BY P. GRAY MEEK. INK SLINGS. —It looks like another wet moon. —How is Bellefonte to celebrate the Fourth of July? { —Is it right to say that the boy who has to drive the cow to pasture is in the | hey-day of his life. —Circus day will soon be here but every day that he must wait for it seems a year long to the small boy. —Those who attended that delightful Moose banquet on Tuesday night realized why it is “Once a Moose always a Moose.” —President TAFT and “Coinel” ROOSE- VEL1 are now gratuitously editing the next edition of the Democratic campaign book. ——The New England newspaper which refers to this State as FLINN-sylva- nia will hear from Oyster Bay if it doesn’t watch out. —The Dalias, Texas, News remarks that when a man has no bad habits and hardly any money he can be a very good husband. He would be a better angel. —President TAFT has declared that ROOSEVELT proposes to bring the mil- lennium. This we hope will be a case where TEDDY proposes and the voter dis- poses. 00SEVELT has added solid delega- | tions from North Carolina and West Virginia to his convention strength. Gradually the smile that never comes off is coming. —Probably Supt. THoMAS would have just as much trouble running his railroad as he does his new automobile if milk wagons persisted in running ahead of his trains. —We presume that the Civic club will start a “swat the fly” campaign imme- diately after it gets through with the ob- jectionable ash piles and tin cans in our back yards. —Anyway Governor HARMON, of Ohio, is having the grand opportunity to pay his respects to Mr. BRYAN and Mr. BRYAN seems to be one of the few men who don't respect them overly much. —A steam roller nearly caused the death of Senator PENROSE while he was horseback riding in Washington on Wed- nesday. It is not stated whether Senator FLINN, of Pittsburg, owned the roller. ——DeBs may beat ROOSEVELT in the Socialist National convention, now in session in Indianapolis, but FLINN'S plat- form has the one which will be adopted there “skinned a mile” for absurdities. ~The cost of the necessaries of life |. are higher now than ever before, accord- ing to Bradstreets, but the Republican ma- jority of the Senate refuses to reduce the tariff tax which is the principal cause of the high prices. —'1he slogan of the new Democratic tri-umvirate in Pennsylvania might be * Addition, Division and Silence” if it were not for the fact that Mr. PALMER is one of the three. He loves the sound of his own voice too well to stand for silence. —If the testimony being brought out in the impeachment proceedings against Judge ARCHBALD, of the Commerce court, is anywhere near true it looks as if the Judge had soiled the judicial ermine very badly trying to carry off those Erie rail- road culm banks. ~If ROOSEVELT carries Ohio we wouldn't give much for TAFT'S chances in the Republican National convention. And if ROOSEVELT carries a nomination and election we wouldn't give much for the country’s chance of getting settled down within the coming four years. —If the Harvester trust succeeds in landing that nomination for ROOSEVELT will every American farmer who has to pay higher prices for machinery that he buys from the Harvester trust than the farmer in far off Australia docs, vote for the Colonel? We hope not, but then you never can tell. —-A drunk fell into one of the fountains in the court house yard a few nights ago and policeman DUKEMAN, hearing him flounder round in the water, went to the rescue. When he undertook to pull him out the drunk jerked loose from the officer and said “Women and children first.” He was evidently saturated with Titanic news, as well as water and other things. —“Uncle SAMUEL” PENNYPACKER has been taken care of nicely. Governor TENER has appointed him a member of the railroad commission. It is a five year job with a salary of eight thousand a year and it is not unreasonable to expect that before long the Governor of the capitol scandals will be out with a declaration to the effect that TENER is a greater man than CLAY or WEBSTER or even QUAY. —Northumberland county is so much in debt that the law won't permit aay- has no money with which to pay constables and jurors. They are really put to to know what to do in the extremity. Bellefonte is nearly in the same condition but be it said in justice to the councilmen who have been condemned most for the pre- dicament, that the increased debt they helped to make is only a small part of our total and the things they made it for stand out boldly as our greatest public improvements. VOL. 57. Who is Paying the Freight. STATE RIG HTS AND FEDERAL UNION. The ROOSEVELT campaign has cost| The Republican primary campaign in Pennsylvania cost about $2,000,000, ac- cording