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Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1879-09-25
Hancock.


Tram Wlkes'arrr Union aud l.saGcf.
There have been Grant boom, a
Tilsien boom, sherman boom, and a
number Of lesser boom.; and now it
looks as though there was going to be
considerable OF Hancock boom.
General ChalmcT, one Of the lcadin (
Democrats Of Mississippi, il very cm.
phatic in the expression Of his belief
that the South don't want Tiid"n, aud
that Hancock suouinaiion would evoke
the utmost enthusiasm in that section.
lie reasons that Hancock unimpcaCh.
able war record would make him strong
IN the North, while his determined
stand, when the war had ended, for the
subordinailon Of the military to the
civil authority, would cndcar him equal.
ly TO the South. Besides. u would b.
impossible TO wave the bloody shirt
the only efficient political weapon yet
remaining to the RcpublIcaus--araIu-t
Hancock. for either Of the stay at
homes, Coukljnr. Blaine or sherman,
one Of whom, 1t seems now likely, II to
be- the Republican nominee.
Alexander II. Stevens, OF Georgia, j.
also for Hancock.
senator Macdonald. Of Indiana. has
just said to an interviewer that the great
Pennsylvania warrior and statesman
would be a safe candidate.
The Philadelphia Ttu1l remarked. as
quoted by US last week, that Hancock IL
a iRyoritc candidate all over the South,
and there are daily evidence that such
is the fact.
OF the men who achieved distinction
by personal bravery and great general.
ship in the late conRict. Hancock Is one
OF the very few whose devotion TO the
constitutional principles Of our Repub
lican government has not been impaired
by "thc pomp and Circumstance of war. -
He ought to be popular Presidential
candidate IN this, his native State.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1879-09-25
Ewing ys. Sherman.
Prom lle claarnaIa Ilalnl.ll.an.

frofu iho cloariiold Republican.
John sherman. Hayes Secretary of
the Treasury, having finished stump.
ing tour IN Maine, contrary to Hayes
Civil Service order, is now tramping
over Ohio, in the same business sg-gener-
ally lying. Gen. Tom. Ewing, the Dem.
ocratic nominee for Governor, IL seems
$40. TO be muddled 10y Secretary Sher.
mans system Of mathematics.
lie has badly demoralized the Secre.
tary's financial compnign in Ohio. This
is the way he uuhorscd him in recent
speech "Mr. Sherman claims great
credit for having successfully founded
SS47 100000 Of the public debt into five,
four and a.halt and four per cent bonds
since March 4, 1877, reducing the inter.
est pnid 10y Government about $4,000.
600 year. ii appears, however, 10y the
financial report that the interest on the
public debt paid in 1877 WAS $91, l2i 600
and last year $lO2, 100000, and this year
Sl0j 100000. In other words, in 1873
and 1879 over $l3,OOO,OOO more of inter.
est on the debt has been paid than
when Mr.. sherman took charge of the
funding operation. That large sum II
what the operation cost. 1t il made up
OF bonuses IN the shape Of pubic inter.
cst, and OF commissions paid to the syn.
dictate. Meantime Mr.. Sherman has
increased the principal of tho bonded
debt $50 100000. 1t will take the saw.
ing. Of interest by rciunding for eight
or ten years TO pay OF this increased
bonded debl aud the bonuses and doub
lc interest and get even on the entire
operation. How j. the country benefit.
ted by nominal reduction of ten mil
lions Of interest, when the reduction has
been accomplished only BY adding fifty
per cent. to the amount of lnhor or
property which 1t takes TO pay ily'
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1879-09-25

The one hundred and second ami.
versary Of the Paoli massacre was cele.
braied at the Monument grounds by
the citizens OF West Chester, under the
Leadership Of Burgess j. i. Wood, on
last Saturday. Hon. Judge Futhcy.
Hon. X. L. Monaghan and other speak
crs addressed the gathering. and WIN.
Whitehead, Esq. read an original poem
referring to the occasion. The two his.
torical Warwick cannon, weighing
1000 pounds each, ths, were purchased
10y contributions last winter. were
planted At tie entrance 10 the monu.
ment grounds with appropriate ceremo.
nies. The Washington troop. under
command Of Captain Matlack, executed
a cavalry drill.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1879-09-25

