- 7 EE BY P. GRAY MEEK. —If the Republican were as smart as it thinks it is, really it would be a right smart newspaper. ~The advance in the price of beef won't worry the fellow who hasn't been able to buy any of it for the past two years. —Epbie ECKENROTH has the band bug now, but nobody ever heard of EDDIE being able to blow anything else that re- quired wind than the tires on that trouble- some Mitchell of his. —Two aviators gave their lives to science and pleasure at Chicago on Tues- day. BADGER and JOHNSTONE were the men who dropped from the sky to their death to make a holiday for an American audience. —The startling announcement comes from Kansas that the baby crop in that State is virtually a failure this year; but the report does not state whether it is because of the drought, barrenness of the soil or unfertility of the seed. . —If the distinguished citizens of Phila- delphia continue to offer themselves as candidates for Mayor as numerously as they have been doing in the past week “we fear they will have no one left to man the polls down there in November. —No, dear Reader, Coatesville is not in either of the Carolinas, Georgia or Texas. It is right in the most thickly populated part of Pennsylvania. It was there that the most atrocious lynching almost ever recorded took place on Sun- day night. —Don’t tell us any more that labor always has its reward. Only last week five able-bodied men, over in New York, worked an entire night and only got away with a Waterbury watch. The contents of the safe had been deposited the even- ing before. —Calling the Washington base-ball team “The Senators” is a misnomer. If it had half as much fight in it as the real Senators have Pittsburg, Chicago and New York would all be stepping livelier than they are to keep in the front of the National League. —It requires but a look about you when walking on Allegheny or east Bishop streets to bring conviction that the great- est single step toward the permanent and real beautifying of Bellefonte was the building of a section of state road on those thoroughfares. —Yes, Mr. Candidate, the fall work on the farms is nearing completion and it will be perfectly safe for you to essay into the rural districts in quest of votes. Remember, however, that the farmer's time is just as valuable as your own so don’t try to take too much of it. —It may be, as some people think, that a bachelor is of but little use in this world, but the one who died recently in ‘New York, leaving to charity and relatives over a million dollars, will doubtless be remembered longer by some people than if he had married at eighteen and fathered a kid every twelve months. —There was grit of thekind that makes great men in that Newark, N. J., lad who left home four yearsago with the remark that he would not be back until he had made a sum of money equal to his fath- er's hard-earned savings which he had lost. He made good his word. And will make good in other things as well. —A plain clothes man on the High street bridge for a few evenings could make enough arrests for profanity to pave any square of street in Bellefonte with the fines. And, incidentally, make that thoroughfare a fit place for women and children who are compelled to use it. It is a shame, Mr. Burgess, really it is. —New Jersey cities are voting to adopt the commission form of government; a pet idea of Governor WILSON. Should practice disprove the theory that it is the ideal system the presidential chances of Governor WILSON will be correspondingly impaired. He has faith in it, however, and he stands or falls by the things in which he has faith. —The meeting of the county Democracy, on Tuesday, brought out most emphat- ically the fact that the fellows who were trying hardest to make a fight in the party a few weeks ago were trying hard- est to keep one from starting. It is a pity that some hot heads never do get any sense until after they have done as much damage as they can. —A jury panel recently drawn in the state of Washington includes thirty-four women. It would be interesting to follow the work of these women jurors in the disposition of the cases given to them; especially with relation to the speed with which they do it. If they all take their knitting into the jury room we tremble at the thought of how long some litigants may have to wait for a verdict. —New York is alarmed because the “conscience fund” annually received by that city has failen off from $28,000, in 1907 to $824.65 the past year. We should think such a condition cause for rejoicing on the presumption that the citizens of Gotham have grown so much better that they no longer pilfer from the city. The pessimist would say, however, that the conscience of the average New Yorker is becoming more and more seared and that is the reason so little dishonestly gotten money is being returned. i | SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. —New Castle will entertain the survivors of the famous Roundhead regiment on the 30th of this