12 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Bttabluhtd itjl PUBLISHED BY TUB TKI.GUKAPH PHINTIWG CO. X. J. STACK POLK, Prea't and Treas'r. F. R. OYSTER. Secretary. BUS M. BTEINMETZ, Managing Editor j Published every evening (except Sun day), at the Telegraph Building. 216 Federal Square. Vastern Office. Fifth Avenue Building, New York City, Haabrook. Story & Brooks. Western Office, 12S West M*dlaon street. Chicago. 111.. Allen & Ward. Delivered by carriers at six cents a week Mailed to subscribers •t M.OO a year in advance. Entered at the Post Office In Harris burg as second class matter. j, Tlie Auocintion of Anifr- ) 1 (ililj] lean Advertiser* has tx- f I imW • mined and certifi> dto J I the circulation of *.hi» pub- ? I lication. The figures of circulation ( I contained in the Association's re- < > port only are guaranteed. ( i [ Association of American Advertisers j No. 2333 Whitehall Blrig. N. Y. City j Swcrm dally avrracr for the mouth of I March, 1914 ★ 22,470 f Average for the year 11)13—21.'"" Average for the year 1H12—21,175 Average for the year 1)111—1S.S61 Average for the year 1»10—17.485 TELEPHONES i Bell Mvate Branch Exchange No. 1040. United Business Office. 203. Editorial Room 5*5. Job Dent 10* FRIDAY KVEXIfG, APRIL 24 TILE PITY OF IT THE gigantic stupidity, the un speakable folly of the Wilson administration's policy of "watchful watting" in Mexico muit be apparent now to everybody. Recklessly removing the embargo on arms Imported across the border Into Mexico, permitting the rebel forces to buy guns and munitions of war in im mense quantities In the United States, the government now finds that It will have to send our own soldiers in to Tace guns of our own making and bul lets of our own manufacture. We have provided Carranza, Villa and their allied bandits with rifles with which to fight us. For every American life laid down before an American-made gun in Northern Mexico the Wilson Adminis tration will be accountable. The gross blu.idering of the Presi dent and his advisers has plunged us Into a situation from which we can not honorably retire without even tually pacifying all Mexico. There is not one chance in a thousand of us getting out of that country within the next three or four years, at the earli est. It promises to be a case of the Philippines over again, but without the lustiflcation. Like good Americans, we will fol low the colors and our young men will respond by thousands to a call for volunteers. The pity of it is that so much blood and treasure must be poured out in such an unprofitable undertaking a'n undertaking that wise statesmanship and experienced diplomacy in the White House might have avoided. Dr. Martin G. Brumbaugh's friends ell over Pennsylvania are coming to his support in such numbers as to in dicate a practically unanimous vote 60 far as the Republicans of Pennsylva nia are concerned at the November election. His petitions on file at the Rtate Department constitute the most formidable alignment of part- strength In a primary that has ever been ex hibited under the new electipn laws, with the possible exception of the enormous petitions filed in the Interest of Senator Penrose. Dr. Brumbaugh's petitions number almost a thousand from sixty-five counties, and contain the names of 72,00tt voteri. Men of all parties seem to agree that his election la a foregone conclusion. GETTING TOGETHER PERHAPS the most significant speech in the interest of Re publican harmony recently de livered was that of William A. Prendorgast, Comptroller of New York city, at the Republican State convention in Indiana. He made a sweeping arraignment of the Wilso.i Administration and called upon the Republican Progressives of the State to forget their differences and work under the same banner. He attacked the Democratic Administration for its tariff changes, for its foreign policy, its Interference with business and the general incompetence that has charac terized the conduct of affairs at Wash ington. Mr. Prendergast Is not In harmony with some of the Progressive leaders who are striving to interfere with the rehaollltation of the Republican party, but he argues that time is a great healer and has already produced re markable results In alleviating much of the bitter feeling that existed less than two years ago. There seems to be no doubt that the utter failure of the Democratic party in the national Administration, after having been given full control of the government, is responsible for the bet ter feeling now existing in the two camps of Republican voters. Mr. Prendergast suggests that those lead ers who refuse to see the handwriting on the wall will be left to lead them selves while the rank and file of the party return to the Republican fold. He also intimates that the independent action of the Progressive element of the party in 1912 has resulted in ac complishing much of the reform which justified the movement. There is an increasing sentiment among Republicans of all