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FRIDAY KVEXING, OCTOBER 16
"VVATCinTL WAITING"
IT is announced that President Wil
son will soon send out a letter to
Oscar Underwood, the Democratic
.leader in Congress, for campaign
purposes. This letter will set forth
that no further regulatory business
legislation will be attempted by this
administration, but that,instead the
next session will turn its attenion to
constructive work on legislation for
the development of the country's
natural resources.
This is the same sort of promise
and pledge which was given the busi
ness men of the country in the cam
paign two years ago by the present
occupant of the White House. He as
sured the apprehensive business in
terests of the United States that
nothing would ,be done to interfere
with legitimate business and that the
revision of the tariff would be gradual
and effected in such a way as to inter
fere as little as possible with the re
adjustment of trade.
How well this promise was kept is
evident now in widespread business
depression and thousands of working
men thrown into idleness through a
Democratic free-trade law jammed
through Congress without even the
pretense of reasonable consideration
or a hearing of those most vitally con
cerned.
What hope can the business and
Commercial interests have that tho
forthcoming letter will be anything
.more than another campaign sugar
coated pellet to be distributed for
campaign purposes only and as a tem
porary sedative for the upset business
community.
An administration that repudiates
pledges and platform promises with
out blinking an eye can hardly be
trusted with power to do further dam
age to the country in the imposition
of unnecessary taxes and the closing
of industrial plants while working men
Bnd women suffer.
Pennsylvania is in a way the chosen
battle ground of the Wilson forces.
The President has personally selected
a candidate for United States Senator
and another for Governor and now
asks the voters of this great industrial
Commonwealth to elect them as an
evidence of the approval of his
policies.
If the voters of Pennsylvania are
satisfied with present conditions and
want them to continue, then they
should vote for Palmer and McCor
mick. If. however, they have had
enough of experimental legislation and
the broken promises of an adminis
tration. then there is only one course
to pursue—to vote the Republican
ticket and restore Republican policies.
"Watchful waiting" is now very gen
erally and properly applied to the
thousands of industrial workers who
are watchfully waiting for something
to turn up that will give them employ
ment and the opportunity to support
their families.
Colonel Roosevelt Is going to have
"difficulty in squaring his speeches
elsewhere with his attitude toward the
Democrats in Pennsylvania. He has
not ceased to hammer the Wilson ad
ministration up and down, but he now
proposes to enter Pennsylvania and in
voke support for a free trade Wilson
favorite who is ambitious to be Gover
nor. The Palmer-McCormick wing of
the Democracy is hoping, of course, that
the Colonel's appeal will dra*/ votes
from Penrose to Pinchot and thus aid
In the election of Palmer. But the Re
publicans who were drawn into the
1912 campaign are not going to be sold
through a fusion deal to the Democ
racy.
WELFARE CONFERENCE
AS a result of the great success
of the welfare and efficiency
conference held in f arrisburg
last year, a resolution -was
passed by the delegates calling for
another such meeting this year. It is
gratifying to note that Harrisburg has
been chosen for the 1914 conference,
which Is scheduled for November 17,
18 and 19.
In his call John Price Jackson,
State Commissioner of Labor and In-
FRIDAY EVENING, * HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH: OCTOBER 16, 1914.
dustry, says that the meeting is to be
held for the specific purpose of-deter
mining in what manner the industries
of the State and the Department of
Labor and Industry can co-operate to
Improve the economy of production
and the quality of the goods produced.
One of the important methods of doing
this is by improving the skill and
physical capacity of the workers
themselves, and reducing factors
which cause irregularity in their em
ployment.
The Department of Labor and In
dustry is particularly organized for
this purpose and to aid in promoting
this work by pointing out methods
for improving unsanitary conditions,
for installing safety appliances, or
ganizing safety campaigns and for
bettering other conditions of labor.
