rN 10 Hh +4 —Think well, you Republicans, before u warm up to the Colonel's “New Na- nalism." You might find yourself anded as BRYAN Democrats. —And to think the Vice President of he United States couldn't even get chosen VOL. 55. Emma, BELLEFONTE FA. SB i ———— i —————-—— o_O STATE RIGETS AND FEDERAL UNIOR. nporary chairman of his own party's avention in his home State. Isn't it ful, MABLE? 5 | —The Sultan of Sulu is visiting us. He "is the “smoke” we are paying a salary of ~ $1500.00 a year to pay attention to his four wives and let our soldier boys alone. Of course it isn't a very munificent salary ~~ for a Suitan, but then he hasn't much to get Sultany over. —There is a difference between New _ York and Pennsylvania Republicans, after all. The New Yorkers have smashed their machine into smithereens, while the Pennsylvanians are intent upon electing an unfit man Governor so that theirs may be made more powerful than ever. =The equinox, which somehow or other got lost in the shuffle of the ele- ments for the past few years, certainly has shown upin old-time form during the past ten days. Seldom within our recollec- tion have we had such a conglomeration of weather marking the exit of summer and the coming of fall. —The Hon. VIVIAN Lewis, the Republi- can nominee for Governor of New Jersey, is such a pretty man that thatis about all his advocates can talk about. If “beauty is as beauty does” he won't want to look in the glass for months after Wooprow WILSON has gotten through with him in November. —We confess that we are not just as up-to-date as we might be and that is probably the reason that we never caught | for Congress in the Fifteenth district of sight of a hobble-skirt until Tuesday. | this State and spragged the wheel of They are anything but pretty, but they | Democratic opportunity wherever and might serve a good purpose after all if | whenever it could. they only succeed in compelling a fast Previousto the Allentown convention girl to slow down a little. | the Democrat declared that “the choice of —1If we are to believe Col. ROOSEVELT the majority of the convention would be then we cannot believe Archbishop IRE- its choice whether it should be MUNSON . LAND. The Archbishop has produced evi- or BERRY, GRIM or GuTHRIE.” The con- dence that backs Mrs. STORER, whom the | vention by as fair processes as ever were President accused of falsifying some years | employed in any convention nominated GRIM by an overwhelming majority and ago. Fortunately for the Archbishop's reputation most well informed people | the Democrat immediately proceeded to thought it was the President and not Mrs. | attack the nominee because the people STORER who was falsifying. | Séfuned do instruc: thie delegate for Mr. BERRY though they were offered the ~The individuals form the SORmDING: | hee todo so in every county in the form the trusts, | tions, the combinations form the | State. The WATCHMAN does most em- the trusts form the system. If the sys ot lo ihe charge that the cons tem violates the law why not BHish 1h | vention was “domipated by a particular with president WOODROW WILSON, of | interest, or that the nomination was dic- Princeton, in the statement that if the | tated by that interest.” The Allentown convention was con- An Esteemed Contemporary’s Policies. | i The esteemed Johnstown Democral as- | sures us that it has stood for free trade, public control and if necessary public ownership of public service utilities, against | ship subsidies, special privileges, govern- | ment by injunction, a central bank and a | tax system which invites fraud. There is certainly nothing Populistic in that | attitude though the question of which | utilities are public and which not is sus- | ceptable of doubt and when public owner- ship should take the place of public regu- | lation is one of uncertainty. If our es. teemed contemporary would limit its activities to the advocacy of those things, | however, we should have no quarrel with it. But those are only trifles in its category | of policies. For example, the esteemed Democrat insists on the initiative and referendum | as well as the recall in legislation and | various other Populistic absurdities and has already put its anathema upon JUDSON HARMAN, Wooprow WILSON and every other Democrat who doesn't approve such political follies. It may have “damned with faint praise,” every ticket “which the Democrats of Pennsylvania have put in the field,” but it has not sincerely or earnestly supported any ticket, State or National, except when Mr. BRYAN was the candidate, in a dozen years. It hasalready done its best to help the PENROSE ma- chine defeat the Democratic candidate i | law were to impose a personal guilt clause | in its statutes regulating corporations there would be few occasions for invok- | trolled by the delegates absolutely. At the harmony meeting of the Democratic | State committee the editor of the Demio- ing the la inst them. ¥ Wi I aren om ti their | crat had a resolution introduced and pass- at