THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSRUPtt. GBcASf GUIS hi mm KPDBUHIB Criticises Action of a Few Who Have Declared for Sheatz on Insufficient Grounds. f -x That tho Mnchlno IU?pullie:in i', militate Wus Always Servile und Ooodleitt. lie Was Against lloosc- It ut u Crucial Time and Against i, Good Government Legislation Alt the Time. (Special Correspondence.) HarrlBburg, I'a., Oct. 30. There 1" on element among the liukvtiident Republicans of Penn sylvania which Is already "weary of veil dr.lns." This wbj to bo expect ed, in tlie history of time t!.ere has timer been a movement Involving a considerable number of men which dlil not develope some recreants. 13 veil tho church Is frequently efu bit missed In Its work by the bad be Lu'.iour of some professors of Chrint hui.ty. ciiuh Incidents do not per D..aonUy retard the woiit of tho Church, however. Thu deliuiiuents 8 re set abide and the civilizing and Christianizing proceBi-.es g ou. lluccutly there has been no more Eromiblng movement In th'. lvtor?-'t ol civic Improvement than that which organized under tho title of the Lin coln Party lu this State. It was com posed, In the main, of strong and earnest men influenced essentially by the spirit of progress and directed by conscience and patriotism. Such a force could not fail to command popular respect and draw public fav or. That was probably Its greatest danger. It attracted tho Bupport of a lot of self-seeking politicians who hoped to ride into office on the credit ot Its wave of popularity. There are men of respectable ante cedents and considerable means who v.ould crack a safe If they Imagined there was a commission for some '.ibllc office inside which they could ize. They have an Inordinate and ...satiable thirst for office. Some of that sort got into the Llnccln party and because their expectation of office was not realized, they are now hurrying back to the machine. A few of them recently held a meeting In Philadelphia and decided that they would support Sheati. They imagine that such action will please Roosevelt and get them something. False Promises and Wrong Con clusions. These fellows, or part of them, have issued a letter addressed to the Independent Republicans in which tbey say that the nomination of Sbeats was "a concession to decent Republicanism;" that "the good of the State will be best promoted" by his election; that such a result of the vote "will promote the overthrow of Penrose" and that It will be an "endorsement of the Roosevelt poli cies." It would be difficult to Imag ine anything more absurd. The el ection of Sheati Is absolutely essen tial to the success of Penrose's plans for next year. How could it be otherwise Sheati was nominated by a convention ab solutely controlled by Penrose. The fact that it was presided over by Harry F. Walton of Philadelphia is ample proof of that fact But It doesn't depend on that evidence alone. The Important thing to Pen roue was control of the organization. Appreciation of this fact was shown lust year in the demand for the re tirement from the Chairmanship of the State Committee of Mr. Pen rose's Private Secretary. The con vention which nominated Sheatz un animously re-elected Wesley R. An drews. The action of these so-called in dependent Republicans is recreancy of the worst type. But it wasn't the greatest blunder they made. The pending of a copy of their absurd letter to Hon. William T. Creasy en joys that distinction. It gave CreaRy an opportunity to expose their stu pidity and hypocrisy. They have be trayed their associates in tie move ment of the last two years, they have misrepresented facts with re spect to the movement and in rela tion to Sheatz and they have written themselves down as political mercen aries and adventurers. Mr. Creasy's Proper Hoply. Here Is Mr. Creasy's reply to th letter slgnej by Mahlon N Kiln, Chairman, and Cyrus D. Fobs, Jr., Secretary: Cutawlsaa, Fa., Oct. tl Mr, Mahlon N. Kline, Chairman, Phila delphia, l'a. Lr.ir Sir: I tpg to Acknowledge the r Ceipl of your letter of Oclolier lath, con taining reiiwna why the cauau of K""1 Kuvirmnunt would be conserved ly the uci iiiiii of John o. Hheiitt to the otllrn of fcli.le Treasurer, minium John O. llarmntl. no Uonht you liuvo rpiiuented me to Join Von In an iippml to linlipt'iKli'iil Hojiub limns In lui trirtnm e of that proposition, U'joHtiae I was one of your candidates for Biati' ollke last year and for the reason of my identity In the pnst, In mid out of trie Li glalatui , with movement In the Inter est of tiioae reforms which you profess 10 udvoi ate. You Hay thnt at the last two general pleclloiiM thoUHfinds of Keptthllcnn op posed the cumlldulcs of their party he ciiUi.e It was com rolled by a group of cor rupt pjiitli Inns for their own sellish cmlx; that the result led to the election of Mr, berry, the nomination of Htuart, I implied the capital Investigation, the nrrest nnd Indictment of the conspirators nnd final ly, tnu nomination of John i). Sheati for buite lieusuiy. 