“BY P. GRAY INK SLINGS. —If the ground hog didn't see his sha- dow last Friday the weather man has certainly been putting up a splendid bluff for him. —Up to this time no one has been con- cerned enough even to start an argument as to whether Senator LA FOLLETTE can come back. —Ther~ is trouble again on the Mexican frontier and Uncle SAM'S soldiers are in readiness for orders to benevolently as- similate something. —Congressman PATTON is being heard from in Washington. Parcels of garden seed are being distributed among ad- miring constituents. —Easter is coming on a pace and we fear the hens are not making the proper arrangements for the part they usually play in the ceremomies. —Water freezes every night in the year at Alto Crucero, Bolivia, while at mid- day the sun is hot enough to blister the flesh. And there arethose who complain about the kind of weather we have. Aen VOL. 57. Mr. Guthrie and His Effort to Have Two State Conventions. “The members of the committee,” said “are William K. Meyers. ing of the State % The above has reference to the action designated by Chairman DEWALT, and cast their votes for Mr. ACKERMAN, of Westmoreland, and so certified. Mr. PAUL, another of his backers, and who had been tried, under the rules, and found guilty of “supporting candidates opposed to the Democratic party,” and thus made himself ineligible to the place, received the support of but four of the eight chairmen in his division. Mr. RHODES, still another of his alleg- ed Executive committeemen, had as his supporters but three of the thirteen members of his division Committee. They were the chairman of his own, Delaware, county, the representative of Chester county, and one of the eight members of STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UN ON. BELLEFONTE, PA. FEBRUARY 9, 1912. Collapse of the Roosevelt Boom. The collapse of the ROOSEVELT boom is as complete as it was tragic. A month ago the signs pointed to his nomination | as a certainty. TAFT'S fatuity was turn- ing all thoughts toward SAGAMORE Hiv, | declare GIFFORD PINCHOT and JIMMY GARFIELD, late of the Tennis cabinet, held a meet- ing and declared for him. “Dick” QUAY, of Pittsburg, announced his preference for the hero of San Juan, and BiLL FLINN made a pilgrimage to the office of the | Outlook. The Republican committee of | St. Louis adopted resolutions in favor of the “Coinel,” and JoE MEDILL, of Chicago, set his ponderous mind into motion, | the public; usurpation of governmental, S— - a — -—— SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. —Those who need hay in Venango county are paying $24 a ton for loose timothy in wholesale lots, and it is believed the price will go higher. —Saxton, with a population of 2,500 or over in town and suburbs, has the remarkable distinction of having no dentist. It certainly is a good field for one. —An epidemic of chicken-pox in a mild form is prevalent among the children of Everett. The disease is said to be epidemic in many other parts of the county. ~Falls Creek is to get a pottery plant in the near future, the board of trade having agreed to put up a certain amount of cash for a Bohemian art glass company. —N. F. Flick, aged 35 years, a railroad engineer residing at Freeport, was shot through the jaw, near Vandegrift, recently. It is thought that a track walker fired the shots, only one of which was effective. —Eight hundred students of Harrisburg’s cen- tral high school filed out of the building in less than one and one half minutes when the fire NO. 6. Probing the Express Trust. From the Johnstown Democrat. The express companies of the United States pay 60 per cent. of their gross to the railroads; and out of what is left, after all expenses are paid, they dividends of 41 per cent. on an startling y out by Attorney Frank Lyon, represent ing the interstate commerce commission at the now in progress before the commission. Here are some of the charges against the exnress companies which Mr. Lyon has undertaken to prove: EE ee. 3 c over-wei . at both ends; inefficient ig; Sollecting = tion with railroads for the oppression of ing twelve years, for the destruction of their brother's barn by means of an incendiary fire. lish DuBois and start it on its prosperous career. He was a native of Lancastershire, England, and was 63 years old. —The Pittsburg and Sus uehanna Railroad company, under a lease with he New York Cen- of the regular Democratic State