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MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 5
SIGNIFICANT REGISTRATION
STUDENTS of political conditions
in Pennsylvania are of one mind
respecting the collapse of the
third party in this State. For
some weeks the back-to-the-party
movement has been conspicuous in all
parts of the Commonwealth and the
last of the registration days on Satur
day in Harrisburg and elsewhere has
demonstrated beyond any question the
trend toward the Republican party.
Thousands of voters who were iden
tified with the Roosevelt party have
aligned themselves again with the Re
publican forces and the enormous en
rollment on the Republican side indi
cates a tremendous victory for the
■whole Republican ticket. Here in Har
risburg the returns of the last regis
tration show the force of the back-to
the-party movement and those who
are in close touch with the voters
themselves declare that the Republi-
can sentiment is so strong us to pre
sage a* victory of such proportions as
will demonstrate the disappearance of
the political hysteria that has envelop
ed the country during the last two
years.
Perhaps nothing so utterly disrupted
the Washington party forces as the
retirement of William Draper Lewis
from the head of the ticket in favor of
a Democrat. Practically all of the
Mull Moose support in this State since
the Wilson election was Republican at
heart and these voters will not line
up behind a free-trade Democrat, the
choice of the White House for Gover
nor of Pennsylvania.
Business and industrial conditions
are such as to still further emphasize
the trend toward the Republican
party. Thousands of Democrats who
are not saying a word as to their in
tentions will vote for the Republican
candidates. They feel that it is time
to call a halt at Washington, and the
fault-finding Democratic candidate for
Governor is lamentably weak In com
parison with Dr. Martin G. Brum
baugh, the Republican nominee for
Governor, who is making a remark
able campaign throughout the State.
Republican leaders and workers in
this city and county are pressing for
ward and are confident of success at
the November election. Similar re
ports come from all over the central
part of the State. Perhaps nothing is
so significant of the Republican senti
ment as the registration figures of
Philadelphia. With a few scattered
districts still to be tabulated, the com
plete unofficial returns for the three
days of registration are as follows:
Republican, 183,248; Democratic, 24,-
296; Washington, 16,004; nonpartisan,
45.198.
The falling off in the third party
strength seems to warrant the state
ment that it will cut little figure in
the total result this year.
It appeßrs that the Democratic can
didate for Gov -nor anil the chairman
of the Democn lie machine committee
spent a day in ""hiladelphia trying to
round u~ the ltyan men as the remnant
of the Bull Moose party was rounded
up. It will be Interesting to study the
returns in Philadelphia on the day after
election. Ryan supporters all over the
State have not forgotten the insults
heaped upon them by the Democratic
candidate for Governor and his person
ally-conducted newspaper.
Colonel Roosevelt Is manifestly out of
sympathy with the anti-Brumbaugh
propaganda, and the machine Demo
crats are getting little comfort from
his Philadelphia speech.
\BVK.imisi\<;
AWE TX-KN(OWN educator notes
In a recent address that adver
tising courses in correspondence
schools and business colleges
are patronized now more than ever
before, and adds that not a few of the
students are men owning their own
business or managers "who doubtless
will never find use for their knowl
edge as advertising writers." Possi
bly not, but the businessman of to-day
who does not have a practical knowl
edge of advertising is working under
a handicap. How to say the right
thing at the right time, in the right
VBXM tor instance, is one of the fea-j
MONDAY EVENING, • - HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH OCTOBER 5, 1914.
tures of all advertising courses. The
principle of the specific fact and the
i specific instance affect all writing and
speaking. They make one man's ad
vertising a partial failure, while an
other's is a money getter.
If one man visits a strange city, he
I comes back talking something like
Ithls: "It was line, grand, splendid."
His talk evaporates into vague, gen
eral phrases. The people that hear
him talk know no more about that
city than before. He has few listen
ers, whatever his subject of conversa
tion may bo.
Another man remarks about the
same town, that it is full of buildings
twenty stories high, that the streets
were so crowded he had to wait ten
minutes at one cross walk to get over,
and that people were always in a
hurry and the street railway conduc
tors always said "Step lively."
