ty Eo promptly as she must have been able to | INK SLINGS. —It was never once suggested that Our Uncle ANDY'S noted peace building at The Hague might be used to swallow up that Moroccan war cloud. times of peace prepare for war. thaps the old epigram is the cause of here being so much of a row over the wool bill. In times of heat prepare for cold. —Artist EpwiIN A. ABBEY, who died in London on Tuesday, was a Pennsylvanian by birth and, happily, our capitol is orna- mented with some of his best and latest works. —The cotton mills of North Carolina are nearly all shut down on account of the drought, which seems to be wide- spread and one of the most disastrous in history. ~~ e—— i Which Roll Call Was Padded Padded Roll Call," we get the following adelphia North American: HARRISBURG, Pa., July 29. Affidavits are on file at the State central " to attend the outlaws’ or —Wasn't that a grand rain on Wednes- ecting for hem. An algav. n expectsd day afternoon? Of course there had to question were “voted” as present either in be a fly in the dumpling so a few barns Pykion 0 by pr he outlaws. — fidavits were burned by the lightning that accom- | E£F¢I8 follows: H. H. Wilson. of Beaver: one panied it. McKean; C. W. Walker, of Somerset P.H. % Luthertsn, of Venango, and " —1It certainly must have taken a lot of | of Forest. county committeeman grace to keep those Methodist picnickers of Clarion, but ny -Mohaey, at Hecla park, waiting on a wrecked uuariets thal 1s po will file it. Secre- train, until after midnight, without swear- | dayits locked up in a safety ing just a little. —The spectacle of detective PERKINS going to the penitentiary for black-mail will not have a tendency to increase pub- tic respect for the detective service, which already had been at a very low ebb. —Don’t worry, you fellow who would sooner fish than work, the bass season will last almost up to the time when it will be too cold for you to prudently ven- ture away from that warm spot behind the kitchen stove. —~Wisconsin’s Socialist Congressman wants the government to pension every man over sixty years of age at the rate of four dollars a week. Dr. OSLER’S way would be a cheaper plan of forestalling the crisis that this Socialist promises if his bill doesn’t become a law. —Now the Department of Agriculture at Washington is pinning its faith to a Dr. Boos. Just wait until the Doctor tells a few truths like Dr. WiLEY did and the country will witness the spectacle of its Agricultural Department trying to become a Boos h'ister. ~That Georgia woman who married five veterans and now demands five pen- sions from the government ought to be looked into. What's the The WATCHMAN apologizes to its read- ers for the space taken in referring to this matter, but the charges so unjustly and so untruthfully reflect not only upon the writer, who as secretary called thg roll, but upon the honesty of the work of the regular Democratic State committee, that it is but justice to all concerned that the actual truth be given the public. If Mr. JAMES I. BLAKESLIE, who is re- sponsible for the untruths furnished the reporter of the North American and the perjury that some people seem to be guilty of—if he has the affidavits he says he has—or if the little coterie of disorga- nizers who are paying him for the work of trying to keep up dissension in the Democratic ranks, can get any glory out of the actual facts of how they obtained the votes they boast of, they are entirely welcome to it. Taking the counties named above in their regular order: BEAVER.—The last regularly elected FAN N, of Beaver Falls. attend the committee meeting last March, and a Mr. HENRY WILSON had an, evi- dently forged, substitution to act for T do. —Be careful to get registered, if you want to vote. Be careful to have your taxes paid also. The new election law has balled things up considerably, so it may be very well to look after these lit- tle matters. Wednesday, Sept. 6th, will be the last day that you can be assessed. Oct. 7th will be the last day on which you can pay taxes. —The amateur political editor of the Republican is having the time of his life who, knowing the fact that it had not Mr. ANDERTON'S signature, refused to accept it, and Mr. WILSON, after acknowledging that the paper was irregular, it be returned to him, which was done. Shortly after that Col. J. A. McCABE, a most reputable Democrat of that county, Mr. ANDERTON to act for him. Col. Mc- chairman in that county was Mr. Jas. R.! Some time | corded a place of honor in the disorganiz- secured a power of attorney or proxy from | BELLEFONTE i Under the head of “Affidavits Tell of | 1 fle with others at the regular State | { from the last Sunday's issue of the Phila. by Mr. VANHORN, appeared at Harrisburg | | | | | | i i | i { i