. didn’t affect the mackinaw coats. BY P. GRAY INK SLINGS. | —— i —Only those who need to be evan- gelized most are opposed to the evan- gelist. —This non-partisan business seems to really mean non-participation—by any | but Republicans. i —We all agree that we must have | good roads. But how and when are we to get them? Ah, there is the rub. | —BILLY SUNDAY declares that God loves humor, else he wouldn't have made the parrot and monkey and some of us. —Whatever else may be said of Mr. HUERTA (pronounce it Wherta) there can be no question as to the amount of nerve he has. —Tartars who cannot read eat books | hoping to get knowledge from the diet, | and that is one of the reasons they are called Tartars. —Anyway, the county school teachers added a lot to the riot of feminine colors on our streets this week, even if they —Pennsylvania Day at Pennsylvania's one great institution of higher education was ideal. The weather, the attendance and the entertainment were all that could have been desired. —JosepH P. TuMULTY, the President's private secretary, is spoken of as the most probable successor to WiLLIAM F. McCoowmss, as chairman of the Demo- | cratic National committee. —The blizzard of Monday was a little premature for everybody but the hunt- ers. With such a fine tracking snow for the opening of the deer season they cer- tainly had reason to be thankful. —It is only the fellow who thinks he is saving his own soul by dropping an occa- sional copper or nickel on the collection plate who worries for fear the parson is getting too much for preaching to him. ——Meantime the administration cur- rency bill is going through during the | present session of Congress. The pro- posed changes are all in the interest of the Money trust and that entity doesn’t meet with much favor in the present Congress. —BILLY SUNDAY told the Johnstown High school students that “it takes more than a bull dog pipe and a Frat pin to make a man,” but the wisdom of BiL- LY'S remark won't fully soak into those young “nuts” until long after they are out of college. —Dr. TANNER, the-man who made himself notorious by fasting forty days, some years ago, has proposed to Mrs. PANKHURST. He is only eighty-five years old, but at that we think he is old enough | to know better than to want to hook up | with a .1dy as militant as Emmy. —The town of Klingenberg, Germany, has 2000 population and had $100,000 in its treasury, whereupon all taxes were absolved for one vear and a “divvy” of the surplus made among the taxables. Klingenberg is evidently away behind the times in the art of municipal grafting. —That Panamanian religious fanatic, who declares another flood is to sub- | merge the earth shortly and is building an ark to be ready for it, is gathering up pairs of all the animals he can find to take with him in the ark. Surely he ought to be supplied with a Tammany tiger and a Republican coon. ——Really the public doesn't care whether Mr. ROCKEFELLER has impor- tant interests in Mexico or whether he hasn't. In a national sense Mr. ROCKE- FELLER is simply a “John Doe.” What concerns us is the status of the real, red-blooded American citizen in relation to Mexican affairs and that is the stand- ard which the administration at Wash- ington is considering all the time. —Governor FELKER, of New Hamp- shire, has gotten his State out of the THAW muddle by putting the case in po- sition to be carried to the United States Supreme court. Common sense would suggest that THAW be sent back to Mat- teawan, whence he fled. But law makes it rather difficult to see how a man whom the law holds is not competent to con- coct a conspiracy should be extradited because he had entered into one. —It is probable that the Alaskan bank- er who was sentenced to 280 year’s im- prisonment on 56 counts had his sentence commuted to five years because there was no way of telling where he would have spent the last hundred or more years of his confinement. It would have been rather humiliating to terrestial jus- tice to have condemned him to such a long period of torment, only to see tke possibility of his conversion and going off to Heaven to spend most of the sen- tence. ~The result of the recent judicial con- test in Clearfield county shows up the “inflooence” of 'Squire JOHN D. BARCLAY, of Clearfield, in a very interesting light. "Squire BARCLAY is the PALMER and Mc- CORMICK leader over there and he es- poused the cause of Judge SMITH with such a hurrah that we outsiders thought there would be nothing to it buta victo- ry for the sitting Judge. Of course we can't say whether the Squire dragged Judge SMITH to defeat, but it is very ev- ident that his “inflocence” didn't boost him vor ar nn Sha ear fa victary Cf § VOL. 58. | HA mm m— STATE Cupidity Rather Than Patriotism. Currency Legislation and the Caucus. In an address delivered at a banquet| As it appeares from this distance from | given by a Civic body in Pittsburgh, the other evening, Justice MESTREZAT, of the ' State Supreme court, expressed some