TA BY P. GRAY MEEK. ae === nm" INK SLINGS. : —Well, it is some fair we have been | having this year. ! —Let us be thankful that we have a President who doesn’t want to “benevo- lently assimilate” Mexico. —Here's hoping that the Grangers may have as fine weather for their pic- nic at Centre Hall as we had for our fair. —If it is true that Oklahoma has | 100,000 acres planted in peanuts the peanut politics of that State is easily ac- counted for. —Secretary of the Navy DANIELS may not be up to all the tricks of city life but he can see collusion in bids when they are all alike. —Maybe Mr. ZERBY would rather not be State Committeeman than answer the hot shot questions Col. TAYLOR pours into him elsewhere in this paper. —Ten per cent. income tax is a trifie heavy but if anybody gives us half a million dollars a year we will cheer- fully hand back ten per cent. of it. ~—Mr. HUERTA quotes the constitu- | tion of Mexico as frequently and unc- tiously as ROOSEVELT quotes the Lord's Prayer and violates it quite as often. ~The only real hope of escape from THAW lies in the fact that even fortunes as big as that of the THAW family be- come exhausted when attacked too fre- quently and foolishly. —Isn’t it funny, WiLLiam F. SMITH, of Millheim, wasn't near asbad a man when he was in the Prothonotary’s office hand- ing out patronage to the Centre Demo- crat as that paper would have you be- lieve him to be now. —Unless we are very much mistaken the people of lower Pennsvalley will show the editor of the Centre Democrat that he can't assail one of their best citizens and neighbors so long as they have the bal- lot to fight back with. ~—Say, you voters! You who think that ZgRBY should be elected State Commit: teeman because charles r. kurtz wants him. Let us ask you something. Are you squaring yourself for a good swift kick like poor ARTHUR KIMPORT got? —Read what Col. TAYLOR has to say in hisown defense in this issue of the paper. He seems to know more about Mr. ZErBY than was ever made public before and it lpoks very much as if he has the candidate's hide nailed to the barn. —There is a new crop of ‘come ons” every year. A Bellefonter went to the circus last week and tried to buy an ele- phant for a nickel with the result that he lost five. hundred dollars betting a show man that he could beat him at his own game, —Judged by the frenzy into which the Centre Democrat has worked itself WiL- LiaM F. SMiTH, of Millheim, appears to have committed a great crime because he dared to be a candidate for State Com- mitteman without asking permission of the editor of that paper. ——Senator PENROSE will probably be real sorry if the Mexican muddle is ad- justed without bloodshed. The ship- builders and armor plate makers will get no graft out of it in that event and may see no reason for contributing to the campaign fund of next year. —It is all right to fly if you can and the development of the science of aereal navigation, if it can be called a science, may be of the highest value. But birds don’t fly on their backs and airmen who do such stunts are inviting disaster and alienating popular sympathy and admira- tion as a subsequent asset. —The Centre county fair will close to- day and as it has been the largest and most diversifying exhibition ever given question that the people have caught the spirit of the enterprise and will help to make it the great, useful institution to agriculture that it should be. —It is impossible to believe the newspaper statement that Mr. RoOOSE- VELT refuses to discuss the Mexican sit- uation for’ the reason that he “doesn’t know anything about it.” Everybody everywhere knows that Mr. ROOSEVELT ' knows everything about everything | everywhere and anybody who disagrees with him is an “undesirable” and an ignoramus. —If you can't believe WILLIAM F. SMITH, of Millheim, then you should not vote for him under any circumstances. But if you can believe him—and we know that his reputation for honesty is as good as any man's—then you must believe | him when he tells you that he does not | want to be your State Committeeman to represent any clique or faction in the party. He does not intend to be any one's tool or catspaw. We believe him and intend to vote for him. —It is only a case of the kettle calling the pot black when Mr. ZERBY or any of his advocates refers to the Allentown con- vention as a means of making votes against WiLLiAM F. Smith. Didn't Mr. | ZERBY ride all over the county in an au. | tomobile advocating GRIMM'S election? | That wasn't to his discredit at all, but it is to his discredit to now assume that ' everyone has forgotten it and let on that | the nomination of GRIMM was an outrage and that he was one of the fellows out. | from the beginning and VOL. 58. The Opposition to Judge Staples. Our esteemed Philadelphia contempo- rary, the Aecord, is unable to see why there should be any opposition to the re- | nomination and re-election of Hon. CHARLES J. STAPLES, President Judge of the Forty-third Judicial Bistrict, compos- ed of Monroe and Pike counties. “He isa just Judge and splendid jurist,” says our Philadelphia contemporary. “His mange- ment of the juvenile courts and care of young criminals have received great com- mendation, and his executive ability and economical conduct of the business of the courts and counties