BY P. GRAY MEEK. INK SLINGS. — It’s all over but counting the votes. — Don’t bust up the good times. Vote for Wilson. — Wilson has been everybody's President. Everybody should vote for him. — Vote for Tobias for Congress and send a man to Washington who will stay on the job. — Why send Harry Scott back to the Legislature? He didn’t do any- thing, that we can recall, to merit his return. — The Democrstic ticket offers the best chance to the voter to get the best results in the County, State and Nation. — Hon. Ellis L. Orvis is our home candidate for United States Senator. Let us stick up for Centre county and give him a great vote. —If you are grateful to President Wilson for having kept your boy in peaceful pursuits and out of warfare, vote for him next Tuesday. The Hughes meeting in Belle- fonte, Tuesday night was a whale, but it was just like Hughes. All iin horns, noise and speeches that spoke nothing. — Hon. Ellis L. Orvis is just as well qualified to represent us in the United States Senate as his opponent, and we know him. Let us give him a rousing vote in Centre county. —If this country gets into war Hovenden’s famcus picture, “Break- ing Home Ties” will be enacted all over the land. Vote for Wilson. He is trying to keep us out of war. —Congressman Rowland has only toyed with the office we gave him two years ago. Let us give it to a man who will appreciate the honor and treat it seriously. Vote for Tobias. —— When Hughes was Governor of New York he vetoed the two-cen* railroad fare bill. He also vetoed the bill to give women scheol teachers the same pay as men for the same work. — Germany makes slow progress against France, Russia and Great Britain. But when she sets herself to destroy a small power like Belgium, Serbia or Rumania sh moves rapidly. Permit us to remark that Na- tional chairman Vance C. McCor- mick will be able and willing to pay any judgments which mercenary Jer- ‘emiah O’Leary happens to get against him. : — There has been no back way inte President Wilson's office; no “invisible government.” He has been the Presi- dent of all the people and for all the people. Keep hire in Washington four years more. — We venture that not ten people in Centre county know Philander C. Knox. Wverybody knows Hon. Fllis L. Orvis. Let us vote for the man we know and send him to the United States Senate. Hughes has finally declared against the hyphenates but he waited until after his conference with Jere- miah O’I eary who probab'v consent- ed to the little deception “for th: good of the cause.” — Victor Murdock, of Kansas, chairman of the Progressive National committee, has publicly announced that he will support and vote for Wilson. It took him a good while to make up his mind but Vic. is a cau- tious creature and likes to be on the winning side. —The State of Pennsylvania made a law compelling all employers of la- bor to pay at least twice a month. It hasn’t paid some of its own employees in Centre county once in‘two months Vote for Cramer, for State Treasurer, and Murrin, for Auditor General, and make an end of such business. —Dr. Dixon has dug up still anoth- er bogie-man for us. Sagodakwus is the name of the old fellow who will get you, if you eat too much. How dare Dr. Dixon telk of anyone eating too much when eggs, potatoes, flour and pork are all almost as high as meat was when the cow jumped over the moon. —Next Tuesday the Prohibition folks will have their chance to show whether they vote as they pray. Many of them have confessed that they don’t do it, as a rule. If they don’t vote for Gardner for the Legislature, next Tuesday they ought to be asham- ed to bend their knees in prayer that night. Gardner is for Prohibition. Scott is not. —Remember that a vote in the “Prohibition” square on your ballot will not count as a vote for Mitchell I. Gardner, for the Legislature. He is running on the Democratic and local option ticket, but as the Local Option party has no party square you must either vote a straight Democratic ticket or mark in the square opposite his name if you want to vote for him. STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL VOI. 6). NO. 43. Three Infamous Lies. From the beginning this campaign has been, on the Republican side, one of vituperation. As the end approch- es it has been changed to a campaign of mendacity. Three malicious lies have been issued within ten days and each has been endorsed by the Repub- lican candidate for President. First came the lie that Secrteary of War Baker had corapared the Continental army at Valley Forge to the Mexican banditti under Villa; Senator Lodge’s infamous lie that President Wilson had prepared a postseript to one of his notes to Ger- many assuring that government that the note in question dicn’t mean what it said and finally it was said that Cabrera, one of the Mexican Peace Commissioners, had said that the American authorities are to blame for the bad conditions on the border It would be difficult to determine which of these three lies is the most atrocious though that one relating to the postscript is easily the most sur- prising because it emanates fron» a source from which such things are not expected. Senator Lodge. of Massa- chusetts, 2 man who sets himself up as a standard of honor, is resporsible for it. At the critical time the note in question was prepared, Senator