8Y P. GRAY MEEK. ink Slings. —The trout fishing season closed on Tuesday and pow the thoughts of many a good liar will be diverted to other chan- nels. —Lots of people will be able to give Mrs. RussELL SAGE advice about how to spend her millions, who couldu’t bave told old “Uncle RusseLy'’ how to make a sin- gle cent. —The London tailors don’t like the cat of BRYAX'S clothes, which probably won't worry BRYAN nearly as much as is will some of the sartorial authorities of Lincoln, Nebraska. —There being eighty-two thousand au- tomobiles in use in the United States it is beginning to look as if the day of the good old carriage horse is drawing to 8 close and then—what of the poor sparrows ? —1In view of the frequent drownings along the sea-shore lately the life savers should be taught to sing that old nursery rhyme about banging your clothes on a hickory limb and don’t go near the water. —The Pennsylvania Railroad Co. bas decided to issue one-thousand mile tickets at twenty dollars each, good for any person to ride on, and reduce the passenger tariff to two and one-hall cents per mile. The power of the press. —Each Republican in the United States is e xpeoted to contribute one dollar to the pational campaign fund for this fall. Pres- ident ROOSEVELT has already sent his and gotten a notice in the papers. Now for Col. NED CHAMBERS, G. WASHINGTON REES, ef al. —A stotteriog bandit entered a Chester store on Tuesday and at the point of a loaded revolver gave the command : **H-b-hold up y-y-your h-h-bands!"” Aec- cording to reports the frightened store- keeper never stuttered a bit in getting his digits in the air. —All you need todo is to look at the base ball reports in the Mondaylipapers if you want to discover which way the old fashioned American Sunday is drifting. The Lord have mercy on our land when Sunday ceases to be any more to it than it is to Mexico, France or Spain. The one is afraid and the other dasu’s. That is the reason the Republican Senator- ial conferees for Centre and Clearfield counties made no choice at Philipsburg, last Thursday. As to which is which we refer you to Mr. HENRY CUTE QUIGLEY, the Centre conntian, and the Hon. JOE AL- EXANDER, of Clearfield. —The complaint from the managers that there is a shortage of chorus girls in New York might be due to the fact that STAN. roRD WHITE is dead and HARRY THAW is in prinon. Then, again, it might be be- cause there really does come a time when ancient ladies can’t trip around, desporting their spindle shanks as if they were ells. —Monday's Philadelphia Press editorial ly said about sll the nice things it could say about fusion candidate EMERY. In fact it said everything except that the Press will support him. Come out neigh- bor. Stand where your conscience tells you you ought to stand. Your course last fall made more friende for the Press than a rotten and busted machine can ever hope to drag away from it. —The Johnstown Democrat wonders how many things wou'!d bappen if some party were to nominate the following ticket in 1908 : - For President, JOHN D. ROCKERFELLER. For Vice President, J. PIERPOXT MoOR- GAN. About the most that could happen would be that their campaign managers would be living on ‘‘easy street.’’ —Mrs. WiLL1AM ELLis COREY has been divor:ed from her busband. How thank- fal she should be that she ia no longer tied to a man who could act as he bas done. She must have been an altogether lovely woman, else his own parents and sister would not have taken the stand to swear that he was unfit for his own son to associ- ate with. And, to think, be is president of the United States Steel company, the largest industrial corporation in the world. —It is an interesting fact that of all the losses incurred by Pennsylvania companies in the San Francisco disaster only two, the American and the National Union were caught for amounts in excess of their en- tire surplus. While both of these compa- pies will see the surplus they have been working for years to build up entirely wiped out, nearly all of the others will see theirs reduced to a mere skeleton. It is a fact worthy of note that the gigantic losses sul- fered have wrecked only two companies aod that unless another such disaster oc- curs within a year, all of them will be on very firm footing again. ~—France has officially expressed her re- gret at the carelessness of the French gan- ner who, while practising with a machine gun aboard a French cruiser in the barbor at Chefoo, China, shot and killed Lieut. CLARENCE ENGLAND, of the United States cruiser Chattanooga, which was lying some distance away. Thie will be so satisfactory and consoling to the dead officer's friends and relatives. If you have ever played tennis with a girl and after she has knook- ed the ball into a garden several lots away aud you have had to climb over two or three picket fences to get it and then heard her complacently sing out : ‘‘Beg pardon!” you have an idea of how much satisfaction