12 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH SttabUihed iljt m . PUBLISHED BY THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING K. J. STACK POLE. Pres't and Trems'r. F. R. OTBTER, Secretary. OUB M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. Published every evening (except Sun day), at the Telegraph Building. 21* Federal Square. Xaatern Office, Fifth Avenue Building. New York fcity, Hasbrook, Story A Brooks. •Western Office, 123 West M ad . ,son street. Chicago, 111.. Allen & Ward. Delivered by carriers at •■fffflhgflfr'-- six cents a week. Mailed to subscriber* at SI.OO a year in advance. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg as second class matter. ®Tbn Association of Amnr ican Advertisers has ex- / a mined and certified to i the eircalatioß of thU pub- i ' i Mention. The figures of circulation i l contained in the Association's re* , I port only are guaranteed. <; Association ef American Advertisers ; > j, No. 2333 Whitehall Bld|. N. T. City i| Sworn dally average for the month of May, 1914 & 24,402 Average for the yesr 1013—21,577 Average for the yenr 1812—21,175 Average for the year 1011—18,851 Average for the year 1910—17,405 TELEPHONES i Bell Private Branch Exchange No. 2040. United Business Office. 203. Editorial Room 586. Job Dept. JOB. FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 5 PLATFORM MAKING WHILE the several committees of the different political or ganizations in this State have been reaching into the clouds for alleged principles It has apparent ly not occurred to any of them to consider whether it might not be wise for some party to suggest a getting back to solid ground for the benefit of the people. It would appear from the reading of the several platforms already promulgated that the whole purpose and thought of those respon sible for these deliverances is the catching of votes Instead of-the fur therance of practical reform. Each party is endeavoring to outdo the other In radical proposals, but the manipulators and phrase-makers are likely to be rudely awakened one of these days to the fact that most of the people are not going to be so easily gulled hereafter as during the last year or two. We trust that the Republican plat form-makers will resist the tempta tion to place before the people the Billy pronouncements which are too often put out for effect and with no thought of substantial reform. The people should be given a square deal Jn these party deliverances and unless Jt Is the purpose to write Into the laws the things which are flaunted for campaign uses the planks had better be omitted entirely. However, It is not going to be so easy to flimflam voters in the future as in the past. They have had a lesson in theoreti cal government and want no more of the legislative nostrums which have teen so generously provided by the phsycological and insincere statesmen ■who are endeavoring to hold their] Jobs by throwing dust in the eyes of the people. As an illustration, Palmer and Mc- McCormick, the White House twins, are shaking their rattles and cooing over the Wilson toys, while the Wash ington party nominees, Pinchot and Lewis, are ecstatically shouting the praises of Colonel Roosevelt and'sing ing the song of the recall of judicial decisions and all the other light and airy proposals of the third party. It were better for the Republican party to advocate a return to the solid ground of reasonable legislation and sensible government than to emulate tho radical course of the other politi cal parties. Better defeat on such a platform than temporary victory on the basis of insincere appeal to the thoughtless and ignorant. Wo believe the Republican party to-day has a great responsibility rest ing upon it. It must be as in the paßt the bulwark of our national in stitutions and the prosperity of the people. Its great history of achieve ment must not be marred by any imi tation of the claptrap of political op portunists who are rushing ahead without regard to the welfare of the nation, and WHO are as insincere as they are impractical. Representative Mann, the Republican leader In Congress, hit the nail on the head when he said, the other day, that the return of the Republican voters to the Republican party was going on rap idly, In spite of the few leaders who would soon be without followers. That Is exactly the case in Pennsylvania. Re publicans are coming back Into line In regiments and brigades, and those who ere striving to keep up the division In the party are going to find themselves In a lonesome minority before the au tumn comes again. FREE SPEECH JUSTICE ARTHUR S. TOMPKINS, in charging a jury at White Plains, declared that the constitutional right of free speech did not give professional agitators who were un willing to work the right to Incite people on the street to violate the law and,create disorder. "If such agitators wish-to talk," he said, "they must hire a hall. No one han a right to speak In the street with out auch a permit as the local authori ties require." Gradually the courts