—Mr. QUIGLEY is in the saddle, sure enough. —Vesuvias is said to be uneasy again. So would you be if you bad as much fire down in your bowels as she seems to have. IIT — “STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. —And they never even mentioned PEN- ROSE'S name in the resoluticos on Tues- day. Why Senanvor QUIGLEY, how could you have forgotten that? —We have a picture of Congressman Love handing out the post-offices in Cen- tre county and, incidentally, sending seed to his sundry constituents. — BEN WILLIAMS occupied bis own seat in the convention on Tuesday; his old time ‘‘proxy’’ having gone to a place where conventions don’t worty him anymore. —State Treasurer BERRY baving assum- ed the duties of his office on Monday every man, woman and cbild in Pennsylvania oan feel that they have come into their own at last. —1If the pace of the Republican cam- paigos in this county is to be set by the new county chairman, it is not likely to be fast enough to take the breath away from any one. I —Will the pew Republican county chair” man drop the practice of law when he takes charge of his party organization. We can’t see how he is going to do both be- cause, you know he is always ‘30 busy.” —The endorsement of the Hon. THOMAS MURRAY for Governor by the Centre coun- ty Republicans is supposed to mean that Clearfield county will be for QUIGLEY for Senator, without opposition, but where does LOVE come in. VOL.51 Should be Promptly Considered. The resolution introduced by Senator TILLMAN, of South Carolina, the other day, providing for a congressional investigation into charges that participants in a most disgraceful episode which occurred iv the White House in January last ‘‘have since received recognition by the appointment of near relatives to office,” should receive prompt and favorable consideration. Presi- dent ROOSEVELT has made w ed use of the public patronage before. Fou: years ago he allowed the late Senator QUAY to trade offices for votes in the State conven- tion which nominated PENNYPACKER for Governor and two years later bribed Con- gressmen to vote against a congressional investigation of the postal scandals with promises of patronage. But if the current ramors are true he has touched the limit in this matter. At the time indicated Mrs. MINOR ROBERTS visited the White House with the view of giving the President, in per- son, her version of an incident whioh re- sulted in the dismissal of her husband from the public service. She was informed by one of the President's assistant secretaries that the President was too busy to see her and she declared that she would wait his leisure. Thereupon the assistant secretary, a man named BENJAMIN F. BARNES, or- dered some colored servants of the White House to eject her, which they did in eo violent a manner that her clothes were torn and her person exposed to the aston- ished and indignant onlookers. Subse- quently she was committed to prison by Major SYLVESTER, chief of police of Wash- ington, and ELMER E. PAYNE became a willing and, it is said, an untruthfal wit- ness against her. Soon after this atrocity the beastly BARNES was appointed postmaster of Washington, though not a legal resident of the city, and later, according to reports, sons of SYLVESTER and PAYNE were ap- pointed cadets at Wess Point. There is no conceivable reason for the promotion of BARNES or the appointment of the sons of the others except on the hypothesis of re- wards for the sinister ‘service, which would 4 § —The solitary oyster that swam thiough the festival soup all winter basbeen re- tired for a period of recuperation, while tsice cream and all the delicacies of the geason’’ now furnish the bead-lines for oh urch, base ball and charity eat-feste. —Not content with haviog put the political bug all over him some .enemy from this side bad to go and steal the Hon. Little Fill’s new bat; leaving in its place an ancient and honorable lid that might have seen service since the spring of "73. —As presiding officer of a convention we are forced to admit that Mr. “Tight” GRAMLEY is both dignified and capable. Of course the work bad all been cut out tor him earlier in the day, but hie execu- tion of it was such as to make some of the pretentious Republican presiders oo a little on Cushing's manual. “The Lop bli a county e the appointing, power bad an object lesson on Tuesday that it unparalleled i my. No doubt Se TILLMAN’S objegs in introducing the reso- lution is to exemlpate the President from the accusation and we sincerely hope he will succeed. e shameful incident was an outrage © every decent impulse of Awerican man and if it trauspires that the participants pre being rewarded instead of punished, public execration ought to be expressed. * probably didn’t appreciate as it should bave done. As the delegates yawned and squirmed and sighed while HARRY