SE reemm————
Demortali Jats.
BY P. GRAY MEEK.
INK SLINGS.
—Hobble and other close fitting skirts
are out of fashion in Paris. The Lord be
praised.
—Our Senator ALEXANDER voted to
confirm BIGELOW'S appointment as State
Highway Commissioner.
—The elder Diaz may resolve that he
prefers the Niletoa very possible journey
on the Styx and remain away from
Mexico.
—The local option bill has failed in the
Legislature by a vote of 83 to 121; thus
endeth the struggle that will be renewed
again in two years.
—Hon. C. L. GRAMLEY voted for the
local option bill at Harrisburg, which
probably represented the wishes of the
majority of his constituents.
—Anyway HARRY THAW'S case has re-
vealed the fact that a number lawyers
who demand fancy prices for their serv-
jces are quite ready to render shady serv-
ices.
—Revolution will not end in Mexico
until MADERO'S death is avenged and
then it will break out anew again in its
frenzy to avenge those who avenge
MADERO.
—All the cabinet guesses put BRYAN
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VOL. 58.
Mr. Bigelow Confirmed.
The confirmation of the appointment
of E. M. BIGELOW to the office of Highway
Commissioner, is not surprising, in view
of the circumstances. There was just
reason for protesting against the appoint-
ment, for by his own admission Mr. BiGe- |
Low has managed the department profii-
gately. We have taken occasion in the
past to criticise his administration of the
office on that account. But the testimony
of his neighbors as to Mr. BIGELOW'S
capability and integrity left no doubt in
the minds of those who have given the
subject attention, on that score. He
came to the office with a clean record
and so far as can be discovered the op-
position to him was based entirely upon |
the enmity of BiLL FLINN.
When Mr. BicELow was director of
public works in Pittsburgh, some years
Clouds on the Political Horizon.
‘The controversy between Mr. WILLIAM
| JENNINGS BRYAN and the President-elect
is unfortunate, perhaps, but it was in-
evitable. The dispute is with respect to
the personnel of the cabinet. The Presi-
dent-elect imagined that in allowing Mr.
BRYAN to choose any portfolio he fancied
all obligations would be cancelled and
that he might then proceed to fill the
other cabinet chairs according to his own
judgment. But he “reckoned without his
host,” so to speak. In other words Mr.
BRYAN wants not only to select a place
for himself but to name the gentlemen
who shall occupy the other seats at the
cabinet table. President-elect WILSON is
not entirely happy under the circum-
stances but we can't see how he may |
| avoid the trouble that is impending.
Mr. BRYAN is a peculiar man. He
in the chair of the Secretary of State. | oo wii jay FLINN was amunicipal con- imagines that the President-elect is under
And the Democrats of the country are | i. “por vears he had enjoyed the obligations to him for the office into
hoping that the guess will prove a good | cu of the municipal machine to the
one on March 4th.
—According to statistics just completed
to February first Americans are consum-
ing more whiskey than ever and this in
face of the fact that we have had the
warmest winter in forty years.
—The report of government investiga-
tors at Washington shows that bachelors
are more liable to become insane than
married men. But that depends largely
upon whom the men are married to.
—When it comes down to the real
principle of the thing how much worse
were DiAZ's actions toward MADERO than
those of a notoriously prominent friend
of our own President toward him last
year.
—What Mexico needs more than any-
thing else right now is THEODORE ROOSE-
vELT and Gen. ROSALIE JONES and we
can spare them both long enough for
them to benevolently assimilate the
Greasers.
—Why waste time juggling with wom-
an’s suffrage and local option bills in
Harrisburg. Put them up to the people to
vote on. Surely they are the ones most
"interested and the only ones competent
full measure and when Mr. BIGELOW |
undertook to hold him to the same con- |
ditions which were imposed upon other |
contractors, a quarrel ensued and FLINN |
being wealthy and powerful “ripped” |
BIGELOW out of office. On the commercial |
principle that one bad turn deserves |
another BIGELOW organized a force and |
literally threw FLINN out of politics and |
kept him out until the ROOSEVELT tidal |
wave of last fall restored him. The ef-|
fort to defeat his confirmation as High- |
way Commissioner was, therefore, the
logic of events.
