Pack 4. She Centre Deworvat. CHAS. R. KURTZ, - - - PROPRIETOR FRED KURTZ. SR: {gpiTORS. CHAS. R. KURTZ, | CIRCULATION OVER TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION SUBSCRIPTION - - $1.50 PER YEAR Persons who send or bring the money to the office, and pay In advance, $l per year, CENTRE DEMOCRAT clubs with N.Y. 3t-w World for Pittsburg Stockman for. Tribune Farmer ....... . 38500 The date your subseription expires is plain- ly printed on the label bearing your name. All credits are given by a change of label the first issue of each month, Wateh that after you re mit. We send no receipts unless by special request. Watch date on your label, Subscribers changing postofMice address, and | pot notifying us, are liable for same, Subscriptions will be continued, otherwise directed, We amploy no collector. You are expected to send the money to this office, uniess EDITORIAL. Frou all sections of the country come the most cheering reports for the election of Parker and Davis. Knowing republi. cans are glum and feel “something is going to drop.” - —— MR. Bryan continues to talk on both sides of the fence, declares a g. 0. p. or: gan, Perhaps so—but there's Mr, Roosevelt, he is right on the fence as to the trusts, real tariff reform and punish. ing public plunderers. — SENATOR Davis, Judge George Gray, of Delaware; Colonel! J. I... Spangler, of Bellefonte, and several other prominent Democrats who are stopping at Bedford, held several secret conferences on Mon. day. Mr. Spangler, of Bellefonte, a member of the State Committee, that the nomination of Parker and Davis party, because the business in- said make a united Democratic and will will win terests of the country are behind them, and will make success possible. THE attention of our readers is speci ly called to an the fi article the add: the St important page, at issue, John convent: is somewhat lengtl week's urge litical will re this next We requ to give ele com man who is interested Issucs and national affairs to carefully read this and your read it. i) | of information what ulo article as it is fu common sense. No matter politics may be, it will pay 3 - AFTER THE GANG. Quite a spicy article appeared in the ‘‘Hustler,”” published at Howard, Pa. Being a republican paper, with the repub- lican ticket in its columns, makes the article rather significant, and seems to voice the sentiment of voters im various sections of the county : TOUGH BUT TRUR The more the political situation of Centre county is studied from a Republi can standpoint, the more apparent it be. comes that all the trouble of the past dozen years or so was occasioned by the $0 called *'leaders’ of Bellefonte. In that particular locality are found some fellows who actually imagine themselves 8s capable of directing party affairs when the truth of the matter is they are unable to control their own vote. So lovg as this condition of affairs exists our party cannot expect to win. If the rough of Bellefonte were completely eliminated from the political map of Centre county the Republican party would win every year and peace would prevail in all quarters. But the day is not far distant when the Republicans of Centre county—outside of boss ridden Bellefonte—will have their say. There is a day of reckoning coming and the in dications are very strong that the tidal wave will begin this coming November. The Republicans of the county have been patient and long-suffering but there isa time as well as a limit to everything The Hustler readers may remember that at one time the Democracy of Cen. | tre had bad what was correctly termed "the court house ring The Democrats ofithe county stood it for a time but at last revolted and overthrew the dynasty that resulted in the election of Robert Cook as skberiff. From that time forth the Republican party of Centre county bad clean sailing until a certain few would-be Republican leaders of Belle: foute assumed the authority of dictating who shoald and who should not be nomi: nated. It is high time that another overthrow takes place and this is as good a year to begin as any, Clean out the dictators and put the machinery on a basis where every Repub. lican of the county has an equal say in the party management. Our very party principles are against boss rule and the writer doesn’t believe the voters of our organization will stand dictation any longer, Yores TAGGART [5 CHAIRMAN At the meeting of the Democratic Na. tional committee in New York Tuesday Thomas Taggart, of Indianapolis, was unanimously chosen chairman, All ef forts to induce Senator Gorman to per- mit the use of his name for the position proved unavailing, owing to impaired health. The selection will be popular with democrats generally, and especially with those of the central West and South. The Democrats may expect to see thor. ough work done in enlisting the inter. est of the voters in their National