—
“BY P. GRAY MEEK.
—
INK SLINGS.
—Have you joined the local WiLsoN
club? Now is the time to get in.
—The season for roasting ears is wan-
ing into the advent of popping corn.
—Anyway, no one ever did really be-
lieve that “as Maine goes so goes the
Union.”
—Anyway Mr. PaLmer will hardly
claim the result in Maine as due to the
fact that he was one of the principal
speakers during its campaign.
—Boss BiLL FLINN has announced that
his party will make only a five week's
campaign in the State. We reckon it
couldn't be racier if it were three weeks,
—A Boston publishing house announc-
es the fact that it has now on press a
Bo.
VOL. 57.
The Penroee and Flinn Fight.
It appears that the only purpose BILL
FLINN has in holding Bull Moose candi-
dates for presidential electors on the Re-
publican ticket is to force the Republican
voters to support the Bull Moose candi-
dates for Auditor General and State
Treasurer. Both FLINN and PENROSE
book on liars. We presume a portrait of [understand that there is no possible
the big Bull Moose adorns the title page.
—As yet we have not heard that the
tails of BiLL FLINN'S coat have been
endangered by the effort of his late polit-
ical associates to hold him in the Repub-
lican party.
—Panama’s wisdom in electing a first,
second and third Vice President may not
be patent to those in ignorance of the
ease with which Panama gets rid of a
President who isn’t liked. :
—It President TAFT insists on getting
up a war scare in his own behalf a solic-
itous public should insist on having a
President who wouldn’t make such a fine
target for the enemy's bullets.
—Reports give the figures of the
amount of whiskey now stored in Ken-
tucky at 178,000,000 gallons. No wonder
signs of a most enthusiastic campaign
are visible in every direction down there.
—If Maine didn’t prove a success as a
prognosticator last Monday, it at least
showed very plainly to the Democracy
the necessity of getting down off the
claim fence into the patch where work
tells.
—The local Bull Moose offered to sup-
port PATTON for Congress provided he
would divide his campaign subscription
with them. You know it takes more
than alfalfa to keep a Bull Moose
going.
—Two years ago the Hon. A. MITCH-
ELL PALMER was not heard on the stump
in Maine and the Democrats swept the
State. This year the Hon. A. MITCHELL
was the big noise up there and we lost
everything.
—Moleskin is to be the favored deco-
ration for my lady's hat this fall. It will
take about forty skins for an ordinary
hat and as each skin costs $5.00 anyone
can see where the man who foots the
bills is to be skinned.
—Secretary KNOX, it is reported, arriv-
ed in Tokio on Tuesday and will attend
the funeral of the Emperor later this
week. This ought to give him ample
time to get home to his party's funeral
on the 5th of November.
—R0OSEVELT blathers and bullyrags;
TAFT apologizes and promises; WILSON
appeals to the voters in a logical, con-
vincing manner that carries conviction of
his sincerity. Thus the campaign for
the Presidency has opened.
—The writer who advises girls to learn
stenography first and get married after-
wards is probably peeved because he
married one who won't take in washing
to keep the family while he roosts on the
bleachers at the ball game.
—From the way they are pre-empting
party names down in Harrisburg its be-
ginning to look as if we would all have
to go to the election the day before and
study the geography of the ballot if we
expect to discover the point at which our
party square is camped.
—Now PENROSE is to organize a new
party under the title of LINCOLN party.
Poor WASHINGTON and LINCOLN must
surely turn in their tombs if they are
made God-father to more such propagan-
das as ROOSEVELT and PENROSE are pa-
rading with their names.
—The Progressives of New York have
nominated OscAR S. STRAUS, CLEVE-
LAND'S Minister to Turkey and RoOSE-
VELT'S Secretary of Commerce and La-
bor, as their candidate for Governor. It
was entirely unexpected, but a particu-
larly strong nomination.
—New Paris skirts are being made on-
ly twenty-two inches wide, but these will
be worn only by the ladies to whom na-
ture has not been as generous as she
might have been. Because you must
bear in mind that one of pa’s pant legs is
twenty-two inches wide at the knee and
pa has only one lean leg in that.
—When Wooprow WILSON learned of
the nomination of OSCAR STRAUS for the
office of Governor of New York by the
Progressives, he said: “It is an admira-
ble ticket and an admirable platform. It
will put us on our mettle.” Can you im-
agine ROOSEVELT expressing himself in
such a manly and fair way about a Dem-
ocratic ticket anywhere.
