~ would make a capable Sherif. Vote for
indeed. Les Mr. Humiey live in the
before be wants 0 get into one of its3best
—TAYLOR—HURLEY—BROWN is the
' combination. Everyone else must look out
for himself and HURLEY and BROWN also
for TAYLOR will drop like a hot cake when
- he has profited all he can by their help.
—FRED SMITH is a real native Centre
countian. He bas been a farmer all bis
life and is an active member of the Episco-
pal church. Vote for him becanse he isa
good man and would make a good Sheriff.
~The friends of the Hon. JAMES
KERR, of Clearfield, will be very sorry to
know that he is very dangerously ill in a
private hospital in New York City and his
condition is regarded as being exceedingly
grave,
—Last October the business troubles
were all laid at Roose VELY's door. Those
who were loudest in berating him then are
strangely silent now. Will they have the
courage of their convictions and vote fora
change?
— Remember that it is the men who are
ruanuing for office you should size up. Not
their families, nor their friends. Look
well to their character, fitness and dispo-
sition for these are the requisites of good
officials.
—The Gazette's attempt to belittle can-
didate SMITH because his farm is small
will work no injury to Mr. SMITH, who
would rather be a good big man on a little
farm than a miserable little man in a big
newspaper.
—Dr. FISHER bas the flag flung to the
breeze on the roof of his home at Zion and
he won't have any occasion for dropping it
" to half-mast the morning after the election
for the Doctor is going to be re-elected to
the office of County Coroner.
—New York, Okio, Indiana, West Vir-
ginia, Maryland, Nebraska, Colorado,
Wisconsin and Connecticut are the donbs-
ful States in the campaign. Both sides ad-
mit that. BRYAN does not need them bat
he sees almost certain to get enough of
them to insure his election,
~——If you know of any one who is in-
different about going to the election youn
should see that he gets there. The contest
is too important, especially for Centre
county, to leave one man away from the
polls in this great fight against the gang of
incompetents thas is trying to get into of-
fice.
—All through the campaign certain seo-
tions of Centre county have been flooded
with liquor and invariably the boys and
young men who get drank on it say *‘It is
on TaAyror and HURLEY.” If Centre
county voters approve of this then they are
not the oharaoter of people we bave always
supposed them to be.
—When one of Centre county's bpative
sons, and a farmer at that, is ranning for
the high office of Sheriff is would look as
though her voters had no appreciation of
the men who have worked and paid their
taxes here always if they were tojfvote for
HURLEY who bas been in the county only
seven years and does not own an inch of
property here.
—According to the best Republican in.
formation we can secure New York and
Indiana are both conceded to BRYAN and
Obio holds the balance of power. The
Public Ledger, of Philadelphia, says this
editorially and at the samejtime claime
Obio for TAFT by oniy 25,000. In all
moderation such concessions are encour-
aging to the BRYAN cause.
—When HURLEY and BROWN tied up to
TAYLOR they showed what kind of persons
they are. Men are known by the company
they keep aud, politically speaking, this
alliance isn’t going to help either, one of
them. The people of Centre county kuvw
what TAYLOR ia, they know what he is in
politics for and in two weeks they are
going to put their stamp of disapproval on
him and the others who are trying to boost
themselves by playing for strength hejean’t
give them.
~-JosgPH G. CANNON, speaker of Cob-
gress, impudently insulted the ministers of
the land when a body of them called on
him in Washington to consult about
needed legislation. He is a candidate for
re-election to the same powerful office.
Mr. BARCLAY, who is one of the nominees
for Congress in this district, will vote for
CANNON, if they are both re-elected. Mr.
WALKER, who is our other nominee for
Congress, will not. As a christian man,
then, yon ought to vote for WALKER.
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8 a plamber io
[AD estatlishment in
; ber of years and has
the re being a very competent
workman. It is generally supposed that
R. B. TAYLOR, the Republican nominee
for the Legislature, forced his nomination
on the Republican party because the same
intereste that were for TAYLOR were for
BROWN and where the one developed
sirength the other developed it also. In
fact at the time of the primaries Mr. Tay-
LOE made no secret of his desire to have
BROWN in the field, the only object of
which could have been to try to force
LaAIrp HoLmgs, of State College, who was
aleo an aspirant for the Recordership to in-
duce W. L. FOSTER, of the same place, to
withdraw from the race for the Legislature.
