Beworralif: Watcpant
BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Tan,
INK SLINGS.
* —The slogan for Centre county Dem-
ocrats for the next ten days should be:
Get out the vote.
—Keep Wm. E. ToBias in mind. He
is the nominee for Congress who is
pledged to support President WILSON.
—Those London fogs ought to help
some in the way of defense when the
Zeppelins go after the English across the
channel.
—Send Davip W. MILLER to the Leg-
islature and be sure of having a man
there who will represent you and not
the big interests.
—There being 1,458,000 Presbyterians
in these United States probably accounts
for blue stockings being almost as much
of a staple as black at the hosiery
counters.
—The Chicago meat packing houses
are just now enjoying the greatest boom
in business they have ever experienced.
So much for the war ill wind that blows
somebody good.
—Latest Paris reports are to the effect
that the forts defending that city are im-
pregnable. Of course they are. And the
further the Germans are driven back in-
to Belgium the more impregnable they
"become.
—A vote for WiLLiaMm E. ToBIAS, on
November 3rd, will be a vote to endorse
the President of the United States. You
want to do that, so vote for TOBIAS and
all the Democratic candidates for Con-
gressmen-at-Large.
. —Don’t trifle with the coming chance
to clean up Pennsylvania. The fall is
the time when you do the house-clean-
ing in your own home. Why not start
in on November 3rd to do it in your own
State. They need a house-cleaning at
Harrisburg and WiLLiIAM H. PATTERSON
and DAVID W. MILLER are both well fit-
ted to help do the job if you send them
_ down there.
—When former President TAFT called
on President WILSON, the other day, he
found no difficulty in getting into White
House chairs that were far too small for
him when he was occupying the mansion
himself. Mr. TAFT has fallen away in
flesh, but not in spirit for he seemed
quite effervescent over the fact that he
no longer has great governmental prob-
lems to worry him.
—While the Bellefonte Republican, pub-
lished two hundred and fifty miles away.
from the Kensington district of Philadel-
phia, is trying to make its readers be-
lieve there is business stagnation in that
centre of the textile industry the Phila-
delphia papers state that the Kensington
mills are running night and day on or-
ders that will keep them busy until
spring. Calamity howling won’t make
votes.
—Just now, when the whole civilized
world is looking upon President WILSON
as the one man whose sober, clear states-
manship will eventually bring order out
of the chaos that exists, wouldn’t it be a
fine commentary on the appreciation of
the people of the 21st Congressional Dis-
trict if they were to send a man to Con-
gress to fight their great President. That
is what Mr. ROWLAND wants to go there
for. Then why vote for him. :
—The result of the election in Centre
county will depend entirely upon how
well the vote is gotten out. Democrats,
don’t blame County Chairman LEE if
your party makes a poor showing.
Every one of you will be just as account-
able as he is, just asable to get to the
polls and you should be just as anxious
to vote your convictions. Let there be
no ground for the chronic “I told you so”
to base his post-mortems on. Itis the
duty of every man of you to vote. And
if you fulfill that duty on November 3rd
you will be rendering yourself, more than
anyone else, a great service.
—With the election less than ten days
off and practically all of the funds raised
in Centre county sent to help the State
ticket we want to warn the Democrats
that much will be expected of them as
individuals. We understand that county
chairman LEE is practically without the
resources necessary to effect the kind of
a working organization he would like to
have, so the matter is up to every indi-
vidual Democrat. Don’t take it for
granted that some one is going to see
that the vote is gotten out in your
precinct. Possibly some one may under-
take to do it, but turn in and make the
work that much easier and the victory
that much greater by helping a little
yourself.
