A di ! —An entire week without a deluge or a tornado —We passed the longest day of 1011 on Wednesday. The shortest will be here before we know it. i —Up to the present writing the only | tangible results of aviation, in a business | sense, have been to stimulate trade in STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. PA, JU 23, 1911. “VOL. 56. funeral accessories. ih —Cape May has evidently made up her | Dewalt ad Guthrie. at atime 0 sgnior of, 0% having been seen off that resort last week. ee ng | Senator DEWALT, the legal chairman of —Instead of having a “safe and sane” | the Democratic State Central committee, Fourth like we had last year we presume | and Mr. GUTHRIE, a claimant for that Bellefonte will be both quiet and tame. ! office, both decline to preside at the an- So much for the comfort of those who | nual meeting to be held in Harrisburg on hope that every day’ll be Sunday by and | July 19, Chairman DEWALT has signified by. | his entire willingness to adopt that —The LORIMER investigation goes on | course. Mr. RITTER, whois a member of and with each day it becomes more cer-|the committee and participated in the tain that the Senator from Illinois paid a | disappointing harmony proceedings in the very high price for a seat he probably | spring, is of the opinion that under such won't be permitted to cccupy much | circumstances the committee might pro- longer. ceed to the election of a chairman who —EVELYN ARTHUR LEE, founder of the would be satisfactory to all Democrats wabsolute life” cult, is on trial in Chicago | and both factions. Other leading Demo- for having enticed young girls from his crats coincide in this view and Senator home. When the courts are through with | DEWALT is willing to try the experiment, this new religionist the “absolute life” But Mr. GUTHRIE clings tenaciously to and brother LEE are both likely to be ob- | his bogus title and appears to be willing solete. | to continue the dissensions that now di- | vide, and if persisted in, must wreck the —Young Mr. GATES has called Mr | party, rather than forego the opportunity CARNEGIE'S strictures on his father's | ¢5 pose as its titular head for a brief per- character, by remarking that “ANDY has | jo4. for it is practically certain that even been some gambler too.” The latter can | the “rump” committee, from which he only prove an alibi by disproving the pop- | obtained his commission, will not re-elect ular notion as to how he became $0 NO | him This is the more surprising because toriously rich. | Mr. GUTHRIE has not, hitherto, been active —The work of exploring the hull of | in political work. He was a candidate for the Battleship Maine, in Havana harbor, | the nomination for Governor in 1902 and has progressed so far that it has been | after his failure to carry the convention discovered that the wreck is so complete | was named for second place on the tick- that no expert can be positive as to | et. Subsequently he was nominated for whether the explosion was from the in- | Mayor of Pittsburg and elected without side or the outside. ! any help from himself and at great ex- | pense in money and labor to the local —-At last the Republican progressives | tas and the Democrats of the Senate have Democratic organization, But he has taken no part in any other cam gotten together. Let us hope they will \ stand there until the tariff is completely local, Seale of naUOREL sine Love iy revised and the benefits of govern- the P and BUG ti A Pp Heat Seengul ”s nde Be Tm Mr. GUTHRIE discerns impending Demo- pedple i : * cratic success in the coming Presidential —According to the Metropolitan dai- | election, however, and is anxious to be in lies business is on the rising tide again. | the limelight, in that event. He has a And this, notwithstanding the fact that a | great fondness for office and probably Democratic Congress is in Washington | hopes that a Democratic President would doing its best to tear down that old tariff | be compelied to favor him if he occupied wall upon which our entire business the vantage ground of the chair- structure is supposed to be founded. manship of the State committee —Senator PENROSE has announced that | *Ve" though the State in which his he isdor TAFT in 1912; our Republican committee operated contributed nothing friends therefor know where they are at toward the success of the candidate. But earlier than usual in the game. As for the Democracy of the State is not likely us well, we have too many bosses just to indulge his absurd pretentions. If we now to expect any tips until they get |2r® to have a Democratic President, as their own little differences straightened | W& Most