“BY P. GRAY MEEK. INK SLINGS. —How about his shadow. Will he see it today. —Col. HARVEY, Col. WATTERSON and | Mr. RYAN to the contrary, notwithstand- | ing, we are still for WILSON. —Patience is the virtue that finally | lands the slipping pedestrian at the top of Bellefonte’s hills these days. | -— i der can of | : - - The git} who makes a pow | How Far Shall the False Pretense Go. | her face is not as likely to blow up! herself as she is to be blown up by sensi- ble persons. | —With ROBERT M. FOSTER, of State Col- lege, publicly announced for the Legisla- ture, the business of politics has begun for another year. —Mr. BuLLiTT, of Philadelphia, looked most like a No. 8 shot when his libel suit against the North American was thrown | out of court on Monday. : —Absolutely and beyond any suspicion whatever President TAFT can rely on “Dear Maria” as an ally in his fight against the ROOSEVELT boom. —Mr. MORGAN SHUSTER was just treas- urer general of Persia long enough to put him in possession of a little treasury all of his own through the lecture plat- form. | —Ecuador has a rather uncanny, but | very effective way of nipping revolutions in the bud. The populace caught five would be leaders down there on Sunday and beheaded them. —The rapidity with which the new tariff bill was passed in the House wasn’t a marker to the speed with which the veto pen will glide over the measure should it reach the White House. —Come to think of it do you recall a presidential preliminary within the last twenty years in which Marse HENRY wasn't trying to pick some sort of a flaw. Knocking, instead of boosting? —If Col. WATTERSON insists on having it known that he has already raised con- siderable funds for the WILSON presiden- tial boom some impertinent person might ask him what he has done with it. —If they go much deeper with that ex- perimental oil well in Washington county they will be pumping up some of the “Yellow peril’” before they know it. Itis pretty nearly down to China now. —We believe that the Democrats in Congress are doing a wise and timely thing by trying to abandon seventeen of the branch pension agencies. They are nothing more than excuses for office holding. —Col. HENRY WATTERSON is a most amiable gentleman but he has reached that age at which the public would rather rely on the accuracy of Wooprow WiL- SON'S memory than upon that of the bril- liant Kentuckian. —We rise to inquire as to whether the new Board of Trade has done anything yet. We're not curious at all; only we have great faith in keeping things mov- ing and sometimes that can only be done by throwing a harpoon or so. —When Senator PENROSE was urging stand patters to stand pat on the tariff and better times, and quoting the lament- ed McKINLEY, he was very careful to re- frain from quoting any of the martyred President's Buffalo speech which was made after he had begun to see the light. —Now what do you suppose Senator PENROSE thought when he read of that New York performance of Gov. TENER. While in a Gotham restaurant on Satur. day he cheered ROOSEVELT'S picture and declared he "is the man Pennsylvania wants and we'll get him!” Surely some people who get only what they are per- mitted to have at home do cut cute capers when they are away. —The plight in which CLARENCE DAR- ROW, the brilliant attorney, finds himself is quite as unhappy as was that of the McNAMARAS. If he is guilty of having attempted to bribe jurors in their interest be should be punished to the limit, but let us throw the cloak of charity about the crime and believe that no such an able man could fall to the depths of de- bauching Justice until they prove that he did it. —Senator PENROSE spent the fore part of the week in Pittsburg trying to get the various Republican factions in that city to dwell together in harmony. Of course everyone in Pittsburg is supposed to have forgotten how successfully he cemented the McNicHoL and VARE factions togeth- er for the support of EARLE in his own city last fall. A prophet is not without honor save in his own country, however, and Pittsburgers may regard him as the real medicine man. —Think of it. Last fall the high tariff on woolen manufactures could not be reduced far enough to permit poor people to buy warm clothes for the winter. Why? Because President TAFT wanted to wait until his tariff commission reported,which really meant that the woolen manufac- turers wanted one more season of plun- dering. The cause given to the public was that the workers in the woolen mills of New England needed the protection. Read the papers today and learn how those same workers are receiving that protection. Locked out because they de- manded a small share of it they are starv- ing on the streets of Lawrence, Mass. today. ’ VOL. 57. STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. _BELLEFONTE, PA. FEBRUARY 2, 1913, In three of the last four campaigns for President Mr. GEORGE W. GUTHRIE has supported the Republican candidate. In 1906 he had been named as a candidate for elector on the Democratic ticket but declined the empty honor and ostenta- tiously contributed liberally to the cam- paign fund of the Republican machine. In three of the last four campaigns for President Mr. VANCE C. MCCORMICK sup- ported the