1 have not quoted liter ally. Mr. Merry Alone Achieved Uremia. You will pardon mo If I am umibto to agree either with your premises or con clusions. The election of Mr. Berry ulona brought nhout the special sesKlon, un eartned the gignnilc capital frauds and If he laid not beuu reuirdud ly an unfriend ly administration, the grafters would have Leen prosecuted long ago. The nomina tion of All. Stuart a certainly no re form movement, for It was notoriously dictated by fun a lor l'enrose; while his e, cetlon has resulted lu thu retention in oilice of all the gangsters of the old Uuay le,;;lne. u.ven t'loll, who as Wecielary of the Hoard of Public Urounds and lluihl ings, covered up me grafting operations. Is still a cierk in the oltlce of the Auditor Ueneial, and in the enjoyment of the con lideneu of the machine leaders. Is it not a tact thnt the h.ime corrupt poiltlciuui uru atlll In eoi.trol uf the party, und us ing It as before, for their own Bullish cn-is? You add that "the policies of President Iiousevelt's administration have tho en thusiastic support of all Independent ite publieuiui," und pledge to him "tor the w.ljre. u. In tne iiioit. our heartv sun. p n t." You will probably recall tho fact tnat In l.".3 wiica truMdent Kousevelt'tj r.ost cheiiHlie.l policy was In lis crucial slave, a i enolutlon pldgiiib hlm the moral support of l'eiinsyiaiila was Introduced Si. to the Legislature, and llr. Hu;i voted av.oiist it. unly u tew days ugo he de- I ilared In a speech at I'lttsburg that he is In cordial sympathy with toe movement to Humiliate Senator Knox for President, who not only doesn't relied tile ltuure Ve.t policy but was conspicuous among those in tne Senate wiio were denounced by President Koosevelt as railroad law yers. Mr. Harnrnn, who was a member of the House ut the time, voted for tho resolution. iSce Legislative Hecord, ses sion of le5, page iui.) The System Ituther Tliun .Men. You say: "We regard Uoise Penrose as the centre and mainspring of the group of corrupting, contracting und corpoiule Influences wnich have so lont; dominated the politics ot the Statu." in my opinion Senator i'eniose is not more tnu centre of this system than was guny or Uiuse who preceded hlm. The evil la not so much men as the system. The citadel of the power of the system Is the stale Treasury. We have Leen striving for yeuis to destroy the system and by the election of Air. llerry two years ago tem porarily achieved that result. Your prop ortion to sleet Mr. Sheats will restore the system and entrench It, because he owes Ms nomination to the machine and must depend upon It for his lection. On tho other hand the election of Mr. Har- ' man will continue the policies of Mr. 1 Kerry and make perpetual the triumph of civic righteousness which his election se cured. You say that the nomination of John O. Sheats by the Republican State conven tion was a concession forced by decent Republicanism, unavoidably ana bitterly distasteful to the management that sought to retain power. Senator Penrose controlled the conven tion which nominated Mr. Sheats as abso lutely as any party boss ever controlled a caucus. He dictated the platform, se lected the presiding offlcer, censored the speeches and what Is of the greatest sig nificance, ha held the organization In his own hands by the re-election of his pri vate secretary to the oltlce of Chairman of the State Committee. You suy that Mr. Sheats Is as truly one of us as If we had given the votes that nominated him. It Is a well-known fact that Mr. Sheats Is playing both sides. The Penrose people declare confidently that Mr. Sheats Is with them. You say he Is against them. But why Is he silent? A man's position can beat be defined by himself. Let Mr. Sheats take the public Into his confidence and frankly announce whether he is for or against Penrose for Senator, Your letter. In short, conveys the Idea that your main concern Is to re-enter the machine organisation. Recent experience has perfectly proved that minority rep resentation In the State administration Is of the highest value. Plain business prin ciples require checks of this sort, and the election of John Q. Harm an will accom plish that result. It will destroy the sys tem absolutely and save the people of the State millions of dollars. Shasta's Haoord Revealed. Tou say that In 1905. prior to the reform movement of that year, Sheats stood alone In the State Legislature In urging the passage of ballot reform and personal registration acts. The only ballot reform bill Introduced during the session of ltul was "read In place by Representative Flynn, and It was supported by all the Democrats and by a few Republicans. Sheats Introduced a personal registration act with the apologetlo "by request" at tached. I have served in the Legislature during all the time of Mr. Bheats's membership of the House and am familiar with his record. He voted for a few meritorious moiaures and against vicious legislation occasionally. But he was not a militant reformer by a long way. On the con trary, he voted with the machine so usually that the exceptions only proved the rule of bis servility to the machine. Sheats voted against the Philadelphia "ripper," but served the machine by vot ing against an amendment which would have destroyed Its evil effects. I do not concur In your opinion that the food of the State will be subserved by ho election of Mr. Sheats. or that such a result of the election will promote the overthrow of Penrose. On the contrary, to my mind. It will entrench Mr. Penrose lmpregnably In his position as party doss. In view of these facts I am constrained to support John G. Herman for Btate Treasurer, and believe that his election will