INK SLINGS. en —The fellow who is always looking for trouble is generally the one who sees the most of it. —Many a fellow who boasts of a six- cylinder car, can also point to a four- page mortgage. —Really Col. ROOSEVELT ran for the first aid to the injured in a way that speaks volumes for his military training. —Should Wooprow WILSON be elected Governor of New Jersey there will be another presidential possibility headed toward a probability. —Iilinois nay take great pride in hav- ing a CANNON but the recent primaries out there make it look as if they only had a fizzled fire-cracker. —The plot thickens so rapidly that we should not be surprised if that “shorter and uglier word" should soon be called into use between the President and ex- President. —A Republican exchange blames the result in Maine on the “whiskey drinkers up there.” What a universal business that must have been among Republican voters in that State. —If worst comes to the worst, President TAFT and Mr. ROOSEVELT can still sub- mit their difficulties to arbitration. There is no need for our friends of the G. O P. preparing for war yet. —Really we don't see any use in fur- ther talk about “raising the Maine." It's voters did that so completely and so sat- isfactorily on the 13th inst. that we ought all to be satisfied with the job. —As one of his close friendssays, “Mr. BERRY has waited patiently to be made Governor ever since he carried the State in 1905.” Sure. But his trouble seems to be that he didn’t wait at the right place. —Really our Prohibition friends have no reason to complain of the way mat- ters are going with them. Every meet- | ing they have held thus far in the cam- paign has been fairly deluged in cold water. —My, oh My! Has Mr. BRYAN actual- ly bolted the Democratic ticket in Ne- braska. Ii it is so it is almost a cinch that another State is ready to be chalked up in the Democratic column when elec- tion day comes round. —Within the last month ninety-three Methodist ministers in one Iowa confer- ence resigned their pastorates because of inadequate salaries. Prosperity may have found the farms out there, but it ev- idently hasn't made the acquaintance of the pulpits as yet. —President TAFT very probably said something to Col. ROOSEVELT about “a square deal” in that New York fight and the Col. very probably said to himself, as | he was leaving the conference with Pres- ident TAFT: “A square deal!" Where have I heard those words before. —No, no, Mr. TENER; it is not because you were a ball player that you are unfit to be Governor of Pennsylvania. Itis be- cause the greatest ability you have ever displayed was as a ball player. If you had any of the requisites of a Governor it would be different, but you haven't. —A Machine exchange boasts that it is no trick to have a big Republican meet- ing in Pittsburg at any time. Certainly not. All that has to be done is to march the speakers over to the Allegheny peni- tentiary, and they'll find a good, big au- dience of Pittsburg Republicans on tap there all the time. —The Philadelphia Inquirer is moved by facts that have come to it lately, to make the following prediction: “There are a lotof men just nnw who are JuTCcl (Oi 0 oe auto, Will be Jooking If our heavy hearted contemporary had only been a little more explicit and nam- ed the Republican candidates it had in mind how much disappointment it might save some of them, and how much wiser the rest of us would be. —Honestly now if a public school code is passed by the next Legislature, and in all probability it will be, do you think Joun K. TENER would be capable of in- telligently passing on it for approval or veto? Think of such an eventuality you school directors and parents of children who go to the public schools and ask yourselves whether you are ready to vote for a man for Governor who is without the intellectual attainments necessary to properly fill the office. —The speech of Mr. CLARENCE GIBEO- NEY, candidate for Lieutenant Governor, at Grange Park, Centre Hall, last week was interesting but a distinct disappoint- ment to many of his Keystone hearers. The trouble, of course, which they did not understand, was that Mr. GIBBONEY is a Philadelphia moral crusader and knows nothing whatever of what is going on in any other part of the State. He is a most admirable young man, but Mr. BONNIWELL or some one else should re- mind him of the fact that his candidacy without being exhorted to do something for a great city that up to this moment has given no evidence of wanting to do anything for itself. VOL. 55. Complications in