~ ‘BY P. GRAY MEEK. rmm—— Seem INK SLINGS. —And this is fall. —The political pot is beginning to simmer. In a few weeks it will be boiling. ic RAG aT TTT : me eT 'SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. " —The annual reunion of the survivors of the Pennsylvania Canal Boatmen’s as- sociation will be held in Johnstown on Thursday, Cetober 12. ” —It is said that the chestnut blight has killed thousands of trees in Clinton and adjoining counties and that the chestnut crop this year will be slim. * —Men arrested for drunkenness or street loafing in Latrobe are now put to work cn the public streets if they haven’t got the money to pay their fine. ; —J. L. Abraham, a deputy delinquent ; . tax eosllector of Johnstown, has deen NO 3 " found guilty of extortion. Judge O’Con- ® ® nor directed the jury to return such a ver- dict. THE CROSS ROADS. —Naturally, we were not thinking as much about the steam heat works in July as we are now. STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. BELLEFONTE, PA.. SEPTEMBER 22, 1916. Em —— VOL. 61. —We hold ir grateful memory those who have contributed to the depleted condition of our exchequer within the past few weeks. Are you one of the dear readers whom we thus revere ? —Seven tons of honey were recently shipped from Greenville, Pa, by Edgar Williams, who received a check for $2,800 from the Newcastle, Pa., buyers of the sweetness. —Because there was not sufficient evi- dence to hold him, Nicholas Moritz, a Rus- sian, charged with the murder of Mrs. Catherine Yerkow, at Mount Union, a month ago, has been discharged from cus- tody. —Playing with matches cost Leo Mellis, ‘aged three years, his life. The child man- aged to get some matches in his home, at Manor, and set his clothing on fire. He was so badly burned that death followed within a few hours. .'—The largest eel ever caught in the vi- cinity of Millheim was taken from a mill dam there, when the water was drawn’ oft to allow certain repairs. It measured forty-four inches and weighed seven and three-quarter pounds. Hughes Will Quit Blackguarding. Amos Pinchot for Wilson. Slander of the Navy Reported. In a recent issue of the Philadel- | It has been semi-officially announc- | ed that Justice Hughes will be less personal and more polite in his future campaign speeches. His campaign managers have discov ered that his “Explain yourselves,” the stranger cried, abuse of the President is INJuring | «phe time is now, I must decide. : himself rather than his opponent and | What secret tales can you unfold? - have given orders for a change. Be- What offering does your silence hold ? ing 100 per cent. a candidate and a | The Bad Road chuckled inwardly, very small fraction a statesman, he | The Good Road laughed aloud BE, . “He’s mine,” the former said, “I know has agreed to take orders and the ep: You're wrong,” the latter murmured low. thets of the future will be left for the ! v ied : i; “Your cravings I can e're appease, use of the cheap demagogues who are Y offer you a 1H of tages To supporting him on the stump. The The Bad Road said: “Wine, women, song, habit the people of these United | Just follow me, you can’t go wrong.” States have of insisting upon equal and exact justice in politics as well as M. MURRAY BALSAM The stranger stood ’neath scorching rays; Two roads lay ’fore his level gaze, One was a narrow path and straight, The other, crooked; tempting fate. In a letter declaring his intention ] to support Woodrow Wilson for Pres- , phia “Public Ledger” a Washington ident, Amos Pinchot, ‘he millionaire | correspondent states that “the re- and philanthropic brother of Gifford markable performancz of hitting a Pinchot, of Pike county, tells some | target at a distance of 22,000 yards, pertinent truths about Theodore | or approximately eleven sea miles, Roosevelt and his present political as- | five times out of twelve shots fired sociates. Two years ago Mr Pinchot in simultaneous salvo, has just been remonstrated in somewhat emphatic made by the new superdreadnaught terms against the leadership of i Pennsylvania in firing tests conduct- George W. Perkins, the trust mag- ed in the Chesapeake bay. The Penn- nate. But he withheld criticism of sylvania is armed with a main battery Roosevelt at that time for some rea- of twelve fourteen-inch guns. These son. That he had suspicions then is were fired last week in a single salvo revealed in his letter in question. But at the distance stated, and at that the friendship between Gifford and distance five of the twelve shots hit the “coinel” was so close, the rela- the target.” The target was the —In a moment of reckless haste you can run down a child, crippling it for life. If you are an auto driver think of the life of distress you might bring on some one by a second’s care- lessness on your own part. —Bakers are contemplating a raise in the price of bread and that reminds us that we would have to raise more dough and we don’t want to have to do that because every time