BY P. GRAY MEEK. INK SLINGS. —It is fortunate that all our one-time heroes don’t degenerate into every day fools like HOBSON. —The Cucaracha slide is what is keep- ing most of the engineers on the Canal Zone dancing just now. —Since the battle with the Athletics it would look as though the Giants should change their name to Pigmies. ~The Bull Moose party is going to pieces in Illinois and it begins to look like a collection of bargain counter rem- nants everywhere. —OsCAR W. UNDERWOOD is too big and able a man to be hurt by such attacks as HoBsoN made on him on the floor of Congress a few days ago. —A Scranton newspaper man has sued one of the nominees for mayor of that city for libel. This is unusual because it is usually a case of the candidate suing the newspaper. —Vice President MARSHALL is not depressed because Congress refused to buy him an automobile. In the first place he didn’t ask Congress for an auto- mobile and besides, the walking in Wash- ‘ington is good. —Democratic papers that are opposing the road loan because they fear the money will not be properly spent are either admitting that our party does not expect to win the next election in Penn- sylvania or, if it does, will be incompe- tent to look after this work honestly. —Quite naturally the world is being told that the Voiturno did not carry suf- ficient fire-fighting apparatus after the ship is burned up and a hundred or more have perished. You will recall that it was discovered that the Titanic didn’t carry half enough life boats only after she had gone down. —What is the borough council doing with the franchise for lighting our streets and pumping the water? Inasmuch as the lease on the Phoenix pumping sta- tion must soon be cancelled or renewed it seems to us that the time to get busy is now and not wait until the last mo- ment, and then rush something through without proper consideration. —The final count in the non-partisan ballot for Superior court nominees has been made and it is most gratifying to note that the Hon. WEBSTER GRIM was third in the race. His name will appear on the ballot, along with ALCORN, HEeN- DERSON and KEPHART, and he should re- ceive a large vote at the election because he is an able jurist and a fine man. —Brother BAILEY, of Johnstown, is grooming PALMER for the position of Democratic floor-leader of Congress in the event that OscAR W. UNDERWOOD is elected to the Senate. Of course there are those who will be mean enough to say that the Cambria-Bedford Congress- man is only flattering PALMER'S vanity in order to keep him from running for Governor so that he can, himself, attain that distinction, but we don’t believe any such thing. —Dr. DoNaLD McCAsSkEY, of Lancas- ter, speaks ili advisedly when he states that “there is no one connected with the State Highway Department who knows how to put the dirt roads of the State in proper condition." Let the gentleman take a drive over the dirt roads over the mountain from Port Matilda to Philips- burg, Snow Shoe Intersection to Snow Shoe, or Potters Bank to Milroy. A ride over any of these inexpensively construct- ed dirt roads would certainly convince any one that great advancement has been made in road building and while the WATCHMAN is not in sympathy with many things the State Highway Depart. ment does it is of the opinion that Dr. MCCASKEY doesn’t know what he is talk- ing about when he says there is no one connected with it who knows how to build dirt roads. : The great wisdom in the proposition ap- pears to be double acting. The city would get the loan at one or two per cent. lower than would have to be paid for it elsewhere while at the same time were supposed to be in the sinking fund were in reality only I O Us and the bor- ough had no money to pay them. Then more bonds had to be issued to make the sinking fund solid and in the end the borough was worse off than ever. No, dear Independent, it is not good business for a municipality to play debtor and cred- itor within itself for the reason that it won't make the same effort to save and pay back to itself that it would be com. pelled to make were an outsider the lend- er. Better invest your water funds in some other 4% bonds and let your sink- ing fund commission borrow its money on the outside at 4%. er — STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION, VOL. 58. Sulzer and Other Governor SULZER, of New York, didn't testify in his own behalf in the court of | impeachment in which he was tried for “high crimes and misdemeanors.” He | was anxious to testify, it was said, but | his legal advisers protested that his narra. | tive would not stand under cross exami- | nation. Other witnesses gave most damaging testimony against him and one of them swore that the Governor ' had offered to make terms with MUR- PHY if that political manipulator would ' call off the impeachment proceedings. | Overtures were made