Bemorral Yap
BY P. GRAY MEEK.
INK SLINGS.
—Philadelphia, is doubtless just as “cor.
rupt,” but evidently not as “contented”
as it used to be.
~The base ball schedule having been
arranged for next season, we can see no
reason why winter should linger to delay
the progress of civilization.
—We knew all the time that sooner or
later the truth would come out, but really
had no idea that Senator ALDRICH was
going to confess so soon.
~The trouble with the Senate food in-
vestigating committee seems to be a lack
of knowing just what it can investigate
without hurting the Republican party.
—“Where will the waist line be?” asks
one of our fashion exchanges. While we
can't answer for all a great many will
likely be right under some fellows arm.
—This ought to be some consolation
for our people who are troubled about]the
high price of food; they can at least find
food for thought without additional cost.
—*“Stand for a better Pottsville,” ap-
peals the Miner's Journal. ThatJought to
be easy. Any old thing ought to be better
than Pottsviile as it is now understood
to be.
—Anyhow Dr. Cook can feel that his
claim to the discovery of the North Pole
is fully as good as that of the Republican
party, that it discovered and made this
country.
—~—That investigation at Albany is show-
ing a wonderful unanimity of purpose
among Republican legislators of New
York. A purpose to pocket all the graft
that’s grabable.
—Plenty of men are too poor to find
any pleasure in living, says an exchange:
Yes, but they have the consolation of
knowing that they are not bored to death
by book agents.
—Really, we have tried hard, but can’t
recall a single trust that has been busted
in all these years that the Republican
party has been in the trust bustin’ busi-
ness. Can you?
* —Congress expects to adjourn about
the first of May. This justifies the sus-
picion that the reform legislation prom-
ised is scheduled for postponement to a
“mere convenient season.”
—Speaking about the price of pork, it
can’t be the scarcity of hogs that fixes
its value. That's plain from the number
you see on the streets, in the cars or
wherever you find a crowd.
~The formation of a 12 million dollar
trust by the bakers of New York, would
indicate that, at this writing, TAPT'S trust
bustin’ threats hasn't scared anybody very
badly up in that neck-o’-woods.
~—Senator LODGE will now proceed with
an effort to discover what isn’t the cause
of the high prices and he will achieve the
purpose if it is necessary to employ every
perjurer in the country to testify.
—From the many varieties of weather
we are having, now-a-days, people are
justified in the conclusion that Mr.
HEINTZ'S manager must be whispering in
the ear of the weather bureau man.
—Whether a hen is a bird or a some-
thing else—a matter that ornithologists
are now bothered to determine—she can
at least be put down as a “high-flyer”
while the present price of eggs continue.
—A Philadelphia paper boasts that
“Philadelphia is a unit for a thirty-five
foot water way.” Just as if that city had
ever been other than a unit when it was
a question of getting other people's
money.
—Judging by the number of times
our enterprising dailies have discovered
Dr. Cook within the past month we are
forced to conclude, that as discoverers,
they are almost as great as Dr. Cook
himself.
—That war down in Nicaragua, that
Secretary KNOX and his friend General
ESTRADA, were carrying on so vigorously
‘through the newspapers a few months
ago, seems to have met a kind of a Bull
Run set back.
—Some of Congressman OLMSTED'S
constituents are trying to get him to tell
them what he has done for the people
during his many years service at Wash-
ington. If they would ask him what he
has done for the trusts it would be easier.
—It is announced that Mr. TA:T has
again changed his program and will only
ask for the passage of four of the bills,
he promised the country. Possibly Old
Probabilities could make more changes
and variableness in the weather than Mr.
TAPT has shown in his presidential pur-
poses—but he don’t.
—And now its beginning to look very
much as if there would have to be anoth-
er department added to the census bureau.
Else how under the sun can a record of
the number of congressional “inves-
tigating” committees, necessary to do
white-washing for the Republican ad- |
ministration, ever be kept?
—Going back to the question of the
depreciation of our money, a gold dollar
now, when backed up againsta two pound
steak, Jon't look much bigger than 30
cents used to. And then to think that!
Mr. BrYAN and the Democratic people
have never been charged with making it
so. What opportunities our Republican
friends are wasting.
A ———
VOL. 55.
Colonel Andrews’ Successor.
The matter of the selection of a suc-
cessor to the late Colonel WESLEY R.
