| A / | . —We're to get the Pen, but we don’t | N want the Pen to get us. . INK SLINGS. —After all the Thanksgiving turkey will never be roasted again. In that his shade has one on the Christmas bird. —He is a poor man indeed who doesn’t | have the odor of fried mush or sausage clinging to his clothes these Mornings. —THEODORE ROOSEVELT is in the lime- light again, notwithstanding the strenuous efforts of our portly President to keep a VOL. 56. Palmer is Not for Wilson. —Those Missouri hold-up men who | temporaries, that the Hon. A. MITCHELL STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. Little Choice Between Them. Information comes from Washington We can contemplate with a reasonable | | through our esteemed metropolitan con- | measure of complacency the impending | caused consternation among the Repub- { | contest between President TAFT and his | ican members of the Senate Committee | In the current issue of He BELLEFONTE, PA. DECEMBER 1 1911. Wharton Barker's Startling Statement. Mr. WHARTON BARKER, of Philadelphia, | went so far as to relieve a victim of his PALMER is not as enthusiastic a supporter | predecessor in office, THEODORE ROOSE- | on Finance, the other day by a statement false teeth were evidently determined to | of Governor Woobrow WILSON for Presi- | VELT, for the succession. TAFT, of course, | which he made in reference to the Presi- | leave him nothing to “chew about it” | dent as he was last summer. Mr. PAL- with. —Congress will soon be in session | availability of CHAMP CLARK, Speaker of again and the President's message will | the House of Representatives, as the probably urge it to do something to pre- | Democratic candidate, that his ardor for vent some one else from taking home | the New Jersey Governor has practically the presidential bacon. subsided. He hasn't exactly declared for —Were you thankful vesterday. If Mr. CLARK, the story goes, but he be- not should have been. Whatever lieves that the Pennsylvania delegation Jou it might be worse and because should go to the National convention I not you a have given thanks to uninstructed. In that event Mr. PALMER . 1. could easily tell the delegates how to the One who doeth all things wel inl vote and he would probably be glad to —Any way the High street bridge will = be a great improvement when it is COM: pp pry of the matter is that Hon. pleted. So great, we hope, that we will | \yoouprl, PALMER never was in favor of forget the inconvenience to which we the nomination of Governor WOODROW have been subjected for so many months. | yw, sox Last summer when he imagined —Mr. MIDDLETON, vice president of the | that he was “taking over” the Democrat- Lehigh Valley R. R., has just been granted ic organization of the State, as the Cap- a divorce but directed to pay his divorcee | ains of Industry term such operations, fifteen thousand dollars a year alimony. | the name of WooDROW WILSON was one It would have been cheaper to have | conjure with and Mr. PALMER didn’t lived on with her. hesitate to make use of it to serve his —The Snydertown preacher who shot j own selfish and absurd ambitions, just as two does when he thought he was shoot- | he used his Pennsylvania colleagues in ing one buck will have to pass the collec- | Congress to get him a place upon the tion plate many a time before he gets Committee of Ways and Means. But he enough to satisfy the law's penalty for had no intention of supporting Governor such carelessness. | WiLson for the Democratic nomination —The iron superstructure of the High i in the convention then any more than he street bridge was sold as junk during, has now. Governor WILSON is not in the fore part of the week and the county | Position to serve him. will receive something over $300 for it.| Mr. PALMER obtained his seat in the Munificent sum for material that would | House Committtee of Ways and Means make two splendid short bridges. Uyoagh W ste of Represen- , wD tative Lloyd, of Missouri; Representative a : Be a hi ou James, of Kentucky, and others who successful season in the history of ath- had practically syndicated Speaker CLARK letics at The Pennsylvania State College, | as the Presidential candidate next year. by defeating the University of Pittsburgh | Before giving him the place they enlisted i him into the CLARK coterie and he has . thousand persons oo A Yostonle) Bighess pe been in it ever since. He subsequently oh | made a false pretense of being for WiL- ~Senator PENROSE is reported, as hav- ust pewanted to-usc-WILIONAD ing declared that he is not for anybody "help in his conspiracy to steal the Demo- in particular for President, at this time. |... oroanization and WiLsoN was suf- | means nothing. He was “catapulted” dential campaign of 1904. “Three or | MER is so greatly impressed with the | into the office in 1908 by ROOSEVELT un- | four weeks before the election of 1904 I! der an actual or implied pledge that he ag walking down Broadway,” said Mr. | deafening. | And, for effect upon one of conven- t