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WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 14
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He
that heareth my word, and believeth
Him that sent me, hath eternal life,
and cometh not into judgment, 6tt(
hath passed out of death into life.
—John 5: 24.
DOES THE FLAG FIX)AT?
THE Old Flag floats from your
housetop or window to-day.
You, like a good citizen, are ob
serving Flag Day in the traditional
manner and according to custom. But
is the Old Flag flying in your heart?
Does the Star-Spangled Banner mean
to you what it meant to Washington
and to Lincoln? Does It mean to you.
what it meant to the men of Valley
Forge and of Gettysburg? If it does
not, then you are not observing Flag
Day in the true spirit. There is a
pledge devised for school children that
ought to be In the heart if not on the
lips of older folks as well. It is this:
I give my head and my heart to God
and my country.
One country, one language, one flag.
MORK TAX FOR WEST SHORE
THE announcement that property
owners at the northern end of
Washington Heights would at
once ask the court, if their land is
taken into Lemoyne, for viewers for
the erection of one or possibly two
bridges over the Cumberland Valley
railroad between the present bridge
and the Dale tract, below Camp Hill,
will do much, no doubt, to discourage
the effort now afoot to annex Wash
ington Heights to Lemoyne.
If these two sections became one
town, bridges for the school children
to go back and forth would have to be
built at once, and doubtless the court
and the Public Service Commission
would agree with those property own
ers who would petition for bridges.
This would mean that both Lemoyne
and Washington Heights would be
saddled at once with a debt of $25,000
to $50,000 at least and a consequent
advance In the tax rate, for the rail
road and the taxpayers would have to
share the burden together.
This would be a pretty stiff price for
the taxpayers of Lemoyne to shoulder
and would add unnecessarily to the
taxes of Washington Heights people.
What the suburban population wants
is fewer taxes to pay, not more.
THE DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM
THE Wilson-made platform of the
Democratic party has not been
made public at this writing, but
that makes little difference. Every
body knows in advance what It is go
lns to say. We can imagine a Demo
cratic editor sharpening his pencil,
getting down his handy book of super
latives and going to work, his observa
tions based in advance on the general
proposition that "the king" beg
pardon, the President—"can do no
wrcng" and embellishing this conclu
sion with the more modern Demo
cratic doctrine that anything the
President does or says is divinely in
spired.
So, having devised a premise that
will permit of only fulsomeness raised
to its nth degree, our Democratic co
laborer will swing his big guns into
position for the Presidential salute of
twenty-one verbal using the
usual blank cartridge ammunition, but
making a delightfully imposing
racket. And after that who dares at
tack the ticket or the platform, let
him stand forth and forever be barred
from the hope of Democratic patron
age.
Starting right in at tTie beginning
where the platform begins to "point
with pride," th,e editor will shout in
vociferous tones, "me too," and in
glittering generalities will praise the
President to the skies in all he has
done, carefully, however, refraining
from calling undue attention to the
"watchful waiting" policy of the ad
ministration or the letter writing con
cerning the murder of women and
children on torpedoed steamships. He
will hurrah for "Americanism," at the
same time skipping lightly over the
fact that the Democratic platform is
designed also as a carefully baited
hook with which to land the elusive
German-American gudgeon, and will
view with great satisfaction the plank
that calls for war preparations in the
Duited States while praying for peace
in Europe.
Skillfully skirting the shoala of
political disfavor on which rock the
little boats of the pacifists the Demo-
WEDNESDAY EVENING,
•(•ratio editor will again "point with
' pride" to the fact that the "President
has kept us out of war" because
Germany wasn't in position to take
up the glove he threw down and
hopping: rapidly to the subject of na
tional preparedness, lest this flirting
with paciflcism be frowned upon In
that quarter— our friend will praise In
no faint-hearted fashion the adminis
tration's army and navy bills. Of
ccurse, he will Ignore the fact that the
army law is inadequate and that the
navy measure is a joke, and he won't
discuss at any length the foolish policy
of the Wilson crowd in building an
eleven million dollar armor plate plant
when the Bethlehem Steel Company
has offered to make plate for the gov
ernment at Its own figure, but then,
Democratic platform criticisms must
not be expected to go off the party
reservations, so what would you have?