Republican candidate for President and contributed freely, out of his inherited millions, for the success of that “conspiracy of the interests.” It didn't matter much how A. MITCHELL PALMER and JAMES I. BLAKESLIE voted in those campaigns. They were negligible quantities. Yet these four men now assume the right to regulate the Democratic party of Pennsylvania. They have decreed that Mr. GUTHRIE, Mr. McCormick and Mr. PALMER shall be delegates-at-large in the Baltimore convention and that Mr.BLAKES- LiE shall be a district delegate. To that end they are now freely spending money contributed by Democrats for the organi- zation of the Democratic party of the State. They are sacrificing the Democratic party and principles to their ownjpersonal aggrandizement, and sacrificing every Democratic principle to the achievement of their personal desires. This is the ultimate result of the disorganization movement inaugurated by these gentle- men some time ago. The Democratic organization of Penn- sylvania has gone up against hard circum- stances during the last sixteen years. The Republican machine with all its resources has been actively and liberally supported by Mr. GUTHRIE, Mr. McCormick and other sinister influences under the masque of Democracy. But it has courageously pursued its honest and earnest course in the interest of Democracy. Now it is appalled, however, because the allies of the Republican machine have usurped the authority which it has always exer- cised and ares trading direct with. the enemy. It s to be seen how far this false pretense will be permitted to go. We shall watch the issue with in- terest. ——0f course Representative HOBSON will fight for as many battle-ships as there is a chance of getting. The battleship builders expect the worth of the money they pay him from his labors in their behalf on the floor of the House. Rocsevelt is a Candidate. se—— That THEODORE ROOSEVELT is a candi- date for the Republican nomination for President no longer admits of doubt. In a statement to a represcntative of the Chicago Evening Post he says, “I will not tie my hands by a statement which would make it difficult or impossible for me to serve the public by undertaking a great task, if the people, as a whole, seemed definitely to come to the conclusion that I ought to do that task.” That is evasive, uncertain, equivocal. But it is essentially RoosevELTian. It means that if any meager, irresponsible or ulterior influence is brought to bear, ROOSEVELT will ac- cept it as a call from the public. As a matter of fact no considerable part of the American public wants THEO- DORE ROOSEVELT in the office of Presi- dent of the United States. Wall street, which he always served, would be glad to see him returned to the seat of power, for the reason that in the event of his oc- cupancy of that “coign of vantage,” the MORGANS and the PERKINSES could man- age things as they desired. But the peo- ple of the United States do not want such a situation. They are striving to get away from such conditions and though President TAFT is and has been a disap- pointment in every respect, they prefer to take chances with him rather than to invite the consequences of the re-election of ROOSEVELT. The re-election of ROOSEVELT means the Mexicanization of the government of the United States. Mr. ROOSEVELT be- lieves in the policies of Diaz. He has no sympathy with a government of law, What he wants is an administration of force, predicated upon the caprices of the executive. President TAFT is a blunderer and inefficient, but even his blunders and inefficiency are preferable to the usurpa- tions and outrages which would follow a restoration of ROOSEVELT in the White House. That would mean chaos first, anarchy afterwards and commercial and industrial confusion all the time. Keep ROOSEVELT out in any event. His re- entry into the White House means oligarchy. —Trust-busting operations are mul- tiplying in number but we do not find much improvement in trust conditions in consequence. Probably the trouble is that they get little beyond the begin- ning. ~=Subscribe for the WATCHMAN. , Why it Lost Confidence in Roosevelt. The testimony of Louis D. BRANDIES : Flom She Philadelphia Record. before the Congressional committee in- | y reader is paper should at be at no to understand why we have vestigating the Steel trust, the other day, lost confidence in Mr. Roosevelt. But for had a local interest to Pennsylvanians. the convenience of those who may care It seems that in the campaign for Sena- to know, or may have forgotten some tors and Representatives in the Legis- | things we will recapitulate some of the iature in 1908 employees of the trust were | MSS Conspicuous TeASONS. . 