a picked p eke up. “ ? BY P. GRAY MEEK. INK SLINGS. —Deer, deer, everywhere! and not a bite for the editor to eat. —1it is a kind of “heads | win tails you lose” game that the Maznchus are play- ing in China. —Don’t worry over having made a STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. ~~Hazelton did more building this year than in | any previous year of its history. The structures | erected are worth more than $1,000,000. —Clearfield’s energetic Chamber of Commerce | expects to put up the necessary amount of money | to induce three new industries to locate in that | town. . . —Whenthe Pennsylvania train between New ! Castle and Stoneboro arrived at the Intter place | the other night a 350-pound hog was found dead on the pilot. { ~The widow and children of the late P. H. | Gladfeiter, of Spring Grove, York county, have | given $25,000 to Gettysburg College as a memorial mistake. Worry only makes you the more liable to follow it up with another. —ROOSEVELT might get some valuable hints on trying to “come back’’ from one, JAMES JEPPRIES, who tried it on July 4th, 1910. —Send your friend the WATCHMAN for a year as a Christmas present. A more | acceptable one he or she could not re- ceive. —Why all this talk about the price of | the Thanksgiving turkey being so low. Nothing's cheap when one doesn’t have the price. VOL. 56. Roosevelt's Candidacy Proclaimed. Colonel ROOSEVELT'S surprising arraign- ‘ment of President TAFT'S method of curbing trusts can have but one mean- ing. The ex-President wants to be the trust magnates candidate to be the next The New Insurance Commissioner. The chastening influence of the recent machine defeat in Philadelphia has not reached Harrisburg, obviously. At least it hasn't touched His Excellency, the Governor. That fatuous functionary is BELLEFONTE, PA.. NOVEMBER 24, 1911. Good Riddance of Bad Rubbish. | The decent element in the citizenship | of America will be glad to learn that the | clergyman who married JOHN JACOB As- TOR and his recently acquired bride has re- | signed his pastorate. Colonel ASTOR, a no- Presiden: * Ip Leith well established | pursuing the even tenor of his way as if | torious character, having purchased a | uring his last term in office Mr. | w. 0 ihing is lovely and the goose hangs | comely girl, had a good deal of trouble in i ROOSEVELT was the obliging and obedient high.” He is junketing over the State getting license toenjoy his property. Final- ney General Wickersham boasts that it is | servant of the interests. He did what | or erever fancy calls and in Pullman | ly Rev. JOSEPH LAMBERT. ever they wanted him to do and at any | sop. 00s or his State-bought automobile | minister of Providence, —Just thirty-one days separate you | cost to conscience and consistency. Mr. | io ongiantly rushing hither and thither | consented to perform the marriage. The from Christmas. Remember, that it isw't the gift, but the | trusts and Yash himself into = frenzy in spirit of it that counts. ; | denouncing the “mialefaciors of. great —There are more actors and aviators { wealth” But when they wanted him out of a job than ever before known in they got him and he served their purpose those professions. In both cases lack of | yp "poreer because of his noisy protests employment inures to the longevity of | against them. the unemployed. | The legal proceedings against the Steel Nobody else having been found who | trust gave Mr. ROOSEVELT his recent op- was disposed to do it the Hon. Mr. ROOSE. | portunity to offer his future services to vELT just launched a little boom for him- | Mr. MorGAN for the consideration of self. It hasn't done very much booming, | support for the Presidency. In his peti- however, up to this writing. | tion for the dissolution of the Steel trust Former Governor PENNYPACKER has | Attorney General WICKERSHAM alleges been publishing his views concerning the that GARY and FRICK had deceived the State capitol graft again and, as usual, | President in the matter of the Tennessee can see no wrong in it. Few people laugh | merger. Against this intimation ROOSE- at the old gentleman's jokes any more. VELT vehemently protests. His was not —The Philadelphia Inquirer remarks that “most Philadelphia artists live in New York and London.” We understand that there will be quite an exodus of other artists from the Quaker city when oath to enforce the laws with a full un- derstanding of the case. Obviously the former President would rather be regard- ed as a knave than a fool. He is nec- essarily impaled on one or the other of Mayor BLANKENBURG gets in. Te Iki about skin games, if Mr. these horns of the dilemma and chooses Te rateng games "| to be rated a knave. ROCKERFELLER really took