month. It will be the fiftieth anniversary of the regiment's enlistment. —Of twenty-one typhoid patients in Johnstown, sixteen had been drinking water without boiling. The other five are thought to have contracted the disease outside the city. =A lonely citizen of Danville has advertised in a Bloomsburg newspaper for a housekeeper who would not object to marrying if she met with approval after trial as a housekeeper. STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. BELLEFONTE, PA., AUGUST 18, 1911. Important Question Masked. YOL The President Resentful. i A Fit Candidate. Chairman STANLEY, of the congressional President TAPT was keenly disappoint. Ffom the Harrisburg Star-Independent. That the Democratic county committee acted wisely and well, at its meeting in this place on Tuesday last, will, we be- lieve, be the universal judgment of the party workers and voters throughout the county. At that meeting, following the advice of the WATCHMAN, its members showed their purpose to be to maintain the unity of the party, harmony among its voters and present to the common en- emy, in the fall campaign, a united and hopeful body of workers. The meeting was a particularly representative gather- ing—much larger than the usual commit- tee meetings, and seemingly imbued with but one determination and that to do the best in its judgment to keep the party led, ding to the dispatches, | There are some of us who are committee investigating the Steel trust, of the great and his associates, have shown consider- when he learned that the Senate Commit- | delphia who able ingenuity in examining witnesses. tee on Foreign Relations had amended is an They have brought out a good many im- | the British and French arbitration treat: | of Mr portant facts, which otherwise would | ies, recently completed and signed. He f2IK in have remained in concealment, by adroit | had telegraphed to the chairman of the! EA questioning. But they lost one splendid committee remonstrating against amend. | be a candidate of his party. opportunity of developing evidence while | ment of the convention and thought that | Indeed it seems to Mr. GEORGE W. PERKINS was on the | ought to be sufficient. In his opinion the “no, are described by the Phicd siand. The witness was asked if the | treaty ought to be ratified in its original ‘Is the most “fit and : panic of 1907 were not “framed up” in| form and he has given the Senators to order to put two banks, which had been | understand that he "will not yield with- doing business recklessly, out of business. | out a severe struggle.” In other words Mr. PERKINS vehemently and indignantly | he will probably discipline Senators who denied this imputation. “Never was any- | vote for the amendment proposed by re- Hie. are false,” he said, and he was | fusing them a voice in the distribution of united and in condition to win a glorious P y speaking truthfully. patronage. i victory in November next. on coun- The question never ought to ..ave been | The constitution of the United States Hat Sort of Hig that 1s ties may be working themselves into divi- ‘asked. On the broad principle of “bznor | provides, Article 2, Section 2, Paragraph ce or twice the sion, that will bring defeat, over the among thieves," gentlemen engaged in |2, that the President “shall have power, | questionable work of a few chronic dis- high finance never betray eachother. No |by and with the advice and consent of turbers and selfish factionists, but Centre panic has ever been originated in Wall | the Senate, to make treaties, provided | there. county Democrats will have none of that street to put bankers out of business | two-thirds of the Senators present con- in their campaign. Nor will they show whether they have been violating the law | cur.” In refusing to ratify treaties, there- sympathy for, or have words to waste on or not. Possibly conspiracies have been | fore, the Senate is simply exercising a aspiring leaders or their few followers formed to “pinch” a bank here or there | constitutional prerogative against which who would divide the party or discredit in order to compel it to assent to a mer. | there can be no just complaint and for those who have maintained its integrity 8€r or acquiesce in some other scheme | which there certainly can be no penalty. and protected its organization. of plunder. If Mr. MORGAN happens to | As a rule, however, the Senate has pre- This is the plain reading of the action fancy that he would like to add a bank | ferred to amend treaties, in the provis- of the committee on Tuesday. to his string some pressure might be | ions of which the Senators didn’t entirely This work of the committee was a bit- brought upon the owners of the concern | concur, rather than to defeat them. ter disappointment to our neighbor of the to enduce them to adopt his views. But|Long continued custom has made this Democrat, who, lessthan six weeks ago, de- | the idea of a panic to put a bank out of | practice good as law. No other Presi- clared that “we do not need harmony in A business is preposterous. dent has denied the right or resented the the Pennsylvania Democracy, and that A question might have been asked, | act. the Democrats of the county stand for a | however, entirely relevantand immensely | Of course we are all interested in any new deal and want re-organization.” How significant, which would have uncovered | work which makes for peace and the greatly they wanted this is shown by the 2 perennial fountain of information. In|whole world welcomed the consumma- fact that not a voice among all the mem | Other words Mr. PERKINS might have | tion of conventions with Great Britain bers was raised in defense of or to en- | been asked if it isn’t true that the panic and France as a long stride in the direc- dorse his so-called “re-organization” ef- | of 1907 was organized in order to compel | tion of the abolition of war. Butin fram- forts, nor was there an intimation on the | the Tennessee Coal and Iron company to | ing the convention in question the Secre- part of any one that Centre county Demo- merge with the Steel trust. The vast ore | tary of State purposely or otherwise in- crats were for any “deal” that would rec- | property owned by the Tennessee com- fringed a right of the Senate by provid- ognize factions, or for any policy other | pany made it a menace to the Steel trust | ing that disagreements involving national and there was no other way to dispose of | honor should be submitted to the final comes out on any platform of urable. VARz is the man that 2nd puissant REYBURN. Canadians Are Wary. From the Johnstown Democrat. The Republican argument that a tariff is needed in this coun presence in several man turing communities of agents of Canadi manufacturers, who are to show that Canada cannot that n Phila Binmot understand wh there oy aid raded themocines i would have $0 He vols ave Since the city likes be defeated. The peo- the Philadelphia eeds, the logical candidate and the ree to the able, renowned and to main- tzin “the high American wage” is shown up as a farce, pure and simple, by the American res ord to have reciprocity with us, for the reason Canada cannot compete against ~Two alleged Black Handers have been ter- rorizing residents of the foreign colony at St. Mary's by threatening to blow up their homes seven elk on his game preserve at Washington- ville, which is the largest herd that he had. All ofthe animals are well and mens. —Township supervisors along the near Hamburg have received orders from ing choked on a bit of bread. —Foolish Frances McDevitt, of Philadelphia, tried to end her life by swallowing poison be- cause her father forbade her going out at night. The girl is 16 years old and is at the Methodist hospital in a critical condition. —Some practical joker who has a strange no- tion of the nature of a joke has telephoned eight false alarms to Allentown undertakers the past week. Inevery instance the supposed corpse was found to be very much alive. ~—Suit was entered at Mauch Chunk against the officers and directors of the defunct Lehighton Building and Loan association. The receiver, who instituted proceedings, claims that the asso- ciation has been swindled out of at least $100.000. —A log house erected 140 years ago is still standing in the central part of Washington town- ship, Armstrong county, and is probably the old- est house in the county. It was built by Martin John, and has been occupied continuously ever since its erection. —Mines at Ernest have been running on short time for several weeks on account of mid-sum- mer dullness and low water. Unless it rains soon reform.” | the power plant will not be able to furnish power at all. The mines will run full in the near future if Jupiter Pluvius is kind. ~Deed books in the recorder’s office in the Westmoreland county court house reveal the fact that within the past three years a great number of foreigners have purchased real estate in that county. Austrians and Italiana are first in line of the purchasers and they are followed by Polish Russians. ~The annual convention of the Central Penn- sylvania Dental association will convene in Al- toona the second week in October. This will be the most important meeting in the history of the ufac- | organization, as the question of free dental clinics an | for various towns in the State will cometup for discussion. —In the Armstrong county court at Kittanning, Marshall Gecamer, F. A. Crawford and Charles A. Scott, game wardens, were fined $100 and costs than that which would secure harmony Canadians, as we have before siat. | act and sentenced to serve ninety days each in in the party and promise success. the danger. Accordingly the banks were | determination of a tribunal dominated by are to understand how it is the workhouse on the charge of extortion and ob- It was a most disappointing day also to forbidden to accept Tennessee stock as| Europe. The Senators think this clause | that the Steel trust can sell steel in Saining mofiy sider