VOL 10 BELLEFONTE, PA. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1888s, THE REME DY The Ceutee Denoovat, { Suge tot to which bot! into tho late sant PHARISEES, No member of the House who voted | THE REFORM MAKES FRIENDS, for this Direct Tax bill could consist. ently oppose the Blair Educational job { or any other of the schemes for distri- | buting the Treasury surplus and making | the States the poor and beggarly depen. INADJOINING CO 4 TIES, | —— | The recent unsavory method pursued | by both parties in elections have given {to the electoral reform wonderful At the meeting of the grangers, in Har- risburg last week, much was said in re gard to ev ! { ! y Jately wruption in. piitnged themselves antrol " LP 2 Ledford people are sgitatin s 1 of building a pe (Jes. the ques uid CHAS. R. KURTZ, - = = EDITOR HY % tl Jail, Hav, J. T. Gladi ATL Doig iHegislation, unequal taxation and other things that are oppressive to t tor the of (boom. The papers and the people are | talking of it now over the country more ——— <Q ol ang ire - : OF SUBSCRIPTION, My it this stir vo fir ities ok ‘ y ; . IT, f " TERMS OF ‘1 who the farming community in the State. {dents of a richand powerful centralized pastor of Hh £1.00 pe wii i The Patriot answers with the following ! timely remarks : Regular Price When Paid in Advan When subscriptions are not paid | yoars $2.00 w 11 be eharged, These terms will be str Very case. nence and these do ., Itism respectability who knowing ths i: ton © £1.00 pO nshde of three | {money The election is over but the people, | the farmers the still | thinking about the burdens and restric. tions of the tariff, | | a \ 1 who deal openly fetly adhered © Who aes Ie IY ied "n among rest. are 1 the next i wy and go to churel WOr " t merely deb i the i Both :i wire equally involved in that: + 4 but in another and vastly mos disgracetul work, the Pharisee Banquo’s ghost will ¢ i INTERESTING CONTEST. not down at the bidding of the m Mop- t kind of It turns up on every ocension th \ ’ . Le y 3 olists, In spectre, i 0 tt 18 the livelies i The contested Judgeship now investigated in Lycoming count) Judges Bucher, Mayer and Rock " Politicians spread the most cowardly it seandles through i t | It wis a sti en the characte | the most infamous falsehood that hired | pimps and disreputables of both sexes i ai il : malic ha }s thn HAPPY President, and venomous by Wer i i chZaged u to invade Of en ver Qed 3 , : one sic ) do. | Ab the wassail of the millionaires rejoic. afeller | Scanch 1 Ing over their temporary and illgotten tthe polis A t cre ine and triumph in the counting room of the manufacturer who hopes in attracts much attention. and legal students are noting carefully | cirels i vain for relief from the wi ACOSKATY § ‘decisions of these three jurists on hin lef from the wnnecessary and the decisions Hes stupid taxation of his raw material and certain points involved. It appears that in several districts in | could invent. 4 soting was i The article copied Lycoming county the voting was done | Row Yl rom te ac ide of the district ; | public confession of the Pharisees’ scan. at polls placed outside of the the Ph i : ha f dle-burean as a carefully ¥ anned factor townships held elections in borou he in inthe late campaign. This article comes the townships and in towns that were | from a journal tha oh- Wis in closest : fidence with the party adjacent to these townships. In these | 7% i for a fair chance to sell his goods in an unrestricted market : at the meetings of tha VIE | the workingmen who f trom : ind themselves at | altogether because of the | | | | | | | the beginning of winter put « or out of wo m half-time vhs iA shut-down" inevitable occasioned by $ Wi tocked home mar) of thu 1s been “run in the interest of prote ti Wil Ove it the whi will and now Mate leadership of contest, and that if conducted by meeting Grange * A 4 st root the ae | Shepard. one of the most blatant ves it appears that Metzger the Judge | Shepa places it appears | ligionists of the country. As intimated by the Telegraph of this city, Mr. Shep ard had just ret | from the Nation. al Captial sing before ' i, Wien the nation i ba 1 Ci i ins nm’ and the Republican party ah elected by 41 majority, made great | over his opponent B. A. Bently. In the petition submitted to Governor ! amtinue to haunt the mis | ng men until the a 91 | end an \ il HAE ’ when he pul : Su 1 legislative | ’ pion of the Sabha $ i Beaver. praying for an investigation the If OHIAE 4 Lait! American | at il have | DUreau Laat | ; : . aa il da mn and their pals, | polls outside of districts were illegal and ” aking dark. should not be counted. In this event | Metzger would be defeated and Bentiy | this, Judge Gresham we " : ' elegraph tru hfully adds that “in com would be declared elected. | parison with such work, the ial and HB 3 his case is one of | political sins of Aaron Burr