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City / (osn dally average for the Month el May, 1914 Average for the year 1913—21.577 Average for (he year 1912—21,178 Average for the year 1911—18,851 Average for the year 1910—17,495 TELEPHONES! Bell Private Branch Exchange No.. 204*. United Business Office, 208. Xdltorlal Room 586. Job Dept. SMI SATURDAY EVKNING. JUNE 20 WILSON'S PLANS PRESIDENT WILSON and the Democratic leaders in Congress are nearing the point where there Is likely to be a breaking down of the surface harmony which now prevails at Washington. Repre sentative Oscar W. Underwood, whose name will always be associated with the free trade tariff law that has sent the prosperity of the United States upon the rocks, declares in a letter to the Philadelphia Public Ledger that Congress cannot adjourn until the ap propriation bills are passed. He states as his own view of the situa tion, however, that these bills should be expedited and that Congress should then adjourn "as soon as possible and nllow the members to go to their dis tricts and return here (Washington) In November and take up pending leg islation at that time." Mr. Underwood, as chairman of the committee on ways and means and the Senator-elect from Alabama, thus places himself In direct opposition to the policy of President Wilson, who wants to jam through a lot more un digested and theoretical legislation di rected against the business of the country before adjournment. It Is the opinion of Representative Underwood that the course he proposes would be «.dvls&ble "as most of the members of Congress are worn out with the long session and strenuous work of more than a year." He adds: It would give the Senate commit tee ample time to consider and di gest the pending trust legislation and an adjournment now would, I believe, expedite t lie passage of good legislation along that line lather than hinder it. But what Underwood and the other Democratic leaders may think will cut no figure with the gentleman In the White House. He is the incarnate wisdom of the ages and opposition from any source, even of his own party, simply stimulates in him the ever-present thought that the opposi tion Is simply conspiracy against him and contrary to all the rules of tho game as he sees it. It is clearly the purpose of the President to compel the members of Congress who have subserviently done his bidding from the start to remain In Washington until he shall have ac complished his alleged program. It will not do for the members to go home; they might hear from their constituents and come back with more red blood in their veins and more stiffening in their back bones. Never before In the history of the United States have there been so many mere puppets assembled under the dome of the Capitol. They Jump when the President says jump and they sneeze when he takes snuff. As suggested by one of the clearest headed newspapermen in Washington, the President "wants to get through with the whole job of reforming the country once and is so intent upon his work that he does not count the cost to himself or his party, nor reckon with the ill effects upon the business interests of the country, which, in his opinion, can be only tem porary." We are passing through a joyful era and the theorist and demagogue and the opportunist are In the saddle, but November is not far away and the people know now what is the matter •with the country. PLATFORMS AND CANDIDATES UNDER the present primary sys tem in this State platform dec larations are more academic, than practical as pronounce ments of individuals and parties. In fact, platforms are no longer given the serious consideration which was once accorded party statements. President Wilson is the most con- eplcuous violator of platform planks. , Other eminent officeholders have like wise discarded the planks of the party or parties which have supported them, but no recent example of this sort has been quite so flagrant as that of the President in the matter of the Panama Canal tolls and the woman eultrage question. Owing to the fact that candidates are now nominated in Pennsylvania by the peopl direct for all important offices their personalities and fit ness for the discharge of the duties of the offices which they seek cut more SATURDAY EVENING, HAKRISBURG TELEGRAPH JUNE 20, 1914. figure than r.mounding phrases incor porated in alleged platforms and party affirmations. However, whatever the party action, it should have some regard for con sistency and sincerity. Just now there Is considerable hul labaloo about what Is to be done In the framing of a platform for the Re publican party in this State. The whole matter has been referred to a committee with sufficient experience in public life to gl% r e due consideration to the matters and things which should be covered in a formal party declara tion. But this committee is now seek ing advice as to whether its conclu sions on the various Issues of the day should be promulgated early in July or late