LG is the sticker —A vote for WALKER for county chair- man will be a vote to save the party. —Either the TAFT campaign mana- gers are great liars or the ROOSEVELT managers are overworking their imagina- tions. —A better Democrat than W. H. HAGERTY, of Clearfield, would be hard to find. Vote for him for National Del- egate. —Don’t be led into voting against ABE WEBER for State Delegate. We haven't a better Democrat in Centre county and surely he is entitled to this honor. ~(0 to the primaries tomorrow. It is your duty to your party and to your coun” try to do your part toward the election of the best men possible to fill the public po- sitions of trust. ——The Japanese government proposes to subsidize a line of steamships to ply between Yokahoma and New York when the Isthmian canal is completed which is another form of the yellow peril. ——The thief who stole valuable pa. pers from Dr. Wooprow WILSON might have burglared to better advantage if he had gotten into the TAFT headquarters where the golden stream is said to be strong. —=0One of the new Senators from Ari- zona has opened up his career as a states. man by hitting a negro elevator operator and imperiling his own life and that of others. These western statesmen are en- tirely too forceful. —Mr. KIMPORT'S personally conducted campaign for county chairman has been more personally conducted than ever this week. Bright and early Monday morning he started off in Mr. KURTZ'S automobile to tell the Democrats of Centre county what orders CHARLEY had sent out. —-Representative STANLEY, of Ken- tucky, escaped injury by the assault made upon him by Representative GARD- NER, of Massachusetts, thus far but the back townships are yet to be heard from and the son of Kentucky who doesn't strike back is likely to get himself dis- liked at home. —Talking about bossing the Democrat- ic party. Did you happen to meet coun- ty chairman KiMPORT and GEORGE L. GOODHART riding over the county hunt. ing votes? They were riding in boss Kurtz's automobile, going where boss KURTZ sent them and telling what boss KURTZ told them to tell. —The scheme is really this. KURTZ wants KIMPORT re-elected county chair- | man, then KIMPORT will appoint a new county committee just to suit KURTZ, then KIMPORT, expecting to move away from Bellefonte soon, will resign, then Mr. KURTZ's own county committee will be called together and elect achairman whom Mr. KURTZ can own more completely than he does KimMPORT; if such a creature can be found. —Always it was our idea that a county chairman showed no partiality in a con- test among men of his own party for nom: | ination. And we think it has been the idea of old-fashioned, fair and square Dem- ocrats all their lives. But chairman KiM- PORT i§ different. He has been peddling GEORGE L. GOODHART all over county this week in CHARLEY KURTZ'S automobile in an effort to beat ABE WEBER, of How- | ard, for State Delegate. Doyou want that kind of a chairman, Democrats? He might work the double cross on you too if you should be a candidate while he is chairman. —Do you ask us why we are opposed to the re-election of Mr. KIMPORT as county chairman? Because this week he sent out letters, all over Centre county, over GEORGE L. GOODHART’S signature, advis- ing Democrats to vote against P. GRAY MEEK for National Delegate. Mr. Kim. PORT will not dare deny it. If he does let him explain why so many of the envel- opes carrying them were addressed by him. Probably you received one of the | NOW learning the lesson of these facts. letters. If you did, look at the sample bal- lot it contains and you will see that it is marked so as to guide you to cut the ed- itor of this paper when you vote. —Last week's Centre Democrat asserts “that when the State Central committee met at Harrisburg in response to a state wide protest and voted to reorganize the party chairman KiMPORT was ill and un- fortunately Centre county stood by the GUFFEY-HALL crowd and a protest swept like a tidal wave over the county.” It might have been a tidal wave all right enough that swept over Centre county, but it wasn't a protest ; because D. PAUL FORTNEY was the gentleman whom Mr. Kurtz would have you believe had be- trayed the party. He represented chair- man KiMPORT at that meeting. And he was elected District Attorney of the coun. ty last fall by a handsome majority. It seems to us that it looks more like an en- | report of the election was made the entire | admonishés our own government of the STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. ~_rof i VOL. 57. Barclay’s Dirty Treatment of Centre County Democrats. Eight years ago this Congressional | district had two National Delegates to choose, just as it has this year. At that time these representatives were chosen by the delegates to the State convention from the Congressional district. Our neighboring