Dewar apn.
BY P. GRAY MEEK.
INK SLINGS.
—And we are to have steam heat
tomorrow.
—Have you started that Christmas
shopping ? There are just eighty-six
days yet and you know how fast they
fly. ;
Yoh J. L. Spangler and Dr. Jos.
M. Brockerhoff are the Centre county
members of the Democratic State
finance committee.
' —The 45th Penna. Vols. had a fine
day and a fine time during their re-
union here, but then visitors always
have a good time in Bellefonte.
—~Senator Cummins seems to have
gone about as far as he could without
calling candidate Hughes the real
name that is frequently given to per-
sons who don’t adhere to the truth.
Mr. Bacon might have been
nominated for Senator if Roosevelt
had kept out of the scrimmage. The
hyphenates refused to take both Ba-
con and Hughes even though Hughes
was their first choice.
Of course it costs money to
keep the Naticnai Guardsmen on the
Mexican border but they are learning
the art of war and if they hadnt
gone there a war might have broken
out that would have cost ten times as
much.
. —Ten thousand more troops have
been ordered home from the border
but Troop L is not included in the
list. Being cavalrymen our boys are
of more service than infantrymen so
that they will probably be among the
last to get back.
—Just now the woman who has
never been able to bake good bread
has it on her more expert sister. We
never eat as much bad bread as we do
good, so that the one who bakes the
bad bread is the one who is really
saving the dough.
—The Bellefonte Gas Co., seems to
have been revived within the past two
or three days. Actually the gas has
been bright enough to make a light
and they say it is all because someone
accidentally discovered that the gas
pump had been pumping more air
than gas into the mains.
—7You can fool all of the people
some of the time, some of the people
all of the time, but you can’t fool all
of the people all of the time. This old
epigram is really the platform on
. which candidate Scott places his hope
of re-election to the Legislature. It
all depends on whether he can fool
enough of them this time.
—The “Watchman” is authorized to
received contributions for Woodrow
Wilson’s campaign fund. If you feel
like you would like to help defray the
expenses of re-electing one of the
greatest Presidents the country has
ever had bring or send your contribu-
tion to this office. It will be grate-
fully received and will be acknowl-
edged directly by the national treas-
urer.
—Anyway, the Germans were the
foxes. It took them two years to
gobble up a lot of Ally territory and
now the experts say that it will take
the Allies two years to get it back
again and by that time both sides will
be so exhausted that they can fight
no longer. If this should be the way
it will work out Germany will prob-
ably have to settle, but her territory
will not have been despoiled by war-
fare.
—The acquittal of the three men
who were on trial here for man-
slaughter during the week was not
much of a surprise. It will be recall-
ed that upon the occasion of their
first trial Judge Johnson, of Union
county, who was presiding, indicated
that the jury would be quite justified
in returning a verdict of not guilty
and when it did not he gravted the
new trial wnich resulted in the free-
dom of the defendants.
—Governor Brumbaugh has sprung
a wonderful new plan for the future
of the Republican parly in Pennsyl-
vania. He has had a “prevision,” as
he calls it, of what will make the
party impregnable for the next twen-
ty years. The Governor had better
stop peeping so far into the future
and take to looking in the mirror. He
will see more of himself there than
he will in the future of the Republican
party in Pennsylvania.
—The motto of the Philipsburg
“Ledger” is: To Speak his Mind is
Every Freeman’s Right.” As the
“Ledger” has not yet put candidates
Rowland’s or Scott’s names on the
Republican ticket that it publishes
weekly at its masthead we are won-
dering whether they might have
thought the motto means what it says
and said something unpleasing to the
vanity of brother Boulton or brother
Richards. The attitude of the “Ledg-
er” is strange, indeed, and they say
that both Rowland and Scott are
secretly showing symptoms of being
worried about it. :
emir
VOL. 61.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA.. SEPTEMBER 29, 1916.
"NO. 38.
Hughes Insincere or Incompetent.
Senator Cummins, of Iowa, is a! Senator Borah, of Idaho, known as |
Republican and a supporter of the Re-
publican candidate for President. But
he will not stand for the demagogic
methods which Justice Hughes and
his party managers have adopted.
