Beaver & Gepharly ny at, ~ Vol. 14 BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, MARCH |0, 1892. NO. 10 @he Centre Demosrai, CHAS. R. KURTZ, - =- =- EDITOR TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Regular Price $1.50 per year When Paid in Advance $1.00 “ When subscriptions are not paid inside of three years $2.00 will be charged. Democratic County Committee 1802 J.C. Meyer ALS Garman Geo, RB. Meek James Coldren Bellefonte, N. W . 8B. Wits " W. Won Centre Hall Borough Howard Borough oe Abe Weber Milesbarg Borough, sao LE. H. Can Millheim Borough cee. Samuel Welser, Ji Philipsburg, 1st W James A. Lukens oH 2M Wan “ TE, eeea— Frank W South Philipsburg a—a—— Unionville Borough Benner. . Boggs, N. “CR H LE. M.Griest ti. H James M William Hipple I. J Leyman Ww College, E \ Ww Curtin Ferguson, E " Ww "| that the Halfmoon Harris ..... Howard Huston Liberty Marion....cu. Miles EA Patton Fo. Penn ©r 1. A. SCHAEFFER, C! RAWFORD, Sed Editorial. SMASHING A BAD RULE Ulearfield Democrats Insist Upon Fair Rep resentatives The coming campaign will develop a spirited fight among the Congressional Twenty-eighth Congressional Each | i will likely have a candidate. aspirants in this, the county The five istrict district. counties, with the exception of Forest, | are largely Democratic, the following being the total Democratic vote of each at the last election : Centre field. 6443: Clarion, 3968; F Forest, 757, When this dist rict Democrats of Centre were anxious to adopt some by the counties furnishing the votes would have the representation. The smaller counties objected to such a plan and threatened trouble if each did not have the same power as other county. James Kerr, of Clearfield county, then induced Clearfield and Centre to yield. At every recurring Congressional election there has been a bitter fight over this matter of county representation, Now Centre and Clearfield propose to make another strong effort to get a fairer representation than they have had heretofore. Clearfield claims that with 6445 Democrats she should have more influence in the paming of the next Congressman than Forest county with only 757 Democrats. The County Committee of Clearfield has adopted resolutions favoring the plan of repre- sentation based upon the Democratic vote, or one delegate for every 500 voters. Such a plan would give Clear- field 13 and Centre 10 delegates, and Forest only one. As Centre and Clear- field alone can elect a Democratic Con- gressman they will insist upon the above rule. Jk, 2140 | formed Clearfield was and nl ruie county any Some few did not like the last is. sue of the CENTRE DEMOCRAT, espec- ially Jim Fiedler and Bob Cook. peda tin Jupce M'Clure granted ten licenses in MiMin county out of the fourteen ap- plications. It was a disappointment to the prohibitionists of that section, A —_———— — - A Hebrew in a letter to the New York Sun says that the word *‘Sheeny which is applied so often to the Jews in a slurring way, really means “bright. ness,” and, as he says, ‘‘is only the ter. mination of a Hebrew word the free translation of which is ‘quick in action.’ Among our race the term-that is the whole expression—is regarded as a com- pliment rather than a reproach.’ Those who realize what the Jews have accom. plished in the world will be able to see the point of this at once, and turn the tables on the race detractors, It may be remembered that the word * Yankee' was applied origioally to Americans with a feeling of contempt, but that, by our national achievements and our determination “to live up to the possi. bilities of the name,” we have made it an honor instead of a reproach to be called a Yankee, "UH W. Buckingham | wdohn Reed | Philip Confer | , 5249 ; Clear | the | where- | LINCOLN AND CURTIN. |THE WAR GOVERNOR'S NO- BLE RECORD. | Col. A. K. M'(Clure coutributis an Interesting of these two Al Article Upon the Relutions Prominent Statesmen They were ways in Accord From the Phil Fob lauded in our next issu Andrew (, Curtin Hiiant wl, § Mare | | | written of { the history of our great civil contlict by in the annals hapters t his official records as Governor of Penn sylvania. Iam not unmindful, in pay- to the great War {ing this high tribite Governor o he Union, that there are many Pesusylvania names which have rable for their heroism in pre titutions N on | that Pennsylvania has within her bord_ become men Lucas | | the struggle for the ervation of our am I unmindful | ers the great battle.fiel 1 of the war, and names of such Penusylvania { heroes as Meade, Reynolds and Hancock are inseparably linked with the decisive r | victory that gave assured safety and un- i sullied freedom to the Union. While ig itself the of administration of th { Pennsylvania heroism was makit immortal on battle.field every { war, the civil Stat ore intimately involed with s growing out of the war than Slats f all the! rtance of her position and in moulding » policy of the States and their rela- tims to tl i ed by slave e parent governms