8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Established tijl PUBLISHKH BT THE) TELECUUPII PRINTING Ofc R. 3. STACKPOL4C, Prea't and Treas'lV F. R, OYSTER, Secretary. GUS M. STKINMJ2TZ, Managing Editor. Published every evening: (except Sun day), at the Telegraph Building, ill Federal Square. JEaatern Office, Fifth Avenue Building, New York City, Hasbrook. Story 4b Brooks. Western Office, 12 J West Madia** street, Chicago. 111., Allen & Ward. Delivered by carriers at MjTijjtfffaL nix cents a week. Mailed to aubscrlbers at $3.00 a year lr. advance. Entered at the Post Office In Harrln burg as second class matter. !' /TTN Association of Amer- ( 1 1 1 Ib/Aibj ' can Advertisers has ex- , 1 \|ay amiaed and certified to i I tha circulation af this pab- i| ! I Hcation. The figures of circulation i i 1 contained in the Association's re- i j 1 port only are guaranteed. ' i [ Association of American Advertisers ;. j No. 2333 Whitehall Bldg. N. V. City == (worn dally average for thr moaffc mt August, 1914 if 24,039 A?erac§ for the year 1018—2WTT Amase Cor tbo year 1012—31,175 Averace for the year 1911—18,851 Amaff for the year 1010— 1T.405 TELEPHONES ■ Bell Private Branch Exchange N®. till. Business Office. SOI. Editorial Room 685. Job Dept. tit. SATURDAY EVENING. SKPT. 19. SELLING OUT PALMER HOW the McCormick-Lewls deal was brought about is simply and effectively told by the York Dispatch in the following lan guage: After William Draper Lewis ro vealed that his withdrawal from the Washington party ticket was the result 01 various influences and an understanding reached through correspondence with Vance McCor mick, it was suggested by other members of the Washington party meeting at Harrisburg that if the Democratic candidate for Governor were placed on the Washington party ticket the Democrats should be asked to withdraw Mitchell Pal mer as candidate for Senator. Flinn then said that "to go to the Demo crats with any such proposition would be to enter into just such a dicker as the Washington party opposed." In other words, the Washington party could endorse a dicker between Lewis and McCor mick but not between Plnchot and Palmer. This did not strike Judge Brumm and other protestants to the arrangement for having a Democrat head the Washington party ticket as precisely consistent, and they expressed their view with prophecies of disaster. was quite frank about his correspon dence with McCormick. When Lewis lirst let it be known that the third party movement in the State was hopeless without some measure of fusion with the Democrats. Vance McCormick rushed madly in to the channels of publicity and declared that the action of Lewis was without his knowledge. Mc- Cormick may have been right tech nically, but not practically, as the correspondence with Lewis on this point showed. The two men had discussed this question. McCormick had a light to expect Lewis to withdraw, even if he did not actu ally know that Lewis would get off the ticket. In this McCormick dis closed a lack of sincerity which surprised his most Intimate asso ciates. Even Mitchell Palmer pro fesses to he ignorant of tlie letters which passed between Lewis and McCormick. And now McCormick is trying to complete his deal by endeavoring to force Palmer into the discard. McCor mick owned tlie men who sat in the local option convention that met here during the past week and "Bill" Flinn •wrote the resolution endorsing McCor mick and Pinchot. McCormick could have had Palmer endorsed along with himself, but he did not want to. Here we have a fine picture of the man who aspires to he Goveronr of Pennsylvania. First, for his own per- Bonal advancement, he enters into a secret political dicker with Flinn and Lewis. That accomplished, for his own selfish purposes also, he plots the removal of Palmer, the man whose political brains were responsible for McCormick's rise to party boss-ship. Traitor to party McCormick has been when tlie whim seized him. money hag politician, dealer and petty trick ster whenever it has paid. Now he places himself in the light of trying to sell out his own best friend. How much longer will Palmer be fooled? As an educational journal, the "In surance Field," a publication of na tional reputation, after a thorough ex amination covering a year, places the Harrlsburg Telegraph in class with Col lier's, McClure's, Harpers, The New York Independent, Outlook, Leslie's, System, Philadelphia Evening Telegraph, St. Louis Republic, 1 Pittsburgh Dispatch, Chattanooga News, Philadelphia North American, Merrill (Wis.) Herald. Cleveland Leader, Portland (Me.) Press, Hartford Courant, Portland Ore gonian. Des Moines Register and Leader, Atlanta Constitution, Spring field (111.) Journal, Kansas City Star, San Francisco Call and Post, New York Times. New York Sun, New York American. New York Commercial, New York Tribune. Thanks! We ar<- glad to appear in euch good company. (MAB TllK FIRE ESCAPES FIRE CHIEF JOHN C. KINDLER Is right—fire escapes should NOT be used as cold storage shelves. The apartment house is becoming more nnd more popular In Harris burg and its regulation is becoming more and more a problem as the days go by. Fire Chief Kindler's inspec tion this week disclosed, among other things, that dozens of apartment dwellers are utilizing the steps of the fire escapes as storage places for milk bottles, flower pots, garbage cans, ■barrels, ice boxes and till sorts of ixuhbish. Doubtless the apartment house people will suy that they need 81l the room they have in their four or five rooms for furniture anil that SATURDAY EVENING, they can see no harm in placing the garbage can on the escape; they may add that it Is their own business, any way. But it is not their own business. It is not at all impossible for people Wee ing the flames on the third or fourth story to trip over the garbago can or the ash barrel on the escapes at the second. Such things are not unheard of. And a fire escape should be a fire escape, not a refrigeration plaint, an apartment house garden or a series of "trip-you-ups." If the city ordinances do not now require all fire escapes to be without obstructions the commissioners had better get busy and put such a law on the books. Wllllamsport boys burned one of their fellows severely because tliey were not Invited to hiß party. And yet there are those who do not believe in the old-fashioned cowhide as an in strument of correction. VKTERANW OF THT" CROSS A BEAUTIFUL custom is that of the Stevens Memorial Metho dist Church on Allison Hill— the annual "Grand Army of the Church" day. Every church has its "veterans of the cross"—men and women who from their youth have led lives consecrated to the work of the church and the furtherance of His Kingdom in the world. As poets have sung and wise men have said, many who are un known in this busy day sphere may be the best known in the kingdom of eternity. These old men and women, whom Sunday after Sunday finds In their accustomed places, drinking in the messages of love and peace and rest, are the bulwark of the nation, the salt of the earth, the ones to whom a rising generation can look with veneration and respect. Any congregation will do well to annually set aside one Sunday when these old people, the honored sol diers of the cross, are the guests of the day. Somebody has asked the McCormick campaign party why they did not stop at Mt. Carmel when they were In that district. Up to date there has been no official reply, but rumor has it they couldn't find anybody to introduce the speakers. PASSING OF Till" GALLOWS THE scaffold, the black cap and the hangman's rope, with all their horror, have been used in Dauphin county for the last time. From every one with a grain of hu manity will come an expression of approval that this grim structure — relic of things mediaeval —is no more. Those who hereafter pay the penalty of the highest crime against the state and God will at least not have to suffer the ignominy of the rope. Electrocution has ended all this in Pennsylvania. Doubtless the day will come when the world will feel that the taking of a human life, even for murder, must be left in the hands of Him who gives it, and the passing of the elec tric chair will be noted as even now is the passing of the gallows. That Mlllersburg Republican meeting, the other night, made the local Mc- Cormick leader feel so badly that he declined to come to Harrisburg on the same train with his fellow-commuters next morning. But that Isn't a marker to the way he will feel the morning after election. GROWING DRUG PLANTS THE Bureau of Plant Industry of the Department of Agricul ture announces that it is ready to advise farmers as to the possibility of growing plants from which drugs are made. The supply of imported drugs is low, due largely to the fact that the European war has cut off- the imports that formerly formed the base of the American supply. The Department of Agri culture believes that many of these plants may be grown by the farmer of this country, thus providing a val uable byproduct for enterprising agri culturists. Some of the drugs bought abroad we