IER Demonic ata BY P. GRAY MEEK. INK SLINGS. —Money may talk, but we have never known it to have time to say more than “good-bye.” —With eight millions of the Steel trust’s stock nothing but water, it is not sur- prising that so many people have been soaked with it. —When Mr. TAFT is not busy writing | = other vetoes he keeps his hand in by doing something to complete the veto of his own re-election. —The loafer who talks about the “world owing him a living” is usually the fellow who is too lazy to go out and collect what is coming to him. —With Dr. Cook still living, Mr. ROOSEVELT seems determined to know for himself just how a fellow feels when the business of foolin’ the people is all over. ——Democrats ought to be active now getting voters registered and otherwise qualified for voting. Like Christmas shop- ping this sort of work is easier if attend- ed to early. —A Philadelphia paper [says: The mayor of Boston believes in boy-cotting “every kind of food on which the price is raised.” Does he think we could live on nothing? —Some one has just discovered that the wind don’t blow as much as it did twenty years ago. But then we didn't have Bull Mooses to use so much of it, and there was more left for the rest of us, —The consolation some people try to give us in the fact that if we don't have all we want here, we will get all that is coming to us in the hereafter, is just what most of us have reason to worry about. —Whenever HARRY THAW gets hold of a daily paper and reads the promises and predictions the Bull Moose herd are mak- ing he wonders why the asylumns are not fuller or he is not out among the other lunatics. —Anyway the Republican party has prospects of distinguished company in its break-up and final disappearance. There's the Turkish Empire and the Republic of Mexico both about as near the political grave yard as it is. —As a squealer catcher the district attorney of New York seems to be a bloomin' success. As a discoverer of criminals he rates as Bellefonte does in the race for business—has a cinch on the rear place and is content to hold that. ~It now looks asif the “out-of-employ- ment class” in Germany would all be able to get plenty to do for a long time to come. That country has undertaken to keep a record of the drunkards in each and all of the towns and cities under its control. —Ebensburg people put in last week entertaining the fireman's convention and studying the different methods of ex- tinguishing fires. And we know of no place where the matter of extinguishing fires, both for the present and future, has greater need for careful study. —A peculiarly strange and plaintive cry has been heard, the past few nights down in the vicinity of Howard and which has greatly aroused the sympathy and curiosity of the good people of that locality. We wouldn't wonder a bit, if eventually they discover it to be the call of a lonesome Bull Moose out, trying to find some company. —It is said that Col. ROOSEVELT always gets five duplicates made of one of the keys on his type writer, and that these are all smashed before the others show perceptible wear. Now, we will bet all the “tainted” money, any subscriber will pay in to this office, that any reader of the WATCHMAN can guess on first trial what letter that key carries. —The Harrisburg Patriot gives us the highly important information that “all envelopes going out from Democratic headquarters in that city will be printed in red ink.” This ought to prove beyond question that the campaign is being push- ed with the greatest vigor and furnish all the evidence needed of our readiness for the fight to begin at once. Let ‘er come. —Secretary KNOX, with a retinue of minor officials, and a small army of political hangers-on, it is announced, will attend the Mikado’s funeral at Tokyo in September at the government's expense. The return to be about November 4th, How lucky the return! Just in time to attend a like ceremony over the remains of his own party and with his “hand in” and his features set for such occasions. —Considerable dissatisfaction and great disappointment in various parts of the State are reported as manifesting themselves among Democrats in conse: quence of the failure of the organization to have the county committees announced and ready for the work of the campaign. But then these dissatisfied and disap- re-organizers, who for years have suffered with the political hook worm, traces of which are still in the blood of most of them. Be to be troubled with that and Representative in the Legislature are justly indignant because Boss BILL FLINN has imposed upon them conditions which may prove embarrassing. Boss FLINN proposes to require each of them to sign a pledge that he will not, under any cir- cumstances, vote for the re-election of Senator PENROSE. Under a strict con- struction of the corrupt practices act the signing of such a pledge would be unlaw- ful. Naturally Mr. PENROSE's friends among the candidates object to signing on that account. They are purists in the matter of political morals. They don't mind