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BY P. GRAY MEEK.
INK SLINGS.
— Be with the winners. Vote for
Wilson.
—For Supreme court Judge vote
for Walling.
—Tomorrow will be Wilson day all
over the United States. There will
be another Wilson day early in No-
vember.
—Isn’t it funny how much more
you crave eggs for breakfast when
they are fifty cents the dozen thar
when they are only fifteen
—Centre county gave Harry Scott
one term in the Legislature and what
has he done for Centre county that
makes it worth while to give him
another.
— Mitchell I. Gardner will represent
Centre county in the next session of
the Pennsylvania Legislature, if the
people of Centre county vote the way
they talk.
— Reading the recerd of what
Charley Rowland did in the last Con
gress we can’t understand what he
wants to go back for. He was either
absent or wouldr’t vote every time
anything of importance to his con-
stituents came up.
—If good times have anything to do
with the way a farmer votes then
every farmer in Centre county will
vote for Wilson for President. Never
have our agriculturists had such pros-
verity as they are enjoying now or a
more roseate future to look into.
—1It seems almost incredible that
Ohio, the birthplace of Grant, Gar-
field, Harrison, McKinley and Taft
should give Wilson one hundred
thousand majority, yet that is what
his managers claim it will do and Mr.
Hughes’ pilots practically concede
such a stupendous victory.
—So many Republicans are flocking
to the support of President Wilson
that we are almost persuaded that he
is not merely the Democratic candi-
date, but everybody’s candidate. Come
to think of it, this is as it should be,
for he has not been merely the Demo-
crat’s President. He has been every-
body’s President.
—Tomotrrow President Wilson will
send a special message to his country-
men. Look for it. ‘Read it, because
the President will have something
: hile to say to you on the day
> d ignated as the one
specially
service he has rendered his country.
—You needn’t be surprised if you
should waken up on the morning of
November 8th and learn that our dis-
tinguished townsman, Ellis L. Orvis,
has been elected United States Sena-
tor from Pennsylvania. He is just as
able 2 man as Philanderin “Knocks”
and why shouldn’t he be elected. If
he goes to the Senate he will support
Wilson and you all know “Knocks”
wouldn’t do that.
—The presidential contest this year
is predicated purely on your choice of
two men. The country is prosperous
as it has never been before; the cour-
try is enjoying blessed peace and
there seem to be no issues other than
Wilson and Hughes. You know what
Wilson has done for you. Mr. Hughes
hasn’t yet made a single declaration
as to what he would do if he were
President. Surely you can’t be fool-
ish enough to exchange a certainty
for an uncertainty.
—Both of the nominees on the non-
partisan ticket for Judge of the Su-
preme Court are Republicans. One is
to be elected. We would advise all of
our readers to vote for Walling, be-
cause we regard him as the ablest
man of the two and we have made a
careful inquiry in order that we might
give you advice on a matter that
very few of you will have opportunity
of informing yourselves on before
election. The Supreme court is our
highest tribunal and we can’t afford
to put any but the best qualified Jaw-
yers on the bench, therefore the
“Watchman” earnestly advocates the
clection of Mr. Walling and hopes
that every Democrat and every Re-
publican in Centre county will vote
for him.
—A good Democratic friend down
at Bryn Mawr has sent us a letter
that Mr. E. T. Stotesbury, the multi-
millionaire, wrote to him soliciting
funds with which to elect Hughes and
Fairbanks. Mr. Stotesbury has been
so busy all these years raking in the
millions that the Hughes and Fair-
banks kind of combinations have been
legislating into the pockets of the
“special privilege” class, that he
hasn’t kept very close tab on who's
who in the country. He wrote us one
of the letters too, but we felt like a
Republican editor in the western part
of the State who answered Mr.
Stotesbury to the effect that since he
has so many millions himself he had
better go down in his own pocket if
he wants to elect two men to office
whom nobody else seems to be very
enthusiastic for.
consider the ent “publi ic
ously and
VOL. 61.
The Real Issue of the Campaign.
Reduced to the last analysis the
question to be decided by the coming
election is whether the government of
the United States shall be directed
from Washington or Berlin. Certain
citizens of German birth or extrac-
tion have set themselves to the pur-
pose of giving us a government di-
rected by the Emperor of Germany.
