fear.
INK SLINGS.
—Everything is coming down but the
reefs in the College boy's trousers.
—It seems to us as if brothers BRYAN
and ROOSEVELT are preserving a rather
uncanny silence these days.
—This weather might prove a saving
in coal bills, but all that is gained in that
direction is being lost to the doctors, we
BY P. GRAY MEEK.
—It is quite possible that if J. EDWARD
ADDICKS could just launch a smokeless
boom over in Delaware he might land in
the Senate.
—A little in advance of the spring poet
the chicken hen is now singing her lay
quite regularly. The price of eggs is
tumbling, too.
—The Sanskrit says: “Until a man
finds a wife he isonly a half.” And after
he has found one; what then? Is he
half of the whole and, if so, which half?
—Probably it is because it has been so
many years since they have had a chance
to elect one that is causing the Demo-
crats of West Virginia all the trouble they
seem to be having in deciding upon Unit-
ed States Senators.
—Only one in every thousand married
couples live to celebrate their golden
wedding anniversary, so the statistician
informs us. The WATCHMAN hopes that
you may be one of the couple that is
spared to celebrate yours.
—We haven't heard of any spasms of
enthusiasm in Bellefonte over a league
base ball team for next summer. The
ghost of last season's dead horse still
stalks about causing those who might
enthuse to shudder.
——Mr. McCorMICK's professed efforts
to re-organize (?) the Democratic party
would meet with a much more general
approval from the Democratic voters of
the State if it had less of the “kick-out.”
and more of the “come in” sentiment
about it.
—So fashion has decreed that men
who would be in style next summer must
wear a corset coat. The bit of stiffening
thereby obtained wouldnt come amiss to
some of the male jelly fish, but the Lord
save us from the spectacle the skinny
sports would make.
x
‘~JAcoB ScHIFF, the New York banker
philanthropist, thinks this country
: Jews, but he wisely suggests
J should be sent to the great
to help develop the country. Mr.
evidently thinking of insur-
to talk
VOL. 56.
Vote Buying in Danville.
It appears that the city of Danville,
Illinois, in which the Hon. JoserH G.CAN-
NON is not only the principal figure but
the “Main Guy,” is addicted to the evil
of buying and selling votes. The city
attorney has made a confession and
promises to go before the grand jury and
expose everybody and everything, and
the State’s Attorney, analogous to our
District Attorney, says that ‘vote
buying has been a common prac-
tice for twenty years,’ there. In other
parts of the county, of which Danville
is the seat of justice, the practice is equal-
ly common, reports indicate, and a cru-
sade against it is about to be begun. In
fact hundreds have already come forward
with confessions.
Some of our esteemed contemporaries
are magnifying this incident because Dan-
ville is the home of Speaker CANNON. So
distinguished a gentleman and so con-
spicuous a figure in the public life of the
country ought to have exercised a re-
straining influence on the wrongimpulses
of his neighbors, they imagine, or pre-
tend to think, and they lay the blame on
him rather than upon those who are
actually culpable. No doubt “Uncle JOE”
could have prevented a part of this crim-
inal traffic and probably it was his moral
duty to do so. But on the other hand he
may have needed the votes and like
many other political leaders and official
lions is guided by the philosophy express-
ed by DAvip HARUM in the phrase “do
others before they do you.”
A few years ago gossip in the lobbies
at Washington intimated that exorbitant
prices were given railroads for carrying
mails because the carrying companies
had been generous to the President in the
matter of free transportation and to avert
an investigation President ROOSEVELT
bought congressional votes with promises
of patronage. In Adams county, Ohio,
nearly the entire electorate has confessed
or been convicted of selling votes, part of
the purchase money having been traced
to President TAFT'S step-brother. A re-
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BELLEFONTE
STATE
Taft’s Preposterous Arguments.
As an esteemed contemporary has said,
President TAFT made as strong an argu-
ment in favor of the fortification of the
Isthmus canal as it was possible to make.