earnestly hope we may, those out. who have stood in the firing line and | borne the brunt of the battle during the —Smith college turned out three hun- dred and fifty-two girl graduates last week and we'll bet that scarcely two of them know how to talk real, plain everyday English. Affectation seems to get a girl quicker than candy or a beau. Happily for most of them it wears off after a while. —President and Mrs. TAFT celebrated the silver anniversary of their wedding on the White House lawn on Monday. The President never was a silver man but it is a sixteen to one shot that he was very well pleased with the thousands of dollars worth of silver presents he and We are not insisting that those who have managed the party contests in re- cent years and maintained the party or- ganization shall be continued in control of party affairs. If their retirement and offer neither objection nor obstacle to the plans. But it is only just that in the selection of new leaders men who have been faithful in the past be given the preference. Mr. GUTHRIE has refused to support the Democratic candidate for ~EELLERONTE, / The Federation of Democratic Clubs. period of adversity should be considered. the substitution of others is desired by | the rank and file of the party, we shall’ President for the reason that he favored Mexico as a ““Trust-Buster.” | We sincerely hope that the Federation of Democratic clubs of this State, projec- The news from Mexlos is calcuizted to ted at a meeting held in Harrisburg last | colleagues in voting against the BRISTOW | ous foreigners who have investments in week will achieve all the good results amendment to the resolution providing | that country. Governor Gon hoped for by those who participated in for an amendment to the constitution of zales, of Chihuahua, is | the work. Democratic clubs may be | the United States which will permit the | made most effective agents in the crea- ; election of Senators in Congress by popu- | tion of Democratic sentiment and the lar vote. The BrisTow amendment | dissemination of Democratic doctrines. vided for supervision of the cre- | Senators in the several States | ating enthusiasm for the party ticket and | Congress. Senator CLARKE voted | assisting in the details of party organiza- | | tion. In Philadelphia, for example, we it, that the constitution of the Uni are told that the Republican clubs keep | States vests that power in Congress | an accurate roster of the voters of the | his oath of office requires him to “sup- | neighborhood in which they are located |and may be depended upon to bring | | every voter of their political faith to the | the same mind. | polls every year. The constitution of the United States | But we have no record of any Demo- provides in section 4 of article1 that “the | cratic clubs in that or any other city or | times, places and manner of holding elec- town in Pennsylvania which perform such | tions for Senators and Representatives, useful service. The only Democratic | shall be prescribed in each State by the | club in Philadelphia, of which we have | Legislature thereof; but the Congress any information, has put more energy | May at any time by law make or alter | into the work of disorganizing the party such regulations, except as to the places : 555 E | than anything else and has been for years | Of choosing Senators.” Congress has alarm. | a constant menace to Democratic effort | never exercised this power in any in- Foreign capjtal will be sa ar and | or achievement. Possibly it has now de- | stance, for the reason, probably, that it I a ns Hight 0 termined to “turn over a new leaf,” so to was not deemed worth while. Attempts | jeges when she believes that they are | speak, and help rather than hurt the can- | have oem dy 2 usurp the right to being Seed of the purpose of an | didates of the party and if that be true control State elections, notably in the | DB HACE red the in IB Pe FORCE bill shortly after the Civil war. But the election of Senators is so infre- quent and the effect of interference would be so trifling, that attempted. The southern Senators who opposed the | BrISTOW amendment were influenced to | possessed that course by the apprehension that it | inclination of the would accomplish in an indirect way is inclined 0 do a fittle of what was contemplated in the FORCE bill policy will be closely watched on this for the reason that if Senators are elect- | of the border. ed by popular vote Congress might in | —_— regulating that election assume control | Get the Reform Started. of the election of all officers chosen BL] tive Harvisbury Star : the sane time. Possibly it was an alarm | Senat