there is in this Frenoh expression of regret. VOL. 51 Roosevelt Repudiates the Machine. President RoosevELT has openly ex- pressed his opposition to the atrocious Pennsylvania machine. The managers of the “criminal conspiracy masquerading as the Republican pacty,’’ expected to con- jure with the name of ROOSEVELT. The vast vote polled for him two years ago in. dicated an extraordinary popularity which it was hoped could be coined into political carrency. In pursuance of this purpose Senator PENROSE, with characteristic au- dacity, obtrunded himself intoa conference at Oyster Bay, and subsequently permitted his clacquers to circulate false reports of the President’s interest in the Pennsylva- pia contest. He will make several speech- es, they said, in the interest of the party. They even went so far ae to indicate where the speeches would be delivered, naming Pittsburg, Philadelphia, Harrisburg and York. Asa matter of fact, the President bad frankly informed PENROSE that he has po sympathy with, and would take no part in the campaign of Pennsylvania. He felt, however, that the rumors of his purpose to help the Pennsylvania machine cast an aspersion on his character. His chief official adviser had revealed to him the base character and sinister purposes of that organization and in defence of his own reputation he caused his secretary to issue a bulletin of denial. The President will make no political speeches in Pennsylva- this year, Mr. LoEB said in substance. He will deliver an address at the dedication of the capitol building at Harrisburg in October and speak briefly at the York county fair on the same day, be added, but peither of them will be political in tone or tenor. They will express wo words of comfort for PENROSE. They will contain no sympathy for his decoy ticket or lost cause. The President will simply ignore the organization entirely while his associa- tion in York with Mr. HENRY C. Nines, chairman of the LINCOLN party State com- mittee, will emphasize his friendliness for EMERY. A party organization is in sad shape when it is thus openly and ostentatiously condemned by the official head of the par- ty for which it falsely pretends to stand. But the PENROSE machine deserves such an emphatic reprimand. It is the sum and substance of political iniquity and infamy. For years it has preyed on the people of the State. The welfare of the public was no part of its purpose at any time. The looting of the treasury and the enrichment of its leaders was its paramount considera- tion. Gralt was its god and greed ite pas- sion. Every publicservice was smirched with crime until finally the public con- science wasaroused and revolt followed. In this convulsion every self-respecting cit- izen of the Commonwealth joined and fi- pally the President, the official head of the party, bas publicly declared his abhor- rence of the machine and its methods. The organization is potrid. It stinks in the postrils of men. It can’t endure much longer. A Politieal Anomaly. We are watching with increased inter- est the developmentol the plans of the Republican campaign. Some time agoit was semi-officially announced that unless Chairman ANDREWS wae summarily re- moved from bis office, Mr. RoBErT K. YOUNG, nowinee of the party for Auditor General, would not accept the nomination. Interpreting that declaration literally we assumed that within a reasonable time from the announcement either Mr. AN- DREWS would resign or Mr. YoUNG de- cline. Neither of these things bas bap- pened yet. Mr. YOUNG can’t possibly change his purpose. It would involve stultification. Mr. ANDREWS can’t re- sign. That would imply a confession of unfitness. In this anomalous position we were sur- prised to see the other day that Mr. AN- DREWS bad been at the headquarters of the committee and was preparing for the work of the campaign. This opens up a field for all sorts of conjecture. It might indicate that Mr. YOUNG bad secretly ac- cepted the nominasion or it justifies the inference that the machine is indifferent to Mr. YOUNG'S actions. If the former con- jecture is the solution of the problem Mr. Youxa is trifling with the public. If the latter expresses the existing condition the managers are taking chances of ruinoas re- seutment. In either event all concerned in the affair are ‘‘between the devil and the deep sea.” Public interest in the matter is multi. plied, moreover, because opinions differed widely as to the reasons which influenced Mr. YOUNG to the course he adopted with respect to the notification meeting. Some thought it was a genuine expression of ab- horrence the methods of the wa- chine. construed itas a bid, with the consent of the machine, to the EE Forni, su © po. bad. Sa Fons - truth must come out. Either Mr. Youxa must decline or acknowledge the bluff or else Mr. ANDREWS must esign. They me. It's can’t fool all the le all the impossible. pp “STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. - BELLEFONTE, PA., AUGUST 