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FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 27
SQUEEZING POSTMASTERS
DURING a period of feeding
upon the husks of a hopeless
minority the newspapers and
orators of tho dominant faction of the
Democracy of Pennsylvania were
prone to constantly attack the political
methods of their adversaries, the Re
publicans. Party management and
individual ambition were everlastingly
lambasted as the concrete demon
strations of political corruption. Con
tributions for campaign purposes were
characterized as blood money ex
tracted by brutal bosses for their own
selfish purposes. Voluntary contri
butions were denounced as the robbing
of Republican voters of necessary
income for the support of their fami
lies. In short, anything and every
thing that was done for the support
and upbuilding of a party organization
was heinous and crooked and unfair
and everything that was low and
despicable.
For this reason it is quite natural
that the reorganization bosses of the
Democratic faction who climbed into
control of that party by denunciations
of this sort should feel alarmed over
the exposures of wholesale bargaining
for patronage that has been going on
every since the election of Woodrow
Wilsoll. Judgeships have been jug
gled for political power and federal
appointments have been held back to
assist in forcing through adminis
tration measures at Washington, but
now comes the worst of all. Right in
the midst of the holier-than-thou
demonstrations of the dominant wing
of tho Democracy is uncovered a line
of political grafting which starts in
the State committee headquarters of
the regenerated Democracy and, like
the tentacles of n great octopus,
reaches out into tho surrounding coun
ties and grips the protesting post
masters, who must first enter into a
contract to give up annually a portion
• of their salary before they get their
Jobs.
It is not any wonder under these
circumstances that the people, and
especially those Republicans who were
honestly deceived by loud-sounding
promises of reform, are turning their
backs upon the little men who have
for a short season been permitted to
gratify their vanity and get into the
public limelight.
In his vigorous primary campaign for
the nomination of the Republican party
for United States Senator, ex-Mayor
Dlmmick, of Scrauton, is observing the
•plrit of the State-wide primary law.
Senator Penrose lias alsq indicated his
purpose fo acquiesce in the spirit of
the new law, and in this way only can
the Intent of the system of nominating
candidates bo given legitimate expres
sion. It remains for the voters to
demonstrate at the May primary
•whether there wrb a real demand for
• change from the old to the new
method provided by tho last legisla
ture.
HARRISBURG EX PAN Si ON
HARRISBURG has been tho bene
ficiary of a tremendous amount
of publicity in the magazines
and newspapers of the country
during the last decade. This publicity
has been the result of the progressivb
attitude of the community and the
transformation of the city from an
overgrown town to a modern and
up-to-date municipality. Changes have
been wrought which a decade or mort,
ago would have been regarded as
Impossible and all because the people
■tood together for everything that
contributes to the public welfare.
While it Is unreasonable to expect
the same kind of progress (luring the
next decade, owing to the fact that a
universal paving program, the nitra
tion of the water supply, the expan
sion of the sewerage facilities and
the creation of a line park system are
In the nature of achievements which
need not he repeated, these ought to
be an Inspiration for still further
Advance along all the lines that make
for the public betterment.
Perhaps nothing more important
confronts the city than tho harmonious
development of the subun -» districts.
Unless a cotnprohenslvo ph... 1 nro
vided for tho contiguous territory
harmony with the development of the
city proper there must Jj© a ragged
rrowth that will mean not only in
*rtl«tl<s tub urban sections, but heavy
FRIDAY EVENING, HARRISBURG EgSggfl TELEGRAPH MARCH 27,1914.
expenditures for proper sanitation,
street grading and other like Improve
ments when these are annexed. This
will require the attention of the pro
posed City Planning Commission when
It shall have been created and the
placing of the River Front in attractive
shape will also demand the attention
of the park authorities to the end
that the people may have the full
benefit of their splendid river frontage.
Building operations In Harrisburg
also invito a broader vision In some
cases than now obtains. "While we
need many of the cheaper homes for
those who are not able to purchase
the more expensive dwellings, it ought
to be possible to build these smaller
homes with sanitary and attractive
environment. There has been a dis
position to jam houses together with
out very much regard to air space or
light and the conference which will
shortly bo held in this city to discuss
housing problems ought to be attended
by every builder in Harrisburg. We
believe, generally speaking, that, tlio
average builder wants to do the right
thing and he should be epcouraged in
every possible way to provide the Ulna
of dwellings that will assure health
and comfort.
