. Any one who has had business in the
~ “inet who 'bamshed liquors from. the
dinners in Washington. "It was Pres-
fe ed
INK SLINGS
, —Let us hope for a little dry
weather and sunshine.
. —Don’t let the election go by de-
fault. Every good citizen should go
out and vote next Tuesday.
—Seven of the twelve nominees on
A OY -—
the Republican ticket have the Pro-| — =
hibition endorsement. Did they steal
VOL. 64.
BELLEF
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
ONTE, PA., OCTOBER 31, 1919.
NO. 43.
—Just why Frank Smith wasn’t
given the Prohibition endorsement in-
stead of its going to his opponent,
Frank Sasserman, will take more
than a Solomon to figure out. x 4
yds : ment invariably fixes the minimum
—Prohibitionists -who might have price on a level considerably higher
met chief of police Dukeman late on a i
the night of the primaries are no I than that existing under conditions of
: : ! competition or monopoly at the time.
Sot bE ues he 20 he It ‘will be recalled that during the re-
: cent war Mr. Garfield, a Republican,
— Are you going to help Bill Brown | was appointed controller of the fuel
bust the two term precedent in Cen- supply and his first order fixed the
tre county? What do you think Bill | price of the grade of coal used by
would say about you if you were try- | poor people at a dollar a ton more
ing to grab off more than your share | than the producers had been asking.
of county office? There are thous- | The other day Attorney General Pal-
ands of other competent men in Cen- | mer, who seems to be vested with the
tre county who have a right to expect | power to regulate the prices of food
preferment at some time or other but | products, issued an order to beet
how in the world will they ever get a sugar producers to limit the whole-
chance if the same man is to have an | sale price of their product to ten
office all the time. Vote for Wagner | cents a pound.
Geiss for Recorder. He is qualifiedto | An inquiry into this question re-
fill the position, is a man of good | veals the fact that hitherto the whole-
character and deserves a chance. sale price of beet sugar, f. o. b. at the
—We have great faith in the good refineries has been nine cents a pound.
judgment of the people of = Centre Why does Mr. Palmer increase pe
county. For that reason we feel that | PTI to ten cents a pound, under the
there will be many voters who will pretenses reducing the high cost of
rise above party next Tuesday and living? It was easy to form a plaus-
quietly go to the polls and vote for
Capt. “Dick” Taylor. We mean men
who are not active in politics, men
whose sense of right and wrong is
the principle that guides their action,
men who know and feel an obligation
to the soldiers whe fought the great
war for them, men who do not want
to see the county of Centre repudiate
2 hero for the chief of police of Belle-
fonte.
—Why not put a man in the: Pro-
thenotary’s office who knows enough
of the real routine of court work to be
of immediate service to the public.
Harry Meyer has been Commission-
er’s clerk long enough to get well ac-
quainted with court house ‘procedure.
jt or don’t the Prohibitionists know
Mr. Palmer's Plans Changed.
them?
One vital trouble I with government
Garfield, He probably wanted to dis-
credit the Democratic administration
which had mistakenly put him in a
position to make that purpose easy.
But Palmer pretends to favor the ad-
ministration which has heaped honors
upon him to the amazement of those
who know him best, and yet he is do-
men suspicious of the President.
The price of sugar is not the pot
tial factor in-the high cost of living.
The seat of the trouble against which
everybody complains is in the offices
of the packing companies which not
only enjoy a monopoly of the meat
supply but are rapidly acquiring a
monopoly of all other food products.
Comniissioner’s office’ knows that: he
has been” most courteeus, always, and
has gone ‘out of the ‘way to give in-
formation needed by all inquirers.
He is far superior in qualification to
his opponent and, being a man of. ir- |
reproachable character and affable
nature, would make an ideal Prothon-
etary.’ Vote for him.: gs
—Lest we forget, it was President
Wilson and members: of his first Cab-
thing ‘with these ‘“malefactors of
great wealth?” He started out with
a full band, and got the front page in
every newspaper of the country, in a
and now comes forward with an at-
tack upon the beet sugar refiners
which jncrcsys their prices, proba-
‘bly beyond anything they had hoped
for in their wovetous hearts. =
PRT
‘White House table and other: state
ident Wilson who: gave Prohibition its
great impetus by’ the open ‘stand he
took in advocacy of it and for wom-
an’s Suffrage, which, in the last anal-
ysis, means the same cause. Merely
because he has vetoed a political trick
bill designed to keep war-time Pro-
hibition in force until constitutional
Prohibition becomes operative a few
people with short memories forget the
good he did when it really was needed
and counted for something.
