= —Anyway, we had a nice hot summer while it lasted. —Mr. BRYAN is a great man, but we applaud Congress for throwing out the hint that he is not the only one. —Uncle SAM ought to have more re- spect for his olfactory centres than to poke his nose too deep into that butter and egg trust. —It is estimated that the seven thous- and miles of road to be built under the new SPROUL highway bill in Pennsylva- nia will cost twenty thousand dollars a mile. —The dis Honorable JACK JOHNSING is on the Atlantic on his way to the corona- tion. Can't you hear King GEORGE say- ing, “Look ‘ose 'ere!” when he arrives in London. —Every one of the thirty-five gradu- ates of the Bellefonte Academy will en- ter college in September. That makes a record like a real preparatory school, doesn't it. —Senator RAYNER, of Maryland, has just declared on the floor of the Senate, that Governor WILSON, of New Jersey, is the most fearless of American statesmen. The next issue of the Commoner will probably review the Senator's speech. —No, “Anxious Inquirer,” the State College boys who have been delegated to beaux the ladies of the Chinese Embassy who will visit that institution next week, will not “wear their shirts outside their trousers” in order to make the celestial maidens feel more at home. —Chairman GARY, of the United States Steel Co., says the SHERMAN anti-trust law is “archaic” and that we should keep a federal incorporation law up with the march of industrial events. Wouldn't it be a dandy that could keep up with the march of the United States Steel Co. —While King GEORGE will wear his father’s old lid at the coronation his con- sort will have one that is to cost some- thing in the neighborhood of three mil- lion dollars. Cheer up, you poor souls who have been staggered ever since you saw that little millinery bill you received just after Easter. has very promptly denied the story that was being circulated to the effect that he is for TAPT in 1912. Nothing else was to have been expected. ROOSEVELT is for ROOSEVELT in 1912 and any other time there might be a chance for him to get back into the presidential chair. —That Boston minister who claims that ATLAS was a woman and not a man will find plenty of people to give credence to his theory. The first woman held up the through train all of humanity had taken to Mansions in the Skies so why cou)" it have been too Herculean a task for a woman to have held up the Earth. —Governor TENER is now riding in that forty-horse power Pierce-Arrow ma- chine that the last Legislature bought for him. That Legislature took the Govern- or so many rides while it was in ses- sion that we suppose that each time he goes out in the new machine he will have a thought for the old Machine that per- mitted him to have it. —Lawyer DAN O'REILLY, of New York, who figured in the THAW defense, along with DELMAS, LITTLETON and the other notables, has just been sentenced to five months in the penitentiary for having been accessory to a hold up and receiv- ing stolen goods. His crime was not so unusual, but for a lawyer its execution was too raw to be tolerated. —Local experience with the building of State roads leads us to the belief that it is folly to waste money further in either macadam or asphalt macadam construc- tion. Brick paving is the more satisfac- tory, is less destructible, cleaner and more certain of being made in strict con- formity with specifications. Mark the prediction. The brick paving on Alle: gheny street will be good when there will be no trace left of the balance of the new state road. —The WATCHMAN would advise the Democrats of Centre county to pay no at- tention to the Centre Democrats’ invitation to have them air their views on the mat- ter of reorganizing the State Democracy through its columns. There is an im- portant ticket to be elected in the county in the fall and that should be a matter of first consideration. Nothing should be said or done that will lose a vote for the men who will be nominated therefor the impropriety of promoting a squabble over a matter in the settlement of which Cen- tre county's one vote will not weigh very heavily either way. —Last fall our contemporary, the Cen- tre Democrat, was quite busy organizing the Keystone party. Little wonder the surprise at its offer this week to re-organ- ize the Democratic party. Few reasona- ble people will object to doing anything that will add to the success of the party, but when those who would have destroy- ed it because it wasn't run just to their liking last fall assume to take the matter of reorganizing into their own hands they can scarcely expect that those who have been Democrats always will lend much support to the movement. If the Demo- cratic party in Pennsylvania is to be re- organized let it be done by clean, straight Democrats. VOL. 56. Judge Gary Convicts Himself. If there was a missing link in the chain of evidence that the absorption of the Tennessee Coal and Iron company by the Steel trust was a criminal conspiracy, the testimony of Judge GARY before the con- gressional committee supplies it. Judge GARY is chairman of the Steel trust board and came to the witness stand to refute the previous testimony of Mr. Joun W. Gates. Obviously