8 BASRISBURG TELEGRAPH EttabUskfd list PtTBUSHEET BY THE TBLCORIPH PRINTISO O& B. i. ST A. CK POLE. Prea't and TreasTl P. R. OYSTER. Secretary. BUS M. BTEINMETZ, Managing Editor. Published every evening (exoept Sun day), at the Telegraph Building, 114 Federal Square. Sastern Office. Fifth Avenue Bulldln*, New York City, Hasbrook, Story * Brooks. Western Office, IJB West Madia** street. Chicago, 111., Allen A Ward. Delivered by carriers at six cents a week, ifai Mailed to subscribers at $3.00 a year in advance. Entered at the Post Office In Harrla burg aa second class matter. ®The Association of Amer- , 1 loan Advertisers lias ax- | 1 ammcd and certified to i 1 the circulation ef tbl> pub- i' ' > licatian. Tha figures of circulation I l aontainrd in the Association's re- i I * port only are guaranteed. i[ Association of American Advertisers ;> ;> No. 2333 Whltthill Bldg. N. T. City i | •w»m dally average 'or the moacfc •! August, 1914 24,039 if Average for the year 1918—21.87T Average for the year 1912—21,1T8 Average for the year 1911—18.801 Average for tie year 1910— TELEPHONES i Bell Private Branch Exchange No. 144#. United Business Office, 301. Editorial Room 686. Job Dept. HI WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPT. 16. DR. BKUMBAI'GH'S REPLY DR. BRUMBAUGH'S reply to the suggestion of the Philadelphia North American that he could have the support of that news paper In his campaign for Governor, If he deserted the other Republican candidates named on the same ticket with him at the May primaries, beyond doubt will win him thousands of votes of men who admire a candidate not only honest In his convictions but courageous enough to stand by them. The letter is straightforward to the point of bluntness and for vigor of ex pression and keen grasp of essentials c losely resembles some of the political utterances of Colonel Roosevelt. Evi dently Dr. Brumbaugh is well able to take care of himself under any cir cumstances. Dr. Brumbaugh is correct in his conclusions. The North American was in its offer of support simply seeking an excuse to hop from the sinking ship of Progressivism to tho scarcely less wabbly planks of the McCormick wing of the Democratic party. Dr. Brumbaugh would have branded him self as a traitor to the party that named him and would have placed himself in the class with McCormick, who stands ready to go to any length to gratify his ambition for public office, had he yielded to the absyrd proposal of the Philadelphia news paper that is now trying to square itself between free trade and pro tection. But whatever att'itude the North American may take. It cannot dodge the fact that It has held up Dr. Brum baugh to the voters of the State .-is Individually the best qualified candi date In the field at this time for the Governorship of Pennsylvania. It has admitted that his natural ability, training, acquaintance with the needs and Ideals of Pennsylvania and un questioned honesty of purpose fit him as no other before the public at this time Is fitted for the high office of chief executive of the State. It will not do, therefore, for that newspaper to turn its support to a second-rate candidate simply because its publish ers have a grievance against some other man on the ticket upon which Dr. Brumbaugh's name happens to appear. Dr. Brumbaugh has been recom mended by the North American to its readers as a personally tit man for Governor, and therefore honest and truthful. Dr. Brumbaugh himself has said that he owes nothing to anybody, that he is his own b,is.« and that he will strive with all his might for the passage of local option, child labor and other Important legislation. It is hut fair. then, we submit, to take Dr. Brumbaugh at his word, and no doubt the voters, will do it. Indications parly to-day worn that the Washington party bosses would put through their fusion deal. There doesn't seem to be sufficient rank and file loft to conduct even a rear guard action. iH'DGE KtNKEL'S CANDIDACY ALL Central Pennsylvania and some of the outlying counties were represented at the meet- ing of Judges and lawyers In Harrisburg yesterday at which Judge Kunkel was endorsed for (he State Supreme Court bench. The hundreds of attorneys who have practiced be fore him see in Judge Kunkel a man lltted by every essential qualification for the high tribunal of the State. It Is \ ery fitting and should have great ■weight with the lay voters that these men, who know him most Intimately and are best fitted to Judge, should Join together in a public endorstment of his candidacy. Judge Kunkei's campaign for the nomination was conducted under ex treme difficulty and was beset by many complications of a political nature that no longer exist. His path lies straight to the Supreme bench. He is well known