14 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THB HOMB ? j Founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by TELECRAI'H PRINTING CO., Telegraph Building;, Federal Square. STACK POLE. Prts't and Editor-in-Chitf R- OYSTER, Business Manager. OUS M. STEINMETZ. Managing Editor. Member American sylvanla Assoclat nue Building. New cago, llv' Entered at the Post Office in Harrls burg, Pa., as second class matter. r carriers, six cents a week: by mall. J3.00 A* a year In advance. FRIDAY EVENING, SEPT. 29. Blessed is everyone that feareth Jehovah, that walketh in his \cay. —Ps. 128:1. NO IiONGER AN ADMIRER OSWALD GARRISON VILLARD, of the New York Evening Post, has contributed a valuable paper to the political history of the Wilson administration by writing on "The Mystery of Woodrow Wilson" for the North American Review. Villard was once an ardent admirer of Wilson. The great mystery is the change that came over Wilson when he became President. From a man who took counsel with his co-workers he be came the most Inaccessible and se cluded President who has ever occu pied the White House. Even promi nent diplomats returning from their I posts abroad and ready with lnforma- ( tion that ought to be of uso to the j head of a nation found that their I advice and facts were not wanted. Cabinet meetings were discontinued until public criticism caused resump- ; tion. Meetings with representatives of the press were abandoned and secrecy became the chief characteristic of the administration. Public men from over the country, 1 whether members of his own party or Republicans, were not invited or wel- | corned to the White House. Where other Presidents taken almost ' dally opportunity to confer with men j of affairs by entertaining them at i luncheon, Wilson maintained the ut- j most privacy. This became a one- j man government and Democracy be- I came a one-man party. It was assumed that all wisdom and integrity and I patriotism were confined to one man's 1 personality and the rest of the world "was kept from contact with him. No wor.der the Wilson ad minis- ' •tration has been such a dismal failure. 1 The Department of Justice is com. plaining: because Congress failed to pass all the laws asked for on the sub ject of neutrality. Well, it was a Democratic Congress, in both branches. If it wasted time and money making extravagant appropriations instead of passing good laws desired by the President, then Congress, in both branches, should be taken from control of the Democrats. If the laws asked for were not wise, then we need a change in the Presidency. In tin> event, the criticism of a Democratic Congress by a Democratic Department of Justice is certain to help the Re publican campaign. TRI E TO THEIR CONTRACTS THE most encouraging sign of the times Is the failure of the pro- posed sympathc-Uc strike in New York City, called for the pur pose of helping the street car em ployes enforce their demands. Nearly all of the unions Involved are under specific agreement with their employers. A majority of them have signed scales and are virtually under contract to work when work Is offered In accordance with the pro visions of their mutual agreements. For these union men to have quit work, embarrassing their employers and ruining their business, would have been an act of bad faith that would have reacted seriously upon the men themselves. A broken contract is a broken contract whether it be between businessmen or between businessmen youti<* LH. | I By the Ex-Committeeman Formation of Hughes clubs and branches of the Hughes Alliance is go ing forward in every part of the State and yesterday in Philadelphia there was also formed the Hughes Business Men's League. These Jjfughes organ izations are getting together many 01 the leading men of the country and In this State some of the clubs and simi lar organizations will wield a powerful Influence, as they comprise Democrats disgusted with Wilson. The Philadelphia organiza tion formed yesterday is one of eighty-five in northern cities. Alba B. Johnson, president of the Baldwin Ixicomotlve Works, heads the Philadelphia organ ization. Associated with htm are the following: Ex-Judge Dlmner Beeber. president of the Commercial Trust Company; H. K. Mulford, president of the H. K. Mulford Company, chem lets; Howard Loeb, president of the Tradesmen's National Bank; Powell Evans, of Merchant, Evans & Co.; John C. Winston, president of the John C. Winston Company, publish ers; John Walton, of Jacob W. Wal ton Sons, comb manufacturers, and Bayard Henry, of Henry, Pepper, Bo dine & Pepper, lawyers. Ex-Representative