sss EL =" BY P. GRAY MEEK. INK SLINGS. —Vote for your own interests ths time. —Wooprow WiLson and THOMAS R. MARSHALL. —Tomorrow will be WisoN day. So will next Tuesday. —Be a Democrat next Tuesday and you'll never regret it. —Don’t be fooled by eleventh hour canards. Vote for WiLsoN and MAR- SHALL and be on the winning side. —One can hear the old Franklins here- abouts humming like two lawn mowers since one of their make won that Los Angeles to Phoenix race. —If the Bulgars, the Montenegrins and the Greeks keep at it a few’ days longer there won't be enough of Turkey left for a Thanksgiving dinner. —If you want the cost of living reduc- ed. If you want government for your- self as well as for the wealthy manufac- turer vote for WiLsoN and MARSHALL. —The esteemed Blossburg Adverticer surely is a living exemplar of what's in a name. Its issue of last Friday contained five columns of reading matter and twen- ty-two of advertisements. —Every other Democrat has just as much right to stay away from the polls next Tuesday as you have. What if they all did it. There wouldn't be much to cheer about, would there? —ToMm LAWSON says “this country is rushing towards hades at a mile-a-min- ute clip.” So it has been Tommy, old boy, but we're going to put a new driver at the wheel next Tuesday. —The Legislaturejwill be asked to ap- propriate fifty million dollars for road building in this State. Are you going to vote to give BILL FLINN control of legis- lation and a chance to grab all this work. —While in Congress Mr. PATTON voted against every measure that might have helped you. Next Tuesday will be your opportunity to get even with Mr. PATTON by voting to send JAMES GLEASON to Congress instead. ~The city papers on Monday announc- ed that “President TAFT is back in Wash- ington for the winter's work.” WILLIAM does well to get down to it early for he will have only until the fourth of March to get the job finished. —His autobiographers declare that Vic- ToR Huco had an appetite like an os- trich. He ate lobsters, shell and all, rev- eled in the skin of oranges, and usually dined for three hours in succession. Poe- sibly that is why one of his greatest works was named Les Miserables. —The betting on WiLsON in New York was four to one yesterday. The gamblers don’t often guess bad on election results. They bet to make money, not for senti- ment sake, and they would not be laying such long odds on the Jersey Governor if they were not cock sure of his win- ning. —The United States weather bureau predicts a storm disturbance to sweep over the United States from the Pacific to the Atlantic the latter part of this week. We predict that a bigger one will sweep over the country next Tuesday, and it will be occasioned by one Woob- ROW WILSON. —All you men who read the advertise- ment, in this issue, calling for a ROOSE- VELT and JOHNSON mass meeting tomor- row evening will understand that you are not wanted and will not be welcome. Dr. Locke, chairman, and WILLARD HALL, secretary, sign the notice and declare “we extend a cordial invitation to the ladies to attend.” Men are not mention- ed in the notice so it is probably really a tea party and not a political meeting at all. —The WATCHMAN was the first Demo- cratic paper in Pennsylvania to publicly advocate the nomination of Wooprow WiLson for President. It believed at the time that he was the man of the hour. And now, on the eve of his election to the highest office within the gift of the greatest nation on the face of the Earth, it is convinced that he is the man of the hour, not alone for the Democratic party, but for our Republican form of govern. ment. ~—On September 2ith Mr. GLEASON in- vited Congressman PATTON to joint de- bates with him, the same to be held in Bellefonte, Philipsburg, Clearfield, Du. Bois, Emporium and Bradford, for the purpose of letting each address the same audiences on his own account. Up to this moment, five days before the elec- tion, Mr. PATTON has not even replied to the challenge. If your Congressman is afraid of a man who has never been in Congress why vote to send him back. ~Director MORIN, of the city of Pitts- burgh, was last week found guilty by the courts of improper management of his office. He is the same JoiN M. Morin whose name you will find printed on the ballot you will be given to vote on next week. He is running for Congressman- at-Large on the Republican, the Wash- ington, the Bull Moose and the RoOSE- VELT Progressive tickets. He is on all four, but are you going to vote to send a man to Congress who, within a week, has been convicted in open court of