Dewi atda BY P. GRAY MEEK. Ee ————————— ~What has become of one, THEODORE ROOSEVELT? —Anyway we had a white Christmas and that means a lean grave yard. —New Years day was not New Year's day without the Pleasant Gap Mummers. —If the new year is as full of sun- shine as its first day was won't 1913 be a joy for all mankind. —There is some country butter that can’t be shipped by parcels post. It is the kind that is too strong for the bags to hold. —Constant use of hard water is said to have a bad effect on the finger nails, but the average girl of sixteen dreads the ef- fect of dish water more. —Boss FLINN has lost his voice for the time being, but that won't interfere with FLINN'S plans. His money does the most of his practical talking anyhow. YO1. 38%: BELLEFONTE, PA.. rm evr 0 The President-elect and Mr. Bryan. New Gospel of Democracy. Those enemies of Mr. WiLLiAm Jen. Thereisa good deal to commead in NINGS BRYAN who are admonishing the | the proceedings of the Democratic State President-elect against putting the | Central committee at its session. in Har- Nebraskan in the cabinet for the reason risburg on the 19th ultimo. The speech that he is likely to use the power thus Of Chairman GUTHRIE, for example, as acquired to prevent the renomination of reported in the newspapers, was admira- Mr. WILSON pay a poor compliment to | ble in its tone and temper. Mr. GUTH- that gentleman. It is probably true that | RIE felicitated the party on its splendid Mr. BRYAN will exhaust every resourceat achievement in the recent National elec- his command, whether in the cabinet or tion and flattered the vanity of the mem- out of it, to get the Democratic nomina- bers of the committee by complimenting EE A —— —Lecap-year has gone and many a girl Who would have made a good wife will | filled, this is substantially certain. Mr. Of thinking probably recalled the fact be a suffragette before another opportu- | nity to speak for herself rolls around. —The war in the Balkans will assume tion in 1916. If the public expectations them upon their part in the performance. of the incoming administration are ful. Of course those who indulge in the habit BRYAN wants to be President and if the that the Democratic vote in Pennsylva- signs at that time indicate Democratic Mia in 1912 was some 50,000 less than the character of an opera bouffe affair : : i that of four years previously, but it may success he will hesitate at nothing to se- : cure the nomination. But that will not Safely be said that Mr. GUTHRIE was not when compared with the fight that is | gorer president-elect WILSON from calling 3ddressing that element of the Demo- scheduled for the Legislature at Harris: 1. into the cabinet if he believes the cratic electorate. burg. ~The ex-president of Venezuela, Crp. RIANO CASTRO, sailed over from France | to visit us then sailed right back again. | Truth is that Uncle SAM wasn't real glad | D | or any other time. The platform adopted SOnian doctrine, “to the victors belong to see Crp. | doing so will promote the welfare of the The extraordinary outburst of ap- people. plause which followed the suggestion of In the first place it is not probable that Mr. HAGERTY that the platitudes about WooDROW WILSON will be a candidate | Civil service reform are largely fuss and for re-election to the Presidency in 1916 fustian and that the good old Jack- —Only about fourteen weeks more un- | by the Baltimore convention declared un- | the spoils,” still appeals strongly to the til the trout fishing season opens so that | equivocally against the re-election of any Democratic heart, was a discordant note the fellow who quit working when the | game season closed won't have so long | more convention is the political to loaf, after all. —The parcels post is now in operation in the United States and it is not unrea- sonable to suppose that ere long Uncle Sam's mail carriers will be carrying their loads in express wagons. —(Go to it, you fellows who are after office. What have you been voting and working for the party for ail these years | for if you can't get under the plum tree when Woobprow shakes it. —President TAFT held his last large official reception on New Year's day. It must have been a sad affair for the dis- tinguished gentleman who such a short while ago had visions of succeeding him. self. AR a —How does it come that church folk have “Watch” meetings to see the old year out and the new year in and then are invariably on their knees praying with their eyes tight shut when the in- stant of transition arrives? —This year has the traditional un- lucky numerals 13, but keep your head up, your conscience clean, your heart pure and go ahead. If you do there will