—President TAFT has announced that “it is time to do things.” Can it be that a night mare of the “big stick” woke him up. ——A Pittsburg contemporary boasts of the progress of that city in art and lit- erature. Imagine what Missourians would say to that. ~—Good morning! Did you get up ear- ly enough to see HALLEY'S comet! Itis VOL. 55. The Treasury Appointment. — "STATE RIGHT BELLEFONTE. PA. APRIL 15, 1910. Speaker Caonon’s Automobile. | S AND FEDERAL UNION. High Prices and their Causes. _NO. 15. Country Again Cheated. SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. 1,522 men have enlisted at the Harrisburg recruiting station in the past four years, out of 5,054 applicants. ~The new hospital at Renovo has been formal- ly opened to the public. Miss Alice C. Russell is - the head nurse and superintendent. ~There are over 150 cases of measles in Clear- field. One hundred and fifteen children are out of the Third ward schoois from this cause. ~Dimeling & Bloom are preparing to cut the timber on the Goodyear tract on Cold stream. The output, including the bark, will be hauled over- land to Clearfield. ~The entire main line of the Pennsylvania Railroad company between Altoona and Harris. burg, a distance of 132 miles, is now being operat ed by the telepoone. ~—John Bumgardner, of Harrisburg, mistook i his wife for a burglar in their bedroom early Fri- day morning and fatally shot her. Mrs. Bum- The House of Representatives at Wash: Senator LODGE is now willing to admit | From the Johnstown Democrat. ington has refused to appropriate $2,500 | that the tariff is partially responsible for visible in the eastern horizon a half hour | Governor STUART .might have done before sunrise these mornings. worse than appoint former Congressman ; amendment was tacked on the andes yf goiren vit of bed Cor wiediGine' wa i x: wivays @ Moose, if | CARLES Fran WiiGHT, of Susqueliusia , or the operation aud maisietianct of the abmorwally high prices but blames drich bill for the admitted purpose of de- a few hours later. should make Centre county county, to the office of State Treasurer, Speaker CANNON's automobile. Last the trusts and other causes also. He in- feating inheritance or fhcoms taz legitla —A number of Northumberland county mer- su, Jory 1 i the body was to thus certify | tion, Gilbert M. Hitcheock | chants were swindled by paying money to fraud- prolific of Moose within a year or so. though Mr. WRIGHT is a servile tool of Year y eager | troduced a bill, the other day, forbidding | o¢ Nebraska, in a speech on the floor of | ulent mercantile tax collectors. As soon as the We base this on the number of them |the machine. But Congressman GRIEST, to its servility to the Speaker, though the the holding of food stuffs in cold storage the House which evoked great applause | county treasurer's office heard of the activities of seen on Bellefonte streets Tuesday night. | of Lancaster, or Senator MoResoL, of proposition was ahs wovition teu. No for wore tham'a yeal 3 a reuscly for that on the Democratic side, cliafged that Bow ie Swisle, warsiuits Wess Rue. ies i Mayor MAGEE, tts- | Speaker utomo- | part fault which he ascribes to | corporation “achieved | —Buttermilk, which to to relvey saw the tall of HaLigvs Comet Ds ave been allowed 0 make | bile. Most of them walked from their | trusts. Of course this is an expedient to its purpose, the plan is to emascalate | inCambria county. is becoming so pupalar as is one hundred and twenty million miles " ! i | and destroy the of the law it- | a beverage that the price is raising. Thereis a long, but that is as a bear's tail to the the selection and presumably their choice | residences to the scene of their labors or divert the public mind from the real ' gelf." bigger demand in the county for buttermilk and PiNcoT must have told Teppy | Would have been worse. Mr. WRIGHT is | 80t seats in the street cars at the rate of facts. Such a law would do some good, | Within a half hour after Mr. Hitch- | sour milk now than for the pigs that used to one : a man of decent impulses and reputable | five tickets for a quarter. But a yearago | beyond question, for it is of record that | S0ck had concluded his spusch is tape; fatten on it. about how BALLINGER is going to con- But the T will be | when ROOSEVELT was demanding all sorts | meat and f is are now kept in st | Tent was wo al ends verified | _pByrglars who entered the home of Anthony serve our forests. as completely under machine control, (Of favors at the expense of the public for three and four years. But it would ! De x | ouneuhan hear Cunshola. svesesdod in dhesiaing —A party just returned from the top| “ve woo in charge, as it would | treasury some of the sycophants who en- | afford