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INK SLINGS.
— Those who are in doubt about it
are informed that the country will
finally abolish daylight saving at one
o'clock a. m., Sunday, October 26th.
— The new moon is lying away!
round in the southern skies which
brings the comforting assurance, ac-
cording to the astrologists, that it is
to be a warm one.
— Centre county never has been
very strong for third term candidates
so it is only natural to presume that
she won’t be very strong for Bill
Brown for Recorder.
__Not to be outdone by classic Bos-
ton wild and woolly Omaha has gone
her one better in mob rule by trying
to burn her million dollar court house
and lynch her mayor.
Young Mr. Bullitt’s absurd
statement to the Senate committee a
few days ago appears to have missed
the mark. In other words it was
something of a “spent ball.”
__Let Democrats and Republicans
alike see to it that the three best men
are selected for County Commission-
ers. It is a business matter, pure
and simple, and let us treat it as such.
Hats off to William Henry Har-
rison Walker. Alone, he has secured
a worth while war trophy for Belle-
fonte and Centre county. Let’s send
him to Congress. He might spring
another surprise by dropping a pub-
lic building into our lap.
— The King and Queen of Belgium
will land in our country today, but the
illness of President Wilson precludes
a governmental reception in Wash-
ington so they will tour until Octo-
ber 24th, when it is hoped the Presi-
dent will have recovered sufficiently to
officially welcome them at the capital.
—No time should be lost in deport-
ing Emma Goldman and Alexander
Berkman. All of their time in this
country has been devoted to destruc-
tive propaganda. Both are the kind
of dogs that bite the hand that has
been feeding them and they should be
shipped whence they came with all the
dispatch that is possible.
— The Germans put Capt. Dick
Taylor into one of their awful pris-
ons and kept him there until the arm-
istice was signed. Let us go the
Huns one better and put Capt. Dick
into the Centre county jail and keep
him there for four years. Let us
give him a little pleasant prison ex-
perience to even up the suffering he
endured with his first one.
—The President’s break-down was
not unexpected. The wonder is that
he had the vigor to keep going as long
as he did. We venture that no man
in the world’s history has been under
the terrific strain that President Wil-
son has worked under for five years
without a moment's relief and it is
nothing less than remarkable that he
has been able to carry on as splendid-
ly as he has.
—Judge Buffington’s remarks about
William Zebulon Foster, the radical
leader of the steel strike, expressed
the view that every sane American
holds of such characters. But mere
deprecation of the revolutionary agi-
tation of such syndicalistic anarchists
and others of their ilk will do little
good. It seems to us that some law
with teeth in it could surely be found
and invoked to properly punish men
who are openly and avowedly against
the government.
— There is much talk of an early
attempt to resuscitate old John Bar-
leycorn. The wets are very hopeful
and the drys are satisfied that the
brewers big horses will never run
over this country again. The recent
agitation aroused because of uu sup-
posed statement by Secretary of War
Baker that the army is demobilized,
but the Secretary denies having made
such an assertion and contends that
the army will not be demobilized un-
til the last man who enlisted for the
the duration of the war has been dis-
charged.
It is none too early to discuss the
candidates for the various offices to
be filled in Centre county next month.
Remember, that under the new law
the actual campaign is only a little
over six weeks long. Prior to its en-
actment the voters had an entire sum-
mer during which to consider the
merits of the various nominees. With
so short a time the man who tries to
do the best for himself and his coun-
ty with his ballot needs be inquiring
right now as to the fitness of the men
who want to manage his public busi-
ness for him. You should not put it
off until election day and then vote on
impulse or what some one who has
an ax to grind tells you. Centre
county needs capable, honest officials
and you should be very discriminat-
ing in helping to pick them.
—How can anything else than a
spirit of unrest permeate the public
mind when Congress has done noth-
ing but carp and criticise throughout
the months of its session. If the
country ever needed reassurance. If
it ever needed an optimistic view
point. If it ever needed some con-
structive thought that would concen-
trate attention on the hopefulness of
the future. It has needed it through-
out the period of turmoil and uncer-
tainty since the armistice was signed.
Tt has had a right to expect some of
these from the men entrusted to
frame its laws in Washington, but
while we are all crying for bread
these pseudo-statesmen have noth-
ing to throw but stones. Good Lord
give us men. Give us men who will
rise above the sordidness of self-in-
terest, who will rise above the petty
claims of partisan politics and be men
long enough to still the unrest and
save the government.
