INK SLINGS.
The airship Los Angeles is pre-
paring for a joy run to Detroit. Her
Commander will do well to keep in
mind the Shenandoah. ;
Trudy Ederly is making good
use of her good fortune. Her family
has purchased and is about to occupy
a new and improved home. ‘
—Out in Chicago they seem to gun
for men in the streets with far less
thought of the value of life than we
of the east have for the rabbits in our
thickets. At least, we secure a li-
cense before we start out on a shoot-
ing expedition.
—Let us send enough Democrats to
Harrisburg to complete the cleaning
up of the mess that Governor Pinchot
would have done had he not been
blocked by the failure of his party
to give him a Legislature that was
more for purity of State government
than for machine bosses. Holmes was
sent to Harrisburg to help Pinchot
and what did he do? Let us send A.
C. Thompson down there to do what
Holmes welched on.
The Hon. William I. Betts has rep-
resented the District in the Senate of
Pennsylvania for four years and he has
done it just as he said he would: for
‘the best interests of the people of the
District without fear of punishment
by bosses or thought of personal ex-
ploitation. Senator Betts is the type
of man Pennsylvania needs more of
in Harrisburg. The more of his kind
who are sent there the sooner the in-
terests of the people will have con-
sideration over the gang that is filling
jts pockets with the money wrenched
from the taxpayers to pay salaries for
the satellites that keep it in power.
—Of course the St. Louis idea of
running Grover Cleveland Alexander
for President originated in the mind
of some enthusiastic fan who merely
suggested it as a pleasantry but the
way it was taken up by the other
residents of the base-ball metropolis
of the world shows what mass psy-
chology might lead to. There isn’t a
doubt in our mind that if every other
community in the country could be
inflamed the day before a presidential
election as was St. Louis last Sunday
night a triumphant ball pitcher could
be elected President of the United
States easier than the greatest states-
man the country knows of.
—The Clearfield Republican took an
awful wallop at brother Harter, of the
Gazette, last week. It charges him
with having sat at a banquet with
Vare only recently in Pittsburgh and
because of the gratification of sitting
in with “the big fellows” of complete-
ly losing sight of what he's been
preaching for years and what he
preached last May when he was tell-
ing all his readers that Vare was a
~very bad man and should not be nom-
inated. The Republican evidently
doesn’t know the Gazette as Centre
countians do. We know that it has
never done anything else than run
with the hare and chase with the
hounds.
—The new moon, which we hap-
pened to glimpse over our right
shoulder without there having been
any tree limbs in sight, happens to be
away round to the south. If we were
at all superstitious it would mean
‘that the weather is going to be mild
.and we’ll have good luck. We don’t
care a hang what the weather is to be.
It is fall and we’re prepared for any-
thing. We are, however, interested in
the good luck part of it. We're won-
dering whether those who know they
owe the Watchman are going to come
across in time for it to pay its taxes
and those who don’t owe it will have
‘sense enough to know that this para-
graph is not intended for them.
—The statement of the cost of oper-
ation and receipts from all sources of
the Centre county hospital during the
last year is the item that should in-
terest Centre countians most. The
payment of the delinquent pledges to
the new building enterprise are im-
portant, of course, but they will be
cleaned up in time. The $5600 deficit
in maintenance is the real problem
confronting the community. It can
scarcely be hoped to reduce it any in
the future and as rates at the insti-
tution are at present about as high as
can be afforded by those who may
have to use it we might as well look
the situation squarely in the face and
make up our minds to give generously
and annually to provide for the defi-
ciency that is inevitable.
—The official ballot for Centre coun-
ty has been certified and a copy of it
can be seen on another page of this
issue. It is extremely interesting to
us because the Hon. Harry B. Scott
.appears as a Prohibition nominee and
the Hon. Holmes does not. Lordy,
what changes a few years work. In
1922 Scott was anathema to every
Prohibitionist. In 1924 Holmes was
the pet of the party. Scott never pro-
fessed to be any thing else than what
he was and is. Holmes voted to seat
Bluett, a wet, as speaker of the House,
after he had, at least by implication,
assured the Prohibitionists that he
would fight to the finish in the dry
trenches. While Mr. Scott should not
be on the Prohibition ticket it is in-
finitely more creditable to that party
that he is there than if the Hon.