i 1 | | | { | | i i i him. This was presented the secretary | pute. The writer has no personal ac-| | | { | asked that | Properly filed with the regular commit- | i | | WALKER'S certificate of election was with the Democrats of Centre county. And of course we poor deluded young | fools will fight and claw one another just | because “Johnny Wise” imagines he is sticking the hook into sores and turning it round. His antics remind us so much of the old Judge BURNSIDE story of the bear and the sapling. —The Bell Telephone Co. may not be | Cage was attending the U. S. court able to leave its telephone in the Belle- fonte hospital free of charge any longer | for fear of breaking some of the new | laws that it so conveniently quotes, but if | it is so fearful of doing something wrong | we had better have council rescind a cer- tain little franchise and make a poll tax on Bellefonte streets sufficiently large to | pay for all the telephones needed, and | then some. ——There appears to be more than an even chance that the Senate will concur in the House re-apportionment bill which will give Pennsylvania three additional Representatives in the next Congress. as a juror and being unable to attend the | 19th of July meeting substituted Mr. | | GEORGE R. PORTER to act for him. Mr. PORTER filed his substitution and cast the | vote of Beaver county in the regular | meeting at Chestnut street Hall Mr. WiLsoN, we understand, voted for the same county in the disorganizers’ meet- ing—whether upon the same forged sub- stitution or not, we did not know. | BuTLER.—This county was represented by Mr. JouN R. HENNINGER, its regular committeeman. Personally he is unknown | to the writer. The day prior to the com- | mittee meeting word came to regular | headquarters that the organizers were! greatly disturbed because, as they put it, | “the—from Butler has gone back on | us.” The same day the Westmoreland | 1 i i representatives reported that Mr. HEN-| NINGER had told them that he intended attending and taking part in the meeting of the regulars. When his name was | division chairman of the 4th district of which was held at the regular head- But if the delegation for this State were three Vimes 9 3 as .it will be with distinctly. A number of gentlemen, who att : ® knew him personally, assured us after- that addition it would still be inferior in ward : : influence to some of the smaller States ed that Hie gat in the meeting and yor. which send their fittest men to perform | : eee : | CLARION. —Mr. J. F. MOHNEY repre- that important work for them in national sented this county. He is its : affairs. lar chairman. That he recognized the —Wednesday of next week will be the regular committee and considered him- anniversary of the attempted assassina- | self a member of it is shown by a let- tion of mayor GAYNOR, of New York city, | ter now on its files addressed to the We mention the incident to call attention | writer, under date of July 8th, as “Secre- to the kaleidoscopic nature of the politic- | tary of the Democratic State Committee,” al fortune wheel. At that time mayor requesting that “poll books be sent at once GAYNOR was generally and seriously | fo; Clarion county and if that could not ket 3 as a Prssidentis) prebability: | pe done to let him know where they could y his name is never mentioned in | procu i the list of possibilities. It is not that the 1S proms Ay pik with mayor’s star has waned. Others more | oditor SANSOM, of the same county, he scintiiiating have shot out into gaze. | spent in the OU of the regular Head: —President TAFT's insistence that fu- | quarters talking over the situation. When ture tariff legislation wait until the re- | his name was called in the regular meet- port of his tariff commission is handed in ing it was responded to promptly and would be better grounded were it not for | after the calling of the rcll and speeches the fact that the people elected a Demo- | were being made, he was met going out cratic Congress for the very reason that | of the hall and spoken to by Hon. JOHN they were tired waiting for promises that NoLL, of this place. Surely Mr. MOHNEY were never fulfilled. This Congress was | would not sit silent in a meeting and al- elected to do exactly what it- has set out | low some one to impersonate him or re- to do and if the President puts the power cord him as voting when he did not. of his veto in the way of its making good . ForesT.—The regular chairman of this the people will hold the President and not | county is Mr. GEORGE ZUENDEL. On the Congress to accountability. 16th of July he gave to Hon. WILLIAM called the next day it was responded to i 1 | | was called and left before final adjourn- STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. 