After such a man has talked a few
moments you get some idea about the
place he describes. You see it with
your own eyes.
Every man who ever made a suc
cess as a newspaper writer has learned
that you must give personal incidents
and actual happenings to make any
kind of news article interesting. If
the reader can't see the thing with
his own eyes, the copy won't sell.
Just the same in advertising. If
you merely say "Best stock in town"
the reader may or may not believe
you. Try picking out the best values
in your st ire, give a few details about
them so the purchaser can get some
idea what they are, then name the
price. The reader then sees the bar
gain with his own eyes, is interested,
and feels a desire to buy.
That Is all there Is to good adver
tising. It does not require wit, nor
literary nor technical skill. Just
"come down to brass tacks."
The advertising course Is patronized
by men who want to know how best
to do this, how and where to spend
their money and how much to spend.
They realize that there is no profit in
haphazard, hit-or-miss advertising.
Our friends, the firemen, have put
forward their best efforts to guarantee
a fine reception for the visiting fire
fighters, and all that is now necessary
for the success of the big occasion is a
continuance of good weather. Mean
while every citizen of Harrisburg
should constitute himself a special com
mittee on reception to the end that all
visitors may be given the very best im
pression of Harrisburg and our people.
They must see the public improvements
and what has been accomplished here
during the last few years.
NO TIME TO M>SK
EVEN now England Is making
preparations to capture the
foreign trade that Germany has
lost as the result of the war.
England wants American sympathy
but. she does. not want America to
profit as a result of the war. We are
a great people so long as we do not
indulge in a thought above the suc
cess of the allied armies. It behooves
us, therefore, to move rapidly and
along pr-oper channels if we are to
capture the bulk of the customers that
are now looking for markets from
which to purchase.
The question is largely whether our
manufacturers will take the trouble
to adapt themselves to the whims and
individualities of these localities. The
tendency formerly has been to send
these people, not what they wanted,
but what we thought they ought to
want. Somewhat better results have
been had for a few recent years, but
our exporters still have a great deal
to learn if they are to compete per
manently in this field.
The reports of our consuls show
what stupid blunders have been made
in the past. Many goods intended for
Portuguese speaking countries would
have Spanish labels. Shipments have
been marked in feet and pounds for
countries using the metric system.
Many manufacturers would ship
goods In great flimsy cases, tacked to
gether with light nails. They might
have to he trans-shipped from steamer
to harbor lighter, thence to river boat,
again to railway, and finally to ox
team. They would encounter tropical
rains and heat. If they held together,
they might prove too heavy for the
human carrier at the end of the
journey.
The business man of these coun
tries have the Latin-American love
for forms and ceremonies. The ap
proach of our breezy salesmen strikes
them as rough and abrupt. Social
relations precede business in the trop
ics. And no matter how well a man
can work off goods in Oshkosh or
Seattle, if he only speaks pigeon-
Spanish in South America, it is like
a Hungarian laborer trying to sell
grand pianos in Fifth avenue.
It is a great field for young men
who are willing to grow up with the
country, and form a link between our
mills and South American customs
and ideas. That is the way the Ger
mans won the bulk of the business
and that is why England will take
the bulk of that lost hy Germany un
less we move fast and along right
lines, for Britain is already extensively
in these markets and understands
them.
Thousands of people walked along
the ltlver Front yesterday and saw for
themselves the conditions outside the
concrete steps. Tons and tons of silt,
not to mention tree trunks and stumps
and large rocks, must lie removed, and
unless Immediate energy Is thrown Into
this work the Fall rains will make the
cleaning up this year Impossible. The
contractors have done so well during
the present season on tho general con
crete work that it is somewhat sur
prising they have fallen down 011 the
less difficult features of their contract.