—Don’t let the calamity howler fake
you again. A good business woman of
Bellefonte and a good Republican wom-
an at that, told us on Tuesday that she
couldn’t see what people meant by be-
lieving such stories as are being told now
for political purposes. It is her opinion,
and she has been abreast of the times all
of her long life, that it is the same old
game that she has seen worked preced-
ing every important election within her
memory. Big Business always sends out
word to corporations here and there over
the country tc shut down, lay off men
and make a big play of hard times in or-
der to frighten the ignorant jnto voting
the way it wants them to. We are of the
opinion that this good woman summed
up the whole situation about as accurate-
ly as it is possible to do.
mirable impartiality as to challenge ad-
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 2). :
BELLEFONTE, PA.. OCTOBER 23, 191
Justice of the Supreme Court. |
Every voter should keep in mind the
fact that making a cross in the square
opposite the name of the party he |
prefers, which will be found on the first
column of the ballot, is a vote for the !
straight party ticket but not for the can- |
didate for Judge of the Supreme Court
he desires to favor. The candidates for
Judge of the Supreme Court and Judge
of the Superior Court are on the second
column of the ballot under the head
“Non-partisan.” After indicating your
choice among the party candidates by
marking either in the party square or
after the individual names, be sure to
vote in the second column for Judges by
making a cross after the name of the
candidate you desire to vote for. There
is no office more important than Justice
of the Supreme Court.
Both candidates for Justice of the Su-
preme Court this year are Republicans.
The one elected will be commissioned
for twenty-one years and may exercise
the vast powers of the office over the
life, property and destiny of the people
of the State for that long period. Judge
FRAZIER, of Pittsburgh, is favored by the
Republican machine for one reason or
another. His nomination was the result
of the concentration of the Machine vote
in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh upon him. '
The other candidate is Judge GEORGE
KUNKEL, of Harrisburg. He owes his
nomination to a wide-spread and deep-
seated confidence in his integrity and
ability. He carried considerably more
than half the counties of the State.
Judge KUNKEL was elected in 1903 after
a sharp contest by a small majority. He
was re-elected in 1913 by the unanimous
vote of all parties. The difference was
an expression of popular appreciation of
his merits as a jurist. He was “weighed
in the balance and not found wanting.”
He had fulfilled the best expectations of
his friends and agreeably disappointed
those who opposed him at his first elec-
tion. He tried the tax cases which came
before him with such ability and fidelity
to justice as to command respect. He
tried the capitol grafters with such ad-
miration. Probably that is why the Ma-
chine is against him. It is certainly a
good reason why the people should be
for him.
——Mr. CARNEGIE declares that he
will now “make war impossible.” If the
present war continues long there won't
be anything left in the old world worth
fighting for.
Tragedy and Comedy in the Campaign.
There are tragedies as well as come-
dies in the pending campaign. From the
beginning NEVEN DEITRICH has been a
joke, BILL FLINN a menace and BOIES
PENKOSE a nightmare. Other figures in
the field have been alternately amusing
and alarming and every looker-on may
take his choice of views. But GIFFORD
PINCHOT has been, coming and going,
like ARTEMUS WARD'S kangaroo, “a
amoosin’ little cuss.” He is a perennial
source of joy or sorrow. When he isn’t
getting married he is getting sick and
married or single, sick or well, he is in
the lime light and never wearies in the
performance of his part either in person :
or by proxy, his charming bride being
his capable understudy.
The other evening in Punxsutawney,
GIF. touched the climax of absurdity by
losing his voice. He was in the midst
of a most picturesque peroration, pierc-
ing the ambient atmosphere with beauti-
ful shafts of eloquence, whén suddenly
his voice left him. He fought valiantly
against the fate that silenced him. As
the report of the sad event said, “he
tried several times to continue but after
a delay of five minutes abandoned the
speech and left the platform. It was the
first time his voice had given out,” the
press report continued, and let us hope
it will be the last. The public never
could stand many such episodes. It was
too distressing to contemplate calmly.
But after all the incident is not to be
wondered at. GIF. had not only been
straining his voice but overtaxing his im-
agination. He had been expressing his
opinion of Senator PENROSE in strong
phrases and predicted the “days of PEN-
ROSE and his gang are numbered.” This
is probably true and if GIF. would get out
of the race it might be made certain.
But in conclusion, that is to say just be-
fore the collapse of his vocal organs, he
added: “This is the more certain be-
cause the great political factor in the
United States and the greatest man liv-
ing, THEODORE ROGSEVELT, is coming to
It is Not a Question of Politics.
In ten days the voters of Centre county will be given an opportunity to ex-
press their preference of men to govern and represent them. The coming elec-
tion will be a peculiar one for Pennsylvania inasmuch as it will be the first one in
wkich they have been called upon to vote directly for a United States Senator.