To be sure, the emasculated Bryan
resolutions on peace and prohibition
may prove stumbling blocks and who
shall say what a Democratic editor
will write by way of a comment on a
suffrage plank in a community where
suffrage may be unpopular. But when
ho gets down to the tariff our friend
will be right at home. He will re
member that four years ago the
Democrats were crying for a reduc
tion on duties and to lower
the "high cost of living," if they were
permitted to enact their kind of a
tariff law. He will be able to tell his
readers in feeling terms of the won
derful success of the Underwood
measure, how It has reduced the price
of meats about ten cents upward a
pound, how sugar has fallen JfOrn five
tc nlne-and-one-half cents a pound
and how the new tariff has cut "down
the grocery bills and household bills
in general by adding about twenty
five per cent, to all kind of living ex
penses. Here is where our Democratic
friend will be able to rise to the
heights of eloquence. And then he
can turn to the virtues of the "war
stamp," tax levied by the Democrats to
help them false revenues which should
have been brought in by their admir
able tariff law. There may be those
who will wonder why, if the Under
wood law is such a remarkable suc
cess, the platform calls for a
tariff commission, but you will never
gather the fact from our Democratic
editor that the tariff commission idea
is a sop to those Democrats who are
crying loudly, with millions of Re
publicans, for a return to the sanity
of protection for American industries
anc; American workmen. No, indeed,
that's not his job. A tariff commis
sion is designed to take the tariff out
of politics, he will tell you, just as
President Wilson wishes which is
why, we suppose, the President
kicked out of office first thing when
he went in the only tariff commis
sion the country ever had.
Of course, he will add his meed of
praise to the administration ship pur
chase bill which up to this time the
President has been unable to shove
down the throat of a protesting
Democratic Congress, but which the
convention will swallow at a gulp, but
he won't say a word about the ship
ping bill which hcis forced every
American-controlled ship off the
Pacific ocean and sold us out to the
Japanese. And that economy plank
—what a grand thing it is to have the
party think of economy Just now after
a Democratic Congress has spent
millions upon millions more than any
previous Congress ever did. Every
body must admit that the economy
plank is timely, indeed.
Altogether it will be a masterly
document, brimming over with
patriotism and pork, peace and per
haps-preparedness, economy and
promises to expend millions on almost
anything that will catch votes. It will
strike the keynote of popular favor,
like a chapter front Joe Miller's Joke
Book, and will go ringing down the
corridors of time a matchless pre
sentation of Democratic hopes and
hobbies and the forerunner of Demo
cratic despair.
DIFFERENCES
THERE are many differences be
tween the Republican and the
Democratic national conventions.
For instance, John Edwin Nevin, writ
ing of the St. Louis gathering in dis
patches of yesterday, said:
The old guard, In whose ranks
are numbered the leaders of several
of the big States, is all powerful to
defeat Marshall for renomination
if it so desires. It controls more
than one-third of the delegates to
the convention, being in almost ex
actly the same position that the
Wilson followers were at the Bal
timore convention four years ago.
But following a conversation over
the long-distance telephone be
tween the President In Washington
and the representatives here of the
Indiana Democratic organization,
the word was passed along the lino
that the President has squarely
lined up behind Vice-President Mar
shall and that he will ask that he
be renominated. This, It is ad
mitted, assures his Buccess.
At Chicago the delegates did the
nominating and the leaders did the
following. At St. Louis President Wil
son does the nominating and the dele
gates must either vote his way or
face the threat of party excommuni
cation. Many Democrats wanted the
vice-presidential honor, but they were
afraid to speak out in the presence of
their august boss. Long live the prin
ciples of Jefferson and the will of the
masses.
