—It is out of season for bear and that probably accounts for their running wild in Wall St, N. Y. —You don’t hear much of the 1909 prophets who predicted that 1910 would be the year of greatest proserity ever dr ad 2 STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. —In accordance to orders issued, about 400 dogs have been shot in Fayette county the past few days, their owners not having paid the tax on them. —Many persons were prostrated by the heat at Shamokin on Sunday. The thermometer regis- tered 100 degrees. Fortunately none of the cases were serious. ~The annual reunion of the famous Fighting Tenth regiment, Pennsylvania volunteers, will be held at New Brighton, August 4th. All arrange- ments have been completed. —Six dwelling houses, owned by the Mononga- hela River Coal and Coke company, locatod near ‘ F City, known to this couatry. VOL. 55. BELLEFONTE, PA.. JULY 29, 1910. NO. TD, |r To. vee dt v1 See Sunday lt fa altogetier probable Yate pow ——————— ~John Dimeling, the Clearfield man who was Moses ve to be called to sl 1 From Grafter. i Colone! badly injured in an automobile accident RE vvtoey uot the) Tue Refiswsest of Wetical Perey: . °) An Absurdly Fulsome Eulogy. | Bad Councl From a age de to badly injured in an automobile accident two Nebraskan wilderness. mn | Senator PENROSE shows scant respect President TAFT complacently suggests, rem Colonel hospital and return to his home. —If some other town will only essay To shes of vs who lave had = for the intelligence of the voters of his | jn a speech to an expensive sea eopnd LE Guffey, 0 Pittab og ~Cambria county farmers are rejoicing in a the ore bers {Ls fence ia of arranging for |, 1 in this State. At the notification obliged to ask the courts of for Bae erup of baw, while Wheat ian 1s src better job of stopping that State conventions the accounts of the sort audience, that every man should than was expected some weeks ago. Fruit is not Bellefonte will surely have a look in for the Mountain League pennant. —We presume that much of the eager- preparations for the Witherspoon hall conventions of Mr. SHEATZ and Colonel Mares would be amusing if they were meeting held in Pittsburg, last Saturday, he permitted one of the Philadelphia municipal contractors, WILLIAM S. VARE, have a vacation of two months each year. The President receives a salary of $75, pose of protecting his oil, coal, coke Eg 000 a year and notwithstanding the pro- | as the large investments he has the appointment of a receiver for the pur- holdings 8 A abundant, although pears will be plenty. ~The Aluminum Company of America has let a contract for the erection of two new buildings ness to attend the Third party conven- | less startling. For example one of our a8 spalcesuiah, of the Late eopysuticn, 16 vision of the constitution that he shall | ha busifitss Mivjests exienfing over $obe added to au plan t He's Meustaui ” tion waned when free transportation to | esteemed Philadelphia contemporaries, say to candidate y recieve “no other emolument,” draws | “rit ene natural outcome of present demand of the man whom they place in | $25,000 as a traveling fund. In ~The news comes from various parts of the Philadelphia failed to put in an appear- | promoting the enterprise of Mr. SHEATZ shall be expense | business conditionsin this country, where | g,,;c that dairymen are moving to have the price ance. and Colonel MAPES, gave the public this file waliel position tat HE sill ve wile addition to this, and also in vidation of | men feguist huge amounts of cash 0 | o¢ iy advanced. So far as krown no logical —The Easton Sentinel says “the spirit | bit of inside information the other day: clean hopiests Sythe and that the constitution, he uses two of the ships | year jyusisiess ote7pfists duc reason for a raise in prices has been advanced. of Independence is ripe in the Keystone | “One question asked is how the GUTHRIE Saputicane oo” afiake a a of the navy as personal yachts, at an ex- rg Th Lb Mb. expect that | —Favorable progress in the fight against the ty- state.” Maybe it is, but the flesh seems | men can be so confident of the Demo- oe 5 Shrncter fone a | Pate to the public treasury of about) }910 would be a ili factive'| Diid fever ebidemtic ai South Fork ie bein to be too weak to stand up long unless it | cratic ex-Mayor's home city, as the se- | UHC $300,000 a year. He takes with him | business year. The general public well | CRS, ® mil ur boc tout sity cases ak can find a bar’l to lean on. —Ohio’s Republican nominee for Gov ernor is the editor of a newspaper at Marion. It is too bad to have to make a martyr of a poor newspaper man, but Ohio just had to have a goat. —President TAFT advises a rest cure of at least sixty days for everyone. And most everyone will advise President TAFT that a rest