be more of success in it for you than any past one has been freighted with. —The partisans of Cold Stream and the Moshannon over at Philipsburg have taken issue with those of the hops and the rye and an anti-license war is on. Among them be it. We have troubles enough of our own with that dam splash board in Spring creek. —The Republican party in Pennsylva- nia surely seems to be between the up- per and nether millstones. Neith ROSE nor PLINN have enough _streng organize the Legislature and: between them the Democrats hold the balance of power. The Democrats, however, are going to paddle their own canoe and hope, without making embarrassing alliances, to shape legislation to their own liking. —The west is petitioning the President- elect to give JAMES J. HILL, the country’s greatest railroad man, a position in his cabinet and the country ge y sec- onds the petition, ing the question as to Mr. HiLL's age. The situation is a funny one, to say the least. For the country was so down on railroad and oth- er magnates that that was one of the chief reasons for the election of WILSON. ~Mr. JAMES MCCREA was a great president of the Pennsylvania railroad but so were all his predecessors in office. Selecting great presidents has become a habit with the Pennsylvania railroad and we presume that Mr. MCCREA’S success or, Mr. SAMUAL REA, will maintain the high standard which his predecessors, since EDGAR THOMPSON, established. We sincerely hope that Mr. MCCREA will en- joy the leisure he has earned and that Mr. Rea will find enjoyment in the labors he has assumed. —Thirty-eight men, more or less prom- inent in their respective lines of work, were found guilty of conspiracy in the Los Angeles dynamite case at Indianapo- lis last week. On Monday all of them but six were sentenced to imprisonment ranging from one to seven years. It is sad to contemplate the distress of the families of the convicted men, but over against that weigh the grief of the twen- ty-one families in Los Angeles whose heads were cruelly murdered through the campaign of dynamite for which they were primarily responsible. If these sen- tences end such outrages in America there should be no sorrow, but rather re- joicing that the law has asserted itself in a way to show no compromise with or- ganized murder. _ in the sweet song of pretense. But it President and the platform of gi oP Lek pre lend gospel of WooDROW WILSON. He may Per cent. of those present and participat- not be able to prevail upon Congress to ing in the proceedings have hearts set fulfill every obligation imposed upon the Upon the spoils and fondly hope for a party by that platform but he will easily chance to draw down fat salaries in the be able to perform his own part in keep. Near future. It is all well enough for ing the faith and may be confidently Mr. GUTHRIE and Mr. PALMER, who are depended upon to do so. He is precisely Practically certain of theirs, to play upon that sort of a man. He believes in party | such vibrant strings. But the “smaller obligations just as he believes in legal or | fry” know that they have a struggle be- other moral obligations and the intima. fore them and are anxious “to go to it. tion that he might entertain other| We are unable to see, however, how thoughts upon the subject is an aspersion | the Senators and Representatives in the upon his character not justified by any- | General Assembly, who were present, ex- thing he has done or said. tracted enjoyment out of the proceedings. We are not among those who imagine The appointment of a committee to not that either the President-elect or the | Only prepare legislation but actually in- Democratic party is under such obliga- struct the Senators and Representatives tions to Mr. BRYAN as will make his ap. | HOW to vote upon all questions which pointment to a seat in the cabinet nec | Will be presented for their consideration, ; , : ing their constitutional duties party and the country doesn't seem to Perform ; have been anxious to reward him in the | Probably Mr. PALMER would resent such manner he desired for his services. More- 20 espionage upon his official actions and over he has not, of late years, been over- it iS quite certain that Mr. GUTHRIE ly anxious to serve the party with the! would regard Silla omscraubupoy him fidelity of former years. In 1910 he open. 28 unnecessary. But it shou remem- eu y bered that they are the bosses and are | ly opposed and defeated the nominee of | | the party for Governor of Nebraska and Immune. : has shown greater desire to punish lead. Nevertheless the meeting was interest- ing Democrats than to benefit the party ing and in some respects illuminating. It or the country. While