BY P. GRAY MEEK. INK SLINGS. —Neither TAFT nor ROOSEVELT will shout much about the “full dinner pail” next fall. —ROOSEVELT seems to be willing to stand for any kind of a Bull Mcose but a black one. —Anyway we don’t expect to make the trip, but if we do have to go up Salt riv- er in November we'll make WOOD-ROW. —The Chinese have taken to aviation and a great boom in the undertaking bus- iness has already begun all over that country. —THEODORE ROOSEVELT and Governor HiraM JounsoN, of California, are the Bull Moose nominees for President and Vice President. ~—Anyway Governor WILSON was not taken by surprise when they notified him at Sea Girt, on Wednesday, that he is the Democratic nominee for President. —When Mrs. GRACE positively denied having attempted to shoot her husband what could that Atlanta jury, being made up of southern gentlemen, do but believe her. —Now that the Colonel has taken to the stump again the enterprising type founder will understand the necessity of enlarging the proportion of cap I's ina font of type. —Judging by the way they look Mr. ROOSEVELT'S efforts to reform Republicans are just about as acceptable to most of the leaders of that party as a fresh boil is to a man's nose, —With conditions among the trusts and in the Republican party as they now exist, it has really become a question as to which the creature or the created will have to “go” first. —No, brother workingman, don’t get that into your head. The number of Bull Moose we may find will neither in- crease the amount of meat in this coun- try nor lessen the price of venison. —There is only one bachelor in coun- cil so that doesn't just exactly explain why the women get all they ask for whenever they appear before that body in sufficient numbers to look threaten- ing. —An exchange remarks that “some- thing or other has knocked smithereens out of the dinner pail as a Republican campaign emblem.” Wonder if it ain't the price it costs the working man to fill it. JOHNSING that he has of Jo AT ed from the rirg might make Senator LORIMER look up a little. The latter had courage enough to stay in the game until he was knocked out. —We haven't heard it confirmed but there is a rumor abroad that on October 15th next every Bull Moose in Centre county is to receive a five dollar bill, a Moose-tooth watch charm and a kick in the tail with a frozen boot. —And now we know why it is that those lucky people who are able to hold Steel trust stock always keep their bar- rels so tightly bunged up. The STANLEY investigating committee has just report- ed that 700,000,000 of that stock is water. —Former Governor PENNYPACKER was in town on Friday, sitting with the State Railway Commission, of which he is a member. He said nothing of the Palace of Graft nor did he wear boots. Surely time works wonders in some peo- ple. —What this part of the country is now anxiously looking for is a horticultural- ist BURBANK, who can breed blackberries with less than 80 per cent. of seeds. We await the progressive platform for a promise that this needed reform will be insured. —If GAMBLE, GHEEN & Co. own Spring creek so completely that they can take all of the water out of it in dry weather and decline tc take any at a flood time the borough should present them a bill for walling the stream and putting down pavements that cost, in all, about $5,000. —The Literary Digest suggests that we vote for TAFT, pray for ROOSEVELT and bet on WiLsoN. The suggestion isa good one in every respect except voting for TAFT. In the first place, only a gambler would bet against the way he votes. In the second, WILSON is the man the coun- try wants and he is the man to vote for as well as bet on. —When SoLoMmON declared there was “nothing new under the sun” he possibly was having a prophetic view of the same old wool the Republicans have used so many years to pull over the eyes of the people whenever the tariff question is to the front. On this matter, at least, Mr. SoLOMON seems to have known what he was talking about. —BiLL FLINN or JiMMY GARFIELD tele- phoned to Dr. LOCKE, a day or so ago, giving him instructions as to what to do with Centre county, in the matter of herding Bull Moose and the Doctor is as busy as a bob-tailed bull in fly time. He is going 10 take the puttees off THEODORE | has Davis Boal, put boots on him and run him for Congress. He is looking for a Moose calf to put in the legislative race, but his principal concern is to finda couple of cow Moose that will stand for a good milking every time the funds get i Ao ES SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. —Indiana board of trade is looking after a pro- posed silk mill that would employ 200 girls. county and 105 failed to pass the required ex- aminations. —W. P.Roberts, aged 84, a Sunbury undertaker now retired from business, buried 7,400 bodies during