BY P. GRAY MEEK. Sm, ink Slings. --Mr. KNISELY had them all skinned - when it came to being the big thing in the parade Tuesday night. —Look the specimen ballot to he found on page 6 of this issne over careful- ly. It is simple enough, if you look at it a few times. —The CAMBRIDGES don’t say so in as -many words, bus they still have a lurking suspicion that it was Judge Love and his boon companion, JOE, who shot their turkey. : ——Think of the good the Bellefonte ‘hospital has done and vote for KEPLER be- cause he, more than any other man, is to be given eredit for getting the appropria- tion that has kept it going. —The farmers cof Centre county will be very apt to remember next Tuesday that THEODORE ROOSEVELT is the man who in 1888 wrote: ‘‘Cowboys are much better fellows and pleasanter companions than farmers.”’ —The new ballot is very large. Its size is not confusing, however, and anyone who carefully looks over the sample pub- lished in this issue ought to bave no trouble in voting just the way be wishes next Tuesday. —The viotims of that fake Iron City insurance company will bardly feel like giving Judge Love a boost into a position where he can take any future cases they might have out of the bands of the jurors, who might bave given them justice. —As JoHN K. THOMPSON looks back over his political life and what its possi- bilities might have been had Judge LOVE not come into it we wonder whether he will do much to help the Judge back into the position he used to make himself boss. —— Where was JOE in Tuesday night’s parade ? He usually rides with the Judge every time the latter goes hunting or fish- ‘ing, so we naturally missed him when we saw His Honor seated so comfortably ina carriage while the bands were playing and the red fire glaring. —In Connecticut a man who robbed a bank of $70,000 was sent to prison for five vears while another who stole a horse got eight. This is pretty bad, but not quite so worse when compared with Centre county freaks of justice. Here a man who mur- dered his son-in-law got five years and another who murdered his wife got eight. ——As a rule looks don’t count for much, bus just to show that even in their personal appearance the Democratic county candi- dates are men of higher character than their Republican opponents we intended publishing their pictures in contrast in this issue. ‘We found that it would take up. VOL. 49 An Absurd Calumny. The attempt to aspeise the Democratic ticket by charging that it has the support of the Standard Oil company is an after- thought of the managers of the campaign of vilification. A man named LAWSON, who was a partner of J. EDWARD ADDICKS of Delaware in all his speculative crimes and turned ‘‘state’s evidence’’ when the ‘‘milk- ing’’ { operations were completed, is the authority for the falsehood. In an article published in one of the popular magazines LAWSON declares that Mr. ROCKEFELLER’S partner, Mr. ROGERS, told him that the Standard is deeply incensed against ROOSE- VELT and greatly enamored of PARKER. Thereupon all the scurvy machine Repub- lican papers, the decent ones ignored the story, began ringing changes on the calumny. There never was anything more absurd. Mr. ROCKEFELLER may have been incensed again st ROOSEVELT some time ago because his clownish tangents kept the business world in constant terror fora time. But his wrath was appeased long before Judge PARKER was nominated. He sent- his financial agent, JAMES STILLMAN, Presi- dent of the National City bank of New York to the White House and alter a couple of hour’s conference with the Presi- dent, both master and man declared that ‘ROOSEVELT was good enough for them.”’ Soon after that Mr. J. PIERPONT MORGAN was br ought into line and the entire trust contingent was mouthing praises of the cow- boy. He bad satisfied STILLMAN and ROCKEFELLER and they soon made the others understand that all was right. The reason given by LAWSON for ROCKE- FELLER’S antipathy to ROOSEVELT is that COR TELYOU, then Secretary of Commerce, had made an examination of the affairs of the Standard Oil company, under the law creating his office, and was likely tojex- pose some secrets of the business which would be damaging to that trust. No do ubt he had made the investigation and it is equally probable that he was aud is in possession of some important seciets. But he hasn’t published them and don’t intend to. That is not what they were ob- tained for. The chances are, however, that he has used them to extract campaign ubseriptions from the freasury of the oil t06 much space which is used: to better | trust and to coefee ¥ir. ROCKEFELLER aud” purpose in telling you things you should know. ——KNISELY, LAMB and HARSHBERGER are to be traded, wherever it is possible,for votes for LovE and WOMELSDORF. Don’t trade. The good Republicans of Centre county have joined with the