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WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 20
A REPUBLICAN TRIUMPH.
INCOMPLETE returns of yester
day's primary election through
out Pennsylvania indicate a tre
mendous trend toward the Re
publican party and a significant pur
pose on the part of the voters gener
ally to restore the government to safe
and sane control. Notwithstanding
the factional uproar in the Democratic
party in this State the total vote cast
for the candidates of that party was
so small as compared with the Repub
lican figures that there ought to be
little room for argument as to the
lesson of the day.
Notwithstanding the quiet campaign
of the Republican party, Dr. Martin G.
Brumbaugh, the popular Republican
nominee for Governor, makes such a
formidable showing in the figures as
to indicate an overwhelming victory
for the distinguished educator and
executive in November.
Senator Penrose has likewise dem
onstrated such inherent strength as an
advocate of Republican principles in
every part of the State that his selec
tion over President Wilson's hand
picked favorite is indicated by a large
majority.
It is too early to analyze the vote,
hut there are some significant straws
in the early returns. Senator Penrose,
for instance, in the town of Bloss
burg, the home of Secretary of Labor
Wilson, whose attempted whitewash of
the labor record of the Democratic
nominee for Governor is resented by
organized labor throughout the State,
carried the town three to one over Mr.
From all over the State
cotuKthe same story and the conclu
sion's inescapable that the trend of
the voting indicates deep-seated an
tagonism to a further continuance of
Democratic experimenting at Wash
ington.
This is further shown in the magni
ficent vote given Congressman Kreider
in this district AVhile he hail no op
position in his own party, ho was
nevertheless given a vote larger than
that of any other candidate on a par
tisan ticket as a protest against the
free trade Congress and as a personal
tribute of appreciation for his own
stalwart services in the cause of pro
lection and prosperity.
Of course, President Judge Kunkel
leads the procession in Dauphin
county by an almost unanimous vote
for the Supreme Court that is as com
plimentary as it is deserved. Thou
sands upon thousands of thoughtful
men have placed their seal of approval
upon his fine record as a jurist and
while it is not possible at this hour to
determine the result of the campaign
for the higher court it is certain that
his friends here and elsewhere have
nothing to regret in the primary con
test. While all his fHends did every
thing within their power to promote
his candidacy it is only fair to say that
the burden of the campaign manage
ment fell upon District Attorney M. E.
Stroup and John R. Geyer, one of the
well-known lawyers of the local bar.
These two men were splendidly sup
ported by lawyers and laymen, but the
intelligent, aggressive and inspiring
campaign was a direct result of the
line head-work and energetic direction
given the canvass by Messrs. Geyer
and Stroup, with the able and ener
getic support of Senator Beidleman.
During the day the missing figures
will doubtless be received, but enough
is known at this writing to indicate
the substantial rehabilitation of the
Republican party in Central Pennsyl
vania and throughout the Common
wealth. No matter what may be said
as to personalities in the preliminary
canvass, the fact is self-evident that
the voters, without very much regard
to previous party affiliations, are de
termined to deal a sledge-hammer
blow at the experimental and misfit
administration now in power at Wash
ington. Those candidates in Penn
sylvania who have pinned their faith
und their hope of success upon Presi
dent Wilson's favor will discover, if
they have not already done so, that
they are leaning upon a broken reed.
Republicans have come back home
ind that means a sweeping victory for
the party/3 candidates next November.
WEDNESDAY EVENING
CHANCE FOR KKDHELI).
SECRETARY REDFI ELD'S nice
little plan to compel industrial
plants to keep running at the risk
of an administration investigation
is now threatened by Federal officials
in the case of the Ford automobile
plant where a few thousand men have
been furloughed. It is intimated from
Washington that the layoff might be
found to be only an artificial slap at
the Administration's business policies.
The Ford officials point out that any
such view is erroneous, asserting that
the laying off of men was nothing out
of the ordinary for this season of the
year and that It should not be taken
as an Indication of general business
conditions. But the manufacturer and
business man who dares manage his
business contrary to administration
theories is in grave danger of the
gibbet.
