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INK SLINGS.
#8. —What will Senator PENROSE think?
—It pays to present a ticket that doesn’t
have to be apologized for.
—From the jail to the monument there
isn't a fly in our dumplin.’
—Now what do vou think of the good
people of Centre county?
—Even President TAPT couldn't save
Boss Cox and Cincinnati.
—Another Republican judicial possi.
bility has been eliminated.
—At last Philadelphia has awakened to
the call of civic righteousness.
—It wasn't the court house that did
it. It was the way they did the court
house.
—Centre county busted the machine
before the machme could bust Centre
county.
—The cry went out from Temple court
to save YARNELL, but they threw the life
line out too late.
—All that will be left of the old regime
after January lst is that bronze tablet in
the court house hall.
—Anyway, the Philadelphia police-iorce
will not be used to protect repeaters and
club Democrats in the Presidential elec-
tion of 1912.
—The returns from Benner township
most effectually answered the Republican's
attempt to make the penitentiary an issue
in Centre county.
—If “Bull” ANDREWS had known it was
going to go as itdid, he probably wouldn't
have pressed the bill admitting New
Mexico as a State.
—The roosters that the Gazette and the
Republican expected to use this week are
moulting and wouldn't look well so they
just didn’t put them in.
—And Kentucky swung back into the
Democratic columns with such an ava-
lanche of votes that she must be going
to remain there forever.
—Just think of what a few years rule
of Republicans has done for Kentucky.
Its been a doubtful State for a long time.
Its 30,000 Democratic now.
—The McNicHOLS, the VARES and the
Crays, of | elphia, are done for
~The agony is all over and now let
the victor and the vanquished get down
to business and work for the best in- |
terests of Bellefonte and Centre county.
—In their thanks for Tuesday's result,
our Democratic friends should not forget
the editor of the Republicar. It was the
rot he sent out that helped us as much
as any other one thing.
and the
down with more goods for YARNELL. lis of Pennsylvania from the political
—There are a lot of would-be county
officials who are wondering how we ever |
VOL 56.
Mr. Blankenburg Elected.
Authentic though unofficial returns of
: the vote of Tuesday show that Mr. Ru- |
DOLPH BLANKENBURG has been elected |
Mayor of Philadelphia by a small but
' safe majority. This result was achieved
| by the fusion of the Democrat and Key-
, stone voters of the city and the help of |
{all other earnest reform elements. It
‘was a long drawn out and hard fight.
| The PENROSE machine was battling for
| its life and some of the leaders of that
| organization for personal liberty. But
the patriotism of the Democracy and the
| conscience of the community were equal |
‘to the occasion and courage, vigilance |
and valor won a great victory. Mr. |
| BLANKENBURG will be a great Mayor and
| a just Magistrate.
To prevent the consummation of this
result every expedient known to crime
| and cunning was invoked. In the begin-
| ning an element in the electorate which
| professes reform but practices corrup-
{tion tried to defeat the nomination of
Mr. BLANKENBURG. Mr. GIBBONEY, a per-
| ennial office seeker and masked ally of
! Senator McNICoL, was induced to enter
| the primary campaign and villify the
| grand old reformer scandalously. The
rump organization known as the GUTH-
RIE Democratic State Committee estab-
lished headquarters in Philadelphia and
spent money contributed to build up the
Democratic party to aid this unholy con-
spiracy. But the primary vote put the
stamp of condemnation upon this vile
trick and Mr. BLANKENBURG was nomi-
nated.
That his election would follow we hop-
ed but hardly dared to predict. The mis-
erable maligners of the Democratic lead-
ers persisted in a guerrilla campaign
against him. But the aroused conscience
energetic labor of the right-think-
philistines who have been despoiling it.
| Soiling the Robe of Office.
| Before WiLLiaM H. TAFT became a
| candidate for President he visited Cincin-
| nati, Ohio, in the heat of a political cam-
| paign, and in a public speech denounced
Boss Cox, the Republican dictator of that
| city, as a criminal unworthy of the moral
or material support of any decent citizen.
