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
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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?
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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