ANDREWS as chairman of the Republican
State committee is giving the machine
managers a good deal of anxiety at pres-
ent. There is actually noimmediate need
of a successor to Colonel ANDREWS for
outside of calling the next State conven-
tion to order there will be nothing for a
chairman to do until after that conven-
tion has been held except to oversee and
be sure that the secretary attends to his
many duties and Colonel ANDREWS’ term
would have expired with that incident.
But there are a good many aspiring gen-
tlemen in the party who imagine that they
are especially fitted for that kind of
political work who understand that an
election now for the unexpired term
would give them a sort of leverage in a
fight for a full term in the convention.
Among the candidates named for the
position are Speaker Cox, and resident
clerk JonNnsoN, of the House of Represen-
tatives. Incidentally it may be remarked
that Speaker Cox is named for every
vacancy that happens to occur in any
field of political endeavor. Until his elec-
tion to the speakership, a trifle over a
year ago, nobody knew anything about
him. He was forced onto PENROSE then
by the Allegheny delegation who present-
ed the alternative of Cox or McCLAIN.
The “Red Rose of Lancaster” had made
himself so obnoxious that even so “fresh”
a person as Cox was preferred. But it is
a safe guess that the choice has since
been regretted. McCLAIN asserted his
independence occasionally but he never
made a nuisance of himself. That is the
difference between him and Cox.
Some fellow with more than the ordi-
nary intelligence has suggested the name
of ROBERT McAFEE, Secretary of the
Commonwealth, as Mr. ANDREWS’ suc-
cessor, but that proposition is not likely
to be taken seriously. Nearer than any
other man in the organization McAFEE
measures up to the ANDREWS’ standard.
He is capable, well informed, secretive,
sly and persistent. He has that suavity
which made ANDREWS successful and the
pertinacity whichis essential to political
management. But he lacks in the com-
essary existing conditions. Of
course Mr. McAFPEE could adapt himself
to these requirements and probably would
if approached in the rightspirit. But it's
hardly worth while and the chances are
that a less fit man will be taken.
Taft Stultifies Himself.
President TAPT is disingenious if not
dishonest in his statement in New York,
|the other night, that the ALDRICH
| tariff bill fulfilled the pledge of the Re-
| publican party because the Chicago plat-
form promised only tariff revision and
made no reference to decreased tariff
rates. The Republican platform was
purposely ambiguous on that subject and
because of that fact a flood-tide of pop-
ular sen t began a deluge of the
country and TAFT personally pledged
himself that there would be a sub
stantial downward revision of the tariff.
| The ALDRICH bill not only betrays that
promise but flouts the President and in
endorsing the measure the President
stultifies himself.
The cheapest demagogue in the coun-
try would hardly resort to the absurdities
which TAFT employs, moreover, in de-
fending the ALDRICH bill in his New
York speech. There was reduction on
more items than there was increase, he
substantially alleges, and therefore the
measure is a downward revision. It is
true that there were trifling reductions in
a number of articles upon which the
rates were previously so high that even
the reduction left them in the prohibitory
class. Take steel for example. Mr. CAR-
necessity for any tariff on steel but the
decrease in the rate on that commodity
is 80 meagre as to be imperceptible in a
commercial way.
The truth of the matter is that Presi-
dent TAPT'S promise of tariff revi-
sion downward was repudiated by
Congress and that at first he was so
indignant at the fact that he threatened
to veto the bill. But the agents of the
trusts in Congress offered to vote him a
generous fund for traveling expenses,
in violation of the constitution and his
oath of office, and the bribe changed his
mind. Mr. TAFT is simply a vulgar
| grafter. He wanted to begin his election-
| eering operations for 1912 early and pre-
fersto have the expenses paid by the
| public. In order to get that sinister favor
| from the congressional machine he
| agreed to renewing the franchise of the
tariff looters to rob.
-——The present administration has
gone a step further than any of its pred-
ecessors along the line of frenzied fi-
nance. It has just “underwritten” Mr. J.
PIERPONT MORGAN'S obligations in Hon-
plete servility to PENROSE which is nec.
