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MERE
"BY P. GRAY MEEK.
INK SLINGS.
—Monday was, sure enough, an old |
fashioned winter day.
—Baltimore is to get the next National
convention of the Democracy.
—Sleigh bells jingle and, incidentally,
the noses of those whoride in the sleighs,
these days, tingle.
—[t matters little how much Mr.
detective BURNs talks, so long as he
knows what he is talking about.
—Wouldn't Central America {be the
ideal home for Mr. BRYAN. There he
could head a new revolution every fifteen
minutes.
—That was a long lane that led from
the Denver convention four years ago,
but it had its turn at Washington on
Monday.
—Russia’s proposal to free Mongolia
from the Chinese yoke is a case of pull-
ing her out of the jaws of Scylla to throw
her into those of Charybdis.
—If every man could make it just as
hot in his own place as he tries .to make
it for the steam heat works these days
there would be no complaint about heat
anywhere.
~The public sale season is about to
open in Centre county and everybody
who can get anybody else to stand with
him will become the daddy of a “slow
note.”
——The National Convention having
been fixed for Baltimore most of us will
be able to see the next President nomi-
nated without involving very great ex-
pense.
—Dr. HurcHiNnsoN might be all right
in his assertion that four hour's work a
day is enough for any man, if he could
put those who won't work at all to doing
something.
—The iceman is happy because the
mecury is down. It is making ice for
him. He will be just as happy in August
because the mercury is up. Then it will
be making hay for him.
—The county auditors are at work on
the books, but it will probably be the
middle of February before we find out
just what condition the last regime has
left the county finances in.
—The allegiance of many a Bellefonte
base-ball fan will be transferred to the
Boston Nationals since our own JOHN M,
WARD has been made president of that
aggregation of ball players.
— The new county officials have settled
down to work in such a matter of fact
way that the casual visitor to the court
have been in office always.
—So much for the hustle of the army
engineers. It is now reported that the
Panama canal will be completed two years
before the celebration of its completion is
to be pulled off at San Francisco.
The Lazy Man.
The wood is in the wood house’
And the coal is in the bin
The mercury, its a tumblin’
And its gettin cold as sin.
The wood is in the wood house
And the col is in the bin
I wonder why my wife don't
Hurry up and fetch it in.
—The percentage of women in the
United States who make their own way
has increased 4.1 per cent within recent
years. Statisticians have not figured out
the percentage of those who have their
own way.
rE ——— ————— i — ————
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—At a wedding dinner of Amos Yoder, an
Amish resident of Brady township, Huntingdon
county, a part of the menu consisted of ten tur.
keys, thirty-five chickens and five gallons of oys-
ters.
| —Another great gas well has been struck near
Indiana. It is the thirteenth in that field and al-
most all the farmers in Canoe township are giv-
ing options on leases to the company that is
working the field.
—When Judge Francis J. Kooser, of Somerset
county, retired from the bench on Monday of last
week he had disposed of every scrap of business
before him, leaving Judge Rupple a clean sheet
to start on.
VOL 57.
BELLEFONTE, PA. JANUARY 12, 1912,
—Within two months two children of Mr. and
Mrs. John Oswald, of Windsor Castle, Berks
NO. 2.
Mitchell Palmer's Ambitions.
Colonel Joun F. SHokT, editor of the
Clearfield Republican, and easily the brains
i and backbone of the Keystone organiza-
| tion, of 1910, discussing the claims of A. |
i MITCHELL PALMER to a seat in the Demo- |
cratic National committee, in a recent |
issue of his paper, says that Mr. PALMER |
| “was first a HOWARD MUTCHLER follower
until he saw a chance to throw MUTCHLER |
down and go close: to the front himself and
! he turned the trick neatly. He then bloom-
| ed forth as a GUFFEY-HALL lieutenant and
{ accepted their kindly offices, etc., until he
| felt he could go it alone.” This estimate
lof the Monroe county Congressman's
ambition and selfishness is supported by
! a statement of another of the leading
regular Democrats made in Washington,
the other day.
| “I have in my possession,” said W. J.
| BRENNAN, of Pittsburg, to the Washing-
| ton correspondent of the Philadelphia
| Ledger, on Saturday last, “a letter from
| Mr. PALMER, written in July, 1909, asking
{| me as a member of the Executive Com-
| mittee, to use my influence to have him
made temporary chairman of the Demo-
cratic State convention, in order that he
might exploit his views on the tariff. We
made him temporary chairman, and he
acted in that capacity in the convention
which met in Harrisburg on August 4th,
1909. That very convention gave a unan-
limous approval of the appointment of
Colonel GUFFEY as the Pennsylvania
member of the Democratic National com-
mittee to fill the vacancy caused by the
| death of JAMES KERR.” Mr. PALMER was
then working his own advancement.
