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BY P. GRAY MEEK.
INK SLINGS.
—It was the 13th of April.
—Slightly disfigured, of course, but
still in the ring.
~The quality of what there were of us
was very high but the quantity was too
few.
—Boss PENROSE is another of the dis-
tinguished leaders who lost all he had to
boss on Saturday.
~The trout season opened Monday
just two days after the last ot the gud-
geons was caught.
—Some men are born small; others
achieve smallness and others have small-
ness thrust upon them.
—Congressman PATTON defeated BILL
DEHAAS for renomination but he hasn't
defeated Jim GLEASON yet.
—The “unsinkable ship” has reached
about the same high degreé¢ of perfec-
tion as the fire-proof building.
—At this rate of going the farmer will
be lucky who gets his spring plowing
done in time to sow his fall grain.
—If May flowers are to come out of
April showers next month's posy crop
ought to be something to brag about.
—Centre was one of the few counties
that voted to keep the same old gang in
at home but to have a change in the
State.
—[llinois knocked out the LORIMER
ring but the greater nuisance, JOSEPH G.
CANNON got through the storm without a
scratch.
—"Dick" QUAY is probably no better
pleased with the result of the Republican
primaries of Saturday than GEORGE W.
PERKINS of the Harvester trust.
—A new era of Democracy has dawn-
ed. It seems that the fellow who has
done the most kicking and voted the
crookedest is the one most desirable.
—*Bili"” FLINN, of Pittsburg, who is
likely to be the new Republican boss, has
started an Ananias club with CHARLIE
TAPT as one of the charter members.
—Beeause Illinois and Pennsylvania
have gone to the bug over ROOSEVELT
there is no immediate reason for thinking
that all the other States are crazy with
it too.
——Governor MARSHALL, of Indiana,
also believes that the Presidential office
should go hunting for a candidate but
serves notice onit where he can be found
—I1f Centre county had given its only
aspirant for National Delegate 1775 of
the 2019 votes polled it would have had
representation in the coming National
convention.
IT wi
—The Pennsylvania Democracy has
passed into the pink tea era of its exist”
ence. Here's hoping that it will come
through the crisis at least no worse than
it was on entering it.
—A good many people think LINCOLN
is getting the worst of itin this campaign.
To be compared to ROOSEVELT is pretty
hard on the memory of a good man who
believed in the constitution and obeyed
the law.
—ANDREW CARNEGIE has announced
that this country is going to be prosper-
ous for the next hundred years. We pre-
sume he refers especially to the business
prospects of the library building contrac-
tors and the pipe organ manufactories.
—To the real Democrats of Centre
county the WATCHMAN sends greeting,
Fanaticism, misrepresentation and in-
gratitude have for the time taken posses.
sion of the party, but it will come back
to reason some day and then you will be
more than gratified with the true stand
you took and maintained.
—Probably the stupefying disaster that
befell the passengers aboard the Titanic
might have been minimized had their de-
mands for luxurious salons and prome-
nades not been catered to so carefully by
the builders of the leviathan steamer.
More room for life boats and rafts and
less for pleasure nooks would have told a
different tale.
~The death of CLARA BARTON, “the |
FLORENCE NIGNTINGALE of America,” at |
her home in Maryland on Sunday morn-
ing removes a woman beloved through-
out the wide world. Wherever the
Red Cross finds its way ministering to
the stricken along with it will go sweet-
est memories of the woman who found-
ed the Order in America.
—When it came to facing the grim
reaper aboard the ill fated Titanic Joun
JAcoB AsToRr's millions didn’t do for him
what the consciousness of having lived
an upright, christian life did for many of
the penniless seamen who were aboard
the vessel. Those are the moments
when an implicit faith in the Master
stands out as the pearl without price.
~The death of Hon. WiLLiAM F. HAR-
RITY, at his home in Philadelphia, on
Wednesday marks the passing within a
week of two of the men who helped give
Pennsylvania ROBERT E. PATTISON as
Governor. Hon. RoBerT E. WRIGHT, of
Allentown, was the other. These men,
able, brilliant and untiring in their devo-
tion to Democratic principles led the par-
J to its most Notable victories in this
Se
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VOL. 57.
Ghastly Illinois joke.
Out in Chicago there is a big fat cab-
man widely known as “Hungry” HOGAN.
Mr. HoGAN has acquired local fame be-
cause of an extraordinary capacity at the
table and popularity on account of an
amiable disposition incident to a full
stomach. While the Democrats of Illinois
were assembled in convention, recently,
for the purpose ot selecting candidates
for Congressmen-at-Large and other State
officials, a delegate named GILLIGAN, ob-
sessed with what passes for humor in
Chicago, named Mr. HoGAN for Congress-
at-Large. The joke appealed to his
colleagues and thanks to the beneficent
State-wide primaries out there, he has
been nominated, defeating a capable gen-
tleman of the name of WILLIAMS.
