Fa gl BY P. GRAY MEEK. ——— INK SLINGS. —Anyway President TAFT has given proof of his devotion to the policy of con- servation so far as it applies to BALLING- ER and his secretaryship. —The Mountain league chase is tight- ening up and Bellefonte bobs up and down with a serenity that one is con- stantly reminded of old Dick Dead Eye and his famous song. —On Monday the Philadelphia Record declared that “no Democrat in Pennsyl- ‘Vania has any good reason for withhold- ing his vote from Senator GRIM” for Gov- ernor. That is plain and quite to the point. —Even the most optimistic of them will admit that it is rather early to begin preparations for the inaugural ceremo- nies of Mr. BERRY, which goes to show that our Keystone friends are not yet cer- tain that they have the job cinched. —That $100,000 fund that our Keystone friends were told would be forthcoming if they would organize a party and help divide the Democracy seems to be turn- ing out very much like Mrs. MULLIGAN'S baby, very promisin’ but provokingly backward. —A cold wave is due to reach here to- day or tomorrow, not cold enough to ne- cessitate shaking the moth balls out of your winter flannels, but cold enough to remind you that fall is approaching and you had better get busy on the wood-pile_ —That was a solar plexus blow that the “old guard” got in on “Our TEDDY" the very first round in New York, last week. Henceforth this dictator of poli- cies and supposed all-round-political-sport will understand exactly how it feels to be thoroughly JorNsoNized at the beginning of the bout. —From the way chairman ROCKWOOD, who thinks he speaks for the Prohibition party, is handling our genial but some- what disturbed friend, candidate BERRY, it would be reasonable to conclude that he had been a baggage smasher all his life and imagines that he is still in the same business. —Judging from the volume of noise and the continuous clatter that is kept up in front of the Keystone and Prohibi- tion tents one, unacquainted with Penn- sylvania politics, could readily conclude that they are the whole political circus. But then we all know that the emptier the barrel the greater the sound. —Pennsylvania is growing ostriches and alfalfa now. Ostriches for plumes for my lady’s hat and alfalfa to make the high priced porker fat. Both are new crops to the Keystone State, but then you know we're all versatile in every- thing but politics. There the same old thing we have had for forty years seems good enough. —The Vice President of the United States, the Hon. JAMES SHERMAN, “Sun- ny Jim” to be more explicit, got a swipe with the “big stick” on Wednesday that he won't get over soon. Col. T.R. went right straight to his home in Utica, N. Y., to give it to him too. More power to the fighter, for every blow is wind in a Democratic sail. —After fourteen years of seclusion in jungles studying monkey ufe Prof. R.S GARNER, of Virginia, is home convinced that simians do talk and reason just as human beings do. So many of us are constantly making monkeys of ourselves that the Professor ought not to have much trouble in showing to the world other points of similarity as well. —In place of New York Republicans kow-towing to Mr. ROOSEVELT and await- ing his orders as to what to doit now looks as if the Oyster-bay boss would have to get down into the political mire and beg of them an opportunity to help do what they purpose shall be done. It's not far between the top and bottom of the ladder, when one’s hold slips’ as TED- DpY's evidently has. —Josepi C. SiBLEY, of Franklin, has resigned as the Republican nominee for Congress in the Twenty-eighth district and is now under arrest charged with de- bauching the voters. When it is recalled that JosEPHUS spent forty-two thousand dollars to carry himself through at the primaries one is almost forced to admit that some one must have been debauch- ed a little, at least. —President TAFT is now promising a restless and dissatisfied people “a scien- tific reduction of the tariff." Just what that means nobody but the President probably knows, but judged from the way he saw to fulfilling his last promise of tariff reduction we quake with fear of what will happen to us after the rates on most everything we need have gone through this “scientific reduction” plan. —The positive and emphatic refusal of the State Grange executive committee to permit worthy master CREASY to commit their order to the support of the Key- stone ticket must have been a rather se- vere jolt to his eminence from Columbia county. The further the Grange, as an order, keeps from politics the longer it will last and the more good it will ac- complish and it seems to us that the ef- fort of its head to put it in wrong with STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. VOL. 55. Mr. Munson Reveals His Reasons. : If any evidence were needed to corrob- ER, managing editor of the Philadelphia Record, with respect to the declination of C. LARUE MUNSON to accept the nomina- vention, it is supplied in the letter of Mr. MUNSON to Senator DEWALT, chairman of the Democratic State committee, and read at the Lehigh County Democratic meet- ing last Saturday. "It is due to you and to others,’ writes Mr. MUNSON, “to say | that the withdrawal of my name as candi- | date for the nomination for Governor was | not caused by any act of yourself, Colo- nel GUFFEY, or other Democratic leaders, or by reason of any demand or condition made by you or others and that you are not in any manner subject to criticism for my actions, and I need not say to you or | any fair-minded person that there was no | deal of any sort, kind or description in- | volved in my declination of the nomina- | tion.” The suspicions of no man can stand against this direct testimony of a man of the reputation for probity and veracity of Mr. MuNsoN. It is in direct line with the statements of Mr. DWYER, moreover, and in entire accord with the incidents which attended the announcement of Mr. MUNSON's purpose, at Allentown. The leaders of the party who were committed or inclined toward the nomination of Mr. MUNSON were taken completely by sur- prise when his letter was read to them and they made every effort to prevail up- on him to reconsider his purpose. If there had been a conspiracy to nominate anoth- er candidate and use Mr. MUNSON as a “stalking horse,” in the plan, no “panic would have followed in the ranks of the leaders and their friends,” as described by Mr. DWYER. It would have been accepted as the expected outcome of their plot and received with expressions of delight rath- er than chagrin. The truth is that neither Mr. GRIM nor Mr. BERRY had the ghost of a chance for the nomination while Mr. MUNSON was in the field. GRIM had about seventy dele- gates and BERRY probaby thirty, and each bent his energies to the work of gaining strength. Mr. BERRY personally solicited, not only the leaders whom he now anath- | ematizes, but all others, and if he could have prevailed upon them to nominate him, he would have been convinced of the righteousness of their spirit and the just ness of their purposes. But for reasons which were entirely satisfactory to the delegates Mr. GRIM was preferred. His character was unassailable and his rec- ord invulnerable. He had been an orna- ment in the public life of the Common- wealth for eight years and needed neither defense nor apology. He was chosen by an intelligent convention upon his merits and is justly entitled to the cordial sup- port of every Democrat in the State. The Rittersville Hospital Scandal. Mr Jon K. TENER, Republican candi- date for Governor, ventures the opinion that Governor STUART will deal fitly with the Rittersville hospital scandal, “if there are any irregularities in connection with the construction.” This is a rather vague and unsatisfactory “promise to the ear.” Governor STUART has not, thus far in his official career, justified great confidence in his disposition to reveal and correct evils of that sort. During his campaign of four years ago, he promised the capi- tol grafters would be apprehended and punished in the event of his election. Nearly four years have elapsed since his inauguration and two “goats” have been sentenced to brief confinement. The capitol grafting was the result of a conspiracy in which more than a dozen prominent Republican leaders had under- taken to raise sufficient money to reim- burse the State Treasury of millions that had been stolen by the late Senator QUAY and his associates in politics and specula- tion. A thorough investigation would have revealed these facts and brought the criminals to just punishment. But Gov- ernor STUART did all in his power to pre- vent such an investigation and its logical results. He and his administration have hampered lawyer JAMES SCARLET at every step in the proceedings to convict the criminals and expose the facts. The in- vestigation was organized to prevent ex- posure. The scandal in connection with the Rittersville hospital is of precisely the same nature as that of the capitol graft- ing. The participants got a rake-off in each case, of course, but the bulk of the profits of the iniquity went to paying the debts to the Treasury of men who had been able to abstract funds for personal or political use whenever they pleased. If Joun K. TENER is elected Governor the Rittersville investigation will be con- ducted on exactly the same lines as were the two oid parties of the State must