—With ALDRICH eliminated, Rhode Is-
land will possibly get down to a size that
it can wear some of its old clothes again.
—No, we haven't seen the comet. The
spring bonnets have been so plentiful and
big that opportunity to see anything else
has been entirely out of the question.
~The minister who sized up hell as “a
place of unquenchable thirst” was proba-
bly speaking from experience—as a resi-
dent of one of the “dry” towns of the
country.
—]It was the Rev. SAM JONES who an-
nounced that Texas was only 100 yards
from hell, and even at that there are peo-
ple who think he made the distance en-
tirely too great.
—DAVE LANE is still of the opinion that
Philadelphia is the best governed city in
the country. And possibly it is for the
people who like the kind of a government
Philadelphia has.
—It is usually when men get most hope-
less, that they act the most wreckless.
Which will possibly account for much of
the fool work being done by the leaders
of the G. O. P. these days.
"—Anyway Mr. RoosEVELT will not be
here to try to attract our attention and
obscure our view of the comet, on its next
seventy-six years round. Let us all re
member this fact and take hope.
—Pittsburgers insist that there is noth-
ing wrong with that city, and probably
there isn't from their point of view. But
this only proves the diseased conditions
through which they see things.
~—Will all you people who have been
complaining about the rain just re.
call what you were saying about the
weather, with its low streams, dry wells
and empty cisterns a few weeks ago.
—Everything has come in for its share
of notoriety as a result of the recent cold
and storms but that Delaware peach crop.
Can it be possible that this old time
spring bogy has been pushed clear onto
the shelf?
—When we reflect that Gen. LEONARD
WooD is now the head of the army, itis
not to be wondered at that there are those
who doubt the truth of the general belief
that “success comes to him who most de-
serves it.”
~CuAMp CLARK, minority leader in
has no belief in the truth of
TAFPT’S statement that he doesn’t want a
second term. But then Mr. CLARK is
from Missoory where one must see before
he believes.
serious symptoms of the congressional
cold---foot malady. We sincerely hope not.
His wad and those whiskers, out of the
campaign, would leave our friends, the
enemy, in this district without incentive
of any kind.
—And now it is said that Attorney
General WICKERSHAM is in no way dis-
turbed by the criticisms of his fool Chica-
go speech, and that Secretary BALLINGER
is equally oblivious to the opinion the
public entertains of his official integrity.
Strange, how densely stupid some men
can be.
VOL. 55.
Mr. Srv in Indians Politics.
Mr. WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN, who has
just returned from a prolonged tour in
South and Central America, has already
projected himself into the Democratic
politics of Indiana. Mr. Bryan doesn’t
live in that State and presumably has no
more interest in the management of
party affairs there than any other Dem-
ocrat not a resident within the limits of
the Hoosier Commonwealth. If Senator
CuLBERTSON,of Texas, National Chairman
Mack, of New York, or Representative
CHAMP CLARK, of Missouri, had “butted
in” in the local affairs of the Democrats
But Mr. BRYAN feels that he has a right
toexercise paternal authority over the
party everywhere.
Candor compelis the acknowledgement
that in his interference in the local affairs
of the Democrats of Indiana, Mr. BRYAN
has associated himself with the better
element of the party in that State and
acted in the interest of political morality.
Tom TAGGART, a political adventurer, if
not a party mercenary, aspires to a seat
in the United States Senate and has
money enough, and force sufficient, to
make his ambition a menace to the suc-
cess of the party in the State at a time
when conditions are otherwise most aus-
picious. Mr. BRYAN has undertaken to
lead the opposition to Mr. TAGGART and
if he were a citizen of Indiana it would
be a righteous as well as a meritorious
course. The danger of TAGGART'S nomi-
nation would probably influence thousands
of Democratic voters to support Republi
can candidates.
But we recall the fact that Mr. BRYAN
is largely responsible for the menace
which Tom TAGGART'S candidacy in-
volves. Previous to the campaign of 1904
‘Mr. TAGGART was a self-assertive but com-
paratively harmless local leader in Indi-
ana. After the nomination of Judge PARK-
ER for the Presidency that year the real
the chairmanship of the Democratic Na-
tional ¢ Mr. BRYAN was then,as
he is now, very much opposed to the Penn-
sylvanian, however, and clandestinely got
a number of southern and western mem-
bers of the committee together and elect-
ed Mr. TAGGART chairman. The result
| was a farcical campaign and an inordi-
nate TAGGART ambition to plague the
party in the future.
If Mr. BRYAN had kept his fingers out
of the pie then there would be no neces-
| sity for him to thrust his thumbs under
| the crust now. Mr. TAGGART had been
STATE
| owes a good deal to the Hoyt family.