—Frank Smith should be the next
Register of Centre county. He made
a splendid official when in office four
years ago and should have been given
a second term then. He was defeated,
not because of any derelictions in of-
fice but because the general temper
of the people was expressing itself
on great political issues and he went
down when really defeat for him was
not the real wish of the voters. Its
different now. There are no outside
questions to be settled. This election
is merely a Centre county matter. A
business of picking good and efficient
managers for our local offices and the
chance to do the right thing for Frank
Smith is here. Do it.
—It’s hard lines when boys have to
be bought to cheer for candidates.
One night last week the pictures of
certain Republican nominees for
county office were being flashed on
the screen at a local movie house and
standing on the curb, outside, was a
ward worker who was gathering up
all the kids who loaf about the place
and paying their way in. The only
condition was that when so-and-so’s
picture was shown they should cheer
as loud and as long as they could.
The result was very satisfactory, but
the following Saturday night the
same popular idols (?) stared the au-
dience in the face between each reel
but nary a cheer or a sign of approv-
al was heard. There were no boys in
the house whose admission had been
paid to cheer for the cheering they
would do.
— James E. Harter is the type of
man about whom never a breath of
suspicion has been raised. He is a |,
clean cut, christian gentleman who
wants to be Treasurer of the county
because he knows he is competent to
act as custodian of your funds. He is
not before you at the expense of
another man who was promised and
then denied the chance to be his op-
Republicans. When that stalwart
journal editorially acknowledges that
the days of protective tariffs are done
and backs its own vision of the future
needs of the country by quoting Alba
B. Johnson, president of the Baldwin
Locomotive works, and a stalwart of
the stalwarts, there are certainly
signs of ‘a new light dawning on
hitherto warped’ minds. Four years
ago the “Watchman” pointed out that
high tariff would never again be a
political ~ issue and this swan song
day looks as though it is getting its
readers prepared for the eclipse of
the old bogy in the campaign of
1920. H .
It is to ‘Laugh!
last week painted Bill Brown as one
of the county’s greatest philanthro-
pists. ‘They would have us believe
drew Carnegié in his effert to die
peor. i i
According to their usual campaign
practices of deception they spread
broadcast the announcement that Bill
is recording the discharge papers of
the soldiers FREE OF CHARGE and,
therefor, his efforts to grab a third
term in a fat county office ought to
be encouraged by every young soldier
in the county.
Bill doesn’t need to see a
There is no danger of his dying of
enlargement of the heart for thelaw
doesn’t permit him to charge any-
thing for recording such papers any
1 way. Under the Act of the General
| Assembly, No. 178, approved June
2nd, 1919, the county is required to
pay Bill out of the public treasury
for recording each such instrument
and he knows it full well so do the
Republican and the Gazette.
They all prefer, however, to feed
the public this kind of Bolsheviki so
they can qualify once more for the
Ananias club.
ee ee
Up until the present moment no-
body has been able to discover why
fondness for Chinamen and such a
hatred for Japanese.
King Albert, of Belgium, is
generous in praise of Republican
institutions but we don’t imagine
ponent. He is a fair and square can- §
didate who got his name on the ticket that he will go back home and abdi-
without the manipulation of any or- cate.
ganization or crowd of political Been pare rand German
bosses and represents the free and un-
trammeled wishes of the voters who
nominated him. Mr. Harter is worthy
of the vote of every body who wants
to see fair play; especially of those
who feel that Ad. Hartswick was bad-
ly treated by a crowd for whom he
had worked long and hard. *
commerce may come to this country
ultimately but it is too soon after the
trench experience to force them now.