to the Republican | machine, according to the evidence and this testimony was not contradicted or disputed. Itis part of the record and must be taken into account in framing the verdict. The nomination of SULZER by the | Democrats of New York was a most un- fortunate incident. It came at a time | when any decent Democratic candidate | could have been elected and likewise at a time when the election of a decent | Democrat to the office of Governor of | New York would have meant much to the Democracy and the country. But | the country was under the influence of | what might be called “reform hysteria,” | and SULZER, a yellow-streaked machine | servitor, professed reform so ardently | that the party managers were deceived | and he was nominated. That the ex-| posure of his delinquencies didn’t come | before the election and bring with it | party defeat is the only surprising thing | in the matter. The Democrats of New York are not the only victims of confidence in reform misplaced. In Pennsylvania Democrats | have rushed headlong into support of a | leadership of precisely the same type though a trifle more advanced in finesse. A. MiTcHELL PALMER had always been a servile follower of the party leaders whom he now denounces as corrupt bosses. As late as 1909 he importuned | influential Democrats whom he now denounces to help him in his ambitions toward control. In 1910 he was with and one of them at Allentown. | Like SULZER, however, he turned updn | them the moment that his own interests | might be subserved by recreancy. He is in no danger of impeachment but he is i more than likely to cause a blush before | his aims are fulfilled. | ——Acting President HUERTA, of Mex- | i ico, is certainly a strenuous executive. : Having put the entire body of Congress | under arrest he is now considering the propriety of hanging the members sever- | ally. How ROOSEVELT would like to con- | duct business in that way? | Weakening of the Washington Party. That a considerable number of the ! supporters of ROOSEVELT in the election | of 1912 have returned to their old party | allegiance, is unquestionably true. Some | of them were Democrats and many of | them Republicans and they were in- | fluenced to their party alignment that! year by admiration for the former Presi- | dent. As a matter of fact the standard | of public morals is not high in Pennsyl- | vania and many people are attracted to ! Mr. ROOSEVELT because of his animal propensity. His desire to kill things, his almos: incredible ambition to rule or ruin, is misinterpreted into a spirit of heroism and thousands of people voted for him who had no sympathy with the policies which his candidacy represented. It is safe to say that practically all the Democrats who were misled in that way are already back among their old political associates and such Republicans as are not ROOSEVELT worshippers may or may not vote with the Republican machine until the opportunity to vote for ROOSE- VELT recurs. Another element which added to the Washington party strength in 1912 was a group of political mal- contents who couldn't get offices in either of the old parties and affiliated with the ROOSEVELT force as “a last hope.” Their expectations have been disappointed and it mzy he said that they have gone back to the Republican machine. These de- But there are no signs that this weak- ening of the Washington party will cor- respondingly strengthen the PENROSE machine. The one certain consequence of the political revolt of 1912 is that the Republican machine has been irreparably broken. Oniy a comparatively few of the deserters from the Washington party will resume their old allegiance to the PENROSE machine. The selfish and sordid element represented by ex-Chair- man Hicks will probably be beguiled by promises of plunder but none of the self- respecting Democrats or Republicans who voted for ROOSEVELT in 1912 will join the PENROSE gang now. The desertions from the Washington party mean accessions to the Democratic party. EE —— —The best Job Work done here. Do you favor making the corporations help make and keep in repair the public high-ways of the State, which as local tax-payers, you have al- ways had to maintain? If so, you will vote “yes” on constitutional amendment No. 1. That is the amendment the corporations of the State are scheming to defeat, be- cause the bonds to be issued and sold to secure the money to improve our roads, are to be based on and paid by an increase of the tax on the capital stock of these combinations of wealth. Its adoption by the people will be the beginning of a system to require them to pay a proportionate share of local taxation, but which proportion will go to helping make and keep in repair the high-ways that corporations as well as the people use, the expense of which has always fallen, exclusively and alone, upon the shoulders of the tax-payers. You, Mr. Tax-payer, can