—Anyway this stuff about the “people
ruling” is the veriest flub-dub. It's the
fellows who register who do that job.
—BEER made the first touch-down for
the Academy in 1912. They say he is so
full of hops that he is very hard to tackle.
——That dam splash board is still in
place but a quietus has fallen over the
argument as te the right or wrong of its
being there.
—A New York woman has just applied
for a divorce from her aviator husband.
Doubtless for the purpose of saving her-
self his funeral expenses.
—Our Republican friends, up in New
York, are trying to hedge in every way
possible. Evidently they are hopeless of
finding comfort for Job in any other way.
—Mr. ROOSEVELT may have known
much of Bliss in former Republican cam-
paigns, but we doubt if he has even rec-
ognized it in the one he is now trying to
make.
—Newspaper reports give it that Mr.
ROOSEVELT is badly in need of a rest,
From general appearances we would
judge the public to be in about the same
condition.
—No matter what the weather man’s
predictions may be we can all rest assur-
ed of the fact that there'll never be
another September 30th, 1912, as cold as |
the last one was.
—From all the talk we hear from both
England and Ireland about an Ulster,
they must be mighty hard put to for
something to keep themselves warmed
up with over there.
—A Tamauqua painter has just closed a
contract for putting in 18,000 panes of
glass in the round house at that place.
There's one fellow, at least, who is will
ing to tackle a very paneful job.
—Hereafter, Mr. FLINN ought to be
able to speak as an expert on the cost of
being a State boss. A nine month's ef-
fort to get that job has cost him $144,-
308.29, and he is not sure that he has it
yet.
—After all, this continuous talk about
the “people ruling” is a good deal more
“hot air” than anything else. You can
find out just who the people are who do
“the ruling” by consulting the registry
list and the tax-collectors books after to-
morrow night.
—The fusion came about in the nat-
ural way which was the only way that
was tolerable. The Keystone candidate
for Auditor General withdrew in favor of
the Democratic candidate, while the tra-
ders in the disguise of both’ parties were
dickering over the matter.
—Mr. PATTON, we see, has at last got-
ten his name upon the FLINN-Washing-
ton ticket as well as upon the PENROSE-
Republican ticket, which forces the con-
clusion that he has much greater ability
in perfecting tickets that will help him-
self, than in securing legislation that will
help the people.
—The Philadelphia Record remarks
that “Reform is generally the offspring of
remorse.” We never thought of it just
in this way before, but now that we do
we are filled with wonderment as to
what our friends GUTHRIE and McCoOR-
MICK ever did that they should be such
zealous reformers.
~The Atlanta Journal remarks that
one man in every twelve at Atlantic City
is accused of wrong doing. Which really
means that the eleven others in every
twelve have been successful in keeping
their tracks covered, because we all know
what a weak thing a man is when he
gets to Atlantic City.
—In betting circles on the stock ex-
changes the odds are in favor of WILSON.
Everywhere, the belief is that he will be
elected President. No one fears that the
business of the country will be paralyzed
by his election. The best evidence that
can be secured that business is hopeful
of better things under his administration
is shown in the wonderful revival in the
steel and iron industries, the increased
earnings of railroads and the general op-
timistic outlook.
—That Gary, Indiana, newsboy who
voluntarily offered the skin off his crip-
pled left leg in order that the life of a
girl he didn’t know might be saved may
never brandish a big stick, shoot timid
deer in Africa and call women liars, but
in the hearts of those who cherish real
will ever
and fifty
square inches of healthy cuticle was
stripped from his limb and grafted onto
the body of the young woman it was am-
putated at the thigh.
~-Dr. FREDERICK A. CLEVELAND, chair-
man of President TAFT'S commission on
economy and efficiency, has just made
the startling statement that he believes,
with Senator ALDRICH, that $300,000,000
a year could be saved if our government
were run ona business-like basis. Think
of it, $3 saved for every man, woman
and child in the country every year!
Not by curtailing any of the benefits of
government, but merely by running the
government as you would your own bus-
iness. When President TAFT'S personal
investigator confirms the statement of a
Republican Senator made two years ago,
don’t you think it is time to have a
change and a house cleaning at Wash- | 5)
VOL. 57.
The Question of Strength.
Obviously the esteemed Johnstown
Democrat hopes to provoke us into imitat-
ing its own practice of opposing every
Democratic nominee who is not entirely
in accord with our views upon certain
unessential subjects. Two years ago it
exerted all its more or less powerful in-
fluence to compass the defeat of Con-
gressman WiLsON of the Fifteenth dis-
trict because he had adopted his own
notion of working out the result which
the Democrat desired, instead of its way.
