Donor itor. 8Y PP. GRAY MEEK. —Tomorrow will be the last day on which you can pay your taxes in time to vote. ~The fair next week. Let us hope that it will be fair. —Will Mr. BERT TAYLOR vote for PEN- ROSE if elected to the Legislature? Of course he will! Won’t you BERT, —Tell us ove good reason why BERT TavLOR should te elected to the Legisla- ture and we will tell you a dozen why he should nos. —'‘MEYER ought to get every vote in Halfmoon,” said a Stormstown voter on Wednesday, ‘‘because we haven't got a re in the whole township.” —JoHN MILLER is going to be the next Treasurer of Centre county ; that is, if there is no Providential interference. He ie the man who will fill the bill, she peo- ple know it and are going to vote for him, —Notwithetanding the great blessing in the copious showers of Monday there is no denying the fact that the one day of gloomy weather made most of us forget the six weeks of continnous sunshine previous to it. —A Luzerne county farmer bas a hen that lays black eggs, and the query is has she been feeding on some of President BAER’S black diamonds or is she the victim of a midnight raid by some colored gentle- man. ~—DUNLAP and WEAVER are standing on their record and they need have no fear in doing so. They bave run the county in an economical manner and bave reduced the county debs, so what more need be ex- peoted of good officials. ~—Farmer FRED SMITH asks you to sup- port him becanse he is just the kind of a man who will make a good sheriff. He has been a hard worker all his life and enjoys the esteem of his neighbors in his home township of Rush. Mr. SMITH isa Gran- ger and has been interested in agrioulture from hi¢ boyhood so his candidacy should appeal to every farmer in Centre county. —A los of people have the idea thas they are their own bosses. It isnota bad one at that. They are the people whom BERT TAYLOR classes as be- cause they won't take orders and vote for him for the Legislature. Happily BRRT'S saying so don’s make shem so and they are goiug to vote for MEYER just the same, whether BERT has them in the little book we told you about last week or not. Weakened by months of serious illness and farther incapacitated by that missing arm, candidate GEORGE WEAVER is doing the best he can to get around to see the voters. He is a clean oat, intelligent school teacher, but is woefully off physic- ally, so if you can do anything for him, do it. Help his candidacy for Register along | ae much as you can. He is doing the best | for himself, but he needs your help. Don’t withhold is. —We devote considerable espace on cur first page this week to au editorial from the New York Sun. Coming from a Re- publican paper of such eminence it should carry conviction to the minds of all of our readers that the WATCHMAN has never | heen very far off when it has branded ROOSEVELT a8 the prince of fakirs and the most consummate humbug this coantry | has ever permitted to sit in the presiden- | tial chair. —If Mr. ROOSEVELT is the President of these United States what business has he | to be mixing up in politics. It is strange | that neither postmaster HARTER nor rev- { enue collector REES are permitted to take | an active part in politios yet the I'resident and all of his cabinet are getting down al- | most to the taotics of gutter-suip politi. | cians. Strange, iso’t it, an administration | that says to one class of men you dare uot | and to itself, do as we please. | —Don’t let any one make you believe | that it is not an important master to bave | an infelligent man in the office of Recorder | of deeds, because it is. If you have ever | bad any experience with the law you will | appreciate how expensive and troublesome | even the most trifling mistake in the prep- | aration of a legal paper may become and | for that reason in particular we urge you | to vote for Musser for Recorder. He is the better qualified for the office and you | take fewer chances with him. | ~—Politios in the county have been quiet | daring the past week. We haven’t heard ! much except that there is an overwhelm- | ing trend of sentiment toward MEYER and | it is growing every day. The people of | Centre county can be trusted to choose be- | tween the right and the wrong man. They | are not to be fooled nor browbeaten and | when oertain persons attempt to bully them into voting for TAvLOR they very properly resent it. This is not a campaign of threats. It is one of common sense and that is the reason MEYER sentiment is growing. —1It is not so be wondered at if she peo- ple of Pennsvalley don’t enthuse very much over the Republican county ticket. Ot all the important offices named on the Republican ticket Pennsvalley hasn't a single representative. From Ferguson through to Haines township there is bus one representative on the ticket consequently the south-side of the county doesn’s feel much interest in a campa in whioh is bas no representation. And that is one of the reasons that MUSSER and the two WEAVERS will get such a large vote on that side. | organization. VOL. 53 Party Leadership Compared. The retirement of Governor HASKELL, of