The late Governor HoYT was a warm |
friend of Senator QUAY and his son, So- The full measure of moral degradation
licitor General Hoyt, has been a faithful
adherent of the PENROSE machine for
many years and gave it respectability
when it sadly needed such support. Will
the Senator silently assent to the dismis-
sal of the Governor's nephew and the So-
the truth ?
Bright Prospects for Democrats.
The result of the special congressional
elections in Massachusetts, Missouri and
New York is already showing a salutary
influence on the politics of Pennsylvania.
Three of the machine Congressmen have
announced their purpose to retire at the
«| close of the present term. No one in the
delegation seemed more firmly entrenched
in his seat than COOPER, of Fayette coun.
ty, HUFF, of Westmoreland, and PALMER,
of Luzerne, and none could have been more
enamored of his job. But the election of
a Democrat in the Old Colony district of
Massachusetts frightened PALMER out of
the running and CooPer and HUFF de-
clared that they wiii not run for re-elec-
tion immediately after the vote in the
Rochester district.
the twenty-two Congressional districts of
this State outside of Philadelphia and
Pittsburg. There is a fighting chance to
carry three of the four districts in Alle-
gheny county this year and with the ra-
tio of change that was shownin the elec-
tions in Massachusetts and New York
every district in this State would be Dem-
ocratic. We don’t make such claims, how-
ever, for Pennsylvania is different from
other States. The voters in this State are
not as alert mentally or as keen of con-
science as those of Massachusetts and
New York and the people of Philadelphia
are slaves to graft and servile to the ma-
chine. But there are chances for vast im-
provements.
With the very best candidates and prop-
er energy in the campaign work the Dem-
ocrats can carry every district this year
which Mr. MUNSON carried last year and
at least two of the Pittsburg districts.
This would give us seventeen out of the
most influential of the States in the next
Congress which will be Democratic as cer-
tain as fate. There is in this prospect an
incentive to effort on the part of every
Democrat in the Commonwealth for with
a Democratic majority in Congress the
absurd prices of the necessaries of life
would fail to a just level. We hope the
; Democrats in this district will contribute
| their share.
i
i —No matter how little they can do for
RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
Last fall MR. MUNSON carried fifteen of
thirty-two Congressmen for this State and |
‘was heaped upon Pittsburg, the other day
when the District Attorney of Allegheny
county joined in the petition of one of
the accused “grafters” for a change of
venueon the ground that “the halls and
corridors of the court house as well as
licitor General's cousin because: he told [the pavements outside, swarmed with
jury-fixers and persons whose
: itis to influence jurors on the
e panel.” Several of those crimi”
nals are scheduled for trial at the ap-
proaching session of the criminal court,
: some of the wealthy and influ-
tial malefactors. One of them, Max G.
LesLiE, appealed to the Supreme court for
the transfer of his case to another coun-
ty and the Disirict Attorney joined in the
eq giving the reason above quoted.
v1 of a hundred councilmen, city
and county officials, bankers, business
sn and others, have been indicted for
living or taking bribes in that city, in
with municipal legislation. Un-
and it is rumored that a large sum of
money has been raised to defray the or-
dinary and extraordinary expenses of
such litigation. LESLIE probably thought
that this corruption fund might be used
more safely and successfully in a juris-
diction that was less closely watched.
Evidently the District Attorney entertains
a different idea.
‘This incident implies a shameless mor-
al degeneracy in that community, but it
is not surprising. That state of affairs is
the logical consequence of conditions
which have led up to it. For years the
leading business men of Pittsburg have
been deriving vast fortunes from special
privileges and the most respectable and
influential leaders in the social, commer-
cial and industrial life of the city have
shared freely in this form of “graft.” In
fact they have become so inured in the
vice that they assumed it was a just re-
ward for their labor or sagacity. Natural-
they gave out of their abundance thus
for other privileges that they
did not possess with the result that the
whole community is steeped in iniquity.
It is to be hoped that this expedient will
not work immunity.
—We are glad that Mr. ROOSEVELT has
had such large audiences for his lectures
throughout Europe. The people over
there will now understand the affliction
that, for fifteen years, has been upon us of | gold
this side of the water, and can so much
the better appreciate our patience.
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—Five victims of a recent natural gas explosion
at Puritan have entered a suit for $70,000 damages
against the Fayette Natural Gas company.
~Dr. Parcels, of Lewistown, who recently
returned from a tour in Oriental countries,
brought with him a two-thousand-year-old mum-
my which is now on exhibition in that place.
