BY P. GRAY MEEK. —Tomorrow will be the first day of fall. —Wooprow WiLsoN will win. Be sure to be on the winning side. —Those Mexican rebels are experienc- ng no approach of cooler, fall weather. The federal soldiers are too hot on their heels. —Western New York givesgreat prom- ise of an increase in the crab apple crop. Miss ELizA APPLE and Mr. Bois CRABBE have just been married at Canandaigua. —If the Freshman class at State keeps growing we wouldn't be surprised to see the Sophs, Juniors and Seniors wearing the green caps and having] 'the molasses baths. —Just as if he hadn't trouble enough with the Bull Moosers in his own coun- try at the present time, President TAFT seems very willing to get into more down in Mexico. —So far we have not heard of any po- litical “knock outs” since JoHN L. SULLI- VAN entered the ROOSEVELT ring. Evi dently JoHN's mouth had less force than his fist once had. —Possibly if the Standard Oil compa- ny would pour a little more oil on the troubled political waters that threaten to engulf the g. o. p. it would have a quiet- ing effect on the tempest now raging about it. —The Banker's convention at its late meeting unanimously favored a proposi- tion to reduce letter postage to a one cent rate. Possibly making a bid for a con- tinuation of Mr. ARCHBOLD'S commu- nications. —Governor JOHNSON it is said return- ed to California last week thoroughly dis- gusted with the east. How queer the mutuality of feelings. That's exactly the sentiment the Standpatters hereabouts had for him. —That Lock Haven citizen who, after being basted by his wife with a coal scut- tle, went down to Harrisburg and enlisted in the regular army, evidently thought if he had to fight he'd rather do it away from home. —People wondered why last Sunday was so peacefully quiet and so pleasantly restful. They discovered the reason when Monday's papers brought the infor. mation that Mr. ROOSEVELT took the en- tire day off for rest. —Today (Friday,) the PENROSE end of the Republican party will put up, at Har- risburg, its TAPT electors. And it will be just eight weeks from next Tuesday that every mother’s son of them will be properly knocked down. —From the look of the second day's registry in the cities of the State there must be a goodly number of voters who don’t intend participating in the festivi- ties of the occasion, or are willing to take their chances at the third table. —A Blair county Bull Mooser has gone back to the Standpatters because he couldn't follow a man who insisted on dragging into the campaign old R. Mc- GEDDON and the interminable trouble he had always been mixed up with. —Admiral NogGl, the Japanese hero of Port Arthur, and his wife committed sui- cide as a mark of devotion to their dead Emperor. Such tragic acts are not in- frequent in Japan and China, but they will grow more so as the spirit of chris- tian enlightenment grows in those lands. —The last of the murderers of ROSEN- THAL, the New York gambler, has beer caught. It remains to be seen whether justice will be as determined now as she was before Gyp the Blood and Lefty Louie were caught. Upon that hinges the respect that the world must have for the courts of New York. —The time for trying an experimeng in changing our governmental custodians is here. Make up your mind to hustle and vote for Wooprow WILSON. Follow his every act as Governor of New Jersey and you will be convinced that he is the man who will get a fair deal for you if he is made President of the United States, —Governor JOHNSON is of the opinion that his running-mate has “more to en- lighten the country than all its preachers combined.’”” But since Governor JOHNSON said that President TAFT is 2 more hu- miliating figure in American history than AARON BURR anybody with a grain of sense realizes that he is a blatherskite whose utterances are not to be taken se- riously. —President TAFT will be in Altoona on Wednesday, September 25th, ostensi- bly to attend the semi-centennial celebra- tion of the Loyal War Governors’ confer- ence in that city, but those on the inside say that he is really coming to a secret conference with Dr. LOCKE and BiLL BROWN, who are said to be ready to throw the Bull Moose if the President can show them some goods worth having. —A good Member in the next session of the Legislature should introduce a bill making it unlawful for a driver of an automobile to use his “cut-out” within the limits of a municipal corporation; punishable by the revocation of his li- cense. This thing of running cars with the muffler open just to hear how the en- gine is “Hitting” is all very pretty for the driver but a d— nuisance so far as oth- ers are concerned. a VOL. 57. Mischievous Political ‘Maneuvering. We can imagine nothing more inimical to Democratic success in the approach- ing election than the persistent gossip concerning fusion on the State ticket in Pennsylvania. Several meetings of the so-called managers of the Democratic and Keystone parties have been held al- ready, according to the newspapers, and the subject is still pending. The ostensi- ble purpose of these meetings is to de- clare vacancies on both tickets in order that these self-appointed leaders may fill them with men of both