cure of about two years on his part would do the country a world of good. —It is all right to have a third ticket for those who want it, but it must be remembered that as CHAMP CLARK de- fines it “a Democrat is one who believes it Democratic principles and votes the ticket.” —Mr. BRYAN's attempt to boost the Nebraska Democracy onto the water wag- on was probably inspired by the best motives, but the Donkey of Democracy is not a camel and isn’t accustomed to going dry long. —The clerk in that Louisville institu- tion who succeeded in getting away with its entire surplus of over a million dollars ought to have been the president. He seems to have known more about its af- fairs than any of the officers. —Son-indaw LONGWORTH opened the Republican state convention in Ohio on Tuesday and opened a large box of salve which he proceeded to smear in all di- rections. But salve isn't what the Ohio Republicans are after. They want oe the while we are fighting the railroads, manufacturing industries, etc, the prices of grain, meats,butter and eggs are being slipped up on us. A wise bunch are these agriculturists whom ROOSEVELT thought three years ago, that some one lection of the 24 delegates from Alleghe- ny county is understood to have been made under the direction of two men whose signatures will be required to make delegate’s certificate pass safely the scrutiny of the convention's com- mittee on credentials.” Singulary enough this note of bossism has run through the proceedings of this self-appointed Committee on Arrange- ments from the beginning. Mr. SHEATZ and Mr. MAPES created what they are pleased to call the Executive Committee and appointed themselves, respectively, chairman and secretary. Having thus usurped a prerogative of the people, es- sential to just apportionment of honors and power, they next named half a dozen gentlemen with power to select the dele- gates for all sections of the State, having previously arbitrarily fixed the number of delegates to compose the convention. To elucidate this point we again quote from the esteemed Philadelphia contemporary already referred to: "Dr. GREGG A. DiL- LINGER, who is set down as a GIBBONEY man, is reported to have guided the choice of 12 of the Alleghenians, while a Democratic member of the temporary Indepehndent State committee, WILLIAM N. McNAIR, who is for BERRY, has car- ried out the assignment given him by that committee, to select the remaining 12." It is small wonder that in the exercise of this autocratic power injustice should be done and ‘that complaints should fol- low. Two or three years ago the atrocious Philadelphia machine was pg fight for the office of District Attorney, and inci- dentally for the protection of the white- slave trade, the gambling dens and the speak-easies of the city. The decent element of the community was support- man is the candidate of the Republican party for Governorin 1910. It was agreed that no other man in this State was bet- ter qualified for that high office.” In the Republican party of Pennsylvania there are some highly respectable and entirely capable gentlemen. On the Su- perior court bench for example, there are Judges BEAVER and ORLADY. On the Su- preme court bench there are justices JOHN STEWART and W. P. PoTTER. On| the United States District court bench there are Judges McPHERSON, ARCHBALD and YOUNG. On the Common Pleas bench there are Judges KUNKEL, of Dauphin; CAMERON, of Tioga; SEARLE, of Wayne; TREXLER, of Lehigh; SWARTZ, of Mont- gomery; EDWARDS, of Lackawanna, and ng the vice in a comparatively small OrMEROD, of Potter, either of whom | way and two or three others escaped the would measure up to the standard indi- ' game punishment dying at the psy- cated. Then there are Secretary of State pjogical time. o the President, the Knox and HENRY M. HoYT in the federal service in Washington who would adorn the office. Besides there are a number of lawyers and business men of that political faith throughout the State who might have been honored and would have gladly accepted the nomination. But the convention nominated Mr. TENER and the party bosses permitted “BILL" VARE to bestow that specimen of fulsome eulogy quoted above upon him. Yet he is not a man of experience in pub- lic affairs. He is known to some extent as a baseball pitcher and as an official in a rather convivial benevolent organiza- tion and it has not been agreed by any considerable number of men outside of the insane asylums of the State, “that no other man in this State was better quali- fied for that high office.” Every well informed man in the Commonwealth ' oy hanges but lacks the quality of self-re- knows that there are hundreds of men better qualified for the office than TENER and it is equally well known that TENER | ing the regular and all temporary