6 BARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Sttabluhti itj i PUBLISHED BT THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING 00. X. J. STACKPOLE, Pretft and Tresis P. R. OYSTER, Secretary. OUS M. STEINMBTZ, Managing Editor. Published every evening (except Sun day), at the Telegraph Building, 211 Federal Square. Eaat«rn Office, Fifth Avenue Building, New York City, Hasbrook. Story A Brooks. Western Office. 128 West Madison street, Chicago, 111.. Allen & Ward. _Delivered by carriers six cents & week. Mailed to subscribers at f3.00 a year In advance. Entered at the Post Office In Harrli burg aa second class matter. ®Th» Association of Amor- , 1 lean Advertisers bas ex amsned and certified to i 1 til* circulation of this p«b- i 1 ! I lication. The figures of circalation i J ! I aontained in the Association'* re- i i 1 port only are guaranteed. i; Association of American Advertisers ; > No. 2333 Whitehall BMg. N. V. City •worm dally average for the month of April, 1914 Average for the year 11113—21.877 Average for the year 1913—21.173 Average for the year 1011—'18.881 Average for the year 191blems which are incidental to the administration of a great government. They have been weighed in the balances and found wanting. Superintendent of Public Safety Bowman has been so busy saving money In all proper ways that he may be excused for having overlooked a large and unsightly mound of ashes which destroys the beauty of the river side of the pumping station. CONGRESSMAN KRKIDER LITTLE has been said in the cam paign leading up to the prima ries of the candidacy of Con gressman Aaron S. Kreider for renomlnation, principally because he has no opposition. But the fact that his nomination is certain should not affect the size of the vote to be cast for him. Every Republican in Dauphin and ■ the two adjoining counties constitut | ing the local congressional district j should show their appreciation of the excellent manner In which their inter ests have been upheld at Washington by Mr. Kreider. Under most difficult circumstances and in the face of an overwhelming Democratic majority in the House he has shown ability and resourcefulness in meeting local needs and staunch courage and Independence in standing up for the best principles of Republi canism. Ho will be re-elected in No vember beyond doubt, but he should be given a substantial party endorse ment to-morrow. What a fine showing was made by the high school athletes at Island Park on Saturday. And it must have been very gratifying to Superintendent of Parks Taylor that he was able to place the track and the grounds in such line shape for the great concourse of peo ple which gathered to watch the events of the meet. Much credit is due to him for his activ'ty in this matter. . THE ANTI-COLLAR LEAGUE ALL Paris is excited over the Anti-Collar League, which has just been founded by Maurice Verne, a well-known Parisian journalist. The aim of the league is to "incite people to rebellion against the silly fashion of locking up their Adam's apple in a prison of starch." Several letters already have been published from would-be members of the league asking for particulars. A letter published by Excelsior voices the enthusiastic applause of a group of Latin Quarter students. In deed, the Latin Quarter is in uproar, and everywhere arguments for or against the idea may be heard. "The collar is an excellent institution and forces us to carry our heads high," one student writes. "Its various de grees of cleanliness enable us to size up a man. Tell me whether your col lar is clean and I will tell you what kind of a man you are." A speaker before the Harrisburg Chamber of Commerce told his audi ence not long ago that we do not wear stiff collars because we like them, but because certain bright and insistent gentlemen who are at the head of col lar manufactories in Troy, X. Y., set the fashion which we blindly follow. That being the case, we sugegst that there is urgent need of the presence just now in Paris of one of the clever publicity experts of the Troy firms that have done such splendid service in keeping the laundries alive in this country. Meanwhile Martin G. Brumbaugh, the next Governor of Pennsylvania, is ad dressing educational bodies and ex hibiting in every public appearance his high qualities and fitness for the dig nified office which some noisy persons are seeking with brass bands and the throwing of much mud. BACK TO THE PARTY FROM many quarters comes the cheering news of Republican har mony and the get-together spirit. All the bitterness of the 1912 campaign has disappeared and men of both wings of the party are striving to overcome any differences which would [ prevent entire harmony of action in I the campaign. Even the most ent.huasiastic sup porters of Colonel Roosevelt are show ing a disposition to return to the party colors. A significant story comes from