organizations en- tirely obedient to their masters. The ac- tual result of them is to feed the vanity and flatter the ambition of these leaders by making the public believe that they have the right to do such things. The last Democratic State convention was the most completely bossed body that has ever sat in Pennsylvania. Mr. A. MITCHELL PALMER, GEORGE W. GUTH- RIE, VANCE MCCORMICK and JAMES L BLAKESLIE, in secret conference, made a program which provided for the distribu- tion of the most desirable favors among themselves and those of lesser impor- tance among the more servile of their worshippers, without regard to merit or fitness. Nobody dreamed of carrying the State at the time and the nomina- tions for State offices were traded for support for the program. A ticket thus made could hardly be strong under the most favorable circumstances. The ticket made is not strong and it is now proposed to weaken it further by with- drawing the strongest member of it, Mr. R. E. CRESSWELL. As a matter of fact there is no Key- stone party in this State outside of Phil- adelphia and it is doubtful if there is enough political integrity in it there to elect a precinct assessor. There are In- dependent Republicans all over the State disgusted with ROOSEVELT and dissatis- fied with TAPT who will vote the Demo- cratic ticket if they are not driven from the purpose by these huckstering poli- ticians who assume to be leaders. These accessions to the Democratic party ranks might and probably will elect the Demo- cratic presidential electors and the State ticket. But that desirable result is not being promoted by the secret meetings between a handful of Democratic bosses and Keystone dictators. -—TAFT is not making any speeches and there is a good deal of mental specu- lation as to the reason. One set imagine that it is because there is no money in the campaign treasury to pay the travel- ing and other expenses and others con- tend that the campaign committee has muzzled him on account of the blunders made during his preconvention stumping tour. Take Time by the Forelock. The people can perform no better serv- ice for the State of Pennsylvania and country at large than electing a Demo- cratic majority of the Senate and House of Representatives in the General Assem- bly, this year. Mr. FLINN has said some bitter things about PENROSE and the con- sensus of opinion among thoughtful citi. zens is that he has been none too severe. Senator PENROSE has accused FLINN of grave political crimes and the almost universal opinion of the people is that he has proved every charge. In other words the Republican boss and the Bull Moose boss in Pennsylvania are equally unfit to represent moral and intelligent constitu- encies in the public life of the country. Yet the election of one or the other of these political charlatans to the Unit- ed States Senate becomes inevitable un- less there is a Democratic majority on joint ballot at the meeting of the Legis- lature in 1915. Every Senator chosen at the election on the 5th of November this year will occupy a seat in that ses- sion if he lives and remains out of jail. The Representatives in the Legislature to be elected at the coming election will not participate in the election for United States Senator in 1915 but they will assist in framing legislation which will make fraud and corruption impossi- ble at that time. Electing Democrats this year will simply be “taking time by the forelock.” Every citizen of Pennsylvania is con- cerned in the good repute of our official life. It is wisely and justly reasoned that good citizens choose good men to repre- sent them. It is equally certain that where the public life is corrupt the citi- zenship is deficient in moral fiber. If half what FLINN has said of PENROSE is true, and the people believe it is, he is a disgrace in the Senate. If even a frac- tion of what has been said against FLINN is true, and the public knows it is all true, his election to the Senate would | stamp the peopie of Pennsylvania as moral perverts. The only way to pre- | vent these disgraceful results is to elect a majority of Democrats to the General STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. Penrose and Flinn Agree. If current political gossip can be de- pended upon the PENROSE and FLINN forces have come to an agreement which is mutually satisfactory to those party leaders. PFNROSE agrees to support the BiLL FLINN candidates for Auditor Gen- eral and State Treasurer and FLINN agrees to take the Bull Moose candidates for presidential electors off the Republi. can ticket. While the negotiations for this deal were in progress each of the heads of the factions was denouncing the other with all the vituperative energy he could command. There were no epithets too coarse or brutal for them to employ. But the negotiations went on just the same. If each trusted the other implicitly there could be no greater earn- estness. In the bargain, it is safe to say, FLINN has secured vastly the best of it. It gives TAFT a small chance to carry the State on the electoral ticket, but the chance is so small that it's hardly worth considering. He has been gaining on ROOSEVELT lately and will continue to gain. But