ex asio oe Dimi comets Sly ital id ods ont i stays he election i is a contributory oe in the: crime. of, rotten politics. Seal wavs “-The'baom’ of the busted ‘bank doesn’t | seem to be near as | ominons’ a soul! av} Washington as the Caban treaty. == ©” ~ELIAH Dowik would do betterin the: East'it He had a woman like CARRIE Na: Tio doing His advatce advertising. There seem to be as many myster es in the President’s, cabinet as that-of the. most versatile Hindoo fakir can produce. 1h —Every good citizen should be at ‘the polls ‘on November ‘3rd. Election ‘day is only ten days off, so make you plas’ ac’ cordingly. : —Could. it be. possible that Mayor CaR- graft, was, the inspiration that took k Dowie: off to reform New York ? vias —Prof. 'LANGLEY’S airship: wobldn’s fiy because of a defective something that isn’t | fully explained fo the public. We pre- sume it is a defective flue. —Japan may have ‘‘thrown down the ganntlet,”’. as the news dispatches an- nonnee, but Russia hasn’t shown any signsof throwing up the gponge. Senator FORAKER says the Republi- can majority in Ohio will be between fifty and one hundred thousand votes. As a guesser he takes plenty of margin. —Cresceus shook ont a few kinks at Wichita, Kansas, on Monday and ended |: the reign of Lon Dillon and Major Del- man as the fastest trotters of the world. Remember that every particle of work done this. fall toward strengthening the organization will be that much gained in the judicial: fight in Centre ii nex fall. —There is many a poor devil facing starvation today through wind and water stocks whose countenance would light up. with joy even at the glimpse of a distant soup house, ; —Every farmer in Centre county should vote against SNYDER for: Auditor - General because every corporation in Pennsylvania will support his candidacy. The man’ the’ corporations want is not the man for the farmers. © °° : a PARKS, the notorious New York. tag agitator, is up against it again, This time he is accused of perjury tor swearing. in his own defense that be did no see the two hiindred dollars paid over that be re- ceived for ending astrike. ©’ © ~The girl Sudeiits of ‘a Kansas College recently. en guest n'a a cane rush that resalt- | ed in BE es; bloody noses and skinned ships, yet the Boys. are being ‘constantly : taught to display chivalry, toward the gentler set. —Up to date the Philippines have cost us $900,000,000, ‘the increased cost of the |- army is’ estimated at $114,000,000 a year and the coming Congress will be asked to appropriate $113,000,000 for ‘the navy, all of which goes to show that it takes “money to be a world power. —The final settlement of the Alaskan boundary. dispute pleases all parties to if, except the - Canadians. It hurt. them mightily to see Uncle SAM restored to un- disputed ownership of the strip of land" running along the Lynn canal; that really | is the key to the Alaskan gold field.- —The Philadelphia Press thinks that. singe killing an editor is not regarded as m urder in South Carolina that State goes a | little ahead of the new Pennsylvania libel law. That depends entirely en the charac™ ter of the editor. We know lots of them who would sooner be dead than ‘muzzled. — Elijah III DowIE is’nt making much headway with his fanatical religions specu- lation proposition in New York. New York may be bad bus she is’nt quite bad enough to throw more millions at the feet of the false phophet from Chicago who has managed to make himself rich through the mental weakness of his followers. —The attempt of the Republicans of Clearfield county to convict the Democratic nominee for sheriff of stealing a watch and chain has turned out to he a regular boom- erang. Clearfield won’t stand for such disreputable political practices and the Democrat is going to he vindicated hy election, along with Judge ALLISON O, SMITH. —When BURCHARD said ‘Rum, Roman- ism and Rebellion’! Republican changes in New York received their death knell. Last Sunday two new BURCHARDS appeared in that city. One said : “Tammany hall is the exponent of the creed of loot, lust and lawlessness.” The other declared that ‘“Tammany hall stands for greed, graft and grog.” The shades of the BLAINE cam- paign are already hovering over Mayor Low. —The action of the University of Penn- sylvania athletic advisory committee in de- ciding to sell the University’s quota of tickets to the annual Army and Navy foos- ball game and give the proceeds to the widows and orphans of soldiers and sailors is most laudable. It will preclude the possibility of the young scamps about Philadelphia reaping a rich harvest out of a contest that has been conducted on purely honorary principles in the past, as they did last year, and at the ram» time is will yield 'quite an appreciable som to ‘a’ mer- itorions cause. 