Demonic Wald BY P. GRAY MEEK. INK SLINGS. —Hughes is the most carping Pres- idential candidate we have any recol- lection of. He has nothing to say about what should be done. It is all about what has been done. —The Elks had delightful weather for their outing up Spring Creek yes- terday. Had it been set for a day ear- lier we fear it would have turned out to be an Elk bake, rather than a clam bake. —“Little Steel” is surely getting to be a big boy. Its performances lately are merely indicative of the fact that the public realizes that what once was mostly water is now real value, with an amazing earning capacity. —The Deutschland is reported to have arrived at the mouth of the Weser with all or. board well. Friend and foe, alike, will acclaim the skill and daring of Capt. Koenig and his little crew. It was a hazardous un- dertaking that has ended happily. —1It is quite probable that if the literacy test that some of the Senators now want applied to immigrants seek- ing admission to our shores had been applied at the time their own forbears were coming in we wouldn’t have seen the spectacle of so many recreant Democrats that was shown in the upper house of Congress on Monday. —What a blessed relief Wednesday "brought from a torrid wave, the like of which Bellefcnte has seldom ex- perienced. From Sunday until Tues- day evening there were periods in each day when the temperature rang- ed from 94 to 98 degrees in the shade and there was not the usual cool nights to compensate for the exces- sive heat. —If Lieut. Boal has as many trials and tribulations getting out of the army as he had in getting into it we are inclined to imagine that Boals- burg has lost her “big gun” for keeps. Terry could scarcely stand a recur- rence of the ordeal and we are of the opinion that he would prefer staying where he is to going through such another ordeal to get out. —Woodrow Wilson has had more vexatious and complex questions to handle since he has been President of the United States than any of his predecessors, with the possible excep- tion of Lincoln. Ts there a reader of 1his paragraph who can truthfully say that he has not done well? We don’t believe there is, therefor we suggest that it would be well to let well enough alone. —The street committee did well to rope off High street until the oil dress- ing that was put on Tuesday had thoroughly set. Scme people complain- ed, of course. They would not have Leen acting natural if they hadn’t, but ithe people who pay the taxes know that it is only wasting money to spend it for oil and then have the oil all carried away on the wheels of passing vehicles that are permitted to run over it before it is dry. —A case of infantile paralysis has been reported from the upper end of the county, but the hope is strong that being an isolated case there will be no further outbreak of the disease in Centre county. It might be said, how- ever, that there is little occasion for alarm on the part of anyone. In the past Bellefonte has had a number of cases of this character that at the time aroused no unusual excitement and the records show that there was no indication of its having been con- tagious. —Do you know what marasmus is? If you don’t, we'll tell you. Its a kind of malady that children get and some people call it “take off.” They get thinner and thinner until they either Jie or get so near to it that their par- ents are sorely distressed. Now, our bank account has the marasmus bad and if you haven’t heard the plain- tive wail it has been sending out through this column for several weeks turn the good ear around and hear, be- cause some liberal doses of “Kale” are the only things that will stop this case of “take off.” —It gets on some peoples nerves when they are called upon to pay in- surance premiums to the extent that they feel as if they were pouring money down a rat hole. And there are many cases where insurance is actually dropped because of a feeling of this sort. How foolish such negli- gence is! When the barn is housing every cent’s worth of crops that an entire year’s work has produced, be- sides livestock and implements of value, there is only one thing for the prudent man to do and that is to take eévery possible precaution in safe- guarding himself. We have no pa- tience with the man who wrings his hands and bemoans his ill luck when lightning has burned the barn on which he didn’t have sense enough to carry a good line of insurance. STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. VOL. 61. BELLEFONTE, PA, AU GUST 25, 1916. SE __NO. 33. mmm ws President Wilson and the Farmers. | . Indications of the Maine Vote. It is freely and universally admitted | The signs indicate Democratic suc- | The Latest False Pretense. I 1 i { | The latest scheme to inveigle vot- ! that President Wilson has encountered cess in Maine this