3, 1906. The Only Safe Course. Io his admirable letter of acceptance, Lewis EMERY Jr., eays: ‘‘This State was the pioneer in the anti-discrimination movement. It was my privilege, more than a quarter of a century ago, to assist in wringing from the powers at Harris burg an aoti-discrimination law. The fight was long, bard and bitter. The peo- ple of the oil regions were being reduced to poverty and their property was being confiscated by a conspiracy between the Standard oil company, the Pennsylvania railroad company and the bosses. The act was not all that could be desired. The striking out of the imprisonment clause destroyed its effect and the relations exist- ing between the political machine and the corporations nullified the law in a great degree.” In that statement of an event of the past there is a startling admonition for the fa- tare. The Interstate Commerce law, Mr. EMERY observes, was modified in the same way and it may be predicted that the Ie. publican machine never will enact a re- form measure that isn’t similarly weaken- ed. Every provision of the reform legisla- tion enacted during the recent special ses- sion is practically nullified by gnalifice- tions whioh will either invalidate the pro- posed reforms or create a loophole for es- cape from its provisions. Less than a third will stand the test of judicial interpreta- tion and the third which might be declar- ed constitutional is weakened in some oth- er way. The purpose of the machine was pot to enact reform legislation bat to fool she people by a false pretense. You can’t paint the spots out ofa leop- ard and it is equally impossible to legislate honest impulses into the heart of a corrupt politician. A QUAY, DurHAM, or Mo- NICHOL may pretend to bave changed in nature, but it is a false pretense. The mo- ment the opportunity presents iisell he will resume his former habits of life with his appetite for spoils sharpened by the period of abstention. The remedy for such things is not to depend upon false promises of reform of the rascals but a com- plete cleaning out of them. The event of last fall was only a begin- ning. The election of the entire fusion tioket and a Legislature aggressively in sympathy with the reform movement is the only sale course. We believe, more- over, that the people understand and will act accordingly. Emery's Letter of Acceptance. The letter of acceptance of LEwis Ex. ERY Jr., is characteristic of the plain, blunt, manly man who is the anthor of it. Itis addressed to the obairman of the Demooratic State convention and that of the LINCOLN party convention. In the outset the modesty of the man is revealed. Though he has organized some of the most masterly campaigos in the history of the indostrial life of the country against the most powerful enemy that has ever been encountered by any force, the Standard Oil company, he declares that he wouldn’t have aspired to the office of Governor be- canse he doesn’s feel that he is equal to the exacting duties of so important an of- fice. The people of Pennsylvania think differently. In fact throughout the letter there are evidences of the highest standard of fitness, It shows not only a just conception of the duties of the office but a complete under- standing of the ways and means ofl per: forming them. It indicates that he is not unmindful of the responsibilities of the of- fice or unappreociative of the importance of meeting them. He proves that there is urgent need for the correction of grave evils in the body politic and declares in tone and language that carry conviction that he will apply the remedies. It re- quires courage as well as capacity to un- dertake this great work but after reading Mr. EMERY'S letter no intelligent man will doubt that be means to tackle the task. Mr. EMERY is candid in his letter of ac- ceptance as he is earnest in everything he engages in. He knows precisely what is before him and will meet every obligation. He didn’t seek the nomination but will work for the election, not because of am- bition for public service but for the reason that his duty to the public and his inclina- tion to conserve the interests of the peo- ple will urge him to the work. He is a splendid leader and if the people will sup- port him as they ought he will not only be elected by an overwhelming majority but be will inaugurate and prosecute such re- forms as will restore Pennsylvania to its high estate as ‘‘a government of the peo- ple, for the people and by the people.” ~—Talkicg about high class campaigns, the New Hampshire bustings next fall will be so full of literature that we imugine half of Boston will try to be colonized as voters in the Green Mountain State. WinstroN CHURCHHILL, the novelist, isa candidate for Governor, and RICHARD HarpING DAVIS is going to stump for him ; that is if the hetels of New Hamp- shire are fastidious enough for DICK. NO 380. The Purpose of Speaker Cannon. The announcement