Beaver & Gephartvk ni Vol. I3 BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 189I. The Centre Lemoivai, CHAS. R. KURTZ, - = EDITOR TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Regular Price When Paid in Advance When subscriptions are n vears £2.00 will be charge i Editorial. i Jonx Wanamaker collected the | money from the millionaire beneficiaries of our iniquitous tariff system, with which Quay and Dudley were enabled {o purchase Harrisons election in 1888, These men have been driven from the National committee of the party, be- cause the respectable element in the party in open revolt against the “practical politics’’ employed by them If Quay and Dudley are to be forced from the National committee, because they distributed the ‘‘boedle,” why not force Holy Jol ut of the Cabinet because he collected ‘‘the accursed thing.” is in 1888. il O - Tue democrats of Maryland, convention last week, formerly Senator Gorman in nomination for re-! election to the United States Senate. The action of the democracy of Mary- land will be hailed with joy by every demoerat the country. Gorman led the fight that caused the defeat of the iniquitous force bill, and certainly deserves the splendid recogni- The enthusiasm ! at thei at hel placed in Senator tion he has received. and good feeling that prevailed in the of the entire democratic State ticket, and the convention insures the election return of Senator Gorman to the Sen. | asa —— ate. | | Quay and Dudley have been kicked out of the National committee of the | republican party because they were | found out in the disgraceful methods | employed to elect Harrison. Bardsley | the defaulting city treasurer of Phila. | delphia is in prison for the same reason, | but a number of other prominent rep- | resentatives of the grand old party are | equally guilty, and reaping the benefits of the labors of these men who are now in disgrace. Indeed great care is taken that they are not detected, and every possible obstacle is thrown in the way of democratic state officials to pre any further exposures. This is absolute. ly necessary in order to shield prominent lights of republicanism, and save the party from destruction. - ArTER the meeting of the demoeratic State convention of Ohio, and the re. | nomination of Gov. Campbell, the re. publican papers were teeming with ac- counts of the wonderful dissatisfaction in the democratic party. Later develop. | ments, however, show the utter falsity of these reports, and exhibit a good sized trouble in the ranks of the op- position. Sherman, Forster and Foraker are all candidates for the Senate and already the contest has become so heat- ed that prominent newspaper and leading party men predict the sacrifice of the republican state ticket, and the | election of a democratic legislature, | The overwhelming majority for Me. | Kinley has dwindled down to a very | small majority, and he himself has lately said that he would “have a hard fight to be elected.” SExAToR Quay has again come to the front as the great resigner. This time he has resigned his chairmanship of the National Republican committee, and ihe Executive Committee, and also his membership of the National Com. mittee as the representative of Penn. sylvania. Col. W. W. Dudley of the “‘block of five” notoriety has also retired from the committee. For some time the better class of republicans desired the retirement of these men, and in fact the internal trouble of the grand old party had become so serious that | their retirement became an imperious necessity. They have been forced to retire from their positions under fire; in fact the retreat has turned into rout. While the Harrison administration was willing to accept the points of the victory acheived by Quay and Dudley in 1588, they have not been willing to openly endorse the methods employed, and have ever since been quietly, but industriously, plotting to force the men from the head of the national organiza. tion of the party, expecting in this way to escape the odium attached to the open and wholesale purchase of the presidency. The persecutors of Quay and Dudley willingly received the stol- en goods, but now turn State evidence and seek to make them the to carry the party sins into the wilder- 1108, li =Do you have a good map ? If not read the advertisernent on another page. - | Mr. f Pedi] Neck t amending i3¢ Tn Lar | proposition to change for { have { the vote. I. FORTNEY'S OPINION. OPPOSES A CONSTITU- TIONAL CONVENTION. ¢ gives His Reasons—How to Obtain Seoret Ballots and other Valuable Suggestions Read them Cras, RL Kun | am much obliged for the kind words you used, in the CENTRE DEM. 0CRAT of the 30, in reference to myself for delegate tional Convention from It looks absind to g the to the proposed Constitu. this through a district. 