cluded the conservation of the MORGAN { to rant and rave in opposition to trust in prise and asked if he had given up the trust. | “interests.” | Because of this failure to preserve the, We all know WHARTON BARKER. He principle expressed in the ancient phrase | has been a Republican all his life and of “honor among thieves,” former Presi | was the confidential friend of the late [ont ROOSEVELT has practically declared | WiLLiam MCKINLEY, Mr. ROOSEVELT'S | was against President TAFT. | predecessor in office. In common is not against TAFT and is simply occupy- | was opposed to ROOSEVELT on account of ing neutral grounds with respect to the | his temperamental uncertainties. But candidates for the Republican nomina- | jjke MORGAN, HARRIMAN and the other tion. But he will hardly fool anybody Wall street manipulators of money and outside of the asylums for feeble-minded | credit, he was averse to supporting a children. We all know that the “Coi- Democratic candidate for President. On nel” is for or against any proposition ' the assurance of the Captain of Industry, that comes before him and as he declares | however, he switched over to the sup- that he is not for TAFT he must be port of ROOSEVELT as all others of the against him. In that event, naturally, | money trust did. The result was that PAR- “the fur is bound to fly.” TAFT controls | kgr fell between two stools,the conserva- the “steam roller” and is likely to make | tives having been bought over and the the best use of it. radicals being for ROOSEVELT anyway. _ The re-election of ROOSEVELT to the | This story is startling in its significance Presidency would be nothing less than a | and notwithstanding WHARTON BARKER'S calamity. It would abrogate completely | high standing as a citizen, would hardly the unwritten law created by Washing- | be believed if it were not corroborated. ton against a third term and practically | But strangely enough it fits to a T with Mexicanize the government of the United | the story of the late Mr. HARRIMAN, who States of America. It would be difficult | testified that within a week of the elec- to imagine a greater evil than this, | tion of that year ROOSEVELT induced him though the re-election of ROOSEVELT | to raise a corruption fund of $250,000 to would supplement it with other evils | phe used in New York and Brooklyn, the almost equally repugnant to the princi- | consideration being a promise that Mr. ples of a Democratic Republic. For! HarriMAN might edit the railroad recom- example it would convert 2 of ROOSEVELT'S annual mes- of law into one of caprice and such a! sage. At any rate the evidence of BAR- | government could not endure. KER and HARRIMAN make a very strong | But TAFT is little better and in a con- | circumstantial case. It remains would carry out "My Policies,” which in- Barker, "when Imet one of the most dis- | f gusted money kings in New York, a man | interests, and failed to keep faith. In| now dead. He said to me: ‘We are going | moment. It was issued other words having inferentially agreed to elect ROOSEVELT." 1 expressed sur-, particular, and at the same time take support of PARKER. He said yes; we care of the Steel trust, he proceeded t0 have frightened ROOSEVELT so he has | rip up one as well as another, and put | made a bargain with us.” In other words | the Steel trust on a level with the Beef | he had agreed to the terms of the! | hold popular interest so steadily , tinuously as does that of politics. Taft and Roosevelt. From the Brooklyn Eagle. It will not be long before the parties will be lining up for work jn Copvantion. S eekly Spears the stalmen. at silence at is becoming almost profane. Well, it has been It has been so to speak, into a thousand It has been translated into sound that is almost tions, it comes at just about the time, otherwise called the none too righ | and held back none too | Results will accrue fast, if at all. will come all the quicker for a furnished himself by the President A Nothing is easier than to epitomize the story of his recent trip. It was a case of fall between two stools. He slipped to the floor between the pro- ives and the conservatives, dismally ailing to propitiate one wing or the Presu ming a Jay to Be Split in two presuming i to 5 able to hoth, his ATL seem to be almost a reductio ad absur- £8 Of course ROOSEVELT protests that he | with most conservative bankers he | dum. With Hiese conditions Roosevelt ® familiar. ey furnished an opening, o which at the t time and in his own way he took tage. And for what? is hardly a tician in the country who is not himself that question. Nor is it likely that the an- swer will be delayed. It will be interest: ing when it comes. Year of Politics Ahead. From the Omaha Bee. Although the common complaint is that we have too much politics, and the constant cry is for a rest from political controversy, the duration 2 the presi. campaign seems to be length rather than shortening. i _ With the votes cast in the off-year elec- tion of 1911 not