Oklahoma, from the office of treasurer of the Democratic National committee, ah- solves the Democratic party from responsi. bility for him in any respect. It is only jost to say that none of the charges against him have been proved. It is only fair to add that the attack of President ROOSEVELT upon his character was one of the most dastardly incidents of the polit. ical history of she country. It shows thas no man is safe from that malicions tradac- er and mendacions scandal monger. Bus such charges, coming from such a source could not be ignored, even though their falsity was obvious. The office must be respected even though ite powers are being prostituted and there was no alternative except the resignation of HASKELL, In view of this action on the part of Governor HASKELL, however, what steps will the Republican leaders take toward purging their party of men of character and actions which unfit them for public service? Four years ago President Roosg- VELT implored E. H. HARRIMAN to loot the treasuries of railroad and insuravce corporations in order to get money to huy votes for him and promised to allow HAR. RIMAN to edit his message to Congress in consideration of that sinister service. Even it the worst that has been said against HASKELL were true he is a monument of probity and patriotism as compared with RoosevVELT. In view of this is ROOSEVELT to remain an important figure in the cam- paign? Is the moral sense of the public to be outraged by the presence of such a political pirate in the leadersiiip of a party? Five or six years ago GEORGE R. SHEL. DON, a Wall street promoter asso- ciated with CHARLES M. ScHWAB, and others, organized the Shipbuilding trust by buying the Bethlehem Steel company at $3,000,000 and capitalizing it at $30,- 000,000. Procaring the endorsement of J. PIERPONT MORGAN they then sold this water-soaked stock to the eredulous public and let the oorporation default. Sobse- quently they were sammoned into court and after a stubborn fight were oempelled to make restitation or go to the peniten- tiary. They bad no alternative because the proceedings were in State courts and ROOSEVELT had no power to call off the prosecution. SHELDON is now treasurer of the Republican National committee aod is collecting tainted funds from his Wall street associates to purchase votes for TAFT. Are the people going to make fish of one party aud flesh of the other? We agree that HASKELL never ought to have been made treasurer of the Democratic National committee and that it woold have been better for the parsy if he had not in any way projected himeelf into the Democratic But he is infinitely fister for that or any other office of trast or post oy honor than either ROOSEVELT or SHELDON and in remaining conspicuously in the Re- publican organization they are outraging the public morals of the country. Has. KELL has gone, He is probably a sacrifice | to the malice of ROOSEVELT and the in- iquity of HEaARsT. Bas he is out of the Democratic organization and that party ap- peals to the people with olean skirts. The Republicans, on the other band, are smell. ing to high heaven with the putridity of their leadership. Walker's Candidacy for Congress, The campaign for Congress in this dis- triot is on in earnest and both W. Har. RISON WALKER Esq., of this place, she Democratic candidate, and Hou. CHARLES F. BARCLAY, of Sinvamahoning, the Re. publican candidate, are down to bard werk every day. So far the indications are that Mr. WALKER bas a little the best of the argument, notwithstanding the fact that the districs is so largely Republican. There is a large amount of dissatisfaction with Mr. BarcLay throughout the entire district, and the one big reason for it is that he has been entirely too sabservient to the dictates of PENROSE. During the two years that BARCLAY has represented this distriot in Congress it is charged against bim by members of his own party that he did not make a single recommendation for an appointment of postmaster on his own responsibility, but allowed PENROSE to name the man who would prove the most useful to him in his own political aspi- rations. Aud even io doing this many an old soldier was surned down and a political pigmy given the appointment. This is the condition of affairs in every county in the district and in Clearfield county, especially, the members of his own party are so wrought up over it that even Republicans are now declariug that W ALK- ‘ER will carry that county. And what is trae of Clearfield county is true of Centre, Cameron, his home county, and McKean. On she other band Mr. WALKER is making friends and gaining new support every day. He is a man better equipped intellectually to represent this distriot in Congress than Mr. BAarcrAy, and in him she people wounld know they have a man who would take dictation from no political loss, The Shame and the Remedy. Justice ELKIN of the Supreme oourt of Pennsylvania is also involved in the Stand- aid Oil scandal. He, too, appealed to the Standard Oil company for help in an emer- gency. Couogressman CASSELL, the enter- prising contractor for