Drworwai Makin INK SLINGS. —Vote for John G. Miller for member. of the General Assembly of Pennsylvania. Pinchot will mot be elected Governor, but he is making a strong campaign for a berth in a bug- house. Henry Ford is opposed to tariff legislation but contributes liberally to the party that produces tariff laws. ——The new oil scandal is shap- ing up and an explosion in the In- terior Department at Washington is impending. — The “Pep’ meeting the Pinchot Scott combination pulled off up in the Chestnut Grove section of Boggs township got entirely too peppy. President Taft fired Gifford Pinchot out of the national forest service because he was a mischief- maker. Taft had some sense of proportion. —Now that McCormick, McSpar- ran and Bonniwell have crawled into the same political bed we know everybody else will be happy and we hope they will be, too. — George W, Wickersham, Hoov- er's crime expert, favors the whip- VOL. 75. Hypocrisy Goes the Limit. In his defiance of the Philadelphia Republicans who have declared op- position to his election to the office of Governor. of Pennsylvania, Gifford Pinchot is as insincere and dishonest as he is in promises to do things which he knows to be impossible of fulfilment. In a radio speech de- livered in Philadelphia, last Friday evening, after charging General At- terbury, Charles B, Hall and others with grave crimes, Mr. Pinchot pro- fesses to be highly gratified because those gentleman have declared their purpose to vote against him. As a matter of fact he did all he could to entice them to support him. He even sent State Chairman Martin and Auditor General Waters to Mr. | Vare in the hope of making a bargain ping post as a punishment for crime. | ¢,,. their support. Well, that brings him up to within a century of present civilization. Judge Maxey is a politician but a poor judge. | | 1 i master | an agreement with Mr. Vare. Judge ter his nomination for Governor, at In 1922 when Pinchot found him- self slipping he entered into such . Af- Niles is a poor politician but a | that time, he denounced the Phila- splendid judge. They are candidates delphia machine quite as bitterly as court | he is doing now. But the public bench. Consult conscience and make | reaction was disappointing. His ma- for a seat on the Supreme choice. — While Hemphill, the young lawyer who left his practice, at the call of his country, was fighting in France, Pinchot, the milti_millionaire, was conniving with the Governor of Pennsylvania to get his salary as Forester raised. What a contrastin the characters of the two men. —If you own stock in a railroad, a telephone company, an electric lighting or power company, a bus line or any other public utility op- erating in Pennsylvania it is you Pinchot is injuring by his attacks on such corporations. Your money is invested in them. You are en- titled to a fair dividend from them. You are not getting more than that now. If Pinchot has his way, prob- ably you won't get anything. —The Hon. Holmes thinks he is going to be elected for the third term. He told us so, himself. Of course he might know what he is talking about, but we think that Centre county needs a .Representa- tive at Harrisburg who won't be asleep at the switch when such out- frageous laws as that Reed tax bill come up. We are going to vote for John G. Miller, a man who will make his mark in Harrisburg if Centre county sends him there. —If our Republican readers are as good sports as we are when we get licked we know they will turn in and help us to give those old Democratic roosters of oursa chance to crow. The poor things, they are in the last stages of t. b. and un- less they get a chance to exercise their lungs soon were going to be up against an -undertaker’s bill. Remember, if they get out on Nov. ember seven they won't crow ex- ultingly. They'll only crow because of deliverance from death just like those really interested in the Re- publican party should crow for the deliverance from Pinchot. —The fife and drum corps of the Carlisle post American Legion has been broken up. A political boss threatened four of its members with loss of their jobs if they played at the Hemphill meeting there last Saturday night. The boss has never served in any war. John Hemphill served with distinction in the Big one and the Legionaires merely wanted to honor a ‘“buddy.” When they found out that four of their members couldn't do that without losing their jobs the entire outfit resigned and Carlisle has lost a martial band that it was mighty proud