BY P. GRAY MEEK. INK SLINGS. —The backset Speaker CANNON re- ceived in the House on Friday won't help much more than to draw a heavier fire on the Insurgents next time. —Knowing something of the gentle- man'swork as a weather forecaster we don’t know which Pittsburg will fear the most: “Pogonip” or PENNYWIT. —The ice men having their houses full await with impatience the approach of summer. So do some of the rest of us whose coal bins are running low. —The war on the local steam heating company, we have been informed, is to be modified into a campaign of benevolent assimilation. Won't that be interesting. —If the Hon. Secretary Knox was right in butting into Nicaraguan affairs so promptly why is he not following up his early declarations. We fancy he was a little premature, for nothing else could account for the manner in which the State Department has let the matter drop. —A lunatic in the state asylum at Middletown, N. Y., won a two hundred dollar Jersey cow for the second best essay on “How can Clean and Wholesome Milk be Produced for the Least Cost.” The prizes were offered by the State Health commission and were widely con- tested for. The cow will doubtless sigh and say to the bug house for me now. —The President is entirely right in pun- ishing insubordination in his governmental family in the most drastic manner. His is the highest office within the gift of the nation and for him to temperize with any” thing that might lessen its dignity is al most a crime, but might it not have been better to have instituted an investigation before Chief Forester PINCHOT was forc’ ed to take the step he did. Since Lewistown has gone dry there has been so little for her policemen to do that the chief has resigned. Only two arrests were made in December and the expenses of the lock-up were only ten cents. It must be an atmosphere over there almost like the approach of the millenium. Yet we are of the, opinion that if the drys really thoughtfit was coming they would vote wet instantly. ~The unexpected death of State Treas- urer-elect STOBER, at his home in Lan- caster, on Monday morning, will com- plicate matters in that office somewhat. It will be a question whether the Governor can appoint a successor to Treasurer SHEATZ or whether the latter will hold office until his successor is elected. It successor will be —Probably if the American farmer were given American made farm ma- chinery as cheap asit is sold to the farm- ers of New Zealand and South Africa and if the tariff on clothing were reduced so that he could buy a good suit as cheap as it can be bought abroad the government might not need to continue further its in- vestigation into the high cost of living. If the farmer could buy cheaper he could sell cheaper and that’s all there is to it. —The Erie railroad has been fined one thousand dollars for maintaining a nui- sance in Jersey City by permitting locomo- tives to whistle. We would respectfully refer this fact to the Pennsylvania railroad company. There is an ordinance pro- hibiting whistling in Bellefonte and the borough needs money and the Lewisburg freight and the local shifter both violate the ordinance daily and they have become a ——nuisance and our patience is almost worn out and it is only a short step from cause to effect. —The city of Boston had an unusual election on Tuesday. Four nominees were in the field for mayor and the two leaders were Democrats. Eighty-four per cent. of the city’s vote was polled and FITZGERALD won over STORROW by only twelve hundred votes. Mayor HIBBERD, who was a candidate for re-election and who defeated FITZGERALD two years ago. receiving thirty-eight thousand votes, re- ceived only seventeen hundred this time. It was a strange mix-up, but then Boston always was queer. —While in town the other day the Hon. PuiLip WOMELSDORF, of Philipsburg, de- clared his intention of becoming a candi- date for the Republican nomination for Senate from this district. This will proba. bly leave the fight for that honor between he and Mr. ALEXANDER, of Clearfield, as, we understand, Mr. HENRY C. QUIGLEY, of Bellefonte, will not be an aspirant again, as he prefers to run for school di- rector from the North ward in order to stand by his fellow members on the board until they have successfully concluded the building of the new seventy-five thousand dollar school house. —Political gossip has it that there is to be a spirited contest for Justice in the South and West wards of Bellefonte Justice J. M.. KrICHLINE, who has held the office for many years, is an aspirant for renomination and the friends of Jas. H. CorL are said to have persuaded him to be an aspirant. The street rumors go so far as to say that in the event of Mr. CoRrL'’s failure to secure the Democratic nomination the Republicans will endorse him in which event there would probably be as warm a fight for the office as has been seen in this borough for many years. Then it would be a non-partisan contest aud he fight would be on purely person- Bb a, ASA ors VOL. 55. The Treasury Succession. There is a good deal of speculation STATE RIGHTS AN BELLEFONTE, PA The Plutocrats Comforted. Governor HuGHes, of New York, has among the politicians as to filling the | given the plutocrats of the country great vacancy in the office of State Treasurer