That is to say he proved, beyond the
shadow of a doubt, that the government
of the United States has a legal and in-
herent right to fortify. But that ques-
tion has never been in dispute. It is
universally admitted. The moral right
and the expediency of such action has
been questioned, however, and President
TAFT has not added an iota to the argu-
ment in favor of the proposition. He
hasn't even given a plausible reason in
favor of the idea. He simply put in well-
formed sentences the absurd notions of
HossoN and other crazy jingoes.
There is a substantial reason for ap-
propriating funds for the fortification of
the canal and the greater the amount the
better for the purpose. The Republican
National committee will need a vast cor-
ruption fund for the campaign of 1912.
The tariffmongers who have been gen-
erous in the past are not likely to be re-
sponsive to the next call for the reason
that before the time comes for issuing it
the tariff question will be settled right by
a substantial revision downward and the
reasons for their contributions will be
removed. There remains, therefore, no
sources from which to draw money to
buy votes except the Steel trust, the
ordance makers and the powder manu-
facturers and they will pay only in pro-
portion to the prospects of profits from
legislation for the battleships and forti-
fications.
Of course President TAFT didn't give
this reason for his desire to fortify the
canal zone. It wouldn't have sounded
well in cold type. Therefore he had no
recourse except to reiterate and rehash
the stale and absurd arguments which
HoesoN has been using in Congress to
the effect that notwithstanding the pledge
of all other civilized countries to main-
tain the neutrality of the water course,
we will
RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
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27, 191
Poor Wav of Paying Political Debts.
The danger of the demoralization of
the postal service through the Postmaster
General's effort to save at the spigot
while the President is wasting at the
bung, has been brought to the attention
of Congress. The railway postal clerks
have been compelled to perform extra
services to keep down expenses while
Congress is being dragooned by the White
House to order additional battleships and
provide for a great increase in the army.
So long as the overworked and meagerly
paid postal employees silently submitted
to the new exactions the scheme worked
admirably. But hundreds of them have
been breaking down in health in conse-
quence of overwork and Congress has
been asked to interpose.
During the recent campaign for Gov-
ernor of New York the largest subscription
to the campaign corruption fund was
made by the publisher of Collier's, a
weekly newspaper of large circulation.
Publishers of other magazines and other
periodicals also contributed liberally. For
years there hasbeen complaint that these
publications burdened the mails and were
mainly responsible for the annual deficit
in the Postoffice Department. Postmaster
General HrrcHcock has undertaken to
disprove this proposition by making the
railway postal clerks perform, without
additional charge, the additional labor
which these publications entail. It is his
plan for recompensing the publishers for
the contributions to the campaign fund.
It is estimated that 400 additional clerks
will be required to handle these periodicals
in the New York postoffice so as to get
them out on time. Mr. HITCHCOCK pro-
poses to save the wages of these addi-
tional clerks by overworking the railway
postal clerks. A greater outrage has
never been conceived. The postal clerks
are already the hardest worked and poor-
est paid employees of the government.
The additional burden imposed upon them
by the order of the Postmaster General
| ruin their health and shorten their
1.
Pile on the Taxes.
'~Near Mount Pleasant, three masked men as-
saulted James Hatfield, Sr., and robbed him of his
watch and money.
—Ice-cutting in the mountains south of Carlisle
has been very successful and in ten days one con-
cern has cut 21,000 tons of excellent ice.
—8. C. Gilbaugh, of Grafton, shot a catamoung
the other day that weighed thirty-one pounds.
Zoe bounty on the segle fuBe anid the welt ous
1.50.
~Huntingdon county paid in 1910 $16,112.67 for
the maintenance of its poor and insane. Its crimi-
nal population cost $2,514, exclusive of county jail
expenses.
—A hobo, who built a fire in the hopper of a
steel caron a westbound freight last Saturday
night, is now comfortably warm in the Mifflin
county jail.
~The Huntingdon Motor club has held its an-
nual meeting, reviewed the work of the past year.
re-elected its officers and is now looking forward
to the season of 1911.