county of Clearfield was then entitled to five delegates, McKean one, Cameron one and Centre two—giving Clearfield a majority of one at the meet- ing of delegates. Centre was just entering upon a ju- dicial contest of great import to it. Judge Orvis had announced as candidate for Judge, and the late lamented Hon. J. C. MEYER contemplated doing the same. However, after weeks of consideration, and the certainty of division arising out of a contest which might cause defeat for the party, Mr. MEYER patriotically decid- ed that it would be bad political policy to have any dispute about a nomination and in order that the party might go into the contest for Judge thoroughly united he withdrew as a candidate. This action on his part so pleased the Democrats of the county, that a movement was started at once to honor him by making him one of the Delegates to the National convention. A score of our people went to the State convention for that purpose. They pre- sented his name to the delegates, —told them how much Centre county Demo crats needed that recognition to give them a good start off in the judicial cam. paign, and how greatly Mr. MEYER de- served the honor. The same JOHN BAR- CLAY, of Clearfield, who is now asking the votes of Centre county Democrats to elect him a delegate to the National con- vention, was a delegate to that State con- vention. He was the first one to speak out and say that “Clearfield had delegates enough to elect both National Delegates and the five men from that county in- tended electing two of their own citizens to fill these places. And they did so— choosing the Hon. JAMES KERR and Mr. WM. A. WALLACE Jr., both of Clearfield ty, now asking our people to elect ASHER JoHNsoN—joined with JOHN BARCLAY to humiliate Mr MEYER and deprive Centre county Democrats of any voice in the National convention of that year. So outrageous was this act that when the convention hooted the action as "hog- gish.” But it was done and had to be ac- cepted. And the JoHN BARCLAY who is now asking the support of Centre county Democrats, was one of the men who aided in committing this wrong upon this coun- ty and has since boasted about it as a sharp trick. Our people surely do not want to re- ward a man for this dirty kind of work, and for that reason no Democrat who has any respect for the memory of Mr. J. C. MEYER, or any regard for the rights of the Democrats of the county will think of voting for JOHN C. BARCLAY. Clearfield has a substantial, reliable good Democratic candidate for delegate to the National convention in W. H. HAGERTY Esq., one of the leading and most active Democrats of that county whose election would be an honor to the party and the district. Centre county Democrats should vote for him. Cost of Big Navies. An este¢med contemporary calls atten- tion to the cost of a big navy to Italy and danger which the advocates of more bat- tleships present to us. Italy has a splen- did navy and as might have been expect- ed her naval officers were anxious to ex- ploit their prowess. Naval officers like to exploit themselves as well as their warships because naval activity hastens promotions and makes opportunities for distinction. This spirit of jingoism led to the spirit of covetousness and the desire to seize Tripoli was the result. We are For nearly six months the naval and BELLEFONTE, PA. APRIL 12, 1912. McCormick as Measured by Neighbors. Mr. Vance C. McCorMICK was sharply and fitly rebuked by his Democratic neighbors in Harrisburg, the other day Since the development of the conspiracy of GUTHRIE, PALMER and MCCORMICK to destroy the Democratic organization of the State, Mr. McCorMICK has been try- ing to seize control of the local organiza- tion in Dauphin county. His plan was to change the rules so as to depose the pres- ent party officials immediately after the primaries this year. In pursuance of this scheme Mr. McCorMICK exhausted every resource at his command to cajole or coerce members of the coun- ty committee. The result was an un- usually large meeting and an exceedingly interesting session. We have very little sympathy with those who compose the officials of the Dauphin county Democratic committee. Under an implied promise that McCor- MICK would support the chairman for County Commissioner, last fall, the vote of that county was given to the GUTHRIE, PALMER and MCCORMICK conspiracy at both the April and July meetings of the Democratic State Central Committee, making the one majority for the conspir- acy at the April meeting and helping to make up its fraudulent roster at the July meeting. But upon the approved policy of choosing the lesser of two evils we are glad to learn that the MCCORMICK scheme was overwhelmingly defeated and that that arrogant, would-be boss, was re- buked. As we said on a previous occasion, re- ferring to that gentleman, a