Politics. At a meeting of the Democratic club of Philadelphia, the other evening, the ques- tion of endorsing the Democratic nomi- nees for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of Internal Affairs and State Treasurer, or supporting the Keystone party candidates for those offices, was taken up. The Democratic club of Phila- delphia is composed of Democrats who are opposed to the State and local or- ganizations of their party. Most of them have pretended to believe that the State organization and the Philadelphia city | committee are trading posts in which the Democrats in control of them sell the votes of the minority party at an ab- normally high price to the majority. This foolish notion has been dinned into them by political cast-offs who are disappointed. In the first place the leaders of a minor- ity party in Pennsylvania or anywhere else have nothing to sell that is worth even a moderate price to the majority. In Philadelphia or Pennsylvania, for ex- ample, the majority party can defeat the minority without involving itself in the hazard of bribery. All it has to do is stick together, vote solidly for its candi- dates, and being overwhelmingly in the majority, it wins. When the majority fails to stick together, however, it meets defeat both in the city and State, as it did in 1890 and againin 1905, and there is no price great enough to buy either the State leaders or those of Philadelphia to betray their party. As a matter of fact this buy- ing of leaders is purely imaginary. But this is not what we started out to say. What we desired to comment upon is the fact that by a vote of more than two to one the Democratic club of Phila- delphia decided to support the Democratic ticket. Our highly esteemed but mani- festly misguided friends, HENRY BUDD and MicKLE PAUL, spoke eloquently for the Keystone party and fulsomely eulogized the truly good man who, having failed to get the nomination of the Democratic convention is now the candidate of the other party. But to no purpose. Former magistrate WILLIAM EISENBROWN, who has accomplished more in the interest of good government than all the bogus re- formers in the Keystone party, spoke for WeBSTER GRIM, whom he knows inti- mately, and the club by an overwhelming majority followed his leadership. This fact, incidentally, developed a new complication. Judge EISENBROWN was nominated at the June primaries as the candidate of the WILLIAM PENN party for State Senator in the Fourth Senate dis- trict. His speech in the Democratic club in favor of GRiM and the Democratic ticket, so incensed the Keystoners and PENN party men in his district that they are demanding his withdrawal as the candidate of the party for Senatein order that they may have a chance to vote for the PENROSE candidate. They say that Mr. EISENBROWN is inconsistent but they fail to see that EUGENE C. BONNIWELL, who has the Democratic nomination for Congress in the Seventh district, is pre- cisely in the same boat and that in ask- ing EISENBROWN to withdraw they are casting an aspersion on BONNIWELL. New Jersey Points the Way. The nomination of WOODROW WILSON as the Democratic candidate for Governor of New Jersey is as much a sign of pro- gress toward Democratic rehabilitation as the result of the election in Maine. In fact it is more significant for it indicates a return of the party to a full measure of political sanity. Dr. WILSON is a states- man of the highest standard and a Demo- crat of the best type. Hestands not only for good government but for political morality. He believes in the methods as well as the principles of the Fathers of the Republic and the founders of the Democratic party. In nominating such a candidate for Governor the Democrats of New Jersey have pointed the way for Democrats of other States and followed the lines laid down by the Democrats of Pennsylvania. The Democratic party is the party of law and must adhere to the constitution. WEBSTER GRIM's legal ability, his con- servative methods and his unfaltering Democracy appealed to the Allentown convention just as the same qualities in Woobrow WILSON appealed to the Demo- crats of New Jersey. The ratification of the choice by the voters of both States in November will guarantee the safety of the Republic and the enduring restora- tion of the party to power. This is Democratic year and Democrats should take advantage of the opportuni- ties it presents. It will not do to sail away in the clouds in search of the ab- surdities of ROOSEVELT or the heresies of Populism. The sober, second thought of the country is averse to