wholesome truths. He pointed out the fact that most of the evils against which there is general complaint are not as- cribable to our system of government i but that failure in the administration of the system is responsible. In other words this distinguished jurist admonish. es those impatient persons who are con. stantly demanding new systems and dif- ferent processes, that they are pursuing the wrong course in search of remedies and are themselves to blame, in part at least, for the evils of which they com- plain. It has become the custom of certain energetic but not thoughtful persons to propose ameridments to the constitution, restraints of the powers of the courts or | greater individual activities of the peo- ple whenever anything goes wrong. If a judicial decision doesn’t suit them they want to appeal immediately to that infal- lible tribunal, the assembly at the cor- ner grocery. If the Legislature enacts a | law with the principles of which they are ' pire by limitation with the close of this not in accord, they want to submit it forthwith to the nearest barroom for an- nullment. These processes they call the “recall of judicial decisions’’ and “the referendum,” and are held up as pana- ceas for every evil. informs them that this is a mistake and he is right in his estimate. Justice MESTREZAT | i the seat of government, President WiL- SON had nothing to do with the calling of the Senate caucus on the currency bill. Senator KERN, floor manager of the ma- jority, is responsible for the call and the caucus. Subsequently the President ap- proved the action and in that he was everlastingly right. The Democratic party is under pledge to enact such leg- islation. The fulfillment of the pledge has been delayed by the persistent efforts of the Money trust operating through the Republican machine in the Senate. The object of the caucus was to stifle this unfair and unpatriotic opposition. The result will be the keeping of faith with the people. Since the beginning of the special ses- sion every Wall Street agency and energy has been centred upon the defeat of the pending currency bill. Wall Street mag- nates have acknowledged the need of currency legislation and admitted that the pending measure has much merit. But they insist upon one amendment or another with the palpable purpose of either retarding its progress or defeating it entirely. The present session will ex- month and as there is no limit to debate on the floor, expedition is essential to success. The only way to secure expedi- tion was the caucus. It ought to have been called a month ago. There is no use in dilly-dallying in such matters. The caucus call aroused a dispairing Our form of government is as perfect | howl from the Wall Street interests. now as when it was promulgated by the | Newspapers influenced by those agencies great minds who organized it and is quite as adaptable to present conditions as to that period. The faults are not in the system but in the administration. Men who believed in a government of principles and acted upon their belief with courage and fidelity obtained the best results from our form of govern- ment. Those who have no principles, who vote with one party today and another tomorrow, who see nothing in politics except the spoils of office, will | always quaffel with existing conditions. They pretend to be influenced by patri- otism but they are governed entirely by cupidity. ——Mr. MELLEN, late president of the New Haven & Hartford, blames the Bos- ton bankers for the troubles of that cor- poration. Manifestly Mr. MELLEN wants to shield the real culprits in that case. The MoORGANJnterests not only control- led the road but made the Boston bank- ers do whatever they did in the matter and they alone are responsible for the trouble of the New York and New Haven. Lamentable But True. The vote on the constitutional amend- ment to provide for good roads is inex- plicable. The measure was defeated by the vote of rural communities. It may justly be said that the farmers of the Commonwealth are responsible for the result. Yet the farmers have a more di- rect interest in good roads than any oth- er element of the population. Residents in cities who own automobiles or use bi- cycles find pleasure and may derive ben- efits from good highways and there is a possible advantage to urban household- ers in the better facilities for supplying their tables. But the farmers get easier and cheaper access to markets as well as greater opportunities for suppliesin good roads. The constitutional amendment which was defeated by the opposition of these rural voters would have guaranteed these advantages to the farmers at the expense of the corporations. Of course the con- sumer pays the taxes of the corporations but the farmers are producers instead of consumers and escape this burden which falls upon the dwellers in cities and towns. Therefore while the corporations would have paid the taxes to provide for good roads the farmers would have es- caped the burden