those poor | | The Tennessee merger was clearly a MERRITTS over the way they have sworn | . he did he has the three shell men, who violation of the SHERMAN law. MORGAN, work in the side-shows of certain circuses, GARY and FRICK understood this fact : . rd thoroughly and though they had organized in the primary ment of crooks. a panic in order to consummate the —It cost us two million dollars to send . iniquity refused to complete it until the army to the Mexican frontier last| poospveLT guaranteed them immunity summer: therefor it looks like good busi- ] from punishment. This was finally ness to lock up those Reyistas, who are | zchieved by what Mr. WICKERSHAM char- trying to engineer another revolution i calls deception. That implies an from Texas, just as fast as they can be fly Salle the probity of J however, and the-ex-President repudiates it. He was a candidate for re-election at the time but was subsequently driven from his purpose by the storm of popular indignation which followed. Now he imagines the storm has passed and he comes out in the open and proclaims his —(et as much of that Christmas shop- ping as possible done right now. It is far pleasanter to plan and shop when you have time to do both properly. Don’t wait until the rush of the last week, when the best things are gone and in your hurry, you take what yori really didn't want. —State defeated Colgate worse than | West Point did, therefor the dopster would have it that State is stronger than the army. Annapolis played State to a tie score last Saturday and the same dope picks the Navy to win from the Army in their great annual foot-ball battle to- Morrow. ward him. The Money Trust in Process. The transactions by which the Steel trust absorbed the Tennessee Coal and Iron company, with the assistance of former President ROOSEVELT were little, if any. more startling, than that by which the corporation acquired the Duluth, Messabe and Northern railroad, with its vast mineral properties, through the help of JOHN D. ROCKERFELLER. Of course the complicity of the President of the United States in such an iniquity is bad. [It implies the invasion of the very citadel of authority by the venal agents of the interests. But it gave the corpor- ation less financial advantage, on the whole, than it gained by the transaction in the Northwest, According to the testimony of ALFRED MERRITT, of Duluth, before the Congres- sional committee investigating the Steel trust, he was induced by Mr. ROCKER- FELLER'S secretary to put up all his prop- erty as security for a loan of a few hun- dred thousand dollars from the Oil mag- nate. The property was of enormous value and Mr. MERRITT was assured that he would not be pressed for payment. But in the heat of the panic of 1893 the loan was called and the banks having boycotted him as they subsequently pinched the Tennessee company, the vast property was sacrificed to the Steel trust, ROCKERFELLER having turned it over to that criminal conspiracy. The Tennessee Coal and iron company trick was put over in 1907 and according to the evidence gave the trust property of the valne of $200,000,000 for nothing. The Messabe affair was worked in 1893 and for the consideration of less than one million dollars, gave the trust more than $700,000,000 worth of property. But ~The Cincinnati girls who are experi- menting on the high cost of living have worked the price down to seven cents per day per person. Their menu is one of the kind that looks well on the card and on the table, but once in the stomach it doesn’t have much of the kind of stuff that sticks to the ribs. —Since we have occupied the Philip- pines the military establishments there have cost us $167,486,403. Add to this the $34,142,976.37 that we have paid in pensions to the veterans of the Spanish- American war and you will probably agree that the plan for a general dis- armament of Nations is a good one, —J. PierPCINT MORGAN spilled the col- lection plate in St. George's Episcopal church, New York, on Sunday. He was just about to effect a merger with Bishop GREEN when the whole thing fell through ‘and the government is spared the ex- pense of busting the trust that Mr. Mor- GAN had in the rug that slipped and spilled him. ~~ —How easily a new order of things steals over a community and how readily it is accepted and everything moves on as if nothing at all had happened. Now nobody is worrying at all about what happened on the 7th of November except the fellows who have to get out on jan- uary Ist and the ones who would like to get in on that same date. So Sh the enormity of the offense in either case The I ger Empress of China has is not in the money consideration involy- hopes with = et x Jo 5 Seyons ee | ed. It is in the fact that it created mo- in the affair, because we couldn’timagine nopoly by unlawful : methods in panic anything romantic in Chinese love: periods and under circumstances which making. However the mother of the | [Ul 1 SCR MOLE Ol CO baby Emperor might have seen the |“Tco oc 0 e the con- doom of the Manchu dynasty and pre- ferred being a live actor's wife in Mud- | ken to a dead Princess in Pekin. ! —Froth, the humorous State College | Quarterly, is zfraid that embarrassments may follow the coming of Warden JOHN FrANCIES and his big Pen to Centre coun- ty. The student editor sees the awfulness of getting Penn State and State Pen. mix- ed up. It would be awful, of course, but not likely to happen unless too many of the students do things that are calculated to change their uniforms of blue into ones of gray. tuted can long endure. ——The Bellefonte Academy football team played their last game in Bellefonte last Saturday when they defeated the Bucknell Academy eleven by the score of 9 to 0. The Academy has two games yet to play but they are both away from home. The State College team played its hardest game with the Navy last Saturday, when neither team was able to score. The Bellefonte High school team played the State College High at State College, the latter winning by the score of 10 to 2. misled, he declares, and he violated his | perfidy in the hope that MORGAN will re- | rongest evidence of his obliviousness to the trend of political air currents. It is shown even more distinctly in some of his recent official actions. In the exercise of the appointive power he reveals himself plainest. After the political revolution in 1905 there were evidences of contrition on every side. The Legislature was called into extra session and most of the iniqui- tous legislation of recent years was modified or repealed. The Republican leaders were alarmed and hastened in every possible way to placate popular in- dignation by promising reforms and prac- ticing better methods. Notorious ring- sters were admonished to seek seclusion and men of clean lives and respectable characters put forward as the representa- tives of the party. But nothing of that kind has followed the much more signifi- cant political revolution of this year. Only the other day Governor TENER appointed one of the most shameless of the machine servitors to the important office of In- surance Commissioner. One of the scandals which developed the political revolution of 1905 was in the conduct of the Insurance Department under the management of the late ISRAEL W. DurHAM. It was shown that immense sums of money were divided among party favorites which had been grafted out of the operations of that Department. At the earliest possible moment the machine grip was forced away from the Depart- ment and the ic was solemnly Rub was selems y assured such ured that it would never take hold. But the other day this promise was rudely broken in the appointment of CHARLES JOHNSON, of Montgomery coun- ty, a man whose name has been associat- ed with every legislative scandal of the last dozen years. Pennypacker’s Defence of Grafters. In a book just published former Gov- ernor PENNYPACKER makes a defence of responsible for the vast frauds in the construction and furnishing of the State capitol at Harrisburg. Mr. PENNYPACKER declares that he was influenced to this act by considerations of duty. He describes SANDERSON, MATHUES and PAYNE, who are dead, as martyrs, and comes to the defence of their memories with the zeal | heen out of town this week on business | of bigotry. “It is due to HUSTON, SNYDER | connected with the State Forestry Com- | and SHUMAKER,” he adds, “that I should ! mission, so that Mr. Francies has been bear my testimony to the merits of their achievements.” What insufferable rubbish! it may be true that the prosecution of these official pirates was lame and impotent because SAMUEL W. PENNYPACKER was not in- cluded among the accused, for there was none more guilty than he. It may be that he shared none of the plunder, for with all his faults he is not avaricious. But he was and is covetous of power and accepted the promises of political favor as eagerly as SANDERSON and some of the others grasped their share of the tainted profits of the fraud. The hope of a seat on the Supreme bench at the expiration of his term as Governor held him as steadfastly as the expectation of vast wealth held SANDERSON. But Mr. PENNYPACKER'S pleading on be- half of the grafters will deceive nobody. It may suggest a doubt concerning his sanity or confirm the opinion of the analytical observers that he was as guilty as the rest. But the mental obtuseness which can see no harm in substituting