of the Congressmen have gone
never to return to Washington
i a8 Public law makers,
t Monday che:big signi jo, which
s and JoHnsoN will strive to
the honor, if honor it is, of being |
nyway the wreck of the ZEPPELIN |
p didn't result in the loss of a life.
so what was left for the Mexicans
., They had to have a President.
t have been a lot of fun had
thi § anty “promoters succtedied in
iting Girrorp Pichor to run for Gov.
of Pennsyivania. Had he gone into
the hustings in this State ROOSEVELT
would probably have taken the stump for
m and ROOSEVELT would at least have
8 Jot of ginges into the campaign.
MEEHAN is an
: the law prohibiting
ng on Sunday. He says “Sunday
fishing is better than church going" in
he instances. Andso it is as long as
ne of the big ones get away but we
fii
Breaking the third commandment if he
were in church on Sunday than if a fif-
¢ em
—Some people seem to have so little
that we are surprised that any at-
For instance, there has been and is
a silly clamor for the recall of the
it were recalled? Do you think for a mo-
ment there could be any change in the
result. Mr. BERRY would not get one more
vote than he did; Mr. GRIM would not
get one less, yall agus u thing
80 manifestly useless.
Clam ap days injEeliefonre resulted
in such a general effort in cleaning up
and clearing out that the ladies who had
the work in charge have cause to feel
greatly gratified. There was almost uni-
~ versal compliance with their request and,
except in a few cases, all of the residents
of the town accepted the notice from the
respective committees in the proper spir-
it. It was to be expected that a few
would be impertinent. There are always
some who are in a community and they
are the ones who must seize on just such
et in the field would be exactly what he
wants because then there would not be a
doubt as to TENER'S election. If the
third ticket agitators were to spend a
of the time they are looking for a
e of the ablest men in the polit-
a He Wt men the most
honorable. ‘There is no need of a third
| ticket with such a man in the field if the
] tention at all is paid to their vaporings. |.f
town convention. What good would itdoif |*
- | Commerce and legalizes a greater charge
i sort that results in talk, not votes.
VOL. 55.
Pons's Abst. Falsehood. [
SetaipiBBiwoss appear vitelviin nn
usual measure, upon public credulity, this -
year. The platform adopted by his con- |
vention is simply “a bunch of absurdities,”
and a tissue of falsehoods. It begins by
falsely attributing the panic of 1893 to
legislation that was not enacted until well |
toward the close of 1894and refers to the
recent past "as a period of prosperity,
progress and growth uneqalled in the
history of nations.” There is not a school
boy in this broad Commonwealth who !
doesn’t know that both these statements
are false. The panic of 1893 began with
the Homestead riots of July, 1892, which |
occurred before the Democratic candidate
for President that year was nominated,
while the panic of 1907 was infinitely more
destructive of prosperity and distressing
to the people than that of 1893 or any of
its predecessors.
Following that is an equally false state-
ment that since the passage of the PAYNE-
ALDRICH tariff bill “the wages of em-
ployees in this country have been increas-
ed more than $500,000,000 per annum.”
There is hardly a man, woman or child
outside of the asylums who doesn’t know
that there has been practically no increase
in wages of employees in the country
within the period embraced in that state-
ment, while on the contrary the expenses
of living have multiplied to an extent
that has spread consternation wherever
destitution has not been felt. The tariff
on wool and other necessaries of life has
been vastly increased with the result that
the profits of trusts and combinations of
capital are proportionately enhanced and
the suffering of the people made greater.
If tariff taxation doesn’t produce that re-
sult it is useless because that is what it
is intended to do.
Finally this absurd document touches
the limit in the statement that “the heavy
burden of indebtedness which the Re-
publican party found resting as a Demo-
cratic legacy upon the taxpayers of the
State has been paid through our wise
financial policy without the levy of a dollar
of direct taxation upon the people.” The
indebtedness to which this statement
refers was incurréd in ‘the construction
of public ‘works of the highest value in
the development of the resources of the
State, since sacrificed by the Republican
to the greed of monopoly and the
‘system conceived and inaugurated by a
Democratic and a Democratic
Legislature. If tI is any grown person
in the State who doesn’t know this there
is work for a guardian.
Work of the Sixty-First Congress.
President TAFT and Speaker CANNON
are equally effusive in praise of the work
of the Congress which has just adjourn-
ed. It has achieved wonders, they say,
and to prove their faith by words, instead
of works, they both recite a number of
bills that have been passed, mostly by
the coersive process, federal patronage
being the force employed. Among the
measures thus cataupulted onto the stat-
ute books are the railroad rate bill which
creates a needless but expensive Court of
for a short than a long haul of freight, an
iniquity which the original Commerce
Commission was created to destroy. The
Postal savings bank law is another of its
achievements,
The Postal savings bank scheme is an
experiment of questionable character.