But we are not given to that form of
political folly. In other words, though
the Democratic candidates on the state
ticket, that phrase embracing the six
candidates named by the State conven-
tion, are not strong candidates, we sup-
port all of them and cannot be betrayed
into an expression of which are the
strong and which the weak among them.
We repeat, however, that the late Demo-
cratic State convention was "the most
completely bossed body that has ever sat
in Pennsylvania.” Mr. PALMER, Mr.
GUTHRIE, Mr. McCorMICK and Mr.
BLAKESLIE, "in secret conference, made a
program which provided for the distribu-
tion of the most desirable favors among
themselves and those of lesser importance
among the more servile of their follow-
ers.” A review of the results of that
convention is abundant proof of that
fact. Clearly the most desirable favors
of the convention were membership of
the National committee, the chairman of
the State committee and delegates-at-
large in the National convention. Upon
the bestowal of these favors by the con-
vention there was no string. The action
of the convention, except in the case of
member of the National committee, was
final.
How were these great and certain favors
distributed. Hon. A. MITCHELL PALMER
was made the member of the National
committee, and delegate-at-large to the
National convention. Hon. GEORGE W.
GUTHRIE was made chairman of the State
committee and delegate-at-large to the
National convention. Hon. Vance C.
McCormick was made delegate-at-large
to the National convention. and Mr.
WARREN WORTH BAILEY was similarly
honored. We would not have it under-
stood that we have objection to such dis-
position of these favors. Those gentle.
men had “paid the freight,” and were
entitled to some consideration. But to
contemplate for a moment the political
stragglers who completed the list of
delegates-at-large, as the result of the
trading operations to effect the harmony
to which the Johnstown Democrat alludes,
is to make one laugh.
Both Wise and Patriotic.
The withdrawal of Mr. CORNELIUS D,
ScuLLy, candidate of the Keystone party,
with the recommendation that his friends
support Hon. ROBERT E. CRESSWELL, the
Democratic nominee for that office, is a
creditable exhibition of self-abnegation
and unselfishness upon the part of Mr.
Scurry. The subsequent nomination of
Mr. CressweLL by the Keystone State
committee, to fill the vacancy caused by
the withdrawal of Mr. ScuLLy, is a sub-
stantial proof of fidelity to the highest
ideals upon the part of the managers of
that organization. It afforded an oppor-
tunity for all the friends of good govern-
ment to unite on a ticket that is both fit
and worthy of confidence.
The only way to retrieve the State of
Pennsylvania from the plunderers who
have been despoiling it for years is in the
election of candidates for Auditor General
and State Treasurer who are unalterably
opposed to both PENROSE and FLINN, It
is an insult to the intelligence of the
voters to claim that one of these bosses
is better than the other or that candidates
chosen by one can be an improvement
upon those selected by the other. Of the
two bosses PENROSE is the safer and bet-
ter because of association and environ-
ment. But neither of them is fit to repre-
sent the civic aspirations and moral
hopes of the people of this State.
The election of CRESSWELL and BERRY
will put a majority of the Board of Public
Grounds and Buildings in control of the
opponents of the machine. It will create
a double check upon the operations of
the predatory machine. Mr. CRESSWELL
will issue the warrants upon the treasury
and Mr. BERRY will pay them. The in-
terests of the people will thus be guar-
anteed at both ends. If the vote of the
better element of the electorate were
divided, the candidates of the FLINN ma-
chine might have been successful. With
that vote united, there is no probability
of such a misfortune. For these reasons
Mr. SCULLY was patriotic in withdrawing
and the Keystone committee wise in the
choice of a successor.
—With the_indications_pointing to
the election of Wooprow WILSON by a
record majority, prosperity is
ington? If youdo vote for WILSON.
over the country. a
the calamity howlers.
STATE RIGHTS AND
BELLEFONTE, PA..
Plain Policy of Republicans.
In a speech delivered at New Orleans
the other day, Colonel ROOSEVELT declar-
ed that the Washington party “is a new
party with no connection with the old
Republican party or the old Democratic
party. We are through,” he continued,
“once and for all with the Republican
party.” In other words the BulljMoosers
have not only separated from their for-
mer political associates but they have
“burned the bridges behind them.” They
would have as much moral right to claim
a place on the Democratic ticket or the
Prohibition ticket as on the Republican
Yet Boss FLINN has been harrassing
the Republican managers of this State
for three months by holding Bull Moose
presidential electors on the Republican
ticket. His excuse for this action is in
the hope that he may thus be able to ex-
act from the Republican electors a
pledge that they will support the Bull
Moose candidates for Auditor General
and State Treasurer. The election of
the Bull Moose ticket will eliminate the
Republican party from the political equa-
tion in the State because it will turn the
Republican organization over to the Bulf
Moose managers. It is not likely that
the Republican managers will consent to
such an effacement.