small relief. Storage for a year is public Teaure AY cunts far X dit Studie. Asmall diawes 6a | of Mt. MCKINLEY reports that no sign of | | Ge vp 1 Ang or BiLt FLINN had been joy the favors of the Speaker concluded ample time to pull off a speculative cor- tax bill pro- | search and represented the savings of fifteen | Dr. Cook's having been there before was | oo 00 Te funds will be “farmed” that he ought to have an automobile and | ner in any article of food. Ons | years. escaped their notice. ? found. The skeptic will still have ground as certainly under the administration of | an appropriation was made. | The real cure fer fictitious values in dad the —One farmer will receive $95,000 for his coal in for asking for proof that this latter party | oo 00 they would if Stoser had | This year, however, that luxury is re- food stuffs is in repealing the tariff laws inspection ‘only | the buying up of lands in the Blacklick district, was actually at the top. te | garded as a sprig of the fungus growth | which will destroy the trusts. With the President. AS | wtb uC 00 and til anh $900. — Attorney General WICKERSHAM seems | Bt Governor STUART might have done | called “CANNONism," and has been up- markets of Canada and other accessible tax | A total of $1,000,000 will change hands as the re- : to have put his foot in it by that Chicago | ch, better in the exercise of his ques. | footed As a matter of fact it isno more | countries open to the consumers of food Soporation \3x sult of the negotiations. speech. The Insurgents at Washington | yale appoin power in this case. an extravagance to allow the Speaker an | in this country, the competition would impaired, to| —Hundreds of bushels of potatoes will be lost have insurged so successfully that they Siopalle ining 3 the present State automobile than it is to allow such a lux- | bring prices down to a natural and just meantime the be Stessct county Surtmets Who ¥efised to wel | won't stand for his aspersions, even [prac r l\'0, SHEATZ, to administer | UrY to the President and an automobile | level. Nobody complains of high prices geome { hols érops last fall whit the peices Sere dU though he be a cabinet officer. —Seventy-six years ago HALLEY'S com- et visited us and it is on its way back at the rate of a million miles a day for for the Speaker is no more abhorrent, ie- gally or morally, than an automobile for the President. Both are forbidden by law to accept such emoluments from the office, at least until the courts had had opportunity to pass upon the ques- tion of the legality of an appointment. Mr. SHEATZ has made an admirable pub- is being offered by retailers now and the demand is said to be extremeiy light. —State Forestry Commissioner Conklin last Friday ordered the arrest of six men in as many another call. Few of us were here to re- | lic official. He has scrupulously followed Congress. An automobile for the Presi- | a fair profit to the dealer. But the mo- % thers is this Parte ofthis Shtte outhsetante of state forest ceive its last visit and few will be around | the lines laid down by WiLLiaM H. BERRY dent or one for the Speaker is equally | ment two or more dealers combine to alike upon the the men was worked up by detectives and it is | when it comes back seventy-six years |and made the office a public trust. He graft.” But as Speaker CANNON declar- | create an artificial scarcity in order that man | claimed that malicious conduct will be shown. hence. has attended to the fiscal business of the ed in a speech in resentment of the ac- | they may fix a fictitious value, a conspir- am. par, ~Founder’s Day will be celebrated by Juniata —The decision of the Supreme court | State with energy and assiduity. There | tion of the House, the automobile is not | acy is created. This is a crime against Sh Seah, and Gillgge Suniaglon, todst. Goverove Swart, to grant another hearing of the American was no manipulation of the funds for the | CANNONism. It is profligacy and that is | the public. honestly en- | and Ofiver, Congressmen Focht and Reynolds, Tobacco Co., and the Standard Oil cases gives another breathing spell to the stock gamblers as well as an opportunity for the bulls to run the bears to cover tem- ? | under such circumstances and when they —An Oregon man claims to have dis- TIA tio r yr. the natural fruit of Republicanism. Speaker CANNON is no worse than his party. He wasn’t as bad until the exi- gencies of his party required him to do things which are repugnant to the public conscience. JoE CANNON was a rather amiable, though coarse, old man until ROOSEVELT made him the instrument of the Congressional machine to force the policies of the administration through the National Legislature and prevent the