8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HAMS Founded iSti Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO., Telegraph Building, Federal Square. E. J. STACK POLE, Pris t and Editor-in-Ch>-/ P. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. GUS M. STYEINMETZ, Managing Editor. * Member American Newspaper Ptib t Ushers' Assocla- Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania AssoclfV Eaatern office, Has- Brooks, Fifth Ave- Brooks, People' 9 Gcs Bunding, CbV. Entered at the Post Office In Harrlfta burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, six cents a week: by mail, $3.00 a year in advance. Snorn dnll.v nvrragr circulation for the three month* endlnit May 31, 11)10, ■JT 22,189 it Thene flsurcM are not. All returned, Untold and dnmnged copies deducted. MONDAY EVENING. JUNE 12. I thank Thee that I learn Not toil to spurn; With all beneath the sun It makes me one; — For tears, whereby I gain Kinship with human pain; For Love, my comrade by the dusty ways, I give Thee praise. —Emily Read Jones. HUGHES AM) FAIRBANKS A FTER a week of leaden skies and the muttering* -of Impending storm the mists rolled away at Chicago on Saturday and a new day dawned for the Republican party and ' the nation as a whole. The nomination ' of Justice Hughes, the "conditional"! declination of Theodore Roosevelt and the ringing response of the new stand ard bearer constitute a chapter in American history than which there are few brighter. As the political atmosphere clears it becomes more and more evident that I great wisdom was exercised in the ' making of the ticket. While the rad ical element of the Progressive party insisted upon the nomination of | Colonel Roosevelt and no other, the, consensus of party opinion was in ! favor of a selection which would not further estrange the Progressive voters, but -would still represent the more conservative attitude of Republicans ! generally throughout the country. I From the very start of the convention I extreme care was exercised at every stage of the proceedings. Leaders of both -wings of the party realized the importance of a real getting together for the defeat of the incompetent ad- j ministration at Washington. There j was no bitterness at any time. Stal- I warts were ready to concede even the nomination of Colonel Roosevelt in the interest of party harmony. Progres sive leaders were likewise willing to take up a candidate other than the militant and dominant spirit of their party. With peace and unity in view, both factions labored throughout a strenuous and trying week. When it became evident that the pressure from within and without was toward Justice Hughes, the leaders no longer could resist, the manifest senti ment of the party, and as the final conclusion of the whole matter gave the predestined nominee a unanimous vote. Of course, the Progressives, resent ful over the failure of the Republicans to nominate Colonel Roosevelt, de clared they would oppose any other candidate, and in spite of the hint from Sagamore Hill placed the stand ard of their party in his hands. There appears to be little doubt that Colonel Roosevelt will make definite his "con ditional" refusal to lead the third party movement any farther. He un derstands quite well that a further division of the party would mean the perpetuation of the Wilson experi ment. He will hardly risk responsi bility so serious. Indeed, it would be difficult to find any reason why Colonel Roosevelt should do other than heartily support Mr. Hughes. His one reason during the convention for withholding ap proval of the nomination was that he did not know where the Justice stood on the great questions of national pre paredness and Americanism. Mr. Hughes has left nobody in doubt on that score—or on any other of the big issues, for that matter. His statement accepting the nomlnatlqn Is so vigor ous and clear-cut on the national prob lems so near to the Colonel's heart at MONDAY EVENING, ' this time that they might easily have been written at Sagamore Hill. More than that, Mr. HugAes was chosen as the Colonel has protested a presidential candidate should be chosen—by the delegates and not by the leaders. He made no flght for support. Not for a moment did he drag the United States Supreme Court in the mire of politics. He was drafted to make the run against his own de sires. If ever an office sought a man, this Is the occasion. A careful study [Of his career discloses that his state ment on Saturday is merely a concise review of convictions he has had tor many years and which he is on record . as having expressed on numerous oc casions. Not one of the views therein so vigorously set forth is new wit* Justice Hughes, and al! of them are In strict accord with the Roosevelt i tenets. While yet too close to the Chicago outburst to properly appraise the real attitude of the Progressives, it is be lieved that a large majority of those j who have been the consistent and enthusiastic supporters of the Colonel i will accept his view of the situation I and line up behind the Hughes! | standard. It was not an easy matter to adjust I the differences between the radicals on | both sides, but the feeling of those who are in close touch with the wider and more important matters of party control is that substantial reunion has been achieved In the nomination of Hughes and Fairbanks. Justice Hughes had nothing to do with the deplorable division of 1912, and this fact renders abortive and Im possible any opposition to him upon the ground that he is a representative in any sense of the interests, political | and otherwise, which have always been denounced by the more violent supporters of the Colonel. In short, the selection of the ticket, after care ! ful and conscientious deliberation, has , met with the approval of men of all factions everywhere. It is a disappoint ing outcome for the Democratic bosses, who had hoped the party disruption might go on. They realize now that a continuation of the "policies" of the Wilson regime will be terminated ! within the next few months.' Of course, as in every great national j campaign, there will be those theorists | who will decline to accept the judg- ! ment of the majority and find, instead, j an outlet for their activities under some , special banner of their own choosing. This has always been so, but the comparatively few leaders who still persist in a third party movement will find themselves In a woeful j minority when the battle alignment is | made. Justice Hughes and his colleague, ! Mr. Fairbanks, represent the safe and sane policies of the. American people I without regard to party. They are not the selections of bosses or groups of