Demo apn BY P. GRAY MEEK. INK SLINGS. —There is some hope for Mexico, after all. They have started to praying for peace. —Get a Christmas smile in your heart, then it will shine out through your eyes | om and express itself on your lips. —A dollar on that subscription account of yours would go a long way toward | helping Santy down the WATCHMAN office | chimney. Local Hospital Appropriations. —Boost the new glass works Proposi-| o,, of the gravest problems which will tion. Don’t knock it. That is all the | confront the Legislature during the ap- promoters ask of you, if you are unable proaching session is the question of mak - do, more, | ing appropriations for charitable institu- ——We can't conceal a feeling of SYm- | tions such as local hospitals. Beyond a pathy for Senator PENROSE. FLINN ap- | goubt the liberality of the Commonwealth pears to have “licked him to a frazzle,” | hag been greatly abused in this connec- tactically as well as actually. | tion in the past. The system of log-roll- —Poor PERKINS is back in the fold | ing in legislation is inimical to public in- again. But then it was so foolish to im- terests from whatever viewpoint it is agine that TEDDY would ever permit the | contemplated and when the measure of expulsion of such a “good angel.” | charity is determined by the servility of —Of course it is to be expected that | Legislators a crime is perpetrated. But our friends, the enemy, will lose no op- | the solution of this problem is not to be portunity to stir up a fight between Pres- found in the plan which some amateur ident-elect WiLsoN and Representatives statesmen have devised of refusing State CLARK and UNDERWOOD. aid to all hospitals other Tn such as a ion unk deal. | are under State control. ere are in- ers nid fa} Hat more Jurdign Ji Ses} | finitely better and safer remedies to be looking over the Nittany furnace makes | it look more and more like the industrial : 5 5 bone-yard for that once great plant. responsible for this movement to cripple the resources and impair the efficiency —LAURA JEAN LiBBY, she of the mushy | ("0 Fo) ociiale throughout the novel fame, advises those who can afford | State. This is clearly expressed in the nothing else to give kisses for Christmas. purpose to create a department or bu- Regular Indian gifts they'd be begat | reau of the State government which like nearly every one who gave one would. yin os Department, the Health De- want it given right back. | partment, the Water Commission and —The Keystone Gazette announced last | gio iar bodies are taking out of the hands week that two Bellefonte girls made 2 of communities both the right and oppor- frolic of going “to the butchering of their | tunity to regulate their home affairs. uncle.” We don't believe such heartless | phe school system adopted during the creatures exist in this community. And last session of the Legislature practically éven if they do, we haven't heard of any- | 4iveqts communities of control of local body’s uncle having been butchered | oq, cational facilities and the proposition about here lately. to limit appropriations to hospitals to —Next month will tell the tale of who's such as are under State control means a to be who in Harrisburg. PENROSE men | similar surrender of management by the will certainly organize the Senate and | community to the State. | VOL. 57. Manifestly the spirit of paternalism is we shouldn't be surprised if they meet | Every prope community of con- with the same success in the House. It siderable population has established and will be a fight to the finish between the maintains a local hospital. These benef- old and the would be new boss and the scrap will be worth watching. —It certainly must have come as more or less of a shock to a few of the respec- | table Republicans in this community to | learn that “no honest man can be a mem- ber of the Republican party.” Yet that is exactly the way Col. THEODORE ROOSE- VELT put it and they were all declaring Mr. RCOSEVELT a demi-God not more than eight years ago. —It has just been announced that no award of the NOBEL peace prize will be made this year because the committee has failed to observe any “work de- serving of the prize.” The fellow who can make the elephant and the bull moose lie down in peace together by this time next year might stand a pretty fair chance of winning two year's accumula- tions in one. —We can’t agree with Mrs. LAURA G. FIXEN, business manager of the Chicago Working Women's Home, when she says: “Man has usurped almost everything in religion, as well as everything else.” A visit to any of the churches on Sunday or their prayer meetings at other times will prove the fallacy of Mrs. FIXEN'S dec- | laration; unless it is to be inferred that | man has only usurped religion through | having appropriated the women possess- | ors of it. —Lock Haven is very much wrought up over a hair snipping fiend who has been visiting the picture shows and sur- reptitiously cutting hair from the heads of the spectators. All the efforts of the