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WEDNESDAY EVENING. JUNE 10
JUDGE KUNKEI/S CANDIDACY
JUDGE KUNKELS candidacy for
the State Supreme Court bench
looks brighter in the face of the
primary returns than it has since
the distinguished Dauphin county jurist
was persuaded by his friends to enter
the race. Indeed, there is every indi
cation that he will he elected in No
vember by a handsome majority.
This is the opinion of men con
versant with the situation all over the
State. Elements necessarily entered,
or were artificially injected, into the
primary contest that cannot possibly
have any part in the campaign leading
up to the November elections. Fac
tional feeling and party politics will
toe eliminated absolutely from the Su
preme Court contest. As a matter of
fact, they never were a factor In the
Kunkel candidac*'. Judge Kunkel's
appeal was direct to the voters. He
took no active part in the primaries,
tout his friends made their canvass in
his behalf strictly in accord with the
letter and spirit of the nonpartisan
judicial act. They asked the people
of all parties to support Judge Kunkel
because they regarded him as the
ablest and best fitted candidate in the
field, and the peoplo responded with a
vote that was astonishingly large under
the circumstances.
Judge Frazer, the other candidate
on the ticket, Is unquestionably p.n
able and an honest judge, but there
the comparison between him and
Judge Kunkel must end. > In the first
place, Judge Kunkel has had an ex
perience as lawmaker, prosecutor and
judge of the courts that his opponent
has not had.* He is experienced in
every phase of the law. Ten years on
the Dauphin county bench have given
him an insight into State tfftc laws and
the conduct of election disputes such
as no other judge in the State has.
His opinions have been sustained al
most without exception by the Su
preme Court and that tribunal has
never overruled him on one important
point in which it has not practically
reversed its own decisions.
Judge Kunkel's splendid service to
the State in the conduct of the Capitol
conspiracy cases marked him at once
as a judge of exceptional ability—for
there were pitted against each other
before him some of the brightest legal
minds In the State. His attitude
toward labor legislation Is well set
forth In his opinion sustaining the full
crew law, which was in turn sustained
by the Supreme Court.
Added to this is Judge Kunkel's
splendid vigor. The work of the Su
preme Court is arduous and contin
uous. The Dauphin county candidate
is in the best of health and the very
prime of life, with every prospect of
living out the full twenty-one years of
the term to which he will be elected In
November.
He has stood aloof from partisan
politics ever since he was elevated to
the bench and he kept that thought
constantly in mind during the primary
fight.
Reasons for Judge Kunkel's eleva
tion to the Supreme bench In the Fall
might be quoted indefinitely, but there
yet remains to be brought forward a
single reason as to why he is not the
one man for the place before the
people at this time.
There are still a few Wilson news
paper organs silly enough to imitate
the ostrich with respect to the business
depression now covering the country.
These newspapers pretend not to see
and have not even noted the fact that
President Wilson himself admits the
depression.
PAGEANTS
THE pageant of Utlca In the Mo
hawk Valley, which will be
given by 3,000 of the people of
Utica, N. Y., on August 6, 6, 7
and 8, 1914, will be notable for the
scope of its historic Interest, its cos
mopolitan nature and the fact that its
participants will be, to a great extent,
the descendants of those who actually
enacted the historic episodes that will
be presented.
The drama of the nation was in a
large measure created in this same
Mohawk Valley. Nowhere In the coun
try may the successive periods be
found more markedly present. Its
aboriginal inhabitants, the Iroquois,
were the most remarkable federation
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WEDNESDAY EVENING HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH JUNE 10, 1914.
of Indians on the continent, swaying
the destinies of all the tribes east of
the Mississippi, and controlling from
their "Long House" the head waters of
streams running in all directions.
From their stronghold thoy could de
scend with swiftness upon any tribe In
the East.
The twp wars for independence
found some of their most dramatic
scenes staged in the Mohawk Valley, in
the section whose center is now Utica.
The battle of Orlskany, the turning
point of the Revolution, will be re
enacted in this pageant by the de
scendants of the German Palatines
who were soldiers of Herkimer at a
point so near the original battle
ground that the firing of the cannon
might almost have been heard.
