Sms ee . bmn ——————— Beno ian BY P. GRAY MEEK. —— INK —Poor TAFT! He's a nice man, but he won't do. —It must appear to the gentleman from Nebraska that the steam roller is no respecter of persons. Js —It has been suggested that if FLYNN can't do it TEDDY might be rung in to knock Mr. JACK JOHNSING out on July 4th. | ——Well Colonel ROOSEVELT was “lec- | tioneerin’ fer a lickin’ ” and he got it so | that there is no just cause for com- | plaint. ! —Col. ROOSEVELT kept up the rumpus to the last in Chicago and then held a | rump convention and made himself the | rump stake. | ——Even a “bull moose” has his tribu- | lations, now and then, and the Colonel | probably feels like one of them emerging | from a losing fight at the present mo- | ment. ! —The users of Bellefonte water will scarcely be able to reconcile their own | ideas, after washing in it, with the latest expert opinion to the effect that it is soft water. i —Why A. MricHELL PALMER, VANCE | McCormick or Geo. W. GUTHRIE can make our friend BRYAN look like a four- | flusher when it comes to bossing a con- vention. ~The late Tom. PLATT, of New York, has a good many things to answer for and it may be cruel to state that he brought ROOSEVELT into public life con- spicuously. ——SAMUEL G. BLYTHE says that dis- | order at Chicago was a party funeral rather than a political convention and BLYTHE has a habit of naming things by by their right names. -—1It's lucky for ROOSEVELT that the | laws and customs of this country allow a man to change his mind. Otherwise the | Contributing Editor would be compelled | to send most of his copy from a jail cell. | ——Mr. BRYAN is determined to pre- vent the election of a Democratic Presi- | dent if such a thing is possible after the performance of his friend ROOSEVELT at | Chicago. And it must be admitted that | Mr. BRYAN is an expert at organizing de- | feats. ——Mr. BRYAN seems to have hypno- tized the esteemed New York World as completely as THEODORE ROOSEVELT has fascinated Dr. LYMAN ABBOTT. Let us| hope that our esteemed New York con- | temporary will reap anequally generous | financial reward. —Talking about a Key-note speech in | a convention having influence on a cam- | paign. If that be so why not have all! Key-note speeches and no platform. But | the Baltimore convention would have | been a failure with out a platform for Brother BAILEY, of Johnstown, is a plat- form builder and not a Key-note speak- er. —While GEORGE W. GUTHTIE was try- ing to tell the Pennsylvania delegation at Baltimore that we must have harmony at any cost Mr. PALMER, our new nation- al committeeman, was preaching the doc- trine of hit an “Old Guard” head when you see it. Timely inconsistencies when Mr. BERRY and Mr. CRESSWELL will need every Democratic vote in Pennsylvania, if they entertain the faintest hope of election. —A most glaring grammatical error was made in this column last week. Whether through ignorance, intention or poor proof reading we are not disposed to tell. However we call attention to the fact that a number of highbrows in this community lost no time in impressing upon the editiorial mind that they be- lieved it to be ignorance and because we value their friendship far more than we respect their particular grammatical accomplishments we did not start a fight. —To those who think that Judge PAR- KER was not the choice of the real Dem- ocrats of the country for temporary chairman we have this to say: Of the delegates from the States that always vote Democratic PARKER had 220 votes to 146 for BRYAN. And PARKER also re- ceived the votes of the great majority of the delegates from every doubtful State except New Jersey. Such States as Pennsylvania, Kansas, Iowa, Washington, Wisconsin and the Dakotas voted almost solidly for BRYAN but how often have they gone Democratic in a presidential year? —To our mind Mr. BRYAN got exactly what he deserved. Before he precipie tated the fight over the temporary chair- manship there was every prospect of a perfectly harmonious, party solidifying convention. As usual he tried to stir up a fuss over nothing and lost his fight. All this talk about progressive Democracy is buncombe. Every political party is progressive in the safe and sane sense of the word, but if Democracy is to be dis- torted through this Progressive Shib- boleth into Socialism then we want none of it. If ALTON B. PARKER was good enough to be our candidate for President he was certainly good enough to be temporary chairman of our national con- vention and Mr. BRYAN knew it, but, like the dog in the manger after he had re- fused to accept it himself, he didn’t wan't | chosen by the National Committee to | of the convention is not sufficiently *“‘pro- | gressive” is being greatly overworked if | not actually misinterpreted by aspiring | constitution and its progress has chal- | every essential respect and improved { harm, ! Mr. BRYAN chooses to follow a line which to see anyone else get it. STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. _VOL. 57. SR LEVONTE Pa: Mr. Bryan Rebuked. Mr. BRYAN invited the just rebuke im- plied in his defeat for temporary presi- dent of the Baltimore convention, on Tuesday. He had neither occasion nor right to interpose factional opposition to the customary procedure in the organiza- tion of the body. Vast political interests are involved in the proceedings of the convention and the value of the work depends largely upon the unity of action and the order of the deliberations. In the face of these facts Mr. BRYAN in- jected a discordant note for no apparent purpose other than to create confusion and cause disturbance. It may be true that he is obsessed with an egotism that defies control. But in a matter of such vital importance he ought to have found means of restraint. Mr. BRYAN justified himself under the pretense that the distinguished gentleman preside cver the temporary organization gressive” to represent or voice the sen. timent of the delegates. The term “Pro- and probably selfish politicians these days. This country has prospered amaz- ingly from the beginning under the lenged the admiration of all civilization, It has moved forward and upward in morally, physically and intellectually. What reason is there, therefore, for a type of progression that can certainly achieve no more and may result in grave As Judge PARKER said in his conven- tion speech “all Democrats are progres. sive. But it is inevitably human that we shall not all agree that in a single high- way is found the only road to progress.” leads outside of the constitution, the greatest achievement in political litera- ture which has come from human intel. ligence, and violates the traditions of the party and the country. But he gives no assurance of greater attainment by that devious course while the experience of all time proves that it is full of peril and rank with disaster. Judge PARKER has taken the other route but he is as earnest- ly striving for the result. Under the circumstances Mr. BRYAN was wrong and we are glad that he was sharply re- buked. Flinn Has Proved a Proverb. Whatever the result of the Chicago convention may have been to others, to BiLL FLINN, of Pennsylvania, it was a tragedy. For a quarter of a century he has been stealing and hoarding with the view of ultimately buying the title of leader of the Republican machine of Pennsylvania. If he had continued for a million years and acquired the wealth of Creesus a thousand times multiplied, he never would have succeeded upon his own efforts. But opportunely the ROOSE- VELT craze became epidemic throughout the State last spring and by seizing it he was enabled to get control. But the de- feat of ROOSEVELT at Chicago completely wrecks his plans and his ambitions. Of course the vast majority of the Republicans of this State will support the nominee of the party for President. The electors chosen by the voters of that faith to represent them in the electoral college will necessarily vote for the Republican candidate for President in the event of their election. They have no alternative. The obligation upon them is both moral and legal and if they refuse to declare that purpose in advance of the election they will not be voted for. This leaves FLINN in the anomalous position of a boss without a force to command. He is repudiated before he has been installed into his office. He is a general without an army, a leader without a following. Moreover the FLINN platform adopted at the May convention in Harrisburg is in direct conflict with the National plat- form adopted in Chicago in all essential particulars. Mr. FLINN will be obliged to recall his convention to make his plat- form declarations agree with those of the National convention and when the dele- gates are again assembled they will have an opportunity to rebuke FLINN directly as well as indirectly. Really he is the victim of adverse circumstances. He would be entitled to popular commisera- tion if he were not so completely deserv- ing of the castigation that is impending. But he has been the medium of proving a proverb. “You can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.” —W. T. Downing, of Hollidaysburg has been awarded the contract for the fencing of the Bald Eagle Valley railroad from the Blair county line to Clinton county, in accordance with the special Act of the Legislature which requires that all railroads be fenced in