capi- i i wherever he goes a sufficient number of | automobiles, owned by the government and equipped at public expense, to pro- vide for all members of his family. Besides all this all the cost of maintain- tals, including the wages of servants and cost of provisions, is paid out of the pub- lic treasury, leaving the entire amount of the President's salary $300,000 in four years, untouched. Of course all this ex- pense, other than that which is compen- sation for services fixed by law, is graft. In this State we pretend to become very indignant when an official is caught grafting. Two former officials are now doing time in the penitentiary for indulg- greatest grafter of the lot, is not even blamed though his crime involves per- jury. Aman thus conditioned may easily take a couple of months out of each year for recreation and pleasure, but how about the laborer who earns $9 a week or the clerk who receives $75 a month? Of course those men might take a couple of months off each year if their wages ran on as the salary of the President does. But the laborer gets no vacation with pay and the clerk who gets a week is lucky, so that when this colossal graft. er tells ordinary citizens that they ought to have vacations of two months each yeas he mocks their poverty and insults their intelligence. President TAFT proves that he is not only deficient in the pro- bity which impels men to pay their own spect which scorns unearned bounties. The Third Party Candidate. gf i : § i g : | | | 2 5 E i : i : fs g | § il ; ! B : i iL E | | ll i : as i 5 E 8% i I | i i gg 58 1 g g ga i of [a f 11] i 2 g i¢8 3 1 i : ¢ far as i E : E E | : s g 3 : : i it has not : | 2 nl i ; ] g LH g E i : i: gg ES thee ; Be be 1: jitie Hi | I 1 if i fs Haiti i i F p i g § : 5 i 3% : g 2 g 3 88 together. - —A man whose name is supposed to be C. C. McCarthy, of Philadelphia, took refuge in the Huntingdon lockup last Wednesday evening, complaining of being sick. He rapidly grew worse and died before ten o'clock. ~W. H. Hile has arrived at Bloomsburg with six ostriches, procured from South Africa, and it is his intention to start an ostrich farm in Colum. bia county. This is to be followed by the estab- lishment of an ostrich feather factory. —After a chase of over six months the State police department at Harrisburg has been inform- ed that it had secured the arrest at Utica, N. Y., ~The villaga of Centreville, in Indiana county, has been smitten with the heavy hand of sickness. Measles, mumps and diphtheria have invaded a large number of the thirty-five homes comprising the village. The houses are quarantined. One death has occurred. —At a special election held last Saturday the borough of Avis, Clinton county, decided to issue school bonds tothe amount of $14,000 to pay off the indebtedness to Pine Creek township, from which the borough was formed, as well as to build another four-room school building. ~It is expected that before the end of the pres. ent month the state highway department at Har- risburg will have issued license No. 29,000. This will bring automobile licenses within 5,000 of the total of all licenses issued during 1909, including chauffeurs. Over 12,000 drivers have received badges. —A masked highwayman on Saturday shot and killed Morton Craig, an officelemployee of the Windnoon Coal company, near Kittanning, after having been repulsed in an attempt to secure $2, 800 in cash carried by Craig's two companions. The money was for the payment of the company’s employees. —Claysburg, Blair county, may soon have a big being owned by Jesse L. Hartman Esq. —Charged with stealing $175 in money and a valuable diamond ring from the widow Fair, of ought to tell how to improve their oppor- LAREN NEY i was nominated because he isn’t qualified : : - ; greed We admit that | guntingdon, with whom he had picked up an inti- tunities and make their homes happy. | gD. © oe Gio for the office | |; for the reason that in the event of | Atthis writing it is impossible to even | FL C0 Lo os had me Ao mate acquaintance, one George Collingham was —We presume that it would be at least | Joun O. SHEATZ was then in the office of his election the administration of the last decade, and had he wished Often | don. At the hearing, however, it developed that polite to say that that Third party con- State Treasurer and fondly hoped to be office will devolve on the machine and the grafters will enjoy a return of the Governor of the Third party convention though before this issue of the WATCH- the woman had given the money and the precious vention held in MiLEs WALKER'S office, | advanced by the favor of PENROSE to the : : " | stone to Collingham to keep for her and he was on Tuesday, made up in quality what it by halcyon and vociferous times that ob- | MAN reaches its destination the result | cl} tuo corfupt; vena) or 1860. 