6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Eitablishfd IS3I Ll PUBLISHED BY THE TKI.EGKAPH CO. E. J. STACK POLK, Pres't and Treas'r. ; F. R. OYSTKK. Secretary. GUS M. STEINMUTZ, Managing Editor. ; Published every evening (except Sun-jj day), at the Telegraph Building. IU Federal Square. , j Eastern Office, Fifth Averfue Building, New York City, Hasbrook. Story & Brooks. Western Office, 123 West Madison street. Chicago, 111.. Allen & Ward. Delivered by carriers at *' x cents a w'ek. Mailed to subscribers at SB.OO a year In advance. Entered at the Post Office In Harris burg as second class matter. J («Fmi ican Advertiser* ha» ex- ? J a mined and certified to ? C th« circulation of this pub- f 1 lication. The figures of circulation i j contained in the Aicociation'* re- ( j port only ere guaranteed. 1 ) Association cf Amcricdn Advertisers j i No. 2333 Whitehall Bids. **• City I luon daily arfrnge for the month of September, 1914 3 5 252 Average for the year 1815—2t,5T7 Average for the year 1912—21.175 Average for the year IBII—IS,SSI Average for the year 17.403 TELGPHOKKSI Bell Private Branch Exchange No. 2010. United Business Office, 203. Editorial Room OS a. Job Dept. 203j! SATTRHAY EVENING, OCTOBKR S AXOTIIKR YELL FOR HELP HAYING thrown oat its tentacles I toward the temperance and! religious organizations of the i State the Palmer-McCormlck • machine is now reaching out to the college men in a last futile effort to check the avalanche of popular dis favor now sliding toward the hand picked candidates of the White House. The alumni of various colleges and universities in Pennsylvania are in re ceipt of a circular letter from one Louis B. Hunk, who represents an al leged executive committee of what is ponderously called the "Palmer-Mc- Cormlck College Men's League," with headquarters in Philadelphia. This league has been formed to boost Palmer and McCormick on the score that as college graduates they particu larly merit the support of college men. Of course, no reference is made to the fact that Senator Penrose, Dr. Brum baugh and others on the Republican ticket are also graduates of prominent educational institutions. Here is a Banifile of the appeal in this letter: Pennsylvania has been held up .t/>o long in ■ a- a ii'-st of bossism. ■ ■ W cratlc boss-ridden machine in Penn-1 J sylv.inia this appeal is about the limit, j "No financial obligation is incurred | In becoming a member," says the let- I ter. Of course, not; the multi-mil-! lionaire candidate for governor will j take care of all bills. All he asks is | the Job that he may sit in state and i "redeem" Pennsylvania in his own | sweet way with "malice toward none ! and charity for all." College men are entirety too intelli- j gent in Pennsylvania to be caught by any such claptrap as this appeal. Al ■ * ■ til r ¥ 1 tlie Palmer-McCormlck soft solder. , It is not a small matter to !n>tail a V great newspaper press with its myriad 'y devices and possibilities .>f mechanical complications, but the Telegraph hopes / ) that the delays of this newspaper dur ing tlie last week will soon be obvi ated by the smooth operation of the most complete newspaper press ever In stalled In Harrisburg. lIKMOCK VI S PROTESTING THERE is no longer occasion for Republicans and others in oppo sition to the present Adminis tration at Washington to do all the criticising. The most severe critics of the Democratic regime are Demo crats. Speaker Champ Clark and Representative Fitzgerald, of New- York. chairman of the House com mitteo on appropriations; Senator Hitchcock, of Nebraska; Senator Reed, of Missouri, and many others have been vitriolic in their denunciation of the broken pledges, the profligacy and the absolute disregard of the interests of the people by the Democratic Con gress and the administration. Per- | haps nothing more sensational has t occurred since the beginning of the j Wilson dynasty than the attack of ; Senator Reed, a Democratic leader, upon his own partisans in the matter of the anti-trust jugglery. He de- clures the Clayton measure to be an apology to the trusts and a betrayal of the Baltimore platform. He pointed out that the bill has been so mangled as to eliminate all the most important and effective pro visions against combines and mo nopolies. Rut here is an extract from Senator Reed's bristling speech: We are playing the hypocrite, sir. We came here sounding our cymbals, gliding our loins, burnish ing our weapons. We said to all the world: "When this great Demo cratic host shall assemble, when it bears down upon the citadels of greed, of corruption, of plunder, then you will see how valiant arms, backed by honest hearts, will hew a clean path for the common peo ple to tread." What more could any Republican say in denunciation of an adminls tratton which has been characterized by inconsistency, broken pledges, in competency and a general disregard of the public