have been due to an embittered personal spirit that overbalanced his better judg- followed in the capitol graft case, but if WEBSTER GRIM is at the polls there will be an inquiry which will re- veal the whole truth and compel com- ment. BELLEFONTE, PA. Mr. Berry’s Faulty Mental Habits. Mr. W. H. BERRY is disregarding the | orate the statements of Mr. JON P. DWY- | wholesome adage that “men who live in | county Democratic meeeting, on Satur- glass houses should never throw stones.” | In other words Mr. BERRY is accusing | people of things which may provoke oth- | tion for Governor at the Allentown con- er people to say other things, and prove | four years ago and that one upon which them, which will be very damaging to his reputation as a public official and pri- vate citizen. He is culpably, though characteristically careless, moreover, in his accusations. There is another adage to the effect that “a liar ought to have a good memory.” Mr. BERRY reveals a hopelessly infirm memory in his accusa- tions against and his assertions concern- ing others. He torgets or ignores facts in every instance and makes himself ri- diculous as well as contemptible. For example, in his speech at Lewis- town, the other evening, he made two breaks that indicated a treacherous mem- ory or a perverted standard of veracity. He said that Senator GRIM sat in the State capitol while it was being burned down about his ears. The State capitol was burned down in February, 1897, and Senator GRIM was first inducted info the office of Senator in January, 1903, nearly six years later. In the same speech Mr. BERRY said that he borrowed n.oney from Colonel GUFFEY to supply funds to make up for losses sustained by his neglect of business because of his public duties as State Treasurer. As a matter of fact he wasn't away from his private business, during the period of his administration of the office of State Treasurer, long enough to cause a perceptible change in his personal affairs. In a speech delivered before a religious body near Philadelphia last Saturday Mr. BERRY associated the names of Senator HALL, Congressman McHENRY and Mr. MuLviHiLL, of Westmoreland county, and in order to make his figure of speech effective he designated them as “Jim” MuLVIHILL, “Jim” HALL and “JiM” Mec- HENRY—" the three Jims." Asa matter of fact Mr. McHENRY'S name is not JAMES, and the three gentlemen were not refer- red to at the Allentown convention or anywhere else as “the three Jims.” Of course this is a trifle and is referred to merely to show Mr. BERRY'S ess mental habits and to suggest that he was | not opposed by Democratic leaders be- cause of his virtues but on account of | moral delinquencies andmental unfitness | for important office. Cannon Resents Taft's Orders. Speaker CANNON is disposed to resent the attitude and activities of the Presi- dent with respect to himself. As we stated last week the President recently issued an order eliminating the Speaker, Senator ALDRICH and Secretary of the Interior BALLINGER from Republican councils and practically served notice on CANNON that he must not again aspire to the Speakership. ALDRICH and BALLING- ER appear to have submitted quietly to this executive ukase but CANNON is moulded of different metal. When he read about the affair he indignantly said “go to” or words to that effect, and sig- nificantly added that he intends to die with his boots on and will be a candidate for Speaker again if he wants to. We can have no sympathy with CAN- NON or CANNONism. CANNON is a course, arrogant and immoral party boss. CAN- NONism is a festering ulcer on the body politic. But we are constrained to ex- press some admiration for the spirit that is manifested in his resentment of the or- ders of another boss, less course, no | doubt, but quite as immoral and just as offensive. In flouting his order back in- to the President's teeth Mr. CANNON di- vorces himself absolutely from all polit- ical patronage and party plunder, and he | understands it as well as any one else. His attitude of defiance, therefore, ex- presses a spirit of independence and an assertion of self-respect and self-reliance that is commendable. CANNONism is a great evil and graft a dangerous malady. But both together are not as grave a menace to the pros- perity and perpetuity of the government as the bossism of men in high office by which the spirit of self-government is en- tirely subverted. The time will come, and we believe not in the distant future, when the public will realize that THEO- DORE ROOSEVELT was the most danger- cus enemy this country has encountered in its whole history. Happily the danger of ROOSEVELT is past for such men are powerful only while they have patronage to