—The next President of the United States will be Wooprow WILSON. —=There is plenty of room for every- | body on the WILSON band wagon. —Every day an aviator or more is add- ed to the roll of fatalities of the flying machine. —It should be a memorable campaign with WiLsoN and MARSHALL leading the masses against special privilege. —Most story tellers fail to laugh at the other fellow’s joke for fear the one they want to tell themselves slips out of mind. —During this hot weather when longer drinks are more refreshing it is surpris- ing the number of people who want WiL- SON, that’s all. —It is surprising what consolation the conservative Republican press takes out of the hope that WILsON'S nomination has left no ground for ROOSEVELT to further flaunt himself on. —After all the scandals that have been aired in the Atlantic City government _VOL. 57. Roosevelt a Pending Menace. Since the nomination of WOODROW WiLsoN at Baltimore public interest in the ROOSEVELT candidacy is perceptibly decreasing. President TAFT'S obvious unfitness for the office naturally turned the attention of a great many thoughtful voters toward a means of escape from four years more of his maladministra- tion. But the action of the Baltimore convention has completely diverted the current of their thoughts. The certain of WILSON rather than in dividing the tween WILSON and ROOSEVELT. There may still be some radicals who will per- and available remedy lies in the election | PELLEVONIE: BA Gloomy Outlook for Roosevelt. Interest in the new ROOSEVELT party seems to be abating rapidly. Here and there there is some stir among the ad- herents of the defeated war lord and sporadic attempts at organization have been made. But there is neither spon- taneity nor enthusiasm in the work. The question of expense obtrudes itself into every conference and gives the partic. ipants the shivers. Presidential cam- paigns are expensive and the average politician is unwilling to obligate himself. He is willing to spend other people's { votes of alleged progressive citizens be- | money with generous freedom. But with { his own good coin it is different. For | these reasons the tidal wave of ROOSE- i STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. The Keystone party State convention has wisely nominated WiLLIAM H. BERRY for State Treasurer and as he had previ- ously been nominated by the Democrats, his election is practically certain. The vote of the Democratic and Keystone parties in 1910 considerably exceeded that of the Republican candidate for Gov- ernor and there is no reason to believe that public sentiment has greatly chang- ed on that subject since. The relative strength of the Democratic and Keystone parties has changed, no doubt, and upon a division the Democratic vote would be vastly greater than that of the Keystone party now. But taken together the total ji ly boistown, against her husband's protest placed a ladder in a cherrytree a few daysago. Sheisin bed now, with both legs broken and numerous ~Isaac Fields, aged 52 vears, was bitten by a rattlesnake on Tussey mountain while picking raspberries. He killed the rattler, but didn't start to his home near Petersburg until his ankle be- gan to swell. : —Two years ago Ray Brenneman, near Hunt- ingdon, had a $30 gold watch stolen. Recently a carpenter, putting a new roof on the bam, fouad the watch tucked between the shingle lath ona rafter. It was ingood condition. —Two Flemington girls got a bath in Bald Eagle dam the other day. One of them had dropped her watch into the water and they went out in a canoe with a boy who was to dive for it. The boy dived and got the watch, but the boat upset and the girls were ducked. —Forty tons of egg coal and the front of the bin that held it pinned Joseph Bush and George Danley, of Williamsport, against the wagon they were loading and buried them Both were badly bruised and Bush has a broken leg, but every- body wondered that it wasn’t worse. —Herman Boozer, a 14-year-old DuBois lad, started west a few days ago to fight Indians and become a desperado. He appropriated $48 cash, a $500 check, two revolversand two knives, be- longing to his foster parents and went as far as the trolley station, where he was caught. ~Clarence Ulmer, a 14-year-old Williamsport boy, fell twenty feet down a rocky wall into the voters there have elected a majority sist in wasting their votes by voting for | VELTism is not flowing to any great ex- is practically the same. personality and the scholarly and able | Lycoming creek, when a dead limb of a tree to of Boss