Three years ago while a candidate for
BELLEFONTE, PA.. NOVEMBER 10,
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
An Avalanche of Votes Carries the Nominees of the
Democracy Into Every Office for the First
Time in Twenty-one Years.
IT WAS NOT SO MUCH A DEFEAT CF MEN AS OF METHODS.
Centre County Will Not Stand for Handling a Public Dollar Less Carefully Than a
me
For the first time in twenty-bne years every majority office in
Centre county has been voted £6 the Democrats. Not so much be-
_ cause they are Democrats as because of their collective superiority
over the men named by the opposition and because of the general
isappre the way the little machine in control of the Republi-
i punty has led its officials in the management
viding,
on Tues rebuke to the personality
of a single holding officer, it was not an expression of suspicion as
to their official integrity or worthiness. But it was the blasting,
withering repudiation of the methods, the system, whereby county
officials are but the pawns of men who are playing for political ag-
grandizement at the expense of the tax payers.
Iu every precinct in the county there is evidence of disapprov-
It cannot be said that the resnlt was due to apathy that kept
voters at home for the total vote polled was only 303 less than the
combined party votes on treasurer three years ago. And this in
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1911. NO. 44.
Busting the Steel Trust.
From the Johnstown Democrat.
The reflection that the Beef trust was
busted more than eight years ago and is
still flourishing quite as though nothing
serve to
| moderate either the joy or the fear which
the suit for the dissolution of the Steel
4 may extite. No remarkable Fegults
will follow equity proceeding;
although it were pressed as no similar
proceeding has been and although the
dissolution were actually to follow like a
| transformation scene, there is not the
| least reason for believing that the coun-
try would get greater relief than it
obtained from the Beef fines
con-
be real-
real strength of the monopoly
will remain.
But where does this lie? Obviously in its
holdings of coal and ore, its protection
by the government from competition and
its direct or indirect contrel of trans-
portation. All these factors will remain
substantially the same after dissolution.
15,000 miles journey to lie through the
enemy's country.
President Taft’s Bill-of-Fare.
From the Pittsburg Sun.
Besides making a record in presidential
touring, covering about 17,000 miles by
the time he returns to the White House, |
President Taft is traveling an |
has
or
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—In one section of Lancaster there are twenty-
| six cases of diphtheria and the disease is spread
| ing from day to day
{| ~The oil field in Venango county which was
supposed to be exhausted is disappointing proph-
ets of evil and still turning out good oil.
| —Mrs. Anna McGilvery Kates, aged 9. is one
of Meadville's most energetic residents. She -e-
cently celebrated her birthday by walking a mile
without showing the least sign of fatigue.
—Mrs. Susie Taylor, of Unionville, the other
day found a purse containing a sum of money on
achair in her kitchen. She hasn't the slightest
idea of how it got there cr to whom it belongs.
~Convicted of guilt before the law reached
them, venders of short weight potatoes in Pitts.
burg fled, leaving thirty bushels of the tubers be-
| hind them when they saw officers approaching.
—Ten-year-old Richard Reese, of Lancaster
| was swinging on a guy wire near the electric
plant when his weight brought the wires in con.
nection with a live wire. The lad was instantly
killed.
—Mrs. William McCracken, of Sabula, died
this week of typhoid fever. A son succumbed to
the same disease only a few weeks ago and three
other members of the family have been ill, all of
typhoid.
—It is reported from Austin that the body of
the mother of Senator F. E. Baldwin, who was
drowned when the dam broke there, has never
been recovered, or if so that it has never been
recognized.
—Policemen Thomas O'Connor and John
Davidson have been sentenced to serve a term in
the Allegheny county jail for violently beating
Louis Braun, whom they arrested on the streets
of Pittsburg.