9 PA.. SHIELDS a proxy to represent the county ' Republican Disorganization. at the July meeting. That paper is now | rp. Republican machine of Pennsylva- nia is passing through a perilous period. It was saved last fall from overwhelming and enduring defeat by the candidacy of Mr. Berry and the recreancy of his Dem- ocratic followers, just as it was saved in 1887 by the candidacy of S. R. MASON against the late ANDREW HE. DLL, when Henry H. Hoyt was elected Governor. But it has not been able to recuperate this time as it did then. It lacks the or- ganizing genius of QUAY and the recon- ciling force of HOYT. PENROSE has done his best and TENER has been willing to help. But they are alike inefficient in a crisis. They are unequal to the task which conditions have imposed upon them. They are unable to make good. headquarters. Mr. SHIELDS, accompanied early on Tuesday morning. The even- ing of the same day Mr. ZUENDEL also reported there. Mr. SHIELDS, in the presence of the writer, asked him if he desired the proxy returned. His answer was that he did not, and that he only “came to Harrisburg because a ticket had | been sent him by the other fellowsand he | thought he would ride it out” Mr | SHIELDS'S name was then placed upon the regular roll as substitute for Mr. ZUEN- pEL. The vote of Forest county was cast in accordance with that agreement, as Mr. ZUENDEL afterwards admitted in the presence of Congressman PALMER and others. Whether he was pres- chaos prevails. The VARE ent at the Chestnut street Hall meeting Philadelphia Is. brothers, who have grown stupendously matters not. He had given his proxy to oh out of contracts to remove garbage, another—had refused one hour before want to dominate the politics of the city Forest county was cast in the regular, of them is a candidate for mayor committee meeting as regularly and prop- | wie, an agreement that in the event of erly as that of any other county in the | gg cogs the present chief magistrate, State. In addition, until that proxy had | yo 0 £ RevBURN, will get PENROSE'S seat been recalled, Mr. ZUENDEL had no right = the Senate. The Sow wants to get to represent Forest county, as chairman | 0. paving and sewer contracts away in any committee and our disorganizer a and they appear to have Rigas i gy ecord- a cinch on the situation. If they win at y s the primary the party will lose at the McKean: This county has had for its | ojo tion and the machine will be swamp- chairman, for several years, Mr. Jas. G.| 4 ¢ they lose at the primary they will PAuL. Ten days before the committee : carry the fight to the election and PEN- meeting, written charges were Pré-| paqp ijl be eliminated anyway. ferred against him. He made no denial : : of the charges. The executive commit- a ve tine. tee, as required by the rules, met 0g p.00r OLIVER, who represents the ma- consider them. He was found guilty of chine there, is at odds with Mayor MA- the same detestable crime against his GEE and at sword’s points with former party that made BENEDICT ARNOLD @|g.n..or FLINN. At present an attempt to fugitive and an outcast from his country. oh MAGEE and CoE oh raw in He was, as required by the rules of the progress, but the result is conjectural. party, deposed at once and Mr. J. R.|p.cy of these leaders distrusts the other LINDSEY named to fill the position until and the only thing in common between a successor could be duly elected. Mr | oo patred of OLIVER. Of course LINDSEY cast the vote of McKean county, | ipoq0 things spell disaster for the PEN- and we are told that Mr. PAUL was ac- | oo co oo chine in both the cities and the | conditions in other sections afford no ers meeting which is not surprising. That |, ot; a1] the big counties except Lan- owd was made up mostly of the Same | .. ur there are irreconcilable differences kind of Democrats? and if the Democrats were even reason- SOMERSET. About the vote of this : i Id - unty there may | 2 dor adie U7 aronloes they would win every . quaintance with its chairman, Mr. WALK- | He knows, however, that Mr. which Venango is 2 part, was called, and quarters. He acted as chairman of that meeting, signed and left with the regular committee the credentials showing the election of Mr. Goob as chairman of the 4th division. That certificate is on file with others in the writer's desk in Har- risburg. After performing this duty he 12ft, giving to those with whom he con- versed, the positive assurance that he went down to “attend the meeting of the regular committee.” He attended that meeting accompanying Dr. F. K. WHITE, chairman of the 5th division, waited until after the roll call, voted when his county ment, possibly to have Mr. BLAKESLIE make good the promise he had given him in the letter referred to. These are the plain unvarnished facts about the vote