BY P. GRAY MEEK.
INK SLINGS.
—As a prognosticator Vermont seems
to be satisfied with a back seat.
—If acting chairman GUTHRIE can only
get rid of that vacation germ, possibly
the campaign in Pennsylvania may get a
start.
—That “money talks” is clearly proven
by the amount of gab that $100,000
Standard Oil gift to ROOSEVELT has pro-
duced.
—Anyway chairman GUTHRIE shows
no evidence of the loss of any of the un-
wavering confidence he has always had in
himself.
—If all of the season had been making
corn like the last two weeks have there
wouldn't be enough cribs in Centre coun-
ty to hold the crop.
—Just think how lonely the rest of us
would be if all the fellows who are being
put in thé ANANIAS list in this country,
were treated as old Mr. ANANIAS was.
—The fact that GEO. D. HERBERT is to
edit the magazine that is promised from
Democratic State headquarters is guar-
antee enough that it will be worth read-
ing.
—How about that five inch strip onthe
dam? Up to this time it looks as though
council is showing the white feather.
We'll certainly have to have a few wom.
en in that body before long.
—The county Odd Fellows had a big
crowd and a big time at their Labor day
reunion at Hunter's park, but that awful
rainstorm made many of them the oddest
looking fellows we have seen in many a
day.
~—Its pretty early in the campaign but
the news comes from St. Louis that Mr.
ROOSEVELT is having considerable trouble
with his throat. Might it be possible that
his throat and his conscience have gotten
mixed up.
—According to newspaper reports of
that Washington county flood of Monday
last the cold water campaign must have
made a number of home runs the very
first inning. But still our Prohibition
friends are not crowing over it.
—-It was one of the old philosophers
who discovered that “we could save our-
selves a lot of trouble by keeping it to
ourselves.” Senator PENROSE could not
have been around when that discovery
was made and evidently had never heard
of it.
—The effort of the Socialist candidate
for Governor in New York to get the
pole at the start inthe race for campaign
liars don’t seem to have been successful.
His chief witness—WAYNE MCcVEIGH—
protests him and it now looks as if he
would be flagged before the word “go” is
given.
—Mr. ROOSEVELT may feel badly that
no one recognizes him as having been
either a great or a good President, but he
has the consolation of knowing that as a
party—splitter he has proven an un-
bounded success. In fact no one ques-
tions his right to occupy the top rung on
that ladder.
—Dr. Joun B. RoBerts, of Philadel-
phia, one of the most noted plastic sur-
gery operators in the country, has just
succeeded in grafting prac:ically a new
face on a boy who had been terribly
burned. Here is the specialist whose
services will be needed by the Bull Moose
on the morning of November 6th.
—The Colonel may shout “Liar” as
long and loud as he pleases! He will
never convince practical men that the
Standard Oil or any other corporation or
individual put such a sum as $100,000
into his campaign for President without
being satisfied that he knew who was
giving it and, by inference, what it was
being given for.
—The Honorable PriLANDER C. KNOX
has been coming in for his share of
knocks lately and if what that Mobile
newspaper man says is true a new Sec-
retary of State is needed at Washington.
ROOSEVELT started one Central American
revolution, but ROOSEVELT can start any-
thing. It ought to be different with our
Secretary of State.
—In one of his Vermont speeches Mr.
ROOSEVELT declared: “Our opponents
say nothing and what they dosay they
don’t mean.” He must have thought he
was amusing the public when he took the
time to write over 18,000 words in reply
to Senator PENROSE's statement about
that Standard Oil contributionto his cam-
paign fund, if that charge said or meant
nothing. _
—After all it may not matter so much
if the thousands of young votets, who
cast their first ballot last year, are unable
to vote the Democratic ticket in November
because of the neglect of the State com-
mittee to know that they were registered
in time to be assessed. Acting chairman
GUTHRIE we, are assured, has discovered
where his voting place is and is now fully
intent on casting a Democratic ballot.
—An Indiana farmer who lately joined
the Bull Moose crowd, claims that
one of his cows has just given birth to
three calves, that he has five hens that | €0
lay two eggs each every day, and that his
corn crop promises to out-do any he has
harvested in forty years. The effect of
this prolific prosperity, however, is lost yan
on the voters by his failure to claim that
it is but the advanced fulfillment of but a
few of the Bull Moose platform pledges.
VOL. 57.
Attend to the Assessment of Voters.
