York | of < —The Daughters of the Revolution spent the greater part of this week revo- lutin’ Washington. —HETTY GREEN'S son says he is a bachelor because of his wealth, but that isn't the reason we have quit being one. —The bird's nest head dressing the girls affect just now is peculiarly appro- priate for the chippies we see on the street. —HALLEY'S comet is somewhere near us, but it takes more than the ordinary eye-opener in the morning to give one a glimpse of it. —Hungary is the latest country to go wild over Mr. T. R., but then you know the Hungarian always was a sort of wild and wierd character. —Senator ALDRICH may be getting ready to retire but we don’t see that he is making any strenuous effort to stop that $300,000,000 leak before he goes. —The way the striking laborers out in the coal country are laboring to avoid work plainly illustrates how industrious some workingmen are determined to be. —Another uprising has occurred in China and the frightful days of Boxer outrages are recalled. The “yellow per- il” seems to be yellow and perilous as ever. —Since Mr. MORGAN has started out to buy up the automobile factories of the country we are sure there will soon be something with a real stink to blame him for. —President TAPT evidently felt in a forgiving mood when he said he had no quarrel with the Suffragettes. He hasn't worked himself up to the point of forgiv- ing the Insurgents yet. —*“Its never so bad that it couldn't be worse.” Even President TAFT can take consolation from the fact that the umpire will share with him the public contumely for the next six months at least. —Mr. TAFT may be just as tired of his job as he would have the public believe, but we have serious doubts if he is half as tired of it as the public is of him. At least indications indicate that way. —The Western penitentiary is putting on airs since so many Pittsburg bankers and councilmen broke into it. On Mon- day the striped suits were abolished and now the prisoners wear black or blue ones. ~WiLLiAM J. BRYAN landed in New America. He is reported as having declined to talk politics, and the reports didn't say that he is unwell, either. —The marriage of MARK SWIFT and ELizaBeTd HURRY in New York, a few days ago, might naturally be expected to result in SWIFT offspring, but probably not any swifter than if they had been SMITH or JONES. ~The Philadelphia street car strike is cver. A victory is recorded for neither side in the long drawn out struggle, but however that may be both sides have lost enough to prompt them to take steps at once to prevent a recurrence of the un- profitable situation. —The union of the GouLd and DREX- EL fortunes on Tuesday was the all ab- sorbing topic in New York and Philadel- phia society circles. The public is inter- ested in so far as its hope that this alli- ance will not prove another affair to be ventilated in the divorce courts later. —The late P, T. BARNUM died firmly believing that he had been the most pro- ficient advertiser of humbugs who had ever undertaken that job. How his tail- feathers would have dropped had he known the glory that awaited one T. ROOSEVELT for efforts in that same line. —Of course there will be the usual amount of argufyin over whether Tues- day’s output was the "saplin bender,” the “onion snow," the “poor man’s manure” or the “daffodil snow.” Whatever it may have been it sent a chill to the heart of the fruit grower and the possessor of an early garden. —Speaker CANNON, in a reminiscent mood, recalls that with a single exception every Congress, within the last fifty years, that has enacted a tariff law, has been succeeded by one of the opposite party. Mr. CANNON is correct, and we have all reason to tender him our profound thanks for bringing to the front this greatly en- couraging historical fact. —CARTER'S release from the Minnesota penitentiary is another exemplification of the old proverb “the pen is mightier than the sword." He wrote poetry with such an appealing sentiment in it that the whole State took up the work of securing his pardon. He could have tried a sword as a means of getting out and would probably have wound up “in the hole.” —*“JoE HUSTON, the boy dreamer,” is the way attorney GRAHAM described the half-million dollar architect of the State capitol building, in his opening address in the trial at Harrisburg. Right well does the appellation apply; for dreams are said to always go by the contrary and nothing could have gone more contrari- wise for Mr. HusToN than the beautiful dream he must have had when he con- ceived that structure. ‘similarly favored in consideration of ac- ———— a S—— —a—— —— - ——— STATE VOL. 55. Why Sheatz Was Not Appointed. BELLEFONTE, PA. APRIL A Pickwickian Speech. : 22, 1910. “What Fools We Mortals Be.” —E NO. Grant and Roosevelt. 165. | i The principal reason why JOHN 0.