Washington to-day to the effect that i plans are under way to bring about a t harmony agreement that will reunite I the Republican party and make Roose velt the candidate two years hence. Huerta is said to be ready to quit if the United States will make It easy. He must envy Porfirlo Diaz. THE FAILURE OF GENIUS EUROPEAN operatic critics are mourning because Professor Humperdlnck's new opera "The Vivandiere" has failed to meas ure up to expectations and some of them forecast the decadance of Hum perdlnck's unquestioned ability. Every genius of the musical and literary world has had his occasional lapses. Dismal failures have frequent ly been sandwiched between the bril-' llant successes of many noted authors and composers. It was not to be sup posed that the creator of "Hansel and Gretel" and "Konigsklnder" should he able always to improve on those great works or even approach thein In qual lty. Indications are, at all events, that the words set to the music of the new grand opera are quite as much to blame for Its failure as any lapse up on the part of the composer. A. Mitchell Palmer accuses his Demo cratic factional opponents of mud sllnglng. Isn't It possible that he has been suffering from a flare-back on his own side. i EVENINCTCHAT I Men who observe the trend of poll tics and the working out of schemes for registering the popular will are looking forward to to-morrow's prl | mary election in Pennsylvania with | far more Interest than any similar | election in a generation, not so much | for the results of the contests for the nominations or lor elections to seats In party committees, but for the man ner In which the new system works out. To-morrow's election will furnish the first State-wide direct primary for the highest offices in the scheme of government in the second greatest State in the Union and the first pri mary of any magnitude to be held at this time in May. Interest in the working out of the. election centers, of course, in the expression of the popu lar will, and for the tirst time, at least In the life time of many men active in affairs, wo have had candidates for nominations touring the State with all of the vigor and accompaniments of a campaign immediately preceding a general election. The strenuosities of these contests have, moreover, cast Into the shade even some of the dele gate elections of the year that saw Wilson elected President and Pennsyl vania go for Roosevelt. The whole country is watching Pennsylvania for a practical try-out. of the direct pri mary for United States Senator and State officers, this State having the second largest number of voters in the Union and said voters having been worked upon for months to get thein interested enough to go out and mark ballots. Other States are also watch ing the manner in which the nonpar tisan judicial law is tried again, the results last year having been a sur prise. Sister commonwealths are like wise observing the manner of enforc ing the enrollment act. And lastly, Washington is watching for a sign of the feeling of the great mass of Dem ocratic voters toward the national ad ministration, whose concern is shown by the presence on the stump of three Cabinet officers. In 1882 and 1890 Pennsylvania elected Democratic Gov ernors and Democratic Presidents fol lowed two years later. In 1886 and 1894 the State went Republican. What happened in 1888 and 1896 is well re membered. Now here Is a primary system which offers a means of gaug ing feeling within a party and a llrst class family row to make the out come still more a source of anxiety to those along the Potomac and of In terest to the nation. William Maclay and Robert Morris went to Congress with the very first certificates of senatorial election that the Commonwealth has given, but when the members of the Assembly were chosen there was nothing like preferential primary and they were elected largely on personal grounds. Since then the senatorial togas from the Keystone State have been in poli tics. To-morrow, for the first time, the people will nominate party can didates for Senator and next Novem ber they will elect them direct for the first time. Only the six-year term re mains of tlie original provisions for se lection of Senators and it is a wonder that escaped. So, for the first time candidates for the United States sen ators hip will be directly nominated just like candidates for common coun cilman used to be chosen in the Fourth Ward and candidates of sev eral parties for Governor, Lieutenant- Governor and Secretary of Internal Affairs will be selected in the same primary election, thus doing away with the old system of nominations by State conventions as effectively as the selection of a United Stales Senator by the Legislature was abolished. It is really an astonishing thing when people of Harrisburg, the seat of so many conventions and scene of so many senatorial elections, think