mg me Deworealic; Watch BY P. GRAY MEEK. seme sm—— INK SLINGS. Fine weather for seeding, isn’t it? —Congress has adjourned and the country will enjoy the rest quite as much as the Congressmen. —Maine is not worrying us. It went overwhelmingly Republican in September, 1892, and in the following November Grover Cleveland swept the country for President. —Judging from the looks of the Governor’s tourists as they passed through Bellefonte Tuesday after- noon they must have been -zollecting samples of all the soil stratas. through which they had passed. -—When the Governor and the members of his Agricultural touring party went through Bellefonte on Tuesday afternoon the ear in which the Governor was riding did not take the route that most of the others took through Allegheny street. He rode north on Spring to Linn and thence out of town, leaving nothing but dis- appointment and dust in his wake Disappointment was writ all over the countenances of a large crowd of ad- mirers that was not gathered in the Diamond to applaud the triumphant passage of the Governor. —We can’t imagine why some of the promotors of the Granger's venice at Centre Hall should have gotten as excited as they are reported to have been over the determination of the State Health Department to exclude children under sixteen years of age from the grounds. Surely they knew that the ruling had been in effect for several weeks prior to their picnic, that Sunday schools, picture shows, schools and every other gathering place of young people had been noti- fied t> exclude those under the age of sixteen. While the ruling undoubted- ly caused disappointment to many it was made for the purpose of conserv- ing the public health and where the public health is concerned the individ- ual’s pleasure must be foregone. —Congressman Rowland wasn’t present or voting when the eight heur law was passed to avert the railroad strike. No matter what his attitude may have been it seems to us that he should have seized the opportunity to go on record on such an important measure as that. He is a candidate for re-election and his constituents have a right to know where he stands on questions in which they are vitally interested. The eight hour law is not ‘a Political measure. It is an econom- ic propositicn which will affect every individual in Mr. Rowland’s district, one way or another. Opinion is divid- ed, both as to its efficacy and its jus- tice so that no matter how he would have voted he weculd have been criti- cised, which probably explains his ducking it. —Just’ how the management of ihe Granger’s picnic at Centre Hall can reconcile its refusal to permit the anti-suffragist advocates to open headquarters on their grounds with the broad gauged, tolerant policy that we had always believed to be pursued by the Grangers, we are at a loss to understand. It has had regular days devoted to the exploitation of Dem- ocracy, Republicanism, Prohibition and many other principles upon which the thoughts of men diverge and we fail to see why the anti-suffragists should have been denied the same Lp- portunity to spread their propaganda that was accorded to the suffragists. The “Watchmar” was the first paper in all this part of Pennsylvania and one of the very first in the county to positively advocate equal suffrage, and it has never denied those who were opposed to the principle the privilege of speaking through its col- umns. . —Williamsport is all het up with the work of trying to discover wheth- er the Mayor of that “city is really naturalized or not. Williamsport had known Jonas Fischer many years be- fore he aspired to preside over her destinies as Mayor. Jonas’ name has been as glibly rolled on the tongue of every resident of the Lum- ber city in recent years as was that of Peter Herdic two decades ago. He has been the fellow who has been starting things down there for some time and just because all these things are true he was elected Mayor ina most spectacular fight. Then it was discovered that there was doubt as to whether Jonas had ever been natural- ized and those who couldn’t lick him at a popular election set about to oust kim because of the contention that he is not a citizen of the United States. We hope that, even if Jonas can’t find his papers in the :zafe where he claims to have them locked up, he gives the ouster proceeding a fight such as he is capable of doing, for that will teach the voters of Wil- liamsport a lesson that they very sorely need. Men who are candidates for public office should be thoroughly dissected before election, not after- wards. | i | | STATE RIGHTS AN VOL. 61. BELLEFONTE, D FEDERAL UNION. PA., SEPTEMBER 15, 1916. One Question Upon Which They Agree. Result of the Maine Election. Though the result of the election in Maine on Monday may be disappoint- ing to over-sanguine Democrats it will hardly afford unalloyed satisfac- tion to the Republicans. It indicates that most of the Progressives there have gore back to the Republican fold as most of them were drawn from that source. But the majority is not up to what it ought to be with the party united, to guarantee a Re- publican victory in November. In other words the Republican majority this year is considerably less than it was in 1892, the last time the Demo- crats elected a President against a | united Republican opposition. It is also much less than the average for the last twenty-five years. No conservative Democrat expect- ed the election of the Democratic candidate for Governor on Monday and few locked for as small a majori- ty for the Republican candidate as is reported at this time. It was widely believed that Johnson might be