—The new Robin Hood hat that my
lady wears would better have been call’
ed a clown’s hat since she iooks the lat-
ter part in it more often than the for
mer.
—Whereas nuts, oranges and candy
have come to be so common and cheap
Santa could make a very acceptable sub-
stitute by filling our stockings Jup with
bacon and fresh eggs.
—If you have any Christmas shopping
to do, do it now. Don’t wait until the
nice things have all been carried away
from the stores and the clerks are so
tired they can’t wait on you.
—At last the "Coinel” has decided to
talk on how it happened on November
8th. Dec. 13th is the time set for the re-
vival of the big noise. How appropriate
a date, after all that has happened.
--We hope that New Jersey and Ohio
will not thoughtlessly cast aside the pres-
tige they have won by choosing Senators
who are not in sympathy with the kind of
policies the victors voted for in Novem
ber.
—The population of Centre county has
increased just 530 during the past ten
years. That isn't much to crow about
but then don’t you know the citizenship
of Centre county has always been of such
a high class that it is hard to find many
fit for it.
—If Dr. NATHAN SCHAEFFER is sincere
in his desire to have "Pennsylvania
Dutch” abolished and starts a crusade to
do it can't you see a lot of lawyers who
advertise "consultations in Pennsylvania
German” hunting around for good, heavy
hammers.
—It was beer that made Milwaukee
famous and it is something that is pro-
nounced the same way but spelled an-
other that has made Milesburg famous;
according to the ideas of one of her dis-
tinguished sons. Ask OscAR MILES about
the new glory that has been shed over
the metropolis at the other end of the
new state road.
—"“Banana ANNA" is the name of a
woman of more or less doubtful charac-
ter who has just come into prominence
in police circles in New York. Her spe-
cialty seems to have been falling down
steps of rail-road cars, stations and trol
leys, feigning injury and collecting dam-
ages. But “Banana ANNA" slipped on
her own peel once too often and has gone
to prison where she will slip on the stripes
instead.
—Naturally there is room for argument
as to which sets the right estimate on the
value of a prima dona’s voice: The
wealthy devotees of grand opera who go
to the Metropolitan more to show how
little clothing they can get along with
than to hear the music, or the poor devil
on the street who seldom hears anything
better than a street piano or a phono-
graph. In New York, the other day, a
grand opera singer, who is paid $1800 a
week at the Metropolitan, tried singing
on the street and could collect only $3.16.
——Why should the Democratic mem-
bers of Congress get excited about taking
the power out of the Speaker’s hand. We
don’t have any CANNONS in our party and
if we did he should not be chosen Speak-
er. The Democrats were put in power
to administer the government in the old
fashioned way, fairly and fearlessly, and
if we haven't confidence enough in one
of our Congressmen to make him Speaker,
without admitting before doing so that
he will likely develop into a CANNON, then
we had better give up the job of forming
the new Congress at ance.
—The case of "Squire MUSSER attracted
considerable attention in court on Tues-
day because it was a case of the law fight-
ing the law. The "Squire holds a record for
fighting away back in the sixties, but bul-
lets and Blackstone are not the same
weapons, so he lost in the battle of Tues
day. He is supposed to have assaulted a
litigant in his own office by brandishing
his cane and now that he has found out
what the higher court thinks an assault
to be we reckon that he regrets not hav-
ing given his prosecutor one good clout,
just for luck. Yes, brother MUSSER, its
hard luck for you, but you have a lot of
time yet to get even.
—The death of Mrs. MARY BAKER G.
Eppy, which occurred at her home at
Concord, N. H. on Sunday, ends a life
remarkable in that init was wrapped a
religious cult that has permeated the en-
tire civilized world. The theories of
Christian Science are beautiful, it has
brought wonderful blessings to many of
its believers and is peculiarly adaptable to
peculiar cases, but its greatest weakness
is to be found in the inability of its too
ardent disciples to discern where the
theoretical should end and the practical
begin. Christian Science will endure and
time alone will tell whether the name
of Mrs. Eppy will take rank with that of
LUTHER, CALVIN, WESLEY, or any other
of the great leaders of religious re-
forms.
VOL. 55.
The Matter of Reorganization.