The TAFT Republicans have nothing to
gain by such a bargain with BILLIFLINN
for the reason that it will not improve
TAFT’S chances of election. On the con-
trary they have much to lose because the
abject surrender will be fatal to future
rehabilitation. Whether ROOSEVELT is
elected or defeated he will be the head of
the Bull Moose party and he declares he
has left the old Republican party for
good and all. Therefore the election of
the Bull Moose candidates for Auditor
General and State Treasurer gives that
party a fairly substantial organization
while the Republicans wiil enjoy no such
advantage, in that event.
The only hope for the future existence
of a Republican party in Pennsylvania
lies in the defeat of the Bull Moose State
ticket. That will deprive FLINN of
while it will leave the regular Republi-
cans in good shape to recuperate from
the moral effect of FLINN'S temporary
victory. Under the circumstances the
course of the regular Republicans is
plain. They will vote against the Bull
Moose candidates, if they are wise.
—The most important work of the
campaign is yet to be performed. It is
seeing that the taxes are paid (for which
work tomorrow, Saturday, is the last day)
and getting out the vote. Unless these
are attended to all that has gone before
is wasted time and energy.
Hon. Alva Agee to Leave State College.
Hon. Alva Agee has resigned his
position at State College to take effect
December first, when he will go to Rutgers,
N. J., to take charge of the work of agri-
cultural extension in the New Jersey
School of Agriculture, at almost double
the salary he has been receiving at State
College. Mr. Agee came to State College
five years ago, at about the same time
that Dr. Thomas F. Hunt came here from
Cornell to take charge of the Experiment
Station and School of Agriculture. His
work along the line of agricultural ex-
tension has been so marked that from a
class of less than fifty in the agricultural
course five years ago the enrollment in
the same course has increased to over
five hundred.
The School of Agriculture at State Col-
lege will be minus four good men this
year. Dr. Thomas F. Hunt, who was at
the head of the school, has gone to Berke-
ley, Cal., as head of the California School
of Agriculture; Mr. Agee, who will go to
Rutgers, N. J., December 1st; Dr. Hugh
P. Baker, who was in charge of the for-
estry work at State College, has gone to
Syracuse, N. Y., as dean of the New York
State School of Forestry, and W. A.
Cochell, who has gone to Kansas as dean
of Animal Husbandry in the Kansas
State College. All four men have na-
tional reputations in their respective
lines of work and figured very largely in
bringing the State College School of Agri-
culture up to the very high plane of
efficiency which it occupied last year
when it was rated first in the United
States. That their loss will be felt—and
felt keenly—cannot be denied, but none
of them can be blamed for going where
their services were deemed worthy so
much greater remuneration.
—President TAFT is too easy a mark.
The bogus reports of growing public fa-
vor are really making him believe that
he has a chance of election. As a mat-
ter of fact heis only gaining on ROOSE-
VELT while WILSON is running away from
both of them.
—Don’t read an out-of-date paper. Get
all the news in the WATCHMAN.
even the nucleus of an orgamization ‘pay his own freight.
FEDERAL UNION.
Mr. WILLIAM FLINN testified before the
Senate committee on expenditures of
presidential campaigns that it cost him
$99,384.18 to carry the primary elections
in this State for ROOSEVELT. Other ex-
penditures before and since the Bul]
Moose convention in Chicago, have in-
creased the aggregate of his contributions
to the ROOSEVELT cause to $144,308.29,
That is a good deal of money to pay out
for the aggrandizement of another. Mr.
FLINN has easily earned the title of fath-
er bountiful. Only Mr. PERKINS, whom
ROOSEVELT saved from the penitentiary,
and Mr. MUNCEY, who has been drawing
dividends upon his patriotism for some
time, have been more liberal.
We regret to say, however, that FLINN
has not been influenced altogether by
the spirit of altruism in his generous con-
tributions to the ROOSEVELT campaign.
It is not improbable that there was more
selfishness than philanthropy in his ac-
tions. FLINN wanted to hurt PENROSE
and help himself and he could find no
better way of killing the two birds with
one stone than by financing the Roose-
VELT primary campaign. Besides there
was a substantial shadow of reward for
his efforts. It is stated that he was
willing to pay $1,000,000 for a seat in the
United States Senate. In the triumph of
ROOSEVELT and the defeat of PENROSE
there was a chance of getting this prize
at bargain counter prices.
