—It is quite evident that the country Democrats didn’t want to relieve Belle. fonte of the job of furnishing: a State Committeeman. Possibly they prefer the offices with salaries attached. % : —The Hon. ROBERT FOSTER came very | near to getting State College to endorse | his application for the postoffice at that | place. Mr. ZERBY lost that borough by ' one vote, but probably he will overlook such a trifling matter and hand the plum | over to BoB. anyway. —The manner in which Judge STAPLES, | of Monroe—Pike counties district clean- | ed up Mr. BurNeTT in the contest to succeed himself on the bench indicates that the people of that district are not ready to go to the limit of putting an | able judge out in order to pay Mr. A. MITCHELL PALMER'S political debts. —If the late primaries, in this county, | proved anything as to the local political A situation it is that Republicans have be- come so disheartened and divided that | they are practically without organiza- | tion or hope within it. Many districts failed to have Republican tickets in the field and in every one party division and | disruption were manifest. —Had Mr. SMITH received anywhere | near the vote he had a right to expect in | Pennsvalley he would have been elected State Committeeman. The majority against him in all the other precincts of the county was less than 110 and surely the most pessimistic person would scarce- ly say that under ordinary circumstances such a popular and well known Demo- crat should not have overcome a ma- jority so small. —The death of “Big Tim" SULLIVAN, of New York was dramatic as his life. From a Bowery newsboy to Congress without aid other than the “stuff” he had in him was a climb that marks the kind of “stuff” it was. There were those prone to charge him with being a cor- rupt and unprincipled politician but such defamation is drowned by the great i chorus of praise that swells the throats ' of the thousands and thousands of poor people in New York who had access to his purse and a corner in his big heart —After having run to the limit of indecency and untruthfulness in the past three campaigns in Centre county; after | | made, and that if the party is to become resort to every phase of character assassination; after having played upon the credulity of many Democrats with deceptions of every kind; after having glutted its columns with most malicious personalities and gloated over them; after having finally been rebuked by | some of his personal friends and stabbed to the very heart by his own weapon the buzzard of the Centre Democrat now ar- rays itself in the plumage of the dove of place and sings for harmony. When the devil was sick The devil a monk would be When the devil was well The devil a monk was he. —Even the enemies of Col. TAYLOR must admit that he has probably ren- dered his party and Centre county a signal service by effectually stopping the vile mouthings of the editor of the Centre Democrat. It required heroic remedies to accomplish the cure, but we fancy that if there is any shame in the person to whom the TAYLOR letter was addressed he must be crushed beyond expression. If nothing else was accom- plished by Tuesday's election the public will have reason to be more grateful than it knows to Col. TAYIOR for marking a dead line for those who think that per- sonal villification is argument and that calumnies will go unc hallenged. —The election of Tuesday last showed that the Republican party in this county under the management of Mr. would-be- Judge QUIGLEY has practically gone out of business in the county. In many of the districts not enough of Republican votes could be found to put local Re- publican tickets in the field. As a conse- quence the three or four papers that used to blather about the great things that party was doing may be expected to stick their noses into Democratic affairs just as far as they can push them Our Democratic friends should remember that there always have been people—who, without business of their own, keep themselves busy bothering about that of others, and should excuse the seeming impudence of the Republican papers that are now trying to take a hand in what the Democrats may purpose doing. —This is the week of the Granger picnic at Centre Hall. Three years ago D. CLARENCE GIBBONEY, of Philadelphia, was at Centre Hall haranguing the Grangers of Centre county to vote against WEBSTER GRIM for Governor. The WATCHMAN told them then that ~ GIBBONEY was a political fraud, but many of them believed and voted against GRIM. Now GIBEONEY is openly allied with the PENROSE--MCNICHOL machine in Philadelphia and on Tuesday WEBSTER GRIM came within eight votes of being thé high man for Superior court judge in Centre county. What makes the whole thing seem so strange tc the WATCHMAN is that our people who thought so badly of GRiM in 1910 for Governor think so well of him in 1913 when he is a can- didate for a much more honorable office. Verily, the