—At least we have not heard that our | pelieve
Progressive friends, who are so particu.
lar about who contributes to, and the
kind of money that is to be used in the
campaign, have reached that degree of
purity that only a church contribution or
a Sunday school collection will be accept-
able to them. Anyway we may be near.
er the political millennium than we im-
chance of electing either Bull Moose or
Republican electors with the party divid-
ed as it is. The total vote of the State
will probably be about 1,408,000, of which
the Socialists, Prohibitionists and other
“also rans” will get 100,000. The 1,300,
000 will go to the Republican, Democrat-
ic and Bull Moose candidates in a ratio
that will guarantee a plurality to WIiL-
SON.
For example, it is reasonable to esti
mate WILSON'S vote, in round figures, at
500,000 which leaves to be divided be-
tween TAFT and RGOSEVELT 800,000. Of
this total ROOSEVELT will receive 60 per
cent., or 480,000 and TAFT 40per cent. or
320,000. This is giving ROOSEVELT all
that he can hope for and TAFT quite as
many as he will get. We are also allow-
ing for an increase in the votes of the So-
cialists, Prohibitionists and scattering of
a fraction over 25 per cent., as compared
with the result four years ago, and the
partisans of those candidates will hardly
claim a greater increase. The ratio of
increase in the two great parties is also
conservative and reasonable.
In 1908 TAFT polled in Pennsylvania
745,779. He was a popular candidate of
a united and successful party. This year
the party is hopelessly divided. There-
fore, an increase of about 30,000 is all
that can be expected. Four years ago
BRYAN, the Democratic candidate, polled
448,782 votes and we estimate a gain
for WILSON on that total of over 50,000.
Mr. BRYAN has some irreconcilable ene-
mies among the Democrats of Pennsylva-
nia which probebly reduced his vote 10,-
000, so that the actual Democratic vote
in 1906 was in the neighborhocd of 460,
000. This year the party is an enthusi-
astic and militant unit and with the ac-
cessions of Republicans certain to come
WiLson will have easily 500,000 votes.
But BiLL FLINN has no interest in the
Bull Moose candidates any more than
PENROSE has an interest in the TAFT can-
didacy. FLINN wants to control the Re-
publican organization, however, and is
therefore anxious to procure the election
of his candidates for Auditor General and
State Treasurer. This achieved he will
slip back into the Republican fold and
hold the organization for his personal ag-
grandizement. PENROSE would like to
continue in control of the patronage of
this great State if there were a possibili-
ty of electing TAFT, but there is no such
possibility and the sooner opposition is
set up to POWELL and YOUNG the better
for the Republican party.
Democrats Faithful to Wilson.
Probably the most significant feature
of the Vermont election lies in the fact
that ROOSEVELT drew no strength from
the Democratic electorate. He polled
more votes than his enemies believed
possible, if not as many as he himself ex-
pected, but all of his supporters were Re-
publicans, Possibly in the event that he
had not been a candidate some, if not all,
his voters would have supported the
Democratic candidate for Governor. But
that is a matter of conjecture at best and
the fact remains that the Democratic
vote remained faithful to the Democratic
party. Nearly the entire gain of votes in
the State since the last presidential year
went to the Democracy.
The Bull Moose party managers have
insisted from the beginning that RoOSE-
veLT would draw almost as heavily from
the Democratic as from the Republican
forces. In fact upon that expectation
they have built their hope of electing
him. They have never claimed that he
would get a majority of the Republican
votes but have contended that those he
would draw from the Republicans and
those he would get from the Democrats
would make a safe majority. It is now
proved that these hopes will be disap-
pointed. The ROOSEVELT candidacy will
simply divide the Republican vote and
give the Democrats a plurality in. most
of the States. In the division ROOSEVELT
will probably get about one-third.
Democrats can see no reason why they
should vote for any candidate other than
the admirable nominee of their own par-
ty. He is sufficintly progressive for any
i
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA, SEPTEMBER 13. 1912.
Democrats who hoped the party would
carry Maine last Monday have been dis-
appointed. The Republican candidate
has been elected by a small majority
probably less than 3,000, certainly not
much over that. It was an absurd hope
anyway. Within fifty years the Demo-
crats have carried the State only once in
a presidential year. There was little rea-
son to expect any other result this year.
