BY P. GRAY MEEK.
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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. !
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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.
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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?
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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?
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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!
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=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
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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
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evening.