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Bemorwil Watdpon.
BY P. GRAY MEEK.
INK SLINGS.
~The Bull Moose is on the toboggan.
—If TEDDY hears of it he will be blam-
ing the hog cholera in Centre county on
WILSON or TAFT.
—Make your plans to attend the big
WiLsoN Rally in the court house, on
Tuesday evening, October 15th.
—Just twenty-four days until the elec- |,
tion. Where are the wide-awake pa“.
rades, the bands and red-fires of the old- |
en times? . |
—CHARLEY PATTON is a nice enough |
fellow, personally, but, honestly do you |
think he sizes up to what your idea of a |
Congressman is. |
—No matter what your politics may be
you should not fail to attend the WILSON
Rally in the court house, in Bellefonte,
next Tuesday night.
—Even if Mr. ROOSEVELT don’t secure
any other State, that is not saying that |
he couldn't have South Africa if he would |
make his fight there. f
—There will be nothing else to cxcite,
after the world’s series is over, and prob- |
ably then the presidential campaign will
be able to warm itself up. i
—It may be otherwise elsewhere, but |
up in New York STRAUS has so far failed |
to give any indication of “the way the
political wind is blowing.” |
—By the time Mr. ROOSEVELT gets |
through with his Bull Moos¢ campaign |
we will have to offer a pre.aium to find |
a public man who is not “a liar.”
—Surely Turkey must feel as if she
were moulting. First Italy pulled many
of her feathers; now the Balkan league
is going to take a handful or more.
—Anyway the Standard Oil company
is furnishing considerable light on polit-
ical subjects to the public without
charge. An astonishing procedure, sure.
—Possibly because it fails to maintain
a foot ball team is the reason some peo-
ple take so little interest in who are
chosen members of the Electoral college.
~If Mr. TAFT ain't making much of a
show in this campaign he at least has the
satisfaction of knowing that the grass in
his front yard is not all being tramped
out,
—They say that Dr. LOCKE applies the |
acid test to everything political since !
FLINN gave that testimony in Washing. |
ton and proclaimed himself the master |
gold-brick artist.
~One thing that everybody hereabouts
will admit:—there has been no lost time
attending political meetings. And this is |
possibly what our “Progressive” friends
mean by progression.
—Nature has endowed Uncle CeEPHAS
GRAMLEY with legs far longer than most
equestrians possess, but at that he is hav-
ing an awful time straddling the two
horses he is trying to ride to Harrisburg.
~The TAFT campaigners are now ad-
vising the masses to let well enough
alone. But thatis what they have been
fooled with every campaign for the past
sixteen years and they are wise to the
game now.
—No, we have not as yet heard it
charged that the trust magnates are leav-
ing their campaign contributions at the
back door of either of the party head-
quarters and running away in the dark-
ness. So far atleast “reform” has prov-
en successful.
—Nine young men dashed to instant
death on a Sunday morning joy ride in
Philadelphia. The flasks found in the
wreckage about the car were mute evi-
dence as to whose hands were on the
wheel—and old John Barleycorn always
drives at the pace that kills.
—Probably the scarcity of labor, we
hear so much about, is caused by the
working-man's absence hunting up the
reason of the high prices he has to pay
for everything under the bloomin’ Re-
publican tariff we are all enjoying. This
is only a suggestion, however.
—Really its beginning to look in some
sections of the State, as if there wouldn't
be enough of Republieans left at the elec-
tion to preserve as specimens of the
“down and out party.” And we all have
reason to be thankful to the good Lord
and the high tariff that such is the out-
look.
--Lice and bad teeth are reported as
being the greatest physical defects of the
Altoona school children. The lice proba-
bly owe their existence to the waning of
the old fashioned days when our mothers
were wont to hold us between her knees
and go after the visitors with a fine tooth-
ed comb.
~The reason that straw votes are not
so popular this campaign is to be found
in the fact that the majorities are invari-
ably for WiLsoN and the Republican pa-
pers that have always conducted them in
the past are not fond of announcing to
one part of the country that another
part is so overwhelmingly Democratic.
