BY P. GRAY MZEK.
INK SLINGS.
—The oyster is in the soup again.
—Anyway Bellefonte can get along
without that old Mountain League pennant
—The Republicans are decidedly up in.
the air over having their party BRYAN-
ized by ROOSEVELT.
—For “good and sufficient reasons”
our friend, the Hon. W. T. Creasy, will
not hand over the Granger organization
to the Keystone party at this particular
time.
—Mr. JoHN D. ROCKERFELLER has noti-
the newspaper reporters that here-
after he will not give them any more in-
terviews. Which is but natural—he is
not one of the give away kind.
—The interest our people seem to be
taking in those Oklahoma Indians don’t
seem to be half as big as theinterest Mr.
McMURRAY and other Republican states-
men are trying to get out of it.
—Conceit, consummate, paramount!
Did you ever hear anything quite like
this ROOSEVELT utterance: “I hope there
will be enough good sense to prevent any
one opposing the principles for which I
stand.”
—There is to be no pussy-foot cam-
paign for Senator GRiM. He will carry
the issue into every county in the State
because he is able, his record is fine and
the Democracy need make no apologies
for him.
—They may have been proud to be
known as “stand-patters” a few months
ago, but from the way they are getting
to their political cyclone cellars of late
they look vastly more like a lot of “run-
patters."”
—Heretofore he was “Sunny Jim,” to
the ROoSEVELT people. Since his manip-
ulation of the political situation in New
York, in the interest of the* Old Guard,” he
is known and recognized by them as
“Slippery Jim."
—Of things most desired by the editor
of this paper at the present time one is
that those who are in arrears pay up.
No one is back far now and it is much
easier to pay a little bill than a large one
and for that reason we would ask you to
do it now.
—Col. ROOSEVELT had six years in
which to drive the crooks out of his par-
ty. Let him name one whom he banish-
ed before he gets so fresh with new prom-
ises. We people of the United States
have had too much of flippant phraseolo-
gy, too little of unostentatious’ doing.
—JoHN TENER was a famous base ball
pitcher several years ago. Today he is
the nominee of a great party for Gov-
ernor of the greatest State in the Union.
Search his record with a fine tooth comb
or a microscope and nothing can be dis-
covered to warrant such exaltation. But
then the Machine doesn’t want men with
records, because it couldn't use them.
—From the advertisements sent out it
seems to take a roast beef feed, a cuffing
match, a base ball game and a greased-
pig race to get a crowd to come and hear
what the Machine gubernatorial nominee
has to say in his first campaign speech at
home. As a drawer Mr. TENER must be
considered, by those who know him, as
about equal to a worn out mustard plas-
ter.
—And this is the greatest Christian
Nation on the Earth. And the Vice Pres-
ident of the greatest Christian Nation on
the Earth attended a banquet and made
a political speech in St. Louis last SUN-
DAY NIGHT. Were you one of the
christian citizens who voted for this Vice
President? If you were pray for him
now, pray for the stability of your chris-
tian Republic and pray for yourself.
—Governor HARMAN, of Ohio, and May-
or GAYNOR, of New York, are the types
of men this country needs just now.
Both are old fashioned, plain, honest men
who attend to the duties of their office
with a grim determination to have right
~ prevail. And right does prevail because
they are on the job seeing that it does,
while other blatant exs and officials are
_ racing over the country sizzling away
like over-charged seltzer bottles.
~ —The forthcoming census statistics
will show a marked falling off in births
“among American born citizens as against
a decided increase among those of for-
ers. We fear we are becoming so
Fre that it will not be long ere we
peter out as a potential people. It is a
condition, but one that our govern-
mental system is largely responsible for.
hen a race becomes so opulent that it
has neither the time nor the inclination
to bother with children it is aboutas well
that its career be ended.
Joa
: ~The open letter of President TAFT
to chairman McKINLEY, os the Republi:
ca : campaign committee,
yposed to be the keynote document
: coming campaign. As a keynote
nt, however, it is decidedly of a
The President is very dig-
fuse with apologies and prom-
short it is the old story: Better
vy reform and redeem itself
ed of promises that are al-
en and quite ready to give the
ic party a chance, at least, to
VOL. 55.
