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WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNK 3
ONI/V QUESTION OF MAJORITY
THERE exists among the Repub
lican district leaders here to-day
for the meeting of the State
committee a degree of confi
dence in party success at the polls
next Fall such as has not been mani
fest for a decade. In the opinion of
every one of them It is all a question
of how big the majority will be.
This is not the over-confidence or
false optimism. In every quarter of the
State the candidates nominated at the
May primaries made wonderful runs.
3n many cases they polled twice and
three times as many votes as the
combined vote of the Democratic can
didates, although there was every at
tempt to get out the Democratic vote
hy the opposing candidates and little
effort put forth by the Republicans.
' The splendid showing of Senator
Penrose and Dr. Brumbaugh are
etraws in the wind. Their vote in the
country districts was quite as remark
able as that In the cities, where the
Penrose strength especially was sup
posed to lie. The Democratic nomi
nees are candidates of a faction and
the primary fight has put them into
hopeless plight. Then, too, they fear
the stamp of President Wilson and
as the "White House twins" they will
not cut a very large figure in a State
where the people realize that the hard
times they are now suffering are di
rectly traceable to the meddling and
the blundering of the Wilson Adminis
tration.
There are those who pretend to see
In Colonel Roosevelt a grave factor
In the political situation in Pennsyl
vania next Fall, t>ut Roosevelt plead
ing for votes for Roosevelt and Roose
velt asking Pennsylvania to support
Plnehot, the "occasional visitor," and
Lewis, as great a theorist as President
Wilson himself and about as efficient
in practical government, are not the
same. Nobody denies that Roosevelt
as a candidate for President could at
this time cause considerable stir in
this State, but there is no indication
that the voters are going to get very
much excited over him in the contest
'now pending. The most that he can
do will be to make the campaign a
ilittle hotter and possibly cut a little
►into the Republican majority.
The whole future of Republicanism
!5n Pennsylvania is rosy w'th hope and
■the best sign of the times Is the
universal optimism of the district
leaders and State committeemen —the
men who come Into every day touch
•with the mass of the voters, who know
•what the trend of sentiment is far in
advance of any election and who one
and all now predict an old-fashioned
Republican victory in November.
Arthur Ingersoll Hoe asserts in a court
trial that a young woman who has sued
him for breach of promise Beared him
into big gifts of money. He declared,
however, that the costly friendship
was marked by strict propriety, and in
timates that he was a good Samaritan.
This seems to be another of those
psychological affairs.
GREAT PAVING WORK v
THE action of Steelton council
the other evening, asking the
State Highway Department for
aid in paving the road between
Steelton and Highspire, will result in
a continuously paved street from
Highspire to Rockville, a distance of
more than eleven miles.
When the condition of the River
Road and the highway between Har
risburg and Mlddletown a few years
ago is considered, this Is indeed a re
markable achievement. Harrisburg
pet the pace in tho fnatter of good
dtreets and Steelton was not slow to
follow. The result is that while Har
risburg has more streets paved than
any .other city of its size in the coun
try, having now a yardage of con
siderably over a million, Steelton is
Ithe best paved borough in the United
;Btates. Like Harrisburg, it is anxious
for more and will not be content
rAintli It ha* been connected by paved
(thoroughfares with every other near
ly town with which It does business.
Penbrook's council also has taken
a step in the direction of betten streets
,by -asking for State aid in the im
i provement of the main street through
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that town. The granting of this peti
tion will make possible another con
necting link in the chain of good high
ways about the city.
The remarkable sentiment for pav
ed streets that at present exists in
Harrisburg has resulted in the use of
every penny available for the paving
of intersections and the big program
of street work has been held up on
that account. It may be possible that
a paving loan will have to be asked
next Fall in order to gratify the con
stant demands that cannot now be
met.
THE ROTARY CLUB
THE Harrisburg Rotary Club,
which last evening closed the
third year of a very successful
career, occupies a useful place 1
in the life of the city. .Made up of
many of the "live wires" of the busi
ness community and bringing to
gether every two weeks men who
otherwise might never learn to know
each other, it makes for better and
harmonious trade conditions In Har
risbuix. The club has a higher Ideal
than that of mere sociability, how
ever, and it is apparently trying as
best it knows to live up to its motto—
which, by the way, is the new «.nd
prevailing idea in modern business—
"He profits most who serves best."