were The outcome in this case 3 o | driven snow.” In all the deepest depth vital importance to voters in Centre | o¢ iy ramy into which partisanship has county. For many years Spring and | plunged in the past, it never approached 4 {in monstrous malignity the new COI | death-rattie. they & id, w { fessed efforts of Mr. SHEPPARD'S Phar. || Frectie, they said, was | isaical seandle-bureau, with its boasted { reports of the slums, of the fence-shop and the brothel, claim was made that the voles cast been utterly wiped away -—_— With CANAL is the phai GOING AHEAD THE | | | 0 4) : tile to the Panam: Canal have been filled For many months this i: : newspapers in } he conutry ¥ A with predictions | of the utter failure of the project. The already Benner townships have held their elee- in tions at the Court House in Bellefonte borough ; Northern precinct of Potters at the Hotel in Centre Hall ; and other townships hold elections outside of their its throat, as no financiers in France or elsewhere would risk their money in so | desperate a venture. in the midst | th le we « lip from 18, Ww our The fore going arti | Philadelphia 7% of Dec. strongly it { During its existence, the i iL voin } : : : i i i EL] cotnmend reader $s district. The first section of the Sth article of the Constitution says the voter “shall have vegided tn the election district where Times has done much good in exposing and denouncing § nein ; : | evil practices, frauds, deceits and crime : wis, and the perpetrato of various ki the same, {to that independent paper for its course in this r hope it will contig the g to the end of its Several since the election. the sav ing of Judge | Gresham has beén quoted in that 1% he shall offer to vote at least two months The pulieis much indebted ud eon CEOUS Well vork | immediately preceding the election.’ The casting out of such votes would have the effect of changing results of : ’ ard. | i ¥ “ in Koil % : 1 : creer nannies; the Frencl : i and it is no of She Sycouing Sete will be watched | and made the basis of denunciation. not | De Les with great interest, i we the wd bamapibes = nad In ow rd to this question the Philadel. | ouly by the clas described but by lead- | | ing individuals representing that cla 5 phia Times makes the following com- ments : The Censtitution seems to be explicit in commanding that every voter “shall have résided in the election districg where he shall offer to vote at least two months immediately preceeding the elee- tion,” and the possibilities of elections for townships held in adjacent villages outside of the election precinct being set | lected from other wealthy Republicans aside by Courts or Legislatures as un- | other large sums, amounting in the lawful, should prompt the citizens of | A8&Tegate to about half a million of every such township to move at once in | d0Uars, and himself took this money to the local courts to have a new voting f New York, to be sure it was placed place designated within the township | where “it would do the most good." | or election precinct. We repeat that This money was not given and colle ted such action will be equally important | by Wanamaker for any ligitimate cam. for the future safety of elections, re. | Paign purposes, but with the know ledge gardless of the deelsion that may be | and purpose that it would be used to given in the Lycoming Judicial contest. | corrupt the voters of the doubtful States, is no appeal to the Supreme | and by this means secure the electoral Court to make a construction that | Vote of these States for Harrison, would be binding upon all the Judges of Wanamaker is the t ypical pharisel "the State, and the decision in the Lycom- | described by Judge Gresham. No | ing case might be reversed by another | prominent business man has advertised Judge or Judges within A year without | his piety and religion to so great an ex. appeal, while no judicial decision, even [tent as he has done; or made more of the Supreme Court if it could be had, | “godly gain® out of his reputation of | Would be binding in a Legislative con- | beinga saint. Ie is promivently and est. There is safety in electionsonly in | strongly urged for a place in Harrison's positive obedience to the letter of the | cabinet, and the only real reason is, the Jaw, and all townships now voting in | part he took in raising the corruption adjacent villages should at once have | fund to carry New York and Indiana. polling places changed to some con- If hedid what he iscredited with having Yenlent point within the limits ‘of the done, his proper place is in the peniten. precinct, Sy gon not in the cabinet of an , BR fo ut merican President, 4 3 TRINAN 00S large thing in the Quay, Rutan, Leeds, Voorhes, tDe- nhs fas monster gun is being made at | 1aney and that gang, make no pretence wich arsenal, England. It is of religion, party or even decency. They be a 200 toner, and the