KEL- LER poked along calling the roll they might have taken notice that their new [county obairman will act at about the same rate of apeed. —The WATCHMAN stated six weeks ago that Justice Joux STEWART would not betray the people of Pennsylvania by giv- ing up his seat on the Supreme court bench, to which he was unanimously called last fall, to accept a Republican-LINCOLN nom- ination for Governor. His letter saying that such an act on his part is out cl the question confirms our prediction and justi- fies our faith in him. —The High street crossing bas become the favorite play ground of Pennsylvania rail-road locomotives and if pedestrians are not dodging flying hox-cais they are wait- ing the movement of loag freight trains that habitually block it up for periods of from three to twelve minutes. But no one cares very much. Sapt JOHNSTON is going to have the hig bed all filled up with beautiful posies then we will all enjoy them while we wait. —It was announced on Tuesday that just as soon us Mr. QUIGLEY goes to the Senate and Capt. FRYBERGER gets into the Legislature they are going to have a special act of Assembly passed making Col. JouN A. DALEY candidate emeritus for Centre county. They say this will save any fo- tu re unpleasantness about being registered in time and give our friend from Curtin township a chance to get after any office that they might not happen to have a man for themselves. —It appears that the President's much * mooted rate bill is to become a law; in other words, the distorted, contorted, aborted residue of the original measure. The nice part of it is that the President will claim a lotof glory and the public will get nothing useful, for the measure will have so many loop-holes, such as technicalities, reviews and appeals that the carrying corporations will go oo rob- bing just as they bave done and the pub- lic will go on lawing about is, without ever being able to catch any one. Official Perfidy Revealed. The acquittal of select councilman CAVEN, the other day, a travesty on jus- tice, after a mock trial in a Philadelphia court, proves conclusively that the work of the reformers in that city is far from a finish. It was the result of the almost openly expressed perfidy of District At- torney BELL whose zeal in hebalf of the accused was shown in various ways. Such a condition would not exist if the machine were hopelessly defeated. In that event the District Attorney would have beea earnest and energetic in the prosecution. Like others of bis kind be is looking out for himeelf and would have striven sedulously to serve the peo- ple. Bat in his confidence that the ma- chine can help him he adopted the other course. Councilman CAVES was charged with participating in the profits of city contracts in violation of the law and the accusation was practically confessed. The contract was given to his father who is also his partner and it is claimed that a new set of books were opened to keep a record of the operations. But both father and son ad- mitted that the son drew from the funds whenever he wanted money and the fands of the father and the firm were kept together. Clearly then the son participated in tbe profits of the con- tract and was culpable under the law. But the distriot attorney did his best to ex- clude the inculpating evidence and to dis- eredit that which he couldn't conceal. Such an exhibition of official recreancy has seldom been witnessed. The city of Philadelphia bas been anathe- matized as “‘corrupt and contented,” and though that aspersion was in some measure refated by the vote of last fall, if the people submit patiently to this perfidious act of betrayal, the public will understand thas there has been a moral relapse into the old conditions of iniquity and indifference. The recreant district attorney is a candi- date for re-election and if his ambition is fulfilled the epithet will be deserved. The people of the State and throughout the country will watch the issue with keen in- terest. They do mot want to believe evil of Philadelphia. They are anxious to think well of the ‘metropolis of Penneyl- vania and the cradle of liberty. But they can’t close their eyes to revealed facts. —Delegate BLANCHARD'S novel idea of not permitsing a candidate to withdraw in open convention or, if be bad withdrawn, to compel the delegates instructed for him to cast their votes for bim juet as if he had not withdrawn, proved the marvel of Taes- day's Republican gathering. Under some conditions such a proposition might be ser- viceable toa candidate who wanied to keep, votes away from an opponent, but it is not probable that it could be forced throtgh any intelligent body and the at- tempt to carry it on Toesday, when it could not. possibly have been of any use to any one, was little short of the ridiculous. ~—=There ‘was a slight frost on Tuesday morning but