VOL. 64.
Only One Way to Peace.
Are
“deaf, dumb and impervious to rea-
son?” The Republican leaders in the
Senate have not only set out to de-
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the people of this country |
feat an attempt to make war impos-
sible in the future but they are with |
equal zeal trying to force upon the
world at once another war more atro-
cious and destructive than that just
finished. In the amendment to the
treaty giving Shantung to China in-
stead of transferring Germany’s ledse
of that province to Japan, there are
concealed millions of germs of war.
Japan and Germany would have com-
mon cause against the United States
and in the absence of an agreement
as contemplated in the League of Na-
tions, every ally of Germany in Eu-
rope and Asia would be ready to fly
at our throats.
Are the people of the United States
in favor of peace or war? Senator
Lodge probably favors war because
many of his rich friends own muni-
tion plants or manufacture war ma-
terials. Senator Johnson probably
favors war because he hates Presi-
dent Wilson and imagines another
war would impair the influence of the
President upon world-wide public
sentiment. Senators Reed, of Missou-
ri, and Sherman, of Illinois, want war
for the reason that demagogues fare
better in war times than when peace
prevails. But the people who pay the
penalties of war, those whose sons
suffer the privations and distresses
of war, want peace and the pending
treaty and the proposed League of
Nations is the best promise of peace
available.
If the danger of another war were
not imminent in the event of the fail-
ure to ratify the peace treaty and the
covenant of the League of Nations
why should German statesmen so cor-
dially approve the opposition to the
ratification of the treaty? Every
speech of Lodge and Johnson and the
other opponents of the ratification is
printed in full in the German news-
papers and fulsomely praised as the
expressions of great statesmen. Ger-
many can see no merit in the argu-
ments of the President, no value in
the pleas of Hitchcock, Williams,
Robinson and Underwood; real states-
men and orators. They offer no com-
fort and make no appeal to Germany.
But the opponents of the treaty point
the way to German reprisals.
Reversing the action of the Peace
Conference on the Shantung provis-
ion would be an injustice and an in-
sult to Japan. China leased the prov-
ince and certain privileges to Germa-
ny. Japan drove Germany away and
acquired the lease by conquest. The
Peace Conference exacted a promise
from Japan that the property would
be restored to China, not at the ex-
piration of the lease, but as soon as
possible after the establishment of
peace. The Senate committee amend-
ment to the treaty giving the prov-
ince to China instead of Japan would
be unjustly depriving Japan of con-
quered property and aspersing her
character for fidelity to obligations.
Both are causes of war which Germa-
ny would freely fan into flame.
The late war was cruel beyond
comparison in the past. But such a
war as that thus provoked would be
infinitely more atrocious. Japan
just emerging from a state of barbar-
ism, and Germany schooled for years
in savagery, would wage such a war
as revolts the human mind to con-
template. Yet those who are oppos-
ing the ratification of the peace
treaty are inviting such a conflict for
the puerile reasons of selfishness and
revenge. Will fair minded American
citizens endorse such action or ap-
prove such a course? If not they will
join in a mighty protest that will call
the conspirators from their purpose.
There is only one way to secure peace
and that is by ratifying the treaty of
Versailles. :
The imminence of serious la-
bor troubles all over the country is a
striking reason why the covenant of
the League of Nations should be
promptly ratified and possibly is also
the principal reason why the Repub-
licans are delaying action.
— Senator Frelinghuysen blames
his ancestry for his present actions in
the Senate and the name indicates
that his ancestors would be highly
pleased with his efforts to prevent the
ratification of the peace treaty.
Trotsky says the war against
capitalism must be won in this coun-
try rather than in Russia. He has
probably discovered that there isn’t
much capital left in Russia and wants
to get where the getting is good.
— “Hot-air Hi” is alliterative and
somewhat appropriate as a pet name
for the California blatherskite, but
“Hungry Hi” fills the requirements
and it might be well enough to “let
well enough alone.”
—November 4th will reveal how
loyal the voters of Centre county are
to the men who have voluntarily
fought their battles. Surely they will
elect Capt. Dick Taylor to the office
of sheriff,
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE. PA.. OCTOBER 5, 1
PURELY A MATTER OF BUSINESS.
