6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Bttabliitui ttjl PUBLISHED BY TBS TGLEGIUriI PKISTWO CO. B. J. BTACKPOLE, Prea't ana in*!'# F. R. OYSTER, Secretary. OUS M. STEINMIDT4 Managing Editor. Published every evening (except Sun day), at the Telegraph Building, 11* Federal Square. Kaatern OlTloe, Fltth Avenue Building. New York City, Haabrook. Story A Brooks. Western Office. 118 West MadUe# ■treet. Chicago. 111., Allen & Ward. Delivered by carriers at six cent* a week. Mailed to «übacrlber« at SB.OO a year In advance. Entered at the Poet Office in Harrla burg aa aecond claaa matter. ® Tl»e Association of Am er- < 1 lean Advertisers ha* as •mined and certified to the circulation of this pnb- / ! • lication. The figure* of circulation i' , I eontalned in the Association's re- i i 1 port only are guaranteed. i < | Association of American Advertisers ; > I No. 2333 WMMmD IM|. i. T. City ! •worn telly sveragr for the month mt August, 1914 it 24,039 Average for the year 15U—31.3T7 Average for the yeer 1812—21,1T8 Average for the year 1911—15.861 Average for the year Ulft—ll^W TELEPHONES i Bell Private Branch Exchange No. 104t. United Business Office, 201. Editorial Room 116. Job Dept. 191. WEDNESDAY EVENING, SF;PT. « PALMER'S FIZZ CRACKER IMITATING the tactics of the side show fakir, A. Mitchell Palmer en deavored to create interest by fre quent announcements recently of what he was going to say nbout Sen ator Penrose in a Bethlehem speech last night. In every way an at tempt was made to whet the public interest so that there should bo a wide reading of his alleged bill of particulars affecting the public service of Senator Penrose. But the mountain labored and brought forth a mouse. Such drivel has seldom been submitted for the consideration of the voters of a great Commonwealth. Palmer knows quite well that anyone who has served in an important public office for a period of years can be criticised by his political antagonists. But the whining fault finding of Palmer and his associates on the Democratic ticket has fallen so fiat in Pennsylvania that these little men must now realize that their day of abuse and misrepresentation Is ncaring its finish. Instead of throwing dust over the public record of Senator Penrose, who has done valiant service for the great Interests of his State, the ambitious group back of Palmer might be better engaged in telling what Palmer lias done to Pennsylvania. Ho cannot dodge the characterization of "the Benedict Arnold of Pennsylvania pros perity" and all his twisting and turn ing and snapping and snarling will not serve to relieve him of the contempt of the thousands of workingmen and dis tracted business interests who know now that Palmer had sole charge of the tariff schedule of the I'nderwood bill so far as this State was concerned. "Wisconsin Is to test its eugenic law." —Newspaper headline. Who's going to do the testing? THE EIFFEL TOWER FROM one of the chief points of Interest to the traveler in Eu rope the Eiffel tower In Paris hits become one of the principal mili tary stations on the continent. Nobody Imagined when the tower was built that it would ever be more than a world-wonder in the field of architecture, and certainly its designer never thought for a moment that from its peak would be flashed to all Eu rope the wireless tidings of the great est war the earth has ever known, or that on its topmost platform would be mounted cannon for the purpose of bringing down the daring air warcraft of an enemy. Why doesn't the Government give some figures on the prospects of the buckwheat cake and pumpkin pie crop? "THE PUBLIC BE D D" AFTER all the powwowing be tween the old Park Commis sion. the Harrisburg Hospital authorities and the city officials •with the Cumberland Valley Railroad managers a year ago, it was thought the artistic features of the park in the vicinity of the new subway at Front and Mulberry streets would have been safeguarded. But some body slipped. Instead of an artistic arrangement, an Immense concrete pier Is the must conspicuous thing that strikes the eye In that section of South Harris burg. Instead of being placed on the eastern building line of Front street, as might easily have been done, this enormous abutment, which projects fj* beyond the eastern line of the street, obstructs the view north and south on the city's malp boulevard. Property owners in that part of the city made a vigorous protest as soon as thoy discovered what was going on, but they got mighty Tittle consid eration from the railroad authorities In progressive Harrisburg it might be expected that this sort of thing could no longer occur, but manifestly thero are some officials who have not yet learned the lessons of recent years and who arc still disposed to pursue the foolish policy of a certain railroad president who said "the public be -<lamned." Still another evidence of the indif ference of some people to the preser-. WEDNESDAY EVENING I vation of the beauty of the city is the i proposed coal wharf from a point midway between Walnut and Market j streets to a point south of Market. 