RR seen ow —~Only a tew more days until St. PAT-| rick will have his inning. —Anyway, when spring does come it will be all the more welcome. —You wouldn't have to boycott butter to make the price come down if a little of the tax were taken off oleomargarine. —What the Keystoners did to the Dem- ocrats of Dauphin county was good and plenty and probably not unmerited, at that. . —TEDDY is for the initiative, of course. Because if he hadn't taken the initiative himself there would be little likelihood of his recall to the White House. —It is comforting to reflect that the looked for strike of the coal miners did not occur in January when the mercury was kicking the bottom out of the ther- mometer. —One year from today WOODROW WIL- SON, Jupson HARMON, OSCAR UNDER- woop, CHAMP CLARK or, possibly, some one else will be the new President of the United States. —News from the southern baseball camps indicates that the big league man- agers dont intend to let the national game get side tracked by the coming na- tional conventions. —Governor TENER has announced that’ he has taken off his coat for President Tarr. The Hon. “Deacon” HARRIS and county chairman QUIGLEY have not, as yet, declared themselves personally. —It is a wonder that no one has sug- gested to A. MITCHELL PALMER that there might be a chance for the right young man, with sufficient assurance and gab, to get a job running for Vice President. —Why couldn't England settle the suffragette question by pressing every one of them into the military service. If they want to fight so much the army would be the best place in the world for them. —According to the latest news Miss KATHARINE ELKINS has gone off to South America where she will probably be mar- ried to a young man named Girt. If GITT'S got her, then d’ABRuZzzI gets the mitten. —Dr. HeLeN KELLOGG, of Chicago, as- serts that big intellects do not go with small feet. In other words she says that the bigger the feet the brainier the person. At last the secret of GEORGE FREEMAN'S success at swappin’ watches —Colonel, ROOSEVELT is being kept busy these days trying to explain that all those letters he wrote last year about his not wanting to be renominated for Pres. ident were misinterpreted. He really did want to be but was merely playing the spoony girl when she tells her lover not to kiss her again. —Prof. WALTER Scott, of Northwest- ern University has invented a dynamom- eter that will test the physical and mental efficiency of the human being: While the work of such a machine must necessarily be looked upon with wonder- ful interest it would scarcely be fair to the average human to put it to work on him while he is in the throes of spring fever. —Congressman PATTON'S recent visit to Bellefonte was to fix up some of his fences that "BiLL” DEHAAsS knocked down some time previous. We didn’t hear how well he succeeded, but they say "BILL" is coming back again. If he does it will take some of the young Con- gressman'’s barl to close up the gaps that are appearing in the PATTON line-up over this way. —Mark the prediction. No matter what the outcome of the next Democrat- ic State convention, should any incident occur between this time and next No- vember to reduce the reasonable certain- ty of Democratic success in the Presiden- tial contest Messrs. GUTHRIE, McCoxr- mick and PALMER will be a trio of the clammiest Democrats you have ever seen in Pennsylvania. : * —Anold circus clown resigned his posi- tion in the saw dust ring at Peru, Indi- ana, a few days ago to enter the minis try. He kept an anchor to the wind- ward, however, by asking to have his old place kept open until he had time to see whether he can make good in the new, Wise clown. Only he doesn’t know that he will not be the first one who has ever appeared in a pulpit. —The Clearfield Republican is advocat- ing reorganization of the Democratic par- ty in Pennsylvania, in the only way that appears practicable to the reasonable man. It wants both of the present war- ring factions eliminated and an entirely new set of leaders chosen and, after all, that is the only way harmony can be se- cured. Incidentally it recalls to atten- tion an incident of the BERRY campaign for State Treasurer. At that time Mr. GUTHRIE, who now wants to be the State chairman of our party, was an officer of the Citizens League of Pittsburgh. That League refused to put Mr. BERRY'S name on its ticket for State Treasurer and did put up PLUMMER. The result was that PLUMMER carried Allegheny county by 28,000 majority; whereas BERRY carried Philadelphia where such awful (?) Dem- ocrats as DONNELLY and RYAN live, by a majority larger than he lost Allegheny: VOL. 57. : The Job that Failed. The regular and only recognized Dem- ocratic organization down in Dauphin county, and which has for its managing heads Mr. W. W. WALLOWER and Mr. Wu. K. MEYER, both of whom allied them- selves with the McCorMICck factional dis- organizers at the annual meeting last July, received a back-hander on Saturday that ought to prove an eye opener to those who believe that the way to build a party up is to first tear it down and then