'NEGIE advised Congress that there is no
STATE RIGHTS AND
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: The Exorbitant Cost of Government. |
Senator ALDRICH greatly incensed some |
of his Republican colleagues, the other
day, by declaring, in a speech upon the
floor of the chamber of which he is the
manager, that “if I were a business man
and were given permission to manage the |
affairs of the government I would run
them at $300,000,000 a year less than it is
now costing to run them.” Senator HALE
was especially outraged by his statement
of a fact. He took ALDRICH off into a
remote corner, according to the Wash-
ington correspondents, and gave him a’
curtain lecture. He told ALDRICH, accord-
ing to the same authority, that “he has
made the most stupendous blunder of his
public career and that his words will be |
hurled from the stump with telling effect |
during the campaign.” i
Since the inauguration of President |
McKINLEY, in the spring of 1897, the ex-
penses of the government have increased
at the rate of nearly $500,000,000 a year.
The expenses of the Spanish war were
considerable, of course, and afforded
ample excuse for the increased cost of
government during the administration of
that lamented chief magistrate. But the
Spanish war was over and all the ex-
traordinary expenses attached to it dis-
charged before calamity elevated THEO-
DORE ROOSEVELT to the office of Presi-
dent. Yet the expenses of government
continued to increase by “leaps and
bounds,” and it is within the limit of ac-
curacy to say that the last year of RoosE-
VELT'S administration cost $300,000,000
more than the last year of McKINLEY'S
Senator HALE told Senator ALDRICH,
the Washington correspondent already
quoted assures us, that his “declaration
made it seem that the Republican party
had squandered billions of dollars during
the period it has remained in power.”
And that is an exact fact. During the
period since the elevation of ROOSEVELT a
strife has been maintained to multiply
offices, increase salaries, add to the cost
of public services in other ways, until an
aggregate of expenditures has been reach-
ed that was never dreamed of even dur- .
i
VELT'S personal expenses amounted to
‘quarter of a million \
last year of his term, and the cost of |
secret service men guarding his person is |
not included in that figure. |
An Absurd Legal Opinion.
No thoughtful person was surprised
that Attorney General Topp decided that
the Governor has a legal right to appoint
a State Treasurer to succeed JOHN O.
SHEATZ at the expiration of his fixed
term. That is what the Attorney General
is there for. In former times it was his
business to interpret the law for the Exe- |
cutive and Legislative branches of the |
government, and as a rule he was a law-
yer amply competent to perform that
service properly. PURVIANCE, MEREDITH,
BREWSTER, DIMMICK or CASSIDY would |
have adorned the bench of the highest |
court in the country and were as proud
of their reputations for capability and in-
tegrity as any jurist. But of late years
things have been vastly different.
For example during the administration |
of Governor STONE the Attorney General |
advised the Governor that he might ap-
point MATTHEW S. QUAY a Senator in
Congress though the Legislature had just
previously refused to elect him to that
office. The same official also advised the
Governor that he had a right to veto.a
resolution submitting an amendment to
the constitution to a vote of the people
and the Attorney General in service dur-
ing the PENNYPACKER administration ad-
vised the executive that the Legislature
had the right to increase the salaries of
judges while in commission though the
constitution specifically declzres the con-
trary. In those cases, however, that sort
of a perversion of the law was a political
necessity.
In the case in point JOHN O. SHEATZ is
in commission as State Treasurer, his
tenure being until his successor is elected
and qualified. Last fall A.J. STOBER
was elected to succeed him but before
qualifying Mr. STOBER died. This leaves |
Mr. SHEATZ in possession, under his com. :
mission, "until his successor is elected
and qualified.” But the Attorney General
pays no attention to such trifles as the
law. The party machine wants SHEATZ
out and some servile tool in and law or no
law the Attorney General is ready with |
an opinion to further that result.
it is absurd, of course, but it will be
acted upon by the Governor and proba-
bly affirmed by the Supreme court.
——The three cent fare has been es-
tablished at last in Cleveland, Ohio, but
it is doubtful whether the people of that
city will appreciate the result achieved
by Tom JOHNSON. Anyway his defeat for
Mayor just as the victory was won indi-
NY means even |
if the good is valued at its full meas- |
ure.
ing McKINLEY'S administration. RoOOSE- missal.
BELLEFONTE, PA.. FEBRUARY 25, 1910.
Anarchy in Philadelphia.