shades of belief that the time has come to for get the matters and things which di vided the party in 1912 and to har moniously work together for the . . # i - " ; - , ' ' •"* •' ■■ " k ' *' FRIDAY EVENrNG, F4.RRISBURG TELEGR IPH APRIL 24,1914. restoration of public confidence and prosperity for all the people. How ever good the Intentions of President Wilson and those associated with him. i there has been only disappointment and discouragement since the change of administration. Starting right here in Harrisburg Rnd in Dauphin county, men who have always been affiliated with the Repub- j llcan party, as well as those who for a time aligned themselves under an other banner, should get together upon a platform of mutual concession and as one formidable organisation opposed to further distraction of busl- 1 ness by the party in power. It will not do to simply criticise President Wilson. Those who are posing In hi* name in Pennsylvania and. aro striving to ride into power upon his approval must be given to understand that this State, of all others, has had enough of experimental and theoreti cal Democracy. Whatever may be said by the irreconcilable leaders of the Progressive element, It Is clear that the large majority of those who left the party in 1912, whether they admit It now or not, are ready to stand shoulder to shoulder with their Republican brethren, j But It must be understood by the I leaders of both sections of the party [ that there Is to bo no retaliation on j either side. Bygones must be bygones and any individual or group of indi- j viduals who shall endeavor to pro long the party division by stubborn In- * slstence upon lines of policy or party management contrary to the manifest | desires of the majority will discovert that they are out of touch with the real situation and will soon be leaders without followers. Any so-called leader who takes any other course Is suffering from defective vision and is not in harmony with the real sentl-1 ment of Republican voters. County Chairman Horner and City j Chairman Oves had a conference at Re publican headquarters, last night, with the active workers of the party pro- | liminary to an effective registration of | the party voters next week. Republi- , cans are forgetting their foolish dif- j ferences of a year or two ago, and j every day brings about a more harmo nious situation. While the reorganiza tion element of the Democratic part> in Pennsylvania Is printing yards of stuff about the virtues of its leaders and the honesty of their motives, not j a word is being said about the barter j and sale of post offices and the de- J bauching of the civil service principle , throughout the State. Prating of hon- j esty and high purpose the caravan | moves on to Its Inevitable smash-up. GET OUT DON'T fool yourself into think ing that you haven't time for an "afterroon off" these pleas-i ant days A walk through the country—Wildwood park, for in stance —will leave you with a fine ap petite for supper, the smell of the woods in your nostrils and the sense | of having been away from the job for J a week. The worst fooled man In the world is the fellow who makes himself be lieve that his job requires his pres ence 365 days, ten hours to the day, throughout the year. Truth is it's a pretty poor job that won't conduct it self for a half day at a stretch, some times. At any rate get out into the open ! while the Spring Is young and fresh , and absorb some of its youth and ( high spirits. You owe it to yourself— and to your Job, too. GUARD EFFICIENCY THERE is no hurrying and scur rying about the Adjutant Gen- j eral's Department or the State j Arsenal. There is no excite- j ment around the National Guard ar- j i morles. The Guardsmen are going, I quietly and undemonstratively about j : their daily duties. I Yet each of them —from General | I Stewart to the company cook—real- I |izes that it is probably a mere matter' of hours until the call to arms shall | have been sounded. ' There is no last minute rush be cause, as General Stewart put it to |an inquiring newspaper man the other; I day—-The Pennsylvania Guard is al- | [ways ready." ! Political malcontents are fond of ■ i railing at the State Government of j j Pennsylvania, bu' there must bo morel I than a grain of efficiency in an ad-1 | ministration that can produce a j I militia trained and equipped like reg j ulars and able to take the field on a , notice of three hours. ; Those ambitious Democrats in Penn- j j sylvan la who are pleading for support : ion the score of an endorsement of j j President Wilson are likely to discover ; in the very near future that this is one I |of the old-fashioned Commonwealths I that believe in home rule and the selec | tlon of their own State officials. The 1 fact that President Wilson picked a | slate for the Democracy in this State, 1 as he has endeavored to do in other I states, is certain to prove more of a ' handicap than a help in the campaign. j Dispatches In the Palmer-McCormick • bulletin in this -city state that the i "flying squadron" punctured four tires | and was compelled to take a trolley in a dash from fence corner to fence cor ner in Montgomery county. War is | certainly what Sherman described it | in a certain classic statement. A. Mitchell Palmer declared in a 1 sptech in Philadelphia that he had 1 nothing against Mr. Ryan, one of the Democratic candidates for Governor, "but judged a man by the company he keeps." By the same token Mr. Pal-' I m er will probably be judged oy the j Democratic voters. General Maas Is reported to be plan ning an attack on Vera Cruz. But we venture the guess that he Is keeping ' his carriage In waiting. We take consolation in the fact that the Mexicans are probably having qulto as much trouble pronouncing our names as we are having with theirs. , This Mexican situation promises to develop Into a gigantic clean-up week. Those marines may have worn orange ■ colored uniforms, but none of them s showed a yellow streak. fEVENiNG CHAT Appearance ui lings on sonic ol the buiiumgs and in trout ol resiliences in | the (juy since the Mexican crisis be-; | came acute brings bacK the days of this ween fourteen yea is a«jo. It will be recaneu mat tue bpumsn War be- < gan on April 21, 18»», and tbat lor' j ten days or so belore it started there were growlings ot tne uogs ot war, during winch ume the cluzcns of inej country manifested one of ine great-1 est oi patriotism In the way ol ever known, in every hairnet, i \ilia B e, borougu ana city, anu in mauy i sections ot tne rural districts, the Siais and Stripes were displayed, and when war became a fact nags were shown by the huiiurcds. liusiness builuings, residences and every sort of buuuing aanost, new the nag, and When the soiuiers went out to tile camps there >\as a renewed display. Some oi tne streets in the cities were marked by liags on every house and Market and Tlntd streets were a mass oi ieu, wiuie anu blue iroiu the mid dle oi Apul. The Pennsylvania Hail loau was one oi the lirsi to make a display ana the huge stanuards re mained hying irom the wont of the Union Station until the war ended. Many of the business houses oi the city kept (ueir nags hying through out the war and when they wore I finally taken down they were faded | and storm torn. Foreigners who were l in this country at tnat time were gieatly impressed by what they saw, and some of the books written since that tinie.reier to the manner in which the great mass of the population evi denced its let ling. | Since the days of the former war ! the display ot the flag has become more general and there are few build ■ ings in any city, public or business, | which do not have the standard of the nation floating trom masts. The dis play, which has started this time, will, be more or less from private resi dences and such places as have not shown the colors. In the days of the outbreak of the Spanish War the men who deal in novelties promptly put lout thousands of small flags which were worn on the lapels ot the coats iof almost everyone. It was a tine I thought and it netted its originators a i good many dollars. The Spanish war also had "Remember the Maine" as a slogan and perhaps this war will have i some similar phrase. j The war moves have caused a big i run on books on Mexico at the stores, ' and maps of the Southern republic showing the cities and gtvlng the dis tances and poulation are in demand. l..any of the maps published by the newspapers have been posted in school rooms and In business places and every i day are surrounded by juvenile and adult "boards of strategy" discussing j the next moves and trying to get the j ■ outlandish names pronounced. All of j the war talk has resulted in the use of names of places which were little ! heard of a few years ago and most je\ery one knows about Torreon, Tarn pico, Jalapa and Acapulco. The operations of the Harrisburg Railways Company in reconstructing its tracks in Derry street are being | conducted in about as expeditious a 1 manner as uny similar work ever un dertaken. The company started in by I ripping up six blocks of track, ana there were many head-shakings over such a large job. It did upset the running of the cars, but in less than three weeks all of the track has been I laid on one side, practically all of the [concreting In place and the paving of the sides and center under way. An [other stretch of six blocks will be tackled. In the old days it often took a month for half a dozen blocks. Some of the displays of tulips and hyaohinths in the '-ards of residences of the city have attracted much atten tion, especially along the river front, where flowers were carefully protect ed during the wlner. Probably more tulips are blooming in the city than usual, because there were extensive ! planting of the flowers, especially the , brilliant red and gold ones which made their first appearance at the Capitol ihalf a dozen years ago and which are an annual feature of the flower scheme on the "Hill." Some of the bulletins displayed an nouncing the progress of events in the Mexican imbroelio spread , with re ■markable rapidity and correctness. I The telephone does this work, of j course, but it is rather startling to | hear people who come into the city on I trains say when they pick up the papers that they heard it at the station 1 in their home town or the place they j happen to come from an hour or so | before. Yesterday people who came ' in on a train from up the Juniata val | ley were as well posted as those In the city, because some one had tele 'phoned bulletins up the line to friends, who spread the news on the train. 