oem that it will never catch a glimpse of Col. BRYAN’s interference at Dayton. imagine he will be at it until there will be a popular demand to have the name of that magazine changed to Lookout. —They say the Allentown convention was bossed. Be that as it may our friends, the enemy, will be careful about dwelling very long on that subject since cannon cracker to scare the wits out of you. « =It is your back yard, not the front one, that the clean-up committee will be after next Wednesday and Thursday. Clean-up days are wholesome and should be popular. Join in the spirit of the movement for Bellefonte beautiful and healthy. —S0 the President has announced that pression that Congress is the legislative branch of our government. —Reno, Nev., is to be the scene of the Jerrries-JonnsoN fight. California wont tolerate the bout so Nevada gets it. This is carrying the big show right to the doors of the divorce colony that is ever grow" ing in Reno because of the facility with which the courts of that city settle matrimonial fights. ~—0Of course the Republicans around here who were so much afraid of having EMERY on their ticket for Congress will be delighted with JouNn M. REYNOLDS, of Bedford county, as their candidate for Lieutenant Governor. REYNOLDS is a renegade Democrat of the type especially recommended as gall to the fellows who shot off most about EMERY. —Every Democrat regrets the unfortu- nate incidents of the Allentown conven- tion, but there is not one of them who can honestly say that Senator WEBSTER GRIM is pot an able, clean, thoroughly capable man and quite the superior, in mentality and other attainments requisite to a good Governor, to the nominee who was named at Harrisburg on Wednesday. ~And it cost JOE SIBLEY over forty thousand dollars to get the nomination for Congress in his district. But SiBLEY will be needed by the Standard Oil in the next Congress and the Republicans of the district, who evidently have a price, ought to be able to fill their pockets well at the election if they could force him to dig up such a stupendous sum for the nomi. nation. —Count ZEPPELIN, of Germany, has put in actual service the first airship line of travel over a regular route of three hun- dred miles. The first trip was made on Wednesday, when twenty passengers were carried and every stop reached on schedule time. Thus first the works of fiction, then of folly, then of sport have become actually practical. Where will the end of our progress be ? —This reform among old line protec. tionists, such as Senator DOLLIVER'S re- cent conversion, is a good bit like the death bed repentances of old sinners. After they have worn themselves out serving the devil they try to throw their useless old carcasses onto the Lord. DoLLIVER has spent his life and the at- tainments of a brilliant mind helping to build up the tariff wall. Now that he sees it was all a mistake he cries out because he realizes that he has no strength to tear it down again. —Council contributes much to our happiness by voting another increase in millage. When increases in valuation and increases in millage are made in the same year in face of the fact that prop- erty values have not gone up, nor rents it to thirty-three and in all probability the school board will jump a coupleextra on, running our millage up to thirty-five, which we fancy is scarcely equalled by that of any other town of our size in the country. —The fact that it cost CHARLEY PAT- TON over five thousand dollars to get the nomination for Congress in this district is of it and of course that accounts for the whirlwind auto campaign he made drink- ing pop and buying cigars at the country stores. According to the vote for Par- TON at the primaries in this county each one who supported him ought to have gotten about thirty-three cents. If you didn’t get yours we presume Mr. KELLER would be glad to hand you over your share of the PATTON boom fund. . | merce with Senator PENROSE and betray- .| other hand itis widely believed that STATE RIGHTS AN The Allentown Convention Hysteria. highest meritare ascompletely eliminated Ew | from the political equation, if nomina- There is a good deal of hysteria over ' tions cost $40,000 or even half that, as if the result of the Allentown convention. the constitution made wealth an essen- C. LARUE MuNsoN, who appeared to be a | tia] condition to office holding. SIBLEY strong favorite of the delegates for the ig a politial leper, of course, and will get nomination for Governor, withdrew On | his money back some way, if he is elect the eve of the balloting, and threw the ed, but the people ought to see that he body into a state of confusion. After his jg not elected. retirement there remained two candi- ——— dates, WEBSTER GRiM, of Doylestown, and | Our Misplaced Philanthropy. WiLLiam H. Berry, of Chester. As near- | ’ During the session of committee ly as can be determined they were about ooo tions of re conven- equal in strength, though Mr. BERRY was | ., “wv.0 iher day, some startling state- more extensively advertised. The with- |. ts were made, according to the pub- drawal of