TERMS: $1.00 Per Annum. VOL 10. NO. 4d ~~ The Centre Democrat, hni— 00 Per Audi in Advance. Trrus, $1 . 1888, Demogratic County Committee, —— N. Woon M. Magee. Bollefon 8 WwW. in XA or. i. Wo Wein, L, Mook, Centre Hall... .. werner ds W. MeCormick. Howard Boro .ssivrmmss sone Abs Weber, POO. cvrnrssssvnvesommerene Sue] Walser, BOP. crsnsersarnossusnasas Ae Mo Butler. nt WF rvurrreedRe Muhsin Philipsburg 2 W.nnirirnn 4 ner. dd W..owuinmdackson Gorton BORO usssmssrsrirmsssssads 0 Buick A a — hy > twp 8 Poncniiiemnnena Ts F. Adama, NP conesosendBdrew Fotzor, Certin . 7 —, | Hipple Roan, twp. » Marion t wdolin 8. Hoy, erssmnsaniesssssrnnnssasens ai men J. Gramley, con snnnsenls A, Rollers, wJohn W, Conley. «WW. W. Spangler, a nat] Hil i fel Horry Geatael Wm. T. Hoover Aasox Wittiams, Chairman. A CHANGE OF BASE, During the recent campaign few in. telligent men believed that the Re- | publicans weresincere in their stand on the tariff. The Patriot hits the nail on the head when it says: “By reading the .organs of the Republican party since the election one would think that that political organization had elected General Harrison on the issue that the present tariff system needs revision. These monopolistic newspapers are now telling the people that the Republi can congress, acting upon the sugges. tion of President Harrison, will, in its eagerness to adjust the tariff inequali- ties, hold an extra session. This is certainly a surprising] an- nouncemnent in view of the fact that but a few weeks ago the people were in. formed that the tariff is all right; that it affords ample protection to the ‘ Ameri. ean workingman’ and that its revision would undoubtedly flood the country BLAINE FOR THE CABINET, A New York special to the Press says that ‘* the news comes to this city in a semi-official way that General Har- rison has determined to invite Mr. Blaine to a place in his Cabinet, and that the Maine statesman will accept.” If this announcement shall prove to be correct, it will be a sore disappoint. ment to many scores of thousands of sin- cere Republicans who gave a positive support to General Harrison, The one thing that hung like a cloud over Harri- son in the contest and made many hesi. tate in the early part of the campaign, was the apprehension that Mr, Blaine would be returned to the State Depart- ment to dominate the administration as he did Garfleld’s when he disrupted the party in the brief period of three mouths, Mr. Blaine is a leader ; not a follower. He is nothing if not master, and his re turn to the State portifolioJunder Har rison would at once create wide dis trust not only in the Senate and House, but throughout the country. It was the lost the battle of 1884, and he would rule more wisely as President with his re sponsibility clearly defined, than as Pre. dent. tion under. successful rival. that he could not be subordinate and he never thought of it. He could have been in the Cabinet of Harrison or of Ta) but he was then “leader of leaders, Blaine is now. and the man w! ed as master by the uo servant in the party hot There is an irresistible i. sie 14 Fill * 4&5 FEA REE] that must follow a Blaine. If he goes into the tion, he will dissever the party powe if he stays out of the administration, he will become its antagonist,” It was : administra ¥ ship that drov® Tyler that antagonized Taylor and that drift. ed Fillmore into abselute estrangement from those who had elected him. Blaine Cabinet he would be master or retire, Clay was defeated by the people 1844; was again defeated for the nation in 1848, and he Senate, where he engled his life. Blaine was defeated by the people in 1888: wag again defeated for the nomination in 1888, and the one position that he could accept with dignity is a seat in the in not- with goodsof foreign manufacture. The attitude of the Republicans since | for life. the election is easily explained. On the | 6th of November the intelligent work- bat he would 1 Angmen whe refused to be guided by | prejudice or swayed by false alarms | would Les woted against the candidates of the high tlariff party as the retams from the la bor districts throughont the country | show. Thess: men cast their ballots for freedom from monopolistic slavery and she ‘grand eld party’ sees dhe hand. writing on the wall. But the Repablicans will not revise | : fhe tariff so 2s to benefit the great mass <f people, for they dare not. The