INK SLINGS. —Have you started your Christmas | shopping? —Now is the time to get the coal bin | geod and full. : —Next week we'll do a lite turk kill- | ~~ ing on this side of the Atlantic. | —Turkish bullets have haé¢ no terror | for Bulgarian soldiers, but going up! against Turkish cholera may be a much | more disastrous undertaking. —Isn't it awful, MasLE? Poor Presi- dent TAPT had to issue the proclamation to the people to be thankful because they had elected WiLSON President., —Why not get the choice articles, those that have not been fingered over by everyone else. You can do it by be- ginning your Christmas shopping at once. —-A good deal of money was wasted by over-enthusiastic partisans during the past six months but it is still in existence and those who try will get a share of it yet. —The Russians are about to expend thirty-four million dollars on their navy. The Japs will probably begin to plan the capture of the prizes as soon as they are afloat. —Let us see. Congressman WILLIAM B. WILSON was elected three times under the Old Guard Democratic State commit- tee and defeated once under the reorgan- ized body. —Among other good things to be expected is the speedy dissolution of the tariff board. Of all the expensive and worthless bodies in the country that is the most mischievous. —Penn State is celebrating her Penn- sylvania day today. Here's hoping that Pennsylvania will give Penn State some- thing worth while celebrating when her next Legislature meets. —Speaking of Armageddon the con- flict was less destructive than some peo- ple imagined it would be but then the principal warrior was mistaken in the cause in which he was enlisted. ~If you want to send a friend a most acceptable Christmas present send the WATCHMAN for a year. The cost is small and the expression of your good will renewed every week during the year. ~Why worry so much about the reor- ganization of the Republican party. Just wait until WiLsON has had a little chance to run things and all will probably agree that there is no need for any other party than his. —It is highly probable that President. elect WILSON will be astonished by the number of other distinguished American Democrats who will have discovered that their systems need the salubrious cli mate of Bermuda while he is there. —The Korean bride is compelled to re- main mute throughout her wedding day. With such a custom in vogue here the average American groom would have one day to point to, at least, as having been the chance of his life to get in a word or two without an interruption. ~The hunting season will now ab- sorb much of the surplus energy which has been given to politics during the last few weeks and the stories of achievement will be quite as interesting and nearly as exaggerated as the cam- paign lies that have been current. —For a jollification parade one night last week Shamokin Democrats borrow- ed ten mules from a neighboring coal mine. The next morning they returned eleven. Now, do you believe that was simply a sample of what WILSON'S pros- perity will mean or are you of the opin- jon that the mule committee was still “lit up” from the glare of the torches the night before. ~—It will be a miserable, hopeless crea- ture, indeed, who will have nothing to be thankful for next Thursday. The real christian man is thankful for something every day, every hour, every moment of life, but the general Thanksgiving day is the one designated specially to call the attention of the unthinking to the won. | g | took to en! STATE RIGHTS AN D FEDERAL UNION. VOL. 57. BELLEFONTE, PA__NOVEMBER 33. 1017. Roosevelt and Flinn, In his statement to the public Colonel ROOSEVELT refers to the platform of his late party as a “contract with the public.” This is a silly figure of speech which he used frequently during the campaign, and was absolutely without significance and almost as certainly without sincerity. A contract, according to Webster's dic- tionary, is an “agreement of two or more persons, upon a sufficient consideration or cause, to do, or to abstain from doing, some act.” On the part of the people who supported Colonel ROOSEVELT for President, there may have been an agree- ment to deliver sufficient votes to elect him. On his part he agreed to have en- acted certain legislation which he knew he had no power and little inclination to have enacted. Consequently, so far as ROOSEVELT was concerned, the agreement was a fraud and false pretense. He had no hope or even expectation of finding, on the 4th of March, a Congress in sympathy with the things he recklessly promised to do in consideration of the support given him by the people. In other words, he was deliberately “gold bricking” the public and an agreement of that kind is not a contract legally or morally. In the case in point it was a purpose to deceive. No- body knew this better