BY P. INK SLINGS. —*“Lest We forget.” It was 98 degrees | in the shade in Bellefonfe on July 4th, 1911. —A movement to have that six weeks sentence that old Sol put on the ground hog commutated would prove wonderful- ly popular. | —We believe, with James J. HiLL that should the government take competition out of business then there would be no government. —“Once a Moose always a Moose;” hardly so with JAMES MOOSE who weigh- ed 525 pounds and died in Pottstown Monday. He's probably an angel now. —When we read of how Secretary WiL- soN is mixed up in those submarine farms in Florida we are forced to advise all our friends who think of buying one to take one of Dr. WELSH'S pecan proper- ties, instead. —The Milwaukee brewer's combine has advanced the price of beer a dollar a bar- rel. The rise in the price of hops is given as the cause. Well, hops may hop up and cause beer to hop up too but in the end it will go down. —Evangelist BILLY SUNDAY worked six weeks in Canton, Ohio, and took down fifteen thousand dollars as the reward for his services. That beats base-ball all hollow, and also proves that specialists in religion are getting fancy salaries. —The heirs of the late EDWIN HAw- LEY, railroad man, have announced that his estate will probably shrink from the first estimates of thirty millicn to not more than five. So many hands have been grabbing for it that probably all of the water was squeezed out before they realized it. —Won't the Republican and Gazette have their own troubles trying to keep under cover when chairman QUIGLEY and would be chairman HARRiS get down to real fighting. Surely the exigencies of politics will make a lot of strange bed fellows when the various crowds get to crawling under cover. —We hope that personal rancor got the best of the better judgment of one of our local contemporaries when it published that diatribe on Bellefonte's past post- masters last week. Surely the reflection upon the splendid service of James H. Dobgins, D. F. FORTNEY, the late W. W. MONTGOMERY and poor AL. FIEDLER could not have been intended. VOL. 57. A Dirty Threat to Continue Trouble. This week our disorganizing friends who parade themselves as Progressive Democrats, just as if their party and its supporters were not progressive, make, through Mr. A. MITCHELL PALMER, and the Philadelphia Press (—the first a chronic trouble breeder, the second a professed reformer except where reform might be made effective at the polls, and then a pitiable tool of Senator PENROSE | and the gang that does his bidding —the open declaration AND THREAT | that there shall be no peace within the Democratic party or no harmony in its organization until the men, Mr, PALMER. Mr. GUTHRIE and Mr. Mc- COrRMICK consider their are ousted and driven from the organiza- tion. It we were to make a guess as to the individuality of the men who must be po- litically damned and denied the privilege of being Democrats, because this tri- umvirate of mal-contents don’t like them, before there can be peace and uni- ty in the party, we would name Col. James M. GurrFey, Hon. J. K. P. HALL, Hon. A. G. DEWALT, Mr. CHas. P. Don. NELLY and Mr. W. J. BRENNEN. At least it is upon the heads of these gentlemen that the vials of wrath of the disorgan- izers are continuously being poured. Now, when we take into consideration that not a single one of these men belong to or has any more to do with the mak- ing of the Democratic State organization than the humblest Democratic voter in the Commonwealth, the hollowness and falsity of the excuse they plead for keep- ing up turmoil and trying to create di- visions in the party, will be seen. ‘Mr. GUFFEY, although a member of the National Democratic Committee, has no connection whatever with the State or- ganization. Mr. HALL has not been con- nected in any way with the organization, served as its chairman, and as such succeeded in clecting Mr. BERRY as State Treasurer. Mr. DEwaLT, Mr. DON- “adversaries” | STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. BELLEFONTE, PA. FEBRUARY 16, 1912. Insulting Lincoln’s Memory. That the Republican politicians have prostituted the anniversary of President LINCOLN'S birth is a just cause for regret. Out of the universal admiration of the patriotism; of the great War President the anniversary of his birth was made a National holiday. Men of all parties par- ticipated in the movement and Demo- crats and Republicans alike paid this tribute to his virtues as a man and his integrity as a public servant. Not only was this true in Congress but in all the State Legislatures and of late years the South vies with the North in honoring the man and the occasion. Under the circumstances it would seem to us that the celebration of LINCOLN'S natal day ought not to be perverted into a partisan event. As a matter of fact, however, that is | precisely what has been done. On Mon- day last the President of the United | States spoke at the LiNcoLy day celebra- ! tion in New York and most of the mem- | bers of the cabinet spoke at other places. i Senator PENROSE spoke in Philadelphia and every Republican Senator and Rep- resentative in Congress who could be ine duced to do so, spoke atone place or another. And in every case the same thing occurred. The speaker made ! it seem like