Holmes should appear again as their
nominee for Assembly, because Scott
is not a dissembler and never stooped
to straddling this issue as Holmes has
«done.
VOL. 71.
BELLEFONTE, PA. OCTO
Good Reason for Supporting Wilson.
Mr. John J. Patton is chairman of
one of the township Republican com-
mittees in Allegheny county. Dur-
ing the primary campaign he was im-
pressed with the estimates placed up-
on the merits of William S. Vare by
the Republican leaders in whom he
had confidence. Andrew Mellon, W.
S. Mellon, John S. Fisher, George
Wharton Pepper and others had de-
clared Mr. Vare unfit for tha office of
Senator in Congress and their adverse
opinions were unanimously endorsed
by the leading newspapers of the
State professing allegiance to Repub-
lican principles. Since the primary
Mr. Patton has, by careful investiga-
tion, confirmed the previous estimates
of his party leaders with respect to
Mr. Vare’s fitness for Senator and an-
nounced his intention to vote for the
Democratic candidate, William B. Wil-
son.
In publicly announcing his intention
to vote for Mr. Wilson, Mr. Patton
says: “The only thing against Wil-
son is that he is a Democrat, and with
the eyes of the United States on the
coming Pennsylvania Senatorial elec-
tion it is time for the decent minded
progressive Republicans to cast aside
their allegiance to their party, as
their fathers and grand-fathers did
when they elected Robert E. Pattison
as Governor of Pennsylvania—as they
did when they elected William H.
Berry to the State Treasuryship—and
when they elected George W. Guthrie
mayor of Pittsburgh. Roosevelt car-
ried this State as the Progressive
candidate in 1912. Let us put Wil-
liam B. Wilson, the father of the De-
partment of Labor, who has the aver-
age man’s welfare at heart, and who
does not have to make any explana-
tion of his slush fund, over with a
bang.”
Mr. Patton scores a strong point in
his reference to the election of Patti-
son, Berry and Guthrie. All these
Democrats were elected by Republi-
can votes, and their election worked
no permanent ‘impairment of the
status of Pennsylvania as a Republi-|
can State. But their election worked
a material and substantial benefit to
the people of Pennsylvania. Patti-
son gave the State an administration
absolutely free from graft or scandal
and Berry ‘¢ieaned out the nest of
thieves which had been robbing the
treasury ruthlessly for a number of
years. The present situation is an
exact parallel. The Vare machine,
grown insolent by its successes, cast
aside all restraints and literally
bought the nomination for an office
which his own party leaders admit he
is unfit to fill.
A
An Absurd Tariff Bugaboo.
The more or less interesting but
wholly absurd story that a group of
German and French steel makers are
about to combine in a movement to
dump vast quantities of pauper labor
products into the markets of this
country with the result that one of
our basic industries will be impover-
ished has made its expected appear-
ance. This preposterous story needs
no label to show that it is intended to
frighten voters into the support of the
slush fund ticket in order to preserve
the tariff. All other expedients hav-
ing failed to divert the thousands of
independent Republican voters from
their purpose to vote for Bonniwell
and Wilson, for Governor and Sena-
tor, respectively, that favorite buga-
boo, the tariff, is invoked.
In the first place there are no steel
makers in Germany or France with
sufficient idle capital to engage in so
expensive an enterprise with so little
prospect of profit. The products of
the dumping operation would neces-
sarily be delivered to our markets at
a loss, and German and French steel
makers are not in position to indulge
in the luxury of heavy losses for a
considerable period of time for pure-
ly sentimental considerations. The
half a century or more of high protec-
tion to the steel industry of this coun-
try has certainly made it secure
enough to resist such an attack as
this story indicates, for a year or
more, and the German and French
adventurers would grow tired of their
war in that time.