Execu- tive Committee, at its meeting last week, at which it decided upon June 7th and Harrisburg as the time and place for holding the next Democratic State Con- vention. It is taken from an interview gent broad-cast over the State by the lit scheming schemes. It is small wonder that most of us came to the belief that the nomination of TEDDY was inevitable. But “there is many a slip ‘twixt the cup | Lyon; J. Pi and the lip,” as the adage has it. ROOSE- Fuck Somalis Va eo vELT like BARKUS “was willin’,” though er, . Schiff, Charles J it hit rio am coued. There Lrsiouh estate, B. P. Cheney estats, banking and conscionable dividends. Here are the chief beneficiaries of the Philadelphia. The other ten members— ; une seven from Philadelphia, two from Mont: gomery and one from Bucks county, vot- ed for Mr. WARREN S. LONG, of Doyles town, and so certified their action. Mr. GUTHRIE will not have the audaci- ty to deny the above facts, and with these tral company to take care of the passenger traffic between Philipsburg and Munson, made its first by Mr. trips last week. Patrons of the road are glad to H C see trains running again. F. —The work of the State in draining Pymatuning Swamp, in the western end of Crawford county, will convert thousands of acres of swamp land into rich farms, and the spot where now only the —Senator LA FOLLETTE might go south and recuperate his shattered health com- paring notes with “Marse” HENRY WAT- TERSON. It appears that they are both suffering from having talked too much. —Wooprow WILSON has at last be- come a real public citizen. He cut his Ue ouietie of Ssorgenisere which a as the facts, he knows that any separate were sycophants in plenty to feed his! That the railroads are ually bull frog and mosquito hold sway will in coming lip while shaving, the other day, and the tm resoRn convention he might induce the men he | vanity and Wall street was even anxious | ing more and more of business into | Years be the garden spot of western Pennsyl- city dailiesdevoted a half column of space head. The object of the interview is to has named to fix a time and place for to finance the enterprise. The Steel trust : : : "| create the impression that the regular . owned by the saine men who own the —Deputy Attorney General Cunningham has to telling the public what is here an GT hat met on the 1st | Nolding—other than that fixed by the {board got busy and GARY and PERKINS | railroads over which they operate is in- | asked the Supreme court to grant a change of nounced in six lines. Te wont authority or standing regular Executive,Committee—would have hg Palos WheTveY. Se ms Uicated by figures gathered by ne. Lyon | venue in the case ol seven rosidetis 3 Chester - » : . ’ : resen! A a increase percentage express county, charged participation murder —Probably by the time the How, & and thus give the factionists an excuse Bo HOF standing = By a > moment the “sober, second | business over other activities of the rail- | of Zack Walker. He alleges that there is a set- MITCHELL PALMER gets through pa ing | +o continue their efforts to disrupt and tion, than : place thought” of the publi asserted itself and roads. This table of figures showed that tled purpose among the citizens of Chester coun- up his own political fences in his Con- divide the Democracy of the State by the were named by his friend and backer, Mr. the o a £ tors the of increase in ty not to convict a white man for murdering a gressional district he won't be so keen | ayiempt to call two conventions, make two PENROSE, or by his other supporters, the PEEPUSIETOUS am ” I business of 1930 ove 1553 Was 1244 per eon di, be won’, b= 5 Ke | tmp call vo comvenions mak | CLC Sour of Pdi |1 ura dn uneriten, ov ront|Co e: nd”eors JB | cotyr Sr et: mm— was i } other parts of the State. sets of National delegates and two plat-| Colonel BRYAN continues to exer- | 3 badly battered A es 25 Gov- 72.07. The population of the - | amount of $10,000 for compelling Frederick M, ~The announcements of ROBERT M. forms for the party to wrangle and dis- | cise the prerogatives of hereditary boss |ernor WiLsox would say. The moral creased n meantime only 38.25 per | Merrick, a former ioate. af that Iutifution, io FOSTER, of State College, and GEORGE A. | pute over. of the Democratic party and will proba- | sense of the revolted the| It was also shown by Mr. Lyon attend religious services during his incarceration, people