INK SLINGS. —Senator Newberry also professed a willingness to be investigated. —All isn’t gold that glitters. The Poles will have to feed those captured Russian Reds from storehouses that are so lean that they are scarcely keeping Poland from starvation. —Most of the oats, such as it is in Centre county, is in the barns at last and the cows and pigs will prob- ably turn up their noses at it when it is threshed and thrown to them. — Inasmuch as too few people are’ pilgrimaging to Marion, Ohio, to bar- ter their votes on the Harding front porch the “rubber stamp” candidate will soon be rolling his bar’l over the country trying to buy them in the open market. —Senator Harding has stated that he and the Senate foreign relations committee, of which he is a member, really know nothing about foreign af- fairs. His speeches thus far indicate that he is equally obtuse as to his do- mestic affairs. —There can be only one reason why the Republican national commit- tee declines to accept Mr. Cox’s pro- posal to make public all campaign contributions. It is afraid to show where the millions that are to buy votes for Harding are coming from. —Instead of halting them at their reconstructed frontiers the Allies should sic the Poles on until they have run the Bolshevik clear off the map. Some one will have to do it sooner or later and since the Poles have such a good start why not let them do the job. —The Norristown Times, a Repub- | lican paper once owned by Adj. Gen. Thomas J. Stewart and Charles John- son, treasurer of the Republican State committee, has come out flat-footed for Cox and Roosevelt. Concluding a two column editorial on its new vis- ion, it says: “It is from the whitest of motives and because of the dearest of solicitude for the sancity of Ameri- can institutions and the interests of all humanity that The Times, normal- ly Republican, scorns the ticket of “turn tail and run” and pins its faith to Cox and Roosevelt, four-square men on a four-square platform and pledged to keep America’s escutcheon unsullied and America’s pledges to the Allies inviolate.” —All naturalized women over twenty-one years of age can vote in Pennsylvania in November; provided that they have been residents of the State for one year prior to the elec- tion and of the district in which they desire to vote two calendar months preceding the election. If they are twenty-one years of age and not "twenty-two they will not have to pay a poll tax. If they are twenty-two or over they must have been register- ed and assessed at least two calendar months preceding the election and paid a poll tax, which in Centre coun- ty is to be fifteen cents, at least thirty days preceding the election. If a woman over twenty-two years of age owns property assessed in her name and has paid taxes on it within two years prior to the election she is eli- gible to vote, if properly registered, without paying a poll tax. The daughter of a recently naturalized foreign-born citizen who wishes to vote on age may do so by presenting her father’s naturalization papers and thereby establishing her right so to do. If over twenty-two she must do the same thing and have paid a tax and met all the other requirements of a native born voter. —From what we have been able to learn the opinion of council is divided on the question of a charge for water supplied to one of our local industries. The water question has long been a mooted one in Bellefonte, though more water is running away daily than ten towns of this size would use. The cost of the water itself has never entered into the discussion since na- ture produces it in copious streams. The installation of a system of con- duits, pumping and maintenance are the only charges that properly can be laid against a gallon of water at the faucet in our homes or factories. If it were a tax no more could be levied for the water than is expended in supplying it. But it is not a tax. It is a rental and as such council may arbitrarily fix any charge it pleases. Generally speaking water rentals in Bellefonte are low, but if it should be found that even at the low rate they work a hardship on an industrial concern that is contributing to the entire community we are of the opin- ion that council would be doing the greatest good to the greatest number of our property owners if it were to supply water at actual cost of pump- ing to such industry until the time when it becomes so permanently es- tablished that it needs no further fos- tering. We raise thousands of dol- lars to bring new industries here and then very often find ourselves in the position of sinking the money con- tributed because we are unmindful of the fact that they need nursing and must creep before they can walk. The Watchman always was and always will be opposed to giving away any franchises, but a controllable supply of water is not a franchise and in the case in question it is not proposed to actually give water. It is a ques- tion of a charge that will not threaten the plans that are hopefully being worked out to give Bellefonte a per- manent and very desiiable