BY P. GRAY MEEK.
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—The last of the “smile that never
wears off” vanished when the news came
in from Ohio.
—Come, warm weather, and save the
fair girl graduate whose chiffon dress is
not lined with fur.
—The surest way to keep from the
dangers of automobile speeding is to own
a car that can’t speed.
—With the Ohio delegation solidly back
of him Governor HARMON is now a real
presidential possibility.
—The way ROOSEVELT beat TAFT in
his home State quite evens up the Tarr
victory over ROOSEVELT in New York.
—The two warm days we have had
have put a decidedly cheerfui look on
the straw hat that ventured out too soon.
—Most of the corn is in the ground in
Centre county; consequently most of the
Centre county farmers are off the anxious
bench.
—President TAFT is probably consoling
himself with the thought that “a prophet
i not without honor save in his own
country.”
—China now wants to borrow three
hundred million dollars with which to
build a new Republic. It looks like a
case of over capitalization.
——Secretary of State KNOX didn’t
help President TAFT half as much as he
was expected to do but then KNOX isn't
much of a campaigner anyway.
—Pittsburg will have more Knights
next week than she will have in many
years to come and notwithstanding the
Knights she will put on her brightest ap-
pearance,
—Centre countians have always been
noted for their hospitality and they are
not going to spoil their reputation by
keeping the new Pen exclusively for
themselves.
—The announcement that the State is
to begin work on rebuilding the Nittany
valley road to Lock Haven at once will
be received with pleasure by every body,
but the trout in Fishing creek.
—What an inglorious end to the prom-
ising future that spread out before the
Rev. CLARENCE RICHESON when he left
college only a few years ago. And what
an awful proof of the certainty with
which one’s sins will find him out.
~The failure of the general conference
of the Methodist church to raise the ban
on dancing and theatre going squares
perfectly with the good old fashioned
Methodist doctrine, but it will continue
hypocrites out of many who cling to make
to the church.
—Colonel ROOSEVELT said, in one of
his Ohio speeches: “I will name the
compromise candidate; he will be
me.” The Philadelphia Inquirer ex-
plains the trust buster's assault on the
grammar by stating that he had already
used up every “I'’ in the market.
—The Hon. Tyrus Coes not having
been called upon to head any of the many
insurrections in Mexico is heading a little
one of his own in the American base-ball
league and it is a safe bet that he will
draw more newspaper space for awhile
than all the Mexican revolutions put
together.
—Colonel ROOSEVELT not only claims
that he will be nominated but impudent-
ly declares that he will fix the platform
on which he will run. If he succeeds in
doing both we hope there will be enough
sober thinking, Republican government
loving people left to fix both the Colonel
and his hysterical followers.
—1It may as well be understood that
ROOSEVELT will bolt the nomination of
the Chicago convention and that through
all the period between the adjournment
of the convention and the opening of the
polls in November he will be traveling
at other people's expense through the
country falsifying facts, traducing men
and trying to deceive the people.
—It would have been surprising if
the President hadn't been attacked on
his record as a defender of BALLINGER.
But as ROOSEVELT wants delegates to the
Chicago convention the people are robbed
of that astonishment. BALLINGER was a
bad one, and is yet, and when TAFT de-
fended him against the facts he gave the
opportunity to attack and earned the
castigation which has followed.
—In advising a young lawyer an old
practioner at the bar is credited with
having said: “When you have no case
pitch in and give the other side h—1."
Judged by what has happened both
RooseverT and TAFT must have been
following advice of this character there-
for the right thinking man will make up
his mind that he is going to vote for the
Democratic nominee for President next
fall.
—Make your house clean and keep it
clean. Water is plenty and water is free.
It is the God given cleanser and the more
it is used about the home the cleaner and
more hopeful and more attractive the
home will be. What can you expect
from a foul, ill kept, slovenly house, but
foul, ill thinking, slovenly parents and
children. No matter how poor, you can
be tidy. Clean homes will drive away dis-
pair and transform hopelessness into
hopefulness quicker than anything else
in it.
