8Y FP. GRAY MEEK. Ink Slings. ~The fair will close today. Thus far is has been fair weather indeed for the annual event. ~When Dr. Cook gets to that Gridiron club dinner in Washington it will be all roast for bis. —Eleotion day is not so far off. Then Thanksgiving add Christmas. My, bow the time does fly. —1t the Republican press of the west is 90 be relied on we fear President TAFT is talking himself to death. — It WILBUR WRIGHT aod his broiber are not show men, as WILBUR avers, what are they taking the movey for? —The Pittsburg Times says ‘‘Dr. Cook looks and talks like # man who bad dis- eovered the pole.” Gooduess, was he sach a frost as that. —Theatrical sunonncements state that Germany is to have an English theatre. Likely Italian and French plays are to be produced in is. ~Yesterday’s crowd should oonvinoe thie most skeptical that a connty fair, prop- erly worked up, wounld become a great and permanent institation in Centre county. —Philadelphia is getting ready for the election in November. Philadelphia’s pre- patedness usually depends on the extent to which she can pad the registration rolls in anticipation of stuffing the ballot boxes. —When MARK TwalN gets familiar enough with Ossy GABRILOUWITSCH, his new son-in-law, to have a little mind left unoccupied while he is pronouncing his name, it may be expected that he will say something fanny about is, —An Alaskan dog team has made a reo- ord of four hundred and twelve miles in four days, whioh is somewhat better than that of a certain green automobile on which there bas heen egquandered enough to buy biscuit for all the dogs in Alaska, —Bome one has come out with the state- ment that most everyone will be disap: pointed in bell hecause there is to be noth- jog new in is. However thas may be we are not consumed with curiosity enough to want to go there to prove this prophet a false one. —Don’s fail to vote “No” in the squaré opposite Amendment 7 on your biokes in November. The rest of she proposed Amendments are harmless, of no oonse- quence. They were designed merely as a mask for No. 7. So don’s fail to vote against No. 7. - «=Tomorrow all of the big fool ball teams of the country will take on stronger puentd ; consequently a greater hospital list than was reported last Saturday may be expected. One death has resulted al ready from the game this fall. Let ua hope it will be she last. ~The Detroit girl who bas jast announe- ed that she will marry her intended only it the Tiger's win the world’s base ball se. ries is certainly the most novel fan of the season. But then there may be some wie. dom in her decision after all, for it the Ti. gers lose life won't be worth living in De- troit. ~TA¥FT'S tour of the west has stalled him. He bas gone stale on she fancy foods served for the presidential palate and longs for ham and eggs. Plenty of the fellows who voted for him with an idea of getting better things have been longing for ham and eggs for these many months, bat up to this sime it has been mush and taters for theirs, with an occasional dish of side meat. —J. PIERPOINT MORGAN has just failed in an attempt to purchase the Reggina, at Mantuoi, Italy. Isis one of the most fa- mous royal residences in all of Europe and the New York financier offered five million dollars for it. Just what he wanted with it is not stated, but that is a matter of lis- tle consequence ; since every one must be convinced that is is only pars of his plan to gradually acquire the earth. —Aun experiment that is being carried on ous in Indiana with hogs ie so interest. ing that it canno$ but arouse the interest of the entire country. It has been found that by feeding them superior foods—that is things that produce brain tissue—tbe hogs become more refined. In other words a lot subjected to the experiment for a period of only two weeks would not wal. low in the mud any more and did nos ges their front feet in the trough when they were fed. When the experimental balle- tins are issued we certainly hope the pub: lio will be told just what foods were used because there are so many men we know of whom a little diet of the same kind mighs help. —1It there is » single valid reason why you are not capable of choosing the men who should hold your elections for you, if the Legislature in Harrisburg were in a po- sition to know better than you who of your neighbors are most competent to be judge, inspector or olerk, then there might be some resson for your voting for Amend- ment 7 in the proposed changes to the oon- stitation. We fancy thas you think you know the men of your home preocinot bet- ter than the Legislators at Harrisburg, therefor we fancy that you will have sence enough to vole against Amendment 