Lodge, as senior minority member of the Senate committee on Foreign Re- lations, was invited to the conferences at the White House and taken into the confidences of the President, and must have known that the statement for which he is responsible was a deliber- ate and malicious lie. But he put himself behind it, nevertheless, and thus wrote himself down as a con- temptible liar. Secretary Baker has proved beyond even the shadow of a doubt that the lie against him was absolutely without foundation in fact and Mr. Cabrera declares that “the statement purport- ing to be from me was not issued by me or given out with my knovleige or | consent.” But every pettvfogging stump speaker on the hustings, from Hughes down to the paid spell-binders of the Republican campaign are con- tinuing to use both falsehoods as rea- sons for voting against the President. Such a campaign can hardly win votes | for the Republican ticket. The voters are no longer ignorant and party prejudice is not as potent as it was before the development of the public schools. But Charles vans Hughes is living in a past age and his friends are in a state of hallucination. SOME EFFECTIVE WORK. In every election district there are a certain number of men entitled to vote who must be conveyed to the polls. This may be due to advanced age, impaired health or other causes. Some men, by nature of their employ- ment, must work until € o’clock in the evening. Make a list of all such and arrange to have them taken to the polls in time to vote. 1f you have an automobile you can do effective work by conveying such voters to the polls. If you have no automobile, there are plenty of loyal Democrats who can and wil! gladly supply one for just such work, if you only make your wishes known. That is the way to do effective personal work. —————————————— —The high prices of farm pro- ducts make short crops profitable but that fact should not induce the farm- ers to limit planting in order to make crops short. Big crops are more prof- itable in all circumstances and they make for greater comfort and more enduring prosperity. WILLING WORKERS WANTED. You may not be able to make a po- litical ‘speech and you may not be able to make a contribution to the cam- paign fund, but you can do some ef- | fective personal work. How? See your neighbor and your friends at once, and urge them to go to the polls early on next Tuesday and vote for President Wilson and ihe entire Dem- ocratic ticket. Make a list of indifferent voters, see them personally Tuesday morning and accompany them to the polls. That is the kind of work that counts. Be a Willing Worker for Woodrow Wilson, next Tuesday. — Thus far calamity howling has not influenced Mr. Charles M. Schwab to stop preparing for big business in the future. Henry Ford is not great- ly discouraged either and Thomas A. Edison is expanding his facilities just as rapidly as he can. And these are successful men. then followed . BELLEFONTE. FA Why You Should Vote For Wilson. Because he has been President for four years and you have had splendid opportunity of learning just what kind of a Presi- dent he will make for four years more. ep ————————————— —————N—G—G—— Wilson. NOVEMBER 3, 1916. Because he has been unselfish, impartial, the foe of nothing honest and the uncompromising enemy of everything crooked. Because by his stand for the people he has made it impossi- ble for us to hear the wails of the widows and orphans and the groans of the wounded and dying in the trenches. Let those who want war vote for Hughes, while those who want peace vote for Because the country has never before known such an era of prosperity. Blame the Democratic party of the past if you will, with soup houses and hard times but you must give Woodrow Wilson, of the present, credit with having placed the horn of Because when he found that the pen would answer the same purpose as the sword he thanked God for the pen and used it in- stead of sending our fathers, our sons and our brothers to die in | | | plenty in the hand of every one. | | needless warfare. official life in Washington. citizen as of the wealthiest. selfish ends. and prosperity to America. Because he has exalted christianity in every act and phase of Because he has been right out in the open as our President. There have been no backstairs to his office, no “invisible govern- ment” to keep him from being just as considerate of the lowliest Because his administration has given to the country more actual remedial legislation than has ever before been written into the statutes in the same number of years. Because he has been the friend of all the people; the enemy of none but those who would pervert government to their own Because he has brought us safely through: four years of the most trying times in the history of our country he is more inti- mately acquainted with and better prepared to meet the emergen- cies that confront us than any man who could be put in his place. Because he has only just made a beginning of the big things he has in mind for this great country of ours. We could go on using up columns of space in presenting rea- son after reason why you should vote for Woodrow Wilson, but what's the use. If you are an honest man you will admit that every reason given above is true and that anyone of them ie suf- ficient to command