—Up to this time May, 1911, has been
the hottest kind of stuff.
—Peace in Mexico seems now to hinge
entirely on the piece of patronage to be
handed out to the rebels.
—Certainly Governor TENER can’t feel
as big as he looks when he realizes what
the Legislature did to his pet public util-| _
ities bill.
—The circus has gone and with it the
pennies of the little folks, but who can
estimate the varied delights of the child
heart yesterday.
—Why legislate against prize fights in
Pennsylvania when her Legislators must
descend to the baser rough and tumble
kind in order to legislate.
—Let the voters of Pennsylvania run
riot at the elections a few more times
and there will be enough good men in the
Legislature to make rioting there unnec-
essary.
—The police were called out to quell a
fightin the Grantstreet Reformed Presby-
terian church in Pittsburg on Monday night
The pity seems to have been that only
the church appears reformed and not its
members.
—Now is the time when the summer
girl dons those new silk stockings and
approaches the muddy crossings in a
manner that would indicate her belief
that everyone within sight had just come
up from Missouri.
~The Bellefonte Daily has it all over
the cat with nine lives. It is with us
again. This time with a real tangible
editor, whose ability to write is evident
and we hope matched by an ability to
make the Daily go.
—Anent the general discussion, pro
and con, on the initiative and recall how
far do you imagine any great reformer
the world has ever put in position to car-
ry out his reforms would have gotten
had it been operative in his time.
—Father PITT is either in his dotage
or gone back to a second childhood. At
least that is the view Father PENN must
take of him since the latter has decided
to have Philadelphia furnish the prop-
er (?) legislation for the government of
Pittsburg.
—The Legislature has adjourned. Its
principal works were increased officials
- increased salaries and reduced charities,
~The crack of the Boss's whip is heard
plainer in the Pennsylvania Legislature
WN i. than the cry of the uncared for insane or
the State's poor sick.
““SiAbout the first thing some of the
residents along the banks of Logan's
Branch will do when they get to Heaven
—and we hope all of them will get there
—will be to go hunting for NOAH to find
out whether his flood was really any big-
ger than the one they had last Friday.
—The Philadelphia papers gave young
Mr. REYBURN, son of the mayor of that
city, credit for having very few qualifica-
tions for a Congressman, but at the elec-
tion there on Tuesday he seems to have
produced the votes. And, after all, that
is about all many men need to secure
any office.
—If Governor TENER were not what he
is—the creature of the Machine—he
would veto every Machine bill passed by
the present Legislature then call the body
into extra session and keep it at Harris-
burg until it has made good every pledge
made to the people by Gov. TENER and
his party.
—Beat those Mexicans, if you can, for
keeping things mixed up. No sooner is
there prospect of peace through the res-
ignation of those in power at present
than the news is spread that the deposed
federals are to turn insurrectos and fo-
ment rebellion against the rebels who are
to come into power. An office is surely
the only difference between a loyal and a
disloyal citizen in Mexico.
—It may be true that Congressman
PATTON voted against Canadian Reci-
procity because his Granger constituents
petitioned him to do so, but he seems to
have been running with the hare apd
hunting with the hounds when he straight-
way failed to vote aye on the Farmer's
Free List bill. We fear our verdant Con-
gressman is already trying the old circus
act of riding two horses at one time.
—A plague of dandelions is reported to
have damaged lawns in Orange, N. J., to
the extent of one hundred thousand dol-
lars. Knowing his fondness for this
The Sproul Highway bill is now a law
and if the constitutional amendment is
ratified by the people an unexampled era
of profligacy in road building may be ex-
pected in the future. The law in its pres-
ent form provides for liberal expenditures
in road building and money could hardly
be put to better use. But with a fund of $50-
000,000 to draw from, as the constitution-
al amendment provides for, it may be ex- |
pected that we will enter upon a system
of highway construction which will make
the operations of CAESAR and NAPOLEON
look like opening up alleys. Besides that
it will provide opportunities for graft in
the way of bank deposits beyond the
most avaricious dreams of the late Mr.
QuAy.
Good roads are a great advantage to
the communities in which they are locat-
ed. Constructed and maintained by the
State, if the work is performed honestly
and economically, they will be a source
of saving to the people. But these results
could have been achieved without bur-
dening posterity with va ast debt, a large
part of which will be without the essen-
tial consideration of value received. In
other words, four or five millions might
have been drawn from the ordinary reve-
nues every year for purposes of road con- |
struction and maintenance without in-
creasing taxes, creating debts or in any
way impairing the public service. The
revenues are ample for all road improve-
ments that can be honestly made.