almost entirely. Yet the farmers voted against the amend- ment which would have given them the greatest possible advantage without cost. Of course the defeat of the amend- ment will not prevent road improve- ments. Next spring when farmers are driving through mud hub-deep to put their products on sale, they will be the most insistent in the call for good roads and the roads will be built in response to their just and reasonable demand. But they will be built at the expense of oth- er cherished institutions or else as the result of increased taxation from which the farmers will not be exempt. In oth- er words the farmers of Pennsylvania have permitted some selfish demagogues to betray them into an act of folly much as a silly child would “cut off its nose to spite its face.” This is lamentable but “true as Holy Writ.” Tha heat Tnh Wark Anne hora protested that it was introducing par- tisanship into financial problems and making currency legislation a play-thing of political managers. The measure has been in politics from the day it was in- troduced into the House. Every Repub- lican interest pounded upon it not only promptly but savagely. The action of the caucus will take it out of politics and put it into the service of commerce and industry, where it belongs. More- over it will enable the Democratic ma. jority in Congress to keep the pledge made to the people that the Money trust would be curbed if the Democrats suc- | ceeded. ——We are not inclined to criticise but it must be admitted that GAYNOR BLANK- ENBURG, of Philadelphia, is sick too fre- quently for great executive of an im- portant city. Every dispatch during the recent campaign told us of the Mayor's | infirmities but nobody ever heard that McNicHOL or VARE had anything the matter with them. They were alvays on the job and they won out by an over- whelming majority, notwithstanding the fact that the Mayor was right and they were wrong. The Mexican Situation. The Mexican situation is still in a state of confusion but we have faith in Presi- dent WiLSON's wisdom and ability to solve the problems as they arise. There will be no armed intervention or foreign interference. It may be necessary to en- list the moral support of other govern- ments of the Western hemisphere to prove good intentions to the Mexicans. But there will be no “butting in” on the part of Europe or Asia and Huerta’s dic- tatorship will be brought to a fitting end in due time. Dictatorships are unfash- ionable in this period of civilization and there will be no revivals along those lines. At this writing it is no easier to fore- cast the processes that will be adopted by the administration at Washington than iy was a week ago. But President WiLsoN is proving every day his devotion to the principles of justice and Democracy and that is a guarantee against all forms of folly in dealing with the subject. Armed intervention would be almost as bad as inviting the co-operation of Europe in en- forcing coercive measures. One would be violating the Democratic principles of home rule while the other is abhorrent to the Democratic principle expressed in the MONROE Doctrine. But the problems will be solved safely and sanely just as other perplexing prob- lems inherited from previous administra. tions have been or are being solved. The country is fortunate in having escaped the turmoil in which ROOSEVELT would have plunged us under the circumstances, as it is lucky that the wabbling methods of TAFT are no longer a menace. Woob- ROW WILSON can be depended upon to steer the ship of state into a harbor of safety and with as little friction as pos- sible. Don't worry, attend to business and be happy for “everything is lovely and the goose hangs high.” ——Nevertheless Mr. HUBRTA will have to get out. He may be able to de- lay the proceedings, moire or less, but the final result is inevitable. HUERTA An o Clary 3b AU cages aiggesve craic RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. BELLEFONTE, PA. NOVEMBER 14, 1913. 7 Repeal the Bad Law. The non-partisan baliot law, insofar as it affects the election of judges, has proved a failure. It may be doubted if any better results have been obtained from it in the matter of electing coun- cils under the CLARKE law. In most cases bi-partisan bodies nave been chosen. But in nearly every case that result was achieved by partisan alignment. In other words Democratic voters united upon candidates of Republican proclivities. Thus the non-partisan scheme was de- , feated though bi-partisan bodies were ob- tained. It will be difficult to find any _ material advantage in this. In the election of Superior Court judges | the opposite result was obtained. Under the old law, there being two judges to , elect, each party would have been prac- | tically certain of one and that one the | fittest and strongest candidate in the run- | ning. Under the new system the Re- publican peliticians, with the help of ' some of the party wreckers in the re- ‘organized organization, so manipulated | the