3 gs ” Mr. Roosevelt's treatment of Colombia lined up” for candidates who favored in the Panama affair was wholly inde- PENROSE. The incident involved an em- Jpaibio— Ineemationd outrage, “i barrassing situation. The managers of | triumph of might over right, and specii- the TE on were endeavoring to cur- ically a violation of our treaty guarantee 4 . y i to sustain the sovereignty of Colombia. tail the liquor traffic in theneighborhoods | He lacks the courage of his convic- of their works. In pursuance of this pur- : tions unless they to be popular. pose they were supporting candidates | When he became t he was on who favored local option. The local i the prtecive system. Dur option candidates were all opposed to ' ing seven and a half years in the Presi- PENROSE and the order to support him dency he did not lift his hand to secure a required a change of front. Reduction of tariff taxation. Of course these captains of industry | pus when Senows aed 1 att whom Ho The jewel of consistency is of little value ! the prosecution of the official of to them when it comes in conflict with, their pecuniary interests. PENROSE was | hat failond by OBE Ce A ems in alliance with the liquor interests and | because the inculpated official was his moral questions are of little consequence , friend, Paui Morton. among those who control the industrial | _He has denounced trusts, but when the corporations. In fact it has been shown | SiS8est of them wished to absorb the ennessee Coal & Iron , which that in almost every instance of graft in | was likely to be wig i municipal government the business ele- Juiic iron & Steel company, which would ment has been most culpable. In the | have resulted in creating a formidable tor, he san the merger, Pittsburgh cases, for example, leading wed champion of the bankers were the potent forces in the god SOW 1h avo corrupt operations. The councilmen; When Ge H. Earle Jr., laid before were beguiled into evil courses by the Jim the evidence agains, theSuga: Sue greed of the prosperous financiers. help of the government, obtained judg- In the testimony of Mr. BRANDIES, | ment, Mr. Roosevelt was indifferent and however, there is a valuable lesson for took no action. the people of Pennsylvania. A corpora- Instead of regulating the trusts by law, tion which depends upon such sinister Mr. Roosevelt would have them regulated agencies for its prosperity is inimical to by the discretion of a commissioner of public interests and political morals and corpora Instead of proceeding by law against ought to be put under the banjof popular he pre : erred to make condemnation. We are not given to Spesches Shou tc naltistors ot great calamity howling or the habit of con- | animosity to wealth as such. denming recom instulons wh eae a arias wht make for industrial progress. But the $ : : country would be safer in a state of in- ihe trad tional yulicy of h.. fe countiy and dustrial paraiysis than in a prosperity which depends upon political corruption Steel trust is a Pennsylvania enterprise and the people of the State should see that it is conducted properly. ligerence. 2 : The personal altercations in which he -— rt —————— 1 An Unprofitable Controversy. | is constantly embroiled are utterly un- . en ' dignified, and in several instances, notably Really Colonel WATTERSON makes us in the cases of the Storers, Harriman, tired. He seems to be obsessed with and the recent controversy over the some mysterious secre which imalses HatFiman conespondencs the, neigh of some of the candidates for the Demo- rth has not been the act of the other cratic nomination for President, but re- party. fuses to reveal it to the public. He points We Rocsevelts passion for centraliza- with infinite pride to a “chip on his ton of government is not in harmony " with the constitution or the public - shoulder, and challenges anybody to fare which demands the largest possible knock it off. But he fails to show any, measure of local self-government. substantial reason why anybody, other | The courts are not infallible, but the : independence of the judiciary is funda- than a brawler, should knock it off and | mental to the English and American sys- take the consequences. There may be | tem of government, and Mr. Roosevelt's a reason for such actionbut we must ad- | attacks upon the judiciary are un-Ameri- mit that it isn’t perceptible to our vision. can and injurious. Even if Governor WILSON were more or Mr Roosevelt's attempt to force Ari- | zona and New Mexico into the Union as able to construe that as a capital crime. , Democratic vote in Congress and the As a matter of fact we suffer too much | electoral college was not statesmanlike, from the HARVEYS and the WATTERSONS. but political cunning of a very low order. They are highly respectable, beyond ques- | me tion, WATTERSON because of his antiquity | Watterson's: Wrath. and HARVEY on account of his gall. But | prom the Pittsburgh Dispatch. so far as our researches go neither isin-| By far the most striking feature of infallible. In one or two presidential con- | Col. Watterson's jeremiad over Woodrow likely to lose the spirit it has manifested quite promptly enuuER on several occasions, and it is caleulated to foster an injurious spirit of tests in which the heart and soul of | Wilson is the demonstration it furnishes | 8Tessi | of the Colonel's utter insensibility to the Democracy were wrung in anguish WAT- | improved standard of public opinion con- | i TERSON was on the wrong side and so cerning the use of money in politics. far as we have have been able to find | Wilson's chief crime, in his eyes, would | appear to have been his rejection of a out Colonel HARVEY has never been with n that Mr. T. F. Ryan finance attempts to be “guide, philosopher and hurting friend” of