oa Re ques igre © ym which authorized the voters of any right to desert r party when EO RCHITD. & eas. Lei, ProNToRce votes with it could do a great deal of { ato ida i : candidates on their ballots. The good we can’t help but wonder what the | (ends of Mr. BERRY exhausted ov ex-office holders of the Democracy, who | + : . . | available resource to induce the people to are now supporting the Keystone ticket, |; ort for him under the provisions of would have done had that Allentown con- | noo woo otition. But less than thirty of : . t or vention absurdity happened when either | the three hundred delegates which com- of them was a candidate for office. Hon | Joced the convention were 5 instruited estly now, do you think they would have | 4 i¢ Munson had remained a candidate thought that there was anything so rad | nervy would not have received much ically Yong. more than that many votes. In the break —We don’t know whether it was inspir- | yp he gathered a trifle more than one- ed or not but a suggestion has been made , third of the whole number. that “the court should wear a gown now | The charge thatthe “PENROSE-McNICHOL that the court house has been all fixed | gang” influenced the vote of the Allen- up.” Such justification for such an inno- | town convention in favor of GRIM and vation here is altogether too silly to dis- | against BERRY has been so completely cuss. However as gowns are worn by | refuted that no fair-minded man reiterates the judges of all the higher courts there jt now. The PENROSE machine would is no reason why they should not be worn ‘have welcomed the nomination of Mr. by the president judges of the common | Berry as the Democrats of New York pleas bench. It would probably add to would have welcomed the nomination of the dignity and circumstance of some of | Colonel ROOSEVELT by the Republicans them very materially, unless their desire | of that State. The Allentown convention to be up to the minute in gowns should | was moved to vote against Mr. BERRY for betray them into ordering one with a the same reasons that PENROSE and Mc- hobble-skirt. NicHoL hoped it would vote for him. —JoHuN H. DEVINE, a stockholder of the TE i i; Pennsylvania Railroad Co., has found out | Colonel Rovsevelt’s Transportation. that there is a charge on the books of that company against Colonel ROOSEVELT road corporation has written to Mr. for transportation to the amount of $100,- | y,\ps McCrea, president of that com 000. Mr. DEVINE thinks the bill should | oon ® (Goo Fel Ge true that be paid and has addressed a letter to er icCaEn tne president of the Com. | SUBUDORE ROOSEVELT Cues Sho Smpany pany. Te officials of the Pennsy do not | ju vo pim He asks turther “is there any deny a charge of that amount in the for | reason why this debtshould not be paid,” mer President's name, but they say it gq «hat steps have been taken, if any, was charged to advertising. Whata pea- | j;, pohalf of the company to collect the nut people we are, after all, topermitour | ,,, ont due, and what prospect there is. Presidents to race about over the COUN: | i¢ anv, of its settlement?” try in special trains and have the cor-| * f course Mr. McCREA will not answer porations we are condemning charge the | 4p; letter unless compelled to through bills to advertising account. | legal processes. That ROOSEVELT owes —One of the results of a Cabinet meet- the money is beyond question. That is ing on Tuesday has been to place eight to say it is absolutely true that he ob- thousand assistant postmasters under the | tained and used for himself, his family protection of civil service. It is hinted | and his friends, transportation to that that all second and third class postmas- | amount, and in pursuance of the rules of ters are to be put under civil service pro- | the company it was charged up. But tection just as soon as Congress can be there never was any intention to collect urged to adopt such recommendations as | it. On the contrary it was probably the Department is now preparing. If | charged over to the advertising account, this is done we give up the fight of 1912 | to balance the books. right now. What's the use of winning | Besides the company owes something anyhow if there isn't going to be a chance | to Mr. ROOSEVELT. It will be remember- to turn the rascals out. Incidentally, the [ed that when an investigation of the next Congress will probably be Democrat- | Postoffice Department was proposed in ic and we don’t think it will let Mr. Post- | Congress some years ago, ROOSEVELT A stockholder in the Pennsylvania rail- currency President master General HITCHCOCK take it over | went into the lobby to stop it. There with any such scheme as this. | was a suspicion at the time that exorbitant prices had been paid for carrying the mails as a set off for the transportation 2 ; favors extended to ROOSEVELT and he | We can imagine nothing more prepos- prevented the congressional investigation terous than the proposition, attributed to in order to avert the exposure