Another important way in which the
department should be able to assist in
avoiding much loss is by aiding the
development of a more sane and de
pendable way of settling disputes be
tween employers and employes than
by strikes. Other important purposes
which bear directly upon this question
are vocational education, best methods
of compensation, workmen's savings
banks, immigration and its relation to
industrial conditions, etc.
The conference is of a strictly busi
ness character, and judging by the
excellent attendance and free discus
sions last year, it should be a very im
portant meeting to the industries and
labor interests of the State.
There appears in the Telegraph to
day the first of a series of letters of a
plain citizen addressed to Palmer and
McCormlck and which will ask those
worthies some questions, the answers
to which ought to be illuminating in the
present campaign. Both of these am
bitious individuals have been quite
ready with their interrogatories and
perhaps they will find time in their
race around the State to take note of
our correspondent's search for infor
mation.
TKIBVTK TO KDISOX
IX most of the cities of the United
States next Wednesday tribute will
be paid in some way to the genius
of the world's foremost electrical
scientist and inventor, Thomas A. Edi
son, but in no community will the oc
casion be observed with truer signifi
ance than in Harrisburg. Here the
500 or more boys and girls of the
grammar schools, the thinking men
and women of a not very distant to
morrow, will write of the life and
works of the modern wizard in a city
wide essay contest.
The school board at a recent meet
ing officially recognized "Edison Day,"
the anniversary of the perfecting by
Edison of the incandescent lamp, by
authorizing the essay contest. School
authorities constitute the committee
of arrangements; literary Instructors
in the high school faculties are in
cluded in the personnel of the board
of judges. Material reward for the
best compositions has been provided
through the co-operation of a local
electric utility company in offering $25
in gold for distribution.
In suggesting the idea of an official
observance of "Edison Day," Harry A.
Boyer, president of the school board,
set the pace for other cities of the
country. "The progress and develop
ment of electrical science is of to-day,"
said President Boyer, "and it is only
proper that the youth of the city
should be permitted to pay this tribute
to the Caesar of electrical science."
It will have been noted by most fair
minded people that while the Demo
cratic candidate for Governor is issuing
his petty challenges to Dr. Martin G.
Brumbaugh to tell where he stands re
garding Penroseism. the principal so
called issue of the Democratic cam
paign. Mr. McCormick has not stopped
long enough In his rushing around the
State to answer the question which has
been put up to him in many ways as to
where he stands oa Flinnism. It has
not been forgotten that in his own
newspaper he has bitterly denounced
Flinn as the very impersonation of all
that is mean and low, but since Mr.
Flinn put the ambitious young man at
the head of what is left of the Wash
ington party, Flinnism is evidently
quite all right.
MORE INCONSISTENCY
IT requires colossal nerve, not to say
gall, for the Democratic machine
candidate for Governor to issue
circulars claiming all the credit for
the important municipal improve
ments in this city since 1902. He is
careful not to say that he instructed
his publicity representatives to keep
him in the background regarding the
improvements so that he might not
lose the support of those voters who
were against them.
But this offense is no worse than
his_ double shuffling on practically
every other issue in the campaign.
Consistency has no place in his des
perate struggle for votes to prevent
the avalanche of humiliation that is
now sliding toward him.
In the election of Henderson Gilbert
as president of the Chamber of Com
merce that body has recognized the
energy and public spirit of one of the
most active representatives of the
younger clement in the business com
munity. He has had a prominent part
in the organization of the Chamber
and is in close touch with the important
developments of Harrisburg. His
unanimous election to the head of the
central business organization is a
tribute to his disinterested work for
the city and his capacity for the duties
which devolve upon the president of an
association which embraces so many
of the live wires of the city. There is
much for the Chamber of Commerce to
do, and its work during the first year
is a promise of the activities which are
certain to characterize the program
for the new year.