as the man who tried the Capi tol conspiracy cases and his labor record is clean. He has served the public as legislator, public prosecutor and Judge. He is experienced in every branch of the law and an authority on Pennsylvania legislation of all WEDNESDAY EVENING HAKRISBUkG TELEGRAPH SEPTEMBER 16, 1914. softs. He was re-elected to the Dau-| phin county bench on a nonpartisan ticket without a dissenting vote. He lias no business entanglements and Is 'free politically. His private life Is without a blemish. He is in the prime ; of life and resides in a district that ] is not represented on the Supreme, , bench. He is the logical man for the 1 judgeship and the public will no doubt ■ agree with the bar in its endorse ' luent. But the fight is not over. The other candidate In the field also has his J friends. Every effort must be made to Instruct people of the State with the i qualifications of the Dauphin county Jurist. The Kunkel campaign com ' niittee has a busy period before it. ■ There is a growing impression among 1 the war experts of the world that the > great European conflict may come to • ,an end sooner than v. is expected ten days ago. This feeling is increased hy ! | the downward trend of grain prices. ! the result of liquidating sales growing \ out of a conviction that the war may I not continue Into the winter. ' The | enormous cost of the struggle Is re [ garded as likely to force a conclusion ! through starvation of tho armies. NOW A FREIGHT TAX | T it out of the frying pan and Into I the Are for the Wilson Administra- tion nowadays. Every move seems j to involve the unfortunate party of .■negation in a whirlpool of trouble, and [ nothing has been more embarrassing Ito the President and his party leaders 'than the proposed war tax on railroad I freight. > Paternalism has ran wild since President Wilson assumed control at 1 Washington, and the taxing of rail road freight is regarded as another step and a longer one In the direc tion of government ownership. It is • also pointed out that such a tax Is un equal. because If freight is to be taxed then water carriers should also share the burden In common with land car riers. Otherwise tho former would gain traffic in no small degree at the expense of the latter. It is also urged that this tax would Increase the cost of living and the , cost of doing business; that If the prin- L ciple of freight taxation is estab [ llshed the taxation of passenger re ceipts will Inevitably follow; that it would fasten upon the railroads the L odium of the tax collector, and the . railroads are already loaded with [ weighty responsibilities of their own. Another reason urged against the , proposed tax is that it would foster a . sentiment unfavorable to the rail roads because the public either will , not or cannot' discriminate between necessary revenue increase and tax i imposition. Developments of the last I few years have shown that the rail . roads need the good will of the people i as much as the people need the in valuable services of the railroads. Business men are already burdened i sufficiently without placing upon them s the additional load of higher freight r rates. Consumers must eventually ; bear the load which is being Imposed ' upon the public utilities and, as has : been Stated by an expert, business is in . no condition to stand such a strain as ■ would be put upon It. t It is further pointed out that If I "railroad rates are to be increased at . all, the railroads themselves should i have the money instead of paying it ' into a treasury depleted because of 1 the ruinous reductions in the tariff duties by a Congress which seems to 1 believe It Is better for Americans to be dependent on Europe for what they use th&n to produce it them i selves." • "Those whi.m the gods would de stroy they iirst make mad," and the 1 madness of the theorists who are now running this government Is shown in '■ one proposal after another for the 1 destruction of public confidence and • prosperity. The Patriot continues to conduct itself as though it thought the public more deeply Interested In campaign speeches than war news. DR. BRUMBAUGH IN DAUPHIN THIS is a busy day for "M. G." in the upper end of Dauphin county. He is in the household of his friends. Thousands of the sturdy yeomanry and the hardy miners and toilers of the northern section of Dauphin county are extend ing him a sincere welcome. They know him and the better they know him the niore popular he becomes with them. Dr. Brumbaugh is Increasing in strength and favor wherever he goes, and it seems to be a foregone conclu sion that before the first of October the indications will so clearly point to the tremendous vote of the Republi can candidate that all doubt, of the success of his campaign will have