Individuals banded together for the promotion of their own selfish in terests. They meet the expectations of a great political party and suggest the rededication and the reconsecratlon of j the nation to the principles of Lincoln 1 and the great train of statesmen who have followed him. It is altogether a happy solution of a most difficult party problem. The work of the Chicago convention marks a new epoch in the history of the Re publican party and it will have the approval of a vast majority of the voters. A brighter day has dawned for the American people. One of the outstanding features of the Chicago convention was the common sense attitude of the one-time ultra radifal Mr. Perkins and the readiness with which ' the usually adamantine Senator Penrose went half way to meet him. GOOD BASEBALL IF the proposed New York State base ball League team will give Harris burg good fast baseball it need not fear for patronage. Harrisburg dem onstrated last year, when an Interna tional club that could not make ends meet in a bigger city was placed here merely for the purpose of increasing gate receipts, that it will turn out in large numbers to see the game played well. It is not up to the city, it is up to the management and the players. If John K. Tener is really supporting the new HarrlsKurg New York State League team, then we believe it will be a success here. The ex-Governor always was good at picking winners. Over in China a certain Mr. Ma seeme to be wielding a great deal of influ ence, which just goes to show how dif ferent China really is. Over here it is Mrs. Ma who Is Influential. You know It is not too late to put up flower boxes. The florists still have plenty on hand and flowers are cheaper now than a month ago. "Strawberries are not so good this year as last," says a York county cor respondent. If they were any better we'd founder. "Peace and Prosperity" is to be the Democratic slogan. The only trouble is that with the coming of peace we're not going to have prosperity. After a few more scraps with those Canadians, maybe the German desire for trouble with the United States may not be so keen. Canadians are Ameri cans, you know. The dog-catcher who gave a little New Jersey girl her dog the other day because she cried Xor it was a better man than he who framed the dog pound ordinance. If neighbors knew how nice the little boy's dog next door really Is on better acquaintance there never would be any dog-catchers. 'Pe.KKOij&rcuua the Ei-Committeeman The result of the Chicago conven tions in Pennsylvania will be that the meeting of the Washington party Mate committee will be still further postponed and that there will be a gradual disintegration of the Armaged don hosts within the Keystone Com monwealth. State Chairman A. Nevin Detrich said yesterday that he did not know when the committee would be called and was engaged in a very apparent effort to get a line on the inner thoughts of the delegates and alternates and boosters of the party from this State. With exception of a few radicals the sentiment of the Pennsylvanians who attended the comention and who voice the party sentiment was that there should be nothing done until the National com mittee decides whether the Colonel sbculd stick. The general belief among the Pennsylvanians at Chicago is that the Colonel will line up with Hughes when "satisfied on some points." In that event they will go along, while the radicals will go off by themselves and continue the party of protest on an orbit that will probably be like that of the Greenback and Populist parties of recent erratic memory. The bulk of the Bull Moosers will go quietly along with the ticket. —Penrose men are thoroughly .pleased over the results of the con vention and declare that notwith standing what may be said to the contrary the Senator was a big fac tor in the nomination of Hughes. T hey claim that the Brumbaugh-Vare people did not scent what was going i on and that by the Governor's urging of delegates to turn in for Roosevelt he made an error. Congressman Vare, however, says that he was the factor in getting the Keystone votes for Hughes. As a matter .»of fact Governor Brumbaugh did not leave Roosevelt until just before the third ballot, although he had been asked by I- rank H. Hitchcock to swing in. —The Pennsylvanians are taking great credit for the part they played in_ the Fairbanks nomination and Mr. Wanamaker reecived many telegrams on Saturday at Chicago. —Many people will regret that the serious illness of Jere S. Black, the \ ork Democrat, will prevent him from attending the national convention at St. Louis. He was the leader in the Democratic vote and a very popular man. „ —Loudly heralded as the special of the reunited Democracy the train bearing the Keystone State party to the St. Louis convention passed over the Western State line last night with the Pittsburgh contingent on board. A. Mitchell Palmer appeared to be the whole thing, leader, chairman of this- and that subcommittee, conduc tor, basrrage master and other things. Thi special was joined here by Dele gates W. L. Gorgas and E. M. Biddle, Jr., Henry Opperman and O. J. Men from central counties also mobil ized here and boarded the train. Every nov arid then the train would stop to allow a statement about a reunited party to be put off. The Democrats are making much fuss over the dele gation to St. Louis and hope for bet ter things than happened at Balti more. —The Republican special passed through here yesterday with the Philadelphlans' cars and several men from this section left it here. The Republicans spent some time in Pitts burgh yesterday and a couple of them missed the train. —One of the jokes on the Republi can special train was the discovery that some of the men who sat in the Chicago convention had received votes for delegates on the Prohibition ticket. This was notably true of the Berks-Lehigh district. —Louis Emery, Jr., the McKean county independent, was the big sub scriber to the Progressive war chest on Saturday before the news came that the Colonel was undecided. He gave SIO,OOO and William Fiinn of fered $5,000 as did Gifford Pirichot. H. D. W. English gave SI,OOO. After the convention ended the Pennsyl vanians were game and said the sub scriptions would stand. Mr. English was indignant that the Republicans did not take Roosevelt. —Alexander P. Moore, the Pitts burgh editor who moved to make the Hughes nomination unanimous, voted foi the Colonel to the last ditch. So da £ r ?TI w,th a flobert or used tn « K . "bull dog" and blanks ° C J e ~ bra te the advent of Independ ent they j° ined la the gen vn?v r ' a,s . with both rifle and re fill- I 1 much Kusto. Incidentally* ••If*. *I la r'