J * ond streams of Centre county than we = foolish foreign potentate takes to. Demo Yatdpan BY P. GRAY MEEK. —The day draws nigh when the aspir- ing candidate must do or die. —Pittsburgers are getting a hump on to cut that Grant street “Hump” off. —If it orders the immediate reconstruc- tion of that High street bridge it certain- ly will be a grand jury. —The black-birds are flocking in a way that prompts the weather wise to predict that it will be cold soon. —There is more water in the springs have known of at this season for many years. —The sour visaged house wife is not likely to improve any when her grocer tells her how high sugar is going. —A light frost has touched the pump- kin and some corn is in the shock and you'd better get your coal bin filled. —Keep the corners of your mouth turned up and see how much brighter everything looks; especially yourself. —Keep your minds on the 30th, pri- mary day. The field is large in both par- ties and, surely, good tickets ought to be selected. —The French have organized an aero club for women. The men probably think that it is an easier and quicker way than the divorce courts. —The number of coast to coast avia- tors now in the air are enough, already to inspire the undertakers with hope of an early revival of business. —The increase of forty thousand inthe registration of votes in Philadelphia looks as if the dogs and tombstones are being rallied again to make a mayor of that city. —Experts tell us that food prices can’t go much higher, but we can't see much consolation even in that unless they will tell us how to rise to their present level of prices. —Friends of Vice President SHERMAN are said to have hopes.of his being nom- inated for President next fall. Isit possi- ble that our friends, the enemy, are look- ing for a goat already. —Dr. WiLey has been vindicated at last by President TAFT, but it will take a sledge hammer to pound any notion that it is a gentle hint for him to resign into the mind of Secretary WILSON. —GABY DESLYS, the siren of King MAN- UEL, of Portugal, is here to gather up a few American dollars, and, incidentally to show just what kind of a “skirt” a —It appears that Maine has finally re- corded a victory for booze. It was a nar- row margin of twenty votes that put the pigs ears, speak easies and boot leggers out and the legally licensed saloons in. —Premier SToLYPIN, of Russia, isdead from the effects of an assassin's bullet. Strange about those Russians! We thought the Japs had killed off about all they could spare for a few years at least. —Those gentlemen who are worried so much because there is a chance for two ladies to he elected to the school board will probably find out, on primary day, that they are almost alone in their mis- ery. . —The insincerity of Mr. CLARENCE D. GIBBONEY is again shown in his standing in the way of a possibly successful attempt to reform Philadelphia through the elec- tion of the Hon. RUDOLPH BLANKENBURG mayor. —A Kansas girl who weighs two hun- dred and fifty pounds was married the other day. Here's hopin’ that the hus- band on whose knees she may some times perch herself is endowed with good, strong understandings. ——The rector of an Episcopal church at Rhinebeck, New York, refused to marry Colonel Astor and his bride but cordially congratulated them after their marriage. Probably there is a difference between tweedledee and tweedeldum, after all. —In announcing that her husband will not run for Congress in Boston Mrs. Joun L. SULLIVAN said to a reporter : “Mr. SULLIVAN will not run for Congress and it will not be necessary for you to speak to him about it at all.” That sounds like the one time idol of the prize ring has gotten into the Hen ry Peck | class. : —A family in Missouri is in possession of a pair of baby shoes that were made in 1783 and have been tried on all the babies in the family since. We are not from Missouri but right here in Belle fonte we have several families that in one generation would have worn out a | pair of iron shoes had they been merely tried on all their babies. —That racing motor boat that jumped out of the river at Buffalo and raced up the bank so rapidly that three spectators were injured wasa, sure enough, wonder. It must have been a relation of the suck- | er that editor SmiTH, of the Punxsutaw- ney Spirit once wrote about. His sucker had been transplanted from the creek to a rain barrel and each day it was lifted out for a little flop in the garden. Grad- ually the time it kept out of the water was extended until the sucker was not content to be anywhere else than in BO Then one day when Mr. SMITH went down to the creek to catch a play mate , for it