FIXING THE ROUTE
THE William Penn Highway Asso
ciation does not mean to fix de
finitely the route of that great
highway across the State in an arbi
trary manner. The petitions of the
people all along the way are to be
taken into consideration, together
with population, grade, mileage and
other matters that are factors In road
line establishment. ,
William Jennings, president of the
association, and W. H. James, the sec
retary, will inspect the several pro
posed routes through Perry county
to-morrow and afterward hold a
I meeting to hear all who care to pre
jsent their views on the routes under
discussion.
When it comes to definitely fixing
lines along the way there must be
some disappointments. It is a case of
give and take, but there are always
"feeders" to sections through which
the main trunk does not pass and the
very existence of such a great cross
country highway as proposed would
be a direct benefit to every community
within many miles of it.
Ck
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Sj the Ex-Committeeman
A startling similarity between the
methods used In organizing the Penn
sylvania delegation to the Democratic
national convention at St. Louis and
the Keystone State delegation to the
convention which nominate Grover
Cleveland in Chicago in 1892 is to be
observed to-day and men who have
followed politics are doubtless smil
ing over the adoption of the whole list
of old-time practices by A. Mitchell
Palmer and iris pals in the control of
the machine. Consistent readers of
some Harrlsburg newspapers will note
with astonishment that the adoption
of the unit rule for the Democratic
delegation at St. Louis yesterday is not
now considered a crime.
For years the fact that Pennsylvania
delegations to national conventions of
the Republican party worked under
the unit rule was considered dreadful
by the Democrats and when Harrity
and Hensel put it over in the interests
of Cleveland twenty-four years ago
the Democrats who did not train with
them shrieked and the protesting Re
publicans joined in. For several years
the unit rule was the rule, but the
Democrats had one of their revo
lutions and the chief battle cry was
abolition of the unit rule. But as in
other matters, as boon as the Demo
cratic insurgents became the bosses
they forgot what they had been fight
ing for and became the most conserv
ative of all, to use a polite term. Now
anyone suggesting a unit rule for a
Republican delegation from Pennsyl
vania would be scalped. For the
Democrats to adopt it is considered
eminently proper in some quarters.
But It all depends upon who Is in
power.
—Senator Penrose declared that
there was nothing to it but a sweep of
the country for Hughes on his return
to Philadelphia yesterday and pre
dicted a wonderful vote for the Re
publican ticket. He said that Penn
sylvania would be solid for the ticket.
John Wanamaker made a similar
statement yesterday, declaring that the
ticket would appeal to everyone and
that the convention, composed of
"thinking men," acted for the best in
terests of the country.
—William Draper Lewis, candidate
for Governor in 1914, delegate to the
Chicago Progressive convention and
author of the Progressive platform,
returning from Oyster Bay and a con
ference with Colonc-l Roosevelt, made
the broad intimation that the latter,
after his conference with the Progres
sive national committee, will recom
mend that the Progressives indorse
Hughes, and himself set the example.
"I cannot speak for the national com
mittee, as i am not a member," Mr.
Lewis said, "but I believe at the com
ing conference of that body and
Colonel Roosevelt they will go over
the situation as outHned in the
Colonel's letter to the convention. I
think the situation will be Influenced
and the outcome governed by the best
interests of the nation rather than by
any partisan spirit. As for myself, in
common with other Progreasives, I
want to see our party kept alive."
—William Fllnn has given out that
he will await results and this is taken
to mean that he will not indicate the
course of the Pennsylvania Bull Moose
until the Colonel Indicates to Flinn.
The Pittsburgher will attend the meet
ing of the committee 011 June 26. It
is suspected that Mr. Flinn has been
hoping for just such a situation as
has been brought about this month.
The Progressive party in Pennsylvania
costs more than a Rolf links to main
tain and Flinn has certainly been
patriotic.