improp- erly conducting a great office in the city of Pittsburgh. FR Lc mL A A A A A STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. VOL. 57. Taft’s Unfitness Revealed. | The most convincing evidence of WIL- | LIAM H. TAFT's unfitness for the great of. fice in which he has proved a failure thus far is contained in his absurd “calamity howl,” recently published by his authori- ty. It would be bad enough for cheap i ward politicians to predict business par- alysis as the result of Mr. WILSON'S elec- tion, in view of the industrial history of the country during the last half century. | They are expected to make such dema- | gogic appeals to prejudice and ignorance. But when the President of the United | States descends to such miserable expe- | dients in order to get votes, public intel. | ligence is outraged and the decent citi- zenship of the country is humiliated. The first great panic which occurred after the close of the Civil war began in 1873 when every department of the gov- ernment was under complete control of the Republican party as they had been for thirteen years. It resulted in an in- dustrial paralysis which lasted until the creation of a tariff commission gave promise of a reduction in the rates of tariff taxation. It also led to the elec- tion of a Democratic Congress in 1874, which greatly expedited the return of confidence and the incidental restoration of business activity. The next great pan- ic set in during the summer of 1891. Business failures occurred in all sections of the country, wages were reduced in all manufacturing industries and in July, 1892, the universal dissatisfaction of wage-earners culminated in the great strike, riots and slaughter at Homestead. The Homestead strike occurred before the Republican National convention of 1892 assembled and while it was in ses- sion the riots convulsed the country. The Democratic convention had not been held as yet but within a short time it as- sembled and nominated GROVER CLEVE- LAND. The political revolution which gave him an overwhelming majority of the popular vote and an unusually large proportion of the electoral votes was due largely, if not altogether, to popular dis- satisfaction with Republican policies and the industrial and commercial stagnation which they brought about. It will be re- membered by all thoughtful men that the campaign was made on those issues. The Populist party was organized by dis- satisfied and discontented Republicans and the division of the Republican vote in consequence gave CLEVELAND his vic- tory. It is hardly necessary to add that the panic of 1907 was not a Democratic af- fair. In 1896 the Republicans elected the President and obtained a substantial majority in both branches of Congress. They repeated their victory in 1900 and again in 1904 and were in full possession in 1907 when all the banks in the coun- try practically stopped payments and the factories, foundries and mills were aban- doned to the bats and bugs. This dire- full and distressing state of affairs con- tinued until a Democratic Congress offer- ed hope and the certainty of the election of a Democratic President confirmed it. In the face of these facts TAPT'S “calam- ity howl!” is as disgraceful as it is unjust. An Anomalous Condition. The Philadelphia Republican city com- mittee has not, thus far, endorsed the so- called Republican State ticket. Mr. DAVID H. LANE, who has been a member of the committee for forty-two years,and has been chairman for eight or ten years, declares that such a condition has never been known before. The custom has always been to endorse the nominees of the State convention at the first meeting of the committee after its adjournment. This vear the subject was considered as usual, After several tailures to pass the endors- ing resolution, however, it was agreed to defer action until the candidates should indicate the allegiance to the National ticket of the party. Of course the candidates for Auditor General and State Treasurer have not complied with those conditions. The idates are the servile tools of BILL FLINN and Mr. VANVALKENBURG and so long as are su ng the Bull Moose candidates for t and Vice President, Messrs. POWELL and Younc do not dare to express a preference for the Republican candidate. a literally “between the devil and the blue sea.” If they declare for TAFT, FLINN and VANVALKENBURG will repudiate them and if they come out for ROOSEVELT, Penrose and McNICHOL will give them the scalpel. In either event they are! Be lost. Defeat gets them “com- a ng.” A, the circumstances the Philadel- phia Republican city