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In discussing a proposition that he
withdraw from the Democratic ticket in
order that the fusion of the Democratic
and Keystone parties might be effect-
ed RoBerr E. CRESSWELL, nominee
for Auditor General, says "as a mat
ter of fact BERRY is a pretty good Key-
stoner. I was a Keystoner. Therefore
the old Keystone party has two places on
the Democratic ticket”
This is only part of the truth. GEORGE
W. GUTHRIE, who was elected delegate at
large to the Democratic National Conven-
tion and is a candidate for Chairman of
the State Committee, was a Keystoner in
1910 though he failed to vote, and VANCE
C. McCoRrMICK, also a delegate at alarge,
was a Keystoner. All the other delegates
at large were Keystoners and the four
nominees for Congressman at Large were
Keystoners.
Mr. CRESSWELL adds that he believes
“the Keystone party has served its pur-
‘pose” and he can "see no reason why any
of us should take pains to preserve the
party name.” Neither do we. The pur-
pose of the Keystone party was to defeat
the Democratic candidate for Governor
in 1910 and elect Senator PENROSE'S can-
didate and that result was achieved un-
questionably. Immediately afterward
the Republican Keystoners returned to
the PENROSE fold.
We cordially concur in the views of
Mr. CResSWELL, however, and hope he
will adhere to them. If there are to be
any withdrawals from the ticketjthere are
others who can be spared better than
CressWELL, who notwithstanding his
mistake of two years ago, has been a
faithful and helpful Democrat most of
his life. His presence on the ticket gives
it strength and character, moreover and
any proposition to withdraw him should
be combatted.
Meantime we have every reason to
hope for the election of the entire Demo-
cratic ticket. If ROOSEVELT is not nomi-
nated by the Chicago convention, and he
won't be, the FLINN machine will collapse
like a gas balloon struck by lightningand.
the Republican’ party will be severed in
the centre. In that event the Democrat:
ic ticket will be successful and we will
need a man like BoB CRESSWELL to make
good.
——The fact that GEORGE W. GUTH-
RIE, A. MITCHELL PALMER and VANCE C.
McCorMICK took for themselves the
cream of the reorganization conspiracy
and left to the rank and file whatever
else is laying around loose will not be
forgotten soon by the many other
hungry aspirants who were so loudly
clamoring for disorganization.
Taft and Roosevelt.
Political conditions, so far as the Re-
publican party is concerned, have not
changed within a week. ROOSEVELT'S
surprising victory in Ohio confirms our
opinion expressed last week, that TAFT'S
nomination is out of the question while
it doesn’t in the least degree improve the
chances of ROOSEVELT'S nomination.
That TAPT can be nominated, scarcly
admits of doubt. He has the machinery
and the record of ROOSEVELT to justify
its employment. But his nomination
will lead to inevitable defeat and we are
not persuaded that he will take it under
such circumstances. Of course the de-
termination to keep ROOSEVELT out may
induce him to make the sacrifice. Re-
sentment is a strong force.
It may safely be said that for the last
thirty days neither TAFT nor ROOSE-
vELT has had any purpose other than to
defeat his antagonist. It is almost equal-
ly certain that both have reasons for
their antipathy. ROOSEVELT knew, four |
years ago, that TAFT wasn’t tempera-
mentally fit for the office. He had
declared that ELIHU RooT was the fit-
test man for the position. But TAFT
had led him to believe that he would
act simply as a ROOSEVELT echo and
for that reason he was adopted.
TAFT has not disappointed RoOOSE
ROOSEVELT declared that he “is the Re-
House he will be able to dominate the
VELT'S estimate. He 1s and has been an
echo but he elected to be an echo of the |
party machine rather than of ROOSEVELT.
