4 THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA., APRIL 20, 15849. —————— The Contre Democrat, EDITOR & PROP CHAS. R. KURTZ, ~~ Actual, average, sworn eirculation, of this paper, for the past year, 1588, was OVER 2300 COPIES PER WEEK. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Regular Price $1.50 per year. If pald In ADVANCE $1.00 Special Club Rate Thue CENTRE DEMOCRAT will be sent year with any one of the below named papers, at the following low rate: With Cineinnatt! Weekly Enquirer 1.50 New York Stimes a week World - 1.48 EDITORIAL. one BLOODY SHIRT. The following is from the Keystone Gazette, of March 24th: “The editor of the Centre Demo- crat this week assumes the preroga- tives of a court of justice and pro- nounces the war-investigating com. mittee a fraud. And especially is the little editor severe ou General Beaver, who is a member of the board, and whom he stigmatizes as being guilty of whitewashing the war department. This is terrible; and we hardly see how our townsman, WHO HAD HIS LEG SHOT OFE BY A DEMOCRAT, can survive this second attack.” the considerably The last two THE testimony taken in days at the Quay trial has improved Quay's side of the case result, no one can predict. - PENNSYLVANIA will sented at Washington by only one Unit States senator for the next two years. This is probably the last ballot that be taken, as the legisl; noon today. - po PRESIDENTIAL shape. ics | ginning to assume The i1epublicans will without a doubt, re-nominate their ticket. What the more uncertain, central figure. democrats will de Col. Bryan is still - THE latest estimate is that an army of at least 100,000 men will be required to successfully subdue the surgents, and control the island. This 1s the reward of McKinley imperialism and expansion. The American people are heartily sick of this land grabbing scheme. Philippino in- - THE same crowd of political party wreckers who got licked at the Altoona convention were in evidence at Harris. burg this week, attempting to cause a rumpus in the party. Jim Kerr, young Mutchler, Editor Orr and Judge Gordon are the gang. They are of little use to the party. - . Tue gold bug democracy of New York recently held a fio per plate banquet. Later the silver democracy, the plain people, to the number of 3 at a 1 banquet, with Bryan as the chief and chief The were at the latter, aristo 00 assembled toastmaster atiraction plain people crats at the for THE report of the investigating com. mittee of the Pennsylvania Legislature finds that nine members should be pros- ecuted for the attempt to bribe others to the McCarrel Bi is a surprise that only so few for Quay. It were caught, punished as vote Il and support ” " These men will never be long as a republican admin. istration is running affairs at Harrisburg - n——————— IN New York City Richard Croker, the corrupt democratic political boss, is on the rack and giving testimony that is startling. The politics of that city and neatly all of its public departments are controlled by him. Croker in New York and Quay in Pennsylvania are of the same stripe. They thrive by corruption because the people support them at the polls. - . THE Pennsylvania Legislature and its former U. 8. Senator are in a bad light They are an indication of the corruption that exists in official circles at Harrisburg. Yet the people of this state endorse and approve such things at every election. Corruption in official circles is so common that people begin to admire the cunning of their officials, HASTINGS VS. LOVE From the communication on first page of this issue one can readily gain some idea of republican politics in Centre county and why a battle royal can be ex. pected. The issue is sball Quay’s fol. lowers control the party or not? Judge love seems to be the recognized leader of this element, On the other hand the friends of General Hastings insist that Centre county republicans should not endorse Quayism, but stand by General Hastings in the contest thrust upon him, The opposition isstrongly intrenched; and it promises to develop into a real pretty political battie. The signal lights along the battle lines are in evidence and the followers are lining up. Before peace is declared some political corpses will strew the battle field. Will it be Hastings or love? Time will tell, — Tug CENTRE DEMOCRAT only prints about 2400 copies each week. That is pot unusually lares, but it is much larger than some other concerns who make great pretensions. It secms 0 be Centre county’s local paper because it aims to gather up the county vews, and for years never asked its patrons more than $1 per year, if paid in advance. GOVERNOR ROLLIN'S CHARGE, The declaration of Governor Rollins, of New Hampshire, that the decline of the Christian religion, particularly in our rural communities, is a marked feature of the times, has elicited a good bit of newspaper