The managers of the Keystone party
have issued an address to the public which
is a scathing arraignment of the Repub-
lican machine. "The State capitol scan-
dal reeks still in our nostrils,” it de-’
clares, and “the Rittersville asylum
manifests all the present symptoms of
another just such mess of rottenness.”
Both statements are literally true but
they fail to justify a movement which
can have no other result than to prolong
the power of the machine that is respon-
sible. No man outside of an asylum
believes that the candidates of the Key-
stone party can be elected. No sane man
in the State doubts thatthe concentration
of the votes of citizens opposed to the
machine would defeat that iniquitous
organization. Yet the managers of the
Keystone party are striving with all their
force and energy to divert a sufficient
number of votes of citizens opposed to
the machine from an eminently fit candi-
date to one manifestly less fit, thus guar-
anteeing the election of the machine can-
didates.
There can be no question of Senator
GRIM's high character or of his spiendid
equipment for the office. During eight
years’ service in the Senate he has been
a militant champion of civic righteousness
as well as an uncompromising foe of
vicious legislation. A constant attendant
upon the sessions of the body he was al- |
ways a vigilant guardian of the interests
of the people. No parliamentary snakes |
escaped his notice and no legislative trick-
ery failed to receive his reprobation. Such
a man cannot be held responsible for
iniquities that were adopted against his
protest, and having been fairly nominat-
ed by a convention in which the candi-
date of the Keystone party for the same
“BELLEFONTE, PA. SEPTE
RIG
HTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
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| obligations which other and ali honorable
men recognize for such favors, however,
and justifies the definition of gratitude
Public Disgust at Roosevelt.
| A correspondent of an esteemed metro- |
offered by a distinguished philosopher of | politan contemporary says that he is
the past, who said “gratitude is the ap. | “under the impression thata vast number
preciation of favors to come.” | of thinking Americans view Mr. ROOSE-
Meantime we advise Grangers who VELT'S political activities with disgust.”
desire to perpetuate that fraternity to put | Another correspondent of the same con-
a curb on Mr. CREASY's selfish purposes.
| that “in all this riot of reform, regula-
| tion, regeneration, doesthere not lurk the
| danger to every established institute of
| government that every revolution has |
Senator GRIM is preparing for an early | heretofore exposed—the gift of power to
and vigorous campaign. As we have al- | those least qualified to exercise it.” An-
ready said the campaign will be opened | other esteemed metropolitan contempor-
in all counties of the State on Saturday, | ary declares that “laughter cannot help
September 10th, when meetings will be | passing into anger and a sense of gross
held at convenient places under the au- | outrage when the real significance of Mr.
spices of the several county committees. | ROOSEVELT’S car-end harangues is fully
But it is not the intention of Mr. GRIM | taken in.”
or the organization behind him, to cease | It is small wonder that such comments
activities with those events. It is expect- | are being uttered. In Denver, Colorado
ed that much good will be accomplished | the other night, the great hunter not only
by these meetings. They will create a sharply criticised the Supreme court but
wave of enthusiasm which will roll from ! he held Judge LINDSEY, of Denver, who
the Delaware river to Lake Erie and from | was on the platform at the time, up to
the New York line to the Maryland boun- | ridicule. Judge LINDSEY will be remem-
dary. Democracy will have the first page bered as the earnest, unselfish and cour-
in all the papers next day if the party ageous advocate of the Juvenile court and
workers are equal to the occasion. | the author of a series of magazine arti-
But even the most enthusiastic and | cles denouncing political immorality, pub.
successful celebration of “Democratic | lished under the caption of “The Beast in
‘Campaign Day” won't carry the election | the Jungle.” These articles provoked
unless it is supplemented by intelligent | ROOSEVELT'S spleen. He imagines that
‘and vigorous work subsequently. And | he enjoys amonopoly of denouncing polit-
that is precisely what Senator GRIM and | ical iniquity and resents the intrusion into
' the Democratic organization are planning. that field by another as an infringement
| On the Monday following the 10th of | upon his prerogatives. He isas intolerant
| September the gubernatorial candidate | as he is absurd.
will set out on a tour of the State which | But there is grave danger in his dema-
| will not only carry him into every coun- | gogy. His obvious purpose is to worm
| ty but into every town of considerable | himself, through an inflamed public mind,
| population in the State. He will travel | into another term in the Presidency and
Democratic Campaign Plans.