his active work at his occupation. He is the oldest man in Sunbury. —John Rider and Albert Clark, of DuBois, jumped off a freight train directly in front of the Clearfield STATE RIGHTS AN D FEDERAL UNION. accomodation at that place. Rider is dead and Clark badly injured. VOL. 57. Facts that Will Surprise Some People. | The fact that Col. JAMES M. GUFFEY was a contributor to the BRYAN cam- paign fund in 1908 to the extent of $5,000 was given the public in a telegram from Washington, in the daily papers of Tues- day iast. That this subscription was made at all, and particularly that it was made after Mr. BRYAN'S efforts, at Den- ver, to steam roller him out of the party, will no doubt surprise many who under- stand the conditions and feelings that ex- isted in the party in the State at that time. But surprise or no surprise, the fact that Col. GUFFEY gave this amount of money to the National committee, in addition to the many thousands of dollars he put in- to the campaign in this State for the ben- efit of Democratic Congressional, Legis- lative and local candidates, ought to be pretty good evidence that there is con- siderable Democracy in his make up, not- withstanding the unfair and untruthful allegations of those who sought his place in the party management, and who now look upon themselves as the leaders and bosses of the Democracy of the State. The further fact, as testified to by chairman MACK, that Mr. BRYAN request- ed and induced the National committee to refuse to accept Col. GUFFEY'S contri- bution during the prosecution of the campaign, and after it closed was willing that it should be used to pay debts in- curred in his own interest is also pretty good evidence that Mr. BRYAN is not so bitterly hostile to receiving donations from sources he denounces as dangerous to the Democracy, as he would have the public believe. The still further fact, that after Col. GUFFEY had been subjected to the gross outrage perpetrated upon him through Mr. Bryan's influence at Denver, and again insulted and humiliated by the re- fusal of the National committee, (at Mr. BRYAN'S request) to accept his contribu- tion, he should still permit the $5,000 to be used to pay Mr. BRYAN’'S bills because these were incurred in the name and for the success of CA the Democratic party, is without question an exhibition of devo- tion to the cause of Democracy that no other man in the State can point to, and that should bring the blush of shame to the cheek of every man who has ever doubted Col. GuFFEY'S Democracy, or given aid and encouragement to the lot of miserable political scavengers whose work for years back has been to denounce the party organization because of his connection with it, and to vilify and tra- duce him as a Democrat. After considering these facts, as fur- nished by the Senate investigating com- mittee, we should think that there are many decent Democrats in the State, who, because of false impressions they had gained from false statements that had been made them, joined in the work of defaming Col. GUFFEY, as a Democrat, will feel like going out behind the barn and giving themselves a good kicking. Why Perkins Supports Roosevelt. In his speech in the Bull Moose con- vention on Monday Senator BEVERIDGE revealed the cause which influences GEORGE W. PERKINS, of the Harvester trust, to support ROOSEVELT. The former Senator informs the public that the ROOSEVELT party is a protest against the SHERMAN law. Under that law he says “no two business men can arrange their mutual affairs and be sure that they are not lawbreakers.” What he should have said is that “as the SHERMAN law now stands no two business men controlling rival corporations can arrange the mutual interests of the corporations they control and be sure that they are not law- breakers.” If he had said that he would have been telling the truth. Mr. PERKINS is the head of the Har- vester trust and was a member of the board of directors of the Steel trust until some time after the expiration of Mr. ROOSEVELT'S term as President. In his relation to these two corporations he ar- ranged a working agreement between them under which both were able to rob the public mercilessly. So long as Mr, ROOSEVELT remained in power the gov- ernment refrained from interfering with this public pillage. The result was the multiplication of Mr. PERKINS' vast wealth and the robbery of the consumers of the products of both the Steel trust if 28 i REE low. i *8 BELLEFONTE, PA. Republican Lies Refuted. “Whom the Gods would destroy they first make mad,” is proverbial and the ad- age has never had clearer vindication than in the political campaign now in progress. We have already referred to the absurd perversions of Wooprow WILSON'S ex- pressions upon the subject of immigra- tion. Having said, as all thoughtful men of affairs have