passage of any legislation inimical to the to use | arty interests. He never dreamed of an benefit of favored politicians during his term and his appointment would have been a safe policy legally and financially. But the Republican machine, of which Governor STUART is a most obedient ser- vant, doesn't want men like SHEATZ in the office of State Treasurer. The big balances are of little use to the managers STUART to veto just charitable g prov funds Probably like BERRY but he wouldn't do things as FR WRIGHT will and WRIGHT is preferred. . He was content to Colonel JAMES M. GUFPEY for a couple of State Superintendent of Public Instruction N. C. Schaeffer and other prominent men are . to be present. —All the trees available in the Greenwood nurseries, numbering between 150,000 and 200,- 000, will be planted by the State in Mufflin coun- ty. The trees will be placed in Lan- caster, Treaster and Havise valleys and the labor will be secured in that vicinity. Three forestry experts will be in charge. last Tuesday, was frightfully burned by falling into a car of hot ashes, while at work in the Hol- small children survive. He was 35 years of age. —~Grading has been started by the Philipsburg p = jpetise : he sa iW il & Susquehanna Valley railroad on the new one- hae ele cal ot TRY emeran tall fos ee Jury. N verthe 3 Wi J] g . 5 fic 0 gerve the piirpo "He didn't tell things ed atitomobile has Beef cut off. , Ee Coal company’s new operations.near Philipsburg. 8 t will (10 The English who has 4 The Ramey Coal company has had its tipple con~ structed and when the branch is completed with- in about six weeks, coal will be shipped. covered the long lost Egyptian art of pre- mmm sem———— million dollars on the ground that the | in the Eternal Ci airbanks cer- | iss Mabel Nissley, clerk in the senate libra- serving food indefinitely. After dining] ——The publication of the daily con’ Son Posencr Stud HICHOOCK Colonel failed to pay him that amount of | tainly deserves the credit of Naving Set | ry at Harrisburg. was painfully injured Saturday on present day cold storage food products | sular reports has been suspended on ac- vi De Say teh bo elect- | money for work he never performed, is pi dint Oe Rovers og Won thé was van Sdwn by 4h, 3659, the whedls the average mortal will hope that both count of the absence of funds to pay the t op tes mata by te. Legis an optimist. He probably imagines that mer President as the hero of a strictly The young woman had just alighted from a the Oregon man and his re-discovered | expenses. It would be rather an advan- Ee gl Arian, Ww tory 18 | yellow back bills grow on trees. and blazing coup should be stern- | greet car and many spectators say that the auto Egyptian art be lost again forever. tage if some of the other government Stated a Beate: amuses hi It also TE — I fm el was Roosevelt was racing with another at the rate of between roca, PAI UL | ications Hid te. diptontivoad ‘for | W846 some of the U8: of us faugh. Fraud in Public Buildings. herd Dats high ORCC. OF SHALE, I 18 | Sunset sou three of the inmaics gave. the the Fifth Ave Baptist church, New York, | any old reason. Clarifying the Political Atmosphere. The revelations made by the esteemed 3 Alryatiks and TV in 1910, when names. asked his congregation last Sunday not i . meets | Philadelphia Press, the other day, with re- | ing home by a) estically come march | after George A. Lashell, of Coreapolis. has to allow JOHN D. ROCKERFELLER to give President Taft's Stump Speech. The leading Democrats of Pennsylvania | spect to the Homeopathic state hospital | to the exact injustice of this observation, been dead three years and just when prepara- “the lion's share” towards the building of | | “taking the stump” for the ap- sounded a true and clear note at the con- | for the insane at Rittersville, surprises no | it seems that all should agree. tions were being completed for distributing thei edifice. Wh : i ference held in Harrisburg last week in : : his estate of $30,087, under the intestate law, his r proposed new ce. y not, | proaching congressional campaign, the : critical observers of the public life of wife found a will in an old satchel in which he pray? JoHN D. has the lion's share. other night, President TAFT not only pre. | connection with a meeting of the State | pennsylvania. In 1901 the construction had carried his papers toand from his office, —State commissioner of Fisheries MEE- HAN has predicted good sport for the anglers in Pennsylvania streams today. He says “fishing will be good.” Of course it will Mr. MEEHAN. It always is where there is enough water to fish in, but are you sure the fish are in the streams to be caught. —Congress having voted franking priv- ileges