as yet vegetation has not been injured. wanted both wings to flop together, soto speak, that the omnipotence of the Grand Lessons for the Lincomnites. In the defeat of the reform forces in the Philadelphia conncils the other day there is a useful lesson for the LINCOLN Republi- caus of the State. In the organization of councils a few weeks ago the reformers were strong enough to accomplish any- thing. They elected the presidents of both branches by overwhelming majorities and the result was bailed as a complete and enduring triumph of right. The ma- chine men were completely subdued and entirely ready to profess allegiance to the pew and better order of things. All they desired was party harmony. They Old Party might never be shaken. In other words they desired to save the tariff and a few other things, including ap- propriations. These professions of contrition ‘‘looked good’ to the reformers who were aleo Re- BELLEFONTE, PA., MAY 11, 1906. publicans of the LINCOLN variety. Mayor WEAVER, President ARMSTRONG and the rest of them have likewise a great fondness for the party and when they saw DAVE LANE, Insurance Commissioner MARTIN and Senator McNicHOL shedding oroco- | dile tears over the peril which party dis- | sension and division involved, they melted | instantly and opened their arms so that the VARES and the DAVIS’ might fall upon | their necks. It is a beantiful and touching episode in the political life of a city of in- | iquity and indifference, and in token of magpanimity and fraternity, they gave the machine the most important commit. tee assignments. In fact they allowed it to literally pack the commijtee of fi- nance. The story of the lion and the lamb is as familiar and no diecernicg man will be surprised to learn that as soon as the machine gos the better of the situation it began cavorting. The pretended reformer who had been assigned to the chairman- ship of the Finance committee immediate ly soapped bis fingers at his recent ally and named a sub committee, with plenary power, composed of the most obnoxious of A chine piraes. Of course this incens- od the / fork of - ™ . ' and they at once set about to unseat the offend- ers. But this hope has been sadly disappoint- ed. On the test made on the question the other day the machine councilmen got to- gether and defeated the purpose by a large majority just as the state machine will treat the LINCOLNites in time. End of thn Strike. Whatever direction the sympathies of the individual bappened to incline in th2 matter of differences between the coal min- ers and operators, the determination of the men to resume work will be bailed with popular satisfaction. A prolonged strike, however it terminated, would have work- ed evil consequences to public interests. The increase of the price of any commodity essential to human comfort is an addition to the burdens of the people and a strike would have inevitably produced that re- sult. Additional burdens are endurable if they bring about compensatory advantages. But in the matter in mind such a result was more than doubtful. The chauecs were on the other side. In considering these questions, however, justice and candor join in compelling the statement that the public bas the miners to thank for the escape from ¢he evils of a prolonged and possibly a disorderly strike. They bad abundant reasons for the improve- ments they asked. They have not been re- ceiving their just share of the prosperity of the business. The price of the product of their labor has been constantly advancing while there has been no increase in their wages. But every concession bas come from their side. The operators yielded nothing to promote industrial tranquility and continued commercial prosperity. The conservatism as well as the magoanimity was on the side of the miners. In estimating its obligations, therefore, the public should bear these facts in mind. The coal trust showed no bowels of com- passion for a threatened public. Its agents, divinely appointed or otherwise, revealed no consideration for the sufferings which seemed inevitable and certainly were im- pending. With brute force and insolent audacity they moved forward toward the perilous precipice and made no signs of wavering. Therefore we bave the miners to thank for what must be regarded asa fortunate deliverance from an infinite dan- ger. To president JouX MITCHELL and his wise and temperate colleagues in the management of the miners interest we make our acknowledgments. -———The question of paving the Diamond is now lying on the council table. The matter was brought up at Monday night's meeting but because the Street rommittee was not in possession of complete data it was tabled, which means that it will not now be paved before the dedication of the monument, though the work may be done later in the year. is in bands which will administer it