such follies and no party can endure which stands asa menace to industrial and commercial prosperity. New Jersey, Ohio and Penn- sylvania have spoken in tones of no un- certain sound in the nomination of - Wooprow WILSON, JupsoN HARMAN and WEBSTER GRIM for Governor. New York will pursue the same course and those States will lead the Democratic rehabili- ! tation. The Issue in Maine. The efforts of Republican newspapers ' to make the people believe that the re- i sult of the election in Maine is not a ! Democratic victory but a triumph of one | element of the people over another on lo- | cal questions, are amusing. The liquor | question, they say, was the issue, and | neither the tariff nor any other economic subject had anything to do with it. They | are deceiving themselves and fooling no- | body else. The liquor question has been ! an issue in Maine for more than a gen- eration. But it never helped the Demo- crats nor hurt the Republicans from be- ginning to end. It took on a new form five years ago when a law for itsenforce- ment was enacted. But even that made no partisan difference. The Maine campaign was conducted on strictly political lines. The Republi- cans justified the revision of the tariff upward, contrary to the pledges of the party platform and the promises of the President, and notwithstanding the vast increase in the cost of living in conse- quence of such revison. They condoned the profligacy of administration of the government which takes hundreds of millions of dollars annually from the wages of labor and bestows the money in unearned bounties to favorites of the party. The Democrats condemned these evils as alike unjust and immoral and people who have not been in the habit of voting during recent years came out and cast their ballots for reform. If the Democrats had elected only their candidate for Governor and Republican ascendency had continued in the State Legislature and the Congressional delega- tion, there would have been some plausi- bility in the claim that the result is with- out political significance. But a Demo- cratic Legislature was elected in order to defeat Senator HALE for re-election and two of the stand-pat Representatives in Congress were defeated in order that tar- iff reform men would take the place of the revision upward members who be- trayed the public during the recent extra session. As a matter of fact there never was a more “clean-cut” Democratic victory and it is likely to be repeated in many other States. Senator Grim’s Campaign Tours. Senator GRIM's first week on the hust- ings was completed in Somerset county on Saturday evening with an eloquent speech at Meyersdale, the home of Hon. SAMUEL B. PHILSON, one of his colleagues on the ticket. It was, literally, a “whirl- wind tour.” Beginning at Greensburg, Westmoreland county, before breakfast on Tuesday morning, it ended shortly be- fore Saturday midnight. Within the two periods he canvassed six counties and held receptions or made speeches at half a dozen centres of population in each. Meetings were held morning, noon and night and they were largely attended and exceptionally enthusiastic. The militant Democrats are ready for battle any time this year. This week Senator GRIM has had another strenuous task to perform. On Tuesday he was at Wilkesbarre where a record-breaking meeting was held. Thence he visited Wyoming, Bradford, Lehigh, Carbon and Monroe county, where he is today and will wind upina blaze of glory and enthusiasm at Easton, ing involves a vast amount of mental and physical energy, but Senator GRIM is equal to it. At the conclusion of his first week's tour he was "as fit as a fiddle,” and thus far this week he has experienc- ed no symptoms of fatigue. He is in- creasing in effectiveness and growing in strength by the experience. In other words he doesn’t “weary in well doing.” The effect of Senator GRIM'S tour on the communities he visited is more im- portant, however, than that upon him- self. In this respect there is nothing more to be desired. He hasbeen cordial- ly received and enthusiastically encour- aged. His visits in the several counties have given the people an opportunity to measure the man and estimate his worth and they have not been slow to testify their approval. He has revealed himself as a man of affairs, familiar with existing conditions and equipped in courage and intellect to offer remedies for the ills of the body politic. Such a man is needed at the head of the State government and unless the signs are misleading he will be called to that service. —Possibly the Republicans