Chairman Wilcox of the Republican
National Committee some time ago
issued a statement charging that the
child labor law enacted by Congress.
at the instance of the President, con-
tains a “joker,, which destroys its
merits. Candidate Hughes, without
investigation, adcpted the statement
of Wilcox and in a speech at Milwau-
kee added, “our opponents claim to
have emancipated child labor. If our
opponents are genuinely devoted to
the interests of children, let them act
in States under their control and there
will be no child labor problem in the
United States.”
This of course is an assertion of the
States’ rights principle that the regu-
lation of labor conditions is a preroga-
tive of the State Legislatures and
that Congress has no authority to act
upon it. Generally speaking that is
true, but the act of Congress in-ques-
tion limits its operations to child lahor
which produces commodities in inter-
state transactions and under the pro-
visions. of the article of the constitu-
tion which regulates interstate com-
merce the courts have held that Con-
gress has a right to so legislate. . Mr.
Hughes’ attempt to hide behind the
State rights principle is as insincere
as it is discreditable. He doesn’t be-
lieve in that policy and never did.
His assertion of it under existing con-
ditions is a false preterse.
Senator - Cummins refuses to jus-
tify false pretense, however, even to
win votes for his party and in a let-
ter to Owen R. Lovejoy, Secretary of
the National Child Labor Committee,
fitly rebukes the demagogy of his
candidate. “The child labor law,” he
writes, “received . in the Senate the
most exhaustive consideration and
thoserof us who were for it, employed
the utmost care to exclude every pos-
sible objection to its validity consis-
tent with its effectiveness.” Not-
withstanding this direct statement on
the subject. however, Hughes con-
tinues to declare it invalid and to
reiterate the statement which pro-
voked the Cummins rebuke. It is
small wonder that the Iowa Senator
added: “These criticisms are without
any foundation whatsoever, and the
persons whe are giving them public-
ity are either insincere or incompe-
tent.”
Not a Defensive Campaign.
The Philadelphia “Public Ledger,”
the most unfair partisan organ in the
State, says that President Wilson’s
defence of his surrender to the rail-
way brotherhoods and the action of
Congress in passing the railway wage
law is an adroit piece of special plead-
ing and wil! undoubtedly have consid-
erable weight with those who are con-
tent to accept his arguments at their
face value and to accept without ex-
amination all his premises.” There
may be a few voters in Pennsylvania
who will be fooled by such assertions
but not many. It is too absurd to de-
ceive any man with reasoning power.
In the first place President Wilson
has not made a defence, adroit or
otherwise, of his action with respect
to the law in question. His action in
that matter requires no defence. In
the second place President Wilson did
mot surrender to the railroad brother-
hoods or anybody else. He was in-
fluenced to his action by his con-
science and his sense of justice. In
his speech at Shadow Lawn last Sat-
uurday afternoon, he explained the
eight-hour law and outlined his ex-
pectations with respect to the legis-
lation te supplement that law which
he contemplates. But there was noth-
ing in the nature of a defence.
So far as the Democrats are con-
cerned this is not a defensive cam-
paign. Our candidates for the var-
ious offices to be filled from President
down to Representative in the Legis-
lature are men of the type that com-
mend themselves to the public mind
and need no defence. Whatever de-
fence is projected into the campaign
will be on the other side. Hughes
may defend himself against the
obvious fact that his nomination was
procured by the German-Americans
who openly declare their allegiance to
the German empire rather than to the
United States of America. If he is
able to invent a defence against that
charge he will be busy enough.
! Senator Borah’s Loose Tongue.
the blatherskite of Congress partici-
pated in the factional effort, at York.
to make the Vares aprear as leaders
of the Republican party of -Pennsyl-
vania. Borah who owes his political
distinction to the friendship of the
Mormen voters of his State prefesses
to be greatly outraged because the
appropriations made by the last ses-
the last session controlled by the Re-
publican party by a matter of $500,-
000,000. “If I were not speaking
from a partisan platform,” he said,
“I would call the record of Demo-
cratic extravagance just what it
should be called, pure, naked, un-
adulterated, impudent graft.”
Manifestly- Senator Borah is one of
those loose-mouthed adventurers who
such a thing as thought to control it.
