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—Vaccination wouldn't be such a bad
thing if it were not for the taking way it
has.
a SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Over fifty patients have arrived at the new
State tuberculosis sanitorium at Cresson, most of
them from the western part of the State.
—Thieves broke open several box cars at the
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Ls & —Ten Williamsport pastors used a page in the
{ increase in their congregations, due to the ad-
SE RON. / vertisement. as between 400 to 600.
le i. mn GRR LS ie a ss —Watsontown business men are objecting to
Ea — I ER re re re ee eee IIIT NER EERE | free mail delivery. They say the obstacle is in the
New York Central station at Philipsburg and made
a poor haul, but managed to supply themselves
TATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. numbering of houses, but it is thought they fear
being made a branch of the Milton office.
VOL 58. BELLEFONTE, PA.. JANUARY 24. 1913. NOS. | "inomewest tirana don Samy Son
Mr. Shaffer's Party Fidelity. The Democratic Party Betrayed. : The Committee on Committees. | A Menace to the Country. daughter was 16 and the sons 1l and 6 respec-
The esteemed Pittsburgh Post which | In the completion of the organization The committee on committees of the From the Harrisburg Independent. els,
bolted the Democratic nominee for Gov- of the House of Representatives, at Har- House of Representatives at Harrisburg | | i hcitrs bet whe S t to know have | yu. cor not having the streets of the town in
ernor in 1910 and has given halting and | risburg, on Monday, the recreancy of has completed its work but time alone | committee of the Investigating proper condition. The same course is being
irregular support to Democratic prin- | Representatives MATT, of Bedford, and can determine with what result. The | a Money trust in the nited States. That taken at Lock Haven. Both towns plead lack o
ciples for many years, is greatly outraged BENSON, of McKean, was again revealed. committee labored assiduously and ac- . makes all statements to the contrary by unis.
because Hon. CHARLES A. SHAFFER, | As members of the committee on com- cording to the newspaper reports, . | pefsons off the outside absurd perver- R3tiFtve yeas aio W Rey Stokes, afd 1, wis
Democratic nominee for Speaker at the | mittees those gentlemen hastened to the ishly, in an effort to fabricate a code of | Sion of let. few i cessful attempt to save the lives of three little
organization of the Legislature, voted for | support of Boss FLINN'S men for chief rules which would expedite business and | prominent witnesses are
Mr. ALTER, one of the Republican candi- and resident clerks and prevented the guarantee fairness to all concerned. The | concentration is not good for the coun- $1,000.
dates. Mr. SHAFFER has explained to nomination of a Democrat for one or the Legislature of Pennsylvania had degener- | 7: Following George F. Baker, the | —Jailed for stealing $118 from a man named
our Pittsburgh contemporary that he was other of these important offices. A com- ated into a machine for the expression of thing a day or two
influenced by a rule of courtesy almost bination of the Democrats and the so- the will of the party bosses. Its rules | Reynolds, of Chicago,
as old as parliamentary history. Mr. called Progressives in the committee had been perverted into an agency to |day that “the present
ALTER, a rival for the honor had voted might have formed an invincible force promote this result. The committee on banking resources and credit constitutes | —The Loyal Order of Moose at Huntingdon is
for him and he returned the compliment, But BENSON and MATT, zealous in the committees, which was in session at Har- Te Soni. of Kuno, Lotb & Co. short $1400 to $1,500 and the treasurer,
as every Democratic nominee for Speaker service of the new boss, gave everything risburg nearly all last week, has endeav- who repeated and
had done from time immemorial. So that was possible to give to the Bull ored to alter these conditions with a re- ness est
long as Mr. ALTER voted for another Moosers, with the result that Democrats sult which remains to be seen. given; tough inadvisable —Dr. William Blesh, the oldest practicing
dong fate and the other candidate voted were alienated from the slate and it was | Of one thing, however, the people of €hact Jawa for Fi suppression of Monch a ans i a oct
for Mr. ALTER, Mr. SHAFFER refrained finally smashed by the PENROSE machine. the State may rest confident. The Stand- | course.” Said he: “The first monopoly tory by two ladies who called at his office a few
from voting. But when ALTER, whose When the Democratic members of the ing committees will not, hereafter, be in- ever attempted was the Tower of days ago. He was 68 years old and death was
name was called first voted for Mr. House reached Harrisburg, on Monday, | struments of injustice in the hands of the They wanted to side a Jotopoly of
SHAFFER, he had no alternative, and and discovered that they had been be-| Speaker. For the'present session, under | 13IS3age anc at Babe on gonal | toa number of robberies in Perry county and
courteously and properly voted for ALTER. trayed, they assembled in caucus and by | a rule adopted by the House immediately Nr. Schiff The .
