F. E. & G. P. BLBLE, Proprictors. “RQUAL AND EXACT JUSTIOE TO ALL MEN, OF WHATEVER STATE OR PERSUASION, RELIGIOUS OR POLITICAL ~deflorie, TERMS: $1.50 per Annum, in"Adva VOL 9. BELLEFONTE. PA.. THURSDAY. SEP’ IFEMBER 8, 1887, ————————— NO. 35 The Platform. etre Hemoovat, —— ————o—n—— 1 The ¢ Torms81.50 per Annumin Advance FRANK E. BIBLE, Editor, 1887, Democratic County Commites. «HY Btitser, Bellefonte James Schofield, A Weber, A © Witherite, A A Frank, DJ Meyer, 0 @ Herlinger, Howard Boro. Milesburg Boro... *Millheim Boro... A J Greist, wees Thomas J, «Milligan Walker, «HM L Harvey, Ansa V. Dougheriy, ressaidotits 1 Williams, wesese Dvd Brickley, vee Henry Krebs, Benner twp... Frazer, " s twp, N. P. Bogpat Ww. P.. College twp...... Curtin twp. Ferguson tv p, do Half Moon Harris twp... Howard twp. Huston twp. JFmok B Wieland. John Glenn, «William Irwin, « Williams H Gardner, wndoha lehier, A N Corman, C Bokley Wa H Kreamor, A Poveman, Potter twp, ww oi do 8. 14 “Taylor twp... Walker twp... ‘ J . Worth twp... 8 J Woodring, vos Charies Meiarvey, JAMES A MoCULAIN For Judge of Supreme Court, J. ROSS THOMPSON, of Erie. State Treasurer, BERNARD J. McGRANN, of Lancaster, Democratic County Ticket. For Associate Judge. JOHN GROVE. Treasurer, JAMES KIMPORT. Sheriff, JOHN NOLL. Rogister, JOHN A. RUPP Recorder, G. MORRISON. Commissioners, A.J. GRIEST M. S. FEIDLER. Auditors, A. McKER, JAMISON Ww. H. I. F Every Democrat should be regis. tered to-day. -— row CITIZENS Fer In the mat- ter of tariff reform the Allentown platform says—chestnuts. - Ir the Gazette can stand such beastly illustrations as those of last Mr. Griest wee k, we are sure that Can. lll y of this State has the permission of Alec McClure and Mr. Randall “fo march fo renal defeat.” Tue Democrac is To-day ( Thursday) ia the last day on whieh you ean register. - Tue Democratic candidate for Sheriff fought through the late war | nd came out with credit. Where 1s the Republican candidate that time? - REGISTER to-day, it is the last day. ini “Mr. Grigst has made his record as an officer, and the business man afford him beaten,” at least that is what a and farmer cannot to have a Republican told to us this week. Youn: man if you voted last year on age register to-day, Tue Tariff plank of the Allen. town platform is a doubled barreled arrangement capable of any con. struction that may be put upon it. It means every thing, anything, and nothing, it is a political strad. dle, a wordy abortion and a col. lossus of deception. It was begot. n by Alec McClure conceived of m Randall, its paternity was sworn on the democratic party of Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania demo- eracy is indicted for political forni- cation and bastardy and will be oonvicted. The father of the child pleasantly tells us, you eas march to your usual defeat, td at | It is simple folly for the Demo- | cratic press of the state to attempt [to delude Democratic voters in | regard to the deliverance of the | Allentown platform on revenue re- | form, and it is blindness for tariff | reform Democrats to say that they | got anything at Allentown other |than what Mr. Randall and Alec McClure granted them. Stripped |off its verbiage the tariff plank | means, not an endorsement of the principlesenunciated at Chicago, not an endorsement of President Cleveland, but an endorsement of Mr. Randall and his peculiar views en- on economic questions, views tirely at variance with the interpre- tation of the Chicago platform as understood by five sixths of the Democrats of the country, as de- clared by the President in all public utterances and as laid down by Secretary Manning in his report. | Between the democracy of Penn. sylvania and their enemies the Re- jpublicans, there 1s now no issue on the question of tariff reform. Mr. Randall's interpretation of the last Democratic national his platform is entirely in harmony with the Republican ideass his vote with the Republicans in the last con- gress indicated. Ga the vital ques took Republican | party and on which he will be | fought in 1888. The silent on Cleveland's veto of the Dependent pension bill. Why ? Because Mr. Randall voted with the Republicans to pass the bill over the tions on which the President | square issue with the platform is Presidents veto. It was a Randall j convention and could not condemn Mr. Ragdall’'s course b | the President. ! It is silent on Civil Service y sustaining Re. | form to which the party is pledged, { andvon which Mr. Cleveland has taken a square stand. Why ? Be {cause Mr. | 1 his | He use off Cuastom ers, and {the mint there to stifle Democratic bo 4 Mr | Randall could not both be endorsed. {sentiment and vote as their : dictated. Civil Service and | The second plank savs “We fully the of | President Cleveland.” are | endorse administration There only four points on which Presi- attacked {by the Republicans