of these | Tr J. BreNNEN, of Pittsburg, that facts. The concessions which Mr. RoosevELT | Rominee for Governor, be withdrawn from 1 settling the bills for transportation. The ©T transaction by which the Steel trust was | all voters opposed to the PENROSE ma- permitted to absorb the Tennessee Iron | chine might unite. The object _is entic- and Coal company, for example, was worth | ing but absolutely impossible. WEBSTER to the Pennsylvania railroad all the trans. GRIM was nominated by an overwhelm- portation ROOSEVELT received and as ing majority in a convention the dele ROOSEVELT regards public office as a pri- , ates to which were chosen by a direct vate snap, there is no reason why there Vote of the people under a Uniform Pri- should not be a credit as well as a debit | Mary law suggested and approved by the side to such a claim. | element of the ie in, all } | which pretends to be opposed to the PEN- ROSE machine. His withdrawal would be | resented by a vast of voters. Senator GRIM'S tour of the “Northern , ‘There > not ody has never been Tier," has greatly heartened his suppor-' any excuse for any voters who are oppos- ters throughout the State. Ever since ' ed to the PENROSE machine, withholding the time of DAVID WILMOT that section | their support and votes from Mr. GRIM. sort | Lie fog utlonnan of the Higher S¥arak . ter and most sturdy men they have adhered tenacious: the office. His —_—. was fairly ly to the policies of that great leader in made. He has earned the good opinion everything but the tariff, for tariff taxa- of good citizens by faithful publicservice. tion other than for revenue was always His popularity is proved by the fact that SE mL Se erhus how nice efor Shute Sewers | in a district which had been some of the evils of Whiggery and Re gtrongly Republican. To withdraw such publicanism in order to get the promise ' 5 candidate under such circumstances of advance along the line of anti-slavery. | would imply moral cowardice and mental But the people of the Northern Tier delinquency and Senator GRIM is right in were always as honest as they were cour- | declaring most emphatically that it is not ageous. to be thought of. He has fairly earned Naturally the methods of the Republi | the nomination and will fo re- can machine are abhorrent to men of the | main on the ticket. temperament of those “Northern Tier” | The concentration of the votes of all voters. For years they have been rest- | citizens who are opposed to the atroci- less under the rule, first of QUAY and | ties of the PENROSE machine is greatly to since his death of PENROSE, and thegreat | pe desired. The dominance of that ma- majorities which years ago used to de-| chine in the political and official life of light the Republican managers began to | the State has cost and is costing the peo- dwindle. The Democrats were even | ple hundreds of thousands of dollars an- more intolerant of machine control than | nyally and making the name of Pennsyl- the Republicans and when by misrepre- | vania a term of reproach. But the way sentation of the facts and the perversion | t4 achieve the result is to unite on WEB- of the truth the impression was created ' grr GriM and his admirable associates that the Allentown convention had been ' ,, the Democratic ticket, THOMAS H. swayed by sinister influences, a popular ' vy, the candidate for Lieutenant protest ran along the “Northern Tier" Governor; JAMES 1. BLAKESLEE, candidate from Wayne to Warren counties. The g.. Secretary of Internal Affairs, and Democrats up there wouldn't stand forit. i SAMUEL B. PHILSON, nominee for State But the people of the “Northern Tier” Treasurer. All of these gentlemen are have intelligence as well as courage and | ,naiterabl y ’ : y opposed to the methods and integrity. They read and think and soon | measures of the PENROSE machine and if settie down to a study of the subject. elected will cast it out root and branch. The result was that they have come to: understand the facts and when WEBSTER | GRIM visited Bradford and Wyoming | counties last week he found not only that Hon. A. MITCHELL PALMER, vice chair- the voters of his own party are practical | man of the Democratic National Con- ly solid for him but that vast numbers of | gressional committee, is of the opinion the Republicans are cordially supporting | that there will be twelve Democrats out him and his associates on the ticket. It! of the thirty-two Congressmen elected in was a revelation not only to the candi- | this State this year. Four of the five dates but to the thinking people all over | Democrats now in commission, he says, the State. Senator GRIM was cordially | are certain to be re-elected. These are welcomed in Bradford county especially, | ROTHERMEL in the Thirteenth district, and the vote of that county will show WiLsoN in the Fifteenth, MCHENRY in that he is appreciated. | the Sixteenth and himself in the Twenty- sixth. Mr. NicHoLs, of the Tenth dis- trict, will be succeeded by a Democrat, Mr. CALPIN, and the gains