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<ident. ah
These things were noted with much
amazewent in view of she prevailing esti-
mate of the president as the foe of both
graft and monopoly. Staanch Republicans,
who had given their support to the fasion
movement a8 in thorough harmony with
the president’s constant appeals for “‘sighs.
eousness,”’ and his warfare against the
Standard Oil and other forms of predatory
wealth, were not less surprised than
staunch Demoorats, who had suppored
that the good intentions, the patriotism
and sincerity, with which they bad been
glad to credit him, would assure his sup.
port in such a struggle and upon such a
platform as ‘‘thou shalt not steal.”
The victory was won by the machine
ticket, and Mr. Emery, the foe of Standard
Oil, was defeated, but the Republican
majority in Penusylvania was reduced from
more than five hundred to about ffty
thousand.
In comment upon that result it was
noted that defeat of the anti-Standard and
anti-machine ticket was due to the strange
failure of the president to make open and
positive denial of his alleged support of the
machine, and to the confirmation of the
impression ao openly given by Secretary
Shaw and Jndge Kuvox, that he desired
machine success and not the triumph of
the foe of Standard Oil.
Why ?
Mr. Haskell Quits.
From the Johnstown Democrat.
Governor Haskell acted well in taking
himeelf out of an impossible position. Few
people will believe him guilty of the
charges which Mr. Hearst made against
bim and which Mr. Roosevelt elaborated.
But he bad artfully been made an issue in
the campaign by she opposition and he
could not remain in official connection
with the national committee as is treasurer
without menacing the interests of the
party.
Gov. Haskell is to be congratulated on
and commended for the prompiness with
which he bas relieved Mr. Bryan of a pro-
found embarrassment. We cannot believe
that Mr. Bryan has heen persuaded of Gov.
Haskell’s guilt. The testimony against
the governor is far from convincing. Only
bitter and unscrupulous partisans have
accepted it as conclusive. Papers like the
Springtel Republican, whioh supports
Mr. t without approving some of the
things for which he stands and in spite of
some of the methods which are being em.
ployed to force his election, are disposed
utterly to disoredit the case against the
Oklahoman. They charge the president
with unpardonable brashness in convicting
bim out of baud on the evidence presented
and they do not conceal their fear that in
80 doing he has committed a blunder which
will seriously and perbaps fatally react on
Mr. Tafs.
However, Gov. Haskell could not stay
in a position where he invited the fire of
tiie enemy and where he served them as a
needed diversion, He had become an issue
in the campaign jud was thus serving to
draw attention from the really vital
points involved. He has therefore taken
the only at was open to him and he
bas left the clear for the appointment
of some one the tremsurership of the
national committee who is free from all
this controversy to be a gentleman and to
have respeot for truth, and will soon find
entangling alliances and beyond the suepi.
cion of corporation taint
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rse of construction a piece of state road
about balf a mile in length that will cost
‘over $10,000—the costliest bit of road in the
state. In the distance there isa retaining
wall 2,000 feet long from six to twelve feet
high. Five bridges will have to be con-
structed and numerous fills made and *‘cuts’
dng out which will add to the extra expendi
ture. The road was a much needed one as
in wet weather it was almost impassable,
owing to its lying below a marshy section of
ground.
—Cloyd Strayer, a well known salmon
fisherman, met with a peculiar accident a
few days ago in the Lewistown Narrows,
His boat was anchored amidstream and as he
made a cast, whilestanding in the bow, the
hook was snatched almost instantly by some*
thing that gave a sharp tug at the line. The
strike almost overturned the boat. In
Strayer's effort to regain his equilibrium he
jerked bis right arm so suddenly that it was
thrown out of the socket. Pluckily holding
the pole with the other hand, however, he
landed a four pound bass.
~The residents of the village of Lioyds-
ville, Westmoreland county, are consider-
ably excited overthe outbreak of diphtha-
ria in their midst. Health Oflicer E. G.
Crossland has been appealed to to exert his
utmost efforts in bringing about an effective
quarantine and in preventing a further
spread of the disease. Four cases being with~
inaradinsof a few hundred feet of the
school at Lloydsvilie adds to the anxiety of
the parents having children in attendance
at the schools, and it may be found neces
sary to order the schools closed. :
—Sunday was an important day in the
history of St. Paul's Lutheran church,
Williamsport, of which the Rev. Charles
George Bickle is pastor, marking as it did the
twenty-fifth anniversary of the building of
the church and its rededication, after exten -
sive improvements that have been in progress
for some time, and which have resulted in
practically a new auditorium, handsome and
complete. The dedicatory sermon was de-
livered by the Rev. 8. W. Owen, D. D. LL.
D., president of the general synod, and pas=
tor of St. John's Lutheran church, Hagers-
town, Md., who preached one of the sermons
when the church was dedicated twenty-five
years ago. The improvements cost $10,-
000.
—Herhert Colfelt, a son of Rev. Lawrence
M. Colfelt, editor and proprietor of the
Pennsylvania Hawkeye, published for some
years at Bedford, tried to end his life on
Sunday night by jumping into the Delaware
river at Fifth street wharf, Camden. Two
men rowing in a boat grabbed him as he
came to the surface after his plunge and
took him to shore. He said he had been
hounded and thought he would end it all
Colifelt was a boarder at the Aldine hotel
and much surprise was expressed by all.
there, as he had always appeared to be iu a
cheerful mood. But the family has had va.
rious adventures. Rev. and Mrs. Colfeit sep-
arated many years ago. Then Mr. Colfelt
left the ministry and started the Hawkeye,
which he discontinued a year or more ago
because it was an unprofitable venture. On
September 3 the wife of James H. Colfelt,
another son, attempted suicide in a Paris
hotel by shooting herself in the breast after
a quarrel with her husband.
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