AB es BY P. GRAY MEEK A INE SLINGS. —We love GRIM, but O you LARUE! —Anyway we'll bet the Democrats didn’t drink all the beer they had in Al- lentown. ~Jf the weather is bad today don't blame it on the comet, because RooSsE- VELT is home now. ~The ticket is an eminently fit one. |* Let all support it with enthusiasm and | a ~DuBois is said to lading the plant of the. Hy p iy which will not be re-erected at Ridgway. Efforts likely will be made to obtain the new industry. —The Governor of California might at | support. least have indicated his intention {to try to stop the JOHNSON-JEFFRIES prize fight before the principals had expended the time and money they have in their pre- liminary training. —Of course, dear reader, you are only a unit of the great whole but you will have to bear your share of the $120,000,- 000 increase in cost which the wearers of ready-made clothing will have to pay an- nually as a result of the PAYNE-ALDRICH tariff bill. ~The Pittsburg Dispatch announced, in big head lines, on Monday: “PENROSE. Quits Fishing.” This was probably deem ed of importance to Pennsylvanians, be- cause they might come to the conclusion that he had caught the sucker he intends to run for Governor. —Some one has remarked that patriot- ism implies far more than rallying around the flag and singing “the Star Spangled Banner” yet how many there are who imagine they are holding up the govern- ment by the show and noise they make in such demonstrations. —A married woman in Switzerland is entitled to one-third of her husband's in- come for her very own use. That sounds like a good thing for the Swiss but when you come to look squarely in the face can’t a good live American wife cinch about three-thirds of hers. —QOklahoma is having her own troubles over the location of her capitol city. Governor HASKELL has moved it from Guthrie and they have the federal courts after him in the effort to get it back, but the Governor defies them all and stands pat in his new quarters. Oklahoma is nothing if not sensational. —That little girl out in St. Joseph, Michigan, who heard her father defend- ing “Uncle Joe CANNON" so earnestly, that she incorporated a petition in her prayer to “make the bad mens leave him alone” is certainly a good little girl, be- cause she does say her prayers, but, good- ness, how misguided this one was. —The postal savings bank bill has pass- ed the House and should it become a law Uncle SAM will become your banker and pay you two per cent. for the use of your money. Isn't your Uncle SAMUEL the foxy man. He has to issue bonds every once in a while to keep his own head above water, yet he wants to be your banker. ~The unexpected withdrawal of Hon. C. LARUE MUNSON from the race for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination was a bitter disappointment to friends who saw in him an especially desirable candidate. The action, however, in no way embarrassed the party for there were other eminently qualified men in the field so that there was no danger of making a mistake had the choice fallen to any of them. —The Pittsburg Post pertinently sug- gests that while Mr. PINCHOT was telling how the present administration had given the GUGGENHEIMS so much he might have told a little bit about how his former chief had permitted the United States Steel Co. to gobble the Tennessee Coal and Iron. Of course two wrongs don't make a right, but if the truth were told there were just as many rotten ones in the ROOSEVELT administration as there have been in TAFT'S. —Dr. JoHN A. MORRISON, for years pastor of the First Presbyterian church of Chicago, has resigned because his con- gregation expects more of his time to ad- vising them on business and social mat- ters than to preaching the gospel. His action was a fore-word against the time when the real object of our churches be- comes so perverted that they will lose the most of their influence. If there is one thing more than another that can't be improved upon by modern fashions it is the religion of Jesus Christ. Itis just the same today as it was nineteen hun- dred years ago and the attempts of churches to cover it up with frills, leagues and side issues are certain to injure rath. if elected, could not be asinimical to the State as the best that the PENROSE ticket will do if elected. Pennsylvania needs a change of administration and it has had no better opportunity than is now pre- sented to make such a change. The nominees of our party are men in whom every confidence can be reposed. Their records are open books and they are under the domination of no one, leav- ing them free to enter the campaign as the champions of the voters of the State who want to know how things are at Har- risburg. The right to know what has been kept hidden there for years should prompt greater support to a ticket that will reveal rather than cover up those conditions. Aside from this our ticket stands upon a: platform that represents the very essence of what the times de- mand. It declares for the lightest possi- ble tax on the necessaries of life and in- sists that the greatest