BY P. GRAY MEEK. INK SLINGS. —His friends are grooming Mayor GAYNOR, of New York, for the race to be his own successor. Possibly they only think they are his friends. | —Two brothers in the hospital and a third in the lock-up is evidence that there was something doing as a result of the big pay in Bellefonte Saturday. —If you want to travel without your tail light lit be sure you keep going so fast that the fellow who is following doesn’t bump you out of the road. —Speaking of a spinster friend one day a Clarence philosopher remarked: “She may be God's handiwork but she is cer- tainly not one of his masterpieces.” —UPTON SINCLAIR'S divorced wife was unable to get a license to marry a new soul-mate, but a little matter of that sort ought not to worry the woman who has already lived in marriage without the formality of a ceremony. —The Pullman company is designing sleeping cars with wider berths. Of course that will be a comfort, but not half so much of a one as higher berths would be. More heads are battered on the ceiling than ribs on the sides of the sleep- ing car berth. —Next week we will celebrate our safe and sane Fourth. After that, the Chautauqua. It will afford an excellent opportunity to turn the mind into profit- able channels of thought and is one of the most efficient agencies we know of for mental uplift. —Possibly it is overestimating the im- portance of the thing, but really we can't see any reason for the demand for the preparation for war by this country un- less HARRY KELLER'S threat to contest for the nomination for the Judgeship against HENRY CUTE QUIGLEY has become generally known. ~The Chicago woman, returning from abroad, who says that American women overdress, probably hasn't seen ore of our summer girls standing in a strong sunlight. The over dress is about all most of them have on and it is usually the kind that has little more covering qualities than Eve's fig leaf. —President WILSON'S message to Ceon- gress on the new currency reform meas- ure scattered all doubt that might have been lingering as to his absolute sin- cerity. Let us hope that both the new tariff and new currency bills fulfill every prophecy he has made for them. If they do the entire Nation will acclaimjhim the greatest man of his day. —The Mississippi Supreme courti‘has decided that a razor is not a weapon, but should be classed as “an implement of the toilet.” That's all very pretty, so long as it is only nicking your face in the hands of a barber, but when it comes to a slash in the back or cutting your heart out this implement of the toilet becomes entirely to efficacious to be carried around promiscuously. —As suggested in another column of this issue council might save a great ex- pense later and conserve the public health now by at once removing the water moss from Spring creek before it spreads as it has done above the falls. In any event it should instruct the bor- ough engineer to desist from his practice of throwing into the stream the moss that is torn out above the falls. —Mr. WiLLiaAM M. CroLL, the newly appointed Democratic Naval officer was sworn in on Monday last. To the credit of his party and the Democrats of Berks county who backed him for the position, he didn’t make his “first official act” the appointment of two PENROSE henchmen to the two best salaried positions in his department, nor did he make public an- nouncement of the fact that he “did not contemplate any further changes in his department.” So far, at least, Mr. CROLL has acted as a Democrat, and which is more than can be said of some of his brother officials in the custom service. —When would-be Judge KELLER made his entre into would-be Judge QUIGLEY’S fishing camp last Saturday afternoon there was a blow that must have made the big wind in Ireland look like a gentle zephyr by comparison. And both of them were so busy dodging the real thing in lightning that we wouldn't be a bit surprised if they both duck from force of habit when the judicial current gets to cracking right sharp. In such an event Aunt CLEMENTINA will dream dreams of having the judicial ermine tucked up so snug under his chin that he won't know where his whiskers end and the ermine begins. —Washington and Jefferson college has set an example which the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Pitts- burgh, Temple college and others might do well to emulate. That institution has declined to accept an appropriation from the State because it believes that state appropriations should be confined to strictly state institutions. In the future when the big Universities of our two largest cities are carping about the eligibility of the athletes from little Washington it would be well for them to remember that they, at least, represent an institution directed by a board of trustees who will not lobby to get or ac- cept support from a source that they have no claim on. i | | | — ga pe i i _VOL. 58. The Harrisburg Lobby. | The people of the State have watched, | during