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MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 6.
Not what a man has or what hap
pens to him; not wealth, nor noble
"blood, nor crowns, nor titles; but the
things that arc in him and shining
through him —his thoughts, motives,
springs of action: these constitute the
man. —D. J. BUBBELL.
UP TO THE VOTER
THE campaign of 1916 is at an end.
The mind of the nation is de
cided. All that remains is to
cast the ballot. The final argument
has been made; the last appeal utter
ed. Politicians have schemed and
planned. Candidates have pleaded
and raged But It is the voter who
Js the deciding factor. Tho great vot
ing population of tho country will reg
ister Its will to-morrow. Make no mis
take about that,' Let nobody deceive
you, "Practical politicians" of all par
ties will do somo vote-buying and some
bribing, but none lias a monopoly on
that sort of thing and the one offsets
the other. It Is the honest, straight
thinking citizen whoso vote counts
most In these United States. He holds
tlie balance of power and ho Is nearly j
always
it was devotion to conviction that
split the Republican party four years
ago, It was power to think clearly j
and froodom from prejudice that
brought the two wings of the party to
gether again this year, Thero was
never a time when the American voter
has been more thoughtful of the issues
dt ntuko than during tills campaign.
Philander C, Knox, In his speech here
two weeks ago, remarked this serious
M-ttitude of the voters toward their re
sponsibilities, They have refused to
he stampeded, They have listened and
read and said little, They havo made
up their own minds as tho facts In the
case presented themselves, Tho im
passioned speech, the torch-light pro
cession, the party newspaper organ
have had little weight with them. The
newspaper that dares print the truth
p.nd the public school have been get
ting in their work, The voters — the
great rank and file of them— aro
thinking fop themselves, Canned po
litical opinion is no longer popular,
It is because this is soj because men
now mora than ever before read and
i'easen for themselves that those who
have been praying that the nation be
j-eseued from the errors, the delusions,
the weaknesses and the extravagances
fntq which it han fallen in recent years
fja fa bd ta-night calm in the belief
that to-morrow the voters will correct
(he mistake of 1913 and set us right
again Willi ourselves and beforo the
.1. Ham Lewis has bi>rn so busy
> stumping for President Wilson that
lie forgot to register. However, lie
js feeling bcter now', lie has dis
covered a Republican who has
promised to vote the straight Demo, •
Pratic ticket.—Patriot bulletin,
, So busy stumping he forgot to regis
ter and found only one Republican who
_ , will vote for Wilson, Only ONE!
i DON'T FORGET IT
YOUR vote to-morrow will not be
complete until you have mark
ed tho high school loan ticket
at the bottom of tho otflcial ballot,
The high school loan space occupies
H separate place on the official ballot.
The man who votes a straight party
ticket is apt to miss it, unless he pays
>, close attention to Ills marking, You
V'Ul lose your high school voto and
jour vote for Supreme court judge un
; Jess you mark an N In the squares
provided for thoso purposes,
j Of course, you will vote for the high
school loan. Good citizenship and
good business both demand It, You
want Harrlsburg to keep puco with
other cities In line, Including
school facilities. You want tho boys
ond girls of this city to have the best
education that money can buy. You
•want to keep down the tax rate to a
reasonable level.
The passage of the loan will lijsure
alii these things, for if the loan is not
approved the school board will havo
to build the high schools out of cur
rent revenues and that will mean a big
Jump In the tax rate and higher rents.
Secretary Baker has decided that he
didn't say it. But he hasn't decided for
tho public.
THE PUDDING AND THE PROOF
WHEN Philander C. Knox made
his notable speech here he
charged that the President of
the United States had broken the
pledge made in the platform of the
party convention which nominated
him four years ago by agreeing to
charge toll on American ships passing
through the canal. Mr. Knox has re-
MONDAY EVENING,
peated this charge In Philadelphia,
Pittsburgh and other places.
The transcontinental railroad sys
tem most interested In preventing traf
fic going through the canal and In
making it as expensive as possible, so
that the railroad would hold some of
the business It handled before the
canal was put In operation, is the still
called Harriman system. The big link
in that system Is the Southern Pacific
railroad.
The morning newspaper owned by
the Democratic national chairman to
day gives first page prominence to the
endorsement of Woodrow Wilson for
re-election by Robert S. Lovett, chair
man of the hoard of directors of the
Southern Pacific Railroad.
The illustration editor has just re
ceived orders to look up the picture of
that "Same old 'Coon" for the paper to
morrow.
WEST SHORE'S OPPORTUNITY
THE West Shore will have an op
portunity to-morrow that does
not come to any group of com
munities more than once in a gener
ation. When East Pennsboro town
ship, Washington Heights, Enola,
Camp Hill, Wormleysburg, West Fair
view and Lemoyne vote on the central
high school loan they will say whether
or not they stand for public education
or against It, for the improvement of
their communities or against their de
velopment, for community co-opera
tion or against it, for an economical
administration of the school system or
for an ineffective and extravagant ad
ministration.