cannot grow here, but a sufficient number can be grown in the United States to make the subject worthy of careful consideration. The wonder is that we have so long permitted Europe to control our drug market. There, is no reason why we should buy abroad what we can just as well pro duce at home. It begins to look as though Presi dent Wilson will have a fine opportu nity to exercise his favorite "watchful waiting" policy in connection with his move for peace in Europe. PROTECTING FOOD PRODUCTS MANY Harrisburg butchers have placed screens over their stands in the public market houses. This has been due largely to the insistence of Dr. Rau nick, local health officer. The screens bar the flies and prevent the meats from becoming tainted. Women who purchase meats or any other foods at market that may be contaminated by contact with flies ought to decline to buy from dealers who do not take precautions for safety. The fly stands convicted as a disease-spreader and a dealer in death. The merchant who commits his wares to the tender mercies of the little pest does not deserve public patronage and the quickest way to convert him to sanitary considerations is to ignore him. A San Francisco lawyer has been ar rested for tampering with a legacy left to a client. Case of being punished for working with a will, so to speak. Villa asserts he is a peaceful citi zen. But how long will he remain so. Is the question. The Democrats have done many mar velous things since they assumed con trol at Washington, but none more than levying a "war tax" while the country is at peace with all the world. It begins to look as though the Eu ropean generals mean to "fight it out on this line if it takes all summer." Judging from the dispatches from Paris and Berlin, both the Germans and the allies have been badly deteated. TEVENING CHAfI -1 rt }" ler ot *d to think of an auto mobile being used to act for the res cue of a trolley line and also motor cycles to be used to straighten out tangles in telephone wires and electric light service, T>ut that is what it now amounts to and the adaptation of such modern inventions for correction of trouble" is working/out to the advan tage of people throiighout the wholo Harrishurg district. Practically all of the public utility companies now have machines ready to go to any point a . monien t'B notice anil such a thing as * ]£ half day or even day waits to get things fixed up, and the conse quent Interruption of household or business affairs, is practically of the past. Speedy machines are maintained, too, and it is remarkable what com plete equipment they carry. The Har rishurg Railways Company has an automobile for repair of its wires and it carries everything that could be dli m"? *° ma,te Quick repairs. The Hell Telephone Company's repair auto mobile has an even more complete assortment and contains drawers and cabinets filled with everything from ™ iv*? to hold down a wire to a lightning arrester. It used to Jie that the repairman took the first car h* could get and fixed up things along the road. Now the automobile enables prompt attention, if the complaints are not too numerous. When you come to think, about the old-time ways, which are still preserved in cer tain lines of business, it's a wonder we stood for them so long. Although it is more than 100 days until the General Assembly of Penn sylvania gets down to business tons of supplies are already being ordered and other arrangements made to provide for the transaction of business by the lawmakers. The coming session will be the 121 st since the establishment of the Commonwealth in 1776 and the membership will be the same as in the session of 1913. To provide for the business of the ssesslons of the two houses and the committees im mense amounts of paper are required and the orders have been given and some of the material will soon be in storerooms in the Capitol. Many other things are being made ready and arrangements to improve the heating and ventilating of the House chamber are to be made. About elec tion time there is always a grand housecleaning in all legislative rooms and things are made ready for the fall of the gavel in January. The fur niture in both chambers was repaired after the adjournment in 1913 and it was necessary to fix something at practically every desk in the House. The approach of the legislative ses sion is also reflected in the Legislative Reference Bureau which furnishes the data for drafting measures and puts bills into shape for introduction. Many requests for information about framing bills