A foretaste of the cosmopolitan
character of the United States was
found in the early mixture of the
races In the Mohawk Valley. The Ger
man Palatines, sufferers from relig
ious troubles at home, exiles here,
came by the hundreds and settled on
the flats. English settlers from New
England pushed farther than any and
made Utica. Then came the Welsh,
Scotch and Irish, and, In later days,
the other nations have poured their
children into this beautiful region,
the Italian, the Pole, the Hebrew, etc.,
so that it is a thoroughly cosmopoli
tan country a,t the present time.
We note the preparationcs for this
pageant at length because of the simi
larity of Utica and Harrisburg in the
frontier history of the country. Both
were centers of intense activity In the
early days. Here, as In Utica, were
enacted the picturesque scenes attend
ing the settling and development of
the State and the Republic. Here
John Harris narrowly escaped death
at the hands of the Indians, here was
located historic Fort Hunter, here was
the great Indian pathway between the
East and the West, and later the Con
estoga wagons and the stage coaches
had their headquarters. Past our doors
floated the river arks and later the
great rafts from the forests above. Still
later came the canal and following it
the railroads. Hither came Washing
ton, LaFayette, Lincoln and a host of
other famous men to be honored by
an admiring people.
The history of Harrisburg is replete
with material for picturesque and edu
cational pageants sufficient to cover a
period of years. Why is It that we
spend money on Fourth of July fire
works and parades when we might so
well follow the example of Utlca?
Democratic machine Is some peeved
over the Dauphin County Court's de
cision releasing the automobile license
fund of more than a million dollars for
the reconstruction of State highways.
It was so hopeful of fooling the voters
as to the reason for bad roads.
"MORE MENTAIi MOURNING"
UNDEIf that head the Philadel
phia Inquirer calls attention to
the following dispatch from Al
lcntown, and says that this is
the sort of "freedom of trade" for
which President Wilson has labored
ever since his inauguration:
Throughout all the Liehigh Val
ley only one blast furnace is in op
eration. It costs sl6 a ton to make
pi" iron here at the rate of wages
Nova Scotia pig iron is de
livered to the foundries beside the
local blast furnaces at sl2 a ton.
This is a sample of the way in which
President Wilson has kept his promise
"not to interfere with legitimate busi
ness." Apparently every person who
troubles himself over declining trade
or a lost job is a "mental mourner"
and every business that has suffered
at the hands of the Democratic ex
perimenters is regarded at Washington
as illegitimate. If that be true then
the legitimate business of the country
all rolled together wouldn't fill the
hollow of a grain of mustard seed.
That $33,000 expense account re
sembles in some degree a certain ghost
of modern antiquity, and threatens to
become quite as troublesome.
CONFUSION WORSE CONFOUNDED
EVEN the Influential Democratic
newspapers are denouncing the
bossism of the party in this State
and the outrageous usurpation of
power as exhibited in the promulgation
of a platform which the State Com
mittee was not permitted to Bee. The
Philadelphia Record suggests that the
platform should be set aside and a
new one framed by all the Democratic
candidates, approved by them and
issued early in September. Comment
ing on this suggestion the Wllkes-
Barre Record says:
After all, how could such a plat
form be made to represent the opin
ions of all the candidates? Some
of them would want to declare for
local option, for instance, and
others would bo opposed to it. Some
would be for woman suffrage and
others would be against it. And
the candidates who would be
against the platform adopted by a
majority could not be forced off the
ticket because they were the
choice of the voters at the prl
« maries. When the voters go to. the
polls in November how could they
be sure that they would be voting
for the party platform if they were
not sure that all of the candidates
whose names were on the ballot
would agree to it? Always one com
plication after another in politics,
(.onrusion everywhere. And the
more we try to reform the worse
it gets.
Just so. Political reform, so called,
is just one thing after another. We
have had inflicted upon us frequent
changes of the electoral system and
no one will deny that the present
situation Is deplorable. Most of the
thoughtful newspapers of the State
are discussing the scandalous expendi
tures of the recent primary campaign
and the fact that poor men are prac
tically excluded from political contests
is causing grave apprehension.
Under the primary laws with which
we are now experimenting It is pos
sible for the favorite of fortune to pur
chase his way into position and power
and bar out men of brains and vision
and devotion to principle who are
without the cash to promote their own
campaigns.