7. It is designed ' to take away from you the right to elect your own election officers, and, whether you are a Demoorat or a Re- publican, it is all the same, you should be against is, We believe that Senator MoNICcHOL, the machine ‘‘contractor-boss,’”’ of Philadel. phia, is the anthor of the statement that the distriot attorney's office was aware of and assented to the packing of a jury to ao- quit SAMUEL SALTER, who was fried for the crime of ballots box stuffing. SALTER had practically confessed his guilt and be came a fugitive from justice. The ballot boxes bad been stuffed in order to prevent the re-election of P. F. ROTHERMEL to the office of distrios attorney. Mr. ROTHERMEL had refased to prostitute his office and be- tray his professional and official obligations in order to acquit the late Senator QUAY of the crime of misasing the State fands, and the machine determined to punish him. It refused him a re-nomination and bestowed that favor on JOHN WEAVER. Bat the Democrats and Independents united on ROTHERMEL as their candidate,and acoord- ing to the Philadelphia Press, good Repab-. lican authority, 80,000 frandulent votes were cast for WEAVER. Immediately after the election prooeed- ings against SALTER were begun in the criminal courts and be forleited his bail and wens into hiding in Mexico where be remained until alter WEAVER bad heen in- ducted into the office and bad the office al- fairs arranged satisfactorily to the machine. The arrangements inoloded the appoint. ment of obedient machine men as assistants and as soon as they were completed SAL- TER returned and offered himsell for trial. If Mr, MeNicHoOL, or whichever other ma- chine leader hecame the epokesman ol the gang in the subsequent quarrel with Weav- ER, is to be believed, the jury was packed for acquittal and she distriot attorney’s of. fice agreed to ‘‘pass’’ the men chosen by the machine for that service. The assistant district attorneys at the time were NORRIS 8, BARRETT avd RoBEBT Vox Moscn. ziskek District Attornéy WEAVER wae almost immedistely afterward promoted to the office of mayor, Mr. BARRETT got the first vacanoy on the bench and Von MoscH- ZISKER the second. Upon the death of Judge McCarray, of Court No. 3, the machine managers deter- mined to disobarge their debt and balance ‘accounts o the SALTER trial by putting Vox MosCHZISKER into the vacanoy. They presented his name to Governor PENNY- PACKER lor appointmens bat the lingering respect whioh the Governor retained for the reputation of the bench asserted iteell and he flatly refused. Afser a considerable time sp:nt in quibbliog over the matter with DuraAM and MoNicHOL, the Gove ernor endeavored to close the incident by appointing a distinguished and capable lawyer named BispHAM, who declined the honor. “The machine renewed its el- fort to convert PENNYPACKER to VON- MOSCHZISKER, but again failed. Theo the machine nominated bim for election with the idea of thus forcing the Governor to make the appointment, but even that dras. tic course failed of its purpose. PENNY. PACKER maintained the dignity of the bench by leaving the seat vacant until the machine catapulted Vox MosCHZISKER into is at the following election. aft te for Ship Subsidies. President TAFT appears to respeot the old adage, ‘‘honor among thieves.” That is to say he doesn’s want it all, and having made certain of bis share of the proceeds of the looting of the Treasury, he is entirely willing to let all the others have whatever they imagine is ‘‘comiog to them.” He has applanded, not to say annointed, Senator ALDRICH lor forcing through Congress a tariff bill which will yield a thousand mil- lions of dollars in graft every year, to be divided among the trust magoates and other ‘“Captains of Industry’ and ‘‘Na- poleons of Finance,’’ and now he expresses a willingoess to open the Treasury to thoee persistent and ravenous beggars who com- pose the steamship trass. In other words in one of his western speeches President TAFT, the other day, unequivocally declared bimsell in favor of ship subsidies. This is an old form of ex- pressing a covetons desire to raid the Treas- ury. Bat it is one of such forbidding aspeot that it was never serionsly presented until in the campaign of 1806 the late MARK HANNA entered into an agreement with a lot of commercial pirates thas if they would organize a corporation for the osten- sible purpose of building sbips and con- tribute liberally to the Republican cam- paigo fond, he would guarantee them a subsidy which would aggregate a couple of hundred million dollars within the period of a dozen years. HANNA got the contribu. sion and tried his best to fulfill bis part of the bargain. Bot