FLINN has been a favored municipal
contractor for many years and according
to the best evidence attainable has ac-
quired a vast fortune. But his heart
yearns for civic distinction. As a con-
tractor he has been in the habit of pay-
ing for the favors he received and the
liberality of his contributions to the
ROOSEVELT campaign fund indicates that
he is willing to carry his business meth-
ods into politics and pay for the favors
bestowed upon him. ROOSEVELT is of a
different turn of mind. He lets the oth-
er fellows pay the money while he dis-
penses influence. FLINN will have ROOSE-
VELT'S moral support in his ambitions in
the future and he has. money enough to
——1It is not an uncommon sight to see
or wagon but county commissioner Dan
Grove set the pace on Wednesday when
he came to Bellefonte with a horse tied
behind his automobile. And the animal
traveled along docile enough but Mr.
Grove admitted the fact that he had to
travel some to keep up. The horse in
from the one Hock Toner had a few years
ago when automobiles in Bellefonte were
so few and far between as to be a curiosi-
ty and horses were always scary of them.
A stranger drove a machine down High
street and just as he turned the corner at
the Bush Arcade he attempted to pass
Toner, who was driving a mangy looking
nag. The horse frightened and the auto-
mobilist stopped. But the horse could
not be soothed into complacence. He
kickéd himself loose from the wagon and
backing up to the automobile kicked off
the headlights and put a number of big
dints in the radiator then quietly walked
to the side of the road and began to nib-
ble grass. Commissioner Grove's horse
had more respect for the horseless wagon,
probably because it appreciated the fact
that the machine was saving it some
extra work.
——When Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Casebeer
went to housekeeping in the Orbison’
property on Curtin street the former
viewed the large garden and conjured up
visions of an abundance of vegetables,
etc., fresh from his own garden and at a
cost that would send a blush of shame to
Casebeer can figure his farming experi-
Investigating committee. But it is a
false pretense, as the public will learn
after the event. The Colonel would re-
ally rather do any thing else that might
be required of him.
Anyway the Democrats can con-
template the Senatorial investigation of
campaign expenditures with equanimity.
We never had sufficient money in our
campaign fund to violate the law.
-——For high class Job Work come to
OCTOBER 4, 1912. _
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abundantly in coming and make
the Bull Moose beautiful in their sight.
tting the attention of his audience
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the WATCHMAN Office.
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—A.S. Megahan, of Williamsport, is picking
September strawberries. Some have ripened,
—Big preparations are being made for the an-
nual meeting of the State Grange which will be
held in Clearfield the first week in December.
—There are now nine cases of typhoid fever
ip the Blair Memorial hospital at Huntingdon.
There are over fifty patients now receiving treat-
ment at the hospital.
—Landslides are feared in the Sand Patch re
gion and B. & O. trains are being moved with
ficed in the interest of safety.
—Mrs. Amelia C. Fisher, of Sunbury, was 9
years old last Thursday. She reads without
glasses, does her house work and crochets fine
lace and other work with her knitting needles.
—One hundred and sixty miners in the Empire
mine near Barnesboro will each donate aton of
coal for the benefit of Joseph Elias, a trapper boy
who was taken to the Spangler hospital with
part of one foot off.
—~Burgess Corie, of Bedford, owns a dog that
is charged with killing most of Rev. R. W. Illings-
worth’s flock of chickens. The dog has not yet
been sentenced. Rev. Illingsworth is well known
in Centre county and his friends here extend
sympathy.
—Mrs. W. E. Krebs, of DuBois, looking under
the house for some wood found a lot of paper and
shingles neatly piled up against the floor, just
ready to be fired. Investigation gave a clue to the
identity of the would-be incendiary and there
may be trouble.
~The construction work on the new state tu.
berculosis sanatorium at Hamburg, Berks coun
ty, will begin this week and within the 450 work-
ing days allotted the third tree sanatorium for the
treatment of the State's indigent consumptives
will be completed.
—Following the lead of other great idustrial
concerns which have found the scarcity of labor
a serious problem, President Donner, of the
Cambria Steel company, in Johnstown, announc-
ed that the minimum wage rate of the company
had been advanced to 15 cents an hour,
—Joe Morgan, aged 18, was found guilty of
second degree murder by an Indiana county jury
a few days ago. On Sunday, May 5, he and sev-
eral companions had followed Fred Ross and a
girl in whom Morgan was interested and the two
had an altercation in which Ross was shot in the
abdomen.