Fred W. Willard, I hiladelphia, who was re-elected presi dent of the league, in commenting upon the New Jersey primaries, said: "The President Is fast losing prestlgo In his own State. Our information in dicates 50.000 majority in this State in November. nomination of Senator Martine by the New Jersey Democrats over Attorney General Wescott is known to be considered a slap at the President'? vacillating policies by members of his own party In his home State. Before very long results in every section of the Union will bear out tho prophecies now being made by Republican leaders, and which were so forcibly presented at the rousing mass meeting last Tuesday night in the Tabernacle. The reports of the dele gates have shown that, although the present evidences of prosperity are of an artificial nature, it is at least prov ing helpful in obtaining campaign con tributions. The enthusiasm mani fested during the convention has Im bued club members with the deter mination to get every possible voter out for Hughes and FairbanksJln No vember. We Republicans have no fear that that pretty little bit of expedi ency, the eight-hour law, is going to help the cause of the Presdient. Those railroad men who were Democrats be fore its passage will remain Demo crats. of course, and those who w_ "■ Republicans will remain true to old party." —Judging from the catterwauling going on in Democratic papers, there must have been some feelings of Democrats hurt by the manner in which Penrose and Fllnn buried the hatchet and joined in making the tour of Charles E. Hughes a success In Western Pennsylvania. It was one of the impressive events of the visit and at traded national attention. The Democrats, naturally, see no good in it. Democratic State Chairman Joe Guffey came out I his morning with a very, ver.\ old yell about the tour of the Republican presidential candidate through the steel mills of Pittsburgh. He declarer that Mr. Hughes' tour was arranged by the Steel Trust. When Democratic candidates go through mills or shake hands with people in factories the Democratic newspapers and Guffey have acclaimed the visits to the very work benches of the toilers. It all depends upon who happens to he making the tour, according to Guffey. —Alderman George D. Herbert rather emphasized the fact that he is the Democrctic candidate for senator last night at the Middletown Democratic meeting. Right in the midst of some Democrats whom it is suspected have been trying to get him to withdraw the veteran Democrat proclaimed his Democracy and made a Jacksonian speech compared to which the ad dresses of the rest were like reports of pop guns. —To-day was "Federal amyiiiment" day among the suffragists and they had meetings in a number of places. The organization of the cong -ssional fight is progressing faster Xll the publicity end can keep track k,i. —Selection of commissioners to take the votes of Pennsylvania soldiers has been occupying the time of the Gov ernor for the last two weeks. The Governor expects to act pretty soon. —Governor Brumbaugh paid a tri bute to Representative I'harles G. Cor bln. the Republican and Prohibition candidate- for the Legislature from Mifflin county, while in that county yesterday. Mr. Corbin is a candidate for re-election and the Governor said 'hat he had stood four square for local option and good things. —Philadelphia city workers are ask ing for increases in wages. One of the pleas is for car fare. —The Philadelphia Inquirer prints the following interesting bit of news to-day: "With the return to the city last night of the delegates to the State League convention at York announce ment was made that there is to be a round-up of the McNichol cohorts at a big banquet to be given by Senator McNichol. The affair is to take place on Wednesday night, October 11, in Scottish Kites Hall. It is likely to be an event of more than passing in terest on account of the men of promi nence who will be invited and of what shall be said by both Senator McNichol and his guests. It was reported lasr night that Mayor Thomas B.'Smith has been asked to be present and that he lias accepted the Invitation. Other leading city officials are on the list, along with Senator Penrose, State Chairman Crow, Congressman George S. Graham and nominees on the State ticket." * Not a Wilson Year (Baltimore American) This is surely not a Wilson year. And November will disclose that fact in the most enthusiastic man ner. Maine had its word of weight. Now comes New Jersey. It there was one man above another anathema to Mr. Wilson it was James E. Mar tine. But the returns show