The organization, under the direc
tion of President John S. Musser, with
the assistance of Secretary Howard
C. Fry, has had a remarkably pros
perous year and the election of Wil
liam S. Essick to head the club dur
ing the coming twelve months assures
its conduct along dignified and pro
gressive lines.
The club has stepped out of its
ordinary activities to take up several
tax reforms advocated by City So
licitor Daniel S. Seitz, of Harrisburg,
and the solicitors of the other third
class cities of Pennsylvania and has
other matters of public importance
under consideration, one of them the
publication, at an expense of some
$1,200, of a Harrisburg number of
The Kotarian, a magazine with an
international circulation and which
goes into the hands of live business
men the world over.
Kooseveit's declaration that the pinch
of poverty is felt In many a household
and that "we cannot ignore the condi
tions which have brought about this
state of things," and his further state
ment that "the (<oßt of living has not
been reduced," have caused consterna
tion in the camp of the psychological
theorists at Washington. Those thou
sands of working men who insisted two
years ago upon a change, and who were
induced, to believe that the Democratic
party would reduce the high cost of liv
ing,' are going to bring about another
change in November which will rele
gate the theorists who are now mis
managing the Government to places
where they will do less harm to the
welfare of the country.
A QUESTION OF DIVISION
THAT Is a frank and truthful
statement which the esteemed
Philadelphia Record makes with
respect to the Democratic party
when it says that the party which it
represents is in Pennsylvania a mi
nority party. "Its only hope of suc
cess this year," says the Record, "lies
in the division of the Republican
voters and there will be little to this
hope if there shall be a continuation
of the recent factional difficulties among
the Democratic voters of the State."
That is the whole story. Unless
there shall be a division in the Re
publican vote at the November' elec
tion, Palmer and McCormick, the
White House twins, will have no hope
whatever. And scores of thoughtful
Democrats are going to act at the
psychological moment next November
when they will vote the Republican
ticket and end the clairvoyancy of the
Wilson administration.
During consideration of the pro
posed change in our municipal govern
ment the people of Harrisburg were
told which much unction how western
cities that had adopted the commission
form were waxing prosperous and giv
ing the older and effete cities of the
east cards and spades in every form of
betterment. One after another the roses
are fading. The town of Pueblo, in
Colorado, has just issued a call for an
election on June 30 to try to over
throw the commission form of govern
ment and return to the old system.
What this country needs more than
anything else Just now is a surcease of
experiment and a deluge of common
sense in all our governmental activi
ties.
SCRANTON'S VISION
SCRANTON has raised one million
dollars to capitalize what is to be
known as the Scranton Industrial
Development Company. This fund
is to be used in attracting new indus
tries and aiding old ones.
It is just as important to encourage
the industries we have as to bring
others here, but it ought to be the
business of every public-spirited citi
zen of Harrisburg to do everything
wtihln his power to increase the legiti
mate industrial and commercial activl.
ties of this community.
The Scranton Times, discussing the
new industrial movement in that city,
says "whatever benefits the city of
Scranton benefits every citizen." That
is an absolutely sound proposition and
Harrisburg has been moving along
those lines for several years. No city
can be improved without improving
the condition of every person living
in it.
Let us hope that no psychological
obstacle will prevent the erection of
the union freight station this year.
Harrisburg business men have waited
long and patiently for proper freight
facilities and even psychology should
not further delay this Important pro
ject.
Wilkes-Barre also liaß a city planning,
commission and goes Harrisburg one
better with an art Jury. What this
city needs more than an art Jury Is
some authority that will prevent a lot
of tree butchers destroying the fine
shade trees that are disappearing in
many sections of the city under the
saw and axe of Individuals who whack
down everything In sight upon the
theory that they know what they are
about. Worst of all, they are paid for
.doluff It.
FEVENiNG CHAD
Dr. Joseph Kalbfus, secretary of the
State Game Commission, says that it
is the intention to fight the case in
behalf of the federal regulations
against killing migratory birds to the
highest courts. "The decision of a
southern Judge that the federal regu
lations do not stand will be contested
in the highest courts," said he. "X
understand that people who are inter
ested in saving our birds are going to
appeal the case. This law will mean
much in years to come. Here in Penn
sylvania it works a hardship upon
many people who like to go duck
hunting, but they will be repaid in
years to come when the wild fowl get
a chance to multiply. At first there
was a good bit of objection voiced to
the action of Uncle Sam in stepping
in and setting aside our laws, but the
gunners of Pennsylvania have seen
what it means and have accepted. It
is very much to their credit that the
sportsmen have not only obeyed the
law. but aided in every way its en
forcement."
