eT — BY P. GRAY MEEK. ——————————————— INK SLINGS. —Lots of automobiles are run on some- body else’s gas. —Americans are the greatest peanut eaters in the world, which probably ac- counts for the fact that we have so many peanut politicians. —The Esperanto conference in Wash- ington might find a lot of new words to puzzle over were it to delegate a repre- sentative to attend one of those Moun- tain League base-ball games. —That Scranton man who swallowed a dentist's tool was lucky that it wasn't the forceps that slipped down his throat. In the event of such a catastrophe he might have found himself in a greater pinch than he was. —Eighty-two pounds of sugar is what the average American is supposed to con- sume annually, but those Osceola ball players were certainly not loaded up with their share of that sweet commodity on Monday. ~The new census shows that Pittsburg has a population of over half a million, placing that city seventh in rank in the Union, and this probably doesn’t include the large portion of her population now in retirement at Riverside. —And just to think of it the mackerel catch on American shores has been a complete failure. What is to be left for us to eat now that pork and beef are be- yond our means and the good old salt mackerel deserting us in the extremity. —That Maspeth, Long Island, man who mistook a mule for a cow and tried to milk it is in the hospital with his left elbow, collar bone and two ribs broken. Candidly now do you think a man who doesn’t know a cow from a mule deserves much sympathy. —President PEDRO MONTT, of Chile, who was standing beside Mayor GAYNOR, of New York, when he wasshot on board the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, when she was about to sail from New York, died of heart disease as he was leaving the ship at Bremen. A singular coincidence. —The condition of Mayor GAYNOR, of New York, who was shot in the neck by a dismissed city employee, is such that his complete recovery now seems a certainty. The hope of most everyone is that his life may be spared to the city in which he has inaugurated the most effective and sensible reforms. —A new order to bakers in New York city is to the effect that they must in the future sell bread by weight and not by the loaf. The same rule obtains as to eggs, potatoes and most of the necessa- ries. After all it is the only fair and equitable way, for then the consumer gets exactly what he pays for and there can be no complaint about small loaves or small eggs. —The turn down of the New York Republican State executive committee of the contributing editor of The Outlook was not unexpected, though it was de- cidedly precipitate. When a man like Tim WOODRUFF can put it over the only living ex-President of the United States it looks as though the Republican Ma- chine in New York is in a class with the one boss PENROSE manipulates in Penn- sylvania. —QOsceola evidently has a very superior base-ball team, but they certainly rob themselves of much of the credit their playing would call forth by chronic wrangling. Their ball playing is fast enough to win games in the Mountain League so that there seems to be no need for them to resort so frequently to the unpleasant by play that has so marred what otherwise would have been fine contests here. —You fellows who were quoting the Philadelphia Record to back up your charges of the rottenness of the Allen- town convention have probably come to the conclusion that the Record can make mistakes just the same as any other paper, since reading what Mr. DWYER, its editor, has had to say about Allentown. He investigated for himself and found out the truth, then the Record had the courage to admit it and come out square- ly for the Allentown ticket. How about you? —When Mr. CREASY was stumping the State two years ago was he falsifying when he was declaring to the people that Senator GRIM, then the nominee for Superior court judge, was a man of irre- proachable character and had a record of which anyone might be proud? If he was not telling an untruth then how does he reconcile his recent statement that Senator GRIM “does not have the kind of a record he should have” with what he declared two years ago. We fear Mr. CREASY has forgotten,else he could not so brazenly flaunt himself before the pub- STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. VOL. 55. BELLEFONTE, PA. The Declination of Munson. Mr. Joun P. DWYER, managing editor of the Philadelphia Record, gives in a recent issue of that paper the reasons why Mr. C. LARUE MUNSON declined the Democratic nomination for Governor and the facts leading up to that surprising event. As Mr. DWYER was associated with all the incidents connected with the