we think of any kind of dough we think of the Panthers. “Theatres, taxis, balls, cafes, The Bright Lights, dances, cabarets, Ponies, midnight orgies, too, 4 —Reports from all over the district are te the effect that Wm. E. Tobias will be the next Congressman from the Twenty-first. Charley Rowland is a good fellow, but good fellows don’t always represent their constitu- ents satisfactorily. —Thomas A. Edison says: “If the President is blundering he seems to tions so intimate then, that he re- frained from mkaing public his opin- ion. 4 Mr. Pinchot is a philosopher as well as a philanthropist and somewhat of an analyst. “For quite a good while,” he writes, “it was fairly clear to most of us that Roosevelt, Perkins, and the Steel trust Old Guard group around them, have not heen interest- sunken hulk of tae former battleship Texas placed off Tangier Sound. The Philadelphia “Public Ledger” is the vehicle by which a mercenary and malicious writer named Reuterdahl has been maligning the navy and everybody associated with its opera- tion and management since the be- ginning of the present administration in Washington. Posing as a naval ex- other things have brought about this wholesome change in Justice Hughes. The Republican candidate having been out of politics for a long period of time was not aware of the vast change in public sentiment which has set in. Men nominated for high of- fice no longer resert to the language of a blackguard in referring to antag- onists and when he adopted that man- This, I have to offer you.” “I offer hard work, ceaseless toil,” The Good Road said, “perhaps turmoil; ‘Wholesome food, peaceful hours, Perhaps a cottage, decked with flowers.” “A glowing body, strong with life To fight the Demons, care and strife ; I offer conscience, rested, clear, ‘A nature radiating cheer.” “My path is rocky, long and rough, —While playing in a tub of water, pre- sumably in the absence of any adult mem- bers of the family, a two year old ckild named Supe, living in Latrobe, fell over and was drowned. The child was dead when his body was found. ’ —The new First Presbyterian house of worship in Greensburg is to have a pipe organ of sufficient size and capacity to supply appropriate music, the cost not ex- ceeding $15,000. It is to be the gift of Mrs. Elizabeth Stauffer Moore. have the faculty of blundering |ed in the things which the Fro- pert he has declared and reiterated | ner of campaigning his party man- Yor iy = i 2 tush. —Willlamsport's ;Board of Trade secre ahead.” Edison’s views are shared | gressive party stood for. In fact, the vicious falsehood that no improve- | agers were shocked. But they could Lux’ries, ease, will be yours, Friend. tary declares ‘that within the next year by many, many men in this country who are thankful to the President for what he has done during the past four years and especially for having kept their country out of warfare and their sons from soldier’s graves. they have effectually thrown all lib- ; eralism and Democracy overboard and are now playing pure, old-fash- ioned Republican politics.” Then he adds: “The sabre-rattling concep- ; tion of national honor that Mr. Roose- ment has been made in the navy since the retirement of the Taft administra- tion. The “Public Ledger” has also featured every falsehood written by former Secretary of the Navy, von Meyer, in derogation of the navy as not stop him until he returned to headquarters. He imagined that he had a right to control his own tongue and that nobody would under- take to censor the utterances of a candidate for President. He knows road. Democratic Opportunity. THE DECISION. The stranger, less his mental load, Trudged down the straight and narrow that city will be able to furnish employ- ment to 1,000 additional men and the same number of wemen. He believes at least 200 new houses will be needed. —Miss Neva Matthews has brought suit against the borough of Latrobe to recover $10,000 damages. She alleges she wag badly and probably permanently injured by falling into an excavation in one of the town’s avenues on September 30th, 1915. ? —W. W. Moore, a well known resident. of Clearfield, was found dead in his bed Saturday morning. He had retired in his usual health and the finding of his dead body was a severe shock to his family. He was aged 57 years and is survived by his wife and seven children. better now, however. He has to obey before the election just as he would have to obey the bosses afterward if elected. There are some things that public opinion will insist on, however, which the party ‘managers will not in- sist on him doing. ‘He will not tell what he would have done, if he had From the Harrisburg Patriot. The unmistakably genuine char- acter of the enthusiasm manifested by the chairmen of the Democratic organizations from m~:t of the coun- ties of the State, at the big rally and notification meeting at the opening of the State campaign here on Thursday, speaks volumes for the chances of success of ‘the