to former President ROOSEVELT for the rest of his life will not necessarily decrease the revenues of the postal de- partment to any great extent, while it will obviate the danger of having the voluble ROOSEVELTian tongue stuck up with mucilage. —Uncle SAM opens his census taking business on a day not naturally adapted to accuracy in statements. The trout fishing season opens also today and you know the failing of the average fisher- man so if the answers to the census questions are not just as truthful as they should be it will be from habit, probably more than from wilful prevari- cation. —From one extreme to another the ad- ministration seems determined to go. President TAFT has ordered a stop put to the probe of the Sugar Trust. If this is not back tracking it looks so much like it that the people will be more convinced than ever that our President has no de- termined policy to carry out and is daily developing more signs of becoming an executive jelly fish. —The appointment of C. FRED WRIGHT, of Susquehanna county, to fill the vacan- cy in the State Treasurer's office caused by the death of Treasurer elect STOBER, is going to precipitate a legal fight with Treasurer JOHN O. SHEATZ for possession sented to the country a startling innova- tion, but he revealed the sorry plight in- to which his party has been plunged by his own moral and mental weaknesses. No other President has ever “gone upon the hustings" in a campaign of less im- portance than that of the Presidency. Until within a comparatively short ‘time ago such a thing as even a candidate for President making campaign speeches was unheard of and never dreamed about. ROOSEVELT was the first President to make campaign speeches even in a pres- idential campaign and he respected no law other than his own caprices. President TAFT has gone further than ROOSEVELT, however, in the direction of debasing the high office for which he was recommended to the people on account of his dignity and judicial temperament. He opened the campaign for the Sixty- second Congress in Washington, last Sat- urday evening, in a stump speech which before it was fairly begun had degenerat- ed into a tirade against the insurgents of his own party who have repudiated the perfidy involved in the violation of party pledges by the Congress now in commis. sion. Such a spectacle should bring the blush of shame to every American citi- zen as it is certain to provoke the resent- ment of all right minded men of every party faith. There is greater reason for surprise in the fatuity of the President's action, how- ever, than in the impropriety of it. It shows clearly the hopelessness of the par- ty in the coming election. If there were even the shadow of a chance for his par- ty to win without resort to such means, the President would hardly have taken the stump. With a reasonable prospect of maintaining the lines his political ad- visers would have admonished him against the prostitution of his great office and depended upon ROOSEVELT, upon his abundant. simply permits instructions. command them. central committee. It declared for har- mony as well as energy in intelligence in the conduct of the coming and all future campaigns and condemned the perfidy involved in betraying pledges made tothe people. There could be no two opinions on these questions and when they were properly presented the action of the con- vention was unanimous. The party will be the better for the understanding and the action. The work of organization will be more vigorous and effectivein the future and the fruit of the labor more ‘The resolution declaring that delegates to conventions are “under moral obliga- tions” to obey the instructions of the vot- ers who selected them, simply expressed a fundamental Democratic principle. In any community in which public sentiment is divided between aspirants for office there is no better way of ascertaining the sentiment of the majority than by in- structing the delegates as provided by law and delegates so instructed are in duty bound to vote the preferences of those who elected them. On the other hand, however, where there is no conten- tion with respect to candidates, there is no necessity for instructions. The statute As a matter of fact, therefore, the reso- lution which threatened to create some asperity in the conference before it was understood simply endorsed the Act of Assembly upon the question involved. There could be no serious differences among Democrats on such questions. The Democratic party is essentiaily the party of law and order and what the law pro- vides is the rule that governs in Demo- cratic councils. There was no real neces- sity for such a resolution in the confer- ence as there was no substantial