© The great strike'is spreading over
“Pennsylvania and it will not be surprising
to bear he call to ams to bayonet, the |%
« men who voted for just what they are gef- ie
‘ting into submission to it.
ft is needless to say that the two old |
rail-roaders who went to sleep on the main |
‘rack at Hinton, W. Va., while waiting | oo
for an express to pass their train are not |
about to tell how it happened. :
—Tt has cost us $200,000,000 already to
“open the door in the Philippines and the
‘good Lord, above, knows how many more
millions we will be willing to put up to
have it closed some day. _
—What’s that, we‘hear from Boston ?
«BryAN favors DAvID B. HILL for the
Presidency and under no circumstances will:
he be a candidate himself.” That story
sonnds very much as if raised on baked
beans. fy
—_Governor STONE has cleared his desk
of all bills presented to him by the Legis-
lature and says he is now ready to take a
rest, as if such a thing were possible for a
man who has played fast and loose with
his conscience as he has done.
— Tock Haven is boasting about a
rain of toads last Thursday afternoon, but
there was a reign of lobsters when the Re-
publican convention met down there that
the Clinton county newsmongers won't
have so much to say about.
—The Dutch seem to be in trouble.
They have run out of wind to keep their
stocks up in the air and the Kaiser’s peo-
ple are very much down cast. What is
the Kaiser during all these days of depres-
sion brought on by lack of wind.
—_As to whether itis to be BRYAN or
HILL or some other great man we know
not, but we do know that it would be bet-
ter for the hopefuls, as well as the party, if
they could bide a time when presidential
possibilities will be more relevant.
—The Republican county convention is
called for Saturday, July 29th, and chair-
man REEDER states that part of its busi-
ness will be ‘to elect two delegates to the
state convention. What's the use. This
thing of electing HASTINGS delegates fora
QUAY convention to unseat is getting kind
o’ monotonous.
—JoEN W. GATES, the steel wire
magnate, is said to be one of the best
amateur billiard players in the country,
but the steel workers who went out on a
strike this week have invited him into a
balk-line game that he won’t play off as
handily as he does the ordinary fourteen
inch one.
—The Berk’s county farmer who got
drank and went forth into his fields with a
lightning rod on his head to defy the light-
ning came out of the encounter a little
more than disfigured and clear out of the
ring. A bolt struck a tree near by him
and jast tickled his rod enough to bring
him to his senses, the first of which was to
scoot for cover. This thing of playing
Ajax isn’t a job that anyone is cut out to
perform, much less a drunkard.
—The SAMPSON-SCHLEY controversy
having about petered out some papers are
doing their best to start a discussion as to
whether SHAFTER bas ‘‘magazined his
operations’’ ahout Santiago. No matter
what the conclusion the fact remains that
the Century magazine ran a story of the
. Santiago campaign over SHAFTER’S signa-
ture, hut perhaps the fat general wrote the
story with some other writer’s pen, after
the fashion of fighting the Santiago fights
with other officers’ swords.
—With Lock Haven bidding for notori-
ety through a reign of frogs ; Tyrone all
ajog over a mysterious wildcat that we
have a suspicion might have escaped from
the famous old “white horse’’ rookery, and
Philipsburg swelling up like a poisoned
pup over the prospects of a street railway
Bellefonte has no sensation to match her
sisters with. Unless the recent political
feat of JACK DALE, in making two
revolutions in the political arena and
landing in bed with HASTINGS, might be
called one.
—1If the drouth keeps up the grass hop-
pers will be jumping over the earless and
leafless Kansas cornstalks and the noise of
the hopping will completely drown the
silly prattle of partisan papers about Me-
KINLEY’S having ‘‘blessed the Sunflower
State with plenitful harvests, paid off the
mortgages on her farms and made work for
twenty thousand more in the fields than
can be found.” Circumstances always did
alter cases and here is an unfortunate one
that the Repnblicans evidently didn’t
count on. If McKINLEY was responsible
for the big crop of last year he is certainly
responsible for the great failure now star-
ing the Kansas farmer in the face, but the
horns of the enemy will be kept silent un-
til there iz another big crop.
seen, bave the JEFFERSONIAN qualifica-
tions for the respective offices to be filled,
you would call a bide-boudd Republican.
