4 Whe Centre Droceat, CHAS. R. KURTZ, - < - PROPRIETOR FRED KURTZ, 8R. | gnirons. CHAS. R. KURTZ, CIRCULATION OVER 2850. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION : SUBSCRIPTION - - $1.50 PER YEAR Persons who send or bring the money to the office, and pay In advance, §1. per year. EDITORIAL, Tug Republican State Convention will meet in Harrisburg on Wednesday, June 11, at 10:30 a. m., for the purpose | of nominating the Republican State ticket for the fall election. ee —————————— THE estimated cost of the Revolution. ary War is $135,193,705; the war of 1812, $107, 109,103; the war with Mexico, §100,- 000,000, while the war in the Philip- pines has already cost more than the combined expense of the three, li Tue name of Henry Lowry, of Belle fonte, is being mentioned as a candidate | for Sheriff on the republican ticket, in | this county. Phil Foster, of State Col. lege, is also being groomed for the same place. Both are fine men and either | would make a splendid political corpse in November, Tug Mormons are said to have made 65,000 converts last year, more than any other church or It is claimed that they politically control six States, and they openly boast that Con. The trouble is, as long as they do not preach denomination. gress dare not interfere with them. polygamy, we do not see how they can be suppressed. Tue list of candidates for a place on next fall’s democratic county ticket is growing. It is to be desired that each one will make up his mind to do his electioneering in such a manner as affect. ing other candidates that nothing will need be regretted when the campaign is over and nothihg will need be explained away. If a rival candidate has no faults let none be manufactured against him If be is supposed to have, don’t make mention. Each candidate confining him. self to his own merits, with no unkind word for any other, will make an ideal campaign for nomination, and ensure harmony when the nominations are made. The Democrat volunteers advice in this line and believes only good can result from following it. - LAST miral Schley. publication and we give a summary of the leading points of his brief. In gen- eral terms he reaffirms the fndings of | the Court of Inquiry but his review of the battle of Santiago robs Admiral Samp- son of much of the glory that the Navy Department has attempted to award him, when 20 miles distant from the scene of the bloody conflict. While it does not give Schley the full measure of justice, and no one expected that he would as the matter became such a bitter partisan controversy, it still is more comforting to him and his friends than to the followers of Sampson. The President evaded | some of the principal points in the con- troversy and wrung in other matters that were not pertinent to the issue. He tried to plow up through the middle of | the controversy and smooth off the rough | edges on both sides, and at the same | time not go back on the party that elect. | ed him to office and which he hopes will recall him to serve another term. Then he had a desire to approve President | McKinley's course in the matter, The | President's decision is quite an improve ment over the verdict of the Court of In. quiry, but is far from justice to Admiral Schley. Wer, Henry, having a good time, him an experience Freedom. Perhaps what he sees, hears, éats and drinks will make upon Henry such a lasting impression that may work for good when he gets back to Germany. Henry surely will always think well of, and never forget, Uncle Sam. He will picture him, when he gets back to Ger: many, as a noble, powerful, whole-soul- ed fellow, whose friendship it will be worth while to have and to keep. How we wish Henry could come up here to Bellefonte. We could make things gay for him here, too, as well as other towns, Our people, those who are Dutch and don't want to own up to it, as well as those who are of other stock, would vie with each other to bid him welcome, and say, "Wie Sie sich, Heinrich? es frenet uns des Kaiser's Bruder zu be- wilkommen,” But Henry can't visit our mountain city, he Is hastening west. ward to cities resting upon big breweries of beer the national thirst slaker of the hardy and frequently thirsty Teuton, Welcome, Henry, good boy. Welcome o our beer, our wines, dinners, pipes and tobaccos, Bumpernickel und Zwie. back. Welcome! We are ready w break our necks to have a royal hand. : ] Prince of Prussia, is | America is giving | in this Republic of | week President Roosevelt ren. dered his opinion in the appeal of Ad. | It is entirely too long for | | base attempt was repulsed, THE CENTRE. DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA., FEBRUARY 27, 1902. TILLMAN'S GOOD WORK. Since the two senators from South Carolina engaged in a personal encount. er in the U, 8S. Senate last Saturday and broke all records for the dignity and prestige of that distinguished body there bas been much comment over the affair, Our republican friends are devotirg much space to the