The State Central committee at Har-
risburg is reported to be both active and
energetic in its work but close observers
express doubts as to the intelligence of
its efforts. For example we learn, through
the public prints, that quantities of cam-
paign literature is, or will be, distributed,
immense number of buttons handed out
and lithographs of the candidates sent to
various sections of the State in great
quantities. It is a good thing to get the
voter aroused and interested, but no mat-
ter how loud he may talk or how much
he may seem to be interested if the vote
known as the “doubtful” or “careless”
voter is not prepared by registration and
the payment of taxes, to exercise the
right of franchise, all the documents sent
out, all the buttons distributed or all the
lithographs that line the windows of
Democrats throughout the State will be
of little avail. While the work that the
committee has been doing is very well in
its way, it is not the really essential labor
of a campaign. The most important thing
to look after is the assessment and regis-
tration of the voters. The other things
can be done at any time but these
things must be attended to within a fixed
period. And these things, if our own
county is a sample of the work of the
committee, have been sadly neglected.
The time for registration in the coun-
try districts closed last Wednesday, and
of course the work of registration and
assessment is closed for these districts,
but there is still an opportunity to see
that the vote in the cities of the State is
properly attended too.
So far as we have been able to ascertain
the committee at Harrisburg took no
steps toward securing a full registration
and assessment throughout the country
districts. There are thousands of votersin
the State who cast their first votes last
fall and who must pay a State or county
tax to qualify them to participate in the
election this fall. And these cannot pay
a tax, if none has been assessed against
them, and they cannot be assessed unless
they have been registered.
Probably the local. committees have been
attending to the matter but if so it has
been on their own initiative for we have
not seen or heard of a word on the sub-
ject coming from the headquarters of the
party in Harrisburg. Possibly the able
gentlemen in charge of the committee
work at the State capitol have been too
much occupied with their own affairs to
give attention to such party obligations.
Meantime we suggest that the Demo-
crats of the cities, where the registration
books are still open, look after the mat-
ter for themselves. It won't do to post-
ne this for the time is here to give
it immediate attention. In the cities
there is still time to register, but in the
rural districts and in towns and boroughs
the assessment and registration are over
and cannot be cured if incorrect or faulty.
Voters who are properly assessed have
until thirty days before the election to
pay their taxes. Therefore it is time to
get busy. Don’t wait for word from the
state chairman or anybody else but do
the work on your own initiative and re-
sponsibility.
Mr. Greevy’s Vindication.
An echo of the last primary election
comes to us this week, through the
courts of Bedford county. At the time of
the election of delegates to the National
convention was being agitated, Dr,
AMERICUS ENFIELD, of Bedford, and
TroMmAs H. GREEVY Esq., of Altoona, were
opposing candidates. Dr. ENFIELD was
running as a “re-organizer” and Mr,
GREEVY as a regular Democrat. In the
general belief Mr. GREEVY had much the
best of the fight and it was conceded on
all hands that he would be elected, not
only because he represented the regular
organization, but because of his high
standing among his people and the ability
with which he had fulfilled every duty
undertaken by him. Dr. ENFIELD under-
the difficulties that were in his
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
May Be Meritorious | But Not Original.
A letter from Mr. C GeO. W. GUTHRIE,
acting chairman of the Democratic State
committee, gives us the information that
“a most original and meritorious method
of disseminating information directly to
the voters” has been decided upon by the
committee and then assures us that with
the hearty co-operation of the newspa-
pers of the State that a larger number of
people can thus be presented with the
truth than in any other way. Mr. GUTH-
RIE then proceeds to describe at length
the various methods that will be used to
get his campaign literature, which when
boiled down, is through the newspapers,
by mail and by express. For the life of
us, we fail, however, to see any “original-
ity” in any of his plans.
It is upon the newspaper, almost en-
tirely, that he depends for the circulation
of such information as he expects to fur-
nish. In place of this being an “orignal”
method, to our own personal knowledge,
every committee that has had charge of
campaign work for the past twelve years,
depended upon this source for the distri-
bution of the literature sent out. Usual-
ly this was furnished them in plate mat-
ter which saved the paper the cost of set-
ting the type, of extra postage or any
kind of expense whatever. Mr. GUTHRIE:
as we understand it, proposes furnishing
his matter printed in such form that the
publisher will be necessitated printing
the name of his paper upon it and will
also be put to the expense of folding, in
mailing and paying the additional post-
age that the additional weight of the en-
closure will cost—and this every two
weeks during the campaign. And this
cost to the publisher, we fear, Mr. GUTH-
BELLEFONTE, PA. ! SEPTEMBER 6, 1912.
Roosevelt Complains of the Public.
