INK SLINGS. —Alas! There is no colored regi- ment to rescue TEDDY at Chicago. —Anyway the people will never again be deluded with the idea that the tariff should be revised by its friends. —Between Chicago and Baltimore ex- citements even the most ardent fan is only casually scanning the scores. —By this time the Colonel has proba- bly made up his mind to work the re- call on his presidential ambitions. The corn and oats are on the jump And 50's the grass and grain Have you offered up your gratitude To the One who sent the rain. ——HARRY THAW continues to be a source of expense to the people of New York though he has already cost a good deal more than he is worth. —]f conditions had been reversed ROOSEVELT would have made Dr. LEON- ARD Woop suffer for frienship for TAFT. But happily all men are not alike. —And this will be the longest day in the year. We hope, however, that it will be crowded so full of happiness for each and ‘everyone that it will seem the short- est. ——Even CHAUNCEY DEPEW’S conven- tion joke is a chestnut. He said, “there are at least eighty liars in the conven- tion.” Another has said that “all men are liars.” ——The House committee which has been investigating Judge ARCHBALD will recommend his impeachment and thus prove that the present methods of recall are ample. ——Anyway we may be permitted to hope that the disgraceful incidents which have marked the campaign for the Re- publican nomination for President will never be repeated. —We can scarcely imagine what Mr. RoosEVELT would have said and done to those delegates had he really been a can- didate for the nomination. You know he said he wasn’t and was accepting it only because it was thrust upon him. —BRYAN got a great hand when he ap- peared as a newspaper correspondent in the ROOSEVELT rally in the auditorium, in Chicago, on Monday night. How hap- py we would all be if the versatile Col- onel would let that old presidential bee of his get drowned in the ink pot. —The prayers which Rev. Dr. JosEPH STULTZ offers at the opening of the Re- publican Con 0 outrageous co duct of some of the delegates be true. —Come along you sultry, sticky weath- er that sends the youngsters back to the old swimmin’ hole, where they get water in their ears and blisters on their backs so large that they can't lie comfortably in bed. It's misery for them, but it's the sweetest kind of misery that boyhood knows. —~Mayor GAYNOR is an eleventh hour candidate before the Baltimore conven- tion. There was a day when New York's chief magistrate might have made good presidential timber, but the infirmities that have followed his attempted assas- sination should make his unfitness appar- ent to the delegates. —Five hundred uniformed and five hundred plain clothes policemen have been necessary to keep order in the Re- publican National convention hall. Think of it! An officer for nearly every dele- gate. Surely the wildest gatherings of the Anarchists about the old Hay Mar- ket in the Windy city could not have been as unruly and incendiary as this one. —Mrs. ALICE ROOSEVELT LONGWORTH arrived in Chicago ahead of her trunks, with the embarrassing result that she had but one dress to wear to the numer- ous and varied functions to which she was bidden. She might have put a few extra ribbons on the nightie she un. doubtedly carried in her hand bag and been none the more sensationally gown- ed than most society women aim to be. —The Burgess of Bellefonte could do the town an inestimable good if he were to employ a few plain clothes policemen for a few weeks and break up the pro- fanity on our streets. It isa shame; the foul language and blasphemy that is heard at every street corner. A few ar- rests and good stiff fines would go a long way toward putting a quietus to it and Burgess BOWER couldn't render no greater service; especially to the little folks of the town, if he were to start a campaign against it. ~The delay in paying over the money for the land taken up for the new peni- tentiary site seems inexcusable. The ti- tles were all cleared up months ago, the deeds executed and in escrow and the State has the money somewhere. We can imagine no other reason than that probably some of the depositories of the State’s funds are hanging onto the bal- ance with the idea of making the last cent out of it. Meanwhile the men who gave up their farms last April are to lose their season's crops and most likely the interest on the money they should have had long ago. Unless the payments are made soon there may be trouble in get- ting some of the land holders to accept them at ail. VOL. 57. Getting Ready to Betray the People. Among the disorganizers who controll ed the Democratic State convention at Harrisburg on May 7th, there is already a movement to defeat the purposes of the Democratic voters of Pennsylvania. That is to say, the gentlemen who were chosen as the representatives of the par- ty to promote the nomination of Gover- nor Wooprow WILSON for President are now conspiring to flefeat that result and nominate