One of the faults of our legislators isan
overwillingness to spend other people's
money. Our appropriations are made
without respect to reason or the constitu-
tion. Take for instance the $995,000 given
the University of Pennsylvania, an insti-
tution owned and controlled by its own
stock holders and in the management of
which the State has no voice whatever—
an institution that charges higher tuition
rates than any other college in the State,
and which virtually excludes the poorer
class of boys from its opportunities. And
yet it received the largest appropriation
given to any institution in the Common-
wealth without a return of any kind to
the public {oF the vast sum that is given
it yearly. “With very much less money
better results might be achieved and if
business principles were invoked in deal-
ing with the fiscal affairs of the State our
charities might be amply liberal and
there would remain in the treasury suffi
cient funds to allow abundance for the
schools and the roads. If the Highway
department is conducted upon scientific
principles and along business lines, it will
be impossible to spend more than four or
five millions a year in road building and
present revenues will provide that much.
Impeachment of Juiges.
Senator CATLIN’S resolution creating a
commission with power to impeach judges
during intervals between sessions of the
Legislature is hardly an improvement
upon Representative SHERN's bill for the
same purpose. In fact it may justly be
said it is the greater evil of the two be-
cause it creates another commission. Its
main purpose is, of course, to compel
judges to obedience to the machine. The
SHERN bill would have achieved this re-
sult in one way. The CATLIN resolution
will as certainly accomplish it in another
Both propositions are infamously bad.
Either is a disgrace to the Legislature
and an aspersion upon the courts.
Under the SHERN bill a judge who had
sufficient courage and integrity to decide
against a “protected crook,” would be
promptly impeached and peremptorily
dismissed from office. The CATLIN reso-
lution would provide the some punish-
ment for the same virtues. For some
reason, however, the SHERN bill was
made ebnoxious and the machine man-
agers dispaired of its passage. Thereupon
the CATLIN resolution was brought for-
ward and passed the Senate by a big ma-
jority. This seems like “choking on a
gnat and swallowing a camel.” But you
can't tell what it really means. It is a
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA.
I EE ——— _——_——
| Recreant Democrats in the Legisla- |
ture.
| Those Democrats in the Legislature
| who voted against the Registrar bill for
| the reason that it fixed upon the Demo-
| cratic party rather than the Keystone as
| the minority party were recreant to their
| party obligations. In this State and in
| most of the counties, the Keystone candi-
dates received more votes than those of
the Democratic party last fall. But most
| of the votes for the Keystone candidates
‘were cast by men who had previously
been Republicans and will return to that
| affiliation the moment their temporary
| grievances are redressed. Under a law
| which would make the Keystone party the
| minority party, the Demorrats would be
| without representation on the boards and
| in nine cases out of ten the Republicans
would get the full board.
| Some Representatives in the Legisla-
| ture, including Mr. SHANNON, of Luzerne,
| and Mr. AILMAN, of Juniata, elected as
| Democrats, spoke in favor of such a be-
| trayal of Democratic interests. If their
' purposes had been fulfilled the minority
Registrars in Philadelphia would have
been chosen by former postmaster
| TroMaAs J. Hicks, who will be as earnest
| a supporter of the Republican candidate
for President next year as Senator PEN-
| ROSE or DAVE LANE. In Allegheny coun-
| ty the selections would have been by for-
mer Senator WiLLIAM FLYNN, than whom
there is no more bitter and uncompro-
mising Republican in this broad land.
What excuse have Representatives SHAN-
NON and AILMAN for thus betraying the
party that has honored them? There is
none perceptible at this distance.
The Keystone party is merely an ebul-
lition of disappointment and resentment.
It hasn't the substance and vitality of the
Populist party or its predecessor, the
Greenback party, because both those par-
ties had national existence and organiza-
tion while this is a mushroom growth of
merely local proportions. Next year
ninety per cent. of the Republicans who
were affiliated with it last year will be
moored in their old party environment
and the overwhelming defeat which is
due to the PENROSE machine will be post-
poned for a considerable time if it is not
entirely averted. The recreant Demo-
crats in the Legislature who are betray”
ing their party by voting against its in-
terests, are contributing to this result.
Their Democratic constituents should
call them to account.
Disgraceful Scene in the House.
The disgracetul riot in the hall of the
House of Representatives, in Harrisburg,
the other day, is distinctly traceable to
the methods of the Republican machine.