committee is justi- fied in refusing to endorse them and the’ Philadelphia ublicans and all other | Republicans will be justified in voting against them. As a matter of fact, we can’t see how any regular Republican can support candidates who are avowedly, or at least inferentially, against the Republi. can ticket, If they should be elected the first thing FLINN and VANVALKENBURG would require of them would be the de- nunciation of Senator PENROSE and all his followers and the setting up of a new machine, the main purpose of which would be to keep the allover the State BEL re | ministration are responsible. | bed, by excessive tariff charges, of one LEFONTE, PA. NOVEMBER 1, 1912. Vote for Wilson “God give us men! Strong minds, great hearts, A time like this demands true faith and ready hands! Men whom the lust of office does not kill; Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy; Men who possess opinions and a will; Men who have honor, who will not lie; Men who can stand before a demagogue And scorn his treacherous flaterers without winking. Tall men, sun-crowned, who live above the fog In public duty and in private thinking. For while the rabble, with their thumb-worn creeds, Their large professions and Mingle in selfish strife—lo! their little deeds, Freedom weeps, Wrong rules the land, and waiting Justice slzeps.” One Point Upon Which There is Agree- ment. The TAFT orators and the ROOSEVELT stump speakers are in perfect harmony on one subject. They agree that Gov- ernor WILSON, who was inaugurated as chief magistrate of New Jersey in Jan- uary, 1911, a trifle more than a year and a-half ago, ought to have revoked the franchise of every offensive corporation chartered in New Jersey during the near- ly a quarter of a century in which the affairs of that State were dominated by the Republican party. Governor BRIGGS, of New Jersey,who is a conspicuous lead- er in the TAFT camp and Governor Fort, who is equally prominent in the ROOSE- VELT army did nothing in that direction during their terms, but WILSON ought to have done everything in a few months. In the Legislature of New Jersey dur- ing its first session after Wooprow WiL- | SON became Governor one of the branch- es had a Republican majority. Notwith- standing this fact, however, Governor WILSON in his first message urged It lation to chéck the - creation of tributed. But as a matter of fact, eighty per cent. of it is shifted upon the should- ers of the wage earners. In other words, the luxuries of the rich are taxed at a low rate while the necessities of the poor are taxed to the full measure of the ability to pay. The rich, who escape the burdens, waste at every turn and the poor have to make up the losses, with the result that even when industrial enterprises are ac- tive and commercial operations flourish- ing, the poor are unable to “make ends meet,” because the cost of commodities is greater than the proceeds of their la- bor. The remedy is a reduction of tariff taxes. One Essential to Success. The only thing necessary to complete a splendid victory in Pennsylvania, is to get out the Democratic vote. The inde- pendent Republicans who intend to vote for Woobprow WILSON and the entire Democratic ticket, and there are vast num- bers of them in Pennsylvania, will come to the polls without urging. They are awake citizens who realize the im- body refused to follow his advice and he had no authority to take Senators and Representatives by the throat and comyel them act to as hedesired. But the people of New Jersey understood and at the subsequent election of Senators and Rep- resentatives in the Legislature Democrat- ic majorities were returned to both branch- es and the needed legislation was enact- ed. Since that New Jersey has been as free from corporation scandals as Mas- sachusetts or any other State. Former Senator BEVERIDGE, of Indiana, who is filling Colonel ROOSEVELT'S en- gagements and pretends to be delivering ROOSEVELT'S personal message to the people, dwells long and speaks earnestly upon this subject. But according to Sen- ator LAFOLLETTE, of Wisconsin,more than two-thirds of the predatory corporations which were chartered in all the States were organized and began their work of spoliation during the time ROOSEVELT was in the office of President of the United States. Why didn't he take steps to prevent such things, not only in New Jersey but in West Virgina, where Gov- vernor GLASCO, one of ROOSEVELT'S pet politicians, is now handing them out to anybody who will pay the price. The Cause and the Remedy. The cost of living is the paramount is- sue in this