readily see where your benefit would come in by the endorsement of this system—the adoption of this amendment. It would be to your road taxes just what the State appropriation to public schools is to your school taxes, only that this money would all come from taxation imposed on corporatestock, while the school appropriation comes out of all the moneys paid into the State treasury from all sources. Of the $50,000,000 proposed to be secured to help us make or have good roads, not a single penny of it is to be raised from any other source than that we have named—the tax on the capital stock of corporations—NOT A PENNY of it from your treasury or any money in which you have any interest whatever. If this amendment is defeated and the additional tax that would be required to pay the interest on these bonds and the amount that would eventually have to come from the same source to redeem and pay them, this money will simply remain in the coffers of the corpora- tions, while you continue keeping up the public roads yourselves in addi- tion to all the other local taxes that are so unjustly imposed upon you, while these corporations are exonorated from the payment of any local taxes for any purpose. How much graft there may be in the disbursement and expenditure of any money the State may haveto put to the betterment of our public roads; what kind of material is used in building them; how long they may last; how much it may cost tokeep them in repair; by whom or how soon this work is to be done, are, of course, all matters of importance to the people, just as every other public matter should be. But at this time they are mere side issues put forward by corporations to becloud the is- sue and defeat, if possible, the possibility of an increase on the capital stock tax, they are now paying, or the adoption of a method that will re- quire them to do a share in giving the State good roads. These questions will come up for attention, and will be determined by the Legislature after the amendment has been adopted, and you as voters will choose the men who will determin» them. So that you have this inatter in your own hands. "If you defeat this‘Amendment it will relieve corporations from any ob- ligations, but it won't prevent Republican Legislatures and Republican bosses going on and building public roads at your expense and requiring YOU to PAY ALL THE tax necessary for any improvements, any expen- ditures, or any graft they may have in doing so. By voting “no” on Amendment No. 1, you are leaving the road question just where it is to- day, with notice to the public, that you would rather pay all the expense of keeping up all our public high-ways yourselves than give the State the authority to increase the tax on the capital stock of corporations to help bear these burdens. You now have it in your own hands to help yourselves by making cor- porations help bear part of the taxation necessary to make and maintain our public high-ways. Will you have the good sense to do it, or will you decide to let our road matters as they now are and give coming Legisla- tures and State administrations power to make you bear ALL the expense of building any kind of roads they may determine the State shall have? The question is up to you, Mr. Tax-payer. President and Political Activity. It is rather unusual for a President to mix up in local political contests in his own party and not exactly commenda- ble. President WiLsON realized this fact when he declined to meddle in the guber- natorial campaign in New Jersey, though his residence in that State would afford some justification while his friendliness toward Governor FIEDLER, the Demo- cratic nominee, was certainly an ample enticement. But he declared that the Governor is the head of the party in the State and it would be improper for even the President to interfere. It was the Democratic conception of the relations of a Democratic President to the people of a State. For these reasons we do not believe that President WiLsON has directly or indirectly interfered with the Senatorial contest in Alabama. That he asked Rep- resentative CLAYTON to withdraw from the contentions, no doubt, true, and that the withdrawal of Judge CLAYTON may in- sentative UNDERWOOD is altogether prob. able. But the request to Judge CLAYTON was not for the purpose of helping UN- DERWOOD. It was to promote the cause mitteee on the Judiciary to lead in the impending fight against the trusts which have been despoiling the country. But no right thinking man North or South will complain because President WILSON'S action in the matter will inci- ee ———— Danger of War With Mexico. President WILSON has properly served notice on Mr. HUERTA that an oligarchy was . doned, and Banker Charles Pa ceived the Taft clemency that allowed him to get back into the Wall less the urts reverse their con- viction. r highly