in August. There ought to be little doubt on this point. While it makes comparatively little difference whether it is sent forth on its mis sion at one time or another, so far as the average voter is concerned, any apparent hesitation on the part of Republican leaders to give the public the r atform which they are incubat ing will probably be grasped by the opposition and used as an evidence of party indecision and fear to meet the alleged issues of the campaign. Of course, in the present hysterical jumble of what some of the people believe to be important questions, it is an easy matter to color party action to suit the vision of those who would twist public statements and interpret the language of platforms to meet their own views. It still remains, however, that whatever the Republican party is going to issue as a> concrete expression of party principles might Just as well go out without unnecessary delay. Already a most unfair and unrea sonable position has been taken by one of the officials of the State Anti- Saloon League. He declares that It Is unsafe to elect Dr. Brumbaugh gov ernor on the same ticket with Mayor Frank McClain, of Lancaster, who as lieutenant-governor and president ex officlo of the State" Senate might be opposed to the measure which the league would support; that while "we believe and have utmost confidence in Dr. Brumbaugh as a man" and "be lieve him to be in hearty sympathy with that (local option) movement and to be honestly in favor of it so far as his personal influence is concerned," yet if McClain should be elected lieu tenant-governor on the same ticket with Dr. Brumbaugh the local option cause would suffer. In short, Dr. Brumbaugh should be defeated be cause the people in an open primary nominated Mayor McClain on the same ticket. If tho gentlemen who are conduct ing the fight for local option are as illogical and unfair in all their propa ganda as in this particular instance, then it would seem to be about time for the real friends of local option to consider whether a little common •sense should not be injected into those at the head of the league. It is well, porhaps, for hl3 own reputation that the responsible offi cial of the Anti-Saloon League con cludes "that it is too early to express any unchangeable opinion." Might it not have been better for the cause he represents and which this newspa per favors, for the official in question to have reserved his comment, espe cially as he says he believes "In Dr. Brumbaugh's integrity," and who rep resents, as he admits, "the highest type of manhood and citizenship in this Commonwealth." He has not heard even a rumor of a thing against his character, honesty and integrity. Nor does the official of the league who has indulged in this remarkable bit of inconsistency "question the honesty" of Dr. Brumbaugh's statement that "he would use every honest effort to secure the passage of a county option bill," but "believes him to be in hearty sympathy with that movement and to be honestly in favor of it so far as his personal influence is concerned." Having taken the absurd position that Dr. Brumbaugh is not safe be cause certain other candidates have been nominated on the same ticket and that the thing to do is for the Democratic and Washington parties to enter into a fusion scheme, the lame conclusion is reached by the league official that "it is too early to express any unchangeable opinion." It ought to be apparent to our local option friends that all the nominees for governor, including Dr. Brum baugh, having declared in favor of the proposition to submit the whole mat ter to the people, it is their business to elect a Senate and House which will pass the bill, instead of alienating those who advocate Its passage by un fair and covert attacks upon the Re publican party. This is not a parti san question and ought not to be made one at this late day. TIIE STOUGII CAMPAIGN THE coming visit of Evangelist Stough and his party casts its shadow before. As the time draws each day nearer the shadow looms larger, and already it is discernible as that of a big man, and one who is destined to wield consider able Influence in Harrisburg. What ever be the attitude of either the church-going laity or the clergy in re gard to such evangelistic campaigns, it must be admitted that the personality of Dr. Stoufeh and of every member of his party is exceptional. Several of them are businessmen of wide experi ence who have given up lucrative em ployment or commercial affairs of some magnitude in order to enter on this crusade to reach the common people. That is primarily the purpose of the campaign—to reach the "man in the street." This mystical person is, like the "man about town" and the "aver ago man," an illusive quantity—but he nevertheless exists in numbers, even if it is not possible to lay one's finger on him. It is admitted that the church does not reach him, largely because the church does not talk to him In his own language. Such is the seoret of the success of