es and bare feet for the laborer.
Has oes fiying vo long and high at the
Los Angeles aviation show that there is
some ground for the fear that he may go
up some day and never come down.
—Sure, this is an old fashioned winter
in every respect except that we didn't
have to pay so much for butter, eggs,
meat, shoes and clothing in the days
when old fashioned winters made their
reputations.
~—]If that New York shirt waist strike
continues much longer manufacturers will
be so far back with their orders
that they will have to make them
more peek-a-boo than ever for next sum-
mer in order to catch up.
—We hope the JEFFRIES-JOHNSON mill
is pulled off before the Hon. TEDDY comes
home from Africa. Really it would be
too much to undertake to read what they
will all have to say should their chance
come about the same time.
—Senator GORDON, of Mississippi, paid
a dollar for a shave in Washington on
Tuesdzy. There is a shop in the capitol
in which the senatorial whiskers are re-
moved without charge, but the new Sen-
ator didn’t know where it was and it cost
one “buck” to find it out.
—That Chicago man who has been
married sixty years and has just found
out that the only way to get along hap-
pily with his wife is to humor her has
probably really discovered that a broom-
stick wasn't the proper instrument to ex-
press his feelings toward her with.
—That Cleveland agreement not to eat
meat until prices are reduced may just
now be effecting the six thousand persons
who signed it, but it has been over two
years since the laboring man was forced
to deny himself meat because the price
ormet To 2Hem wd
a lg aominate
good men for your local offices. Good
men are easier to elect than bad ones,
they are more of a credit to you as a cit-
izen and will help to put down the grow-
ing suspicion that American public office
and graft are synonymous.
—Governor HUGHES has decided not to
make another campaign for the position
he holds now in the Empire State. This
will relieve Democratic and Republican
politicians as well, for the Governor has
been so much of a free lance since going
to Albany that their calculations on mat-
ters political would not work out.
—The performance of the stock market
recently may be for the purpose of in-
timidating Washington but, if it is, the
gamblers who had so much faith in the
way TAPT was expected “to go along”
with all of Wall street's plans, must be
lying awake nights wondering who “took
them over” during the campaign for his
election.
—The suicide of JoHERBERT STEVEN-
SON, of Merchantville, N. J., adds another
to the list of deaths that have followed
the State capitol scandal. The finger of
fate has been pointing from the great
palace of graft and one by who
were tainted in its seek-
ing the solacz of the grave in the vain
endeavor to flee from their ‘consciences.
—Governor HARMAN, of Ohio, is of the
opinion that the White House is quite an
attractive place to live in. Infact he said
so during his visit there during the fore
part of the week. Of course the Gover-
nor facetiously remarked that he would
have to get his wife's ideas about it, but
we fancy he might be a little more con-
cerned about the opinion of the voters on
the matter along in 1912.
—New York is planning to hold a
world’s fair in 1913. Good work. New
York never had a world’s fair and if
some of those sign readers up in Massa-
chusetts know what they are talking
about she never will, for there will be no
world in 1913. And this just reminds us:
Are you ready? Big meetins’ are going
on everywhere now and there is no time
like the present to be done over.
—There is likely to be some fun at the
North Republican primaries tomorrow
night as a result of Mr. CHas. F. Cook's |
ced ou of all propustion We
VOL. 55.
The Coming Campaign.
The coming campaign in - this State
will be the most important of any in re-
cent years. There will be a Governor,
Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of Inter-
nal affairs and probably a State Treasurer
to elect, this depending upon the con-
struction of the present law by the courts.
The number of delegates in the Demo-
cratic State convention this year will be
298, as against 375 last year, the decrease
being attributable to the lethargy of
Democrats during the last campaign.
Pending that contest we stated thata
poll of ninety per cent. of the BRYAN
vote of the year before would give the
Democratic ticket a majority. The re-
sult proved the accuracy of this estimate.
Fidelity to duty would have given the
party control of the most important
boards in the state administration.
Since the election of last year the
trend of public opinion has been increas-
ingly in the direction of Democracy and
public incidents have uniformly acceler-
ated the motion. The country has come
to realize the fraud perpetrated upon the
people in the enactment of a tariff law
which has increased the cost of living
immensely without adding to the wages
of labor in the least. The irrepressible
conflict between the factions of the Re-
publican party in Congress and the scan-
dals exposed by Forester PINCHOT in re-
lation to the spoliation of the public do-
main have added vastly to the already
overwhelming disgust of the public with
the party in power. All these facts will
give strength to the Democrats in the
coming campaign if they are wise in
selecting candidates and vigilant in sup-
porting them.