man is best known in the community in which he re- sides and the vote of the Dauphin county Democratic committee on Mr. McCor- MICK'S plan to seize control of the party machinery expressed the opinions of the Dauphin county Democrats as to his merits as a man and his aspirations to leadership. By a vote of more than three to one his amendments were defeated, though emanating from any other source they would probably have been adopted phin county know VANCE MCCORMICK and estimate him at his true value. He is able to cut some figure in affairs where he is not known but at home "his name, politically, is Dennis.” —If the miners are wise they will re frain from any kind of disorder during the period of idleness. They have the sympathy of the public with them and sooner or later it will force concessions which may end the strike. But violence will turn the tide of popular sentiment and when the miners lose sympathy they lose all. Rule or Ruin Guthrie’s Motto. In his letters to Chairman RITTER, of the Democratic State committee, Mr. GEORGE W. GUTHRIE puts great stress upon the statement that the right of every citizen to run for office is fundamental and that an agreement, in advance of the event, to take Mr. PALMER and himself out of the equation would be a subversion of a great Democratic principle. That is the specious subterfuge of a demagogue. Chairman RITTER didn't ask GUTHRIE and PALMER to eliminate others than themselves from the reckoning. He didn't ask them to violate any Democrat- ic principle or infringe any political or personal right. He simply suggested that being “bones of contention,” GUTHRIE, PALMER, GUFFEY and himself take them- selves out. It is an inherent right of any citizen to run for office but his right to refrain from running is equally clear and unques- | tionable. If Chairman RITTER had asked GUTHRIE and PALMER to compel any citi- zen, other than themselves, from run- ning for the offices to which they aspire, a principle would have been violated and a right infringed. But he didn’t do any- thing of that kind. He simply stated that participation in past factional quar- rels had made GUTHRIE, PALMER, GUF- FEY and himself storm-centres of faction- military energy of Italy have been di- rected toward the conquest of Tripoli. During all that time the war expenses have been running at the rate of over a million dollars a day. Thus far the peo- ple have not felt the burden which such an account necessarily entails for the reason jie Se had been for years a Joaceful prosperous mon- archy her resources were ample and Her cralit goed. Borrowing has kept the supply up us far and taxation has not i perceptibly. But the time is coming when credit will be exhausted and the burden of rais- ing funds to prosecute the war will de- Se upon the shoulders of the le. Taxes will have to be vastly i to Test he in eo cost ou and then people will ery a big navy means. It is Sompatatively easy to create and not altogether t to maintain on a peace footing. But when battleshi n to shoot away dorsement than a protest. powder and at rate of $1000 a shot it is different. Our e should take these facts into deration now. alism and objects of enmity on each side | of the contention and suggested that in | the interest of harmony they all take | themselves out of the equation, and Mr. ! GUTHRIE refused to comply. GEORGE W. GUTHRIE entered into this factional quarrel for the selfish and sor- did purpose of acquiring control of the Democratic organization with the view of using the power to promote his own po- litical ambitions. He had betrayed the party in the past. He had been trusted and proved recreant. Therefore he knew that he could not get control of the organization by legal or legitimate means and resorted to revolutionary processes. The logical result of his conspiracy was the complete demoralization of the party and when he is asked to take himself out of the reckoning that harmony may be restored, he acknowledges his selfishness and sordidness by refusing to comply. Rule or ruin is his motto. by a good majority. The people of Dau | is" Mr. Roosevelt’s Ambitions. | 0.15. Last Fight of Deemerism. In an interview recently published Mr. | From the Pittsburgh Post. WiLLiAM JENNINGS BRYAN suggests that if THEODORE ROOSEVELT “had taken up the cause of Senator LAFOLLETTE or some other representative leader of the Progressive Republicans and worked for him as hard as he is now working for himself Mr. ROOSEVELT could have com- pelled the nomination of that leader.” No doubt that is true. Less than six months ago President TAFT was an exceedingly unpopular candidate. He stood charged, in the public mind, with most of the mis- fortunes which have come to his party since his inauguration a trifle more than three years ago and the office holders who felt their places slipping