With characteristic verbosity and cus-
tomary mendacity the esteemed Johns-
town Democrat confuses the issue in an
attempt to refute the palpable facts pre-
sented in a recent issue of the WATCH-
MAN in respect to the matter of reor-
ganizing the Democratic party. What
this paper said is that in the absence
of unanimous consent, which itis prac-
tically impossible to obtain, the resigna-
tion of the officers of the Democratic
State committee and the members of the
State executive committee, would not
work a material change in the party
organization, for the reason that the few
or many members of the local commit-
tees refusing to acquiesce would be pro-
tected by the law and sustained by the
courts in their claim to being THE organi-
zation.
In case vacancies were to be filled they
would be filled by the same people and
in the same manner the present members
of State, county, ward or township com-
mittees were made, and it is but a fair
presumption to believe that when new
men were chosen, men of the same type,
temperament and inclinations would be
selected.
In support of this assertion we cited
the fact that in more than three-fourths
of the counties of the State, county
chairmen, who compose the State Central
committee are elected by members of
ward, precinct or township committees, |
who compose the county committee; that |
the State Central committee elects its |
own chairman and that the executive
committee, composed of the chairmen of
the division committees, is created by the |
action of the chairmen of county com- |
mittees acting as division committees. In |
order to effect such a reorganization as
BELLE
| tary bodies, in thelast analysis, the judge
STATE RIGHT
No man of sane mind has even sus-
pected such a thing. :
Before, during or since the campaign |
no man, with the single exception of the!
editor of the Johnstown Democral, has at- |
tempted to asperse the character of
WEBSTER GRIM. Yet the Republican ma-
chine through its servile and sycophantic |
instrument, JOHN O. SHEATZ, organized
an opposition which saved it from de-
feat through the instrumentality of Mr.
BERRY and with the help of the Johns-
town Democral.
Had there been no independent or
Keystone party organized, or had BERRY
consented to withdraw when Senator
GRIM offered to take himself out of the
field, and when the Democratic managers |
and the leading Independent Republicans |
urged that action, the Republican ma- |
chine would have been destroyed.
But selfish ambition on one hand and
irreconcilable malcontents on the other |
prevented this most desirable result.
We hoped that Governor-elect Foss, of
Massachusetts, would find a better way of
keeping Senator LODGE out of the United
States Senate, after the expiration of his
present term of office, than by refusing to
sign his commission in the event of his
election, and that hope has not been dis-
appointed. It would have been a rank
repudiation of official obligations and an
absolute failure besides. The United
States Senate is, like all other parliamen-
of the election and qualifications of its
own members, and would have seated
LopGE without a commission, if neces-
sary, thus putting the humiliation on the
Governor-elect. But he has averted that.
Governor-elect Foss will prevent the re-
‘ revenues for the maintenance of the gov- |
ents for their friends would be less than and
some of the impracticable but perennial | lection of LODGE by appealing to the
fault finders demand, therefore, it would | People of the State to protest against it.
be necessary for the entire membership | He has already entered upon a campaign
of all these bodies to resign simultane. | of education with this purpose in mind.
ously, and equally essential that the vot. | Accompanied by half a dozen Republicans
ers who elected the ward, precinct or he is now canvassing the State exposing
township committees be denied the right
of participation in the election of their
SUCCEeSSOoTs.
To refute. this recital .of facts the
Democrat traduces Hon. WEBSTER GRIM
by alleging that he was “an impossible
candidate who was universally recognized
as the one hope of the gang nominee,”
and misrepresents us in the. declaration
that “what Mr. MEEK does is to defend
the organization by a sweeping indict-
ment of the great body of the party.”
There is not a4 word or even a syllable
in our article that justifies such an inter-
pretation. We said that the earnest ef-
forts of the Democratic organization to
reconcile the differences which divided
the believers in civic righteousness in the
campaign were defeated by selfish ambi-
tion “supplemented by the voice of irrec-
oncilable malcontents who have been
fighting the organization for years.” That
is not an indictment of the great body of
the party. It is an exact and accurate
statement of the attitude of Mr. BERRY
and the Johnstown Democrat. A week
before the Allentown convention Mr.
