Eis se.
BY P. GRAY MEEK.
INK SLINGS.
—Week after next the fair will be in
full swing. Fall is coming with a rush,
sure enough.
—Locusts are singing everywhere
which the wiseacres say is a sure sign of
a prolonged dry spell.
~The past week has not been such as
to cause much of arevival of the belief
that the sun is cooling off.
—Mexico evidently don’t want peace
but seemingly don't care how many
pieces it may have hereafter.
—What EUGENE C. BONNIWELL thinks
of PALMER, MCCORMICK ef a! evidently
is not what he thought of them this time
last year.
—HARRY THAW is right back on the
centre of the stage again. With such
talenits what a head liner he would have
made for vaudeville.
—New York we presume will continue
to boast of being the greatest State in
the Union. And it has good reason for
doing so. We know of no other one that
has two Governors on its pay roll.
—Word from Washington is to the ef-
fect that the Senate has difficulty in
finding some one to pray for it. More
than probably on account of the little
hope for good results that the job prom.
ises.
—If all the fellows who have been get-
ting bread and butter through the THAW
case, since that misguided young man
killed STANFORD WHITE, start in to help
hunt him we fear he has little chance of
escape.
—The notorious Mrs. PANKHURST is
said to be planning a visit to America.
If she comes let us send her right through
to Chicago and see what happens when
she meets up with the women cops of
that city.
—Some people may wonder what has
become of Bellefonte’s former army of
loafers. They are probably hunting for
a place where they will not be kept so
busy getting out of the way of automo-
biles and motor cycles.
——Singularly enough most of the
Judges reveal a want of confidence in the
validity of the non-partisan ballot law,
having previously filed petitions for re-
nomination under that law they subse-
quently filed under the old system.
——Even if bad enough comes to the
worst Mr. HUERTA, of Mexico, is not
likely to frighten President WILSON into
recognizing his rotten usurpation. With
a unanimous public sentiment behind
him President WILSON will probably have
courage enough to hold his own.
-—And still there are. men who don’t
seem to know when they have “bitten off |
enough.” There's Senator PENROSE, who,
in addition to “protecting” all the inter-
ests of this country has rolled up his
sleeves and is proclaiming how easily he
can lick all of Mexico to boot. But then
there is nothin’ like keepin’ busy.
—Anyway if Mr. MCCORMICK and Mr.
PALMER won't allow the Democrats of
this county any voice in the selection of
their postmasters, they will at least per-
mit them to express a preference as to
candidates to be voted for at the fall
election. Surely we should all be thank-
ful that we have still some privileges left.
—And now its beginning to look as if
each voter, who goes to the polls this
fall, had better take a Supreme court
with him if he expects to get a vote into
the ballot box or counted if he does get
it in. A little more sense and a little
less “progressiveness’’ or “reformation”
would have been a great thing for the
last Legislature.
—We can see no particular reason why
great big New York should be worrying,
as it seems to be, over having two Gov-
ernors. Why, there is weeny, weeny
Connecticut, which after being afflicted
for years and years with two capitals has
fully recovered and now believes that as
a Commonwealth it is neither to be over-
looked nor sneezed at.
—Save this issue of the WATCHMAN
you men who dabble in politics. On
page 2 will be found the full text of the
new Primary law. The changes in our
system of holding elections are so radical
that it practically makes it necessary to
begin all over again to study how we are
to elect and when. Place this copy of the
WATCHMAN where you can put your hands
on it when some point you don’t under-
stand comes up. The new law is well
worth preserving at least until you have
familiarized yourself with its require
ments.
—It's an old, old saying that tells us
“it always takes longer to correct a
wrong than to commit it.” And we
guess it is fully as true as it is old. It
only took the new Surveyor of Customs
from the evening of June 19th to the
morning of June 20th to announce to
the people of this county, through
the Philadelpha Evening Bulletin, that
his “first official act” was the re-appoint-
ment, as deputies in his office, of two of
Mr. PENROSE'S most trusted henchmen.
It has taken him ever since trying to
make the pecple believe he was lying
when he sent that story out, notwithstand.
ing the fact that those deputies are still
doing his work and drawing the salaries
that ought to be helping to keep the
families of two deserving Democrats.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 58.
Penrose and the Mexican Situation.