In his letter to chairman CLAPP of the |
Senate committee engaged in the investi-
gation of expenses in the campaign of
1904, Colonel ROOSEVELT complains be-
cause the public doesn't believe his state-
ments. He says: “Of course I cannot go
on indefinitely explaining the things
which are always being brought up. They | ment.
are brought up 5,000,000 times and after
I have explained them 5,000,000 times
they are brought up again, just as though | *°
I never had explained them.”
The trouble is not with the people,
however, it is with ROOSEVELT. His ex-
planations do not explain. For example
in the explanation in which the complaint
quoted occurs, he makes no defence of
himself against the vital charge which is
that the Standard Oil conspiracy con-
tributed $100,000 to the campaign fund of
1904 and that subsequently the campaign | P
collector importuned the conspiracy for
a contribution of $150,000. He says that
he ordered a return of the money after
it was spent.
Mr. ROOSEVELT is an egregious liar. He
has been proved a falsifier more than a
dozen times and still he impudently sets
up his unsupported assertion against the
sworn testimony of men who are widely
known as truthful. That is why he isn’t
believed. That is why he has to keep on
explaining and for that reason if he ex-
plained 10,000,000 times ninety per cent.
of the reasoning people of the country
would continue to disbelieve and persist
in demanding a real explanation.
As a matter of fact the Standard Oil
conspiracy contributed $100,000 as sworn
to by Mr. ARCHBOLD and Mr. ROOSEVELT
appreciated the act as stated by Mr.
RIE will find will be used as a reason by! BLiss. But after the money had been
a vast number of papers why they can-
not accept or circulate the matter he
to think is so “meritorious,”
additional expense to all the other work
of the campaign—that is shouldered on
them.
is the pur- | torney General,
pose of putting upon the newspapers this |
| spent and the second demand for money
| was refused, ROOSEVELT told CORTELYOU,
proposes furnishing. The only “originali- |
ty” in this and which Mr. GUTHRIE seems |
not Briss, who had the money, to return
it after PHILANDER C. KNOX, then At-
had assured him that
Henry C. FrICK of the Steel trust would
make up any loss to the campaign fund
| which might ensue.
Yherto Mr. ROOSEVELT has declared
In this connection, Mr. GUTHRIE fur- | that no money was contributed to that
ther informs us that he has secured the | campaign by the Standard Oil conspiracy
services of Mr. GEO. D. HERBERT to pre- |
' but hitherto he had nothing to contend
pare his campaign literature, leaflets and | with except the gossip of the politicians.
other matter that will be sent out. This
fact will assure the public that what is
sent out will be the best and most con-
vincing that can be furnished. Mr. HER-
BERT has for years been in the employ-
ment of the “regular” Democratic State
committee, doing the same work for
them, and we know it will be done well.
For this selection and the fact that the
preparation and selection of the cam-
paign literature that is to be furnished
the people has been entrusted to him,
rather than to a “publicity committee”
that knew nothing about such work.
Mr. GUTHRIE deserves thanks.
The Roosevelt Campaign Fund.
Let us hope that Senator PENROSE will
not much longer delay the further revela-
tions he has promised with respect to the
ROOSEVELT campaign fund of 1904. We
have the testimony of Mr. ARCHBOLD
that the Standard Oil company put $125,.
000 into the pool and it is a matter of
judicial record that Mr. GEORGE W. P'ER-
KINS invested $50,000 of the funds of the
Equitable Insurance company in that
way. The late Mr. HARRIMAN stated that
he had procured from some source $260,
000 and Mr. ANDREW CARNEGIE owns up
to a contribution of $10,000. . But these
items are only a small part of the six to
eight millions of dollars which itis ac-
Now the accusation has taken on a dif-
ferent form. It has been asserted by a
Senator in Congress who is corroborated
by the sworn evidence of the man who
handled the money and a congressional
investigation is impending. It is not safe
to deny under such circumstances and
the best he can do is to say that on the
26th of October he ordered the refusal of
a contribution which had been accepted
about the middle of September and spent
at least some weeks before.
In the campaign of 1904 ROOSEVELT
was panic stricken and in his fear of de-
feat would have accepted money from
any source. He did solicit money from
HARRIMAN, the most notorious railroad
wrecker of his time, and even promised
this "undesirable citizen” the privilege of
editing his annual message in considera-
tion of the contribution. Of course no-
body believes him. Nobody believes any
notorious and habitual liar.
