BY P. GRAY MEEK.
INK SLINGS.
— One of the very best ways to
boost Bellefonte is to spend your mnn-
ey in Bellefonte.
— Wilson hes given labor a full din-
per pail and an eight hour day and
labor is going to stand by Wilsen.
—Every man who labors should
vote for Woodrecw Wilson. What
President ever did as much for them
as he has done.
— Even Wall Street got a kick as
the result of the raid of that German
U-boat on Sunday, and the next day
stocks went topsy-turvy.
—Read the article on page seven
entitled “I Am An American,” and
then you will know why the people
are behind Woodrow Wilson for a sec-
cnd term as President.
— Tomorrow will be Pennsylvania
Day on “Shadow Lawn.” Are you
going down to the reception which
President Wilson will tender Pennsyl-
vania Democrats at his summer home.
—Anyway, nobody can blame
Mitchell I. Gardrer with trying to
fool the people. While making the
run for the Legislature as a staunch
Democrat, he is pronounced in Lis lo-
cal option views and has no hesita-
tion in saying so.
—1If you want a plutocrat of the
plutocrats you should support Philan-
der C. Knox for United States Sena-
tor. That is what he is and that is
what he always will be. He has been
the pet and idol of “the big interests”
ever since he Las been in public life.
—You may net be able to go to
Shadow Lawn tomorrow to greet
President Wilson and hear him ex-
pound the doctrines of true liberty,
but as long as vou go to the polls and
vote for him on November 7th you
will be fulfilling your duty as a true
American citizen.
—Delegations of Democrats from
all over Pennsylvania will visit Presi-
dent Wilson tomorrow to assure him
that the Keystone State is stronger
for him now than it was four years
ago. Centre county should have a
good representation at such an au-
spicious gathering.
—OQur Republican friends have al-
ways been boastful of the good times
their party has brought to the coun-
try when they were in power. Every
blessing was attributed to the benef-
icence of Republican rule. .. We are
having better times now than we have
ever had before so that we have a
well established precedent to follow
in claiming them as the result of
Democratic rule.
—They’re doing big things at State
College these days. They have just
reported a successful graft of toma-
toes on potato stalks, and one stalk
bearing fifteen tematoes and an equal
number of potatoes. Now if they only
continue the goed work and produce
asparagus tips on onicn sprouts and
cabbage heads on turnip tops it will
be a big stride in intensive gardening
and a great relief to the man who
wields the hoe.
—’Squire Brungard, of Centre Hall,
wants it distinctly understood that
the “Watchman” was in error last
week when it stated that Col. J. L.
Spangler had been pinched for break-
ing the speed limits in that borough.
He says it wasn’t Col. Spangler, at
all, but his chaffeur who had beer
pulled. Which is a distinction with-
out a difference, inasmuch as it is the
Colonel’s pocketbook that will be flat-
tened if the chaffeur is soaked with a
fine.
—Won’t someone send the “Watch-
man” a subscription to the Wilson
campaign fund. It will take thous-
ands of dollars to combat the barrels
that the plutocrats are pouring in for
Hughes. President Wilson has to de-
pend entirely on small popular con-
tributions and the “Watchman” has
volunteered to do what it can in col-
lecting and forwarding some of them.
Won’t you send us a small sum to
help along the cause of a great Presi-
dent. Any amount. will be acknowl-
edged directly to the donor by the na-
tional treasurer of the party.
—The State auto nabuaries have
“pinched” Bob Hunter for speeding on
the highway from Bellefonte to State
College. It’s a shame; Bob ought to
be given some more license than the
rest of us. For years he spent half of
his time windin’ up an old cross-fire
Franklin and the other half doing
about twelve miles—most of the time
on low—over the roughest kind of
reads. And now that he has a good
car and we have good roads he has to
attend so many funerals, haul old sol-
diers and head all kinds of slow going
parades that when he gets a chance
to “cut er loose” he ought not to be
made feel that there is someone lying
in every fence corner with a stop
watch in his hand. It will take much
of the joy out of motoring for Bob
and there’ll be fewer rides to Marston
and Smalley’s fish pond.
Tution.
VOL. 61.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA.. OCTOBER 13, 1916.
NO. 40.
Wilson and the Democratic Party.