As between FLINN and BIGELOW the
average citizen has little choice, probably,
and if their personal difference were the |
only item in the equation the popular
verdict would be “a plague on both your |
Houses.” But Senators in the General
Assembly are under sworn obligation to
fulfill certain duties to the public, free |
from prejudice and passion, and what
BiceLow did to FLINN or how FLINN |
countered upon BIGELOW has nothing to
do with the matter. The capability and |
fitness of the appointee are the only |
questions, to_be considered with respect
which he is about to enter and being a
modern reformer he thinks, likewise, that
he has both legal and moral right to
President-elect WILSON feels that he was
elected by the people and that after recog-
nizing Mr. BRYAN's claim to a seat in the
cabinet, he, being responsible to the peo-
ple for the administration, ought to be
allowed a free hand in the selection of
the other members of the cabinet. That
would make it a WILSON administration,
with a reservation. Mr. BRYAN desires
to make it a BRYAN administration, with
a “recall.”
It is practically agreed that Mr. BRYAN
is to be Secretary of State in the WILSON
cabinet, that being the office Mr. BRYAN
preferred, and it is only just to add that
the people, generally speaking, acquiesce
in that arrangement. But Mr. BRYAN
wants Mr. JosePHUS DANIELS to be made | €quipment, to any army in the world.
Postmaster General and Mr. WILSON had
in mind another gentleman for that office,
especially important from a political
viewpoint. There's the rub. Mr. BRYAN
STATE RIGHTS AND
BELLEFONTE, PA. FEBRUARY 28, 1918.
FEDERAL UNION.
: The Question of Preparedness.
Ever since the Civil war army officers | From the Johnstown Democrat.
' and ordnance makers have been a unit
n favor of a larger army and in all that : >
time there has not been a naval officer or his own puissatit Bands:
ready to swear that additional warships soodl quattel with things Mexican?
are the supreme necessities of the day. e
Army and navy officers and ordnance
makers and shipbuilders prosper by war
and what has of late years come to be
talked about as “preparedness” is simply
permit him to head a private army
invasion.
The fact is, that Mr. Hearst ought
an expression of the hope of these men | do any fighting which the occasion re-
that promotions will come on one hand quires. No one is quite so
and profitable business on the other. The | 38 he over Mexican affairs. H
upon the country by these elements in | to smash things below the Rio
the population. It was the fruit of selfish- But singularl i
ness.
General LEONARD WooD, chief of staff
' army of alarmists. In a recent interview, skin is in question. He is
made public for the ear of Congress,
| we are unprepared for war and unfit to I A Om William
Why doesn’t Mr. William Randolph
Hearst take the Mexican situation into
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Lewistown Odd Fellows have just completed
an $18,000 building. Interesting exercises mark-
ed the dedication.
—Five thousand hens will find a home in the
poultry house at the new sanitorium at Cresson.
The great demand for eggs is the reason.
—QOwing to differences among business men,
Portage is likely to have two trade boards and
three banks, two of which are not yet chartered.
—Mayor Cauffel, of Johnstown, has signed the
ordinance which prefaces the abolition of Penn”
sylvania railroad grade crossings in that city.
Work will begin when spring opens.
—A youth on parole from the Huntingdon re.
formatory is blamed for taking valuable articles
from the home of Charles Burkett, a Yeagertown
barber who had given him a chance to work.
—A Latrobe justice of the peace who has had
several boy thieves to deal with recently, is of the
opinion that the desire to attend the nickelodeoms
is responsible for a considerable amount of such
thievery in the town.
~The Church of Christ at Lock Haven on Sun-
does he insist on embroiling Uncle day celebrated its semi-centennial, conducting its
a shipbuilder in the country who wasn't Sam in what is apparently his own per-
morning service, as nearly as possible after the
fashion of fifty years ago and the evening service
lieve the United States would according to present day methods.
view without the least alarm a decla-
ration of war on Mexico by his yellow- | has declined to approve highway contracts
ness. With equal equanimity it would | amounting to nearly $200,000, on the ground that
—Westmoreland county's controller, John Sell,
of | they were not drawn in strict accordance with
the law. A re-letting will be necessary.
