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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<i has ever
since insisted that tolls should be
placed on coastwise shipping in <jr<Jer
that freight rates by water might be
made as.hlgh as possible."
And h'e should have said, had he
wished to be at all accurate, that tne
"Steamship Trust" has been composed
of steamships owned or controlled by
railroads with Atlantic port terminals,
and that In order that such steamships
should not benefit in any way, the law
i prevents them from using the canal.
f OUR DAILY LAUGH I
V r
An Improvement A Talent Trneed
I got a new at- Dauber Is galn
tachment for the lng fame as an
family piano, and exponent of tne
it's a wonderful cubist of art.
Improvement. Where does ne
What is it? get his talent?
A lock and key. His mother used
to be a prize
crazyqullt maker.
BOSSISM
By AVlng Dinger
Bosslsm, what an awful thing
You were, so we were told
Some months ago when warriors went
Forth to conventions bold.
If memory serves me right, you were
By Democrats decried.
Because the roller was by you
Relentlessly applied.
But now how different you appear;
You're not the same old boy
That once you woro when you were in
Republican employ.
You hired your roller out this week
To certain Democrats.
Who in the State committee used
It much like autocrats.
The "People's Voice" you've stilled for
good,
And by your power "Might"
—No matter how dead wrong it's been —
Hereafter will be right.
COLONEL. GRIER PROTESTS
[From the Columbia Independent.]
Washington was excited last week
and the Democratic leaders were
astounded because the President had
refused an invitation to take part in
the Memorial Day exercises, at Ar
lington, especially in view of the fact
that he had accepted a call to deliver
an address there, four days later, on
the occasion of tho exercises to be held
in memory of the Confederate dead.
This does not look well on its face.
We are loath to think so harshly
of the President, but his whole course,
since his election, sustains that view as
his blunders have been more flagrant
along that line, than in any other di
rection. It cannot be placed to the ac
count of "watchful waiting," but rather
to indifference to a class with whom
he appears to have nothing in common,
not even sympathy. He is President
and beyond reach, and can do as he
pleases, but he will not always be
President. The writer is a Democrat,
but If ho must choose between the vet
erans of the Civil War, and those who
refuse to honor the memory of those
who have departed, and with studied
care ignore those who are yet living,
his lot goes with the boys with whom
he stood shoulder to shoulder in de
fense of the country.
Since the above was In type,
some ono used the Gettysburg prod,
and Secretary Tumulty gave out the
statement that "the President was
not willing that his absence should be
misconstrued," and ho went to Arling
ton, on Memorial Day. Had his fore
sight been as good as his hindsight, he
would have escaped the severe criti
cism to which he has been subjected.
HIGH COST OF NOMINATIONS
[From the Philadelphia Bulletin]
The $33,000 which Vance C. Mc-
Cormick spent in his campaign for
tho Democratic nomination for Gov
ernor, is entirely too much for any
candidate to expend, even though he
may be a man of wealth, and even
though the money may be used for ex
penses authorized by law. As a mat
ter of fact, It is only $7,000 less than
the total salary which Mr. McCormick
would receive during his term of office
were he to be successful In His ambi
tion.
It was never intended by the framers
of the election laws that the cost of
obtaining nominations should be made
more expensive by the direct primary
system than under the old convention
plan. Yet apparently that is what has
happened. The practically unlimited
amount which may be spent for
"legitimate" purposes brings up the
question of whether it might not be
a good idea to fix a limit under the
corrupt practices act or to provide
some other solution, such as having
the State pay all campaign expenses
and restrict them to uniform amounts,
as has been suggested and tried in
some other commonwealths. Although
this may seem revolutionary, it is not
to be overlooked that the State already
Is bearing all the other costs of the
primaries which formerly were paid by
the political parties and the candi
dates themselves, and it would be only
a logical step further. Then the rich
candidate would have no undue ad
vantage over his poorer rival.
Moreover, If it costs $33,000 for a
candidate to be successful In the pri
mary, how much more will it cost in
the general election?