will be made publican organizatian in New York to “a | in the Eighth, the Eleventh, the Twelfth, frazzle,” to borrow his own expression. | the Fourteenth, the Seventeenth, the He was elected temporary chairman of | Twentieth and the Twenty-eighth dis- the Saratoga convention by a considerable | tricts. Mr. PALMER makes a conserva- majority, over the Vice President of the | tive estimate. United States, a part of the present ad- That the districts named by Mr. PAL- ministration. Of course this result was MER will elect Democratic Congressmen Grim in the Northern Tier. What Might be Accomplished Roosevelt’s Recent Victory. Colonel ROOSEVELT has beaten the Re- not achieved without help. It was nec- is practically certain and the chances are the essary for him to have full control of the more than even that OLMSTED, CANNON'S federal patronage to accomplish the re. cat's paw will be defeated in the Eigh- sult, and to use it in the most flagrant | teenth, that GREGG, Democrat, will be manner. If the head of the administra- | elected in the Twenty-second district and tion at Washington had not intervened | that JAMES A. WAKEFIELD will defeat the against the tail, the machine would have two Republican candidates, JOHN DAL- easily attached the ROOSEVELT scalp to 2ZELL and Dr. BLACK in the Thirtieth | its list of trophies of the chase. | district, while it is possible that JouN B. Mr. TAFT having heiped Colonel Roose- | BROOKS, Democrat, will defeat BATES in VELT to defeat the Vice President for a | the Twenty-fifth districtand that WILLIAM coveted but unremunerative honor, the | J. BREENE, Democrat, will be elected in public will watch future developments the SIBLEY district, the Twenty-eighth. with curious interest. Some years ago That would make seventeen out of thir- THEODORE ROOSEVELT induced the late 'ty-two districts, certain or likely to be EpwARD H. HARRIMAN to put himself into | Democratic. an equivocal position in order to help | Of course these gains in Congress can- MAN as “an undesirable citizen,” for the | no gains will be made and one or two of reason that he had done the thing that | the districts now represented by Demo- helped ROOSEVELT. In consenting to turn | crats might be lost to the party. No the patronage of the administration into | good is accomplished without effort and ior we Bn Dov hepene. | everything is possible if sufficient mental position and the result is a | and physical energy is put into the at- ate dh ® SEP 0 CLINE sess. The gain of widely t ROOSEVELT | that many Congressmen would be a great ah aspera the Republican vietory | Achievement for Pennsylvania, this Dem- t for hin 1912 oink other | Ocratic year. It was such a gain that equivocal matter of over the New day makes him a practically invincible | gave the country the great advantage of candidate. That TAFT hopes to succeed | RANDALL'S Speakership some years ago himself is hiok detiied. If, therefore, the | and now it would give the State an influ- this year to defeat the Republican ma. | €1ce in legislation beyond computation. work the destruction of | Let us try for it. Ee EL I ror more —— Wednesday will be Children’s Beary akin to helrony of fate. An that at the Fair. sy wil be Clilérui's doy | of age will be admitted free. vantages and his victory in Saratoga is EE among the greatest of them. ——=Subscribe for the WATCHMAN. WEBSTER GRIM, the worthy Democratic | Jowa. a ithe ithe Me. Tali was en gaged in fe Re reading nsurgen He succeeded too well. He read ollette La i i i : i 3 il 4H 2 £ R rE 28% things, but now that share of the federal get our differences to shoulder to a spl The Republican EE party. e 0 ngs en, however, was the definition given an enemy of the Democracy said that it was an “organized fle cesiden Taf ow t t proposes to even that definition and apply it in all seriousness to his own party. g H The Cost of Rooseveltism. From the New York World. The total expenditures of the United States Faverpucnt from the inaugura- tion of usiington ji 1780 50 the - war in 1861 were $1,795,- 4, 1909, authorized itures amounting to 982,816.87. Four years of tism cost twice A Regular Will 0’ the Wisp. From the Pittsburg Post. Dossat't it. tend to jokt the av brain attempted suicide by cutting his own throat with = Cot- SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. —A Titusville hunter recently stumbled across a “bee tree” which he at once proceeded to cut to 110 pounds. ~Jersey Shore has made a very nice gain in populatian during the last ten vears. In 1900 the inhabitants numbered 3,021, while the census of 1910 gives the population at 5,738. at Williamsport, is considering charges of heresy preferred against the Rev. Dr. Grant, pastor of . | the Northumberland Presbyterian church. ~The Morrisdale Coal company is engaged in building a dozen new houses at its No. 3 shaft pear Philipsburg, all of which would seem to prove that the coal company has hopes for the fu- ture. ~The work of clearing away the debris occa- sioned by the burning