organized cam- wi was to result ina pardon from President Wilson has failed spite of the efforts of politi- From the New York World. Addressing the Boston City Club, ex: President Taft said: “W cans or we are Democrats, we are for possibilities or impossibilities, but I trust there is no one here who doesn’t wish the success of the present administration of the United States for the benefit of all e e.” It is gratifying to know the sentiment was greeted, as the says, “with a storm of applause.” It is easy to believe it was a much more sincere as well as a much more patriotic applause than that which followed a recent attempt by our other ex-President to exalt his own ad. ministration by misrepresenting and abusing the present administration. The differences between the patriotic impulses of Mr. Taft and the personal self-seeking of Mr. Roosevelt have been often manifested, but rarely in clearer contrast than in these two speeches de- livered under conditions so near alike. in Mexico won't go. HUERTA has invok- BMr. Taft has no desire to make a leader- ed every expedient to fool the public. After having procured the murder of his predecessor in order to get into office, he has made all kinds of false promises for the purpose of retaining power. But he has not deceived the American ple or the President of the United States. At every stage of the game his schemes have been understood and discounted. His effort to make himself a dictator is the limit of an outrageous presumption. The refusal of President WILSON to ac- quiesce in the plans of HUERTA may re- sult in hostile operations between the countries. But it must be said that the government of the United States has made every possible effort to avoid such a result. The administration of Presi- dent WILSON has gone beyond the limit of reason to avoid the duty of chastising not Mexico, because we have no quarrel with that country, but a usurper who has attained a position of power in the government of our sister Republic by murder and other forms of crime. The President of the United States has notified this usurper that no election can be held under the conditions which he has established. The people of the Unit- ed States will cordially concur in this de- cision and if it produces war that result will be accepted as the alternative to in- justice upon the American continent. We are a peace-loving people but we de- mand at least the forms of justice and | HUERTA has made it impossible to even ' hope for thisif he is permitted to have | his evil way in the conduct of the gov- ernment which he has betrayed. i ~—When the people come to under- s | stand thet Senators CumMiNs and La. FOLLETTE are only different types of the same demagogue, it will be easier to un. derstand their various attitudes on pub- lic questions. ——Have your Job Work done here. Congress ship for himself by factious opposition. Mr. Roosevelt has hardly any other de- sire so far as politics is concerned. “Until we have again an opportunity to discuss the issues,” says Mr. Taft, “I am for the administration.” Mr. Roosevelt's speech was a virtual declaration that “I am op- P€0" | hosed to every administration that is not my own.” News From Greensburg. makes the proud boast What's the Matter with Socialism. Both © of Massachusetts, had . Foss, a sound Republican sl last night, but it is believed DE ra are still His nightmares however, are positively Progressive. ——Qur friends, the bankers, would to force their opinions and the President. SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. —Judge W. N. Seibert, of the Juniata-Perry district, has been ill for the last two weeks at his home in New Bloomfield. —The small-pox scare in Clinton county has sensibly abated and the schools of Flemington reopened on Monday. No new cases have ap- peared for several days. —Mrs. Amelia C. Fisher, Sunbury’s oldesg resident, was 100 years old last Friday. She is vigorous and active, full of energy and her faculties are remarkably keen for her age. ~The extension of the Pittsburgh, Shawmut and Northern railroad, from Brookville to Kit- tanning, was opened for passenger traffic on Sun- Ju. There will be a train each way twice a —The bald iniquity of the scalp actis forci- bly illustrated by the fact that Huntingdon coun- ty paid out from May 6 to October 6, the sum of $6,803 for the scalps of predatory birds and ani- mals. —Children who were playing with matches set fire tothe barn of Jerry Neal, at Oakmont, near Morrisdale. The structure was entirely destroy- ed and with it five tons of hay and other con- tents, —Some bold thief entered the homes of Anderson Steele, of Latrobe, in broad daylight the other day and when he left carried with him a gold watch and chain and eighteen silver knives and forks. =A Northumberland county individual who did a little hunting last week without taking the trouble to take out