BY P. GRAY MEEK.
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INK SLINGS.
—And Philadelphia voted to retain the
piggeries.
—Corn husking had more attraction
for many a farmer on Tuesday, than the
polling places.
--Even on a light vote Centre county
registered a very decisive verdict against
the good roads bond issue.
—One lighted gas jet consumes as
much air as four adults, then why sleep
in a closed room with a light burning.
—Former Judge Francis O'CONNOR,
has been elected to the new additional
law judgship in Cambria county by 236.
—Cheer up State! If Bucknell can
beat Pitt surely you ought to be able to
find yourself by Turkey day and do the
same thing.
—The frequent complaints against
the income tax simply show how the rich
squeal when compelled to pay their share
of the expenses.
—Huntingdon county has elected two
“dry” associate judges, which means that |
the licenses recently granted over there |
will not be renewed.
—Johnstown is in the clutches of Evan-
gelist BiLLy SUNDAY and Congressman
WARREN WORTH BAILEY is in his cyclone
cellar in Washington.
——The pig appears to have been the
main political issue in Philadelphia this
year. Heretofore the hogs have had
their own way most of the time.
—SINGLETON BELL Esq. defeated sit-
ting judge ALLisoN O. SmiTH tor Presi.
dent judge of Clearfield county by a ma-
jority that will reach nearly two thous-
and.
—The election of DAvip I. WALSH,
Democrat, to be Governor of Massachu-
setts, looks as though the old Bay State
is perfectly satisfied with President WiL-
SON.
—Tuesday was election and if you
were a candidate and didn't get elected
you have the satisfaction of knowing that
the best men are not always chosen.
That's some comfort, anyway.
——Those ruffianly British Suffragettes
are achieving something at least. They
are postponing indefinitely, and possibly
forever, the extension of the suffrage to
the women of the United States.
—It is altogether probable that if PEN-
ROSE hadn't come out for the good roads
bond issue it would have carried. And,
at that, we believe he only espoused it
thinking it was destined to be a popular
——Mr. GABREl d'ANNUNZIO declares
that he will commit suicide in two years
“in a mysterious way that will startle the
world.” All right GABE, but what's the
use in waiting, two years. We need a
little excitement of that sort now.
~Mr. GEORGE W. PERKINS never
needed THEODORE ROOSEVELT as badly
as Le needs him now. The suit against
the Harvester trust has begun and the
President will not instruct the Attorney
General to delay proceedings “until you
hear from me.”
—Meantime those who are reading
Mr. SuLzer's accusations against his
former friends and associates should re-
member that a man who has been con-
victed of perjury is not a dependable
witness and upon that point the Court of
Impeachment was unanimous.
——Mr. JAMES J. HILL is confirmed in
the belief that the fiscal affairs of this
government will continue to run at high
speed in the direction of the “deminition
bowwows,” until the peopie compel him
to take charge of them. Most every-
body else thinks different, however.
—President WILSON was not forgotten
in New Jersey. The voters of that State |
have too much reason to be thankful for
the reforms he inaugurated there when
he was Governor to stop their progress
now. Accordingly they elected JAMES
F. F1eDLER, Democrat, Governor because
the President had put his seal of approval
on his candidacy.
——On the second page of today's
paper will be found an original story en-
titled “The Man on the Train,” by Miss
Martha Alricks Johnson, of Bellefonte:
It is an interesting little story with a well
defined plot and we feel sure that read-
ers of the WATCHMAN will appreciate it.
Miss Johnson has had published several
interesting books and has contributed
stories and articles to a number of publi.
cations and her writings are always fluent
and attractive enough to hold the atten-
tion of the reader from start to finish.
—The election of JOHN PURROY MITCH-
ELL to be Mayor of New York is a great
victory for clean government in America’s
metropolis. The startling revelations of
police criminality that were made in the
BECKER trial and have become the more
convincing through later investigations,
the impeachment of Governor SULZER
and its consequent expose of political
rottenness on all sides, aroused the pub-
lic conscience of New York to the point
where it struck hard and positively for
the reclaiming of the city from Tammany.