He is not an insurgent of the BILL FLINN
or DAVE MARTIN type, who will fight his
party until it is in danger and then turn in
victory. Mr. CORAY is a Republican, ‘but
as a choice between an honest Democrat
and a machine Republican he invariably
prefers the honest Democrat. This fact
has been proven, time and again, in. the
Legislature and out of it. His standard in
official life is honesty rather than politics.
But there are plenty of Democrats in the
State just as able and quite as honest as
Mr. CorAY and there are thousands of
Democrats who won't vete for a Republi-
can at all. That being the case it is a grave
question whether the nomination of even
80 good a Republican as CORAY wouldn’t
drive more votes away than it would
bring to the ticket. In the organization of
the Legislature GENERAL KOONTZ stood
for everything that the Democrats professed
to believe in. He was for an honest bal-
lot law, just government and equalization
of taxation. But he isa Republican and
five Democratic members of the Legisla-
tyre voted for MARSHALL who represented
the opposite in everything.
They justified themselves on the ground
that as between two Republicans they had
the same right to make their own choice
that their colleagues had. They forgot
‘that.‘‘in the mmltitude of counsellors there
is wisdom.’ and that the majority had de-
cided to vote for KooNTz. They ‘forgot
that when a man stands for what they
profess it makes no difference what he
formerly was. But as a matter of fact
they represented strong Democratic con-
stituents and those from York and Clarion
have been endorsed by their constituents
in convention and if a Republican
were nominated by the state conven-
tion there is no assurance that thousands
wouldn’t do as the York recreants did in
the Legislature.
The Test of Fitness.
* The Governor is still cutting away at
the appropriation bills according to the
information from Harrisburg. They are a
matter of two millions of dollars in excess
of the resources of the State and there is
nothing to do but cut them down. Machine
politicians are making pilgrimages to the
seat of government constantly, we are as-
sured on the same authority, but the Gov-
ernor keeps silent as to where the paring is
being done. All that he will say is that
he is cutting and he works assiduously if
not intelligently at his task. When itis
completed there will be a weeping and
wailing and gnashing of teeth, to be sure.
But that isn’t his look ont. It is his busi-
ness to see that the appropriations do not
exceed the revenues and to that end his
energies are bent.
This all comes from the machine methods
in politics and legislation. If the Supreme
court had not by an unjust decision as-
serted the absurd doctrine that the Gov-
ernor has a right to cut any appropriation
though the constitution specifically de-
clares that he can only veto separate items,
the appropriations would have been held
within the revenues. But the contrary
having been promulgated the Legislature
felt at liberty to appropriate any amount
and accordingly permitted all sorts of bar-
gains to be made in the interests of ma-
chine Legislators because they sold the
bogus gold bricks and it was the Governor's
duty to distribute them. Now, however,
that the time has come to make the dis-
tribution each hoss insists that the other’s
bargain be repudiated.
There was a time that the chairman of a
committee on appropriations who would
allow his committee to report or permit
the House to pass bills making appropria-
tions in excess of the revenues even to the
amount of half a million dollars would be
set down as an incompetent. But it is not
so now. The man who can dispose of so
many bogus gold bricks as are necessary to
make the appropriations exceed the reve-
nues by two or three millions is regarded
as a practical politician entitled to the most
distinguished consideration. He may not
be a statesman and he is certainly lacking
in integrity, but he has achieved wonders
for the machine and that is the test of fit-
ness for favor. 3
Both these gentleman, it ‘will thus be| The la
provides
ce illed, | discarded property
well developed. They are competent, | be 0
honest and faithfal. ‘CoRAY is not what | p:
is an accumulation «
! : and other rnbbis!
and invoke every expedient to carry it to
iat all old furniture. an
be sol at auction
really a
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tumiture,
capital, but of considerable value never- |
theless. It would be unfair to the taxpay- | eM
thongh its wor
ers to allow anybody to lug such stuff
away and, besides, such action has an
amazingly demioralizing influence ou the
minds of the officials and others who hap-
pen to know about it.
‘The veto of the joint resolution was hoth
just and commendable under the circum-
stances. But it wasn’t consistent with
practices at the capital, according to re-
ports from there. For example, we are as-
sured that during the past week or ten
days workmen have been busy in and
about the Senate chamber packing up the
splendid desks and chairs used by the
Senators of two years ago in order that
they may be shipped to the residences of
the Senators of the recent session. There
was probably no joint resolution to veto
in relation to the matter, but there is
furniture to carry away and it is being
carried away for the use of the Senators,
notwithstanding the law.
