INK SLINGS. —Wooprow WILSON'S candor is so confusing to the average politician be- cause most public men reckon evasion - and diplomacy as the only requisites to | political success. : —Among ali the great things the Pen! is to do for Bellefonte we haven't yet| heard that it is to give us a league base- | ball team next season or pay for the | “dead horse” of two years ago. —The tragedies that have occurred in| The Democratic disorganizers are and about Bellefonte during the past, i. specimens of disinterested patriot- week have certainly beet unprecedented ism. Of course we refer to the leaders of in number and quite sufficient to shatter | this gang of political wolves. Of the the nerves of the most stolid community. | cn 0" (one mercenary and others —A million and a half brands of cigars | simply credulous, it is hardly necessary are manufactured though there are only | to speak. But the leaders are the limit. one hundred and fifty different kinds of There are only a few of them, but oh, tobacco grown. Thus the smoker spends | ;py. They want anything and everything his money and rarely knows what's in a|and are reaching in all directions and name. grabbing on all sides. If half their ex- —There is said to be more nourish- | pectations are fulfilled it will be worth ment in the cactus plant than in beef | while for every malcontent in the coun- steak, but what consolation does such in- | try to turn reformer and become a re- formation have for people living so far | organizer. away from the arid wastes of Arizona| For example, A. MITCHELL{PALMER, the and New Mexico, where the cactus flour | “main squeeze” of the bunch, wanted to ishes. —Let us hope that official Washington conducted itself as dignified American citizens upon the occasion of the visit of the Governor General of Canada yester- day. That is to say we would be very | sorry to learn that there was the same | sycophantic kow towing to and “tagging” after royalty in Washington as there was in New York. —England’s latest superdreadnaught will have cost ten million dollars by the time she is fully completed. Then she will be sailed around in naval reviews for a few years, become obsolete and be sent to the scrap pile or to become a target for a more powerful boat and ten mil- lion dollars wrung from the people in taxes will be shot to pieces in a few moments. —Jt looks more every day as if the WATCHMAN'S prediction of four years ago is to be fulfilled. Then we announc- ed that Mr. TAFT would be permitted to occupy the presidential chair for four years only after which he would have to give T. R. another chance. At that the chance looked better to T. R. than it does today for then Wooprow WILSON was not in the hustings. —Why not knock some of the revenue duty off oleomargarine and let the price of it slip down to the point where the VOL. 57. A Nice Basket of Pippins. Committee and when that august body kicked his posterior out of the room he hastened to announce that he is still a candidate for the office. Then there is GEORGE W. GUTHRIE who aspires to am- bassadorial honors. He is clinging to a fraudulent claim to the chairmanship of the Democratic State Committee, he wants to be delegate-at-large to the Democratic National convention and in the event of Democratic success next fall will seek an ambassadorial position of some distinction in some socially warm climate. Mr. GUTHRIE is not too modest. But there are others. Mr. VANCE C. McCORMICK wants to be delegate to the Democratic National convention. He would prefer -to be delegate-at-large but he is not overly particular. Hehas an incurable itch for office and imagines that delegates to the National conven- tion will be able to pick patronage off the bushes after the next election. Therefore Mr. McCoRrMICK not only wants to be but positively must be a delegate of one sort or another. Four years agofhe went to Denver to oppose the nomination of Mr. BRYAN but now he out-BRYANS BRYAN in his advocacy of ail the Populist heresies which gave BRYAN the distinction of being the most defeated man of modern times. The initiative, the referen- dum and the recall are sweet morsels which he rolls under his tongue. And thatis notall. JIMMIE BLAKESLIE, “Whe clown, also wants to bea delegate and little MCNAIR, of Pittsburg, “has a similar ambition. But for that matter little MCNAIR wants any office that can be obtained at any price and in any way provided somebody else stands —It is a great pity that Senator CUL- the expense and does the work. He BERTSON'S resolution to investigate the ' wanted to be District Attorney of Alle- expenditures of the Republican National gheny county before the ink was dry on committee in the campaign of 1904 has his legal diploma and he wanted to be no chance of adoption. Such an inquiry judge so bad that the courts had to en- under the direction of CULBERTSON would join him. This is the bunch that is try- probably present ROOSEVELT in a light ing to usurp control of the Democratic that would repel! every honest citizen of | organization of Pennsylvania and itis a whatever political proclivities. It would nice basket of pippins. : show him up as the greatest grafter as : well as the champion corruptionist of his | day and generation. an outrage that the poor man who can- not buy