Dewar Walp
INK SLINGS.
__Of course Centre county will
pay her gister, Clinton, the com-
pliment of polling a large vote for
Mr. Kistler.
__All the argument to the con-
trary notwithstanding we verge on
the belief that the real motive be-
hind some of its leaders is to con-
vert the Women's Christian Tem-
perance Union of Centre County in-
to a Women’s Republican Club.
~ _Sir Thomas Lipton has gone
home saddened by the failure of his
fifth attempt to lift the “America’s
cup.” He is the finest sport who
ever came from foreign to our
shores and because he is that we
are sorry that Shamrock V couldn't
win.
—Ask John Miller, our candidate
for the Legislature, to tell you about
how Pinchot fooled the farmers of
Centre county eight years ago. It's
a good story and it proves just
what we have been preaching all the
time. All Pinchot wants is your
votes, After he gets them—then
the devil make take the hindmost.
__At last the light has broken.
From the most unexpected sources
we have heard things, within the
week, that convince us that rural
Centre county is beginning to won-
der whether Mr. Pinchot is really the
altruistic leader it has believed him
to be or whether he is just another
one of those egoists who stops at
nothing to further his own personal
ambitions, We knew they would
find it out some day.
—Judge Fleming has made his
restraining order on the Treasurer of
Centre county absolute. In other
words the Judge says the Reed tax
law that Senator Scottand the Hon,
Holmes both voted for is unconsti-
tutional and cannot be enforced. It
is significant that Judge Fleming
and Judge Chase, of Clearfield coun-
ty, handed down their opinions at
practically the same time. It looks
like an effort to save Senator Scott
in the District and the Hon. Holmes
in this county.
__Senator Scott told his Bellefonte
audience, last Thursday afternoon,
that he was happy over Pinchot’s
nomination because Pinchot’s plat-
form embodies everything he wants
to go back to Harrisburg to work
for. The Senator was trying to square
himself for having voted for that
obnoxious Reed tax law, but many
in his audience saw through that.
They knew, too; that he would have
said exactly the same thing if Fran-
cis Shunk Brown and his platform,
had been here exhibiting their
wares. . The Senator never could
finess MIF, oo cpsenrnerts pre
— From what we hear, even the
W. C. T. U. is being prostituted by
its officers. Members have told us
that they are charged with being
untrue to their principles if they
don’t vote for Pinchot. Last Thurs-
day, when Pinchot spoke in Belle-
fonte, all he would say was: “I am
a dry Republican.” He didn't say
how dry he was before he went
hunting for votes or how dry he
expects to be after he gets them,
God save the Women’s Christian
Temperance Union. It's a noble
organization. But God give it wis-
dom to see that it is being exploit-
ed by officers who have an eye on
jobs they might get through deliv-
ering its vote.
—A wordof advice we would give
to our Judge. Some time ago he
very properly gave orders as to the
conduct and habiliment of those
who sit in the auditorium when
court is in session. In fact he went
so far as to have ejected from the
court room two very respectable
citizens who appeared in his august
presence in their shirt sleeves. It
wasn’t a popular ruling, but the
Watchman approved it because it
knows that when law loses its im-
pressiveness and dignity there’s lit.
tle to it. At the last session of
court many were there and without
coats and nothing was said. Why
was it? Did the Court start some-
thing it’s afraid to finish. If so
why ?
We have no quarrel with the
W. C. T. U. of the county. There
are numbers of noble women &sso-
ciated with that organization. How-
ever there are times when we
verge on a suspicion that they are
being exploited. At the time Phil
Johnston ran for District Attorney
of the county we thought the Union
hadn't rallied to his support as it
should have done. Upon inquiry of
one who was in position to know as
to just why it was not more active
in his cause we were assured that
it had its big guns on the line and
was backing up his every advance.
Maybe it was, but we didn't hear
that the higher-ups in the Union
were telling members with Republi-
can party affiliations that they
couldn’t be consistent unless they
voted for Phil. They are telling
the Democratic W. C. T. U. mem.
bers now that they ought to resign
from the Union if they can’t sup-
port Pinchot. How subtle! Mr. Pin-
chot never did, can’t and won't do
a bit more for Prohibition in Penn-
sylvania than any other Governor
who has been or happens to be
elected. All take the same oath of
office and all try to enforce the laws
on the statute book. Governors are
only executive officers. The Sena-
tors and Assemblymen make the
laws.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 75.