extend: without cause, but a burnt child avoids ive is ses- ' and the improvement is ascribable to the | formation of the Federation, it has al- ! ready justified itself and will deserve the | most genorous encomiums that can be bestowed upon it. | Some of our contemporaries in their enthusiasm over the work of organizing the Federation reveal, let us say, an un- | familiarity with the political history of | the State, however. They tell us that | this deserving enterprise is the first of | its kind ever attempted in Pennsylvania. | So far from that being true we recall that the late CHAUNCY F. BLACK once entered into a similar movement with an energy {and ability that deserved success. He hua is rich in minerals and timber, and American ually become ‘succeeded in organizing about a hundred the fire and southern Senators have ample sion of the Congress, the ‘may as held two or three State conventions. It | CLARKE'S contention that his obligation Wik Big ve Speaker Sent So ‘cost him a lot of money and an im. to Support, oe iri defend the constitu- that | the rest of the | Democrats in mense amount of energy but accomplish- tion com m to vote for the ouse as the session 0 ed so little practical good for the party | amendment, is valid, he couldn't vote for i be continued until the shall passed or defeated which it has received. While the Senate is dallying with those measures the House may as well be busy. A great reform which should be en- acted is a parcels post system. As Penn- that he abandoned it finally after a few | @ny change in the constitution. years of labor. i ce : | —Governor TENER attaches a string —— President TAPT is using his wed- | to his approval of the bill for the enlarge” ding anniversary to keep himself in the | ment of the capital park at Harrisburg a . : lime light and turning the trick at other | which was probably a wise thing to do as Dives Jo island ju eS people’s expense. In other words accord- every precaution should be taken to pre- said the other day, so the United States ing to reports from Washington the value | vent graft in such enterprises. But the area derelict in the sea of world pro- " s ! : : They are the only country of the of the President's presents will vastly over | Sovernot snechd % strings to ve ap- Rag lass which has not a parcels post run the expenses of the function and be | proval of a ot of bills increasing salaries gygtem. Parcels of maximum weight are sides the expenses of the function will be : and providing for other expenditures in garsied for a simi price ir and Ye, i which the graft ibilities are equally tween uropean countries and from paid out of the Sreasury: | great. ET! foe auaTl¥ to these and the United States, but here - m— the maximum price is chafged for all | The government receipts for cus- ™ Postal progress i the United States is When President CLEVELAND entered | toms have decreased considerably under blocked By the express companies and upon his second term on March 4th, 1893, | the PAYNE-ALDRICH tariff law though the their representatives in the Congress. he found the treasury so nearly empty | rates of duties were materially enhanced The establishment of a ls post sys- that he was compelled to issue bonds to | and President TAFT declared it would be sem vos heavay Homie avert a declaration of bankruptcy. Dur- | the greatest revenue producer ever enact- neither the express companies nor any ing the previous administration, that of ed by an American Congress. This would other fepresemative of Big Business owns President HARRISON, and shortly before | indi i or controls the Democratic House o y indicate that the President doesn’t always _. Coo 0c" Hence the House should Borrowing in Time of Peace. SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. —A $10,000 company has been capitalized a Mifflintown, to drill for oil in the region around ~The Huntingdon Water company is receiving bids for the erection of a new reservoir, of 1,000,- 000 gallons capacity, to improve the municipal ~The body of a new-born babe was found in the Susquehanna river at Clearfield = few days ago. It gave evidence of having been murdered and the matter is being investigated. ~The Dauphin county grand jury found a true bill on a charge of murder in the first degree against Joseph Stott within sixteen hours after he had shot and killed Mrs. Blanche Taylor. —Hail in the Bobst mountain district, Lycom- ing county, literally pounded to pieces the 1,000 peach tree orchard of Daniel Hull. The apple or. ard of J. C. MacCullum was also immeasurably damaged. —John Lochrie has leased 2,300 acres of coal land near Bear Run, Indiana county, and as it is a