lead for bronze, paste for expensive wood and Beaver glass for the imported pro- duct of the factories of Baccarat, will not go far toward convincing intelligent peo- ple. He might have written a defence of the frauds perpetrated upon the people in the construction of the capitol which would have created sympathy for some of those concerned, but he hasn't done so spiracies. No government thus prosti- | in this instance. ~The State’s demonstrations in the model orchards, to show the manner in which San Jose scale should be fought, trees pruned and cultivated, are now be- ing held in various parts of the State. |... ny Hayes property along the state The next demonstration in Centre coun- Wednesda; called out the ty will be on Friday, December lst, in the a IR TA a oe orchard of Newton C. Neidigh, near State College. i ——Thursday of next week will be day, and Christmas and 1912 will be here before we realize it. | country upon having been relieved of : | compilations. But the work has not been the capitol grafters, or, speaking more | confined to the Benner township site exactly, vigorously attacks those who ex- | alone. He has also been over in Potter posed, prosecuted and punished the men | township and on Wednesday was in Harris | undoubtedly is to find out the best loca- | tion but so far nobody in Bellefonte so | nite regarding the conclusions arrived at. | Bellefonte, so the precincts of Spring | hustling are residents of Bellefonte. There | that city and elsewhere and in resent ! ment of this Mr. LAMBERT has resigned | ' his ecclesiastical office and announced | | his purpose to go into business. | Manifestly Mr. LAMBERT too long de- | Coal and layed his change of occupation. Possibly | this was less his own fault than an affair | of circumstances. In other words itis | gan is just as liable to tie for Rogoly x more than likely that he postponed his abandonment of the pulpit up until this time because he was hitherto without the preacher, however, provided him with the means to indulge his ambition along com- mercial lines, and he makes the excuse that he has been severely criticised, for a field of endeavor which he had disgrac- ed in order to engage in a vocation in which his evil impulses will have freer sway and richer rewards. Wecongratulate the pulpit of the entire 'such an incubus as the Rev. LAMBERT must have ultimately become. With the | heart of a white-slave operator it could hardly be hoped that the high calling into which he had obtruded himself would escape popular censure if he had long | continued in it. But this danger is now past. Whatever Mr. LAMBERT does in the future can cast no reflections upon the church and that is a reason for re- joicing. The church has endugh trou- bles to meet and burdens to bear with- put the menace necessarily present while creatures are in the pulpit. Let us | dissolve Rhode Island, | means to finance any business operation. The prostitution of his power, as al ¥liope that his business career will not be | smircied as was his ministerial one. i | latest news on the penitentiary. | Francies, warden of the western peni- | last Friday morning. A good part of the | ‘time he has had a civil engineer corps | | from State College going over the grounds | in Benner township, making surveys and | township making surveys. The object | far as known has learned anything defi- | J. Linn Harris, who generally keeps in ' close touch with what is going on, has | doing his work alone. It is highly proba- | ble, however, that something definite will | be learned in the near future. i i | ——Sunday's North American devoted almost one entire page to State College | and State's tootball team, which included ; carricatured illustrations of the members | of the team and coaches by illustrator Hobin and a graphically written article by George M. Graham, sporting editor of | the paper. This was Mr. Graham's first | visit to the College, and like everybody else who sees it for the first time, he was so impressed with the magnitude of the tentiary, has been in Centre county since of a college, its healthy location, the worh | done there, the student body and every- thing connected therewith, that he de- | | voted two columns of space to telling of | those things before he essayed a writeup of the team. Mr. Graham's article is cor- rect in every detail and will convey to the public just the kind of place and the manner of school State College is. ——0On Monday evening there was a big hustling match for turkeys right out- side the borough limits. Burgess Bower has instructed the police not to allow anything of the kind to be pulled off in i township are being used. The officers of the law in that township do not