But Republican blunders and Demo-
cratic wisdom will be equally futile of
proper results if the Democratic voters
are as indifferent in the future as they
have been in the recent past. Our ticket
last year was an ideal one and the Re-
publican candidates represented the pre-
cise antithesis in every respect. The
vast decrease in the Republican vote
shows that in so far as the body of that
party was concerned a Democratic vic-
tory would have been welcomed. But
DCFALic: voters it. nearly equal 1
| consequence i sRepablican victory. It
was a triumphiby default and we hope
such a thing will not occur again. To
avert it, however, Democrats ought to get
busy now. Secure the best possible can-
didates and support them faithfully.
The State Treasury Succession.
The concensus of present opinion in
political circles is that Governor STUART
will appoint a State Treasurer at the ex-
piration of the term of Mr. Joun O.
SHEATZ. No great legal luminary alleges
his right to appoint, under the circum-
stances, for there will be no vacancy to
fill, Mr. SHEATZ holding a commission to
serve until his successor is duly qualified.
But the machine wants control of the
office and has sufficient confidence in the
servility of the Supreme court to believe
that the trick can be “pulled off.” The
highest court has not been morally
strengthened since it decided that the
convicted capitol grafters must have
another chance of escape.
It is also confidently given out from
political headquarters in the BETZ build-
ing, Philadelphia, that the appointee will
be a Lancaster county man to be selected
by Mr. W, W. GRriesT, Representative in |
Congress. Some years ago Mr. GRIEST
threatened to make trouble for the ma-
chine and was placated by his appoint-
ment to the office of Secretary of the
Commonwealth. The defeat of JOHN P.
ELKIN for the gubernatorial nomination in
1902 again incensed him but his wounded
pride was salved by the promise that
he would be permitted to name the
nominee for State Treasurer in the near
future. In 1907 he relinquished his right
because he was afraid that a candidate
who would serve his purpose would be
defeated at the polls.
Mr. GRriest is largely concerned in
electric railway enterprises and the con-
trol of large amounts of money is of
great advantage to him. Last year he
would have given him free hand with the
balances. But unhappily Mr. STOBER
died, before qualifying for the office and
left things “up in the air.” Now GRIEST
probably demands that another man,equal-
ly amenable to his wishes,be appointed to
occupy the place and probably supports
his demand with a reminder that he
| carries one Senator and four Representa.
procured the nomination and election of |
a candidate for State Treasurer who
determination to contest the renomina- tives in the Legislature, in his ample vest
director. Both are active and wily politi- | | awkward position. But bosses must be
cians and there is likely to be a good old | | obeyed.
timefight. In fact the school directorship me———
has invariably been the source of much, -——Mr. BALLINGER protests that he
fighting in the North and this develop. will not be kicked out "under fire.” But
ment promises to revive some of the old the indications are that he will have to go
animosities that have grown out of former even if against the desire of his friend
contests for the office. | Mr. TAFT.
Mr. Taft's Harmony Deal.
The President has succeeded in partial-
ly bridging the chasm between the Re-
publican factions in Congress, according
to gossip at the national capitol. He
didn't say, he now declares, what Mr.
ROSEWATER, of Omaha, says he said, with
respect to patronage and the insurgents.
On the contrary, he now asserts, he is
quite as willing to buy cabbages from a
peddler as from a merchant. A speak-
easy suits him just as well as a licensed
saloon if it contains the goods and is will-
ing to sell. Our President is not punctil-
ious in such things. He wants what he
wants and he doesn’t care much how he
gets it. Like his predecessor in office
and the late Mr. HARRIMAN, he is a prac-
tical man.
The harmony deal which the President
has negotiated between the regulars and
the insurgents of the House of Represen-
tatives covers only one point, the dis-
patches indicate. That is to say the in-
surgents, for some consideration not re-
vealed, have agreed to attend the caucus
of the party for the purpose of selecting
members of the special committee to in-
vestigate Secretary of the Interior BAL-
LINGER. The insurgents know, of course’
that the committee will be packed against
them for the regulars will have a majori-
ty in the caucus of about three to one.
But insurgents are human and want pat-
tronage and the President is so anxious
to have that committee packed that he
has probably made liberal promises.
