BY P. GRAY MEEK. ee —————————————————— INK SLINGS. —Since the natives of Northern Aus- tralia eat rats with a relish why wouldn't it be wise to encourage emigration from those colonies. —Tomorrow the eager sportsman will sally with his gun and run his legs off through the woods in search of game and fun. Will he find either? —And it was just Philadelphia's luck that she was able to pull off a big auto- mobile race without a sensation of any sort. Not even a spectator was killed. —While traveling through the South last Sunday Col. ROOSEVELT made fifty speeches from the car platform. A fine Sunday record for the most honest and conscientious man of the age. —Senator ROOT is of the opinion that the Republicans in New York State have only a fighting chance. It looks like something doing for the Democrats over there when such a prominent Republican becomes so pessimistic. —Why wouldn't the Colonel be just the fellow to send over to Portugal to start that new Republic off right? There is his chance to get a start right from the ground and build up the modern Arcadia that he is always haranguing about. —The United States has produced a bumper corn crop this year and the price of hogs should go down accordingly. It is an old belief that when feed is cheap beef and hogs are cheap. Let us hope that it will be made good this winter. —Since Col. ROOSEVELT took that ride in a flying machine at St. Louis, on Tues- day, we can think of nothing exciting left for him to indulge in until the night of November 8th when he gets on the wire to listen to the election returns coming in from New York State. —Really it is beginning to look as though there really js a chance to lick TENER for Governor, but GRIM will have to do it. Mr. BERRY can't because he hasn't anything to start on. Even LAR- KIN, the regular Prohibitionist nominee for Governor, has an organized party back of him. —Last year it was the Monkey house episode now it is a breach of promise suit that is launching CARUSO for the coming grand opera season. Anyway you look at it the dago tenor ought to make a good publicity man for a circus after his throat gives out. —There is a very small ticket in the field for election this fall; the only coun- ty office to be filled being the Legislator but it is important that every Democrat make an effort to get to the polls. We want to elect Dr. STEWART, of Clearfield, as our Senator by all means and the con- test for Governor may be so close that every vote in Centre county will count, —Postmaster General HITCHCOCK has announced that before the close of another fiscal year the Postoffice Depart- ment will be self sustaining and then penny postage will be in sight. When that day comes the iconoclast will proba- bly argue that it is not such a wonderful thing at that because it will be just as much trouble to lick a one center asa two. —Anyway the Democrats of Massa- chusetts can't be blamed for not being infused with plenty of ginger——or some- thing else. Their state convention proved a veritable vaudeville of fights and the whole thing came near winding up in a riot. Now if they would only get together and work off someof that strenuosity on the common enemy Massachusetts might have reason to feel as proud as Maine. —Spiritualism took rather an unusual turn in the case of barrister WALTER PHELPS DODGE, of London, and his third wife. The spirit of his second wife ap- peared so frequentiy to them and became so peevish because No. 3 was glittering in the jewelry she had left that they act- ually agreed upon a separation and No. 3 gave up all of the jewels, which are val- ued at fifty thousand dollars. Certainly the fools will not all be dead until this particular English lawyer has been laid away. —While resting in Erie on Sunday Senator GRIM happened to attend a Methodist church and was surprised to find the pastor, Rev. Dr. C. E. McKINLEY, an old friend, an acquaintance of years ago in Bucks county. After the services Dr. McKINLEY greeted the candidate for Governor warmly and told his congrega- tion of how zealously Mr. GRiM had labor- ed with him in the church when he was the pastor at Doylestown. When reading of this incident in the Pittsburg papers we wondered whether Mr. TENER has yet been accused of zealous working with a clergyman in his church. —By making eight hits in eight times at the bat at St. Louis, on Sunday, LAjoie of the Cleveland team, fattened his sea- son’s batting average to the point where he will win an automobile that Tyrus Coss, of Detroit, would undoubtedly have | won had it not been for LAJOIE's decided. | ly remarkable spurt. Such a batting rec- ord has probably never been equaled be- fore. In fact it was so unusual as to cause . you are going to support Dr. STEWART, of | the suspicion that it was fixed up for La- JOIE. If such was the case he hasn't a trophy that was offered for honest en- deavor and not chicanery. ! ” STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. VOL. 