—Mrs. M. J. Hurley, on a Baltimore and Ohio
train between Foutzwell and Scalp Level, was
to
8 wp about to leave the train at the latter place, when
€ @ | ghe discovered that her baby was dead. A doctor
: . fighting humor; he thirsts for blood and
recent Spanish war was literally forced conquest; he is simply wild in his desire
said that heart trouble was the cause of death.
—A huge rock crashed down the mountain side
h he shrinks from in Mann's Narrows, flattened a rail on the trolley
track near Reedsville and went on its way down
on to the Kishacoquillas creek. It weighed a ton
is
his part and it gives an extremely em- and a half and the small damage is considered re-
of the army, is the latest recruit to this | barrassing hint of timidity when his own
markable.
—Friends of the five men who met death on
for the boys in the trenches to face the Derry sandworks incline, would not allow in-
“ » Mexican guns and out their life | terment to proceed when they saw the grave
this “favorite of fortune” declares that Son or glory, but no | They wanted it large enough to leave space be-
ph tween the caskets and postponed burial until it
‘meet the exigencies which would con- | Hearst to expose his own precious per- | was so enlarged.
front us in the event of war. Of course | SOD.
—Eight rings, eighteen watches, diamonds and
if Be believes that it was his duty, 28 |, Yet William Randolph belongs right at | other articles of jewelry, worth probably §2,000,
head of the army, to conceal it from the the front. And there is where he should go. | were found by a railroad man in the N .
| world and convey the intelligence in the
quietest way possible to the Congressional
| committee the duty of which is to deal From the Pittsburgh Gazette-Times.
| with such situations. But that course
i
i
| would not have served his purpose. He | the various
berland yard a few days ago. They are thought
to be loot from a jewelry store, dropped by
thieves trying to board a freight train.
~While running across the railroad tracks in
the East Tyrone yard Sunday morning, C. W.
Americans
Mexican States are familiar Brenisholtz, a Middle division conductor whose
couldn't fool the House committee on | With internal conditions. They have had home is in Harrisburg, slipped and fell in front of
military affairs and he has therefore ample opportunity. io go} away.
| undertaken to frighten the constituents | in Mexico of necessity, on duty unavoid-
For such ayard engine. He was badly mangled by the
wheels and was killed almost instantly.
—Rev. W. H. Brown, pastor of the Catholic
| of Congressmen who compose that com- | able, there is proper sympathy and should | church at Sunbury, Monday climbed a pole on
| mittee.
It is probably true that this country is | 30%
unprepared for war butit is not because | and should respond to the
| any given date we could put an army in and ignored the force
| the field equal in discipline and superior | jikely to
| 31 demands
| the army is small or the ‘raining and dis- interests and individuals that have disre-
be adequate protection at any cost. That | the top of the church to replace a gilt cross that
t should be at the beck had been broken off at the base and hung down
, | the pole. Father Brown climbed out a belfry win®
of | dow and up the pole at the risk of his life.
—About seventy-five citizens of Johnstown
i the ordi dictates of
|cipline deficient. In ninety days from | Earle prdinary dict Of Prudence | parted with ten dollars apiece recently in ex-
change for membership in a Masonic lodge that
more than Congress and the exegutive ave didn't exist save in the imagination of the strang-
in numbers, intelligence, courage and | ence in a atis of & Than. who volun. ers Who were bromating it. Warrants were sworn
| But so long as we have officers like
| LeoNARD WOOD, catapulted into high | stances beyond his
out for them, but they had taken their departure.
~The Cambria Steel company within the last
nger
against his will and through circum: | few days has been awarded a contract to manu.
or | facture 100 gondola cars for the Berwind-White
| places through favoritism, we will be un- | evade. To the extent that it is practica- | Coal Mining company. The car plant of the
| prepared for war or any other important ble the place for citizens of the United | Cambria is jammed with orders, included in
on this side of the frontier until th.
| insists that unless Mr. DANIELS is chosen) military service. Dr. Woop was advanced States who have been living in Megico is which is a contract for 4,50 cars for the Pennsy}-
to the vote on confirmation and the good | for that office he, Mr. BRYRN, will not to the head of the army because he had | plows over.
report which came to the Senators on | consent to become Secretary of State and | helped ROOSEVELT in his political ambi-
—After a married life of fifty-three years, Mr.
and Mrs. Alexander Alexander, of Philadelphia,
to pass finally on such momentous ques-
tions.
