B COLUMBIAN, KLo(WMW'Vi. 8 THE COLUMBIAN. BlToOMSLURG, PA. THUK(1)AY, JUNKII, l!()7 HARRISBURG LETTER. Special Correspondence. HarrisbiuR, Pa., June 3, 1907. Within tho hIhuIow of the Kiiubli can State convention no one knows who lYimw hits selected to curry the Htaiuliinl to defeat. There van a time when eoneeahnent in such tilings was unneeefwary. Tlie flat of the boss was legal tender uml the man who w hiinj) erel a protest was whipped. Hut can dor is no longer a virtue in Republican machine politics. Secresy is essential to the success of the plans and Penrose takes no chances. He sprung Stuart on the convention last year without warning and won. Any other candi date who could have been named would have been defeated, and if Stuart had been brought forward a month be fore the event he would never have been nominated. Several names have been canvassed t probable candidates for the nomina tion and though it may be only a co Incidence, it is nevertheless a fact that all of them have been the most servile tools of the machine. Governor Stuart may be responsible for this also. It is ail open secret that he lias greatly dis plKiinted Penrose. Of course It wasn't exjiected that Mr. Stuart would be as bad as either Stone or Pennypacker, If his reputation had justified such an estimate he would have been over whelmingly defeated. Jlut as Mayor of Philadelphia fifteen or twenty years aim lie was blind to the faults ot his friends and that much was expected of him in his present position. The first rude shock he gave Penrose was the inaugural declaration that his campaign pledges would lie fulfilled. The machine had no more intention of making a searching and thorough in vestigation of the capitol graft than it hud of building a trolley railroad to the moon. The intention was to appoint a partisan committee to make a perfunc tory iniiiry and a whitewashing re port. .But Stuart promptly gave notice that nothing of that sort would serve. He was assured during the campaign that the charges were false but he pledged himself to exposure and pun ishment if they were true. Before the inauguration lie learned the trutli and made up his mind as to liN course. PKNKOSK'8 MOST l'OTKM' ASSKT. That is why Penrose is so careful and secretive in the selection of a candidate for State Treasurer. He wants the Treasury under his control more than he wants anything else except his own re-election. That office was his most potential political asset. The partisan JHe of the funds of the Stat yields more in votes and influence than any ther agency. Quay worked it for him self, mainly. When be shook the plum tree he or some member of his family leathered the fruit. He was as selfish as he was sordid, as coyetuous as he was brutal. Penrose, on the other hand, partisan rather than personal. Mor ally it makes no dillerence where the rake-otl" goes but the selfish mau is the more despicable. Penrose doesn't want to be disap , Miiiited in his candidate for State Treasurer, In the event of his election, 18 he was In his candidate for Gover nor. Except in the matter of dispelli ng patronage Stuart is no more use to Penrose than Emery would have been. That sort of a man in the Treasury vould be of as little service to him as terry is. A man carrying the ma hiue brand openly is equally useless, 'be people would flee from him as they vould run from a pestilence. What 'enrose wants, therefore, is a man of espeetable antecedents and a reputa tion for probity, who will slit a wind pipe or scuttle a ship if the exigencies .-aquire such sinister service. It is hard to find such a candidate, 'en rose has a dillicult problem to ilve. Former Senator Cumins, of .Varreu, wouldn't do at all. His legis- ative record, replete with servility and nihility, would make his election ab solutely impossible. There is one man in the State who might have done. It iCity Treasurer Steel, of Pittsburg. 1 11 t'ie whole broad commonwealth there isn't a more subservient political tool, liul his exclusion from political actlvl .Attes during his life of service to the late Chris. Magee, has kept him out of the lime light and if lie had been nomi nated he might have completely fooled the public. He was not only a pupil of Magee. He was a protege of the late ilob Mackey. MR. BTKKI.'S AMMTION8 AND FKAKS. Mr. Steel has declined the nomina tion but it must not be assumed that he U averse to fat jobs In the public ser vice. It is easy to imagine that he would like the place Hut he doesn't eare to take up tho burdens, responsi bilities and hazards of a campaign. A st-arching examination of hU financial operations in Pittsburg as the fiscal ugent of the lute Senator Magee might produce a record which would be hard on the nerves. The foundation of Ma uee'tf fortune was laid while lie was l.'lty Treasurer of Pittsburg and Mr. Steel bundled the