BY P. GRAY MEEK. INK SLINGS. —It just seems impossible for old Probs togive us two days in succeesion without rain. —About all there is cheerful to the present skies is the silver lining we know all those lowering clouds are sure to possess. —Only three weeks until the Fourth of July, then the business men’s picnic, then the fair and winter on us again. Lord, how the time does fly ! —Those who last week were busiest reading a few local Republicans out of their party are beginning already with the salve box to coax them back in. —JouN D. ROCKEFELLER has to live chiefly on graham wafers and milk yet there are plenty of fools who would trade that ostrich like receptacle they have under their belts for JOHN D's wealth. —After the returns came in from Marion township some of the juvenile local Republican bosses revised their opinion as to what MER BETZ amounts to down there. MER showed them that he was there with the bells on when it came to doing things. —And even the Honorable, thought- to-be invulnerable, always protectionist Jonn DALZELL, of Pittsburg, was made to see the hand-writing on the wall. He narrowly escaped defeat for re-nomination to Congress and as it stands his victory is to be contested because of frauds prac- ticed for his benefit. —The Iowa idea seems to have under- gone some changes lately. It is “stand pat” no longer especially where support- ers of CANNON are concerned. The de- feat of Congressman HULL for renomina- tion for his eleventh term was over- whelming and solely because he was one of CANNON'S chief supporters. —And there isn't one of those Republi- can fanatics who were near going crazy for fear EMERY might get a few votes for Congress who can give you, even a remote idea of who their candidate for Governor might be. Boss PENROSE considers it none of their business and doesn’t propose to tell them until he is good and ready. And yet it was because EMERY is one of the kind who has gumption enough to de- mand knowledge of such things that they were all against him. —The Hon. J. C. MEYER not only re- ceived the unanimous nomination of the Democratic party for the office of Assem- bly, but had more than one hundred and fifty votes cast for him on Republican ballots. We congratulate those Republi-| cans who were thoughtful enough to remember an able Representative in this way and it speaks well for their judgment in the matter of helping to keep at Har- risburg a man who is destined to be of much service to Centre county. —While there was really no contest for election as delegates to the Democratic State convention at Allentown next week the vote was surprisingly close. While Messrs. CUNNINGHAM, AUMAN, and NOLL were chosen to represent us, Mr. FOSTER, Mr. THomPsON and Mr. DAUBERMAN had enough votes to make the result exceeding- Iy close. This was probably due to the fit- | ness of the nominees. All of them being men of ability and well qualified to repre- sent the party in any of its deliberations consequently the result hinged entirely upon what work they may have done in- dividually among their friends. It is a yoL.5% Much Needed Electoral Reform. The result of the primary elections in Philadelphia plainly point out an import- ant duty of the commission authorized by the Legislature to revise the election laws. Ernest L. TusTiN, G. Von PauL Jones and JouN T. MURPHY, servile in- struments of the PENROSE machine, were pominated as candidates of the Demo- cratic party for State Senator. This re- sult was achieved by the manipulation of the surplus Republican majorities in the districts. In one district three or four hundred inmates of the almshouse were voted for the Republican candidate in that district as Democrats and thus se- cured his nomination as the candidate of a party of which he is not a member and with which he has no sympathy. The object of this perversion of the uniform primary election law is to make absolutely certain the election of palpa- bly unfit men at the general election next fall. Not one of the three candidates named would be certain of election if there were a Democratic candidate;to at- tract the Democratic vote. But with no Democratic candidate and an unaccount- able antipathy to independent political enterprises, the Republican machine can elect the most atrocious men to the Gen® eral Assembly and the more unfit the candidate the greater the effort they make to elect him. That is why the Philadelphia delegation in the Legislature is a reproach to the State. The electoral commission ought to make this sort of political juggling im- possible. It can be done by a provision in the primary law that candidates must be attached to or affiliated with the party upon the ticket of which they aspire to run. Under the existing law a voter must declare his identity with a party in order to vote for its candidates. It would be equally reasonable to compel a candidate to declare his affiliation with the party that he aspires to represent. In fact un- less this isdone primary elections will be- come farces for the reason that minority parties will be literally extinguished through the process of stealing their nominations. EE — “ee Disgraceful ‘Party Bossism. ooops The primary