55. BELLEFONTE, PA.. ¢ OCTOBER 14, 1910. NO. 40. Berry’s Preposterous Claim. | Nobody who knows Mr. BERRY will be deceived by his statements that he will carry a considerable number of counties at the coming election. Mr. BERRY ap- pears to believe in the “BiLL" CHANDLER philosophy which was expressed in a la- conic telegram to the Carpet-bag Return. ing Boards of the south charged with computing the returns of the TILDEN- HAYES election in 1876. “Claim every- thing,” Mr. CHANDLER wired and “if you can't support the claim you can say it was a mistake.” That is what Mr. BER- RY invariably does. The day before the Allentown convention he assured the public that a majority of the delegates were for him. At that time he had the support of less than twenty out of three hundred. In a speech the other day Mr. BERRY declared that out of some thirty counties he has visited he will carry twenty-five. As a matter of fact he will not carry eight counties in the State and his preposter- ous claim is made in order to check the tide which is ebbing away from him to- ward GRiM. Immediately after the Al- lentown convention his support was at its highest point but even then he could not have carried ten counties. Since that he has been constantly receding and it may be safely said now that he won't carry more than eight and if the move- ment from him continues until the elec- tion he won't carry any. His boom is like the body of a bumble bee. That is, it was bigger at its birth than at any oth- er time. If Mr. BERRY were as frank as he is careless in speech he would admit that he has not now and never had any hope of election. The only purpose of his candidacy is to defeat GRIM. He doesn’t want any Democrat to succeed because the Democratic party refused to nomi- nate him. That isn't an amiable spirit. It is what has been known for all time as the “dog in the manger" spirit but it is the dominant idea that moves Mr. BERRY. Any other man would have accepted de- feat as one of the chances of battle and turned in to ort, of his successful omer % a GRIM oP de- feated at Allentown BERRY would have expected him to abide by the result. But he is not willing to do so himself. Perverting the Language of Jefferson. The esteemed Johnstown Democrat unc- tuously quotes THOMAS JEFFERSON to jus- tify its advocacy of the absurd “initiative and referendum” as a policy in govern- ment. The founder of Democracy and the author of the philosophy of represen- tative government declared that republi- can government is government by “citi- zens in mass acting directly and person- ally, according to rules established by the majority.” But he subseqently helped to write into the fundamental law of the government of the United States the in- flexible rule that "all legislative power herein granted shall be vested in a Con- gress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Repre- sentatives.” There is no provision in that rule for initiative, referendum, recall or other “monkey business,” and THOMAS JEFFER- SON never contemplated such foliy. He believed in government by the people ex- pressed in the election of Representatives in Congress, the State Legislatures and municipal councils called by one name or another, and in executive authority simi- larly created. There was nothing further from his purpose than to create a condi- tion of uncertainty or an evanescent au- thority dependent for its tenure upon the caprices of a mob. JEFFERSON was a man of stability and character and he desired in government those elements which would promote the welfare and happiness of the citizen. Our esteemed Johnstown contemporary is incorrigible, however, and will distort any material at hand to serve its purpose. It has set itself to the task of destroying the Democratic party in Pennsylvania and is not over particular what instru. ments it uses in pursuing the project. Sen- ator PENROSE needs such help in his ef- forts to keep the people of Pennsylvania in a state of subjection but we object to prostituting the name of THOMAS JEFFER- SON to the service of the Republicn ma- | chine. Our esteemed contemporary is at liber- | ty to malign Democratic Congressmen | and traduce Democratic candidates for | Governor but it must not pervert the lan- | guage of JEFFERSON to achieve the result: | —Make up your mind right now that | Clearfield, for State Senator. He is such a clean cut, affable man, so well educat- | ed and of such sound judgment that it | would be a pity, indeed, if he were not | publican candidate for Governor, is ex- enough manhood to keep him in thebase- | elected. He will be elected, however, if a | pected in Bellefonte on Saturday, Octo- ball profession another day if he accepts ' little effort is made to do it and we hope | ber 22nd, and the Bellefonte Lodge of you will be one of those who will make the effort. i | this account if for no other reason. Mr. Brown