With this purpose in mind they fore-
ed the nomination of Charles Evans
Hughes as the Republican candidate.
But after that was accomplished they
were not sure of their ground and
through the agency of Jeremiah
O’Leary opened negotiations with the
candidate to bind him to their poli-
cies. He was asked tc avoid all de-
nunciation of German activities in his
speeches.
Mr. Hughes acknowledges that he
held a conference with Mr. O’Leary
and his associates but denies that he
made any pledges to them or promis-
ed any services before or after elec-
tion. But it has not been alleged
that he did either of these things. The
charge is that the demand was made
of him that he make no accusations
in his speeches against the ‘German
methods of warfare and the most
careful scrutiny of his speeches fails
to reveal a single sentence of denun-
ciation of Germany or the war meth-
ods she has employed. In other words
Mr. Hughes has acquiesced in the de-
mand of the hyphenates with respect
to his actions before the election and
that satisfies them that his actions
afterward will be satisfactory to Ber-
lin and the agents of Berlin on this
side of the water.
Before and after the nomination of
Hughes the New York “Tribune” said
“it would be better for the Republican
party to indorse Woodrow Wilson in
1916 than to permit the principle to
be established that to defend Ameri-
can interests is to commit political
suicide.” Woodrow Wilson has vigor-
consistently defended
for. that. rea-
son the O’Learys are “opposing him
and promising support to Mr. Hughes |
in consideration of his refraining
from such defence. And while Hughes |
may have made no promise his
speeches shew that he has agreed to
the terms and is carrying out his part
of an implied contract. These facts
make the issue plain and the duty of
voters clear.
Roosevelt Malice Run Mad.
Unless the friends of Roosevelt put
some restraints upon him, he will bite
himself, after the fashion of a certain
venomous reptile which is said to
thus turn upon itself in the frenzy of
passion. In a speech at Phoenix, Ari-
zona, the other day, he touched the
zenith of vituperation and the limit
of prejudice. “Thanks to President
Wilson,” he said, “it is safe for Mexi-
can bandits to murder Americans and
Chinese, and to take their property,
and the murderers and bandits are en-
couraged by the acts and utterances
of the President of the United States
and his authorized agents.” And as
he warmed up to his work he grew
more bitter and vindictive.
If any denizen of the underworld
should use such language in reference
to the President of the United States
he would be seized by a policeman
and arraigned before the nearest
magistrate for disorderly conduct.
But this homicidal maniac is permit-
ted by the public and encouraged by
the Republican National committee,
because an assassin elevated him to
the office of President of the United
States, to spew out such malice with
impunity. No greater outrage against
decency can be imagined. It is not
only treasonable but it is perfidy of
the most atrocious type. It is spread-
ing lawlessness in a lawless communi-
ty and the harvest is likely to be mur-
der.
And this vile creature recently as-
pired to another term in the Presi-
dency and according to common un-
derstanding is now under promise of
his candidate to the highest place in
the cabinet. If there were no other
reason for the defeat of Charles E.
Hughes the menace of this infliction
upon the country would be sufficient
to turn all thoughtful voters against
him. Happily there is little danger
of the election of Hughes and the
restoration of Roosevelt to public
place. He is thoroughly discredited
wherever decent principles are re-
spected and with the close of the pres-
ent campaign he will drop into an
obscurity which will enly be marked
by a had smell.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
Red Letter Day i in Labor.
The call of organized labor to unite
in support of the Democratic party is
an event in the history of the politics
of this country. Local unions of the
Wederation of Labor have declared a
preference for candidates when con-
ditions required drastic action. But
so far as we are able to recall no pre-
vious call has come from the Presi-
dent of the American Federation of
Labor for all adherents of that faith-
ful conservator of the interests of la-
bor to join together to promote the
success of a party or its candidates.
Such a summons to labor was issued
the other day attested by the signa-
tures of Samuel Gompers, president;
James O’Connel, vice president, and
Frank Morrison, secretary.
No other President has ever ren-
dered as valuable service to the cause
| of labor as Woodrow Wilson. No
other candidate for President in the
| history of the country has shown an
! equal opposition to the interests of
labor as Charles Evans Hughes.
