CHAS. Kk. KURTZ Ed. and Prop. BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 1890. VOL. 21, XO. 16. AND FANCY INTERESTING COMMUNICATION What Has Transpired Among Lo- cal Republican Leaders CONTEST OF THE FACTIONS. The Gauntlet has Been Defiantly Thrown at Feet—Will He Submit to the Element 7—Why He Has In Hastings’ Quay-Love curred Opposition. During the past week an anonymous communication was received at this office | by mail signed “North Ward Democrat,” which gives no light whatever as to the author, fices is not to recognize such communi. made as the same is of much merit, and gives a careful summary of existing con- ditions among the republican leaders in Centre county. Some opposition has recently arisen to Gen. Hastings, and conflicts in has resulted in numerous which the Quay-Love people have scored victories. The following communication throws much light on the situation and no doubt will be relished by many of our readers throughout the county EDITOR CENTRE DEMOCRAT As you are well aware, 1 have been a life-long democrat and have never aspired to office in Centre county, but if the ambition had ever taken possession of me, I know of no time in the history of Centre co when democratic prospects were so pro- pitious as at present, The senatorial fight at Harrisburg has split the republican party hopelessly in twain all over the state, but perhaps no where has the cleavage been so pro- nounced as in this county. Judge love, the Quay leader, has shown real ability in controlling the ap- pointment of Postmaster Montgomery at Bellefonte, and Bolger in Philipsburg. His friends are justified in boasting of this victory because he and the embalmed beef judge of the Superior Court com- pletely outwitted Governor Hastings and Secretary Martin. It is true that he had Quay and Penrose with him and their in- fluence as ators was Hastings had won the ill. senators because any of the jobs and Quay s iegisiatures years. bold, defiant laid the foundation which have resulted in the present pow- erful opposition to Quay at Harrisburg It is said that Hastings aspired to be United States Senator, and we think there is no doubt about the fact. He was will- ing to join in the effort to unite the par in the last presidential conflict, and to go at the head of the state delegation and make the speech placing Quay before the National Convention as a presidential candidate. It is an open secret that Quay promised bim his then powerful support for United States Senator, but Hastings continued to wield his veto axe on the side of the people which incurred Quay’s anger, and he lost the senatorship, but re. established himself in the confidence of the people. As soon as the break occurred, Judge Love found time to divide his energies be- tween holding the courts and organizing a Quay machine. His best friends re. gret that he is trailing the judicial ermine 1a the dirt of petty township and borough fights, and distributing the court patron. age to build up a machine of which he has become the head. To be sure builds up a machine. The control of the liquor licenses and the occasional ap- pomntment of constable and other be. stowals of court patronage makes friends and partisans, but it also builds up oppo- sition and enemies, and is looked upon as injurious and dangerous to the proper administration of justice. Hastings was for many years the recognized leader of the party in this county, and it is true that during his leadership the county almost became re. publican. Hastings led the fights for Beaver, Furst and Love when they were candidates, and was successful. When he was a candidate for Governor he car. ned the county by the highest vote ever given a republican since the foundation of the party. He had his full share of honors in county and state, and when he returned to Bellefonte at the expiration of his gubernatorial term, he announced at HE contro will ¢ he refuse © vicious | leg Hastings at last four *yetloaxewas and really exposures 1d VIgorous, for the 1"t in the great reception accorded to him in | the court house that his ambition had been satisfied and that his only desire was to retire to private life and take his place as such as a private citizen. Butso fearful was Judge love that Hastings might change his mind, that he and his friends are openly accused of endeavoring to prevent the Hastings reception from being such a marked success as it was, It is common rumor that the Judge request. ed his lieutenants to advise their friends to absent themselves from the reception and, fearing that it would be looked upon as a popular movement against Quay, he left town himself to avoid the reception. | This petty conduct has been resented by Governor Hastings’ friends and he has | | ities of public place and decided to turn been urged to pick up the gauntlet, In the coming contest Love, the Quay leader, has some advantage. He has his masters at Bellefonte and Philips. rgtobelp him. But Hastings will have Captain Williams and John