votes as to secure two Republicans | | and no Democrat. Resentment against GRIM for the failure of BERRY'S election in 1910 influenced a considerable number of bogus Democratic voters to vote against the only Democratic nominee of ly Republican. There will be time between now and and has been from the beginning, a government of parties and our institu. cenaries without principle but with abun- dance of pretense, have been striving to | break down party lines and the non-par- | tisan legislation in the question is the re- sult. Its complete failure to better con- ditions will probably put a check upon the activities of the men responsible for it and we may hope that the next Legisla- ture will end it finally. | —The defeat of the third amend- | ment to the constitution, at the election on November 4th, will make it impera- tive for the Governor to appoint judges whose terms expire on the first Monday of January in odd numbered years up until 1920. The amendment was design- ed to correct an oversight in the amend- ment of 1909 abolishing the February election and providing that district judges should be elected only in odd numbered years. Had the amendment passed the | tenure of judges whose terms expire on | the first Monday of January in odd num. | bered years would have been extended one year. Being defeated it will be up to the Governor to appoint judges to fill 1915, 1917 and 1919 and the next election at which a district or county judge may be elected. There are fourteen district judges in the State whose terms expire on the first Monday of January, 1915, among the number being Judge Ellis L. Orvis, of Centre county, and Governor Tener will have the appointment of the above number before he goes out of office. —Blair county merchants are com- plaining because the farmers of that sec- tion are not marketing their potatoes but holding them for a higher price, their mark being one dollar a bushel. They claim that there are thousands of bushels of potatoes in Blair county but they are hard to get for the prevailing price, which in Altoona is from 65 to 75 cents. Cen- tre county farmers must also be holding their tubers for a higher price, as Belle- giving day will soon be here and turkeys are scarce and high in price, and the public in general should not be subjected to the competition of buyers who willing to pay most any price and: their chance of getting their in raffling off the birds. are take J. M. Black, of Port Allegheny, says she “looks forward to the weekly visits of the WATCHMAN as it seems so much like a letter from her old home town.” We thank Mrs. Black for her appreciative note and wish to assure her and all other readers of the paper that such expres. sions are a great inspiration in the drudg- ery of newspaper making. ———Chambersburg, Pa., has just closed a revival service that has made 1526 con- verts. Of the local military company, Co. i C., 8th Reg. N. G. P,, all the officers and all the privates but five professed conver- \ wion. the four with the result that at the ex- : | piration of Judge HEAD'S term the Super- . ior court bench will become unanimous- then to repeal this law, however, and we | hope the Legislature will thus dispose of | it at the earliest opportunity. Ours is, | tions have been preserved largely be- | | cadse of fidelity to party principles. Dur- ing recent years certain political mer- periods between the expiration of terms in | money back —A pleasant little letter from Mrs. | fail NO. 45. Not Bothered About Mexico. From the Lancaster Intelligencer, In spite of sensational gossip about the movements of warships and troops there are no Souviacing idications of anything doing right now in the way of armed in- tervention by our Uncle Sam in Mexico. Huerta has been given some straight talk from our Department of State and th hy Lieve at oe from ereo not er very grea an ultimatum, although is properly shy of that word; for an ulti- matum usually has a time limit within which something must be done, or some- thing that is being done must be by the party receiving the ultimatum; or the party delivering the same will resort to forcible measures. Probably Huerta has received a very positive demand but without any fixed time or definite threat of forcible action. The orders for the despatch of the et a hye orfers eoncaty ing ips and troops, have of course, some bearing upon this awkward situa- tion; for the attitude of our government is not merely a bluff and will be backed up if need be. But we do not yet know just what has been said to Huerta or how much backing it will require if he talks back. What we do know is that the Govern- ment at Washi n will faithfully inter- pret and apply earnest wish of our people to live at peace with the Mexi- cans, if possible, and to help them out of their troubles if possible; the whole | attitude and conduct of our affairs both | diplomatic and military in view of this long threatening Mexican trouble shows a calm tion with no unwarranted anxiety. large division