that this man. who was reud out of the party by the one who is now President, has defeated the candidate of Mr. Wil son, Attorney General John W. West cot t, for the senatorial honors. This fact adds nothing to the Joy of Mr. Wilson, but it must subtract greatly from the measure of his con fidence in the movement of political thought at this time. The return of Martine is sufficient indication that New Jersey democra cy has cast ofr all allegiance to the Wilson domination. And there is no reason to believe that this same dis position to turn aside from him will be shown to be general throughout the country, and in many of the Democratic strongholds. This is true of the South. For while the Solid South may not be seriously invaded, there is ample rea son to believe that the South exe crates as much as any other section the peculiar products of the Wilson system of policies. Truly, the signs of the year are all adverse to the hopes of Mr. Wilson for re-election, and New Jersey has spoken significantly. Editor Had the Advantage Ix>cal Editor Brattan. of the News, and Miss Cornetha Nesbit motored to Everett last Sunday on a pleasure trip. Max Sheets at the wheel.—Fulton Re oubllcan. THE CARTOON OF THE DAY CALLED TO THE COLORS YodR country ( " ' iyHllSKwil |1 W ) L —From the Columbian Illapntrh. RAILROAD WORKER VIEWS ON ADAMSON LA W . FAGAN. author of "Confessions of a Railway Signalman," from his tower on the Fitchburg division of the Boston and Maine Railroad, yesterday wrote for the Philadelphia Public Ledger his impressions of the manner in which the Adamson law. recently passed by Congress to avert the threatened railroad strike, will work out in practice which are herewith re £ J" ■ . F^ K ?r member of ,he Switchmen's and Signalmen's Union and has devoted his life to the study of labor conditions. He is highly re garded by railroad managers and labor leaders, although he opposes some of the present tendencies in the unions. His article follows: Boston, Mass., Sept. 29. The ef fect of the eight-hour law on the rail road yard service will, of course, de pend on Its application by the man agers. In meddling with the yard service the new law butts in on a situation that is now extremely satisfactory to the employes. Let us remember this to begin with. The practice of rigid economy In the yard service after the" first of January next, and that Is what the managers will be driven to, will introduce all sorts of makeshifts which are likely to stir up a hornets' nest of dissatisfaction. In small yards, where the switch ing is comparatively easy and by no means continuous, there is sure to be a great deal of overtime, but in termi nals and big yards where switching never ceases, every man under the eight-hour law will be held to his eight-hour shift. So far as I can make out from ex tensive inquiries, the law will fall far short of yard-service expectation. Some of the men will be satisfied; a majority will put up a big kick. On the Boston and Maine, for example, in a present ten-hour yard, the law will actually mean loss of money per day for the individual worker. The older employes in the yard service say they will gladly accept shorter hours and a little less pay, but the younger men, that Is, the majority, will not be will ing to accept loss money than they are getting now without putting up a kick. This situation and this diagnosis wil probably hold good all over the country. The manager, of course, could probably find ways to straighten out the situation, but economy, for one thing, forbids. They, the managers, are not talking for publication. Nevertheless, they certainly hold the whlphand in this business. They are going to make everybody tired of the Wilson experi ment. That is really what they mean when they say they are going to fight the law. At any rate, that is what I Wabbling Chauffeur There was once n chauffeur who was employed to drive a car wherein many did ride. And the road whereon the car ran was not smootlii neither was It without unexpected urves and sudden grades. And there were deep ditches on either side of that road. Now that chauffeur, being: short of sight. kept his gaze upon the road Im mediately before the front wheels of that car. nor did he look ahead, where fore was he taken aback by unexpected things in that road, and was perturbed In spirit, and in his perturbation did make countless wabblings of the steer ing wheel, whereby the path of that car was sinuous even as the path of a ser pent in the road. And though at times he did open the muffler and make a mighty noise, even at that instant did he apply