from under them were resentful. But Mr. ROOSEVELT does not now and never did want to compel the nomination of any Progressive Republican or any kind of a Republican, other than himself, He selected TAFT as his successor four years ago because he imagined his then Secretary of War was an amiable gentle- man who would be satisfied with one term and entirely willing to relinquish the job in his favor this year. When he found that his estimate of Mr. TAFT was erroneous, he set about to capture the nomination and was willing to take it from either faction of the party. In fact he debated for months upon which side of the factional fence to jump and even made a strong bid for the favor of the reactionaries. Mr. ROOSEVELT is beset with a lust for power. He wants to run things and com- pel obedience to his mandates and his caprices. In the office of President he was constantly reaching out for new ob- jects of control. He was jealous of the powers of the courts and envious of the prerogatives of Congress. The State governments were sources of envy to him and he was ever devising schemes for the curtailment of their functions by methods of usurpation. Such a tempera- ment could never be satisfied by the ele- vation of another to office. His ambition to get the office for himself and if anybody has ever believed that anything else would satisfy ROOSEVELT he is too credulous to be trusted. ——With the coming of spring and good weather there is a probability that the Bellefonte Motor club will waken from its winter sleep and again begin to take an active interest in the good roads movement in Centre county. Crucial Test for Democrats. The Democrats of Pennsylvania will be face to face with a crucial test of pa- triotism to-morrow. At the primary elec- tion they will decide whether law and order shall govern their party organiza- tion or mob methods control their poli- cies. A vast majority of the voters of Democratic faith believe that the party should be reorganized. They reulize that with the passage of time and pro- gress of events leaders lose their effi- ciency in politics as in business and that the time has come when the party will be strengthened by introducing new blood and younger meninto the manage- ment. But a vast majority of them believe, also, that such changes ought to be made in a lawful manner. For the past year a conspiracy composed | big of political recreants and party traitors has been striving to destroy the Democratic organization of the State in order that a | th machine might be constructed upon the ruins which would serve the selfish pur- poses and ambitions of these recreants. Men who have habitually betrayed the party by voting against its worthy candi- dates have been and are how trying to ‘seize the organization to use it, not to promote Democratic principles, not to in- culcate Democratic policies, but to serve their own selfish purposes. The Demo- ‘cratic voters of the State will have oppor- tunity to-morrow to determine whether this vicious conspiracy shall be success- ful or fail. Col. James M. GUFFEY, than whom no better Democrat has ever lived, has taken himself out of the consideration. He has publicly announced that he is not and will not be a candidate for any office in the future. He has been a generous as well as a wise leader in the past. Under his management the party has won some splendid victories and achieved some grand results. But heis now ab- solutely and unalterably out of it. No good can be accomplished, however, by insulting him as the conspirators propose to do and therefore we implore the Demo- crats of Centre county to send delegates tothe State convention who will favor legal reorganization and harmonious councils in the future. ——Mr. ROOSEVELT is convinced that every delegate elected against him is chosen by fraud. In fact it wouldn't be hard to convince the Colonel that he is really the only honest man on earth, There is a hot fight going on in the Fifteenth Congressional district, where the warring Republican factions to Juseat Wi iam | B. the, one the ng mem ol Pennsylvania delegation and a power in the House o Representatives. The contest is interest- ing only from the Republican side, where the rivals are battling for the nomination at next Saturday's primaries, but so far as Congressman Wilson and his friends are concerned there is little to disturb their equanimity. The hotter the Repub- lican fight the larger will be the Wilson majority at the polls in November. The Fifteenth district had been solidly Republican prior to the advent of Wil- liam B. tha itics. Elias Deemer, of Williamsport, a Plies. lieutenant, noted for his selfishness, im- agined that the district was his by right, and forced his election for three successive terms. His success was due, not to his own popularity, but to the aforesaid normal majority, but in time the awakened and Ha & 8% . 