special ma. | all openly admit that the “end justifies required to lift it upon its Car- the means.” But John Wanamaker will cost 8110000, Its projectile pretends to be a christion, although he to ng two pen en evidently has as little conception of the ih ; 0 ng principles and teachings of the “Meek | it > gpiod to Srp nds helen and lowly one," as a rhinoceros has of Jou pl itn {moral suasion. It requires the respects x ituce n ove thai or abllity.of such “Christian Statesmen’ Of the future, when the English | tr. “0 ake the corrupt practices of } enn be Swept from the | the other class palatable, Why does fl €ho way to France. If things |" V¢ T'mes properly castigate thi Bt this tate there seeins to be wl reprerentative pharisee ? Is Wansma ular reason why London an | dpe inf advertisement in the Times 4 not bombard each other | tt i noses of thelr guns | TrACHERS® are too numerous to bo | men tion—all are attending institutd, i nes elections in our county and the outcome aa Canal, | venerable: | i eps 8 th | { wWilnessin 1s i | he and triumphs, | In the construc | experi $ Lag 1 i Dudley and Shepard have received toed similar trial | merited castigation at the hands of Col. | He rejoices that this 3 | McClure. Why has he omitted to ap- | of Panama bonds lias been { Ply the last to the representative man of out the aid of ti or the Gov- { all the class, living in his own ¢ ity ¥ ernment. Itis evident that the French i During the campaign it was announe- | people regard the Pansma Canal with fed in all the newspapers that John | Pride as a national enterprise, that | Wanamaker bad subscribed a large sum, | they are prepared t great finan- permit to (a small fortune in itself) and had col be No Dees. “Lo : : +N 8 takes ie Inanciers 3 i with- | and 0 make cial sacrifices rather than fail. There will probably A it sity for the French Government to le the undertaking any financi But should such necessity arise, the aid nd 1s ¢ , WU ARISLance, could be rendered without pytting the canal under government control without arousing international jealousies a THE DIRECT TAX BILL. and The blil to return to the States the jamount of direct taxes paid into the Federal Treasury upward of a quarter | of a century ago has passed the House with one ugimportant amendment, by a | large majority, although the vote in its favor would not be sufficient to save it ! from the effects of a veto, While the Republicans unanimously supported the i Job, they were assisted by a number of Democrats who are always on the alert | when the matter in hand is a Treasury appropriation, The direct tax was levied under an act of Congress passed in 1861 for raising money to earry on the civil war, The law imposed on the several States year y payments in proportion to their popula. tion ; and after one payment the law was repealed. s About $15,000,000 was paid in, and thissum, with 15 per cent. com- mission, it is proposed by the bill to re. turn to the States. The total amount is about $17,000,000, of which the Nasional Treasury surplus would be relieved in order to create a needless surplus in many State Treasuries, By passing this bill the House has recognized the policy of distributing the surplus in the Treasury among the sev eml States. Should it become n law | some of the legislative Jobbery that is | attracted by needless acenmulations of public money would be transferred | ! : : i ] { strongly supported with a view to mak. { 569 but the fore | CAD Lonnage 1 I 8 | been compleated, the United States will rank second among the nations in! or in | government, There little or no doubt that this Direct Tax bill was so | | public | ing it a precedent for more gigantic raids in the near future upon the Treasury. .—— Tue report of the chief of the bureau | of statistics on the foreign commerce | of the United States for the year ending | ton to unite It | i June 30th 1888. has been iss, shows a decrease of $20.228.704 in tI value of exports of merchandise and an | increase of 831,637. 346 in the value of 1 imports of merchandise. exceeded the exports by more than twenty-eight million dollars. It isshown | best see , 4 y 3 OO) 1 { that our exports have shown a decrease | A y ured when the only proof of an al from the figure of 1881 every ve the 1886 The while imports show increase i iH 1885 and an Sane years excepting in when they were less than in 1581. recent decline in the value of ¢ xport and | nports 1s ascribed to the decline of 1 i. Our fore. £1.,424.110.. ¥ prices at home and abroa ign comiperce amounted to ( (sreat &d to Hn commercae Linu Frauce, urth rita 1 Britain in the ¥] sme e stand on th the value of our commerce nt, of the vessel om our ports are foreig at on o decrease. Only 13, foreign trade, measured by its whil carried in for Vessels e RG ign Is, in foreign vessels, Only 7.45 per cent, of it is conducted in 1 per cent is carried steamers bearing