There is a strong undercurrent
to-day in favor of an antl-Demo
rratic coalition to be effected by
the next presidential election, but
such coalition is only possible on
the basis of the Progressive plat
form.
Coming from such a Progressive
leader as Franklin Spencer Edmonds,
the Philadelphia reformor and candi
date for the State Senate, this state
ment has unusual significance, espec
ially when it is considered in connec
tion with the recently quoted observa
tion of Colonel Roosevelt that he would
become a candidate for the Republican
nomination for President only on con
dition that he ran on a progressive
platform. The anti-Democratic senti
ment Is stronger to-day than It was
yesterday, and it is going to be
stronger to-morrow than it was to
day. It is not going to be a question
of Republican hair-splitting on per
sonalities, but it is going to be a solid
alignment of the anti-Democratic
forces under one banner—the banner
of the party of protection and pros
perity.
BETRAYAL OF UNCLE SAM
PRESIDENT WILSON is going to
force through the Senate, as he
forced through the House the
repeal of that part of the Pana
ma Canal act exempting American
coastwise shipping from the payment
of tolls. It matters not that eminent
lawyers have declared there is no vio
lation of the Hay-Pauncefote treaty in
this exemption or that a great public
protest has swept over the country
against such action. President Wil
son wants the clause repealed and
those who believe that all the wisdom
of the ages resides within his person
ality are urging the repeal.
United States Senator O'Gorman, of
New York, declared the other day, re
ferring to the Baltimore declaration,
that "a platform pledge is either the
plighted word of men of honor or a
shifting, dishonest, unconscionable
prete ise to mislead a confiding elec
torate."
"Those who seek to justify the be
trayal of party pledges," said Senator
O'Gorman, "must invent an excuse
or openly confess that the declaration
of principles adopted at the Baltimore
convention was a mere sham to be
used only for the purpose of deceiving
the American electorate and not for
the purpose of being redeemed hon
estly."
Senator O'Gorman, who is chair
man of- the lnteroceanic Canal com
mittee, further denounced the pro
posed repeal in these words:
When we talk of national honor
we may be suspected of insincerity
if we do not recognize that a vio
lated party pledge is the rankest
kind of political perfidy. We surely
owe at least the same good faith
to the American people that we
profess to feel for a foreign na
tion.
The American people, not the
British Government, restored the
Democratic party to power, and if
we retain power it will be by tile
favor ami confidence of the Amer
ican people and not by the grace
of Great Britain. ,
Is the Democratic party prepared
to confess itself guilty of a be
trayal of a public trust? Will it
admit to tho country that it se
cured office by false pretense?
What confidence can the people
have in such a party so devoid of
respect for its own pledges? We
secured ofiire under a solemn
promise to the American people,
which we are now asked to re
pudiate.
In his vigorous denunciation of the
President's proposal, the New York
senator has put into concrete form the
growing sentiment at Washington
against the tyranny of the White
House. "Reason, common sense, jus
tice and patriotism alike cry out and
condemn it. The American people will
never consent to it," was the final con
clusion of Senator O'Gorman.
PSYCHOLOGIST AT LARGE AGAIN.
PSYCHOLOGY is at present a
pseudo-science. But there Is
reason to believe that as astrol
ogy yielded to chemistry so the
science of the mind will some day
evolve a substantial basis. At present
it is the plaything of every "learned"
fellow with a hobby.
Using psychology as his mask, the
fool professor has broken loose again.
As usual he calls Chicago his habita
tion.
"Read this sentence slowly," he says.
"A little dog with brown curly hair
ran up the street, lie had long legs
and a short tail. Now repeat it. if
you can't do so correctly you are men
tally deficient. You are a 'moron,' "
according to the highbrow professor.
For instance, if you say the dog had
curly legs and ran down the street your
mental apparatus is not working prop
erly. This interesting experiment was
tried on a group of fairly successful
men the other day and only a couple
out of a dozen repeated the sentence
correctly. Yet we venture to say that
they could nearly all beat the profes
sor to chips in the everyday business
game.