Harrisburg is now ready for its sec
ond period of expansion and improve
ment. It depends upon its citizens of
all walks of life to further the plans
that may bo agreed upon from time
to time for the betterment of the
people froni the standpoint of a citj
of homes.
Uur preachers in the pulpits, our
teachers in the schools, our civic or
ganizations and fraternal societies, our
clubs of every sort —these are the
agencies through which the propa
ganda of a be«.er city should be given
wide publicity that those who have not
yet learned of this beautiful city may
no longer remain in Ignorance of its
splendid features.
Dauphin county Republicans and
Progressives (Washington party) are
showing a disposition to forget the un
fortunate division o£ 1912 and a deter
mination to stand together against
Democracy. Earnest men of both wings
of the party—for after all, it's one po
litical family—are comparing notes, and
except for a few malcontents here and
there the rank and file are manifesting
a purpose to harmonize differences and
present this year a solid front to the
foe.
\V OltK FOR THE IDJUE
THERE are many men out of em
ployment anil it is the business
of the city to relieve this situa
tion wherever possible. It is to
be assumed that all of the public work
will be started at the earliest possible
moment and If it is necessary City
Council should have extra sessions in
order to expedite any legislation that
will provide ways and means of em
ployment.
With the work on the river front
improvement, the Paxton Creek job,
the large number of sewers to be con
structed, the street paving, and park
extensions and other improvement
projects of thic sort, many men will be
given employment, and not a day
ought to be lost in furnishing to the
willing working man an opportunity
to earn a living.
Now is a good time also for own
ers of property who contemplate im
provements to get busy to the end that
worthy men may not be thrown into
idleness wlieji they are ready and will
ing to work. Spring is at hand and
there is no more important duty de
volving upon those in authority than
taking care that the idle element of
the population is reduced to the low
est point. Preparation fchould be
started at once and anything in the
way of beginning the work on any of
these undertakings ought to be elimi
nated without a moment's delay.
Judge Bird, of Chicago, says he never
knew a bankrupt plumber. But did he
extend his observations to the plumb
er's patrons?
BANK INSPECTION
WILLIAM H. SMITH, Stato
Banking Commissioner, Inti
mates pretty strongly in his
annual report, issued yester
day, that he thinks it. about time tli«
Legislature gives his department juris
diction over the private banks of
Pennsylvania. He is right. Every
bank in the State ought to be under
the supervision of the Banking De
partment. That's why the depart
ment was created, and no bank, ex
cept that having something to hide,
should object to the periodical visits
of oflicial examiners. Indeed, the up
to-date and conscientious banker
should welcome such inspection, since
it serves merely ;is a check on his
own system. At all events, no honest
bank can object to letting the State
know that it is honest.
j The London Times suggests that
I England, in return for a "no tolls" law,
j ought to give us national representation
lat the 'Frisco fair. Sounds to us like
j offering a three-cent piece for a hun
dred-dollar bill.
"SAFETY FIRST'
THE Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany's "safety first" movement
is bearing fruit. Reports for
| the past year show that during
1913 more than 2,000,000 efficient}
tests were made to ascertain the ob
servance of train safety rules and that
99.9 per cent, of these tests showed
the employes to be observing the rules
in the strictest sense. This report is
accompanied by the remarkable state
ment that of the 111,000,000 passen
gers carried by the Pennsylvania last
year not one met death in a train
accident.
The Pennsylvania has impressed
upon its employes that from the high
est to the lowest the mon who serve
thq company are fighting to safeguard
the persons and property entrusted to
their care, and that in order to do so
successfully each must not only do his
part, but must feel sure that all others
will be equally careful. It is to be
hoped that the present necessary re
trenchments will not be permitted to
interfere in the least with the splendid
system of "safety first" that is yielding
such excellent results.