our flag, “while } | its profits and the en. ii per cent, while all § ymeat of of capital and labor, alien stenm vessels! ears sur his AS per own Ga aller Our « Xpoit E800 0 and our niito 31 5 sO Un pres EELS | | in wRthoul being GOOD ORK WELL DONS I'wo § 5% 4 1d : y "we y Hi L$} 4 “Al oul We prominently i Whitney of i administratic English SCTELAry 4 ment. Hiv Cleveland im went sed on workshonos plates guns, Contracts with English manu. pending for armor and a] bh wean dA Lire | Slee, Rlpounting to @ i IS Wer Hi, ui encownagement of an American plant | the The imports | remedy is a secert ballot. | since ‘1 | cratic At | than any other one thing except who is to get the postofiice, The Australian plan of voting whe I by a secret ballot shall be secured and Wie 1s use of money in large degree removed from the campaign, is one of the most favored, and PAPErS re are urging tl gardless of party ie friends of* purity in ele to biris 1g about its adop.” tion. The New York Standard, which 1 been one of the most (HE energetic to push of | the question of ballot reform says | p bribery and intimidation. The primers And Panel laws are ineffect ial to prevent this is elector’s vote is own uncoroborated his | assertion. Under | tem no other proof can be made. i the Australian sys The | fact gives to the most timid amon 14 | pendent voters a s nse of | makes him free, And | fatal. Bribers are not | money on the faith o i CUI bribery 4 i ly to ribed naked assertion: | Lue as | not] accept | themselves, But {edy for brils i that bof It quired all nor the only ! : eineay Lhe | tem offers, Bw i i | 1048 18 4 most impor { machinery and left to private ents prise : inting and dist $ : ¥ i : § ant part elect { Inevitably tends as does the farming out | of any other public function. Drees] It 1 : | corruption and build up monopols | makes a ex for anizations which come to wield easily irresponsible o ary He auto power over the political party i « ad in turn, taroug! | they claim to Serve Mi 1 { discipline almost military i i ar de 1 Severits : ie rminated by an Cire of inner “leaders.” As ballots Can n ] either be { printed or distributed without Hone | 2} | and may not be faithfully handled %n less trusty workers rewarded with stipend, ization undertaking the ame 1 | more then ion day the Orga | & plausible if not a reasonable claim for ! from i= beneliciaries and officias fi It | cessity of raising these funds “workers J gives color of voluntary » 10 what truth the sub. pat. ne em | ronage for its retainers, the is and that that justifies | ploving these | assessime nis, | contributeins of mission of official patronage tothe dis. t I 1 in are | sales nomination, excuses ibution of the machine, provides am. i opee discontinued | ple cover for colle cling a corruption fund aases abroad, and set Limself to the {and though “workers at the pools, ag | convenient channel for disbursing the that would meet the requirements of | fund in bribes. Our Bethlcham Steel Work in this State, The that we have now an American plant “equal to any pr ybably the superior of any in the world for the producing of armor and the forging for high powered guns.” first step towards the creation of a mod erm navy, resuit Four years ago the construction in | America of a first-class armored vessel was impossible, Secretary Whitney has changed all this. Today they are building in the shipyards a dozen ar. mored and nnarmored cruisers and every bolt is made and every bar is wrought | by American hands and in American shops, The United States is indepen. dent. Everything for a first-class fight. ing ship can be produced and furnished to the department by our own factories. The actual work of construction is being pushed with energy. “When the ships | in course of const ruction,” says the Sec. retary, “and these authorized shall have possesion of unarmored cruisers or com. merce destroyers, It shows the introduction of improved business methods that notwithstanding the large expenditures of the depart ment for the three years ending June 30, 15888, having been reduced over 2 per, cent, compared with the three preced. ng years under Republican administra. tion. The aggregaets are: For thres ming savy, by contract with the | 1 This was the | By the Australian system given a ballo teontaining allfthe name of | the candidates of all the parties like the a voler is | following: For Mayor Vote for One | i i Democratic Republican Prohibition Jonn Doe Richard Roe D. Smith N done Independent 1 : He takes this and retires to a private | booth. There he sets a cross mark af. ter the name of the candidate he desires I» i to vote fof, and having prepared his bal. | { let he folds it up and comes out and de. [mami it in the ballot box. Nobody { allowed about the pols except as he goes { to vote, and one man is not permited to be with another while preparing ballots In this way secrecy is