welfare? Yet we have two candidates in Pennsylvania, hand-picked by Presi dent Wilson, pleading for support be cause they bear the stamp of the SATURDAY EVENING, HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH OCTORER 3, 1014. ' administration and represent its slip ping and slippery policies. Palmer j and McCormick are likely to wish be | fore the end of the campaign that I they tiud never seen the White House. ! Whatever the excuse of the contrac | tors on the Rlvei Frotft Improvement | for dilly-dallying in the removal of | large deposits of silt and rubbish out j side the wall, it must be apparent to , the average cltlsen who has given any attention to tills undertaking that suf j tlcient time lias already elapsed within j which this part of the work should have ! been accomplished. of course, there i have been difficulties to overcome, but i this was not one of them, and the ' urgency of the matter at tills time is | emphasized by the unusually low stage I of the river and the near approach of j the autumnal rains. FILIPINO INDEPENDENCE IT Isn't enough that the Democrats in temporary control of the govern ment should upset the business and industry of the country and that j their promises and pledges have been | ruthlessly broken. They must now go ' further and embroil tlie United States In further difficulties growing .out of the proposition to give the Filipinos independence. Those who have been in the Philip pines and who have made earnest investigation of tlie conditions there | are earnestly opposed to the course of the Administration !n this matter. These don't hesitate to say that the j proposed enlargement of the native i ontrol of this important part of our insular possessions must eventually lead to serious complications and pos- I sible disaster. Within a few days a citizen of Har risburg has received a letter from a friend in tlie Philippines in which he says: You ask me if T am becoming tired of the Philippines? No, 1 am not. But here agafn you people in the states cannot appreciate how conditions have changed since the new Administration lias taken bold. There Is not an American in the Islands to-day but who feels that his days are numbered, so fur as tlie service is concerned. When you think that 4M> resignations have been accepted, out of a pos sible employes, since Harrison arrived, you will begin to see what 1 mean. Tln-s are going about fifty a month. Wnen you* recall that the • iate was about live per month dur ing (lie old days, you can see that it will be only a question of a short time till we are all gone. This same correspondent points out in his letter to his Harrisburg friend that- tlie new Democratic representa tives of the United Slates in the Philippines have created a most un l'avorabh impression. They are ap parently undoing all the good that was done up to two years ago. And all this, lie says, to satisfy the clamoring of the wily native politicians. Con tinuing, the writer says: I know that this prattle does not interest you. It does not Interest any one in the States. We are so far awa.v, and you say what good will they ever do us? Tliey are only an expense. Turn them loose. Tlie same kind of talk was heard when we purchased Alaska. But who wants to get rid of it now? We have done so much for tlie material benefit of the people. In the time we have been here, and there is so much to do. to bring the poor tao up to a standard of living and being as we understand it. that to quit now would be criminal. The loVer classes to a man do not want independence. They say it would be the same as in Spanish times, tlie wealthy ruling and tlie poor classes furnishing tlie grist for.a mill whose hunger is a thou sand times more avaricious than any grafters you ever heard of in the States. T venture to state, without fear of contradiction, that I two years after independence has I been granted, the hospitals, the I roads, the schools, the lighthouses, j the wharves, the public markets, the waterworks and countless other | improvements which we have in | stalled will be going to collapse, m i;lect and ruin. Plead with your Congressmen to 1 not allow the American nation to i lose its fair name for square deal i lug, especially in tlie Orient, at a time when China is opening up for I millions of American trade, by J hauling down the flag in the Philip -1 pines. To the Oriental mind, with i drawal from the Islands will mean ! nothing less than defeat. They do not understand gratuitous sur render for a seeming spirit of brotherly love. Do you know that China is about to spend twenty million dollars for river reclamation work, and that another twenty millions will be available upon completion of the tir«sl job? But tlie awakening of China and tlie Panama Canal is not going to do tlie American nation a bit of good unless we wake up and give our shipping a better chance. It is difficult to realize that the Administration