campaign. Within the last sixteen years prices of the necessaries of life have steadily risen until now even those who are constantly employed find trouble in meeting their ordinary obliga- tions. Various causes have been assign- ed for this state of affairs and some of them are worthy of consideration. For example the desertion of rural localities and the congestion of population in the cities have some influence upon the price of agricultural commodities. But these are neither the real nor the main causes of the high cost of living. The excessive tariff taxation and the profligacy of ad- Mr. VAN CLEAVE, lately president of | the American Manufacturers association, testified, under oath, before a Congres- sional committee that under the DINGLEY law the people of this country were rob- million dollars a day. Mr. VAN CLEAVE was a high protectionist and confessed this truth reluctantly. But he underesti- mated the burglarious capacity of the DINGLEY law. It actually robbed the peo- ple of three million dollars a day and took out of the earnings of industry near- ly a billion dollars a year. This vast sum is annually added to the cost of living and is the principal cause of the indus. trial and commercial distress under which the country is suffering. Even this robbery would not be so op- pressive if the burden were equally dis- tions. If there are any laggards they are | Bust Democrats who have lost hope on ac- count of frequent defeats. Every voter in this class should be encouraged: to go to the polls and cast his vote for the en- tire ticket. It will guarantee a victory so complete and enduring as to make every Democratic heart glad. The campaign has been quiet for that of a Presidential year but there are abun- dant reasons for the belief that the vot- ers are generally informed as to the is- sues and hopeful of the result. This be- ing the case it ought not be difficult to prevail on them to cast their ballots on election day. But some may forget, in the multitude of other matters, that vot- ing is the most important duty that any citizen has to perform. If every good citizen would perform this public service on every occasion there would be no cause of complaint that the government is either corrupt or inefficient. But gov- ernment is the logical and inevitable re- sult of the neglect of good citizens to take part in elections. In Centre county there has been too much neglect of this paramount duty of citizenship, of late years. The party has suffered on this account and the public service has been impaired for the reason that some of the fittest men have failed of election through the neglect of their friends to vote. Our information is that this year there will be improve- ment throughout the State, brought about by the hope of a Democratic victory for our candidate for President. Permit us to hope that this county will not be the exception to the rule. Our local candi- dates expect the enthusiastic support of every voter who believes in good govern: ment and the high character of our Na- tional and State coudidates is an addi- tional inspiration to effort. crats had not elected a State Treasurer in 1905 the graft in the construction and furnishing of the State capitol would have amounted, ultimately, to the enor- mous amount of $25,000,000. This is not conjecture but the actual confession of one of the participants in the crimes. Within the period covered by the terms of the Auditor General and State Treas- urer to be chosen next Tuesday, there will be available for road construction and improvement, $50,000,000. If the FLINN machine gets opportunity to direct the operations more than $100,000,000 will be stolen. Isn't it worth while to vote for the Democratic candidates. ——Speaking of the high cost of living it is safe to say that if TAPT had signed the tariff reform bills passed by Congress during the special session of last year a billion dollars would have been saved to the people in the cost of the necessaries of life, up to this time. NO). 