Every official act of the President has
shown a sympathy for and interest in
the welfare of working mer. Every
official act of Charles E. Hughes, the
Republican candidate for President
has revealed an antipathy toward la-
bor. The election of Wilson means
the conservation of labor. The elec-
tion of Hughes spells the enslavement
of labor. It will cause to labor the
loss of every advantage that has been
gained by years of strife.
In these circumstances it is small
wonder that Samuel Gompers the
wise and conservative head of the
principal lahor organization of the
country should invoke the co-opera-
tion of all his associates in his just
and righteous cause to compass the
| election of the friend and the defeat
of the enemy of labor. Anything less
than this would have been ingrati-
tude to a man and a party which has
always been ready to battle for jus-
tice to labor. Mr. Gompers has ful-
filled his obligation and it is. up to the
workingmen of the country to per-
form their duty by responding not
only promptly but effectively to the
call of their chief. It is the supreme
i moment for labor.
Vote for Ellis L. Orvis, Centre
county’s candidate for United States
Senator.
Farmers Coming Into Their Own.
President Wilson’s address to farm-
ers at Shadow Lawn on Saturlay
was a revelation to that important
element in the electorate. As the
capable farmer who introduced the
President to his audience said to him,
“it is a great pleasure to meet you
here today, particularly because after
forty years as an agriculturist it is
the first tirne I have Leen invited to
meet the President of the United
States as a farmer. It is very signifi-
cant in another way. It shows that
not only the railroad nen, the work-
ers in the mines 2nd factories but the
tiller of the soil has been considered
more than he was ever thought of hy
any other administration.”
There have beer. no favorites among
the various elements which compose
the population of this country since
the advent of the present administra-
tion. It has pleased certain men to
say that the business interests of the
country have been discriminated
against but that is not true. Nothing
in the business life of the country has
been discriminated against except
that which has been evil. Every legit-
imate business has been fostered in
every possible way. It may seem that
the agricultural interests have receiv-
ed more attention than others. But
that is only because during previous
administrations it has received less
consideration and during the present
administration the effort has been to
even things up.
No single industry contributes as
much to the wealth and prosperity of
the country as agricultare. No indus-
| try has been discriminated against so
much. It has been the aim of the
common level with the other wealth-
producing vocaticns. To achieve this
result he has striven constantly.
The Federal Reserve act was an im-
portant step in the right direction.
The Rural Credits law was a still bet-
ter measure for the farmers but the
provision of the Agricultural bill
which may send two rural demonstra-
tors to ever rural county in the coun-
try is literally the greatest benefit to
farmers which has ever been enacted
into law.
President to put agriculture on a
BELLEFONTE, PA.. OCTOBER 27, 1916.
Labor Interests at a Crisis.
Thomas Kennedy, District President :
of the United Mine Workers of Amer- |
ica, has called the attention of wage-
earners of Pennsylvania to the record |
of Charles A. Snyder, of Pottsville,
Republican candidate for Auditor |
General. “Charles A. Snyder,” he
writes tersely, “is a friend of corpora- |
tion interests and the enemy of la- !
bor.” Senator Snyder has served
three terms in the House of Repre- |
sentatives and two in the State Sen- |
ate. His record is easily obtained “o1
it covers considerable time and a peri-
od in which labor legislation was con-
stantly urged. It shows that in no
case and in no circumstances was h«
friendly to labor. His vote and influ-
ence have always been against work-
ing men.
The present time marks a crisis in
the affairs of labor. The passage of
the eight-hour law for railread train-
men, at the instance of President Wil-
son, has admonished the corporate
employers of labor that the time for
industrial justice has come. They will
resist it, of course, with all the encrgy
at their command and to the full limit
of their resources. Whichever ele-
ment in this titanic contest wins this
vear will score a permanent victory.
If those representing the friends of
labor are successful at the polls,
movement in their behalf will contin-
ue until it culminates in an enduring
National policy. If the friends of la-
bor are defeated the work of the
quarter of a century in their behalf
will be lost, they will have to begin
over with their antagonists entrench-
ed and strengthened as they have
never been before. :
In the National contest the lines
are clearly drawn. Woodrow Wil-
son’s record is an open book of bhenefi-
cent effort for labor while that of his
antagonist is as plain on the opposite
side and as eacily read. On the State
ticket District President Kennedy has
tly expressed the attitude of the
ublican candidate, for Auditor
General Charles A. Snyder, while the
Democratic candidate has been a
faithful and zealous friend of labor.