| Official life in Washington is greatly | The absurdities of men "surpass under- | From the Washington Star. perturbed because President TAFT declar- | standing.” For example the public prints, | Gen. Grant was a silent man. He was nor to serve the term for which the late J. A. STOBER was elected, but did not | qualify, as State Treasurer, is clearly ex- | SHEATZ was not appointed by he orl i ed, the other night, in a speech, that it is | his intention to retire from public life upon the expiration of his present term. | the other day, contained a press dispatch to the effect that “members of the Peace Society of New York had a hard time,” pressed in the statement of the Treasury | As a matter of fact the President didn’t | that day, “deciding between President at the close of business on March 31, | made public the other day. There was a balance of $6,735,668.06 in the general fund and one of $2,429,765.25 in the Sinking fund, making a total of $165, 436.31 practically under the control of ' that official, for while the Board of Reve- | nue Commissioners designate the state depositories and it is unlawful to put funds in a bank not designated by the Board, the selection of the depositories, within the list recommended and the fix- ing of the amount deposited in each bank is left to the option of the State Treasur- er absolutely. : According to this recently published statement of Mr. SHEATZ. the moneys in the general fund were distributed among three hundred and fifty banks, located in all sections of the State in pretty nearly an equal ratio and those in the Sinking fund were deposited in one hundred and forty-four banks apportioned throughout the State in the same way. It is oaly just to say that this system was introduc- ed by Hon. WiLLiaM H. BERRY during the period of his incumbency of the office from May, 1906, to May, 1908. Previous to that time the depositories were few and the deposits large thus giving the fa- vored banks the full measure of advan- tage in the use of the public funds. Mr. BERRY discovered in this fact a source of great evil and when the Republican ma- chine Legislature refused to allow him to place the money in banks of unquestion- ed solvency which would pay to the State the highest rate of interest, he determin- ed to minimize the evil of a bad system by distributing the surplus among a large number of depositories in small amounts and fairly apportioned to the different sections. It willbe remembered that when the terprise National bank, of Allegheny, iled in the fall of 1905 it held a deposit of State funds ¢ ting to upward of $1,000,000. Several other banks were commodations to prominent politicians of the Republican faith. According to the recent statement of Treasurer SHEATZ the largest deposit in any bank on the 31st of March, this year, was $190,000 of the general fund surplus and $90,000 of the sinking fund. It should be added that the banks holding these compara- tively big deposits are those which held the million dollar balances under the old machine regime, the scaling down hav- ing been made gradually so as not to ma- terially disturb business in the communi- ties in which such banks were located. The appointment of the Governor is to restore the old system. Governor Murphy’s Poor Platform. Lieutenant Governor MURPHY has con- tributed to the interest in politics and “the gayety of nations,” by announcing himself as a candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor. In the brief statement of his aspirations which he made public the other day, he declares that he will, in the event of his nomina- tion and election, continue the policies of the present Governor and follow the lines laid down by the present adminis- tration, of which he claims to be a part. His friends add that he has always been a “regular,” they might have added a “regulation” Republican, and that he is a lawyer of some consequence. This incident calls to mind the fact that the Republican machine managers set great store upon the character of the present Governor and the policies of his administration. They seem to be greatly delighted because he hasn't broken into the State Treasury and looted its vaults. They are equally elated, according to gossip, because he hasn't openly reward- ed criminals with special favors or con- spicuous public offices. No doubt Lieu- tenant Governor MURPHY is expressing this exultation in his eulogy of Governor STUART and promise to pursue the poli- cies of that gentleman. There is abso- lutely nothing else to rejoice over in the matter. Mr. STUART has certainly not been a militant reformer. | As a matter of fact, however,Gov. STU- ART has not had any policies during the three years he has been Governor. He has simply been a quiescent instrument in the hands of Senator PENROSE to give force and effect to the purposes of the Republican machine. In not a single instance has he risen above the lowest level of machine politics in anyaction. He has not been as bold as STONE or as absurd as PENNY- PACKER, but he has been as servile as either of them. For that reason Lieuten- ant Governor MURPHY is “leaning upon a broken reed,” in appealing to popular favor on a promise to imitate Governor say that literally. What he did say is that "judging from the worry and trouble getting through the first year of my term, is more than I can stand.” In another | speech on the same evening he said, “Washington is very dear to me. I'm going to spend three years more