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TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 24
JUGGLING JUDGESHIPS
UNDER former political condi
tions it was almost a criminal
offense to barter political pa
tronage for the benellt of parti-
Ban candidates, but under the new
political standards now being pro
mulgated in Pennsylvania by a fac
tion of the Democratic party, it is
tiuite the proper thing to dangle po
litical offices In the sight of those
support Is needed for the White
House candidates in Pennsylvania.
It is bad enough that ordinary jobs
should be utilized In this way, but it is
infinitely worse when judicial appoint
ments are postponed with a view to |
aiding the favorites of the adminis
tration at Washington. It is common
talk now that two Federal judgeships
In Pennsylvania are being used to
hold in line the aspirants for these
places and other friends for the
Palmer-McCormick ticket.
President Wilson has declared over
and over again that he would never
countenance this sort of thing, but he
also announced that he was In favor of
exempting coastwise vessels of the
United States from the Panama Canal
tolls.
Surely the going to get
awake, and when they do there must
be an accounting on the part those
■who have exploited public ofllce for
the benefit of an administration which
Is being run for the glory of a theorist
■whose attitude on practical qusetions
Js becoming a menace to the prosperity
of the United States.
"Breathes there a man with soul so
tiead, who never to himself has said,
when home his footsteps he has turned
from wandering on a foreign strand,
•this is my own, my native land,"" here
■Will I take up my residence long
enough to make a few speeches and be
elected to the United States Senate.
WILSON'S CHANGE OF FRONT
PRESIDENT WILSON has for
gotten all about the Baltimore
platform in his anxiety to please
Great Britain. His position with
reference to the Panama Canal tolls
Is giving his partisan supporters more
trouble than anything that has trans
pired since he entered the 77hite
House.
In a speech at Washington Park In
Ifew Jersey last August he declared:
One of the great objects in cut
ting the great ditch across the
isthmus of Panama is to allow
farmers who are near the Atlantic
to ship to the Pacific by way of the
Atlantic ports, to allow all the
• farmers on what I may, standing
here, call this part of the continent
to find«an outlet al ports of the
gulf or the ports of the Atlantic
seaboard, and then have coastwise
steamers carry their products
down around through the canal and
up the Pacltic coast or down the
coast of South America.
Now. at present, there are no
ships to do that, and one of the bills
pending, passed, I believe, yester
day by the Senate as it hail passed
the House. PROVIDES FOR FREE
TOLL FOR AMERICAN SHIPS
THROUGH THAT CANAL and pro
hibits any ship from passing
through which is owned by any
American railroad company. You
see the object of that don't you ?
< Applause). tVe don't want the
railroads to compete with them
selves, because we understand* that
kind of competition. We want
water carriage to compete with
land carriage, so as to be perfectly
sure that you are going to get bei -
ter rates around the canal than you
would across the continent.
But the President has changed
front and in his message to Congress
favoring the repeal of the exemption
clause In favor of the coastwise ship
ping of the United States, he says:
We ought to reverse our action
without raising the ouestion
whether we were RIGHT OR
WRONG.
And what of the Baltimore plat
form of 1912, concerning which he
has frequently declared it must be
his guiding star? This is the plank
of that organic Instrument:
Wo favor the exemption from
tolls of American ships engaged In
coastwise trade passing through
the Panama Canal. We also favor
legislation forbidding the use of the
Panama Canal by ships owned or
controlled by railroad carriers en
gaged In transportation competi
tive with the canal
But in this Instance the organic in
utrument is to get » jolt, unless his
liartisaus in Congress repudiate the
ground and lofty, tumbling of 'he,
President on the Toll question, and it j
TUESDAY EVENING,
has not bet 'otten that William
Jennings BH i a speech before
the Legislature of Pennsylvania In the
session of 1913, declared with em
phasis:
A man who violates a party
platform Is a criminal, worse than
the man who embezzles money.
President Wilson and hiß Secretary
of State must settle this little dlffer
j ence between them.