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE 1 | —J. H. Landis. superintendent of the mint, says that sobriety must reign among government employes, j —Judge Frank M. Trexler. of the | Superior Court, is president of the j Allentown Young Men's Christian As sociation. I —lgnatz Green, an Allentown First | Defender, put up the first flag In that city after the Mexican fight began. I —Chief Fillman, of Norristown, i wanted an auto patrol. When council i refused it he set out and raised the j money. BERRY IS STILL OX THE JOB [Trom the Philadelphia Inquirer] ! Collector of Customs Berry is still on the job. Not the job of collecting cus i toms duties. Oh! dear, no, but the job of stumping for Palmer and Mc . Cormick. It is a singular business for the chief Federal officer In Pennsyl i vania. but it must be said for Berry that he does not do things by halves. It must be remembered that Palmer and McCormick were for Berry for Collector of Customs and it is only rea sonable that Berry should be for Pal' 1 mer and McCormick for the things 1 they want. He does not propose to lay himself open to the charge of ln -1 gratitude. The office of Collector of 1 Customs is purely a business one. That officer comes in personal contact with i shipping men who belong to all po i litical parties, and in many instances . the Collector Is compelled to act as a ' i judge In deciding vexed questions oon icerning the administration of the tariff law. As a consequence of this, Coi -1 lectors, during the last two decades at I 'east, have abstained from open and s -tlve participation in politics. But Jerry Is not that sort of a collector. ! lie knews his friends and his friends » know htm, so what are you going to do about it? ! : The other night Mr. Berrv made the | welkin rinz at an old-fashioned rally 'lield by the Democratic club in the in ■jterest of Palmer and McCormick. His s : fervor for Mr. McCormick knew no c bounds. According to the published reports of the meeting, he declared that McCormick was "no skate," but that he was a man who "had asso -1 ciated with kings and had never losl 3 the common touch." This will be good r news for those Democrats who believe in the surrender of the canal to Great Britain. To have as their candidate a , man who has "associated with kings' is a tare privilege and one that will " surely be appreciated. This moment ous fact in the life of candidate Mc e Cormick has hitherto been kept in th' i background. Few, if any, of his sup porters had known of it before. Wit* HEW POSTAL SCMIBAL! BEING RUMORED Trepidation Reported About the, Offices in the Democratic State Windmill SPEAKERS ARE HARD AT IT Dauphin County Progressives Do Not See Much Use of Worry ing Over Jobs From all account there is consld-1 ■ erable trepidation about the Deroo ' cratic windmill in Market Square over rumors that a new post office scandal , is due to break out in an interior j . county, which has thus far been J , classed as one of those safe for the> [ machine cause. It is said that the i bosses have had men go into the dis , turbed district in an etiort to quiet It I down and not allow any such eruption 1 us the Alattern affidavit from Snyder , county to occur. , i Acting on orders from the men I "higher up," Wilson Bailey has ceased conspicuous activity aad is to be seen . t considerably about this city, wher* j there is no danger of trouble. Proml . nent Democrats In interior counties have been insisting that Bailey stay , away. IJ The campaigns for the various . nominations are getting hotter and . hotter and the way the Democrats are J lambasting each other , Is affording no end of _ amusement to people Campaign i all over tho State. ticu Into , Ryan last evening Noisy Stage j went Into Bradford L county and addressed . a big meeting in the courthouse at k I Towanda, and Is going Into other , counties where McCormiek encoun tered the early Spring frosts.. Mean ! while McCormiek and Palmer are , rushing about in Philadelphia and Its ' suburbs bearing the heaJquarters ! flag and rapping Ryan and his back ers with ardor. Dimmlck is in Lan caster and Chester counties to-day and Dean Lewis is up in the moun tain counties. Judge Brumm shows signs of taking to the stuinp to say a few things about the Lewis wing of the Bull Moosers and everything Is I noley and Joyous. ' The