of it. Methods of a hundred years, whose results have been worked out in our city, are done away with and we are all down to the basis of a primary elec tion. True, the election is now in the hands of the State government and the political parties have little to do with it, but the fact remains that in principle it is the old primary to which we used to go around to vote on Sat urday nights, only its scope has been enlarged beyond what anyone expected a decade ago, and a whole day is given to it, and the same machinery that records the freeman's will, etc., in November will voice the desire of the adherents of party in the month of May. What adds to interest is that the State will select four candidates in each party for C6ngress-at -large in addition to the thirty-two district nominees. In this contest the same unusual conditions prevail. In years gone by nominations for Congress-at iarge, which are the means whereby the State gets its proper number of seats while the problem of redisrict ing to meet the census is worked out, were conferred on willing workers or as rewards for conspicuous party ser vice or to add prestige, if needed. No one recalls any very serious contests for the nominations at State conven tions. But here every party has a field of candidates and the campaigns are as wide as the State and, in some instances, very vigorous. What interests us most and interests th» people of many counties, too, Is the nomination of candidates for the two appellate courts. In 1913 the nonpartisan judicial selection act had a unique test in the selection of two Superior Court judges. This year men will be chosen to one scat on each of the higher courts. Thief Justice Fell will retire and we hope to see Presi dent Judge George Kunkel elected his successor. In the Kunkel campaign the true nonpartisan spirit has been shown, especially in the home county of the candidate, the best guarantee of his standing. On the Superior bench Judge Frank M. Trexler comes up for renomination, having been named to fill the vacancy caused by the death of General James A. Beaver. In each case the two men receiving the highest number of votes go on the November ballot, unless a candidate should receive 51 per cent, of the total vote cast, in which event his name will be the only one to go on the bal lot. Friends of Judge Kunkel are working to that end against a field of well-known men, while those of Judge Trexler, with the prestige of his place and lack of serious opposition, are striving earnestly to make him sole nominee. The voter will vote for but one candidate for Supreme Court and for but one for Superior Court on the nonpartisan primary ballot, and the way to be sure is .to scan the ballot and pick out the right man In each ■case and then mark. Now as to the reference In the opening paragraph to this time In May. Ordinarily, primaries have been held In April, or at least early in May. This is a busy period In rural districts and It is exceptionally so this year because of the lateness of the season. Many farmers will not vote at all and th<* total of the vote may run far below the registration and enrollment. Thus, another angle from which to view the results in Pennsylvania Is presented. HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH MACHINE RATTLED AS CAMPAIGN ENDS Plain Little Claim of Victory For Ryan Sends the Reorganiza tion Organ Into Air THE SLATE MAY BE BEATEN Philadelphia Public Ledger Admits Ryan Has a Chance; McCor mick Men Busy Here Probably the most strenuous cam paign and certainly the noisiest, ever waged for Democratic nominations will close in Pennsylvania late to-night and, true to its traditions, the Demo cracy will celebrate the coming of State-wide primaries by fighting al most to the time the polls open to re ceive the ballots. The remarkable campaign of "vilification and abuse" in which both the McCormlck and Ryan factions have indulged, was in full swing to-day and desperate ef forts were being made by adherents of the former mayor of Harrisburg to hold this city and county in line. These attempts were being watched with in terest in view of the well-known po sition taken by McCormick and his newspaper against the use of money in politics. As far as claims go the McCorinick people had the better of it in this city to-day. There were some very loud claims being made that McCor mick would carry Harrisburg and 1,000 was the very lowest figure given. As to the county some of the claims made for the Little Boss were for ma jorities considerably in excess of the Democratic enrollment in all Dauphin county and the whole Democratic reg istration in Harrisburg. But a little thing like that did not matter. The Ryan people were also doing a few stunt 3 in the claiming line, but did not soar to the heights of the gay and giddy partisans of McCormick. The Democrats in this city to-day showed that they realized