That Mr. SHAFFER'S vote helped to unanimous vote repudiated the action of | after the organization, there is likely to |the builders were halted in their
elect Mr. ALTER to the office was an un- their recreant representatives in the com- | be little improvement for the majority of because G03 sent psn. Shem the
ee dtant incident. Mr. ALTER would mittee. Notwithstanding thisjust rebuke the committee selected the members of fusion. of tongues. The penalty ¢
have been elected without the vote of MATT and BENSON voted against the committees for the minority. But the : one: if | Lewistown has been robbed. As the trick was
Mr. SHAFFER as four other Democrats, party nominees for chief clerk and resi- committee adopted, for the future, the anything is wrong we'll correct it our done by some one who knew the combination,
under no obligation of courtesy or pre: dent clerk and adhered to the support of policy proposed by the Democrats at the selves.” If nature were allowed to Pre suspicion narrows down to a few of the mem-
cedent, voted for the successful candi- the Bull Moose candidates. As the bal- | organization, namely, that in future the | physicians Share Would RI ae er bers.
de akin his total 106 when only 104 lotting proceeded the real Bull Moosers minority shall select its own com- |cine. This country needs melee. io ie The atett muvement ihe effort 4s sv the
were necessary. These four are Demo- gradually abandoned their candidates and | mitteemen and thus become a potential ministered by competent physicians, ; :
—Of course all our hens will start to
lay now that the price of eggs has gone
down.
—No, it was nota Mid-Summer Night's
Dream, the Coleville band was really out
on Monday night.
—All stories to the contrary notwith-
standing it was the wind that caused the
spire on the Presbyterian church to fall.
—Whatever else the Progressives at
Harrisburg may be they are still Repub-
licans when it comes to handing out the
jobs on the Hill.
—It hasn't been a very cold winter but
those fifty-seven Democrats at Harris-
burg are under the impression that they
are getting about all the snow water they
want.
—Developments at Harrisburg are
gradually verifying the WATCHMAN'S pre-
diction of a month ago that the new Leg-
islature in Pennsylvania isn't going to
give PENROSE many kicks with a frozen
boot.
_ =—Really it would be interesting to
know which one State chairman GUTH-
—Mr. WILSON doesn’t want an inaugu-
ral ball as part of the ceremonies follow-
ing his induction into the Presidency.
WoODROW evidently isn’t a master of the
turkey trot, the bunny hug, the jelly-fish
wabble and those other terpsichorean
productions of the Progressives in danc-
ing.
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—While drilling a well for a St. Louis crats tainted with the virus of Keystone- joined the forces of the PENROSE ma- | element in the work of preparing as well agad br cured of its monop) field brewer, which occurred on the 14th of Sep-
brewery a vein of gas sufficiently strong | ism and probably were more inclined chine. The result was logical and inevi- | as passing legislation. dopers and its a but it will lember last, is to take the case before the Board
to furnish all the fuel for the plant was |toward the candidate ostensibly of the table. The PENRose candidates were Another work of the committe on com- | never be be allowed | °f Pardons: :
struck. No wonder candidate for Presi- | Bull Moose force than that of the Demo- elected and the organization was prac- | mittees wasto divide the favors of the to take its ~There is a commotion at Garrett and Somer.
set over the finding and burial of a skeleton
near the former place. The coroner wasn't noti-
fied and as this is the third body to be found
dent CHAPIN has declared that the Pro-
hibition movement is losing ground. The
crats. One of these, and among the first tically turned over to that atrocious com- Legislature, in the ratio of strength,
to join the ALTER force was the member bination of spoilsmen. The Democrats among the various elements composing
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teetotalers can’t meet this kind of com- | defeated by Mr. SHAFFER for the Demo- were simply “double-crossed”” by this | the body. Thatis to say the Democrats | country’s finances there within five vears, the supsrstitious people
petition. cratic nomination, and against whom the pair of party recreants. will get a share in the offices of the Leg. | nothing that a : are in terror.