it wiggled after him fell into : Re water and was drowned. | VOL. 56 The House of Governors. Purposely or otherwise some of the leading newspapers of the country are misconstruing the action of the House of Governors, recently in session at Spring Lake, New Jersey, in appointing a com- mittee to remonstrate against the grow- ing practice of federal judges to usurp the prerogatives of State Legislatures and State authorities. The Philadephia Ledg- er, for example, declares, that “the idea of sending a committee of Governors to attempt to influence the opinion of the Supreme Court of the United States, is as wild as anything ever imagined by irre- sponsible agitators.” Inferentially our Philadelphia contemporary aims to create the impression that the Governors are try- ing to coerce the court. Some years ago Senator ELIHU ROOT, of New York, then Secretary of State in the ROOSEVELT administration, said in a pub- lic speech, that "unless the States assert- ed their constitutional rights to regulate certain things it would be necessary for the government at Washington to per- form the service.” The action of the House of Governors was simply in pursu- ance of that admonition. Certain fed- eral judges have been assuming powers which under the constitution are reserv- ed to the States and the Governors have justly filed a protest against the usurpa- tion and appointed a committee to for- mulate the protest and present it where it will do the most good. There is no, grave offense in that, we hope. | The case in point was a decision of | Judge SANBORN, of Minnesota, declaring | invalid an act of the Legislature author- | izing the Railroad Commission of that State to limit freight rates on interstate | traffic. This Federal Circuit Court Judge held that the exercise of such authority | by the State Railroad Commission would work an infringement of the authority of Commission. It was an utterly absurd and preposterous position to assume but for the time being it served the purpose ' of paralyzing the State Commission and ' State to another, they could rob at will. Naturally and properly the case was appealed to the Supreme Court of the United States, where it is now pending. The Board of Governors-took cognizance of the matter, as it was its duty todo,and | protested against the tendency in that direction. Finally a resolution providing for a committee, in order to make the ! protest more effective, was proposed and adopted. Upon the motion of Re- publican Governor HADLEY, of Missouri, : Governor HARMON, of Ohio, was made | chairman of the committee. He is a member of the Supreme Court bar and enjoys the right to participate in the deliberations of the body. He can pre- | sent the protest to the court in person | or designate any other member of that | bar to do so. i With characteristic unfairness the: Ledger adds that “it is antonishing to | find Governor HAKMON in such a project.” | On the contrary it would be astonishing, ! under the circumstances, if he were not i in it. He didn't offer the resolution or! participate in the discussion of it. But | when it was found that it expressed the | practically unanimous opinion of the) Governors, another member of the body, and one of opposite political antecedents, suggested that he be made chairman, for the reason, probably, as stated by the | Ledger, that “he is a very able lawyer and his individual opinion upon the trend toward centralization in the control of domestic commerce would be entitled to respect.” | That this trend is a menace of the gravest character admits of no doubt. It is the danger which gave the Fathers of the Republic most concern. WASHINGTON admonished against it and JEFFERSON resisted it at every step. It has now be- come the final hope of the predatory in- terests and the MORGANS and the GARYS and all the pestilential tribe of big and little corporation tyrants are urging Na- tional government control of all indus- In the face of these facts the Board of Governors was wise as well as patriotic ‘in taking the action it did and actually raised itself from the plane of an absurd joke to the high level of a public tao faction by this very appropriate act. ——The result of the Canadian election yesterday will not be known for some days, but it will hardly be close enough to enable both sides to claim victory as happened in the contest in Maine on the question of “wet” or “dry.” The fore- cast was a substantial victory for the present government and reciprocity and in view of the price of potatoes we hope the expectation in that respect will not be disappointed. ' militant struggle for good government. ' TENER and after ascertaining, by