abuse of Senator Till- man, the democrat, and the defence of Senator McLaurin, the other who was elected as a democrat and then sold oot completely to gain the control of the federal patronage in that state. We ad- mit that Ben Tillman is a man of grave faults. He has a vicious temperament and a tongue that spares no invective too strong when he assails an adversary. | Tillman never was a diplomat—one who will cringe, and fawn, and lie and steal to win public favor. Despite all his crudeness and low vulgarity at times, no | one has kad the ground to question his motives and integrity, He is fearless | and honest ; in all matters of public mo- ment there is a conscientious impulse in the man that is admirable, and it is to | be regretted that more of our public men do not have these elements of character, Tillman is a man who will call a spade a spade and will stand by his guns when | under fire as long as he is convinced of | the justness of his cause. The republi- cans have a bitter resentment against | this man for the reason that he has been | a free lance them in plain labguage when they are stealing. in the U., 8. Senate, even if its dignity A little body and more genuine integrity has suffered. less that among public servants would be a great dignity in benefit to the public. Tillman deserves praise, which is his grave fault. In the eyes of most men his offence is less than the acts of some of the polished diplomats who | 3 | barter and trade their votes and support measures that are vicious and corrupt. A dirty Never soiled his SENATOR TILLMAN'S PROVACATION For the assault of Senator Tillman his colleague, Senator McLaurin, in ti open Senate there can be no palliation and no amount of verbal apology or 1 can atone for the offense. Great ectness as was the insult, the Senate was the ast place for resenting it by brute force the i The most effective punishment of offender wonid be for the Senators tion with them ; both sides they have encouraged his | escapades until at last his insolence cul minated in this scandal. There is one aspect of the affair, bow. public. ator Tillman, It is a fact, as asserted by Sen that Senator Mclaurin | was opposed to the Paris Treaty, and that when a vote was badly needed by the Administration he was suddenly and | | mysteriously converted in its favor, It lis also a fact that immediately after this miraculous conversion Sentor Mclaurin | of Government | | Elkin by became the dispenser patronage in South Carolina. He had the run of the departments; and post. offi nd rev e collectorships in the | ices and enue collectorshig | squalid organ State were at his exclusive disposal. It is not yet forgotten how he undertook as | one of his first experiments to seduce Columbia (S.C ) postoffice, and bow his This not seriously discourage him, as it would have discouraged any man possessed of | a lingering sense of political decency Federal office and spoil to every Demo- crat in South Carolina whom he can thus | convert into a tool of his own and of the Administ sation. With all keeps up the impudent pretense of being a Democrat while supporting by speech and vote every measure of the party in | power Senator Tillman's provocation is that Senator McLaurin, in disposing of Gov- erment patronage in South Carolina, has sought out Tillman's personal enemies as the special objects of his bounty when | they could be converted at the same time into political toolsof the Administration. This is the mere personal phrase of the scandal with which the public has little concern, There is another feature of the affair that is of great interest to the American people. This is the attempt, in which McLaurin is the chief agent, to first corrupt a State by the industrious use of office and spoils and then to steal it. In lavishing praise on McLaurin for betraying bis party in South Carolina, and io lustily denouncing Tilman for his raffianism the Administration organs may still be expected to decorously keep this aspect the scandal out of the panic view, But this is what most ghly concerns the whole American peo- ple in the quarrel between the two South Carolina Senators, RKecord, A ———— Tux outlook in its March Number has no less than ten ere and never hesitates to tell | { county” does not seem to be an ade- . . A aa . Co. | quate reason for nominating him; and, fostering bad legislation that it is akin to | Tillman has done a good work | coupled by the organ with the remark- I must despite his outbursts of temper | whose civie « | word ever, which is of peculiar concern to the | old ! elient did | | breeds anarchy McLaurin is still making his proffers of | | sons of America this he still | | mrchy is bred and born in these coun NOMINATE ELKIN Bome Cogent Reasons Why the State Boss Should Be Standard-Bearer. It is not often that the North Ameri ean finds it possible to agree with the machine or its organ in any matter of gtate politics or local government—a fact which goes far to confirm confl- dence in the