Then if the worst comes, our rather
well established and substantial steel
industry has an appeal to the exist-
ing law against dumping. If German
and French steel makers, separately
or in collusion, sell the products of
their plants in this country at prices
less than the cost of production they
may be adjudged as. dumping, and
their goods excluded from our mar-
kets altogether. In view of these var-
ious facts it would seem that our
somewhat extensive steel industry is
amply protected, and that this story
of a combination of German and
French adventurers is too absurd to
deserve serious consideration. Even
Germany and France do not know
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
Why You Should Vote for Demo-
cratic Nominees this Fall.
e—
This paper is Democratic because of principle, not because it is
partisan.
There is a vast difference between party principles and political
partisanship.
One is founded on an intelligent understanding of the fundamental
principles of the major parties and conviction that those of one of them
represents best one’s conception of government. The other has noth-
ing more to lean on for inspiration than the hope of office or the blind
obeisance to such traditions as because our daddies or our friends or
our associates voted this that or the other ticket we should vote the
same way or because we want to be with the majority.
We invite any reader of these lines to challenge in the columns of
this paper the assertion we now make that not five per cent of the
voters of the United States really have any other reason for being
Democrats, Republicans or other party advocates than those of an
accidental nature: Such as heredity, environment or desire to be with
the winning crowd.
If you are broad minded as we are trying to be with you right
now, you will admit that every word we have written thus far has ex-
pressed truth.
Because the Watchman has probably as many readers who are
traditionally Republicans as it has Democrats it wants to talk candidly
to them. In the election that is approaching it has no axe to‘grind.
Pennsylvania is hopelessly Republican, so that if this paper ever had
been or were at present inclined to play for what there is in it for
itself the futility of such stultification must be apparent.
It means nothing to us by way of hope of office who is elected
United States Senator, Governor, Congressman, State Senator or
Assemblyman. Whether they happen to be Democrats, Republicans,
Prohibitionists, or what not, we will have no favors to ask and we will
live, if you can.
As a matter of fact there is so little difference between the real
principles of the major parties to our political controversies and so
little intelligent understanding as to why this one is that and the other
is the other that we here make another radical assertion that after all,
there is little more to modern party fights than the crowd that is in
and the crowd that is out.
As we have said, we are writing specially to our Republican
readers. They are the ones whose votes will decide where Pennsyl-
vania shall stand in November. If they are Republicans because of
an intelligent conviction that they should be so they will see that their
principles are not involved in the contest now on in this State. They
will understand what Elihu Root said, what Theodore Roosevelt said,
what ‘Senator Geo. Wharton Pepper said, what Senator David Reed
said, that a man who doesn’t even knew why he is a Republican is play-
ing to take the great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania by the throat and
.choke it into submission to his desire to be boss; for all he can get
out of it for himself and those who wili-lick his boots for a job for them-
selves or their friends.
Time was when Pennsylvania boasted constructive statesmanship
in Washington and at Harrisburg. Today it seems the idea of the few
who are striving to make themselves and their friends parasites on the
majority is to get a job, no matter what the sacrifice of conscience or
principle may be.
If there ever was a time when Pennsylvania needed to be purged
of this crowd of grafters it is now. There are no party principles in-
volved in the present campaign. Vare wants to be a Senator for no
other reason than that he wants to be boss of a great State and con-
trol its action on matters of government that he knows less about than
you do. John Fisher wants to be Governor of Pennsylvania because
that is a laudable ambition, but he has cnly gotten the chance because
Joe Grundy is his sponser and boss and is sure that Fisher, as Gov-
ernor, will not approve taking some of the taxes off you and putting
them onto the corporations that Grundy represents.
Chase wants to be our Congressman because he would be set up
with the honor. but he is only part and parcel of the machine that
Grundy and Mellon are, for selfish reasons, striving to make powerful
enough to take over the control that Penrose and Baker once exercised
in Pennsylvania, bad as it was, but thousands of times more construc-
tive than the present gang has any idea of.
Harry B. Scott wants to be our Senator in the General Assembly.