I'nless and until some definite au
thority is created to look after the trees
of Harrisburg, their planting and care,
we shall have unsatisfactory tree con
ditions. For some reason, not clear to
the average mind, there has been per
sistent opposition to the acceptance of
the Slisde Tree act and the creation of
a Shade Tree commission. It would ap
pear to be the part of good judgment
and good sense to place some authority
in charge of the trees. They arc? neces
sary not only to the adornment of Har
risburg, hut to the health and comfort
ol its people.
I EVENING CHAT ]
If any man had any doubt about
Harrisburg being one of the great
churchgoing cities of Pennsylvania,
all he needed was a view of the streets
about the hours for the commence
ment and close of worship yesterday.
To be sure, yesterday was communion
Sunday in practically all of the
churches and many of them had ally
day exercises in their Sabbath schools
to inaugurate the winter work after
the summer vacations, and then there
was the Interest of I'eace Sunday. But
all of these only added to the character
of religious observance and enabled
one to secure an Idea of the numbers
and numbers of people who are in
terested in church work and to realize
that in Harrisburg, the capital of a
State based upon religious freedom,
there is an army of folks to whom the
church means as much as it did to
their forefathers. There are half a
dozen points in Harrisburg where
some conception of the throngs who
attend services can be obtained. Yes
terday about noon time it was aston
ishing to see the continuo'is streams
of people passing on their way home
from the churches in the vicinities.
The same thing was to be noted, only
in a lesser degree, in the evening!
when the bells began to ring the call
for the last service of the day. To be
sure, there were a good many in the
streets who were not especially inter
ested in churches, but between half
past eight and nine the numbers had
so increased that it was not hard to
tell where a fair proportion came
from. The Rev. J. Ritchie Smith,
who as pastor of Market Square
Church was in close touch with the
life of the city, once said that he had
never known a community in which
so many of the big men, the men of
affairs in the city, were so actively
identified with church or Sunday
school work, while the late Bishop
Thomas McGovern said years ago that
the proportion of men who took
an abiding interest in religious work
was unusually high in Harrisburg.
And he was as well posted on every
denomination's progress as he was on
his own. Harrisburg has grown con
siderably in recent years and there
are some diverse elements in its popu
lation, but in spite of all that is said
about it in one way or another not
necessary to refer to here it main
tained, in the language of the late
Dr. D. M. Gilbert, long pastor of old
Zion, set in the busiest part of Har
risburg, "religious impulses which en
dure throughout the years." With
its almost 100 clwrchcs and thou
sands upon thousands of churchgoers
Harrisburg compares most favorably
with some much larger municipalities.
Next to problems of good citizen
ship there come mutters of good order
and the highways of a city offer a
pretty good index of the manner in
which law is observed. The police
department spasmodically chases the
loafers, often referred to as "crows,"
from the corners and curbs and has
managed by dint of hard work and
threats of arrest to hammer into the
heads of people who walk, drive and
ride such things as traffic regulations.
But there is another problem coming
up and the sooner it is met the bet
ter. On certain mornings, notably
Saturday, streets in vicinity of mar
kets are lined with wagons, most of
them without horses, just allowed to
remain. On many nights, especially
Saturday, certain other streets are
lined with automobiles for hours.
Market street, for instance, is lined
between Market Square and Fourth
street with automobiles on both sides
of the street, all drawn up to the
curb, all put into line and all well
watched, but nevertheless restricting
available space. The ((ingestion is at
the busiest part and the thought nat
urally arises whether the oolice could
not require certain blocks to be kept
clear of automobiles and permit them
to be stored in others?
The eighth anniversary of the dedi
cation ol' the Capitol happened to be
marked yesterday by an influx of auto
mobile visitors and there was general
regret voiced that some provision is
not made by the authorities to enable
people to see the beauties of the Capi
tol building on Sunday. The calcu
lations for the pay of the guides and
attendants is based on week-days only
and they frequently have to work
overtime on Saturdays because of the
i excursions which have come to the
city on so many Saturdays. Experi
ence has shown that it is" not wise to
throw open everything about the Capi
tol without having someone in attend
ance and the presence of guides not
only affords information to visitors but
enables an eye to be kept on things.
