Deworralic Wald | ! Ee} BY P. GRAY MEEK. | | INK SLINGS. a —Those Moros that we paid three bucks a head for benevolently assimilat- | ed a few more of our soldiers the other | day. —The Socialists of Milwaukee are to start a municipal nut grove. A place. | we presume, where they intend gathering | to crack each others. —Uncle JOE has decided that he is just a “simple Republican.” My, how one's sins will find him out. Now that is the last thing in the world we thought him to be. —Ohio Republicans might just as well | save themselves the trouble of too stren- | uous a hunt for a candidate for Governor. There is nothing to it but HARMAN any- way out there, —Uncle Joe CANNON says he will fight | for control of the House again. Of course | he will but Uncle Jo might well consult Jim JEFFRIES about the wisdom of trying to “come back." —Col. ROOSEVELT'S decision to help his nephew who is running for Congress in New York ought to be a bull card for the opposition nominee. It is at ieast an ad- mission that the nephew needs help. —Bellefonte baseball magnates have discovered that their championship cake depends entirely upon the amount of dough they put into it. And it takes a lot of the kind of dough that is hard to raise just now. We'll admit that council is blamed for a great many things, but, honestly, we don’t believe it was fair for that Woman's club committee to charge it with knowing where the disord erly houses are located in town. —Dedicate the new hospital, the new school house, the remodeled court house, open the new state highway for traffic and have the county fair all in one week and there will be enough doing to make the biggest time Bellefonte has ever known. —When Mr. CREASY impugns Mr. GRIM's legislative career he assaults his own, for Mr. CREASY can point to no good measure that he supported or no bad measure that he fought in the House that Mr. GRiM didn't do the same thing to in the Senate. —The women of Bellefonte appeared before council Monday evening to urge the beginning of 2 moral clean up in the town. There is great need of such a movement, but we fear the good women have tackled a much harder job than when they began to clean up the streets and back yards. —The threatened strike on the Penn- sylvania railroad has been called off. A most sensible conclusion. This is no time for strikes or other business distur- bances. The country is floundering in the throes of industrial uncertainty and the slightest disturbance is calculated to set it back further in the slough. —The new pension statistics are com- piled far enough to show that the popu- lation of our country has increased about eighteen per cent. during the past ten years and the taxes for the support of the government have increased twenty- two per cent. And death is about the only thing that will stop it gaining on you. —If Bellefonte is to have an Old Home Week this fall; one that will be success- ful, it must be launched at once. The interesting part of an “Old Home Week” is the old home comers. They are scat- tered all over the earth and must be giv- en time to plan to get back to the scenes of their nativity. If we are to have it let us make the start at once, before further agitation becomes useless. —The Philadelphia Public Ledger doesn’t believe that a rattlesnake can climb a tree and the WATCHMAN'S Lemont correspondent has a story of such a feat in this very issue. We have confidence in our Lemont correspondent’s veracity because his name is WILLIAMS and the WiLLIAMSES don't lie, therefore we assume that the Ledger can't be re. garded as authority on things reptilian, at least until it acquaints itself with the stunts of a certain yellow rattler that College township has produced. —Those Democrats who are falling in with the Republican scheme to draw sup- port away from GRIM by launching a third ticket, and thereby helping TENER, might do well to look back over the re- cent campaigns and find out who is who. Just now the North American and the Philadelphia Record are both leading agi- tagors for a third ticket. Many Demo- crats in this community are readers of ose papers. We would ask them then p recall an instance in years when ter one of these papers have support- ed ja Democratic ticket. The North torican is owned and the Record con- by Mr. THOMAS WANAMAKER, a piblican, therefor we think Democrats od judgment will scarcely be led in- to the trap those two organs are laying for them. If it were truo that PENROSE nt. the Allentown convention how much more consistent is it to have the third party convention, which is being prorpoted to correct the mistake, controll. ed disgruntled Republican leaders ang avowedly Republican newspapers. STATE RIGHTS AN D FEDERAL UNION. 