from the counties alleged by the disorganizers to have been “pad- ded.” It is left to the honest voter to de- termine whether, if any, “padding” was done, it was not by themselves and in their own interests. Taft and the Wool Tariff. Senator PENROSE confidently asserts | that President TAFT will veto the wool tee since the March meeting, and that | tariff bill in whatever form it reaches with it came the assurance, that to se- | him. The pending bills are vastly dif- cure his election, he had pledged himself | ferent. The UNDERWOOD bill which pass- to stand-by and work-with the regular | ed the House provides for a tariff tax on organization: that he had accepted and ! raw wool equivalent to twenty-one per used the transportation the regular com- | cent of the price of the commodity. The mittee had sent him, and that when LAFOLLETTE compromise which passed Somerset was called his name was | the Senate fixed the rate at about forty responded to without hesitation. We | per cent. The MORRELL bill, enacted in have been informed since, by gentlemen | 1862, a war measure, levied a tariff tax who know him, that he was present at On raw wool of about fifteen per cent, the regular meeting, voting there and | and was justified on the ground that the afterwards going over to that of the dis- | revenues were needed to defray the ex- organizers, where it is also claimed he traordinary expenses incident to the voted. Civil war. It would not have been tol- VENANGO/ Mr. P. H. CULBERSON acted erated under other conditions. for Venango. About ten o'clock of the Soon after the passage of the PAYNE- day of the meeting he went to regular = ALDRICH bill, three years ago, President headquarters, introduced himself, pre-, TAPT made a tour of the country for the sented a letter (which was handed back ' purpose of reconciling the public to the to him) from Mr. JAMES I BLAKESLIE | extortions for which it provided. He promising to pay him some money eulogized the bill and praised ALDRICH (amount not stated) upon his arrival at most fulsomely. But he couldnt stomach Harrisburg. Mr. CULBERSON remained the wool schedule. He declared that it at headquarters until the meeting of the Was indefensible but was forced through ' Congress by “a combination of represent- atives from the manufacturing and wool ' growing sections of the east and west which had a majority that was over- whelming.” But for that fact, he infer- entially asserted, he would have refused to approve the bill. As it was, though to his mind it was the best tariff bill ever | enacted, in other respects, he signed it : reluctantly. Nevertheless we have no doubt that Senator PENROSE is accurate in his esti- ‘mate of TAFT'S purpose with respect to the wool tariff. The President knows | that the present schedule is indefensible. | He understands that it was forced through Congress by sinister influences. He is aware that it works the robbery of the people and is the direct cause of im- measurable suffering and vast numbers ‘of deaths. But the unholy combination of "manufacturing and wool-growing in- terests of the east and west,” has a mort- for him during his campaign for election in 1912 and will foreclose if he fails to fulfil his agreement. ——The sympathy of the whole world aon ——0f course everyone here isdelight- “Deacon” HARRIS to membership on the |i; dead in London. Mr. ABBEY'S State Forestry Commission, but how | work is the best in the capitol at Har- much nicer it would have been had there | righurg and about the only thing which been a good, fat salary attached to the (aq not tainted with graft. job; instead of its being merely an ——————————————— henorary position. | ——Subscribe for the WATCHMAN. “AUGUST _ 4, 1911. The trouble is in the two big cities. In |¥ = will centre at the bier of EpwiN A. AB- ed with the appointment of the Hon.|pgy the great American artist who order generally known for months after he had released from the Chugach S. aft does | not deny this fact. He admits it. But i Congress i the public against a threatened monopo- | This is tantamount to saying that there | is no now law regulating rates and further restrictions upon the m of the Morgan-Guggenheim crowd; i would every foot of water frontage on Control ler bay. Apparently President Taft is getting into very deep water and this message it likely to plunge him still, for is gives iis critics 2 fresh and a firmer ooting. He admits io Jusity all they have previously and leaves room for inferences which they will not That the investigation en- | this is precisely the charge that was tered the President by his critics. Until shall act—and Congress | SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. —One Shickashinny peach grower expects to gather 15,000 baskets from his trees this yearand