BY P. GRAY MEEK. A ————————————— INK SLINGS. —A very clever, very adroit political speech was Dr. CARROLL'S sermon (?) in the Bellefonte Methodist church Sunday morning. ~—When the frost and the water begin to work on that shallow concrete curb on our new State road the taxpayers will have a concrete example of the folly of not doing things right. —Calling to mind Mr. ROOSEVELT'S promise to “drive all the crooks out of the Republican party” naturally excites one’s sympathy for those that will be left. # They will be so few and so distressingly lonesome. —An observing exchange remarks that most of the Republican Congressmen who are asking for re-election, are very busy fixing their political fences. Yes, we notice that every mother’s son of them has been hedging this long while. —When the taxpayers of the county come to see the cost of the new clock,the Commissioners topped out our $150,000 court house with, they may form a pretty good idea of how the fellow, who first wrote “time is money," discovered that fact. —In the race of fashionable fads just now hobble skirts are not barred. But while horses wear hopples to keep them from breaking many of the women who have tried them have found that they are designed to make them break—their necks. —The Prohibitionist brethren who are throwing up their hats for Mr. BERRY when they have a candidate of their very ‘ own making in the field for Governor are glittering examples of that inconsistency which is only to be found in Prohibitionists of this class. —The facility with which the CANNON Congressmen are promising not to vote for CANNON, if they can only get back to Congress, is really amusing. When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be; when the devil was well the devil a monk was he. : —Qur Republican friends seem greatly worked up over the question of what to do with CANNON. Without expectation that our “buttin’ in” in this matter will change conditions, in any way, we can't refrain from suggesting that they might secure some rest, or find some relief, if they would fire him. —Away cut in Fargo, North Dakota, on Monday some unknown man called Col. ROOSEVELT a liar. The mystery about the incident is that the Colonel VOL. 55. The Democratic Ticket Complete. The Democratic State ticket is now com- plete, the executive committee having, on Tuesday, nominated Hon. THOMAS H. GREEVY, of Altoona, for Lieutenant Gov- ernor. The ticket as named at Allentown was strong. Mr. PRICE, of Scranton, who was then chosen for Lieutenant Governor, is a gentleman of the highest character and most unquestioned fitness for the of- a citizen of the best type and a Demo- crat of sterling character. He has proven himself a faithful public servant. England, of Irish parents, and came to this country when six years of age when his parents settled in Williamsport, his father having been employed in a mer- cantile house. He was educated in the public schools of that city and Professor Davis’ Commercial college. At the age of twenty-one years he began the study of law in the office of SAMUEL J. MORRISON, of Williamsport. Having removed to Al- toona in the spring of 1873, he finished his studies in the office of TIERNEY & BRUMBAUGH, a well known law firm of Blair county. He was admitted to the bar in January, 1874, and soon afterward was taken into the firm of his preceptors. He has been a successful lawyer in that county ever since. In 1877 the Legislature created the office of city recorder in certain cities, including Altoona, and Mr. GREEVY gave such entire satisfaction that at the expira- tion of the term, five years, he was unan- imously renominated, but declined a re- election. He has also served the com- munity in which He lives withentire satis- faction in the office of city solicitor fora term of three years. But his distinction is at the bar, where, though his practice is mostly in civil causes, it is a matter of record that he has been on one side or the other of every important criminal case tried in the Blair county court in many years. Mr. GREEVY has taken an active part in politics for many years. He has fre- doesn’t know what the man's name is, hp. ently served as delegate to State con- notwithstanding the fact that he has been chief custodian of the ballot box in the Ananias club for several years. —JouN K. TENER, aspirant for the highest office in this Commonwealth, pitched a game of baseball at Pittsburg, on Monday, just to show the sports that “he can come back.” TENER is an old league baseball pitcher and there is where he made the fame that he hopes will make him Governor; for he has no quali- fications, whatever, for the office. —Prof. CHARLES BARNARD thinks that American women know less about how to cook than an Indian Squaw. But