affair his statement may be accepted as authoritative. He completely exculpates Senator GriM, Colonel GUFFEY, Senator J. K. P. HALL and all the other leaders of the Democratic convention from blame in the premises, and puts the burden of the blunder, for it can be regarded in no other light, upon Mr. MUNSON and Mr. BERRY, the former because he was afraid of defeat and the other for the reason that his lust for the office of Governor made him unreasonable and arrogant. In other words Mr. BERRY'S threat, before the Allentown convention, to run as an independent candidate in the event of his failure to gat the nomination, frightened MUNSON out of the race. According to Mr. DWYER, and we have reasons to believe that he states the case accurately, a movement to harmonize the discordant elements in the Democratic party of Pennsylvania, was begun during the closing weeks of last year. They culminated in the harmony conference, under the auspices of the Democratic State Central committee, held in the board of trade, Harrisburg, on Thursday, April 7th, 1910, in which a number of leading Democrats participated. The in- ducing of Mr. MUNSON into the contest for the nomination followed and pro- gressed with such results that it is con fidently stated that he would have re- ceived upward of two hundred votes out of a possible three hundred, if his name had gone before the convention. But when Mr. BERRY was quoted in a news- paper interview as having under consid- eration the question of running as an in- dependent candidate if he failed of the nomination, Mr. MUNSON concluded that his candidacy would be “leading a forlorn hope,” and set about trying to reconcile BERRY to actual conditions. Mr. MUNSON has had little experience in practical politics and imagined that Mr. BERRY could be prevailed upon to take an impersonal and unselfish view of the subject. He appealed to Mr. BERRY'S campaign manager with the idea of get- ting BERRY to take a subordinate place on the ticket and having obtained what he regarded as a quasi-consent, appealed to certain Democratic leaders to have the ex-State Treasurer “slated,” for another office to be filled. The influential Demo- crat to whom he addressed his efforts re- fused to enter into an arrangement of that kind. “It will be up to the Allentown convention,” he said, “to decide upon the balance of the ticket.” MUNSON threaten- ed to decline the nomination and Senator HALL protested that he couldnt pursue that course. “Mr. MUNSON was much wrought up over the situation,” according to Mr. DWYER, and subsequently suffered from an attack of vertigo. This led to his appeal to an eminent medical special- ist, who declared that the labor and ex- citement of a campaign would probably prove fatal to him. These incidents, Mr. DWYER declares were the causes, and the only causes, of Mr. MuNsoN's withdrawal and WEBSTER GRIM, who was subsequently nominated, by the convention had no part, near or the proceedings. Why did he, under such The Pitiable Excuse of a Party Deserter. ol ¥ ; i of . | When people are hard up for an excuse character of an honorable gentleman in | p I for an inexcusable act, they usually the columns of the Record, or having made | . ; tay | imagine that “any old thing” is better the mistake why didn’t he correct it be- i . ‘ than none at all. And that seems to be | fore the meeting of the Keystone party jon had given f and effect to the idea of brother WiLLiAM T. CREASY tt . > i when he tries to justify his desertion of PIAL sme | the Democracy and to explain his treach- Taft Shown in a New Light. jery to the party that has heretofore -phia papers recently he alleges that he CANNON overboard. These distinguished ' ., 0 be for the Democratic nominee gentlemen are very dear friends ofthe ,..., 0 “he does not have the kind of a President. He has personally assured’ ... 4 pe should have” Of course Mr. them and publicly informed everybody cgp,sy refers to Mr. GRriv's political and | else that he has the utmost confidence in 1ooig1ative record for no man has had, nor | them and that they are jointly and sever .., 1ove the im 1 Iv 30 cant ally unselfish patriots and great states- | on aspersion on either the atte pe 1 men. But the people do not share in | ivate record of Democrat this amiable estimate of ALDRICH, BAL-! OF py va o, the 2 LINGER and CANNON. In the popular! pe coo oo ates Sumer mind ALDRICH is a selfish man to sacri- | oo ber from Col bia county in the fice public interests to personal consid- | y,,g0 of Rr Ais at eS erations, BALLINGER is a land-grabbing | ping eight of those years, Mr. GRIM conspirator and CANNON a paid lobbyist | represented the county of Bucks in the of the trusts and monopolies in Con- gya¢e Senate. If there is any man in the gress. | State who ought to know Mr. GRIMS The determination of the President to |... 