of. When the Brooks-Doll Post band turned out to escort Mr. Hemphill on his recent visit here there were no such despicable characters to threaten them. —Former Judge Arthur C. Dale is having the time of his life send- ing out news ‘releases” from the Pinchot Philadelphia headquarters. He just loves it. And it probably gets across where Arthur isn’t known. His latest fulmination is to the effect that Hemphill “is not tell- ing the truth” when he says that he has “no deal with the Republican organization bosses in Philadelphia.” We know John Hemphill and we know Arthur Dale. We also know which one of them would be most likely to juggle the truth a little if by so doing he could advance his political fortunes a bit. And when the former Judge talks about ‘the loyal Republican organizations of the rest of the State” our mind just naturally wanders back to 1923 when we elected him District Attorney of Centre county on the Democratic ticket because he couldn't be “loyal” enough to take the lickin’ he gotin his own party primaries. If Arthur only had an “Amos” to rescue him from his blunders he’d made a dandy “Andy.” i | | | { | i i i | . assistance, ! of partnership and began i Vare, Mellon and all other Republi- l.cious attempt to create sectional | animosities failed and he appealed to Vare to save him from immedi- ate defeat and ultimate oblivion. After he had procured, with Vare's. legislation which he imagined made him master of the State, he violated his agreement with Vare, betrayed his obligation calling | cans whom he had deceived, bad names. Moreover, in his present endeavor : to sneak into the office of Governor Gifford Pinchot’s hands are not clean. He might have deceived Vare again if his perfidy had not been previously revealed, but he has succeeded in inveigling the Pitts- burgh bunch of political pirates into his support. The “strip,” where ballots are thrown into sewers and corruption rages without restraint, is for him enthusiastically and Mayor Kline, Max Leslie and their gangs of thugs and outlaws are with him on their own terms, General Atterbury and Mr. Vauclain are anathema to his addled mind but the ballot box stuffers of Pittsburgh are his cherished supporters and friends. Hypocrisy could hardly go further. —1It looks more and more as if John Hemphill is going to be given | a chance to show Pennsylvania whether he is a second Robert E. | Pattison. The tide has turned and brother Pinchot is on the run. | The Danger of Branch Banks. In a speech delivered at Easton, | on Wednesday evening of last week, | Sedgwick Kistler, Democratic candi- | date for United States Senator, said: | “If branch banking is permitted either by legislative inaction or | sanction to continue in its develop- ! ment we will have in this country | that concentrated and centralized financial control advocated by Alex- | ander Hamilton but always hereto- fore unacceptable to the people of the United States. The bankers and stockholders stand to see the elimi- nation of their institutions, and the borrowers and depositors stand to lose a relationship of personal under- standing and appreciation in their financial dealings.” Branch banking is a new and menacing evil in the business life of the country. It began in an early period of the Coolidge regime and spread rapidly under freely extend- ed sanction of Secretary of the Treasury Mellon. Consolidations, mergers and absorptions of big banks in the financial centers made the organization of chain or branch in- | stitutions desirable, if not necessary, to give employment to surplus cap- ital and at the same time hold it under constant control of the moth- er institution. One of the evil ef-| fects is the absence of sympathy between the bank officials and the customers, which has averted many financial wrecks. The hard boiled head of the major bank has “no bowels of compassion.” The platform upon which John M. Hemphill, Sedgwick Kistler and their associates on the Democratic ticket stand, declares against this evil. It warns the public against such combinations and connections as “inimical to the welfare of the people” and adds, “branch or chain banking would destroy all locally owned banks with their local management and local sympathies; it would concentrate and centralize the banking resources of the whole country into a limited number of great banks controlled by a few in- dividuals.” In the face of this menace, Mr. Kistler’'s admonition is timely. His election to the Senate would be a preventive step. able deflection of Democratic voters No Wr atcha STATE RIGHTS ‘AND FEDERAL UNION. BELLEFONTE. PA.. OCTOBER 17. 