—The McNAMARAS, the Los Angeles
dynamiters, had almost been forgotten
until the trial of their confederates began
at Indianapolis, the other day. Then the
horror of their deadly work was made
more horrible by the revelation that their
arrest was just in time to save the great
locks of the Panama canal from destruc-
tion, as they were to have been blown up
to draw attention away from the Los An-
geles Times disaster.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 57.
Er Sign ot Democratic Revival.
~ There has never been a Republican
majority in Pennsylvania of upwards of
forty or fifty thousand. The immense
majorities that have been scored at one
time and another have not been an ex-
pression of the relative strength of the
parties. They were the result of pecul-
iar conditions. On one side there was
an army of paid public officials urging
party activity and on the other a force of
men hopeless of victory and indifferent
to results. The Republicans, supplied
with vast sums of money got their voters
to the polls while the Democrats, without
means to work or expectation of success,
allowed the victory to go to their oppo-
nents by default.
A recent canvass in one township, and
a small one at that, in York county, this
year, revealed the fact that there are for-
ty Democratic voters in that township
who have not voted within fifteen years.
If that were an exceptional case we might
justly censure the community in which
they live for lacking in civic virtue. But
itis not exceptional. In nearly every
county in the State there are delinquen-
cies equally striking. In many counties
Democratic candidates for important of-
fices have been defeated because the
Democratic voters have neglected their
civic obligations. In this county, for ex-
ample, no Republican would ever have
been elected if the Democratic voters
had performed their duty.
In the York county district referred to,
it is hoped, every Democratic voter will
cast his ballot this year. The local or-
ganization has seen to it that a thorough
canvass has been made and every voter
assessed and registered. This is what
the State organization should have had
done in every district in Pennsylvania.
i But it failed. Notwithstanding that fail-
ure, there are many districts like the one
in York county, where local Democrats
are doing their full duty, and there are
signs of similar improvement in nearly
every section of the State. It is this im-
provement, this work of local committees
that gives hope of Democratic success, If
this feeling and determination becomes
geneyul there will not only beno Repub-
lican majority this year but WiLsoN and
MARSHALL and the entire Democratic
ticket will be elected by an immense plu.
rality. Let us do our share to bring
about this result in Centre county.
——The Senate committee engaged in
the investigation of campaign contribu
tions is to be congratulated upon the fact
that Colonel ROOSEVELT allowed it to get
away with its life. In fact he was com-
paratively easy on the members of that
body.
Safe Solution of a Problem.
The esteemed Philadelphia Public Ledg-
er put a big question into alittie compass
when it says “the only certain antidote
to FLINNism for patriotic Pennsylvanians
to adopt is the overwhelming defeat of
the State ticket supported by the Pitts.
burgh contractor-boss.” That is the log-
ical solution of the problem. The elec-
tion of A. W. PoweLL and Roser K.
Young, FLINN'S candidates for Auditor
General and State Treasurer, will entrench
BILL FLINN in power as the boss of the
Republican party almost impregnably,
They are his servile tools and will gladly
do anything he requires of them. That
is why he jockeyed so insistently to pre-
vent the nomination of Republican candi-
dates against them.
If there were no reasons other than
the superior fitness of the Democratic
and Keystone candidates for those offices
it would be the plain duty of the Penn-
sylvania electorate to elect ROBERT E.
CRESSWELL and WiLLIAM H. BERRY to
the offices of Auditor General and State
Treasurer. They are both gentlemen of
the highest character and who, if elect
ed, will enter upon the duties of the offic-
es with minds single to serve the public
good. They are honest, capable and
earnest and the election of such men
will solve the problem of reform.
But there are other reasons for prefer-
ring CRESSWELL and BERRY to the candi-
dates of the Pittsburgh contractor-boss,
one of which has been admirably ex-
pressed by our esteemed Philadelphia
contemporary. Another lies in the fact
that the contemplated road improvements
will involve the expenditure of vast sums
of the people’s money during the next
four years and the Pittsburgh contractor-
boss has long had a covetous eye upon
this opportunity for graft. We want able
and honest men to audit the accounts
and pay the bills incident to these extra-
ordinary public improvements and men
chosen by BiLL FLINN are not likely to
be fit instruments for this service.