and Mr. Berry. There is a lesson in the Georgia elec- tion held last week that might be studied by certain Pennsylvanians to great ad- vantage. Two years ago J. M. BROWN and HOKE SMITH competed for the Demo- cratic nomination for Governor. After a strenuous campaign Mr. BROWN won and was subsequently elected by a large ma- jority. During his term of office he ad- ministered the affairs of the State with such satisfaction to the public that he imagined the people were all for him and he concluded to run for re-election. HOKE SMITH again became his antagonist for the nomination, another strenuous cam- paign ensued and Mr. SMITH was nomi- nated by a considerable majority. Mr. BRoWN was greatly disappointed at this result. He was certain that the peo- ple wanted him for Governor and felt that Mr. SMITHS success must have been achieved by some sinister process. Ene- mies of his party and SMITH'S encouraged him in this delusion and finally they easily persuaded him to become an independent candidate. The reforms he had introduced into the administration, he reasoned, would command for him the support of all except the most debased of the elec- torate and he plunged into a campaign of vituperation which he foolishly imagined would carry everything before it. Last week the election was held and the votes counted. Mr. BROWN carried just two of the one hundred and forty-six counties in the State. Mr. WiLiam H. BERRY, of this State, appears to be under the same delusion that led Mr. BROWN, of Georgia, into the su- preme folly of his life. As State Treasurer Mr. BERRY made an admirable record, a few years ago, and won the respect of a vast number of people. But unfortunate- ly he imbibed the preposterous notion that he is the only man in the State worthy of public confidence and having failed to get the nomination of his party for Gov- ernor availed himself of an opportunity to become the candidate of an independ- ent movement and has since been going through the State traducing his success- ful competitor. Of course he will fail more signally than Mr. BRowN failed for it is doubtful if he will carry a single county in the State. He may draw enough of votes, however, from the Democratic nominee to insure the election of the Machine candidate TENER, and that will be the extent of his efforts. Reform the Highway Department. Senator GRIM has made no declaration since the campaign opened that will meet with as cordial popular approval as that which he made at Erie last Saturday evening with respect to the State High- way Department. That department, he said, will, in the event of his election, be reorganized in such manner as to secure a careful revision of its expenditures and a material decrease of its powers. No department of the State government has been as wasteful and inefficient as that and the reasons for this fact are that it was organized as a political machine and has been maintained, not for the purpose of improving the highways of the State, but as a medium of promoting the inter- ests of the machine. Every mile of road constructed under the auspices of the State Highway De- partment has cost from forty to seventy- five per cent. more than it was worth. This excessive cost is attributed to two things, both of which are abuses of au- thority. In the first place there is an army of incompetent engineers and in- spectors employed by the Department at Harrisburg, and secondly contracts are awarded to favorites who bid low and* subsequently are allowed extras or Jper mitted to make changes in the specifica- tions so as to make vast profits out of awards which would have entailed im" mense losses to honest contractors who would not have been thus favored. Both these evils ought to be eliminated and can be. Senator GRIM proposes to organize the Highway Department upon the system of the School Department. That is to say the Department at Harrisburg would simply have supervisory authority while the local authorities would direct both in the matter of construction and disburse* ment. Half a dozen years ago the WATCHMAN advocated such a reform of | the department. The non-resident engi- neers and inspectors have no interest in or care for the roads after they have been accepted by the local authorities, while the local authorities, responsible to the users of the roads, will strive to get the best results at the least expense: Every farmer ought to vote for GRIM on ———John K. Tener, the Penrose—Re- Elks are planning to hold a banquet in his honor, in the evening of that day. The Hitching Posts on Allegheny Street. The work on paving Allegheny street has precipitated a variety of ideas as to where the hitching posts in front of bus- iness places should be located. Some ad- vocate placing them out in the street | former twelve to eighteen inches from the curb, while others think they should be locat- ed on the pavement immediately behind the curb. The only argument