the proposition was: so monstrous that he never could get the legis- lation through Cong Bat the pirates have never dispaired of ultimate success. They bave hammered away ever since in the hope of achieve. ment. Until now, | never been able to get a President 10 align himsel! on Sheir side. RoosEvELT, who was always liberal with other people's money, was ‘most persuaded but never £ £ / l, however, they have! actually said the word. At last, however, TaPT bas come out in the open. Enjoying the Iruiis of a raid on the Treasury uoder a law which violates the constitution, he probably feels that all others who are will. ing to rob the people ought to have an op- portunity, under the sanction of av act of Congress, to do so. It shows that he is no hog, anyway, but that is about the bess thas can be said of is. Bright Prospects for Democrats, Registration in the cities of the Firsé class closed last Saturday and according to the most careful estimates, the result is entirely eatisfactory to Democrats. In Philadelphia what are known as the “re form wards,’ those in which the better element of the electorate combine against the machine, bave a comparatively fall registration and there has been a falling off in the machine strongholds. In Pittsburg and Seranton the same results are noted. The voters in cities of the Third class have another chance to regleter. One week from to morrow, Saturday, October 16th, the Registrars will sit at the polling places in such sities, and citizens who have not here- tofore qualified themselves to vote may do 80. It is to be hoped that Democrats in those oitien will nob neglect their oivio duty. Reports from the saburban polling dis: triots are also very gratifying from a Demo- cratio view points. All the Democrats have not fulfilled their obligations but av unuve- oally large proportion have and compared with the opposition the advantage in this respect is decidedly in their favor. In fact in a considerable number of districts the returns fled in the office of the Demoorat- io state committee in Harrishurg is to the effect that every Democratic voter is folly qualified to oast his ballot on the 20d day of November, for the ad- mirable ticket nominated by the State con- vention and the equally deserving local candidates. In other districts the registra. tion aod payment of taxes bas been fuller than ueual and the promise is of a very largé Demooratic vote throughout the State. This will guarantee a glorions Demooratio victory. It only remains now for the Demoorals of the State to ‘make good’ ou these proms ises. Election day neually comes at a buay time and if the weather is favorable for farm work many electors reluctantly spare the time necessary to go to the polls. Lack of confidence in the result is the reason for this in many instances and indifference is a contributary cause. There is no justifi- cation for the lack of confidence and even less for she indifference. Except in Presi- dential years there has been po election within a period of twenty years which would bave failed of giving a Democratic majosity if the full vote had been polled. Bust the gains which are made from the reputable element of the Republican party are balanced by the losses through failure of Democrats to vote and the resals is de- feat. Let ns see thas this doesn’t bappen this year. Spreading a False Statement, The Republican candidates for Auditor General and State Treasurer are not mak- ing many speeches but they are traveling over the State and in meeting groupe of voters are reiterating the statement made by Senator PENROSE in his Altoona speech to the effect that Pevnsylvania bas never lost a dollar on account of the dishonesty or neglect of any Republican fiscal officer. With she memory of the ospitol building grafs in their minds is ie a bold statement for them to make. It is a matter of court record that $9,000,000 was stolen in the building and furnishing of the capitol and that loss is asoribable directly to the die- honesty or neglect of Republican fiscal of- ficers now under conviction. If the Auditor General and State Treas- arer in office at the time the looting opera- tions were in progress, had been honest and vigilant,not a dollar could bave been taken from the Treasury in excess of a just price for the work and materiale. That was the ground upon which Auditor General Sxy- DER and State Treasurer MATTHUES were convioted. It was not alleged thas they got the money, It wasn’t even charged that the value of the plunder was divided #0 thas they got a share. But it was prov- ed that they permitted the loot in violation of sheir official obligation to zealously and vigilantly goard the interests and