Demo Madan. BY P. GRAY MEEK. n——————— INK SLINGS. —The Legislature of Pennsylvania has adjourned and be it said to its credit: There have been worse ones. —What has become of JEssS WILLARD, the new champion? He seems to have changed from the “white hope” to the * white slope. : —The way May weather has been eat- ing up the coal piles at the steam heat works is enough to make Col. TAYLOR hot as some of his patrons are—part of the time. —With snow in Wisconsin and West Virginia and frosts right here in Centre county that you could write your name in, this has been some cold week for the middle of May. —Poor VILLA! Poor BARNEs! Poor RooseverLt! How ephemeral is fame! The little notes that are passing between Washington and Berlin have led us to al- most forget that such persons ever were. —Evidence is accumulating to arouse the suspicion that Dr. DERNBERG has been “blown up.” Whether it was the Kaiser, Ambassador VON BERNSDORFF or a tor- pedo that did the job remains to be seen. —Let’s see, do they have petticoat rule in Italy? Judging from the length of time it has taken her to make up her mind about entering the war the world is almost justified in believing that the ladies are in control over there. —The British cabinet has fallen and a new one is to be formed. Ordinarily such a governmental collapse at such a critic- al time would be regarded as a very grave matter, but in this case it will probably result in the formation of a cabinet, more cohesive in itself and with more of national spirit supporting it, than the old one had. —Already we have heard of several residents of California by adoption who are coming back to dear old Centre coun- ty for Old Home week. Let us not fail to impress upon them that all of the ear- ly day charms that illumine their remin- iscent dreams are still to be found among the people and the scenes of their childhood’s homes. —If Old Home week should fail to come up to your expectations and you ‘are looking for some one to blame with your disappointment, stand before a mir- ror and interrogate the party you see in it as to whether he or she has done everything possible to make it a success. Many of the things that we expect most from fail to make good because we have failed to make good the obligations that it is our duty to voluntarily assume. —1t is, to say the least, gratifying to see so many of the great Republican journals of the country heaping unstint- ed praise on the great President the Dem- ocratic party has given the United States. There is so little of criticism and so much of praise that we, as Democrats, should feel all the prouder of ourselves for having made such a wise choice. Many have been the speculations as to what our condition would have been now had ROOSEVELT been elected. — Really if PRISCILLA, our pet poetess, “and the writer of our weekly Rebersburg letter don’t have a set back soon the editor of the WATCHMAN is likely to be- come so occupied pouring over their in- teresting productions that he will be neg- lecting his own work. Listen to this, for instance, from our purveyor of pleasant- ries from Brush valley: “Miss MARY BRIGHT, who was an invalid on Phila- delphia scholastic manna, when she ar- rived home a few weeks ago, has recu- perated marvelously on good old Brush valley farmer’s fare.” —Just now, when the Legislature is trying to place more taxes on everything in sight, has shunted the cost of printing the primary ballots from the State to the various counties, and has cut the appro- priations to State College and the Belle- fonte hospital to the point where these worthy institutions will actually suffer; all in order to keep the State’s expendi- tures within its income, we would like to hear from a lot of people. More especi- ally those who fought the good roads bond issue, two years ago, on the theory that the States’ income was suffi- ‘cient to properly provide for all of its charitable institutions and make the de- sired road improvements, as well. Itis quite evident now that someone was be- ing deceived then. ——So0 much complaint has been made concerning the condition of the state road from State College to Lemont that we are surprised that up to this moment no repair work has been done on it. This particular section of highway is subjected to such unusual traffic that something more durable than macadam will have to be used on it if the State hopes to maintain it as a creditable piece of road and it seems to us that it would be a splendid place to try brick. No grading would be necessary and the present road- bed of stone traversing a limestone coun- try would require no foundation other than what is there already. A concrete curb and a sand cushion for the brick would probably be all the new work nec- essary and a road would be completed that would withstand the wear of years, with a minimum of upkeep cost. Warn- ing signals should be placed