the best he is likely to do is keep the ROOSEVELT vote below that of WiLsoN. On the other hand the agree- ment strengthens very materially the chances of electing FLINN'S candidates for Auditor General and State Treasurer, thus clinching his grip on the Republican State machine and putting PENROSE for all time on the political scrap-heap. With his friends in those offices FLINN becomes the Republican boss. But the significant thing about these trading operations is the absolute indif- ference to principle that is revealed on both sides. FLINN, protesting his devo- tion to ROOSEVELT, sacrifices that party ingrate as ruthlessly as ROOSEVELT sacri- ficed TAFT in entering the contest for the nomination. The only chance which | ROOSEVELT had for carrying Pennsylva- | nia was in keeping the Bull Moose candi- | dates for elector on the Republican tick- | et. But in doing that he might have im- paired the chances of electing YOUNG | and PoweLL and incidently punctured | his own ambition to become Republican | boss. He was cas careful to do neither, | however, and though ROOSEVELT is made | to suffer FLINN takes care of himself. i ——The embargo against American | salt pork has been modified in France! and unless the price comes down most of the product will have to be marketed there or in “some other seaport.” Elect Cresswell and Berry. In the confusion incident to the quar- i rel between FLINN and PENROSE there is ! more than an even chance of carrying the State for WILSON and electing the Democratic candidates for Auditor Gen- eral and State Treasurer. That would be a splendid achievement in the inter- est of civic betterment. It was clearly shown in the capitol graft investigation and the subsequent trial of the grafters in the Dauphin county court, that nearly all the grafting is done by the Board of Public Grounds and Buildings. That board is composed of the Governor, the Auditor General and the State Treasur- er. The election of Cresswell and BER- RY will give the Democrats a majority of the board. Those who know ROBERT E. CRESS- WELL, of Johnstown, understand what will happen if he gets a seat in that board: and in the majority. Mr. CRrEss- WELL is a militant reformer. He wiil not be content with exposing iniquity. He will bend his energies to the work of ferreting it out and eradicating it. An honest administration of the office, mere- ly, will not satisfy him. He will insist on BERRY than by bringing voters to the if any, Republicans who will vote for to administer public duties justly are not made of the metal that can be moulded in that way. Therefore invest every ef- fort to elect CRESSWELL and BERRY. ——The distinction of making the first picture post card is claimed by a French- man. Some pian ought to be devised to properly punish him if his identity is properly established. BELLEFONTE, PA. SEPTEMBER 20, 1912. Beggar Justice Has Spoken. Thank heaven it has come at last. Mr. THEODORE JUSTICE, of Philadelphia, has gravely announced that in the event of the election of Woobprow WILSON to the Presidency, “the bottom will drop out of our industries.” We knew Mr. Justice would say that or something like that at some period of the campaign un- less his vocal cords were completely par- alyzed and the delay in the appearance of his customary calamity howl led us to apprehend that something had happened to him. That would be a great loss to the public. More than any other indi- vidual! we know Mr. JUSTICE contributes to the “gaiety of nations.” His hyster- ical shrieks are exceedingly amusing. Mr. THEODORE JUSTICE is a manufactur- er of woolens and for many years has been an insatiable beggar for government The favors. With a tariff tax averaging in the neighborhood of 100 per cent. he has been fleecing the consumers of woolen goods or forcing them to wear shoddy garments until he has probably grown immensely rich from the largesses he has received. He has been among those who have been planting the germs of tuber- culosis in all sections of the country by making the cost of needed clothing too high to be procured by any except the rich. But he is never satisfied. He wants his source of graft continued as long as he lives. He can't endure the thought of giving up anything he has. But Mr. THEODORE JUSTICE will be dis- appointed in the result of the election. Woobprow WILSON will be elevated to the Presidency but the bottom won't drop out of our industries. The indus- trial leeches who have been sucking the blood of the people may let go but their places will be taken by intelligent, self-reliant and reputable men who will add strength to our industrial life and area to our commercial operations. The country is tired of the millionaire men- dicant who can’t do business unless pam- pered with government aid and fed by a Congressional spoon. This country is as able to accomplish results as any other and that notwithstanding the calamity iwowlers. ~The Woodrow Wilson club of Belle- fonte met in the grand jury room in the court house on Wednesday evening but owing to the small crowd present on ac- count of the Grange encampment at Cen- tre Hall no business was transacted. The next meeting will be held in the court house next Tuesday evening