inconsistencies of voters is : beyond understanding. VOL. 58. A Serious Matter for Those at the Head. It is an acknowlekged and undisputed fact that the Democratic vote of Centre county, when fully polled, aggregates four thousand or more votes. Some times it runs over these figures, and often consid- erably under. But four thousand is a fair basis to fix as the Democratic strength of the county. At the recent primary less than 1700 of these showed interest enough in party matters to come out and vote, notwith- standing the fact that a faction of the party covered the county earnestly begging the voters to get to the polls and give avote of endorsement to the Democratic National administration, and a vote of thanks for the patronage it has given to the county. Personal ap- peals were made to those who voted for a change of leaders last fall to come out and vote their approval of what these new leaders have done and to show that the masses of the party are satisfied with their management of affairs, as well as the results that have come from what some call “re-organization.” In the case of the public officials that have been given the county—a postmas- ter at Philipsburg and an official in the Customs service in Philadelphia—the lat- ter one of the best paying offices that comes to the State,—extraordinary efferts were made to poll the largest vote possi- ble as an endorsement of these appointees and as a kind of “thank you" to the President for the choice he had made of officials for these positions. With all these efforts and with the scores of fellows busy who have been promised positions (that they will never get) in the Customs service but 1700 of the 4000 Democratic voters in the coun- | ty were interested sufficiently in party at all times. { affairs to be gotten to the polls, and of these 1700 over one-third voted to show that they were NOT satisfied with faction- al methods or the appointments already harmonious and successful very material changes must be made in the work of the party organization, in the manner of mak- ing its appointé® and in the kind of Dem- ocrats who are given its honors and offices. It is with the 2300 Democrats who re- fused to come out and show some inter- est in the party's affairs and in the work that, the Democrats who are now in charge of the party organization, have to | do. Something must be done to inter- est them; something to awaken them to a sense of party duty; to arouse them to the condition that confronts us and in- duce them to cast aside the indifference, the disgust and hopelessness, or what- ever may haye changed them from ac- tive, working, interested members of their party into the condition that now seems to control their action. Can our friends—the “re-organizers”— do this, or will they even show a disposi- tion or make an effort to do it? It is the job that the recent election in this county shows they are up against, and we sincerely hope they may be will- ing to undertake and able to do the work. Will they? Tariff Reform Nearly Accomplished. There are reasons to hope that the conference committee in charge of the tariff bill will have completed its labors before this issue of the WATCHMAN reaches its destination and that within a week from that time it will be a law. The committee has been making excel- lent progress thus far It was feared that some of the schedules would pro- voke bitter antagonisms. In other words it was apprehended that the House of Representatives and Senate would be equally insistent in holding out for the schedules fixed by themselves. But as a matter of fact there has been no bitter- ness in the contention and agreement is likely to be arrived at without delay. It is gratifying, moreover, to learn that the ublic To responded in amiable sprit to the new tariff schedules. The nal passage of the bill in the Senate was followed by an immediate increase in the value of shares in the various staple cor- porations. It was predicted that the passage of the bill would cause a de- pression in values and paralysis ot busi- ness. So far from that prediction ha wide in its operations. supersti tion that prosperity de- hi I Me STATE RIGHTS AN Gibboney Stands Revealed. No close observer of political events in this State is surprised at the present at- titude of D. CLARENCE GIBBONEY in the contest for control of the government of Philadelphia. Mr. GIBBONEY has openly alligned himself with the MCNICHOL ma- chine for the reason that the present Mayor of the city didn't turn out every machine official in commission at the time he was inducted into the office and put in their place men who were opposed to the machine. That is precisely what Mayor BLANKENBERG pledged himself not to do during the campaign for his election. His candidacy represented a movement to break up machine govern- ment and not to substitute one machine for another. But if Mayor BLANKENBERG had done | just what Mr. GIBBONEY