TFa5a Senator PsBIleioar Elen,au spo,rh.
We show by testimony perfectly ir.
rcfraFable that by the intent and pro
visions oi the law, and its practical ap-
plication, supervisors and marshals are
only partisan electionccrcrs for the dom
inant party, paid out of the public
treasury and ihercupon Rhostly pro.
cession Of fearful figures of State Rights,
uklux, Eliza Pnksions and, above
all, Republican deieats-more fearful
than those which struck terror to the
soul Of RIchard-iile before the eyes of
the Attorney General: and he cries out /:
The war is not yet over, its results are
all imperiled.' And q chorus Of voices
exclaim: confederate Brigadier eau.
Gus dictation Starving the govern.
ment Payment of Confederate debt e.
Confederate Brigadiers Whose fruit is
1t that Union Brigadiers do not repre-.
sent Republican States Caucus dicta.
ton When il is perfectly notorious that
Senator Schurz tried to extort an answer
from Senator sherman on the finance
bill, and utterly failed because the Re.
publican caucus forbade. Starving the
government Who refused To pass the
army bill when Andrew johnson. the
brave and honest old man, was Presi.
dent2 Payment Of Confederate debt
No Democrat has ever suggested it. No
Democrat desires IL. No party could
propose il and live.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1879-09-25
Important 10 Voters.

The "fit sloraeu in rennsyI,suA VII be- b.id 70
Tuesday ihs "a II November.
hoifrf musi hafe pad STATE % county iHz one
month preceding iAe election, ihA, BE-. ou or u,fJf.
Saturday october !
Asmt'en q DrDocraiir stais. osen,y and city osn-
taittees shsHla sss T. H That every voter I'd; our party
has complied sifh tie Law
Taiiufs to Tay isE iu season deprive. the yo,.r 70
The rrivilszs Il suHraEs Al ,l,r,af can .ves, ia l.
'aif though Do De nai ssseasd bot 10, uegloci may
eaaHe Alm aaJh trouble.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1879-09-25
Stalwartism in Massachusetts.

StalwartlSm III mdSSdCHuSSttS
The Massachusetts Republican plat.
form, remarks the New York World,
affords an edifying illustration of the
way in which the accepted rules of
grammar as taught in New England
schools may influence question of
constitutional law. The Conkling
platform in New York declared that
the "Republic" of the United States
is nation" but the Massachusetts,
platform proclaims that "the United
States Is a nation If the Massachu-
setts draughtsman had dramatically
said that the United States "are' a
nation he would have happily knock
ed out his own brains. What he
ought to have written was "The Cor
erlment of the United States is ma
ton" Only it would have been rath-
er absurd to solemnly proclaim, even
in Massachusetts, that government"
is n nation" since government is an
incident of the life of a nation, and n
nation is a race of men, people born
in given country and living under
one government, or simply people
distinct from and not subject to other
peoples. Who can properly define or
describe n government as nation or
a people? The political corporation
created by the Federal Constitution is
aptly described in that instrument to
be "the United States of America, y
and that is the end of the matter.
Whoever wants to learn what powers
that Government has must go for an
answer to the document which created
it. Those powers cannot be ascertain
ed by calling the Government n ma
ton or league, any more than by
calling it tribe or an empire. The
States are united" by the Constitu-
ton and the Constitution defines the
Government. As the very concep-
ton of such government was new
and unknown till devised by the franz
ers of our Constitution, no name then
applied to any other government
could correctly describe and define it.
Nearly everything else in our system
of government or Of governments our
forefathers borrowed from their pre-
decessors, but the contrivance or the
machinery which for certain enumer-
ated purposes tied the then thirteen
States and ties the now thirty-eight
States together as one Government was
new-absolutely new Thanks to
that contriyance, thirteen States have
grown to be thirty-eight States /;
aud thanks to that contrivance, which
stalwarts would destroy, the whole
continent of North America may yet
be covered by an "indissoluble Union
of indestructible States" The dan.
ger 10 that contriyance to-day is in
the centripetal and not in the centrif.
ugal forces Of the country. Whatever
may have been the peril heretofore,
whatever may be the peril hereafter
the necessities Of the civil war dan.
gerousIy increased the tendency of
Federal power to oconcentrate at Wash
ington. That tendency must be
steadily and surely checked. The
necessity of this is as great now as il
was in 1901, when Jefferson led the
Democracy to victory.
What, then, could be more silly
than for a body of men in Massachu-
setts To emit such rubbish as i con"
tanned ia the second resolution of the
Worcester platform, for the purpose of
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1879-09-25