It was not a party issue, for Mr. MITCH-
ELL is a Democrat. It was a municipal
house cleaning and the last office seems
VOL. 58.
Tuesday's Elections.
The elections passed off quietly in
Pennsyivania on Tuesday, though there
was considerable excitement in the cities
of Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Scranton
over local tickets. Fusion again failed
to make good in its fight against PEN-
ROSE and that city voted for the Machine
candidates for all offices. In Pittsburgh
the contest was on Mayor; ARMSTRONG
representing the PENROSE—OLIVER fac-
tion was victorious over PORTER repre-
senting FLINN and the Washington party
adherents.
The one regrettable outcome of the
voting is the apparent defeat of Hon.
WEBSTER GRIM for Superior Court Judge,
by Joun W. KEPHART, of Cambria coun-
ty. The former was well and honorably
known in legal circles throughout the
State, prominent as a Senator of Penn-
sylvania and splendidly equipped to add
ability to a bench that does not have a
surfeit of it now. Mr. KEPHART, com-
paratively speaking, was unknown and
kept himself before the public through
newspaper advertising. He should not
and would not have defeated Mr. GRIM
had the Democratic State Central com-
mittee made even an effort for the only
Democrat on the ticket. While the ju.
diciary is now supposed to be non-par-
tisan that did not deter Repuplican pa-
pers from exploiting HENDERSON, ALCORN
and KEPHART their nominees. Therefor
we think it was quite within the prov-
ince of our organization to at least have
advised the Democratic papers of the
State and the local organizations, where
there are any, of the special fitness of
Mr. GRIM.
His defeat is regrettable because it
will have the tendency to make some
Democrats inquire as to whether others
are not persecuting them. For example,
how could Mr. KEPHART have secured
five hundred votes more than WEBSTER
GRIM in Centre county unless many
Democrats voted for him. And why did
many Democrats vote for Mr. KEPHART,
a Republican, in preference to Mr. GRIM, |
a Democrat, especially when the latter's
superior equipment for the place was ad-
mitted. It is also an incident worth
notice that Centre county is about the
only Democratic county in the State
where some of the members of our
party have elected to keep the fight of
. but they cost from ten to twenty million
' sionally they are useful as admonitory
' of the parties to the agreement and the
| not expressed in eulogies of the Ameri-
| or poking the Russian bear with a sharp
, stick. Relieving the people of burdens
‘ are building battleships and other war
STATE RIGHTS
The administration at Washington re- |
veals both wisdom and patriotism in |
prowsptiy sespouding to the suggestion of |
WinsTON CHURCHILL, First Lord of the
British Admiralty, that ali the great gov- |
ernments of the world take “a naval hol- |
iday,” for a couple of years. By that!
term Mr. CHURCHILL means that the sev- |
eral countries which have been running | cent issue of the Century Magazine, that
like mad men into the expense of build- | he is “sundered from the men who now | county court.
ing battleships cease Sh Speraticns for | control and manage the Republican party |
a time. He probably Germany in | by the gulf of their actual practices and | :
: i to cease tting
mind for the reason that the average of the openly avowed or secretly held of streams by Jermitting the vol
AND FEDERAL UNIO
BELLEFONTE, PA.. NOVEMBER 7, 1913.
N.
Roosevelt Assuring Us Again.
If Col. ROOSEVELT’S assurances assured
anything the country could rest easy
about being annoyed with his candidacy
as a Republican, for President again in
1916. Even from away down in South | j
America, where he has gone, to keep | port.
himself before the public, he sends back
the word almost as he wrote it for a re-
“=O
®
NO.
This course was taken after first noti-
fying every manufacturer that
stream ution
their
Englishman believes that the Kaiser's principles which rendered it necessary to A works, and then, after a lapse of some
government is determined, sooner or lat- |
er, to make war on Great Britain and |
that for every warship built by Germany,
England must build two. But the prin-
ciple expressed in the suggestion is ap-
plicable to this country quite as directly
as to any other. The matter directly af-
fects all countries.