~The Central Pennsylvania Synod of the Luth-
eran church will meet in annual session in Belle-
fonte next autumn. The Woman's and
Foreign Missionary society of the Synod will hold
. | its annual meeting in State College about the
same time.
~Charles M. Schwab will build a twenty-five-
mile railroad from Durham to his steel works at
Bethlehem, connecting withthe Lehigh and New
England railroad, hear Nazareth. The road will
cost $250,000 and is to be built to avoid the paying
of excessive freight charges.
~Nearly every house in Oval and vicinity, Ly-
coming county, is quarantined on account of mea-
sies. The disease made itself known in a single
night, when twenty-five children became ill. All
the trouble seems to have been caused by ome
child who went to school when he was in the first
stages of the disease.
—Petitions signed by 417 persons were present-
edto the Clearfield council at a recent meeting
asking that the citizens be allowed to keep hogs
within the borough limits. Council, after consid-
| eration, put the matter upto the board of health.
The latter body alro has a rule forbidding the
keeping of the swine.
—One child is dead and seven others are ill of
scarlet fever in the family of Mr. and Mrs. An-
drew Gindelsperger, near Mt. Zion's church, Som-
erset county. The dread disease broke out in the
AT€ | family less than a week ago. Blanche, aged four
years, is the child that died. She was unconscious
for hours before she passed away.
~Frightened when her clothes caught fire from
a kitchen range at her home on Monday Mrs.
James Sutcliffe, aged fifty-six, of Patton, died of
heart failure. As her body lay on the floor, the
clothing was burned entirely off and the carpet on
the kitchen floor was ignited. Mr. Sutcliffe, who
returned from his work, found the kitchen ablaze
and rescued the body of his wife from the flames.
~A deal has been closed whereby the John H,
around Ebensburg, in charge of H. M. Alexan-
der. Mr. Alexander will have chargelof the Min-
eral Point operations, also.
~—Fire, starting from an unknown origin in the
lumber yard of Hyde, Murphy & Co., at Ridgway,
early Saturday morning, spread rapidly and de-
stroyed property valued at $400,000. The mill
and lumber yard were destroyed as were also the
and having in his possession and passing counter-
feit5 and 10 cent pieces. He was sentenced by
Judge James S. Young to pay $125 and to undergo
imprisonment in the United States penitentiary at
Ft. Leavenworth, Kan., for four years.
—DuBois expects to obtain an appropriation
* | this session of Congress for the purchasing of a
“ | lot and the erection of a federal building in that
town. The bill calls for $125,000, but it is hardly
tal likely that all this will be granted. In the fiscal
year ending March 31 the gross receipts were the
—unless some way can be found to raise
the value of gold dollars. But that might
not be so difficult. Gold dollars are
standard now at 25.8 grains of gold nine-
tenths fine. Why not s ize them
at some higher point—say 38.7 grains, or
more or less accord tothe depreciation
of gold? Listen to the little birds, and
—It will be observed that Lord KITcH- | Mayor of Indianapolis and was the pros- | others the doctor is usually able to “heel”
ENER. who has just returned to England, | Perous proprietor of an unusually suc- | himself.
didn’t waste I in trying to pump cessful summer resort hotel. He was and
milltary ideas out of the head of our Amer- | '* # shrewd political manager and by the | :
ican army. Which compliments not only free use of his money had acquired suf- THEODORE ROOSEVELT is still pursuing
Mr. KITCHENER'S judgment of men, but | ficient popularity to secure him a seat in | his triumphal tour through the “Old
his knowledge of where such ideas are to | the Democratic National committee. But | World.” Wherever he goes he is acclaimed
largest in the history of the DuBois postoffice.
They were $32,635.83, $4,000 more than the previ-
ous year, and approximately $2,23) more than
any other year in the history of the office.
—During a heavy storm about:3.30%0'clock Mon-
day morniug the large bank barn on the farm of
J. J. Twigg, south of Philipsburg, was struck
by lightning and so quickly was it enveloped in
Mr. Sheatz Ought to “Show Us.”
We took occasion last week to pay a
tribute of praise to State Treasurer JOHN
SHEATZ for his judicious and equitable
distribution of the public funds among
the banks of the State. The pernicious
Roosevelt’t Triumphal Tour.
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be found as well.