to a Pittsburg dispatch to the New York World. Of this vast sum $98,635, was spent in Allegheny county, $31,344.15 of which was used in behalf of RooseverLT. The largest contributor was WiLLIAM FLINN, the new Republican boss, who gave $22,700. Senator OLIVER was the largest contributor to the TAFT fund, $2,000,000 already, according to authentic information. In New York city $71,000 were expended to secure about 15,000 votes for the third term candidate, which is nearly $5 a vote. Of course some of these votes were given free of charge for there are always men in every community ready to destroy any existing condition. But it may be assumed that one-half of them were bought. The average price, in that event, was $10 a vote or there- abouts and that is not an exorbitant price. ROOSEVELT is a self-confessed murderer, a convicted perjurer and an- acknowledged traducer of men and a man who would vote for such a person for President of the United States ought to be liberally paid. Self-respect is worth something even to those who have little of it. But the question is who furnishes the fuads for this traffic in immoral politics? When ROOSEVELT ran for President in 1904 the funds to pay the expenses of his campaign were extracted by criminal processes from the treasuries of predatory corporations and fiduciary institutions. The railroads, industrial trusts and other corporations which were robbing the gov- ernment through special privileges and the insurance companies, the officers of which were robbing the shareholders, were held up by Mr. CORTELYOU, at the instance of ROOSEVELT, and compelled to pay. These facts have since been learn- ed through congressional investigations and judicial inquiries. But who is sup- plying the money this year? ROOSEVELT is no longer able to extort mcney by threatening governmental prosecutions. It is admitted that Mr. GEORGE W. PERKINS, head of the Harvester trust and a member of the board of the Steel trust is the principal contributor to this cor ruption fund. It is believed that J. PIER- PONT MORGAN, Judge GARY and Mr. HeNRrY C. Frick, directors of the Steel trust are liberal donors to the fund. And these gentlemen ought to be anxious to restore THEODORE ROOSEVELT to power in the White House. He always was their liegt When the Ten- nessee Iron and Coal company threatened to impair the monopoly of the Steel trust ROOSEVELT abrogated a law which he had sworn to enforce in order to remove the danger. When civil and criminal pro- ceedings were threatened against the Harvester trust and GEORGE W. PERKINS, Mr. ROOSEVELT ordered the abandonment of the proceedings though he had sworn to prosecute them. Out of the absorption of the Tennessee Iron and Coal company by the Steel trust, MORGAN, GARY and FRICK made: for themselves at least $200,000,000. By discontinuing the suits against the Har- vester trust Mr. PERKINS saved $25,000, 000 and a sentence to the penitentiary. Why shouldn't they contribute two mil- lions or ten millions, if necessary, to his campaign under such circumstances. These gentlemen have not retired from business. They have not given up hope of future predatory operations and they know that if ROOSEVELT is re-elected President they will be given a new li- cense to plunder the public until their cupidity is satisfied. That it means the subversion of the government makes no difference to them. One form of govern. ment is as good as another to men who have no ambitions except to plunder It ought to prove an eye-operer for those Democratic voters who believe, as well as for those who make the claim that the action of the Democratic State convention on the 7th inst. voiced the sentiment of an “overwhelming majori- ty” of the Democrats to know that out of a total Democratic vote in the State of over 450,000 but 131,164 votes were polled at the recent primaries. Just how a little over one-half of 131,164 votes (for the victorious faction polled but lit- tle over half the number cast) can be his offering being $7,000. Other manu- facturers “loosened up” generously, but no TAFT man approached FLINN in gen- erosity. That municipal contractor who has been milking Pittsburg for nearly a generation, and has become a multi- millionaire, was bidding for a senatorial seat and probably secured it. Only a few years ago the country was staggered when it was shown that the late MARK HANNA, as chairman of the Republican National committee, had col- lected and disbursed between five and six millions of dollars in the campaign to elect McKINLEY President. It was justly reasoned that such profligacy in politics would soon make our government one of rich men, and that money rather than merit would become the standard