—A few days ago a $12,000,000 mortgage was re-
corded at Clearfield. It was by the Pennsylvania
Coal and Coke company to the Scranton Guaran-
ty and Title company.
_ —At a meeting of the Window Manufacturers’
association, held in Kane, it was decided to re.
sume operations in the glass plants that were shut
down several weeks ago.
—~Despite remonstrances against the granting
of liquor licenses, over 400 Northumberland coun-
ty saloon keepers received papers to continue
business for another year.
—A Lancaster company has sent out circulars
requesting farmers to put out a large acreage of
cucumbers for pickles the coming year and it
agrees to buy all they will raise.
—~While being taken to jail charged with abus-
ing two Connellsville boys, the Rev. A. R. Sea-
man was stoned by a crowd of boys and but for
the officers would have come to serious harm.
—At Lebanon a jury awarded Lebanon county
a verdict of $6,276 against the Franklin Insurance
company, of Philadelphia, as damages sustained
in the burning of the county court house two
years ago.
~The Lancaster connty grand jury has recom-
mended that the practice of raising hogs in the
prison yard be discontinued, because the thing is
a menace to the health of the citizens living near
the prison.
—The right of way for the contemplated trolley
line from Johnstown to Cherry Tree and Hastings
has been secured and work will be pushed on its
construction just as soon as theline to Ebensburg
can be finished.
—Recetnly Mrs. Nancy Myers, residing near
Lock Haven, fell down a stairway at her home
and landed against the closed door at the foot of
the stairs. She was badly bruised and cut but
her recovery is expected.
—Fire in the insane ward of the Potter county
. | almshouse, near Coudersport, threatened serious
- | results for a time. Fortunately the flames were
extinguished without making it necessary to re-
move the inmates.
~The Union Furniture and Manufacturing
company, with factories at McClure and Mifflin
town, has gone into the hands of a receiver. Itis
believed that the finances can be so adjusted that
the plants may be kept running.
~The State forestry tract along the Pittsburg
somebody, but that makes no difference
to the jingoes. They want money for the
campaign and nothing else counts.
danger of being attacked by the Honduran
rebels and the government finds itself
‘with more generals and captains in the
garrison than privates. Why not impress
been notified to isolate others as a
against rabies.
—Rev. Lorenza Loveda is a new Italian mission-
ary sent by the Methodist Episcopal church to
Representatives in that body have been
in the habit of selling their votes on all
measures. And there are others.
The truth is that political conditions in
Food for Reflection.
A fact that many of our “Keystone”
a mule or two. They are about all that
they ever kill in those Central American
revolutions anyhow.
—Dr. KNAPP, of the United States De.
partment of Agriculture, said “turnips,
pumpkins and beets are a better pro-
tection than bullets against foreign in-
And we think he is right but
vasion.”
because he thinks as he does is one of
the reasons the present administration
will never make him Secretary of War
or of the Navy.
—It is quite probable that Bellefonte
will have to elect a majority of the coun-
cil, of the school board and new poor
overseers in the fall. It depends entirely
on the ruling of the courts as to whether
those local officials whose terms would
naturally expire in the spring of 1912
will have to be elected in the fall of 1911
or hold over until the fall of 1912 and we
think the first view will be the one taken.
—Governor WILSON, of New Jersey, has
won his second great fight for the people
of his State. He has knocked out Boss
SMITH and elected MARTINE, the people's
primary choice, United States Senator.
He has won his victory, as any other man
in politics could do if he followed the
same policy of keeping faith with the
public and endeavoring to stand squarely
on the platform on which he was elected.
—The Johnstown Democrat credits the
Manchester Union with the information
it gives out that “Dr. MARY WALKER
still wears trousers and tries to look like
a man.” Dr. Mary's fad of wearing
man’s attire has made her the butt of the
newspaper jokesmith for so many years
that it has long since gone stale and it
seems to us that to renew her once great
notoriety there is nothing left for her to
do but discard them.