in and about Lemont at once. As at no place in the county are there two more dangerous R Aemgcratic | SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. —Mrs. Rebecca Smith, who sued the borough. of Clearfield for injuries sustained in a fall, has been awarded the sum of $777.14. In the fall her hip was badly fractured. —An automobile driven by two girls ran down and killed the latest Johnstown lad to fall be- neath the wheels of the modern Jugernaut. His Dame was Sampson Fisher and he was 8 yéars old. —George Sencer and Raymond White, of Mor- risdale, have been lodged in the Clearfield coun- ty jail to await trial on the charge of highway STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. robbery and assault and battery with intent to kill. VOL. 60. Conspiracy to Tear President Wilson to] Pieces. ; That Colonel ROOSEVELT had made up his mind to sneak back into the Republi- can party a year ago was revealed in the testimony taken in the libel suit now in progress at Syracuse, New York. In dis- cussing the subject with a friend after his return from the South American jun- gle, ROOSEVELT declared that he is the only person in the country who can “tear President WILSON to pieces,” and added that a scheduled speech in Pittsburgh, Pa., would give him the opportunity to do it. His expected recompense for that service to the Republican party was a welcome back and an opportunity to be- come a candidate for the Republican nomination for President in 1916. In due time: ROOSEVELT made his speech in Pittsburgh and tried his best to “tear President WILSON to pieces.” The public response was disappointing, however, and the Colonel was obliged to resort to other expedients to accomplish his purpose. But he was equal to the emergency. He prevailed on DRAPER LEWIS to decline the Bull Moose nomi- nation for Governor, got VANCE C. Mc- CoRMICK substituted as the candidate and prevailed upon that ambitious gen- tleman to finance a special train tour of Pennsylvania in order that he might do a little “tearing” in every considerable centre of population in the Common- wealth. It is needless to add that ROOSE- VELT did his best to achieve the result he so ardently desired. He traduced President WILSON in every way his fer- tile mind suggested. Mr. McCorRMICK was the Democratic nominee for Governor, having acquired that title by the lavish use of money at the previous primary. And though he knew, if he has brains enough to know anything, that his bi-partisan deal with ROOSEVELT and BILL FLINN would defeat several Democratic candidates for Con- gress, State Senate and Representatives in the Legislature last year and jeopardize the re-election of President WILSON next year, he carried out his bargain with his co-conspirators to the letter. He even appeared with ROOSEVELT at one or two meetings, thus signifying his sanction of the villification of the President whom he falsely pretended to support. Could perfidy go further? —In ten days Memorial day will be here. Then Old Home week, the fair, Granger's picnic, the Thanksgiving foot- ball game will hop along in such rapid succession that before we know it we'll be huggin’ the stove and telephoning for | the plumber to come and thaw out frozen water pipes. Good Roads Essential to Prosperity. The resolution introduced by Senator SPROUL, the other day, proposing an amendment to the constitution authoriz- ing the State to borrow $50,000,000 for use in road construction, will pass as it ought to. The question cannot be deter- mined until 1918 for the organic law of the State forbids voting upon a constitu- tional amendment on the same subject oftener than once in five years. Mean- time the people of the State will lose millions of dollars through bad highways. No funds have been available for road building since 1913 and during that period the highways have been going from bad to worse until now many of them are impassable and all of them in bad condi- tion. The defeat of the constitutional amend- ment in 1913 was a crime against the people. It was a result of a conspiracy among demagogues who appealed to ig- norance and credulity through false rep- resentation of facts. Bogus and incom- petent Democratic leaders made opposi- tion to a beneficent proposition a party issue and by the use of plate matter in credulous weekly papers deceived the Democratic voters. No Democratic con- vention had declared against the amend- ment and no Democratic authority was bestowed upon any man or group of men to express party opposition to the amend- ment. The Executive committee of the State committee usurped that right, how- ever, and deceived voters into commit- ting a wrong. The Democratic party has always been in favor of progress and so long as the party organization is faithful to party principles it will always be for progress. But the demagogues and hypocrites who have been directing the party