Senator PENROSE invites suspicion of
his motives when he makes himself the
mouthpiece of those who are trying to
force a war with Mexico.
The good citizens of the United States,
irrespective of section, are against war.
They hold in aversion the horrors of war.
They appreciate the evils of war and
they detest the logical consequences of
war. Because of this antipathy to war
they are a unit in supporting every move-
ment which aims to avert war with Mex-
ico or any other power or nation. The
popular belief is that President WiLsON
is striving, by the best means, to avert
war with Mexico. He is doing all that
is possible, invoking every available ex-
pedient to compose the troubles impend-
ing. |
Last week we made reference to the |
character and purposes of those who |
want war with Mexico. They are those |
who manufacture munitions of war, deal |
in the commodities whigh are consumed |
in armies and speculate in the necessities |
of life and the sufferings of the public in |
consequence of war. There is no patri- |
otism in clamor for war. It is purely
and essentially sordid and selfish. We
know that Senator PENROSE is a politi-
cian. He has been that all his official
life. But we didn't believe that he is |
a cormorant, seeking the spoils of war
that he might live upon the distresses of |
the people of the country of which he is |
an official agent. PENROSE ought not to |
belong to that class.
Bat facts are stubborn things and Sena-
tor PENROSE has been aligning himself |
with those who occupy the unenviable
position of fomenting war with Mexico |
at a time when the President is striving
with all his might and main to avert such
a calamity. It is not that the adminis.
tration is afraid of war with Mexico.
Everybody knows that it would be a mil-
itary picnic involving a trifling loss of |
life and sacrifice of treasure and a con-
quest of which we would subsequently
be ashamed. In 1846 LINCOLN opposed
war with Mexico for the reasons which
influence President WILSON to oppose it
now. But PENROSE is taking the oppo-
site position now and PENROSE will be!
the loser. Believe us. i
—Several of our neighboring bor-
oughs voted against changing their form
of government so as to put them into
the third class city class, the other day,
and the inference is that there was some
fear that increase in the price of license
might result in an advance in the cost of
booze.
w——
Reasons for Prolonging the Session.
The Republican minority in the Sen-
ate seems determined to prolong the ex-
tra session to the limit. The leaders of
the majority fondly hoped to finish up
the work of the session by the first of
September. To accomplish that result
it would have been necessary to have
passed the tariff bill during the second!
week of this month, now past. The cur-
rency bill might thus have been disposed
of during this week and next. But the
minority would not have it that way.
The weather in Washington is almost in-
tolerably hot and legislative work is be-
ing performed under exceedingly adverse
conditions. But the Republicans don't
mind. They are “cutting off their noses
to spite their faces,” so to speak.
Of course the Republicans suffer with
the Democrats in the intense heat of the
capitol. But they are not influenced en-
tirely by a desire to punish their political
opponents. There is something more
important to them in the delay of tar-
iff legislation. Itis conservatively esti-
mated that tariff taxation draws from
the resources of the people two million
dollars a day. The late Mr. CLEAVE, at
the time, president of the American
Manufacturers’ association, admitted be-
BELLEFONTE,
PA. AUGUST 22, 1913.
And Now Brother Bonniwell is Sore.
No doubt all of the readers of the WATCHMAN who have followed the for-
tunes of the Democracy of Pennsylvania during the several years just passed have
a newspaper acquaintance, at least, with Mr. EUGENE C. BoNNIWELL, of Philadel-
phia. He will be recalled as one of the original Reorganizers; one of the first of
the gentlemen of prominence who predicted the utter extinction of the Democratic
party in the State unless it was forthwith rescued from the leadership of Col.
James GUFFEY and his friends. The clamor he helped start as early as 1908 re-
sulted in the unhorsing of Col. GUFFEY and his friends in 1912. Then Brother
BONNIWELL realized his dream in the fullest, for entirely new leaders were chosen:
Great broad-minded, clean, silk-stockinged men (?) whose sole ambition it was to
give our party a place in the political history of the State that we could all be proud
of. A place far removed from a trading post for patronage; a place on the high
plane of respectability where it was no longer to be the political asset of a faction
or clique. Far be it from the new leaders chosen in 1912 to want the party or-
ganization to further their own selfish interests.