dis appeared. His manly and straight forward course since he began his canvass of the State has won over thousands of voters who were in doubt as to the sort of man the Republicans had nominated for Governor. His strong constructive and optimistic speeches have impressed the men of all parties and his honest declarations in favor of the important issues of the present campaign have convinced voters generally of his eminent fitness for the great office he seeks. Even those advocates of local op tion who had been deceived by state ments of misguided leaders In the movement regarding Dr. Brumbaugh's attitude are no longer In doubt. They have heard his manly pronouncements on this question, and from every quar ter of the State are pledging him their hearty and sincere support. "M. G." is a man of the people, in sympathy with them and thoroughly in touch with the problems which confront the great mass of Pennsyl vanlans from day to day. They trust htm and are going to give him a tre mendous vote In November. The Underwood tariff was passed to cut prices and save the tariff tax to the public. But prices didn't come down and nothing was saved. Now the Democrats propose a "war tax" to make un the money lost In taxation by the tariff. Thus we see the public taxed double to pay for Democratic foolf*h ness. And yet we are asked to "sup port Uu jitlml nlnU^Uon." I EVENING CHAT I People connected with the State government are speculating whether Ins asse ts of Father Penn will be $23,000,000 or $50,000,000 or more when the Pennsylvania Property t ommission completes the inventory of what the State actually owns. The commission was created by the Gov ernor some months after he had vainly tried to find out what the Com monwealth possessed in the way of real, personal and mixed property. He found a million acres of forest re serves, several State institutions worth a million dollars or more, armories, bridges and other things, but no one could approximate what they were worth. The Governor wants to in form the nejjt Legislature just how much the State is worth and to make the point that it has all this and some thousands of dollars over and above nil its old notes nnd uncalled for bonds in the State Treasury. The com mission has been working for weeks on lists furnished by the departments and bureaus and hospitals and has turned up some unexpected things. For instance on one State tract it was found there war. a lot of culm which is worth considerable money and that the Department of Fisheries has property worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. Some of the farms owned by State institutions are Immensely valuable and there is property scat tered through half the counties of tho State. The State owns more than a million dollars' worth of armories, which by the way represent an invest ment of approximately but sixty per cent, of their value. The inventory is going to be one of the most inter esting and surprising things that the State, has known in a long while and meanwhile guesses as to what is go ing to aggregate are being made. The hearings before the Public Service Commission yesterday brought some of the best-known lawyers of the State to the city and there was more corporation laws floating around the Capitol than for a long time. Six of tho attorneys here were represen tatives of big railroad systems and they followed the course of the hear ings with much interest. And yet. In spite of the magnitude of the ques tions involved, the hearings made scarcely a ripple on Capitol Hill. Dr. Joseph Kalbfus.s secretary of •the State Game Commission, is keep ing a sharp lookout on the returns of magistrates who certify to the pay ment of bounties for the killing of foxes, wildcats and the like. It ap pears that in a good many districts the arms of the law are not as fa miliar with the physical characteris tics of noxious animals as they might be and once in a while "some one puts something over." Not long ago the doctor heard of a case wherein the scalps of some birds were turned In as those of a hawk on which Father Penn has put a bounty. Not one of the scalps was from the bird which is under the ban. South Second street below Mulberry looks as though a cyclone had struck it or rather it resembles an Italian city after an unusually severe earth quake. a Belgian city after some "atrocities" had been staged, an Aus trian city that has been in the battle zone or a Mexican municipality im mediately following a surprise visit by constitutionalists or Huertistas. There are some walls standing, but they look as though the gunnery prac tice had been excellent. Whole blocks have disappeared and one can look from River street clear over to the gasometers along the line of the old canal without anything interfering. As