against as de Ri. . fat Merrick clains that the warden violated the third Beezer, of Bellefonte, for Legislature, starts the ball a rolling for the honor of filling the chair made vacant by the death Mr. GUTHRIE knows as well as does every other citizen, who knows anything about it, that the rules of the party ex- bly do so as long as it puts money in his pocket. But the party is likely to wake up to a realization of the menace which grafter, the falsifier and traducer. Our gratification over this turn of af- fairs is not because TAFT will be easier section of Article I of the constitution of Penn. sylvania. —Cumberland county taxpayers are complaining g ' proving that it is the : of the late lamented Hon. J. C. MEYER. plicitly set forth who can be elected | guch a condition involves. BRYAN'S lec: | to defeat in November for we don't be- who is hardest hit. Theattorney fur about the expensive luxury of maintaining tramps. —It looks like we Democrats are going neloers of the Sits Peco Jive Comins: ture fees and newspaper profits are | jieve that is the case. TAPT will be a gited proof of exclusive Contracts be- BD it D¥ide for masa to have two State conventions, two sets mga. thie tegs greatly enhanced by keeping the Demo- | weak candidate beyond question for the tween the express and taliusd cofubs, the peace inproved the shining hours so well that ~~ * of delegates, and two contesting crowds a : - | cratic party in the minority with himself | reason that he has betrayed every pledge | cut their own “melons” they first had to he accumulated $302 in costs for committing them. to the National convention. But in the er may be fully informed on this matter | a5 the manager, but the six or Seven | he made to the people since his election, | FRCS OR. wr tier gutive | Tere ave Gther counties in which the ame ule point that is really vital there will be but we give the rules in full bearing upon | million real Democrats in the COUntry and been the willing nstrument of “the | 6708S revenue to the railroad companies. Sick quiere : : the State § this subject. They are as follows: are beginning to find out that there is |, "in their schemes of spoliation. William Savacoll, attorney generals of | —Tossing a $10 gold piece in the air last Tues- one. For Wooprow WILSON tate iS | puLE HI Section 1. Democratic Divi- ning in it for th terests spoha New Hampshire, told the commission the | day, George Hoke, of Johnstown, was shy that not divided. sion Committees shal consist of the Chair nothing in it for them. But he is stronger than ROOSEVELT for American Expres company dad dain amount for Sie, when a dog at he Hoke DOC — ts ics : a com mo home caught the money in its mouth swal- — That New Bethlehem postoffice girl | Within the respective political _divisons into A Modern Dogberry. it is inconceivable that an enlightened bought up nopaly J | lowed it. The dog. in its play, would often catch who had been at work six years robbing ; a American electorate would have voted, in | apg that since this m been | a ball, and its antics were not unusual when it the go before she was detected, | Central Committeefrom such As the Moses of the disorganizers Mn | great numbers, for so palpable a fraud, | in effect there had been an increase of | jumped for the piece of money. An emetic in- certainly a clever une, but at that, | y bewntitled thereto. James 1: BLAKESLIE is amusing, manifest a humbug and so selfish 2 100 per cont. I E Ch duced the dog to “cough up.” we ! | mac i is on i i His latest att pt at ex: politi as ROOSEVELT. There who testified 4 Prin aa a i Cof i . t you thinkit is about time to inspect man jing the rules of the D i tician a8 THEODORE express companies—and a the wit. | —Miller McLain, Minneapolis, Minn., was the inspectors who could allow her short- ere viaion Committee: provided, that he ng > tic | are those who would, of course, but they | ;esge5 were repr ves commer- accidentally shot at the home of his uncle, R. M. to grow to $6118.00 before finding it be a resident: Democratic © of ‘the divi. | Party, however, is a trifie more absurd | are diminishing in number and would | cial and trade associations from all over P. Davis, of Lock Haven. He was 18 years old age to gro sion. who shall hold his of jor the pefod than usual. He gravely announces that | have been a negligible quantity by No- | the country—told of the monopolies the and was a student at the State Normal. A