The Democratic candidate for State
Treasurer is a locomotive engineer ir
active service while his opponent is
now and always has been a machine
politician of the servile sort. There
ought to be no doubt as to how labor
ing men will vote this year.
W. E. Tobias, of Clearfield,
Democratic candidate for Congress ir
this district, expects tc be in Centre
county at least once more before the
election if he can possibly do so. But
he has four counties to travel over
and it may be impessible for him to
cet here. In the event of his failure
to do so, you can take it from the
“Watchman” that he is a man worthy
of the full Democratic vote, and if
elected to Congress he will give all his
time to serving his constituents in an
earnest and conscientions way.
Therefore, when you go to the polls
on November 7th be sure to vote for
Mr. Tobias, as well as all the other
candidates on the Democratic ticket.
— If reports be true the State
students who journeyed to Philadel-
phia Saturday to see State and Penn
clash in their annual foot-ball game,
left about all the money they had,
could beg or borrow. The Penn back-
ers certainly had a killing, for State
gave odds of 3 and 4 tol and were
betting even money at the end of the
first half when the score stood 3 te 0
in Penn’s favor. One disgusted sport
from Bellefonte, who went down fully
determined not to risk a cent on the
outcome, found things looking so
“soft” that he just had to “take a
piece” of a nice pool that was being
made. Later he just had to telegr<ph
home for funds for his return trip.
——Those who are losing sleep be-
cause Europe is weakel ing in respect
for the United States, may compose
their perturbed souls. Germany
abadoned the submarine attacks upon
ships carrying American passengers
at the request of the Washington gov-
ernment and all other European coun-
tries will be perfectly willing to pay
indemnity for any damage they do
“when this cruel war is over.”
Roosevelt is yelling his head
off about the President giving in to
the railroad men. He is making so
much noise about that so he can’t
hear any one ask him what he did
when Frick and several other gentle-
men scared him into permiting the
United States Steel Ce. to swallow
the Tennessee Coal and Iron Co.
the
r own intentions.
NO. 42.
Voters Turning to Wilson.
From the New York World.
Has the Hughes campaign reached
the beginning of the end? It would
seem so.
Republican reports and Democratic
reports agree that the swing is all to-
! ward President Wilson. The President
| grows stronger and stronger as public
sentiment becomes more articulate.
Mr. Hughes is weaker and weaker.
There is no mystery about the de-
| cline and prospective fall of the
i Hughes candidacy. It lacked the one
i element without which no candidacy
"has a right to succeed—the element
i of good faith. Mr. Hughes has not
been sincere with the American peo-
ple. He has not been honest with the
American people. He has not been on
the level. He has not been the Charles
E. Hughes whom they had idealized
as a man who met every political is-
sue and every political situation
squarely without fear or hesitation.
Mr. Hughes began his campaign
with a carefully prepared program of
dodging and evasion. In the midst of
the greatest crisis known to modern
civilization he determined to have no
policies of his own, but to seek to con-
solidate all the motley opposition to
the President.
To-do that he could not afford to
have policies of his own, for there was
no policy on which such a following
could be united. What suits Wall
street would not suit the west. What
suited the Germans would not suit
the pro-British and pro-French. What
suited the jingoes would not suit the
pacifists. What suited the Old Guard
would not suit the Progressives. What
suited Roosevelt would not suit Taft.
So Mr. Hughes resolved to attack
everything that President Wilson had
done, but tc say nothing about his
own plans and purposes. He was nom-
inated in the dark and he thought he
could be elected in the dark. Whether
or not he has discovered his mistake,
the Republican managers have iid
covered it.
Instead of consolidating all the an-
tagonistic elements that were opposed
to the President, Mr. Hughes has
.awakened their suspicions as to his
They have come to
see that he cannot be playing fair
with all of them and that he may not
be playing fair with any of them.
