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—Will winter linger long in the lap of i
spring? |
-2]t is easier to keep other things lent |
than to keep Lent yourself. i
—A touch of spring fever would really
be a very welcome malady just now. |
—Former Governor PENNYPACKER has
announced for TAFT. That settles it.
VOL. 57.
—If that penitentiary boom doesn't |
soon materialize it will be an insane
asylum Bellefonte will need most. :
—The eastern papers keep on with the |
ROOSEVELT boom, but we notice that the
west and the south are instructing their
delegates for TAFT.
—The turkey trot is probably the
Terpsichorean conception of the gait we
all strike when heading for the Thanks-
giving dinner table.
~The HARRIS-QUIGLEY fight for Re-
publican county chairman is on for the
finish, all stories about a probable truce
being patched up to the contrary not-
withstanding.
——1It is just as well that the LA
FOLLETTE boom collapsed early in the
game. In fact it would be better if all
the heretical agitators would find their
level in the near future.
—The blue laws are being enforced in
Pittsburgh and the Sunday rounders out
there shudder when they hear the Salva-
tion*!Army chaps singing “Every day will
be Sunday, By and By.”
—It is not to be wondered at that the
Progressives find TAFT’S record in bad
condition. He declares he stands square-
ly upon it, and that ought to be enough
to mash the good out of anything.
—The Wilkes-Barre man who left his
estate to his two daughters provided they
promise never to marry must either have
been uncertain of the kind of husbands
they would pick or terribly anti-ROOSE-
VELT.
——Aviator ATWOOD may be able to
fly across the Atlantic but he would bet-
ter make sure before he starts. A broken
engine or failure of gasolene in mid-ocean
would make a flying machine very un-
comfortable.
—That Congressional committee that
is investigating money matters at Wash-
ington, must expect to make an all-
summer job of it. They have summoned
Mr. BRYAN to come and tell them what
he thinks he knows of it.
Roosevelt and the Third Term.
The Outlook, of which THEODORE ROOSE-
VELT is a contributing editor, practically
announces his candidacy for the Republi-
can Presidential nomination. Immediate-
ly after his election to that great office in
1904 Mr. ROOSEVELT said: “On the 4th
of March next I shall have served three
years constitute my first term. The wise
custom which limits the President to two
terms regards the substance and not the
form, and under no circumstances will I
be a candidate for or accept another
nomination.” On December 11th, 1907,
when his name was under consideration
for renomination he said: “I have not
changed and shall not change that deci-
sion thus announced.” "
The Outlook, in its issue of last Satur-
day says: “What Mr. ROOSEVELT said
in 1904 and 1907 refers, of course, to a
consecutive third term, ROOSEVELT be-
lieves, although we do not share that be-
lief, that the settled policy of this coun-
try makes a third consecutive Presidential
term for any man impolitic if not im-
proper, but the Outlook has a better ap-
preciation of his intelligence than to sup-
pose that he had in 1904 or has now, the
slightest idea of defining a third term ex-
cepting in the way we have just defined
it.” Of course that is begging the ques-
tion. Mr. ROOSEVELT said the wise cus-
tom “regards the substance and not the
form,” and that "under no circumstance”
would he “be a candidate for or accept
another nomination.”
The palpable purpose of the paper is to
pave the way for Mr. ROOSEVELT'S com-
ing announcement that he will accept the
nomination if it is offered to him. “When
a man says at breakfast,” continues the
Outlook, “No, thank you, I will not take
any more coffee,” it does not mean that
he will not take any more coffee tomorrow
morning, or next week or next month, or
next vear.” Probabiy not. But if he says
"under no circumstances will I accept
another cup of coffee,” having regard to
——Anyway there are some people who | the substance rather than the form, he is
will stick to the opinion that the discovery | committed to abstinence from coffee for
by Columbus in 1492 was a more im- | all time. \W, oN didn’t qualify his
portant ‘event than the discovery at |statement "the word “consecutive.”
Columbus in 1912. Mr. Roosevelt will | He reprobated the third term and ROOSE-
not be one of them, however. VELT so construed him when he declared
—No, you can’t make us believe that
the ROOSEVELT of teday is the same
ROOSEVELT of two years ago. Then he
wouldn't have allowed anyone to speak
for him; now every Republican you meet
is telling what he is going to do.