a license, and who likewise disregarded the season, a little later paid $85 for three little birds he had shot. —A new mining operation is about to start within two miles of Ebensburg and the conserva- tive citizens of Cambria’s capital are afraid they will be overwhelmed by the riffraff of humanity. Perhaps their fears are exaggerated. —Lloyd Rupert, of Oliver township, Mifflin county, recently fell twenty-five feet from an apple tree. He had three pecks of apples on his shoulder when he fel! and sustained serious in- juries. Both legs were paralyzed, but he is now slowly recovering. ~~Howard Walter Francis and his father, Jacob Francis, have entered suit in the Somerset coun- ty court against the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, claiming damages in the sum of $12,000 for in- juries sustained by the lad on a grade crossing, involving the loss of a leg. =The Monroe Coal company has closed the bargain whereby they become the owners of the David Jones farm that lies about one mile west of Ebensburg on the Clay pike. The tract con- sists of 146 acres and the price paid for surface and coal was $150 per acre. =Indiana county's murder mystery resolves itself into the tale of a lad who, with a brother, was caucht stealing apples from a farmer. The frightened boy got away but the farmer caught and held his brother. Eventually the latter was permitted to go and no harm was done any. one. _ —While shooting at a sparrow, John S. Brad- ley, of Gallitzin accidentally shot his wife. The bullet passed through the kitchen wall and struck the woman below the right eye, smashing her ~Returning from the Bloomsburg fair Thurs- day night a Milton letter carrier was missed after the train had pulled out from Rupert. Word was telegraphed back and his mangled body was found on the track. When the train reached Milton his cap was found on the pilot of the engine. The train crew did not know they had hit anything. —What lawvers at Sunbury say is the most novel damage suit they ever heard of was brought in the Northumberland county court by N. D. Mass- * | teller, of Point township. He seeks $20,000 dam- ages from the Germania Brewing Co., of Danville, which he alleges, sold him a guaranteed non- alcoholic drink, when, in truth, it was intoxicat- ing. He resold it, and as a result served six months in jail for selling liquor illegally. —Burglars entered the post office at Blandburg last Saturday morning and blew open the safe securing a large supply of postage stamps and some money. An epidemic of post office and store robberies seems to have set in again in that region, various robberies having occurred re- cently at McGees Mills, Bells Landing, Clymer, Sligo and Blandburg. Four of these were post office burglaries and in every case it is said the robbers made big hauls. ~The will of the late S. B. Haupt, of Milton, president and general manager of the Susque- hanna, Bloomsburg and Berwick Railroad com- pany, leaves the whole of his estate in trust, the income or any part of the estate needed to keep | his widow, to be devoted to such use as long as she remains single. In case of her death or re marriage the estate is to be divided among his brothers and sisters, their heirs or assigns. There are a number of relatives of deceased living in Bellefonte. —Francisco Imbesi, who killed Charles Hayes and wounded and robbed paymaster Patrick Campbell at Portage, Pa., in 1904, sur- ly sentenced to thirty years imprisonment. Largely through Mr. Campbell's efforts, in a trip he made to Sicily, Imbesi was captured several ~The State Live Stock Sanitary Board is fight- ing hard to stamp out cholera among herds of swine in Northumberland and Montour coun- | was the vote for the four highest candidates, and | they will go on the ballot: John J. Henderson, ! 96,057; James Alcorn, 76498; Webster Grim, ; 58,129; John W. Kephart, 53,479. The names of | these four candidates will be on the official bal- lot, and but two are to be elected, and the voter | ~The chicken coop of George Ocelus, at Cum- | bola, Schuylkill county, was robbed of 26 chick- | eny and 6 ducks Tuesday night. While investi- | gating, Ocelus found a pocketbook in the chick- en coop containing $250 and a tax receipt, which ' was dropped by the man who took thelchickens. ; The owner of the tax receipt was notified of the ,findand he at once claimed the money and re- . turned the chickens, declaring he todk them only ' asajoke. Ocelus refuses to give the name of ' his neighbor, whose identity he discovered in make more progress in altering the this odd manner, but he declined to return the pending currency bill if they showed less money, declaring he will hold the amount also for fun. Itissaid that both men will bring law On | suits, Ocelus charging his neighbor with theft, and the neighbor suing for his money.
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