re-construct or re-organize it. At least these gentlemen acted as if they believed this to be the way todo the thing. And they went at the job earn- estly and vigorously. They encouraged disorganization in their own ranks. They used their influence to create sentiment for the organization of a Keystone party, and then, to insure its permanency and strength gave it all the local offices they could. While thus using their every effort to build it up, they treated their own organization as a practically need- less or useless powerin the local affairs of Dauphin county. It seems that the tearing down process was both easy and successful. It worked fine and met with no failures. About two weeks ago they concluded, however, that it was about time to begin on the building up process, to show the prillian- cy of their scheme. They felt that as or- ganizers they should be basking in the glory of their achievements; that it would be nothing now to reorganize and unite the party for they had made the way smooth and the bowels of the voters of that county were yearning for an oppor- tunity to show how willingly they would fall in behind these two GENERALS. With Dauphin placed on both feet in the col- umn of counties that had been regenerat- ed and disenthrailed, what glory for them! A polite note was written to a Mr. RUBEN- DALL, whom they had aided in having made chairman of the Keystone organi- zation, suggesting that a fusion of their Democratic forces and of his mottled and mixed crowd, be made on candidates op- posed to the regular Republican ring ticket. “5-" = And ‘then they sat down in exultant hopefulnéss to await the reply. It took but three days to bring it. It came on Saturday last and read: "That, for the best interests of the Keystone party no fusion agreement will be entered into this year.” Inotherwordsit said: “Oh, no gentlemen, we have accomplished our purpose. We have about annihilated the Democratic party in Dauphin county. It never was our intention nor do we now propose to aid you in building it up. You have given us many of your men, for which accept our thanks, but you'll have to go it alone when it comes to a fight on those with whom we were: formerly allied, and in whose success we still have an inter- est.” And now Mr. WALLOWER and Mr. MEY- ER, without hope of making a successful fight for anything; with their own party thoroughly disorganized and discouraged, many of them like lost sheep, bleating along the political highways, without any idea of which way they are going or to what crowd they belong, are putting in their time explaining why and how it ought to have been otherwise. But it wasn't. And that fact can be charged to the men, and the manner, and spirit in which Democratic “re-organization” was at, tempted to be accomplished in Dauphin county. Progress Toward Reducing the Cost. The Democratic majority in Congress is making progress in its purpose to de- crease the cost of living and unless Presi- dent TAFT intervenes with his veto pow- er, as he did during the special session, there will be a tumble in prices before the year is ended. The wool tariff bill is now practically certain to pass both houses and the bill to put sugar on the free list is the most advanced step yet made. Of course that will cause a con- siderable loss in revenue but the proposi- tion to put internal tax on incomes will recompense the government for the loss and put into force the just policy of tax- ing wealth rather than poverty. The policy of the Republican party has always been to put the burdens of gov- ernment upon the poor. Those least able to pay are likewise least able to resist injustice and the load was heaped until it had become almost unendurable. The Democratic majority in the House of Represenatives in Washington has de- termined to change this incongruous cus- tom. The benefits of government go largely to the wealthy and they must pay a fair share of the expenses. With this idea in mind the tariff tax will be taken off the sugar of the poor man and put upon the large incomes of the rich. It is estimated that taxing incomes of | upward of $5000 will about even the pres- ent revenues from the tax on sugar. It is intimated that President TArT will STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. BELLEFONTE PA. MARCH 8 012. veto this just measure of relief but we don’t believe it. He is obedient to the interests as a rule, but he will hardly enter upon a campaign for re-election with the odium of having thus wronged the people upon his head. The Sugar trust has been a liberal contributor to the Republican campaign fund in the past and would no doubt be ready and willing to chip in generously again, in consideration of such a favor as vetoing the proposed bill. But the people would resent the action with such unanimity that the power of money would fail to reconcile them. For these reasons we be- lieve TAFT will sign the bill. Democratic Veteran Revolts. . The Harrisburg Star Independent, of which that veteran Democratic War Horse, Hon. B. F. MEYERS is editor, says, in reference to the GUTHRIE-MCCORMICK disorganizers: “It