Battleships are beautiful National toys
dollars a piece for construction and
equipment and a vast sum annually for
maintenance. They last only from ten
to a dozen years and contribute nothing
toward the public welfare during the in-
terval. In the event of war it must be
admitted, they are essential, and occa-
signals to weak powers that it is unsafe
to “monkey with a buzz saw.” For ex-
ample it may be said that fear of the
British navy has restrained Germany
more than once in the past. But if all
the leading governments would take the
proposed holiday now the present ratio
of naval st ‘ength would continue during
the period, no harm could result to either
saving in expense would be beneficial to
all the people.
The highest standard ~f patriotism is
can eagle, twisting the British lion’s tail
is a much more practical service. The
proposed naval holiday will make for
that result in the most direct way. We
vessels at a cost of forty or fifty millions
a year which amounts to a tax of eight
to ten dollars annually upon the average
American family. Tax is as certain a
resort to these practices.” That is
definite and emphatic. Even if the
friends of the Colonel should force his
nomination in the next National conven-
tion as they came very near doing in the
last, he couldn't accept. It would work
a stultification and the Colonel could not
stand for that. There could be no “so-
cial and industrial justice” in such a turn
of affairs.
Colonel ROOSEVELT is equally clear in
defining his reasons for his “sundering”
operation. He is opposed to allowing the
Supreme and inferior courts to interpret
the constitution, which he frankly and
unselfishly admits is the “fundamental :
law of the land.” There was no real
reason for this concession to the constitu-
tion. The Colonel might easily have
claimed that his own caprices are the
fundamental law and BiLL FLINN would
never have known the difference while
Mr. Perkins would have had no ojections
' The election, therefore,
' time, establishing by investigation that
{ hardly any of them had done anything at
all in the matter. This left only the
on between permiting the low to
and en .
| go nst each offender.
campaign is waged against one
| water-shed at a time, and as the
cutions are criminal, they are held
i until positive evidence is secured
i each offender. But the course en in-
' dicates that worse offenders than
' on the upper uehanna will
1 2% She upper Susquchan when
| Fisheries Department comes to deal with
| the big cities of the State, the
| what it will do with them all
puzzling, solely by reason of its size.
m— :
candidate has a majority of the votes.
becomes null and
void, and
.
This certainly
fairs of which the United States must
so long as the Harvester trust was taken 1S uly as Sopmizae | Hiena 38
care of properly. Even Mr. Munsey | !D power *
might have been depended upon to “go | Sod man: Hie has made. Republicantm
along” in view of ROOSEVELT’S past serv- in North America a word of shame. He
ice for the Steel trust. | has humiliated citizen who believes
But we are not able to discern with | i the Republican edd and the Regus:
any degree of clearness the line of dis- | no peace with him. No Thes e NaC
tinction between the “actual practices | be given him. Yet he is in power and is
and the openly avowed or secretly held to be reckoned with.
principles which rendered it necessary ' It is possible that the continued suc-
for them (the men who now control and DUah0t evo Kiotlists wii slvethe Huefta
manage the Republican party), and those at Washington of its present em
which obtained when Colonel ROOSEVELT SiON, el inter vsReion by the
- n S$ +
exercised those functions. The managers | | tee. OER oo He He a
who controlled the convention of 1912 resorted to except in the direst necessity.
ere rank amateurs compared with those | —
managed the convention of 1908
when ROOSEVELT was fixing matters for
his renomination and election four years
The Great American Hen.
From the Chicago Inter-Ocean.
: defeated. But four counties in the State
charge upon the family purse as bread
though not as necessary an expense and
every battleship built adds to the high
cost of living. In responding favorably
to Mr. CHURCHILL'S proposition, there-
‘fore, the administration of President
WILSON is promoting the public interests
by trying to economize in the cost of
government.
Mr. Bailey and William McNair.
two years ago going at whatever cost.