BELLEFONTE, PA.. SEPTEMBER 26. 1930.
NO. 38.
Governor Pattison and John W.
Hemphill.
More than thirty years have
elapsed since Robert E. Pattison
finished his service as Governor of
Pennsylvania, We have had nine
Governors, including the present in-
cumbent, since, each of whom has
had fast friends and generous eulo-
gists. But neither of them enjoyed
as widely spread or deeply seated
measure of public confidence as Mr.
Pattison. - To this day the highest
tribute that has ever been heard of
of any of is successors is that “he
is the best Governor we have had
| since Pattison.” And that is ‘not
| fulsome praise of the last Democrat-
ic Governor of the State. He was
truly an honest and capable public
servant whose constant and highest
purpose was to conserve the in-
terests of the people.
The Democratic party is now of-
fering, in the person of John M.
Hemphill, to the voters of Pennsyl-
, vania a second Pattison. There isa
| striking analogy in their early lives.
Both started in life without ithe ad-
vantage of wealthy environment and
‘acquired a liberal education as the
result of personal effort. Both
adopted the law as a profession and
| achieved success in their chosen line
! of endeavor. At about the age Pat-
tison was called to the important
{office of controller of Philadelphia
| Hemphill was called into the serv-
"ice of his country in the World war.
Having enlisted as a private soldier
he was promoted for meritorious
| service to the rank of captain, and
jat the close of the war reurned to
| the practice of his profession,
| John M. Hemphill is a good citi-
| zen, an able lawyer and a scholarly
i gentleman. He is not schooled in
| the tricks of politics and Pattison
was equally free of sophistication
i along those lines. But he is an in.
tense student of the science of gov-
ernment and a steadfast adherent of
the philosophy of Thomas Jefferson.
He makes no promises that he can-
not fulfil but he pledges, in the
event of his election, just, honest
and economical government, which
he knows he can fulfill and his
ECE a & SD Fu 30 v he will. His candi-
dacy will afford the voters of Penn-
sylvania an opportunity to restore
the government of the State to the
people, and if they are wise: they
will avail themselves of it.
4
Mr. Pinchot imagines that a
majority of Pennsylvania voters can
be fooled on election day anyway.
Purpose of Pennsylvania Democrats
“The attitude of the Democratic
party of Pennsylvania, as expressed
in its splendid platform,” John M.
Hemphill, our superb candidate for
Governor, declared ina recent speech
“has no relation to appetite or
drink. It is a question of govern-
ment.” The fourth Article of the
constitution of the United States de-
clares, “the United States shall guar-
antee to every State in the Union
a Republican form of government
and shall protect each of them
against invasion.” A Republican
form of government implies
full powers, including legis-
lation and the execution of laws
enacted. The Eighteenth amend-
ment specifically forbids the exer-
cise of these powers and works an
invasion of the rights of the States.
Temperance in all things is a
great virtue and temperance in the
use of intoxicating liquors is es-
pecially desirable. If the Eighteenth
amendment had achieved that result
it might have won’ popular favor
notwithstanding its menace to the
fundamental principles of the govern-
ment. But it has accomplished
nothing in that direction. It has
fed fanaticism, fostered bigotry and
created strife without in the least
measure diminishing the consumption
or lessening the appetite for inftoxi-
cants. It has vastly increased the
cost and curtailed the revenues of
government and served no good pur-
pose morally or materially to the
people. It has utterly failed to
justify itself in any respect,
The purpose of the Democratic
party is not to gratify the appetite
for liquor nor make the means of
acquiring it easier. Tt is to safe-
guard the fundamental principles of
the government and restore to the
States and to the people the rights
of self-government and the sacred
privileges of controlling their home
affairs in their own way. No com-
munity in this age of popular edu-
cation will enact laws or prescribe
rules which will impair the morals
or destroy the prosperity of the
people. But an alien government,
such as the Eighteenth amendment
creates, a centralized control, is
absolutely certain to create such a
condition. It is against that men-
ace Democrats of Pennsylvania pro-
test.