KEUHNLE'S men on the New| poosgyverr but they are “few and far be- | tent. In fact it is ebbing. The nomination of Mr. BERRY by the ind af the Naw Jersey execuive, and Which he was holding broke. He struck several board of commissioners which is to gOV- | yuaan » i A few days ago, according to New | Keystone convention is gratifying, more- t 2 new Swtie way and. Was greity: badly ern that city in the future. —TEDDY is determined to PALMER and BUCKNERize TAPT in the coming cam- paign. For that is all his candidacy can mean. He knows, full well, that Wi SON'S nomination leaves no sane ground for him to stand on as a candidate. —The American boys are cleaning up the events in the Olympic games at Stockholm, Sweden, in a way that con- vinces the world that the youngest of her sons can outpoint the oldest when it comes down to skill and endurance. —The manner in which Congress has been going after Judge ARCHBALD, of the Commerc court, is the surest and saf- est kind of a recall. If he is guilty he will be impeached and a mass of people who know nothing of the evidence in the case will not be asked to vote on the all of us just can’t lay our hands on it at WooDrRow WILSON represents all that is desirable in what has come to be known as “progressive politics.” He be- lieves in the system of government es- tablished by the fathers of the Republic. That system of government is what LIN- coLN had in mind when he spoke of “government of the people, for the peo- ple and by the people.” There was no thought of revolutionary changes in our methods of electing candidates or admin- istering the functions of government. The Populistic ideas known as the initia- tive, referendum and recall are the chil- dren of the discontent that has grown out of abuses of the system established by the founders of government. Gover- nor WILSON aims to correct the abuses rather than revolutionize the system. The constitution of the United States | York dispatches, the matter of money | for the ROOSEVELT movement was taken | up at a conference at Oyster Bay. The | Colonel is said to have expressed the | opinion that very little money will be re- | quired. But PERKINS, who financed the primary campaign and paid the conven- | tion bills, has a different notion on the | subject. It will take several million dol- | lars to get up an organization and get the voters to the polls he believes. The post- age bill for sending a single address to the voters, he declared, will amount to $200,000. Then the bills for advertising, hiring bands and halls and supplying the candidate with special trains to travel will run up immensely. Mr. PERKINS expressed a perfect will- ingness to contribute his share, itis true, but that wasn't altogether reassuring. By over, for the reason that it indicates a disposition on the part of the Keystone party voters to favor fusion with the Democrats on the entire ticket. In nomi- nating Mr. BERRY the Democrats held out an invitation for such a union of forces for Mr. BERRY has been more a | able Keystone partisan than a Democrat and was among those who urged the main- tenance of the Keystone party. But he received the unanimous vote of the Demo- cratic convention and his nomination was cry cordially endorsed by the Democratic voters of the State. That he will receive the full support of both elements at the November election is beyond question. It is to be hoped, however, that in the arrangement of the fusion Mr. Rosert | Wilson will E. CrReESSWELL will be retained on the ticket as the candidate for Auditor Gen- No party ever nominated a candidate used up, although not in danger of death. ~The baby fawn. cared for at Smith's farme Lamar, has been taken by E. C. Cass, who found it, to his home in Bradford county. He was ar. rested on the idea that he was removing it to New York State, but proved his destination and showed permission from the State Game Com- missioner, Kaibfus. —Jjudge G. H. Bell, of Lewistown, owns a watch more than 100 years old. It was the prop- erty of Rev. Jacob Gruber, a Methodist “circuit rider” who traveled extensively in the central and southern part of the State. Atthe preacher’s death it came into possession of Judge Bell's father. It still keeps accurate time. ~Two minutes before he would have quit his work as an electric lineman for the day, Newton Bingaman, aged 32 years, let his wrist come in contact with a wire carrying 2,300 volts. Another wire prevented his falling from the top of a pole and it had burned its way into the flesh before other linemen could lower his body to the