elections of both parties were held nearly a week ago and the delegates to the State conventions were chosen. Within two weeks from thisdate the Republican convention will assemble. Yet at this moment there is not a man other than Senator PENROSE himself who has even the remotest idea who will be the nominee of that party for Governor State Treasurer WRIGHT will be nomi- nated for that office and Secretary of [nternal Affairs Houck will be named to succeed himself. But nobody except PENROSE knows who will be named for either Governor or Lieutenant Governor and no man in the party within the broad STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. Congress has voted the President a traveling expense fund of $25,000. It will not be available until afier the close of the present fiscal year, which will be June 30th, and some of the bills already incur- red will have to be held over until then. But July 1st will be soon enough. The campaign will not open in earnest until about September 1st and there is no use in the President taking the stump until the campaign opens. The effect of speeches made during the dog days will be lost before the election. Therefore it is just as well that the fund is not avail able now for TAFT would be certain to could get his fingers on it now. The constitution forbids any emolument to the President other than the salary of his office provided by law. Custom and decency alike forbid the acceptance of money for campaign services except in case the man who receives it is too poor to pay his own expenses. But President TAFT not only accepts fundsin violation of the constitution which he has sworn to “support, obey and defend,” but he actually solicits them. This marks him down as a cheap personage, devoid of the self-respect which impels a man to pay his own expenses and maintain his man- hood. He takes his place among the professional politicians of the undesirable type. Even ROOSEVELT never descended to that low level. But there is a graver cause of complaint than this in the condition of affairs that is presented. It means that the people are taxed to pay the campaign expenses of the Republican party. It has been a custom among cheap politicians in munic- ipal governments to make officials bear the burden of the campaign expenses. For example policemen and firemen are compelled to make window books and perform kindred services for the party in power. But their contributions whether in money or labor come out of themselves. In voting an expense fund to President TAFT, however, the expenses of his cam- paign work are literally put upon the people. That is the limit of political in- ROBEY, nm At the close of business ch the last day of May there were nearly $10,000,000 in the Pennsylvania state treasury. A trifle more than $2,000,000 of this amount was in the sinking fund and a little less than $8,000,000 in the general fund. The average balance since the adjourn- ment of the Legislature about a year ago has been in the neighborhood of $8,000, 000. Yet the Governor vetoed bills ap” propriating funds for needed charities and refused to sign a bill providing for a meager pension for the veterans of the Civil war, in order to preserve these bal- ances to be farmed out for the benefit of borders of the State has the courage to even suggest a name. { favored politicians. At the time the question of the sign. The late Senator QUAY imagined that! no or vetoing the charity appropriation he had his followers reduced to the limit a SE a Yo bill was exhaust it before the summer is over if he Taft on Professions. It is generally believed that the major- | From the Pittsburg Post. ity of the committee which has been in- | vestigating the Secretary of the Interior | 1c President made the choice will make a report favorable to MR. BAL- and bh | against him . He was | counsel for land pirates before and ater | Dogar, his acquisition of | he served as commissioner of the land | twinge office. He exhausted every expedient to : official | get fraudulent land grants patented. He ' his strictures upon the present-day connived with MR. PERKINS of the Pier- Pp | PONT MORGAN bank to convey to that garded as the last analysis, | concern and the GUGGENHEIMS valuable | Judge Taito main defect | coal lands and he tried in every possible | reforms A way to deceive the committee and con- | He leaves the impression of thinking ceal important evidence. But the report | former colleagues at the bar to be will practically exonerate him from all | erally shysters and not imbued with hi £ g ? g | blame | conceptions of their vocation. There are | This fact exemplifies the weakness of | St¥isie velo Th our form of government. That MR. BAL- | average moral | against him by PINCHOT and GLAVIS is | beyond question. The testimony is over- whelming and conclusive. But the Presi- dent wants him to escape the penalty of his acts and Congress hasn't the courage to go against the desires of the President. Senators and Representatives under- stand too well the value of patronage to | cause much of ithas rasped his displease the appointing power and though a favorable report will be subver- sive of political morality and demoraliz- ing