But the President makes a wretched
spectacle of himself by participating in
such deals. A just committee and an
honest investigation would probably show
that Mr. BALLINGER was not only counsel
for the land pirates at the time of his ap-
pointment but that he was appointed for
that reason. It might prove, also, that
he is now counsel for some or most of
them and that if Mr. PINCHOT had re-
mained silent, they would have robbed
the country of most of its public domain
before the end of the administration.
But even such an exhibition would hard-
ly present the President in a worse light
than that in which he stands. He looks
Keep the Important Matter in Mind.
There is plenty of scandal in Washing.
ton to absorb public attention. Between
the usurpations of Speaker CANNON, the
quarrels of the President and the expos-
ures of Secretary BALLINGER'S grafting
operations, there is abundance to think
about. But the people of the country
should not permit their minds to be di-
verted entirely from more important sub
jects by these trifles. No doubt what
PINCHOT says about TAFT is substantial
ly true. It is equally probable that the
worst that has been said of Speaker CAN-
NON is within the limits of accuracy and
nobody who has watched the career of
BALLINGER will doubt even the story of
petty grafting which Representative
HITCHCOCK has just revealed.
But these things do not explain the in-
creasing cost of the necessaries of life or
justify the conspiracy between the trusts
and the Republican leaders in Washing-
ton which produces the increase in prices.
The newspapers informed us the other
day that wholesalers have ordered an ad-
vance in the price of shoes and on the
same day, through the same medium, we
learned that the price of underwear will
be vastly increased by the same process:
Clothing has already advanced in price or
depreciated in quality because of the
greater tax on wool and blankets and
other products of the woolen factories are
“going out of sight.” These facts are of
much more importance than the public
scandals, evil as they are.
These outrages are the logical and in-
evitable result of the tariff legislation of
the special session of Congress. They
are the natural fruit of the conspiracy to
give the trusts control of the industrial
life of the country, in consideration of
money contributed to the Republican cor-
ruption fund during the last campaign.
The Beef trust controls the product and
prices of hides, the Woolen trust the sup-
ply and value of clothing and woolens
and other trusts the other necessaries of
life. No doubt these scandals in official
life will aid in diverting attention from
the greater questions; but the people
ought not permit themselves to be de-
ceived.
——Farmers throughout Centre county
are feeling some alarm over the fact that
the heavy covering’ of ice and snow
might smother the young grain in
the fields. The fact that there was no
covering of snow on the ground to protect
it when the sleet and rain fell which rap-
| idly froze into a coating of ice is tbe
cause of their fear. Nature, however, is
generally a well protector of both forest
and field and the probabilities are the
| grain will be more protected than ruined.
a eae
STATE RIGHTS AND | FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, , PA. J ANUARY 21, 1910.
fead the world if the people had
now like a huckster caught disposing of i
HO | mol . rp to vote Jor their |,
A Militant Democracy ‘
‘The British Parliamentary Election. |
Te
The parliamentary election in Great
Britain has resuited in substantial
victory
for the people as against the privileged
class. The Liberal party lost a few seats | nf Miso on in Ak. 10, the
occasion of Jack-
retains a substantial celebration ; .
but a majority though | son day mre rectly, fc
the opposition is said to have spent $15, |
000,000 to corrupt the electorate. But | Gught to be
the people would not be bribed. They! gin
seem to put a higher estimate upon the of
value of the franchise there than here or
Sift have & kewct iuligense in weigh-
the consequences of a triumph of the that preparations for
The contest was waged with in- gle cannot be made
ment in taxing wealth Father than pover-
hs tims of the greatest political
budget for the coming year Premier As. | This alone ought to be sufficient to
QUITH had practically declared in favor of | 8ssure Democratic victory. Uuqualified,
taxing the earned increment on land val: | equivocal and rere Vil
ues. The purpose was to compel the liam Howard Taft in his speeches invit-
Lords to bear a share in the burdens of | him. Instead
government proportionate to the advan. |
tages derived from the government. En-
life of the country.