year. The party jers not in the habit of thinking to | more difficult problems than any of {has carried the election. on a Presiden- the support of Justice Hughes for | his predecessors in the office, with the {tial vote only once since 1900. Four President is the “Hughes Alliance.” | probable exception of Lincoln. It is [years ago Wilson had a plurality of It is to be composed of men who | acknowledged with equal freedom and almost the same universality that he has solved every problem presented, ' ly and well. But it is not generally | known that these problems embodied a greater variety of subjects than those met by any other President, though that is actually the fact. The European war, the Mexican situation, the tariff and currency legislation, the agricultural interests and finally the industrial upheaval had to be con- sidered. ; As a rule high officials have given little consideration to the perplexing | questions involved in the pursuit of farming. Most of them believe that, in the language cf the old song, “the farmer can always take care of him- self.” And as a matter of fact the ag- ricultural industry of the country has been left to its own resources pretty generally. If the farmer hadn’t been “able to take care of himself” during most of the time since the close of the Civil war, he would have been in a rather sad plight frequently within the last half century. But President Wilson has not been neglectful of this : great interest. n However pressing | other matters have been he has found ! time to look after the farmers. Our attention has recently been called to this fact by a letter written by the President to Representative | Lever, Chairman of the House Com- mittee on Agriculture, on the occasion | of the signing of the Agricultural Ap- i 2,620, though the combined vote of want to be regarded as independent | Roosevelt and Taft aggregated 23,928 in one part and more or less bigoted | more than Wilson’s vote. In 1900 Mc- 1904 Roosevelt’s plurality was 36,307 ‘and in 1908 Taft had a plurality of 30,584. The average plurality of the Republican party since that time long ago when “she went, hell bent, for Governor Kent and Tippecanoo and Tyler too,” the opposition to the Dem- _ocratic party has had a plurality aver- ‘aging more than 25,000. The Demo- crats have won at rare and long inter- “vals. It used to be thought that Maine was essentially the pivotal State and as the Republican majority ran beyond or under the 30,000 mark at the State election in a Presidential year, the drift of sentiment was measured. But the election of 1880 disposed of that superstition. At the State election of that year the Democratic candidate for Governor was elected and the re- sult was such a stirring up of the Re- publican machine and such a deluge of corruption, that the Republican candidate for Present received the usual plurality at the November elec- tion. Nevertheless the Maine State election has some influence on the re- sult of the November vyote in other States and a Democratic victory next month will be a hopeful sign. Of course the Republicans are going to do their best to avert such a result of the vote and the Republican State chairman has secured a prom- tariff grafters propriation bill. He cites the fact that ise from Roosevelt for a speech at appropriations for the support of agri- Lewiston on August 31st. Much is culture have been increased; that leg- expected from this talk as Teddy im- islation to foster production has been agines that he still holds the Bull i Republicans who can’t affiliate with | or has it in process of solution, wise- Kinley had a plurality of 28,615. In lhe rotten machine of that party on | the other. It is being organized, ac- ‘cording to the statements of the] ‘leaders, at the request of Hughes and : with the ccnsent of Republican Na- | tional chairman Wilcox. It hopes to enlist*a number of Democrats, most : of the Bull Moosers and all of the po- | litical cranks in the covntry. It will! probably entice a few Bull Moosers and all the cranks but will get few if any Democrats. - | We learn through some esteemed | Republican contemporaries that con- sent of Chairman Wilcox has been given to organize 2 branch of this alliance in Pennsylvania and that Wiliiam Draper Lewis, of Philadel- phid; H. D. W. English, of DPitts- burgh; Thomas Robins, “close associ- ate of Colonel Roosevelt,” and Colo- nel Sheldon Potter, Progressives; J. Benjamin Dimmick, Ira W. Stratton, Alba B. Johnson, Francis B. Reeves and Jasper Yates Brinton, Republi- cans, have been commissioned to form the organization. This is a fine buach of political mavaricks. Half of them have been professional office seekers for scores of years without ever get- ting an office and the other half are who want to renew their licenses to loot the public treas- ury. These political adventurers have a perfect right to set any traps they like to catch voters to serve their ‘purpose, in the open, but they have neither legal nor moral right to set up a false pretense to deceive the pub- 1 | i | Here We Are Again. M. MURRAY BALSAM I took quite a trip On a solid gold ship, It weighed about ten thousand ton. Its sails, I believe, : Were of gossamer weave, That fairly out-dazzled the sun. Deep down in the the hold Ten millions in gold, I kept for emergency’s sake; The captain and crew Wore diamonds, its true, As large as a strawberry cake. 