In New York the returns indicate a
partial victory for the Republicans, but
this was accomplished more through a
general fight against Tammany control
than because of inherent strength in the
opposition. The Democrats won notable |
victories in Massachusetts, New Jersey
and Maryland and really more than held
their own in every place but Pennsylva-
nia. Certain it is that the results do
We are not surprised at the rumor
not present a hopeful outlock for the im-
ot. CO thot are-10.COme that our esteemed contemporary, Hon.
year | WARREN WORTH BAILEY, editor of the
While exact figures on the good roads lohstown Stinords, Sogaiie a Rew
bond issue cannot be obtained at this ve Ly Mr. WitLians McNAIR, of Pitts-
writing it is reasonably certain that it is Burgh; is olla tg: withclting nthe
enterprise. Mr. BAILEY, like the prover-
bial Irishman, is aiways “ag’in’ the gov-
ernment.” Mr. MCNAIR is a constitu-
onal and somewhat perennial malcon-
recorded majorities in favor of the
proposition and the negative majorities
of the country counties was sufficient to
overwhelm the favorable vote given it in |
Phil a | tent. Until recently both of them pre-
HLA | tended to be Democrats and probably be-
— Hallowe'en was quite generally ob. | lieved that they adhered to that political
served by the young people of Bellefonte | faith: But they were always against the
in social festivities and promenading in | Organization which kept the Democratic
costume. Probably a larger number of | PArty in existence during the period of
promenaders were out last Friday night | its adversity and invariably made all the
than in any former year. There was | trouble possible.
but the crowd in the main was orderly, convention as claimant for a seat in that
. . ency and before him little hope, necessa-
——Robert A. Love, of Tyrone, has|rily. But he made himself a laughing
been awarded the John W. White schol- | stock by his absurd antics. After the
arship at The Pennsylvania State Col- | convention he entered with more zeal
lege on account of general excellence | than intelligence into the movement to
during the Freshman year. The schol- | reorganize the party. Mr. BAILEY, who
arship is worth $100. Love won the is a phrase maker of much skill, joinec
McAllister scholarship last year for lead- | the movement with great enthusiasm.
ership of his class at the end of the first Both imagined that it would open the
semester. | way for them to advance as leaders. In
Some ‘person or persons either | the beginning their expecta tions were
carelessly or maliciously started a forest | fulfilled. Mr. GUTHRIE “adopted” Mc-
fire on the point of the mountain above | NAIR and Mr. PALMER “accepted” Mr.
burned fiercely during the afternoon and | Pave been expected. For a time they
evening but the heavy frost of Sunday gamboled like lambs in pasture.
. But even GUTHRIE and PALMER wea-
night acted as a good extinguisher and »
put out the blaze. | ried of their “wards” before long, and
emeeeeme— | BAILEY and MCNAIR were soon relegated
——The first snow of the season fell | into the background of the new political
last Friday, though it consisted only of arena. Both were thrown out of the
snow flurries. In the mountains, how- | Executive committee of the rump organ-
ever, enough snow fell to make the ization and naturally both turned their at-
ground white, but it did not lay any | tention to the task of organizing a new
length of time. Deer hunters would no party. It is to be called a “Single Tax”
doubt be glad to have a tracking snow | contraption and will hold a convention in
for next Monday. | Philadelphia in advance of the next nom-
= | ination for Governor. At this conven-
——A trout about twenty-five inches |
in length spawning on the gravel beds in | tion BAILEY itp Be nomingtid for Sov.
Spring creek opposite the WATCHMAN | ro dunocsal fossa
office, proved quite an attraction several Sikiehidjee ice i Pula a
to have been swept clean of Tammany
control;
days the past week. The trout was al- some way. He is never out of anything
most as big as a Susquehanna shad. supported by BAILEY and MCNAIR.
later. Probably it was their inefficiency
that turned ROOSEVELT against them. In
any event there is no moral difference
worth speaking about. But in any event
the country will be happy to feel assured
that this pestiferous blatherskite feels
that he cannot even force his own nomi-
nation, as a candidate, on the party be-
tween himself and which such a terrible
gulf now exists.
No European Interference.
We are not inclined to place much
faith in the report, widely published the |
other day, that the administration is
striving to induce the powers “to indicate
their support of its efforts to solve the
problem, so that it may approach the
Mexico city administration in a final ef-
fort to secure the elimination of HUERTA.”