Centre county. It will mean the building of about fifty miles of fence. The Third Party Movement. We see no cause for alarm in the third party movement inaugurated by TEDDY RooseveLT and Bil FLINN in Chicago the other evening. It is predicated upon the absurd notion that a vast number of the voters of the country are exceedingly anxious to restore ROOSEVELT to the White House and the equally preposter- cus idea that a majority of the electorate of Pennsylvania desires to follow the leadership of BILL FLINN. As a matter of fact very few people want either ROOSEVELT or FLINN in the public serv- ice. ROOSEVELT has cost the country a great deal already and FLINN has come to more than he is worth in this State. The speedy and permanent retirement of both of them will be cordially welcomed. As we have previously suggested the strength of ROOSEVELT in the recent con- test was ascribable far more to the weak- ness of TAFT than to the popularity of RooseVELT while the temporary success of FLINN in Pennsylvania is attributable to hatred of PENROSE rather than love of FLINN. Senator PENROSE has been for years provoking popular resentment of his constituents by his indifference to their interests. The opportunity to inflict punishment came simultaneously with the tidal wave of opposition to TAFT and RoosSEVELT and FLINN floated on the crest of this wave. Neither of them en- joys either the confidence or the affec- tion of Pennsylvania voters. They are simply instruments for castigating TAFT and PENROSE. Besides party bolters are not in favor among honorable men in the United States or in this State. Puffed out with passion and inflated with disappointment the ROOSEVELT delegates in Chicago last week were very earnest and exceedingly enthusiastic in this party enterprise. That “a renegade is worse than ten Turks’ is proverbial and these political waifs were | But “the | FRICK fully valued the favor. And he desperate for the moment. sober, second thought,” will overtake most of them before many changes of the moon and they will meekly return to the fold and curse ROOSEVELT and FLINN for misleading them. There will be vast numbers of Republicans who will not vote for TAFT but they are not among the third party movers. ——Really the so-called third party ought to have nominated Mr. GEORGE W. PERKINS of the Harvester trust for Presi- dent instead of Colonel ROOSEVELT. The Colonel was disappointed, of course,with the result of the Chicago convention, and suffered mental anguish to some extent. But PERKINS lost a lot of expense money aud among such men the money loss is by long odds the more important. The Nomination of Taft. The renomination of President TAFT by the Chicago convention was ihevitable from the beginning of the fight for that empty honor. By fraud, false pretense and unparalleled demagogy Colonel ROOSEVELT mustered considerable strength in the convention but at no stage of the campaign did he have even the shadow of a chance of success. He fooled a good many people by setting up bogus contests and carried majorities of the meager votes polled in several States in which preferential primaries were held. But he signally failed in his palpable purpose to stampede the convention or seize by ruffianly processes control of the organization of his party. In his futile effort to put himself back in the seat of power Colonel ROOSEVELT resorted to every expedient of the dema- gogue and invoked every resource of the political buccaneer. He maligned men, vilified public officials and misrepresented facts. He professed to be influenced en- tirely by patriotic motives but in his final declaration to his supporters in the con- vention he revealed his selfishness, He requested them to refrain from voting but implored them if they did vote to vote for him. He knew that with both TAFT and himself out of the reckoningit would be easy for a majority of the delegates to nominate a candidate who would be both fit and formidable. But hie didn't want that. Seeing he couldn't rule he wanted to cause ruin. Taking one consideration with another THEODORE ROOSEVELT is the most despic- able creature who has disgraced the public life of this country. A grafter, a perjurer, a self-confessed murderer and a traducer of men and women, he hoped to make himself perpetual President and erect upon the ruins of the Republic an imperial dynasty. In this treasonable enterprise he was aided by the Steel trust, the Harvester trust the Powder trust and other conspiracies which had been fostered during his last administration. PERKINS, DUPONT, GEARY and other cormorants whom he had bene- fitted at the expense of the public financ- ed his campaign and his defeat is a