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TUESDAY EVENING, JUI.Y 28
RESPONSIBILITY OF GERMANY
LATE reports indicate that upon
Germany falls full responsibility
for the success or failure of
England's plans for the preven
tion of such a war among European
nations as the world has never known.
The Kaiser's place in history may de
pend largely upon his attitude at this
time. Does he stay the hands that |
would plunge the powers into bloody j
conflict he will mark himself as a man
far bigger than a mere War Lord,
proud though he is of that title. If |
he halts hostilities before they begin I
he will stand out as a ruler backed
by almost unlimited military power
and ambitious for the extension of
German influence, willing to use the
great force at his command for the
furtherance of international peace,
rather than for the gratification of
personal ambition, for it is unques
tioned that Germany would lose few
laurels in any conflict that might en-
Bue.
As for the United States, as Presi
dent Wilson has said, we have no part
in the present controversy. It would
be only gross blundering of an un
imaginable character that could pos
sibly draw us into it. A war in
Europe of the magnitude now threat
ening would doubtless have a two
fold effect here; first, the immediate
increase of prices of commodities in
general, and second, the enlargement
of our foreign markets. While Europe
would be spending $54,000,000 a day
for dstructive purposes, our energies
would be expended along lines of a
constructive nature and eventually we
would profit greatly as a result.
But nobody in America is mercenary
enough to wish for prosperity at such
a price. As ever, in a peace loving
country, the hope is universally ex
pressed that the good offices of those
now trying to prevent war will be suc
cessful.
PROPER REGULATION
REGULATION of automobile
traffic through the Market
street subway, as ordered by
Chief of Police Hutchison, is
most certainly needed.
Any person who rides the Hill, Steel
ton or Reservoir cars knows the ten
dency of autoists to scoot around
slower vehicles In the subway to the
jeopardy of everybody concerned.
Auto owners in such a crowded thor
oughfare should be compelled to take
their turn at getting through along
with street cars, carts, wagons and bi
cycles. Now that Colonel Hutchison
has ordered his patrolmen to keep a
sharp lookout for traffic violations at
this point drivers will doubtless use a
bit more caution. Those who do not
obey the law should he made respect
it by heavy fines.
LIFE-SAVING RULES
IT fell upon the Harrisburg Gas
Company to send its pulmotor to
Riverside yesterday in an attempt
to save the life of a boy drowned
in the river there. That the effort
was unsuccessful and that the act was
a generous one on the part of the
company are facts beside the question.
What those acquainted with the cir
cumstances would like to know is
why was not the police department
prepared to rush the municipally
owned pulmotor to the rescue?
If it be true that the desk officer
to whom application was made re
plied that he was without authority to
send the pulmotor out of the city lim
its without the express order of the
chief of police, then there is some
thing the matter with the rules of the
office.
It ought to be possible at ajl times
to send the pulmotor where It is
needed, regardless of whether the oc
casion arises either in or out of the
city. No citizen would for a moment
object to the small cost to the tax
payer attached to such an enterprise
and if the contingent fund of the de
partment is so badly depleted as to
i render the expenditure impossible, no
)doubt those for whose benefit the trip
TUESDAY EVENING. HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH JULY 28. 1014.
Is made would be glad-to assume the
small expense Involved.
At all events there should be always
a prompt response to the call for the
pulmotor and without quibbling of any
sort. Colonel Hutchison, when he has
been at hand In cases of emergency,
has always done his best to get the in
strument to the scene of accident in
the shortest possible time. In more
than one case his keen appreciation
of the value of time on occasions of
the kind has resulted in the saving of
1 human life. City Council, or whoever
j else is responsible, ought to see to it
I that there is at all times a means of
| providing for the immediate use of
j the instrument wherever it is needed,
j in or out of the city.
Mt. Gretna's post office was robbed
of $1,086. The burglars showed wise
discrimination. Nearly all the money
is at the summer resorts. We speak In
part from personal experience.
PASS THE OATMEAL. PLEASE
EXPERTS on foodstuffs, students
of sociology and supervisors of
the things we eat have been
working for months in an ef
fort to learn just what success the
Democratic party has met with In
lowering the cost of living. After
painstaking study they find that loose
oatmeal and seeded raisins have come
the closest to the Democratic proph
ecy of. cheaper living. Not that there
has been any decrease In the price of
these things. Perish that thought. But
they do stand out conspicuously as not
having been affected one way or the
other. In other words you can now
buy loose oatmeal and seeded raisins
for just what you paid for it under
the Republican administration.