he was pre- pared to accomplish that result at any hazard. He apparently believed that if a question of veracity were raised between Mr. GATES and himself, he would have the better of it and he had studied his lines with great care and recited them with much unction. He has the late Mr. PECKSNIFF skinned a mile. The evidence of the conspiracy is con- tained in that part of his testimony wherein he details the scrupulous care with which he proceeded to establish “an alibi,” so to speak. Two days after his visit to the White House, during which President ROOSEVELT agreed to abrogate the SHERMAN anti-trust law so far as it applied to the transaction in process of completion, Judge GARY swore that he wrote to Secretary of State Root, who was present, “reviewing the entire con- ference as he remembered it,” and asking Root “if this agreed with his recollec- tion.” A few days later RooT wrote GARY "that the account of the conference fully agreed with his recollection.” Sub- sequently RooT sent GARY'S letter and his reply to President ROOSEVELT and the President replied: “Mr. GARY states the facts as I remember them.” Then all these letters were filed away for future use and brought forward as an exhibit in GARY'S evidence before the congressional committee. Gentlemen of conscience and character are not so suspicious of each other that they go to such pains to create evidence of their integrity. Conspirators who are arranging in advance evidence to prove their innocence of crimes of which they have not been charged, do. There is an old adage that “a guilty conscience needs no accuser,” and from the beginning of time criminals have time to prepare evi- dence of innocence in advance of the per- petration of crime. RoOT was the confi dential adviser of the Steel trust both be- was the servile and sycophantic slave of J. PIERPONT MORGAN. They really joined with Judge GARY in fabricating this evi- dence of their conspiracy for the reason that they anticipated a congressional in- vestigation, though they probably had no idea that it would be conducted by a Democratic committee. A friendly in- vestigation wouldn't have gone very deep into the matter. Judge GARY has not made a very favor- able impression on the public mind by his testimony and no reasoning man can read the part of it to which we have re- ferred, without feeling suspicious. If the transaction had been legitimate and in pursuance of an honest purpose, there would have been no necessity for such actions as he describes. When the Steel trust was formed no such precautions were taken though every acquisition was subject to challenge in the courts under the SHERMAN law, Yet in that gigantic operation vast interests were involved and men of varied temperaments con- cerned. But in this matter Judge GARY knew he was conspiring and tried in ad- vance to prove the contrary. —DEewITT C. DEWITT Esq., of Towan- da, Bradford county, one of the bright. est lawyers in that section of the State and one of the best stump speakers you'll find anywhere, is a candidate for Judge, and promises if nominated and elected, “that no suites case shall be held over a term where my duty requires a decision. When I fail to hand down decisions promptly and keep my work up, I will re- sign.” On such a platform Mr. DEWITT ought to be elected without opposition. It is the platform that every Judge ought to stand upon, and it is the one that every one should be required to carry out. One of the greatest draw-backs to the administration of justice in this Com- monwealth is the neglect of the judges to hand down their decisions and todelay the determination of cases in their hands. The judge who fails in this respect ought to be recalled from the bench, and put to breaking stones on the street or some other work where his indolence will not interfere with the administration of jus- tice. If the WATCHMAN were a Bradford county paper it would whoop-er-up for Mr. DEWITT from the word go. ——Everybody is in favor of a sane and safe Fourth of July now but about three weeks from next Tuesday every- body will be looking for the most danger- ous instrument for making noise that can be found. We mean well always but act bad frequently. —=Subscribe for the WATCHMAN. fore and after the event and ROOSEVELT | STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. The Passing et Mr. Bryan. The practical elimination of WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN from the leadership of the Democratic party is the most whole- some and hopeful sign perceptible on the political horizon. Mr. BRYAN had come to imagine that he was the absolute dic- tator of the party. At the Denver con- vention three years ago he arbitrarily or- dered that delegates regularly elected by the people of Pennsylvania be summarily thrown out and men, in some instances not thought of in connection with such they pretended to represent, be seated in their places. That was a moral wrong and a political crime, but in the interest of party harmony and in the hope of par- ty success, it was overlooked by those concerned. | During the interval since that time Mr. BRYAN has been traveling over the coun- try issuing mandates to party men