police to catch the snipper in the act have been without avail and possessors of luxuriant tresses are in fear of being | snipped every time they go out at night. In fact it is reported that our friend Geo. W. A. McDONALD is so scared of his that he is never seen on the streets after nightfall any more. —We can scarcely credit the latest Washington gossip which runs to the ef- fect that Mr. BRYAN will decline a place in President WILSON's cabinet, if it is of- fered, unless President WILSON will de- clare in his inaugural address that he will not be a candidate for re-election. The purpose being, of course, to commit President WILSON to one term so that Mr. BRYAN can have himself nominated again in 1916. While we are not in sym- pathy with many of Mr. BRYAN'S plans we have always believed him to be sin- cere, therefor we cannot credit this latest gossip. It is too small for WILLIAM JEN- NINGS BRYAN. —Representative-elect GRAMLEY will vote for GEORGE E. ALTER, of Pittsburgh, for speaker of the next House. At least that is our prediction and it is based on no other ground than the exigencies of the situation. ALLEN is the avowed can- candidate of the liquor interests. ALTER is his only opponent who has strength. Centre county has always favored local option and the liquor question entered more or less into the fight in which Mr. GRAMLEY was successful in being elected to the Legislature, therefor it looks like a sure thing that he will be for ALTER, icent institutions represent the generosi- ty and humanitarianism of the people of the communities in which they are locat- ed. Because in the nature of things they are compelled at times to offer their be- BELLEFONTE, PA. DECEMBER 13, 1912. Pretty Fight Impending. There is to best’ test of strength be- tween the PENROSE and FLINN forces at the opening of the session of the Legisla- ture after all, unless the leaders undergo another change of mind, meantime. A couple of weeks ago an agreement seem- ed to have been reached which would have avoided such a test. Both the lead- ing candidates for Speaker of the House are Allegheny county men and presum- ably friends of FLINN. But PENROSE an- nounced his willingness to let the Alle- gheny county delegation decide between the two and elect the one so designated after the choice had been ratified by caucus. FLINN took umbrage at the cau- cus proposition, however. He doesn’t want to allow PENROSE to participate in the matter even to that extent. With customary vehemence and his usual lack of tact FLINN declared himself on the subject a few days after the agree- ment had been announced. The result was that PENROSE is now determined to have a caucus and Mayor MAGEE, of Pittsburgh, appears to be in accord with him on the subject. PENROSE and MA- GEE want the credit for contemplated re- form legislation to go to the Republican party while FLINN, protesting that there is no virtue in the Republican party, in- sists on ascribing all the good that is ex- pected from the Legislature to the Wash- ington party. The issue of this conflict will be watched with keen interest by the people of the State. There is grave dan- ger, however, that it will result in defeat- ing the hoped for reforms. Of course neither FLINN nor PENROSE is sincerely for any of the reforms of of which they speak. But they have come to a realization of the fact that unless sume legislation in the interest of the people is enacted both the Republican machine and the FLINN organization will be submerged in a deluge of popular in- dignation as soon as the Legislature ad- journs. The question uppermost in the I¢ STATE RIGHTS AN D FEDERAL UNION. > NO. 49. Their Fears Unwarranted. Of course there is no excuse for the | From the Johnstown Democrat. unspeakable COLE BLEASE, Governor of | Those suspicious and distrustful Dem- Sou Carola He a ben ofeming | Ste a0 Ed 1 super Woodiow official dignity and decency ever since he | feared he would prove to be a second entered public life, in one way or anoth- Grover Cleveland, must now admit that er, and finally he outraged the recent! their fears were entirely unwarranted. : His first public announcement was convention of Governors by a coarse ref- | qo just before his for Ber- erence to the constitution. But it is hard- | muda. It was in the form of an assur- ly worth while to go into “conniption ' ance that he will call Congress together fits” on account of this last incident. At i exsizondisacy. on not later than least we can't see why certain Republi- | April 15, that pledges of : may be redeemed as promptly can contemporaries in this State should ple and all uncertainty as to what partic- take the matter so much to heart. Sup- ular tariff schedules are to be revised porters of WILLIAM A. STONE, SAMUEL should be reloved without delay. : W. PENNYPACKER and EDWIN S. STUART, | amhouncemen. mspires recently, in the order named, Governors | Seater o Shia vay in the com Cole Blease and Others. nors of Pennsylvania treated the funda. fluence 8 Ww how, Jieon's first. mental