discussion, and it is possibly not strange that as a rule the editors do not agree with the honorable gentleman, There may be less church-going, in pro portion to population than formerly, but that necessarily the New York Telegram suggests non-church-going does not imply a decline of the Christian religion, If we were rash enough, it says, we might venture the assertion that it is perhaps the proof of a larger appreciation of it, It shows that what the pulpit furnishes is not exactly what the people want, and as we don't put a man in jail nowadays for not going to church he exercises his judgment as to what he shall do on Sun. day. We quent preacher have never heard of an elo- talked to A man who who empty pews, and are not likely to. is in deadly earnest is the magnet, and the people are simply iron fillings who go to the magnet because they can’t help themselves. The difficulty with country villages is that they have too many churches and | an number of The as keen as among dealers in merchandise equal competition among religious Each one » bandbox of an edifice, and, as only a small salary can be paid, most cases a starval wal or medical There 1 ct a man who can h lollars to remain offers him only few If instead of a half a dozen ished churches a village should have one church, minister splendid and mediocre should engage with exceptional ability it would not be necessary for the governor of the state | to beseech the people to go to church. | At a fast day service there would be standing room only. The C not on decline. hristian The simple truth is that the world is getting tired of a false and feeble religion is interpretation of it. If the churches will wake up the people will wake up. This idea—"‘if the churches will wake up the emphasized Sunday morning, which he referred to last people will wake up''—was by a - 1 Het inig. | the work of a couple of Pittsburg minis. | ters in closing the saloons and brothels in one of the wards of the Smoky City, declared that it the united against this one evil it could rid The Tele about and church were the nation of it very quickly gram's cooclusion seems and once in a while there is a mi of the gospel—and the one above refe to is one of them-—who is frank enou at the church is not doing all betterment of the for the were there greater unanimity of thought and action in the church - GOOD LEADERSHIP We clip the following from the Phila delphia Press, of Sunday, April 16th ‘Joseph Howley, the Pittsburg Demo. crat who has announced himself as a candidate for chairman of his party's State Committee merely to oppose Colonel | Guffey’s plans, is not making any head. | way. What is left of the integrity and decency of the Democratic party in Peun- | sylvania has bad reason to feel that Colonel Guffey has rendered a decided service during the present session of the | legislature. He has had trustworthy associates, and it is a recognized fact that | all the efforts of a corrupt lobby, in which discredited Democrats figured, were re- | The united action of the Demo- | cratic members has been such asto invite | The Demogratic | sisted. the popular confidence, situation to-day is in marked contrast to what it hus been at some recent sessions of the Legislature. Mr, Howley cannot expect to defeat the management that has brought the party to a position of some character--a position it has not occupied for many years previously.”’ The Press is one of the most virulent and uncompromising republican sheets in It usually sees nothing but evil in the Democracy. At last it is compelled to admit that the Democracy, under its present leadership, has success. fully defeated the corrupt lobby at Har. risburg, during the sessions of the Legis. lature, and that “the united action of the Democratigmembers has been such as to invite the popular confidence.” This favorable aud well deserved testimony is especially valuable, coming from such a source. The Democrats of Pennsylva- nia have abundant reasons to be proud of their representatives at Harrisburg, and of the leadership that has brought such excellent results. Pennsylvania. WAR BENEFITS, Our present national debt consists of $534,622,000 remaining from the war, $262;315,4000 added by Cleveland's ad. ministration, and $193,366,000 added by the Spanish war, less the increase in cash on hand, which has been such that the total debt, less cash on March 1, was $1,157,904, 302. The interest charge yearly is now $40,695,751, of which $5, 800,95 has been added by the Spanish war, and $11,492,616 was added earlier, It now costs the people about 53 cents a year for each inhabitant to pay the inter. est on the bonded debt, SeCls 1s | impover- | instead of a| one | | sulted in the | I of local clergyman on | 1 | the house by | ternal beneficial [ARRISBURG LETTER, The Housge Rushes the Appropria= tion Bills Through. GOVERNOR STONE'S VETO AX Exeontive