and organizations, and dictating preferences with the assurances of a monarch. Im- mediately after the recent election he or- acularly announced that one successful Democrat wouldn't do for one reason and another for another and finally inferen- tially declared that at the proper time he would designate the next Democratic can- didate for President. Last fall, because one of his followers was not nominated for Governor by the Democrats of Penn- sylvania, he encouraged a bolt and for the reason that the Democratic candidate for Governor, in his own State, would not obey his orders, he bolted the ticket and elected a Republican. At the organization of Congress he un” dertook to say who should get this favor or that, though he was not a member of either body, and a week or so later he laid down lines and in mandatory terms or, dered all Democrats in the body to fol. low them. So far as “the wool schedule is concerned we are in" accord with Mr. BRYAN, though not for the reasons given by him. Free wool would be a public beneficence which we earnestly hope to see, but it is not a cardinal Democratic | doctrine, as he alleges. Therefore the Democratic n concluded to rebukedMz, BRYAN by a” nominal tariff tax on wool in order to secure rev- enue and satisfy everybody else by prom- ising the full reform in the future. | ——Governor HARMON, of Ohio, isn't | making much noise but he is certainly making a stir among the crooks in Co- lumbus. The bribery investigations are going forward with great energy and reg- ularity and it looks now as if a consider- able number of the Senators and Repre- | sentatives in the Legislature of that State will perform their next public service as | laborers in the penitentiary. Dewalt Not a Candidate for Re-election. Senator ARTHUR G. DEWALT, chairman of the Democratic State Central commit- tee, has announced that he is not a can- didate for re-election. Two terms in the office are encugh for him. In fact he protested vigorously against his re-elec- tion a year ago and only yielded in obe- dience to a practically unanimous de- mand of the members of the committee and leaders of the party. During the first year of his administration of the of- fice he had brought the party organiza- tion up to a high state of efficiency and felt that he had a right to claim exemp- tion from further arduous and thankless labor. But following the Allentown con- vention the party was in trouble and he accepted another election. ‘There is nothing alluring about the of- fice of chairman of the Democratic State Central committee. It involves a great deal of hard work, considerable expense and very little advantage or pleasure. . With a single exception no Democratic | State Chairman has ever been paid for ' his services and few have been able to | the State, Highway Department, Harris. retain the popularity which they enjoyed préviously. In fact one of the most diffi- cult tasks which have annually devolved | upon the party leaders was to find aman { with the mental, physical and financial ! qualifications, who was willing to assume the duties. Even chairmen who have led their party to success at the election have | not always been generously treated after- reason over differences of opinion as to the causes of last fall's disaster, Chair- man DEWALT was entirely willing to re- | tire from the office in the interest of har- | mony. But those who had brought on ! the trouble by deserting an admirable ticket would consent to nothing that didn’t humiliate him and asperse his as- sociates in the party leadership. Influ- enced by an ambition which is as absurd as it is demoralizing, VANCE C. MCcCoRr- MICK and a few others, set out to destroy the organization and erect upon its ruins a personal machine which might promote their selfish aggrandizement. They pre- vented harmony then and may again on the 19th instant if they persist. PA, JUNE 9, service, or known to the constituencies | ing against a Hebrew soldier and prob- | ably hopes the harvest will be a prac- tically unanimous Hebrew vote. ROOSE- | absurd snobbishness of an army officer has given a great opportunity and TAFT When the committee met in April to | 1911 * | Taft Gets Them Coming and Going.’ President TAFT is receiving much praise from certain newspapers on ac- | count of his speeches in favor of Cana- | dian reciprocity. A couple of years ago | he made a tour of the West for the pur- pose of eulogizing the ALDRICH tariff law and the same newspapers were equally enthusiastic in his praise. They are for him anyway. He catches them coming and going. They believe in “the powers | the that be.” Itis a form of sycophancy which appeals to them. When ROOSE- | VELT was President everything he did and | said was right, in their perverted minds. Now that he is not President and is threatened with being not much else, they are ready to flay himat a moment's notice. President TAFT's speech at Chicago the other evening was an able exposition of the subject. But why should he be prais- ed fulsomely for uttering sentiments which all intelligent men believed years ago. There was quite as much reason for the policies TAFT is advocating now as there was when he was praising the ALDRICH