at | comfort by declaring that the proposed the expiration of the term of Mr. SHEATZ, ' amendment to the constitution of the in view of the death of hissuccessor-elect | United States, empowering Congress to Mr. J. A. StoBer. If the present incum- enact legislation levying a taxon incomes, bent had died, or if the death of Mr. ought to be defeated for the reason that STOBER had been deferred until after he jt infringes on State rights. Such a tax, had been installed in the office next May, ' Governor HUGHES asserts, would be as- there would have been no uncertainty on | sessed upon the incomes derived from in- the subject. Section 8 of article 4 of the terest on state and municipal bonds, and constitution provides that the Governor ag some States have guaranteed that their “shall have power to fill any vacancy that ponds should be free of taxes, the act of may happen, during the recess of the Congress would be an infringement of the Senate, in the office of Auditor General, rights of such States. Curiously enough State Treasurer, Secretary of Internal | those opposed to taxing incomes approve Affairs or Superintendent of Public In- | of the proposition whether they believe in structions.” There is no ambiguity in State rights or not. that declaration. It was hardly necessary for Governor But Mr. STOBER has never qualified as Hugues to invoke this long drawn out State Treasurer and consequently, it is jdea in order to defeat the ratification of reasoned, his death creates no vacancy. the constitutional amendment in ques The expiration of the term of office of (jon There never was any intention of Mr. SHEATZ would create a vacancy if his ratifying the amendment and if the CAN- duly elected successor were ready tO non and congressional machine qualify. But the commission of Mr. had had the least idea that there was SHEATZ authorizes him to retain the office danger of that result the resolution never until his successor is qualified and as the ould have been passed. A year ago the death of Mr. STOBER makes it impossible country was considerably aroused over for his successor to qualify, the doubts the subject of taxing incomes. President arise. Of course the Republican machine Tapr had publicly and frequently §prom- managers will try to construe the law $0 | jsed such legislation during his campaign as to give the Governor power to appoint. jo. election and thousands who voted for Former Representative JOHN H. FOW, of | ji, demanded a fulfillment of the pledge Philadelphia, who keeps opinions on all The constitutional amendment was an subjects “on tap” all the time, volunteers | expedient to fool them. the information that the authority to ap-| Those who would be obliged to bear point lies in an act of 1873. But lawyers | the burden of an income tax provided the of greater reputation take the opposite pyik of the corruption fund used in buy- view and hold that Mr. SHEATZ will con- ing TAPT'S election. They perfectly un- tinue in office until his successor is elect- | qarstood that his promises on the subject ed next fall or that of 1911. were “made 10 the ear to be be broken to If the Governor could be depended upon | ¢he hope.” They knew that TAPT 1d D FEDERAL UNION. .. JANUARY 14, 1910. — ee NO. 2. Aa Absurd Spectacle. {Congress and the Cost of Living. No mentally balanced pirate chief will | From the Lancaster Intelligencer. tolerate a mutineer in his crew. It| The increasod cost of living has long wouldn't be safe. No reasonably intel- concern. At ligent band of burglars will permit an | dry which are officer of the law to sit in its councils. It | sent the political life would jeopardize the personal liberties of Our of the “operators.” There is no valid rea-! lic business should object to the presence | of any honest man during their confer- | bon an poy A . ences or undertake to muzzle the mouth | tion of statistics about Mog roe lee: The administration of the government at Washington has the absolute right to have its friends in official places. Under a government of parties it is necessary to preserve party organization and that is the only certain way to achieve that re- sult. But an administration which for- bids men in high office from communicat- ing information to Congress or individuals interested, must have some ulterior pur- pose to subserve. Men fit to occupy seats ‘in the cabinet of a President or admin- ister the affairs of an important bureau of the government ought to know how to behave without being put under restraint. A manly, self-respecting, cabinet officer or bureau chief would resent an order to muzzle him. These observations are apropos of the recent dismissal of Forester PINCHOT from the service of the government, be- cause he wrote a letter to a distinguished Senator in Congress which was subse- quently read on the floor of the chamber. If the President was free from sinister ly there are many ways of doing nothing i maintaining an appearance of ac- Meanwhile, everybody knows that the ncreased very much power. There may be wide differences of opinion as to the causes and as to what should done to remedy this condition, but is no disputing the stubborn fact necessaries of life are too expen- I | to appoint a man of the highest fitness, the question involved would be of little