ticket and that no opportunity to achieve party success will be neglected, Mr. Taggart's selection as chairman will undoubtedly prove of special value in arousing the Democrats of Indiana to a most deter. mined effort to secure the electoral vote of the State for Parker, I'HE ISSUE OF EXTRAVAGANCE. In that classical platform upon which Samuel J. Tilden was elected President of the United States in 1876 it was said : Reform is necessary in public expense Federal, municipal, * * » Since the peace, the people have paid to their taxgatherers more than thrice | the sum of the national debt and more the scale of State and ernment alone, We demand a rigorous frugality in every department and from every officer of the Government. In the platform upon which the people are now asked to elect Judge Parker it is said : Large reductions can easily be made in the annual expenditures of the Gov ernment without impairing the efficiency of any branch or the public service, and we shall insist upon the strictest economy and frugality compatible with vigorous and efficient civil, military and naval administration, as a right of the people too clear to be denied or withheld. The Democratic demand for economy met with approval in 187 How does the situation against which the Parker platforth protests now compare with the one against which the Tilden platform protested then ? In 1876 the total ordinary expenditures of the Government, aside from interest ov the public debt, were $158,216,526 in greenbacks. In 1903 the corresponding expenditures were $£477,542,622 in gold. This does not include in either case the postal expenditures paid revenues. In 1876, under Grant, the War Depart- ment, including river and harbor work, called for $35.070,88. In 1903, under Roosevelt, it demanded $110,619,520. In 1876, with all of the Robeson loot- ings, the navy cost $18,¢63. 110. In 1903 it cost $582,618 034, and for the present fiscal year the naval appropriation has mounted to £68,005, 140.94. In 1876, from postal eleven after the civil paying $28,257,366 for In 1903, with half the number of veteravs living, the pension roll was YECars War, we were pensions, costing us $118 425 646—almost as much as the entire annual cost of running the Government under the extravagant sec. ond Administration of Grant. Aud now that President wsevelt has enacted a ice-pension law by executive decree under that head will be till higher, We alone f are for this paving more than for army, navy and when Tilden year we were pay pensions combined that ruinous exirava- gance of the Government, We are paying three times as much for the army and three times as much for the navy as we were paying as re cently as the year before the Spanish war, and we complained that the Mc: Kinley Administration was extravagant then. If Tilden could find in the little leak. ages of 1876 material for the overthrow of a party backed by the popularity of the bero of Appomattox, what could he do with the colossal of to-day against a party dependent ou the popu. larity of the hero of San Juan Hill is not often that declared reform was necessary to check the waste i) is confronted tering as that reach of Judge any man by an opportunity so gli the easy World. now within Parker - WAGES AND FOOD, That the in the vicinity of Pittsburg bave increased between 15 and so per cent. tion of rices of food the administra. Roosevelt, and that increase but rather a decline tu wages, is shown in some fig. ures just gathered by those who are sat” isfied that Western men are ready fora change in adminis. tration About $£50,0c0 { been paid out | Pittsburg district under President there has been no Pennsylvania work. wo in is or has each in the The figures show that in three years the price of coffee has in- creased 15 per cent. 17 per cent. rolled oats 41 per cent., canned corn 38 per cent, lard 16 per , and pota- wages two weeks flour cent toes 25 per cent, The only commodity within reach of | the workingman which has shown a de. crease is sugar, | A young globe-trotter was holding | forth during a dinner in Paris about the loveliness of the Island of Tahiti, and | the marvelous beauty of the women there. One of the Barons Rothschild, who was present, | he bad remarked anything else worthy of note in connection | Resenting the baron’s inquiry, the youth replied : "Ves; what struck me most was that there were no Jews and no pigs to be seen there.” “Is that so?” ex. claimed the Baron, in nowise disconcert. ed; "then if you and I go there together we shall make our fortunes.” An old couplet of ye olden day hay - making times ran thus by the German farmers, “Der wetz is gute; der we iz is | gute, der ferderst hot de bottle im hate ,” Bat that couplet bas passed into obliy jon with the scythe that laid out the timo thy and clover in haymaking days. CARL SCHURZ, a distinguished republi. can, kas written Mr, Parker