However, Sunday visiting of the Capi
tol by out-of-town people is growing
and since the installation of the bat
tle flags in the rotunda there have
been many folks from Steelton and
the Wes! Shore towns joining the Har
rlsburgers in going to the State House.
Sunday is about the only day of the
week some people get to see what
there is In Harrisburg and mayhe the
next legislature could arrange so that
attendants could be present on the
Sabbath. No matter what may be saio
■against Sunday visiting of such places,
there is a growing demand that public
htiildlngs be open on the first day of
♦he week, and it has been growing to
an extent that woudl surprise those
of us who have been brought up to
regard the day as one on which to ab
stain from pleasures.
.John F. Lowers, member of the last
House of Representatives from the
Braddock district and now deputy
register of wills of Allegheny county,
was among visitors here over Sunday.
Mr. Lowers was active in behalf of
the hunters' license bill in the last
session and made the strongest speech
in its favor, pointing out how it would
enable farmers to "spot" the hunters
who trespass oh their lands and en
able them to bring to hook people who
do damage.
1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE 1
—Bishop Khinelander, of Philadel
phia, is on his way home after a tour
of England.
—A. L. Reichenbach, city treasurer
of Allentown for many years, has been
made a thirty-third-degree Mason.
' —Philip Rosenbach, the Philadel
phia photographer, was the first
American layman to receive the bless
ing of the new pope.
—George W. Norris, Philadelphia
director of docks, may hold the job of
member of the Reserve Board too.
—Henry C. Wrick, of Pittsburgh, is
the largest nonresident payer of per
sonal property tax in New York.
I DO YOU KNOW ?"[
That some of the first bessemer
steel blown In this country was
made right In Ilarrlshurg?
I'KNItOSK AT AI.TOON \
fAltooni} Tribune. |
The speech of Senator Penrose, one
of tin' ablest be lias ever delivered,
dealt exclusively with the business of
the country and the effect of th» Dem
ocratic tail IT and the European war
upon our commercial and industrial en
terprises. In the first part of his Hd
dress he discussed the sugar problem
showing how the Democratic tariff and
the Kuropean war have conspired to
work harm to the country. Agricul
ture. lon. has l>i—n liaildlcapned as lias
manufacturing Industry, and the war
lias aggravated all the i-vlls produced
hy the lowered tariff. This address is
a notable production and should be
widely circulated.
CUMBERUND TOUR
BEGINS TOMORBOW
*
Dr. Brumbaugh Will Be Here to
Spend the Night and Will Be
in Carlisle Next Day
'PERNICIOUS ACTIVITY' RUMOR
i
Reports That Complaints Have
Been Made at Headquarters
Are Denied Today
Dr. Martin G. Brumbaugh, Repub
lican candidate for Governor, and the
Republican campaign party will tour
the Cumberland Valley this week. He
will go through half a dozen counties
and there will be numerous meetings.
Dr. Brumbaugh will arrive here to
night at 10.50, going to the Common
wealth Hotel, where he will spend the |
night. To-morrow morning at 7.30
he will leave by automobile for Car
lisle, where a meeting will be held.
The next stop will be 'Shlppensburg
and then will come Chambersburg.
In the evening McConnellsburg will
be reached. Franklin and Adams
counties will be toured next.
Senator Penrose will spend the early
part of the week in Washington.
The Democratic circus will divide.
McCormick and Lewis will to
night in Altoona in an effort to over
come the rousing Itepublican meeting
and to try and straighten up the Blair
county Democratic committee, which
has split.
Of all the frosty events the at
tempted banner raising at Lebanon
by the . Demowashycrats was the
worst. The banner bears
the pictures of Pinchot and
Frosts McCormick and neither
Fall at Democrats nor Progressives
Lebantfti are pleased with it. The
banner raising was the oc
casion of the gathering of
a very small crowd and the remarks
of Dean Lewis and Congressman Rup
le.v were listened to with silence as
chilling as the cold iron and steel
about the idle furnaces and mills.
