y 1 BY P. GRAY MEE omm— INK SLINGS. —If you are going to vote for WILSON help along a little more by getting some- one else to do the same thing. —Wooprow WILSON may be brave | enough, but all the same he could give | many a fellow points as a runner. —The Giants ate so many beans on Tuesday it wasn'c any wonder they blew up the next day and lost the series. —After the election the Bull Moose will take his place in the political history of the country as the boat-rocker of the Republican party. —Why send CHARLEY PATTON back to Congress? Better leave the seat empty and save the money, for CHARLEY cer- tainly is a "weak sister” as a Congress man. —With the election only a little over two weeks off the tide is running stronger than ever toward WiLsoN. There is no doubt of his election and you surely want to be on the winning side. —Canadian reports all say the prospects for a good whalen season are excellent. They don’t designate, however, whether these reports refer to the public schools or the fisheries of that country. —Whatever else may be charged as Mr. ARCHBOLD'S intent in subscribing so large an amount to the ROOSEVELT cam- paign fund no one will allege at least that it was used as “hush” money. —Really the rest of us should never forget the forty thousand Ohio patriots who have pledged themselves to abstain from eating eggs for three weeks. Their action doubles our chances to taste one occasionally. —The kind of prosperity we are now having, and which insures every man, t STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. ec ———————— een VOL. 57. BELLEFONTE, PA. Roosevelt's Temperamental Unfitness. | Herald's Poll Indicates Wilson's Election. Colonel ROOSEVELT'S recent vituperative attack upon Governor DENEEN, of Illinois, reveals, anew, his temperamental unfit ness for the office to which he aspires, even if an unwritten law made sacred by ‘the approval of WASHINGTON, did not | forbid his election. In a burst of passion which would have disgraced a bar-room bully he denounced the Illinois executive ias a liar, a grafter and a fraud. Mr. DEeNEEN has been twice elected Governor ' of the State in which he lives and has ' been nominated by his party for re-elec- tion. He is one ot the seven Governors | who asked ROOSEVELT to become a can- | didate for a third term. But for the paltry reason that he refuses to “bolt” | the nominee for his party he is traduced. In the Republican National convention | Governor DENEEN was one of the man- | agers of the ROOSEVELT candidacy. He | was in the closest confidence of the third | term aspirant and introduced the reso- | lution asserting that ninety-some dele- | gates had been stolen from ROOSEVELT ‘by the National committee and the con- | vention committee on credentials. But | at the same primary election which se. | lected the delegates to the National con- | vention he was nominated as the Re- | publican candidate for Governor. Hon- orably bound to allegiance to the candi- The New York Herald's third poll of the country, published last Sunday, indi- cates that Wooprow WILSON continues to lead by a safe margin. The poll covers | thirty-one States and has been taken with i much care. It shows that ROOSEVELT is second in the running but losing to both Tarr and WiLsoN. Of the thirty-one States canvassed WILSON leads in twenty- four, ROOSEVELT in five and TAFT two. | Among the States given to ROOSEVELT, however, is Illinois and anincident which has occurred since the tabulation is like- ly to reverse conditions there. The small | margin given to the Bull Moose candi- date in Connecticut is practically certain to be wiped out before another week, moreover. The two States conceded to TAFT in the Herald's summary are Idaho and Utah, both of which are controlled by the Mormon church and the preference is the recompense for the administration’s generous favors to Senator SmooT. Ver- | mont is not included in the poll and it | may be predicted that TAFT will have a | majority there. This would increase his | strength to that of three States and re- duce that of ROOSEVELT to four. But so | experienced a campaigner as WILLIAM | JENNINGS BRYAN estimates that ROOSE- | VELT will not carry any State and we are who wants it, employment, is certainly a date of the party for President he re- | inclined to accept his opinion on the sub- good thing. But most of us would pre- | fused to bolt and declared that only ject. The sober, second thought is be- fer the kind that would insure more eggs for breakfast. —A judge up in Massachusetts has just sentenced a bigamist to support both the women he married. If that don’t give the bigamy business a black-eye within the | jurisdiction of his court we doubt if there is anything else that would. ——This country exported $27,000,000 worth of automobiles during