'There is no more necessity for this j wharf than there was for the construc j tlon of the big concrete abutment be | yond the eastern line of Front street lat Mulberry, but both illustrate the need of constant watchfulness on the ' part of those who have the lmprove j ment of the city at heart to prevent a return to the days whan any old j thing would do in any old place be i cause it suited the convenience of cor j porations and others out of joint with Ithe improvement plans. It may be too late to correct the I mistake of the giant abutment at ! Front and Mulberry streets, but it is I not too late to prevent another coal wharf at Market street, and we trust City Council will do so. Our heartfelt sympathies go out to Europe In this, her hour of trial; es pecially since we learn that no Ameri can oysters are to be exported this year. DEMOCRATIC TARIFF FOFFY A CORRESPONDENT of the New York Sun takes President Wil son sharply to task for his lack of frankness in addressing Con gress on tbe proposed war tax of $100,000,000. He quotes thus from the President: I need not tell you to what this falling oft is due. it is due in chief part not to the reductions recently made in the customs duties, but to the great decrease In importations, and this is due to the extraordi nary extent of the Industrial area affected by the present war In Eu rope. Unquestionably the falling off since August 3 is largely due to that, but to say that a war which started August 3 affected importa tions prior to July 1 is as absurd as the complaint of the wolf against the lamb in Aesop's Fables. The Treasury report shows that for the twelve months ended June 30, 1913, the total imports of mer chandise were $1,813,008,234. and that for the twelve months ended June 30, lUII, they increased over $80,000,000. to $1,893,025,657. but on account of the decreased duties in force under the I'nderwood bill be tween October 3, 1913, and June 30, 1914. the duties collected fell from $318,142,341 for the year ended June 30. 1913. to $292,128,528, or a loss of $26,013,816. President Wilson, in order to ac count for this proposed increase In taxation of $100,000,000. ought also to have called attention to the fact that the ordinary disbursements of the Government had risen under his administration from $682,770,706 in 1913 to $700,559,248 in 1914, or an increase of $17,758,542. In other words, owing to the Increased ordi nary disbursements for 1914 and the decreased customs revenues we had a shortage of $13,772,358 prior to July 1, 1914. We had absorbed the entire personal income tax of about $28,000,000 and still were $15,000,000 short of our financial situation of 1913. President Wilson, or any one else, can readily verify these figures at tbe Treasury Department. Of course. Congress will vote the. President the extra $100,000,000 that he asks, but It does seem to me that he owed the country the duty of ordinary a' curacy in statement even though that accuracy would have been a reflection upon hfs ad ministration. Read a stranger's impressions of Har risburg on this page this evening, and be glad you are a resident of Harris burg. already beautiful and growing more so every day. "SLUSH" FUNDS WE are hearing much from Washington nowadays re garding the purpose of Dem ocrats to investigate the alleg ed "slush" funds said to have been used in the primary campaign of Sen ator Penrose, but It would be more in teresting to the people of Pennsylva nia to know how much money was ex pended for A. Mitchell Palmer through the Palmer-McCormlck Lea-1 gue and in other ways. Palmer has not yet made answer to the Pennsyl vania Protective Union, which non partisan organization of manufactur-1 ers and business men he has accused of large expenditures In behalf of Senator Penrose. Richard Campion, the treasurer of the Union, has made an answer which will be submitted to the United States Senate by Sena tor Oliver with the request that it be referred to the same committee that has under consideration Palmer's loose charges. Palmer and the little men around him have mistaken the temper of the voters of Pennsylvania, as they will soon discover. Their campaign of abuse and misrepresentation and four flushing Is going to return to plague them. Woodman, spare that tree! There's no reason for the proposed destruction of the trees of River Park through the digging of a great ditch for a water main, and we trust the better judgment will prevail. PEACE, WONDERFUL PEACE ! WE quote from Vance C. McCor mlck's campaign speech of yesterday: 1 have traveled through seven teen counties of this State, and 1 want to bring you Democrats of Northampton county a greeting of assurance that never before has there been such great harmony In Democratic ranks as at present. Men who led warring factions In years gone by are now united and strlvin™ together for this great common cause, the redemption of Pennsylvania. Doubtless the voters of the State will be surprised to learn of this state of affairs In the Democratic party in Pennsylvania, In view of the fact that the Ryan faction is openly opposed to McCormick and thousands of other Democrats are threatening to remain at home if the McCormick wing of the party makes good Its proposal to fuse with the Progressives. Hundreds of others who thought they ought to have been rewarded by appointment to post office and other federal jobs, but who were not served with pap | when the bowl went around, are Itch ing for a chance to "get square." The knives that were sunk to the hilt in the primary fight are being whetted for the November elections. Such Is the Democratic harmony of to-day. Peace, peace, wonderful peace! AN EVENING TIfOFGIIT It is a poor heart and a poorer age. that cannot accept the condi tions of life with some heroic readiness.