The situation in Lebanon is strongly
indicative of what a Democratic tariff
can do. Dr. J. H. Kreider, the Bull
Moose candidate for Congress, gave
an extended sketch of himself as a
speech.
Gifford Pinchot will decide this
week whether he will quit or go to the
end of the campaign. The candidate
is In the western part of
the State and in such a
weakened condition that Pinchot
his physicians" have ' or- Too Sick
dered him to remain to Go On
<iuiet. He insists on re-
suming his speech
making and says he will go on. How
ever, H number of Pinchot's friends
are declaring that he should listen to
(he advice of his doctor and a select
band of political harpies is urinK that
he retire from the race and allow
Palmer to run alone. The scheme of
the lattei band appears to be realized
by everyone but the nominee, who is
said to have consented to attend a
meeting in Philadelphia late in the
week.
Richard R. Quay continued liis bom
bardment of fusion between the Demo
crats and Washingtonians on Satur
• day, and on a visit to
Philadelphia declared
Quay Keeps that Dean Lewis,was
U|> Attacks but "a babe in' the
on Fusion arrtis of William
Flinn," hinting very
strongly that the high
minded Lewis had been hypnotized
into doing what the Pittsburgh boss
wanted him to do in order to let go of
the linll Moose harness. Mr. Quay says
that there will be thousands of Wash
ington party men driven back into the
Republican camp by the chicanery at
tending the nomination of a low tariff
Democrat like Vance MeCormick by
the Washington party. Mr. Quay also
intimated that ?.lr. Klinn had large
contracts in New York city and did
not care to lie bothered by expensive
politics in Pennsylvania.
Folks about the Democratic State
headquarters say there is no truth in
the story that protests have been
lodged at Washington
against the pernicious
Xo Protests activity of some fed
\gainst Any eral officeholders in
Democrats Pennsylvania. It will
be recalled that such
activity used to be con
demned by certain Democratic news
papers when Republicans were in
office and that Orover Cleveland,
whose name is not in good form at
the State headquarters or
at Democratic state committee meet
ings nowadays, once prohibited men
connected with the federal service
from playing Democratic politics.
However, these are the days of Wood
row Wilson and alliances which Cleve
land and his friends would have
scorned are now smiled upon by the
White where the author of a
hook on freedom makes slates for the
people of sovereign States. Hence, tho
revenue collectors, deputies and post
masters in this and nearby counties
can get busy without fear.
POLITICAL SIDELIGHTS
—Palmer ought to make that speech
about the furnaces and mills being
run full time at Lebanon to-night.
—As usual the Democrats are howl
ing about registration. Are they los
ing their nerve already?
-r-Ex-Governor Pennypacker has
sent an open letter to Dean Lewis
advising him to think straight.
—One wing of the Ftlair Democracy
met Saturday and only 30 of 100 men
showed up.
—A free dinner attracted quite a
crowd of Pittsburgh Democrats to
hear MeCormick talk Saturday.
—Montgomery county Republicans
held a big meeting of committeemen
at Norristown Saturday and it was re
ported that many progressives had
come back.
—The Patriot does not give much
space to the visit to Ryan.
—Henry Wilson Bergey, who was
played up by the Patriot as a great
man in the last House, is out with a
charge that MeCormick Is trying to
buy the governorship of Pennsylvania.
—The rush of the Kerks Democrats
to Ket Dewalt and Sassiiman and
Shanaman on the Personal Liberty
ballot in their districts appears to
have been overlooked in Market
Square.
• —Pretty nearly time to investigate
pernicious activity of federal office
holders in this section.
—Secretary McAdoo seems to have
been beaten in his scheme to set up a
ticket in New York.
—The Western wage reductions and
McCormick's visit to Pittsburgh ap
pear to have humped each other.
AX EVENING THOUGHT
It' the opportunity for great
deeds should never come, the op
portunity for good deeds is re
newed fcr you day by day.—Fur
rar.
OUR DAILY LAUGH
L |
AS USUAL. r^i :
She: You were I
gone some time , * ]k
on your wedding :
He: Tea, and It \\
developed Into a )/''
lecture tour be- rjrrrT
fore we got back, L Lj
f LEARNING TO !