Of all the offices to be filled in Centre county on November 4th
there is only one which involves business management in the broad
sense. It is the office of County Commissioner. In every other office,
with the exception of that of the sheriff, the conduct is guided by set
rules, forms and customs from which the incumbent may not deviate.
The exception in the sheriff’s office is practically negligible for the
only initiative that official is permitted is in his police duty as the
chief custodian of the peace of the county.
Inasmuch as riot and mob
rule are scarcely conceivable in Centre county the initiative function
of the sheriff is also nil.
So we find that the only men who are guided by their own judg-
ment are the men who occupy the most important office in the county
as it relates to the pecuniary welfare of the tax-payer. There is no
law, no form, no set of rules to tell the County Commissioners how
much of our money they may take from us in taxes. There is no law,
no form, no set of rules to tell them how they may spend it after they
have taken it.
Generally speaking the whole matter is in their own hands, only
limited restrictions stand in the way of their collecting and disburs-
ing as they please. They can build and paint bridges, they can build
new roads and buildings, they can employ men and buy supplies ex-
travagantly without anything to hinder them except your vote when
they come up for re-election, but as the mischief could be carried on
for four years before you would get a chance to oust the makers of it
it scems to us that the better plan is to take no chances with uncer-
tainties and select men for this office who have the qualifications to
fill it.
There are four aspirants in the field, from whom three are to be
chosen. The question every tax-payer in the county should be asking
himself today is: What three?
Remembering that the men who will be chosen Commissioners
next month will collect from us in taxes over $100,000.00 and have
nothing but their own experience and good judgment to guide them
in spending this vast sum we should apply ourselves to the task of
discovering the three out of the four who give the greatest promise.
t is probably true that none of them has had experience in business
propositions quite so large as this, where they have been left entirely
to their own judgment. It is equally as true that Centre county has
had very few Commissioners with such experience prior to their elec-
tion. But men who have proven successful and competent in small
ways are invariably capable of larger things. And it is to this phase
of the four nominees that we shall call your attention in a later issue
of the “Watchman.”
Meanwhile investigate for yourself. Inquire as to which of them
have rendered service to the public in tlie past, which ones have done
constructive work in their communities, which ones are men of ‘wide
acquaintance, know the county and its needs and have been in contact
with men who do things.
Which ones are looked upon as representa-
tive men in their respective communities, which ones are called into
consultation when forward movements are being planned. All of
these are essential to good management in the Commissioner’s office
for the men who have had these experiences have something in them
+o warrant their election. They have been widened out by contact,
they have been matured by experience.
Centre county needs the best three of the four and every voter
who has his own and the public interest at heart will vote that way, no
matter what ulterior influence might try to dissuade him from it.
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The Steel Workers Strike.
The time of the strike of the steel
workers of the country is inauspic-
ious, granting that they have just
cause of complaint. Admitting the
statement before the Senate commit-
tee the other day by Samuel Gom-
pers, president of the American Fed-
eration of Labor, that “the right of
workers to association has been de-
nied with all the power and influence
and wealth of the Steel corporation,”
and that “the right to be heard is
what the steel workers are asking
above all else,” there are no substan-
tial reasons to believe that industrial
paralysis at this time would have cor-
rected the faults or cured the evils of
which they complain and probably
justly.
The entire industrial world is in a
state of turmoil. England is all torn
up and practically helpless under a
strike of railroaders. This country is
threatened by a strike of miners and
the strike of steel workers is on.
Germany, Russia and Italy are har-
rassed with labor problems of the
gravest character. In such a condi-
tion of public sentiment it is practic-
ally impossible to reason out differ-
i
ences and adjust disputes however ! A
t of counting the cost that lies between
palpable the remedy. The cost of liv-
ing is high but employers can hardly
be blamed for that and yet that is
the principal source of all the
troubles. It would have been better,
therefore, for both sides to the con-
troversy to address themselves to
the problem of reducing the cost of
commodities rather than increasing
them.
Thus far it cannot be said that the
strike has worked the results expect-
ed of it. The steel industry is crip-
pled but not destroyed. If the strike
continues a considerable period of
time the worse effect will follow. If
it is called off until after the propos-
ed conference with the President and
those directly involved these greater
evils might be averted. Let us hope
reason will assert itself and the dan-
gers be thus avoided. We are ap-
proaching a hard winter. Others
than the steel worker are concerned
in the perils which are impending.