—
Pinchot, the Promiser.
About all Mr. Pinchot said in his speech in this place, last Thurs-
day afternoon, could be summed up in two of his sentences.
One was: “I am a dry Republican and Mr. Hemphill is a wet
Democrat.” oR
The other was:
make a compiete
report to me in Harrisburg next January.”
The Watchman has repeatedly challenged Mr. Pinchot to tell the
people of Pennsylvania just how dry he is. They have a right to
know that because seventy-five per ‘cent of those who vote for him
in the rural districts, especially, do it because they believe him to be
the same kind of a “dry” they are themselves. They have a right
to hear from his own lips just when he went dry and why he went
dry. He evades direct answer to those questions by saying “I am as
dry as I always was” or, as he did in Bellefonte, “I am a dry Re-
publican.”
In these days of deception, duplicity and political bargaining such
statements are entirely too evasive. :
Thinking people are turning their backs ona lot of false gods
and there are thinking people among the most devoted of the tem-
perance workers right here in Centre county who have come to be-
lieve Mr. Pinchot to be nothing else than a blatant hypocrit when it
comes down to sincere work in the cause they espoused long before
he got the idea that he could get himself into public office easily by
claiming that he isa Republican, and claiming that he has 4 residence
in Pennsylvania where the Republican majority is large and claiming
that he is dry.
As a matter of fact Mr. Pinchot can’t prove a single one of the
claims.
He is not a Republican, because he read himself out of the party
in 1912 and before the primaries this very year his emissaries pire-
empted another party name under which he declared he would run
if the Republican party didn’t nominate him for Governor.
He has only a summer home in Pennsylvania. His real home isin
Washington, Nobody ever heard of Gifford Pinchot’s having any
concern about how Pennsylvania was prospering, how her farmers
were getting on or how publie utilities companies were treating her
urban residents until he got ithe political itch and happened on the
happy idea of having Pennsylvanians scratch it for him. Up to that
moment his forums were the drawing rooms of the idle rich.
What was heard of Mr. Pinchot during the World war, for instance?
Was he on short rations? Did he wear patched pants like the King
of England? Was he among the countless others who gave their
energy and their time to the government for a dollar a year? No,
he was not. Because he never was associated with big industrial en-
terprises and practical experience counted in those days. not theories.
As a matter of fact he was living in luxury in Washington while
John Hemphill was at the head of his company in the thickest of it
in the Argonne.
And Mr. Pinchot’s claim that he is a dry, we opine, is predicated
“I expect to appoint a commission this week to
“terious, but upon a resolve to be dry while the law commanding us
to be so is on the Statutes. That is the smart thing for politicians
to do amd we want to tell you right here that if the members of
the General Assemblies of the States of the Union had voted their
personal convictions instead of voting to keep. themselves, in office
jthe Eighteenth Amendment would never have been ratified.
As for the glib promises he makes from every stump he can climb
onto they have been so many and so ridiculous that any morning we
are expecting to pick up the paper and read that Gif. has told the
farmers of Centre county that he has hired a gang of rain makers
and will guarantee that their cisterns will be full all the time he is
Governor. >
Out in the western part of the State, where the coal and iron
police are not popular, he told the people that his first act would be
to put that organization out of commission, Why didn’t he do that
when he was Governor before? And why didn’t he tell the rabble
that was hailing him as their saviour that he was the man who
had commissioned the very officers who committed the murder they
were indignant about ?
When he was here in May he told his audience that he would re-
duce automobile drivers’ and car licenses one-half. After promising
to reduce that income fifty per cent he came back to tell usthat he
is going to get the farmers out of the mud by improving all the
country roads right up to the mouths of their own lanes.
How in the world is this wizard going to cut the income from li-
censes one-half and build more roads than have ever been built? Ex-
cept by issuing more bonds for you to pay interest on or soaking
Josporgtions for more taxes, which you pay when you buy their pro.
ucts.
When Mr. Pinchot wants votes he promises everything. If he
really believed that the moon is made of green cheese, as he must
think a lot of his auditors do, we wouldn't be surprised if he were
to tell, some day, that if elected Governor he will command it to fall
to Earth so that everybody can have a piece.