funds. The history of that administration wouldn't make a good platform for a reform candidate, The graft system which lias recently shocked the people ot Pennsylvania wasn't a mushroom growih. It was the result of careful nurture and slow development. Quay had a good deal to do witli it but wasn't the "whole cheese," Magee was the Hlucher of the combination and Steel the calcula tor. When Quay and M it gee came to the "parting of the ways," Steel ad hered to Magee because "blood Is thick er than water." But he didn't hire n brass band to lead the march. On the contrary lie moved in the quietest way to the head of the Magee bank and made sentiment for Ills principal. Ills small wonder that Penrose thought of him in the present emergency. He is precisely the type of man that Is need ed. "He understands addition, division and silence." Mr. Steel's declination may or may not have been final. You can't always tell whether an opossum Is dead or only protending and unless Penrose is able to find a candidate "equally as good," Steel may decide to take the chances. He loves the intrigue of poli tics and the manipulation of big affairs. Nothing would suit him better than dispensing the vast treasury surplus "where it would do the most good." He enjoys helping his friends and knows how to "scrape the edges of the law" without incurring the penalty. If he were elected State Treasurer every dollar of the surplus would be put to work making votes for Penrose's re-election. AN OMINlll'8 KUMoK. There is a suspicion current that af ter all the capital probers are to be used to help the machine in its effort to recover t lie State Treasury. That is to say it is intimated that the most damaging evidence against the politi cians is to be withheld from the pub lie under the pretensa that publication would impair the chances of punish ment in the criminal courts. Before the legislature adjourned it authorized the investigating commission to report to the Governor who is under pledge to prosecute if the commission recom mends that course. Hut the coniniis- i sion is dilly-dallying, apparently, Tor I one reason or another, and the chances I are that its work will not be completed until late in the fall. In that event, of course, the report of the commission will be unavailable for use in the campaign. That is the re- suit for which the machine is striving, A eomnloto exposure of the lootimr operations would admonish the people of the importance of continuing the treasury under the control of the min ority party. It not only serves as a check upon tho partisan impulses of the other departments but creates minority representation In all the fis cal boards. If Berry had been elected two years sooner, the looting would have stopjK'd that much earlier and the State would have saved at least three million dollars. The election of the machine candidate for Treasurer will restore the old methods beyond question. There is very little political advan tage to tho minority party in having the Treasurer. His patronage is limit ed to a few clerks and Mr. Berry ap pointed Republicans to some of those places. The depositories are chosen by the Revenue Commissioners and the Bunking Commis.ioner a majority of whom are Republicans. If the Treasur er is of that political faith, no doubt his recommendation would govern, as it did before Berry's election. Under present conditions, however, the State Treasurer has little to do in the matter. But there is vast advantage to the public in having a restraint upon the majority party. Majorities are always inclined to excesses. NO OCCASION FOR DELAY. I wouldn't be undershwd as casting aspersions upon the commission en gaged in the investigation, of the capi tal. Men have ambitions, however, and before the work was well under way gosstp attributed to the chairman of the hotly an ambition for party favor. It might not have iullueuced his action as president of the commission in tiie least. But It is absolutely certain that party favors in that party in this State are in the form of recompense and no member of the commission will be fu Kidney Disease Kills. Thousands Never Suspect Thai They Have It. It li now generally admitted that dlwaiea of the kidneys and bladder constitute the greatest 0urce of disease. Cure these and we remove the cau of nearly all ailments of the Liver, lllood, Stomach and Bowel.. But the approach of Kidney disease la so sly and grailuul that tlie first symptoms may cot be noticed. Here are some of the must common symptoms of this dangerous disease ; Discolored or dark urine, sometimes excessive auu or paie color. Unusual uesiro to urinate, esneclallv at night. ''Brick llusl" deposit, aometmies coittaluiuu aiimmeu aim nioou. dwelling around eyes, ankles and abdomen. 