4 that man is Mr. C and’ the throw ALDRICH, BALLINGER and CANNON | yw rcuyax asks him to be man overboard, therefore, presents him to .. ight d tell wherei popular observation in a new light. No AR a w a close observer of events ever imagined | Does Mr. CREASY know of a single re- that TAFT is a sincere man. Men who | go measure, that he or any other Mem- give their lives up entirely to holding por introduced in the House, and which office or searching for offices to hold, are | passed that body, that did not have the never sincere. But most of us thought |} ty and he was one of those amiable but sturdy GRIM when Saw =} SN ope : 3 Sean gentlemen who will stick to their friends | ©. pe name a single Machine bill, until “hades freezes over,” to employ a | resolution or motion that was vicious or common phrase, if they believe in them. and that Tine des udination in she matter of Au. | Lung, S54 the Re Rimseif byposed in the DRICH, BALLINGER and CANNON shows ul 3at aii that he is not that kind of a man. He a p> s Non Senator abandons his friends to their fate as 800n | he point to a single instance either 22 he ascertains that StCKing 10 them | is, Coe ‘eri manos a at atire ao will work injury to himself. visory meetings, the committee, or on the Of course what has been said about |g... "of the Senate in which Senator ALDRICH, BALLINGER and CANNON is true. | mo oe voice and vote was not for the But it is no truer now than it was a year gainst ago and President TAFT has obtained no Tight esq Bast Gre = ue i ih new testimony on the subject to make... Senator Grim dodged a question him change his mind. But he has an, _ ! ors way from the work his constit. ambition to succeed himself in the Presi- | = and his party expected of him? dency and whoever or whatever inter. feres with the fulfilment of this ambi. |" Placiori © yours, ME CRRA: Be tion must get out if the way. This new up aspect of his character is not attractive. It makes him look | selfish and sordid x . Sn of a io sas igh a that your party and the aid you are trying to Kind of But that isthe kind of man give the Machine you have blowed so that ane and he would tirow Ri 4 much about fighting for the past sixteen VELT overboard as ruthlessly as he will years. : Only two years ago, whenever the State toss ALDRICH if the doing so would pro- 3 x mote lis political te, | committee would furnish the transporta- | tion and foot the bills, you took great The Indian Land Scandal. | pleasure in traveling over the State tell- es ._.. |ing the people what an excellent Superior When Senator GORE, of Oklahoma,inti- | i mated that there was fraud in the opera- {Court J Mr. Gri would make and tions of Indian lands he opened up a | | pointing to the enviable and unassailable scandal mine that may not be exhausted | Se 285 is Hes ale » in a dozen years and is likely to inculpate | f his fitnes f : is some very distinguished statesmen. Sen- | ° What has AA E35 PRen. ator GORE didn’t know much about the | impair the record a a ed affair when he spoke. But he knew that But. b ol i : he had been offered a bribe of first 825, | u- [ONeSV: TE SRM 0 ot your 000 and subsequently $50,000, and con- | Or pursing Solrse | you have taken more attributable to the jectured that such inducements are not Sided around for fun.” The Sestimony | 26: that the Democracy of your Setta- : | torial district refused you the nomination proves all that he has said and more. It co co oor than to any fault or failure shows that Vice President SHERMAN was . . mixed up in the matter and that while | you can find in Senator Crue's record? the President may not have participated | A Chance for Governor Stuart. in the profits he was certainly helping the | ns criminals in their operations. | Possibly when Governor STUART gets The scandal in this affair is in the ex- on the stump, as we are told he purposes remote, in them. The announcement of MUNSON's withdrawal, late on the even- ing before the convention, caused great confusion. In the language of Mr. DWYER “panic followed in the ranks of the lead- ers and their friends.” Every effort was made to induce him to recall his letter, but unavailingly, and finally, again quot- ing Mr. DWYER, it was “decided to urge the nomination of Senator GRIM, who was not present during any part of the dis- cussion and who did not know of the decision reached until after it had been made.” At the worst, therefore, there was no conspiracy and no sinister influ- ences in behalf of GRIM, and in any event Mr. GRIM had no part in it or knowledge of it. The