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BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
~The present Board of Commissioners is
all righs. Re-elect DUNLAP and WEAVER,
—Get in line for Syrre for sherifl.
SMITH aod sheriff and sure all begin with
s and you can’t beat such an alliteration.
—Atlantio City survived last Sunday,
though probably some of the visitors there
would rather bave done without old
Atlantic than old man Booze.
—There are a great many reasons why
the present Board of Commissioners should
be retained bus the bess one of all is be-
couse they have reduced, not increased, the
county debs.
.—Neither Howard nor Snow Shoe make
a very large splotch on the map of the
country but the gentlemen from those
villages are cutting a pretty big dash in
the baseball world just now.
~The week of November 3rd will be old
home week in the Demooratic party. All
the old States that bave been going astray
during the past quarter of a century are
arranging to get back home and mother
Democracy is preparing to welcome them.
—Farmer JOHN MILLER is hustling for
the office of Treasurer and you know what
bustling means where JOHN is concerned.
He is #0 pleasant and genial that everyone
becomes a friend and already there seems
$0 be nothing to that contest but MILLER.
—Ioocidentally, the Gazette acknowl-
edges this week that the millage in Centre
county was raised from three to five to pay
debts contracted by a Republican Board of
Commissioners. We hasten to note this
evidence that the Gazette is trying to be
honest.
—The Vermont election on Tuesday
resalted in the Democrats gaining a mem-
ber in the State Senate, the first one we
bave had for several years. While the
gain was small it must be remembered
that a corresponding gain in several of the
dounbtiul States in the fall will give them
to BRYAN.
—A doughons exploded at Coalburg,
Ohio, on Monday, and pearly killed Mrs,
WONDERLICH, the baker. Coalburg wise-
acres are speculating now as to whether it
was the dough or the hole that exploded
and if it is proven to have been the latter we
will probably have a seige of hole-less
doughnuts.
‘—It is looking better and better for
BRYAN. The prospects are steadily grow-
at Toledo yesterday and this little in-
cident will make Ohio Democrats shake in
their boots.” Is that so? Handshakiog
isn’t always what it appears to be. For
instance, JIM JEFFERIES always shakes
hands with his victims immediately before
the fight begins.
—The contrivance which bas just been
patented whereby a woman's waist can be
fastened in the back by simply pulling a
string will be a great boon to many poor
husbands whose wives are dressy and
can’t afford a maid, but there is another
class of husbands who would bail with de-
light the advent of a contrivance whereby a
woman’s tongue could be fastened by
simply pulling a string.
—Thiuk of it and ponder well over the
wonderful things science has done for bu-
manisy, but the most wonderful of all ie
the latest announcement of Dr. LAWRENCE
FLicK that in fifteen years the entire
country can be freed {rom consumption.
And Dr. FLICK is neither a quack nor a
blatherskite. He is the founder of White
Haven and has done the world a service
that it will never forges.
—J ust ous of a sick bed on which he has
been for nearly four months candidate
Gro. W. WEAVER has started his canvass
for Register. He may not be able to get
to see you soon, or at all, but bear in mind
that he is a good, clean, competent young
sohool teacher whose loss of an arm leaves
only a few avenues of support open to him.
This office is one of them and you will
make no mistake in voting for him.
—It any one oan advance a single reason
why Mr. TAYLOR should be elected to
represent this county in the Legielature we
would like to hear it. He bas no equip-
mens, whatever, for such an office and his
desire to bave it must be prompted by
something else than a knowledgejthat he
oan properly represent Centre county in
Harrisburg. Personally we regard Mr.
TAYLOR as a friend, but he isn’t fit for the
office and there is no uee mincing matters
in saying so.
—The time has come when the people of
Centse county must be up and doing il
they wish to defeat very well and deep
laid plans to send R. B. TAYLOR to the
Legislature. Part of the plan is to manipu-
late both the Democratic and Republican
parties in his interest and then if he should
pull through, there is to be one head to
both parties in this county, of course,
under cover, that will dictate nominations
and force elections wherever possible.