we have no ob. clearly revealed the alertness of the new jections to Mr. BRYAN's elevation to a bosses of the party and the avidity with seat in the cabinet, therefore, we shall Which they seek to impress themselves not dispair if the tender is not made. , and their purposes upon the rank and ; a hts) ‘file. The old custom was to urge unity But if Mr. BRYAN is not invited into; action and 5 of purpose ‘tpn the cabinet it will not be for the reason ' the sing} en of the. party in the that the Presi -elect is afraid of inter- G Sepiesen Bly, leaving to individuals ference with hisifuture ambitions. The , att tiati re-election of Présidents is a thing of the | the ofini aswell asthe du. pas. Event 0 constitution is not so.» Of GUNG the polis In lero ‘amended as toWimit the office to one ; | tionary. Senators and Representatives term the Democratic party is committed | be literally taken by the nose and tothat policy ajd no other party willis. oye, donot what their consciences elect a President of the United States | ,. rate, but what their bosses demand. within the next fifty years. The people... have given their @éndorsement to the prin- ! hia ’s peogrics i oeas ue Innerprete by ciples and policies of the Democratic | S—————— party and Be President and | Tener Declares War on Flinn. Democratic intend to fulfill | SR every pledge made during the . In a recent speech before the Terrapin i A | club, a more or less convivial but certain- campaign and that will guaranteea con- | tinuance in power so long as the faith is ly not political organization, Governor TATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. work for the parfy and the country but he ' 8ence and a notice to the public that has ben very hly honored by the their representatives are incapable of a —— ere In his testimony before the Pujo com- mittee Mr. J. PIERPONT MORGAN shows scant respect for public intelligence. As one of the Washington correspondents stated it, he revealed “a new MORGAN.” Presumbly the old MORGAN was a sort of corporate juggernaut which crushed out the lives of ail who ventured in its way. The new MORGAN, on the other hand, is a “benevolent despot” whose mission on earth is to conserve the interests and husband the strength of the weak. In the performance of his benevolent work, however, the new MORGAN must have his own way. He is the judge alike of the malady and the remedy and those who fail to accept his diagnosis and treatment would better never have been born. Mr. MORGAN inferentially admitted to the committee that through the medium of voting trusts and interlocking direc. torates he controls approximately $22,- 000,000,000, but protests that he has no control over the currency affairs of the country. “All the money in Christendom and all the banks in Christendom,” he gravely declared, “could not form a monopoly that would control money.” In the name of heaven, then, what is monop- oly and what is control? Mr. MORGAN with his $22,000,000,000 gets whatever he wants in the financial world. Everybody obeys him and all bow to his mandates. Does Mr. MORGAN imagine that the peo- ple are all fools enough to swallow such absurdities? If he does he has another guess coming. When Mr. MORGAN was insisting that he exercises no control in the financial world he was asked about his purchase of the Equitable Insurance company from Mr. THOMAS F. RYAN. The stock only paid about one-ninth of one per cent. a year at the price Mr. MORGAN paid but he wanted it because it had assets of more than half a billion dollars with which to speculate. Mr. RYAN didn't want to sell. He wanted to keep the won without trouble for the reason that RYAN knew that a refusal to sell meant financial antagonisms which would in- evitably ruin even as rich a man as! RYAN. No man ought to have such | power over fellow men. | A Speakership Contest. i The contest among the Republicans of | the Legislature for the Speakership of the House would be amusing if it were less important. The Speakership of the | House is really a great office. If the old rules which authorizes the Speaker to name the committees are readopted, the | Speaker will be as important a factor in ! the legislation of the session as the Gov- { ernor. We understand that an effort | will be made to change the rules so as to take from the Speaker the great power of naming the committees, but that is now a matter of conjecture. The Demo- crats favor the change but they are in the minority and can accomplish nothing without the help of one faction or the other of the Republicans. We purposely refer to the BiLL FLINN force in the Legislature as a faction of the Republican party. It pretends to be a party by itself