PAGE FOUR
THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER g, 1912.
THE CITIZEN
SomMVeekljr Founded 1008; Wooklj Founded 1844.
Published 'Wednesdays and Fridays by tho Citizen Publishing Company.
Entered na second-class matter, at the postoffke, Honcsdale, Pa.
E. B. HARDENBERGM PRESIDENT
H. C. VAN ALSTYNE and E. B. CALLAWAY 'MANAGING EDITORS
DIRECTORS:
II. WILSON,
a. Donri.iNOKR,
M. R. ALLEN,
Our friends who favor us with contributions, and desire to have the same re
rned, should in every case enclose stamps for that purjosc.
TERMS!
ONE YEAH ?1.50 THREE MONTHS 38c
SIX MONTHS 75 ONE MONTH 13c
Remit by Express Money Order, Draft, Postofllco Ordor or Registered
lotter. Address all communications to Tho Citizen, No. 803 Main street,
Honcsdale, Pa,
All notices of shows, or other entertainments held for tho purposo of
making moDey or any Items that contain advertising matter, will only be
admitted to this paper on payment of regular advertising rates. Notices
of entertainments for the benefit of churches or for charitable purposes
where a fee Is charged, will be published at half rates. Cards of thanks,
50 cents, memorial poetry and resolutions of respect will bo charged for
at tho rate of a cent a word. Advertising rates on application.
AVEDXKSDAY,
REPUBLICAN TIOliET.
For President,
WILLIAM H. TAFT.
Vice-President,
JAMES S. SHERMAN.
State Treasurer,
ROBERT K. YOUNG.
Auditor General,
A. W. POWELL.
Congressmen-at-Large,
FHED E. LEWIS,
JOHN M. MORIN.
ARTHUR R. RUPLEY,
ANDERSON H. WALTERS.
District Congressman,
W. D. B. AINEY.
Representative,
H. C. JACKSON.
THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY.
Tho virtue that comes out vic
torious In tho crisis must have been
nourished and cultivated in the hum
drum moments. Alexander Maclar
en. AVHY PLANT A TREE?
If you have room for It, and you
have the right to plant a tree where
you think one should grow, do so on
Arbor Day, October 25. Don't only
enthuse over "what a good thing it
would be," etc., but plant that
which, if everyone having the ground
to devote to the purposo would also
place in tho earth, would build a
country wido monument to tree con
servation in America, which would
arouse tho envy of all the rest of
the civilized world.
Each live citizen is a unit of a
great whole that will bo similarly
leavoned if he or sho and their
thousands of co-workers will do
' such things from a sense of duty and
from inspiration such as that which
Impels one to plant a tree.
BETTER NOT CHANGE.
They are having a labor famine in
iPittsburg. Think of it, a labor fam
ine! Mills and factories are in neeU
of thousands of men at work. The
situation has become so desperate
that big concerns are actually accus
ed of "stealing workmen" from each
other, and lawsuits have been insti
tuted as a result.
Tho man who has his labor to sell
is in a position to dispose of his ser
vices to tho highest bidder.
This state of affairs is not confined
to Pittsburg, but is more or less gen
eral. Tho building of highways and
other public improvements have
been held up by lack of men to do
tho work. Hero in Harrisburg, as
well as throughout Pennsylvania,
there Is much more work to be dono
than there aro laborers to do It.
The country is apparently entering
on a period of unexampled prosperity.
It is a time for tho worklngman to
consider seriously whether his vote
is to bo cast for a continuance of the
kind of government under which this
has come about, or whether ho is
willing to take chances on a change
of administration, with all its possi
bilities for interrupting tho tldo of
prosperity.
Tho other "day, at a Roosevelt
meeting in Missouri, a workman ap
peared, carrying a banner with the
Inscription:
"Wo want Taft. Let good enough
nlono."
All that the opponents of tho Pres
ident havo to offer is a lot of untried
theories. In behalf of tho Republi
can administration Is offered tho rec
ord of substantial achievement at
tested by tho tremendous prosperity
of today. Harrisburg Telegraph,
THE SCANDAL OF CAMPAIGN
FUNDS.