—It is a safe guess that Senator La-
FOLLETTE will not be on Mr. J. PIERPONT
MORGAN's visiting list hereafter. Trust
I had never dreamed of occupying a
seat in the United States Senate and
| probably never would have thought of
| such a thing if Mr. BRYAN hadn't lifted
| him away above his political level! in
the great man of his day and generation.
| He is entertained by the “crowned heads”
and feasted and flattered by men in all
conditions in life. In Italy, Austria and
Hungary he was honored as no other
promoters of his type have no hesitancy | order to prevent the bestowal of an ap- | man, prince or pauper, had ever been be-
in being “beefy, red-faced, thick-necked | propriate honor upon a Pennsylvanian | fore. In France statesmen, scientists,
financial bullies, drunk with wealth and | who was not always ready to deify the | literati, alike bowed down to him. It has
power,” but they don’t hanker after the
fellow who tells them how they look.
—If the cold-footed Congressmen, who
fear to take their chances again at an
election, expect the public to express re-
gret because of their retirement, they are
very likely to be grievously disappointed.
scene of their
political activities it looks very much as
if the country would get along fully as
well without as with them.
—It is strange how the elimination of
self will aid us in getting a correct focus
on things. Here is Gen. CLARKSON, who |
has just been choked away from the pub- |
lic trough, predicting that “the Republi-
can party is in a more critical condition
than at any time in its history.” Under
other circumstances Mr. C. would simply |
have refused to see what we all know |
confronts him, and would have been the
last man in the country to acknowledge
the thinness of the ice upon which his
party is cavortin’.
—The defeat of the common council
man GEORGE H. RILEY for re-election in
Pittsburg, on Tuesday, is certainly a most
startling affair. In fact it will appear al-
most beyond the conception of the peo-
ple outside of that city. He was one of
six councilmen in that city whom they
all conceded “could not be reached,” yet
in the face of the fact that nearly all of
his colleagues have either been sent to
the penitentiary or are under indictment
for accepting bribes this one of the very
few honest ones in the governmental
body of a great city is defeated for re-
election. Surely Pittsburg morality is be-
yond the ordinary understanding.
| Nebraskan.
i Ee ~.
| Will Senator Penrose Resent?
|
The BALLINGER--PINCHOT war has been
carried into Pennsylvania at last. HENRY
| W. Hox, Attorney General of Porto Rico,
| has been forced to resign because he tes-
i tified against the Secretary of the Inter-
{
ior. President TAFT ordered the investi-
| gation and declared at the time that his
| purpose was to ascertain the facts. But it
appears that he oniy wanted facts for one
side of the case. Testimony on the other
| side is offensive and punishable by what
| is equivalent to dismissal from office. This
is anything but a square deal. It puts it
up to witnesses in government employ to
perjure themselves or lose their jobs.
After this President TAPT can lay no
claim to fairness or justice. He practical
ly confesses that BALLINGER is culpable
and that he knew of his culpability before
he appointed him to the office he holds.
It has been alleged that the land pirates
| secured the appointment of BALLINGER.
| It has been asserted that the GUGGEN-
HEIMS, who were in conspiracy to steal the
coal lands of Alaska, demanded his ap-
pointment in return for campaign sub-
scriptions. Of what use is it for President
| TAFT to deny these accusations in the
| face of this incident in relation to Mr.
{ Hoyt ? Only the most credulous can be
fooled in this matter any longer.
But meantime what are the Republi-
cans of Pennsylvania going to do in re-
| sentment of this outrage upon one of
| their number? Will Senator PENROSE
permit such an abuse of power against
'one of his constituents. The machine
been arranged that when he reaches Ger-
| many the Emperor will embrace him and
: "kiss his cheek,” after the fashion of he-
| reditary rulers and Divinely appointed
, monarchs. No other American was ever
so welcomed abroad.
Of course there is reason for these
marks of distinction and manifestations
| of favor, but they have not been revealed.
| President GRANT'S tour through Europe
was a continuous ovation but he had not
only acquired the distinction of being one
of the great military geniuses of the world
but had been twice elected to the office of
President of the United States. Besides it
was at the time suspected that his friends
had in contemplation for him another
term in that office and were preparing the
way for the consummation of that pur-
pose by enlisting the popular approval of
| the world. Their expectation was disap-
pointed but, comparatively speaking, their
work was’ poorly done.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT never cut much
[Ee a soldier and he achieved little
as President of the United States. In
more than seven years of bluster and
braggadocia, he never punished a "male-
factor of great wealth,” or perceptibly
restrained the criminal practices of the
predatory corporations. Then why is he
so fulsomely flattered by men of all con-
ditions abroad? Simply because a syndi-
cate of politicians are exploiting him for
the Presidency on his return in order that
they may make personal profit as they did
in the Panama affair. The MORGANS and
CrOMWELLS understand the value of such
a man at the head of the government and
are making the best of a promising op-
portunity. 5
and dangerous custom of his Republican
predecessors of depositing upward of a
million dollars in a single bank which
would accommodate politicians like “Bull”
ANDREWS or QUAY or other favorites,
with large loans, as in the case of the
People’s bank, of Philadelphia, and the
Enterprise National bank, of Allegheny,
has been “honored in the breach,” during
his administration, and the fact is worthy | and
of approving comment. It is probably
the reason that the machine is anxious to
get rid of him.