1'rowftinees and a constant tired leeliug. l'ale. hot ami drv skin. l'ain in tlie hack, headache, cramps In the legs. Bowel constipated, digestion impaired. tthuumalic paius In the joints ana muscles. If you have any of the above symptoms your kid neys need immediate alteution, and Dr. David Ken nedy's Favorite Kemeiiy should be taken at once, Do you know what will happen if you neu'lect theM yiiiiitotiisf llrii-lit's Disease, must terrible, ii nearly always tlie outcome. r. David Kennedy'! Favorite Jtemedy has cured thousands of kidney disease, and we have tlie iiositlve proof. It will cure you. Seud to Dr. David Kennedy's Suns, Itondout, S. Y., for free sample bottle and medical booklet, Larue bottles 11.00, at all druggist. General Debility Pay In and dny out there Is that fi-clltm of weakness thnt mnkes a burden of Itself. food does not strengthen. Pkvp does not refresh. It Is hard to do, hard to bear, what should he easy, vitality is on the ebb, snd the whole system suffers. l'or this condition take Hood's Sarsaparilla It vitalizes tho blood and gives vigor and tone to all the organs and functions. In iisunl liquid form or In rliorolatrd tablets known as SaraatabS. 100 doses $1. vored in the future, near or remote, unless lie cnviis It by service and post ponement of the report until after the election would be a great service. The evidence already brought out proves every accusation made by Mr. Berry during the last campaign. It not only shows vast frauds but criminal conspiracy to loot the treasury. Evid ence yet to be given will add to the strength and supplement the force of that already in. It Is universally agreed that if the whole truth had been known before the last election the machine wiliticians responsible for the condi tion would have been completely eli minated from the political lite of the State. If the whole truth is known before the next election the' minority party candidate will be elected State Treasurer next fall and the reform work continued. That is why the ma chine wants delay. It is unfortunate, therefore, that the work of the commission is being de layed. Probably the tardiness is un avoidable. The expert accountants have had an Herculean t:uk to perform and perfect work requires time and care. But it is difficult to understand why there are so many recesses In the sestious. Nothing has been doneslnce the week before the adjournment of the Legislature except the examina tion of one witness at Norfolk, Vir ginia, last week and the holding of two sessions at Harrisburg on Friday and Saturday. The holding of no sessions at all this week is inexplicable except upon the hypothesis that delay is the tiling desired. ONK. POINT SKTTl.K.H. The Norfolk witness settled the ques tion of collusion between Architect Huston and Contractor Sanderson, if there were any doubts on that p: lnt before. He testified positively to their working together not only in dispens- K le Peonage out ill looting tne treasury. There is no occasion for much further delay, therefore. The report of tile Accountants will no doubt reveal many facts not thus fur referred to by witnesses and greatly strengthen the case ot the people against tlie conspira tors. Hut if some of the most vital evideuce is to be reserved for the courts, that report might be used in that way. There is already sutllcient evidence to secure indictments and it is important that proceedings be begun soon. A few prison sentences would greatly clarify the political atmosphere. G. D. H. Statue to Davis. An everlasting memorial of Jef ferson Davis, the chosen leader of "The Lost Cause," and the first and only president of the Confed erate States of America, was un veiled at Richmond, Va. on Mon day, as the crowning feature of the reunion of the Confederate Vete rans. The ceremony was made the oc casion for a grand military pageant in which every veteran in gray who was physically able participat ed with an energy which defied the years that have gone since he bore arms for the South. The drawing aside of the veil which draped the figure represent ing the veterans beloved leader and the first gun of the presidential sa lute which immediately followed was the signal for an outburst of cheering which was swollen to thunderous applaus by the sons and daughters of the veterans. Beautiful sentiment was heard on every side and the thanks of the entire South were offered by the orators of the occasion to the United Daughters of the Confederacy whose work it was that made the Jefferson Davis Monument . Association a success. The addresses were made by Governor Swanson, of Virginia: Mayor McCarthy, of Richmond, and General Kvans. The unveil ing was done by Mrs. J. A. Hayes, of Colorado Springs, Colo., daugh ter of Mrs. Davis, assisted by her two young sons. The monument is the combined work of li. V. Val entine and William C. Nolan, of Richmond. The memorial typi fied the vindication of Mr. Davis