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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,
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