The latest addition to our gallery
of psychologists forgets that the abil
ity to repeat a sentence of this kind la
simply an indication of a quick mem
ory. A child's memory is more active
than a man's. Possibly a normal child
should be able to pass this test, but
when a grown man of ordinarily suc
cessful attainments falls to do so It Is
lust an indication that his mind has
been trained in another direction or
that his thoughts are concentrated on
[more periods bufliaesa. ,
1 EVENING CHAT 1
Without taking into consideration
the amounts of money expended by
the hundreds of men who sought
nominations yesterday it is safe to say
that the cost to the public of the pri
mary elections held yesterday was
close to half a million dollars. There
will be no way of estimating the cost
for months to come, as the bills must
bo to the Auditor General afteV bein*
paid by county commissioners and
generally fare badly at the Capitol,
Some of the bills for 1912 have just
been settled and the 1913 list of bills
Is not finished. Two years ago Iho
primary cost about $400,000 and there
was not nearly as much required as in
the present elections under the general
primary and the nonpartisan primary
acts of 1913. Practically the whole
cost on the State, and as the pay
of election officers has been increased
and more printing required it looks
as though there would be a dent made
in the State balance. Under the. law
every person who ran as a candidate
at yesterday's election must file a
statement of his expenditures by
Wednesday. June 3. The law is very
plain on this subject, requiring a full
statement of all money spent, of con
tributions to committees and of ex
penditures by such committees. What
the total of expense accounts will be
no one can tell. More men are before
tho people for state-wide offices than
ever known under the old convention
system and there will be interesting
documents filed at tho Capitol before
long. ■
Driving a cow along a city street is
something rather difficult at dawn
when there is not much traffic, but,
given the middle of a morning with
a good hot sun working, a street with a
double track and the usual number of
cars moving, several automobiles and
a steam roller working on new asphalt,
and there is a combination that would
make an experienced drover sigh for
solitude. Yesterday morning a man
tried to lead a cow in Derry street in
the vicinity of Seventeenth and
Eighteenth. He encountered each of
the above-named objects in a block.
He gave up trying to lead and started
to drive. With the assistance of half
a dozen laborers, who hurrahed and
waved shovels and rakes, and of the
steam roller man, who shrieked his
whistle, the cow was gotten moved two
blocks. And she went on the sidewalk
all the way.
A good many people yesterday
"passed up" the nonpartisan ballot
through sheer ignorance. Although it
has been the most written about of all
the election innovations in the last
eighteen months or so, many do not
understand it, and election voting
places were strewn with unused non
partisan ballots. It appears that voters
were afraid to make a blunder and
did not mark to avoid the risk.
Harrisburg people are following
with a great deal of interest the de
velopments in the selection of the
moderator of the general assemblv of
the Presbyterian Church of the United
States, as the man who presides over
the highest council of the great de
nomination in the northern states is
known. It happens that one of the
men who is ardently advocated is the
Rev. Dr. George B. Stewart, former
pastor of Market Square Church and
now president of Auburn Theological
Seminary, at Auburn, N. Y. The selec
tion will be made at the one hundred
and twenty-sixth annual general as
sembly, which begins in Chicago on
May 26. The Rev. Dr. Maitland Alex
ander. of Pittsburgh, is also being
mentioned.
Just now some of the greatest floral
displays to be found in many miles are
to be seen in some of the back yards
of Harrisburg and in some of tht»
farmyard gardens in this section.
They are of the real old-fashioned
flowers and the blue iris is the queen
of them all. The "flag," as it is popu
larly known, is just now in its glorv
and the blue variety, which is famous
the world over, is attracting even more
attention than the white and striped
varieties.
The canoeing season lias had a hard
time getting started on the Susque
hanna because of the high water which
has prevailed for several weeks and It
ts rather surprising that the river has
been as irregular as it is in the present
month. Half a dozen times young men
have started out for trips" in canoes
and found that currents are strong
and contrary as well ns slightly differ
ent from last year. The Siisquehann*
currents are largely governed by the
deposits and objects in Its bed and as
the sand and coal is moved around a
good bit every spring the river has to
be observed afresh.