ground. At a meeting of the directors of Williamsport : Dickinson . a is the charter of American liberty. So | preventing the criminal prosecution of feral. Mr. CREssWELL followed the Key- | the voters of the country. Diiates pijaaty. Jed. Sas igtogson ag long as its provisions are scrupulously | the officers of the Harvester trust Mr. | stone banner in the campaign of 1910and of Pennsylvania's sister Commonwealth | elected president of the seminary, to succeed —The weather bureau has been nn obeyed there is no danger of National | ROOSEVELT saved PERKINS from a prison |it is not asking much of the voters of yill proceed froth New Jersey, where he Bishop W. P. Eveland. Dr. Conner was until nouncing local showers for the past 9 disaster. It is sufficiently elastic to meet | sentence and taking that into considera- | that persuasion to support him now. But Bah one 50 Such tn SeURISIS last March She distr Suvatinendent of the days. They have been local too. all wholesome changes in conditions. It | tion his share would be a good deal. But | that is not the only or the greatest rea-| man as a state executive, to the larger Aloud digic: i riends hereabouts cal that in one hay field we know .c gives Congress ample power to restrain where is the rest to come from? MORGAN, | son why he should be retained on the | field at W where as the of | _. there was a perfect deluge of rain in one | = “ i a great nation he will not fail to give a |, 1 Dauphin county court, in an opinion . or regulate corporations and abolish mo- | GARY, FRICK and other “malefactors of | ticket. He is peculiarly well equipped i : handed down Monday by President Judge G half of it while there wasn't even enough | 0° HIS FOCI Bl th au. | great wealth,” owe something to RoOSE- | and adapted for the discharge of the | “RAG SCOMEOL IRAE, | Kunkel, dismissed the equity proceedings in water fell in the other half to stop the |, oo =" "0 ih criminals and abate | VELT and might be expected to volunteer | honorous duties of that office. An able |a Choice. They have offered not | "ich the court was asked to restrain Secretary work of hauling in hay. evils. Therefore it is not the system of | generous contributions. But they are al} | and keen lawyer, he would search the to the voters of their own but —Every human being in this country is | covernment that is at fault. The weak. “Practical men” and probably they don’t | records with such zeal and intelligence | to those of all + : just six cents richer than he or she Was | neg is in the men who have been chos. | feel like paying for past favors when the | that every crooked act of a generation their ae esidency " _ this time last year. Of money in circula- en to ad _the government. Dur- | chances for future returns are so re- be revealed. By all means the|and able man, tion there is now $34.26 per capita. Last |i; RooseveLT's administration these | mote. Taking it allin all the outlook is | Democracy should insist on having | end the rule and destructive policiessof A year there was only $34.20. Of course | ayils prospered more than in any other | gloomy. CRESSWELL to vote for. the Republican party. picnic and reunion of all the Smiths will take place at Jefferson park, near Punxsutawney. At | period of our National history. To re- | pr A gsm «+ | for President more free to enter the Presi- | on July 25th. Everybody whose name is Smith or present but that would be each one's | elect him would be inviting disaster. | ——Colonel ROOSEVELT was delighted | ——We can measure S45 price ot lie dency as the impartial representative of | is the husband of a woman whose name was share were there an equal divvy. ——" | with the disturbances in the Baltimore | ty by the contribution of Mr. GEORGE W. | the “whole people. Woodrow Wilson | formerly Smith, or who is in any way mixed up —The Prohibitionists held their State ——We might have had an harmonious | convention. All that was lacking to Panne to the ROOSEVELE Senprige youd have beet Suinated oh Je first by Blood relationship atom g wih ih the Jreat tribe ih 3 : ion if all the delegates had given | make it an ideal ROOSEVELT event was GeorGe will mply pa a more ng to is invited. is convention in Philadelphia, on Tuesday, | convention a : : deal in the usual political for to get acquainted and enjoy each others society and nominated a full ticket. Probably proxies to WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN but ' an unlimited amount of blackguardism | TEDDY at his own estimate of its value Ports Dut he ae To a fie oa fora Ory aad for