a Demacratic candidate for accompanied by about his great and good President, was, therefore, something like | ii%h. eV er detestable this may seem in an assumption, without excuse or rea- the Kentuckian's eyes, it argues an amaz- . of 3 son. | ing ignorance public But the other side of the controversy | that attitude going to injure has little more reason for its position. Yet this insensibili The friends of Governor WILSON assert ent.day political morality is not so that he was outraged against HARVEY lute as this one would make it and WATTERSON because they suggested seem. For, with this antipathy that Mr. Twos. FORTUNE RYAN might be 0, Wilson on ie Colonel | keenest bili induced to put money into a legitimate | fear of being charged with. reckless dis. in behalf of their candidate. | of party if he were to Such a proposition offended them beyond lay bare details of the incident. Now, what can he have been up to? measure. In other words like the dif | What hole-in-the-corner erence between tweedledum and tweed- | that will not ledee it is hardly worth talking about and the subject may as well be drop 7 i | § g | gz E cata Camm gh Be ue ad : rec! 0 upon the result of which the GUTHRIE- he have impaneled upon that Bs XX getion nnd to a claim to le the Democratic Sate Cantral terrible truth? “Gentlemen” of the prac- committee, was a packed body. The MCCORMICK committee recommended that the committee of seven be compos- ed of three men to be appointed by State Chairman DEWALT; three to be appoint- ed by the MCCORMICK committee and one to be appointed by the Congressional delegation. As the Congressional delega- tion was under the complete control of A. MiTcHELL PALMER, the complexion of the committee was predetermined in favor of his ambitious schemes. A committee thus organized is essentially bad and. its work ought not to receive respectful con- sideration. § ; i tion | down Re- |i His glorification of war is wholly su- | uous, for this country is not in the | martial spi : Culberson Wants to Know. From the Johnstown Democrat. { The blican ca ign fund in 1908 | ce Repo $1,665,518.27, The Demo- | cratic fund was $620,644.27. The Repub- : licans had more than a million in excess ; of the Democrats. The number who contributed to Republican fund was 12,230, to Democratic fund, 74,000. In other words the number of contributors to the Demo- cratic fund was six times | their contributions a | dollars less. The contributors to the Re- | publican fund, as a rule, were in ‘in Jegislation, the money ' such men as J. Morgan, | P. Taft, 5) ayn Charles M. | Schwab, John Jacob Astor and the heads | of the various woolen mills which desired | the passage of the Taft-Aldrich bill,togeth- | er with donations from | banks, railroad magnates and individuals representing the tariff trusts. The contributors to the Democratic E as - | fund were not person: interested i by the Atchison railroad recom- —e aly i 1 tion. contributions of individuals to the from 1908. Mr. Culberson, who is one of the most reliable friends of the in the upper body, because he is never voting for Special priviiess in my form, referred to fact that G Cortelyou in the lot aed 25 eld fe Foti of rman o al committee while he was of Com- merce and Labor and intimated that Mr. Cortelyou had taken advantage of the secrets of tions whose affairs might be investigated under the federal Jaw, to "hold up” for campaign “It has been estimated” he said, “that She Stiorins and McomSEORaHIE Sa of 1,000,000 was raised and probably ex- pended that year by the committee of which he was chairman. ‘The size and audacity of this tund, if Pa ly correct, smacks of extortion, profligacy and corruption. Who contributed and | where did it come from?” Mr. Culberson went into detail - i uiry to answer these questions. i the investigation Mr. Culberson desires would show blican politics in 1904 and 1908 to have largely busi- ness transactions in which ff trusts, seilsoads and banks contributed certain sums of money to n or prevent special | ton; and = tie Senate is epu n complexion, proba- bility is that Mr. Culberson’s resolution will be chloroformed. Protection as it Works. From the Wilkes-Barre Times-Leader. This morning's Record has a story on the striking mill-workers at Lawrence, Massachusetts. Its head lines read— "Mill Strikers Are Sarving! FIungry Men and Women Attack Bread Wag- ons. These are the employees who are pro- tected by Schedule K of the Payne-Aldrich tariff and the ones who were going to "starve to death” if the Democrats suc- ceeded in reducing the tariff. How | will American workers swallow “Protection to American labor” that has been given them by the highly protected industries and their rep- resentatives in the national government? The Record throughout the last con- told of Soup houses De this out. Hard Task for Bosses. : ] 5 : & g g | self all the credit and glory. His Awkward Position. himself as a leading mem- Steel Trust. —— The Imperial family of China has decided to abdicate and thus by sacrific- ing its crown saves its head. ~=Subscribe for the WATCHMAN, | SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. | ~In spite of the very cold weather of a week or $0 ago, robins have visited various sections of