when every- body interested in the progressive reform movement for which Governor Wilson stands is urged to be present. A number of good speakers will be secured for the occasion and an interesting meeting is assured. The committee appointed to secure permanent quarters for the club have secured the rooms in the Garman block recently vacated by Col. H. S. Tay- lor. They will get possession in a week or two when regular meetings will be held there. —There are 13,003 pages in the Record covering the proceedings of the session of Congress just ended. Inasmuch as none of them were necessary to record the sayings or doings of our Representative in that body we presume Mr. PATTON will make part ot his campaign for re- election on the plea that he just sat still | tO and kept quiet in order to save expense in having the Record printed. ——ROOSEVELT ventures the sugges- tion that Governor WILSON'S view of the powers of government “is a bit of out- worn academic doctrine.” But thought- ful people of the country will form a dif- ferent opinion on the subject. Restrain- ing usurpers is not “outworn academic doctrine.” ———While the Coionel is on the Pacific side of the Rockies the papers of the East have space for a greater variety ot news. But we can’t hope that the Colonel will remain on the Pacific side of the Rockies always. The lime light out there isn't strong enough to hold him. -—S0 long as one considerable group of men give dinners at $500 a plate and other groups, much greater in number, are compelled to supply tables for fami. lies of five or ten for $5 a week, there will be discontent. —After Mr. BRYAN has followed the trail of the Bull Moose a few weeks there will be less excitement in the political forest. The teeth may be as obvious as ever but the mooing will be milder in tone. —So far the straw seems to be occupying a back seat the campaign EE — —An interesting letter from Rev. Samuel H. McClure, of Chefoo, China, will be published in the WATCHMAN next week, having been crowded out of this vote in 1H es $05 § * y to and American competition.” A dispatch from Berlin says: “On the other hand, cham- bers of commerce, merchants’ Silas and other associations represen small Sateen, 2 well a tue daily a re concerns, or a reduction or the suspension of the tariff. The Berlin Merchants’ Guild, one of sanest and most respected insti Europe, sent a special and urgent appeal to the government urging the removal of the duty on American bacon.” Yet the t will not grant any of the relief which all the e ask. Isn't this a dreadful picture of the effects of an aberration, of a lack of common sense? whol oF though Ameri tack dealers. It will be noticed both countries the men are able to strain themselves nobly. It is the - en who object most strongly to ng of extoronate prices; Wd one boycott in the United States all lity, been broken by who objected to the absence f the table of some article of food. American citizen should help to tain high protective tariff rates, when he sees their effects in two countries? 5 A —— A Charming Masquerade. From the Johnstown Democrat. It is evident that the Hon. George M. Yaris aud the Hon. ei% 1 mnwen ado not propose to let an: in their effort to win in ES Not content with the nominations already in at else remaining in sight. ne One of their latest efforts is signalized in the filing of nomination papers at Har- risburg on the ive ticket—Mr. Wertz for the Senate and Mr. Hartman for the House of Representatives at Washington. It seems to have made no difference to these ambitious Statesmen that pre-emptions of the Progressive ti- Bac SF Hi tle for the torial and onal districts had been filed some time by rsons not at all in sympathy with the ertz-Hartman brand of progressiveism. It is rather odd to see these worthy re- Sctionarias ie the Penrose Standard smell upon r ts as Fam ET some n ng diverse especi in the Senator. No one better than he played the double role re- quired of one who must appeal in turn to the Anti-Saloon League and the Liquor Dealers’ Protective association. ; harmonize reconcile the one with the other, that which conflicts men need votesand feel that needed tomake gen they are sim, pest {isi hl another Centre countian, and a member of Company F. ~—=Subscribe for the WATCHMAN. tle. | found the fortune totaled $1,025. Knox is SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. —A prize bull, being taken home from the Westmoreland fair grounds, ran amuck in Greens- burg and wound up by fracturing his skull on the steps of a hotel. ~Charles Abrams, in whose store a $35,000 fire at Summerville a few days ago started, is in the Brookville jail under charge of incendiarism. The arrest caused great excitement in the village. ~The State Board of Health does not have any ysis. Punxsutawney wished it had, as there are four cases in that town and an epidemic is feared. ~Farmers in Berks county are now digging some of their potatoes and the crop is so large that they are offering the choicest stock at from 35 to 40 cents a bushel, with a limited demand at these prices. =]J. G. Brink, an Indiana county man paroled from the western penitentiary, didn't report ac- cording to program and was rearrested