DRAW.
I hear your boy
Is going to draw
ing school.
You can call It
that; he's attend
ing a dental 00l-
CONSTABITLARY AND LABOR
Philadelphia Record: In starting J
a crusade against the Pennsylvania |
State Constabulary tb~. Central Labor
I'nion allows foolish ,prejudices to run i
away with its wood ludgments. There j,
Is nothing savoring of militarism |
about these very efficient troopers, and j
the fact that they are held up as a i
model throuKhout the country is a
matter of which Pennsylvanlans may
well be proud. Does the Central
Labor Uuion want to so back to the
brutal and despotic methods of the
old Coal and Iron Police? Before at
tacking the Constabulary it would bo ]
well to compare their record with '
that of their predecessors. I
Philadelpha Ledger: The Central 1
Labor Union of Philadelphia has start
ed another campaign for the abolition
of the State Constabulary. An effort
will be made to obtain a pledge from ,
every candidate for the Pennsylvania <
Assembly as well as the Senate to vote ]
for a bill to destroy this police force. ,
It is a woeful blunder on the part of .
organized labor. The State Constabu- ]
lary has proved itself to be next to the (
regular army the most efficient protec- ,
tor of public peace in the United
States. It is so regarded in all the ]
other States.
The constabulary has one mission
and only one, which is to preserve or
der in the State of Pennsylvania. The j
constabulary is here to defend the ,
8,000,000 inhabitants, including the j
members of all labor unions, against :
riot, murder, arson and every form ]
of violence.
MR. BERRY'S HtJMM.IATION ]
[From the Sharon Herald] ;
lion. William 1-1. Berry left Pulaski J
yesterday very badly peeved. It ap- ]
pears that the perennial candidate, j
who is now collector of the port of i
Philadelphia, was not allowed to en
lighten the crowd at the fair, yester- i
day, not because Mr. Berry was not
willing and anxious to talk, but be- j
cause the people there assembled pre
ferred horse racing to eloquence.
In other words, Mr. Berry was liter- i
ally howled down before he had well
begun his address. He was mortified, 1
of course, and allowed his temper to '
overflow, which was In quite as bad '
taste as was the attitude of the crowd
which refused to listen to him. He. ;
made several sarcastic references to
the "jackasses" in the throng, but that
had little effect on the hoodlums who
persisted in interrupting his address.
Mr. Berry showed himself to be a very
poor politician. Colonel Roosevelt or
Uncle Joe Carnon would have smiled
Indulgently and assured the crowd
that they, too, preferred horse-racing
to spell-binding. It is always best to
allow the mob to have its way. In
struction even in political economy
and statecraft cannot be forced into
the ears of the common people against
their will.
Common courtesy should have
curbed the impatience of those who
were more anxious to see the, races
than to hear Democratic doctrine ex
plained and defended.
The incident is significant, however,
in one respect, says the New Castle
News. In former years Mr. Berry
would have been greeted with enthusi
asm in this county, which has long
been Considered a nesting place for
the politically discontented. The in
cident shows that the people are not
inclined to be enthusiastic about the
Democratic Administration at Wash
ington and that President Wilson's
hand picked candidate for Governor,
Vance C. McCormick, is not destined
to be carried to victory on a tidal
wave of votes as had been predicted.
HATS OFF TO THK FIREMEN
By Wins Dinger
It's hats off to the firemen.
Who ready are to fight
The blaze that threatens to destroy
Our all by day or night.
A service noble, doubly so.
Because they ask no pay.
But volunteer, at ris.k of life.
The fire call to obey.
It's hats off to the firemen,
We're glad to have them here.
Let's all together voices raise
In one big, mighty cheer—
A hip, hip and another hip.
And then a big hooray—
We're glad you're here, the town is
yours
As long as you may stay.
