. indebtedness to the Water Department ‘be legally “ment it will put the B counted against the legal amount the . Borough is entitled to borrow on its as- _ the reason it is probably only being _ tainly Centre county is entitled to one of them. No Beworralic Wate BY P. GRAY MEEK. INK SLINGS. —In less than three weeks the ground- | hog will be telling us what of winter we have to expect. —Doctor STOUGH is fast climbing into BILLY SUNDAY’S class as an evangelist. He is getting front page space in the metropolitan dailies now and that means greater notoriety and greater notoriety means success. —Brother Bailey, of the Nineteenth Congressional district, has subsided no- | ticeably lately on his anti preparedness | propaganda. Beware of the Colonel. Maybe he is going to let them slip a big army over on him so that he can have more men with which to carry out that pet project of his of having the soldiers build our Alaskan railroads. —The fame that preceded Congress- man ROWLAND to Washington as a mul- timillionaire and as a colossus of business ability and state-craft doesn’t seem to have impressed his colleagues of the Republican delegation from Pennsylva- nia. At least PENROSE wasn’t able to force him onto them as the successor to CHARLES E. PATTON, on the Republican campaign committee. —Rumor has it that W. D. ZERBY is to retire from the position of Democratic State committeeman for Center county and that Col. J. L. SPANGLER will be an aspirant tor the office. Both features of the rumor are splendid. Col. SPANGLER would prove a dignified and useful mem- ber of the State Committee, especially since he would be for constructive policies in Centre county rather than continue to tear up until the last shred of organiza tion efficiency is destroyed. —It does seem rather absurd for A. MITCHELL PALMER to think that he should dictate all the federal patronage in Pennsylvania and hold onto the per- sonal appointments about Washington that he was able to segure while he was in Congress. As agr e real good Demo- crats go a long way to maintain harmony in their party, but the Pennsylvania dele- gation in Congress are not to be blamed if a fight follows their insistence upon having a little something for their own constituents. —Just what is council's motive in transferring all of Bellefonte’s bonded has not been revealed. It could be iook- ed at in many ways. The Water De-: _ partment can. probably carry the incum- “ bent interest charge without necessitat- inga raise of rates and if this debt can anglers, fo. that, Dep: in ih pcsi-- tion of having an Rn borrow- ing capacity, because the Water Depart- ment is not included in the fundamental- franchise of the Borough corporation and, therefor, its debts can not be ac- sessed valuation. We do not know, how- ever, that council proposes a new bond issue for any purpose so that if this is done to make the way possible should. an emergency arise. —This Congressional district will have two delegates to elect to the National Democratic convention in St. Louis. Cer- Clearfield and McKean were ac- ‘corded the honor four years ago so Cen- “tre has every right to demand that it be given at least one of the delegates to the coming convention and if the party lead- “ership i in the District is wise and has the future welfare of the party at heart it will arrange matters so that there will be “no contest for these purely honorary “positions. This District is a Jit for the ‘ renomination of WoODROW. Wi President so that the only! serve in selecting our delegates organization in the District. for ‘the - ‘next .. Congressional battle. ~ We could have ‘ won the last one had we been organized | ‘as we might have been and the WATCH- ' MAN has much information to the effect - that the ‘chances of winning the next “one are even better. Wi 2 —Advunce ‘notices from Washington "are to the effect that former President WM. HowArD TAFT will not be appoint- v hi ed to the Supreme court bench to suc- ceed: Associate Justice R. Lamar.’ We ‘call attention to this. matter not so much i ‘cies and practices as ier i by the ‘ WATCHMAN square with “those of the | ‘really great men of our party ‘one of it’s’ ‘leading editorials — we know that. the article was pr hit: is’ dio in cio : to. read in the ‘Washingt 0 ces identically the same view ‘duestion ‘that this paper expressed | ago. We! xefer to this matter lL to,impgess upon your minds ‘that ‘away'out: nvheidss ‘of the agricultural i cts of “Cen “county ‘there is a coher, newspa , that knows _ ‘and gates, rt and fearlessly, as a "Democratic doctrines and prac- “tices ‘as’ ‘any~of *its great: mstropoliten a nad Mond shape | the 8 party policy. In its last issue. the VOL. 61. Canvas Without ‘Sighiicancs; ° t iG Straw votes are of little valu “canvases” which more or less somn... -— newspapers indulge to fill space . or | adduced during wae three oe trial | expressed in a letter written to A. MITCH: amuse themselves are equally worthless. | of the New Haven directors charged with | But the canvas which an esteemed Phila- | ‘conspiracy to violate the SHERMAN delphia contemporary is now making to anti-trust law, the jury, on Sunday, re- show the relative strength of Senator turned a verdict of acquittal of six and PENROSE and Governor BRUMBAUGH in disagreement as to the guilt of the other their contest for mastery of the Penn- five. Those acquitted are F. B. BREWS- sylvania Republican machine is interest- TER, D. NEWTON BARNEY, ROBERT W. ing because of its absurdity. A promi- TAFT, JAMES E. HEMMINGWAY,A. H. ROB- signers to a petition to hang the most whose guilt or innocence the jury was innocent man in a community and it is unable to agree are WILLIAM ROCKEFEL- a safe bet that a newspaper can put LER, LEWis CASS LEDYARD, CHARLES F. either aspirant ahead of his competitor, BOOKER, CHARLES M. PRATT and EbD- if it is disposed to doso. Of course in WARD D. ROBBINS. It was announced the case in point the canvasser pretends that the five will be tried again, though to be neutral and it has been wobbling not immediately. woefully. But the chances are that it The reason given for the acquittal of desires to produce the result announced the six first named is that they were which favors PENROSE. | “dummy directors.” That is they were The voters in the contest are the put upon the board with the under- managers of the local machines and the standing or for the reason that they verdict is in accord with their desires. wouldn't interfere with the management For example Dauphin county is made to of the. enterprise as directed by the express itself in fayor of the Senator others and Mr. MORGAN. That is a poor though the potentiality of patronage is excuse for the action of the jury. The recognized in the statement that “if the one thing that is objectionable in corpor- Governor threatened to drop State em- ation management in this country is the ployees (who favor PENROSE) there result of “dummy directors.” They are might be a change in sentiment.” In put on the board for the purpose of lét- ‘Allegheny county the verdict is “an ting the active directors violate the law even break” for the reason that there and loot the public and instead of being are two machines there which are divid- acquitted these delinquents ought to ed in allegiance. That is to say Public have been promptly convicted and se- Service Commisioner MAGEE and DENNY verely punished. O'NEILL favor the Governor and the mu- That the five active directors were nicipal administration is for PENROSE. guilty of conspiracy admits of no doubt. But there is nothing to indicate which is They indulged in every form of corpora- the stronger and the even break is a tion atrocity, and employed every de- safe but not very informing guess. . vice known in “high finance” to rob the In the other counties covered by the public and cheat the share owners of the canvas the same uncertainty is revealed. road which they mismanaged. It has Delaware county is for PENROSE and been announced that they will be CHESTER divided. Montgomery is silent brought to trial again and we sincerely and Bucks cinched for PENROSE while hope they may. But there is no certain- Lehigh is waiting. Berks is uncertain ty upon the subject. It took sever: and Lancaster in a compromising frame | years to bring them tu trial w of mind. Lebanon is for PENROSE and | has just Schuylkill is of the same mind v for the Senator and Lycoming for ig they a Governor. Luzerne is independent, Tioga the fruits of the for BRUMBAUGH and Cambria refuses to . TE ie acknowledge a fight. Blair feans to —A Connecticut ph: cian declares BRUMBAUGH, Fayette is for Penrose thatsoap will prevent the grip. After and Mercer for BRUMBAUGH. Washing- - all, maybe the barber who slathers the ton county is neutral, McKean for PEN- lather into our, eyes and up our nose is ROSE and Indiana for harmony. | more of a docttr than a barber. & Thus twenty-five counties out of sixty- seven, or a trifle more than one-third of the whole split about even and indicate | nothing. But it may be assumed that | the purpose of our Philadelphia con- temporary has been accomplished. That is to say its purpose was to adver- tise the fact that Senator PENROSE ac-. cused Congressman Vare of humble origin. The accusation is that PENROSE publicly declared that VARE is “an ash- cart” and