here,” and when those he was addressing sug- gested seven years he added “that sounds very good but when I remember that the vote of the District of Columbia doesn’t cut any figure in National affairs my head isn’t swelled with your approval.” This sounds to us more like an expres- sion of fear that he can’t get another term than an inclination to forego the honor. It is more in the nature of a com- plaint that the people are not willing to re-elect him than a statement that he is unwilling to serve another term in the event of his election. TAPT appears to be what might be termed “a bad loser.” During all his previous public life he es- caped public criticism. As Circuit court Judge, Governor of the Philippines and Secretary of War he was permitted to pursue the even tenor of his way without serious opposition. Some of his acts would hardly bear close scrutiny but, happily for him, ROOSEVELT was willing to take the burden of the blame, if blame attached, as he wanted all the credit, where approval followed. But since he has become President Mr. TAFT has no “goat” and the criticism irritates him. But official Washington needn't worry about a declination of the second term by TAFT if there is even the shadow of a hope of his securing that favor. He may not be having “a corking good time,” as his predecessor expressed it, but he is sion to the language above quoted. He had just learned of a conference between THEODORE ROOSEVELT and GIFFORD PIN- CHOT, held in an Austrian forest a few days previously, but had no intimation of the subjects discussed and was a trifle uncertain as to the future. He knew that PINCHOT hadn't wasted many words in praise of his administration and the doubt caused despondency. But he will recover. Under Suspicion Too Much. There is an old adage that “where there is much smoke there must be some fire,” and time and experience have vin- dicated its accuracy. A man may be under suspicion without reason or a citi- zen may be accused unjustly once or twice without being in the least culpable. But it is a fair proposition that one whose name is associated in one way or another with about every public scandal which is exposed, has something the matter with him. Suspicions are not pulled down out of the clouds or bred in the atmosphere. Men who are fundamentally honest are correspondingly secure in their ieputa- tions. There is no scandal factory capa- ble of calumniating integrity. During the last half dozen years there has not been a scandal concerning the public life of the country at large that the name of CHARLES P. TAFT has not been connected with. Mr. TAPT became a conspicuous figure in public affairs about the time his brother, President WILLIAM H. TAFT became Secretary of War in the ROOSEVELT cabinet. Simultaneously with that event CHARLES P. TAFT blossomed out as a very rich man, but nobody has ever explained the source of his wealth. He was a rather obscure lawyer in Cin- cinnati and became the owner of an un- important and uninfluential afternoon newspaper. Singularly enough about the same time the French Panama canal was purchased by an American syndicate and was subsequently sold to the govern- ment of the Uuited States. Mr. TAFT’S name was associated with that of WiLLiaM H. CROMWELL in that transaction and he is said to have realiz- ed a profitof $10,000,000 out of the trans- action. Of course he denied this "soft impeachment,” though he has never been able to free himself from the suspicion that attached to him. Since he has been accused of being associated with CHARLES M. SCHWAB in some sinister operations and with others in equally shady trans. actions with the same result. Suspicion clings to him so tenaciously that the pub- lic invariably believes him “guilty but not proven.” The latest aspersion cast upon him is that he was closely related to the Sugar trust frauds and try as he will he hasn't exculpated himself. | that expensive STUART. Subscribe for the WATCHMAN. TAFT and former President ROOSEVELT, but finally passed a resolution acclaiming President TAFT as the greatest leader in the contemplation of more than one term | the movement toward world’s peace, and | another making ROOSEVELT head of a including ANDREW CARNEGIE ELiHU RooT, to arrange fora World's Court of Honor, to arbitrate every kind of a dispute between nations.” Obvious- ly the sycophants were in control. The dispenser of patronage is more potent than “the power behind the throne.” Former President ROOSEVELT is literal- ly the embodiment of the spirit of war and President TAPT, consciously or un- consciously, willingly or unwillingly, is the echo of his predecessor in office in that respect. They equally yearn for the “pomp and circumstance of war.” They alike favor burdening the people with ex- cessive taxation in order that the imple- ments and agencies of war may be pro- vided in abundance. Of course they both protest that they want battleships and big guns as a guarantee against war. Emperor WILLIAM, of Germany, in his adolescent period set up the same pre- tense until he was ridiculed out of the notion. Burglars don't arm themselves in order to preserve the peace