have pleased his people. He has tried more cases in Mon- roe county, both criminal and civil, dur- ing his term, than any Judge during the same period for forty years and it is largely due to his efficient administra- tion of judicial affairs that Monroe coun- ty is out of debt.” We were similarly perplexed by the | same problem. Judge STAPLES admin. BE istration of the office in Pike county has | been equally satisfactory and successful, As a result of expediting the business’ and shortening and dispensing with the ! terms of court that county is out of debt | and has $6,600 in its treasury. The only | reason thus far given for opposition is | that another gentleman, Mr. ROGErRs L. | BURNETT, wants the job. Mr. BURNETT | says that he is 57 years old and unless he | gets the office now he is not likely to | ever get it. That would probably be a | great disappointment to him but hardly a | considerable loss to the judiciary and the public. He adds, significantly, that his | nomination and election would be in line | with the policy of “rotation in office,” as | Judge STAPLES has had one term while | he has not been so honored. Whether or not our esteemed Philadel- phia contemporary has cleared the mys- i tery to its own understanding we are not | informed but it has made it plain to our : mind. In concluding its interesting spec- | ulative observations upon the subject it quotes Mr. BURNETT'S endorsement of A. MiTcEELL PALMER when he was a candi- date for re-election to Congress last year. That is the real cause of the present op- position to Judge STAPLES. Mr. PALMER | wants to reward Mr. BURNETT for his past servités, not to the party or the peo- | ple but to Mr, PALMER. If Judge STAP-| LES had written such an article and in! other ways shown servility to PALMER, ! his re-election would probably have been | unopposed. Mr. PALMER wants to be a boss but he is not an easy boss. Servil- | ity to him must be complete. He pays his political debts in full but in the cur- | rency of public office. —There hasn't been much doing in! ROOSEY news lately. i A ——————— New Law for Electing Judges. The announcement by the Secretary of | the Commonwealth that a voter may vote | for only one candidate for judge of the Superior court at the coming primary | election is somewhat of a surprise. There | are two Superior court judges to elect and two to nominate. Under the old sys- | tem of selecting candidates each party | would nominate two, in all probability, | though at the general election only one | could be voted for. The law creating that court provided for minority repre- | sentation in that way. In the event that | on the grounds here it proves beyond | there are three vacancies, each voter may | vote for two and the three highest will | be elected. In that event, moreover, | each voter would have the right to vote | for two at the primary. { Under the present primary law, how- | ever, there are no party nominations for | judges of courts of record and no voter | may vote at the primary for more candi- | dates than he may vote for at the gen- eral election. In other words each voter may go to the polls on primary election day and cast his vote for one of the fif- teen candidates who will be on the ticket. Party men may vote for candidates | affiliated with the party to which they | are attached and in that way the party alignment on the bench may be preserv- | ed. But the chances are that party asso- ciation will be disregarded in selecting | candidates for Superior court judge this | year, and both judges elected may be of | the same party. | The wisdom of this provision of the election laws remains to be determined. | Under the old system successful candi- dates owed allegiance to the party which | they represented as well as to the people | and understood that while the public | memory is short and the popular heart ready to forgive, party leaders are more | exacting and many a public official has | been restrained from going wrong be- | cause of the fear of party condemnation. | Possibly the new system will work ad. mirably and the release from party allegi: | ance will improve the public service. But | we are a trifle leary of these innovations. | We have had a government by parties | it has worked | ES STATE RIGHTS AND F ERAL UNION. LLE Let ‘Common Sense Prevail. It is time for the Democratic party in Centre county to be aroused. Not for fighting within the party but for the exercise of its good, sober judgment in the matter of who shall be the Democratic State Committeeman for our party. Under the new election law the dual duty of being county chairman and | representing the county organization at the meeting of the State Central Com- mittee is taken away from our county chairman. In the future we will have to elect a County Chairman to have charge of the organization in the county only. We also have to elect a State Committeeman whose duty it will be to represent the party at the meetings of the State Central Committee. Neither office carries any salary. There are two aspirants for the office of State Committeeman, one of whom | will be selected at the primaries on September 16th, 1913. They are : WiLLiaMm F. SMITH, of Millheim. W. D. Zersy, of Bellefonte. As to which of these men should be selected there is a difference of opinion. The