ground for opposing it after it had been introduc- of that institution was authorized by the Legislature and begun as an urgent meas- ure to relieve the congestion then exist- ing in other state institutions of the kind. It was to cost $300,000 and be completed within two years. It has been under pro- cess of construction for ten years, has al- ready cost $1,703,000 and is not nearly finished yet. In fact another requisition has been made on the Legislature for from half a million to a million dollars. This was essentially a machine con- trolled enterprise. The commission charg- ed with the construction was composed of WiLLiam T. MARSHALL, of Pittsburg, then Speaker of the House; WiLLiam P. Sny- ate, and three others, whose tenure of of- fice is terminable only by the completion of the work. PHiLip H. JOHNSTON, broth- er-in-law of the late ISRAEL W. DURHAM, ie the architect, and FRANCIS SHUNK BROWN, counsel for the Philadelphia Re- SNYDER is now a prisoner in the eastern penitentiary, but still holds his job. It doesn’t only one of a common kind and the prac- tice will continue until the machine is DUR then president protem, of the Sen: | The truth of the matter is that all pub- but which he had stopped using some time before his death. His widow is to receive all but one- third of his property, which goes to his mother for life, and will descend to a nephew and niecs after her death. ~The General Electric company. of Schenec- tady, N. Y., has made public plans for a monster subsidiary plant at Erie, Pa., to give employment to 20.000 men. Eventually the plant will be made one of the largest industrial centres in the world. The work of enlarging the local plant is under way and soon the number of employees there will be 20,000. Eight hundred acres of ground have been secured at Erie and the initial floor space will be 150 acres. Twenty large buildings and thirty-eight smaller ones will be erected. ~The post office at Cell Hill, near Oil City, was entered by thieves early Monday evening and about $350 in money taken. The thieves entered while James Straup, the postmaster and his wife were at supper. Hearing the noise they intercepted the robbers and succeeded in recover- ing part of the money but in the battle Mrs. Straup was badly beaten and is in a serious con- dition. Post office inspectors have been sentto that section with blood-hounds. The thieves sccured $47 of the postal funds and $300 belonging to Straup. —Another producing oil-well has been found in ‘the Gaines field, Potter county. The well is on the land of the Pennsylvania Land and Oil Devel opment company and the oil was struck at a depth of 1,100 feet. The drillers found the hole full of oil when they went to work one morning and will drill it at least 100 feet deeper. If the including three mules. A P. R. R. steel car, load- ed with coal. was also practically ruined. The fire was discovered by the crew of the Philipsburg coal train, but too late to save the property. Every indication points to the fire as having been she work of an incendiary, and an effort will be made to run down the guilty party. ~Four solid blocks were swept by fire at Mid- dletown, the oldest place in Dauphin county, Sat- next regular election while Governor | return, to rejuvenate the party. The ac- ed. Nevertheless the discussion clarified | Lo 4 From the New York World. urday. Half a million dollars’ loss was caused STUART assumes that he has power to EE therefore, pt the political atmosphere and it isquite as optofpower. Milwaukee's newly ig Socialist id for a¥inie the OW0 wis ir Quiges, ‘Diet appoint. Whatever the outcome the re- | construed in no other way than as a con- well, therefore, that the subject was con- ~——Meantime it is worth while to re- a “has given a chance to | telephone cxchanges were destroyed but fortu- salt will oe pittely persons aed political, | fession of weakness and an acknowledge. | Sidered. call that Secretary of State KNOX declar- | show its merits. We can do this by i . uagely not before uid could be summoned from as the State will have to a Treasur- | ment of defeat. —A new front, with large display win- | ed a couple of months ago that the revolu- sistent * | Harrisburg, Steeiton, Columbia and Lancaster. er and there will be little general concern dows, is being put in the store room in tion in Nicaragua had practically succeed- Whi 5 $hé2) to the good Who 2 Te A rs ul asto whether SHEATZ or WRIGHT gets the ——An advertisement in the WATCH- Crider’s Exchange occupied by Montgom- ed. Knox never was much of a guesser, ] duc new reform i perch, of x The K... salary. MAN always pays. ery & Co. however. mite! man. will begin at once. ALIS
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