and the cause of the Confederacy, the leading inscription being: "Deo Vindice" (God will vindicate.) Around the moulding is traced this extract from Mr. Davis' fare well speech when he resigned from the United States Senate on the secession of Mississippi: "Not in hostility to others, not to injure any section of the country, not even for our own pecuniary benefit, but for the high and solemn motive of defending and protecting the rights we inherited, and which it is our duty to transmit unshorn to our children." t.ik si't.TAN ok Mor.ocro. rrrsonallty of (!:i Kulcr About Whom So Little is Known. Motllaf Abd-el Aziz XIV'., present Saltan of Morocco, Is probably the most misunderstood man of tho present time. The whole army of newspaper rorreKonrl'nts, many of thorn residents of Tangier, seem to dollKlit In maligning his powers, pre cepts and Ideals, and plory In writ ing Ions articles depicting his Impo tence, his foibles and his weak, wav ering nature. I,ltt)p do they under stand the real man, says J. H. Avery who hns been In personnl attendance upon Ills Majesty for two years. Horn In 1 880, of a Circassian, the favorite slave of the late Mulai Ha 8i) n, Abil-el Aziz had the good for tunc to bo reared uniler tho careful guardianship of a loving mother, an educated lady and a true- woman. Brought up from childhood Inside tho palace walls, kept apart from the others, the boy reached early man hood without coming Into contact wlih the many contaminating influ ences which so sap and wither the early life of the present day Moor. The result of this training Is that Instead of being enervated In body and mind ho is bright, intelligent, active, fond of all branches of sport, and full of Just those traits of char acter so beloved bv the athletic Brit isher. In person Moulal Abd-el Aziz pos sess nil the qualities expected In a Moorish ruler. Ovor six feet In S -nnv vw v 117 tJ Sultan of Morocco. height, broad In proportion, his pres ence Inspires confidence and at the Rame time retains the air of author ity. His complexion is rather dark, with a peculiarly rich olive tint, which adds great attractiveness to what Is a splendid if not a handsome face. To bo a Sultan In most people's idea is the be-all and end-all of hap piness; such, however, in this In stance is not the case. Hemmed In by the strictest etiquette, his life Is far from being the glorious bed of roses It Is supposed to be. Not able to go outfelde the palace walls except on state occasions, or when visiting the Mosque on Fridays his actions are greatly restricted, and when the court business of the day is over he hag to amuse himself alone the best way he can. At the same time he la always at the call of his Ministers, should they require his advice. It was the continuation of this hum drum life that caused the Sultan to send for an Englishman to relieve the monotony and brighten his dull hours. What could have shown to the world the sterling qualities the man possesses better than his action over the deplorable murder of Mr. Coop er? Here a Moor had shot one of the most popular missionaries in Fez and Moor-like had fled to the Mosque of Mulal Idress, sanctuary for all evil-doers. Without hesita tion and against the wishes of nearly the whole Moorish Cabinet; he caused the murderer to be dragged into the public square and In the presence of the populace shot down. It was a life for a life, yes, but a be liever's life for an unbeliever's did not seem correct In the eyes of the fanatical FezzeB, and It took some two or three weeks before they for gave their lord and master for what to them was an unlawful privilege and an unwarrantable sacrilege. The Sultan's daily life Is really a flniple one. Usually rising with the Bun, he, after his bath, would be dressed for the courts, arriving there at 7 A.M. From that time to 11 o'clock, or half, past he would be busy with affairs of state, or receiv ing the many that crave audience with him on every conceivable pre text. Then he strolled through the grounds to his private rooms, where he patrook of breakfast. Afterward, in an undress costume he would perambulate tho grounds in company with Omar Tazze, the Master of the Royal Household. Then followed tho midday meal, and at 3.30 what was known as afternoon court would take place. That meant the attend' anco of the few Europeans to amuse him and the private audience of any people who had arrived in Fez that he wished to see. Court finished nbout 6 o'clock, when the Sultan would retire to his own quarters for tho night. Such is the life of the Sultan ot Morocco, a life not to bo envied by the freo American. Cooped In his large but oftlmes dreary palace, not knowing just what Is going on In the outside world, he Is unable to repu dluto the many charges levied against him. 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