1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE 1
—Judge Mayer Sulzberger, of Phila
delphia. has criticised the method of
conducting Philadelphia's "vice squad."
—Frank S. Edmunds. Philadelphia
independent, says parties will unite
against the Democrats before
—Mayor Mitchell Walter, of South
Bethlehem, is acting as mediator in
the cigarmakers' strike.
—Professor J. E. L. Raschen, of
Lafayette, has accepted a chair in the
Un'versity of Pittsburgh. Ho is an
authortiy on German.
—Ralph E. Weeks, president of the
Scranton Board of Trade, is planning
a great campaign to boost that city.
IN HARRISBURG FIFTY
YEARS AGO TO-DAY
[From the Telegraph of Mav 20, 1864]
TO ENLARGE CAPITOL.
The Governor and other state of
ficers advertise for proposals for erect
ing the extensions to the Capitol
buildings.
PAX TON' TO HOLD PICNIC.
The Paxton Fire Company intends
holding a picnic in Haehnlen's Woods,
on Wednesday next, for Che purpose of
raising funds to aid in defraying the
cost of the new engine house.
NEWS DISPATCHES
OF THE CIVIL WAR
[From the Telegraph of May 20, 1864]
TRY IT) FOOL REUS.
Bermuda Hundred, May 18.—All
quiet with our army today. The ob
ject of the demonstration on Fort Dar
ling was merely to draw off and en
tertain as many of Lee's troops as pos
sible; also to attract the attention of
all the rebel forces in and about Rich
mond, to enable General Kautz to de
stroy the communication south of
Richmond.
OUR LINES ADVANCE.
Washington, May 19, 11.20 P. M.—
Advices from headquarters of the army
up to 10 o'clock this morning state
that the battle of yesterday had not
been renewed up to that date. Our
lines had been slowly but steadily ad
vanced upon the erlemy.
BUSINESS MAY HAVE A CHANCE;
[From the New York Sun]
It Is whispered in Washington that
the Administration has at last decided
to let business have a chance to adjust
Itself to the now conditions created by
the tariff and hanking laws. The House
caucus program, which includes the
passage of the anti-trust and appro
priation bills, Is not necessarily the
legislative program of the Senate. The
appropriation bills must be passed, for
the government needs the monev. But
the House is to devote Its attention to
the anti-trust bills as a guarantee of
its good faith with the enemies of big
business, but with no expectation that
i the Senato will enact them into laws.
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
OFFICIAL COUNT
WILL BE DELAYED
Big Ticket and Slow Methods Will
Retard Forwarding of Figures
to the State House
COMMITTEES COME NEXT
Parade Last Night Headed by
Band Playing "Hail, Hail,
the Gang's All Here"
Attaches of the Department of the
Secretary of the Commonwealth say
that it will take a couple of weeks bo
fore anyone will be in a position to
give exact figures on the results of the
primary election just held in this
State. This is due to the fact that the
returns to be filed at the Capitol must
be official and the county commission
ers or official returning boards will
have to count thq votes cast for each
p.arty. At a general election count
the number of votes and candidates
are the only things considered. In
computing the primary results these
two factors must be considered for
each party and in addition for the
nonpartisan ballot as well.
The law requires the results to be
filed at the Capitol where the com
putation will be made. The first coun
ties are generally Montour, Perry,
Juniata, Snyder or one of the small
ones in this vicinity. It is not believed
that much over a dozen returns will
be filed before the end of the week.
The slowness of the computation of
the returns of the primary election
will probably hold up the holding of
State committees
the meetings of the
Committees which are fixed for
Likely to June 3 or thereabouts
Be Held l T p under the act. It is
believed that when the
time comes for the
call to go out that the chairmen will
designate later days when the returns
are complete and it can be ascertained
who has been elected. The Republi
can State committee was held up last
year and the Democratic committee
would have been held up too if it had
been required to meet. It looks as
though the State committees would
meet in the middle of June. State
Chairman Crow is being boomed for
the place again although it is doubt
ful if he wants it. Whether State
Chairman Morris is re-elected will de
pend upon which wing of the Democ
racy controls the State committee of
the Democrats. A. Nevin Detrich will
be Washington chairman again.