furnishing steel furni- tare and space at labuloas prices was in the shadow of defeat and W. W. GrEIst, who is now a candidate to succeed CASSELL, was in political trouble and ELKIN interceded for them at the vital point. ELKIN was the fittest man in the State to perform this service. PENROSE could have accomplish- ed the result, no doubt, for the Standard Oil company always wants legislative pro- tection. Bat it had pleaty of friends in the Senate and PENROSE was all right anyway. Justice ELKIN was practically assured of a seat on the Supreme court bench. With the machinery for fraud in Philadelphia and Pistsharg in perfect working order he couldn’s have heen beaten if half she hon- est Republicans of the State had voted against him. Nobody had a olearer under- standing of the political conditions than JoHN D. ArcHBOLD. He was as depend- able in that branch of the Standard’s serv- ice as Mr. ROGERS was in the Wall strees department. The Standard was in as con- stant need of judicial service as in legis- lative action. Therefore ELKIN was the man to appeal to Mr. ARCHBOLD in behalf of CassELL and GREIST. Hence his letter four days before the election, for the need- ed help. But JouN P. ELKIN is no worse than the other leaders of the Republican party of Pennsylvania. QUAY and PENROSE and SBIBLEY were alike active with ELKIN in the work of perverting the government of the State to the base service of the Stand- ard Oil company and ninety per cent. of the Republican Congressmen for the State are similary involved. It is a shame that the judicial ermine should be thus drag- ged through the filth of corrupt politics, But it is equally reprehensible that the State Legislature, and eo far as the Penn. United should be so smirched. Bat the fats are indisputable,” The shame is proved and the remedy is in defeating the party. ~———Captain CHARLES FAIRPLAY BAR: CLAY was the principal speaker ata Re- publican political meeting in Bradford a few nights since and in commenting on that fact the Republican press of that town eaid ‘‘he spoke for over an hour and a half to a crowded honse and was vociferously applanded.”” The truth of the matter is, according to the statement of a reputable Bradford citizen, that less than one hun- dred people were present and the meeting proved such a frost that Mr. BARCLAY talked pot guite ten minutes, This is only cited to show the feeling of the voters Congressman. The Fittest Man, In his campaign for election to the Leg- islature J. C. MEYER is proving stronger every day, and eveu this early in the con- test there should be no more doubt about bis election than there is comparison be- tween he and bis opponent, R. B. TAYLOR, as to fitness for the office. Mr. MEYER is an able lawyer and one thoroughly conver- sant with the statne laws of Pennsylvania, He has the ability to know when an act is introduced into the Legislature whether it will be for good or bad, and is also well equipped to either stand for it if a good one or denounce it if bad. ‘Why send men to the Legislature who know absolutely nothing ahoat law mak- ing, in fact, do not know a good law from a bad one, and then find fault when some obnoxious law, inimical to ourselves and the people at large, is passed,’ said a voter from Halfmoon township the other day in speaking of the present Legislative contest. “Mr. MEYER we all know and have con- fidence in to know what is right and just and todoit. Mr. TAYLOR, while he might do what is right if he knew is, is not endowed with the law-making knowledge to know it, hence would have to depend on others to tell him what to do.”” Such is the com- ment of one voter from the western par of the county and it is only an echo of the ory that is going up from all over the county. ——~A very neat transparency has heen placed ou Crider’s Exchange, outside the windows of the Democratic headquarters, It bears excellent portraits of both WiL- LIAM JENNINGS BRYAN and JomN W. KERN. The club rooms, by the way, are open day and evening and are a very good place to spend a portion of your time. ——If you want to buy anything while in Bellefonte next week consult the adver- tising columns of the WATCHMAN. Any merchant who advertises in this paper is perfectly reliable and can be depended upon to furnish you goods of the quality and price advertised. STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. BELLEFONTE, PA., OCTOBER 2, 1908. sylvania influence goes, the Congress of the | SH Words and Deeds. | The New York Sun, possibly the ablest | journal, editorially, published in the Unis- | €d States, has never been a supporter of Mr. BeyAs. Iu truth, in both of his prev- ious campaigns it fought him with all the bitteruess it is capable of. It has come to see the issues and the men in a different light and while not supporting Mr. Bry- AN in his present campaign it shows a dis- position to be fair to him, at least, which is revealed in the rather lengthy editorial which we herewish publish and which ap- peared in the Sun of September 20th. Un- der the title “Words and Deeds’ it calls our President to book for the