1 EVENING CHAT I
"I've been getting around different
States a good bit lately and I tell you
that this is a great State and that It
conducts Its affairs in a businesslike
way, too," said A. E. Sisson, former
senator and former Auditor General,
yesterday afternoon In the course of a
visit to the Capitol. The "general,"
as he is affectionately called by people
on the "Hill," said that folks had been
putting him into politics so much that
he did not know for what he was sup
posed to be a candidate, but that at
present he is devoting more attention
to picking up his law business than
anything else. However, it would not
be like the sage of Erie If he did not
have his weather eye on the political
barometer. "I have found that this
State has a good business system,"
said he. "Of course, in these days of
business efficiency fault would prob
ably be found with some portions of it
and It may be fashionable to say that
it Is not good, but compared to the
systems of business at some of tho
seats cf State governments I want to
say that Pennsylvania stands away
up. This I? a great State and it could
not handle the matters that it does
and get the results which all admit
that it does without somo good sys
tem. 1 am proud of Pennsylvania and
I feel more proud of it every time t
tako a trip to some other State." The
"general" is giving a little time jus*,
now to Spring plougl ing because bo
neath that legal exterior he is a
farmer. He likes the soil and he has
a couple of good farms, from which
he sells the crops himself. And one
of the best stunts he does is to drive
a bargain for his potatoes. He gets
out early and keeps tabs on the crops
and at the end of tho year ho has had
the fun of being a boss fanner on
farms that pay.
Prominent engineers from all over
Central Pennsylvania and some from
Philadelphia and Pittsburgh will at
tend the tenth anniversary of tho En
gineers' Society of Pennsylvania at its
clubhouse at Front and Chestnut
streets next Tuesday night. The so
ciety is the largest of its kind outside
of the larger cities and next week the
men active in its inception will tell
about the early days when the club
was domiciled at Second and Walnut
streets and how it grew to its present
large membership and prosperity.
The meeting of tho supervisors be
ing held at tho Courthouse to-day Is
the first of the kind to be held in the
county and it Is expected that it will
do much toward bringing tho men in
charge of the roads in tho county into
closer relationship. This county has
several main highways in the Statb
system, notably those along the Sus
quehanna and leading to Reading and
Jonestown. There is also a route
from Millersburg out the Lykens Val
ley. All told, however, the county has
f'B7 miles of roads, of which but a
small portion are in the hands of the
State.
Banking Commissioner William li.
Smith, whoso report on the situation
In Pennsylvania contains somo inter
esting matters regarding the history
of bauking in the State, has been a
student ot financial affairs from the
days when he was a newspaper re
porter in Philadelphia. Mr. Smith was
one of tho best known newspapermen
in tho period just after the Civil War
when the Philadelphia newspapermen
were known from one end of the land
to the other, serving on the old North
American, Star, Times, Inquirer and
Public Ledger. He then became con
nected with the city treasury and in
1895 was appointed a bank examiner,
a position In which he showed such
talent that Governor Stuart, who had
known him for many years, picked
him for the post of Commissioner of
Banking, one of the most responsible
in the State. He is known all o.vei
Pennsylvania for his information on
financial matters and his addresses
have attracted much attention.
Some of tho granite blocks being
taken from the Federal building aro
in such an unchanged condition tliat
the black paint marks placed on them
by the shippers back in the early
eighties are still legible. Several large
blocks, were taken out yesterday that
looked as though they had Just been
quarried. In fact, everything about
the building has stood the test of
years in a splendid manner.
"That's the toughest luck I've heard
of for a long time," said the genial
foreman yesterday afternoon. "Here'si
one of the boys that locked his bike
and put the key in a pocket that had
a hole In it. And Vie lives up above
Broad street, too. And he's not surw
that he's got another key up there."
Some of the robins that Inhabited
the riverside parks last year are back
again and there is a tremendous chat
tering about the big trees every morn
ing Some of the birds have had
battles with the sparrows, but the
sparrows appear to have been losers.
The robins are busy in the Capitol
Park and the squirrels do not appear
to be as jealous of them as they were
last year, when they chased robins on
sight.
Friends of J. L. Shearer are greet
ing him on his return from seven
weeks in the tropics. Mr. Shearer
went to the isthmus to see his son,
Samuel Shearer, who is in the gov
ernment service, and spent some timo
along the canal. He also went up to
Costa Rica and visited various islands
In the Caribbean. This is Mr. Shear
er's second trip to tho canal and he
tells many interesting things about
the great work undertaken by Uncle
Sam.
