[5h VOL IL BELLEFONTE, PA, THURSDAY, NOV. 14, i889. The Centre Democrat, CHAS. R. KURTZ, = - - EDITOR. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Regular Price When Paid in Advance $1.50 per year. £1.00 When subseriptions are not paid inside of three years $2.00 will be charged, Editorial. LAWRENCE HROWN has not been to Snow Shoe lately, WHAT was the matter with the south- side this year? Nothing. Ea MEYER'S big vote in Philipsburg was a rebuke to Feidler’s lies. ——————— “Bil” HEINLE has little to say since the election, but a very significant Smile crops out. - — WE have been putting three and four new subscribers on our list every day for some time past. The DEMOCRAT is booming -— THE report that Henderson and Decker would resign, we are sorry tu say, is a mistake. Gov. Beaver has just signed a bill making their salary 240.50 | DIRTY POLITICS REBUKED. THE MEANS EMPLOYED BY THE RING ORGAN. Private Citizens Slandered.— And Candidates Abused and Misrepresented HBeosnuse they were Democrats. Who Sanctions these Methods, The election is over and while the re. sult is exceedingly gratifying to the Democratic party, not only in the coun- ty, but in the whole country, it is not amiss to review the campaign in the COV u(¥. Until the last three or four years, and for a great while before, most of the political campaigns inthe county were ina great degree conducted decently, with fair moderation and due regard for the private character and integrity not only of the candidates but of all who were more or less prominently en. gaged in the contests, To beastly abuse the opposing candidates and vulgarly attack private citizens who took part in the campaign was not thought a neces. sity or considered a virtue. To uphold the candidates, keep their virtues and the work they had done, with their abil. ity to fill the places for which they had been nominated and strongly advocate the principles of the respective parties per day. - WE hear of a large number of persons being after Sheriff Cooke to have him refund his illegal fees. This can done by instituting eivil proceedings ve- fore any Justice of the Peage. - be AL DALE is not feeling badly over the results in the county, He no doubt expected it; like other sensible mem. bers of the party does not believe in ** Bossism” or **Ring-rule.” - THE Democratic papers of this co inty do not claim the credit for the great | Democratic victory—they don’t have that much “gall.” While they helped | to mould public sentime: t people | settled the matter by their ballots, RL | i : i i the WiLL the Democrats receive any more Prohibition tracts from rown? Be consistent, La keep us on your Prohibition might celebrate a little too the recent elections. - HAD the Repubiican party of county. been placed in the managemen ofa few capable fellows Thomas, of the Huntingdon Reforma. tory, success would certainly have fol lowed, We suggest his name for chair. man next fall. | _ Lawrence wrence, and list much Centre | like “Col. : THE results in the county do not en. | courage Jim Feidler's boom for the | Bellefonte post office appointinent. He | got a rebuke from the people and Hast ings is afraid to give him the appoint | ment. It would be bad politics for the General, A Tue Democrats in New York this | year declared for tariff reform and got 23,000 plurality. They did so in New | Jersey and got 12.000 majority. Like. | wise in Ohio, where Foraker is laid to i rest. In Iowa the same rule holds good. | Massachusetts must be included, for | there the Democratic gain is nearly 18. 000. If straws show which way the | wind blows, what do cyclones show?— | Exchange. -— Under a law, signed by Governor | Beaver in May of this year, county com. | missioners elected in the future will re. | ceive $4.50 instead of #.00 per day. | This pay is allowed only for the time | in which they are actually in the dis. | charge of their duties. It is also pro vided that the commissioners ‘shall an. | nually submit to the board of county | auditors a full itimized account. under | Oath, of the days and nature of business | in which they were employed during | the year.” are to be out of the county treasury, Ex-President Cleveland was inter. viewed on the election results, evident," said Mr. Cleveland, leaven of tariff reform has leavened the whole | which has af last ) nut inet | tion into the private life of every | in the Democratic party and whether | | @ver pure j cause they { however | | officers | county, was supposed to be smart, | manly assault men in their private char “that the was, by good men of both parties, con. sidered all that was required on the | part of the respective party papers. The belter nature. and the ster) ing { qualities of men in both parties were appealed to and aroused in the interest and rallied to the support of the party | standards, and it was not thought nec in bad | essary, indeed it was deemed taste, if not considered exceedingiy vul. | either | as