—The prices of meat and potatoes and
flour and butter and eggs are coming
down but that real necessary, gasoline,
is going higher and higher. Them Demo-
crats never intended to keep their prom-
ise about reducing the high cost of living,
anyhow.
—Prof. STARR,0f Chicago University,de-
clares that the coming man will be hairless
and toothless. We are almost persuaded
to believe it when we see so many of
them who are half way there gathered
together in the front rows of the “girlie,”
“girlie” shows.
—State chairman GUTHRIE'S message
to the Senators on the confirmation of
BiGELow was evidently unappreciated
but then state chairman GUTHRIE is not
the authorized dictator for the voters of
the various districts who sent Senators
to Harrisburg to represent them.
—Wasn't it just fine in President-elect
WiLsoN tendering our distinguished
Pennsylvanian, A. MITCHELL PALMER,
the War portfolio. Of course no one
will suspect that Mr. WILSON knew that
he was a Quaker and couldn't accept it
because of the ritual of his church.
—The one new case of smallpox that
has developed in Bellefonte within the
past week is said to be due to violation
of the quarantine regulations. It is said
that the victim or members of his family
exposed themselves to the contagion by
visiting in a house that was under quar-
antine.
—After returning to Washington from
New York, on Sunday, President TAFT
had traveled 114,700 miles since his in-
auguration four years ago. It isan aver-
age of 78} miles a day for every day that
he has been rresident. He will leave the
White House with the record for being
the greatest gadabout we ever had in
the presidential chair.
—Suppose the Legislature and not the
Senate had had to confirm BIGELOW'S ap-
pointment as Highway Commissioner,
and suppose you were a Democrat repre-
senting Centre county in the Legislature.
State chairman GUTHRIE told you that
it was against the best interests of the
Democratic party to vote to confirm.
But, suppose, meanwhile, Governor TEN-
ER, or one of his agents, had sent you a
you do? The situation is a perfectly pos-
gible one and you are an honest man rep-
resenting honest constituents. Think it
over and decide what you would do.
Possibly the little mental communion you
have with yourself will change your mind
on some things political.
these points justified affirmative action. | thus the whole fabric will be shattered. | tions and so Jong as that sort of thing
The Governor is responsible for the con- It is a sad state of affairs, whatever
duct of the office, anyway.
It is to be regretted that Mr. GEORGE |
W. GUTHRIE, chairman of the Democratic |
State committee, “butted” into the affair |
as he did. In what Mr. FLINN's Phila-
| angle it is viewed from and we con-
template the consequences in a haze of
despondency and fear.
——The Senatorial deadlock in West
delphia organ calls “a manifesto” Mr. | Virginia has been broken by the election
GuTHRIE summoned the Democratic Sena-
tors to FLINN'S service much as a school
master would command a kindergarten |
class. The result was anything but flat’
tering to Mr. GUTHRIE'S vanity though
entirely right trom a political vi nt. |
Everyone of the ten Democratic Senators
voted directly opposite to Mr GUTHRIE'S
expressed will and thus proved that they
are now as they always have been abso-
lutely unbossed. The three Keystone
Senators tried to pull FLINN'S chestnuts
out of the fire but failed.
A Local Option Problem.
The vote by which the local option bill
was defeated in the House of Representa-
tives in Harrisburg on Tuesday settles
that mooted question for the present.
There were eighty-three votes for the
bill, exactly twenty-one less than the
necessary number. The 121 votes in the
negative completes the full complement
of members so that there was no dodg-
ing or evasion of the question.
The vote of Tuesday was substantially
the same as that of two and four years
ago so that it may justly be assumed that
it is a fair expression of the sentiment of
the people of the State on the subject.
It need not be assumed, however, that it
will settle the mater for all or evena
considerable time. The local optionists
will be doing business at the old stand
two years hence.