viz. on his J " {dent Cleveland has been revenue reform views, his posi. {tion on the silver bill, his veto of | the dependent pension bill, and on his firm adherance to Civil Service the Be. cause on everyone of these questions | Reform. On these questions {platform is silent. Why ? | Mr. Randall is in antagonism with { the President. in loss over the tariff plank lor the failure of the Convention to There is no use | trying to g endorse the administration. It was | a square toed snub and that is evi- With Mr. Randall con- | troling the Convention it was {dent to all im- the President. | Right and wrong cannot both be : { endorsed The only place that the | Convention was free to act was the selection of a ticket deliverance on State ! Pe wsible to sustain in and its there it was that democracy shone out and Randallism crawled into the shade. The ticket is strong and the platform on State issues honest, but Mr. Randall's personal in- terests did not at that point with those of the Democratic party, Isit not time for the demo- cracy of this state to shake the leader whose policy has been for the last six years rolling up thou. sands upon thousands of majority for the Republican party? The party wants no man for a leader who has been allied with the Re- publicans for the past five years and whose vote in Congress on every issue on which party lines were drawn has been with the Re. publicans, : Have you registered ? If not do $0 at once, this is the last day, issues, conflict AI emplovees of | Thompson and McGrann If the Democratic party of Penn. sylvania were to make its fight this “march to its usual defeat,” but hapily the men who were engaged in getting an endorsement for themselves were too busy to inter- fere in the selection of and the result is, a strong ticket has been nominated. J. Ross Thomp- for Su- preme Judge is admittedly one of the ablest lawyers of the state, a man of liberal judicial son of Erie the candidate high personal character, education and thorough training Untrammeled by corporation influences, his nom- ination made in the broad sunlight of candidates, he goes before the peo- a convention unbossed as to ple of the state the representative He is worthy the suffrage of every man of no man, ring or clique. who desires to place the Supreme Court of Pennsylvanla beyond the control and influence of the great corporations of the state and who desires to make the courts of last which bid resort the bulwark behind the individual can stand and defiance to J. vote for. corporate Ross Thompson is the man to Hon, B. J. McGranu of Lancaster has been For Treasurer Mr. McGrann is a well known financier, farmer and rail. nominated. road contractor and has long been of long ex- prominent in the councils his He is fited by perience in business both party. a financial position to which he has been nom. like that of Mr. Thompson was unsolicited nated. His nomination and not the work of bosses. a man of undoubted integrity in- dependence of character and hon. esty ol purpose and ranks among the most substant: nen. The impr ! jceive the he artiest i business 1 EF | have been ] t from the On sWPpo | Democrats of the state state the state tickt and on Democrat need those two hesitate, and on things alone can any fight be made, cl tine The B. & 0. Deal Jaltimore and Ohio railroad The York to the passed into the fostering care of from New west gigantic syndicate of English and harmonizing all railroad interests | in the interests of the stock holders | of road between New York and | Chicago, and between them exists | lan understanding that no freight lor passenger war shall take place, | The B. & O. is to stop at Philadel. [phia and practically becomes a | tributary or feeder of the Pennsyl. | vania. { ern outlet no prospect of one and | The Reading has no west. [is under the control of the same | syndicate that is to put the B, & O. on its feet. The S. Penn. is to a ] { intents and purposes South,and the | Vanderbilts and the Pennsylvania | are the masters of the situation, It may be a case of the surrival of the fittest, but itis one fraught with great danger to the people of the whole country. Pennsylvania sold her birth-right for less than a mess of pottage when she parted with her canal system. Over railways as common carriers s he has compara. tively little control. Theoretically and under the comnon law she has, but a paper control is a rope of sand. The hope of competing lines must for years be abandoned. Like the inscription over Dante's Inferno Pennsylvania can write over her eastern and western portals “Aban. don hope all ye who enter here.” In the vast aggregations of corpor- ate wealth lies untold danger to the people. Millionaires die and fall on the declarations of its plat- | form it could as the Philadelphia | Times says make up its mind to | candidates | maonoply, | and otherwise for the