MUNSON was not intended to i : gi benefit either of them. In the nature of | of tis of that . One gentlemen alleged thing it was more likely to help Bemy | it. Dee Seleften alleged that a Fe than Gru for the reason that Bemry had | ou (SN FC © TOT Ry Wade a More energetic Canvass and Was | yo." out giarhins in the ‘University of more widely known. | Pennsylvania, for votes to put him on the 1tis hardly worth while to ‘discuss ‘the | poy ratic ticker, though be is a Repub- causes which influenced Mr. MUNSON t0 | 0) 01d was sure of the Republican withdraw at the inauspicious time he se- nomination for re-election. Another gentle | that he was engaged in political com- | ipo ry ‘one of whichis controlled by a Republican Senator and his brother-in- law, and the other by outsiders. Yet the one so controlled gets liberal appropria- tions and the other, though superior, gets nothing ed his Democratic friends in considera- tion of a promise of preferment. On the he was influenced entirely by his vanity and betrayed his own friends in his party because those who do not profess friendship for him re- fused to give him an unopposed nomina- tion for Governor. If either of these conjectures is accurate, Mr. MUNSON must stand discredited and condemned of all fair-minded men. We hope that neither is correct and that some day the gentle- man may be able to give some satisfac- tory explanation of the action that will clear him of the unpleasant imputations that are now broadcast in the State. But we can’t see why the foolishness of MuNsoN and the culpability of PENROSE should be used as a big stick to batter the brains out of the Democratic nominee for Governor, Hon. WEBSTER GRIM. Asamat- ter of fact the eleventh hour back down of which MUNSON was undoubtedly guilty, and the friends of BERRY instantly seized the opportunity to solicit the support for him of those who were instructed for or predisposed toward MUMSON. Therefore if as at first seemed entirely likely, the confusion the withdrawal of MunsoN had resolved itself in favor of BERRY, the chances are that not a word would have been heard against it after the convention. That Mr. MUNSON perpetrated a grave crime against the Democracy of Pennsyl- vania is beyond question. But thers is no evidence or even a just ground for suspicion that his perfidy was intended to benefit WEBSTER GRIM. On the con- trary there were many reasons for the belief that Mr. BERRY would be benefit- ted for he had made the more ex- tended to benefit BERRY rather than GRIM | The fact was also referred to that $1,700. 000 has been expended in the construc- tion, covering a period of seven years, of a hospital at Rittersville, in which not a single patient has ever been treated. In other words it was clearly shown that the vast sums of money appropriated by the Legislature for public charities are used for political rather than philanthropic or charitable purposes and that even such institutions as the University of Penn. sylvania are prostituted to the basest uses by the political machine. It might have been added with equal justice and propriety that other Philadelphia institu- tions bribe Senators and Representatives in the Legislature by offering them free treatment in surgical and medical depart- ments in exchange for appropriations. But sweeping as the denunciation of | the "waste prodigality and mal-adminis- | tration” of these. institutions was, the platform builders of the Allentown con- vention neglected one of the most crying appropriations to private hospitals or in- stitutions without the necessary two- thirds vote of both branches of the Legis- lature and the making of appropriations to sectarian or semi-sectarian institu- tions. For years these practices, specif- iclly prohibited, have been freely in- dulged in by the Legislature in return for | political favors by the managers of such | institutions. These practices should be | condemned as equally subversive of the beneficence of the State with those prop- erly enumerated in the platform. { D FEDERAL UNION, — BELLEFONTE, PA. JUNE 24, 1910. Ressembiing the Convestion. We can imagine nothing more absurd than the frenzied agitation now in pro- gress for a reassembling of the Demo- cratic State which met, de- liberated and adjourned, at Alientown last week. Some of the newspapers have actually grown hysterical over it. They give no substantial reason for reassemb- ling the convention. They offer no sug- gestion as to what might be accomplished by reassembling the convention or how to proceed to accomplish anything. All they care for is the recall of the body at whatever expense might be entailed. They know, of course, that there can be no reconsideration of the action of the con- vention because the convention is dead. But anything which keeps them in the lime light is worth while to them. After the withdrawl of Mr. Munson both the other candidates and their friends bent every energy to get the MUNSON lected for that purpose. It has been said | an stated that there are two hospitals in, vote. Hardly a delegate not already com- mitted to Mr. BERRY escaped