a hypoerite, his life, private and pro. gar, to wantonly abuse or vilify candidates or party workers, Ous ple were all the better for this kind of politics, they began to better understand I. wr as Democrats and Republi. But th ind in Centre county was broken in in The Democrats have been slow each ot Cis, is K of politics upon Sale 5 W to realize that men like Governor Bea- I. 8. Keller, with others, contributed largely to es. tablish a new Hepablican paper (now organ) in the county and L its head a man of mean principles Then began Judge Furst, Col. HH “ye $38 Ting SOW nstincis mivate citizen or public officer and how. | I in his character, simply be. | b Democrats, mnst be wbused, maligned, stamped as liars and their motive ofty, misrepresented. who had proven themselves faithful, and whose integrity was un- were thieves, every and act, | purchasable must be caricatured, their good names traduced and their records perverted, This kind of journalism of course cap- tured the vulgar, and for a the in a measure seemed to destroy the ascend. ency of the Democratic party in the To lie and misrepresent by this new journal was considered » vir tue. To say that it had received hun. dreds of letters from Democrats who were dissatisfied with their party nomi. nations, when they were all written in the office by the editor, was considered good politics; to publish remarks, made by Democrats on the street or in their offices to their neighbor and friends, To inhu. acters, because they choose to take part in the campaigns on behalf of the Dem. ocratic party was the occasion of a louder guffan from Beaver, a more sanctimonious look from Furst and a milder whisper of extreme satisfaction from Keller, while the other contribu. tors to the establishment of the ring organ more gleefully than ever rubbed their hands at the success of their en. terprise. Because Democratic election officers saw fit to do their whole duty when no liquor had at any time passed | between their teeth. Persons who un- body decently. “It is | der the direction of the officer who ad. advocate the principles of the Demo ministered the oath to the elector, were stigmatized as forgers, when their act was perfectly pure and in strict accord with the law, Local officers, because they had been honest and faithful in the discharge of their duties, rendering a full account of every transaction, were branded as boodlers and embes. zlers. The assaults made on the candi. dates of the Democratie party were us unholy as they were uncalled for, The District Attorney was ruthlessly assailed because he sent the only person, beside The the o the democme Jatforoon and Jap iam, tt grees. the prosecutor, who saw the necurrence before the grand jury, It was asserted in the wost solemn manner that for so Aoteg ha contd tw ywrsesertod for mal. A andid te misrepresented with all the bitterness. brutality and vulgarity that the ring organ could command. Because dar. ing the summer, in the exercise of his judgment as a good citizen, Mr, Fortney saw fit to advocate the adoption of the Prohibitory Amendment, and more. iu the exercise of his judgment he saw fit to do, as be alw.ys has done, support an’ advocate the election of the Democratic urged not to vote for Mr. Meyer's re- election. All this was done in the face of the fact that the truth in each case was within the reach of the depraved wreleh who edits the ring organ. This years campaign has been no exception to the manner in which the pious lead. ers of the “God and morality” party in town have permitted their henchmen to carry on campaigns in other respects. Because Orvis, Bower & Orvis, OC. M. Bower, J. LL. Spangler and D. F. Fort. ney saw proper in the interest of their party and in commendation of its candi. dates, to address personal letters to a large number of intelligent and faith. ful Democrats ihroughout the county, ticket, he is singled out and attacked with extraordinary malignity. It was all right for Col. Keller, Judge Furst, W. F. Reeder, J. IL. Republicans who supported the Amend. ment, more zealously than Fortney, to give their hearty aid, sepport and ing of the election of their for Associate In theta it was no erime to support the reg. ular party ticket. But Judge. for a Democrat | who supported the Amendment toagain ! fF trees Sthgt! to the support of his party wus a crime and to destroy his influence and power he must be assailed, denounced fessional, d All this is called politics by the Re. { publican leaders of Centre county, i a Lin : conducted | n more CaRmjpsigns WAY seemed io succeed. The boorish and brutal the ring organ could be, tovard Democrats, the the more eminently pious gentlemen ’ : »® wen in bringing it ie v sf | stromenial existence rejoiced, This kind of politics could not Ry an inquisi. | man | : : Public | unrebuked. The Democtatic foreves | papers never d turn this } Kil tard § de teat Hicans, who ela and even wil fTopmd med {Sach ind were regarded