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BY P. GRAY MEEK.
~The trouble with most of the “Pro-
gressives,” who claim to be running for a
principle, is that they wouldn't know it if
they'd catch one,
—Crowding two days into one on a
good on Saturday, but,
different Monday’s feelings are.
—Anyway, our Republican friends can
take consolation out of the fact that Mr,
TAFT’s silence has more votes in it than
either his speeches or vetoes have.
—The Illinois cow that swallowed a
$15 Panama hat must have cultivated
the same taste in the hat line that most
of our Bellefonte women seem to have
inherited.
~The WATCHMAN weather prophet
predicts violent wind storms from the
north-east on Wednesday afternoon or
evening, next. ROOSEVELT speaks at
Wilkes-Barre at that time.
—And now Philadelphia is green with
envy because that New York police scan-
dal so far outclasses the many it has
tried to make itself famous for. It has
still room for hope, however.
—Really its too bad that so many of
those Pittsburg officials are still in the
penitentiary. Brother FLINN and his
progressive crowd could make so much
better showing if they were all out.
—A boss stork doctor and eight train-
ed nurses were in attendance when that
new ASTOR baby arrived. Not because
they were all really necessary so much
as because he is heir to steen million
dollars.
—]It is scarcely necessary for treasurer
WELLS to put the brakes on the subscrip-
tion wagon he has gathering up funds
for the WILSON campaign herein Pennsyl-
vania. He'll find it an up hill job any
road he takes.
—It looks, after all, as if there might
be something in a name. It wasa JEREMI-
AH who wrote the first lamentations and
its a JEREMIAH BEVERIDGE, out in Indi-
ana, who seems determined to keep them
before the public.
—One of the Democratic State division
headquarters, it is said, is to’ be located
in Oil City. Democrats will be glad to
know that there is even that much
promise of having something Democratic
out in Venago county.
~And still_.Mr. PATTON is not certain
as to whether he is a Bull Mooser or a
Stand-Patter. And the general opinion
keeps on growing that it don't matter
which side he makes claim to, he is al-
ready elected to stay at home.
—And just to think that that $25,000
PENROSE Standard Oil check is to be
made a thankee-mam on the political
boulevard the Bull Moose crowd have se-
lected as the route for its joy-ride to
Washington. Verily, “There is a God in
Israel.”
—An interested exchange asks: “What
is the matter with the campaign.” Really
brother we don't know; but probably its
steerin’ gear has gone wrong or its had a
blow out somewhere. At least we haven't
heard the honk, honk of its horn in this
neck o’ woods yet.
—“It will be a fine day in this country
when we find that there are big combi-
nations of business, but that these big
combinations are made to mind their
own business; that there are great enter-
prises of industry, but that these enter-
prises are kept within strict limits of the
law." — Woodrow Wilson.
—Evidently a blight has struck the
party-crop harvest this year. In addi-
tion to the unpromising appearance for
anything of a Republican yield, there's
our friends the Prohibitionists tangled up
worse about which MCCALMONT shall
boss them, than a wheat patch smitten
by the Hessian-fly. And some people
still doubt that the “way of the trans-
gressor is hard.”
—Miss EUNICE JAMES, the young
daughter of a wealthy Manila, P. I,
banker, is in this country on her way,
alone, around the world. She is making
the journey principally to prove her the-
ory that a young lady may travel any-
where without annoyance from “mash-
ers” if she really comports herself as a
young lady should. Up to the time of
reaching St. Louis her theory had not
been exploded. There is no telling what
might happen to her if she should pass
through Bellefonte on the 8:16 any even-
ing that the gang of young squirts who
congregate about the Pennsylvania pas-
senger station are on the job.
—Some years ago, while in a mountain
hunting camp for the first time, the writ-
er’s attention was arrested by a continu-
ous snapping and crashing of dry brush
along the side of a ridge just back of the
cabin. It seemed like the trail of a min-
iature cyclone passing along and might
have produced a more peculiar sensation
because it was night. I asked pne of the
old hunters in the camp what it was and
he replied: “Itisa buck running." He
wasn’t running for votes but he was mak-
ing a noise very much like the Bull
Moose is making as he starts his cam-
paign for President: Crashing through
or jumping the little things, ducking the
big ones, snortin’ and whistlin’, he'll run
himself to death for the thing he wants
most—to be the first King of an Ameri.
cam Empire.