interfere is pulled off once or twice a week. Of course the majority of those who do the {is a law prohibiting such matches and it | ought to be enforced. with the promoters and a hustling match |. NO. 46. Why Not the Bars? From the Johnstown Democrat. Why is the Wickersham suit against the | Steel trust one in equity instead of a provision by which guilty trust may be sent to jail. If it is the Stee Congregational | easy to dissolve every illegal combine in statute—why are not | the en who organized andtdirest these | Colfnsile, Blair com, : | MORGAN and his associates in the money | tai, : X : illegal monopol equally liable to suc. > ready? | ‘at But that isn't the act was more or les severely criticised in Are you getting y | trust permitted him to talk freely against | public expense. y tion? the land under this cessful J.P. was developed ao Gary and Frick President Roosevelt about the to “see it would having it is liable to existence in violation of the law. The American public is about convinc- | magnates care little or noth- ing about “suits,” as long as they are di- rected against tions and not indi- ed that trust | Trust under the Sher- ' men law—and President Taft and Attor- , merger, and that | Niorgan 323.000,000 clear prof- 1 mn organization work, gant the lay mind that Mor- prosecution for | | to Mr. Gladfelter. —The Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburg railroad | has a large force of men improving its big dam | near Falls Creek and another force at the same ! job near Punxsutawney. —Elmer Hughes, residing near Summerville, | killed his 17-year-old son Paul while the two were out hunting. The lad was close to his father | when the gun was accidentally discharged. | criminal ution? : The Shiosesy anti-trust law carries a | —Official announcement has been made of the | acceptance of the secretaryship of the State Board of Education by Dr. J. George Betch, prin- cipal of the State Normal School, Clarion, Pa. —Mrs. Elizabeth Bryan, aged about 105 years and probably the oldest Methodist in the country, uniting with the church when ten years of age, died on Saturday at the home of her nephew in —James Pappas, a Greek resident of Easton, ac | cidentally dropped a tin box containing $209 in prosecu Morgan's library that the Steel Trust | unable to recover it. Next day he jumped into ; that it was | the river and was drowned. ~Clearfield and Centre county commissioners | had a conference last week about the construc- tion of a new bridge to replace the one over | Moshannon creek at Osceola, which succumbed | to the high water on October 1. —A breach of promise verdict for $9000, the largest ever given in Lackawanna county, was awarded Miss Kate Prestaszz. aged 17, against Jacob Suravitz, of Olyphant, a widower worth $100,000. She was his housekeeper. —A postal savings bank has been designated for Glen Campbell, Indiana county, by the post- master general. It will be opened about the first of the year. This is the fourth bank established in Indiana county. The others are in Indiana, party | Blairsville and Rossiter. —Hunting experts estimate that. with the rab- bit hunting season progressed less than a month, there have been slaughtered in Schuylkill county no less than 10,000 rabbits. Few gunners go out but they return home with well-laden game-bags, after but an hour or two of chasing “'cottontails.” —Henry Gunsallus, of Beech Creek, is under arrest for shooting a hornless buck. The war- dens say the horns didn’t show through the hair acceptance of the Tobacco Trusts reor- | and the hunter says they were plainly visible | section and all, would be dead material were free competition restored in our ——Everybody is anxious to know the | markets and on the highways of the John | country. Progressive Ohio. From the Omaha World-Herald. The Cincinnati Inquirer publishes a table giving the party affiliation and the —Gov. Tener conservative or progressive tendencies of the delegates elected to the coming con- stitutional convention of Ohio. The list is complete except for two counties. It shows that the Democrats will have z substantial majority of the members of the convention and that the convention will be overwhelmi progressive. The Democrats will have 64 members, the Republicans 45, Independents 4. Pro- hibition 1, Socialists 1, and Labor 1. Of the Democratic members 54 are progressive, 3 conservative and 7 doubt: Of the Republican members 25 are progressive. 