in the ‘interest WiLLiAM H. BERRY Was inducted into the | fo rt pledges, whioh | really An Absurd Statement. Ms. Davin WiLcox, president of the Delaware & Hudson railroad company can see Do reason why the miners should de- mand an increase of wages. ‘‘There bas been no increase in the profits of the basi- ness,” he declares in a statement recently issued, ‘‘opon which could be based any olaim for increased wages.” He adds that | the cost of production has increased vastly since the settlement of the last strike and that the prosperity of the operators is ascribable to the larger volame of business. A Chatam street clothier, by a parity of reasoning, once convinced himself aud tried to persuade his customer that the reason he could afford to sell goods at less than cost was that he sold so much. In such a statement Mr. WILCOX de- liberately insults the intelligence of the public. If there has been no considerable increase in the profits of the coal operators there must have been a criminal incapacity in the management of the business for the price of coal bas been increased frequently | and in the aggregate immensely, since ‘‘the | anthracite coal commission’s award.” In view of the facte, therefore, Mr. WILCOX'S statement is not only inaccurate but it is impudent. Is implies that the people are without reasoning power, in his opinion, and such an idea is preposterous. The public schools bave achieved much 1n this land of liberty and widely diffosed intel- ligence. ’ As a matter of fact the coal operators have been #0 prosperous recently that they feel strong enough now to fight the coal |] miners’ organization to a finish and with that purpose in view, unless the signs are misleading, they have set out to provoke a strike. Ever since the award to which Mr. Wincox refers they have been making preparations for such an event and they know that while it will cost them uothing it will put upon miners great misery and much privation. The coal in the ground will diminish neither in quantity nor value during the period of idleness but the time which the miners waste can never be re- olaimed nor recovered. But Mr. WiLcox oughn’t to add insult to ivjury, Gy Se r. Berry in Control. For the first time within a quarter of a century the State Treasury of Pennsy the people. On Monday last office and as he is und will be sorupulously falfilled, to conduct if on business lines for the benefit of the tax- | regvery fro payers, it may be said that a new era in the fiscal affairs of the Commonwealth has been begun. There will be no favoritism either in the collection or disbursement ol the revenues. The law will be faithfully obeyed. In 1886 a new system ofl management was introduced into the State Treasury when the late Senator QUAY became Treas- urer. As a commissioner of the sinking fand hebad previously learned the possibil- ities of the office as a source of graft avd as head of the department he immediately began turnieg his knowledge to account. With that change began a chain of evils which have culminated in deaths by suicide and from dispair and immersed the State in an ocean of disgrace. It was a long drawn out carnival of corruption which is now happily and fortunately ended. Mr. BERRY is a plain man of honest pur- poses and business intelligence with dis- cernment to discover the right and courage to perform his duty. He bas surrounded himself with men of bis own choosing and equally deserving of public confidence and he will administer the office with an eye single to the public good. As the evil method inaugurated in 1886 ran for a period of twenty years the better system ought to endare for a much longer time and we feel that it is sale to congratulate the public on an advantage which wiil be felt instantly and should continue long. Easy. Some people wonder that ex-Judge GOR- DON and ex-State Treasurer FRANK HAR- nis should be so greatly interested in the candidacy of their fellow townsman, THOS. H. MURRAY, for the Republican nomina- tion for Governor. That's easy. Judge GoRrpoN and Mr. HARRIS are not as dumb, politically, as some folks may imagine. They know what the Republican nominee will get this fall. They remember the very earnest (?) support Mr. MURRAY gave each of them. They are both anxious for that gentleman to get the same kind of a trounc- ing each of them received and they feel satisfied that the Republican nominee for Governor this fall is going to get it. That's why they are for MURRAY. ——Dr. G. S. Frank, of Millheim, is branching out into the chestnut raising business. Last Friday he bad five hun- dred young chestnut trees planted on his farm in Penn township and he intends to have five hundred more planted, 20 as to make a grove of one thousand trees. % | : 3 —A blacksnake, 8 feet 9} inches in length’ was killed recently 5 W. Freeman, of Grill, Berks county. : —A