Speaking of game, it is probable
that the next Legislature will be asked
to repeal the law which made a closed
season on wild turkeys for two years.
This law was passed last year and
signed because there were districts in
which the famous game bird, the one
that gives a sportsman a run for his
money every iime, was in danger of
being wiped out. The birds seem to
know that they are protected now and
there are many to be found in the
central counties. In some districts In
Perry, Fulton and other counties the
gobblers are audaciously tame.
"I'm rather surprised at the number
of people who visit the State Capitol
these days, especially the people from
the country districts," said one of the
veteran officers at the Capitol yester
day. '"You see, in many counties the
farmers are away behind fn their
work, due to the late season, and some
have their families in the fields and
orchards helping with the cultivating.
Yet. It seems as though Just as many
country people as ever come here day
after day. I have noticed a number of
the good old county Men
noniteffhere. So I guess that farming
Is doing pretty well after all."
"How's the crop of brides and
grooms?"
"About five pairs a day. But that
wilt increase soon," was the answer.
"I think Erie is a great town for a
convention. 1 have attended many
gatherings of the Templars in Penn
sylvania, but I do not know when I
enjoyed my stay as much in anv place
as 1 did in Erie," said the Rev. Dr.
M. D. Lichleiter. eminent commander
of Pilgrim Commanders'.
Among visitors to the fcity to-dav
was Senator James A. Miller, of New
Tripoli, Lehigh county. The senator
is a Democrat and was renominated
after a battle in his countv. He says
frankly that judicious publicity did it.
Incidentally, it saved many another
man during the primary battle.
(feorge Stuart Patterson, here yes
terday as counsel for the Pennsylvania
Railroad, is a son of C. Stuart Patter
son, for many years the head of the
legal department of the road. Mr.
Patterson has handled most, of the
Pennsylvania's interests before the
Public Service Commission since the
commission came into being.
A good story is going the rounds
about the manner in which the crate
containing the performing dogs which
held forth at Paxtang Park last week
was smashed. The crate, containing
five highly trained, almost intelligent,
highly valued, dogs, was on the. front
end of a trolley gar and was jolted off
on the Incline in the Paxtang subway.
Another car came along just then and
bumped it back against the first car.
It was banged a few more times and
then went to pieces. About that time
the owner of the dogs had frantically
climbed from the car and hurried
around the end, expecting to see his
pets ground into mincemeat. Instead
the dogs made a bee-line for him and
began to jump up to show their joy.
There was not a scratch on them.
Two little cycle cars from Illinois
came into town the other evening after
a no-stop run from Chambersburg to
the West Shore, where they were com
pelled to shut down their engines for
a half-minute and thereby spoiled
what would otherwise have been a
splendid record. They hailed from a
suburb of Chicago and contained four
young men who are taking a two
months' vacation in the little cars and
who will go up through New York,
New England and a part of Canada
before returning home.
I WELL KNOWN PEOPLE 1
—Edward M. Young, the Allentown
banker, won a prize with his four
black stallions in the work horse pa
rade in his city.
—The Rev. George Tnnes, cf Phila
delphia, has been made secretary of
the United Presbyterian committee's
university fund.
—Jud£o W. C. Ryan, of Bucks
county, well-known here, refused the
licenses of four hotels against which
remonstrances had been filed.
—George C. Brooke, the Philadel
phia athlete, has returned from Cali
fornia.
—Edward 1... Cochrane, of Chester,
has taken second honors at Anna
polis.
—Councilman G. A. Dillinger, of
Pittsburgh, has been appointed an
assistant surgeon of the National
Guard.
POLITICAL SIDEUGRTsn
—The United Democracy does not
appear to be around.
—Democratic candidates had r fine
time exhibiting themselves to-day.
—The figures indicate that the ma
chine did not have it all its own way.
—Fred T. McDonald was re-elected
chairman of Chester Republicans.
—Palmer and Morris are impressive
when sitting as a patronage court.
—Trouble began as soon as "Billy"
Brennan arrived among the Demo
crats. «
—To-morrow the Bull Moosers will
have an era of speechmaking.
—For a man who has dropped pat
ronage problems Palmer seems to be
pretty busy with them.