your support foi the man-who has given peace i Variation is the Bugaboo. The bugaboo which the Republican managers most fondly cherish is given a new variation by the Socialist candidate for President, Allen ‘1. Benson. “When the Euro- pean war ceases,” Mr. Benson declar- : ed, in a speech delivered in Oklahoma, : the other day, “the money power now | controlling this nation will use the ‘army and navy to hold the trade we now enjoy.” That assertion fades the | feeble calamity howl of Candidate | Hughes out of sight. The idea that | crippled and pauperized Europe could | overwhelm ingenious and industrious America was too absurd to alarm any thoughtful man, but Mr. Benson’s ap- | prehensions are different. The army | and navy of the United States are | forces to be reckoned with. The trouble with Benson’s bugaboo is, however, that the sinister money power which the Populists used to and the Socialists still hold up before our 'affrighted eyes, no longer exists. | While Presidents like Roosevelt ad- | mitted the Fricks and Perkinses and | Garys through the back door into breakfast room conferences, the ' money power was a menace. But | that pernicious practice went out at | the back door of the White House as | Woodrow Wilson entered officially at | the front door, and the army and navy of the United States will have to be propelled by some other force to do | such wicked things as Mr. Benson imagines it will undertake. The | money power is as dead as Roosevelt | though it may not smell so bad. After the close of the European war | the belligerents who are now hacking each other to pieces will find plenty of | employment in rejuvenating their shattered systems and institutions and ‘will gladly welcome any help in this beneficent work from the United | States. But they will have neither | strength nor facilities to engage in a commercial war with this country | which will hold as much of the trade | it now enjoys as it car through the | ordinary commercial methods, sup- plemented by increased energy, better understanding with customers and vastly improved means of operation for which we are indebted largely to the wisdom and courage of Woodrow | Wilson, our masterful President. — This country has never had better times than it is now enjoying. Why change things? Vote for Wilson. Roosevelt’s Idea of Honor. An anonymous correspondent of the esteemed Philadelphia “Record” says, “how any sane American can repudi- ate the man who refuses to pick up a hat because it has been thrown into a cockpit, is a problem to me,” and “any man who calls Wilson a coward is a liar.” This expression was s.g- gested by the ravings of Roosevelt and others against the President be- American people are too proud to fight.” The correspondent was a stu- dent at Princeton University while the President was in control of that institution and knows him thorough- ly. “No President since the time of Lincoln and none before Lincoln,” he adds, “has done as much for the com- mon people as Woodrow Wilson.” Nobody but a professional traducer and an habitual scold “vould interpret Mr. Wilson’s statement that we “are too proud to fight,” as Roosevelt in- terprets it. What the President meant is that the American people are too proud to fight except for justice ana honor. The United States compose a great nation, strong in resources, in- defatigable in energy and powerful in purpose. But liberty and justice are the ideals which have gnided them from the beginning and every form of force aimed toward conquest or op- pression is abhorrent to the people who make this nation the great power it is. President Wilson meant that we are too proud to fight except for such ideals. It is no aspersion upen the charac- ter or courage of the Amreican peo- ple to say that they “are too proud to fight” for an injustice. They have never fought in such a cause and we sincerely hope never will. The only stain upon the escutcheon of the gov- ernment of the United States was put there by Roosevelt when he seized the canal zone from the Republic of Colombia and let “Congress talk of it afterward.” We didn’t fight on that occasion for the reason that Colombia was too feeble to put up a fight. But we stole the strip of land and the ad- ministration organized a revolution against the government we had wronged in order to avoid a fight. That is not the right way to maintain honor. e——————— —Centre “county should give Hon. Ellis’L. Orvis a rousing vote for Unit- ed States Senator. cause he said in a speech that “the! Sub Crisis Still to Come. : Washington Cor. New York Evening Post. | Nobody in the administration is dis- | posed to depreciate the seriousness of | the situation to the entire world at | this time. Tt would be difficult to in- | dicate fully the burden which is on ‘the President’s mind. But because they appreciate so frankly the dan- gers which hedge them around, the . men who are in charge of this coun- | try’s international policies are look- | ing with unclouded vision at the path | ahead. They are not chasing will-0’- | the-wisps, political bubbles of the mo- ‘ment. They are sticking close to the concrete, basie facts. They know, for example, that there lis no danger whatsoever of a resump- tion of the U-boat warfare for the | present. They know, too, that there iss { every prospect that the German