con tributions of monopolists te the amount of three millions of dollars defeated Grever Cle veland and tariff reform and | the men who gave the Republican na- | tional committee this money will see to it that no tariff Hill passes congress that would take one penny from their colos sal profits.” I ds foolish for the Democratic party | fo make a fight Sor doubtful econgres- | sional districts even if they might be seemed and thereby hold the balance of power for the party in that branch of legisbition. In the Virginians several distriste will be contested and Matt, Quay is looking after things. We would say, give the Repubs, full sway, from the little post.afices in the roe districts up to the Peesidency, and by all means a working aanjority in eon. gress, Let them have the power and bear the responsibility and if their ad ministration will be a wise one, so much the better for the people. The New York Sus takes a sensible view of the situation when it says: Patriotic and farsighted Democrats will wot despond oven if it shall prove that the Republi. cans have secured the House of Repre- sentatives to with a . ¥ ig le party in power of amy ex. ‘euse for postponing iponiivi action on ik Ln Rh Senate, like Hike iy that SAT where It of an Clay, remain v 1 n : is not ¢ would ulminist Ne ts be much nator first Senator of the s tepublic, and that t i! of £ crown the pul 1 CATEeT the Plumed Knight of Maine. Phila, | | Times. a THE BUSINESS OUTLOOK, Commerree, industry and trade have their own laws, and they. advance or halt only in obedience to them, whether logieal or illogical. ~ They always do more or Tess Waiting on the result of a Presidential contest, amd when the hate tle is over the hesitation ends, as a yule and business takes a fresh stuart, no mat. ter how the election is decided. Had Cleveland been re-elected. there would i not have been a ripple on the surface of | business: the country would have speedi- ly adjusted self to the new revenue policy, and industry would have quick. ened under the inspiration of cheapened raw material, cheapened products, and an increased demand for labort With Harrison elected, there is special confi. dence in the comtinuance of protection to employers, antl industrial enterprise will quicken on the old lines, There is one great source of confidence in all business circles, and that is the general solvency of the people through. ont the whole country. The crops have Leen abundant in every general divis. ion of the Union. Tlereand there partial failures have been suffered, as in por. tions of Kansas, where there is absolute want for food among the farmers be. canse of the sweeping destruction of arops, but taking the crops of the coun. try North and South they are abundant amd we will have our millions of when to axport with our millions of cotton. There is everything, therefom to justify tinued prosperity of the Union is in the rapid tendency to combine capital for the purpose of increasing the cost of necessaries to conmunems, It is assu med hat the veridiet of the election warrants or ad come an accepted or tolerated policy of the new administration, nothing in the futnre could be more certain than the early reversal of that policy by politi- cal revolution. The late contest long trembled in the balance on that single issue, and but for the sectional distrust that entered into the conflict, there would have been a popular admonition on the question that none would dare to diso- bey. No greater error could be com- mitted than to assume that because the people voted against the tariff policy of the present administration, they will tolerate the indefinite continuance of extortionate exactions upon consumers, The consumers of the country are the people; the whole people. Those who by concentrated capital have been oppress- ing consumers, are She very few who oppress the many; and it is unwise as it is unjust toassume that the consumers { Of this free land are the mere hewers of wood and drawers of water for centra- lized wealth. The power of the nation distrust of Blaine as the party ruler that | mierfwith the responsibility upon Presi- | Clay could never accept a Cabinet posi- | r | Clay's imperious assertion of his leader | into apostacy. | is only human, as was Clay, and in the | returned to the | that |, of } [is not in its capital but in its people’ Land every consideration of business ex- { pendiency