looks very much as if their outcry against the organization, which really gave them all the political standing they ever had, is made simply because they are no longer able to wield it for their own purposes, and are trying to supercede it with an organization of their own which they expect to boss to their heart's content. Look up the poli- ical record of these gentlemen,” con-' tinues Editor MEYERS, “and ascertain for | yourselves whether or not the foregoing statement be in strict accord with the ! truth.” The facts could not be more accurate- ly stated. For a third of a century | GEORGE W. GUTHRIE has been knocking | at the doors of Democratic conventions soliciting party favors. In 1896 he was nominated for Elector at Large and after the nomination of Mr. BRYAN he spurned the honor in a scurrilous letter and con- tributed to the support of the Republican | candidate. For a few years after that he remained in seclusion but in 1902 he presented himself at the Erie convention as a candidate for Governor and was nominated for Lieutenant Governor by the organization which he now denounces. "local organization of Pittsburgh for : or and elected, Colonel GUPFEY having financed his campaign at an expense of more than $20,000. When Mr. GUTHRIE was inaugurated as Mayor of Pittsburg the Democrats of that | machine-ridden city naturally thought that some of the fruits of victory would come to them. But they reckoned with- out their host. Manifestly they didn't’ know Mr. GUTHRIE. Most of them re- | membered that he had left the party in! 1896 for the reason that he had no sym- pathy with the aims and aspirations of the common people and that by support- ing the Republican candidate for Presi- dent he could serve the interests of plutocracy and monopolpy. But they still imagined that he would appreciate the work they had performed to place him in power. So far from that, however, he filled all the offices with Republicans and actually penalized fidelity to the party which honored him. The record of VANCE C. McCORMICK covers less space but is equally vulner- able from a Democratic party standpoint. For some years after he reached his ma- jority he took no part in politics other than to vote against the Democratic can- didate for President in 1896 and 1900 But in 1902 he was nominated and elect- ed Mayor of Harrisburg and gave most of the patronage ot the office to Republi- cans. Since that he has supported the Democratic candidate for President only once and until last fall NEVER supported the candidates of his party for local of- fices, always finding some excuse for his recreancy. Both he and GUTHRIE now aspire to Democratic leadership and it is small wonder that veterans like Hon. B. F. MEYERS revolt at the spectacle. —After a careful investigation the Director of Public Safety of Philadelphia estimates that there are 25,000 ‘“phan- tom” voters registered in thatcity. These fraudulent names will be stricken from the list and the Republican majority at the next election correspondingly de- creased. Meantime it would be interest- ing to hear whether the phantom votes were registered in the interest of TAFT or ROOSEVELT. There is a basis for pre- sumption in the fact that ROOSEVELT'S friends are “practical” men, while on the other hand TAFT makes free use of patronage and we all know what that leads to. : + ——Really a Presidential primary in the Republican party would be interest- ing and it is even possible that it might be valuable. It would at least give a census of the crazy men in that party and statistics on that point may he need- ed in the future, —Between the coal operators and the coal miners the consuming public is likely to get a severe squeeze within the next few months. Roosevelt Proved a Falsifier. THEODORE ROOSEVELT has been caught in another lie. This time so glaringly that he cannot escape the consequences. A few days ago a Washington dispatch contained the information that Secretary of War Stimson and Secretary of the Na- vy MEYER had stated that ROOSEVELT had told them, some time ago, that he would not be a candidate for the Repub- lican nomination for President this year. Mr. RooseverLT promptly denied the statement and declared that he had never spoken in that way to Messrs. StimsoN and MEYER. Thereupon one of the energetic Washington newspaper cor- respondents got busy and dug up a let- ter written by Mr. ROOSEVELT himself | . and bearing his signature, declaring that |; he had so spoken to STIMSON and MEYER. The curious thing about this is that some of our esteemed contemporaries profess to be surprised at this exposure of ROOSEVELT'S inveracity. There is nothing surprising about it. Ever since he has been in public life THEODORE ROOSEVELT has been a notorious for in- consistency and in more than a dozen in- stances he has been exposed quite as di- rectly as in the present case. In the Mrs. BELLAMY STORER matter, for exam. ple, the evidence of Mrs. STORER was corroborated by that of Archbishop IRE- LAND and both were sustained by docu- mentary proof on file in the State De- partment at Washington and at the vati- can in