preserved and with secrecy bribery and intimidation are impossible, The outlook iN is that States this winter. It goes into effect In Massachusetts in 18% and is already in use in a modified way in other places, ~ TL ———— Tie gross receipts of the State depart- ment for the fiscal year ending Novem. ber 30 were 87 447,050.42, and the expend. tures #7 388,085.55. Among the receipts was #51 ,55 conscience money. The liquor licenses brought in 8200,601.33 and the bonus on charters #164,408.58. The jucie. inry cost of the State $560,611.02, and the Legislature cost $28.073.02. To char years under Republican rule, $20.20 .. ! B31; for three years under Democratic rale, $15,020,148, This saving of $4,500,000 is a fair start toward paying | for the new navy. In no case has any appropriation been over-dmwn. and there lias been no deficiency bil We are in a fair way to hav no American need be as Is, and | fitable institutions were given #1 68.077. 91, common schools, 81918267.58, & nd soldiers’ orphans schools $350,419 a .--—— effect in the Australian | plan of voting will be adopted in many | ne | Lutheran church in Ni Wport, hus wee dered his resignation, Frank Sottorf, of Flem ngton, Clinton county, had his hip broken by a age hg rolling over him, Havenites have ng coal off Vin cars and from the railroad company. About twenty Loc) heen arrested for steal Petty thieves are anno of Milford township, J KE their raids, H. Alleman, of Allemuansyil reid county, was throw; | on the 7th. above his left eve and ing the people mints conw x 5 en school houses are nom exempt from sustainis houlder and one har . James J, Melo city, has suceeeded { | ell, of Monty Rev, FF. X hole clanreds Rey 1 his H 1 Kettle as pastor « of Huntingdon, Mr. Ki transferred to Kittanni ti} 1 lun ng. Grantham T, Waters died last Wednesday, He was a voters: of the late wir, a mem! the fan Logan Guards, and of the me Hund and Thirty-first Pennsylvas wl { ol lewistovn, . ’ . wr of tw a regimes: (re01y lives near the Cass unt : line Ie vet od township in y on the Clay towns 2 ni Hp ' at Cassville, in Cass township, statis i 84 I 14) The election of } at he lived Cass, cers advised him to move his bed to tis the house and he eoubi her comer of 0 vote in either township. Albright Swineford, of Middleby Snyder county, is dead at the age of © war of 15°, PY i He was a survivor of the be buried with wsof war, His father was the founder of Middleburg, which was fo merly known as Swinefordestettle. The funeral ceremonies wer {0 and requested hon ¥ y in the conn) urt house, C. H. Matthias, young man who bid been earning money on a wood jobs it Donation, visited Huntingdon on the 10th inst. He fell in with parties whe were posted where illicit liquor was to be had. When they him well soaked inwardly and minus 85, he was found standing well soaked on wus of a left pe in the canal wardly to his neck in er. Information John H union service from Bad Is wanted conopyiine inte th ford county. Tae his identi and th nber the number of widow and a sink son are destitute. Information «' id be addressed to Major D. W. AL Jn, Bedford. ; A Swede named Donelson, aged about y Was sentenced to three and = half yearsto the Huntingdon reforms. tory by Judge Krebs, of Clearfield. Th | Young man stole a horse of Dr. Petri | gre w at Du Bois on the 20th ult, was | brought to jail the next day and law week received This a= about the first sentence to the new in. stitution. Reighard, who went ¢ ablish papers needed to est were burned some years ago, widow cannot reme: regiment The a i 17 years his sentence. | The total vote cast at the last Presi. | de ntial election was 11L.340.518, au in. we of 2.136. 6%) over 1880, Assuming the vote cast in 1888 bore the seamee | relation to the total population as the | vote of 1880 hore to the total population | in the census vear. it would appear thet | there has been a growth of 10 396.508 in | eig it years, and that a count of hesds [at the present time would show populs- | on of 50367813 in the United States. The United States as a country is food _ {with refuse emigration from the old { work, They pour in upon our shores [by thousands and 0 enormous is the {annual foflux that it has become asounes | of so’icitude and Is looked upon as being sone what dangerous 10 free institutions. The following embraces the views «ff several of our Consuls upon this damper tant subject: IH. Albert Johnson, Consul at Viendes, Italy, says : “Emigrants are recraited from those people whom, as a rule, Shi native country does not wish to retain, They are often fugitives from justios, and in many cases, those leaving thelr native countries to evade Jogitimate da ties imposed by lav — men whose sha. pendous ignorance i unequalled Ly say other elas of people found in the civilia. world, They aie no wore Sited to Cre | that ( States,
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