Heretofore the General Assembly of the Commonwealth, that is the House and
Senate, in joint session, have chosen our Senators in Congress and because such
Senators vote on questions involving party principles there has been a question of
party politics in the selection of our Members of the Legislature and our
State Senators. :
Under the new system the voter is given the opportunity of voting his polit-
ical convictions when he casts his ballot for United States Senator. There the
. whole matter of party principles ends. The State Legislature is no longer even
an indirect exponent _of Democracy, Republicanism, Prohibition or Progressive
principles. It has no voice whatever in making tariff, currency or other laws
which involve the cardinal principles upon
country differ. :
which the great political parties of the
It is merely the law making body for Pennsylvania and is now completely
shorn of all its partisan possibilities. Keep these facts in mind. No matter what
your party preference may be, no matter what some partisan politician may tell
you the time has gone forever when voting for a Member of the Legislature or a
State Senator carries any appreciable expression of your party principles. In
other words the selection of these two officials is almost as non-partisan an act as
is the selection of the Judges of our several courts.
This being the case we want to direct your attention to the offices of As-
semblyman and Senator, especially. In Pennsylvania the issue is PENROSEism, in-
so-far‘as he typifies an extravagant-and altogether unsatisfactory form of State
government. As to his usefulness as a Senator in Congress, as we have said be-
fore, you will be given opportunity to vote directly your opinion. But as to
whether you endorse the corrupt practices, the wasteful methods and corporation
favoring laws that his Machine has fastened upon Pennsylvania is another mat-
ter, separate and distinct from partisan politics. Itis a question of your own
pocket-book. A question of whether you are going to strike a blow for better
government, for cleaner government, for more economical government of your
own State. As long as this Machine controls the Legislature of Pennsylvania
there will be capitol scandals, road scandals, commissions without number, hold-
ups in the distribution of the-public-school§ appropriations and jockeying for fa-
vorites even down to the gratuities handed. out to our hospitals.
The voters of Centre county are getting some idea of how these things are
all worked for the advantage of the Machine through the state road improve-
ments that have been made in our own county. On every piece of work that has
been done in Centre county all foremen and time-keepers and much of the labor,
have had to be “right’’ with the Machine boss in Bellefonte—before they were
given employment. Really there has been no politics in it. Wholly an effort to
build up and strengthen the Machine that has Pennsylvania by the throat.
It seems to us that the time has come when this system should be broken
up. When the state government should be for the benefit of all the people and
not a sinecure through which a lot of Machine lieutenants pay their workers for
the support they expect to get at the polls. The opportunity to break it up will
be given you on November 3rd.
HARRY SCOTT, of Philipsburg, is the Machine candidate for Assemblyman.
He won't deny it and if he does the very fact that Hon. C. L. GRAMLEY, of Re-
bersburg, was defeated for the renomination to which his party precedents clear-
ly entitled him, because he couldn't be counted on for the Machine when he was
in Harrisburg, is all the evidence that a reasonable man needs to convince him
that ScoTT is the Machine nominee.
S. J. MILLER is the Machine nominee for State Senator in this District.
He can’t deny this for Republicans who are opposed to the Machine have gone so
far as to place Mr. MOULTHROP in the field against him.
In the last analysis all there is involved in the coming election of Assem-
blyman and State Senator is the question of the Machine or your owning Penn-
sylvania.
We think we have put this question up to you in a clear light. Certainly
we have not beclouded the issue, nor made a misstatement with the hope of mis-
leading you. And you must, therefor, come to the conclusion that it is not a mat-
ter of politics nor of men.
Granting that Mr. ScoTT is as good a man as DaviD W. MILLER and that S.
J. MILLER is as good a man as Mr. PATTERSON that would have nothing to do
with the question that confronts you. It is what they represent that effects the
voters of Centre county. It is a question of the honor of the State and the pocket-
book of the individual.
-If you vote for DAVID W. MILLER for Assemblyman and WiLLiaMm H. PaT-
TERSON for State Senator, you vote to end the Machine domination of Pennsylva-
nia. Surely that is what you ought to do on November 3rd.