It must be evident to everybody that
the towns and the township in ques
tion can maintain one high school
more cheaply that they can run a half
dozen schools and that the central
high school will be much better than
the little high schools now operuted
by the various towns. It must be evi
dent also that even if the new high
school cost more in taxes, which it will
not, that It will produce a building
growth on the West Shore that will
greatly Increase school revenues. It
must be apparent, too. that unless bet
ter school facilities are provided the
West Shore that district Is not going
to grow as rapidly a3 otherwise.
The central high school proposed
will put all the West Shore towns on
an equal footing. Tho little town and
the big town, the township and the
boroughs will all have the same high
school advantages.
The West Shore has everything to
gain and nothing to Jose by adopting
the loan. It is difficult to see why
there should be a single vote against
It.
"He kept us out of war"—except in
Nicaragua, Haiti, Vera Cruz, Carrizal
and Mexlco-at-large.
AFTER THE WAR
THE London Chamber of Com
merce Is loklng to the end of the
war. In a recent report on Brit
ish industries tho Chamber recom
mends that, as the first step toward
coping with conditions when peace is
declared, all commercial treaties now
existing between Great Britain and
other nations shall be abrogated and
that the traditional doctrine of Cob
denifm, or free trade, shall be aban
doned. There shall then he set up a
series of tariff requirements which ap
ply to nations in groups and in accord
ance with their friendliness to British
interests and in which the customs
duties shall range to a very high per
centage for the purpose of keeping
out of tho British market goods from
highly competitive nations who do not
recognize the superior merit of doing
business with England on her own
terms.
These proposals seem to meet with
favor in the governing circles in Eng
land; and If they are to be adopted tho
situation Svlll present a problem of de
cidedly vexatious nature for Ameri
cans.
Tho economic fallacies upon which
the Democratic party takes its stand
and the tariff legislation which the
Wilson administration and the Wilson
Congress have already adopted are
proof that the Democratic party is in
capable of dealing with any such a
problem as is involved in the proper
protection of American commercial In
terests in the face of conditions such
as the London Chamber of Commcrco
proposes.
Some of tlie Democratic newspapers
are actually going to spend large sums
to gather the returns to-morrow night.
Something like paying $1.50 for a "col
lect" telegrftm telling you that you've
lost your Job.
PROTECTING PAVED STREETS
REFERENCE has already been
made to the commendable effort
of City Commissioner Lynch to
protect the paved streets of the city
from tho onslaughts of corporations
and others. Wo trust that ho will not
cease his efforts In this direction until
there shall havo been enacted by the
City Council an ordinance placing
heavy penalties upon all persons re
sponsible for damage to the paved
streets.
Of course, it is out of the question
to expect that no street surface shall
be opened for the installation of proper
service connections, but there has been
entirely too much latitude In this
direction, and what was tolerated in a
good-natured way has become an
abuse. Under present conditions It IB
quite the usual thing for contractors
to slash Into the paved streets when
ever they feel so disposed and there Is
a growing suspicion that the cost to
the city is far and away beyond tho
actual municipal charge for the repair
of such openings.
It Isn't fair that the people at
largo should pay directly or indirectly
for the misuse of the highways and
strict regulation as to the opening of
streets, with heavy penalties for failure
to install pipes and connections beforo
the highways shall have been paved,
would do much to correct this abuse.
Commissioner Lynch Is a practical
highway builder, and, realizing the
conditions, he should take such steps
us will tend to correct the difficulties
and protect tho streets.
1 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR]
Senator Martin Praised
To the Editor of the Teltgraph:
The Patriot of the 2d instant con
tained a bitter attack against State
Senator Franklin Martin, the Repub
lican candidate to succeed himself In
the Thirty-first district. It makes silly
charges of subserviency to Penrose —
the great bugaboo of Vance McCor
mick In particular and Democracy in
general.
Senator Martin's course during
his term has been satisfactory to his
constituents is evidenced from the fact
that there was not the slightest oppo
sition to his renomination. In fact, so
popular was he recognized to be that
the Democrats found great difficulty
in finding anyone to run against him.
Scotty Leiby was finally induced per
sonally by Vance McCormick to be
come the sacrifice with the under
standing that the Harrlsburg plutocrat
would put u# all the "dough"—and
Lolby is now using It as a corruption
fund. Leiby la of the hand-picked
variety and if elected—and he hasn't
the ghost of a chance—will be the
faubservlent tool of McCormick.