said, that criminals of Europe are a menace to the tranquility as well as the prosperity of the American people, when they come to this country, some mendacious speakers and writers have asserted that Dr. WILSON is oppos- ed to immigration entirely. Nothing could be wider of the mark. He holds in the highest esteem naturalized Ameri- can citizens who have entered into the American spirit of progress. The other day Representative Roden- berg, of Illinois,rehashed these shop-worn slanders upon the floor of the House of Representatives in Washington. He de- clared that Mr. WiLsoN had said or writ- ten, somewhere or some time, a state- ment to the effect that Italian immigrants are undesirable, and more to be reprobat- ed than Chinamen. Of course Mr. RODEN- BERG didn't undertake to say when or where such sentiments were uttered by Dr. WiLsoN. That would be a give-away which could be refuted promptly and effectively. He simply generalized for the purpose of getting the charges into the Congressional Record so that it can be distributed under a Congressional frank, notwithstanding its falsity. This gave Representative HENRY, of Texas, an opportunity to refute every charge made by WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST before the nomination of WooD- ROW WILSON and by Mr. RODENBERG and others since. Mr. Henry is one of the most eloquent and ready debaters and he gave the slanders such a castigation as has seldom been heard in either branch of Congres. Mr. HENRY showed that Mr. WILSON is cordially in favor of encourag- ing worthy immigrants who will partici- pate in the development of our resources President TAPT's speech of acceptance reveals the signs of great care and much labor in its preparation. It is a hopeless attempt to justify an administration that has been long since repudiated by the people and to excuse the nomination of a man who couldn't have had the ghost of a chance against any other antagenist than RoosSEVELT. Nobody in or out of the convention which nominated him wanted TAFT to carry the convention primarily. But when it became a ques- tion of TAFT or ROOSEVELT, TAFT was preferred by a majority of the delegates as the lesser of two evils,and men reluct- antly voted for him because the alterna- tive was so forbidding. In his speech of acceptance TAFT prob- ably made out as good a case as any one else could with the materials he had to work. He cites every meritorious act of his three and a half years in the office and glosses over the follies which made him the most unpopular President of re- cent years and probably of all time. His love of leisure and abandonment to the pursuit of personal pleasure appears to have been forgotten while he was fixing his phrases together and in arrogating to himself the achievements of Congress, or rather the Democratic majority of the House, he deliberately and wantonly in- sults the intelligence of the people. All the virtues he extols were fruits of Dem- ocratic effort for improvement and re- form. The principal weakness of Mr. TAFT’S effort, however, lies in the preposterous attempt to arraign Wooprow WILSON as a Socialist of ROOSEVELT type. Every student of public affairs and every ob- server of public men will condemn him as a traducer on that account and while he will not gain a single vote because of it, the chances are that he will lose thous- SON is neither a demagogue nor an agi- tator. He is for progress along constitu- tional lines but not a destroyer of con- stitutional forms and when Mr. TAFT and assimilate the principles and poli. { undertook to misrepresent him in this cies of the country. Of course Mr. Ro- DENBERG knew that the language he was quoting was both forged and false but he imagined it would “be a good enough MORGAN until after the election,” and he uttered it as if he believed it to be true. But Mr. HENRY gives the facts and proves the falsehood and Governor WILSON will be vastly benefited when the people read the speech and they will all get a chance to do so. —]it is a safe bet that the ROOSEVELT party in the South will be a white man’s party and it is equally certain that it will be a very small one. Taft Insults Public Intelligence. After a pretty general expression of popular disgust with President TAPT's exhibition of bad manners and bad lan- guage during his primary fight with ROOSEVELT, we hoped that he would re- frain from demagoguery and blackguard- ism and try to recover the dignity which belongs to the great office he occupies. There was some excuss for his appear- ance on the stump and exchanging epi- thets with ROOSEVELT for Bull Moose had provoked him strongly. But there is no conceivable excuse for his last exhibition of folly, of a different type, of course, but quite as reprehensible. In his speech of acceptance he indulged in a line of talk that would