We can see no reason for wasting sym-
pathy on Philadelphia. A condition ap-
proximating anarchy exists there at this
writing and the resuit is uncertain. The
reports indicate that the police are ex-
| hausted and “specials” are being sworn
in to enforce the law. On Sunday pande-
monium prevailed everywhere within the |
incapable of coping with the situation.
Happily no deaths are reported but a
number of persons were injured and the
But there is no use in wasting sympa-
thy on the people of Philadelphia. They
have “sown to the wind” and are “reap-
ing the whirlwind.” They have chosen
incompetents to govern the city because
in such choice they expected graft. In
the preservation of the tariff they have
sacrificed not only honor but property.
Of course they didn’t expect that it would
take that turn. They hoped that the
suffering public would submit tamely to
| the spoliation of the corporation barons
on one side and the municipal brigands
on the other. But this expectation has
been disappointed and the imbecile gov-
ernment has left the predatory victims
of greed a helpless prey to the vengeance
of the mob.
The present disturbance]in Philadel-
phia has grown out of a strike of
the traction railway employees. The
traction railway is an asset of the po-
litical machine. A year ago it mulcted
the public by abrogating an agreement
which provided for the issue of “strip
tickets” at the rate of six for a quarter.
It is estimated that this incident costs the
public $2,000,000 a year. The excuse for
this robbery was that the employees re-
quired an increase in wages to meet the
increased cost of living. But the wages
were not increased and when the em-
; wo,
On Monday Mr. C. R. PRATT, national
| organizer of the Carmen's Union, was ar-
rested in Philadelphia. After he was
lodged in a cell in one of the city pris-
ons, his friends undertook to procure his
release. They offered bail in any reason-
able amount, which was refused. Reput-
able lawyers applied to the authorities for
information as to the nature of the charge
against him, but were turned away:
Others asked to see him but were denied,
In fact he was treated as a criminal guilty
of some henious crime, who was to be
railroaded to punishment.
What he had really done was to urge
| the street car employees and their friends
to resent the outrages which had been
perpetrated against them.
In Russia such things have been done
but the whole civilized world has stood
against the outrages. In America no
prisoner has ever before been isolated
under similar circumstances. Even the
assassins of Presidents have been given
the constitutional right of preparing their
defense. But this man, guilty of no of-
fense, so far as the records show, other
than encouraging those with whom he is
affiliated to stand for their rights, has
been refused the ordinary privileges of
accused men, because the managers of a
predatory and unjust corporation have
demanded such atrocious servility at the
hands of the authorities of the city.
It is a shameful and humiliating spec-
tacle.
We are undertaking no defense of Mr.
PratT. He may have violated the law in
is entitled to his rights as an American
citizen. He must be a man of some merit
or else he wouldn't occupy the office in
the labor organization which he fills, ap-
parently to the satisfaction of his asso-
ciates. But whether he be aman of merit
| or otherwise, he is an American citizen
and entitled to the rights of citizenship
guaranteed by the constitutions of the
United States and the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania. These rights have been
denied him by the authorities of Phila-
delphia in obedience to orders from
criminal corporation.
——The president of the Erie railroad
thinks the high prices are only in the
imagination of the people. He says
“Americans are bad losers.” Probably
they are when the loss is the result of
injustice and extortion. There never
would have been an American Republic
if our Revolutionary ancestors hadn't
been “bad losers” in the same
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SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
~The state fair at Bethlehem has been fixed for
September 6, 7, 8and 9.
~Young cows in Columbia county are being at-
tacked by a new disease that is a puzzle toveterin-
arians. The !ower jaws swell and death soon fol-
~Warmly wrapped in flannels and lying in a
shoe box. a month-old girl was found by Edward
Kirkland, a millworker, when he returned home
in the morning at Leechburg. It was adopted by
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Saunders.
—Eighteen head of fine cattle were killed on
the Brookhaven stock farm of John P. Crozer, the
wealthy Delaware county manufacturer, tubercu-
losis having claimed them as its victims. Other
cattle in that vicinity are to be inspected.
—Rev. Alpheus E. Wagner, D. D., the able pas-
tor of the Second Lutheran church, Altoona, may
be named as the president of Gettysburs
College to succeed Rev. Dr. Hefllebower, whohas
tendered his resignation. His name was consid-
ered at a meeting of the board of trustees on Mon-
day and the honor may be conferred upon him at
the next meeting of the board.