the past few days, with some in- | terest and a good deal of amusement, the | progress of an investigation of lobbying | in the Legislature at Harrisburg. Prowl. | ers about the corridors, it seems, dis- | covered that in one of the committee rooms on the Senate side, Senators and Representatives could get refreshments, | wet and dry, and jumped to the conclu- | sion that these favors were being dis- | pensed for the purpose of influencing | votes upon pending legislation, especially ! with respect to the liquor traffic. The | result was a resolution to make an in- | vestigation and as nobody cared very much about the matter, it was adopted | with practical unanimity. | Since then nearly all the Senators and | Representatives and a few others have | under oath, given testimony on the sub- ject. One person who appears to have been a good deal of an eaves-dropper, | told of conversations between Secretary | of the Commonwealth McAFEE and his intimates and added that chief engineer FOSTER, of the Highway Department, had | made improper remarks to Representa. | tives for Butler county, though those i i STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. > Another Lame Duck Quacks. The spectacle of Senator GALLINGER'S distress over the usurpation of power by the President almost moves us to tears. It was bad enough for Senator TOWNSEND, of Michigan, to raise the point that in urging Senators and Representatives in Congress to enact legislation which he be- lieved to be conducive to public weal, President WILSON was perniciously and insidiously lobbying. But when GALLIN- GER, the “singed cat” of New Hampshire, protests that such action on the part of the President is “an infringement of the prerogatives of the legislative branch of the government by the executive branch,” it is too much. It would be quite as reasonable for Senator SMOOT to de- ' nounce polygamous marriages. The President declared that there was an insidious lobby in Washington striving to defeat the pending tariff legislation {and an investigation was instituted. | Every Senator was summoned and asked ' whether he had been approached by any- ' body else in a way that implied a purpose ' to improperly influence his vote on the | measure or any part of it. Some of them said they hadn't and others declared that | they had received letters and telegrams of 1872 only two sessions of the General of time as that which concluded its labors taken while quarters were being arranged in which to transact business. The ses- 1st and adjourned finally on June 27th, so that it sat precisely one week longer than that of this year which assembled day,” on June 26th. just ended. There were many reasons tions have been disappointed. The Demo- trolled by Mr. FLINN, of Pittsburgh, were | gentlemen had previously sworn that no | from constituents and friends upon the improper remarks had been made to | subject. Senator TOWNSEND intimated them by anybody. Another witness de- | that the only pernicious lobbying he knew clared that the secretary of the game of was the Presidential efforts to influ- tain way on a bill and upon refusal the sending for Senatorsand Representatives way he would get the Governor to veto it. | obligations. Individuals interested in legislation of | The obvious intentian of this statement commission had asked him to vote a cer- | ence Senators by visiting the capitol and | secretary said that if it passed the other to talk with them concerning their party ~SELLEFONTE, PA. JUNE 21. 1015: Since the adoption of the Constitution | Assembly extended over as long a period | sion of 1901, however, began on January . OF January 6th and adjourned “without ! to the merits of the work of the Legislature legisiztors and then let them be foot for expecting much from it in the way of : wholesome legislation and there are now | privilege and the right, many reasons for thinking that expecta- | duty, of the citizens to wri 20 Lobbying and Lobbying. From the Harrisburg Star-Independent. Of course there has been lobbying in and about the capitol. Persons are and have been paid to lobby f t te ve: The of 1897 } bills, ora any rate that is the expressed on January 5th and continued until July | 1st. But owing to the burning of the | capitol a recess of several weeks was But it does not follow that the iubby- g : gF i free todo whatsoever pleased of tative government. g g 1 ; el or | legislators about legislation. Sometimes in the majority if they had combined. | Jor fi They were pledged to practically the Sodomy et: at lobbyists same reforms in legislation. Their aims | yse coercion or bribery i crats and Independents, or rather that element of the Republican party con- | it is necessary to argue with them and should be borne in mind that representa- tives of the people elected to legislate for themselves or 8 : : 83 n were identical, so far as they were pub- | their own ends or purposes, or the inter: licly revealed in the beginning. But be- | ests of those