Demonia
BY P. GRAY MEEK.
INK SLINGS.
—Yes Taft and Roosevelt shook
hands.
—Anyway, the Phillies made a
game fight.
—Monday was a happy day in
Bellefonte. Let us hope that it wasn’t
only a temporary let ap inthe big
freeze.
—If Hughes is against Wilson's
policy of peace then he must be for
war. If you want war vote for
Hughes.
—Everybody is happy in this coun-
try today and candidate Hughes is
having a hard time trying to make
the people believe they are otherwise.
—We notice that the Bellefonte
Gas and Steam Heating Co., is to be
reorganized. Can it be possible that
Col. Taylor has gone over to the Re-
organizers ?
—After declaring that it was out-
rageous candidate Hughes has finally
come out favoring the eight-hour law.
He doesn’t favor it, however, he is
only bidding for the votes of the
masses who do.
—Candidate Harry Scott was in
town again this week with another
perceptible wrinkle on his brow.
Harry is worried and well he should
be for the going certainly doesn’t
look good for him.
—So Roosevelt is to take the stump
for Hughes. Well, about the first
thing he might explain is how the
party that he declared four years ago
was “not to be trusted” has re-estab-
lished itself in his confidence.
— Ordinarily at this season of the
year there are a great many big trout
to be seen in Spring creek from the
Central station to the falls. Haven't
they started tc come ur tc spawn yet
or have they all been “scooped” out,
as some people are prone to believe.
—The eternal fitness of things was
exemplified about four o'clock Wed-
nesday morning when a West ward
lady, who is the wife of one of the
town’s most enthusiastic base ball
fans, grabbed a base-ball bat and
started alone to rout marauders who
were after her chickens.
—Who is going to be the first to
contribute to the Wilson campaign
fund. The “Watchman” has been
authorized to receive contributions
and will be pleased to acknowledge
receipt of any amount from $1.00 up
that you may elect to contribute to
such a worthy endeavor. Who will
start it?
—On the 1st of August thirty-six
of the leading publicists and literary
men of the United States addressed
a letter to candidste Hughes in which
they asked what he would have done
concerning ten all important ques-
tions. The questions were ones which
Woodrow Wilson has already acted
upon and is thereby on record. They
are the ones that candidate
Hughes has uttered so much
twaddle about in his campaign
speeches. He has carped and
scolded and criticised and villified,
but not once has he said what he
would have done had he been called
upon to act on any of them. Candidate
Hughes has made no answer to the
question. He is afraid to let the pub-
lic know where he stands.
—County Commissioner Daniel
Grove and Col. Jackson L. Spangler
have both been victims of Centre
Hall’s traffic regulations recently. Of
course it was not to be presumed that
any favor would be shown Mr. Grove,
because he is just like the rest of us
but Centre Hall is Col. Spangler’s old
home town. He refers to the beauti-
ful village with tears of sentiment in
his voice and points with pride to the
metropolis of Potter township every
time he tells the story of his life; and
that is not infrequently. It was not
the old Centre Hall that trapped the
festive Colenel. It was an imported
policeman and a ’Squire who has not
lived there long enough to have ac-
quired the proper respect for one of
her most illustrious sons.
—Every day some new story comes
to the writer concerning ‘scooping
and gigging” parties who are taking
trout and other fish out of Spring
creek by the wholesale. A few nights
ago g party is reported to have taken
an eight gallon crock of fish from the
stream right through Bellefonte and,
worst of all, an officer of the law is
being credited with having been a
party to the illegal performance. It
is too bad that as yet no individual
has come forward with specific charg-
es that will bring these culprits to
justice, but the “Watchman” has
some clews that it is going to run
down and if there is anything in them
it is not going to be niealy mouthed
about making the information and it
believes that judge Quigley will not
be weak-kneed in dealing with such
offenders, should they be brought into
his court.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 61.
War the Alternative.
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Schwab and Hughes Disagree.
In his speech at Shadow Lawn on! In a speech at Harrisburg on Mon-
Saturday President Wilson sounded
the dominant note of the pending
campaign. He szid in substance that
the election of the Republican candi-
date for President would precipitate
the country into war with Mexico and
in Europe. There can be no other in-
terpretation of conditions existing.
