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 ~