in official life. No man, unless very rich, could aspire to public office, it was clearly shown, and the poor man, how- ever capable and patriotic, was bowled out of the equation. But MARK HANNA was an ordinary “piker” compared with those who are managing the Republican campaigns for nomination this year. Of course the offense against civic vir- tue has not been confined to the Republi- can party. In our own party there has been altogether too much of this sort of corruption lately. For example, Mr. VANCE C. McCormick, of Harrisburg, who appointed to an important office dur- ing his administration as mayor of Har- risburg, a man who had openly bought votes for him at prices ranging as high as S15 a piece, is charged with hav- ing hired men at stipulated sala- ries to run for delegate to the Na- tional convention in counties in which he had neither residence nor political est. He has controi of a vast estate, ar quired mainly by tariff graft and other governmental special privileges, and dis- | ers since the convention. They are in-; penses his money with lavish hand to gratify his political ambitions. In this state of affairs there is grave danger and an important lesson to the voters. In the nature of things all men can’t be millionaires and when official honors are made marketable commodities those who are not favored with wealth will be eliminated from the public serv- ice as completely as if they were aliens. Princes in wealth and paupers in intel- lect will control our political destiny as effectually as if the fundamental law set up a property standard in the official life of the country. Poor men who lend assistance to these plutocrats in their conspiracy to subvert our government of equality among men under the law are digging graves in which to bury their liberties. The Windy Republican War. The later reports from the centres of activity in the windy war between the President and the "Coinel,” fail to clarify the political atmosphere. In other words the news from States which have held conventions, in whole or part, during the present week does not indicate either that TAFT will be nominated or that he will withdraw from the fight before the Chi- cago convention next month. Of course there is no human probability that ROOSEVELT will be nominated. Popular intelligence forbids even a serious thought on the subject. But it begins to look as if the nomination of TAFT would be equally foolish. It can hardly be said that TAFT is to blame for the disgraceful campaign in progress. He was almost compelled to defend his administration from the vi- cious assaults of ROOSEVELT whether they be just or otherwise. But the dig- nity of the office is entitled to some con- sideration and the traditions of the White House have some claim to the respect even of Presidents. Under the circum- stances, therefore, it would seem that hat wil nia. Every voter in the State knows Mr, WELL nor Mr. BERRY would have had a risburg, last week, is an excellent one and deserves the cordial support of every Democrat. RoBerr E. CrEss- WELL, the nominee for Auditor General, is a lawyer of high character and ability. If he is elected to the office for which he has been nominated there will be a house on Capitol Hill in Harrisburg 1 surprise the entire country and greatly benefit the people of Pennsylva- BERRY and no eulogy of him is needed. But for his inexcusable course of two years ago, we would have great hope of his success. His election together with that of Mr. CRESSWELL will give the op- ponents of the Republican machine a majority on the Board of Public Build- ings and Grounds. But if Mr. CRESSWELL and Mr. BERRY are to be glected it will be an achieve- ment of the “Old Guard.” The conspira- tors who controlled the convention which nominated them have little, if any inter- est in the success of the party. As a matter of fact if there had been only the usual number of favors to be dispensed by the convention, neither Mr. CREss- “look in,” if we may use that slang phrase. The choice gifts were seized by GEORGE W. GUTHRIE, A. MITCHELL PAL- MER and VANCE C. McCorMICK, and the others were cast, like “tubs to the whale,” where they best fulfilled the purpose of the bosses to punish men for their fideli- ty to the party in the past. No party organization based upon such a foundation can prosper or endure. Mr. GUTHRIE has none of the qualifications for the office of chairman of the State committee. But he hates Col. JAMES M. GUFFPEY, who resented his treachery to the party when it honored him, and for that reason he is to be made chairman and has been elected a Delegate-at-Large to the National convention. Most of the others upon whom the convention be- stowed its