—It was customary for men to wear esteemed Post seems to have mo com- | It is true that out of the wreck caused | islature according to their strength un- Jae SSied, Jot i —Georye Metioek, LO Pati, Bd
their hats at the table in the seventeenth plaint. If those, who are without excuse by treachery a few minor places were der the new rules. This will meet with | certain persons ‘laude A re ie i ON
century, but in this glorious year of our for recreancy, had remained steadfast, secured for Democrats. But those who | popular approval, not because the public | ers” is altogether g ; when his clothing caught and he was drawn in.
Lord, 1913, the women have so complete- Mr. SHAFFER might have discharged his were thus favored are under no obliga- | is greatly interested in the spoils of of- | menace should be . 38, A deep gash had been cut in his jaw before the
ly usurped the right that few men even obligation to courtesy and custom, with- tions to Representatives BENSON and ! fice, but for the reason that it will put good Jor any ee machine stopped.
stop to think that it is only one of the | out electing Mr. ALTER or impairing the MATT. Representative FLINN, of Elk [checks on the majority. Now if the gig org dk, =Cdal wowadis, Nottunieriang co's Fon
many that woman is insidiously euchre- solidarity of the Democratic force. | county, wrung the concessions from the House will cut out all the redundant of- | The country to J. C. Moore, in widening a road. Mr. Moore
ing them out of. Mr. SHAFFER is not amenable to the stalwar's and Progressives and the suc- fices and conduct the business of the | Citizens were & sued and obtained a verdict of $500 for four trees.
- ADDAMS, atState charge of party infidelity any more than cessful stalwarts themselves yielded suffi- | Legislature as economically as possible,
es ANS, af Sate CHAMP CLARK was at the time of his ciently to the spirit of fairness to carry the new order of things will become a «jeaders”
1 r — PE "=A few days ago the body of a man was seen
the conclusion that if election to the Speakership of the House out their agreement. if all the Demo- [matter of some public value. Let us : 9
Te - woman in America,” | f Representatives in Washington or | crats had been faithful to party obliga- | hope for such a result. For Democrats to 3 Boutin dow wa the Pig Ro bisa Beller
she must have attained the position after than Mr. ALTER himself was when he tions both in the committee and upon i From a Correspondent of the Philad ment about the matter until it was ascertained
ed for Mr. SHAPPER. Asa matter of | the floor of the House, one of the two| ——Really when ane comes to think | Tt js in
fact Mr. SHAFFER has always been faith- important offices would have gone to ; about the Vagaties of the weather wa | athiievements of loaders of ! oor, Bckton iad about:that time been thrown into the
ful to his party obligations which is the them. But the party was betrayed in | Ripulator; e independence or inefficien- | gan Democracy in Pennsylvania a
principal reason for his nomination for the house of its friends, and the Pen. | €¥ of the steam heat company; the vari- | the recent election as shown by the Presi- | —Indiana county commissioners are being cen-
the office. Two years ago when the ROSE machine was practically restored to | 0US quarantines for small pox, (of which in 1908. Bryan in received
Democrats nominated our own justly es- | power by the treachery of two recreants. | We have three) that speckle the town, | votes, whereas Wilson received but 395,- | only $20 for an indigent person's funeral, the
teemed fellow citizen, Mr. J. CALVIN | Yet these are the kind of men, who oo. | and the fact that another Board of Health, | 619, or 53,163 less than Brvar. Tn tre- | commissioners were obliged to establish a burial
Maven, and a considerable proportion of | loud boasts of what they did to “re. | Whose principal work will be to do noth. | mendous deflection of Democr ground on the county farm and the lady in ques-
the Democratic members voted for the | organize” the party and how progressive ng (as all its predecessors have done) | reformation by the reorganization leaders | stir.
