—The new Pen. goes to Peru.
—Don't ask Santa for too much.
—Just ten days more until Christmas’
—It will all depend on who is going to
drive the steam roller at the Chicago
convention.
—The 12th of December in this year
of our Lord would have been a most fit-
ting one for “clean up” day in Bellefonte.
—They had better get the first boat
through the Panama canal before they
begin fighting over what the tolls shall
be.
—Abrogate the treaty with Russia and
New York city’s population will not in- |
crease as rapidly as it has done in the
past.
—Iit is generally conceded that the new
commissioners have done very well in
the choice of men to fill their appointive
offices.
—They'li have to go some to do it, but
La FoLETTE and RoosEVELT will play the
game to the limit to defeat Tarr for a
renomination.
—An epicurean says that crow makes
better cating than chicken, but the fel-
lows who have to eat crow oftenest are
not epicureans.
—There are more good little boys in
the country just now than the most opti-
mistic could hope to find again before
this time next year.
—A London physician says bigger ba-
bies are being born now than formerly:
Notwithstanding, we know some pretty
big ones that were born forty or more
years ago.
—Tuomas A. EpisoN has turned his
attention to the manufacture of concrete
furniture. We hope he will be discreet
enough to keep the concrete out of the
seats of his chairs.
——-1t is probably true that any Demo-
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VOL. 56.
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| Mr. WiLLiam H. Berry has taken the |
| trouble to reply to the absurd statements |
made by former Governor PENNYPACKER |
in relation to the grafting operations in |
i the construction of the capitol at Harris-
burg. These statements were contained
in a book recently published for private |
circulation, entitled “The Desecration |
and Profanation of the Pennsylvania;
Capitol.” The ex-Governor made no |
reference to the substitution of cheap
| and inferior materials for the expensive
| and superior articles enumerated in the |
specifications. He offers no criticism of
the fact that specially designed chairs
| which might have been designated “spe-
cially designed,” under one provision of the
contract made with SANDERSON, and taken
for $26 net, each, were taken under a
“per foot” provision in the contract and
| cost four times as much. He discussed
' none of the defects in the work. Only
| that which is meritorious appealed to
| him. He had no eyes for the forbidding
| features of the affair.
| Nobody hasever denied that the capitol
| is a beautiful and an imposing building.
No one has ever alleged that the process
| of construction was tardy or that the
payment of the bills involved the State in
| debt. The efficiency of the Auditor Gen-
eral, who was a member of the Building
Commission and of the Board of Public
Grounds and Buildings, in the perform-
| ance of his duties as a fiscal officer has
| never been questioned. Yet three-fourths
Berry's Reply to Pennypacker.
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geralic
STATE RIGHTS AN
Senator PEncose. of Pennsylvania, and
others know that any candidate nominat-
ed by the Republican convention will be
defeated and they naturally reason that
it is better to "throw it into” TAFT than
anyone else. This is why the machine
is for TAFT and incidentally why he will
be nominated.
Roosevelt is a Candidate.
The latest information from the polit-
ical centre casts a doubt upon the sincer-
D FEDERAL UNION
BELLEFONTE, PA.. DECEMBER 15, 1911.
In Memorium.
Our esteemed contemporary, Mr. Joux |
| F. SHORT, the bone, sinew and main |
| vertebra of the so-called Democratic re-
| organization contingent, appears to be |
| disappointed with the fruits of his en-
terprise. In the last issue of his news-
paper, the always able and invariably in- |
| teresting Clearfield Republican, Mr. SHORT |
says some sharp things on the subject. In
!an editorial under the caption “Don’t |
! Want PALMER,” our esteemed Clearfield |
cratic candidate for President will be | of the ex-Governor’s preposterous publi-
elected next year but that fact doesn’t | cation is given to the laudation of the
absolve the party from the obligation to | hyilding, the expedition of its construc-
ity of Mr. ROOSEVELT'S declaration that | contemporary states that “Colonel JAMES |
he is not a candidate for President next | M. GuFFEY has announced that he will |
year or else it confirms the suspicion that | not seek another term as member of the |
Mr. ROOSEVELT is never honest, even Democratic National Committee from
with himself. Within a few days he has A Pennsylvania.” This fact is supplement-
declared positively that he will not ac-
cept the nomination of the Republican
National convention to be held next
June, notwithstanding that his partisan |
friends are supporting him with great en-
thusiasm for the nomination. The plain
inference is that they don't believe a
word he says.