says he ought to have done, GIBBONEY would be against the reform movement and for the ma- chine now. There has been no time within the past ten years that GIBBONEY hasn't been the servile tool of Senator James P McNicuoL. If McNicHoL had imagined that there was danger of the defeat of his candidate for Mayor two years ago, he would have had GIBBONEY working tooth and toenail for EARLE. As it was GIBBONEY was an uncertain quanti- ty during the campaign of that year. But McNicHOL and PENROSE were sO cock sure of the election of their candi- date that they felt safe in letting GIBBO- NEY continue to masquerade as areform- er. He could be of more use to them in the future by keeping up his false pre- tense. This year McNICHOL and PENROSE are wisg to the darger that confronts them. They hope to be able to pull their ma- chine ticket through but understand that the achievement will tax their resources to the limit and consequently they have called GIBBONEY into service. If they win they can recompense him in the usual way and if they lose the disaster will be so complete and overwhelming that neither GIBBONEY nor any other masquer- ader can help them in the future. Its just as well, therefore, that GIBBONEY has revealed himself in his true light. The reformers will know where to place him hereafter and with that understanding his power for usefulness to the machine is ended. ——The esteemed Philadelphia Ledger has undertaken to select the municipal court judges for the people of that city. We wouldn't be surprised to hear, any day, that that enterprising newspaper had offered to draw the salaries and eat the meals of Philadelphia for an indefinite period in the future. It is very obliging and selfish. ——————————" End of the Commerce Court. The country will learn with more than ordinary satisfaction that the Commerce court is to be abandoned. Of course the four judges who compose that body will remain in office as long as they live but there will be no successors appointed. Originally there were five judges of that court but one of the number, Judge ARCHIBALD, of Scranton, was impeached and removed. No appointment has been made to fill the vacancy and now that the court is to be abolished no appoint- ment will ever be made. The other four ‘judges will be assigned to duty on the Circuit court bench until their places are made vacant by death or resignation and when that occurs the court will become a rather unpleasant memory. | The court of Commerce was created for the purpose of providing perpetual : and substantial rewards for political serv- ices. During the last ten or a dozen years that has become a favorite method ' of discharging political debts. In fact in that way the Republican party has been recompensing party workers and the rapid multiplication of offices, federal, state and municipal, is the logical re- sult. In this State, especially, the prac- tice has become common and it may safely be said that the organization of the Highways and Health Departments had little other purpose. The State con- stabulary was created for that purpose “also but refused, subsequently, to be used - in that way to its credit. i But the Commerce court was particu- This larly objectionable from the beginning. | The Interstate Commerce commission | was never in the favor of the Republican machine. Originated bya Democrat and | inaugurated under the auspices of the ht to be grateful. ur D FEDERAL UNION. BELLEFONTE, PA.. SEPTEMBER 19, 1913. Unjust Criticism of Bryan. There are no just reasons for the severe crticisms which the English and German | newspapers are heaping upon the head | of WiLLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN, Secretary | of State. It is true that he is giving con- | siderable time to the private business of | lecturing. But as a matter of fact he is | not, in any great measure, neglecting the public service. He was obliged to ad- NO. 37. Dragging It Out. | From the Johnstown Democrat. | Republicans taxing the patience of the | country to the limit by the tactics of ob- SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. ~Four boys between 8 and 9 years old have confessed to a string of robberies by which the police of Danville have been puzzled for some —George Paul, aged § years, fell from a second story window at his home in Gallitzin and when picked up it was found he had a slight scratch on his forehead. More than 200 nimrods armed with hunters’ icenses, attended the annual groundhog hunt at Punxsutawney. The big dinner was a feature of the day's pleasure. —Lycoming county jail has been condemned by the state board and a general cleaning up ordered. A new jail outside the city is recom- mended, but not demanded. ~—A lamp set too near theedge of a table at the home of C. O. Anderson, Williamsport, caused a fire when it fell and exploded that burned four dwellings before it was halted. —~Barnesboro was intending to pump water from the mine