Let the adjustment of differences be
postponed until the public mind is in
a better frame to cope with the prob-
lems.
President Wilson’s Illness.
The illness of the President is un-
fortunate but happily it came upon
him after the most important part of
his arduous but self-imposed task
was finished. Throughout the middle
west, in the northwestern section
and on the Pacific coast his argu-
ments in favor of the ratification of
the peace treaty and the covenant of
the League of Nations made a pro-
found impression on the public mind.
It was in these sections that educa-
tional influences were needed, more-
over. In the southwest and south,
where he is unable to fill his engage-
ments, the communities are fairly
well informed concerning the mission
in which he was engaged and their
disappointment will not work great
harm.
In expressing sympathy for the
President in his illness former Presi-
dent Taft says that no one without
the experience can know the heavy
burdens which such a task as “swing-
ing round the circle” imposes. It-in-
volves not only a heavy draft upon!
the physical resources of the individ-
ual but imposes an almost impossible
tax on the mental organism. But
President Wilson is not in the habit
himself and duty. His only consider-
ation is the fulfillment of his obliga-
tions and to achieve that result he
will go the limit. Hitherto he has
been able to accomplish wonders but
the strain of the last year has been
constant and it is not surprising that
he broke under it.
It is gratifying -to learn that his
illness is not serious and that it is al-
ready yielding to the capable minis-
trations of his physician, Admiral
Grayson. A few days or possibly
weeks of rest will restore him to
complete health and release him to
his labor for the benefit of the coun-
try and mankind. He has done much
already. Public sentiment has fallen
in behind him wherever his voice has
been heard. But-he is not through.
The Senate will continue its senseless
fight until the regular session of Con-
gress opens, no doubt, and then a halt
will be called. The effect of the
President’s speeches will assert itself
by that time and the righteous peace
for which he has contended will fol-
low.
919.
From the Lancaster Intelligencer.
. occupation crossed the German bor-
"armistice was signed, that an inter-
: of the United States?
‘reliable authorities that of all the
European nations engaged, the Ger-
man nationality is now in the best
NO. 39.
Anxious Observers of the
"Hold-Up.
Senate
More than ten months have passed
since the signing of the armistice. It
is just ten months since our army of
er.
Who would have believed when the
national agreement of any sort de-
signed to prevent another great war,
and heartily approved by the leading
statesmen of all the Allies, would be
so strenuously opposed in the Senate
It has lately been asserted by
several well-informed and generallly
condition for the re-building of its
war-power and that the German
people have not abandoned their mar-
tial aspirations. That leopard of mil-
itarism has not changed its spots.
There is just as strong authority
for the statement that France and
Belgium, Serbia and Rumania, ve-
main in a fearful state of exhaustion,
notwithstanding displays of strength,
and that even Great Britain might
well quail before the prospect of an-
¢".>r zreat war in the present gener-
ation. But the peril of France and
Belgium is most evident.
It is amazing with what tranquility
the French government and people
have waited and watched these many
months the strange opposition of our
Senate to the ratification of the peace
treaty. Some explanation is offered
in the report of the reassuring words
of Premier Clemenceau to the French
deputies when he told them that even
if the United States should reject the
League of Nations, the treaties of al-
liance between France, Great Britain
and the United States would be suf-
ficient guarantee of peace for some
years to come and also that the
League could exist without the Unit-
ed States. But it is easy to appreci-
ate how much greater must be the
anxiety of the French and Belgians
than any on this side of the ocean as
they watch from afar the factious
opposition of those American Sena-
tors who fear, or pretend to fear, that
a League for peace will imperil
American independence.
Governors With Backbones.
ily,
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—By accidental discharge of his gun
while hunting ground-hogs, Clarence Dar-
rohn, of Easton, was killed.
—Escaping from Juniata county jail
seven years ago, B. F. Spriggle has been
captured and is again in the jail to ans-
wer the original charge of larceny.
—Three hundred and five thousand, nine
hundred and sixty-five dollars was the
price brought by the sale of seventeen
farms of the James C. Packer estate, sit-
uated in Northumberland and Union coun-
ties.