yet canvassed, the lines are already being drawn for the battle of 1912, and there is no escaping a solid ear of politics ahead. may de- bate whales this it a good thing ora bad thing; they may lament its repress- ing influence n business; but the stern reality is i t and glorious republic we have politics because we want it, and we L want politics because we like it. Few, if any, so strongly to so le at same time, and no is to and con- | SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. ~The iron furnace at Emporium is about to re. sume operations with a force of seventy-five men. It has been silent for years. ~The furnaces at Pottstown, Swedeland and other eastern manufacturing towns are importing large quantities of iron ore from Sweden —William T. Everly, editor of the Bloomsburg Press, was found dead in bed in a Harrisburg hotel on Monday moming. He was well known along the North Branch. —A man locked up in the Clearfield county jail on a trivial charge answers the description of a convict escaped from the Moundsville, W. Va. penitentiary. He will likely be sent back there. —Although no such provision was made in his will, the Pottstown Young Men's Christian Asso" ciation has been assured of a gift of $50,000 from the estate of the late Dr. John'Meigs, head master of the Hill school. | —Analysis by state chemists shows no typhoid contamination in the drinking water of Patton and the authorities are hunting another explana- tion for the recent development of nearly a score of cases in the town and vicinity. ~The Law and Order society of Schuylkill county announces that it will present tothe court of that county in due time sufficient evidence of violations of law to warrant the closing of 200 saloons ~—Within half an hour of the death of his wife, Thomas J. Lillis, of Reading, who was at her bed side in his usual good health, was stricken with heart disease and both areto be buried in the same grave. John B. Quigley. of Lock Haven, has turned over his handsome residence at Island at a nomi- nal cost, to a citizens committee, for use asa public building and town hall. A park will be formed of the eight acres of land included in the deed —Burglars entered the residence of John R. West in Sharon township, Potter county, terribly beat the aged man and appropriated $300 which Mr. and Mrs. West had saved. The excitement and terror of the occasion so overcame Mrs, West that she may die. —Mr. and Mrs. Morgan Davis, of Carbondale, have just welcomed the advent of their twenty. second child. Only twelve are living. The father of the family is almost totally blind and lost both arms at the elbow a few years ago as the result of a mine accident. —W. A. Davis, a member of the bar of Alleghe- ny county, has been sent to jail for six months on the charge of assault and battery. Eight girls ranging in age from 15 to 18 years, testified that he told them they would never make successful stenographers if they objected to their employer kissing or hugging them. —David G. Buck, aged 72 vears, residing with his daughter, Mrs. Mary Smith, in Norristown, was burned to death in his bed during the absence of the woman. A 5-year-old grand-child who had been left with the old man and who was found on the porch when the firemen arrived, is believed to have set fire to the bed. —Five young men, between 16 and 20 years old, are under arrest in Sand township, Clearfield county, on charge of robbery, one on a perjury charge, and warrants are out for six others on the robbery charge, The eleven are said to form a gang of youthful burglars. The twelfth is a dis- turber of the peace of the schools. —John D. Widdowson, aged 64 years, a well known resident and prominent churchman of Indiana, died recently of peptic pneumonia. On November 2, while eating dinner he got a small rabbit bone in his throat. It was removed a few days later, but the inflammation which had set in could not he checked and resulted in his death. —During the season just closed A. R. Thomp- This is regarded as being tantamount 0 ficiently inexperienced in the devious for More than 15,000,000 will next year an admission that he is not for TAFT. | ways of practical politics to lend himself | tention for mastery between these cham- ' RoosEVELT to refute the statements of | march up to the ballot-box and express Like rats, how quick they are to desert ‘to the enterprise. But it didn't make | pions of wrong there is little choice. | both witnesses. | thelr chojce 2 betwaen those who Gapite the sinking ship. : | PALMER a WILSON supporter. . : . ensuing four years, and the year of poli- —Col. BRYAN has given the hook to pe = | ——Senator McNICHOL, of Philadelphia, | There is no form of advertising as | tics that is to precede this momentous another of his old time friends and, There will be a re-organization of | is “making hay while the sun shines.” In good as newspaper advertising. Hand- | act is the term at school for their educa- champions and CHAMP CLARK will no | the Democratic party