—While we wish them God-speed and
gentlemen who are just now so busy with
plans tc regenerate and reorganize the
Danville are not exceptional. The gov-
ernment of the country has degenerated
into an agency for the conservation of
“special interests” and the inter-
ests thus served have supplied funds
to debauch the electorate. That is
why President TAFT is now importuning
Congress to fortify the Panama canal, in
crease the naval expenditures and sub-
sidize ship companies. He wants a gen-
erous corruption fund for his campaign
of 1912 and understands where and how
to get it. The protected industries will
be less liberal than heretofore because
they have less to expect, but the Steel
trust, the Powder trust and other sinister
agencies may be made available.
Where to Begin.
If there are any spots under the sun
where the organization, or if you like it
better, the re-organization, (whatever that
may mean), of the Democracy is needed
nore than in Allegheny, Dauphin and
Philadelphia counties, it will take some
fellow who knows more about the condi-
tion of the party in Pennsylvania than the
writer does to point them out. Honorable
GEO. W. GUTHRIE is a resident of the first
mentioned county; Hon. VANCE C.
McCormick lives and controls large in-
terests in the second of these; and Hon.
Jos. P. McCuULLEN takes pride in claiming
to be a leading citizen of the latter. Now
we modestlr suggest that wbefore these
gentlemen get too far into the job of “re-
organizing" the party in the State to get
tired of the work, that they begin,each one
in his own county, and get the Democracy
at his own home together and in good
working trim. By the time they would
be through with this, we “country jakes,”
would have a better idea of their capacity
for work of the kind, and their ability to
satisfy the fellows who are eternally kick-
ing at the organization the Democratic
people of the different counties have made
for themselves, and at the efforts that
——
——Talking about “new leaders” for
the Democracy, it strikes us that, when
they are to be chosen, the Democratic
voters of the State will take ahand in the
matter. It will not be done by a self con-
stituted committee of individuals, who
for years back have been discrediting
every effort of the party and voting against
National, State and local democratic tick-
ets; nor will the job be turned over to
those whose only purpose now is to be
recognized as “the leaders” of an organi-
zation they have heretofore tried so hard,
but been unable, to destroy.
A Startling Statement.
In the contest of GEORGE R. McLEAN
for the seat in Congress awarded by the
election returns to C. C. BowMaN, of
Luzerne county, an interesting and start-
ling fact will be brought out. It will be
proved according to published statements
that “owing to the presence of troopers
friends will doubtless fail to refer to very
often or proclaim very vigorously, is, that | 7
the Hon. JouN O. SHEATZ, who called their
party into existence, and stuck to it per-
sistently until he got a Democratfto head
its ticket and the Democracy of the State
divided and quarrelling, is again working
cheek by jowl with his former jpolitical
associates of the Philadelphia gang. High
up on the list of subscribers to the REY-
BURN complimentary dinner stands the
name of this fake reformer—this “daddy
of the Keystone party.” Other evidence
of his loyalty to Mr. PENROSE and the
bosses is unnecessary. Explanations now
as to why he manifested so much interest
in starting a new party would be super-
fluous. He helped to divide the opposi-
tion to the gang. That division secured
the election of TENER.
Democrats who stepped into the trap,
will have abundant time to reflect over
how gullible and how “easy” some people
are.
of the State constabulary at certain poll-
ing places, whose presence was secured
by BOWMAN's agents, many persons were
i
Not Proud of Him.
The Hon. JOSEPH ALEXANDER, of Clear-
deterred from casting their votes.” In! field, who through the active aid of most
the coal regions these mounted Cossacks |
spread terror among the people. Their |
presence is an admonition of danger. The |
uniform is a token of trouble. It is be-
lieved that hundreds of voters were
frightened away from the polls by the |
parading of these emissaries of the bosses: |
When this force was created there was |
a double purpose in the minds of the
political machine managers. The first
was to create an armed force of non-
residents in certain communities to ter-
rorize the people and the second to orga-
nize a band of political mercenaries who
would do the work of the machine while
under the pay of the public. Before the
force was organized, however, the political
revolution of 1805 intervened and the
machine managers became cautious. The |
force was kept out of politics for awhile |
and even earned the good opinion
well-meaning but unthinking citizens
of |
be-
i
of the leading Keystoners of the district
and without the apparent opposition of
any of the rest of them, was sent as a
Senator to Harrisburg last fall, was one of
the first fellows to get into the PENROSE
caucus and when the election of a United
States Senator came up in the Senate
voted as loudly and as willingly for Mr.