President Wilson said the price of
living would come down; that by tak
ing the duty off many things we eat
we could get our foodstuffs much
cheaper. But the President made a
grave mistake. Instead of the price
of living coming down the cost of all
staple articles has increased from five
to thirty percent.—that is, the cost of
everything but loose oatmeal and
seeded raisins.
We now pay more for pork, for
bacon, for ham, for shoulder, for mut
ton. for tomatoes, for corn, for rice,
for prunes, for sugar, for flour, for
molasses, for syrup, for butter, for
lard, for cheese, for eggs, for coffee,
for tea, etc., than we did in previous
years. But—mind you—we do not
pay any more for loose oatmeal and
seeded raisins. Their price is at a
standstill. They, alone, have with
stood Democratic attacks on business
and industries. They have held their
own. True, It might be inconvenient
to live entirely on loose oatmeal and
seeded raisins, but if such were pos
sible we could then boast that living
under a Democratic free trade ad
n inistration was just as cheap as liv
ing under a Republican protective ad
ministration.
So, pass the seeded raisins and the
loose oatmeal, please, and let us thank
a kind providence that we have the
money to buy those.
"The Lipton Tea Trust," is the way
an English exchange heads a news
item. Well, so he's the fellow that put
the "tea" In trust.
PROTECT THE BABIES
THE penalty exacted by the health
authorities for violation of the
State laws regulating midwifery
la none too severe. Indeed, in
comparison with the awful results that
often follow carelessness on the part
ot' midwlves and physicians at the
time of childbirth there is no punish
ment too severe.
Medical statistics show that fully
half of the cases of blindness now
existing might have been prevented by
the exercise of ordinary care and at
no expense.
To rob a child of its sight is a crime
of far greater degree than to steal
from It the fortune to which it may
fall heir, even though its parents be
rich as Rockefeller. The offense is but
one degree removed from murder. To
condemn a human soul to a life of
darkness, to withhold from its con
templation all the beauties of the
world and the wonders of nature, to
place upon it the handicap of the hope
lessly blind, is. Indeed, to inflict upon
it sufferings far in excess of the brief
moment of pain that follows the
course of the bullet or the plunge of
the blade.
The extreme penalty of the law in
stich cases as this is far too mild. It
should be inflicted just as frequently
as the health authorities can produce
the necessary evidence and it is the
duty of every citizen to report such
violations whenever they fall beneath
his notice.
Indications are that "watchful wait
ing" has not yet been adopted by Eu
ropean diplomacy.
CLEAN RESTAURANTS
THE public will no doubt heartily
support Dr. Raunick in his war
on dirty restaurants. We have
our meat and milk inspectors,
and care in the handling of foods is
required at the hands .of wholesalers
and retailers. But little has ever been
done toward enforcing cleanliness
upon the hotel and restaurant keepers
of the city. There is little use In
spending money to keep clean and pure
foodstuffs of any sort if they are to be
contaminated in the kitchens of those
who prepare them for public con
sumption.
A tiny bit of fish unfit for food was
responsible for the death of the elder
of the Wright brothers, inventors of
the aeroplane, and doubtless thousands
of other fatalities might be traced to
similar sources. We cannot be too
careful of what we eat, and Dr. Rau
nick Is quite right In his contention
that the patron of the restaurant ought
to be served with none but clean,
wholesome food prepared in a sanitary
manner.
Bryan wants Carranza to stop Villa's
activities. Sounds as reasonable as
asking a grasshopper to halt a freight
train.
1 EVENING CHAT 1
, fterans of the Spanish War service
oi the Governor's Troop and Com
pany I of the Fourth Pennsylvania are
commencing to tell anecdotes of their
x'orto Rican service, for this is the
t'me of the year when the anniver
saries of their landing at Ponce come
j\ r ° un d- These two organizations par
ticipated in General Miles' remarkable
campaign for the subjugation of the
island and while they were not as for
tunte as the First City Troop and the
.u eenth Pennsylvania in getting into
the little lighting that occurred they
have a good bit to tell. The troop left
Cump Hastings, where it entered the
service of Uncle Sam on July 7, IS9S,
and went to Camp Alger, going to
Newport News on July 24 and sailing
lrom the port on the Manitoba on Au
gust 5. The troop arrived at Ponce on
August 10, unloading the next day and
remaining on the island until Sep
tember 3. Colonel F M. Ott com
nianded it. The Infantry company was
one of those recruited to make Colonel
Case's Fourth Rfegiment a twelve-com-
P'Vny command. It was commanded
by Colonel Howard 1,. Calder, with J.