if CHARLEY had ever kissed one of those Siwash maidens of Puget Sound after she had been dining on over-ripe raw fish he would have made up his mind that there are some squaws who either don't know or don't care much about cooking. —In his speech at Charleroi last Sat. urday night Mr. TENER devoted a goodly portion of his time to telling how glad he was to get home. We hope we are not giving any unpleasant secrets away when ' we assure him that such is the kindly feeling for him on the part of the people of the State that a goodly majority of them purpose voting to keep him there —If Mr. PENROSE don’t soon come to the front with a-part, at least,of that $100," 000 that was to be forthcoming for the organization of a third party,’ with a Democrat at the head of its ticket, our Keystone friends will begin to lose faith in the promises of their allies. Without the rejuvenatin’ and strengthenin' in- flouence of Machine cash that new born babe is gravely in danger of an attack of infantile paralysis. —Anyway there wouldn't be half as much fun in this it wasn't for the fight between those restless and relentless patriots (?) the KEYSTONERS, and those self-appointed path-pointers— the Prohibitionists: Neither of them seem to expect to do much but to “lick the other." And we have no doubt, when the thing is over, they will both feel and look ‘ very much like the fellow who had “lick- ered" up so well the night before that he couldn't recognize himself in the morn. ing. —No, Mr. JOE ALEXANDER'S ware wil not appear as the Democratic nominee | for Senator in this district, notwithstand.- | ing the deal he made with the few far. plots of Clearfield who have succeeded in demoralizing and dividing the Democracy of that county. The party may be beaten in the district, but it won't disgrace itself by joining with the Republicans in send: ing to the Senate a man who professes to be a reformer, but goes there fully in-| tending and probably pledged to do the | bidding of the Republican machine. And | fice. But it has lost nothing in strength | and availability by the change which Mr. | PRICE'S declination compelled. THOMAS | H. GREEVY is a lawyer of splendid ability, | Mr. GREEVY was born in Birmingham, ' who are candidates for Congress and | other minor offices are trading the Demo- | cratic State ticket for votes for them- selves. The Democratic nominee in the Seventh Congressional district, for exam- ple, resigned his office as charmain of the Democratic - county committee in order that he might support a candidate for Governor other than the Democratic ‘nominee. He stopped short of his moral obligation in the court of honor. He ought to have resigned the Democratic nomination for Congress for there is an unwritten but valid law that candidates ' on the same ticket must be just to each | other. Plain Course for Cannon Opponents. There seems to be an inclination on the part of the Republican managers to , eliminate CANNONism from the political | equation. A few weeks ago the Speaker ‘and his methods were talked about every- | where and the "old man” was constantly in a resentful frame of mind. But since the Congressional primaries in Kansas little has been said about him or his meth. ods. He was sharply rebuked there and was rapidly assuming the proportions of a national issue. But as they say in the comic opera, "there is a time for disap- pearing,” and since the overwhelming defeat of most of his friends in the Sun- flower State, he has scarcely been heard of. But there has been no change in the issue. In other words CANNONism is as much a menace now as it was when the Speak- er was emitting sparks of brimstone from the hustings in Kansas and the Chatau- quas of Wisconsin and Iowa. If there is a Republican majority in the next Con- gress, CANNON will be the next Speaker and every Republican elected to the | House of Representatives in this State will vote for him. His election means a resumption of machine business precise- ly where it was left off at the close of the last session. There may be a pre- tense of opposition to him in the caucus on the part of Congressmen who are afraid of their constituents. But he will be nominated, nevertheless, and then all will come into line. CANNONism is an ulcer on the body politic. It is the malady which is mainly STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. BELLEFONTE, PA. SEPTEMBER 9, 1910. Some of Keystone Party Strength. If the Keystone party polls 75,000 votes | in Philadelphia, as the managers of that | party claim they will, the Democratic | Democratic ticket will get as many votes in that city this year as it has in any other recent year. The 75,000 of the Keystone party, if its candidates get that | many, must come from the Republicans. | If