Mr. Foster was TAYLOR'S most serious
opposition and by making BROWN a men-
ace to HoLMEs for the Recordership TAY-
LOR evidently expected HOLMES to per-
suade FOSTER to get out of his way.
Both FosTeERr and HOLMES were encour-
aged to remain by the better element of
their party and they were defeated because
their friends did not turn ont to the pri-
maries while the crowd that was backing
the other fellows left not a single vote at
home.
All of this is to explain the possible tarn
of the political fortune wheel that gave Mr.
BROWN the nomination. It is hardly prob-
able that under any other ciroumstances he
would bave secured it; for Republicans
know as well as Democrats shat it takes
more than respectability and good charac-
ter to make a Recorder. They know that
Mr. BROWN has not bad even a good com-
mon school education consequently is en-
tirely unfitted for such a responsible posi.
tion as Recorder of Deeds.
Why he has not that education has noth-
ing to do with the question. Either he did
not secure it because of indifference to his
needs or because his surroundings were
such as to make the master of his earning
his own livelihdod a neceseity when be
might have been at school. Iv either case
he was uofartapate. The fact still re-
mains, however, that the people of Centre
county are not, called upon to take the
chance of having a man so utterly anquali-
fied in charge of their deeds and morteag-
ee. The slightest flaw in a title might
mean the loss of a home to most any one,
it certainly would mean expensive litiga-
tion to have the error corrected, and know-
ing this the sensible man will think well
before casting his vote for Mr. BROWN.
is Barclay for Cannon.
Congressman CHARLES F. BARCLAY was
in Bellefonte last Friday while touring the
county on an electioneering trip. While
bere he approached a representative Re-
publican and of course asked for his sap-
port. The gentleman in tarn asked Mr.
Barcray whether, if eleoted, he would
support JosePH G. CANNON for speaker of
the House of Representatives and BAR-
CLAY declined to answer the question.
This, in itself, is pretty good evidense that
should he again he returned to Congress he
will be the willing servitor for anything
Mr. CANNON may desire.
It is a well known fact that BARCLAY
during the past two vears has been noth-
ing more than a stoolpigeon for PENROSE.
Every recommendation for postoffice ap-
pointments in the district was made ac-
cording to the diotation of the Philadel-
phia bose, and every postmaster appointed
was a man who could be depended upon to
support him and do his bidding. This
should be reason enough why every self:
respecting voter should not support BaAR-
CLAY for re-election.
And now when by his refusal to declare
himself he makes it plain that he will sap-
port CANNON for re-election as speaker
there is still greater reason why he should
not be returned to Congress. Mr. CAN-
NON’S record is suoh that he ought not be
in Congress at all, let alone in the speaker's
obair, and no intelligent man can afford to
vote for any candidate for Cougress {who
will not openly declare against him. For
this reason, if no other, the voters of this
district should elect W. HARRISON WALK-
ER as their Representative in Congress.
———Don’t let sympathy warp your judg-
ment on election day. It is not a personal
matter yon are called upon to vote for. It
is a matter of the most competent men. You
want the best there is available to fill the
local offices and therefor we urge you to
compare the character and fitness of SMITH
aod HURLEY, MILLER and FINK, MEYER
and TaAvyror and MUSSER and BROWN
particularly. We feel certain that your
sober, honest judgment will tell you that
it ie your duty to vote for the first named
of the candidates for their respective offices,
——-Eleotion day is less than two weeks
away and the candidates are doing some
tall hustling.
asking him for bis honest opinion
paign.
this to say :
| election of BRryaN.