law of their State quite as dis- | Hardly yg grea 1 polit- courteously as BLEASE has the constitu- | jal Battin cleared Bway and Jt yas k a i tion of South Carolina. Each in turn vi- | cisive victory than the President-elect olated the constitution of the State, not was besieged by the hirelings of the law- once but frequently, and was cordially | defying, competition supported in the actions by the very par- | underi ty organs which are now outraged by the gether in special session to revise the tar- loose tongue of BLEASE. When Governor | iff in conformity with the s pledge. STONE, after the legislative session of | To this counsel of iquity dishonor ui : : : | Mr. Wilson turned a ear. It was in 1899 reduced items in appropriation bills, | vai, “that these unscrupulous hirelin he violated the constitution both in letter warned him that a special session would and spirit and his successors in office “unsettle present conditions” prosperous have been guilty of the same offense and consequently tariff revision should i | the regular session, aginst public morals and official recti- | «pn order that business may have time to | reap the benefits of prosperity while it We offer no apology for BLease. He lasts and also have time in which to pre- is probably as bad as his bitterest ene. Pare for the change which must come : : | with tariff reduction.” mies have painted him, but at his worst | ~ g..+ Mr. Wilson realizes that our pro- he is not as bad as PENNYPACKER or near- | tective tariff is a combination of grand ly as censurable as THEODORE ROOSE- | and petty larceny and that the people VELT who not only habitually violated have demanded its abolition. What right the constitution of the United States but robbed the public treasury through every form of graft which a cunningly rapa- cious mind could conceive. In view of these facts what right have the newspa- pers which support these malefactors in public life to censure BLEASE? Taking have these beneficiaries of a predatory privilege to ask for the postponement of its elimination? Because they have rob- bed the people yesterday and today, does that give them a vested to continue the robbery for a year the people have declared it? Every sign of the times that Woodrow Wil- son's admi tion will be one of the | neficences to “strangers within their | minds of both of them, under the circum gates,” the State has been in the habit of | stances, is not the public good but which appropriating small sums of money to- | of the two conspirators will emerge from ward their maintenance or to increase | the scrimmage in control of the party | their efficiency. But the burden of the | machinery. FLINN has the advantage be- | cost always has been and still is borne | cause after the induction of the new | by the communities in which they are lo- | Auditor General and State Treasurer into cated and it would be a shame to take office, he will have control of most of the | them out of the control of the good men | governing boards at Harrisburg. It will | and women who have labored so zealous- | be a pretty fight, however. | ly to bring them up to their present high standard of efficiency. | Our own splendidly equipped and ad- | — | mirably managed hospital is a case in| THEODORE ROOSEVELT is really a source | point. It is the rich fruit of a spirit of | of amazement. During his last term in | benevolence and christian charity which the office of President he entered the | has been assiduously cultivated in this lobby of Congress and freely offered the | community for many years. Urging a | patronage of his office for votes against | small appropriation for this splendid in- | an investigation of the Postoffice Depart- | stitution biennially has been not only a | ment. He had been using the service of | labor of love but an object of pride to | certain railroads freely and giving exces- | every Senator and Representative which | sive rates for carrying mails as a recom- One Way to Silence Roosevelt. him at his worst he is a paragon of of- : ficial dignity and personal probity com- | “My ” Wilson is broad-minded, clear- pared with ROOSEVELT. But as he is he | headed, stout-hearted; he will meet his is better than others who are reckoned | responsilities snd discharge his duties | to the people without any dictation from as honorable, the pirates of privilege or the bandits of oe x ! the stock exchange. ——Judge Harry Alvan Hall is being eee censured rather severely by the school | Democrats and the Tariff. teachers and newspapers of Elk county 'p =. oo { rrisburg Star-Independent. because he refused to allow the county | pt js quite true that some times a few teachers’ institute to be held in the court | individuals who were elected to office as house last week. The court house at | Democrats fail the party in crises. One Ridgway has just been remodeled and | °F tWO failed it in the notorious manipu- : lation of the Wil tariff bill wh t the judge evidently thought it too" fine a | measure reached the United States