—Be sure to pick out the best ones
to-morrow.
—Because the sugar beet is scarce the
price of sugar goes up and the consumer
is “beat” indeed.
—The President will probably wait
until his tariff board reports to find out
what happened in Canada.
—That Canadian reciprocity bill was a!
sort of gold brick game that the Presi- |
dent put over on our people.
—Many a poor candidate will take
along the splinters when he slides off the
v anxious bench tomorrow night.
—The farmer who has been putting off
his seeding until the frost kills the fly
may have to fly to get it done before the
snow flies.
—Anyway neither Chicago, Pittsburg
nor Detroit will have to bother with tak-
jng care of the world’s championship
series crowds.
—Watch your neighbor tomorrow and
see if it isn't the fellow who deplores the
“condition of affairs” almost daily, who
hasn't time or has forgotten to go to the
primaries.
—We don’t recall just how much that
extra session of Congress cost us, but
whatever it was that was just how much
we paid to find out that the Canadians
didn’t want reciprocity.
—If anybody tells you the world is not
growing better ask him what has become
of the street fights, bar room brawls,
“big day” carousals that were so frequent
even right in Bellefonte not so many
’ years ago.
—Remember when you come to the
tair next week to wear enough clothes to
protect you from the deceptive fall air
It will be a good deal easier to do that
D than suffer and pay for a possible case
of pneumonia.
—Paris is preparing to send us the
hoop-skirt. From the hobble to the hoop
will be a great jump, indeed, but what
liberties the nether limbs of the fashion-
able lady will have after she makes the
transformation.
—The entire hop crop of the world for
this year is estimated at one hundred and
thirty-two million pounds. These will
make plenty of beer to make big heads
and plenty of soothing hop pillows to lay
the big heads on.
—Tomorrow will take place the first
weeding out of the candidates who have
been on the anxious bench since January.
4 And though some of them are certain to
fail it will be some satisfaction for thcse
who do to feel that the worry and anxiety
of it are over.
—The Philadelphia Record makes the
announcement that monkeys are frequent-
ly seen in the woods in York county, this
State. If our esteemed contemporary
means the real simian we're from Mis-
souri. If it doesn't, we'd like to know
who saw them.
—The Commissioner of Corporations
has just announced that there are one
hundred and ten millions of “water” in
the stock of the American Tobacco Co.
This, however, does not account for the
amount of spitting done by the boy who
is just learning to chew.
—The cool receptions that are being
given President TAFT in the west seem all
the cooler when he recalls the warm
hospitality of the south on one of his
former tripe. But probably the southern
heat has cooled off a little too towards
. the Executive who preaches one thing
and dces another.
iy —It is inconceivable to think that the
French battleship Liberte was blown up
by laborites in retaliation against the
government, yet such a belief is held in
many parts of France. Two hundred
and thirty-five sailors died from the .ex-
plosion. What an awful toll and how
fruitless, if there is any foundation for
recent rumors.
—The people are looking to the Demo-
crats to nominate a good, strong ticketin
Centre county tomorrow. Republican
misrule and wastefulness has been ram-
pant during the past three years especial-
ly and voters want a change in the coun-
ty offices. It is the duty and it should be
the pleasure of the Democrats to place in
nomination tomorrow a ticket that will
in every way inspire the tax-payers of
Centre county with the hope that if it is
elected there will bean end of extrava-
gances and increasing taxes. Do your
duty as a Democrat. Attend the primar-
ies and vote for the man who you honest-
ly think would make the best official for
the office he aspires to fill.
i ~The WATCHMAN has never beforeen-
dorsed the candidacy of anycne at a
primary election. It has advocated the
selection of the two women who have
been sought to take places on our local
school board because it sincerely believes
that their election would prove a benefit
to the schools. Certainly it can work no
harm and we opine that the experiment
is worth trying. Two women are most
efficient members of the central board of
education of Philadelphia, and in nearly
every State west of Pennsylvania women
are the most useful and helpful members
of school boards; especially is this the
case in Iowa, Wisconsin and] Minnesota,
where the public school systema are far
in advance of those of our own State.
7a ia
VOL. 56.
