BY P. GRAY MEEK. ——————— INK SLINGS. . —Did you ever know of anything making a better bluff at being something big than three eggs in an omelet. —Boss PENROSE and his friends had only the satisfaction of seeing how clean the new boss FLINN broom could sweep. ——Mr. GEORGE W. GUTHRIE imagines that this country would have a hard time of it if he and MiTCHELL PALMER should die. —Did you ever know any one who seemed to have a greater hankering to see his name in print than the Hon. A. MITCHELL PALMER. —Quite naturally those who are to re- ceive none of it are the ones who are concerned most about when Mr. FRAN- CIE'S is coming with the “dough.” —The reason that so few people are concerned about the recent rise in the price of meat is because the price of meat passed beyond the reach of the ma- jority long ago. —As President you can bet your last dollar that Woobrow WILSON wouldn't make the undignified spectacle of him- self that ex-President ROOSEVELT and President TAFT are now doing. —In the Blue Nile region in Egypt a native laborer can live very comfortably on from six to eight cents a day. It sounds cheap enough, but very few peo- ple would want to be a Blue Nile laborer. —Tyrone is on the map again. After being dry for a month six licenses have been granted in that place and the white- jacketed pitchers are passing the high- balls over to the delight of the fans once more. —Out of the frying pan into the fire the Republican party in Pennsylvania has jumped. Between boss PENROSE and boss FLINN there is little difference; both representing the most corrupt type of political tricksters. —The unfortunate feature of the un- fortunate controversy between our Pres- ident and our only living ex-President is that most of the things they are saying about each other are so true that they are humiliating to the people who so sig- nally honored them. —As we predicted last week the Presi- dent's Boston speech revealed some truths about TEDDY that the public hadn't heard before. Bad as were the accusations made by Mr. TAFT most any one who knows anything knows that they couldn't libel the Colonel. —Why harry J. BRUCE ISMAY more. He probably feels his position keenly enough as it is. Sneering at him further doesn’t help matters and the real valor that he is accused of not having is not the kind of thing that gratifies itself by shaming the weaker qualities in men. —One of the pleasant incidents of the recent Republican State convention in Harrisburg was the complete and pathet- ic reconciliation of county chairman QUIGLEY and near county chairman HAR- HiS. The hatchet was buried deep in the soil of Dauphin county and we hope neither one of them will ever remember where they put it. —JONATHAN BOURNE, United States Senator from Oregon, spent one hundred thousand dollars in his first canvass to secure the office. In his second he didn't spend a cent and got licked. Men who think that money doesn’t talk in politics are advised not to talk to JONA- THAN about it unless they expect to hear some very powerful argument on the other side. —Folks in this neck o' the woods will certainly recall what a wretchedly disa- greeable day Monday was. Monday morning's Johnstown Democrat started a paragraph on it's editorial page thus: “On this lovely April morning, as you walk to your office or to the mill, etc.” Lovely April morning, indeed! It is see- ing things through such glasses that makes Brother BAILEY believe that Johnstown is really joyful and that he can write Democratic platforms. —The promptness with which Mr. A. MitcHELL PALMER announced his slate of candidates for delegate-at-large to the National convention reveals the kind of a boss the reorganizers voted to put in the saddle. Voting to get out of the hands of the bosses often means voting to fzll into the hands of arrogant dicta- tors and that is exactly what Mr. PAL- MER has the hope of being else he would not have been so brazen as to publish “a slate” so soon after the people thought they were voting to do away with “slates.” —When the Democratic State conven- tion meets in Harrisburg next Wednes- day you will find that chairman WALTER E. RrTTER will call the body to order and not would-be usurper GEORGE W. GUTH- RIE. We (rust that all Democrats, es- pecially those in Centre county, will note this occurrence because it will put the final seal of proof on what the WATCH- MAN has said all along. GUTHRIE and PALMER undertook to steal the Demo, cratic party organization in Pennsylva. nia and the proof of their crookedness at Harrisburg last June and ever since will — be seen when Mr. GUTHRIE publicly ac- knowledges that he was not chairman of the party by admitting that he has no right to call it to order. STATE RIGHTS A FEDERAL UNION, VOL. 57. Tatt and Teddy. The quarrel between President TAFT | and Colonel ROOSEVELT is developing into a "very pretty fight,” as Sir Lucius O'TRIGGER would say. For a good while | the Colonel had a monopoly of the accu- i sation and