$ Boma. BY P. GRAY MEEK INK SLINGS. | 3 | —God be praised! The end of the war is in sight. ! —It didn’t snow the next day, but there was an awful frost in the morn- ing. If Roosevelt doesn’t get some part in the peace program he will bite | himself. | —As usual the Republicans voted ! straight and, as usual, the Democrats | did the cutting. —Anyway the good roads amend- ment carried in Centre county and in the State as well. —The whole trouble seems to have been that the Republicans didn’t know that politics were adjourned. —The Suffragists broke even in the elections in the country on Tuesday. They won two States and lost two. —Germany has surrendered. The | armistice is signed. Fighting has ceased on all fronts. Glory be to God! —Let us all stop figuring out how | it happened and put the big united ' war work drive over the top next! week. —Bellefonte voted dry on Tuesday | but the wets will come into their own! today at noon when the flu ban will be lifted. Senator Sproul is entering up- ; on a new line of troubles. He will! have to reconcile his pledges, actual | or implied, to the Prohibitionists and the liquor dealers. —The “Watchman” was the first | | ditions, STAT E RIGHTS AND NION. EDERAL U VOL 63. BELLEFONTE, PA. NOViMBER 8, 1918. NO. 44. Result of the Election. | The result of the election in Penn- | sylvania is disappointing to many Democrats but hardly surprising. | The campaign opened auspiciously. : During the primary contest the Re- ! publican factions fought with unex- ampled bitterness. On the other hand the contest for the favors of the Dem- ocratic party was courteous though earnest. The candidates nominated had every reason to look forward to a cordial acquiescence in the verdict of the voters. But this just expecta- tion was not fulfilled. The chairman of the Democratic National committee who tried to inject into the prelimi- nary contest an element of bitterness organized a rebellion against the suc- cessful candidate which made victory practically hopeless. In the face of these adverse con- however, Judge Bonniwell, our nominee for Governor, entered up- on a contest with his Republican op- ponent for the office with much vigor and abundant promise. But the fa- vorable indications which encouraged him and deceived his friends were paper in Centre county to bulletin the | misleading. The promises of repen- cessation of hostilities, as it is the | tance made freely were betrayed. first paper in the county to give all | Philadelphia bowed to the mandates “mil the worth while news. —Harvey polled 129 more votes on , Tuesday than Scott received when | running for the same office two years | ago, while Noll had 1799 votes less | than were cast for Gardner in 1916. | —Bonniwell carried sixteen pre- | cincts out of sixty-two in the county ! and tied three. Noll carried fourteen | and tied two. Tobias carried twenty- | three and Savage carried the same number. —Comparing the vote on Lieuten- ant Governor on Tuesday with that of Auditor General two years ago it would appear that there were 507 Re- publicans and 1323 Democrats who did not go to the polls on Tuesday. —This thing of swivel-chair politi- cians setting up candidates for office in Centre county got a quietus on Tuesday that will remind them that it takes votes, not hope, to elect men these days. .—It is said that Kaiser Karl, of ia, Will nefuse fo sign the sur. io “Bat if Karl g coming to him he will sink to a great- er depth of humility before he is much older. —1It looks as if the Republicans have been just sitting around wait- ing until the Democrats get all the hard work of the war cleaned up and all of a sudden made up their minds to get in and steal the thunder and plunder too. —Centre county has left no ground for argument as to where she stands on the wet and dry issue. The vote on Tuesday suggests the thought that we ought to congratulate Mr. Harvey on being the new Member from the county of Sahara. —The German acceptance of the al- lied terms for an armistice does not mean final peace. She may not ac- cept the peace terms laid down for her to sign and elect to fight on, but we are of the opinion that when fight- ing ceased at 2 o’clock yesterday the war was ended. —The churches will all be open again on Sunday. If you realize what the wonderful news we received yes- terday means to the world you will be in one of them Sunday morning thanking God, with a ferver you nev- er knew before that the end of the horrible conflict is apparently in sight. ——Kaiser Bill, according to pub- lished statements, has converted sixty of his palaces into hospitals. But that is no great sacrifice. He is not likely to need palaces now that the war is practically over and as the al- lies don’t shoot up hospitals he will have them for speculative realty op- erations in the future. —The vagaries of the Centre coun- ty voting are beyond analysis. In some precincts Noll was cut presuma- bly because he was supposed to be wet, while Bonniwell, who was wet- ter still, polled nearly the normal par- ty vote and Tobias and Savage, who had