BY P. GRAY MEEK.
INK SLINGS.
© Men wore ruffles between 1520 and
1790. Some of them are still wearing
petticoats.
—1t is little wonder that the Chinese
are fighting. There is a Li in nearly
every one of their statesmen and gener-
als.
—The President is back in the White
House. He has gone way back to sit
down to wait for his tariff commission to
report.
—The 14th of November 1910 repeated |
in 1911, by giving the hunters another
tracking snow to start out on on the open-
ing day of deer season.
—If winter is to be anything like the
advance notice of it that we received Sun- |
day night right now is the time to get,
that coal bin filled to the top.
—If “Misery loves company” the Dem-
ocrats of the county were certainly as/
kind to the defeated Republican candi- |
dates as it was possible for them to be.
They gave them all there was to be had |
of it. i
—They are beheading Chinamen who |
had cut off their pigtails as evidence of |
the progressive movement in the celestial |
empire. It is needless to sey that with
the head and tail both gone so is the:
Chink. :
—Last Saturday was the day that hap-
pens only once ina century. Theeleventh |
day of the eleventh month of 1911. The
Tuesday previous was a day thathas hap- |
pened only once in a quarter of a century
in Centre county.
-—~When the reader learns that General |
L1 is in charge of one of the departments
of the Chinese army he will the more
readily understand the source and relia- |
bility of much of the war news that comes |
to us from that country. |
—The Hon. RUDOLPH BLANKENBURG has |
the job of a life time on his hands in’
Philadelphia. The entire country will join
in the prayer that his health may be con-
served against the Herculean task of puri- '
fying that putrid municipality. i
—Looking over the Centre county
teacher's institute now in session here
there is very visible evidence of the fact |
that the milliner and the modiste are |
getting their full share of recent increas-
es in the salaries of the teachers. i
—1If Mr. CARNEGIE could only devise |
some means of getting rid of his burden- |
some wealth as rapidly as brother SHORT
“did of his Keystone party over in Clear- can poing to 4 single locality or a solitary | ample provision was made for changes in
field there would be no question about
him being able to “die a poor man.”
—The striking drives of the New York :
street cleaning brigade would like to be
singing that old song about jumping into
the wagon and all take a ride, but Mayor |
GAYNOR and commissioner EDWARDS |
broke the strike and the old drivers are |
walking the streets hunting for work. !
|
—While the loss of the support of the
Legislature in New Jersey may prove a
serious set back to the plans Governor
Wooprow WILSON may have had for furth- |
er reforms in that State it doesn’t seem to !
have any effect on the plans a great many :
sections of the country have for hooming |
him for President. |
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‘the pretense of strengthening and build-
STATE RIGHTS AN
D FEDERAL UNION.
VOL 56. BELLEFONTE, PA. NOVEM BER 17, 1911. NO. 45.
Questions fof Democrats to Answer. Mitchell Palmer's Party Management. Another 1dol Shattered. A —— Tut.
The counties in. which considerable Hon. A. MITCHELL PALMER, of Stroudss The returns of the recent election af- Prom the Johnstown Defioeiik
Democratic gains were made at the re- purggave the public an exhibition of his
cent election were those in which the panagerial ability in the Congressional
regular Democratic organization was sup- clection for the Fourteenth district of
ported, with one or two exceptions. Ly- this State at the recent election. There
coming county, in which Hon. WALTER as a vacancy in that district owing to
RITTER, chairman of the Democratic the death of Hon. GEORGE W. Kipp, who
State Central committee resides, a splen- was chosen at the election of last year
(did triumph was scored. In Westmore- by a considerable majority. Mr. PALMER
land county, in which county chairman putted into the campaign for the election
J. HILARY KgENAN ard H. S. ACKERMAN, | of his successor with great enthusiasm
members of the State Executive commit- | and characteristic indifference to decency
tee are the local managers, the candidate nd propriety. He didn't live in the dis-
for Orphans’ Court Judge and that for trict and was in no respect connected
County Treasurer were successful. In with the party organization. But he
Luzerne, Erie, Elk, Cameron, Clarion and usurped the power of appointing a con-
Forest, the party more than held its own ! gressional committee and then took upon
and in Lehigh and this ig - (Soule himseif the management of the cam-
hardly expect better results. * paign.