the brakes, and slight was the progress of that car. Ever and anon .would he stop and back up, and with hesitation would he start again. At times would) he bring the car to rest on the verge, yet, on the very marge of the ditch, and there would he tarry a while. And this h, called watchful waiting, for he was full of words. Bo that they who rode In other cars gazed scornfully upon that car, Its chauffeur and them who rode therein. Then said some of them that rode In that car: "Come, let us now engage 11 competent chauffeur, one who looks ahead as far as the road permits and who will drive with a clear understand ing of the principles of driving. For this man brlngeth ns all into peril of the ditch by his shortsightedness and habitual wabblings and into contempt In the eyes of men by his sinuosities." But some there were In that car who were ignorant of the art of driving and had therefore taken little heed thereof, and they said: "Nay, let us keep this man." And the others asked: "Wherefore?" And they replied: "Be cause he hath kept us out of the ditch." And there was dissension In that car. —George Help In the New York Sun. "Silence Is Golden" A great deal was said about the si lence of Mr. Hushes before the He publican national convention. It was this sllenco that attracted me to Hughes. If you select a man as your banker, you do not expect him to print declarations about his honesty or ability; nor do you expect htm to make speeches about his Progressive Ideas, or his fairness to his patrons, or his willingness to protect their Inter ests, as experience directs. You select him as your banker because of his rec ord; because of his known reputation; because of his proven ability to meet emergencies In a fair and intelligent way. The fact that Hughes "did not en gage in the contest of candidates to say the most "popular things," strong ly attracted me to him.—E. W. Howe's Monthly. think they mean. In other words, in the application of the law they are going to start a rumpus among the federated employes, and in this way the law itself is liable to be thrown back into the lap of Congress for re adjustment. Of course, this is simply and solely my personal opinion and horoscope. But the real noise in the business Is going to get started when managers and men get together and try to ad- Just the eight-hour law to the rail road man's schedule. This schedule is and always has been a law unto itself. It is the rail road man's Bible as well as his dic tionary. Now the basic working day in the eight-hour law is not the basic working day of hours and mileage In the trainmen's schedule. United States law is bigger than a brotherhood schedule. The railroad managers, in my opinion, are now go ing to interpret the eight-hour law as an obligation as well as a privilege. They are going to call upon a certain number and class of train service em ployes positively to work eight hours for eight hours' pay. Personally. I do not think this will he much of a shock to public opinion. But when the managers do call upon the men In any and all circumstances as they, the managers, see fit, to work eight hours for eight hours' pay, then I say, look out for the deluge! It will certainly be another condi tion to put over on the President for, as the schedule is arranged to-day, ■ millions of dollars are being yearly paid out by the railroads for what is called constructive, or as I should sav, presumptive mileage, when the men render no actual service and are paid full rates for the simple presumption. To sum up, then, who is going to tackle and to bell this schedule cat when it gets its back up after the first of January? Forewarned is forearm ed. Now is the time to studv the situation and to watch the hatching of the most unpromising egg in Presi dent Wilson's political incubator. JAMES O. FAGAN. British For Tariff (Indianapolis Star) A trades union congress was held recently .n Birmingham, England, at which representatives of 2,500,000 or ganized laborers in Great Britain went on record In favor of protective tariff. A resolution adopted by a majority of more than 1,000,000 votes ■ asks for "the adoption of methods of restriction or preventing the impor | tatlon of cheap manufactured goods j produced at lower rates of wages and under worse labor conditions than 1 prevail in this country." Those British laborers who have lived and worked all their lives in a free-trade country and under free trade conditions are asking their Par liament to enact into law the princi pies for which the Republican party stands in behalf of American labor. They do not "affirm our belief in the doctrine of a tariff for the purpose of the government." in the terms of the platform adopted by the Demo crats at St. Louis last June. They are, in the words of the Re publican platform, "in the fullest sense for the policy of tariff protec tion. There is no presidential elec tion on in Great Britain. There Is no Adamson law discussion to throw dust in their eyes. The Britons were unbiased In deciding what, is for the best interest of the workingmen. WHAT THE ROTARY CLUB LEARNED OF THE CITY [Question, submitted to members of the Harrisburg Rotary Club and their answers as presented at the organiza tion's annual "Municipal Quiz."