the first six months of the present year. That is going some for a country that thinks it | needs a tariff wall as high as the clouds to protect its home industries. —Servia, Bujgaria, Greece and Monte- negro are all at war with Turkey and, curiously enough, none of them will re- member what The Hague is for until the last bullet has been shot and colossal war debts are staring them in the face. —It is now predicted that Wyoming will show a much larger Republican vote than usual at the coming election. We don’t wonder. Only last week three- fourths of its convicts escaped from the | penitentiary and are likely to be at the polls. —The luckiest speech ROOSEVELT ever wrote was the one he had in his breast pocket when SCHRANK'S murder- ous bullet struck him. It was in penetrat- ing the thick coat and heavy manuscript in which much of the force of the bullet was spent. —Home-run BAKER of the Athletics is a Democrat, so much of a one that he sent some of his good money to the Na- tional committee to help along the WiL- SON cause. Here's hoping that FRANK'S contribution will be the hit on which Woobprow will reach home in the White House. —The New York police system may be | able to make part of the public believe that those four gunmen, under arrest for the murder of gambler ROSENTHAL, are lying when they testify that lieutenant BECKER employed tham to do it, but if it succeeds in clearing BECKER that way it will still have to explain how a police lieutenant could become as rich as he is on the salary he gets. ~ —Gov. O'NeAL and Congressman HEF- LIN, of Alabama, southerners to the core, fairly charmed their fine audience in this place Tuesday night. Gentlemen, | orators and logicians, they delivered a pair of political speeches the like of which are seldom heard. And they created en- thusiasm, and carried conviction to the minds of the wavering without offending anyone present. We believe the meeting did much good in this community and congratulate the members of the Woob- ROW WILSON club for having so success- fully managed it. —Why did JOHN SCHRANK attempt to assassinate Col. ROOSEVELT in Milwau- kee, Monday night? Why is Socialism growing so rapidly in this country? Why are anarchists so active and numerous? Why did twenty thousand mill workers march through the streets of Lawrence, Mass., last week, carrying banners bear- ing the inscription: “No God"? Ask your- self these questions, then try to answer them. The only answer you can find lies in the condition of the country. Things are not right with us, else these unmis- takable signs of unrest and mania would not be on the increase. There is only one way to start a change for the better and you, as a loyal American citizen, should rally under the banner of WoGD- | thirty-four seats in the convention ought | to have been contested and that if all of | them had been decided in favor of ROOSE- | vELT, TAFT would have been nominated | nevertheless. | “This was the head and front of his : offending.” In the convention Senator | DIXON, ROOSEVELT'S campaign manager, | made serious demand for less than thirty- | four of the ROOSEVELT contesting dele- | gates. - With the exception of about a | dozen cases all the ROOSEVELT supporters in the'convention acquiesced in the find- ‘ings of the committee on credentials. | Governor DENEEN alleges that ROOSE- | vELT himself admitted that only thirty- | four seats of the nearly 200 contested | should be claimed. Yet because Governor | DENEEN refuses to blindly follow his | fraudulent. claim to the nomination, ROOSEVELT denounces him with the We don't be- | vehemence of a pirate. ‘ lieve such a man can be elected Presi- | dent. ——Colonel ROOSEVELT has himself | done a good deal toward injecting as- | perities into the campaign and creating bitterness among the partisans of the several candidates. He who “sows to the wind reaps the whirlwind,” is as true now | as when it was written and if the Colonel | | Milwaukee, the other evening, might never have happened. Another Republican Compiication. The Philadelphia Republican City com- mittee, the other night, postponed for a week the consideration of a resolution endorsing the FLINN candidates for State Treasurer and Auditor General. The veteran chairman of the committee, Mr. | DAVID S. LANE, may not be from Mis- souri, but he wants to know and must be shown. He is a straight-laced and or- thodox Republican. He believes in regu- larity as firmly as he has faith in the creeds of the Apostles. He is therefore not willing to commit himself or the Re- publicans he represents to the support of candidates who are avowedly opposing names appear as candidates. The Bull Moose candidates for State Treasurer and Auditor General are the confessed servitors of Boss Bill FLINN. They have openly declared that they will