Why were those great sums of
money given to tho Republican Com
mittee In the Roosovelt campaign of
1904? Why did a fow men In Wall
Street mako contributions, including
iho Harriman and tho Standard Oil
gifts, amouutlng to three-quarters of
a million dollars? Why did tho cor
porations glvo tho committee
500,000?
Was it to mako suro that Mr.
Roosevelt would bo elected? That
Is a preposterous explanation. There
never was a moment of doubt that
ho would bo elected, Mr. Parker
never bad tho remotest chance of de
feating him. Tho money was given
in hope of favors to come. There
is no other reasonable explanation.
Preisdent Roosovelt had already
W. W. WOOD
OCTOBER 0, 1012.
shown his teeth to tho corporations.
They feared him, they were appre
hensive that in his uncontrollable
desire for great popularity ho "would
givo them trouble, that ho would
bo a dangerous President, danger
ous to them. Tho interests sought
to soften his calculated wrath by
their prodigal contributions. They
put him under obligations which
they hoped ho -would recognize.
They were deceived. Tho commltteo
took their money, then ho turned
upon them with his prosecutions,
his denunciations, and his raven
ings. Good many sometimes comes out
of evil, and out of the campaign
funds scandal of 1904 great good
has come. By law "wo havo put an
end to the purchase of indulgencloa
through campaign gifts. Tho pub
licity law, Including tho ban upon
gifts from corporations, la one of
tho most notablo reforms In our re
cent history. Can It be wondered at
that unrest has prevailed, that the
people havo shown discontent, that
there havo been hostilities against
corporations? The people know
that they are betrayed when the in
terests can buy immunity from mo
lestation, when the beneficiaries of
tho protective tariff, by filling the
campaign chest, can baffle all re
duce oppressive duties. Great cam
paign funds that tend to per
petuate a party's hold on power in
terfere with tho free choice of the
people. It was an evil, it was a
scandal, it was corrupt, and we have
put a stop to It. The current rev
elations prove that the reform was
urgently needed. New York Times.
THE LINCOLN PARTY.
The friends of Taft and Sherman
in Pennsylvania havo taken the nec
essary steps to secure a place on the
November ballot In this State for
electors pladged to vote for them.
This has been dono by filing In tho
office of tho Secretary of the Com
monwealth, as provided by law, pe
titions signed by the requisite num
ber of voters under the caption of
the Lincoln party, tho title having al
ready been preempted, and naming
as candidates for president and vice
president William H. Taft and Jas.
S. Sherman. It will bo remembered
that tho bulk of the electors on the
Republican ticket In Pennsylvania
notwithstanding tho fact that the
ticket is headed by the names of
Taft and Sherman havo declared
their intention, if elected, of voting
for Roosovelt and Johnson. In or
der, therefore, that Republican vo
ters In this state might havo a full
list of Taft and Sherman electors to
vote for, it was necessary to create
a new party to carry tho names of
such electors.
This action was delayed until the
last day fixed by law for tho filing of
such petitions, on tho hope that the
Roosevelt electors would havo a suf
ficient sense of political morality to
withdraw from tho Taft ticket, or
that tho leaderB under whoso orders
they are acting would have a suffi
cient sense of political expediency to
remove them. But neither politi
cal morality nor political expediency
seem to havo had any weight with
tho Progressive party leaders or
their satellites.
As tho matter stands now tho vo
ter will havo an opportunity to vote
for Taft and Sherman by voting the
Lincoln party ticket for presidential
electors.
If, In tho mean tlmo, tho Progres
sive leaders see that their petty po
litical game is up, and that thero is
troublo for them just around the
corner unless they withdraw their
Rooesvolt electors from tho Taft
tickot, tho Republican ballot may
still bo purged of those electors who
Intend to betray Republican voters
If they havo tho opportunity. In
this event no harm will havo been
dono, and much good "will havo been
accomplished by tho filing of tho Lin
coln party papers.