close out. an while substitutions are valid in the Dem- i express lines have that | friend, Harold Brown, was visiting him and wag —A party of Shamokin boys stole silk stockings and presented them to a party of Sunbury girls. The theft was dis- covered and the boys were arrested be- cause the girls displayed their silken hosiery. Now it would be interesting to know who the old scout was who had | such close tab on thosegirls that he knew CRATIC STATE CENTRAL COMM 1 HACER SARIN TO Y M EVER EMBER OF SAID DEMO- CRATIC DIVISION COMM OF THE MES AND PLACES SUCH MEET- ocratic State Central committee and in Democratic State conventions, they are not legal in the Democratic State Execu- tive committee. He bases this oracular assertion upon the absence of specific authority in the rule governing and de- may wear wooden shoes but she has no inclination to put on a metallic cloak. In an edict she has directed "Premier YUAN to co-operate with the Provisional gov- fining the State Executive committee, “Rule 5," he says substantially, “provides ernment at Yanking in transforming the Empire into a Republic,” according to vember. ~The Empress Dowager of China { high as 150 per cent. "Why all the Tumult? From the Springfield Republican. The letters that passed between Gov. Wilson and Col. George Harvey have been brought to light by the New York Even- come by grief. —A new trial has been granted by the State Su- perior Court to John M. Andrews, of Warren, Pa., when they changed from cotton or liste | [IM for substitutes in the State Central com. news dispatches. The Empress Dowa- ing Post, with the cordial consent of both | bribery and perjury and the confession of Mrs. thread to silk. Section 3. It shall be the duty of the Chair- | mittee and Rule 6 authorizes substitutes S€F probably imagines such a concession Ny gts, ane a They 8 ous Stella Hodges, who declared that she killed : man it- | for delegates to the State convention, but | will save her neck from the block. terfieldi liteness and deference. G o. Public feciing inthe case rau high we —The prompt appointment of H. C.. teeto call all meetings of such . : n, ROA sm emm— riieldian po a OV. | Warren and the entire vicinity has taken up Di ree "EXCEPT the annual | there is no provison for substitutes in the | Wilson's apologies are and | des in the case. VALENTINE to be postmaster of Bellefonte meeting to be held on the first Y | grate sive committee.” i President Taft’s Subterfuge. Col. Harvey's acceptance of them most to succeed the late lamented Captain | after the third Monday £0 0 So writing | courteous. What in thunder is all this | —Expecting that the Northumberland county WiLLiamMs can hardly be called a per- oxide for the little sores that the other aspirants will have, but it has given Belle- . Upon the authority of so eminent gnd | | respectable a legal expert as the late WILLIAM BLACKSTONE, custom is the most Obviously President TAFT’S suggestion of ‘an international commission to “in- quire into the high cost of living,” is a Wattersonian tumult about? The dear old southerner has been as impetuous as a hair-trigger, and as irregular in nis commissioners would grant them an increased rate amounting to 10 cents per mile to and from court while making returns, constables received fonte a very acceptable gentleman to JRULE IV. Section LL, hail const. of j substantial law. Since the creation of | subterfuge. The purpose is to deceive Steikin as 2 so ved fire alah, ashock Monday Wien flay were tied Slat preside over the mails and the govern- the Chatfian and Secretaries of the Der, | the State Executive committee, as a part | the public into the belief that domestic | had anything to conceal in this business, | instead of five cents. The constables were seek- ment an official who will prove trust-| CHAIRMEN O tral Committee AND THE | of the Democratic State organization, | conditions have nothing to do with the | and a good deal appears to his credit. | ing a 10-cent rate, because they said York county worthy, capable and courteous. SION COMMITTEES, all of hom shall be | there has never been a meeting of that | matter. In other words the President is Now for the next bomb! constables have been awarded that rate after : State Executive ittee, with all the rights committee at which the full membership | trying to show that the tariff is in no Clev ” i Joos. instituting suit against the commissioners. —Editor ToM MCCLELLAN, of