Judge ord, of San Francisco, says the
California election is likely TO be salts.
factory to the conservatives OF all par.
ties, and may lead TO the practical dis.
abandonment of the Workingmen's par.
ty whose, success was essential to its
con tinued existence. The Republicans,
he said. seem to have elected the great.
or part Of the State officers, while the
Judiciary will be Democratic. There
will, therefore. be two checks thrown
upon the legislature should il attempt
to pass laws which are necessary to car.
ry out the extreme measures proposed
by the new constitution and the adher-
ents of the parties which supported IT,.
The Governor will have the veto power,
and a conservative Supreme court will
have the Interpretation OF the new laws.
1t will be found there are two possible
ways of interpreting almost everything
under the new constitution and be.
tween the Governor and the courts, the
new party will find its progress stopped.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1879-09-25

SENATOR ANTHONY, of Rhode Is
land, who has always been swift with
his party in denouncing the govern.
ment Of the States of the South n not
awarding equitable rights to their
negro citizens, is likely to find himself
in dilemma in the next Congress
when called upon to defend the gross
and shameful irregularities of his own
ranch for DISTINGUISHING and bull
doing his own people, if not denying
them a republican form of govern
ment. Senator Wallacc's committee
has unearthed some matters that the
Rhode Island Senator will be COM
PEELED to explain. He was the prime
mover in retaining in the Constitution
the odious and anti-republican provis.
ion that no citizen born in foreign
country should vote in that State un-
less he possessed clear title TO GER
tain amount of real estate. This dis
franchises many of the best citizens of
Rhode Island. Some who we're voters
in their days of prosperity have found
themselves deprived of the ballot
when reyerses of fortune came upon
them. 1t has worked wrong and in
suit in all directions. While a negro,
or any person born in this country who
possesses no property, can vote on
payment of small tax, a foreign
born naturalized citizen cannot have
that privilege unless he owns free
hold estate. To defend this shameful
discrimination, as well as the general
system Of bull-dozing Of employees aud
laborers to vote as Anthony and bic
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Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1879-09-25

THE Board of Pardons which met
at Harrisburg last week refused to
recommend the pardon Of John :.
Morton, of Philadelphia, who was SEN
fenced in December last for embczzle-
mcnt, and John O'Niell and Peter Me-
Manus, the two Mollie Maguires in
Northumberland county, who were
sentenced to be hanged at Sunbury
on the 9th of October, for the murder
of Frederick Hesser.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1879-09-25
Philadelphia Markets.