has begun to send the fruit to market. ~The six-day campaign to raise $4,500 for the | Lock Haven Y. M. C. A. resulted in a fund of $4,700. The extra $200 will be used as a nucleus for a building fund. —~Tamaqua has paid out $3,000 for quarantine | expenses incident to the recent epidemic of scar- let fever which has now practically vanished, but | six cases remaining. —A $50,000 alienation suit has been filed by | Amey H. Stahl against his neighbor, druggist Walter S. Smith, of Wilkinsburg, whose store Mrs. Stahl liked to visit. —Although the Lehigh Coal and Navigation company has spent millions of dollars in trying to extinguish the “burning mines” at Summit Hill the fire is still raging in the bowls of the earth. ~Stanley Bogden, a young man, wondered what kind of an explosion was in a dualin cap at his home in Shamokin. He picked the shell with a | needle, causing an explosion which blew away his hand. ~Clearfield is said to be the first town incentral Pennsylvania to take advantage of the recent Pennsvivania statute that authorizes the appoint- ment of a shade tree commission by the burgess, upon request of council. —Miss Emma Noyes Brady, a former teacherin the schocls at Connellsville, has entered suit in the United States Circuit Court against the school board, claiming that defective ventilation in the school room led to the permanent impairment of her health. —One does not have to go outside of Pennsyl- vania to find bumper crops. John D. Delozier, of the H. A. Gripp farm, east of Tyrone, claims he will have 1,200 bushels of wheat from 60 acres, 1,800 bushels of oats from 34 acres, 3,000 bushels of corn from 30 acres, and 50 tons of hay from 30 acres. such protection that it | —A few nights ago thieves broke into the farm Cuno be ha unl Congres shal pee | (F home of Frank Shettig, near Ebensburg, and stole over 100 young chickens. Mr. Shettig, since the | robbery, has been spending his nights there. He has between 500 and 600 chickens on the farm, and he has promised a dose of lead to the thieves on | their next visit. may fail or refuse to do anything for | * | West, a government engineer in the Philippines, | at Yokohama, Japan. They were married there —Miss Martha Longwell, of Johnstown, jour- neyed half way round the world tomeet C. Kirby on Tuesday and left for their new home at once. Relatives who accompanied the bride tarried a little while in Japan. —Fifty applications for the appointment of road viewers in accordance with a recent act of the Legislature, have been filed with the judges of Northumberland county. A board of nine will be appointed and each member will receive $5 a day while at work, paying his own expenses. Three members of the board will be selected for each view. —By a majority of three the taxpayers of Wind- ber at a special election held recently decided against bonding the town for $45,000 to pay for * | putting in sewers and paving the streets on a com- prehensive plan. The result was a great surprise to the friends of the proposition, who had been led to believe that the bond issue would carry by an overwhelming majority. —Hanty W. Rose, of Renovo, captain of the Pennsylvania police at that point, has received a for $600 for the arrest of Thomas Carney» McMahon and Arthur Farrell, the three redeem himself in the getimation Nf the high aril asus, His y semi-officially reported from Washington that he stands ready to knife any addi- | reach the executive offices. The Senate has mixed up the wool bill to such an extent that it is extremely doubtful of being accepted by the House and a conference commit- tee will be necessary, but even if the. committee could agree the work would go for naught as a presidential veto i would await the measure. It is understood that the President ob- jects to any further tariff legislation at' the special session, because he prefers to await a report by the tariff board. Dem- | ocrats, however, will not place much cre- | dence in the findings or recommenda- tions of that body, for they feel perfectly | capable of deciding for themselves where and how revision would be of the great- | est benefit to the people generally. The | lumbering tariff board may to Con- | gress the results of its ponderous efforts, | but those results are not likely to be based on the Democratic view as to what | is best for the country. i With the popular demand for a revision | of the iniquitous Payne-Aldrich bill back ! of them the Democrats should not devi- ate from their firm stand. Whether re- sults are obtained at the special session or not their duty is plain, but as long as is in n they will be ex- | pected to continue their program and not | submit to being from their course by the juggling of their bills in the Senate. The people are on the sid | of the majority in the House and will ap- oy the work that comes from that y. If they fail in the special session | the result will be to strengthen their po- | sition when the regular session convenes in December next. i } i i i i Between Two Fires. 