Rome. In that case the person injured by his untruthful tongue was a woman and therefore the moral offence was greater even if the turpitude was the same. ROOSEVELT has been guilty, at one time or another, of nearly every con- temptible vice in the catalogue. He is a moral coward as well as a craven. While President he was afraid to go to the front door of the White House without a cor- don of guards about him and while boast- ing of his fearlessness he trembled at every unusual sound. Naturally such a man would falsify when falsehood served his purpose, just as he would graft when op ity presented itself. We cannot believe that the people of the United States will ever vote for such a man for President, now that he has been found out, While he was in office the evidence against him was withheld, but now it is published to the world. Where to Draw the Line. The Lancaster Inlelligencer, one of the most conservative Democratic news. papers in the State, is of the opinion that voters who deserted the party in 1910 and voted for Mr. BERRY for Governor, instead of the admirable candidate of the party, have no right to participate in the Democratic primaries this year. "There is a strong sentiment in the Democratic 2 g @ eqs 7 Republican Party Rent Asunder. It is not to be wondered at, that a man in whose nature for slaughter and adventure, party undoubtedly, and always has been,” | 5° declares our esteemed Lancaster con- temporary, "against nominating for im- portant office those who have refused previously to support the ticket. It isa feeling in favor of sustaining party regu- larity, which always has had to be reck- oned with.” We are not disposed to carry resent- ment to such alength as excluding voters who deserted the Democratic party in 1910 from the primaries this year but submit there is both reason and justice in refusing to honor them with the favors of the party. Every one of the conspicu- ous deserters of that campaign are now | resul striving to usurp the leadership of the party they betrayed. GEORGE W. GUTH- RIE, of Pittsburg, who has made a prac- |; tice of betraying the party for nearly a score of years not only wants to be chairman of the Democratic State Com- mittee but aspires to the office of Dele: gate at Large to the National Democratic convention while VANCE MCCORMICK, of Harrisburg, has the assurance to ask to be a delegate to the State convention in order that he may help GUTHRIE and him- self into the National convention as Delegates at Large. The good old Methodist doctrine of probationary membership applies with especial force to such selfish politicians as GUTHRIE and McCorMICK. As back- sliders they have a right to comein again if they are repentant. But upon coming back they ought to be content for a time with a station in the ranks of the party rather than in the leadership. In fact it may be doubted if either of them ever were a Democrat except in name for neither of them has ever been of service to the party and both have labored as- siduously to defeat candidates fairly chosen by the party convention. Such men have no right to seate as delegates in a Democratic convention, State or National. i i Tr —— ——[t wasn't necessary to roar in call ing ROOSEVELT into the field. A whisper would have served the purpose. Taft-Aldrichism at Work. From the Springfield Republican. Speaking of the recall in its vari- ous phases probably TEDDY will be will- ing to recall his announcement of will- ingness to run for a third term after he hears from the back townships. 1 i Crh : of LE ssBfs the wild calls so loudly, and who so eagerly yearns should en- joy hugely the diversion of feeding the i SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. —Public schools at Thompsontown are closed on account of diphtheria. ~Westmoreland county $80,000 dam- a a alered hw da —Red foxes are reported plenty in Clearfield county and are uninvited visitors at many chicken Coops. ~Patton Methodists have authorized the erec- tion of a new brick church, with auditorium and large Sunday school room. —Ten illegal game hunters in Crawford county recently paid fines aggregating $3,500 besides several hundred dollars cost. ~The Lutherans of the Susquehanna valley will hold their twenty-second annual reunion at Riverside park, Milton, July 25. .| At the St. Patrick's Day celebration to be held in Renovo, March 18, Judge Harry Alvan Hall, of Ridgway, will be the orator of the day. ~The state agricultural department has re. ceived so many applications for demonstrations in orchards that it cannot agree to fill all the de- mands. ~A lucky West Grove poultryman is gathering 400 eggs a week from 175 hens. At 30 cents a ad- dozen they are bringing their owner a fine revenue. —lIsreal Beck, a Clintondale farmer, while saw- ing wood on a horse-power circular saw a few days ago, sawed off the thumb and all the fingers on his right hand. ~The Merchants’ association of Bangor has adopted a resolution to advertise only in news ~William Hoffman, of Sykesville, spent an evening not longago in the company of several strangers. When they left him $410 he had in his