Border- from her ana commonwealths 14 nes, more | Eastern to her Western | exposed than any of the other loyal | States of the Union to the perils of war, | her people were gonservative to the itmost limits of positive loyalty to the ‘nion. In January, 1881, when Curtin | was inaugurated e Northern State had offic: i 1 it 1 it 1 i | i | | as (rovernor. not a sing $ relations to tl e L'nion lt tude as to the threatened civil fr and any utterance fi f ch om a Sate of 8 | pre-eminent physical and political power { could not but make its impression on i every State of the Union North and sSaouth t day can have any just appreciation of the exceptional deli- | cacy and grave responsibility of of the new of " | | sylvania. An ill-advi { him might have w the po i sition government inflamed the | war spirit of the Sout! chilled the f the North. He define, in advance of | the other States, the position of | North confre by armed | treason, and there were no precedents in our history to guide him in forecasting the action of the most important State of the North. His inaugural address was prepared entirely by himse If before he came to the State capital to assume his most responsible trust. Before he delivered it, he summoned to his council a number of the most intelligent and considerate men of both parties in the State, but after careful and dispassionate reflection upon every sentence of the document, it was not substantially changed in any particular, and the highest tribute that history could pay to his statesmanship is in the fact that the position of his great State, and its rela- tions with the general government as de. fined in that address, were accepted by every loyal State and vindicated alike by the loyal judgment of the nation and by the arbitrament of the sword, ot loyal devotion Was 1 { called upon to all tl the when mn ted Curtin stood single among the public men of Pennsylvania in 1560 as a popular leader. His strength was with the peo” ple rather than in political invention. He had made himself conspicuously known to his great State by his services as Secretary of the Commonwealth, when that officer was charged with the | control of the school system. It was he who first organized a distinet depart- | ment to extend and elevate our schools, { and he succeeded in greatly liberalizing | our educational system, and starting it on the high way to its present matchless advancement, As early as 1844 he had made himself known as one of the most eloquent stump speakers of the state, and from that time until his nomination for Governor in 1860, he was in the forefront of every political contest, and was greeted with boundless enthusiasm by his political followers wherever he appeared. When tober would be the unerring finger board of national victory or defeat in November, it became not only a State candidate to lead in that pivotal contest, The republican people, almost as with { one voice, demanded the nommation of Curtin, and there other name presented to the Convention would have been no but for the peculiar political complica- tions arising from General Cameron be ing a candidate for President before the bitterly hostile same Convention, and nite peculiar to Curtin, But des; power of Cameron as an organizer and the manager of political conventions, he was finally compelled to assent to Curtin’s nomination without being able to obtain an earnestly united delegation in his favor for President. When Curtin was to accept the leadership conferred upon him, he enthused that body, as well as his party called before the Convention friends throughout the State, by declar- ing that he accepted the flag of the Cone in the front Erie to the fulilled his He was one of the most mag- vention and of the battle from Delaware, and he grandly would carry it Lake promise, netic popular speakers Pennsylvania has ever known, combining matchless wit, tive and per keen inved suasive argument with singular felicity, and his towering genial the most and symmetrical form and his face him eff and manner made ctive of all our men on the hastings. ive frot 1 i the battle until it n the day he & He was aggress tered his ed LH) closed wit! t victory that declared rnor by a majority of over y : I Was made ane, of Ine m of Lin ble by two men—Henry S, dis Both would h Seward bes nominal possi. na, and Curtin, AVE n nominated, ane first great struggle to give himself a winning chance in Penusylvani his effort Seward at Chic nited with Lane The ntil Curtin received Lin never met u oln on his way to Washington on the 224 of WAS to Lincoln by Curth that that Li changed and he suddenly started on his ¢ evening day neoin’'s route wmotable midoight journey to the na- u tional capital [he appointment ( stneron 1o the nd eia- garded by Curtin as unfortunate rained yn and ( would have made very tions between | urtin not both been singularly generous in all their impulses and standing the frequent irr cations which arose between the Necre tary of War and the Governor ia the or