careful | ocracy upon its action in giving him its | OLIVER followers while the adherents of trial. and 1 activities. wos take) illo the Nj commercial activi | Alaskan irates WILSON was con- | a a ya serve: an GEE crowd and the treasury of the county —Subscribe for the WATCHMAN. ! f lB | SAL Aa A STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. The Democratic organization of Phila. | delphia has shown both wisdom and | can party in Philadelphia and Pittsburg | paiviotioms in deciding to Suppors RUDGLYE \ (hee ought to 08 Hope for Pennsylvania. | i BLANKENBURG, for mayor of that city, | It is a matter of common understanding | Mr. BLANKENBURG is the only man thus | that within the last twenty years the Re- | far named for the office who has the | publican majority in Pennsylvania ghost of a show of defeating the “criminal | been obtained by fraud nine times out combination” which Senator ELIHU ROOT, | ten. Democrats throughout the of New York, declared is “masquerading | are hardly to be blamed for lack as the Republican party" of Philadelphia. | litical energy and hope under s Mr. EARLE, the PENROSE candidate, is un- | cumstances. They had come to questionably an able and an honest man. | that whatever work they did for But he represents one faction of the con- success would be wasted energy tractors’ combine just as completely as | grew careless of their political duties and Mr. VARE, less able and probably not! civic obligations. But in the light of quite so honest, represents the other. present conditions the outlook is differ- There is no hope of honest government | ent. The Democrats of Pennsylvania | from the success of either of them. canand will win if they do their full | The Democrats of Philadelphia or of duty. i Pennsylvania, for that matter, have no| [n one of our Philadelphia contempora- reason to love Mr. BLANKENBURG other | ries there was a cartoon, the other day, | than his consistent long continued and | which carried a significant lesson to every E is3Eas g . ; i 3 In the campaign of last fall he contributed more than any other man or dozen of men, to increasing the vote of Mr. BERRY and diminishing that of Mr. Grim. He freely and frankly expressed his prefer- ence for Mr. GRIM because of his superior fitness for the office. But he declared most emphatically that his first consid- eration was the destruction of the Re- publican machine through the defeat of was set on a table and on one side of it stood a VARE watcher and on the other side a watcher of the other faction. They were closely watching each other. Behind the booth a repeater stood with a pocket full of bogus ballots but he couldn't use them in the interest of either faction be- cause of the vigilance of the watcher of the other faction. That is precisely what will happen in both cities this year and the honest voters will determine the re- sult of the election with honest ballots. There is an old adage to the effect that “when rogues fall out honest men come by their own.” The political rogues of Pennsylvania have certainly had an irre- concilable quarrel and if the honest men take advantage of the opportunity which that circumstance gives and perform their entire duty the Republican machine will not only be defeated but it will be completely destroyed. The time to be- gin the performance is now and the investigation, that BERRY was stronger than GRIM in the ballot, he threw the weight of his influence to BERRY and car- ried thousands with him. If Mr. BLANKENBURG had followed the example of other independent voters Simply and supported Mr. BERRY with such energy as he felt like giving the cause BERRY'S vote would have many thousands less and GRIM’S many thous- ands more. But his method of measuring Democratic vote hanced by tens of thousands, is | place at the primary election. Get out hiaemst of ty was stzonger than. hi | the ful Jury vote at the uty was stronger id el by at Shea himself to the | will completely revolutionize the politics sHonge: of the candidates ria of the cities. t t i w— tha RUSOLPi BLANKENBURG is influenced Catlin Needed in Pittsburg. by considerations of the public welfare : : x i in all his political actions. He is as un- Our friend the enemy is also having a | selésh and impersonal in running for "monkey and parrot” time in Pittsburg. | mays ow 18 Fs, w38'y Fossa of S17 | The thee guest iy of the Common. rn hd been nd, infiucnced by the | wealth, Philadelphia, has no monopoly of same impulses and equally available, he ‘partisan factionalism. As Admiral SCHLEY would not be a candidate and it may safe- ‘said of the glory of Santiago, there is ly be said that he would have | erred | such a condition of affairs. Ee the | enough accusation to go around. But | paign only man named who can be there is little, if any, less in Pittsburg. upon to give the city efficient and honest - The OLIVER faction is hurling epithets at government and he ought to receive the | the MAGEE faction, the MAGEE faction is united LSupon oh O gE heaping vituperation on the heads of the unanimous and enthusiastic endorsement | Senator WiLLIAM FLINN are telling the and feel that this showing of their desire | blistering truth concerning both. Bae i ow the cltebes of | really a shameful spectacle of the effect and disgraced it, will silence for ever the | Of falling out of crooks. dirty muck-rakers who have so long tried ' At a public meeting the other night one | It is 10 Nsnigakisg and Gis 100 Hee in of the MAGEE orators declared that half organization was but the creature of the | Of the proceeds of an issue of bonds, re- | organization, which was | cently made, for road construction, “has always found in the interest of PENROSE ' been used for maintenance, repairs, equip. | and his gang of Republican grafters.” | ment, supplies and current expenses" of A | the county. On the same evening in| Dr Wiley Viadisited another part of the city an OLIVER “spell- | The President has finally vindicated | binder" asserted that the campaign of | Dr. WiLEY. After long deliberation he | Mayor MAGEE “is an attempt on the part | %; has announced that the famous food ex- | of the discredited mayor to obtain con- pert has violated no law or transcended trol of this great county for the purpose | no rule of the public service. The Sec- | of building up a political machine to en. | retary of Agriculture had inferentially | able him to take advantage of the great ni te & But the Presi } bonds for the Df ae en de . purpose of ng his dent refuses to concur. Dr. WILEY will pet projects.” In other words one fac- “resume business at the old stad” | tion seouses the other of misappropriating Sd she ond adalterers ug Ni JEIHY | Fine aR LN6 oeieh RENTS th ml wit govern service | designs to same thing." : hang Rea queer situation. It is We have no doubt that both of these | result of a hearkening to pop- accusers are right in the main. Similar ular sentiment. The President is wot | charges against Mavor MAGEE, made in willing to go up against it on the eve of| a campaign. | burg, seven months ago, have not been oS A imu % qven dues But in view of h “R movemen accusations has the CATLIN com- He has been in office by the Ook Tio Ras been opt In oy. the | mission not been invoked, by somebody, adulterated foods. Just as BALLINGER | to inquire into the matter? If the people Cabinet to serve the | of the city are being robbed by the Ma- bad | : element. For two years he been | 18 being looted by the OLIVER crowd, | fighting Wisey. puting all this 4me he something ought to be done to save the, moral support AFT in innocent but heavily burdened taxpayers. crusade. But when The issue was Square: | Let us hope, therefore, that Senator CAT. | iy Sfawn in public view, , TAPT weakened. | i hadn't the courage of his inclinations | LIN Will give attention to Pittsburg. and left his associates in a despicable ns ay 12 tbe Jerech. wd’ ——The salaries of the increased num- : ow WILEY been vindicated | ber of Congressmen will amount to $400, the public will await with Goch MISTS 000.2 year but that is Rote A the final issue of the incident. In vindi- | Jo 1 rebuked | Plaint. A. MITCHELL PALMER thinks he’s yo Mow will | worth double that amount to the country hp : they resign 3 gountry SL tied behind | they fail to resign they will confess cul- back. ——It is said that Mrs. TAFT does her own marketing but that simply shows | can trust a Washington butler and be- | the pay roll until he is literally kicked | Sides in the nursery rhyme it is recorded off. that a certain queen “sat in her kitchen." the House of Representatives at Harris- | World, which | haue found another victim. The —John Airgook, of Rossiter, Indiana county, is | the father of twenty-one children, nineteen 0 | whom are living, most of them in Indiana coun- | ty. | Clearfield, are typhoid fever victims. They con” tracted the disease while on an auto trip in New England. —Hastings has quite a number of diphtheria j cases and there is considerable alarm in the | town. One of the schools has been closed and | others likely to do so. | —Mrs.Serena Bell, one of the oldest native ~—Luzerne county people are all worked up over | the proceedings in the trial of the alleged conspi- ' rators to cheat the people in the construction of | the new court house at Wilkes-Barre. President Taft having dacided 5 30. —The young man whom Miss Nancy Benfeit frain from sub Wiley to the identified as her assailant on the lonely ridge road “condign which was recom. | near Lewistown a few days ago has escaped and sham, f Th A or giving the people Bl ice, a serious incident in the affairs has so far been able to elude his pursuers. —Costly washouts caused a complete suspen sion of work on the B.