We admit the increase of appropria-
tions but call attention to the fact
that nearly $700,000,000 of the total
amount was appropriated to the in-
crease of the army and navy and to
preparedness for defence that every
intelligent man, woman and child in
the country approved of and that
therefore by his own figures Scnator
Borah proves that for ordinary ex-
penses of the government the appro-
priations of the last session were at
least $200,000,000 less than those of
the last Republican Congress.
Unhappily for this country 2 period
immediately following the Civil war
produced a bunch of slovenly think-
ing or half-baked persons some of
whom in later years were projected or
broke into public office. Borah is a
fair sample of this peculiar brood and
his loose talk about graft and extrav-
| agance is a fair sample of his trend
of thought. He knows, if he knows
anything, that no part of the appro-
priations of the recent session has
been disbursed and that money hon-
estly expended and in pursuance of
the public good ‘is not graft whether
the amount be great or small. He
probably thought his audience was
made up of men as ignorant as him-
self, however.
Let Us Accept the Issue.
The Democratic managers may well
accept the challenge of candidate
Hughes to make President Wilson’s
action on the eight-hour law the main
issue of the campaign. Mr. Hughes
insists that the approval of the meas-
ure was a great outrage. Standard-
izing the eight-hour day, he declares,
puts a grave injustice upon the trans-
portation corporations and that Presi-
dent Wilson ought to be defeated be-
cause he permitted the railroad train-
men to coerce the government into
enacting such legislation. Of course
there was no coercion in the matter.
Congress enacted the law because it
expressed a just principle and avert-
ed a great calamity and the President
approved it for the same reasons.
The President’s programme of
which the eight-hour law is a part
contemplates a series of laws which
will make labor strikes impossible in
the future. The eight-hour feature
will make contentment among work-
men which removes the principle
cause of strikes. The other features
will eliminate other causes which lead
to strikes and thus the heaviest tax
on transportation corporations will be
removed. Is such legislation to be
condemned ? The attitude of the Re-
publican candidate for President
would imply that it should. But in-
of the question. They will see in the
a cause for rejoicing, a popular be-
neficence.
The eight hour day will not put a
Justice Hughes declares. On the
contrary it will work an advantage to
employers quite as certainly as to
employees. It will make employees
more fit for work and add mentally to
the producing power of the laborer.
causes of quarrels and dissensions be-
tween employer and employee, and as
the President has said, will eliminate
strikes. Let us, therefore, accept the
challenge of Mr. Hughes to make this
the leading issue of the campaign and
appeal to the intelligence of the vot-
ers and the justice of the workmen to
sustain the President. It will make
victory both certain and overwhelm-
ing.
sion of Congress exceeded those of |
give the tongue free reign without |
telligent men will take another view
action of Congress and the President:
hardship upon employers of labor as’
It will diminish, in an equal ratio, the
| =——For high class Job Work come to’
the WATCHMAN Office.
Crow and Penrose at Odds.
Senator Penrose and State Chair-
| man Crow of the Republican commnit-
| tee were in Harrisburg at the same
{time the other day but they were
: heading in opposite directions. Sena-
. tor Penrose was on his way to Pitts-
: burgh to attend a reception to Candi-
| date Hughes. Chairman Crow, who
| lives near Pittsburgh, was on his way
| to York to attend the meeting of the
League of Republican clubs, a func-
tion under the auspices of the Vares.
This incident lends color to the cur-
rent report that Crow has abandoned
Penrose and joined the Vare crowd.
Senator Crow deried this report, ac-
cording to the Harrisburg papers, but
it is not recorded that he met Pen-
rose in Harrisburg.
Senater Crow has always been a
faithful henchman of Penrose. He
wanted the Republican nomination for
United States Senator but Penrose
bestowed that party favor upon Sena-
tor Knox who is better.able to take
care of the railroad interests in the
Senate. He gave as a reason for
turning down Crow the financial trou-
bles of Mr. Thompson, of Union-
town, with whom Crow was to some
extent associated in business opera-
tions. At the time Crow seemed to be
satisfied with the arrangement and
consented to putting his friend Har-
man Gephart on the ticket for State
Treasurer. But if Crow affiliates
with the Vare faction public opinion
will take it that he has had a break
with Penrose.
