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.
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—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.
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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
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| 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.
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—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.
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____“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.