would deliberately ex periment at such a time as this with a problem that should invite the thought of our most experienced statesmen. Surely there ought to be nothing done at this juncture to invite complications beyond our borders. All over Harrisburg arrangements are being made for the reception of our firemen visitors next week. Let us par ticularly urge that every householder give attention to the cleaning up of his premises so that our reputation as a spotless and beautiful city may be maintained. NOW AND THEN THE country is facing a very pe culiar condition. Times are hard and business is dull. Yet prices for everything are unusually | high—never were higher, in fact. This iis without precedent in the United j States. During the Cleveland depres sion, when a tariff very similar to that j foisted on the country by the Wilson ! Administration was in force, there was little or no work, but prices were cor respondingly low. A dollar bought much more than usual; the only trou ble was to get the dollar. We thought we had touched the bedrock of hard times then, but now we have poor business with prices higher than ever. Our Democratic friends have outdone themselves. The question naturally arises, to what new depths would they plunge the country were lliey to be given a new grant of power In Novem ber? The Democratic candidate for Gover nor. who is paying the freight.- is said to have spent an hour yesterday read ing tlie Roosevelt speech in the hope of finding an endorsement of McCor mick. He is still wondering how the nanfto came to be omitted. Any voter who failed to register to day still has a few hours loft to per form an Important duty. After to-day bis chance of exercising the right of a good citizen will lihve been lost. Newspaper headline states that Presi dent Wilson "agrees to adjournment of Congress" after his big 1106,000,000 tax HI! shall have been passed. It was kind of the autocrat of the White House to "ngree" that bli pupils should , go home after their tasks are done. 1 EVENING CHAT I The cider mill is going to be a boon to n good many owners of orchards In Southern Pennsylvania who have been blessed with big crops, but who are unable to get markets for their apples. Some of the large orchards have trees burdened with fruit, but al though the commission men, the fruit dealers and the neighbors have taken nil that they need there are still thou sands of bushels that are unsold and which will be on the hands of the farmers. Consequently the word is going around that cider mills will be reopened after years of idleness and that those now operating will be run until late in the year. The output of cider in this section has been com-, parativel.v small in recent years owing to the demands for fruit for the gen eral mar.iet, but two years ago many of the mills were started up again and tills year there will be more old tim ers put to work, owing to the ruling I that vinegar must be pure apple juice in this State there will be a good open ing for the juice. It Is also predicted that the big crop will mean that coun try folks will boll apple butter at a rate which has not been known for a long time. In other days this part of the State was noted for cider and apple butter and l!»14 will probably see a big production in those lines. Speaking about the apple crop iu tlie State Dr. 11. A. Surface says In the Philadelphia Press: "Pennsylvania Is going to have one of the great apple crops of tlie country. It is going to be immense and will be a record break er not only for its size, but because of the improvement in the quality of tlie fruit. Unfortunately it was not until this year that the State com menced the gathering of reliable sta tistics through its Department of Agri culture and we have no figures avail able for former years and those for this year are not in yet. However, I can say without fear of contradiction that we are going to have a great crop. It will be far and away ahead i of that of last year, which was smaller than in 1912." Dr. Surface said that the improvement in quality was no ticeable and that it was directly due to the use of scientific methods in treating fruit. Pests are controlled and trees are pruned and cultivated just like the crops of the tleld anil the result will tell before very long. Thus far prices are not very satisfactory, but there is a good chance for an ad vance next year. On this line he said: "As far us 1 can learn the cold storage space for apples is all gobbled up and there will be many apples which would be available for storage if the space could be had. Tliey will go into local trade and for shipments, but there will be many left over and next slim mer they will be badly wanted. The State fruit industry is growing rapid ly and there should be facilities to care for the crops. There is no reason why the delicious applies we raise should not have the call." To-morrow will be