industrial enterprise. We hope that council will be able to view the situation from this angle when it deliberates further VOL. 65. STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. BELLEFONTE, PA., AUGUST 27, 19 Grave Menace to the Republic. Penrose Must Stay at Home. | The esteemed New York World, | Republican national chairman Will Hays and Republican candidate for President, Senator Harding, have vo- ciferously and vehemently denied the statement that a vast slush fund has been raised by special interests to buy the Presidential commission for Sena- tor Harding for the use of the Senate oligarchy which procured the nomina- tion for him at Chicago. Only about $3,000,000 has been raised, chairman Hays protests, and Harding echoes, “not only are the statements of exces- sive expenditures absolutely untrue, but as a matter of fact we are having difficulty in procuring the funds legit- imately needed to conduct the cam- paign as it should be conducted. “How unspeakably sad.” But they are not willing to put the question to the test. proposed that the Senatorial commit- tee which exposed the slush funds of General Wood and Governor Low- den for use in the primary campaign be reassembled, and weekly reports of the campaign collections of all par- ties be made to it, and published. The committee is Republican. The chair- man of it has publicly announced that he will support Senator Harding and his colleague on the Republican ticket with all his might. But the minority of the committee would see that full and complete statements would be made and chairman hays and candidate Harding know that would be disastrous to their hopes and destructive of their plans. The statement is that a slush fund of $15,000,000 has been subscribed by ! the predatory interests of the coun- try to buy enough votes in close and doubtful States to guarantee the elec- tion of Harding and Coolidge. It requires no special perspicacity to discern the purpose of those who have contributed to that fund. It comes from the manufacturers, who want their franchise to loot through tariff restored; the financiers who hope to profit by wrecking corporations and or- ganizing panics, and the munition makers and ordnance builders, who want the opportunities to make war free and easy. One year of Republi- can control under such conditions as prevailed in Mark Hanna's time would fully reimburse them. The accusation is not upon an ir- responsible source. Governor Cox, of Ohio, the Democratic candidate for President, makes the charge and bold- ly declares he can prove it. We must all agree that such a disposition of the high office and great honor would be a menace to the perpetuity of the Republic. The country sustained a hard jolt in 1876 and a good deal of a shock in 1896. But when the com- mission of the President is put upon the auction block to be knocked down to the highest bidder the end is near. the high office and great honor would No Republic can survive such an out- rage upon justice. If it is true that $15,000,000 has been subscribed for that purpose by men who hope to get it back in graft, the people should know it. : RL —It may be true that the level of the great lakes has been lowered but it will be hard to prove that prohibi- tion is responsible for it. Have You Noticed Its Beauty? Motorist along the Nittany valley highway certainly must be impressed with the beauty of the drive just at this time. The “Watchman” invites an argument when it states that Nit- tany valley probably exceeds both the famed Cumberland and Buffalo val- leys in evidences of rural thrift and prosperity. The highway traversing it, though one of the least costly of the roads in Pennsylvania, is reputed as being the best continuous road in Pennsylvania. And just now its super- visors have the grass mowed on eith- er side so that for twenty-eight miles one has the impression of gliding smoothly—if he or she is not in a fliv- ver—through a glorious lawn. Re- cent rains have made the vegetation so green and fresh looking that na- ture is fairly transcendent and those who drive moderately enough to see what they are passing through must surely be impressed with this wonder- work of the Creator, made so com- fortably accessible by man. eae ei —It must be admitted that William H. Taft weighs a good deal and he really seems to be a nice man. That’s all. —1It is stated that the more Lodge and Penrose study Harding the bet- ter they like him. —Probably the back porch will be brought into service before the cam- paign is over. cman pees eee —Any kind of a Pole, long or short, seems to be gettin’ the Bolshevik these days. —Tennesse failed to pull it across on the question. and the women will get the vote. Governor Cox ° which is an ardent and able supporter of Governor Cox, joyously welcomes ! the announcement that Senator Pen- | rose will “take the stump” for Hard- {ing an expresses the hope that this ponderous party boss will expend his | oratorical energies and eloquence in the middle west. While cordially sharing the satisfaction of our es- teemed contemporary on