consequence. Left to his own impulses it is certain that he would do this, more- over the interests of the public would be conserved by his exercise of the power. But the control of the State Treasury is was not nominated last Spring. It is no aspersion upon Mr. STOBER’S personal | character to say that the machine mana- | gers were sure of him and they will not | consent to the appointment of a successor who is not equally amenable to their wishes and obedient to their orders. | | Obviously a Standard Oil Trick. i Manifestly the President's appeal for a national incorporation law is in the in- | terest of the Standard Oil company and | similar predatory trusts. Certain States | have been making it “too hot” for the | Standard. Texas, for example, has legis- lated it out of existence in that State until it conforms to conditions which the Legislature appeared to think just. Other States have been discussing similar legis- lation, and there has been talk of extend- ing it to other corporations, such as the Steel trust. Unless this a power of domestic regulation is taken awey from the States, some of the arrogant corporations may be compelled to pay some regard to the rights of the people. A federal incorporation law would re- move all such dangers from the pathway of the plutocrats. With such a law on the federal statute books the Standard 0il company could force itself upon Texas . serve their purposes however much it might be necessary for him to stultify himself and they were not only surprised but actually alarmed when they discover- ed that the people took the matter seri- ously. The objection of Governor HUGHES comes to them, therefore, in the form a ceedingly. The defeat of Speaker CANNON on an important question of order in the House of Representatives, the other day, was quite as much a surprise to the country as it was a rebuke to the congressional boss. Observing people had come to re- gard the talk of the “insurgents” as “hot air,” and little attention was paid to it. The Speaker himself had come to imagine that the opposition to him had spent its strength. Therefore the announcement of the vote was “like a clap of thunder from a clear sky” and though its signifi- cance is a matter of conjecture, the re- sult is of the highest importance. When the House once gets into the habit of running its own affairs, it is likely to continue it. The majority against the Speaker was meager but sufficient. The vote was 149 to 146 and there were 88 absentees. But a careful analysis of the situation shows that on a full vote the majority would have been greater, while every expedient was invoked in behalf of the organization. The machine in the Senate has since in- tervened to save the CANNON face. But it is doubtful if its plan will succeed. On of 4 SHEATZ type | icing x at the point of federal bayonets. Mr. | the contrary the members are likely to ROCKEFELLER could then snap his fingers ' resent the attempt of the co-ordinate at the Legislature of Missouri and the | branch to control the methods of the Governor of Arkansas. The judgment of House. Such an indignity has never be- purposes in connection with the BALLINGER affair, no harm could have resulted from the PINCHOT letter. In fact nobody would have been hurt by that communication —]|t is expected that the appointment of a postmaster at State College will be made within a very short time, probably within a week or two. There are just two candidates for the place, John W. Stuart, the present incumbent, who wants to succeed himself, and Philip D. Foster. While Mr. Stuart has the support of the bulk of the patrrons of the office behind him Foster is being backed by the Re- publican party organization and as Con- gressman Barclay is a candidate for a second term there is considerable specu- lation as to where the plum will fall though the Foster people announced dur- ing the fore part of the week that they have it cinched. ——1Jce men and private individuals in Bellefonte have housed practically all the ice they will need for the coming year | and it is the finest crop harvested in this to we 3,000 section in years. A large amount was | Lighting White House and public grounds 16500 brought here from Hecla this week and | Total for Executive Department for one - it was clear as a crystal and from twelve VOL... vio or is etiicsrrmsteis saris etestel $329,420 . A Mr. Taft's salary was increased to $75, OW (ivan Republicans that the tion of will the commodity be any cheaper next 000 was to be in lieu of the illegal year. appropriation of an equal sum for travel- m— ing expenses, but when the game was ac- ——James Corl has entered the race for tually pulled off the item of rave ex- the nomination of Justice of the Peace in DE there. the South and West wards on the Demo- cratic ticket, and Henry Kline is being groomed for the same nomination on the the court dissolving the Standard Oil com- pany of New Jersey as “a corporation in restraint of trade,” would be asmall cause of disturbance in the big building at 26 | Broadway. A federal charter, easily ac- quired under the circumstances, would give the emissaries of Mr. ROCKEFELLER right of way through all the States for purposes of pillage and plunder. President TAFT is exceedingly adroit in his scheme to serve these corporations