invective and enjoyed himself | amazingly casting verbal brickbats at! his former dear friend. But the other day the President turned the tables, soto speak, and opened fire with a battery of epithets which must have amazed the object of his attack. There was a story in our boyhood days in which very re- spectable neighbors had a dispute during which one said to the other: "If you say | that again I will call you a liar and, more than that, I'll prove it.” That is what TAFT has done to TEDDY. Mr. Tart charges Colonel ROOSEVELT with duplicity, hypocrisy and falsehood- | linquish his official relations with the A Campaign of Malice. Early in the primary campaign Colonel GurFPEY announced his purpose to re- Democratic organization at the expi- ration of his term as member of the Democratic National committee. He had proved himself a sagacious, alert and generous party leader. Whatever per- sonal ambitions he may have had were never obtruded on his followers. He asked for no office or emolument. He stood in the way of no deserving aspirant for public favor. He sought out bright and promising young men and encour. aged laudable ambitions. Such a man ought not to be the victim of malice or the object of opprobrium. In the pursuance of what he believed to be a moral obligation Colonel GUFFEY aroused the enmity of a prominent Demo- He cites the pledge that ROOSEVELT would not accept the nomination for a third term and proves the violation of it Mr. TAFT accused ROOSEVELT of mutilat. ing his speeches and quotes the speeches and the perversion of them to prove the point. In a speech delivered by the Presi- dent at Toledo, Ohio, he said ours "is a government of all the people by a repre- sentative part of the people,” meaning, obviously, by those who vote. In a speech delivered in Carnegie Hall, New York, Colonel ROOSEVELT declared that TAFT had said “our government is and should be a government of all the people by a representative part of the people.” The "and should be,” was viciously in- terpolated. Commenting upon his garbled version of TArT’s speech Colonel ROOSEVELT de- nounced it as the sentiment of an oli- garch who disputed the capability of the people of the United States to govern themselves. It was an outrageous per- version of the truth and the President exposed the fact in the most convincing way. Not only that but he proves ROOSE- VELT'S duplicity and hypocrisy in other respects. The Colonel had denounced him for holding fellowship with PENROSE, CRANE, GALLINGER and others of the leading . Senators. The Presi- ‘defit ‘#bvés not only that ROOSEVELT, | quence appears to have exercised a sort | of hypnotic influence upon a large pro- | portion of the Democratic electorate. cratic leader of another State whose elo- This gentleman made him a target for his vituperation and lured a large number of voters more emotional than intellectual, to share his hatred. Out of this anomalous condition there was created a widespread antipathy among these citizens. Mr. BRYAN had given him "a bad name” and according to tra- dition, these blind apostles of hate and envy took up the cry and spread the evil report. That it was undeserved made no dif- ference. But those who took it up in the recent primary campaign were neither deceived nor deluded. They had no sympathy for Mr. BRYAN. But they had an inordinate lust for power and discerned the oppor- tunities which Mr. BRYAN'S hatred pre- sented to them. In the defeat of Colonel GUFFEY lay the hope for their success and they seized the materials which BRYAN had assembled. They understood that Colonel GUFFEY had no aspirations. They knew that he was not only w but anxious to relinquish leadership. such action would not serve their while President, had intimate relations | with all those named and was particular- | ly intimate with the late Senator QUAY, | but that he had advised President TAFT | to cultivate friendly relations with those gentlemen. ; But the LORIMER case presents the crowning achievement in ROOSEVELTian | infamy. During the campaign for dele- gates in Illinois Mr. ROOSEVELT iterated and reiterated the charge that pending the Senate TAFT had intervened to keep | LORIMER in his seat. It is easily a fact’ that this accusation against the President turned the tide in that State in his favor | for LORIMER is heartily despised in Illi- | nois. In his speech in Boston on Thurs- day evening President TAFT read a letter which he had sent to ROOSEVELT, under date of January 6, 1911, in which he de- nounced the election of LORIMER as founded upon "a mess and mass of cor- ruption,” and stated that he was doing all he could to have the facts exposed and LORIMER punished. But what is the use of following this | subject. We have no sympathy with TAFT for the reason that he has failed in every essential respect to fulfill his obli- | gations to the people. By vetoing the tariff legislation enacted during the | special session of Congress last year he | increased the