—Robert Louis Steven son. . fEVENING CHAfI Although not many of the foreign er* who are working in iron and steel mills and other enterprises about here are making very much money to put by against the day when they are go ing hack to the fatherland to take it easy, the war has had a noticeable effect upon the money order business. In the llrst place, it has caused some of the foreigners to stop sending money home because they are by no moans sure that the consignees will ever get It. or maybe because they are afraid that the persons to whom they n ' a >" be sending It are dead as a result of battle or that their homes have dis appeared in the wake of an army. • "onsequentl.v some of them are put ting their cash into postal savings accounts, which arc commencing to grow again, or else buying money or ders and putting them away against the day when they can cash them and start home again. This latter form of saving is very common here and in bteelton, the purchase of money or ders to be cashed at a future date being a big branch of the business in the borough. The postal money sys tem is one thing that the foreigners speedily learn and they are regular patrons, trusting Uncle Sam when they would not their own relatives. In the last few years the develop ment ol the rafiia and sewing work on the city's playgrounds has been little less than remarkable and the exhi bition of the work of the small ladies at the Romper Day exercises has grown to be almost as interesting as the games and the dances. The sea son just closed was no exception to this rule and the evidences of small girl handiwork and needlework at tracted so much attention that the youngsters didn't get a chance to take their own work home. That's why the bits of sewing—the dolls' caps and the gowns and the lingerie, etc.—and the tiny straw hats and baskets had to be carried into the park office for dis tribution. The children can readily claim their property now bv applving at the park offices. Some time ago the Telegraph noted th<* presence of about fourteen va rieties of weeds on the lawn of the 1-ederal building, which used to be one of the best kept stretches ol* grass in all Harrisburg until the contractors began the construction of the addition to the Post Office. Since that time some of the weeds have come into flower and the question arises how in the world did the weeds which belong on outlots or river shore, like Jimson, mullenstalk and the like, ever get there. It is not hard to account for dandelion or plalntain, but there are weeds that you can't (Ind within blocks of the Post office flourishing like green bay trees on the Court street side of Uncle Sam's prize lawn. The great Harrisburg kid is not bothered very much by policemen and tie really does not care very much about rules and regulations when the 'cops' are not looking. Of all the trees in Harrisburg that are consid era In the sacrosanct class those in 1 ftpitol Park are held to be the ones most preserved from damage by man or beast. Yet yesterday afternoon four or live boys gathered about one of the horse chestnuts near Third and Ha I nut streets and as there was no policeman in sight proceeded to club the branches to get down some of the nuts, rhey went at It in earnest and a city policeman chased them off after they had endangered a couple of auto mobiles that were passing and just missed a trolley car. Someone must have authority over the Soldiers' Monument which stands sentrv-like at State and Second streets and it would be a good thing to cele brate the forty-fifth anniversary of the erection of the obelisk by re lettering the inscription which faces down town. The inscription is cut into the stone and the letters used to be gilded. But the gilding has gone and the letters are hard to read. The whole inscription is weather stained and hardly In the condition that visitors like to see It. ~ '**• !' ■ Hope, the plant supervisor of the Harrisburg exchange of the Bell system, tells an interesting story in Telephone News for the money. * He was writing about odd occurrences in his line and says: "Recently a call was made to the wire chief of the Carlisle office from the owner of a beehive at Mount Holly, Pa. He stated that his bees had left the hive and swarmed in one of our cable boxes. After con siderable difficulty the bees were cap tured by the owner and returned to their hive without causing any damage to our cable box or loss of bees to the owner. It is not known just whv the bees preferred a cable terminal to their standard home of a hive unless one of the bees had heard someone saying 'honey' over the wire." 