It was expected that the intelligent
religious element of Pennsylvania
would quickly resent the scheme to
drag the churches into a partisan po
litical campaign. When the Demo
cratic candidate for Governor sent out
his letter appealing to the preachers to
conduct services In his Interest he
never dreamed that he was treading
upon very delicate ground. As a mat
ter of fact he is learning through hard
knocks that cunning Is a rather danger
oui factor in any cam^alga.
EVENING CHAT
Dr. John J. Muliowney, assistant
chief medical Inspector and one of
the active spirits in the brilliant corps
of men about Dr. Samuel G. Dixon,
Pennsylvania's Commissioner of Health,
has edited a book on the inside of the
Chinese revolution which gives new
light on the remarkable upheaval that
, ended monarchical rule, apparently,
I t he oldest kingdom in the world,
j The book has just been issued bv the
| Revolt company and is entitled "A
Revelation of the Chinese Revolution.*'
i Chinese compatriot," whose
identity is probably veiled through
| commendable desire to save a head,
I but it has been edited by Dr. Mul-
I lowney, whose experience as a medi
| cal missionary in Peking gave him
exceptional opportunities to watch the
| struggles and whose acquaintance
[among the moving spirits enabled him
to see the politics of the whole scheme.
.w 6 brings to the front a man
B hose name has been heard many
times, but dwarfed by the vigorous,
center-of-the-stage policy of the presi
dent, \ uan-Shi-Kai. It appears from
the book that the motive, spirit, was
General Hwang Hsing, a man of re
markable talents, the man who in exile
is feared by the dictator. It would
seem that iuan rode into power by
taking advantage of the patriotism of
other men and that instead of the man
now enthroned being Chinas only
nope there are men whose ambitions
run in other lines than those so cal
lously followed out by the president.
h , Muliowney, who organized the
nrst Red Cross corps in North China,
saw the masterly manner in which
the revolution was handled by Hwang
and comments upon the way in which
ne carried out Fabian tactics and
saved an army from annihilation. The
book points out how the movement
for overthrow of the Manchus was led
by Hwang, who is only 3 9 \«ears old.
and who began the reform efforts
which drove the dynasty from the
throne when he was little more than a
lad. He studied in Tokio and wh«n
he went back to China had to fly for
his life. The book brings in Dr. Sun
iat-fcen and gives the real inside of
the movement which attracted the at
tention of the world and which bids
rair to reappear with renewed force.
J£ W *«W is mentioned as the leader of
the "Dare to Dies" and his editor pre
dicts that impartial judgment will give
the credit for the revolution where it
belongs.
The committees of the Engineers'
in charge of the arrangements
for the economy and efficiency con
ference to be held in this city next
month is going about obtaining pub
mi a quUn way * w a»ing until the
political storm subsides and trusting
1 ? t . J the war excitement will have
subsided somewhat about the time the
conference rolls around. The commit
tee has prepared sets of stickers to go
on the backs of envelopes and in other
ways to attract attention to the big
meeting of business men, safety ex
perts, engineers and others which will
be held here.
Harry S. McDevitt, who is in charge
of the arrangements of Dr. Brum
baugh while he is speaking in the
campaign, is somewhat of a humor-
The other day he went through the
city and a friend inquired how the
doctor was getting along.
"He's got twenty-eight pounds of
gumdrops and is going strong," was
McDevitt s reply.
Dr. Brumbaugh is an old time
speaker and he uses gumdrops to keep
his voice oiled up. As a consequence
he is in good form whenever he has
to make a speech.
Congressman Palmer, who is an
other old hand at speech making, is
one of the few men who speitks much
who indulges in smoking. Palmer is
fond of smoking and is seldom with
out a cigar. He smokes before speak
ing and after speaking and carries a
bundle of cigars in his pocket. They
never appear to have any effect on his
voice and he is as fresh with his
tones at the close of a day as at the
start. One reason is that he speaks
slowly and enunciates very carefully.
Palmer is one of the best men to take,
say stenographers, because of his
manner of speaking.