that the eyes of the State were on the State Capital and were in fine fettle.. That singular Inability to recognize that any one else has a right to think or to express thoughts which has characterized the Mc- Cormick campaign and Groon Gets its bugle blower from a Goat on the day the White Uie Square House slate was launched was striking- ly manifested to-day when the McCormick people bubbled over with wrath over a plain ordinary campaign claim made by John J. Green the campaign manager for Ryan. Green simply went Palmer's claim of 50,000 majority 10,000 better and asserted that Ryan would carry all but a few rural counties. He gave Dauphin and Cumberland to Ryan and the touchy mourning newspaper of the reorganization cause proceeded to berate him as though it feared everyone would take what Green said and disbelieve its own claims. Columns wei devoted to-day to refuting claims of various opponents of the machine about certain counties and tucked away in an obscure corner was a dispatch which said that Secretary of State Bryan, who had found time to leave his desk in the crisis with Mexico to butt into Pennsylvania poli tics in behalf of the machine slate, was unable to go to New York yesterday to address a peace meeting. It is interesting in view of the claims made by "the McCormick peo ple to read what is said by the Phila delphia Public Ledger in a round-up article on the Democratic cam- Ledger paign. The Ledger has Expresses been advocating Mc- Doubts Cormick in its editorial columns and playing up his campaign. Yet it has this to say about the Harrisburger's chances to-day and in a dispatch sent from Harrisburg: "On the Democratic side Vance McCormick is believed to have more than a shade the best of the running outside of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh,- where the bulk of the Democratic vote is cast. It may be said, however, that the Ryan strength is not confined wholly to the cities named. The Public Ledger corre spondent has traveled through more than forty counties since the opening of the primary campaign, and he has discovered not a few Ryan partisans in j such cities as Lancaster, Allentown, Reading, Altoona, Wilkes-Barre and Scranton. On the other hand, he has found many reorganization Democrats in these same centers. And a pre ponderating McCormick element in rural counties. The Budd strength for United States Senator does not run parallel with the Ryan strength for governor. Ryan has a chance; Budd, unless there are unseen silent forces at work in his behalf, has none." The contending Democratic faction ists ended their speech-making Satur day. The McCormick caravan wound up in the Ryan strong hold of Mahanoy City Campaign and marked the end of Thunder a tour of fifty-nine Laid Away counties. Why the other eight werel slighted does not ap- j pear. Congressman Palmer took oc casion before he said farewell to make a stinging reply to the attacks upon him and to say that search of his af fairs failed to show him guilty of any thing which would make him ashamed "Farmer" Creasy did not bother to reply to what was said about him. The Ryan aggregation stumped Phil adelphia and made speeches in which McCormick was frizzled. Some of their speeches sounded like Patriot editorials with the records reversed. Washington dispatches speak high ly of the speech of Michael J. Ryan at the unveiling of the Barry statue on Saturday. One story says: "Pres-1 ident Wilson applauded vigorously the speech of City Solicitor Ryan, whose eloquence won loud applause from the great crowd. The President's ap plause was conspicuous because of the fact that it was so much more spirited than that he had accorded any of the other speakers." Manifestly there is a difference of I opinion among Democrats as to Presi dent Wilson's real friends in Pennsyl vania. Ryerson W. Jen nings, a cousin of Secretary Bryan. In a letter to the Macliliu-. I Philadelphia Public Ledger Tactics i says: Scored "It would make a very interesting political chapter to know the arsninpnti u»ed to induce Mr. Bryan to invade Pennsylvania In behalf of an already discredited ma chine. It can be inferred, however, that misrepresentation, if not prevari cation, was used for the puropse. * * * "He has again been deceived by the same men. because he laid particular stress in his speech at Wilkes-Barre that he waa in Pennsylvania to help the inen who are upholding President Wilson. "President Wilson has no firmer friends than the majortiy of the Demo cratic party who are lighting; for honib rule in their own State. Who made President Wilson possible? William Jennings Bryan. Who made Mr. Bryan ■ possible? The man who stood by him |in rS9fi. Palmer did not, Guthrie did I not, Kane did not, and hundreds of others who are now hiding behind his coattails. McCormick fought him al ways, voting against him in 1900 and working against him before the con