' Americans of all parties are begin
j ning to wonder what move the Presi
dent will next make In the Interest of
Great Britain or some other foreign
power at the expense of the people of
I this country. '
| As was certain to be the case, the
Democratic leaders are becoming rest
, ive, and Representative Kitchin, of
j North Carolina, second in command
.of the Democracy In the House at
i Washington and its prospective' leader
I in the event of Mr. Underwood going
:to the Senate, lias called attentidn
jto the fact that when the Panama
; Canal bill was acted upon In the Sen
j ate the exemption clause was adopted
by a vote of 44 to 11. Every Demo
j crat present voted for it and "it was
almost universally approved by the
American people." Continuing, Mr.
I Kitchin said:
The three parties. Democratic, i
Progressive and Republican, and j
I the three candidates for the Presi- :
i dency—Wilson. Taft and Koose- I
velt, expressly approved and en- '
dorsed during the campaign of 1
1912 the exemption provision which
We are now asked to repeal.
Mr. Kitchin quoted various authori
ties who had held that the exemption
clause is not violative of treaty obli
gations and said:
How can any one who has given
any study and thought to the
question be bold enough to say that
the exemption act is in violation of
the treaty and that .t imperils our
national honor not to repeal it?
Commenting on the plank In the
Baltimore platform approving the ex
emption clause, Mr. Kitchin said:
The concluding paragraph of the
platform speaks my views, "Our
pledges are made to be kept when
In ofllce, as well as relied upon
during the campaign."
While the North Carolina member
doesn't make the charge that the Ad
ministration is serving the interests
of the transcontinental railways, he
declares that these railways are ch4efly
interested in having tolls levied on
American coastwise vessels.
The loss of the statistics on eugenics
in the Wellesle.v fire is understood not
to have had any effect on the number
of solitaires worn by senior girls.
THE DAY OF THE DEMAGOGUE.
NOWADAYS the Democratic news
papers of a certain class and
the campaign orators of the
same class persistently refer to
the great Republican party as "the
gang." These same newspapers and
orators never see anything wrong in
the party or faction with which they
happen to be identified. No matter
what is done, it is always right, while
the Republicans are everlastingly and
hopelessly depraved, Insincere, dis
loyal and everything that is mean and
despicable.
This sort of abuse has continued so
long that a reaction has set in and
Democrats of the decent sort are pro
testing against this unfair attitude on
;he ground that such a course is cer
tain to alienate thousands of voters
who might otherwise favor Democratic
candidates. Nor is this abuse confined
o Republicans; it is bestowed in like
measure upon all Democrats who hap
pen to differ from the holier-than
thou upstarts who have recently taken
possession of the Democratic organi
zation in Pennsylvania and through
out the country.
As a result of this abuse great mul
titudes of Democrats are aligned
against those in temporary power and
the conflict in this State and else
where has never been so bitter as at
the present time. Men who place
themselves upon pedestals of right
eousness and adorn themselves with
halos while denouncing and misrep
resenting good men of their own party
and other parties because of differ
ences as to policy and party manage
ment are bound to feel before the end
of the campaign the resentment of
courageous and independent voters
who discern the ambitions and selfish
ness back of this tirade of vilification.
Even Dr. Martin G. Brumbaugh, a
distinguished citizen of Pennsylvania,'
who has been urged to become a can
didate for Governor on the Republi
can ticket is now pilloried by this same
element as a puppet In the hands of
"the gang." They admit that he is
an able, conscientious, honorable
man, but pretend that in the event
o$ his election, he will not be free of
influences opposed to the public wel
fare. It matters not what he says, as
in the minds of his antagonists his
splendid record does not count.
Suspicion and distrust and assumed
virtue characterize all the fulminations
of the little fellows who are now
strutting about the State telling the
people what great men they are and
how the interests of the people will be
safe hi their hands.
But the pendulum is swinging back
toward sanity and the day of the
demagogue in high places is about to
go, out in darkness. It's a wonder
that it has lasted so long.
Those rapids got everything belong
ing to the Roosevelt expedition but
Teddy himself. Teddy didn't mind. He's
been through the rapids before.
Villa is going to have a moving pic
ture man photograph his army In ac
tion. About half a reel of film ought
to be enough.
A New York negro, aged 43, who
boasted that he had never worked, died
yesterday after hiccoughing continu
ally for four days. Perhaps from the
shock of finding something that kept
him busy.
Who said "local Congressional fight?"
There Isn't any. Krelder wins In a
walk-away.