It is worthy of noto that tho in
terests of tho Republican candidates
for president and vice-president havo
thus been protected in this state,
not by the Republican State Com
mittee whoso duty it was to do it,
but by loyal Republicans who aro
not members of that committee, This
K. b. IIAUDKNRRRaH
failure in duty on tho part of tho
Stato Commltteo being duo to tho
fact that three-fourths of its mem
bers, whllo retaining active mem
bership in tho commltteo, havo al
lied themselves to an opposing party,
and aro using their membership In
tho Republican Stato Commltteo in
an attempt to wreck tho Republican
party, its candidates and its platform.
VERY OBLIGING.
In complying with tho act of Con
gress requiring nowspapers to pub
lish quarterly statements regarding
business, management, ownership
and stockholders and a fow other
questions, Editor Newell of tho Can
ton (Pa.) Sentinel had tho following
attached to his statement which ap
peared Inst week:
"It Is not required by the Act of
Congress, but wo do not mind tell
ing tho Postmaster General that wo
also own a lawn mower, and have a
limited amount of stock In two dif
ferent telephone companies. A dog
locally known as 'Nigger' tags us
around sometimes, but wo disclaim
all ownership of or responsibility for
him. Said dog sleeps on tho mat by
our front door when ho don't sleep
somewhere else. He comes to our
faouso when wo havo chicken for din
ner, and he climbs up and HcKs our
hands and face when ho wants a fav
or. At other times ho don't know
us. Said dog Is a pretty good poli
tician. We don't know what he is
running for, but tho last wo saw of
him ho was running from a chunk of
wood wo threw at him because he
played tag with our undershirt hang
ing on the clothes line.
"Wo are a Taft man and we wear
false teeth.
"Wo used to go to Sunday school.
"If there Is any further informa
tion that the postmaster general
wants In regard to us, or Tho Can
ton Sentinel, ho is respectfully re
ferred to tho police."
THE ROOSEVELTIAN CREED.
It Is the characteristic Roosevelt
who testified last week before the
Clapp Committee of tho United
States Senate. Whatever ho did
whllo he was President, whomever he
saw, whatsoever sums were contrib
uted by trusts or trust magnates to
his campaigns his motives through
out were the protection of the people
and tho enforcement of the law.
Belief that Theodore Roosevelt is
actuated in all he does and has been
actuated in all he has done by the
deepest love for the people and for
the welfare of his country is at the
bottom of that popularity whictt
gives him his present following. He
firmly believes it himself of that
there can be no doubt. If one can
see no error in Roosevelt's ways, if
one can convince himself that what
ever Roosevelt proposes is right be
cause he proposes it and that is
the state of mind of a large number
of his followers then arguments be
come idle and proof futile.
But Colonel Roosevelt Is being
judged by his countrymen who will
decide between him and his rivals
next month by what he has done as
well as by what ho has said. He
has In the past, not once but many
times, specifically stated that he
would take no money from trusts
though receiving contributions from
trusts is not necessarily dishonest.
He amended that last week by stat
ing that any money contributed by
trusts was not with any understand
ing that they should get favors. The
recollection in tho public mind is
fairly clear of his vitrolic denouncia
tion of Judge Parker In 1904 for the
latter's statement that the trusts
were amoung the heaviest contribu
tors to his campaign fund for that
year. Last week ho testified that
what he denied to Judge Parker was
that "any contribution was obtained
by any improper promises or
threats." Elsewhere in his testi
mony he quoted from one of his let
ters written in October, 1904: "If a
corporation subscribes for the nation
al welfare, well and good." Surely
some people may bo pardoned for
asking who is to decide that deli
cate point. This nalvo explanation
of what Colonel Roosevelt meant re
calls another explanation of what he
meant when ho said that under no
circumstances would ho accept a
nomination for a third term
Tho Senate commltteo last week
did not convict Colonel Roosevelt of
corruption in office. What it did de
velop is further proof of tho amaz
ing assuranco with which this extra
ordinary man replies to all his crit
ics, td all his questioners, to all who
differ with him with tho retort that
everything he has over dono was
done with tho purest motives and for
the good of the country, and that no
one but himself is fitted to direct tho
destines of this nation.