33, The Third Party Convention. The third party “friendly movers" | will meet in convention in Philadelphia next Thursday, the 28th instant, ac-| cording to the plans of Colonel | GEORGE E. MAPES, Mr. Jorn O. SHEATZ | and a few other life-long opponents of | the Democratic party. These profession- | al reformers, when not in office, have en- | listed a few disappointed Democrats in their enterprise to defeat the Democratic | party, and have arranged to pack a nom- inating body with delegates of their own selection to ratify a ticket upon which they have already agreed, though not yet announced. The voters of the third party, if there are any, are limited in the exercise of choice of delegates to two Republicans and one Democrat in Repub- lican counties and two Democrats and one Republican in Democratic counties, selected by the committee. The commit- tee has also preempted a number of par- ty names, so that the personally conduct- ed convention may select from the num- ber the one preempted by the committee, which the majority of the delegates fa- vor. There has never been a convention held in this State as completely bossed as this contemplated third party con- vention will be if the gentlemen now in charge of the preliminary work have their own way and if they don’t have their way there will be no convention. It is said that on one occasion the late Sen- ator QUAY's attention was called to the fact that in his programme for a Repub- lican State convention about to assem. ble, he had neglected or forgot to select a candidate for some inconsequential po- sition. “Is that so,” said the “old man," in a sort of absent-minded way and he added, “well let the convention select a man for that place.” But there has been no such oversight on the part of SHEATZ and Mares. They have selected not only all the candidates but the officers of the convention and even the delegates. They propose to take no chances on anything. They know what they want and propose that the manikins they have chosen to express their preferences with respect to candidates shall not "go wrong.” Seriously speaking, however, this so- called independent movement is the most absurd enterprise that has ever been en- couraged by sober-minded citizens. The people of Pennsylvania ‘have a right to protest against the atrocities of the Re- publican machine. Senator PENROSE has dominated the Republican party for his own selfish purposes ever since, by the death of Mr. QUAY, he inherited the lead- ership. The Republican party itself has been recreant in its obligations to the people. It has fostered monopolies and put intolerable burdens upon the people by excessive tariff taxes. In resentment of these offences against political morali- ty and just principles, the voters of that party have a right to revolt. But what valid excuse is there for Democrats leav- ing their party and thus contributing to the perpetuation of the power of this odi- ous machine?! The failure of a favorite candidate to get a nomination, if he was fairly beaten, is certainly not a valid ex- cuse and yet the Democrats who are de- serting their party standard have no other. A political party can be maintained only through the fidelity of its members to the fundamental principle of majority rule. If an unfit candidate should be nominated by unfair means there would be reason in the repudiation of the in- iquity by those who are injured and out- raged by the operation and the right of revolt would not only be inherent but ob- | ligatory. But nothing of that kind has occurred in the Democratic party this | year or any recent year. As we have previously said WEBSTER GRIM, the Dem- | ocratic nominee for Governor is admira- | bly qualified and splendidly equipped for the office of Governor. His nomination was justly acquired and he is entitled to the earnest and cordial support of every | Democratic voter in the State. He is es- | pecially entitled to the loyal and active | help of those who participated in the con- vention either as candidates or delegates. | A moral obligation is as binding upon ! just men as a written contract and every | participant in the Allentown convention is under moral obligation to support Wes- | —Just seven more legal days of trout i i The proceedings of the Democratic | State Central committee and the State Executive committee in Harrisburg, on Wednesday, indicate the safe and sane attitude of the party in the present crisis. There was no vituperative denunciation of those who have strayed from the fold, though something in the nature of denun- ciation might have been expected. The Democratic committees maintained their dignity by asserting in plain and une- quivocal language, the fundamental prin- ciples of Democracy. But neither the State Central committee nor the State Executive committee, either by direction or innuendo, made reference to the actual or imaginary revolt of the handfull of malcontents who pretend to believe that they were unfairly treated at Allentown: The Democratic candidate for Gover. 52s speeches is a defence of the tariff. | nor, WEBSTER GRIM, needs neither apolo- gy nor defence in the eyes of Democrats. He was fairly nominated in a convention which was created under the strict con- struction of the law. He is capable and fit. The only objections which Republi- cans can raise against him is that he has been too consistently and too unceasingly a Democrat. A Republican associate of his in the Senate has said that his only complaint against GRIM is that he never gave his political convictions a rest. In other words he was always striving to give the Democrats the best of any par- liamentary situation during his prolonged and distinguished service in the State Senate. He was always on the job and invariably for the Democracy. The Democrats who compose the State Central committee and the Democratic State Executive committee, while appre- ciating these virtues in their candidate for Governor are too broad-minded and too generous to stigmatize those who happen to take a different view of the subject. They understand the obligations which partisanship involve. They know that when a man participates in the de- liberations of a convention whether as a candidate or delegate, he is morally bound to abide by the action of the majority. But because some