10.
office was his competitor, he is entitled to in trains when feasible and in automo- | that accomplished we will see the “be-
the entire vote of that element of the | biles or carriages when they are more
electorate which is opposed to the ma- | convenient. His purpose is to get to the
chine. Moreover, if the machine candi- | people and tell them face to face what
dates are successful the responsibility for | his election will be to them and why they
ginning of the end” of popular govern- | expendi
ment. In Denver not only the Governor
of the State but the mayor of the city
saluted him as the next President and the
that public calamity will be upon those
who organized this division of the vote of
the better element of our citizenship.
After admiting the accuracy of the \
statements quoted,, however, no other
statement in the address can be justified
by any interpretation of the language
employed. “Every step that has hitherto i
marked the inception of the Keystone
party has been wisely, deliberately, sa- |
gaciously taken,” the address continues. |
“The people themselves have directed it |
all,” it adds. What impudent assurance.
The conspiracy was conceived and pro- |
mulgated by WiLLiam H. BERRY, JOHN
O. SHEATZ and GEORGE E. MAPES, who |
packed the convention in order that!
they might the better serve the purposes |
of PENROSE. All candidates except |
BERRY were bowled out with the cruel |
determination of a gang of pirates divid-
ing the spoils of a raid and up until this |
moment no other than the political mer- |
cenaries named have had a voice in any- |
thing pertaining to the organization, the i
nominations or the policies of the party. |
But like the Pharisees of old these polit- |
ical adventurers and jugglers of princi-
ple profess a monopoly of holiness.
Mr. Creasy’s Sinister Purpose.
Obviously Mr. CREASY hopes to pervert |
the State Grange into a political machine |
for personal use. At a meeting of the |
executive committee of that body, the |
other day, he attempted to get a resolu-
tion adopted to commit the members of
the organization to the Keystcne party,
He knew that the Grange is non-partisan
and that in proposing to subvert it he was |
betraying it. But Mr. CREAsY doesn’t
mind a little thing like that. Of course |
he failed in this instance but he is not
likely to give up on that account. He is,
by virtue of his office, editor of the
grange paper, and he will use its columns,
unless he is restricted, to achieve by in-
direction what he failed toaccomplish by
direct means.
The Grange is an excellent institution
in some respects. It has materially ad-
vanced the interests of agriculture and if
it adheres to its fundamental principles |
will ultimately exercise a wholesome in-
fluence on public affairs. For example
we all known that agriculture bears more
than its just share of the burdens of gov-
ernment and that the Grange is educating
the public to an understanding of he iret
justice of that fact. But the moment it
is perverted to the selfish purposes of any
individual, whether in politics or busi-
ness, itwill lose its power and forfeit its
opportunities for good. Every Granger
should realize this and promptly and se-
verely rebuke attempts in this direction.
Mr. CREASY has set out to punish the
Democrats of Pennsylvania because the
Democrats of one senatorial district re-
fused to nominate him for an office he
coveted. The party had elected him to
office frequently. It had tried to elect
him to other offices and honored him in
various other ways. He feels none of the
time. But occasionally he has done
| VELT'S resentment for this fitful imitation
should support him. wild western audience cheered the prop-
This may not be the usual system of | osition to the echo. His harangues are
campaigning. It is not in accord with dethroning the reason of men who have
the “gum shoe” method of electioneering. | little, if any, fixed principles, and like
But it is a way that the people will like ROBISPIERRE, of France, he is willing to
because it will give voters a chance to | flood the country in blood and deluge the be
see and estimate the man who asks them | people in passions to promote his own
to favor him. A poor candidate would dangerous ambitions. In the east he
have little chance of winning popular fa- would not be taken seriously for the peo-
vor by that means. A candidate with a | ple here are less emotional, but east or
devious record would not dare adopt that west he is a dangerous element.