~It is expected to have the new plant of the
Mann Edge Tool company operating at Lewis-
town by April 1 to take the place of the fire-de-
stroyed structure. The plant of the company at
Mill Hall, Clinton county, is running on increased
time and is turning out the work formerly done at
Lewistown. It will continue to do all the com-
—More than 400 men are on a strike at Tyler,
Clearfield county. They are employees of the Cas-
cade company and intend to stay out until the
scale for heading work is paid them. The scaleis
$1.96 and the men’s present rate is $1.75. There is
considerable rock for the men to contend with
where many of them work. Tine facilities for
making coke are owned by the company at Tyler,
‘The products are shipped over the Buffalo & Sus-
quehanna railroad, being sent to Buffalo.
~Driving too near the edgeof an embankment
in Bald Eagle township, Clinton county, Joseph
.Fravel, a Flemington teamster, went over the
of his sleigh and his head was almost torn
his body. He gave a few gasps and died
the vehicle was lifted from him. His neck
caught under the side of the sleigh and the
and the struggles of the horses caused it
3hrough his neck. Fravel was aged thirty-two
years and leaves a wife and several children,
~Joining hands across the casket of the bride's
dead father, Miss Lillian Lewis and Edward S.
Eby were married at Lewistown recently by the
Rev. W. L. Mudge, pastor of the First Presbyter-
ian church. It had been her father's wish to live
to see her married to Eby and at the request of
the bride the wedding occurred in the darkened
hall of death, amid the tears of sorrowing relatives
H HH
before it was decided finally last week. The first
time the motion was defeated and the second time
it resulted in a tie vote. After the second time it
became pretty generally known that if the voters
did not decide for themselves to put in a sewer
system, the State would do it for them at the bor_
ough's expense. Every street and plot in the bor,
ough limits is to be tapped by the system.
~Ten thousand dollars damages is claim-
ed by Frank W. Newingham from the J. C.
Blair company, in a case now before the court in
Huntingdon county. While the plaintiff was pur-
suing his occupation as a tinner a year ago on one
of the company’s buildings, he had occasion to go
down a fire escape. It is alleged that one of the
landings gave way about sixty feet above the
ground and Newingham fell striking the roof of
another building and bounding to the pavement
below. He claims to have received permanent in-
juries.
—Samuel Rhoads was found with a gaping
wound in his stomach and with a shotgun lying
beside him in the home of Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Jor-
dan, his son-in-law and daughter, in Westmont,
up the incline from johnstown. Melancholy is
thought to have been the cause for his rash act.
The oid man had acted strangely of late and a
watch was kepton him. The day of the suicide
he had been left alone for a short time and he
took advantage of the occasion to effect his self.
destruction. lliness deranged his mind. He was
70 years of age.
—On account of the fight between the trolley
company and Patton borough last week, no trol-
fey cars entered the town for half a week. It was
claimed by the borough that the company had no
right to make the streets so impassable as it did
by the use of its sweeper and track snow shovel
ers. The snow was piled up on both sides of the
tracks in such a way that the highways are said
to have been inconvenient for travelers. The
borough officials insisted that the crossings be
kept clear. The trolley company was not able to
use its sweeper and keep the demands of the bor-
ough, so ran its cars no farther than the borough
line for several days.
—No appeal has been made from the verdict
rendered in the Clearfield county court in the D.
A. Wilson case, when the defendant was sentenc-
ed to not less than eighteen months and not more
than six yearsin the western penitentiary for
forging a railroad ticket. It is understood that
an appeal will be taken. The friends of the con-
victed man who comes from Harrisburg and now
isin jail at Clearfield, are incensed over the re-
fusal of Judge Smith to release the prisoner un-
der bail pending the final disposal of his case by a
higher court. It has been pointed out that in two
other similar cases the prisoter was released un-
der bail. The court bas decided that in the fu
ture, however, a prisoner will not be bailed out
ina case like this until an appeal to a higher court
“| actually has been made.
—William E. Parsons, a well known former bus-
iness man of Lock Haven, put a bullet through
his head after fighting with his wife who tried to
take the weapon from him. Despondency over fail-
ing health is thought to have impelled him to his
rash deed. Six weeks ago he fell on the steps in
the rear of his home and wrenched himself rather
night before the suicide and went to get a powder
would have been 65 years of age next
Two children, besides his widow survive.
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