a letter strongly endorsing him for president, and lauding him for the manly stand he has taken. Tun New York Herald has come out strongly for Parker. The Herald kas al. wavs been on the republican side, | | than twice that sum for the Federal Gov: | | all, but the one | tory it is beyond recall or hope of recall, THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA. JULY 28, 1904, PARTY ISSUES DEFINED Continued from page | sion, especially In agriculture, and the lack of adequate remuneration for taken gether with the high prices of manufactures inder McKinley act prices publie inbor, to the especial ly accentuated to realization by the contrasting starvation products which had and had since, prices to lass begun prevail in 180 persistently constituted chief Industrial the public mind for turning Mi Harrison and the Rupublicans out and put. ting Mr and and the Democrats in. To goon with this paraphrase Harri son's Administration for three years hope was I'he “plight of the that, like drowning Yecatehing at Muny continued more or these the Feasons in Clevel “Under faint and confidence gone.” poopie’ walk so desperate men, that nostrums were being sugested. were straws.’ Agrarianism and state socialism in the shape of sub treasury and from 1880 and schemes were rife The were other thence on ‘two old par, ties,” as they were called, blamed for it in hence the out of power power was blamed most got Men adv ocat ing these nostrums, in the state of public des in peration then existing, counted thelr aud lence throughout the suffering West and depressed but by Who will deny the historical truth of a sing le Why South, no longer by numbers the acre sentence of the paraphrase this? Why men ought the election of Mr. Cleveland the chronic business depression continued. It na word reached fright local or one which pretend to not be honest It is have forgotten all with the people, as true that after 0 be? is true that It became acute the banks and then the came, which was not a but Vienna nestles « or panie of 1% American con- dition, existed from where n the Danube to where Buenos Avres commands its whose found a. bay, one tions had been laid long before Almost last among the nations panie Character were » it reached us [hen with the of to gure as you wil pon us more npostrums a nations Ig ostad world character. One of them member the the of the Shern Was repea purcha sing claus An act nostrum was suggested by wise men twas adm!s " © passage of t t has bees s destined ' AS yond my power of cos tation. « rold bas is. 1 was not one of iegisiation adopled wise, but ise oF unwise, the result is an accomplished fact plain, pal pable and obvious” to all men who have com mon sense, and like many another step in his. This i the | accomplished fact was the fact of 4 gold basis, india | more goods, | Jationship in the world of commeree is no my» ventured to inquire if | yu io, thing to anybody except a platfer m accomplished then not by the Republican par ty. but by the dogged persistency ass indomi table will of Grover Cleveland. aided too by Reg who nit the fina € party That Ww they wou fa to is rue can legislators thought they AAW disrug of the Democr Was in tion the main their th mt at ye, : steal his under’ and this atform boasts that it was the Re estat ani can party whict about then sa and tarifl act BAD A year that was vint me. A by as they Loe to much sllive which wa alter. to wit is the acute ana ually panie, of irae the golden hues of foil cede it As | poison fustria oe press On must depression must pre nil when w so depression w have sald, when the boll bursts and the Is eo the hea It nute earlier o commercial the begin to hea of recovery fortuite there ody cannot process flesh wine one m was alded by many Sr us i reuan stances The was fan Indian wheat to wmpete in th iitaneou of wheat and no Cal an An wit er market mmense A an crog sma rope Wheat r ring the Bryan-M ey Cleveland w nt President wwhere we Tap Kir Ampaign while a voloe that does CERT There Ia not man within the that iid pay the and the reta wind of my With 7 Ta the debts dye not remember cent wheat farm ore ¢ them 4 buym We goods the re taliers, with empty ves or shelves hee ing empty by sales, o« fr were d order wn the i bers, who had been overstocked enabled When the factories got orders then they had a reason for they then fo order from the factories making gods and them, and then round procesded to make the wheels of Industry went The farmer In the wheat country, with 70 cent wheat, could pay “the baker. the butcher and candlestick maker” and then they could pay others, and they In turn could buy The endless chain of human re | making politician, with the island. | | while silver went down, But wheat going up had anothe r effect When wheat went up during the campaign, there was the reby | lurnished a seeing object lesson of inaccuracy | of the