——Possibly the many Democrats in |
this county who voted the “Keystone”
ticket in 1910, notwithstanding the fact
that they were told it was a Republican
scheme to divide and distract the party
and insure the election of TENER, will put
some faith in that fact now, when they
see that those who engineered that
trouble and defeat for Democracy, have
the State to help us restore government
to the people.” Let's see. Didn’t some-
thing happen to somebody else for lying.
¥
—PERKINS and FLINN ought to know
that ROOSEVELT needs money to mobil-
ize the Bull Moose party, yet they don't
appear to be “coughing up.”
taken an open stand for the “Republi-
cans’’ and have placed MARTIN G.
BRUMBAUGH, the regular Republican
nominee for Governor, upon the Key-
stone ticket for that office.
- ~—They are all good enough, but the
WATCHMAN is always the best.
——It is said that Germany is having
guns made that will shoot twenty-five
miles. If those instruments of death had
been brought into service in the begin-
ning the war might have been fought
without invading Belgium and thus vio-
lating a treaty.
——We are really impatient to see the
report of the first joint debate between
ROOSEVELT and Sulzer. If each of them |
tells the whole truth about the
other, however, the report will be exclud- |
ed from the mails.
i
—For high class Job Work come to |
the WATCHMAN Office,
Eighteen Months of ‘Wilson.
sn
| From Portland, Oregon, Journal.
Has anybody stopped to think what
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anybody ously consi e kin
of -adninistration work he has done and
the kind of legislative work he has
induced Congress to do? i
Did anybody ever hear of an American
President who, in so ‘short a time, has
done so much to elicit the ¢ ence, the
admiration and the applause of so many
of his countrymen? ER
What he is to his country and what his
country is to him are evidenced in the
kind of legislation he has brought for-
ward. His currency law the un-
qualified approval of all. “It is so excel-
lent in its provisions that it received not
only the support of the Democrats in
Congress; but of many Republicans and
Progressives. It solved a problem that
no ather statesman dared ‘try to solve,
though Congress and committees of Con-
gress, and leaders and groups of leaders
dallied with it and dodged it for a gen-
eration. !
His tariff superseded the most infa-
mous tariff in history. It received the
congressional support not only .of the
Democratic members, but of La. Follette
and many other progressive Republicans.
It was fought at the time and is fought
now only by standpatters, cheap politi-
cians and unfair newspapers for political
urposes. The vote of such a statesman
as La Follette for the present tariff
shows the country, what kind of men its
critics are. %
The anti-trust legislation, the Cham-
berlain railroad bill for Alaska, the in-
come tax measure are others of a pro-
gram to build up the country and free
business and industry from the autocracy
of the trusts. What President in Ameri-
can’ ry has done so much in so brief
a time to plan for a greater national
prosperity, a prosperity to come with un-
exampled abundance as soon as there is’
time for adjustment and for the handi-
caps of a bloody European war to pass
away?
It is a kind of legislation and a quan-
tity of legislation never before accom-
plished in so brief a time. It is legisla-
tive achievement carrying more relief
and protection for the people than any
American President ever secured in a
whole term. It is legislation directed to
human welfare and to a wise construc-
tive adjustment of the forces of national
life and business out of which to bring
the most prosperity to the ‘most people.
It is an earnest of the kind of things
Woodrow Wilson will try to secure for
his countrymen during the remaining
two and one-half years of eng.
What Woodrow Wilson brings to his
country is evidenced in the contrast be-
tween the tranquility and peace at home
and the frightful occurrences over seas.
Only yesterday there was clamor for
President Wilson to lead the armies of
the United States into Mexico. He was
scourged and ridiculed and denounced
and excoriated for his refusal to do so.
His policy was called a “grape juice pol-
icy.” It was jeered at as a “spineless”
policy. They said it was a foreign pol-
icy that made .the United States the
“laughing stock of Europe.”
While in blood-drenched Europe, wom-
en weep and men die, while children
call for sires who can never come back,
and mothers pray for the safety of sons
they will never more see, there is time
for the American people to thank Al-
mighty God for a President of peace, who
pleads with the nations to sheath their
swords and be at war no more. -
The Rock Island Scandal.
From the Philadelphia Record.