that Speaker Cax- NOX will spend a week in this State dur. ing the impending campaign, ‘‘stumping’’ for the Republican party, is a matter of in- terest to Mr. SAMUEL GOMPERS, president of the American Federation of Labor, and should cause all the members of that and every other labor organization to sit up and take notice. It is announced that Mr. CANNON is on the black-list of the labor organizations. It is known that he has not only opposed all labor legislation but that through the vast power of his office as speaker of the House, he has even pre- vented the consideration of such legisla- tion. He is the paid lobbyist of the trusts on the floor and was instrumental in emas- onlating the meat inspection bill to the ex- tent that it is practically worthless. Speaker CANNON is not coming to Penn: sylvania to electioneer for the machine state ticket. He doesn’t care a farthing about the machine state ticket. It is not that he is repulsed by the political immor- ality of the machine. He has no objection to the looting and other predatory opera- tions of the party managers. On the ocon- trary, he would like them better if they were worse. Bat he is one of that sordid, selfish sort who have thoughts for nobody but themselves and in coming to Pennsyl- vania he is coming to work for Republican candidates for Congress in order to secure their support for his re-election to the of- fice of speaker, to the end that he may ontinue his services for the trusts and acuinet the interests of the people, and ee- Tuesday and local piscatorinlists are now trying to figure out whether it was a good one or not. Though the opening day, April 15th, was not the most suspicions the catob was a good one but throughout the entire season big catches were the ex- ception rather than the rule. This was es. pecially the case on the streams close to Bellefonte. Fishing creek was the mecca for the majority of anglers and all those who went there and had the necessary amount of patience were invariably re- warded with a good catch. The trout were also quite plentiful in most of the mountain streams but they were not fish. ed as hard this season by Bellefonte fisher- men as they have been in former years. Taken all in all, there is no reason to be- lieve that trout are getting any scarcer, even if they are not becoming more plenti- fal. How Treasury Methods Have Been Improved. From the Philadelphia Record. It was the of the gang control of dd Treasury to tea lo peated Shes eats of thé. sated! Sen dis- tricts. The school m nag kept in the ; the p: vially the workingmen. mon schools shall be in part laid upon the {un his “Programme for the Campaign,” | broad shoulders of the State. To delay president GOMPERS, of the American Fed- disbarsement of the school a ons, when the money lies unused ury, is a fraud upon the taxpayers out of whose pockets the money bas been orig- inally obtained, ard a partial obstruction emtion of Labor, declares that labor has heen fruitlessly appealing to Congress for just legislation for years. That is true apd it is absolutely certain thatso long as oR hom patpos ot the law in JosgrH C. CANNON continues to ocoupy | The improved 4 of the Treas- the chair of the House of Representatives, | ury a ol now ha» has been their appeals for just legislation will be |W om the bands of the political pi- fruitless. He is paid by tke trusts for de- | Faieh who have heretofore farmed out the feating such legislation. It is equally cer- | their own fortunes, st tain, moreover, that as long as the Repub- men} jor licans have a majority in the House CAN- | 00Dir0 NON will be speaker. Obviously, there. | mentin the hands at fore, it is the duty of workingmen to vote againgt Republican candidates for Con- gress in this State, and CANNOXN'S coming makes is plain. fasion eoted in November. ‘a majority be also secured in the mext Leg- islatute, 50 matter Whether it be of one political party or another, the most benefi- cent consequences will have been assured. At present all the indications point to such a favorable result. EE —— A Humbug Appeal From the Johnstown Democrat. oh Ee Tp Sue: e Repu onal cam committee, has issued a circular requesting every Republican in the United States to subscribe $1 to aid in carrying on the work of his committee. This appeal for $1 subscriptions is a part of the game. It is put forth ptimatil for the purpose of hoodwinking the publ to the belief that Republican committees can no longer look to favored Solportions and combinations for financial aid. The appeal is a humbug. During the last month of the recent session of Con- gress a senate bill prohibiting national banks and Other Sorpe po money contributions for cam urpos- es was lying on the speaker's phir hg the House of tatives. Speaker Can- pon and Chairman Sherman, who spent last Monday with the President at Oyster Bay, ering plans for capturing the next House, were the head conspirators in smothering the