butter should not have its whole- some substitute as cheap as possible. —Nature still clings to her old custom of having a January thaw. . The State Chairmanship Dispute. —Surprising as it may seem Centre county is next to the lowest in the State | in percentage of land in farms, and ST. . isin the same relative position in the| At the hearing in the equity proceed- value per acre of her farm land. In the | NES of Hon. WALTER E. RITTER, chair- former we average twenty to forty per man of the Democratic State Central cent. In the latter the new census gives | Committee, against GEORGE W. GUTHRIE, STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. BELLEFONTE, PA. JANUARY 26, 1912. : | Mr. Bryan's Mischievous Meddling. Mr. Guthrie's Preposterous Statement. | It would be infinitely better for the In an address "to the’ Democrats of Democracy of the country if Mr. WiL- LIAM JENNINGS BRYAN would divest him- self of the asurd idea that he is the ordained boss of the party. Ever since the victory of 1910,on which occasion the | Pennsylvania,” recently issued by Mr. GEORGE W. GUTHRIE, who at the time falsely pretended to be chairman of the Democratic Central Committee, we find this prepostercus statement; "The Na- tional Committee, actuated by sympathy political complexion of the popular branch of Congress was changed, Mr. BRYAN has or controlled by the baldest technicality, been jeopardizing Democratic prospects | has refused to seat the member selected | by “butting in” to the prefogatives of that by the State Committee as part of the | body. He even undertook to dictate to the | plan of reorganization.” That is the most officials of the House and issue manda- glaring falsification of facts ever attempt. tory orders. with respect to assignments ‘ed by a man laying claim to respecta- on committees. What excuse he has for bility. The National Committee refused thus meddling can only be conjectured , to seat A. MITCHELL PALMER, for the but a good many thoughtful supporters reason that he hadn't even the shadow of the principles and candidates of the ‘of a valid claim to the seat. He was an purpose is to defeat the party at the coming election. The rebuke administered to Mr. BRYAN by OscAR UNDERWOOD, chairman of the House Committee on Ways and Means, some months ago, ought to have admon- ished him against furthur meddling. On that occasion he had aspersed the per- sonal integrity and political fidelity of Mr. UNDERWOOD, upon no better author- ity than that of gossip in the lobby, and the injured gentleman not only accused him of falsification, but proved the charge by the reluctant testimony of Mr. BRy- AN'S friends. He is now working him- self into a frenzy, and probably fooling a lot of earnest but credulous Democrats into a condition of dispair, over ‘an equally obvious "mare's nest.” In other words he is-trying to discredit Speaker CLARK and Mr. UNDERWOOD in the popu- Among the trusted leaders of the Democratic majority in the House is Representative RosErT L. HENRY, of Texas, chairman of the Committee on Rules. Mr. HENRY is a man of ability and experience yet Mr. BRYAN has set out to create a quarrel between him and some of his colleagues in the leadership. His method in this nefarious scheme is characteristic. He insinuates that “the Money trust” is influencing certain promi-, nent Democratic Congressmen to prevent. or retard, an investigation of Wall Street operations with respect to financial 3 industrial activities. Mr. BRYAN must know that there is no foundation in fact for such an accusation because the Demo- cratic leaders in the House are incapable of such treachery. But the rumor does harm and that satisfies him. ——The esteemed New York World believes that Gongress should enact a “Housekeepers” Free List tariff bill and we concur in that view. What the coun- try really needs is a decrease in the cost duce that result instantly. The Steel Tariff. The decrease in the rates of tariff tax and: Ce of living and the abolition of tariff taxes i on food products of all kinds would pro- | be 2 member of the Democratic National | party are beginning to believe that his impudent usurper. During the preliminary canvass of the | question Mr. A. MITCHELL PALMER lied | deliberately and malignantly to members of the committee and others with respect to incidents before, during and after the Allentown convention. He misrepre- sented the facts in relation to the selec- tion of Colonel GUFFEY to fill the vacancy [on the National CommitteeRcaused by the death of Mr. KERR at a meeting of ' the Democratic State Central Committee held in January, 1909, and the subsequent ratification of that selection by the Democratic State Convention held on August 4th of that year. These lies and misrepresentations having been exposed to the National Committee, that body by a substantially unanimous vote rejected the claims of Mr. PALMER. As a matter of fact the so-called re- organization movement was never in- tended to rehabilitate, reform or in any respect improve the Democratic organi- zation or the Democratic party of Penn- sylvania. It was intended as a vehicle for the political aggrandizement of GEORGE W. GUTHRIE, A. MITCHELL PAL- MER and VANCE C. McCormick. all of whom have ambitions which they could never hope to fulfill