favors have no greater fitness and they have proved their temperamen- infirmities by keeping up their malig- nant enmity against the Democratic lead- | fluenced by no impulses except vanity and ambition and such leadership will not last. —]It doesn’t matter much who Secre- tary KNOX represents in the Cabinet now but the fact that ROOSEVELT dumped him out of the Cabinet about eight years ago because he was pressing a suit against the coal trust too vigorously, is quite sig- nificant as well as true. Too Much Patriotism. There is a great deal of perturbation in official circles in Washington over the curtailment of sinecures by the Sundry Civil appropriation bill as it has passed the House of Representatives. The meas- ure lops off a lot of bureau officials, con- sular agents and other “beef eaters” in the State Departments who have been performing little work and drawing large salaries. It is believed that the saving to the government, as the result of this legislation will amount to several hun. dred thousand dollars a year. But it will also cutout of the pay-roll alarge number of party pensioners who will thus be driven to the digagreeable necessity of earning their living by honest labor. Among the most vehement of the protestants against this saving of public money is the Assistant Secretary of State, HUNTINGTON WILSON, who has charge of the Department during Secretary KNOX'S frequent and prolonged absences. Mr. WiLsoN issued a statement, the other day, on the subject and protested that the country is certain to go to the dogs un- less the Department is given free hand to employ help at pleasures and pay for it as it has been doing for the past four or five years. As an instance he alleges that it was through the State Department that a ship building concern in this coun- try got a contract to build a couple of battleships for Argentia some time ago. To our mind, however, thisis not a good reason for keeping a vast army of | government employees on the pay-roll. There is no more obligation upon the government to furnish “drummers” for American ship builders than there is to supply such agents for car shops or grocery stores. We have been coddling our ship builders in various ways, it is true. That is to say we pay them some- thing like a hundred dollars a ton more for armor plate than we would have to pay elsewhere and the people submit because foreign plate makers might fur- nish inferior goods, though they would not be likely to do so. But we draw the line on the proposition to pay for their “drummers.” This is too much paternal- | ism. EE — ~—Subscribe for the WATCHMAN. Knox in the Fight. § : i g g : : ; ] RE 7 ; ! =F F H I £ | | § isin soFREEE i i § 2 2 SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. ~—Jersey Shore has a diphtheria epidemic and the disease is attacking grown people as well as children. ~The Pennsylvania Association of Elks will hold its annual reunion at Mahanoy City during the week of August 19. 3 ~The Tuscarora Valley Railroad company is offering a reward in the way of a handsome silver cup to the patron who will produce and ship the most milk in 1912. —Reconstruction of the Bayless mills at Austin the dam will find work in the near future. —Cresson’s board of trade is negotiating with the Pennsylvania Railroad company for a lease on the Mountain House grounds. It is the plan to restore its fame and have many picnic parties there. ~The committee having in charge the cam- paign to secure from the citizens of Gettysburg $25,000 toward the college endowment fund of that town announces subscriptions aggregating —Superintendent Drum, of the Milton silk mill, announces that that plant, which employed 200 persons when it suspended several months ago, will be in operation again within a few months. —There is a great rush to enforce the vaccina- tion law in Johnstown schools since the small. pox scare. There is also strenuous opposition, principally from purely Americans, the foreign families falling in line nicely. —Steve Alexick, of Latrobe, was struck in the chest by a gushing stream of molten metal and when he turned to flee from the furnace it struck him in the back. His clothing probably saved his life, but he is terribly burned. ~The Bell Telephone company has paid the fifty cent municipal tax on each of its poles in Power company and the Johnstown Telephone company to carry the question to court. isnow in the penitentiary. His sentence is a minimum of twenty-seven months. It is thought that he can still hold his office as county commis sioner. Grace Beodows, aged 10 years. jumped into an abandoned weil at her home in Washington, and saved the life of her 3-yearold sister. She held the little one’s head above