stuffing ballot boxes or falsifying returns, but they are unalterably opposed to signing pledges. At a conference held in Atlantic City last Sunday evening, this fact was devel- oped. City chairman DAVID H. LANE was particularly outraged by such an immoral proposition. In the heyday of machine dominance Mr. LANE may have enter- tained different views on the subject. We recall that on one occasion he declared that every official would “lose his job” unless he voted five times or produced five votes for the ticket. But things are different now and such a proposition, under an opposition administration,would give him heart disease. With respect to the pledge he said “to threaten a man with defeat because he will not promise to oppose a particular candidate for the Senate is no different than to offer him money or other valuable things if he will promise to vote in favor of another man.” Obviously we have here “a DANIEL come to judgment.” Listen to his subtle but substantial reasoning. “The promise to vote against a certain man,” he con- tinues, "may be just as valuable as the promise to vote for him, and venal men, through venal candidates, could just as easily defeat the public and the voter's wishes by one method as the other. No candidate is worthy of support whose pledge is required on matters of public policy. He should be judged by his works, and if he is.not worthy of confidence and cannot be trusted to act for the best in- terests of the people, he should not be elected.” What an admirable political philosophy is expressed in these burning words. It is the oozing of the spirit of reform from a body charged with political righteousness and civic virtue. Seriously, however, Mr. LANE is right with respect to the matter, though he is both insincere and hypocritical in de- claring the truth. If the PENROSE fac- tion were in absolute control and in an impregnable position, DAVE LANE could see no harm in requiring candidates to sign apledge and give a bond that they would vote for PENROSE for Senator. But BILL FLINN is the boss and by virtue of that fact in position to lay down condi- tions and impose penalties for supporting PENROSE and DAVE LANE, a bad loser at best, files a protest. Of course it won't get him anything but it reveals the fact that FLINN is the same today that he was as the office boy of CHRIS MAGEE a dozen years ago. -—Colonel ROOSEVELT is proceeding with absolute confidence in the credulity of the American people. If he would say the moon is made out of green cheese his fool followers would believe him im- plicitly. Mr. Foster for the Belletonte Hospital. Our friend Mr. GEORGE W. GUTHRIE, will be short one Democratic vote, at least, when it comes to denying the local charities of the State the beggarly aid the State has heretofore been doling out to them. This he proposed doing by pledging in advance the Democratic nominee for Legislature, to vote for “ne appropriations for charitable purposes except for institutions purely under state control.” In this issue of the WATCH- MAN Mr. FOSTER, who will represent Cen- tre county in the next Legislature, tells our people very plainly and very explic- itly just what he will do in this’ mat- ter. And that he will help the Bellefonte hospital to the fullest extent of his ability. Mr. GUTHRIE can therefore scratch his name off the list of those members he hoped to be able to have oppose the lit- tle and deserving charities throughout the State in order that the bigger ones under state control—and mostly located in the larger cities—could demand a greater amount from the treasury. There is not a citizen of the county who will not endorse Mr. FOSTER'S posi- tion in this matter and there is not one who will approve of the effort of Mr. GUTHRIE, even if heis a re-organizer— to force these deserving charities to ac- cept “purely state control,” or be starved out of business. ——If the negroes fall in for Roose- easy friends. You don’t know what it is disease, VELT’S subterfuge they ought to be dis- franchised altogether. The PENROSE candidates for Senator STATE Cost of Living Will Come Down. Several years ago Senator ALDRICH, then Republican leader in the Senate declared in a public speech that by the application of business principles to the administration of the government $300,- 000,000 could be saved annually. That is to say the profligacy of Republican ad- ministration was costing the tax payers nearly a million dollars a day in excess of the requirements. ROOSEVELT re- mained in office two years after that statement was made but made no attempt to correct the fault. TAPT has been ap- plying some small economies and saving a few thousands here and there while adding millions elsewhere. In other words he has been saving at the spigot and wasting at the bung. But there is the promise of better things after the election of WoODROW WiLsoN. The Governor of New Jersey has already cut out every wastetul source of expense in the State government and is now making careful inquiry into the profligacy of the National