To love your nelghbur as yourself u
beyond question « fine thing but much
. necessarily depends on the neighbor
[ Sometime* he won't let you.
1 EVENING CHAT 1
Wllkes-Barre's effort to have the
Superior Court sit in the anthracite
city calls to mind something about the
appellate courts of Pennsylvania or
which the average person seldom
thinks and which* when you think
about It is circuit traveling with a
vengeance. Although the State has
provided a remarkably beautiful cham
ber and a handsome suite of offices at
the Capitol for the Supreme and Su
perior Courts, they meet in the capital
city of the State, where every otner
branch of the government has its
headquarters, just once a year, and if
by reason of the list their stay is three
days yet it is apparently with a sense
of irksomeness that they remain that
■ long. Certainly the justices and the
Judges leave within a few hours after
the sitting adjourns. The Supreme
Court has one sitting a year in the
Capitol, three times in Pittsburgh and
twenty times in Philadelphia, each
[ Monday when a session is held count
! ing as a sitting. The Superior Court
has one sitting here, one sitting at
I Scranton, one at Wllliamsport, live in
j Pittsburgh and eight in Philadelphia.
I Why Erie and Johnstown are not
j given sitting's is not plain. The court
i has very little time in the cities out
| side of Philadelphia and the means of
j communication in the State are bo
I easy that it seems strange that BO
| much time should be spent in Phila
, delphia when the Pardon Board, the
| Public Service Commission, the Water
Supply Commission, the Forestry Com-
I mission, the Sinking Fund Commis-
I sion, the Game Commission, the Fish
Commission and other State bodies
have their meetings and their hearings
here month after month. The Su
preme Court chamber is actually used
by the Board of .Pardons just about
three times as much as by the high
court for which it was created and
the Public Service Commission gets
more use out of it than the two ap
pellate courts and the Pardon Board
together. The chamber Is a beautiful
room and the offices beside it. which
are held for the exclusive use of the
Justices and judges meeting here once
a year, might be employed in housing
some of the departments which have
to go. out of the building for quarters.
Gaino Warden Joe Berrier is in
clined to be a little lenient with per
sons who are sore on the proclamation
of President Wilson which forbids wild
duck shooting even if the Pennsylva
nia State law does allow it. The people
around here have a hard time to as
certain why Congress should put the
wild duck into the same interstate
classification as a Pennsylvania Rail
road through freight via Morrisvillo
and give the proclamation Issued
thereunder more power than a State
law. Joe is a Federal as well as a
State game warden and lately in meet
ing men who are supposed to have
been thinking about going for ducks
he forgets he is working for Uncle Sam
and acts for Father Penn and gives
warning. Many people do not know
of the regulation and many -are re
sentful of It.
Dr. Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer, writ
ing about Martin G. Brumbaugh in the
Philadelphia Ledger, says that the
educator's father made his first trij>
to Philadelphia after a visit to this
city. It appears that Dr. Brumbaugh
was scheduled to preach at the great
conference of the Brethren held here i
in 11M>1 and his father came on from
Huntingdon county to hear him. The
old gentleman considered Philadelphia
too far away to visit and would not
consent to make the trip. Finally to
talk to his busy son he went on a train,
nlanning to leave at Lancaster and to
return. The train did not stop at
Lancaster and the elder Brumbaugh
was carried into Philadelphia. But he
only stayed that night, and with re
luctance. He did not like the city and
.left at 8.30 a. m., after, however, at
tending the markets.
At yesterday's sess'on of sentence
court a nrettv Penbrook wife who had
been convicted of assault and battery
upon her husband was arraigned for
Among other things she
was charged with having beaten her
husband over the with a clock.
T n aviriilpg for- lenlencv her counsel,
W. J. (Vrtpr. endeavored to make light
of her offense.
"AfW nil, your Honor." pleaded the
'awyer, "there wasn't much to it. It
was merelv a little trouble over a clock
and she got the clock."
"L T m-m." mused President Judge
Kunkel. "from the evidence we should
c av that he e-ot the clock—ln the face."
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE 1
—Archbishop Prendergast dedicated
i nfw church at Narbertli in a snow
storm.
