EQUAL AND EXACT JUSTICE TO ALL MEN, OF WHATEVER STAYE OR PERSUALION, REI ICIO YUE OR POLITICAL" ss A VOL 10. B INTE. PA.. THURSDAY. SEPTEMI JER 13. 188%, SAA — NO. 36. The Centre Democrat, ie ta Terns, $1 00 Per Annum in Advance. Editor FRANK E, BIBLE, 1888, Demoeratic County Commitiae. BeRelonts wed. W McCormick. Abe Weber, cenpmuel W eiver A M.Butler. wit EB. Munson, +O. A. Faulkn-r wduckson Gorton wud. © Boaith Cornelius Hazel Henry L . Barubart. T.F Adams. Andrew Fetwer, William Hipple Aeorge Roan, «David Brickley. DD. W_ Miller. Sami, Harpster Jr. William Lose, William Hanna, John ©. Orndor! Calvin Weaver, Centre Ha bo Howard Bore. Miliheim Boro. Mileshurg Bure. Ist W, HM W.. ord W Unionville Boros: Philipsburg wl. 0 Meyer. « William Lyon. ohn 8. Hoy. James J. Gramley. PF. A. Sellers, Johs W, Conley, W. W. Spangler, Jacob 8. Meyer John J. Oradoet . Orn Vall John Kenoedy. wd. 8. Bwing Frank Tarberty. eens Perry Uentasl. Wm, T. Hoover Aaron Fahr «A. G6. Kreamer, « wes ht¥l Boowe, Asnos Wintiams, Chalrman. Suow Shoe twp. KE T 4 dotwp W. Pine Walker twp. Worth twp .couoes W. F. Renan, Secretary. DEMOCRATIC RATIONAL TICK FOR PRESIDENT GROVER CLEVELAND. FOR VICE PRESIDENT ALLEN G. THURMAN. DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET. FOR JUDGE OF THE SUPREME COURT. How. JAMES B. McCOLLUM, OF SUSQUEHANNA COUNTY. AUDITOR OCGENERAL HENRY MEYER, OF ALLEGMENY COUNTY. ELECTORAL TICKET. ELECTORS AT LARGE. R. Miiton Speer. | DISTRICT ELECTORS. David W_ Sellers 15 1 A. F. Keating. Alvin mi William Dent Russel! Karns HH. HH. Woodall Flrman Boster William A. Garman Wilkie Maher John H. Bailey J. Honkesstols William P. Lants David 8, Morris James BH, Caldwell 8 T Neigh James L. Brown Joba Taylor Fra: klin Walden George W, Pawling | Jamon Smith Dunlei H. Bchwege W. B, Given 1 Charles Robinson Be etasainr — 14 Fmon P, Light COUNTY TICKET. Sn — OONGRESS, J. L. SPANGLER, {Subject to the District Conference) ASSEMBLY. J. H. HOLT. J. T. McCORMICK. Coroner. Dr. JAS. NEFF. Jury Commissioner GEORGE BOWER. 'is furnished when millions of fre and intelligent American citizens - " e | select their chief magis rate and bid ' 1p. people are soberly one of their number to fill the | highest ‘earthly honor and the full ! measure of public duty in ready submission to their will. | It fellows that a candidate for this high office can never forget ‘hat when the turmoil and strife ' which attend the selection of i's in- | cumbent shall be heard no more, there must be in this quiet calm | which follows, a complete and sol cma self consecration by the peo ples’ chosen president of every fac !wity and endeavor to the service of la coufiding and generous nation of {freemen These thoughts are intensified by the light of my experience in the presidential office which has sober i i 4 i ' ly impressel me with the revere respons biliies which it imposes, ! while it has quickened my love for | American institutions, and taught | me the priceless value of the trud | of my countrymen. | Itis of the highest importasce that those who administer our gov- | ernment should jealously proteciand | maintainthe rights of American citi broad,and should for | her proper place among the nations | of t he earth ; but there is no other | peo ple whos: numerous objects of | don sestic concern deserve so much | wat chfulness and care. A mong these are the regulation of a sound financial system suited lto ¢ ur needs, thus securing an effi- | cient agency of national wealth and | ger eral prosperity; the construc. {tion and equipment of the Means | zensat home and a strive to achieve our country of d efense, to insure our mation’s safe ty repose; the proteetion of our mationa! domain still stretching snd the needs of a century's ex- | pan sion and its preservation | the settler and pioneer of our mar- | velo us growh ; a sensible and sin | cere recognition of the value of | Am¢ srican labor, leading to the | scru pulous care and just apprecia- | tion of the interests of our work | ing men ; the limitation and check | ing of such monopo'isiic tendencies land schemes as interfere with ad | van tages and benefits which the | pecsple may rightly claim ; a geoer- | ou s regard and care for our surviv | ing rsoldiersand forthe widows and or | ph ans of suchas have died,totheend | th at while the appreciation of their | se rvices and sacrifices is quickened {the application of their pension fund to improper cases may be | prevented; protection against a servileimmigration, which injuri ously competes with our laboring | men in the field of toil, and adds to | our population ap element ignor- | ant of our institutions and laws im- | possible of assimilation with our | peaple and dangerous to our peace | and welfare; a strict and steadfast | adherence to the principles of civil service reform and a thorough | execution of the laws passed for | their enforcement, thus permitting bey wr * H CLEVELAND. THE PRESIDENTS FORMAL ACCEPTANCE. , Indian policy, relations with | civilization of the overnmeust the ndian may be ELLEF of