FHIItHETHIi. Eepiefnler =. 1872.
fL0tR-Is IL q - higher Aud active with sale.
q oa afrels. including Minnesota extra family Al
saHbahlb fennstirAutA o. DO M sA gaa a..
Western DO. 30 at g h8a.G. ~ Isluis Do do NJ s.
and ratsHi and other high grades Of SGa7 30
MHkAT-ls excited and u higher W. sua,e in.
clnfnE rejected at s13. red 81 2scti g amber At
" -, su1 No 3. ted. sirvAior al gl24l satn
husisls November sold At the ofou hoard At 81 a
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81 Nofsmbet. and 81 - = fot recstnbst.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1879-09-25

SIxTY.PIvE Republicans of New
York have signed q paper calling up
on the party to defeat the election of
Cornell ~ the machine candidate for
Governor. They say, 1--WE propose
not to bolt, but 20 scratch" and that
Cornell is a weak and obnoxious
candidate"
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1879-09-25

to-day2 This resolution declares that
local selfgovernmcnt i'll all matters
which belong to the States must be
fully recognized" Who says it must
not be? Certainly not the Demo
Gratis, who perpetually assert it, who
insist that to decide upon "the quail
fications" of voters for member of
Congress is n business which belongs
exclusively to each State to regulate
for itself, and who also contend that
the Government Of the United States
has no voters of its own And why
babble as the Massachusetts, Republi-
cans do about allegiance when
every militia officer in the convention
must have sworn to "bear true diiegi-
dRce" to the commonwealth of Massa-
chusetts and not to the United States +?
Why talk about exact equality i'll
the exercise of civil and political
rights" rs thing To be enforced by
the United States in behalf of each of
its citizens, in the face of the facts
that no citizen of the United States,
of lawful age and otherwise qualified,
can vote in Massachusetts, unless he
can read aud write, and that no natu-
rallied citizen can vote in Rhode Is
land unless he owns an interest in
land There is notorious "distinc-
ton of origin, race, creed or color in
Rhode Island. l. there any equality
of all men before the law" which reg.
ulates voting in Massachusetts, or in
Rhode Island? Certainly not
And consider this resolution
1--WE demand that elections shall be free
from ali interference by unlawful bodies
Of armed men, and shall also be- free from
the interference Of national or State mill
tary force except when employed rs a part
of the posse comitatits.'
Democrats demand that no bodies
of armed men, whether lawfully or
unlawfully organized, shall interfere
with elections. The State of New
York even forbids her own militia to
be called out on voting day unless
it be necessary to preserve the public
peace.
What can the Republicans of Mas
sachusetts mean when they proclaim n
present obligation to perform "the
duties" in which that party originated
which was to prevent the repeal of the
Missouri Compromise and to prevent
the carrying of slave labor into free
territory? The legal right which ju :
tilted that opposition to the extension
of slavery was to be found in the gen.
eral doctrine of State rights a op-
posed to the claim of national rights.
1t is not easy to understand how ed
ucated men, or even men Of good nat
ural sense, could have been brought
to utter the twaddle which the lead
ing Republicans are now uttering in
party platforms simply because the
Democrats demand the repeal of the
Davenport law. The only explaua-
ton is that those who utter this twad-
die do not expect it to be taken seri.
ously and with intent to be believed.
The inevitable answer to all these Re.
publican attacks on those Of their
countrymen who are not Republicans
may be found by the Massachusetts,
Republicans in the out.givings of the
Butler Democrats on Saturday.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1879-09-25
Legal Notice.

NOTICE is hereby given that an
' Application viii ls made b. the CsaFs uf csu,.
mon Pleas q Centre oaButy. peunssisania on Mau-
aS, oeteler isk A. y. isia fr the incorporation af
The "UStoNNILLE CEMETERY ASSOCIATION .
under aud IN pursuance II the Act Of Aasenlly a.
ihe wealth Of fsnnfylsaha aEgtcved 9eih q
Arril, 4. y. ls7s.
as-at II. A. MCKEE scliclisr Cor Applicant.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1879-09-25

Ncc asIrcrtiseme enfs.
Administrators Notice.