have been discreditable to a ward politician. For example he said in substance that in the event of the election of WooDROW WiLsoN to succeed him in office there would ensue a period of industrial and commercial depression that would cause much suffering among the people. The tearing down of the tariff system, he intimated, would necessarily close up factories and check the current of com- merce to such an extent that universal poverty if not actual starvation would follow. Now if he knows anything he must understand that that was a false alarm given out to deceive the people. The election of Woobrow WILSON, even if it meant the tearing down of all cus- tom houses, could not possibly entail such a consequence in this land of plenty. A man’s politics makes little difference so far as patriotism is concerned and no man influenced by the love of country would inaugurate policies which neces- sarily meant disaster to his country. Any man elected to the office of Presi- dent, unless obscessed with an ambition for empire, would sue his best endeavors to make for the happiness and prosperity of the people and the desire to save the tax payers from three to five hundred millions a year is not a sign of an incli- nation to ruin. Wooprow WiLsoN will be as safe and a much more vigilant guardian of the public interests than the pleasure-loving TAFT and his speech on that subject was an insult to public intel- ligence. | respect he invited the popular contempt he is likely to receive at the hands of fair-minded men. ~The wool tariff bill which is now up to the President is precisely the same measure he vetoed during the special session and everybody is wondering what he will do with it this time. In any event, however, the wool growers and i the woolen manufacturers have been able to cut several juicy melons out of the graft in the interval. Tatt in an Embarrasing Position. iff bills which have been considered dur- ing the present session of Congress will be sent to the President for approval be- fore the final adjournment. The steel bill was finished on Saturday of last week and the others will be disposed of within a few days. It was necessary to make some concessions to the stand-patters to achieve this result, but it was worth while. Every day that the PAYNE-AL- DRICH schedules continue costs the peo- ple well onto a million dollars and the Democratic managers are anxious to lighten this burden. If they succeed the beginning of the end of exorbitant prices for the necessaries of life will be in view. At first the progressive Republicans in the Senate were inclined to vote with the regular Republicans to prevent tariff leg- islation. As the two wings of the party are in the majority in the Senate when they flap together, the chances of effec- tive tariff reform were ‘dubious. But re- cently the progressives have changed their policies with respect to the matter turned the tide. If this course is pursued upon all the tariff bills, and at present that seems more than probable, all the bills will be passed and the excellent rec- ord of the present session will be vastly improved. It is already a session of achievement. Of course there is a reason for this change of front upon the part of the in- surgent Republicans and it is not altogether a matter of patriotism. Put. ting the bills up to the President will put him in an embarrassing situation. If he vetoes them the people will be incensed and if he signs them the beneficiaries of excessive taxes will be indignant and the chances are that the golden flow of cam- paign funds will be stopped. Even a few months of the tariff graft will be worth a great deal to the interests and TAFT is under agreement to prolong the present law as long as possible. But he will hardly dare to act in the open against the people even for the price the interests will pay. ~The ROOSEVELT party has adopted the moo of the Bull Moose as its shibbo- leth but like the Bull Moose it will be very quiet after the election. ands, as he ought to. Wooprow WiL- | they It is practically certain that all the tar- Mr. NO. 81. Watson Gets Reward. From the Johnstown Democrat. It now appears that the American peo- , must pay for the services which James E. Watson, of uring the primary campaign. Mr. Watson work- ed strenuously for Taft delegates and, Republican ple, irrespective of Indiana, rendered President Taft d with a proxy on the national committee, his vote was always cast for the Taft contestants. He co-operated with the crafty tools of the predatory conduct the most atrocious acts of the committee in the seating of Taft delegates. Now he is to reward. Not from Mr. Taft, whom he befriended, but from the Amer- ican people, whom he betrayed. Now Watson is president of the Arizona Land and Irrigation company, May 9, 1912, the interests, in the parliamen of