1 and all that goes with it. Pennsylvania Bosses Disturbed. From the Altoona Times. The Republican bosses of Pennsylvania, all of whom are members of the Taft given by Senator Oliver in honor of Gov- ernor Tener and his staff, was in reality a political conference of significance, and the significance was rather disturbing to the bosses. From what has been learned, the various lieutenants gathered around Senator Penrose after the dinner to sub- mit reports and exchange views. The character of reports received from the forty prominent Pennsylvanians present was of such a nature as to indicate that there is very little Taft sentiment in the State. As a matter of fact many Penn- sylvania people with memories long enough to go back to the Berry, and es- pecially the Pattison, campaigns, are pre- dicting that Pennsylvania will go Demo- cratic if Taft is nominated. The leaders have been reminded of this and are con- siderably worried as a result. Another thing which has embarrassed the state nization, is the challenge of the Roosevelt people that the delegates he labeled; the t candidates to be marked “For Roosevelt,” and the Taft candidates “For Taft.” With so little Taft sentiment in the State, this is rather disturbing with the successful presidential ticket. From this can be readily deducted the reasons for the desire of the organi- zation to send uninstructed delegates who are loyal to the machine. This would then permit of a deal at with some of the eastern States, a Taft could be ditched and a ise man nominated. ith few people favorable to Taft and ose opposed insisting that the nominees for delegates indicate their presidential preference, there is little wonder that the Republican bosses of, Pennsylvania are by which com Another Chance for Taft. From the Jobnstown Democrat. cent. in House uction t in Schedule K. or just 10 cent. less than the bill which the a: vetoed. The tariff board, therefore, vindicates the Democratic bill, if such vindication was necessary, which is doubted. The Democrats knew, | before the tariff board was created, and President Taft knew To or in his a Minn., he characterized the hone wool tariff rate as “indefensible.” Wns iow. stand, neither the Presi- t nor ublican party as a whole, nor the high ionists will have Bg LN laa ig the |» its bn x convict themselves of ibe trying t a special privilege, name- to I rar > Fhe Jive the Wool Trust mag- na been busy this week distributing the ballots for tomorrow’s primaries. SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. —Many Lock Haven families that had intended to change their residences on April first are quarantined in their old homes, the board o health refusing to permit cases of chicken-pox or measles to be moved. —During the present month one of Williams: port's oldest residents will celebrate the 99th anni- versary of his birth. The venerable man is named George Keens, and his birthday celebration comes on the 23rd inst. —Alonzo B. Yocum, a Huntingdon county hun- ter living near the Raystown dam, recently shot a magnificent white swan measuring 7 feet 3 inches from tip to tip of wings and over6 feet from its beak to the tip of its tail. —It is said the friends of Frank Calhoun, soon to be tried in Huntingdon for the murder of Benjamin Galloup, will undertake to convince the jury that the man is insane, having for months imagined that the avenger was on his trail. —William Strode Settle, of Lewistown, recalls that forty-seven years ago last Wednesday he was withthe Union Army at the capitulation of Rich- mond by the confederates. It is believed he is the only Mifflin county soldier living who took part in that historic event. —Judge Smith, of Clearfield county, has solved a legal tangle by dismissing Curwensville'sillegal- ly elected councilmen from office and then ap- pointing the same gentlemen to fill the vacancy. They will hold office until January 1st, 1914, their successors to be elected in November, 1913. —There #re three country clubs maintained by residents of Harrisburg. The Country club was organized in 1897, and following that came the Suburban and the Colonial clubs. Middletown and other towns also have such organizations, all of which are directing attention to the importance of outdoor life. —Jacob D. Shaffer, of Shadel. Snyder county, while cleaning up about a property he had re- cently purchased. found in the cellar wall a cigar box which contained plaster of paris molds for making coins of various values. The molds were deposited in a Middleburg bank and the government notified. —The Rev. W. A. Carver, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church at Morrisdale, dur- ing the last conference year, who had been ap” pointed to Hoytville, will remain at Morrisdale, the Rev. W. F. D. Noble, having declined to