do it, (Continuing. )—1f it were not that, as leader of the opposition, it would be my duty to resist it, tooth and nail, Or, as Paymaster General 1 could so cook the accounts that as Lord High Auditor, 1 should never discover the fraud, [The occasional outbursts of merri- ment on the part of the audience which accompanied the reading of the ex. tracts and the comments thereon, here swelled into a general uproar. | Now, is not this absurd?! One day it is “Mr, Roberts, President of the Penn: sylvania Railroad Company,” and we have to ¢all him into the corner to talk to him as President of the Pennsylvania Company: another day it is “Mn Roberts, President of the Pennsylvania Thank you. (Shaking his hand), | { for life, drawn there is no telling the conse- juences,—Patriol, -> Sentence Commuted The Pardon Board held a special ses Me- determined to commute the sentence to imprisonment The of Louis W, Hall before the Board of Pardons in the case, is said, by those who heard it, to have been uncommonly able and elo quent, He clearly established that the erime was not above the grade of man. slaughter and that the sentence should be within the limit of that crime, — a — October 26,—Mr. Jobn McCullough, the actor, was yesteaday removed from Bloomingdale Asylum to the home of his wife in Philadelphia, The removal was made at thd request of Mra. McCullough, who while perfect: ly assured that the invalid was receiv. ing every possible attention at Bloom ingdale, naturally desired that his last days might be spent under his own roof-tree, surrounded by those nearest and dearest to him. A knowledge of the fact that Mr, McCullough's condi- tion was utterly hopeless doubtless prompted his wife to the step she has taken, While the wisdom of such a course may be questioned, it is certain that under any circumstances the re- sult most have been the sme, and that within a comparatively brief period the dissolution of the once distinguish. od notor must occur, —————— sion on Monday, to consider the Clain murder case and argumer New York,
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