~The retirement of WiLLIAM ALLEN
WHITE, coincident with the defeat of
RoosevELT,will be another reason for re-
joicing over the result of the election this
year.
BELLEFONTE, P
Flinn and Roosevelt.
Mr. BiLL FINN'S testimony before the
Senate committee inquiring into cam-
paign expenditures is interesting outside
of the question of the amount of money
he contributed to the primary campaign
of the Bull Moose candidate. Of course
everybody is interested in a man who
can and will give $140,000 to a primary
campaign and think the results are worth
the money. Primary campaigns are
comparatively inexpensive, the bur-
den of cost being in the campaign for
election after the nominations have been
made. Mr. FLINN must have understood,
therefore, that his primary expenditure
was a preliminary trifle and that the real
draft would be made when the big show
was started on the road.
But the real interesting part of Mr,
FLINN'S testimony was his statement that
he had contributed to the LAFOLLETTE
campaign, though he gave no figures.
This statement seems to have surprised
the committee, moreover, for Mr. FLINN
was asked when he switched from LA-
FOLLETTE, to ROOSEVELT and why. His
answer to this was characteristic and
truthful. He said he switched when he
discovered that ROOSEVELT'S popularity
gave greater promise of carrying the
State against PENROSE. In other words
the Pittsburgh Bull Moose corruptionist
had then and has now no interest in
ROOSEVELT. What he wanted to accom-
plish was the defeat of PENROSE and the
elevation of himself to the leadership of
the party.
In a previous reference to this subject
we said that FLINN cares nothing for
ROOSEVELT but was using ROOSEVELT'S
popularity to compass his own ambitions.
In his testimony before the Senate com-
mittee he has confirmed this proposition.
FLINN hasn’t a choice for the Presiden-
cy and never had. Any ward politician
in Pittsburgh would suit him as well
as ROOSEVELT and if PENROSE had
been against TAFT FLINN would probably
have been for him. Such men are not
governed by principle. They are influ-
enced entirely by selfish, personal consid-
erations and it may safely be said that
ROOSEVELT cares as little for FLINN as
who contributes the money gets the
friendship.
——Mr. MORGAN may have deceived
himself with his statement that he ex-
pected no return from his investment of
$150,000 in the ROOSEVELT campaign of
1904, but he fooled nobody else. Even
the marines would laugh at such a tale.
Question of the Cost of Living.
The chairman of the Republican Na
tional committee has discovered the cause
of the high cost of living. He gravely
tells the public that the fluctuation in the
supply of gold is the offender. If it could
be arranged, he states inferentially, that
the gold output would be exactly the
same year in and year out, there would
be no change in the cost of living. This
is interesting though a trifle indefinite.
He fails to say whether the prices would
be stationary. But that is what most of
us don’t want. In other words a de-
crease in the cost of living is the thing
that is needed.
There is a more logical and better rea-
son for the high cost of living in the evi-
dence given by Mr. VANCLEAVE, then
president of the American Manufactur-
er's association, a few years ago, in his
sworn testimony before a Congressional
committee. He said that the people of
the United States are robbed of a million
dollars a day by excessive tariff taxation.
That is to say $365,000,000 are taken an-
nually from the people of the United
States according to his view, to fatten the
monopolists and that that amount is added
annually to the cost of living of those
who are robbed for it is a charge that
can’t be avoided and must be met as
surely as the bills of the butcher or the
baker.
The fault in Mr. VANCLEAVE'S estimate
is that itis too low. Instead of a million
dollars a day the tariff tax takes from the
people of the country five million dollars
a day, less than one twentieth part of
which goes into the treasury to pay the
expenses of the government. The $1,-
825,000,000 thus filched from the earnings
of the people means an addition of eigh-
teen dollars a year to the living expenses
of every man, woman and child in the
country. And every cent of this vast
extortion is appropriated by the trust
magnates and monopoly managers to the
payment of the cost of their expensive
vices and criminal excesses. Mr. HILLES
has another guess.