affairs in recent years imagined that an appeal to popular cupidity would promote their selfish interests and declared that good roads could be built without money. It was false and ‘fraudulent and the farm- ers are now paying the penalty of put- ting faith in political charlatans by an im- peded market for their products. If we want good roads we must pay for them and bad roads are too expensive. They impair the value of farms and farm curves. products. BELLEFONTE, PA.. MAY 21, 1915. Our Weekly Summary of Legislative Activities. | ' [Written for the WATCHMAN. ] Feeling that the people of Centre county have a personal interest in what is being done by the Legislators at Harrisburg and that laws that may affect the future of every individual more directly than ever Yefore are under consideration now and may be written into the statutes of the Commonwealth, the WATCHMAN has arranged to publish a weekly summary of what has been done at Harrisburg. It is not the purpose to go into detail of the various Acts proposed and furnish | you with a burdensome account of them. Merely to set them, and whatever else | is deemed of interest to the people of this community, before you in a general, | unbiased statement. that will keep you informed of the progress that is being made. The contributor of this Summary is one of the most capable and best informed of Harrisburg’s newspaper men and the WATCHMAN has been very for- tunate in enlisting his service for this work.—ED. HARRISBURG, PA., May 19th, 1915. Official life here has dwelt in an atmosphere of uncertainty for more than a week. Half in expectancy and half in dispair all eyes have been focused on the Governor's office since he recalled all the TENER appointments last week. The principal interest centred in the Public Service Commission, of course, for thatis the richest pool of patronage in the State government. There are seven of them and the $10,000 a year which goes to each is a juicy morsel. The TENER nominees ! were S. LA RUE TONE, of Pittsburgh; SAMUEL W. PENNYPACKER, of Pennypacker’s Mills; EMORY R. JOHNSON, of Philadelphia; MiLTON J. BRECHT, of Lancaster; CHARLES G. WRIGHT, of Susquehanna county; FRANK M. WALLACE, of Erie, and WALTER H. GAITHER, of Pittsburgh. These nominees were recalled while the lo- cal option bill was pending in the House and it was believed at the time that the incident had direct relation to that measure of legislation. From the beginning it has been universally believed that Mr. PENNYPACKER would be reappointed. The party owes him a great debt. When QUAY was un- der indictment Mr. PENNYPACKER published an eulogy of him that exercised a vast influence on the public mind. Then when the capitol building grafters were loot- | ing the treasury he as Governor of the State and president of the Board of Public | Buildings and Grounds, obligingly closed his eyes. Finally during all the time | that the looters were on trial he kept protesting their innocence and though he | failed to keep them all out of jail he exculpated the party from blame to a great | extent. There has probably never been any written agreement to keep him in of- | fice all his life, as recompense for these services. But itis safe to say that it as- sumed the form of a gentlemanly understanding. The reappointment of Mr. BRECHT was also generally accepted as a forgone conclusion and most people assumed that Mr. WRIGHT was reasonably certain of | a renewal of his commission. But the other three places became subjects of ac- | tive mental speculation. Few people knew them and after TENER left nobody | cared much about them. Their successors were equally uncertain. Inside infor- mation indicated JOHN S. RILLING, some years ago an efficient chairman of the Democratic State committee, and later a colleague of the Governor on the Board of | Education would be one of the three new men and gossip took in a range of a | dozen names for the other two. But there was general surprise when the Gov- ernor named the following: SAMUEL W. PENNYPACKER, Schwenksville, ten years. | JOHN S. RILLING, Erie, nine years. WILLIAM A. MAGEE, Pittsburgh, eight years. | M. J. BRECHT, Lancaster seven years. JOHN MONAGHAN, Philadelphia, six years. EDGAR A. KiEss, Williamsport, five yers. WILLIAM D. B. AINEY, Montrose, four | years. Their terms to compute from July 1st, 1913. i A considerable number of the minor offices were filled today and as a rule the TENER nominees were renamed. All the old Game commissioners except one, | | were reappointed and the same ratio of reappointments ran through the various | charity boards. This fact indicates that there is not going to be much of a tear- | ing up in the departments or reorganization of the government. During the cam- paign BRUMBAUGH promised all sorts of things in that direction. But except in the selection of new heads for the State, Highway and Legal