Seven years ago, in February, 1923, he called representatives of
the Pennsylvania Farmers Co-operative Association down to Harris-
burg and kept them there nearly three days to tell him just what he
might do to help agriculture in Pennsylvania. They told him a lot
and what did he do afterwards? He reduced the usual appropriation
for T. B. indemnity for their cattle, he reduced the appropriation for
control of the Japanese beetle, he reduced the appropriation for the
fight on angua moth and the peach yellows.
That’s what Gifford did for the farmers after he got into office.
fooling them into voting for him,
When he comes around to see you ask John G. Miller, our candi-
date for Assemblyman, about this. He attended the conference.
He heard what Gifford promised snd he knows that it was all bluff,
just as is his latest promise to make jobs for everybody.
Men! Women of Centre county, if you haven't already gotten the
number of this political opportunist get down on your knees and
pray for light. Pray for vision to see that Mr. Pinchot isn't the
kind of a dry you imagine him to be.
Pray for restoration of memory that will tell you that boot leg-
gers worked as openly when he was Governor as they have done
under any Governor since.
Pray for wit enough to realize that Gifford Pinchot picked Penn-
sylvanians as the softest and surest people to respond to his
“thumb-jerking,” and give him a lift on his “hitch-hiking” way to
the White House.
study of the unemployment question so that it can
not on a deep rooted conviction thet liquor and its effects are dele-
That’s how he kept the promise made to the farmers when he was
—_ With the drys in Congress
going over to the wets in droves
Dr. McBride still professes confi-
dence that prohibition is safe. He
has Mark Tapley shoved off ‘the
map.
declares that
must be gentlemen.”
personnel.
cn —— ————————
— If every Democrat does his
duty this year Centre county will go
on the honor roll this fall.
line.
——The new Prohibition director
“Prohibition agents
That order
ought to make a big change in the
——According to published re-
ports Pinchot made - each of the
Pittsburgh leaders signon the dotted
Pinchot’s Interpretation of Loyalty.
Mr. B. Dawson Coleman, a widely
known and influential Republican, in
a letter to Gifford Pinchot of recent
date, directly challenges the right
of the promising forester’s claim
that he is a Republican. “You have
never done a thing to uphold the
Republican party in this State. You
have been a consistent bolter,” Mr.
; Coleman writes. And he proves
his proposition by citing the records.
| “You created . the Fair Play party
just a few weeks ago as a device
by which you could jump the - Re.
| publican party in case the Luzerne
| county case went against you in
‘the Supreme court,” Mr. Coleman
{ adds, and asks, “was that a sign of
' regularity?” Obviously Mr. Cole-
| man doesn’t understand’ Mr. Pin-
. chot.
| Mr. Coleman interprets party reg-
| ularity as fidelity to the principles
of the party. Mr. Pinchot construes
party regularity as servile adherence
: to the person of Gifford Pinchot and
| the complete acceptance of all his
whims as political gospel. There
is a wide difference between these
| philosophies, if they may be so
| characterized. Devotion to a prin-
ciple, even though it may be with-
i out merit, is an expression of con-
| science. Servility to an individual
'is a base form of slavery imposed
| upon a helpless dependent for selfish
| purposes. No matter how earnest
and active a man may be in the
service of his party unless he sup-
ports Pinchot he is a traitor in the
opinion of the forester.
In measuring the morals of men
he employs precisely the same stand-
ard. The first in this State to make
excessive expenditures in politics he
condemns it in others, and now,
while he is disbursing money like a
drunken sailor, he charges his oppo-
nents with extravagance. Only one
ballot box was opened in Luzerne
| county and that one revealed the
most outrageous frauds in his in-
terest. But he accusses his oppo-
nents of fraud. While he was con-
demning the Philadelphia gang for
all sorts of crimes he was holding
;sters, who are infinitely more cor-
| Tupt and vastly more brazen in their
(iniquity. “It makes a difference
! whose ox is gored.”
Hemphill Has Made No Deals.