—Elmer C. Halderman and William Ev-
ans, of Philadelphia, were found guilty in
the Northumberland county court at Sun-
bury on Friday, of cracking the safe of
the Lewisburg, Milton and Watsontown
Passenger Railway company, at Milton, on
March 29th last.
—The First National bank at Hollsop-
ple, Somerset county, was robbed last
Friday night of Liberty bonds and other
valuables to the amount of $10,000. The
robbers gained entrance by sawing win-
dow bars and the theft was discovered
when the bank opened the next day.
—William Hiter, convicted of murder in
the first degree for shooting and killing
George IE. Schauner, a prominent farmer,
near Bainbridge, Lancaster county, was
sentenced on Saturday to be electrocuted.
Hiter killed Schnauer to rob him and the
crew of a passing shifting engine were
the only witnesses.
_—Augustus Wagman, of Dallastown,
York county, recently purchased a bag of
chop for hog consumption and had it de-
livered to his home. The next morning he
went out to feed the hogs, and to his sur-
prise found only a forte, quantity of the
feed remaining. On reaching into the box
Wagman discovered a silver watch evi-
dently lost by the thief.
—~Charged with shooting his rival for
the affection of a Kulpmont young lady,
Joseph Gotti, of Kulpmont, was sentene-
ed in criminal court at Sunbury, by Judge
Cummings to serve 18 months in the coun-
ty jail and pay a fine of $50. Gotti had
shot George Paul, of Mt. Carmel, in the
leg while Paul waited for a trolley car at
a corner in Kulpmont, after having called
on the lady of his—and Gotti’s choice.
—Jumbo, the famous elk of the Billmey-
er game preserve near Washingtonville,
which was killed two weeks ago on ac-
count of his death dealing qualities
among the other members of the herd,
was sold to the Burnhg fire company
for the sum of $175 and Will be used as
the principal item in a big barbecue to be
held by the company, tomorrow, October
4th. The elk was six years old and he
weighed 1000 pounds. The animal was
one of the most beautiful of his species.
—When a masked man attacked Miss
Frances Hill, a singer, while Miss Hill
was returning to her home at«Chester last
Thursday night, she did not even scream
for help. She met the fellow with a hard
blow in the face, grabbed off his mask
and, after giving him another punch, seiz-
ed a piece of lumber and hammered him
over the head. He fled. Adjusting her
hat, which had been knocked askew dur-
ing the scuffle, Miss Hill continued her
journey to her home and telephoned to
the police.
—Leo Dlair, of Renovo, was arrested
Friday by Michael Foley and James Mack,
From the New York World.
Above the welter of warring class-
es upholding false doctrines and. as-
serting outrageous claims the voices
of two American Governors are lifted
powerfully in behalf of law and order.
To the impudent assertion of the |
strike bosses in Pennsylvania that |
because the authorities are compel- |
ling them in some places to respect |
the rights of others they are subject- |
ed to an odious tyranny, Governor |
Sproul replies that force is being used |
only against those who incite the ig- |
norant and vicious to riot and pillage. |
“This,” he continues, “is the spirit of :
the people of Pennsylvania, and as |
Governor of the State I shall see to |
it that their laws are faithfully exe-
cuted, their rights protected and their |
institutions upheld.”
Refusing finally to treat with the |
striking Boston policemen, who by
abandoning their posts in concert
sought to coerce the government and
exposed the city to lawlessness, Gov-
ernor Coolidge says: “No man has a
right to place his own case or conven-
ience or the opportunity of making
money above his duty to the State,”
and adds: “This is the cause of all
the people. I call on every citizen to |
stand by me in executing the oath of |
my office by supporting the authority |
of the government and resisting all |
assaults upon it.”
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These Governors are face to face
with presumptuous’ or disorderly mi- |
norities bent upon subjecting the ma-
jority to their will. Demagogues
would have made common cause with
the violent; time-servers would have |
dodged the issue, and cowards would
have appealed to the federal author-
ities for help. By placing their sole
reliance upon the dignity and power
of their own Commonwealths, forces |
too often neglected nowadays, they |
reassert the basic principles of Amer- |
ican democracy. !
The Question of More Pay But No
Work.
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From the New York Sun.