Democrats for the purpose of defeating LOVE and WoM- ELSDORF, more than anything else, and Demeccrats would be making their work fruitless by trading. Don’t trade. It won’t be necessary. —Sinee calling attention to the action of DAVY CHAMBERS, the Clarence liquor dealer, conditions have become so pecnliar that we will have to keep the spotlight on him right up to the close of the polls on election day. DAVY is ordinarily sup- posed to be very clever, but if be thinks that his trick of last Friday is going to fill any person’s eyes with dust he is a greatly fooled man. No, po, DAVY, you cant show Mr. ORVIS attention during the day then sneak out and work for LOVE at night. That kind of carrying on won’t do. You have no business mixing up in the fight, either way, and the thing for you to do is to be good. —Following up the plain little heart to heart talk we bad with DAVE CHAMBERS, the liquor dealer at Clarence in this column last week, we are told that there is another gentleman in this same line of business at that place whose work for Judge Love is being carefully noted and people are wondering, Why ? The WATCHMAN does not care to go into details in either one of these cases. It merely wants to call at- tention to them at a time when it ap- pears they would be serving themselves better by attending to their own business, as they were licensed to do, than by un- dertaking to get mixed up in a contest for a Judge who will he called upon torenew their license. ——What Mr. J. R. GROVE, the editor of the Bituminous Record, of Philipshurg, seems to know about county polities could be printed in twelve point type on the back of a postage stamp without crowding it very much. In the last issue of that paper he insists that ARTHUR KIMPORT should not be returned to the Legislature hecanse he voted against the increase of salaries for public school teachers. Inas- much as ARTHUR has never been in the Legislature and is now running for the office of Prothonotary we suggest that the Republican watcher on duty at Mr. GROVE’S polling place next Tuesday be sure to go into the booth with him so he may have the proper assistance in marking his ticket. An editor of a professedly political paper who doesn’t know who are candidates for certain offices in his own county would certainly be too obtuse to know how to mark his ticket properly. | his associates in that corporation to the support of ROOSEVELT. ——=See your Democratic neighbor and arrange to have him go to the polls with you on Tuesday next. In this way yom will be sure to have him cast his ballot. ——Don’t leave a vote at home next Tuesday. \ Duty of Centre County Democrats. Every Democrat in Centre county is under moral obligation to do a share of the work of election day. Each man’s share is all he can do from the opening to the close of she polls. Onejmay be able to only get his own vote deposited. others may have time to bring half a dozen voters to the pollsand the obligation on oneis as binding as that on the other. There will be no question of the result of the contest in this county if every Democrat does his full duty. It will not only guarantee the election of our admira- ble candidate for Judge but it makes the success of every candidate on the ticket certain. Not only that but it pats the party in position which will make victory as sure in the future as it used to be in the past. Centre county has suffered greatly dur- ing the past ten years because of the want of public confidence in her court. As a Philadelphia contemporary stated the other day, we have had npon us the onus of a political Judge. No man can estimate the evil effects of such a condition of affairs. The opportunity to correct the evil is now present and it should not be neglected. Will every reader of the WATCHMAN fulfill bis duty on Tuesday? If he fails he has read these columns to poor purpose. If he defaults he is recreant to his Demo- cratic fellow citizens of other counties. The State has been well organized. We believe that several congressional seats wil 1 be gained and know that senatorial, represenative and judicial gains will be made. Will Centre county be among those to rejoice ? We shall wait for the returns with much concern and deep interest, We have sub- lime confidence in the result because in orucial moments Centre county Demo- crate have never failed. Therefore let us all pull together on next Tuesday. Les us see that every Democratic vote in the county is put in the ballot box. —— Take the edge off WOMELSDORF'S big knife next Tuesday. ——Stand by JoHN NoLL. ——Vote for RUNKLE. l ——Vote for WETZEL. STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. BELLEFONTE, PA., NOV. 4, 1904. The Expected Mock Herolcs. No observant man expected that the present campaign would end without some mock heroics. ROOSEVELT is essentially a humbug and as the