BY P. GRAY MEEK.
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—Why is it so many people are suc- |
cessful in almost everything but being |
agreeable?
—Only half the people who are born |
live to reach the age of sixteen and lots
of them only exist after that period. |
—If you haven't anything else to]
decorate, decorate yourself and be a)
fantastic in our coming Fourth of July
parade.
—The Philadelphia Municipal court bill |
has been passed finally and the chances |
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are that later on a court will be created |
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
| Pactionaliom that
OL. 8,
Unity.
While Congressman LEE, of Pottsville,
who has been recommended by the Dem-
Threatens Party
BELLEFONTE, PA. JUNE 20,
Old Plan Revived.
The proposition to trade an interest in
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, owned
| by the Pennsylvania railroad, for an in-
one.
| date of the party for Governor, may not the Union Pacific, would simply fulfill
——The Legislature may not adjourn | be the choice of a majority of the Demo- the original purpose for which the South.
finally on the 26th, the time fixed by the | crats of the State for that party favor, ' em Pacific railroad was projected and
House, but in that event the Senate will | he certainly represents, if his words indi- built. The late THOMAS A. SCOTT enter-
have to show cause and that may be a | cate his honest convictions, the type of tained in his time visions of a railroad
hard job.
—It is costing us three times as much |
to run Pennsylvania as it did ten years
ago and it looks very much as if the tax-
payer is putting up for something he
isn't getting.
1 ——Congressmen MURDOCK, of Kansas,
and BILL FLINN, of this State, are the
only two persons in the United States
who don't know that the Washington
party is dead and buried.
—Are you preparing to do your part in
the entertainment of the little folks when
Bellefonte comes to celebrate the Fourth
of July in a safe and sane way? Now is
the time to boost, not knock.
—Anyway those Legislators in Wash-
ington and Harrisburg are finding it hot
enough just now to season them for the
“roasting” many of them will get when
they go home to their constituency.
—Some one remarked, on Monday,
when the mercury was bobbin’ around
93 degrees that the weather man had
gotten in a car of GOOD coal. It must
have been one of the kind the local steam
heat works was looking for last Jan.
uary.
—Lenox, Mass, had a dance censor.
He was appointed when the town passed
an ordinance barring objectionable
dances. He went to work with a will
and stopped everything up to the time a
couple struck him with a Texas Tommy,
then he quit the job, completely knocked
out.
—Wall Street doesn't like the way
the Supreme court is deciding the ques-
tion of corporation control by States but
happily Wall Street is without the power
of review and has no means of recall.
Under the circumstances Wall Street will
have to do like Paradise alley, accept the
decision of the Supreme court as final.
—Col. ROOSEVELT is planning a lecture
tour around the world. It is significant
that his itinerary would land him back in
America just before the time for nomi-
nating candidates for the Presidency.
To be gone two years and return just in
time to fill a long-felt want is probably
the thought the Colonel has under his
hat.
—You can’t ride to Hecla park in an
automobile these summer Friday nights
and turkey trot on the railroad company’s
pavilion. Oh, no! There'll be plenty of
turkey trottin down there, but only those
who have railroad tickets or cough up
the price of the same will be permitted
on the floor when the orchestra gives the
get-away signal for the trotters.
~The ROTHSCHILDS are reported to be
bringing gasoline to the United States
with which to fight the Standard Oil Co.
Were it not for the knowledge that the
great French financiers are not in busi.
ness for their health alone the owners
of motors that get only six miles out of a
gallon of gas might look for a slight re-
duction in the high cost of living.
—A world-wide meat war is announced
as the next event of importance. It can’t
come too quick and the public will not be
insisting that it be stopped by arbitra.
tion either. Australia threatens to enter
our markets and American packers are
to retaliate by cutting prices to the point
where foreign producers can't live. It
will be a caseof what's one man’s poison
is another man's meat, sure enough.
—The plot thickens! HARRY KELLER
Esq. has tossed his hat into the ring and
is now a full fledged aspirant for the Re-
publican nomination for Judge. Since
Mr. KELLER is a brother-in-law of Judge
Orvis, who will probably aspire to re-
election, and occupies a law office with
an open door into that of Mr. QUIGLEY,
who is also an aspirant for judicial
honors, it will readily be seen that the
very pleasant relations are not to be
strained a bit.