There was no division in the Republican
ranks on the question of State candidates
and State policies. The differences upon
the presidential candidate helped the
State ticket for the friends of TAFT and
ROOSEVELT vied with each other for the
credit of the result.
Republican majorities in Maine in pres.
idential years during the last half cen.
tury have gone as high as 50,000 and
never before lower than 18,000. The
measly 3,000 of this year, therefore, is a
defeat, if not a disaster. In the Novem
ber election the Republican vote will be
divided substantially upon the ratio of
the Vermont election. That is to say,
TAFT will receive about sixty-six per cent
of the total and ROOSEVELT the remaind-
er. That should give the electors of the
State to WILSON, as certainly as those of
Georgia will be for him. The State is-
sues upon which the gubernatorial con-
test was based will not be considered
The November battle will be fought upon
the tariff issue.
Both the TAFT and ROOSEVELT Repub-
licans will pretend to rejoice over the
success of HAINES over PLAISTED, but it
will only be a pretense. If the majority
had been normal there might be some
reason in building a hope for November
upon it. But it is far below the normal
Even an 18,000 Republican majority was
interpreted as a Democratic victory and
this year anything less than a 25,000 Re-
publican majority must be regarded as a
defeat for that party on account of the
increased public interest in the contest in"
cident to ROOSEVELT'S candidacy. It is
true that ROOSEVELT didn't speak in
Maine, but it is equally true that neither
EE —
A Nuisance That Needs Abatement.
If any one anywhere has knowledge of
a town the size and importance of Belle-
fonte that permits a railroad company to
use its principal streets as a freight and
classification yard, the WATCHMAN would
be glad to know the name of the place,
There are few towns in the State with
the natural beauty that Bellefonte can
boast. There are none in the State that
pay higher taxes or go togreater expense
to add to that beauty or to maintain con-
ditions creditable alike to the town and
its citizens. But for years and years the
railroad company has been permitted to
gather freight cars from all parts of the | And
county and from all the different roads
entering it—haul them into the centef
and busiest part of the town and then see-
saw them back and forward across its
principal thoroughtare until classified and
ready to be attached to trains going east
west, north or south. And this work
done too with engines blowing off steam»
clanging of bells and in the noisiest man-
ner possible, while citizens of the town
who are taxed to keep up the streets are
compelled to stand and wait until it suits
the company’s employees to allow themto
use it.
If there were any reason why this nui:
sance and public annoyance should be
submitted to by our people, or, if there
were any necessity for the town giving up
its principal thoroughfare for the pur-
poses for which the railroad company
uses it, then there might be some excuse
for allowing its continued use for classi-
fying cars and making up freight trains.
But there is none. A number of years | ily
age the company purchased a good sized
meadow just outside the borough limits
in order to make a freight yard. It put
down a few tracks where it now stores its
freight cars after they have been classi- | Si
fied up in the town. In place of going
ahead and completing the needed yards,
it leased the balance of the property to
the Match company for storage grounds—
evidently intending to continue indefinite-
ly its classification and shifting work up
in the town just as long as our people wil}
of the Republican factions antagonized | Put up with it.
the other and the party was united on
the candidate for Governor.
much part in politics, but he is a safe
and sane business man and his contribu.
tion of $5,000 to the WILSON campaign
fund will convince a good many of his
Hebrew friends that the Democratic nom.
inee is a safe man to vote for.
An 0d Bad Practice Restored.
The State treasury, according to the
Harrisburg newspaper correspondents, is
falling back into the old habit of hold-
ing up the school funds. Previous to the
induction of WiLLIAM H. BERRY into that
office, in 1906, it was the custom to with.
hold payment of the school appropriation
as long as the school authorities would
stand for it. When Mr, BERRY came in-
to the office he hastened the payment of
this money for the reason that it was
necessary to keep the schools at the
highest state of efficiency. The school
term opens about the first of September
and there are always repairs to make
and other preliminary expenses to meet
and Mr. BERRY could see no reason why
prompt payme::t shouldn't be made.