That was Mr. BONNIWELL'S thanksgiving pean when the reorganization was
complete.
How about his feelings today? On Friday the Philadelphia North American
published a remarkable letter from the gentleman. He has evidently woke up and :
found his pipe out, for among other things he says, in writing an open letter to |
the new Postmaster General:
I desire to enter an emphatic protest against the course of your de-
partment in this and other offices
nied that avery
been delega
under consideration. It is not to be de-
federal appointment in the State of Pennsylvania has
to four men—A. MITCHELL PALMER, JAMES I. BLAKESLIE,
VANCE McCorMICK and GEORGE W. GUTHRIE. The Democratic Congress-
men themselves have been reduced to the humiliating position of supplicat-
ing these men for indorsements.
As a citizen eager for the advancement of Democratic success and
active in its service, I have a right to call your attention to the undemo-
cratic and impolitic result of this delegation There has never been a
time in the history of the Democratic party when a handful of men were
allowed to arrogate to themselves the selection of all candidates for office
in a State.
It has been the unbroken rule in Pennsylvania that not only was the
Congressman the
resentative of his
the final judgment, but that in the hostile districts the defeated
, and therefore his Jldgment
mocrat-
ic candidate exercises the same privilege, both as an incentive to the
proper type of candidates to lead a forlorn hope
fact that he, too, had been selected
bearer.
as well as because of the
by the mocracy as its standard.
If I alone were concerned in this matter I would welcome the course
which is being adopted,
in Democratic success far
because its result will mean the certain disruption
of the political machine which Mr. PALMER represents.
But my concern
the overthrow of a political dicta-
goes
tor; it is because this course will alienate from us thousands of voters,
destroy an incentive to Democratic activity and reduce the present repre-
sentation in Congress that [ make this protest and appeal.
3. NO. 33.
Congress and the Home Folks.
From the Jacksonville (Fla.) Times Union.
It is now universally admitted that the
Senate will not vote on the tariff bill be-
fore the middle of tember. It is gen-
erally believed that the bill will not be
passed before the middle of October. At
any race it is certain that Congress will
remain in session until the hot weather
is
If the House will consider the curren-
| cy bill while the Senate is
| tariff it can put that measure through be-
! fore the Senate finishes with the tariff
| and the currency bill will be ready for
the Senate when it is through with the
tariff. The Senate would have six weeks
Retox the fegulay session—ample time
or passage of currency tion.
With these two measures out of the
way no great amount of business would
be left for the regular session and Con-
Siete Soule adjourn by the first day of
In this way the legislation of the coun-
try would not suffer and
| would not suffer in their chances of re.
i election, Primaries will be held next
| year. to nominate tives and
tors whose terms in 1915 and
those now in office will handicapped
in their races for re-nomination if .
gress should remain in session far into
the spring. The s| primaries inter-
fere greatly with ation when Con-
gress remains in session while they are
n progress. Large numbers of Congress.
LALIT
t ma well eno n theory to say
tat» Congressman will gai ots by
ng at post v
but no man who has tried it has —
that it worked well in practice. The
man who goes among the for the
votes gets them. The man stays at
his post loses his post.
So we think Congress should do all it
can now so that en may have
next spring an equal show with those
who try to supplant them.
Mediation in Mexico.
From the New York World.
Friendly mediation in Mexico logically
follows the President's acceptance of
emphatic statement that there will be no
recognition of Huerta and no armed in-
Ambassador Wilson's resignation and his
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Five new boilers have reached Hyde City,
Clearfield, for the rolling mill and it is expected
that the plant will start soon.
—A week after being crushed under a wagon
loaded with four barrels of gasoline Clifford Goss,
aged © years, died at his home in Lewistown.
—Fred H. Bennett, printer, living in Williams-
port, was found dead on the sofa in the living
room of his home last Wednesday morning.
Death was due to heart failure.
=A wallet containing $2,198 was picked up by
conductor F. R. King in an empty horse car at
Sunbury. It was soon identified by a horse
dealer and King refused $50 reward,
~The Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh rail’
road station at Sykesville, was burned by an
early morning fire, supposed to have been
started by thieves who robbed two freight cars
standing near.
—Cramer, Indiana county, is threatened with
an epidemic of scarlet fever. The disease
has been prevalent for several weeks in a mild
form but little attention was paid to it until a
10-year-old child died.