These two competent witnesses cor-
roborate each other and both prove that
A. MITCHELL PALMER is simply a selfish
politician striving to put himself ahead at
any price or sacrifice. We have the best
evidence in the world that professionally
he is not too regardful of moral ob-
ligations and that few lawyers at the bar
of which he isa member will accept his
word on any subject. It is also common-
ly rumored that in his last campaign for
Congress he freely
. traded his associates
it on the ticket. for. votes for himself _and |
~~ ouse might very welf beliéve that they'| that in coll Yes lop naif. a
| be shamefully betrayed in Carbon coun-
ty, the Democratic candidate for State
Senator in the Fourteenth District, in
1910, in order that PALMER'S majority
for Congress might be increased.
| This is the record of the man who
| aspired to the highest honor in the gift
| of the Democratic organization in Penn-
sylvania. As the late Senator CONKLING
said of Mr. BLAINE, “he has the ambition
of Ceasar and the brains of Blind Tom,”
for while he puts up a good front and
makes a fairly effective speech, he is
i deficient in all the elements of honesty
| and sincerity which are essential to the
political leader. He has fooled VANCE
McCormick and GEORGE W. GUTHRIE and
he has made it worth while to JAMES L
BLAKESLIE. But nobody else wanted him
in the office of National Committeeman
and those who know him best were most
earnest in their opposition to his ambition
—With all the troubles they are having | ; that direction. A. MITCHELL PALMER
in their own party it would seem that
such eminent Republican jo irnals as the
esteemed Public Ledger, of Philadelphia,
could be sufficiently occupied with them |
to let the Democrats take care of their
own. ?
is for himself all the time and at any cost
to others.
i ——Mr. WiLLiAM R. HEARST, who has
associated himself, at one time or another,
with all the eclements opposed to the
—Before Mr. GEO. W. GUTHRIE quotes | Democratic party, now wants to get back
Mr. BRYAN'S opposition as a reason why
Mr. GUFFEY should be kicked out of the
party he might tell the Democrats of
Pennsylvania how many times he, him-
self, has voted for Mr. Bryan. We
doubt if he has once shown his loyalty to
the party by voting that way.
—A great fire in the financial district |
of New York early Tuesday morning | sider no proposition to compromise the | This is a self-evidernt proposition. It isa
| into, not the ranks but the leadership of
the Democratic party. We suggest that
it will be a safe policy to raise the good
old Methodist doctrine of probation
Colonel Guftey’s Victory.
The vote of the Democratic National
Committee. the other day, upon the ques-
tion of the membership of that body for
Pennsylvania, is susceptible of but one
interpretation. It was a direct and em-
phatic rebuke of the disorganizers who
have been striving, for nearly a year, to
usurp the authority of the Democratic
Organization. The selfish ambition of A.
MITCHELL PALMER and the sordid pur:
poses of GEORGE W. GUTHRIE and VANCE
C. McCorMICK to acquire, by tricks, a
position which they couldn't hope to
attain by direct appeal to the people, is
condemned by an overwhelming majority
of the Committee representing the rank
and file of the party of the entire coun-
try. .
It is said, and the statement has been
paraded by the friends of the conspira-
tors, that some five or six of those who
voted to seat Colonel GUFFEY expressed
sympathy with the movement to recog-
nize the Democratic Organization of the
State. Colonel GuFFEY and his friends
have frequently expressed the same senti- Under his manipulation of the project
ment. Ever since the disaster of 1910 Mr. CARNEGIE was allowed $320,000,000
the regular Democratic leaders have been for his properties, precisely double the
anxious for such a rejuvenation of the
party organization as would introduce
new blood, inspire new energy and create
new enthusiasm in the Organization. But
they have insisted on legal and lawful
processes in the transformation and im-
provement as the result.