7 STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. y L Vor. 18 | according to Washington dispatches. | Twenty years ago next year, when the first b | Cleveland administration undertook to re- Eire the navy and put it upon a mod- ern basis an appropriation of $13,000,000 was regarded as extravagant. Then there wasn’t a vessel in the navy which could be -depended on to sail or steam across the ‘ocean and it was absolutely certain that not one of the lot could have stood an hour under the fire of a modern battleship or gotten away from such fire if it was threat- ened. Improvement was neceesary under sach conditions. But now we have a navy equal to any probable demands, so long as it is kept in ‘decent repair and we behave ourselves. The peaceful settlement of the Alaskan "boundary dispute is ample evidence that ‘we don’t need war ships for hostile pur- ‘poses as long as we don’t ourselves levy “war or justify some other country in de- claring war against us. That being true ‘the only possible reason we could have for war ships would be to use them for the conveyance from point to point of distin- guished diplomatic agents of the govern- ment and there is no use in keeping up fifty or sixty of them for that. A bhalfa dozen iz ample for show purposes and we ‘have that many now. What’s the $103,- 000,000 for then ? * That vast sum of money is intended as a bait to Inre the ship building companies into a lively competition in making con- tribntions to the Republican corruption fund in the next presidential campaign. Everybody knows that the profits in ship 'building for the government are enormous. Armor plate is sold to the government at as much as $600 a ton when private pur- chasers may get it at one-third theamount. ‘But there is an act of Congress which pro- ‘hibits the use of any other than American made armor plate on naval vessels and as ‘there are only three concerns which make it they combine and fleece the government just as they like. It isa crime against the nation and treasonable.. But the ship bnilders don’t mind that any more than the beef trust minded sell- Jing embalmed and poisonous ) to the soldiers during the Spanish war or. than ‘the army contractors minded selling shoddy clothing and paper shoes during the war of the rebellion. But the people care and every voter in the country ought to resent, ‘wish just indignation, the proposition to partment this year. - Hard times are com- ing and imposing such’ burdens. upon the worse than that committed by JEFFERSON |. DAvIs and his associates in the secession of 1861. Let every citizen .protest: against the iniquity with his vote. : Candidate. for State Treasurer. | Comparatively little bas been said during the campaign of the Republican candidate for State Treasurer, for the reason probably ‘that the more conspivuous unfitness of their ‘candidate for Auditor General ‘has attract- ed a greater amount of popular. attention. But the candidate for State Treasurer should not escape public scrutiny. ~ There from justice, and another has been worried into an untimely grave within:a few years on account of the conduct of ‘his office. With the vash balances which it has become the custom te keep under the direction of that a fit’ ‘man should be chosen. Who is the Republican candidate for LIAM L. MATTHUES and his home in Dela- ware county. Until a cemparatively recent time he wasspoor... Nine years ago he was elected Prothonotary of that county. The population of the county is'a fraction over 194,000 and as, the population of Centre county is about balf that, any well inform- ed citizen knows how impossible it is. to have acquired wealth during nine years of ‘honest service in that office. But MAT- THUES has acquired wealth and power and such a command in the politics of Penn- sylvania that he was able to ‘compel ‘the Legislature to increase the salary’ of the office 0 which he aspires before he wonld agree to accept the nomination. It can be said, therefore, that MATTH UES is a thrifty gentleman, but LIVESEY was that though be conveniently conceals his present residence for reasons which may be conjectured, and the Republican machine is obliged to contribute to his support in his seclusion. For