In spite of the fuss made for months
over the primary elections the city
went to bed early last night and tran
quilly. Republican and
Democratic parti-
Maeliinists sans swarmed around
Parade to their headquarters
"Hail, hail. - ' and a band which
tooted away for hours
in front of the Pa
triot office kept the crowd from going
home until figures began to come in
which encouraged the machine. Then
things brightened up and there was
talk of a parade. That was held off
| until after 1 o'clock when enough was
in hand to make claims worth while.
And then with a bugle call the parti
sans and the Pa-Mc Leaguers were
called together and a parade was
formed which marched to the home of
McCormick and gave him a cheer. And
in the march what do you think the
band played? Our old friend, "Hail,
hail, the Gang's All Here." It is now
the official air of the Democratic ma
chine.
Results in the Carious contests for
congressional nominations in this part
of the state may not be known for a
couple of days. Claims of
the most conflicting na
ture were made to-day Congress
regarding the nomina- Battles
tions in the Seventeenth Uncertain,
and Twentieth districts.
In the former friends
of 13. K. Focht and P. L. Dershem
claim their nominations to run against
each other as in 1912, although the
partisans of J. M. Yeager were in
clined to be sanguine too. In the York
Adams district it was claimed that
Brodbeck had won and had won
in his fight with Gitt.. Congress
man Lee was renominated in the
Schuylkill district and Arthur G. De
walt, former Democratic state chair
man, is probably the Democratic con
gressional nominee in the Berks-Le
high district.
Telegrams received here to-day indi
cated the great interest in other states
in the result of the primary and the
try out of tiie first state
wide primary. In Wash-
National ington and other cities
Interest they were eager to find
Is Shown. out how the Wilson
slate went through but
by far the greater inter
est was taken in the fight of Senator
Penrose for renomination. The tre
mendous vote for Penrose, which has
discouraged the Democrats already
was asked about by New York papers!
The general sweep for Brumbaugh has
attracted much attention because
everyone realizes that It means his
election in November.
1 POLITICAL SIDELIGHTS
—Now to count up the cost.
—The time for filing expense ac
counts expires June 3.
—lt means Brumbaugh in a canter
next November.
—Only McCormick's nomination
was needed to make Brumbaugh sure.
—Honestly, though, the scowls
ought, to be taken off those faces on
the Pa-Mc League banner now.
—That Penrose vote will be a night
mare to the Democratic machinists
for many months to come.
—Now the state committee will
come to disturb our rest.
—The period of the marching clubs
is about due.
—For a primary with big tickets
the results were in comparatively
early.
—Friends of Dr. Brumbaugh sent
him hearty congratulations to-day.
—"Hail, hail" was last night
adopted as the Democratic machine
marching air.
AN EVENING THOUGHT
Character is higher than intel
lect.—Emerson.
nUMOAKTKM MB 1
SHIRTS
SIDES * SIDES
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[ OUR DAILY LAUGH J
Too Oftrn True \niilhrr Powerful
Boss How Is Combine
| this. Jones? You . Wife "This
I asked off to go to con so 1 idation
a funeral. business is going
Clerk—Yes, sir; too far."
that's what it's Husband—
been for the home "What's the mat
team. ter now?"
Wife The
oook is going to
marry the jani
tor."
HARD TO HO
By Winn Dinner
I don't know how it Is with you,
But, gee, it's hard for me
To stick around the work these days.
But then it has to be.
Just as I've conquered a desire
To woods to hie away
And settled down to work, someone
Calls out "Baseball to-day."
And then I argue with myself.
And I the victor is, .
Because myself. I'm much afraid.
Would sacrifice the biz.
And once again my thoughts are forced
From sport to turn aside,
When someone calls me on the phone
To take an auto ride.