1 Pinchot Is Yelling “Stop Thief!” If you want to know the truth about why so many big Republi- cans in Pennsylvania are announcing that they are going to support Hemphill for Governor we'll tell you. First. They regard Pinchot as a very dangerous man. Dangerous, because he is so rich himself that he has no conception of what his scattered-brained theories might mean to industry and labor, if put into practice. Second. They know he is irresponsible, because no serious man would make promises that he knows that he cannot fulfill. Third. They know that he is not a Republican, because he said so, himself, in 1912. Fourth, They know that he would not be a candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania if it were not for the chance his election would give him to “hook up” with what Senator Moses (Republican Senator from New Hampshire) called the “Wild Jackasses”’ of the Middle West and attempt to make himself President Fifth, They know John Hemphill is sound. real truth that we promised to tell you comes in) of the United States. (Here’s where the They know that an organization was formed among prominent Democrats and Re- publicans (alike) to pull him off our ticket and substitute another candidate who might be more pliable to the demands of certain in-. terests in the Republican party, that we shall not name now. Mr. Hemphill had only the good of Pennsylvanians at heart and John Collins, our conscientious State Chairman, was of like mind so a deaf ear was for Governor to any course other people of Pennsylvania. turned to all proposals that might obligate our candidate than that of usefulness to all the When they realized that John Hemphill had no other desire to be Governor of Pennsylvania than an old fashioned idea that he might be of service to his fellow Pennsylvanians, that he is one of the men who ‘can’t be seen,” they figured that it might be better for the State, better for elected. the Republican party, if he were In endorsing Hemphill the really big Republicans of Pennsylva- nia are trying to do for their own party just what the late Matthew Stanley Quay did for it in 1883 when he sent out the word from the old Continental hotel, made Robert E. Pattison Governor. 9th and Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia, that To this day Pattison is remembered as one of Pennsylvania's greatest Governors. There were elected him. not enough Democrats then in the State to have Republicans gave him to Pennsylvania, just like they are now go- ing to help put John Hemphill in the executive mansion at Harrisburg. We have told you the truth. In other words, “the low down” on the situation. We don’t like to call Mr. Pinchot a liar when he says that John Hemphill has made a deal with Vare or anybody else. An we want to tell you is that he spurned all such proposals and by do- ing so won the respect of those who attempted to use him, And that’s why forty-seven of the Ward leaders of Philadelphia are for him. And that’s why Allegheny county, the Mellons and all the others are turning to him. It's n ‘because he is running on the “wet” platform of thé Deniocratic party in Pennsylvania. It’s because they have tried to seduce him and failed. And be- cause of that failure they have discovered a sound man who, while not being one of their political faith, they recognize as being safer for the industries, safer for labor, safer for all interests of Pennsyl- vania than Mr. Pinchot who has no other interest at heart than his own aggrandizement. Mr. Pinchot is yelling “Stop Thief!” all over the State about the deal John Hemphill has with the so called Philadelphia gang. What a hypocrite! He is the very fellow for whom Republican State Chairman Martin went to Philadelphia to make terms with “the gang.” John Collins, Mr. Hemphill’s manager, never made overtures of that nature. Put that in your pipe and smoke it. ayo er mrt 2 = Pinchot’s Fraudulent Claims. i In his professions of confidence of election Gifford Pinchot is just as‘ insincere as he is in his absurd promises of achievement in the event of ‘his election. His purpose in both instances is to deceive and are equally fraudulent. There is no consider- to his support in any section of the State. A few more or less fanatical prohibition voters who have been reckoned as Democrats might, and probably will, vote for him. But there will be twenty Republicans voting for John M. Hemphill for every Democrat who