convention which nominated him was made absurd by JOHN HAY’S dispatch ‘‘Perdicaris alive or Raisula dead.’’ so the closing days of the campaign are made ridiculous by the flam- boyant dismissal of an unimportant and inconspicuous clerk in the Philadelphia postoffice on the charge of soliciting con- tributions from other employes of the gov- ernment for campaign purposes. The fel- low probably got twenty-five or fifty dol- lars and turned it over to CORTELYOU or disbursed it in some other way for the good of the machine and ROOSEVELT’S in- dignation is aroused beyond control. ‘The result is that the clerk, one BUNN, a familiar name, has been dismissed. But BUNN is not to suffer. There will be no empty plates on his table on account of the cutting off of his income. The ‘‘hoss’’ of the ward in which he was operating is aun- thority for the assurance that ‘‘he will be taken care of.”’ Another place will be provided for him just as another job was hunted up for Mr. SALTER when his crimes made a ‘‘shifting’’ necessary. But the incident gave ROOSEVELT an opportunity to pose. He didn’t allow the civil service commissioners to make the dismissal. He couldn’t permit the postmaster of Phila- delphia to enforce the law. Hesimply had to do it himself and make the people be- lieve that he is a great civil service re- former. But since the President has taken that matter in hand why doesn’t he go to the full limit of the possibilities? CORTELYOU is not a public official at present but the law forbids anyone from soliciting or col- lecting funds from federal officers and everybody knows that he has had his pistol to the breasts of every man who was sns- pected of baving the price ever since the campaign opened. Then there is Secretar) SHAW and even Secretary HAY, all per- niciously active in campaign work and not a complaint has been made against them. As a matter of fact the whole business is simply a piece of humbuggery and the President’s part in it makes him ‘‘look like thirty cents.”” He has either gone too far or not far enough. TAKE A VOTER WITH YoUu.—Do you know some poor fellow in your district who bas no way to get to the election but by walking. Arrange with him between this and election morning to be at home or to meet you at some convenient precinct from which you can take him with vou to the polls. neighbor and for the Democratic cause. Do this good turn for a poor Get Ont Every Democratic Vote. The time for making votes is about pass- ed. Every man who has a mind of his own has already determined for whom he will cast his ballot, and the business of Democrats now is to arrange for having EVERY DEMOCRATIC VOTER AT THE POLLS. If this is done there will be no question about the result in the county next Tues- day. Centre county is Democratic, beyond doubt, but not sufficiently so to allow hundreds of its Democratic voters tc be left at home, and still have a majority for the Democratic ticket. The Republicans are making great boasts of what they purpose doing next Tuesday. They can do nothing at all, but walk up to the polls and cast their ballots and go home defeated, if the Democrats do their duty. It is true that great wads of money have keen sent into the county by DRESSER, IRVIN and the State Machine to try to buy the re- election of LOVE and that of two machine candidates for the Legislature, but if they bad ten times the amount they cannot suc- ceed, if the Democratic vote is at the polls. To have them there —and have them ALL there is what Democrats should work for from this time until the polls close. Two or three at home in each election district may give to the opposition the opportunity to make its boast good. To see and be certain that none are left at home, is now the duty of Democrats. And to know that the full vote will be polled every Democrat in the county should be seen and arranged with between this and Tuesday, to beat the polls. Don’t trust to luck or expectations in this mat- ter Democrats. Remember that every vote counts, and that unless we have our vote out, the Republican boast of carrying the county may prove more than mere political braggadocio. ——Every Democratic vote at the polls on Tuesday next means the undoubted suc- cess of every candidate upon the Demo- cratic county ticket. Do your share to- wards having them there. ——Vote for KIMPORT. Vote for NoLL. that not one of them An Atrocious Partnership. As the campaign draws toa close the iniquity of the partnership between the President and the trusts hecomes more obvious. All his life President ROOSEVELT has profeseed to abhor such combinations as work barm to the public through the medium of monoply. While Governor of New York he earned the bitterest hostility of MORGAN, ROCKEFELLER, PLATT and all the other corporate magnates. Even after he became President the heads of the big corporations were resentful of his arrogance in demapding favors which other Presidents either didn’ get or modestly solicited. But when political ex- igencies required the sacrifice he yielded up all his convictions and became the most sycophantic servant of the corpora- tions. The result of this changed attitude in respect to corporations is that Senator PLATT, of New York, has written many thousands of letters appealing for support of ROOSEVELT ‘‘as a personal favor.’”’ With no higher idea of the franchise than that it may be disposed of in that way or sold as a commodity, Senator PLATT asks his friends to vote for ROOSEVELT as a personal service to himself, and ROOSEVELT in re- turn gonarantees PLATT such immunity from the penalties of the law as the inter- ests of his corporations require. On the same commercial basis Mr. MORGAN and Mr. ROCKEFELLER are dcing all in their power for the President and Mr. CAR- NEGIE, who has managed to work an infla- tion of his $10,000,000 worth of CARNEGIE | Steel company stock into a billion dollars worth of bonds in the Steel truss, is pray- ing for ROOSEVELT’S success. Meantime CORTELYOU, equipped with the secrets of the trusts, is collecting funds to debauch the ballot with ROOSEVELT’S coneent and the co-operation of the entire horde of monopolists. He declares that he has made no promises in return for the money, which i¢ probably true. There is uo necessity for promises when you have thumb-screws on your victim. All that is necessary is to tell him what you wang and he will do the best he can. That is what CORTELYOU is doing. Every trust manager understands what is expected of him and knows what will happen if be srl Fo mand Lan CORTE! Pou knows will fail. It is a conspiracy between the trusts and the machine to crush the people and unless the people are courageous and vigilant it will succeed. 4 ——Democrats, if yon have a team don’$ be selfish enough to hitch up and go to the election by yourselves. Arrange to take some poor fellow, who otherwise would bave to walk, with you. See that he votes the straight Democratic ticket and you will feel all the better for having done a neighbor a kindness and your party this service. . Which Do You Want? Do you want a politician for your Judge for the next ten years—a man who gave liguor license to a man who had been a resident of the county only twenty-seven days or do you want a student of the law —a man who never was and never will be a politician ? Do you want GEORGE LAMB, ‘‘the popu- lar bartender of the Passmore house’’ for your Prothonotary or do you want ARTHUR KIMPORT, the capable, young farmer ? Do you want JoHN KNISELY, the pool room magnate and PHILIP WOMELSDORF, the man with the big knife to represent you in the Legislature or do you want 'JOEN NoLL, the hard working, intelligent mason and WM. KEPLER, the farmer, who ‘has been so useful to you for two years, to do your work at Harrisburg ? Do you want an old man with a little practice or a young man with a big prac- tice to be your District Attorney ?—The reason for their respective practices is an important feature in this question. Do you want a man who has never been heard of as a surveyor or do you want HENRY WETZEL. a man with a state-wide reputation, for your county Surveyor ? These are the questions that the voters of Centre county will have to decide when they go to the polls next Tuesday. They are important questions, because they af- fect every man, individually. There are no political issues involved in them. There can be none. ——Make the vote next Tuesday the largest ever polled in Centre county and make the majority Mr. ORVIS will have 80 large that it will be a warning that Cen- tre county will never tolerate political Judges in the future. ——Don’t mind the weather. and vote. Go out % o 2x NO. 43. Greatest of all Dangers. In his great speech in New York on Monday night Judge PARKER summarized the issues of the present campaign when he said: ‘‘Congress creates a new Departmen of Commerce and Labor. Of that Depart- ment the President of the United States appoints a Secretary. That Secretary was his private secretary. Within that De- partmens provision is made for the collee- tion from large corporations, including the so-called trusts, of information which, it is to be borne in mind, is to be submitted to the President for private or public use as he may direct. By grace of the"same executive this Secretary through whose Department this information is collected becomes chairman of the Republican, National committee. His chief duty has been and still is to collect funds for the purpose of securing the election of the President. And it is now notorious that there has resulted from this organized im- portunity—what ever may be the precise way in which it is made effective—an over- flowing treasury to the committee, of which boast is