the Keystone party should get all the | votes its manager claims for itin Delaware, | Chester, Blair, Cambria, Bradford and Tioga counties, the Democrats wouldn't | i suffer very greatly. All those counties | give large Republican majorities and the ! Keystone strength will be drawn ingreat- | er ratio from the Republican than the | Democratic party. We have made rather extensive in- quiries as to the progress of the Keystone party and thus far have discovered it that party will draw as many votes from the Republican as from the Democratic force. In fact in all the counties except thatone, from which we have received reports, the impression is well fixed that the Demo- cratic vote will be practically a unit for the Democratic candidates while the vast pro- portion of the Keystone vote will be cast by Republicans justly disgusted with the false pretense and other iniquities of their own party. It is true that in 1878 the third party damaged and defeated the Democracy, because it was organized for that pur- pose. SAM MASON, the Greenback candi- date for Governor that year, was simply the emissary of BoB MACKEY and the CAMERON dynasty. But in the campaign of 1882 when the late Governor ROBERT E. PATTISON was the Democratic candi- date, the third ticket defeated the Re- publican machine and made the election of PATTISON certain. We can see no rea- son why the ssme results may not be achieved this year if the Democrats are true to themselves and vigilant. Our candidate this year is certainly one of the best we have ever put in the field and if we are true to each other he will be elected. for this fiscal year, as a deficit of $19,480,- Bosal ear as against 2, year. This deficit was due to two principal causes: First: The unparallelled extravagance of Republican the party, which ment. Second: Failure of the Taft-Aldrich tariff law to produce sufficient revenue to meet the expenses of the govern ment. Excess of expenditures over receipts is not new in the history of the party now in power. For three or four years the government has been closing its books each night facing a big deficit in the day's business. But the average American does not know it. While there would be no justification for stating that the big is in control of the govern- | strong in only one county that is normal- Prose om Ss0niations tion Sane the a0 ee ly Democratic and even in that county | facts are so stated that the average the indications are that the candidates of | does not 58 i i il gE | § g 25 gp g g 3 8 8 § i 2 i ; i i g i: i it I: 23 ; : { i : E g E ; : : is Hi § bi il i ji iE hl ehstzl Heed i i ventions and in 1888 was a delegate in| the national convention at St. Louis which | responsible for the high prices of the nominated GROVER CLEVELAND for Presi. | necessaries of life and the industrial dent. That year he was also the nomi- | paralysis which makes it impossible for | nee of his party for Congress and polied | the average citizen to get money to Roosevelt Called Down. i The "Mighty Hunter” has been called | down and acknowledges the call. He has! a very large vote In 1890 he was again nominated for Congress and was defeated by only 526 votes. He contested the re- turns on thatoccasion but the matter was strangled in committee. In 1904 he was the candidate of his party for State Sena- tor against the millionaire water magnate, J. C. STINEMAN, and though he ran 9,000 votes ahead of his ticket, he went down in the “ROOSEVELT avalanche.” And all these political honors have been forced upon him. With WEBSTER GRIM, whose record, as Hon. JoHN HARMAN said in notifyfng him of his nomination, “is as clean as a hound's tooth,” THOMAS H. GREEVY,whose life of achievement has been an honor to the community in which nearly all his time has been spent; JAMES I. BLAKESLEE, young business men of the State, and SAMUEL B. PHILSON, honored among the bankers for ability and integrity, com- posing the Democratic ticket no Democrat in this State need hesitate about his ac- tion on election day this year. A better ticket has never been presented and voters should feel that it is an honor to vote for it. Candidates Must be Just to Each Other. Democrats should strive to elect as many Congressmen, State Senators and Representatives in the Legislature as pos- sible. Pennsylyania should share, in as full a measure as may be, in the glory of a Democratic majority in the next Congress and the more Democratic Senators and Representatives there are in the next Legislature the less danger there will be of vicious leg- islation. We do not expect a majority in either branch in the session of next year but we do look for such an increase in the Democratic force that the two- thirds majority will bé broken and the check of the veto