LINDSEY AND THE RECALL
[From the New York Sun.]
For once the recall seems to have a
legitimate occasion. There is a move
ment on foot headed by the Law and
Order League, of Denver, to apply it to
Judge Ben B. Lindsey, who is keeping
in tne very center of the limelglht with
the help of the Colorado mine troubles.
As the attempt to punish the Judge has
no reference to any judicial act, but
rather to an abuse of the judicial
dignity and a violation of judicial obli
gation by arraying himself on the side
of illegality and disorder, even those
who are opposed to the recall on prin
ciple can regard this Instance with
equanimity as a sort of poetic justice:
the demagogic idea turned on the dema
gogue.
Business Locals
A SMART BOOT
Whether you want them to stand
or walk in, to dance in or talk in, wo
have faultless footwear for all occa
sions, but you never wore a more
handsome, graceful hoot with your
white summer gowns than our genu
ine white buckskin pumps with Ivory
soles, at sfi. Jerauld Shoe Company.
i3lO Market street.
OFFICIAL COUNT
BEING HELD UP
Three Counties' Figures Had Not
Been Received in Time For
State Committees Today
PALMER HOLDING COURT
Hears Pleas For Appointments
From State Committeemen; j
Congressional Figures
As in 1913, the official count of the
votes cast at the primary is not avail
able when the State committees meet
because of failure of counties to com
plete their counts on time. The re
turns'of three counties were still miss,
ng when the ligues were totaled at
the Capitol this morning and while
Philadelphia, Allegheny and Luzerne
may have their papers on ille by to
night the results are already estab
lished.
With the three largest counties to
hear from the results appear to be
about as follows:
Senator—Penrose. 95,179; Dimmick,
66,166; Palmer, 98,1 96; Budd, 46,987.
Governor Brumbaugh, 113,357;
McCormick, 94,322; Ryan, 59,209.
Supreme Court lJunkel, 71,166;
Endlich, 63,527; Frazer, 51,540.
Superior Court Trexler, 123,729;
Clark, 65,787; Fuller, 43,734; Prather,
37,790.
Patronage intruded on the peace of
the Democratic State bosses almost as
local option last evening and Congress
man Palmer and State
Chairman Morris werg
Job Hunting; busy hearing pleas for
Dig Thins: appointments. Many of
During Eve the men who came
here for to-day's meet
ings did not come to
hear the speeches of the candidates,
but to see about their chances for post
offices and other spoils of office in
return for what they did last month.
Western Pennsylvania committeemen
got Palmer and Morris into a room
and made eloquent speeches in behalf
of W. H. S. Thomson, of Pittsburgh,
for United States judge. Palmer said
he was impressed. While this was
going on Eugene C. Bonniwell was
holding down the fort in the Bolton
and defying the State machine.
The plan of the Democratic State
bosses is to not only retain the plan
of having nine division chairmen, but
to go it a few better.
Like a good many
other things which tho New District
present bosses used to Plan Will
denounce in the days Ise Ordered
oi me (iuffey control,
they have found the
division plan to be a good one. How
ever, in order to take away any ap
pearance of retaining any of the old
machinery and probably to make it
run a bit more smoothly the committee
will to-day be informed by State Chair
man Morris that there will be eleven
or thirteen districts created. It is said
that Philadelphia will demand one of
the divisions. The Dauphin division,
over which Candidate McCormick pre
sides, will probably be little changed,
as the Little Boss wants to have
things all his own way.
One of the most Interesting of the
campaign expense accounts filed at
the Capitol was that of the Cumber
land county Palmer-
McCormick committee,
j Cumberland This committee was run
Interesting by Fred S. Mumma, as
as Always treasurer. Mumma is a
devoted follower of the
Little Boss and after get
ting S3OO from the convenient Robert
Toland, treasurer of the State com
mittee of the Palmer-McCormick ma
chine, he passed the hat among friends
and neighbors, including Doc Dough
erty, and got S3BO more. The com
mittee spent $684. It collected S6BO.
People are wondering if the Cumber
land bud had to bear the extra $4 or
whether the Little Boss sent a check
for the difference.
The figures of the Democratic pri
mary on Congress-at-large have been
estimated at the Democratic State
windmill and by adding
in the unofficial returns
from Philadelphia, Alle- Democratic
gheny and Luzerne there Nominees
is a pretty fair estimate Estimated
of results in hand. It
■shows that the four win
ners were Clark, with 81,785; Bright,
74,313; Caton, 66,593; Crosby, 65,617.