a political meeting in which party prejudices were freely invoked to stir up party passions. In fact it was an- nounced in advance that it would be made the occasion of opening up the Re- publican Presidential campaign. The orations were stump speeches and the eulogies of LINCOLN special pleas for par- tisanship. If the present Republican party still adhered to the policies and principles of LINCOLN there might be some excuse for this perversion of patriotic impulses. But as a matter of fact there is no analogy | betweef modern Republicanism and the tenets which guided LINCOLN in his polit- ical and official conduct. No man of his day or generation more directly repro- NO. 7. Another Grave Scandal. Democracy or Caesarism. The Department of Agriculture in From the Springfield Republican. | fheony 2 man is, the less likely he would x : x | o favor another term in Presidéncy syndicate in selling town lots and truck | for a citizen who had been President two farms in Florida that are several feet un- | terms already. The case of those Repub- der water. It was a despicable fraud up- | lican progressives who favor a third ter on the credulous public. Innocent pur- | for Mr. velt, conseq 1s not : : easy to diagnose. It cannot be that chasers were literally jumping at the en- are so full of Democratic theory as id ticing propositions of the promoters, | profess to be, while they fall short backed by the endorsement of the gov- such an extent in i ernment. Of course it is foolish to “buy | Nothing could be a pig in a poke,” and buy land in the | President again. Congressmai Roosevelt Everglades of Florida is very much like NE th merely ha Probl who the government MEBE, vi, Pcs, Rong - no : endorsement people would have hesitat- | oo Gn "Roosevelt's case. For what is ed. Even credulity has its limit. But every one who has money wants safe in- vestment for it and the proposition look- ed good. The Department of Agriculture had just emerged from a scandal of the grav- est kind. At the instance of the manu- facturers of impure food it had entered into a conspiracy to eliminate Dr. WILEY, the pure food expert who couldn't be bribed or cajoled. The conspiracy had |?! almost succeeded. The Attorney General had recommended the dismissal of the official and the President had ac- ‘quiesced. But the victim wouldn't stand for the injustice and indirectly appealed to Congress. The result was an investi- gation which vindicated WILEY and con- the record to date? It never entered the heads of Washinton, Jefferson or Jackson & ly censured, it is true, and the other principal in the affair transferred to another bureau of the Department, where he resumed his evil ways. Singularly enough both these gentle. men are conspicuous in the new scandal. If WiLsoN and McCABE had been remov- ed from office at the close of the other inyestigation, the new scandal might never have been developed. But they were not removed and therefore it is not unjust to hold the administration respon- sible for what has happened. Any Presi- dent, as any citizen, is likely to be de- g 8 g gz" § ; iL g : - 2i £ Hi & i : The more truly democratic in political | | SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. i —Schools at Blacklick are closed, owing | epidemic of measles. —A saven mile stretch of 12-inch ice on the | Raystown branch affords Huntingdon autoists opportunity for the rare pleasure of ice runs. —The announcement is made that the Clifford Susquehanna county, creamery has divided $60,- 000 among its stockholders the profits of the year. —Former Lieutenant Governor Robert Murphy, of Johnstown, has taken up his residence in | Philadelphia, where he is engaged in the practice | of law. —While laughing in keen enjoyment of a mov- ing picture show at a Pottsville theatre, Mrs. David W. Bechtel fell back dead from heart affec” | tion. She had been in apparent good health. ! ~The DuBois borough council is considering the question of issuing bonds to the amount of | $25,000 for a new municipal building. The pres- | ent borrowing capacity of the borough is $75,000 —Potter county is an enviable example of thrift. The only debt is $20,000 of county poor bonds, which will be reduced to $15,000 this year. The treasury contains sufficient money to pay ali bills. —Eight men who served as special policemen in Franklin as long ago as last October are stil looking for their pay because councils are dead locked about the amount that should be paid t . ~The oldest woman residing in Pottsville is dead at the age of 96 years. Margaret Scharf was her name, widowhood was her lot, and she never knew a sick day until she lapsed into her last sleep. —A truck load of merchandise was found at the home of a mother and daughter at Prospect, after their arrest for shop lifting at the Penn Traffic store, Johnstown. Thirty pairs of shoes were in- cluded in the collection. —Ambrose Moose, said to be one of the heaviest men in this State, died at Pottsville on Monday of dropsy. He weighed 525 pounds, was5 feet, 10 inches tall and measured three feet across his shoulders. He was 40 years old. —The county commissioners of Huntingdon county had their attorney appear before the grand jury recently and that body turned down the ap- plication of Civil war veterans