PENROSE'S candidate—Hon. GEORGE T.
OLIVER—as any of the big bosses most
subservient henchmen did. So far we
have failed to see that any of our Demo-
cratic friends, who went astray last fall
‘and refused or neglected to support Dr.
STUART for Senator, are pointing with
pride to this the first political work of the
Honorable JOE.
———It is worthy of notice that there
was no delay in the election of a United
States Senator in this State. In New
York, New Jersey and other localities in
needed, with
stand between them and the bounties of
an infinite father.
Sell-Out of Justice.
From a San Diego (Cal.) Exchange.
Pennsylvania has given a most re-
markably shameful bition of herself.
The scoundrels who robbed her of $5,
000,000 in the matter of building her
State house have been permitted to re-
store $1,500,000 of the and go free.
It is wholesale compounding of felony
and a sorry exhibition of the weakness,
helplessness and inadequacy of courts.
Moreover, and worse yet, it is a tre-
mendous endorsement of the vicious, but
quite prevalent, idea that justice is a
common prostitute at the command of
those who have her price and a merciless
executioner of those who haven't her
rice. Fines for those who can pay and
ails for those who cannot in matters of
murdering the common people with auto-
mobiles or robbing the common e
through special privilege or th
building of their capitol.
Of course, Pennsylvania's authorities
will plead that “it was the best that could
be " But they had al suc-
ceeded in securing several convictions
and, no matter how much basis for their
plea, their act appears to the world as a
successful and unqualified sell-out of
justice.
From the Philadelphia Ledger.
Gov. Tener comes into office under pe-
culiar conditions. He was named by a cir-
cle of bosses without the privity or consent
of the great mass of his party. ne
tyranny and ence high-
water mark .in his nomination. It is a
vital mistake for him fo permit the very
worst fears to be real by submitting
to dictation from the same source at the
threshold of his administration.
Work for the Senators.
carry on the work of that denomination at Phil-
ipshurg and at several nearby towns. Rev. Mr.
Loveda is an educated Italian, who came over to
America a couple of months since to work among
his fellow countrymen.
—jn order to curtail the production of tanned
hides, and skins, tanneries at Roaring Branch,
Ralston, Costello and Galeton are either closed or
the force greatly reduced. The West Branch
tannery at Lock Haven doesn’t know anything
about the generally proposed curtailment and
hasn't yet any intention of closing.
—At the Pine Street Methodist Episcopal church
Williamsport, of which Rev. E. A. Pyles is pastor
on Sunday there were thirty-eight conversions.
—thirty in the Sunday school, three at the men’s
meeting and five at the evening service. It was
announced that $91,000 had been paid on the debt
of the church during the past year.
—Evidence thus far adduced goes to show that
Sheriff J. E. Shields. of Westmoreland county, re-
ceived about $185,000 from the various coal com-
panies of that county during the strike of the
miners, the sheriff using part of the money to em”
ploy deputies. It looks as though he is going to
have some trouble before the matter ends.
—Judge O'Connor, of Cambria county, last
the | week gave his opinion as to the degree of murder
of which J. R. Edwards, of Johnstown, is guilty,
Edwards is the former Johnstown policeman who
shot and killed his wife, June 21st, 1910. While
Judge O'Connor made it first degree murder, he
made it plain that he would not object to commu-
tation of the penalty to imprisonment for life.
—Preferring the house of refuge to her own
home, Jennie Bilby, an 18-year-old Jersey Shore
girl, was Thursday sent to the Philadelphia insti-
tution by Judge Hart, when in open’court at Wil-
liamsport she refused point blank to’return to her
home and live In an orderly manner with her par-
ents. The Bilby girl was brought before the
court on habeas corpus proceedings directed
against Ceorge W. Stewart, charged with harbor-
ing the girl.