Before the campaign has progressed much
farther we will be able to reveal the whole
goheme the impudence of which will be as
astounding to the better olass of Republicans
of the county as it will be to the Demoo-
racy, that thinks and votes for itself.
R
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* spawls from the Keystone,
—Huntingdon county is equally divided
be tween farm or improved land. According
to the latest assessment the farm lands ag-
gregated 221,787 acres and the timber lands
221,050 acres,
~The Juniata County Agricu Itural society
will hold its fair at Port Royal September 8,
9, 10 and 11. Fine horse races each day. An
excellent military band will furnish musie
during the fair.
—Rainsburg, Bedford county, has nine
OL. 53
Judge Taft's Falacies.
Judge TAFT is almost absurdly illogical
in his reasoning in bebalf of his own elec-
tion. Ina speech delivered while on his
way to Bass Island, io Lake Erie, the other
day, he said that the Republican party
must be retained in power in order to re-
store prosperity. ‘‘For twelve years,” he
added, ‘‘we have been enjoying a pros-
perity never before equaled in the world.”
But for one year wa bave been suffering
from a business paralysis never before
equaled in the world which proves shat the
previons prosperity was in spite rather than
because of the Republican policies. There
was no famine, no pestilence, no calamity
ot any! kind. ‘The crops were bountiful
and the people industrious. In the midst
of this plenty, however, the worst panio of
our history came upon us.
Mr. TAFT nor no other man can deny
that this industrial scourge was the result
of the vicious policies of the Republican
party. Mr. VANCLEAVE, president of the
National Association of Manufacturers, de-
olared in Washington, lass winter, that the
excessive tarifl taxes robbed the industrial
life of the country of one million dollars
every day of the year. That was an under.
estimate bus it means a loss to the wage-
earners of the country of $365,000,000, an-
pually. In the twelve years of which
Judge TAPT speaks, therelore, there was
stolen, by a process made legal by Repub-
lican policies which he endorses, $4,380,-
000,000, which was donated as unearned
bounties to the multi-millionaires whe con.
trol the trusts and manipalate the values of
all products and property.
That Judge TAFT is aware of this iniquity
is proved by his own mouth. Before he
became a candidate for President (be re.
peatedly protested against tariff spoliation.
He deelared in speech and essay that this
robbery of the people was infamous. Bus
pow that he needs a pars of the tainted
wealth for the purpose of bribing the voters
of the country, he has adopted the cpposite
view of the subject and protested in his
speech of acoeptavce that while the tarifl
of she pe
with bis party though he knows it’s wrong.
It requires no familiarity with figures to
prove that taxation does not create wealth
and prosperity depends upon the addition
to material resources. Mr. Tarr will
hardly olsim shat a man is pecuniarily
benefitted his pocket is pioked or his
house burglarized or burned. Such in-
cidents take from rather than add to his
possessions. It ie no advantage to him,
either, and in no respect mitigates the loss,
if he is doped or saud-bagged into insensi-
bility in order shat the operation may be
without his knowledge. The money taken
out of his pockes or the cash and property
taken from his house by the piok-pocket or
burglar is a loss whatever process is em-
ployed in getting it away. And precisely
the same is true of money stolen under the
pretense of protective tariff.
The Dignity of the Uniform.
Several sailors in service on a govern-
ment vessel stationed at Oyster Bay were
refused admission to a dancing pavilion,
the other evening and one Philadelphia
newspaper headed the account of the in-
cident with she line *‘Ban on Ro0OSEVELT'S
Jackies.” Another newspaper of that oiy,
a trifle more familiar with Chatbam street
terms and manners, headed it ‘‘President’s
Tars Barred from Dance.” Thus the oon-
temptible, sycophantio spirit which is in-
fluencing ROOSEVELT to believe that he
owns the country is cultivated. One of
these newspapers pretends to be Demo-
oratio. The other inferentially admits thas
it has no principles. .