Mr. WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN, already the victim of three defeats. Hap- pily these delegates are bound by iron- clad instructions, thanks to the foresight of some of the old-guard leaders, but notwithstanding this fact they are an. nouncing a second choice, which is tan. tamount to a public declaration that they are anxious to get away from their in- structions. | The Philadelphia Ledger of Monday contains this information: “Four na- tional delegates, all of whom are promi- nent figures in the delegation from the Keystone State, are ardent supporters of Colonel BRYAN. Three of these dele- gates are allied with the PALMER—GUTH- RIE—MCCORMICK reorganization faction of the party—ex-Magistrate JOHN A. THORTON, national delegate-at-large; Magistrate JoserH S. Bo of the Sixth | district, this city, and J HowLEY, of the Twenty-ninth Allegheny county. The fourth BRYAN follower is RYERSON W. JENNINGS, of the Second district, Philadelphia, who is an enthusi- astic devotee of BRYANism and a close friend of the Peerless Leader. * * + During the last week reports have been received by Democratic leaders who are friendly to the Nebraskan that there is a strong undercurrent in this State in fa- vor of his nomination. * * BRYAN'S admirers here say that he will get into the fight at once if ROOSEVELT is made ! the Republican nominee.” To the names quoted by our Philadel- phia contemporary may be added WAaRr- fore the moral influence of the delega- tion will be for candidates other than the distinguished Governor of New Jersey, whom they are instructed to support. Instead of striving for the nomination of | Woobrow WILSON these controlling fig- | ures in the delegation will be working to PA Boss Flinn’s Mare’s Nest. Contractor Boss BILL FLINN has dis- covered a "mare's nest.” In other words he has devised a plan which will guaran. tee the defeat of Mr. TAPT for the Presi- dency even though the nomination is be- stowed upon him by the Chicago conven- tion. The plan is simple but absurd and therefore characteristic. It involves the recall of the Republican State conven- tion and the instruction of the electors of the Republican party to vote for ROOSEVELT for President, instead of the nominee of the convention. The propo- sition would be interesting if it were not manifestly preposterous. It would be amusing if it were not entirely prepos- terous. The Republican electors of Pennsylva- nia were chosen by the Republican peo- ple of the State to cast the vote of the State for the Republican candidate. The personnel of a Republican Presidential ticket is not determined by the conven- tion of a single State. Each State sends delegates in the ratio of its Congression- al representation to a National conven- tion which selects the Presidential ticket for all the States. After the selection is made in States other than Pennsylvania the electors are morally bound to vote for the candidate of the party. In Penn- sylvania they are legally as well as mor- ‘ally bound for the law provides for the certification of their names, with the pol- icy of the party attached and the names of the candidates nominated by the Re- publican party. But even if the plan proposed by BILL FLINN were feasible under the law it wouldn't be possible to adopt it by re- calling the convention in the event that TAPT or any other man than ROOSEVELT is nominated. The defeat of ROOSEVELT for the nomination will completely wreck FLINN'S scheme, FLINN'S candidates for Auditor General and State Treasurer would be “recalled” and men who are in sympathy with the National party put in their places. When FLINN gets over the frenzy into which recent successes have plunged him, he will dismiss this scheme, In any event there will be no such ac tion as FLINN predicts. ~The cashier of MOORE & SCHLEY | testified before a Congressional commit: tee, the other day, that that firm of brok- ers “never held a majority of Tennessee Coal and Iron securities,” though ROOSE- VELT declared that he abrogated the anti- trust law because MOORE & SCHLEY held such a majority of securities.” Of course get him out of the way in order that they may have opportunity to vote for | their real preferences. In other words | these men, chosen not because of their | fitness or on account of party service, are | conspiring to betray the trust which has | been reposed in them by a misguided | sentiment created by false pretense and consistent and continued misrepresenta- | tion. , When the earnest and faithful Demo- | cratic leaders bound these political hucksters by implacable instructions to | support WoopROW WILSON to the end, | they builded, not wiser than they knew, | but safely secure. But they couldn't! compel actual fidelity to either person or | principle. The gist of the opposition to | Colonel GUFFEY was the enmity of Mr. BRYAN. It began when the Pittsburgh ! leader refused to acquiesce in Mr. Bry- | AN'S absurd determination to hamstring | the party at the Kansas City convention and, gaining strength by the disappoint- ment of each mercenary, culminated