The administration may have suggested |
to the powers to remain outside of the
contention, but in the face of tradition it
would hardly go further than that. The
interference by European governments
with affairs on this hemisphere is equally
repugnant to established policies of the
United States whether in favor of or
against the course our government is pur-
suing.
HUERTA is impossible in Mexico. Hav-
ing acquired the office he holds under
circumstances which involve suspicions
of murder and clearly imply usurpation,
the government of the United States can-
not afford to recognize his authority or piece
co-operate in his efforts to make his ten-
ure permanent or his title regular. But
neither can it afford to invite European
governments to interfere in the determi-
nation of questions in dispute. If Great
Britain, France or Japan has a right to
interfere on behalf of one side they have
a right to interfere in behalf of the other
side, Just rules run in both directions
and such interference on either side is
intolerable in view of our traditions.
The government of the United States
is morally responsible, in the eyes of
civilization, for the maintenance of just
government in Mexico. Just government
there, as we understand it, is a govern-
ment chosen by the people in the enjoy-
ment of the free exercise of their rights
as citizens. HUERTA was not so chosen
to the office he now occupies and would
not be chosen under the circumstances
indicated. That being true he must abdi-
cate, allow the people to elect his suc-
cessor and permit the inauguration of
the new administration thus chosen. But
we don’t need either the help or consent
of Europe or Asia to accomplish these
results. We are fully able to do that for
ourselves.
——Have your Job Work done here.
The American hen has always been a
t pv Nevertheless, she is growing
iy wenty years ago requi
assistance from the hens of the world in
order to meet the American demand for
her products. Today she not only sup-
i »s almost the entire American market,
ut is a big factor in supplying the world.
Figures just published the
ment of commerce show that during the
fiscal year 1913 the United States ex-
ported over 21,000,000 dozen of eggs,
| against 1,500,000 dozen 10 years ago and
1 143,000 dozen 20 years ago. The 1913
| exports included 20,409,653, and of $67,
'854 worth of yolks and canned eggs,
making a total of over a quarter of a
: billion eggs during the year.
| The great American hen still receives
a little assistance from the outside, but
comparatively little. We imported dur-
ing the fiscal year 1913, whole eggs, 1,271,-
765 dozen; yolks, 227,457 pounds, and
dried eggs 20,284 pounds. imports
of 1892 were 4,000,000 dozen eggs.
Tantalizing the Editor.
From the Oswego (Kan.) Independent.
gS aboay y in town with a Jlsivie
m to plutocracy n ng
bacon, the 40-cent cut particularly
thin, every morning for breakfast, and
when the savor is wafted out to mingle
with the crisp air of these autumn
morns and it floats in upon the dev-
otee of the print shop as he extracts the
lacteal fnid m the cow with eh Borns
missing, hunger ngs eternal n
the human stomach, and as we sit down
voting almost his entire time to it.
Bill is Doing Nobly.
From the New York Telegram.
from
a famine of capitai I's since Mr. Sulzer
commenced talking.
From the Memphis Commercial-Appeal.
Sulzer says he “refused money?
How, when and where? By the beard of
the Sronhet. here is a tale that needs un-
wil 1
| ee SUDSCIIOE TOI LIE WALLHMAN
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—“Fritz" Harmon, of South Williamsport,
started out a few days ago to hunt squirrels and
came home with a 150 pound bear that had wan-
dered into his way.
—Chief of Police Powers, of Lock Haven, was
handed $25 a few days ago for the capture of a
young man and a team of horses stolen from a
Williamsport liveryman.
—W. R. Sawyer, of Indiana, drilling a coal core
near Barnesboro recently, was shot in the shoul-
derby a man living nearby, who said he was
shooting at mark. He was taken to Spangler.
~A man thought to be Barney Roc, aged 50, of
Blossburg, was knocked from a forty-foot trestle
on the Indiana-Blairsville trolley line a few
nights ago by a passing trolley car and landed
on the ground with a broken neck.