and the people tore coming Into agreement on the question of noisy demagogues who liave assumed for their own purposes Jthat the Constitution was designed to #>rotect those whose chief thought has FRIDAY EVENING, HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH JUNE 5, 1914. been the breaking down of all law and the destruction of order. It Is just as Important to the most humble citi zen as to, the multi-millionaire that every citizen shall be protected in life, liberty and the pursuit, of happiness. Colonel Roosevelt was evidently | somewhat annoyed when he wrote to Chairman Detrlch, of the Washington party State committee, that he would come Into Pennsylvania and "take all the part I can in the campaign." Hav ing been urged over and over again to do this, he added: "This has been an nounced by me publicly again and again." Sounds like the rebuke of one who has been nagged by little men. A THEORETICAL PRESIDENT RESIDENT WILSON and his P apologists are now trying to ex cuse themselves for the constant battering of the business o£ the country by the Administration with the general statement that legitimate business has nothing to fear; that the only purpose of the Administration is to drive out crooked business. This sort of generalization may do for those who want to be deceived, but all that the honest inquirer need do to dis cover the real situation is to confer with any businessman or manufacturer and learn the truth. No complaint is uttered against leg islation directed against unlawful practices of any sort, but the Wilson Administration Is obsessed with the idea that business shall be conducted according to the Wilsonian theories without regard to results. One appeal after another has been made to stop the tirade on business at Washington without avail. Only last week the President again gave a rep resentative body of manufacturers to understand that his legislative pro gram would go on; that he realized there was a business depression, but that better times are ahead. He In timated that present conditions were largely a "state of mind." Nor was that all. He denied that thousands of American workingmen are out of employment and declared there was no substantial reason why business should not be at the present moment in a most prosperous and expanding condition. So it goes. The French banker who arrived at New York this week and characterized the President as a "pro pounder of splendid theories" has properly sized up the head of the pres ent remarkable administration. Idle men only imagine they are out of em ployment. Industrial plants must be going at full capacity because the President says they should be busy. Tariff receipts are falling off by the millions, but while the mills and fac tories of the United States are closing we must not forget that the New Free dom Is distributing prosperity beyond the seas at tho expense of the American manufacturer and the American work lngman. Accprdlng to President Wil son, however, you must just imagine that you have a job, when you are Idle, and the job will be there. He doesn't say anything about the pay roll. "KNEE-DEEP IN JUNE" WHO will dare attempt a pane gyric to June In the face of all the wonderful things that poets have sung from Spencer on down? No well-conducted state ment about the month of roses would be complete without this one: "And what is so rare as a day in June; then, if ever come perfect days." The beauty of those lines can't be marred by repetition. They remain forever true, at least as long as our climate lasts. Learn that the,y are true by getting out this month as much as you pos sibly can in the open. Fill your lungs wtih this ozone-laden atmosphere. Wado in the rich sunshine. Walk and walk and walk —and when you get alone on a country road and nobody's looking—do a little run; or, taking o ft the patent leathers that the unearned increment has enabled you to sport, tip those city-sore feet In the babbling brooks. But even If you can't get away from the town for a while yet, there is nothing to prevent you from enjoying June weather right where you are. Get out in it. As more than $90,000 of the $200,000 appropriation for the payment of the mothers' pensions has reverted to the general revenues of the Commonwealth through failure to take advantage of the provisions of the act. It would seem that there was no such demand for this legislation as was represented during the session of the Legislature of 1913. Many of the counties are waiting to see how tho plan works out where It has been adopted, which may explain the comparatively small amount of the appropriation that was used. PLAYGROUNDS COMMISSIONER TAYLOR dis plays wisdom in early taking up tho matter of small playgrounds for the various sections of the city. The ground available will never] be cheaper than at present and the city Is protected from possible at tempts at price inflation by the right of eminent domain, which it may in voke In such instances. The big need of the Harrisburg park system is more and permanent public