0) paign. incor NEeCesSSAry expense, when, by the time the election is over, { the oflice for which you are a candidate, The truth is there is no may not exist, sity for such a convention, i and the expediency of holding a conven. tion for the sole purpose of revising and the constitution when there {18 no necessity for it, is greatly to be doubted. Taking the expression of the people i as an index there is no demand that the | present constitution be changed, except +1 in so far ti relates to An as it of the ballot. e numbering examination of the the requirements of the demon constitution in this respect will trate that there is no foundation it under the law, as it It is not the numbering that reveals t secrecy of the ballot. Three men the board. They are persons who, in any manner, or handle the The clerks simply write the names of now stands, hi con stitute election . the only ccess to ballots, { electors and keep tally upon counting The clerks, overseers, (if any) and election officers are sworn to secre cy, and any clerk, overseer or election | officer who shall disclose how any elec | tor shall have voted, unless required to do 80 in a judiecisl proceeding, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, which upon conviction would subject him, or them, | to a fine of $1000 and two years impris- onment. During all the years that the present constitution and the laws made in pur. | suance of the provisions relating to elec. tions have been in force no case, to my knowledge, has been reported where the election board or any member of it, in any district in the state has been arrest. ed or prosecuted for revealing how any | ! elector voted, An experience of a number of years | as Judge of the Election, in the district i in which live, leads to the conclusion | that the secrecy of the ballot is revealed altogether by the manner in which the tickets are printed. By the difference in the type used in printing the words | “State Ticket,” or “County Ticket, "any | watcher at the window what this can tell ticket the elector is voting. By means it is that the employe or the boss | of labor undertakes to tell how his em. | { ploye voted, and if the ticket polled did { not contain the heading of the employ. { er'sor boss’ party ticket the laborer was | called to account, especially if he was { employed in one of our tariff protected institutions. I do not wonder that this manner of using the ballot to coerce the laboring men of our State to vote against their | sense of right and justice has called from i them a loud demand for the preserva: | tion of the secrecy of the ballot, not the demand sufficiently met by the | But is provisions of the law recently passed relating to ballot reform, at least, until the constitution can be amended in the manner provided without a convention 7 | It is well known to the citizens of the | commonwealth that at the general elec tion held in October, 1872, the last but one under the constitution of 1538, im- mense frauds were committed in the city of Philadelphia. The ballot-box’ stuffer, the ballot thief, the repeater, and forger of election returns got in their work effecctually and with won. derful results. So much so, that about three weeks afterwards the Pressof that city, in an article headed ‘‘Masks.off,” clearly showed that in one ward alone the returns of the election had been al- tered, so as to make a difference of at least ti ree thousand votes in the result, Large as the Republican majority was, in the city that year, it is the belief of i many people that it was the result of fraud, forgery, theft and repeating done on the day of the election. These fearful results impelled the convention which framed the present constitution to do what it could to pre. vent fraud and as far as possible, secure the purity of the ballot. This gave birth to the clause in the constitution requiring the ballots to be numbered, Since its adoption the ballot-box stuffer and the forger of election returns, have disappeared from the politics of the State, while the repeater, in many in. stances, has been discovered by means of the numbering of the ballot, convict. cam- | ed and sent to the penitentiary, The hue and ery raised against { provision of the constitution, surely comes from a misapprehension of its ef- fect on the secrecy of the ballot. No elector’s vote operation, If in a contest, it is sary to recount the vote, neces. and it should be revealed how any man voted, it i8 done in the mterest of justice