! From the Philadelphia Record.
| Pinchot spoke like a swashbuck-
ler when he said “We'll roll up such
a majority that it won't make a
bit of difference what Philadelphia
| does,”
He speaks like a professional
politician when he accuses Hemphill
of dealing with the Philadelphia
gang.
The professional politician posing
as a lily-pure idealist is quickly de-
tected. Perhaps that is why most
professional politicians make no pre-
tense to superior virtues, but con-
fine their efforts to the most practi-
|
|
|
however, without incurring a strong
suspicion of insincerity.
So when Pinchot utters innuendo,
strives to discredit Hemphill with
dark insinuations of alliance with
the Gang, unsupported by specific
charges, he is “out of character.”
Either his crusading purity is im-
peached or his allegations are iden-
tified as an expediency prompted as-
sumption of the very methods he
denounces.
Hemphill answers the allegations
straightforwardly and unequivocal-
ly; “Neither I nor any one for me
has made any deals for ploitical sup-
port. Nor will I make any deals
at any time.”
But: “It is not up to us to ex-
amine and investigate into the pro-
cess of resoning which has brought
to us Republican converts, but from
wherever they come and through
whatever process of reasoning, we
welcome them all.”
Hemphill, never demagogic, al-
ways self-controlled, is sometimes
criticised for failure to adopt more
conspicious and sensational cam-
paign methods. But his speeches
put. the Forester to shame. They
shine with sincerity.
He will make no political deals.
alism is his platform and repeal of
prohibition his aim, he will accept
the votes cast by individuals who
refuse to be ruled by party alle-
glance when a transcendent issue
dictates disregard of party lines.
That is a strong position. It goes
down to the roots.
Pinchot said, September 9, that
the Gang must either pledge sup-
port to his candidacy or renounce it.
Mr. Pinchot ‘was going rather far,
wasn’t he in offering the alterna-
tive? To be in perfect harmony with
his jabs at Hemphill, his speech
should have declared unalterable
determination to reject support from
the Gang, under any conditions.
The mistake Pinchot is making
is that of putting the Gang down
as representative of all Philadel-
phians.
—Subscribe for the Watchman.
- friendly conferences and: entering into
bargains with the Pittsburgh gang.
cal kind of vote_getting operations.
The lily-pure cannot play politics. |
But in a campaign in which liber- |
SS
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE
—The Game Commission has received a
$500 fine, paid by John E, Brown, Lock
Haven, for using an artificial light in
illegal deer hunting, George High, also
of Lock Haven, paid a $100. fine for as-
sisting in the attempt to kill a deer.
—Five thousand school children from
every section of Bucks county and the
Democratic candidates for county and
State offices were the guests of the
Doylestown fair on Tuesday at the open-
ing of the eighth annual exhibition.
—Death claimed Miss Elizabeth Fisher,
14, of Hummel’s Wharf, Monday morning
at the Geisinger Memorial hosptal, Dan-
vlle, after an operaton for an abscess
of the brain caused by a sinus infec-
tion, believed to be the result of germs
from Susquehanna river waters.
—Mrs. Lucy A. Morrison, 102, the
oldest resident of Lawrence county, is
dead at her home in Princeton, near
New Castle. She performed her daily
household duties until taken ill four
| weeks ago. She was born in Clarion
| county in 1828, and was the mother of
11 children, six of whom survive.
| —Found guilty on 18 .charges of em-
| beezlemont. and forgery growing out of
| misappropriation of $20,000 in funds of
' the Coaldale State Bank, and pleading
| guilty to three additional charges, J.
Russell Yemm, former cashier of the
| bank, on Monday was sentenced to serve
! from 4 to 11 years in prison for his of-
, fense. ‘
—Police authorities, at New Castle,
‘ are making an effort to determine where
the small paymaster’s safe, encased in a
: leather carrying case, found by C. L.
i Lutton in his back yard came from.
| The opinion is that it was thrown away
| there by principals in a payroll holdup.
Nothing was found with the safe to deter-
mine where it came from.
| —Highway construction in Pennsylva-
nia for the season passed the 1000-mile
' mark during the last week. With forty
five miles of new pavement laid during
the week, the total construction for the
| year mounted to 1001, exceeding by 170
| miles the previous record of 831 miles,
built during the entire season of 1925.