playgrounds. The Park Board that retired with the Installation of the commission form of government did wonders in this respect with very lim ited means. It had no money for the purchase of playground sites, It procured the use of land here and there on which the work was carried along. This proved unsatisfactory because the rapid building up of the city kept 1 constantly encroaching on the leased property. The park loan approved ' last Fall gives the city the where withal to make the necessary pur chases, and those in charge are wisely 1 losing no time in procuring title to ' desirable 'plots that any day might be lost to the people as play places through the activities of real estate developers. Back to the farm may not always mean profit and Increase of the bank account, but the dividends In health and comfort more than equal the cost of experimental agriculture. I EVENING CHAT 1 "What a great leveler the dining room Is." remarked a man who has been observing the passing show for many years in and about the state's capital city, its public buildings and its hotels, highways and byways. "I have noticed that under the soothing i Influences of food men forget anlinosl- ' ties and become almost cordial. Take Wednesday evening, for instance. I dropped In at one of the hotels to get some dinner and found between the four walls the leaders of the three big parties in this state. At one table was William Flinn, Dean Lewis, Gilford Pinchot and some others. At another ■ Mitchell Palmer, Vance McCormick a ?iT " Farm er" Creasy. At still an other State Chairman Crow and some Republican chiefs. They were all smiling at each other and passing re marks back and forth. Pinchot ap peared to be on good terms with Pal- J n ® r and was flitting back and forth talking to him. Some of the others were interchanging views; "Farmer" Creasy was having a fine time with political foes. Jt was only for half an hour, but the men who are on the battle lines forgot it and became human. And one of the significant things about it was that I did not see a drink on any table." Gifford Plnchot's determination to make the campaign last from now until November, or, as he put it yes terday, "from when It started until it ends." is not take nvery kindly by some of the men on the other side. Pinchot is one of those long, lean men who is made for a hard race and ap pears to be enjoying getting around as a mixer. Dean Lewis is not much for that sort of game and seems disposed to let the forester have all the travel ing he desires. Last evening some of the Bull Moosers were talking about the proposition to keep the campaign going despite Palmer's suggestion that it be left until the fall and the inti mation that the Republicans are not going to get excited and rush out be cause Pinchot is steaming around. "I tell you," said a field marshal of the Washingtonians, "Pinchot's going out and we're going to take some of the fat off Palmer and maybe Penrose too. They'll have to get out too. Watch 'em." "There's General Carranza," said a man as he walked across Market Square yesterday afternoon. And sure enough, there was the keen face, the peculiar whiskers, the eyeglasses and the other marks that are familiar be cause of pictures of the Mexican "first chief." The man was garbed in a frock coat, cut loose, and wore a wide hat. He looked for all the world like the newspaper pictures of Carranza. But it happened that he was John W. Blake, the "Pennsylvania Blacksmith," of Altoona. Mr. Blake started In to break into state politics a few years ago. He ran a first heat a couple of times as a Republican and then joined the Bull Moosers. Now he's an ardent follower of the Colonel and attends all meets. They let him speak in the 1912 convention, when he wanted to be congressman-at-largo, but not since. Among visitors to the city yesterday was Ezra Stolteuss, of Gap, Pa., who has been taking an interest in the politics of the state for years. He is a farmer of Lancaster county's richest portion and a member of a sect which wears distinctive garb. For years he attended Republican state conventions and when the Bull Moose came over the hills he joined. He attracted much attention when he attended meetings on road laws last winter on Capitol Hill and never missed a word of the speeches yesterday. State officials have been getting after bogus "cure" men in tho orchard and in the barnyard and some tall "show ing up" has been going on lately. For instance. Dr. Surface has shown that some of the tree doctors are frauds and recently displayed to the public the chicanery of a man who said that his "cure" had to be inserted in a tree with a drill having a three-flfths-inch bit. Lately the State Veterinarian's department turned up some hog cholera men who are not In favor in other States. William Flinn took a walk about the city yesterday after the Washington state committee had adjourned and looked the city over. Flinn likes Har risburg and takes a big interest in It, having once had an idea of putting up a big hotel here. Yesterday he asked