—What a disappointment it must have
term.
to the third term. We believe that previ-
ous to the panic of 1907 it was his inten-
tion to run for re-election, thus violating
and a-half years and these three and a-half |
i An Inopportune Event.
| In view of the evidence of Mr. HENRY
N. HALL in relation to the seizure of the
Isthmian canal zone, it must be admitted
that a visit by Secretary KNOX to the
| Republic of Colombia at this time would
| be “inopportune.” No greater national
| crime has ever been committed and so
long as our government refuses to con-
| sider a proposition to arbitrate the ques-
| tions involved, pretenses of friendship
| are false and fraudulent. A visit of our
| Secretary of State would imply such pre-
tenses. The purpose of his southern
voyage, according to official statements
from Washington, is to cultivate amity
between the Latin-American Republics
| and the United States. No ambassador
| can serve that purpose unless he goes
with clean hands.
When the government of the United
States acquired from a brother of the
present President and a brother-in-law
of the then President, at a fabulous
figure, the Isthmian canal zone, ‘it was
conditioned that a fair recompense for
the right of way was to be paid to the
government of Colombia. The negotia-
tions were delayed beyond the patience
of an impatient President, however, be-
cause the price could not be agreed upon-
Thereupon the then President of the
United States, THEODORE ROOSEVELT,
organized, financed and equipped a rev-
olution in the Province or State of
Panama, with the result, as he subse-
quently testified under oath, that he took
the territory from a friendly sister Re-
public. That implies robbery. Taking
things by an individual which does not
belong to him is stealing.
Nations are individuals collectively and
the laws which regulate the morals of
men are the same as those which govern
the behavior of nations. That being the
case the taking of the canal zone from
Colombia was stealing property and it is
nothing short of insolent assurance for
us to send a plenipotentiary there with
professions of peace and amity upon his
tongue, until we have first made repara-
tion for the injury thus done. The
. Republic of Colombia . nate
asked for this measure of justice and it
has been denied. It has asked for
arbitration and the requests have been
| have we to insult this weak sister by
But it doesn’t matter much now what | false pretenses of friendship when we re- _—
ROOSEVELT’S intentions are, with respect | fuse to her the common obligations of |
honesty?
: eee
—The ex-sheriffs of Centre county ban-
STATE RIGHTS AN
BELLEPOVIE: Eas
D FEDERAL UNION.
SR ——— et eR Sn
It may safely be said that Governor
WiLsoN, of New Jersey, has knocked the
last prop out from under the GUTHRIE-
PALMER disorganizers in this State. On
adelphia, he frankly told a group of gen
tlemen who called upen him, that “he
will make his appeal to the mass of the
voters,” and have nothing to do with
factional quarrels among party leaders.
This will be a great disappointment to
the disorganizers, for they confidently ex-
pected the Governor to allign himself
with them and against the regular or-
ganization. In fact they have been free-
ly asserting that such would be his atti-
tude and quoting fragments of conversa-
tion to prove the ciaim.
The first movement in favor of Gov-
ernor WILSON, of New Jersey, for the
Democratic nomination for President, in
this State, was made by the regular Demo-
cratic organization in Philadelphia some
months ago. At the meeting of the regu-
lar Democratic State Central Committee
in Harrisburg on July 19th, resolutions
favoring his candidacy were unanimously
adopted. Since then the WILSON Demo.
cratic league has been organized under
the auspices of the regular Democratic
party of Philadelphia and plans made to
throughout the State. Notwithstanding
these facts, however, the GUTHRIE-PAL-
MER-MCCORMICK disorganizers have been
claiming that Mr. WILSON is against the
regular Democrats and in sympathy with
their insurgency.
Probably nine-tenths of the Democrats
of Pennsylvania favor the nomination of
Wooprow WILSON by the coming Demo-
cratic National convention in Baltimore.
This does not mean that the Democrats
of this State have any antipathy to Gov-
ernor HARMON, of Ohio, Speaker CHAMP
CLARK, of Missouri, or any of the other
| aspirants for the honor. But they believe
that Mr. WILSON is the most available
candidate, most nearly represents the
ideals of the party and is the nearest
ndidly telling the public that
Reiss in sympathy with ‘disorganizers
{ will greatly increase the confidence of
the three and a half years were his first | jgnored. That being the case what right real Democrats in him and vastly improve
' his chances for the nomination.
——And now we arc assuredj that a
machine has beeninvented tolrevive peo-
ple overcome by gas. What a blessing
one of these things might prove to the
Governor Wilson Repudiates Disorganiz- |
FEBRUARY 20. i=
Sunday last, during a brief visit to Phil- | after
promote his candidacy in every county | Arrived
prevent his renomination or
ions back and forth are of daily
occurrence, and the noise made
faction is just as loud as the
NO. 8.
Lincoln and the Bosses.
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Dr. H. H. Thompson, of Philipsburg, is a pris-
oner with a dislocated hip and two fractured ribs.