system, because he would be certain to
be found out before the close of the tour. '
But WEBSTER GRIM can engage in such
a campaign without fear. He will grow | President TAFT yields tothe philosophy
on the people as the campaign progress- | expressed in the adage, “he who fights
es and win admiration as well as support | and runs away will live to fight another
wherever he goes. This is Democratic | day.” In other words after declaring that
year, not only in Pennsylvania but every- | the ALDRICH tariff bill is the best revenue
where else. measure ever enacted he announces the
— | policy of revising it by the slow process
| of decreasing the rates on one schedule
| at a time, in order to check the extortion
That THEODORE ROOSEVELT is a candi- | of the law. There are a great many sched-
date for re-election to the Presidency is! yles and very many years would elapse
beyond question. He is now touring the | pefore they were all reduced by that
country with that purpose in view. AS | method. Meantime, of course, the ex-
usual he is traveling at the expense of | tortion would continue on most of the
| others. He has never gone anywhere at | schedules until the greed of the extor-
any time at his own expense. He is the | tioners couid be satiated or the burden
| champion dead-head of all time and all | had crushed the life out of the victims.
| the world. While President he compell- | Obviously the President’s proposition is
ed the treasury to pay his barber, his |, subterfuge to deceive the public just as
valet, his cook and his chambermaids. | pis plan to amend the constitution so as
The weekly magazine which employs him | t authorize Congress to levy an income !
is paying for his present junket, so that | tax was asubterfuge for that purpose. The
it is not a charge against the taxpayers, | Democrats and progressives in both
happily. But the taxpayers have been | Houses had determined to incorporate an
obliged to pay for all other journeys tak- income tax clause in the ALDRICH bill and
en by him within the last ten years. | TAFT had himself declared that the au.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT has never relin- | thority was ample. But the corporation |
ite
quished the office ot President since the | which had supplied the funds to buy his
election objected and he came forward
Taft’s Latest Subterfuge.
Roosevelt Wants a Re-election.
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Peaches are so plentiful in Hagerstown that
they are almosta glut on the market. A few
days ago choice peaches sold there as low as 50
cents for a half a bushel basket.
| —One of the largest zinc plants in the world is
| being built near Millport. The present rate of
progress in erecting the works will make them
ready for operation in about a year.
i —The school board of Gregg township, Clear
| field county, has decreed that no teacher, male
or female, who is employed by it shall attend
more than one party, between Monday and Fri-
day of each week.
—Bitten in the lip by a copperhead snake, on
Friday, a $75 cow owned by William Shaffer, who
lives just beyond Irondale. near Sunbury, died in
agony a few hours later. The head and face
were badly swollen from the venom.
Shay ~F ulton county, where they have not had a full
crop of corn in three years, will be lucky to get
From the New York Evening Post. | a quarter cf acrop again this year. The buck-
There is naturally some amusement at | wheat belt has been dry as powder, it is reported,
the mischance which befell Col. Roose- | and in many sections the corn is past saving.
at the hands of the Re | _ye contract for the new boiler shop at Re-
will William | "OVO has been let to the Pittsburg Construction
Wi pe One apr. | Company. of Pitsburg. The material will ar-
ently shown themselves of sterner Ruff | Five at Renovo in a few days and work fon this
ony of the potentates of Europe, | latest improvement of the Pennsylvania railroad
any certainly ground for sar. | in that section will commence at once.
the contrast between —Sheriff William J. Stutzman, of Cambria
the ma- | county, recently paid $68 back into the county
Jin ‘Republica | treasury when it was shown to him that he was
of meekly obeying his not allowed to charge the county $4, in addition
power of life to expenses and railroad mileage, for taking
| feeble-minded persons to state institutions.