The truth of the matter is that the
Republican party of Pennsylvania is
broken up into fragments to such an
extent that the State may be lost to
the party entirely. The Democratic
leaders are already confidently pre-
dicting the election of the Democratic
State ticket and claim a considerable
: gain in Congressional seats and leg-
islative strength. Brumbaugh has
| been cutting up capers ever since his
: Presidential ambiticn was cut off by
Penrose and if Crow has also aban-
i doned the Penrose machine there is
| little chance of reconciling the fac-
tional differences. But Penrose has
: Hughes at his command anyway and
whatever else happens he will keep
i the Vares away from the National
' crib.
| ——The first man of Troop L to return
i home since going to El Paso, Texas, in
| July, was John Morrison, who returned
' on Saturday afternoon. John’s term of
| enlistment expired before the soldiers
left Mt. Gretna but he consented to go
along as veterinarian until they could
get somebody to take his place. John
continued veterinarying right along
until the officers tried to induce him to
re-enlist when he decided that he had
soldiered long enough, and with his
honorable discharge in his pocket took
the train for the north and good, old
Bellefonte. Mr. Morrison came home
the very picture of health and if every
member of the troop is as rugged as he
is their trip south will have done them
good physically as well as military.
EE —————————
—-Women of Lycoming, Centre and
Clinton counties are again reminded
of the tri-county one-day conference
of Women’s clubs, of T.ycoming, Cen-
tre and Clinton counties to be held in
the Lock Haven Central State Normal
school Saturday, October 7, frem 10
a.m to 4 p. m., the hostess
club, the Lock Haven Civic club, serv-
ing hot coffee and ice cream to the
guests. A most interesting program,
including club reports and several
formal speeches, will please everyone.
Make your plans to attend.
EE ——————
The Brumbaugh circus will fin-
ish its farewell tour today and the
whitewash will be scraped off the
elephant tomorrow. It wasn’t much
of an attraction but it served the pur-
pose of feeding Brumbaugh vanity
for a time.
. —If Hughes had lost his voice
before his speaking tour was begun
his chances of election would have
been much better. But by losing it
now he may save the pieces.
—— Former President Taft is try-
ing his best to be a hypocrite and
after his reconciliation with Roose-
velt he may be able to fool the major-
ity.
——The Mexicar peace commission
is not making rapid progress but it
keeps Hughes busy hoping for the
worst. 2
——Roosevelt and Taft have made
up and now there is nothing left of
| Taft except the smile.
Of Divergent Views.
From the Johnstown Democrat.
There are two classes of statesmen
that are always present among us. One
takes cognizance of the fact that the “av-
erage American” is a worker who has a
family and who most of the time finds it
rather difficult to make both ends meet.
The other style of statesman does not
; concern himself with the “average Amer-
iican.” He takes the view that the stock
{ broker, the wealthy manufacturer, the
banker, the money captain is the chap
who deserves consideration. President
Wilson, when formulating his policies,
had the “average American” in mind.
Candidate Hughes takes the “big busi-
ness” view. :
| At the present time there are a great
: many keen financial leaders who are
! planning to extend the commerce of the
United States. These keen captains
think in terms of millions. They repre-
, Sent capital. Their schemes are worth
{ while. The country needs such men.
- There should be no disposition to curb
their operations. But statesmen of the
| Wilson stripe are inclined to question
| the promoters with a view of ascertain-
| ing whether or not any thought has been
given to the question of making the
worker and the general public a partici-
pating partner in the enterprise. It will
not do to say that if a few vigorous men
manage to increase the trade of this
country that the laborer will benefit in-
directly. He should benefit directly.
And, while your money captain might
not agree, it is not worth while extend-
ing trade at all if theonly benefit is that
a few men who already have a great
many million dollars manage to collect a
- few more millions. President Wilson, to
‘state the proposition simply, is mostly
concerned as to the general benefits that
result from the great enterprises under-
taken by our people. Candidate Hughes
is mostly concerned as to the special
benefits. The President views proposi-
tions from the standpoint of the public.
His opponent views problems from the
standpoint of the captains. The Presi-
dent is inclined to ask regarding every
campaign as to whether it is agood thing
for the army. Candidate Hughes is con-
cerned as to whether the various moves
contemplated are a good thing for the
generals. The difference in those points
of view is fundamental.
Ru—————l
Inconsistency of the Partisan.
From the Wilkes-Barre Times-Leader.