correctness of the North ! American's views—but it feels oon- strained by the force of logic to ap- prove the selection of John P. Elkin as the machine's candidate for governor, By character, attainments and achieve ment, Mr. Elkin is pre-eminently qual- ified to carry the standard of the or- ganization. The organ of the machine truly says that “his career is one that the young men might study with profit to themselves.” To a young man fit- ting himself for the practice of medi cine, the study of a well-developed case of cancer would be valuable. An as pirant for judicial honors might de- rive benefit from thorough acquain- tance with the history of a Jeffreys or a Bacon or the career of a Potter. To the young Pennsylvanian ambitious to serve his state in political office, we heartily recommend studious contem- plation of the career of John P, Elkin. The North American's reason for en- | dorsing the choice of Mr. Elkin as the machine candidate are not precisely those advanced by the exuberant organ in support of its action in making him not only the organization's, but {ts own especial favorite. The fact that he "was born in a log house in Indiana moreover, when the statement is Mr. Elkin of the word.” we doubt that born in a log house or anywhere else tin ay find this theory it falls h force as an ’ ain line of able assertion that “is self- ie in Overy sense necessarily EE A8 We m autogenesis of an Elkin, to appeal to us with mus argument in favor of political action The North America nomi of John ne for the ging) & Cer the by the imple rea- presenta- favors Lion that he is nachin the embodiment of ma itics and pledge and gone along not only without hesita- 4 | tion, but with joyous alacrity put him in coventry as unfit for associa- but the truth is that ou | As the machine 2 ernor, John P. Elkin will o support for gov- mmand the political automaton is expressed in the ‘regularity.” of every political pervert whose guiding motto is “any thing to win;”™ of every retainer of the big and little; private and mythioal alive, on the padded list the head of the tic character and leave no in dou as to his own duty day The North ican is unqualifiedly in favor of the nomination of John P Quay machine's state He is literally of the gang ate of every reed bomen of every every hureau dead or His name at blazon Its honest citizen the license yYoter, ket will on election Amer the convention cal candidate” the “logi and ita WHAT THEY SAY the venerable Wade Hampton with the | Extracts From Various Sources, Indi. cating Democratic Opinion Regard ing Questions of the Day. Shame on those narrow-minded indi. viduals who are so hopelessly ignorant as to argue that freedom of speech It is just the oppo- anarchists are not they are sons of tyr- want to accuse in particular; but know that an site As a rule, anny We don't any certain country all enlightened Just men tries where freedom of speech, and all other freedoms are extremely limited ~<Indiana Moderator The significance of the Baboock fron and steal bill Is not affected by the fact that there Is little chance for ita becoming a law at this session of con- gress The bill, coming as It does from a protectionist, is the entering wedge of free trade It marks the beginning of the end of the high tarift system. Mr. McKinley recognized the drift of public opinion in his last speech In Buffalo the day before his assassination. The Baboock bill is in line with the policy suggested in that address. Protection is stabbed in the house of its friends —Kansas City Star, SHORT TALKS Matters of Public Interest. If Treasurer-elect Harrie can find any consolation in the verdict in his libel suit against Hon. P. Gray Meek, he is satisfied with the thinnest sort BHORT TALKS Brief Comment on Political and Other Matters of Public Interest, When we attempt to tell the little brown men that we are so deeply ine terested In their welfare that we are spending millions of dollars to shoot our love into them they will credit us with being the worst gang of double- jointed hypocrites that ever walked the earth, and when we add to this that other stupid invention that Provi- dence is assisting us to do them up they will wonder what gort of heathen god we worship. » * M4 \a The ruling of the postoffice depart- ment in refusing Mr. Bryan's Common- er the regular mailing privileges is too contemptible to be properly character fzed, The alléged reason for refusing sample copies of the Commoner 0 go mm pound rates is that Mr. Bryan is Interested in what his paper When Charles Emory Smith Quay the gang woek after week Philadelphia Press h in he preach without mo- This i shut regular teaches Penrose in bherates and 4 he rest what idiotic out bad any con- Live, pm he editor of any the sucCcons wate is to a fool. A iy aay te Or irk a hardship n those weak he was | » onlication A application as and ask your m to jing for a sub- tarift the all tariff is ide fre atlentic the vital need of provi duties United a moral the