—Dr. J. A. Holmes, of the United
States Bureau of Safety at Pittsburgh,
says the waste every year is becoming
appalling.
—General Daniel Nagle, Pottsvllle's
Mexican War veteran, met Thomas
Wilkins, a comrade in the war, on
Sunday.
—George C. Brooke is going to New
Orleans after a prolonged illness.
—Governor Tener and ex-Governor
Pennvpacker will attend the Stevens
school ceremonies at Lancaster Friday.
—Representative T. A. Steele, of
McKeesport. was orator of the day at
the Homestead Eagles' dinner.
—Congressman W. W. Bailey, of
Johnstown, wants the army and navy
to be put to work on roads.
IN HARRISBURG FIFTY
YEARS AGO TO-DAY
[From the Telegraph, March 24, 1864]
"SPRING COMING"
We are again in the enjoinment of
clear, cold, bracing weather. "Spring
is coming" but yet appears, to be in
the distant.
EASTER NEXT WEEK
Easter— This annual religious festi
val will occur this year on Sunday
next, the 27th Inst. Easter was cele
brated by our pagan ancestors In April
as a festival in honoV of Eostre, the
Saxon Goddess of Love, or the Venus
of the North.
"Ct'SS THE EDITOR"
ll}- Wins Dlligrr
I went out to the editor.
This morning, and I said.
Here is the best Wing Dinger
I think you've ever read.
The way at once his nose went up
You'd thought he held a skunk
Instead of some well written verse.
He said, "Gee, this is punk."
"I never can let this go through,
It is the worst I've seen;
You've gotten by with some. I know.
That never should have been.
j "But if you don't write better stuff
You must get off the staff."
And then I crooked my elbow and
'Way up my sleeve I laughed.
For I should worry at those words,
Which he to me did say,
Because for writing all this rot
I don't get any pay.
' But tie's tlie boss, and what iie tiays
! Is final with the iiwi—
ITfiat Pofcm however, a peftch,
I Regtudieg? of bin vl«ws.
&ABRISBURG TELEGfIAPff
LEWIS ISSUES HIS
NEWESTPLATFORM
Takes Stand For the Subjects
Which Have Befcn Favored
by. Progressives
JUDGESHIP TANGLE IS BAD
Criticism of the Dillydallying Is
Heard in a Good Many Parts
of State
William Draper Lewie last night in
Philadelphia made public the plat
form upon which he seeks the nomi
nation of the "Progressive party for
Governor of Pennsylvania. It is large
ly made up of the exploitation of is
sues" advanced at conferences of the
Bull Moose leaders before Judge
Brumni got into the fight for the nom
ination. He refers to his having been
chairman of the Washington party
committee on legislation, and charges
that measures were defeated by a "bi
partisan machine."
He alleges that an alliance exists
between the political leaders and spe
cial interests to control legislation.
"That the solution of large social
and governmental problems demands
construction, legislation and improv
ed administration," he declares, "only
emphasizes the urgent necessity ot
ridding Pennsylvania of Penroseism."
Among other things Air. Lewlp Calls
for good election laws, a corrupt prac
tices act to limit the amount of money
that may be expended at a primaries,
and general elections, and legislation
to make it impossible "to assist tho
voter unless it is proved that he is phy
sically Incapable of seeing or marking
I his ballot." He calls on the next Leg
islature to provide for a convention to
I revise the State Constitution.
j From the headquarters of the J.
Benjamin Dimmick United States
' Senatorial candidacy a statement was
issued yesterday de
claring that a large
Cumberland proportion of the
Kinoiiuicul heavy Republican en-
Figuresout roliment on iviarch 11
and 18 was a direct
result of Mr. Dim
mick's candidacy. These figures are
given from Cumberland county to
show how tlfe Bull Moosers nave fal
len away in their enrollment: Repub
lican enrollment in 1»14, 5,010; Taft
vote in 1912, 2,666; Washington enroll
ment in 1914, 693; Roosevelt vote on
all tickets in 1912, 3,507; Democratic
enrollment in 1914, 5, 34; Wilson vote
in 1912. 5,023.