Mr. Hughes himself, all other Repub-
lican speakers and the organs of that
party, alike denounce the policies
which have kept us out of these wars.
The alternative is policies which will
head us in the other direction. There-
fore if Hughes is elected and inaugu-
rates the policies which are opposite
to those that have kept us out of war
we must of necessity get into war.
After the sinking of the Lusitania
President Wilson procured from Ger-
many a pledge that no other passen-
ger ships would be torpedoed with-
out ample warning and opportunity
to remove the passengers. Tt is now
rumored that this pledge is to be
withdrawn or violated, Why? Be-
cause the speeches of Hughes, Roose-
velt and others have encouraged Ger-
many to the belief that the majority
of Americans are opposed to the
peace policies of the Wilson adminis-
tration and that the President will be
unable to enforce the penalties of the
violation of the agreement. The
President says: “From this time until
November 7, it is going to be practi-
cally impossible for the present ad-
ministration to handle any critical
matter concerning our foreign rela-
tions.”
The plair. meaning of this is that
candidate Hughes and those who are
supporting his ambition to be Presi-
dent are in conspiracy with foreign
governments to hamper the opera-
tions of our own government for the
benefit of our own people. They have
entered into a plot with the govern-
ments of other countries to employ
the. functions of cur own government
to the service of other governments
and to the prejudice of the interests
of the citizens of the United States.
After the election, in the event that
they succeed, the other parties to the
conspiracy will demand the fulfill-
ment of the compact and war becomes
inevitable. Are voters of the United
States ready for such a crisis?
The Most Important Issue.
Ia one important respect the eight-
hour day issue is a great advantage
to Candidate Hughes. [It diverts at-
tention from the fact that his nomina-
tion was procured through the activi-
ties of the German Ambassador in
Washington and his former attachees,
Captains von Papin and Boy-Ed.
Since the eight-hour day event little
has been said on the other subject,
though it has lost none of its import-
ance. The facts are that nobody
thought of Hughes in connection with
the nomination until after the Am-
bassador had made a canvass of the
country in search of a man who would
serve German interests rather than
those of the United States. Then the
efficient forces of German prepared-
ness were set in motion.
The position Candidate Hughes has
taken upon the eight-hour day ought
to enlist every laboring man in the
country against him. It means that
he retains all the reactionary senti-
ment that ‘induced him to veto the
two-cent a mile passenger rate bill
and oppose the income tax morasure,
while he was Governor. But at that
it isn’t as important to the American
people as his attitude with respect to
the German-American question. His
election to the office of President
means, that unless he betrays those
who procured his nomination, his ad-
ministration would be for the promo-
tion of German interests rather than
those of the United States.
That nobody outside of the German
propaganda wanted Hughes nominat-
ed for President is shown by the atti-
tude, before and during the conven-
tion, of the stalwart Republicans rep-
presented by Penrose, Crane and
others on one hand and by Roosevelt
on the other. Up until the close of the
balloting Roosevelt held out against
Hughes and the stalwarts only yielded
when they discovered that unless
they accepted him Roosevelt would be
named. Rooesevelt was poison to those
whom he had abused so scurrilously
four years ago and since and thus
the German Amkassacdor was able to
slip ir to the nomination the candidate
of the Kaiser and his German-Amer-
ican conspirators on this side of the
sea.
day evering Mr. Charies M. Schwab,
head of the Bethlehem Steel Campany,
declared that it is the purpose of that
corporation to spend $£100,000,000 in
additions and betterments to its three
plants, one of which was almost with-
in the sound of his voice. Mr. Schwab
is acknowledged to be the ablest ex-
pert and greatest steel manufacturer
in the country. He is easily the most
extensive individual operator in the
manufacture of steel in. the world and
his success is as iuuch due to the ac-
curacy of his judgment in estimating
the future market as in his skill in
the use of materials. It may be as-
sumed that he knows what to expect
in the future.
While Candidate Hughes and other
demagogues are racing over the coun-
try predicting industrial paralysis
and commercial disaster after the
close of the European war, Mr.