© Mr. Pamers Compimcy. |
Under the direction of Mr. A. MITCHELL
PALMER, Representative in Congress for
the twenty-sixth district, congressional
committees are being formed throughout
the State. This work is ostensibly under
the sanction of a rule adopted by the
GUTHRIE contingent of the Democratic
State Executive Committee, recently held
at Harrisburg, at which there were only
two legally elected members of the com-
mittee present. The rules of the Demo-
cratic party of Pennsylvania provide that
amendments must be recommended by
the Democratic State Central Committee
and approved “by the succeeding Demo-
cratic State convention,” before they be-
come effective. This rule adopted by a
rump committee has not been ratified
by a State convention. It is therefore
not a rule of the Demccratic party.
But that fundamental fact makes no
difference to Mr. A. MITCHELL PALMER.
The congressional committees are crea-
tures of his own brain intended for use
in a conspiracy to re-elect, or at least re-
nominate all the sitting Democratic Kep-
resentatives in Congress for this State.
Mr. PALMER understands that he cannot
be renominated in his own district unless
some exterior agency is invoked to ac-
complish the result. The congressional
committee is the agency he has in mind
and he has induced other Representatives
in Congress to aid him in the creation of
this body by assuring them that it will be
helpful to them as well as himself. In
other words he is using them as cat’s-
paws to pull his chestnuts out of the fire
as he usedthem to get his seat in the
Committee of Ways and Means.
Mr. PALMER, who is suffering from an
acute attack of aggravated amegalophina,
imagines that he is above the law and |
under no moral or legal obligations to
obey the rules of the Democratic party.
He is ambitious to become the party boss
and hesitates at nothing to promote his
purposes. The organization of a rump |
committee which is employing emissaries '
at other people's expense to canvass the
State in his interest is in pursuance of
his ambitions and the fact that it threat-
ens to disorganize and demoralize the
party all over the State makes no dif-
ference. He wants to rule and if he
can't do that he invites ruin. Such men
are dangerous not only to the party but
to the public and the sooner this up-
start is rebuked, good and hard, the bet-
ter for the Democratic party.
——And why not two good women for
schoo! directors ! Surely they couldn't
“make worse" than some who have al-
ready served in the capacity of “making
good.”
Imitating Roosevelt.
Attorney General WICKERSHAM is fol-
lowing the example of former President
ROOSEVELT. A few days ago an esteemed
New York contemporary sent a correspon-
dent to interview him. Mr. WICKERSHAM
is in New Hampshire for the summer and
the assignment involved a ride of 700
miles for the reporter. But it was worth
the labor and pains. He found this dis-
tinguished politician in a loquacious mood
and pumped him freely. He declared
most emphatically that he will not resign |
and added that he would like to have the |
Spowerful corporations and trust mag- |
nates” try to force him out of the Cabi-
net. Then he indulged in some other in- '
teresting statements which sounded well, |
probably, but looked bad in print. i
Among the things the Attorney General |
said were “if [ continue to serve as At- |
torney General till the end of Mr. TAPT'S
term, I intend to send some rich trust
offenders to jail.” That was rather start- |
ling but hardly a marker. “The men!
under indictment in the beef trust,” he |
continued, “will also go to prison if I have
my way.” Then he added, “I can’t under- |
stand Judge ARCHIBALD'S not sending |
JAcksoN—that quack doctor of the law—
to jail,” and finally, “the United States
Steel corporation is plainly a combination
in violation of the law.” In that enter-
taining but somewhat reckless manner Md Was therefore possible.” There was
the Attorney General ran on to the extent
of four or five columns of small news-
paper type.
But when he read it next day it looked |
different. Plainly it was putting upon the
administration responsibility for any fail. |
ure to put trust magnates in jail and quite |
as certainly entrenching the Attorney
General in his job, or at least making it
impossible to remove him without sus-
picion of trust influence upon the admin.
istration. But he was equal to the occa*
sion. The minute he found out that he
had talked too freely he went to a tele-
graph station and declared to the agent of
the Associated Press that he hadn't said
such things at all and that the interview
was simply a figment of the reportorial trom The Sweat °4 labox and be vil gi
How wonderfully like ROOSE-
VELT that sounds. The “Coinel" could | TORE and opportunity,
brain.