administration with the view of economizing there. The other day he had a long conference with Representative SWAGLEY SHERLEY, of Kentucky, who has given the subject much study, with the view of getting the necessary information for practical work in the future. If ALDRICH could save $300,000,000 a year Wooprow WILSON will find the way to accomplish as much. Beyond question the tariff is the prin- cipal cause of the high cost of living. It is the mother of trusts and the oppor- tunity for extortion. But profligacy in public affairs is a good second in the matter. In the first place the money to meet the excessive expenses is taken from the earnings of the people and be- comes a part of their personal expenses, Secondly profligacy in public affairs in- duces extravagance in private life and extravagance is the excuse for high prices. With the saving of a million dollars a day in the expenses of the gov- ernment there will be a saving in every other element of living and in a very short time a normal, and therefore tol- erable, condition will be reached. ~~ ~The TAFT followers are growing impatient over the silence of PENROSE but that is no cause for alarm or com- plaint. The quieter PENROSE keeps the better for the TAFT interests and the less | opportunity the FLINN fellows will have to howl. PENROSE is no idiot whatever other faults he may have. Taft’s Tariff Vetoes. In vetoing the wool tariff bill President TAFT does his best to keep faith with the wool trust and “save his face” to the people. He vetoed the similar bill en- acted during the special session last year for the reason that the tariff board had not made its report. Since that the board has reported that the duties are vastly too high and he vetoes the measure the second time because the provisions are not in accord with the findings of the board and because the “rates are so low in themslves if enacted into law the in- evitable result would be irretrievable in- jury to the wool growing industry.” A more absurd statement has never been put into an argument before. It is universally admitted that the tariff tax on wool and woolens is inexcusably excessive. President TAPT has himself so stated and the wool growers and manufacturers of woolen fabrics admit it. The bill which has twice been vetoed doesn't, as Mr. TAPT says, cut duties to a level that would irretrievably injure the wool-growing industry or force “idleness upon the combing and spinning machinery” and the employees of the woolen mills. But it cuts down the rates to a figure which will not afford shelter to robbers or exact from the people trib- ute to bestow largesses upon the gen- erous contributors to the Republican campaign corruption fund. The passage of thebill will not impair the interests of labor or industry in the least. The truth is that President TAFT is under obligations to the Wool trust for a large proportion of the funds with which his election was bought and he imagines that by keeping faith with them it will be an easy matter to “fry the fat” this year. If the bill had been signed a year ago more than a hundred millions of dol- lars would have been saved to the con- sumers of wool who comprise the whole people. Besides that thousands of lives would have been saved, for the lack of woolen clothing is the principal cause of tubercular maladies in this country. But the Republican machine is pledged to the trust and TAFT has neither the conscience nor the courage to resist. ———Colonel ROOSEVELT hasn't claimed credit, thus far, for the decline in the price of straw hats and low-cut shoes, but it is only a recentincident, this year, and he will probably get in under the wire ahead of all others. RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. BELLEFONTE, PA., AUGUST 16, 1912. Roosevelt is Fooling the People. In his “confession of faith” Mr. ROOSE- VELT promises everything, possible and impossible of attainment. He agrees to do anything anybody wants and at the time he wants it. He pledges himself to abate every evil, to correct every fault and to promotz every virtue. He con- demns every man who disagrees with him and denounces every policy not in- corporated in his code. He inferentially declares that he is the only man in the country capable and honest enough to administer the office of President and that the election of any other man would be an abandonment of hope for the fu- ture. But he forgets. People have short memories but records do not soon fade. Among the things Mr. ROOSEVELT promises is a decrease in the cost of living. Almost from the moment that he was inducted into the office of Presi- dent the increase in the cost of living shelter for monopoly and his profligacy an excuse for extravagance. During the seven years of his incumbency of the office the aggregate expenses were great- preceding that national misfortune, though the period covered the expenses of the Spanish-American war. These records of the government, which are accessible to any citizen who cares to make the inquiry. Mr. ROOSEVELT pays scant respect to the