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In the Labor Federation conven-
tion in Lyons last Thursday, A. Mer-
riham, secretary of the Metal Work- |
ers’ Union, long one of the most ag-
gressive labor leaders in France,
arousd a storm of approval by de- |
nouncing men who want to make or |
pretend they can make this earth a |
heaven without work. He declared
that what labor needed today was to |
get to work. Any honest man witha
level head can add for him that with- |
out work, and plenty of it, this earth
can become only a hell.
Here in the United States, when
wild men are talking about doubling
and trebling their wages withovt
working for them, when unscrupulous
men are urging their fellows to em-
brace national starvation by aban-
doning production, some sane, fear-
less labor leader is going to stand up
and tell the workers of this country |
the same truths as Merriham is tell- |
ing the French, or the American peo-
ple are going to launch a thunderbolt
against false teachers and blind
guides who would annul the right, the
duty and the necessity of mankind to
live by work.
— Congress appears to be doing
its best to do nothing and candor
compels the assertion that it is
achieving the purpose.
| The jury took one ballot.
railroad police. He was charged with
robbing his room-mate, Mitchell MecCor-
mick, of an overcoat, eight pairs of hose,
three pairs of gloves, two shirts, five neck-
ties, two pairs of cuff links and several
other articles, of the value of about one
hundred dollars. They roomed at the res-
idence of Mrs. Hester Simcox. Blair left
Renovo on a freight and chief of police
Kyler notified the railroad police and he
was arrested at Queen’s Run and taken to
Renovo, where he entered a plea of guil-
ty before a local justice and in default of
bail was sent to the Clinton county jail.
— Harvesting the corn crop is taking a
place among hazardous occupations. Fol-
lowing the accident to Augustus Miller,
near Abbotstown, York county, and now
in the York hospital, who dislocated a hip
and broke a leg, when the binder twine he
was using in shocking, slipped, comes the
report of a similar one to Mrs. Oscar
Kline, of the same locality. She is suffer-
ing from two fractured bones in her left
arm. The accident occurred while she was
working in a field on the Kline farm. She
was putting the corn in shocks. Using
cord to tie around the shocks to hold the
corn in place, she pulled strongly on it,
when suddenly it broke and she fell back-
ward.
— The Central Construction company,
of Harrisburg, was the lowest bidder for
the work on the state memorial bridge at
Harrisburg, it developed last week when
bids were opened by the Board of Public
Grounds and Buildings. Only five bids
on the entire structure were submitted.
Over thirty-two corporations had received
copies of the plans. The bids were open-
ed in the Governor's reception room, near-
ly 100 men being present. On the board
were Governor Sproul, Auditor General
Snyder and State Treasurer Kephart. The
Governor said that all of the bids would
be tabulated and the award announced in
due time after the board had given the
bids careful consideration. The Central
Construction company bid was $2,384,-
457.98 on the entire structure.
—As July 1st approached, 2a New Cas-
tle, Pa., resident bought three cases of
whiskey at $100 a case to guard against
the future dryness. His wife being a tem-
perance woman, he dared not put the stuff
in his cellar, so he buried it in an aban-
doned well on his premises. His plan
was to secrete the stuff in his house when
! his wife made her annual pilgrimage to
her mother’s home. When workmen Dbe-
gan excavating for a street in the neigh-
borhood the wife arranged with them to
fill up the old well. The husband was
| lukewarm toward the plan, but dared not
oppose it, and three loads of dirt went in
on top of the liquor. Husband is still
waiting for his wife to make her annual
| visit, so he can exhume the liquor, but
getting at it now will be some job.
—Paul D. Bailey, a Pennsylvania rail-
road engineer, was acquitted by a jury at
Sunbury last Friday afternoon on a
charge of murder. Bailey shot and killed
a neighbor, whom he found on the porch
of his home with his wife after the victim
had been warned not to visit the house.
Many of his
railroad friends who provided more than
$700 for his defense, when they reached
the sidewalk, raised Bailey to their shoul-
ders and started to march down to the
rooms of Sunbury Lodge of the Brother-
hood of . Railroad Trainmen, shouting,
«who is all right? Bailey.” Persons
who watched Mrs. Bailey as the verdict
freeing her husband was announced, say
that she did not move an eyelash. She
flushed slightly and stared straight ahead,
they assert, while everybody else voiced
approval of the verdict.