He was running to catch a car at Windburne.
~Lock Haven members of the United Evangel-
ical church are preparing to entertain the Central
woman, who died not long ago at the age of 101
years, left considerable fortune, her administra-
tor giving bond in the sum of $15,000.
—A young man employed at P. Leck’s store,
Patton, took a lighted lamp to hunt a gas leak
He was knocked down and the store room badly
damaged by the explosion that followed.
—When Mrs. Anna Flynn, of Philadelphia, with
a crowd of curious people went to the scene of a
street car tragedy she was horrified to discover
that the victim was her own 16-year-old son, Ed-
ward,
—Tionesta, Forest county, is the home of J.D.
Collins, now in his 8ist year, and said to be worth
$2,000,000 made in the lumbering business. Heis
now spending much of his time and money in the
reforestation of his land.
—Jall Warden Knee, of Cambria county, is
going to ask the prison board of that county for
the privilege of putting some of the prisoners to
work on a truck patch he proposes to make out
t | of an uncultivated portion of the poor farm.
—~Flocks of crows in immense numbers have
been noticed all over Berks county, and weather
prophets, undiscouraged by previous flat failures,
say this means an early spring or a spell of mild
weather within a few days. Well, the mild spell
began yesterday.
—J. M. Raffensberger, of Dillsburg, and An-
drew Stainbaugh, of Mechanisburg, are in the
- | and expect to get several more. They will ship
the logs to Germany.
~The coroner's jury in the case of O. I. Whip-
ple, who fell 188 feet down a mine shaft at Eriton
SC ike i * | recently, rendered a verdict that his death was
one
noise made
due to improper equipment and the fact that the
mining laws of the State were not properly en-
forced by the management of the company.
~All that remains of the property of the Bay-
less Pulp and Paper company at Austin, the burst-
ing of whose dam caused so many deaths and so
much destruction of property, has been sold for
$50,000 to Henry A. Xnapp, of Scranton. The
sale was held by direction of the United States
court.
~The Pennsylvania railroad is said to be pre-
paring to build a new line from Douglassvillé to
Shanesville, Berks county, where extensive iron
ore mines will be operated in the near future.
The new line will be twelve miles long and will be
for the carrying of ore from the mines to the
~John A. Owens, Mayor of Lewisburg, died
suddenly on Tuesday night, aged 74 years. May-
or Owens was a veteran of the Civil war, serving
ty-Second Pennsylvania (
father of William G. Owens, professor of chemis-
try of Bucknell university. i
~Judges Reid and Haymaker, of Allegheny
county, have declined to issue an order restrain-
ing the Mayor of McKeesport from refusing to
i- | allow certain dances to be given by one of the
town's clubs. The court ruled that no club that
Colonel a
Drotiied fujaw of ATX allowed the “grizzly bear” dance should be. per-
, cuts off 3 © - and-{anitted to hold such affairs, ~~ ©...
lings up for Taht thus the ex-| _Because of reports concerning diphtheria
Juniata college, Huntingdon, President I H.
Brumbaugh has issued a statement io the effect
that there has been but one case. The young la-
dy and her nurse were isolated, also another sus-
pect, but neither developed the dreaded disease
and the one patient is recovering.
—~Williamson Kinley, aged 70 years, a Civil war
veteran who spent seven months in Anderson-
ville prison, died at hishome in Lock Haven a few
days ago. He was captured at the battle of the
Wilderness. After four months he and other
.
by the other faction.
Standing out in bold contrast with this
pulling and hauling on the Republican
side is the serenity and harmony that pre-
vail among the Democrats. Even in
Pennsylvania, where there was a show
of friction not | ago, we no longer
hear rumblings of tent. The vot-
ing strength of the party has united on
one wise course of procedure, and that is
to await the choice of the convention,
his pledge and smashing the unwritten | queted at the Nittany country club last
law on the subject. The panic frighten- | night, but up to the hour of our going
ed him from his purpose and he selected | to press the only sheriff in the county,
TAFT under the belief that he could bowl | who isn’t an ex, hadn't been called upon
him out at will. But TAPT refused to be | to take any of them into custody.
bowled out and by making use of the | i a
steam roller he has bowled ROOSEVELT | Will Flinn Come Back?
out and no announcement that he can 3
make will serve to rehabilitate him asa’ We sincerely hope that the statement,
companions escaped and were within sight of the
Union lines when they were recaptured and sent
back.