! a ? 6 by ordl'nance. Y ° f the ° ,ty Our Daily Laugh FROM THE i>OPE. That new letter carrier should baseball pitcher. He's there with 1 h < * e ' ivery all Fish may be /\ bought If they JllkV* C can't be caught. Ebpttimj e a mighty successful twenty-four hours all around. Front street in the vicinity of'■ Ma rket ordinarily isn't the quietest thor oughfare by any means, and now only mere man and his wife and his babies realize this. Here's a tale of how one of the furred "little people" appre ciated the dangers that lurk on the smoothly paved street between the east curb and the sheltering trees of the park. School days in the great wide world's lessons in experience evidently had l.egun yesterday for the squirrels and one anxioisf little four-footed mother had giver, over a portion of the morn ing to teaching her very small baby just how to climb trees, move from trunk to trunk and so on. And when the lesson was finished the mother had a problem before her—how to get her child across the much traveled street to th'e far-away trees of the park. For awhile she hesitated as motor cars, trucks and teams passed, and (hen, when a little lull occurred, she found a solution. She grabbed the youngster by the furry part of its neck, hoisted it half way across her shoulders and hustled across the street. "That famous Wilson tango has nothing on the dance you can do com ing- In over the Mulberry street bridge on a wet morning wearing a pair of shoes which you have just had re soled," peevishly declared an Allison Hill man in greeting his' fellow em ployes in a downtown office this morn ing. "It's not a case of 'one step forward, two steps backward and a sidestep,' but it's half a step forward and a) long glide sldewise, backward or most any other direction that your new $1.25 half soles take a notion to go," he recited, punctuating every other word with n hard expletive and tenderly rubbing a pair of aching calves byway of emphasis. "It's bad enough." he ended with Rn explosion, "to pay some dog-gone robber in a leather apron your good day's wages to induce hint to con descend to part with four ounces of leather for your only decent pair of shoes, but when you try to walk in those shoes first on a wet day and have to attempt to persuade your friends you were perfectly sober and only trying out a r ew dance steps com ing over the bridge—why. that's too much!" "Have you ever noticed that a hot spell always comes around when Sep tember quarter sessions Is being held?" said one of tlie older nttorneys at the Dauphin cpunty bar. I have hern prac ticing law for years and I have never known It to fall. I have gone to the courthouse In the morning wearing an overcoat, and by noon I have shaken my vest. I have known the mercury to (To around eighty In the September court week. It generally always gets cold about the time the court term ends." "I have sold Just one dozen red lights for tliis campaign," was the statement of one of the city's promi nent druggists last night as he watched the first club parade of the year. "In times gone by we have sold red lights by the gross, but then the political fever was running high. It. does not seem to be virulent this year." [ WELL KNOWN PEOPLE 1 —Charles Rohlands. active in coal affairs in l-uzerne and vicinity. Is tak ing a big interest in the game propa gation work of the State and has stocked a number of tracts. -—-Ex-Congressman J. D. Hicks, of Altoona, accompanied the Governor on part of the agricultural tour. He was the oldest man on the tour. —The Rev. Andrew Spanogle, who Is 92, was among those who went to Hurnha'.n yesterday to greet the Gov ernor on his tour. —Justice E. A. Walling was yes terday notified by York lawyers that they pledged their support to him. DO YOU KNOW I That Harrlsburg Is the center of ' fifteen roads which enter city streets? HISTORIC HAKRISBURG When John Harris a" 1 William M> clay laid out Capitol 1 0. it was noted .as a blackberry patch.