will vote for Pinchot. This prediction is based on reliable information from every county in the State, It may be added that outside of fanatical prohibitionists in both par- ties and a few mercenary politicians there is positively no enthusiasm for Pinchot anywhere. This was shown at a recent meeting held in Harrisburg for the stated purpose of exhibiting the perfect harmony of the candidates. Great preparation had been made to entertain not less than 15,000 persons and all the candidates were assembled. The 1500 employees of the Fisher ad- ministration were given a half holi- day and a speaker's stand and big platform had been erected on the capitol grounds, probably at public expense. A great number of State policemen and highway patrolmen were brought from various sections of the State, certainly at the ex- pense of the State. It was to bea great event. But the result was disappointing. The highest estimate made by even partisan newspaper correspondents, of whom there were many in at- tendance, was a crowd of 2000, while conservative reporters fixed “those present” at 1500. The meeting last- ed less than two hours and it was as gloomy a gathering of hopeless partisans as was ever assembled at Harrisburg or anywhere else. There was no enthusiasm in the crowd, no spirit and hardly a hope in the speeches, and we are reliably in. formed by a gentleman who was present that after the meeting ad- Journed Mr. Pinchot confidentially stated to a friend that unless the up- State voters were aroused to great- er exertions he would be defeated. ——Said Republican county chair- man Wilson I. Fleming to mayor Mackey, of Philadelphia, in a tele- gram published in the Philadelphia Inquirer on Monday morning: “Cen- tre county will be strong for whole ticket. Organization united in sup- port;” all of which it is anything else but, in the words of Octavus Roy Cohen. —The opinion that there ought be minority representation on the Ap- pellate court benches of the State is growing rapidly, and every con- tact with Henry C. Niles gives ita boost. —=Sir Thomas Lipton promises to make another effort to capture the America’s cup, which proves he is quite as much an optimist as a sportsman. Prohibition commissioner Do. ran and prohibition director Wood- cock are calling each other names. “When rogues fall out”—you know the rest.” ——Of course Grundy knows ex- actly what Pinchot would do witha piece of labor legislation. Grundy never ‘buys a pig in a poke.” ——Gifford Pinchot hasn't de- nounced Secretary Mellon for some time. Obviously Giff still hopes Mellon will support him. —It must be a comfort to Gifford Pinchot to know that the Pittsburgh political pirates are faithful to his cause. ——The hopes of New York Re- publicans are based on scandal, which is a mighty poor foundation. ———=Speaking of optimism Bishop DuBoise has asked Bishop to resign. 930. the parade. NO. 41. 'FIFTY YEARS AGO | IN CENTRE COUNTY. | Items taken from the Watchman issue of October 22, 1880. —The Democrats of Centre county will have a grand rally in Bellefonte on Friday, October 29. Special trains will be run from Clinton, Clearfield and Blair counties. day parade will form at 10 a. m. The torch light procession will form at 7p. m. The speakers will ‘be Hon. William P. White, United States Senator from Maryland; Hon. Lewis C. Cassidy, of Philadelphia; William A. Wallace, of Clearfield; Hon, Samuel H. Reynolds, of Lan- caster; Gen. A. L. Pearson, of Pittsburgh and others. —John H. Houser, who a short time ago lost his right hand while working with a clover huller at State College, had an accident pol- icy which William B. Rankin, this place, had induced him to take only a short time before the acci- dent. It was just business for Mr. Rankin to sell that policy, but it was mighty good business for John. —E. S. Garver, formerly of Cen. tre Hall, this county, has been nom- inated for the Legislature by the Democrats of Worth county, Mis- souri, where he is now living and editing a paper. —The tickets for the special train to Williamsport for the Hancock meeting are only one dollar for the round trip, George B. McClellan, ' review the hero of Antietam, will —B. F. Leathers and Son, of Unionville, have torn down the old hotel stable on the corner of Main and Plank Road streets, one of the landmarks of the town, and are ' planning to build a store-room sixty- | feet deep on the lot. : Tuesday might. Above it will be a town hall, something that Unionville needs very badly. —The Philipsburg delegation that came