Senate bill and in keeping the door open for campaign contributions from all tariff fattened trusts, and the cor- oats combines enjoying or seeking legis- tive favors. ~ Furthermore, it was Chairman Sherman himself, as a member of the House com- mittee on interstate commerce, who, a few days before the end of the session, intro duced a bill to compel all railroads doing an interstate business to put on sale mile- tiokets at the rate of two cents a mile hut the United States. Why did he introduce it if not for the purpose of using it as a big stick for obtaining cam- contributions to be dispersed or oth- utilized by his cam committee? The $1 subscription device is too gauzy to conceal the real money part of the Re- publican campaign. Simply Doing Their Duty. From the Springfield Republican. Tu attempting to defeat certain ess. men for on, the leaders of the American Federation of Labor are so com- Dletely within the commonly aco tioal rights of all citizens tt itics are wa J Mr. Rockerfeller Laughed. Mr. Joax D. ROCKERFELLER is jhome, and, according to the newspapers he laughed, on his arrival, when told thata warrant for his arrest bad been issued by an Ohio court. He had probably heard of the warrant before he left France and had plenty of time and leisure on ship] board to think ont a plan of action in the event that it was served upon him. Bat we can’t imagine why he should laugh abont it. A warrant of arrestis no joke. Toa sensitive and righs-feeling man, it is an as- persion, even though it bas been issued without canse. It implies a doubt of the integrity of the person against whom it is directed. Probably Mr. ROCKERFELLER laughed at the warrant for his arre.t because of his confidence of immunity against arrest. A man worth a billion or two is apt to imag- ine that he is beyond the reach of courts and feel an indifference to, if not a con- tempt for warrants of arrest. But if Mr. ROCEERFELLER laughed because of that notion in his head, he basn’t been watch- ing the progress of events in this country with hie cunstomary intelligence. The courts have been doing things, other tri- bunals have been acting and the people bave been thinking in a way that may make eveugliiionsires set up and take no- tice. The warrant in question was issued be- cause an investigation had shown that Mr. ROCKERFELLER, through his agents, bad been violating the law. Possibly Mr. ROCKERFELLER will be able to prove that he is free from responsibility in the mat- ter, but it is up to him to do so through the regular processes of the law. He can’t laugh it off any more than an ordinary criminal can dispose of accusations against him. At least we hope it is as impossible in one case as it would be in the other, and if it isn’ now it will be before long if there is no reaction in the public mind i with respect to public and private morals. | 3 ~The Republican senatorial conter- ence met at Philipsburg last Thursday but adjourned without making any nomi- pation. Henry C. Quigley Esq., of .this place, and Joseph W. Alexander, of Clear- field, were the two candidates before the conference and, although a number of bal- lote were taken, the conferees from each coubty stood solidly for their candidate, and the conference finally adjourned to meet again in Philipsharg on Thursday, August 9th. —There is considerable wonderment just now as to when those name plates for the soldier's monument will be completed and put in place. organ Whether the Feasons Spey Ofer in support ul teks campaign e en are obnoxious to them are ent is another question entirely. The voters of the re- speotive districts will determine the mat ter at the polls. ———— Knows Where His Is From the Cleveland Press. “Where is your gold ?"’ asked a New York paper. Don’t know where yours is, gainer, but most of us carry ours in our ———————————————. ——Subsoribe for the WATCHMAN. BER ~The trout fishing senson closed § on —Harry Williams was killed by light: — ’s school tax duplicate amounts to £43,853,16 this year, an increase of over $6,000 because of a raise in the tax of from 6to7 mills. : ~The Bedford county Agricultural society announces that it bas determined to conduct a poultry show in connection with its an- nual exhibit, beginning next October. —Jobnstown wants the government to erect a federal building there, but none of its citizens are willing to sell. property for that purpose for the sum the government offers. . ~Grasshoppers have appeared in such large quantities in the upper part of Lehigh county that the farmers in order to save their oats crop are compelled to harvest it before it is fully ripe. —The Keystone Coal and Coke company have sold their operations near Ginter to the Coxe Coal and Coke company, of Philadel- phis. William Shadrack has been retained by the new company as general manager. ~The Bittings lumber camp, twenty-four miles from Lock Haven, was struck by lightning Saturday afternoon and Mrs, Nellie Parsons, employed