In this country, however, the people
bow to the injustice,
Ever since Great Britain threw off the
tariff yoke they have been improving in
social and industrial conditions notwith-
standing the injustice of a tax system
which exempted the rich and burdened
the poor. Now that another vital step
has been taken in the interest of the peo-
ple it will be surprising if an era of com-
mercial and industrial prosperity, un-
equalled in the history of the world,
doesn't follow. With the greater advan-
tages of a vastly more extensive area, a
newer and more fertile soil and more
® em started fixing
up their new home, the old Curtin home:
stead on High street, they have decided
to make a thorough job of it and there- But there jo nothi
fore will give it a thorough overhauling. | icy to give
Every room in the house will be repaint: | ea a, ia Harm to the |
ed and papered and fully equipped with | pacanrly shoes x te poe the
electric light. Inasmuch as their new | in case any of the insurgent mem of
congress 1 be .
home will be considerably larger than the | tion—the cue to Fann
building they now occupy, it will require | nominees rather than for Cannon Repub-
more furniture to furnish the same when | licans. This should apply to every dis-
th it. trict where good Democrats are nominat-
y OCCUpY 4 pam— ee Ss oe of Cannonism and
——We congratulate the editor of the | Aldrichism.
esteemed Philadelphia North American on |
of
of progressive
as this plan of
n made'and ao Bar a5 1t shall Do
t, itis merely an attempt to
have
| discipline. the
ltd
in this buldozing
es a
t
his acquittal of the charge of libel in the | A3 Autos shig Situation.
acqu! n the | J
Schuylkill county court. Little is expect- oe “easton i Repukiiess. ew ifs live
ed in that jury-packed and ballot polluted | come to such pass. Whatever his
county and it is a pleasure to know that fats of a: Mr. [pisicsor is
some of that little has come in a form | justly as a person most
that makes for freedom of speech wy J op sed 2 and the most public-
spirited otives: His public service in
the liberty of the press. Neuganising the forestry bureau and in-
TT spiring President Roosevelt with the ideas
——An esteemed contemporary announ- | which animate the movement for the con-
cesin headlines that the tion's Ire ' servation of the nation's natural re-
Rises,” and adds that the
living is the most acute issue to-day.” arily
Probably, but the people voted for tne | sum RL office
high cost of living when they elected works, within less than a
TAPT and a Republican Congress mutual. retirement of his eminent
ly committed to the interests of the {son {
trusts,
——President TAFT has organized a pu moma
Republican opposition to the Democrats
chosen to represent the minority on the
BALLINGER investigating committee.
President TAFT'S obvious anxiety to pack
that committee invites all sorts of sus-
picious as to his personal relations with ways.
the rads rr nn | List of the Dead in the Capitol Scandal.
——On the petition of a number of | JoHN H. SANDERSON, cont tor for far-
the voters of Burnside township Judge nishings.
Orvis on Wednesday issued a decree WiLiiam L. MATHUES, exState Treas.
changing the voting place of said town. urer, indicted with Sanderson and others
ship from a vacant store room at Pine in the first case.
Glenn to the residence of William Hipple, GEORGE 2: PAYNE, contractor for the
about one-half mile east along the main JAMES J lerk in Audit:
roa mama | or General's office.
——A tariff ‘war with Germany would FRANK IRVINE, auditor in Auditor Gen-
be bad for the ultimate consumer but the eral’s office.
ultimate cousumer cuts a small figure in _ JOHN E. STOTT, former secretary of the
the eyes of the President whose dilated
pupils can discern no interests other than
those of the trusts. |
~The poor (?) farmers. They are office at midnight to inspect books.
always getting left. Their rain spouts} He a Cale ho
were so full of ice that they caught very was to have testified in the Huston trial.
little of the precipitation on Tuesday.
——The professional aviators are reach
ing high altitudes but the cost of living
MAT FRIDAY, clerk in the Auditor Gen-
eral’s office during capitol building.
Benjamin THOMPSON, watchman in
! the Treasury, who admitted Mathues to
From
——1t looks as if another ANANIAS club sant fo
is inevitable and editor ROSEWATER, of
Omaha, is likely to be the first member, ——Subscribe for the WATCAMAN
Board of Public a Buildings. |
Ee a nto —
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
~Clearfied has 200 widows.
—Next Sunday the new Church of Christ will
be dedicated at Philpsburg.
—Four thousand miners received word in the
Greensburg-Irwin field that the Keystone Coal
and Coke company had raised their wages 10 per
cent. The advance came as a surprise.
—~Barnes & Tucker, coal operators at Barnes-
boro, have filed three suits against the Pennsyl®
vania railroad company charging car discrimina
tion. The aggregate of the claim is $409,000.
~Several dozen counterfeit §2 bills have beea
found in circulation in the Ernest and Creekside
regions and a dozen have been received at Indiana
stores and banks. They bear number B
53579933.
—Going for three days without food. Henry H.
Hipple, a veteran of the Civil war, walked from
Lancaster to Philadelphia through the snow. Af-
ter asking the police for his dinner he started out
to find work.