who employ them, then they should be exposed and driven Join the fore the organization was completed the .11c as their offense deserves. insincerity of the FLINN forces was ex- posed and in the election of House of- | ing ficers most of them went back to their old party affiliations. Of course that | practically defeated fusion for the ses- " sion. one kind or another owned up that they | was to bring reproach upon the Presi- | But the Democrats were to blame in had asked Senators and Representatives to vote for or against their measures. The women suffrage advocates, those in- terested in charities, some who favored changes in laws governing municipalities and a few who had selfish or unselfish in- terests in legislation on one subject or another gave testimony according to their understanding of the facts, no doubt. But not a soul revealed anything that could be interpreted as “corrupt solicita- tion,” as defined by the statute from the beginning of the inquisition to the end. They asked for votes and argued in favor of or against measures as theirinclinations influenced them but said never a word about money or other valuable thing. Of course there was lobbying in Har- risburg during the session of the Legis- lature this year as there always has been, but the investigation didn't take the course which would have shown it up. Maybe it wasn't intended to do that. Probably it was only a mill to | grind out political material for use in fu- ture party contentions. In any event it was shown that the refreshments were provided by the chief clerk of the Senate with the understanding that the Senators will reimburse him and that the militant suffragettes hadn't rolls of bank bills in their hosiery. We are glad of this for various reasons and principally because it shows that they intended to acquire the vote honestly or not at all. —That was some storm on Wednes- day. What Real Democrats Want. The Pittsburg Post, once one of the most reliable Democratic papers in the State and now professing to be the same, but which, since financial misfortune placed it under the control of Republican bankers of that city has utterly failed to advocate anything that is Democratic, is urging that the re-organization of the party be pushed forward on the factional grounds upon which that movement was started. That is quite natural. Its own. ers are Republicans and nearly every one of them adherents of either the FLINN or PENROSE gangs of Republicans. Their desires are for the success of Re. publican nominees. Their purposes are to defeat the Democracy if possible. They know that factions create divisions, that divisions insure defeat and that there is no surer way to bring about the result they are after than to foment dis- cord in the Democratic party and keep alive the dissensions that factionalism has created. This is the real purpose of the Post when it advises and insists upon a factional organization. Were it otherwise, that paper would join with the 450,000 real Democrats of the State and ask, and demand, the speedy perfecting of the Democratic State and county organizations in a way that will restore harmony, revive hope, enthuse the voters and secure for the party the united and active efforts of every man who wants to see a Demo- cratic Governor elected in 1914. Under present conditions this isa test of a man’s Democracy in Pennsylvania. He who is for faction rather than har. mony; for division rather than unity; for the continuation of party conditions created by party treachery in 1910, is neither a Democrat nor does he desire Democratic success. some measure for the failure of expecta- son that everybody knew that what tions with respect to the session. There | the President did was done in the open W2% entirely too much outside interfer- and within the radius of his right and €P¢¢ with that contingent of the member- duty. But GALLINGER, who has no more | ship. Mr. GUTHRIE, Mr. PALMER and respect for a political obligation than a | MCCORMICK undertook to boss the affairs rabbit has for the “blue laws,” protested of both branches with the result that re- that the action of the executive was a Sentments were excited among the lead- dangerous usurpation of power in that it rs Of all parties. Those newly created implied an infringement of the rights of Party bosses named a floor leader for the Congress. But this expedient failed as Democrats without consulting the mem- signally as the other. No man in this | bers of that faith and subsequent pro- broad land understands the constitution ceedings proved that they didn’t choose better than President WILSON and no ‘:sely at that. That is one of the rea- public official respects it more. Such SOPS why the session failed to meet es- charges as that of GALLINGER are puerile, Pectations in legislation. ——It isinteresting to learn that Sena. ——That Scranton editor who wants tor LAFOLLETE and Senator PENROSE are Congress to penalize bankers because working industriously and harmoniously ' they refused to lend him money would together to retard the progress of the establish a dangerous precedent. Sup- tariff bill. The fact that PENROSE has Pose every fellow who wanted money publicly denounced LAFOLLETTE as a should adopt that expedient. demagogue and that LAFOLLETTE has anathematized PENROSE as a crook, makes | no difference. In a common desire to loot the public they come together like | brothers, or bandits, dent but it failed for the rea- Probably a Baseless Rumor. We can hardly believe that Governor ' TENER has threatened to veto the pri- —————— . mary elections bill or any other piece of { Hopeful Signs in Washington. legislation in the event of the failure of | — ! the Legislature to pass the Employers’ The Democratic Senators in Congress | Liability bill in the form he desires. He are fulfilling the best expectations of the | might as well appear in the lobby of people in the consideration of the tariff i House or Senate and offer a cash con- bill. Instead of destroying it they are gjderation for votes for or against any ules have not been increased in any in- | of the National Guard invade the cham- stance. They have been materially re. ! bers of legislation and compel Senators the reductions are improvements. The | another, at the point of the bayonet, main purpose of the new tariff legisla- | would be no more atrocious. No sane tion is to reduce the cost of living. Chair- man would think of such a’ thing under man UNneRWooD and his Demosratis | any circumstances. It would be a crim- associates in the House addressed them- | jnal act. Seifes to this ng ith intetigace The Employers’ Liability bill is an im- an rmination. Bu mocratic | portant measure and ought to be passed Senators have done better. They have | jn such form as to make it efficient. Ip additional food stuffs on the frec Pennsylvania is far behind sister States i in such legislation, mainly for the reason Le Jotine vit che dungih points Yate thatthe Republican machine of which passed, a ng, In | Governor TENER is the present head, has the consideration of the bill by DEO: | sens ry omler be Er even such cratic Senatorsin caucus. The wool and | jegislation would be too expensive at the sugar schedules have not been reached | price which such usurpation of power and those are the points upon which the | would involve. It would be the begin- burden of the attack is contemplated. ning of the end of Republican govern- But the spirit of harmony is so con- | ment in the State. It would mean the spicuous and the evidences of unselfish- | substitution of anarchy for government ness so obvious, that we are encouraged | and mob rule for law. The thought of tohepe comigenyy, 108 3uited pany. such a condition of affairs is abhorrent. exception Louisiana - | It must never be tolerated. tors, when the vote is taken. That will| No doubt Governor TENER would be be of itself a cause for felicitation. It | entirely willing to defeat electoral reform will prove not only that the party is in- | legislation by the use of the veto power. fluenced by patriotism but that it is | Honest elections are bad for the ambi. Gidud by wislom, Such a party is cer- | tions of some men and he has prospered to endure. under the pernicious electoral system It fs Teagomibiy Sirtalh that the bill | which exists in Pennsylvania and the aid would pass Sena three or | given him by Democratic bolters in 1910. four Senators in doubt had betrayed | But he will not go to the limit implied their party obligations. Among the Pro- | in that alleged threat to prevent the im- gressive Republicans there gre enough | privements which ai» inevitable and im- Who {Svar aril vejoetn $0 avike 37 any | pending. Possibly Le Baliaves iit Such ancy. Bat we much putts Soviney Unquestionably it would meet with the achieved Democrats alone one | approval of some of the more radical which depended on outside help. Not | socialists. But the vast majority of the that we deprecate the aid of Progressive | wage-earners are good citizens and would Republicans for we most cordially wel- | be as prompt as others to repel such a come them to the support of Democratic | suggestion. principles. But the people have com- missioned the Democratic party to make| ~The collision of two aeroplanes, the this great improvement in our economic | other day, is ominous, probably, but only legislation and we want to feel that the | the “high-flyers” are in danger of such obligation has been met. accidents. duced in some cases and at points where | and Representatives to vote one way or trad rest upon the investigators. make out a clear case before they can accuse anybody. It is not easy to under- stand the ways of legislators at times. But that is beside the point. It is to be suppose) that the committee understands its ness thoroughly and that it will not make any mountains out of molehills. A Dangerous Proposal. From the Johnstown Democrat. The Senate proposition to place the power in the hands of