property of she State, Nobody on earth knows this fact better thin A. Sissox and J. A Stoves. ree years ago the Repu t; vominated Rosert K. Youxa ar General for the reason thas the dishonesty or negligence of bis predecessor was so fresh in the public mind that the managers were afraid to select a machine candidate. Two years ago JOHN O. SHEATZ was nomi- nated for State Treasurer for the same rea- STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. BELLEFONTE, PA., OCTOBER 8, 1909. - e | force his family to starvation. New York, has made a startling statement with respeot to political conditions in that State sud in Washington. Mr. Parsoxs, besides being a Representative in Congress is obairman of the Republican party of New York city. He is also *‘on the visiting lis” of former President ROOSEVELT and pre- samably a political patrician. Referring to the approaching election for mayor of New York be declared, the otber day, that ie the organization of the present Congress Speaker CANNON and New York friends of hie bad entered into a bargain with the TAMMANY society that in consideration of favors to the Speaker at thas time, no legis. might interfere with the electoral fraud plans of the TAMMANY organization. In other words Speaker CANNON and Tam. MANY hall formed a partnership to promote electoral orimes. As the organization of the present Con. gress, in Match, last year, a number of progressive Republicans formed a coalition with the Democrats to alter the rules of the House of Representatives so as to ma- terially curtail she powers of the Speaker and oppose the re election of CANNON, in- cidentally. The plan would have euo- ceeded bat for the reoreanoy of Represen- tative FrrzagraLD, ol Brooklyn, a Tam- MANY man, who misled a few otherfTam- MAXY men aod southern protectionists into the sapport of the CANNON program. The conspiracy was managed by ex-Representa- tive LITTAURR, of New York. LITrAUsR is a glove manalactarer, who narrowly es- oaped conviction for cheating the govern. ment ip gloves supplied for the army a few years ago, and his reward for work for CaN- NON was to be an increase in the tariff tax on gloves, which pledge of the Speaker wan sabsequently fulfilled. . sation of the House Mr. FITZoERALD, who by the way is a very capable and cunning fellow, was highly favored by the Speaker in committee assignments and in other ways and most people believed that these favors were in payment for bis sinister serv. does to the cougressional machine. Even At4bas the situation was bad enough fer is implied a premium on treachery. Bus the statement of Mr. PARSONS to the effeos thas there were involved so many and such grave orimes, makes it infinitely worse. The tariff tax on gloves is a matter of pecuniary interest as well as injury, to all the women and most of the men of the country and the corraption of the balios is, in the estima. tion of every thoughtful man, a species of treason. Bas there is another bad phase to the matter. That President Tarr was concerned in the conspiracy is a matter of common understanding. Rufianism in Office, In Pbiladsiptia there is an excellent naturalized citizen named CHARLES A. NARDELLO. He is engaged in reputable business, pays his debts, maintains his family decently and prospers. Naturally a opaturalized citizen of that oharacter wonld acquire influence in a coinmunity in which there are a considerable number of his fellow countrymen less fortunate in the matter of acquisition and success. Quite as natarally such a man would feel thas he is entitled to all the rights of good citizenship, among which is the right to vote as he pleases and sappors, for any office, the candidate of hie ohoice. Even decent and prosperous naturalized citizens, however, are in terror of the law. The Assistant Superintendents of Police in Philadelphia is a ruffian named Tin O'Leary. Mr. O'LEARY doesn’s share the opinion which appears to have been beld by Mr, NARDELLO with] respect to the rights and privileges of decent patural- ized citizens. At any rate Mr. O'LEARY sent for Mr. NARDELLO, the other day, and remonstrated against that gentleman exercising his right to eleotioneer among his fellow-countrymen for the candidate for Distriot Attorney of Philadelphia, who is opposed to and by she machine. Mr. NARDELLO protested that, as a citizen, tax- payer and business man, his jright to sup- port Mr. GiBBONEY for District Attorney is unquestionable, and that he intended to continue it with all the energy atffhis com- mand. This obdaracy wureatly incensed Mr. O'LEARY, according to sworn evidence in offending foreigner with the vindiotiveness of the law. In his magnificent office, with the paraphernalia of