The weather was distressingly hot, it is
true, and most men are irritable under
such conditions. But hot or cold, rain or
shine, such an outrage would have been
impossible if the bull-dozing methods of
Speaker Cox had been less frequently in-
troduced. Manly men will not tamely
submit to the too frequent perversion of
power and prostitution of authority. In-
telligent men know their rights under the
law and naturally resent the subversion
of them. If weather conditions had been
different the outbreak might have been
delayed. But it was inevitable.
No Speaker of the House in recent
years, at least, has been as arrogant as
Mr. Cox. From the beginning of his
service in that capacity, with the opening
of the session of 1909, he has ruled with
aniron hand. Intolerantof opposition he
has made a practice of forcing vicious
legislation through the chamber. Speaker
WALTON was bad enough in all con-
science. Speaker CANNON, of the House
of Representatives in Washington, was a
Czar in riding down opposition. But
either of these gentlemen is mild-manner-
ed, compared with Cox, cf Pittsburg. He
doesn’t even take the trouble to gloss
over his tyranny with politeness. He
simply goes at the task like a butcher ap-
proaches the slaughter of a vicious bull.
He uses the gavel as if it were a steam
MAY 26, 1911.
Parties in Congress Contrasted.
The Republican majority of the Senate |
in Washington is doing its best to con-
vince the people of the country that it is
unfit for control. It has been dilly-dally-
ing fu. more than two months and as yet
has accomplished nothing. Unable to
agree among themselves upon a candi-
date pro tem., there has been no reorga-
nization of the body as required by cus-
tom. But that is of little consequence so
long as the Vice President is willing to
remain at his post of duty. The work
can go on without a temporary President,
though it is unusual,
On the other hand the Democratic ma-
jority in the House of Representatives
has been extraordinarily expeditious and
efficient. The selection of the Speaker
was the work of only a few hours and
the organization of the committees was
equally prompt and harmonious. The
work of the body has been deliberate but
prompt. Within the two months and a
half of the session more desirable legisla-
tion has been completed, in so far as one
branch could achieve that result, than
was enacted during the two years term
of the previous Congress.
In fact the Democratic majority in the
House challenges admiration. The Speak-
er and the leaders of the body have tak-
en hold of the work as if they had never
done anything else but direct legislation
all their lives. They have vindicated the
wisdom of the people in placing them in
control of the legislation and blazed the
way for a Democratic victory next year
which will not only turn the executive
department of the government over to
the Democrats, but will give that party a
majority in the Senate in the Sixty-third
Congress.
Of course the tardiness in the Senate is
easily accounted for. The longer the leg-
islation, which the Democrats of the | There
House have enacted, is delayed the great-
er will be the graft of the special inter-
ests. The reciprocity treaty would great- | pad
ly reduce the cost of living, but it would
correspondingly decrease the profits
—The affirmation of the sentence of
Josep M. HUSTON, architect of the cap-
itol, by the Supreme Court leaves no al-
ternative to that gentleman. Ten years
ago he was a young fellow of brilliant
promise and great capacity for achieve-
ment in his profession. But he fell un-
der the baneful influence of the Republi-
can machine and following the example | the
of his older associates undertook to get
rich quick by grafting. Now he is a
wreck and probably most of his ill-gotten
gains have been squandered in a fruitless
effort to escape the penalties of his
crimes.
~The capitol park extension bill i
now up to the Governor, the Senate hav-
ing concurred in the House amendments
on the last legislative day of the session. | ang
The bill would have been better if it had
been concurred in by the House as it | terl
passed the Senate but even as it is it be-
gins a necessary work that would have
been made more expensive by delay.
Many of us will be dead before the be-
neficence is finished to be sure, but there
is comfort in the knowledge that it will
be completed ultimately.
~The last Legislative act of the
State Senate was to create a new com-
mission the purpose of which is to spend
money. Thus “the ruling passion is strong
in death.” The Legislature has done lit-
tle else than create new offices, increase
the people of the State will wake up and
then there will be a reckoning worth
while to witness.
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SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
found in Mahoning creek, near his home town.
! =—=Burglars entered a Sharon jewelry store the
| other night and robbed a window which was
J neta illuminated, of goods to the value of
—From 150,000 to 200,000 pine seedlings are to be
| planted in Lycoming county by the state forestry
commission to replace the vanished forests of
that county.
—Two and a half to ten years in the peniten.
tiary is the sentence imposed on Albert Albrighd
by the Somerset couuty court for stealing chick-
ens and ham.
—The Elk Tanning company sustained its sec-
ond fire loss within a week when the hair build
ing at the Clearfield tannery burned. The loss is
—Daniel Levan, of Catawissa, believes in
“Father's Day.” So do his children, for the old
gentleman celebrated it the other day by dividing
among his eight children $10,000 in cash or prop-
erty.