As one of the participants in the debate
of Tuesday said, it is not the right way
to proceed for the attainment of the
moral improvement desired. There is
too much money wasted in
booze and it is the cause of far too much
evil. But the proposition to legislate mo-
rality into people has failed so frequently
and proved abortive in so many localities
and ways that it might as well be aban. |
doned.
The liquor traffic ought tobe regulated
80 as to minimize the bad effects of it
and the way to achieve this result is for
those who favor and those who oppose
the trafficto get nearer together. The
liquor men ought to do something toward
eliminating the evils and the other should
be more charitable in treating the sub-
ject. The closing of bars in the towns
and cities at midnight would be a step in |
the right direction, and the sivict enforce
ment of the laws, now upon our statute
books, would tend greatly to the ameliora-
tion of the evils justly complained of as
of Justice GOFF of the United States Cir- |
cuit court. Happily no scandal has ever
“been connected with” the name of Jus-
tice GOFF, but some grouchy persons may
wonder why he quits a life job for a six
year Senatorial toga at less annual sal- |
ary.
Make Him the Last Offender.
Govenor TENER has resumed the habit
of lobbying for pending legislation. Other
Governors of the State have at intervals |
suggested legislation to the General As-
sembly, as a matter of fact that is what |
the Governor's annual and special mes-
sages are for. But TENER goes beyond
this conventional expedient and personal-
ly solicits the support of Senators and
Representatives in the Legislature and
other visitors to his office to help -along
ma
this measure or that, in which he y
have some interest. Two years ago he |but if that name is Scenic, there's a
literally kept men away from his office in
this way and now he is at it again.
“Curbing” the Trusts.
! continues we will be unprepared, how-
ever big our army may be. From the Altoona Times,
| ——Mr. Groundhog is losing his reputa- | been :
tion as a weather prognosticator. He! a found geil
died within twelve hours of each other, the hus-
band expiring on Wednesday and the wife follow-
ing him the next day. Their death was the ful-
Within the last few days the bath tub :
¢ ¢ and the National Cash Register . fillment of an oft-repeated wish that they should
of conspir-
of the
end life together.
—Jacob Nicewonger, a young man who resides
| made good the first two weeks but most companies have been given jail sentences, | at East Altoona, is under arrest on the charge of
fin
of last week was too mild for groundhog together with heavy
| weather, and while in all probability assessed the cost of ution.
| there will be more cold weather before
spring sets in in earnest, it is hardly like- | curbing of the trusts.
| iy there will be any long stretch of it, or aT Dupe
severely cold. Robins and bluebirds have | £0 4 ity. "Some have been “dissolv-
| both made their appearance in Bellefonte | ed,”
{ and they are preity sure harbingers of an
early spring.
se _- fits.
——Wall Street emissaries havegone to | Perhaps the
the trouble of advising Governor WILSON in the right di
that currency reform is a pressing neces-
sity. But Wall Street did ail that it could sob met with
j to prevent the election of Governor WiL-
in the matter and every mother’s son in
Wall Street knew that in the event of his
defeat there would be no currency re-
form within the period which will be a core
covered by his administration.
——The old saw that “there's othing yu of Tamia has
in a name” may be truein some instances | vestigate the police
whole lot in it in Bellefonte. Everybody | 2ccused It
It is diffi-
cult to discover just wherein the country company, of Orviston, sent by parcel post Mon-
nes, and have been | robbing the store of Peter Duncan, at Ore Hill,
sometime Friday night. On Saturday morning
Thus does the work of Attorney Gen- | Nicewonger left a big package containing about
eral Wickersham go forward toward the
$100 worth of loot at the home of Mrs. Irvin Fer-
guson, at Hillside, and when he was arrested Sat-
imistic on this sub- | urday afternoon he could give no satisfactory ex-
trusts have been | planation of how he came by the stuff.