/ ETTERS of Administration on
II - the estate q John y lseh, deceAsed, late of
the Bafuagh II Belicfene having een granted t ths
undersigned. rssdeut u Bsileionte. he requests an
Tersosgs knowing themselves indebted b. said lerslent
90 ognas fafSara and nsaks Immediate vasmsnt and
al having claims against him 70 present tlslf &C.
eouuts. duly authenticated, foH payment.
Sast David ". LIER. AfrnIu5sfratar
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1879-09-25

The ex. Empress Eugene is about to
sail for Caramanchel, the abode of her
mother, where she will spend the au.
tumo. IL is now quarter of a century
since the Empress left the home of her
mother at Caramanchel. Her return to
IL, after such life, is fitting conclu.
sion TO a tragic romance such as her
career presents.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1879-09-25

100000 OF stock has been subscribed
toward starting up the rolling mill at
kittaniug, Armstrong county.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1879-09-25

party direct, will require all the skill
this autocrat Of Rhode Island politics
may possess, aud that will scarcely be
found sufficient for the purpose.
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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-11-19
Ignoramuses or Liars.

Los PINoS, Col, NOV. Is, VIA. LAKE CITY,
Nov 1.-THE afternoon session yestsrd was
occupied in taking the testimony of Sowawick.
who proved himself either the greatest igno-
ramus The greatest liar OF any Indian
that mas yet appeared before the commission.
He knew absolutely nothing about the massa-
ere or the fight, and even denied the fact that
General Adams had slept In his tent while at
White river. There Is evidently an agreed
information of any kind, and by this means
thwart the wishes of Ouray and the object OF
the commission.
At the present writing, the outlook Is not
favorable for a peaceful solution OF affairs, and
unless there is O decided change on the Part
OF the Indians, and willingness to testify to
the facts as they have occurred, the commits
sion will be compelled to close its abors and
turn The whole subject over to the tender
care of the war department.. The influences OF
the hostiles seems TO be in the ascendancy,
and they are evidently controlling the actions
of the Uncomphagre Utes. The outside world
might be pleased to Know the comfortable
position in which the commission is placed,
when they are informed that nightly pickets
of Indians, under order of Ouray, are guarding
the mountain trails leading to the agency.
Lieutenant Valois, recorder, says II is moot
ed question, in his mind, whether 1t Is for the
purpose OF keeping the commission In or the
hostiles out. The time of the commission will
be occupied in Interpreting to Ouray the
sworn statement of the captive women.
Ouray. the commission met and adjourned till
Monday. Ouray informed General Adams
that he Will accomplish the purpose for which
the commission was convened sbr1nging
the guilty parties to justice) II he dies In the
attempt.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-11-19
German Political Opinions.

ST. LOUIS, Nov. 16-The Post-Dispatch last
evening contained interviews with editofs OF
four German newspapers published here on
the question OF presidential candidates. DIR.
Pretorious, of the Westliche Post (hepuDli-
CAM, said the nomination of Grant would be
no more pleasant to the German Republicans
than to the German Democrats. Both are
monarchial tendencies. Should the Demo-
Gratis nominate Bay ard, the Germans will re-
joice. German voters, irrespective of party,
would prefer candidate clearly identi-
fed with the conserva.ive-that is.
the liberal and Observation-Disclosures Of
the country. The German Democrats would
prefer men like Bayard, Palmer or Hancock,
while Charles +. Adams, Jr., Bristow or Os-
burn would be favorites with the German
Republicans. Mr.. P-atorious did not say
whether the Post worla support Grant In case
DR.. Prenso, of the Amerika Dem J, said that
while some German Democrats prefer David
Davis, and others General Hancock, the
largest proportion of them favor BayaId; and
should the latter be nominated, all will vote
for him. Iilden Is considered the weakest
candidate the Democrats conlJ nominate.
Carl Daenzer. of the Anziegsr independent
Democrat), said the German press OF the
country may be counted Tor Bayard, and with
the German Democratic voters Bayard is GER
tainIy the favorite, and there Is no doubt a
the Western States who will vote for him In
preference to g ant, who is the weakest can
didate among the German voters.
Albert Curtin, OF the Volkstiemme (Social-
ist., said Bayard Is the strongest candidate
among the Germans. Some of them will vote
FOR Grant, should he be nominated. but most
of them have a strong aversion to him.