1 | From the Springfield Republican. | de eg i { t i ina t dot Ta wl rion DA suchen | ‘him. He has pronounced the present ' schedule “indefensible.” He faces a ; and just clamor among influential | tionist manufacturers of his own | the carded wool men, for revision on as | basis of | vided in i such lity likely A criticism | bill without | vating | charge of having sacrificed farm- | ing to the mcnufacturing classes in such | i far favored. And he littling his tariff board policy. . ——GEORGE W. PERKINS and CHARLES | M. ScuwaB have been subpoenaed to testify in the Congressional investigation of the Steel trust and it is a safe guess that the perjury mill will run at high pressure speed and full time whiie those ' gentlemen are testifying. | “yeggs"” who robbed the Eldred, McKean county, postoffice, on May 1, 1910. Captain Rose, with officers Walter Ebert and William Biter, of Erie, arrested the trio for the crime just three weeks later. The money will be divided between the three brave men. ~—During the fifth inning of a base ball game at the Clearfield Driving park, on Wednesday after- noon, Gerald Walker, aged 16, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Walker, of Clearfield, was stricken with apoplexy and died before he could be re- moved from the grounds. His parents, as well as several physicians, were on the grounds, and medical attention was at once given, but it was useless, and the young man passed away within half an hour. ~The twenty-fourth annual meeting of the Sus- quehanna District association of the Knights of the Golden Eagle will be held in Lock Haven on September 4th. The local Eagles are already taking steps te make this meeting one of the larg- est and most successful meetings in the history of the association. Lock Haven hasa well earned reputation for hospitality and all visiting Sir Knights will be royally entertained by their brother Eagles and will be tendered a cordial re- ception by the citizens of that city. —Mrs. Emily Pifer, probably the oldest woman in Clinton county, was found dead lying on the floor of her room at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Frederick Fickenscher, Lock Haven, late Monday afternoon. The exact time of her death is not known nor the direct cause, although it is supposed to have been dueto the infirmities of old age. Had she lived until Saturday of this week ' she would have rounded out 99 years. Notwith- standing her advanced age all her faculties were very little impaired and she was a most interest- ing woman to converse with, being able to re- count many of the happenings of three quarters of a century ago. —On Tuesday morning State Highway Commis- € sioner Bigelow, accompanied by Deputy Hunter, Chief Engineer Foster and an assistant A started on a long automobile trip to look over the roads in the central part of the State. The route will include Shamokin, Sunbury, Williamsport, Bellefonte. Clearfield, Punxsutawney, Kittanning and Pittsburg, The peopie of the region will be notified of the party’s coming, so that they may make suggestions and impart information other- wise difficult to obtain. Returning to Harrisburg Commissioner Bigelow will go by the way of the oil regions, up through the northern tier and then south. It will be the longest observation trip he has taken. Humphries began to take on liquor and on Wednes* day night was gathered in by the police, who re ported the discovery of many fine silver articles inhis pockets. One of the finest things missing is the silver which was presented to Senator Woods when he retired from the Senate. —The Grieco and Caprio brothers, of Lock | Haven, have secured a tract of 4,800 acres of land covered with second growth timber. and under- laid with coal, clay and iron ore, along Terrace mountain, near Marklesburg, Huntingdon coun- ty. The company is constructing a railroad of standard guage eighteen miles in length to reach the tract, and which will connect with the Hunt- ingdon and Broad Top railroad, three miles of thesame being completed, and a force of men are building a concrete railroad bridge acrossa branch of the Juniata, which will cost $20,000. The land contains vast quantities of coal and clay and 50.- 000 cords of paper wood, and in addition a large amount of prop timber and bark will becut. After the bridge und railroad are completed, the wealth of the land will be developed and fire brick and te.ra cottz plants may be erected, and a new boom given that section.
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