& O. tunnel at Sand Patch and a large number of men were tem porar- ily thrown out of a job by the recent rains. —John Kasutta, two horses, two watches and a large knife were taken into custody at Johnstown last week. Vintondale and Wehrum are interest- ed in the capture and possibly other places. —A valuable horse and a large number of chick- ens were stolen from Bailey's dairy farm near Clearfield. Thieves also took more than $1,000 worth of merchandise from Shapiro's store at Clearfield. —James C. Rice, an aged colored employee at Penn State college, lost his balance while working She pinch) .on the coal trestle. He fell twenty feet and land - the t- | ed on his toes, hurting his knees and acquiring a [Hs Hi I ; i i | 5 =¥ 28d is 1 4 78 =f That purpose to be subserved in ment of Solicitor McCabe and the constant | few bruises. interference with Dr. and the re-| —Thedeath William D. Badger versal of his orders and : ie dey of the ise Wilken D. Buty oe the President has not made | August 15, shows that he had spent all but about use of the opportunity that is afforded | 5) 000 of a fortune of $140,000 received a year be- him to mete out and impartial jus- | fore his death. tice, there is some reason for hoping that —F he will doso. Speaking of the Congres- ofp orsigr Comty Detgotive Samuel H. Myers, sional inquiry into against Dr. Haven, tried to jump a freight to speed Wiley he says: “The issues raised him on his homeward journey. His journey BY the 1nvertigation, than this one to the | “ded at the hospital, where he will be a patient general efficiency of the may | for some time to come. require pig Jo ~The flour mills ot the Patterson Milling com- the question I have considered and decid- | pany at Saltsburg were burned to the ground the ed.” This is taken as an indication that other day, entailing a loss of $30,000, with only there will be a shake-up in the Depart- $4,000 insurance. The fire started on the third ment next winter. As a matter of fact | floor and owing to low water pressure the firemen the public would hardly be. satisfied with were helpless. anything less thana shake- t should | —A penitentiary sentence recently imposed shake out the McCabe-Duniap combine | upon one David Coash, by the York county court, : : i g g g fi HE 5 i g 1 Eg g upon the testimony of a boy who said Coash per- suaded him to help break into a freight ware- house, has been revoked by the court, the boy I : would have happen- | having confessed that he lied ed to Wiley had not the Congressional | _ ® in tion exposed the real status of Henry Siebert, 61 years old. a resident of Reading, a German writer of some note, and for twenty-five years editor of the Adler a German weekly, from which position he retired a year ago, committed suicideon Monday by shooting himself on the grave of his first wife. —At Kenwood, Indiana county, Don Reed and Daniel Stevens are dead and Mr. Rummell is in a ta reduerion of | serious condition as a result of gas in an old well, Reed was overcome first; Stevens went to rescue him and Rummel brought both bodies to the sur face. There is great excitement at Kenwood, as both Gead men were prominent citizens. 4 doing | onersare said to have been in the Ebensburg | postoffice in good time, but didn’t reach the com- tment of the | missioners” office.” Others simply arrived too C. Emery, es- | ©“ ~While working at the board in the Homestead tor Eugene Hale, of Maine, who has been ' Miss Margaret Wall saw a man climbing through known for years as one of the most the window of the room. She seized her revolver powerful defenders of ultra protection. | and fired. He dropped to the ground and disap- In October, 1910, it was announced | peared, but blood on the sidewalk showed that that “the work of the tariff board" was | the aim of the young woman had been fairly to be boomed at a series of banquets. | good. For three months the —Geo. Golden, of Wickhoro, Pa., a wealthy banqueting cam- occupied the time and attention of | the board. Among the hosts was the | dios merch, cliiged With the murder of his Arkwright club, the leading association of | Wife. whom he shot and killed on July 18 last, high protection manufacturers of the supposedly in mistake for a burglar, was granted country. Then, February 