4:5, No Trust Funds Wanted. From the Pittsburgh Post. Governor Wilson's command that the campaign contribution of Cyrus H. Mc- Cormick be returned puts him in a posi- cause is right. and not because of any in- tention or expectation that it be a obligation that Mr. Wilson, as Presi- d nr, would keep in mind. The Demo- cratic National committee needs cion that he was aided in the by the money of a trust. So oack an individual gitt of $12,500 because the donor’s source of income is a corpor- ation that is under Jublic aceuzation. This action of Wilson will him materially in the public . It means that Governor Wilson intends to recognize no master but the people in whose service he ex- ucts fo Be. To the people alone will he indebted and their interests he will an, No i made tru tes, wi ki . less because of President Taft's veto, there has been a strike of 30,000 men, women and children jithe great textile mills of the Wi Trust at Law- This strike revealed, to the utter dis- of thousands of Americans of both parties who had previously placed more or less confidence in the principle of pro- 's suke, but who ady to denounce it at the polls at the first opportunity, that those millionaire Woolen Trust magnates who have been going to Congress and obtain- ing excessive protection on the ground that they were paying “American wag: es” and giving fair and decent treatment to their employees, have been handing out pure buncombe and working a gigan- tic double-barreled conspiracy on both consumers and employees. The revelations springing from that strike have demonstrated to the satisfac- tion of even thousands of patriotic Re- publicans in this nation that those Wool- en Trust magnates have used the high tariff on woolen goods only to enrich themselves. Having obtained a mon ly on the American market, the Woolen Trust has forced the consumer to pay exorbitant prices for blankets, under- wear and all kinds of women's and chil- dren's dress goods; and while growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice them- selves, they have forced their men, wom- en and even little children employees to accept starvation wages and have treat- ed them almost like animals. To Avoid all Risk. From the Springfield Republican. If Governor Wilson should not be the choice of a majority of the electoral col- lege, all the current indications are that no candidate could be. The practical alternative is Wilson's election by the electoral college, or no election what- ever; and no election would mean throw- ing the res bility for the choice of the next ident upon the present House of Representatives. which is dead- locked on such a question under the method of voting prescribed by the con- stitution. If the American people wish to avoid | ications of 4 Contest over t ency in ey will put Wilson's election beyond all pos- sible doubt on November 5th. In the Way of Redemption. From the Wilmington (Del.) Every Evening. SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. ~~At the point of a revolver. Alexander Molnar was robbed of $63 in Sharon. Molnar is confident he knows the highwayman and the police are looking for the man. —As a result of a rear-end collision on the Erie railroad in Beechwood, George Smith, a train- man was injured and several thousand dollars’ worth of live stock was killed. —Johnstown has forty-four cases of diphtheria, five of which were reported on Wednesday. Andy Harlay is under arrest for tearing down the pla- card on kis house, in which are two victims. =A bullet which Samuel Diehl, of New Bloom- field, Perry county, carried in his leg for 50 years has just been removed. Diehl was wounded by a rebel marksman in the battle of Williamsburg. —Eating apples in an orchard with a herd of cows, a black bear met its doom at the hands of Benjamin Dickerson, of Warren. The cows were not paying any attention to their strange guest. —Members of Altoona lodge, Hunters and Anglers’ Protective association, have adooted a red cap for use while huntingthis fall. They ex. pect thereby to prevent accidents which were so common last year. ~The Robertsdale postoffice was robbed last week. The postmaster went out about noon for a few minutes and left the door unlocked. Cash to the amount of $10) followed him out but took some other direction. —George Dunlap, aged 70 years, made the kitchen fire at his home at Houtzdale a few momn- ings ago, then fell dead of heart trouble. He had been a resident of that place for over forty years and was highly esteemed. —A full grown deer held up two automobiles on the road between Williamsport and Montours- ville a few evenings ago. The animal was cross, ing the road and, becoming bewildered by the ~An 11-year-old son of Charles Rhoenix, near Mill Hall, is terribly burned as the result of the thoughtless prank of his playmates. The boys were playing with a lighted torch and “just for fun" they held it close enough toset fire to his trousers, —Delays in the completion of the state road through the Narrows below Lewistown are caus- ing considerable irritation to people in that sec tion. The road was first promised by June, 1912, and now it looks as though it would not be finish- ed by June, 