“The head and front of his offending |
hath this extent, no more.” i
TAPT would have been entirely willing |
to turn over the administration to ROOSE- |
VELT at the end of an eight year tenure
if he had been permitted to occupy the
office so long. Those who have read his |
animadversions on his predecessors and |
accepted them as the expressions of a |
candid mind will scarcely believe that.
But it is literally true. TAFT has no con- |
ception of moral obligation. He is a|
careless pleasure seeker and will consent
to anything which will promote his per-'
sonal and physical enjoyment. But as
public life of the country.
| ever to
he said on the hustings, if driven to the | appointment to A. MITCHEL PALMER that
wall he will fight, and he has fought | he can't estabiish a trading post at Balti-
ROOSEVELT until it is certain that both of | more but the State convention fixed that
them are about to be eliminated from the | matter and Mr. PALMER will be obliged
Mr. WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN is aman
of strong prejudices and bitter hatreds
but we have never understood him to be
untruthful. That being the case those
friends of his who are urging him to be-
come a candidate for the Presidential
nomination at the Baltimore convention
are doing him a great injustice. If their
purpose is to persuade him against his
will to violate his public pledge to not
ask for another nomination they are
gravely wronging him. If on the other
hand they are acting under the belief
that he was not sincere in giving the
pledge and wants to be influenced to
break it, they are aspersing both his
honor and his integrity.
Mr. BRYAN's ambition to be President
on his own terms has kept the Demo-
cratic party out of power for
nearly twelve years. If he had consented
to eliminate the sixteen to one issue
from the platform of 1900 he would have
been elected that year and the adminis-
tration at Washington would have been
Democratic ever since. Because Colonel
GUFFEY was among the most insistent of
those wlio asked for that elimination Mr,
BRYAN quarreled with him and has been
his vituperative enemy ever since. But
Colonel GUFFEY was right then. He
didn’t ask Mr. BRYAN to change his per.
sonal views upon the subject. He simply
said the free coinage of silver at a stated
standard was not a relevant question at
that time and ought not to be included
in the platform.
We do not believe that Mr. BRYAN
wants the nomination for President at
Baltimore next month. We do believe
that he realizes that he cannot be elected
President and that he is willing to give
some other worthy and capable Demo-
crat, who can be elected, a chance. But
those who are insisting that he be nomi-
nated, those who are urging him to as-
pire to the nomination, are prejudicing
the interests of the party as well as
aspersing the character of the man. |
Truthful men do not violate their pledges
fore all Democrats ought to accept Mr.
BRYAN's pledge at its face value and stop
urging him to be a candidate.
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——If the Southern delegates had |
shown an inclination to be independent |
of Washington four years ago they
would have heard something drop.
ROOSEVELT was driver of the steam
roller then.
Roosevelt is the Republican Party.
In a speech delivered at Cleveland
Ohio, last Saturday evening THEODORE
publican party.” He was discussing the
operations of the steam roller at the com.
ing convention in Chicago and after using
the language quoted added: “I'll not get
out. I'll continue to be the Republican
party and you'll get out.” No one could
have been more emphatic or dogmatic.
The statement admits of but one inter-
pretation. It means that in ROOSEVELT'S
mind he is the boss, the Czar, the dicta-
tor of the party and that the electorate
of that political faith are simply his vas-
sals. And that is precisely what he
meant to say and wants the people to un-
derstand.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT not only wants
the people to understand that he is the
Republican party but he aspires to be
the government of the United States. It
is with the view of fulfilling this treason-
able ambition that he desires to be re-
elected President for he believes that if
he is restored to power in the White
government. He would abrogate the con-
stitution, abolish the courts and ignore
Congress. His caprices would be the only
law to receive consideration and his
whims would become the policies of the
administration. That is precisely the
state of affairs he wants to create and in
this sinister ambition he is supported by
the predatory interests of the country.