the main question we beg to protest against the assignment. If Senator Penrose takes the stump he should address "himself to the people of Pennsylvania who know him and can accurately ap- praise the value of his opinions and the sincerity of his statements. No : western audience can do him full jus- tice. The esteemed World, in the gener- osity of its heart, was influenced in thus assigning Penrose to the wild , west, by the Biblical adage that “a prophet is not without hofior, save in "his own country and in his own house.” . Senator Penrose is as highly appre- | ciated in Pennsylvania as he can pos- | sibly be in Wisconsin or California or | Idaho or Iowa. In 1914 he polled | about five hundred thousand votes "out of a possible nine hundred thous- and votes, that being the strength of his party at that time, and a consider- able number of his votes were cast by Democrats in resentment of the arro- gance of the candidate of their own party. The figures show that Penrose is well known if not exactly popuiar at home. It is true that in the western States named public sentiment has not been held as closely to the ideas and poli- cies of “the men in the Republican or- ganization who are running the Hard- ing campaign.” It is equally certain that Penrose might “stir the con- science of the people and lead them trooping back to the good old days of railroad control of the State govern- ments.” But Senator Penrose has been a sick man for a long time and it would be cruel to run him over the country when Lodge and Smoot and Sherman and Newberry are physically fit to perform such party drudgery. Penrose must stay at home, or at least within the limits of a baliwick {in which his big red automobile’ | creates a sensation always. | —The railroad workers were enti- i tled to the $600,000,000 increas pay | which the wage board allowed them, | but the average man is unable to i figure why the railroads had to get $1,200,000,000 increase in revenue to pay it. ‘Mr. Gompers’ Timely Warning. While addressing a body of the | American Federation of Labor, in New York State on Monday evening, Mr. Samuel Gompers, president of that splendid labor organization, ad- | monished his audienc to prepare | against strikes, lockouts and other la- | bor disturbances during the campaign. 1 It is part of the program of the man- | agers of the Republican party to cre- ate discontent in that way and every | expedient will be employed to that | end. The only hope of success for | the Republican candidates lies in com- , munity suffering and individual des- sition and no pains will be spared to accomplish the result. It is a cruel ' method but a settled plan. i There is scant tribute to the intel- ligence of the average voter in such a i campaign. A man who is himself in gant and sees his family suffering | from hunger is never in an amiable lor even a reasoning mood, and when ia poison tongued demagogue pours "into his ear carefully prepared ac- | cusations against the party in power, "he is likely to let credulity run away with his horse sense and join in the senseless agitation. That is the plan of campaign of the Republican ma- chine, and when easy money drawn from the slush fund contributed by predatory corporations and selfish in- terests is offered it is small wonder | even | he yields to the temptation, though he knows upon reflection that he is being deceived into doing harm to his fellow men. The Republican campaign is under the direction of Senator Lodge, Sena- tor Penrose, Senator Smoot and a few other men who have neither patriot- ism nor humanity to restrain their ' evil impulses. To obtain a party vic- | tory in the approaching election and get control of the spoils of a corrupt , administration for four years, they i would paralyze every industry and { impoverish every community in the | country. They know that out of the | graft thus made possible they could ! flourish and grow fat and they have | no concern for others. Mr. Gompers | sees the danger that is impending and | he wisely warns those associated with | him against the evil. —~Senator Penrose and Republican | State Chairman Crow are awfully worried because some of the women may have trouble in qualifying to vote. There is an old adage that "a renegade is worse than ten turks.” | lic and proceeded to make monkeys | i of themselves in sundry and various | ways. Harding’s Preposterous Plan. Senator Harding has advanced a good many absurd propositions as | policies of his administration, in the event of his election, but the most pre- | posterous of all is his scheme to unite | the governments of the world in a peace plan “more in harmony with the spirit of The Hague plan than the ! Versailles plan.” Already all the civ- ilized governments of the world are bound together for the purpose of per- manent peae on the Versailles plan, except that of the United States. To create another organization it would be necessary for all those govern- ments which have signed the Versail- les treaty, to repudiate their pledges in order to give them-freedom to en- ter into another