If PALMER, GUTHRIE and MCCORMICK
know any law at all they know that their
actions in the matter of reorganization
The Baldest of all Iniquities. |
Those “Captains of Industry” who be-
lieve in government regulation of the
prices of products, will demand, of courses
“a fair profit” for the producers. Judge
GARY, chairman of the Board of the
Steel trust, Mr. CARNEGIE and other
managers of that corporation are con-
verts to this heresy, and never neglect an
opportunity to urge it. It is the panacea
for trust evils, they allege, and the solu”
tion of the trust problem. But in reck
oning the cost of production they mn-
variably include liberal interest on the
water pumped into the capitalization in|
forming the trusts. This is the “nigger |
in the woodpile,” literally speaking. It is
the basis of the fraud upon the people.
According to the evidence submitted
by witnesses during the Congressional
investigation of this subject when the
Steel trust was first projected by Mr.
FRICK and others, Mr. CARNEGIE offered
to turn in all his steel property at $160,-
000,000. The enterprise failed, however,
and Mr. MORGAN subsequently took it up.
units in the big corporation were advanc-
ed in value in equal ratio, so that the
fraction over a half billion corporation
contemplated by FRICK was swelled to a
corporate leviathan of more than a billion
"dollars, without any addition to its in-
trinsic value.
The interest on, say $225,000,000 at five
per cent, is $12,250,000 a year. If the
have been revolutionary. They under- scheme of the Trust magnates to procure
stand that their schemes will not stand legislation to regulate prices is fulfilled,
the test of judicial investigation and have this charge will be included in the cost of
studiously avoided an appeal to the production, though as a matter of fact it
courts. But they imagined that dema- represents no value or investments of
gogic pledges and absurd promises would | any kind. Therefore it will operate as
fool the people until they could fasten ' an indirect and unjust tax upon con-
their fingers upon the throat of the party | sumers of steel to that extent and is the
and then they could pervert the organi- baldest sort of robbery that has ever been
zation to any base purpose which might | conceived, outside of the tariff tax which
serve their caprices. The National Com- is the foundation of the whole iniquity. AS
mittee justly rebuked this conspiracy and a matter of fact the only regulation of
amount he asked. Presumably the other | i
: county, have died of typhoid fever, and the par-
Noses for Meddling. ents and a son, who are ill with the disease, were
—— unable to attend the funeral of a son buried last
From the Pittsburg Post. week
With so much trouble in the Republi-
can camp it looks a bit out of place for
numerous party organs to be devoting
so much space to the doling out of gra-
tuitous advice to the Democrats as to the
line of action they should pursue. It is
quite evident that the Democratic party
is able to take care of itself, and if it
needed wise counsel it is not likely it
would solicit it from a party that is more
in need of guidance. One of these organs
makes the interesting announcement that
the Democratic party wants to win and
that Mr. Bryan wants to lead, thus devel-
oping an incompatible condition that is
not conducive to success.
As a matter of course the Democrats
do want to win, and we might add the
Dy tor oyaoL 12, So Win bus are
preparing for a course t wi —Justice of the peace G. W. Garman, of Pine
insure that result. At the same time the | Creek township, Clinton county, has held that of-
- | fice for forty years and still has three years of his
present term to serve. He is 70 years old and
has gone through all his life but twelve years
without his right arm, which he lost in a thresh.
ing machine.
—A dispatch from Philadelphia says that the
—Sankertown schools resumed last week after
being closed nearly two months on account of an
epidemic of measles. Summit township, Cambria
county schools reopened, but were immediately
closed on account of the prevalence of the epi-
demic.
—Tha Lengel family, of Reading, is so athletic
in both sexes that Isabella, granddaughter of
Bishop Lengel, can lift both her father and grand.
father from the floor at the same time, a weight
of 655 pounds, while her father can lift 700 pounds
above his head,
—One of the most extensive sales of property
ever had in Huntingdon county will occur today
when forty-four properties of the late C. H. Gla.
zier will be offered for sale by the executors.