dispense, But TAFT is now trying to imitate him and though less menacing, because a weaker man, he is neverthe- less a great danger. —All those foreign potentates who made such a fuss over Colonel ROOSE- VELT on his way home from Africa will probably think they had another Dr. Cook on their hands when they read what happened to the Colonel in that plete reparation in both instances. AUGUST 26, 1906 and 1910—A Contrast. | In his eloquent speech at the Lehigh day, Senator GRIM pertinently called at- tention to the wide difference between the tone of the Republican platform of the present campaign for Governor is be- ing waged. The convention of 1906 was held almost within the shadow of the political revolution of the previous year and promises of all sorts of reform were freely made under the chastening infiu- | ences of adversity. It was promised that the abandoned canals would be restored to the State. There was a pledge that the abandonment of the construction of competing railroads would be inquired into and other reforms were guaranteed. None of these pledges have been fulfill- ed however. The capitol grafters, ex- cept the two “goats,” have escaped pun- ishment and unless the Democratic can- didate for Governor is elected this year, there will never be another sentence for that colossal robbery. Not a step has ever been taken to restore the abandon- ed canals and never a word has since been spoken concerning the abandon- ment of the construction of the South Penn railroad. During the extra session of the Legislature, in 1906, before the convention of that year was held, some reform legislation was enacted but even that was tainted with the odor of the Ma- chine and made as ineffective as possible. It was a reluctant concession to public sentiment. In 1906 the party boss took pains to nominate a candidate for Governor of good reputation and respectable political antecedents, for the same reason. But how different this year? As Senator GRIM remarked in his Allentown speech, “scarcely one of the reforms pledged in that platform is found in the platform this year. The mask is thrown aside and we must fight the same old power face to face.” The present candidate of the Re- publican party has nothing to recommend him except that he has been a servile and obedient follower of the boss and is cer- | tain to consent to any iniquity which the | Machine managers have in mind. Confi- | dence has made the besses careiess and | they should be rebuked by defeat. t | i Democratic Campaign Day. i In pursuance of a resolution adopted by the Democratic State Executive Com- | mittee, at a meeting held in Philadelphia | August 3rd, a Democratic meeting will | be held in every county in the State on Saturday, September 10. These meetings | will be held under the auspices of the several Democratic county committees and will assume such form as the local organizations prefer. But they will serve as the opening of the Democratic cam- paign and the beginning of the active work for the election of WEBSTER GRIM and the rescue of the State from the ma- chine that has been exploiting the inter- ests of the people for the benefit of party favorites. Such a purpose ought to en- list the sympathy of all good citizens. This plan has the merit of novelty. If carried out literally and successfully it will make a deep and lasting impression on the public mind. But it is an ambi- tious enterprise and will tax the energies of the active Democrats to a considerable and an unusual extent. A public meet- ! ing in every county in the State, in all sixty-seven public meetings, held simul- | taneously, will entail a great deal of, earnest and intelligent work and involve | considerable expense. But in the lexicon | of Democracy “there is no such word as ' fail,” and we feel confident that early as | it is in the campaign and unprepared as voters usually are at this season of the | year for such demonstrations, “Demo- cratic Campaign Day,” will be worthy of | its name and purpose. The time fixed for these events is two | weeks from tomorrow and it is none too early to begin work of preparation now. In most of the counties it is already well in hand and the reports of progress give abundant promise of success. Centre county should not be behind her sister communities in this great effort for Democracy and civic progress. The | Democrats of the county should at once “get busy” in preparing for the event. We can achieve much if we set ourselves | earnestly and uniformly to the task, and | the enticement, the restoration of Penn. grange, sylvania to the safe and sane control of Democratic statesmanship, is great. Let us all join in the effort and the result will be more than gratifying. having plenty