Mr. Scott is a clean man in every phase of his life except his warped
idea that he must be for the organization— right or wrong. He is not a
Republican from principle. He is one of the partisan type. His great-
est desire to go to Harrisburg as your Senator is that he might be able
to make the machine stronger and become a more important cog in its
wheels. He hasn’t discovered how useful he might be if he were to
stand for something more constructive than the organization—right
or wrong.
Mr. Holmes went to Harrisburg two years ago as our Representa-
tive in the General Assembly. It was hoped that he might prove a
character strong enough to resist the machine. He had scarcely been
there long enough to find the way to his seat before he fell and re-
vealed the taint by voting for Bluett, the gang’s candidate for Speaker.
Personally we know of little that is discreditable to any of these
men. Politically they are all tarred with the same stick; the stick
which selfish, arrogant bosses are using to club the members of a great
party into submision to their will.
There is only one way te defeat this sinister purpose and that is
by voting for every nominee on the Democratic ticket. Not because
they are Democrats, but hecause it is time to show the exploiters of
the Republican party in Pennsylvania that the electorate of this great
State refuses to be further humiliated.
——The tax on mortgages may be
mre pe eae
— General Pershing is persuaded Made a disgraceful spectacle of a
——The Governor has an opinion of
inequitable, as the realtors say, but the Public Service Commission and
there must be revenues and so long as unfortunately a good many rational
Grundy prevents the taxation of cor- ' minded people concur in his view.
poration shares other objects of taxa-
|
tion must be found. | ~The lynching spirit broke out
lin South Carolina the other day and
re-
steel makers from insane assylums.
that our standing army is much too
small. But you can’t have large stand-
ing armies and economical govern-
ment.
——The vote of Dauphin county
will probably show that Mr. Beidle-
man’s speech for John S. Fisher was
of the lip-service variety.
spectable community.
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——Chairman Mellon is keeping
Max Leslie quiet in the campaign but
he isn’t fooling anybody. Max is still
the Pittsburgh boss.
ee brim
—Read the “Watchman” and get
Jl the news worth reading.
BER 15. 1926.
NO. 41.
Many Men Want to be Appointed
County Commissioner.
The sudden and unexpected death
of County Commissioner Harry P.
Austin, at the Centre county hospital
last Thursday, has naturally left a
vacancy on the board that will have to
be filled by appointment. As Mr.
Austin was the one Republican mem-
ber of the board it is only natural to
suppose that the man who will be ap-
pointed must in the nature of things
be a Republican. This rule was fol-
!lowed a few years ago when George
| M. Harter, a Democratic member of
the board, died rather unexpectedly.
The late Judge Henry C. Quigley,
then on the bench, promptly appoint-
ed John Yearick, a Democrat:
The appointment to fill the va-
cancy caused by the death of Mr. Aus-
tin will be made by Judge Harry Kel-
ler. If he so desires he can consult
with the two other members of the
board, Messrs. Spearley and Swabb,
and might be influenced by their
wishes in the matter, but it is not
obligatory on him to do so. On the
other hand both Mr. Spearley and
Mr. Swabb have intimated that they
will keep hands off so far as trying to
influence the appointment is concern-
ed.
In the meantime candidates for the
appointment are looming up in var-
ious sections and it is said that some
fifteen or twenty are already in the
field. Among the number are Harry
Shivery, Benjamin Shaffer and Fred
B. Healy, of Bellefonte; Howard Miles
and Harry Diehl, of Milesburg; Sam-
uel Everhart, of State College; John
A. Way, of Halfmoon township, and
others whose names could not be
learned. The office carries a straight
salary of $1000 per year. As Judge
Keller is away on a two weeks vaca-
tion no appointment will be made un-
til his return.
Hunters Getting Their Licenses.
While it is yet two weeks until the
opening of the hunting season for
small game, such as squirrel, pheasant
and rabbits, a small army of hunters
in Centre county have already secur-
ed their hunting license for this year.
To be exact, just 1805 licenses had
been issued up to Wei or,
ing.