The Philadelphia “Ledger” has been
hammering President Wilson for avert.
ing the railroad strike and is now callin
-upon Governor Brumbaugh | a Calling
that the contending forces inl the. Wilkes.
- Barre Street Railway controversy get to-
gether, settle their difierence and restore
normal transportation facilities to this
valley. :
Wonder how the “Ledger” figures it
out that it would be just the thing for
Governor Brumbaugh to butt in and set-
tle a local street car strike, but was ab-
solutely wrong for President Wilson to
use his great office to avert what would
have been a thousand fold greater ca-
lamity?
And by the way, those of this commu-
nity who condemn President Wilson. for
averting the nationwide railroad strike
in one breath and then complain bitterly
of the existing conditions causing incon-
venience and losses in this valley due to
a street car strike, should stop and con-
sider what a nation-wide tie-up of trans-
portation lines would have meant and
thank Providence for Woodrow Wilson
who averted such a calamity.
Paying for Preparedness.
From Capper’s Weekly. L
Congressional appropriations for the
present fiscal year, closing next June,
will exceed those of the last year by half
a billion dollars, of which 400 million
dollars is the extra cost of military “pre-
paredness.” Congress appropriates ordi-
narily about 180 millions for the army
and 140 millions for the navy, with addi-
tional appropriations for fortifications.
In round figures the purely military ap-
propriations this year are 650 millions, to
which are to be added 20 millions for
fortifications, 20 millions for a nitrate
plant and about 20 millions for increased
army and navy expenses. Military and
naval appropriations all told for the pres-
ent year will go far over the 700 million
mark. This is 63 per cent of the total
cost of government, this being estimated
now at 1,126 millions. The total appro-
priations exceed this figure by several
hundred million. What it finally comes
to is this: That though the United
States has not been engaged in an im-
portant war for upward of 50 years, yet
its disbursements this year are to be 800
- millions for purposes relating to war and
265 millions for all other.
Educators Line Up for Wilson.
From the Springfield Republican.
Charles W. Elict, president emeri-
tus of Harvard, and Harry A. Gar-
field, president of Williams college,
and son of a Republican President of
the United States, are supporting
President Wilson for re-election.
They are not doing it, however, as
members of a mystic order of present
and former college presidents honor-
ing a fellow member. They are the
first and second Vice Presidents of the
Woodrow Wilson Independent league
of Massachusetts.
ee A—
——The singular thing about the
i Hughes brand of Americanism is that
it pleases the hyphenated Germans
quite as much as the Kaiser's esti-
mate of the merit of kultur.
—The rumors of Villa activities are
simply a part of the Republican cam-
| paign. Villa activities would be a
great help to the Republicans.
{SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—The lodge of Elks located at Clearfield
has autrorized the trustees to proceed at
once with the erection of a $10,000 build-
ing on a lot owned by the society.
—Portage will hold an election on No-
vember 7 to decide whether or not a bond
'| issue of $25,000 shall be floated to pay
present floating indebtedness and provide
& sewerage system.
—Some few hours after he had said:
“When I have to die I want to go with my
boots on,” Uncle Peter Lalley, of North
Wales, Montgomery county, fell dead. He
was aged 74 years.
—Thus far the citizens of Williamsport
have subscribed $13,496 for the support of
soldiers from that city on the Mexican
border, and of that amount more than
$11,000 has been paid in.
—Miss Caroline Nase, whose home is
near Pennsburg, Montgomery county,
who has just celebrated the 99th anniver-
sary of her birth, has never been ill more
than two days at a time during the whole
of her long life.
—The Cunard Coal comapny, whose new
mining operations near Morrisdale, Clear-
field county, are giving employment to a
large number of men, will erect fifteen
dwellings not far from the plant for the
use of their employees.
—Former Commissioner Harrison D.
Taylor, who was tried in the quarter ses-
sions court at Huntingdon last week on
the charge of embezzlement, growing out
of the settlement of an estate, was acquit-
ted but ordered to pay half the costs.
—Probably for the first time since its
invention the cow-catcher on a moving
train caught a Westmoreland county cow,
carried her some distance and gently
dropped her off by the side of the road,
without apparent injury. This happened
one day last week.