of Maine had grown tired doing their drinking in their cow stables, or going out behind the barn door every time they wanted a nip. D FEDERAL UNION. PTEMBER 23, 1910. STATE RIGHTS AN BELLEFONTE. PA BE tomorrow night. This sort of campaign- | ! Precisely Parallel Cases. | The nomination of WooDrOwW WILSON | as the Democratic candidate for Governor | of New Jersey has had a perceptible in- fluence on the public mind in all sections of the country. Almost as much as the | result of the election in Maine it has in- | spired confidence in the future of Democ- | racy. It has been accepted, universally, as a sign of Democratic rejuvenation. | That it will result in a Democratic vic- | tory in that Stateis agreed upon onevery “side. Even those Democrats in New : Jersey, in and out of the convention, who i ' favored other candidates for the nomina- | tion, declare freely and frankly that the | choice of the convention was wise and | believe that it will be ratified by the vot- | ers in November. We refer to this not for the reason that it reflects an unusual condition in | politics. On the contrary it is precisely | what might have been and ought to be | expected. Mr. WILSON was one of three | gentlemen named for the favor of the | convention. It may be added without | invidiousness, that he was the fittest of | the three, though one of his competitors was much more generally known among | the delegates for the reason that he had | been the nominee of the party for the | same office on a previous occasion and i proved a most popular candidate. But the party leaders, headed by former Uni- ted States Senator SMITH, made a deter- mined effort to nominate Dr. WiLsON and succeeded. In the Allentown convention to nomi- nate a Democratic candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania a precisely similar con- dition presented itself. There were three aspirants for the nomination and because one of them had threatened to run in- dependent in the event of his failure to secure the favor, another withdrew, and the third was nominated. Possibly the party leaders preferred him to his re- maining antagonist, who had personally solicited their support and was willing and anxious to receive their help. But there is no just reason in that for oppos- | ing the successful candidate. In factthere is just as much cause for denouncing the ; nomisiation of WooDROW WILSON as that . of WEBSTER GRIM. | —=Should the Republican State conven- tion at Saratoga, New York, undertake to i endorse President TAFT for re-election in 1912, it will probably result in smok- ing Colonel ROOSEVELT out to the point where he will at least drop an inkling of what he has in the back of his head rela- tive to the presidential fight two years hence. Colonel ROOSEVELT has at last appeal- ed to TAFT tosave him. During his re- cent western trip he scarcely mentioned the President's name. Just before start- ing on that tour he declared that TAFT had sold out to the machine and intimat- ed that tie ties that bound them had been severed. But upon his return he found that TAFT was getting along fairly well without him and that he was not en- tirely secure without the influence of presidential patronage. Thereupon he invoked the Macedonian cry. He begged TAFT to give him a hearing and almost sacrificed his life in his eagerness to avail himself of the manifestly reluctant consent. | What ROOSEVELT wants of TAFT is not | moral support though that is the way the | Colonel puts it. The mighty hunter needs something more substantial than moral influence. He needs that subtle something used in politics which takes the place and serves the purpose of co- ercing or beguiling voters to action. When he was a candidate for President he asked Mr. HARRIMAN to supply it in the shape of corruption funds to be used in debauching the voters of New York city and Brooklyn. Now he wants Presi- dent TAFT to furnish it in the form of promises of office and it remains to be seen what the harvest will be. But it takes ROOSEVELT down off the high moral pedestal from which he has | been preaching political regeneration. It presents him in the aspect of begging fa- vors from a man whom he had inferen- tially traduced for during his western trip he “consorted” with those who have been | denouncing TAFT as a recreant. It is , not usual for manly men to thus trifle | with the principles of fairness. But it is characteristic of the braggart and bully. In prosperity he is arrogant and in ad- versity the opposite. When ROOSEVELT was flouting TAFT he imagined he was “it.” Since