burdens upon the oppressed people incalculably. In various other ways he has served the predatory in- | the eyes of self-respecting citizens. He is a falsfier and grafter and there is no use in producing further proof. RooT is the wisest man on earth. ROOSE- Root wouldn't be flattered. ——LINCOLN'S son is able to express tion, but WASHINGTON, JEFFERSON and Jackson have nobody to file a protest and the charlatan will continue to make free use of those honored names in spite of the indecency of it. ——Possibly ROOSEVELT hasn't begun his fight yet but the other side has and he is “licked to a frazzle,” if we may bo:- row one of his favorite phrases. ——The automobile continues to take its daily toll of life and will so long as reckless drivers are given employment and the joy ride has attractions. the investigation of LORIMER'S election to | pi | ciency, if it be torn or twisted to selfish terests rather than the peopleand he has | given vastly more attention to his own | pleasures than to his public duties. But | Mer is committed to another candidate ROOSEVELT'S inveracity is already suffi- | ciently established to condemn him in} a — i VELT once indulged in that sort of rhap- | estly for the distinguished Jerseyman. sody about RooT but he has changed his | mind on the subject since. If he were to make public his real opinion at present the leaders of the Democratic party of his resentment at ROOSEVELT's presump- they will resort to any expedient to raised and shrieked it with added malice, But they have failed in their conspiracy Colonel Guprey will retire with honor | and dignity but they will not inherit his | leadership. It will go to fitter m —Dr. WILEY is a trifle uncertain about his political allegiance. He sort of cherishes resentment against TAFT but can't swallow the absurdities of ROOSE- VELT. Probably it's the tall timber for m. Governor Wilson Rebukes Traitors. In an address delivered in Boston a few days agn Governor Wooprow WILSON, of New Jersey, expressed his reprobation of self-seekers who are disrupting the Demo- cratic party in the following terms: “We are in a special sense bound as patriots and statesmen to maintain the unity and integrity of that party. It is the country’s only available instrument of peace and progress. If it be impaired in its effi- uses, those who are responsible will have done the country the greatest hurt that it is possible to do at this time and al the tides of reform may be expected to run in other directions.” If he had been addressing the Demo- crats of Pennsylvania he couldn’t have chosen fitter terms to admonish the elec- torate against the conspiracy of GEORGE W. GUTHRIE, A. MITCHELL PALMER and VANCE C. MCCORMICK to destroy the Democratic party of the State. Mr. PAL- for President and owes his place on the House Committee on Ways and Means to an implied pledge to promote the in- terests of the other candidate. In this secret allegiance he is supported by GuTHRIE and MCCORMICK who profess to favor Governor WILSON in order to gain the support of the voters who are earn- But they are not deceiving Governor WILSON any more than they are fooling Pennsylvania. They are in the conspiracy not to promote Democratic success but to ' advance their own political estates and | achieve their purpose. They are striking at "the unity and integrity of the party,” and are striving to “impair its efficiency” by tearing and twisting it to selfish uses. Happily they have not succeeded in their selfish purposes. At the convention next week the work of reorganization will be shaped to the achievement of future Democratic triumphs rather than the personal aggrandizement of party trait- ors. —It looks as if the real ANANIAS club has just been started with Roose- _BELLEFONTE, PA. MAY 3.1912. | Treasurer who are worthy of the trust | | reposed in them and name electors who are in sympathy with the spirit of peace Before the result of the primary vote in a single township or precinct or vot- ing district in the State had been com: puted the bogus State committee of which GEORGE W. GUTHRIE claims to be chairman, sent out the claim that the conspiracy which Mr. GUTHRIE, A. MITCH- ELL Parmer and VANce C. McCormick have been maintaining for a year, had been endorsed by a majority of the Dem- ocratic voters. That ineffable charlatan, J. I. BLAkesLIE, of Carbon county, assum- ed the responsibility for this manifest fraud but no doubt the others approved it. In any event they are justly to blame for without their approval BLAKESLIE would not have had the temerity to pub- lish such a statement. That a large majority of the Demo- crats of the State favor a thorough re. organization of the Democratic party is beyond question. In fact it may safely be said that so far as the regulars are concerned the sentiment is unanimous. But the claim that a majority of the vot- ers of the party favor the conspiracy of GUTHRIE, PALMER and MCCORMICK is to cast an aspersion upon the intelligence and integrity