-A recent conference of social work-
ers in New York city was called for the
purpose of determining whether, in real-
ity, their energies were being fruitfully
expended. The social uplift question is
such a complex one that none but a
fanatic will approach it with anything else
than hesitation. From our point of view
social uplift is merely charity by another
name and charity is more beautiful
theoretically than practically. Make
governmental conditions so that all may
have an equal chance and there would
be little need of charitable endeavor out.
side the field of those physically or
“‘Bossism is a relic of the past in Penn-
sylvania, although there are some people
who do not seem to realize the changed
conditions,” Mr. LEE said, addressing a
large delegation of farmers and miners
of Schuylkill, Northumberland and Car-
bon counties, the other day. “The next
Governor,” continued Congressman LEE,
“will be under obligation to nobody but
the people.”
Bossism was never quite so rampant
in the Democratic party of Pennsylvania
as it is today. Not long ago Hon. A.
MITCHELL PALMER, claiming to be the
mouth-piece of the organization, issued
an ultimatum that no man would be
considered for appointment to office un-
der the administration of President Wii-
SON unless he had the endorsement of
certain individuals who represent the
present State organization. More recent-
ly Mr. Vance McCorMICK declared that
no man in a certain county, not in his
Congressional district, would be consid-
ered for appointment if he were endors-
ed by a certain prominent and active
Democrat, and added that said promi-
nent and active Democrat will “be read
out of the party.” Mr. GEORGE W.GUTH-
RIE has repeatedly fixed an arbitrary
standard for the measurement of candi.
dates for office under the Democratic ad-
ministration at Washington and declared
that others than those who met his re-
quirement need not apply.
“Upon what meat hath these, our Cea.
sars, fed, that they have grown so great ?”
In 1896, 1900 and 1908 Mr. GUTHRIE and
Mr. McCorMICK refused to support the
Democratic candidate for President and
freely gave of their unearned wealth to
debauch the voters of Pennsylvania in
‘the interest of the Republican machine.
Who invests men of such records with
power to “read” others, who have been
faithful at all times and under all circum-
stances, “out of the party?” Certainly |
President WiLsoN who is both capable
and just, has not committed such a polit-
ical crime. As a matter of fact it may be
assumed that they have no such authority
and that President WILSON is not aware
of the professions of power they are mak-
ing in his name. It can hardly be, either
that they are acting upon the authority
of Mr. BRYAN. “Politics makes strange
bedfellows,” but it is not likely that Mr.
BRYAN is their tool.
The Democrats of Pennsylvania have
splendid oppo..anities before them but
they are not making the best uses of
them by encouraging the arrogant boss-
ism of these gentlemen, now converts to
the faith. As Representative LEE states
“bossism is a relic of the past,” and like
other evils from which we have escaped, |
bossism must be relegated. Fidelity to
the party during the period of adversity |
is no crime to be penalized now that |
prosperity has come and in the selection |
| man who ought to be thus honored. across the continent from coast to coast
and with that idea in mind began the
building of the Southern Pacific railroad.
The late WILLIAM A. WALLACE, of Clear-
field, was made president of the South-
ern line and if the financial backing
could have been obtained that road would
have been from the first a part of the
| ment to Democrats that they have no
Pennsylvania system.
Is He the Man?
Congressman LEE, who has been start. |
ed in the run for Governor by his multi-
tude of Democratic friends of Schuylkill he
county seems, like Mr. BARKIS, to be
“willin’” provided the Democrats can
“rise above factional discord "—a height to
which Mr. LEE was unable to attain when
“factional discord’’ was being planted, by |
a few aspiring malcontents, and cultivat-
ed and nourished by those who had been
honored by the party with elections to
Congress, in 1910. It is the factional dis-
cord then created, and which is still be-
ing fomented by those claiming to be the
party “leaders,” that gives hope to the Re-
publicans, broken and divided as they
are, and is such a source of discourage-
Tom SCOTT was probably the greatest | heart to take advantage of the promising
railroad builder and manager of his day | condition that lies before them.
and generation and ranks up well among |
the foremost of any in our country. His
ambition was to make the Pennsylvania
the ideal iron highway of the world and |
| the party in and the hopelessness of a
to that end made its roadway as nearly
perfect as possible. Then he turned his
attention to the extension of its lines and
in pursuance of that policy acquired the
Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago and
other lines so as to complete a line be.
tween Philadelphia and Chicago. But
that achievement only whetted his de-
sire for extension and he undertook the
Southern Pacific enterprise as the culmi-
nation of his ambitious plans.