P Fisher, a superintendent of the
Pennsylvania, and Dr. H. M. Stine as
lieutenants. This company left Chlca
mauga on July 22, went into camp at
Rossyille, Ga., July 23, and then went
to Newport News, embarking on a
transport on July 27, just fourteen
ytars ago yesterday. On July 2 9 it
sailed for Porto Rico and landed at
Poncevon August 2. Next Sunday will,
therefore, be the anniversary of iti»
landing. The company remained in
Porto Rico within one day of a month,
embarking for New York on Septem
ber 1. It got home on September 6
and had a great greeting. The Gov
ernor's troop got home at midnight of
September 10. Half the town remained
up to see the troopers come in and it
was some night, too.
Judge C. L. Brown's demand that
the act of 1013 prohibiting the sale of
cigarets to minors be enforced does
not bother the average Harrisburg kid.
He started to get around the law when
it was in the making on Capitol Hill
and he Is still going around. Then ho
saw what was coming and began to
cultivate a taste for stogies. The
stogies come three for a nickel and
while the quantity and quality are not
up to the cigarets they do very well.
Chambersburg has an exhibit that
is not down on the bills, but which is
worth noting," said, a man who at
tended, the Old Home Week. "It has
a doctor, an undertaker and a tomb
stone maker living side by side. A
little beyond the doctor's house is a
druggist. However, there is one street
in Harrisburg that has within two
blocks a saloon, a theater, a doctor,
an undertaker and a flower store all in
a row."
The Pennsylvania Railroad's giant
locomotives which used to startle the
city with their outlandish whistles a
few years ago have nothing on the
Western Maryland monsters that bring
coal trains from the southern border
and haul them over the Reading lines
to Rutherford yards. The Western's
engines come pretty close to being the
biggest in this part of the State, and
they have been appropriately equipped
with whistles that are the worst noise
makers. They sound, in the language
of a 10-year-old boy, whose eardrums
were smarting, "like a sick rooster
trying to crow," but to the more ini
tiated, like a combination of "We,
wow—we—e—e—WOW." Some years
ago we had the "chime" whistles on
the engines and they were not bad.
Then came the era of the "sirens' and
then the "porkers,' as the whistles on
the big freight engines were termed.
The Western Maryland's disturbers are
in a class by themselves.
Gypsies are giving the city a rather
wide berth this year, and, according
to people living In the 2 north end,
there have been very few caravans
seen. One band camped in Hoffman's
woods in the early summer, but a cir
cus alighted the day after the nomads
established camp and the gypsies had
troubles keeping their own. They left
with the circus, in another direction.
It used to be rather common to see
the gypsy wagons In the old woods,
hut that place Is too close to the built
up section for safety, and the wander
ers give the city a wide berth.
Farmers in this section of the Sus
quehanna are groins over their pear
and peach trees for the second time
to cull out the fruit which hangs heavy
on the branches. Some time ago the
fruit tree owners went over the trees
and thinned out pretty extensively, hut
(he weather has been so favorable for
growing that it has been found neces
sary to take off more fruit to prevent
damage to the trees. The outlook for
n peach crop in this section that will
surpass previous years Is excellent
Pears and apples are also reported
abundant by the farmers, while the
commercial orchards are laden with
fruits. The problem confronting peo
ple around here tipw Is how to get
fruit to market without spoiling owing
to the size of the crop.
r~WELL KNOWN PE.OPLE 1
WET,I.-KNOWN* PEOPLE
Ex-Judge W. M. Rockefellar, of
Snyder county, 90 years old, read a
paper at the county bar association
meeting.
—J. W. Foreman, of long
in charge of Reading bridges in that
section, is ninety and active.
—Robert Harris, newspaperman
and burgess of Tamaqua. has a fight
for his office on his hands.
—David H. Lane, the Republican
city chairman in Philadelphia, is 75
to-day.
—Ex-Congressman C. H. Gregg, of
Greensburg, spoke for the Moose at
the Milwaukee convention.
—Director G. W. Porter, of Phila
delphia, head of the Boy Scouts In
that city, is opposed to Sunday base
ball.
UTTTRSTOTHEIDITOR
NOT LIKE DAYS OF OLD
To the Editor of The Telegraph:
I observe that your morning con
temporary, The Patriot, "windmiller,"
in a long and wordy explanation of the
private political scheming of the public
Chautauquan lecturer, the Honorable
W. J. Bryan, Wilson's prime minister,
reports him as saying: Pennsylvania
was "once a Democratic State," etc.