and good government and no good citizen ought to complain, Men are not discharged, because they have voted against the wishes of their | {employer or boss six months or after the election, if it more should then be discovered that they had done so. If immediate ly after the election while the heat and discharged at all, it is done excitement of the campaign still exists, On this point let the constitution stand as it now is, but let all the ballots be printed and distributed at the public expense, with the names of the respec- tive party candidates in col- umns: the ballots to be delivered to the seperate voter within the polling place by sworn officers; prohibit the use of any other than the official ballot, and Jet the voter in preparing his ballot be guaranteed absolute privacy. { the ballot reform bill passed by the last tliese It is not perfect and never will be, bit as necessity and experience may require, let it be amended and fected until it lis} | purpose. Sec. 4=Article VIII of the tion has done more to preserve the puri- ty of the ballot, to break up fraud, close forgery and discover the repeater, legislature substantially contains provisions, "eo accomplish its full constitu- dis. at our elections than any law a consti. tutional provision we have ever had, It ought not to be changed. In some quarters it is contended that there ought to be a convention to make | provision to enforce the Seventeenth article in the present constitution. It is strange that the enforcement of any article in any constitution, which makes provision that Legislature, shall provide by law for properly carrying it into effect should have to be enforeed by a convention. The same argument is used in reference to the provisions of the constitution relat. ing to senatorial and judicial apportion ments, There is only one provision that should be made in reference to these several articles of the constitution Every senator and representative is sworn to “Support, obey and defend the constitn. tioc. of the Commonwealth as well the constitution of the United States.” It is therefore the sworn duty of every senator and representative to do what- ever be can to honestly and faithfully carry into effect every provision of the constitution. It ecan be done, all that is needed is to honestly try, the constitutional As There should be a clause in the cone stitution making it perjury on the part of every man, who as senator or repre sentative, takes the oath prescribed and | who fail to support laws to earry out the provisions of the constitution, and the record of their voles against anti | discrimination bills, fair apportionment bills, and bills to prohibit the granting of free passes by railroad companies to any person except employes of the com- pany, to be used in against them. Under such a provision the good peo { ple of the state, who care nothing for of- fice, but desire to enjoy the benefits of {good government could amuse them- selves by sending the senators and rep. resentatives who violated their oaths, to | prison. Not more than one or two ses. | sions of the legislature would go by until | laws would be enacted providing for | the rigid enforcement of all the provis- | 1ons of the constitution as it now exists This is about all the change that should be made in the constitution. The | proposition is so radical that it is not { likely to be adopted by any convention, This being so, I do not see the need of going to the expense and risk of having a convention to tinker at the constitution which time and experience have demon- strated is an excellent instrument, It is no argument against the constitu. tion, as it now is, to say that we have had it for 17 years and some of its pro. | visions remain unenforced. That is en. tirely the fault of the people. If they would send men of exalted character, ability and honesty to the legislature, laws wouldibe passed that would accom. plish the purposes of the constitution. Another objection to a convention at this time exists in the fact that never in the history of our State have the cor. porations had so much power and so firm a grasp upon the people. Give them the opportunity by calling a con vention and they will destroy every line of the fundamental law which restricts their power. If the people are wise there will be no convention called, by their evidence i this | is revealed through its! As I understand it. | permission, after next November, The people of our county are now | against a convention and I hope they will continue to be, and show it in the re turns of the coming election. | I can not and will not be a candidate | for delegate, I hope however that the | people, not only of the county but of the | state, will see to it that the very best men are chosen for delegates both in the { senatorial districts and at large. | stitutional A cone convention | t fools or cranks. 