as well as every consideration | of common justice, demands that capi. not impair consumers arbitrary cost of life, The country | al { tal | shall the consuming power of i tthe necessaries of eb ———————————— SAO APO Throughout Connecticut, as a general rulé, the Democrats have gained in the manufacturing towns and lost in the rural districts, They have gained | where there was opportunity for discus. | sion and the mingling together of peo- | ple and comparison of views. Now, these results cannot be due to | chance. They show incontestably that instead of being injured by the demand for free wool, the Democrats gained in both directions ; they gained alike in the wool growing and in the wool mantfacturing districts, The Proof stands before us clear and distinct that wool in national politics has been all these years—ever since the scandalous tariff of 1867 was passed, ina false light, a jack.o-lanteru frightening both parties without rhyme or reason. We said at the beginning of the contest that the national wool growers association was a shell and a myth so far as votes were concerned. We quoted as evidence of this fact testimony of Mr. John Q. Smith, of Oakland, Ohio, himself one of the large wool growers of the state, but aman of enlightenment, who knows that tariffs do not benefit wool-growers., Testimony to show that wool tariffs are | | { harmful to manufacturers and opera- | State tives was produced abundantly in the | i . . sn wholesome and substantial | pro nly when its consumers tl ar He knew | They then enlarge | } il and the simple remedy for th | {i the hands of capitalists, If they ! lize the policy of capital, they will gin the end and the certainty prosperty: they shall seek to multiply oppression upon consumers. the inalienable right of revolution will of comtinued : : stirely come and like | all revolution, it will sweep beyond the | lines of justice in ita retaliative strike, | Let justice to consumers become a visi. it 2 { tal, and the future prosperty of the Un. i N Pion must grandly surpass its greatest | { prosperity of history. Phila. Times, -—— 1 KEELY, ti OLS mot | wonder of experts and scientists 1 Saturday i § fie Was t. He .—— THE LECTION AS TO WOOL. 1 i The largest wool growing States In {the Union are Texms, Ohio. and Cali. { fornia. These are the States in which, | if anywhere, we ought to loak for Re publican gains by reason of the Demo. feratic demand for free wool. But | what is the complexion of the returns [from these States The returns from Texas are unimportant in auy case, the Democratic majority being so large, and {at present insaflicient to base a com- parrison upon ; but in Ohio ad Califor. nia, strange as it mod appear to the high-tariff mind, the Democrats have actually gained votes. Im Ohio Mr. Blaine's plurality four years ago was 81.802. This year Mr. Harrisons plor ality is lesa than 22.000, Blaine had 13,128 plurality, but Har. rison’s plurality is so sanall that at this momentthe State is claimed by both sides, Somuch for the weol growing States. Let us now glance at the cities and states where wool mannfacturing is an important branch of industry. Prob. ably Rhode Island is the most import- ant centreof this industry, What do we find here ¥ In the city of Providence Blaine had 1,864 plurality : Harrison has now only 488. In Pantucket Blaine had 451 ; Harrison has 206. In the whole State Blaine had 6,630 | Harrison has 4.427, New Hampshire is ulso extensively en- gaged in wool manufacturing. In Man. chester the largest manufacturing town, Blaine had 587 plurality ; Harrison now the largest wool manufacturing centre in the whole country. Here Mr, Blaine had 30,000 plneality four years ago i } ve element in the employment of capi- | i inventor of the mysteri- | was | at Phila. | In California | has 391, Tn the whole state Blaine had | i Lo be true bis ¢ . i I be the effect of these unex- | the tepublican the Nenate n additional tax wool costing | { per pound-—that is ported,wool—-will be modi- v & reduction Mr. dican commitis : i be made, ' Iw] pul man | jucted in a morning paper | ying “The northern States are in favor of a revision and reduction of the tariff, but they have shown by thelr votes that wy wish Lo intrust the matter to the ends of protection. If, as the present soem fo majority 2] fr | returns 3A . 