for a memorial hall. The old soldiers are much disappointed. —Because twenty-six cuses of smallpox were found in a small mining town named Unity, not far from Greensburg, the entire population, about 900 strong, has been vaccinated. Little work is being done, for everybody is nursing a sore arm. —Mrs. Annie Connelly and her husband, J. Frank Connelly, of Clearfield, have sued the bor, ough for $15,000,because of injuries Mrs. Connelly received on a defective sidewalk. W. M. Eisen- haur, owner of the property, has been notified to defend the suit. —Louis Globiss, a resident of Westmoreland | barroom by his victim and fatally shot, dying almost instantly. —Lucius H. Willard, manager of the Jersey Shore opera house, was found dead in bed last week. He had been missing for three days but, owing to his habit of spending several days with friends in Lock Haven or Williamsport, no alarm was felt until the third day. ~The will of the late Matilda Church-Keller, of rE Sous : ars are tobe shot to preven ¥ . is tn hm of which $18, NELLY and Mr. BRENNEN all resigned their connection with the State organiza- bated the paternalism, centralization and | militarism of the present Republican par- ty than LINCOLN. “Though only —China is. a Republic at last. The Manchus have abdicated after three cen- turies of domination, which is quite some arta ia poh a Slayer wage TIC , Es TA time according to our idea of it. In Chi- na, however, the Manchus were hated because they didn't date back far enough. —J. PierrONT MORGAN'S art collec. tion is said to be valued at one hundred million dollars. Just think how many warm suits of woolen clothes, tons of coal and sacks of flour that colossal sum would buy for the suffering poor this winter. —Mr. RYErsoN W. JENNINGS, chair- man of the Democratic committee of Ten which is organizing the movement in behalf of WiLsON in Pennsylvania, has discovered a nigger in the wood-pile in the person of the Hon. JIMMIE BLAKES- LIE, secretary of GUTHRIE'S reorganizer's State committee. The Philadelphia Ledger of Monday quotes Mr. JENNINGS as follows: “The replies so far received have been most gratifying, The only discordant note has come from Mr. BLAKESLIE, probably, however, this was to be expected * * * he isso entire. ly animated by another and a narrower purpose, that WILSON'S success is subor- dinated to the objects of a faction.” Of course it was to be expected. Mr, BLAKESLIE is like Mr. PALMER and Mr. GurHrie. The only boosting they are ready to do is for themselves, and they are so eager to become bosses of the Democratic party in Pennsylvania that they haven't a care for such important things as the national campaign. —HARD P. HARRIS, of Bellefonte, has sad his ear to the ground and claims to have heard a far cry from his party that a new county chairman is wanted; con- seqently he is out in opposition to chair- man QuicLEY. While it might be true that a new chairman is wanted, a new one is certainly not needed. In fact the Republican party needs no chairman at all because by next fall there won't be ed to the places they filled. With a remembrance of these factsour readers will see exactly the animus that keeps up the troubles that now vex and | disgust the great mass of Democratic | and a return to vocations and methods of voters in Pennsylvania. { peace. Political stump speeches on It is the dirty and detestable work of a LINCOLN'S birthday are insulting to his pitiable little faction that secks,and fights, memory. for the acknowledged leadership that the ! Democratic people wisely refuse to give | period of time had elapsed between. surrender of LEE and his death hé was already impatient for a complete restora- tion of the government of the country —In order to relieve the suspense to ask the WiLEy investigation ended there ought to have been two vacancies in the Department of Agriculture and Secreta- ry WiLson and Solicitor MCCABE placed in retirement. i | ——Considering the way the Mexican people have been carrying on ever since they drove President Diaz out of their It has always been so! Will a wide: Silfulion of education change the situa- on. » Or after all don’t men like Johnson really win in defeat? Their ideas go marching on and though downed in in- y tri h long after the propagator is pracy lies ly Judson Harmon Stands Pat. From the Altoona Times. After a protracted silence, Governor them. And they now threaten that there can be no peace until this is allowed them. Surely the exhibition of such a spirit and purpose should convince every Dem- ocrat of the utter unworthiness of these “pretending reformers.” Bryan Fitly Rebuked. The country is indebted to Representa- tive MARTIN Dies, of Texas, for his ex- posure, on Saturday last, of WILLIAM Jennings BRYAN. With other Democrat- ic members of the House of Representa- tives, Mr. Dies had recently voted against a resolution requiring that the President shall publish the names of all persons who recommend candidates for appoint- ment to the bench. Such a resolution is generally understood to be unconstitu- tional for the reason that it would work an encroachment upon the constitutional prerogatives of the executive. But with characteristic fatuousness, Mr. BRYAN assailed the gentlemen and denounced them as party recreants. On