pact of different pur- pose. To complete the Versailles treaty required the arduous labor of the leading minds of the civilized world for a period of more than six moths. Working within the shadow of the most destructive war of all history and under the extreme stress of anxiety for the industrial, economic and com- mercial readjustment of a suffering world, no time was wasted and the achievement was remarkably swift. It would require more than two years to dissolve the pact, even if all were willing to join in such a retrograde proceeding, and probably a longer period to organize and reform the al- liance, or whatever else he might choose to call the plan, Mr. Harding has in mind, and that after a dishon- orable peace has been made with Germany. It is universally admitted that there can be no effective readjustment of the industrial and commercial life of the world until a league or alliance making for permanent peace has been organized and put in working order. All the disturbances in Europe and most of the evils in this country since the armistice are directly ascribed to the uncertainty of the future with respect to peace and war. If the | United States had been as prompt as England, France and Italy in signing the treaty of Versailles, normal condi- tions in business would have been re- stored long ago. The Republican lead- ers prevented the ratification ents political “purposes “and” “Hard wants to provide for future uses. —The war made thirty million or- phans in the world but the Republi- can leaders oppose the League of Na- tions because it might prevent future wars and thus destroy the market for materials of war. ————— ee eee Suffrage Question Settled. Those bourbons in Tennessee who are still striving to stem the tide of progress by opposing the ratification of the Nineteenth amendment to the constitution, are figuratively “gnaw- ing a file.” The suffrage question is settled. The constitution provides a method of making amendment. That method has been literally followed in the case in question. Tennessee was the last State to ratify, but it rati- fied in legal form. Under the rules a motion to reconsider might have been made within a clearly defined period. The motion was not made by those opposed to ratification. That settled the question as completely as if it had been made and lost. The so-called Constitutional League of Tennessee may as well as dissolve. It may imagine that the constitution of Tennessee is in some danger of some sort and maybe it is. But in the matter in point it is the constitu- tion of the United States that counts. Every requirement of that more or less important instrument has been fulfilled. The vote of the Legislature of Tennessee was the final step. It made the thirty-sixth affirmative vote and thirty-six are three-fourths of | forty-eight which makes the whole | number of States in this glorious Un- ion, made brighter and better by this long delayed act of justice. There were three tailors of Tooley street in London, “once upon a time,” who imagined they composed the pub- The Constitutional League of Tennessee appears to have assumed their role in the affairs of the present day. Something must have happen- ed to the tailors for they accomplish- ed nothing and vanished from view. The Constitutional League of Tennes- see has revived their memory and are not likely to achieve anything else. Progress is a wonderful force and it takes a vast obstruction to stop it. The Constitutional League of Tennes- see isn’t big enough. —~Senator Harding hasn’t declared himself in favor of the Ten Com- mandments as yet, but he may be de- pended upon to do so as soon as a delegation of preachers visits his front porch. ——————— A ——— —Any old League will satisfy Harding and Lodge, provided Presi- dent Wilson had no hand in the fram- ing of it. 20. NO. 34. . The Reactionary Mr. Harding. From the Springfield Republican. Governor Cox will have it all his own way in showing up Mr. Harding as a reactionary. Substitute the word “conservative,” and Mr. Hard- : ing’s own friends and admirers would welcome the designation. But reac- tionary is really the better word be- cause it more accurately fits the pres- ent situation. : Mr. Harding’s attitude has been that of protest, either tacit or ex- pressed, against nearly every for- ward step taken in the past 15 or 20 years, and this fact should be borne in mind when he begs the country to return to “normalcy.” In the most progressive days of the Roosevelt ad- ministration, Mr. Harding was a con- stant political follower of Senator Foraker, of Ohio, who fought progres- sive railroad legislation and identified himself with the most sinister plutoc- racy of the time. His close Stand- ard Oil connections finally drove Mr. Foraker from public life. Of course, Mr. Harding condemned the Ohio constitutional convention and opposed violently the adoption of the new State Constitution. Governor Cox now recalls the editorial comment of Mr. Harding’s paper upon the Constitution’s adoption. “Socialism” was all Mr, Harding could see in that development. “The