bill and TAFT knew it just as well then as he does now. But then he jmagined that the people didn’t under- stand. He believed that there were a few years more of good stealing in the tariff and wanted to help his friends to get the loot. The result of last fall's elections were a revelation to him, how- ever, and now he is trying to get on the popular side. During the campaign for President in 1908 TAPT took the stump and solemnly pledged himself and his party to a revi- sion of the tariff downward but after his election turned in with those who were striving for a revision upward. We have no more faith in his pledges now than we had then. He deliberately falsified the facts in order to get votes and the chances are that he is equally insincere and hypocritical now. The campaign for his re-election is approaching and he is willing to make any kind of pledges to get votes. Such a man is unworthy of public confidence. He doesn’t deserve even the courtesy of a patient hearing. Tie papers which praise him would laud S#7 man in power. ——Senator STONE, of Missouri, having heard that President TAFT had no objec- tion to Senator RoOT'S amendment to the Canadian reciprocity pact, went to the White House to find out. The Presi- dent assured him that he is opposed to all amendments and probably meant it. But it is a good guess that even if RooT persists in his amendment and thus de- feats the agreement, he will lose no pres- tigs at the White House. The President cares more for votes at the election of next year than he does for trade relations with Canada and is working both ends against the middle, not for reciprocity but for votes. —Judge GARY, chairman of the Steel trust board, declares that he would like to see the government in control of the industrial energies of the country. The Judge would be a Socialist if he were sin- cere, but he isn't either. What he would really like to see is the Steeltrust in con- trol of the government all the time as completely as it was when ROOSEVELT abrogated a law in order that the cor- poration might commit an outrage. ——President TAFT has publicly repri- manded an army Colonel for discriminat- VELT was the first American President to work religious creeds in politics but he has nothing on TAFT even at that. The has employed it to the limit. ——Allotment is now being made at burg, of the $690,000 to be distributed within the next month to those townships throughout the State which abolished the work tax on the roads under the Act of I __——_~n NO. 23. Why the Steel Monopoly? From the Milwaukee Journal. John W. Gates, who was one of the or- ganizers of the Steel trust, telling, for the benefit of the committee of the House 2 2 282s g freiditne ] Wl fe Lil i 2 RE : E 3 ill hid itieh i E8R8 zs i { i i : | : i g g | : ¢ f i | I LE HH g i i i i i I 4 i : : : 3 8 g § 2 g§ i 1h 55 i 28 i i 8 i =53 — ~~ ) i i ’ i : hi i ut of state the Discussing Arbitration. From the Omaha World-Herald. That the world is tired of impoverish- ing the people by taxation to increase armies and navies is Sw he . ness manifested by the | pri i to enter into general arbitration treaties. The project been accepted the pe the United States, England and ig and Japan has indicated that she wishes to be included. The diploma ic statement that “the tentative draft now in the hands of Great Britain and France EE to enter into ons th any power desiring to do so” has brought out the statement that the Ger- man government is interested and has so notified the authorities at Washington. It will be of interest to the people of the United States to know that the Ger- man government has intimated, however informally, that it is inclined to take in the matter. Ita rs that the four principal powers of the world are at last discussing complete arbitration of all difficulties th: t may arise among them. 1907. There are some five or six town- | ships in Centre county which abolished | the work road tax under the above Act! and will come in for a share of the fund | available. —A great many contemporaries are discussing the farmers’ opposition to Ca- nadian reciprocity. As a matter of fact, however, the farmers are not opposed to | plan: Canadian reciprocity at all. The opposi- tion comes from the trusts and tariff | mongers who pay venal grange leaders | for expressing it. The average farmer is | intelligent and honest but a great many | of their spokesmen are corrupt and stu- | pid. Ee | ——The new Senate committee to in- vestigate LORIMER consists of four avow- ed friends and four equally positive ene- mies. A “hung jury” is not as satisfac- tory as an acquittal but it beats a verdict of guilty to a frazzle. From the Washington Post. There is a great deal of common sense in this utterance. I! recalls the a Philadelphia contractor whoo, the children read of it each one of them asked me for an automobile.” Secrets Told Out of School. From the Houston Post. Mr. Gates, but the ironmaster's librarious riotousness or his riotous | aig slow Dien” fis” shout te unveiling a —Subscribe for the WATCHMAN. ibrariousness | Gates has been SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. ~Watsontown borough authorities last week hauled up a party of