— Blair county Democrats are the first
to officially declare for a fusion state ticket.
Their convention, on Monday last, in-
structed their delegates to the state conven-
tion to support Judge YERKES, of Bucks.
county. for Supreme court judge and
Representative CORAY, of Luzerne coun-
ty, an anti-QUAY Republican for State
Treasurer. Probably this would be a wise
movement, but judging by the condition
of the Blair county Democracy, and the
figures to which they have allowed, if not
assisted, the Republican majority in that
county to grow, there is room for serious
doubt if the Democratic leaders up there
know just what is the best policy for the
party to pursue. We would have much
more faith in a movement of the kind, did
it come from a locality in which Democratic
earnestness had been sufficient to maintain
perfect Democratic organization, and was
at least able to hold its own, if unable to
make inroads upon the enemy.
emai erm—
An Insult to Democracy.
The Democrats of York county persist
in the statement that they will present a
candidate for State Treasurer to the next
Democratic state convention and ask the
party to nominate him. Among those who
will be on the floor of the convention, ask-
ing that such an honor be conferred on
the county as nominating one of its citi-
zens for so important an office, will be
SENATOR HAINES who was one of the
principal boodlers during the past session of
the Legislature. The same convention
that formally presented his name endorsed
the action of SHUTT, KANE and FAKE in
voting for MARSHALL for Speaker. Iu ac-
cepting a favor from that convention he
probably endorsed that action.
Years ago, when a citizen of York coun-
ty betrayed his party by voting for SI-
MON CAMERON for Senator in Congress
against the regular nominee, he was con.
demned in the most emphatic terms. Af
that time SIMON CAMERON professed to be
a Democrat and as a matter of fact had
never supported any other than Democrat-
ic candidates. But voting for him was a
crime against party integrity and the peo-
ple of the county would have ‘nothing to
do with the traitor. That proved that
they were not of his kind. That showed
clearly that the leaders, as well as the rank
and file of the party, were honest. The
conduct of the traitor cast no reflection on
the integrity of the trae.
But this year it is different. The party
leaders took the traitors to their bosoms
and pronounced their perfidions work the
perfection of political integrity and states-
manship. That taints them all with the
crime committed by their representatives
and makes them fit political associates for
each other. But it bars them from bring-
ing one of their number forward as a
candidate for favor at the hands of a Dem-
ocratio state convention. It removes them
from fellowship with decent and bonest
Democrats and makes the tender of the
name to a convention a mortal insult to
the Democracy of the State.
it and it alone
good times they were enjoying. Ri
Phere is a different out-look to-day for
the farmer throughont the entire West. In
that section vegetation is withering up,
and crops stand burned and blighted.
Where there was plenty four years ago,
dust and dryness reign at present—oribs |
are empty, .and granaries useless—orops
that gave promise of great plenty are
withered and not worth gathering. All
over that great, broad country, that hoasted
so‘loudly of what it produced under the
Republican administration, there is every
sign of the most universal and complete
failnre of crops that ever discouraged or
distressed acy people. ;
And we have the same administration
to-day that we had four years ago.
We wait patiently to hear what the
powers and the party that took credit for
all the people enjoyed when they had full
crops have to do with the prosperity of the
western farmer now, when conditions are
go different and their prospects are so un-
promising. The farmer who gave all the
glory. of his success of four years ago to Mr.
McKINLEY can have the floor to. explain
how it is that if a Republican President
could give them good crops one year, he
should not be able to do the same each
year of his administration.
——Our Republican friends down in
Clinton county showed no hesitancy, on
Tuesday last, in indorsing all that the
state ring has done and all that it stands
for. The QUAY wing of the party seemed
to have everything its own way, and went
ahead just as if no devilment bad ever been
accomplished or there is no hereafter for
those who betray the people’s interests.
Just how much this ring victory cost we
do not know, but as factional successes
down there have heretofore depended up-
on the amount of boodle that was dis-
tributed, we have a lurking suspicion that
somebody must have ‘‘bled’’ pretty freely
in this instance.
Crooks at Harrisburg.
The Democratic crooks in the last Legis-
lature are having an interesting time at
Harrisburg these days, according to com-
mon rumor. That is to say the excuse
given by each of them for their treachery
during the session was that liberal appro-
priations would be given to local charities
in which their constituents were concern-
ed. Butthe aggregate of the appropria-
tions exceeded the revenues of the State by
a couple of millions or so and now the
Governor threatens to cut the appropria-
tions which were made for such recreants.
