OA oevat, EQUAL AND EXACT JUSTICE TO ALL MEN, OF WHATEVER ESTATE OR PERSUASION, RELIGIOUS OR POLITICAL,” TERMS : $1.50 per Annum, YOL 10. NO. 2 The Centre Aemocrat, Terms, $1 50 Per Annum in Advance. FRANK E. BIBLE, Editor, PuiLapeLraia, Pa, Jan. 2, 1888. The State Cen tral Committee, according to the Democratic rules of the party, will meet in the city of Harrisburg, at 4p. m, on Wednesday, January 18th, at the Bolton House, to elect a Chairman, Secretary and Executive Committee, and to transact such other business “ad the Committee may, under the rules, determine. DaLLAs SANDERS, Chairman, F. DANNEROWER, Secretary. > > Senators Allison amd Cameron have joined the grandarmy of tariff reformers and are out spoken in their commendation of the Presi- dent's message. These gentlemen rise above partisan pelitics and in this matter reach the plane of statesmanship, There is trouble brewing for the party which stands in the way of a reduction of the surplus and an honest and equita. ble adjustment of customs duties, qs f——— ci ——— Gov. Beaver it seems don't agree with President Cleveland's ideas of reveaue reform as expressed in his message to congress. We are very sorry that our fellow townsman is so perverse and unreasonable when the majority of Republicans en- dorse the message. But then the Gov. of Pennsylvania is likely to be a candidate for the presidency himself and it would not do for him to endorse Mr. Cleveland's policy, or he would have aothing to run Wa on. —A——— Severe on Senator Blair's Bill. 6.—The “Senator January to-day : New York, World says Blair's old second-hand Education- al bill, designed to squander the surplus and keep up the existing system of war taxes, was dropped upon the Senate yesterday like damp blanket. Its reading had the effect of scattering the Senate and throwing into a hypnotic state the members were too rheumatic rapid locomotion. ’ > Brotuer FeioLer is a candidate for the Legislature and has already started his little boom, in the shape of a “protection club” Will he tell the working people of this county what kind of a “protection club” it is that refuses an advance of 8 per cent, to striking miners in the anthracite coal regions, and puts coal up to seven dollars in Philadelphia that can be mined and sold profitably there for less than four dollars? Protection(?) Great Camsar ! the man who shouts the loudest for that article, next to the man whose bank ac- count is being swelled by it, is the poor fellow who never had and never will have a bank account while 4 monopoly tariff exists, a for Tue strike of the Reading Rail. toad employes and of the miores heretofore employed at the mines of the Reading Company still con- tinues without any visible break on the part of either the company or its employes. Business at the nican time is at a dead stand still in that scotion of the State and Philadel phia is threatened with a ceal famine. Just which arty is to blame or whether both, is bard to determine but if the Reading would give its employes and miners a fair share of the usury which it exacts from consumers of anthracite coal by reason of its monopoly of that Bicticle, and if the Knights had wirking delegate to manage their 1 airs 1 stead of paid walking del. egtes it would be much better for the general public. ¥ SecrRETARY LAMAR, has tendered to the Below we give his letter ; WasHingtoNn D. C. Jan. 7.—To the President—Sir : When some months ago, you invited me to ac- cept the vacant Judgship in the Supreme Court you expressed the not his resignation President. wish that, as the court was session, I should postpone the res- ignation of my present office until the meeting of Congress allowed you to send my nomination to the Senate, as there were certain mat- ters before the Department, in- angurated by me, which it place upon the Bench until your nomination had been confirmed by the Senate I cheerfully consented to your request. My nomination has now been submitted to the Sen- ate and recognizing both their right and duty to subject its fitness to the most critical examination, | But I think I tion their decision. final decision may be delayed for some ‘time, same time nominated both my suc- cessor in this Department and successor in the Post Office Depart. ment, this delay may, to some ex- tent, at least, embarass the adminis tration of the public business in the affected. To such embarrassment, which duty to you and to the country, and to leave before the Senate in its final judgment upon my nomina- Departments avoid is my tion the sole question of my fitness for the position, dissociated from ed by other considerations, I now respectfully ask you to accept my resignation as Secretary of the In terior, which I hereby tender. In terminating my you as a member of vour official ful sense of the obligacions | under to you personally kindness which has always acterized your treatment of me, and the support for generous confidence which you have steadily given me in the trying and arduous administration of this Department. I shall always be proud to have been associated with the honorable record you will leave ipon the page of your country’s history. Sincerely and respectfully, Le Q. C. Lamar, Secretary. THE PRESIDENT REPLIED AS FOLLOWS. Executive Massion, Wasmine- tox, D. C, Jan. 7, 1888.