Street railway men from all parts of
the country, who have been at Atlan
tic City this week attending the con
vention of the trolley association have
been showing the greatest interest in
the way the Pennsylvania Publie Ser
vice Commission is working out its
problems. As a matter of fact, most
of the street railway people were
leary of the commission when it be
gan work, but the promptness with
which it ordered complaints, well
founded redressed and threw out those
which were actuated by spite won the
trolley people and they have met the
commission half way in its efforts to
adjust complaints about zones for
fares, the height of car steps, crossings
and other matters The change of
sentiment in a year, in the face of
some of the orders made bv the com
mission, is said to have been mark
ed.
1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ]
—R. H. Xewbern represented the
Pennsylvania railroad at the safety
conference in Chicago.
—J. Rogers Flannerty, Pittsburgh
manufacturer, will head a committee
of Pittsburgh iron men who will go to
England.
—George H. Hardner, the Allentown
alderman, was one of the first in the
field after rabbits yesterdav.
—E. L. Herndon, the Pottsville steel
manufacturer, is head of the Schuyl
kill manufacturers' new association.
—Marshall P. Wilder, the humorist,
will go back to the stage.
I DO YOU KNOW ?"j
That llarrisburg mills are mak
ing shells for the United States
navy?
AN AWFUL FAMILY ROW
[From the Boston Herald.]
In a little company of exceptionally
intelligent ladies and gentlemen where
the talk was about the awful foreign
cataclysm, of course, the host offered
a small wager that no one of his guests
could give accurately the family re
lationship or relationships existing be
tween the rulers of the three Empires
now ut war among themselves. The
waeer was accepted, but it was not
won by any of those who accepted it.
In order to win it would have been
necessary to trace the several relation
ships as follows: King George of Eng
land, and Kaiser William of Germany,
are first cousins, King George's father
and the Kaiser's mother having been
brother and sister. King George and
Czar Nicholas of Russia, are also first
cousins, the King's mother. Dowager
Queen Alexandra. and the Czar's
mother. Dowager Empress Dagmar, be
ing sisters. King George of England,
and Alix, Czarina of Russia, are first
cousins, the former's father and the
latter's mother having bee'n brother and
sister. Kaiser William and the Czarina
of Russia are also first cousins, the
Kaiser's mother and the Czarina's
mother being sisters. Thus the Kaiser
and the Czar are first cousins by mar
riage. Frederick VIII of Denmark,
is brother of the Dowager Queen Alex
andra and the Dowager Empress Dag
mar and is. therefore, uncle to both
King George and Czar Nicholas. There
are various other collateral relation
ships existing between the reigning
ftimllles of England. Germany and
Russia through the reigning families of
other European countries, but those
here given are the closest. Having in
mind all these close relationships exist
ing between the rulers of the three
great Empires now at war among
themselves, it seems quite permissible
to ejaculate: "What a horrible family
row!"
SAYS FLU DEALT
OUT BULL MOOSERS
Richard R. Quay Say* That Four
fifthi of Progressives Will
Vote Republican Now
REPUDIATION FOR DICKERS
McCormick Orders Men to Get Off
Tickets; Lively Days Among
the Campaigners
Charges that William Flinn, the
"angel" of the Progressive cause In
Pennsylvania in 1912 and boss there
after, betrayed the Bull Moosers by a
deal with the machine Democrats were
reiterated in Philadelphia last night
by Richard R. Quay, one of the Roose
velt delegates in the last national con
vention and an ardent follower of the
Colonel.
Quay's statement is the most em
[Phatic of any he has issued up to date
and is said to represent the feeling of
many Progressives. He said in part:
"It is our opinion that the Repub
lican ticket this Fall w*ll poll four
fifths of the votes that were cast for
Roosevelt in 1912. Within the last
few weeks and since the consumma
tion of this infamous deal with the
Democracy at Harrishurg, the expres
sion from sincere Progressives in every
county in the state, one and all, is
that "We are a party betrayed.'