duties of the | He is} SUCS No is as a great competing trunk line | has |; American capitalists who purpose | There are now but two rival lines | divided up among entirely dissipated their wealth is their heirs or | Corporations never die, and their wealth, power and arrogance go on The increasing, constitutional the merger, purchase or control of | paralel or competing lines of rail | road is and has been a dead letter, found at any- h Syndicates can be [time to purchase or control su lines and the state is powerless to interfere. It is well that railroad values should enough be settled, but not by a process of absorption such as has been going on in Penn. sylvania for years. It remains to be seen what the deal be. Pennsylvania's oil and narural gas are both controlled by the Stand Her anthracite result of the new may ard Oil Company. coal by the Reading and Lehigh, Deleware Lachawana and Railroad The Western Union exacts tribute and Western Companies, from us as the only Telegraph Co. ’ ’ and the Belle Telephone Company I pan) plays highwayman in another line The Pennsylvania railroad can say to-day to ous people “you can not go out of your State by rail without paying tribute to us.” If corpora tions never abused their privileges there could be little or no com. oppressive whether individual or Wise look with alarm on the concentration of the of they o1 corporate. men will railroad control in hands Syndicates be foreign Every kind of business domestic, 118 passing into the hands of « Orpor- ations and it is little wonder that { labor gets restless — —— Great effort will be made by the Republic ans in this « ounty, to elect their candidates for As iate { Judge, Sheriff. anc {these three office bended to in the Democr i be [to make votes fi It behooves Demo | gt the ranks, sink all diffe rences | card jealousies, and work ticket. Against | our candidates nothing can be said. petty earnestly for the | yet we may expect attacks of all ikinds. Let our « ampuaign be hon. est, earnest, and free from the Bill wr Kg charac The | party has ever won its victories by the | Republican ticket this fall under { Ings gate which has lately [terized that of our enemies fair fighting, and it will bury | tooo majority. That is the figure Democrat ! : y | does his duty that will be the result | to work for and if every C— a — Tue lowa Democrats are fearless {and honest in expressing their A little | of that spirit in Pennsylvania would | not be out of place, the following is their declaration on that {views on tariff reform. ques. tion : We call upon Congress for the immediate revision of our tariff laws to a revenue basis to the end that every industry and every sec. tion may enjoy perfect equality under the law, and we favor the re. tention of the internal revenue tax on intoxicating liquors and tobacco and protest against its proposed re- duction for the purpose of continu. ing the present high tariff on the necessaries of life, ist —— A Menace to Reading, “Unless it is declared unconsti- tutional it will paralize all new rail. road eoterprise in the State and render impossible the reorganiza. tion of the Philadelphia and Read: ing Railroad,” said Congressman Charles R. Buckalew yesterday, re- ferring to a law passed at the last session of the Legislature entitled, “an act to enforce against railroad corporations the provisions of sec. tion seven of article sixteen of the Constitution.” “I consider that this law was * i provision of Pennsylvania against | plaint but all monopolies become smuggled through both houses and | its effect upon the state will be to practically prevent the building of drive all State.” any more ratlroads and active capital out of the 1e of The act provides that no is: capital stock for money shall be made by a railroad ompany until the stock shall It forbid full have full par value of the have been paid in cash, the amount of capital stock shall the issue of bonds until | been paid in, and provides the issue ! of bonds shall not the amount of stock actually paid for, On being asked further about bill Mr. Buckalew said : exceed “The act professes by its title to | | be intended to enforce the seventh | of the Constitution which relates general- | section of article sixteen ly to corporations, and, of course, includes railroads and canal com. | panies, for whom some special pro- visions are contained in the teenth article. There are, however grave doubts as to the validity of the statute. The act is confined to railroad companies, whereas the provision of the Corporation to and by the seventl AD ap plies all private « rporations, section of the third article all special local Ie or qwrislation private « in regard to | e | 1 i. ti Li | poration: expressly forbidden THINKS 11 UNCONSTITUTIONAL. “The confining of the statue railroads appears, therefore, to be plainly in « ontempt of the Consti Even canal