Stough, Billy Sunday and other evangelists of that type. They address the man of the street in £he language of the street. They are frankly sensational. They speak In flaming language that Is sometimes of a plcturesqueness that would not be out of place In one of the old-time Western mining camp dramas. But they do the work. They sow the seed. They awaken the sleeping conscience. It is asserted that conversions based on emotionalism are not permanent. Of that we know not. Certainly, how ever, it is good occasionally to have our faults drawn to, our attention in a manner that ma.ces us resolve to do better. PA AND HIS DAY RISE, somebody, and hit on the head this drivel about Father's Day. Stand, Spartans, and rout this squashy sentimentality. The average father, it is safe to say, wants no such celebration. The dwty that he does as a man and as a citizen is suffi cient praise; and If, when the day's work is done, Annabel shall bring his slippers. Ma have the supper ready and Jimmy show some mark of re spect, It is sufficient. By all means let us have celebra tions; but let us find some better ex cuse than this. Divide the calendar into ribboned festivals, but don't drag father in with a wreath of red and white roses. He wants it not. On he half of our fathers we raise a protest ing hand. Mothers' Day was a very beautiful and very appropriate observance, and it deserves to be perpetuated. But now to come along with a Father's Day is a sort of travesty on that. Father does not want to be gushed over—at least not in public. The sen timent he will appreciate are such little acts as cited above. Let us dis tinguish between setfment and senti mentality. Father's Day is Pay Day. i EVENING CHATI Veterans and many visitors to the Capitol rotunda are complaining that the arrangement of the battle Hags in the cases in the niches of the marble rotunda is not such as to enable good displays to be made of any but the fiags in the front rows of the six cases. It is pointed out that the fiags are bunched in the three rows of stand ards and that it is almost impossible to pick out the flags, the labels giving the names ol' the regiments being hid den by the staffs and the folds of those in the front rows. As a matter of tact, the complaints are well grounded and there are already being considered ways and means to make a better dis play. Nine-tenths of the persons who visit the rotunda want to see some par ticular flag, veterans and families of veterans have a natural interest in a certain standard, and when they can not see it, much less identify it, there is bound to be some criticism. Offi cials have been wondering how the matter can be arranged and various suggestions are being made, one being that some of the flags be placed in niches along the great marble stairway or at the second floor, which is visited by almost as many people as the first floor. Unfortunately, the cases for the flags are expensive and involve much time and It may be a considerable lapse of weeks before this could be done. Something, however, will be worked out to overcome the objections now being voiced. Speaking of the flags recalls the afiecting: scenes of last Monday when the veterans saw their flags again. Last Monday was really a day of inci dents which will never efface them selves from the minds of those who saw them. When the veterans received their flags in the Museum there were joyful reunions and men, gray-haired and tottering, hugged and even kissed the flags which they had followed in the Civil War. Along the line of pa rode many a man had tear-filled eyes as he saw his standard go by. But the most affecting scenes of all were whet* the flags were carried through the great bronze doorway of the Capitol with the rays of the setting sun falling on the silken covers. Those who saw that sißht will never forget how it moved their hearts to see the veterans on their last march with the colors So that everything would be handled systematically, the veterans turned over the flags to a squad of men from the state arsenal who had been drilled in the placing of the flags in order. T. hen the scenes of the Museum were r u pe i lted " one man stood at.salute as the flag he had handed over was borne away, while many wept as they saw the flags for probably the last time. One man threw his arms about his flag as he passed it over and exclaiming, Good-by, old flag," kissed it and walked away, the tears running down his face. It is remarkable the interest shown in the event of last week. Ordinarily such an occasion is soon forgotten in the stress of life. But people are writ ing here for newspapers giving ac counts of the unique ceremonies of tht day and those who attended have writ ten here telling of how the folks at home have shown an eagerness for the details. The crowd that went to see the movies of the flag transfer ves terday indicates how the feelings of the people were stirred. When Frank H. Bethell, the presi dent of the Bell telephone companies w ? s on the stan