of company, both in camp and on his various bass fishing expedi- little New York political scrap. tions. | 1910. non as i well, his y eNO. 83. Looking For a Jonah. From the Kansas City Star (Republican.) “In their belated realization that some- thing must be done to save the Republi- San otgenisation, the chist advisers Seen) to that a Jonah should be found and thrown overboard. This is not only 2 sigh of weakness, but it is a tactical “Cannon, for instance, may be thrown overboard, but he will rock the boat and ill take others with him. Cannon, Sight y resenting t to crowd upon him _. OR Ta calamity, shows no disposition to stand for this toward him. Every time he is into action or utter- ance he ts the chances of his friends and allies. “It is particularly inconsistert to make hile Vice President “The country is bringing the bli- can organization to for its fail- and cam- at Suyliare deal e. ter of course, as a mere incident in the conflict, and it will in no way help the other stand-patters or their discredited purposes.” A Campaign Canard. From the Johnstown Democrat. “Taft will no longer Cannon or Aldrich, and be retired.” te with is to This is the gist of statements carried by the Associated Press and obviously in- spired by Republican campaign mana- gers. The information may be as nothing more than a ruse. The Repub- lican campaign managers played the same trick on the public in the lasc presi- dential election. e rumor was quietly started that candidate Taft did not ap- prove of Speaker Cannon. The inference was strong that Taft would not stand for Cannon as er. This false rumor unmistakably helped Taft in the insur- gent districts. Immediately after Taft was inaugurat- ed an attempt was made to defeat Can- speaker. The combined Demo- crats and Insurgents would have accom- plished this end had not the President used all of the resources at his command to te Cann aft is not to Cannon out of the and Cannon ( the special they represent) will not permit the Pres- ident to have a renomination if he tries it. Mr. Taft knows which side his bread is buttered on. Furthermore, there is no reason for discord. Taft, Aldrich and Cannon—and Ballinger, too—are all working to the same end. Their views are in harmony on big questions. Taft, Aldrich and Can- non are consolidated in a great political firm and this oligarchy has never had a0 satious dissensions. three men are constantly paying each other compliments. It was just a short while that Taft eulogized Al- drich to the and referred to “Uncle Joe” as being in the Abraham Lincoln type of statesmen. aft, Aldrich and Cannon, and especi- ally Taft and Aldrich, can have no break. They must sink or swim together. The Weakest Spot. From the Altoona Tribune (Rep.) One of the wéakest ts in the inde- pendent candidacy of William H. Berry for the ip is found in the un- disputed fact that if the Democratic state convention had nominated him instead of Senator Grim he would have been entire- form. Heisa i - ent ticket in spite of the fact that Bonni- moved to make the nomination of mous. using his posi of the grange o is neither honorable nor fair. Tail to Penrose Kite. i ——— | sPawLs FROM THE KEYSTONE. ~Ten have typhoid fever in Johnstown. The people there haveto boil their drinking water. —Clearfield county has eighty-five wards in the insane asylum at Warren, Warren county. Con- sequently, there is 2a strong movement growing to have an asylum erected in Clearfield county. —Stones, each weighinga ton and a half, are being laid in the dam of the York Haven Power company, near York, to withstand ice gorges, Last winter part of the dam was destroyed by ice, —As a result of the large supply of spring chickens in Clearfield county, the birds are being sold on the streets of Clearfield at25 cents each, 10 cents below what they ordinarily bring at this season of the year. —Forthe purpose of giving every new inven- tion a fair test, the Pennsylvania railroad has constructed a small roadbed between Tyrone and Spruce Creek, equipped with every kind of in- vention, including rail locks, ties, etc. —~Some idea of the enormous amount of money being used to build the Quemahoning dam in Somerset county, by the Manufacturers’ Water company, of Johnstown, is revealed when it is learned that $1,749,727 has been spent on it al- ready. —Ebensburg hunters are having great sport in killing groundhogs in Cambria township, where they are quite plentiful. The farmers are not at all sorry to see the animals killed off; the ground- hogs have literally spoiled many fields by digging small holes all over them. —Eleven years ago J. B. Hoffman, of Harris burg, started with a capital of eight cents to sell papers on the streets. Now he is