the endorsement of the temper- ance people ran behind Bonniwell. —The studes upat State have started the united war work drive off with a pace that will keep the rest of the county stepping some to equal, but surely forty-one thousand people are not going to let two thousand col- lege boys have anything on them. Let’s go to it next week and fight, fight, fight, to beat the blue and white. — Criticism of the clergy of the county for having taken a hand in Tuesday’s fight was to have been ex- pected, but it is very unjust. The “Watchman” has always taken the ground that temperance is a moral, not a political, issue, but if the cler- gy saw it in a different light, as pre- sented in the campaign just closed, it country can-be benefitte “what is | would have been untrue to itself and | stultified its sacred calling had it not | fought and fought hard. Men with | real convictions and the courage to! stand for them command the respect ! of fair minds always. of the Vares and the element upon which he largely depended failed to keep faith in all sections of the State. Probably the candidate himself is not blameless. He placed too much con- | fidence in a contingent that is mer- cenary at best and exploited an ele- ment not entirely dependable. It is not certain at this writing which party will control the next Con- gress though the Republicans gained in both branches. The Democratic majority in the present Congress is meager though ample to uphold the President’s wise policies with respect to the conduct of the war. The friends of Woodrow Wilson still con- fidently claim that his party will hold this advantage though with a weak- ened force while the Republicans claim a reversal. Only the official count will determine the facts as to this but it may be said that if the Re- publican claim be established it will be a public calamity and a national menace. Only the enemies of a n ULC German Character Revealed. The real Hun character is clearly revealed in a note made public by the State Department at Washington, the other day. Ever since the beginning of the war the policy of the German government has been ruthlessness. Air crafts have devastated London, France and other cities of the Allied : countries from the first and with a high pressured and long range gun they have deliberately murdered wom- en and children in Paris. Frightful- : ness was their favored method of war- | fare. Next to shooting up churches ' and hospitals and torpedoing unarm- ed ships the killing of old men and women and innocent children gave them the greatest pleasure. But that was before their antagonists were equipped for taking reprisals. Since the American 2ir craft has been operating among them, however, they have changed their tune. Re- cently they have discovered that the air craft of the Allies not only great- ly outnumber theirs but in power, speed and efficiency are greatly su- perior and they want to stop that sort of warfare. It is only just to the Al- lied airmen to say that they have at- tacked civilian communities only in | few instances. But enough of this sort of war work has been done to admonish the Huns of their power and possibilities and as a result the German government has set up a squeal that would do credit to a Phil- adelphia piggery. The note in ques- tion is a statement that Germany abandoned that sort of warfare on October 1, and asks that the Allies discontinue it also. If the German high command had the advantage of air craft war opera- | tions there would be no plea for abatement. The Zeppelins and other overhead instruments of destruction would continue to drop bombs and dis- | tribute death as they have been do- ing. But they have been overreached in every respect and now they come to Washington begging in the name of humanity and the interest of civil- ization that air craft operations be limited to “important hostile military objects.” Possibly this craven appeal for mercy will be complied with for the Allied forces are not made up of barbarians. But the condition should be that those of the German forces responsible shall be amply punished after peace is made. { | 1 Of all public men in need of . popular sympathy William Howard Taft is the foremost. At the behest of a party machine he stultified a splendid record by joining in an un- patriotic crusade against the Presi- dent during the last week of the cam- paign. For high class Job Work eome to the “Watehman™ MN Mes - tion on the Secretary of War and in- , timated that Henry Ford is not as pa- , industry are condemned in the report : partments under control of the admin- | istration is even aspersed. The con- : Hughes and that of the Senate com- "ed in the same way though neither of ‘cost. We are now building air ships of time. dicate and it is certain that if he - doesn’t he will be pushed out. ' ness his motto in war. Autocracy in Pennsylvania. When the Health Board of the State was created several years ago the “Watchman” called attention to its vast possibility for evil. It put in | the hands of the Commissioner pow- | ers greater