to the public service, such a report | €}é will be made. The exigencies of the | fool column to be it the recalling political machine require this sacrifice of | § official integrity. BALLINGER was appointed to the office of Secretary of the Interior at the request of the land pirates under an agreement made before the election of TAFT. The land pirates exacted this agreement of the candidate in return for campaign sub- chants, busi | A Closed Incident. The esteemed Johnstown Democrat is hall mee incorrigible. It continues to gratify the been able to correct the y impressed by Republican machine by nagging Congress- | 5 na J man WiLsoN. Whether it is influenced lect, com to this course by perversity or other rea- | 3 maze son is of little consequence. Both DEEM- ER and the Republican machine are abundantly able and entirely willing to ia pay liberally for such service as they de- sire. But there are those who are will- ing todo evil without recompense. Our The Democratic constituents of Mr.’ WILSON appear to be entirely satisfied | 5 £ i } ure, , which is at the LINGER is guilty of every charge made | root of all reforms, of lawyers and news- paper men, is as high as that of mer- 2i i veteran. Lord | Cromer wason the platform at the Guild- of last week, and must have the way in revenge of ELiAs DEEMER and serve the A Which a fresh mind, working with light- t, can lled to make i g se. e its wa facts and elusive ey does not feel certain that it can itself In his book on “Modern ~The Star Lumber company, of Perry county, has sold the timber rights to a 1.000 acre tract of land in Huntingdon county to Snyder county in- terests for $12,000. The members of the Star com- pany are ex-Sheriff A. L. Long, John C. Motter, esq., and Charles S. Bruner. ~The Indiana glass works have resumed ope- rations after a shut-down of a week, to ins:all some new machinery, by which it will be possible to increase the production. The plant, previous to the shut-down, was running full time in all departments with plenty of orders. lishment of J. Shoemaker’s Son of Lock Haven and though they handled $250 in gold, did not take any more than 50 cents. Their identidy is unknown and the leaving of so much money be- hind makes the case doubly mysterious, —In the famous test case on alum clause of the Murphy Pure Food act, Judge Allison O. Smith of Clearfield, on Thursday decided that the alum used in the monufacuure of baking powder is not what is meant by the act which prohibits the use of alum in food products. Judge Smith presided over this case when it was tried in the Dauphin, county court. —Captain John V. McAlpin, late of company C, Sixteenth infantry, and Captain Derby B. Neg- ley, late of company A, Sixteenth infantry, have been discharged from their offices in the Nation- al Guard. They were declared “unfit to discharge the duties of their office,” because they had failed to settle accounts in a saatisfactory manner and the State had recourse to their bondsmen. —Ten thousand dollars has been appropriated to pay the transporation of all surviving honor- and return, to enable them to be present at the dedication of the Pennsylvania Monument,” on the 27th of Sept., 1910. This menument will con- tain the names on bronze tablets of all Pennsyl- vania soldiers that fought at Gettysburg. ~The Bradford lodge of Elks will entertain the Pennsylvania State Elks Reunion association on August 23,24 and 25. In order to provide some entertainment for the visitors, who are expected to number between 3,000 and 4,000 the secretary is in coarespondence with the Wright Brothers and Glenn Curtiss to put on an exhibition of the work of the aeroplane. The Wrights are willing tosend their “understudies” to Bradford and of | make three flights for $5,000 and Curtiss is also willing to send his men and make a flight for $1,500. - right temple. The rash act was committed on the river bridge. The deceased was a single man who has resided in Milton for upwards of 25 years. He had his revolver repaired that morn. ing and about an hour before he conversed with several friends in his accustomed happy mood. In his pocket was found a letter to the coroner in which he stated that he had killed himself be- cause he was tired of living. —While a party of six gentlemen wera trout fishing in Diamond valley Huntingeon county, a few days ago, they were startled by the unexpect- edvisit of a blackbear. The fishermen were was constantly learning new.” pened to look behind him and saw Mr. Bruin sit- esteemed Johnstown contemporary seems | From experience 0 own, he was | ting on his hind feet, not very much in the rear. to be of this type. Mrs. PARTINGTON led to the rash conclusion: “No casual So frightened was the gentleman that he took to onto said the “cussediiess is its visitor can hope to obtain much real in. | the stream and after he had reached the other 84 its own Te sight into the true state of native . | side went down and joined his companions. The ward. jon.” But Mr. t showed the folly men went back to look for the bear, but he had taken his leave. —Williamsport parties have secured the Weity scriptions and the President doesn't dare | for daws to at, as well