THE FARMER AND THE TARIFF
[From the Wllllamsport Gazette.]
In a frank statement the bureau of
foreign and domestic commerce admits
that there has been, under the Under
wood tariff law, a large increase In
food imports and a correspondingly
large decrease in food exports.
In its current report the bureau
shows that imports of foodstuffs in
their natural condition. Including food
animals. Increased from $117,194,237 in
the half year ended with March, 1913,
to $143,421,536 In a like period ended
with March, 1014, and that imports of
foodstuffs partly or wholly prepared for
use In the same period advanced from
$95,744,241 to $100,967,378.
Thus the increase in importations of
all food products in the period named
amounted to more than $300,000,000, or
an average of $5,000,000 per month.
On the export side the figures are
even more striking. Of crude food
stuffs the sales to foreign countries
fell off more than 50 per cent., whilo
prepared foodstuffs also declined,
though In smaller proportions.
Exports of the first named group fell
from $115,850,453 In the six months
period of last year to $55,483,787 in
the half year which ended with March
of the current year, and manufactured
food products from $180,007,422 to $162,-
620.
The significance of these figures will
not be lost upon the farmers of the
United States, who as a class are close
students of economics, and will not fall
to be impressed with the fact that the
Importations, displacing an equal
amount of American farm products
strike directly at the prosperity of the
farm.
And by way of emphasis, the falling
oft In exports will show the farmers
where they lost heavily again through
the Underwood tariff.
ONE GOOD WOMAN'S CONSOLATION
[From the Kansas City Star.]
"There Is no use in talking," said Mrs.
Knox by way of soliloquy. "It Is al
most demoralizing for a woman to be
married to an unobservlng man who
never notices whether she looks like a
chore lady or a duchess, and never
gives her an encouraging compliment
from one year to another. It Is enough
to make one lose all interest In life
and her personal appearance. Whv
Oliver might be a blind man for all he
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McCORMICK PAID
HEAD FOR DEMOCRATIC VOTES
Girard, writing in the Philadelphia
Public Ledger, has this to say about
the McCormick primary expense ac
count:
"Perhaps it is a monstrous thing to
work out the following equation as a
mathematical result of the recent pri
mary election:
"One Democrat equals 30 cents.
"But that's the price the urbane
Vance McCormick, successful candi
date for Governor, paid for each of his
110,000 votes. Some will contend that
the quotation is excessive, and yet this
does not appear to be a bull market
observes of whut I wear, or liow my
hair looks."
"Yes," commented the frivolous little
woman who lived in the new apartment
next door, "that is what I said to my
chum the other day. An observing, ap
preciative husband is an Incentive to
keep oneself well groomefl. Poor girl,
her husband isn't a bit like that, and
what do you think sho said? She said
to me, 'lt's an awful struggle, but—
thank God for our other friends!'"
NEWS DISPATCHES
OF THE CIVIL WAR
[from the Telegraph of June 5, 1864.]
Must l ight Our Way
Baltimore, June 4. —Several of the
rebel wounded that came up on the
steamer Connecticut yesterday morn
ing say that they have no doubt we
will be able to take Richmond, but
that we will have to walk over many
dead bodiesi
General Attack Made
Washington, June 5. About 8
o'clock on Friday night the enemy
made a general attack upon our lines,
coming out of his works and exposing
his massed columns to a terrible ar
tillery lire.
The Truly IVolilo Wife
[From the Macon Telegraph.]
A man never enjoys perfect happi
ness until he marries a woman who
will laugh at all of his jokes.
B. HANDLER & CO. 1 B. HANDLER & CO.
June Clearance Sale of
Furniture, Carpets and Rugs
SPECIALS for To-day, Saturday and Monday
100 Jap Matting Rugs, 9x12; beautiful designs. Regular
price $6.50. Sale price $2.10
36 Crex Rugs, 9x12, fancy borders. Regular price $11.50,
now $0.98
60 Plain Crex Rugs, 9xlo. Regular price $9.50, now, $.">.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.