- DN E, PA., A :
The Great Labor-Leader’s Advice 1
Workingmen who have faith in the honesty of parpose as well sa io |
judgment of the great leader and friend of the laboring men of the Unit
States—JOHN MITCHELL—will cast their ballots without hesitation for War
J. BRYAN. Following is his reply toa telegram from the Buffalo Republic,
as to which party merited the sup-
port of the workingman and the honest interests of the country in this can:
SprING VALLEY, ILL., Sept, 15, "08.
70 the Buffalo Republic, Buffalo, N. Y.
“Answering your telegram of today I have
I sincerely believe that all honest
interests in this country, including those of the
workingman, would be greatly benefited by the
Legitimate business and
honest wealth would have nothing to fear in
such an event.
and that is the reason
AN.
“The predatory rich
fight.
their advocacy of Mr. :
where the rest of the people should stand in the
“The platform on which Mr. Brvan stands
fully recognizes the rights of organized labor
and gives specific assurances of legislation that
will protect the rights and liberty of organized
| labor. The platform on which Mr. Tarr stands
gives no such recognition and no such assur-
ances. The issue, therefore, is clearly drawn
Mr. Gosirers and the
executive council of the American Federation of
Labor advised trade unionists to vote for Bry-
who are so zealous in
Tarr clearly indicate
JOHN MITCHELL,
Second Viee President, A. F. of L.
Gigantic Criminal
m—
Conspiracy.
An investigation instituted hy the New
York World bas revealed thefaot that the
records showing who received the $40,000,
000 paid to the French company for the
Panama canal have heen destroyed. There
have been doubts in the public mind on
this subject for some time. WILLIAM NEL-
SON CROMWELL, Mr. HARRIMAN'S per-
sonal counsel, sold the Frenob franchise
and property to the ROOSEVELT adminis
tration. The transaction was denounced
at the time as a grafting operation.
GEORGE R. SHELDON, treasurer of the
Republican Nasional committee ie believed
to have been a member of the syndicate
which received the money. Mr. CroM-
WELL bad Mr. SHELDON appointed
treasurer of the Republican National com-
mittee. Mr. CROMWELL is bimeelf a mem-
ber of the executive committee of she Re:
publican National committee,
The suspicion that the government had
been robbed in the transaction which re-
sulted in the wransier of the property and
franchise of the French Panama caval bas
prevailed for rome time. The ablest of the
engineers who were concerned in the mas-
ser recommended the Nicarauga route but
the Panama property was acquired claudes-
tinely and that enterprise fastened upon
the country. Subsequently the govern-
ment of Colombia refused to convey the
franchise and the ROOSEVELT administra
tion organized a bogus rebellion and es-
tablished the Republic of Panama under
the protection of American marines. It was
the greatest ontrage of modern civilization
bus becanse ROOSEVELT was behind is, it
was allowed so be consammated. Subse-
quently the building operations were
begun under the direction of WiLLiam H.
Tarr.
When CROMWELL was appointed a mem-
ber of the executive committee of the Re-
publican party and he prooured the seleo-
tion of GEORGE R. SHELDON as treasurer
of the committee, the suspicions which had
lain dormant for some years were re-awak-
ened and with characteristic energy the
New York World concluded to discover the
facts. Bat its investigation stopped short
when the archives cf the government were
reached. The records had been abstracted
or destroyed and the culpability shue con-
oealed forever. If RoosEVELT had not con-
sented to this criminal suppression of rec-
ords, it could never have been acoomplish-
ed. The plain inference is, therefore, that
RoosevELT, CROMWELL and SHELDON
have robbed the treasury with the knowl.
edge and acquiescence of TAFT and that
they are now striving to eleot TAFT in or-
der to conceal their crime against the gov-
ernment,
~The WATCHMAN has always main-
tained that one term is too much for a poor
official and two terms certainly the reward
of competent ones so we ask yon now if
DUNLAP and WEAVER ar not entitled to
a second term in the Commissioner's office.
They have money in the treasury to pay
every debt the conuty has the moment it
falls due.
—Along with the other good men on
the Democratic ticket, youn should not for-
ges to vote for BECK and CoLE for auditors.
They are both splendid men and you will
make no mistake in supporting them.