as Journalists repudiate his part of the agreement. It | with “a cap J.” x te Journai a Su Ok the Soma Lunde Wy the Hise is a shameful and humiliating fact. But will manage thee to cet 1he Boon Ride wal, b> srt Sty itis a fact nevertheless. The public do- | Sim Thats mitt. find Detter aatpation | PanY at Luserne, Indiana county, has begun and main is despoiled in conformity with a | during his professional than | the structures will be rushed to compietion. The corrupt agreement and there is no re- |! oy os of that ession, As Ses a now erecting a Sour. course. The highest office in the gift of | Which for a year he once a ei tue the people is prostituted in order that the ! Roosevelt Instratts “Crome pany. C. H. Potts, master mechanic of the party of graft and greed may be con- | 00se T. Pennsylvania Railroad company at Renovo, has tindad in. control. for 3 term at | From the New York Evening Post. ? awarded the contract to the Hyye-Murphy com- least. This is the shamefulspectacle that | Lord Cromer studied and governed | Po for fine private dwelling i confronts attention to Egyptian questions for | nist, and assessor of Milton, committed suicide as many hours. Yet the novice | Monday afternoon by shooting himself in the 4 a with his Congressional record for they tract of forest land near Rockton, in the vicinity of servility. He was in the habit of tell- | , der consideration The WATCHMAN ex- healthy condition that the party finds itself in when contests are conducted as this one was ; without prejudice or trick- ery. Anyone of the gentlemen would have made a desirable delegate and each one has reason to be gratified with his vote. —The importance the Republican evi- dently attaches to the carrying of Centre county for PATTON can be fathomed only by the thought that the Republican is ambitious to succeed the Gazelle as premier sycophant to a Congressman. The entire crganization, county chairman, county chairman-elect, every postmaster and political lick-spittal who could be called to arms was sent hurrying over the county in the campaign for PATTON. Mac and J. THOMAS MITCHELL, and NED BLANCHARD passed PATTON cigars in every country store they could get that swift Chalmers stopped at, while county chairman HARRY KELLER looked longingly at the “Pop” shelves and told the natives to be “Regular” just as if he hadn't near- ly hollered his head of for JENKS when he was the Democratic candidate for Gov- ernor not so many years ago. While this quartet of star manipulators were trying to kick up dust on the country roads county-chairman-to-be QUIGLEY, brother MAN and a bunch of other smooth articles—when asleep—were fixing Belle- fonte so Mr. EMERY couldn't steal it. They had all the money they could get— if not quite as much as they needed---and made all the ado of a national campaign merely because HARD HARRIS, ROGER Brouse and HORTON RAY had essayed to champion EMERY. It was all the paper fighters of the Republican party in the county against three Republicans who never did much political manipulating anyway and it was a Great Victory for PaTrox. Tell it to the Marines. It wasn't a great victory for PATTON that made the “extry” on the other end of our ing certain too inquisitive gentlemen that | pressed the opinion that if the absurd things he desired to conceal from them state boulevard bill and the questionable were none of their business. But in his | canto] park extension bill were vetoed time there was courage and manhood there would be ample revenues to pay all enough in the party to bring out candi | other appropriatiuns. But the atrocious dates for the important offices and though political machine wanted a large treasury his preferences were paramount others | pajance all through the year in order that could get a look in occasionally. But pankers could be bribed to debauch the there is nothing of that sort now. The | pajior at the elections of this e | year and rank and file of the Republican party S next. It may be that Governor Stuart reduced to a measure of peonage that has | 54 deceived into the belief that the rev- never been dreamed of even in Mexico. | emues a No man in the organization dares ca | vee For weeks the Democrats of the State) Soo, Sandie ! SWE] iv manage have been canvassing for their favorites | pyring the past year the treasury bal- among three or four gentlemen who have | 4; as have not been of much use to the been named for the nomination for Gov- Republican machine because State Treas- ernor and after a free competition at the | or SupaTz wasn’t inclined to farm the have just unanimously nominated him for a third term. Of course MR. DEEM- ER'S revenge is not satisfied and the Re- publican machine is not reconciled to the loss of a vote for CANNON and Cannon. ! ism. DEEMER and the Republican ma- chine suffered mental and physical an- | guish from the election of MR. WILSON. | But we can’t imagine what makes the Democrat so intensely bitter except on the theory that “a renegade is worse than ten Turks.” i The truth is that our Johnstown con- temporary seems to be enlisted in a! guerrilla campaign against the party it: prefers to serve. By inference and in- nuendo it assails almost