The Republican machine managers
could find a good many reasons for with-
holding these payments, however. In
the first place the interest on State funds
is only two per cent. per annum and
most any bank is willing to‘'pay double
that amount for money that can be de-
pended upon for a considerable or given
time. Thedifference between the amount
paid to the State and that which the
banks were willing to pay to somebody
filtered into the Republican campaign
fund in one way or another. In other
words some bankers contributed their
share of it to the fund directly and oth-
ers paid it to some one authorized by the
State committee to collect it. The ulti-
mate result was the same. ;
Mr. BERRY’'S successor in the office
showed an inclination to be tardy in pay-
ing the school appropriations but was
promptly “jacked up” by the vigilant
newspapers. He offered the excuse that
the funds were not needed by the school
authorities until about the time teachers’
salaries became due but that subterfuge
fooled nobody and the payments were
hurried. The treasurer who came into
office in 1910 either followed the exam:
ple of his predecessor or escaped cen-
sure for his failure. But this year, ac-
is plenty of money in the vaults, the
school term has been on some days and
little money has been paid.
A E—————
On several occasions council has sent
committees to ask that something be
done to abate this annoyance. They were
cordially received and sent home withthe
understanding that the wishes of our peo-
ple would be complied with. Individual
citizens have done the same and came
back with the same story. Years have
gone by since the first assurance was giv-
en that the change would be made. But
up to this time no effort or movement has
been made in that direction. The com-
pany has been able and had time to spend
thousands upon thousands of dollars to
give Tyrone a park and pleasure grounds
for its citizens. It is now spending hun-
dreds of thousands of dollars to improve
and modernize its lines, but Bellefonte
that furnishes it more traffic than any
town it touches, is not only given the go-
by in the way of either flower beds or
lawns, but is expected to have the busi-
ness held up by the occupancy of her
streets with freight shifting and her citi-
zens annoyed with freight blockades and
the interminable noises and nuisances at-'
tended thereon. :
In all earnestness we ask the town
council how long this condition of affairs
is to be permiited to exist ?
——Dr. CHARLES B. PENROSE, of Phil a-
delphia, now touring Europe, announces
that he is for Wooprow WIiLsON for
President. There is an old adage to the
effect that “straws show where the wind
blows” and this announcement from Lon-
don may be significant taken in connec-
tion with other incidents of existing po-
litical conditions in Pennsylvania.
——The real Progressives, such men as
Dr. Harvey W. WiLey and RUDOLPH
SPRECKLES, are supporting WOODROW
WILSON for President. Only those who | Win
professed reform in order to get office are
following the Bull Moose into unexplored
pastures in the hope of finding there that | The third
which they can’t hope for elsewhere.
ed
~——Governor CUMMINS, of Iowa, de.
clares that he is for ROOSEVELT. But
that was probably a dog-day dream.
Cummins will change his allegiance half
a dozen times between now and the elec-
tion unless he has changed his mental
habits greatly since Congress adjourned.
TE Sr—
——While at work reinforcing an over--
head bridge on the New York Central
railroad at Snow Shoe, last Friday after-
noon, O. W. Brickley, a carpenter and
contractor of Lock Haven, fell from the
structure to the ground, a distance of ten
feet, fracturing his left hip. He was as-
sisting in swinging a heavy piece of tim.
ber into place when the bar he was work-
ing with slipped and losing his balance
he fell to the ground. He was taken on
the train to the Lock Haven hospital
where he is now under treatment. His
injury will lay him up for six weeks or
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NO. 36.
Why American Meats Sell Lower in
London Than in New York.
From the Newark (N. J.) Evening News.
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The Vermont Result.
From the Johnstown Democrat.
Qué big fact stands out plain and un-
e in the Vermont result.
Roosevelt has split the par-
ty wide open.
He has almost evenly divided the
Strength of that party with President (jon
Another fact is equally clear and equal-
His vote in Ver-
the ex-
pense of the party.
The Democrats not only held their
forces intact. ey were actu: able
to increase thelh, > actual gain was
ess than some had expected.
t it was a gain.
be ented In Maine 1 Bighty. probable,
ne y PI
Maine has become a De State in
erin hay swi the at of the
a m
: ote to himself, but he will
develop in the November elections.
almost evety State in the Union
pai phage tego
cent. ul
will get next to no from the Demo-
crats. ne
in the
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
ago . — rae, beg
“Phe sixteenth annual groundhog hunt will be
held at the Henry Rudolph farm near Punxsutaw-
ney, on September 25. A number of distinguished
visitors will be guests. ot
~—Theodore Boser, aged 35, sitting on the roof
of a box car at St. Mary's was struck by light-
ning a few nights ago and killed. Not a mark
could be found on the car,
—The story that a report had come from Dr.