far as looking south is concerned there is little more than lots left. This part of the city was one of the fashionable residential districts one hundred years ago, Market street be ing more or less of a tavern district. A good many people have been as tonished at the wide expanses of sand and grass patches that have emerged from the Susquehanna river in the last few weeks. The absence of rain has caused the river to fall and some large areas have come to light. Op posite Harris street, for instance, there is a gigantic sand bank that appears to be new and when its loca tion is considered it is a wonder that some attempts have not been made to have it backed up by stone. Even tually It would make a fine addition to the series of islands now existing and which could be joined and be come a second city park some day in the far distant future. But it is worth looking at and considering. Judging from some complaints which have been made lately there are some automobilists who are vent ing their wrath against the sign boards along the State highways in a practical way. Wherever the State has authority it has been refusing to allow signs to be erected, but there are property owners along the roads who are not as careful and they have permitted erection of big signs close to roads. Evidently, some of the auto mobilists have been throwing rocks at the signs. Speaker George E. Alter, who has a southern Pennsylvania family connec tion through the fact that something over 100 years ago one of his ances tors settled in Franklin county, and l>r. Martin G. Brumbaugh were talk ing over Pennsylvania in Pittsburgh the other day and discovered that they were about forty-second cousins. They were, comparing notes far back and it appears that in 1693, one Hans Graf came to Lancaster from Switzerland. He became one of the county's big men and he left a numerous poster ity. fie was a common ancestor of Dr. Brumbaugh and Mr. Alter, Dr. Brumbaugh's middle name. Grove, be ing an Americanization of the name "Graf." The relationship to Graf is on Dr. Brumbaugh's mother's side and Mr. Aiter's father's side. The lolly pop is a great thing for young and old and more apt to be bad for young. The other day a doctor was called to look after a case of a young sufferer. He had all the signs of a disordered stomach and was asked what he had been eating. "Lolly pop," he groaned. "H-m-m. More than one?" was aS "Nine," came in feeble accents. ] WELL KNOWN PEOPLE"! —Col. H. P. Bope, of the Carnegie Steel Company, says that he thinks good times will come when the war is ended.. —Charles Reed.» Johnstown coal op erator, is planning some big coal op erations in Somerset county. —Dr. C. M. Thomas, Beaver edu cator, is home from a tour of Europe. —Henry Netter, Philadelphian just home from Europe, says Germany will starve before giving up. —William E. Harmon. Pittsburgh broker, is about after a. severe ill ness. —Dr. W. P. Wilson, of the Phila delphia Museums, is assisting the Philadelphia committee in charge of the foreign trade boom. —E. B. Smith, Philadelphia banker, is home after some wandering in Eu rope and looks for better business. I DO YOU KNOW? | That rails rolled in Steeltou are used on railroad.® In Brazil and that Steclt4»n bridge material Is used in Burmali? , PBOHIBITIOIIISTS TO ENTER Hi Arrangements For Their Opening Will Shortly Be Announced From Their Bureau PRUGH TOURING THE STATE Noted Friend Denounces the Fusion Pact; Dr. Brumbaugh Winning Praises Everywhere The Prohibition State committee will join with its rivals in launching a vigorous campaign very shortly and plans are now being made for_ the formal opening in October. State Chairman B. K. P. Prugh has been on a tour of the State meeting the leaders of the party in the various counties and getting a line on con ditions. Within a short time the officials of the committee will arrange the date nnd place for the opening and for speeches by the candidates. The party lias nominated legislative candidates throughout the State and is planning for wide circulation of its declaration of principles. Chairman Prugh, who took charge of the committee a year ago, has had the assistance of a num ber of men who have borne the brunt of former campaigns of the cold water people. The Philadelphia Press of to-day says: "Repudiation of the efforts of the Democratic and Bull Moose State committees towards fusion and of the en- Noted I'Yiend listment of the tetn- Dcnounces the perance vote against Fusion Game Dr. Martin G. Brum baugh is contained in a letter just made public, written by Henry W. Wilbur, in many respects the most prominent and best beloved Friend in Philadel phia, in the last week of his life. Mr. Wilbur expressed his intention of cast ing his vote for Dr. Brumbaugh, his