contentions of Mr, Bryan and his fol lowers. of whom | was one, that there was necessarily a connection in price between the two. Western and Border States farmer s in the wheat belt, who had originally been Re. publican anyhow, and who had gone off from the Republican party because of thelr belief in this theory, began to leave the Bryan colum n and join the MoKinley column, first by the dozen, then by the score, then by hundreds an d then in shoals. Thus It came about that Mr, McKinley was elected, because wheat went up and because the going up of wheat and the consequent increased demand for other things, leading to higher prices and a better volume of trade, promised to thelr minds prosperity without free silver. A greater falsehood was never uttered than that wheat, or anything else, went up “because Mr. McKinley was elected.” Things had struck rook bottom and had begun to revive before Mr, MeKinley was elected and the first index of that fact was the rise In the price of wheat, follow ed by the rise in the prices of other agricultural produets sympathetically with it, Then came the immense inorease of gold output that kept prices up Sere and elsewhors, Notonly Is the boast that Mr. McK inleys of agricultural | election was responsible for high prices not true, but It is a very dangerous falsehood, The Populists first taught the people In gertaln sections of this country that prosperity was | ehlefly dependent on government, Bome men | preach the doctrine with the hope 555 during periods of prosperity the average man will jet an extravagant, and unjust government in which he is interested continue uninterrupted, This the chief, if not the le hope of the Kepublican party today. Let the Republican party and let all men who love thelr county beware of carrying this doctrine of government created prosperity any further. If the idea firmly imbedded inthe human mind there will be ts ame | even dishonest C} bewire is once no saving SLATE ROC | teachers from the wrath to ial ism All the War Heroes. I quote agaln from the Republican plat forn Claim “We refused to palter longer with the miseries Had history again, Democrats demanded the recog nition of belligerent rights and Independence for Cuba day in and day out. The K speaker constantly refused them even as much Ihe Repubil of Cuba, and declared war against Spain spublican as parliamentary recognition can President was thoroughly out of sympathy Finally cruelty unprecedented led to the blowing up of the Maine and her erew. Public opinion wou id no longer be restrained the Maine’ became a battle cry miseries of Cuba” at all that led the Republi” can party to fall Into line with the public de- mand and fight Spain. Hearing t that cry of “Hemember the Maine and amidst i and anger, the He publican Speaker President stood out of the way, as well they might the former advised armed intervention mpatriotic to pretend that even this, with their wishes, treachery and Remember It was not the the echo the universal excitement and the bot} ong d any sense a RB for It Democrats enthusiastically publican as fully a Lt WAS Democrats voted layed as was in measure Republicans. inanimously gave the President of the Unit Biates 50 0 to spend In discretion 00 They did this and voled for the act « vention, not because it was a Hepub lent an becau measure VAs atl wh or it a Republi American government last persull American policy bh had a po y i Demo The ' Ded TA n the platform adds t fought a quick Bad history again. Amer to state the po me that 1 have | t Behle "AED would withdr ir t The Bepul min ibtiess be furs of Cuba pleture which has been exhibited in the Phi pines, L#t us see what the Republicans have to say for themselves In connection with the great question. This is the language of the platform ‘Laws enacted by the Republican party, and the Demoeratic party had fa feariessly enfare od tor sirat As Oo day on plece the w the Ase mpan trust which od to ot force have bh or Here statements frst, that the Ke are ithe nalead $s not true fe ted the cans w. which oth parties, ena second, that t party had done 1also against npADY These tw cases foe r the Government after Mr. ( nes were eveland went out, it lstrue,. buton t ald dow estab by hix Attorney General, shed in the the Trans -Misson prin there « tf Attorney Genera ® fe to the and the principle case of the Government against Freight tended for by Cleveland Association-the the principle which n N¢ ied Governo gAVS wihern Sec proce ings the irities case w Var and not the Ad has | ch Sant H AnD party to een falsely prete ale that case It was a natura fthe case against the Trans Miss BAUgUr sequence t Association Traffic Association Frewg! and the AME AABN th e it true in any senee an party deserves much credit Trust Can party done in proper foreing the ant What has the pub the ¢ have AW this regard ®* figs of hairmen of the Repub