Yes, but that was before Democratic
bosses at Washington undertook to
dictate to Pennsylvania Democrats
whom they should nominate for State
offices and when a Democratic national
administration was brave enough to say
to Great Britain. "Fifty-four-forty or
fight!" instead of being cowed by a
shake of Johnny Bull's forefinger.
Respectfully,
HISTORICUS.
Harrlsburg, July 27, 1914.
NEVER MIND THE SLIGHT
[From the Erie Dtspatbh.]
Have you received an invitation to be
present at the opening of the Panama
Canal? Tf not, don't worry, only a few
thousands have been sent out.
HE'sTROUJiD YET
[From the Pottsvllle Republican.]
The fellow who says It is not so hot
but It Is Just the humidity which is
great, survived last winter, because he
is still with us.
AN EVEMVC. THOUGHT
High aims form high charac
ters, and great objects bring out
great minds.—Tyron Edwards.
WILSON RESPONDS
TO CRT FOR HELP
President Will Come Into Pennsyl
vania to Foist His Ticket
on the Voters
CONGRESSMEN REVOLT
Philadelphia's Democratic Club
Has a Hollow Treasury and
May Have to Move
President Woodrow Wilson will lay
aside the duties and dignities of his
office this Fall and come into Penn
sylvania to plead for the election of
the Democratic machine candidates
and for the election of Democratic
congressmen, according to dispatches
from Washington published in this
morning's papers. In other words the
President is going to submit to the
voters of Pennsylvania whether his
policies and his personally selected
ticket for the Democrats of the Key
stone State shall be endorsed. In ad
dition to the concern of the Jerseyman
over the selection of the ticket which
he framed up for Pennsylvania he has
been importuned by Democratic con
gressmen who see the disgust of the
voters rising to come and help them.
Democratic State headquarters was
not aware to-day except from the
newspapers that Wilson really con
templated responding to its cries for
help, but has arranged, tentatively,
for speech making tours by Secretar
ies Bryan, Daniels, Wilson and others
who will be expected to come here in
order to prevent occurrences in Penn
sylvania similar to what happened in
that Jersey congressional district
where Wilson's policies were bumped.
The Philadelphia Press of to-day
says regarding Wilson's campaign
stunt: "President Wilson has grown
seriously alarmed over
Democratic politic a 1
conditions throughout President
the country and indi- Will Go
cations of the loss of a Into light
Democratic House. Be
ginning early in Octo
ber he Is to take the stump in aid of
Democratic nominees. The President
is expected to devote much of his at
tention to Pennsylvania and New Jer
sey, but pressing demands are being
made on him to hurry into Ohio, Illi
nois and New York. Lack of time
will cut short the President's activities
even should his health permit. The
situation in Pennsylvania especially is
interesting to the President. He wants
his friend, A. Mitchell Palmer, to win
in the senatorial fight over Senator
Penrose, and hopes by his activities to
arouse the Democrats to vigorous and
united support of Palmer. With such
a backing he hopes victory for
Palmer because of the loss to Penrose
of the Roosevelt followers. The Pres
ident is interested, also. In the fight
for election being made by Vance Mc-
Cormick.
A Washington dispatch says: "Pro
tests against the arbitrary course of
the present Democratic State organi
zation in Pennsylva
nia, which have been
Wilson Gets voiced in the Congres-
Hot Protest sional delegation as
From Logue well as by the workers
in all counties, finally
reached President Wil
son himself to-day in
an appeal for intervention made by
Representative J. Washington I.ogue,
of Philadelphia. The fact that the
Democratic party in Pennsylvania is
torn into two distinct factions, indi
cating defeat in November, was at
tributed by Congressman Logue to
an apparent desire by the present
leaders to build up a personal or
ganization without regard to party suc
cess. Mr. Logue did not indulge in
personalities in his talk with the pres
ident at the White House to-day, but
he made it clear that there could be
no hope of party success unless some
thing were done to bring about a spirit
of compromise in the present factional
warfare. a result of the growing
dissatisfaction in the Pennsylvania
i delegation with regard to the leader
ship of National Committeeman Pal
mer and State Chairman Morris, the
President has heard many complaints
with regard to'the distribution of pat
ronage."
Things are not moving as smoothly
in Philadelphia as the Democratic
bosses would have the world believe.