—Constable Bruce Keefer, of Ralphton, shot
and slightly wounded two men who interfered
with his making an arrest to such a degree that
he was compelled to defend himself. The wound-
ed men were given attention and locked up.
~Williamsport’s Civic club sees a necessity for
two women cn the city board of health and a
policewoman on the street and at headquarters.
The proposals will be acted on by the executive
bossa before being sent out as recommenda-
t
—A large vat at the Newport tannery, which
had been installed only a few days, burst recent-
ly and the place was flooded with tanning liquid,
Wesley Miller, who was near, had a set of false
Rell VIReR i His touth ag was otherwise in-
ured.
~In the habit of taking laudanum to induce
sleep, Mrs. Emma Stivers, aged 27, of Greens-
burg, picked up a carbolic acid bottle that was
standing near the laudanum and took the wrong
dose. She was sleeping her last sleep in a few
hours.
—~Almost every manufacturer along the Sus-
quehanna above Williamsport has been arrested
for stream pollution and will be given a hearing
shortly. The state commission of fisheries had
given warning to all and his warning has not
been heeded.
—The third robbery at Rossiter within a week
was at the McClaren drug store, where cash and
merchandise to the amount of $100 were taken.
The town is without police protection and a
move to prevent a repetition of such occurrences
is under way.
—While a Hallowe'en parade was in progress
at Northumberland, a trained cow on which a
boy was riding became frightened and plunged
into a crowd of about 400 school children. One
little girl is in a critical condition and others
were badly hurt.
=Two holdups are reported from Benscreek in
one night. One man was tackled by four high-
waymen, who had a lantern and a broken whisky
bottle as weapons. He needed a doctor when
they were through with him. Another man had
all his money taken.
~The prompt action of Motorman Hanna, on
the Lock Haven-Mill Hall trolley line saved the
life of 8-year-old Florence Kramer, who tried to
cross the track ahead of the car at Flemington.
A number of Flemington children attend the
kinderga ten at the normal and the near fatality
points the advice that parents see the children
safely on the cars.
—Mrs. Sadie Keller, widow of David Keller, a
former Sunbury hotel man, dropped dead in the
Sunbury market Saturday morning. She had
just bought two dozen eggs from a dealer, pay-
ing forty cents a dozen. ‘That's the highest
price I ever paid for ezgs,” she remarked as she
handed over the money. An instant later she
dropped lifeless in front of the stand. She was
fifty-five years of age.
—Lost in a coal mine without a light was
thrilling experience of four Derry
days ago. They had a lamp when
but the oil gave out and they were
dark without knowing the way out.
matches and had burned their handkerchiefs as
torches and were about to start on a shirt when
one of them noticed a gleam of light and they
were soon in daylight again.
—Mrs. Max [ Cohn, aged 70 years and blind,
was seriously burned a few days ago at her home
at Punxsutawney. Her husband was out and it
is thought she went to the gas range for hot
water and came in contact with the blaze. Her
daughter, next door, came in answer to her
screams and the flames were extinguished, but
her recovery is doubtful. The daughter is also
in serious condition from fright and burns on her
—Newberry is in the throes of an epidemic of
diphtheria, and residents of that place are great-
ly alarmed over the situation. There are now at
least 20 cases reported. The board of health will
hoid an important meeting Saturday afternoon
at 4 o'clock at the city hall at which time the
diphtheria question will be discussed. The num-
ber of contagious diseases is reported to be re-
markably large for this time of the year. New-
berry is the storm center for diphtheria and everv
possible effort is being made to confine the cases
to that section of the city. t
—It was said that Senator Templeton, of Blair,
who is now serving a term in the Western peni-
tentiary for embezzling, as attorney, trust and
other funds committed to his care, will apply for
a pardon in the near future, with a view of re-
moving from the State to begin life over. Since
his incarceration Templeton has lost all of this
world’s goods and his home has been broken up
by the death of his wife. If pardoned he will not
be under parole and can leave the State, and he
would like to have another chance which would
be difficult to secure were he under parole.
if
tine against dogs on account of
ig
Mrs. C. K. Sober, of Lewisburg, was with Mrs.
Vought but escaped injury.