LE y———-_—_n ee
VOL. 57.
Bill Flinn's Hornet's Nest.
When Boss BiLL FLINN disclosed the
peculiar financial transaction between
Senator PENROSE and Mr. ARCHBOLD, of
the Standard Oil conspiracy, he imagined
he had found a mare's nest but he was
mistaken. He had uncovered a hornet's
nest occupied by an exceedingly active
and energetic bunch of disturbance mak-
ers. It appears that in 1904, while
ROOSEVELT was a candidate for Presi-
dent, and a badly scared candidate at
that, Senator PENROSE got into commu-
nication with Mr. ARCHBOLD very much
as Mr. ROOSEVELT got into correspond-
ence with the late Mr. HARRIMAN. They
were all practical men and the campaign
exchequer was low. So PENROSE pre-
vailed on ARCHBOLD to contribute $25,-
000 of the Standard tainted funds just as
ROOSEVELT induced HARRIMAN to cough
up.
Boss BiLL FLINN who has been occu-
pying a well-appointed political grave for
some years as a victim of unpropitious
party conditions, has just learned of this
peculiar financial operation and without
stopping to inquire about it proposed to
impeach PENROSE for malfeasance in of-
fice. It was a laudable idea, beyond
question, because the affair clearly im-
plied corruption of some sort and as
FLINN was happily able to prove an ali-
bi, he naturally reasoned that PENROSE
was culpable and ought to be punished.
But to his amazement he has since dis-
covered that the money was for the use
of ROOSEVELT in the campaign and that
the contribution was in pursuance of an
urgent appeal to save the grand old par-
ty of moral ideas and close affiliation
with the monopolies.
Everybody except those who like FLINN
were politically dead and buried became
aware of the transaction between PEN-
ROSE and ARCHBOLD some years ago
when it was brought out in a Congres-
sional inquiry and promptly glossed over
because it involved ROOSEVELT more
than anybody else. But now that it has
been brought into public notice again
PENROSE is inclined to become loquacious
and take the whole world into his confi-
dence. He has already gone so far as to
say that the mopey was used in the in-
terest of ROOSEVELT and intimate that if
the investigation into the subject is press-
ed he will go into more minute particu-
lars. And this is just what FLINN and
ROOSEVELT do not want.
—Qur neighbors of the Democratic
press over in Clearfield are just now agi-
tating themselves over the question of a
second term for county officials. After
looking over the list of fellows who fill
these offices out there, one should think
it a decidedly more important matter for
them to get a few good Democrats in for
a first term before getting into a fight
about a second.
Flinn’s Concessions to the Law.
The public is now ‘informed, through
the newspapers, that Boss FLINN of the
Bull Moose party, has determined to set
up a separate electoral ticket in this
State. In other words Mr. ROOSEVELT'S
strong arm manager in Pennsylvania,
alarmed by the menace of court pro-
ceedings, will not persistin his announced
purpose to force the supporters of TAFT
to vote for electors committed to ROOSE-
VELT. This is quite a concession, but not
to morals. It is a deference to law. If
FLINN thought he could defy the law and
outrage the conscience of the public by
following his original plan, he would do
so. It may safely be said that in that
event ROOSEVELT would not object.
But the friends of TAFT in Pennsyl
vania should not be deceived by this con-
cession on the part of FLINN. His change
of heart is not ascribable entirely to a
desire to obey the law. He hopes to put
something over the TAFT people by his
action. That is to say he aims to make
the Republican organization of the State
a sort of adjunct to the Bull Moose ma-
chine and secure the election of candi-
dates for Auditor General and State
Treasurer who will after the event, ac-
knowledge allegiance to the new party
rather than to the old. That will enable
FLINN to resume control of the Republi-
can organization after the election, even if
he is throwing harpoons into it before.