In the October issue of the Atlan-
tic Menthly Dr. Charles W. Elliot,
President Emeritus of Harvard Uni-
versity, publishes his estimate of
President Wilson and the Democratic
party. “Any one who surveys the ex-
traordinary series of legislative and
executive acts accomplished by the
Democratic party in three years and
a-half will realize two things,” he de-
clares. “First that President Wilson
has proved himself a party leader of
unusual power; and secondly, that
the party thus led has done much
more for the country than the Repub-
lican party accorrplished in five times
as many years.” Because of these
facts the Democratic party asks the
people to re-elect President Wilson
and continue his party in power.
When Presidert Wilson was inau-
gurated Mexico was involved ir. reve-
Nearly two years previously
the President of that unhappy Repub-
lic had been forced to leave the coun-
try. Some two months before the
event the successor of Diaz had been
murdered by or at the instance of the
Commander-in-Chief of the army who
had also usurped the office of Presi-
dent. Thus the administration of
President Wilson began with trouble
to deal with. It meant war or.dirlo-
macy. President Wilson, a lover of
peace, invoked the agencies of diplo-
macy and kept this country out of
war with Mexico. In August 1914
the European war broke out and all
the combatants, setting aside the
principles of law, committed offences
against the United States. Again the
conditions demanded war or diploma-
cy of the highest order. President Wil-
son again invoked the agencies of
peace and kept us out of war without
impairment of national honor.
If President Wilson had achieved no
other triumphs of peace he would be
entitled to re-election on this record.
But as a matter of fact he has ac-
complished so much besides that the
full measure of his achievement could
not be curtailed in to the brief space
of a newspaper article. The reduc-
tion of the tariff, the currency law,’
the farmer's credit law, the child
labor law, the employer’s liability law,
the income law, the preparedness leg-
islation and finzlly the eight-hour
day law are separate and several rea-
sons why President Wilson should be
re-elected and the Democratic party
continued in power and fully justify
Dr. Elliot’s opinion that they have
done more for the country in three
vears and a-half than the Republicans
accomplished in five times as many
years.
.Prospect of Carrying Pennsylvania..
When the Democratic party mana-
gers expressed an opinion some weeks
ago that an effort should be made to
carry Pennsylvania for Woodrow Wil-
son a god deal of doubt was aroused.
This State has become so rock-ribbed
in Republicanism that the most ardent
Democrats have come to the conclu-
sion that serious work to elect a State
candidate is a waste of energy. But
since the passage of the eight-hour
day law by Congress at the request of
the President public sentiment upon
this subject has been completely re-
versed. It is not only true that lead-
ing Democrats who have given the
matter careful thought believe that
the State may be carried for Wilson
but leading Republicans are fearful
of that result.
The final registraw.on in the cities
show large and uniform gains for the
Democrats. In Pittsburgh more Dem-
ocrats have been enrolled this year
than ever before and in Philadelphia
the high-water mark has almost been
reached. In Wilkes-Barre, Scranton,
Harrisburg, Altoona and the other
third class cities the Democratic en-
rollment this vear is far in excess of
the usual and in all the railroad cen-
tres the Democratic gains are phe-
nominal. These facts have thorough-
ly alarmed the Republican lealers
and for the first time in a third of a
century they are bringing their Presi-
dential candidate into the State in the
hope that the tide running in the di-
rection of the Democracy may be
checked.
. Under these circumstances the duty
of Democrats all over the State is
plain. No victory has ever been
achieved either in war or politics
without effcrt and the radiant hope of
Democratic victory in Pennsylvania
affords ample reason for every Demo-
crat to put his best effort into the
campaign. Even if the expectation of
a State victory should be disappointed
the local victories which would result
from the increased activity would be
generous recompense for the labor in-
volved. . The Republican machine
managers are shaken up all over the
State by reports of the progress of
the campaign which are coming in to
them every day. Let us make up our
minds to justify their apprehension
so far as Centre county is concerned.
Questions Answered and Dodged.
The New York “Sun” which has
been in a grouchy mood ever since
President Wilson and the Democratic
Congress shook the grip of Wall |
Street from the throat of the busi-
ness of the country, has propounded a
series of questions which, in its dull
mind, it imagines will embarrass,
President Wilson and his campaign
managers. Among the questions are |
such silly ones as “Has the Mexican
government ever saluted our flag?”