~—Dr, R. G. H. Hayes has practically
olosed negotiations for the lease of the
Orvis residence on east Linn street where
he expeots to move his family in the near
fature and make it their residence for this
winter, at least,
Taft's Moral Delinguency.
In his speech at Danviiie, Virginia, last
Satarday, Judge TAFT revealed the bond
which binds bimself and ROOSEVELT to-
gether. Having asked whether persons in
his andience favored the proposition to
guarantee bank deposits and received an
affirmative reply he declared: “You are in
favor of any man opening a bank with $10,-
000 and then going to his neighbors and
saying ‘‘give me $100,000 deposits that I
may speculate with it because ROBINSON
who bas a bank up here has $500,000 de-
posits and be is responsible for every dol-
| lar of my deposits.”
If Judge TAFT doesn’t know better than
that be is not fit to he a justice of the
| peace. The proposition contained in the
Democratic platform to guarantee bank
| deposits provides for a nominal tax on
| banks which accept the conditions to create
i afund from which depositors will be paid
in the event of the failure of the bank in
| which they bave deposits. But it requires
| banks to be solvents before they oan getin
| and com pels them to sabmit to examinations
| which will prevent the misuse of the funds
and provides that if, through unavoidable
loss, the dishonesty or delinquency of bank
| officials or for any other reason the solvency
| of the bank is brought under suspicion, the
| bank shall pass out of the control of the
| dishonest or incompetent bank cfficers and
| into the hands of expert and honest bank-
| ers who shall operate it for the benefit of
| creditors and stockholders if it is not
| irretrievably lost. If itis so completely
swamped the depositors will be paid, not
| out of ROBINSON'S bank but out of the
| insurance fund created for that purpose.
| Now if Judge TAFT kzows the truth
| with respect to the guarantee of deposite
his perversion of the facts in his Danville
speech, on Saturday, was a measure of
demagogy which would have been diegrace-
ful to any scurvy politician. Bat it is
probable thas recklessness of speech which
has commended him to the fellowship of
THEODORE ROOSEVELT, the only President
of the United States who has been aconsed
and coavioted of falsification, betrayed
him into this absurd blunder. ‘‘Birdsof a
feather flock together,”” and while Roosg-
VELT might have selected any other man
to sucoeed him he chose TAFT because of
temperawental sympathy.
The Duty of the Prohibitionists in
“ihe Toanty.
While the Prohibitionist vote in Centre
county has never been one of very great
numbers, yet it has frequently ocourred
that swinging as a unit to one or the other
of the two dominant parties is would have
represented the balance of power. It
might be the same controlling factor in the
election of November 3rd. This probabili.
ty prompts us to call the attention of the
Prohibitionisie to the fatility of voting for
their own party nominees for county office.
They can serve the connty better by help-
ing to choose good and competent officers
for the local positions than by practically
throwing away their votes on men who
have no chance of winning.
The Prohibitionists have a plainjduty to
perform. The emergency in Centre county
is too great to permit of their shirking it.
They might have the responsibility of com-
petent or incompetent officials resting upon
them, therefor it behooves them to study
the candidates of the two great purties and
vote for the ones who are best equipped for
the offices they seek.
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came upon us with a crash about a year
ago. The fact that these papers published
this report so prominently indicates that
they could not it, for the Repub-
lican newspapers of Chicag: are not alert to
publish disagreeable information just be-
cause it happens to be important to their
readers. The conditions exist, they are
demonstrated, and they are dreadful. And
no doubt these conditions among school
children in Chicago exist everywhere. No
doubt they exist among others also shan
school children. Beyond further questicos,
we are in the midss of bard times.
This condition is likely to tell beavily
against Mr. Taft's candidacy at the coming
election. And so it ought. His party bas
demagogically olaimed oredit for the
periods of good times, charged to its adver-
sary responsibility for the periods of had
times which this country has experienced
in the past forty years. Nos oaly has his
party persistently and deoeitfully done
this, bus he himself only a few days ago in
Kansas quoted cooked statistios to prove
that Republicans make good times and
Democrats hard times. Is would be only
political justice, sherefore, were Mr. Taft
to go down in a popular avalanche of con-
demnation because he and his party have
been caught with a virulent case of hard
times on their hands. The political party
that has been living by a lie should die by
one.
