doin 1913 that you might do to your ir profit i in 1914, and there were a lot of —Here's. hoping that the lution hase’ = already gone ; EB I LUTH Tadies who are Mona Lisa smile ‘are —We await with interest, and 4. sus- S picion. that there will be Something live better, do better and be “be 1914 than you have ever been before, “that there is no middle ground; between right and wrong. - - ~There are a lot of things you didn't you did do in 1913 that had better > done Grapin 1914. : to support. for De next “_BrLy SUNDAY is in Pit = eight weeks ~campaign ; ses to make it so interesting for — there that by the time he leaves the half of them will not even remember | P4 who Honus WAGNER is. | —The first thing that young 1914 : drops into ‘the gossip circle is the an- nouncement that prominent ‘Republicans throughout the State are urging president SPARKS of the Pennsylvania State Col- lege to. become their candidate for Gov- ernor. These are great Saye for. school- masters in politics. “L013 wasn't a bad year. “The fact that you are alive and well is the proof conclus 2 that. But the WATCHMAN "hopes that. that that 1014 holds in store. for all of you m “of 2 goodness, happiness, health, and then contentment in everything except your ambition to be better, ‘than, you: have ever: known preven dreamed of before. by those who w ore it but Hey were 3 wid ‘the Te ” 4 fools, When she . call ry payment. of taxss have no votes and to defy the cerning taxes, she is. trying ti - PANKHURST “militancy ‘among well meaning American will neither Stain ifor such’ | advice of the gentleman. | the administration ed | ated. Washington indicated a purp troller of the recommended by Treasury. It s had a candidate and upon the annot President had determ PALMER’s friends set wp the howl that | the Sbligations to him were being repudi- ' This sounds bad i ‘public ear and | looks worse in the public eye. That public office is a public trust is an un- written law in the Democratic party, Therefore the use of public patronage to pay the personal or political debts of the | President to Mr. PALMER or any one else is an infraction of moral and political ethics. But in the case in ‘question the Republican papers in Philadelphia ‘and elsewhere in Pennsylvania, obviously in- spired, declared that an injustice had been done to Mr. PALMER. But for hin, these newspapers declared, Mr. WILSON would not have been nominated and in that event would have had no patronage to dispose of. “Why,” they add, sub- stantially, “during the balloting in the Baltimore convention, when a majority of the delegates had voted for CHAMP CLARK, WILSON telegraphed to his party manager, Mr. McCoMBS, asking that his name be withdrawn. But when Mr. PALMER saw the telegram he tore it up id on one of the subsequent ballots Mr. WILSON was nominated.” | and reducing operating torces. But the ) National convention? [eae the calamity. howlers -of the Republican party have been weaving stories of industrial distress in all parts of the country. Here and there men will- ing to work have been laid off but in every instance investigation proves that : Ag held prior to the. nomination of WILLIAM | - Jennings BRYAN for President in 1896, er the nomination of Mr. BRYAN Mr. GUTHRIE declined the nomination in a other reasons than the tariff law were re- letter addressed to the Chairman, for the sponsible. , Certain bankers hoped to de- feat the currency bill by creating the im- | pression that capital is frightened and some of the railroad managers imagined that they might be able to force the In- reason that he was opposed to Mr. BRY- AN and the Populistic heresies for which ‘many claimed he stood. Subsequently he contributed liberally, and somewhat os- i tentatiously, to the Republican campaign terstate Commerce Commission to rule | fund, which was corruptly used to defeat as they desired by “making a poor mouth” records have been against them. in a speech delivered by JAMES R. MA NN, Republican fioor leader in the House of Representatives at Washington, the other. ty and want was depicted. Thousands of idle men were conjured into view and: millions of starving children summoned for public contemplation and all this misery was attributed to the policies of has since been made the basis of hun- dreds of screeds by other calamity howl ers until persons who think little and’ never analyze at all have come to the be- lief that the country is in the throes of a disastrous panic. ' Such falsehoods are worse than crimes. If there were any real foundation for such tales of suffering-they might be jus- tified upon the principle that all is fair in political war. But they are absolutely | without foundation. There is no more idleness and less industrial paralysis now than usual at this season of the year and the false statements only frighten timid people. For example Mr. MANN stated that there are now 30,000 idle working- | men in the city of Los Angeles, California, whereas an official statement by the Mayor of that city, aftera thorough in- vestigation of the subject, shows that there are only 5000 unemployed ‘men there. The statements with respect to other cities were equally exaggerated and y | those responsible for them are public purchasable delegates from a Republican _ It is ‘the People’s Work Anyway. The new currency bill has been in ! | operation two weeks and we can discover | no signs that the country is going to the ' | “demnition bow-wows,’’ as was predicted | by the Republican press and prophets. | Senator WEEKS, of