whether ican convention | forgotten tL was the temporary or permanent chalr 1 the Beef Trust We would not have known It if somebody had not told us. The In does not seem to have had any practical effect upon the Beef Trust or upon the price of bee! steak. [think It was the permanent chairman of the Republican Convention who sald that the Democrats killed Trusts with wind and the Republicans with law. corpses? There is but one that | know of, and | It properly belongs to Governor Van Sant, It | Is the spoll of his sword and his spear. The | boast that the administration has executed the | anti-Trust laws Is, of course, ridiculous, The Attorney General, in response to a resolution of my own, frankly confessed that nothing had been done and left the inference that nothing would be done, toward the criminal prosecu- tion of the men found gulity by the Supreme Court In the Northern Securities case of hav. Ing violated the law and Incurred its penalties, The entire Republican party at the last session of the House of, Representatives, with three exceptions, voted against a proviso instruet ing the Secretary of the Navy not to enter into governmental contracts “with Trusts and un: Inwful combinations convicted by law of being such.” The Attorney General in answer to an: other resolution, falled to show that anyth ing substantial was being done civilly or criminally Against the anthracite coal earrytng railway. and anthracite coal mine owners, constituting togethor, in violation of law, one of the great est In this country, Knox Rewarded By Trosts. Although a private American oftizen had proceeded at groat expense to get up the evi dence, the Attorney General (n that ease hid behind the pretext that it would be “contrary to public poliey’ for him to give Congress any Information as to what he was doing or would do. This same “Trust buster,” as my good friend, Mr. Joe Cannon, would have us believe him to be, Attorney General Knox, bas just Says it has “enjoined metion | sonable | review or otherwiss | merce Commission at | being Where are the | been appointed by the Governor of Pennsy) vania a Benator from that State. on the de. mand, so the newspapers all say, of the very men who constitute this unlawful combination, or who are, atsny rate, the presidents of raii- way companies, and the owners of the mines constituting it, What are you golng w do when the “Trust buster’ is moved or “promoted” out of the way ? there follows the boast “Husted.” is Then of having “perfected the Interstate Commerce law The absurdity re of the statement Is demonstrated by the actus! condition of things Commission has been knocking at the doors of for this power at least when full the to declare » Congross years asking for power 3 given rate, after vestigation and i de hearing of both been ded by imission to hat rate would be rea abl inti set aside by due process of law on Appes A more r impotenucy than is the Interstate Com present does not exist It can declare a given rate of fifty cents to be unreasonable would Way cau Her Lake of the but as it cannot be what be reasonable on is stea ral do one of two things which suspends t} wh an appea cision Commission e the appea long drawn out” by the rallway inter ested, or It change the rate to forty-nine and a and clared unreasonable forty-nine and a has been dec! half cents when that has been de Al} change Again uarter cents, and when that ared unrersonable and infinitum, compeils can change to forty nine one-eighth ad citizen cents, and» ng the newly aggrieved in each case to bring sult if being punished for without the hope of a redress Ab what 1t calls * § tt every ne that the Keg making any alteration in tari! unless it cauthereby purchase the support of additional voters, or tie to those already boughi special nierests by yet Are there no | “conditions” demand any changes in any of | the schedules of the present tariff law. when | dozens of highly protected steel and iron pro- | Tues ding rails, locomotives, barbed w oser bonds ° ne re ements of American make Enetition with the wor s1at ion special jeg pon playing tw sann rABTAgOnIst ves, (hn Gusinral baron, boast {hay ered the markets of the wor and of fINg Abe to keep then ecause hisgoods are better or cheaper. : al the Legislature The next day be is knook rs of the mmittee room na begring a ¢ nection nest the Very market aga pape nwt ose does anybody be ndopted Dame tariff taxat & point where foreign he Amer market ons seeking elition may enter frusts and had raised A whenever mnbinat A monopoly heir t enn ( } est the Americar er above a ist and reasonable profit. thus using American AW As A shelter consg 10 protect them in extortion por the American pe wie while they charge them prices higher than those ¢ harged foreign ers for identical articles Suppose that an actual condition of that sort had been shown as It has been, would anybody