Dauphin County ProKressive League had a meeting last night for .free and wideopen discussion of the campaign prospects in this city and Bull Moosers county, and It was Determine to arranged to send Go Very Slow some scouts Into |. Cumberland and Lebanon counties to determine the extent of the demoral ization which exists among the ranks i, of the Progressives. Dr. J. H. Krei , der, the candidate for Congress, has | : no opposition for the nomination and i is said to have decided to conserve his energies for the. campaign in the Fall.' ; None of the Progressive aspirants for ; office has any fight on for the nomina tion and the whole plan is now to let [ things go until August. The fear that 1 there will be no cash haunted the | headquarters last night. I Henry Wilson Bergey, Democratic member of the Legislature from the ' Third Montgomery district, has pre ferred charges of 1 violation of the civil ; service laws against New Row on ■ K-"iy For- Among the nance, of Norris- Democrats Uwn, a deputy ap [ praiser of merehan : dise under William W. Roper. | The principal char«e is that Mr. | Fornance in November last received' ! ,and disbursed moneys, obtained from) j Federal employes, mostly postmasters, ; and filed no account thereof, as re ■ quired by law, nnd that If he is found ! guilty under this allegation the pen-1 ' alty can be $5,000 fine or three years! • in iall. or both. The charges are addressed to Stew ' art Wilson, secretary of the Civil Ser -1 vice Commission, Philadelphia. ; ["POLITICAL SIDELIGHTS ~1 I —lt must be awful to try and run a , campaign for publicity with a war go . ing on. And the worst of It is when ( the defensive has to be assumed. —Dimmick had a fine time in Lan caster yesterday and is in Coatesvillo to-day. —And here's Bergey smashing into one of the reorganizes. And they were so nice to him at the windmill last session, i —One by one the conspicuous re formers are being handed straight > jabs. > —Wilson Bailey can still be ad • dressed at Democratic State head- ! quarters. t —Apparently the McCormiek cam- j t paign party was not the only one that discussed the labor question in Phila . delphia last night. Judge Bonniwell I had a few to say. i —Our old friend, Colonel J. M. Guf fey, must be getting a good bit of enjoyment out of the campaign. —There are two sets of candidates } for Democratic State committeemen in almost every district in the State. —People who have filed supple- I mental petitions at the Capitol will ' | at least be able to use them as me- B t mentoes. rj MARY MAKES AN IMP'tESSIOX •'I [From the St. Joseph Gazette.] »I Miss Garden was as fresh and bright r as the great American Beauties she r wore. And, by the way. Miss Garden's . hair is if the shade which teasing schoolmates must have called red, but which critics the world over now rave 8 about as glittering gold, ropes of bril o liancy, or tresses which catch the strav - sunbeams and scatter them abroad f again. At any rate, her hair was last , night her most conspicuous asset. An immense red nose, her brilliant hair , II and naturally rosy cheeks were the - only colors she wore. | a characteristic modesty he had failed - to mention It. It remained for the! t admiring and enthusiastic Mr. Berry I - to bring the fact to the attention of a t waiting world. ci The Collector of Customs, who dis t dains to confine his activities to the •. prosaic business of collecting customs s duties, not only glorified the candidate o who had "associated with kings" but took occasion to throw a few bricks at o Mr. McCormlck's rival. Mr. Ryan, ho y said, was a good man, but he was por - mitting a "descredlted bunch to hide s behind him." He even went so far as o to name a few members of the "dis d credited bunch," and it Is evident that d not one of the number ever had the it discretion of associating with kings, i- It must be confessed that Mr. Berry )t has given a touch of color to the cam d ; palßn Most of the other orators have e i discussed such dull topics as the tariff, it the currency, the canal issue and the a Mexican situation. But the eloquent i" Collector has lifted the contest to a 11 higher plane. Ho has given us some t- thing to talk about and to think about. :- and only the confirmed grouches would ie expect him to confine himself to col >- lectlng the revenues of the govern h ment. ! - '**•*;<■-, -KyTTg -•.■ OUR DAILY LAUGH J VVlfey What think appeals S r th vea.-' generally. ! Hnhbv The art or literature? Hubby ine Art. Almost same old man anvbodv would I You know he has „ n i c _ the combination ™t t st . card furn°ture? UmP *° E THBSB WOMBN First Suffra- Helen and Grace gette Have you always greet each converted your oth>;r with the husband yet? most effusive cor- Second Suffra- diality. gette No; but Yes. Each takes I'm going to put pride in showing him under the the other how ar starvation treat- tistically she can ment to-morrow conceal her real and I think ho feelings, will be with us iu vi il f, W