WAVE OF PROSPERITY
SWEEPS THE UNITED STATES.
Baltimore, Md. Ten pages of let
ters from manufacturers in all parts
of the country published in last
week's lssuo of tho Manufacturers
Record, toll of remarkable activity
everywhere and In overy lino of in
dustry. Summing up theso letters,
tho Manufacturers Record says:
A rapid expansion In business In
terests Increasing activity every
where, factories overtaxed with or
ders beyond their capacity to fill, n
growing scarcity of labor, especially
of skilled mechanics, a car shortage
which In many cases Is greatly re
tarding shipments, a shortage so
pressing In some cases that ono re
port tells of cemont being delivered
by the use of passenger cars as well
as cattlo cars such Is tho condition
of business throughout tho country
as voiced by leading manufacturers
In overy section In lotters to tho Man
ufacturers Record. Tho story Is ono
of exceeding Interest as a whole,
whllo many of theso Individual lot
tors throw an Illumination upon
business questions which makes thorn
of more than usual interest.
In some sectipns thero is yet no
car shortago roported: in others, tho
railroads aro roported as wholly un
equal to cope with tho business, and
manufacturers crowded with orders
that they cannot fill becauso of the
'lack of transportation facilities. This
is so strongly presented in many
lotters that it should command tho
immediate attention of evQv rail-
road man in the country, as woll as
of overy business man and politician,
for all must unlto to find somo way
hy which tho money needed for a
vast exponsion or railroad facilities
can bo secured. Though wo aro ap
parently only at tho beginning of a
period of great activity, and tho
country Is not yet in tho full swing
of its highest tldo of prosperity, traf
fic is running rar beyond transporta
tion fuclllties. How great tho dif
ficulties of transportation will bo
with a continuanco of a few months
longer of present activities it is dif
ficult to estimate. Tho problem of
ono that will tax the best offort of
tho railroads and tho heartiest co
operation of tho people of tho wholo
country. Not a day Is to bo lost In
trying to find a remedy for this situ
ation. LABORING MEN TURNING TO
TAFT
Former President of Union
Reports on Conditions in
New Jersey.
Beverly, Mass., Oct. 7. AJ. L. Fec
ney, ex-president of tho Central La
bor Union, of Washington, writes
President Taft that, as the result of
a recent trip through New Jersey, he
has discovered that thousands of
worklngmen and small business
men who havo always been Demo
crats aro going to voto for Mr.
Taft.
"They no longer fear Roosevelt
and they do fear tho effect which
Wilson's election would have on
business and the manufacturing in
dustries," says Mr. Feeney.
From Missouri comes a live re
port from a man who says that when
the primaries were hold there wero
only six Taft men in tho entire town,
but that now every Republican has
come back Into lino and will vote
and is shouting for Taft.
Ex-Senator Mason of Illinois, who
as candidato for Representatlve-at-Large,
Is making a most extensive
campaign In that State, writes that
Illinois will bo found in line for Mr.
Taft on election day.
Back in Fold of Abraham.
"Wo aro gaining every day," says
Mr. Mason. "At the two meetings I
addressed last men wearing Bull
Moose buttons took them off after
the meeting and gavo them to me,
saying they purposed to return to
tho fold of Abraham."
lPresident Taft has received the
following letter from B. Prieth, pro
prietor of the New Jersey Freie Zei
tung, a German newspaper, publish
ed in Newark, and a graduate of
Princeton of the class of 1891:
"It may interest you to know that
tho Taft sentiment in Essex county,
New Jersey, is growing dally. This
newspaper always has been, and is
now an enthusiastic champion of
your cause, and wo feel convinced
that by tho time November 5 ap
proaches the majority of tho local
Germans will cast their ballots for
you.
Roosevelt ill New Orleans.