police power about him, Mr. O'LEARY is no} doubs, a formid- able figure in the eyes of the average Ital. ian. In the frenzy of a furious passion he probably did his best to terrorize the objeot of his wrath by threatening that the police would destroy his business and Bat such a picture doesn’t look good in the eyes of an intelligent and fair-minded native]Ameri- ean citizen. . Any just man would feel like wringing the roffian’s neck and voting against the party that keeps men of his kind in office. EL Iation would be enacted as Albany which | make Alter the CANNON viotory in the organi. | go gree. The man or woman who is owner, nor even a renter, is pay- tax on every artiole of food and cloth. fog used. The iavdlord of she hotel, ing house or restaurant ivoludes 00st of his fare and service rent be pays, aud if shis land own his pays to ie owner pays; and the larger part of taxes are finally paid by the consumer. And po mater whether the taxes be direot taxes, as we noderstand the term, or in- £2 i : forsa and failures, Solon knew this fact when be said wrougs and errors “ouly be corrected by each one feelmg that each other's wrongs were his own wrongs, or a wrongto him. . by that only Aud sv he oft xpremed jd Se propers owner is a taxpayer is errone- ous, er page on his farm and includes them in the him for the things farmer pro: vty The owner of the grocery 0 invldier Yue on the ren the grocer Fo fs £ i i i f i | i F i i fi if gL HH 2E3 | i i §E i : | i gi i go i £ i ! j t i o [ | i 3 £e i i 8 “sF i 3 el 5 i ei Ont of the Pariy.” presidents said that he could nos e for other men, bus he desorihed the “‘in- sargent’’ who voted against the Aldrich tariff as one who regarded the departure from principle in the bill as so serious that ‘‘he muss in conscience abandon the partys The “‘insurgente’’ do not consider they bave ‘‘abandoned the ,"" but one ojo gna, ie po oe She ong abandon she rl = machine, or organiza- on. Bat suppose that the ‘‘insurgents’’ and Republicans who agree with them and eup- pors their position, should abandon the party ? Whas hope would the party have of carrying the congressional elections next year or the presidential election three years from now ¥ Senator Aldrioh and to read the insurgent Senators out of the party during the tariff debate, but Senator Nelson of Minnesota replied that ‘it will take more than the Senator from Rhode Island to read Minnesota ous of the Republican a ” rn ‘suicidal as any polioy that could be adopted by the machine at Wash- iogton headed by Aldrich and Cannon would be the policy of ‘‘reading the in- surgents out of the party.’ They would at thesame time read enough electoral votes out of the Republican column to insure she greatest Demooratio victory in fifty years. Big Decrease in Exports. From the Portland (Ore.) Journal. It comes as a surprise to many Ameri- caus thas our commerce is not only relatively but actually shrinking. Sales of American products to South America, China and Japan, sud to Eogland, Ger- mavy, Fasnoe and other countries, deoreas- ed last year, and ise to decrease more. Io manufactured goods the loss for 1908. 3,84 sous ne Wisp 1606-1, 1s 365,000,000. ew * Bina A eh pod po. ops fn not be literally true, they should certainly be suggestive of a change of high tariff policy. We cannot expeot to sell largely to other countries against whose products we ereot impossible barriers. Even so great a protectionist as MoKinley saw thas, and in his last speech declared shat *sbe period of exclusiveness has passed.” Bat under the Aldrich-Can- non regime we have been more exclusive than ever. Protection, indeed, has run mad. [Its high priests will considers ne iE the case, aud he threatened tolpursue the reciprocity, aud allow no revision down- ward, exoept at a few poinis as a compro- mise and a sop; hence foreign com merce is decreasing, and American consumers are being plandered on account of probibitive protection more than ever before. Even moss of the pretended reduotions, as on lumber, were false pretenses, and a ad valorem clause in the new law ‘Spawils from the Keystone. —Some of the milk dealers in Lock Haven have decided to drop the price on their com=" modity from eight to six cents a quart. ~During an exciting runving race at Lock Haven, a ‘fast little horse owned by Peter Lees, of that tity, stepped on some ob- Jeet and broke its leg near the hip snd had ‘to be shot, x ~—As the result of the completion of the new Franklin and Clearfield railroad, s car : | that is used to take ten or twelve days to go from Chicago to Philipsburg now makes the trip in three. —One of the boldest and most cowardly boldups ever in DuBois took place when a robber knocked