except through some such convulsion as they attempted. Mr. GuTtHRIE and Mr. MCCORMICK only sup- | neither of them has ever voted for Mr. AN. But that gentleman's hatred of ‘ than his antipathy to party treason and ! he loaned himself to their conspiracy. ——Ot course GEORGE W. PERKINS, of the Steel and Harvester trusts favors the | re-election of ROOSEVELT for patriotic ! reasons. But PERKINS is not a philan- thropist and as the records show that ROOSEVELT more than recompensed him for past favors it may be assumed that expectations for the future may have something to do with his actions. —]If there were anything like uncer- | tainty as to the intentions of ROOSEVELT before the event his recent statement to | iL FLINN, of Pittsburgh, ended it. No political question can be in doubt after FLINN has spoken. port the ticket at rare intervals and | side? GUFFEY is a more potent force | = . - | ——— a —————— eS ————— on steel, expressed in the bill agreed upon | __pregigent TAFT's faith in the friend- by the Democratic members of the’ ~ ship of Postmaster General HITCHCOCK House Committee on Ways and Means is. oo boived by recent incidents wiricls a proper subject for popular felicitation. how : Two years ago Mr. CARNEGIE publicly to that Jan 3p Nally too credulous stated that the steel industry requires no | an average value of from ten to twenty- claimant to that title, held in Pittsburg, five dollars per acre. We surmise, however, that the census statisticians didn't try to buy much farm land in Centre ‘county when they were compil- ing such figures. ~The promptness with which the young man who was cashing spurious checks in various stores in this place last week was apprehended is decidedly com- plimentary to the police department of Bellefonte. Condoning crime begets crime and the surest method of reducing it is to make all culprits feel the dogged determination of the law to punish those who violate it. Who can say that if this offense had been dropped because it was relatively trifling in amounts it might not have been an incentive to the guilty one to continue the criminal practiceon a larger scale. . —Certain it is that the Pennsylvania Democracy can't hope to win anything if its forces are divided. The old reliables _ necessary to have made a victory for Mr. GRIM in 1910. Since the reorganizers didn’t follow the banner of the old re- fiables in 1910 it is at least reasonable to say that many of the old reliables would refuse to follow the reorganizer's banner in 1912, should they be called upon to do so. Why permit such a division to be- come a permanent breach in the party? It will if GEORGE W. GUTHRIE is chosen State Chairman or A. MITCHELL PALMER is chosen a member of the National com- mittee. Eliminate both of them and we venture the prediction that the selection | last tariff coddling and recently he has reiter | ated the statement under oath. It is eminently fit, therefore, that the Demo- cratic majority in the House should move in the direction of tariff reduction on that product. Of course revenue necessities must be kept in mind always | in preparing tariff legislation, but the proposed reduction of rates may be safe- ly made without impairing the revenues. In this connection it is proper to state that there are other tariff schedules more inimical to the public welfare than that upon steel. The tariff on vegetables, poultry, eggs, wool, mutton, pork and beef, strikes closer and hits harder on the resources of the average citizen than that on Steel. But the bill enacted dur- ing the special session which directly af- fected these commodities was vetoed by President TAFT in the interest of the trusts which control those articles of merchandise and on the principle of doing the best possible under unfavorable con- ditions, the Democrats in Congress are now determined to reduce the tariff on Nearly every housekeeper ie a consum- er of steel products and tariff reduction will do much good. The proposition is to cut the rates fifty per cent. This will save the public in the aggregate at least $100,000,000 annually and money thus saved is treasure earned. This man or that citizen may not perceive the im- provemens but each in his proportion will be benefitted and, in the last analysis, the country will be enriched by the exact amount which is saved by the tax reduc- tion. All tariff taxes do not go into the treasury but every cent paid because of the artificial increase in the price of pro- Monday, Mr. GUTHRIE raised the question of justification. That is to say he protested that because the real chair- man of the Committee had sustained no property loss, through his usurpation, the courts could not intervene to put a legal restraint upon his ambition. If he is sustained by the court .in this proposi- tion, it will be impossible to expose the facts in the case, for there is no remedy at law against his usurpation. Mr. GUTHRIE was moved to this action at law because he is afraid of the conse- quences of a trial of the case upon its merits. He knows that his false pretense will be exposed. He understands that he is a usurper and a false claimant but hopes to remain undisturbed in his atti- tude in the absence of legal investigation. His title to the office rests upon a packed committee and he wants