reckless autoists and fined them $50 and costs for their speeding. They paid- too —S. G. Engle, living near Marietta, Lancaster county, owns two Jersey heifers that produced 20.480 pounds of milk and 11,966 pounds of butter in 365 days. —Wallace Correll, of Little Gap, Carbon coun- ty, is the bee king of that section, having seve ral hundred hives and last week shipped one ton of honey to market. =On a rocky slope in a sheltered hollow on the Abraham Angstadt farm in Ruscombmanor town, ship, a group of half-century-old wild paw-paw trees grow—the only ones known in Eliterm Pennsylvania. —A wild turkey weighing twenty pounds was recently shot on state land in Perry county. The man who saw the shot couldn't positively iden- tify the offender, but got the turkey and sent it to Harrisburg. are that there will be a passing down of bills against the county from that section. ~William H. Cornelius and wife, of Saltillo, had their eleven children with their wives or hus- Haven residence lost no time in getting inside the house when a bullet whizzed past them, struck the house and fell at their feet. The chief of police has the bullet for investigation as to the identity of the careless shooter. of —DuBois has a mystery in the finding $ —Within forty-eight hours after a bomb, which did not explode at the proper time, was thrown against the Grand theatre at Barnesboro, a stick of dynamite was found in the cellar of the play- house. The Barnesboro officials are at a loss to account for the presence of the explosives. —Guy Wheeler, of Charleston, Luzerne county hauls six tons of milk to the condensary at Wells- boro every day, a distance of six miles, with his two traction engines. The trip takes two hours. Guy thinks it a great success, but some of the supervisors whose roads are traversed when soft shake their heads ominously at the big ruts which result. —Eight children, all under 12 years of age, be. came Indiana county charges by the death of home, shooting her through the breast and wounding her husband, He became insane by brooding over the affair and died some time afterwards. —~Somerset has just paid the last of its water bonds, the town having assumed the debt of $25,- 000 in 1894. Its plant is now worth $59,000 and, as is the case in most towns which own their own plants, it is the pride of the town. In 1900 a $32,000 debt was contracted for sewers and municipal building and in ten years $15,000 of thislamount was paid. The record is certainly good. ~Wapwollopen, Luzerne county, will soon be off the map. This town has for years been the home of the powder makers; in fact, this is the only industry the town even possessed, but, not- ing the dangers that attended powder making, it wasa very prosperous little village. But it has reached its zenith, and ere long Jwill be no more. The DuPonts, who own the works, have issued orders to dismantle them. ~William Newton, aged about2{ years, a son of Mr. and Mrs. George Newton, of Winburne, was fatally injured on Wednesday afternoon ina motor collision in Bloomington mine, No. 1, at the former place, dying the same night at the Cottage hospital, Philipsburg. He was in the act of bringing out of the mine the foreman, William Nichols, who had his leg iujured in the drift, when, through a misunderstanding of the signals, his car was struck by one coming in. —Oliver Duppstadt, aged 20 years, was drowned while swimming in the Stoney Creek river, near Johnstown, on Sunday afternoon. His com- panions tried in vain to rescue him, but could not even recover his body. He was a son of Samuel Duppstadt, of Listle, Somerset county. Thomas Fabiyan, aged 22 years, tried to swim across the Conemaugh near Echo on Sunday afternoon, and was drowned. His remains were taken to South Fork for interment. He had no relatives in this country. —G. M. Schofield, of the Schofield Electrical Engineering company, of Philadelphia, arrived in Ick Haven early Monday morning to examine tne proposed Scootac power plant proposition and the route of the Lock Haven and Jersey Shore trolley road. He went over the trolley route to Jersey Shore with L. M. Patterson, the president of the company, in the latter's touring car Monday and was very favorably impressed. In fact he is much pleased with the whole situa- tion so far as he has made an investigation. —There was an exciting robbery at Confluence took to their heels and the second chase was un- successful. Part of the money was recovered. , =One of the most cold-blooded murders that | ever occurred In Potter county was committed at | Roulette, shortly after 7 o'clock Saturday even, ing when Chester Clark, aged thirty-eight, sent a bullet into his wife's head and then made certain taining wall, approaching a joint county bridge constructed over the Juniata river, near Bir mingham, falling a distance of ten feet, thereby fracturing and crushing the neck of the left femur to Philipsburg with their families. The board of directors among other things authorized the pur- chase of a complete sand plant at a cost of $17.- 300, which if not delayed by the completion of a siding, will be in operation within twoor three months time,
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