“Have our troops captured Villa, dead
or alive?” “Where do Mexican ban-
dits get the ammunition with which
to slaughter Americans?” and “Did |
President Wilson mean what he said
when he asserted that what happened
in Mexico was none of our business?”
These questions are easy. Mexico |
didn’t salute the flag but Huerta who
was responsible for the insult to the
flag was compelled to quit Mexico
and become an exile. Our troops have
not captured Villa, dead or alive, but
they have practically destroyed his
power for evil and they have prevent-
ed other raids and other butcheries of
American citizens on the Mexican
border. Mexican bandits certainly do
not get their ammunition to slaughter
Americans from President Wilson or
from any agency of which he has con-
trol. But they prcbably do get it from
the Wall Street speculators in Mexi-
can land, Mexican franchises and
Wexican concessions, some of whom
are probably share owners of the
“Sun”.
Of course the “Sun” was influenced
to propounding these questions by a
spirit of revenge. The Democratic
National Committee asked Mr.
Hughes a few questions which he has
not answered himself and nobody else |
has undertaken to answer them for
him.
From the outset of his cam-'
paign he has been traducing the Pres- |
ident alike for what he does and what
he hasnt done. Because of that!
the National Conmittee asked |
him what he would have done!
in each case and the response |
from Hughes is a blank stare
and from his friends a silence |
so dense that you could cut it with a
club. But revenges don’t get much
for anyone and the Sun’s questions af-
ford an excellent opportunity for per- |
tinent replies.
—— i
Edison and Ford on Wilson.
Mr. Thomas A. Edison said the
other day: “Give the people the facts
and it will be a Wilson landslide. No
President ever faced such problems,
no President ever made such a record
of achievements.” On the same oc-
casion Mr. Henry Ford declared that
“President Wilson has saved the
United States from the horrors and
desolation of international war. He
has saved us from industrial war.
His domestic policies have given new
strength to legitimate enterprise, pro-
tected the worker, emancipated the
children and destroyed evils that were
sapping the courage of America.”
These are the facts which make Mr.
Edison believe that Wilson will be
overwhelmingly elected if they are
known to the people.
Can it be possible that there are
any intelligent men and women in this
country who are not acquainted with
these facts? They are matters of
public record. Candidate Hughes
denies them but he has been asleep
for more than six years and doesn’t
know what has occurred within that
time. Theodore Roosevelt admits the
facts but protests that they represent
vice rather than virtue. Mr. Edison is
aware that every legistative reform
promised four years ago has been
enacted into law and. that Woodrow
Wilson has “given us peace, with hon-
or, prosperity with justice and pre-
paredness without militarism.” Those
are the achievements which in his
opinion ‘ought to make the coming
election “a Wilson landslide.”
This country is at peace while others
are deluged in blood because Wood-
row Wilson as President invoked the
instrumentalities of peace rather
than implements of war in great
emergencies. Half a dozen times since
his induction intc the great office he
adorns, he might have plunged us into
war with a result that desolation and
distress would have been the order of
the day instead of the happiness and
prosperity which now prevail. But
such a condition would have reflected
no honor upon this country. Wilson
has prevented war and he has pre-
served the honor and increased the
prestige of the country wherever civ-
ilization exists. Mr. Edison thinks
fis achievement ought to re-elect
im.
, attack American ships.
pathy with
German Submarine on Our Coast.
The appearance and pernicious ac-
tivity of German submarines on our |
coasts are not matters of great con-
cern unless by accident or design they
The German
government has a legal as well as
moral right to wage war against its
enemies in the open sea and so long
as they violate no right of neutrality,
we have no cause of complaint. But
“it is a matter of grave importance to
Great Britain for it is a direct and
successful challenge to the British
claim of mastery of the ocean. Itis a
{ matter of significance, moreover, to
all the powers engaged in the war
against the central allies. It is an
avowed threat against their supplies
from all sources.
Whether there is only one subma-
rine or more is equally unimportant
so long as the work of destruction
contemplated by the German govern-
ment is attained. Six ships were de-
stroyed within a brief period of time.