he has obtained a more ac- curate measure of conditions he finds that he is only a part. —To both President TAFT and Mr. ROOSEVELT the thanks of Democrats everywhere are due. If they will only keep on fixing their fences for 1912, they will have their party licked to a frazzle long before the fight commences. A Democratic Senate. i —— s g | 2 41 g& fel ocrats should suffer any thistaen seals away from pul out of a total of twenty- of course, a good deal to look for. i many persons, either in Maine | out of it, Eugene Hale's success- orto bea ocrat? There are many | States far more likely to elect Democrat- ic Senators. E23 : ir g gf and the ublicans are now divided be- Jin the Joy wn he is figh an t, t Ha for Ee strongly against Connecticut whose Senator is about fe out of is a Democratic State; it been carried the Repub licans only by a fluke and uring serious di pmong who are now united. Ni has y elected Democrats, and so has Montana, and in the present instance tsand Dem- and New Mexico are Democratic, and they will reinforce what is now the mi- polly side of the Senate. ; together there something more han 2 possibility of 8 Democratic gegats a3 well a Flouse Guilt the of the Taft term of The Improved Catechism From Lif i" To be read, inwardly digested and often | Question. Who made the world? Theodore Roosevelt. | Roosevelt, the Faunal Naturalist. Who Son the Spanish-American war Rough-Rider Roosevelt. Who was the Talkiest man. Doctor Roosevelt. Who wrote the letters of Junius? Roosevel Editor t. Who killed Cock Robin? Teddy. Who struck Billy Patterson. The Colonel. Who Was, Is, and Always Will Be the most modest man? ® A New Democratic Leader. the character, capacity, attainments and principles of t Wilson, of Prince- ton ynivasity. 30s gther 1 man in public mote thoroughly con- represents the antithesis of tism or opposes more vigorously the unDemocratic phases of the New Na- tionalism. Dr. Wilson believes in constitutional government. He believes in preserving the constitutional rights and exercising the constitutional functions of the States. He believes in a t of law. He does not believe it necessary for the con- trol of corporations to overthrow all con- stitutional safeguards and set up a power- ful central its head. as creatures of law can be con law. He believes that when corporations commit crimes the men who direct them are guilty and should be punished. Turn on the Light. From the New York World. Every farmer that paints a house or a barn pays tribute to the G Every family that has a bathtub or Dambing in the house pays tribute tothe United States Senate to frame tariff schedules for the family Aldrich and G are now a matter of record. How many other Sen- ators are there who have been engaged in revising the tariff for the benefit of SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. ~Six cases of small-pox are reported from Mar. guerite, a mining town in Westmoreland county ~The county commissioners of the State have decided to hold their 1911 convention at Indiana —Frank Walker, of Lewistown, has a second crop of strawberries, which are said to be of good size and quality. —Twenty cases of typhoid fever have been re- ported to the health authorities of Johnstown dur ing the past month. near Punxsutawney. The coal is poor and the company is said to have been gold bricked in the purchase. —Four cows standing under a tree during a ter- rific thunder storm that passed over Shaver's Creek valley were instantly killed when the tree was struck by lightning. They were owned by George Myton, of Manor hill. ~The state board of undertakers, in session at Harrisburg, recently recalled the license of Stephen F. Brady, a Johnstown undertaker. The interment of bodies without taking out permits is supposed to have been the cause of the action. —Mrs. Mary Bodine, aged 84 years, a resident of Jersey Shore, was burned to death last Wednes® day night, when her clothing took fire from a lan. tern she had taken to go out to look for a son. Another son, who followed her, found her envel- oped in flames. ~—There are now eleven cases of typhoid fever at Woodland, among them the two sons of Dr. Shivery, the busy physician of that town who simply doesn’t get a chance to go to bed like other folks during the epidemic, but sleeps as he drives from house to house. William P. Loomis, of Halifax, Pa., recently was elected to a vacancy in the Lock Haven High school and resigned after two days’ work to ac. cept a lucrative offer from State College. This is the second time this term an applicant for the po- sition