of No. 9 shaft of the Penn- sylvania Coal and Coke company near Cresson: has been started and the building of a new shaft ~Charley Mark, aged 8 years, son of Ash Mark, of Philipsburg, who was recently bitten by a mad dog and underwent the Pasteur treatment. has been returned to his home from Marietta and is believed to be all right again. ~Alleging that a loose board in a sidewalk at Vintondale, Cambria county, was responsible for her fall down an embankment in which she was badly injured. Mrs. John Smart asks damages in the sum of $10,000 and has sued the borough for that amount. —Hugh H. Lancaster, who died at his home in South Sterling, Lackawanna county, Wednesday, September 21st, at the age of 87 years, was the first man in the United States to make umbrella handles by machinery. He likewise served as postmaster of his home town for fifty-three years. —In the Cambria county court at Ebensburg Friday, Patrick Murphy, a Pittsburg traveling salesman, who has sued the Pennsylvania Rail- road company for $15,000 damages, alleged to have been sustained by him while traveling be- tween Johnstown and Pittsburg, was awarded a verdict of $7,000 by the jury. ~The Consolidation Coal company has placed a contract for the erection of twenty-five single houses, six double houses and a superintendent's residence on its property at Acosta, Somerset share | county. The work is to be started in a few days and the cost of the improvement is estimated to be between $35,000 and $40,000. —A terrific rain storm, accompanied by heavv peals of thunder and vivid flashes of lightning. swept over Sugar valley between 5 and 6 o'clock Sunday evening during which Mrs. Lewis Garri- son was struck by lightning and instantly killed while the telephone line in that section was inl stantly put out of commission. —James Spellisy. a member of the Williamsport fire department, while driving a hose carriage to a fire last Saturday evening, was thrown from his seat by one of the horses stumbling, and falling on the paving was run over by the heavy car- riage and instantly killed. His neck was broken. He was single and aged 45 years. —Lester Miller, of Nittany valley, Clinton coun. ty, has been missing eggs from his chicken coop for some time past and concluded to catch the thief if possible. Sunday he heard a commotion inthe hen house, went to investigate and found abig black snake in the act of crawling into one of the nests in which there were several eggs. ~Mrs. Louis Christie, of Hastings, is dead as is her husband from eating toadstools in mistake cayenne pepper had been used in the cooking of ithe supposed mushrooms. Mrs. Christie was about 35 years of age. ~The water committee of the council of Blairs ville has been making tests relative to securing an improved water supply. The idea is to have wells drilied and thus get some that is not con- taminated. One has been put down to the depth * | of 275 feet, a pumping station started and a flow of about 6,000 gallons per hour was secured. The proposition now is to drill a half dozen wells. —~Miss Helen King, 18 years old, is dying of con- der cussion of the brain at the Allegheny General hos- pital. While attending an amateur baseball game Sunday afternoon, she was struck in the head by a wild thrown ball and was knocked unconscious, Miss King, with some friends, was sitting back of third base, when, during an exciting play, she rose to her feet, just as the ball came whizzing to- ward her. —Harry Boyer, a woodchopper of Tyrone, be" came mixed in a melee at a saw mill near Mill —John Dross, the Austrian miner, of Beulah, near Ramey, who killed his wife on September 14th, by cutting her throat with a razor aad then tage hospital, Philipsburg, to which institution he was taken immediately after the horrible tragedy. Death resulted from his inability to take nourish- ment. He was aged 38 years. His demise, to- gether with the death of his wife, will throw sev- eral children on the charity of others. —A novel method for stealing chickens was em’ ployed recently by the party who made away with over a hundred hens and roosters from the farm of D. Norman App of near Selinsgrove. The thieves burned sulphur in the coop, and by so do- ing stupefied the chickens. When the fumes had done their work, the robbers entered the hen house and removed the finest of the flock. The silence with which the crime was committed made the “get away” easy. Mr. App has no clue that might lead to the arrest of the guilty per- sons. —Bert L. Comstock. aged 43 years, a Pennsyl- vania railroad machinist, residing in Altoona, dis- from his home on Sunday afternoon. and his family, alarmed as to his whereabouts, has requested the police authorities to help locate him. About a year ago Mr. Comstock had an at- tack of typhoid fever, from the effects of which he was returned. The wit- nesses, testimony to the t that the public highways were damaged by the 1 of the engine and the trucks which it hauled.
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