Centre Democrat, in its issue last week, devoted about half its space to urging . you to vote for ZERBY and the other half to black-guarding Mr. SaiTH and other ! Democrats of Centre county. There are two reasons for its attack upon Mr. SMiTH. Those of you who remember back as far as 1892 will recall that Mr. | SMITH was the gentleman whom the Democrats of Centre county preferred to | have as their nominee for Prothonotary rather than charles r. kurtz, editor of the Centre Democral. He is still sore about that. The other is that this same charles r. kurtz traded the Democratic organization in Centre county to PALMER, Mc- CorMICK and GUTHRIE for a job in the custom house in Philadelphia and wants Mr. ZerBY chosen State Committeeman because he, ZERBY, promises that if elec- ted he will do as PALMER, McCorMICK and GUTHRIE wants him to do This states the propositions fairly to you. The solution is upto the Democrats of Centre county. Are you going to elect Mr. ZERBY because the editor of the Centre Democrat wants to strut around and blow that he bosses the Democratic party in Centre county or do you want to elect WILLIAM F. SmiTH, of Millheim, who was your Prothonotary for two terms, a mature man, a sterling Democrat and one who has always been interested in the welfare of the party, and can be bossed by no one. We think it would be better to elect Mr. SmiTH. In the first place it would take the office clear away from Bellefonte; away from the hauling and pulling of fighting factions here and give it to a man who would be in position to make up his mind without bias as to what is best for the whole party. The Democrat is trying to befog the issue and stir up personal prejudices when it says that WiLLIAM F. SMITH was against BRYAN. In the first place Mr. SMITH WORKED AND VOTED FOR BRYAN every time he was a candidate and we defy the Cenire Democrat to prove that this statement is not the truth. Now to bring home to you the dark lantern tactics of the newspaper that is trying to disrupt the Democratic party in Centre county we want to state this proposition to you. If you are a reasonable, intelligent man it matters not whether you area friend of Mr. SMITH or a friend of Mr. ZerByY fairness will compel you to admit that EVEN if Mr. SMITH was opposed to BRYAN—and he was not—he had just as much right to take that stand as did either Mr. GUTHRIE or Mr. McCORMICK and the latter traveled all the way to the Deniver convention to try to beat BRYAN for the nomination. Neither one of these gentlemen will deny that he fought BRYAN | every time he ran for office, yet the Centre Democrat is now appealing to the friends of BRYAN in Centre county to stick the knife into a man who supported BRYAN and elect Mr. ZErRBY who it openly pledges wants to be our State Committeeman merely to back up GUTHRIE and MCCORMICK who fought BRYAN every time he ran for President. We appeal to your sense of fairness, voters, as to whether you are not being deceived. THE MOTIVES OF MR. FOSTER. The WATCHMAN is unable to see why Mr. ROBERT M. FOSTER is an issue in the contest at all. The Democrat, however, has persisted in injecting him into it so that there is nothing left to do but try to set matters right in that direction. You all know that ever since he was in the Legislature Mr. FOSTER has been a chronic candidate for office. He ran for Assembly in 1894. He ran again in 1896. In 1898 he was again running and in 1900 he was running still. The habit grew on him so that each succeeding election he would bob up as a candidate without hope of nomination, but dog in the manger-like, just to worry those who had not had an opportunity and were in the field for the office of Legislator. Mr. FOSTER was defeated last fall more because he went too often to the well with his pitcher than for any other reason. The voters were tired of his wanting to run for the Legislature every time there was a vacancy. The editor of this paper voted for Mr. FOSTER for the Legislature and it challenges him or his mouth-piece, the Centre Democrat, to pro’ duce a voter whom he asked to vote against Mr. FosTeER. It also challenges anyone to compare the files of the DEMOCRATIC WATCHMAN and the Centre Democrat in that campaign for the purpose of proving that the WATCH- MAN not only put up Mr. FOSTER'S name weeks before the Centre Democrat did, but that it also devoted twice as much editorial space in its columns advocating the election of a Democratic legislature as the Centre Democrat. Mr. FOSTER is now a candidate for postmaster at State College. There are half a dozen other men applicants for the same office. It is none of our business, none of yours, which one gets the plum. The patrons of the State College post- office are the people who should be satisfied and who should have the say in this matter. Yet this same ROBERT M. FOSTER is running all over Centre county elec- tioneering against Mr. SMITH because he says if SMITH is elected State Committee. man he won't get the postoffice at State College. In other words he means that if ZERBY is elected he will get the office. How do you suppose the people of State College feel over this matter? Suppose they don’t want Mr. FOSTER as postmaster. Do you as a citizen of some other community feel that it is fair to vote Mr. ZERBY into office so he can