burden should be borne by the luxuries. Another striking phrase is the one that advances the thought that the needs of the consumer and the comforts of the many should be considered before the profits of the few. You want these conditions to prevail. We know you do, therefor it is your plain duty to exert every effort to secure the election of State Senator WEBSTER GRIM, of Doyles- town, Bucks county, for Governor. SAMUEL B. PRICE, of Scranton, for Lieu- tenant Governor. SAMUEL B. PHILSON, of Meyersdale, for State Treasurer. James I. BLAKESLEE, of Lehighton, for Secretary of Internal Affairs. Taft's Career a Trail of Graft. Has President TAFT ever touched any- thing that has not at some time come under suspicion of graft? So far as we can recall his public career nothing that he has ever been associated with has escaped taint of some sort. As judge on the bench it was freely alleged that he was improperly influenced to the inter- pretation of the law when he issued the first injunction to restrain strikers against interfering with the affairs of their for- mer employers. Soon after he became Secretary of War and assumed control of the Isthmian canal construction the scandal in relation to the purchase of the French company’s franchises was de- veloped. Some of the sugar frauds have been traced directly to his brother. The only public service with which he was connected, therefore, that has not been under suspicion, is that of his ad- ministration of the office of Governor General of the Philippine Islands. It will be remembered that he went direct- ly from the United States Circuit court bench to that office and his greatest achievement in these was the settlement of a vexed dispute over the FRIAR lands. It was said that he had accomplished wonders in that affair. The vatican was delighted and President ROOSEVELT was most enthusiastic over it. In fact no single element contributed in greater measure to TAFT’S election to the Presi- dency than his achievement in that affair. Now it seems that scandal is developing even in that matter. The lands are be- ing exploited by 2 number of favorites of the administration an€ in the interest of the Sugar trust, of which President TAFT’s brother is of counsel. The scandal MARTIN, of Colorado. It reveals the fact er than help its potency. that these lands acquired by purchase | trom the church, at prices entirely sats. factory to the authorities at Rome, are; being leased to agents of the Sugar trust at from eight to twenty cents an acre. The full details have not been revealed as yet but enough is known to make some people very anxious. The Hon. FRANCIS BURTON HARRISON, a Representative in Congress for New York, was refused admission to the office of the President of the United States, the other day, though he had called, not on social or personal affairs, but on official busi- ness. Mr. HARRISON is a gentleman of wealth, education and high character. He understands the amenities of private and public life exactly. He wouldn't have obtruded himself into the social life of the White House for the world. But in pursuance of his official duties he called at the White House just as a citizen of Bellefonte might have called at the office of the sheriff, the county commissioners or the chambers of the judge, in an of- ficial capacity. Some time ago it developed, during the investigation of the BALLINGER-PINCHOT dispute, that the President had said that he arrived at a certain conclusion after the careful scrutiny of a certain docu- ment prepared by the Attorney General. Subsequently it was alleged that the President's conclusions had been submit- ted to the committee of Congress some days before the document in question had been prepared by the Attorney Gen- eral. This allegation suggested collusion between the President and the Attorney General to falsify the records and Repre- sentative HARRISON demanded an investi- gation. The inquiry which followed clearly proved the accusation of Mr. HARRISON. The Attorney General him- self testified that he had misdated his pa- per, at the request of the President to deceive the committee of Congress. Mr. HARRISON, in the mild and con- servative language becoming “a gentle- man and a scholar,” had deprecated this obvious violation of faith. He said “this confession of the Attorney General amounts to a conclusion that the Presi. dent and the Attorney General had agreed to furnish to Congress misleading infor- mation to supply an official document as of one date which was really many weeks later." He could hardly have been more polite and considerate to the Presi- dent and the Attorney General. If he had said that these pirates in public life had committed forgery or compounded a felony in order to fool Congress he would have been within the limits of accuracy. But even then there would have been no reason for excluding him from the public office of the President. Tariff Taxes and Credulous People. Former Governor WILLIAM L. DOUGLAS of Massachusetts, one of the most exten- sive manufacturers in the country and an authority on economic