= 8Yy P. SRAY MEEK, Ink Slings. —Summer on Tuesday, winter on Wed- nesday. Thas it goes, with a frog in the throat and a drip on the nose. —Congress will convene next week. Then look out for the parting shot of the mighty marksman whose next orack will be at the African lions. —If there is anything in that early bird story THAD HAMILTON is going to be the one that gets the tax collectorship worm. He is after it and ought to make a good one. —The gun that “‘ien’s loaded’ is invari- ably the one that goes off and, we pre- sume, that after all that will turn ous to be the only known reason why the Mari- sna, “‘the model mine of the world” blew up with such frightful results. ~The nicest Christmas present that you could give a resident of the county or one who bas gone to locate afar is to send the WATCHMAN to their addresc for a year. It is far better than a letter each week and tells them news that you never think of writing. —Stop and thiok! What is the end to be if the government is to continue to run behind a million dollars a month? The debt will eventually become unbearable and that eventuality, in itself, shounid be enough to make the spenders at Washing: ton think a little of the future, at least. ' —Ititis true that Col. W. FrEp Rev- NOLDS is being groomed to sucoeed the Hon CHARLES F. BARCLAY in Congress we again tender the unsought and entirely voluntary advice, that we offered at the time be was led intocontesting Mr. EM- ERY'S seat in the Republican national con- weofion: Look well before you leap. —According to the latest diplomatic stroke of the State Department we are now in league with Eogland and Japan for the mutual protection of our Asiatic colonies. That is to say ; England and Japan bave agree to help keep the rest of the world quiet while Uocle Sam's millions are poured into thot Philippine sink hole. ~Fellows who have nothing better to do than shatter our idols are trying to make us believe now that Pour REVERE did not make that famous ride on the 14th of April in "75, because it was nonecessary. There's 8 lot of wise men in the land, but the fanny. pack of it is few of them begin to air "their wisdom nntil those who would be able to shake it are goue. Os . —Some “of the good people of this vi- ity ‘sure that we bave done some- | e oar Creator for they refer send ohn upon you and spread a plague among your cattle.”’ It looks like there was something in it, bus while we koow we are all bad enough, yes, just off bacd, we are unable to think of anything worse than the ordinary shat we have done lately. —The rumor that Congressman BURTON, ol Ohio, is to be made President-elect TArr's Secretary of the Treasury may turn out to be more than a ramor. If it does there are some people who will imagine that he has been given a cabinet portfolio in order to take him ont of the way of Mr. TAFT,S brother CHARLES, who wants to be United States Senator from Ohio. In fact the appoint. ment would convince most any one that that is the game. —Aside from the distingnished position he occupied asa citizen of Bellefonte Col. James P. CoBURN will be greatly missed in the councils of his party. From the time of the organization of the Republican party be had been staunch, loyal and un- compromising in its support and gained considerable reputation as a ready orator in its conventions and meetings. While every one knows we bad nothing in com- mon with that side of his life, yet a gentle- mau aod friend we found bim always and his going leaves one less of the good old crowd that fought and forgot when politics were warm fn Centre county. —A general order of the President put- ting nearly all of the fourth olass post. masters under civil service may be very gratifying to some incumbents, but to others it will not mean much. As a matter of fact the free rural delivery of mails has extended eo far and centralized the bus- iness of the offices so much that the aver- age fourth class postmaster bas a job that there is little, if anything in. Add to the requirements of holding such an appoint- ment the necessity of passing a civil service examination to secure it and the fourth olass post office will become something that certain people won't be bothered with and others won't have the intellectual attain. ments to secure. —It is amusing, to say the least, to read what the men whom ANDY CARNEGIE made have to say about ‘‘the old man’s" visws on the tariff. Most of them would still be hanging over draltsmen’s tables or swinging balf-empty dinner pails as their sides if it had not been that ‘‘the old man”’ was pleased to point the way for them to millions. He knowa this and the world knows it, but if they are too set up with their own importance now to understand it themselves they needn’s trouble about airing their superior knowledge about the tariff because it is something thas “the old man’’ has probably helped them to learn bus that he bas discarded as falla- cious and not worthy further consideration. _VOL. 58 STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. BELLEFONTE, PA., Mr. MeClain's Gre Great Weakness, Mr. FRANK B. McCrLALY, who