Clark and Crosby are said to be men
who were with the Ryan faction. The
vote of the other candidates is given
as follows; Myers, 59,774; Crilly,
49,433; Shull, 51,797; Powers, 36,425;
Seibert, 41,396; Shirly, 39,688; Taylor,
38,848. Including McNair, who llckea
the machine's candidate for Secretary
of Internal Affairs, the anti-machine
faction has three candidates of the
seven nominated.
Harrisburg people and many who
have taken an interest in politics in
the last # decade will look with atten
tion on developments in
the Blair county Repub-
Hlair's lican affairs this year as
Workers J. Lee Plummer, former
on Job member of the House
from Blair, has been
elected county chairman.
Mr. Plummer was selected without a
disserfting vote to lead the county
committee and has started an aggres
sive campaign in the mountain coun
ty. The committee meeting was a big
event among the Blair Republicans.
Commissioner James Foust and other
prominent men made addresses. The
election of Plymouth W. Snyder, of
Hollidaysburg, as senator is declared
to be sure.
A pretty fair indication of the way
the voters of the State went to the
primary is furnished by the result of
the vote in Allegheny
county, which has just
been counted. At the Allegheny
recent primary elec- Primary an
tion 113,871, or only Indication
about 40. per cent, of
the registered voters,
participated. There are 197,867 reg
istered voters. Of this number 164.-
384 are enrolled as to parties and 33,-
473 are not enrolled. The highest
number of votes cast was for judge of
the Supreme Court, the total in the
county being 83,986. The eight par
ties participating in the primaries
polled a total vote of only 80,347. The
Democrats polled a larger percentage
of their enrolled vote than any other
Party. The Democratic enrollment for
the county is 18,861. The Remocratic
vote at the primary was .10,181, leav
ing 8,680 who did not go to the polls.
The Republican enrolled vote is 126,771.
Their highest vote cast was for United
States Senator, the total being 66 -
614. Of the 10,642 enrolled Washing
ton party electors, only 5,083 partici
pated in the primary. The Socialist
enrolled vote Is 7,035 and the highest
vote cast by their party was 2,059.
AN EVENING THOUGHT
We must all be content to re
main ignorant ot muny things.
David Starr Jordan. (
[ OUR DAILY LAUGH J
All the Some Not a Prise
"Do you think a Daddy No.
fellow ought to >'er mother never
kiss a girl before dressed the way
he's engaged to you girls do to
iler?" day to catch a
"Well not till husband,
he's engaged to Daughter—Yes|,
! her or some other but look at what
girl." she got.
H's Argument Didn't Minn Any-
Mr. Greene—So thing
you put In a good He Did you
word for me to see the whole
your sister? game to-day?
. Willie - Yes, I She No, but
told her I thought I saw all the im
you'd make a gen- portant parts. I
erous brother in- go there in the
law - ninth inning, but
not a run had been
made up to that
time.
SEND US A COP
Hy Wing Dinger
From a friend, who lives In Park
street.
Came a note to-day to me,
Saying that he and his family
Would the cops' suits like to see.
"But it's not an easy matter,"
His note then goes on to say,
"For my folks to come in town, and
Cops ne'er come out our way.
"Every night, In fear and trembling,
Wet get on our knees and pray
That our house and all Its contents
Won't be swiped ere break of day.
| "Then we place beneath our pillows
A six-shooter, loaded tight,
And prepare to be our own cops
If a thief gets gay that night.
"But we'd surely like to see those
Brand new suits we helped to buy.
Won't you ask the Chief to send a
Sample cop out to walk by?"
DISASTER. INVITES PHII.OSOPHY
[From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.]
The appeal of President Wilson to
psychology recalls the remark that
philosophy Is the last resort of those
in trouble. When everything is as we
wish, with disease held at bay and
death hidden by dim distance; with
Fortune bountiful and our environment
to our liking, wo rarely philosophize.
It is when disaster dogs our best
efforts and the irony of uninvited de
feat eats into our souls that we cast
about for some intangible and inscrut
able cause of our miserable estate.
Success never needs to be ex
plained; victory needs no elucidating
or extenuating commentary. If the
measures of the Democratic Adminis
tration had set every wheel turning in
every mill, every chimney belching on
every factory, every builder busy in
every community, our scholarly Presi
dent might have allowed psychology
to have hobnobbed In peace with
astrology and necromancy.