the ent arbitrarily to suspend the tariff rates pro- vided in the Underwood bill and to pro- claim s rates against nations which discriminate against the products of this country is a dangerous one and it should be allowed to go no further. It is but a thinly disguised recrudescence of the maximum and minimum clause of the Taft-Aldrich tariff and would be just as open to criticism. The nations which discriminate against the products of the United States are not so much hurting us as they are hurti themselves. England has never adopt: a retaliatory joliey. She has let other nations do whatever foolish thing th might conceive without in the least modi- fying her own wise liberalism in opening her wide to the commerce of the world. And England has prospered as no other country on the globe has done when all conditions are considered. We may think that the power which it is proposed to be vested in the hands of the President would be wisely used; and we could rely on this as far as t Wilson is concerned. Itis cer- tain that a man with the large views held by this far seeing executive would not attempt to club foreigners into doin what they did not wish to do. But Press dent Wilson is not always to be in the White House and some day there may be an occupant of the chair he now holds who has no such vision as he possesses and no such knowledge of the laws of e. We should therefore avoid the estab- lishment of a precedent. We should not rashly create a weapon which in foolish or wicked hands might be made to do untold hurt. Let us have our trade on just as free a basis as the circumstances will permit and let us by all means steer clear of the Republican notion that com- merce follows the club. Grape Juice Has Helped. From the Washington Herald. It will be surp: to many e to know that grape has feope helpful factor to the administration, and yet such is the case. We do not always get the proper per- ve in Washington. We are apt to public sentiment through our own here, which is not entirely free istortion. Ye toads imagine thal are a from ministration. of wine and the substitution of a harmless bever- did not require age was a thing which extraordinary intelligence to understand. It was a fact intimately connected with the home and thus struck a universal Little things have more than once af- fected the course of history. It may seem absurd in a city to regard juice as a political factor, but out in country there is a different point of view. ~The cordiality with which Secretary of State BRYAN endorses the administra- tion currency bill suggests that WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN might have been brought into harmony with certain elements of his party long ago if the right sort of inducement had been held out. Mr. BRYAN, like many others, enjoys office - holding. i he | SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. | ~The first smoke from the stack of the Clear- | vertised for and the mill is expected to be in full | blast by July 15. ! =A large mirror has been placed at a sharp | curve in the road near Bedford for the benefit of | automobilists coming toward it. They findit a | great advantage. | —Luther E. Leshtley, of Mt. Union, who mar- | ried one wife when he was 16 and another before | he was 19, was sentenced to one year in the coun- | V Jail at Huntingdon on Monday. Both wives | are living. | =—Frightening at an auto, a horse belonging to | 4 Ae De aa ® | bankment and was badly injured. The other | horse of the team held its own and kept the wag- * , on from going over. | —A note raiser has been busy in Johnstown. | Hemade a $5 bill from §2 a few days ago and | has been at the same trick several times. Other counties may get a visit from him, so the warn- ing has been sent out. —Two big stores, two warehouses, six dwell ings and five barns, totalling a loss of $20.000, were destroyed in a fire that swept the mining town of Crenshaw recently, Assistance was sent from Brockwayville to save the balance of the town. —Less than an hour after he was last seen alive, the body of J. C. Folirath, 40 years old, em- ployed by a Chicago firm and engaged in compil- ing a history of Columbia and Montour counties, was found Sunday floating in Fishing creek. near Bloomsburg. —Jersey Shore water was aired in Lycoming county court and its impurities condemned in an equity case against the water company. The evidence furnished another illustration of what a blessing a municipal water system is to people who live in a town. —F. H. Fershing, of New Florence, closed a deal at Greensburg Wednesday with Harry En- gle tor the transfer of 120 acres of fine oak timber fand near Dill's station, Indiana county. The consideration was $7,500. Mr. Engle will put mills into the woods and market the timber. =A man's cap, several tires and portions of an automobile were found a few days ago on a mountain road near Ligonier. Blood splotches indicated that somebody had been hurt and serv- ed to heighten the air