of Pennsylvania | other words he is getting all the money | pills, posters and circulars may be! tion and preparation. The year ahead is longer rally to the clarion call of the but it will be conducted along legal and | out of the Philadelphia City Treasury (to be a year of politics, but it will be | | scattered broadcast by the thousand and | worth while as the stimulating leaven of Commoner. If Mr. BRYAN lives long | legitimate lines and will make changes | that he possibly can for he knows that enough he will find out that it is easier | where the weaknesses exist. once thrown aside they are done for. An | Democracy. to lose friends than to make them. son, of Grand Valley, Warren county, has hand led 680 bushels of chestnuts, or about seventeen tons. Inasmuch asno former shipment from that village ever exceeded ten bushels, the crop this year is worthy of more than passing mention. Mr. Thompson bought the nuts principally at Grand Valley. ~The new school code provides that teachers should get $3a day above their regular salaries for each day they attend institute. The teachers of Scranton have hit upon the novel idea of apply ing this money to the pension fund. In one year's time they would have $5.000, and in five years. Investigation Will Go On. | ———— —— In other | after the inauguration of BLANKENBURG | attractive advertisement in a newspaper | words the drones, the weaklings and the | next Monday, he will be stopped. | will greet its readers once every week, or | ~The foot-ball season being over the | = = average college man will take up basket | ball until the opening of the baseball | season. That will keep him busy until the summer vacation arrives when he | hangs around his Alma Mater for weeks ! making up what he didn’t do during the college year. ~The Imperialists and rebels are cer- tainly playing hide-and-seek with victory in China. Last week it was a Republic, sure, for the rebels were on top every- where. Now the Imperialists have re- captured nearly all of their lost positions and the rebels are seeking truces under which to talk it over. —Just stop and think for a moment that perhaps the shop keeper and his clerk both have little ones to provide for the day before Christmas. Then do your shopping early in order that none of you are so worn out when the glorious day actually does dawn that you can't enjoy all of its festive features. —The women members of the Belle- " fonte school board have it in their grasp to be far more powerful than most peo’ ple thought of at the time they were as- . pirants for nominaticn. If rumor counts _ for anything, and they play the game properly, it is possible for them to prac- tically name the organization of the board, with its consequent committee po- sitions. We await with interest the de- velopments that will disclose whether they expect to insist on such recognition as will give them full opportunity to prove their pre-election argument that women, naturally, should make better directors than men. —~WHARTON BARKER, the retired banker and publicist of Philadelphia, either told boodiers in the local organizations will be thrown out and capable and efficient county organizations effected. Settling Democratic Differences. The esteemed Philadelphia Record is averse to legal proceedings as a medium for the settlement of the mooted question concerning the validity of the claims for the chairmanship of the Democratic State Central committee. “Instead of a law- suit,” observes our Philadelphia con- temporary, “the Democratic party of Pennsylvania needs a peaceful and equit- able settlement of petty differences re- sponsible for its present condition so far as its organization is concerned.” The plain inference is that our Philadelphia contemporary is quite as much at sea now as it was after the Allentown con- vention when it blunderingly precipitated the condition that defeated WEBSTER GriM for Governor and elected TENER. The differences which divide the Demo- crats of Pennsylvania at the present time are not pefty. On the contrary they are grave and fundamental. Those which influenced nearly half the Democrats to bolt the nominee of the Allentown con- vention and diverted the support of RupboLPH BLACKENBURG and tens of thousands of other independent Republi- cans from GRIM to BERRY at the No- vember election in 1910, may have been petty. But since that differences of the greatest importance have developed and they can’t be settled finally until they are scitled right and the right settlement must come through judicial proceedings. This is as certain as that day follows night. It is as sure as that wrong cannot be right. By the medium of a packed committee | Will the People Stand for it? \ The tariff commission will report on | the wool schedule some time in December, | according to the Washington dispatches. | It will report on other schedules of the PAYNE—ALDRICH bill, at irregular in- tervals during the coming session of Con- gress. What it will recommend is a sub- ject of