J ZRRY was quoted in a responsible news-
paper os expressing a willingness to be-
come an independent candidate in the
event of his defeat for the nomination
and the Johnstown Democrat has been the
cheerful and helpful ally of the Republi-
can machine, ever since it has been under
the control of its present owners, by con-
stantly vilifying every conspicuous Demo-
LODGE’S unfitness for re-election and re-
vealing his odious record in the office.
That is not only within his province but
it is his bounden duty. As Governor-elect
he is morally bound to assert the inter
ests of the people on the hustings and
plead for such men and measures as will
“conserve the rights and liberties of his:
constituents. The re-election of Senator |
LODGE would be a menace to the public.
HENRY CaABoT LODGE is essentially the
representative of “the interests” in Con-
gress. During three terms he has voted
for every measure desired by the cor-
I'porations and supported every movement
in the interest of monopoly. More than
any other man in the country, with the
“exception of Senator ALDRICH, he is re-
sponsible for tte present tariff and the
' suffering and destitution it has entailed.
To re-elect him is a crime against the
people of Massachusetts and the whole
‘country. But the only way to prevent
that result is the way Governor-elect
, Foss is now pursuing. To adopt a method
obnoxious to the constitution would be a
| greater evil than his re-election.
Not a Good Scheme.
The latest information from Washing-
(ton conveys the news that President
TAFT proposes to nominate Democrats
'to fill one of the vacancies on the Su-
preme bench and one of the seats in
the Court of Commerce. The Presi-
dent was brought to this frame of mind,
| people in that capacity.
cratic leader active in the service of the | the story goes, by threats from the Sen-
party. The great body of the Democratic | ate. He had framed up a nice little judi-
party had neither part in nor sympathy ial menu containing the names of ultra
with this “dog in the manger” method of | Corporation lawyers for all the vacancies:
helping the atrocious Republican machine. | including those on the bench of the new
It is the frdit of the selfish ambition of | of Commerce. Thereupon Senator
an individual and the perversity of a mis. | BAILEY, of Texas, got busy among the
guided newspaper which mistakes perfidy | Democrats and Insurgents and made the
for patriotism and recreancy for inde- i whole outfit look “like ROOSEVELT after
pendence of thought. Se New York Slestion. - go
As we have already said we cordially t velopment it is
welcome and will cheerfully co-operate in | said that President TAFT has made a new
AND FEDERAL UNION.
FONTE, PA.. DE
OM RS Ie.
Time for
NO. 48.
to Think. | Wit Republicans ans Sutered Most.
No fitter time could be found for the Prov the Milvadise Jourual. the Siz
women of the country to ponder the | Itis a significant States
tariff question than the present. As the i whish the held their own
great holiday of the world approaches | Where no
templation of prices and purchases. In-
cidentally it ought to turn to the consid- | P%
values. If there were no tariff taxes, |
en 1am svtch us ang peeded bo produce |
ridden and
dev
| movement sufficient
ernment, the prices of the articles which | oy ene: developed. suffi i} Suength
women buy for themselves and for pres- by the corrupt alliance between politics
half what they are at present. In other
words every dollar that wives and moth-
ers have saved for Christmas purchases
would go twice as far.
The prudent and thrifty wife of the
mechanic or clerk cherishes fondly the
hope that at Christmas time she will be
able to buy a silk or cloth dress for her-
self, or if times were prosperous she
might aspire to get both. But as a mat-
ter of fact when she buys twenty dollars
worth of good silk, and it is hardly pos-
sible to get a dress pattern for less, she
contributes more than half the amount to
the fund which goes as an unearned
bounty to the grasping manufacturer.
The manufacturer is nothing to her. He
has never given a penny to her comfort
or even a pleasant thought to her affairs.
But because he contributes to the cam-
paign corruption fund of the Republican
party she must contribute to his already
redundant wealth.