Four of these were British craft and
carried passengers. Happily the pas-
sengers were faved through the
prompt and efficient efforts of a fleet
of United States destroyers sent out
from Newport by Admiral Cleaves.
Some of the passengers were citizens
of the United States but their rescue
removes them from the equation. The
prompt assurance of the German Am-
bassador that no unneutral acts would
be committed allays apprehension of
immediate trouble. But President
Wilson is alert and will do all things
possible to preserve peace with honor.
Meantime it is worth while tc con-
sider the probable causes of this bold
invasion of our coast waters by the
German submersible. For more than
three months Charles E. Hughes, the
candidate of one of the parties for
President, Theodore Roosevelt and
others, have been publicly proclaim-
ing over the country that the Amer-
ican people are opposed to the poli-
ies of the President with respect to
such operations. The German gov-
ernment has not been deceived by
these false statements, for no offence
against the United States has been
committed since the Lusitania. But
the German admiralty which directs
the movements of the ships have come
to think that the people are in sym-
them.
—Henry C. Frick, the great coal
and iron magnate, says America is
far from being dependent on war
orders to keep her prosperous. In
his opinion the country would be more
prosperous than it is if all the war.
business were cut off at once. Charles
M. Schwab believes the same, for has
he not ordered the expenditure of one
hundred million dollars in enlarge-
ment of his great Bethlehem plants,
and Schwab is far too good a business
man to build more mills if they are
only to stand idle.
—We are still of the opinion that
they are eventually going to get lick-
ed but we surely are compelled to ad-
mire the daring and resourcefulness
of the Germans. That one U-boat on
the American side of the Atlantic will
keep the entire British - Admiralty
guessing until it is trapped or sunk,
meanwhile Germany will be pulling
off some tricks somewhere else more
easily than she zould if the big sub-
mersible were not running amuck
among shipping over here.
——Conan Doyle says the Germans
are copyists. Probably that’s true.
For example they copied the subma-
rine idea from the United States but
just now we are willing to copy from
Germany in that line.
—Penrose keeps close to Candi-
date Hughes but the Vares are in
proximity most of the time. At the
Philadelphia meeting Vare got on the
stage ahead but Penrose was beside
the candidate.
Herbert Welsh, a Philadelphia
philanthropist has joined with Dr.
Edison and Mr. Ford in supporting
Wilson. After awhile supporting Wil-
son is likely to become a test of re-
spectability.
——Robert Bacon spent a vast sum
of money and had Roosevelt behind
him for the New York Republican
nomination for Senator but the other
fellow “brought home the bacon.”
Now that the base ball cham-
pionship has been settled for another
vear people may settle down to busi-
ness or take some irterest in the
Presidential campaign.
! Deeds and Deeds.
. From the Philadelphia Record.
When Col. Roosevelt and Mr.
| Hughes accuse President Wilson of
| being a man of words, and not of
i deeds, the thought arises as to their
| mental conception of words and dceds.
{ In the colonel’s case it is clear that a
deed is something implying violent
- physical action, such as shooting an
: elephant, tramping through a South
| American jungle or wrestling with a
grizzly bear. When he was president
and fomented a rebellion in Panama
| that gave him an opportunity of seiz-
ing territory for a canal that was a
‘deed, something done. It indicated
physical force of the kind that appeals
to the colonel’s vigorous but not keex:-
ly sensitive mind.
There were a great many things that
Mr. Roosevelt did not do when he was
President. Although there was an in-
sistent demand for currency and tariff
reform he gave such questions scarce-
ly a thought. They did not interest
him; there was nothing spectacular
about them. He accomplished nothing
toward curbing the trusts. He re-
duced the army in size, and though he
had six Secretaries of the Navy nene
of them amounted to anything. With
the exception of the organization of
the general staff of the army there
was very little legislation of impor-
tance accomplished in Roosevelt's oc-
cupancy of the White House for near-
ly eight years. Compared with Wil-
son’s shining achievements those of
Roosevelt look like a third-class
piker.
Nobody can pretend that Hughes is
a man of deeds of any kind, physical
or otherwise. With the exception of
less than four years as Governor of
New York his life has been that of a
lawyer and judge. His achievements
while Governor do not begin to com-
pare with those of Woodrow Wilson
while Governor. Hughes so antagoniz-
ed his own party that he could ac-
complish at Albany but a small part
of what he prcbably had in mind. He
never exhihited any proneness for the
Roosevelt type of deeds—a fact by no
means to his discredit.