bene- diction beyond measure. JUNE 28, 1912. In the Fight to the Finish. Colonel ROOSEVELT can’t be diverted from his purpose to run for President this year by any concessions which the Democrats may offer. There were some confiding souls who imagined that the Colonel had no object in his running ex- cept to save the country and up-lift the people. They even suggested that if the Baltimore convention should nominate a real, rattling, rollicking “progressive,” that RooseveLT would instantly with- draw irom the contest and rush to the support of this political curio. But the Colonel has disabused their minds of the delusion. He declares that he will re- main in the fight to the finish, no matter what happens in Baltimore or elsewhere. We can easily believe that this is true. Colonel RoosEVELT has an insatiable pas- sion for office. His lust for power is in- appeasible. He pretended in the begin- ning that he was only running for the Republican nomination in obedience to an overwhelming demand from the peo- ple. But before his campaign was half over he was dragooning every Republican voter he could reach into supporting him and setting up bogus contests in the South upon which to base a claim of strength that might fool the credulous into think- ing that he would be nominated and thus secure their help in the enterprise. Final- ly, according to reports from Chicago, he resorted to bribing delegates in the con- vention. Besides the Colonel dearly loves to spend other people’s money for his per- sonal aggrandizement and pleasure. He had saved GEORGE W. PERKINS, of the Harvester trust, from the penitentiary by preventing criminal proceedings against him and he wanted to see how much GEORGE appreciated the service. He had made a couple of hundred millions of dol- | lars for the Steel trust and was anxious to know whether MORGAN, GARY and became a candidate to see them “shell out” a liberal campaign fund and will continue to be a candidate as long as they continue to “shell out.” That may -be with “the ides of November” and it may not. But we shall see. ——(n Tuesday C. O. Dunlop accom- panied by "Squire Henry Brcwn went out to Pleasant Gap to close up one or more titles on the penitentiary site and while they were sitting on Mrs. Stover's porch filling up a deed they heard the piercing screams of a child. “Tippy” Thompson, the driver, was sitting in the car and he was the first to discover that the cries came from a two year old child, who had in some way crawled into a hogpen and had been attacked by the hogs. Thomp- son and Mr. Dunlop both ran to the child's rescue and fortunately got there in time to rescue it before it was injured to any extent, though the hogs had it down and already trampled upon. Had these men not been so close at hand it is possible the hogs would have killed the child before anybody else could have got- ten there to rescue it. ——At last the brick paving on High street has been completed far enough that both High and Water streets have been opened for traffic. Contractor R. B. Taylor is short several thousand brick and the result is a square of the street in front of Doll's bakery will lay in an un- paved condition until the brick can be secured. As it is, however, the paved street, new concrete pavements and new lighting system has so improved the sec- tion of High street near the railroad as to make it hardly recognizable] with old conditions. ~The W. E. Hoffman company has just completed extensive alterations and improvements to its creamery at Penn- sylvania Furnace, including the erection of an additional building 24x30 feet in size, in which is installed a35 horse pow- er tubular boiler, a 25horse power engine and a four ton Vilter refrigerating ma- chine. The plant is used to furnish cream to the company’s ice cream factor- ies at Tyrone, Philipsburg and Barns. boro, while the excess is churned into butter. ~All public school children who tock part in the scarf, Japanese, flag, dumb bell and hoop drills are requested to as- semble on the High school grounds to- morrow (Saturday) morning, at ten o'clock, with all their equipment and paraphernalia. Also the gypsy song and chorus. Miss Overton will be present and explain just what their part will be in the big safe and sane Fourth of July celebration Bellefonte is going to have next Thursday. ey ——Among the graduates at the West Chester Normal school last week were Charles E. Furst, of Stormstown, and Miss Emily P. Cook, of Philipsburg. The former was president of the class and was one of the commencement speak- ers. From the Philadelphia Record. Theodore Roosevelt, now in the field as a full-fledged candiedte for a third ird term, | is a nice man, chock full of energy, with an enticing smile and an frown, a stirring speaker, and | many ways. he is premature. He has a a yam amount of un % 1 agree with him you think he is the Sup A If you don’t you want a comm! to sit on his mental balance. 