ganization of troops in the early part of the war, there never was a shadow upon the relations of these two men was profoundly loyal and an enthusiast in everything pertaining to the war. He was proud of his great State, and espe. cially of the hundreds of thousands of heroes she sent to the field, and so tire- less in his great work that he always commanded the sincerest affection and confidence of the President. Although often disappointed in the political action | of the national admidistration and at times keenly grieved personally because of political honors unworthily conferred, or withheld from those he deemed most worthy of them, he never for a moment lost sight of his paramount duty to give unfaltering support to the government in the great struggle for the maintenance { of the Union. | The two men of the country who are | distinctly upon record as having appre | ciated the magnitude of the war when { it first began, are General Sherman and | Sherman was judged | Governor Curtin, a lunatic and relieved of his command | in Kentucky because he told the gov. ernment the exact truth as to the mag ! nitude of the rebellion in the Southwest and the forces necessary to overthrow | In a little time the country began | it. to appreciate Sherman's military intelli- gence. He was finally permitted to go to the front in command of a division, fand in his first battle he proved himself to be one of the most skilful and cour: | ageous of our Generals. Curtin proved his appreciation of the necessities of our | imperiled government by issuing his | proclamation on the 25th of April, 1861, | calling for twenty-five additional regi | ments of infantry and one of cavalry to ! serve for three years or during the war, | in addition to the quota furnished by Curtin was made without the authority of the general government and entirely without the knowledge of the President but a national necessity for the Repub, | or Secretary of War, Pennsylvania and | on the part of Curtin, licans to nominate their most available | the whole loyal North had been cut off | loan of $3,000,000, when the credit of of Febru- | ary, 186], and it was at the dinner given | of thon n Cabinet was re. | had | 4 | N twith. | tating compii_ | Cartin | | from all communication with the na- tional capital for several daysby treason. | able rioters in Baltimore, who burned the railroad bridges and prevented all railroad or even telegraphic communica- ticns with Washiugton. In this grave emergency, although Pennsylvania had furnished every man called for by the government, and had offered many more than the quota, after the most careful study of the situation with Gen. Robert Patterson and Colonel Fitz John Porter, then serving as Assistant Adjutant Gen. of civilians who were heartily sustaining Curtin in his eral, and a number arduous labors, it was decided to assume the respousibility of calling out twenty. six additional regiments for service un- der the general government, it was believed by all that they would be Trex ause needed as speedily as thes tained, The requisit Pennsylvania was in pursuance of on for troops made unanimous judgment of authorities then at Harrisburg and civil g, and it was not doubted that the govern- ment would gratefully accept The response to Curtin’s for volunteer the few d procla § Was unexam pled, and hh Harris! tice “liu AVS during whi WAS will il Washingt Conununic Ialns Ha to enter t itary rYice, t Ir utter; f the Governor comma of the departs comu ton, alier additiona Was al regime emph i ) ment and 4 tude of Secretary Amneron stated in a h to the Governor, not only that the troops could not be re ceived, but “that it was more important the number, Earnest appeals were made to the Presi to reduce than enlarge dent and the War Department from the Governor and General Patterson to have these troops, or at least part of them, ac. epted, but every such appeal was met With a positive refusal. John Sherman, then as now, Senator from Ohio, was a Yoiunteer Axl on f ws at Ha aportance to Patterson's agread with au- it of the govern: n Pennsylvania In view of his im General nd the rrisburg that WAS 1 ’ | additional Woops De cepted, portant political position and presumed | influence with the President and Secre- tary of War, he was hurried to Wash- | Inglon as soon as communications were | opened to make a personal appeal for the acceptance of the troops. On the th of May, five days after the requisi. ton had been made, he wrote General Patterson from Washington, stating | that he had entirely failed to persuade the government to accept any part of these new 1egiments. It was not within the power of the government to depose Governor Cartin and order him to some lunati:, but it could rebuke him for proposing to fur nish a large number of additional troops, when, as subsequent events proved, the military barracks as a government had the most pressing need | Fortunately for the govern- | DEMOCRAT made its appearance, nearly | for them, ment and for the