Mr. SCOTT was not alone in his belief
in a coast to coast railroad and from the
moment that he became identified with
the Southern Pacific the batteries of ri-
val railroad magnates were turned upon
him and his project. Sources of finan.
cial support upon which he relied were
closed to him, as completely as the Steel
trust closed the money market to the
| Tennessee Coal and Iron company in
1907, and he was finally compelled to
abandon his enterprise which he did with
as little loss to himself and friends as
possible. Ever since the coast to coast
road has been the dream of progressive
railroad managers and we would not be
surprised to see the “Pennsy” complete
what it begun under THOMAS A. ScoTT,
when the distinguished Clearfielder was
made president of its conecting link,
many, many years ago.
——Secretary of the Navy DANIELS ap-
pears to think that we ought to build
three battleships a year, which is con-
trary to the Demoratic idea of economy
in public expenditures. It makes a dif-
| ference whose ox is gored.
| Senator Penrose is Optimistic.
| The world is growing better—the hori-
zon brighter. Between calamity sobs
. Senator PENROSE now finds time to ex-
press a hope drawn from the virtues of
the Pennsylvania Legislature. Even if
| “the worst comes to the worst” in conse-
i quence of curtailing the graft harvest of
the tariff, the transcendent righteousness
of our General Assembly will afford con-
solation if not recompense. The country
is safe. The “demnition bowwows"” have
followed another trail in search of a dif-
ferent quarry, according to what our es-
teemed Philadelphia contemporaries
designate as “Senator PENROSE'S regular
of a candidate for Governor next year Saturday afternoon talk,” and “we may
these truths must be kept in mind. The | >, NaPPY yet, you bet.
next Governor of Pennsylvania must ve] THe iNuaiation for Semaios made n
a man of the people, not the spawn of a |
| Representative Joun R. K. ScorT, of
stolen lease of power. i Philadelphia, to the effect that “the cost
~—It is reported that nine of the Of running the government of Penneyl
twenty five ol which during the winter | A Mas Greased netsy thie fod
To
| over, Mr. SCOTT proves his proposition by
the Allegheny mountains, not far from '°'c"
mentally deficient.
infested with a tick-like parasite which .
sucks the blood of the animals until they
die from weakness and exhaustion. A,
few of the animals were captured and
given an acid bath and they now seem to
be free of the parasites and doing well.
The herd that was turned out in Clear- |
field county is reported all right.
~——Summer is here, the dry weather
is having its effect on the streams, the
water in Spring creek is getting low and
that dam splash board still reigns su-'
preme. “The mills of the gods grind
slowly” but they aren't in it with Belle- |
weather, else they might act differently.
~The Moros on the Philippine Island
of Jolo have been carrying on again.
They refuse to be assimilated even by
benevolent processes, just as they did
when Spain was the philanthropic agent.
The only real difference is that then we
blamed Spain for the brutality and now
Spain accuses us of imbecility.
~—For high class Job Work come to
the WATCHMAN Office.
! citing the figures. In 1903 the appropria-
tion “for governmental uses,” was $7,-
986.54 which included the item for road
building for six years which amounted to
$6,745.000. The appropriation bill for the
same service this year is $22,367,574.71.
That is very close tc the “three fold,”
alleged by Mr. ScorT.
Such figures do not discourage Senator
PENROSE, however. According to his
notion they reveal in radiant colors the
highest virtues in legislation. The mon-
ey, he says substantially will goto the
best uses. Nothing could be better than
good roads and this seeming profligacy
isonly a means of making the finest
roads in the universe. Everything else
done by the Legislature is equally meri.
torious and commendable (?) and Sena-
tor PENROSE is both surprised and griev-
ed because any one should object to this
increase in expenses of government. It
expresses the advance of civilization and
since it has lifted Senator PENROSE out of
a “slough of despond” probably it is worth
the cost.
~The American Medical associa-
tion, in session at Minneapolis, is wrest-
ling with a proposition to curtail the sale
of nostrums. The only sure means of
achieving that result is to kill off the fools
who buy such things.