Saturday Mr. DIES “rose to a ques- tion of privilege” and had Mr. BRYAN'S attack read to the House. Thereupon he quoted from the records evidence that GEORGE WASHINGTON, the first President, resented a similar proposition as an in- fraction of the constitution and that ANDREW JACKSON was equally emphatic in repelling a similar infraction of the among his million or moré minions in Pennsylvania Senator PENROSE has thus early announced that he will permit them to re-elect him to the Senate in 1915. i i The Political Clown is Incensed. em Mr. JAMES I. BLAKESLIE, political clown, is greatly incensed because some of the rest of us favor the nomination of WooD- ROW WILSON as the Democratic candi- date for President. He is utterly unable to imagine why anybody, other than him- self, should have any opinion on any sub- ject. It would have been just as easy, he confidently believes, for the Democrats of Pennsylvania to appoint him adminis- trator of its estate, and allow him, in pursuance of the authority thereby con- veyed, to select the candidate for Presi- dent. Nobody clse, he feels assured, is competent to perform such an important service. He only, of all men, understands the needs of the people and the require: ments of the occasion. He is essentially ©" Therefore Mr. BLAKESLIE, political clown, protests against the organization might have been all right because in that event it would have been under safe auspices, according to his notion. But unhappily he hardly ever thinks of any- thing first and in his estimation anything that anybody else thinks of first is all country and took governmental affairs | ©. Co rnor Harmon raises into their own hands, most people will | . tude that he rad Siving a : profes against the initiative and refer good deal better government than they | It was notto be expected that Governor Judson Harmon, of Ohio, has Spoken his wv in deserved. | Harmon would a e of these notions. me | They present the sutigodes of his | own e a conserva- Mr. Schwab Makes a Bluf. | tive, while the initiative and referendum a part of the most radical of Mr. CHARLES M. SCHWAB, president, ' pt t. It is not likely that the owner, and general manager of the Beth- initiative referendum will play any lehem Steel company, threatens that he PArt in the coming presiasneial campaign. will quit inlaws if Congress yuo the LOLSiat Teason, ther je, Title or 0 pending bill reducing the tariff tax on mon’s attack on the principle save in jStee) Mr. CARNEGIE testified before a that it : ilicates Yoly cleafly H that he | Congressional Committee, not long ago, 'n NO Wis¢ ¢ St ' that no tariff taxes are needed on tee), So-Called "sale 30) sane” wing ! products. But Mr. SCHWAB takes a dif- | r— ferent view of the subject. He believes Politics and the Aldrich Bill | that the $2.40 cents a ton tariff tax €X- From the Chicago Public. | pressed in the UNDERWOOD bill is insuffi- | the | cient. It might do well enough as an! EE em ear item of profit for the manufacturers of | steel, he admits. But what is io bose! ehieber Jf fo propesed 10 ko Poe of the necessary protection to labor? | of the white man’s | That is what makes Mr. SCHWAB threat- | tee of a | en to quit business. j hel, Who | According to an investigation made by ' jefiled” a New York contemporary with respect alone.” What the people conditions at South Bethlehem, Kilow Shop: the Siatioy 1 Mr. SCHWAB’S steel industry, coop” features. omission hal the laborers employed. there work Lon Lerouse the, polly, oppor twelve hours a day, seven days in a week hunting banker crowd. for the consideration of about twelve | —— and a-half cents an hour. The death rate | It Wi is higher, with a single exception, than From the Ohio in any other community in the civilized | In the meantime, La 2 gE the In commending bill, President Taft a £ time at the farm homestead brass, and were made in Germany. DeWitt has refused $150 for the old-time-piece. —Ross Perry, of Morrisdale, indicted for mur- der in the Clearfield county court, was discharg- ed. Judge Smith said he might have been tried for involuntary manslaughter, as he mistook John Yurko for a burglar and shot him as he was crawling through a window into Perry’s home. —A. B. Farquahr, purchaser of the Jordan property, in West Manchester township, from the York hospital and dispensary, has made ar- rangements with his attorney to give a tract con- taining seven acres to York city that Farquahr Park may be enlarged. The entire tract contains thirty-three acres. —A rabbit hound belonging to a lumberman residing at View Point camp, near " killed a yearling buck recently. Two days previ- ous the deer and the dog had an encounter and the dog was forcibly taken tocamp and tied. As soon as he was released he went after the deer, . which had been foolish enough to stay in the | vicinity. { —William B. Pletcher, who years ago left How- ard for Eaglesmere, recently purchased the Michael Schenck farm, which had been in that family for a century. Mr. Pletcher's mother was a descendant of Michael Schenck, and his wife was of the same family connection, so the pur- chase restores the farm to a family in which it had been for four generations. i powers of the President. Having thus entrenched himself he denounced Mr. BRYAN