—One of the most touching things
noted in politics In many years was
the meeting of the Pennsylvania dele
gation at St. Louis yesterday. Men
who were trying to tomahawk each
other four years ago and who were
denounced according to the whim of
the denouncer sat together and made
speeches about each other. For in
stance, "Billy" Brennen, of Pittsburgh,
who was called traitor and everything
else by the Palmer men at Baltimore,
was yesterday accorded a high seat.
The State Democracy is as interesting
to watch as it Is entertaining to figure
up what It costs.
"The people, rather than the party
learters, made the party choice," said
George D. Porter, secretary of the Citi
zens' Republican League, upon his re
turn yesterday from Chicago, where he
attended both the Republican and Pro
gressive conventions. "The Republican
convention was unbossed," he said,
"and as an ardent Roosevelt sup
porter I can say that while there was
plenty of enthusiasm for him, he was
not deemed the strongest candidate to
lead the fight next November."
—Progressives in this part of the
State are becoming more and more in
clined to line up back of the Repub
lican ticket if the Colonel gives the
word and are showing more or less
unrest at the efforts of the Demo
crats to cajole them. The Progressive
organization in this section Is mainly
composed of staff officers, and while
some may go over to the Democrats,
the rank and file will vote for Hughes
and be thoroughly aware of the type
of men who jump.
—The Philadelphia Record prints a
funny story about Mayor Smith invit
ing both Wilson and Hughes to attend
the Fourth of July celebration in that
city. The Mayor does not seem to be
bothered, however.
Some Consolation t
Anvway. as an occupant of the pub
lic eve. Mr. Bryan is less of a cinder
than he used to be. Anaconda Stand
ard.
WHAT THE ROTARY CLUB
LEARNED OF THE CITY
[Questions submitted to members of
the Harrlsburg Rotary Club and their
answers as presented at the organiza
tion's annual "Municipal Quiz."]
What fees are charged for food In
spection?
Retail dealers or venders of milk,
fresh meat, ice cream and oysters
each $4.00 per year. Wholesale
dealers or venders of milk and
meat, $20.00 per year. Manufactur
ers of Ice cream, SR.OO per year.
. Bakeries, quick lunch places and
restaurants, $4.00 per year.
YEP, WE'RE GOING
By Wins: Dinner
Early this A. M. t tiuite early,
Just about the break of day.
From my sleep I was awakened
By a very loud "Hooray."
In the next room both the youngsters
Started in to kick up Ned,
Circus Day had come, no longer
Could the rascals stay In hed.
B'elt at first a wee bit grouchy.
Thought I'd call 'em down, but gee,
All the fun of distant boyhood
Came back to me vividly.
So I quit the hay, and joined them.
For a day of fun and joy,
Goln" to take 'em to the circus
And once more be just a boy.
HA.RRISBURG TELEGRAPH
' THE CARTOON OF THE DAY
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"THERE'S A REASON"
THAT'S JEST IT' \
you piori'T
• 00 NUTHfN'y
s 800 HOO-
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—From the Baltimore American.
TELEGRAPH PERISCOPE 1 j
—The Colonel evidently believes in
the principle of the recall as applied to
nominations.
—lt must grieve beer-making St.
Louis to be tagged all over with such
a label as "Wilson—that's all."
—To hear some of the convention
orators spout you might imagine there
Is no such thing as political prefer
ment In the Democratic mind.
—The difference between Hughes and
Wilson appears to be that Wilson had
his chance—and didn't.
—One of the most enjoyable sensa
tions we know is reading about how
those Americans who chose to live In
England Instead of their own country
are now being "soaked" for war taxes.
Erroneous But Glorious
Kansas City Times.
With "hazardous" meaning "full of
hazard," and "dangerous" meaning
"full of danger," a schoolboy the
Dearborn Democrat knows has arriv
ed at an altogether erroneous defini
tion of "pious."
FIRST REMINDER FOR A LONG
TIME
Southern Lumberman.
The reported advance made by the
Austrians on the Italian frontier re
calls the fact that the two countries
are at war.
STILL HOPE FOR ONE FAVORITE
SON
Grand Rapids Press.