the eighth an niversary of tlie dedication of the Stale Capitol. It was formally opened on October 4, 1906, and the ceremon ies. which took place in a rain, were attended by thousands and thousands of people, oti that occasion Theodore Koosevelt was the orator and he com plimented Pennsylvania upon passing more reform legislation at the special session that year than had been ac complished in anv other State and in years of time. Philander C. Knox was one of those in attendance together with many other prominent men. It was the first time the State Police had ever appeared here In a body and Roosevelt and everyone joined in praising them. This being the final registration day for persons who desire to vote at the November election calls to mind that the personal registration law under which people are now putting down their names was one of those enacted at the special session so highly prais ed by lloosevelt. The first law went into operation seven years ago and has been changed twice to meet ob jections. It is still far from perfect, although the chief fault found with it is that it permits questioning along lines which men not used to politics are apt to resent. To-day is registra tion day in every city of the State and it is believed that tlie total of the reg istration in the three classes of cities will be not far from 400,000 votes or maybe half a million. Plans for next year's golf are being made by the golfers of the city and it is probable that there will be even greater interest shown in the Scotch game than before. There are now about 250 golfers in Harrisburg, all told, and more people are taking up the game. It is probable that next year golf matches will be played with teams from half a dozen cities of the State. 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE"! —Mayor E. R. Jermyn, of Scranton, [is going after ministers who are say ing things about his city which he claims are not borne out by facts. —Fire Chief J. T. Alleman. of Al toona. is urging motor fire apparatus. —Samuel Rea, president of the Pennsylvania, likes to go out on little trips of his own to inspect tracks. —Captain P. DeLacy, of Scranton, lias been elected president of the One Hundred and Forty-eighth Volunteers for the forty-third time. —H. R. Biesecker, of Stroudsburg, who is 88 years old, has been elected president of the Monroe county Oc togenarian's Association. —Judge H. W. Whitehead, of Ly coming county, is with a party of friends on a bear hunt. 1 DO YOU KNOW? ] That Harrisburg made steel is in many of tlie coal cars that pass through this city? A CI'JIBKItI.AM) COLXTY VIEW [From the Carlisle Herald.] The Republican party is singularly fortunate In the nomination of Doctor Brumbaugh for Governor. We do not believe a more suitable nominee could I have been found. While never active jin politics, he has been prominently identified with education in the widest j and best sense, anil with great civic i matters, and will bring to the duties of the Governorship not only tlie high ! est type of executive. ability, but also character without a flaw. He is a self made man and his career is another Il lustration of the adage—"The Republic is opportunity." Mr. McCormick. the Democratic nomi nee, is branded as the Wilson candi date for that high office. He is the hand-picked candidate of the President and was really nominated in the White House at Washington as the result of a conference of prominent Democratic politicians last winter, lie was chosen as tlie special representative of tlie Democratic national administration, and as such lie must stand or fall. If Mc- Cormick is reallv a friend of the people, no one lias ever been able to discover it. except when lie is a candidate for public office, and requires votes. His term as Mayor of Harrisburg was medi ocre. He formulated no particular re forms and he has had no experience in public life beyond this. His integrity is not challenged, but he Is essentially a narow-gauge man. He has never shown the attributes of broad states manship While a Vale graduate, be has not had the Intellectual training or the civic experience which Doctor Brumbaugh possesses to a nre-emlncnt degree. The good fairies which nresld cil at Ills birth gave him wealth and social prominence. He is n plutocrat by inheritance, not by achievement. ROOSEVELT VISIT HIS UPSET THINGS Democratic Machine Badly Rattled Over His Perfunctory Re marks on McCormick The visit of Colonel Theodore Roose velt to Philadelphia and his failure to speak with his old-time ginger has in tensified the difficulties in the Wash ington party and caused Democrats who were Inclined to resent trafficking with the remnant of the Washington party to get madder thnn ever. The speech of the Colonel produced n profound impression in many parts of the State, causing Republicans to grow Jubilant, wavering Progressives to go over into the Republican camp as the best