The ethical question involved in the al-
fair is of no consequence. It has become a
habit of late years for men enlisted in the
army or navy of the United States to ob-
trude themselves under the belief that there
is something sacred about the uniform.
RoosgvELT has encouraged this absurd
notion, probably with the idea that it would
add to his reputation for patriotism, which
a distinguished writer has declared is “the
last refuge of a scoundrel.” But whether
that is true or otherwise, it has not taken
a firm place in the intelligence of the pub-
lie. It only works among the servile and
sycophantio.
Persons who conduct amusements at the
resorts in this country have an absolute
right to make rules for the conduot of their
places which all others must obey. If a
rale has been established that no man in
uniform is admitted, it applies equally to
soldiers of the army, sailors of the navy,
policemen and hotel porters. One bas just
as much right to claim exemption from the
rule as the other and instead of kicking np
a row about the indignity to the uniform
the authorities ought to punish the ol-
fenders for forcing their way into com-
panies in which they are not wanted. That
would be the real way of preserving the
dignity of the uniform.
: for the Great Commoner.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
The Pennsylvania Democracy.
The. Democrats of Harrisburg who are in
sympathy with the State organization bave
taken steps to revive the admirable Central
Club which in the baloyon days of Demoe-
racy was ao important [actor in the poli-
tios of she State capital. The organization
Demoorats of Colombia county have or
gevized a club under the inspiration of
such sterling Demoorate as Hon. JOHN
G. McHExRY, Representative in Con-
gress, Hon. JoEN G. HARMAN, member
of she state exeoutive committee, and Dr.
J. H. MERCER, chairman of the county
committee of that county. In Philadel
pbia, Pittsburg, Norristown aud other
places the organization Democrats are ao-
tive in the work of for the
election. In fac it looks like a revival of
the old pti spirit in Pennsylvania.
Man the Demoorats of Penusylva-
pia are gesting ready to poll a record vote
for BRYAN and KERN this fall. Chairman
DIMELING has engaged in the contest with
an energy and enthusiasm which promises
splendid results. Colonel JaMEs M. GUF-
FEY is invoking every available expedient
to bring out a full vote and the old war
horses are emerging from their seclusion,
soenting the battle from afar, and moving
forward toward the fight. The state com-
mittee is tireless in the work and . fall of
energy and zeal. Neither labor nor time
will be spared and the matter of expense
for legitimate work will out no figure.
The Democratic organization of Pennsyl-
vania will prove its fidelity to the Demo-
oratic principle of majority rale, this
year.
We are not indalging the hope of sarry-
ing Pennsylvania for Mr. BRYAX. The
people of Pennsylvania, like Epbriam of
old, are joined to their idols and if Speaker
CANNON or SAM SALTER had been nomi-
pated instead of TAFT the result would
have been thesame. Bat the Democratic
energy and enthusiasm will not be wasted.
We will gain one or two Congressmen, as
many State Senators and twenty-five Rep-
resentatives in the Legislature. That
achievement will make no difference in the
electoral vote of the State, -probably, but
Political Comedinns of Pennsylvania.
We are gravely informed that the LIN-
coLN Republicans of Pennsylvania are pre-
paring to ‘‘ges busy”’ right away, now, for
the purpose of preventing the re-election of
Boies PENROSE as Senator in Congress.
The notion that Mr. PENROSE is morally,
or in some other respeot, unfit to represent
this State in the “highest legislative body
in the world,’’ bas bzen exhumed and is to
be reanimated. Ninety per cents. of the
Republican candidates for the Legislature
are avowedly for PENROSE, but that makes
no difference to the goody-goody gentlemen
who compose the LINCOLN party. Oppos-
ing PENROSE in this barmiess way will
keep them in the lime light aod that is
the paramount purpose of their lives.
The plans of the LiNcoLN partyfleaders
have not been divalged as yes, further than
the announcement referred to reveals them,
but it is a safe conjecture that Mr. MAL-
coLM KLINE, Mr. VIVIAN GABLE, Mr.