—Natural gas following the mains from the
street into the cellar of merchant James Eck, at
Carrolltown recently, caused an explosion that
tore up thirty feet of the sixty-foot floor, blew the
windows out of the room and in the attic and
raised Mr. Eck and C. A. Sharbaugh, who were
investigating, high in the air, miraculously not
communities in which Mr. PALMER in-
tends prosecuting his campaign for mem-
ber of the Democratic National com-
mittee.
been to some or the gentlemen interested
when Governor WILSON announced in
Philadelphia that he did not propose to
take sides in any factional fight in Penn-
sylvania. What will Mr. BRYAN say.
—The cow that everybody was bidding
for at sixty dollars last spring isn’t bring-
ing forty at the sales thus far reported.
Cut Out the Appropriation.
There is no excuse for the tariff board
SR ey
And there are no more cows in the coun-
ty now than there were then. It's the
high priced feed that makes the low
priced cow.
—That Wilkesbarre brute who tied his
wife to a post and drove three nails into
her spine is to be congratulated that the
rack and screw are no longer included in
the legal means of punishment. Draw-
ing and quartering would be none too
good for him. :
—Verily some people are never satis-
fied. Here's the New England woolen
manufacturers with all the “protection”
that schedule K furnishes them, demand-
ing that the state militia be kept at the
same business and then they are not sure
that they have protection enough.
—A bulletin recently issued by the
Kansas Board of Health contains the fol-
lowing among its many epigramatic
warnings. “A mustard bath for the feet
will do far more to ward off pneumonia
thana gallon jug.” How true and yet
how many prefer to take chances on the
jug.
—A Washington dispatch states that
the Republican campaign committee has
just issued “a review of President TAFT'S
record in the White House showing a
long list of great achievements quietly | cratic National convention, and the price
accomplished.” How modest our Presi- | of potatoes is “out of sight.”
dent has been. And how much happier ——
he would have been had that long list of | ——Meantime we hear little of the
ly accomplished. pense of the New York World though the
. Colonel's vocal cords are obviously in
bey is altogether probable that MAH-|jeag of |ubrication. When WATTERSON
PITNEY, chancellor of New Jersey, | yng RooseveLT are quiet there is apt to
who has just been appointed an associate be mischief brewing.
justice of the Supreme court of the Unit-
ed States, is the first gentleman who has
candidate. ROOSEVELT is a “dead duck
in the pond,” and before the expiration
of another Presidential term he will be
universally dispised.
—Five of the six Democrats on the
Senate Committee on Privileges and Elec-
tions signed a report which favored the
unseating of Senator STEPHENSON, of
Wisconsin, on account of the corrupt use
of money to procure his election. STEPH-
ENSON admits that he spent $107,000 in
his campaign but all the Republican
Senators and JOE BAILEY believe that
was not too much. For that matter, con-
sidering the kind of man STEPHENSON is.
the price wasn’t too high.
——“My hat is in the ring,” is the
declaration THEODORE ROOSEVELT is
credited with having made to W. F.
ELRICK, at Cleveland, Ohio, on Wednesday
might, when that gentleman asked him
point-blank whether he was a Presidential
candidate or not, and that ought to settle
the question.
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—You can’t keep the MURPHYS
down. The New Jersey MURPHY has
just corralled the vacant seat on the State
Supreme court bench, the New York
MURPHY imagines he will run the Demo-
——Attorney General © WICKERSHAM
recently published in Pittsburg, to the
effect that the Hon. WiLLiAM FLINN will
i be returned to the State House of Repre-
| sentatives has its foundation in fact. For
many years he has been an interesting
figure in politics. He first entered the
General Assembly as a member of the
House in 1879 and served two terms. He
was then promoted, by the late C. L.
Magee, to a seat in the Senate and served
in that body from 1891 until March
1902, when he resigned. Mentally re-
sourceful and physically tireless, he was
an active figure in the affairs of the body
of which he was a member.
His most conspicuous service as a leg-
islator was during the session of 1899
when he alligned himself among the
Insurgents who opposed the re-election
of QUAY to the United States Senate.
FLINN had never been anything, up to
that time, but a sort of echo of his friend
and sponsor, C. L. MAGEE. But in the
division of forces on that occasion MAGEE
and appropriating money for its main-
tenance is a misuse of public funds. The
constitution prescribes methods and pro-
cesses of legislation and tariff legislation
is not excepted. Therefore the tariff
board ought to be dispensed with and if
there is no better way for accomplishing
that result it ought to be starved out of
an expedient for prolonging tariff rob-
bery. It has cost the country hundreds
of millions of dollars since the veto of
the tariff legislation enacted during the
extra session of Congress. It may cost
that much more before genuine tariff re-
form legislation can be enacted in" spite
of it.