made available after ; GRIM’s election. . But Democratic candidates for the minor offices should not lend themselves to the sacrifice of the Democratic State ticket in order to promote their individu- al interests and personal ambitions. The next Congress will be Democratic even if not a single Democratic candidate in this State is elected and as a matter of fact all the districts now represented by Democrats will elect Democratic candi- dates this year. The greatest political value to the party and the public in Penn- sylvania will be the election of the Demo- cratic State ticket. That achieved a complete political revolution will follow at the next one of the progressive and successful | buy essentials at even moderate prices. | The only remedy for the disease, how- ever, is to defeat Republican candidates for Congress whether they profess to be for CANNON for Speaker or against him. | Every Republican elected to Congress | will vote for CANNON either in the caucus ! or on the floor of the House after he has { been nominated by the caucus. Every | Democrat elected to the House will vote | against him so that the course of oppo- | nents of CANNONism is plain. ! The One Discordant Note. | That this is Democratic year is uni- ! formly acknowledged. No one doubts | that the next House of Representatives | will be Democratic by a safe if not a | considerable majority. It is equally cer- | tain that the Democrats will carry New i York and Ohio. Wisconsin will go to ! the insurgents if it doesn’t give a Demo- | cratic majority, and Indiana, Nebraska and !Towa are practically certain to elect | Democratic State officials. The RoOsE- | VELT invasion of the middle west and ' President TAPT'S trip to Minnessota are | intended to stem the tide, but will fail. | The people are tired of bearing onerous ‘ burdens in order that a few favorites i may go free of trouble or expense. | The solid South is more solid than ever i but the North is no longer a political ! unit. The Rocky Mountain States, where breaking a broncho is a greater achieve- ment than discovering a planet, continues a wild adoration of ROOSEVELT. If he is the candidate of the Republican party in 1912, as he certainly hopes to be, Colora- do, Utah and Idaho will be certain to vote the Republican ticket. But no other State in the West can be confidently claimed for that party in the event that he is the candidate and even they are not | certain if TAFT is renominated. The New | England States are almost equally un- certain. Senator LODGE is making the fight of his life for re-election with the odds against him. In all this melody of good news there is but one discordant note. Pennsylva- nia, “corrupt and contented,” appears to be shaping toward a renewal of the lease of power to the Republican machine. It is only just to say that the people of the State are as tired of Republican misrule as those of any other State. Candor com- pels the admission, moreover, that the majority of the people of Pennsylvania are as devoted to civic ideals as those of other States. But an inordinate lust for office has misled certain Pennsylvanians into a course which of will de- feat the reforms ey been “rampaging” in the West and riot- ing in the dense forest of assertion. The jungles of Africa were not in it with the | the wild plains of license in speech which he has been enjoying without interruption | or cessation from Alabama to Denver. | But President TAFT'S speech on conser- | vation at St. Paul on Monday brought him to something like reason. The Presi- dent declared for conservation under the law. He raised the barrier of the con- stitution against the absurd policies of PINCHOT, GARFIFLD and ROOSEVELT, and on Tuesday ROOSEVELT appears on the same platform and partically apologized for living. ROOSEVELT is courageous only when and where there is no opposition. Like FALLSTAF he will rail against an imagin- ary foe. But when the real thing comes before him, he withers like “dead sea fruit.” There was no real reason for his | fuss and fustian on the subject of con- servation. No doubt there are corpora- tions anxious to seize the water powers and timber lands of the country. But there is abundant protection for the prop- | erty within the constitution and the law | and the President had only to point out! this fact to “bring ROOSEVELT to his mut- ton.” The "Mighty Hunter” imagined that nobody would have courage to per- form this service. TAFT has little else ! to his credit but he did that. ROOSEVELT has been cavorting through the country inflaming passions, preaching Socialism and indulging in demagogy to, a perilous extent. TAFT is insincere and hypocritical in this as in other things, but he has performed a useful public service in exhibiting