accept the appointment. Mr. Carver is a good preacher and a forceful writer. —The Rev. J. A. Mattern, of Martinsburg, last week swallowed his false teeth, and may have to undergo an operation for their removal. He was taken to the Altoona hospital, where an X-ray picture of him was made and the teeth located in his stomach. Efforts will be made to remove the teeth without resort to the surgeon's knife. —Miss Emily Green, twenty-two yearsold and a pretty teacher in the pubiic schools of North- umberland, drew her savings from the North- umberland National bank and, it is alleged, eloped with E. E. Seid, an extra brakeman in the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. She left with- out notifying the school board of her intention. =H. S. McCachren, who has been sexton of the Jersey Shore cemetery for a period of twenty- three years, has resigned, the resignation taking effect April first. During his term of serviee Sexton McCachren buried 1803 bodies. For the year ending April first there were ninety-three burials, twenty-one being children under six years of age. =~The bureau of industries and board of Gov- ernors of the Chamber of Commerce, of Cleat- field, last week approved two industrial proposi- tions, one of which it is hoped will put the Clear field rolling mill in operation the coming sum- mer; the other is a small factory employing a dozen hands. The prospects for Clearfield are very good this summer. ~Losing his balance on top of a bed Friday, Harold, the three year old son of Hurley Maus- teller, of Catawissa, feil through an open register tothe room below. The child was impaled on the sharp end of the brass ornament of the stove, the point penetrating just below the heart. He was still impaled when found by his mother. It is feared he cannot recover. —An attempt to dynamite the big crusher of the Derry Sand Glass company, located a short distance from Derry, was frustrated by the bravery of the watchman at a late hour Friday night when he picked up a stick of dynamite with a lighted fuse attached, which had been thrown into the building by some unknown person, and hurled it a considerable distance before it had a chance to exploda. ~Jacol Swires, of Philipsburg, has just closed negotiations with a couple of unnamed Altoona capitalists by which they take over the Corbin mines in Lawrence township, Clearfield county, consisting of six tracts of coal lands, covering in all about 600 acres. The property is on the Pennsylvania railroad, hetween Clearfield and Curwensville, and is said to contain a valuable lot of coal of the Moshannon seam. —After months of prospecting, discussing and arranging the proposition of a prominent firm of Philadelphia capitalists to build a trolley line through Shaver's Creek Valley with McAlevys Fort and Petersburg as the termini, finally took definite escape, Monday, and in company with justice Robert Armstrong, of Logan township, Huntingdon county, Samuel Longenecker, of Petersburg, started the work of securing the right of way Tuesday morning. ~The mystery surrounding the disappearance of Mrs. Julius Fossler, of Allentown, who left home during a storm on the night of March 14th, scent and located her corpse in a swamp. In- vestigation showed she died from exposure while temporarily deranged and set at rest a rumor to the effect that her husband had a hand in her strange disappearance. ~Willard and Chester Mulhollem, aged 10 and 7 and Harold Fern, aged about 9, residents of Allemansville, Clearfield county, were out in the woods near their home some days ago when they found and ate a small white root. All three took seriously ill and Chester Mulhollem died about four hours after cating the poison. The other two were saved by hard work on the part of the attending physician, Dr. A. G. Rickets, of Smith's Mills, who was hastily sununoned. Stephen was unwittingly led to his doom. About four o'clock on Saturday afternoon, he was struck on the head by a heavy casting and instantly killed. Williams was employed asa laborer to assist in erecting a dynamo. Some portion of the hoisting machinery gave way and a casting was dropped a distance of forty feet, striking Stephens on the back of the head and crushing his skull. The body was taken to Huntingdon and the coroner's jury absolved anyone from blame. ~With the death of William J. McCoy a few days ago, at his home near Utahville, Clearfield county, along the Beliwood branch, one of the oldest school teachers in Pennsylvania passed to his reward. He was within a few months of being 80 years of age. He began teaching when but 16 and followed the profession the greater points in Clearfield, Cambria and Centre counties, and there are many residents of this county who part of his life. Mr. McCoy taught at different . ny Laas
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