~Lawrence Laughlin, of South Renovo, aged
30, married and the father of three children, was
seriously wounded by the accidental discharge of
his revolver, while at a lumber camp. He was
the | removed to the hospital.
—Standing in the doorway of his home at
Stransford, Indiana county, John Coratovitoh
was struck by lightntng and killed. Mr. and
Mrs. Elliott Linter, of Blairsville, were badly
stunned when their home was struck.
—While walking from the mortuary chapel to
the grave of her nephew at the West Newton
cemetery, Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Beazell, of
Webster, Westmoreland county, dropped dead,
having sustained a stroke of apoplexy.
=]. L. Thomas, a Punxsutawney insurance
man, had his pockets picked near Rossiter by a
highwayman who knocked him down with a
club. The foreigner made his escape, but a
warrant has been sworn out for his arrest.
~The voters of Renovo Saturday at a special
election held in three wards of the borough,
authorized the making of a school loan of $100,000,
the proceeds to be put into a large new modern
school building on the site of the present Seventh
street building.
~The sheriff has posted notices in the Somerset
county cemetery advertising for sale the lot and
mausoleum of Henry F. Barron, recently cashier
of the Farmers’ National bank, of Somerset.
Whether the last resting place of the dead can
be thus invaded by a legal process remains to be
decided. ‘
—Ethel Foldy; aged 13, was found by a police”
man tied to a post with her hands above her
head and her toes barely touching the floor of
the front porch at her home in Berwick. A mar-
ried sister is said to have tied her up because she
would not work. Her mother is dead and the
father was at work.
~Miss Hazel Baker, an employee of the Hunt"
ingdon Blank Book company, while feeding a
press in the printing department, received severe
injuries to one hand in trying to adjust a guage.
She was removed to the J. C. Blair Memoriaj
hospital, where two fingers were amputated, one
| at the knuckle, the other at the third joint.
| —Barker Bros. of Ebensburg, have appealed
I ask nothing for myself, but I do maintain that it is adding insult to
injury to appoint men to office in a district such as this, at the recom-
mendation of a chairman who was not loyal to the Congressional nomi-
nee and then expect party unity.
tervention. A mam better known on from the action of the county commissioners,
both sides of the Rio Grande than ex- | raising the valuation of their real estate holdings
Gov. Lind, of Minnesota, might perhaps at the Cambria county town from $15,000 to $60,
to greater advantage have been chosen | 090. Others are likely to follow suit and several
fore a Congressional committee some
years ago, that the excess tax taken |
through the DINGLEY tariff amounted to
one million dollars a day. The rates |
have been increased considerably. There-
fore two millions a day is a fair estimate.
By delaying tariff legislation ‘one
month, the tariff mongers are enabled to
rob the public of sixty million dollars.
That is a vast amount of money and the
beneficiaries can afford to contribute a
considerable part of it to corrupt the |
elections in the near future. There is
still a strong hope in certain quarters
that the Republican majority in Congress
may be restored at the next election and
this preparation for a corruption fund is
made in view of that contingency.
But the hope will be disappointed. The
people are no longer fooled by the tariff
superstition. Democratic success last |
year has not brought disaster and the
voters of the country understand why.
EE
—CASTRO is losing out in Venezuela
but the only safe place for CASTRO is the
grave.
! to submit the matters in dispute to the
The WATCHMAN has no sympathy for Mr. BONNIWELL. It told him, as well as
all other Democrats in the State just what PALMER, MCCORMICK, BLAKESLIE and
GUTHRIE were after.
it is too late.
He helped them to get it and now he wails his lament when
Koa
Lo.
Too late did we say? No!
State committeemen are to be elected in every
county in the State this fall and there is yet time to show this gold brick quartet
that the Democracy of Pennsylvania is not to be fooled again. We can select a
state committee made up of men of independent views, men who have been per-
sonal witnesses of the betrayal of the party by PALMER and his crowd; men who
will not be subservient to VANCE MCCORMICK and BLAKESLIE and the rest; men
who will really work for the best interests of the party as a whole; men who wil}
demand of the State organization that the voice of the Democratic people be rec-
ognized and obeyed and that the Democrats of every district be given the right to
suggest and recommend the one among them most worthy the political patronage
belonging to their locality. By helping to do that Brother BONNIWELL you can re-
trieve some of your disappointments and do a real service to the party.