false pretense. Their vic- Republican leaders, here about Bellefonte, collateral, compelled to call loans made should be modified and the public is likely , ada for about half the prices charged the : Ralians. who were hoping that through the efforts upon itas collateral and finally GARY and | to conclude that it is no crime to enter American consumes and will make 3 1 STha i the Item Year hat tases gan bo go. of our uptown contemporary, unending AFRICK buncoed ROOSEVELT and the trick | tain that opinion. is. They arg learning that m seven | ternal societies, according to the notice that has "was turned. Mr. PERKINS might have got excited troubles, factional feuds and perzonal an’ imosities, would be engendered that | days a week, for a dollar STEPHENSON, of Wisconsin. day, and it is for this reason ‘that. would result in hopeless divisions in the party, and thus make certain Republican success. That hope faded when the com- mittee refused to take part in, or even recognize, the matters that had been de- liberately prepared to create trouble, and our Republican friends are consequently without the encouragement, a different , over that question as he did over the one which never ought to have been asked. But he wouldn't have pounded the desk as he did on the occasion in question or denounced the implied aspersion as vehemently. He would have realized that the “cat is out of the bag” and began trimming his sails to the changed cur- is to be investigated also. He admits that he spent $107,000 to secure his seat in “the greatest deliberative body in the world,” but what of it? It was money that he had acquired through tariff graft | and there was quite as much crime in the manner of his getting it as there was in the method by which he separated himself not wish to compete against ployed by American trusts that some i the Canadians are urging the defeat reciprocity. foreign immigrant and negro labor em- And yet the Republican protectionists | have argued all these years that the great ' danger to American labor was the possi- ! bility that it might have to enter into a received by the county commissioners from do | the st uditor. A recent act of the Os pln pL : izations from paye po! ing such taxesin the future. of Voters of Windber have turned down a bond. ing proposition, a part of the proceeds of which would have been used to cancel floating indebt- edness. Council is therefore entrenching and has laid off one policeman, several street com-* missioner’s employees and has abandoned sweep- ing and sprinkling of streets. | competition with the “cheap” labor of from it. The Democratic victory of last fall appears to have made STEPHENSON’S method of getting and giving equally ob- noxious. ‘rents of air. Because that was the real cause of the panic. The desire to puta curb on ROOSEVELT may have entered into the equation as secondary. A real panic meant the complete annihilation of this county, is to be congratulated on its | the Republican party and the entire oblit- work of Tuesday. Its efforts to preserve eration of ROOSEVELT and MORGAN harmony; its repudiation of the advice of Simply saw an opportunity to kill two party disturbers; its refusal to take any i birds with one stone” and promptly heed of appeals for factional endorsement, threw it. and its earnest work in the way of - If ROOSEVELT had been a man of honor | strengthening and perfecting its local or- | and integrity such an outrage never would | ganization, while it may have disappointed | have been undertaken. He was under a few—a very few indeed, and greatly, SWorn obligation to see that the laws were almost hopelessly discouraged the Repub- | “faithfully executed.” GARY and FRICK lican ringsters, has left the party in a po- | inferentially informed him that the prop- sition to win and be worthy of an over- osition involved the violation of the law whelming victory in November. The WATCHMAN extends lits congratu- lations not only to the members of the committee for their good work, but to every voter in this county who waits tore- joice over the success of honest Demo- crats at the polis in November next. course on the part of the committee would have given them, and just that much less prospect of making a hopeful fight. The committee, as well as the party in | that ancient contention. How to Settle It. | From the Clearfield Republican. Now that there are two organizations An Interesting Investigation. There are so many big things in the news of the period that some of the inci- dents which occupy space in the news- papers fail to attract the attention they deserve. For example there are the de- velopments of the investigation of ex- penditures in the Agricultural Depart- ment at Washington. A conspiracy had been organized in the department to get rid of Dr. WILEY, the pure food specialist, ment. The Hall-Donnelly- organization, with Walter | man, | seals, furniture, etc., the accumulation cidentally. But they made him believe | cal to public health, when used as