as respe | citizens in the community would | halt on their offspring and do they il to instill a little 4 fit We Hu publi us be. the editor of their organ. | walled long enough. the | leving that there was sucees t | Kind of polities of course continued it, | {It was for the Democratic | compel] better treatment of their can. | didates and party workers. The reme. | dy is the same relied upon so much by {those who believe in ho-mos-op-a-thy, | “like is cured by like.” In a dignified little of the | remedy this fall. We could not remain silent no longer. We had treated the Republican party office holders, candi. dates and party workers, with fair con. papers to {manly way we tried a ! sideration, and were disposed to do so | but their misdeeds and malfeasance in {office became so great that we were { bound to let the public know what was { being done. { holders, eandidates and party workers, it was done without malice, and with such an array of facts and figures, the | exposure of open violation of the law and such boll corruption that the ring | organ, candidates, office holders. and party workers, went down on the first {round under an average majority of | 1,088, | What we said about Republican of- { fice holders during the campaign was true. We gave such abundant proof of the charges made that the people be- | lieved them, and already the Sheriff | has been bh." to disgorge some of the i J b d | illegal fees hesotofore taken, and in Their traveling expenses | Under their oaths they were stigmatized | yeas | #8 ballot box stuffers and drunkards, | cases referred to in the DEMOCRAT, [ Asa journalist we mean to treat every We will continue to cratic party and support its candidates, Las well as expose the corruption, im. morality, and missdeeds of Republican | office holders, All this is our plain | duty. We have uo desire to attack, ridicule or vilify private citizens or | Republicans who may be asking for office. But when it becomes necessary for the public good to know the exact qualities of a candidate, the Desocnat will be the fearless advocate for the people. ul Ox of the lessons to be drawn from the recent dlection is that bosslsm Is played ont In Centre county and wil not be tolerited by any : *. . . ; wn xy their private and professional life is | Hamill and all | 4 Deo the Intellect and conscience of the | prayer to the Republican party, even to | the advoeat torted and misrepresented | on i had | When we assanlted office | | A POLITICAL SIGN OF THE TIMES. | Time was when the intelligence and | conscierice of the Northern States were largely, if not chiefly enlisted in the | ranks of the Republican party. Preach- ers, Vachers, college presidents { professors were very generally Republi. Z«ns, and nearly every pulpit, academy and college was an educational centre from which the youth of the land were feasance in oftice, and the people were | #Ut oul trained and inspired to make } War against the institution of siavery and in favor of maintaining the integri. | ty of the national government. While | his condition of things lasted the su. | Premacy of the party was inevitable. | The sneer 50 often aimed at preachers | and teachersas impractieable theori sts | Is & harmless one always, for the simple {truth about the matter is that the | preachers and teachers of one generation | oud and control the political and so. {cial forces of the next. These leaders | of the thought of a generation age cre. |ated the Republican party and were { primarily the source of all its real | achlevmments, This being the case it { would naturally follow that if the party { continued to be led by its intellect and | conscience its ascendency would be per. teanent, But what is the present tendency ? North continue to lead the party and furnish Which way are these elements gravitatingnow, towards the party or away from #* A caref survey of the political fle leads to t} j conclusion that, while the party still re. 1S8Nes 7 its we tains a large following of eultivated and thoroughly upright citizens, the leaders in thought and morals are gravitating away from it. The recent declaration of President Elliot, of Harvard. in favor of the Democratic candidate for Gov. ernor of Massachusetts, is a ex nspic. nous illustration of this tendency election of Seth Low as president of The hesion of clergymen Prohibition cause and the severe but Columbia College is another, ad. 0 INans ritieism of the Republican party by Viner } 4 { iad Vil service reformers are A straws that show that the intellect. { ual and meal currents are away from the Republi Wi party ad this time. There are virions for this. ng of the few at the expense TOA%OTIS Y the maintenance of cus. than i the revenue required to sup- diities iigher are economically administered gov. ment, or even to afford due protec- i or, Las doubtless wincon the party responsib The in. Of its professions on the sub. we hecessary taxation. an honest civil service