(Connecticut Courant).
Somo of tho Louisiana folks had a
fear before the speech that Roose
velt might presently resume being a
Republican, but In the speech the
Colonel told them that his former
party had ceased to be a factor of the
situation. "Wo aro absolutely
through with tho Republican party,"
ho told them. " Wo are through
with It becauso It has ceased to be
an instrument for good."
And when did the Colonel discov
er that? Not until he discovered,
only a few short months ago, that
his desperate efforts t& stampede the
Republican party Into breaking tho
unwritten law, and giving him the
third term it denied to General
Grant, had failed.
GOLD-BRICK GOVERNMENT.
(New York World).
Explaining his Infamous political
contract with Quay, William Fllnn,
tho Roosevelt boss In Pennsylvania,
said to tho Senate committee: "You
know, out In our country wo have a
habit of selling gold bricks, and I
sold Senator Quay a gold trick,"
Commenting on tho Harriman con
tribution in 1904, tho New York
Press admits that both tho Republi
can National and Stato tickets "prof
ited by the expenditure" of this
money, but insists that "all tho let
ters that passed between Roosevelt
and Harriman aro full of evidence
that Roosevelt showed no favor to
him." In other words, after Harrl
man's money "turned 50,000 votes
for Mr. Roosovolt "In tho city of Now
York alone, making a difference of
1 00,000 votes in tho general resule,"
Harriman found that Roosevelt had
sold him a good brick, just as Fllnn
sold Quay a gold brick.
What assurances havo tho Ameri
can peoplo that Roosevelt and Fllnn
aro not now ongaged in selling them
another gold brick, tho samo kind
that Quay bought from Fllnn and
Harriman bought from Roosevelt?
As a matter of fact, is not tho whole
third term movoment a gold brick?
LARGE BALLOT ELECTION' DAY.
Nino Tickets May Have to be Set
Out for the Voters One Week
for Contests.
Harrisburg. Officials at tho state
department who havo begun to
check up nominations filed for tho
Novembor election predicted that tho
ballot this year would bo ono of
tho largest sinco tho enactment of
tho present law. If tho nominations
for presidential nominations for
presidential electors and stato candi
dates stand thero will bo nine elec
toral tickets In tho filed, thoso of
tho Washington, Bull Mooso and
Roosevelt Progressive being identi
cal.
Tho tlmo for withdrawal and mak
ing substitutions will end fourteen
days beforo tho election, when tho
nominations must bo certified to tho
counties for printing. Contests
must bo filed beforo October 9.
Electoral tickets havo been filod
by tho Republican, Democratic,
Prohibition, Socialist, Bull Mooso,
Industrialist, Lincoln, Roosevelt
Progressive and Washington parties.
Stato tickets havo been tiled by tho
Keystone- and Progressive parties.
AS A DELEGATE SAW IT.
A dclegato in tho Republican con
vention at Chicago has published tho
ronowing statement or his experience
In that convention:
"T hnvn linnti nrnitrl nf linlnt n T7n-
publican many times In my life, but
never was I quite so proud as when
I sat day after day in that great
gathering of Republicans in Conven
tion In Chicago and noted overy at
tempt on tno part or tiio r. ii. fol
lowing to stampede, bamboozlo,
lirlhn. hllllllnTn .inttmlrlntn nnH fnrnn
a minority candidnte onto a majority,
uigninouiy ana legally dercatcd.
"Tho T. H. peoplo camo to Chi
cago, thinking that tho regular Re
publicans wore made of tho same
kind of stuff as themselves and that
all they had to do was to produce
doubt ns to tho possibility of winning
with Taft and T, II, would bo read
ily accepted, becauso of tho usual
custom of nominating a candidate
who Is most likely to win at the
polls.
"For tho most part, political con
ventions aro attended by politicians,
and politicians want to bo on tho
winning side.
"But bo it said to tho everlasting
credit of the great Republican par
ty, that while most ot them appre
ciated tho grave danger at tho polls,
that at no time was thero ever a
Stops Scalp Itch
Daadruff nml Every Form of Scalp
DIseaso Cured Quick by Zemo.