than ROOSEVELT. During the campaign he persisted in it with full understanding of its character and in referring to itas a contract since the election he is simply aggravating an offense which was without justification in the beginning and is a crime now. In his testimony before the Senate committee which inquired into the cam- paign expenditure of candidates, Mr. ROOSEVELT'S friend BILL FLINN declared under oath, that he never intended to fulfil a contract which he offered to make with the late Senator QUAY. It was a gold-brick he handed to the for- mer Republican leader of the Republican party of Pennsylvania, he said, but it was $0 atrocious a proposition thateven QUAY balked at it. Probably ROOSEVELT had the same idea in mind when he under- into a “contract with the public” which he knew was impossible of fulfillment unless he is denser mental- than supposed to be. FLINN'S meth- ods seem to have appealed to ROOSEVELT and the chances are that it was for the reason that “birds of a feather flock to- gether, ——Uncle JoE CANNON will be missed in Washington and that is more than can be said of some of the others who failed of re-election. At the same time it must be admitted that Uncle Joe's absence will not be greatly regretted. Third Term Ghost Laid. One of the resuits of the extraordinary campaign through which we have just passed is the settlement of the question of a third term for at least a century to come. O% course ROOSEVELT will be a candidate again in 1916 and it may be assumed that he will begin his canvass at once. But he will never again be for- midable. One after another of his blind followers who were sincere in their sup- port will fall away from him and he will have left only the mercenary politicians, the expectant corporation managers and the disappointed office seekers. That crowd will not make much of an impres- sion upon the public mind apd the ambi- tious Colonel will cut a poor figure in the next fight for the third term. This is a gratifying solution of a vexed and dangerous problem. In the recent campaign too little attention was paid to the menace of the infraction of an un- written law created by WASHINGTON and sanctioned by JEFFERSON and JACKSON. Probably this fact is ascribable to the well settled faith of the vast majority of voters that ROOSEVELT never had a chance of election. If the contrary opin- ion had prevailed to any considerable extent the question would have been the paramount issue for it is as certain as that day follows night that the violation of this sacred law will mark the begin- ning of the end of the Republic. It will mean a political slavery which cannot be endured. That ROOSEVELT intended to usurp the government scarcely admits of a doubt. If by any pretense he had suc- ceeded in restoring himself to power, he would have easily found pretexts for prolonging his tenure and our representa- tive government would soon have been merged into the benevolent despotism which he hopes to create. If he had had | anything else in mind he would have | ample, and if that is true, the people ceeded consented to a compromise in the Chica- go National convention upon some man who commanded the support of both fac- tions of his party and might have had a chance of success. But that wouldn't have filled the insatiate ambition of the one American who makes NAPOLEON BONA- PARTE his model. Mr. Bryan Should be Cautious. For the sake of harmony in the party we sincerely hope that Mr. WiLLiAM JENNINGS BRYAN will not undertake to control the policies of the President and Congress under the incoming Democratic administration. Mr. BRYAN is a distin- guished citizen of the country and a con- spicuous member of the party. But he has not been elected political boss. Neither has he a monopoly of the ability and patriotism of the party. There are a good many Democrats in this broad “land of liberty” who are quite as well inform- ed and just as well equipped for leader- ship as Mr. BRYAN, but so far as our in- formation extends, none of them has been invested with a franchise to run the President and the Congress. Mr. BRYAN went as a delegate to the Baltimore convention instructed to sup- port Champ Clark for the Presidential nomination. Those instructions were | given by direct vote of the people at a primary election held according to law. At a time when Mr. CLARK was leading the contestants for the nomination and when he had a majority of the delegates in his favor Mr. BRYAN deserted him, be- trayed his obligations to the people of Nebraska, and cast his vote for and gave his influence to another candidate. It may be said that he knew CLARK could never get a two-thirds vote. So did many others who adhered to CLARK neverthe- less. Mr. BRYAN'S recreancy, under the circumstances, may have been shrewd politics but it was bad morals. That, however, is