~—A bridge across the Delaware river at Dela-
ware Water Gap, is one of the possibilities. A
company has been organized to build and operate
atoll bridge, and a charter will be applied for
May 26.
~On Memarial Day an interesting feature will
be the unvailing of the soldiers’ monument in
South Park, Philipsburg, on which occasion W. I.
Swoope, Esq., of Clearfield, will make the ad-
dress.
=]. H. Hagerty, a well known baker, of Du-,
Bois, awakened his wife by moaning early Friday
morning. Before she could call her son or sum-
mon a doctor, he was dead, presumably of
In some sections of Northampton county the
falling hail during the recent storm killed chick-
ens and fell so fast that it was scooped up by the
shovelful. Mrs. Harry Young, of Bangor, was
rendered unconscious by a lightning stroke.
—Robert B. Ross, an agent for the Scheon
Jackson company, and a resident of Chester
county, has been arrested on the charge of forg-
ing the name of Charles T. Scheon, retired mil-
fotairs sel wngmase, vo -chevin approximating
—Fruit farming is certainly worth while in
Adams county. Dr. J. D. Stover has refused an
offer of $70,000 for his farm in Adams county. He
has 10,000 fruit trees on the farm and last season
his orchard brought him $5000. He will plant 300
more trees this season.
=. C. Campbell and R. E. Redmond were con-
victed last week in the Clearfield couuty court of
conspiracy to defraud Joseph Johnson, of DuBois,
out of $2,800. The project which did not mater-
ialize was the establishment of a sanitorium for
curing alcoholism at DuBois.
~Ellis Iddings, of Henderson township, Hunt-
ingdon county this spring planted 700 peach trees.
He reports all starting nicely. He already had
an orchard of 500 peach trees and 600 apple trees,
and intends to keep on planting until he has one
of the finest orchards in the country.
Just to show the officials of Susquehanna coun-
ty that the new wall at the county jail, which
was supposed to be unscalable, was a very ordi-
nary affair, Fred Tallon, a prisoner, scaled it
Saturday and leisurely took his walk to the
woods. He is there yet, as far as the officials
know.
—Nine persons were poisoned by eating ice
cream in Cornwall township, Lebanon county,
and three of them escaped death by a narrow
margin. The latter are Uriah Hoke, manager
of the R. P. Alden estate farm, where the cream
was eaten; Mrs. Joseph Shand and Miss Emma
Bachman.
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—Reaching a depth of 10,289 feet, the diamond
drill at the bore hole of the Locust Gap & Klup-
mont Water company, Ashland, broke through
a ledge of flinty rock which proved to be mys-
terious subterranean cavern or waterway.
Soundings have proved the water to have a depth
of more than eighty fathoms.
—George C. Frey, a York county farmer, who
was driving some cattle along a country road, was
so much annoyed by passing automobiles that
The | alarmed the animals, that he finally attacked one
of the machines with a club, breaking the wind
shield and doing other damage. Of course he
was arrested and will probably be punished.
—Lancaster, the richest farming county in the
United States, is not entirely denuded of timber,
although a trip through the county by rail would
leave the impression that it was. There are in
the county about 58,392 acres of timber and 511,-
150 acres of cleared land. Breakneck leads with
4,821 acres of timberland. The valuation of the
real estate in the county is $103,707,951, of which
$7,355.000 is exempt from taxation.
~James McLean, of Scranton, separated from
his wife, who made her residence in Towanda,
went to the woman's home a week ago and made
efforts to effect a reconciliation. She refused
and finally he entered her apartment during her
absence, concealed himself in her bed room and
shot and killed her as she entered the room.
Then he ran to the Susquehanna river and
drowned himself in about three feet of water.
~Michael Slater, of Blackwood, brought suit
Tuesday against Herbert White, of Swatara, on
of
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f the unusual charge of trying to blow him up with
dynamite by trying to make him eat the high ex®
plosive. Slater accused White of holding him
fast and then thrusting a stick of dynamite down
his throat. He alleged that White forced him to
bring his jaws together and sink his teeth into
the dynamite. Had it exploded, both assailant
and victim would have been killed. White was
held in $400 bail for court. Bath men are miners”
at Blackwood colliery.