at the expense of the people but he will hardly fool all the people this time or a sufficient number of them at any time to compass the result. There is a well de- fined plan in process of formation to rob the States and the people of all rights re- fore been put upon any parliamentary body and self-respecting members of the | House are not, at present, in a humor to tolerate such an innovation. The obvious purpose of the congres- sional machine was to pack the committee to investigate the charges against Secre- tary of the Interior BALLINGER which are supported by former Forester PINCHOT. ALpricH and CANNON have captured TAFT, "body and breeches,” and they want to discredit ROOSEVELT and his policies. A packed committee of investigation would have been greatly helpful in this enterprise. But the congressional insur- gents and the united Democracy have de- publican ‘ticket, Although Hie pr. Time to Stamp Eggs. maries are only a week off the list of can- didates for the various offices is unusual- ly small. —The officials of the Steel Trust were served a banquet at one hundred dollars a plate in Pittsburg, Saturday night. The dear little infant industry! We pre- | the nestof the egg. Over in an, sume milk from a bottle was drunk freely. | where thi are supposed to be cheaper, The railroads and steamships got $83,- 000,000 for transporting the mails last year and the Postmaster General pretends to think that he doesn’t know exactly what causes the deficiency. feated the purpose. Whether they will | Now that Speaker CANNON is said to SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. ~Huntingdon will have a board of trade, the balance in the treasury after the Old Home Week celebration to be devoted to furthering such an enterprise. ~Bears have become so numerous in Juniata township, Huntingdon county, that the school chicdren are so frightened that the schools are al- most being broken up. —Three hundred and seventy nine applications were received for liquor licenses in Cambria county at the time the period for filing them closed. This is an increase of nine over last year. —Preparations are being made by the Union Furniture Manufacturing company, which bought the abandoned shoe factory building in Patterson, near Mifflintown, recently, to turn the place into a furniture factory. —John Fetterholf and wife Martha R., of Jer- sey Shore, have begun a suit for $15,000 damages from the borough for injuries sustained by Mrs. Fetterholf in a fall on an icy sidewalk. She claims to have been injured Internally. —George Cunningham was placed in the Juniata county jail recently on the charge of biting one of the fingers off the hand of one of his children and threatening thelife of his wife. Later he was taken to the asylum at Harrisburg. —Rabbi Leonard Levy, of Pittsburg, has receiv- ed a call to a congregation at London. Heal ready has the best paid position of any Jewish clergyman in the world, but the British congre- gation is willing to pay him more. ~.Philip Hoch and Andrew Mest, of Pleasant ville, have shipped 2,000 muskrat skins and 1,5000 skunk pelts to London, England. They have gathered over 100,000 pelts since they started to buy them from Berks county trappers. ~Dairy and Food Commissioner James Foust has been able to make payments aggregating $42,000 to the state treasury since the first of the year, owing to the rush for oleo licenses and the activity of agents in prosecuting pure food cases. ~Turner & Bland, coal operators of Windber, have closed a deal for the purchase of 623 acres of valuable coal land lying in the vicinity of Clymer, Indiana county. A drill will be putto work and tests made for the purpose of locating a shaft on the tract. —William H. Berry, ex-treasurer of the State, was launched as a candidate for governor on the democratic ticket at a banquet of 200 Delaware democrats who were celebrating Jackson day. A committee of fifteen was appointed to boom his candidacy. He will take the honor if it comes to him. ~—Misses Gertrude and Margaret Davis, of Sharon, have made application for recognition by the Carnegie hero fund commission because they saved the life of Charles Bodamer, a wealthy real estate owner. He slipped on the ice in frontof a fast approaching train and they pulled him off the tracks. ~Since an outbreak of measles, six weeks ago, 1.100 cases have been reported in Punxsutawney and vicinity. In the mining district of Adrian, Anita and Florence, Dr. T. P. Williams, the mine physician, reports 125 cases with two deaths. At the public schools there, twenty pupils out of thirty-two in one room, are ill. —Renovo and Gleasonton are to be connected by a trolley line five miles long, known as the Re- novo and Gleasonton Railway company, a char- ter having been issued for the concern in Har- risburg recently. The capital is $30,000, and the officers are to be located at Renovo. E. W. Hess, of Clearfield, is the president. —A letter found on the body of Arthur Howard, who committed suicide last Saturday night at New Castle, after killing Mrs. Harry Robinson, Kept | shows that he had deliberately planned the sui- side. He wrote to an aunt and said that he had been betrayed by the woman he loved, who told him she was not married to the man with whom she was living. —Work on the installing