elect- ed Senator for the reason that one of the Republican candidates was un- popular. It was likewise hoped that McGillicuddy would be elected to Congress in the Second district be- cause of his personal popularity. The failure of these expectations was dis- appointing, of course, but it does not imply a party weakness. It simply means that the party lines were drawn harder than usual and that the Republicars of Maine have par- tially recovered in strength. Four years ago the Republican par- ty in Maine was split, the largest pro- |. portion going to Roosevelt who also received some Democratic support. The return of these elements to the The one question upon which Jus- tice Hughes and his party managers are entirely agreed is that the eight hour day is an atrocious iniquity. Ever since Congress enacted the law making eight hours a standard for railroad trainmen, Mr. Hughes has been hammering at it and all other stump orators and the press of his party are equally active in the same direction. “It is a great blow at gov- ernment,” Justice Hughes declared in Maine on Saturday evening and in Chester county, this State, on the same day, former Secretary of State Knox advanced the same proposition. Presumably they would heve prefer- red a nation-wide railroad strike and universal business paralysis. That would have been better for their party. Of course these gentlemen accuse President Wilson of being responsible for this industrial improvement or reform, and in the language of Mad- am Malaprop, “we own the soft im- peachment.” The country was on the brink of a vast calamity. The only way to avert an impending disaster was to enact such legislation as would defer the crisis for a time or until reason was restored so that the sub- ject could be considered dispassion- ately. President Wilson proposed such legislation as would have been just but there was not sufficient time to enact it into law. The eight-hour day, a feature of his plan, was enact- ed, however, and the strike, with its attendant horrors, was averted. Wage earners compose not only the vast majority of the voters of this country but an equally large propor- tion of the wealth producers. The Brumbaugh Violates a Pledge. i Governor Brumbaugh is today com- pleting the first of his much heralded junkets for the alleged purpose of in- specting the highways and encourag- ing the agriculturists of the State. There are twenty-four or more auto- mobiles in the caravan and more than a hundred persons. In advance of the politics would not be touched in’ the speeches. This tip was issued as an inducement to. others than partisan Republicans to attend the meetings, no doubt, and seems to have accom- plished its purpose. The orders for- warded in advance to employes of the Highway Department and other ser- vants of the State to honor the Gov- ernor by cordial receptions were am- ply obeyed. But on the first day out Governor Brumbaugh violated his pledge to re- frain from politics. At Centre Hall he encountered a large body of far- mers who were enjoying a Grangers’ picnic and he turned his vocal bat- teries against President Wilson's administration into their faces. Keep- ing the National Guardsmen on the Texas border is tke cause of his com- plaint and the employment of women at farm work the excuse for his ref- erence to it. It was a contemptible violation of faith though the Grang- ers submitted to it without protest. But we have reasons to believe that they felt they had been tricked. Their indignation was justly aroused but properly held in restraint. Governor Brumbaugh said in his partisan speech at Centre Hall that he don’t know why the Guardsmen are “sunning themselves in Texas when they should be at home here in Penn- sylvania.” Of course he doesn’. old parties is revealed in the gain of thirty-five per cent. on the vote of 1912 by the Republicans and of seven per cent. of the Democrats. An un- usually active campaign brought out a full vote but it failed to restore the Republican party to its former major- ity. The influence which worked this result in Maine “is not likely to be | found in other States, moreover, and the Republican victory in Maine is not indicative of a similar result throughout the country. Maine is different from tke more progressive sections. has for its purpose and is certain to result in the betterment of the condi- tions of wage earners. In its present form the law may be inadequate. But in the course of time it can and will be perfected so that - motonly trainmen | ‘but others “will come within its bene- ficent provisions and greater content- ment and happiness will ensue. Justice Hughes and Mr. Knox may find eause for apprehension in these facts but it is safe to say that they will not carry such an impression to the mind of the average vcter. SS ————— Increase of Appropriations Justified. Guardsmen on the Mexican Border. The malignant charges that the National Guardsmen were badly treated in transportation to the Mex- ican border and insufficiently provis- ioned after their arrival there have been discontinued. General Funston’s emphatic declaration upon the sub- ject stopped them at once and forever. But Justice Hughes and others are still lamenting that it is an outrage to keep them away from their homes. More crocodile tears have been shed on this account within the last month than would be necessary to float a warship. The lamentations have be- come the laughing stock of the camps. The hearty, healthy and well cared for Guardsmen ridicule such foolish talk. The National Guardsmen on duty on the Mexican frontier are willingly performing a most important and valuable