The chairman of the Republican State
committee, Mr. WASSON, is first and last
an emissary of FLINN. He may feel little,
if any attachment to ROOSEVELT, for
FLINN himself doesn’t care a farthing for
the chief Bull Moose. He may not be
tied to TAPT by bonds stronger than “a
rope of sand,” for FLINN has no love for
TAFT. But WaAssoN is for FLINN, heart
and soul, and he is for the Republican
State ticket because he believes that Mr.
YOUNG and Mr. PoweLL are faithful fol-
lowers of FLINN. Under these circum-
stances it makes little difference whether
there are separate electoral tickets for
the the Bull Moose
Republicans and Mogsd
SE0ent PLINNS Heket if It 1 mie tlon
Governor Marshall's Speech.
There can be no misunderstanding the
speech of Governor THOMAS R. MARSHALL,
of Indiana, in accepting the Democratic
nomination for Vice President. He ad-
dressed himself to the correction of some
false notions about Democracy and what
it means. It is nota question of social
status or property equipment or entirely
one of political alignment. “It does not
always depend upon the ticket a man
votes,” Mr. MARSHALL declared, but “it
does depend always upon the motives
back of the ballot.” In other words a
Democrat believes in the form of govern.
ment created by the fathers of the Re-
public and when evils grow into the sys-
tem a Democrat will correct the evils
rather than destroy the government.
“The social condition which we call
Democracy and which finds its avenue of
expression at the polls through our par-
ty,” continued Mr. MARSHALL, “is unal-
terably opposed tospecial privilege wheth-
er granted by the law or seized by ruth-
less ambition.” Men are equal under the
law but the equality is as to opportuni-
ties. A man who is strong physically
can accomplish more in the lines of la-
bor than one who is delicate or deficient
and there are quite as marked lines of
difference in the intellectual equipment:
If the man deficient in strength or intel-
ligence has equal opportunity with his
more fortunate neighbor the neighbor
should not be penalized. So long as he
enjoys no special privilege or interferes
with no right or opportunity of others he
is entitled to the fruits of his advantage.
The tariff is the mother of special priv-
ilege and the enemy of equal opportuni-
ty. It bestows upon some the fruits of
the labors of others and denies to one
part of the population the opportunity to
compete with the other in commercial
and industrial lines. Governor MARSHALL
is most emphatic in his denunciation of
this entrenched wrong and will strive to
eradicate it. But he believes in attack-
ing this and all other evils in the man-
ner which is provided by law and recog-
nized by the forms of law. To this end
he invokes the aid of all Democrais and
by that he means all men who believe in
the equality of men under the law and-
they are vastly in the majority in this
country.
~——No doubt RICHARD PEARSON HoB-
SON views the visit of Secretary of State
KNOX to Japan with general alarm.
HossoN would much prefer an exchange
of shots to an exchange of courtesies in
that quarter.
The Battleship Compromise.
It is a matter of regret that the Demo-
cratic majority in the House of Repre-
sentatives was notable to fulfill its pledge
to the public that there would be no
money wasted this year in the construc-
tion of battleships. The Republican ma-
jority in the Senate was determined to
indulge in this form of profligacy and a
compromise was necessary to avert the
actual checking of the machinery of gov-
ernment. This could not be allowed
under any circumstances and the Demo-
crats of the House yielded to the extent
of agreeing to one battleship and the
Senate will be obliged to accept that or
assume responsibility for a failure of the
naval appropriation bill,
In this connection Mr. George VON. L.
MEYER, Secretary of the Navy, made him-
self so conspicuously offensive that the
House of Representatives ought to ad-
minister a rebuke to him. In a publish-
ed statement he censured Congress for
not promptly authorizing two battleships
and declared that four ought to be au-
thorized. This is plainly a statement that
the Representatives of the people in Con-
gress do not know either what the people
want or what they need and that an of.
ficial in the executive department of the
government may take the liberty of in-
structing Congress in its duty. Such im-
pudence has never been revealed before
in the history of the government.
This country needs no new battleships
at this time and the authorization of two
would have been a crime against the tax-
payers who are already burdened almost
beyond endurance. The advocates of
battleships have two objects in mind.