he a “statesman.” No man except acad or an ass would say that and PENROSE is neither. But it makes a “good enough Morgan until after the election” and, he friends of Brumbaugh orth. It will Roosevelt’s Dreams Dissolving. _ That THEODORE ROOSEVELT Sonos to stampede the Republican National con-. vention and seize the nomination is’ be- yond question. That he will’ succeed, however, is not certain. Ten days ago the average observer would have ex- pressed the belief that ROOSEVELT would be the nominee if he so desired. But the sober, second thought, which serves the purpose of conscience among Republi- cans, has asserted itself and completely changed the aspect. No charlatan will never again be nominated for President by either of the great parties. The peril LSON : four years ago, . ginade a pro: fou Biblic mind. —The FORD peace ay fae? hese’ placed in the right category at last. “The! meetings at the Hague are being held under the > auspices of the Royal Zoolog- ical society. We presume t that the Dutch were teally too polite: ater | this bunch oft Americans “bugs” u: the Entomological division of: the S Sorainat himself “before t leaders: in the hope that the the slanders he circulated agai in the’ last Presidential campaig sincé. ‘And with equal i is jing to enlist the su PC i bik a : : on | ef, mostlyisigister ——Senatq FFALL, of New Mexico, is J ze-electio on ra Be a ne not half as much concerned about | ‘the bargain under whichhe wa welfare of thé Mexicans as he i$" ‘about I this State in the camps the confusi ‘of the President. If his permitted.to.address. himself in th fine courage wergequal to his malice he spirit of friendship to. Democratic. j- would be! introducing resolutions. on f€pces helps:him now in; his, scherges German or itis affairs rather :than.on {divideranid«disrupt the! party a Mexican gil of twkita JipRoits logiedlcainjittuen x yt Emin Whether ROOSEVELT gets'the —It lopki as if the entice tbody. lof f Yan noniinatidfh or nie Hi Se o unable | on Demo aid dr ip public Ii fife ‘at present. a fi’ Sén- ,public,man of a riod 1S + as’. Th sr co 1 ¢ FORD pi ms dre | fi AROOSEVELT. He: ue it is to be | oped nder the , remnant . of fifdividdal dction'of initiative, but would ey! still in their -possession {invest all" powers in gover ton. | ¥nment ang home: 11 |centrate all | government: in Washing Such. doctrine” is’ ' intolerable to, D A The. Keer may be as;sick as: the ! crats, and. obnoxious” “to, ‘popular, a pel rts Teprgtent ins tobe * , ment. In any “event, therefore, Demo- ut his soldiersiappear to be’ ei joying a” ‘robstuousnes§ of health that’ is"! ‘surpris- | joa shoyld oppose RoosEvELT End and come: ing. ; ig Rj party reckon with him. pe _—Represettative BAILEY, “of this |’ —Judge QUIGLEY | TY "his fret? réal State, and Representative GARDNER, of _court on Tue morning ‘and. former [G ‘Massachusetts, are striving for, the same Judge Orvis argued ¢ the first. case. before contempofariesdieCapitie of. ‘result, though by different processes. him. : a gi [8 ! ELL PALMER before he entered upon his first term, and made public the other day, that there can be no misunderstand- ing upon the subject. A pledge against the reelection of a President was incor- porated in the platform of the Baltimore convention which nominated Mr. WIL- SON and if it had been supplemented by nent man once said that he could get INsoN and HENRY MCHARG. Those upon | legislation giving it force and effect, the . candidate and the party would have been justly held in obedience to it. But the Democratic Congress to which it was referred, declined to ratify it, and for the reasons given by Mr. WILSON in his let- ter, and he is therefore absolved from obligation as is his party also. The Baltimore convention for reasons sinister or otherwise, made some absurd pledges and advanced some preposterous propositions. Among these was the promise that American ships should be exempt from tolls in passing through the Isthmian canal: That was equiva- lent to an excessive ship subsidy and a perversion of the fundamental Democrat- ic principle agaiust subsidies. The dec- laration upon the question of a second term was equally subversive of Demo- cratic traditions. As the President states in his letter to Mr. PALMER, it would de- prive the Democratic people of the free- dom of choice in the selection of a candi- date for the highest office in the gift of the electorate. There should be no legal impairment or statutory restraint of that kind. The vast majority of the Democratic voters of the country favor the renomi- nation of WooDRow WILSON. They sin- cerely believe that his re-election is es- sential to the