1dstingel. office of Governor. He was urged to ; will have been declared. The conven man sg —Frank Lee, twice convicted of murdet in the lacked in quantity. It is also coincidental | throw the weight of his influence in fa- tained during the period of PENNY-| * ve ee > tic State ticket. Guffey | Aa, tige oom manierin ve that every Democrat known to have been Is ob PACKER'S administration. tion met in Philadelphia yesterday and we no selfish interest to conserve in degree Mifllin county courts, : vor of GIBBONEY, civic righteouness and went to before any of its work can he has done and the money he | Saturday refused a third trial by Judge Woods in attendance has been honored by the | political regeneration. But he declined Dress y furnished to maintain his and his attorneys, F. W. Culbertson and R. W. gift of an office atthe hands of the Demo- cratic party. © —President TAFT’S Portland announce- ment that it is not becoming for him to talk partisan politics might be regarded as very gratifying indeed were it not for the fact that he has played partisan poli- tics until he has the country in such a turmoil that silence now will appear more like cowardice than a desire to be “the President of the whole people.” —That Harrisburg negro whose last words on the scaffold, before he was hung, were: “No injustice is being done,” was most too sensible to die. He had robbed and murdered a manand paid the penalty without railing at the law or whimpering over his fate. The world sees so few cases of this sort that it must surely admire even while condemning the murderer. —The new census will probably result to do so and in an open letter urged citi- zen3 to vote for the machine candidate and the iniquities which his election im- plied. It is said that as a result of his action GIBBONEY said some things. The temporary Independent State committee of which Mr. SHEATZ is the self-appointed chairman, appears to be something of “a mutual admiration soci- ety.” Because Mr. GIBBONEY said things about SHEATZ on the occasion of the “break” in the campaign for District At- torney, Mr. SHEATZ has cherished up a fine bunch of resentments in which his associates on the committee appear to share. Accordingly when these big and little bosses began looking about for dele- gates to the convention to represent the reformers of Philadelphia SHEATZ quietly issued orders that as few of the friends of GIBBONEY as possible should be includ- ed in the list. Ninety per cent. of the | genuine reformers of Philadelphia are for | Secretary Dickinson Defying Fate. Secretary of War DICKINSON is taking long chances on his job or else he has strong faithin the theory that Oyster Bay ' has lost potency with respect to affairs at | the White House. Some time ago, in pursuance of the President's policy of dis- persing the agencies of government as widely as possible, Secretary DICKINSON was sent outon a mission to the far east. His itinerary took him into Japan where he was entertained by the Mikado and other dignitaries of the Flowery Empire. After a sojourn there of a few days he moved on to the Philippine Islands and from Manila telegraphed the esteemed New York World that “there is nothing to warrant rumors of impending strife” between that country and ours. Of course such expressions are intoler- able to the jingo spirit which has its home and habitation on Sagamore Hill but if possibly be completed. It is safe to say, however, that those who have been con- ducting the preliminary work of the body will strive with all their might to make it an instrument of as much injury to the Democratic party as possible. They are mainly men who have always been bitter enemies of the Democratic party supple- mented by a few disappointed Democrats too highly honored in the past. We have heard nothing but praise of the platform adopted in the Democratic convention held in Allentown in June. It is admittedly a plain and vigorous pre- sentation of the political issues and the grievances which the people have against the dominant party. We have not been | sble tv finda single asperSion sgainet ge | character or qualifications of either of the candidates nominated by that con- vention. Even those who are most active in fomenting strife can find nothing to say against WEBSTER GRIM, the] nominee BESESTERREEER ii ap "ference. of opm Eleven hundred Patton, said there would be no turther appeal, Lee wastwice convicted of the shooting of George Porter, also colored, on the night of November 28, 1908, following an altercation over a difference in their weekly accounts of 80 cents. ~The New York and Penbsylvania paper com- pany, with mills at Lock Haven and Johnsonburg, has been awarded the contract by the United States government to manufacture all the