but that being a FLINN pretense is probably false. In any event FLINN as the head and front of that force | is trying to run the Republican party and | might be willing to join with the Demo- | or pm oo | wanted to acquire it. B#t"MORGAN . E8sfsaw : 2 2 4] will meet a fate similar to that wi body, Senators are wide awake and y cognizant of their Su 30 party 3d the people. They are not y to them- selves as cat's paws for the benefit of selfish opposition leaders. The mission of the Democratic legislators is above and beyond these puny machinations of would-be bosses, w ing the strength necessary to enable them to attain their purposes, would bribe Democrats by the offer of a little temporary advantage. The Post reiterates Sha te | Democratic Representatives at i are not on the market to be used as chattels by either faction of the Republican party. They compose an honorable minority, and their service will be in the interests of the whether they succeed or fail. can gain nothing by bargain- i he pernicious activity of the dis- tressed opposition faction is significant. It is not a patriotic impulse that leads to such an extreme. There is a reason for this overwhelming desire to obtain con- trol of both Houses of the Legislature, and it is evident the anxiety is not occa- sioned by a determination to do some- thing for the public welfare. For that reason there is but one course for the Democrats to pursue, and that is to any proffer that may be made. party reposes full confidence in its repre- sentatives, and relies on their integrity. Stumbling Block for Progress. From the Altoona Times. Governor Tener, in an outburst of partisan rancor and vindictiveness, declared recently in a public address that the reformers in the forthcoming Gen- eral Assembly must reckon with his veto . He intimated quite strongly that fedisiation Jong demandes by tha” mem: and essential to the fullest self-govern- ment would find little favor irr tus and a number of newspapers, taking him at his word, commented in a manner that was not complimentary to the State's executive. This attitude reveals the real purpose of Governor Tener's selection by the crooked political gang that had this State by the throat when he was elected Gov- ernor. The bosses made no mistake when they named a pliable puppet to stand between them and an uprising of the people, which was apprehended, but came sooner than anticipated. The whinings of sycophantic gang organs to the contrary notwithstanding, we believe Governor Tener will be a stumbling block in the way of progressive legislation. Grouches in Politics. From the Springfield Republican. : Personal grouches in politics never benefited anybody, least of all the man nursing one. Champ Clark’s grouch inst Mr. Bryan is at present the best vertised thing of the sort now before the public, and it is not strenthening the Hon. Champ. He should bottle up his grievance because he failed to be nomi- nated at Baltimore and place it on the highest shelf in the museum of political antiquities. There is good service left in the Speaker. Let's have the service in- stead of a sore toe. . May Come to This. From the Springfield Republican. The doctors are protesting against barefaced sneezing in street cars as the chief cause of mics of colds and in- fluenza. But no one yet has devised a plan by which a strap- with an kept. | TENER practically declared war against | the newly self-created Republican boss, | WiLLiAM FLINN. The Governor named | no names but in denouncing the “bucca- | neer” whom the President had anathe- | matized as “the worst political boss of | the time and who was denounced on the ' floor of the Senate," he left no doubt in | the mind of any man who heard or read his speech, as to whom he had in mind. | There is but one individual in the State | who could possibly fit the frame. | The incident is significant, however, only as indicating the present temper of the Republican leaders. Of course Mr. FLINN has openly declared that he is no longer a Republican. But through the agency of the chairman of the Republi- _can State committee he is still assuming | to direct the policies of the Republican ' party alike in legislation and everything “else. The Governor's speech, therefore, is public notice that FLINN'S assumption , is resented by those who continue to pro- fess fidelity to the party organization and | that whatever legislative programmes | FLINN formulates will miscarry. | In this condition of affairs there is This is not official but it is absolutely true. ——Of course Postmaster General HiTcHCOCK is speaking in the interest of of the people when he suggests that the nues of those cofporations will material- ly