While the small game season does
not open until November 1st, and con-
tinues only two weeks, or to Novem-
ber 13th, inclusive, some of the en-
thusiastic wing shots have been scout-
ing around to see what the outlook for
game will be. And from their reports
pheasants seem to be more plentiful
this year than they have been in sev-
eral seasons. One hunter is authority
for the statement that on one trip he
saw three flocks of birds and he esti-
mated the total number at from
twenty to thirty birds. Of course he
did not divulge their exact location,
as that is the spot where he will be
found on the opening day.
Rabbits are reported as quite
plentiful and there are some squirrel,
but reports have reached this office
that illegal hunters are already shoot-
ing the latter, so that there may not
be many left by the time for the open-
ing of the season. The killing of wild
turkeys is prohibited this year, so be
careful and don’t bag any.
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Bellefonte cannot be considered
a very fertile field to work in by the
State candidates of either the Demo-
cratic or Republican party. The Re-
publican spellbinders skirted along the
outskirts on Wednesday and yesterday
but fought shy of Bellefonte, while up
to this time there is no booking for
the appearance here of any of the
Democratic State candidates.
es Lm CR
——Probably the occasion of At-
torney Buckner’s address to the jury
in the New York Federal court the
other day was the first time Harry M.
Daugherty ever heard “the truth and
the whole truth” about himself.
Editor Harter Should Answer This.
From the Clearfield Republican.
Tom Harter, of the Bellefonte Key-
stone Gazette, has rushed to the front
certifying to the people of Pennsyl-
vania that Bill Vare is “not as black
as painted.” Tom sat at the same
table with Bill in Pittsburgh a week
or two since and heard Bill proclaim
the virtues of his family and himself.
Tom says Bill neither drinks, smokes,
chews (tobacco or gum), pads, uses
corsets, rouge or lipsticks and is
forninst the saloon coming back. All
of which should bring into line all of
Tom’s followers throughout the length
and breadth of Mother Centre. Then
again, a lot of them may have used
copies of the Gazette published dur-
ing the late primary campaign for
shelf covers and sich during fall house
cleaning and may look over the edi-
torial and news columns again. Then
they would be in between hades and
the iron works guessing Tom out.
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——Heroes are soon created. Every
"base ball game provides three or four,
| pasture, with the boy holding fast.
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Application by the State Department
of Highways of Pennsylavnia for approval
of plans for a bridge to be constructed
across the Allegheny River have been ap:
proved by Assistant Secretary of War Mac-
Nider. The bridge in question is to be
constructed over the river five miles west
of the city of Warren.
—Wlliam Hineman, aged 22, a son of Mr.
and Mrs. J. C. Hineman, of Mahaffey, was
instantly killed in a coal mine near Mahaf-
fey on Friday. The young man was cut-
ting coal in the mine with a machine when
the high power line to the cutter short-
circuited killing him instantly. Attempts
at resuscitation were fruitless.
—Patsy Santella, Pennsylvania Railroad
employee, at Altoona, reported to the po-
lice that he had been held up on Ninth
avenue Saturday night, by two colored
men and robbed of forty-one Pennsylvania
Railroad checks aggregating more than
$2,000. The checks were his. He said he
had not cashed any pay checks in four
years. :
—George A. Rigby, 58, general manager
of the New Castle works of the Carnegie
Steel company, shot and killed himself at
his home at New Castle on Sunday morn-
ing. He had been in ill health for some
time, relatives said. Rigby was found
with a bullet through his head by mem-
bers of the family investigating his fail-
ure to appear at breakfast.
—Improvements which will aggregate
$400,000 and represent construction of a
modern machine shop 350 feet long, de-
voted exclusively to manufacture of Diesel
engines is planned by the Chicago Pneu-
matic Tool company at its plant at Frank-
lin, Pa., was announced following the
visit of Charles M. Schwab and H. A. Jack“
son of Chicago, president of the company.
Present plans call for starting work in the
spring. Several hundred more men will be
given employment.
—FBlmer P. Buzzard, former president of
the Bangor Trust company, of Bangor,
Pa., and a former county commissioner,
was found guilty by a jury at Easton on
Thursday of embezzling $113,000 from the
trust company. His trial lasted ten days.