Nine of them are in Huntingdon and the others
scattered over nine townships.
fro Je oa the, h, Sires Nimes: Je United States circuit court of appeals on Wednes-
Democrats know that all the agitation in | 32% refused to set aside the judgment of John
Holland of the cireuit court awarding $62,658.49
in damages to seven coal companies operating in
the Clearfield district from the Pennsylvania
Railroad company for rebates and concessions
granted competitive companies.
—Owing to the low salary attached to the office,
no one in Bloomsburg is willing to be chief of po-
lice and the town council is considering to ask
Captain Groome, of the State police, to assist in
filling the vacancy. The former chief was will-
ing to continue in the position, but council refus-
ed to increase the salary. It pays $60 per month
and the incumbent must buy his own uniform.
—For some reason or other the teachers of Nor-
wegian township, Schuylkill county, have all re-
ceived notice to quit. As the school code pro-
vides that no teacher shall be removed in the
middle of a term except for immorality, incompe-
tency or intemperance, the teachers affected in-
Roosevelt Once More tend to ask the court to intervene in their be-
——— half.
From the McKeesport Times.
President Roosevelt is credited | —Acurrentof 2,300 volts of electricity passed
through the body of H. Watson, a cable splicer
employed by the Bell Telephone company at
Lock Haven. A fellow lineman climbed the pole,
found Watson unconscious and held him for
twenty minutes, after removing the charged
wire, before help arrived. Although his escape
was quite narrow, he recovered rapidly.
An expert safe-cracker on Saturday night
boldly robbed the postoffice at Drab, in Morri
within a few days the of Pennsyl- prices that is required is that which will
fe g corpora values,
—The weather bureau has announced
that the grip of the cold weather is to '
be broken today or tomorrow. Long after
this pleasant eventuality, however, the
grip that the cold weather's grip gripped
many poor mortals with will be hang-
ing on.
The gravest objection to the ALDRICH
currency bill is the fact that it cen-
tralizes the financial interests and opera-
tions of the country. In the original
| measure it was called a Central Bank but
- the term was obnoxious to public senti-
A Moral Anomaly. ment. Then a mask was invented and it is
We can imagine nothing more surpris- NOW called the National Reserve Associa-
ing than the fact that in view of his pub- | tion. “A rose by any other name would
lic record, THEODORE ROOSEVELT has a | Smell as sweet,” and a burdock is equally
considerable following. Ours is a govern. | Obnoxious whatever it may be called.
ment of the people administered through The Republican machine scheme is to
their representatives. We are a Chris | convert the government of the United
tian people and believe alike in moral
and legal obligations. The constitution
of the United States is our charter and
public officials take a solemn oath to
“support, obey and defend” it. The viola-
tion of the constitution is a betrayal of
the oath of office and the betrayal of an
oath is perjury. During his public serv-
ice ROOSEVELT violated the constitution
whenever it interfered with his caprices,
Perjury is as grave a crime as larceny,
burglary,arson or any of the other offens-
es against the statutes or the common
law. A man who commits forgery or
plan of Senator ALDRICH is a long stride
toward the achievement of this result.
The fathers of the Republic were
scrupulously careful to avoid the evil of
centralization. With that idea in mind
they provided for a Representative rather
than a Republican government. Under
the sinister influence of ALEXANDER
HAMILTON, the first Secretary of the
Treasury, a central currency and banking
system was created. But ANDREW JACK-
SON put a quietus on that evil and no
effort torestore it has been successful thus
States into an oligarchy. This banking | than
y | though the industrial world favors Roose-
son's Cove, Blair county. was
used and the burglar escaped ) in stamps
ing community about six miles south of Williams
burg and the robbery has caused intense excite-
ment. Many farmers traced the robber on Sun-
day, but no clue to his whereabouts could be
found.
—George Speilman, of Williamsburg, received
two telegrams from a sheriff of Pawnhouse, Ok-
lahoma, Saturday afternoon, telling of the discov-
ery of the dead body of his son, Clinton Speilman,
near that place. The young man was presuma.
bly murdered several weeks ago, as the remains
were almost decomposed. The finger of suspi-
cion has pointed to an acquaintance of Speil-
man's, who has been placed under arrest by the
sheriff.