—England’s presumed demand that the
recent legislation of our Congress bear-
ing on the tolls to be charged on the
Panama zanal be submitted to the Hague
tribypal for arbitration, may be well
founded on a breach of the HAY-PAUNCE-
FOTE treaty on our part. If it is the treaty
should be annulled and a new one pro-
posed. Our country should not be put in
the position of even a technical viola-
tion of any of her obligations, but she
should maintain, at all times, her absolute | rated
right to manage her own business affairs
as she likes and not as other nations are
- | agreed to permit. American money
bought the canal zone; American brains
and resources have about completed the
canal; and American raised taxes will
have to maintain it, therefore America’s
right to charge tolls and give passes to
whom she pleases.
—Mr. BILL FLINN must have thought,
offered him that $2,000,000 for a “seat in
the United States Senate” it might have
been in PENROSE’S power to secure it for
him, but when he wanted to be “made a
When Penrcse was sau in Jractical,
iy the same predicament
Washington to back up Penrose’s state-
Standard Senator
Foraker had? When it is remembered
the industrial commission in 1904,
tary
subservient tool of predatory
sent his emasculated report of com-
mission to Archbold for his inestimable
Services entitled to a certificate of de-
In the face of such a record Senator
Penrose ought not to expect the Ameri-
0 eons 30d believe e thet the $25,000
0 was merely a
sonal OL depos a John D. A.
bold to the Republican campaign fund.
American Shipping F Freed.
From the New York Evening ou.
Into the hodge-podge of the bill ostensi-
bly framed to regulate the tolls and
control of the Panama canal went
provision which ought to be widel:
claimed as a tremendous step in
It is the amending of the antiquated
gation laws of the United States so
there may be admitted to American
registry and the protection of the Amer-
ican flag, for use in the foreign trade of
this country, ships built abroad but owned
by American citizens. This means that
at last American citizens are free to buy
ships where ever they may want to, pre-
cisely as they may purchase automobiles
or locomotives, dredges or a
that one of the most benighted laws on
our statute books has been done away,
after injuriously affecting our merchant
marine practically since
ington's Tri It
that the strangle-hold of our shipbuilders
upon our merchant marine has
broken at last. No longer will these ship
builders have legislative authority for
saying: “You buy ships of us, or you
cannot own any under the American
flag.”
Where the West ‘Comes in.
From the Chicago Tribune.
The decision of Congress to give coast-
Sea shipping 2 free passage through the
Panama canal is generous to the point of
lavishness—generous, that is, to saltwater
States and seacoast towns.
It is not a bit generous to interior
States and fresh-water towns. On the
contrary, it will injure them. It will draw.
trade from the center of the country to
its borders.
Traffic that used to go through Chicago
will under this free-toll arrangement,pass
through Panama.
The whole people of the nation are
building this $300,000,000 cut by taxation.
Now, apparently, they are to be taxed
indefinitely to sustain it. A fine arrange-
ment for the owners of salt-water steam-
ships, but rather hard on the
west.
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There can be but one result of the
before us. No party
as the Republican has been can
hope for a issue at the
Even the virtues of Taft—the of
his taking off—will plead in vain. Roose-
velt will get a considerable vote. But it
will disappoint the enthusiasts who gaze
awestruck upon his awful and
the Bully Boys of the Steel who
are financing his campaign. The Demo-
crats will carry nearly all the States.
And then?
now. He declared the other day that
ROOSEVELT did nothing to promote pure
food legislation when ROOSEVELT claims
that nobody else had anything to do with
the movement.
. Had big
bration of his 90th birthday recently. Fifty of his
descendants, including four of his children—all
who are living, enjoyed the day with him.
—Thomas Laubach. of Hazleton, is 81 years
old, weighs 170 pounds and attends to business
right along. For thirty-one years he has lived on
milk, at times not drinking even water. Heisan
inveterate smoker.
=A roughly dressed stranger swindled Able-
man & Jacobson, of Punxsutawney, out of a $15
suit and $5.50 cash by presenting a $20.50 check
and offering to go to the bank to be identified.
His bluff worked all right.
—The burning of six barns in Mercer county re-
sulted from a recent electrical storm. At one
Oliver Wagner, aged 35, was leading a horse out
when the structure collapsed burying both under
tons of burning hay and timbers,
—Thefts of parts of engines from the Lycoming
Foundry and Machine company at
were explained when it was found that an en-
gine was being built at night at another plant.
The supposed thieves are under arrest.
—Section foreman Calvin Richey, of Packsad-
dle, a few days ago used an old keg to hive a
swarm of bees that settled on a steel car on the
local freight which had stopped at that place.
The crew was in trouble until he arrived.
—While Justice White, of Latrobe, was prepare
ing a paper for a caller, the caller was digging a
shell out of his gun. The shell came out, whiz-
zed past Mr. White's head and tore his commis-
sion, which was hanging on the wall to tatters.