Of course the election of “Hungry”
HoGAN to Congress would be an absurd-
ity. He has probably never heard of
such a thing as the constitution of the
United States and it is doubtful if he can
write his own name. But his fellow-
citizens of Chicago supported him with
great enthusiasm, in their jocular man.
ner, and within the city he got 15,000
majority over Mr. WILLIAMS, a country
citizen of splendid equipment to adorn
the office. The ultimate result will be
that at the general election in November
sufficient self-respecting Democrats to
turn the tide will either refrain from
voting altogether or vote for one of the
Republican candidates. Thus even if the
political tide is in our favor, we will lose
a member of Congress.
The moral of this incident is that even
the best intentioned reform may fail of
its purpose. If the nomination of can-
didates for Congress-at-Large had been
made by the convention the questionable
joke of the humorous Mr. GILLIGAN
would have failed for the majority of the
delegates would have been for Mr. WiL-
LIAMS. No doubt those who imagine
that direct primaries are the panacea for
all political ills mean well and never
dreamed that an unfit candidate for Con-
gress or any other State office could be
: that way. But this experi
ence ‘will open their eyes to the
facts.
If we had State-wide uniform prima-
ries in Pennsylvania Philadelphia and
Pittsburgh would select all candidates.
——President TAFT has notified the
Mexican government that it will be held
responsible for any damage done to
American citizens on the border. But he
doesn't indicate what course he will adopt
to indemnify the sufferers in the event
damage is inflicted. Probably he has
thoughts of war in his mind.
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But One Convention.
The WATCHMAN three weeks ago, in
the face of the assertion of Mr. GUTH-
RIE, Mr. McCorMICK and their crowd of
disorganizers that they intended holding
a State convention, informed its readers
that there would be but ome convention
and that that one would be the conven-
tion called by Chairman RITTER and
known as the regular Democratic State
convention.
Now, even the men who have been
claiming the GUTHRIE faction as the Dem-
ocratic party of the State are admitting
the fact. Mr. GUTHRIE himself is prepar-
ing to come down the tree and acknowl-
edge, by his acts, that his crowd has no
standing in law, and that as a ticket
maker his convention would be without
standing and his candidates without a
place on any ticket.
Under the conditions, as the naked
truth and the requirements of the law
are shaping them up, Centre county is
liable to be without any voice in the
State convention, or its delegate, Mr.
GEORGE GOODHART, will have a goodly
dose of crow to eat befors he gets back
home. He has pledged himself not to
attend the convention called by the reg:
ulars, and as every indication now points
to the fact that it will be the only con.
vention that will be organized, it is a
matter of some interest to know just wha
he will conclude to do about it.
It's not because Mr. GUTHRIE wants to
abandon his pretense of being the State
chairman that he is beginning to hedge
on the matter of holding a convention,
but because he is up to the place that he
has to show the legality of his claims—
which he knows he cannot do—that is
making him seek any available reson
ible for out of the fix he has
pole
gosien his trouble--breeding
ollowers into.
——Not enough members were present
at the meeting of the High school alumni
on Monday evening to transact any busi-
ness, and adjournment was made until
Wednesday evening, May 29th, when
another meeting will be held. A good at-
tendance is desired at that time, as there
will be the annual election of officers and
the appointment of the committee to ar-
range for the annual reception to the
graduating class.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA, APRIL 19, 1912.
| Woodrow Wilson’s View of Jefferson.
In a speech delivered before the Na-
tional Democratic club, in New York,
the other evening, Wooprow WILSON re-
sponded to the toast, “What JEFFERSON
would do.” It was a difficult as well as
an interesting theme and his audience
was both discriminating and critical. At
the principal table sat Mr. W. J. BRYAN
and other distinguished gentlemen who
differ widely in their interpretation of
JEFFERSON'S thoughts. In Harrisburg, a
night or two before, for example, Sena-
tor OWEN, of Oklahoma, asserted that
the initiative, referendum and recall are
ascribable to the teachings of JEFFERSON.
Others attribute other of the modern
heresies to him and probably all are sin-
cere in their beliefs.
JEFFERSON'S fundamental thought, ac-
cording to Governor WILSON’S interpreta-
tion, was that “no policy could last whose
foundation is narrow, based upon the
privileges and authority of the few; but
that its foundation must be as broad as
the interests of all the men and families
and neighborhoods that live under it.”
There can hardly be a dissent from this
view. Certainly no man who has read
JEFFERSON intelligently, will take issue
with it. But JEFFERSON'S ideas were ex-
pressed in the constitution and his poli-
| cies in a strict construction of that in-
strument. Those who advocate an en-
largement of the powers of either the
Executive or Congress because of chang-
ed conditions pay scant respect to the
memory of JEFFERSON.