of the Democratic voters. Those men are influenced entirely and absolutely by lust for power and the per- sonal ambition to control the organiza- tion in the future. GUTHRIE and Mc- CorMICK know that they couldn't get into power in any other way than to adopt the methods of a burglar. The State convention which meets in Harrisburg next week will reorganize the party of Pennsylvania by sharply rebuk. ing the conspirators who have been striv- ing for a year to destroy the party. It will elect delegates at large to the Balti- more convention who will support Woob- ROW WILSON for President, not in the ex- pectation of future party favors and pa- tronage but for the reason that they be- fieve him to be the fittest and most avail- able man in the country to lead the par- ty to victory. It will also nominate can- didates for Auditor General and State and fraternity in the party. ——Senator BOURNE, of Oregon, imag- ined that he would be re-elected without an effort because he played tennis with ROOSEVELT and golf with TAFT. But the people of Oregon expect some more sub- stantial evidence of fitness for office than toadying to power. Both Candidates Beaten. The failure of ROOSEVELT to get a sub- stantial majority at the Republican pri- maries in Massachusetts, ought to take him out of the race for the nomination altogether. He has boasted that wherever the voters had a full opportuni- ty to vote for him they would do so by an overwhelming majority. They cer- tainly had such a chance in Massachu- setts on Tuesday. They were invoked in the most inflammatory language to sup- port him and they failed to respond. But on the other hand the failure of the President to score a complete victory practically eliminates him from the reckoning also. He had the agencies of power at his back. Every element of strength which adheres to official patron- age answered to his call. His antagonist proved himself an arrant demagogue and : the records proved him an egregious liar. Yet TAFT carried the State by a meager majority and failed to carry a majority | of the delegates with him. i It is true that it wasn't a fair fight. | ROOSEVELT drew to his support the social- | ists, anarchists and scalawags neither of whom had either a moral or legal right to participate in the contest. Without them the Rough Rider's run would have been a sorry conclusion of an absurd dream. As it is the ex-President stands despised of his fellowmen, the victim of lust for power. He has brought shame upon the office he held and should be condemned by all. ~The WATCHMAN regrets to an- nounce the death of Edward Homer Bai- ley, one of the editors and proprietors of the Johnstown Jemocrat, which occurred last Friday night. A gentleman of the highest type he was a clean cut, vigorous and progressive newspaper man. He fig- ured very largely in the upbuilding of the Democrat during the nineteen years he and his brother have been in charge, and to the paper's great influence can be as- cribed part of the growth and industrial development of the Flood city. —At State College on Saturday the State baseball team defeated Dickinson by the score of 10 to 0, and in Bellefonte the High school nine shut out the Lock Haven Normal reserves by the score of 9 to 0. It evidently was a Centre county baseball day. VELT as the leading member. ‘length. Under the law they would have thrown ——=Subscribe for the WATCHMAN. * Taft and Roosevelt. From the Johnstown Democrat. The things that President Taft saying about Col. Roosevelt only exceeded in warmth by the Roosevelt has been President Taft. The Be A Sites President that would be a ef E¥ 8 2 » E E ee] Jil 5 = 5 882 £58 H I : | ff : : E } E i : i ¥ The Truth i us From the New York World., . #. . At last Mr, Taft is his duty. He is telling the truth t Theodore Roosevel i ~~ t. The time is past for assuming that Mr. Roosevelt, spurred on by a ess and ruthless ambition, will hesitate at any- thing. The time is past for assuming that thcre are rational limits to his lust or power. The Theodore Roosevelt record Mr. Taft presented cannot be trusted in even the minor decencies of political controversy. How much less can he be trusted in the vital affairs of constitutional government. It was a shameful story of Rooseveit falsehood, of Roosevelt treachery, of Roosevelt hypocrisy, of Roosevelt assassi nation of character, which Mr. Taft told in his Massachusetts speeches a few days ago. It was doubly shameful by its revelation of the motives Mr. Roosevelt's attacks upon the t. In the light of the record submitted by Mr. Taft and confirmed in many. cases Y documentary evidence, it is plain that r. Roosevelt deliberately set about to slaughter the President in order to put himself back into the White House. Inconsistencies may be forgiven or overlooked, but Theodore Roosevelt sys- tematically debauched public opinion. He deliberately lied about the President of the Uni States. He wilfully per- verted the Administration's record. He