are being made and in dications are that there will be a large crop of new legislation next win ter. Bear hunting is going to be un usually good in the mountain coun ties of the State this Fall, judging from reports reaching the State Game Commission and in some sections farmers who have been annoyed by bears coming too close to their prop ei#ies are only waiting for the open ing of the season a week from next Thursday to chase Bruin to his cave. The bear season runs from October 1 to January and the use of steel traps is prohibited. The prohibition is said to be the reason for the increase of the bears. Lykens' tallest and slimmest, its stoutest and leanest, its rotund and trimmest turned out en masse to greet and clasp the hand of Dr. Martin G. Brumbaugh during his visit to that borough. Most of the town's notables were there; last, but surely not least, was Homer L. Koppenhaver. He is largely and widely known in Lykens. Mr. Koppenhaver elbowed his way through the crowd to Dr. Brum baugh's side. "Doctor," said he gravely, "I want you to meet the biggest Republican in Lykens." And he gravely held out his hand. The crowd laughed while the candidate smilingly wrung Mr. Koppenhaver's hand. The "biggest Republican" in Ly kens weighs something over 300 pounds. At Millershurg Dr. Brumbaugh was mot by a white-haired old citizen, William C. Mills, who has passed tho throe score and ten mark. Mr. Mills pushed his way through the crowd to Dr. Brumbaugh's side. "Hello, Martin, my boy," exclaimed Mr. Mills casually. "How do you do," smiled the gubernatorial candidate. "Now where have I seen that man before?" mur mured the educator to a companion. "Who is he?" "That gentleman," Dr. Brumbaugh was told, "is Mr. Mills—Mr. William C. Mills—" "Not Bill Mills!" exclaimed the next Governor, "why I knew him when I was a hoy and I hadn't seen him in twenty years." With the appearance of tho word Jednota in connection with stories about the Slovak Union convention In the Harrisburg newspapers the ques tion has been asked many times dur ing the last several days, "What does Jednota mean?" One of the delegates to the conven tion explained that the word means union and that the paper in English would be called "The Union." In the Telephone News of this week's issue there is a suggestion in the "idea corner" that is worthy of consideration by every business man. The suggestion is this: Always place a memorandum tell ing where you can be reached and when you will be back under your telephone. Then when your clerk or assistant answers the phone when you are away from your desk you can be sure it will be done intelligently. As the News asks, "Sounds rather ele mental, does it not?" 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE "1 —Judge Reed, of Jefferson county, is an enthusiastic hunter and angler. —Colonel Thomas S. Crago, of Waynesburg, has been elected com mander of the Society of Foreign wars. —H. W. Storey, of Johnstown, has been elected as president of the. asso ciation of Canal Boatmen, an organi zation of veterans of the path. —Major J. P. Jervey, in charge of government work on the Mononga hela, has been transferred to Nor folk. —The Rev. J. Z. A. Henry, of Phil adelphia, has returned from Califor nia. I DO YOU KNOW?~"| That Harrisburg steel plates are in oil tanks end pipe lines In tlie Oklahoma Oil country. AN EVENING THOUGHT Character lives' in a man, repu tation uutside of him. —J. G. Hol land. RARRISBURG s£££& TELEGRAPH HOME TROUBLE FOR VICE M'CORMICK Slump in Democratic Sentiment and Poor Registration to Bother the Candidate Now While protectionist Bull Moosers are brandishing their horns and low tariff Democrats are kicking up their heels all over the State because of the fu sion effected by the party machines on Vance C. McCormtck for governor, there is trouble looming up in the home county for the little Boss. To begin with the Democratic city and county machines, notwithstand ing liberal lubrication, have failed to stir up the right kind of sentiment for McCormick and the heavy Republican registration and the comparatively slim Democratic registration in Ilar risburg in spite of strenuous work by the machine men and-appeals by the Patriot have been a cause of sorrow to the sorely tried candidate. The registration of Republicans in the city for two days was 4,550 and of Demo crats 2,261, the Washington' party sliding down to 473. And now on top of this disconcert ing disposition of the home folks to take the Little Boss seriously there are rumors that the Democratic legisla tive candidates