fed quences the atte eral taxation and its conse [ty and demand good reasons fr larg ly impress at this time such increase. ®* And yer they seem ation of (ur citizens and [10 be expeced in spme q ar ers lo considering | regard vhe unnecessary volume of the necessity of mea-ures of relief | insidious and indirect axa ion visit Our governmen: is the creation | ed npon hem by our pre.ent rate of the people. established to ca'ry | of tariff du ies with indifference if out their designs and accomplish | not with favor, The ' suiplas ‘their good It was founded on | revenue now remain ng in hetreas ju tice, and was made for a free, in- | ury not only furnishes conclusive telligent and virtuous people. Itis proof of unjust texa ion, bu: i's | only useful when within their con- exis ence cons i'utes a separa‘cand trol and only serves them well when lindependen: menace to the prosper regu ‘ated and guided by their con iy of ihe p-ople, This vast accum stan: touch. It is a free govern-lulaion oi idle funds represen s ment because it guarsntees to every | that much money drawn from th: Am tican citizen the unrestricted |circulaing medium of ‘he coun ry personal ure and enjoyment of all | which is needed in the channels of the reward of his toil and of all his | trade and business. | income, except what may be his | fair contribution to the necessary public expense. Therefore, it 15 | nual withdrawal and hoarding by not only the right, but the duty of | government of the currency of the peo- a free people in the enforcement of | ple are not of immediate importance to this guaran'y to insist that such ex- pense should be stric ly limited to | the actual public needs. It seems perfectly clear that when the gov- ernment, the ins rumen'ality crea red end maintained by the people to do their bidding, turns upon them and through an utter perver sion of its powers extorts from their jabor and capital tribute large'y in of peablic necessities, the | creature has rebelled against the | V&H9 creator and the masters are robbed tu by their servan's. The cost of | government must coniinue to be | met by tariff duties collected at { obt our custom houses upon imported goods and by internal revenue taxes assessed upon spiriruous and | malt liquors, tobacco and oleomar- garine. | suppose it is veedless to | explain that a'l these duties and as sessments are added to the price of | | the articles upon which they are levied and thus become a tax upon all those who buy the articles for use and consumption. It is a great mistake fo suppose that the consequences which follow the con. the i | the mass of our citizens and only con. | cerns those engaged large financial 2: transactions, i £ i in In the restless enterprise otivity which the free and ready use of money among the people produces wre found that opportunity for labor and employment and that impetus to amd production iN. | ness which {their bring 0H ons tizens in train prosperity N¢ ts in busines CXCOSS (ARLE LI WwW VYEnlumns, new i : AI facture, an “ Fw a Haportant i ryested grain of ing without market in ian a Hess & ¢ is forthcoming for its movement the hi | ard transporiation to sea board. AnoRg vere terms for its nse, Increasing I suppose, 100, it is well ender ia wt and timidity are followed by stood that the effect of this tariff |! te taxation is not limited to the con |! ; sumers of imported articles, but the duties imposed upon such articles permit a corresponding increase in | | the price to be laid upon the domes- | 1 ot that when this perfectly natura tic productions of the same kind, { not inevitable stage which increase, paid by all our people as consumers of home pr d- | uctions and entering every Ameri- can hime, constitutes a form taxation as certain and as inevita- ble as though the amount was an- nually paid into the hand of the tax gatherer. These resulis are in separable from the plan we have adopted for the collection of our | £ all di | revenue by tariff duties. They are ast, all directly concerned in not mentioned to discredit the sys. |" “HO tems, but by the way of preface to the statement that every million of | dollars colleckd at our custom | daily toll for bread unprepared, | houses for duties upon imported | articles and paid into the public | does not present a case of idleness 1 treasury represent many millions sulting from disputes between the labor. more which. though never reaching | Ing man and his employer, but it pro. | the treasury are paid by our cirizen | duces an absolute and enforced stoppagy as the increased cost of domestic | In | productions resulting from our tar ling the bad effects of this accumulated iff laws. In these circumstanc es, | surplus and the seale of tariff rates by and in view of this necessary effect | which it is produced, we must not o of the operation of our plan for |i the tendency towards 3 raising revenue, the absolute duty | scandalous public EXIra vance | of limiting the rate of tariff charges | the people is the exaction of se- Ey loan or advance on any vedlors refuse