the Mt. | and of uch was present and there has never been a | respect responsible for the prices of com- | p- —Central Pennsylvania scientists are taking a Jewett Herald, spent Wednesday in Belle- fonte inquiring into the political situa- tion here relative to the selection of Na tional Delegates. His county, McKean, has two probable aspirants. Mr. Mc- It will be noticed that it is the pUTY of the State chairman to give each member of the “division committee:"” (they are the county chairmen and members of the State committee for the counties consti- meeting at which some or all of the ab- sentees have not been represented by proxies or substitutes. At the meeting of that committee held in Philadelphia during the campaign of 1910, when the modities upon which it levies heavy taxes. “The increase of the cost of liv- ing is world-wide,” the stand-patters as- sert, “and countries in which there is no protective tariff are suffering with those From the Emporia Gazette. It is an interesting proposition—this conservation of humanity, making those who have much pay for the wear and tear of life u; those who have little. It was one of those things that were re- lively interest in a big natural cave discovered near the turnpike between Hummelstown and Harrisburg. The caveis in the same part of the county that the big Hummelstown cave is in. The new cave rivals, on a small scale, the Mam- moth Cave of Kentucky. The cave is made up CLELLAN is an old Philipsburg boy and tuting the different Syuisiens) TEN DAYS | proposition of some Philadelphia Repub- | in which the policy prevails.” That is garded as revolutionary ar glues. | oi many chavibers, mos of cm dark, and there his paper is ome of the cleverest of Xo TE division, - to 0 gan licans that both GRiM and BERRY with- | only a half-truth and an exceedingly poor | it is still ahead of the times. But it is sve any evidences of aiieul a talacties snd Pennsylvania's country weeklies. While | OF IF draw in order that a candidate accepta- | false pretense at that. interesting to see that it has got far | stalagmites are very beautiful. we do not agree with some of the ideas chairman, who, in consequence of that |... +, a] opponents of the Republican increase i : enough along to be submitted as a bond storiall do admire | lection, becomes a member of the State : : The i in the cost of living in |jseue It will be interesting to watch the —Besides considering the idea of asking the he propounds editorially we Executive Committee, Mr. GUTHRIE machine might be substituted, there were | Great Britain, for example, is attributable i. stand for it | citizens’ consent to issue bonds to the extent of the trenchant style in which he presents them. —A choice bit of political gossip is going the rounds just now to the effect that some of the Republican leaders had plan- ned to have HARRY VALENTINE become a candidate for county chairman of their party in opposition to Mr. QUIGLEY; knows that the only call issued, as speci- fied by the rules, was that of Chairman DEWALT, and that only such members of the State Executive Committee were elected as were chosen at the time and place designated by him. He knows also that he, as a rump chairman of a rump committee, made NO such call for a three substitutes present. We refer to that meeting particularly for the reason that it was an eventful one and Mr. JAMES I. BLAKESLIE, as the candidate of the party for Secretary of Internal Affairs, was present and partici- pated in the deliberations. He made no protest against substitutes at that time and raised no question of the validity of largely, to the tariff taxation in the United States. For nearly fifty years the United States have been the source of food sup- ply for Great Britain. The wheat fields of the northwest furnished the people of that part of Europe with cereals, the plains of Texas, Colorado and Nebraska supplied their beef and Missouri and Oklahoma their pork. So long as those bond election. If the e Sand 4 vax plan is mighty likely to follow. Be whereupon the latter suddenly discovered meeting of Division committees, to elect One thing is certain, and that is that —Milton has secured a pew industry in the Mil- that Mr. VALENTINE was the only man | an Executive committee; gave no notice the proceedings because of the presence | products were cheap in this country the | the are not going | ton Brick Manufacturing company that completely