how the new hotel project was coming on and was informed that there was nothing doing yet. "Why don't you do something?" was asked. ',' Oh, I've got a contract to put four tunnels under the East river at New York just now," ho replied. ( WELL KNOWN PEOPLE"! —Congressman W. D. B. Ainey, of Montrose, will take a trip to Japan. —Judge G. S. Crlswell, of Venango, has been making speeches In favor of good roads. R* McGlll, of Sharon, was elected chairman of a meeting of bankers of seven Western Pennsylva nia groups which met In Ills city. —The Rev. David Berkey, of Johns town, has been chosen as president of the big Cambria county Sabbath school convention. • —George Dallas Dixon, the Phila delphia lawyer, has gone to Virginia for a short rest. —The Rev. J, A. Haas, of Allen town, who opened the Evangelical Lu theran ministerium, is one of the prominent educators of the state. I I.ETTERSTOTHEEDITQR 1 NEEDED REST TIME To the Editor of The Telegraph: This June month is the season that the school "klddos" enjoy most. Par ents feel sinc.erely grateful to George W. Kennedy, the school director who I instituted the custom of one session [the last month of each school year It has been of inestimable value Teachers use it as an incentive or spur for thorough wor«k all year. Then too, many a tired child Is able to finish the term well who otherwise would be absent to rest occasionally. READER. 1 POLITICAL SIDELIGHTS —Money still talks In politics. —Wonder how some of the Demo crats like being valued at 30 cents. —lt will not be many years until people will be wondering why they bothered with such primary laws. —Schuylkill congressional candi dates spent $6,000. Lee spent $2,100. —"A peaceful twilight" appears to be bound to stick to the Democrats. —Dan Hart will go down in history as the jester of the 1914 campaign. —When it comes down to bosses trying audacious tricks in defiance of rights the Palmer-McCormick coterlo has Quay beaten ten miles. —The Prohibition State committee apparently does not intend to be a mere spectator this year. —State Chairman Morris says that • animosities In the Democratic ranks , will soon pass away. So will the ma chine. . —lt must have been with many 1 pleasureable anticipations of the Fall campaign tljat Democrats in various counties read McCormick's expense statement. AX EVENING THOUGHT Tho good of many always de pends u..on the courage and fl i delity of the few.—Lowell. CHOW WILL HUME COMMITTEE SOON Republican State Headquarters, Work Will Be Carried on by the Seaside in July PLANNING THE CAMPAIGN Dr. Brumbaugh Will Get Into the Race Soon After the Schools Are Closed State Chairman William E. Crow will name the committee of eleven to act with the candidates and the State chairman in drafting the platform of the Republicans for this Fall within the next week. It is possible that the committee may be announced on Tuesday. It will be called together very soon after for a preliminary dis cussion. It is the idea to have the draft mailed to every committeeman in ample time before the State com mittee meets on July 15. The com mittee on rules will be named about the same time. Much of the preliminary work of the Republican State campaign will be handled at temporary headquarters at Atlantic City. The work is to be taken up actively and arrangements for speeches at every cross roads by the candidates will be made. Dr. Martin G. Brumbaugh the Re publican candidate for Governor will resign his place at the head of Phila delphia schools soon after the commence ments are held and Brumbaugh prepare himself for Planning the strenuous cam- Campaign palgn. The doctor has been rather closely confined to his home by the illness of Mrs. Brumbaugh. He has been keep ing in close touch with the develop ments of the primary campaign and will throw himself into it with vigor. Dr. Brumbaugh will probably make a number of speeches before the formal opening of the campaign. The Bull Moosers State committee men were given the freedom of the third floor headquarters in Market street last evening and in honor of the visitors Moosers a meeting was held. Hear Two Dean Lewis could not at- Candiriateß tend but Lex N. Mitchell and Arthur R. Rupley, candidates for congress man-at-large, spoke on the issues. The Dauphin Bull Moosers are not a whit discouraged by the less than 1,000 votes polled for Pinchot and propose to show the Democrats that they are not one bit inclined toward Palmer. The co«nty committee will meet on June 12 to talk things over. Senator Penrose will be in New Oxford to-morrow. The Senator has about thirty speaking dates for the next two months. He plans to enter actively into the campaign and will take an active part in the prepara tions. The Pittsburgh Gazette-Times, in its account of the meetings of the Republicans and Democrats, has this to say about platforms: "The Democratic ma chine will have a hard Views on time defending its meth- Platform od of platform making. Building The question now arises whether any but State candidates are bound by its provisions. Brennen