guarantee the results which you pre tend to aim for Very truly yours, W. T. CBBAST. Independents Resent Recreancy. Mr. Creasy'B letter has stirred the real independent Republicans of the State to the highest measure of en thusiasm In the support of Mr. Har man. The authors of tfie letter to which it was a reply, have deliber ately falsified the record in order to deceive the voters. Their purpose was, of course, to Qualify themselves to participate la the Republican primary elections next Spring, pen rose, and as Mr. Creasy alleges, Sheatz are opposed to Roosevelt's candidate and these mercenaries hope that through the popularity of Roosevelt they will get back into the organization and control it Dut they are pursuing a very stupid course. If Sheat is elected Penrose will be more firmly estab lished in control of the party organ ization thnn Quay ever was. Qu.f never went up against a condition ia difficult as the capltol scandals pre sented to Penrose this year. Last year he had a rotiRh rond to travel and won with Stuart. If he suc ceeds this year in rescuing the party from the peril In which It Is Involv ed and restoring It to complete con trol of the government of the Stnta, he will be Invincible, for the credit will go to him rather thnn to th independents, whatever pnrt they take in the battle. O. D. H. Let Vn Hope They Will, from tho Reading Telegram. Maybe If these prosecutors don't look out, Sanderson, et al., will v.? and tell who really got It. According to the statement ot Mahlon N. Kline, Lewis Emery, Jr., It! of the opinion thut the best inter ests of the State were conserved by the election of Edwin S. Stuart to the office of Oovernor last year. Mr. Stuart has done all that was possible to retain Penrose's friends in the public service and to foBter the In terests of the "criminal conspiracy masquerading as the Republican party." He has inaugurated no re form and delayed the prosecution of the capitol grafters ri8 lone ns possi ble, probably with tho purpose of letting thoni escape by way of tho statute of limitations, Quay's favor ite method. Still Lewis Emery, Jr., was thu candidate against him an.l the possibilities for luirm In thb country are vant. Taking one con sideration with another, therefore, we will not undertake to dispute his point with Mr. Emery. Representative Creasy hns made an interesting, though unattractive spectacle of Mr. Marlon N. Kline, of Philadelphia, and thoce associated with him In an effort to delude !n depeudeut Republicans Into tho sup port of Penrose's candidate for State Treasurer. Mr. Creasy shows not only that Mr. Sheatz has always been a servile tool of the machine, but that in a colflsh desire to participate In the primaries next Spring Mr. Kline and his associates have at tempted to deceive tho public by misrepresenting the facts. So long as Wesley R. Andrews, one of thd bank wreckers of the Quay reglm remains at the head of the Republi can organization nobody but a knave would say that It has reformed and only fools would believe the false hood. One cf the most significant feat ures of the State campaign was the meeting of veterans of the Civil war and the sons of veterans held at Shamokln, a few. days ago. Th veteraas were deeply earnest la their denunciation of the trick by which they were deprived cf the pit tance contemplated in the Cochraa bill and In view of the fact that there la likely to be three times as much surplus money in the treasury aa the law would have required at the time the payments would have been made they are Justly indignant. They feel that Pennsylvania owes something to the heroes of that great war and that there la little chance of getting it while the gang wants money for speculative pur poses. Chairman Andrews admits that Burd Cassell who was at the tlmt robbing the State of J i, 500, 000, gave Senator Penrose a campaign contri bution of $16,000, but protests there was nothing wrong in the transaction. Maybe that is true, ac cording to Chairman Andrews' no tions of political morals. But any body who la not a political degen erate would probably take anothtr low of the subject Oovernor Stuart is for Penrose for Senator and Mr. Sbeats is for Penrose. The election of Sheats, therefore, will give Penrose com plete control of the administration of the State government for the reason that the Oovernor and th State Treasurer constitute a majority of all the important Boards and Commissions which administer the government. The voters of Philadelphia ougbt to understand by this time, that thu reform promises of machine politi cians are not to be depended upon. While a candidate, Mayor Reyburn promised anything that tnu people could possibly want but since his el ection he has ears only for the gang sters. John O. Sheats claimed that hi voted against the Susquehanna canal bill while the records show that hi voted for It. This discrepancy be tween his statement and the re cords marks him as a common falsi fer and reformers are not moulded from that sort of metal. man who has been proved a liar has a hard cheek to continue the pretense of integrity. Honest men don't lie and heroes of political battles never try to deceive the peo ple by misrepresenting their actions In public affairs. MICH MOKE MIC.t lSV.lt. Once Seen Chiefly In the Stove Now Employed fo Insulate Wires. There wus a time when mica, or Islnglasa