re? stantial duction | he on C mports into Slates So there 18 after question involved in the m the tarift that Jmost con nown the eaders inordinate part of the few coupled the are highly tariff is at the ence of the narrowest kind of selfishness, and a total gard for others, It absolute ne wn blind tion =» the Reg the istermination 0 bleed r their enrichment Ihe disre- is an unto others the rights of command what we do pot us Whe ver France or any other to do want them to do to Russia, Germany, country imposes tion against any of our ne A trade 1 nroH ’ fucts r protected vampires set up a how! and clamor for open free trade joors on the part of others, while we exact like pirates of the Mediterranean, on every dollar that we get our hands on. The tariff is said to have derived its name from the pirates. of Tarifa, who exacted a tridb- ute from every vessel entering or leav- ing the Mediterranean. The Moorish pirates long ago met their just des- but their wicked robberies are still practiced under the sanction of law and in the name of protection, tribute the aris The United States senate is likely to still further thwart the will of the great majority of the Amerioan peo- ple by refusing to submit a proposi- tion to amend the constitution so as to elect the senator by popular vote, If we must have an American house of lords or a millionaires’ club, as It Is sometimes called, there is no good rea- son why the people should not have a voloe in their election. The senators say In effect, “We prefer our chanoes of getting into the senate by fair means or foul through means of the legisiatures, and we don't care whether the people like it or not™ There are but two ways of bringing a constitu tional convention about: Congress can call one of its own free will, or If two. thirds of the state legislatures ask for it, congress must call one whether It wishes or not. A large number of the legislatures have passed such a resolution, and the old duffers in the ponate are beginning to fear that the people will force them, in spite of their wishes, to call a convention. They are Th §3 | He will, | tus ure VARIETY OF COUNTY NEWS Items of Interest Gathered From All Sections SHORT AND TO THE POINT What Transpired Worthy of Brief Men- tion, the Past Week— News From Over the County—For Hasty Read- ers—A New Department John Mark, of Philipsburg, has an in. crease of pension to $12. Samuel Homan, of Gregg, fell and broke his collar bone a few days ago. The Alpha Fire company will hold a dance on Thursday eyening, Feb. 27th, at University Inn, State College. Wm. W, Harpster, son of Sam’! Harp- ster, dec'd, formerly of Centre Hall, is a republican candidate for Sheriff in Stephenson county, lilinois. Pref. C. D. Fehr, of State College, has made passport into Germany, a country to which he expects March studies in language. application for a to go about A very pretty wedding was celebrated on Wednesday 19th, the home Adam Hosterman, in Boalsburg, when at of bis daughter, Mary, was united in mar. riage to Matthew Goheen. Norton King, who took part in the Boer war, has returned to Philipsburg we understand, deliver African cannot fall to be on his experience, which interesting Spring Mills is to have a new an church. That was decide ucture, ition of the Epworth i at Ph ay next ipsh George 1 NLD i BOmAs Mr, Shreckengast, to Garbrick to Nittany on the Garbrick farm William Joseph Hill, living near Cuba Mines Centre county, was instantly kill. tie mines, operated by Irish Brothers The young man was employed as driver and it is sopposed while entering the mines was caught between the car and rib He died instantly. He was aged about 27 years, and was the only support of his mother, in the mines. The home of Davi long at Jackson ville burned to the ground with all its contents at 3 0'¢c'ock Wednesdayvhmorniog igth. The family consisting of six child. ren barely escaped with their lives—not having as much as shoes to put Ga their feet, Susie sister of Mr There was no insurance on the property and the family is left destitute. Dr. E. A. Kent, who been charge of the Potter sisters’ farm at Lin. long, an invalid lady and Long, was taken out over a roof has in den Hall, for three years past, has been tendered a position by the firm he was with a number of years before coming to Penn's valley, will accept the offer and become a traveling salesman again, The Dr. has some warm friends among our best citizens who very much regret his leaving but wish him success Friday evening a sledding party con sisting of twelve couples left Clarence bound for the beautiful home of Mr. and tain. Miss Ida Haynes assisted by Sam. vel Madill were instrumental in getting up the party, which was most bospitably cutertained by Mr. and Mrs. Reese, who bad provided delicious refreshments. The party consisted samely Misses Laura Hampton, Laura Banks, Mannie and Annie Price, Huldah Askey, Lyda Smith, Ida, Bessic and Martha Haynes ; Messrs. Barton Larrey, Samuel and Will Madill, Will