of our war strength has been deliberately sent to Europe and is now being scattered all over the Mediterranean. We have on the Mexican border and a fleet on Mexican coast, but we are not worrying or threatening. No Room for the Pessimist’s Philosophy. From the Philadelphia Public Ledger. Dr. Alfred Russell Wallace died con- vinced—if his own words are to be taken i without reserve—that the world is very | evil; and a Socialist lecturer in this city | on Sunday last drew a dismal picture of | the human misery that is the result of | the fact that some persons have more | than others, because they or their ances- | tors—or both—worked hard and earned (it. The speaker declaimed books | and pictures and all the i th make for culture, on the id” that" | was futile to try to relieve the dreary ! monotony of human existence. And this | is the man whom many thousands of his ! fellows seriously to make the Mayor of New York city! : he world has little room or patience for the pessimists. We all know that | sorrow and want exist, to be relieved and | if possible removed. We are inter-de- ‘ pendent, and each has his duty to fulfill | to society as a whole. The individual | responsibility is not discharged by the | social Ishmaelite who rails against all . conventions and raises his hand to tear down what civilization has painfully and ' patiently upreared all the ages. The Progress of mankind is due to those | who with faith and hope and a soldierly irit march forward and pay no heed to the doubters and faint-hearted who in- | sist that this world is no better than a | “vale of blood and tears.” ' - a —— i f Putting Gold Back Into the Bill. | From the New York World. ! Mr. Weeks, of the Senate Banking ' Committee, is said to have told President | Wilson that if the Currency bill were amended so as to compel the regional banks to carry their reserves and redeem their Ropu in gold alone dead, of in “or lawful money,” Repu colleagues would interpose little opposi- tion to it. has now been made. It PRICE ee at DU This restores to the bill a provision which was there originally, but which mysteriously dropped out just before it wassent to the Senate. It places the Surteney squarely solidly on a basis. It puts substance into the bill's reaffirma- tion of the gold standard. It robs the Republican colleagues the bill along to early enactment. The People Are With Wilson. From the New York World. That the Wilson Administration still has the confidence of the is shown by the triumphs of the Democracy in the States where the issue pike of high anita was a lb ure. The Governor-elect of New Jersey is a Wilson Democrat. A familiar coalition between Jim Smithism and stand-pat Republicanism was ineffectual Apainat Fisdier as it had been against Wilson The United States Senator-elect in Maryland is a Wilson Democrat. In a State where Gormanism is still rampant he made his fight boldly as a champion of the Administration. The Mayor-elect of New York city is a Wilson Democrat. As a fusion te he received many Republican votes, but his triumph is due to the fact that in his character and purposes he represented the Wilson idea ir municipal government | 88 UPPIBLG Ww sie wyumeit S0 Seesennie SPAWLS FROM TEE KEYSTONE. ~Small-pox has broken out in Warriorsmark, the principal of the schools at that place having contracted the disease. —Donald, aged 18 months, is the fourth child in the family of William Shafer, of Huntingdon, to be stricken with diphtheria. One son, John died of the dread disease. ~Charles Ritchey, cleared at Huntingdon on a charge of horse stealing, was immediately re- arrested for forgery, by which means he had been reaping a nice harvest. —Johnstown business men are finding Billy Sunday a great asset in the way of bringing crowds to the city, who pause long enough to go shopping, as well as attend meetings. ~Candy doped with croton oil came near caus- ing the death of George Drayer and David Hep- ler, of Hawthorne, on the Armstrong-Clarion line. A fellow employee at the pottery plant played the joke. —Alex McMaster, of Johnstown, fell sixty feet over an embankment on Sunday afternoon and was taken to police station. When it was found that he was not injured a charge of drunkenness was lodged against him. ~Leaning over an elevator shaft to speak to some one on the floor below. Edward A. Curran, employed on the new High school building at Williamsport, was struck by a falling elevator and killed. He was 35 years old. ~Burning brush on the farm of James Mont- gomery, near Orangeville, started a fire that has burned over 200 acres of woodland on Knob mountain, not far from Bloomsburg. Valuable young timber has been destroyed. ~—Falling on his way to the woods, Joe Bolo- vitch, of Sykesville, had the left side of his face practically blown out by the accidental expiod ing of his gun. He isin a DuBois hospital under treatment and his recovery is hoped. —Concussion of the brain was the result to Raymond Bowen, of a foot-ball gameat Everett recently. The