the convention and defi receive his commissioner of the general land office issued a patent for 15,040 acres of govern- ment land to the Sante Fe Railroad com- pany, which immediately transferred it to Mr. Watson's company. The of the land office 1911, the Sante Fe made application under the act of 1904 to exchange 52,040 acres on the Moqui Indian reservation in Arizona for 52,032 acres near Prescott, Arizona. The law ailows a land nt railroad to exchange land given it by the govern- ment for other government land, provid- ed, of course, it is of equa value. Gov- ernment experts were directed to make an examination of the lands in question to determine their value. They found that the tracts were not contiguous and that the government lands were far more valuable than the railroad lands. Now that the matter has come to light, Mr. Taft may have to find another way of rewarding this crafty land grabber for his arduous political services. A Straddle That May Split. From the Philadelphia Ledger. records ow that April 14, —The colored man arrested at Latrobe after the finding of a case of valuable jewelry under a railroad tie disclaims any knowledge of it. Police- man Stahl has the jewels on his hands. —Constable Arthur Woods, of Franklin bor- ough, is suffering from stab wounds inflicted by one of a bunch he was trying to arrest. Ten of the number are locked up, including the one who drew the knife. ~—J. P. Williams, manager of the Hooven Mer- cantile company of Wilkes-Barre, died of heart failure while leading the singing at the Kingston Presbyterian church Sunday morning. He was born in Schuylkill county fifty-two years ago. —Social clubs at Rhairsville have been notified toclose their bars, It is stated that a testof the law will be necessary to settle the matter. Blairs- ville is “dry” and the clubs claim that their char- ters give them the right to sell liquor at their pleasure. —Elijah Only, aged 98 years, died recently at Philipsburg. The Journal pays high tribute to his christian character. He was a slave in the days before the Civil war and during its progress was servant to Col. E. A. Irvin, of the famous Bucktail regiment. —Adolph Strohl, who boarded with Mrs. Annie Walls, of Renovo, was arrested at Scranton on a warrant issued on her information, charging him with stealing from her Bible a $1,000 certificate of valuable stock and forging thereon a transfer to himself. He gave bail for court. —Eight.year-old Lyman Ambrose, of Hunt- ingdon, found a revolver in his brother's pocket and was cocking it when it was discharged, per- forating his intestines and lodging in his back. His recovery is doubtful. The mother didn't know there was a revolver about. —Somerset and Cambria counties are greatly stirred up over smallpox situation at Holsopple. Twenty cases have been found there. Tohnstown authorities are urging all who were at the picnic or theatre at Luna park, attended by one of the victims, to be vaccinated at once. ~Mrs. Harry Chency and J. L. Harmon, of Huntingdon, were among the refugees driven from Pearson, Mexico, by the rebels to El Paso, Texas. Their host at Pearson, E. E. Eck, former- ly of Huntingdon, had been called across the border and was awaiting them at El Paso. —Engineer F. H. Kemp, rounding a Potter county curve near Rexville, saw a little child on Those Pennsylvania who | the track ahead. Knowing he could not stop in have displayed a will to become | time to avoid striking the child, he quickly ap- candidates of the * Moose” in | plied the emergency brakes, climbed out on the Pennsylvania and at the same time de- pilot and picked the little one from the track, un- sire to cling to the substance as well as the name of R publicanism are going to find the straddling process difficult. t do not altogether know whither their attempt is leading them may be in- rcumstance that none of the Pennsylvania members of the owing question g edvanday ySSbmiued by the Public Ledger as deigneq, make ferred from the ci House to whom the foll was on W specifically deno immoralities. Bull Moose Defines Himself. From the Schenectady Union-Star. nel and still manifests Oyster Ba y. Since the christening of the Bull Moose patty Dr. Long has been delving in the writings of the Colonel, and in the “Wil- Theodore derness Hunter,” written by Roosevelt, the good doctor found that the Colonel had written thus concerning the bull moose: The bull moose lives on the public domain : : ol His flesh tion. ‘moreover, is coarse and Re Tie tre ly showsa clumsy slowness of apprehension which amounts to downright stupidity. The Colonel must have forgotten his description of the bull moose when he told his admirers in Chicago that he felt like one and thus won the title for his aid by icing with the Deotiats tale | oe aus ac Ia Griest, Lafean et al, that they will be willing