has resigned after having been elected. ~The judges of the recent convention of firemen - | at Osceola have announced their decision relative to the company coming the longest distance. used | The prize had been awarded to Portage, but Du Bois protested. The judges decided in favor of the latter place, and the money has been paid over. —At Greensburg on Saturday a sealed verdic, was returned acquiting twenty-seven miners and one deputy sheriff on charges of rioting at a re- sult of the miners’ strike in the Irwin district. In the case of twenty-four of the miners the jury placed the costs on the prosecutor, Deputy Sheriff “ | George Falls. —Up near Sheffield, Warren county, a wel, drilled into the sand Saturday by Capt. J. J, Haight, on a lease near Porkey, started off at a hundred and fifty barrel clip, and it is thought this will be increased when the well can be drilled deeper in the sand. This find is causing consid- erable excitement among oil men. —Robbers are plying their trade at Freidens, Somerset county. George Berkey is minus $75, the amount of his pay check; Frank Bloom was another victim and places his loss at $15, while John Walker, a farmer, is out a similar amount. In each case the money was taken from the room in which the relieved person slept. ~The total number of deaths in Pennsylvania during the month of June was 8,549. Of these 671 were due to pneumonia, 646 to tuberculosis of the lungs, 468 to Bright's disease, 402 to cancer, 718 to diarrhoea and enteris, under 2 years, 542 to early infancy, 746 to accident or some form of violence, 123 to diphtheria, 141 to measles, 98 to whooping cough. ~Coming in contact with a heavily charged feed wire, while at work at Sunbury, Pa., on Saturday evening, William A. Wise, a former resident of Altoona, and ason of Edward H. Wise, ‘who for some years was the general manager of the Citi. zens Light, Heat and Power company in Altoona, was instantly killed. The body has been taken to Johnstown for interment. —Anna Cole was mistaken for a burglar and * | perhaps fatally shot by her friend and neighbor, Charles Kindrew, early Saturday. The young woman trespassed upon the Kindrew lawn to get a drink of water from a hydrant. Kindrew, hav- ing twice heard burglars during the night, shot at the dark form. One of the bullets entered the girl's abdomen and it is doubtful if she recovers: —Attorney John G. Ogle has been appointed re. ceiver of the Pennwood Coal company by Judge Koser, of Somerset county,on request of abou, fifty men. The men are foreigners, for the most part, and were formerly employed by the coal con, cern. The company is said to owe the men wages for work done long ago. It was organized four or five years ago and seems to have had rough sled- ding from the start. —Jjohn Dross, of Ramey, a few miles south of Osceola Milis, recently murdered his wife by cut- ting her throat with a razor, then tried to kill himself in the same manner. He severed his windpipe, but is likely to recover. The man has been taken to the Cottage hospital, Philipsburg. No reason for the tragedy isassigned,and no one witnessed the affair. Dross had been home ill for afew days. The murdered woman had been mar, ried twice and leaves four children by her first husband and one by Dross. —A number of York county ministers will be called upon to observe the oriental dancing girls and watch for gamblers at the annual county fair in York, which begins Oct. 3rd. This corps of minister-detectives will be in charge of the Rev. J. Livingston Smith. They were appointed at a recent meeting of the ministerial association, which is determined that the county fair this year be kept clean. If the pastors discover any im- moral shows or games of chance while serving as sleuths, they will immediately make a report to District Attorney Sherwood or to the fair offi’ cials. ~—Thieves, whose extreme audacity made them successful, stole two cows from the barnyard at the Baker estate, at Baker Station, Blair county, on Saturday, and since that time the cow: have disappeared as completely as if thev had been swallowed up by the earth. The thieves entered the barnyard, drove the two finest cows out, closed the gate and dropped from view. A. W. Beck- man, the manager of the estate, drove about the countryside for miles, after discovering the loss, but without finding a trace of the bovines. Both of them have been dehorned, and would be easily identified. —While drilling for water on his property in the ly escaped from being overcome. He threw a
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