in the second district, T. B. Sassaman and D. W. Schaffner are finding that a good many Demo crats are not pleased at the alleged scheme to have them withdraw in favor of Lenker and Martin, the Bull Moose candidates. In the city friends of Wilmer Crow and J. W. Barker openly say that they will not stand for Jesse J. Lybarger or John A. Mar shall being put on the Washington ticket. The failure of Lybarger to get the endorsement of certain bodies and his continued series of defeats have caused many to lose interest in his candidacy. Senator Penrose was here last night, having come from Bradford and Wyoming counties, where he made six speeches yesterday and found conditions Penrose in mightily improved. City Plans The senator said that Hot Speeeli he was going to speak in York .pounty to-day and might have a few words to add to his analysis of Mc- Cormick, fusion and campaign ex penses. Dr. Brumbaugh was in the northwestern counties, receiving the greetings of many friends and gain ing every minute. Dr. Brumbaugh will spend the week-end in Philadel phia, where a great committee has been named to help the fight for him. Dr. Brumbaugh has gained hecause of the transparent machinations of McCormick's men and the Harrlsburg er's abusive tactics. In the State there is a regular up heaval over the fusion dickering. Democrats are swearing that Palmer shall not be sacrificed for the squatter candi date from Pike coun- Palmer and ty and last night Pal- Smith Say mer declared at To Retreat Scranton that he would not retire, but would fight to the end. Inasmuch as Dean Lewis said some weeks ago that he would not retire. Palmer did not get as many pieces of fireworks set off as he hoped. In the western end Percy F. Smith, Washington candi date for lieutenant-governor, said he intends to stay in the fight to the finish. The friends of Fred E. Lewis and the Washington congressional candidates are demanding that the Democrats give something and State Chairman Roland S. Morris, of the Democrats, is understood to have said in Philadelphia that nothing more can be given. The Democratic bosses are afraid to come out for Pinchot until "sentiment" appears. And right on top of it all John Gribbel, vice-presi dent of the Philadelphia Ledger, writes a letter in which he says that Penrose is the man to elect. The Philadelphia Public Ledger, which has been courted by the Dem ocratic machine bosses, says regard ing the revolt in the Washington party in a I I linn Is dispatch from Pltts-j I'psct by burgh. "Heroic meas tlie Row ures were taken to-day to put down the rebel lion within the ranks of the Progressives over the elimination of Dean Lewis in favor of Vance Mc- Cormick. The outright promise was made, it Is charged hy the insurgents, that Vance McCormick's millions will be at the disposal of the fusion forces to conduct the State light, both part ies to fusion being helped, and that McCormick will spend money in local contests, particularly in the legislative districts. "However, the. revolt among Pro gressives took definite shape to-day, when It. R. Quay was approached with a request to lead the forces now thoroughly disgusted with Flinn and Van Valkenburg. He was communi cated with by men who said they could rally the majority of the Pro gressives. Emissaries of Flinn work ed late last night endeavoring to lull balking Progressives inlo the appro val of (lie Flinn-Van Valkenburg deal and Flinn remained up late getting reports from the field. These were far from reassuring." From the time of the formal open ing yesterday morning of the Brum baugh citizens' committee campaign [headquarters in Phil adelphia, un ti 1 the doors were closed, an Brumbaugh unbroken stream of Committee visitors, telephone calls to Knlargc and letters occupied the attention of Secre tary James S. Hiatt, who was in char -e. Scores of Republicans, regu lar and independent, some always with the party, others only recently re turned members, called, phoned or wrote for the privilege of subscribing to the pledge to support Brumbaugh for election and to be enrolled as members of the committee. Even from the western end of the State so many volunteers have come forward that a Brumbaugh headquarters Is soon to be opened in Pittsburgh. In an attempt to prejudice the Re publican voters of Annville against Dr. Brumbaugh, the Independent Re- publican committee with headquarters in Fakers Get this city has sent let- Hot Retort ters throughout Leb to Letter anon county saying that all good Re- publicans are support ing Mr. McCorniick. Professor