Sen- place for a gathering of teachers, or else ! ate. And now there is considerable criti- he was afraid they might in some way | sism of he Massachusetts Democratic mar its beauty. In Centre county the | ~onSressmen- 0 have agreed tack or refused the " oppose any reduction of the present duty on boots and shoes. house, even after it was remodeled] What was the platform on which at a cost of in the neighborhood of $150,- | those gentlemen were elected? It has 000, and we'll wager Elk county taxpay- uccessful STE ett Ls been taken for granted that all the Demo- and, incidentally, it would be hard to find a better man in the next House for, that particular position. the people of Centre county have sent to the General Assembly in recent years. Are we now, because certain gentlemen imagine that cutting off the foot is the only way to cure a corn, going to be forc- ed to turn the management of this insti- tution over to a bureau in Harrisburg which has no local interest in its work or pride in its achievements? God forbid. ——Upon the principle that it “is bet. ter late than never,” Senator WORKS, of California, was justified in assailing Col- onel ROOSEVELT, the other day, as an in- strument of the trusts. But he ought to have indulged himself in those observa- tions before November 5, when ROOSE- VELT was a live one. There is an adage that nothing evil should be said of the dead and politically speaking ROOSEVELT is deader than an Egyptian mummy. ~The American hen is all right and her egg achievement this year is some- thing to cackle over. But the corn pro- duct, the wheat yield and other farm products have so far exceeded the yield of the hen that we are forced to modify our admiration for waffles. ——Meantime what became of the money sent by the Democratic State committee to this county for the late campaign? The election returns indi- cate that it must have been dumped where it did no good. ——Really HADLEY is to be pitied. Yet if he had refrained from the society of the “seven little Governors” there might now be a Republican party which didn't need reorganization. ——Speaking of the great battles of the world that affair at Armageddon re- cently appears to have dwindled down to a slight skirmish which didn’t pan out right at that. a —— -——-]Jt would be interesting to know how the respectable element of the Re- publican party regards Mayor MAGEE, of Pittsburgh, as a boss. He is certainly “a corker.” 1 pense for the service. Irregularities in other branches of the postal service had challenged Congressional attention and it was proposed to make a thorough in- vestigation of the Department. ROOSE- VELT feared the result and stopped the movement. If it had gone on he would probably have been impeached. In Chicago the other day this political charlatan made a speech in which politi cal mortality was the dominant note. He denounced the old parties as iniquities to be shunned and yet an examination of his official record shows that no other public official has been so steeped in political crime. During his seven and a half years in the White House he never payed a single cent of personal expenses, though all his predecessors in the office had discharged all their personal obliga- tions out of their private purses. But ROOSEVELT'S barber, his cook, his body servants and all his domestic employees were on the payroll of the government in one capacity or another and the pay- ment of their wages was graft. It is amazing that this political charla- tan can fool the public as he seems able to do in view of his long and uninterrupt- ed record of fraud and false pretense. His achievements at San Juan were man- ufactured by press agents and he has never performed a service of public value in civil or military life. Yet he has the hardihood to assume the character of a censor of public morals whereas he is nothing more or less than a political and public fraud. It is time that popular in- telligence asserts itself against such char- latanism. The people ought to openly denounce THEODORE ROOSEVELT as a humbug and grafter. It is the only way to put an end to his false pretenses. ——All the morning trains coming to Bellefonte on Wednesday missed connec- tion from both the east and west; the re- sult of the heavy holiday trade. Extra express cars are carried on every train to meet the demand of shippers. In Belle- fonte, however, the shipments have not yet reached high water mark, but they are increasing every day. ers were not milked to that extent. Reorganizing the G. 0. P. The reorganization of the Republican party has been wisely postponed. Gov- ernor HADLEY, of Missouri, had undertak- en the task and imagined that the recent convention of Governors in Washington would be a suitable time to perform the work. President TAPT had previously expressed a willingness to participate in such a movement and various other more or less crippled statesmen have indicated a desire to bear a share of the burden. But after a conference on the subject in Washington HADLEY has given it