tears wis, ar. Jtuintod $0 in that event it wouldn't have been suc- | and a good deal of profanity. cessful so far as results are concerned. Mr. BRYAN would have nominated him- | self on the first ballot and experience has | a demonstrated that almost anybody can | The proposition to withdraw both TAFT beat BRYAN. {and ROOSEVELT from the Presidential for a service that prevented a criminal prosecution with certainty of a sentence to follow. visit with each other and feast and make merry. ~The squirrels in Capitol park, Harrisburg,are a voracious lot. The State provides an abun- dance of nuts, kiddies throw bushels of edibles to them and Judge Hargest, provides pecans from Louisiana for them, but they are not satisfied with this abundance of food. They have taken we should have used the word ‘“com- plete” instead of “full” which really has no place in the Prohibition vocabulary. They hooted the suggestion that ROOSE- VELT be endorsed for President and re- solved to work for woman's suffrage. the representative of the whole people when he becomes their President. The Pennsylvania Delegation. From the Philadelphia Record. When an accurate estimation shall be Coafession of Weakness. Roosevelt Call Disappointing. The call for the ROOSEVELT convention Sess RE —The WATCHMAN was one of the first, if not the very first, newspaper in Penn- sylvania to express the opinion that Wooprow WILSON would be the strong- est nominee our party could name. He has been placed in the position of stand- ard bearer and every one who believes in placing a man who knows no boss in the presidential chair can enthusiastical- ly rally to his support. —When WILSON learned of his nomi- nation at Baltimore he was not jubilant or self conscious. He became serious and grave. The honor of the position did not mean half so much to him as the great responsibility the Democracy has placed upon him. The responsibility of leading a fight which means more to the common people of this country than any they have ever before been engaged in. —Could you imagine a happier, more glorious Fourth of July than was cele- brated in Bellefonte? The littie folks ran riot on the streets without a fire- cracker or a torpedo to endanger them and without a person to push them aside. It was their day from early morning ‘till night-fall and every moment was crowd- ed so full of hilarity for them that they will surely remember the happy occasion it commemorates. —Should ROOSEVELT finally determine to be a candidate for President thereis a possibility that the election of a Presi- dent in the usual way may be frustrated. There are 531 votes in the electoral col- lege and it requires a majority, or 266 of them, for a choice. While it is possible that with ROOSEVELT in the field neither WILSON nor TAFT could secure the re- quired number it is scarcely probable. If the contest should develop such a sit- uation then the choice would devolve on Congress where each State would have a vote and very much the same kind of a deadlock would occur. While all of this “is within the range of possibility it is not going to occur, for the reason that WiL- SON will need only 82 more votes than the unfailingly Democratic States will give him and if he can't get that many out of Maryland, West Virginia, Con- necticut, Delaware, New Jersey, Indiana and Illinois, which are all pivotal, then he will not be a serious factor in the con- Mr. Bryan’s Base Trick. There was no time between the an- nouncement of Wooprow WILSON'S can- didacy and the assembling of the Balti- more convention that there was any se- rious doubt of his nomination as the Democratic candidate for President. The only source of such doubt was injected into the proceedings of the convention by Mr. WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN, when he made his foolish fight against the se- lection of Judge PARKER for the tem- porary presidency of the convention. That distinction had been previously of- fered to himself by the same gentlemen who subsequently selected Mr. PARKER. He declined it, however, and later changed his mind for the obvious pur- pose of precipitating a row which might result in personal benefit to himself. There were two possibilities in such a disturbance of the harmony of the con- vention for advantage for Mr. BRYAN. The first was in the chance of stamped- ing the convention to himself after in- flaming the passions of delegates by cru- el and false aspersions upon others. This manifest hope of his avaricious heart was disappointed. Common sense had too firm a grip upon the