and color- ed ruffians hardly take razors to cake walks with the view of promoting tran- qulity. Mr. CARNEGIE presided at the meeting which decided in favor of TAFT as against ROOSEVELT as the “greatest leader in the movement toward world's peace.” Mr. CARNEGIE probably had in mind the fact that it is TAPT rather than ROOSEVELT who now exercises the greatest power in ordering armor plate for battleships and other military defences and being inter- ested very much in the manufacture of speech made by President TAFT," accord- ing to the dispatch already quoted, “and said that it was the most momentous dec- laration for world’s peace ever made.” Really “what fools we mortals be.” The Attorney General Ridiculed. The decision of the Supreme court in the matter of the writ of quo warranto directing that State Treasurer SHEATZ show cause why he should not turn over the affairs of his office to CHARLES F. WRIGHT, who was appointed by Governor STUART because of the death of J. A. SToBER who was elected to succeed Mr. SHEATZ, handed down on Monday, has not illuminated the subject but it has shown that the Attorney General of the State is deficient in the legal acumen ex- pected in a man holding that particular job. The granting of the writ would be equivalent to an order of ouster and an order of ouster cannot be issued against a public official until the expiration of his term of office. Mr. SHEATZ was elected to the office of State Treasurer in November, 1907, in- ducted into the office on the first Mon- day in May, 1908, and commissioned un- til the first Monday in May, 1910, or “un- til his successor is duly elected and qual- ified.” vember, 1909, but has since died and will not be able to qualify. It is contended by a considerable number of leading law- yers, therefore, that there is no vacancy in the office which the Governor has a right to fill, and that consequently Mr. SHEATz shall continue in office until another has been elected and qualifies. But the Republican machine doesn’t want Mr. SHEATZ to continue in office and the Attorney General undertook, by quo warranto process, in advance of the time of the expiration of his term, toget an order of ouster. The decision of the court is interesting mainly because it reveals the preposter- ous ignorance of the Attorney General on the subject. “The term of office of the present State Treasurer will not ex- pire on his election until the first Mon. day in May, 1910,” declares the court. “If the Governor's appointment of a suc- cessor is valid,” the opinion continues, “his term will not begin until that date. In the meantime there can be no contest between the two, which the law will rec- ognize, over the title to the office, for the one admitedly will lawfully hold it until May 2 next, and the other cannot claim it under his appointment before that date.” The “lawyers’ lawyer” ought to have known this. ~The announcement from Rhode Is- land that Senator ALDRICH will retire with the expiration of his term in 1911 is regarded as a bluff in well informed polit- ical quarters. If it is the voters of that State ought to have wit enough to call it. dey be tec uve His successor was elected in No- | | sententious even in conversation. =F 5% : : : i ; is ; 28 i : i : : E : i i | | EF : =F : i Egf g ii ; i - j i : : | of A f =: : J : i i Es 8F : i | | i g i i i i : : : : : i i it ] : i ; § g § a= 5 § 2£§ HEH igh railroad announces a general increase of 6 per cent. in the | Wages of tha em and the i follows with a voluntary increase of wages. In the case of the va- nia the increase will amount to $7,000,000 a year, and it makes an aggregate in- | crease within the last eight years of 28 per cent. Such action on the part of railway | managements is an indication of fhusiuase Sse e. But a 3 t cent. in past eight years still re aie em than ere because Bil or buy ich ay as would t years han the purclising Power is do "in terms of the nary necessities for which the greater part of the working- | man’s outlay is | It is probable that the time is coming | when enlightened officials of the big em- ploying companies will exert themselves | more in the way of tion of labor i troubles and less in way of cure. It |is cheaper and more comforta- | ble all around, particularly to that inno- : cent bystander, the general public. Theodore the Great, is Title Sought | Says Harden. | A German Opinion of Mr. Roosevelt. has shown Germany some small courte- sies, ially in Asia, but he has done much for other countries who have fed his vanity much less. We have no rea- son whatever to give the rough rider an ovation as either a hero or a tried friend of the German empire.” | So writes Maximillian Harden, | exposed the scandal besmirching the aris- | tocratic “ ts of the Round Table.” Harden : “Col. Roosevelt's whole European tri is one gigantic advertisement. agi always be in the dore the Great.” : “A Cold Day” inthe Philippines. Cochisamo Bu Martin of Colorado n of can induce congress to look into that Philip- land deal which Mr. Taft's attorney finds warrant for, he will have FREI Hi fi :! Lewd] il i ih; i £ g os yg HE | ppines when he Republican con- gress to on