BELEFONTE, PA. THURSDAY, SEPT. 19, 1889. CHAS. R. KURTZ, - EDIT OR. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, Regular Price When Paid in Advance When subscriptions are not paid inside of three years $2.00 will be charged. Democratic County Ticket. $1.50 per year, $1.00 “ ASSOCIATE JUDGE : THOMAS F. RILEY, of Harris twp. PROTHONOTARY L. A. SCHAEFFER. of Bellefonte, DISTRICT ATTORNEY J. CALVIN MEYER, of Bellefonte. COUNTY SURVEYOR. GEORGE D. JOHNSON, of Howard, FOR CORONER: Dr. J. W .NEFF, of Snow Shoe, EF The Grand Jury beg leave to re- | administered favorably to the | veterans of the late war than by the & { present administration. An examina- ax? Suen ouUT THE rrLEDGES oF | Lion of the administration of the pension 55 REPUBLICAN PARTY. {office under the late Democratic ad- { ministration will show that from March A Stop | 1885 to March 1558, a period of three A. mn. | Years, Cleveland approved 1,366 Private | Pencion bills, while Lincoln, Grant, | Hayes, Garfield and Arthur, covering a {peniod of 24 years, only approved Tanner the Commissioner of Pensions | 2,001. It would further show that from has resigned and it is possible that by { July Ist 1885 to July 1st 1888 (three. the time this issue of the Democrat | Years) there were issued, original, in- reaches its readers his successor will | crease and miscellanious pension certifi- have been appointed. The suspension | Catesto the number of 350.537, while of Tanner is to us incomprehensible. | from July 1st 1882 to July Ist 1885 (three For years past the Republican party in { Years) there were issued pension certifi- State National Convention has | cates of the same kind only 191,221 mak. ore An Honeat Man Foreed to Resign to the Old Soldters and the G Broken Pledges. and to Tanner to proceed in the granting of pensions without any reference to law, The Commissioner had a right to feel that his party had placed Kim above all laws. That sameconvention did more, Cleveland it denounced on mind the Commissioners that the yard in front of the Court House is in a shabby ! aground. disfiqured by pitching quoits; and | that the House has been granted for holding « ete. condition, and is being used ae a play we are also informed { ourt Ls Fit § hitions, band meetings which we | discovmtenance, MISUSE OF THE PUBLIC BUILDINGS.” | . | ! asthis 1s a | Editorial. | ANOTHER COMPLIMENT. This week we have the extreme pleas- ure of publishing another complimen- tary notice found in one of our county papers. In discussing the increased valuation of property in this county, the Gazette adds: “The idle vaporings of the juvenile manager of the Centre Cemocral are not worthy consideration, as he doesn’t un. derstand the subject, and never will. He is a ‘chip off the old block,” and everybody knows what that means.” This certainly is a glowing tribute to us, and one which we did not expect to receive so early CAresr. Excuse us for a moment until turn aside and modestly blush. The above article was not intended as & compliment, as it was inspired "by an evil motive, and, through the use of insinuating personalities, was meant as a reflection upon ourself and parentage. It was a cowardly and contemptible in. sinuation, and is an index of the char acter of the writer. James A. Feidler is a chip off an “old block™ that still survives, and if he would hunt up its record would see how ungrateful it would be for us to say that “he is a chip off the old block,” for “everybody knones what that means,” pe : | i 3 in our journalistic we | HARRISON wanted the Commissioner of Pensions ‘‘to be liberal with the boys.” Tanner carried this idea out tothe letter but did not have sense enough to keep quite about it, Tanner was asked to re. sign but Tannerism is to be retained, HexpERsON's barn-yard (the court house yard) looks a little more respecta- ble just now. Johnny Decker became ashamed of its appearance and had some of the rubbish and filth removed. Alas! this once beautiful court house yard is a disgrace to the county. stn prs Eowanrp R. Cuaxnens, Esq., the newly appointed deputy collector, says that as soon as he has secured as nice a slice (321,000), out of the government as his late opponent, he is ready to retire and give some ore else a chance, Ed. ward forgets, however. that his oppo. nent is an old Republican, while he is but a mere stripling. Republicans are ungrateful, but the Republican bosses | of Centre county are particularly so. — The Democrats have been sneered at by party workers because the last cam. paign was an “educational” one, in| which the Democratic party was knock. ed out, Allright. Mr. Harrison's four yearn will also be educational, and when they end the people will refuse to be the cat's paw of monopolists any longer. Then the Republican party. with its protec. tive humbuggery, will be sent flying. The people are learning their lesson very mpidly, I A] WiLt, Hastings postpone the appoint ——— | be dependent on private cha { SIons LO every President pensions and declared that no man who wore the Federal uniform in the pres. ence of an overflowing Tre sl L851 ry arity. President Harrison in his addres said “Our Pension | give more adeq relief to Union sold to their widows and orphans. uch oc- casions as this should remind us that we owe everything to their valor and sacri- fice.” This was simply an invitation to the commissioner to throw open the tO ¢ give and Th | convention has declared that ] | | doors of the Treasurs peti one, { Republican ght & T° 80} dier service cannot be measured by law.’ “The President, the whole party is back of me,” they have promised and pledged says Tanner “all I need do is to open the flood gates” and Jet surplus flow. He did. He began on Senator Mander. son one of the Nations defenders, worth several millions of dollars, drawing a salary of five thousand dollars a year, beside a small pension—he is in want, | The commissioner knows it, and with. out application or examination his pension is increased to thirty dollars a | month and arrears to the amount of four thousand dollars allowed. Tanner is helping the needy, why Clerks in the departments drawing good salaries are rerated and allowed large sums for arrears of pensions. They are in want. The Republican convention has said “the law cannot measure their service.” There is neither sense nor reason in dealing with Corporal Tanner so harshly fox doing that which the convention and President declared should be done, The teachings of the Republican party for years has been to lead the old soldier to think that the government belongs to him, and that everything he demands, however unreasonable, should be granted. In good faith and solemn earnestness Tanner undertook to carry out their teachings and promises, when they unceremoniously turn him out and slap the Gi. A. R. square in the face, During the last Presidential cam. paign all kinds of promises were made complain ? | | years of Arthurs administration. These facts clearly demonstrate that both | the list of pensioners and the amount {ought to be key paid to pensioners were largely increas. | : ed by the Democratic administration, They also demonstrate that the assaults made on the Democratic party and its administration were made to induce old | soldiers to vote the Republican ticket. In a great measure they ful. for his reward. JThe removal of Tanner wits & fearful blow at the veterans, Bat v of the Republican party, 1 Call Go Were SHCorss. The old soldier naturally looks | it is the It The veterans will soon come to the same wa ¥ always promises more than § | that the laboring man has | his interests best cared for, preserved conclusion and defended by the Democratic party. | a th is that most Tue tru of our pen. of the | combine forces of demagogism and self | interests, sion legis ition in the product Of all the varieties of clap- trap which are employed to catch votes | none is more effective than an appeal for | liberality to the men who saved the | Union, and among the divices used to | of the Government | high enough to save the tariff from be. | * : i ing manifestly an imposition none is so | i readily condoned as our overgrown pen. keep the expense sion list, And yet it would be hard to | whether its influence in making | paupers has been more manifest than its effect in burlesquing patriotism: whether its [tendency to social demoralization | has been more pronounced than the ime petus it has given to political corrup- | tion.~ The Epoch, -—— say ail Tue South has cheap raw materials | «epotton, fron, coal, lumber. Her sons | have a heroic determination tosucoeed, They enjoy a mild and healthful clim. ate, Pennsylvania has free iron and coal mines, and has rich stores of patur. al gas and petroleum. The West is blessed with its rich soil and with rich mines and forests, New England has only the sea and her people. Let the sons of New England, however, have free access tothe sea, let the tariff block. ade of our harbors be raised, let our navigation laws be so changed that we may be allowed to buy ships wherever they can be obtained at the least cost, Jt our railroad companies put their freight rates down to the lowest possi. ble figure, let the tramway system be extended throughout our States till favor § 8d parent {driven {is dam | back in its sheath and many plausable arguments used to | every village shall be connected with induce the old soldiers to vote the Re- | jts neighbor by the iron mil (it is esti publican ticket. Their prejudices, pas. | mated that the same power can draw sions patriotism, last und best of all their | seventeen times as big a load on a tram. services to the country in the hour of | way as on a common road) let our town need should be rewarded by more liber, al pensions. This argument secured the Republican ticket votes of veter ans that otherwise ‘vould have