not support the candidate of the Repub- lican party for President. Nevertheless Senator PENROSE appears to have con- sented to their remaining on the Repub- lican ticket without qualification. The Philadelphia City committee is not so easy. Under the direction of chairman LANE that body has prescribed the con- TAPT supporters in Philadelphia will withhold their support. This looks like a fair proposition though it is ominous to POWELL and YOUNG. In our political system the Nationa) convention is the tribunal of last resort in years in which a President is elected. | The test of fidelity to the party is in the ! support of the candidates for President nominated by the party National conven- ‘tion. One not willing to do that is not in good party standing and has no right | to claim the support of the rank and file of the party. Thus far Messrs POWELL ‘and YOUNG, Republican candidates for | Auditor General and State Treasurer, respectively, have not indicated their purpose to support the ticket and there- had been less violent in his language on’ | the hustings the lamentable incident at the head of the ticket upon which their dition that YOUNG and POWELL must de- clare themselves for TAFT or else the | ginning to assert itself and that counts | against the Bull Moose candidate. | For twenty years our New York con- | temporary has been making polls of the | country preceding each Presidential elec- | tion and though it has not @&rways been | accurate with respect to certain States it | has been so nearly correct as to com- {mand the confidence of the thought- ful public. For that reason its estimates | this year will be very generally accepted ‘and justly so. We predict that in its | table of next Sunday Illinois will be | transferred from the ROOSEVELT to the | WILSON column and if similar changes | are not shown in other States we shall be greatly surprised. In any event the cer- tain victory indicated for WiLsoN should inspire every Democrat in Pennsylvania | to increased energy and effort. it may be said that the crazy folk are - doing ROOSEVELT a great deal of good. One lunatic stampeded the New York Bull Moose convention and nominated a candidate for Governor who doubled the strength of his party in that State and | another, by an attempt at assassination, | has changed a mild current of sympathy ! into a deluge. An Attempt to Kill Roosevelt. Nothing could be more regrettable than | the incident in Milwaukee on Monday | evening in which an attempt was made ' to assassinate Colonel ROOSEVELT. That the perpetrator of this crime against law and order is a maniac, scarcely mitigates ; the turpitude involved. It certainly fails ' to justify the laxity of police vigilance : which makes such things possible in any ' American city. Crazy men ought not to | be allowed to roam around with mur- derous weapons concealed upon their per- sons. If they can not be restrained it is | at least possible to disarm them. With- | out instruments to kill, in the event that | a homicidal impulse takes possession of | their inflamed brains, they would be com- | paratively harmless, | Of course no sane man will undertake ‘to manufacture political capital out of this lamentable episode. The perpetrator | of the crime was not a Democrat. From documents upon his person it has been ! learned that he ascribed to ROOSEVELT responsibility for the murder of President McKINLEY. From an utterance which fol- lowed the event it may be implied that he believed the aspiration of ROOSEVELT for a third term is treasonable. There is noth- ing to indicate that he preferred the elec- tion of either of the other candidates. He had simply developed a maniacal antip- athy to ROOSEVELT and felt it his duty . to kill him. It was a monstrous thought, ! the horrible figment of a diseased brain. We are a nation of hero-worshippers, however, and sympathy takes strange courses when emotions are stirred. Under these circumstances there may be per- sons among the followers of the Bull Moose candidate who will try to pervert this source of genuine sorrow into a flood of partisan advantage. It would be despicable, beyond question, but FLINN and PERKINS and DAN HANNA are capable of contemptible tricks and we shall not ' be surprised if they try to turn this event into an advantage for their Presidential candidate or at least to make it serve i their own selfish ambitions in politics. | ——It seems to have taken ROOSEVELT a good while to find out that Senator LorIMER and Governor DENEEN, of Illi nois, were active political partners when ROW WILSON, the leader of the only hope fore no supporter of the ticket is morally [oper bought a seat in the United we have cof better things. Ts ' bound to support them. | States Senate. ——Without polling the insane asylums | OCTOBER 18, 191 Flinn