place to go, machine Democrats to gnash their teeth and Old Guard Democrats to sit back and smile broadly. The reports made by- Republican leaders show a pronounced return to the party's ranks and the registration to-day In the cities of all grades is expected to be immense. Congressman A. Mitchell Palmer's attempts to explain away the Iron trade depression have caused him to be laughed at all over the Slate, while the statement of Senator Oliver to the effect that Palmer did not tell tlie truth when he said he had spent win ters and summers in Europe has caused Palmer's statements to be taken with pounds of salt. Militant Bull Moosers are raising a fuss over McCormick, while the rank and file is going back to the Repub lican party. Richard R. Quay is in Philadel- Bull Moosers phia planning the over- All Upset in throw of the Flinti tlie State leadership, and some of the men whp aro Roosevelt fo 11 owe r s from principle have been showing dis positions to follow him. The illness of Pinchot, who broke down again yesterday in the western part of the State, has further complicated mat ters, and it is said that if he finds sentiment in the party council to be held the latter part of the week in Philadelphia to be against him he will withdraw. Tims the P.uil Moose will be a mere tail to the Democratic donkey and thousands of the remnant will go back to the Republican party. The Prohibition party will nut go in for stumping tours of the State, but will concentrate Its efforts to getting out the vote for its state ticket and for its local tickets. This is the plan Cold Water of campaign which has Campaign Is been outlined by Dr. It. To Hi- Quiet E. P. Prugh, the chair man of the State com mittee. Dr. Prugh has just returned from an extended tour of tlie State in which he paid special attention to the legislative contests and the effort will be to build up the vote. The Pro hibition vote went below 20,000 four years ago and systematic campaign work to raise it has been undertaken. Dr. Prugh says that the State ticket will be well looked after by the State committee and that the Prohibition candidate in the Twenty-eighth con gressional district has a fighting chance. Prohibition candidates for the Legislature have been nominated in almost every county and also for Senate seats. The battles of Congressman E. R. Kiess. of Lycoming, and ex-Congress nian B. K. Focht, of Union, for seats at Washington are at tracting much atten- Congross lion in this city and Battles there are many per- Interest eons who are doing what they can at a distance to help. Focht has been campaigning with his usual vigor and lias succeeded in reforming the organization with which he swept the district years ago and which stood by him in 1912. in the Fifteenth dis trict ICiess is asking re-election after service which merits return and is making a battle in every county. Kiess' chief opponent is J. J. Reardon, the Democrat, and his chief annoyer is one M. T. Stokes, of Coudersport. who is running on the Washington ticket with no earthly hope of eieelion and a fixed purpose to heckle the Lycom ing congressman. Kiess pulled through against W. B. Wilson, now in Wilson's cabinet, two years ago and bids fair to do it again. He deserves to, at any rate. Vance C, McCormick and William Draper Lewis will explain from the same platform twice during the com ing week. In the evening they will be at Altoona and the same night Con gressman A. Mitchell Palmer and the rest of the party will be in Lebanon, where there are Idle furnaces and mills. Tuesday the Democratic party will make a hopeless tour in Lancaster county, closing with a night meeting in the courthouse. On Wednesday McCormick will become a Bull Mooser and speak before the Washington party committee in Philadelphia. Thursday McCormick will become a Democrat again and attend a meeting of the Palmer-McCormlck committee of one hundred in Philadelphia. Fri day will be spent in Westmoreland county and Saturday in Fayette, where Democrats have no show and party fights rage. 1 POLITICAL SIDELIGHTS —According to the Patriot Palmer said in McKeesport last night that the present tariff law would stand for six years. Great scott! —Palmer's prediction about the tariff standing for six years will not be popular In Steelton or South Har risburg. —There Is time to register to-night from 7 to 10. —Thomas Skelton Harrison, promi nent Philadelphian and former consul general to Egypt, has repudiated Wil son and come out for P-umbaugh. —Seven thousand persons have not registered in Allentown. —Thomas Finnerly, Democratic candidate for the Legislature in Wilkes-Barre, has been sued for $20,- 000 for breach of promise. —Senator Penrose last night declar ed that Dr. R. M. Little, the Philadel phia charity expert, was a bit inconsis tent In advocating Palmer and Mc- Cormick and then appealing for funds for families of men out of work. —Senator Oliver appears to have caught Palmer engaged in some dally ing with facts. . —Dr. Brumbaugh's speeches have the punch to them that Roosevelt's lacked in Philadelphia. —Bryan should be a popular figure on the Democratic platform In this State after the tales told by returning tourists. —F. E. Morris, the big Bull Moose of Towanda. Is out for Brumbaugh. —Up to date the slump In the Pro gressive vote in New York and New Jersey has not been explained in Mar ket Square. —A good many Bull Moosers are going to accept Dr. Houck's Invita tion to come home. —The Roosevelt speech appears to have pleased the Republicans more than the machine Democrats. 