not have done better. |
' procity in Canada is attributable to two
“make us tired.” Constantly prating | by the tariff board. But four years ago he
upon whom they are bestowed. Then The VARE machine has evidently set se-
| but invariably supports the party and |
| ignorance but of the increase of knowl-
The Canadian Election.
took everybody by surprise. Where “the women for a place on
wish was father to the thought,” there reminds us of the comedy “No Gentle- |
may have been individuals, here and man in France” |
there, who imagined the defeat of the ago in Philadelphia by the Mask and Wig |
government of Sir WILFRED LAURIER a club. MARIE Louise and the ladies of | following
probability. But the overwhelming ma- | the court decided to rule France, arrayed |
jority obtained by the opposition was as themselves most charmingly in gayly |
unexpected to the antagonists of the Pre- colored satin bloomers and made things |
mier as it was to his friends. Hardly a so interesting (?) for NAPOLEON that he
that the
famous “reason-
cabinet were defeated for re-election. Boardwalk with scores of infatuated and Oil
Happily the great leader was himself suc- pink ladies eager to push their chairs
cessful and in the coming session of and dance attendance at every turn.
Parliament he will be the capable and | Let the women in—IN everywhere—
efficient leader of the minority. council, school board and any other old
Analyzing the result after the event, | place they want if it means no more car-
however, it is not difficult to discover the | rying coal, shoveling sidewalks, hustling
reasons for it. It is not ascribable, as off to work when there are ball games,
many of our contemporaries assume, to | etc., to attend and plenty of pink ladies
an absurb fear of annexation, though | waiting to be ogled at Atlantic City.
that hobgoblin was held before the men- | We're jolly sure we're ready to be exiled
tal vision of the more illiterate voters | to the Boardwalk any time the women
constantly, and may have influenced a | want to shoulder our work and responsi-
few of them. Public schools have not | bilities, for we always thought it unfair
been as efficient in Canada as within the | to allow them so little to do while we
States and popular intelligence is less | hustle so long and hard.
widely diffused. But the idea that sucha | Hasten our liberation fellows! Vote
fear would influence a general election is | for the women and thus insure our long
preposterous. Even with the limited | deserved vacation on the Boardwalk.
facilities for educating the masses pos- ar
sessed by Canada, the majority of the ——The auditor's statement of the
people are not as ignorant as that fact receipts and expenses of Bellefonte was
would imply. circulated the past week and it shows the
As a matter of fact the defeat of reci- | Dorough to be heavily burdened with
debt. The statement is for the fiscal year
ending March 6th, 1911, and at that time
the bonded debt was $106,000, while the
supreme court's
5E¢
3
&g
3%
p
i
g
E
|
E
§
i
;
i
7
a2
i
os
&E
i
:
h
§
;
Ie
f
:
i
;
i
!
5
a
:
|
i
:
g
i
|
i
i
J
i
if
§
i
|
|
causes. The principal of these was the
activity in bribing voters of the Ameri-
can trusts, the opportunities of which to
plunder the people would have been cur-
tailed by the policy. Having failed to
defeat the measure in our own Congress
they set themselves to the task of fool-
ing the Canadian electorate. In this
they were materially aided by President
TATT'S vetoes of other tariff reform
measures enacted during the special ses-
sion recently closed. It was oned
that as the other bills were vetoed the
aim of that one was to get some advant-
age in commercial relations with Canada
and the reasoning proved effective.
g
:
&
i
8%
!
§
5
g
for the relief of the poor during 1910
$7,099.41.
—Tomorrow will be the day for hold-
ing the primaries and the large number
of candidates for county, borough and
township offices assures more than the
ordinary interest and it will not be sur- | an
prising to see almost as many votes cast troit:
as at a general election. And the matter
of selecting the right men for the
ticket should be inducement enough for
| every Democrat to go to the polls.
——If those people who are fighting, ——Recorder VARE in his campaign for
the movement to place two of our town’s ' the nomination of the Republican party
most efficient women on the school board for Mayor of Philadelphia, has figurative-
this fall, would spend their time familiar- , ly “burned the bridges behind him.” In
izing themselves with a few of the pro-' other words he has made such a vicious
gressive movements going on about them | attack upon Senator MCNICHOL that they
both in this and every other State in the | can't possibly support him in the event of ’
union, it might serve to broaden their | his success at the primaries and without
views beyond the petty peanut politics in | their support he hasn't the ghost of a
which they are now indulging. : chance of election.