former associates in the party have proved recreant to these principles, there was no outburst of in- dignation. On the contrary the Demo- crats of the two committees, in sessionag Harrisburg on Wednesday, simply did what they could to build up their own or. ganization without trying to tear down anything. They have given the rank and file of the Democracy greater reason than ever before to be proud of their party. How Long Will We be Fools? Some interesting experiments were made off Atlantic City, the other day, to test the efficiency of flying machines used in the capacity of destroyers of battle- ships and other sea dogs of war. One of the aviators ascended to a height beyond the range of an ordinary rifle and drop- ped oranges down upon a miniature war- ship made for the purpose. The aviator would descend from his great height at an immense rate of speed until within a few hundred feet of the surface of the sea and release his missiles. In every test it was shown that the flying machine could empty enough bombs on the deck of a battleship to blow it into fragments and get away without the possibility of injury. This proves the absolute worthlessness of battleships in the future wars of civilization. Aviation is being developed with great rapidity and the accuracy of a science. Even if a war should break out now béfore it could be brought to a tense stage flying machines entirely adequate for the work would be ready to engage in the destruction of the navies of both sides in the conflict. With the flying machines above and the submarine ships below them battleships would be of no more account in war than paper batteries constructed for the amusement or in- struction of children. This is no longer a matter of conjecture. It is an absolute and undeniable fact. Yet the jingo agitators in the control of the government of the United States are continuing the absurd policy of build- ing battleships at an expense that must inevitably impoverish the country. The last Congress authorized the construction BELLEFONTE. PA JULY 22 Speaker Cannon’s Wasted Labor. Speaker CANNON is having a hard time in defending the congressional machine ‘in Kansas. At one place he completely . collapsed and was literally taken away in an ambulance after an hour and a half of vehement phrase making. At another point he saved himself from a similar . breakdown by applying ice to his neck and head. Mr. CANNON “is not as young as he used to be,” and logically the se- vere labor of a “stump speech” under the intense rays of a Kansas sun, is hard on him. But even a younger and more rug- ged man would find defending the con- gressional machine before 2 Kansas au- | dience a trying ordeal. There is little to ! be said on that subject at best and an | unsympathetic audience is distressing. | The burden of Speaker CANNON's Kan- Careless in his habits of thought he has accepted the statistics on the subject, | prepared by an army paymaster for Pres- ‘ ident TAPT'S Winona speech, though be- , fore the Speaker left Washington Senator DoLLiver, of lowa, had riddled it into shreds. But like the Bourbons of France Speaker CANNON learns nothing and for- gets less and he is probably oblivious of | the great speech of the Iowan. If he had taken the actual figures rather than the fictitious statistics of the treasury he would know that instead of the PAYNE- ' ALDRICH bill being the “best tariff ever | enacted by the Republican party,” it is | the worst. | Speaker CANNON is wasting his ener- gies, mental and physical in defending the Congressional machine in Kansas. The people of that State long since aban- doned the habit of raising hell and turn- ed their attention to growing hogs and the change has had a wholesome influ- ence on their minds. They have made the best uses of the public schools and other educational and informing agen- cies, moreover, and can't be fooled into the belief that “the moon is made of green cheese.” Of course it may be pos- sible that Speaker CANNON has become a i Chautaqua lecturer and is raising his | voice at so much per word in imitation ! of other illustrious gentlemen. But if he | is talking for nothing in the hope of mak- | ing political converts he “is wasting his | | sweetness on the desert air.” | ‘““What Shall the Harvest Bea.” | The purpose of compelling a recall of | the Allentown convention in order to give | one of the unsuccessful candidates anoth- er chance has been abandoned by the gentlemen who were behind it. Less than a third of the delegates having signed the call the gentlemen have awakened to the fact that a second ballot for the guber- natorial nomination would not alter the result and as their object was to nomi- nate another man, they have given the matter up, and a few of the leaders concluded to desert the ranks of Democracy and join the Republican | insurgents. They will get no substantial advantage out of this course, and but lit- tle glory, notwithstanding they have all been enlisted as Major Generals of the new force and will all wear shoulder straps. Some of the gentlemen who have thus deserted the Democracy, without just cause, have been highly honored by their late party associates and others have been greatly favored. But they wanted to rule and failing in that ambition have deter- . mined to ruin. Numerically less than one- | third of the Allentown convention, they | imagined that the other two-thirds ought to yield to them for the reason that in the past most of them have been willing to draw salaries as representatives