in favor of the first named location is that they should be located far enough away from the curbing to make it impossible for horses tied to them to paw or otherwise injure the curb. We are of the opinion that this idea is not well founded for if the posts were located a foot or more¥from the curb horses are invariably tied so loose that they can still get to the curb- ing if they try. Inasmuch as one of the greatest objects of the improvement is to dress the streets up and make them more attractive it seems to us that would be entirely lost by placing the posts outside of the curb line where paper, straw and other litter of a business section would be continual- ly gathering around their base. We recall no town having paved streets where there is any obstruction outside of the curbing and there should be none in Bellefonte. As for the destruction of the curbing by restless horses that would probably be as great if the posts were lo- cated outside as in, while if they were lo- cated inside the perfect alignment of the streets would be conserved, the safety of driving would be enhanced and a greater width secured. This latter is a very im- portant matter especially in the business section of Allegheny street. It has already been narrowed about two feet and we think everyone, who has driven through there on a Saturday afternoon or other times when a large number of conveyances have been hitched, will agree with us that there has never been | —he too much room. This alone should be sufficient argument against placing the posts outside the curbing thereby nar- rowing the street a further three feet. itself to a proposition so manifestly inim- ical to all the good results that are hoped for through the paving improvement. —We would like to ask those who are advocating placing the hitching posts outside of the curb line on Allegheny street, whether they have ever seen a paved street, anywhere, where such a practice is in vogue. Malice of Practical Newspapers. A few newspapers without character or conscience are publishing a statement that in a recent speech Senator GRIM ad- vised men who are going to vote for him to cast their ballots for Mr. TENER, the Republican candidate. That Senator GRIM never made such a statement is of no consequence to these journalistic pirates. The lie serves their purpose and that is all they care for. It may deceive a few voters and that is their mission in life. At New Castle, Pa., on Wednesday even- ing of last week, Senator Grim wound up a brief but forceful speech with this peroration: “Fellow citizens—If you are satisfied with things as they are, if you are content to have the State of Pennsylvania inthe hands of the Penrose machine, vote for Mr. Tener, Jor he will carry out your wishes. If not, if you want a change, vote for me, for I am the only candidate in opposition to the ma- chine who has a chance of election.” This plain statement of a palpable fact was tortured by some partisan correspon- dent into advice to electors who are not going to vote for GRIM to vote for TENER and the perversion was published in some newspapers on Thursday morning. On Friday it came under Mr. GRIM’S notice while he was in Crawford county and he promptly denounced it as a deliberate and malicious falsehood. Notwithstand- ing that fact a few of the most malignant | yan; newspaper scavengers continue to as- sert it. Ignorance is to be pitied and stupidity may be condoned. But malice which “bears false witness" for the purpose of working injury to a fellow man is un- pardonable. The editor of a newspaper which will practice that vice is an assassin of character and ought to be ostracised by all respectable men and newspapers, We have a few such in Pennsylvania but happily only a few. It is to be hoped that the number will grow less as the public morals grow better. ~—TENER is not fit to be Governor of Pennsylvania, BERRY hasn't the ghost of | a chance of election, so why don’t you make up your mind to vote for GRIM. ——My, but ToMMY MITCHELL, HARRY Kerrer and CLEM DALE are having a good time riding round over Centre county in CHARLEY PATTON'S automobile. Subscribe for the WATCHMAN. sl! hd 3E3 Hn 1 ] d i | i i | § E g Hi | i = £3 iil F i § § 3 8 : : i : i |" Hi ill : : =F q | 4 i 2 : fi i Biother of Pregident Tuff, were Intmibers of the firm of Strong & of New York. Pou services Yeifiared the ceived $26,750, which he turned to T friend and ally (also a star campaign contributor) of the Republican 4 therefore it is needless to Aan pay each of the resolutions was smothered to death in committee. Insurgency. From the Portland Oregonian. What is insurgency? A sort of an epidemic which has spread all over the United States. For what object? To split the blican party into two factions. t party presents a solid front. Will the next be Democratic? Maybe two to one. What about n? The worst duck in the puddle. Will Oregon elect a Democratic Gov- ernor