—My dear Mr. Lamar : When | determined to nominate you to a position upon the Bench of Supreme Court the personal gratification afforded by the tender to you of so honorable and suitable a place, and the satis- factory conviction that an import. ant Executive duty would thus be well performed, led me to almost forget that my actiun involved the loss of your consciencious and val- uable aid and advice in cabinet council, which for nearly three years I have so much enjoyed and appreciated. Your note of to-day forces me to contemplate this contingency with the most profound and sincere re- gret. But since | know that the separation you now insist upon arises fr. that conception of pub, lic duty which has always so entire- ly guided your conduct in our of- ficial relations, I am constrained to accept the resignation you tender, hoping that it only anticipates your entrance upon the discharge of higher and more congenial func. tions than those now relinquished. What | have thus far written seems very formal, indeed. | in. tended this, because | am sare that the close confidente and relations of positive affection which have grown up us need no ex. cssion or inte And pr rpretation, yet I find it utterly impossible for without in’ | tenderness and gratitude. was | M i therefore, desirable that [ should close before leaving, and as [ would | have been very reluctantto takethe | would still wait in my present posi- | am warranted in supposing that the | As you have at the | his | : relations to | family I desire to express my grate- | ] am | for the | | char-| and | ; suring you that] the things which have characterized your conduct and bearing in the position from BELLEFONTE. PA.. THURSDAY. JANUARY 12, 1888. | x. a it { county were administered with the i {same degree of prudence, intelli- | gence and business tact. In speak- | f THE STRIKE. which you now retire—all your de. [ing of Mr. Fortney's political The Miners Masters of the votion to your country and your chief, all your self sacrificing care and solicitude for public interests, | career he has always been true to ) | his party and a faithful worker for | the success of the entire Demo-! Reading Situation. io morrow evening a committee will be appointed 10 confer with the Phila. delpbia Beading officials in Philadelphia, relative 10 a settlement of he differences between the com and pany and the miners. The employees of the Reading Road in this eity will + all the benefits which your official | cratic ticket, although often in the NOT ATOM OF COAL ntjonthe railroad trad.s District service have conferred upon yoor fellow-countrymen, and all the ef- fection and kindness so often ex. hibited toward me personally—I ‘shall constantly remember with Yours | very sincerely, Grover CLEVELAND, a ——— A — F. Fortney, Esq. D On Monday of last week by rea- son of the political complexion of new board of Commissioners the service of this gentleman as | solicitor for the county closed. The | public will never know how much they really owe Mr. Fortney, for the excellent condition the affairs | of the county are now in. | All parties agree that when he | became solicitor of the county in 1882, affairs were in anything but the a good condition. An encrmous | debt existed and had to be provid- | ed for. The | chosen him solicitor, consulted him Commissioners who on every point, and upon every | measure; and when any new de. | parture in conducting the business { done at his instance and with | approval. Old business ruts which { had long been run in, and which | frequently led to mistakes were had | | nominating convention, persons | nomination he was oppossed. There | has not been a campaign last 18 years in which he did not for ful work on the stump or assisting bring out the full party vote. He has never been denominated a kick- er but always consistent, and in the very first instance wherein he had an opportunity to exercise his ad- ministrative ability, he did so and { by which the tax payers of Centre county were benefited to the extent of over $32,000,00. Wrecked on a Bridge, HaveraiLy, Mass, (Jao. '10—{ 4s sociated Press].—The Portland ex- press met with a ser ous accident at Bradford this afternoon, while cros- sing the Haverhill bridge over the Merrimac river. The train consisted | of a locomotive sod eight | from the Bradford side in safty, when | its side, andstwo coaches were thrown | ] the | spend from four to five weeks in | the campaign, either doing success |THE OUTLOOK ONLY ONE OF DISAS. phia, is being strongly pushed by to organize the party in order to | kill Region. | BUSINESS ALARM. ! TER ARD TROUBLE. All Individual Collieries O'ose, the Miners Refusing to Encourage Non Union Men in the Railroad Btrugg'e. Mount CaemeLr, Pa, January 9 — | | Congressman Scott's eight hundred | | miners rejected without a dissenting | voice this evening the proposition to resunie work at four instead of the! | eight per cent. advance pending the | | settlement by the Reading Cimpany | | with its miners. Work was resumed | at the Bellmore colliery today, the difference having been amicably ad cars and | was in charge of Conductor Wey- | since the strike started, the Reading POI mouth. It bad passed on to the bridge { justed, |orDERS GIVEN YOR CEASE. SHENAXDOAH, January 9.