than are possessed by any | prince or potentate in the civilized world. It authorized the creation of an army of office holders amounting to nearly one hundred thousand. It. authorized the Commissioner to send his emissaries, mostly political lame ducks, into the homes of the citizens to search their closets and uncover their secrets. This invasion of the rights of the people was justified by those responsible for it on the ground that it was necessary to conserve the public health. Fortunately Governor Pennypacker selected for this important office a man big enough and broad erough to take the good out of it and avoid the | evil. The late Dr. Dixon was the first Commissioner and he organized the Department with the view to promot- ing the public interests rather than building up a political machine. No doubt those who conceived the enter- prise and created the opportunity were disappointed in the result of their achievement. But that made no difference to Dr. Dixon. He didn’t so- licit the appointment and only accept- ed it on the condition that he be per- mitted to exercise a free hand in con- ducting the Department and make it a source of good rather than of evil. But we are getting the other side of it now and the city of Lancaster is reaping the harvest of evil which this newspaper pointed out as possi- ble more than a dozen years ago. No doubt the Acting Commissioner thought he was performing a public service when he closed up the schools, the churches, the saloons and forbid the meeting of men in groups while the influenza was raging, and proba- bly good results followed his action. But when he quarantined an entire community, embracing a city of 60,- 000 inhabitants out of pure spite be- | cause his authority was disputed, he committed an act which was reprehen- sible viewed from any possible angle. We shall watch the outcome with in- ort of Justice Hughes. The report of former Justice: Hughes upon the operations of the air craft activities is exactly what might have been expected. Mr. Hughes is capable, honest and in the main fair. But he is a Republican and his party managers looked for a report which would spread all kinds of blame over the administration. He didn’t fulfill such expectations, however. He said what might be construed as a reflec- triotic as he might be. But he fully exculpated the administration from blame and plainly declared that the operations of the bureau, in so far as they were under control of the Presi- dent, are without suspicion. A few of those who were connected with the early work of the air craft but none of them is a Democrat and all within the censure are Republi- cans. Colonel Deeds is denounced as in violation of the penal provisions of the law and court martial is recom- mended in his case. One or two other military officials are charged with participation in the profits of delay and waste. But no appointee of the President is touched with the scan- dal and no attache of any of the de- trast between the report of Mr. mittee is marked and significant. The Senate committee wanted to condemn the administration. There was a lot of waste in the pre- liminary operations of the air craft construction. It was a new industry not only in this country but every- where and experimentation was ex- pensive. England and France suffer- those governments undertook the work on so extensive a scale. But in the end the result has justified the not only in large quantities but of the greatest excellence and our motors which cost so much in money and nearly all there was in blame, are proving the finest in the world. Like in all other war preparations we have performed marvels in a brief period The members of the Reichstag must have a grudge against the Kai- ser. That body refuses to let him ab- If former Ambassador Gerard feels inclined he is at liberty to as- sure the Kaiser that America has no intention of handing him nonsense. It would be difficult to imagine what the Kaiser thinks of the fellow who advised them to make frightful ——Subseribe for the “Watchman.” ful, 9. | bles. We Have Lost Congress. Elections cn Tuesday Disastrous to Democracy. SENATE STILL IN DOUBT. The elections all over the country on Tuesday have resulted in disaster to the Democratic party. Up to a late hour last night the control of the next Congress was still in doubt with the chances favoring | the Republicans having a safe work- | ing majority. The Senate will be very close and | Democratic national headquarters | have not given up hope of retaining . control of that body. On the returns at hand, the House figures were: Republicans, 229; Democrats, 196; Socialists, 1; doubt- A majority is 218. i In the Senate the returns showed: | Republicans, 47; Democrats, 46. ! The exact results of yesterday's: elections will not he known for sever- | al days. It will require the official | count to clear up some contests. But, | ‘from news received at Democratic and | Republican headquarters it seems cer- | tain the Republicans have won the! Senate and House and will reorganize them when the next