— Colenel House hasn’t talked
much since his return from Paris and
the Republican: Senators hope his ret-
icence will continue. -
control of prices is that the govern-
Why doesn’t Mr. Palmer do some-
crusade against the packing compa- |
nies. But he has taken in his horns |
the county; before the primaries;
threw a bomb which . certainly must
have had. an exeeedingly shocking ef- |
fect on .old .fashioned, .old thinking
which the Ledger published Wednes-.
The Republican and the Gazette |
that Bill is emulating the late ‘An-| -
doctor. |
| Summing It All Up.
|
So far as newspaper publicity is concerned the campaign for of-
fices in Centre county closes with this issue of the “Watchman.” We
have tried to be absolutely fair in presenting the merits of the various
nominees who are soliciting your suffrage next Tuesday and we feel
that we have not made a single untruthful or unwarranted statement
concerning any of them.
Realizing that more and more people are coming to view county
elections as non-partisan affairs the “Watchman” has been encouraged
to hope that there will be enough of them at the polls next Tuesday to
put only the best men in office. While we have told you either directly
or by inference whom we regard as the best men for the various posi-
tions we have not made the proof as conclusive as we might have done
“in some instances. That would have involved revelations that might
"have given the Gazette a very real reason for calling the Democratic
| papers “stink sheets,” as it does in its issue of today. Inelegant lan-
| guage, to be sure, but quite in place in the Gazette.
| For instance, we might have referred to its own files, which we pre-
| serve in this office and published a certain short article .it car-
| ried some years ago.
3 So for B plak We might have gone to court records that don’t
ible conjecture as to theaction of Mr.| gq. \ ..} credit on the candidate whom they concern, we might have
published numerous letters which we have received recently reflecting
on the character of several others.
We might have published a letter
| that arrived as late as yesterday afternoon, from M. L. Brewster, secre-
| tary of the Tax Payers League, of Cambria county, in which he states
that they are trying to impose a two million dollar bond issue for roads
ing the thing that makes thoughtful on that county and adds that he knows that a party of gentlemen got to-
en. | gether in Centre before they decided who they would work for for their
nominees for County Commissioners and discussed a bond issue of
$500,000 for Centre. Then they called in one of the men who is now a
candidate and he gave the scheme “his hearty endorsement.” * Yes, we
| might have said many things that we have left unsaid, but we have pre-
ferred to appeal to the good sense of the voters of Centre county, rather
than arouse them with facts that are far better forgotten.’ :
The one outstanding fact in the whole situation is the very appar-
|
erit-manipulation and trickery that was employed to secure nominations
| on the Republican ticket for favorites of a few party bosses who evi-
dently regard their party’s organization as their own personal property.
The “Watchman” had hoped to be able to produce in this issue a
photographic copy of a letter which ‘county chairman Davy Chambers
is generally believed to have sent to his trusted lieutenants throughout
te Dr aus directing them to work and vote for
The Publi¢ Ledger of Wednesday, | the slated ticket. ‘Such a letter was undoubtedly sent’out, for at least
eight Republicans have told us that they knew of it and one gentleman
promised to produce a copy for our use. "He failed only ‘hecause the
person who had it didn’t understand plate making and: was fearful it
might be destroyed by the-engravers. In proof of this evidently unfair
method of treating candidates at a primary we need but refer to pre-
cincts like Snow Shoe, Philipsburg, Spring and others where the vote
and money both.
‘Bill Brown given a fourth?
der to put him on the ticket.
i ers of Centre county.
for the slated ticket was altogether unnatural and showed manipulation
Why was this done? There were other men deserving of a chance.
Men who would have been a credit to their party, men who deserved
recognition at its hands. - But they were all cut down for a purpose.
And we still think that the principal motive is just what the Tax Pay-
ers League of Cambria county writes to us of, referred to above. *
How did it happen that over half of the men runming on the Re-
publican- ticket. have the Prohibition endorsement? Surely most of
them must be laughing in their sleeves at the way this trick was put over
for they know themselves to be flying under false colors.
Why was it that Ad. Hartswick was deceived and mistreated ?