'H i bill in : would : indicate, in the lower ouse of Congress, we will pass a tariff t 4 we eoleciidl a we fifty-first Congress maternal. ly reducing the taxes, ”’ We judge that lowa will be quite | ready to begin by reducing duties on | wool, seeing that her flocks have de | clined, since the tariff of 1967 was passed {from 2.300 42510 425408 —N, Y Weekly i Post, i ¢ which has been for years the | Ciuer JUSTICE FULLER proves to { be well fitted for his position. .— A Washington Letter, From our Regular Correspondent Wasminarox, Nov, 16, 1888, Now is the winter of Democratic dis tent, and the few, very few that President Cleveland has appointed to { office here in Washington, are gleomily tawaiting the fourth of Mardh and the Loflicial axe. Four years ago, when it phocame evident that the Democratic { president would not turn the rascals out, {T wrote these words : “The general who | fakes battle with an army composed of | traitors will be shot in the back, and he deserves his fate.” Now this is {precisely what has happened to Mr. (Cleveland. This is one of the causes of | lis taking off. If it were only the taking { off of an individual it would not matter {%0 mych, but the Democratic party, [through vo fault of its own, is doomed i fo four years of dirty eclipse, i It was amusing to go through the iaovernwent offices bere immediately | after the election, and study the faces of (the many republican clarks in contrast { with the faces of the sprinkling of demo. | erats who have in some mysterious way {gotten into office. The former were | trying to look lugubrious at the defeat of their friends, the enemy, while the latter were smiling desperately at their own grief. High comedy has furnished few things better to the Indifferent on- looker, but behind it all was that terri blest of tragedies, the battle of life, in which net the fit, but only the fittest ’ F oon { coed Senator nirysaiom | pression | pry {er Slo Y | Washington city have husbanas, brothers, sons, daughters, cousins, and aunts who have been retained in office by the present ad. ministration. They know who fesds them, and they looked on in silence as the dirty coons, 10 the number of three thousand, passed along with their Chinese lanterns and transparencies, in- decent with such inseriptionsas* Grover, your day is over’: ** Benedict & Co. have gone out”: “Hurrah once more Grover's been kicked out the White House door. It is too carly to talk about 1892, but many democrats here, in and out of office, are talking about it, and the thrift of their talk, or I might say their feel ing is, that while Mugwumpry is dead, Democracy is immortal, and that no temporary defeat, much less a betrayal, can smother its eternal fire, or derasi- nate its love from the human heart, If lived through eight years of the des-! potism of Grant; four years of the usurpation of Iayes with its sequelae of Garfield, and four years more of victory without its fruits. It can certainly sar vive this galvanization of republicans. It seems to be accepted as a fact among Mr. Blaine’s friends here, that he should be made either Secret of ary or Minister to England, doubts that he conld have either posi- tion but it is a mooted question whe he would accept. N to the report that he would like to Fry Nao one ther y credence is given here 4 as the} i ] ¢ Pee i iil next v 1 th It is belis of California will His subscriptic lican campaign fund stupendous, big. Tix and Standford were personal friends, when in the Senate together, It is not | thought the California Senator wants | anything for himself, but his friends of | the Pacific Slope want all they can get. | I may however, that Cabinet making at this early day by even the VE i Senator Stanford | have a Cabinet nom } . nation, ” Repub- | : 3 : President-elact § Say, best posted, is premature. American slate makers cannotemake the Cabinet of the incoming president. He is re puted to have a little mind of his own, and some diminutive mindshave a great deal of obstinacy and selfassertion. It is probable that somebody will be sur prised when on the afternoon of March 4, 1850, the Cabinet of President Har | rison is announced, i — HANGED AT LEBANON, | . | German aged sixty years, was hanged at | Lebanon for the murder of his two little | grandsons near Annville on the night of May 16, 1887. The readers of the DEMO- CRAT are, no doubt, familiar with the history of the crime. He killed them by taking them out of bed and choking : them to death with a