His bitterest enemy could hardly as-
perse him more directly.
The late Mr. HARRIMAN asserted that
he wouldn't believe any statement utter-
ed by ROOSEVELT.
Mr. GeEorGE H. EARLE, who was re-
cently Senator PENROSE’S candidate for
Mayor of Philadelphia, testified before a
Congressional committee that THEODORE
ROOSEVELT had lied to him and the pub-
lic in relation to the Sugar trust robber-
ies.
Mrs. BeLLamy STORER practically
proved that ROOSEVELT had lied in the
matter of the effort to have Archbishop
A. MitcHELL PALMER claims the place.”
Of course Mr. SHORT knows as well as
ous. In fact he states that “aside from
Mr. PALMER, Jim BLAKESLIE, VANCE
McCormick and GEORGE W. GUTHRIE,
there does not seem to be any Demo-
crats in the State who want Mr. PALMER
in the National committee.” He might
have added, however, that that curious
quartette of assistant Republicans want
him there very badly. His presence in
that body would have created a political
trading post from which those recreants
might have operated as conspicuous party
hucksters. But we infer from the re-
marks of Mr. SHORT that they have been
found out. Mr. SHORT adds that “when
Vance McCorMick started his ‘house-
cleaning’ job he enlisted Mr. PALMER
and Mr. GUTHRIE. What they did is part
of the recent political history of the
anybody else that the claim is preposter- | i
nominate the best candidate.
——There is a movement on foot to
compel an abrogation of the Russian
treaty. The Russian government refuses
to treat American Jews as American citi-
zens and TAFT feels that he needs votes.
—Neither the Governor of North Caro-
lina, nor the Governor of South Carolina,
is with that train of traveling Governors,
but we fancy they are not missing any
because of the absence of the suggestive
gentlemen from the South.
—Lists of the twenty greatest men,
living or dead, are becoming 80 plentiful
as to be a nuisance. The women are
getting at it now, but we haven't yet
been able to find CARRIE NATION, CASSIE
CHADWICK or “dear MARIA” in any of
their lists.
—And it cost eighty dollars a day at
Delhi while the Durbar was going on ,
Of course the visitor wasn’t compelled to
stop at the hotels, but as there was noth- |
ing else between him and the hot sands |
of the Indian suburb he coughed up
and swore he'd never go back again.
—SHUSTER is still holding out in Per- |
sia. The Russian army is advancing on
i tion and the efficiency of the Auditor
General in collecting revenues and other
moneys due the State. There was no
complaint against these things. They
were, are and always will be subjects of
praise. The complaints were against the
frauds perpetrated. The substitution of
Beaver glass for Baccarat product, of
lead-filled chandeliers for solid bronze
and of cheap composition for expensive
| woods. These crimes were permitted in
| order that the profits of the conspirators
| might be multiplied.
| At was hardly worth while to reply to
| the silly vaporings of a man so lost to
| shame and oblivious of moral obligations
| as the book proves Mr. PENNYPACKER to
| be and yet we are glad that Mr. BERRY
has taken the time and trouble to do so
| for one reason. He has presented former
| Governor SAMUEL W. PENNYPACKER to
the public in his true light. “1 was ex-
cluded from the conferences of the at-
torneys,” Mr. BERRY writes in reference
to the investigation of the frauds and
subsequent trial of the conspirators, “but
protested to Mr. SCARLET against the ex-
clusion of the then Governor from the !
indictment. He was as guilty as any of |
|
IRELAND made a Cardinal.