revolution in Ohio dates from September 3. Our own notion is that the radical victory of Tuesday will be followed by conflict after conflict until a socialism rule is thoroughly established. Ohio has broken her moorings. The revolution is on.” Revolution indeed; Massa- chusetts has gone much the same rev- olutionary way in revising its old Con- stitution, and it was all done under the red torch auspices of the party of Mr. Lodge, Mr. McCall and Gover- nor Coolidge. In national affairs, Mr. Harding has done nothing to remove the impres- sion he has made in the affairs of his own State. His few years in the Senate made Mr. Penrose, of Pennsyl- vania, fondly regard him as pre-em- inently safe, and the latest report from Philadelphia is that Mr. Pen- rose is anxious to take the stump for candidate Harding, notwithstanding that he is yet scarcely out of the care of his physicians. Mr. Penrose was never classed as a progressive; if you called him “forward-looking” he would greet you with a Falstaffin g World Leaders. From the Philadelphia Record. In the opinion of Life, which can be wise as well as witty, “there was more hopeful world-leadership in Mr. Wilson’s little finger than there is in the whole collection of Lodge-Repub- lican Senators.” This will be the verdict of history, re- gardless of the outcome of the election. When the partisanship of the present day shall be forgotten, just as the ani- mosities that led to furious attacks upon Washington and Lincoln are now forgotten, Woodrow Wilson will stand out as a great and inspiring figure and a matchless leader at a time when the people of the United States stood in great need of leadership. Just as the names of the Republican Senators who assailed Lincoln are now buried in oblivion, so the Smoots, Penroses, Brandegees, Moses, Lodges and others of the G. O. P. Senatorial oligarchy will pass into nothingness so far as the American people are concerned. Who can remember the names of the Senators who heaped abuse upon Cleveland? They are quite forgotten, but every year public memorial ser- vices are held for the great President. Woodrow Wilson takes on heroic proportions especially when compared with the small-town statesman of Marion, Ohio. It is a safe guess that if that non-committal person should be elected President no one would ever accuse him of being a world lead- er. The man who has been one of the nonentities of the Senate, and who nearly lost his own State in the pre- convention Republican primaries, will never loom large as a statesman of any kind. Silk purses are not made from sow’s ears. Russian-American’s Views. From the St. Joseph Gazette. The “paper-rags” man, salvaging the redeemable rubbish from a stuffy cellar on a hot day, paused to wipe the sweat from his face and then noticed a headline about the invasion of Poland. He could read just enough English to get the drift of it. ‘That is bad business—Bolshevism,” he said. “Me, I come from Russia, twenty years ago. I am a ‘burger’ many years. I work hard, make $5 or maybe $6 a day with my horse and wagon. I have wife and three chil- dren. I pay $15 a month rent. My landlord he raise the rent $5 and $5 until now it is $35 a month. I am not a rich man; to pay rent like that. I never be a rich man. But I get ahead—a little. And some men, many men, here in America, make millions. That is all right. Why should men who make only a little want to take away from the others? That does no good to anybody. What we want is, everybody have a chance. With Bol- shevism, nobody have a chance—ev- erybody make everybody _else poor, and everybody stay bad. No good.” There you have Americanism, and there you have the reason why Bol- shevism is not likely to make much headway in this country. ——Subscribe for the Watchman. SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE —Sam Carter, drunk and disorderly, had 25 pounds of cold boiled ham and five pounds of cheese in his possession when arrested in Altoona Monday morning and he told the police he “bought it from a feller for $2.40.” 3 —Worried because of poor yields on his farm and because he had sold the prop- erty for a price which he later coasid- ered too low, C. H. Eckenrode, of Lib- erty township, Adams county, aged 42 years, early on Monday blew off his head with a shotgun. —The many friends of Judge Geo. B. - Orlady will be glad to learn that he is fast recovering from his illness at the Masonic home at Elizabethtown, and will be able to assume his duties on the Su=- perior court bench at its session in Phila- delphia in September. —Though but 14 years of age, Ralph Lahnstein, of Shamokin, was arrested om Moaday by the police of Pottsville on the charge of passing bogus checks. The youth’s father rescued him at the prison doors by making good the money the boy obtained on the checks. —A. C. Silvius, of Mifflinburg, one of the State foresters, has resigned to be- come secretary and treasurer of the An- thracite Protective Association, an organ- ization of coal land owners in Schuylkill county to protect their timber lands. He will have