phia which was loyal to the organization The result can hardly be flattering to
did admirably. | Mr. PALMER'S colossal urbanity. It is ad-
On the other hand ae Caro, | mitted that the candidate is a man of
Cambria, Montgomery, Chester, Northum- | considerable popularity. He had always
berland, Bradford, Berks, York and oth-.peen a Republican until the organi-
er counties, where chairmen deserted the ' zation of the Keystone party a year ago,
regular Democracy and joined the little | though sufficiently liberal to command
crowd of disorganizers, all find them-, the practically united support of the
selves losers in the general result. And | Democrats. But the people resented the
this, not because there are fewer Demo- impudent assurance of Mr. PALMER on
crats in any of these counties than there - one hand and the Keystone party dissolv-
were one or two or three years ago. but ed “like the baseless fabric of a vision,”
because they were led to believe and de- ' on the other, and the Republican candi-
pend upon the prouiises made them by ' date was successful by the greatest ma-
| men who don’t seem to know what an | jority registered in the district for a quar-
organization is or what is necessary to ter of a century. Possibly the Republi-
the success of the party. In place of | can candidate would have been elected if
thorough and efficient organization in | PALMER had kept his obtrusive fingers
these counties, copies of the game laws | out of the affair but it is a safe guess
i isttibuted, hou ois raided that in that event the majority would have
and promises galore of what was been less.
Sang Su wivak witli Yet be aqumplels | The plain lesson of this incident is that
were made t stint. these | golf ted and too-
promises the local chairmen donbtless | cow appoin = yay Ts are not
depended largely. They know and feel ' welcomed by the rank and file of the
the result. Ne Demotosts ot. the | Degnoctatic pasty. As ve ses of aly
Possibly State | years of careful
wil waar up Some tay $9 Sec How FEE | Dereon in A ee
ar at a gig itch, loweser lobpes
fect, was own
condition of the party. Surely no one; Ag a fundamental feature of this creation
election precinct in the State in which personnel and method. But elated by
the Democratic organization, as such, has | an accidental sugcess in his own election
been benefitted of bettered in anyway by | last fall, Mr. PALMER imagined he could
the efforts of the few who are keeping ' nake changes by revolutionary processes.
the party disorganized and divided under He projected his plans into the campaign
ing it up. - with the result that his management and
If such a district can be found, won't : the party has sustained a most crushing
some ope please tell us where to look for ' gefeat.
it.
——PENROSE and MCNICHOL are now
| reformers which calls to mind the fact
‘ that “when the devil was sick, the devil
| a monk would be.” In this connection,
‘ however, it is well to remember the other
| half of that classical couplet which reads
! “when the devil got well, the devil a
| monk was he.”
The Catlin Commission.
The adjournment of the sessions of the
CATLIN commission. engaged in the in-
vestigation of the municipal government
of Philadelphia, just as the most important
testimony was about to be offered, was
the most shameless exhibition of boss |
“in the Fourteenth Congressional district |
—Dr. Wu TING FANG, once the face- | control ever revealed in this or any other |
tious Ambassador of the celestials to the | State. When the offices of the commis-
court of your Uncle SAMUEL, is “coming | gion were first invoked the WATCHMAN
Democrats Will Gain Judges.
The final footing up of the official fig-
back” fast as the rebellion in China pro- |
gresses toward success. But as they
have such a weakness for separating the
heads of great men from their bodies |
over there we wouldn't be any more sur- |
prised to read Wu's abituary than his ac- |
cession to the premiership of a new Re-;
public.
—Sheriff SHiELDS, of Westmoreland |
county, has been sentenced to two years
in the penitentiary for malfeasance in of- |
fice. While under indictment he was
elected commissioner of that county, but |
since his conviction he will probably be
impeached. At least he should be. The
most dangerous attacks on a free gov-;
ernment are made when unscrupulous of- !
ficials prostitute the dignity of their office
and display contempt for the law they
are sworn to uphold.
~—MORGAN SHUSTER, the American fi-
nancial expert who was recently called
to reorganize the treasury department of
the reorganized Persian government, has
been on the job long enough to get into
trouble with both England and Russia.
He has been calling things by their
Americar names over there and that
doesn’t tickle the ceremonial tastes of
Joun Burr or the Czar. In any event
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Mr. SHUSTER says he isn’t going to back- |
track and Persia is decidedly proud of
him,
~The steady growth of the Socialistic
vote in all sections of the country is the
cause of much concern to the Republi-
can party and well it may be. Socialism
in theory is ideal, but Socialism as voted
by the vast majority in this country is a
protest against the existing order, of
things; an evidence of chaffing and un-
rest under a system of government that
for a quarter of a century seems to have
been designed for the benefit of the few
at the sacrifice of the many. As the Re-
publican party has been solely responsi
ble for the government it must own its
quence that grows more porténtious each
expressed some doubt of the sincerity of | ures show that the Democrats at the re-
the action. We said that properly con- cent election gained one Judge in Alle
ducted such an inquiry might disclose | gheny county, one in Somerset, one in
startling conditions and work valuable re- | Westmoreland, one in Clarion, one in Ju-
sults. But, we added, if the commission niata and Perry, and two in Luzerne, |
is_to be perverted into an instrument to, while the Republicans gained one in
promote the interests of ome faction of A York, one in Northumberland, and one
the Republican party at the expense of | in Cambria, making a net gain for the
another it will degenerate into a farce. | Democracy of four. In the other judicial
Instead of a beneficence it will be a source | districts, where clections occurred, no
of evil. ! change in the political complexion of the
That is precisely what has happened. | bench is to be noted.