whole story of a conspiracy is a “tempest in a teapot,” invented and promulgated in order to justify the rec- reancy which Mr. BERRY had threatened before the convention met at all. All in all the narrative of Mr. DWYER is very interesting, probably entirely accu- rate. But in view of the circumstances as they transpired, obviously under the personal observation of Mr. DWYER, why did the esteemed Philadelphia Record cast aspersions upon the nomination of Mr. GRIM within a few days after that event and ask him to decline a honor which had been bestowed upon him by the Democracy of Pennsylvania in convention assembled? Mr. DWYER must have known that there was nothing irregular or even question- able about the action of the convention. He was the moving and active spirit in the harmony conferences to which he re- tortionate commission which the land A doing during the campaign this fall, he grabbers were trying to get out of the | will be able to throw a little light on the Indians. Their land is estimated to be Rittersville hospital scandal that is now worth from $30,000,000 to $50,000,000. | creating an official stench equal almost to Under the law the government acts as | PENNYPACKER'S capitol graft steal. There agent for the Indians in selling operations | is need for a good long explanation of and acts without fees. But the govern- this job and as it has all occurred during ment moved so slowly in the matter that the administration of the present Gov- the Indians who needed the money to sup- | ernor it is needless to say that the public ply their immediate wants were willing ' Will be only “too delighted” to have his to pay a commission of ten per cent. to | version of why he shut his eyes to the outside speculators for selling their lands. | roguery and rottenness that was going on If the government had acted promptly | at Rittersville, and why he allowed a lot there would have been no occasion for | of Machine henchmen to wrong and rob speculative interference and the sale | the State as well as its helpless insane, as might easily have been made long ago. | has been done in this case. “There are ways of killing a dog other | Until Governor STUART gets the odor of than choking him with butter,” and the | this political manure heap off of his official tardiness of the government agents made | clothes it will be folly for him to set him- it possible for land speculators to swindle self up as an example of gubernatorial the Indians. Senator GORE has not al- | cleanliness or a teacher of official purity. leged, and so far as our information goes | However, Rittersville and TENER will go no one else has charged, that the admin- | well istration was in league with the land | STUART should know all about both of sharks who were swindling the Indians. | them. But the President knew that they were aga being swindled and offered no objection | _ ——Outside of Philadelphia and the exorbitant. The President knew that any | for the Keystone party, that started so AUGUST 19, 1910. make good the pitiable excuse you have | : given the public for your desertion of | or no smell—and | masses struggling fee for such service is unlawful. But he offered no protest against a lesser fee than ten per cent, though a charge of five or even one per cent. would have been criminal. givessucha funereal to i Prospects thats is po ty in under- | ng that the A, B, and C, of it stands | fers and was familiar with every step in for ALDRICH, BALLINGER and CANNON. | promisingly a few weeks ago, seems to have gone to pot. Voters, whether Demo- cratic or Republican, who are opposed to yetuain the Machine, are a wakening to the fact that a vote for BERRY will simply be a half vote for TENER when the returns are ——Referring to the trouble that now | counted and that the only way to beat |i Republican the Machine is for everybody opposed to it to stand together for GRIM and the A Great Tax Maker. From the Johnstown Democrat. The Payne-Aldrich tariff law operation twelve months and ciersat W who are of the associa their statement showing in the calendar year the new law produced more revenue than ts m Dredeceseors by. 315,000,000, more than was collected in any year except 1907. This statement causes the Star Independent to shot: and gee-lorious! And we join it in that 8 I th Fie g : fie nl i 7 : i I J EE I g g i 8 8. £ : 8) g i fi £ E fis nl silh they To all of this the building commission- ers, who must be held responsible, reply with protests and denials far from satis- factory; as for example their i reference to the number ; for these hardly seemed sufficient, f not identified by dated tures. e of all is their ex- cuse for allowing nine to pass with- out e for they