water for fifteen minutes until help arrived, and both were taken out semi-conscious. ~Captain W. B. Keller, formerly of Johnstown, has resigned as sales agent for a brick company of Renovo, with headquarters in Pittsburgh, to accept a position as assistant to the superinten- dent of grounds and buildings in the United States bureau of mines at the Allegheny Arsenal. ~Mrs. Mary Granger, of Pottsville, who killed her8.year-old son a year ago by cutting his throat with a razor, was acquitted Monday on a charge of murder. Physicians testified that Mrs, Granger was a religious maniac at the time the murder was committed and was entirely uncon- scious of the deed. ~-At Harrisburg Thursday charters were grant” ed to seven electric companies to operate from Clearfield. The charters were granted to 1. W. Wrigley, Henry F. Wallace and J. P. O'Louglin, Run, Boggs Township, Ramey, Woodward Township ton. —Discharging a revolver from an upstairs win- dow at Cambria, Mike Berrit, aged 17 years, and Wallace- : | was responsible for the death of Joseph Pindo, a 3-month-old babe, who was sleeping in his moth~ the { died in the Spangler hospital. The boy is under blood- hell-with- A -con- cede-nothing--while--we--are-at--it--we'll-- never-have-: -chance of spoilsmen bent only on personal ad- t. every dishonorable fq representati of place under a tic President and | eve else employed at go- the-limit party conventions was in t was made on Col- abundance. onel Guffey, Senator Hall, Donnelly Ryan and not on Judge Gordon. every man in the * " camp knows in his heart that Gordon is above and beyond the control of any man or set of men, free from any possible alli- ance with the old machine, and would lead the party honestly and effectively, The Outlook Encouraging. From the Pittsburgh Post. Conservative observers are practically of one mind outlook g wild scramble While to lie like tes for ‘24. The Governor will preside. arrest. —Daniel Sell, the smallest man in Adams county, his height being only 45 inches, died at his home in Gettysburg recently, aged 69 years, Mr. Sell for many years was a member of the Gettysburg Fire company and was known as the smallest fireman in the State. A few years ago at the state convention at Shamokin he won a prize for being the smallest fireman in the parade. —A mammoth ash tree on the property of Dr. Bausman, at Millersville, one of the oldest in the State, was cut down by Albert Mower and Thomas Stuart, of Lancaster. The tree was planted by a Bausman of a generation ago and grew to an enormous growth. Almost 1,200 feet of lumber was obtained from it and it weighed 4,500 pounds. It was reduced to lumber at the Mill Creek saw mill. —Probably the first marriage ceremony ever performed in the Mifilin county jail was witness. ed Thursday evening when Charles C. Chesney and Mary M. Lucas, both of Lewistown, were married by justice of the peace Allen A. Orr, The groom is a prisoner at the jail, he having receiv- ed on Wednesday a sentence of nine months im- prisonment for selling liquor without a license to minors and on Sunday. —Announcement was made Monday morning that the Altoona car shops, which have been on a fifty-hour per week schedule in some depart- ments for several days, will start again working fifty-five hours each week. The men who were the only employed fifty hours were mostly repairmen, etc. Several large contracts for cars are now being completed in the shops and the announce- 2 | ment of the fifty-five hour schedule is being hailed with delight. ~The mystery of several diamond robberies may be solved, as a result of the arrest Thursday of Arthur Dorman, of Williamsport, accused of receiving stolen goods. The charge was prefer- red by W. B. Stuart, from whose home jewelry and money were stolen several months ago. Fol- lowing Dorman’s arrest, the home of Mrs. R. L. Quinlin, with whom he boarded. was searched, and seven diamond rings, valued at $5,000, were found in an old stocking. ing is nearing completion. —J. Anderson Martin, Lewistown agent for the Hagerstown Brewing company, began serving a six months’ sentence in the county prison late Saturday evening. Martin was convicted at the September term of court in 1909 of selling liquor Anew trial was granted and he was third trial and later sustained his third convic- tion. He was fined $500 and costs and the latter are more than that amount. in Public really | of “The School Code as it Affects Rural Schools" Agriculture and “The Teaching of Schools.” The meeting will be held in the House caucus room of the State capitol on Friday, May The Grange Creasy, view will be presented by William T. Jerome T. Allman and others.
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