service for their country. They are securing residents, citizens of the United States, in their lives and property. The government of Mexico is legally and morally bound to protect residents on the border from raids by banditti and others, citizens of Mexico. But the govern- nient of Mexico is incapable of ful- filling this obligation. Its resources are inadequate for the purpose. For that reason the duty of protecting American citizens on the border de- volves upon the government of the United States. The National Guards- men of the several States are per- forming that service. Is Justice Hughes and are those who joined him in denunciation of the President for sending and keeping the Guardsmen on the border of the opin- ion that it would be better or wiser £0 let the border citizens suffer from. raids of Mexican bandits? They pre- tend to be very anxious that the prop- erty of men who have acquired acqui- sitions from Mexico be protected but are willing to allow the lives of resi- dents on the border to be sacrificed. This is neither consistent nor ration- al. The presence of the Guardsmen on the border guarantees the safety of citizens in constant joepardy and as they are entirely willing to remain there the complaints are puerile. The appropriations made by the Congress which has just adjourned its first session are unquestionably large. In the aggregate they amount to nearly a billion and a-half. That is five hundred million dollars more than were appropriated at the time that Sepaker Reed declared that we are a billion dollar country. But if the money is wisely and honestly dis- bursed the amount is a matter of small concern. No man thinks he is extravagant because he increases his insurance policy in proportion to the expansion of his property value. That is simply a wise measure of self-pro- tection. Even the increase of hazard will influence prudent property own- ers to increase insurance. In Speaker Reed’s time the appro- priations of one session of Congress amounted to a billion dollars. That was more than twenty years ago and nobody thought of preparing for war. This year the appropriations aggre- gate a billion and a-hzlf and nearly seven hundred millions of the amount are to meet extraordinary charges for preparing for contingencies that may never arise or may come upon us within a couple of years. In other words the appropriations of the re- cent session embody provision for national defence to the amount of the appropriations and the remainder is less than those of the Reed Con- gress of nearly twenty years ago. Will Justice Hughes or any other man say that the nearly seven hun- dred million dollars appropriated for preparation for national defence ought not to have been so used? We do not think so. World conditions are changing. Twenty years ago all the defence this country needed was good behavior toward other nations. But it is different now. Incidents are oc- curring every day that may lead to war in self-defence within the period of a Presidential term. If our -navy were equal to that of Great Britain no international mails would be rifled under direction of the Council! of Lon- don. Within five years the British government may have to explain why our weakness was taken advantage of. : ° eight hour law enacted at the instance | and persuasion of President Wilson | What would he know with. But every man, woman and child within the hearing of his voice knew that they are there inthe performance of a public and patriotic duty and that by going there they averted a bloody war which would have cost thousands event the promise was given Liat | Labor and the Eight-Hour Day. | From The Public. It has long been apparent to the ob- | serving that the struggle between the railway managers and the trainmen i represents but a phase of the eight- | hour question. It is, indeed, ause ! it is only one phase of a vast question i that it is so hard to settle. The indis- jcretion of the manager who pre- | dicted that the President would “hear from organized business of the coun- try” merely confirmed the weli : grounded suspicion that the business | interests whom the managers pre- : tended to represent objected to any yielding to the trainmen, not because of any added expense in railroad op- eration, but because the granting of an eight-hour day to 400,000 rail op- eratives would mean the early exten- sion of the eight-hour day to all other labor. The struggle of organized labor for an eight-hour day has become world- wide. But the organization is not sufficiently strong to carry it in all trades at once. For this reason each advance is made through the organi- zation having the power to win its point. Numerous trades and occupa- tions are now on an eight-hour basis, and the popular sentiment in favor of the move is so strong that should 400,000 trainmen succeed in placing their service on an eight-hour basis its influence throughout the labor world would be overwhelming. This is why the managers have exhausted every recourse rather than grant the men’s demand. They know, "and the vast commercial interests back of them know, that such a breach in the wall will lead inevitably to the cap- ture of the citadel. SE ——— Are Backing Bill. From the Johnstown Democrat. Billy Sunday blew into Ocean Grove and blew out at the end of three days with only $5,000 to the good. Rather poor picking. With all the money represented, Bill should have been given 10,000 bones at least. However, the harvest is Foming, the real one. Billy may tackle New York. The evangelist should be able to leave Gotham with much loot. New York iz like every other place. It will pay good money to