the im- portunities of that gentleman and his friends to come to him. There is no cause for complaint in this fact, however, It was not only their right but in some respects a duty to exhaust every available expedient to get votes for him. Mr. GRIM and his friends were equally energetic and industrious. But the fact that one succeeded and the other failed doesn't put a taint upon the work of the conven. tion. If Mr. Berry had succeeded Mr. GRiM would have had no right to allege either fraud or corruption and as GRIM succeeded Mr. BERRY is estopped from pursuing that course. As a matter of fact there is neither reason for nor excuse in asking for a re- assembling of the convention. Even if there were vacancies on the ticket pro- vision was made for filling them without recalling the convention and as there are no vacancies there is nothing the con- veation: could do, if reassembled, in the way of changing the ticket or altering the action of the convention. The laws of the State protect a man in his right to a nomination justly acquired quite as se- curely as it protects him in his right of property and Senator GRIM having ac- evils incident to the charitable | quired the nomination of the . Alientown tions. We refer to the custom” of making | convention for Governor by legitimate methods after an open and manly com. petition is entitied to it and should stand for his rights to the end. The Ballot Reform Plank. There is nothing in the admirable plat- form adopted by the Democratic State convention at Allentown, last week, more admirable than the plank which covers the subject of ballot reform. "We de- clare for an amendment of our ballot laws,” it states, “so that the assistance of voters in the booth be forbidden, the | 2lit ballot shortened and simplified and abso- tensive and energetic canvass for the: Knox Bowled In or Out. second choice of the MUNSON delegates | — and seemed most likely to get their votes | President TAFT is said to have taken after MUNSON’S withdrawal. But the | Secretary of State Knox out of the con- leaders of the MUNSON forces were adroit | test for the Governorship of Pennsyl- enough to make the best of a bad situa- Vania. The talk of KNox for the nomi. tion and in view of all the facts it is not | nation had been giving the PENROSE ma- clear that the friends of Mr. BERRY have | chine a good deal of trouble. There are any cause of complaint. ia good many tiuousand Republicans of sm this State who dislike the political slavery Cost of Sibley’s Nomination. Josepu C. SiBLey, who has just bon Ol I 23 both ominated for Congress by the Republi- | Ao he th of | ing amanof the KNOX type for Governor. wily li ow -eigh Bitieles of | But PENROSE didn’t share in these namby- : uss ps aay actions; He wanted a man he can He received 10,446 votes so that the av. | So of = be call erage cost of votes to Mr. SIBLEY was a | peu vo ooo trifle less than $4 a vote. Of course it | THs Sage ot KNOX must be a didn’t make much difference to him what | 0 iyo tractable person. It will be votes cost. If he imagines he wants i a at and be. | Femembered that once before the Presi- Them he them aay price dent of the United States was called upon sides the chances are Standard to determine his course. He was at the Oil company will pay the bill in the end. | ttorney General administra- Mr. SIBLEY will be the agent of that con- | fos of a and was spiracy in Congress and will be worth a engaged in the prosecution of the coal good deal to it. trust. He had already dissolved the rail- Mr. SIBLEY'S antagonist for the nomi: | ,o.q trust and was close to a finishin his nation is also a wealthy oil man and prob- pursuit of the coal conspiracy. But at ably he spent a considerable sum of mon- : the psychological moment President ey. In fact he must have been spend- | ROOSEVELT intervened and induced him ing freely or else SiBLEY would not have |, 0000 he cabinet in order to become been so profligate. SIBLEY is willing to ' spend if he is actually obliged tobuthe | ..,oy op, immunity from prosecution is tight enough otherwise. That he vio-! lated the spirit of the law in his disburse- | yeh 18 Stl shielding it from danger or ments is beyond question. No Congres. “yy. 'wyox was induced to get out of sional campaign conducted on legitimate | .., uioe: vecauge remaining in would lines could cost so vast a sum and no have worked injury to the coal trust and candidate for Congress ‘whose purpose | 1 o'poryeivania political machine: and was to honestly serve the people would | | = 00" "duced to remain in the cabi- spend so much money to get an office which compels them to vote for “jumping which will yield him in legal compensa- tion only about one-third of that amount in the two years of its tenure. It is fair to presume, therefore, that Mr. SiBLEY intends to reimburse himself in some other than a legitimate way, but that isn't the gravest reason for object: ing to the iniquity. When it becomes the rule to buy nominations in that way poor or moderately rich men are literally bowled out of the public life of the coun- try. Men of the greatest