ROOSEVELT as a humbug and a fraud. Of course both these principals in a farce will pretend to be of one mind on the subject and drawn together by the sublime principles of patriotism. But they are as far from harmony as the antipodes. They will keep up the false pretense for a time but when the lines are drawn for the next presidential nomination, the hostility will patters; not as a that man in particular, but as a condem- aation of fnany wen; notas a jejection of one policy, but as a repudiation many Ds: not as an evidence of momentary indignation, but as voicing the demand of a great and free for light, for truth, for justice, for There ié a wad fud for safely. RuSpon. e men are posing as irrespons Old offenders i as innocents. Sacrifices are offered up in the hope that the wrath may be appeased. There is talk even of a term in the less person under - drich and Payne and Sherman and Dal. zell got their strangle grip on party and country. In spite of all this there will be no take about that which is to take November. Itisto be more a i can defeat than a Democratic victory; more a uprising against plutoc- a , ; mis- FB more a rebuke of Taft as proxy than Taft as President; more an expression hope in Democracy than of faith in Dem- a onthe light! Asks for Imperialistic Power. From the New York Times. There is a characteristically Roose. veltian definition of a “new nationalism” which, after i the jieymole of the movement thus ugurated at Ossawatomie. “It is impatient, ji2 Spon. governmentai 287- sor says, "of the impotence the over-division of “This new nationalism, he de “regards executive power as the steward of the public welfare.” But fight 3 have Sp ., you can bét your bottom dollar on this.| Itis reported that certain Democrats | corrupt Repu! in power. be declared and their differences will be irreconcilable. —A few months ago we thought the Kingdom of Spain tottering, because the papers were full of highly colored stories of the demonstrations of the masses in Barcelona, Madrid and other Spanish cities. What do you imagine the Spaniards | Jin ¢ think when they now read of thousands of people marching on the court house | at Pottsville and through the streets of | the Greensburg, Pennsylvania, as demonstra. | $20 tions against crooked public officials and | greedy corporations? : as Mr. Roosevelt undoubtedly is SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. —M. G. Hench, of near Centre, Perry county, estimates that his peach crop will be between 2, 000 and 3,000 bushels. His orchards are on a mountain top. The crop is now being shipped to market, —Mrs. George Dukestein, the mother of ten living sons, was electrocuted by a defective elec- tric light which she tried to switch on in her home at Speers, near Bellevernon, while she held a piece of wire in her hand. ~The Dauphin county commissioners have an- nounced that they would ask the Legislature to reimburse the county for the money expended in the capitol trials. This amounts to $13,196.39 and covers the cost of jurymen and stenographers in the three trials. —Fifteen thousand persons thronged the build- ings of the Western Pennsylvania Exposition at the Point, Pittsburg, on the opening or its twen. ty-second season. More exhibits than ever are on show this year and they cover a decidedly wider field than any ever before shown. —The Harbison-Walker Fire Brick company, of Clearfield, recently sent 1,200 barrels of fire brick shapes to Chili. The shapes were packed in oak barrels costing 54 cents each and the whole lot of barrels cost over $600. Clearfield products are sent to all parts of the country and world. ~The Pennsylvania Glass Sand company has purchased the Westbrook Sand company at Mill Creek and will dismantle the works. This is a case of putting a competitor out of business by purchase. The sand rocklused by this company was not as good as at other quarries in the Ma- pleton district. —Glenn H. Curtiss, the famous aviator, has been engaged by the Philadelphia Press and the management of the Allentown fair to attempt a flight from the fairto Philadelphia and return. The definite date for the trip has not been set yet, although it will be on September 20, 21, 22 or 23+ one of the dates of the fair. —Warran Fletcher Chapman, until only recent- ly a resident of Johnstown, has been moved to an institution for treatment at Detroit, because his mind has become unbalanced. He invested his entire fortune of $11,000 in a brush works some time ago and the concern failed, making him the loser of almost the entire amount. —A Williamsport and North Branch passenger train, on the way to Halls, was lassoed by a trail ing telephone wire and got tangled in the wheels and brought the train to a stop, but not before a pole or