of three carloads of new machinery for the American brick plant of the Harbison-Walker Refractories company lo- cated near Flemington, Clinton county, will be started this week. The plant has been idle sev: eral years following a strike and several hundred men will be given employment when the plant resumes in the near future. Toney Ferrio, the man who, it is said, proudly boasted to having stolen 1,000 chickens and who was arrested recently near Falls Creek, Clearfield county, has been turned loose from the Elk coun- . | ty jail where he was confined. He has a habit, it is said, of doing things that are sure to land him in jail for the winter. People of Clearfield county are beginning to get a littie scary on the chicken question, —John H. Messmer, of Pittsburg, in answer to the libel in divorce filed by his wife, said she took pills to reduce her weight and ruined her ner- vous system. He denied that he ever threw a cat at her and said that he never pushed her against a stove, as she is said to have averred. He says his spouse left him without cause and the day she left she kissed him goodbye. She wants alimony and counsel fees, saying he has an income of $400 a month. —The Woman's club, of Media, has entered into politics and is telling the council that the ordinance requiring garbage to be sepa rated from ashes was not being enforced and one of the women announced that she had framed an ordinance concerning the throwing of papers and advertisements on front steps and porches. She wants the distributing of the latter done away with and wants papers to bear the names of the persons at whose places they are to be left. —At a meeting of the directors and stockholders of the Northern Cambria Street Railway com. pany held recently, the officers and board of di- rectors who served last year were re-elected. The names are as follows: W. H. Denlinger, president: J. A. Allport, secretary; H. S. Bigler, treasurer; the officers and F. H. Barker, C. C. Tennis, Rem- crandt Peale and P. J. Little, board of directors. The reports show the company to be in excellent condition and the volume of business done dur- ing the past year to have been eminently satis. factory. Mrs. Susan Gates, who died last week at Yellow Creek, Bedford county, had reached the age of 90 years, 6 months and 15 days. She was re- markably well preserved for one of her advanced years and it was a pleasure to hear her tell of the past. She had been a member of the Methodist Episcopal church for forty years. Five children, children and ten great-great-grandchildren sur- vive. Hiram Blackburn, another Bedford coun- tian, who died recently at his home at Fisher- served under the constitution, and this be able to pluck the fruit of their victory upon which it mainly depends. But it will hardly succeed at this time. There appears to be a revival of the policies of JEFFERSON throughout the country and that will guarantee a sufficient respect for the fundamental principles of the con- stitution to avert the danger. ——John M. Keichline has an an- nouncement in this issue of the WATCH- MAN for a re-nomination for the office of justice of the peace in the South and West wards. Mr. Keichline is so well known by the people of Bellefonte that it is not to call attention to his | abilities or fitness for the office. federal incorporation scheme is the vehicle | remains to be seen. The consternation of the machine over the result of the first skirmish shows the gravity of the affair, however. poraries but it is sufficiently interesting to divert their minds from the more pleas- ing employment of picking i for the Democrats. If BALLINGER has to go, as newspaper gossip implies, the President might in- duce ROOSEVELT'S friend, “BAT” MASTER- SON to accept the office. | have capitulated the Insurgent guns ought to be turned on the White House. can call for hash in a restaurant had reached the age of 84 years, 10 months the order is not backed with confidence in the management of the kitchen, and bu. the ma- eat in comparative comfort, 0 want stam and certified with a notary’s seal -_ | TAFT is already looking under the furni- | ture for places to hide. It wouldn't be wise to announce con- clusions with respect to the PINCHOT af- They NON at last, the White House support | having been withdrawn at the critical | moment. The “Back from Elba” club is getting ready to indulge in a torchlight proces- sion in Washington. and 14 days. Lehigh Valley Coal company will begin extensive operations at that place and will give employment to a large number of men. The opening lies in a tract of 252 acres known as the John Hunter prop erty, the place being underlaid with a fine body of coal. The B vein, running from three feet eight inches to four feet in thickness and the most valnable, will be worked at once. The prop- erty was opened several years ago by the Mo- hawk Coal company but they had to abandon it on account of the difficulty in taking care of the water, caused by the way the coal dipped. The new company will surmount this difficulty by tun nelling the hill and drawing the water from the dip side. Arrangements are being made with the Pennsylvania railroad to build sidings to the opening. Work already has started. pce ee a
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