—Ever ALL WORK 10 Company bad from twelve to twenty | men employed at each colliery repair- " ; . av the la 1 Very encouraging: of the office was inauguraed it was | suddenly the forward trucks of the ling the breakers and d ing other SAY L1¢ 02st hol very encouraging; his | smoker broke, and it was hurled upon | “dead work.” The Joint Committee | issued orders to-day to these men to { off the track and completely wrecked, | quit work, and there was a general been jered a great organizer, chairman of the state central | . mittee shown cern for Assembly No, 224, which will convene | were placed on the ticket to whose Goes Down From the Schuyl- next Sunday in this city to complete ily organization, cc A A——— The State Chairmen. Robert E. Patterson, of Philadel the members of the State commit. tee from that city for the position Mr. Patterson has made for himself a splendid city ex- ecutive committee, and is consid. of State chairman, record as chairman of the The great difficulty with the campaigns of the past five years has been that all organization has, on the part of the been confined to Philadelphia, while the always the hardest chairman and committee le rural districts, to organize, have been left to coun This tionable would not had the ty organizations, have been so obje come any particular con- the rural Democracy, or indicated a desire that they should full i a : a full vote. To be left severely alone, treated as though it was not actor in the general result, is to and that has been the position in Cracy J t which the country Dem has "hil: placed, | wdelphia has had being piled up against the Bradford | compliance with the order. Packer her chairman, in the person of Mr, | Nia : } ’ " . Ra i i G3 3a aatd ic ours {shunned as an unmitigated evil. [ear boase. The train was on time and | No. 4 colliery of the Lehigh Valley | D30ders, who it is said is again a | be published by the Commissers of for that has the receipts and expenditures the year 1881 was the first | been made out and published a | cords g to the requirements of the Act of Assembly for many years ment since that tell he every stale ween so plain every vanty could what lone with t At the Mi: ! elected solic itor for time For ney the county, ut fif- at | : | was keeping and maintaining {teen indigent insane persons {the different Asylums for the in. | { sane, and had been doing so for | years without any effort being made to find and have their legal settle- ments certified to the proper poor districts. During his term of ser- vice settlements were found for all but one or two then in the Asylum, and settlements found for all put there during his term of service with we belive, one single excep tion, no new burdens have added to the county. During his six years of service Mr. Fortney collected and turned over to the Commissioners a vast sum of money. From poor dis tricts as follows Bellefonte Barong... ci a ome Broner 0wBahip, msn cminsnen RE. a This lage sum of money was col- lected without selling out a single person. In very few instances ex- ecutions were issued but no sale ever made. The present board of Commissiones and solicitor will have much to guide and direct them in conducting the affairs of the county in the opinions prepar- ed and filed with them by him on almost every question that came be. fore them. In this, Mr. Fortney has done much for the Democratic party of Centre county and the record such as the last board of County Com. missioners have made ought to have assured a board of the same me to fihish this note i money } « | known, was been | | cians were summond and the wound. led sud dying were rapidly cared for | The work of clearing the wreck was - | immediately pushed forward with en- Lergy, wed at 3.30 no less than six bod- ies bad been taken from the wreck. Several of them were disfigured yond recoguition. The list of | foots up nine, being as follows: Clarence Hazelwood, residence un- be. John O'Brien, of Bradford, G. N. Cole, wife sad child, of Law- rence, Mass, William Taylor, section hand A. L. Walker, of Harrison, Me. Charles Thurlow, Newton Juntion, {N, H. Josephus Shaw, of Boston, | Thirteen persons were severely, but | none are thought to be fatally injured, | except Dennis Shannon, of Bradford, | sod ao unknown woman. The accit dent is supposed to have been occas. loned by the switch-rod breaking after | the engine and the three forward cars had passed over the switch. The Hills and Lawyor Marchand, | Fraok Hill, the husband of the