been land State taxes be kept at the lowest | possible limit consistant with the ne | consities of the people, in short, let | Democratic principles control both law | promise, the G. A. R. became a great | will be such an era of prosperity as we given to the Democratic ticket, we know i and custom, let the obstacles, both legal of men and many of them who never | and physical, which now hinder the voted a Republican, ticketdid so last fall | Connecticut man {rom getting the on the promises of Republican party to | biggest possible return for his largely increreas their pension. On their | services, be removed, and the result Republican club and did everything in | have never dresined of, Then, it may its power to secure the election of the | Le, a man will be able to satisfy his Republican candidate for President. | wants by eight hours’ faithful labor, The party which made the promise Was | and the eight hour day will be a reality. successful. Tanner was made Commis | If our Republican friends even at this sioner of pensions for the xpress pur- | late hour take measures to inaugurate pose of carrying out the pledge, and | this new era of hopes and happiness, when he opens the “flood gates,” and | they will be far more likely to retain Jets out the “surpius’ to the “dishanor. ably discharged,” the “dead beat,” the bummers, more readily than to the faithful, herole veterans, who bope the heat of the battle, ns well as the bur. dens of the march, the administration control of the Government, in the fu. ture, if they turn Democratic employes out of office, waste the people's sub. stance in unworthy objects, of attempt to buy the support of silver men, iron men, coal men and black men. ~John L. Crowles in the Hartford Times, TANNER has “resigned” because his last administration CAN AFFORD TO 51 cm" T STILL. The New York Herald, one of the ablests papers in the country says : The Democratic leaders can afford to sit still while the country slowly drifts in their direction. The people made a mistake last au. tumn when they voted for a Republican policy, and are beginning to see it. As to Mr. Harrison, he represents policies, however, which he is bound to carry out, He will undoubtedly be true to his convictions, and there is the | danger, for the more he insists in carry- | Ing out the convictions the worse it will { be for the country. | Hamilton, the father of the Republi. can party, was an aristocrat. He had been declaring for more liberal pensions. | 10K an increase in the favor of the Cleve | no sympathy with the governing masses Thelast Republican National Conven. | land administration of 168.316 certifi | always distrusted them and prefered a tionin reference to pensions declared that | cates, and for the Same length of time, | monarchy to a republic, He had very “thegratitude ofthe Nation to the de. the ( leveland administration paid to {little faith in the perpetuity of Ameri. fenders of the Us fon eannot be measured | Pensioners $35,646,687, more than was |, by laws.” This was a square invitat ion | paid to pensioners during the last three | what are known as “the people,” ot . an institutions, because he despised | He felt that the moneyed class should the ruling class and that the masses it in the background. Mr. Harrison's party has inherited | that conviction and represents it at this (moment. Under the rule of that party the rich continually grow richer and the [4 MOT Ct be mtinually poorer. [ts policy is therefore a political blun. der, and in its last results will become a political erime. ts " It constantly throws of they nfluence in of the o« it cont mbine. Whil ie nues syndicates flouirsh like a green bay tree and the working. man will be ruthlessly sacgificed What it calls protection is simply a | protection of a few, while the MARY are to strikes in order to obtain wag. OR abov Th Ig soi ¢ the starvation point. ¢ word “protection” has an allur. ind ; the thing it really stands for nable. Mill 3 : : The Ma auiumn. tive owners in Connecticut and ssachusetts were hoodwinked last They were told that if protec ariff were taken off their aw terials they would be rained. thers '¥oaml went to sleep with the feeling They that they had done a public service. 