In a family of say a mother and three
grown daughters it is almost necessary to
buy four cloth and at least two silk
dresses every year. The aggregate cost
of these articles can hardly be less than
one hundred and fifty dollars. On this
amount at least eighty dollars go for
tariff taxes. Each of the female mem-
bers of the family must have a coat once
a year costing altogether not less than
eighty dollars of which about fifty is for
tariff taxation. The cost of the hats,shoes,
furs, underwear and lingerie is enhanced
in equal ratio for the same reason so that
women pay more than their share in the |
‘way of tariff taxes and they should raise
their voices in protest against the ini- )
quity. | commission is required. No time
en ! be lost in debate. It can be done in a
Senator Sproul’s Amazing Confidence. single day.
ies : nder the Payne-Aldrich act beef is
Senator W. C. SPROUL, of Delaware taxed a cent and a half a pound; bacon
county, is confident, the newspapers say, |S taxed four cents a pound;
taxed pound;
that Senator OLIVER'S re-election may be | jamb Jour cents ad and hy hom and
prevented. In a recent interview he pork and veal are taxed a cent and a half
stated that he has almost enough pledges 2 pound; poultry is taxed three cents a
: : : . pound when it is alive and five cents
already to achieve the result. His candi | when it is dead. All these taxes strength-
date is less optimistic on the subject, it | en the Beef Trust in its policy of extor-
may be conjectured, however. That is | tion by keeping out the bin products of
to say Justice ELKIN of the Supreme | Canada, Australia and the Argentine Re-
ia pu .
court protests that he has not authorized Officials of the Beef Trust ‘insist: that
the use of his name as a candidate for | the price of meats is governed solel
the office and will not accept the election. ' the Prot supply and demand and 4
But that doesn’t frighten the gentleman for years the supply has been inadequate.
ct Dewar. ie pal Knows sone Ht, i iy 0 rut th
one else who will serve the purpose and ' gupply, and the way to increase the sup-
is willing. Possibly Mr. SPROUL him- ply is to open the American market to
self might be prevailed upon to serve the Canadian, Australian and Argentine beef
gto: simple a that the
Senator SPROUL has had a good deal | can be no excuse for wating unti a pd
of experience in public affairs and been | Congress has. foie into existen ce. Still
i i | can an excuse for i
up against the game in vations Waye | S35 FAN TIERE FEAR ROH AF RO ae
It can hardly be said, therefore, that his 4,0 initiative in recommending this mea-
amazing confidence is the result of cre- sure; but whether he acts or not, Con-
dulty. He knows a good deal about gress is still the legislative branch of the
“the tricks of the trade,” and can meas- Rational has
ure the value of a promise in politics ac- | hea
curately as most others. But "the best
laid plans of mice and men gang aft
aglee," and the most carefully managed | From the Emporia Gazette.
machine slips a cog now and then. For The “back to the farm” movement
this reason Mr. SprouL will "have to bea] EWEpapees
show us.” We are not from Missouri but SV: but J it may & : little
the Missouri habit is a safe policy. Be- | difficult. ots
sides a vote on the tally sheet is worth a There is ing to
dozen checks in the air. You can put man from ging ‘back to he farm, bu
your finger on it. | there? Unless he is anxious to
Political writers are disposed to look at
| the west as a hotbed of , while
the east is classed asa of con-
that the east is
Take the Tariff Of Meats.
From the New York World.
When
first official act
move the
as a step
livi .
is ome of the
‘ the election. No i
kr
prevent the town
j and it
vote on the Senatorship will be in the it and
ts | dead body was found in the dam.
a movement to reorganize and rehabilitate
the Democratic party of Pennsylvania.
But it is futile to hope for and a waste of
| program. Two of the gentlemen whom
* he had selected have been consigned to
the scrap pile and Mr. LANE of the Inter-
ballot for speaker. If Senator OLIVER'S
man Cox is made speaker of the House,
jad Re. If i
{nary town man hasn't
state Commerce Commission and WiL-
Liam D. McHuGH, of Nebraska, Demo-
crats, are to take their places. Mr. PROUTY
another member of the Interstate Com-
merce Commission is also slated, in the
energy to work for party reorganization |
unless the fundamental Democratic prin-
ciple, majority rule, is made the corner- |
stone of the new fabric. When a party |
convention, by fair means, nominates a
fit man for office, there is a moral obliga- | F§Vised program, fora seat ga. tha bunch
tion upon every man affiliated with the | changes is to te the ocrats of
party to support him. , the Senate thus gain enough
Even if the worst that has been charg- tion of the appointees. the confirma-
ed agamnst a gentleman who was not | “Beware of the gift-bearing Greeks,” is
is true, those who participated in thecon- |
vention, in person or by representation, are | jorsiate Comimerce Comin}
neither responsible for his acts nor are | the railroad magnates but and
they absolved from the obligation to sup- | LANE stand in the way. It looks as if the
port the fit candidate who was nominated. | President wants to help Knapp his
. scheme
No one has attempted to associate
WEBSTER GRIM with any bargain, trade | be sure, butit is worth i
or pledge made, or attempted to be made, | TAFT, like the late Mr.