as a cook, was a victim of the bolt. He: life is despaired of. . =The twenty-first annual picnic and en- campment of the grangers of Bedford county will be held at Osterburg on Tuesday, Au. gust 21, and continue four days. Wednes- day will be Secret Society day and Thurs: day Grangers’ day. —Qrant Lewis, who through an attack of typhoid fever eleven years ago forgot he had a wife and family living at Shamokin, re: turned to his home Saturday and made ar. rangements to take his family to Chicago, where he now resides. —A Scranton dispatch says that John D. Lambert, of Keyser valley, shot Michael Rupp, 15 years old, while Rupp was picking apples in one of his trees. Lambert was ar rested and the boy, who has fifteen buckshot in his body, was taken to a hospital. ~Lewistown has the National Guard fever, according to a telegram sent out from there, which says that sixty-four men have signed the muster roll for a new company to take the place of company H, Fifth regi- ment, of Johnstown, recently mustered out of service, —Two weeks ago Miss Fannie Miller, a telephone operator in the Williamsport ex- change, was shocked by lightning and was afterward taken seriously ill. On Tuesday night she was operated on at the hospital in that city for the removal of an abscess from the brain which was caused by the shock. —A conspiracy having for its object the counterfeiting of the stamps of s trading stamp company in Philadelphia has been unearthed, as a result several men have been arrested. Officers of the company estimate that over 2,000,000 counterfeit stamps are in circulation and that more than £50,000 is involved. —Mrs. Thomas Manion, of Pottsville, ‘widow of a Reading railway conductor who was killed in a wreck, has been awarded the fall amount of her claim, $1,000, against the Penvsylvnnia Casualty company, of Scrap. ton. The company refused to pay the mon ey because the first and only premium was not paid by the insured himself. —On Saturday evening, July 14, the steam mill of Wilson & Maclay, located at Reeds- ville, Mifflin county, was destroyed by fire, together with 3,000 bushels of wheat, 200 barrels of flour, a quantity of corn and other grain. The cause of the fire was a stroke of lightning. The loss is estimatad at $20, 000, partly covered by insurance. —A horse owned by Grant Ogden, of Hill- side, a suburb of Clearfield, took fright and ran away last Thursday afternoon. The animal was going a good clip when it ran against a post and broke one of its legs. A in. young son of Ogden was in the wagon at the time and he was thrown out and bis left leg was broken. The horse was shot. —The council of the borough of South Fork is considering very seriously the mat- ter of erecting s municipal building at a cost of $7,000. According to the plans the first story would be devoted to the fire com- pany, while the office of the burgess and the council chamber would be on the second. There would be a hose tower and in this a clock. —State Economic Zoologist Surface is preparing to send to each county in the State for the use of its schools a collection of snakes found in Pennsylvania with a chart showing the food for the various serpents the ramifications of the snake family and the geographical distribution of the various species. The snakes will be used for educa. tional purposes so that the teachers and pu* pils may be able to recognize the varieties from there appearance whether they are poisonous or not. : —A. A. Miller, of Lock Haven, Saturday came from Queen's Run, Colebrook township with a can of hail stones gathered two hours previous, some of which measured an inch and a half in dia meter. At Renovo they fell still larger and one weighed on an apothe- cary’s scales is said to have approximated half a pound. The storm was destructive in Bald Eagle, Woodward and Dunnstable townships, and caused a loss of thousands of dollars to farmers. Tobacco, just ready for topping, was riddled, as many as twenty-one perforations being counted in one leaf. Corn was laid waste, pears and apples stripped from trees. —A fierce encounter between a ball and a horse on the farm of Abe McHenry, in Ben- ton township, Clinton county, on Wednes' day of last week resulted in the death of the horse, which was ripped so badly that it had to be shot. The two had been turned loose in adjoining barn yards snd in some manner a communicating gate became un- fastened and the horse proceeded over to the bull's enclosure. This raised the ire of the bull and he immediately charged the horse. The fight which followed was a terrific one. The bull was a deborned one, but he never- theless proved too much for his antagonist, for backing him into a corner he butted him so repeatedly that the under part of the horse's body was ripped open. Farm hands coming upon the scene drove the bull away ¢ Ara whiny but it was too late to save with pitchforke, but ft was te
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