The re-election of THEODORE ROOSE-
VELT would mark, not only the beginning
of the end of Representative government,
but the termination of popular govern-
ment in this country. He doesn’t mean
what he says in his demagogic appeals to
the passions and prejudices of discon-
tented men. He promises favors to the
people for the purpose of deceiving them
into consent to his ambitions. When he
was President he never even tried to dis-
pense the beneficences of which he talks
now. On the contrary he was always
the servile and willing instrument of the
predatory trusts and if he gets back into
power he will be more determined than
serve them and crush the people.
—It will probably be a great dis-
to agree.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
Governor TENER has made some amus-
ing and some sad blunders in his exer-
cise of the appointing power but he
attained the climax of folly the other day
when he appointed former Governor
SAMUEL W. PENNYPACKER to the office of
Railroad Commissioner. Of course the
office is of no consequence because the
Commission has no power and about all
the Commissioners do is draw their snug
salaries. The Commission is a subter-
fuge. It was created for the purpose of
fooling those very credulous gentlemen
who insist on holding certain corporations
to account and from the beginning the
appointments have been made in the offi-
ces of the Pennsylvania railroad rather
than in that of the Governor.
‘But this is a matter of minor impor-
tance. So far as the office is concerned
one manikin can perform the perfunctory
duties as well as another and no official
will be more prompt in applying for the
salary than Cousin SAM. The significant
thing is that the appointment of PENNY-
PACKER to any office is an insult to the
intelligence of the people of Pennsylva-
nia and an outrage upon the public
morals of the State. PENNYPACKER is
easily the most venal person who has
disgraced the public life of the State
since the organization of the Common-
wealth. Moreover he was the weakest,
most inefficient Governor we have ever
had. Like an abandoned wanton he was
proud of his iniquity.
Of all the men concerned in the graft-
ing operations in connection with the
construction and furnishing of the State
capitol SAMUEL W. PENNYPACKER was the
most culpable and the least repentant.
Because he had been promised a seat on
the Supreme court bench at the expira-
tion of his term as Governor, he gave the
plunderers license to loot to the limit of
any office is an outrage against:
conscience of the Commonwealth which |
should and will be resented.
——Monday morning Mr. and Mrs.
Harvey Rossman, of Gregg township,
drove to Bellefonte in a buggy and hitch-
ed their horse in front of Ceader’s res-
taurant. Mrs. Rossman remained in the
buggy while her husband was transacting
some business in one of the nearby
stores. In the meantime Ed. Gillen's de-
livery horse got away from the driver
Roosevelt never loses an to
tell the farmers of affectionats sagard
for them. During his term in the te
House a Chicago newspaper artist drew a
picture of a farmer sitting before a fire-
t messages.
was entitled: “His Favorite Author;"” and
Mr. Roosevelt often said it was the best
picture he ever saw.
The Farvester Trust, which annually
takes millions of dollars from the farm-
ers, sells binders in Russia and
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| What the Coal Strike Costs.
From the Altoona Times.
The losses in the anthracite coal strike
may be set down as follows: Loss in
wages of 173,000 idle men over $12,000,
000. Coal that would have been mined
since April 1, over 8,000,000 tons at $1.90
mine value, $14,000,000.
Loss of owners and wage-earners, $26,
dg May
and ran down the street toward the store 000,000
but unfortunately got toc close to the
Rossman buggy and the wheel on the de-
livery wagon locked with the wheel on
the buggy upsetting the latter and throw-
ing Mrs. Rossman out onto the pave-
ment. She sustained a severe shock and
some bruises but fortunately was not
seriously hurt. The Rossman horse was
uninjured but two of the buggy wheels
were badly damaged.
——The Bellefonte Academy baseball
team went to Indiana yesterday where
they played the Normal team. Today
they will go to Pittsburgh where they
will play the University of Pittsburgh
team this afternoon and tomorrow they
will play the East Liberty Academy team
in Pittsburgh. On Friday of next week
they will play the University of Pitts
burgh on Hughes field and on Saturday
Juniata College. These will be the final
games of the season in Bellefonte and
both will be called at two o'clock p. m.