as "an evil genius, hovering on the flanks of Democracy.” and flatly de- wrong for the reason that he may be left world and the conditions are unspeak- out of the subsequent reckoning. In the able. But Mr. SCHWAB'S wealth multiplies matter of the WooDROW WILSON League, ' with surprising rapidity and he frankly for example, he is cock sure that it is a refuses to take any steps toward the im- any Republicans left in Centre county, so why the need of a new or an old chairman. However, both Mr. HARRIS Eis the Harer home and Mr. Harer arose from a i and Mr. QuicLEY will differ with us on this point, so we >xpect to sit by and see the fun. There is bound to be some, too. There are a lot of defeated candidates suffering with the delusion that a differ- ent campaign last fall might have left them with their feet still tucked under the court house benches, then there are a lot of other things, as well. For in- stance, how many Republican lawyers who have the judicial bee buzzing in their bonnet, do you imagine can see any water being poured on their mill by watching Mr. QUIGLEY building up an or- ganization all of his own in the county, and there are always a few ready to take issue with the established order of things. If Mr. Harris should succeed in round. ing up all these discordant elements there will probably be doings between this and April 13th that will be both interesting and amusing. nor respected the judgment of the Ne- braskan.’’ And his speech was cordially approved and liberally applauded by a large proportion of the Democrats of the House. Apparently Mr. BRYAN doesn’t want Democratic success. He seems deter- mined to allow no man to reach the goal which he failed to attain and he is con- stantly striving to breed trouble in the party. In this State he has frequently obtruded himself to create discontent and in the Denver convention four years ago counseled the most outrageous perversion of power in order to prevent the election of Colonel GUFFEY to the office of Repre- sentative in the National committee. He makes more money by keeping the party in the minority and doesn't hesitate to betray and in the defeat of candidates of the party in order to achieve his selfish clared that “he neither feared the power | conspiracy to prevent the elevation of provement of conditions for the reason | GEORGE W. GUTHRIE, VANCE C. McCoRr- MICK, A. MITCHELL PALMER and himself to the leadership of the party. The Wooprow WILSON League, or- ganized under the auspices of the regular | Democratic organization of Philadelphia, | was conceived in the purest friendship for the distinguished Governor of New Jersey and is likely to prove a very potent and much needed auxiliary force in the campaign for his nomination for the Presidency. It has not taken into account the treacherous element which has been betraying the party at nearly every elec- tion during the past fifteen years and is not likely to take much notice of the absurd antics of Mr. BLAKESLIE. But it will serve the purpose for which it was created, namely, conserve the interests of Wooprow WILSON in the campaigns for his nomination and election. i i friends of that he says they are practically the same ths before the end comes, in all other communities in which the there may be many "a discord ct i | son” in t at time. : £53 ee —— This Rules Out Teddy. — immediate passage of the UNDERWOOD From Collier's Weekly. tariff bill. So far as we are able to discover Other things being anywhere near Mr. SciwABis not indispensible to the that candidate is going to have a industria) fife of the country. 1 he wants ‘Sdyantage in the coming primaries to quit business let him quit. His re- policy of a high protective tariff. tirement might create a void, temporarily | nee in South Bethlehem, but it would not be ——The English courts have decided an enduring loss for there will be some: that the estate of the late Dowager body to take his place and as was said on Duchess of Manchester must ‘pay $300, | at Washington will still live. Mr. SCHWAB though, as a matter of fact, no part of has been a considerable figure, no doubt, the property involved was ever taken into but not the “whole cheese,” He is mak- British dominions. This may look ing a bluff now and if his bluff is called, a hardship upon her heirs but we are and his weakness exposed, it will be his unable to work up a great deal of sym- own fault, pathy for her. a memorable occasion, the government 000 duties on her American property, 'Sobe! bed to attend the funeral. Harer was a veteran of the Civil war and took part in many battles. He was confined as a prisoner in Libby, Bell Island and Salisbury prisons. —Senator Cyrus E. Woods, recently appointed ~ minister to Portugal by President William H, Taft, spent nearly allof last week in Washington going over the correspondence between Portugal and the United States and familiarizing himself with the duties of his new office. Senator Weeds will not leave for Portugal until February 24th. He will sail on one of the North German Lloyd steamers for Cherbourg, and will go from there to Paris, and thence to Lisbon, his station. The Monongahela been cut in the ice. One convert, a well known preach. | spluttered.
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