all risks and decd i¥ warities, and in a general fright the FEN still in the hands of the people i% Jrsistently boarded. ¥ apia- 1. if LH It is quits : { sion in all business and enterprise will 4% fi NeCeSEArY conse] uence, Jessen the { opportunity for work and employment of | wl reduce salaries and the Instead from the influence and effect of | ene the | treasury, our wage earners amd WALCS of { labor. then of being xem an surplus Iving in national : niet { who rely upon the labor for support at Alp i Others seeing the | of danger may provide against it fwill find those depending upon and defenceless. Such a state of of employment and wages, review. V7 gross and which " i | a eongested treasury nor the to the necessities of a frugal and | p84 that we are maintaining without economical ac is i « . : momical adm nistration of the | ex¢use in a time of profound peace sub. government seems to be perfectly | : ’ : J lstatially the rate of tariff duties im. plain. The continuance, uponfal Lo 5 oof war when t . . . v © 3. : NN] pretext of meeting public expendi- yo fil Th I aa : . v4 1 * (OVE y ils 5 4 i tures, of such a scale of tariff taxa. | 4 ¢ he ERIEDL nstifies the apo tion as draws from the substance | "0 Of t weightiest burdens upon | 1d people, Divers plans have been people, ought not to be | W hile the heaviest bur suggested for the return of thisaccumu. lafed surplus to the people and the cannes of trade, Some of these de vites are al variance with all rules of fom] finance. induces, Some are delusive, some fant absurd, and some betray by their | Kloss extravagance the demoralizing | uence of a great surplus of public | tion. We are annually collecting | ngney upon the judgment of individuals, ‘at our custom houses and by means | While such efforts should he made are s of the farm. | Tee first result of a scarcity of money | is reached, depres. | our people the cost of supplying their wants. Both of these objects we seek in part to gain bn reducing the present tariff yates We fully appreciate the hoportance 0 industria upon the necessaries of life. the country of our domestic enterprives, In the rectification of ex. and | prosperity should be carefully and in a fricmd] d. Ev relinnce upon the present revenue isting wrongs, their maintenance y spirit consider en such rangements as have been iuvited or en wouraged, should be fairly and justly rs. fel, Abrupt and war radical changes which might endanger such enterprises the of mi their success and and injuriously affect interests lnbor dependent ug continmice are not contemplated or w= | of domestic manufactured products is i to the the duty imposed upon the 3 tended. but we Know the cost Our | | vil price Consumed ereased anda ti ih arial used in thelr manufac wereased cost prevents ’ aa foreign those cot of markets in competition with tries which have the advantage raw mater to a home operation for lal ] paid uneert We in FINy (LE [4] (FEL) markets {or True to Dhegraon wits of labor aed our In evils we will furnish no exe all efforts to remedy exist fe red net the adjustine st LE ost of employment or the of s wages of honest toil, On Gon. trary we propose in any to advantages to 1 # laws copeesde sh Or event : $441 i AR | eonragement ip wers of domestic labor as will compensate for any difference th {exist between standard of wages which laboring meen and We | Prog ton. by extending the aria should Ix paid to one the rate allowed in other Countries for our manufacturers to promote Uw ly 61 a bast it «ii SANE "iis | _ , workingmen's wages and {1 4] iw comforts fron swarm upon our shores having intent of be acdquinng of laborers pose OF oming our fellow Clinens of perTianent any Lit “de ry field of employment tery in our country who erowd ov with unintel. 1a} . ws 3d v tv gent labor at which ghi not th : \inerican cil wages to who make chum to | 4 The platform adopted by the sant isfy Ts £80 inte na- tional convention of our party contains “ludeed Ww of the people are Ix traved when by annecs the following declamtion democratic prim ips the interests cesar taxation, trusts and combines are permitted and fostered which while un. fow that rob the body of our citizens by deprive duly enriching tw combing, ing them ns purchasers of the benefits of natural competition.” such combinations have always been condemat by the democratic party. The declamstion of the national convention was sincerely made and no member of our party will be foam excusing the ex. istonce or belittling the pernicious Me. | slits of these devices of ‘wrong to the | We believe that these trusts | LCOWOpeTate In the land, We are dealing with no im. aginary danger, Its existence has been repeatedly confessed by all political par. ties and pledges of a remedy have been made on all sides, Yet in the legislative body where under the consti. when tution, all remedial measures appreci able to the subject must originate. the democratic majority were attempting with extreme moderation {6 redeem the pledge common to both parties, they | were. met by