WILLIAM TILDEN, Mr. NiLEs, Mr. EMERY
and a few others will ‘‘make suoots’ at
chairman ANDREWS, Senator McNICHOL
and the other regular leaders fora few
weeks and then turn in and help get out
a big vote for the legislative candidates
who will vote for PENROSE next January.
Mr. EMERY and his friends may goso far
as to apply some epithets to
opprobrious 0
Senator PENROSE. But that will be the
limit of their opposition. When PENROSE
wants them he summons them with a kick
and they acoeps service uncomplainingly.
The time to have put Senator] PENROSE
ont of business was last fall when he was
striving to ges back the control of the State
Treasury, and unless the LINCOLN party
leaders are incurable paretios they must
have known that. But they not only sup-
ported Mr. PENROSE'S candidate but de-
liberately perverted facts and criminally
misrepresented conditions to promote his
election. Not only that but at the Re-
publican Natiodal convention in Chicago
in June of this year, Mr. Lewis EMERY,
Jr., voted for PENROSE for chairman of
Pennsylvania delegation and member of the
national committee for the State, thus in-
creasing bis power over the political affairs
of the State. The LINCOLN party men are
miserable mollycoddles.
— The large barn and outbuildings on
the farm of Rev. John Mattern, up Bald
Eagle, were entirely destroyed by fire last
Thursday night. The farm was occupied
by Benjamin Aikey as tenant farmer
and while be eaved all his stock
with the exception of two calves, all bis
orops, farming implements, eto, were
destroyed. Insurance was carried on both
the barn and contents but the exact amount
could not be learned.
Js will
NTE, PA., SEPTEMBER 4, 1908.
Taft Will Take the Stump.
That the Republican campaiga managers
are less confident of the result of the elec-
tion than they pretend, is revealed in the
anncuncement that Mr. TAFT “will stamp
the doubtfal States.” A few weeks ago
the public was confidently assured that
there were no doubtful States except two
or three in the South, The eastern, and
western, and northein and middle States
were “‘solid for Mailhooley,”’ they declar-
ed. There is nothing to do, they added,
inferentially, but cast the votes and cele-
brate the victory. They seem to have ac-
quired some later information, however.
Now they not only admit that shere are
doubtfal States but that they are so un.
comfortably doubtful thas the best energies
will be necessary to secure them.
In the beginning of the campaign we
were promised a charmingly dignified and
“lady-like"” continuous performance.
Judge TAFT was to take an eligible seat
on his comfortable front porch and {wel-
come, with “the smile that never comes
off,” the millions of pilgrims to that Ohio
Mecca. Mr. BRYAN could smashidignity
into smithereens if he wanted to, but TAFT
never would dream of such vandalism.
Perish the thoughs. The high standard of
dignity ses by ROOSEVELT was 10 be main
tained at any hazard and the people who
are yearning to hear the melody of his
throat could go to Cincinnati or to a place
expressed In a “‘shorter and uglier word.”
Bat ‘‘a change bas come over the spirit of
their dreams.”
The new program which will be official-
ly anoounced within a few days makes
TAFT the central figure of a series of meet-
ings to be held in New York, New Jersey,
Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota,
Wisconsin and the Dakotas. The signs are
that all these States are uncertain and the
false pretense of a hope of carrying a few
southern States has been abandoned be-
cause it fooled nobody. TAFT will not only
take the stamp but he will invoke all the
arts of the demagogue and the arguments
of a pettyfogger to make his ‘‘stampiog’’
effective. Mr. BRYAN'S friends willfoot
be stampeded by the fact, however. If
ge au itinerary that would
he same communities the
Beginning with this week every depart-
ment at The Pennsylvania State College
was opened and activities resumed in mak-
ing preparations for the opening of ooilege
on Thursday, September 17¢h. There are
in the neighborhood of two hundred stu-
dents already on the ground either making
up back studies or getting in shape for the
opening examinations. From present in-
dications the Freshman class this year will
be close on to five hundred, while a total
attendance of over twelve hundred is ex-
pected. A number of changes will be noted
at the opening of the first semester. A
number of new heads of departments have
been secured for various vacancies and the
sohool this year will be better equipped
in its faculty corps than eve: before. Dar-
ing the summer much progress bas been
made on the construction of a number of
pew buildings, among which is the new
ladies cottage. This is about completed
and will be ready for occupancy this fall.