I IFTTERSTOTHE £DiTOR~i
"UftFAIK TACTICS"
To the Editor of the Telegraph:
The undersigned entirely agrees with
you In your strictures on "Unfair Tac
tics," in the Telegraph of last Friday. It
certainly "is a matter of sincere re
gret" that some overly zealous temper
ance advocates injure a good cause by
unfair and Indiscreet handling. The
temperance question is a question of
morals and not of politics, and it is not
only unwise, but injurious as well, to
mix the two.
It was the writer's misfortune to be
absent from the morning session of the
Kast Pennsylvania Synod of the Luth
eran Church, when the resolution, to
which you refer, was adopted. We sin
cerely regret its adoption, and are sorry
we were not present to offer our vigor
ous protest.
While It was stated In its advocacy
"that there were no candidates men
tioned,' it is tru«i, however, that the
resolution adopted by the Antl-Saloon
league, and which the synod endorsed
by a small vote ,a candidate's name Is
mentioned. And the synod, by such ac
tion, showed a political spirit not only,
but party as well, and enter
ed on the wide field of poll
tics. This, we do not hesitate to
pronounce a grievous mistake. It Is
unwise, as it Is wrong. We wish It dis
tinctly understood that the Lutheran
Church, as such, does not stand fur
such "Unfair Tactics" on the temper
ance question or any other. 1 am frank
to say that I do not endorse such meth
ods. as a member of that body, the
synod, no matter how well meant the
action taken may have' been.
" HOLLOW AY. P. I).
Harrisburg, Pa.
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NEWS DISPATCHES
OF THE CIVI L WAR
[From the Telegraph, Oct. 5, 1864]
Captures Rebel liattcr,v
Fortress Monroe, Oct. 4.—The hos
pital steamer from the Point of Rocks
with wounded men from the Army of i
the James, reports that General Terry ,
has assaulted and captured a rebel
battery in the New Market road.
Hob l)cail Soldiers
Army of the Potomac, Oct. s.—in
passing over the ground where the
Second Division of the Ninth Corps
met defeat Saturday, our dead werei;
found entirely stripped of clothing,
and some of the bodies horribly muti
lated. Several lof the men had evi
dently been murdered after being
wounded.
HOW THE MEW DEMOCRATIC TAX
HITS A 1.1, THE PEOPLE
"You will probably remember," said
Dr. Martin G. Brumbaugh, the Republi
can candidate for Governor, in a speech
last week, "that about a year ago this
autumn we had a change in our tariff
policy in the Government of the United
States. They claimed goods would be
cheaper if we took off our tariff. Even
the children that stand before you know
that nothing has been cheapened by
that. All that has happened is that
about $125,000,000, which we formerly
collected In the National Treasury and
used to support our own Government,
has gone abroad into the pockets of
foreign manufacturers. t'nder the
foolish design of a war tax you are
taxed to pay back into the Treasury
$100,000,000, so that you are not only
taxed by reason of the loss of your in
come, but you are directly taxed to
make up the deficit.
"I want you all when you go to the
polls to wipe that out. Support your
Congressmen and your Senators so
that you can get your people lined up
in Washington and change that order
of things and bring back prosperity,
comfprt and happiness to the people of
Pennsylvania."
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The General says:
Before bad weather comes
g| irftai y° u s ) ovid
| advantage of the
S°°d weather to
cover your build
ings with a roofing that
can withstand the elements of
winter in any part of the country. It
should be
Certain-teed
Quality "D m W Durability
Certified HOOling Guaranteed
—because it is made of the Very best materials known
for the purpose and will give unexcelled service on all
roofs in any kind of climate.