Democratic State ticket in November. It was not enthusiasm velt advances, to wit, that it is credit- | well as the slanders of that most un- able to seize the first opportunity to . corscionable calumniator of all time, physically injure anyone who has in : Theodore Roosevelt. the slightest degree injured you, has' That this achievement refutes no larger following among intelli- every word that has been spoken or gent, patriotic foreigners than it has | written in detraction of the navy among intelligent, patrictic Ameri- must be admitted and though the cans. | “Public Ledger” gives it publicity it For these fails to make proper apology to the —Ice froze at Curtin’s Works Tues- day morning, but the coolness was not charged to President Wilson be- cause right now they are working night and day down there to get start- ed on the biggest order the plant has had in years. The stack has been re- lined and is going to blow in and the the forge is going the first time since reasons and because 1910. That doesn’t look much as though Woodrow has wrecked the country. —With potatoes nearing the two _ dollar a bushel mark the “Watchman” wishes to remind those who complain that early in the spring it advised everyone, not only for health’s sake but for reasons of economy as well, to make every foot of productive soil about his premises yield something. There are many gardens in Bellefonte that have grown nothing but weeds President Wilson has favored pro- | officers and men of the navy whom it gressive - legislation and maintained peace with honor, Mr. Pinchot will support him for re-election and -ast his vote for the Democratic candidate for Governor: of New York, He has never voted that way before but con- . ditions were never before as they are now and Mr. Pinchot with abundance of money and no “itch for cffice” can well afford to vote - as his conscience dictates. Therefore he joins with Mr. Edison and Mr. Ford in suoport of has permitted scandal-mongers to | vilify in its columns. If this country | had been at war at the time every sentence written by Reuterdahl and von Meyer would have given aid and comfort to our ‘énemies.. Therefore the publication of the refutation of their falsehoods ought to have been accompanied by or followed with an ample apology to those malignantly injured. But the Philadelphia jour- nalistic porch-cli:nber adopts the less been President, when the German ar- my invaded Belgium or when the German submarines torpedoed the Lusitania. He will not say what he would have done in the matter of rec- ©ognizing an-atrocious murderer as the ‘head of the government of Mexico. President Wilson remonstrated against the Lusitania outrage in lan- guage which compelled the abandon- ment of submarine operations and Hughes criticises hin. Then what would Hughes have done? We will the German based on visionary hopes doubtful of realization, but enthusiasm founded on accurate information compiled by each chairman after thorough study of facts and conditions district. erally speaking, that the st: ngt ot the national candidacy of ‘President Wilson, based on the almost unpre- cedented record of fine administrative achievement in Washington; the un- animity of purpose among the Demo- crats of the State, and the lamentable weakness of the present Republican administration in Pennsylvania cou- The chairmen’s report, sh wed, C 8 —A stranger representing himself to be a government agent endeavored to gain a private interview with Charles Decker, a 1 ; Lock Haven fruit dealer, but produced no , in: his home | evidence of the authenticity of his claim : : and left the place when a customer enter- ed. It is believed he meant. robbery. —Paul" ' :Lapcevic, -- the . Westmoreland ounty man who killed his wife because he was preparing to run away with another man, and in whose case the un- written law failed to work, goes to the western penitentiary twelve and not more than twenty years. for not less than. —In an effort to have the shops of the Pittsburgh and Shawmuf railroad lo- pled with widespread Republican dis- affection, justified their firm convie- tion that this year the Democrats have the best opportunity in decades to elect the heads of their State ticket and to make material gains in the number of Democrats in the Penn- never know because propaganda has silenced him on that subject. Woodrow Wilson and the Democratic honorable course. principles which he represents in the | full belief that in so doing he is rcon- serving the real interests of the coun- try and pronicting the purest .Ameri- canism. : cated at Brookville, the people of that town have raised $21,159.50 to purchase land and grade the location of the shops. The amount subscribed is sufficient to ac- complish what the Shawmut company asked. this season, whereas numbers of them would have produced enough pctatoes to have lasted their owners a year. *—Who is Thomas A. Edison? Who "is Henry Ford? Who is Amos Pin- Justice Hughes and Mr. Underwood. —The “Watchman” has