Bests Penrose. Clearly Boss FLINN has outgeneraled Senator PENROSE. In the jockeying for advantage both have shown an utter: absence of conscience and disregard for principle. But in the end FLINN has won and PENROSE is bound as firmly as a man of his type can be bound, to support for the important offices of Auditor General and State Treasurer, candidates who are avowedly opposed to the candidates of their own party for President of the United States. The history of politics’ fails to reveal another instance of the kind. Governor DENEEN, of Illinois, has | shown how an honorable man would act | under the circumstances. But the lesson | is lost on Boss FLINN'S candidates in: Pennsylvania. sure, and his subserviency to the trusts and monopolies has been palpable for some years. But his power over the voters of his party has not been lost on that account. An electorate which will accept Boss FLINN as a substitute for any living creature is not guided by morai impulses or considerations of civic right- eousness. If the morals or methods of PENROSE had been the cause of revolt some leader other than FLINN would have been discovered and pressed into service. Obviously, therefore, Senator PENROSE'S defeat must be ascribed to the fact that he has become “dopey.” Of course men destitute of principle will follow PENROSE into the trap which FLINN has set and stultify themselves by supporting candidates for two of the most important offices in the gift of the people of the State who are recreant to the moral obligations which bind them to the sup- port of their associate on the Republican ticket. But men of high character will not pursue such a course. They will reason that ti.> absence of principle dis- qualifies men for faithful public service and without regard to the political for- tunes of either PENROSE or FLINN will express their reprobation of recreancy by Vote for Wilson. George Harvey in the North American Review. We demonstrated last month by thor- ough analysis of existing conditions that President Taft cannot be re-elected. The competent observers, partisans non- partisans alike, who can be induced to ress their real belief. e declared our firm conviction then and reiterate it now that Mr. Roosevelt has practically no chance of obtaining a majority in the electoral college. We em i our and asserted phasized our hope ' our belief that Mr. Wilson would win at the polls. Sul uent notably 5, uSSieg in aPpenin er- mont—have strengthened that judg- ment. But it would be a folly and a crime to rest upon an assumption, however well grounded, as to how sixteen millions of men will vote upon a certain day. The i : . | election of Roosevelt would be a national In this matter Senator PENROSE has re” | tude. The vealed the principal reason for his loss of | influence in the Republican party. His | i i political methods are atrocious, to be | Oe elect calamity of incalcnlable magi utter chaos which would ensue from no election by the people could have but one 1. The election of Wilson, by the aid of the votes of Republican Representa- 3. The temporary accession of Knox, to be followed by another national elec- tion in 1913. Whatever the final outcome, there could be no escape from confusion such as the country has but once in its history. Con would be shaken; business would be paralyzed: demagogism would become rampant; constitutional government Mould be put to severest test; and American institu- tions would be gravely imperiled. Roosevelt oo. 1 t, if not in- deed a determining factor in a situation whose aggravation might easily end in SS: Sen a ee y on e o Wilson—the only who can pos- siuly obain a majority of electoral votes. can be no question of the plain duty of all patriotic Republicans in this . It is to join with equally Patriotic mocrats in making assurance sure. They sa their party from Rorreait in convention, Now let them help to save the sountly from the same menace at the polls. No man can foresee the real and ultimate effect of a vote for Taft, but— | A vote for Wilson is son. a vote for Wil- a —— voting for the Democratic candidates re- spectively, for State officers. | ——McKean county Democrats have | as a candidate for the Legislature Mr. EDWARD BENSON, who acted as their Rep- resentative two years ago. In 1910 he was nominated by the Democrats and elected jointly by his own party and the assistance he got from the Keystone Republicans. At the meeting of the Legislature in 1911 he bolted his own party caucus, refused to vote for Hon. J. C. MEYER, its candidate for Speaker, and publicly announced that he was not a Democrat and was under no obligation to the Democratic party. Now Mr. BEN- SON needs Democratic votes and is trying to get them by having ex-members of the House, who served with him, write him laudatory letters