=A fire, started by a pet dog playfully jumping
upon a table and upsetting a lighted lamp in the
home of Stanley Galsky, a Polander, residing on
the Baker estate at Allegheny Furnace, at 8.35
o'clock Saturday evening, completely destreyed
the building, cremated the bull terrier and $250
in cash, which represented the savings of a life-
time. The money was secreted in a tin can,
which was snugly tucked away beneath a pillow
of an iron bed in one of the upper rooms of the
house.
~Engineers of the Pennsylvania Railroad com-
pany since the completion of the new yards a
Northumberland have been doing the preliminary
work along the division from Sunbury to Wilkes-
Barre, looking forward to the double tracking of
the division next summer. The engineers have
Teddy once more a matter of daily con-
versation. If not a candidate for the
presidential nomination then what is he
seeking?
Charies S. Price, president of the Cam-
bria Steel company, which has its vast
industrial establishments in Johnstown,
is out with a statement to the effect that
Roesevelt “is the only man who can
bring prosperity to the country.” Doesn't
that look as though there is
more behind the
candidate” —
the colonel will admit? It looks as
velt in preference to President Taft and
the progressive candidates at least.
War and Poverty.
From the New York World.
Of all causes of poverty the most vast
and most easily preventable is probably
military a, The British chan-
cellor, Mr. Lloyd-George, estimated the
direct war expenditure of the “countries
of the world” two years ago at $2,250,000,- | reached a point between East Bloomsburg and
000 annually, doubling by 1920. He did | Miffinville. The double tracking of the division
not include pensions other indirect | from Sunbury to Honeypot yards will be one of
costs; the interest on war debt adds the first contracts left for spring work. -
far. The effort has always been present,
however. The conspiracy has invariably
been active. It would be a sad commen-
tary upon the memory of JACKSON if the |
present Democratic Congress should con- |
burglary or any other crime forbidden by
the criminal code is ostracised in society
and condemned by public fopinion. If
perjury is proved against a candidate for
Sheriff or Prothonotary in a well ordered
f
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against Mr. HEARST. Let him come in
if he wants to, at the back door and line
up in the rear rank.
—Mr. A. MITCHELL PALMER will con-
wiped out six lives and millions of dollars | differences which divide the Democratic
in property. It caused a flurry in the ' factions. Mr. PALMER imagines that his
stock market that was akin to a panic for = ambitions are of greater importance than
a little while because many of the brokers | the Democratic party anyway. How
found themselves in the position of hav- | lucky for Mr. PALMER it is that in this
ing all their eggs in the burning basket. | country of great opportunities most men
summate the evil.
There is great need for improvements |
in the financial system of the country.
Elasticity of the currency is a much de-
sired thing. But the ALDRICH scheme is
not what is needed and should not be
even tentatively considered. It means
centralization, not only of the financial
interests but of the industrial life. Those
evils should be shunned as pestilences.
The moment they obtain a foothold in
community, he will be defeated. No man
: notoriously in the habit of burning barns
! or slandering his neighbors will be elected
| to office by any self-respecting electorate.
mental and political condition essential
to honest and efficient government.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT is a self-con-
fessed murderer. He is a notorious
grafter. He is a vilifier of men and a
traducer of good citizens. He is a usurper
|
~—Governor WILSON, of New Jersey,
doesn’t deny writing that JOLINE'S letter
in which he expressed the hope that “some
dignified way of knocking Mr. BRYAN
into a cocked hat” would be found. At
the time he wrote there were evidently
thousands of other Democrats of the
same opinion, but they cast ballots in-
stead of writing hopeful letters.
are entitled to two thinks.
~—[t is not improbable that a consid-
erable per centage of the National Com-
mitteemen who voted to admit PALMER
representations. At any rate Mr. PAL-
MER'S statement before the committee
was a tissue of misrepresentations, not to
use “the shorter and uglier word,” as Mr.
—We're not for fighting within our | ROOSEVELT would put it.
party, but when Mr. BRYAN assumes to
dictate who shall be who in Pennsylvania,
we are with those Democrats who have
been longer in the party and more loyal
to it than he has been, in any effort they
may make to show the Nebraskan that
Pennsylvaniv Democrats don’t need his
meddling. It would be well for him to
ponder over the fact that however bad
either faction of the party may be in this
State neither one of them has ever work-
ed the rule or ruin policy quite as dis-
———It seems that Colonel BrRYAN holds
no resentment against Governor WILSON
on account of the Joline letter. It also
seems that Colonel BRYAN holds resent-
ment against nobody except Colonel
GUFFEY, who refused to take orders which
involved dishonor.