up as a bad job. He could get no encouragement from any responsible source and is un- willing to undertake it alone. One of the oldest gags of the most an- cient of all the jokesmiths was expressed in the form of a recipe for cooking a hare. It began: “First catch the hare.” When HADLEY undertook to engineer the reorganization of the Republican party he couldn't find a party. In Penn- sylvania there is a small remnant of a discredited machine “masquerading” in that guise and there are various frag- ments labeled “Washington party,” “Bull Moosers,” “ROOSEVELT Progressives’’ and “Socialists.” But there is hardly enough of either of them to form a party worth reorganizing, and now that there is no hope for spoils it is clearly impossible to get them together. In the other States things are {little, if any, better. Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, Massa- chusetts and all the other strongholds of Republicanism are lost to the party and in the South there is hardly the ghost of an organization left for the future opera tion of the steam roller. Besides, itis justly reasoned, that HADLEY is a poor instrument for the work of rehabilitation. He was one of the “seven little Govern- ors” who called ROOSEVELT'S abnormal ambition into life a year ago and began the work of destruction. It is true that he repented afterwards but it is not cer- tain that he is forgiven. TAPT is the only reorganizer. cratic Co ional candidates were elected on platform of reduction of the tariff. If the Massachusetts gentle- men were to reduction, did they menticn that fact to the electors in their districts? If they did, and were elected notwithstanding, they and the majority of their constituents are Democrats only in name, The man who goes to the Congress to defend and support a high tariff on a com- modity that is manufactured in his district has no moral right to vote for a reduc- tion to the tariff on any cominodiey, that | is produced in any other district. Every an who is elected on a party ticket is morally bound to support the principles of that party, Itis that the Democratic delegation in next Congress does not include any more like EE t e may ven into the rapacious hands of Special Eien § against women.” They were th the murder of a man, whose ound on the outskirts of the i | j i g hires tii | where the negroes were placed in ; g i ence, and the open advocacy thereof surprising that this should occur. It is in direct li the teaching; instead of influencing people to self-restraint under racial ocation wholesale lynching is the Of course there is no way of tell this time whether the victims were - g g | g I 3g silsg : a d{! SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. ~The real estate of the defunct Glazier bank Huntingdon, will be sold in the near future for the benefit of creditors. Just getting over diphtheria, Johnstown now finds itself sorely afflicted with measles, mumps, scarlet fever and whooping cough. ~—Plans for Williamsport’s new high school are taking shape. It has been decided that the structure shall not cost over $200,000. ~Edward D. Hemingway, of Philadelphia, a junk dealer, found more than $100.000 worth of rare stamps in $50 worth of waste paper. ~The typhoid fever epidemic at Troy is prac- tically over. Fifteen patients are in the hospital and the emergency hospital has been closed. —George Strawcutter, of Beech Creek, set traps in his chicken coop to catch the thief that had been at work there. Next morning he had two fine opossums. —There are ten men and one woman who want to be postmaster of Mifflinburg. The woman, Mrs. Susan Brubaker, is leader of the woman suffragettes {1 Union county. —Judge C. V. Henry, of Lebanon, appointed Paul G. Adams district attorney to serve until January, 1914, to succeed his twin brother, Robert L. Adams, who died Saturday. —Seventy dollars in silver was stolen from a hiding place in the cellar of the butcher shop of Householder & Stahl, in Latrobe. but $10 in the cash register was left untouched. ~Vandergrift Heights has closed its schools because of diphtheria. Thirty cases have been reported. Vandergrift also has a number of cases and one case of smallpox is reported. —There was an unique fire at Lock Haven a few nights ago. Richard Quigley's big touring car took fire at the city end of the bridge, and word was sent to the firemen. Mr. Quigley's loss is $700. —A gang of youthful shoplifters has been broken up in Lock Haven. One of the number was caught in the act by a floor walker. He con- fessed to his own misdeeds and also to those of some of his friends. —Annie Kitting, of Lewistown, subject to faint. ing spells, fell as she was passing an egg stove. The stove upset and she fell over it, being ter- ribly burned before her mother, who was in the next room, could reach her. ~Finleyville, in the Broad Top coal region, has twenty-five cases of typhoid fever. One of the mountain springs that furnish the water supply hows the typhoid baccilli in large numbers» much to the mystification