in | the triumph of the PALMER—GUTHRIE— | McCorMICK party pirates at the Harris- | burg convention of May 7, this year. It. was an unfortunate issue of along drawn | out dispute. | The Chicago Convention. — | Up to this hour, (7 p. m. Thursday) | the news from the Republican conven- | tion at Chicago fails to give any certain- ty as to who its nominees for President and vice President will be. Turmoil and | strife and bitterness, bluff and black- | guardism have characterized every mo- ment of its work. Two test ballots have | been made. The first on Tuesday on thé election of a temporary chairman, whi gave Root the TAFT choice, 558 votes to) 502 for MCGOVERN the ROOSEVELT nomi nee. The second on Wednesday on the question of seating the ROOSEVELT coa- testing delegates, which resulted in a vote of 510 for to 564 against, both votes showing the impossibility of the nomina- tion of Mr. ROOSEVELT and the uncer- tainty of the success of Mr. Tart. All reports point with strong probability to a bolt on the part of the ROOSEVELT support- ers, and the nomination by them of Roose- VELT and HADLEY, of Missouri, against TAFT should he be chosen by the conven- tion as now made up. Should he be the regular nominee the probabilities are that JOHN WANAMAKER, of this State, will be made his partner in distress. the cashier will go into the ANANIAS club though he probably told the truth. The Re National Convention. The election of Senator RooT to the temporary presidency of the Republican National vention by a plurality of fifty-six Pyusally eliminates ROOSEVELT from the running, unless the signs are misleading. It may not guarantee the nomination of TAFT for he received the votes of some of the ROOSEVELT delegates and the fourteen scattering votes will not be for him in the final ballot. But it ac- complishes the purpose of most of the TAFT supporters, which is to defeat | ROOSEVELT at any cost. It is not certain that TAPT himself has had any other rea- son for remaining in the fight since the Ohio primaries. But the defeat of ROOSEVELT and the complete effacement of that peace dis- turber from the public life of the coun- try for all time is a splendid achievement in the interest of constitutional govern. ment and national tranquility. We have no idea that he would have been elected, in the event of his nomination, but the fact that he was able to get the nomina- tion, in the face of his record as a graft- er and falsifier, would have been an as- persion upon the character of American citizenship and a stain upon the es- cutcheon of the country. Not only that but it would have impaired industrial and commercial stability. The vote on the question of the tem- porary presidency, however, proves be’ yond the shadow of doubt that There was hardly a corporal’s guard in the convention enthusiastically for TAFT and less than a majority would accept ROOSEVELT on any terms. But ROOSE- VELT’S lust for power, that he might per. vert it toselfish purposes, forced thought- ful men to support TAFT and he may be “'| HARMON, of Ohio, Speaker CLARK,of Mis- .| will be. Over five hundred men will be STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. SELON, Itis to be regretted that the case of | the Commonwealth against the West | Virginia Pulp and Paper company, ch was to have been tried in' the Blair coun- | ty courts, recently, was “out of | court.” The charge b polluting a stream upon the bank of the plant | of the company is located. { The allega. | tion is that the refuse, including acids | and other substances ini to fish | life, was habitually turned intb the stream | causing the death of vast numbers of fish. The case was heard by a local justice of the peace, by whom the defendant was | sentenced to pay a fine of $100 and the costs of the suit. An appeal was taken to the higher local court where the de- fendant paid the penalty. There is a good deal of uncertainty as to the right of manufacturing industries to empty the refuse of their mills and factories into the streams and a judicial determination of the matter would ‘have been of wide-spread interest and much value to the people. It is certain that many fish are killed by this pollution of the waterways but it has been held, pretty generally, that it has been impos- sible to obtain redress, for various rea- sons. Firstit is said the matter is diffi- cult of proof and it is added that the peo- ple of communities affected shield the perpetrators of the offenses against the law. The business interests of the com- munities are impaired by interferance. If the pollution of streams is actually an offense against the law it ought to be stopped. The wholesale slaughter of fish by this means is contrary to public inter- est for it deprives people of the neigh- borhoods of cheap and nutritious food. The prohibition of such pollution on the other hand, cripples important industries, it is also claimed. Those who object to the pollution insist that the refuse may be disposed of in another way and that the pollution is purely self- ish