It is also possible under present con
ditions for the rich men of the State
to control political parties and com
mittees and through them the legis
lative bodies In such a way as was
never possible under the more Ameri
can systems of the past.
Even those newspapers which for
merly upheld the primary laws as at
present in force are now admitting
their grave defects and it is entirely
probable that the next session of the
Legislature will be asked to repeal
much of the present theoretical ballot
reform and return to a more siinplitled
system of voting.
There is the fish story liar; and then
there Is the fellow who tells you how
early his pea vines begin to bear.
I EVENING CHATI
Most people pay men to take away
their waste paper; a few are able to
sell newspapers and other paper; some
allow men to cart it off, while
some are beset by people who want
the refuse. But Old Father Penn
makes money out of his paper. Re
cently a contract was let at the Capi
tol for the removal of the waste paper
and the prices were for various kinds
of paper at that. There were half a
dozen bidders and they bid for the
paper as though it was manuscript
with museum buyers looming up. The
Capitol people used to throw the paper
away, but Superintendent Pomeroy
and Superintendent Rambo ligured
out that there was considerable saving
to be made in the paper line and bids
were asked, with the result that their
beliefs were Justified. Now the paper
is all sorted and sold according to
grade. Some of it is excellent for
making one kind of paper and some
has a considerable amount of salvage.
Out on the Hill there are a couple
of Chinamen who have an eye for
business or else who are up to date.
Instead of having one of the stereo
typed Chinese names with some Lees
or Rongs or something like that this
ilrm simply announces: Mark Company.
Thero are three or four men In the
plant and when someone asked who
was the company he replied in un
accented English: "That is firm name
for us."
For just forty-one seconds Monday
evening Harrisburg so far as electrical
illuminating facilities were concerned
was as dark as the Harrisburg of years
and year sa»o when the moon wasn't
on duty. All around the horizon flashed
and glimmered with the glare of distant
lightning and perspiring citizens anx
iously awaited the coming of the
storm. But the roll of faraway thun
der was the nearest approach to a
summer shower that Harrisburg got at
that time. Suddenly every electric
light and fan in the city quit business.
And before an astounded populace got
Its breath the lights blinked, the fans
whirled tentatively—then lights and
funs got right down to business again.
Inquiry at the offices of the electric
light company developed the cause of
the brief bit of darkness. Some of the
electrical current that' supplies this
city is hrought on great transmission
cables from the York Haven power
plant. At the central station here,
however, there are provisions for gen
erating ample fluid for the whole city
should the occasion require. Some
where south of Harrisburg lightning
struck one of the transmission cables
and for Just forty-one seconds inter
fered with the York Haven service.
Before an astonished populace got its
breath again the central station staff
had the trouble in hand and the emer
gency wheels in motion.
James E. Roderick, the State chief
of mines, who is in a Baltimore hos
pital recovering from a serious op
eration, is one of the three oldest
State officials in point of age and
among the first half-dozen in point of
connection with the State government.
Mr. Roderick was born in Wales in
1842 and is just six years younger
than Uncle Heinrich Houck, the nestor
of officials in age and service, and four
years younger than Secretary of Agri
culture N. B. Critchtield.
The filing of expense accounts is an I,
object of much interest at the Capitol (
and while the accounts are open to
all who desire to inspect them quite a :
number of those who go to look over '
the statements are people who have $
no earthly interest except curiosity.
They go to see how much a man gave 1
to this or that- item or to see how
much some other man received. A
few days ago a man in another city 1
was interested in an expense account T
and called up on the long distance 4
telephone. He asked a few questions f
and then requested that the whole ac- I
count be read to him. *
Some fast time appears to have 1
been made by people who are travel- f
ing across the State these days. One 1
of the Highway Department's engi- f
neers came to the city last night tell- 1
ing of a six-hour trip from Pittsburgh 1
to Harrisburg by way of the southern
road and saying that the roads were *
in fair condition after all. Another '
man made a run from Reading, he :
said, in an hour a»d a quarter and 1
another ran from Bellefonte to Har- ;
risburg in four hours.