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE"" —J. Brooks Parker, of Philadel phia, who Is handling government war risk inquiries, is a shipping authority i?i that city. —lt. H. Jackson, district attorney of Allegheny, presented a flag to the new Pittsburgh school. —The Rev. J. F. Ohl. of Philadel phia, who has just returned from abroad, says that Americans were well treated In Germany. —Charles E. Specht, Johnstown coal operator and student of municipal problems, will be a candidate for council next year. —Dr. W. A Pollock, of Washing ton. about whose safety many in quiries were made, is in Switzerland. —Captain David Hart, of Canons burg, has attended every national en campment of the G. A. R. —George D. Porter. Philadelphia di rector of safety, is being congratulated on his birthday. That Steel ton mills made some of the steel used in the locks on the Panama canal? NEWS DISPATCHES OF THE CIVIL WAR TFrom the Telegraph of Sept. !», 1864.J Night I'lrnte Simmer Halifax, Sept. !>. About 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon the steamer Kran conia, when about ten miles southeast of Cape Sable, sighted a suspicious steamer, apparently under canvas, which soon got under steam and en deavored to head the Franeonlti ofT. The latter, however, succeeded in getting within proper limits of the shore. The privateer first hoisted British colors and afterwards others which those of the Franeonla were unable to make out. The supposed private was bargue rigged, with fore and main spencer, long lower masts and one smoke stack. She was painted lead color. KngnKriuenl lit llerryvllle Baltimore, Sept. 8. Word was re ceived here y«*terday that In the recent engagement at Berrysville. the Union army loss will not exceed 100 killed and wounded. The enemy's loss is very heavy. They are known to have lost more than 300 in one hrigade. Their total loss is estimated at 500. | EDITORIAL COMMENT] Mnybe The Outlook Is keeping that vacant contributing editorship open for King Albert of Belgium.—Colum bia State. Tbe best exhibit Belgium could make at Frisco would be one of those i Liege torts.—Columbia State. , HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH ALL IS NOT EASY I FDR FUSIOI) PLAN Denunciation of Democratic Party by Washington Platform Thorn in Flesh DR BRUMBAUGH IS CHEERED Great Outpourings in Luzerne to Welcome Republican Candidate Denunciation bf the Democratic £arty in the platform of the Washing ton party, which is discussing the possibilities of fusion, has risen to plague the party leaders. The Demo crats are eager for Washington party support, to make some showing for Vance C. McCormick for Governor. The Washington party leaders are de sirous of fusion because their treasury i.s depleted, tot William Kiinn, who hitherto has been liberal, is reported to be unwilling "to throw good money after bad." and Mr. McCormick is re ported to be generous in making con tributions. In the rank and tile of the party, however, opposition to fusion has arisen, reflected in the recent state ment by William Draper that he would not retire from the race until convinced that a considerable majority of the electors who cast their votes for | him at the direct primaries desired that he step out. In the western part of the State a movement has been started in the Washington party ranks to support Brumbaugh for Governor because of the favorable attitude of the leaders toward fusion on a Demo crat. In these circumstances opponents of fusion are quoting;, from the Washing ton party platform itself, these for mal statements: "We condemn the declared policy of the Democratic party—tariff for reve nue only. Confessedly, the present Democratic tariff is only the first step in a program of reduction meant eventually to wipe out every vestige of the protection principle from our | tariff. This policy we regard as a grave menace. "We condemn the Democratic ad ministration for surrendering the effi ciency of the civil and diplomatic serv ices to the clamor of Democrats hungry for party spoils. We particu larly condemn the use of the federal patronage in Pennsylvania to build up a Democratic machine in this State. "We condemn the proposal of the Democratic administration to surren der 'right or wrong' and without ar bitration our treaty rights in the Panama canal." Republicans of Luzerne county ten dered Dr. Martin 'j. Brumbaugh, can didate for Governor, a royal welcome on the second day of his tour of that sec tion yesterday. It Big Reception was a btisv day that I'or Brumbaugh the candidate put in in l.u/.erne I cior* his departure for Scranton, in a tour of Wilkes-Barre. He met hun dreds of voters, many of whom hailed him as "Governor Brumbaugh" and openly gave him promise of their sup port. From the time he breakfasted until he left for Lackawanna county Dr. Brumbaugh was as busy as the pro verbial bee. Starting in the morning with a visit to the Wilkes-Barre high school, he nest went to the city hall, the big office buildings, the department stores and newspaper