H. H. Shenk, head of the Department of History and F'olitlcal Science at Leba non Valley College, writing in behalf of the Republican voters of Annville and vicinity, to J. D. Strain, the secre tary, said: "1 certainly cannot agree with you that the best way to rehabili tate Republicanism is to defeat It. This is particularly true when the Re publican voters have put forward Its best man for the governorship. Now I shall not be guilty of the 'unspeak able l'oliy' of supporting against Mart- Ing G. Brumbaugh, a spoiled child of wealth who is disgracing the Com monwealth by what appears an at tempt to purchase the governorship t And this in the intere&ts o£ a high political morality!" In regard to lo oal option Professor Shenk replies, "I hold that thiTc is only one man in Pennsylvania that can secure the pas sage of a local option measure through | the State Senate. And that man is Martin G. Brumbaugh." I POLITICAL SIDELIGHTS I —Judging from the row kicked up it would seem that Flinn did not even lead his whole headquarters staff over to the McCormick camp. —Judge Brumm must be doing a good bit of smiling to himself these days. —Unpleasant is the lot of any man who tries to buy the governorship of Pennsylvania. —Now the problem is what is Jesse Lybarger going to lish up from the troubled waters of fusion. —Candidates for governor in Penn sylvania who tried to win by virtue of cash have never gone very far. —They are now denying the story that Painter and Pinchot will be on the same platform. It would break down if they did. —And people are persisting in call ing fusion a McCormick trick. Fie. —Creasy last night wrote a tele gram in which he said that Flinn is entitled to the commendation of all good Pennsylvanians. —Folks in Porto Rico are sending Brumbaugh their best wishes. —The Democrats are wondering if Roosevelt means to go to Kansas, Il linois, Massachusetts, Ohio and the other States to help his people. He WQn't have much time left for Penn sylvania. —Percy Smith does not seem to be in accord with Flinn. —W. W. Thorn has been by Bull Moosers for Congress ic Schuylkill. —The Democratic caravan is re treating from Lackawanna Into Lu zerne to-day and leaving much dam aged prestige behind. —Pinchot and Lewis talked at Port Allegany yesterday, but what they said to each other has not been given out. —Ben F. S. Keen, one of the promi nent young Repubican leaders of the Wiconisco district, called on Chairman Horner to-day with good reports. —And the Bull Moosers are asking where they are going to come in. —Some Democrats appear to think that McCormick does not care about anyone but himself. ' OUR DAILY | * * rv A NEW YARN. the same story j were here. No, mum; you Yiitn seemed ter doubt -|l wl j de other one. PROOF INDIS PUTABLE I say, old scout, could you heip a t; foreign noble . Our left is at present at Decatur, on the Augusta Railroad,, six miles from Atlanta; our right is at liast Point, the same dis tance from that place, and our center is in the city. The campaign, which has closed with the capture of Atlanta, puts the Union arms in possession of 30,000 square miles more of territory. THE "COME-BACK" IN ILLINOIS [Philadelphia Bulletin.] The return ol "Uncle Joe" Cannon is the most spectacular feature of the Illinois primaries, but it is not more •significant than the reappearance of former Congressmen McKinley and Foss, together with the renomination of Congressman Mann and the rest of tho old-line Republicans. Like the recent primary in Wisconsin, it is evi dence corroborating and confirming the signs that have been readable in other sections of the country, includ ing this State, of the revival of tho Republican party strength, reforming on the old lines and under the old standards of conservatism. Evidence might be cited to show that this tendency is not confined to the Republican ranks, or to those who temporarily seceded from that stand ard. In Democratic councils, aq well, there are signs of a recoil from tho extreme of radicalism which threat ened the party. The nation, as a whole, shows signs of swinging back, if not to the opposite extreme of conservatism, at least to the mean or normality. Of course, this was ex pected by every student and careful observer, although there were some who thought that the nation was headed straight for the bow-wows of radicalism, never to come back. AMUSEMENTS PALACE 333 Market St. TO-DAY LAST TIME Shubert's 5-Reel Original. "The Chimes"* Featuring Tom Terris, noted English impersonator. Story by Chas. Dickens. AdmlHNton 10c Children 5c