Men active in politics in other coun
ties have been awaiting with great
eagerness the announcement of the 1
official vote which was made last
night. However, when one comes to
think of it there was comparatively
little difference between the results
already printed and the official total.
The newspapers manage to get pretty
good lines on the way the votes are
cast.
f WELL KNOWN PEOPLE. H
—Rabbi Joseph Krauskopf sent
greetings to the Jejvish farm school
from Rome on its recent anniversary.
He is traveling through Southern Eu
rope.
—Rear Admiral Buehler, of Phila
delphia, will spend part of the sum
mer in Virginia mountains.
—Ex-Secretary Knox will speak in
Ohio next week.
—The Rev. Dr. J. D. Moffatt retires
this month as president of Washington
and Jefferson.
—Dr. Floyd W. Tompkins attended
the ordination of his son to the priest
hood in Philadelphia on Sunday.
PINCHOT'S CANDIDACY
[From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.]
Progresssivism in politics is not the
exclusive possession of Colonel Roose
velt, or of the politicians in this State
who have taken up the cry to promote
their private schemes of political ag
grandizement. A platform's chief
strength lies in the character of the
men who frame it and who can be de
pended uporr to carry its policies into
effect should they be commissioned by
the people. Dean Lewis and Mr.
Pinchot are both men of high char
acter, but they are inexperienced the
orists, committed to policies which
threaten the Integrity of our represen
tative institutions. Mr. Pinchot's can
didacy is an affront ,as he Is not a
bona flde resident of the State; their
campaign is in the hands of un
scrupulous politicians for whom suc
cess is more Important than con
sistency or principle. This is why the
Washington party received so few
votes in the primary, and why the.
400,000 votes of 1912 will sink to a
mere handful next November.
From June Bth to July 4th
[From the Reading Herald.]
Of course we want a safe and sane
Fourth. We can't obtain this by means
of a do-nothing policy, either in ad
vance of jthe Fourth or on the Fourth
itself. We cannot effect safety and
sanity by a mere wave of a wand or
by an imperious proclamation forbid
ding everything that Is pyrotechnical.
Nature abhors a vacuum. So does hu
manity. Mankind, womankind and es
pecially chlldklnd does not enjoy sit
ting round with nothing to do. If they
are not allowed to shoot each other's
heads off, there ought to be something
better as a substitute. If there Is a
general ban upon the riotous keg party
there ought co be some whofesomer
| form of gayety made easy.
COMMITTEES ARE
GALLED IN JUNE
New Order of Things For the Elec
tion of the Chairman For
the Fall's Campaign
BRUMBAUGH RETIRES SOON
Leaves School Work in Philadel
phia on Leave Without Pay
to Engage in Campaign
This Is the time of the yea'r when
the committees are getting busy and
in addition to the meeting of the Re
publican county committee announced
for June 220 by Chairman William H.
Horner, there will be meetings of the
Republican city committee on Satur
day, June 13, and of the Democratic
county committee on Tuesday, June
16. The Washington party committee
people will have a meeting on June 12.
Judging from indications there will
be no opposition to the re-election of
either the Republican city or county
chairmen, both of whom have proved
their worth and who have things well
lined out for this year's campaign.
There are some Democrats who would
like to unhorse the genial Herr Moes
lein, but the machine is too well in
trenched In the county committee that
his re-election is among the things
which appear very likely.
Now that the primaries are over
and the Democratic bosses are com
mencing to get a line on the magni
tude of the task which
confronts them they
are getting nervous Federal Jobs
about the appoint- Must He Put
ments remaining to be Out Quickly
made in Fritz Kirken
dall's internal revenue
service and other slices of patronage
pie. Boss McCormick has been wor
ried by the importunities of friends
of office seekers and would like to
pass the whole thing over to State
Chairman Morris leaving the telephone
line open, but the place hunters re
fuse to stay away. There are some
jobs due to be filled in this county
and the Litle Boss may have to indi
cate what he will do pretty quickly.
If he does not the dissatisfaction in
side of the machine ranks will cause
more trouble. Incidentally, McCor
mick has made very little headway
toward getting Ryan men to line up
for the ticket. A few men have made
a play of being regular, but the bulk
of the Ryan strength is not running
a bulletin service.