in November? FORT ? ow about Congressmen? We are worried. But what's the use? There is no Republican party in Ore- gon. What has become of the party that | elected Taft? Ask From the Worcester Telegram. Why is not honest old Teddy tried and, if found guilty, jailed? Itis that he went on his Lou- : 2 i From the Harrisburg Star-Independent. Now, it certainly is a little hard on the Colonel, the way that the Rochester Her- aid rubs it in on him anent the revolution in ; that he missed his chance of the Boss of that country, by fooling away his time in an effort to blican to Sect hor hie co 100 ri is the way that n sprinkles with salt the wound to the Colonel's vanity : “The trouble that Manuel is having in Portugal ought to warn the Colonel that dictatoring is a precarious business in these times.” Wow! 8& : | § Fgk =The Engleside farm near Marietta sey cow that has produced 8,700 pounds of from which 611 pounds of butter have been in a year, —Twenty-eight drivers of automobiles have been or are about to be arrested in Clearfield for exceeding the speed limit within the confines of that borough. made oven at the time of the Gettysburg battle. —Arthur Ritter, confidential clerk of E. 0. Em’ erson, of Titusville, having charge of his banking and other business, has just confessed fo the em- Jeslement of $17,000. His monthly =Albert E. Rinn, a truck farmer in U —James Harris, residing near McConnellsburg Fulton county, recently shot and killed a fine spec’ imen of the American osprey, or fish hawk. It =A cattle sale at Yellow House, Berks county, was attended by 2,000 farmers. . Three roast pigs and a quantity of sauerkraut were served to the bidders, and five carloads of cattle and one of horses were sold. ~Lieutenant George E. Deppen, of Sunbury, has been appointed acting adjutant of the Twelfth regiment, National Guard, to fill the vacancy caused by the promotion of Captain Taggart to be adjutant general of the Third brigade. ~In a battle between two negro trespassers and railroad and other officers at Coraopolis last Satur, day one of the negroes was shot through the heart and the other wounded and captured. One Stier received a bullet wound iu the sight shoul- ~Lime Ridge, Columbia county, is suffering from a terrible epidemic of typhoid fever. The building of the Patriotic Order Sons of America He was in his 88th year. the barn. She ran to him only to find him ‘dead. ~The suit of the Carbon Coal & Co. —Port Northrop is the name of the Towanda citizen who told the Daily Review, of that place, about a company of enterprising blacksnakes he had seen fishing from a bridge near that place. The snakes hung from the bridge in a long chain, the ones nearest the water exchanging places with another and hungrier one as soon as it had caught four fish. —Latrobe people are looking for an epidemic of scarlet fever. A few days ago a physician of that town noticed a rash-covered boy on the public streets and ordered him home. The board of health was notified, but when the officer went to placard the house the lad was not visible. The mother declared he was not sick and was down town passing bills. —By their automobile accidentally going over a ten foot embankment and into a dam on the Kish acoquillas creek. near Lewistown, Saturday even ing, Dr. H. W, Sweigart, a prominent physician,. was perhaps fatally injured and Dr. William H. Hower, of Mifflintown, seriously injured. Mrs. Sweigart and baby and Mrs. Hower, who were also in the car, escaped with slight bruises. township, Fulton county, was recently taking a —One evening last week as J. N. Koontz, a agent, was driving along the road leading Bedford to Friend's Cove—just after leaving pike and entering the mountain road a short tance east of Bedford—he was ordered to “halt” by two masked men, one of whom held the horse while the other got into the wagon and relieved Mr. Koontz of about $80, after which they told him to travel on. =A few mornings ago William H. Bond, aged 37 years, and his son, Harry, aged 12, were drowned in the river at Williamsport. They had gone out #F in a boat to lift some outlines when the vessel overturned, throwing them both into the water. Mrs. Bond was also in the party and saved her- self by catching hold of the boat. She called help, but by the time some men arrived the bodies Clearfield county’s “young old” men. David D. Woods, aged 81 years, who resided with his son, Aaron Woods, of Osceola, started out on a bee country and came to the residence of his son, W. James Woods, who resides in Boggs township, about seven and one-half miles from Blue James had a large field of corn which was to cut and the next day when the boys got ready tocut corn “Daddy” Woods did not say anything but sharpened a corn sickle and set to work. He cut one hundred and sixty shocks of corn that day and was ready to walk back to Osceola in the iE evening.
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