—Mr. James Wolfenden is making
many improvements at his home “White
House, Silver avenue,” Lamar. He has
concreted his cellar and is putting down
six hundred square feet of concrete pave-
ment. New coal bunkers, a water tube,
safety steam boiler and new lighting sys-
tem has been installed. The exterior of
his home is also being repainted and the
tall flag pole he has had painted in silver
and bronze at the ratio of sixteen to one.
Mr. Wolfenden's home is one of the
nicest in Nittany valley.
——1It is beginning to look and feel as
if summer were here at last, but whether
it is or not will make no difference at the
Scenic. It is open every evening and it
costs only a nickle to take a trip half
way around the world. Good moving
pictures are educational and manager T.
Clayton Brown always has the best he
can secure, with special feature films
whenever any of interest are released. A
few evenings spent at the Scenic will
make you a regular patron.
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~The first money on the new peniten-
tiary site was paid to Wm. E. CRUST last |
Saturday, so that the Pen is finally and
conclusively landed in Centre county.
Now look to it that no Centre countians
land in the Pen.
~==Subscribe for the WATCHMAN.
Loss to railroads in freight, probably
$10,000,000.
Loss to retail coal dealers and various
d dent industries, between $5,000,000.
e total loss may easily reach $50,000,-
000, for business is almost at a standstill
in the hard coal-regions, merchants,
manufacturers, doctors, lawyers and all
classes in the community affected.
If the differences had been submitted to
arbitration an impartial board could have
looked after the interests of both opera-
tors and employees. The tes seem
to be almost as far apart as
the beginning. In the final settlement
neither is likely to gain any more than
would have been secured by arbitration.
In the long-continued industrial warfare
both contestants lose.
Has Something On the Original.
From the Stockton Mail.
So far as your recollection
candidate for any office in this
ever been after Hearst had de-
clared for him. William Randolph is not
the original Jonah, but he has fea) im-
proved on the first one. whale
doesn’t swim the sea who is tough enough
to hold Willie on his stomach for three
days before getting sick enough to throw
m up.
It May Spread.
From the Springfield Republican.
The shadow of a big coming event may
have creeping over the coun-
oD NE or Dnt
in Allegheny county are o a
boom to urge the nomination of
J. Bryan at the Baltimore convention.
This like the itch i
thing may spread he na
of speech. -
v J. P. Outdone.
Reon Ne reals Seer Avped 7 “i
“Mr. id $2, or an antique
bed in his vollection.” That isn't .
thing; Senator Stephenson has a he
chair in Washington for which he paid
$107,000, and considered it cheap.
Where the Responsibility Now Rests.
From the Harrisburg Star--Independent.
The responsibility for Democratic suc-
cess at the polls next November having
the Reorganizers let
been assumed
can no longer play
them see to it.
the role of the Kicker.
S———"
——Probably Mr. ROOSEVELT imagines
that Senator LAFOLLETTE is too small
for “the job,” and as a matter of fact
“Pompadour Bop” is a rather small man
physicially at least.
—Subscribe for the WATCHMAN.
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Philip Oechler, proprietor of the Allegheny
house, Jersey Shore, died of diphtheria, which he
contracted from his only child, who died recently
of the disease.
—Creditors of Mrs. Julia T. Glazier, alleged
owner of the defunct bank at Huntingdon, may
Ro into other States and seize assets, if they can
find any to seize.
—A grain of corn caused the death of 4-year-old
Anna Kollar, of Snydertown, near Latrobe. It
lodged in her windpipe first, then particles en-
tered her lungs, causing pneumonia.
~The bankruptcy of the glass plant at Clarion
caused the suspension of the Second National
bank at that place. It is thought to be only tem-
porary and depositors are not uneasy.
—Mrs. E. H. Ohl, of Williamsport, killed a
blacksnake six and a half fect long, near her
home along the river recently. It isthought that
the reptile came with the recent high water.