lassed witl tution companies, which are « 1 railroads in the seventeenth arti within the provisio I'his objection is fun lumental. and if hole wel ho agh parts of a | taken applies Ww enactment, for, alth statute, se be obnoxious ynstitational principles tand, an bidden by the thir fall, When thoy nactiment i wrporations. | I'hey cannot select one private cor- poration, or one class of such COr- without the ted porations, contravening third against spe« the command of which dire: ial legrislation. “Passing from the general objec- deration of the of this tion to a con ticular provisions acy, it ap- pears to me that those are intended to apply to railroad companies incorporated before its to tracts which shall passage and outstanding con. been law. have do that the Legislature may regulate private made by them the fully not question privciple corporations aiready in existance in many very important partic ulars, but those regulations must not af. fect rights of property or of con- (tracts already existing and duly created under the law, unless com- pensation for invading them shall be provided. Without intending the prolonged or elaborate discuss. ion of the provisions of the act, it ‘may be said that property and con. tract rights already in existence would be largely affected by the law, and so far the arguments will | be against its validity, “I have heard the imputation made that this was not intended in its origin so much for the enforce. ment of the Constitution—which would be a legitimate and laudable object—as for a sinister purpose, to promote the interests of some ex. isting railroad companies and to discourage new, rival or hostile en- terprises. Whether this be true or not is unknown to me, but it is not to be supposed that the Legislature understcod that any such purpose the i seven- | parable in character, may | article, | par- : provisions | which, avoiding the objections to the present one, shall provide for of the Such an act is greatly need. the enforcement Constitu. tion. ed to repress corporate abuses and to protect the public In the mean- time we may expect litigation to arise upon the present law and its possible condemnation by the courts.” Mr. Buckalew further said that Watres, the he Lackawanna, of bill | and that Governor Beaver approved thought Senator introduced |it on May 7, 1885, o— A —. Moran Tuis day you must be registered An Awful Calamity { Loxp IN. » September s, -The {theatre at Exeter t {ing during the ook fire thiseven. performanc ¢e of “Romany Rye.’ the The occ upants of pit, after awful of an struggle, escaped, but many them were |greatly injured. There was only jone exit from the gallery, and the S¢ Ores | were trodden under foot and sufio. rush there was terrific cated. The fire es ape was brought the | Were res ued [to window and many inside SIiXty « orpses have been removed. The injured survi- VvOrs were sent the hospitals, H Di : | The mortality is estimated at 100. at burned There house to-night and every- | Later —The structure was the 1 neatre Royal was a full | thing was all right until the end of {the third ; If past 10 when i the anda | 3 moment the drop scene in a \ whole stage was a A’ wild panic ensued. when he fire broke Out Some men impl * cool but it was k the franti the throughout he bodies pro- ceeds slowly There nry | thrilling rescues were several The majority of {the victims were men and | Al boys, out 30 women were burned. tl on - Mg. Rurris to be the shining mark for the Republican arrows of | detraction | — i — Tur Democrats of Pennsylvania the of They { have a ticket of which they may be lanted upon alplatform that ommand the respect of every are congratulated on | work the convention | proud {will « | friend of American institutions and It is not probable that the {ticket will be elected, for the inex- | orable logic of numbers is against (it. Bat on such a platform and | with such a ticket the party can { march to its usual defeat with the consciousness that the defeat was | not precipitated by any fault or de- [fect in either platform or ticket. | — Philadelphia Times. | Tuere is certainly a great deal lot consolation in the above for the | democracy of Pennsylvania. Next [to Samuel J. Raodall the Philadel- { phia Times is the greatest ally of the republican party, and when it tells democrats that their party “oan march fo its wewal defeat” it does so with the proud consciousness that its editor has contributed more than the widow's mite to that “usual defeat.” Instead of follow- ing the lead of men who have no fixed political convictions it would be well for the democracy to act for itself. Mr. McClure is no democrat, would indignantly spurn the name if applied to him, and yet a democratic convention allows him to mould the party policy. ER ———— ou —— Bre'r Feidler the late Grand Jury { ideas
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