convention. The second was that it would prolong the proceedings for several days and feed his cupidity by fees paid him by a syndicate for reports of the convention. This expectation was fulfilled for the completion of the work was delayed from Friday, June 28th, until Tuesday, July 2nd, and his fees amounted to nearly $800 a day, or a total of $3200, for the extra time. That Mr. BRYAN expected to stampede the convention scarcely admits of doubt. That his pretense for objecting to the election of Judge PARKER was false, is equally certain. If the National commit- tee had had a desire to deliver the con- vention over to the control of special in- terests, its leaders would not have ten- dered the office of temporary president to Mr. BRYAN. But in the face of this evidence to the contrary Mr. BRYAN in- jected the discordant note and maligned men in order to attract attention to him- self. It was as base a trick as was ever perpetrated and for as contemptible a test. purpose as was ever conceived. | contest is interesting only so far as it | serves as a barometer to indicate present | political conditions. Such a thing has | never happened and probably has never been thought of before. In 1860 when . Democratic fealty was divided between . STEPHEN A. DouGLAS and JOHN C, BRECK- i ENRIDGE a good many expedients were | suggested to avert the political disaster to the party which was clearly discerni- ble. But nobody thought of withdrawing both of them and substituting a candi- date who could command the support of both factions. It would have been an in- sult to either of them to suggest such a solution of the problem. But it is different in the present in- stance. There is no vital principle in- volved in the dispute. ROOSEVELT is ob- sessed with an inordinate ambition to run the government in his own absurd and unlawful way and TAFT wants tc be re-elected for the reason that it is an easy and lucrative employment and it has been customary to give a President a second term. He has no real feeling on the subject. He is absolutely without in- terest in the affairs of the government. He would rather play golf any day than wrestle with economic problems or wor- ry over governmental questions. The only grand passion that he feels is his determination that ROOSEVELT shall not become his successor. But there is significance in the propo- sition, nevertheless. Coming as it does : from the rational partisans on both sides ! it means that the TAFT leaders and | ROOSEVELT backers are alike convinced that neither can be elected and the “in- terests” want to prevent the election of the Democratic candidate, WOODROW WiLsoN. ROOSEVELT is simply the in- strument of GEORGE W. PERKINS and the Steel trust while TAFT is the servile tool of Wall street and the Bankers’ trust The election of WILSON spells disaster to both of these sinister and predatory in- terests and the humiliating proposition of withdrawing both candidates in order that another tool might be chosen is the result. —Anyway there wouldn't have been half as much effort made to get the Dem- ocratic nomination this year if there had been less certainty of election in Novem. ber. is a disappointment. It hasn't even the exhilerating influence of the cry of a bull moose. In other words it is tame and uninspiring. The public expected some- thing that would excite. It looked for sentences redolent with passion and pa- triotism. But instead of that Senator | Per DIXON has given us a lame and impotent collection of platitudes as destitute of ple and determined to support him force as they are barren of ideas. There is equal reason for disappoint- ment in the signers to the call. There is scarcely a man in the bunch who has distinguished himself in any public serv- ice. BiLL FLINN and E. A. VAN VALKEN- BURG represent Pennsylvania, for ex- ample. The men who have stood for re- form and fought the battles for good gov- ernment for years are conspicuously ab- | ing sent. And what have FLINN and VAN- VALKENBURG done for reform? Why should any right-minded man follow their leadership? Thera must be some potential reason for creating a new party. Like establish- ing a new government there must be some great reason for the movement. But in the call for this ROOSEVELT convention to be held in Chicago on August 5th there is nothing of this kind set forth. Every- body believes in “wholesome party gov- Senator PENROSE could beat DIXON to a frazzle in appealing for in- tegrity in office and patriotism in public life. But the dissatisfied people want ernment.” something