ventions that afterward nominated him, going so far as calling him an anarchist. Michael J. Ryan supported Mr. Bryan in IS9O, in 1900, in 1908, He knew a. man when he saw him. j and a man who knows men is needed ! in Harrisburg, and is needed badly." I POLITICAL SIDELIGHTS —John J. Green's prediction of 00,- 000 majority for Ryan appears to have disturbed some people in Market Square. —Although the Patriot does call Mayor Armstrong a Republican he was elected on the nonpartisan bal lot and many Democrats aligned with the reorganization element in Pitts burgh worked and voted for him. —Evidently the Ledger does not agree with the Patriot in estimates on the result of to-morrow's Demo cratic primary. —So the campaign of vilification and abuse is at an end according to a certain morning newspaper. —And we wonder what it all cost. —Palmer's closing campaign speech was about as warm as any made in the campaigns. Dr. Shull's hot shot must have penetrated. —The campaign of vilification and abuse however, appears to be still under way on the editorial page of a certain perturbed morning newspa per. —Calder Shammo made an error in refusing to take the Patriot seriously. But maybe—he could not. —Up in Schuylkill they say Con gressman Lee, opposed by reorganiz es, will have more majority than his opponent will have votes. —Wildman and Swartz are taking it easy just now. —These are Jesse Lybarger's wild days. —Howard Holstein declines to agree with the Royal-Moeslein predictions of victory. j OUR DAILY LAUGH ) HOT lilrn Ilere'n n Hold Mnn He: That was We women suf certainly a great fer in silence, game. I suppose that's She: And wasn't why you never the pitcher hand- permit it to exist some? where you are. Don't Know Yet So lie Plurk«Ml Bobbie: Say, One Ma, where y'goin' If I were to ask on vacation this you for a kiss summer? what would you Ma: I got to think? wait till I find That you had out where your Jess pluck than [ rather don't want gave you credit to go. for. V HeaKon Dull by Compnrl "X always turn son the gas out when She: You say X call on Loretta." baseball games "Gee! Is she as don't seem so ex homely as that?" citing as they did before we were married? He: Yes, I find marriage much more exciting. "JOI* THE BUNCH" By WIIIK Dinger The man who does the biggest things Will always grasp the chance To learn how others run tlielr biz, Because a single glance In working out his plan May teach him something worth a heap To run his business profitably And make the most he can. Therefore, the trip that will be made To various towns this week, As by the Chamber of Commerce planned, Is one members should seek To take advantage of, because They'll meet with great big men In other towns, from whom they can Perhaps learn much, and then — They'll help to give this town a boost Wherever they may go, And folks in other towns may think This burg is the whole show. i Who knows, some factorlos may choose This town in which to roost. Which means more coin for Harrisburg, Ho join the bunch and boost. I.ETTING IV TUB C. I'. [From the Morning News.] The corporations have been forced by the stress of the battle to crawl out of the shell of secretlveness in which they had been hidden, and to take their stockhodders and even the public into their confidence. No longer is the man in the street a despised out sider, entitled to no information. On the contrary, he is now the recognized partner in corporate enterprise, to the extent that he is part of the people from which the corporation obtains its right to exist and do business. AMUSEMENTS Photoplay Theater] TO-DAY FIRST INSTALMENT (2 Reels) Lucille Love The Thrilling Serial Now Appearing In the HARUISRURG TELEGRAPH In Addition to Our Regular Program MAY 18, 1914. Distinctively Individual I*%FATIMA| .'TURKISH BLEND U CIGARETTES m ' / Hie demand for this' ill I distinctive smoke is jjtg greater every year' . « s3V^ 9^Vau^a &' -eS 2o£rls^l 1 VILLA IS A-FIGHTKH tFrom the Now York World.] Whether ho is a mini of pood or evil character, Villa is a fighter who wins battles, a consideration that Napoleon prized above all other deslrahlo ciuali | ties such as might adorn a respectable family man. j The Reliable House For Pianos YOHN BROS 8 IVorth IWllll DIWJ. Market Square p 1 you how to see practically VH H all the West for the cost of « js| a single trip, when you travel * j Union Pacific H Salt Lake Route E The glories of the West are B£ graphically told by pen and V camera that's the country W where you golf on real greens ■ —motor on real roads and I see things really wonderful. I Get this book today. Summer Tourist Low Fares in effect June Ist. s. c. MU,Born\E, o. A., 841 i'bentnut St., Philadelphia, P&. f ■> ■EiDaUAKTKRI FOB SHIRTS SIDES & SIDES \ *■ ' AMUSKMKNTS COLONIAL Kilgore's olonial IDS HONAN & HEIM I in MORSE & HILL | IVC NEWS DISPATCHES OF THE CIVIL WAR | rFrom tho Telegraph of May 18, 1864] Capture Viizoo City St. Louis, May 17. —Vicksburg ad vices of the 10th say that the expedi tion under General McArthur, sent out hy Gencrul Slocumb, had captured Yazoo City with little resistance. Army Rests | Washington, May 17.