Former Lieutenant Governor WHITNEY,
of Massachusetts, alleged that Roose-
vELT lied in the matter of a statement
concerning the tariff on wool.
ROOSEVELT is the first President of the
United States who was ever accused of
falsification.
But all the other lies that have been
charged, and proved, against ROOSEVELT,
are trifling compared with the one of
which he now stands accused. If he is
even a receptive candidate for President
in opposition to TAFT he is guilty o
go freighted with moral turpitude that
thoughtful man could ever again take his
word, even if supported by his oath for
anything in which he is personally con-
cerned. It will simply stamp him not
only as a common liar but as a betrayer
of the most sacred pledges of friendship.
And in view of all the facts we are ready
to believe that he is a candidate for the
nomination.
——The Bessemer and Lake Erie rail-
road, eight miles long, pays annual divi- | purpose has been defeated. As Mr. |
State. They had the power to work good
for the Democratic party but instead of
bringing about harmony they formed the
PALMER-MCCORMICK-GUTHRIE burlesque
Democratic organization that is neither
respected, feared nor hated by anyone.”
The case could hardly be more ac-
curately stated though it may be assumed
that Mr. SHORT reluctantly does justice
to the real Democratic organization of
Pennsylvania. There were ample rea-
sons for asking a new deal. The
would have left PALMER, MCCORMICK and
{ GUTHRIE out of the reckoning. That was
no part of their purpose. They wanted
to butt in and under the false pretense
that they intended to supply vast sums
of money enlisted every mercenary and
crook who had been “camp-following’’
| the organization for years, in their en-
| terprise. But their selfish and sordid
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Only a Soretante.
From the Johnstown Democrat ;
Twenty-one million dollars!
This is approximately the decrease in
| estimates, submitted by the treasury de-
partment, for. the government
| during the next year, under the
amount asked for by the same Republican
and department heads
cabinet members
last year
The amomt that these officile think
they can along with next ust
$21,283,021.43 less, than a ; t
would be required a year ago.
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apparent when compared with estimates
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the Inter-
and Structural Workers,
The name of the president
national Bridge
the McNamaras is
to which belonged,
significantly absent from the statement,
though Samus Gompers, president of
the n Federation of Labor, says
that this fact is nothing significant, since
the president of the Structural Workers
was out of Washington when the state.
ment was written.
But it is obvious that his signature
dends of 334 per cent. But Mr. CARNEGIE, | Short inferentially declares, they are | could have been wired for, and we may
who owns most of that road, needs some- |
| “dead ducks in the pond.”
him from one direction and, as the Per-| the rest of them. If he was innocent,
thing like that return for his money in|
sians are getting cold feet, it looks very
much as if he would have to meet the
Czar's forces single handed. Blamed if
we don’t think he could lick em at that.
——Those Western Governors have
had the time of their lives during their
trip East, now drawing to a close. But
they got nothing except that which was
coming to them. The west is the great
section of this splendid Republic and
while the people of the East must eat
; nd drink and be clothed, they are neces-
rarily obliged to pay respects to the
source of their supplies.
——The Meat trust magnates are de-
dending upon the statutes of limitation
to save them from the penalties of their
crimes against the public. But they are
only pursuing an illustrious example. If
the late Senator QUAY had not invoked
the statute of limitation he might have
.died in prison and in that event even
PENNYPACKER would hardly have pro-
"posed to put hisimage in the State cap-
itol.
—From acting president and general
fiscal agent of a great educational insti-
"tution to the “big smear” of a Georgia
nut tarm get-rich-quick scheme is a long
jump up the ladder of fame. That is, if
you are nutty enough to see it that way.
When the classic shades of old State Col-
lege couldn't lull him into forgetfulness
of the gold that wasn't in the buttonless
business how could it be ex-
pected that Jupson P. would stay there
and leave the nuts of Georgia unsold and
the “nuts” of other States unsold, as well.