and wanton. A judical investigation of the question might shed light upon both sides of this contention and there. fore it is to be regretted that this case was settled before the judicial “inquiry began. the Chicago convention when he second- ed the nomination of Governor McGov- ERN for temporary chairman, but he made most of the delegates howl. — A Su us Movement Of course the th-hour candidacy of Mayor GAYNOR, of New York, for the Democratic nomihation for President is an ulterior scheme to prevent the nomi- nation of Governor WILSON, of New Jer- sey. Mayor GAYNOR is an admirable gentleman and previous to the murder- ous assault upon him some months ago since that lamentable—let us say tragedy: though it failed of its homicidal purpose —he has not shown the mental and phys- ical vigor necessary to discharge the duties of Chief Magistrate of the Repub- lic. In view of that fact he ought to have been left out of the equation. But he hasn't been for a campaign for his nomination has been inaugurated which compels the suspicion that he has been brought out to keep the large and influential delegation of the Empire State from going to Governor WILSON, and practically guaranteeing his nomiration. It is known that certain elements of the Democratic electorate of New York are opposed to Governor WILSON, and it was expected that the vote of the State might be cast against him for a ballot or two. But it appears now as if GAYNOR has been brought out to hold them agaist WiLsoN for all time and that is a cause for re- gret. New York ought to be for Governor WiLsoN in the Baltimore convention. New Jersey is, at best, a sort of suburb of New York, and when New Jersey pre- there is no conceivable excuse for New York voting for another aspirant. Even if it had shown a preference for Governor souri, or Representative UNDERWOOD, of Alabama, there might have been no grounds for suspicion. But in bringing out a local candidate, in the person of a physically, not to say mentally stricken gentleman, there can be no escape from doubt of the action. ——A. L. Anderson & Co., the railroad porary quarters for their workmen along the line of the Bald Eagle rail- road from Mt. Eagle to below H where the track is to be moved, and get- ting their machinery on the ground to begin operations at an early date. Offi- ces have been opened in the Cooke build- ing at Howard where the headquarters put to work on the job. —BILL FLINN didn't exactly electrify the was excellent Presidential timber. But is sents so admirable a candidate as WILSON, of contractors of Altoona, are erecting tem- od The Colonel's heel is on thy shore, ! His Big Stick’s at thy temple door, Chicago! He's out to get a lot of gore, And, on the side, to mop the floor With those who seek to check his roar, Chicago! Ho, Chicago! He wilt not cower in the dust, Chicago! His shining spear shall never rust, Chicago! He's going to have the thing discussed According as he says it must Be handled, or he'll bolt or bust, Chicago! Ho, Chicago! He wilt not yield the bosses toll. Chicago! . He wilt not crook to their control, Chicago! Better the roller on him roll, Better to lose his cherished goal, Than knifed at that convention poll. Chicago! Ho, Chicago! We hear the threatened thunder hum, Chicago! The Colonel's bugle, fife and drum, Chicago! He is not dead, nor deaf, nor dumb; degree trade combinations, must be mainly due to insufficient supply. How to stimulate that supply ptly and vigorously is ivi = statesmen. It pokiiped be done by the farmer or the middleman, the meat packer or wholesale roduce dealer, the trader or . Men n every calling will be blind and deaf in their pursuit of business Fon: that the prevailing spirit of business. The only way in which the food supply can be vigorously stimulated is by making its production and marketing a conspicu- ously profitable and pleasant occu- pal For a long time the life of the farmer in this great farming land has been under a cloud. It is only quite recently that his occupation has me profitable, and even more recently that better communi- cation With the yest of the world has be- gun to ten it through telephones, rural free delivery, motors and trolley lines and road improvements. For the sake of more ample food uction the profit of farming needs to be maintained while the attractions of farm life need to be multiplied. A Penn Portrait of—Whom? From the Chicago Inter-Ocean. Bull-necked and swollen-veined, with raucous voice and starting eyes, this stands forth today belying his every ith his latest deed, ty Tapublicen jor of govefunlent , leveler ypocrite, a spectacle without or parallel in the Re- publ to make Burr look sober man of affairs! Where is the man to do spectacle justice? Where is historian to write down this counterfeit American, this false pretender, this pious- preaching-fraud as he is? How Can it be Done? From the Johnstown Democrat. How is the cost of living to be reduc- ? ie pao 1 Dots ta pee to be the next President. Under the pres- ent system of excessive protection the —Subscribe for the WATCHMAN. duce prices. » SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. _ —It is taking thousands of men to clean up and the trolley lines in that vicinity since the big rain. —Clearfield’s chamber of commerce has word of a cut glass plant that will be located in Clear- field at once. Everybody is pleased. —Less than one-half the applicants for pro- visional certificates examined last week by York county's school superintendent passed the test. —Chief of police Yeaman, of Lewistown, who was thought to be recovering from a recent bullet wound, has had a relapse and his condition is now alarming. =The first annual report of the Blair hospital, Huntingdon, shows a total of patients. One hundred and fifty-three were performed. ‘| —Two daughters and one son of Mastin Rusnak, of Hawk Run, were married in Roman Catholic church at that place on Monday. The tripple wedding was a great affair, iy —Friends of former sheriff J. E. of Westmoreland county, are trying now to i, ot pardoned out of the penitentiary. His status as county commissioner has not yet been settled. —Thomas Trafford, of Williamsport, whois 83 years old, announces that after twenty years of experimenting, he has been successful in finding a process by which copper may be tempered. Tests are being made and the discovery is said to be worth millions. —Somerset borough is liable to a fine of $3,500 for not securing a permit from the State Health Department before connecting a new artesian bria county ended their lives—Lewis McKinney, aged 45 years, found in the woods near Portage with a revolver in his hand; Levi Yost, aged 45 years, shot himself in his shop at Johnstown; Percival Hartman, aged 66 years, hanged himself in his barn at South Fork. —The State Water Supply Commission will hold its next session on June 25th, when it pected that it will take up the application Tionesta Water Power company, against a number of protests have been filed by residing along the stream, the waters of is proposed to take for power purposes. —William Little, of Indiana, stopped ment off short recently. He caught \ daughter and a young man as they were leave for Pittsburgh and with them his wife, who had decided to leave him and her six young chil dren. She was persuaded to return home and the young folks were properly disposed of, * —Emory Gregg, near Newport, tcok his team of horses under an apple tree for shelter from a when Mr. Gregg recovered consciousness he was pinioned under one dead horse with his elbow resting on the other. The saving of his life : both animals were killed is considered almo miraculous. —Arthur Wetzler, aged 12 years, a few digs ago fished out of the Juniata river a mail and Ree gf is of Hi iH spread out to dry. Most of the are residing at Glen Campbell, Indiana county, and was her only support. The body was taken to Apollo, Armstrong county, for interment. in Bellefonte, but otherwise the horse was not injured. % —Congressman W. W. Greist, of Lancaster, is president of a big electric company, recently formed in Lancaster county by the merger of the Christiana Suburban Electric company and the Edison Electric company, notice being filed in the State Department recently. The capital of the new company is $1,570,000. It will virtually con- trol every mile of trolley in Lancaster county, ex- tending for miles in every direction. —These three stories come from Lock Haven: Charles Reed, of Queen's Run, while weeding tobacco plants saw a big bear coming down the mountain, within easy rifle range, had hunting season been on. Three deercame down to the railroad near Scontac and t a passing train. Of course, nobody shot but any- body could have done so. Wi Rathberger, of Queen's Run, saw a big snake trying to swallow a seven-inch-t He killed the snake and got the trout free. ' ~The Department of State e has estab- lished twelve sub-stations th p State, at each of which will be stationed three men to be subject to call at all times. The mew sub- stations are at Beaver Falls, sburg, Indiana, Portage, Waynesboro, 01 Hazleton, Peckville, Newtown, Som Fred- ericktown. Establishment of sub-stations is designed to facilitate the work of the police and enable them to act promptly in territory not sufficiently provided with police protection. cost of the has become 80 | Lesher, who, more than one-half century ago, high that are losing confidence | conducted a school where the St. John’s Lutheran Jo tus form of t and are turn- | church now stands. Mit Overton: started 19 teach when fifteen yearsof age. At the age "he Repub theory has al been | seventeen years she taught country schools, that the the tax on shings | later attending the Wilkes Barre high school, eaten, worn used by the both teaching and studying. For three years better for the| people. The she conducted a private school and in 1877 re- theory is that to reduce taxation is to re- | tuned to the public schools. She has served to the Mifflintown postoffice and the contents odin
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