peculiar disease, crippling the eyes and legs, has appeared among the horses of Bethlebem and vicinity. —The Clearfield Driving Park association is making great preparations for big races le aud 4 graud ima gu the 4b. St) and 6th of oe Ys ssn Suampher = Sn ~8ix of the Shenandoah school directors : who have been serving terms of year for me | accepting bribes from the teachers, bave NO 19. been released from prison. pam— —— oF ye new automatic “girlless” exchange a Lehigh Telephone company, in Allen- A Menace to Public Order. town, is now sompletely installed and will From the Bedford Hawkeye, (Rep.) ; go-into service this week. The creation of a state constabulary —In seven years Mrs. Daniel Goodman, of gaothier vicious piece of legislation by the | Springmont, Montgomery county, has raised last any 1iden Leulware. n was a | over 7,000 chickens, and has this spring over » tes and coal ope for the : 900 Wyandotte chicks hatched. protection of their property. It isa . =Twelve men were badly injured by an less tax on the farming communities explosion at the wheel foundry of the Amer the benefit of the railroads and mine @ ican Car and Foundry company at Berwick ers who dodge nowt of their taxes an . | and the building was badly damaged. It was arravged for the purpose of : ust such a strike exigenoy as bas . —R. M. Butler, of the Clearfield Monitor, jo former times the sheriffs of the has revived the publication of a daily paper sufficed to protect property and on from that office. This time it is called the casions the Governor was called u ‘Evening Herald,” and is larger in size than aid ry state hus on The idea of the old Daily Monitor. manent consta was taken up g , ! at the initiative of the aD d ~The Womay's Baptist Missionary society trust to save them from hiring Pinkert of Pennsylvania has just been holding its, men in times of riot and to saddle the” twentieth annual session at Norristown. It pense of extra protection upon the pet raised $20,000 for missions this year, the The Puntoie Dutiats bostes of) ree | largest sum ever raised in a year. welcomed the suggestion because it, —The bara of William Buddi , vided t pRblic | 1. uges, aeut vided places for henchmen at the PRN | sailadasburg, Clinton county, was destroyed | stabulary at Mt. Carmel bas been followed by a fierce fire at an early hour on Wednes- by a y. Sabjected to some ifisult day morning. All the grain and other con- by a they fired pon them, would tents went up in smoke, and three horses ; many ud killing vet). Those whe perished in the flames. neared scene suffered fro . haste of the state police say it savored —Curiis Bierly, & former. Rebersburg boy, much of the Cossack methods in Ruséis but who for the past three years has been : It is in the bounds of reason to antigipate | employed by the Dents Run Coal & Lumbet * that the state constabulary will create’ company, as bookkeeper and general office Son in the pe A whidh he man, will in the near future he transferred guard r ness down citizens may end in bloody reprisal. bo Bémwond, Lowisions. This country is not for the forei- | —Juniata is the only county in Pennsylva- ble and ruthless methods of the old world | nia which has failed to take advantage of and will not long tolerate in ‘com- | the “good roads” law. By neglecting to make munities an armed state force. @ pres- | application to the State Highway ot uth a any commMAnity | ment for its share of the $1,250,000 road fund LE pe BY od ol for the fiscal year, that county bas lost the , with unral elements He the best she benefit of State aid. run—by w e civil an we hot ; ow oat Copauns tee, powers Su NODE | oe amily hoo. bet followed only upon necessity by ins ms of some man [Who sgctutly . hus. hath. oy The cor | having worthless checks cashed in Willigms- stabulary only irritates the and | port. The fellow generally operates on Sat- lacks the numbers to be effective at best, | urday nights, it is claimed, making a pur. i ——————— 3 chase and tendering a check in paymeudt, Such = Confonile Should be for | No clue to his identity has been gained. % s Som). £ «2 i —— { —Henry Pierson, of South Renovo, was From the Wall Street News. nstan : nesday te However desirable it was to deleat the LR A ordi is th : free silver agitation in 1896, did the end as ; BOvS: LE justify the means employed to was crossing the yards ‘when ho passed be. that defeat ? it is nos $00 much $0 8 tween two sections of a broken freight. Just the money spent in 1896 to preven as he was on the track the cars were pushed. : election of Bryan resulted in politic together and he was caught and crushed, © :3 a W ' h pal RERANE ol in dn] . ivania J or have suffered from the tri- Jeph of free silver, lamentable as that bave been bro 3ght about by the ab s in political campaigns PT Sem iWHEY, 1 From the Lincoln Neb. Commoner, Bills ing of San 8 have all along been told by our Re- publican friends that ‘‘the foreigner pay Why, in the very moment of their afflic- tions; deprive the people of San Francisco of ibe seat advantages of a high protective, ger to ‘‘pay n Francisco ? the tax.” Why not uire the rei the tax’’ for the benefit o ¥. From the Harrisburg Star Independent. 