8 no place for Very Truly, D. F. Forrxey. EE i ._—Sdt IMERHARDT RESIGNS, During the administration of Presi. dent Cleveland the Custom House in New York city was placed in the hands of Daniel Magone, a man who was noted for his ability and integrity, and who recognized that public office was a pub. lic trust, COLLECT Years previous this custom house was the very citadel of corruption, but collector Magone banished the pro- fessional politician, selected men for fitness, administered the office on busi. | ness principles, and ina short time it was fully demonstrated to the business people that the Custom House in New York city could be run honestly, and like any other business. Immediately { upon the inauguration of Mr. Harrison | Mr. Magone’s official head was demand. | ed, In a short time he was removed, and | Joel B. Erhardt, who has just resigned mM in his Mr. Erhardt { is not a practical politician, but a man who believes thatthe duties >f public of. | appointed place, i fice, should be performed with fidelity | This does not meet with the approval of { Mr. Platt, the republican boss of New York, and he proceeded at once to either | {compell Mr. Erhardt to conduct the office to suit the ynachine or force his retirement. The struggle seems to have been a desperate one, bot with the assistance of the administration at Wash. ington, and especially of Secretary Fos. ger, the boss has succeeded, and Mr, Erhardt’s place is now filled by J. Sloat Fossatt, a creature of the machine, and a willing tool of Platt, The New York Custom House, as of old, will again be the chief sonree of inspiration for the healers and bums of the grand old’ arty, This is right according to the ideas of the republican party as it is now con. stituted]: and the people have no right to complain, When they defeated Cleve. and and Harrison, they pro. claimed that machine polities and boss. win was preferable to honesty and lected ine tegrity in the administration of public office. -—— MANS LAW MUST BE OBEYED A Seventh Day Adventist in Memphis, Tenn,, having been sentenced to pay a fine for having plowed his field on Sun. day, the case was appealed to the So. preme Court of the United States, the appellant contending that the sentence was in of the State Bill of Rights, and also of the Federal Constitu, tion. The Supreme Court has, never. theless, affirmed the decision of the lower Court. violation ! In reaching a decision the Federal | Court did not go into the intrinsic ques. { tion of morality, nor into the constitu. tionality of Sabbath laws, It simply de. termined that man having set apart a certain day in the week for rest. and hav. ing done so by law, such law must be obeyed as man’s law if not as God’s law ; in other words, that as the difendant was duly convicted under Tennessee law, it was not within the province of the Federal Court to review the case, This action of the highest tribunal in the land is a new affirmation of the doc. trine of State sovereignty ; and is quite as far-reaching and important as any former application of that doctrine. In making the State itself the tribunal for settling such vexed questions the Su. preme Court has certainly shut off a flood of appeals from various States, and thus mercifully kept down its already overiaden trial lists, Bargains tn Muslin Underwear, Saturday Aug. Sth, Night gowns, Cor. set covers , skirts, chemise, and drawers will go at bargain prices. No humbug, genuine bargains for one day only. Cast BAZAAR, ~The new steam pump at the water works is a success, It can fill ¢ in a very short time and it is only used apart of the time. It is a great saving in fuel as it uses much less steam than the old pump and does more work, There should be no trouble now in regard to a water supply. ~Last Saturday the Bellefonte's ball team was at Lock Haven, by a There were many ex. the subordinate places because of their | “A COSTLY INFANT. THE TIN PLATE WHAT INDUSTRY AND IT WILL COST. Senator Aldrich’'s Promise to Labor—A Manufacturer's Estimate of Costs—Mo- Kinley's “Infant” Wil to Consumers, Be n Burden | f i | | ! } | | | The more the brilliant promises of our | tin plate statesmen are examined and subjected to the rules of simple arith metic, the more they vanish into thin air ¢ made for the new industry is that of { Benator Aldrich, to the effect that it would give employment to 70,000 work- men. | York from | 2.99 cents per pound. One of the