Schwab appears to be preparing for
an extraordinary season of pros-
perity. When the European war broke
out Mr. Schwab sailed for the theatre
of activities on the first ship and be-
fore his American con:petitors realiz-
ed that trouble was impending he had
booked orders for munitions sufficient
to tax his manufacturing resources
for years and justify thz vast addi-
tions to his plant which he has since
made. Now he finds it necessary to
spend another hundred miilion dol-
lars to meet the demands upon his
output.
So long as Mr. Schwab continues to
increase his plants we have no hesita-
tion in advising the public to pay no
attention te the calamity howling of
Hughes, Pznrose and their associates
on the Republican stump. It may be
safely predicted that at the first sign
of industrial depressicn Mr. Schwab
will curtail rather than increase his
manufacturing facilities. But there
are no such signs now discernible ex-
cept to the perverted or distorted
mind of the 100 per cent candidate
who is also a 560 per cent humbug.
At the close of the war Europe will
be crippled and cevastzted and every
nation invelved will depend upon the
United States for supplies for vears
to come
Roosevelt Traduces the President.
The name of the Michigan town in
which Colonel Roosevelt spoke the
other evening, Battlecreek, must have
gotten on his nerves. He went to his
work like a drunken sailor in a bar-
room. He used every opprobrious
epithet in the language and coined a
few to give emphasis to his opposition
to the President. No man has ever
villified another as he has traduced
the President. No other man in the
country would apply such language
to the President of the United States.
Yet some of the very bigoted par-
tisan organs of the country have ex-
pressed approval of this scandalous
performance. One Philadelphia news-
paper even praised his harangue as
a great effort in stump oratory.
Theodore Roosevelt is a self-con-
fessed murderer. Over his own sig-
nature he boasted of having shot and
killed ann unarmed Spaniard who was
seeking safety by running away from
the fort at San Juan Hill in Cuba. He
is a proved grafter because while
President he had his personal serv-
ants paid out of the public treasury
by having them enrolled in the de-
partments as employes. He is a con-
victed liar because he publicly declar-
ed that he reserved the righ: to deny
any statement made by him unless it
was in writing and over his own sig-
nature. He is a ruffian for the reason
that only ruffians and blackguards
employ the language which he is in
the habit of using when referring to
any one who disagrees with him.
In view of these President Wilson
is honored by the vituperative oppo-
sition of Theodore Roosevelt. The
President’s telegram to Jeremiah A.
O’Leary might be sent with equal
propriety to Roosevelt. “I would feel
deeply mortified to have you or any-
body like you vote for me. Since you
have access to many disloyal Ameri-
cans and I have not, I will ask you to
convey this message to them,” Presi-
dent Wilson said to O’Leary. He
might say the same to Theodore
Roosevelt who has become the prin-
cipal mouthpiece of slanderers of the
President and the enemies of the
country. In time of war such utter-
ances as those he voiced at Battle-
creek, Michigan, on Saturday, would
be treason.
Candidate Hughes Wabbling.
Candidate Hughes has begun to |
wabble on the eight-hour day ques-
tion. Ever since the passage of the
Adamson bill he has been denouncing
President Wilson for signing that
measure, and if current reports are
accurate, “cherishing up wrath
against the day of wrath.” In Bing-
hampton, the otker day, however, he
reversed himself and declared: “I am
not oopesed to the principle of an
eight-hour day. I favcr the general
principle of an eight hour day. I
should like to see an eight-hour work-
day.” But he is opposed to this par-
ticular eight-hour work-day, pre-
sumably because it was recommended
to Congress by President Wilson and
subsequently apnroved by that great
Chief Magistrate.
An eight-hour work-day for bank
officials and railroad Presidents would
probably work “a relief from strain,”
provide “opportunities for recreation”:
and “give the sense of contentment
and reasonableness in life, free from
the pressure of over-exertion,” to
which he ra2fers and consents. But an
eight-hour work-day for a railroad
trainman is ar. iniquity which is not
to be tolerated under any circum-
stances. It is a proposition “which
raises wages by law.” No man train-
ed as Mr. Hughes has been trained
can assent to such a proposition for a
moment. His wages as Justice of the
Supreme court were raised by law a
few years ago. The wages of thous-
ands of publjc officizls have been
“raised by law” frequently in recent
years and he made no protest. But
to raise the wages of a railroad
brakeman by law or otherwise is a
crime.