is putting forth every effort in his power to become the next Speaker of the House at Harris- burg, is finding it a diffionls proposition to maintain a show of independence and at the same time secure the confidence and support of the bosses. Mr. MCCLAIN tried this before. He knows the failure he made of it, and knowing this should have the courage to make his fight one that the boss- es would fear and would be glad to avoid. Prior to the session of 1905 Mr. MeCLAIN announced himself as a candidate for Speaker for that Session. He had, two years earlier, allied himself with the EL- KIN faction as against Quay. He was ac cepted and supported by what was known as the reform Republicans, but was badly defeated by the bosses who demanded the election of HENRY F. Warton. His de- feat, it was hoped by his friends, would so closely align him with the reform forces that his influence and efforts could be re. lied upon to oppose the schemes and designs of the ring that bad surped him down. In this, however, they were bitterly dieap- pointed. While that session opened the way for Mr. McCLAIN to make a reputation for himself by simply taking she lead of those who had supported him and secured his op- position to the vicious and notorious legis- lation that was proposed and enacted, he willingly became the tool of the Machine that had turned him down and aided it to force upon the people legislation so rank and rotten that an extra session of the Leg- islature bad to be called, within a year, to change or repeal a greater portion of it. Had he asserted his manhood, and while standing by his party, actively and earnest- ly demanded the defeat of the obnoxious and ontrageons legislation, the ring Ma- chine under the ruling of the creature it bad put in the Speaker's chair, enacted into law that year, there is little doubs that Mr. McCLAIN would now be she Gov- ernor of Pennsylvania, in place of a sup- pliant for re-election to the position this same Machine gave him, two years later, in return for his abject submission to their demands daring the notorious session of 1905. Is was then Sed during that cession of the Legislature that Mr. McCLAIN lost his grip on the political situation in Pennsyl- vania. One year later the bosses needed come one with a record for regularity and a reputation as a reformer as a candidate for Governor. MCCLAIN bad the former but bad failed at the opportune time to earn the latter, and the nomination was handed over to an unknown but respecta- ble citizen of Philadelphia, who has allow- ed the bosses to have their way, politically and otherwise, and has attempted to eatis- fy the ‘‘reformers’’ with the ‘‘respectabili- ty'’ of his administration. It is the fact that Mr. MCCLAIN now so vooiferonsly proclaims bis ‘‘regularity® and at the same time announces hia deter- mination to abide by whatever decision the Machine, through its henchmen it has elected may make, that weakens his chauces and practically leaves him without effect. ive support. Those who are opposed to the Machine fear a repetition of the acts of 1905. Those who are with it, feel that if the bosses want or need him, they can have his services whether he is Speaker or not. This paper would be glad to see him elected to the position. He made a repu- table and fair presiding officer during the last session of the Legislature, and no doubt would again. Bat he will need to show more sand, to exhibit more independ- ence, and prove a greater menace to the purposes of the gang that is in opposition to him thao be has yet done, if he is to sunc- ceed himself in the Speaker's chair. Can Guess Why With Their Eyes Shut. Surprise in some quarters is manifested over the faot that Mr. James Munvey- HILL, a rattling good Democrat of West. moreland county, is canvassing among the Republican members of the Legislature in the interest of JoHN F. Cox for Speaker. There need be no surprise about this. Mr. MULVEYHILL knows what be is doing. He always does. He knows that & Democrat can’t be elected to this position, and when that is impossible there is no farther pol- itics in is for him. When there is no pol- ities in a thing, then Jiu is for the inter- ests he represents and as those interests are not for Local Option, Sumptuary Statutes, Prohibition, and the like, the forces that stand for these ideas ought to be able to’ guess the first time why he is for Cox. Others can do so with their eyes shat. ——We have always nnderstood that the constitution of the State of New York— like thas of Pennsyivania—made it a daoty and a prerogative of the Legislature of the State to choose and elect its United States Senators. Io this we must have been mis- taken. From recent actions abont the White House and the way New Yorkers seem to look at it, this job is evidently one for the President to attend to. It is needless to add thas he’s going to do it or bust a belly-band in the attempt. Must Pay 1h the Piper. When President ROOSEVELT retires [rom the presidential chair at noon on she 4th of March nexs, he will go out of office with the well earned reputation of having con- duooted