There have been campaigns when
that kind of politics might succeed;
but this is no ordinary year. Mr.
Hughes has been trifling with the.des-
tiny of the nation when the future of
the republic is hanging in the balance.
In commonplace times it would make
little difference whether Woodrow
Wilson or Charles E. Hughes was
President of the United States; but
these are not commonplace times.
Now that there has been an oppor-
tunity for the sober second thought,
the American people are balancing
the books. On the one side is the defi-
nite record of President Wilson and
his administration. On the other side
is nothing except conjecture, specula-
tion, fault-finding and destructive
criticism. Naturally the voters are
turning to the President. How could
it be otherwise? They know him. They
know what he will do. They can trust
him. They cannot afford to trust any
man who will not trust them and who
will not tell them what he would do as
President, and that is the position in
which Mr. Hughes has placed himself.
That is why the Hughes campaign
has so suddenly slumped, and that is
why the Hughes managers must make
their last desperate appeal to the
power of money.
“Good Company” for Independents.
rom the Springfield Republican.
There has been no Presidential cam-
paign since 1892 in which independent
voters could find such “good company”
in supporing the Democratic candi-
date as in the present one. Rev. Dr.
Washington Gladden, of Columbus. O.,
who has voted for every Republican
President chosen since 1860, declared
for Wilson yesterday. Dr. Gladden’s
position helps to explain somewhat
why Ohio is now classed as a doubt-
ful State. In New York city, Rev.
Percy Stickney Grant has also decided
to support Wilson. Both of these
well-known clergymen were suppor-
ters of Roosevelt in 1912. No one
needed apologize for voting for a can-
didate who gets the warm suppoxt of
Dr. Charles W. Eliot, Thomas A.
Edison, Henry Ford, Jane Addams
and Dr. Washington Gladden, of
whom the last four have never been in
affiliation with the Demcoratic party.
If Hughes Should Win.
From the New York World.
If by his attacks on the Underwood
tariff Mr. Hughes meant to assure his
followers that he advocated a return
to the Aldrich-Payne tariff, complete-
ly repudiated by the country in 1912,
he would show some clear, definite
purpose. But his ready answer to
any such charge would be, according
to rule, “I didn’t say that.” All that
is certain is that should Mr. Hughes
and a Republican Congress be elected,
any new tariff would be framed by
Penrose, Fordney and the same crowd
fesponsible for the Aldrich-Payne
tari
Good Reason for It.
From the Savannah News.
Looks as if it would be entirely safe
now for Wilson to go ahead and pro-
claim the customary day of thanks-
giving.
——Vote for Cramer for Auditor
General.
shoes in Williamsport at 10 cents collapsed
and the reign of the nickel has been re-
sumed.
—Mrs. Rebecca Madison, aged 79, was
obliged to prosecute her son, Gregg Madi-
son, for mon-support, alleging th:.t he has
taken possession of her house and refuses
to support her. The parties reside in
Derry.
—Johnstown's sanitary engineer and
three of Lis assistants have resigned. The
engineer was offended by the action of
council in placing the construction of the
city’s sanitary sewerage system in the
hands of the city engineer.
—State Game Warden Iddo Lewis, of
Marchland, arrested three foreigners at
McIntyre the other day for trapping sceng
birds in a net. The men were taken before
Squire Crossman at Indiana. and fined
$108.22. The fines were paid.
—The New York Central company has
finally concluded to erect a handsome and
modernly equipped passenger station at
Clearfield. It will be of terra cotta brick
construction, and cost $50,000. Plans for
the building are now being arranged.
—Mayor Jonas Fischer, of Williamsport,
charged with being an unnaturalized alien,
has been summoned to appear before the
Lycoming county court on the last day of
the present month and show by what au-
thority he claims to hold the office of may-
or.
—In cleansing a water basin at Nellers-
ville, Bucks county, twenty-five milk cans
were required to hold the catties, sunfish,
perch and pickerel, ten eans of the smaller
fish being put in nearby streams, while
the larger ones were taken by residents of
the town.
—The collection boxes in the Greek
Catholic church at Osceola were robbed of
their contents the other ovening. The
finding of a locket containing the pictures
of a man and woman may throw some
light on the question as to who are the
guilty parties.