—We are spending ten thousand dol-
lars to replace the unsightly High street
bridge, we are going to pave the streets
near it in order to add to the, beauty,
then we are going to erect expensive and
ornamental lamp posts to add another
touch to the splendid improvement.
Then we are going to permit the York
Bridge Co. to put a thirty cent hand rail
on this ten thousand dollar bridge. Look
at the bridge. Look at the hand rail,
you tax paying citizen, and if you intend
“to stand for it telegraph Dr. WELSH to
come up and sell you a nut farm. You
are about ripe for such a game.
they were all innocent.” That isliterally
true. It may be said that he was the
chief offender for they were all influenced
by his interpretation of legal questions.
He probably got no part of the swag but
was promised a seat on the Supreme
bench and as “Bull” ANDREWS has said
of the Republicans of New Mexico, if he
had been told to burn down a barn for
that consideration he would have burned
the barn. .
Taft Will be Nominated.
We can imagine nothing more improb-
“able than the nomination of any man
other than President TAFT, by the com-
ing Republican National convention, for
the Presidency. He enters the contest
with an absolute mortgage upon the seats
of all the delegates from the Southern
States, nearly one-third of the total mem. |
bership of the convention. He is.equally
certain of the support of every federal
| office-holder in the Northern States. The
| reactionaries, the stand-patters and the
, big interests are quite as certain to be for
+ him. There is nothing left but the con-
tingent known as “stragglers,” and they
don’t count.
It the face of these facts how can any
reasoning mind pretend to believe that
another candidate might be nominated?
It is true that LAFOLLETTE may have the
delegates of Wisconsin, lowa and Oregon,
in the event that ROOSEVELT'S name is
not presented to the convention. It is
| also possible that Kansas, Minnesota and
| one or two other States may be beguil-
ed into the support of another candidate.
But Tarr will have two-thirds of the
votes of the convention on the first ballot,
| unless, meantime, he should conclude to
| withdraw from the contest, an altogether
improbable incident, from the present
. viewpoint.
| It is universally admitted that TAPT is
| the weakest candidate that could be
' named by his party and it may be sur-
prising to many that many of those who
understand this fact best are nevertheless
for him. But that is an easy problem to
solve. Such experienced and shrewd politi-
| cians as Senator CRANE, of Massachusetts,
order to be a philanthropist at other
people's expense.
The Simplicity ot the Tariff Question.
In an address before the Pennsylvania
Society of New York, on Saturday even-
ing last, Representative NICHOLAS LONG-
WORTH, of Ohio, advocated a permanent
tariff board for the reason that the tariff
question is too complicated to be consider-
ed in any other way. Yet in the course of
his remarks he clearly refused that prop-
| osition. “When men give up the desire
to sell the things they produce at the
highest possible price, and to buy the
things they consume at the lowest pos-
sible price,” he declared, “then and not
till then will the removal of the tariff
from politics be anything more than an
iridescent dream.”
In that sentence Mr. LONGWORTH ex-
pressed the complete philosophy of tariff
legislation. Buy in the cheapest market
and sell in the dearest is the sum and
substance of that branch of political
economy which is covered by tariff taxa-
tion. There is nothing complicated about
it. The bricklayer who abandons his
work to make a pair of shoes for himself
is violating a fundamental principle of
economy. He would better sell histime to
a house builder and pay a shoemaker for
the shoes. The same principle governs
communities and even States. If neces-
saries can be produced in one place
cheaper than another the consumers will
promote their own interests by seeking
the cheaper market.
A permanent taritt commission is not
intended to promote the interests of the
consumer or increase the volume of com-
merce. Its purpose is to prolong the per-
iod of tariff graft by postponing the date
of tariff reduction. The veto of the Farm-
ers free list legislation and other tariff
bills enacted during the special session of
Congress last summer robbed the con-
sumers of this country of $500,000,000
and put that much money into the treas-
uries of the trusts. It was expected that
a part of this unearned money would be
contributed to a campaign fund to re-
elect TAFT who vetoed the bills, .
| —=An item in the WATCHMAN last
. week told of a big bear crossing the John
S. Dale farm from the Barrens to Nittany
mountain, on Wednesday forenoon. Mrs.