I WELL KNOWN PEOPLE "1
—State Commissioner of Health
Dixon is a lawyer and a member of
the bar of Philadelphia.
-—Daniel Steckel, of Kagton, has
been elected a director of the Thomas
Iron Company.
—Secretary N. B. Critchfieid has
given ut) his home in Johnstown and
will reside here.
-—Julian Kennedy will address the
Railway Club of Pittsburgh to-night
and will discuss suffrage.
—Francis Weaver has been elected
president of the Blair county super
visors.
—General E. DeV. Morrell has been
spending several weeks in Virginia.
Letters to the Editor
NOT A THIEF
To the Editor of The Telegraph:
Dear Sir: The article In the Tele
graph stating the arrest of Chester
Toomey, u trapeze artist, for theft, in
Lewlstown or York, is hurting my
reputation, both in social life and In
my profession. The party that was ar
rested for theft is not Chester R.
Toomey, of Harrisburg, but some one
else using my name to hide their own
identity. T have been in the profession
for live years, and have not been in
York or Lewlstown in the last two
years.
Yours truly,
CHBSTER R. TOOMEY,
742 South Twenty-first street,
Harrisburg, Pa.
March 25, 19X4.
1 EDITORIAL COMMENT!
lU-mnrknblr Self-control
IFrom the Marlon Star.]
It's simply wonderful the way Gen
eral Fred Funston is able to resist the
temptation to swini the Rio Grande.
(iivf Hliu What Hp Want*
[Prom the Kansas City Star.]
Now the Washington correspondents
are. trying to wish a 1916 Presidential
nomination upon Colonel Goethals. Why
not show the nation's gratitude to the
great canal builder by letting him
lalone?
WILL NAME MEN IN
EVERY DISTRICT
The Democratic Machine Desperate
Over Prospects of Losing
rauphin County
! NEW SCHEME TO SAVE THE DAY
Ryan-McCormick Controversy In
teresting—Pinchot Rakes
the Democracy
Thoroughly rattled by the sentiment
against the Jersey ticket in Dauphin
county, the bosses of the Democratic
machine have determined to name
candidates for the Democratic county
committee on a Palmer-McCormick
platform In every one of the districts
in the county, and tho same plan is
said to be under consideration in Cum
berland and Perry counties. Lebanon
Is reported as hopeless and when York
county is mentioned reorganizes look
the other way.
Tho scheme is to get some man
interested in behalf of the inter-state
ticket In each district by tying up his
interests with the machine. In several
boroughs of the county it has been
found by scouts that McCormlck is
anything but popular, and while many
are not in love with Ryan, tho voters
are inclined to resent White House
alatemaking. ill the city It means a
fight because tho anti-McCormlck peo
ple will not give Up control of the city
committee without a battle.
The Philadelphia Ledger of to-day
says this about the warring Demo
crats: "Philadelphia Democrats yes
terday were stirred by
City Solicitor Ryan's
Hensel Is call for an opponent
Mentioned to Representative A.
For Senate Mitchell Palmer as a
candidate for the
United States Senate
and discussed the possibilities of the
situation. Reorganizers were of the
opinion that Mr. Ryan's supporters
for tho Democratic gubernatorial
nomination would back ex-Attorney
General W. U..Hensel, of Lancaster,
against Palmer. Ryan men would
say nothing on the subject. However,
there was a general consensus of opin
ion that the Ryan supporters would
select their candidate from among the
following: Mr. Hensel; Henry C.
Niles, of York, former ICeystoner;
Judge Charles B. Staples, of Strouds
burg, Mr. Palmer's home town; Judge
John M. Carman, of Wllkes-Barre.
Down in Lancaster county enthusi
asm for Dr. Martin C. Brumbaugh,
Republican candidate for Governor, is
spreading every day.
From all parts of the
county have como In- Brumbaugh
dorsenients of his can- Clubs Are
didacy and it is pre- Organised
dieted he will poll a
record vote in tho
county. Many Bull Moosers and Pro
gressives are coming out for the
"schoolmaster." The lirst development
of the campaign is the organization of
Brumbaugh clubs. Epharata was the
first to fall In line and it is particularly
appropriate, for it was in Eplirata that
Dr. Brumbaugh won his wife. Sev
eral hundred persons have boon en
rolled and the following organization
was effected: President, Dr. E. R.