18 conservative and 2 doubt- ul. The seven members classified as neith- er Democratic nor Republican are all This ahs db as is proper, the convention will be pro- ve almost three bo one, . This highly for progressive ness of State. It speaks es- ive members, under the hair and that he was within the law- At the hearing he was fined $100 and costs, but has appealed to court —As a result of the receipt of several large or- ders for gondola cars during the last few weeks, the Cambria Steel Company will be in a position tes | to operate its Franklin car shops to their capac- ity during the winter. About five months will be required to fill the orders now on hand. Both be and night shifts are being worked. ~The officials of the Beaver Run Coal company, in whose mine at Beaver Run Joseph Swope was killed and C. J. Bywaters had his back broken by a fall of coal last Friday night, have decided to take down the strata of top coal and slate as & E this decision following = visit to the mine bv Mine Insector Thomas D. Williams. One of the busiest towns in the State of Penn sylvania today is Norwich. the bustling town lo- i cated on the headwaters of Potomac Creek, 12 : miles south of Smethport, McKean county. The big Goodyear mill has started to run steadily, em- | ploying about 100 men, running a shift. and they | expect to saw 100,000 feet of lumber per day, with ! the single shift. has announced the re-ap. pointment of Lucius L. Walton, of Williams port, to be a member of the state pharmaceutical examining board and the appointment of Repre- sentative Milton W. Shreve of Erie, to fill the va- cancy on the fiftieth anniversary of the emanci- | pation proclamation commission. caused by the i death of John F. Fox. | ~The Pennsylvania railroad has ordered three additional locomotives of the mamoth Mallet type. which was tested recently in Altoona, Pa. With four of these engines for service on the | mountain grades the work of eight ordinary loco- motives can be accomplished. The new engines will be similar to the present one in construction. but it is said they may possibly be even of more gigantic proportions. | =The members of tne Civic club and the johns. { town Art league have finished the payment of their subscriptions of $200 an $50, respectively, for a scholarship at State College in memory of the late Miss Kate Cassett McKnight, former presi- dent of the State Federation of Pennsylvania Women. The bulk of the subscription was raised at the annual meeting of the federation . | held in Erie last moudh. i ' —Three persons are dead and two seriously ly well for progessiveness of the nded result of i idents in the Democratic party of Ohio and It INICAER | wesmerot Puvesumencr. Foon oth Presi- into the constitution, with the assistance ty of the majori ublican members, President Taft's he Republis will be over- flowing. Qualifying for the Ananias Club. From the New York Evening Post. Recently, a dinner was given to Oscar Sy career of pub- A Yin litte pre- js Ay Sg BL A small blaze on the roof of the | tion | house occupied by the Misses Hoy, on | tinguished without doing much damage. { —The trouble isn’t with the SHERMAN law. [It is with the government's lawyers. be —] ——Subscribe for the WATCHMAN. From the Columbus Journal. Some of the fractional shares which the | Oil are to receive, the 2995-983383 ones for ad | that we cule think there would be great danger they would slip the crack in the bureau drawer get lost. Paul Hughes, aged 17, shot by his father, William Hughes: George Hallman, aged 7, shot by Ivar Travis, aged 19: Daniel Greney, awed 38, killed by his own gun. The wounded, McKinley Hinder- liter, foot amputated at Punxsutawney after he was shot by Mooney Baybuck: John Robinson, shot in arm by the discharge of his own gun. —Four autoists were arrested at Reedsville re’ | cently for speeding and just as the arrest was ' made came a message from Belleville, asking that they De arrested on the same charge. While speeding along the state highway near Belleville: they struck a horse and buggy owned by Ezra M_ Yoder, of Belleville. The horse had a front and hind leg broken and was shot. Its owner had re” cently refused $300 for it. The buggy was al. most demolished and John Yoder, who was driv- ing barely escaped with his life by jumping. The Tights of the car were broken. —That the Austin dam disaster was caused by Company, a corporation, is the unanimous ver- dict of the coroner's jury that has been making an investigation and hearing testimony at differ ent times since October 6. Chaikley Hatton, con- | sulting and designing engineer for the Austin dam, was the last and the most important wit- ness. He said the Austin dam was to cost $85, 000. It cost $86.000, inclusive of engineering ex- penses, about $79,000 exclusive of it. —~A remarkable family record has come to dren. The record seems still more remarkable when it is noted that four of the sons served in the Civil war and only one was wounded.