4 THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA., AUGUST 25, 1808, Ghe Centre Demorrat, CHAS. R. KURTZ, -- EDITOR & PROP Actual, average, sworn circulation, of this paper, for the past year, 1887, was Telephone Call 183. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Regular Price $1.50 per year, If paid in ADVANCE $1.0 ! Special Club Rate THe CENTRE DEMOCRAT will be sent one | year with any one of the below named papers, at the following low rate: With Pittsburg Week Cineinnatti Weekly Enquirer New York Ftimes-a-week World 1.65 DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET. FOR GOVERNOR, GEORGE A. JENKS, FOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, WILLIAM H. SOWDEN, LehighCounty Jefferson County FOR SECRETARY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS, PATRICK DELACEY, JLackawnna County FOR SUPERIOR JUDGR, CALVIN M. BOWER,.... weCentre County WILLIAM TRICKETT,. Cumberland County FOR CONGRESSMAN-AT-LARGE, J. M. WEILER, ..cccccos corrsmne FRANK FP. IAMS, ....... Alleg! FOR CONGHESS SPANGLER (Bubject to t i on of the ence.) Carbon County IR SENAT) WM. OC. HEINLE DEM. COUNTY TICKET R. M. FOSTER tJ. H. WETZEI M.1. GARDNEK N B.SPANG LER, ESQ HARRY HERRING EDITORIAL. ARE THEY FOR QUAY On Monday the f eached this ug A MOCRAT :—An edi 0 } 1 3 f be . ing “Convention Reflec tions'’ attracted much interest cussion in this section. We generally find the statements in the Democrat well founded and reliable; but, like all, you are liable to err, due no doubt to misin- formation. In that sle the statement is made that the nominees of the Repub- lican convention—Phil Womelsdorf, for State Senate; E. F. Townsend and John A. Daley, for Legislature—are pronounc- ed anti-Quay candidates. You base | the assertion on their past record. That may be correct, but I believe you are mistaken as to their present attitude. Phil Womelsdorf made his canvass as a Quay candidate. There is no doubt about this and it must have been Quay money that was spent so freely by him in the campaign. Everywhere the Quay people were back of him. He may have | ence been for Wanamaker—now he cer tainly is for Quay and if elected would vote for Quay’s re-election to the U. S > The same can be said of Mr. nsend and Joo. Daley. That is my impression, and the opinion held by re- publicans in this section is the sa 1 think the Democrat, 11 this particu. lar, is mistaken. Their nomination was a Ay » lack eve to the opposition. Don’t you think so campaigns. nounced Wanamaker years ago, and prom in a position to know, declare that Wan- lied hi of money for campaign purposes in the hope of securing his support, if elected, amaker su with a for U. S. Senate, when Penrose defeated Wanamaker f Phil is for Quay now, be has changed his skio--.something very inconsistent for a man who lays claims to high official integrity and honor, If this is true that Womelsdorf is now for Quay his pretentions don’t amount to the snap of a finger. Womelsdorf no doubt is for Womelsdorf, first last and all the time, and would crawl on any band wagon that leads the head f the proces- sion, and gets there. Townsend may be for Quay. Philips. burg 15 for Quay strong, and no doubt be is in accord with those people. As to John A. Daley, he is afraid to say where he is. He wont tell the people where he | stands, He is neither a longtailed rat Or a mouse He will be anything any time, to advance his interests, and that is exactly the kind of a man Quay wants | in the legislature and the kind of a can. didate the people should elect—to stay at home The evils of Quay’s rule in this State are the issue in this campaign, and the | : 1 ly le man who does not have the courage to | drew the issues clearly and definitely. | No intelligent person can mistake them tell what he will do if elected, is not fit to represent this county in otr legislative halls. Yes ; the Democrat may have been in error—these may be Quay candidates ai———————— Tur comments in our last issue on the character of the men who opposed Gov, Hastiugs, at the recept republican pri. maries, attracted much comment through. out the county. Many inquired why we did not give a complete list of those who bad been befriended by the Gov, and then proved ungrateful. The reason is there are too many, If all the republi. cans, who received favors from Gov, Hastings and then forgot him, were stood in a row, it would reach from the court house to the station, That 1s why we could not enumerate a'l--ouly the leading roosters. ly Post $1 50 | 150 | "18 | legislature, { shame or fresh burden it will lay upon | them, or what assaults upon the rights | accident in politics. | ions and political machines, A RINGING ADDRESS, Issues of the Fall Campaign are Plainly Set Forth. The executive committee of the Penn sylvania state league of Democratic so- cieties met last Thursday aud issued