stating what a first class Representative he made and how deserv- ing a candidate he is. As Mr. BENSON finds some trouble in convincing the Democrats that he is still worthy the confidence of the party he denied, less than two years ago, possibly he could se- cure their support for a second time by pointing out something he did to benefit his county or those who elected him, or some effort he made to perpetuate and build up the party that had given him the honor he gloried in. To us it looks much like a case when something more than mere words will be required to smooth out a political record such as he has made. ——THOMAS J. RYAN, of Philadelphia, who was so vehemently denounced by a certain class of Democrats as a Machine politician and as such bitterly condemned and criticised by them, left an estate of $300,000 which after the death of his wife is to go “to provide a fund for the pur chase of flour, food and fuel for needy persons in the ward represented by him in council” for so many years. With a knowledge of this fact given to the pub- lic we should think these pharisaical traducers, a number of whom we have here in Centre county, would hang their little heads in shame. —JoE MOSSER, an old State "Varsity player, remarked that the reason the State players got so many of the W. and J. men from the rear, last Saturday, was because the visitors didn’t have their tail lights lit. Of course JOE ought to know, because his is, in some respects, expert testimony, but we think it was because the W. and J. men failed to light out after they got the ball. ——It may be remarked, however, that giving away money in $150,000 rolls, by Mr. J. PIERPONT MORGAN, hasn't devel oped into a habit. ——FLINN seems to have taken PEN- From the Omaha World-Herald. " While the prospect of reform grows brighter every day, the feeling of resent- ment on account of the exposed Rypoc. risy of the leaders of the Republ pry is not wholly eradicated. It may said that one ought to be satisfied in seeing them driven from and so thoroughly understood that they can never again us to the become common welfare, and that is probably true, but the memory of their heartless- ness still clings. They told us that had no desire but to help Cuba and release her le from the oppression of the i because they thought that “trade would follow the flag,” and big business would secure millions of profits. They made a whole people who were looking to us for succor and who were straining every nerve to assist us, enemies, Ww! if our friends forever. Hypocrisy is their chief characteristic today. Their literature is mainly direct- ed to persuading wage workers that a high tariff is almost solely for the benefit of those who toil. They are all disinter- ested philanthropists, spending their money and their time to prevent Ameri- can workingmen from being reduced to the condition of the “pauper labor” of Europe. This is a hypocrisy thatarouses resentment in the breast of every. In of matter that it has sent out, that thing is never mentioned. It is showing how it benefits the farmer laborer, and in that its hy, the limit, for neither of ever receive any benefits from tariffs, as the OE od in most y while the farmer mustsell in a free trade market and buy in a highly protected one. : New York’s Underworld. From the Altoona Times. True or False, that was a remarkable oid. by “Bald Jack” Rose at the , The mining camps and border towns of the varnished west never Pion wha oly 0 hogs Sod. ny could eq - ed by this gambler and murderer. Quite apart from the question of Beck- er’s guilt, this confession by Rose gives the public a clear idea of the desperate character of the gangmen of New York, and a clear idea of the tremendous prob- lem which the police commissioner is expected to solve. wr Winning Votes for Wilson. From the Milwaukee Journal. The more Teddy tries to explain the more certain the voter is that there is only one uncontaminated candidatein this election—one Woodrow Wilson. He has never been “caught with the goods.” —]It might as well be remembered that the New York Herald's poll does not include the solid south and that WILSON is vastly in the lead without that sunny ROSE into his camp but he has to reckon with DAVE LANE yet. section which is always true to the Democ- racy. ! SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. 