virgin field a large development for that section is expected. Mr. Lochrie has an option on 4,000 acres more. —Plans for the federal building at Johnstown are said to have been approved by the treasury department architect and will be ready for in- spection by prospective bidders about August 1st. The contract cannot be let before October. —A daughter of Mrs. J. Werle. of Wilkes-Barre, lost a handsome gold ring in the family garden soon after it had been given her. That was eigh- teen years ago. Recently Mrs. Werle found the missing valuable while weeding her garden. —John P. Baird, who resides near Cresson, gave a dinner recently to a number of friends, at which snapping turtle was a feature. He caught the turtle in a trap set for the unknown monster that had been biting the legs off his goslings. —William J. Schrader, convicted of murder in the first degree and recently refused a retrial by Judge J. M. Woods, at Lewistown, was brought into court and sentenced to hang. Schrader shot and instantly killed his sweetheart March 9th, 1910. —Heavy orders, valued at many thousands of be dollars, have been placed with the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing company and will be filled at its East Pittsburg plant. The orders are for power house and sub-station equipment and rolling stock. —Isaac Sheffler, aged 15 years, was drowned while swimming in Pentz run dam, near DuBois, last Sunday afternoon. He was a good swimmer and is thought to have hurt himself diving or to have been seized with cramp. Before help could be summoned he was drowned. —Michalo Fritz, aged 20 years, of North Bend. ob- | Clinton county, attended a festival at Hymer, three miles down the river. last Saturday night. Some friends boarded a freight bound for Lock Haven and beckoned him to go along. He tried to follow them, but went under and was killed. —At a meeting of Johnstown citizens, held a few evenings ago, a resolution was passed asking Judge O'Connor for a special grand jury to inves- tigate the various rumors in connection with the recent election of a High school principal. A committee of five was appointed to present the matter to the judge. —On the farm of John G. Mentzer, a short dis, tance north of Blainsport, Lancaster county, along the road leading from that village to New- manstown, stands a giant oak, which measures 19 feet in circumference right above the ground, This monster oak has withstood the blasts of win- ter for over a century. —Roland Reed, of DuBois, who is attending a pharmacy college in Philadelphia, recently had an attack of pneumonia and later his condition became so serious that an operation was per- formed. It was found that a pus formation had forced his heart over to the right side of his body, The pus was removed, the heart restored to its normal position and the young man is recover. ing. —Lightning struck the residence of Mrz. Cooper, at Glen Hope, Clearfield county, in a recent storm, and tore the paper off a room in which Mrs. Cooper and her son Vincent were sitting. but did not harm them. The son then went to the attic, supposing that the bolt would set fire to the building, and found a box with some old pa- pers in a blaze, which was soon put out. A bolt also struck the home of William Bell, in the same town. but did very little damage. At Smoke Run the barn of James Minds was struck and a mule and two horses were killed. —The West Branch Knitting company, which operates a big plant at Milton and of which Ed" ward Hecht, of Lock Haven, is president, has re- ceived official notice that it is the successful bid- der for a large government contract for army hosiery. This means over one year's steady work on this order alone, as the specification calls for 360,000 pairs with a possible 50 per cent. in- crease or 540,000 pairs of government woolen hose for the army and navy of the United States. The machinery in the spinning department is being shipped away and the underwear department will his wife received. ‘ —At the royal banquet at the corona- tion of King GEORGE, of England, there were eight tons of gold plate, old ivory decanters hundreds of years old and wines that had passed the century mark in age. The feast like the coronation was of medieaval splendor and England, enlightened, intelligent England, hurrahs for it all. —Some years ago a solicitous Legis- lator in a western State wanted to pass a law fixing the length of a shirt tail. He had it figured out that one inch added to the length of every shirt manufactured would make good times forever in the cotton mills. If his figures were right may we not view with alarm the increas- ing rage of the women for narrow