—The parents of Charles Ennis, a lad living in
Duquesne, sued Mrs. Ethel M. Curry, his teacher,
for $5,000 damages because she punished him for
misconduct. The jury awarded them six and
one-fourth cents.
~Mrs. Earl McClellan, of Coatesville, awoke
the other morning to find a burglar in her bed
room. She got a revolver from under her pillow
and marched the fellow down stairs and out of
the door. Then she collapsed.
~The Elks home at Williamsport was broken
into on Saturday night, the cash register demol-
ished and $112 in cash taken. A number of checks
werediscarded by the burglars and 325 in cash
overlooked. Nothing else was disturbed.
—Professor D. M. Brungard died at Lock Ha-
ven on Wednesday. He was a former superin-
tendent of Clinton county, a former member of
the Central State Normal faculty and at the time
of his death principal of the First ward, Lock Ha-
ven schools.
—At the recent criminal court sessions in Lew-
istown, three Mifflin county citizens were con-
victed of selling liquor without license. One of
them was sentenced to pay $500 fine and goto
jail for six months and the other two made mo-
tions for new trials.
—An auto belonging to Dr. G. D. Green, of
Lock Haven, was being slowly driven along the
road to the shop of a man who was to repair it
when it suddenly burst into flames. The man
who was driving it had a narrow escape and
the machine was totally consumed.
—They arestill finding oil in Venango county's
supposedly exhausted territory. The Baltimore
Qil company, composed ot Bowman & Proper, of
Tionesta. have a flowing well on the Baltimore
tract on Pithole Creek, about two miles from the
river, The well was drilled 410 feet'to the top of
the Red Valley sand last Tuesday.
—While the State engineers of the Lewis.
town Narrows road were holding an indignation
meeting over some ur." .nown miscreant who had
stolen the sign notifying the public that the road
was closed totravel, a large goose waddled along
the road, and took the new sign they had just
erected. They will now print their notice on a
post.
—Mrs. S. L. Condo and son Lester, of Spring
Mills, had a narrow escape from drowning re-
cently. They were driving home from Millheim
in the evening, when their horse frightened and
upset the buggy, throwing them into Penn's
! Creek at a point where the water is waist deep.
Being uninjured, they were able to reach the
the bank in safety. But their buggy was dam-
aged and a number of packages lost.
—Cupid has had a big harvest among the
school marms of Lancaster county since last
got so far wrong as to call him HENRY
Cute. And wouldn't he love to have
somebody to take the credit for it all.
—In Massachusetts the issue was
“Shall we wait for President TAFT'S tariff
commission to report.” The people
answered No! by relecting Governor
Foss, who had asked the question from
the stump,
—By the time the next county election |
comes round, the editor of the Republican |
may possibly know enough to treat the
voters of the county, other than if they
were idiots. Tuesday last should be!
enough to show him that fact.
—The disorganizers seem to
gotten in their work in Carbon county—
Mr. Secretary BLAKESLIE'S home—in fine
style. Its the only Democratic county in
the State that went over-body, breeches
have |
President he had a good deal of trouble
| getting Cox to support him. The result
{was accomplished, however, without
{ scandalous humiliation. This year TAFT
| had intended to refrain from participa-
tion in the municipal election. It repre-
| sents the final struggle of Boss Cox and
! self-respect admonished TAFT to keep
| out of it so that he did not go home to
| register. .
But the Boss has called him to account.