The Philadelphia Record says: "Re
viewing local political history to show
some of the present McCormick lead
ers were not so prone
in the past to attack
the former Donnelly- Henry Uudd
Ryan combination in . V\ lutck-s tlie
Philadelphia, Henry New Bosses
Budd, in a letter to
Robert S. Bright, made
public yesterday, told of previous per
formances of State Chairman Roland
S. Morris, Dr. W. Horace Hoskins,
president of the Democratic Club, and
other "reorganizers." llr. Budd told
how, In 1903, these men were active in
endeavoring to defeat a movement to
attack tlie 'Tenth and Walnut streets'
organization of that period, and de
clared that 'while they roar fiercely
enough now,' they carefully abstained
from any action of the kind at that
time. The letter was sent as infor
mation to Mr. Bright, who, while he
accepted the aid of Michael J. Ryan
on the stump while running for regis
ter of wills las* fall, recently expressed
fears that the city solicitor was tied
up with a so-called 'bi-partisan ma
chine.' Mr. Budd, who is a veteran
opponent of machine politics, ridiculed
these Intimations as absurd."
Notwithstanding the declaration of
the State conferences of the Bull
Moosers In favor of naming their own
legislative tickets, Ly
coming county Wash-
Bull Moosers Ington party men will
Fuse With Join with the Repub-
Rc publicans licans. Yesterday it
was announced that
Ralph Gibson, Repub
lican, would also be the candidate of
the Washington party, and that James
L. Richardson, Washington candidate
for the State Senate, would circulate a
Republican petition. A dispatch says:
"This get-together movement Is be
lieved to have been decided upon dur
ing the recent Washington party con
ference In this city. It is thought that
this will also result in the naming of
Congressman Edgar R. Kiess, who is
a candidate for re-election, on both
tickets."
Nominating petitions for the House
were filed to-day as follows: James A.
Stringer, Republican, Eighteenth Phil
adelphia; William S. Greene, Pitts
burgh, Republican, Eighth Allegheny;
Francis S. Brong, Saylorsburg, Dem
ocrat, Monroe county. William I.
Swoope, Clearfield, filed a petiUon to
run for Republican State committee In
Clearfield county.^
I POUHCAL SIDELIGHTS
—Now If Judge Gray should retire
It would make unother judgeship ap
pointment to traffic with.
—The reorganizes must bo proud
of Warren .Worth Bailey.
—Berry seems to think making
speeches for a partisan Democratic
candidate on a Jersey slate does not
violate any proprieties.
—Edward Breunan is a candidate
for Democratic nomination to the
House in Northumberland.
—Judge Trexl«r seems to have
plenty of friends here.
—Hazleton had u special primary
for Its council vacancy yesterday.
—McCormick Is In Center ajid
Clearfield counties to-day.
-—The Palmer-McCormlck league
crowded Into a couple of offices last
night and made a nr'se like a real
club.
—A Dlmmlck committee has been
named In Scranton.
—McCormick and Dlmmlck will
cross trails In the northwestern sec
tion this week.
—Ryan speaks at Wllkes-Barre to
night.
—William Neville Is a candidate for
the House on the Republican ticket In
the Second Montgomery district.
—Harrlsburg Bull Moosers will or
ganize their campaign to-night. They
are for Krelder for Congress, 'tis said.
—Senator Penrose will speak In
Lock Haven to-morr6w.
—Dlmmlck campaigned in Warren
yesterday and is In McKean to-day.
—That Lycoming legislative fusion
must be pleasant news for Market
Square's windmill.
—Allegheny Republicans are boost
ing Coleman for Congress say dis
patches.
—Ryan men held a rally In Thorn
lon's district In Philadelphia last
nfght.
—According to reports Frank Mc-
Claln will soon announce liia ofiiidt
for lleutefiatH governor,
IJSGSIiiE]
[Frotn the Telegraph, March 24, 1864] t
FORREST IN TENNESSEE
Memphis, March 22.—Forrest is re-1
at Berlin, Tenn., with seven:
thousand men moving north. Grier-i
then" caValry were out 'oozing after
REBELS DEMORALIZED
Washington, March 24.—Lieutenant
General Grant and staff went to the
Army of the Potomac. A letter from 1
the Army of the Potomac says that u
lieutenant and seven privates of a
Louisiana regiment came Into our
lines yesterday and made tho usual
statement of demoralization in the
rebel ranks.
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