the owner of a book, paper and novelty store and some time soon will start to remodel a four-story business build- ing he recently purchased for $35,000. The al- terations will cost $8,000. ~While his brother, a fellow workman, stood at the bottom of a pole at Williamsport, W. H. Frantz, a telephone lineman, was shocked by a "| wire containing 2,300 bolts while he was thirty- fivefeet from the ground, and fell dead at his brother's feet. Frantz was 28 years old and is survived by a bride of a few months. —Farmers near Kaylor station, Burnside town- ship, Clearfield county, are thoroughly alarmed over the depredations of a monster wildcat. The animal has been carrying off chickens and even calves, and has made it unsafe for women and children to travel the public roads unprotected. Hunting parties have been organized in the hope of killing the beast. —Judge Kooser, of Somerset, has refused a the | new trial in the trespass suit of Henry A. Berkey versus the Berwind-White Coal company. The defendant in his suit had asked $15,000 because the coal company had mined under [his farm in such a careless manner that the surface had sunk. He was awarded $5,000 bya jury that viewed the damage. —Men are'at work at the Duncannon iron works getting the mills into shape fora resumption of business. The plant, owned by Light Brothers, of Lebanon, has been shut up for three years, Last week six carloads of scrap iron and several carloads of coal were shipped there and men are at work unloading the cars and putting what is called the new mill into shape, where the first work will be done. ~The right of way has been secured by a New York firm of Italians for a railroad from Entriken through into Trough Creek valley. The line has been surveyed to Paradise Furnace by way of Chapman's Gap, and work on it is to begin at once. Itis also proposed to extend the line to Newburg and Cassville and probably farther, This road is being built to develop the timber, coal and iron tracts in that section. A general freight and passenger traffic is to be maintained. —~W. D. Steinbach & Son, of Lewistown, have been awarded the contract for the erection of twenty-eight buildings at the new classification yards of the Pennsylvania railroad at North- umberland. The amount involved is about §200,. 000 and many men will have to be employed. The structures are offices, wharves, storage houses, etc. The same firm recently landed the contract for the erection of a passenger station at North- umberland, and for a similar structure at Lake Hopatcong, New York. —All soldiers whose regiments participated in the battle of Gettysburg willbe furnished trans- portation from their home to Gettysburg and re- turn on September 26th, at which time a large monument will be dedicated to Pennsvivania soldiers. Any vetern who is entitled to and desires to participate in the unveiling of this monument may secure blanks and further in- formation regarding transportation, etc., by ad- dressing Gettysburg Battlefield Memorial Asso- ciatica, Box 533, Philadelphia, Pa. —Chas. E. Beckel, the 9-year-old sonof Charles P. Beckel, of Altoona, was shot and instantly killed at 7:10 o'clock Monday morning by his 11-year-old cousin, Willie Sanker, at the latter's home at Wildwood, near Loretto, where he had been visiting in company with his parents. The fatal shot was fired in a bedroom from a double barreled shotgun, and struck the unfortvnate lad in the face above the point of his nose, blowing the top of his head off and splattering his brains over the furniture and walls. —On Sunday afternoon, as Dr. Roy E. Black and family, of Huntingdon, were autoing over the mountain about halfway between Tyrone and Osceola Mills, they were startled by the sudden appearance of a large black bear which trundled out off the embankment on one side of the road, stopped and blinked at them a moment and then pursued his way through the underbrush. Just a few moments before meeting the bear, they had stopped and picked up a small boy walking along and who would have undoubtedly come face to face with Mr. Bruin if he had not been met by the autoists. —As a result of a quarrel over the division ofa sum of money, Charles Covalene, a miner, was shot and instantly killed, Mrs. John Bolner, a qy-stander, was shot through the hip by a bullet from her husband's rifle and Dominick Vigni, also a miner, was wounded in the head early Monday at Knoxdale, eight miles from Punxsutawney. John Bolner, the alleged assailant of the three wounded persons, has been placed under arrest: Itis alleged that Bolner became enraged when the been patented in this country and Canada. ~Caught in the shafting of a lathe in the smith gpg the machin denied ot of Mh street