Work on the new athletio field is pro-
gressing rapidly and the big plot of ground
is now leveled off and the drainage eystem
installed underground. The field is of
immense proportions and when completed
will be one of the largest in the country.
Is will contain several baseball diamonds,
two football fields, lacrosse field and tennis
courts as well as a quarter mile rooning
track with a 220-yards straightaway. The
track hogse will be moved to the new field
until'a new house can be erected. When | Por.
the grounds are completed they will con-
tain all the necessary equipment for all the
athletic teams of the school, as wellasa
Jarge gymnasium and olab house anda
new track house. The work is requiring
an immense outlay of money.
~The farmere of Centre county are oer-
tainly in luck this year. They have had a
big crop of wheat, a fair one of oats, all the
fruit they can handle with the corn orop
showing up about the usual average ; and
now reports from over the county show that
the clover seed orop is going to be one of
the biggest in years. Hon. J. W. Kepler,
who was in Bellefonte Wednesday night,
said thas he had just one hundred bushels
of clover seed while plenty of farmers in
the connty have from ten to fifty bushels,
and a few from filty up. When the fact is
taken into consideration that clover seed is
pow worth five dollars a bushel it can
readily be seen that the Centre county crop
this year means considerable money in the
farmer’s pockets,
— Pensioners will be interested in ad.
vioes just sent out from Washington stat-
ing that pension vouchers may hereafter be
returned to their respective agency
witlious the payment of postage thereon,
snoh being the ruling of Postmaster Gener-
al Meyer.
cases of typhoid fever, two of which are
quite eritical. Samples of water have been
analyzed by the health department at Har-
risbarg and pronouneed pure, and the cause
of the epidemic is not known.
~The towns slong the Pennsylvania rail-
road on the mountain are feeling the effects
of the water famine which has heid the
mountain section in its grasp. South Fork
is the latest town to be caught in the drouth
and the Pennsylvania Railroad company is
furnishing the town with water.
—Benjamin Landis, of near Middleton,
Dauphin county, has not spoken to any one
for thirty years, because the girl he loved
jilted him and married another man. Her
busband was killed in a railroad accident
sixteen years ago and she lives near the Lan.
dis home, but he never speaks to her.
—At a meeting of the Business Men's asso~
ciation, ot Lock Haven, held on Friday
evening, which was largely attended, it was
decided to begin an sggressive campaign
against those parties in that city and vicin.
ity, who make a practice of obtaining goods
on eredit with no intention of paying.
—The Orbisonia Water compang has com-
pleted its line from Sandy Ridge to the town
and people are now ready to have water
placed on their premises provided the rates
are not made too high. The water comes
from fine springs at an elevation of over 300
feet above the town, and is soft and pure.
—QColonel William J. Gleen, aged 68 years,
Mr. Taft's Real BMeasure.
From the Pittsburg Post.
Senator LaFollette is reported, perbaps
Jerely oe pledging support to the Repub-
lican et, bat as purporiog #0 ‘‘lambast
Bras ot anopane fash Ponts
ng the to
and the flight wonld nos be esncocessfal.
People believe in anchorage of a platform.
But Mr. LaFollette’s reputed attitude ie
somewhat corroborated by the tend of
Republican organs to discard their t-
form and assert she issue is Tals versus
Bryan in their personalities.
Mr. Taft primarily is an exhibit. He is
an artificial creation whose making involv-
ed the prostitution of every prinoiple of
oivil service reform his master ever pro-
fessed. He has never experienced a tess of
a popular ballot, and is devoid of all
lative capacity. His father was a public
fanctionary, and through ancestral in-
fluence and family wealth be bas
daring 23 years into a bureaucrat of un-
interrn career. As a ‘‘profound”
jurist his chief notoriety rests upon injunc-
tion writs, for whose issue he bas apol-
ogized ever since the executive taxidermist
began to staff him for the canvass. He
does not figure as such in the legal or other
publications by reference to him or im
sion made. has been desori ad
‘“jpsular snd military.”