a few days since. He had three years left of a sentence for bribing a jury. ~With a murder trial and 75 other criminal tariff | cases on the docket, and many more yet to be re- turned, the September session on the North umberland county court, beginning next Mon- day, will be a busy one. ~—loe Mazzar, of Homer City, left his revolver lying on the table when he went out of a room at his home. When he returned a few moments lat- er his five-year-old son was so badly injured that he died two days afterward. —The close of the Punxsutawney fair was mar- red by three accidents. A horse broke a leg, one motorcycle rider crashed into the fence and —Topeo George, a watchman between Cone, maugh and AO tower, was held up, beaten and robbed a few nights ago. It is thought that the thugs arrived by freight, as the yards and tracks in that region are well guarded. —John Kearns, the youth who wakened from a drunken sleep to find himself in the West Newton lockup charged with having shot and killed a man, was found guilty of murder in the second degree. He is but 18 years old. —Harry G. Phillips, editor of the Montoursville Republic, convicted of libel on charge brought by H. S. Meyer, former prothonotary of Lycoming county, was let go on asuspended sentence, after an exhortation to be more careful in future. —A coroner's jury exonerated officials of the Wharton Coal company in Coral from all blame for the mine explosion which killed one man and injured two Monday morning after the mine had been pronounced safe by government experts. —Tony Fernando, who kept a little shoe repair shop within a square of the brewery, at Clear- field, attempted to lift a live wire off his house about five o'clock Saturday evening, and was caught by the strong electrical current and in- stantly killed by it. —In a tent on the Indiana fair grounds Ira Blume, a farmer of near Ebensburg, exhibited a black team of Percheron horses, that is said to weigh 2,100 pounds each. One was five and the other seven years of age. Mr. Blume believes they are the largest mated horses in the State. ~Sitting on a keg of dynamite, writing a letter to his sweetheart, Lloyd Reithmeiller, 18 years old, son of George Reithmeiller, a coal operator of Smicksburg, Indiana county, was fatally in- jured Friday evening when the powder house was demolished by an explosion. He died Saturday morning. ~One hundred thousand dollars for a home for poor and deserving Lutherans of all ages and both sexes is the principal bequest in the will of E. R. Artman, of Philadelphia. The will, which disposes of an estate valued at $1,000,000, pio- vides that the home must be established within 30 miles of Philadelphia. —Postmaster A. B. Clark, of Hastings, has re- turned from Punxsutawney, where he was in con- ference with a number of business men of that place, who have formed a realty company and re cently took over 28,000 acres of valuable fruit land in Florida. The tract includes some of the finest orange groves in the entire State. =T. C. Harding, of Coalport, formerly of Phil ipsburg, has just purchased the Beaver Valley mine, near that place, which he has been success- fully operating for the past two years. The deal includes the mine, equipment and lease covering 400 acres of valuable coal land. It is Mr. Hard- ing’s purpose to improve the property and in- crease its output, —No trace has been secured of Robert Pitch- ford, the 18-year-old son of Assemblyman Timothy Pitchford of South Fork, who disappeared nearly three weeks ago. The family recently received word that he had accepted a position at Colver, but failed to find him there. No reason for the disapperance of the lad has been assigned. as his home surroundings were of a most pleasant na- ture. ~The Pennsylvania Coal and Coke company has made the announcement that mine No. 6 at Ehrenfield, which has not been operated for the past seven years, will be worked to its capacity, The opening of the old mine will give employ" ment to over 550 men. All of the properties of the coal company are being extensively improv. ed, and plans are being made for the opening of « | some new workings in the Ehrenfield district. —In a deserted farm house two miles from Knox, Clarion county, four “Boy Scouts” dis- covered a keg of gold. When the grime and dust of years had been removed and the coins sorted on the floor of the old log house, it | almost as much asin thedays when oil was covered. The money has been placed to be held pending a decision of the cou the rightful owners. g i 8 8 5 § John K. Tener. —Assisted only by her 14-year-old son, Mrs. An- nie Patton, the widow of John Patton, of Boggs township, Armstrong county, is just completing the harvesting of crops grown, almost entirely through her own work. She plowed her fields, did the cultivating, sowing, cutting reaping, and has crops which compare favorably with those of neighboring farms run men. She has harvested crops including 214 bush els of wheat, over 400 bushels of oats, and plenty of com and potatoes and smaller vegetables. Mrs. Patton also attended to her household duties and is in excellent health as a result of her out-of- door exercise. gid
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