the man who has nerve enough to tell it that its tizens are a low down set of hypocrites and dirty liars. There is som ng queer about it all, but the harder the raps » ‘uf lives-and millions of money. In- telligent men understand: but slackers | like Brumbaugh who draw unearned | salaries while pursuing pleasures of | one sort or another in and out of Pennsylvania are not expected to have mental vision. ms tas —When you are motoring and blow your horn to notify a horse driver ahead that you would like to pass, have you ever noticed that, after hearing your horn, he just has to look back to see what made the noise before he starts to pull his team to the right side of the road, where he ought to have been anyway. He in- variably does it. Why? ——Now the “Coinel” will take courage and make all the speeches they want him to make and they will want him te make as many speeches as he cares to make. The “Coinel” is certainly “it” in the Republican party though he refuses to affiliate with the crooks who control the machine. ——Mayor Smith, of Philadelphia, has done a good many things during the brief period in which he has serv- ed that deserve and have received popular execraticn. But in prohibit- i the more dellars. Billy is per. The evangelist has m fact that calling a man al arin a bar room usually starts a fight. Call- ing a man a liar in a tabernacle, on the other hand, usually starts a col- lection. Take all in all New York deserves Sunday, If the evangelist would leave that place with ten million dollars no one would begrudge him a cent. For half a century the American people have been longing to see some man invade Gotham and trim. it right. A whole lot. of people are backing Bill for the job. . : —_— The Way Brother Bailey Sees It. From Saturday's Johnstown Democrat. . If Brother Meek “Watchman” has been berating Sena- tor Penrose because the State of Pennsylvania is broken the Centre county sage has the wrong bull by the tail. Penrose would undoubtedly deny that he was responsible for Brumbaugh, and it is Martin G. who must meet the charge that there is no money in the state treasury with which to meet current expenses. The State is broke because Brumbaugh did not take pains to ascertain what the income of the Commonwealth would be. The State is broke because the Governor was not on the job, when it came time to swing the veto ax. The situation that prevails now will exist next year and the year after that unless the Governor gets back from Maine and gets in the harness. Up to ing “tag days” he has performed one service which ought to be commended by everybody. ——The suffragettes want to raise a campaign fund of one million dol- lars and as they are all in favor of civic righteousness and political hon- esty we are at a loss to know how they will spend sc much money. ——President Wilson’s kind of peace may be expensive, as some of our Republican contemporaries say, but the price is pzid in dollars instead | of human lives and that is something worth while. ——The president of the Santa Fe says he will not obey the eight hour act of Congress but he will probably change his mind on the subject. Wild Western notions are not always per- manent. ——Great Britain refuses to with- draw the “black list” but after the present naval program has been com- pleted she may take another view of the subject. : ——Probably the pecple of Maine think President Wilson has done too much for the people of other sections of the country. ——DMaine went in the same direc- tion but with less speed than on that the present time Brumbaugh has been the champion absentee executive of this century. Reports from Harris- burg show that for weeks at a time State Treasurer Young has been Gov- ernor, attorney general, auditor gen- eral and the whole board of public buildings and grounds. Unvarnished Truth. B. L. T. in Chicago Tribune. Fear not, little one, there will be no revolution, no Commune. Self-inter- est and a thousand jealousies provide as many checks as nature applies to the bugs of the field. If organized labor were unselfish, if it really struck for its altars and its fires, it could pitch the government into the Potomac at any hour; and often, dearie, it would find little, unorganiz- ed you and me in a mood to help it. But as long as each group is concern- ed primarily with its own advance- ment, and the devil takes the hind- most, there will be no debacle. Defining Americanism. Dr. Anna Howard Shaw at Chautauqua. There is no word today that is worked harder than “Americanism.” And yet they do not know that true Americanism in the hearts of men and women would do away with ar- mies and navies and military camps. The real word Americanism is simply the application of one word “love”’— as you would have others do unto vou, do ye even so unto them. And this when brought down to the na- tion, simply means do unto other na- tions as we would have other nations other occasion. do unto us. of the Bellefonte ’ SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. : — +—Bids for the new public building, DuBois, will be received up to October 19. —The bakers of Sunbury have made a twenty per cent. increase in the price of “bread, alleging the greater cost of flour as a reason. —W. H. Albright, whose home is near Wallaceton, Clearfield county, has acquir- ed more or less local distinction from the fact that he is the father of twenty children, - —The solicitor of the Johnstown school board has announced that the teachers of that city are not entitled to their salaries for the month of September. The board awaits the decision of the Attorney Gen- eral. —A fair showing of oil in a well drilled