the State. ! =The price of hay in some of the western coun _ | ties has advanced to $24 a ton, with every pros, | pect of a further advance. i —Clearfield county commissioners reduced the | county tax one-half mill this year, making it seve en, instead of seven and a half mills. | —There is an epidemic of influenza among i children in Lewistown. Doctors state that sel” | 207 ian tie disease been So prevalent, —~Some time ago two DuBois hotels were vic. timized by an exceedingly clever variety of the bogus check swindle, to the extent of $85. —Policeman Raum, of Lancaster, has been di- rected to pay $200 io huckster Charles Lentz whom he arbitrarily arrested for tooting a huck- ster’s horn. ~Twenty-two cases of smallpox have been dis- covered by the Pittsburgh health department in Unity, a small village in Allegheny county, about ten miles from Pittsburgh. —Harry W. Shoemaker, one of the proprietors of the Reading Times, has presented to the Read- ing zco an English fallow buck, two young black bears, a horned owl and a female opossum. —Rev. Dr. C. F. N. Fischer, pastor of St. Paul's Lutheran church, Easton, told his congregation Sunday morning that he had determined to re- Gute Wa saliiy lor Hie'comiag yEREBY the sun of 100. —Port Royal is anticipating a boom. It is quite probable that a shirt factory will be established there and only minor details are awaiting settle- ment before work is started on a milk conden- sary. ~The Altoona shops of the Pennsylvania rail” | road are working on full time now—55 hours a | week instead of 45. More than 4,000 men are af- fected by the order. It is the resuit of increased business. —Of the 1692 farms in Lackawanna county own- ers operate more than 79 per cent. There is not a dollar of mortgage against 961 of the farms. Of a total acreage of 288,640 in the county, 134,000 are farm lands. —The right of Mrs. Julia Glazier, of Hunting- don, to bankruptcy is being considered. A num- the bondholders, for $12,600. A movement is already on foot to lease the plant to a Pittsburgh manufacturing concern. its species killed in Pennsylvania. —A hog owned by Adam Reedy, a Berks coun- ty farmer, was shot at several times with thirty eight calibre bullets, but it simply grunted and was finally dispatched with an ax. The flattened themselves against the skull, proved to be one and three-quarters of an thick. —His skull fractured by a rock thrown crowd of men and boys he had refused to to his shack, Frank Shonkas, of Shamokin, shot 11 ie None of them were seriously injured and they were locked up to await the result of Shonkas’ —Miss Emma Brawn. of Lock Haven, at 9.30 o'clock a few evenings ago, while on her way home was held up by a highwayman who snatch- ed her hand bag, took the purse out of it and ran into an alley. Her calls brought aid quickly but he had made his escape, leaving the purse on the pavement. ~It is estimated that the new trolley line from Johnstown to Ebensburg will save Cambria coun- ty from $6,000 to $10,000 annually in mileage of constables, witnesses, etc. The distance from Johnstown to Ebensburg by rail is thirty-five miles and by trolley eighteen. In computing mileage the shortest route is used. —Miss Katherine Johnson, daughter of Professor and Mrs. B. R. Johnson, of Lewisburg, will take up missionary work in Mexico under the direc- tion of the Baltimore conference of the Metho- dist church. Miss Johnson is a graduate of Bucknell university. For several years she has been in the public library at Washington, D. C. ~The death of Mrs. Haus Hauge, of Patton leaves seven children orphans. Mr. Hauge shot himself last October and his wife, aged 34 years, took sick the next day. Her mother came from Sweden about that time and will, before she jeaves, endeavor to find homes for the children, the oldest of whom is 14 vears old and the young- est 3 months. ~The Goodyear Lumber company's hemlock mill at Galeton has been purchased by the Cen- tral Pennsylvania Lumber company, which means that instead of the mill closing down permanently in the near future, it will run at least eight years longer. It was the general opinion that Galeton would lose this important industry within a few months, which would seriously affect the town. —4.G. B1 rratt, of Camden, who first appeared in Bloomsburg about two years ago, as a piano salesman, was put in jail at the latter place Thursday, on charges of embezzlement and forg- ery, at the instance of C. M. Sigler, of Harris” burg, by whom he had been employed for about a year, having charge of a local store for the prose- cutor. He is now in jail in default of $1,300 bail with the prosecutor declaring that Barratt's ac. tivities have caused him a loss of $4,000. county, is out in a card in which he makes an- nouncement that he will be a candidate for re- election to the Senate. Since the great disaster at Austin, in which Senator Baldwin lost his par- ents and wife, he has not had much time to do whenever they could be found, but his friends have taken up his case and will sce that he is again nominated. The bodies of his loved ones were never found and their recovery is regarded as hopeless. ~Standing in front of a mirror in his room in Mogi x
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