ram Mr. FOSTER down the throats of the people of State Col- lege. Apply the same principle to your own home and see how you would view the matter? It must be clear therefor to you that the Centre Democrat is not holding Mr. FOSTER up as a martyr for the good of the Democratic party, but to land him in the postoffice at State College. A WORD AS TO REORGANIZATION. Let us present this phase of the controversy to you as fairly and dispassion- ately as possible. There is no controversy in Centre county over Reorganization of the party. That contest was made last year and reorganization won. The party was Reorganized, new state offizials were chosen and no one has questioned their authority since. So why raise a hulla-baloo over something that was settled long ago. Mr. SMITH does not want to be our State Committeeman in order to fight our state organization. IF HE DOES THEN THE WATCHMAN FRANKLY ASKS YOU T) VOTE AGAINST HIM. If he wants to be State Committeeman in order to represent any clique or faction in our party; again the WATCHMAN asks you to vote against him. Mr. ZERBY does want the office to represent a fac- tion. The Centre Democrat says he wants to go to Harrisburg “to support PALMER and his organization’ and nothing else. Now if that is his sole purpose Mr. ZERBY should not be elected. Our State Committeeman should represent the best in- terests of the Democratic party in Centre county and not go to Harrisburg to be lead around by the nose by Mr. PALMER or any other man. (Continued on page 4, Column 2.) FONTE, PA. SEPTEMBER 5, 1913. ED The New Day is Here. Johnstown Demosrat. 7 To g E2557 Loins 2 g ih We are realizing ernment is a matter of business, a ness that touches every individual citizen. e are coming to understand Six years agi a prophet. Today, when he says that a new day is coming, he is just a bit be- { ind the procession. We are in the new | day. ET —— | Standpatters for War, i r—— From the Allentown Demorcat. Senator Penrose is for war with Mex- ico. So is every standpatter tariff question in the country for war with | Mexico. Like the drowning man" grasps | at a straw the standpatters are grasping | at the Mexican situation to save their | tariff graft. It might cost hundreds of | thousands of precious lives, but what do | standpatters care what it costs the nation 80 long as it will save them their tariff | bacon which the Democratic administra- ! tion is going to take away from them and di it a those who haven't | Beet Setting their just share of bacon. These patters know that if we have | a costly war with Mexico the govern- ment must raise the funds to carry on : oh $hose Se Ri} haye Poe ‘ra continu taxes, in ; form of tariff duties, on the necessaries f life. Not only will these tariff duties be continued but it will be necessary to | raise them even higher than they now are. Then, for a generation, the people ‘will be paying taxes merely because ! tor Penrose wants a war so that tariff exploitation may be continued. See , the game? Penrose and his fellow-standpatters ought to be retired to the shades of pri- ! vate life. Every trust and JHonopsly in | the country is applaud Senator - | rose’s demand for war with Mexico. Hon- est men are not demanding war. They | have faith in President Wilson and Secre- | tary Bryan. ! SE ——— The Bank Bill Issue. | From the New York American. . As to the great questions at issue be- | tween the banks and : “Shall | the government or the | federal reserve board, and shall the gov- | ernment or the banks issue emergency When a few Trust magnates have been jailed for misdemeanors in violating the law the time will be more ap- ate for aking such violations fel i of , SS ——— They're Going to Learn Something. From the Philadelphia Inquirer. It begins to look as though Thaw’s vis- jt to Canada JN result in having their aws correctly in or those terpret ——For high class Job Work come to the WATCHMAN Office. gn SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. coal and consequent advance in the price of that commodity gets the blame. —Saltsburg is minus a fruit merchant and some of its citizens are minus sums of money furnish ed him or have bills due from him, aggregating $500. Harry Block is the man wanted. —Cresson is expecting to get the $10.00 ice plant the Armour company is proposing to erect long the main line to re-ice their cars. The town will not, however, get any of the ice. —James Persenell, aged three years, was watching a bonfire at Aultman. Indiana county, when the wind blew a piece of burning paper on him. His clothing took fire and his little life paid the forfeit. —John L. Beary, a Pennsylvania railroad of- ficer located at Sunbury, accidentally killed him- self while loading his revolver at his home on Saturdav. His wife, returning from a visit. en- tered the house just as the accident happened. —Somerset county officials are hunting the men who dynamited the safe in the Equitable Supply company’s store at Cairnbrook. The Fobbers had $300 cash, a large number of dollar watches and quite a quantity of cutlery as their hauls. =A fine quality of fire clay has been found not far from Renovo and the first carioad was ship- ved last week. A railroad will be built for a mile and a half up Paddy’s run to carry the clay to Renovo. The New Jersey company that is buying