1 | —Ground has been broken for a new plant at | Clearfield, which will manufacture sewer pipe, | brick and tile. i —Fifty cases of diphtheria are reported at Kulp- mont, near Milton. State troopers were called to | enforce quarantine regulations. So’ ~Lock Haven is to have anew industry in the | shape of a plant to manufacture ladies’ coats, ' suits and dresses. It will employ seventy-five | people at the start. | —Mrs. Emma Fuller, one daughter and three | sons are at the Johnstown hospital, typhoid fever | victims. The father died recently of the disease, | and an uncle is also afflicted. | =W. M. Shrock, aged 78, went out to feed the i chickens on his farm near Shanksville while his | wife was milking. When she left the barn he was lying dead where he had fallen. —Six years after losing his right arm in a | threshing machine, Ralph Cook, aged nineteen, | was awarded $3,000 damages for the accident, which happened near Shamokin. 3 —Within a month chicken thieves have gather ed up 500 or more fowls in the vicinity of Turbot- ville and McEwensville, and aid has been asked by the Northumberland county officials. young men are hammering stone, as a result of not keeping their sentiments behind their teeth when police were arresting a drunken man. —Two children residing at Ferndale, Johns town, are taking Pasteur treatment, because a cat that had bitten them was found to have rab. ies. Several animals were also bitten by the cat. ~The executive offices of the Atlantic Radiator company are being moved this week from Phila- delphia to Huntingdon and a number of skilled workmen who will be employed at the plant are arriving. —Love of jewelry and other finery led to the ar- rest of Charlotte Hardin, aged 14, who is said to have taken $42 from the home in which she was employed. She is under the probation officer’s care at Somerset. ~—In the excavation for Renovo's new Masonic temple thebones of a man and woman, buried possibly two centuries ago, were unearthed. Phy- sicians cannot determine whether they were In- dians or Caucasians. —Lewistown officials are taking all precautions to check the spread of diphtheria. The Episco- pal church was closed on Sunday. The Highland avenue school has been closed for some time and others have been disinfected. —W. E. Johnson, the aviator who made six suc- cessful flights at Lock Haven last week, is done flying. He was married a month ago and will, in accordance with a promise to his wife, teach other people how to fly, instead of flying himself. —A planing mill belonging to Adams Bros. near Belsano, was destroyed by fire a few nights ago. The fire home was burned before the fire fighters could reach it and a bucket brigade had hard work to save the lumber piles. There was no insurance. —John C. Moore, a Shamokin confectioner, was recently awarded $468.52 damages for ten shade trees on his property near town that had besm cut by the township supervisor. The official claimed he didn’t know the trees were on Mr. Moore's land. ~—A heavy plank sustaining a political banner at the top of one of Punxsutawney's tall buildings fell fifty feet to the pavement below, at ome o'clock Saturday afternoon, just when the streets ~About two hours after John Harder and his | son, of DuBois, had gone to work, Mrs, Harder being away from home, their house find out how the work had been done. ~The threatened epidemic of smallpox in the a dozen cases were under treatment in the Stomy- creek valley. ~The family of the late J. C. McCounanghey. of Ligonier, has been sorely afflicted this year. In April a #aughter, Mrs. J. C. Campbell, died. Five weeks later her husband followed her tothe grave. Frank McCounanghey, a son, was killed in the Wilpen wreck. Then the father died and now, after five weeks, Mrs. McCounanghey is dead. ~The corner stone of the new building of the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania will be laid in Pittsburgh on October 26th, when Gov- ernor Tener will preside, and the justices of the Supreme Court be special guests. Ex-Governor Pennypacker will make the principal address, with Librarian John W. Jordan and Mayor Wil- liam A. Magee. ~C. J. Marshall, State Veterinarian, has return- ed to Harrisburg from a visit to Kane, where he was investigating a strange disease that has been killing the cattle in that vicinity. One man lost five valuable cows. The disease is new thought to be under control, a vaccine germ having been discovered as the result of experiments by Dr. Marshall and others. ly used to supply coal to the Bolivar Face Brick company, have been leased by the Clymer Coal company, which will start operations at once. The mines have been closed down owing to sus- pension of work at the brick plant, but a large number of men will be employed and the mines worked on a larger scale than before. —~Miss Juniata Guss, a P. R. R. second trick tel- ephone operator at Mifflin, was accosted by a would-be highwayman on her way home a few twenty-five hours after the railroad police took up the case they had a suspect in the jail awaiting a hearing. school put down the well, the school. tle hun ~Lewistown has a rock pile and this week two ~The two Hammond mines at Bolivar, formes. |
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