Oh, gee! It's hard for anyone
Who loves the outdoor life
To give up country trips these days
And stick to business strife.
(JOVKRNOR TUNER'S LITTLE STORY
["Girard" In Public Ledger]
Governor Tener was watching a
baseball game recently when Jim
Thorpe, the Indian, made a particularly
good play. That "reminded the presi
dent of the National I-«eugue of this
story:
The Carlisle Indian School team was
playing an up-State nine for which a
newly-landed Irishman was covering
third base. One of the Indians batted
out a three-bagger, but dashed past
the astonished player from the Emer
ald Isle for a home run.
When the cheers for the runner and
the jeers for the third baseman had
died out the latter said In language all
the spectators could hear:
"These darned furrlners are puttin'
this game on the bum."
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class in the middle.
It's to this big class in the middle that the aver
age business man belongs. He wants style that's corredt
but unobtrusive—patterns new, but not noisy. But what's equally impor
tant he wants that heaped up measure of value for which this Live Store is
noted.
The "Chester" and "British" Models in
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TIIE HE Ali REASONS |
[From the New York Sunl
In his address upon the Mexican sit
uation In Carnegie Hall on Sunday ex-
President Taft. in accounting for the
fact that "the prospect of war does not
awaken general popular enthusiasm,"
said that it might lie due to a "growing
love of peace as well as to the absence
of those soul stirring issues" which
arouse warlike enthusiasm."
Our impression is that whether the
love of peace for its own sake is grow
ing among the American people or
not—and we hope that it is—the rea
sons they lack enthusiasm for a war
with Mexico are practical and not in
Hie least sentimental or idealistic.
Those reasons may be briefly stated.
The American people have always be
lived that the policy of non-interven
tion was fundamentally sound, and that
there should never have been a de
parture from it. They are of the opin
ion that a moral issue should not have
been made out of General lluerta's ac
cession to the Presidency, and that Mr.
Wilson would have been in a much
stronger position if he had cited the
Diaz precedent of 1577, and given
Huerta a year to establish his govern
ment and qualify for recognition, if he
could. The American people are aware
that Mr. Wilson has not adhered to his
policy of non-Intervention in a spirit
of strict neutrality, but has given
countenance and aid to the Constitu
tionalists and has permitted friendly
negotiations with General Carranza
and with General Villa, who lias never
been v'eared of responsibility for the
murdei* of Benton. The American
people cannot understand even now whv
the Hag saluting incident at Tampic'o
provoked Mr. Wilson to send the fleet
to Vera Cruz and seize the custom-
house when outrages upon American
citizens in Mexico wore borne with
diplomatic philosophy. That the occu
pation of any part of Vera Cruz was
an act of war Americans generally be
lieve, ami they do not doubt that a sa
lute of the Hag at Tamplco could have
been obtained from General Iluertiu
And finally thoy do not see how a war
of great sacrifices can be escaped now,
although they have some faint hope or
the success of mediation, to which Mr.
Wilson turned as a last resort.
For these reasons the American
people feel no enthusiasm for another
war with Mexico, and there is no 'soul
stirring" issue in it for them, however
the Mexicans may feel about it aa
prospective defenders of their country.
It may be added that the average Amer
can does not see why the United States
should engage in an altruistic war of
service to Mexico and Mexicans that
might cost the United States thousands
of the lives of her citizens and would
certainly cost American taxpayers hun
dreds of millions of dollars, when tho
country is not in a prosperous condi
tion and needs rest and opportunities
for industrial restoration.
PHOTOPLAY THEATER
At this theater to-day a brand new
feature in three acts will be shown,
entitled "The Range War," whicli
means a picture of Western life full
of cowboys and horses, thrilling es
capes, etc. This picture is a wonder
in the way it is photographed and tha
way it is worked. "A Meddler Witli
I Fate" is a two-reel Pathe picture
i which has the reputation of being very
good. "Gelligan's Accident Policy" anil
"Maniacs Three" create all the fun ana
amusement at the theater to-day.—Ad
vertisement.