Can any rational mind imagine any-
thing more absurd than the distinc-
tion which this 100 per cent candidate
and 500 per cent (emagogue raises in
this declaration? The eight-hour
work-day for railroad trainmen is
simply and precisely what it purports
to be. If the railroad managers have
enough brains and skill to justify the
fat salaries they receive, train sched-
ules will be so arranged so that there
will be no more overtime in an eight-
hour day than there is now in a ten
hour day, the standard fixed by law
some vears ago. Candidate Hughes
ought to be able to see this and no
doubt would see it if he were not
obsessed with a prepcsterous ambi-
tion to increase his wages from that
of justice to that of President.
——Candidate Hughes says that
President Wilson’s policies have par-
alyzed the export trade of this coun-
try and as the export business of the
country is about twice as great
as ever before thinking men are
beginning to wonder what sort of
dope Hughes is indulging in.
——The American Truth Society
appears to be a remnant of that
traitorous propaganda formed by
Captain Boy-Ed and Captain von
Papin to destroy American indus-
tries, which has been adorted by the
Republican National committee.
——Strangely enough Schwab,
Frick and all other real Captains of
Industry are enlarging plants and
preparing for the prosperous future
Only the Republican politicians see
industrial paralysis in the closing of
the Eurcpean war.
——Meantime we don’t hear any
complaints from the Pennsylvanians
on duty on the Mexican border. They
are fulfilling the highest obligations
of citizenship and qualifying them-
selves for military service in the fu-
ture.
It is not surprising that Boies
Penrose, Gifford Pinchot and Bill
Flinn should be supporting the same
candidate. They are all political pi-
rates without principle and searching
for spoils. _
—One thing is fairly certain. When
the European war ends Europe will
be so busy providing for crippled pop-
ulations that she will not be able to
organize a commercial or industrial
war against anybody.
— Even if it were true that the
railroad Brotherhoods forced Presi-
dent Wilson, which they didn’t, it is
certain that the railroad presidents
tried to force him and couldn’t.
——The world’s series between the
Brooklyn Nationals and the Boston
Americans will keep the base ball
fans on the active list the ensuing few
days.
BELLEFONTE, PA.. OCTOBER 6, 1916.
NO. 39.
Where Game Cannot be Killed.
Joseph Kalbfus, secretary of the State
Game Commission, this week sent broad-
cast over the State a notice to sports-
men, giving a list of the closed counties
in the State on various kinds of game. At
present there are twenty-three counties
closed tc deer until 1919, and fourteen
counties closed to various kinds of small
game. The counties contiguous to Cen-
tre that are closed are Blair, against the
killing of ring-necked pheasants and
quail until October 10th, 1917, and deer
until October 19th, 1918; and Clear-
field closed against the killing of wild
turkeys, quail, gray, black and fox squir-
rels until October 10th, 1918. Most of the
counties registered as closed were closed
on petition of hunters within their bor-
ders, mostly members of some sports-
man’s association.
This being the fact will those same
sportsmen now be sportsmen enough to
forego their desire to hunt such game
until the season is again open in their
own county, or will they stifle their con-
science and invade neighboring counties
and try to hog all the game possible, as
has occurred - in past years? Centre
county has not been closed on on kind
of game when the killing of same is in
season, and the many square miles of
mountains and wooded sections offer
good protection to all kinds of game.
But even so Centre county hunters are
just as anxious that the game in this sec-
tion should be allowed to propagate and
increase as are hunters in other counties
and for that reason, they are rather con-
servative in the shooting of small game.