these reasons it would be well for the voters to select for that office a man who is not quite so handy in making profits out of office and less likely to imitate the example of LIVESEY after the expiration of his term. They bave the opportunity to secure such a man by electing State Senator JOEL G. HILL to the place. He will not get so rich, but he will not run away. ——Suabsoribe for the WATCHMAN. An Tntquity that snowld be ‘Conderamed : Secretary of the Navy will ask Congress : ol to appropriate $103,000,000 for the use of ‘that Department for the next fiscal year, appropriate $103,000, 000 to the navy de-' taxpayers needlessly is a crime infinitely is one living ex-State Treasurer, a fugitive 5 ‘government of Pennsylvania. notorious the Treasurer,’ therefore, it is important | thas office this year ? His: name is :WIL- | Between the Devil ang the Deep Sen, Secretary of the Treasury SHAW threatens to resign and the indications are that if ‘he carries out the threat there will be a general ’ ‘breaking up of the cabinet. SHAW’S com- plaint is that the attorneys selected by the Président to investigate the TULLOCH scandals have performed their work too well and caught one of the most useful ma- chine men in the Treasury Department. The lawyers recommend the dismissal of comptroller TRACEWELL, who is among the accused. SHAW says if TRACEWELL is dis- missed there will be trouble. ' He ‘wants whitewash and tke lawyers won't have it. Postmaster General PAYNE says that is the result of getting Democratic lawyers to do business for the administration. This situation puts the President in an awkward position. He has been pretending to desire the most searching investigation of the charges and the most indignant repre- hension of all sorts of fraud in the service. Bat when his probers got too close to the private office of Postmaster General PAYNE that gentleman made a roar that resulted in calling them off. Now that they have touched upon the affairs of the Treasury Department and exposed the venality of one of Secretary SHAW’S pets he turns on the President and threatens all sorts of things unless the investigation is called off. Meantime ROOSEVELT is ruined, whether he goes on or stops off. For example, if he obeys the order of Sec- retary SHAW and calls the investigators off the public will discover the. hypocrisy of his pretense of reform and smite him ac: cordingly. If he doesn’t obey Secretary SHAW will resign and Postmaster General PAYNE and Secretary of the Navy Moopy will probably follow his example. This would leave the President in almost pitiable condition on the eve of his campaign for nomination and election for a full term in the office. . He would better have taken up PAYNE'S plan of ridiculing the investiga- tion on his return from the West, rather than engage in mock heroics and false pre-- tenses which now bind him fo a quarrel with his political friends. How to Vote Right, Eyery Democratic citizen should give careful study to the ballot. ROSE states that it is the most complicated ‘ballot that was ever devised and’ be isternsi¥ right. “Bus it is' not so intricate that every. voter who is physically. capable. and can read may not beable to mark his own vote. The principal difference ‘between. the present ballot and that which was: voted last year is in the fact that new. the: | names. of candidates are grouped under: the: ‘desigoation. of ‘the office instead ‘of each party ticket having a separate column and. the party circle is converted into a square ‘and transferred from the top of thewwlomn, to the left side of the sheet. Bat it will be no more trouble to vote | the straight. Democratic ticket this. year than it was last. A oross in the square on the left of the sheet marked ‘‘Demoecratic’’ will do the business completely and there never was a year when there were. more or greater reasons for voting that way. The Democratic ticket represents all that is de- sirable in public life. The candidates are Just and capable men and they are pledged to the fulfillment. of Democratic : promises to reform the abuses which bave ‘made the throughout the length and breadth of the. land. The Republican candidates, on the |- ‘ other hand, will perpetuate the: Te idnitiey of the past. Under the circumstances there is ne con-. ceivable reason for voting other than a+} straight Democratic ticket and to vote it with the new ballot is absolutely easy toa: man who has eyes to see, a band to make} - the - mark. and learning enough: fo