Congressman LEE knows this fact as
does every other intelligent Democrat in
the State. He also understands, as do
they, the unfortunate condition it places
contest if these conditions are to be con-
tinued and intensified.
It is now up to himself, and others who
aided in bringing this very state of af-
fairs about, to take some action looking
to a cessation of the ostracism that is
being practiced towards the great body
of Democrats who remained true to thc
precedents and principles of their party
in 1910; to stop the petty spitefulness that
has characterized every act of the three
or four individuals, acting as bosses, who
have secured the ear of the administra-
tion and assumed the authority to parcel
out the positions the party has to give,
to those, and those only, who have served
them personally.
It is this narrowness of policy on the
part of those now in control of party af-
fairs; this deprivation of Democrats
generally from having any voice in the
designation of those worthy of party
recognition; this unreasonable and
senseless effort to keep alive the factional
feeling that divides and distracts the
party, that must be stopped if the Dem-
ocracy is to have a ghost of a show to
‘benefit by the divisions and dissensions
now disrupting the common enemy.
Is Congressman LEE big and broad
enough politically to recognize the mis-
takes that have been made, and that are
continuing to be made daily, and to lead
a movement that will call a halt in this
suicidal work?
If so, the Democrats of Pennsylvania
might conclude that he is big and broad
enough to be their candidate for Gov-
ernor in 1914.
—Wasn't ‘Wednesday “about as near
your ideal of a perfect summer day as
you ever expect to see.
The Anthracite Coal Tax.
There is reason in the objections pre- | i
sented by the anthracite coal producers
against the tax on that commodity pro-
vided for in a bill now in the hands of
the Governor. Whether such a tax would
involve a violation of the provision of the
federal constitution which forbids the
laying of an export tax by States is a|ing,
mooted question. But whether it does
or not the tax would certainly work a
needless burden upon the poor people
who have trouble enough in keeping their
coal bins filled under existing circum.
stances. This anthracite coal tax is one
residents of the State.and those not
resident, it is not obnoxious to the
federal constitution. The language of |/M
the organic law is: “No tax or duty
such a tax and the principal argument in
support of it while it was pending in the
Legislature was that the burden would
be upon non-residents. That was the
reason given by Governor PENNYPACKER
when he suggested the tax. It is the
only reason which commanded respect
during the debates.
Possibly Mr. PENNYPACKER never read
the constitution of the United States and
probably he wouldn't understand it if he
had read it. In any event he is respon.
sible, not only for its introduction but
for its ultimate passage through the
Legislature. But that is not our reason
for opposing it. The fact that the resuit
can be achigved better by another means
is responsible for our attitude upon the
question. In other words the receipts
and expenditures might be balanced by
reducing expenses rather than by in.
creasing revenues and better results
would be accomplished for the reason
that profligate government not only in-
creases the cost of living but provokes
and fosters corruption.
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| —New Florence is promised electric light by
| July 15. A Johnstown company has the fran-
| chise.
i —Eighty friends of Mrs. Lobe Russel of Sheloc-
| ta, helped her to celebrate her 83rd birthday
| recently.
| =Itis expected that trolleys will be running
| unless weather conditions prevent.
| —For the first time in vears the Westmoreland
county jail does not contain a woman prisoner.
| There are however sixty-four men.
—Frank Kuntz, of Derry, fired off a blank re-
| volver, and Vaughn Wagner, aged 7 years has a
{ lot of bird shot in his abdomen. It is thought he
| will recover.
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| =—TheClymer brick works will ship six car
What | oads of radical chimney bricks to Honolulu in
: the near future. The bricks must all be crated
| before starting on their long journey around
| Cape Hom.
Aviator Earl Sandt, of Brookville, was hurled
fifty feet at Grove City a few days ago, when his
| engine stalled. He landed on a garage and has
addition to a fine crop of bruises, a broken
| arm and leg.
| —Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Davis, of Johnstown,
afford to defy the thirteen hoodoo. They
thirteen children, twe of whom are married
their home has as yet never been entered by
death angel.
—Since the big fire at Cassandra, or Benscreek,
has been learned that citizens of the town were
pany. There will likely be both in the rehabili-
tation of the town.
Selling olive oil with cotton seed adulteration
refusing to pay the fines imposed by the mag-
cost Josephine Puma, of Johnstown, $63
she finally agreed to settle before the case
reached trial at court.