subjects, declares unequivocally that tariff taxation is the cause of the high prices of necessaries of life and that a reduction of duties that foster trusts is the cure. “Average prices rose more than seventeen per cent. from June to December, 1909,” the Governor states, as the result of the passage of the ALDRICH law, and a similar increase in price followed the passage of the McKIN- LEY law in 1890 and the DINGLEY law in 1897. Prices have increased all over the world, he adds, but while in other coun- tries the increases since 1897 have been only about thirty per cent. inthis country the increase is more than sixty per cent. Governor DOUGLAS in the same in- terview corrects another false statement recently published by the protectionists. At arecent session of the hosiery manu. facturers it was stated upon the authori- ty of the officers and statisticians of that association and industry, that mille are closing because the tariff on the products of such factories is not high enough to keep out foreign-made goods. Governor DoucLaAs declares that the mills are clos. ing “because the people, after paying for food and rent, have not sufficient funds with which to purchase clothing, shoes, etc.” That is the literal fact. Men and women can economize on clothing by re- | pairing, altering and prolonging the wear of articles. But they must pay rent and buy food in order to be able to work. It is a curious fact that people, other- wise intelligent and mentally alert, are entirely credulous upon the subject of tariff taxation. That tariff taxation is : The launching of the ROOSEVELT party, at St. Paul, Minnesota, the other day, will surprise no close observer of events. It to was inevitable. The managers of the Republican party will have “the mighty hunter” at no price, the Prohibitionists can't take him and though he is essential- ly a Socialist, the leaders of that polit- ical philosophy are afraid of him. The so-called Insurgent Republicans are wil- ling to accept him as “guide, philosopher and friend,” but they are not organized into a party or developed into a cohesive force and the result of the recent prima- ries in Iowa raises a doubt as to whether they will ever attain that autonomy. For these reasons a ROOSEVELT party was to be expected. Butwe own to some astonishment at what are alleged to be the cardinal prin- ciples of the newparty. On the occasion of the ceremonial launching of the enter- prise the other day the principal speaker was Mr. GIFFORD PINCHOT, late chief for- ester of the government and leading light in the tennis cabinet. At the beginning | of his oration he declared that “the alliance between business and politics is the most dangerous thing in our political life. It is the snake that we must kill,” he added. Could he have forgotten the interesting correspondence between his political idol and the late Mr. HARRIMAN in which both were described as “practi- cal men,” and one implored by the other to form an alliance between business and politics for the benefit of one or both of them. Neither can we understand the state. ment, in view of the name and purpose of the new party, that its mission is to eliminate graft. A eulogist of the late President LINCOLN, in one of the current magazines, cites the fact that during his incumbency of the office he always paid his personal and domestic expenses out of his private purse. While ROOSEVELT was President he never paid anything out of his personal funds. His barber, cook, chambermaids, stablemen and all other servants were billeted on one de- partment or the other and paid as govern- ment ‘employees. The expenses of his table, the charges of his tailor, his wife's milliner and the family shoemaker were paid out of the public funds so that he was the greatest grafter of all time. Under Mortgage to Monopoly. Mr. PERKINS, of the firm of J. PIERPONT MORGAN & Co., New York, assures the other jugglers in railroad securities, that the rate bill which will be agreed upon in Congress is all right. He also informs his Wall street colleagues that the ar- rangements made between the President |; and the railroad officials is equally fa" | cam vorable to “the interests.” In view of these facts the transporation corpora- tions have nothing to fear. Railroad attorney TAFT have practically agreed to every- thing that the railroad magnates demand- ed and Mr. PERKINS asks “the interests” to be satisfied. He inferentially admon- ishes them that complaint may lead to grave consequences. The pending rate bill was designed to pull the fangs of the SHERMAN law and paralyze the common law. During the campaign of 1900 Judge ALTON B. PARKER, the greatest constitutional lawyer of his day and generation, declared that there | the was no need of additional legislation to control or curt the trusts. The SHER- MAN law supplemented by the common law was adequate, he added, to make all trusts behave or dissolve. That he was entirely accurate in his ideas has since been proved. As a result “the interests” have been bending all their energies to the work of destroying the SHERMAN law