Dale came to Bellefonte on the train that
morning and about noontime called up
Luther Dale and inquired what became
of the bear. Without any hesitation Mr.
Dale stated that they got the bear and it
dressed 474 pounds, while the hide was
large enough to make a rug that would
cover a good sized room. He told her to
be sure and get home that they were
going to have a bear steak for supper.
Naturally Mrs, Dale was considerably ex-
cited and was on the point of giving the
story to the newspapers when Al Dale
suggested that she call up the Shuey
home and get the story corroborated. She
did so and imagine the lady’s chagrin
when she was informed that they never,
saw the bear after it entered the woods
The fact of the matter is they tracked
bruin about a mile to where thesnow was
all gone when they gave up the trail.
| ———Even if bad comes to the worst
President TAFT has no just right to com-
plain. ROOSEVELT catapulted him into
the White House under an expressed or
implied agreement that “My Policies”
would be followed during an interval of
four or eight years, until the real repre-
sentative of the "cult” should feel like
“coming back.” TAFT failed to fulfill his
part of the agreement and there is noth-
ing the matter with an enforcement of
the penalty.
——The concrete curb for the brick
paving between the High street bridge
over Spring creek and the bridge over
the race is a. in place and contractor R.
B. Taylor expects to go right ahead with
grading the street and putting down the
brick. The present almost impassible
condition of the street is the best argu-
ment in favor of completing the brick
paving as soon as possible. The work of |
putting the concrete and brick on the
new High street bridge will depend alto-
them to
| of Samuel
| Eether on the weather, as it will be im-
| possible to do good concreting in freezing
i weather. :
| safely assume that it was purposely with-
held. We may conclude that the Struc-
tural Workers’ officials were not able to
stand with their associates in repudiating
the McNamaras. We may note, also,
that Burns, the detective, who brought
Gompers; so as to Seny
reliability as a voucher for or
the course of Gompers
been such as to recommend him
; and that
has not
first rule of war is always to
jump on a weaker nation,
And Maine Still “Dry.”
From the New York Tribune.
The world consumed Z.000,000:000 A
lons of beer last year, and, ew
York's water supply, the consumers hold
that not a gallon of it was wasted.
{ catch |
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
Some of the eastern farmers have been mak
| ing desperate efforts during the warm spell to get
their belated corn crop gathered.
=8. P. Leider, a Juniata county farmer residing
at Centre, raised 116 bushels of com and 225
bushels of turnips from one-half acre of ground.
~This week the Superior court will hear the
appeal of Sheriff John E. Shields, of Westmore-
! land county, sentenced to prison for misdemeanor
! in office.
| —Grow and Jones, the ballot box men, have
been ordered back to jail at Pottsville, having
already been in and out of prison four times on
one case.
—Counterfeit hall dollars caused the arrest of
five foreigners at Huntingdon on Wednesday.
Their stories as to how they got the money are
| being investigated.
| —Joseph and Anna Bach. of Lower Yoder
| township, Cambria county, lost two children
within four hours, of diphtheria. The boy was
2 years and his sister 4.
_—Farmers in several of the counties of the
Commonwealth report the loss of an unusually
large number of chickens this season because of
the increase in the number of foxes.
so ary ravi, charged with the robbery of
rom office Bare Milling company,
at Roaring Spring, gave $500 bail for his appear.
ance at the January sessions of the Blair county
court.
—Mrs. Minnie and Emma Liggett, Carlisle
women in the centre of the rebelious zone of
China, have sent home their insurance policies
and inventory of personal effects, as they fear
_ | death.
—Elmer C. Burkholder, a brakeman on the
Pennsylvania railroad, was instantly killed in a
collision of cars just below the scales at Derry
Sunday morning. He was aged about 22 years
and was married.