~The Pennsylvania railroad will hereafter pay
dividends quarterly instead of semi-annually. The
next dividend will be declared February Ist and
will be payable February 23rd to stockholders of
record February Sth.
~E. J. Jones and Co., of Huntingdon, scom
will be operating their mines on their recently
purchased Heverly coal lands in Beccaria town-
ship, Clearfield county. They have begun te
drive their headings.
—Mrs. George Weymouth, of Lock Haven, fell
from the second-story of her home when she was
—A stock train was wrecked at the upper yards
of the Pennsylvania railroad yards at Harrisburg,
Friday, and 400 pigs escaped, mnning in allidirec-
tions among the hundreds of cars standing on the
tracks. Only about half of the animalsZwere re-
covered.
—Twenty state policemen are to be appointed
his week to fill vacancies, over half of the empty
places being in the western troops, stationed at
Punxsutawney and Greensburg. Over fifty per.
sons have acknowledged that they are anxious te
get the jobs.
~—Meyersdale is in the throes of mumps, measles,
whooping cough and other maladies and asa re-
sult all the amusement places and schools have
the | been closed for a period of twenty-one days.
Children are not the only sufferers as some’grown-
ups have contracted the diseases.
~Thirty representative Lock Haven citizens
met recently to talk over the need of a modem
fireproof hotel, the securing of finances to con-
struct such a building and the possible pecuniary
returns. The town needs a good place at which
traveling men can stop and the plans that are
being laid call for a $150,000 building.
—En route to the hospital at Bloomsburg from
Millville on Monday to be operated on for appen-
dicitis, accompanied by Dr. Everett, Matthew
Lamton leaped from the sleigh when the horse
became unmanageable and stopped the horse.
The sleigh overturned and Dr. Everett was pin-
ned beneath it. Lamton's condition was serious.
ly aggravated by his experience.
—Thirty-seven prisoners were received at the
Huntingdon reformatory during the month of
December. The total number of paroled prison-
company will be run as separate and distinct cor-
porations.
—Martin Mannion, one of the best known farm-
ers in Clearfield township, Cambria county, has
by its masters, F. O. Meagree and
digan, of Scranton. The price w.
H. D. Riley, of Philadelphia, but the owners de-
clared that the bird's price is $12,000 and it will
not be sold at that until after the Scranton poul-
try show next week. Lady Washington weighs
a5
—Mrs. Harry Bates, Mrs. Thomas Wilkinson
and John Church, of Portage, are trying to geta
fortune of about $500,000, with accruing interest
for forty-nine years, it having been left by Mrs.
Susan Church, in England. She left the money
for the erection of a home for the infirm and
the home never was built, the heirs contend
the money reverts to them. Burgess Green,
Portage, has received word from
the identity of the Portage people has
500 reis, having just come from Brazil. When he
asked her for $15 she grew suspicious and went
to cash the check. She found it was ‘worth 24
cents. :
—~Gas started to flow froma well that Humes
Brothers were sinking for the Ohio Oil company,
at Benscreek, for the purpose of getting water.
The well had been sunk to a depthfof 767 feet.
‘The flow is so weak that it is not expected to last
and the water in the well contains so much salt
that it would ruin the boilers. The well cannot
be used for what is was intended. Much excite-
ment has been caused among the’ residents of
Benscreek over the strike, but they are being
kept away from the well for fear that somebody
will ignite the gas.
—Williamsport's new industry, the Kenmore
shoe factory, will begin operations next Monday
morning when work wil be started in the cutting
department. When fully equipped with ma-
chinery the factory will give employment to near-
ly 200 persons, but for the present the Morce will
not be so large. Eight traveling salesmen will be
put on the road and everything points to the new
industry soon becoming one of the most important
inthe city. The outpi of the factory will be
men's high grade shoes and boys’ shoes. No
women's shoes will be made.
—Guarded hy two private detectives and an at-
torney from New York to prevent the serving of
a summons in the divorce suit instituted by her
husband at Franklin, and by the local police who
wish to provent her leaving town, Mrs. Emma A,
Miller, wife of General Charles A. Miller, the
wealthy Franklin, Pa., oil magnate, is practically
a prisoner in the home of her sister at Sharon.
The detectives and attorney so far have blocked
| all attempts to serve Mrs, Miller with 2 summons,
both by the sheriff and the local police. Sheriff
Williams declared Mrs. Miller has asked for $100,-
000 and will not permit the summons to be served
until this is guaranteed.