of mystery. Nobody knows who or whence or whither and everybody is guessing —Earle Sandt, the Brookville aviator, died of injuries received in a fifty-foot fall at Grove City. on June 12. Since that time he had been in the hospital at Grove City. His body was taken to . | Brookville, where burial was made on Wednes- day. He was25 years old and had been flying not quite two years. —A big iron pipe saved the home of Samuel Hatfield, at Mapleton, from being wrecked when the cylinder head of a freight engine blew out opposite the house. The heavy mass was hurled through the air and had it not struck the pipe, would have crashed through the side of the house. As it was, it only struck the fence and demolished that. —While attempting to swim in a creek near Heshbon, Indiana county, Conny Ragley, aged 24 years, got beyond his depth and was drowned. Just a few weeks ago he had a narrow escape from drowning at the same place. He had been trying to learn to swim, went too far and became scared. His boy friends made desperate efforts to save him, but in vain. —County Treasurer Miles Wrigley, of Clea:- field, has purchased 2,600 acres of hemlock and hardwood timber in Blair and Cambria counties, and has men engaged in preparing a site for a sawmill on the tract. It is estimated that there are 17,000,000 feet of lumber on the land and the purchase is one of the largest timber deals re- ported in that section in many years. —Henrv Denny and William Robards, colored, are in the McKeesport hospital and John Beattie, white, is in jail at Greensburg, charged with be- ing implicated in chicken thieving at Webster. The wounded men, one of whom may die, were injured when J. W. Duvall heard a commotion amdng his fowls and shot to see if he could catch the thieves. They escaped but were easily caught. —The jury in the case of Harry Spence, charg- ed with the murder of Mrs. Belle Clark, at Indi- ana, sent in a sealed verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree. When the verdict was open- ed and the jury polled, it was found that the ver- dict was a maiority affair, five of the twelve men believing the man not guilty because insane. The judge sent them back to try to agree and they then returned a verdict of guiity for the sec- ond time. —That the murder of Charles Hays, the driver who, with Paymaster Patrick Campbell, was held up by several Italians near Portage, on July 30, 1904, will go unavenged, was the word cabled to this country from Messina, Italy. The cable- gram announced that Carmello Cavalli and Rosa- rio Degrazio, the two Italians whe were charged with the murder and robbery, were acquitted in the criminal court on account of the lack of suf- ficient evidence. -A lion in the Hagenbeck—Wallace circus nearly clawed the head off of Thomas Jones, aged nine, son of William Jones, at Wilkes-Bar- re, when the street parade was about to move from the show grounds. The bov climbed up on the hub of the wheel of the wagon where the lion was caged, when the animal reached out his paw, tearing the lad’s scalp and face. The po- lice patrol conveyed the boy tothe hospital. His injuries are not fatal, —Officers Campbell and Overdorf, of Jersey Shore, captured Frank Rocco, an Italian laborer, Monday morning. Rocco is wanted at Wells. boro to answer a charge of robbing the Buffalo— Susquehanna railroad section boss at Ansonia of $135 on Sunday. He was taken to Wellsboro, where he will be given a hearing. Rocco admit- ted to the officers that he had taken the money, ems $75 of which was found in his pockets. He claim- ed to have lost the balance. —A visit of John Stuck, a 12-year-old Lewis- town lad, to the farm of N. Goss, near Painters ville, had a tragic ending. The lad went to corn field with his uncle, George Stuck. When an electric storm came up, Mr. Stuck started to the barn with his team. Mr. Goss and the boy were some distance behind when a lightning bolt struck the boy, killing him instantly. Mr. Goss was knocked down, but soon recovered. One of the horses was stunned and fell to the grouud. ~Officials of the Berwind.-White Coal Mining company had a thrilling experience a few nights ago. They left Houtzdalein the evening and had gone sixteen miles toward Windber when thev ran into an electrical storm. Suddenly the gaso- line in their car was exploded by lightning and the car burned, entailing a loss of $2,000 and leav- to Windber for another car to be sent for them. —A passenger train dashing along at a mile-a- minute clip with one of the day coaches ablaze was the startling sight witnessed by persons liv- along the Philadelphia & Reading railroad Winfield and Sunbury on Monday mom- ing. The coach was a part of Train No. 8, which left Williamsport at 10 o'clock a. m. It caught fire soon after the train left Winfield, a small vil- lage midway between Lewisburg and Sunbury. Sparks from the engine smokestack blew through an open window onto an upholstered seat.
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