According to the colonel, he would
: have precipitated war with Germany
by seizing the German vessels in-
terned here. That would have been a
wonderful deed, in his estimation.
President Wilson accomplished much
more by steady pressure on the Kai-
ser’s government. That was his way
of doing things. Compare what the
three men nave accomplished toward
making the United States a better
country to live in, and the President
makes incomparably the best show-
ing.
Wilson’s Critics Insincere.
From the Johnstown Democrat.
Henry Ford calls attention to the
fact that the Republican campaign
managers have overplayed their game
by being entirely tco sweeping in
their condemnation of the Wilson ad-
ministration. There is force in Ford’s
contention. A critic should first of all
be fair. If he is not, his strictures, no
matter how brilliant, how caustic or
how amusing they mav be, are value-
less for purposes of instruction. Pres-
ident Wilson’s opponents in the pend-
ing campaign have taken the remark-
able position that his administration
is without a single redeeming feature.
They will not acknowledge that he is
responsible for any worthy policy of
legislative enactment. Their descrip-
tion of the President displays him as
a trickster, as a weak, vain man with-
out settled convictions or principles.
All of the mistakes made by Con-
gress, all the misfortunes that have
befallen the country, they blame on
the President. All the happenings, all
the developments that please and
comfort patriotic citizens are set
forth as having come to pass because
the President was powerless to stay
their course. Such sweeping state-
ments are manifestly unfair and in-
sincere. There are bright spots in the
administration’s record. If blunder-
ing put them there then we have tco
many statesmen and too few biunder-
ers in this country.
A Fat Pay Envelope.
¥rom the Philadelphia Nerth American.
Of the causes for the extraordinary
apathy of the public teward the two
presidential candidates, the general
prosperity appears as the most ob-
vious. A pay envelope that is fat
and regular unquestionably has a
soporific effect. In former campaigns
the full dinner pail—or the empty
dinner pail, as the case might be—
provided an issue with which one
party or the other could arouse rever-
berating discussion. The argument
which that utensil = symbolizes was
used in the past with deadly effect by
the Republicans but this time it re-
turns to smite them, for good times
are here, and it has been a cardinal
doctrine of Republican evangelists
that the party in power is responsible
for the existence or the absence of
prosperity.
Letting ¢ Carranza Worry.
From the Washington Star.
Villa insists on letting Carranza do
all the worrying about the presence of
American troops.
A Dedication.
From ihe Rochester Herald.
Mr. Hughes hasn’t voted since 1910.
Surely that will have to be subtracted
from the “100 per cent. American.”
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SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—The Renovo Fire Brick company,
whose plant is located at Drury’s Run,
has gone into bankruptcy.
—The only tickets in the field that will
count in this State on election day are the
i tepublican and the Democratic.
—Johnstown has almost $4,000,000 rore
on deposit in savings banks at the present
time than at the corresponding period in
1915.
—The Children’s Home, of York, is the
principal beneficiary under the will of
Sarah Lydia Bailey. and will receive $60,-
525.
—Fifteen cases of typhoid fever have
developed at Port Royal, Pa. in a few
days. The epidemic is attributed to ice
cream.
—~Cigar and tobacco deulers at Reading
have stopped giving away matches. It
cost them about $7 a week for each shop
the dealers say.
—Getting a bean in his throat while his
mother was shelling them, a little son of
David Davidheiser, of near Birdsbhoro,
strangled to death.
—Edwin Butler, of Arnot, lanced a boil
on his leg with a razor, and will likely
have to submit to having the leg ampuiat-
ed, as a result of blood poisoning.
—While Mrs. W. Atlee Burpee, of
Doylestown, was in a business place in
Philadelphia, a thief stole her sealskin
coat valued at $700 from her auotmobile.
—Superintendent J. H. Hoffman, of
Bucks county, is credited with saying that
he visited three schools and saw not one
flag, but saw the flag flying before three
hotels. E
—As a result of a baby-saving campaign
at Reading, there has been less illness
among babies in Reading this summer
than in any previous year, according to
health statistics.