every Demo- cratic leader. We hoped to be able to di- | vert it from this ruinous course by kind- t roblems of Egyptian administra a great triumph for the intuitive philos- phy in statesmanship. The University of n knew what it was about when i made Roosevelt a doctor. Over-capitalization and High Prices. From the Chicago Journal. Over-capitalization is us in pro- portion as corporations with inflated capi- tal have power to raise prices. This power to raise prices comes, of DuBois, and are cutting out the timber. A small portable saw mill has been erected on the tract and four crews are slashing into the t | forests with a zeal that promises to vert it into money. These crews are hemlock, although there are other kinds tract. Woodsmen who are working on state that the hemlock is go thick that to find room for the giant trees to fall. there are some giants, some of the logs that already been cut measuring as great a fifty. f rrieeh g in inches across the stump. Breining & Son, who the last analysis, from laws that give own the tract, state that it is the best tract of special privileges to these heavily water. | timber forits size in this part of the State and are ed corporations, or trusts. Chief of these laws is the tariff. Manip- | duction, chokes makes the stream of commerce flow in artificial channels. Banish the ion” fetich national flows in normal channels. In other words, a tariff should only polls the choice of the majority will be | expressed at the Allentown convention | next Wednesday. But the Republican convention to be held in Harrisburg a funds. But the present treasurer is en- tirely willing to make the best of the op- portunities for the party and because of that fact he has been slated for nomina- that we have only aggravated the evil and | ment, for that reason we propose now to aban. | Should don our contemporary to its iniquities | Rie for Suivate the strongest ly words of admonition. But it seems | produce sufficient revenue for govern- economically administered, and not be a source of inflated div- block. It was the postoffice. week later will witness no such expres- 4. It may be expected, moreover, that sion of popular choice. The delegates | the $10,000,000 available for that kind of will not know until the night before the commerce on the last day of May will be convention who PENROSE has selected tq increased during the time carry the banner of the party during the | spo will in before the ene | tervence next Legis campaign and when they do get the in-| 150, ec assembles. Meantime the people formation they will not be allowed the | pave an opportunity to figure out the ad- poor privilege of expressing disco tent. | vantage of big Rs from Allegheny to Ridge streets and now | joan at the publication office in Howard last Saturday and the publisher, Fred S. Dunham, announces that he will now leave it for some other fellow to take up and lose several hundred dollars on. Running a daily newspaper in or for Bellefonte is | ll | 5 sure losing venture without any mis- | take. ~The Yearick-Hoy reunion will this year be held at Hecla Park on Wednes- day, June 22nd. It will be in the shape of a basket picnic gathering and all mem- bers of the above two families and their friends are cordially invited to attend. We shall no longer worry over its infirmi. | ties. As the diplomats say, the incident | is closed. | —ALICE THAW, formerly the Countess of Yarmouth, is exceedingly fortunate in | recovering the dower of one-half a mil- | lion a year that she had to settle on her | titled husband before she could get him. | If more American heiresses were to call | in American lawyers when such marriage settlements are being made there would be fewer foreign rakes living on our hard | earned money. ! ~—Terrible TEDDY will be home one week from tomorrow; if he doesn’t order the steamboat out of her ordinary course on the ground that he knows more about sailing ships than the master of the one that is to bring him over. ~The Bellefonte Lodge Loyal Order of the Moose will hold a regular meeting block next Tuesday evening. centive to over-capitalization would wanting. The Next Thing in Order. From the Springfield It is pparently in order for the now a railroads the shipping manufac to have turers the past dozen years or so. in- be from continuing in effect any longer the 40 to 100 per cent increases in their prices which have been made in pleased withthe result of their work so far. —Frederick A. Forgelman, aged 22 years, of Munhall, Pa., and Edna K. Thomas, aged 17 § ‘ For several days after she did not enjoy her usual good health, but this was attributed to the after. effects of ether. As time went on, her heaith is this injunction the began to fail perceptibly. A physician thought it The west to be aflame with was simply a general run-down and prescribed a enthusiasm for Taft and tonic, whicedid no good. Later it was thought Improvemen! held in the W. C. T. U. rooms this after- | jast noon at three o'clock. Every one con- templating joining the Civic Club and in- in the Maccabees hall in the McClain terested in this department is urged to be at this meeting.
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