The efforts to secure a peace parley
in the Philadelphia city contests have
fallen through and now the Demo
cratic Club, which was all heated up
over the Philadelphia mint superinten
dency, may have to move because its
quarters are too expensive. It ought
to get connected with the Palmer-
McCormick league.
The Columbia Independent, publish
ed by W. Hayes Grier, former super
intendent of public printing, makes a
claim for the collec
torship of the Ninth
district for Lancaster Lancaster
county. Fritz Kirken- Lines XTp
dall is going back to For Pie
his home district and
a fat Job is loose for
the Democrats. This is the gentle way
in which Colonel Brier calls attention
to the claims of Lancaster for the
placer "Roland S. Morris, chairman
of the Democratic State committee,
should remember that Lancaster
county has three votes in the com
mittee. Does he want them for a re
election. If he does the way is now
open for him to recommend a collec
tor of internal revenue for the Ninth
district, who is a Lancaster county
Democrat. Of course, since Con
gressman Palmer abdicated and placed
tfie matter of appointments solely in
the hands of Chairman Morris, it is
up to Morris to do the square thing,
and stand all responsibility. We have
no choice in the matter. All we ask
Is that the new collector be a Lancas
ter county Democrat!"
I POLITICAL SIDELIGHTS I
POLITICAL SIDELIGHTS
—Appears as though some one must
have sent in n general alarm from
Democratic headquarters early in the
campaign.
—The Wilson decision to help evi
dently stiffened up the machine be
cause the Philadelphia contests are on
again.
—lt's about time for the Demo
cratic city committee to invite Wilson
to speak here.
—Bryan's Chautauqua - predicting
tours appear to be very paying affairs.
—Bryan ought to give a lecture for
the benefit of that Democratic club in
Philadelphia.
—Plnchot started off on another
tour of the State to-day.
—State Chairman Crow says he does
noe see any occasion to get excited
over the campaign Just now.
—Palmer and McCormick will tour
Sugar Valley on Saturday.
I —lt's said now that only a third
of the Democratic congressmen from
this State even have hopes of r«-
election.
—Senator Brandegee is wrong. The
President is not "hectoring" Con
gress. He's leading it. If a Republican
would do it, it would be bossism.
—Myer Kabatchnik is favored for
Lackawanna county Republican chair
man. He was Dlmmick's campaign
manager.
—Reports favor Penrose all along
the line, says Crow.
OUR DAILY LAUGH )
I i /
< ; " od ***Sr?2 _ Nearer""Home
He Does this "Feller citizen!*!
place agree with j don't rare who
J' o ",- Kits free tolls,
t>he Oh, yes, f r( . e trade or
nothin'. Wot we
get along with wants Is free ice
anyway. cream an* aodlca!"
Some Hot Too l.atr
Wot cher doln', Are you prepar-
Eddie? Ed to put up that
Oh. I'm Just that thousand dol
moppln' a way an' lam into my
envyln' the dan- proposition now?
gers an' hardships No. I gave it to
of them Arctic my wife to pro to
explorers! the seashore with.
NOISES
Ry Winn Dinger
Of all the bloomln' noises
That nightly rent the air,
There's one that has all others
Cooked to a turn. I'll swear.
Now there's the noisy trolley,
With loudly clanging; gong;
The auto and its screech horn,
With blasts both shrill and long.
The singing of joy riders,
The phonograph next door.
And I could go on naming
At least a dozen more.
But no noise of the future,
The present, or that was,
Can match the midnight skeeter
And his peace-disturbing buzz.
IN HARRIS BURG FIFTY
YEARS AGO TO-DAY
[From the Telegraph of July 28, 1864.]
Monk ]R Cents n Pound
Our butchers have "come down"
slightly in the prices of meat. Good
steaks were sold at some of the stands
this morning at fifteen cents per pound.
lip Goes Mercury
At t o'clock th's afternoon the ther
mometer had reached ninety degrees In
the shade—nearly twenty degrees
higher than yesterday.
NEWS DISPATCHES
OF THE CIVIL WAR
[From the Telegraph of July 28, 1864.]
Brink Firing
Washington, July 27. lnformation
from headquarters of the Army of the
Potomac to July 25, says the shelling
and picket firing between the Ninth
Corps and the enemy yesterday, was
more brisk than usual, and was kept
up all day.
Deserters Not So Numrroni
Washington, July 27. Deserters
are not so numerous as they were a
week ago, the enemy seeming to keep
a stricter watch along the lines,
Hiram Hayseed—l've just had a let
ter from my son saying he won one o'
them scholarships. I'm mighty glad.