diminish, no doubt, but that is no rea- son why they should be adopted and nurtured by the government. They have stolen enough from the public already and if they can’tdo business under the changed conditions there is nothing to prevent them taking up some other trade. EE — —It would be funny if Mr. GUTHRIE'S committee to instruct Democratic Sena- tors and Representatives inthe Legisla- ture how to vote. would get its too im- pertinent nose twitched the first time it undertakes to perform its impudent ser- vice. And there are Democratic Sena- tors and tatives with sufficient intelligence to perform their official du- 3 3 the express companies rather than those | adoption of pa posts may make it necessary for government to take over the express companies. The reve- | THEODORE ROOSBVELT “will stand reveal. | ed” / i IP ties and ood enough to resent a pon the surpation of Dofet that evelves an as- | session. The persion upon their qualifications for of. | t¥ in either EE ——————— —One i advantage of the | er.’ arrival of the year lies in the fact |in the that it brings us closer to the time when crats to change the rules in order to get armful of bundles can get at his handker- some advantage over the PENROSE fac. | (hist in. time i be of sanitary service, tion of the party. If such a condition 9 th require a m 2; should develop it would be wise for the | Bold Fe Democrats to enter into the agreement. | How Wart} ays; The change of the rules may not Wa. { Fe) 8 Wikies Gidia Csowers Guide, terially help the Democrats from a party | annual report _of pp gun standpoint. But it is practically certain | §FV 0 at ended of $13,500 wi to improve legislative conditions and that | per cent dividend was and 5 per will be an achievement worth while a | ras._adled to Vie resetve jog in line with Democratic purposes. » 1s | ness—for The contest for the Speakership is be. | AYMOr manufacturers. tween Mr. ALLEN and Mr. ALTER, of | Pittsburg, and Mr. ScorT, of Philadelphia. | Mr. ALLEN represents the political aspira- | tions of Mayor MAGEE; Mr. ALTER the! ambitious hopes of Mr. FLINN and Mr. | ScoTT the expectations of Senator PEN- ROSE to come back. Neither of them | cares the worth of a farthing for the | FiPetied storage egg some public and at this distance from the theatre of operations and the date of the election it looks as if ALLEN and Scott’ will combine at the psychological moment | and defeat ALTER. But this isa matter of no public interest or consequence. The Democrats can’t afford to help either of | assurance of improving conditions. ——— —Dr. LEoNARD Woop, whom ROOSE- VELT catapulted into the command of the army, is to be Chief Marshall of the in- auguration parade. Thus this carpet knight reveals anew his facility for get- es to “feather his nest.” : |} mpe—— | tions for the SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. —While opening oysters for the Christmas din- ner a Reading woman found two pearls which were valued by a jeweler of that city at $50 and $20 respectively. —Held up, robbed of $30, beaten to insensibility and left to freeze, was the story told at the La- trobe hospital by Theodore Bloom, when suffi- ciently thawed out. ~An outbreak of rabies at Nanty-Glo is being investigated by the State Department of Health. It is said that a mad dog bit a number of other animals there some time ago. —Donald Stineby, who shot and killed Gus Up. degraff at his chicken coop last week, was givea a formal hearing at Williamsport and gave $1,000 bail for his appearance at court. ~The large furniture store and residence of Jacob Strunk, at Miflinburg, were destroyed by fire recently, entailing a loss of §20.000. Lewis- burg fire laddies went to the rescue. —Within the next three weeks Jersey Shore is to have a cigar factory for the manufacture of “Pittsburgh stogies.” When it is in full blast it will employ 200 hands, mostly women and girls. —Ray Powers, aged 18, of Salona, has been ar- rested for stealing $4 from a blind man whohad a confectionery store at Lock Haven by telling him that a $1 bill was a $5, and taking change accord- ingly. =Mrs. John Killinger, aged 52, left her home in Johnstown and jumped into the Conemaugh river. She had thirteen children of whom only six sur- vive. Ill health is thought tohave been the cause of her deed. —Thieves entered the home of Captain James Peters, of Latrobe, in broad day light and stole a lot of silverware from the kitchen. Two hours later the police had two suspects but the silver was not recovered. —Mrs. Allen Brown, of Jersey Shore, awaken- ed from a sound sleep to see two burglars in her bedroom. She was about to reach over to awaken her husband when her baby cried