—Harry W. Koch, Robert Steel, Arthur Reed
recently
an afternoon's outing. While there Mr. Koch
caught a 17-inch trout and discovered that his
catch was the ssme trout that had been looked
but got away from his brother Ferdinand Koch,
of Altoona, when the two men were fishing in
the same stream a few days before. The proof
consisted in the fact that the hook and lead which
had been lost by Ferdinand Koch was still in the
mouth of the fish when it was caught the second
From the Philadelphia Record. time.
cichoriaceous plant when smothered in |safe guess, however, that some of the | pile-driver. its appearance at the WATCHMAN office| The feeble scion of the feeble occu- | a destructive forest fire swept a large portion
bacon grease and vinegar we just natural- | sponsors of the bill have an ulterior pur-| It must be admitted that some of the on Wednesday. It is published in the | Pant of the office of Mayor of Philadel- | of the Nittany mountain near the new Florida
ly wonder whether the loss would have | pose. so-called reformers in the Legislature are | Howard Hustler office and the new editor | Pia has been telling the intelligent Vo | farm. close to Loganton, Friday aternoon and
been nearly so great had Centre county's | tis the bounden duty of the Legisla- | provoking. They act as if in their own | and business manager is W. P. Darrah, [that he favors the Aldrich Sie Souiigersbie low of young sie: ou the
district attorney, and a little coterie of | ture and the people to maintain the bench | opinion they are made of different ma- | formerly editor and publisher of the Re. | tariff bicass gusraness Di. wage rt et a os Port ot bt
friends who revel in the dish after he has at the highest standard. To accomplish | terials from the average citizen and their | novo News. The WATCHMAN wishes the | With constant employment, to fire belt was onland which had just been replant
“prepared” it, had happened to be resi- | this result it is necessary that judges be hypocrisy is palpable enough to disturb | new venture et to Theo in, [io | & ith young vine trees, several hundredof
dents of Orange. entirely independent of politicians and all | the serenity of a saint. It is easy to be * m— and the orator who him to Wil- Which were buttied, b youd reauisn 2 viak
—Architect JOE HUSTON, of the Harris- | other agencies except their own con-|a trifie exacting with such persons and | ——The life of the State Revenue Com- | liam Pitt how the tariff confers their i
risburg graft palace, having been “given | sciences. Such a standard is impossible | in fact difficult to avoid discriminating | mission has been prolonged by resolution | high wages on the carpenters, bricklay- | snd cents the real loss. The actual damage in
advantage of every technical loop-hole, | if by any legal or legislative process poli- | against them. But the Speaker of the | for two years, anyway, and may contin- Splatters, Plumbers. Jou Paifiters, larger amount arises from the effects of retarded
at last finds the doors of the penitentiary | ticians can menace the judges. But the | House should be able to control his tem- | ue indefinitely as it #ffords Senator Mc- | workingmen know the tariff only in its srowth.
opening to receive him. Broken in |SHERN bill and theCATLIN resolution are | per and at least make a pretense of fair- | NiczioL, of Philadelphia, a splendid op- | extortions upon their honest earnings. | —A young son of Isaac Jones, of Gearhartville,
health, spirits and heart this young man | alike intended to provide that menace, | ness. This the present Speaker has not | portunity to study political economy and Dn the Othe! Mand, the OVE Ju ae age Yuva 1 years, was bijten ois Seburday
of good raising, talent and brilliant fu- | dismissal from office, upon some trumped | been able to do, or at least he has not | he needs information as badly as most of | This contrast alone demonstrates the im. | The dog was shot by Constable Beach, and the
ture prospects pays the penalty that ever | up charge. The SHERN bill is killed. | done it and the disgraceful scene of last | us need money.
ust be imposed those who The Ca resolution ought to be Friday the logical consequence of his DE es - Dr uss. 5 ce
m upon are TLIN u as was —— grossness to
lured from the paths of rectitude by de- | promptly strangled. mental infirmity. ——The Pittsburg plan bill was enacted | deception concerning the influehce of the | "Mico for aeuein. Frank Twines, the
signing companions or the lust for things — ————— into law if the Governor approves it but all or wages save in diminishing the : : evening, ‘was also bitten
unearned. We have pity for him, and | —Some people dread the quarantine| —It looks like it won't be long until | before it got through it was hammered | chasing of the earnings by a mad dog, which tried to bite another party
sympathy would be our expression too | regulations restricting their personal per- | the “Boy Orator of the Platte” will have | into an innocuous state which makes it people, the rates would be uniform in the | ortwo and tore the dress of a little girl. Unfor-
were he not a man of good enough intel- | ambulations far more than the disease | to take his hat off to the scholar-politi- | little better than nothing. Still the peo- | Same occupations throughout the coun- | nately the dog made te escape. Bie. Haines!
lect to have known better. with which their children suffer. cian of that artificial Carnegie lake. ple of Pittsburg don't deserve much. a ¥hey | woutd wag Cattariond, 10 secious
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