Why was it that Isaac Miller was denied a second nomination and
Why was it that lieutenants were paid to go to the primaries and
‘work for the slate? Surely it was not for the good of the party, for
signs are everywhere that better thinking Republicans are rebelling at
it and you can’t tell a man who knows anything that Harry Austin is a
better type of citizen than is 'Squire John Way, Ralph Hartsock, John
S. Dale, M. R. Johnson and the other good men who were knifed in or-
Surely there is irregularity enough about it to make us suspicious
| and warn the prudent man against voting his own pocket book into the
| hands of a crowd that has ridden rough shod over good men who were
| not sitting in at their game.
Let Centre county rise next Tuesday to nip whatever scheme they
have in the bud.
| trick that has been played on them.
Let the real Temperance people rise in righteous indignation at the
Let an avalanche of ballots bury the attempt to deny the first of
Senator Lodge has developed such a’ Centre county’s heroes a reward he has won on the field of battle.
Let sound sense, your own personal interest, and not a partisan la-
|
| hel guide your hand when you mark your ballot next Tuesday.
| —When the Prohibitionist goes in-
| to the voting booth next Tuesday and
{looks his ballot over surely he will
| come to the conclusion that the exi-
| gencies of politics make strange bed-
fellows. Shades of Frances Willard
rise in protest against the travesty
on Prohibition that is being imposed
upon the people of Centre county by
a gang of political manipulators!
They ‘have stolen the Prohibition en-
dorsement for candidates who are so
i
wet that the ballot on which their
names are printed ought to ooze like
a bar-room mop. The hypocrisy of it
all lies in the fact that in several in-
stances the stolen Prohibition en-
dorsement works injury to men who
have devoted their entire lives to
fighting for the cause that is now be-
ing used to stab them with.
—Vote for D. Wagner Geiss for
Recorder. } :
.- It is a matter
not come here, because |
| Effect of a Coal Strike.
i From the Philadelphia Record.
A London dispateh says:
| of labor conditions in
States orders for steel and. tinplate
‘are pouring into South Wales from
all over the world. * * * One or-
der for tinplate ran into 1,000,000
boxes.” sali 2
A few weeks ago the ‘British steel
and coal interests were viewing Amer-
ican competition with grave appre-
hension. Orders that for years have
gone to England were going ‘to the
United States. Wages here are high,
but production is greater per capita,
and American exporters were meet-
ing English and German prices. §
en came the steel strike, and now
the bituminous coal strike for a re
duction of work and a very great in=
crease of pay is almost certain. The
earnings per hour in the steel mills
have advanced 221 per cent, in four
years, and the increase in coal has
been nearly 100 per cent. The result
has been a great increase in the c st
of living and loud complaints of s
hardships ensuing. Now, the stee
workers strike either for a mere form
or for the purpose of controlling ‘the
business, and the bituminous : mine!
are going to strike to reduce their
working hours to 30 a week and in
crease their pay 60 per cent. i
Of course, these strikes will furth-
er increase the cost of living, a
they will increase especially the price
of steel and coal. We do not ask the
bituminous miners to practice self-
denial for the sake of the rest of the
community. They have the right of
every man to get as good terms for
themselves as possible. But is it for
their own interest to divert the
world’s orders for steel and.eoal to
South Wales? France wants 22,000,-
000 tons of coal next year. Digging
that coal would : furnis! ployment
six days a week for a. great
number of men. But a dichied in-
crease in price would divert the or-
ders from America to other sources
of coal supply. ! vir Ta Td
The Steel Corporation has built up
a great export trade. In other words,
many thousands of steel workers in
this’ country are employed in produc-
ing steel for foreigners, and :
pont of this product brings gold
ut if the steel strike is to be follow-
ed by a bituminous strike, th
ders ‘will go to England or possib
other countries; at any ate, “the;
“Because
Uni
hours of men
of ‘self-interest for
the miners to work on terms that will
bring export orders to this country.
If we cease to export coal and steel
if.'the wages and.
materially, to the
| there will be a great deerease in the
number of men employed in’ theseiin-
dustries. ty 1
Russia.
From the Philadelphia Record. ~
However to be desired the fall of
Lenine and Trotzky may be, we have
yet to take with one or more grains of
salt the various prophecies that are
being made here and in other Allied.
. day tripled its production by jumping ap-
quarters. : gs > nl
A number of sanguine editors are
at pains to explain military oper-
ations of the several” Russian armies
in the field against the Bolsheviki.