advocating Any | thing I have indicated with a view to meeting i that condition have obtained any hearing from that convention The platform then goes on to say that these alterations cannot be “safely comm itted to any other hands than the Republican party.” ! What has been the matter with the hands of the Republican party since 1847, or for the last | four years * Even If it was admitted that | tariff changes ought to be made by the friends of whe iniquitous discrimination and e xtortions of the present law, rather than by the friends | of the general loterests and com mon weal which is the same thing as admitting that the | changes ought to ve made by the Republican party—why has not that party already made i any of them * It has been in fall power in the Senateoverwhelmingly in power in the House, Whois there that does not know that this verblage was inserted into the Repubilean platform with the view of enabling the “lowa dea” mon and the “Wisconsin idea” men to Ko back home and say they have “gotten something” and thereby “save their faces.” as the Chinese say ! We believe for a minute that the party which bas refused every tariff riteration thus far proposed intends to recog nize any sort of “conditions” or any sort of “demand” or any “public Interest” in connee tion with the question ¥ Who does pot know that the only way public interest can make any demand for any alteration effective is by putting the Demooratio party in power ? (To be concladed in our next issue ) When » standing Army gets tired it can occupy the seat of war, | and bullds up the # in its stead and to make this rate operative | dlenlous plece of | | seventy “| Tuesday, | the creek over night y | the young creek | point { and | discharged as there was | agaiust them Get Rid of Scrofula Bunches, eruptions, inflarnmations, sore- ness of the eyelids and ears, diseases of the bones, rickets, dyspepsia, catarrh, wasting, are only some of the troubles it causes, It is a very active evi), making havoc of the whole system, The Interstate Commeree | 'Hood’sSarsaparilla asking | Eradicates it, cures all its manifestations, whale system, Accept no substitute, Supposed to be Drowned J. B. Kearn an oid scidier about one vears of age, living at along Penns Creek missing, 19th, tom for Pardee Aas was his cu | ' some weeks, he got up about four o'clock the Creek in morning, and went to Penns to iift left in When he did not Kearns sent one of He About six hundred some lines he hid return om Mrs children time for the father could not be found | yards from Pardee, Kearns hat and fish- ing tackle was found on the bank of the The water is quite deep at this The edge of the bank showed " | signs of a struggle, though one had fallen into the water and endeavored t out. It was supposed Kearnsilell into stream and being unable to swim, ws drowned. Rakes and poles were se the the stream thoroughly dragged searched, but up to Thursday noon, n trace of body be foun heim, where be hg He bas a young wife siidren. The fa cally 1, ame nort Active Wardens in Beech Creek The others ting nets fined $21 and costs Bo evidence The fish warden reports that a great deal illegal fishing has been practiced iv that section, and that more are liable to be in the tolls of the law, Prosecutions will also be made in other parts of the county. - — A La Carte Dining Car Service further accommodate its patrons 1) week days week-davs Fh caving Pitt adept adeiphl shure dally. and on t New York at the West Ala earte breakfast and lune on the Manhattan Limited leaving at 8.55 a. m. daily for New York inners on Pennsylvania Rall her exoe] hem meas whiskers They Pain in Chest Sore Lungs Grip id! How quickly B if negiected it Consumption | the beginning by & ; Inge, & ow of ten rig Prneurno and § Are Causeg in na will break up a cold on the lungs In & night. It should be applied when the first symptoms spear, Rub the chest well with the medicine ay upon i a linen cloth wet with Hamline Wizard Of and cover over with flannel bandage No ordinary cold can withstand this treatment Apply #8 at sieht Bunt hafore retiring and in the morning the cold will be broken up Ouray. Col, April 25, 1902, My Hitle girl, sped two years. has suffered more or less with Col since her birth and firdlly became serious, We tried remedies of sovorsl kinds and they seemed 10 give no relief. A friend of ming rocommendsd Hamline Wizard OF to tre and after the use of one bottie she has become entirely well, | shall mover be without Hamiing Wizard Oil in my house, | cannot recommend it too highly Rucuanp W, Tuornron, There is only one Wisard Of —Hamins<ssme blown ie the bottle, Sigrature Mamiin Bros.’ oh wrapper. Take no substitute, 30K SLoo, . h Balsam Cures the Cold. Prevents Paeumonia We, Be. Harmlins Blood & Liver Pills Regulate the Liver. Cleanse the System, 25a C. 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