takes the position that none but the nine members of the commit tee and the State candidates are ob ligated to support the platform. He says it will have no application to candidates for district congressmen, State Senators and representatives. State Chairman Roland S. Morris says that it is up to the district candidate to decide whether he is bound by the platform. The Republican commit tee by its action to-day has nothing to apologize for in the matter of plat form. It made no effort to build a party declaration at this time, but turned the matter over to a commit tee, fixing a specified time whfen the platform builders must report their work to the full State committee. Be fore the meeting copies of the tenta tive draft must be submitted to every member of the State committee. There is nothing cowardly or evasive in thiß program. Many Democrats to-night are contrasting the Republican action with the untenable position of the Democrats, and admit their party has made a mighty blunder." One of the funniest things in con nection with the meetings of the Democratic and Washington party State committee is the manner in which Democrats each accused the other A<*JIIS«J of of stealing its thunder. Pilfering The Bull Moosers yes terday said that the Democrats have taken over all that the colonel has ever con tended for and the Democrats who remained in town retorted that the Bull Moosers had shown themselves to be Democrats. "These Democrats," commented William Flinn, "are mak ing a great noise over what we of fered to the country. They are a great lot, but I think that folks are on to them." The Democratic State machine henchmen have quit talking about the Flinn machine and frame ups for Washington party meetings after the performance of Wednesday. The Bull Moosers twitted the Demo crats yesterday about their new pat ented steam roller. The political struggle between Con gressman John V. Lesher and former Judge C. R. Savidge, both of Sun bury, for the Democratic nomination for Congress from the sixteenth dis trict, entailed an expense of over $3,- 200, according to the expense ac counts of the candidates filed on Wed nesday at the courthouse. Savidge spent $1,573.39, which was almost one hundred dollars less than his suc cessful rival- The Republican nom inee, Charles H. Robins, of Mt. Car mel, spent only $277.50, according to his report. DESTRUCTIONISTS [From the Philadelphia Inquirer] "We are about to deny the subsidy to the Shipping Trust which was guar anteed by a Republican administration in the exemption of the American coastwise shipping from the payment of tolls through the Panama Canal." —A. Mitchell Palmer. Wrong. He should have said: "We are about to come to the relief of the Trans-continental Railroad Monopoly, which for years fought the construction of the canat an.90 55 Tapestry Brussels Rugs, 8.3x10.6. Regular price $16.50, now > $11.35 65 Tapestry Brussels Rugs, 9x12. Regularly $19.50, now, $12.40 Also special sizes 11.3x12. Regular price $25, now $10,535 24 Best Axminster Rugs, 8.3x10.6. Regular price $26.00, now $10.50 30 Best Axminster Rugs, 9x12. Regular price 32, now $18.50 Also 11.3x12. Regular price $38.00, for $20.50 Baby coaches and sulkies from $2.75 to $.'{5.00 CLOTHING Ladies' suits, worth $38.00, sold for $10.00; S3O suits for $14.00; S2B suits for SIO.OO. Men's suits worth $30.00 for SIO.OO, $25.00 suits for $12.00. Boys' clothing will go at one-half price. Ladies' summer dresses from $4.00 up. B. HANDLER 1212 NORTH THIRD ST. Third or Capital Street Car. for Democratic votes in Pennsylvania. "I knew one man who once paid SIOO,OOO to carry the State and then lost it by more votes than the dollars he had spent. "New Haven stock at S2OO looked cheap when it went to $225, but now at $65 the sum paid seems somewhat excessive. M "We shall know better on the moruff ing of the second Wednesday of No\ vember whether Mr. McCormick Is operating in a bull or bear vote mar ket. If the latter, then that 30 cents will look like a counterfeit nickel." IN HARRIS BURG FIFTY YEARS AGO TO-DAY [From the Telegraph of June 5, 1864.] Seventh V. V, R. Rack The Seventh Pennsylvania Reserves, who marched forth to battle in 1861 with a thousand men, returned to-day with but a little over tlfty. Baptizes Two Yesterday afternoon the Rev. D. A. Laverty, of the Fourth Street Bethel, immersed two persons in the river near North street. Several thousand persons were present to witness the impressive ceremonies. McCORMICK'S EXPENDITURES [From the Philadelphia Inquirer] During the campaign for the Demo cratic nomination for Governor it was alleged that Vance McCormick was expending large sums of money to ob tain that honor. His Democratic op ponents repeated this charge time and again, and now that he has Hied the account of his expenses as required by law it is shown that he spent $33,- 274.70. This Is in marked contrast to the return made by Dr. Brumbaugh, the Republican candidate for Governor. Mr. McCormlck's canvass cost him ten times as much as that of Dr. Brum baugh.