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THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE
PA. MAY 3.
1900,
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The Centre democrat
CHAS. R, KURTZ, - ~ EDITOR & PROP
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CIRCULATION OVER 2600.
DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKETS
POR AUDITOR GENERAL
HON. P. GRAY MEEK,
Bellefonte
ONGRESSMEN AT LAR
N. M. EDWARDS,
Williamsport
HENRY E. GRIMM,
Doylestown
Announcements
FOR ASSEMBLY
We are authorized to announce the name of
J H. WeTzEL, of Bellefonte boro, as a cand)
date for Assembly, subjeet to the decision of
the Democratic County Convention
Weare authorized to announce the name of
J. W. KervLer, of Ferguson township, as a
candidate for Assembly, subject to the ded
of the Democratic County (
onvention
We are authorized to anno
ROBERT M. Fos
didate for Assembly. su
the Democratic County Convention
nee the name of
ER, of State College, as a can
bieet tothe decision of
Weare authorized to
plant with
Heaver
head
now
bumorous
cently a Boer
damage
force and ther:
tish were read
The corr
all des
along at a slow
fading bard wo
their advance
causing them any
that they never calcul;
seems 10 be no doubt but that in time the
Fuoglish can exhaust the resources of this
little Dutch Republic, but it | be
an enormous price and at a sa
ile that will make it appalling
brutal conquest is all there is §
and the English
We are
the Philippines
oeonle are
peo are
ones doing the same tl
we are no better
body who sympathises with the Boers
order to be consistent, must do the
with the Philippines~both are figh
for their liberty and independence
-
3d this
adelphia cat
1
onlinued
Tur Philadelphia Times was
week to a company of Ph
talists and | be under the
same gitorial n
McClure
future the paper w
anagement with (
as ed in chief but in the
ed as a
regulation republican Lt was that
tried 0
palm itsell off as an independent sheet
Ran
for many years past, only it
It bas been general comment for some
years that the plant was in the market,
as it was no longer a dividend payer,
for the reason that the public have long
ago lost all confidence in its editor in
chief whose
purely policy instead of
this section, for the reason that there are
other papers that give more news, and
are by far more reliable in their political
utterances. Everybody pays tribute to
Col. McClure as a brilliant writer, but
hesitate to follow his teachings, because
they have little confidence in the man;
and that is about the reason the paper
has been on the rapid decline.
ApMinAL Dewey has been cutting a
big figure in bis western tour and is re.
pe Frm some great orations. All of this
makes McKinley uneasy.
career has of late been |
principle |
There are few readers of the Times in |
| FOUR KINDS OF GOVERNMENT.
The prospects are that the United
States will soon have four sets of govern.
{ ment in operation-—inside and
| the constitution, The first is
federal Then
Porto Rican plan, ready to go into opera
outside
our own
government, comes the
tion, and which is a mixture of republi.
canism and imperialism, with the latter
dominating in essentials. Next in order
will be the Philippine plan, under a bill
pending in the Senate, which creates an
absolute one-man power form ol govern- |
|
ment, with the president as the supreme
the |
the 1,
8,000,000 people,
autocrat of 200 islands and
He may govern as he
elects under a commission that has start. |
ed for Manila from San Francisco, or
|
that failing, by military power, with a
brigadier general like Otis, as his deputy,
This bill will be debated at length when
it gets fairly started in Congress, as it
brings up the questign of imperialism in
all its bearings.
Then we have, to conclude with, the
fourth forn
waiian bill, reported by conference com. |
mittee and passed by both houses. It
establishes a more liberal suffrage than
Any
States who has been a year
first proposed. adult male citizen
of the United
in the territory and who can speak,
read
and write
guage,
GREAT WO
FOR
they to me
WE YOON OF my Iriends are su
un their advocacy of my interests
be glad to receive the nomination
paming of Mr. Bryan for the presi
will not cause me to decline the
SYMPATHY FOR REPLBLILS
majority of nine, on a light vote,
senate Monday refused 0 take up
nsideration a resolution of sym
pathy
This
our repu
with the Boer republics
g the first time in the history of
] that either house
Congress
has refused to express the sympathy
which Washington proclaimed that he
nstinctively feit with all people strug
gling for their freedom, an
statesmen
ArLY 100k every
fs shameful stultification has out
The
loes not dare of care to
et :
ng A
nightmare driven us
Creat Repub
express its sympathy with lite republics
fighting bravely against extinction
The Democratic national platform will
surely give Lhe people of this country an
opportunity to prociaim their sympathies
in a voice that will be heard around the
| world!
we a—— A ————
DISCONTENTED LABOR
Talk about good times and then read
the papers. In every leading industrial
centre, Chicagn, Buffalo, New York,
Baltimore and Philadelphia the labor
unions are making demands for more
+34 and in many cases are out on strikes,
ages have not gone up and the cost of
all necessaries of life have increased so
as to make their condition deplorable.