skirts. -—The rousing meeting in Harrisburg last week to launch a league of Demo- cratic clubs in Pennsylvania was appar- ently full of ginger and enthusiasm, but don’t you think CHAMP CLARK and those Pennsylvania Congressmen who had planned to turn the State over to him for President went back to Washington thinking that when the Democrats of Pennsylvania drink to the health of the next President it will be “WiLsoN, that’s all.” —At Hoboken, Wednesday night, Gov- ernor WILSON, of New Jersey, said: “The people of Pennsylvania know what they want, but they have not yet found the proper persons to do what they want. They are looking for them and when they have found them there is going to be an earthquake in Pennsylvania." Can | it be possible that Governor WILSON fail- | ed to realize that Messrs. GUTHRIE, PAL- MER, MCCORMICK and BLAKESLEE got up all that big fuss in Harrisburg because they trink they are just what the people of Per asylvania want. aan political heresies. But Mr. GUTHRIE now cordially embraces those same here- sies in the hope that they will lead him into popular favor and lucrative or at least honorary office. If Mr. GUTHRIE desires to promote the interests of the party and is willing to contribute to harmony in the organiza- tion, he will follow the example of Sena- tor DEWALT and accept the suggestion of Mr. RITTER. Mr. DEWALT reveals a spir- it of self-abnegation in asserting his will. ingness to adopt the course suggested, for he is the LEGAL chairman and might easily have his title confirned by appeal’ to the courts. But he reasons that such proceedings. would animadvert against’ the party in the end and would better not be invoked. Mr. GUTHRIE, on the other hand, is willing to ruin if he cannot | rule, and persists in a fraudulent claim to chairmanship for which he has neither legal nor moral title. The Democrats of the State should not be deceived in this way. ——1It begins to look as if the UNDER- wooD wool tariff bill may get through both branches of Congress during the present session and in that event the ses- sion will be really worth while, for though | it doesn’t go as far as we would like in the matter of reducing the tariff tax on wool, it takes off about sixty per cent. of the PAYNE-ALDRICH law duty and isa step in the right direction. Moreover it will materially reduce the use of shoddy and enable, at least, some of the people to obtain good wool clothing at rates which are not prohibitory. ——-In the case of the President's wed- ding anniversary those who dance won't be obliged to pay the fiddler. The pub- lic treasury pays the expense and money will come from persons who weren't even invited to the feast. pleted for a bond issue and the plates for | that instance he was talking through his the bonds made. But when the CLEVE- pat LAND administration actually issued the . n — bonds, the Republican papers and poli- ~~ ——Ever since the flood of May 19th How Protection Works. | ticians joined in a howl that shook the | the water in Logan's branch and Spring earth against the policy of borrowing | creek from where the two streams inter- Fron thie Chi Cage Public: money in time of peace. It was a great . sect has not only been cloudy but quite State of Victoria: crime against the people, these howlers muddy and the general wonderment is as 1 bought some hay.making tools last week. vociferously declared, and had never been | to why it hasn't clear up. Of course They ES at Springfield, Ohio. majority. done by a Republican administration. : there have been a number of rains since Tound the we: . Day 5 fet cant, Juty, and the The other day $50,000,000 worth of to render the stream muddy but that third less than the Jhio price. government bonds were sold in Wash- | does not account for all of it. It will be : ington and not a sound of protest has | remembered that the Bellefonte fish jcan'yarmts to whose nostri been made. They are called Panama canal | hatchery and grounds were entirely flood- one glen. another example: bonds, it is true, and the act authorizing ed and most of the ponds were half filled Owing to our rapid growth the state works the issue, provided that the proceeds of | with mud. Since that time superintend- gould fot wild locomotives, fast i the issue are to be used in paying the ex- | ent Griffith and his men have been kept in all made after Victorian Be ace of building the Panama canal. But | very busy cleaning the mud out of the Ereihertens == iid hatching houses, ponds and grounds and trying to save the trout that were not What against and what for? washed away and naturally all the accum- ulation of dirt and mud is washed into Logan's branch, and