Right here in Centre county we have one of these committeemen to elect and
we would advise every Democrat to satisfy himself fully as to where the candi-
dates stand before voting for either one of them.
If either one of them wants to
represent us in order to keep PALMER in the saddle he should not be elected. Be-
cause PALMER promised to purge the state organization of every appearance of
personal favoritism and the way he has kept his promise may be seen by reading
Mr. BONNIWELL'S letter.
If the Democratic party in Pennsylvania is to be made his personal plaything
of the future, as it has been during the past year, then real Democrats will have
to form an organization of their own and let him continue to crack the whip over
the lick spittles to whom he has thrown the federal patronage as though it were
crumbs from his own table.
Tammany Method in Two States.
Little can be said in behalf of Governor
SULZER, of New York, with respect to the
confusion now pending in Albany. He
“has been weighed in the balance and
found wanting.” He misappropriated
funds which had come into his posses-
sion, contributed by men who cared more
for the principles he pretended to repre-
sent than for the man. His eleventh
hour defense that his wife was to blame
is no help to him. It rather aggravates
his delinquencies. It is not only a doubt- |
ful pretense but an exhibition of moral
cowardice. There could be little heart
in the defense of such a man under such |
circumstances even if the desire were
present. Candor forbids the attempt. |
But much may be said and ought to |
be said against the methods which Gov- | 2nd
read and study it carefully. In order to | Governor
ernor SULZER'S opponents are employing |
against him. Obviously the proceedings |
in the Legislature were framed up. Guilty |
or not it was foreordained that he should |
be impeached. Unfortunately for him
his actions and record contributed to the
purpose of his enemies. It was an easy
matter to find evidence against him. By
orderly procedure he might easily have
been disposed of. But his enemies were
not content with orderly procedure.
They demanded results by summary pro-
cess and short cut. They have refused
courts, though they know the courts
would be just.
When GEORGE W. GUTHRIE, A. MITCH-
BLL PALMER and VANCE MCCORMICK
seized the Democratic organization of
this State, two years ago, they were
urged to submit the questions in dispute
to the courts. Honorable men were
aspersed by the action of the usurpers
and injustice was the consequence. But
they declined a judicial investigation, just
as the Tammany forces’ are doing in
Albany now. They knew that they were
morally and legally wrong but felt that
if they could keep out of court they
could get away with the trick. That is
a method of criminals. It is the expe-
dient of outlaws. But it is the course
adopted by GUTHRIE, PALMER and Mec-
CoRrMICK then and by Tammany now.
——0On page two of this issue of the
WATCHMAN will be found the full text of
the new primary law passed by the last
Legislature. It isa complex document
every voter in the county should
publish the law in full we were compell-
ed to omit the usually interesting fea-
tures found on page two, but the same
will be resumed next week.
——Spring creek is about as low now
as it has been in two years, there not
being enough water below the falls
during the day to carry off the sewerage.
—Speaking of “a time for disappear-
ing” we would suggest that Representa-
tive McDERMOTT, of Chicago, might hand
in his resignation any time now.
—In the course of time people may
reluctantly come to the conclusion that
Judge BrumM, of Schuylkill county, is
something of a grouch. s
to begin the overtures. But the adoption
of a new policy is of more im
BOW {itah the agency through which it
8 ;
Ambassador Wilson had no solution of
the Mexican problem but the aite mative
of acceptance by the United States of
Huerta or war. The President has not
been convinced either of Huerta's rights
or of Ambassador Wilson's disinter-
estedness or of the iminence of war.
No one can indorse the contention
that Ambassador Wilson contributed
knowingly to the murder of President
Madero, but the evidence that he was on
improperly friendly terms with Diaz and
Huerta, who permitted his murder, is
overwhelming. It is corroborated in
his own. Gy oe: tanding
0 give country a proper s
in Mexico, as the Wor/d has said for
some months past, the retirement of Am-
bassador Wilson was necessary. He had
been a partisan. Consciously or uncon-
sciously, he had represented interests
other Bh those of the United States.
He had held toward one element of the
Mexicans an attitude of favor. Towards
another he had advocated war and ex-
termination.