unwarranted, untruthfol and unfounded statements he has been making in his charges against Mr. BRYAN and his friends aod just because the Sun is a Republican paper in the coan- try’s greatest city we want you to read for yourself the views it sets forth. If they do not convince you that ROOSEVELT is wrong and BRYAN is right they will at least prove that there are two sides to the question that fair wen in reason should listen to: Mr. RoOOSEVELT'S attack apon Mr. OL- NEY ino bis last reply to Mr. BRYAN is charaoteristically unfair and equally un- wise. Wish a characteristic assnmption of superior righteousness Mr, ROOSEVELT says : “To show the difference between deeds and words I will compare the records of this Admin. istration with the record of one of your [Mr. Bryax's] most prominent supporters at this pres ent moment, Mr. OLxEy, Attorney-General under the last Democratic Administration.” The President then proceeds to attack Mr. OLNEY upon two grounds. His first assertion is that Mr. OLNEY brought no suits against combinations of capital under the SHERMAN anti-trust law and that the only case which he instituted was against a combination of workingmen. His second obarge is that while under his Administra- tion forty-nine indictments have been found for securing rebates, “under the last Democratic Administration there were no indictments against shippers for securing rebates or so-called rates," As to the first charge, Mr. ROOSEVELT Presumably refers to she bill which Mr. NEY filed against the American Railway Union to prevents the obstruction of inter- state commerce daring the Pallman strike. This bill was based only in part upon the anti trast law, whiob had been by the highest court. The action was largely based and sustained by the Sa- Jreme Court upon the sovereign right of the nited Siates Government to clear the obaouels of interstate trade from unlawful obstructions. No siogle achievements of Mr. CLEVELAND'S Administration avd no act in the long and conspicuously able pro- fessional career of Mr. OLNEY confers more lasting honor upon hoth than the peaceful termination of a gigantic ssrike whioh had paralyzed the internal commerce of the country. Certainly, comparing ‘“‘deeds” with “‘words,”” Mr. CLEVELAND'S enforcement jo the law compares favorably with Mr. | ROOSEVELT'S action in suspending the enforcement of the SHERMAN anti-trass law when the Sapreme Cours unanimously in that eud of the district for the present | decided that the meth.ds of the American | Federation of Labor were iu plain violation | of the Federal statute. In vindicating the rights of property and | the authority of law Mr. CLEVELAND and Mr. OLxzey had no more faithful and | effective aid than shat rendered by Mr, | TAFT as Circnit Judge of the United States; and the designedly invidious reference of | THEODORE ROOSEVELT to the Governmen- tal proceedings against DEBS and his orim- inal associates is intentionally or otherwise an insult nos merely to GROVER CLEVE- LAND and RICHARD OLNEY butalso io WiLLiaM HOWARD TAFT. Even more transparently false is attemp- ted comparison between the suits againes shippers under the CLEVELAND Adminis- tration and that under Mr. ROOSEVELY'S. The explanation is very simple, and no one knows it better than THEODORE ROOSEVELT. Prior to 1903 no indictment could he had against the shipper for re- ceiving rebates or unfair advantages for the simple reason that no law existed on the statute books to punish a shipper. The only action which the Government could bring was one against the carrier whioh gave the rebate. It is one of the distinotly creditable achievements of Mr. RoosE- VELT'S Administration that by the so- called ELKINS act of 1903 this defect in the law was cured and the beneficiary was made as guilty as the carrier. What was impossible for Mr. OLNEY became by the ELKINS law of 1903 possible for Mr. ROOSEVELT, but the President seeks to convey the impression in his com- parison of words with deeds that Mr. OL- NEY bad failed to enforce a law whioh Mr. ROOSEVELT has enforced with indifferent success. As the law did not come into existence until after Mr. OLNEY ceased to be Attorney-Geoeral the disingeniousness —not to use a shorter and uglier word —of this arguments of Mr. ROOSEVELT'S is per- feotly plain. We would prefer in charity to assume that Mr. ROOSEVELT in this attack upon Mr. OLNEY wrote more in ignorance than in cunning, but todo so isto impute to Mr. ROOSEVELT a shortness sf memory which staggers credulity. Mr. ROOSEVELT has time and again io his official and non- official communications claimed credit for himself and party in baving introduced this amendment whioh made shippers liable to indictment for acoepting rebates. Unless his memory bas soffered a total paralysis’ he must have known when he wrote his reply to Mr. BRYAN that the law for whose existence he has loudly claimed oredit was not passed until after the last Democratic Administration was ended. The fact is that in this asin most of his controversies Mr. ROOSEVELT has shown a shameless disregard of truth and fair rea- soning. Mr. BRYAN has