1913. h —Five men alleged to have robbed the coal company’s stores in Oakridge and Fairmont, were arrested by State constables and placed in the Armstrong county jail. The men gaye their names as Otto Reddinger, Edward Reddinger, Arthur Gaunt, William Neese and Clinton Bowser. —The American plant of the Harbison-Walker . | Refractories company at Flemington will resume operations shortly, after standing idle for several years. One hundred brick makers will find em- ployment. The plant and tenant houses are being overhauled and made ready for use. —Two cases involving large amounts are be- fore the Somerset county court. Mrs. Evelyn Smith asks $25,000 damages for the death of her husband in the mines near Brothersvalley. Wm. Miller wants $10,000 from the Quemahoning branch railroad for his farm, which the viewérs said was worth $4,200, —Frank Getchell, about to be taken to the western penitentiary to serve at least three years for larceny, told Sheriff Cupper, of Lock Haven, where to find a watch he had previously denied having stolen. The timepicce was hanging on a small nail driven in the back of a drawerin the bureau of his room at a hotel. —Thomas Kilroy, aged 40 years, a miner at Meyersdale, is sorely afflicted. Recently his wife died. His mother came to care for his seven children and in a few weeks she died. Retumn- ing from her funeral, he found a little daughter badly burned. Then he was taken ill, fell down stairs and now he is in a nervous collapse, men- tally unbalanced. ~The work of laying a track seven miles from the New York Central near Winburne to the new clay fields of the Pennsylvania Fire Brick com- pany, of Beech Creek, is being pushed vigorous. ly and the Philipsburg Journal is expressing re- gret that the town should be allowing the clay to be shipped to other points instead of being used in the manufacture of bricks at home, ~Fred Neese, a resident of Punxsutawney for seven years during which he has become well known as a freight conductor, was arrested on Monday and taken to Kittanning where he was jailed on a charge that he was one of a gang of burglars operating at Oak Ridge, Fairmont and, Hawthorne. Seventeen others were arrested. One or two confessed and implicated the others, among them Mr. Neese, His friends believe that his arrest was a mistake. —Workmen digging a conduit ditch to carry telephone wires to the city hall at Williamsport uncovered an old tomb stone. As the ditch did not disturb the casket, the work proceeded. A number of years ago, when the city hall was built, an old cemetery was appropriated. De- scendants of the early settlers had the dust of friends removed and those graves that were not claimed were covered deep with stones laid flat upon them. It was one of these that was recent” ly uncovered. ~Patrvlman M. A. Davis, of he Pennsylvania Railroad force, arrested Russel, Davis at Lewis- town on Friday night as an illegal train rider and following his incarceration in the county prison, and on looking over some papers in his pockets found he had deserted from troop M, Fourteenth United States Cavalry, stationed at Fort Mc Intosh, Texas, on July 28th, 1912. Davis admitted he was the man wanted and said he was ready to return and serve his time. Heis only 22 years old, and gave his home as Philadelphia. —One of the few women employed by the Pennsylvania Railroad will be retired on Nov. Ist. She is Anna H. Criley, agent and operator at Glen Loch. She has been in the service of the company since April 1st, 1868, and all of that time has been employed on the Philadelphia divi- sion in the same position. She is being retired on the age limit. At the time Miss Criley was em- ployed by the Pennsylvania 44 years ago, more women were employed than now. Gradually the railroad has been employing men in the positions occupied by women until now there are hardly any employed on the road. Pennsylvania seems ready to go cratic this year, something the State has not done in a presiden 1856, when she gave her electoral vote to her “favorite son,” President James Bu- The Case of Boles Penrose. From the Springfield Republican. To be as a villain when one might have an angel! Is this the tune of the reflections of Boies Penrose? The sufficient evidence of Mr. Nugent before pe Senate commie makes it ear that very wings wo ve grown on the Penrose shoulders had he decided in those fatal 10 days to su the col- onel instead of Mr. Taft. t the other side of it is that the country would have missed making the acquaintance of the charming “Bill” Flinn. od
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