completion of the benefi- cent work which he has begun and to prevent the full and complete exercise of | crime against civil liberty. There is an should ; not be i an -escaped by the election | Reb il ore CO! id. accom. Separate not ay period, of fey be \racyeay declared, by, JEEEERSON and in. | terpreted by: WOODROW WILSON, asus pM “imperialist. Ho would yield nothingito | steals the Republican, figmination let that their desire in the matter would be a Dm the shape of law, organic or statutory. If the people of the United States want to elect a President the third time they have an inalienable right to do so. We are not disposed to enter into an | investigation of the reasons which in- | fluenced the Baltimore convention to put {such a pledge: in its platform. In the 1 first place no convention can pledge a ‘candidate to’a proposition with which he isnot in sympathy and attempting to | for the intelligence of the electorate. If aipublic official fails to fulfill his obliga- tions, the people are not likely to re- elect him and if he measures: standard the people ought 1 right to continue him in the ¢ o g ident WILSON has earned the pop favor which he enjoys by faithftl serv- ice to the country and if ti to re-elect him it is their” right to do so, notwithstanding a rdities - of the past. “FAYLOR., is de- fendant in 4 case being tried in the Unit- {ed States distriet court-at Sunbury,’ this week, ‘before -Judge : CHARLES B. WHIT- | MEK: The case ‘was brought by thé DoN- ALD-MONEIL company, ‘of Pittsburgh, to recover atlaim of approximately $6,000 alleged to be due ‘them for “Warrenite,” a patent road surfacing material which Mr. TAYLOR used | in constructing a piece | of state: highway. 1 near Claysville, Wash- ington county. On the stand on. Wed- nesday. Mr, ‘TAYLOR | told some plain truths /which: reflected’ somewhat on some of the men: who ‘several ‘years ago were - prominently connécted with the Highway Department.’ The State is still indebted fo Mr. “TAYLOR 'to ‘the amount 0€0, or * . the amount ie. oe ‘payment «¢ of Ir yt i ing : keto see the ; Presid : o- | paredness plansedefeated by Democrat | votés and ‘thee aré Democrats jn’ Gon. | gress sof stupid that ‘they ! cah’t see the |* e [trapgharih Beirig ‘set for: thei’ | © Raabe LODGE! talks all rightand) theme! hie talks the clearer:it becomes eat the Sugiy to: take! His? son‘indlaw, j “GARDNER, ‘out intd “the ‘wood- "shed for Some * wholésome = exercise’ with | the slip Bada. | by Pttag tin i exercise such power shows scant respect to the | . anything of the kind they are acting in ‘people want Tie out: B NO. 2. he Adminstration. - + uuadelphia Record, vu no account would we impair the proud privilege of all opponents of the Administration of throwing brickbats ‘at it, but we cannot help some amusement at observing that they are throwing from opposite sides, are leaving the Presi- dent unharmed and landing in the other attacking party. Here, for example, we find Republicans caustically remarking that the Lusitania controversy is settled after eight months. It’s a pretty slow coach, this Democratic Administration, isn’t it? Are our Re- publican contemporaries at all sure that it would have been settled in less time if the United States had sent Germany a 48-hour ultimatum about the 10th of May last? The American people are anxious to maintain the laws of nations and the law of humanity, but are they really eager to enter this war? If we had become a party to the war the sub- marines might now be operating against merchant steamers. We might easily have had war, without a settlement; what we got was a settlement without war. On the other hand, we find a number of persons, not confined to one party, who provide themselves with pencils and a great deal of paper and will calcu- late for you how much cheaper it would be for us to waive our rights and sub- mit to any indignities and injuries the belligerent put upon us. There was a time when an American thrilled the hearts of his countrymen by declaring, “Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute!” Now we have developed a variety of citizen who wishes to know which is the cheaper. He will pay trib- ute cheerfully enough if it comes to less than defense. good faith of these Americans. They may not be such ultra-pacifists as they profess to be. Mr. Works has already given indications that he does not care particularly about the trade in muni- tions, but he wishes Germany to win. Mr. O'Gorman feels that the opportu- nity of Ireland has come, and the important thing is that Great Brit- ian should be conquered. Both, like Henry Weisman and Dr. Mach and Pro- fessor Walz and