Approval Withheld From severnl Ma Both House Investigntion Which Did Not Pro de For Fapenses Corresponder ) April 18 The h' use its appropriation bil ha the burg The ru batch on Saturday Stradling wi Mir in objecting wughan's, which passed, It ap the West Side of Scranton $7.000 two year: Stradling failed to make him was meant halted by Philadelphia, te bill, Mr Farr wanteu $23,750 to Hospital as which received ago. Mr self heard in the din that ratlroad the bill § aker Farr him up for ¢ 1 on the mat the Philadelphian ret to H senan Speake § propriated sociation, only called ter, but irned poor preachers, | LO Bpee in addition Brooks, of Erie delplia, against vent prison warden ters addressed to unt and the ser fro ry its defeat Ee! The house adjourn as Senator Stiles’ bill sition of was reac! taken [4 the discussior postponement dicated that the The The of Hosack Bill as an Amendment, Hosack whisky tax came the senate finance comm its title changed revenue by taxation.’ the fact ths to the whisky out with (ton necessitated by had fas 3) amen direct inheritance been defeats Mr. Fow and other clare | thin tened an iment, the er tax | 1 in the hou they w a erat r hold of it. They ii order that a nonwealth shall not in any man wi only on the ras within their own enclosus The nto organization of any gak water, coal, canal mining, manufacturing tation, raliroad pasage, raliroad, canal, bridge, turnpike plank road com pany or any other corporation that is now erected or that may ! be erected under any law of t} wealth now in force hereafter passed when any has sold sale, either by process power contained in n ing valid all organizat heretofore been made of ner propose i 1 iron. stee lumber oll transpor or ereaflter or that Ly corporation been by any decree or poration or corporations In the on final pa The senate bill regulating n gegament corporatic Ns WAR ament in Inserting a provis at not {to secret house the act shall apply fra associations working under the lodge system, nor to relief associations organized by corporations for the exclusive benefit of their em- ployes Governor Stone's Vetoes, The governor sent in several messages last week. The first to meet with executive disapproval were two house bills. They were measures to ex tend the duration of the lien of the debts of a decedent upon real estate to five years, and to prot ct the publie from the unlawful use of bottles, jars vessels and other packages in the sale of milk and cream and their products The governor's objection to the first bill I= that it would throw a cloud upon titles and put an embargo upon the sale of real estates; besides, it Is a radical and positive change in the rules of adjustment and settlement of cedents’ estates which should never be made unless justice demands it The governor says of the other meas ure that when literally construed it im poses a penalty upon any person who shall use any bottle, vessel, Jar or any package upon which is stamped, blown or engraved with the name, title or mark of any other person than him- self, and might before ignorant or partial magistrates be used as a moans of much annoyance to people who had not violated the rights of others in the trade, The governor also vetoed (he fol- lowing bills: To enlarge the compe tency of the wife to testify against her husband; granting a pension of $8 a month te Ryan Jones for injuries re- colved In a railroad collision on a veto de sures Which Had Passed | « und n Hesolution For an hing through of the last | f train ecomine from Green Castle to Harrisburg, in 1862, while a private In Company 1, Twelfth Pennsylvania vol unteer militia, supplement to the act of May 20, 1580, relating to the incor poration and regulating of savings banks and institutions without capital stock established for the ment of saving money and regulating banks and In The governor 1 0 red house thout hi wpproval authorizing mm members to Ind encourage authorizing branch oMces of such titution | olution rent re pointment of a « tLe tors and three the a ged Infraction « 3 juehanna sold the dan f the company t Colun furni tered to governos re committee the period LO pay posed investigation. | the opinion that investigating limited In the re state strongly the expenses of al should be eating then most wonable demand committees otherwise ¢ made u the state treasury I'he Hasson gilt en counters the calen dar, and a Hi fate befell t meat in spection propos tion Another Capitol Project Knocked Out The new ca the house project was brought and of in short Chairman Adams, of the public buildings and grounds commit tee, stated that there were three bills on the postponed calendar making ap propriations to the present structure The advocates of after a conference with Governor Stone, have fal agree, and he would eall up for third reading the bill of which he ia the auther. This meas ure appropr $4000 000 to complete as It is The WAR OYer- viva up in disposed order complete these led to Ate the capitol by the commission now constituted, within four years motion to consid he bill whelmingly defeated by a Yote Speaker Farr announced the ap pointment of Messrs. Palm of Craw fuid, Wadsworth of Philadelphia and Richmond of McKean as a committee on the part of the house to confer wish similar committees from the legisla- tures of other states with a view to bringing about an amendment to the federal constitution to provide for the election of president, vice president and United States senators by a direct vote, Among the bills passed finally were the following Authorizing the em- Yore ployment of male prisoners of Jalla | and workhouses eight hours a day, ex cept on Sunday and holidays; extend ing the provisions of the act of June 2, | 1887, relating to the condemnation of | turnpikes, roads and highways, so as | yo on Pa to authorize the condemnation of any | y turnpike, road or highway in whole or in part located upon the line dividing two counties nnd to assess the damages payable to the owner or owners there of equitably between such two coun ties; the Keator bill to prevent the pollution of the water supply of cities of the first class, authorizing election assessors in cities of the first class to take a census of school the provisions of the act of July 15, 1807, relating to the distribmtion of the public school fund; to tax all orders, checks, dividends, coupons, pass books or other paper representing wages or earnings of an employe not paid In cash to the employe or member of his family, to provide for a report to tho auditor general of the same and for the fallure to make reports WILKINS, children at least once a year in order to enforce | 09 O00 28 A A ALAA A a LA ERAN IY AN yey yy ly ye a yy 5 . A A SFE NF NES STARS : p AA ey yl yy ey yl ry yy yy PP VTORERRE OR BEROPRONDLVVAAVRLRAOLRLLLLLCOVRLRREERNRRNRORS os wi rigid OMPaAny every RTZ, Edit I hese rat Ah must ace Clas. KB. K SHERIFF f State College, requests u A candidate acral nventio wnee the name of | date | ! Ar A cand ihe decision of the Demo t+ the name of 88 A cand of 1he BP RHAYPER late for sheriff, » et to 1 lecision In wratie ( uty Convent SAMUEL HARPSTER Fergu tw) authorizes LR ADT « his car A SA ex Ds { {ihe De wirat We are authorised to ar rH. Meyer, of Har a for County Commiss jon of the De weratiec Cous Daxizr Hacumax, of Benner eats us lo ant date for Count nissioner. sul | inty ( We are authorized to announce W Fury of Ferguson township, as a candidate for Cour ty Commins subject to the decision of the Democratic County Convention We are authorized to anno ¢ the name of ADAM Banrons of Haines tewnship, as a can didate for County Commissioner, subject to the decision of the Democratic County Convention REGISTER Dean Sin Please annom ndidate for the dects oner INCE IY DAMES 48 A office of Register, subject to of the Demoeratic county conven I am yours truly Miles township w.J G.F. Weaver Annonnee the tion decision CARLIN {Gregg Twp, desires that be =» bw a candidate Democratic nomination for Register F.O address, 'enns Cave We are red to Ancuey erguson t didate ! the ma tothe announce that A whship, w 1 nation of Register, su ie of of the Democratic County ( yen! RECORDER We are author ized to announce the name FT OALYIN Hanren, of Bellefonte AS A candidate for Recorder, subject to the decision of the Democratic County Convention TREASURER To the Democracy of Centre Oo 1 am a candidate for the nomination of County Treas urer, and would respectfully solicit your in fluence and support. Successful or not, 1 am yours, W.T.58PEER Bellefonte, Fa AL the coming Democratic primaries and County Convention | will be a candidate for Treasurer and would respectfully solieit favor able consideration of my canoidacy J.D. MILLER, Walker Twp We are authorized to announce the name of H. A. Mooxg, of Howard boro. as a candidate for Treasurer, subject 10 the decision of the Democratic County Convention EDITOR DEMOORAT «Flease announce my name as a candidate for County Treasurer, sub eet to the decision of the Bainbtatie County ‘onvention Yours respectiully, TUTONKR LUCAS We are authorized to announoe the name of Joun KE. Hosen, of Philipsburg borough, as a candidate for County Treasurer, subject to the decision of the DemoeratiofCounty Ovnvention. Sore Throat Bore throat and constant coughing in. dicate an affection of the bronchial tubes which may develop into pleurisy or inflammation of the lungs. Do not wait: but use Dr. John W. Bull's Syrup at once and be cured, ' bostor COUCH SYRUP Cures Hoarseness and Sore Throat, Doses araemall and pleasant to take Doctors recommend IL Price 2 ois AL all draggiste 12222332222 ose SATUS AY Mess, | ine} nee of Mrs. RB i Derr. A Second #8 Annual Contest... 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