conjecture, though the impression is general that it will urge a decrease in the rate of tariff taxes. President TAPT, | who is responsible for the commission, openly declares that the rates are too high, and tariff experts like most other |, Monday morning, but there are no folk, agree with the paymaster. At best, | canges in the time of any of the trains under this arrangement, therefore, We |, riving or leaving Bellefonte or any of can't hope for complete relief from oner- sh. connections. All passenger trains ous tariff burdens for a couple of years. over the Lewisburg and Tyrone railroad: Meantime President TAFT practically | yowever, are run through to Sunbury announces that he will not approve any | gm Bellefonte, making that town the the recommendations of the tariff com- leaving and arriving in Bellefonte re- mission. In other words if Congress |... ec the same as heretofore. shall pass a bill that does not conform to EE ——TAFT will limit his message recom- the recommendations of the tariff com- mission on the wool schedule, it will be | mendations to a single subject, according vetoed. Moreover if a law decreasing | to newspaper reports. He has evidently the rate on lumber chemicals, iron or | forgotten what happened to the last Presi- anything else upon which the tariff com- | dent who adopted that policy in the clos. mission has not reported, should be en- | ing period of his administration. In 1887 acted during the approaching session, the | President CLEVELAND discussed no ques- tion except the tariff in his message to President will veto it. The people will have to bear the burdens of excessive | Congress and in 1888 he was overwhelm- ingly defeated for re-election. taxes until the tariff commission acts or ——The special train which carried the until another President is elected. i One of the strongest protectionists in | o College stud to Pittst on Wednesday was made up of eleven the country stated in the presence of a Congressional committee a few years ago hes drawn by. two engl The cars were not all full when the train passed that the DiNGLEY bill robbed the in- through Bellefonte shortly before two dustrial life of the country out of one {million dollars a day. The PAYNE—| oh this is accounted for in the ALDRICH law increased the rates of tariff sirous of securing a big holiday trade, and the only sure way of doing so is to adver- tise and let the public know what you have for sale. Christmas is only three weeks off and it is high time you began your holiday advertising. —The fall schedule of the Pennsyl- vania railroad company went into effect | as often as the paper is picked up. In| gm the Johnstown Democrat. | Bellefonte there is no better advertising | medium than the WATCHMAN. It reaches | trust magnates the class of readers the merchant wants | to reach, and it goes right into the homes, i too. Every Bellefonte merchant is de-! That Morgan, Rockefeller and other consider ves too sacred to be prosecuted for violating the law has been known for some time. ut that they considered themselves sacred to be even investigated was until the Stanley investigation mittee was politely asked by the Steel trust attorneys to please abandon its inquiry because of the Wickersham suit to dissolve the trust. Should this request begratified it would mean that the kersham suit is a God- send to the trust, inasmuch as it side- tion of 4 monopoly iat Attore General Wickersham himself claims to iliegal. That the trust fears a continuation by a committee that is interest servers, we favors a continuation of the probe. What the Philippines Have Cost. Feom tie lanond Times. War t the cost of De Wat Depatimen since the date of the treaty of Pans, 9, 1898, at $167,486,403. It is said that ve States.” But the army would not have been as large as it is probably by at least 50,000 men. $25,000; an excellent fund. The same scheme is being considered in Wilkes-Barree. —Thousands of bushels of fine apples have been stored inthe Cumberland Valley and York and Adams counties. The crop was so large that the market was not able to take them all. The apple growers in the vicinity of Biglerville, Adams county, have built a storage house with a capa- city of 65,000 barrels and the apples will be ship- ped out from that point during the winter. ~Considerable excitement has been created in Venango county by the institution of proceedings against Oil City and Franklin clubs having side. boards. On Monday Frank Hill. steward of the Qil City Moose lodge, entered a plea of nolle con- tendre, which is the Latin for guilty. The case against H. H. Krotzer, steward of the Franklin Eagles, is on trial. A true bill has been found against the Oil City lodge of Elks. —Fur and feathers are to be Columbia county products in the near future. Next year will be a busy yea: for W. H. Hile, president of the African Ostrich farm at Bloomsburg, for the first of March he leaves with Dillon Coyou, his Afri- can attendant for Alaska, where he expects to get 200 seals