openly and continuously made.” In other words the President and his former Secretary of the Department of Commerce, now chairman of the Repub- lican. committee have been using infor- mation acquired in their official relation to the government to blackmail corporations inte contributing funds for use in debauch- ing the elections of the country. Such an outrage had never been dreamed of before and until the present free-booters secured possession of the government would bave been impossible. No highwayman could have offended more grossly against moral principles. No train robber has ever com- mitted a graver crime. Itinvolves all the turpitude of both. More than that it ut- terly demoralizes the public service and makes trusts masters of the people because having unlawfully and viciously procured the election of a President by such pro- cesses they will control his actions and influence his policies in their own interest. That is the greatest danger which could be brought to confront the people of this country. : And what answer is made to the charge that this great wrong has been perpetrated? None. Both the accused are silent. They don’t think is worth . while to H#&Lca de- fense. If we succeed in our plans,” they reason, the people can go hang. With a four years lease of authority and the treas- uries of the trusts to despoil, they can snap their fingers at public protest. There is nothing to restrain their inclinations un- less the people on Tuesday overwhelm them with an adverse majority that can neither be counted out nor suppressed. The promise is of such a result. The in- dications are that every doubtful State will cast its vote for PARKER and DAVIS and in that event the danger will disappear for such a man as ROOSEVELT will never again be allowed to so menace the liberties of the people. But safety lies in vigilance. Un- less the people do their duty now their opportunities will pass away forever. The Rough Rider will run down everything before him if he succeeds next Tuesday. The Outlook in Pennsylvania. We can discover no reason for revising our estimate of the result of the election in Pennsylvania. We will not secure a Demo- cratic electoral college or carry a majority in the General Assembly which would put a Democrat -in the United States Senate, but we will gain members of Congress, Senators and the number of seats in the Legislature claimed. We will gain five judicial seats and emerge from the cam- paign wish the best organization the party bas ever had in Pennsylvania. There is plenty of reason to be proud of such achievements. } These results have been gained at the expense of a vast amount of hard labor and the outlay of considerable money. But both the labor and the money were well spent if the Democrats will do their duty on election day. If the best results that are possible are gained that is ample compensation. The future will add to the benefits of the work in a constantly increas- ing party strength. But if the individual Democrats fail on election day these ex- peotations will be disappointed and the labor and expenee will become a dead loss. Shall the Democrats of Centre county per- form their share in this good work? We have little time left in which to com- plete the work but it is plenty ; if proper energy and vigilance is invested in it the results will be entirely satisfactory. Judge PARKER doesn’t expect us to carry Penn- sylvasia. The National committee has no idea that we ought to elect a United States Senator. But the Democracy of the entire country expects us to help reverse the political complexion of Congress and to keep the county in the Democratic column and in that expectation they must not be betrayed. To this end every Democrat should exert every effort and invoke every just expedient. ——Vote for KEPLER. Spawls from the Keystone. —Mifflin county has a total enrollinent in its Sunday schools of 8,407 pupils and teaeh- ers. # = —William Reynolds is’ the name of a Jer- sey Shore boy, aged nineteen years, who un- til last week never had his Lair cut. —The National Guard association of the State of Pennsylvania will convene at the armory of the First regiment in Philadel- phia on Tuesday, the 22nd of November. ~—Two boys, named Kephart and Britton, of near Brisbin, were bitten by a mad dog a few days ago. The boys were taken to the Methodist hospital in Baltimore for treat- ment. —F. R. Dowal, track walker between Hyner and Ritchie station, trapped a 100 pound bear Thursday which was afterwards shot. This is the third bear Mr. Dowal has shot this fall. —There were about 250 members of the Twelfth Reg. P. V. I. present at the second annual reunion, held at Milton, on Saturday. There were representatives of all of the eight companies present. —A freight train containing 136 cars was hauled from Sunbury to Williamsport on the Pennsylvania