2 The great drawback with him is that he is premature. He is alway eating green apples because he can't wait for them to ripen. He's ahead of the clock. It's tomorrow with him all the time. The Spanish war didn’t begin soon enough for him. Ex-Secretary of the Navy Long has told the story of his ur- gency that a fleet should be sent out to itercebt Cervera and send him to Davy Jones’ locker while diplomacy was pro- ceeding and none of the preliminaries for war prescribed by international etiquette had occurred. the country voted him a second term he was so pleased that he prematurely announced that he would not take another. He's been re- gresting that ever since, for, though he idn't allow it to interfere with his plans, it did cause him some inconvenience. He was premature in deciding to take his third term this year. If he had wait- ed four years—and he is still in middle life—there would have been sca any ition to him in his party. If Mr. aft were President at that time he would give him all the help the Presi- dency can afford, and Mr. relt has learned now, what he had ample ans of learning four and eight years ago, that the Presidency is a great factor in a con- vention, as it is in legislation. Mr. Roose- velt has supposed that all the power he exercised when in office was personal, i the greater part of it was offi- cial. Were a Democrat President in 1916 Mr. Roosevelt would be brought forward gs the one man with enough popuiarity to dislodge the Democrats from er. No other man in his Yond ter stood any chance against such prestige as Mr. Roosevelt would have had. But he couldn't wait. As soon as he got out of office he began to wish he were back again. The hands of clock the moved too slowly for him. He wished the people would call for him. Presently he was sure they were calling for him. On further thought he decided that were too slow and must be made tocall f If t would not call for him Ts +n call for thém. He'd got to hi mothe: term, and he wanted it right off. ‘Four years was an cternity for a man feeling like 2 bull moose to wait for a job that he liked bully. His apple would have been ripe in 1916, but he couldn't wait, and he had to knock it from the tree with his big stick and eat it The usual discomfort has ensued. Recalling a Court. From the Harrisburg Star--Independent. The experiment of the hy Li of a Commerce Court has not altogeth- er satisfactory to the power which creat- ed it. Hence there has been a demand But there is objection to the manner in which the congress has undertaken to abolish the court. It would do this by tion for the ate the moneys necessary to pay aries. It is pointed out that the which He Circuit a ~The Fourth of July is rightly term- ed Independence Day, and because of that fact should be observed patriotically. Therefore, decorate your homes and places of business with the American flag and national colors as evidence of your spirit of loyalty to the country of your birth. —Don't read an out-of-date paper. Get all the news in the WATCHMAN. | | | | SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. ~The Sandy Ridge fire brick plant, larger than before the fire, is to be ready for operations in another week. —Thomas Harris, aged 18, was the only one of a gang of robbers caught by a clever ruse of { Merchant Nathan Cohen, of Bakerton. He re” | fused to give the names of his associates. | —Washington Megahan. of Somerset, was 81 | years old on Sunday. He had three brothers who | lived to be 84 and one, now living, is 82. He is | one of ten brothers, who had but one sister. | —Schuylkill county's grand jury last week as- | serted that prisoners at the jail were better fed | than residents at the almshouse, and recommend- | ed a change from the bread and molasses diet. ~Charles Hart, a young crippled lad residing at - | Dunlo, was walking near the edge of an open | sewer, when he slipped and fell in. He was car- | ried 100 feet under the P. R. R. tracks, before he was rescued. ~The large clothing store of Abe Bader, at Du- | Bois, was gutted by fire a few nights ago, entail { | ing a loss of $9,000, Mr. Bader and family were | ata christening and had left the store all right {only a few hours before the fire was discov- i { —Windber borough is defendant in a suit in the | Somerset county court as an outcome of { the 1911 Fourth of July celebration. Mrs. Regina | Cerwinski wants $20,000 because of the death of i her daughter, Miss Martha, who