—Biting off his finger nails, John Wil-
liams, of Lansford, Carbon county, aged
16 years, has been stricken with leckjaw,
a piece of nail having pierced his gums
between the teeth and festered.
—John Smocsar filed a suit in the Clear-
field county court Monday against the
Madeira Hill Coal Company in which he
asks for $10,000 damages for personal in-
juries received while employed as a miner.
—~Starting from an explosion of gasoline
in a small repair shop where an automo-
bile tire was being vulcanized, some of the
best and biggest buildings in the busicess
section of Jerome, Somerset county, were
destroyed.
—While Dr. F. P. Dwyer,
was engaged in opening a tonsil abscess
for one of hiz patients the knife he was
using accidentally fell and struck him on
the left leg. He is now suffering from
blood poisoning.
—It is said that Russian and Italian
residents of Mt. Union and other sections
of Huntingdon county are manifesting
their intention to settle down and make
America their permanent residence by
purchasing homes.
—Michael W. Dennery, on trial in Clear-
field county for the murder of John Row-
les, at Clearfield, has been convicted of
murder in the first degree. The evidence
was very conflicting and it is said a new
trial will be applied for.
—The other day somebody took a cart
away from ihe shop of a Latrobe mechan-
ic. He put a notice in the paper announc-
ing that if the cart was not returned with-
in thrce days he would prosecute. Next
morning he found two carts in front of
his shop.
—Prior to his sudden death Bishop Wil-
liam Perry Eveland had made many en-
gagements to speak in the cause of mis-
sions before his return to Manila. Mrs.
Eveland, who was with him ir all his trav-
els, has determined to carry out her hus-
band’s speaking engagements.
—D. M. Kimmell, said to have been at
one time a member of the Greensburg
Moose Lodge, was recentiy found dead on
a barn floor near Marbueriet, Westmore-
land county. The man lost his life when
he fell from the haymow where he is sup-
posed to have crawled to sleep.
of Renovo,
—John H. Boicer, aged 21 years, a resi-
dence of Coalport, while hunting chest-
nuts fell a distance of fifty feet frcm the
top of a tree to the ground and escaped
without a broken bene. He struck a limb
about midway in his descent and this in-
terruption to his fall probably saved his
life.
— Declared dead on the court records,
a decomposed body of another identified
by his mother as his own, Isaac Terrill, of
Irwin, Westmoreland county, surprised
many persons when he was returned to
the Huntingdon reformatory, of which he
had been an inmute, by Westmoreland
county officers.
— Six school girls were seriously injured
in Mount Pleasant township. Westmore-
land county, when William Brown, losing
control of his automobile, dashed toward
them and literally carried them through a
barbed wire fence, causing frightful cuts
and other injuries. Katie Shesic, aged 13,
the most seriously hurt, died the next day,
but five others who were badly hurt are
expected to recover.
— Mrs. Joseph Mocadlo, a native of Po-
land, but now a resident of Lilly, Cam-
bria county, eclaimis to have reached the
age of 105 years and is believed to be the
oldest woman in the State. She is a small
woman, weighing, probably, less than 2100
pounds, but she possesses wonderful vi-
tality and walks two miles to church every
Sunday morning when the weather is fa-
vorable. She reads without glasses.
— Using his shoe as a bludgeon, George
Graham, of Salamanca, N. Y., held in the
Punxsutawney lockup in connection with
a robbery, beat Warden Andrew Neal,
aged 65 years, into near unconsciousness
during the night and escaped, taking with
him Rose Styars, of Wishaw, held for
complicity in the same crime. They would
have been discharged the next day for lack
of knowledge of the crime, but having
been recaptured will now have to stand
trial for aggravated assault and jail
breaking.
—The tipple and other buildings at the
Jaffa mine owned by Gould Bros, of
Brisbin, and W. H. Patterson, Esq., of
Clearfield, and located about three miles
from Brisbin, were totally destroyed by
fire some time early Sunday morning.
When discovered the flames had gained
such headway that fighting the fire was
out of the question and the entire plant
was destroyed. The fire was undoubtedly
the work of an incendiary and a strenuous
effort will be made through the state fire
marshall’s office to ferret out the incendi-
ary. The loss is placed at about $5,000.