It is most unfprtunate that just at a
time when the railroads of the country
are making a strong plea for fair treat-
ment the hideous Rock Island scandal
should be dragged into the limelight and
its sickening details flashed upon the
public. Doubtless the coincidence is
purely accidental that these revelations
before the Interstate Commerce Com-
mission come just at the time when that
body is to reopen the application of the
Eastern lines for an increase in freight
rates. None the lessitis to be regret-
ted, for the story of plunder and looting
of a once prosperous railroad can hardly
fail to create the impression that these
practices are common and that it is be-
cause of them so many companies are
now in troubled financial waters. Such
an impression is not justified by the
facts.
Ever since the reorganization of the
Rock Island railroad by Wall street free-
booters a dozen years ago the methods
of financing and exploitation then adopt-
ed have been looked upon as a serious
crime by all right-thinking men. They
have never been defended outside of the
limited circle of beneficiaries, and the
prediction has often been made that they
would end in disaster, as they have. The
monstrous watering of stock, the reten-
tion of control by means of a small
amount of preferred stock, the deals
with other roads, involving heavy losses,
and the other scandals of management,
so far as they have been known, have all
been unsparingly denounced ever since
1902 and are in no sense typical of Amer-
ican railroad finance.
The public should view these questions
with an open mind, and because there
has been crookedness in the Rock Island,
the Frisco, the New Haven and other
roads should not jump to the hasty con-
clusion that all American railroads are
tarred with the same stick. The men
who wrecked the Rock Island ought to
be sent to jail, but this is no reason why
honestly-managed railroads should be
pushed any further toward bankruptcy.
Felix is Strong for Safety First.
From the Memphis Commercial Appeal.
Felix Diaz is our idea of a man who
wants somebody else to push the revolv-
ing door of revolution around for him.
——Subscribe for the WATCHMAN.
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—There is a chance that the State game com-
mission will set aside a 7,000-acre tract of land in
Lycoming county as a game preserve. There
cannot be too many of these.
—The farmers of at least two Westmoreland
county townships have formed a protective asso-
ciation for the purpose of patrolling and protect-
ing their farms during the hunting season.
—It is announced that the United States Rub-
ber company will presently resume operations at
the plant of the old Lycoming Rubber company,
in Williamsport, which has been idle for several
years.
—Claude L. Rice has brought suit against the
Cramer Coal, Cokeand Stone company, of Johns-
town, to recover $25,000 for personal injuries,
said to have been received while working for the
company, June 19th, 1914.
. —Fred Weaver, a farmer of Mount Zion, Clear-
field county, is a bit disgruntled over the vio-
lence of the much needed rain. It uprooted his
corn and pumpkins that were planted on a hill-
side, and smashed the pumpkins against the
fence.
—Drawn headlong into a rapidly revclving
circular saw, and his head split open from the
crown to the shoulders, was the horrible fate suf-
fered by Graham Irwin, aged 26 years, ata saw
mill being operated by the Shenango Furnace
company at Oak Grove, Westmoreland county.
—Thomas H. Murray, Esq., has presented the
Bar association of Clearfield county with por-
traits of Judges Burnside, Linn and McEnally.
These are in addition to other similar presenta-
tions. Judges Burnside and Linn were residents
of Bellefonte and also judges of the Centre coun-
ty courts.
—Theodore Redding, a resident of Punxsu-
tawney, while walking over the wooden trestle
of the Pennsylvania Railroad company at Elk
Run, slipped and fell a distance of seventy-five
feet, sustaining a compound fracture of the left
leg and internal injuries from" which it is feared
he will die.
—Ray Livermore, aged twenty years, had both
legs taken off as the result of an accident at Tia-
daghton on Sunday when he fell beneath the
wheels of a New York Central freight train. He
was taken to the Williamsport hospital the same
evening and his condition is reported as being
very serious.
—Twilla Ellinger, aged 19 years, who lives with
her parents at Curry’s Run, Clearfield county,
shot herself through the left breast during the
absence of her parents. She left a note bidding
her mother good-bye, but it is not known why
she committed the rash act. She is now an
inmate of the Clearfield hospital.
—State Health Commissioner Samuel G. Dixon
has written the Gallitzin borough authorities
that they will not be permitted to construct a
sewer system until they have provided a disposal
plant. This plant must be completed before
July, 1917, the commissioner states, and this
.means that work must begin in the near future.