—John Augustine, a resident of Portage,
paid $201.94 for a bowl of soup the other
day. The soup was made af 116 birds trap-
ped on a Sunday. The birds cost him $160;
he paid $25 for the privilege of hunting on
Sunday, while the costs of prosecution
amounted to $16.94.
—Local Methodists are planning to at-
tend the Woman’s Home Missionary con-
vention of the Central Pennsylvania con-
ference which will be held in the First
church, Altoona, October 31, November 1
and 2. The wife of Bishop Thirkield will
be one of the speakers.
—James Moore, a resident of Curwens-
ville, aged 55 years, committed suicide last
Friday by throwing himself between two
freight cars on the New York Central rail-
road. His death wes instant, as his neck
was broken. Long continued ill health
probably led to the rash act.
—In the absence of Mr. and Mrs. Frank ~
B. Reed, of Clearfield, who had gone to
Washington, D. C., on a brief visit their
beautiful home was damaged by fire on
Wednesday morning, October 18, to the
amount of over $8000. The fire caught
from an open hearth on the second floor.
—The New York and Pennsylvania com-
pany, of Johnsonburg, paper manufactur-
ers, are drilling 100 wells to supply water
for their plant and to prevent the danger
of another water famine. Nineteen wells
have been drilled. The wells will yield
20,000,000 gallons daily. The river supply
is also used.
—Brant Mengle, teacher of Beaver
school. near Reward, Perry county, closed
his school as usual last Monday evening
and went to the home of bis parents with
whom he boarded. He ate his supper,
walked out to the barn and disappeared.
Since that time nothing has been heard
from or about him.
—There are discouragements
line of business. Thus, Joe Harvey, a
truck farmer and chicken raiser living
near Lock Haven, discovered last Satur-
day morring when he went to feed his
flock that some light-fingered scoundrel
had been there some time during the night
in every
and carried thirty chickens with bim
when he left.
—Mrs. Nancy Gearhart, of Altoona,
through her attorney, John F. Sullivan,
entered a trespass suit in Blair coun-
ty court, against the Altoona and Logan
Valley Electric Railway company, to re-
cover damages in the sum of $2500, as
reparation for injuries alleged to have
been received at the hands of the defend-
ant company.
—Shooting a bear that had geen in-
vestigating his pig pen, Ellery Harer, a
Lycoming county firmer, was attacked by
the wounded animal. The bear bit and
chewed the man’s right arm from the
shoulder to the hand. Ammon Harer,
brother of Ellery, rushed to his rescue
with an ax, but Bruin was shot and
killed by Samuel Keefer, a neighbor.
—As two small beys were in the act of
driving their parents’ cows out of the pas-
ture, near Howard, Centre county, a few
evenings ago a rapidly driven motor car
came along and knocked one of the animals
over, killing her instantly. The automo-
bile stopped with the cow’s body resting
under it, all the wheels off the ground.
None of the inmates of the car were hurt.
——Philip Vitella, aged 29 years, an
Italian miner living at Herminie, West-
moreland county, was called out of his
home at 6:30 Wecnesday evening by a
strange fcreigner who said he was wanted
at the house of Charles Calerm, a neigh-
bor. Just as he was entering Calerm’s
house he was shot, the bullet entering his
head back of an ear, killing him instantly.
The unknown escaped.
—A bright and shining $20 goldpiece, a
relic of the Johnstown flood and which
for twenty-seven years lay deep in the
ground along the Conemaugh river at
Woodvale, was uncovered Saturday by a
workman. He found it three feet below
the river level while engaged in building
a wall. The Italin who found the gold-
piece hurried to the bank and deposited
the coin, evidently fearing that some sur-
vivor of the flood might appear and lay
claim to it.
—The big barn on the Walker estate
just east of the old fair grounds, Wil-
liamsport, was totally destroyed by fire
early last Tuesday evening. All the con-
tents, farming implements of all descrip-
tions and 57 head of stock, including
horses, cows and pigs, were destroyed.
The personal property belonged to Daniel
Kavanaugh, but the farm was sold a few
days ago to a trust company, acting as
trustee for some unnamed person. The
loss of $20,000 is said to be covered by in-
surance,
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