have the effrontery to say that if the State had them more money would have Democratic party. SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. —Grand Army day at Lakemont will be held September 10th. The committees are working energetically toward making it the best ever held. ~\Lancaster county is so full of rabbits this year that some of the little animals seek out the Sain ohies tia dliow Ue willie to play with ~The corn crop in some sections of Juniata county has been almost totally ruined by hail in the last several weeks. One recent storm unroof- ed the barn of Samuel Knouse, near Evendale. —Spangler also is dry. Not saloonless, but waterless. The reservoir has failed and the peo- ple are thrown back on springsand wells. Iffice would break out the town wonld be at its mercy. —Mrs. Susan Heverly, of Beech Creek, Clinton county, was knocked off a street car when it be- came too crowded recently, but escaped with minor bruises. The accident happened on the way from Lock Haven to Mill Hall. ~The Greek Catholics will erect a fine new church at Osceola. It will be brick-cased and will be built by R. J. Walker, of Osceola. Ceorge M. Rhule, of Philipsburg, is the architect and will superintend the construction. —Ministers and undertakers in Clearfield coun- ty have compacted together not to hold Sunday funerals where it is possible to escape from them. As these classes are absolutely essential to civil ized burials, the people will have to submit. —Professor Emmert, of Huntingdon, is meeting with success in his endeavors to obtaina fund of $25,000 to carry out his work of caring for or- phans. He is an advocate of the plan of keeping the children in institutions just long enough to obtain homes for them in private families. —Professor W. H. Parker, of the department of come in contact with the Freshmen especially. —Sticking the pipe he had been smoking into the his pocket without putting it out, William Kielor, cause they find that people part with their in a critical condition. This was the second time that the leopard attacked a child. ~-Rumors that the New York Central will start in a short time to build a connecting link between cently. One of the visitors said he was there in the interests of his company to make estimates on the building of a new railroad from Keating to Renovo. This link of twelve miles will be built first, it is thought, and the work will be given out in two contracts to insure its speedy completion. —Relatives of John C. Martin, the Portage coal the | operator, have taken steps to have him committed to an asylum, on account of his mental condition. of | He is being put in the institution so that his prop- | erty can be legally turned over to others for hand. ling. Mr. Martin first exhibited signs of a seri- ous mental breakdown over twc weeks ago. Cer- tain business transactions entered into by him lately may not be legal, on account of his condi- tion. He suffers under the hallucination that his wife has been killed. =P. J. McGovern, the Indiana contractor, will build a large reservoir along Yellow creek at Lu- zerne, Indiana county, for the coal company op- erating n that section. His men are establishing their construction camp now and will start on the reservoir just as soon as their quarters are ar- ranged. Sixty men will beput on the job. Mc- Govern has been awarded the contract for the erection of two kilns for the Clymer Brick and Fire Clay company at Clymer. —~Confessing to having systematically robbed Harrisburg stores for eighteen months, Helen and Mary Smith, sisters, aged 19 and 16, respectively, were held for trial in court under $1,000 bail each. In their rooms the officers found about $1,200 worth of merchandise and it is supposed they made away with more than this during the year and a half they have been operating. The girls —R. T. Smith and Van Klinefelter, both of Bal- timore, part of the Juniata White Sand company, with extensive works at Mapleton, have been in Huntingdon several days and are planning to erect a second plant at Mapleton. The quarry of this company is about two miles south of Maple- ton and is 225 feet high with a face of 150 feet. With the start of the new plant, they will oven another drift on the level with Hare's Valley road and its height will be increased fifty feet, making it the highest of its kind in the State. —A deal has been closed between the heirs of the late C. S. D'Invilliers, who was chief engineer forthe C. & C. division of the Pennsylvania Rail- hear a howl of pain go up in told it was the older Hay. Eight the father’s legs, but none went deeper than skin and he is getting along all right.
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