—The plant of the American Plate Glass Co.,
at Kane, employing 700 men, will close operation
‘next Saturday for an indefinite period. While
the window glass plants are being rushed with
orders, there is no demand for plate glass and
practically every plant in the country will close
Saturday, with warehouses stocked to their
capacity.
—William I. Rosenberger, manager of the Elk
Run Brewing company, and one of Punxsu-
tawney’s most prominent citizens, narrowly
escaped death the other evening when his auto-
mobile was caught by a train. He jumped to
the bed of Saw Mill run, a distance of fifteen feet,
escaping with a dislocated ankle and a number
of minor bruises.
~Arthur Traup, a young blacksmith living in
Somerset, was found in an insensible condition in
the shop of his employer the other morning.
There was a bad wound on his head which, as
Traup explained after he regained conscious-
ness, was inflicted by an unknown man who
knocked him down and robbed him of $44. The
man will probably recover.
—Alleging that he caught them robbing his
chicken coop, Albert Eicher, a merchant of Fort
Hill, Somerset county, held D. F. Dempsey and
Harvey Bair prisoners at the point of a shotgup
for tour hours last Sunday morning until deputy
sheriff Berkey arrived from Somerset. The sus-
pects are well known residents of Fort Hill and
their arrest created a great sensation.
—A. R. Alexander and Charles H. Lyons, line
men employed by the Bell Telephone company,
and working in DuBois, were badly shocked by
coming in contact with a live wire and thrown to
the ground, sustaining injuries which resulted in
the death of both. Alexander, who was 23 years
old, died almost instantly, and Lyons, aged 28,
expired an hour and quarter later in the DuBois
hospital.
—Farmers in Franklin, Juniata, Huntingdon
and Perry counties have lodged complaints with
the State game commission that wild turkeys
are becoming so plentiful that they are destroy-
ing crops, particularly buckwheat. The great
increase is attributed to the closed season of sev-
eral years which will not be opened until 1915.
Wild turkeys are reported quite plentiful in Cen-
tre county but so far no reports of their destruc-
tiveness have been received.
—Harvey G. Milnor, a former sheriff of Ly-
coming county, and the proprietor of the hotel
at Loganton, died at an early hour Monday. He
was sixty-two. Mr. Milnor was afflicted with
Bright’s disease. Ex-sheriff Milnor was one of
the best known men in Lycoming and Clinton
counties. While a'resident of Lycoming county
he had taken a deep interest in politics on the
Democratic side. He became a resident of Clin-
ton county some years ago.
—George C. Cryder, aged twenty-one years,
son of Mr. and Mrs. John Cryder, of Flemington,
Pa., was killed in the Lock Haven paper mill on
Saturday evening, when he was almost ground to
a pulp, after having been drawn into a machine.
The affair occurred about midnight. Cryder
was in charge of a machine known as a hog,
which macerates the defective paper and grinds
it up to be worked over again. A number of
spikes eight inches in length revolve in this ma-
chine. It was against the rule to put a hand in
the machine and Cryder had been repeatedly
warned, but he placed his hand in the machine to
shove some of the paper down when his sleeve
caught. His body was torn to pieces so that it
was necessary to stop the machine and take it
apart to remove the parts of the body, none of
which weighed over one pound.
—The ingenuity of the officials of the Middle
division of the Pennsylvania railroad was sorely
taxed Monday evening, when they received a
heavy-weight passenger at Lewistown. The
woman weighed just 750 pounds, and she was
delivered to the Pennsy from the Erie road,
having a ticket for train No. 33, from Lewistown
to Pittsburgh. The Erie people placed the wom-
an on a baggage truck and she was taken to the
Pennsy train. It was found to be utterly im-
possible to take her through one of the doors of
the coaches or Pullman cars, and it was finally
necessary to unload her into a baggage car. Half
a dozen trainmen assisted her from the truck into
the baggage car, where she was made com-
fortable on the ride to the city. The woman had
been traveling with a circus, and was going
to her home in the Middle West. The woman
carried with her a specially constructed chair
and she occupied one end of the baggage car in
apparent contentment. The woman is so heavy
that it is practically impossible for her to walk.