chan- cellor will be able to abide by his pledges to the United States in the fu- ture. Not the less do they know that | yon Bethmann-Hollweg will meet the real submarine crisis in the spring. But that is six months away, and doubtless if such a crisis comes, ways will be found to meet it. It may be that this administration will not have 5 concern itself at all with the prob- em. In this connection, it is interesting to note that the President’s advisers consider that his influence in interna- tional affairs has been weakened ap- preciably by the imminence of the election. While confidence in the out- come is quite general among the small group close to Mr. Wilson, they are | free to confess that the possibility of his being relegated te private life, together with the whole corps of en- voys and ministers who serve him abroad, has an effect in foreign coun- tries. In the event of a Democratic victory at the polls, it is said, there was no doubt that Mr. Wilson’s pres- tige would be increased tremendously in Europe, no less, indeed, because of the fact that such an issue of the elec- tions would be treated by foreigners as an endorsement of his foreign pol- icy. Why She is for Wilson. Mrs. Joseph Fels in San Francisco Star. I am for Wilson because he is a real Democrat. That means that he is for his fellow-man at home and abroad. I am a German, and I do not nunier- stand how the Germans of this coun- ' try can fail to see that Mr. Wilson is their friend, just as he is the friead of i his fellow-man . in all countries... One | can always count on his impartiality ' —that he will not favor any particu- ilar one, because he favors all. We "can see by his acts that he really does | this; they may not always show fcrth | his intent; but if one waits long | enough, one finds that the true intent | and intelligence of the highest kind were there—an intent consonant with | love for humanity. His foreign poli- { cy alone would entitle him to re-elec- { tion. His internal policy, of course, | adds so much the more to his desira- | bility. What he has done gives us an earnest of what he will do, if one will | only use one’s own intelligence to see | through the mists engendered by the | present world situation. Put Democrats in ‘Congress. From the Johnstown Democrat. Every man who votes for W oodrow | Wilson for President should vote for ' the Democratic candidates for Con- | gress and for the Senate in his con- | gressional district and State. i Woodrow Wilson’s can.idacy today rests upon his record of progressive achievement and its guarantee to complete this reccrd by applying the new progressive laws fairly and effi- ciently. When you vote for Wilson you vote for his progressive policies and deeds. When you vote for members of Con- gress you should vote for men who (1) have voted for Wilson’s progres- sive policies and deeds and who (2) will vote in the House and Senate to support, carry out and carry on these progressive policies and deeds. - It was a Democratic Congress that put through the Record of Achieve- ment. Another Democratic Congress is absolutely necessary to continue, apply and complete the good work. i ie aime Repudiating the “Full Dinner Pail.” From the Philadelphia Record. Mr. Roosevelt had the time of his life in New Mexico with the hecklers. They asked him imperative questions and he hurled abusive replies at them. One man was unkind enough to refer to the panic while Mr. Roosevelt was President, and the ensuing depression, and Mr. Roosevelt shouted back at him: “I never asked you to vote for me on the ground that I would keep your belly full.” But that is a repu- diation of the “full dinner pail” as a Republican slogan. Evidently we must vote the Republican ticket to fill our bellies, and if we get only the east wind, console ourselves with the re- flection that we voted for righteous- ness, and vituals are not important. ——————————————— ____“Jim” Cramer, Democratic candidate for State Treasurer, isa railroad engineer, and a member of the labor organization. It ought not to be difficult for a man who is inter- ested in the advancement of labor’s interests, to choose between him and “Harmony” Kephart, Penrose’s han- dy man at Harrisburg. —President Wilson is a conscien- tious christian man. Vote for him. 'SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. —Ellis Artley, of Catawissa township, Columbia county, confidently expects to count 1,700 bushels of potatoes from a seven-acre lot, after they have been afl raised. —The store of the Mahoning, Supply company, at Eleanora, Jefferson courty, has been looted twice within the past month. The last time cash and goods val- ned at over $1,000 were taken. —Three little girls have been arrested in Jeannette charged with the theft of cloth- ing valued at $300 from the residence of Charles Shuey, of that town. They are aged respectively 11, 12 and 13 years. —Joseph W. VanHorn. a well known butcher and stock dealer, residing at Richfield. Juniata county. has been sent to the federal prison at Atlanta, Ga.. to serve a year and a day for having passed coun- terfeit money. —Some foreign miners whose home is near Latrobe are wanting to go to law with somebody because they found a dead snake in a keg of beer the greater portion of which had been consumed before the reptile was discovered. —Renovo