over to march in the Republican parade, last Friday night, were treated rather heartlessly by those who ran the affair. The Philipsburgers had left home at 3 o'clock in the after-' noon and when they arrived here were pushed right into the parade. ' Then they were kept on the march until within eleven minutes of the time of departure of their special train, and not one of them got a +4 chance to get a bite to eat. Pretty shabby, that. —Pennsylvania Railroad magnates paid Bellefonte a visit over last President Roberts, General Superintendent Pugh, Gen. Manager Thompson and other high officials were here to meet president Downing, of the Snow Shoe R. R. The Pennsylvania is going to buy the Snow Shoe road and the officials were taking a look at it, —Monte Ward, of this place, the noted baseball curve pitcher of the Providence, R, I, ctub, has been se- cured by the Metropolitan club of New York and will finish the sea- son there. —A smart fall of snow occurred ih Snow Shoe on Wednesday morn- ng. —The Presbyterians in this place expect to reoccupy their church edifice next Sunday. —The Greenbackers of Centre county have nominated very respect- table candidates, but they cant win this fall. Even their eminent chair- man, Jacob V. Thomas Esq. can't get things going their way. —An infant son of Samuel and Marilla Dawson, of this place, died on Friday last at the age of seven months. —W. E. Burchfield, Register of Centre county, and Mrs. Mary Moran, widow of the late John Moran Esq., were married at the bride’s residence in this place at five o'clock, last Tuesday evening by the Rev Mr. Laurie, of the Pres- byterian church. The bride is the daughter of the Hon. S. T. Shugert and one of the most estimable ladies in Bellefonte. (Editor's Note—We are really at our wit’s end. This edition of the Watchman seems to have purveyed very little local mews other than meetings of Hancock and English and Garfield and Arthur enthusiasts. Parades and meetings must have been held at every cross roads in the county and Watchman news gatherers of fifty years ago must have been pretty busy reporting them. It was a long trip from Bellefonte to Stormstown, by horse and buggy, and thence to Madison- burg and on over to Howard but someone seems to have done it and the paper is full of political meet- ings such as would start brother Pinchot turning hand springs were there such enthusiasm in Centre county now for him.) ——The light registration in the cities of the State is ominous to Pinchot’s hopes and ambitions, a glacker is a problem for World war veterans to solve. ——Those Missouri athletes cer- thing about base ball. rm———— Apri — ——There are symptoms of an anti-Pinchot epidemic in Pittsburgh. The ——=Shall we vote for a buddy or | tainly did show the world some- | a ERR AAT HS, SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE —While Mrs. David Richard, of Fallen Timber, was outside her home talking with neighbors concerning a fatal acci- dent, her daughter, Alice, one year old fell into a tub of water in the kitchen and was drowned on Saturday. —Forty Fort borough authorities and State police are endeavoring to apprehend the person or persons who for the past six weeks have left threatening letters at the homes of several prominent. resi- dents. Each letter demanded a sum of money, in some instances the amount being $500. —George Tudech, of Jonestown, 50, who authorities believe fell from a roof while walking in his sleep, died last week of his injuries. Tudech was found unconscious in the yard of a relative in Heckscherville. He had gone there to attend the funeral of a cousin who was killed in a mine accident. —Robert Neff, 60, dictator for the Moose Lodge in Tyrone, was sent to the Blair county jail for from eight to 16 months, on Tuesday, charged with vio- lating the liquor laws. He was also fined $500. In the raid a few months ago the club steward was given six months for beer manufatcure. —Aroused by a commotion in his hen- nery, early on Monday, chief of police Charles Zimpher, of Hellertown, North- ampton county, took his gun to investi- gate. Seeing an object crawling along the side of the building, he fired. The ‘thief’ was Chief Zimpher‘'s own rab- | bit hound, that had killed seven pullets. —The owner of an automobile was , required by the jury in a civil action in | the Montgomery county courts to pay la bill for damages caused to a railroad i locomotive. ‘rhe action was brought by { the Reading Railway company against | Merrell Margetum. The plaintiff sought $420.50 for repairs to the engine. A ver- . dict for the full amount was returned by ! the jury. —Rittner Harvey went to jail Bloomsburg, on Monday, until he $271 funeral expenses of his first wife and a $25 contempt of Court fine. Har- vey married again 10 days after his first wife died. He was attempting to ob- tain a Nevada divorce at the time. When he was arrested he had married the woman the Court had ordered him to stay away from. —A jury in the Dauphin county court, ‘on Tuesday, awarded $6000, heart balm to Miss Ivy M. Carberry from the es- tate of Ross Oenslager after 19 hours of deliberation. Miss Carberry filed suit for breach of promise against Oenslager in 1929 and following his suicide in Octo- ber of hat year, she amended the suit to claim $100,000 damages from his es- tate. She alleged that Oenslager had ' pepeatedly promised to marry her. —Robberies at a number of business places in Tunkhannock and vicinity have . been solved with the arrest of nine school boys, police say. An 11-year-old boy was . named as tne leader of the group. Near- at pays ly $500 was taken in the robberies, po- lice revealed, and all but $3 has been recovered. The money was found hid- , den uhder a hardware store, which was one of the places robbed. Authorities described the boys as belonging to the ‘best families” of the town, and would not reveal their names pending a further ; investigatoin. —Roy Eckert, of Emigsville, night man at a York garage and service station, frustrated an attempt at a holdup at his place of employment by beating the thug to the draw. Eckert fired one shot at the fleeing bandit, who escaped, Eck- ert noticed the stranger coming in his direction as he was washing an automo- bile. The intruder was approaching through a lane of automobiles. Eckert noticed a highly polished revolver in the man’s hand. The garage employee drew his gun and fired a shot. The intruder beat a hasty retreat. —Mrs. Rebecca Swallow is sole heir to the $50,000 estate of the late Rev. Dr. Silas C. Swallow, Harrisburg, according to the terms of his will filed at the Dauphin county court house. The estate consists of personal property. The Rev. Dr. Swallow was once a candidate Tor President on the Prohibition party and was a retired Methodist minister. A week before the death of her husband, Mrs. Swallow suffered a fractured hip in a fall on the front porch of her home and has been confined to the Keytsone hospital since tnat time. —If no near-relatives are found, the $12,000 estate of David Johnston, Western Electric employee who fell dead in the new Bell telephone plant at Sunbury, last week, will revert to .the Common- wealth of Pennsylvania. Johntson, about 50, was a native of Scotland. He came to this country when a young man and became a naturalized citizen. He en- tered the employment of the Western Electric company about 21 years ago. His work took him from place to place all over the United States. Thus his home came to be any town Where he was sent. For two months he had lived in Sunbury. —Half forgotten tricks of her circus days rushed back into the memory of an .armless mother in time to save her 4-year-old daughter from burning. to death. The child, Rose Lee Matthews, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mat- thews, of Northumberland, was playing in the yard in back of her home when suddenly she let out a piercing scream. The mother, armless since birth, rushed out and found her daughter in flames. Quickly throwing off her shoes and us- ing her feet as a normal person would hands, she seized the clothes with her toes and stripped them from the back of the child. —Mrs. Ruth Urban, a comely woman, 22 years old of Pittsburgh, told police, on Monday, that she married Leonard Urban, 25, so he could inherit $60,000 from a wealthy aunt and give her $12,- 000 to obtain a divorce and marry the man of her choice. Urban was held in jail pending investigation of the story. Detectives said they were told that Ur- | ban informed Reed Miller, his friend and the young woman's flance, that he was to inherit $60,000 from an aunt if he married by October 1. Miller and the | girl agreed to Urban’s proposal of mare : riage and divorce, officers said, and the . ceremony was performed at Cumberland, Md., September 26, with Miller as best man. October 1 came and went, and Urabn said and did nothing about the $12,000. Mrs. Urban, who had not been living with him, had him arrested when he called on her Sunday night.
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