the moss costly, the most extrava- gant and the moss reckiess ad ministratico, in the expenditure of pablic moneys, ever known iu this or any other government. Beginning with a reserve in the treasury of over two hundred millions, and baving daring each year of his administration al- most doubled the income formerly enjoyed, with abundant harvests, uoparallelled prosperity and everything calculated to in- crease the government wealth and add to its financial strengeh, he will vacate the high office he holds with a treasury defioit of over one hundred millions, the annual expenses more than doubled and the coun- try in a condition thas extra taxation will have to be resorted to to meet the ordinary and every day expenditures for governmen- tal affairs. It i av old ‘‘saw”’ that ‘‘he who dances must pay the piper.’’ Asa people we have been dancing to every fool tane that Mr. ROOSEVELT has piped for seven years past. We have squandered bandreds of millions upon battle ships shat it is now discovered are protected by imperfect armor plate and can be distanced, in speed, by the vessels of any nation on the globe. We have purohas- ed islands from those who had no title to them for the sole purpose of having an ex- cuse for maintaining a useless and expens- ive standing army, aod keeping up an in- terminable war scare. We bave multiplied officials until $he government pay-rolls ex- ceed in amount the entire governmental ex- penditures of fifty years ago, and we bave added in one way or another to the ordina- ry outlays for administrative purposes un- til the increased expenditures now amount to more than double the original, and we are still, and it is probable will be compell- ed to continue for all time, davcing to these extravagant tones. That the ordinary income from revenue, tariff and other sorts of taxation, relied up- on to keep governmental offices going, is not sufficient to meet the annual pecessa- ry expenditures in made oertain by the monthly deficiencies that are reported by the treasury department, avd which now aggregate over $100,000,000. How these will be met is one of the problems for those whose duty it is to solve them. In the end, however, the people must pay them. This is certain. It ie the only thing oertain in the whole range of governmental affairs. When pay time comes—which must be soon—the public will nuderstand the bene- fits of RoosgvELTism. Isis when''paying the piper’ that they will discover how cost- ly has been their dance. Pennsylvania's Officials at Last, The cold and undispated figures of the recent election so far as the vote on Presi- dent here in Penuosylvania goes, are not nearly #o bad or disconragiog, for the Dem- ocracy, a8 most people thought the morn- ing after. .Then nine-tenths of us felt as if we had the worst lickin’ of our lives. Now it is shown that ‘‘in any off year’ the vote polled by the Democrats would have given us a glorious victory. As it was, the Dem- oorats polled 110,795 votes more and the Republicans 95,170 less than they did as the presidential eleotion four years ago. The total official vote as returned to the of- fice of the Secretary of the Commonwealth for 1904 and 1908 being as follows : 1004 Ba De! rr . Gilhaus, Socialist Labor... 1,822 Hisgen, Independent......ccoeievinnnninnien “ 108 When you look at the results just as they are, this far away from the noise and clamor, the surprise and disappointment of election day, they are anything but dis- couraging to the Democracy of Pennsylva- nia. A gain of 110,795 for the Democracy and a loss of 95,170 to Republicaniem is anything but a victory for the party in power to boast of. — [t's only when yoa can get an op- portunity to measure closely that you get the exact size of the thing. The Baltimore Sun bas for many years paraded around with chest extended as if it were the great- est, most important and most influential power in all of the State of Maryland. Is claimed to be Democratic. It supported PARKER in 1904, with all the ability it possessed and he received a single one of its eight electoral votes. At the last election it renounced its Democracy, repudiated and bitterly opposed BRYAN, and seven of the eight electoral votes of that State were secured for him, With this measurement it is easy to know the exact size of the Sun's inflaence. And itdon’t seem to be over- whelmingly large, does it? — December, the last month of the year, is now here and Christmas will be with us before we are aware of it. DECEMBER 4, 1908. Promises Unfailfilled, And vow it is announced that she 150,000 ton steel;rail order, which we were told two days after the election was to be given the steel mills about Pittsburg at once, has not yet heen placed and that the probabil. ities now are shat no sach order will be given until after the Holidays, if then. Much of the evidence of returning prosper- ity that was so positively announced and 80 persistently paraded, at that time, has proven to be of the same kind. Some few industries have started up, others are hop ing that they will soon be able to stars, but | gett: on the whole, the general