It is simply wonderful how Zemo
goes after dandruff. You rub a little
of It In with tips of the fingers. It
gets right down into tho glands, stim
ulates them, stops the itch, and
makes tho head feel fine. No, it
isn't sticky! Zemo is a flno, clear,
vanishing liquid. You don't havo to
even wash your hands after using
Zemo. And what a wonder It Is for
eczema, rash, pimples and all skin
afflictions. A 25-cent bottlo at A, M.
Leino's drug store, Honesdale, Is
guaranteed to stop any skin Irrita
tion. Zemo Is prepared by E. W. Rose
Medicine Co., St. Louis, Mo., and is
regularly sold by druggists at $1 a
bottle. But to prove what It will do
at trifling expenso, Zemo Is now put
up in 25-cent trial bottles.
ffer
Pillow Tops, Center
Pieces and Fancy
Aprons partially
given away.
Be a studentanalyze
the merit and value of
the proposition and
share in the benefit of
this special offer.
The Maish Comfort is the ideal
winter covering. With it you
can deep in a room with plenty
of cold fresh air yet be perfectly
warm.
Try the Maish.
Sleep under one.
See the difference.
It ii so warm yet so wonderfully light.
We want you to know the absolute
restfulness of sleep under the Maish.
Come in now and let ui show you the
Maish filling and our selection of
Maish Comforts,
SEE
A Special 0
Dockash Stoves and ranges In now styles and designs. Our
factory could not mako them better but they aro making them
more convonlont and better appearing.
All styles of Dockash and Wayno County oak stoves at prices
from $7.00 to 910.00.
at It Is a Dockash that Is all you need to know about a stove.
MURRAY CO.
Everything for the Farm. Honesdale, Pa.
BREATHE
HYOMEI
AND END
If you really want to get rid of
vile Catarrh why not givo Booth's
mu.uEji treatment a rair trial.
G. W. Pell, thn i1r,ii-t.0f to
thorlzed to refund your money If
you think you havo not been bene
fited, and on that basis every Ca
tarrh victim in Honesdale ought to
" vubuiiu luia U I
antiseptic air mado from Australian
Eucalyptus and other antiseptics; It
kills Catarrh germs and contains no
poisonous drugs. Simple Instruc
tions ior use in eacn pacKage. Com
plete outfit, f 1.00; extra bottles, 50c.
for T. H
"A compromiso candidato could
VRTV tltnn Hint hnllntlnir Unnn nm-
w mill in iiuu euuorse mm. nut 'i
ri. steadfastly said:
"Comnromlan nnlv nn mn "
I ' .1 L rt ,
down in history as preferring to do
l llfUIMILdll uai II VU11
than prostitute Itself to a demagogue
polls.
irlf 1 1 , . . .
. w.llj lb lo UCJllUl LU Uti TIKI!
iuan to eiect a I'resiuent.
f. a. JenKins, H. M. Salmon,
Hlr.nn T. I 1 J- t 1 -r- .
macninc.
CASTOR I A
For Infanti and Children.
The Kind You Have Always Bought
Bears tho
Signature
fr
THIS
DEAUTIFUt-
CENTER
Sizet 22x22 !nche -tinted on
Pure Linen Kuiunn Crate.
A LL we ask is that you purchase 6
t-k skeins of Richardson's Grand
JL JL Prize Grecian Silk Floss and
a fully illustrated Lesson at 2
the regular retail price of bmmlj
The Center Piece Is abtolattlu FREE.
Thli Oaroaln Offor it made solely to convince
every woman of the superiority of Rlohard
son's Grand prlzs cnoun suk Floes.
WA!
nniirnnTin rn
I 1 1 IliS is 1 1 re I UK & t
SHI h u ii si a uiii
Welcome News.
comfortable will do most to induce
values they represent.
Bros,
Inc.
BP"
a
PIECE f3
Big Stove Display