~The regular Juniata county December court
was held in Mifflintown last week. The judges
were all on the bench and routine business was
transacted, but both grand and petit jurors were
notified that there was no work for them.
—Harry W. Wike, a Huntingdon electrician.
fell recently from the top of a thirty-five foot pole
on which he was working and landed on a pile of
lumber on the street. He was unconscious for
an hour, but his most serious injuries are said to
be bruises to his back and hip.
—Joseph Hipps, aged 68 years, while returning
to his home at Patton after attending court at
Ebensburg, was, it is supposed, stricken with
apoplexy. He was able to get to a coal house
near the road, where he died. His frozen body
was found on Thursday morning.
—Peter Bovd, lawyer and president of the
Tradesmen's Trust company, of Philadelphia.
now in the hands of a receiver, shot and killed
himself late Saturday afternoon in his office, in
the North American building. Worry and anxiety
over the affairs of the bank caused it.
—At the request of General Manager Creigh.
ton, of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Governor Tener has appointed Archibald J. Mc
Carthy, Layee T. Simmons and Forrest E.
Bowers to be policemen for the company along
the line of the Middle division. McCarthy was a
member of the 1908 Altoona team’s pitching staff,
—Wilmer Cook, the y hunter of Cherry
Tree, who accidentally shot while hunting
in the vicinity of his home town on Wednesday
morning of last week, died at the Spangler hospit-
al the same evening at 7:30. The charge of the
shotgun he carried tore away his left thigh. He
was aged 16 years and is survived by his mother
and two brothers, of Cherry Tree.
aa +.
ashie'was leaving town but he vsed
hy | knife on the fleetest of the bunch and sprinted so
well that he made good his escape. Police round
about have been notified to watch for him.
—After holding the office for thirty-two years,
justice of the peace P. Gallagher, of Osceola
Mills, has retired. His son, J. A. Gallagher, of
Dublin township, Huntingdon county, is just
entering upon the second term. He did not send
asingle case tocourt during his first term. His
father and grandfather preceded him in the office
and were able to administer the law in a manner
that tended to settle neighborhood disputes.
=The little lumber village called Arrow several
miles from Windber, will be in a few weeks wiped
ofi the map so far as activity is concerned. The
Babcock Lumber company has finished cutting
out the timber in that locality and the mill has
already been removed. The kindling wood fac
tory will wipe up the supply in about three weeks-
Arrow will then have no more industries. The
lumber company owns all the houses in the town.
about sixty in number. The majority of the
families have already moved to other places.
~Miss Fannie V. Rumbarger, manager of the
Western Union telegraph office at Tyrone, has
through her attorney, H. A. Davis, esq., entered
_ | a trespass suit against George W. Bailor, a news
correspondent, to recover $1,000 damages for
slander. She alleges that defendant complained
to the Western Union district manager, that she
closed up the Tyrone office too early at night, and
he was therefore obliged to forward his news
items to the Philadelphin North American, Record
and Inquirer, through the Postal office, which
complaint was not founded upon fact. “The out-
come of the case will be watched with consider:
able interest.
~As Burgess W. H. Blough of Scalp Level was
returning from No. 40 mine Monday night he
was attacked and beaten by robbers, who secured
in the neighborhood of $200 that he carried. Mr.
Blough had been at No. 40 mine on business. He
was driving back to Scalp Level when he met two
men, one of whom asked him for a match. Ashe
reached into his vest pocket to accommodate the
fellow one of the men seized him and a struggle
took place in which both highwaymen joined.
The pair finally succeeded in subduing Mr.
4 left their victim in the roadway and ade
gar- | Blough after using him up pretty badly ard then
Hewld Sant [ctcied 8 van iv the seisissrued ot a
~Poor Director H. H. Pensyl, of Altoona, re-
ceived a complete surprise Monday forenoon
when he went to the residence of John Benden to
take charge of Mrs. Sarah Nason, aged 86 years,
who had applied to him for admittance to the