George Sylvester Vie- reck and Dr. Hezamer, are passionately gotgmined to have the u ‘major ! to fight when it is necessary, ‘and it will not fight unlessit is necessary. It is pro- foundly thankful to have the submarine controversy settled aright without involv- ing us in war, and it recognizes the enor- mous, the almost unparrelleled, diploma- tic victory won by the President. Using Compensation 1 Law As Excuse. From the Harrisburg Star I Independe it, According to reports coming from Pittsburg and other big industrial cen- ! ters in this State some employers are dismissing old men and other employes whose health is not perfect, on the bru- tal theory that if such employes are re- tained much longer on the pay-rolls they will die and the companies will be required to pension their families. If it is true that corporations are doing ignorance of the Compensation Act, which does not require employers to compensate families of employes who die through disease,—even in cases of so- called “occupational” diseases contracted through the employes exposure to danger- ous elements when at work. The Com- pensation Act applies only to cases of in- juries or deaths from injuries and does not take into consideration disease in any form. At the Workmen's ‘Compensation Bu- reau at the Capitol it was said today that there is no provision inthe law for occupational diseases or any other dis- eaes, but that the disability or death must be solely the result of injury. For instance in the case of a city po- liceman made ill as the result of expos- ure, or from any other cause outside of injury, the law does n( apply. Employers, there re, whether cor- porations, municip: firms or individ- uals, who may be “firing” old or ailing men as “bad risks” ander the Compensa- tion Act, either .z orant of the fact that the new lat not apply to dis- eases, or they ar “pretending igiorance in order to" ‘excuse,—a very crude and Drutaliesdiselas oo a ‘load men who:have grown have become ill in their service. Wl fu A Pacifist F Fighter. From Max Eastman in the Survey. All men and most-animals are pugna- . They love: to dhight E Eve ec nte! for libel es ’t.chargeup San Ji ) ght, { A and 3 “for. Sherer. When Roosevelt | | Ea moll and es, * fhe wea "to. walk 1 tthe vay. 2% like, ett i : Sa ol lei aid ni i Yas been sent Hoge! because he is’ “a good "listen-! 0 Kuso t Uig'"a® far! rarer ' accomplish- ‘ment in these" days? than: being a good, Saker. 0: A i gris by i ing. Still, we are rather skeptical about the |. A —————————————————————— ————— SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. —The new house of worship just combleted by the Presbyterian congregation of Mill Hall, Clin- ton county, will be dedicated next Sunday. —It is announced that the Northern Cambria Street Railway company is planning to extend its line from Barnesboro to Hastings the coming summer. —William M. Berlin, candidate of the “Old Guard” for chairman of Westmoreland’s Demo- | cratic county committee, won out by a large ma- jority over the candidate of the reorganizers. —William H. Ackerman, a resident of Latrobe, complained of not feeling well when he retired, but did not seem seriously ill. Next morning he was found dead in bed, the result of heart trouble. —Beulah Ritchey a little girl living at Burnt Cabins, Fulton county, who was accidentelly shot in the leg by her father, has had the leg am- putated twice, the last time abovethe knee. It is said she is now out of danger. —After attending his dying mothe?, Dr. John G. Spangler, aged 55, a prominent physician of Huntingdon county, was instantly killed by an east bound express on the Pennsylvania railrnad at Mapleton, Friday morning. —A resident of Flemington, Clinton county, was sent to jail last June for failing to pay a bor- ough tax of $2.50, including the costs. The coun- ty has been maintaining him ever since and is likely to present a goodly bill to Flemington. —Certain denizens oi Williamsport who have been ordered to cease hanging about the corri- dors of the court house are complaining bitterly about the new edict of the commissioners. They say they pick up many an odd job while loung- ing about the temple of justice. —The Rev. Father Nicholas Szabados, pastor of St. Mary’s Greek Rite church, Cambria city, has brought suit for $10,000 damages. against Emil Sarady, one of his parishioners, in that Sarady called him a ‘‘ziodij,” a Slavish word meaning ‘“‘a robber and a thief.” —Four years ago young John Cullen, of Derry, stepped on a broken watch crystal and cut a painful gash in the ball of the foot. One evening last week his father succeeded in taking from his foot a piece of the