carefully suppressed the fact that Mr. Taft had been consulting him about questions al the Lorimer case and reci- rocity. He inven cl against Fatt, Le wantonly slandered Yate, and he betrayed the friend who still trusted him. The issues involved in Mr. Taft's speeches a few days ago do not relate to Mr. Roosevelt's political policies alone, but to Mr. Roosevelt's manhood and per sonal honor. It is plain that Mr. Taft has been guilty of only one offense so far as Mr. Roosevelt is concerned. He stands batween Theodore Roosevelt and the White House. He stands between Theo- dors Roogevalt : and a third term. There- ore he must be destroyed. That is the truth about Roosevelt. Our Silly Law. From the Harrisburg Star-Independent. Under the silly law now on the statute books in Pennsylvania a men have been fined an num- ber of dollars for ha in their sion a few trout six in —-— been good captured fish into there. citizens if they had the the stream to die A Reversion to Type. From the Hartford Times. The attitude of Col. Roosevelt and his followers cannot be regarded as anything more than a few individual reversions to it would be an insult to the men- of the great mass of Americans to assume that they do not prefer stability From the Columbus Journal. One or the other of the leading Repub- lican candidates is likely at any moment to submit documentary e proving Ui sees ou pebid the Whe he once Sinoking cigarettes out the White House 2 | SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. —Seven members of the South Fork Fishing club took home about 500 trout after a week's sojourn in Clinton county. —Burglars recently broke into the freight sta. tion at Spangler and helped themselves to mer. chandise of various kinds. —There was a great celebration of Arbor Day at Mt. Union, not only in the planting of trees, but in the laying out of the grounds around the new High school building. ~The mayor of Lock Haven has stopped the promiscuous distribution of certain patent medi- cines, owing to the injurious effects on a little girl who had sampled them. -John H. Null was standing near the powder house at Eriton a few days ago, when he was knocked down by a bolt of lightning that tore farge furrows in the ground. Two other men were shocked. —When William Davidson, of Bedford, went to his stable to feed his chickens real early a few mornings ago, he found boxes afire in the stable, His timelv discovery enabled him: to frustrate the designs of the incendiary. —Howard C. Miller, a trapper and furrier of Mifflin township, Cumberland county, during the season shipped from Newville to eastern markets more than 1100 hides of various furcoated ani- mals, valued at over $1009. —A Petersburg farmer, said to be one of a number who rent summer cottages, recently re- fused to rent to a bar clerk and companions un- less they would promise to be on the “water wagon'’ during their stav. case of damage to the machine, which went to court, ended in a verdict of $135 against the bor- ough. —A DuBois weather prognosticator blames the cold weather of the month just closing on fact that the April moon was “the coldest he had seen in many years,” north. The weather may change with the on May first. is i £ 5 Reo Feil 2 developed that the unknown where a good many church members didn’t want her to speak. Ministers were threatened with dismissal for working against license, but the meeting was held. —Just a week after it had been damaged to the extent of $200, the home of Mrs. Bridget Helron, of Dixonville, was destroyed by fire and Roy Courath’s house was damaged. Both fires are thought to have been incendiary and when the insurance adjuster arrives at Indiana there will be an investigation. —James Edward Moyer, a Pennsylvania rail- road company yard conductor at Altoona, met an untimely and sudden death a short distance east of the East Altoona round house Saturday afternoon at 1:46 o'clock by falling beneath the wheels of an engine. Death was instantaneous, his body almost being cut in twain. —A large barn on the Taylor farm, in Lamar township, Clinton county, was completely blown downin a recent storm. Two hogs were killed and quite a lot of farming machinery crushed to ruin. A son of Henry Strause, the tenant, was lifted from the horse he was riding and landed in a field. The barn was only four years old. —J. R. Simpson and J. F. Schock, attorneys, of Huntingdon, who went to Waynesburg, Greene countv, to sell the Glazier coal lands for the creditors of the Huntingdon bank, did not make a sale of it last Saturday. The 250 acres of coal land was bid up to $71 per acre for the whole tract, and $80 per acre in ten-acre lots. The at- torneys did not think it advisable to sell at this figure and will offer the lands for sale again on June first. ~The building of the Lewisburg condensary years old. —Alleging that he was kidnapped while he was a student at Bucknell University, carried off
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