One is to give the subsidized shipbuild-
ers a chance to grab into the treasury
and the other to keep the people of the
country so poor that they will not have
the resources to resent outrages even if
they had the inclination. Both these
purposes are subversive of good govern-
ment and good morals. There is little
excuse for one new ship but it was proba-
bly better to allow it than to stop the
operation of the government or prolong
the session of Congress.
——Suppose WASHINGTON did apply a
mild cuss word to the Senate. Other
good men have used language not fit to
print in speaking of that body and nobody
Sis dreamed of “rising to a point of
STATE RIGHTS AND
BELLEFONTE, PA., AUGUST 23, 1912.
FEDERAL UNION.
Wilson’s Methods Preferable.
Obviously THEODORE ROOSEVELT mis
conceives the essential qualifications for
the office to which he aspires. He seems
to think he is engaged in a sort of mara-
thon contest in which nerve and endur-
ance determines the question of fitness,
In proof of this claim, therefore, he goes
from place to place in quicker time, cov-
ers longer distances and makes more
speeches in a given period than anybody
else can. For example, he ran from
Providence, Rhode Island, to Boston,
Massochusetts, last Saturday, at a speed
rate of something like a mile a minute
and believes that the achievement enti-
tles him to the vote of Massachusetts.
No other candidate has accomplished
such a feat.
If it were the duty of a President to
enter an arena and box or wrestle with
every comer or run foot races with the
representatives of other governments be-
tween the White House and the capitol | 8°¢%
Mr. ROOSEVELT'S prowess as a wrestler
or runner might be a reason for electing
him to the office. But so far as we are
able to discover the duties tax the men- pla
tal rather than the physical equipment
of the incumbent and it doesn’t matter
so much whether a man makes twenty
speeches a day or only five if the five
are of the right sort and the twenty of in-
ferior quality. There are plenty of woods-
men in the mountains of Pennsylvania
stronger physically than ROOSEVELT and
still not fit for President.
It may be worth while to look to the
physical fitness of a candidate for Presi-
dent and other things being equal a man
of robust health is preferable to a weak-
Jing in any station in life. But wild
dashes through the country which neces-
sarily fracture the speed laws of the sec-
tions covered, can hardly be set up as
the highest qualification for the Presi-
dency. We are a rustling people and do
things, as a rule, under high tension, but
there is no occasion for such hurry as
jeopardizes the lives of people and ROOSE-
VELT'S mile a minute run last Saturday
certainly did that. Governor WILSON'S
method of appealing to the reason rath-
er than to brute inst ncts of the public
is preferable. ;
—It is rumored that county chairman |
ARTHUR KIMPORT is hunting for some
good man-to turn his job over to. “What
fools we mortals be.” We were laboring
under the delusion that his intention to
go into the laundry business might be
merely to give him an opportunity to
wash up some of the political linen he
has soiled while acting as Democratic
house-keeper in Centre county.
——Some judge on the other side of
the water has handed down an opinion
that piaying poker is entirely a game of
chance and therefore gambling. There
is a good deal of reason in that conclu-
sion butit is uninteresting. What this
country needs is a judicial decision on
the question as to whether Mr. PERKINS
activity in the Bull Moose campaign is |
gambling or damfoolery.
——Whether ROOSEVELT is successful
or otherwise he will have a strenuous
time settling up with PERKINS, of the
Harvester trust. PERKINS owes ROOSE-
VELT a lot but “gratitude is the apprecia-
tion of favors expected” and PERKINS is
neither working for his health nor his
amusement.
—0f course mayor GAYNOR, of New
York, and former Governor PENNYPACKER,
of Pennsylvania, think alike on the sub-
ject of graft. Equally of course both of
them spent a good deal of time on the
bench before they entered into public
life or awakened tothe facts in the cases.
~The trouble that confronts TAFT
at this blessed moment is that all that is
objectionable in the Panama canal bill
was put there at his suggestion and now
all those upon whom he depends for cam-
paign funds demand that he veto the
measure.
~Jt would be a great joke on the
North American, BiLL FLINN and Dr.