to stand at one and the same time on the platform of the and on another ng that party as hopelessly and irretrievably corrupt,their action will be one of the most curious of this year’s already large crop of political The Rev. Dr. William J. Long, whom . Roosevelt once sought to obliterate with the observation that he was “a na- ture faker,” has not forgotten the Colo- deep concern in the course and conduct of the man from hurt. —Simon Baird, of Punxsutawney, is hunting his wife, who was missing a few days ago when he went home from work. He was married not long ago at Hazen and his wife is said to be only 14. She was married without her parent's con- sent and they took her home. Her husband started after her. —Ezra Miller and wife, of Sunbury, went out ran wireclothes line, cut a gash in his face and fell unconscious. His wife tripped over the garden hose and fell on the brick walk. The boys left and neighbors called the doctor. ~—Buried beneath bags of wheat and run over by a heavily laden farm wagon bearing a ton or more of the grain, Chaunce Conradi, aged 10, a son of Mrs. Mary Conradi, a nurse at the Koser the Koser hospital two hours after the accident. —Former Congressman Charles F. Barclay, of Sinnamahoning, submitted to a surgical opera- tion of a quite serious character last week, and his friends will be much interested in learning that he has since been getting along favorably, so far. Captain Barclay received the surgical at- tention at the Garfield hospital, Washington, oC —Walter Foster, of Huntingdon, was seriously injured at the Atlantic radiator works. His cuff was minus a button and his sleeve caught on the shaft. He was whirled around until all his cloth- ing was torn off, then dropped on the emery wheel. Other workmen didn’t know how to shut off the power. Mr. Foster has a chance for recovery. —Scarlet fever is afflicting grown folks in Johnstown. At the home of W. B. Jones, after the death of his 4-year-old son, a 15-year-old daughter, and the nurse, aged 26, and Mr. Jones himself were stricken. Another man is a patient at the municipal hospital. The thirteenth case of typhoid this year was reported to the board of health on Saturday. —]John H. Neil, whose life has been marked by misfortune for several years, culminating in the disappearance of his bride at Pittsburgh, some five weeks ago, died at his home at Derry on Fri- day. Death was the result of an overdose of a drug thought to have been taken with suicidal intent. He was known as the “Hard Luck" man, and had received much sympathy. —QOver 3,900 guns of all kinds, sorts, sizes and conditions taken from foreigners are stored in the State Game Commission's office waiting for purchasers. The State game wardens and State police have been very active this summer in ar- resting foreigners carrying guns, and the stock of weapons has been very largely increased. Very few of them are worth anything. —A thief who entered the home of R. N. Daniel of Coudersport, during the family’s absence, ate half a loaf of bread, a quart of berries, eighteen eggs and a can of corned beef. He helped him- self to Mr. Daniels’ clothing and suit case. § Cag ingon t Key- day that gentleman went to Galeton and met his stone eruption of 1910, are not enough outfit on the street. By 2 clever rite bie had the of that ilk for a fair fusion, and want man arrested and the county to buy a Mr. Cresswell wi and unre- | new suit. pentant Keystoner substituted! ~Col. Gibbons Gray Cornwell of the Sixth the Democratic fold all Fepenting but, to our mind, it would be if not absolutely consent, fo te record from the foundation of this Re. rty that has lived di repenting OE e an un party, w y and unjustly disrupted the Democracy Democratic party, which has a blic and is the only ng that long peri two years ago! bullet through his head. He was short in his only pA accounts over $100,000 it is alleged. Hard to Find in a Fashionable Church. | _The Pittsburgh Gasette-Times reports a sale bn of 1100 acres of the Pittsburgh vein of coal in From the Buffalo Enquirer. Greene county, Pa., by J. V. Thompson, the Where do you suppose the superintend- | yniontown banker, at $800 per acre. This coal ent of a Pennsylvania steel mill found a | jjeq just in front of coal owned by Dr. J. A. Mur- hundred men he needed? The answer is | ray of Patton, who it several years ago in a mission meeting in Philadel: | ¢,; $195 per acre and has sincebeen offered over phia’s Hell's Half-Acre. It would be hard | g300 per acre by the parties who sold it to him. to find a hundred men of any Sort in a | Tpe deal that has just been made will greatly fashionable church. However, the mis- | snnance the price of his coal and make his in- ~Don’t read an out-of-date paper. Get all the news in the WATCHMAN. —— di
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