of the | party and occupy positions of honor and tion they have created. Being a highly ornamental and somewhat assertive tail they wanted to wag the dog. That curious result has never been achieved. Of course these enterprising and ambi- tious gentlemen will ‘understand t! at in deserting the party which has honored and favored them in the past, they have put themselves “outside of the breast- works,” and that in future they will not be considered in the Democratic politica) equation. Desertion at any time is repre- hensible. But desertion, without just cause, at the moment a crucial battle is | of three dreadnaughts at a cost of some- | about to begin is atrocious. The Demo- thing like $18,000,000 each and by the | cratic party of Pennsylvania, with an ad- fishing and after that the disciples of | time they are completed, if we were to | mirably equipped and eminently fit can- Izaak Walton will either have to hang up engage in war with any country of con- | didate for Governor was ready and able their rod and line or else go after bass, siderable force, they would be sunk by |to march forward to a glorious and en- catfish and suckers. So far as the trout season is concerned it cannot be said to | bombs dropped from flying machines in less time than is consumed in the cere. ‘during victory, when these gentlemen i deserted it to the certain advantage of have been a great success, so far as the | mony of launching them after they are the enemy. “What shall the harvest be.” catch is concerned. There were probably | than ever before, notwithstanding the | fact that the streams have been stocked | year after year. | prepared for service. How long, Lord | fewer trout caught hereabouts this year | how long, will the American people con- | tinue to be fools? --So Mr. EUGENE C. BONNIWELL says ——The Bellefonte Electric company is building a new line up east Lamb street and if it results in giving the residents on the farther end of the street better light |the “plain people of Pennsylvania are {they will consider it very fortunate for ~The Centre Baptist association will hold its annual meeting in the Baptist | church of Philipsburg carly in October.) : situation.” Well, we'll see how much of a fight they put up in November. , fighting mad" over the present political | them, | A i Subscribe for the WATCHMAN. 1910. responsibility. It is an anomalous condi- | NO. 28. Tarif a Moral Issue. From the Johnstown Democrat. Pick up any newspaper any day and will find many accounts fraudulent transactions. mean? Are the | of robbers? Is system | men 5 for ? ihe, ' by means | as are contained in Schedule K of the ' Aldrich-Payne law, whereby certain fav- ored woolen manufacturers are licensed | to rob the and in the maintenance j of the SNe. De n spite of its exposure the Senate, by widely the enabled to its table of g if | : ; § g i ; | g : g e g8 1 i is of¥ 4 I o5 ; E & Bg 4 5 2 E%E g — - i : i SE g g 5 zEiog ; - & = 8 : g E i J : g ' i i 4 i - g 23% £2 ge E | 2 i s i 55 £ i al i it | ed for his own personal business benefit. This is an accusation that cannot die with the campaign, examined by the Senate and proper ac- tion taken, even if expulsion be pen- alty that comes as the ignominious end law there was a 30 per cent duty on manufactures of rubber, and that crude rubber was free; that the present tariff law the House without any change in the duty on either crude or manufac- tured rubber; that Mr. Aldrich’s Senate committee increased the duty on manu- factured rubber from 30 to 35 per cent; that during the session, or immediately Siier the ajouiLent, le, I) connection Spgenhing Ryan, or- a ru trust, known as the tercontinental Rubber company, with ,000,000 capital stock; that Mr. Ald- rich’s son (E. B. Aldrich) became vice president and m of the company; that immediately were large advances in the price of rubber; that during the first three months of the ex- of this trust it paid dividends 18.2 per cent on the preferred advance is to of crude rubber, the utely con- | | 2 gE i § : i : H : g ie £ : g i 5 i li i if i 8 | i i t of the H gf ever been in the ernment a more official power?” velt's second term. The comparison the totals is as follows: CLEVELAND. Resular annual appropriations... SLUMSIA Total for the four yearperiod.......... $1,871,500,578 ROOSEVELT. i AL ot] Total for the four year period...... §3,842,208,577 Under like conditions of peace and in- dustrial progress the Roosevelt as com- pared with the Cleveland cost of govern- | ment was more than double. There was no war; but expenditure was kept, under the Roosevelt lead, upon a war footing. | And yet here are cheerful idiots who go | up and down the public places wondering i at the increased cost of living! Subscribe for the WATCHMAN. SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. ~The annual reunion of the One Hundred-and Tenth regiment, Pennsylvania volunteers, will and picnic of the Patriotic Order Sons of America in Huntingdon county will be held at McConnells- town, August 5. —A receiver has been appointed at Ebensburg for the Cresson Foundry, Machine and Car com- pany to meet cbligations aggregating twenty-five —John W. Sheldon, road foreman of engines of the Renovo devision, Pennsylvania railroad, died suddenly at his home in Renovo on Monday even- ing. He was almost 63 years of age. ~The Cambria Street company is busily en- gaged in rebuilding its 40-inch blooming mill at Johnstown, and the plant will be out of commis- sion until the beginning of September. ~—Beds