"In 1912, even under adverse con
ditions and with the onus of a two
faced tight for State officers, we poll
ed 450,000 votes. Last year our total
"nrolled was about 45.000. We were
the dominant party in the State then.
What has happened to us? There is
but one answer—Mr. Flinn.
"Mr. Flinn says the Progressive
party is not a party, but a movement.
\Ve claim that out of this great move
ment in 1912 came a healthy party,
whose future promised unparalleled
greatness to this country and unlimited
good to the cause it represented, and
we arraign and condemn Mr. Flinn
and his traitorous associates for
strangling this party almost at its
birth.
"It is a sad thing to think that at
the end of this period we find it kneel
ing at the feet of the Democratic
party in a deal for political patronage
and plunder in utter abasement of all
its principles."
"After the meeting In Philadelphia,
when Mr. Lewis decided to withdraw,"
said Quay, "I wired Colonel Roosevelt
telling him it was a
cowardly deal, for
Flinn and which we would not
His Frequent stand, and I could not
Makeshifts believe that it met
with his approval. 1
asked him to write me
at Pittsburgh so that I might have
his views at the earliest possible mo
ment. He did so, and I am sorry to
say I have not his permission to pub
lish the answer.
"The great mass of people in Penn
sylvania believes in Theodore Roose
velt.
"The great mass of people in Penn
sylvania do not believe in this new
party as represented by Mr. Flinn and
.his political puppets.
I "The name of Theodore Roosevelt
has been made to cover a multitude
'of sins, but even his name in this cam
paign is not big enough, broad enough
and great enough to cover democracy,
hypocrisy, political prostitution and
William Flinn.
"The real Progressives of Pennsyl
vania," continues .Mr. Quay, "believe
in Pennsylvania-made products. They
are not in favor of candidates import
ed from the Democracy of New York,
Connecticut, the District of Columbia
or other States.
"We hail Mr. Flinn as the new boss
of the Democratic party.
"We congratulate it on this acquisi
tion and we say: 'Let God speed it
to the same fate—ignominious.defeat
—that the Keystone, the Lincoln and
Mr. Flinn's other makeshift parties
have always met in the past.' "
The Dauphin County Republican
League held an enthusiastic meeting
at the party headquarters in the
Wyeth building last
evening. Reports were
received of the or- league's
ganization of branches Branches
of the league in Swa- Growing
tara township and
Elizabethville. Others
will be located in Steelton and
throughout the county. The organiza
tion is to be made permanent and in
future campaigns will act as in the
present, as an auxiliary to the city and
county committees. City Chairman
Oves presided at the rally last night.
Next Thursday evening a meeting of
the league together with members of
the city committee and the county
committee in the city will be held at
headquarters.
Members of the Washington party
in A. Nevin Detrich's county got a
shock yesterday from the publication
of a letter from W.
Scott Fleming, one of
Franklin the most prominent
County Man men of Greencastle
Disgusted and a leading Progres
sive, in which he re
nounced the Washing
ton party of this State and its candi
dates on the ground that they had be
trayed the Washington party by the
substitution of a Democrat and free
trader on the ticket as a candidate for
Governor. Mr. Fleming lived In Mis
souri several years, where he was a
very successful business man. He was
mayor of Webster Grove, the Repub
lican candidate for State treasurer of
Missouri and very influential in Re
publican polities in this State. He
has resided In Greencastle twelve
years.
POLITICAL SIDELIGHTS
—Vance C. McCormick appears to
have Riven another evidence of his
dictatorial way of doing things by or
dering two Democratic legislative can
didates In the Twelfth Allegheny dis
trict to get off the Personal Liberty
ticket. They were endorsed by the
Personal 1-iberty crowd. The district
is a dry ore and is the home of speak
er George E. Alter. McCormick ap
pears to have started In early bossing
the legislative end of the govern
ment.