strong cord. Then he beat out their brains and buried the bodies in the garden. They were ille- | gitimate children of a deceased daugh- | ter, and lived with him. He put them to death so that he could marry a wo- | man named Betsy Sargent, and they would not be in the way. He was ar- rested May 30th, and on a search being made the bodies were found. Showers made a confession, detailing the method of murder and implicating Betsy Sar. (gent, but the woman plainly showed that she was innocent and knew nothing whatever of the crime. On December 18th, Showers was convicted of murder in the first degree, and on January 14th, 1888, he was sentenced to be hanged. Both the Supreme Court and Board of Pardons declined to interfere, and the Governor fixed Wednesday last for his execution, In the beginning of last May Showers escaped by digging through the wall, but he did not go far. He was captured within a week sear Annville, und after he returned a watch was kept on him up to the moment he left his cell to expiate his crime. A CLAMOROUS CROWD William Showers Pays the Tcnalty for the Marder of his Grandsons, Wednesday last William Showers . © of the execution and pushed against the jail door in their vain efforts to get in. Those who had business inside almost had their clothing torn off in reaching the door. Inside the jail were the jary, a number of attorneys and the About ihe scaffold hung a small knot of men who conversed in whispers and ealled one another's attention to the fact that just nine years ago to date old man Drews and Charlie the Blae. Eyed {in which | him beside i Annville. | | |) | ithe photographer who “too .” favorites 7 V one asked Showers, “Tne thirty-fifth Psalm and that part of Kings that refers to Joseph being persecuted by his brethren,” answered theold man, and the look on his face betokened that he, too, thought himself the victim of persecution THE DOORS OPENED, At 10:30 the doors were thrown open and the clamorons crowd was admitted, { They flocked into the jail yard with jest and laugh and saemed to think it a holi- day. Many of them were old-time Ann. ville friends of “howers, one of them Seibert, the man to whom he confessed the awful crime. They had been with nim in life and they came to see him off. The crowd stood around the scaffold and chatted and laughed and smoked cheag cigars, and with big eyes watched the adjusting of the rope and the soaping of the noose that it might slip easier, Meanwhile Showers had put on t clothes in which he was to be hanged. They were of black cloth, and as he donned them he talked with his attorney Colonel A. Frank Seltzer. and told him he had done his duty, He left letter to Colonel Seltzer to his (Showers’ ) sons he } i ¥ } La a instructed them to bury 18 wife in the graveyard af ay As Showers put on his { Colonel Seltzer pinned a white chr { themum in the button hole. ¥ rE oid man 1 « | Rhow | Heil Was enormous, | ma : is by ¢ han good ! fi At the foot ; g deput es 1 : two by two. Fallows, steps, follow i shook hands wit! the while hi 5 Yel e 3 complace his hau right hand holding his | UNDER T nuy. 1s gif The swung motion « standing over the un d 1 OFM x - the hand, sa th ps BN (eq scaffold, He loo talk, but his tongue refu He looked up at the } i i ens, glanced at tw « top opposite, ALE TEE * him on {ew Ai 1 on $ {ous n ted the and Admins and Ewrnest adjusted the straps Messrs, For andy a foments did th “pot. he thus stand wlone. he replaced his | his Twead men Slee about his arms, knees and feet, Y ordy and Gerbevich handeuffed him. Then Major Earnest put the rope around his neck, slipping the knot well under the left The crowd shaddered. OA, renter Yordy, turing to the old man, said “ Have you anything to say ? “Not a word, thank you,” came clear and distinct from Showers, “ GAME TO THE LAST. Sheriff Yordy placed the white cap over Spowers’ head, said good-bye to iim and left the scaffold. There was a sound of falling props during which the oid man’s legs were observed to tremble violently. There was a sharp snap of the spring. the doors of the platform parted and at 11:08 William Showers had paid the death penalty. In the drop the knot of the noose slipped up under the left car, pulling with it the white cap wd expoing the neck and ear. The crowd was silent as death as the body spun arvmnd 8 couple of times same gallows for t
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