Si i
Mr. Carnegie’s Cant Phrases.
Hi
Bl
5
:
3
li
@
fl
i
i
i
:
8
g
:
8
The people of the west
overjoyed to learn, as Mr.
that the days of the trusts have
away.
House Cleaning is Needed.
From the Pittsburg Post.
Now that the public has been led to
understand that the recent vindication of
Dr. Wiley did not have the effect of un-
ing his official hands, there will be more
an ever a demand for a thorough house
the Department of Agricul-
t branch of the service has
probably will be
Taft
passed
|
——President TAFT has assured the
| people of Kansas City that he will sign
Mr. ANDREW CARNEGIE'S cant phrases | any tariff reduction bill recommended
cleaning in
ture.
‘ atime that the impression prevails within
. that it is in dent of restraint and
gifted. with full authority to do as it
pleases. Secretary Wilson is to all ap-
pearances dominated by influences that
ought to be subordinate, and the public
will agree that the time has come when
there should be an uncoveringof condi-
tions and the working of reforms that are
clearly demanded.
The reason for Dr. Wiley’s present help-
lessness is that the board of food and
drug inspection still controls the situation,
and stands between the chief chemistand
capable of performing.
posed of three men, of
other two
about his philanthropies, he clings with | assured the people that he would sign any
marvelous tenacity to every fetish which | taziff reduction bill passed by Congress
makes for the conditions he deplores. For | and since repudiated the pledge. In view
example, he pretends to believe that ex- | of that fact the people will take his prom-
cessive wealth is disgraceful but he holds ' ises only at a heavy discount.
on to every means of creating excessive | ————
wealth for himself. Even his philan- —]It was left for Mr. GIBBONEY to raise
thropies are hedged about by conditions | 2 question as to the political integrity of
which make them burdensome to those | RUDOLPH BLANKENBURG, of Philadelphia.
| mill he must expect dirty work. However, -
continuance of the tariff. In other words | GIBBONEY is equal to the task set for him. ’
Mr. CARNEGIE is an egregious hypocrite | ___y. np Garman, formerly of this tors of food and
and an arrant humbug. | place, is a candidate for select council in |
The other day the New York World |
the 46th Ward in Ph
cabled to Mr. CARNEGIE asking “for his | po som ceds jin Bilstein Nelo
view of the present labor unrest and its | oa ted for then we would be sure that
solution.” In response he drops naturally | 01, was one honest, capable man inthe
into cant phrases which to the cursory councils of that city. ion the
reader make him appear in the light of Ca
an apostle of beneficence. It is “a healthy | ——There seems to be such a diversity
sign,” he writes, “and not a result of | of opinion as to the efficiency of women
men who are certain to strive for the
sity is so apparent
out of the
edge.” That is literally true but it is an
increase of knowledge which he has al-
evidently been governing itself for solong |
| ways striven to repress. “The unequal
| distribution of wealth and contrast be-
tween the lives of the rich and poor,” he
| continues, “passed unnoticed in early days
no such “unequal distribution of wealth”
in early days to pass noticed or unnoticed.
The unequal distribution of wealth
began when Mr. CARNEGIE and others of
his type began perverting government
into an agency for promoting their in-|
Hiresis at tho sips of the Mitertsts of
century, Mr. CARNEGIE has indirectly con-
tributed vast sums of his tainted money to
bribe voters in the interest of this “unequal
distribution of wealth,” and notwithstand-
ing his cant phrases about the spirit of
Democracy, he will do the same thing at
each recurring election as long as be lives.
Mr. CARNEGIE'S money has been coined
E———
~—=Subscribe for the WATCHMAN.
ask, this fall, then judge their ability by Caee
the results shown. helpless member, there should be a clean- |
——The whole world sympathizes with | vantage.