else. If the ROOSEVELT party expects to ac- complish anything worth while it will have to depend upon something else than the call of Senator DixoN for the con- vention of August 5th. Possibly if ROOSE- VELT would ride into Chicago on a bull moose orif BiLL FLINN should dig llike a dago in a sewer trench, the people might be stirred up to something like enthusiasm. But the DixoN call will never achieve such a result. Itis altogether too vapid for that. ~——BiLL FLINN intends to go the limit with the ROOSEVELT party but if depend- ence is placed on FLINN the limit will not be a great length. ———————— , =——August 5th will probably be hot enough in Chicago without ROOSEVELT, but if he goes to his convention the lake will sizzle. Tr hina thick and thin, because they were convinced that his nomination would be the best attainable result for their y When the deadlock Susgest. ed u dark horse, and doubts of 's ultimate success, it was a strong com- fort to the staunch Wilson mien tp know Pittsburgh and the Experts, Po oa. Pittsburgh e of Pi ee EO PD ota director of that city spent in one 100,000 . g E “ s - HE if % 7 EE i y i g ; § i £ : i i : ii : i g f g : : fg ZH 8% iH bik Bt g g : : & ; : : i SH g LL From the Cleveland Leader. Before it is too late, Col. of Indianapolis, should be from. the hands of that pie baker. ~==Subscribe for the WATCHMAN, tothe buds on the trees. snapping off many branches in their quest. A handsome Carolina poplar planted by the late Governor Daniel H. Hastings is a special object of attack by the squirrels. —john A. Hoyt, an old fisherman, has made a journey of 125 miles from Clearfield to Williams- - port in a boat, fishing along the trip. He spent one night with Thomas Lingle, an old river pilot, seven miles below Curwensville, and one at Kar- thaus. At Pine he visited with an old pilot in the person of Robert Quiggle. Mr. Hoyt is 76 years old and in his river days ran from Lock Haven to Marietta. He will take a short rest and then ship his boat to Corning and come down the North Branch. —Because the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. de: clines to grant to Charles C. Krouse, president of the Williamsport Staple Co., a free interchange rate, when cars come in over the Reading or N. Y.C.and are switched onto the Pennsy siding, where the large building which the plant proposes to occupy is located, he says he may move the industry to another city, rather than pay $12 for every car switched from one of the other roads to the Pennsy tracks. The Staple company now oocupies three different buildings and it is the intention to combine the same into one central plant. —Rev. Stephen W. Pomeroy, a retired Presby- terian clergyman and who was for many years pastor of the Presbyterian churches at Mt. Eagle and Miil Hall, died at his home in Harrisburg last Saturday from a sudden attack of neuralgia of the heart. He was in his 76th year, was a vet- eran of the Civil war, served in several notable battles and did special service in carrying through the Confederate lines to Governor Cur- tin the news of the invasion of Chambersburg. Hemade the journey over the mountains on a horse and was repeatedly fired upon by southern sharpshooters. ~No more prosecutions against fraternal or- ganizations having sideboards in Pennsylvania will be instituted until after July 16 by the States hotel associatian, according to Colonel Thomas C. Leslie, of Philadelphia, secretary-treasurer of the body. However the let-up is only temporary all hinging upon what decision the Superior court hands down in the prosecution brought against the Franklin Eagles. Judge Criswell, of Venango county, rendered a decision adverse to the Eagles several months ago, from which an appeal was taken, and it is expected that the finding of the Superior court will be made public Tuly 16. ~Mike Francisko, a Slavish squatter who was shot in the right breast Tuesday forencon during a fusilade with Sheriff E. H. Woolridge and posse near the Morrisdale Coal Co's No. 3 shaft, and removed to the Cottage hospital, Philipsburg, that evening about 6 o'clock, died from his wound in a little less than four hours after. Francisko, who was aged about 52 years, is married and has a family, He had lived on the piece of ground, belonging to the Pardee and Ashman estate and on which he was a “squatter,” for probably twenty years or more, and had resisted all at. tempts to evict him, hence the attempt to force him off. The coroner's jury exonerated the sher- iff and posse.
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