—1J. Ellis Harvey, of the Centre Brick & Clay
day morning a brick of local manufacture to be
used in building a brick house at the Coliseum,
now being taken are Chicago, during the Clay Products exposition
on; they may lead to which is to be held February 26 to March 8. This
brick will be one of 25,000 sent by parcel post
But fines and dissolution orders have from every brick plant in the United States to be
used in the construction of this house, which will
marked success.
the government is able to land some begiven way aut swerested er the Srp
SON to the office which gives him a voice gf the ust officers ia jail, the reguits may
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in town as well as visitors know that it | the public prosecutor. If this decision
The other day a gentleman from one Ede for owe of he best moving picture | Tammany is carried out it will be de- Fridav,when: vs saved ihe two ver uid auth:
of toe me theastern counties of the State | shows in this pst of the State. A place Serving of more praise than has been its BOE ol rx Tne wiieets of dn <u
hited. Harrisburg to attend a public | you can attend every evening and always | in MS POC, oor force in New York | sine. The train had just sounded, © Suite CE
hearing before the House committee on | see something new. And, while the pic- | than Tammany, and it could add to its the engineer noticed the child toddling along the
game upon the gun license bill. Having | tures change every evening the price strength by the pursuit of a policy in- truck. Heapsliod tie brass sud Fevereed the
been a member of the Legislature two | always remains five cents. tended to wipe out the criminal police | nine but relat ;
and restore a condition of law and order. train to a stop in time to save the tot's life-
years ago he called upon the Governor, mr Say i | The determination is to uncover the un- | The fireman, grasping the situation, jump-
out of a sense of courtesy. After a brief Monday ioense Mifflin | Cory mess, to procure the evidence and ed to the running hoard, ran to the front of
pirat. between: the | C790 Yu Judge Woods vety Legtly an, y to the prison oer | the engine, sprang to the ground and with the
Governor and his visitor, the Governor | nounced that all applications for license of and low Bs child in his arms jumped from the track just as
asked the gentleman to use his influence to sell liquor were refused. The only ap- | to this with to prevent | the engine rolled by.
plications were from three hotel proprie- the development of conditions. If | —Mrs. Howard Fisher, 33 years old, and her
in behalf of the gun license. His visitof | ol ist Tammany carries out this program it| three children, James, 2 years old; Arthur, 3
promptly replied that his business at the RAR will merit the applause, not only of New years old, and Bruce, 5 years old, perished in a
capitol was to oppose that iniquity. After| For the information of those who York, but of the country. fire which destroyed their home in Smithfield. a
refusal of such request may work grave
harm to the interests of the man thus re-
fusing. That being the case the Governor
ough not to misuse his office and the in-
fluence it has in that way. As a matter
of fact we believe the present Governor
to be enacted to make him the last.
——Of course it would be impossible to
enlist any considerable amount of sympa-
thy for MADERO, recently President of
due to the liquor question.
Le
Mexico, but most anybody is willing to
leaving the Governor he attended the | read the daily papers it may be worth
|
Jess attention in the near futurenow that _ Gov. Sulzer’
is the first to do so and legislation ought York
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— When TAPT retires there will be a From the Birmingham Age-Heraid
pair of ex-Presidents,
likely to welcome the junior into the es- sometimes wind
clusive fold. ple’s money.
i.
A —
i
Democrat” is “a Democrat who stood by
the League ball teams are moving toward tne party in 1896.” And yet there are
the training grounds. ' many young men who were not six years wife over the Charles
session of the committee and made a | while to say that the Balkan war is still leaving the children in the house. When she re-
strong speech against the bill. it progress but the Mexican trouble gets Prom the misibw Ctgutss Tues. oil of | turned the house wasin flames. Men prevented
‘ble than this perversion of the power of | Tumulty’s Democracy will be under grave She fon door. Sue Yas a1ound 10 the Seas bios
the Governor in the interest of legisla- —So far as having sense enough to ' suspicion if the news circulates that the 3 AE nied The house
tion. Senators and Representatives in behave themselves is concerned we know house int Washington which'he 13 en- | oo armed to the ground. Howard Fisher, a
or enema Assembly understand that a our American Suffragettes are not the 828° two years three bath | oer was at work in Huntingdon at the
request of the Governor may easily take “same breed o' cats” as those riotous ———————— time. A deaf and dumb child was not at home.
on the form of a command and thata English women. | But Not Too Old. —Williamsport was the scene of another near
but the senior is not A State Legislature is a body & 3070 the police against Crocker, who later was arrest.
the
jail.