Miller; vice-president, H. M. Spreoher;
secretary, Samuel Y. Wissler; treas
urer, 11. L. Eltnier. Ward committees
have been named to enroll every voter
in the town. Similar clubs will be
organized at Elizabethtown, New Hol
land and other places.
Gift'ord Pinchot said last night that
the factional warfare in the Demo
cratic ranks, nationally and in the
State, is of a kind
which cannot be
Pinchot Hits healed, and said:
Democrats "The Democrats
Swift Thuinp stand for State rights,
for the iittic point oi
view in national af
fairs. Here in Pennsylvania the two
wings of the Democratic party are at
each other's throats. The same thing
will shortly be true in the nation. The
split, so long foreseen, has come at
last. President Wilson was able to
carry through the tariff bill and the
currency bill because of a long accu
mulated public sentiment behind
them. With the exception of con
servation, he must now handle his
own problems without this well grown
public support. This is another way
of saying that the Democratic har
mony in national affairs, which has
so impressed the unthinking, is sub
stantially at an end. These are the
two main reasons why the Democracy
cannot make good along progressive
lines. It is tied hand and feot by the
Stales rights doctrine, and it is divided
against iself."
The Mulligan Guards have entered
into the campaign for the aid of the
boy scout faction which is struggling
with the Old Guard and
the mikeryans for the
party rosebuds. It was Mulligan
announced yesterday Selected
that Revenue Collector For Guard
Fritz Kirkendall had
named John Mulligan,
of Carbon county, to a deputy colioc
torship in the revenue mill tit Lan
caster. Mulligan comes from Carbon
county, where Mitchell Palmer's slat
ed candidate, P. C. Evans, is in dan
ger of being defeated for congressional
nomination by H. J. Steele. Inci
dentally, his selection is interesting,
because most of the appointments
have been going to that section and
Dauphin and other counties have been
Ignored.
Not in many a long year has there
been such a shindy in the Democratic
party as is now on between Ryan,
representing the old
regime, and McCor-
Michael llwin nilck, the reorganiza
itnd Vance tton group of which
McCormick Congressman A.
Mitchell Palmer Is
the head. Tn a speech
at Wilkes-Barre this is what Ryan
said: "I deny the right of Mitchell
Palmer and Vance McCormick to boss
the Democratic party. I protest
against their debauching and coercing
of Democratic workers and officehold
ers and officeseekers."
Judge Bonnlwell likened the "three
men" who control the party to the
Pharisee, and declared that under
their "alleged reform leadership" the
party has been split into aristocratic
and plebeian classes. He added: "Wo
have a Democratic State organization
which has been persistently exploited
for the private advancement of A.
Mitchell Palmer, Vance C. McCor
mick and Roland S. Morris. The funds
committed for the maintenance of the
party, taken from the officeholder in
the saiyie guise In which Quay maced
the Federal servant in his palmy days,
are misused to forward a factional
battle." The Philadelphia Ledger says
he then made reference to mall
distribution of Mr. McCormick's news
paper, and said: "1 call upon Vance
C. McCormick to declare how much
excess weight, he has paid for In the
Harrisburg Post Office for the free
copies which he is distributing. I
charge that this distribution of this
newspaper is in flagrant violation of
the Federal postal regulations, and If
it is with the connivance of the pos
tal authorities, ought to be made a
subject of Federal postal laws."
POUTICAL SIDELIGHTS I
—A big: West Philadelphia mass
meeting last; night endorsed Dimmick
and Brumbaugh.
—Dr. Brumbaugh does not seem to
be as perturbed as the men who are
opposed to him.
—Dimmick is in Pittsburgh to-iday
and will visit Washington county to
night.
—Senator Penrose will speak to
Dickinson alumni at Washington next
week.
—S. H. Garland took hold of the til
ler at the Bull Moose city meeting
last night.
—Dimmick men are organizing
First Voters' leagues in Philadelphia
and declaring for Dimmick and Brum
baugh.
—A. J. Greene gave a talk to the
Bull Moosers last night.