An Inexhamunstible Letter-File,
From the New York World.
Apparently the letter-files of the White
House are inebaustible,
No sooner bad the World printed Mr.
Harriman’s lester to Sidney Webster ask-
ing “Where do I stand ?’’ than Mr. Roose.
vels dragged from the archives a letter
written to My Dear Sherman in 1906 re-
pudiating Mr. Harriman as an undesirable
citizen, Harriman having declined to con-
dibme again to a Repu™iosh campaign
and.
Mr. Hearst exposes Senator Foraker as a
paid astoruey of the Standard Oil company,
Mr. Roosevelt promptly publishes a letter
written hy Mr. Taft declining to make any
truce with the senator which would involve
Foraker’s return to the senate.
The [act leaks out shat the Standard
Oil company bad contributed $100,000 to
the Roosevelt campaign fund in 1904, Mr,
Roosevelt had already taken the precaution
to bave a 15 cent magazine print his letter
to Mr. Crotelyou ordering this consribution
returned. There is much applause except
by the Standard Oil company, which did
not get its money back after all.
Now comes another magazine with con-
fidential letters exchanged between Mr.
Roosevelt and Mr. Taft in the spring of
1906. A great administrator is hesitasing
between the presidency and the supreme
bench on the ground of duty. A most
Eminent and Exalted Person is showing
him the field of greatest usefulness to the
people. It is needless to say that the cor-
respondence geflects great oredit upon Mr.
Taft and is by no means uncomplimentary
to Mr: Roosevelt.
The presidential letter-file is adequate to
all occasions. It can prove anything Mr.
Roosevelt wishes to prove and disprove
anythiog he wishes to disprove. There has
been nothing like it since the Arabian
Nights,
From the Pittsburg Post.
Wherefore this sadden deluge of esti-
mates in Republican organs all naturally
predicting Mr. Taft's election ? No careful
reader of the views of the correspondents
in the several donbtful States fails to know
that these organs welcome such an inunda-
tion of figures now, not because she prophe-
sied result is accepted as probable, bat the
estimates are hoped to furnish a new di-
| version, another indispensable distraction,
No disoussion of a platform can be under-
taken which seeks to have the Government
guarantee a reasonable profit as an addition
to the tariff bounties of manufacturers.
Figures are tossed in to fill the void.
Silently the trust magnates contribate to
maintain their gri upon the schedules,
and no “‘drastio’”’ New York law stops sach
individual giving. Hereafter the corpora-
tions may repay the personal donation from
some large haul made by tariff exactions
from the consumers. Campaign publicity
unnerves the mavagers and arouses the
people. Throw in more figures.
Guaranty to baok deposits looks not so
alarming when inserted in the Fowler bill
and indorsed by the always amenable Mr.
Tate, for the people see it is less revola-
tionary than guaranty of industrial profits.
Hurl in more figures. Mr. Taft says he is
a Roosevelt imitator, signs himself simply
“‘ditso’’ wherever he stops, but the Eastern
Republicans call him a falsifier and declare
he hates his sponsor. Shovel in more
figures,
Republicans Claim Everything.
From the Harrisburg Star-Independent,
The game of the managers of the Taft
campaign is to claim all of the debatable
States and even some that are absolutely
certain to be in the Bryan column, The
Taft newspapers have been given the tip to
claim, claim, olaim until election day.
The fact is that the Taft mausgers are
terribly frightened and, like the boy pass.
ing the graveyard, are whistling to keep up
their courage.
—Sabeeribe for the WATCHMAN,
a field nearby. : ‘ wig
~The public schools of Muncy, Lycoming
county, which have been closed for the past
ten days on account of an epidemic of diph.
theria, were reopened on Monday morning.
There have been over 200 cases of the disease
among the children of the borough since the
epidemic first broke out and the schools were
ordered closed by the board of health.