most magnificent promises | U00,000 pounds of tin plates would cost cont or F000005 POUNDE TI5 PLATES Sueel (exclusive of labor cost) $5 554000 Pig tin....... | Expense in sheet mill. ....... ¥ Expense in tinning mill. .......... Total labor cost from the ore tp Total of all cost Total cost per pound Present foreign price ‘on BO0000,000 pounds at 3.25 cents. , Excess of doroestic over foreign oot This difference would be still greater if we should take the average price of foreign tin plates laid down in New 1856 to 1800, This average years, exclusive of duty, was At this price 800, €ouy Ty pE¥) | ive : ¥ M x | $12,486,000 less if brought ip from abroad than 1 Now it is worth while to make a cals | culation to see what these 70,000 work- men will earn. We imported iast year 680,000,000 pounds of tin plates, worth $20,028,000, or 8.07 cents per pound. Let us assume, however, that for the next | fow years our consumption of tin plates { will be considerably larger, say 800,000, 000 pounds per year, | Now, while the tin plate politicians | never stop to figure, occasionally a manu- facturer whips out his pencil and counts {the cost of making tin plates in this | country, One manufacturer has made a | calculation of the cost of manufacturing | plates in Pittsburg, and this has been | printed in the New York trade paper, | Hardware, a journal very much in sym- | pathy with the unborn tin infant. This manufacturer is not himself a maker of tin plates, but he objects to seeing our | iron manufacturers “swim along the cur- rent without going into close calcula tions.” Hence he makes for them a oal- culation to show that the cry which cer- tain Welsh manufacturers raised when they visited this country some months ago, that A manufacturers of tin plate coulllfiot cotupete with them with a less duty than four cents, was alto gether false. According to ths manu- facturer the total labor cost of making tin plates in this country will be as fol- lows: Cents | per ib, Making steel sheets ready, for tinning Now, then, let us see what Senator Aldrich’s 70,000 laborers will get for making 800,000,000 pounds of tin plates: Total labor cost of making 800,000,000 pounds of tin plates at 1.70 cents vide this among 70,00 workmen, sed each man gets yearly wages of $13.000,000 fim This is certainly very low wages for skilled labor. Perhaps, however, the Rhode Island senator will enter the pro- test that be meant to include the irom miners and pig irom workmen in his estimate. Well, be it so. Even with this correction made, the senator will hardly get “American wages” for his 70,000 workmen. The figures sent by United States Labor Commissioner Carroll D. Wright to Senator Carlisle during the tariff de- bate last September will furnish us with a correct statement of the labor cost of the steel billets with which the tin plate mill begins. The estimate of Mr. Wright was for making one ton of steel rails; and we shall not err by taking his fig ures down to the point where the billets are to be turned into rails. The total direct labor cost in a ton of steel billets, including the ore, coke, limestone, etec., was reported by Mr. Wright to be $9.10. As there is a waste of about 8 per cent, in converting billet® into sheets for tin- ning the labor cost of making 184 pounds of billets must boadded. This, together total production of 800,000,000 pounds, Senator Aldrich's 70,000 men would then i F k 5] il | ] g BEF i gf i i 3 i I E 4 tis i i E gE ; h } g 4 g] BEF g i ; § in { manufactured McKinley's home market tin plate mills, The estimate here made is based upon that of a manufacturer who is a protec tionist, and his figures are printed in a protectionist trade paper which is mak- ing a specialty of booming the tin plate industry, These figures, therefore, can- not be subjected to the suspicion of be- ing originated by some “enemy of Amer | ican industry.” A slightly different ratio of tin to steel has been taken—8 per cent. instead of 24; and Carroll D. Wright's estimate of labor cost of making steel has been introduced. These differences make only a slight variation from the result reached by the manufacturer, his estimate hav- ing been made several months ago, and prices having varied somewhat. The conclusion of the whole matter is that if the McKinley “infant” supplies the entire home market, it will cost the country from §10,000,000 to $12,000,000 8 year. Seer] ; By virtue of iit of 1 GUST 22. 