Gowland and all the other veteran soldiers of the coun- ty at his back. Williams and Gowland were at the front fighting with Grant and Miles, while Mon was drawing his salary once be as postmaster at Bellefoute during the war, and Bolger was learning his A B C's in the school, Love got his tion in the postoffice under Montgomery, and Hastings got lef, but he won the of veteran soldiers of | The custom in newspaper of- | { up for his rights ; | Level, Cambria county. | cases are under treatment | villages, | contracted the disease and then | went while he is under the judicial fire. He has many of his old elements of | strength yet, | private citizen. He | kindly disposed toward his friends and neighbors, While he has been a bitter partisan he has never inquired about the politics of those who asked his personal t is the boast of his friends that he has done many favors and gone out of his way to help people in Centre county individually and collectively, The hundreds of people whom he has helped one way aud another are mof a// un- grateful, It 18 true he did not have Superior Court Judgeships and Butlding Association Receiverships and Common Pleas Judgeships to go around, assistance, in 4 | | He is out of office and a | has always been | but he has done inoumerable personal | kindnesses for those who have been and are still grateful, He had, however, the bad luck to pick out for his best favors | the men who have repaid him in the most | despicable way. love, in his political capacity, repre- sents the Quay machine and the Quay | | methods of distributing patronage. Hast- | cations, but in this case an exception is | | who oppose him is, that he would not be | the tool of the Quay machine. ings’ greatest crime in the eyes of those Love's | leadership in the county last fall increas. | ed our democratic majorities quite satis- | factorily. We believe Hastings will stand will resent the insults offered him by the new ir in gratuitously Carsar, cry will out before the people of his in whether they are public servant shoul ghtered in what s party, willing 1gs when the Ky DEMOCRALY FOR RILLING Unanimously Selected Chairman of the State Committee—Convention June 14 John S. Rilling, of Erie, was unani mously elected chairman of the MO- cratic State Central Committe a burg, on Wednesday, the reorg of that body having been easily cot the M. Guffey Guffey movement col by the friends of teeman James and a man who must be scaton the S ipreme ( 14th was the date selected rg will have the convention THE NEW RXECUT to-day by the State were Philadelphia of Huntingdon; Berg, of Carisle; Spangler, f Bellefonte; Reilly, of Willi Garman, of Nanticoke, and Mulhe of Mauch Chunk. These men constitute the Executive Commmiattee of the Brennan, Brown, Titusville, Henderson, msport mm m, State organization, and are all friends of Col- onel Guffey. of full State Committeemen, and more interest There was a very attendance was displayed than has been visible for a number of years. John M. Gorman, of Luzerne, chairman for several has SCars calied the meeting to order thanks curtesy and assistance extended him in a the by brief speech, returning for his associates. -—— SMALLPOX EPIDEMIC Smallpox is assuming the nature of an epidemic in the new mining town of Windber, Somerset county, and Scalp Twenty seven in the two There are alse several cases in Altoona. A case of smallpox has broken out in Hastings, Cambria county. The victim is a jeweler who worked at Windber, went home. The Hastings authorities erected a pest house, but the location was unsatis. factory to many persons, so the structure was burned down Monday night. The Johnstown board of health has been notified that there are twenty-five cases in New Paris, Bedford county. .—— REED OUT OF CONGRESS Thomas B. Reed, Maine, after 22 years of service in Con gress, and being twice elected Speaker, and with another term of service as Speaker, has put behind him all the glamor and glory and pride and possibil. Ex-Speaker of again to the practice of his chosen pro. fession. It is definitely announced that Mr, Reed has become a member of the law firm of Simpson, Thacker & Baroum, No. 10 Wall street—under a guarantee of §50,- ooo per annum for bis services, Business Good, In order that the Mill Hall Brick works are enabled to fill their constantly increas. ing orders promptly, they are erecting another large kiln. Orders are coming in almost constantly, some of the largest of which are standing orders, sound his bugle call and | “ ODD FELLOWS’ CONVENTION Large Assemblage of the Three- Link Fraternity BELLEFONTE WEDNESDAY 26th A Monster nent Members of the Parade in the Atternoon-—Promi Order to Be Present Program o! Exercises tor the Day Special Trans, The Soth anniversary of American | Odd Fellowship will be celebrated by a tremendous out-pouring of the three link fraternity, at Bellefonte, April 26th, 1899. There will be a grand 3 13) parade in whichall the oddfellows, in full l There will be regalia, will