nis AN ay has got to stop. SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. —Breaking a big plate-glass window inthe F. W. Berkley jewelry store at Homestead, daring burglars recently escaped with $3,000 worth of valuables. —Announcement has been made that the New Irvin house, a Lock Haven hostelry that is being renovated, will be formally re-opened to the pub- lic May 1st. —Fulton county's first electric light plant is at the mill of Harry Duffy in Ayr township and the dynamo is operated by water power. Herbert Duffy erected the plant. —Houtzdale's shirt factory has been in opera- tion for a short time, having started with twenty or twenty-five girls employed. It will not be long until a large force of people will be at work. ~Huntingdon is experiencing a big boom, if the number of autos being shipped there can be taken asa harbinger. Six carloads of machines were imported in one week recently by C. A. Ville. —Work was resumed in the axe factory of the Mann Edge Tool company, at Lewistown, re- cently. As many men now work there as before the recent fire, the damages of which were re- paired. —The biggest and most important steel foundry plant in the United States will be erected at Traf- ford City by the Westinghouse people. The plans are being worked out and when they are com- pleted contracts will be let and construction will start : —E. Brown, a Johnstown carpenter, fei! twenty- two feet from the roof of a house on which he was working recently and escaped with some bad bruises and sprains. He was unconscious for over an hour and it was thought that he had been injured seriously. . —Anthony Westrick, a farmer of near Hastings, has on hand 4,000 bushels of potatoes of last year’s crop, which altogether amounted to 8,000 bushels. The hard winter kept him from filling orders he received and his selling price now is considerably lower than he would have received then. —Saupp & Depew,a prominent firm of construc- tion engineers, have brought suit against the com- missioners of Cambria county to recover $2,948.22 with interest from the 10th day of December,1909, the balance alleged to be due them for the con- struction of that portion of the new state road up Constable hollow. ~Through the efforts of Secretary G. H, Gunnison, of the Jersey Shore P. R. R. Y. M. subscribers and the officials are taking a lively interest in the society's affairs. miles east of Lock Haven. Mrs. Dunn, who has good health and the use of all her faculties, is one of the few remaining pioneer settlers of that vicinity and easily remembers some events of days long ago. It is believed that she will be able to round out a century, as she lives a simple, carefree life. —An oil well that starts off with a flow of thirty barrels a day has been drilled by L. K. Edgett, 800 feet north of the Drake well, near Franklin, in Venango county, the first well ever drilled. Last fall Mr. Edgett and some Titusville oil men bought the property adjoining the Drake well, and started to drill it. They cleaned out and pumped a well that was drilled forty-five years ago and abandoned. It is now making a half barrel a day. ~The beautiful chateau located just outside of Cresson, and bordering on the site of the tuberculosis sanitarium, recently presented to the State Health department, by Andrew Carnegie, has been given over to the State by Mrs. B. F. Jones, wife of the late Pittsburg steel manu- facturer, who was reported to have been a multi- millionaire. The property contains many acres, as well as a fine country home, and all told is worth over $18,000. —Louis Bailey, a deserter from the Annapolis® Mad., barracks, whose home isin Michigan, was arrested Tuesday afternoon at Warrior Ridge by Railroad Policeman F. P. Ernest, formerly a fire- man of that city, while Bailey was riding on a Ernest will receive the usual reward of $50 for the arrest of an army or navy deserter. ~At an enthusiastic meeting of the business found, has been raised all but $3,500. The solicit, ing committee reported that it would be no trou- ble to raise this amount. Charles Hyde, of the Clearfield Steel company, says that the steel plant will start within the next two or three weeks, —With the flesh cooked from his bones, his skull crushed and an arm torn off, D. E. Kuhns, chief engineer at the Marianna mines, was found recently in the engine house. A fragment of a bursting fly-wheel struck the man and broke two ten-inch steam pipes. In a moment after the crash was heard, it was impossible to ten feet of the building. The steam off at the boilers in another building the engine was allowed to cool off, when ed body was found. —Hunters and fishermen of Huntingdon, cently received ten Belgian hares, which now in possession of J. E. Sponeybarger, at his field home. In a few days the animals placed in different parts of the county in They are much largerthan the Huntingdon coun- ; H obi: § —A stubborn fire, which broke outin the office flames, the bed upon which he was sleeping, also being afire. He seized a few clothes hanging cnt a chair and ran from the room, reaching the street in safety.
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