intelligence of the people in thus promising things now which he failed to even attempt during his previous occu- pancy of the office. Men do not change long established habits without reason and if ROOSEVELT had changed GEORGE W. PERKINS, Judge GARY and HENRY C. FRrICK would not be spending vast sums to secure his election. They are not sen- timentalists. They make no investments unless there is a practical certainty of ‘profit, and in financing ROOSEVELT’S cam- paign they know that he will not do what he promises to the public but that he will do what he has already agreed to {Sapbem. In other words ROOSEVELT is fooling the people. ~—0f course there will be a big Demo- cratic vote this year for the conditions are all favorable. Our candidate is all that could be desired, our party is united and hopeful and our enemy is demoralized and divided. But Mr. BRYAN polled a considerable vote in Pennsylvania four years ago, though GEORGE W. GUTHRIE, VANCE C. McCorMICK and a few other present day party leaders were against him. Wilson's Speech of Acceptance. Governor WILSON'S speech of accept ance reads like a new departure in polit- ical literature. There has been nothing like it since the late SAMUEL J. TILDEN acknowledged the similer honor and ac- cepted the similar responsibilities from the same party in 1876. It can hardly be called a speech because it is more than that. An esteemed contemporary declares it is a philosophy in its perfection and completeness. In any event it was so entirely in accord with the requirements and conditions of the occasion that it has commanded universal approval not only with respect to its tone but in every other reputable paper an adverse criticism. The surprise, if there is such a thing, in relation to this public utterance, is the wide information and accurate under- standing it reveals of public affairs. We are all accustomed to regard college pro- fessors as theorists and essayists who have no practical knowledge of affairs of men. But Governor WILSON has disa- bused the public mind of this erroneous impression. He has proven that he is familiar not only with the science of gov- ernment but with the practical applica- tion of it to affairs. He shows that he not only knows what the people want but has a thorough knowledge of the means and methods of providing it and using it. Governor WILSON is a Democrat in the best meaning of that term but he is neither a ranter nor agitator. He is for the rule of the people under the consti- tutional restraints provided by the fathers of the Republic. He realizes that the abuse of the taxing power is the greatest evil of the present time because itis unjust and oppressive. No people can be contented who are being robbed and the way to make men contented is to treat them justly. For tlicse reasons Governor WILSON believes that the tariff question is the dominant issue of the campaign and he proposes to direct his energies to the abatement of that crowning atroc- ity. Every voter should read the speech, ~The Standard Oil company andithe tobacco trust have coined money out of the court order for their dissolution but that is ascribable to the language of the court order. set in. His administration became a and statements of fact can be proved by the |; particular. We have not seen in any |p NO. 32. ! Having established at Chicago the edent of refusing to abide by the will of the majority the Bull Moosers forthwith bolted the committee, and the result will be separate tes in the te. This action will seal the fate of the Republician party in Ohio er than during the years immediately | fin. ous, it looks as if the has but toe maintain a solid frontin order to win its easiest and greatest victory. large tracts are ed opportunities to in and re a iD Sumep Sa Brn ow hey wt Bk a lng aws as A tariffs and land er as exist so long will they suffer from evil effects. Corporation Contributions. From tke Harrisburg Star-Independent. from contributing money or anything value to the nomination or election of Presidential Electors, tatives in e Congress or State tors who elect United States Senators, ought to be passed at once in order that it may be in force during the present campaign. Corporations should never have been allowed to contribute to campaign funds, for their motives in so doing could not have been above appeared on the beach arrayed in men's socks, which naturally left about a foot of bare leg between the sock and bath- ing suit. And we have it on the word of a Bellefonte gentleman who was there and knoweth whereof he spoke that the ladies looked quite “fetching.” But the life guards and beach director are evi- dently of a modest nature and they aver that while socks are socks and may be all right for New York and Philadelphia, they are not stockings, and stockings are the only leg trimmings that will be al. lowed on that beach. SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. —There are more than 30 applications for citi - zenship to be passed upon at the Cambria natur- alization court, which convenes