'Twas two, by the clock, The ship struck a rock, Down to the bottom, went we. I spened my eyes. There, to my surprise, Stood a Mermaid a-beckoning me. She led us a mile, With a dazzling smile, Said she was a Queen, znd ’twas true; She cried out in glee, Soon married we'll be, I've waited a cent’ry for you. Oh, I was some King, I'd Mermaids to sing Me to sleep, tho’ strange it may seem; On a bench in the park I awoke, it was dark, And realized ‘twas only a dream. Appealing to Prejudice. From the Johnstown Democrat. The south is Democratic principally as a result of the impelling power of tradition. Maintain the present breaks in the hitherto solid north and there would be far-reaching political chang- es in the south. Theodore Roosevelt is one of the few leaders who have ralized that fact. For several genera- tions it has been the policy of Repub- lican leaders to keep the solid south intact. They have believed that a sec- tional issue gave them a tactical ad- vantage and they have frequently founded party success upon the fact that they were able to kindle sectional animosities. There has recently been a tendency both in the north and in the south to face issues squarely; to diseard tra- dition and deal with the present and with the future. Such a course does not find favor with Candidate Hughes, if his recent utterances are any indi- {SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. —James F. Sheaffer, of Lewistown, who saved his wife from a serious trolley accident at the expense of fatal injuiies to himself on Saturday night, died at the local hospital on Wednesday. —The Clearfield County Agricultural Asso- ciation has concluded successful negotiations for taking over the Clearfield Driving Park and will improve it for the purpose of holding fairs thereon. —B. 8. Moore, State orchard demonstrator, who has been working near Punxsutawney for the past few weeks, anncunced the pres- ence of the San Jose scale to an alarming ex- tent in that vicinity. —Mike Yuhasz, a Slav 30 years old, is in the Clearfield jail charged with the murder of an older man supposed to bear the name of H. J. Ainsworth, at the coke ovens at Tyler. Yuhasz admits his guilt. . —Judge Corbett, of Jefferson county, di- rected Grant Kuhn, who admitted that he had been running a speakeasy in Punxsutawney, to |pay a fine of $750 and costs of prosecution and also to spend six months in the Allegheny county workhouse! —Wayne McCoy, of near Utahville, Clear- field county, working in Philipsburg, fell from the third floor of the Potter house in that town the other night, sustaining a frac- ture of the base of the skull and two fractures of the jaw. He does not know what caused him to fall. —Daniel Cowe, aged 83, end Alonzo Brant, aged 12, were both injured by one bullet al- leged to have been fired by William Birch, in a shooting affray at the Kittanning fair last week. The former is said to be dying in the Lospital, while the latter was only slightly in- jured. Birch escaped but was arrested. —Fire originating through spontanecus com- bustion destroyed the large barn of Adam J. Black, County Commissioner, at Broadtop City, Pa., on Monday, together with nine mules, three horses, 125 tons of hay, the en- tire season’s grain crop and $2,500 worth of farming utensils. The loss is $17,000, insur- ance $3,000. —An ice plant that is exciting the interest of automobilists for miles around is in opera- tion near Coudersport. It is a natural phe- nomena on a two acre tract. The ice is form- ed through action of nature during the sum- mer months and melts in winter. The ice is formed at a depth of 40 feet and is taken out through a 12-foot shaft. —Gilbert Hoover, of Cooper township, Clear- field county, has instituted a $6,000 damage suit against the Clearfield Bituminous. Coal Corporation, growing out of cave-ins on his farm, injuring the land and buildings. Mr. Hoover alleges that the corporation mined the coal from under the land and failed to leave proper support for the surface. —A verdict of first degree murder was on Wednesday returned against Henry Mottorn, of Brookville aged 16, who was charged with the killing of William Haines, a farmer of Sprankle’s Mills, last March. Ernest Haines, aged 18, a son of the slain man, was at once placed on trial on