But there have been cases every year
where hunting parties from other coun-
‘ties, some of which are closed, have
come to Centre county and camped for
a fortnight right in the best bird terri-
tories and gone out of here with big
strings of pheasants and a few wild tur-
keys. :
This does not seem exactly right or
fair. Hunters who have sought protec-
tion for their home counties by invoking
the aid of the law ought to be at least
under some restriction when going into
another county to hunt. %
The hunting season, by the way, will
open in just ten days and so far the out-
look is not very favorable for Centre
county. The long spell of cold, wet
weather in the spring was hard on both
pheasants and wild turkeys and it will
require some hunting to get either one
this fall. Squirrel, also, are reported
quite scarce, so that the indications are
not very encouraging.
ree
Forest Fires in Ceatre County.
Statistics made public on Wednes-
day by the Department of Forestry
show that twenty-nine forest fires
burned in Centre county during the
1916 spring forest fire season. The
total area burned over by the fires is
given as 8,302 acres, and the resulting
loss is estimated at about $8,400. It
cost $2,208.05 to extinguish the fires.
Thirteen of the fires were caused by
sparks from locomotives not equipped
with effective spark arresters, two by
brush burning on dry days, three by
careless campers, and one by a smok-
er who threw a burning cigarette into
the leaves.
One fire, which burned from May
9th to 16th in Harris and Ferguson
townships covered 1,400 acres in Cen-
tre county, and 4.270 acres in Hunt-
ingdon county. Centre county’s share
of the loss from this single fire is over
$2,000. Two hundred and fifty State
College boys aided in extinguishing
the fire. If they had accepted pay for
their services Centre’s bill for extinc-
tion would have been much larger.
The largest single fire wholly in Cen-
tre county burned in Haines and
Miles townships May 11th to 14th. It
covered 3,560 acres, did damage esti-
mated at over $3,000, and was caused
by one careless fisherman.
Evidence sufficient to convict was
obtained in three of the cases. In
two cases in Rush ard Snow Shoe
townships the defendants settled the
cases out of court by paying costs
and damages. In the third case no
prosecution was brought because of
the extreme poverty of the guilty
person.
——A civil service examination for
clerk and carrier in the »ost-office
service will be held at the Bellefonte
postoffice on Saturday, October 14th.
Each applicant will be reqaired to
submit to the examiner on the day of
examination a photograph of himself
taken within two years. Married
women will not be admitted to this .
examination, though this prohibitior.
does not apply to divorced women.
Application blanks, etc., can be had
on application at the Bellefonte post-
office.
{SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—F. H. Meyers, of Johnstown, : Bull
Moose candidate for United States Sena-
tor, has withdrawn his name.
—The large plant of the Williamsport
Candy company was entirely destroyed by
an early morning fire, involving a loss 0
$20,900, covered by insurance. :
—An epidemic of typheid fever is pre-
valent in Port Royal at the present time,
ten persons having the fever, while a num-
ber of others show symptoms of the dis-
ease.
—Hugh Orchard, aged 17 years, a Wil-
liamsport lad who had been playing with
powder, set his clothing on fire and inflict-
ed several burns, saved his life by jump-
ing into the Susquchanna.
—The body of a man supposed to be
Mike Dzivejak, was found hanging from
the rafters in the tcol shed in the Croa-
tian cemetery, Lower Yoder township,
Cambria county, a few days ago.
—Colonel J. K. Rcbinson, of Mifflintown,
who was the first state employe to got a
pension under the new state employes’ act
is now receiving half his former salary of
$125 a month as a factory inspector.
—Edward Mull, of Chester, was robbed
of $25 in money, a new suit of clothes, a
pair of shoes and a bank book by a sneak
thief who stole into his room, stole while
he was there and stole out again unde-
tected.
—C. A. Kohler, a veteran railroad man
of Rockville, who invented a rail joint
which he had patented, has refused $50,-
000 for his invention. With this inven-
tion rails will not break in insulating
joints.
—Some conscienceless thief pried open the
poor box in Christ Protestant Episcopal
church, Williamsport, the other day, and
got away with a considerable sum of mon-
ey, as the box had not been opened
since June.
—Chewing tobacco since he was seven
vears old, John Sailor, who has the proud
distinction of being Bristol's oldest inhab-
itant, has just celebrated his 94th anniver-
sary. He does not think tobacco has in-
jured his health.