to prevent the exposure of that fact. Just as SAM SALTER wanted to avoid a legal inquiry into his operations as a ballot box stuffer, GEORGE W. GUTHRIE desires to avoid the exposure of the processes by which he was made a claimant for the office of State Chairman. An honest and honorable man would scorn an office acquired by fraud. Chair- man RITTER has freely and frequently courted a legal investigation of his title to the office. Instead of dodging the pro- cesses of the courts, he is willing to go to any pains and trouble to secure an inves- tigation. But Mr. GUTHRIE, obsessed with an ambition to get office through any ex- pedient, runs away from the inquiry by raising the question of jurisdiction. The case was postponed on Monday until this morning, because the learned judge was in doubt as to the point raised. But if Gutamie had been an fair man the about a unified and miltitant Democracy n Pennsylvania. ducts comes-out of the pockets of the people of the country. point would not have been raised. - ——Senator LA FOLETTE has plenty of courage but lacks discretion. He is op- posed to graft but is pulling chestnuts out of the fire for the champion grafter of the age. ——Orin E. James, of Blanchard, em- ployed as a fireman on the Pittsburg division of the Pennsylvania railroad, had a narrow escape from death shortly after twelve o'clock last Thursday night. He was jolted from his engine at the Gal- litzin tunnel and rolled over the roadbed for some distance, but in some miracu- lous manner he escaped going under the wheels. The train was stopped and he was picked up and taken to the Altoona hospital where it was found that his worst injuries were contusions of both shoulders and the back. After receiving treatment he was able to go to his home in Altoona. ——On Friday evening of last week William Irvin, aged about nineteen years, was coasting down Stony Batter with two other young men. Their sled struck a stone and Irvin was thrown violently to the ground, injuring him quite seriously. He was taken to his mother’s home on Reynolds avenue where he has been con- fined to bed ever since. At first it was feared his injuries might prove fatal, but during the past day or two he has been improving. ——One week from today will be ground hog day, when the little critter who is supposed to govern the weather for the ensuing six weeks will have his inning. Ash Wednesday this year, which marks the beginning of the Lenten season, falls on February 21st, and Easter comes on ville , April 7th, the earliest in a number of years. . NO. 4. | Mr. Taft's Seay, From the Harrisburg Star—Independent. What is called the most radical propos- | al advanced by President Taft in the chapter of his serial message which is entitled “Ecohomy and Efficiency in the Government Service,” is that all adminis- trative officers of the government be placed in classified service. That will be done r or later, and the only question is ? The Pr t says that the revenues are wasted in paying salaries to more employees than are needed, and in ex- cessive prices for services rendered in many departments, and he wants his commission on economy efficiency continued in order that it may discover and report leaks through which the peo- thousand and it is guaran lions—if the Congress happen to be ina i 2 i 58 ? E 3 : 2 : £ ; § i i i | i 5§8 i we : : E | d pil it: cE if on the wish was to "protect ingmant” Always, when the Republicans fixed a hi tarifi-tax on steel their orators and leaders shouted that it was done to "protect the American working- man.” Louis D. Brandeis, citing figures from the federal bureau of statistics, says: “Under the guise of protecting American workingmen J. P. and the owners of the Steel Trust have subjected the laborer to grossly excessive toil and de- prived him of his liberty. In England steel laborers work only 55 hours a week, while in this country they average 72 hours a week. About a third work more than 72 hours and a fourth work twelve hours a day and seven days a week, with an occasional 24 hour day when the shift is made. To work men this way not only makes them ‘old at forty,” but necessarily degenerates the race, mental- ly, morally and physically.” Every ican who will ask for votes next summer will base his request on the plea that he wants to “protect the American workingman.” —— Positive Proof of Boom in Steel Industry. From the Pittsburg Sun. Premiums are now being offered for quick deliveries on steel billets and steel or rie s is tive n- is It more than fulfils ment as it has at this time. Neither in 1884 nor in 1892 was the Re- publican y so weak in tion, S0 ican ar in sentiment, so divided up- undecided upon principles on policies, and doubtful of its leaders as it is today. From the Cleveland Plain Dealer. According to the census bureau wom- an is twice as expensive now as she was seven years ago. And she will continue to rank as the first and dearest of life's necessities. Under the Blanket of Modesty? Se ———" i ———— SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. —There are 38 applications for license to sel | liquor in Cambria county. —Ebensburg has a large number of cases o measles, developed, it is said, from a case im ported from Cresson. ~The National Silk Dyeing company, of Allen. town, announces