a similar charge. Mottern, in a confession, alleged that young Haines plotted the shooting and hired him to do it. Robbery was the motive. —James Haws, of Johnstown, in company with William Hurl, of Lewistown, attempted to let themselves down the 700-foot incline on enacted; that the co-operative agri-' cultural extension act has been pass- ed; that markets and rural organiza- tion have been created and encourag- ed, and that ail these measures which received no attention from the White House before have been carefully pro- moted by our present Chief Magis- trate, Woodrow Wilson. But his helpfulness to the farmer. has not been limited to these benefi- cent measures. The cotton futures | act was opposed by the speculators in | cotton but through the efforts of the lie. They are not influenced by patri- Moosers of that section in an hypnot- : jotism or any other altruistic motive ic state. On the other hand the Dem- ocratic managers do not attach mueh IB/:reating this organization in Penn- significance to Roosevelt’s speech. Sylvania. Their only purpose is to se- His palpably corrupt bargain with cure the election of Justice Hughes in the machine managers to eliminate the hope that tariff taxation of the the Progressive party is felt as keen- | ingley and Payne type will be re- ly in Maine as elsewhere and instead Stored and that they may thus resume of enticing the Moosers back to the heir old practice of robbing the Republican fold he is likely to drive ‘treasury and oppressing the people. them further away. : No intelligent voter will be fooled by such expedients and the gentlemen will have their labor for their pains. Hughes in California. Justice Hughes is encountering the Plain | Party Treason. cation of his mental attitude. Hughes :Jack’s’ mountain, near the latter place, on a has been traveling through the west [small truck with a scorch stick as a brake. 'delivering speeches Hat Byal .i8ome Hurl, before hc had gong thirty feet, leaped ‘of those made by Senator oraker in to safety, but. Haws hung - to the truck until - ‘the wildest of his “bloody shirt” days. it gained considerable momentum and only i The canny ex-judge realizes that if he leaped when he approached a curve where the ican just force the issue’ of north truck left the tracks and turned turtle. He lagainst south and by so doing receive was painfully injured. the electoral vote of all the northern | —Edward Boland, a freight brakeman, 22 States his election is assured. Appar- ently he considers that game well worth playing. There are here and there men who distinctly remember that it was a solid north and a solid south that made the civil war possible. Sectional rivalries are the most dangerous and the most lasting weaknesses a republic has to President was passed. The grain roubles of his life in California. Up standards act met similar opposition yntil the time he reached the border but was forced through. The Federal 'of that State his junket was unevent- warehouse act was secured by strenu- ful, There was little enthusiasm in ous efforts over opposition both cun- Minnesota, the Dakotas, Washington ning and formidable. The good roads 'and other States through which he bill was antagonized by the local ma- ' passed and in which he spoke, but chine of nearly every State but is now there were no signs of revolt against a law and finally as the crowning his nomination. It cannot be said achievement of this devoted friend of |that his progress represented a tri- the farmer, the Federal reserve and umphal processior but it was some- farm loan acts were passed putting | thing like a very respectable funeral. the farmers on the same plane with | But the moment he reached Califor- other business men in the money mar- {nia he found a different atmosphere. ket. i Nobody threw bricks or stale eggs With such a record to recommend but neither did anybody reveal any him to the agricultural interests of high pressure cordiality. It was a sort the country every farmer in the coun- of tentative endorsement he met. try ought to be an enthusiastic sup-{ The trouble in California is that porter of Woodrcw Wilson for Presi- | the merger of the Republicans and dent. Of course he was helped in his Progressives entered into between beneficent purposes by the Democrats : Penrose, Cannon, Smoot and other in both branches of Ccngress. If the | stalwarts on one hand and Roosevelt, Republican machine had had control Perkins and Bill Flinn on the other of legislation much of the legislation 'has not been ratified by the rank and in the interest of agriculture might 'file of either party. Gevernor John- have been defeated. President Wil- son, Progressive candidate for Vice son had a Congress equally willing ' President four years ago and popu- with himself to help the farmer. But larly known as “Hungry Hi,” wants that fact