The commissicn placed itself at the serv- There is a good deal of encouragement
ice of Senator PENROSE to destroy one of | to Democrats in this condition of affairs:
the candidates of that party for the office | It used to be that when Judges stepped
of mayor and having accomplished that ' upon the bench they left politics behind
result ran away from duty at the behest them and it didn’t make much difference
of the Senator. Of course no self-respect- | whether the candidate of one party or
ing citizen will regret the complete de- | the other was elected. Of late years it is
struction of the VARE brothers. They | vastly different, however. PENROSE has
have proved themselves the cheapest | come to regard the judiciary as the cita-
poltroons that ever offended public de-! del of his power. Judges are as much a
cency. Possibly they were driven to this | part of his machine as Senators and As-
course by the fear of punishment for the semblymen and the standard of the bench
offences clearly proved against them. But has greatly deteriorated on that account.
whether that be true or not the fact re-|Only a few days ago the Philadelphia
mains that they promptly turned in to the | Judges took orders from PENROSE,
support of a man who had denounced through MCNICHOL, just as the tipstaff of
them as public parasites and cringing the court might.
criminals. Their present plight is not to © To the credit of the Democratic Judges
be considered. of Pennsylvania it may justly be said
There was a reason for the stopping of that they have never yielded their judi
the investigation just as it reached the | cial prerogatives to the censorship of the
point where the friends of Senator Pey- | political boss. For that reason it is not
ROSE and those whose services were nec- ' to be expected that direct party advan-
essary to him were about to be exposed. | tage will be derived from the gain
The inquiry threatened the exposure of three Judges in the State. But an indi-
mayor REYBURN and the “scandalous per- | rect advantage is gained in that the
sonal obligations and financial operations” | Republican machine will no longer be
with which he was associated, and such | able to use the courts of those districts
exposure would have alienated both REY- | in their political commerce. The power
BURN and Director of Public Safety CLAY | of evil of the machine is curtailed that
from the sinister support of PENROSE’S | much and that is
candidate for mayor. Without this sup-'
port there was no hope of the election of |
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——Eating crow isn't such a hardship
Mr, EARLE and the Senatorial committee | to the VARES of Philadelphia. According
obeyed him with slavish alacrity in order | to the statement of Brother BiLL, when
to promote his evil purposes. [t was the | he was a candidate for the nomination
shame of our day and gemeration and for Mayor, they never got anything as
time a test by ballots is made.
stamps the State Senate as a tool of the | good as crow until after they wire grown
ford an interesting subject for the ana. |
lytical mind to ponder. One of the most
interesting news dispatches contained in |
the press reports of the event was that!
which came from Carbon county. In
that county Mr. JAMES I. BLAKESLIE has
for some years posed as the Democratic
political manager. Since 1905 he has
been chairman of the county committee
and member of the State Central com-
mittee for the county. During the inter-
vening years he has ruled the party with
a rod of iron. He has refused to give in-
formation to the State Central committee
or permit an election of a successor to
himself. In other words he has been
“the whole cheese.” !
Under Mr. BLAKESLIE'S administration
of the office the Democratic vote in the
county has been steadily diminishing. In
1906 he was able to elect himself a Rep- |
resentative in the Legislature which so'
elated him that he imagined no office :
was too big for him and that the control
of the State organization ought to be
turned over to him. In 1910 he betrayed
the Democratic nominee for State Sena-
tor and was even recreant to his associ-
ates on the State ticket that year. But
his absurd ambition to control the State
organization continued to grow until a
packed committee selected a figure head |
in the person of GEORGE W. GUTHRIE to
the chairmanship and made him secre- |
tary of a rump committee.