Unless the judgment of the most exper-
ienced bankers and capable financiers is
at fault it ought to be entitled an act to
drain the currency of the country into
Wall street in the event of a money fam-
ine which is certain to follow any serious
industrial disturbance or commercial pan-
ic. It affords a guarantee of deposits in
the postoffices, by the government, and
the natural result will be that whenever
there is uncertainty concerning the safe-
ty of other banks the currency of the
community will go to the postoffices and
thence through the Department, to Wall
street, while local interests will suffer.
Of course there was some good legisia-
tion enacted for the militant minority was
on the job all the time and compelled
some semblance of decency. But even
good legislation may be harmful when it
is enacted at the expense of a sacrifice of
the fundamental law and executive coer:
sion of Congress is certainly obnoxious
to the constitution. But it is a safe con-
jecture that most of the legislation is bad
and the two measures for which most
credit is claimed may be said to be actu-
ally vicious. Altogether the work of |
Congress is an expression of the evil of |
Ser———
/ in common, have adopted to exploit them-
~—Third party talk is usually of the
ry
-
"STATE RIGHTS AN
“BELLEFONTE, I
Democrats Will Get Together.
Reduced to the last analysis it may be
Te
said that the agitation of the spirit of dis" [fr
content among the Democrats of Penn-
-sylvania is at present simply an expedi-
ent which a couple of newspapers, owned
ly working up reports of dissatisfaction
among Democrats here and there with
the action of the Allentown convention
and the Democratic nominee for Gover-
nor. As a matter of fact there never was
a fairer convention than that held recent-
ly at Allentown. The delegates were
chosen at primary elections in which each
voter had a right to express his prefer-
ence as to candidates, and it has not been
charged that any delegate violated his in-
structions.
Sharp political agitation is a great cir-
culation builder, however, and the man.
agers of some newspapers are not over-
particular as to the methods they employ
sound very plausible in another and by
working both ends against the middle
these piratical newspaper managers are
able to create a good deal of excitement
where there is nothing but the most com-
plete tranquility. The rank and file of
the Democracy in Pennsylvania are prob-
ably satisfied with the action of the Allen-
town convention. They can’t possibly
have other than the highest admiration
for the candidate for Governor and even
these newspaper character assassins have
not been able to say a word againstWes-
STER GRIM.
The Allentown convention performed
its work in the open and in admirable
manner. The declination of Mr. MUN-
SON caused some confusion and put the
other candidates and their friends to a
test of availability. Both Mr. GrRiM and
Mr. BERRY were on the ground and work-
ing with equal energy if not with equal
success. That Mr. GRIM won and Mr.
BERRY lost was an incident. Neither
took or attempted to take an unfair ad-
vantage of the other and if they had been
left to an adjustment of the affair be-
no trouble. When Mr. BERRY left the
convention he admitted an honorable de-
feat and pledged his support to his suc-
cessful competitor. But the mercenary
mischief-makers subsequently intervened
and the useless and harmless agitation is
the consequence. But it will not last long
or do much harm. The Democrats of
Pennsylvania will get together and work
out a victory.
a —
Our Multiplying Scandals.
Upon the motion of one Senator, on
Saturday, a committee has been ordered
to investigate charges made by Senator
GORE, of Oklahoma, that a syndicate of
Republican favorites of the administration
have been despoiling the Indians of that
section of their lands. Upon the motion
of another Senator one of the standing
committees of the Senate was directed to
investigate charges that other favorites of
the administration have formed a syndi-
cate to exploit the finances of Nicaragua,
on the same day. A few days previously
the Senate authorized an investigation of
the FRIAR lands scandal in the Philippines,
and several other investigations are in
progress.
“the defendants appeared in court,
but there was a lack of prosecuting wit-
nesses, some of whom, the court was in-
had dropped from sight, while
declared that so long a time had
elapsed that they had forgotten the facts
surrounding the cases." Therefore “the
District Attorney's office asked that the
cases be settled by verdicts of not guilty."
The next day the same esteemed con-
0 contained this bit of useful in-
: “Nine more old election in-
dictments charging transgressions of the
law:in 1905 and 1906 were submitted in
Quarter Sessions court No. 2 yesterday
for verdicts of not guilty. Assistant Dis-
Attorney GRAY
that owing to the disappearance
tnesses prosecution of the cases was
" In both cases the names
and residences of the defendants are
That they were guilty is hardly
i But the trials were postponed
on one pretext or another until convic-
tion is made impossible by the death or
disappearance of witnesses and then the
prosecuting officers ask for acquittals. If
the ballot box stuffers and the courts
were in open collusion conditions could
hardly be worse.
Mr. GisBONEY, a Philadelphia lawyer,
whose name has been frequently mention-
ed in connection with an independent
candidacy for Governor, made a speech
in Harrisburg the night before Mr. PeN-
ROSE'S convention assembled in which he
declared that ballot box stuffing is an in-
dustry that is carefully protected by the
courts and the police authorities of the
city. These accurate reports of the pro-
ceedings of the courts are ample and
complete corroborations of that state-
ment. The criminals are taken red-
handed in the perpetration of the gravest
crinte in the calendar of iniquity but their
trials are held back by the prosecuting
officials until immunity is practically
guaranteed.