was killed when | a bomb exploded. { —Mrs. Harry Deiffenderfer, of Lewisburg, was | taken home from the Danville State hospital re- cently, anparently cured. Next morning in a fit | of insanity, she saturated her clothing with oil | and set fire to it. Before her screams brought | aid she was fatally burned. | —Safe blowers, thought to be the same that rob- | bed the postoffice at Penfield last week, blew up | the safe at the Big Run office early Sunday mom- ing. The postmaster had taken stamps and cash home, leaving the safe unlocked, but the looters hadn't investigated that far. —Miss Ida Waltz is in a critical condition in the Spangler hospital and W. H. Wahan is badly cut and bruised as the result of a runaway acci- dent near Hastings. The two were out driving and had stopped at a spring to get a drink. Mr. Wahan was dragged and Miss Waltz thrown from the buggy. Koons, aged 99 years and 2 months, died at his home at 1032 Washington street, Williamsport, Monday afternoon at four o'clock. He was the oldest resident of Williamsport and of the coun- ty. Ifhe had lived until April 23, 1913, he would have reached the century mark. Stricken suddenly with apoplexy, Robert S. Murphy, who was Lieutenant Governor of Penn- sylvania from 1907 to 1911, and who was noted as a lawyer and orator, died at six o'clock Monday night, at his home, No. 6357 Sherwood road, Over- brook. He had been only slightly ill for a few days, and wes able to go to his office regularly. —Fred Tyson, aged 20 years, rowed across the Susquehanna river from Watsontown to White Deer a few evenings ago to visit his sweetheart. When he was ready to start home his boat had drifted away and he decided to swim across. He was evidently seized with cramp and drowned. The finding of his clothes on the bank next day led to the finding of his body not far from shore. ~The death of fish in the river above Williams- port is blamed on chemicals used at a paper mill on Bald Eagle creek, just above Lock Haven. A chemical factory near Austin, that pollutes Sinna mahoning creek, gets its share of the blame also. Boys who bathe in the river are afflicted with sores, and people have been warned not to eat any of the fish that survived the poison, to be -cacghiby Sehermen, woo ou Lack of water at the converting plant at Sun- bury last week compelled the drenching of a con- siderable quantity of silk in the river. A passen- ger on an incoming train, seeing the men at work, sent two officers to the scene to arrest them for seining fish. They went with visions of a big reward and frightened the workmen. The affair wound up with hearty appreciation of the joke on the part of all concerned. —Rural carrier Morton C. DeHaas, of Beech Creek, while delivering mail in the vicinity of the church at Laurel Run the other day at noon, came within forty feet of a beautiful deer grazing along the roadside. The animal did not appear to take any particular fright at the approach of his horse and moved off very unconcernedly. This makes half a dozen deer Carrier DeHaas has seen along his route since the first of the year. —James F. Marsteller, for a number of years general manager of the Webster Coal and Coke company and the Pennsvivania Coal and Coke company, has been appointed vice-president and general manager of the properties of the Rock: hill Iron and Coal company with office at Rob- ertsdale, effective June Ist. W. H. Loomis hav- ing resigned as president owing to iii health, TRE eed in the river some thirty feet below. All were more or less injured, but none seriously. —Pure Food Commissioner James Foust, of Al, toona, and Dr. William Frear, State chemist, of State college, are planning an elaborate trip through the west, the objective point of which is Seattle, where the National Pure Food conven- tion will be held. The trip will bemade over the the | Canadian Pacific, one of the most scenic routes in the world. The journey down the Puget sound will be made by boat. Returning, the pair will take the southern route, stopping off at a number of points of interest. —S. D. Huss, a well known brakeman on the Tyrone & Clearfield division, P. R. R., and who man, Having strayed from its mountain lair in search of prey, it was chased from a num- ber of poultry yards until it took refuge on the school building. When shot it dropped down the air chamber to the basement. Master Donald Hauck crawled through the air chamber and cap- tured the prize. Old residents say that it is the first eagle shot in that immediate vicinity for over fifty years. =A goat farm has been started by G. W. Greer, g # | | I —After an illness of a month's duration, George
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