Congress assem- | In Centre county there was an ava- | i i | lanche of votes against all of the Dem- | ocratic nominees. Wet and dry can- | didates alike suffered the same fate. ! The voters didn’t seem particular about differentiating between them. | All they seemed to want was a crack at anybody on the Democratic ticket. | About the only thing that regular Democrats supported in the county that wasn’t beaten was the good roads ; amendment and it carried by 833 in! the county and over 200,000 in the! State. | Tobias made the best run of all the : Democratic aspirants in’ the county, | but he lost it by 756, whereas the ma- | jority against him two years ago was | only 217. He is defeated for Con- though he carried his own county of | Clearfield by 105. Matt Savage is defeated for Sena- i tor in the district; having lost Centre PENNSYLVANIA. ! The majority of William C. Sproul , for Governor of Pennsylvania will: probably reach 250,000, the record for | a candidate for Governor. All of the Republican State ticket has been | elected. We elected only four State Senators so that the new Senate will be composed of 40 Republicans and 7 emocrats. The House will be 168 Republicans and 19 Democrats. In the Congressional contests in the State the election of several Demo- crats to Congress will hinge on the soldier vote. In the Sixteenth district John V. Lesher has only 147 votes lead over his Republican opponent Albert W. Duy, though Lesher’s friends say the soldier vote yet to be heard from will be favorable to him. John J. Casey Democrat is proba- bly elected over Edward H. Carpen- ter, in the Luzerne district, though the official count and the soldier vote will be needed to determine the result. In the Tenth district John R. Farr, Republican, has been defeated for a fifth term by Patrick McLane, Dem- ccrat, by 145 votes, In the Greene, Fayette, Somerset district Bruce F. Sterling, Democrat, has apparently lost his seat in Con- gress to Samuel A. Kendall, Republi- can, by 333 votes. We have won the thirteenth, twen- ty-sixth, Twenty-ninth, Thirtieth, Thirty-first and Forty-second dis- tricts, giving the Democrats of Penn- sylvania eight of the thirty-six seats Pennsylvania has in Congress. Judge William D. Porter has been elected to the Superior court. For the Supreme court bench Judge John W. Kephart and Justice Alex- ander Simpson Jr. have been chosen. Both are Republicans and this is the first time in the history of the Su- preme bench that a Democrat has not had a seat thereon, thanks to the dickery of the non-partisan judiciary aw. NEW YORK ELECTS A DEMOCRATIC GOVERNOR. New York has elected Alfred E. Smith, Democrat, over Governor Whit- man, Republican, who was running for re-election by about 15,000 major- ity. All of New York city’s Congres- sional delegation is Democratic. Wom- en voted for the first time at a gener- al election but the effect of their vot- ing has not yet been analyzed. OHIO HAS ELECTED A DEMOCRATIC GOVERNOR AND GONE DRY AGAIN. Cox, Democrat, has been re-elected in Ohio and after a very close fight the dry’s have succeeded in carrying the State again. MASSACHUSETTS ELECTS A DEMO- CRATIC SENATOR. Massachusetts has repudiated Sen- ator John W. Weeks, one of the most persistent opponents of the Presi- dent in the Senate, and chosen for- mer Governor Walsh, Democrat to take his place. Henry Ford has probably been beat- en for the U. S. Senate in Michigan but the result is still in doubt. His managers state that they will demand a recount if the majority against him is anything less than 10,000. —~Subscribe for the “Watchman.” ‘ turns left the result somewhat throughout the State. t by 8 ccf Coll SUFFRAGISTS BREAK EVEN IN ELEC- TION. Washington, Nov. 6.—Suffragists seem to have broken even in the elec- ! tion, victories in Michigan and South Dakota being offset by decisive de- feats in Oklahoma and Louisiana. The result in Michigan, where the most important contest was schedul- ed, was in doubt until virtually all the . districts were heard from. Suffrage ; seems to have been carried in that State by from 10,000 to 15,000 major- ity. A suffrage victory also is conceded South Dakota, although earlier re- doubt. m Oklahoma rejected suffrage defi- ' nitely and decisively, as did Louisiana. Another blow was the rebuke ad- ministered to the two women candi- dates for the United States Senate— Anne Martin, in Nevada, and Jean- nette Rankin, in Montana. Both ran last and far behind. DRYS VICTORS IN SIX STATES, LOSE THREE. Washington, Nov. 7.