two was pulled over. Sosudden was the stop that many thought the train had been wreck- ed. All the passengers were shaken up. —Conemaugh is going to have a fine new mu- nicipal building, thanks to a great extent to the volunteer firemen. The firemen have voted unan- imously to give their fund of §3,700, the result of the savings of years, into the structure and are raising another $1,000 by a carnival, etc. The borough will appropriate the remainder needed. ~John H. Neil, a Pennsylvania railroad brake- man residing at Derry, was shot and seriously wouuded by some unknown as he was leaving the home of a young woman at Greensburg. One pullet pierced his side and another his hand. Three months ago Neil was held up and robbed of his watch and some money as he was leaving the same house. —Frank Gans, the Harrisburg man, who is sup- posed to have poisoned himself with ivy in order to get a vacation and who succeeded in giving himself as bad a case of the malady as one would , | desire, at last has found refuge. To every insti tution he went he was refused admission, but at last the county almshouse authorities took kim. He is kept isolated. —After four hours’ deliberation a Mifflin coun- ty juror convicted William Schrader of murder in ghibigen dearee of causing the death of Myrtle , his sweetheart, whom he shot while she was out horseback riding. Jealousy was the cause and an insane impulse was what he pleaded as the reason for the murder. Sentence has been as a motion for a new trial has been en- ~Adolph Coskey, a Hungarian miner aged 28, living at Allport, but working at a mine near Munson, was found lying dead alongside the N. Y. C. track, a short distance above the station at Munson, late Saturday night. He was seen sii- ting onthe end of the ties about fifteen minutes before the train passed by that is supposed to have struck and killed him. A wife and one child survive. —Struck by two unknown men while he was leaving Agar’s bark, near Lock Haven, where he had been participating at night in a rehearsal for an amateur dramatic production, Forest Maggs, of Flemington, was left unconscious, with his face badly cut and bruised. The highwaymen escap- ed with $5 belonging to him. A companion who left shortly afterward heard a moan and soon found his man. ~Congressman Arthur L. Bates, of the Twenty- fifth Congressional district, which includes Titus- ville, recently made a statement declaring that, if he were re-elected, he would not support Joseph G. Cannon for re-election to the speakership of the House of Representatives. This is a little start. ling, as Mr. Bates was a regular in the last ses- sion of Congress and supoorted the speaker in the fight over the rules. =Four sixteen-passenger automobiles have ar- rived in Clearfield for the use of the Clearfield Transportation company in that town and’ vicini- ty. Forthe present the company willl be under the management of C. E. Keefer, of Tyrone, and the service will be handled as a street car line would. - The autos will cover all paved streets and go to Woodland and Hyde city. The ma- chines will run on a regular schedule. —The J. H. Turnbach Hardware company, one of thelbiggest business houses at Philipsburg, has been bought out by the Philipsburg Hardware company, consisting of G. W. Barton, of Patton; P. H. Gross, of Johnstown, and Claude Gette, of Philipsburg, who are now preparing to make ap- plication for a charter. These gentlemen have purchased both the big building and the whole- sale stock of the Turnbach company, which had been in business for many years. —Cholera is said to have broken out in Bumn- side township, Clearfield county. James Chap- man, a prominent citizen, died on Sunday morn- ing and his daughter Daisy, a school teacher, ac- cording to a rumor prevalent at Clearfield, also passed away: the reports further say that two other daughters, also teachers, are seriously ill. It was said that the father and daughter died of dysentery, but rumor has it that in each of the four cases it is or was genuine cholera and doc- tors pronounced it as such. ~Tying her hands and feet, stuffing a cloth saturated with turpentine into her mouth and then piling all the furniture in the room on top of her, three thieves left Mrs. James Rosborough, of near Blairsville, in a helpless condition and proceeded to ransack the house. They secured three dollars and a revolver. The woman was Tracks leading to a nearby cornfield were found, but there the trail was lost. ~When Mrs. Mary Hanas, of Scranton, found four robbers rifling a trunk in her house they warned her not to make an outcry and one cov- trunk. Then the thieves went to a nearby hotel and entered the bar room. To get to the booze
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