Of course this will be disastrous to them.
There is something the matter with a com-
munity which will elect a crook to repre-
sent it in the Legislature. It is an honor-
able post in the political structure of the
State and only communities of doubtful
morality elect crooks to such places. There-
fore when the crooks assured their con-
stituents that they were getting something
in the way of appropriations for their rec-
reancy it was over-looked. The report,
therefore, that the Governor intends to cut
the appropriations, outs the ground out
from under their feet and they are left in a
state of constern ~4ion.
For the past week or two the Governor
has been leading these crooks a merry
chase. After the adjournment he gave
them the slip and hid away in the wilds of
Pike county fora week, and then went to
Atlantic City. After that he spent a few
days in his office but dodged the crooks
who were laying for him, so to speak, at
every street corner. Then it got too hot | eld
for him and he went away again and for
the last couple of days of last week and the
first two or three days of this they were in
Harrisburg in such numbers as to create
the impression that there was a crook Jon-
vention in session at the state capitol.
ern and impro
3 Furiys telia
oF
fixed bayonets of Dem
and undefiled, will be seen
tops. The new day has
‘to the fools that get in the
. Could Have Been Better Invested.
From the Pilgrim. i ¥
“The people of Washington with a
taste for statistics say we have spent in
the Philippines already something in the
neighborhood of $300,000,000. They fur-
ther inform us that the appropriations of
the last Congress for expenditures growing
out of war exceeded $481,000,000. These
are big figures ; hard for the average man
to comprehend, though he pays his share
of them none the less. It is trne that the
way the national taxes are collected dis-
guise the moment and method of payment
80 that one scarcely knows that he has
paid at all. But be sure that if $485,000,-
000 are needed for military expenses, and
the number of families in the United
States is 15,000,000 the head of each fam-
ily’ will have to pay $40 for his part in the
national glory. But it is rather in con-
sideration of the things we might have had
for our money that the wastefulness of
war finds emphasis. - Think -of* the arid
lands that might have been watered; the
ship canals that might have been digged.
We might even attain those socialistic
ideals, an endowed theatre and an endow-
ed newspaper with a trivial part of it. If
enjoyment is needed for our sons, that sum
capitalized and invested in productive
enterprise would furnish jobs for all the
unemployed, and they would be taught
useful callings, instead of how to deliver a
murderous thrust, or the killing range of
a rifle bullet. As for glory, why should
the general who lays waste a province en-
joy a greater share of human regard that
the farmer on a great scale who can make
a desert blossom and feed a nation.”
A ———————
The Reputation Republicanism is Mak=-
ing Us.
From the Boston Herald.
Pennsylvania now supplies the Nation
with the worst example of political vice.
It has achieved unenviable notoriety in
this line. The corruption of the recon-
struction era in the South is surpassed by
brazen jobbery which flourishes almost
unrebuked in the Keystone State thirty
years afterward. No other State exhibits
an equal debasement of conscience and
honor on the part of men entrusted with
public responsibilities. If the criminals
in all the jails were turned loose they
would not he so dangerous in their in-
fluence to degrade the standards of public
life as are the men whom the people of
that Commonwealth have elevated to places
of honor. They are undermining the mor-
ality of the coming generation.
The Boot on the Other Leg.
From the Jacksonville Times-Union.
The South has been lectured a great
deal—not so much recently as years ago.
Our people have been accused of being too
violent—of having too little respect for
law. The lectures continued until the im-
itation began. Of recent years the lectur-
ers have had too much to do at home to
give proper attention to the way others
acted. But in return for past favors we of
the South ought to assist the people of the
North with our ‘advice.
so much to improve our morals that we
would be ingrates if we did not help them
about theirs. They need help, for they are
becoming demoralized. They are $00
quick to resort to violence. They are too
careless of the sanctity of law. 8
The Foot Path to Peace.
From a Sermon by Rev. Henry VanDyke.
To be glad of life, because it gives you
the chance to love and to work and to play
and to look up at the stars; to be satisfied
with your: possessions; but not contented
with yourself, until you have made the
best of them; to despise nothing in the
world except falsehood and meannesss, and
to fear nothing except cowardice; to be
governed by your admirations rather than
y your disgusts; to covet nothing that is
your neighbors’ except his kindness of
heart and gentleness of manner, to think
eldom of your enemies, often of your
friends, and every day of Christ; and to
Spend 28 much time as you can, with body
and. with: spirit, in God’s out-of-doors.