—McCormick has not said much
about Dick Quay. Quay appears to
have the same idea about McCormick
that some other people have.
—President Wilso* has written a
letter endorsing the candidacy of
Governor Glynn, Tammany Demo
cratic candidate for govarnor of New
York. Oh. la la.
—Pinchot yesterday answered the
Palmer refusal to quit by saying that
he expected to win.
—Democrats and Progressives have
fused In the PowcJl senatoriaJ district.
It's only a matter of form. McKee
will keep It Republican.
—Lewis Emery, Jr., the Bradford
millionaire, entertained McCormick
Why not get your
hat made to order?
"Clothcraft" know that you can be fit-
Guaranteed "All Wool" tec l properly in a ready-made hat and you
Suits and Overcoats would not have it made to order just for
$lO to S2O the mere sake of spending a few extra dol
lars. You know that it would shdw poor
"Trulv Warner" i uc te m ent when there's no particular ad
y vantage to be gained.
Famous New York
Hats for Men
$2.00 Why not apply the same prin-
Caps, 50c ciple to the buying of clothes?
"Military" Hart Schaffner & Marx
Flannel Shirts For Men Clothes at $lB to S3O are ready for ser-
Blue—Gray—Khaki vice and you can quickly find the one that
Special ft ts your f Qrm an( j f wa j t j ng __ no
delay— no guessing how your suit will look
when you put it on—you can see and try
Sweaters before y° u buy
"Jumbo" Rope Stitch . ,
Maroon—Gray—Blue Almost any man can be fitted
Special' * n Schaffner & Marx Clothes with
$3 50 little or no alteration. AVe want to prove
this to some of you men, who only think,
you cannot be fitted in Ready-for-Service
"Ladies" Clothes. Yes, to-day, we're ready.
The New Fur Coats
and Fur Sets are here. tt If 1 r\
They are beautiful- j-J # MarKS OC OOn
Come in and look
atthem 4th and Market Sts.
and Palmer at dinner last night. Em
ery was the man defeated by Stuart.
—Give a dollar for Vance and get
a medal declaring for Wilson and his
tariff.
—Uphold Wilson is now the Demo
cratic slogan. Who wants to go hun
gry?
—McCormick is now talking about
equalization of taxes. Must have been
reading Creasy's speeches in the House
ten years ago.
—Creasy was always one of the
grandest little complainers about
thinss and he always avoided correct
ing them.
—The Anti-Saloon League boss does
not appear to have been heard from
lately. The contributors to the lea
gue will be heard from later, how
ever.
—ln Philadelphia yesterday coun
cilmen voiced the opinion that G. W.
Norris, conspicuous Democrat, ought
to resign either his federal or city job.
—P. Ci Knox will speak to-morrow
for the Republican ticket.
—Hampton L. Carson leaves no
doubt of where he stands on the Re
publican ticket.
AN EVENING THOUGHT
Remove far from me vunity and
lies;
Give m« neither poverty nor
riches;
Feed me with the food that is
needful for me. —Prov. 30:8.
OUR DAILY LAUGH
WHERE IT
DOESN'T WORK
Enthusiasm is
comtagious, you
■Li ,Not a.lways.
W] Hi I've bean mfully
T I ll in love vlth girls
U (I ll who didn't seem
II * «& ll s ' lare my eo
thusiasm tn the
BQANDALOUS.
I believe I shall /&V
have to give up AJT\
bridge.
Really? Isn't FCJ L *RF— ■ T
the game worth Not ) ,
the scandal? ,U 1 (7 J ■
IN HARRISBURG FIFTY
YEARS AGO TO-DAY
[From the Telegraph of Oct. 16, 1864.]
RiK Realty Transfer
Haxry Thomas purchased the blue
stene mansion, just erected, at Front
and State streets, by Dr, Bailey, for
$40,000 cash.
Pickpockets Easy
Many pockets have been picked in
this city and vicinity In the last week.