—Keating Summit is one of the lumber towns
that has given up the ghost. Most of the people
have moved away and houses are being torn
down and shipped elsewhere. Cross Fork met
the same fate some time ago.
~Kitchen, dining room, gymnasium, forge
and foundry are some of the features to be found
in the plans for improvements to. Johnstown'’s
high school building. The contract for the ad-
ditions is to be let this month.
—Four of the tramps held in the Williamsport
jail on suspicion of knowing something about the
murder of James Kilgallan were released this
week. They made a bee line for the railroad and
lost no time getting out of town.
=An unique damage suit isin prospect in the
Clearfield county court. Dr. J. S. Waterworth, a
prominent physician of that place, has been sued
for $15,000 by W. A. Lukens and wife, because
Mrs. Lukens failed to recover from an illness
under the doctor's care.
—Marion and Warren Gonder, Centre Hall
lads, were playing in a large wheat bin at the
Foreman grain house when somebody opened the
chute to load the grainona car. When the grain
didn't flow properly, the boys were found un-
conscious and almost suffocated.
_ —Hiram Krick, a steel foundry work-man at
Burnham, sneezed a few mornings ago and snap-
ped a rib in his right side. The ribhad been "crack-
ed betore,” in a fall from the haymow at his
stable, but the extent to which it was shattered
was not known until the sneeze proved too much
for it.
—Tony Kinetsky, aged 6years, of Mechesney-
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He also found a match. Then he found a place
to smoke without fear of detection. He lit the
cigarette and threw the burning match into the
hay of the stable he had entered. The boy is
| left to tell the tale.
i =A large rock flying from a blasted foundation,
crashed into the home of Rex DeLong, at Renovo
and fell on the bed where his wite and new born
son were lying. That one or both were not kill-
ed is considered marvelous, but the rock managed
to miss both, although the bed was filled with
dirt and broken glass.
—Boswell had a first class small-pox scare last
week when it was found that a young gir! suffer-
ing with the disease had been shopping; attended
a moving picture show and bought meat When
she went to a doctor the nature of the disease be-
came known and there was an epidemic of vac-
cination and disinfecting.
—Caught between two automobiles that met in
a head-on collision near Vandergrift, Mrs. Harry
Graden, aged 30, was crushed and killed. The
woman had a 6 year old daughter beside her and
was wheeling her baby in a carriage at the side
ofthe road. She might have escaped had she
not tried to save her little ones, in which task
~The lumber yards of J. G. Ewing, along the
railroad west of the depot at Newton Hamilton,
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spit, just as a freight train came that . The
engine hit him a whack on the side of the head
that made him feel as though he never
spit again, but after he had been
hospital and had the hole in his head sewed
he renewed his belief in the desirability of
~The Spruce Creek fish hatchery, the property
of the Department of Fisheries, located in Spruce
Creek township, Huntingdon county, and con-
sisting of two buildings and 29 acres of land, was
sold atthe court house on Tuesday afternoon to
Snyder Isett, Spruce Creek, for $3,050. The sale
was authorized by the present Legislature owing
to the fact that the hatcheries had been irrepara
bly damaged by floods.
—Mrs. Mary Watson aged 70 years, on her
way from Lock Haven to Cumberland, walked in.
to the police station at Altoona on Tuesday even -
ing and applied for a nights lodging. She inform-
ed the officer in charge that she was on her way
to relatives, had just enough money for railroad
fare and was satisfied with some place to rest for
the night. She was taker ro the Magee hotel,
where a room was secured for her for the night.
~Lewis N.Graves, supposed to be from Lock
Haven, appearing to be a victim of hallucination
on the subjects of marrisge and wireless teleg-
raphy, was taken into custody at Clearfield a
few daysago. He was not molested until he
tried to buy a gun; then the authorities thought
it time to take charge of him, especially as he
has a fancied grudge against a relative whom he
thinks wants to marry him to someone he does
not like.
—While enjoying a bath in the waters of Ly-
comirig creek together with eight of his compan-
ped into a deep hole and disappeared. Neither he
nor his companions could swim. The body was
recovered in 15 minutes, but life was extinct.
Selam perfcrmed with the troupe on Monday
afternoon and though but a boy was unusually
skillful and daring.