But there are other things in connection
with Mr. SHEATZ’S administration of the
office that are not so commendable. In
referring to this matter last week we
said: "According to the recent statement
of Mr. 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.” A closer
scrutiny of the matter, however, reveals
the fact that three of the banks holding
deposits of $190,000 are the Columbia
National-bank, the Colonial Trust com-
pany and the German National bank, of
Pittsburg, and that the Union Trust com-
pany, of Pittsburg, had $100,000 and the
Farmers’ Deposit National, of Pittsburg,
held $101,000.
These Pittsburg banks, according to
the evidence presented to the Allegheny
county grand jury by District Attorney
BLAKELY, of that city, are the identical
banks which raised a vast corruption
fundto bribe Pittsburg councilmen to
enact an ordinance making them the
depositories of the city funds. It may be
that there is no significance in the fact
that these banks are favored more than
others by Mr. SHEATZ. As a matter of
fact the incident may be susceptible of
an entirely satisfactory explanation. But
if we lived in Missouri and had the same
interest in safe-guarding the resources of
Pennsylvania that we have under exist-
ing conditions, we should want Mr.
SHEATZ to "show us.”
maybe they will tell you ge soon that
Soulething like this is to be attempted by
Signs of the Times.
From the Philadelphia Record.
In the Sixth Missouri district the Dem-
getatic Plutality in 1908 Was 2% on
it was 3778. In our-
a Republican plurality in 1908 of 14,250
a Democratic plurality last month of
5650. In the
second New York
district there was a ublican plurality
of 10,167 a year and a half ago and on
Tuesday there was a Democratic plurality
5831. Aldrich,
these are signs of the times.
Bryan and Roosevelt—A Contrast.
From the South Bend (Ind.) New Era.
Mr. Bryan has
| museum at Lincoln, and has been
| home a lot of queer animals from
place of the maple trees cut down at va-
rious times. But it will be years before
they will be able to do that, as now they
are only six feet high. In selecting
weeping elms the commissioners possibly
had in mind the fact that they might
| come in handy as mourners at their own
political funeral after they get through
with the court house.
|
flames that it was impossible to save even the
machinery and other contents, soon reduced to a
heap of smouldering ashes. Twothorses also per-
ished, and the loss, reaching no’doubt much over
$1000, will be keenly felt by Mr. Twigg, and put
him to great inconvenience in doing his spring
work.
—Work on the Huntingdon, Lewistown and
Juniata Valley Traction company's trolley line
will be begun in a few days with from 400 to 600
men. There have been surveyed already four
miles of the line from Mill Creek towards Reeds-
ville, and two more corps will continue the furth’
er work of surveying. The terminus of the line
at Huntingdon will be on the south side the river
on the grounds of Mr. Jacobs, where it is purpos-
ed constructing a large receiving depotlfor the
produce of the Big valley, and also a passenger
station
—Traveling 10,000 miles to claim his bride, there
was solemnized at Montrose, Susquehanna
county, Tuesday evening, the marriage of Miss
Beatrice Larrabee, for fourteen years a member
of the faculty of the Bloomsburg Normal school,
to Joseph Albertson, formerly of Bloomsburg,
but for a number of years employed as district
superintendent of the public schools in the Philip-
pines. Both bride and bridegroom are graduates
of the Bloomsburg Normal school and since grad-
uation both have been teaching. Immediately
fellowing the ceremony they left for the Philip-
pines.
~New boiler shops are to be ereted at Renovo
by the Pennsylvania Railroad company at a cost
of $118,000, including equipment. All the repair
work to the boilers of the engines of the Philadel-
phia and Erie, Northern Central and Buffalo and
Allegheny divisions will be done in the Clinton
county town. Forty per cent. more men will be
needed and an average of ter boilers a month
will be overhauled and repaired when the shops
are completed. The building wili be of brick and
steel construction and will be 250x80 feet. The
plant is expected to be completed, with the ma-
chinery installed, by September 1.
—Progress is being made in the work of prepar-
ing the former car shops in the west end of Hunt-
ingdon for the use of the Atlantic Radiator 'com-
pany. O.P. Simler, formerly manager and sec-
retary of the Union Radiator company, of Johns-
town, has charge of the Huntingdon work and
will be general manager of the plant when it is
ready. The old machinery in the plant has been
disposed of and $50,000 worth of new machines or-