detracts nothing from the to be the candidate of the merged praise due him. It only shows that a force for United States Senator and Democratic President ought to have the Republican National Committee- a Democratic Congress to help him ian. Mr. Croker, and the chairman of and that farmers should see that he the Republican State Committee, Mr. gets it. ——Admiral Dewey doesn’t agree with those who insist that Secretary Daniels has “demoralized the navy.” “Bosh,” says the hero of Manila, “No moralized and those who make the charge are guilty of falsehood.” Ted- dy can put that in his pipe. ——Former President Taft and the Republicans who have been in Con- gress any considerable time must feel unhappy every time candidate Hughes refers to the pork barrel. That is essentially a Republican insti- tution and has been for many years a Republican pet. —There may never be another war after the present butchery in Europe is ended but Great Britain «will have to do some tall explaining [to avert one. sir,” he added, “the navy is not de- | Keasling, emphatically refuse assent. Upon no other condition will the Pro- gressives support Hughes and upon that condition the stalwarts declare ‘uncompromising hostility. . This is the situation Justice {Hughes encountered upon his en- trance into California. Representa- tives of both parties have met him but instead of expressing a cordial ‘welcome demanded a declaration of adherence to one side or the other. Of course the candidate can’t meet {ihe conditions but he is doing his best to straddle and look pleasant, an ex- | ceedingly Gdifficult feat. If “Hungry Hi” is defeated for the Senatorial ‘nomination the entire Progressive | vote will be thrown to Wilson and if he is nominated the stalwarts will re- fuse to continue the game. In the circumstances it may be said that the Presidential candidate’s sojourn Ihe State is anything but delight- ul. on Those Democratic Senators who have jeopardized the Democratic leg- islative programme by forcing con- sideration of the Immigration bill on Monday, are plain party traitors. There is no occasion for pressing that measure of legislation at this time. Even if it had merit it is not necessa- ry now for the reason that the Euro- pean war has shut out all immigra- tion, practically, and there is no prob- ability of a change in that respect in the near future. But 2s a matter of fact there is no merit in the measure. It is an ill-begotten progeny of bigot- ry and prejudice and has no place in the legislation of a Democratic Con- gress. Every Democratic Senator who voted for it betrayed his party. The existing immigration laws may be faulty in some respects. It must be admitted that undesirables do manage to get into the country not- withstanding the provisions of the present laws on the subject and it would be better if all such were ex- cluded. But it is not because of that defect that certain Southern and Southwestern Senators are forcing consideration of the bill. What they want is the educational test contained in the pending bill. They want to exclude immigrants, however indus- trious, honest and worthy, who can’t read and write. That is not only ab- surd but it is actually vicious. Hun- dreds of worthy perscns in Europe have never had opportunity to learn io read and write. There have been illiterate immi- grants assimilated in the population of this courtry who have made the very best citizens, the bravest soldiers and the most earnest supporters of justice and right. The children of some of the illiterate immigrants have become wise statesmen, earnest and honest public officials, efficient military leaders and ornaments in the social and industrial life of the coun- try. Why, in the face of this fact should immigrants be kept out for no other reason than that they can’t read and write? There is no reason and the Vardamans of the Senate might learn virtues from them. But in any event to force the matter at this time was a crime against the Democratic party. face. The man who deliberately en- deavors to arouse sectional prejudices “years old, was shot and killed on Monday night by an automobilist in Fairmont park. Boland 'end twc other young men were walking along & drive when they were almost run down by “a machine in which were a man and woman. ‘Jumping to the side of the road Boland ex- claimed “You had better turn on your lights.” The automobilist replied by firing two shots {which struck Boland in the head. He then Jat on full speed and disappeared. is playing with fire. He is hardly the | —Because he followed the advice of his sort of a man to be the spokesman for father-in-law and spinked his bride of two the doctrine of “America first and months, Earl Eustice, of Allentown, is in America efficent.” (jail. She developed 4 mania to spend all her “The south is in the saddle,” shouts _evenings in the parks, he said, and all his Candidate Hughes. But he knows that |pleadifigs that she stzy at home were in vain. the Democratic congressional delega- She alsc defied her father, who thereupon sug- tion from the south does not consti- 'zested personal chastisement. When she was tute a majority. The south is not “in spanked she swore out a warrant. Her hus- the saddle.” But if it was it would have as much right to occupy that po- sition as the north. that man should go to congress as northern, southern, eastern and west- ern factionalists. It is not fitting that geography should be the deter- mining factor in framing party poli- cies. Candidate Hughes is not adding to his political stature by endeavoring to wage a campaign on the strength of the misleading cry that the “south is in the saddle.” The day for that sort of thing ended when Lee sur- rendered. I Source of Allies’ Munitions. From the Springfield Republican. Until the Allies had begun their of- fensive they were for obvious reasons secretive about their production of munitions of war. Now that they have shown their hand they are quite will- ing to have its sirength appreciated, and informaticn has been given which reveals many interesting things. It shows for example, what had not generally been realized in this coun- try, that huge as the war orders placed here are, American-made am- munition cuts but a small figure. Our shops have felt the stimulus of war prices, but in the belligerent countfies production has been whipped up to the limit. In Great Britain alone, for example, 2,000,000 workers in 4,000 government-controlled plants, supervised by a staff of 5,000 men are providing for the army of 5,000,000 and contributing to the needs of Biit- ain’s Allies. When the war began it was assumed that the government ar- senals and the existing private works would suffice with the extension and speeding up. Now a single one of the new plants covers an area of nine miles long and from three to four miles wide, and Great Britain is dotted with smaller factories, many of them specializing in one thing, made in great quantities by subdivided pro- cesses which can be carried. on by unskilled hands. : ——Candidate Hughes is already off the first page of the newspapers and there is danger that he will be lost in the shuffle before the cam- paign is half over. It is not fitting | band and her parent. asked her to try mar- 1ied life over again, but she was obdurate. | —Boyd Crumrine, aged 78, prominent as a lawyer, died at his home at Washington, Pa., ‘early on Monday. He had been declining gradually in health for months, but his con- dition did not become serious until last week. He was formerly district attorney of Wash- ington county and later was appointed Unit- ed States Deputy Marshal for the western dis- trict of Pennsylvania. In 1877 Gov. Beaver appointed him reporter of the State Supreme court. He was a veteran of the Civil war. —Breaking into thc home of his father-in- law, Isaac Shirk of Tyrone, at 2 a. m. Friday, Frank McCarty, aged 81, a signalman employ- ed by the Pennsylvania railroad and a ball player went to a room where his wife was sleeping and attempted to shoot her. Mrs. Me- Carty and her sister, Lillian Shirk, who were sleeping together, escaped in the dark. Mr. Shirk located McCarty in“the room and sum- moned an officer. As they entered the house McCarty shot himself, dying as they reached his side. McCarty and his wife separated a week before. —Yeggmen entered the Driftwood postof- fice, dynamited the big safe and escaped with $1,000 worth of stamps and $500 in cash, be- sides other valuable papers, early on Monday. No one heard the explosion and the robbery was no: discovered until the office was opened for the morning's business. It is presumed that the explosion was timed with a passing freight. Inspector Irish, of Ridgway, was ap- prised of the robbery, and arrived at ten o'clock. He is going over the ground with de- tectives now working on the case. The pclice of surrounding towns have been noitfied to keep on the watch for the rcbbers. —Although R. L. Jordan and Freda V. Best, both of Milton, have been married four days, in the eyes of the law their marriage is invalid. Jordan and Miss Best applied at the office of John I. Carr at Sunbury for a li- cense on July 15. On August 14 they were married in Detroit, Mich.,, by Rev. Walter Frint, pastor of the Methodist church there. Mr. Carr yesterday received the return card from the pastor and he immediately notified the couple of their error. A marriage license lissued in Pennsylvania is gcod only when the ceremony is performed in this State.- Mr. Carr informed the young couple that they either must come back to the Keystone State to be married or must secure a Michigan li- cense.
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