“Constitutions are not inventions,” con
tinues Governor WiLsON. "They do not
create our liberty. They are rooted in
life, in fact, in circumstances, in inviron-
ment.” They are, however, the conserv-
ators of our liberty, the guarantees of
our rights as citizens. The constitution
of the United States, mainly written by
JEFFERSON, carefully shields the separate
divisions of the government from en-
croachments from the others and the at-
tempt to read into that charter of our
liberty any heresies which defeat its pug- |
pose is as treasonable as an attempt tol
Governor WILSON may be depended upon
to resist any such evil to the country.
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——TEDDY certainly got a boost in this
State but it won't get him the nomina-
tion. There are a good many people
willing to give PENROSE a jolt who are
not ready to violate the unwritten but re-
vered law against a third term.
Grant and Roosevelt.
Those who interpret the result of the
Republican primary elections in this State
as guaranteeing the nomination of ROOSE-
VELT by the coming Chicago convention
are misreading the signs. In 1880 General
GRANT had the delegates for Illinois,
Pennsylvania and Missouri almost solidly.
He also had an equally solid support of
the New York delegation and 304 votes
out of a total of 756 on the first baliot.
This year he will get no votes from New
York and the aggregate membership of
the convention is increased nearly 300.
In other words with greater strength than
ROOSEVELT can possibly develop GRANT
failed to get the necessary 378 votes.
Then how can ROOSEVELT get 525 votes.
There is a good deal of prejudice in the
public mind against TAFT for one reason
or another. His perpetual smile has got
onto the nerves of people and his admin-
istrative acts are not generally popular.
Hundreds of thousands of intelligent men
believe that he could have kept his pledge
of four years ago that the tariff would
be revised downward in the event of his
election and that he didn’t care enough
about the interests and necessities of the
people or the sancity of his obligation to
do so. Voters who pay heavy tariff taxes
on potatoes in order to feed hungry chil-
dren are not pleased with such impres-
sions and the ROOSEVELT vote was vastly
increased because of opposition to TAFT.
But when voters come to the general
election they will think and act different-
ly. Then ROOSEVELT’S characteristics as
well as the consequences of his election
will be considered. GRANT was defeated
for the nomination in 1880 because a
great majority of the people are un-
alterably opposed to a third term and
ROOSEVELT will be defeated for precisely
the same reason, though there are plenty
of other reasons why he should be over-
whelmed. Pennsylvania is no more solid
for ROOSEVELT now than it was for GRANT
then and GRANT had as many delegates
and quite as adroit managers as ROOSE-
VELT has now. But GRANT was beaten
as ROOSEVELT will be and it may not be
necessary to get out a dark horse.
——Secretary of the Treasury Mac-
VEAGH says that protective tariff is “part
of the hostile life of the world.” But the
Secretary probably realizes that he will
have to find a new job after the 4th of
March anyway.
The Defeat of Penrose.
The surprising result of the Republican
primaries in Pennsylvania can hardly be
ascribed to popular admiration of RoosEg-
VELT. A notorious grafter, a falsifier, a
boaster and demagogue, it is inconceiv-
able that men of well ordered mind
could admire him. It is difficult to be-
lieve, moreover, that it is attributable to
faith in his promises to the working peo-
ple of improvements in their condition.
During the upward of seven years that
he occupied the office he never took a
step in the direction of amelioration and
a tax upon public credulity. - There must
be some other reason, therefore, for
“sowing to the wind” for many years in
Pennsylvania. Public officials have been
cultivating contempt in the public mind.
The constitution of the United States and
that of the State have been freely flout-
ed. The courts have been careless of
their obligations and the Legislature has
been indifferent to the interests of the
people have lost their veneration for
The restraints which formerly held men
to true lines of political morality are
no longer regarded. When the ministers
of the law fail of their duty the laymen
lose respect for the law and forget their
duty to the State.
For five years the country has been
suffering from industrial paralysis and
the government has taken no steps to-
ward remedying the evil. Administra-
tive profligacy has compelled excessive
tax burdens and no attempt has been
made to give the people relief. Finally
ROOSEVELT appealed to their passions
and by specious promises of reforms
which he has no intention of fulfilling he
induced them to strike blindly and smite
one boss in order to put another in posi-
tion to prey upon them. They have
struck down PENROSE and set “BILL”
FLINN upon a pedestal. It may work an
improvement for a brief period but if it
‘does there will be greater reason for sur-
prise than the result of the primaries
presented.
The Titanic Disaster.