—Wilson Bailey Is in much demand,
but'not as collector, these days.
—Yes, gentle reader, Bradford Is
the home city of Lewis Emery and
other Insurgents. It is well acquaint
ed with the reform game.
—Mr. Dimmick's supporters in Erie
and Venango appear to be very san
guine about his chances in those coun
ties.
—Cabinet ministers appear to hav®
heard a general alarm from Pennsyl
vania.
—All this yelling about deals sounds
rather strange when it is considered
that the Democratic machine slate
was < framed up at one of the closest
corporation meetings ever held.
—A good many raids for political
power have been carried on under
the name of the dear people.
—When the reorganization of the
Democratic party was pulled through
it was in the name of the people and
the party. Every man who figured
in it is either in office or trying to get
there.
—Bull Moosers say that they will
carry MclCean county again.
—There never was a standard
bearer yet who did not think that he
was the people's choice and those
Bradford voters have met bearers of
flags in other days.
—ln view of Asher Johnson's re
mark that McCormiok believed In
cleaning house, the Public ledger's
articles about York post offices are
very interesting.
—One Wilson Bailey appears to be
a very important cog in the Demo
cratic State machine.
; —Senator Penrose went back to
Philadelphia yesterday well pleased
with his reception in Clinton county.
—A good bit of humor is noticed
about the northern' tier Just now.
—Sheriff Lewis P. Knlffen, of I>u
zerne, will run for Congress.
I a-urne nonserae I
Professor Turtle told her they had
discovered a race of maidens who carry
their money in their mouths, but she
thought it was probably only those
who often pursed their lips.
BID ON GUARD
By Wing Dinger
Get out your swatters, pistols, guns,
And other weapons, too;
Shine up your searchlights, be on guard,
There's lots of work to do.
The fly, that pest that beats 'em all,
Will soon be in our midst,
And from the start get after htm.
Just as last year thou didst.
Keep careful watch, and as the flies
Come sneaking from the wall,
Show them no quarter, swat 'em quick,
Don't miss one—get 'em all.
For now's the time they lay their eggs
By thousands, and quite soon
There'll be a million buzzing 'round
With their nerve-racking tune.
The time to get them is right now,
Before their eggs they lay,
Prepare for warfare, swat 'em low,
By night as well as day.
Edith Jack Roxlelgh is good-look
ing enough, but I don't care for his
ways.
Edna Never mind his ways, my
dear; think of his means.—Boston
Record.
CLARK AND BRYAN
It looks as though Champ Clark's
inability to forgive and forgot were the
little rift within the lute that soon or
late will make the Democratic music
mute. When the Speaker refused to
permit Representative Murray to call
up his resolution asking for a report
of the State Department's policy on
Ambassador Page's recent London
speech, he was not content with ruling
It out of order. He had to explain tnat
lie did not know whether the State
Department is aware what its policy
Is or is not, or whether It knows what
its policy will be to-morrow or next
year or fifty years from now.
There are other people as much in
doubt as Mr. Clark respecting the
knowledge our Premier has of the pol
icy his department Is supposed to be
following. Mr. Bryan is away from
Washington so much and so frequently
It Is unreasonable to expect him to
know what Is going on. It was unxlnd,
however, for one of the leaders of his
own party to assert It out loud in a
public place. If this thing keeps up
Mr. Clark and Mr. Bryan will be dis
puting In the rotunda of the Capitol be
fore many weeks and will bo remark
ing what each thinks of the other. As
each has a large vocabulary and a
remarkable gift of oratory the encoun
ter will add to the gaiety of nations,
but It may not conduce to party har
mony.—Exchange.
AN EVENING THOUGHT
Be true to your word and your
work and your friend.— O'Reilly.
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[From the Telegraph of March -7, lbbl]
ForTfit Crippled I
Cairo, March 87. A dispatch fiom
Columbus, lCy., says that Forrest and
Faulkner are between that place and
Mayfleld. Their forces are in a crippled
condition, but their strength Is much
greater than was at first estimated.
Maylleld is filled with rebel wounded
from Paducah. From 1,200 to 1.000 are
said to have arrived there. One regi
ment lost 100, and one company had
fifty killed.