and 1 : ’ he precent are the leaders ow spoilsmen are also leading causes { Of this very apparent drift. While the | rank and file of the party remain honest | they acce pt the k adership of these men without serious protest. These spoils. | men make platform promises to the ear | that are broken to the hope and select candidates for the offices from the Pres. | | idency down who are silently if not openly in accond with themselves, sparing, therefore, of reform within {the party the Elliots. Lows, Curtises and other eduveators and leaders of | thought are drifting into the Demotrat. { je party. The present signific nent secessions from { these prom. rather in their revelation of a tendency than otherwise, They reveal the fact that the men of this type are dissatisfied | with the present management and atti. | tude of the party. The few that have | Rone are but the pioneers of a larger [number who will follow. There are | thousands of Republicans who are Re. publicans now under protest. They | will cease to protest much longer if the | Present leadership of the party is con- | Hinued and follow the few bold spirits {Into the other party. But the future | effect of this changed atitude on the {part of the leading educ of the { country Is likely to be very . With { Harvard, Yale, Columbia and other | educational centres led and moulded by men who have sadly arrived st the con, clusion that ihe Republican party has outiived its usefulness the time is not far distant when the young and aggres. sive conscience and intellect of the coun. bry will ba sevayed in the opposing ranks, If the Republican party shall not depose its Platts, Dudleys and Clarksons pretty generation of voters the party witout fail,— and | ul | + The | to the | necessary | influenced | Dudieys, Clarksons and their | De. | blinacism has | HAUNTED BY & WITCH, HARD LUCK OF A FARMER UVEN THE MUNCY Hrs i Heo and His Wife are Both Religions and In dustrious—-They Bought a Splendid Parm kept It Most Handsomely, Waste Away te Nothing Up on the Muney Hills, of Montour county, Pennsylvania, George Moser purchased a fine farm of 200 acres of arable land. He bought it with the hardearned wealth of northern Berks and invested it in the soil of these hills, where all the farmers are nabobs, living off the fat of the land. Any one who is disposed to be industrious will thrive there and grow rich, Mr. Moser was all this. He had no mortgage on his property, he had stocked his barns with the finest horses and best bred cattle, he was industrious and toiled early and late. Yet Farmer Moser is to-day entire. ly impowve: ished, Since Mr. Moser has taken hold of the farm no living appurtenance of it has flourished : but, on the other hand, every horse, cow, pig or chickens has { Wasted into the merest skeleton and it | has been 80 ever since Mr, Moser’s POs. of it. He has struggled hard | Against fate, aud at first disposed of his | stock at a sacrifice. Session with the impression | that it was simply good for nothing. | Jut it turned out that | Who purchased the cattie. short time had his neighbors. in & very them fattened and { flourishing, while the new.b might stock | of Moser wi re as reduced as Pharaoh's | seven lean kine, The | he had put into } { flesh and sinew can be seen to-day MERE WALKING SKELETONS. | unit te plough or work. { cattle are all good feeders. but At firet he to fatten a stablefull iO them five horses tha do nay i y Are bide and pones { steers and increased their | satisfy the most marveious | beast, and, instead of sell | the market, he again sacrifice d then | his neighbors, and they 1 | Eight cows stood in the Fished barnyard at They were bred out « | best of stock, but they looked 1i | evening shadows play Mis, Moser, at one ti { evening, et ing by thei ne a hearty we | an, but now much fallen awas dejected through their reve se, recentd r the mil I do not know whether to take buckets. Some eve nings ths give less than one.half of a bucket ; sometimes they give three ¥r i remarked as she went out { | { hree even The pig stalls had nine large | penned up for fattening, { ill as the rest, Por kers They fared as The calves are all legs { and ears, and the poultry is like a flock of starved crows in midwinter | hens pillage the wheat fields, and are fed like any other flock of country poul. try, but they are not worth the | they take up, either in the laying of | eggs or for upon the table. The farmer has not killed chickens fur visit. ors during many years. The fame of THIS REMARKABLE INSTANCE U™ : | { tof long.continned illduck with the farmer has been spread far and wide. | | Among the people up among the hills | this is the all absorbing topic. It is no | unusual thing to se¢ lines of carriages | | visiting the place and much sympathy | | is expressed for Farmer Moser. Var. | fous theories are advanced to account for the long continued evil. No blame is laid at the door of the Maser house. hold, who are a