=A tin can containing $110 in currency was
found while the cellar of the Albert Uncafer
heirs’ house in Apollo, Armstrong county, was
being cleaned recently. The money was divided
between those who had an interest in the estate.
—Medius Hull, a 15-year-old Indiana boy, is sad-
ly wanted at home. His younger brother is crit-
ically ill of blood poison, caused by picking a pim-
ple, and in his delerium continually calls for
the brother who has been missing from home
since May 30.
—Lewis Metzger, aged 13 years, was climbing
the mountain side near his home at Salladsburg,
with his rifle in his hand when he stumbled. The
gun was somehow discharged and he was dead
before his father, alittle distance away, could
reach his side.
—A porcupine said to be the only one killed in
that region for twenty-five years fell a victim to
the unerring aim of Postmaster Charles Gordon,
of Millwood. itis a splendid specimen and is at-
tracting considerable attention in the office of the
Latrobe Bulletin.
—Friends of Rev. B. C. Conner, D. D., newly
elected president of Williamsport Dickinson Sem-
inary, will be pleased to learn that the enroll
ment of students for that institution, which opens
for its fall term next week, is larger than ever in
the sixty-four years of its history.
~The State Health Department is informed
that the epidemic of smallpox at Carbondale is
well in hand and it is expected to confine it to the
forty cases that now exist. It is reported that the
smallpox has become epidemic in the fifth ward
Pittsburgh, where there are fifty cases.
~Since September 11, 1911, five members of the
family of Carl G. Carlson, of DuBois, have died of
tuberculosis. The last to die was a daughter,
Miss Jennie; her brother Oscar died a fortnight
ago, the mother and two daughters having died at
intervals. The father has two daughters and a
son left.
=Morrisdale wasthrown into a high state of
excitement over the disappearance on Sunday of
been | Nicholas Neusbaum, aged about 23 years, and
the finding of his lifeless body about five o'clock
Monday morning in the Morrisdale Coal Co's
reservoir. How he came to fall in the reservoir
is not known,
~Frank Hemig, of Williamsport, was given a
fright at Ye Golden Springs cabin, where he is
camping for the week. He was sitting on the
porch of the cabin when he discovered that a
wildcat was trying to make a raid on the spring-
house. The cat made its escape before Frank
got a shot at it.
~—With not a single prisoner in the county jail
at Washington, Pa., and with no prospect of trou-
ble in the immediate future, Sheriff White has
locked up and has hung the key on the doorjam.
Both the sheriff and his deputies have repaired to
his farm several miles out in the country to help
along with the farm work.
~The Juniata couniy jail isn’t very large and i
has had more boarders than usual during the
past week. They wound up a series of escapades
by setting fire to mattress and bedding, intending
to effect a general jail delivery during the excite-
ment. Their plan was frustrated by citizens who
took charge while the sheriff was away from
home.
—There was an auto accident near Milton a
few nights ago, in which Miss Leah Gemberling,
of that place, was fatally injured and her guest,
Mrs. G. E. Smith, of Bellevue. Ohio, was killed
outright. Mrs. Smith and her two children were
to have joined her husband at Buffalo this week
for a continuation of the pleasure trip that had so
tragic an ending.
—Charged with stealing 3,000 pounds of sugar,
Charles Glunt, aged 22, a teamster for an Altoona
wholesale firm, was arrested Thursday. He fled
out of the cell-room at City Hall while the tumn-
key was unlocking the door and led the police a
chase of half a dozen squares before being recap-
tured. Glunt is said to have sold the sugar to
merchants at reduced rates,
~~Ambrose Mettler, 53, formerly chief-of-police
the 2,300 volts of electricity shot through him. The
wire was a service wire of the Edison company.
Trolley men noticed it lying in the street early in
the morning and say that they notified the com-
pany, which denies receiving the message. Two
others were injured trying to remove the wire.
~—State Highway Commissioner Bigelow is pre-
paring rules under the new highway laws for the
regulation of public service poles along! the high-
ways owned or controlled by the State. No poles
may be planted along such highways until a per-
mit has been obtained from the State Highway
Department, and poles that now encroach on the
highways will have to be removed or set back.
This applies to all telegraph, telephone and elec-
tric service poles.
—After a futile effort to have the case contin”
ued in order that a supposed “material witness”
citizens of Altoona and Blair county. The case
may be reopened, but it was understood that Dr,
Enfield is willing to let the nolle prosse stand and
to “let the dead bury its dead.’
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