1 their bey now see that unless they get raw materials free of duty they will soon have to close thelr works and we what they have made \ very greal change in this respect dn tuken place in a few months, East. "1 i hs @ manufacturers are they voted for the sword which cut thelr own throats, unless they jam it They now demand a very maternal reduction of tacff duties. It is now a matter of life and death with them. Chey couldn't understand this last year, but now their decaying business has made it altogether too plain. They are penitent, but the penitence comes to late. If they had re-established the Demo. cratic policy of a lower tariff their busi. ness would now be booming. They want a larger market for their product. If they could get access to the markets of the world they could undersell all competitors, and their mills might be run on full time with profit to their owners and workingmen alike But the Republican bosses won't ad. mit this so the mill owners will dodge bankruptey if they can, and the laborer must keep from starving if possible. It is not Mr. Harrison's fault. He is a good man with a bad theory : that is all. ———— —— Why the Malls Rush Delayed mail trains cost the Pennsyl. vania Railroad #150,000 a year, “The letter carrier may flirt with his servant girl, friends or kill time as he tramps his daily round with the mail pouch,” said an official yesterday, “but the railroad companies that hurry Un. cle Sam's letter bags at lightening speed from ocean to ocean and lakes to gulf, must run their trains sharp to schedule or pay damage for delay.” “The public does not know it, but the Pennsylvania Railroad and every other line in the country—for practially all are to some extent servans to the department—pays a fine for all the short. comings in the mallservice., Postal freight is, of course charged to the Gov. ernment, but there have been years in which the post masterhas substrncted as much as 8500000 from the Pennsyl. vania Railroad company's bill because the bags of letters have been delivered 35 Shelf Gostination Jae. They are stern masters, those officlals in the granite buildings at the capital,” Mg FRIDLER sa cowand—ho Is afraid to the report of the last grand jury Ed onopolist and is the natur. | ma- | fore voted for the Republican poli- | in the dumps; | {old way of farming. A PROFITABLE CROP, PENNSYLVANIA FEACH FUCCESSFLL and More Prent, MirrLINTOWN, Pa., Sept, 6—Anarti. cle in the Record headed “Peach Col- lapse” has attracted attention in this county. About seven years ago Smith Brothers, John E. Jamison, and a few others were pioneers in the peach busi. ness in this section, and were thought to be “cranks” on this subject. Today of its orchards by disease, ours are flourshing—neither fruits nor treee af- fected—they are looked upon as bene. factors. of them bearing, and the fruit is being jest days. It is large, nicely somely blushed, all of which makes a fruit every way attractive and valuable, A dealer said today: “Juniata peach. es now stand at the head of | ket.”” Large orchards are being planted fa fall | farmers the mar. and will | every BOON | nar if Spall, al the , except along the riv abandon culture « | cereals altogether er and streains, The singular thing about the busine is that the land Lest adapted or | growing of peaches has hither { considered of least | of f Of value, in it was left in common | ability was discovered, of cOonuk 13 Hundreds | acres of it | he It has advanced in price, bu { still be bought for from #10 to #70 an { a re, to the | ness to shipping point. Many parties : two or three years ag: k ht for a trifle SHORE NN § LL} ive been course, i can owing location and near. { are here now buving the fruit as well as | looking for lands to purchase. {i The the ’ | Delaware peach has raised the hopes of article showing aeciine } and owners and dealers he ] ed Ponda FTOS | ingly, and this fall tho {will be planted. Last | bought 100 bushels of peach | North Carolina, and another 68 bushels ysands of tree fault ia v1 0“ n mad seeds in | from which to raise young trees The future bright farmers who have been depressed at low prices of grain are exulting in | hope of better things, and wi SOOT and our ’ he eave the - —— . Ur to within a few months Fleming, the Republican cahdidate for prothono. tary, was inclined to be stapchy and aristocratic, and not inclined $0 notice common people. Since he has been se- lected as the favorite candidate of the Republican bosses he has become very affable and exceedingly polite. He is now greatly interested in the prosperity of everyone he meets, only, of course, until after election. when he will have no Surther use for these people. To show the rascality of the editor of the Gazette one need only read the ex. tract, taken fro: 4 last report of the guand jury and published at the head of his editorial department, and then read the entire report. This fellow will stoop to any kind of falsehood or mis. mpresentation to gain a point. scrupulous and unsrincipled, he could quote extracts from the Lord's prayer and distort the Ten Commandments in such a way as to make the unsuspecting believe them to be edicts from the Satanic regions. Un. -——— FriprLen says k= is absolutely certain of the postofice, and has already en. gaged his clerks, Brown feels equally as certain of getting the place; Malin has no doubt about his appointment | and Harris has his son already in train. ing with the view of taking charge of the postoffice when Dr. Dobblus is asked to step down and out. How soon will Boss Hastings end this suspense ¥ Feidler says he must do