These are little guide posts on the foot
path of peace.
. ——Subsaribe for the WATCHMAN.
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They have done |
Spawls (rom the Keystone.
1o mpany will build a $70,000
aghast a
tshall, a well known school
cher of Springfield township, Huntingdon
ty, committed suicide = on Friday by
—A fight is belg made by the Americh:
iy 5.0 6¢ Phundolphis, aich owns
, against the passage of
coun nferring fran-
ab ft EEL LS
“her boiler.
—Squire Samuel Stail
IEE
complete circle his hea
‘Physicians say the case is unp eden ed. :
—The body ofa mi 3 sing to fi
a tree in the woods near
Sunday. The suicide had Vaile Have his =
clothing except his stockings, in one of which
was found a letter and a cashier’s check ‘for ;
$40 on the White Haven bank, drawn in fa-
vor of Frank Lorenz. ’
—Of the six members that composed the
family of Morris W. Allen, of Centre valley,
all but two died in the past year. Mrs. Allen
and her son died the same day. They were
followed by another child, and Wednesday
the father died. He was baggage master on
the Philadelphia & Reading railway.
—Miss Cora Selfert, of Fern Glen, Luzerne
county, is said to be dying from continued
attacks of sneezing. She was first affected
last Wednesday and sneezed for eight hours,
the physicians being unable to relieve her.
Since then she has had attacks each day and
is now very weak.
—Leo Bodish, of Williamsport, was found
dead Monday in a field near Rockville
bridge, one mile north of Marysville. His
throat was cut in four places and by his side
lay a bloody razor. The authorities are not
positive whether Bodish committed suicide
or was murdered. He was 24 years old and
was a wood worker.
—Jacob Hartman, aged 62 years, Sunday
celebrated the thirty-first anniversary of his
service as mail carrier for the Reading com-
pany between the railway station and the
post office at Tamaqua. During his service
he has been off duty but eleven days, four
days of the time lost being due to sickness.
Mr. Hartman makes seventeen trips daily,
and in thirty-one years has traveled 46,000
miles in the discharge of his duty.
—1It is asserted that the wife of Jules Kup-
stor, a Belgian miner at Sandy Run, Bedford
county, gave birth recently to her twenty-
sixth child—nineteen boys and seven girls.
The oldest is twenty-seven years of age. Of
the total number eighteen died in infancy
and eight are yet living. These births con-
sisted of triplets once, twins three times and
seventeen single. The mother is 45 years of
age and was married when 17 years old.
The father is 58 years old. Both are in good
health. ‘
—General Superintendent, Wallis, Friday
announced that the wages of engineers on
the large engines on the Pittsburg division
bad been increased, in compliance with a re-
quest of the men. The raise took effect at
once and advanced the wages for a low rate
day from $3.40 to $3.70 and for a high rate
day from $4.10 to $4.35. The high rate day
is counted on a run from Pitcairn to Altoona.
A low rate day applies to any partial trip less
than that distance. The time is to be count-
ed, under the new arrangement, from the
time the engineers report for duty until they
are relieved. ;
—While the young wife of Solomon Haas
was bending over a wash tub in her home at
Wilburton, a mining hamlet near Shamokin,
last Friday morning, her husband, insane
from jealousy and drink, crept up behind her
and without saying a word jammed a revolv-
er against her back and fired. The bullet
crashed through her spinal column and
lodged in her stomach, causing a fatal wound
from which she died on Saturday. She
screamed for help and he immediately shot
himself near the heart, dying soon after.
—On Saturday evening, Wilfred Lanbag,
aged 45 years, amill hand at Duncansville,
his wife, Sadie Lanbag, aged 41 years, and
their horse, were struck by a fast excursion
train, hauling the employes of the Pennsyl-
vania railroad at Altoona from a picnic and
instantly killed. The Lanbags were return-
ing home from a drive to Hollidaysburg and
reached the crossing when the train came
speeding along. They were cut to pieces,
their heads being found lying apart from the
bodies along the tracks. They had a family
of eight children, the eldest being 16 years of
age.
3.000 16et ‘of copper
. Relia; | county trolley line, near Secane, within two
efly in the Republican | ital
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