that will be brought to the ostrich farm and placed in a lake that wil! be built in the farm near Epsy. They already have 62 ostriches on the farm. —A fire on the farm of Harry McCrum, six miles from Petersburg, is being investigated. John Borst was hauling corn fodder to the Mc- Crum barn, when suddenly it burst into flame. Hurriedly jumping from his seat, Mr. Borst man- aged to release the horses. The fodder and wag- on were destroyed. He was not smoking nor was anyone in sight. Two theories are advanced. One is that boys along the road fired the fodder and (he other is spontaneous combustion. ~The work of hauling cider vinegar from Nippenose and Sugar valleys has been begun by men employed by Sherman Sample, of Jersey Shore, and the job will take several days, as the number of barrels is unusually large. Mr, Sample has succeeded in purchasing at the different cider mills in those valleys more than 2,000 barrels of cider, which was allowed to go to vinegar while lying along the road near the cider mills. N. B. Walshans. of Oriole, has the contract from Mr. Sample to haul 300 of these barrels from Sugar valley to Jersey shore. A Cut in the Right Direction. From the Altoona Times. a ton Site municipal at one session recently, and it § budge: ot that no important interests will suffer because of this economy. If the money that has enriched crooked politicians and con allies in New York and else- where been saved to the the Struggle for existence would greatly mitigated. —Twenty-four days until Christmas. some very startling state secrets to the Senate investigation committee in Wash- ington, on Tuesday, or else he told some awful lies. And Mr. BARKER'S reputation has never been such as to warrant the latter conclusion. He told that he positively knew that Wall street had not been sin- cerely for PARKER for President in 1904, but only pretended to be until it scared ROOSEVELT into making promises that he fulfilled after they had elected him Presi- dent. He also declared that he knew ; i i : fact that from one hundred and fifty to a few party insurgents set up an organi- | taxation and necessarily added to the | zation which claimed and still claims to | aggregate amount of the robbery. Yet : two hundred students and others took the be the Democratic organization of Penn- | because the President is under obliga- | regular train at 1.07 p. m. Tr — sylvania. The process was as odious as | tions to the tariff barons for a few hun-i —j¢ may be wige for the Pennsyl- packing a jury or stuffing a ballot box | dred thousand dollars, paid into the cor- vania delegates to the next Democratic and the purpose was precisely the same, | ruption fund to purchase his election in National convention to go uninstructed namely the creation of a legal result by | 1908, this iniquity is to be continued, in | but it may as well be understood in the illegal means. Such a condition of affairs | part at least for several years. Will the beginning that Mr. A. MITCHELL PALMER cannot be settled by compromise any | people of the country stand for this palpa- | will not carry their votes in his vest more than a felony may be compounded | ple injustice? The result of the next | pocket. by mutual consent. The proper way and | election will determine. the only way to adjust such differences ~—As yet the Board of Pardons has not received any recommendation from the Board of inspec- tors of the Eastern penitentiary in the matter of the application of Joseph M. Huston, the capitol architect, for his freedom. Huston's sentence was from six months to two years in the peniten- tiary, which gives him the privilege of applying for his freedom at the end of six months. He has ve ' ~——Really it would "be in ing: 10 cember 20. Should the board endorse it, then the ————————————— Tm = : matter goes to the Governor, who will have the that the panic of 1907 was planned in the | is by summoning the offender into court | ——Both Philadelphia and Pittsburg | know where JAMES I. BLAKESLIE will land Get your shopping done now. final say. Huston’s six months will be up on home of Mr. J. PIERPONT MORGAN in| and administering lawful punishment and | will be on good behavior at the next elec- when the courts pronounce his insurgent tr December 1, and he is trying to get out before ——For high class Job Work come to the Warcuman Office. Subscribe for the WATCHMAN. New York; planned and carried out just as intended to scare ROOSEVELT again and rob the public. Christmas. Under the law, good assert, Huston must be set free at the expiration of six months if he is an exemplary prisoner, obeys the rales of the prison and behaves himself. proper rebuke. That is the process which | tion and that will give the other counties | committee an outlaw. The people of chairman RITTER proposes to invoke and | of the State a chance to be heard in the | Carbon county are obviously determined he is entirely right. ! election returns, to bump him at home. :
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