headquarters at Pottsville. —The Commissioners of Northumber- land county have announced that they will permit women to clerk on the election boards at the November election. Of re- cent years it has been difficult to get clerks at $5 a day, when the work often runs until daylight the day after election. It is believed now that there will be enough women anxious to try out the job of election clerk. —Wm. Pramuk, of Shamokin, picked a woman’s pocket at 10 a. m. At 10:01 Officer Kohler’'s arm was on his shoulder. At 10:20 Justice Culton sentenced him te sixty days in the Northumberland county jail at Sunbury, twenty miles away and at 11:20, an hour later, he was behind the bars, all of which illustrates that the far-famed “Jersey justice” has to “go speed,” lawyers aver. —The Rev. Albert W. Seiple, a Philadel- phia clergyman, has brought suit against William H. Burkey, a Hamburg business man, in civil court, at Reading, for $6,240 damages for personal injuries in an acci- dent at Leesport several months ago. Two automobiles in which they were travel- ling collided, Seiple charging Burkey with responsibility for the accident and his in- juries, which have partially disabled him. —~With the purchase by the State of 16,- 440 acres of forest land in the vicinity of Coudersport, Potter county, that county now contains one-eighth of the State for- est lands. The State now owns 153,820 acres of forest land in Potter county. The recent purchase, at $1.75 an acre, amouat- ed to $27,770, and makes the total expend- ed in the developmnt of the industry im that county close to $290,000 for the land alone, —Bloomsburg Methodists are planning a jubilee for September 26, to celebrate the anniversary of the dedication of their pastorate the church was ‘county church. Bishop W. F. McDowell, of Wash- ngton, will have charge of the services nhder who uilt, are also to be present. All the Methodist churchés ° of Columbia county will participate in a big mass meeting in the church. —While three Allentown priests slept in adjoining rooms, burglars Friday night ransacked the rectory of the Church of the Sacred Heart and stole more than $1000 belonging to the congregation and cemetery funds of the parish. The office and private rooms of Mgr. Peter Mason, rector of the church, were ripped up as by a storm and the contents of several other rooms were strewn about. To gain entrance the burglars were forced to rip a copper screen and jimmy the window. —With both feet wedged under a shift- ing locomotive and badly crushed, Frank Trutt, of Northumberland, calmly smoked a cigarette and chatted with the men who worked for more than an hour to rescue him. At times he directed them in their work. When he finally was taken out, he was rushed to the Mary M. Packer hos- pital, at Sunbury, where his right leg was amputated below the knee. Doctors think they may save the other. Trutt was riding on the pilot, when the engine jumped the track, pinning him under it. —Dorothy Marshall, aged 18 months, of Sunbury, was playing on the fire escape with her little brothers and sisters in their home in an apartment house when she lost her balance and fell from the platform to the floor of a store, two stories below. In her fall she plunged throuzh a Skylight made of glass an eighth’ of an inch thick, striking it head first. Beyond a lacerated scalp, which was sewed up at the Geissinger hospital, she was uninjured. A salesman, representing a New York house, who was in the store at the time, seated close to the skylight, was severely cut on the head by the flying glass. —J. J. Slutterbach, field warden for the state game commission in Mifflin, Hunt- ingdon, Juniata, Snyder, Union, Northum- berland and Montour counties, assembled the game protectors of those counties at Lewistown last week, and went over the fall work with them, which includes the rigid enforcement of all game laws. The beavers, four in number, placed in the Licking Creek game preserve, have be- come settled. They have built three dams thus showing their intention of mating. A pair of those located in the Centre. preserve have wandered across Paddy mountain at the tunnel and built a dam in Laurel run, near Pat Gher- rity farm. —The school board of Mill Creek town- ship, Erie county, neglected and refused to enforce the State law requiring that children shall be vaccinated, and there- by lost the State appropriation of $13,- 000. The township auditors surcharged the amount to the members of the School Board and the matter has been taken fo the courts for determination. State Sup- erintendent of Public Instruction, Thomas EB. Finegan, has notified the auditors that the State will attend to the prosecution of the suit. If the decision of the court sustains the auditors the members of the board will be individually liable for the entire $13,000 and the costs of the suit. The attention of the auditors of the dis- trict has been called by Doctor Finegan to this provision of the State laws so that proper steps to surcharge them may ‘| be taken.
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