Within the past year Boss Cox has been
within the shadow of the penitentiary
| and the prosecuting officer responsible
for his prosecution was the Democratic
i candidate for Mayor at the recent elec-
tion. His election under the circumstan.
ces would have been a popular condem- |
nation of Cox. To avert it Mr. Cox not
| only compelled the President of the Unit- |
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+ ed States to go to Cincinnati and swear
face of the fact that it was not a general election nor were voters
temporarily out of the county brought home by either party. Three
years ago the Republicans elected every county official but one and
impressive and awe-inspiring bill-of-fare | October. Thirty-five of them have given up the
ranging over a dazzling variety, from the | schoolroom and are now presiding over homes of
tional baked bean at Boston, with | theirown. East Hempfield township was a fruit-
the sacred codfish on the side, to the ! ful place for love affairs, five of the teaching force
piscatorial number at Denver where he | deserting their schools to become brides. One of
and all to the PENROSE gang. 'his vote in but forced him to make a |
—Our Chester county friends must feel | Public statement endorsing the Cox ma- |
proud of their efforts since they joined in ' chine and its ticket. Such an exhibition |
with the State disorganizers. While they | of “eating crow” has never been witness- |
acted as Democrats they had all the posi. |ed before in any city or State. Let us|
tions the minority party could have under | hope it never will be again. i
the law. Now they don't have any. | Of course this shameless humiliation of |
—You have probaby observed that Mr. | the President will be of no avail to Boss
HARRY KELLER and Mr. J. Thomas Cox. He will be overwhelmingly con-
MITCHELL haven't had the appearance of | demned by decent public sentiment any- |
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men who had lost their all on Tuesday. Way and the State will give a good ma.
We didn’t have space to tell you about it | jority against TAFT next year in any |
just before the election, but those two | event. But such a spectacle in the pub- |
gentlemen, fo1 some unknown reason— | lic life of the country is necessarily hu- |
were not consulted much as the Republi- | miliating to every thoughtful citizen of |
can campaign progressed and toward the | the country. In order to save Cox from |
close they seemed to be clear out of the the penitentiary as the result of his re- |
Temple Court Combine. Its a cinch that | cent trial it was necessary to drag the
some people who think it could have been | stain the official robe of the President of
From the Bellefonte Republican of Nov. 2,
_ Unless the voters of Centre county step
inon T and interfere, it will only
when it will be nec-
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the United States as TAFT has permitted
to be done.
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From the Keystone Gazette of Oct. 6th, 1911.
i The financing of the court house must
| be accepted as one of the shrewdest and
most economical deals ever accomplished
by any board of County Commissioners in
| Spring creek, right opposite the WATCH.
! MAN office.
the relative strength of their nominees then was not to be compared
with that of their nominees of last Tuesday. With but one excep-
tion the Republican ticket that went down to defeat this time was
immeasurably stronger than was the one that won a great victory
three vears ago. While it is true that the Democratic ticket was
a most superior one yet it must appear to the student of politics
that the personality of the nominees could not possibly account for
the sweeping upheaval in the county.
As to what was the cause there is only one answer. The Court
house and the general trend towards the Democracy that is going
on all over the country. It was not the remodeling of the building
but the manaer in which the financing of it was done. Centre
county will not stand for any business methods that makes a pub-
lic dollar less valuable than a private dollar. And it has recorded a
terrible repudiation of the policy that thinks because it has been
justified in spending a little money that it may go ahead and spend
without limit.
fished in a miniature pool in the dining
room and caught his own mess of moun-
tain trout. n there was the barbecue
at Cheyenne, and following that Banquet
of roasted steer came the course of buffalo
Pi hud ite Se A
t next , WI e swings
southward, the President is likely to meet
a menu of m, oysters and more fish,
the while he sidesteps Philadelphia scrap-
e with the adroitness equaled only by
ny in avoiding von L.