1 —The Philadelphia Old Guard is suspicious of McCormicks olive branches. Probably because they fear | they contain a dirk. OUR DAILY LAUGH ) >., i / ONE OR THE "~ V \ OTHER. JgftW to) Jack Fred MjX says he never fjl kissed a. girl in wP / -» his ife. £& ' & J*, Tom Then he's either a big Kg liar or a big fool. V iXCIOI NOT A CHANCE lly Wing Ulnger There is a rich chappie named Vance, At a ball, be sets all in a trance, With the wonderful ways lu which be "sashays;" Golly me. how the rascal can dance. Of money lie has a large stack; Not earned, but left to him years back. What he wants for himself He Just buys with Ills pelf. Be it dress coat. Prince Albert or sack. Fresh from college, with money to spare, He ran for the office of Mayor. Tliey say, if a cent. Thirty thousand was spent, But lie won out —so why should I care! Then a paper he purchased one day. 1 presume, so that he then could say, Like the kid with the pie, "What a great boy am 1." And hope to fool people that way, in this paper, ho cried down the "boss;" Then his brand new silk hat he did toss In the Democrat Itlng And proclaimed himself king. And they fe.> for tills neat double cross. With a hand gloved in Iron he ruled, And old-timers in politics schooled lilve a gasp at the way He so boldly did sway His gold scepter and veterans fooled. For the cream of the State office thrones He spoke in quite forcible tones, And on primary day, With the plum walked away, At a cost of some thousands of bones. Now he's out on the ticket each day In some part of the State be will bray Against booze, but with coin Dealers are asked to join In the game to let hini have his way. Don't disturb him, but just let him prance, For in spite of his gold-headed lance Next month he will know. As they pile on the snow. That he hadn't a ghos* of a chance. NEWS DISPATCHES OF THE CIVIL WAR [From the Teiegrapli of Oct. 8, IXG4.J Firing at Petersburg Washington, Oct. :s. Passengers who left city Point yesterday morning, at Hi o'clock, says that tin re was heavy tiring on the right and left of Peters burg, but little on the front. Steamer Holler I'',-V«>loi!rx Baltimore. Oct. :i. News from Fortress Monroe to-day states that tlie hospital steamer exploded her boiler at fi o'clock last evening, just after she had loaded 300 wounded soldiers. All of the soldiers escaped injury. IN HARRISBURG FIFTY YEARS AGO TO-DAY [From the Telegrapn of Oct. 8, 1884.] Theater Player Cut In the play, "Gunmaker of Moscow," at tlie Opera House, Mr. Meeker re ceived a severe cut In his right hand in the duel between himself and Count DemanolT. His injuries will' prevent liini from going on the stage again. NOBODY BOSSES BRUMBAUGH [From tlio Phila. Public Ledger] Mr. McCormick says he is for Me- Nalr to lie Secretary of,,lnternal Af fairs because McNair "went before the people himself and told them where he stood." That is what Brum baugh did. On Monday, March IU, Dr. Brum baugh made public his decision to submit his name to the voters as a candidate for Governor at the May primaries on the Republican ticket. Accompanying his statement of his platform, with its planks in favor of equitable labor legislation, local op tion, the woman suffrage amendment and other measures, was this explicit declaration: "I have no entangling alliances of any sort. 1 am under no promise, no agreement, made or implied. 1 shall never be a party to any such thing. If ele ted it must be with the definite understanding that 1 shall be entirely free to perform my olficial duties solely and steadily for the people as a whole." Brumbaugh received an overwhelm ing support in a popular primary. He accepted it as the expression of the will of the majority of the Republican voters of the State. He did not accept it nor did he receive it from the Pen rose faction. In fact, on the basis of the actual count, Brumbaugh and not Penrose should be the lieadliner. The official returns of the primaries, as given June 9, show: Penrose, 219,- S7l: Brumbaugh, 253,755. (In Phila delphia Brumbaugh polled 85,657 to 80,799 for Penrose.) Dr. Brumbaugh has said: "1 In vite apd welcome the support of all citizens, regardless of partisan align ment, who believe with me that the day has come when only capacity and character and their expression in