and the burglars fled, taking with them valuable jew- elry. ~After a courtship lasting forty-seven years, Samuel Clear, of California, and Miss Kate Can- ning, of Brownsville, were happily wedded last week. Each is 62 years old. Nobody but themselves know why they were not married years ago. —Latrobe had a fire a few days ago in which Alex Runge lost his life and $40,000 worth of prop- erty was destroyed. An overheated furnace ina pool room basement is blamed for the costliest conflagration there in years. Three horses had Narrow escapes. —Somerset county farmers want to be paid for trees cut down by the chestnut blight commis. sion. One man had 40 trees cut and others a less number. A petition is being circulated ask- ing the State to provide a fund to reimburse own- ers for their loss. =N. D. Lyson, of Greenburr, was in Lock Haven a few days ago. He is trying to arrange to sell his six legged calf to acircus as a freak. The animal is now 5 weeks old and growing finely. In addition to the extra legs it has a growing out of one shoulder, =L. Loudon, manager of the D. Shelly farms, near Tyrone, while hunting foxes Christmas, tripped and fell. Both barrells of gun exploded, the shot striking him in the domen and killed him instantly. He was known throughout this section. —~Charles Yetter, of Altoona, one of the known freight conductors on the middle division of the Pennsylvania railroad, while looking after [ isgsf § his train at Ironquois, ‘seéing that proper cars were being unloaded Friday, stepped in front of train No. 47, and was instantly killed. =I. N. Messinger and son Karl, near Watson. town a few nights ago, discovered that their chicken house was being robbed. They attempt- ed to shut them in, but one drew a revolver and shot the young man through the wrist. In the confusion that ensued the thieves escaped, but | not before they were recognized. =A year ago Patrick Brady, of Danville, left a : suit case in a Shamokin hotel. He was a travel- ing salesman and didn’t call for it until a few days ago. After his mother's funeral, when search was being made for her will, he happened to remember that it was in that suit case. inherited most of her large estate. He ~The Martin Coal company has been having trouble with its 300 miners at Dunlo. A majority ' of the men joined the union and wanted the others discharged. A strike ensued and when the men | patched up their differences and were ready to return to work they found that the company was operating a lockout. They are hoping that it will not last long. ~The Grange Trust company, of Huntingdon, . is said to have escaped being involved in the re- . verses of W.F.Hill, of Huntingdon, now adjudged . bankrupt, and J. G. McHenry, of Benton, who . died a few days ago. Mr. Hill and Mr. | McHenry had organized the Grange bank. The | former resigned as president and sold his stock a year ago and the latter ceased to be a director less than a week before his death. +, ~The Young Men's Democratic club of Wil liamsport is planning a big Jackson day banqueg «at the Park Hotel in that cityon the night of Jan- uary. 8th. Congressman James J. Heflin, of Ala bama, is to be the chief orator on the occasion, and among the other prominent speakers on the program is Congressman William B. Wilson, of the Fifteenth district. The feast is to be the / twenty-first annual Jackson day banquet of the club. i ‘—A number of merchants in Lock Haven have been fooled with some of the best imitation of halves, quarters and dimes that have made their appearance in this part of the State in some years. The dime is probably the best counterfeit and can only be detected upon close examination and comparison with the ring of the real thing. The quarter, however, is very poor, and does not ring at all, the sound being hollow. The half is the 1912 date and very new in appearance. ~William H. Miller, a brakeman on the localat Osceola, was painfully injured while at work on Saturday evening about six o'clock. Mr, | Miller was assisting in the placing of cars at the Orient colliery, operated bv the Blair Brothers, of Tyrone, when in some manner he slipped under the wheels of a car and had his feet badly man- gled. He was taken to the Philipsburg hospital “ Brake- braided her for being too extravagant in the of Christmas presents. The quarrel followed and Mr. Scherrer left the house. When he came home, laterin the evening, his wife was standing in the doorway and with the words, “Thank heavens I'll never have any more Christ. mas presents to buy,” she shot herself with a revolver, dying a few minutes later. Lt —In May, 1911, Peter Deibler was electrocut
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