189) following 1 ITEDAY, Al to wit All that certain Warriors Mark tows Pa, containing fee of which is owned by bounded and described as 16llows a small pine, thence north 8° west perches to a black sak, thence north * i¥ 410 perches 10 a pine, thenes “ast 49 4-10 perches Loa post, 1 east 57 210 perches toa post east 10 perches toa post Wie east 0600 perches to a post, thenee arth %2 fix pereh 0 8 posi, thenee uortd 532300 perches toa » ne, the place of begin ing, thereon ¢ srame dwelling houses, ten | "wy houses, pump house with b 2 PRIN, walter tank, 2 wells, derricks and ree 8, washer building and boller, 2 engines hotness churn washer, and | Bradford 5 log vw ashe are Jigs § large waler tanks with pipes aud co Cliotm, engine house, dinkey engine dlrond Lraok, Lruseein, sidings obo, repair shops, blacksmith shop, 3 stables, #tg « BCTes ana DO# i a2 thence norte thenos with two Istory dwelling ALRD, All the and other mi ight iron ore eras, and the and priv relating the mining and carry way of the same, on and ande a large tract of and situated in Warriorssaaek township, Huntingdon county, and Halfmoon and Ferguson townships, in Centre county, in the State of Pennsylvania, containihg 520 acres and 18 perches of land, be ng dew metes and bounds as follows: Beginni nos, supposed to be the corner of Franklin township and Warriorsmark township in tue county of Huntingdon; and post being alse ‘ecated on the county line dividing the sald county of Huntingdon from the county of Centre, thenee © “bby lands of G. K. and J H. Shoenberger, 55° 3 west 885 perches to a potand stones, theneoe north 29° 30° west 1S perches to post, thenoe south #5" west 19 (5.40 perches to a post, thence south 179° west 222-10 perches 1o a post, thence north C8L° west 65 3.10 perches to post, thenoe south 3° west 610 perches to a post, thence south 27% west M perches to a post, thence south 345,° west 44 310 perches to post, theneoe north 64° west » pe hes to a post, thence south 213, west 75 6.10 perches to post, thence south west I" Bg perches to a post, thence north 71° = west 10 perches toa post, thence north 7° 1y west Xiperches ton Jost, thence north 75° west "1 perches toa post, thence north 76° 48 west 3 peiches to a post, thence north 78° 22° west perches to a post, thence along other lands of sad G.K. and J KH. Shoenberger, north 20° ga» east MY 6.10 werches to stone Jeep. thenoe by land of 1 NX. Simpson and the sald Shoenberger's north 25 ° 6 coast 162 perches 10 a post, thenos apong land of Joseph White north 61° 4 east 145 perches to a pine stump, thence along same north 2 west Sl perches to stones, thenoe along same north 74° west § perches 10 stone, thence along same north 4° west 18 perches to a post, thence along same 50 perches to post, thence alohf lands of Joseph Braunsteiter, Abednego Sicin, Benjamin Beek and Abednege Stevens’ heirs, north 52° 1) east 35 perches (o a post, thence by lands of sald Abednepge Steven's heirs, north 45° 45 west #8 6-10 perehos to a post, thenoe along lands of Danie: Beck, north SI5C° east 11, perches to post, thenoe along lands of the Snow Shoe rallrond company south BEM° east 168 perches to a ost, thenor Along same north 3° east 18 pere on 1o a post, thence along same south 37° cast § porches to post, thenee along same both 583,.° east MB rehes 1o a post, thence along lands of Thomas upp, south 14M" cast 116 porches to stones, thence along lands of Shard, Stuart & Os, south SRL" west 80 8.10 perches toa white oak, thenoe along same south 1° 22° west 425 perches to post, thence along land of J. W, Ellen south 673° east 68 530 perches toa post, slace of beginning, thereon erected a well, rick foundation, and lumber for washer buliding, known as Wrye bank, Seized, taken mn execution and to be sold as the property of Amv Smedley Powell, Robert Hare Powell, De Jeaux Powell, Julia De Vegux Peters, Amy Ida Powell and Henry Baring Pewell, No deed will be acknowledged until the purchase money is paid or arranged for in fall, Sheriff's office, W. A. ISHLER, July 3, 1s Sheriff, —— 6.30 AGP i AA Liguor Habit Cared, By administering Dr. Haines’ Golden Spoekf je. It is manutactured as a powder, which ean be given in a glass of beer, a cup of tollte tea, or In food, withou!l the newioii ah tient. It is absolutely harmless, wilt eet a permanent and speedy cure, whether patient is a moderade drinker or an lohene wreck. It bas been given in thousands and in © instance a perfect cure fowed, It never falls, onee on GOLDEN KFRCTPY - Hs 1) Race J, Cincinnatty, 0. Sven Quay’s resignation from the National committee of his party, under force, it is becoming more and more apparent that “this is not going to bea good year for republicans,” except for these who are enjoying the offices. The Centre Democrat and the Philad Weekly Times one year for $1.45,
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