that accounts for that has elapsed since the authorization | the continually muddy condition of the of the bond issue the canal construction | Water. The hatchery and grounds, how- expenses have been paid out of the or- | ever, serve the purpose of reimbursement. above streams will have a chance toclear | We have no complaint to make on ac- | “> | "as a matter of fact the money obtained | by the sale of these bonds will be dumped | into the treasury and used in paying the current expenses of the government. The | excuse for this is that during the time | An Old Scheme. From Bryan's Commoner. will soon be restored to their nor- smith, who aroused Paul's preaching was ruining the ing their real reason, ed a stir by shouting: count of this bond issue at all. But we | __ ao oo gifts to the College at call attention to it forthe purposeof con- | oo LE ER CL new flags one of the trasting the policies and practices of go; the athletic field by Gen. James A. 3% Democratic newspapers with those of our | peayer and the book of Esther, from the tha ran og Smporties. i is true gible by George T. Bush. This latter is to collect it from!” ya gan ee that the | Tc remarkable in the fact that it is in jected promise was t the | yo a ia cost of construction could easily be met |... lavelage, he a out of the current revenues and that taxes | twelve feet in and t have been were greatly increased with the view of | eh a yet every making good on this promise. But if letter is as distinct and perfect asif execu- | this bond issue or any other bond issue | jog yesterday. The parchment was found | a in an old curio shop in Jerusalem by Mr. have | Bush while on his tour around the world | been repeated and probably with increas- | 1,4 j ed volume of noise. It makes a vast dif- | year. | ference “whose ox is gored.” ! i i Hard on Leather and Nerves. From the Connellsville Courier. shoes out before they were located. | parents. —=Subscribe for the WATCHMAN. —— Subscribe for the WATCHMAN. the election, arrangements had been com- know what he is talking about and in start the parcels post bill on its way. It will never come from the subsidized Senate An Australian writes this from his This is for the protection of the Amer- Is free trade The same Australian inform- But the Baldwin works are protected. In the XIX chapter of Acts, 23-28, we read the story of one, Demetrius, a silver- the members of his craft by calling attention to the fact that ness of making idols. Instead of giv- ; creat- “Great is Diana of the Ephesians!” If Demetrius had been Democratic Congressmen who anxious to protect wool he would probably have been shouting: “Great is a revenue tariff and wool is just the thing The Boy Scout movement caused a r of Johnstown parents much anxiety. small boys started on a hike for Somerset and succeeded in wearing thei | Boy Scout movement is hard on leather ‘and sometimes trying to the nerves of use this space. Twenty new knitting machines, which are expected daily, will then be installed in the hosiery department. These machines will in. crease the output by 100 dozen pairs daily. —The great Lutheran reunion of central Penn. sylvania will be held at Lakemont park, Altoona, on July 27th. Preparations are being made for one of the greatest gatherings of Lutherans and their friends ever held in this beautiful park. Speakers of note and church-wide power and popularity have been secured for the occasion. while a most pleasing feature of the occasion wil} be a girls’ chorus of 150 to 200 voices trained for the occasion. This chorus will soon go into training under the efficient leadership of Mr. A. E. Davis, who is well known in Altoona as a musical director. If you want to spend a day of entertainment, interest, education, recreation, etc., be sure to arrange to attend this greatest church gathering of central Pennsylvania. —Just one day after he had buried his wife who, it is thought, worried herself to death on ac- count of the arrest, J. A. G. Badorf, of Harris burg, got the news Saturday that a grand jury at - Her funeral was held at Rossville, York county, Friday. The next day the bill against her hus- band was ignored. of the same place, is being county jail to await the result of the girl's injuries. Dixon has been enamored of the girl for some time, and when she refused on Saturday evening to have anything more to do with him, he threat- ened to kill her, and about 8 o'clock Sunday morn- ing appeared at Swift's hotel, where the girl was employed, and asked to see her. When Miss Gingery appeared, Dixon pulled a revolver began shooting. The first bullet struck
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