—Antonio Pasco, about to do some white wash-
ing at his home at Baggaley, lost one eye as a
result of an explosion of the mixture. The ball
was removed at the Latrobe hospital to save the
other eye.
—Frank Goodman, of Detroit, Mich., a former
Canadian farmer, is en route to Europe for an
extensive tour. He left Central Pennsylvania 20
years ago at the age of 20 years, and is now the
owner of five farms in the Canadian northwest.
—A new hospital association has been formed
at DuBois, and the offer of John E. DuBois for a
free site and $10,000 has been accepted. The as”
sociation has applied for a charter and expects
toerect a $60,000 plant. It will probably buy the
present hospital.
—Mr. and Mrs. John Fisher and their three
children escaped in their nightclothes from their
burning home near Lewistown. Mrs. Fisher pick-
ed up her glasses as she fled and her husband
tucked the sewing machine under his arm. All
else was burned.
—Because of the change in the course of study
ago, from a railroad bridge near
was forty-five feet to his landing
was rushed to the hospital, where it
that he had only a few scratches and
ing from nervous shock.
fiscated but the amount cannot be determined.
—Chicken thieves are widespread in their
operations. Thirty-two hens, valued at $40, were
taken from the pens of C. E. Goodwin, near Du-
Bois, within a week. Rev. 3 R. Baker, Presby-
terian pastor at Lycoming, lost twenty-nine
two raids, both of which occurred while
preacher was preaching.
—Patrick F. Maladey, the Tyrone railroader
who fell off a locomotive into a pit at the Tyrone
trying toprotect himself.
committee is patroling the A man
his son were held up near Bealtown and for
three men were lodged in the Ebensburg jail,
awaiting a hearing.
—~Harry William Hummel, a former postmaster
and one of the best known citizens of North
umberland, committed suicide on Friday morning
by shooting himself through the head. Besides
his wife, he is survived by one daughter, Margery,
who is a student in a school of oratory at Pitts-
burg. He was a brother of Edward Hummel, a
former State Senator, of Selinsgrove.
—There was considerable excitement in Lock
Haven a few days ago when workmen excavating
for a new building found almost an entire human
skeleton. The mystery deepened until an old
resident happened to remember that half a cen-
tury before a doctor who lived on that site had
owned a skeleton and when the wires holding it
together became broken he had buried it.
—A special from Harrisburg says the experi-
ment of the State fisheries department in the
propaganda of frogs has been pronounced suc-
cessful, and Commissioner Buller will have a sup-
ply of young frogs ready for distribution in July-
Hereafter work of stocking ponds and streams
with frogs will be a regular feature of the de-
partment. Distribution will be made on applica-
tions filed on blanks supplied by the department.
—Civil war veterans have received invitations
to attend the fiftieth anniversary of the battle of
Gettysburg, which will be held on the historic
battle-ground, in June, 1913. The veterans and
the members of their families will be'transported
to the battle ficld from their homes, free of
charge, and tents will be provided and they will
be entertained while at Gettysburg by the gov-
ernment. There are about 40,000 veterans in the
country and all these, Confederate as well as
Union, will be invited to attend.
—While at work on the Harry Reed farm near
Reedsville on Thursday workmen were surprised
to see a section of earth fifty feet in circumfer-
ence disappear without apparent cause. Stones
dropped into the cavity brought back no sound.
A ladder was lowered twenty-five feet into the
hole and a large subterranean passage common
to limestone strata was discovered, but a wooden
prop hewn by the hand of man is a feature of the
find yet unexplained. The timber has the ap.
pearance of being water soaked yet there is no
evidence of water in the cavern. As soon as the
necessary equipment can be made the find willbe
thoroughly explored. :
—Mrs. Mary H. Turley, widow of John Turley,
of Weedville, Elk county. long prominent as a
lumberman, is dead at the age of 83. She was
the last of the early settlers of that part of Elk
county. Although the first railroad built into the
county was constructed nearly 50 years ago and