participate. Wednesday, | beautifully caparisoned horses and thou- | sands of men in the splendid regalia of | lodges and encampments, and the mag- nificant display of the entire fourth regi- ment Patriarchs Militant, 1" will The pageant Co. M All the Grand Officer have a escort, in 1d parade of Odd Fellowshi J. M. Kricurixg, Ch W. HARRISON WALKER Ww NKLR on Invitat GG. Ri on OGRAME THR DAN resting on West Hig 1 Water str rast on Curtin Thomas an Curtin; | reet, South on Armor to Linn West on Linn to Allegheny; . Yishot 0 Jishog ’ Countermarch Spring to High street the speakers stand PR New Bishop Rt, Rev. John Shanahan will be conse- crated bishop of the Harrisburg diocese of the Catholic church on Tuesday, April the Mc- ceremony 25th, to fill the vacancy caused by of Thomas consecratory death The recent lishop Govern will be conducted in Philadelphia by arch-bishop Ryan. The diocese of which Rt. Rev, the third bishop, has 65 diocesan priests and g Shanabaa will be regular; so charches with resident pas- tors; 14 missions with churches; 15 sta. tions, 25 chapels, 178 members of sister. hoods, students; 8 13 ecclesiastical academies for young pupils; 32 parochial schools, with 2.959 pupils, 2 orphan asylums, and a Catholic institute for the blind. population estimated at 42.000. The ladies with 212 | The Catholic diocese comprises the counties of Dau- | phin, Lebanon, Lancaster, York, Adams, Franklin, Fulton, Cumberland, Perry, Juniata, Mifflin, Centre, Clinton, Snyder, Northumberland, 1 and 'nion, Montour Columbia New Spruce Creek Tunnel The contract for the construction of the large tunnel on the Middle division of the Pennsyivania the present Tyrone, has been awarded to a Pittsburg Work and it will be rushed railroad, close by Spruce Creek tunnel, pear firm for a sum close to $100,000 will begin at once, through before the end of the present The tunnel will be over 1 year, 150 feet long, and will be doubletracked. 1 hundred men will be put to work on it at once, Several other contracts have been let for new work at this point, including a new line of road and two bridges. .—— Good Appropriation, The Cottage hospital, Philipsburg, ap- propriation, amounting to $14,000, was finally secured. There seemed tobea determination to cut the appropriation down this year to $10,000, and but for the earnest work of Geo. W. Zeigler, Esq., this would have been the inevitable result, ————— Cane Sent to Court, The hearing of George C. Brungard, who is accused of setting fire to the barn on the Dornblazer estate, in Nittany valley, was held under bail for a trial at court, Two | FIRE IN BENNER TOWNSHIP, | Last Friday night, about 12 o'clock ’ the large barn of Steel Heverly, situated along Spring creek, caught fire and 1 burned to the ground. James Mackey, tenant on the farm, twenty-four head of live sto wh building hardly cover his loss fire is unknown, .o-—— THE SENATORIAL BALLOT. the vote for Harrisburg On Wednesday States Senator at stood Quay, 93. Jenks, 85; Jones, 6g Neces- sary for choice 127. Quay .— IACKC Seven Months School Term The bill providi { ng the mit 4 } - term lo De seve the presen office The charges as Sheriff Gamble's election to his office was (reneral tainted with Attorney a 9 af nel * kin has fixe Elkin has fixed day for hearing the argument as — A Fatal Shot Last Thursday afternoon a fatal a of 19-year-old son The befel Ralph, a S. M. McCormick, of Lock Haven dent young man was out on the river in He at- tached his boat to a steam scow and in boat and had his gun with him some way in handling his gun, in getting into the cabin of the scow, the load was discharged, entering his breast caused » instaut death No one saw how the ac- cident happened. .———— New Yorkers Buy a Railroad River to a syndicate of New The Clarion railway has been sold for $1580, 00 York capitalists beaded by John Byrne Connections will be made with the Buffa. lo, St. Mary's and Southwestern railroad by extending the road from Croyland to near Centreville. The lines will also be its southern termi. of extended from near nus to valuable coal lands south Brookville a - Wealthy Lamberman Missing John Rohn, aged So years, a wealthy lumberman, operating a saw mill at | Three Runs, Clearfield county, has been missing for over a week, and 60 men are He went from the with searching for him, mill the money and it is feared that he has been into woods cosiderable robbed and murdered — Twins With Different Birthdays Mrs. James Wertman, ol Danville, is the mother of twins, a seven pound boy born on Saturday morning, April Sth, and an eight pound girl on Sunday even. ing, April gth—34% hours apart. The | norel feature is, while being twins their birthdays will come on different days. --—— Lock Haven Man Recognized. Attorney Henry T. Harvey, recently | appointed by Governor Stone one of the commissioners for the promotion of unl. formity of legislation in the United States. The other commissioners are: David T, Watson, of Pittsburg, and Ellis Ames Ballard, of