church.going people, pious at home and altogether honest it their dealings. The neighbors have, therefore, come to the conclusion that it is the diabolical persecution of some one in league with the devil. Supersti. tion is strife there, and the ceredulons. ness of the people is unbounded. There are some old Lags in the neighborhood Who are placed under the ban, They have ber discovered in their practice of the black arts. An old witch infests the immediate vicinhy, who at one time became offended at the Mowers, and left their barnyard gate, lifting her gaunt and ominous forefinger in threats of a dire visitation. Witches are much feared in that region, and. in the face of their belief fully avoid incurring their displeasure, All the prescriptions of witch doctors, near and far, have failed to bring cure to this furm, The cows have frequently gives bloody milk. It might have been THE BITE OF A SNAKE, or an injured mulk | 1s stalls rounded with His | attempted | sf the | } ae ri wh The his disease, nor render lim anycare W was no spell of despondency over ne waning wealth and ruined hopes; #8 Was a mowenting sickness, The opinkw prevailed that he bad fallen into tw Curse that raged among his stock. After all known eu es had been exhms. ted, the family pastor wo - unteered to find a soures of relief. He forthwith went to Philadelphia and brought back te Qs farm a clairvoyant, who at once pnt Mr. Moser underthe mesmeric infamnes and in his trance asked him various. questions. A sick man was brought te his notice in that clairvoyant condition and a picture of a cure effected to is vision. The expert left varied Oot». pounds of presciptions, and since tint visit Farmer Moser is rapidly recover. ing. But the farm stock is yet under its bewitched curse, The evil has des. troyed the prosperity, usefulness snd happiness of one bright home on tie Muncy hills, and very moch unsettied the confidence of the flourishing wed peaceful community, This phenomenon is open to public inspection, and Insary BO to witness it.—Rreakfast Table. te : THAT “17 year locust” was a mighty poor campaign dodge and the authre has discovered that Centre county voters can not be duped. cr | Wao stole Chainnan Bill's wiiaSony” | —News. Why Feidler. i —— . Jix Cosurx has stopped talking since the election. ——— . ~45ct plush takes the lead. at Meyer's i Bazaar. —For cheap prices, Mingle's Shoe stone can beats all others, at Camp & re—see adver. —Presents given away furniture st | Naginey's ting {4 { tisement ght shoes, plain ’ anything in the Mind at Mingle's Show you they have who will take you with 4 good . is 5 - The cost of Feeding a Bay, Dr. McKinnon, the Superinicsdent of Mimico Industrial School. in Cras. as furnished the Toronto Maid with on the sulgest. the school, whe good bodily health, Re . bought in a whale. ul would somewhat chomp as compured with online d expenditure. The boys have {all they wish to eat: and the Superin- tendent’s accounts, not being comgpli- cated by expenses for sustenance Ter | other persons, furnish valuable data met otherwise readily obtainable. "The { following statement shows the average | weekly expenditure per boy: | the fA i an interesting statement are 10% boys kept sbsistence is hers it in yo 1 sale way tl the cost househo space | i Flour - BS — {Oatmeal and other meal { Barley and beans Rice, sage. ete Coffe, covon and tea Sugar and sirups Salt, pepper and FORE FPUTRE. xins secs sri Do. preserved and dried ooo. Fresh meat and Fish. ao i Do. eared . - Butter and cheese ... Mhey provisions... i Vegetables Milk... other condiments... Total ST mm——————— |] The cost of food, as above given, { not include the expense of preparing 8, [or incidental expendita for superintenth lence, ete. But the average disburse. | ment is astonishingly small, So far a | subsistence goes, to raise a boy is nat { much more costly than to raise a pig. | If a healthy boy can be properiysfed for | 856 a year, there is Jess discouragement lin the task of increasing the male pap- | ulation of the country than pessimist { observers are wont fo insist upon. — | LW. Noyes, of Chicago, the maker of The | tionary Holders, sends upon receipt of a Sen | cent stamp to pay postage, a serjes of wey | pretty blotters of most ex cellent quality. Owe {has a cutol a lhtle drum major cupid st Se | head of two Tong colums of Dictionary Hels. ers, and this Ie is speech: “1 am a quiet Mle | drammer’ for the Noyes Holders. 0 in o-y | mission to call attention to the fact tht these | are the only Holders that have strong sprees | to hug the book firmly together, thus — i e dt rt th ad | about 125.000 families happy . { use of ‘= N | from your book | frequently you will refer to A Lads Per eet | Painless Chidbirth, a new book by Dr. Swe. IL Dye, ome of New York's most skiiitel phy | sielany, shows that pain 4 not necescary in | ONIIABIFEE, bt results from causes + oily we
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