—The deepest shaft in the bituminous coal field
in Pennsylvania, according to the report of Colo-
nel Heary C. Demming, consulting geologist,
mineralogist and chemist, is operated by the
Maryland Coal company at St. Michae!, about
two and one-half miles south of South Fork, on
the Dunlo branch of the Pennsylvania railroad.
At the Maryland company's operation the hoist
shaft is 697 feet deep and the air shaft is 671 feet:
Within ten miles east of this point is the highest
mountain peak in the State, “Blue Knob.”
—Fire destroyed the plant of the Williamsport
Packing company, in Loyalsock township at five
o'clock Thursday afternoon entailing a loss of
$15,000. John Smith, the 79-year-old watchman at
Democratic party of Pennsylvania what men who have always been Democrats, | cause of their exem nt. | which the Democrats have rgisiative | 52 Senate en-
bond they will give that they, themselves | have put forth for party success. There But now that the reason for Sopiehension | yjorires there is sufficient independence abolition of the United States Senate en | a miecne from serous tC te verry
will be found among the militant, hope- | is ample room and opportunity for these Re to “military or other | of thought and action to make the result selves a little to the signs of the | jn an alarm. He was rescued by Lawrence J.
ful Democratic workers at the second or | gentlemen to show what they can do, and | coersive at the polls is funda- | of the vote uncertain for a time, at least. | times Stopper, secretary and treasurer of the company,
even the first election after their plans | that their real object is to harmonize and mental. No government can be free that | gy jn Pennsylvania PENROSE could order A Sad Outlook for Billy and cued toe es. Lawrence
have been carried into execution. better the conditions of the party, by is Created a er gh re, | the election of a yellow dog and no member etn : D. Stopper and Ralph Benning and was organized
—Under a bill that is ready for in- | beginning at once right in their own | strained environment. of his party in either branch of the Leg- From the Emporia Gussie, about six years ago
Lorimer will be the loneliest man
counties.
troduction in the state Legislature the fore if it is proved that any voters in the islature would dare sound a protest. —A preliminary survey hasbeen completed for
care of township roads would be taken SE Luzerne county congressional a A fis countzy if he Temaing in the Senats. a branch of the Pittsburg & Shawmut railroad,
, ——The political organization in New | were retarded in the expression of members t from Nickelson's run, on the main line of the
out of the hands of the township authori- | you wre + wCoinel” ROOSEVELT spurned | their choice as between the candidates, made up of corrupt bosses and servile are skilled in the difficult art of handing | go 0+ “seven miles south of Kittanning, to
ties entirely and placed under county the result of the election is vitiated and | slaves. the ice pitcher to a man who fails t0 | yh Butler, a distance of 35 miles. The branch
the candidate returned as elected should isto cost $14,000 a
BoP more “work tax" paid. All the | resumed business at the old stand and | be promptly unseated. ——Hon. Solomon R. Dresser, former — d 50,000 acres of coal lands through which the
road taxes will be paid in cash into the the “Coinel” is mow “outside of the| It doesn't make a great deal of differ- | Congressman from this district, died at —If there were no chance to fortify the | branch will extend, and already work has been
county treasurer and the days of the | breastworks.” Thus it goes with reform- ence who represents that district in Con- | his home in Bradford last Friday, after pocket books of the armor, the ordnance started in South Buffalo township, Armstrong
Jipervicor undojg what his predecssses ers who are “out for the stuff,” and during the dex ol orhe an illness of four years. He was sixty- and powder makers there would probably Ps ea Trae un oan, es
standing, sometimes just for spite, will | ROOSEVELT has that brand “blown in the | But it makes a vast difference how ma. Nine years old and survived by his wife, | be far less talk about the need of forti- sib rn
be over. bottle.” jorities are created in any district. | three sons and one daughter. fying the Panama canal. to
— a