it has been getting its clay from Germany —Sportsmen in the Tuscarora valley and along the Kishacoquillas creek have been helping ‘he game warden to catch the fish and transfer them to deeper water to save their lives. The fish have been caught by hand, which is ordinarily a : | violation of law, just now condoned for good and sufficient reasons. —Violet May, the little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Williams, of near Sington, on last Fri- day wandered out of sight of the home. When her absence was noticed a search was instituted, when it was found that she had fallen into a near by spring and drowned. She was aged but 1 year, 9 months and 24 days. —Alice Elizabeth Underwood, aged 17, commit- ted suicide by drinking carbolic acid at the home of her mother, Mrs. James Glennys, in the Lewis- town Narrows. Miss Underwood is said to have been sent away from home by her step-father and had returned to secure her clothing. Going to her room, she drank the poison and was found dying by members of the family. —The entire business section of Latrobe was shocked by a ball of fire that descended and struck a tree during an electrical storm last Fri- day morning. In one store every fuse was blown out. Prisoners at city hall asked to be released a day ahead of time in consideration of their shock, and all over town users of telephones and elec- tric lights felt the force of the lightning. —William Howard Hyde, aged not quite three years, found a revolver under a bed at his home in Youngsville and as he pulled it toward him re- ceived the charge through his heart. His father had always kept the weapon out of reach of the children, but a relative, stopping there over night, had put the revolver under the bed for pro- tection and forgot to remove it in the morning. =To be hit by the noon flyer, near Horatio, as he was sitting on the edge of the track. to be picked up after being tossed twenty feet, with only three bruises, to awakes next day in the hos- pital at Adrian and be told of his narrow escape was the experience of Benjamin Marash, who was sleeping in a drunken stupor while others were exerting themselves to find out who he was. ~=More than 15,000 tons of hard coal of the chestnut and pea sizes are being stored below Montandon, by the Lee Coal Storage company, of which H. Eyer Spyker. of Lewisburg, is the pres- ident. Huge piles line either side of a spur of siding that has been run into an open field, and a steam shovel that eats up a car load of 100,000 pounds with a dozen strokes of its ponderous jaws does the work of unloading. —Geraldine Harvey, aged thirteen, was stand- ing near her brother at their home at Swers- town, when he and another lad were examining a revolver, which the latter wanted to sell. An older brother had just refused to buy one and had unloaded it, but the younger did not take that precaution and the accidental discharge seri- ously wounded the little girl. Had the wound been a trifle nearer the temple, instant death would have resulted. —Application has been filed for a pardon for J. Fred Dougherty. who was sentenced to from five to thirty years in the penitentiary at Hollidays- burg two years ago for stealing a second hand sct of harness. The severity of the sentence was due, it is alleged, because Dougherty had three other convictions for theft or similar crimes ahead of him and he was put away to keep him out of mischief. The application sets forth that the sentence was unreasonable, ~Four daughters of Madison Shober, near Ber- lin, risked their lives to save the horses in their father's barn when they discovered it to be on fire a few nights ago. They succeeded in bring- ing the horses out in safety, but could not enter the second time to release a large flock of chick- ens and ducks that were burned. The year's was one of the largest in Somerset county. ~—Reports that farmers had requested their time for a month ahead were made by the Department of Agriculture farm counsellors at their first Mrs. Wetter's neck was broken. Miss Florence Wetter, was the only person ed. She sustained a fracture of her collar Mr. and Mrs. Wetter and daughter, Mr. Mrs. Musser and Mr. Hinterlightner, all of Clear- field, had been to Philipsburg and were on their way home. At the intersection of the Clearfield and Morrisdale roads the auto went over the em- bankment and Mrs. Wetter alighted on her head. —Reading attorneys are preparing papers for an application to the Board of Pardons for the pardon of Kate Edwards, the Berks county wom- an who murdered her husband and has for years languished in prison because no Governor will fix the date for her execution. The Board will meet on Wednesday, September 17th, the first meeting since its vacation, and will have a large number of cases to dispose of. As yet the papers in the Kate Edwards case have not been filed, but itis expected they will be in by next week. Mrs. Ed- wards was convicted twelve years ago of the murder of her husband and sentenced to be hanged. She made an application to the Board of Pardons for a commutation of the death sen- tence to imprisonment for life, but Governor g an's execution, and when he remained in that condition—a woman under sen- tence of death, and no date fixed for the hanging.
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