—Meyersdale’s magnificent new High
school building was formally dedicated last
Friday, almost the entire population of the
town turning out to participate in the exer.
cises and to manifest the deep interest they
take in educational work. The building is
by long odds the most imposing and best
equipped school structure in Somerset coun -
ty.
— Farmers in some sections of Lycoming
county are complaining of the depredations
by bears in their corn fields. Jacob Kieffer
and John Lovett, whose farms border on the
woods near Swissdale, report that many of
their shocks have been torn apart and much
of the corn consumed, and in order to pre-
vent further loss they are hurrying the work
of husking the crop.
—Domestic troubles landed Clarence Wolfe
and his wife, of Tyrone, in the Altoona hos-
pital. Wolfe, itis alleged, shot his wife in
the left arm and later went to a vacant lot,
where he tried to blow out his brains with a
shot from a revolver. The bullet which he
intended to wind up affairs struck Wolfe on
the temple and instead of penetrating the
brain the leaden missile was scattered.
—Riddled with small fragments of stone so
that bis body presents the appearance of hav
ing been on the firing line in a battle, John
Snook, aged 30 years, of Milroy, liesin the
Lewistown hospital in a precarious condi-
tion. A blast at the Naginey quarries “‘fak-
ed” and Snook went to the mouth of the
hole to ascertain the cause. As he stooped
the powder exploded, scattering sprawls into
his body. Fellow workmen picked him up
and he was hurried to Lewistown.
—Judge James W. Shull, who presided in
the case of Sheriff Charles D. Gillas vs. the
county comissioners, of Franklin county, in
a rule granted to show cause why an increas
ed compensation should not be allowed for
the boarding of prisoners, has handed down
his opinion to the effect that the allowance
of twenty-five cents per day for prisoners
and convicts is to remain unchanged but the
allowance of twelve cents per day for tramps
and vagrants shall be increased to fifteen
cents.
—A mortgage for $1,000,000 on the prop-
erty of the Pennsylvania & Maryland street
railway company and in favor of the Farm-
ers’ Loan and Trust company, of New York,
has been placed on record at the court house
in Somerset. The company has extended its
line from Meyersdale to Garrett and will
shortly be operating its cars between Garrett
and Salisbury, a distance of nearly eighteen
miles. It is expected that this line will ulti.
mately be extended to Johnstown and will
connect that city with Cumberland.
—Although an electric current of over
2,000 voits held him rigid several minutes,
John Hancharik, a miner at the Forest Hill
mines of the Ellsworth coal company, is
expected to recover. Just as Hancharik
jumped upon a trip of ears his neck caught
on the trolley wire. There was a flash of
blue flame and the trip stopped almost im-
mediately. The man stuck to the wire while
the flames ate into the flesh of his throat and
face. Other miners uncoupled the cars and
pushed them back and the burning man
dropped to the rails. All thought him dead
but he soon showed signs of life and doctors
say he will probably recover. bu
—Friends of Lenus Sauker, a: well known
farmer living about three miles from Gre:
fire was comm Aatdd to OR
from the burning woods tearby, the b
being practically destroyed before ¥
ker or any of his family were aroused. In
the barn were consumed all of Mr. Sanker’s
crops, csttle and some machinery. The
flames next attacked the “home and
outbuildings, and these, too, licked up
in very short order. Mr. ker's loss is
partly protected by insuranes but his loss is
nevertheless very heavy.
—As a temporary expedient to defer a
crisis in the water situation, the board of
water commissioners, of Altoona, has com-
pleted negotiations with the Allegheny
Water company for the purchase of 30,000,
000 gallons from its supply. The Allegheny
Water company has probably 50,000,000 gsl=-
Jons stored in its reservoir at the head of
Mill Run which is sufficient with a flow of its
streams to meet the demands of its consumers
and leave some over for Altova, The ar-
ni is that Altoona is to take a a
Te iinon gallons a day, quite a substantial
addition to what the city is receiving but
enough to warrant relaxation of the precau-
tionary measures that have been taken to
conserve the supply.
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