of everybody. ~It will take skin grafting to save the hands of Miss Ora Bettner, of Scottdale, who was cleaning her long gloves with gasoline and ether. She went into the house where a gas stove was burn, ing and the gloves took fire on her hands. —Robbers at Mineral Point broke open the door of a box car and stole $4.50 worth of meat in course of shipment. The constable who is in- vestigating also has in progress a hunt after chicken thieves .hat have been plying their trade near the same place. —By a verdict of consent, Elsie Hayes and her father, Thomas Hayes, will receive $2,000 from the borough of McKees Rocks, near Pittsburgh, for the lossof an eye of Eisie Hayes, when she fell into aditch at McKees Rocks, her eye being pierced by a piece of glass. —Mrs. John Pock, aged 69, of Shamokin, swore she was single in order to get a license to wed Walter Gumbeti, aged 24. Her husband prose- cuted and the woman and her youthful admirer were convicted of perjury. Her sentence was suspended and he got one year. —A dozen Indian skeletons have been found at Dickerson Run, where the excavation is being made for the new roundhouse of the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad company. Seven of the skeletons were found in what apparently had been a trench. In arib was found imbedded an arrowhead. —Tke suit of Rebecca Calvin, Eliza C. Smith and Matthew Calvin,of Hollidaysburg, to recover a claim of $31,331.93 from the Henrietta Coal com pany, came to an end Saturday night after a trial that lasted for a period of three weeks in the Cambria county court at Ebensburg. They were awarded a verdict of $16,107.57. —When Leon Shumenski, of Shamokin, after a trial of two days, was found guilty of assault and battery in a case caused by two chickens tres- passing on his neighbor's garden, Judge Moser declared that the chickens should have been con- victed. He said that the jurors’ fees and other court costs had mulcted the county out of $300. ~Not knowing that there was anything in the envelope which her father had just handed to her, Miss Harriet Carpenter, a Bloomsburg school teacher, threw the paper in the kitchen stove and before she discovered the mistake $50 in paper money was badly scorched. Fortunate- ly however, enough of the pieces remained so that it can be redeemed. Mrs. Susan Brenneman, of Lewistown, has sued her son, C. B. Brenneman, for $600,000, the largest amount ever involved in a suit in Mifflin county court. Mrs, Brenneman was by her hus, band's will, made sole owner of the Valley house property and business. Her son had been in charge fora number of years, but failed to turn over the income to his mother. —Armstrong authorities are investigating the gruesome find of an aged man who attends the oven that makes coke for the brass foundry at Yatesboro. Last week when he was taking out the fresh made coke, he took with it the bones of aman. It is suspected that the bones were those of a foreigner, killed in a quarrel and stuffed into the oven in order to avoid discovery. —Shella P. Howser, the Connellsville Tri-State baseball pitcher, who was shot October 27th while hunting on A. W. Mechling’s farm, has entered suit in Greensburg for $25,000 damages, Howser was hunting on the farm, he says, with permission of the owner, when Mechling came out of the house and ordered he and his compan- jon to leave. They had started to do so when Mechling, it is alleged, fired and hit Howser. —Somerset county has a sensation in the shape of charges against Samuel A. Shober, steward and superintendent of the county poor farm and insane hospital. “A corrupt and criminal con. dition” is the general charge. Dr. J. H. Louther, the county home physician, leads in the investi, gation movement, which has gone so far that the grand jury has authorized the district attorney to take action. At last reports the accused man could not be located. —Believed dead years ago, word has been re- cewved in Philipsburg concerning Samuel and Henry Miller, who left that place in 1872 for the west and were not heard of again until last week, when they sent a letter for a younger brother, John C. Miller, now living at Coalport, Clearfield county. The brothers were soldiers in the Civil war, went away to claim government land given them. They spent20 years in Alaska and are now prosperous ranch owners in Washington. All the other members of the family have died or moved away. —3Starting out asa peddler thirty-seven years ago, Josiah W. Klingensmith died at his home in Burrell township, Indianz county, a few days ago, counted one of the wealthiest citizens of all that section. When he commenced his trips through the country districts with a peddier wagon his success was something amazing and he amassed wealth in a most astonishing manner, investing his earnings mostly in farm land. At the time of his death he owned thirteen good farms, includ- ing the one on which he spent his boyhood days and that of his wife's father. : a papa
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