~—There is complaint among the
sporting fraternity of a difficulty in ob-
taining bets. The opponents of Governor
WILSON may be willing to waste their
votes but they are not anxious to throw
away their good money.
A.
FLINN cares for ROOSEVELT. Anybody !
Mr. Morgan's Absurd Story.
Mr. JoHN PIERPONT MORGAN simply
insults public intelligence when he swears
that he contributed $150,000 to the RoosE-
VELT campaign fund in 1904 without ex-
pectation of anything in return. Mr.
ROOSEVELT'S opponent in that campaign
was Judge ALTON B. PARKER, of New York,
a gentleman of the highest character
for ability and integrity. Mr. PARKER
had been nominated by the Democratic
party to allay popular apprehensions
of the result of a Democratic victory. He
had long been an ornament on the bench
of the highest court in the Empire State
and had a reputation for conservatism
which appealed to the business interests
of the country in so far as the business
interests were honest.
In learning, ability and patriotism Judge
PARKER was the equal, if not the super-
ior, of THEODORE ROOSEVELT. That busi-
ness, professional or laboring men of
Republican antecedents should vote for
ROOSEVELT under the circumstances, was
natural. Up to that time he had revealed
none of the idiosincracies which have
since raised a question as to his sanity.
But there was no reason why a man,even
though a Republican, should contribute
so large a sum as to suggest corruption,
to a fund to elect the Republican candi-
date over his Democratic opponent other
than the expectation of some sort of
favors in return. When Mr. MORGAN
states the contrary he lies and when he
swears to it he commits perjury.
Mr. MORGAN and every other citizen of
reasonable intelligence knows that there
is a rule among men that “one good turn
deserves another,” and that from the
earliest period of political contention in
this country men have contributed to
campaign funds in proportion to their
expectations of reward through office or
governmental favors of any kind. It isn't
necessary for candidates to give bond
that they will favor those who conspicu-
ously help them in their ambitions or
even make specific promises to that effect.
The understanding is implied and the
election of ROOSEVELT in 1904 put $100,-
MORGAN and the expectation of such a
thing induced him to give the $150,000 to
| the ROOSEVELT corruption fund.
| =—CHARLEY PATTON, our Congressman,
| was in town on Wednesday looking for
votes. Why any one should vote for him
we can't see. He voted against the bill
to revise the wool schedule which would
have given the poor man better clothes
at less money. He voted against the far-
mers free list bill which would have ena-
bled the American farmer to buy Ameri-
can made farm machinery as cheap as
the Australian farmer can buy it. He
voted against everything the masses need
and for everything corporations want so
why should anyone vote to send him
back to Congress.
-—FLINN may have been trying to
“gold brick” QUAY at the time he propos-
ed an agreement for the division of the
spoils and it is easy to imagine that he is
trying to “gold-brick” ROOSEVELT now.
The election of his personally appointed
candidates to the offices of State Treas-
urer and Auditor General is all that
FLINN cares for. The grafting possibili-
ties in the $50,000,000 rpad building
'— The Blk county commissioners re
cently completed remodeling the court
house at Ridgway. The architect's plans
judge's desk but when completed they
looked more like moose heads than elk
heads and Judge Harry Alvan Hall refus-
ed to hold court in the building, it is said,
until they were removed. The judge is
too staunch a Wilson man to even sit be-
tween Bull Moose heads.
——An Enamel Flag Law to Prevent
and Punish the Desecration of the Flag
of the United States and of this State, is
being distributed by the Bellefonte chap-
ter of the D. A. R. having been placed in
all the schools of Bellefonte, in the fire
company buildings, the Y. M. C. A. and
in the postoffice. It will alsc be pre-
sented to all the public schools imme-
diately adjacent to Bellefonte.
——Dr. LYMAN ABBOTT reads the re-
ports of the Senatorial inquiry but makes
nosign of enjoyment over them.
——The beautiful home of Joseph K.
Cass, in Tyrone, was partially destroyed
by fire on Tuesday afternoon, though
most of the furniture was gotten out
safely. The house and furniture were
insured for $25,500, but it is estimated
that this amount will not cover the loss.