Wo is Eis peluise be on formerly commander of the Fourteenth regi.
to misrepresent, according $0 his sole re. | ment, National Guard of Pennsylvania, was
found dead in bed at his home in Carnegie,
near Pittsburg, on Wednesday morning. He
had been choten as chief marshal for Car-
negie’s Old Home Week parade, on Wednes~
day.
~The trustees of the Blairsville college for
women have adopted plans for the erection
of a new building to take the place of the
present structure at Blairsville at a cost of
$125,000. It is to be equipped with all mod-
ern college conveniences and will have a mu-
sic hall, chapel to seat 500, woman's parlor,
library, dining room, class rooms, drill hall,
swimming pool and dormitories.
—Three young men of Clearfield were ar-
rested last Thursday for trespass at the park
because they jumped over the fence during
the progress of a base ball game between
Suow Shoe and Orvis clubs, in order to save
the payment of the admission fee. When
taken before the justice they pleaded guilty,
which saved them some humiliation, and
paid the five and costs, amounting to $10.
—While a stranger was eating at the
lunch counter at the St. James hotel, DuBois,
on Thursday morning some particles of
steak lodged in his windpipe and he was
strangled to death. Papers found in his
| pockets indicated that he was H. M. Hayes,
¥ oof th soldiers’
home of Tennessee, and had been of com-
pany I, Third regiment Maryland cavalry.
—At Williamsport a pile of stones is kept
in the prison yard by the city authoritieg
and whenever men arrested in the city for
petty offenses are sentenced to pay a fine,
and in default of payment must undergo an
imprisonment, they are put to work to break
the stones, in order to earn their fine. The
finely broken stones are used for macadamiz.
ing streets and alleys.
—To protect their fields, their berry
patches and their live stock from hunters,
berry pickers and other trespassers, a num.
ber of the leading farmers of Derry town-
ship, Westmoreland county, organized them.
selves into the Farmers’ Protective}jassocia~
tion and will have a common fund with which
to prosecute trespassers, aud all prosecutions
will be brought in the name of the associa~
tion.
—Ten thousand dollars damages is asked
by Howard Sornberger, son of Frederick
Sornberger, of Williamsport, who on the
evening of June 9 last came into contact
with a live wire on Park avenue, Williams-
port, and received injuries whichjnearly re-
sulted in his death. Suit against the Lycom.
ing Electric company for that amount was
instituted Wednesday morning by J. F.
Strieby and W. H. Holloway, Esq., attorneys
for the plaintiff.
—While standing st the bottom of a
twenty foot well which he was {digging at
Nant-y-Glo, Elmer Gore met a terrible
death on Thursday when a quantity of ex-
plosives went off under his feet. His body
was hurled almost to the top of the well and
fell back down on the rock surface in a mass
of multilated human flesh. A fellow work
man who was at the top of the well harried
down to give his companion assistance, but it
was too late. Gore was a coal miner, aged
about 45 years, and has a family living at
Gallitsan,
~8ykesville, a mining hamlet in Jefferson
liance upon the party cans. His accription
of ie pani pt Li $0 aio bill
se en m ignorant or
the wiltally pervers. Hie discussion of
the tariff proves a shallowness in economio
study even more cogently than it exposes a
miserable recanting of the views
he expressed at Bath. As to the bank
guaranty system, he accepts ready-made
objections and flounders in a mire of weak
argament. He has oreated the unerri
judgment of the e that he lacks all
original statesmanship, has ever been the
meek follower, the patient slave of the
desk, the mouthpiece of master minds.
Let the personal debate continue.
t Sm ———
Bryan's Chances,
From the Altoona Times.
What are Bryan's chances for election ?
That he is much stronger with the Demo-
oratic rank and file than he was four years
ago was evident at Denver.