always in- sisted, both through its columns and President Underwood of the Erie railroad interprets the eight hour day chot? Ever hear of any of them? —— law differently from candidate | the personal expressions of its editor ania Tetvsaniation Jn Conmess. Ry 2 day Tieton, Guess you must have, because their Brumbaugh’s Second Junket. Hughes. Mr. Hughes declares that it | to various visiting delegations, that county chairmen, together with the | the water and on hurrying to the edge of the real and only place to settle the local option question is in the Legis- lature. It has never had any patience with movements to threaten or coerce a Judge of the courts into refusing licenses as long zs there are laws on the statutes legalizing the granting of them. There sheuld be no such dis- cretionary power imposed on any Judge. The voters of Centre county will have a fair chance this fall to record just what they want and to send a man to the Legislature to do it in the only place that it can effective- ly be done. If they wan’t local option the river saw a large snapping turtle struggling with a young duck which it had caught in its mouth. The boy captured the turtle and the Eichenlaub family feasted on soup. —Tke Rev. A. inspiring optimism of the speeches of Secretary Wilson, of the President’s Cabinet; National Committeeman Palmer, State Chairman Guffey, former State Chairman Morris and several of the leading candidates on the State ticket, were perhaps, the strongest influences that contributed to making Thursday’s big rally a most successful opening of the Demo- cratic campaign in Pennsylvania. The enthusiasm of the notification meeting will undoubtecly serve as an inspiration to the Democratic workers in all parts of the State. The Penn- sylvania Democrats everywhere can feel assured that this year’s fight is no forlorn hope; that victory is with- in their grasp, and that it will be is not an eight-hour law but an act to increase wages and that in approving it the President played politics. Mr. Underwood, on ‘he other hand, pro- nounces it wise and just legislation and protests that “Mr. Wilson is not playing politics” but “was doing what he honestly believed was for the good of the country.” Candidate Hughes is a selfish office seeker, striving to prejudice the public mind against his opponent. Mr. Underwood is an in- telligent and successful business man who measures matters with an open mind and is moved by conscience names are on everybody’s lips. They are three men who have really done great things, and they are three Re- publicans who have publicly announc- ed their intention of voting for Wood- row Wilson for re-election as Presi- dent because they believe he has done great things for the country and be- cause they don’t believe in swapping horses in the middle of the stream. Governor Brumbaugh is completing his second tour under the false pre- tense of inspecting highways and en- couraging agricultural enterprise. He left Harrisburg on Tuesday morning with a train of thirty automobiles carrying 125 persons. His itinerary covered Berks, Montgomery, Lehigh, Northampton, Monroe, Lackawanna and Luzerne courties. His operations included speech-making and feasting. His purpose is probably the mending of political fences and the construc- tion of a personal party machine. The | Stapleton, aged sixty- eight years, pastor of St. Paul's United Evangelical church, Williamsport, died suddenly of acute indigestion, a few hours after he had preached his Sunday evening sermon. He was a veteran of the Civil war and the historian of the United Evangelical church. —William Nighthart, of Lewistown, ar- rested on charge of leaving an outline in the Juniata after sunrise first claimed he had overslept himself and later changed it to a plea of guilty. He was fined $20 —Yesterday was just twelve hours long between sunrise and sun- set and marked the begianing of au- tumn. And well we all can see if, for the trees are beginning to shed their leaves and soon their naked limbs will be exposed to the cold blasts of winter and their bare trunks stand out in tke moonlight like grim sentinels defying both wind and weather. The ice man’s harvest will soon be over and once again will we be bound in ties of closer intimacy with the coal dealer, whose smile already broadens at the sight of that additional seventy-five per he will collect on every ton delivered. It’s like jumping out of the frying pan into the fire and the poor consumer is always IT. —Things had drifted along in a thoroughly unbusinesslike way in Pennsylvania until the entire State becamegso disgusted with the man- agement of affairs by the Republican party that a general protest was reg- istered and Robert A. Pattison was elected Governor and with him all the Democratic nominees for State offices were elected. There was a general reconstruction and conditions were much better for a long time after- wards. Gradually the Republican management cf the State has been slipping ba