adapted to be postmaster of [in writing of either time or place that of the slbstisntes, During thie campalsh | eogt of ving vas low tere Bi the row merely because employment to a large number of men and boys. Bolivfonte and turned his organization to > h - would be of 1902 Mr. Geo. W. GUTHRIE attended | tariff tax on those commodities have to go into consultation with Thomas For- | Philadelphia, Pittsburg and Milton business men = such an election held, conse- | 0 or more meetings of the State Exec: | finally advanced prices here so that they tune Ryan with a view of arranging for | are interested in the project, and already enough working for the appointinent, We kiiow quently. has: 50 Executive committee t0 | ie committee at which members were | are compelled to pay more for the nec the 8 of lis Sampaio. Yo | money i53 wight. 10 life. suoeet, The Souk not how much, if any truth, there is in | fall back upon, except, perhaps, one or pay Wore Tor “| ers would view with any Dem- | pany, which will be capitalized at $250,000, has the story, but true or not it is certainly an admission on the part of someone that HENRY CUTE makes postmasters when he wants to. ~The courts in Pittsburg are soon to be asked to give a legal definition of “Whatis a horn?” The question has arisen in the game commission as to whether it is not a violation of the law for a hunter toshoot a deer on which the horns are not visible. This will be an interesting case, no doubt. From our point of view the hunter who shoots a deer without a visible horn is guilty before the fact but if it has a horn at all he is not guilty after it has been killed. While the bigger the buck the longer the horn; the one with the little wee horn is a buck just the two of the old Executive committee, whose places were not filled, and who hold over until their successors are duly chosen. This is the dilemma he is now in and the farther he goes in his efforts to wid- en the divisions in the party and organize a convention of his own, the deeper he will get into the political mire. Even if his contention, that “the coun- ty chairmen met at the time and place set by us both,” which is not correct, be admitted, it does not better matters for him. Mr. MCNAIR, of Pittsburgh, whom he claims to have been clected, received but seven of the fifteen votes of the division represented by proxy and he made no objection. But it becomes a grave of- fense to follow a universal custom when the result of the deliberations of the body runs counter to the inclinations, or the interests of this modern Dogberry of Carbon county. ——Has anybody heard of Vice Presi- dent SHERMAN declining proffered hon- ors or anything else? It is a safe bet that SHERMAN ‘would accept a “hand out” from the back door if there were no strings to it. ~——ROOSEVELT never had much love essaries of life. President TAPT understands that an | becom international commission such as he pro- poses will find these facts. But it will not be able to report until after the next election of President so that it will serve his purpose quite as well as if contrary conditions prevailed. The tariff commis- sion was created for practically the same purpose. In order to give beneficiaries of the iniquity another year of spoliation that absurd bedy was creaied and the) people have paid, in excessive taxes, more than a billion dollars during the interval. The new commission wili be quite as ex- pensive and useless. The tariff tax is the for Senator CRANE, of Massachusetts, and probably thinks less of him now than | principal cause of the high cost of living and no commission is needed to prove ever. The sneaking, sycophantic manner ' the fact. the Conrad Weaver farm of 95 acres, pired to control a President. oo et ——The fact that a man may sing at graph, may not remove all the terrors of the grave but it will make some folks take a more cheerful view of death. —1If it had been an opossum, instead of a ground hog, TAFT would probably have eaten the pesky varmint and the same and the intent of the law is only to he pretends to represent. The other of Senator LODGE is more to ROOSEVELT’S m—— ——For high class Job Work come to puy E, twenty of brothers o make it unlawful to shoot a doe. cight having met atthe time and place liking. — Subscribe for the WATCHMAN. | the WATCHMAN Office. , SOGALY Were SWELFY peies ug three ARTE ho bd a ie
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