The Democratic House of Representa-
tives in Washington may easily rid the
country of this expensive incubus. The
board will go into voluntary “innocuous
desuetude” the moment salaries and ex-
! pense funds are cut out. The gentlemen
| who compose it are “for the old flag,”
went with the regulars and FLINN with no doubt, but with “an appropriation.”
the Insurgents. Subsequently it trans. Itis a fine job and easy money. It is a
pired that this was by an arrangement liberal education, to the members of the
with the friends of QUAY to the effect board, including luxurious travel and
that after a certain time, in the event of generous recompense. Butit is of no
QUAY's failure to command a majority of Public good. A dog has as much use for
the joint session, he was to Withdraw, | we tails as Congress has for this auxili-
MAGEE was to be named as the candi- | ary. For these ample reasons it is the
date in his place and FLINN was to swing | duty of Congress to refuse the appropria-
the Insurgents around to the support of | tion for its maintenance and thus make
MAGEE, thus securing his election. anend of it forever.
Through the zeal, courage and ability
of Representative, E. A. COREY of Luzerne | and Means is capable of framing a tariff
county, this conspiracy was defeated law or else it is incapable of fulfilling its
though it was rumored at the time that | obligations to the public. Purposely
Mr. MAGEE had invested large amounts , tariff legislation, during recent years, has
of money to make it successful. During been made to seem complicated and diffi-
the next session Mr. MAGEE died and cult of achievement. But it has only
FLINN having thus lost his “ " he | seemed so and been made to seem so in
existence. Thus far it has been used as | the
and then to
election.
family troubles for the good of the party,
and if this policy is
as there is every reason
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much injuring either of them.
—Many people in McKean county who have
used nothing but natural gas for fuel and heat
and light for many years have taken to wood and
coal, to which they were forced by low pressure
of gas during the recent intensely cold weather.
The comfortable aspect of the old-fashioned wood
fire has a strong appeal, and it is likely to return
fl favor permanently in northwestern Pennsylva-
nia.
~The production of coai for the year 1911, in
the Eighteenth Bituminous district, which is com-
prised of Huntingdon, Bedford, Clearfield and
Centre counties, aggregated 3,541,811 tons, pro-
- | duced by 5,157 employees inside the mines. There
were only two fatal accidents, which is one for
. | each 1,770,905 tons of coal produced, and one for
each 2,578 employees. There were no widows or
orphans left.
~Hammond Coleman, a prominent Porter town-
window at his home when his insane daughter
dropped something which struck him on the
head. He was 74 years old. The daughter had
been brought home from an asylum improved,
but will likely be returned, although she claims
the happening was accidental.
—Richard Charles is under treatment at the
Adrain hospital at Punxsutawney and may lose
—Mrs. Isaac Walters, of Lock Haven, is sadly
afflicted. Five years ago her husband committed
occupied that exalted position who has | wants TAPT kept in office until the trusts | resigned a short time afterward. But he | order to fool the public and justify such out | How long do you work in the | fclds of Gearse Carper, near the Spruce Creek
had the unique distinction of being able | are all busted. No doubt the Attorney | didn’t retire from politics. As a munic- | expedients as the tariff board. Any group | “In there we work eleven hours.” the deer broke itsback. Mr. Carper and several
to read his own obituary. It was publish- | General believes that there will be no
ipal contractor in Pittsburg he had ac- | of well informed men can frame a tariff
ed on page 11 of Tuesday's Philadelphia | change in the Attorney General's office | quired a large fortune ‘which he spent [law that will be just to tax payers, pro-| “We are not paid by the day, we its misery, and immediately shot the three dogs
Ledger. We can’t imagine how our es-' go long as TAFT remains in the White freely, mainly to make trouble for his | vide revenue and serve every proper pur- pal every WO wees, Sa Poe thi Canted the sowie: Thins the joshi ob
teemed contemporary got so badly mixed | House. : former political associates. He hhs been | pose. The present Committee on Ways | every two weeks.” community. The deer that was killed last Satur-
up unless, knowing that he was just dying S— alternately with and against the thachine and Means has proved its capacity and — day was dressed and sent to the Huntingdon hos-
to get there, it assumed that he would; —As Dippi Dill would say, ‘county | ever since and if he goes back to the should settle the question finally by cut-| —The plain English of it, Mr. Secretary ital, Ou Subuiay aftericon Tifiraus: shen. rum
expire when the appointment was an- chairman QUIGLEY is already beginning | Legislature it will be to “put fies inthe | ting out the appropriation for the tariff | KNOX, is that your room is more desirable | %0o% oi LV To0 0tn i'eR te vr?
nounced. to have a Ha®p, Harrised look. ointment of his enemies.” board. than your company in Colombia.
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