that it will double the sizeof its plant and will then employ %00 hands. —Another large building has been started at the Lock Haven paper mill. It is one of many improvements that will total a half million dol- lars. ’ —James McFadden, a Luzerne county election officer. who was convicted of fraud, has been sent to prison for not less than three months nor more than twelve. —It was nothing but a burr, but it was lost and the Buffalo flyer waited an hour at Lock Haven while machinists fixed another one to enable the big locomotive to proceed. —John Du Ruth, a johnstown inventor, has been granted a patent on an axleless car truck, which is said to be likely to replace the present style trucks in the near future. ~The Knights of the Golden Eagle in Pennsyl- vania—an older and very different order than the Fraternal Order of Eagles—will hold their an- nual State meeting in Hazleton next May. —The DuBois and Butler Brick company, with a plant at Fails Creek, has orders that will keep the plant running full time for quite a while. Every- body is rejoicing over prospects of a busy year. —Former State Senator Cyrus E. Woods, of Greensburg, is to be ambassador of the United States to Portugal. The position is one of dis- tinction and importance, especially since Portugal became a Republic. —The Mountain Summer assembly, held for eight years at Ebensburg, has passed into history Too much competition is the cause assigned’ Principal G. D. Robb, of the Altoona High school, was dean of the assembly. ~When the case of Henry Gunsallus, charged before the Clinton county grand jury last week the bill was promptly ignored, thus establishing Mr. Gunsallus’ innocence. —Over $3,000 damage was caused at the big warehouse of the H. G. Tombler Grocery com- pany. in Easton, when a frozen valve on a six- inch water main leading to the 20,000-gallon tank om the top of the building burst. — Andrew Harko, whose home was near Scran- ton, tried to hang himself to the limb of a tree in the forest on one of last week's cold days. The rope broke, but the fall knocked the man sense, less and he was frozen to death. —A big black bear, evidently hungry, was a visitor at the farm of W. B. Hanna, near Lockport, recently. Bruin didn’t do much inves- tigating, but left for his mountain home to grow up to furnish sport for some hunter. —Nearly all the business people of the anthra- cite coal region are signing a circular letter which will be sentto both miners and operators pro- testing against any agreement being signed which shall be good for but one year. ~The body of Florence Vogel, the pretty Allen- town girl who jumped from the Lehigh river bridge at Bethlehem, on Hallowe'en night after a tiff with her fiance, a young man named McBride, was found at Island Park, ten miles down stream, on Sunday. ~—A Pittsburg firm has bought the Cherry Tree jron works and the capacity of the plant is to be foundation well under way for a plant to manu- facture gas fans, rry Tree is having a boom. —Some excitement was caused in Franklin by the discovery of a home-made bomb inthe cellar of George B. Weaver, a Pennsylvania railroad yardmaster. The explosive was found by Mrs. Weaver and must have been there some time as the newspapers in which it was wrapped bore the date of 1906. ~The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Watsontown Brick and Clay Product com- pany was held recently. The following were elected directors: F. E. Kirk, M. A. Berger, J. P. Russell, W. H. Gold, A. A. Gemberling, J. C. Fowler, Watsontown: C. Y. Wagner, Bellefonte: W. H. Dunkleberger, Sunbury: H. E. Fox, Lock Haven. The report of the business for the year 1011, submitted by J. C. Fowler Manager, was very gratifying to the stockholders. —The Schuylkill county jail with its 175 prison- ers was placed under quarantine on Wednesday of last week by the board of health because of the serious illness with diphtheria of Charles Segles, 222 years old prisoner from Schuylkill Haven. The jail with all its inmates will be isolated for several weeks in orderto prevent a spread of the diseas>. Prisoners whose terms expire in the meantime must remain in jail until the quarantine is lifted and no prisoners may be admitted. —Dairy and Food Commissinner Foust, review- ing the work of his division for the year 1911, says that in many respects it was a record-breaker, The receipts from fines and license fees totaled $120,993.48, while the total expenditures for the year were only $83,083.13. In other words, the collections for the period exceeded the expen- ditures by $37,910.33, a sum equal to nearly one” half the total expenditures. In 1910, the excess of receipts over expenditures was $31,000 in round « | figures. —The Philadelphiaand Reading Coal and Iron company have secured ownership of one of the biggest tracts of coal land owned by an individual in Schuylkill county by the purchase of the Wil- Jams tract, lying between Frackville and Gerdon, and comprising an area of 11.000acres. The land is underlaid with rich coal measures and will make it possible for the company to extend some of the present workings, and it is also likely that a mammoth colliery will be built along the tract. The Whippoorwill colliery is located on the
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