Ta plenty of time to formulate a
policy of his own, the President, relieved
of the embarrassments heaped upon him
by Ambassador Wilson, is now in a .
tion to act honorably and powerfully in
behalf of peace.
Gov. Sulzer and Justice.
From the Brooklyn Eagle.
The peculiar constitutional questions
involved afford the Governor a further
protection nst injustice. con-
stitution distinctly provides that the
judges of the court of appeals, or the
majority of them,shall sit with the Senate
as a trial court, and as the action of the
trial court is irreviewable by any judicial
, it is inconceivable that the judges
convinced that the impeachment
big coal land appeals are pending, so that the
| county court is likely to doa *‘land office” busi-
| Ness.
| =A little child setting fire to the fringe on a
| couch while playing with matches started a fire
| at Johnsonburg that rendered sixteen fainilies
{ homeless and destroyed two general stores, a
| hotel, a band hall, a bakeshop, a barber shop and
| meat market, Nearly all the buildings were
| owned by Catherine Decarie. They will be re-
| placed by brick structures.
| ~Morrisdale was the scene of two distressing
accidents on Saturday. One at No. 3 shaft cost
the life of John Catherino, aged 18, who was
crushed by a fall of rock. The other was at the
| railroad crossing at the grist mill. Mahlon A.
| Baney, aged 23, was riding his wheel when struck
| by a shifting engine. He was taken to the Phil
| ipsburg hospital, where he died the next day.
{| =Receiving 25,000 volts of electricity through
| his body last Thursday, H. Girton Meredith,
aged 21, was hurled against the wall of the Pehn
Central Light and Power company’s sub-station
in Collinsville, a suburb of Altoona, and his
skull crushed. When found he was dead. all the
| clothing having been burned from his body by
the electricity. Meredith accidentally touched a
high-tension wire, completing a circuit.
=A strange legal tangle has cometo light since
the death of Enoch Swartz, of Juniata county.
His wife had left him because of trouble with her
step-children and he had procured a divorce of
which she knew nothing. Later they were re-
united without marriage. When the estate was
settled the question of her status came up, but
her claim was allowed by the auditor and her
legal standing as his widow was not decided.
—All students of the Williamsport High school
| are barred from becoming members of any fra-
| ternity or sorority by stringent rules passed
| Thursday afternoon by the members of the
| Williamsport school board. The rules were
| adopted following recommendations made by P.
| M. Bullard, the principal of the High school. No
' doubt there will be a strong sentiment on both
| sides of this question, but the fact that the rule
| has been passed leaves nothing for the students
| but compliance.
—Mrs. E. W. Young, wife of a former chief
were in harmony with constitu- | clerk for the Northumberland county commis~
w. Nor should the Governor's | sioners, sold her husband's home at sheriff's
friends or the public overlook the fact ssle. He had a property in South Danville and
that while each of these justices would | she held the mortgage against it. On Saturday
:
the impeachment Jdges well |
proceed. With their participation the | _Tpe epidemic of smallpox that followed the
vernor is assured of a bulwark against | trail of the Hagenback circus through this State
an ill-considered and unfair verdict. | is subsiding, and the original victims are said to
No impartial man will contend that the | pe out of danger. There area number of sec-
has so jar Presented any ade- | ondary cases that are yet under quarantine, and
quate defense. What he has said amounts = ,jcogether the cases numbered about ninety, in
merely to a general denial, which doesnot | seven different counties. The circus left
convince when compared with testimony | syivania to get into southern New York,
before Eravjey committee. he | 2m back into this State, and all over its
nocence, which after the discovery disease the authorities
insists he has, he can safely INtTUSE it £0 | followed it and Ket wate hat ne more
a court in which the influence of a uni- | geveioped. In New York every attache of
versally respected judiciary would be | circus was vaccinated.
nearly, if not quite, paramount. The
more he seeks to obstruct a full and free |
ventilation of the
the deeper
Andy Can Do Something Popular.
From the St. Louis Republic. | previous dispute with his wife made an effort to
If Mr. Carnegie desires to spend a few reconcile her and failingto do so threatened to
more millions in the cause of peace, he take his life. About one o'clock his body was
ht subsidize Huerta and get him to found, it is reported, nearthe pump which is just