ability and net for the reason that his going out might impair the interests of the ma- chine. In any event the machine gets the better of it, coming or going, and the office of President is prostituted into an agency for political iniquity and the President's cabinet made a shelter for partisan chi. canery. We are not at all surprised that ROOSEVELT should have loaned himself to such a conspiracy but we must admit that we didn’t imagine such a thing of TAFT. — Subscribe for the WATCHMAN. lute secrecy secured in casting the same." The present ballot system is probably the shelter of more iniquity than any other single element in political affairs. It seems to have been drawn to promote and protect fraud and it has been the means of defeating the will of the people nearly every year since it was enacted. It is safe to say that the worst feature of this atrocious system is the provision in the present law for assistance to voters in the booth. Presumably that clause in the law was intended to enable voters physically incapable of marking their own ballots to exercise the franchise and if construed in the light of that spirit would have been a scource of justice rather than of evil. But it has been used to ascertain how men, bought to vote, have kept their agreements with the bribers, thus not only polluting the poll but de- stroying the secrecy which is essential to a fair and ho, “st ballot. In the cities it is the principa. agency of corrupting the elections. Of course such adeclarationin a Demo- cratic platform in Pennsylvania is of lit- tle consequence for the reason that unless there is a political revolution one or both branches of the Legislature will be Re- publican and will prevent such an im- provement in the ballot system. But the language of the platform quoted is a tip to the electoral commission now engaged in the important work of framing a new ballot system, and if it is adopted by that body even the Republicans in the Legis- | lature would be practically compelled to accept it. For that reason the Allentown convention was wise in making the sug- gestion and the Democrats in the com- mission and in the Legislature should be vigilant in supporting it. SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. Bg ni Chi 5 ~Several months ago a charter was secured for dale, to manufacture washing machines, dust-con —Frank Valone, of the Huntingdon Construc. tion company, a sub-contractor in the new trolley grading to Cold Springs park and to Big valley, has been missing since last Friday with $12,000, the money to pay the employees. —His clothing having been caught in a large fly wheel while he was oiling machinery at the plant of the Kittanning Brick and Fire Clay company, where he was engineer, William F. Henry, aged 65 years, was hurled around it and crushed to death. A widow and eight children are left be- hind. —Edgar L. McCloskey, ex-sheriff of Clearfield county, and one of the more prominent and better known men of the county, passed away in the Clearfield hospital Monday morning at the age of fifty-five years, death being due to the ravages of kidney trouble from which ailment he had suffered for some time. —Petersburg may land a new shirt factory; a representative was on the grounds last week look- ing up the interests of his firm. It is presumed that the residents of the town will donate the land, with the company to have the privilege of buying it later. They will erectthe building. About fifty girls will be given work. i i: ? E i i i geese & BE fy i ft : I fi i i ! i £ 8 8 3 &° i FETE Gi: il | Fae 4 gs ih fii ge FL HAE leishery ie J i | i i i g : § i: 51 i ii i 2% ith: : g g g ing. The drowned boys are the children of Alex- ander Lehman, a farmer. His family consists of fourteen children, ten boys and four girls. These are the first deaths which have occurred in the ul acum the Egyptian situation Borogu, of North Braddock, decided to give him with him. a shower bath to wakea him up. No water being There is a feeling among Lib- | handy, she used abowl of hot soup. -It had the A rey any) oa ad vdiutuef the man 30 cob out ex- should be driven to resign. cited, his gentle spouse followed up the first bath with a shower of indellible ink. He was taken to Just to This! the hospital and the entire staff was called into Wilbur F. Harris, a former Belle- | has fonter, is now in his element as business manager of the Carlisle Evening Herald, if one can judge from the appearance of the paper, a copy of which has been re. ceived at this office. It is not only a good local newsy sheet but it is well filled with advertisements of business houses of Carlisle, and this is probably where Mr. Harris’ ability shows up. : ER land : Very | clergyman. He will have a moving At ty hous jake {ito the taflif camp night one of the most noted of the popular corps by the slogan dinner-pail. of Speuiers for. he Au Suloon- letase of the United States will pour out appeals. ——Clean-up day Wednesday and That speaker, when his name is announced w'* at once command interest among the public.
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