«HOLD FAST YOUR
PURSE STRINGS
When you're clothes buying let
economy rule, not false but careful
economy economy that is as
averse to paying too little as it is to
paying too much that demands
in every event a full return for every
dollar invested.
Copyright 1914 Kuppenheimer
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If your standards are as high as they ought to be you'll have no fault to
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M _JQLH»I]L_
TH* feller thet comes a
vißitin, when I'm busy
an* sets fr a spell,
might jest as well
put his hand in my
pocket an* take mon
ey outer it—'r else
time ain't money.
:
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Landing Troop* #
[From the Telegraph of June 3, 1861.J
Washington, June 2. Troops were
still being landed at Port Royal as late
as Sunday and Monday last. These
troops will no doubt march overland to
Grant's support there.
Attack llutler
Fortress Monroe, June 2. The
steamer John A. Warner, from Ber
muda Hundred, which she left at 4
o'clock p. m., yesterday, brings the fol
lowing report: At 2 o'clock the enemy
attacked General Butler's left wing and
a spirited fight with musketry and
artillery was kept up till 9 o clock,
when the enemy were again repulsed.
DID YOIII
Did you give him a lift? He's a brother
of man.
And bearing about all the burden he
can.
Did you give him a smile? He was
downcast and blue,
And the smile would have helped him
to battle it through.
Did you give him your hand? He was
slipping down hill,
And the world, BO I fancied, was using
him ill.
Did you give him a word? Did you
show him the road,
Or did you just let him go on with
his load?
D o you know what it means to be
losing the fight,
When a lift just in time might set
everything right?
Do you know what it means —just a
clasp of a hand—
When a man's borne about all a man
ought to stand?
Did you ask what it was—why the
quivering lip?
Why the half-suppressed sob, and the
scaldingtears drip?
Were you brother of his when the time
came of need?
Did you offer to help him, or didn't you
heed?—Tit-Bits.
LEGISLATION AGAINST TIPPING
[From the Lebanon lieport.]
The Canadian Parliament is passing
a bill imposing a fine of SIOO for giving
or receiving a tip, or permitting an
j employe to receive one. If this law
! works well, there will be a move to
[ place it on the statute books of our
| States. The Canadians are more tract-
I able and phlegmatic, and take more
kindly to State regulation than do our
people. But our tipping system causes
intense Irritation, and is a heavy tax
on salesmen and others whose business
requires constant travel. An unenforced
law is not merely dead wood, but it
tends to make a joke of all law. It will
not be the least use to enact statutes
against tipping unless the American
people really mean to end the prac
tice.
IN HARRIS BURG FIFTY
YEARS AGO TO-DAY
[From the Telegraph of June 3, 1864.]
Bank Stockholder* Meet
There will be a meeting of the stock
holders of the Harrisburg Bank on the
sth of July, for the consideration of Im
portant business.
Knlarice Capitol
The time for receiving plans and pro
posals for the erection of the extension
of the Capitol buildings will close on
the 15th inst. The Governor and other
State officers have the matter ill
charge.
PUBLIC ALSO PEEVED
[Philadelphia Bulletin.]
The State Department at Washington
is reported to be "real peeved" at the
action of the captain of the German
steamer Ypiranga in quietly landing his
cargo of war supplies for Huerta, after
wo had sent a battleship fleet and
taken Vera Cruz at a sacrifice of nine
teen lives to prevent such succor of our
beleaguered enemy. The public also is
beginning to get somewhat "peevish"
over the incident and the whole Mexi
can situation, and the continual watch
ing and waiting, and backing and fill
ing, on the part of the Administration
is getting on the national nerves and
threatens an outburst which may eomo
as a result of some minor incident.
GIVE THE VOTERS A CHANCE
1 From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.]
The President is right. There is noth
ing more dangerous for business than
uncertainty. Even annihilation, if cer
tain, is sometimes preferable. "But,"
the President says, "the conscience of
the country must be satisfied." Can it
be that he has mistaken a spirit of
vengeance for conscience? Thero ' is
more of the former than the latter in
Uie bills now before Congress.
Business needs a rest. It has been
goaded and buffeted about until it Is
as timid as a rabbit. If the President
thinks radicalism is growing and that
this legislation is requisite to ward it
off, let him postpone action until the
next session and observe how his be
lief will be vetoed by the people in
November.
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