Recurring to favorite sons Ty Cobb
is running better again.
NO DOUBT AS TO COMMENTS
Columbia State.
"Few men," says a Detroit preacher,
"know what Is really In them." Those
who eat cucumbers do.
GOOD, BUT SO OFTEN IN VAIN
Toledo Blade.
Best advice to give a young man:
Don't be a Useless Noise.
IT'LL BE A LONG WAR
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Europe may get together at any
time, but there Is no chance of peace
in the United States before Nov. 7.
Hughes and Roosevelt
Charles Evans Hughes, having first
resigned as an associate justice of the
United States supreme court, accepted
promptly the Republican nomination
for the presidency in a letter that
strangely anticipated the condition
under which Theodore Roosevelt Inti
mated he might be moved to withdraw
his tentative declination of the Pro
gressive nomination for the same of
fice. Read in the light of the Hughes
acceptance, the Roosevelt declination,
If made absolute, as we believe the
country hopes. In the interest of con
cord, it shall be, cannot lack for rea
son and full justification. "The atti
tude of the candidate oT the Republi
can party toward the vital questions of
the day," unknown to Colonel Roose
velt at the time his letter was dis
patched to the waiting convention in
the Chicago Auditorium, as a matter
of fact was already being set forth
with such clearness and earnestness
and vigor as must have later chal
lenged the admiration of the hesitat
ing man on Sagamore Hill. It would
be difficult to discover wherein the
citizen. Just self-divested of judicial
robes and released by the President
from the rigor of judicial etiquette,
failed to express, and with all the full
ness and firmness the occasion called
for, concurrence with the highest
ideals in politics and statesmanship,
national and international, political
and humanitarian, voiced in these lat
ter days by any man, or set down as
doctrine by any administration or poli
tical party.
The personal record of Charles
Evans Hughes, in private and in public
station, as Governor of a great state
I ~mt<
Waving, triumphant, through clamor and din,
Pointing the pathway through shadow and sin,
Proving that courage and justice shall win,
God holds my flag!
Fairest and truest and noblest and best, '
Emblem of freedom in lands of the West
Guarding a people by high Heaven blessed,
God, keep my flag!
Over the immigrant's lonely head,
Over the fields where our sons have bled,
Over the living and over the dead,
God, bless my flag!
-ANNA H. WOOD.
I Written For the Telegraph.
and as a member of the highest judi
cial tribunal in the republic, it must
be assumed, we think, meets the most
exacting- requirements of the Progres
sive party. The platform upon which
he has decided to stand is one adopted
almost in duplicate by the Progressive
party. The letter in which he has ac
cepted the Republican nomination, in
addition to repetition of sentiments
that have become familiar to the Am
erican people through the utterances
of Woodrow Wilson, as well as
through the utterances of Theodore
Roosevelt, contains in addition what
amounts to a pledge that no "brave
words" from his pen or tongue shall
"be stripped of their force by indecis
ion"; that if elected and supported in
his policies he will stand for "an Amer
icanism that knows no ulterior pur
pose; for a patriotism that is single
and complete," and that "will not for
an instant tolerate any division of al
legiance." He could not reasonably be
asked by the Progressives or by Col
onel Roosevelt to go farther than he
does in meeting their views as to pre
paredness.
The Republican nominee, in writing
closely to the text of the Republican
platform, could scarcely have penned
his declarations with srreater regard
for the doctrines held and enunciated
by the Progressives and their leader.
—Christian Science Monitor.
Harmony in Pennsylvania
Wilkes-Barre Record.
All fear that the rumpus in Pennsyl
vania over the election of delegates to
the Republican national convention
would be followed by- a permanent
split has been dispelled. Both Gover
nor Brumbaugh and Senator Penrose
voted for Hughes on the final ballot
All but four of the seventy-six dele
gates voted for Hughes and one of the
four was silent. This makes Pennsyl
vania's verdict practically unanimous.