offices, reaching the courthouse shortly before noon. Dr. Brumbaugh visited every office in the temple of justice and shook hands with all the officials and their clerks. On his rounds he met Judges | H. A. Fuller. John M. Garman and A. |M. Freas. He was alone with Judge Garman in the judge's chambers for ten minutes and when he went to the chamber of Judge Fuller the jurist, who was on the bench, declared a re cess in order that he might meet the candidate and shake his hand. At the high school Dr. Brumbaugh was introduced to the several hundred students, who gathered for the open ing of the new school term, by Pro | fessor James M. Couglilin, who re ferred to the candidate as the "next Governor of Pennsylvania." Dr. Brumbaugh addressed the students, speaking for fully a half hour. His address was nonpolitical and dealt with his experiences in Porto Rico when he was Commissioner of Education there. Richard D. Ward, president of the city school board, spoke after Dr. | Brumbaugh and Mr. Ward said that he had always been a stalwart Democrat. Democrat He declared that he Admits Ills came to the building Conversion to see what sort of a candidate the oppo sition had put uV>. "After hearing him speak." said Mr. Ward. "I am willing to admit that the chances are bright for nie becoming a partial Republican at the next elec tion." At the city hall Dr. Brumbaugh con ferred with Chief of Police John R. Roberts, who openly declared that he was going to vote for the Republican candidate and do all in his power to help elect him. David Thomas, who served at the last session of the House and Is certain of being returned at the next session, also met Dr. Brumbaugh. After visiting several of the banks the office buildings and the stores Dr. Brumbaugh was taken to the court house by County Chairman John R. Halsey and Secretary James H. Evans, and when this visit was at an end he was hurried off to the Sheldon ayle works, where a big meeting had been announced for the luncheon hour. George W. Wall, general manager of the Sheldon Axle Company, intro duced Dr. Brumbaugh, and in his speech the candidate said: "Politics Is a new experience for me. I have spent my life in school work, but T am now turning to the field of politics and offering my self to the people with 'be promise of serving Business them in the same faith- Depression ful way that I have as in I/Chanoii an educator. T have a business experience which I believe fits me for the office of Governor. I am standing, however, on my record in the public school system." Referring to depressed business con ditions, Dr. Rrumbaugh said: "Down lrul,ebanon Valley six out of every seven rolling mills are Idle. Out in Braddock the steel mills are run ning with only 40 per cent, of their capacity. Thousands are Idle. Mr. Wall, general manager of the Sheldon axlf works here, has just told me that I there are now only 1,200 men on the payrolls here, and that when the Shel don plant is working under normal conditions 2,200 men are giver, em ployment. "There are two causes for this de pressed business condition. One is the tariff legislation of the Democrats and the other the great European conflict. But business conditions were bad be fore the war started, and that was due entirely to a lack of confidence in the Democratic rule and Its tariff-produc ing plan. The Republican party today stands for a high tariff and that means better conditions for the work ingman. We ask you to-day to help us return to power in order that the j ! This Is the Age of Doing i Open an account with us. cither Savings or Commercial, or both. The Vacation Club is still open : : Security Trust Company of Harrisburg 36 38 North Third Street Open Saturday Evening 7 to 9 O'clock great avenues of Industry here may be reopened and the working masses given a chance to live. It is interesting to note that the office of Harrisburg's presumably non partisan mayor displays Palmer and j McCormick placards in the window of his office In Market street. Partisan Cards It is part of the actlvi- Shown in Mon ties of the various or- partisan I la*"® ganizations and indi viduals who are back ing the McCormick campaign to see how many people In the city and Steel ton may be induced to display the placards containing the pictures of the. candidates, probably to show the passer-by that they are not as bad looking as they are represented to be on the Pa-lie banner. In some places people have declined to display the faces of the Democratic candidates. Not so the Mayor. "Pennsylvania has been controlled by Republicans for twenty-five years. The State is to-day free from debt, has a prrHncl public school system anci spends millions for its uplift each year. No State in the Union has been better managed front an economic standpoint. I have no wild promises to make, but I do pledge you that if I am elected I will strive to work solely in the interest of the people, and will endeavor to make them happy and contented under Republican rule.' He Was loudly cheered by the crowd. After shaking hands with the work men at the Sheldon works Or. Brum baugh left for bis hotel and a few minutes later