Crispas, Joseph McLaughlin, Robert Hayves, John Healy, Mike Glenn, Reuben Heaton. IN ADJOINING COUNTIRS. W. K. Raap bas been appointed post. master at Lamar, The ice on the river at Lock Haven on Monday was 27% inches thick. The M. BE. church at Morrisdale will be reopened on Sunday, March and. James M. Thomas, of Lewistown, one of the early settlers of Mifflin county died on Monday, aged 78 years. Saturday, April 26th, will be a big day in Jersey Shore-the celebration of the $id anniversary of Odd Fellowship in America. C. J. Greninger, for many years the popular miller at Loganton, has remov. ed 10 Brush valley, where he will take charge of Daniel Weaver's mill, John H. Miller, of Windber, paid his 29'h to continue his | a lec | ed Thursday last while working at Bat. Mrs. Chas. Reese at the top of the monn. has the contract to plaster 200 houses for the Berwin & White Co., at Windber, Miss Bertha Meyers, a saleslady em. ployed in a large dry goods house at Du. Bois, was married Tuesday 15th, at the home of her patents, Mr, and Mrs, Peter Meyers, near Hannah Furnace, to Mr, Ross Scott, a prominent resident of Du- Bois, While the house of Charles Mortar at Bernice, Clinton county, was on fire, that gentleman's g year-old child rushed into the bouse and grabbed a sleeping babe, which had been forgotten, from the cra- dle, and ran through flame and smoke with it to a place of safety. J. A. Baird, formerly a prominent physician and druggist at Brisbia, was killed by being run over by shifting coal cars at Dunlo on the gth inst., after he. roically pushing two ladies from the track and their He was 52 years of age, and leaves a wife. of hear familiar music when he passes through Altoona on the morriug of March 1st, en route to Chicago. saving lives. Prince Henry Prussia will A project is under way to form a huge choir of the best Ger. man singers the perhaps which will of of city, 200 voices, the sing somgs | Fatherland as the Prince and his party | passes through. If all the petroleum produced last year in the United States was put in standard { barrels and the barrels placed in a row touching each other, the line would com- | pletely belt the earth. Enough coal : ons to CYEry one y the 76,000,000 odd every | was mined to give {of the persons in country and enough gold to give Pennsylvania and tie Railroad effected at ng of the stockhol Cy? a tev » . y Corporation ou 1g The iiroad company to was ders : Bellwood and Horatio and is seventy. seven miles is ) length the Bell's Gap th ich on oken 3m one of chisel ve next door, beard L. Dice the gave The man was between ney man t the ndow and " the alarm when he fled seen by Rev. Dice and 4 o'clock this mornnig | William Resides had a very parrew escape Monday morning at Lock Haven | While on the Bald Eagle Valley road, pear the paper mill, be was knocked { down by an engine and shoved along im the snow until his leg became badly twisted under the pilot of the locomotive Fortunately the engine was stopped wm time, when Mr. Resides was pulled ost from under the pilot and the snow. it was thought that his leg was crushed This feac proved to be groundiess as the man es caped with a few bruises and a sprain Herald (—Somebody asked whether the members of Company €, and broken in several places. Tyrone Fifth regiment, at Clearfield, who viola ted the rules of discipline at the recent inspection of the company, have bees tried by court martial, and sentenced The trial has been of | pleted, and doubtless the finding of the court bas been properly framed in the form of a report, and forwarded. But # will not be made public until it passes through the military channel-—regitment. al, brigade and division headquarters | to the adjutant general's office, where will take the form of an order and be is sued to the guard at large by the com | mander.m.chief found guilty. Preparations are being made to is. | vade with the steam cars a section of | Pennsylvania Jong famous for its isola- | tiom, its deserted village and its romantic history. This is the region of the Tang. ascootac, in the southern part of Clin. ton county, where half a century age General John Revel, an aristocratic bat visionary Baglishman, built a town asd | a mansion upon the bleak platean south of the West Branch of the Susquebansak, and there undertook to mine and marke coal over the West Branch canal. Now work is being pushed on a railroad that bas as its objective point this forsaken 'Scootac region, anda party of local capitalists will develop beds of fire and brick clay that have been discovered there, ~Be sure to read Mingle's Adit will save you money, LOOK! Come at onee and see our Accident and Sick Policies. Absolutely a First-Class Company. Indemnify- ing men against sickness and aoe dents. We have Policies for Pre fessional Men and Policies for La- boring Men. Before you renew your Accident Policy don't fail te GRANT HOOVER, Loganton a visit last week. Mr. Miller
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