three sons concurring with him, he cause the Wilbur family knew Dr. Brumbaugh and his life work, al though he expressly set forth that he was not a partisan, and with three exceptions during the last quarter century had not voted for either of the old political parties. He added: observation has convinced me that fusion in politics, especially on contradictory and incongruous ele ments, In the long run means con fusion to all the moral issues which enter into the compact.' "Mr Wilbur's letter was written to E. J. Moore, of the Anti-Saloon League, and, as explained in a letter of transmittal to Dr. Brumbaugh, was occasioned by the receipt by Mr. Wil bur of a political folder signed by Democratic State Chairman Morris and Washington State Chairman Detrich. He pronounces the leaflet 'an adroit attempt to shift your (Brumbaugh's) support and to swing some of it to the Democratic candi date for Governor—personally, X do not like the game'." Dr. Martin G. Brumbaugh's smash ing reply to the Philadelphia North American, in which he says he will stand for no party treachery to gain the support of that i>r. Brumbaugh's Journal, added Statement is many friends to Well Received his campaign In Dauphin and Cum berland counties. The statement was what was expected of the candidate and the clear and vigorous language attracted much attention when pub lished in the Telegraph last night. The statement also answers the par roting of McCormick. When Dr. Brumbaugh was here this morning he said that he had nothing to add to what he had said. "You don't need to." commented a bystander. The candidate just smiled. Announcement was made yesterday at the headquarters of the Republican State committee of the itinerary of the tour of the Repub lican candidates untler Republican the direction of State Campaign Chairman William B. Dates Out Crow for the week end ing Saturday, Septem ber 26. Included in the party which will address the initial meetings will be Dr. Martin G. Brumbaugh, Frank B. McClain and Henry Houck, nominees for Governor. Lieutenant-Governor and Secretary of Internal Affairs, re spectively, and John R. K. Scott, M. M. Garland, Colonel Thomas S. Crago and Daniel P. T.afean, candidates for corgressmen-at-large. The schedule of the week Is as fol lows: Monday, September 21—Lycoming county, meeting in Wllllamsport. Tuesday, September 22 —• Clinton county, meetings in Bock Haven and Renovo. Wednesday, September 23—rXortli umberland county, meetings In Wat snntown. Milton and Sunbury. Thursday, September 24-—Snyder. Cnion and Mifflin counties, meetings in Selinsgrove, Bewisburg Fair. Mid dleburg and Bewlstown. Friday. September 25—Blair county, meeting in Altoona. Saturday. September 2fi—Cambria county, meeting In Johnstown. Senator Benrose, who has personal dates on the other days, will join the party for "the meeting In Altoona. POLITICAL SIDELIGHTS i —Dr. Brumbaugh seems to know how to hit from the shoulder. —There will be more following the leadership of Dick Quay. —The Democratic windmill pro fesses to be pleased with the regis tration. A very little amuses It. —Judging from reports, McCormick may as well quit bothering about the Juniata Valley. It's going for Brum baugh. —Some eminent Bhiladelphlans ap parently think that the governorship is a man's size job and they are for Brumhaugh. —As Mifflin is next to Huntingdon county, one can imagine what head way McCormick made in his attack on Brumbaugh at Bewistown. —The Bottsville Journal commends Brumbaugh's answer as the kind of stuff the people want to read. —McCormick and Palmer are at Centre Hall. Dr. Brumbaugh will be there to-morrow. —The Democratic State Federation of Clubs has .been galvanized or given the gold treatment and will have a fest to-morrow at Scranton. McCor mick will he there. —There's a lot of lip service going on in some Democratic organizations these days. exrsE FOR -XeWN WORRY. VV^ 3 Spring Onion: L * "Why so sad?" * *\ Old Potato: |y/Kmfy* "The Doctor says *) Lri I need glasses—it ykM/y/vjf Q will bankrupt Jp [ OUR DAILY LAUGH j ''' Kciiieniherlug the A Summer Ho*ort Boy* Note If baseball mas:- She's stopping at nates only the Mountain were House, j Philanthropists, But great se- i they'd plan elusion seeks, > with care She always dress to build the es In the fenres round dark, their parks Because the With knotholes mountain' scattered her peaks, and there. ~ — I>IHM-IHII V -If Hen- Quit j (rr IMH peeked ling and boo- There's —ndox booing! In many a Face the fight phrase, with courage We hear, br- stout; yond debate. It's the man A man may weigh who's up and h i a words doing yet \S no Is never May find they down and have no out. weight. THE NEW HAT n y Wing Dinger As yesterday was hat day. And straw hats had to go, I went down to the hat