Mr. Cass was in New York at the time
so that Mrs, Cass and her daughter, Miss
Anna, were the only members of the
family at home. A defective flue is sup.
posed to have been the cause of the fire,
QCIonkR 11.1013,
£0,000 into the pocket of JOHN PIERPONT
Spgrations loom large in FLINN'S covet. be
eyes.
called for an elk head at each side of the | th
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“Good Times.”
| From the Johnstown Democrat.
The Philadelphia Press, a stand-pat Re-
publican organ, calls attetion to and em-
a gratuitous
t Taft. Mr.
citizens of the United States not to inter-
fere with nor check the prosperity which
this country is enjoyi adds:
“Why halt good times?”
Are the times when butter is38
40 cents a pound; when flour is $7 to
a barrel; when eggs are 35 to 40 cents a
dozen; when hay is $20 to $25 a ton;
when ham is 18 cents
bacon is 25 centsa pound;
bring from 22 to 30 cents a pound?
Are the times good when
high that many families comsume it only
gre a se Sm At i
can is cheaper in
than it is in the United States? Are the
times good when clo bought in
Great Britain for $15 is for double
Hid amount the Utiited States? sila
times w potatoes bri
$1.25 a bushel in January; when the price
of coal is ad steadily; when the
$1,200 a
the times good when the average
workman has to scrimp and save and
wean himself to the bone in an effort to
make Bis earnings meet his living ex-
penses
of, Toles vs J? 2 jiu es?"
q y y hait mes?”
is equally ridiculous.
payday comes compare your pay
envelope with the amount required to
keep you for the next two weeks, or the
next month. Then you will have the an-
swer to the “good times” equation.
A Straight Question.
From the Harrisburg Star-Independent.
There are many voters who would like
to know who is the Presidential candi-
date of the high tariff inasmuch
> - ho the ar ar
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any an prac-
tically that leaves them without a candi-
date or a party.
Another mystifying fact is their deni-
al that American-made commodities are
sold abroad more cheaply than at home.
One of them flippantly calls mention of
such selling an argument of “free trad-
ers.” Fli t treatment of an impor-
tant ob and the calling of names
prove nothing and establish n
The fact remains that in the fiscal
ended on June 30 lasta billion 8’
worth of manufactured goods were ex-
ported from the United States and sold in
foreign markets. Will the supporters of
high tariff deny that? Those goods were
sold in competition with fi -made
goods in the foreign market. ill that
be denied? The manufacturers were
able to sell them because they made the
prices agree with the prices of the for-
eign-made goods of the same character.
That cannot be denied. That the prices
of the foreign-made goods are lower than
the prices of the domestic goods in the
American market is the testimony of
manufacturers and exporters and the or-
gans themselves.
Could American manufacturers sell an-
nually in the foreign market a billion dol.
lars’ worth of om at American ?
That is a straight question, and
benefit and guidance of the voters it
should have a straight answer.
South Against the Third Term.
From the Savannah News.
Here in the south the most American
of the country’s popuiation is found.
is still reverence for the founders
of the nation andthe
Shon = t he will break
the solid south. will listen tohim,
A Western Standpat View.
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SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—A merger was effected recently by which two
of Clearfield’s banks consolidated, the Clearfield
Trust company taking over the business of the
Farmers’ and Traders’ bank.
—On Sunday night, at midnight, it is expected
that 150 glass blowers will start to work at the
DuBois plant. Only two of the former blowers
are scheduled to be in the number.
—A large number of girls fromthe vicinity of
DuBois have already gone to the Chautauqua
grape belt, and others will soon go, to be em-
ployed during the grape picking season.
—Justice of the peace Allen E. Kline, near
Mifflinburg, went out witha gun a few nights
ago to hunt a chicken thief and the gun went off
before he wanted it to. He has a bullet in his
leg and the thief escaped.
~The Altoona Concrete Construction and
Supply company is about ready to turn over to
the State $50,000 worth of buildings at the new
Cresson tuberculosis sanitorium, which have
been finished in record time.
—A pheasant flying in front of his horse as he
was delivering mail near Carrolitown, sent Albert
Feightner to the Spangler hospital with a broken
leg, numerous cuts and bruises. The horse ran
away and the postman was thrown.