railroad the other day by a single engine. This is said to break all records for a long freight train. —Mrs. J. 8. Whitmore, of New Bloomfield, last week dressed two heads of cabbage, grown in her garden, one of which measured 37} inches in circumference and weighed 123 pounds, and the other 36 inches and weighed 13} pounds. —The Karthaus Fire Brick company has awarded to T. R. Harter & Co. the contract for furnishing all of the lumber to be used in the construction of the plant. The con- tract for building the plant has been award- ed to Charles Kreidler, of Flemington, who has built most of the brick plants in the county. —Zachariah Harnish, who is employed on the Miss Cunningham farm near Alexandria on Sunday evening was attacked by a hog which he was driving out of the orchard. His leg was badly torn and it was with diffi- culty that two other men could drive off the infuriated animal. Later it attacked the horse of J. C. Laird. —Every department of the Renovo shops is rushed with orders and in order to keep up with the unusual activity many of the employes are working 13 hours per day. It is a common sight to see the men returning home at 10 o’clock at night, and some of them have even had to work all night to hurry particularly pressing work. —Rev. J. H. Higby, of Kittanning, has received a unanimous call to become pastor of the Baptist church, at Philipsburg, suc- ceeding Rev. A. Z. Myers, who recently re- moved to Hazleton. It will soon be known whether or not he will accept. He preached at Philipsburg on a recent Sunday, and gave the people very excellent satisfaction. —DMichael Jennings, an employee of the Lycoming Rubber works, at Williamsport, was terribly injured about 5:15 o’clock last Thursday afternoon while operating a large steam washer in the black mill room. He -slipped-and fell, when his right leg became caught between two large cog wheels and was terribly crushed, being. completely sev- ered just below the knee. He was hurried to the hospital, where the leg was amputat- ed above the knee. Jennings is in a serious condition. —Detective Stephen J. Lebo of the New York Central railroad made an important ar- rest at Nelson on Saturday in capturing G. F. Cupp, who has been wanted [since the middle of August on the charge of robbing the New York Central freight station at An- sonia. Cupp and Grant Black were suspect- ed of the robbery at the time and Black was arrested, but Cupp succeeded in getting away and went to Michigan, where he re- mained until last week. He returned to Nelson and detective Lebo learned of his whereabouts and cleverly accomplished his arrest. : —Sylvester C. Williams, a Pennsylvania railroad car inspector, was to have been married to Miss Gwendolin Vaughn, of Har- risburg, a couple of weeks ago and an elab- orate wedding had been planned. The young man desired a quiet wedding but the bride’s mother insisted on the original plan. Mr. Williams, however, disappeared the day before the wedding and nothing was heard of him until Monday when he returned to Harrisburg and a reconciliation having been effected the couple were quietly mar- ried. —Disappointed in love, Annie Kline, aged 22 years, of Ashland, a young lady noted for her beauty, committed suicide Thursday morning by shooting herself through the heart. The instrument of self destruction was a 32-calibre revolver. Where she secur- ed the weapon is not known. The young lady kept company with Wally Lucas, also of Ashland, and they were to have been married Thursday. Wednesday night the young man called at her home and informed her that he had chauged his mind and would not marry her. He gave no reasons for his strange action. Miss Kline spent the night in tears, and Thursday morning went to an outbuilding and shot herself. -—W. H. Beck, a DuBois salesman, was held up on the road home from Penfield Wednesday night by a couple of highway- men. It was just after dark and when Mr. Beck was driving along west of Sabula two men sprang from the bushes, one siezing the bridles of the horses and the other going to the side of the wagon and demanding Mr. Beck’s money. Mr. Beck jumped to his feet and stuck his toe squarely under the fellow’s chin with such force that he went flying into the gutter, where he landed on his back, The partner of the man left his post at the head of the team and ran around to the side of the wagon brandishing a large knife. At the same time Beck got out on the other side, picked up a couple of stones, being un- armed, and the horses, being released by the robber, started to run away. As the wagon drew out from between the men Beck let one of the stones fly at his assailant with a terrific up-shoot and it caught him on the shoulder. Beck then ran and jumped in tne wagon and went his way without further molestation.
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