Locke if Senator PENROSE could prove
that the $25,000 the Standard Oil Co.
sent him in 1904 was used to preserve
the hide of the big Bull Moose.
~——Probably LAFOLLETTE is simply
proving to ROOSEVELT that “you can't
foci all the people all the time.” It must
be admitted that the principal Bull Moose
had the Wisconsin Senator going for a
time.
—TAFT and ROOSEVELT will make sor-
ry spectacles campaigning against WiL-
SON. He is a gentleman and a scholar
and will campaign in the dignified man-
ner that an aspirant for President should.
—“So far as I am concerned, I not
only have not made a promise to any
man, but no man dared ask me to make
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industry dnd thrift and stop rewarding
them for inj their neighbors. In
other words, take in taxes only the land
values which are created by the commu-
nity and leave to every man all he earns.
Light on New York Police Graft.
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force. But that was years
iyi more por plc rhe pretend
ng to ow
find nothing too bad to say about these
fallen guardians of the law, and no shaft
of ridicule is too merciless if only it hits
a policeman. .
is indiscriminating wrath is natural
enough, but it should be concentrated and
directed upon the “men higher up,” and
their actual tools, and the grand jury in-
vestigation by the Supreme court can
hardly fail to so concentrate and direct
it.
Pennsylvania—Why Not?
From the Pittsburgh Post.
The Post is just as hopeful of a Demo-
cratic victory in Pennsylvania as it has
been ever since the nominations were
made. As a matter of fact it ressed
confidence of this result long before the
conventions were pela, and this opinion
stronger asthe campaign progress-
es. No unselfish political observer would
have the hardihood to assert that Wood-
row Wilson is not the favorite by
they Pioon ed to . arslesio
are n no
for the Democrats are being ar
right along by acquisitions from the ranks
of other organizations. .
As a result of this condition it is proper
for the Democrats to build their Miojes
high. Pennsylvania has felt the
of tariff iniquity as much as any
State, and when the voters here
that Woodrow Wilson is an aggressive
champion of reform, they would be dere-
lict in their duty to themselves if they
failed to give him their Suppost.
The claims of disorgani ublicans
that President Taft will sweep State
are as illogical as the wild presum| of
the Roosevelt followers that their favorite
will have a plurality. We will admit that
Taft and Roosevelt are sure to have a
good many votes in Pennsylvania, but
that means a Republican division of the
vote that has not already te the
New Ji Governor. Put it down that
Wilson will be the winner in Pennsylvania.
Debs Will Stick.
c Soci ist Col Victor Ber.
The al ngressman, .
, declares in a letter to the New York
i that Mr. Roosevelt has gone a long
way in the direction of state
although Mr. Roosevelt insists that his
isa “corrective of Socialism.
again insists that Mr. Roose-
velt * be remembered as one of the
most aggressive and most strenuous prop-
for the Socialist party ever
known.” If Mr. Roosevelt repudiates that
tribute, Mr. r will return to the at-
tack by calling him “comrade.” Mr. Debs,
however, will not withdraw.
The Difference.
From the Mesa (Ariz,) Free Press.
a promise." — Woodrow Wilson.
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Mrs. A. G. Abbot, of Derry, is likely to re-
cover from an operation involving the removal
of two-thirds of her stomach.
—Railroad officers are hunting several thous-
and dollars’ worth of brass which they think is
stored somewhere at Newberry.
=G. F. Shultz, of Williamsport, slipped on a
piece of bark and fell into a vat of burning bark
at the Mosser tannery. His legsand arms are
badly burned.
—At Apollo, a few mornings ago a thief remov-
ed the plate glass window of astore and took
seventeen $1 bills that were on display for ad-
—It is almost settled that the trolley line from
Moshannon to Philipsburg is to be extended to
Osceola. Chester Hill and South Philipsburg
would like to be counted in.
—There were between 6,000 and 7,000 people on
the Newton Hamilton camp grounds on Sunday.
Revs. George Womer, of Mount Union, and G. M.
Glenn, of Philipsburg. were the preachers.