7 What is there really to boast of in a cons rity which bri dition of all with a disturbances, ‘exo Dh oo too frequently in these days olan unrea- soning worship of fickle Fortune. —— Out of the Smoke Comes Warning. From the Pittsburg Dispatch. TH It seews almost impossible to wood. opposing the denatured the demand for wood From the Lebanon News. Referred to the W. C. T. U. From the Chicago Herald. bymo to spread diseases. has ever found any microbes around the door knob of a saloon ? Has Cut Ouk Trout Fishing. From the Houston Post. A Chicago professor has wagered $25,000 that he can go an entire year without tell- ing a lie. soar con of Ca r a are being introduced in Congress, providing for the remission of the tariff: duties on structural iron and steel and other materials necessary for the rebuild t any. at Wash. in ! crowd aloohol bill, al- | realy increas th. demand passage will and Eureka mines, of the Pittsbu cohol Don's think too barshly of a man whe carries an odor of calamus or mint about him these days. It is no evidence that he just came from a thirst parlor. He may only be disguising the odor of spring onions. Somebody has discovered that church books are full of microbes and likely Why is is that nobody hanging ‘repo which come in from the times. The latest two are that gold in large quantities bas been discovered on the farm of Martin Sanders, in Cambria township, and that glass sand in great de- posits has been found down the Blacklick. —The paper mill in Lock Haven will again manufacture the internal revenue pa- per for the United States government, the 37 | New York aid Pennsylvania company hav- been awarded the contract to supply the me for 1906. The Lock Haven paper mill, ) elore, he distinction of manufactur- ng the paper forth internal revenue stamps 1 well'ss stamps. : ‘ —Hollidaysburg coupcil is divided into two factions and undecided suits are pend. ing in court to test the rights of certain councilmen to'their seats. While the bor. ough legislators are warring in court, all mu- nicipal improvement work is at a standstill. The other day leading suciely women organ. ized a street cleaning brigade and cleaned Allegheny street, the principal avenue of the town. is —W. H. Britton, tax collector of Washing- ton township, Clearfield county, met with a most peculiar accident recently. He went to his pig pen to do sume work, and while in- side the enclosure was savagely attacked by 1a heavy porker, and before he was able to. beat off the animal bad both of his legs badly | bitten above the knees. The hog bit into. | the bone of one of the legs and lacerated - interest, | oth of them in a fearfil manner. 4 of living, in- / dustrial unrest,and unexampled corruption, in pavliet do not the’ Am: n peo- pe —The Oak Grove Lumber company was. chartered Friday a week with a capital of 000 to transact business at Duncannon, Perry county. It will be a general lumber business, with shingles, staves, lath and such r | small lumber as a specialty. The stock is di- vided into 600 shares, each of the three die "rectors owning 200 shares. They are George. ‘B. Dum, Carlisle, and William Wills and P.' _I'F. Duncan, Duncannon. B. Stiles Duncan - ‘is treasurer of the new company. : | —Smithton, Westmoreland county, was thrown into great excitement at 10.20 o'clock ‘Thursday night when a partly successful at tempt was made to blow up the honse of W, I. Eichers, superintendent of the Smithton Coal company. This is oue instance when 8 : ‘Black Hand letter came true, although the a. | full threats posted on the front fence of Ei- s o not carried out, inasmuch as the 4 luded ‘tke killing of the family. None of them were injured in’ the least, al- though Mrs. Eichers and her three children ‘were almost scared to death. —The large manufacturing department of the Clearfield Novelty works, ownediby for- mer Congressman James Kerr, was destroy- ed by fire early Saturday morning, and the night watchman, Alfred Corlsor. lost his life. While making his rounds of the plant between two and three o'clock Carlson must have been seized with heart failure or have met with an accident on the third floor, as he registered at the clock at 2.10, and a few minutes afterwards flames appeared on that floor, evidently starting from his lan- tern, His charred remains were found in the ruins later. The loss is upwards of $50,- 000 with insurance of $12,500. Over 100 men are thrown out of employment. The plant will be rebuilt.
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