no- torious Mrs. Hill who eloped from Greensburg with Lawyer Marchand was until a few days ago lounging about Scottdale. He is a complete wreck. His father, who has been keeping him for some time, recently gave him $500, After that was spent, he sitempted to shoot toe old man be- osuse he would not give him more. It is said Hill bad a diamond valued at 1,500 which be lately disposed of, using the proceeds to gratify his ap- petite. He loft Seottdale very sud- denly, a citizen having discovered him in company with his (the citizen's) wife. The lest heard from Marchand and Mrs, Hill was about a week ago. The were both in Culiforaia, but bad quarreled and parted. sands li———— Onrcaxize now tor the spring campaign; nominate your best men and elect them. The campaign of 1888 will be the liveliert we have had for many years, and harmoni- ous action in the spring elections will greatly aid the work of organi. zation for the fall, I] A—— Owxry nine hundred bills intro. duced in congress thus far. We fear that some of the Statesmen are politics as long as the affairs of the killed fps . . . . sited . I'he annual statement required to | runving at ordinary speed. Physi- | Coal Company has seventy-five men CAPGIGALC, any other nomination and unaffect- | employed repairing the slope, mau { way and planes destroyed by the re. | cent fire there. Io obedience to the | “dead work order,” forty of these | men quit work to-day, and all will be off to morrow. District A leading member of Assembly No aod the Joint Committee said to-day that the 0) 14 individual enllieries shipping over the | Lebigh Valley Railroad would be | permitted to work on, but that those reaching the market by the Reading | Railroad would be shut down. Acting | on these instructions the men of Keb. ley Ran colliery here held a meeting this evening and are said to have decided not to mine coal for von railronders to handle. William Penn miners, who were ex- pected to take similar action, bave not as yet decided to do s0. The em- ployees of the Reading Kohinoor Col- liery were given orders last night to come t0 work this mourning, but so few reported that the breaker was not started up. The same result was ex. perienced at the Lawrence and Brown's Mahanoy Plane Colliery. union PERFECT STAGNATION. Reaviva, January 9.—loquiry at the office of the Railroad Company at 8 o'clock this evening developed the information that not a single coal traid had left the regions since early last night, and not a single car load The | that a of Patterson It is certainly fair should be the M1 the country given chance Between friends Mr considerable Sanders and as already | sprung up, which, should either be of campaign be should the committee elect elected might prove ent weakness in th It would in our better its many chairman from ame the able democrats « { Philadel- We outside of Philadelphia and Pitts. can be ! ic phia, believe that the State burg better organized, by a chairman elected from the country who is thoroughly posted in all the details of the campaign, and whose range of vision is large enough to see some democrats other than the {sixty or seventy thousand within the bounds of republican Philadel- phia. If the leaders in that city de- sire the success of the party in the | State they will leave their candi- | dates and their wrangles away from |the committee meeting, unite on some able shrewd and man from the country, go home and or ganize their voters under their city chairman and give a good account of themselves in November next The real truth is that country dem- ocrats have very little confidence in either the good faith or ability of the Philadelphia politicians to run a state campaign. Give the active bad passed through this city to-day. This bas probably never occurred before in the entire history of the company The fact that no coal came down is taken as evidence that Chairman Led was correct in his prediction, that all the individoal collieries would close down to-day. The opinion is general that the miners are masters of the situstion. At a meeting of the Reading Oily Councils to-night resolutions were passed declaring that the men of Reading view with alarm the near approach of closing down of the mana facturing establishments caused by the scant supply of fuel, belieying if such be the case great harm would be done to the wage-workers and buisness Interests of the city, in di. verting trade away to other loonlities and retarding the growth of the city, A committee of five was appointed to wait oo President Corbin aod urge him to effect a settlement of the troubles by arbitration at once, Ata neglecting their duties. country Democrat achance, and if he allows the Republicans to pile up forty or eighty thousand major- ity he will do his duty to his party by committing suicide. A A—— 15 Tux Altoona Times and Tribune are engaged in a personal fight and the way the fur flies is astonishing, plished mud sli will pl regular meeting of the Board of trade
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