a half mile south of Corsica, Jefferson county, close to the Clarion county line, has caused considerable excitement in that section, and leases are being taken up on all sides of the new well. —In Williamsport the ‘police patrol boxes are to be left unlocked from 10 o'clock at night until 7 o'clock in the morning in order that fire alarms may be sent over them or physicians called by citizens in emergency cases. —Choosing the grave of his wife, had been dead about seven years, as the place to put an end to his own life, Mich- ael Streb, aged 73, a resident of Philadel- phia, hanged himself from the branch of a tree in Northwood cemetery. —By order of the State Sanitary Board, John W. Bower, of Armstrong township, Lycoming county, has been arrested charged with cutting the throat of a cow that had died and then disposing of the carcass through a butcher to consumers. —Earl C. Kissell, of Lock Haven, died suddenly in the paper mill there last Fri- day. A subsequent investigation showed that he had entered the building wearing wet clothing and that a live wire with which he came in contact caused his elec- trocution. —Roy - Worthum, a resident of New Kensington, Westmoreland county, was found dead in his bed the other morning. It ‘is said a man named Tholis, with whom he had a heated ‘argument in a pool room the previous night, struck him on the head with a cane, —At Allentown J udge Garman refused, to transfer a hotel license to Benjamin §. Reinert, saying he heard the applicant had borrowed the money with which to go into the hotel business, and adding that men who berrow capital with which to embark in business invariably get into trouble. —George Mitchell Woodley, fifty-six years old, of Towanda, Pa., on Saturday was found guilty of voluntary manslaugh- ter, and recommended to the mercy of the court. He shot and killed Warren Decker, of Corning, N. Y., at East Athens last Memorial day. Decker was a “white slaver” and became involved in an alter- cation with Wooley and was shot. Wooley claimed self-defense. who —Thomas Conlin, 70 years old, a labor- er employed in the Braeburn Steel com- pany at Braeburn, near New Kensington, has been left $1,500,000 by a brother, Frank Conlin, it is alleged. Thirty years ago the two brothers landed in this country, coming from Ireland. Five years later Frank went to Australia, where he made his fortune in the gold fields, He died a few days ago, and his brother has ‘been notified that he 1s heir to his estate. | "~The Clearfield:Cambria Coal & Coke. company’s lands lying in Clearfield county were sold at sheriff sale the other day to ‘satisfy mortgages held by the Jacob Tome Institute of Baltimore. The lands were sold for $50,000, but the name of the pur- chaser was not disclosed. The company’s possessions comprise 186 tracts of land consisting of several thousand acres un- derlaid with valuable coal veins. Most of these tracts are in Burnside, Chest, Bell, Greenwood townships and New Washing- ton and Newburg boroughs. —Attacked by a bull who objected to the bright hue of the automobile which he was driving, Charles Hassenplug, of Burn- ham, was dethroned from the driver's seat and his automobile sent to the repair shop with a broken windshield, runningboard and headlight, while’ one front tire was torn from the rim as the machine was thrown against a telephone pole. Has- senplug was driving a bright red car, on Saturday, when the angry bull attacked him on the road near Liverpool. The ani- mal was only slightly injured. —A bad accident occurred on the Lewis- burg, Milton and Watsontown Electric railway Saturday, as a result of which two employes of the company and several passengers were injured and the two cary, which collided head-on were badly dam- aged. The accident occurred opposite the Watsontown brick plant, when Hartzel, the motorman on the up car went through the switch, instead of waiting at the switch. Both Hartzel and John Corneli- son, motorman on the down car, put on their brakes when they saw that a col- lision was impending, but were unable to stop the cars, which came together with great force, smashing in the front of both cars. —The will of Mrs. Flora Humes, widow of Hamilton B. Humes, wealthy Jersey Shore banker, probated last Thursday, gives her fortune, estimated to be worth $400,000, to her daughter, Mrs. William H. Hepburn, Jersey Shore, with the excep- tion of $10,000, as the sum of £5,000 is giv- en the Jersey Shore Presbyterian church, and $5,000 to Floretta Hepburn, daughter of her chief beneficiary. The will is con- tested by Miss Margaret Humes, of Jersey Shore, a grand-daughter of Mrs. Humes, for whom attorneys had filed a caveat against the document. The will was ad- mitted t¢ probate, however, by the Reg- ister of Wills, and Miss Humes’ lawyers have taken an appeal to the orphans’ court. —Capitalists who have invested liberal- ly in real estate in eastern Huntingdon and western Mifflin counties with the Aet- na Explosive company and their $3,000,000 plant as a lure were somewhat shaky on their foundations Monday morning when the plant practically shut down, presuma- bly for repairs. There have been persist- ent rumors of financial troubles worrying the company, and some of its debts have been of long standing, but when a large number of their experienced workers left for other plants on Monday, the rumor almost crystalized into a reality. Finan- cial institutions at Lewistown, however, say the company is meeting its obliga- tions promptly, a recent increase in capi- tal stock having provided ample funds for present needs. ) . “Tm 2
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