—Boys hunting chestnuts at the St. Clair dam,
near Johnstown, discovered the decomposed body
of a man, thought possibly to be that of J.F.
Schwartz, who disappeared from home a month
ago. The only means of identification is the
clothing, which answers to the description of that
worn by Schwartz.
—W. C. Wolfe, of Lilly, is suing the Common-
wealth of Pennsylvania for the destruction of a
property by State Board of Health workmen in
the clean-up of Johnstown after the great flood of
1889. There was considerable red tape about
the matter and several efforts to get a legislative
-Mrs. A. H. Springman, of Williamsport, a
few days ago received by mail a package contain-
ing a watch and a pin she had lost three years ago
while teaching school in Fairfield township.
They turned up a few days ago near the school
house and were identified by pupils and returned
to the former teacher.
—Ed Brown, a Windber negro, jailed for
‘chicken stealing, was recently paroled from
the Somerset county prison. A few days
ago he entered Sheriff Hockard's kitchen and
stole some roasting ears. Hethought the sheriff
“wouldn't care,” but he is waiting in jail for the
revocation of his parole.
~The family of Silas Dodgson, of Patton, is
sadly afflicted. Mr. Dodson and one son are in
the Spangler hospital with typhoid fever. Mrs.
Dodson and a daughter are ill of the same disease
at home and two sons have diphtheria. There
are six children in the family, all of whom are
' | being cared for by officials.
—After being hunted for two years, Harry
Ringrose, of Philadelphia, was arrested at a
cemetery near Bloomsburg, while attending the
funeral of his mother, Mrs. Elisha Ringrose.
Larceny as bailee was the charge and owing to
the number of offenses his father wouldn't bail
him and he was taken to jail.
—Ross B. Mateer, a former Altoona boy, has
been appointed manager of the irrigation, agri-
cultural and reclamation sales department of the
Great Western Power company. a $25,000,000 Cali.
fornia corporation, with headquarters in San
Francisco. His brother, E. G. Mateer, was at one
time manager of the Bell telephone company in
Bellefonte.
—Announcement was made last week that Mrs.
os A. A. Geisinger will give Danville the finest $100,-
000 hospital in the country, considering its size.
She has also set aside an endowment fund of
$500,000, guaranteeing an annual income of not
less than $20,000. If this does not prove sufficient,
she will increase that amount. Mrs. Geisinger
is 88 years of age and her benefactions in Dan-
ville have been many.
~George Warfel, who had been flying a flag
not, | that inllicated he was a religious fanatic, manage
ed to get it attached to a telephone pole in Hunt
ingdon early a few mornings ago. He stood
guard with a musket and bayonet until hunger
compelled him to seek a restaurant. While he
‘' | was eating someone stole his gun and he was
arrested. He will have thirty days to think about
the sins of other people.
—George Diehl. aged 45, of Tyrone, was terri
bly scalded while he was at work in the Tyrone
paper mill late Monday morning, when atube in
a boiler burst and hurled a large quantity of
steam over him. He was taken to the Altoona
hospital and is in a serious condition. The scalds
are chiefly on his face, arm, hip and ankles. His
eyes were swelled shut but it is thought that the
sight has not been affected.
—Grant Ferguson,the New York Central car in-
spector who was run over on Friday night at
Avis while under a car, and taken to the Wil-
Monday
o'clock. Mr. Ferguson, who was well known and
respected in railroad circles and in the town in
which he lived, is survived by a widow, and one
child. The body was taken to Jersey Shore that
night by Undertaker Levegood and the funeral
services will be held from that place.
—George N. Lytle, son of Milton S. Lytle, for-
appointed inspector in the street cleaning depart-
ment, but could not accept the position because
all his time was required in his business as a
building comtractor. His present appointment
is an important one, as provision has been made
jor te opening ¢ many uiles of sew, sireets ia
city.
—Ex-Senator John J. Patterson died at Mifilin-
town Saturday, aged 8 years. He represented
South Carolina in the United States Senate from
1873 to 1879 during the reconstruction days of the
- | south. He began life as editor of the Juniata
Sentinel and later was part owner of the Harris-
burg Telegraph. He represented Juniata and Say
for | der counties in the Pennsylvania Assembly in 1856
and 1857. He was a veteran of the Civil war,
with rank of major. The latter years of his life
he promoted and built railroads and was pioneer
in the electric street railway service. He is sur-
vived by his wife, two sons and a daughter.