—When a barrel of cider he was hauling from
the press near Manges Mill, York county, ex-
ploded, recently, young Bert Meyers was nearly
killed. His teeth were knocked out, his jaw was
broken and he was injured otherwise. Thegas
coming from the newly made cider was too much
for the barrel.
—Tripping over a signal wire, which ran along
the tracks, W. O. Work, a telegrapher, whose
home is at McGee's Mills, in Clearfield céunty,
was thrown under a freight train from which he
had jumped, and his body was cut in twain. The
accident happened early Sunday afternoon, as
Work was on his way to work at Keating Junc-
tion.
~The sixteenth annual convention of the
Pennsylvania Bankers Association will be held at
Bedford Springs hotel on September 6 and 7. A
debate on the central bank question will be one
NO. 34.
The Party Torn in Two.
i
From the New York World.
We fay ges a fair idea of the
ov vas wha Jn proghess the
jingoism
the in progress the
Island railroad. No definite date has
for the inauguration of service from points
of New York city. This will be officially
nounced later.
his right hand.
Spring where he had been an invalid for the last
| five years. Mr. Singer's last charge was at Wil-
| liamsburg, Pa., and he gave that up six years
i ago. Three sons survive. The funeral took
of | place at Mechanicsburg, yesterday.
—George Wagner, engineer in charge of the
electric haulage system at the Standard Coal com-
pany’s plantat Lilly, recently sent down a train
of cars that crushed his own son Lester to death.
He frantically tried to save the little lad, but it
was impossible. The boy tried to board the cars
and was knocked down in front of them. The
father saw him fall and attempted to stop the
| cars, but they ran over the prostrate lad and
crushed his life out.
—No less than five houses, among them the
residence of Borough Policeman Seibert, were
entered at Somerset in one night recently and in
every onethe robbers escaped without waking
any of the residents. The intruders in every in-
stance gained entrance by “jimmying" windows.
Some small pieces of jewelry, a small amount of
money and some clothes are the only things mis-
sing. The robbers relieved the officer of some
of his togs. The work was done so skilfully that
the thieves seemed to be familiar with the pre-
mises in each instance.
~The annual reunion of the 110th regiment,
Pennsylvania Volunteers, will be held at Hunt-
ingdon, Thursday, October 20. President John
W. Plummer and Secretary G. W. Buck, of the
e bolting Democrats and the independ: | regimental association, are sending out circulars
ent Republicans, by uniting in support of | calling the attention of survivors to this their
a third ticket instead of giving hearty | twenty-seventh reunion and earnestly requesting
s to the excellent ticket nominated | all to bein attendance. The headquarters will
by Democratic State convention, have | be established at the Brunswick hotel and the
rtually made a present of the govern- | day's program will include business meetings
ment of Pennsylvania to the Penrose ma- | at 100’clock in
chine for another term.”
How Outsiders Understand It.
From the Wilmington (Del) Every Evening.
“All this talk of Senator Penrose dicta-
ting the outcome of the Democratic State
convention is absolute rot. It is too ri-
diculous, in the face of all the facts, for
intelligent men to advance. It can only
be set down to the desperation of those
who are in an indefensible course
of political action for which no reasona-
ble or logical explanation may be offered.
Lacking any element of principle or po-
litical honor to indorse their traitorous
conduct, they sit back and shout ‘Pen-
rose.’
“One thing is certain: Senator Pen-
rose has now got a political situation in
Pennsylvania to his liking. It is not
charged that he dictated the imbecile
Democratic bolt, but he could not have
fixed things more to his satisfaction and
more assuring of the easy triumph of his
machine Republican ticket, had he been
iven a free hand to do as he pleased.
the morning and 2 o'clock in the
decsoin ang » using campfire in the even.
ing.