Keystone candidate, Mr. SHAFFER was they are, upon whom the organization | been appointed, its pretty hard tell | has Suddenly wrought 3 complete Demo-
loyal to his patty obligations and honor- ' now relies. . Ine i oy of ge So keep hi cratic tegration Pennsyl
ed himself as as the party by voting | —— enoug ness -
for Mr. MEYER. In all his political career | Collier's Weekly a Bad Adviser. ter, or how many may be left when the | this revision bo disurgumian, continue more ministers who will attend the annual Cen-
he has been equally faithful and the | — time comes that we can turn up our noses causesgreat anxiety in the minds of thous- tral Pennsylvania conference of the Methodist
charge made by the Pittsburgh Post that In Collier’ of the date of Saturday last | at the efforts of the weather man, or |ands of Pennsylvania Democrals The Eoiscope church which willbe bd 1 Hh
he was faithless this year isa calumny there appeared an editorial highly com-!gnap our fingers at the failure of the reorganizers ought to hide their heads in
the command: To the rear, March! had
been executed by the other women in the
pursuit of greatness. -
——According to its annual report the
Armour & Co. corporation earned a sur.
plus of twenty-eight per cent. on its
stock, including the watered variety, dur-
ing last year, in addition to the usual
dividends. Of course if there had been
legitimate competition in the meat trade
the dividends would have absorbed the
profits of this corporation and the people
would have had to pay a good dea! less
for meat.
—Governor WILSON’S latest announce-
M. E. church.
ment concerning a Republican office hold- | which we cannot let pass without pro- mendatory of Secretary of the Interior | gteam heat suppliers. lie Bl last—within | —T. F. Parker and Carl McDermott made their
er in New Jersey isn't very comforting 10 | test. FisuR and suggesting that notwithstand- T—— three mons ofthe clechion_poied ve fo te Clton county jot Sos Thur,
the fellows who are looking for jobs un- ee ing his politics he be retained in the cab-| ——The proposition to postpone the | more votes than What day morning by digging a hole through the wall
der President WiLsoN. When he made Ruinous Rate of Taxation. inet of the incoming President. On the | date of opening the extra session of Con- 2 to make and t to a dis- | from their second cell, bridged the distance to
the statement to the effect that he sees same day in Washington, before a Con- gress has a sinister sound at this distance t. the wall and letting themselves down outside by
Some York county school teachers, in gresgional committee, ALBERT L. WILSON, | from the seat of government. The Demo-
convention assembled, the other day, | gqlicitor for the Uncle SAM Oil company, | cratic party is under pledge to revise the
adopted a resolution declaring that t00 | of Arizona, testified that “the Standard | tariff downward and the obligation should
much money is expended by the govern- | oj company had used the Postoffice and | be discharged at the earliest moment
ment annually in ‘preparation for War, | interior departments and Federal Judges | possible.
There seems to be a mania in Washing: | o¢ Kansas, Missouri and other western
ton for more battleships and a greater | grates to destroy his company and keep| ——Mr. JoB HEDGES, who was the Re-
number of soldiers and all sorts of rea- jt from leasing Osage Indian lands.” He publican candidate for Governor of New
sons are given for increasing the expens- | gave instances, moreover, in which Sec- | York, says the crime of the century is
es of the War and Navy departments. | retary Fisuer has tricked Indians into | hypocrisy. No doubt a good many voters
The latest in this line is the Panama ca- | |oaging lands to the Standard. did deceive him but promising to support
nal. Millions will be required to erect; Aq things go the accusations against one man and voting for another is plain
and equip fortifications and it is NOW 8: | po Secretary of the Interior are of little | lying rather than hypocrisy.
timated that an army of nearly twenty- Mr. FISHER" -
ve thousand troops will be necessary 10 | 1 office was. charged re raver | | — The mild winter has had its influ-
man the fortifications and patrol the | jgances ence on the hens as they have begun lay-
zone. a ing earlier than usual and eggs are more
It is small wonder that school teach- | atired from office to save TAFT from po- plentiful than usual at this time of the
ers are becoming alarmed at this trend | ical injury. It is small wonder there- year. The price in the beginning of the
of affairs. It has been shown that in| re that through the machinations of week dropped to twenty cents a dozen.
no reason for dislodging a competent Re-
publican official merely because he is a
Republican it was tantamount to an an-
nouncement that federal offices won't be
as easy to get as might have been sup-
posed. ’
—Mr. VANCE MCCORMICK'S
Patriot is having the time of its life tell-
ing how the Progressives have betrayed
their trust and their constituents at Har-
risburg. It is really busier now calling
them traitors than it was last fall calling
everybody who failed to stand for them
the same name. If the Patriot had been
inspired by high motives last year we
‘would sympathize with its professed dis-
appointment of today, but it wasn't.