A clever gang of crooks. are doing
the work and plans for their capture
have been made.
i ncw I
I ■
[From the Telegraph of Oct. 16, 1864.]
Has Food in Plenty
Louisville, Oct. 16.—General Sher
man has one hundred days' rations at
Knoxville.
Pursues Hood
A private report says that Genera!
Sherman is pursuing Hood's army be-i
tween Dalton and Lafayette. _
Plain Letters by a Plain Man
To Messrs. Vance C. McCormick and
A. Mitchell Palmer,
Gentlemen:
You are now candidates in our
State for prominent and responsible
positions. It is understood that
you have been specially selected by
President Wilson as the exponents
of his policies. Yeu "were foremost
in securing his nomination and
have repeatedly and enthusiastic
ally endorsed the present Demo
cratic administration.
On the stump you have been bit
ter in your denunciation of candi
dates opposed to you and of officials
differing from you politically.
These men whom you denounce are
able and intelligent men who have
mad« honorable records in various
positions and they are capable,
doubtless, of taking care of them
selves in any controversy.
The great mass of the citizen
ship of our Commonwealth are the
common people, unblessed with vast
hereditary fortunes or princely
revenues—men who must work and
work hard In the various lines of
toil to earn a livelihood.
These people are little interested
In your personaj dislike of those
whose views differ from your own,
but they are greatly interested in
the ever Increasing cost of living
under the present Democratic ad
ministration. In 1912, the Demo
cratic campaign orators, headed by
candidate Wilson, himself, fairly
quivered with emotion as they went
from place to place and told how
Democratic success would speedily
be followed by a new tariff that
would be a boon to the poor man.
The Democratic success came. The
new tariff promptly followed. But
the cost of living was increased,
not reduced. "We who must calcu
late closely on the expenditure of
every one of our few dollars, know
it to our sorrow.
Under Democracy and its tariff
there has been a reduction in reve
nues, in business, in wages, in em
ployment, but not in the cost of
living.
Would it be asking too much,
gentlemen, to request that you
pause In your tirades against Indi
viduals you dislike long enough to
tell us why this is, and to tell it in
language so plain that the plain ,
common people can understand It?
We care nothing about tine
spun theories. We would like to
know why Democratic promises to
the working man have proved
false. We would like to know why
plank after plank of your Balti
more platform of 1912 on Which
the party rode Into power, has been
shattered and Ignored by the men
who made it.
Will you answer the questions to
he propounded In a few letters?
These questions will refer to vari
ous matters of governmental policy
during the twenty months your
party has had absolute control.
Men!
Read Doutrich's Large
Clothing Ad on Page 9
The people feel that they have not
been benefited by these policies,
but have been injured. Why la
this?
At one time it was stated that
Cabinet officers from other States
were to make a whirlwind cam
paign of Pennsylvania during the
present campaign. Now it is as-,
serted that, at Mr. Palmer's reV
quest, they have been called off.
WHY? Are you afraid to stand on
the record your party has mada
at Washington?
ONE OF THE COMMON PEOPLE.
Harrisburg, October 16.
Of course, it is not our fight, but
things have come to such a pass that
President Wilson connot even nominate
a man for a high public office without
some of the Senators objecting to his
confirmation. Is the President losing
his grip on the Senators?— Chester
Times.
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STORY OF A BOY
Worked on ■ farm—then in ■ aair
mlll, and In bin father'* store.
Swept a school for bin tuition—rang;
the bell for his board.
Hettan teaching when IB—County
Superintendent nhrn
Entered U. of P. n* a student when
became member of U. of P.
faculty.
Made Prealdent of Juniata College—
mole hooka on education.
Appointed by Prealdent McKlnley aa
t'ommlaaloner of Education of
Porto Hleo.
Elected Superintendent of Philadel
phia Sehoola.
Nominated for Governor hy the Re
publican* of Pennaj Ivnnla.
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