~The mines at Winburne are working on an
average of about five days a week. This condi
tion of things has been keeping up for some time,
and is an improvement unequalled for at least
five or six years.
—Vemon G. Tipton, aged 24, a well-known
athlete of Altoona while on a weeks outing with
a party of young friends, was drowned in the
Juniata river at Bar Ryde station Tuesday after-
noon while swimming.
—James Murray, a rural mail carrier at Mil]
Hall, was working at his automobile when the
gasoline exploded, burning him badly. His barn
and auto were consumed, another stable destroy
ed and other property damaged.
—Mrs. George Minns, of DuBois, arose from
the supper table on Sunday evening in apparent
health and five minutes later was dead. She was
66 years old, had reared twelve children, ten of
whom are substantial citizens of DuBois.
—While walking on the tracks of the Pennsvi-
vania railroad at Patton, Cambria county, two
girls, sisters, were run down and injured by a
freight train at 11 o'clock Tuesday morning.
The girls were Dorothy and Jessie Monteith.
~Chauncey Newcomer, of Williamsport, is
{ under arrest for obtaining monev under false
pretense. He has been asking people to pay him
for sharpening their lawn mowers a long time
ago and says his day books contain a true ac-
count.
—A protruding splinter running into a cask of
sulphuric acid caused an explosion at the Mosser
tannery, Williamsport. Lester Lighton was
caught in the fiery rain and is terribly burned,
He may recover and his eyes, fortunately, es-
caped.
—The will of the late C. W. Stone, of Warren,
former lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania, was
filed for probate on Tuesday. The entire estate,
valued at about $1,000,000 is left to his wife dur-
ing her life, after which it will pass to his six
children.
—Jersey Shore, which couldn't construct the
sewage disposal plant ordered by the state health
department without a ruinous borough debt, has
received notice of a year of grace from the de-
partment and is emptying its sewage into the
Susquehanna.
—A wedding occurred at the Williamsport hos-
pital recently, Miss Mildred Wenzel becoming
the bride of Ernest Eicher. The bride was op-
erated on for appendicitis a short time before the
day set for the ceremony and would not consent
to a postponement.
—Dr. Bertha Caldwell, of Johnstown, has a
badly sprained ankle and is suffering from the
dis- | shock of being knocked down by an auto driven
by a 14-year-old boy. The lad is said to have
k | struck a pony cart in which several children were
riding earlier in the day.
—The South Fork and Portage Railway com-
pany application for a charter has been held up
because of a protest made by the Johnstown and
Altoona Railway company, the latter claiming
that the applicant proposes to enter upon streets
that are already pre-empted under their char-
ter.
~Mrs. Julia T. Glazier, who was owner of the
defunct Glazier bank at Huntingdon, was arrest-
ed at her home in Harrisburg a few days ago on
a charge of embezzlement, based on her having
received deposits after she knew the bank was
insolvent. She gave bail for $1,500 and waived a
hearing.
—Albert Buchanan, the young man alleged to
have shot and killed John A. Young, the 10-year-
old boy of East End, Altoona, while he was view-
ing the St. Donato society fireworks on Mc-
Glathery’s hill on Wednesday evening, August 7,
has been held for court on the charge of invol-
untary manslaughter.
—After thirty-seven years of continuous service
as engineer, stoker and janitor at the centre fire
station and council chamber at Lock Haven R.
H. McGhee, best known as *‘ Uncle Bob,” is
going to take a vacation. He has leave of absence
for six months, which he will spend at the sol-
diers’s home at Hampton.
—~Charles Lytle, climbing a ladder to get a
grain cradle in a barn at Loganton one evening,
slipped. He tried to avoid lighting on his ankles
which were weak, and instead landed on his side,
fracturing a thigh bone. He lay on the hay all
night and part of the next day, thinking his in-
jury not serious, before he would allow a doctor
tobe called.
~Twenty-five new $10 bills were received by
| the First National bank at Lock Haven recently
in exchange for worn out bills. The strange part
of the transaction is that the bills were notes of
that bank, signed by the present cashier's father
as president of the bank. As he has been dead
twenty-five years, everybody is wondering how
the bills kept new.
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