Denikine is within 200 miles’ of Mos-
cow; the Lettish and Esthonian forces:
are holding the Dvina, near Riga; the
Poles are reported at Dyvinsk; the
northern
Archangel, and Admiral Kolchak is
pressing forward in Siberia.” So,” we
are told, there is streng hope that
Moscow and. Petrograd will be taken,
and the-Bolsheviki will fall before
Christmas. aieTh 55
“But about this time of each year in
the long period of the great war we
were always informed that the time
was at hand when military operations
must cease in Russia because of the
approach’ of winter. Our chief hope
from the operations so far must be in
the moral effect they will have upon
the tyrannical Bolsheviki, now said to-
be thoroughly scared. There seems
little doubt that when Lenine and
Trotzky quit they will quit in a hur-
Knowing all of these things to be absolute facts there is only one’
deduction that a thinking voter can draw from them and that is that it at
was all part of an “inside” scheme to put something over on the tax pay-
ry. They are yellow at heart, and
they will make no desperately pro-
longed stand. The break may come
any time, ‘but prophecies of any
sort about Russia are wild things.
Business Conditions.
From the Northampton Democrat.
Despite the widespread labor un-
rest, prosperity and good business
are reported from all sections of the
country. There does not appear to
be a pronounced dewnward tendency
in prices, although there have been
declines here and there in foodstuffs.
The continuance of the high cost of
necessary supplies has had no effect,
however, upon consumption, and the
demand for luxuries and the better
rades of goods continues steady.
leas to the general public to save
have had no more effect than appeals
to industrial workers to increase their
output. The dangers in the present
situation are understood by every-
body, but there is no pessimism any-
where. The confidence of the average
citizen in the ability of the United
States to weather any storm is pro-
found, and there is not the slightest
chance of any revolutionary move-
ment making headway.
ne ti
— In the achievement of the Lit-
erary Digest there is a strong warn-
ing against printers’ strikes without
good reason. That esteemed contem-
porary has pointed the way to publish
without printers. ant}
= ‘creases,
1 SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—A snow white deer was found dead,
caught in a barbed wire fence near Trox-
elville, Snyder county, on Monday.
—The million dollar additions to the
New York Central railroad shops at Avis,
adjoining Jersey Shore, are virtually
completed, with the result that Jersey
Shore has one of the largest and most
modern groups of railroad repair shops
in Pennsylvania. pet
—Seven thousand pairs of trousers were
‘stolen from the Montgomery Clothing
company plant at West Chester early last
‘Thursday. The garments were taken
away in an automobile truck and a tour-
ing car by burglars, who jimmyed a lock
on the front door of the factory. .
—Swapping clothing, shoes and hats at
the muzzle of a revolver is the latest stunt
to be tried by a highwayman in the neigh-
borhood of Scranton. Eugene Dolan, 22
years old, was the young man held up and:
compelled to take off his trousers, coat,
shoes and hat and hand them over to &
youth who clutched a revolver in his hand
and pressed it against Dolan’s head. :
. —Rev. C. E. Correll, of St. Paul's Re:
formed church, at West Hazleton, declared
last week that certain members of the con-~
gregation want his scalp because "he
Pieachied such strong patriotic sermons
uring the war. It is claimed by the pas-
tor that the pro-German element is back
of the efforts to force his resignation. Rev.
Correll said he had been asked to sign a
paper agreeing te serve at $75 a month
for a term of five years which he refused
to do.
—Boring a hole in the floor of a room
in the Lochiel hotel, Harrisburg, a thief
last Thursday night lowered himself into
a haberdashery store and stole articles
worth $1000. On Wednesday a stranger
registered at the hetel and was assigned
to a room just above the store. He lower-
ed himself into the store and then with
the use of tape measures pulled the goods
into his room. He departed early Friday
morning with the plunder in sample cases.
Two of the cases were later found at Al-
toona.