pocket was also gone. —Charles H. Shipman, a farmer living in Gilpin township, Armstrong county, recently made a sausage that is believed to beat the record. Itis 45 feet 6 inches long and weighs 45 pounds. —At a demonstration of writing shorthand by means of the stenotype, a phonographic machine, at a commercial school in Allentown, the re- markable record of 563 words a minute was at- —West Chester boasts that with a population of 12,000 she has but two cases of typhoid fever and one of these is a patient from another town. Al. toona, with a population of 55,000, can beat that members of the family and Frank Santell, a visit- or. The trouble came from eating uncooked pork sausage. —Clare Kauffman, an Indiana county school teacher who was dismissed by Blacklick township school directors because of charges that he did not put in full time, won his suit against them for his wages for the balance of the term. —General orders will be issued from the adju- tant generals office within a few days transfer- ring company M, Tenth infantry, from Altoona to Latrobe. It will retain its designation. The Altoona company was formerly in the Fifth infantry. —During an attack of melancholia, Miss Nannie Quinn, of Shaver's Creek valley. Huntingdon county, shot herself in the head whether fatally ornot is not yet known. When she recovered consciousness she did not have any knowledge of what she had dore. diminish the drove. —Wayne county is celebrated for its maple sugar, and the present season promises to yield an unusually large supply. S. N. Cross,of Sterling, has added 2500 one-gallon syrup cans to his stock and he has in readiness 1000 cap buckets. He is onlyone of the army of Wayne county people who have sugar trees. —W. W. Jackson and wife of Williamsport, have each sued the Virginia Hot Springs Co., for $25. 000 damages, or $50,000 on account of being re- fused hotel accommodations at the Springs hotel some time ago. Mr. Jackson is a prominent re- tired business man of Williamsport and one of the owners of the Evening News of that place. —Potter county seems to have secured a jewel inthe person of Sheriff W. B. Clark, He has re- cently whitewashed the county jail and given it a general cleaning up, the entire cost being $1.85. The gas bill for February was $15 less than the December bill and showed a gain for the tax- payers of about $4, as compared with January. ~Walking into a physician's office at Sharon, recently, Robert Meryl complained of a severe pain in the roof of his mouth, The physician dis- covered a lump and making a small incision, was surprised when a bullet dropped out. Meryl was shot atthe battle of Antietam during the Civil war, but supposed surgeons had cut out the bullet at the time. —A bunch of the tickets stolen from the Jersey Shore New York Central station was found on the back porch at Professor H. E. Eisenhower's resi- dence. Itisthought that the burglars intended topay him a call. Other lots were found else- where in the town. Three men suspected of the burglary were arrested on the charge of breaking into a car cleaner’s shanty. —Dr. Arthur Holmes, assistant professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, has accepted the position of dean of the faculties at State College, which corresponds to the vice provostship at the university. Doctor Holmes will remain atthe university for the rest of the academic year, going to State College in the sum- mer in order to acquaint himself with the situa- tion there. His duties will be entirely administra- tive, although he expects to continue his teaching, both in psychology and philosophy. : ~The thirty-seventh annual meeting of the Women's Foreign Missionary society of Hunting. don Presbytery will be held in Lewistown on Wednesday and Thursday, March 20 and 21, be- ginning on Wednesday at 2:30 p. m. Delegates and visitors wishing to attend should send their names to Mrs, M. J. Goodhart, Lewistown, before March 9th. The speakers will be Mr. J. Carter Millikin, educational secretary of the board of foreign missions; Miss A. M. Jefferson, of India, and E, D. Vanderburgh, M. D., of China. ~At noon Saturday, February 21, the whistleof the big'saw mill of the Goodyear Lumber com- pany at Medix Run was sounded for the last time. It marked the end of the Goodyear operations at that place, which have been the principal indus- try of the settlement for the past 19 years, during which time an immense quantity of lumber has been prepared for the market. The Goodyear company will immediately dismantle this mill, which is a very large one, and move it onto Potato creek, where they have a large operation. —William Weston. a 16-year-old boy while play- panion, “Polly” Yancura. Weston had bought a- revolver and while the two were examining it the. gun went off and the ball plowed its way into Yancura's forehead. The lad was living when this item was written but little hopes are enter- tained for his recovery. The shooting is said to have been purely accidental and that no action will be taken for the prosecution of young Wes- ton.
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