—John Stitler, a tedden of Bald Eagle, was
| drawn into the revolving saw of a sawmill, where
From the Chicago Public. _|he was working st Mill Creek, on Saturday
Before the of San Francisco ' morning, and is now at the Altaona hospital, with
voted to make a municipal road of the one arm off, and the other mangled. The man
Geary street line, the street railroad | was feeding a huge log into the saw and in some
el ) Which waited Sha live, fongut manner his arms were caught and he was drawn
Lie pros] on ground that it would | into the revolving disc. Stitler's right arm was
a te elephant” on the people's completely severed and his left arm {rightfully
The Pirates of San Francisco.
|
day an assassin presented him with the’
title at Buffalo. He deputized WILLIAM | with his amendment scheme and present-
ed a measure with that end in view of
H. TAFT to act for him for a time but, i
with the understanding, on his part, at| such doubtful character that it has not |
least, that the deputy would be obedient | peen ratified yet and is not likely to be |
to his master. In this TAPT has disap- | within a hundred years. It fooled the!
pointed him somewhat. He has been | progressives, however, and served the |
servile in most things and afraid all the purposes of the corporations.
If the present tariff law is working ex-
tortion on the public, as the President in. |
ferentially admits, then it is the duty of |
Congress to wipe it out of existence in |
the speediest possible way. It is both un- |
just and immoral to continue an extor- |
tionate woolen schedule while Congress |
is revising downward the schedules poe}
metals and chemicals. Congress has no
right to rob the people of the country for
a dozen years through an extortionate tax
on cotton goods because that much time
is being wasted in tinkering the schedule
which imposes an extortionate tax on!
chinaware. Any tax that is unjust v
things not approved by the boss and the
present campaign for the nomination
next time is the expression of ROOSE-
of independence. That he will succeed
in his purpose is certain unless the peo-
ple awaken to the danger involved.
If THEODORE ROOSEVELT .is re-elected
President there will never again be a free
election for that office unless the privi-
lege is purchased at the expense of a
revolution. NAPOLEON was no more am-
bitious than he and hardly as cunning.
The President of Mexico has neither the
energy nor the demagogy of ROOSEVELT.
But he re-elects himself at the point of
the bayonet as often as his term expires
and the people are without recourse or
redress. ROOSEVELT lusts for power. He
yearns for the opportunities of office and
he will never again give it up if the com-
mission is placed in his hands while life
remains in his body. History repeats
itself.
robbery and if Congress permits it to en-
dure for a month, the body is accessory
to the crime.
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—As a slush maker for the daily press |
Oklahoma has great necessity for looking |
to its laurels. For the past week Mr.
ROOSEVELT has so far eclipsed it that its’
future glory, in that line, seems to be a |
matter of grave doubt. :
hands, that it wouldn't pay, and that it 'jacerated before the machinery was stopped. He
began and nowhere. Now the | was rushed to the hospital there, and although
Monepdly ss ting i the federal courts | is condition serious, thelphysicans hve hopes
doubtless because yan ts eel Ja fife 2a dled Jes um,
the waste money. It ig | oA hunting dog By Ash'Mark, of near
De a ome. antehls | Philipsburg, recently went mad and bit several
street railroad Rye | dogs, two Jueogle, some chickens and 2 @
willing to lie in approved professional | Charley Marks. aged 8, son of the owner of
manner toa court. What must a cor- | the brut, wis sarvyie the a ja wt ot tie
poration lawyer do, anyway, to be *
> lad bitten was a young son of James Gennicks,
of Philipsburg. Both have been sent to take the
Pasteur treatment while the head of the dog has
Bw In Yen. Beck shigped to Sarsiaurl 0 300 i § Ho
The town fears a e
From the Clearfield Spirit. killed the Lewistown health
ie nt mt wa pected when the | oR tole cre el, 2
of the
a whole i the loudest talk- | dogs in town may be ordered killed
ers among
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ed without spending a dollar for
or lose an hour’s time.
—It is the general belief that a “bark:
ing dog never bites,” which possibly ac- |
counts for the fact that neither the trusts
nor the corporations “took to the woods” |
when Mr. ROOSEVELT took to the road.
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