France on account of the loss of a battle- |
Berm ma a ound syrpathy for. the
—It was 2 Grand jury. It approved Nebraska r man ds _—
the new bridge plan for High street. milk.
another town in that vicinity, has a number of
~The Lock Haven paper mill will make the
postage stamp paper for the United States gov-
ernment, an announcement which is causing
considezable joy in that town.
—It proved expensive for David Van Kirk, of
North Bangor, to shoot flickers out of season and
onSunday. He was arrested by Game Warden
Geary and fined $60.97 for killing two birds.
~The Mann Axe company whose Lewistown
| plant was recently destroyed by fire will erect a
| concrete and structural steel plant of enlarged
capacity. It is expected that it will be running
| by December 15.
| ing a bribe, isin jail at Fairmont, W. Va., and the
| detective who caught him is under bail to answer
| a kidnapping charge for arresting him without a
' warrant.
~The calf in the case in which Henry Depaedo
was acquitted of larceny, proved a rather expen-
sive one, for Indiana county, the costs of the case
| and the witnesses amounting’in all to $154, having
| been put on the county. The calf was worth §10
~The transmission line ofthe Raystown Water
the last of the wires being strung, The line is
five miles long.
~—Luther Sutton, of Lewisburg, Indiana county,
was caught shouting grey squirrels and when the
game warden went to arrest him he resisted. He
was finally overcome and compelled to pay a fine
of $50 for killing squirrels and $100 and costs for
resisting an officer.
~Three men who asked for work at the Eyre
Shoemaker Construction company’s operations
near Somerset and were refused, disappeared at
the same time as did some brass fixtures. The
men were found at Husband, where they were
trying tosell the brasses.
—Six men working in the Wilson Reynolds
orchards, Mont Alto, Monday, picked 370 large
basket of peaches, that were immediately shipped
to the Philadelphia market. These six men
didn't count the amount of culls they picked
along with the good ones.
—Preferring to serve a sentence of ten days in
the county prison instead of becoming an inmate
of the county home Joseph Lowe, 78 years old, was
sentenced before Magistrate Harry at Norris-
town. It was Lowe's first visit to his old home
~Henry H. Hurd, of Chest township,
Clearfield probably for the last time, on T
of last week. His first visit was in 1842, when
was 24 years of age and he visited ona raft rus
from Chest creek.
preceding his 94th birthday anniversary and was
made in an automobile.
—Chauncey Black, grandson of the famous
jurist Jeremiah S. Black, caught a burglar in his
home, near York, the other night and aftera
rough and tumble fight mastered the fellow and
carried him to York in his automobile, turning
him over to the police. When captured the fel-
| low was wearing one of Black's best suits.
—That high heels and hobble skirts are respon-
i sible for a large proportion of the injuries sustain-
od by women getting on ad off trains and
| mounting and descending stairways in stations,
is the conclusion reached by the Pennsylvania
railroad after an investigation covering three
months in which 73 such cases were recorded.
—Theodore Klaproth, aged 17 years, of Pitts-
ton, who was arrested on Saturday night on a
} sharge of robbing lock boxes in the Pittston post-
| office was given a hearing recently before United
States Commissioner Moore. It was shown that
he secured $2,000 worth of negotiable paper, jew-
elry and money. He was committed to the Lack-
awanna county jail for a further hearing.
—The fifteen mile stretch of the Midland-Penn-
sylvania railroad extending from Millersburg to
Gratz will be completed by October 15th, itis
expected, «nd the gangs of men are working day
and night with that idea in mind. The whole
road will extend about 43 miles, from Millers-
burg to Ashland, Schuylkill county. It is hoped
to have the entire road completed and in opera,
tion before next spring.
—~Workmen are engaged in all parts ot DuBois
cutting down the poplar trees which are used as
shade trees along many of the streets, The rea-
son for the destroying of these trees is that they
have a very fast growing root, which clogs the
sewers and in several places cracked the cement
pavement. Council passed an ordinance to the
year ago.
—A class of journalism, which will be conduct"
ed in connection with the school of economics of
the University of Pittsburg, opened Monday
night. Twenty students have already registered
in this new branch of the University, and the in
* dications arethat a much larger number will be
next week. The class is in charge of
5
| cut above one of Mrs. Harry F. Lord's
its, steve, the
4
in thirty-four years. He was charged with beg.
last visit was but two dags.