ns It was far more coin mouly callod, wns familiar In ono limited uso In every hotisoholJ In Which there whs a parloi or a sitting room stove, thin, transparent sheets of this mlner.il beliiK set In the stove door. Through the "IsIiikIhhs," not destructible when subjected to heat, aa kIuph won Itl have been, the glow of the fire wlihln could be seen. With lonn use the mlra minht be come studied up and opaque, or It might become innrred nnd brO' ken. Then the head of the household would get and set Into the stovo door fresh IhIiikIhhb, from the stovo dealer's, whllo the fragments of the old were very probably turned over to tho children, who were likely to bo surprised to find Into how much thinner nheetn still the thin old pieces from tho stove door could be divided. A 8 n matter of fact mlra la invisible Into sheets one two-thou sp.ndth of nn Inch In thickness. Now there aro many who don't know mica at all, not even as It Is in stoves, people born and rtUod In houses thnt nro heated by steam, In which no stoves are tir.ed for ho!iMi:ir purposes; but white tho number of these Is large nnd all tho ti:ne glowing, the number of people who yet uso stoves 1b lnri;er still; and vo while mica may have passed entirely out of tho sight nnd mind of many who once knew It In this use, nnd In thin ti-o only, tho preparation of It for stovo use still constitutes a regular branch of the mien trade; nnd thus ono of tho o'.J uses of mica dill continues. Tho chief use to which mica Is no.v put Is ono not dreamed of until with in a comparatively few years, name ly, os nn Insulating material In the construction of electrical apparatus, for which purpose Its use Is now general and constantly Increasing, nnd fnr larger than In any use to which It had ever beforo been put. Mica is now used ultso for making chimneys for incandescent gas lamps placed where they would be exposed to drafts, or out of doors, subject to the weather. Mica Is used to make protectors for ornamental candle fihndes, nnd It Is used for making funcy boxes, end, In place of glass, for covering the labels of drawers, as In n desk. Ground up mica Is now used lu the manufacture of lubri cants and of fertilizers, und of dyna mite, und in other forms It Is used for boiler coverings. Mica was long used for windows and for lanterns, and It Is still used In lanterns where such use would bo advantageous. It Is used In place of glass In spectacles worn by stone and metal workers, and In miners' lamps, and It has been In the past or still U put to various other, In cluding ornamental, uses; but among Its various modern uses the chief Is in Its application to electrical ma chinery. For this the mica is cut into hundreds of different shapes and sizes. India is the chief source of the world's supply of mica, with Canada next, the United States next, and Brazil and other countries following. Mica, from one source and another ranges In color from white or trans parent, through various shades to black. In the formation in which It ex ists it is found In more or less scat tering deposits, or in pockets. Its value depends, with regard to the uses to which it may bo put, on its color, its freedom from Impurities ant the size of the sheets that can be obtained from It. Now this anciently known mineral, for many years put to varied though comparatively limited uses, finds more extensive use than ever in ap plications peculiarly modern. Faucet Motor Power. Among the recent sensible novel ties for the average household, and especially for the man who wants to do a little work In which a smull amount of power is required, is the water motor, which can be attached to any faucet and will develop a sur prising amount of power. For tho angler and sportsman there are In numerable uses for such a contriv ance. Tools can be sharpened, knives can be ground, angling spoons can be polished and little odds and ends of work done that could not be accomplished by any other contrivances? To the house holder there are possibilities of us ing It for the wife's sewing machine, and It will even run a small dyna mo for the young hopeful of tho family. Tho motor attachos to the threaded end of the faucet, or If thnt Is not employed a universal fastener is supplied. With tho apparatus lu supplied motor, pulley wheel, emery wheel and silver and steel polishing compound. 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No man can live a happy and vigorous life without plenty of God's sunshine and fresh air. But there is no reason whv mining should be recorded as a par ticularly hazardous occuoation so far as the probability of accidents is concerned, if reasonable precau tions were taken at all times. A human life now and then in the mines attracts little attention. Dan gerous walls and roofs are neglect ed, and gases are ignored until some great disaster draws the attention of the public, but in such cases no one suggests that stringent meas ures snoum De taken to Drevent another such catastrophe." Catholics May Eat Meat Friday. Special Dispensation From Pops Piut tor All Saints Day. Catholic oriests throuehout the entire country have announced that owing to a SDecial disoensation granted by Pope Pius, the faithful throughout the world will be allow ed to eat meat on Friday next which will be the feast of All Saints. 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