Mrs, Eva Russel down snd took $2 from her purse. She was unconscious for three hours and still suffers from shock and bruises. —The Whitmer—Steele company is rush. - | ing operations in the construction of its nar- row gauge road from the saw mill at Hawk Ran to the timber tracts of the concern, near Philipsburg. The saw mill is axpected to be in running order by November. —Various granges throughout Hunting. don county are thinking of buying twenty acres of land near Huatingdon on which to hold agricultural fairs. The land which located heyond Juniata college. i ~Now that the road isin operation the Franklin and Clearfield officials are thinking about a suitable location for the shops and yards and will soon make known their de- cision. The townsaloug the route of the vew railroad are elated over the prospects for increased prosperity which it brings. —Votes will be taken atthe meeting of the stockholders in the merged light, heat and power concerns of Johnstown on De- cember 1 to increase the indebtedness $3, 000,000. The companies are sll united with the Citizen's Light Heat and Power com- pany, whose present indebtedness amounts to $555,000. ' = Another industry is to be added to the Clearfield region. The University Briquette and Construction company has obtained a sixty day option on the Hillside colliery to arrange for the transfer of the property and will erect a $30,000 plant to manufacture briquettes, a fuel in blocks composed of coal and crude oil. —Pittsburg’s Associated Charities will bor. row $10,000 with which to secure a suitable, structure to shelter the homeless wanderers who In other cities are sheltered in police stations, filthy lodging houses, etc. [tis ex. pected that the movement will eventually lead to an up to date establishment supports ed by the sity. ~The state forestry commission this week added 12,300 acres of forest Jand to the state preserves, making the total pow under the control of the state 940,000 acres. The land added this week was 5,000 acres in Clinton, 6,000 acres in Cameron, and 1,300 acres in Perry and Fravklin counties. The forest Iand cost on an average of $1.50 an acre. ~The building boom at Ramey continues. In addition to the new houses built thus far this season and those now in course of con~ struction, Sol. McCulley has commenced the + erection of a new store building and H. E. "Wagner ls building en addition 4o his big general store. Other improvements are noticeable, evidences of increasing prosper ity. ~John James and Joseph Kelley were av. rested charged with stealing a furnace from the house of C. C. Berger, of Bloomsburg. The men, itis alleged, boldly entered the house and seid that they had been sent to take the furnace out. The heater was a new one and the family believed the men. The men then sold their booty to a junk dealer, it is alleged. —In addition to the regular quarterly div- idend of 2 per cent.,, the Johnstown Tele phoae company distributed among its stock~ holders an extra dividend of one dollar per - share, The par value of stock is $50 which makes this extra dividend one of 2 per cent or an aggregate of 10 per cent. a year upon the original investment. Extensions and improvements will be made by the company in the near future. ~Hazelton's council has adopted a license tax under the provisions of which street cars are annually taxed $5 each, public utility companies $100, theatres $75 down according “to their size ete. The pawnbrokers, financial brokers, circuses, bill posting concerns and others come in for a share, As originally intended the taxation was to include all business men, down to the rag pickers in the street, but the ordinance was limited, . =Mayor R. W. Jacohe, of Huntingdon, has secured a lease on 2,600 acres of laud in the lower end of Huntingdon county with the privilege of buying. The property is known as the Martin tract and isone of the bes cial fields in central Pennsylvania. The mayor is interested in other coal properties. He will start to develop the new land at once. There is already from gix to fourteen feet of coal opened up on the grounds. The consideration for the option amounts to about $51,000. —Ten thousnd people live in Lock Haven as computed from data taken from the new directory which will be issued in six weeks. Five thousand more reside in the suburbs. The new book contains the names of those who live in the many townships of Clinton county as well as those who live in Renove, Lock Haven and its suburbs. It contains the names of 3806 people over 18 years of age. churches and a like number of licensed hotels. Twenty-four is the number of board- ing houses while there are thirty-one lodges and secret societies. ~