of fine white clay, a mile in length and fit for the manufacture of porcelain, and bodies of brick clay of the requistite chemical consis. tency for pressed vitrified brick, have been found near Hazelton and are to be developed. —There are now 40 cases of typhoid fever at South Fork, six new ones having developed with_ inthe past two days. Assistant Engineer M. E, Shaughnessy remains on the ground, while Engi- neer B.E. Irwin has returned to Harrisburg. —Mrs. Mame Bachman has filed suit in court at Pottsville for $25,000 damages against the Lehigh & Wilkes-Barre Coal company for the killing of her husband at an Audenried colliery. Bachman was struck on the head by a lump of coal from an overloaded car. —Arrangements are being made for the settle- ment of a regular pastor over the Italian missions —Jubilant over the fact that he was about to return to his native land, John Stoyan, of Cam- bria City, a suburb of Johnstown, started a miniature celebration Saturday night and then came to grief when his pocket book containing $340 and a steamship ticket disappeared. —An unexpected buying movement in Connells- ville foundry coke marked the close of the week in thelocal market. The Westinghouse Electric ~The Rev. H. A. McKelvey, of Port Matilda, is something of a success at encouraging chick. ens to do theirbest. Since the first day of March he has received 832 eggs from eleven white leg- horn hens. From these eggs he realized $16.34. For feed he paid $6.20 thus making a net profit of $10.14. ~Imagining he had invented a simplified flying machine, John Walteroski, of Pottsville, on Sun- day gave the new idea a trial, starting from the top of a big colliery stable. His machine flew until it got off the roof, then it came to earth with a dull thud and Walteroski was seriously injured. —DuBois isalready planning to capture the 1611 convention of the Central Pennsylvania Volunteer Firemen's association. Osceola will entertain the convention this year on August 24th and 25th. The DuBois department will attend en masse and will do everything possible to press its invitation to acceptance. —Ernest W. Bowman, former assistant cashier of the Citizen's National bank of Tionesta, was sentenced Thursday in the United States court at Pittsburg to ten years in the western peniten- tiary. In May, 1908, he ‘pleaded guiltyof misapply- ing the funds of the bank, making false entries, for nearly two years previous. ~The annual institute and summer conference of the ministers and others of the Central Penn- sylvania Methodist Episcopal conference will be held at the well known camp meeting ground . | near Lock Haven, beginning on Monday, August 8, and continuing a week. An elaborote program has been prepared for the occasion. ~—John F. Short, editor of the Clearfield Repub- lican, has prosecuted Matt Savage, onthe charge of libel. The allegation is that by the unnamed “boodler’’ to whom Savage referred in a recent number of his paper, the Daily Spirit, he really . | meant theeditor of the Republican who emphat- ically denies that he ever handled any Berry money. —~General William H. Koontz, of Somerset, is 80 yearsold. LastFriday evening a banquet in his honor was held at the Somerset house, one hundred and twenty guests being present. Gen- eral Koontz, in spite of his four score years, is hale and hearty, walks with the elastic and vig- orous step of youth and his faculties remain absolutely unimpaired. —While working at the New York Central rail- road shops at Avis Friday morning, George Hines, met with a pecular accident, the result of which he was severely scalded and sustained a badly sprained arm. The man was employed on an engine, working about the steam box, when the valve blew off and by the force of the escap- ing steam, Mr. Hines was thrown a distance of several feet, landing on a track. His right arm was scalded by the steam and was also sprained from the effect of hitting the iron track. —A Pennsylvania railroad engine en route from Harrisburg to Columbia, where it was to take through a train of New Jersey troops bound for home from the Gettysburg maneuvres, was de- railed on Sunday near Watts station by the rails spreading. Brakeman S. E. Bixler, Harrisburg, was instantly killed and fireman B. E. Denlinger, Philadelphia, died severai hours later from his injuries. Engineer William Nye, and Conductor Goodwin, Philadelphia, were seriously injured. The injured were taken to Columbia in a special train sent from that place. —Chas. Ritchey, of Huntingdon, aged about 20 years, is wanted by a constable for having stolen five head of cattle and selling them. | Bs fi Esk ff § if —]John S. Fisher, representing the Central railroad, has just made the first on the Jacksonville, Indiana county, of 2,000 acres taken up by the New York Central this week. The field lies in Blacklick ter townships. It adjoins another tract of I acres taken up by the New York timeago. The average price per acre is $45. addition to the Jacksonville field the New York Central has sccured options on more than 5,000 acres in the Lewisville field in Conemaugh town- ship, and is selecting sites for prospective towns for opening the big tract. , the public a rate of one and one-half cent per mile each way) from the railroad station in Pennsyl- vania nearest to the homes of each, tickets to be good, going, from September 2ith to September 27th, and good, returning, to reach original start- ing point not later than September 30th.
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