A total of 24,048 men were employed dur-
ing the week on 282 contracts.
—After living for 16 hours buried un-
der a heavy fall of slate and rock.
| George Herbert, 51, of Vanderbilt, died
(in Uniontown hospital on Monday. John
Everly, 36, was found dead when work-
men reached the pair in the Royal mine
, of the W. J. Rainey company. Herbert
| was conscious during the hours he was
| entombed. The mine timber fell in such
' a manner as to leave an air passage.
—Mrs. Frederick Werntz, of Watson-
| town, won a $50 a month alimony order
"in Northumberland county court this
| week, but there's a catch in it. The
| monthly $50 is conditioned on Mrs.
Werntz teaching her little daughter
Elizabeth, to speak to her father, who is
paying the alimony. Werntz surprised
Judge Lloyd by testifying his wife
taught Elizabeth not to speak to him.
‘“That’s all wrong,” remarked Judge
| Lloyd and he wrote the condition in the
‘imony order. «
—The Masten mill, largest operation
of the Central Pennsylvania Lumber com-
pany at Williamsport, was closed last
“Thursday after 14 years of steady pro-
duction. The working force of 100 was
transferred to the plant at Sheflield,
Warren county. The Masten mill was
dismantled and the machinery prepared
‘ for installation at the Sheffield workings.
Fifteen miles of tramway from the
woods to the mills were abandoned.
Negotiations were started to dispose of
the cutover lands to the State Depart-
ment of Forests.
—George Myers, of Littletown, 10
miles south of Gettysburg, is in the
Adams county jail in default of $500 bail
on two charges of surety of the peace
preferred by Mrs. Myers and her son.
Myers is an auctioneer and etgarmaker
and returned to his home Saturday af.
ternoon after acting as the auctioneer
at a sale near Littletown. He drove his
wife and son from the home, upset the
china closet, breaking most of the con-
tents, turned over tne kitchen stove,
threw glasses of jelly against the win-
dows and caused much other damage.
—William W. Lewis, 76-year-old re-
cluse and ‘‘mytsery man.” left an es-
tate valued at $600,000 in his will filed
for probate at Pittsburgh, Saturday.
Lewis lived alone in a huge, scantily
furnished house on Perrysville avenue.
He is survived by a sister, Mrs. Elliot
Lewis, and her son. Neither was named
beneficiaries under the will, but under
the terms of the inheritance law, they
will receive the estate. The will made
no provision for disposition of the es-
tate. It directed that the funeral ex-
penses be paia and a suitable tombstone
be placed over Lewis’ grave.
i —William Berg, 60, father-in-law of
Tony Bell, former county detective, who
| was acquitted last week of slaying John
F. Donohue, and a principal witness for
‘the defense in Bell's trial, was found
' dead, on Tuesday, in Red Stone creek,
'in Uniontown, behind the Fayette county
jail. The cause of Berg's death was not
determined immediately. There was a
| severe cut above his left eye. His coat
was on the bank of the stream and the
' body lay between two logs in about three
feet of water. Berg left a hotel where
“he was employed as clerk at 10:30 o'clock
Monday night. His watch, found on
his body, had stopped at 11 o'clock.
| Berg had been one of the defense wit-
nesses in establishing an alibi for Bell,
who claimed he was at home at the time
| Donohoe, a former constable and State
' policeman, was slain on July 31, 1929.
{
{| —airing of the incursions of thieves,
farmers between Meyersdale and Berlin
| have organized to put a stop to their
| work. A posse of armed farmers sur-
prised four men raiding Ephriani Dietle’s
| cornfield. They had six bags filled with
i corn loaded in their cars and four more
bags filled ready to load when the
farmers closed in on them. Two sur-
rendered and the others fled as shots
were fired after them. The captives,
John Chanko and Joe Moore, of Mac-
Donaldton, are in jail in default of $1000
bond each. North of Berlin a farmer
frightened from his potato patch a gang
of fellows who were helping themselves.
They continued their work in the potato
patches of his neighbors, removing from
10 to 15 bushels from each patch. It is
bélieved that after harvesting a truck-
16ad after dark they hauled them to a
city market.