a matter to be set- tled between Mr. BRYAN and his Nebras- ka constituents upon one hand and Mr, CLARK and Mr, BRYAN on the other. But it should be borne in mind that Mr. CLARK occupies an important position in the public affairs of the country and an intimate relation with the incoming Dem- ocratic administration and he is likely to resent any undue interference with the Congressional end of the programme on the part of Mr. BRYAN. In this feeling Mr. Oscar UNDERWOOD, also an import- ant figure in the Democratic activities of the future, is quite likely to share. Mr. BRYAN went out of his way to traduce Mr. UNDERWOOD a short time ago and if he is prudent he will be cautious now. ——Now that the election is over and a safe and sane President has been elect- ed, the people can give themselves over to the fulfillment of business obligations. We have had bumper crops and the signs all point to an era of industrial and com- mercial prosperity greater than has ever been enjoyed. If every man performs his part in the program, the most san- guine expectations will be realized. Let Us Hope Vare Will Insist. While we lay claim to no direct inter- est in the matter we are inclined to hope that State Senator EDWIN H. VARE of Philadelphia will insist upon his demand that the Catlin Commission be made com- plete its work. During the primary cam- paign of 1911 that body was called to Philadelphia for the ostensible purpose of investigating the municipal govern- ment and exposing the crooked deals of the contractors in that city. BILL VARE was 2 candidate for the Republican nomi. nation for Mayor and it was alleged at the time, and has been reiterated since, that the investigation was an expedient, not to reform political methods, but to defeat VARE. ‘It is certainly true that VARE contracts with the city were taken up and every- thing not strictly according to law expos- ed. The VARES themselves were made to tell things which they would have pre- ferred to keep in concealment and from the beginning of the inquiry to the close BILL VARE'S chances of the nomination diminished. When all the exposures that were possible with respect to the VARES had been made the commission refused to continue its sessions. In other words when it came the turn of the VARES to expose things the opportunity was taken away. Now Senator VARE threatens to force a resumption of the investigation so that some of the shady transactions of PENROSE and MCNICHOL may be ex- the necessary power to achieve the re- sult, we hope that Senator VARE will insist upon it. It is alleged that Senator PENROSE is, or was, a silent partner in the MCNICHOL contracting firm, for ex- have a right to know about it. There are a lot of other things of a suspicious character, moreover, which ought to be revealed and we know of no p more certain to produce that result than | a thorough and searching investigation er have another campaign like it, though into the municipal methods of the Phila- delphia bosses. Put the Dropes Out. Mr. FOoLWELL, president of the Phila- delphia Manufacturers’ club, is still sub- merged under a burden of woe. The prospect of an extra session of Congress to revise the tariff has filled him with the spirit of calamity. He has enjoyed the full measure of tariff graft so long that the very idea of relinquishing it is harrowing to his soul. He already sees whole packs of hungry wolves at the Na- tional door and pestilence, famine and death are the inevitable consequences. The pirates of old probably experienced | the same mental anguish when their op- portunities in the open sea were taken away by the influence of advancing civ- ilization. But FOLWELL needn't despair. Other forms of graft are open. All the panics we have had since the Civil war came upon us while high tariff tax laws were in full force and Republi- can policies in absolute control, The | panic of 1907, organized to force the Ten- nessee Coal and Iron company into sur- render to the Steel Trust, came while ROOSEVELT was in the White House and there were overwhelming Republican ma- jorities in both branches of Congress. It continued until after a Democratic ma- jority in the House had indicated its pur- | pose to check the tariff spoliation and the | ! election of a Democratic President was | practically assured. Then business men | inspired with hope and confident of the | future threw off the shackles of fear and | resumed industrial activity. i Probably Mr. FOLWELL can’t get along | without subsidies. To care for imbeciles | and incapables is an admitted duty of the State and we have no objection to making provision of some sort for the FoLwELLS and others who are incapable of conducting their own affairs. But there are plenty of American manufac- turers and merchants who can compete they are called into the control of the commercial and industrial