Philadelphia. - -——— Valuable Cows Killed, A stale veterinarian visited the farm of Rev, Samuel Creighton in Nittany val. ley Priday afternoon and made an examination of the herd of cows for tub. erculosis. The registered guernseys and one grade cow were found to be affected and were killed, United | ing, “EXPANSION” BEARING FRUIT Men Wanted the Philippinos Subdue 100.000 10 CONDITION GROWING SERIOUS The Latest Nev End Not ir M No End wo Exj Kinley 's The promi of Manila bay, does region about Laguna tL seem to have met with suc. cess encouraging its prosecution, and General Lawton has been ordered back to Manila, evacuating the territory and the towns he occupied. This is a reverse, and shows the Filipinos capable v ’ t all voir I } | termined resistance at ail assailed. It is prettily clear enough troops at the Philip; will be more appare: allowed to stand an army of a hundred thous the Philippines, lawton as necessary for hand. It may not be pop ul has been made nex be silitary sense. Let there lization of the white man 118 Crazy enterprise Post -- Family Wiped Out When in the mountains, about nine miles from Samuel Wright who lived back Bodines, died on Friday of blood poison. of of four the result an accident in the woods, a family persons was wiped out of existence. While chopping Wright acci- dently cut his right leg below the knee alog a few days before, with the ax. Blood poisoning set in a day or two after the accidemt. About six years ago Mr. Wright's father, T. § Wright, was killed near the spot where the young man was injured, a tree falling on him during a thunder storm. Mrs, Wright, Samuel's mother, died about three months ago of cancer and pnea- monia, after suffering intense agony for two weeks. About two weeks ago their 11-year-old daughter contracted a heavy cold, which rapidly developed into pneu. monia, and the little one died, leaving ber brother, Samuel, who followed to the great beyond on Friday.— Williamsport Sun - Important Decision The right claimed by the Clearfield Republican to inspect the minutes and orders of the county in order to transcribe the same and pub. commissioners, lish them in that paper, was argued be. fore Judge Bailey, of Huntingdon coun. ty, April 5. The judge withheld his opin. jon in the case until last Friday. He | based his opinion upon the fact that the petitioners had shown no special inter. est entitling them to the relief asked, the fact that no statute authorized the privileges asked, and, finally, because there already existed a tribunal for pas. sing upon the accounts of county com. wissoners, The Republican editors had announced some time since that they would take the matter to the su. preme court before they would give up the contest, and we will now see weather this will be done. It is a case of pecn. | liar interest to every newspaper as well as lo every taxpayer. The date on the label shows whether | it is paid or not. Look at it. to | FACT, FUN Paragraphs — Selected and Brigh ng Original MOKIT ¥ He sees God's life's dally ta y he takes srt of Heaven's grea okt . det H eine gen u want them lo ple’'s version of the { men who have traces of great. their make-up spoil everything the traces 3 king over When a man discovers that be has made a mistake he begins to look around for some one to blame it on The known as the Populist of waterways be Ts il Orinoco river is entitled to 1s at it 1 & Lo 1 is 20 miles wi 's mouth A woman says her husband is so fond of an argument that he won't eat any- thing that will agree with him, There is a beautiful block of but only an expert sculptor can coax it to come out Human nature begins with a vulgar statue in every marble, desire to attract attention and ends with a selfish determination to play hermit Clara What shall I sing for you, Jack Jack-—Have you a song with a refrain Clara—Yes Jack—Well, then, please re. frain A woman's idea of making home at. fill of tables which fall over when a man looks tractive is to it full crazy little at them The man who marries the prize.winner of a cooking school must expect to supply enough raw material to keep up a great reputation “What lose In answer to the query, wi the doctors do when they their ‘grip?’ wers, "Lose their patience The Philadelphia girl who claims to bave had her hand squeezed $5,000 worth will doubtless make it costly for the chap who takes a chance with ber waist, An Ohio genius has invented a chair that can be adjusted to one thousand different positions. It is designed for the small boy to sit iu when he goes to church, ——————— A ———————— How She Managed Him. A Kaosas man said he would not eat again until his daughter was converted. The danghter would not be converted until the father consented to her marry. ing the man of her choice. The father enjoyed a fast of six days, the girl was married and then converted. All things cote 10 those who have the courage of Beir convictions and wait, a New Hampshire miss ans
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