departments, there has been little alteration in the personnel of officialdom. The subordinates | are undisturbed and a good many of them deserved that consideration. Obviously Governor BRUMBAUGH divided his time between religious and secular work on Sunday for the records of the Secretary of the Commonwealth on Monday show a large number of bills approved and some vetoed during the week- | end recess. Among those approved was the Game Commission bill which appro- priates $303,200 for the maintenance of the Game Department for the -two years covered by the measure. This is somewhat of a surprise for the reason that earlier in the session he vetoed a bill appropriating about the same amount for the same purpose. The Game Commission is about the last trench of the PENROSE machine in the State government and the Senator may have had a smoke house argument with his Excellency on the subject that changed his mind. Other bills signed by the Governor during the interval between the adjourn- ment on Friday and reassembling on Monday included an appropriation of $125,- 000 to pay expenses incurred in fighting the foot and mouth disease. Half a mil- lion dollars had already been appropriated for that purpose; establishing the State | insurance fund; authorizing first class townships to tax dogs; authorizing street railways to construct lines covered by charters and approval of authorities with- out reapplication for use of highways and right of way; fixing the salary of the chief clerk of the Department of Mines at $2400 a year; authorizing the Board of Public Grounds and Buildings to buy in the open market such articles as contrac tors cannot furnish within a reasonable time and relieving the Governor of the necessity of signing settlements when the executive controller shall have approved | them. That measure affords a fine shelter for grafting operations. Whenever a favorite bidder underbids to defeat a rival he can easily findit inconvenient to fur- nish the article “within reasonable time” and the opportunity is opened for anoth- | er favorite to supply the goods “in the open market,’’ at his own price. As one of the carpet baggers in the South said to another during the reco nstruction period “there are two years of good stealing” in Pennsylvania yet. Other week-end approvals follow: Providing that the State law library shall be in the custody of the State Librarian; authorizing county commissioners to ap- propriate money to hospitals; authorizing chiefs of standards to regulate tolerance and variations of milk containers: extending time for engineers commission to re- port to June 1st, 1915; authorizing the Governor to close any county or part | joinder. The way is open for continued | to suppose that Germany will not receive . should be allowed to weigh in the bal- sible, preserve its standing as the great- . est of the neutral powers. thereof to hunting and fishing when necessary to do so because of low water, dis- ease or the conservation of natural resources; giving supervisors of public records authority over reco. Is of counties or municipalities; validating borough ordinances | when advertising requirements have not been complied with; amending mattress ! inspection act so as to include second hand and leased mattresses; providing that | bodies must be held forty-eight hours before being sent to medical colleges. House bills approved require magistrates on preliminary hearing of charges involving certain misdemeanors to hear the accused and witnesses in his behalf; establishing municipal liens in borough; separating Clinton county from the Elk- Cameron judicial district and attaching it to Potter county; fixing the number and increasing the pay of employees of the Adjutant General's office; authorizing the merger of street railways chartered in this State with those incorporated in other States, where continuous line is formed; validating appraisement and titles made to surviving husbands and wives under Acts of 1833 and 1909; defining rights of fraternal organizations of which deceased shall have been a member; appropriat- ing $10,000 to continue work of codifying laws. [Continued on page 4, Col. 4,] | best in the world. He says he never saw —The Rev. Dr. E. C. Reeve, of Clearfield, is the owner of a valuable collection of ancient coins, inciuding some Roman coins dating from the time of Caesar to the fall of the Roman em- pire. —The Hon. Albert G. Heck, the new president judge of Clinton county, is a son of the Rev. L. G. Heck, of Watsontown, a retired member of the NO. 21. RIGHT NOW. Very soon the rent Wil be due. Senira) Pennsylvania Methodist Episcopal con- Very soon the taxes erence. : . Wil be too. —William Hower, son of Francis Hower, the Juniata county man who recently blew off the top of his head while getting ready to shoot a fox, has killed the animal that caused his fath- er’s death. —Lewistown will have no tabernacle and no high-priced evangelist, a majority of the town’s Mother wants a coat. Moses wants a boat, Daddy is the goat Right now. Very soon the WATCHMAN Must be paid.’ Very soona Bi oa churches being opposed to the scheme. It is a Must be laid. very sensible conclusion they have reached con- Daughter wants a hat, cerning this matter. Sister wants a mat, Daddy’s standing pat Right now. —The Red Men of DuBois are making exten- sive preparations for the state meeting of their order which will be held in that town June 8,9 and 10. Seven hundred delegates are ex- V on the baker ery 80 pected to be present. Wants his bill. Very soon the butcher Won't keep still. Mabel wants some clothes, Sally wants some hose, Daddy’s almost froze Right now. —The big store of H. A. Brumert, at Summer- hill, was recently destroyed by fire. One of the combustible contents of the store was a big tank containing over 100 gallons of kerosene. The store and the entire stock were consumed. —David Bennett and his son Thomas have been arrested and lodged in the Clearfield coun jail charged with robbing several summer cot- tages at Sabula. Some of the stolen articles were recovered and the younger man confessed. —Arsen J. Perrott, of Frenchville, Clearfield county, is asked to pay damages to the amount of $5,000 to Augustine Pluebell and her husband, Oliver Pluebell, the charge being that he wrong- fully and wilfully defamed the character of Mrs. Pluebell. ~~ —Mrs. Anna Heisey, the Clearfield connty woman who celebrated the 99th anniversary of her birth some ten days ago, received 325 post cards and a number of beautiful plants. The Lutheran church, of which she is a member, sent her ninety-nine carnations. Very soon the grocery Bill will come. Very soon the preacher Will want some. Brother wants some shoes, Charley wants the news, Daddy has the blues Right now. Very soon the milk man Will be ’round. Very soon the light man Door will pound. Baby wants a bunk, Bertha wants a trunk, Daddy’s on a drunk Right now. Very soon the ice man Will get cool. Very soon the coal man You can’t fool. Olive wants a bed, Twenty-some want fed, Daddy wants a sled —Charles B. Heiges, a well-known painter whose home was in DuBois, was the victim of a fatal accident when the ladder on which he was standing broke, precipitating him to the ground, a distance of thirty feet. He received a fracture of the skull at the base of the brain and died ‘twelve hours later. Right now. —Mrs. Martha Burnett, colored, shot three Very soon the doctor » » Ty gs mail dun. times by her husband, Charles Burnett, and wounded so badly that her recovery was pro- nounced impossible, was discharged from the Memorial hospital, Johnstown, in which city the shooting occurred, last’ Saturday. Burnett, it will be recalled, killed himself. —At the Philipsburg hospital Edwin Shultz, of | Houtzdale, aged 14 months, had a grain of corn taken from his windpipe. Efforts to dislodge the intruder through natural channels haying failed, Very soon the lawyer Quick will run. Grand-ma wants to come, Things are out of plumb, Daddy’s deaf and dumb Right now. Very soon the banker Will raise cain. Very soon the dentist a on Ta * Will have pain. the windpipe was cut open and the corn taken There will be a clash, out. For the present the child must breathe Things are going to smash, through a silver tube in the opening. Daddy's short on cash —William H. Sunshine, prominent politician Right now and an officer of the Union National bank of Very soon the telephone Johnstown, in which town he resides, has filed a Will ring in. suit in Somerset county against P. J. McGrath, Very soon the mail man former saloon keeper in Johnstown and Somer- Will get thin. set county, for libel and perjury. McGrath made Now in honor bright, various charges against Sunshine in an affidavit We must say good-night, executed in Somerset county. Daddy’s out of sight —The axle plant of the Cambria Steel company Right now. is at work on an order for 20,000 car axles placed —Priscilla. by the Russian government, which will cost in the neighborhood of $750,000. It is also officially announced from the headquarters of the com- pany in Philadelphia that the corporation ex: pects to close another contract for an additional $1,250,000 worth of axles for foreign shipment in the near future. The German Note. From the Johnstown Democrat. President Wilson has spoken for the country. He has not spoken, it is true, as the Roosevelts would have him speak. He has not threatened and he has not blustered. There will be those who will term the note to Germany too weak, just as there are those who will hold that it is too strong. It does stand, however, as the official expression of this country’s attitude concerning the treatments that should be accorded neutral ships and neutral passengers who are traversing the war zone in merchant vessels. The