was on his way to Scranton. What was expected to he a stop over visit between trains bv Dr. Mar tin G. Rrumbaugh, Republican candi date for Governor, developed In Scran ton yesterday into an enthusiastic re ception. with informal conferences with local leaders, handshaking with hundreds of citizens at the Hotel Jer n\vn and a rousing wind-up speech last night at the South Scranton Re pubican flub, the most influential party body there. Dr. Rrumbaugh seemed to win friends wherever he appeared. Hundreds of people shook him by the hand and most of them said: "We're with you, Doctor." John M. Harris, who was interested in the passing of the school Brumbaugh code, reminded Dr. Saved New Brumbaugh of the im- School Code portant part the Phila ilelphian played in get ting the school code enacted. "That's right," the candidate said, "when the school code was passed Governor Stuart called mc on the tele phone and said: 'This law is passed, hut I'm going to veto it. There are too many commissioners that don't do anything as it is.' "I reminded the Governor that if he appointed the right kind of men he would get action. 'lf there are any commissions not doing their duty, that is your fault, not the people's,' I said to him. The Governor had to ac knowledge that I was right, and he told me that he wouldn't veto the bill until he saw me. I convinced him that it was a good measure, and it has proved that I was right. "Everything is as rosy as it can he," Dr. Brumbaugh said. "I find things favorable throughout the State, and I have every reason to believe that we will win by a tremendous majority." I I_ETTERSTOTH£ EDITOR I IMPRESSIONS OF HARHISIIITRG To the Editor of the Telegraph: Perhaps a newcomer's Impressions of Harrisburg will he Interesting to resi dents of the State Capital. if one knows good things regarding an in dividual or a community, It Is surely a pleasure to pass them along. We are Raided largely in this life by impressions. Without much previous knowledge of a place we drop into a city walk about the streets, ride in the cars so into the stores, talk with the people. We get an impression, and nine times out of ten. If we have knock ed about tlie country a bit. it's a fairly correct one. I,ess than a week ago. our train came up along lite Susquehanna late In the afternoon and we remarked on the beauty of approach. Half way across the bridge we looked out upon an island where children were having a roval good time, and were informed It was one of the city playgrounds. What a tine Idea—not only th.' playground, but the happy thought that placed it on that accessible island. After dinner a walk was in order, and while down along the river front, marveling at the good taste exhibited in parking, we found the city library. Cheery, attractive, well-lighted, cour teous attendants, good variety of hooks and magazines, all inviting one to sit down and read. ... We are athletically inclined and were amazed to discover that not only are there two Country Clubs, hut pub lic tennis courts and golf links, all of which we have since tried and found excellent. To be sure we were sound ly trounced at tennis, but that only goes to prove that the standard Is quite as high in that regard as In others. Of course, the Capitol building is beautiful—we expected that, in short, every move is revealing a new and happy surprise. But without going into details we have begun to xurmise that perhaps tlici, is a spirit here In this city that has determined that llarrlsburg shall bi> truly beautiful. It may bf> that this city believes that beautiful things placed within easy access of all the people, rract upon them, and uncon sciouslv they become better citizens. Somewhere in this town there's a great Idea and It has become contagious. All the people we have talked to are proud of our city. We say "our" now, and are proud, too. We like our city tlrst rate and want to help make it more beautiful by sub stituting for every ugly thing like those unsightly posters on our main HKAIMU'AKTKIIS FOR SHIRTS SIDES & SIDES ■ SEPTEMBER Q. 1014. street, for instance, something that's ennobling. All honor to ambitious, hustling, wholesome Harrisburg. A NEW COMER. Harrisburg. September 9. j IN HARRISBURG FIFTY 1 YLARS AGO TO-DAY [Prom the Telegraph of Sept. 9. 1884.] Harrlnburg Soldier Return* Sergeant Simon Snyder, the youngest son of Charles A. Snyder, of this city, arrived in Harrisburg to-day. He was a member of the Verbeke Rifles, in the three months' service and was the youngest soldier In Pennsylvania's quota of troops furnished at that time. On his return he entered the One Hun dred and Seventh Regiment, in which he has served ever since and participat ed in all the principal battles from Cedar Mountain down to the late op erations before Petersburg. THE MAN BEHIND THIO ME (.From the Pittsburgh Gazette-Times] Glfford Pinchot, Washington party candidate for United States Senator from Pennsylvania, yesterday issued a statement in which he said of Senator Penrose, the Republican nominee for that office: "lie has used the power of his po litical organization to defeat good leg islation sorely