Massachusetts, voted | for the measure on final passage and Mr. | VANDERSLIP, head of the biggest bank in | the Sountey de clares it is ninety per cent. | hile it was pending and professed the apprehensions of others that ould bring, disaster. But it has done of the kind As a matter. of fact Democratic candidates for Congress, State Senate, Representatives it the General y and county offices in aiost of the counties of the State. In 1900 Mr.BRYAN again being the can- didate. of the Democratic party for Presi- - | day, the most forbidding picture of pover= “dent, Mr. GUTHRIE continued his alliance with and renewed his contribution to the “dgain employed to defeat Democratic can- didates for Congress, State Senate, the Legislature and county offices. That year the Democratic administration and mas, several Republican candidates had nar- jority in Congress. This absurd speech 0 margins, one having been elected by forty-four majority and a number of Democratic candidates for Assembly were ‘unsuccessful by majorities of less than two ‘hundred. Mr. GUTHRIE'S generous. cam- paign contribution might have easily turn- = the tables in a dozen cases. In both of these campaigns Mr. VANCE e MCCORMICK was associated with Mr. ‘GUTHRIE in his work to defeat the Demo- cratic candidate for President and the ‘cther candidates on the ticket with him. In 1908 these two gentlemen were again aligned with the Republicans in opposi- tion to Mr.BRYAN and his associates on “the Democratic ticket. Yetduring all this ‘they were scheming to get control of the Democratic organization and seized the ‘opportunity to steal it after the political tragedy which resulted in the defeat of WEBSTER GRIM in 1910. Now these men are posing as party bosses and are dis- pensing the party favors with an arro- ' gance never equalled before. How long will the Democrats of Penn- vania stand for this prostitution of ER less tense and the probabilities that it will ultimately adjust itself to rational i conditions are multiplying. And it should | be borne in mind that rational condi- tions involve the elimination of HUERTA. {sl Alike to the Law. Out of the din and confusion incident to the departure of the old year there came one joyous note’ which inspired hope. The Philadelphia Manufacturers’ Association, in a bulletin issued for |; December, declares that the members of that organization intend to (obey at least siof to | the government of the State. We ike ‘and. fh their fingers: t autho But they are going to obey the new factory law, though they eee - GEORGE W. GUTHRIE was nominated as | the party candidate for Elector-at-Large. ] After all know that these smug; Bentler are: the Gazette Times ma: may. res» i the Underwood tariff and misgivings entertained with Tespect t the currency act, it is impossible to nore the forze of p y character exhibited by Mr. a curing these two momentous legislation. Even if they turn out to be futile in accom : tive ends forward with what he believed to ene and what he considered to be ne Nothing as important. and C te 290i has in 29% yeas x mo on currency the pr n ands of half a century have "been set aside. So that, entirely apart from the soundness of these acts, to have gone so far in so short a time as | Mr." Wilson has done is a remarkable executive per- formance. Presumed not to be a politi- cian, doubted as to his statesmanship; questioned as to his comprehension of the intricacies and scope of legislation, an utter stranger to congressional procedure, he has overcome every obstacle, been de- terred by no precedents and ignored ail efforts to divert him - from the task he had set his mind to. To the man, there- | fore, congratulations are due, with the acknowledgment that, whatever, his fail- ings of temperament may be, or his errors: of iudgment, he has" not studied" The Gospel of Get There” in vain. A merry Christmas to him, and a good rest i Pass Christian, in the soft and soothing Sunshine of the Southland! if No Comfort for the te_Caumity Howler. around | From the Altooia Times. Large mercantile adeiicies which en degen to interpret and analyze fluctuat. Ing ; industrial and commercial conditions little comfort to the army of v erous calamity howlers who dicting all kinds of dire disaster for country. The summar and forecasts for the new year . formly reassuring, the Bw yea =e made that there will be a turn better in the very near futm stated that business “How ® long, 0 Loy Po rf of men are idle in large industrial tres. A commission which recently in- vestigated conditions in Chicago declares is not larger than in former years. It is a demonstrable fact that a certain per- centage of workers is always vainly seek- ing employment, which is the result of an unbalanced industrial system, and not due to changes of tariff, currency and other governmental policies, as partisans | strive to prove. The conditions of the unfortunates | who are haunting bread lines and in- | ye habiting municipal homes will not be made better or worse by the wild clamor- ing of men who are yelling for partisan effect. But it is well to look the situation fairly in the face and place the blame where it Belongs, wel fh r——— He Had 'a Reason, : pd that the number of idle men in’ that city wester “A severe thunder storm Lightning struck the of] sequent fire destroyed it, mine supplies, including mite and powder, which citement by ssploding euting The was ghout the night Bije couldn't have disposed of hi Ch ) David Harum, who bo
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