between the head of the Republican ma- | Nitin to do, an two Den
| such sacrifice
promises of votes on the Senatorship | he
will be subject to recall and revision. For | can't
example there is a vast difference be.
tween a seat in the committee on appro-
county, the Rev. Dr. William H. Lester, celebrat-
ed the 8th anniversary of his birth on Monday
and was the recipient of many kindly remem-
brances from admiring friends.
—Four brothers, Charle" and Craig Jackson, of
Apollo, Armstrong county, and Samuel and W. J.
Jackson, of Butler, have been notified that they
are heirs to a fortune of about $200,000 left by an
aunt who died the rther day in Moberly, Mo.
~An agent of the state dairy and food bureau-
has seized 90,000 eggs in Pittsburg and arrested
Ray F. Riddell, a produce broker of that city, on
charge of violating the act of assembly prohibit-
ing the sale of eggs that are decomposed and un-
fit for food.
—Charles Hickman, whose sensational escape
from the Beaver county jail was followed by a
search throughout the country before he was
captured at Monongahela City, has been senten-
ced to be hanged on February 14th, 1911. He
killed his wife.
~—A warrant has been sworn out for the arrest
of Charles McCleaf Sr., and his son and name-
sake, charging them with burning for the insur-
ance a handsome barn on a property in Bethel
township, Delaware coynty, belonging to the es-
tate of Thomas Booth, who died recently.
~The front end of the meat market owned by
Mike Massino and located at Wallopburg, Indi-
ana county, was wrecked by dynamite which had
been placed under the front end of the building
last Thursday night. No clue as to the identity
Sf She perpetrators of the outrage could be
~Night Policeman W. B. Carley, at No. 35 mine
—Last Friday morning the Garth wagon works,
located at Mill Hall, Clinton county, were dis-
covered to be on fire and the buildings were con.
sumed. The flames were first seen in a corner of
=A horrible discovery was made in one room
of a little house in Johnstown Saturday afternoon,
and the fact that she had not been seen recently
caused no comment, as it was thought she was
visiting.
~According to reports the post office depart-
ment at Washington is likely to promulgate a no-
tice compelling every person who receives the
free delivery service to provide a mail box for
their mail. It is a well known fact that the de-
partment will not now allow its rural carriers to
deliver mail to any one who does not provide a
mail box and according to official Washington, a
similar step will be taken where mail is delivered
in cities.
~The Consolidation Coal company of Somerset
county, recently purchased a pair of bloodhounds
and has agreed to allow the county authorities to
have them, if the animals are properly main-
tained. This has been agreed to and the dogs are
now in the possession of the sheriff. There has
been a great deal of outlawry in Somerset county
the past several months and the dogs are expect-
ed to do their share toward catching the guilty
ones.
—Mr. Neri Perrin, of Earlston, Bedford county,
was arrested on Wednesday, November 30th, on a
charge preferred against him by a United States
Marshall, accusing him of violating the United
States postal laws by mailing postal cards of a
slanderous character to Cincinnati, Ohio. Mr.
Perrin gave bail in the sum of $500 before "Squire
Richey for his appearance before the United
States District court in Cincinnati in February
next.
~The trustees of State College have installed a
new course in flour-mill engineering. It is with
the aim of teaching the scientific methods of
milling that the course is given. A student hav-
ing this scientific knowledge is, with a few months
by of practical experience, qualified to do scientific
milling, by which he can get the best out of the
grain and give it to the consumer in the best
form. Previous to this time there were no schools
in America which offered this course. Germany
and Austria have several.
~—Jjames Gallagher, the oldest resident of Cam-
13,000,000. This is more than ever before and not
only larger than the Federal Government output,
but greater than that of four States combined.
i
to give degrees in sciences. The question arose
because of the application of the Holy Ghost col.
lege in
and
the question of legality to Mr. Todd who holds
plated would seem desirable. However, the
question for the council is whether the equipment
is sufficient to give competent introduction in the
degrees mentioned. :