paper used for postage stamps. For the past sixteen years this great corporation has held the contract ~The family of John Lockhart, residing at Moss Grove, four miles from Kittanning, were chloroformed early last Friday morning and the entire house was ransacked and robbed. Lock- hart, his wife and three children are in a serious condition from the effects of the heavy dose of the drug administered. Every room in the house was torn up by the thieves, who secured money, jewels and valuable papers. Some bonds amount. in increased representation both in state there had been only that bald statement | ¢,r Governor. The worst charge thathas | having a Democrat elected by a | moted from a helper in the kitchen of the bastile Legislatures and in Congress. The fore. | GIBBONEY but SHEATZ has arranged it it might have been overlooked. TheGreat j,0on mage is that party leaders favored Legislature. These". to the position of library attendant. Boyle ex- casts of its effect upon Congress indicate that less than ten per cent. of the dele- | Hunter has only pity for inexperience and the successful candidate against the un- Republicans want the Legislature to | pressed much satisfaction at the change in his oc- an addition of sixty-eight new Members gates shall be for him. Thus this reform | adolescence. But DICKINSON went fur- the Senators and are also cupation. The attorney for Boyle's wife, who is unless the basis of representation is in- movement is immersed in corruption | ther. He added that “those who originate” from the beginning. It isa criminal con- such rumors “are enemies of mankind— spiracy to defeat the Democratic ticket are not doing a patriotic work," Zounds and the will of the people at the coming | and Perdition. Can such an aspersion on successful one. Even if that is trueitis not a valid reason for bolting the ticket. After the withdrawal of Mr. MUNSON asa candidate for the nomination for Gov- g t ernor, at Allentown, both the other can- didates sought the support of the in- fluential party leaders. Long before the convention met Mr. BERRY went to Pitts- burg and personally solicited the support of Colonel GurreY. For reasons which have never been explained to us or the public Colonel GUFFEY declined to give his support to that candidate. If itis a political crime to have the support of | election. the motives of the great teacher of every- The Uniform Primary election law was | thing and the exemplar of all that is just enacted to prevent precisely the abuses | and right be permitted to go unrebuked? which these men are now perpetrating. Is there to be no punishment for such Delegates to the Democratic State conven- | rank and reckless treason? We await tion were chosen under the provisions of | the echo from Oyster Bay with mixed this law. In every county in the State | curiosity and apprehension. the voters of that political faith had op-! Secretary DICKINSON has the temerity portunity to vote for candidates of their | even to justify his opinion on the subject cratic cities of New York so that no mat- ter what the determination of increased basis of representation or gerrymander- ing of districts we are certain to make substantial gains. —Mr. BERRY is ncne the less to be ad- iid ils g Thi iid i | i £ choice for the important office of dele- | gate to the conyention and they exer | cised that right. The result was the crea- tion of an unusually independent and essentially unbossed convention. But because a vast majority of the delegates so chosen preferred the successful candi- date to another who was not successful an element has joined with these selfish Republicans to destroy the party. It is the worst type of political perfidy and no henorable Democrat will lend his aid to this destruction of an honorable candi- date and rape of a just principle. ES — —=Subscribe for the WATCHMAN. by reason. “Japan,” he writes to our es- teemed New York contemporary, “is struggling under a heavy national debt. Her industries and commece are expand- ing in all directions. “It is irrational,” he continues, "to suppose that under such conditions Japan will provoke a war with our country. There is no sphere of such Colonel GUFFEY it must be equally wrong to ask it, so that Mr. BERRY is estopped from raising that objection. But he and his friends have raised it and are now using it to work harm to the Democratic | foes. candidate though no party ever had a fitter nominee. ~The stock market has had another sharp decline during the past week and speculators are alarmed least the break be as great as it was two years ago when the Lotton: seemed to have dropped out of everything. One redeeming feature lo- cally is that the number of speculators in Bellefonte is comparatively small.
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