crystal that had been there ever since the wound was inflicted. —Bishop Decker, the 11-year-old resident of Derry who was recently shot by his elder broth- er, William, during a scuffle for possession of are- volver. died in the Latrobe hospital six days after the wound had been inflicted. The elder boy, who is 16, is still incarcerated in the Derry lockup. —Two women and two children were burned to death last week in Westmoreland county. In both instances the women undertook to fill a kerosene lamp without going to the trouble of ex- tinguishing the flame. Their carelessness or recklessness cost their own and two other deaths, —One of the finishing mills of the Aetna Ex- plosive company’s plant at Mount Union was de- stroyed by fire Friday evening. The loss is esti- mated at $60,000. No lives were lost and the ori- gin is believed to have been spontaneous com- bustion, caused by an increase in the tempera- ture of the building. —South Fork had 102 cases of measles at the close of last week and the authorities have de- cided that no child of ten or under shall be per- mitted to attend the moving picture theatres, Sunday school or other places of public gather- ings. Singularly enough, they are to be allowed to attend the public school. ‘was extra ing struck him on the right eye, mak- ble this spring for the use of the p 3 : aised; i | the young trees and to fuinish } | tand county, from anuary 17 to, E. Filler, who was | a rete X ing an injury so severe that the doctor had to be taken to a hospital. The injured eye became in- fected from the diseased tooth within two hours in spite of the best treatment. —Fred Frank, a prominent contractor, is" ‘dead at Carbondale, a victim of petromortis, or auto gas. Mr. Frank went to his garage to test out his engine on Sunday evening, and as the ‘night was cold, closed the doors. He started the en- gine and left the muffler open, with the result that the small garage became filled with gas and’ he was overcome, dying there. —1J. Clinton Hill, prothonotary of the Superior court, on Saturday night announced that the case of George C. Bayless, of Binghamton, N. Y.. the millionaire owner of the Bayless Paper and Pulp company, charged with manslaughter as a result of the bursting of the dam at Austin, four yéars ago, which caused the loss of 70 lives and the destruction of millions of property, will come to trial at Williamsport on February;29. i —John W. Reed, retiring judge of Jefferson county, filed a civil libel suit for $100,000 damag- es against W. N. Conrad, Gil C. Reitz and John + C: Dwight, of the Brookville Republican, on Satur- day. An alleged defamatory statement _appear- ing in the Brookville Republican on February. 15, 1915, prior to the opening of the judicial cam- * paign, in which Judge Reed was defeated for: re. election by Charles H. Corbett isthe basis of the suit. —Vance C. McCormick, of Harrisburg, Pa. 5 who was the Democratic candidate for Governor in 1914, has been appointed by the Federal Re- serve Board as class C director of the Philadel- phia Federal Reserve bank. Mr. [McCormick is an officer of the Dauphin Trust company, of Har- risburg, and is interested in coal and other large business operations. He is 44 years_old and is a graduate of Yale University of which he is now a trustee. —The identity of the robber who entered the - home of Philip Shirey, at Youngstown, West- moreland county, early last Monday morning, was ‘discovered in a singular manner. In the Whitney mine on Monday a miner was hurt. A fellow miner went after his comrade’s coat, got the wrong one and i in its pocket found a little box addressed to Mrs. Shirey. earning later of, the robbery he told his story. Victor Stillwagon, a workman employed in the mine, was arrested ‘and confessed. All the stolen jewelry, with near- ly $80 in money, was recovered. Ts i —The State Forestry Commission has ordered that 1,500,000 seedling trees shall helm. roves “ ubl individuals who. will agres to ili as the State may r uire regar sir gro; i—Governor. Brunibaugh has. granted a. = aying the execution of H. E. Filler, hic | about: three years der of Jacob “K &* un — '| Greensburg, ‘on the'night of August 27, 11913. He - * | escaped from the'scene of the: ‘murder. but | captured tin Cleveland, 50.,4 on; September, 13, t was 1913, and returned to Gr urg, where she was tried and found guilty.” "Since | the trial numerous efforts to. save the man's Ss life fe have beens ade’ find Lg reward of 3 $1000. offer: | sor i the airestof the'n Je for man ,' but Ss the wie }) Sed woo he person moneand pers ns entitled +f Ofte: éive the = #
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