folks believe the town has an opportunity to acquire two manufacturing plants, one employing 400 girls and the other 200, provided a sufficient number of girls can be found who will accept em- ployment in the factories. —Glenside is the name of Cambria coun- ty’s newest town. It is being built by the Glenside Coal company. The company will build forty houses at once. The Penn Central Light and Power company is now running its lines into the town. —Milford Wolf, a resident of Mill Hall, an employee of the Lock Haven paper mill, left his home last Thursday intending to go to his daily work. He was seized with a hemorrhage while on the way and died a few moments later. The man was forty- seven years old and leaves a wife and sev- eral children. —William H. Palmer, a Clearfield county man who had been arrested for wife deser- tion and sentenced to pay his wife and child $15 a month, and who not only re- fused to pay but also undertook to get be- yond the jurisdiction of the court, has been sent to the western penitentiary for twelve months by Judge Bell. —A Juniata county man was taken be- fore a justice of the peace the other day charged with threats against the life of his wife. The defendant admitted that he had beaten his wife twice with a buggy whip and his mother said she had once prevented him beating his wife, but “otherwise they lived happily.” —The 4,000 bituminous coal miners who recently quit work at eight mines belong- ing to the Rochester and Pittsburgh Coal and Coke company, in Jefferson county, have decided to place their grievances in the hands of a committee of eight and re- sume work, pending a settlement. Seven of the mines are already at work. —Clayton Jaeobs, aged 27 years, a resi- dent of Holsopple, Somerset county, is an inmate of Mercy hospital, Somerset coun- ty, suffering from injuries received when he fell from an apple tree, a distance of twenty feet, to the ground. As a result of the fall the man is paralyzed from the waist down and he probably injured his spine. —J. L. Goss, of Treaster valley, shot a young panther in the wilds of the Seven Mountains last Thursday. The animal was stalking a deer. when brought low, with. a charge of turkey shot at close range. This breed of animal has long since been almost extinct in this section of the State and mountain men are in a quandary as to where the cub came from. —“I wouldn't take a million dollars apiece for them,” declared James Kearaey, of Scranton, Friday evening, when he re- turned from his w vk as a painter and proudly gazed upon quadruplets two boys and two girls, with which his wife pre- sented him a short time before. Mr. and Mrs. Kearney also are the parents of twin girls born five years ago, and a son now three years of age. —While Newton Pryce, of Cambria - township, Cambria county, assisted by a force of neighbors, was engaged in thresh- ing in his barn a gasoline engine which furnished the motive power became over- heated and exploded, scattering fire all over the haymow. The barn and the crops it contained were entirely destroyed but the animals were rescued. The loss is be- tween $4,000 and $5,000, partially insured. —Irwin J. Henry, aged 45, residing at Herminie, Westmoreland county, rose one morning last week and went to his shop in the rear of his residence. When he failed to return his wife went in search of him and found him dead. A bucket had been set in the ground to catch flowing water from a spring and it is believed that Mr. Henry stooped to get a drink, fainted and fell head first into the bucket and in that position was drowned. —Mrs. Mary Bruey, aged 44, of Cross Creek township, Washington county, died in Mercy hospital, Pittsburgh, on Monday evening, of injuries received that morning when, it is alleged, her husband, Theophile Bruey, a farmer, attacked her with a corn cutter while she was milking a cow. Her daughter, Rosie, aged fourteen, who ran to her assistance and struck Bruey on the head with a club, was cut on one hand when her father, it is said, turned upon her. She is in Mercy hospital. Bruey is in jail. —EBarly in the hunting season, William Gordon, rollarman on the State roads, and John Gray, Sr., both of McConnellstown, were out hunting together. John saw Wil- liam’s moustashe, mistook it for a squir- rel and shot, sending several of the shot into his chin, one through the tongue and a few in his right wrist. Of course Mr. Gray was very sorry for what he had done and took his friend to Dr. Tussey’s office where the Doctor rendered surgical attention, but Gordon’s tongue swelled so that he couldn’t talk, and since then he has been receiving medical attention by a physician in Huntingdon. —Afer running through the house and striking her husband on the head with a poker, Mrs. Mary Verostek, aged 31, wife of Frank Verostek of Homestead, went out of the house and fell dead in the rear yard, Sunday night. Dr. BE. J. Jones of 348 east Thirteenth avenue, said the woman had evidently died of heart disease, super- jnduced by mental trouble. Mr. Verostek said his wife had been acting queerly all evening and that when he called for her to come downstairs she rushed down the stairs and beat hi. The Homestead po- lice are conducting an investigation. Mrs. Verostek leaves two children aged 4 and 6.
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