—Hazleton grocers have organized
against ‘sugar grabbers’ who have devik-
ed all manner of ways to get more than a
proper share of the commodity offered
customers in limited quantities. It has
been learned that some women have sent
six or seven different persons to stores,
each with 4 totiching tale of woe, While
others borrow. their neighbor's baby and
try the “sympéthy racket.” Grocers claim,
they can supply evéry ome with a small
amout of sugar each week if some people
would not grab all they can get. fos
—Pennsylvania. is believed to have more
wild turkeys now than in twenty-five
years, according to Seth E, Gordon, aet-
ing secretary of the Game Commission.
He has just returned from visits to cen-
tral and southern counties. The weather
conditions have been favorable for propa-
gation and the State authorities have
bought numerous turkeys and turned
them loose to breed. In some sections.
where turkeys had been almost extinct
this plan has resulted in noticeable in-
Flocks of as high as twenty-five
birds have been reported from some coun-
ties. :
—The Penn Public Service company, of
Johnstown, has announced a new power
plant te be erected at Indiana, Indiana
county. The company recently authorized
a $20,000,000 bond issue, $2,000,000 of which
army is coming down from
games of pool,
| twenty-seven, proprietor of the pool-room,
"od to pay for the games.
OTk- | is to be expended .on the mew plant. At
present all the - electric power furnished
, by the ‘compaiiy is" developed ‘at “Johns- --
| town, but the new: plant will: furnish cur- °
‘ rent to patrous in-Indiana, Clearfield, Jef-
ferson, Westmoreland and Armstrong
' counties. The company has 150 substa-
tions at this time, and when. the new pows-.
‘er plant is completed this number will be
doubled. 3
“One of the “greatest gas strikes in
Ee | Washington county has been made by the
Manufacturers’ Light and Heat company,
on the J. B. Andrew farm, Morris town-
ship, The well is producing at the rate of
14,961,570 cubic feet daily. The strike was
made a few days ago and the first show-
ing was at the rate of 4,500,000 cubic feet.
Then it increased to 5,500,000 and on Fri-
proximately to -15,000,000 cubic feet. Drill-
ing has not ‘been completed and there is a
chance that the well will prove the largest
in the history of drilling operations in
this country. > :
——An epidemic of bombs and dynamite
has struck DuBois, and it ‘is a dull day
when one or more is not reported as be-
ing found on the porch or under thle
foundation ‘of the residence of some prom-
inent citizen. The general tendency .to
blame the work on the local I. W. W's or
Socialists received a jolt Wednesday morn-
ing when it became known that a dyna-
mite fuse and cap had been found on the’
front porch of J. ‘'M. Brady, Socialist can-
didate for mayor. In speaking of the in-
cident Mr. Brady said: “Well, if I had
‘not been running for office I don’t think
this would have happened.”
—A poel-room fight in Shamekin, has
adced another murder to the long list of
such cases in the criminal records “of
Northumberland county. As a result of a
dispute over payment for a number of
John G. Saviolis, aged
is dead; his brother, Andrew, is in the
Shamokin state hospital suffering from
serious stab wounds, and George Voulelis,
their assailant, is also in that institution
suffering from wounds received in the fra-
cas. It is stated that the Saviolis broth-
ers had won all of Voulelis’ money and
then made fun of their victim, who refus-
There was a
flare-up in the temper of all three and
cues came into use as weapons. Voulelis
then drew a knife and began a savage at-
tack. John Saviolis was stabbed in the
abdomen. He staggered to the street,
where he fell dead.
—Yeggmen blew the safe in the postof-
fice at Indiana, Pa., some time last Thurs-
day night and escaped with between $3,-
000 and $4,000 worth of cash, stamps,
money orders and savings stamps. Dis-
covery was made on Friday morning
when postmaster H. W. Fee found the
side door of the postoffice torn completely
off and the interior of the office thorough-
ly ransacked. Mail sacks had been used
to muffle the sound of the explosion. But
one person has been found who heard even
an inkling of the explosion. It is believ-
ed that the work was done between 1:30
and 2 o'clock in the morning. Police in-
vestigating think that the yeggs arrived
in Indiana on an afternoon train and
studied the situation befere carrying out
their plans. Noise of a high powered au-
tomobile driving away from town at a
furious rate was heard shortly after the
robbery is believed to have been commit-
ted and it is thought the yeggs escaped
in that manner. Numerous registered let-
ters and packages were opened but nene
were taken.
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