read, Voters who are not able to ‘meet those re- quirements may take an assistant into the booth with them under, the present law as under the old one but no voter should take an’ assistant in unless it is unavoidable. | The motto of every voter should be to make his own ticket and vote the Demo- cratic ticket straight. ‘A cross in the square designated ‘Democratic,’ which is plainly printed and easily found, will achieve the result certainly. t ‘——The annual convention of the Wom- an’s Christian Temperance Union of Penn. sylvania, just closed in Altoona, honored Mrs. Evelyn R. Huston, of Lamar, by making lier head of the Temperance Light Bearers work for another year. In hér re- port of the work carried on by her band of juvenile temperance workers throughout the State she said. *“The first child enrolled was Marie Swartz, of Nittany valley, in 1889. There are over 3,000 members now. Bucks | county is the banner county, with 390 chil- dren eurolled. Philadelphia comes next. Over $1,000 has been raised eutirely through this branch of work as dues or donations. We must commence in the cradle to edu- cate and save ‘our babies’. The sinfultiess and harmfalness of giving’ whiskey t6 ba- bies, to keep them quiet, was touched on in this paper. There’ are’ seventy-five members in Altoona. 4 : Senator PEN- | | fina ueial legislation. | of studying the ballot. | radically changed from the kind we have Get Ont_tn the Vote. Little remains to be d Jone 1 in the, present campaign except get out the vote and that ‘shonld ‘be doné well. The Democratic State committee has worked zealously and | intelligently to perfect its part of the labor of the campaign. It has been in touch ‘with the leaders of the party and ‘in: com-' ‘raunication with ‘the active workers in every part of the State.. It remains for the voters to perform their duty and if they ‘be ‘achieved. But the work of the voters can’t be doge in a day. It will require all ‘the time from now to election to so perfect the work of organization in such a way a8 to guarantee a full vote. This is an off year in Pennsylvania poli- tics and the tendency under such circum- ‘stances i is to political indolence. Bat there ough | to be nothing of that sort this year. The people are playing for a great stake. The office of Auditor General is the key to ‘the Treasury and is important at all times. This year it is more important than ever before because the atrocious machine is driven to desperation and will use the office Fin the event of the success of that party as it has never been used before. That party has nominated a candidate: who during a career in the publioservice' has been the ‘obedient servitor of the machine and will #0 to any excesses to serve that organiza- tion. Besides shere'i is an especial reason why WiLLraM P. SNYDER should not be elect- ed to the office of Auditor General this year. = He is a member of the building com- mission which has charge of ‘the constrac- tion of the new capitol. His associates on that commission are the members of the odious STONE administration. . They are ‘entrusted with the disbursement of a vast sam of money, $4,000,000, and the Auditor | General elected at the coming election will andit the accounts of that body to that fabulous amount. Even if every man’ of ‘them were entitled to the most unqualified | Sredit it. would be bad business policy to allow them to audit their own accounts and if the people are wise they will not. be’ given that power. Nero and Roosevelt. The extra session of Congress has been called by the President and it can. be. said +0 say the. deliberations of the hody during |. ‘the session which begins on . Monday No- § vember 9th, has been: restricted: by the President’s eall to’ the consideration of the reciprooity treaty made a year ago between. she United State and Cuba. It is not ex- plained why that treaty, baving: been . in abeyance so Tong, might not have been held over for another month, for the regular. ‘session will hegin on the 7th of December. But the extra session is called for Novem-: ber 9th and limited to the consideration of shat treaty. For the last month or more the. financial ‘markets of the country have been in a ‘state of semi-panic. Within the last ten -days hundreds of industrial establishments have shut down in various sections of the country and the day before the President’s “proclamation calling Congress into extra- ordinary | session was issued, two big banks in Baltimore closed, their liabilities being a . matter of $10.000,000. : “Two months ago: ‘Senators ALLISON, of Towa; SPOONER, of Wisconsin, ‘and ALDRICH of Rhode Island, the acknowledged Republican leaders of “the Senate, urged the President to call ‘an: ‘extra session of Congréss to enact needed But he has disre- garded their advice. > NERro fiddled: while: Rome! A ac- cording to history. The head of the great Empire thought of nothing but his own pleasure while the: people were suffering ‘all the privasions and distresses of adesolate and ruined ‘people. But how much better ‘is ROOSEVELT ? He sees the American peo- ple on the verge of an industrial collapse and on the ‘brink'of a’ financial ‘panic but - because he cares more for his own political ambitions than for the welfare of the coun- try he disregards the admonitions of the statesmen of his own’ political faith and whistles as NERo fiddled. NERO lost his ‘Empire and gained public execration. ——Sheriff Taylor and the county com- missioners very wisely decided to publish the election proclamation this fall in such form as to give the voter every opportunity ‘It is a new one, been voting since 1893 and it is the ‘part of wisdom to publish it in such form ‘as t0 make it as olear as possible to the voter. ——The deacons, elders, vestrymen and going about as wild over the new game of cards called ‘“Flinch'’ as any lot of dupli- town, It is real amusing to hear them ask Aor the blue backed decks at the stores. be- +oause, as they say, ‘‘the red backed ones dook so much like those awful vlaying cards, : A cate or bridge whist fiends we have in the labor appellation, which the court decided “BELLEFONTE, PA., OCTOBER 23, 1908. ard equally’ vigilant a signal triumph will good sisters of the Bellefonte churches are | fl ‘Such a ‘Law Would | Be Al Goa ig ‘Thing 1 Here, From the Montreal Stare... ‘There is a proposal before Parliament wo | (disfranchise for six years any person who «does not poll his vote. ‘The purpose of the provision is to punish the man who makes. merchandise of his ballot, and. refuses. to poll it until be bas been “‘bought’’ by ko /ing his wares away from him for the next election; and also to spur up the. indiffer- ent citizen who Ahinks, that there is. noth- ing in the then ing contest worthy of his distingui attention. , If the action of the. clanse can be 80 | limited as to hit only these two classes, | there will not be much public mourning | at the resultant narrowing of the franchise. The man who regards his vote as a pur- chasable commodity certainly should have it taken away from him. It is not just to other citizens that he should. retain - the power to kill their ballots with his; insin- cere and mercenary vote. 1 Then the indifferent man is a real dan- ger to the community. It is not my that he can often be stamped at, the moment into casting a . mischievous bal ot on a side:issue; but when he stays at home and toasts his shins on election day he coffers to the ‘‘telegrapher’’ an easy chance to cast his vote for him. He is well known to the political ‘‘heelers,’”’ and they feel perfectly safe in forging his ballot. If he does not intend to vote, it is certainly only. fair to those who do that be should remove his name from the voter’s list; and if he i is too lazy or uupatHons to do. this i in the in- terest; of a olean election—a thing in which he usually professes to be. profound- ly interested—then surely the law is not overstepping the bounds in proposing to do it for him, The voter who, is absent for good reasons should, however, have an opportunity to state them, and recover his right of fran- chise. This will be the difficult part of the law to frame. There will be a reluc- tance to leave to any party, board or offi- cial the right to say whether the. reasons given by the defaulting voter are. good ones. But ib ought not to be; beyond the ingenuity of Parliament; to; devise some means of disarming the bribe-taker and the, conceited victims of lofty in ierence. | Sr——— How He, Them. From the Ramsey ( IL) N ) News-Journal. ‘The men whom * we most ' delight to honor in all the land are those who in the! iron years from 61 to 65 ‘bore on their shoulders the burden of saving the Union.” —President Roosevelt at Syracuse on Labor Day. After saying hich, the President proceeds to promote General Leonard Wood: over the heads of 494 war veterans. | mm—————— 3 ,Homnors Belmore Bas Banic's Fal. b on 8-* stand. pat’? basis: That 48 {Stirrers witt - Amount to $10,000,000. ‘Mary. iland and ‘Union Fiust Companies