shown himself in ——— NO. 39. tbat it is impossible to continue a dispate with an antagonist who resorts for his facts to his imagination and whose insistent ad- vocaoy of the ‘‘square deal” isa monumen tal hypocrisy of American history. ‘To show the difference between deeds and words’’ was Mr. ROOSEVELT'S excuse for this wanton and unfair attack upon the memory of the former President so recent- ly deceased and whose lips are silenced against this gratuitous attack. “‘To show the difference between deeds and words.” The Sun vow quotes the language of THEODORE ROOSEVELT spoken at the Lin- coln monument, Springfield, Ill, on June 4th, 1903 : “It is a good thing that the guard around the tomb of Lixcows should be composed of colored soldiers. It was my own fortune at San. tingo to serve beside colored troops. A man who EE Re a JA ward. oan than that no dr entitled to and less than that no man shall have.” The square deal whion the ‘‘colored troops’’ have since had at Mr. Roosg- VELT'S hands, with the sidelight of the wanton massacre of helpless colored oiti- zens which subsequently took place in the streets of Springfield and within the very shadow of the LINCOLN monument, is a living condemnation of the man who never ceases to assure his countrymen that his deeds square with his words. In a sense they do, for posterity will be at a loss to determide which, in Mr. ROOSEVELY'S case, bave been more insivcere and untrue. Light on 1906. From the Lancaster Examiner. Besiles exposing ‘“‘partioular friends,” and the source of some of the wealth so lavishly expended in corrupting ‘‘she old guard,” the Elkin letter illuminates sug. gestively a recent chapter of Pennsylvania polities, Two years ago Lewis Emery, an inde- pendent oil refiner avd foe of the Standard Oil company, was fusion candidate for governor of Pennsylvania. Although a Republican of the conspio- uously aggressive honesty and the aoti- machine type supposed to be most dear to the heart of President Roosevelt, it was then, and has ever since been a master for wouder, in the minds of many of the presi- dent's moss ardent admirers, that Lewis Emery did nos receive she nappors of the administration, bus, on the contrary, was vigorously opposed hy members of the | president’s official family Spnwis from the de dg —0il City has a duck farm that ships out daily by way of Meadville on the evening train, from three to six barrels of dressed ducks, billed to New York and Chicago prin. cipally. —Two years ago George H. Hardner, of Allentown, bought a farm of sixty-eight scresin Lehigh county with a view of raising rabbits. Last year he cleared its cost with & crop of potatoes and this year he will have 8,000 bushels. —The twenty-eighth annual convention of the Pennsylvania Volunteer Firemen’s association will be held at Shamokin on Oe~ tober Sth and it is expected that about eight thousand firemen will be present and par- ticipate in the parade. —Hollidaysburg Methodists are getting ready to celebrate the seventy-fifth anniver- sary of the organization of their society. There was preaching in Hollidavsburg long- er ago than that by Methodist itinerants, but the first church was bailt in 1833, —Frank Smith, colored, a bootblack of Lock Haven, was instantly killed at 8:50 o'clock Friday evening in the lower] Penn=- sylvania freight yards by beingfstrucklby an engine, as he jumped off » freight train om which he had been riding from the station. —The York Iron Ore and Limestone com* pany, recently capitalized at $500,000, is about opening extensive ore banks und lime~ stone quarries on a tract of 2,500 acres, five miles west of York. A blast furnace capable of producing 400 tons of pigliroun a day is to be erected. —An explosion of a gasoline tank in the refining yards of the Titusville Oil works, at Titusville, on Sunday started a fire which distroyed the lubricating plant,storage tanks and several thousand barrels of oil and benzine. George Mayer was burned to death and Johu O'Neill is missing. Loss $50,000, —The mavufacture of smokeless powder was commenced last week in the old brew house across the river from Huntingdon. The company is known as the Broad Top Powder company, whose head-quarters are at Saxton, the maker being E. H. Garner. The powder is known as the smokeless odor « less powder. —The value of the peach crop about Weyneshoro, Franklin conuty, this seasor is estimated at $130,000. The average price realized was 55 cents per basket. The iargest grower is D. M. Wertz, of Waynesboro, who shipped from his orchards at Quincy and Mount Alto over 130 car loads, containing from 600 to 800 baskets each. The Quincy orphanage orchard of six acres yielded 2,800 baskets. —Miss Marian Eveleth, cashier for the Williamsport Gas company, was drowned in the bathtub at her apartments Thursd night. Her sister, becoming salar berilong) the door a und | ell with very guarded but disapproving com- ment upon the scandals connected with it be was pictured as lost in admiration. In short it was wade quite that the aati-graft and anti Standard Oil cam- paign, in Pennsylvania bad nos ea of the pre