it at once, Time will tell how much influence this wouklbe boss may have. sini Swept hy the Tide of Popularity. To the topmost pt nnacles of sucoess, Hostet: tor's Stomach Bitters stands a shining proof of what genuine merit, backed by the living oree of proven facts, ean attain, The North and South American continents, Europe, Aus tralia, the West Indias, Guatemala and Mex. Junists Farmers Will Abandon Grain snd | Cultivate the Luscious Frult-Sare CroV as the Delaware region is being denuded | Within a radius here there | are not fewer than 200,000 trees, many | shipped by the carload to all points of | the compass. Sucii ir uit, too, it is doubt | ful if Delaware ever raised in its palm. | shaped, | finely flavored, firm and fleshy and hand. | apt | . | the I umber o “to | | A BOLD GAME | The Harrison administration has giv. Growens ea an early proof of its capacity fos | reckless expenditure of the public men. ley. The increases of the net debt over { one million dollars in July, though an- | expected, excited no particular attention | because it was thought to be due to an | accidental excess in current expendi. tures. But the August statement, show. | ing a further increase of over six mil lions of dollars in the pet debt, admits of no such explanation. Evidently we have reached the end of the policy of re. trenchment enforced by precesding Administrations, and have entered wg. {on a policy of deliberate extravagames. The whole matter is embraced in 1h | following comparative showing of Ow of | {decrease and increase debt : the publi UNDER CLEVELAND Decregse Kye [W000 peegane Decrease IDOCTRREE ees covnnnne Decrease Deereas Decrease POCTERME ovis sess July, Aug July, Aug July Aug July Aug UNDER HARRISON July Aug. No argument could Iners INCrease .. oe wea . Ba add to the fore { of the above figures, a nd no explanation {| would serve to break the force of their appeal to the pecple who make and un- make Administrat on .— 1.eT 1 whet her there S nagmre iN am ri ie GRSIVe concent the United ition of wealth going on in States of Amerien Leaving and unsupported { assertion ont « at on eith. As Inteds there was but one man in this 0 be worth and though some at 820.0060 Ha, son for believing #t At the smallest reason. there must be more than n this country whose as vi £20 000 00 fou But let us call the number only Income-tax show that when arranged | in large classes, multiplies by from three five-fold for every reductionin Ue amount of onehalfl. For extreme cau. tion however, we estimate the increas in the number of incomes at a very much lower rate than this. At this re duced rate, the amount of wealth in the hands of persons worth over $500,000 each in the United States would b» about as follows on | or idle let us} 1847 country who wok into facts, Aas . . wa nD uted | more than #6 000 000 | estimated his wealth | there 5 no good rea i to be 80 great | able estimate pe a . | RT DETSONnS | | wealth CTAges 3 i : : | each | 200, returns qf i ome 200 persons a1 $50,000 000, 16 wi en 5.000 000 — LR we GORA conn 1, HNL NOD 2.500 6 8.250 0m 1000000... T0000 000 O00... coo 10000 SD £76,350, 000,009 The estimate is very far below the actual truth. Yet, even upon this basis we are confrented with the startling ve- sult that 31.000 persons DOW possess three-fifths of the whole national wealth real and personal, according to the highest estisaate ($60,000 ,000,000) which any one has ventured to make of the aggregate amount, Nor is ths conclu. sion at all improbable. — T¥os. G. Shear. man in the September Forum, s————— ~The Reformed congregation, of this place, expect to extend a calito Rev. M. O. Noll. ~~Arrangements are being made for a game of base ball for next Saturday, between Bellefonte and State College, on the latters grounds. ~Little Harry Larmer had a finger torn off last week by getting it ina pulley. i ——— THE ELIXIR OF LIFE NOT NEW. Wenderful Effect Upon the Aged of Bn Jean LaVeuroade's Vite, Dr. Brown Sequard is not alone in the dis covery of elixir vitae, says the Philadelphia Engwirer. Long before the war Dr. Jean Ia Foureade, who practiced; medicine in New feans and kept a drug store on Eeplanade street, prepared and sold an #lixir which when taken had & wonderful revivifying effect on the aged and infirm people to whom it was admin. istered. Dr. LaFourcade si his elixir in & form similar to lioorice sticks, and of about the same color, 5 The stick, when consumed regularly by in firm and aged people, made them as young, re vived thelr impaired energies, and added vigee to their physical being. Hundreds of instances are on record in New Orleans where Paps Las Yoursde's “sticks” had a beautiful effect on The Lite Elixir of which men. thon 1s made in our advertiving columns bs sald Lo contain the same setive principlos as the original Vitae. AUDITORS NOTICE a it ou Com ¥ rl wd) 4 gi ind
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