Has his strength ivoreased outside the
Demooratic party ? Henry Watterson
thinks it bas. He is not much of a Bryan
man, but be thinks that the laster is
“stronger than ever,’’ and has a munch bet-
ter chance so win.
Woniinin Literature points out
eotion eight years ago, w
was defeated woh any Jn
sional aj onment, wh es
ita change in the electoral college. In
the new apportionment the south ba¢
gained ten votes and the north has gained
twenty-six, seven of which are in the
Democratic state of Oklahoma. It requires
243 votes in the electoral college to win.
The solid south wounld supply 159 of these.
Oklahoma can supply seven more. That
would leave Bryan short 67 votes.
Elmer Dover, secretary of the Republican
national committee, thinks that the middle
tates are to be the real battleground in
this campaign.
If Bryan can capture Ohio and Iudiava,
and also the six western states which gave
him a majority in 1896, namely, Idaho,
Montana, South Dakota, Wyoming, Utah
and Washington, he can win, provided he
oan hold the solid south, which he did not
hold in 1900.
“Look at it how you will,” says the
New York Evening Post, ‘‘New York is
practically indispensable to the success of
any Demoorat this year.”’ It thinks, how-
ever, that even Bryan’s stoutest opponent
ay as well frankly admit that he basa
nee.
All the Bogies Disposed Of.
From the Washington Hearld.
Mr. Bryan has countered effectively
upon the socialistic bogy that is brought
forward at every elation to confuse and
prejadice the minds of the voters. The
publio can no longer be frightened into
by declarations that this, that or
other thing ie socialism ; yes Republii-
oan writers and 8 still oling to the
potion that they havea potent campaign
argument in the assertion, to quote from
their national platform that * trend of
De is toward socialism.” Mr.
Bryan ies to this that the Demooratio
y adheres to its ancient faith in indi-
singe
Br,
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He shows that these county, is excited over the reported discov-
tions, essentially socialistic in their nature | ery of gold-bearing dirt at a depth of 35
and tendency, have been built up by the | feet. Drillers on tho lot of Daniel Wise
Republican policy of protection, the Mower | were boring for water, and atis shallow
migh gon depth struck such a strong flow of gas that
to say that protection i is istio
rather than otherwise, inasmuch as it pre. | the well had to be plugged. It is the only
tends to guarantee high to labor | 88s well in that district. Wise had the
and what Mr. Taft calls ‘‘a reasonable | drillers bore again near the first hole, and
profis to the employer.” work came to a sudden stop when Wise, who
TT is an old prospector, found what he believed
Grangers Need Wilson. to be pay dirt. Samples are being analyzed,
From the Williamsport San. and pending a report rea! estate in the vi-
cinity is held at high figures.
—On Friday evening four children were
playing under empty freight cars on a
Pennsylvania railroad siding at Ramey,
Clearfield county, when an engine with
other cars was sent on the siding to move all
the cars. The children were not observed
by the crew and all four were injured. An-
nie Hirchak, aged 2 years, had a band
crushed ; Peter Hirchak, aged 6, hand and
leg crushed ; John Keesb, 4 years 8 months,
both legs and hand crushed, and Julia
Nevisky, 3 years, sustained a crushed leg,
was otherwise injured and in the most critie.
al condition. The injured children were
taken to the Cottage State hospital at
Philipsburg on a special train,
The Blossburg Advertiser, speaking for
Tioga county—whioh is claimed to be the
banner Grange county of Pennsylvania—
congratulates the G s of that county
and the state on the fact that they have
William B. Wilson as a member of con-
gress, ‘‘He is in congress at a very .
tune time,’’ says the Advertiser, Rast
when the granges of this county, state and
nation bave a bill before congress involy-
ing the very life of the organization.” And
very wisely, too, the Advertiser concludes
that it would be only the exercise of com-
mon prudence to see that Mr. Wilson is re-
tarned to con that he may be on
hand, with bis knowledge of the his
talent and energy, and his high order of
legislative ny to represent
Grange in ite fight for ite interests.
the