determined opposition and obstruction, and the minority refusing ti of representa. the house tives or to propose another remedy have 3 remitted the redemption of their party pledge to the doubtful power of the senate, The people will hardly be deceived by their abandonment of the eld lative action to meet in political conven. tion and flippantly declare in their $4 Ly par. platform that our conservative and careful effort rel th i jh oat +11 y destructive to the American system of P . (C4 eve situation I= protection. Nor will the people be mis led by the appeal to prejudice contained site a Gn he ti Ves whkward on the road Ia LO Geprive JO of the % for tlw whieh can only 1 4 iad and Kept by the sein. of COT- 2 » blance at jeast of an mtercimnge business, wh bandon ous simmers to tl thy unresty WW ined oppre ssion of domestic trus apations Jer TL 1 articles of the like of which cannot be produced inthis eXeepl InxXunes country. The plain people of the land and the poor who scarcely use articles of Hy 1 vive Seat i) 5 iy description produced excinsively : 1 Y : sady free. will find 1 where thei Fl gh oid i Om. Ty O8 Cheaper to 116 be entirely "31 hene. weed and { after 4 there LH i a [# | i% for tiv the entin 11 un the govern. cation should r any prot (hr ask relief from the undpe and unnecessary burden of tariff taxation now resting upon them. They and free whis. They ask for bread and they are The implication con. that » measures are justified or pee. gave from destruction or sur. ment, Ix part of our rewead rather tl rende LAL i : s B71 pf | Bit e gystem*” Ju ple are offered free tobe key. or = yy Yen a He 3 i iis party declaration ORAryY 10 render what it termed protictive system, The existence of such a system is entirely consistent the regulation of the extent W should be applied and the cor- of in a great as ours, with such a wonderful variety of Interests, often leading in entirely different directions, it is difficult, if not impossible to settle upon a perfect tariff plan. But in ac. should confuse no one, with which it rection of its abuses, course, -complishing the reforin we have entered | upon the necessity of which is so ob vious, 1 believe we shoukl not be eon. tent with a reduction of revenne ine volving the prohibition of importations and the removal of the internal {ax on whiskey. Tt may be better and more safe. promoted with gesnling quiet and | of our internal revenue taxation a consistent with public duty | people. safety to the wtilers on our front- many millions in excess of ail legit- | asl sound judginent { are the natural offsprir fers, and the cuftailment of public imate public needs. As a couse I by the useful artificially restricted, we of a market | ly done within the Vins of granting wet. sanctioned by that an inondi- | nal relief to the people in their means of avold danger A POWERFUL AND CONVINCING PRE SENTATION OF DEMOCRATIO ARLES, expense by the introduction of economical methods in every de- partment of the government, The pledges contained in the platform adopted by the late con- vention of the National Democracy lead to the advancement of these insure govern: iration of every true lizen and the moti Wasnincron, Seot, g.—The fol- lowing is the president's letter of acceptance : ’ Wasnixcron, D. C, Sept. 8. Hon. Patrick A. Collins and others, | Obj ment, the American quence there now remains in the national treasury a surplus of more than $1 30,000,000, No better evidence could be furnished that the people are exor- bitanily taxed, The extent of the Supetiucus burden indicated by this surplus alone represents taxa. tion ing more than $108, 000 in a county containing 50,000 inhabitants Taxation has always been the feature of Ldbposition of the surplus now remain. irk in the treasury, it is evident that if it} distribution were accomplished an. ther acevmulation would soon take its if the constant flow of redundant was not checked at its souree by sform in our present tariffl, We do to deal with these conditions hy moarly attempting to satisfy the peo. ob of the truth of abstract theories, nor RE] it i nately high tariff beside furnishing the | | temptation for their existance enlarges the limit within which they may operate against the people and thus increases, | the extent of their power for wrong do- ing. With an unalterable hatred of all such gehemes we count the checking of their baleful operations among the good results promised by revenue reform. While we cannot wold partisan fis. representation our position upon the question of revenue reform should be so plainly stated as to admit of vo misup. derstanding. We have entered upon the crusade of free trade. The reform living. and at the same time giving an impetas to our domestic enterprises and furthering Jur niionai Boo If migrepresentations of our motives are to gain eredence and de. feat our present efforts in this direction, there seems to be no reason wh endeavor in evenae tual man government of the currency country. i
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