accident affected his spine in such a manner as to render him helpless. He was unconscious for nearly twenty-four hours. —An overheated flue is blamed for fire that destroyed the garage and chauffeur’s home at the residence of Dr. F. P. Ball, of Lock Haven. The doctor had a touring car and runabout in the building. Both were taken out, badly blistered. —An exploding lamp at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Rafferty, near Grampian, caused the death of Mrs. Rafferty and one child at the Clear- field hospital. Mr. Rafferty and another child have a fighting chance for life and two other children were not so severely burned. —Coleman Vtrik and George Mikac met instant death when the ore cage at the mines at Josephine on which they were standing preparatory to un. loading dropped 95 feet. The cables snapped and two girls who were to have been brides late in the month are bereft by the accident. =At Farrell, thirty-eight persons in a dozen homes were drugged by a powder sprinkled over the floor and when they awoke from the un- natural sleep it was to find that considerabie amounts of silverware, jewelry and cash were missing. The robbers covered their tracks re- markably well. —Hearing a rustle in the bushes, Ambrose Heyman, of South Williamsport, while out hunt- ing a few days ago, fired and shot his own hunt. ing dog, a valuable animal on whom he had spent a considerable sum. The dog was badly wound- ed and Mr, Heyman was obliged to end his misery with another shot. ~It is said that when a quarrel occurs at Ganister Hill, a notorious suburb of Mt. Union, the victors always are charged by the vanquished with selling liquor without license. The latest bail until within the shadow of the jail, when she pulled the required $500 from her stocking. =-Rev. Paul Ketterman, a Lutheran minister at Lilly, recently acquitted of charges brought against him at the session of Allegheny Synod, has filed a suit for $100,000 damages against the people who brought the charge at Synod. They accused him of embezzlement, circulated false reports about him and conspired to drive him out of Lilly, according to his statement. —A pot of gold, amounting to $1,500, which has been buried near the Black Heath school house at Minersville for forty years, is being sought. The money was buried by burglars, who served long terms in jail rather than tell the exact where- abouts of the coin. Several strangers are now in Minersville with maps of the buried treasure in their possession nd have engaged men to dig it up. ~Charles Yocum, employed at the Denholm coal wharf, was walking along the railroad on his way to work a few days ago, when he was struck from behind by a high class freight. The train was stopped and the crew went back to pick up his mangled remains. Imagine their sur- prise to see him hustiing down the track, trying to make up for the moments lost in picking him- self up, so as to report on time. -William Thomas, a conductor on the Cherry- tree and Dixonville branch of the New York Cen- tral railroad, had a narrow escape from death when a bullet whizzed past him as he was col- lecting tickets and scattered glass all about him. Had he been standing straight, he would have been killed. It is thought he was mistaken for conductor Stewart, of the Pennsylvania train that runs over that branch, who had some trou- ble with foreigners recently. —Siate constabulary are hunting Peter Dumpy, charged with killing “Big Louie” Vetti. The son of Louie's for taking a paper out of his mail box. Louis rushed out with a knife and Dumpy started to run, firing the fatal shot ashe went. A general relief is felt around the shaft at Superior, ~Cloyd Hampton, aged 25 years, of Petersburg, Huntingdon county, who was arrested a few days ago on a charge of attempting to wreck a pas- senger train on the Petersburg branch of the Pennsylvania railroad, made a confession day afternoon, before justice of the Black, of Huntingdon, that he committ, fence. He said that he had doneit venge, because he had applied for with the company and it had been refused hi He was held in $1,000 bail for court. —Cracksmen blew open the safe in the of the Shenango Furnace company at Wi early Wednesday morning and made a haul $1,100 in scamps and money. The office of the was 5 ~238 jit 3332 . g herpeia lights still burning in the office, concluded noth- ing was wrong and went back to bed. State police are working on the case. The cracksmen overlooked $236 in the safe. ~The State Board of Pardons, acting on a motion made by former Judge C. R. Savidge, counsel for Fred Nye, the Shamokin youth who is in the county jail at Sunbury awaiting the sentence for the condemned youth from Novem- ber 19th to December 17th. The action of the Board, it is expected, will result in Governor Tener giving Nye a lease of life that will extend over Christmas and possibly Yew Year's, even though the condemned youth's lawyers fail in . + | Sehese whawes bo
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