of the Clearfield Coal company, | struction in the Senate in connection > ate authorities have vetoed this. on ac- with the tariff, are again giving it out legislation must wait upon that currency count of the menace to the public health. —Within the next fortnight bricks will again | their convenience. With characteristic | be made at Seward, the defunct plant having | contempt for public sentiment and the been purchased by the Kennerly interests, who | public welfare they are setting them- selves up as the real arbiters in the mat- | ters. are also planning new developments at Bolivar. —During an attack of delirium tremens, Jack McGhee, aged 40 years, jumped from a third journ a conference with the ambassador | While many Democrats have all along | story window of a hotel at Ralston and escaped of Japan, the other day, in order to keep a lecture engagement with one of the ington. But there is nothing in our rela- tions with Japan which requires im- mediate attention and the conference can be resumed at another time without prej- | udice to the interests of either side. Mr. BRYAN is serving the public in the office of Secretary of State at consider- able pecuniary sacrifice. The $12,000 a year salary he receives is a trifle com- pared with his earning capacity in a state of freedom from official restraints and obligations. He is thoroughly con- vinced that in the present crisis there is no man in the country, other than him- self capable of performing the duties of the office, and he offers himself, though he wisely desires to make the sacrifice as light as possible. In other words Mr, BRYAN is entirely willing to serve the country at a salary less than the cost of living, but feels that he has the right to reinforce the salary by earnings in other employment of a reputable and congenial sort. There was a time when Mr. BRYAN didn't care much for money. In his earlier adventures in the arena of politics he took great delight in preaching the sublime doctrine of the “Man above the Dollar” and plunged headlong into every opportunity to express this beautiful thought in ornate and resounding figures of speech. But Mr. BRYAN suffered from the effects of the reverse of this altruistic theory. The Dollar met him at every step of his aspiring course toward the Presidency and ruthlessly bumped him | on the nose with the result that, without in the least modifying his exalted notions on the subject, he nevertheless determin- ed to get rich. Having set himself to that purpose and made considerable prog- ress toward its attainment, he is averse to checking up. Therefore it may be said that the change in Mr. BRYAN'S habits of thought along these lines is more apparent than real. Possibly the same is true with re- spect to other seeming changes in Mr. BRYAN. There was a time when he had neither patience nor politeness for men he characterized as “gold bugs” in his party. Citizens of the type of GEORGE |.) ~ W. GuTHRIE and VANCE MCCORMICK were “abominations in his sight.” Mr. GUTH- RIE flatly refused to serve as an elector on his Presidential ticket in 1896 and contributed generously to the campaign fund of his opponent and MCCORMICK opposed him with all the energy he could command in all his campaigns. They were atrocious conspirators in support of “the crime of '73,” then. But they are magnificent patriots now in Mr. BRYAN'S opinion. These facts taken together show that Mr. BRYAN has changed very materially during the interval of time that has elapsed since he first ran for President. But they do not justify the criticisms of the English and German press to which we have referred. For example the fact that the Secretary of State delivers lec- tures at Chautauquas here and there doesn't justify the accusation that he is degrading the high office he occupies by “appearing upon the stage with mounte- banks.” At someof these entertainments he is advertised to alternate withjugigers, comic opera singers, daring dancers and celebrated acrobats. But he doesn’t ap- pear on the stage with these persons, for when he is on they are off. —Any reports that American refu- gees in Mexico have been captured and misused by one faction or another of the contending spirits down there may be | taken with a grain of allowance. Rebels or loyalists in Mexico have too much concern for their personal safety to mon- key with American citizens. Take this from us. ——The tariff bill having been practic- ally disposed of the currency bill is moving forward and unless Senator PENROSE watches out he will be literally submerg- ed in Democratic legislation before long. ——HARRY THAW continues to be a public nuisance and expense. Let us hope that he will be disposed of in one way or another before long and it doesn’t matter much how. —The cost of living has not increas. ed in the past six months, we are inform- ed by statisticians, though the current prices of butter and eggs lead to a differ- ent conclusion. cgi | believed and even now believe that bank- with several fractured ribs and numerous body | ing and currency legislation might well | bruises | have been defe: TB until next winter, Chautauqua organizations near Wash- giving the country a longer period for | digesting the administration bill, they —Seven woodsmen in one camp near Ralston have been stricken with typhoid fever with- | are of ind ts be & ito by an in ten days. Four are in the Williamsport hos- ed to surrender to the obstructionists. their individual inclination, they are common opinion regarding this. And ent session of Co into law. their way. High Prices in Buenos Ayres. From the Washington Post.