1st, 1911, chair. ' a change of venue following argument by his man Emery was the guestof the National | counsel that the minds of Armstrong county citi. Association of Wool Manufacturers—the | zens were biased against Golden through news. wards of Schedule K—with William M. | paper reports. The case willbe tried at Pitts. Wood on one side and vice president F. | burg. Allegheny county, some time next week. S. Clark on the other. : ~The reunion cf the survivors of the One H un- The plan finally adoptsn tor estimating | dred and Twenty-fifth regiment, Pennsylvania costs is the plan which, at this dinner, | volunteer infantry, held at Huntingdon last Satur- Enjery wee advicad to adopt. day, was a very pleasant one to she old soldiers. this is the board for whose report | The most important action taken was the decision all tariff revision must be held up! | to appoint a committee of two from each com- pany who will, in conjunction with the regimental A National Scandal. | officers, endeavor to raise a fund for the erection — of a tablet to mark the resting place of Colonel From the Detroit Times. Jacob Higgins. In Miso court fee 73 S00 |r Kaun the te game commis steeling a side of beef from a refrigera. | fion has addresses BOGE 0 allek the judiey of > Philadelphia, calling their at tor car belonging to one of the big pack- | ovo ihe fact that the game law of 189 re quires all the constables to make return at each court of any violations of the game laws under penalty of a reprimand from the Court, This part of the law has been practically neglected by | constables throughout the State, and it is pro” | posed to enforce it. —Five contracts for road coniftruction. were long to him, violated the law and had to awarded by State Highway Commissioner E. M. t, i fosya out. | SEtiauren Puetay, J.B 8 sancis, Puno ey however, which impresses : Ice and Coal company, Harris. is the dispatch with which they got him | burg, received awards for the sections in the into prison. | Lewistown “Narrows,” Juniata and Mifflin coun- A 3 of the ome againer the | dies at $120,957.48 and $99,048.51, respectively. Beef Trust, governments prosecu | Reed and Patten, Curwensville, received awards of another lawbreaker, is interesting in) of two sections of the national pike in Fayette connection. and Somerset counties, Charles T. Eastburn, For it we are indebted to the New TOF a 1 ora The offense was committed Aug. 14. Two weeks later the man had convicted by a jury and was on his way to the penitentiary to spend a year. We of course have no fault of with printed it upon its editorial | page do calle 1 ‘onl sande”, SS case against trust pingeon og iy ate uch oi Wiley of lag woth 2 tt to “not Aid ! age man sees ina and considers fe ny: to dispose of the | the fact worth remarking upon. Two bears, one case of the man who stole one side of large and the other about half growa, he saw, | watched fora minute and went on his way. | Fourteen wild turkeys and cleven deer, onea | seven pronged buck, completes the list of game. | On that day, too, Mr. Swope caught thirteen pole’ : cats, Public Coddled Too Much. The —Breaking into the Petersburg station Tues” dull who does not realize a growing im- | day afternoon at 4.30 o'clock and eating supper in ith Congress | the Western penitentiary in Allegheny at 7o'clsck editor must be exceedingly dull ' the following evening, is the rather unique record who does not realize a growing impa- held by W. H. Marlin, of Allegheny Furnace, just tience with newspapers. | south of Altoona. In less than twenty-two hours ae prt Amehian Ivy, dh BL SR oe ont very = STU: | into the ticket office at Petersburg during the ab- e agree with Ed. Howe that the pub- | sence of the agent on Monday afternoon. He lic is coddled too much. or | Was captured by officers at Tyrone about another is forever tellingit about its hard- | 9.30 o'clock Monday evening, and confessed to the crime. He was removed to the jail at Hun- 1 Siiips aud ils wioags, ut sobody Sve se RO it about its own stupidity and folly, which are responsible for much of its the court and plead guilty. Judge Wood senten- ced him to the penitentiary, giving him an inde- Just at present the public has seized terminate sentence of from two to eight years. upon the courts as one source of its polit- | He was at once taken westward and arrived in jcal woes. A year or two later it | Pittsburg public o'clock, and was removed at once to the peniten- 1 itself, ' tiary. 2s is ready to blame anybody except SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. | —Mr. and Mrs. G. Betts and three children, of
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