Tricky tactics were charged against
the Palmer-McCormick Democrats
yesterday by the Old Guard, following
the election of ward
chairmen and city
Machine Is commi tteemen on
Accused of Monday night at the
Trickery reorganization meet
ings of all the Phila
delphia ward com
mittees. As a result of sharp
practices alleged to have been
perpetuated the elections in four
and probably five wards will be con
tested by one side or the other. Both
sides are making conflicting claims as
to their representation in the city
committee.
While admitting that the Ryan men
control the city committeer the Mc-
Cormick followers are claiming the
representation from ten wards, a gain
of four. The Ryan men concede them
a probable gain of one ward the
Forty-sixth but say that this might be
discounted by losses in other wards.
Dr. Martin G. Brumbaugh, Repub
lican nominee for Governor, is to be
relieved of his present duties during
the heat of the
gubernatorial cam
paign. A leave of Brumbaugh
absence, without Given Ijeave
pay, from his duties For Campaign
as superintendent of
schools for the
months of September and October wan
granted him at yesterday's meeting of
the Board of Education of Phlladel-1
phla.
In Introducing the resolution au
thorizing this leave, William T. Tilden,
president of the Union League, paid
a verbal tribute to Dr. Brumbaugh
for his efficiency in improving Phila
delphia's school system, and said that
he knew he only was echoing the
unanimous opinion of his associates on
the board when he called him one
of the greatest public educators In
the world.
In the resolution, which was adopt
ed unanimously, the board's reluctance
to part with Dr. Brumbaugh's services
was emphatically expressed.
Gifford Pinchot, who had a collision
with ex-Congressman Ben Focht at
Lewlsburg on Monday night which
cost him a few of his
prize feathers, went Into
Farmers the Juniata Valley yes-
Too Busy terday. After touring
to Talk Union and Snyder coun
ties arid seeing many
farmers so busy that they
could not find time to talk to him he
swung into Mifflin county. His trip
during the day was marked by stops
at country stores, where he talked to
such as he found, and In the evening
he held forth in the courthouse at
Lewistown. To be frank, Pinchot is
not proving much of a drawer. Every
where the Pinchot party goes the men
ask how long Roosevelt will be in the
State. Up to date he has been unable
to tell them and Information from
Washington is that the Colonel will
only spend four days in Pennsylvania.
Lawrence county's Republican coun
ty committee gave Penrose, Brum
baugh and all the rest of the ticket
a great send-off at the annual meeting
in New Castle. W. A. Eakin was
elected county chairman.
POLITICAL SIDELIGHTS
—With all of the lavish expenditure
of money McCormick only beat Ryan
20,000.
—Democrats will cost more than
thirty cents a head when the Fall
election comes.
—The difference between payment
of Cumberland "watchers" and those
in Dauphin continues to agitate the
faithful.
—Ben Focht is having all kinds of
with Pinchot these days.
—State Chairman Crow may be
here to-morrow. He will name the
rules committee Friday or Saturday.
—Uncle Henry Houck's vote did
not get much attention from Market
Square this morning:.
—State Chairman Morriß professes
to be pleased with the Democratic city
committee elections In Philadelphia.
No one else is.
Unsley'a Triumph
[From the Lebanon News.]
Dr. Samuel P. Langley died of a
broken heart when critics claimed that
his heavier than-air machine was a
tatlure. Now the success of his experi
ment has been demonstrated. But the
huzzas of the populace are lost on his
(lull ear. Post-mortem honors are
tragic.
OUR DAILY LAVGH \
Hold Bualnesa A Hero
Hey! I been He She's al
watchlng you for i ug wanted me to
two hours! Hurry be a hero! But
up an' ketch s he don't know
Bomepin! Can't there ain't been
you see I've got a no bees In this
"Rush" message hive for ten
to deliver? years!
O TJI
Main Point
Dobbins gets a Poor Jainea
gigantic salary Oh, James! I
from that mining had such a lovely
corporation. dream about you.
Able to locate last night! I
gold mines, is he? dreamed you
Not much. Able wusn't cross-eyed
to locate stock- an' freckled-faced
purchasers. and knock-kneed
at all! Fact was
you looked almos'
human!