Most of the money taken from the trust
company went toward financing a road
contract in Washington county, New York,
for the Masterson Construction Corpration,
of which Mr. Buzzard was president. The
jury recommended clemency. A motion for
a new trial was filed Monday.
—Bedbugs are no cause for leaving an
apartment before the lease has expired, ac-
cording to a decision by Judge Hassler,
at Lancaster, on Saturday. The case in-
volved I. P. Helper, a real estate dealer,
and Josephine B. Miller. The woman rent-
ed an apartment in that city and vacated
pefore the lease had expired. When Help-
er executed judgment the woman allged
she was forced to vacate the apartment be-
fore the expiration of the lease because of
bedbugs. Today the court refused to open
judgment, holding the defendant was liable
to pay the amount involved.
—A thrilling ride on a cow ended dis-
astrously for Robert Miller, aged 11 years
of near Winfield, when he fell and suffer-
ed a broken arm. The boy with a few
friends was staging a wild west show. He
managed to crawl on the back of the un-
suspecting animal, but his presence there
frightened her and she ran about the
The
cow passed under a tree and a limb brush-
‘ed him from her back. He was assisted
to the house and later taken to the Mary
M. Packer hospital at Sunbury, where an
X-ray examination showed a fracture of
the left arm.
_ Lewistown lodge, No. 663, Benevolent
and Protective Order of Elks. decided at a
special meeting last Saturday night to au-
thorize the building of a new home on
their 200 foot lot on the corner of South
Wayne and East Market streets. The
building will cost $114,000 and will be five
stories in height, and will be the highest
building in Lewistown. The lot was the
home site of the superintendent of the
Pennsylvania Railroad company before
that official was moved to Sunbury, and
js located just across the street from the
new Federal building, the county jail, the
new building of the Fraternal Order of
Eagles and the Home of Wisto.
__Couriosity as to what was inside a dyna-
mite cap resulted in 9-year-old Howard
Johnson, son of Mr. and Mrs. B. R. John-
son, of Harrisburg, being admitted to the
Harrisburg hospital in a serious condition
suffering from severe wounds of the abdo-
men and the loss of four fingers received
when the cap exploded. The boy told his
parents that he had found the cap at home
and took it to school on Friday. He was
seated on the steps of the Shimmell build-
ing at recess picking at the cap with a pin
when it exploded. A teacher from the
school took him to the hospital. A piece
of the cap had entered his abdomen. The
boy's condition is reported fair. One finger
on the left hand and three fingers on his
right hand were torn off.
— Preparations for moving the large air
mail beacon light on Renn’s hill, north of
Sunbury, are now being made and the big
steel tower with its powerful light will be
transferred to Mile Hill, a short distance
to the east, within a few weeks. Ae the
same time the change in location is made
the light will be equipped with a sun dial
arrangement, which automatically = turns
the current for the light on and off. A
new motor for this purpose is being wait-
ed for, an error having been made in a
shipment received last week. Another
change to be made will place all of the
lights on the Island Park landing field
upon one circuit controlled from the care-
taker’s shelter. At present it is necessary
for the care taker to cover the field on
foot, turning the lights on or off.
Dr. B. Henry Warren, of West Chester,
widely known ornithologist, died Sunday
at his home there at the age of sixty-eight
years. He had long been prominent in Re-
publican political circles. He was a close
friend of the late United States Senator
Matthew Stanley Quay and aided in sev-
eral of the Senator's campaigns. In 19012
he was one of the organizers of the Roose-
velt Republicans and ten years later work-
ed for the nomination of Gifford Pinchot
for Governor. He had served as State
ornithologist and State Dairy and Food
Commissioner and formerly was a mem-
ber of the State Republican committee.
After his retirement as Food Commissioner
Dr. Warren for a number of years was
curator of the Everhart Museum at Scran-
ton. He was deeply interested in organiz-
ing bird clubs, and creating bird sanctu-
aries. He was the author of “Birds in
Pennsylvania,” and was a frequent con-
tributor of articles on natural history in
newspapers and periodicals.