and nullifying the common law. TAFT and WICKERSHAM are their willing instru- ments in this purpose. The rate bill as framed by WICKER: SHAM and approved by TAFT would have license to plunder the public. As passed in the separate branches of Congress some of the iniquities have been eliminat- ed and others modified. But the confer. ence committee now in secrét session at Washington wil! restore all the evils and WICKERSHAM and grafter | the cut out all the merits of the measure. President TAFT is the willing and servile | instrument of the monopolies and he pro- poses to serve them at any cost to the President of the United States is under mortgage to monopoly. —We wish to call special attention to the notice of the Village Improvement committee published elsewhere for clean- up days. There is nothing that so improves the appearance of a town and enhances the value of property as clean streets, alleys and back yards. Therefore ! don’t shirk the work when the time comes. i It needs the returns from lowa Sconed the * Dropodition SE gol gasp lies vo cilia | ¢ worth of 6 per cent. preferred stock, and has of the recent in other started PS rsoc: primaries] story. is to solicit subscriptions. —Owen McCabe, the Altoona man, who, sev- g £3 E £ g : ir il i the professorship of biology and geology. Both gifts were in the form of five per cent. bonds. E Fad f A | B5 i fl of : ] E i 2 I d i F 2 : | : : i | i if El j 0] ; i f i E i § :: g i i 7 g : 2 : g i i E Gi i il il SUre | vicinity of and through Loganton, Clinton coun- hy " i the es, Sedan hat sutell A acanvass town and And so with Sibley of the Twenty- on aa eighth—the “eloquent Sibley,” he of ver- | the line. Work will be begun as soon as the nec- satile Convictions aul easy political virtue essary arracigeasesta an be made, The line will of “letters.” Sibley was sent to two con- eo) Aah AS Leese gas gresses as a Democrat, and without | ; .. pennsylvania railroad at Lock Haven are Sracking a smile came to (Wo succeeding about to be started. They will include the entire Conpragses a5 a Rh the Re. | rearrangement of the tracks west of the Belle- Running Sibley carries his ows, | fonte avenne depot and the erection of a new majority, by 650 votes spacious freight station. The freight station will acs Ur omg hadow of the me 2h Me free ballot of November. than | Street. did to Mr. Sibley! board of trade's second annual industrial ex- Te. to slip. through position, to be held at the Thirteenth Regimental his own primaries only “by the skin of | armory during that period. his teeth.” —Toner L. Heaton, a Pennsylvania brakeman, : 8 : : met with a serious accident at Conemaugh, re- cently, in which his right leg was injured so badly that amputation was necessary, and his leftleg was crushed. He fell between twocars and sev” eral passed over him. The injured man, who is aged about 30 years, has a family in Clarence, Centre county. His condition is serious, al- though he has a fair chance to recover. Reports from coal mines in different parts of Cambria county are to the effect that business is not good. Orders are few, work is slack and it. is becoming slacker and slacker. Announcement has been made in Patton of a thirty day sus- pension of business by the Pennsylvania Coal & Coke company, owing to scarcity of orders. From the Blacklick regions also comes doleful news. Mines are not working full time and will not be for some time to come, at least. i sounds the proclamation that the in. telligent, pa -loving ple of this country a er Re to sea. It thunders the ent that monopol and greed and privilege no longer rule the po er “privilege not o RSINer | "_ fer. William Grafton Stiverson, patior of the nor shackles bind any more. First United Brethren church, Altoona, has re- Never before in of this | ceived the nomination for chaplain in the army country has the great body of with the rank of first lieutenant, the nomination enjoyed a clearer and more Te boke belli uiMiC Ts Prosidas: Willa H. Taft, upun i pion of the I and ¥ : a bility of the elapse before the nomination is considered by the Senate there is little doubt but that the nomina. In It's Death Throes. { tion of the President will be confirmed by the — Senators From the Johnstown Democrat. —One of the busiest places in Clearfield coun- If an was required to show that | ty at the present timeis the Bickford fire plant party is in its death | at Curwensville, Pa. Over 300 busy men are now throes it is amply by the condi- | employed about the works or engaged in the tion of utter ion, impotency | erection of the new 3004x100 feet addition to the and incapability that prevails in the ranks | drying floor, which is about ready for raising of at Washington. | Ten additional kilns for the burning of the brick The condition is for the repre- | are also to be erected, two of which have been i I ih 1 I § i E g ] ? § i : 4 g 8 : i 5 1 0 § § i ; | i | | i i g i | i | i ; E 1 i 3 i § i : i 3 | : g i | g i E I : E is iy i j EE & ! f : Hid g i i h Fie | EZ%8af 5 i § | 24 i 5 | i
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