In the coming campaign there will
no taint of the bitterness that caus
ed so much excitement in the appeal
to the voters. Messrs. Penrose and
Brumbaugh may have differences and
quarrels during the session of the
Legislature; they may come to a clash
In the next gubernatorial election,
with the Governor, perhaps, backing
an independent candidate. But so far
as this presidential campaign is con
cerned there is in sight nothing but a
working together for the election of
Charles E. Hußhes.
Pennsylvania will be heard from in
no uncertain tone. It would not be
surprising if the largest Republican
majority In the history of the State
I were polled. The State suffered BO
much during 1914 and part of 1915 as
the result of Democratic tariff tinker
ing that the citizens will want to make
sure that there will not be a repeti
tion of the experience. Pennsylvania
can be depended upon not only to give
Mr. Hughes a rousing vote, hut also to
send an old time Republican delega
tion to Congreas.
JUNE 14, 1916.
DO YOU KNOW
That Hnrrishurg makes sewing
machine steel?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
The first canal boats went through
this city back In the thirties.
THE STATE FROM DM TO Dw]
Bradford is basking in the light of
the greatness which has come its
way through the fact that Lewis Em
ery, Jr., was the first man to contrib
ute SIO,OOO to the Progressive cam
paign fund.
The Warren Mirror facetiously re
marks upon the boy in a rural dis
trict who came home rather sadly to
relate to his family that his teacher
was dead. "Yes," said the boy, "but
after all what's the good of that while
the school Is still there"?
The life of Ferdinand Braccla, of
Charleroi, has been chalked up as val
ued at 5 cents, through an accident.
His corncob pipe fell Into a coke con
veyor and when he went in after it the
machine was started.
The Carlisle Indian School Band of
60 pieces and a picked company of the
school battalion are at Washington to
day where they are taking part in a
parade in honor of Flag Day.
The theater ticket agent who re
cently took his own life in Philadel
phia prompts the comment that it is
surprising w.e do not hear more of
similar suicides; judging from tele
phone conversations we have been
privileged to hear occasionally they
might be justified. No, we didn't cut
in on the wire, either.
"Esteemed young lady expired."
Headline in a contemporary. The
writer has complied Hvith every known
rule of head-writing, stating the fact in
cicar, unmistakable terms.
Freeland is going to be "some lively
town," according to the phraseology
of its leading paper, when a big cele
bration will be held on July 4. The
"lend of the Free" and the home of
the brave will find expression on that
day.
The light-fingered fraternity was
present in Qreensburg lately to the
detriment of certain of the town's
prosperous businessmen. The rush
of business In that active community
offered a splendid opportunity for
the machinations of the well-known
gentry of the Jimmy Valentine va
! rlety.
An Appeal to Pacifists
[From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.]
Those who have been looking on war
as an unmixed evil may he Inclined to
modify their opinion now that Cole
Blease has announced that he would be
among the first to BO if war were de
clared.
lEbptttng dljat
Secretary of the Commonwealth
Cyrus E. Woods, who Is a personal
friend of Charles E. Hughes, the Re
publican nominee for the Presi
dency, probably met the former Jus
tico under circumstances which fall to
the lot of about one person in a mil
lion. He met the justice some six
or seven thousand feet in the air. It
happened that some years ago Mr.
and Mrs. Woods, who were very fond
of mountain climbing and who visited
thf Alps frequently undertook to
scale the famous Monte Rosa, which
by the way, is some task because of
the altitude, cold and natural difficul
ties. One day when they had gone up
a considerable distance a severe
storm broke and they were forced to
seek shelter in one of the huts which
are erected at various points on the
mountains for m'ountaln climbers. In
a short time there came out of the
storm a tall American who was de
cidedly cold and anxious to get
warmed up. The party remained in
the hut for almost a day because of
the storm and when over descended the
mountain together. When they ar
rived at their hotel they found Mr.
Hughes also stopping at the same
place and the following day he was
one of a coaching party which Mr.