——Congressman Charles E. Patton is
already setting his pins for a re-nomina-
tion for Congress next yearand there is
astrously as he has with the national more or less curiosity to see what Centre
Democracy.
county will do for him.
to membership were influenced by mis- |
of authority and a violater of] the funda-
mental law of the land. Such a man
ought to be held in universal contempt
by all law-abiding citizens. Yet thous-
{ands of Christian men hold him in the
highest respect and closest esteem and
many regard him as an eligible candidate
for President. What is the reason for
this anomalous state of affairs? Are we,
| after all, merely savages who follow
blindly the lead of an exponent of force?
The signs justify that sinister idea.
——The ordering of troops into China
to protect the railroads is a startling de-
parture from the policies expressed in
WASHINGTON'S farewell address but it
locks as if the Republicans are trying to
get as far away from the policies of
WASHINGTON as possible.
oe ——
~——Now that a Board of Trade has
been organized every effort of the organi-
| business will warrant renters paying
the government the beginning of the end
will be in sight. There is too much ot
that sort of thing now. It must be stop-
ped and the more emphatic the declara-
tion of that purpose the better.
——On the strength of the fact that
the new penitentiary is to be located at
Peru a number of landlords in Bellefonte
have given notice of a raise in rents.
What bosh! Even supposing the Pen does
go up in Benner township it will bea
year or longer before Bellefonte can hope
to derive much benefit therefrom, and
there certainly will be no immediate de-
mand for either houses or business piaces,
why then a raise in rents now? Why not
wait until there is such a demand for
houses as to give a just cause for an in-
crease; and when the improvement in
more for the property they occupy.
SSIS —————
zation should be put forth to secure new
industries for the town.
——-Monday's snow produced the first
sleighing of the winter.
more than half as much again; be made
no allowances for the fact that on the
continent script soldiers are paid but a
fraction of a fair wage. Five billions a
year is a low estimate of the world total
of war costs of all kinds.
Five billion dollars would in one year
build healthful homes for 12,000,000 peo-
ple and in five years wipe out all the
worst slums of Christendom. One min-
ute's war waste would run a small con-
sumption hospital a year.
—A stick of dynamite in the stove wood is
thought to have been the cause of an- explosion
at the home of John Bumgardner, at a toll gate
near Reedsvillee Mr. and Mrs. Bumgardner
were sitting in their kitchen when the stove ex.
ploded. Walls and partitions were wrecked and
the couple precipitated into the cellar by giving
away of the floor. doth were badly burned by
the coals of fire that were scattered about and
were unconscious when found. The children,
who were sleeping upstairs, were uninjured.
Prof. 's commission should have | —Miss Margaret Esenwine came out best in an
little difficulty in indicting the chief de- | srzument with Bell telephone linemen at Lock
stroyer of the bread, clothing and shel- av Yap Sore a a
ter of the people of the world. overed the company’s intention to place a pole
al directly in front of the entrance to the house,
Country Wants Relief. While a workman was excavating, she tied a
¥rom the Atlanta G rian. United States flag toa small pole, called the high-
way commissioner and when linemen arrived she
guarded the place until an agreement was arrived
at by which the pole was placed in an alley.
The country wants relief from the op-
net the tariff. It will not be
now, whatever may have been the case
in the past.
‘The sooner the Democrats
month they have been trying to elect from among
year. their number a president of council, having tak-
— en nearly two hundred ballots, and the matter
St:rmy Times Ahead for Satan finally reached the county court. After a lengthy
———— argument, Judges Endlich and Wagder made an
From the Altoona Times. - order giving the councilmen until Monday to or"
In addition to a committee of "leading | ganize and called their attention to the fact that
citizens, newspaper men and the court has power to fine them and impose a
recruited by Johnstown’s mayor to assist | prison sentence. In the meantime the affairs of
him in the moral atmosphere of | ine city are held up.
that town, the | must also prepare to
~An unusunl event took place at the home of
nature. dered thei nine children, thirty-nine grandehl
Te dren and twenty-two great-grandchildren a
A Danger Easily Avoided. quet, in celebration of the fifty-fourth anniversa-
!