This Is McKinley prosperity. The trusts
are getting sleek and fat, the people pay
the bills, and labor suffers
-
Joun OLRoMARGARINE HAMILTON is
now a full fledged Quayite, both in theory
| and practice,
of government, in the Ha- |
WASHINGTON COMMENT.
| Whatever the administration may be
able to do in the House with the ship
will not get
The
democratic senators who opposed thi
the scheme
through the Senate at this session,
subsidy job,
| scheme have received unexpected sup.
port in their fight against it, from Quay’s
who intend to let
republican friends,
| Hanna, who is the most active pusher of
| the job,
ful deal by which he kept
the Senate,
see that they resent the succes
Quay out of
These republican senator
would probably not vote against the sub
sidy bill if put to the test, but they will
the
senators to prevent iis reaching a vole,
probably quietly help democrati
which will be practically the same thing,
The Navy department is put in the
| cruel position of having to order a court
| of inquiry to sit upon an officer who has
| eritic'sed Admiral Sch ey. Secretary Long |
and Admirals Crowniushield and Sam;
have so plainly showed their animu
against thegallant officer that subordinate
officers have considered themselves free
to talk as they chose against him
son's fla
Captain Chadwick, of Sam}
ship-—the only officer, by the way, exce
himself, whom Sampson mentioned
his oficial report of the battle of
Ing more wou
aim bad not
the ad
}
the
and thas offsetting
minis
ch and
nu
t denan
ations of the prohibitionist or the
the
Army canteen As bearing . h
course of the President
point, note the following statem
A. W. Terrell, former
who said
the
st Turkey
from
mir
key There
ance about nature
We ¢!
for the burning mis
:
Maras,
miniated by Kurds and a fanat
again
at Harpoot an
lace, and remote from the consular
Miss that
burning was done with the aid
tection BArIes cam
vance of Turks 1
has insisted that it was
and by an ungovernable
claim is sustained by circumstances rest
ing on missionary evidence, the denialof
the Turks is sustained by official reports
by Turkish officers and pashas, and the
issue of fact has not been settied by any
| impartial tribunal. The burning was
| Gone during the Armenian massacres,
| and the Kurds have been the enemies of
the Armenians from the time of Xeno.
phon. In other words, Secretary Hay
has taken up an unjust cause for political
reasons, knowing it to be unjust, and has
been outwitted in the diplomatic argu.
ment that has followed. Whether he will
try to farther “fire the missionary heart"
by sending an American fleet to exact an
indemnity remains to be seen,
Every party hath its own griefs and
every heart knowelh its own sorrows.
Representative Sibley has gone over to
the Republicans and Senator Wellington
has come over to the Democrats. Hach
party can now condole with the other
| on its accessions
| don't hanker partic
| but
| strong, lusty fel
| son and the restof the Department ring | &' d
| think of his do
BELIEVES IN HEREDITY.
He Has a Lusty Son Who Is a Live
ing Proof of It Every
Day.
“Do I believe in heredity?" iid a
well-known loea fens nan to
the Cleve “Of
fOUrse wl and
ng proof
He's n¢ hip of the old block.
“You see, 1 like to get out in the yard
—1 have a pretty fair
the
mower,
with
sized one
and the spade and the
tidy things up a little 1
larly after the job,
I know the exercise | just what |
y
need and I do it. Of course, I'd be gl
rake lawn
and
to have my son help me a little—he's a,
low, but do you
I can get him to tou
when he hears nn
That's right
Pp itter ]
hides
him,
| shake,
Australia Is Try
able One
Capital
—_— Boe lass
I Orsgine
co Hood’s Pills
.
Buying Good Gloihes
Nightly
- 08lling Good Glorhes
POMP OF POWER
Great Ceremony
Locking
Attends the
of Gibhralinr's
GLnten
“EL ur Siok of Gulren’s Going
"Surpasses Any in Belefont....
Fhe Naked Man's Prayer
circus
Att) hour no
gentieman parades in the front
of his fine
exo pt
E arden
residence, perfectly naked,
and
The turban and sandals blaze
with jewels
for a loin cloth, a turban
sandals
He prostrates himself be-
fore a little pagoda, wherein squats an
ugly idol with diamond eyes. There In
always a crowd to watch these devo
tions. If one questions the old gentle
man he answers, testily: “Whatam |
doing, eh? I'm praying for the conver.
sion of this benighted land to
dhism. That's what I'm doing.”
Precious Stones His Fartane,
The present shah has just celebrated
his forty«ixth birthday. The shah In
enormously wealthy, and almost the
whole of his fortune consists of dia
monds and precious stones. The royal
amily of Persia is one of the largest in
e world, There are some thousands
bf princes and princesses, and the pres
ent ocenpant of the throne has a family
of about 20,
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ont forget
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lv
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