complete vindication of the broad sagacity and heroic fidelity | of Curtin, be resolved to peform his duty to his State and pation, regardless of the Washington authorities, After a bitter contest, in which some prominent republicans opposed the Governor's recommendations, a bill had been passed by the Legislature some weeks before, appropriating half a mill. of the State, and he had issued his call for an extraordinary session of the Leg- | islature as early as the 20th of April, to meet the great issue of civil war. | revoked his proclamation for additional regiments called for by General Patter. | son's requisition, but much more than one-half the number called for had al. ready voluntered, and were practically in charge of the state for organization. When the special session of the Legisla. ture met on the 30th of April he sent an | earnest message calling for the organi. | zation of the volunteers then in camp into fifteen regiments as « State corps, but to be subject to the eall of the Uni_ [ted States in any emergency. It wae this brave action of Curtin that gave us | the Pennsylvania Reserve Corps, whose | herolsm crimsoned nearly every battle. {field of the Army of the Potomac. the great battle of 1560 was to be fought | Pennsylvania under the President's call | These troops were organized not only Pennsylvania was accepted by all as a | of April 15,1861, summoning 75,000 three | without the aid of the national govern. doubtful State, and as her vote in Oc- | months’ men to the field, This call of | ment, but in defiance of its refusal to tions that they could not and would not be needed. It was a most herole policy It involved a | accept them and of its positive declara. | still He | severely the every partisan or State was strained, and factional foe wus in spired to opposition by the known fact declared that the national government additional troops to be entirely unne The Legislature and the people had faith in Curtin; bad faith mm his in tegrity, his patriotism and his judgment essary, ’ of the nation’s peril, and the bill creat. ing a loan and organizing fifteen regi. ments of the Reserve ( Orps Was passed by an overwhelming majority in both the He had around him a number of leading men of both parties time branches of Legislature. who cheerfully gave their and ceasele labor to assist his Among those 1 recall co by his hands by tafl WwWio uncils day and were such ott, John Roberts, Reuben ( A. Hale, and Parker, and Craig Biddle and Joseph | Pott John 5. These men, as 5, who yet survive WILL TAKE TURNS of the Weel What the Editor Gets When a child the » physician is present and gets is born into ng at the importar the advent sing for ng i [he editor heralds the sex or date of 3 rs in his Pox ket for bis trouble ed upon onicles this event by drawing on his wlitor is again call and chi imagir make the vride and tion t« Muon 0 groom 4 most His on ‘sample « to W ople in the «¢ be asked fo 8 paper to end SOME 1 L t | { r : Vina tat App baby, once advanced in Aga n and makes his JAN wel years, is broug down by death the physician i led bill; the undertaker is present and offi. and in time wants #100 for performing the last ciates at the funeral sad rites | while the editor is expected to comple ie the drama by holding up the deceased asa model gentleman, and who at present | is flying up the golden stairs. The probabilities are at the same time that the baby, the groom and the dead man had been so Infernal stingy that he had stinted his wife and children and never contributed one cent to the support of his local paper What does the editor get * He gets | abused on all sides for mistakes that are not his fault, -—— From the rumors flying about the streets last Tharsday, after the CENTRE everybody Smagined that the terribly bad editor of this paper had been arrest- ed for libeling(?) our modest post master, and the highly esteemed ex-Sheriff, of Howard. From last accounts we are located at the same old stand, printing the same paper, at the same small sum of #1 per year when paid in | advance, and delightingfthe intelligent ion of dollars to provide for the defense | renders of Centre county who are al. ways anxious to peruse its columns, We have not been arrested-—-not just yet. A PRLIGATION FOR CHARTER. —Notiee Is £ hereby Kiven that an application will be made to the Court of Common Pleas of Centre County, on Monday, the 25th day of A DD, 1862 at 10 o'clock a. m. of said day, for the charter of a corporation to be called the “Pine Hall Cemetery Association,” of Pine Hall, Pa The said charter and object of which are the maintenance of a union burying ground in con nection with the Lutheran and Reformed churches at Fine Hall, Ferguson township, Centre county, Pa. to aequire and hold all real estate necessary for such burying grounds keep in proper condition all graves now in said grounds, and any that may be added ; and pro Vide burial lots and burial places for those desiring to bury their dead in said cometery Onves, Bowen & Onvis ———, -— A. il, A A semi-flendish delight often seems to possess people of strong nerves In sneering at those with weak ones. The irritability of the nervous hypochondriac is ridiculed as natural (11 temper, He very genuine and distressing cymptoms from which he suffers are mad» light of * He" or “she is a crank "is the cheerful sort of sym hy with which the nervous Invalid méets rom the unfeeling and the thoughtless, At the same time no complaint is more defined and real, none has a more easily explainable arin whe are alw accom bed by a tation AYE ACCOMpPAn nervous debility and Anxiet «Build A Stomach Bitters, a Spm 8, slok hex and a hi hh Heh gene faethe nether iat - among weakly, nervous e. Hos Hitters cures it, and Ro n It is chronic. Tmperisct digestion frwens of assimilation and tion wit otters tom iy fhe Hatem are remedied, Re FAVAges are produced by rheumatism and Kidney com t. FREE SILVER WINS. Preliminary Skirmish i» the Great Congressional Battle, LIVELY HOUSE Speaker Crisp's Ruling Canses Some An Attempt to Postpone Until De cember Next Defeated by an Owes , Very Severe Criticism Discussion whelming Majority, Wasminoron, March B.—The silver fight began in the house before the read- ing of the journal, which the first thing in order under the Before the reading of the journal Mr. Catch ings reported the resciution from the committee on rules fixing a day for the consideration of the Bland hill, Mr, Tracey demanded the reading of the journal. The speaker having ruled that the demand was not in order, Mr. Tracey appealed from th n of the chair. Then followed 1] to some of those common during last com gress. Mr. Tracey made a protest against the speaker's ruling, arguing hat there was no right in the chair to recognize any member to make a motion until the journal had been Fitch (N. Y.) made a similar ] Cockran briefly 1 between the n the subjex Id the floor, whicl 18 THis, ¢ decisi A SCPDe anti-silver ring, ao F men for their om i pasts cused Mr, ( {f agreement, that if Violation « the ran d Bland man, backed the agreem A number selves into the debate at time, and many side rema indicating a feeling of tility toward the speaker or ‘ certain Democrats, Mr. Lockwood if the rules of this house were more ar- bitrary ti those of the wl congress, 8 q n was received with ap- » from some Democrats Tracey s an 3 Wa of asked an quest) made an of- i ns ion of the nday, Dex but this was an o verwhelming majority, Yeas, 70; nays, 202 te upon passage of te resolution rex rted by t} ommities an rules for the consideration of the silver bill Tuesday, March 22, the resolution was adopted-—188 to 85 1080 Ue mL ne { by ote being On a final ¥ BLAINE'S CONDITION CRITICAL. His Family and Friends Much Alarmed and Apprehensive. Wasmivarox, March 9. — Se Blaine is in an extremely critical conds- tion. It is impossible for his friends to longer conceal this fact. His ph Dr. Hyatt, puts the best possible con- struction on his case when he says “There is no ch but I hope for a change tomorrow.” The servants at the house reply to all inquiries: “Mr. Blaine is no better.” There is no doubt that his vitality is at a low ebb, and that in his en | condition the anxiety attending the Nevins controversy has had a depressing effect pou him. His family is greatly alarmed, and those who know his true condition are apprehensive that there may be a ool lapse at any time. At 11 o'clock iast night Dr. Hyatt was summoned to the Blaine residence, and a few minutes later he told a reporter that he would remain there all night, Six Killed by a Hurricane, Laspox, March 8 A hurricane which passed over the Portuguese coast did much damage to property and to the harbor works here. A number of houses were unroofed. Six persons who were ing along the streets were struck by yin wreckage and killed. A number of others were more or less seriously in- jared by the falling bricks, tiles, ete river Tagus, which in some places Has already overflowed its banks, com tinnes to rapidly and threatens con- siderable damage. Terrific Explosion fa Ohio, Fixoray, O., March 9.-The nitro- | giyoerine magazine of the High | sive company, located two miles or this city, exploded yesterday and cansed | a shock all over northwestern Ohio as | from an Sarehyaulin, Several farm | houses were badly damaged, and thon | sands of panes of window glass in Find | lay broken, but no lives were lost. A { fire in the building cansed the ¢ | The loss has not yet been lea Pennsylvania's Adjutant General, Hannsnrnra, March 9, Governor Pate tison has appointed Colonel Walter W. Greenland, of Clarion, as utant eral, to succeed the late William Clelland, and O. E. MeClelland, super intendent of the middie division, Penn sylvania railroad, as duaTterinastel ih eral on the Savarndts stall, to All the creat p appointment bio fer Colonel Lid is 45 years of age. ——————— “Ed. Brown, Jr., bas made big re ductions tn fumed ve a ocder Ww make room for spring goods,
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