con duct should be considered in selecting public officials. I agree that we need a moral standard in all public, service." T I fTTtRSTCTHE. EDITOR I M COKMICK AND THE COMMANDMENTS To the Editor of the Telegraph: There is a commandment which says that no man shjill bear false wit ness against his neighbor. Let me call to the attention of the Demo cratic candidate for Governor, Vance P. McCormick, that among Ills neigh bors are some very reputable men and women —some with whom he fre quently comes in contact when lie is not whoring after strange political gods, and these neighbors to whom I refer are clerks or attaches in some of'the departments on Capitol Hill. Mr. McCormick is frequently quoted as saying in his speeches during this campaign, that the Capitol is a den of thieves and plunderers, and he pro poses, if made Governor, to drive out every attache in every department from top to bottom, classing them all as thieves and plunderers. Does the man really mean what he says, or has he his reason and anathematizes h!s neighbors merely because he has an audience on the hustings? Does he not fear a hereafter? Why, some of these Capitol 11 ill people go to his church. I know of one estimable per son who does, and that person's dis tress over Mr. McCormick's incoherent ravings is simply pitiful to see. What 1 would like to know is. Was McCor mick absolved from observance of the Ten Commandments when he went on the stump? I ant only a seeker after truth in this benighted world, but there are many like me in the (Signedi FOURTH WARD. HEADftUAnTF.nS FOR SHIRTS SIDES & SIDES L. 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Although such a title is the acme of paradoxical absurdity, it appears that it must stand legally unleSs it shall be held to conflict with the nonpartisan judicial ballot and therefore likely to prove unduly confusing to the voter. —Philadelphia Bulletin. There is no doubt that the opposi tion leaders in the Senate will keep careful watch of the recovery of for eign trade, as business resumes its nor mal course, and will not hesitate to inform the defenders of the emergency war tax bill of the truth, namely, that tlie emergency is duo primarily to their meddling with the tariff law and to their unexampled extravagance.— Public Ledger. TEDDY SIDESTEPS [ Philadelphia Press.] Teddy has come and seen and — failed. Not failed as an attraction, for he is still sure of a great assemblage whenever and wherever he speaks. Not failed us a personality, for his buoyant, literary spirit, typically American in its incisiveness, is always sure of effect. But he failed as a pub lic man, as a statesman, if you will. And he failed because he sidestepped a fundamental principle. The prac tical question on which he spoke was that of the indorsement of Mr. McCor .ft $9 9' 99999 Palace Theater 333 Market Street TO-DAY LAST TIME WM. A. BRADY'S 5-reel Production THE DOLLAR MARK Featuring Robert Warwick, the original player in the title role. ADMISSION 10c CHILDREN 5c ssJK*s $ $ $ $ HAVE YOV IHIBH ' A Special Moving Picture Feature, The Society Ends Shakespeare they came out this week aNH 5 VAUDEVILLE AiNL* NOVFI TIFS OTHER GOOI» ACTS TOO " HUKI-LIIEiJ MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY NEXT WEEK "EAST LYNNE" Irene rrankan •» M,,^; NI Vil rri,i:s WITH NEW SOXGS 3 NEW ACTS 3 PHOTOPLAY TO-DAY Great Western Comedy Featuring Kathlyn Williams —CHI POF TIIE FI-YIN T G U— KATHLYN WILLIAMS as the "LITTLE DOCTOR" who Prescribes LOVE and TOM MIX as CHIP, present this 4- act Western comedy. 13th Episode of PERILS OF PAULINE. Pauline is still in great danger but is rescued by I farry. Mick, :i thick anil thin, thorough-going Democ rat and supporter of the Demo < i'iitit- administration's policies to the uttermost. He sjave countenance to the Indorsement of Mr. McCormick i>y the Proarreoaivea. And thla notwith standing the fact that when he was in tliis State last June he took what is essentially an absolutely antagonistic position, for in June he devoted him self almost utterly to the denunciation of the Democratic national policies and to criticism of President Wilson. He tried to justify himself now for his abandonment of that position and his support of Mr. McCormick by declar ing that "We are for principles, not men." This was surely far from the old-time Teddy, for nobody knows bet ter than he that this was nonsense and far from candid. AMUSEMENTS |ii| a { pc t,V Wiimer, Vincent Majesuc & Appellors. TO-NIGHT—LAST TIME nSTlKirk Brown ••KICKS- 10c, -Or mill !(or. FEW AT 30c. Monday Evening, October 5 OM.Y ONE PERFORMANCE Eva Tangtiay In H Farce With SongN MISS TABASCO I'ltH'KS—soc to $1.50. SKATS O* BILB. Tuesday & Wed'y, Oct. 13 & 14 MATINEE DAILY llai'Kiiiu Price.* At All Performance* The Movie Girl A Comedy >1 union I Show PIUCKS—Mat* 15c, 25c; Kve.. 10c, 2ttc, :*oc, 50c.
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