} the high cost of living in the States. own country, particularly in the city States. But in Buenos A! more to live than in W; This is true also of the larger cities other South American countries. on the table. “The price of eggs in B fresh eggs, of co! portionately high. A man in the than $700 to $800 a month, accommodations, such as can be had than $12 to $15.” The Barbarians ot the Senate. — From the New York Sun. of every Democratic tariff, 1894, and of the Underwood bill as orable exception of Mr. Louisiana, for a “protection” whole people. The of the arts,” and destined soone deed, compare with a man like Thomas, for instance, the aestheti of a bison on the wall, American art, delay and defra and Philistine sumphs. A “Workable” Currency Bill From the New York Evening Post. be made so by a few further ing principles. Very Deliberate in Deliberation. From the Salem (N. J.) Sunbeam. months. Such a ous use of their their lives. T. R. is the Man for the Job. From the Columbia State. Mexico? Bet no Man Wrote This. From the Milwaukee News. in slitting the leaves of a good they do in the have of more value. If that shall mean the merging of the extra into the regular session, as Speak- | Newberry, lost her ia er Clark believes, so be it. The Repu daughter, Grace Stidfole, who lican obstructionists will not have had | 11.year-old son, Norman, is in the Williamsport “We cannot kick about the high prices in America,” said Dr. A. R. vo, of Lima, Peru, for instance, fresh eggs cost 10 cents apiece, and poultry is so high | Kraizer Pros. arising out ot the latter taking a that only the rich can afford to have it | threshing machine over Middleburg's paved fessions cannot live comfortably for less if he does any entertaining at all. One cannot get hotel pleasure of millions and stamp the Unit- ed States as a nation of curmudgeonly pital. The water supply is blamed and an epi- insolent minority bent only upon mis- ho chief. They are not in the least inclin- demic is feared. —Within the past few months one Mt. Union : . | horse has died of lock jaw; another has the dread wl they sirrendes Sy 21 de. disease now and still another has a wound that gram shall be ied out. Whatever threatens to develop that way. All stepped on of nails in the streets or alleys. so | —Frank DeGraw, of Prosser Hollow, near it is as certain as any event in the legis- | Johnstown, is in hard luck. After the deathof a lative future can be that before the pres- | horse he attempted to fumigate the barn and ngress shall close the succeeded in setting fire to the structure. It was new currency bill will have been enacted consumed and his house shared the same fate. He had no insurance. —It is not long since Mrs. Nettie Stidfole, of was shot last November by John Erble. Now her hospital. likely to die. His left leg was cut off by a Reading freight train. —The tar making plant of the Barrett Manu- facturing company, at Woodvale, near Johns- town, was destroyed by fire a few nights ago, South Americans are about the only | entailing a loss of about $25,000, covered by in- people who do not raise a protest Against surance. The fire is supposed to have been start- ni ed by a slight explosion. . —Four full blooded Jersey cows, valued at $300, 0 are dead from ground glass and other poison at pt the farm of William Dershem, in Big valley. Buenos Ayres, at the Shoreham, “be- A . cause we pay much higher prices in our ||. the Mifflin county line. Other farmers have of lost stock in a similar manner and will have B A This applies principally no mercy on the guilty party, if they can catch to the upper classes, for among the work- ing classes living is relatively as cheap as, if not cheaper than, in the United | and bruises had been exchanged, was stopped at it costs | the edge of a wood near Windber by school au- n, New thorities. The participants were high school York, or any other of your big cities. seniors and freshmen, the latter being on the him. — A bloody battle, in which a number of wounds in | losing side. The authorities say the hazing must In stop. ~In the suit of the Middleburg council versus street against the wishes of its council, the court imposed a fine of $10 on the Kraizer brothers and uenns Ayres— little less than | ordered that they