Woods gave through some of the
famous valleys of Switzerland. The
friendship formed then has continued
and Mr. Woods has renewed it upon
several occasions in this country and
in Europe where he lived several
years as minister to Portugal.
• • •
It is an interesting fact that the $2,-
OOIJ.OOO which the State has received
from licenses for automobiles this
year can not be touched by the
Slate Highway Department until the
legislature gives permission. The same
is true of about a million dollars
which was taken in last year after
the Legislature had adjourned. The
money goes into the State Treasury
and if not otherwise appropriated will
be devoted to maintenance of high
ways by the next Legislature, but the
fact remains that the general assembly
must pass a bill specifically ap-
I proprlating the money or the High
way Department can not get the use
|of n single red penny. It is one of the
| singular situations which arise every
i now and then and make people won-
Uler why laws are enacted the way
they are sometimes put through.
As an echo of the Chicago conven
tion it may be stated that there were
seven In the Colorado delegation who
came from Pennsylvania. One of
them was Spencer Penrose, brother of
the senior Senator and one of the biff
men of Colorado Springs. Two of the
others came from Indiana county and
a third was reared in that county. An
other was a native of Washington
county and a graduate of Washington
and Jefferson College.
Another interesting thing about the
delegates was that Albert Baldridge,
the Nebraskan who named Ex-Sena
tor Bprkett for vice-presidential
honors, is & brother of Judge Thomas
J. Baldrtdge, of Blair county. He is
a forceful talker and although he had
the wrong end of it as far as results
in the convention went, he made many
delegates sit up and think.
It might also be said In this con
nection that Charles W. Fairbanks,
Vice-Presidential nominee and former
Vice-President, won his spurs as a
newspaperman in Pennsylvania. Ho
broke into the newspiper game when
pretty young and developed such a
keen sense of news that the Associated
Press annexed him and after some
stations in Ohio and Indiana he was
located at Pittsburgh where news
paper work is strenuous as business
life. He was in charge of the As
sociated Press work in Pittsburgh for
a time and was then transferred to
Indianapolis. This is one of the rea
sons why Mr. Fairbanks is alwaya
careful and considerate tn his treat
ment of cub reporters when they are
sent to ask him questions which only
editors can understand or evolve. An
other newspaper figure In the Chicago
convention was the chairman, Senator
G. Harding. He still edits his
paper at Marion, Ohio, and says he
car write as good a story on a flood
or cover a fire as well as any one on
his staff. The Senator is one of the
most genial and affable of men in pub
lic life at Washington and a favorite
with the correspondents. His career
will be worth watching in the next ten
years.
Incorporation of a railroad for Ful
ton county yesterday at the Capitol
will soon end the reputation of that
county for having no rails of any
kino, steam or electric. For years
Fulton, with Its upright scenery and
lively politics, has been noted .in this
wonderful State of Railroads for hav
ing the same means of transportation
as were enjoyed by our forefathers
150 years ago in this part of the State.
But the new railroad is soon to be
built and will go through a country
which was famous in colonial times,
but which never attracted the locomo
tive or the electric car, although much
visited by automobiles.
* • •
Among visitors to the city yester
day was George Franklin Brumm, of
Pottsville, a prominent young Schuyl
kill attorney. Mr. Brumm is a son
of Judge Charles N. Brumm.
I WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
—Victor Murdock, who presided at
the Progressive national committe«
last week, plans to go to China.
—H. C. Grenner, president of the
Pennsylvania Society of St. Louis, used
to live in Titusville.
—Charles D. Joyce, of Philadelphia,
is the first vice-president of the Credli
Men who are meeting to-day in Phila
delphla.
—Lieutenant Colonel Edgar Jadwin
has been detailed to be United States
Army engineer officer at Pittsburgh
to succeed Col. F. R. Shunk.
■—Bishop W. P. Eveland, formei
head of Dickinson Seminary, is ati
tending the commencement exercises
at Willlamsport.
FOUR DAILY LAUGH
THE ENTHU
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sleep fortjr
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the ball.
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