Dixon's office condemning Mt. Union's water
supply is denied by state board of health officials.
Experts have put an O. K. on the supply.
—With the removal of the small pox card from
the home of Rev. Albert Berkley, of Johnstown,
the last case growing out of the attendance of
MiNGraceSpsagey & 3 reunion will have pass-
—After eighty-five hours work the high land
slide at Shannon, Clarion county, has been clear
ed by P. R. R. workmen. The low grade division
running out of DuBbis has never before had such
‘| trouble.
—At last reports form Williampsport, the body
of Miss Mary Shaw, of Jersey Shore, drowned in
‘| the Susquehanna on Labor Day, had not been
recovered, notwithstanding the most diligent
searchers.
—Foreign names were conspicuous in the list
of boys and girls who won prizes offered by the
Woman's club, of Latrobe, for best results obtain-
ed from seeds distributed among school children
in the spring.
~The Broad Top Coal and Mineral company
fears a diphtheria epidemic as the result of two
children from Jacobs who died at Robertsdale,
having been recently moved there. Extensive
fumigation is in progress.
=Rev. C. C. Snavely, of Danville, who tempor-
arily retired from the ministry, has been appoint.
ed pastor of St. Paul's Methodist church, Hazel
ton, to succeed Rev. Dr. J. B. Stein, recently
named as superintendent of the Danville district.
~Two large cages used in the hoist at the Yel.
low Run mine of the Mountain Coal company
near Beaverdale, were wrecked recently and
when they dropped 300 miners at the bottom of
the shaft waiting on them narrowly escaped
~John Yarish, who had served his time in the
Sunbury jail for burglary and had two months
yet to stay on account of fines, climbed the wall
and made his escape. It is thought that he feared
arrest elsewhere as soon as liberated and decided
to liberate himself.
=A large number of Odd Fellows, representing
26 counties, with a membership of over 30,000, in-
terested in the Central Pennsylvania Orphanage,
near Sunbury, assembled on the reservation on
Sept. 2 and dedicated a new $10,000 school build-
ing for the orphans.
~—One of the big furnaces at the Sweet steel
plant, Williamsport, went through the floor
when the foundation gave way. Fortunately no
one was near enough to be hurt and the worst is
that men will beout of work for several weeks
during repairs and the firm sustains considerable
loss.
—The residents of Sunbury are endeavoring to
raise $100,000 by subscription to secure the big
plant of the Barber Car Co. now located at York,
and up to this time $60,000 has been secured. The
remaining $40,000 must be forthcoming by Sept.
25, and it is confidently expected the full amount
will be secured.
=The coroner's jury in the case of the Ligonier
valley wreck placed the blame on the lack of sys.
tem, for which the company is held responsible.
This verdict exonerated Conductor Kuhn, whose
testimony that he did not have orders to hold his
was believed by the jury. The conductor's
ame was not mentioned in the verdict.
—No hunting of deer will be permitted by the
Pennsylvania state game commission in the
Somerset and Westmoreland counties, next hunt-
ing season, which opens Nov. 15. The game com.
mission wants the deer to increase in these coun
ties before they are killed by the hunters.
—A few days ago employees of the Derry sand
works had just completed preparations for a
blast when a terrific thunder storm came up. All
ran for a shelter and a few moments later were
astonished to hear the roar that indicated the
dynamite had let go. Lightning had fired the
blast more effectively than the usual batteries.
—State Commissioner of Health Samuel G.
disappeared
two weeks ago, have been unavailing. The police
are being aided in their search by members of
family. Before her marriage she was
Johnstown. She had a wide
g
t effect of its presence
—~Officers are on the hunt for two professional
| sneak-thieves who a few days ago made a haul of
jewelry valued at $500 and $50 in cash at the new
Cameron hotel, Lewisburg. One of the men ar-
rived at the hotel at about 3 o'clock in the after-
noon and asked for a room on the first sleeping
will be to make Taft abso- | goor. The other came in an hour later and asked
for a room on the top floor. They registered as
G. E. Small, of New York, and J. M. Harris, of
Philadelphia. The supposition ja that while pi.
lutely impossible and Wilson certain.