How long will the people of Pennsylva-
nia stand for this infamous state of af-
fairs? How long will respectable citizens
of Centre county give it moral and ma-
of 5
terial support by voting for the party | country.
which practices it?
The Republican Ticket.
The Republican ticket has not been
cordially endorsed by the press and the
voters of that political faith. Thoughtful
Republicans are not able to discover any
reason for bestowing such honors upon
Joun K. TENER, of Washington county,
and JoHN M. REYNOLDS, of Bedford coun-
ty. If it was intended to express un-
bounded admiration for Speaker CANNON,
a better - course could not have been
adopted. TENER and REYNOLDS have
been among the most servile tools of the
Congressional machine. But the Repub-
licans of Pennsylvania are not enamored
of CANNON and CANNONism. They are
not delighted with the increased cost of
living which CANNONism has brought
about. But no other reason can be giv-
No administration in the history of the | en.
country had ever been as Ceeply involved
in scandals as the present one. It will be |
recalled that during the first administra-
tion of President GRANT there were re-
ports of a scandalous character current
to an extent that appalled the people of
that period. There were the Star-route
frauds, the whiskey frauds and various
other frauds, the result largely of Presi-
dent GRANT'S inexperience in civil affairs.
A few tricksters imposed upon his credul-
ity to an extent that amazed many of his
friends. But the President soon shook
them off and made a determined effort to
live down the reproach upon his life and
his administration.
But at the worst the GRANT adminis-
tration was a paragon of propriety as
compared with that of President TAFT.
And the worst of it is that every scandal
in which the present administration is in-
volved can be traceddirectly to the Presi-
dent’s brother. He was one of the prin-
cipals in the conspiracy which robbed the :
government of millions of dollars in con-
nection with the purchase of the French
franchises for the Panama canal and was
retained as counsel by the Sugar trust
when the business of counsel was to trans-
|
fer the FRIAR lands in the Philippines to | of K
far: crimiont conspzacy, These ex-
Mr. TeENER has performed no useful
service for the Republican party or the
| people of Pennsylvania, so far as we are
able to discover. It is true that when
the late Senator QUAY'S friend “BiLLY”
MONTGOMERY, former cashier of the Al-
legheny National bank, was found out
Mr. TENER and "Dick" QUAY bailed him
and kept him out of jail until arrange-
ments to shield those higher up had been
completed. But that was hardly a serv-
ice to the Republican party or the peo-|82
ple which deserved so great a reward. It
is equally true that Mr. REYNOLDS oppos-
ed the Republican party with all the bit-
‘ terness he could command, so long as
the party had any just claim for popular
favor. But few Republicans of the better
type will recognize in that actiona reason
for favoring him above hundreds of real
Republicans. These gentlemen have been
so favored by the PENROSE machine,
however.
The truth of the matter is that Sena-
tor PENROSE has favored these newcom-
ers in official life for some ul-
terior reason and the press and people of
the yasiy are set incllied give the ac-
EE gE
im
|
leaders
other handicaps for the
a are now
Th ae
Pennsylvania, isthe way itis
raucously rotten. It is Re Cachine ia]
oben, athe Glraa of
ptection
is a
on Monday. The lad, who was not a good swim-
mer, was in the company of Clarence Ridge, aged
30, when he sank from sight. Ridge tried to {
reach the lad but failed. The parents of young :
Schultz, three sisters and a brother survive. '
—Andrew Patterson, aged 18, of Turtle Creek,
is in a serious condition in the Columbia hospital,
Wilkinsburg, with his left arm torn to shreds and
his left side lacerated from the shoulder to the
hip, as the result of having had the arm drawn
between some cog wheels while at work in the
wo
=It is announced that the Soldier mine, which
was at one time the largest bituminous coal mine
in the world, is to be abandoned in a few years.
For years over 1,500,000 tones of coal have been |
taken out of this mine yearly and its supply of
black diamond, is about exhausted. Already
many of the houses in Soldier are being torn
down and moved to indiana county, where the J.
& C. Co., have other operations. So it seems that
in less than five years, Soldier, once a prosperous
village, will be wiped completely off the map.
Three men have been arrested a Bat Liberty
by Pennsylvania railroad detectives and twenty
more are to be haled befor the law. id tents
bery scheme is said to have been discovered. Ten
thousand dollars’ worth of articles is said to have
been taken from the Adams Express company
at that place. George Harris, a railroad electri-
cian; David B. Cox, an express agent, and Charles,
Robberies have ‘been going on since Jan
and the valu of good stolen may have been
than given out, it is said.
inorder to tke up the duties of
Pennsylvania |