ee ——— iin. BY P. GRAY MEEK. INK SLINGS. —It’s a long lane that has no turn.” —Here's our congratulations to every- body. —“Don’t cheer boys the poor devils are dying.” —The only flies in the dumpling are Pennsylvania and Centre county. —Its back to the alfalfa in the White | house stable for the lean old Democratic | donkey. | —Milesburg went for TAFT and the | country’s saved-—as viewed by EDMUND | BLANCHARD. ~—HARMON, BRYAN and UNDERWOOD | would make good Cabinet selections for | President WILSON. | ~Already a lot of early birds are whetting their bills to dig out the Belle- | fonte postoffice worm. —Anyway TEDDY'S teeth would make good markers for the political graves of a | lot of soldiers of fortune who deserted their colors to follow him into oblivion. VOL. 7 ~The next time we go up Sait River we will find two great holes on the shore. One that the TAFTITE'S will crawl into; the other the Bull Moosers. For they'll mever be able to dwell together in peace on the surface. STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. . BELREFONTE, PA. NOVEMBER 8, 1912. Congress and Senate Democratic New York, Ohio, New Jersey and Indiana Give a Deluge | of Democratic Votes and Elect Legislatures. Pennsylvania Clings to the Shattered Idols of the Republican Party. While there was little doubt in the minds of the unbiased observer that Woob- ROW WILSON would be elected President of the United States, a week ago no one would have imagined such a deluge as swept the Republican party clear out of existence on Tuesday. Forty of the forty-eight States in the Union have gone Democratic; President TAFT has carried but three and ROOSEVELT five. In the 63rd Congress there will be more then 279 Democrats out of the mem- bership of 435. In the Senate, returns up to last evening indicated that we have secured enough State Legislatures to insure Democratic control of that body as well. This will make Democracy Supreme in all branches of our government and insure to the country an untrammeled fulfiliment of all of our platform pledges. It is highly probable that President WILSON will call an extra session of Congress immediately after his inauguration in order to put into effect atonce the tariff legislation that President TAFT vetoed at the last session. The first utterance of the new President after he heard the news of his suc- eess was reassuring to business interests everywhere, because he announced that legitimate business endeavor need have no fear of injurious legislation of any sort’ In Pennsylvania we have gained four Congressman a number of Senators and sadbonsmmrn. NO. +4 e Triumph of Democracy Every State in the Union "But Three, Makes Protest Against the High Cost of Living and Pres. Taft’s Stand-Pat Policies. | | { | four years ago. { For a presidential contest Tuesday's | election was unusually quiet and almost | entirely devoid of excitement and sensa- | tional features. Outside of the watchers ! and others whose business it was to be | at the polls there were very few hangers- on and the old crowd of ward and district workers were conspicuous only by their absence. That there was considerable apathy among the voters in general is shown in the fact that less than eighty per cent. of the total vote in the county was cast. Wilson and Marshall carried the coun- ty for President and Vice President by over seven hundred majority, which was very good considering the strong senti- ment for Roosevelt in every district, Owing to the fact that the Republicans and Washington party were united on the State candidates, Congress and the Legis- lature, they were successful in carrying the county for all by safe majorities, al- though C, L. Gramley defeated Robert M. Members of the Assembly, but ROOSEVELT has carried the State by about 32,000 plurality. BERRY and CRESSWELL go down to defeat along with our four Con- | gressmen-at-Large apparently because the new organization of our party failed to getout as many votes for them as were polled for BRYAN by the old organization Foster for the Legislature by less than two hundred votes. A careful perusal of the compiled returns in this issue will show you that Gramley was stronger with the Washington party than with the Republican, so it is an easy matter to figure out where he would have landed had he not gotten the Washington party endorsement. The same thing might ap- ply to Charles E. Patton, for Congress. Had he not been endorsed by the Wash- ington party and Progressives Gleason would have had a very nice majority in Centre county and would have stood a good chance of being elected in the dis- trict. One thing very noticeable about Tues- day's election was the few attempts to influence voters, The usual crowd of “floaters” were in evidence, but they were very rarely approached and many of them failed to vote because they were not induced in the old-time way. This at least is cause for thankfulness. The complete returns from the county, by election districts, will be found in the table published in this issue. Charles E. Patton Re-elected. Unofficial returns show the re-election of Charles E. Patton to Congress from this (the Twenty-first) district with ma- jorities in the several counties as follows: Centre. ....... werscirvisinaees seston oi 00 Clearfield. ...cecs.ccei eer ee = McKean... ... oceans B00 —And then to think that Centre coun- ty was ‘“re-organized” within the past year, and polled fewer Democratic votes, at a presidential election than it ever did when its regulars were depended upon to see that the vote was gotten to the polls, kind of gives birth to the thought, that a little more re-organization, would not be out of place. —Most of us will wonder how the supporters of TAPT and ROOSEVELT could have been so badly mistaken but it may be worth while to remember that some of us made miscalculations ourselves in the good old days when about all we had to campaign with were hope and faith, 1 —It's a lasting, if not an affectionate, | good-bye to Mr. PENROSE. —Thanks Mr. RooseverLt! It may | not have been intended but it worked out "all right anyway. | —The season for elephant and moose ' opened on Tuesday, Nov. 5th, and from the reports that come straggling in near- ly every Democratic office hunter in the country got one of each on the first day. —President WILSON will certainly have to stand for a large army of unemployed | after the Fourth of March, but them | there'll be plenty of real work for the | office holders who will have to let go of i the public teat. | {| =—Oh no, Mr. “Stay-at-home.” You ! have mistaken the occasion. This is not your jollification. “Buttin’ in now only | makes us remember how badly we would | have been licked if other Democrats had ' acted as you did. i | Up Salt River, mad and cussin | TAPT and TEDDY now must roam | There they can keep up their fussin While WiLsoN calls the White House home Sickened Elephants and Mooses Will be trotten’ round galore There'll be a great menagerie All along that saline shore, And the Democratic donkey, So long denied the hay, Will browse on good alfalfa And his driver draw the pay. —Never before in the history of the Republican party in Pennsylvania has it been as badly split up as it was this fall. Never before in the history of the Demo- cratic party have we presented a nomi- nee for President so universally accepta- ble to all men as is Woobrow WiLsow, yet he did not carry Pennsylvania. Tues- day's result appeals most forcibly for a still further reorganization of our in the State. Under the old regimes PATTISON was twice elected ! and BERRY was elected State Treasurer but under the present one, with the Re- publican party split square in two, we couldn’t even get a look in. What's the trouble? - - ——————— a —— —Well, we Democrats may have great reason for feeling good, but we certainly have no particular cause for pride over our part of the job. With over six hundred Democratic “stay-at-homes” in Centre county, and sixty thousand of the same stripe elsewhere throughout the State, it looks as if the Democratic hook worm had been working over time among we Pennsylvania Democrats. —Qur congratulations to Mr. GUTHRIE and the other re-organizers. They prob- ably did their best, but the returns per- sist in pointing out the fact that they couldn't even lick the one-half of the Re. publican party. Possibly they'll have more consideration for the efforts of the ‘old guard” whom they licked for not licking the whole of it. ~Mr. GEO. W. PERKINS can now spend his surplus energy and money in the work of “uplifting humanity” by cor- recting the evils in some of the factories he controls. —With our Bull Moose friends, last week, it was—“Onward Christian Soldier.” At this distance, that hymn now sounds i very much like: “Rescue the Perishing.”
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