activities in- stead of the grafters who depend upon jovernment bounties for their mainte- ness it is a gain. If he will get out of the way of self-reliant and capable men it will be better. : ~——It’s really a pity that the Steel Trust is crowded with orders. The tar- | iff mongers who own and control that predatory conspiracy were so earnest and | persistent in their predictions that the | election of WILSON would bring industrial disaster that they ought to have got a | little taste of trouble. The Presidential Term. President TAFT has done more to alien- ate the people from the extension of the Presidential term of office to six years than all the other influences which have been brought to bear on the subject with- in a century. If his term of office were six years, instead of four, the people of the United States would be compelled to pay half a billion dollars a year in exces- sive tariff taxation for two years more. His veto of the tariff legislation enacted during the special session of 1911 and at | the regular session recently closed has | gone a long way toward convincing the public that a four year term is sufficient for a man who uses his office to assist | predatory interests to rob the tax payers. There is a pretty general agreement that the Presidential office should be lim- lited to one term and before Mr. TAPT | had prostituted the powers for the pur- pose of reimbursing those who bought his election in 1908, there was considera- | ble unanimity in the idea that the term lof office ought to be extended to six i years. But in the light of recent experi- | ence sentiment has changed on that sub- ject. In fact there are more people who now favor the recall! of Presidents than desire an extension of the term. If TAFT could have been recalled after his first | vetoes in 1911 the country would be ines- | timably richer today and the people in- finitely happier and more contented. An act of Congress limiting the office | of President to one term, therefore, will ; be ample to dispose of these questions | forever. Since the overwhelming defeat | death. But neither he nor any other man . will ever again be a formidable candidate - for a third term because the voters have | to such a thing. If ROOSEVELT had suc- this time there would not likely have ever been another Presidential elec- tion other than such as Mexico used to | ——It is to be hoped that we will nev- as long as ROOSEVELT lives vituperation will be an element in politics. with the world on equal conditions and it | the will be a blessing to the country when one In a Minority ot the Popular Vote. SHEE i i i, Es i ; i! ! £ 3% & i je y 2 g i | 3. | Es 23 He : : g if £88 now breaks up, and it is moCracy again in power to sa long that party is to remain a majority or a united minority under or name. shes S————— From the Greensburg Argus. By the abolition of the “party square” Pennsylvania would obtain a reasonably good ballot law. This reform alone would remove nearly all the temptations of candidates to secure duplicate or triplicate nominations. If voters were uired to mark the name of every can- SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. —An United States court jury gave Walter Bird Jr., of Bloomsburg, and his father $5,000 damages dead of heart disease. He was aged & and was proprietor of a grocery. ~John Frampton, near Marion Centre, has 100 tons of cabbage from thirteen acres of ground. He has one stalk on which there were twenty-five small, but perfectly formed heads, each devel- oping where a leaf should have grown. —Ira Beatty, of Punxsutawney, a Bell tele’ phone lineman working at Johnstown, came in contact with a live wire and fell twenty-five feet. He may possibly recover from a fractured skull, arm and leg and perhaps internal injuries. —George A. Drake, a farmer of Wayne town- ship, near Huntingdon, was burned to death last Friday when he fell on his lantern while intoxicat- saturated his clothes, and before help arrived he was incinerated. . ~Harry A. Fox, aged 42, whose salary is $10,009 a year, and who is a designer for a large Philadel- phia department store, committed suicide last week at his home in New York, because of his inability to cope with the next spring fashions. He could not see his way clear to figure out the general trend of the spring fashions, ~While in a fit of uncontrollable temper, Geo- Montgomery, a third grade pupil in the Mount Union public school, slashed Priscilla Hockes- berry across the fingers of her right hand with a boy killed a playmate while in a fit of anger. ~The Crawford hotel property, of Williamsport is not four years since the association outgrew its first quarters and now another move is made Rectisary by the rowing usefaluessol. the-2200- c 3 —A carload of female patients Friday were tersville. It is, however, the first consignment