store. Some of my coin to blow Upon a brand new top piece— The soft kind, don't you know— I asked the clerk to pick out Some styles and to me show. He got about a dozen, T tried each on my head (The editor won't let me Print just the words I said When I looked In the mirror And got a glimpse of me). But one by one I spurned them— And asked some mor« to see. "That's all the shades there are, sir," The salesman said to me. "But I don't like the shape, sir; Another style, let's see." And then I learned that this year There is no choice of style, But I am game, I bought one, And folks now at me smile. REPUBLICAN EXTRAV AGA X C E AND DEMOCRATIC ECONOMY [New York Sun.] On June 19, 1910, the Hon. John J. Fitzgerald, the present chairman of the House committee on appropria tions, said in the House in a speech which was circulated as a Democratic campaign document: "Controlling both houses by sub stantial majorities, the responsibility .for the appropriations belongs to the Republicans. Try as they may, they cannot be other than 'wasteful, ex travagant, Inefficient.' • • » There can be no hope for any reductions from the Republican party. The best Interests of the county and the people demand a Democratic House. In no other way can expenditures be brought back to their normal level, taxes lev ied and collected for the sole pur pose of defraying the legitimate ex penses of the government economi cally administered." Well, the Democrats have not only the House but the Senate and the Ex ecutive. On September 12, 1914, Mr. Fitzgerald admitted in the House that the appropriations of the present ses sion, $1,089,408,777.26, are the highest yet reached, a leap of nearly $32,000,- 000 over the skyscraping figures of last year. The voters of the United States, pinched worse than ever by the cost of living and the disturbance of business, themselves compelled to economy, see their government more wildly waste ful than ever before. IN HARRISBURG FIFTY YEARS AGO TO-DAY [From the Telegraph, Sept. 16, 1864.] New District Geueral Couch has created a new military district in this department, comprising the territory lying between the Laurel Hill Mountain on the west and the Williamsport and Elmira Rail road; the Susquehanna river from Willlamsp' "t to the intersection of the Blue Mountain, and that range of mountains to the Maryland line on the east, to be known as the Juniata district Brigadier General O. S. Ferry has been assigned to the com mand of the district, with headquar ters temporarily at Redford. I [From the Telegraph, Sept. 16, 1864.] Nashville Blown Out New York, Sept. i»>.—The steamer Creole, from New Orleans on the sev enth. arrived at this point. Amongst the passengers is the Hon. A. Hills. The Metacomet had succeeded in blowing the Nashville out of the wa ter at Dog river. Continued Picket Fir.ng Army of the Potomac, Sept. 16. Picket and artillery firing have been kept up very briskly since Saturday, the ire of the rebels not seeming to have boiled off yet at being surprised and losing so many prisoners. The re sult Is that some five or six men a day are brought into the hospital, the majority badly wounded and some few have died. AN EVENING THOUGHT The soul has Its capital; every triumph over an unworthy im pulse, every successful struggle against an ignoble weakness, every deed of good and every resistance to the bad enters as spiritual money, stocks, bonds and ne gotiable values into its bank of power.—Frank Crane. JOIN OUR VK7TROLA CLUB Get your choice of Vlctrola and records on our liberal club plan. In vestigate. J. H. Troup Music House, 15 South Market street. Advertise ment. HEADQUARTERS FOR SHIRTS SIDES & SIDES 11 COPYWMI IT lOI4V ■OiZ HOUSE or KUPPCNHEIMBW Plenty of 'Em Here Dealers have been guessing which way the cat would jump as regards Fall Overcoat styles. Many guessed wrong, but once more we hit it right. Everybody is looking for Balmacaan style coats, and when they look here they find them a-plenty. We're long on these coats while most stores are short—some even to the point of being destitute. These coats are of pure wool fabric from collar to hem—come in many variations of the most wanted patterns—are excellently tailored —and priced just as low as if no scarcity existed. Balmacaan Fall Coats sls $lB S2O The Kuppenheimer "Klavicle" Made of woven fabric and very similar in cut to a Balmacaan $25.00 MILLIONS of men arc fighting on the European battlefields for kings and other rulers. Here in Pennsylvania millions of King Oscar 5c Cigars are mobilized every year for the enjoy ment of men engaged in the peaceful pur suits of life, but who are as loyal to their "King" as any subjects of the crown in the great conflict. 23 Years of Regular Quality
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