Kitts and MATT and BENSON are only
looking out for their own interests now,
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the vote cast for Tat in Was ghentes —Michael Dayton, aged 83 years, arose
vote home at Renovo at 4:30 Saturday morn-
Roosevelt and Taft this tall. There can ig piri ogi api!
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tremely Democratic vote cast for | glarm was felt until evening, it being supposed he
: Oe tom meen masa has discover
Ja 58 the Buia aller Wes WhEY bt 11s Stave S0€ aration fr 3) Jord) JUS. | Sosioaey Foun am oibers In, sur | The greficsion ut he kind of Little Soe oT Te Great, | ches ihmore il folks need th sume chance
zation 50 that in the event of the election oses Sviagte og dollare a o ty the opponents of the Standard Oil com- | weather we ought to have now will come en and the society is short of funds The school
of a Democratic President he could help population, including women pany were prevented from laying their | later is not altogether encouraging. Jan (From Sie Jove board pays the teachers. Hiasisets
children. The State tax being indirect, | grievances before the President, and that | yary temperature in April gives little
hand out the patronage.
| Osage Indians were threatened with ar- | promise of early vegetables and no more
—The Grangers of Pennsyivania would
chase The Pennsylvania State College
back again to its days as the Farmer's
High School. The present generation of
Grangers seem to know nothing about
the fact that it was the open opposition
of their forbears that made the early
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ricultural College precarious indeed 2% The government of the United States prea smbaistsosion sues, but ——The release of a criminal who con- | out of the race. 161s doubtful However, a Ee
had it not been for the support brought | has no need for additional battleshi 30 she Of | fessed his guilt and invented a scandal if any other brother of a President bas | gio tel thetuth untillatein the even’ vO
ro PS | Collier's as an adviser of a President. | come as near as that to political im- te A dcnyed"
to it in the crisis by the engineering |and there is no necessity for an increase | This journal to secure pardon may be important in| SCRE co and distinction. search for the body Was Sonseq
branches then inaugurated there might |in the army unless war is contemplated. Te a A or New York but us plain country folk can’t Why do great men so seldom come in | 1t Wis recovered late on BB
be no great institution at all today, We can have no war unless it is provok- rarely, if ever, has a good word for a work up enthusiasm over it. Napoleon strove loyalle to Hit his —james B, F. Rinehart. former cosbet S00
ed by the unjust treatment of some Democrat. During the recent campaign, | ——In committee assignments at Har-
ig Agi Its practically sutaih, though the champion muckraker, it | risburg our Member, Hon. C. L. Gram:
incoming nistration couldn't say a word of evil against WoOD- | LEY, has landed on Accounts, Bureau of
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gress have no reason to favor these in- " em—— to be a contest between Mr. DEss and
terests at the expense of the people. We —For high class Job Work come to Mr. ROOSEVELT for the right to guide the
do not believe they will. the WATCHMAN Office. operations.
the same chance, for what more right not give such cause for war and there: pow Wison but finally turned its col- | Statistics, Counties and Townships, Fish A enough, former banker
- . , rarel the will start life all over againin
does the poor farmer's boy have to an fore the building of battleships can have | 0 (ver to the laudation of ROOSE- |eries and Game. pe oon father £0 80M. i ‘Waynesburg. Leading business men of Greene
education at the State's ONLY institution no other purpose than to provide profits vELT, though the testimony of the wit- — are more instances of it skipping from county will try to persuade him to go back there.
of learning than the poor mechanic's | for shipbuilders, ordnance makers or the ! — If Mr. MUNSEY's “political holding | the straight line and lighting upon a | His attorney, Col. E. L. Kearns, has received for
ness in gt inculpated him in the nephew,’ a8 most conspicuoity, Fn | Hi fron He or western States
J us Caesar to Augustus offers of many good Mr. Rinehart was
positions. ,
the only kins- met #: the prison doors by his family and remain-
edin Pittsburgh several days to settle up some
old business.
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