Of course it was to be expected that |
with the new opportunities which this in-
cident presented to him the Democratic
vote of Carbon county would increase
with surprising rapidity. But the con-
trary has proved to be the result. The
news dispatch referred to informed the
public that the Republican majority in
the county this year is the greatest in
its history. Probably Mr. BLAKESLIE was
too busy trying to defeat the election of
that splendid old war horse of reform,
RupoLPH BLANKENBURG, for Mayor of
and inefficiency. In any event the result,
of the election was an overwhelming de-
feat of Democracy in Carbon county. :
| ~The Germans are said to be plan-
ning a rival to the Panama canal. Re-
a
! point the public will be at a loss to under- |
[stand what advantage such a project
could be to the Germans and as a finan- |
j cial proposition it has already been shown
i that the Panama canal can’t possibly be
| made to pay. i
{The SHERMAN law may need some
be repealed. The trust magnates and |
high financiers will come to Congress |
' during the coming session with urgent '
demands for the repeal of that measure
purpose is sinister. “Beware of Greeks
hearing gifts.” i
——Wu Ting Fang, formerly a popular
Chinese Ambassador in Washington, has |
advised the Regent to abdicate in order
that a Republic may he established on
the foundations of the Chinese Empire. |
The chances are that the Regent will not
separate his own head from the crown
but that Wu's head will be separated’
from his shoulders in the near future.
—Of course ¢ Mayor BLANKENBURG, of,
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tions for reform which Senator PENROSE
will have them fumigated before he
——President TAFT went to Cincinnati
on election day to save Boss Cox from
defeat but we have not heard that he has
since sent condolence to comfort the boss
in disaster.
puts :
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wine of the most valuable conse:
~——It is worthy of remark that Presi '
dent TAPT is spending a few days in|
Washington at this time. !
——Last week the WATCHMAN felt |
good over the result of the election. This
week it has reason to feel the same way |
over the congratulations and commenda- |
tions that have come to it. Among the |
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preciated, because of the compliment |
paid the efforts of those trying to furnish :
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Philadelphia. will welcome any sugges- J
may offer but the chances are that he! look
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| SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
. —According to recent official figures the city of
! York now has an investment of $22419.000 in
| —Another case of diphtheria has appeared in
| Hamburg and in spite of the precautions taken
! by the board of health the disease seems to he
| spreading.
| ~The Cambria Steel company has received
| orders for steel cars totaling 2,000 all gondolas,
and as a result the Franklin plant will run double
turn for some time beginning Friday.
—Bishop W. F. McDowell, of Chicago, will
preside over the next session of the Central
Pennsylvania conference ot the Methodist Epis-
copal church, which will meet in Williamsport,
March 20th, 1912.
—York is a fertile county. Charles McConnell.
who manages two big farms near the county
seat, planted this year sixty-six acres of corn, one
field of which, containing twenty-four acres,
made about twenty-four hundred bushels. :
finishing building will be
200 by 200 feet this time and will be three-stories
in height. It will be either all steel or of steel
and concrete.
~The body of a murdered man was found in a
shot hit him in the neck and but for a goitre
minks. “The hide of these animals bring a good
price and the carcases of the muskrats can be
easily disposed of in the city restaurants where
they are served asa fancy dish.
—For the second time within a year the post~
safe and blowing out the front of the office. They
secured a sum of money and stamps. but hadn't
succeeded in getting into the upper part of the
safe when they were frightened away.
—~Joseph Curbanshock, of Snow She, died in
the Lock Haven hospital at 2:30 o'clock Saturday
morning of injuries received in an accident on
Wednesday. He was admitted to that instiution
in a serious condition and there was little hope
that he would recover. Undertaker E. B. Waters
prepared the body for burial, after which under-
taker William Kessinger.of Mill Hall, took charge
of the remains and shipped them to Snow Shoe
for burial.
A mortgage for $2,000,000 has been filed in
the office of the recorder of deeds at Williamsport,
as well as in several other counties, by the North-
umberland County Traction company to secure
an issue of five per cent. 40-year, sinking fund.
- , gold bonds of $1,000 each. This would indicate
that the recently merged traction interest pro-
pose extending their system up the West Branch
valley as well as through North Branch valley to
Wilkes-Barre,
~=john E. Shields, sheriff of Westmoreland
county, who was recently convicted of permit-
ting prisoners to escape. and of perjury and
malfeasance in office, in connection with the coal
strike in the Irwin field, has been sentenced to
two years and four months in the western peni-
tentiary. He will also be deprived of his office to
which he was re-elected last Tueday the 7th, re-
ceiving the second highest vote in the county.
friends. Despite his advanced age, Colonel
Freeze still enjoys good health and attends to
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difficulty is settled all the miners of the company
will go out. The company officials state that all
but thirteen of the miners at Armsbry have been
paid off. A few men are working keeping the
be bitten by them. engines and pumps working.