—Mrs. John Smutz, of Somerset, was
struck by an automobile and sustained a
broken leg. The driver stopped his ma-
chine, got out, approached the injured
woman and apologized. Then he drove off
before anybody inquired his name or took
the number of his car.
—Bucknell University opened last Thurs-
day with an enrollment of approximately
800 students, agaicst a total of 725 last
year. The incoming Freshman class num-
bered 250. At the Woman's College condi-
tions were crowded last spring, and it has
been found necessary to rent a second
house.
—Even in the face of the exclusion of
children, on account of infantile paralysis,
the Allentown fair this year broke all rec-
ords, both as to attendance and receipts.
Outside of the hotel rental, which runs
about $6,000 the receipts this year were
$71,494, as compared to $71,488 last year, a
gain of $6.
—During a recent electric storm in Clear-
field an automobile was struck by light-
ning. No damage was done to the car,
but the lights were lit by the flash and
could not be extinguished by using the
button switch. It was necessary to tear
out all the batteries before the lights ceas-
ed buraing.
—Mystery surrounds the finding of a
suitcase containing the dead body of an
infant, at Arnold, Westmoreland county.
The find was made by a woman who was
burning paper and refuse in the rear of
her lot. The condition of the suitcase and
its contents indicated that it had been
placed there some time ago.
—With one side of her face crushed by
the kick of a frightened horse as it wes
being taken from a burning barn, Mrs.
Jesse Anthony, of Blacklick township, In-
diana county, returned to the burning
building and rescued the only other horse
in the barn. The building collapsed as
she left it. A calf and practically all the
season’s crops were destroyed.
—Samuel Immel, aged nearly 70 years,
undertook to drive across the railroad at
Centre Hall some days ago, when the bug-
gy in which he was riding was struck by
an engine. The old man was thrown on
the cowcatcher and thence to the ground,
but was not injured. He carried two half
pint bottles filled with whiskey on his
person, in addition to what he carried in
his stomach. The bottles were uninjured
and not a drop of their contents spilled.
—Residents of Curwensville are consid-
erably agitated over a ‘“Peep-a-Boo” indi-
vidual who has been doing some spying at
windows along the row of houses near the
finishing tannery. He makes his appear-
ance about ten or eleven o'clock and peers
through windows at the inmates. Just
what his object is residents have been un-
able to fathom, but a load of shot in the
right place some night when he is at
work, might help to clear up the mystery.
—Russel Nichols, of Goodville, Pa., was
killed by a bull at the Glen Mills Reform
school Sunday. The animal crushed the
boy against the side of a stall in a stable.
The boy went to the building with other
boys to do the stable work. There were
no guards about and he teased the bull
which was tied in a stall. The animal,
which had been dchorned, resented the
teasing and caught Nichols with his head
and threw him into a corner of the stall.
He then lunged against the boy's body
with his head, crushing the ribs.
—Mr. and Mrs. David Grove, of Lewis-
town, filed deeds for record last Thursday
in which they transfer real estate valued
at $40,000 to the trustees of the Central
Pennsylvania conference of the Methodist
Episcopal church. The deeds cover prac-
tically all the real estate holdings of the
aged couple located in Lewistown and will
be used in the annuity fund for aged and
infirm ministers of this conference. Mr.
Grove is now 78 years old, has been one of
the active and prosperous business men of
Lewistown since the Civil war, his name
still remaining on the sign of Grove &
Rice, although he no longer takes an ac-
tive part in the business life of the firm.
«Andrew Ruble, 64 years old, was
struck and almost instantly killed at Lew-
istown Junction at 7.35 Saturday evening
by train No. 61. His body rolled at the
feet of his son to whom he was talking a
minute before the accident. Mr. Ruble,
who was deaf, went to the Junction from
his home near Milroy by automobile in
company with his aged wife and two
grown sons, to take the Pnensy's excur-
sion to Niagara Falls. The party were
standing at the corner of the depot in
conversation, when Ruble stepped to the
curb of the brick platform, leaning over
on the tracks to expectorate, just as the
locomotive of train No 61 flashed by strik-
ing him fairly on the side of the head.
His skull was fractured and death result-
ed 15 minutes later, The wife and two
sons witnessed the accident. Ruble fre-
quently visited at Centre Hall and was
wel! known by many Pennsvalley people,