this week. ~Thirty-six copperhead snakes, ranging in size from ten inches to three feet, were killed by two Huntingdon county lads near Stone mountain a few days ago. ~Paul Rehn, a Cambria steel inspector was given a room-mate early in the week at his Johns- town boarding house. After threedays’ compan” ionship the room-mate disappeared and with him $100 worth of Rehn’s personal effects. —A Slav, who landed in Portage a few evenings ago looking for work, unhesitatingly went with a stranger who offered him lodging. Next mom- ing heturned up at the Miller shaft, his head and face cut and bruised and all his money gone. —Bids for the construction of the new tubercu- losis sanitorium at Hamburg will be opened at =H. H. Bryan, a well known citizen of Johns- town, was held up while on a trip through New Mr. Bryan proved his identity by his Johnstown the | Y- M.C. A. card and other papers. ~It isthought that it was a tramp who sent word to the Reading station at Williamsport a few evenings ago that a big machine had slipped from a passing freight and was on the passenger track just bevond the city. A few moments later a passenger train would have crashed into it. ~While the Smith family reunion dinner was in progress in Vallamount park, Williamsport, an old hickory tree snapped off and would have fallen directly on a table at which forty people were seated but for branches of another tree Wicks cmghit The dinner was suddenly halt. been cleared by State authorities of the charge of allowing gambling devices on its grounds and will receive the State bonus. D, AlIrvin, former- ly of Centre county is secretary of the Ebensburg association. The Cambria County association, however, was found guilty. =A hundred or more of Northumberland’s citi- zens formed a chopping bee in the gray dawn a few mornings ago and when their fun was over a tree that had been in the way of paving opera. tions was measuring its length onthe street. The owner had refused to have it cut and the court had upheld him in his action. —Not fifteen minutes after his mother told him —Frank Neese, a Sagamore, Indiana county miner who found, as he was about to start - 8 Of until the lifeless body was lifted from the wagon. ~Mrs. Annie Garth, of Mill Hall, looked out a few days ago to see her two year old grandson sitting quietly on the Bald Eagle Valley railroad track. She also saw a passenger train coming rapidly down grade toward the child. Mean- while the engineer had put on brakes and the fire- man had crawled out on the cowcatcher ready to kick the baby from the track. But the grand: mother had won the race with death by a narrow margin. ~John Treires, a Jersey Shore Greek, was the ly. He became acquainted with two strangers who possessed $12,000 and was persuaded to put his little all—§1,000—into a tin box along with the larger amount. The box was entrusted to his care while the strangers went to a drug store to make a purchase. It was seven hours later that a friend insisted that he open the box and the po- lice were notified of its emptiness. —F. E. Kenyon, late of Bellwood, near Altoona, have | shot his wife and eighteen months old daughter, ; | the former through the heart and the latter just above the heart, at 11.20 o'clock Tuesday morn- Ing, in the Lafayette hotel, Pittstsburgh, then turned the weapon against his own chest and the | fired, and then shot himself through the mouth. Both Mr. Kenyon and his wife died instantly and the child died several hours later in a hospital. No cause is assigned for the man’s act. —Two car Joads of Michigan deer, six bucks and the rest does, have been delivered to the big Clearfield county game preserve of the State game commission and are now being distributed under the personal direction of Commissioners John M. Philips and Joseph Kalbfus. This is the third preserve to be stocked with deer by the State within the last year, a number having been placed in the preserve in Perry county near New Germantown, and in the Ligonier preserve in Westmoreland county. —After spending more than eleven years in the Berks county prison under sentence of death for the murder of her husband, efforts are about to be made to obtain a pardon for Mrs. Kate Ed- wards, on the ground that she has made sufficient atonement for the crime charged against her. The case of Mrs. Edwards is a remarkable one. Four Governors of Pennsylvania have failed to take final action in fixing a day for the woman's execution, each Governor having let the case rest in the files of his office. —The will of Mrs. Helen Mae Chandler, who died at Camden, N, J., aged 91 years, was admit- ted to probate last Thursday. The executor named was William H. R. Lukens, an attorney of ranging in sums from $50 to $200, the will provides that the balance of the estate is to go to Bucknell University, Lewisburg, for the purpose of prepar- ing persons for work in foreign missions, and to the Baptist Missionary union, of Boston, for fur- thering the work among the Siamese Pequans.
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