—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
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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
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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-
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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.
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—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
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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-
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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-
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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.
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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.