Hebela Burn Town
Cairo, March 26. - Reports were cir
culated this morning, that tho rebels,
under Forrest, attacked Paducah, Ivy.,
fifty miles above here, yesterday, and
burned part of th 6 town; but, as trie
telegraphic communication was cut off,
no authentic information could be ob
tained.
A GENUINE CASE OP NEW FREEDOM
[From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.]
The Democratic party in Pennsylva
nia and in the nation is likely to dis
cover that there Is more gunpowder in
the real New Freedom, Issue than in
the ideal. New Freedom happens to
be the name of a post office in York
county. Candidates for the postmaster
ship were asked by the county chair
man, according to affidavits made by
them, to agree to make an annual con
tribution out of their salary to the
party funds. The charge, made under
oath, may be true or It may be false.
It is sufficient that it is made, to raise
the Issue of the barter and sale of
public office.
Tho country will wonder whether
this is the New Freedom for which
Democracy stanls. Will ho admin
isration, which has been backing the
reorganized pary in this State, gloss
over this outrageous offense against
political decency and criminal act. or
will the District Attorney be directed
to take instant cognizance?
REPUBLICANS GETTING TOGETHER
[From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.]
The situation that obtains through
out the State may be typified by Lacka
wanna county. In 1912 Roosevelt had
there 15,199 votes, Wilson, 12,423 and
Taft 3,791. The enrollment and regis
tration of 1913 were made prior to an
election in which local issues only were
involved—the Judiciary and the munici
pal contests were nonpartisan. To-day
the enrolled voters are as follows: Re
publican 19,440. Democrat 14,941, Wash
ington 2,733. That is, over 12,000 votes
swing back to he Republican party
within two years of the memorable po
litical earthquake.
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|l New Orleans
A Lives today in the charming vistas of balconied
arl mansions, picturesque courts and quaint streets,
I filled with the grace, fervor and animation of
j|| Creole life. Here also is the modern city with
its splendid hotels, theatres and restaurants.
/ A temperate and bracing winter climate, with every
opportunity for golf, tenni* and other outdoor aporti.
Southern Pacific Steamships
L "Morgan Line M
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IN HARRtSBURG FIFTY I
YEARS AGO TO-DAY 1
the Telegraph of March 27, 18641
C ourt Srulon
The next term of Dauphin' County
Court will commence on Monday, April
25, and continue two weeks.
Y. ai. C. A. Annlvermtry
The eighth anniversary of the Young
Men's Christian Association. of thin
city, will be held to-morow (Tuesday)
evening, at 7:80 o'clock, In the First
English Lutheran Church, In Fourth
street. An address will be delivered
by the Rov. Mr. Conrad, from Lancas
ter. and the Rev. W. G. Cattell, the re
tiring president, who will also read tho
annual report, giving a statement, of
the workings of the association during
the past year.
PIN C HOT AM) TIIIKD PAItTY
GlfCord Pinchot made a rancorous
and bitter personal assault at Port
Huron, Mich., Tuesday upon the dis
tinguished Republicans who supported
Roosevelt ul Chicago, but who would
not follow liini into a third party. It'
these remarks are the spirit of Pro
gressivisin, ho confirms the impres
sion long current ol' the genesis and
sustaining force of that movement.
There is so lit tl»- difference in the prin
ciples for which sincere Republicans
and Progressives are striving, and tho
dangers and disadvantages of a third
party on so slender a point of differ
ence as personal allegiance to a leader
are so patent, that patriotic Ameri
cans should recognize their plain duty
to labor for the union of the severed
forces of Republicanism. Tho only
effect of a third party gives power to
a minority and when that third party
is maintained solely by hatred and dis
appointment, sooner or later it must
become innocuous. Tho pity is so
many good men arc led astray by It
and prevented from aiding in remov
ing the evils of partisan political man
agement and promoting the work of
purification.
Governor Hadley, Senator Borah
and the others upon whom Mr. Pin
chot pours out the vials of wrath,
committed the heinous crime of re
fusing to follow a disappointed loser
into a revolt against the party which
he could not control. They did not
believe the way to remedy party mis
management was by betrayal of tho
party; they were far-sighted enough
to know that a split would benefit only
the Democrats. —Philadelphia Ledger.