—because 1-ply is guaranteed to BEQXTI.ATION BT LAW.
last five years, 2-ply ten years, 3-ply
fifteen years and this guarantee is Should It* Extension By Government
backed by the world's greatest roof- °° n>
ing industry. This is an age of regulation The
—because our large scale production, growth of National and State regula-
J ir .1. J J 11 .. tlon has been tremendous, and if the
modern selling methods and excellent proßent rate continues, what la to be
shipping facilities enables us to reduce the the result?
cost of production—and hence the selling Whether this change from tndivld
price— to a minimum. uallsm to paternalism is desirable to
. ....... . . . j„.. „_c 'he American people is a great ques-
In addition to Crrialn ietd Roll Ro»«»<t. we tlon F ro m the very beginning of
also manufacture the following complete line; our country, America has been the
r.r> n .' n A iiuhiUt Shingles world's home for individualism and
freedom from unnecessary restric
ts odo n i) ualit vS toofl n g tlon, and these principles were ln-
ShlDKle. corporated into our state and federal
Slate-Bur faced Roll Hoofing constitutions as a perpetual Ituaran-
Deadenlng Kelt Stringed Felt * ee ? or our welfare. Under this ln-
Drv Saturated Frit fluence we have gone forward and
Rosln-nlzeil sheathing founded our wonderful Industrial In
c,rlam.t**d Hoollng Cement stitutlons. believing in thosa princt
pS:S3 Si» t C — nt great progress and
cYrtl'in-tl'd Waterproof Liner „ " is with a certain alarm, there-
Paper
Cmrtain-tmrd Tarred reit government. Regulation seems to
Carpet Unlng* Slater's Felt have become a mania—a - profession
lllue Piaster Hoard, ©to. — an( j while much of It is good. It
There is a dealer in your locality who handle, J}" more than a fair percentage of
Certain-Iced Products He will be glad to give «to wm? im*
" y ~r— . , . • , ..... forming tne statute books witn un
yon further Information and will quote you noceßßary or illogical laws, and
reasonable prices on them. drawing large salaries under the
r> i o »*r f mask of reform. A regime of this
ueneral Kootinp Wllg. Lonipany sort Is fntal to all prosperity, and
_ . . , prevents industrial advancement.
Wurltf. loriiwt n Perhaps It is time to stop and
Roofing and Bulldinu 1 apers take an Inventory of what la going
Stock Exchange Bid.., PhjUMp kk.
Bell Phone Sofuce 4531 nate the cranks who are making a
C K i,y ATT <£& "otT bS" then
Philadelphia Atlanta Cleveland Detroit Henslble well informed llniffl
St. Loui. Cincinnati Kansas City Minneapolis an(J , hen ~n force them to the gred^
San Francisco Seattle London benefit of the entire population,
Hamburg Sydney
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Johnston Paper Co., Harrisburg Pa.
DISTRIBUTORS OF CISRTAIN-TEED HOOFING
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WITMAN BROS., H
• WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTORS OF CERTAIN-TEEI) ROOFING
IN HARRISBURG FIFTY
YEARS AGO TO-DAY
[From the Telegraph, Oct. 5, 1864J
Rally at Courthouse
A union rally will be held In tho
Courthouse this evening when Gen
eral O. S. Ferry and ex-Governor
Johnson will speak.
Pickpockets Ilere
On Saturday morning in market
threes ladies, it is reported, were re
lieved of their pocketbooks, one of
them containing sl6.
BKI-MBAIGH A PEOPLE'S COVER
XOR
[Philadelphia Public Ledger.]
The candidacy of Doctor Brumbaugh
rests not upon the pleasure of an
oligarchy or a despot, but on the pref
erence of 253,000 Republicans expres
sed in an open primary.
He goes before tho voters of the
State on his own honest, open record.
There is nothing to hide. There Is no
sinister collusion. "We don't fuse, we
won't sell out and we don't buy out
in Pennsylvania." He cannot he in
veigled into an entangling alliance
even within the ranks of his own
party. He is his own man, and ho will
be the people's Governor.
The platform is not an amiable cir
cumlocution of shopworn, hand-me
down phrases that have done duty as
party slogans ever since there was a
party, it .s not an interstate procla
mation, that would serve Oklahoma
or Nevada just as well as Pennsylva
nia. But its specific pledges squarely
meet the present needs of the Com
monwealth, and behind them is not
the unscrupulous ambition for an of
fice, but the determined purpose of a
man who has made good in every post
of honorable responsibility he has
filled.