a ringing address to the people of the Keystone state: We, the undersigned executive cow- mittee of the Democratic society of Penn. | sylvania, invite the serious attention of | the people of our state to the political conditions which confront us, and to the ail important matters at stake in the | approaching general election, It is charged on the one side, and con- | fessed on the other, that every branch of | our state government is corrupt and cor- rapting. The taxpayers and business interests tremble at the assembling of the They know not what new of the people or of the municipalities | will be introduced, to be bought off, or | engineered to final passage, to serve the | purpose of predatory politicians. The | executive is little or no better. That | here and there a veto has temporarily 1 suspended an obnoxious measure uotil terms can be made among disputing conspiraters touching the distribution of the common spoils 15 only a fortunate Nothing in the re- cent history of the executive branch af. fords any reason to suppose that it has been iospired by a high pur rece in spirit and in letter ur sound > aggressions of allied corporat. guard and promote wholesome competiti ness, to shield the taxpayers ny other wise for the principles of hun cording to the solemn tenor hich cach FOVErnio: which each governon Of your paper, | m »mbold and seandalous transaction juarter of a century ago were iied, are to-day confessed fended ou the ground that unque usage in the past renders them mate in the present, or'at least relieves them of a portion of the blackness of their inherent guilt. No one concerned in them nowadays takes the trouble to extenunate them. Balances of millions of the taxpayers’ money are carried in the several funds of the treasury for the pecuniary benefit of anybody but commonweaith. Appropriations of gravest importance remain unpaid it suit > convenience of the custodians of these funds to let them go to their proper legal objects. The charities of the state suffer, the schools are ed to borrow money at high rates, while sir own money is serving some other the de purpose. We can not pursue the i of these and like public crimes The newspapers have spre kpow the The political rani jon which is brought to judgment in premises Simply sars eliect, hide-bound partisan mai therefore, are you going to d We have much reason to fear their confidence is only too well gre ed. Republican voters have borne and forborne so long and so much that it is difficult to foretell when, if ever, they will turn to rend the oppressor and to end the shame of their party and of their state. That a very large proportion of the Republican people of the state are scaudalized, humiliated and alarn the excesses committed in the name ; to the everlasting dishonor of their p is beyond « But is the confi dence of the guilty leaders in their an reasoning partisanship well founded or ili? If the latter no relief is at hand Appeals to their selfrespect and patriot ism, to their love of state and even to their manifest selfinterest will be un availing. We prefer, however, to be. lieve that all good citizens of whatever party are ready to join with us, ignoring | purely partisan questions in one great fraternal effort for the redemption of the state, the purging of its government, leg- islative and executive, and a complete reformation of official and public morals. | Our convention representing the great minority party of the commonwealth, Those who pretend to see in this canvass any other real issues than those state 1s. sues presented by the Altoona couven- tion, do not wish to see aright. Ifany disturbing extraneous subject shall be brought into this campaign, the evil con. sequences will not be chargeable to the Democratic party with its half million enlightened voters, who read only the co- operation of a fraction of their fellow change in state government which all of us profess to desire, and most of us de. sire above all things. The executive is within easy reach of reform, if those who are best known as reformers shall show by their acts that they want reform, and go also promote aud encourage an honest union of the better cluzenship j everywhere for a pure and safe legis. lature. No true man, actually secking | genuine and vital reforms, can find a decent excuse for standing aloof. We, | the Democratic party, alone, by reason of our numbers, can hope for success against the public enemy so long en- trenched in power. We present the very issues and those only which all re- We go farther still in this direction than any of the formers profess to wish. groups of citizens who have organized ostensibly to put the commonwealth in honest and faithful hands. We join them in their general arraignment and on every separate count in the indict. ment but, unlike them, we do not come. plicate the momentous state