Cy Perkins I can understand your
feelings. I felt just the same when
our pig won a medal at the agricul
tural snow.
A POLICY WORTHY OF A MARCH
HARE
[From the Philadelphia Public ledger.]
American manufacturers visiting In
England have been Interested this
summer in observing the effect of
President Wilson's "competitive" tariff
upon the British mind. For example,
they have seen advertisements in Lon
don papers calling the attention of the
British producer to the splendid oppor
tunity to enter the American market
now offered by the reduced duties. One
such advertisement reminds the British
manufacturers that the duty of 20 per
cent, on ordinary biscuits has been re
moved altogether, that the duty on
woolen clothing has been reduced 40
per cent., that on Jams more than 60
per cent., on pickles and sauces 15 per
cent., on bottled mineral waters 50 per
cent., on razors 67.5 per cent, and on
furniture 20 per cent. The manufac
turers are Informed that under these
favorable conditions It Is easy to sell
their goods here in competition with
the native product.
Of course It Is easy not only for the
British, but for the French and Ger
man manufacturer. to sell his goods
here on more favorable conditions than
ever before, and to compete with the
home producer in his own field. But
competition is such a splendid thing
that we must have It at any price. We
must make our own people prove their
right to live by giving the re«t of the
world an opportunity to drive them out
of business, and we must dissolve into
their constituent parts the combinations
created for the purpose of increasing
efficiency and economy in operation.
Not even the statesmanship of
Carroll's famous March Hare could have
devised a policy more incomprehen
sibly foolish.
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PURIFYING PENNSYLVANIA
POLITICS
[Philadelphia Inquirer.]
The peerless and fearless Secretary
of State was In Harrisburg between
Chautauqua lectures on Sunday, and
he found time to frame an interview
with himself which was afterward
handed out by the representatives of
the Democratic State committee.
The talk which Mr. Bryan had with
himself covers a number of topics, but
a single strain runs through it all and
it is his note of amazement that the
people of Pennsylvania should be so
benighted as to continue voting the
Republican ticket. He speaks, how
ever, more in sorrov?" than in anger,
with tho hopefulness of one who be
lieves that the midguided citizens are
about to see tho error of their ways,
lie says that Palmer will make a
"splendid" senator and has no doubt
that McCorinick "will give the State
an eminently satisfactory and progres
sive administration." After electing
Palmer and McCormick in this light
and airy fasl\lon he adds:
"I never visit Pennsylvania without
wondering how so intelligent and hos
pitable a people could have tolerated
so long the political methods that have
characterized Pennsylvania's politics.
1 hope I am not mistaken in the be
lief that the awakening which Is
purifying politics in other States is at
work in the Keystone State."
Let us examine, for a moment, the
"awakening" that the peerless and
fearless Secretary of the State says is
at work "purifying politics" in the
Keystone State. In the beginning, and
by the grace of Woodrow Wilson, Pal
mer and McCormick selected them
selves as candidates for United States
Senator and Governor on the Demo
cratic ticket. From that moment the
purposes of the State-wide primaries
were nullied. The hand-picked can
didates had to be chosen. The peerless
and fearless Secretary of State, mem
bers of the Wilson cabinet, tho collec
tor of customs at this port and every
postmaster and federal office-holder in
the State turned in for Palmer and
McCormick.
They were nominated, naturally, but
after the primaries it.was discovered
that other means were used to bring
about their nomination besides the
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power and influence of the national
administration and that the "other
means" was the lavish use of money.
The Inquirer does not make this
charge. It is a matter of record,
sworn to and filed in the office of the
Secretary of the Commonwealth at
Harrlsburg. If these affidavits of the
supporters of the reorganized Demo
cracy are to be believed it cost $59,-
000 to place Palmer and McCormiclc
in nomination. This was the unique
method employed for the purpose of
/•purifying the politics of Pennsylva
nia."
1 In one county—Clinton county—it
I was shown; according to the returns
lof the Clinton county Palmer-McCpr
mick campaign committee, that votes
in that locality averaged $1.47 each.
It was for scandalous work of this
kind that a whole community In Ohio
was disfranchised.
Mr. Bryan will discover before he
is many months older, we are sure,
that the one thing the people of Penn
sylvania will not tolerate is political
cant and hypocrisy.
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[From the Norristown Herald.]
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to speak, because of dissension in his
flock, to take "Joy texts" for his
trouble.
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[From the Greensburg Tribune.]
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