—A dispatch I from the Army of the Potomac, dated I tho 16th, says: "After ten days of In cessant lighting, the army was day alloved to rest and recruit for another struggle." IN HARRIS BURG FIFTY YEARS AGO TO-DAY [From the Telegraph of May 18, 1864] Enrolling Those Left Enrolling officers are now "circu lating" through our city, taking the ; names of those who have escaped the I enrollment heretofore. River Ixworing The river is lower than yesterday, jln a few days we may expect to see I rafts floating down stream, as there jis yet a large amount of lumber in the North, all of which will be taken ; to the Eastern market. BRYAN AND WILSON IX MEXICO [Philadelphia Public Ledger.] V eracity seems not to be Huerta's chief attribute. Men of all nationali ties have been fighting under Villa, soldiers of fortune from Germany, England, France, Italy and the United States. It may even Be that some of them woro discarded American uni forms. The assumption, however, that any American regular troops fought at Torreon is too preposterous to admit of serious comment. Huerta touches a sore spot, how ever. when he declares that "auxiliary | services, hospital trains, everything has been supplied by the Americans to the rebels." They have; that is what the lifting of the embargo meailt, but the supplies came not from the American government, but from Ameri can dealers. Our Secretary of State has boasted in his personal periodical that the administration's policy in lift ing the embargo made the victory at Torreon possible. The Villa movement did not become formidable until our arsenals were opened to it. We rec ognized the Constitutionalists, in effect, as belligerents. It is, it appears, the avowed policy of the administration now to extricate itself from the Mexican muddle through the success of the Consti tutionalists. They have the moral sup | port of the government. Every victory they achieve is hailed with delight in Washington. They are expected to drive Huerta out and save us from that duty. Our policy is essentially based on the physical power of Villa's army. The Constitutionalists are amplv provided with the munitions of war our diplomacy and our fleet deprive Huerta of all supplies. The contest is thus made one-sided and the ultimate downfall of tho dictator is assured. I IXTTERSTOTMEgDiTOR 1 McCORMICK AND IMPROVEMENTS To the Editor of The Telegraph: Dear Sir: Perusing an article in The Patriot to-day I see that Vance C. Mc cormick "while he was Mayor gave the city clear water in place of foul." It is my belief that the filter plant did not furnish any filtered water until October 21, 1905, which was after McCormick had left the office of Mayor. If I am wrong in this fact I shall be glad to be corrected. Q q SENTIMENTS VS. SENTIMENTALITY [From the Altoona Times.] We have no fault to find with the cus tom of wearing a flower in honor of the mothers of the nation. "We cannot pav them too much reverence. But we can show our appreciation in a more tan gible manner. Instead of waiting until they have departed from this vale of tears, their untimely end being hasten ed in too many instances by deadening drudgery, it should be our purpose to lighten their burdens. Helief from manv household duties that may be performed by sons and daughters—and by hus bands, as well—will, we are «ure he more appreciated by mothers than'the wearing of the most beautiful flowers. [ WELL KNOWN PEOPLE 1 —Dr. Edward Martin, of Philadel phia, will be a speaker before the American Railway Surgeons at Atlan tic City. He has spoken here several times. —Alba B. Johnson, of the Baldwin Locomotive Works, is to talk on South America at the National Foreign Trade conference in Washington. —Professor Wolle, who led the Ilar risburg Choral Society, will conduct the Bach festival in Bethlehem this month. —Judge A. B. Reid, who gave the plumbing law decision in Pittsburgh, is an authority on borough laws. —W. T. Ramsey, Chester legisla tor, who is a candidate for renomina tion, was formerly mayor of that city. Do You Want a Thrill? Get in Line at the PALACE THEATER 333 MARKET STREET Tuesday— "Lucille Love, the Girl of Mystery" «Gold Senl 2-rfel Plinlo Drama, fentur liilt Grace Cunard anil Kmni'ls Ford. I'll In la the moat aeUNOtloual criminal and detective Photoplay >llll ever look- Vivian Preacott anil Charlie DeFor re»t, featuring in n crystal comedy, HHUfIH "ALMOST A lirtlDEOftOdM." v < ( £S)i MSlS^xobodY O. A. C. Land and Barbara Tennont in an Eclair drama, "THE PRICE." Francis Ford Admission—All Seats 5c Grace Cunard I fIINIVVDSALI tnlveriol Sperlal fl-Reel Feature, fIIMTVIBDCII "fAMSOX." Friday and Saturday, May mWIVEHaAL, I m and aa.