M s naval parade down New York
way. Advocating world peace and arbi-
dodging attendance at imposing demon-
strations of naval er, is a feat requir-
ing discretion caution. Thro t
the pilgrimage, of course, there is never
i: big 2 2d
a press
ound intelligence as '
“The President announced plainly |
that he is proposing to stand on his rec-
Little did the Aeystonc Gazette dream when it revealed the plan
of the Commissioner's bond issue, in its edition of Oct. 6th, that it
was releasing the storm that was to sweep its party to defeat. Af-
ter the WATCHMAN had shown what a loss it would mean to the
county the dissatisfaction that was to be found only here and there
before became a perfect torrent of indignation that swept every oth-
er element before it. Almost at once the Republican managers
realized the hopelessness of the case and sent out the cry to save
the Sheriff, the Treasurer and the Recorder. It was too late. The
same men who had led the Commissioners into such a Elunder were
the ones who had been responsible for the nomination of the Sheriff,
the Treasurer and the Recorder and the public, knowing it, listened
to no appeal that would arrest their determination to sweep the en-
tire combination to destruction.
It was a glorious victory for the Democracy. Not because
there was any politics in it, but because the party presented a tick-
et so admirable that it inspired the public confidence. It worked
as it has never worked before, in an harmonious, united ef- |
fort to re-establish itself in the county. The Democratic strong- |
holds of Pennsvalley sent up returns such as haven't been recorded
for a quarter of a century and added to these were the votes of
many Republicans, who being more of business men than partisans, |
voted to put back into the county offices men who are nobody's
creatures and men who represent a party that has always given Cen-
tre county an economical and prudent government.
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Another Blow at Capital.
From the Philadelphia North American.
The Reading i as been indicted
tration treaties, and at the same time
| them was captured by a school director. A num-
| ber of the 35 have become wives of ministers.
| ~The largest real estate deal ever consummat-
| ed in Forest county took place last Saturday when
| L.S. Clough & Co, conveyed to T. D. Collins, F
| N. Kreitler and F. K. Brown all their right, title
| and interest to all their holdings in Forest county,
| comprising about 8000 acres of timber land,
| The above deal settles litigation of about six
| years’ duration over the title of the property.
| The purchasers own a big plant at Mayberg and
| their timber holdings were nearly exhausted
| when thisdeal was consummated.
—The body of J, F. Bachman, aged 70, of Yea-
gertown, was found in the creek in the eastern
section of Lewistown on Friday evening by boys.
! Bachman, a veteran of the Civil war, attended a
| campfire at McClure on October 14 and was last
seen as he left the train at Lewistown on his
return home. It is believed that he became be-
wildered in the darkness, and walked over the
edge of the Walnut street bridge. His spectacles
were in place on his forehead and his watch and
about $50 in money were still in his pockets.
—One of the largest black bears ever killed in
Pennsylvania was shot on Fern Mountain, two,
miles northwest of State Run, across Pine Creek
by David and Clark McWilliams, brothers and
Augustus Bennett, says The Wellsboro Agitator.
The length of the hide is seven feet. the width
six feet, and to show the great length of fore legs
measurement was made of the reach from tip to
tip of claws, when the hide was stretched to
weighed 410 pounds. He was shot seven times
before he gave up the ghost.
—Mifflinburg, Union county, claims the distinc-
tion of having built the only aeroplane that was
planned and constructed by home talent, and it
has proved a success. This has been done by
| Clarence Hartley and Martin Hartley, brothers,
| work and study, the time being taken after their
| day's labor, often working after midnight. The
| machine is constructed on lines that have proven
la success, trial flights having been made by
' Clarence Hartley.
| —David Tobin, of Coupon, Cambria county, has
| entered a suit at Ebensburg to recover $10,000
for selling rotten purposes. | damages and medical expenses to the amount of
Be to flourish | $200 from the Altoona Coal and Coke company
pic I Sa i IETS fn un Mookieuh on Dice:
SE ride tor the company at its operations at
' Coupon when he met an accident which re
1t Was a Moun Prick. sulted in a broken leg, a dislocation of the knee
Tom BEAVER said “the Democrats had
| an election and forgot to notify the Re.
and other injuries. He also alleges that he has
been crippled for life, that he was able to earn §70
month previous to the accident and since
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publicans to go to it.” | it occurred he has been unable to follow his usua
—— . He contends that the accident was
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