THE PEACH CROP
By Wing Dinger
We ought to be thankful that we
haven't heard
This year from the rattle-brained
wop,
Who usually breaks up our hopes with
the spiel
Of a big failure In the peach crop.
The way things look now, there'll be
more of the fruit
Than the public can possibly eat
And the record this year will be one,
you will find,
That is going to be quite hard to
beat.
The growers, we're told, are endeavor
ing to give
Peaches this year of quality rare,
By pinching some oft now, and yet they
all say
There still will be peaches to spare.
By golly, I think that Dame Nature got
mad
At the wop who has put up the blare
Every year 'bout her shortcomings, and
this one time
Has made up her mind to get square.
IN HARRISBURG FIFTY
YEARS AGO TO-DAY I
[From the Telegraph, June 10, 1864.1
Steal Trip Over Bridge
A few evenings ago we noticed a
number of boys climbing up on the
stone wall at this end of the Harris-,
burg bridge for the purpose of enter
ing the bridge (we presume) without
being observed by the gatekeeper.
Is Mr. Hoon Here?
If a person by' tho name of Henry
Hoon lives in Harrisburg he will please
call at the office of the Northern Cen
tral Railway.
A Call For "Curtain"
[From the Lock Haven Express.]
The honest, legitimate business of
the country has been fairly legislated
and billed into a state bordering on
nervous prostration, and is entitled to
a rest. Let us at least have an inter
lude of peace and recuperation in the
game of Politics vs. Business that has
been going on ever since Mr. Taft
turned the country over to Mr. Wil
son In sucli excellent condition.
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[From the Telegraph, June 10, 1864.]
Rebels Near Falmouth
Cincinnati, June 9.—The rebels are
near Falmouth, on the Kentucky Cen
tral railroad, and at WilUamstown, on
the pike, thirty miles from Cincinnati.
Rebels in Consternation
Washington, June 10, 3 P. M. —A
citizen of Richmond, who succeeded in
making his escape and reaching the
White House, describes the conster
nation prevailing there as great in the
extreme.
RELEASE STATE ROAD FUNDS
[Philadelphia Bulletin.]
Unless State Treasurer Toung and
Auditor General Powell wish to give
confirmation to the charge that they
have been actuated solely by political
considerations in preventing the use
of the State automobile registration
fees for the improvement of the State
highways, they should release the
funds without more delay and make
no further attempt to embarrass the
Highway Department in its use of
them, instead of appealing to the
higher courts as suggested. The de
cision of the Dauphin County Court,
upholding the constitutionality of the
act of last year wherein, the Legis
lature directed that such money should
be set aside exclusively for the pur
pose, removes the last reasonable
grounds for questioning the proceed
ings and relieves them of responsi
bility for the expenditure of the fees.
While Messrs. Young and Powell,
being of another political faith than
the State administration, might nat
urally be expected to scrutinize the
direction of the Highway Department
closely, and while any legitimate pur
pose on their part to see that the pub-
lie funds shall not he loosely or fraud
ulently expended is wholly laudable,
there is such a thing as being so over
zealous in pleading the "people's
cause" as to prove detrimental to the
•public.
The roads of the State are badly in
need ©f the improvement which this
million dollars will allow; already a
large part of the good working season
has passed, and further delay would
hamper the work greatly. The public
which uses the roads would seriously
question the good faith of more ob
structive tactics.
GREAT CROP OUTLOOK
[From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.]
The June crop report from the De
partment of Agriculture indicates 900,-
000,000 bushels of wheat, which will
surpass the best previous crop by 137,-
000,000 bushels. The wheat acreage
this year is more than 3,000,000 acres
greater than last year and about
8.000,000 more than in 1912. There has
been a falling off in the acreage de
voted to oats, but .the rye acreage is
about the same as usual. The pros
pects for a good yield of all these
grains is far better, than a year ago at
this time.
This prospect is the one bright spot
In the business outlook. If the farmers
have money to spend there is money
in circulation and business will go on.
But Congress does not mako the rains
fall from heaven, nor does It cause the
sun to shine or the grain to germinate
and bring forth after its kind. The
business with which Congress and poli
tics have nothing to do prospers thanks
to the blessings of an overruling and
merciful Providence. *
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