—Mike Sewak, a veteran Crabtown miner,
had over $4,000 in a trunk at his home, but he
doesn’t have it now. The trunk was stolen and
opened outside the house, then left empty. Part
of the money belonged to his boarders.
—Israel Sanders, a Civil war veteran on fur-
lough from the Soldiers’ home at Erie, fell down
a stairway in a Williamsport home, where he was
lodging, and was seriously injured. He is almost
blind and mistook the stairway for a hall.
—Disguised by a heavy veil; Mrs. Emily Conrad
tried to carry a saw and files to her sweetheart,
Isaac Patrey, in the Sunbury jail. She was recog-
nized and searched. Patrey is due for seven years
in the penitentiary and will be taken thereshortly,
~Fifty ovens that have not been fired for more
than five years are being lighted by the Ligonier
Coal company and fifty more are starting at Con,
nellsville Coal and Coke company could use 500
more men and is firing ovens as fast as it can se-
curethe laborers.
~Former sheriff J. E. Shields, of Westmore-
land county, who is serving a sentence in the
western penitentiary, is reported ill, his sickness
said to be a consequence of the refusal of the
board of pardons to recommend his release. His
friends intend to try again, they say.
=The Avondale hotel at Winburne, owned by
Ross Sheffer, of Philipsburg, wes burned to the
ground by a fire which occurred on the morning
of the day on which Mr. Sheffer expectedto take
possession. The fire started in the kitchen. Loss
{8 $18,000, with only partial insurance.
=A mine cave at Courtdale, near Wilkes-Barre,
recently sent the furnace and food supply of the
family of Patrick Larkin into the mine below.
The house waspropped, but a second disturbance
decided the question in favor of a hasty move. It
is not likely that the damage can be remedied
and it is the second within a week.
~The Graff coal mines, near Blacklick, are
held up by the refusal of James Dixon to sel! land
for a branch railroad at a price the company will
pay. The difference is $500 and business men of
Blacklick raised the sum. Dixon, however,
wouldn't have their monev, saying the company
must pay it, and there the matter rests.
=An important decision was rendered recently
in Huntingdon county court by Judge Woods.
Some time ago 'Squire B. F. Isenberg asked a
mandamus to compel the commissioners to pay
scalp bounty when the special fund was exhaust-
ed. The judge refused the mandamus and Isen-
berg is thinking of taking his case to the Su-
perior court to test the law.
~~For the fourth time within six months death
entered the Gittings family in Ebensburg, when
Mrs. Anna Gittings, 75 years old, died. Her hus-
band, John Gittings, died March 24th. He was a
member of the last board of county auditors in
Cambria county. His brother, William Gittings,
died last spring, and Mrs. Gittings’ sister, Mrs.
Mary Owens, expired last week.
~Edward Bordreau, a New York Central engi-
neer, was fatally stricken Wednesday evening
while at his home in Clearfield. After eating
supper he walked into another room and was
about to pick up a wash bowl when he dropped
over dead. The body was taken to Philipsburg
for interment. Mr. Bordreau was a member of
the National Order of Kings, Fraternal Order of
Eagles and Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi-
neers.
—Western Pennsylvania isn't taking any
chances on smallpox. The other day a man
near Latrobe telephoned a doctor that his son
had a skin eruption and that they would pay the
doctora call. The physician promptly told the
father to keep bis boy at home and let the doc-
tor do the calling. He took another doctor along
and all parties concerned were greatly relieved
when they found it to be a disease not akin to
small-pox.
-~Within two months of 97 years old, Mrs. Jane
Rohrbach died last week at Selinsgrove. She
was a great grand-daughter of John Harrison, the
founder of Harrisburg, and a grand-daughter of
William McClay, the first United States Senator
from Pennsylvania. For anumber of years she
had been shooting mark each year on her birth-
day to test her eyesight. This summer she had
worked a large garden. She was buried with the
ceremonies of the Daughters of the American
Revolution.
George Diehl, the Tyrone man who was terri-
bly scalded Monday morning of last week in the
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