President has been careful above all else not to close the door against friendly re- —It will be necessary to survey a portion of the dividing line between Clearfield and Cambria counties before Levi Oshalls, his wife and four daughters can be tried on charges growing out of the battle at Coalport when Sheriff F.E. Mul- hollen, of Cambria county,tried to arrest Oshell’s son Wayne, and thereby stirred up a lot of shoot- ing. Surveyors will be employed to determine the mooted question. —Burglars entered the office of the station of the N. Y. C. Railroad at Castanea some time during Monday night by forcing open the rea window with a crow bar. As far as can be ascer- tained the only plunder secured was about 100 reveniie stamps valued at one cent each. The ticket case was pryed open, but none of the tick- ets were taken and the money drawer was pulled out, but no cash was kept in the drawer so that the burglars secured very little loot for their trouble. —The Smith, Hayes & Miller Co. is the name of a new corporation organized to develop a coal tract near Drane, in Decatur township, Clear- field county, where a fine body of coal has been leased. The members of the firm, J. E. Smith, president, and R. H. Hayes, secretary, both of Philadelphia, and Jacob Miller, Esq., of Drane, were there on Saturday and arranged to begin to develop the property without delay. With the land already in their possession and some they are arranging to lease, they will have a valuable property, amounting in all to about 500 acres. friendly intercourse. There is no reason the American note in the spirit in which it was indicted. No affront has been given to her pride. . While the issue is pending, while not only this nation but the nations ef the world await Germany's reply, those who seek to embitter public sentiment, to create discord, to inflame the public mind in either Germany or America constitute themselves the enemies of humanity. Throughout this country this must be the thought and prayer: There must be no war. Nothing short of the necessity that measures be taken to protect our coun- try from the dangers of actual attack ance when the issue is peace. However, President Wilson has spoken for the nation and the nation must trust him and support him. He has for the time ceased to be Woodrow Wilson the President elected by a party, but is Woodrow Wilson,the chief executive of a country that must if it is humanely pos- —After being out only a short time, the jury in the case of Adam Snyder of Rosedale, charged with the murder of Mrs. Rebecca Port at her home in Huntingdon county last February, re- turned a verdict of first degree murder. The promptness with which the verdict was returned indicated that the jurors did not place any reli- ance upon the testimony introduced in an effort to prove the irresponsibility of the young mur- derer. A motion for arrest of judgment and a new trial was made and arguments will be heard in support of this motion within the next 10 days or two weeks. It is said that Snyder did not change his composure in the least when the vardict was rendered that will send him to the electric chair in the event the decision of the jury is permitted to stand. Kansas in Good Spirits. From the Leavenworth Times. The Kansas farmers really appear to be in for another great crop year with top prices for all they can produce. Coun- ty Commissioner Sam Ward, who owns a large portion of the west end of the State, was out there last week and told a Times editor recently that everything looks the —Among properties advertised for Sheriff's sale on Monday, June 4, are the grounds and buildings of historic Blairsville Seminary, more familiarly known in later years as Blairsville College for Women. ‘The school was organized more than 65 years ago, and hundreds of women throughout Western Pennsylvania obtained their education there. The institution opened in a private dwelling in 1850. In 1851, $7,000 was raised and the present site was bought and three- story brick building erected. The school was conducted at a loss for several years and eventu- ally closed in June, 1913. The property has been in the hands of a trustee since then. A pfbbable purchaser of the old college is the Bluirsv'lle School Board, who would use the grounds for the site of a new borough school. the country looking better and issatisfied that it will produce this year the biggest crop of wheat ever produced. Owing to the war in Europe the price of wheat is very high and the prospects for its keep- ing up and going still higher are mighty good, as there appears to be no prospect for an early close of the war. It’s an ill- wind that brings this news from Europe, but nevertheless it brings good to the Kansas farmer. We don’t want the war to continue, but we have aright to rejoice in the good it brings to our State.
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