of females that has been removed to the new district, =The Clover Run mine of the Madeira-Hill Coal Mining company, located near Mahaffey, has resumed operations after being idle for a period of several months. A force of 200 miners will be employed at the operation, which has am output of 300 tons daily. Superintendent W, R. Wilburn saysthat the output is to be doubled within a short time. ~Mrs, Kate Edwards, slayer of her husband» who has been confined to the Reading prison for the past eleven years, has refused to endorse a petition for her release. Although the meeting of the prison board was held behind closed doors, it was stated that Mrs. Edwards was so useful around the warden's home, that he did not didate for whom they to vote it | to bedeprived of her services. would make very little toa| —Mrs. J. C. Blair has directed the board of te his name on | directors of the J. C. Blair Memorial hospital, at ballot once or several times, or with | Huntingdon, to go ahead with the plans for the or many party new nurses home, which will cost $20,000. She The temptation to a Vater fo vote ing fclossd a Shecle ou $00: Sor. pealisuiniany work. primary 0 than that of the party construction work will start at once. The which would also be greatly | home will be erected on the grounds close to the weakened, it not eliminated . | hospital and will relieve the congestion at the the total vote, the remain- ng abuses would be completely remedied. ; The nomination of independents could be made by y petition. A req ent that a candidate's name appear on the election ballot only once would be helpful, but more would accomplished at one stroke by the abolition of the party square than by any of the other refoms suggested. g An Extra Session. From the Harrisburg Star Independent. President-elect Wilson has announced that he will call the next Congress into extraordinary session not later than April 15 next, to revise the tariff. He will do this in obedience to what is almost a com- people. EL Eira dent action on the or con- sideration of schedules. The issue was immediate revision, not revision teen months or so after the election. principal schedules that should be considered were twice Yeviewd by the Independen ns and they but little by any commission, for the schedules, as these were introduced in the House, were almost perfect rom the Democratic and veiwpoin ere will be some objection from cer- fice. You'll find it always right. * institution. ’ =—When Grover Cleveland left the White House in 1886, Peter Kreezmer, of Indiana, Pa., declared that he was going to wear a beard until another Democratic President was elected. The other day Kreezmer visited a barber and it cost him 50 cents to get operated upon. Some day President- elect Wilson will receive a watch chain made of human red hair which has been adorning the chin of one, Peter Kreezmer. —Judge Whitehead sentenced Arthur Dorman at Williamsport Saturday, to 10 years in the penitentiary, with a minimum of nine years and to pay a fine of $500. The sentence was imposed upon the first count of the indictment charging Arthur Dormap with breaking inte the house of Robert McEwen. Sentence was suspended om the second count, charging theft of a ring be- longing to Mr. McEwen's daughter. ~Albert Mase, a former Kane man, almost severed his head from his body with a jack knife in a barber shop at Warren last Thursday. Despondency following illness is believed the cause. He had been acting strangely since a severe illness in the spring. He seemed posses? sed of desperate nerve as two bigslashes with the knife were made, the second severing the jugular vein and cutting his throat from ear to ear. . ~Augustus Miller, the well known and ever progressive farmer of West Logan township, Clinton county, has gathered his crops for the season and reports the following bumper yield. From one field of 13 acres he husked 1400 bushels of ears of corn, 20 two horse loads of pumpkins. 300 bushels of turnips, 200 large squashes, 50 bushels of potatoes, 500 bushels of apples, 4 bushels of beans and 4 bushels of buckwheat. ~Four diamond drills are testing out a large coal field, consisting of nearly 50,000 acres, that is now under option in Indiana county near Mar, ion Center. The tract extends from Nashville | west two miles below Willet and is the largest tract of coal that was ever optioned in Indiana ger of a large part of the coal in Indiana county will resuit. —=On information sworn before justice of the peace Reed, of Ridgway, by L. C. Hauber, of St. Mary's, defeated candidate for State Assembly, A. J. Windfilder, of St. Mary's, judge of the re. cent election, was arrested and waived a hearing and gave bail in the sum of $1,000 for his appear- ~Weeker & Co., of New York, independent district, were:
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