—Virtually complete returns indicate that pro- hibition has been indorsed by six States and rejected by three. . The most spectacular campaign was in Ohio, where it looked for a time as if the “wet” sentiment in Cincinnati and Cleveland would prove too heavy a handicap for the “drys” to carry. As the rural districts reported, how- ever, the “wet” majority was wiped out. With 4825 and 5756 precincts heard from the vote was: For pro- hibition, 381,425; against, 378,069. As most of the remaining precincts were rural and “dry,” passage of the amendment was generally conceded. Florida went dry without an effort, but the effect of prohibition in that State will be largely figurative. Under the present local option law sale of Tieyor is permitted in only two coun- ies. Washington voted for prohibition and so did Wyoming, the “drys” in the latter State outnumbering their opponents by nearly 2 to 1. Dry majorities in Minnesota and Nevada were small, and the “wets” still hope remaining returns will up- set them, As the “wet” centers are all in, however, their chances are Te- | gress in the district by 2000 or more, | garded as slight. Missouri clung in the “wet” column after a bitter fight, in which a “wet” majority of 75,000 in St. Louis more than offset the dry majorities on by decitive marie Bellefonte Celebrates = Cessation of Hostilities. Within fifteen minutes after: the “Watchman” had flashed its bulletin that hostilities had ceased at 2 o’clock yesterday afternoon fire whistles, fac- tory whistles, church bells and every conceivable noise making device was in blast; crowds were parading the streets and the makings of a great bonfire were placed in the Diamond. Up to the time of going to press last evening the crowds were still celebrating, parades were marching and soap-box orators were having the time of their lives. Austria and Turkey Out of It. The unconditional surrender of the armies of Austria-Hungary following closely upon the similar yielding of Turkey to the inevitable narrows the war area to the German forces. Aus- tria began the war and held to the purpose of establishing the Hohenzol- lern dynasty over Europe as long as there was a shadow of hope of that achievement. But exhausted in re- sources, reduced in spirit and on the verge of collapse morally and physic- ally, she was finally obliged to give up and upon any conditions the suc- cessful enemy might lay down. Her future is problematical but the signs indicate that the dual government will disintegrate and out of the de- bris may come half a dozen small bu sensible governments. Fos Under the program laid down by President Wilson last year and cordi- ally accepted by our Allies in the war, none of the existing governments may be eliminated in the adjustment of af- fairs after the war and it may be as- | sumed, therefore, that even Turkey will be permitted to reconstruct a government at Constantinople. But her reign of ruin and saturnalia of crime against dependent people will be stopped and Armenia and other christian peoples will be permitted to follow their religious convictions. Government in Europe as well as in America will be of the people, for the people and by the people and civil and religious liberty will prevail throughout the civilized world. Standing alone Germany will not stand steady or long. The indications of a crumbling dynasty are already revealing themselves. The false and fraudulent superman will acknowl- edge the facts reluctantly but he will be forced to acknowledge them and may be compelled to take punishment under the laws for the crimes for which he is responsible. It is a fit conclusion of the greatest atrocity of all time. There will be no necessity for reprisals, no occasion for resent- ments. But there must be just repa- ration for the injuries inflicted and the damages perpetrated wantonly. This will be punishment enough for the people who cheerfully participat- ed in the crimes. = SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. —Robbers returned by mail $2060 worth of revenue stamps they had stolen from Eisenlohr’s cigar factory, East Greenville, the package showing an Allentown post- mark. —A curtain of blankets hung from the roof and kept saturated with water saved the sole remaining dwelling in the hamlet of Merrittstown when fire wiped -out prac- °* tically the whole village. —When the Lehigh county civil court closed a three days’ session, Frank Med- lar, one of the jurors, refused his three days’ pay—$7.50—declaring he had a good time, so the money was turned over to the Red Cross. -—Hseaping from the Uniontown hos- pital twice in two days and attempting suicide twice within a few hours, Joseph Colts is recovering from a wound, from ear to ear, caused when he attempted to hang himself. —It is estimated that the Men’s club of the Westminster Presbyterian church, of West Chester, has picked over 800 barrels of apples the present season, or 2500 bush- * els, in the orchards of A. Darlington Strode, East Bradford. —William Stellar, of South Philipsburg, an esteemed resident of that community and a well known coal miner was instant- ly killed at 7:30 o'clock last Thursday morning when he was caught under a fall of rock at the Hillside mine of the Mo- shannon Coal company. —George D. Robb has been principal of the Altoona High school 25 years. He was born in Centre county and was grad- uated from Franklin and Marshall Col- lege, Lancaster, in 1891. He was elected assistant principal of the Williamsport High school, remaining there two years. —Miss Grace Sweigert, aged 15, who lives with her father on Blue Rock farm, East