It is to be hoped that a statement made
by some scientist or fault-finder that the
terrible disaster to the Titanic might
have been averted if that leviathan of
the sea had been properly equipped has
no foundation in fact. The Titanic was
the greatest achievement in ship-build-
ing. She was not only the largest steam-
ship afloat but the most magnificent in
appointments and the costliest. It
would be a great shame if the owners
of such 2 ship should fail, or neglect, on
any account, to provide every expedient
for the safety of the lives of her passen-
gers.
ship numbered 2170 of whom only 868
have been rescued. The death list there-
fore, amounts to the startling total of
1302. Among these are some of the
But in the presence of such a calamity
there are no distinctions among men.
The multimillionaire in the costliest
suite of the first cabin and the poorest
creature in the third class of passengers
come to a common level as the waves en-
gulf them and force them to the bottom.
when it comes to rich and poor alike and
at the same moment, the fact is empha-
sized.
But in the interest of the traveling
public it must be shown that this great
calamity is not attributable to either the
carelessness of the ship officers or the
parsimony of the ship owners. It is con-
jectured that the desire to make a speed
record on the first trip of the ship led
the captain to neglect precautions which
ought to have been taken against such
an incident. We hope this allegation
will be disproved for while the captain
has gone to the bottom with the’ others
it would be a reflection upon his mem-
ory.
Might be Well to Remember.
| The average vote cast last fall for the
cratic sentiment of - the county, was 1234
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in the event of ican success in the
State. But what shall be said of the
of such a move? Mr. Dalzell,
after more than two decades spent in the
open and unbl service of the tariff
taxers, has been in humiliation by
his own people. Shall they now be
humiliated in turn by having John Dalzell
Insurgents and Insurrectionists.
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SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—The Catawissa knitting mill is compelled
increase of business to enlarge its plant and id
stall twenty new knitting machines.
the United States geological survey bulletin stat-
ing that the iron ore found in F: i
oy ulton county is of
—Miss Della May Thompson, aged 19 years,
was fatally burned while trying to extinguish a
forest fire near her home in Taylor township,
Juniata county.
—The Hotel Juniata, at Everett, for more than
thirty years a public hostelry, has been closed. It.
is the fourth Bedford county house to retire from
—Fred Ritchie, an electric foreman, was thrown
from a pole at St. Mary’s by the violence of a
shock from a live wire. A rib was broken in the
fall. penetrating a lung and killing him in an
—A large number of citizens of Delaware coun-
ty are complaining because the county is poor
pay. They served as witnesses and claim to have
made several trips in vain to the county seat for
their fees.
freight just once too often as it passed his home
near South Fork and his companions saw him
route th pistes. He was the only support of a
mother,
—Rev. A. H. Spangler, D.D., a widely known
Lutheran minister, has tendered his resignation
as pastor of the church at Yeagertown. Hehas
the deep sympathy of many friends on account of
the death of his wife, ten days ago.
—At a smoker of State College students and
alumni, held at the Schmitt House, Altoona, Fri-
day evening, the Mountain branch of the Penn.
sylvania State College Alumni association was
formed. Three members ‘of the faculty were in
attendance, while more than twenty-five students
and graduates of the college werein attendance
organization. .
and joined the new
—Two houses, two stables and a number of
outhouses were quickly destroyed at Lamar by a
fire which started at 2 o'clock Friday afternoon
in the stable on the premises of Isaac Loveland
and which communicated to Mr. Loveland’s
dwelling and the dwelling and stable on the
premises of Mrs. K. V. Dunbar, together with all
of the outbuildings on both places.
—Notices have been posted at the various
operations of the Berwind-White Coal Mining
company in Somerset county granting the men an
advance of 5% percent. od the basis of the Cleve.
lend scale. Between 4,000 and 5,000 men, al,
organized, will benefit. It is believed that the ac.
tion of the Berwind-White company will be an
important factor in settling the wage controversy
in the entire central Pennsylvania district.
~The Rockhill Iron and Coal Company have
been furnishing coal for the past year to the U. S.
Government, much ofit going to Panama for use
in work on the canal. This contract has been
largely increased for 191213. which will in-
sure another year’s steady work at the mines. It
is said that none of the mines in central Pennsyl-
vania have worked as steady during the past
t, | years as those at Robertsdale and Woodvale.
—Pennsylvania’s staple crops in the vear 1911
are shown to have had a value of $172,569,000, ac-
cording to the advance sheets of the state crop re-
port, which has just been read by A. L. Martin,
deputy secretary of agriculture, who is in charge
of the crop information service of the Department
of Agriculture. The figures are obtained from
men who have gathered the information for years
and are regarded as being the best obtainable.
The State stands first as a grower of rye. second
in hay and potatoes, ninth in wheat and seven-
teenth in corn in the union.
campment of the National Guard of Pennsylvania
will be held this summer at Gettysburg. The
camp will take place between July 22 and 31, each
concerns included in the merger. The Bankers
Trust company of New York City is the mort-
gagee. Philipsburg will shortly be the scene of
SES. ae alates the Sart of he new
vast sum of money.
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