pay the costs, which were in Lima. Beef commands a price of 50 | about $30. cents a pound, and other meats are pro- —That James Dishong, aged 9 vears, and his " | 2.year-old sister are not dead is a matter of won- der to their friends. They found a dynamite cap near their home at Johnstown and James pound- ed it with a hatchet. Both children have their IN | bodies peppered with the explosive, but escaped Washington, say, for $6 a day, for less | (oo ini —Edward Steiger, who shot and killed his neighbor in a drunken quarrel in which the neighbor was the aggressor, was sentenced in Lycoming county court to a year in the peniten- : i tiary. Mike Wall got fifteen years for brutally By a deplorable lapse into barbarism : and an absolute reversal of the continu: assaulting 8-years-old Thelma Moore. A chick- ous Democratic policy of free art, a poli- be it pro- tectionist or free trade, from 1832 to en thief who had served time in the reformatory was also given a year. —Joseph Fuge, aged 35, for ten years a para- it | Ivtic and for three years an inmate of the Jeffer- the House, the Democrats of the | son county home, shot himself with a gun obtain- te have voted solidly, with the hon- ed in some way unknown to his friends at the Thornton, of home of F. S. Johnson, near Anita. Life in an which | invalid chair had grown intolerable and the pros- American artists loathe and for a tax on | pect of soon returning to the county home made the education and enlightenment of the | it even less attractive. —It didn't pay Frank Heydrich, of Lock Haven, pretense that since the makers “of | to keep bachelor's hall. He fell down stairs on collections in illustration of the progress arising a few mornings ago and lay unconscious r or later for five hours. Then he managed to reach the to be the free treasures of the public, | partition and make noise enough to attract neigh are rich they should be mulcted (and ar- | bors on the other side of the double house. They tists and the rest of the community there- | came in and put him to bed and sent for a doctor. by) would disgrace a naked gavage. 1o- His wife was awav on a visit. pie! Cc —Ata town meeting of Mifflinburg citizens, the movement was backed to spend $8000 in the con- artistic cave man scratching 2 portrait | struction of two reservoirs or dams, which are to be built large enough to hold sufficient water to sist on the restoration of the House pro- | fiinburg had a fire, and it happened at a time visions. They should stand firm against | when there was a shortage of water. It was this a benighted demagogy that will injure that led the citizens to sanction the movement to build reservoirs. —George Ringler, 55 years of age, was instant- ly killed Sunday evening when a steam pipe burst at the power house of the Brothersvalley Coal company at Berlin, Somerset county. He was struck on the head by a piece of and was dead when picked up a short time later. The boilers were being prepared for i It is not yet free from serious defects, | 4nd Ringler and a companion were working at S02 It 3') ily featohatlé to X tk the pipe when the let-g0 a ts remain rtcomings a matter of TE on tion in the| =A firelikely caused by spontaneous combus- other house. We believe it, however, to | tion in newly stored hay in the big livery be a thoroughly workable bill as it now barn of William J. Shettig, in the rear of stands, or at least to be a bill which may the Central hotel and in the central section of which will not affect vitally its Sings town has ever known. Before being extinguish- There is no question about it, the | in8% Barnesboro and Patton. United States Senate is the greatest de- liberative body in the world. Its mem- | aster. Unfortunately for the air man, there had bers have been deliberating now for six | been a fiasco a year ago and when it was found found and continu- | there was something wrong with the machine, iberating apparatus | the crowd began to cry “fake.” Knox Martin, must have given every one of them the | the young aviator determined to show the crowd —Flying at the Youngwood fair ended in dis- the fact that a piece of iron bent and formed an arch over him saved his life when he was pinned under the machine. A dog that ran after itto it would be for | bark suddenly ended its career. 1 to —There is a battle royal on in Johnstown as to down and reign in his stead, and whata for PE IE eT oi ave tn | uevlacingof a cabernicie at She Poin lot the that Sunday will not come unless that location can be secured. Those interested in athletics say that it would interfere with the program of the high school, soccer and football organization, while those who want Sunday to have the If all the girls took as much interest | grounds say there would still be roem for games. Rumors of a court injunction to keep the grounds book as slit of their skirt they'd | from being used were the latest development. Councils have granted their use. A AR,