needed by the work ingmen. There has never been a tinre when he has not favored the special interests at the expense of labor. No decent child labor bill has over been able to pass through a legislature controlled by Penrose." On September 10, 1910, Colonel Roosevelt, speaking at Exposition Hall. Pittsburgh, said: "You have some admirable laws on the statute books here in Pennsylva- I nia. Take the way that you have i-nred for your schools—your coin | pulsory law—your appropriations for [the schools—your appropriations for | school books, so that every boy and | girl in Pennsylvania can get an educa : tion. And now you are administering that law so that their parents and no body else can elieut them out of the education. You have on the statute books the eight-hour law as regards the employes of the government. You have laws prohibiting child labor and minimizing the number of hours and regulating the labor of women—laws that have not in the past been always executed as they should be, but which I think are steadily being better ex ecuted, from all that I can hear. * • » It is a great sum of positive achleve | ment of which you should be proud." At an earlier stage in the same speech Colonel Roosevelt said: "Next to the dishonest man himself in point of danger to civic morality comes the untruthful man who. In a spirit of wanton levity, or with mere sour malevolence, or for ire, or for sensationalism, or for any other cause, | falsely accuses men who are honest of I things that are dishonest. Between I the two types of public enemies there may be a difference of Infamy, but It is so small that it is safe to disre gard it." Senator Penrose, If he has been the dominating influence at Harrisburg to the extent that the opposition alleges, must be credited with a voice and part in securing enactment of the legisla tion to which Colonel Roosevelt re ferred with emphasis. Mr. Pin chot, therefore, as the man behind the lie, falls under the Colonel's charac terization of a false accuser. BIG BARGAIN |l3|| 111 $5 REDUCTIONj Cabinet Gas I $24 Until the End of September j|| 10 Per Cent. Off For Cash These ranges take up no more room than the Dou ble Oven Ranges, but have all the advantages of the large Cabinets. They measure 36 inches without end shelf, 44 inches with end shelf. With shelf, price s2(>. Ranges are all new, right out of our 1914 stock and are backed by our regular guarantee. See them at our office, or ask us to send a repre sentative with illustrated catalogue. Harrisburg Gas Company I —— —■ f OUR DAILY LAUGH | * Some Tram Quit Arc you de The fugitive: sportln' editor? Hey, Chlmnile, go Well jes' put in bark to de ball ycr paper flat de ground an' teli Terrible Tigers 'sm I've resigned challenges all four me .lob as "Em yoar old teams, pire." averaKin' 26 lbs. A MAN WHO IS HIS OWN MASTER (Philadelphia. Ledger) Dr. Martin G. Brumbaugh, in his address at Williams Grove, got back very close to the land from which he sprang. Ills strong plea for the up building of agricultural Pennsylvania transcends in importance all the In definite promises and theories of a weakling opposition. Here is a candidate who stands resolutely upon a self-made platform and sounds an appeal for the actual and material betterment of his State. Here is also a candidate who talks specific things and prescribes specific remedies, lie deals in ne misty doubts, proclaims no veiled promises and holds forth no quixotic reforms im possible of accomplishment. Doctor Rrumbaugh talks facts. 110 tells (he farmers that he will uphold a free-school system which, by teach ing boys and girls how to farm, will add millions every year to the wealth of this State. He designates evil con ditions, but far more Important ho points out the way to correct them. A doctor who merely lays his finger [ upon the sore but is too timid or too : ignorant to apply any remedy takes I fees from his patient under false pre ■ tense. Doctor Brumbaugh is no such I physician. Untrammeled by any po litical boss, he diagnoses the ills of | a Commonwealth and he prescribes I the medicine to cure them. The liquor question, taxes, schools, | charities and roads receive from this j gubernatorial candidate square, clean | cut doctrine. It is indeed a refresh i ing sight in Pennsylvania to behold a man who is his own master, who pos sesses the brain to suggest great things and has the will power, if elected, to force them into effect. It is easy for a candidate to pre tend that everything in his own party !is right. It is still easier to denounce I everything in the opposing party as 1 wrong. What the voter wishes Is some I one to glean the right from the wrong i and then step forth with a clean, un | tarnished record to lead straight to the proper goal. Doctor Brumbaugh's speeches show that he has the brains to dis ! cover, the force of will to lead, and the | independence to put to rout every I trifling party pullback. Perhaps the censors are merely cull ing out the interesting parts of the war dispatches, intending to sell them, to the magazines later on.—New York American.
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