betterment of business conditions has been so little that these alter election promises and expeota- tions only prove how effectively and cruel- ly the people have been and can be faked. Why these boastful and magnified re- ports about she return of prosperity were #0 generally made and so loudly heralded it is difficult to conceive. The election was over and no votes could be made in that way. The Republican party had won and there was no need to lie to the people shen. The cupboard of the working man was empty, bus these stories furnished nothing to fill them. The people knew and felt thas a panic was upon them, and tales of this kind, while they give promise of bes- tering conditions, in no substantial way changed conditions for the better for any one, Why then were these stories cironlated ? What was the object of these Aladin tales of the wonderful prospects and promises that came with the election of Mr. TAFT? The answer is for those who are behind them to figure ous, and we fear that an honest cenclusion will neither be compli- mentary to the newspaper press, in the minds of those who have been so bitterly disappointed, nor will it add to the respect the public has for ite knowledge of what is going on, or its truthfulness in telling it. It Will Save Disappointment. Within the past few days conditions about Washington are taking on such an appearance that great hope ic given thas | Allow some kind of tariff revision will come, not- withstanding the efforts of the stand-pat- | sax ters to prevent it. How much of a oha wili ve made, or along what lines +i ebaoges will come no one would pretend to predict. Until more is known than the mere promise now held out, it will bardly justily a man in buying » farm because of an expectation thas the tariff revision that is looked for will be such as to enable him to purchase American manufactured imple- ments at home as cheaply as they are sold to the English farmer ; nor to inorease his family because the price of blankets and clothing and shoes will be cat down. While he is watching and hoping for these things to come, through a general reduc. tion of duties, it will be just as. well for him to keep homping himself and strug- gling to the extent of his ability to pay the extra prices the present tariff imposes upon him. These extra taxes are on everything he uses now, and they will be there for some time to come. Under any circumstances its a long time between a political promise and its realiza tion, and there is no probability that shere will be any exception in this case. Conse- quently is will be just as well for us all to continue at our jobs as if nothing is ex pected. If tariff revision comes, and it is in the interest of the masses, so much the better. If nothing bat a chavge comes, that bepefits none but a few—as is most probable—the disappointment will be so much the less. Don’t count on much for she people so long as yon have to look to a Republican Congress and a Republican administration for it. Official Vote on Judges. The official vote for Superior Court Judge in this State bas just been announe- ed to the Secretary of State and is as fol- lows : Porter, R.cccscisssssssissccissnnsnnssenn sessnnnes 646,370 OO | These figures show that 99,459 Repub- ficans who voted for TAFT failed to cast their ballot for the State, distriot and coun- ty tickets and that 82,909 Democrats dis- franchised themselves, excepts for BRYAN. Sarely an election law that will lose to the local candidates almost two handred thous- sand votes, because of its intricacies and size, and the difficulty of marking correot- ly, is not the kind of a ballot that will se- cure an honest and fair expression of the voters or that will jastily any party io de- manding its continuance. ~——This is the last week in which can- didates, successful and unsuccessful, who were voted for at the late election, will have in which to file the account of their election expenses, and at this writing not over a balf dozen have done so. The law is specific in this regard and states very plainly that any man who is elected to ol- fice and fails to file an account of his ex- penses cannot legally hold the office to which he was elected. The law also re- quires the defeated candidates to file an ao- i _NO. 48. Mr. Adams As a Thief. From the Boston Traveler. Charles Francis Adams, ina letter to Congressman MoCall, sarcassically calls himself a tariff thief wish a license Searing the broad seal of the United States, and known as the “‘Dingley tarifl,”’ to steal. Hesays: *“Istole under is yesterday ; I am stealing under it to day ; I propose %o steal uoder is to morrow. The govern, ment bas forced me into the position, and I both do and shall take full sivas of it. Iam, therefore, a tariff thief, witha license to steal. And—whas are you going to do abous it ?"’ The committee on ways and means is getting largely the protected manufao- turers’ side of the case ; the consumers are widely scattered and disorganized ; the rank and file of them are workingmen and people of limited means, who do not feel the direct pinch of the taxes from the tariff, and to whom the question of how the government gets the money to pay ite bilis is largely 8 mystery. Workingmen cannot afford to pay car fares and expense to Washington to protest agaivss the pres- ent tariff rates, although the large part of it comes from their pockets in the long run. It is the little driblets that make up the tariff graft. If a corporation can squeeze five cents each from every individual in the United States it means $4,000,000 or 5 per cent on an $80,000,000 capitalization, which is not to be sneezed at. The excess ie the cost of food, clothes, eto., by every family in the United States use of the tariff is estimated to be $100 a yeur, which is five cents multiplicd 2000 When McKinley came into office in 1896, the per capita cost of running the nation was $6.18 which under Roosevelt has in- creased to $8.86. When you say it quickly this $2.68 increase seems small, but it produces $200,000,000 extra to be spent at Washington. The American Damping Policy. From the Toronto Globe, One of the strongest influences tending to force tariff reform te the front in the United States is the practice of the proteot- ed industries, which sell at the normal profite allowed by competition abroad and evy the full protection of the tariff on the consumers at home. If a tariff affords a manuofacturer any protection at home it must enable him to get more than the nor- mal price for his goods. He cannot do this ablead, but mast sell at the normal profis lowed by hk The American nails to she adjaceut factories on Li ver- pool. The nails were shipped to Liver- pool and brought back under the clause in the American tariff permitting the free re- turn of American products in original pack- ages. The freight charge for two ship- ments across the Atlantio was less than the overcharge the tariff allowed the pail man- ulactarers to levy at home. This sitnation is highly amusiog to an onlooker. The spectacle of au intelligent people carrying nails twice across the Atlantic and finding it more profitable than carrying them across the street reveals with what little wisdom a nation may be governed. But the most amusing feature was tbe attitude of the manufacturers, who thought they bad really suffered a gross injustice. This shows how easy it is to regard privileges, however unwarranted, as rights. Our Impreunious Office Holders. From the Macon (Ga.) Telegraph. It will be a relief to the publio from the distressed state of mind which it bas labored under since Son-in-law Longworth imparted to it some years ago the des ate sofferings existing among our under- pia foreign Ministers to learn indirectly rom the list of Republican campaign con- tributors that this painful condition no longer exists. It is eafficient to say that the list discloses the names of eleven representatives, five Ambas- sadors, five Ministers and one Governor, who contributed in all $23,250 from their humble store. The names and amounts on this new roll of patriotism follow. Whitelaw Retdy London......ccsimn serersens... $10,000 sory Watts, Sart Dem J. Hin Berlin... Charles S. Francis, I 1,000 Thomas J. O'Brein TORY Sucesssvrmmessermen "500 Edwin V. Morgan, AVA Acernse Herbert G. Squ uires, AMA eereesress —— William G. Collier, Madrid..cce... Charles P, y L8DOD..ccocrerssrrrsnsssessnsene.. 1000 Charles E. raves, Stockholm... Charles E. Magoon, LE a. Total $23,250 While these modest sums do not indicate that the tide of Republican prosperity has reached our foreign outposts fully as yet, it at least shows that those who occupy them ae no longer in danger of immediate inani- tion. Mr. Taft's Purpose. From the New York American, Nov. 23. Mr. Hitohoook emerges from the Presi- dential campaign with extraordinary lau- rels and prestige of remarkable eucoess. He is now generally regarded as one of the abless, if not the ablest, political organizers in the Republican party. His plans and methods, sometimes ques- tioned and oriticised, have been so abund- autly vindicated by results thas he is now firmly established as an oracle and author- ity in the management of political cam- ne, To have made such a man the first ap. pointee in the Cabinet of the new Presi. dent, and to have located him in the Poat Office Department, suggests the otherwise evident fact that Mr. Taft proposes to con- trol his party as well as the Presidency. The Post office Department is the Presi- dent Factory of the Government. Real Cruel. From the Louisville Courier Journal. “There must be a real revision of the tariff,’ says the Chicago Evening Post. Don’t make a fellow laugh when "bis lips are oracked. Spawls from the Keystone, —It cost the county of Cambria $8,000 to fight forest fires during the recent period of blazes. —While eating raw oysters the other day, | George G. Gross, of Reading, found a pearl, . which a jeweler valued at $50. —A large oil portrait of Rev. Dr. W. P. Eveland, the popular president of William. sport Dickinson Seminary, was unveiled on Thanksgiving day. —Eggs have reached forty-two cents per dozen in Pottstown and even at that price the supply is so sm. 1 that