Bradford, Chester county, is a real farmerette. Hach morning and evening she milks eight cows and drives with the milk to the creamery, several miles away. One day recently she also husked forty- four shocks of corn. —Closing months of the year do not seem to have brought any diminution in the number of licenses for the sale of ole- omargarine at the dairy food commis- sion’s office and in spite of the fact that more than 4,500 had been issued to Octo- ber 1st, there were 634 sent out from the office during October while 154 appications have been filed for short term licenses be- tween November 1 and December 1. —John Hess, of near Lititz, has the largest crop of turnips raised in that sec- tion for many a day. He has seventeen acres of them which are now matured and figures on getting a thousand bushels, judging from those already taken out. He planted them early in August and moisture conditions were favorable for a quick growth, producing a crisp, good eating turnip. He has an offer to ship a carload to Philadelphia. The seed was planted with a clover seeder early in Au- gust. —Records given out by the health au- thorities show that 272 people of Hazle- ton died from the influenza during the past month. At the same time sixty-five persons were claimed by the plague in Hazle township, and adjoining districts, making a total of 337. This is the largest death rate that has ever occurred within a similar period in the history of the Ha- zleton region. There has been a notable decrease in births, only 125 having been ‘reported since the first of the year.. The advent of cold weather has given the epi- demic _a knockout blow. : —Pennsylvania’s automobile license tags for 1919 will not only have a color scheme which will be materially different from that of former years, but will be changed in style, so that such practices as painting old tags with the colors of the current year, which had been reported from time to time, will be impossible to deceive. New tags are arriving at the State Highway Department by the thousands. They have the name of the State and the figure of the year with the soft metal Keystone for the manufacturer's number on the oppo- site side from those which have been in use in the last. few years. —While sawing a log from one of the hickory trees that stood in the Paxton Presbyterian church yard at Paxtang, Howard C. Fry found a round bullet deep- ly imbedded in the wood. The ball had every appearance of having been there for a long period, and as the trees are for the most part from 100 to 200 years old, the lead may have been fired into the tree by some early settler in search of game or in defense of his cabin against Indian attack. The bullet is perfectly round and of a cal- ibre not used for many years. It was used in the very old style muzzle-loading rifles in vogue before the breech-loader came into use. —The Public Service Commission has imposed upon the Lewistown and Kisha- coquillas Turnpike company operating in Mifflin county, a fine of $50 for each of twenty-eight days, October 1 to 28, inclu- sive, for failure to carry out the orders is- sued by the Commission January 8 to place and maintain six miles of toll roads adjacent to Reedsville in good repair. The complaints were filed by doctors A. S. Harshberger, of Lewistown, and C. J. Stambaugh, of Reedsville, who charged that although heavy tolls were being col- lected from the public, the roads and bridges were not being kept in adequate condition to meet the needs of the travel- ing public. —Last week Sheriff Marvin G. Mayes, of Jefferson county, went into one of the dis- tricts of the county to serve an execution for a small account. Going to the house of a neighbor he asked where the party he was looking for lived, and was shown. The sheriff understood that there had been much sickness in that community and ask- ed if there was any sickness at the home of the man he proposed to visit. It was found that a boy had died that day and another of the children was very low; a child had been born in the night before, and the wife was ill. That was enough for Sheriff Mayes. He never went near the house, but hopped into his automobile and hastened back to Brookville. —The oldest farm in Clearfield county is said to be located at Luthersburg, Bra- dy township. It is the old Woodside place and at present is owned by L. B. Carlisle. The farm was settled in 1785 by James Woodside, an eccentric bachelor, and is lo- cated within a half mile of the village of Luthersburg, which forty years ago was one of the principal trading points in that part of the State through which the stage line from Tyrone, Bellefonte, Clearfield and other points passed to Erie. Some of the early deeds for property in DuBois call for lots “situated on the public road between Luthersburg and Brockwayville.” The Woodside farm was a marvel in its day, being the first to be hewn from the woods. It is today one of the best and most productive farms of the community and a landmark referred to with interest.
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