—When Mrs. Charles Gardner, of Clear-
field, entered her kitchen the other morn-
ing to begin the day’s work she was some-
what startled to discover a big black snake
lying back of the coal bucket. She went
to the cellar, procured a hee and dispatch-
ed the intruder.
—Lewis W. Bumgardner, aged 63 years,
a well known resident of Williamsport,
dropped dead while witnessitg a game of
ball in that city. At the end of the sev-
enth inning he leaned over toward his
seatmate, made a remark and fell over,
expiring instantly.
—Ernest Haines «nd Ward Mottarn, two
youths recently convicted of murder in the
first degree, their crime having been the
murder of Haines’ father, are preparing to
appeal to the pardon board for a com-
mutation of the sentence of death to im-
prisonment for life.
—H. L. Warren, a resident of Johas-
town, awoke the other morning, aroused
by the exeited voice of his landlady to
find the mattress of his bed, the bed
clothing, and his night garments ablaze.
He was burned painfully from his shoul-
ders to his heels, but will recover.
—A few nights ago the barns of T. J.
Ray and Erasmus Cooper, the former in
White, the latter in Rayre rownskip, In-
diana county. wera scemingly struck by
the same bolt of lightning as they caught
fire almost simultaneously and burned to
the ground. with the greater part of their
contents, including some livestock.
C. E. Wilson, of Renovo, 26 years old,
was instantly killed on Monday evening
when he was struck by the Pennsylvania
Buffalo flyer one mile east of Emporium.
Wilson, who was a brakeman, did not see
the flyer approaching and stepped direct-
ly in its path. He is the third person to
be killed there by being struck by the
Buffalo flyer.
—James Green, a negro, has started
suit in the Fayette county court to recover
five quarts of whiskey taken from him
when he was arrested on a highway rob-
bery charge. He named Mayor George
Bailey, of Uniontown. as the defendant.
areen was unable to get the booze back
after his aquittal. Nobody seemed to know
what had become of it. .
—The home of R. N. Showers, near
Osceola, along with its contents, was to-
tally destroyed by fire the other day. The
loss will be quite heavy. The Oscecla fire
boys answer>d the alarm, but the flames
had gained too much headway to save
either building or contents. Only Mrs.
Showers and her little daughter were
home when the firs broke out.
—Edward Treaster was arrested ait Lew-
istown last Friday charged with being
short $900 in his accounts with the Adams
Express company. Mr. Treaster had been
local agent for the company only sixty
days and his collections amounted to only
$4,000, vet the Express. company charge
him with knocking down $M0. Treaster
furnished bail, employed counsel and will
fight the issue.
—The following prices were secured at a
public sale of stocks of the Torbert estate
of Jersey Shore, at the Lycoming county
court house last week: 40 shares, Jersey
Shore Trust Company at $390 per share;
Mill Hall Brick Company stock, $240 per
share; Bickford Fire Brick Company com-
mon stock, $16 per share; Hayes Run Fire
Brick Company, par $50, sold for $95; $7200
first mortgage bonds of Bickiord Tire
Brick Company brought $7308.
—Thursday evening of last week, during
the heavy electric storm which visited
this section of the State, seven cows and a
bull belonging to Mrs. Charles Buck, one
mile west of Warriorsmark, were struck
by lightning and killed. The animals
were in a field, close to a barb wire fence,
presumably in quest of shelter, when kill-
ed. The loss of these valuable animals is
especially unfortunate for Mrs. Buck, who
just recently was bereaved in the loss of
her husband.
—General Manager S. C. Long, of the
Pennsylvania railroad, passed through
DuBois last week in his special train, en-
route to Philadelphia. Mr. Long had just
completed an inspection ¢f the Allegheny
division and the tour is given added signif-
icance by the fact that he has under con-
sideration some changes that will directly
affect every officer and employe of the di-
vision. It is rumored according to DuBois
reports, that the Low Grade will be an-
nexed to the Erie division. This would
transfer the headquarters from Oil City
to Erie, the Low Grade at present being
part of the Allegheny division.