issue, that 18 to say, the reforms proposed to be ob- tained, by any extraneous ¢uacstion We do also what none of them have yet done: We demand the reform comprehending all reforms, an lean registry, a Without this the offices may change hands, but whatever honest election law, a pure ballot and a fair count, there can be no permanent reform in any department of government t must be obvious to reasonable men that the only hope of success agaiust the obnoxious regular Republican tickets for state offices and the legislature lies in the support of the Democratic ti which represent a body of less in numbers, than those by those Republican ti 1 under these circumstances, patnotical.y state shall be and plundered, ; the uuanimous:y sent their neonle ut their peog ow could read Harter was not after the convention NEITHER Foster or \ for Quays re-giection to i$ now certain that Daley would. That is the people can take their ¢ - -—— BIRTHPLACE OF THE FLAG on of an Hastings in Philadelphia “If yonder flag, banging in graceful folds, could find voice and expression, it : might say to the world I bad my birth in Philadelphia, my stripes of red and white and field of blue and 11 stars were first kissed by Pennsylvania's sunlight I was first to reach the top of your tower on Independence hall; 1 point out from whence came the music of your Liberty bell; I led the vanguard of the Continental army from Valley Forge to Yorktown, 1 festooned the capitols of every state until, instead of 13, I displayed five and forty stars; 1 first blushed in protest against slavery in my native Keystone state ; the lillies of France floating over Fort Duquesne were lowered to the lion of St. George floating over Fort Pitt, but both gave way to me when the wind from the free Alleghenies unfurled my colors above the waters of the Ohio at the town of Pittsburg “1 led your conquering armies from Vera Cruz to the city of Mexico; | was tratled in the dust, but rose again, 0 | feel the loyal grasp of Lincoln and citizens, ordinarily otherwise politically classified, in order to effect the radical | Grant, and to give inspiration 10 the millions of men and women who loved the country and the cause for which | stood, and to-day I float in peace and in glory over every capital in this broad { land. [I stand for liberty, for the noblest i i ! i i ambition of humanity for peace through. out the world, and for the dignity and honor and protection of all who love liberty and equality, and who claim the sheltering protection which I have al. ways given. ' THE WAR AGAINST QUAYISM, The war "for bumanity’’ against Spain has been fought to a victorious ending. The war against Quayism for good gov- ernment—of, for and by the people—is yet to be fought out to a like conclusion, says the Philadelphia Ledger. Thata man such as Matthew Stanley Quay should be a senator of the United States dishonors vot only the stats whose coum mission he flaunts ; it dishy. 3 the whole country. The presence of Mr. Quay in the national senate would be a less ser ious matter if be were only mentally in competent, Bat he is not only that; he is morally unfit to hold the post of a sen- ator. He is not a statesman-—-makes no pretence of statesmanship, tician—a chafferer and dealer in politics not an unselfish patriot, upholding, advancing great and provident principles of statecraft for the weal of the country. He is the sordid promoter of bis own per sonal and political fortunes. For forty- two years he has been an officeholder, and has prospered exceedingly in that pursuit, now demands that he shall elected to the se Six years Why should he people, who ised his p “hoose both represental at this tin ' hie possihic governor his candi may! collars about legislative where there is a Quay nominee, reputable Re. publicans, Democrats, free silverites and populists should unite to defeat hum. In no other way can the arbitrary and bane ful influences of Quayism be removed from the politics and government of the state - Oats Damaged by Showers The oats crop in this county has met great harm from the recent showers, since, perhavs, over hall the crop re- mained in the fields on shock or lay on the stubble cut in sheaves. That ou shock has sprouted or rotled to a groat extent, while the other is much tainted with mustness. In occasional fields there was some wheat and rye on shock in the fields, likewise injured by the owners Much in Little Is especially true of Hood's Pills, for no med) cine ever contained so great curative power in so small space. They are a whole medicine Hoods chest, always ready, ak " ways efficient, always sat. Isfactory | prevent a cold } or tever, eure all Hver iis, He is a poli- | Not satisfied with so much, he | FRI TITIIIT INNIS CC CE CR TITTY TT sick headache, Jaundice geonstipation, ete. 25. 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