a food | | that the alternative was the destruction | preservative. For some reason, probably Je ge Jom) ! of the Republican party and his own polit- | Pecuniary, ‘jcal death. That was sufficient. He | | violated the law. He perjured himself. | the consumption of that product. | But he saved the party, named his own | The principal figure in the conspiracy | p— ! successor, preserved his absurd ambition | ——Mr. ROOSEVELT boastfully told the | for another election in the future and | congressional committee investigating the ' Strengthened his hope for the crown of | President and Secretary WILSON. Every | Steel trust that it is the duty of a public an emperor ultimately if he can attain it. | Possible indignity was put upon the hon- | em official to act in emergencies such as: fi | est and capable expert and any man who Campaign Contributions of 1904. were present when he gave GARY and | ——Of course the good people of Coates. | raised his voice in defense of himwasim- | 1. springfield Republican. FRICK authority to violate the SHERMAN | ville are entitled to a generous measure | mediately dismissed from the service of anti-trust law. It is the first duty of an ' of public sympathy in the period of shame the government. Finally the important executive official, however, to comply with | Which has been brought upon them by | Prerogative of instituting prosecutions the law which he is under sworn obliga. the atrocious lynching of a negro in that | against violators of the pure food law tion to enforce. Mr. ROOSEVELT violated | town the other day. The good people are | Was taken away from him and lodged in | the law and perjured himself to serve the | not responsible for the acts of the law- | the hands of McCaBE, and shortly after- | interests which had bought his election ; less in any community. But it is remem- | Ward McCABE made complaint to Secre- | Judge Parker for and in all probability promised to buy the bered that the good people of Coatesville | tary WILSON that WILEY was not prose- | oi The country election of his successor. and all other parts of Chester county were | cuting cases of which the departmenthad | ¢yyth of the charges of the department wanted to encou , his loins and t the battle out to Yage { finish at the SE next April. to have had the active support of the | be will | the legal 1 as they claim to be. , if they are half as confident Parker's ¢ of tion contributions to the Rena ——That organization of Democratic , jn denouncing the good people of the missal for failure to perform his duty. newspaper men that MR. GUTHRIE Was South when similar outrages happened in | But the most striking instance of ma!. | &F during and play hobb generally with the regular | Coatesville the good people were not to | by the evidence was in a casein which he Democratic Organization held its first | plame. ! had stricken out a part of a judicial de- meeting at Harrisburg on Wednesday. : cision and published the remnant of it as Out of a hundred and thirty-two Demo" trust magnates who are ' the law, in order to humiliate and dis- | $ i | Steel Corporation to the cam was mentioned at the | ——The Steel resented—The Johnstown Democrat, the | acy have a decided advantage over those | ted with the full assent of the Secretary | Harrisburg Patriot, the Wilkesbarre Lead- Who have already testified. JOHN W. and the knowledge of the President and | er, the Easton Argus and the Stroudsburg | GATES is dead and those yet to come can | culminated in a statement of the Attor- | Times. + contradict his evidence with absolute im- | ney General that WILEY ought to be re- Steel Trust sought from the of the great Feunesses , W t Diet 1h punity. Those who testified before his moved from office. There is nothing in | ness to grant. ——GARy, PERKINS and other Waly | death were probably held in fear by the | m— the administration of the government of | Street magnates differ widely in state- | fact that he was likely to appear on the | R i re ol us At hi 1 The Man and the Dog. ments but it must not be assumed that | witness stand again. | yet it actually occurred in the United | From the Chicago News. they differ in opinions upon the main | : | Beware of the man whose dog craw : | States within a year. This investigation | question. The difference is in the form | ———President TAFT calls his new horse | deserves a more careful reading by the | he gate of their perjuries and it begins to look as | “Reciprocity.” He ought to call that cow 100 ro LOT Sis etter onirhs s Prost ot So films by Sonator STEPsNoO | P00C- eT believed on oath. of Wisconsin “Graft.” ' ——=Subscribe for the WATCHMAN. to the WA class work ' other countries. Thislatest action of the Canadians knocks the last leg from under in Pennsylvania each claiming to be the simon pure official directing force in the : Democratic party why not have the ques- | tion settled at the earliest ble mo- It-Meek tter as chair- has all the party books, records, years. Much of this property is valuable ‘ from a party standpoint. If the Palmer- McCormick-Guthrie organization is half : what it purports to be why not go into ) ¥ | the courts and demand a surrender of all for the reason that he persisted in a dec- | property of the Democratic State Central directly and i i . | laration that benzoate of soda is inimi- | committee into the hands of its so-called y and, the perjury Sf nmsdlf in | | chairman, Mr. Guthrie? The decision of | question on the Secretary and other officials ' Jet the loser swallow the medicine, gird The Hall-Donnelly-Dewalt people say they 4 will welcome a judicial settlement ot the was Solicitor MCCABE, though he seems ; controversy. The other fellows ought to ty and justness of their position The year 1904 was the year of Mr. Roosevelt's election to the Presidency : over Parker. It was he Jost of Judge rus! corpora. Roosevelt cam- fund and of Mr. Roosevelt's violent s and equally violent attack on to make such not have to now to learn of the substantial i : and the falsity of always among the foremost and bitterest , knowledge, and recommended his dis- | the denials. It was brought into some | understanding of this the very next year the life insurance investiga- going to make to back up his pretension ' that section, though in the South as in | administration proved against MCCABE fone, Dua now it is Jearning more about And now the country is being moved ! | to ask whether this contribution of the of 1904 | that fam i f he 3 n cratic papers in the State five were rep’ : yet to testify in relation to that conspir- | credit WiLey. This forgery was commit- | 1907, oe ye ey eI the President. Executive indulgence for the acquisition and Iron had no business to t had no busi- under the house when its master enters : —Mayor McKeen, of Easton, chanced to be walking down street the other day when Peter Shelder, of Easton, walked up to a pretty girl and chucked her under the chin, complimenting her on her beauty. The mayor told the fellow he shouldn't do a thing like that and was told to mind his own business. He did to the extent of haying Shelder loched up over night and fined $5 next morning. —John Huffman, of St. Mary's, was killed near the poor farm at that place Friday night by being struck by a motor driven by J. R. Brahaney, of Johnsonburg. The latter was returning from St. Mary's with a party, and as he neared Huff- man he started to cross the road. It is claimed Huffman was under the influence of liquor. Mr. Brahaney and party took Huffman back to St. Mary's toa doctor, but death had already en- sued. —Making good a threat that he had made a week ago, L. Roy Hassler, of Milton, the young man who was wanted Jor an alleged attack on Mrs. Jackson Seiler, and who was missing since the act, returned to Milton Saturday night, at about eight o'clock, and going to the home of his sister, Mrs. Adam Thomas, went into the backyard and shot himself in the head. He died an hour later, remaining unconscious during the whole of the time. Hassler was 26 years old and was only mcrried a couple of months ago. —William A. Arnold is short part of his nose | and Charles Mells, Lewistown, is in prison charg- {ed with mayhem and selling liquor without a | license. Arnold, who resides at Bixler's Gap, went to Lewistown Saturday and enjoyed him- self drinking with Mells. After a time the men quarreled, and Mells, it is alleged, bit off Arnold's nose close to the cheek. Arnold hurried to the office of Dr. W. M. Baker, where he was told that nothing could be done for him unless he could find the missing piece. After hunting an hour Arnold returned and informed the doctor that Melis had swallowed it. —The United States navy is partial to Bradford county butter. A creamery at North Rome, in that county, has just completed a big contract of | butter-making for the tars. One hundred and eight thousand pounds of butter were made in eighty days, ten days under the time limit, which was ninety days. The butter was tested by Eugene Austin, an expert, and carefully sealed in three-pound tins, after which it was brought to Towanda and shipped over the S. & N. Y. The same firm is running its Troy creamery on another navy contract. It will finish this contract within the next thirty days. —~Restore $666 illegally taken from a Normal school or face a term of 284 years in jail was the alternative that met Jabob Brutzman, a Monroe county farmer residing near the East Stroudsburg Normal, a short time ago. O. D. Schoch, special agent of the Pure Food department, was visiting the school and Professor Kemp, the principal, told him that he had reason to suspect that the | milk furnished the school was not what it pur- ported tobe. Schoch had some samples exam- ined and they were all found to be watered. Brutzman was sent for and accused of watering his milk, and he broke down and confessed that hehad been adding water to the milk for the past eighteen months without detection. After of of Is
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