But Mr. Leiby is not having all plain
sailing in his own party, some of whose
members have political aspirations as
w ®" as he. This is especially notice
able In Perry county, where, truth is,
Eeibys have had about all the po
litical plums worth while in their re
spective localities during Democratic
administrations. Under Cleveland one
of Scotty's uncles was postmaster at
Aewport, and during the present aci
ni nlstratlon a cousin has the excellent
Job. At Marysvllle, Scotty's home, un
der Cleveland his uncle had the post
*J 1 M St< lC ship ' and now his father has It.
All other worthy aspirants have been
pushed aside from the pie counter to
make room for the Lelbys and very
noticeably there is much discontent
and dissatisfaction in Democratic
ranks. What's the use of lighting for
Democracy if the Lelbys alone receive
substantial recognition?
1 .ieiby has employed contemptible
campaign methods', playing "good
and good devil" as seems best suited,
jf® a temperance man he is a Pro
hibitionist; to a whisky man, let him
have his rum. To the farmer he is a
hony-Jianded son of toil—delving,
probably, on McCormick's farms. To
the city sport-he is in favor of hunters'
license; to the rural hunters he's dead
(jet against It. He is In favor of fish
ermen's license and then he isn't. Any
thing to secure votes is Scotty's motto.
However, as election day approaches
it Is growing more evident that McCor
mick s puppet will be permitted to sit
In his office, next door to the windmill
In Market Square, from which he
draws his inspiration, there to reflect
upon the mutations of politics—like
unto his political master did after the
1914 fiasco.
*• FAIR PLAY.
MarysvtUe, Pa.. Nov. 3. 1916.
Missed a Hit
To the Editor of the Telegraph:
The other night I attended my sec
ond banquet, my first when I was a
young s man, and this given in the
dining room of the Grace Methodist
Episcopal Church, by Mr. and Mrs.
Joseph Davis to the members and
their husbands of the Ladles' Aid So
clf-ty; my second, as a three times
°}'® r young man—and like some
°tners, I had nothing to say "and said
One of the speakers in his very in
teresting speech compared the manner
of eating in ye olden times with the
present. He said they used to serve
the food mixed in large common bowls
with individual spoons for each and
that each group would help them
selves by dipping their spoons into the
nearest bowl and eatiug therefrom,
while to-day each person is served
with Individual plates. In courses. It
reminded me of tho story of the seven
Dervishes which I read a long time
ago and never told and really seemed
to have forgotten—and which I felt
like telling, but my wife always telling
me that I can't tell a story, I re
strained myself. It Is something like
this; The soven Dervishes had ac
quired quite a reputation for their
cleverness in overcoming difficulties
Their king having heard so much
about them concluded that he had a
test performance In which, if they
failed, he would mete out some severe
punishment to them. He then bade
them be seated around a table upon
which he had placed a large bowl of
soup and a long-handled spoon for
each Dervish, the handles being so
long that if taken hold of by the end
It would be impossible for a person to
convey the soup from the bowl to his
mouth. He then commanded them to
take hold the spoons at the handle
ends and help themselves, and to his
ustonlshment and satisfaction they in
stantly did so. and, dipping them into
the soup, began feeding each other. I
might then have said that the ladles
were helping others and asked the
Lord to bless the hosts and tho ladies
of the society In their endeavors. Did
I miss a hit?
ONE OF THE BANQUETERS.
.
Lest We Forget
Writing to the New York Sun on
the importance of the campaign, a
correspondent says:
"Certainly the manufacturing people
and the laborers of the country have
not forgotten the effects of the Under
wood law during the time it was op
erative before the European war
l.rokje out; that it opened our ports to
goods of foreign countries which oc
cupied the markets of home produc
tion; that it took off the payroll
t'oo,ooo American laborers and placed
them on the idle roll; th<jf illbrought
the country face to face with a panic
which was averted only by the Secre
tary of the Treasury assuring the
bunks of the country that $500,000,000
mergency currency already In the
Treasury was available to their use on
required security as provided by the
Aldrlch-Vreeland act of May 30, 1908,
a law passed by a Republican Congress
{o meet . emergencies of contracted
credit and panicky conditions of the
country, such as prevailed in June.
1913.
"The people will not forget, either,
that the effect of the Underwood law
was the monthly curtailment of our
from the date the Under
wood law took effect until in April,
1914, the balance of trade "Went against
us to an amount above $11,000,000,
and continued against us each month
to and including August. 1914, when
the war orders of the European war
shifted the balance of trade in our
favor. They will not forget that the
present prosperity of the country is
bt partial, and Is based on the ab
normal orders and demands for war
ftipplles In Europe, and when the war
Is over and peace reigns norijial con
ditions will return of competition
under tho Underwood law, mills will
close and labor ho Idle again. Nor
will they overlook the 'net that the
present boasted prosperity of the
country Is hut partial and not general,
find that there have been more com
mercial failures during the Wilson ad
ministration than ever before In the
same length of time."
Workings of a Single Track Mind
Said President Wilson in his Cincin
nati speech:
"The United States has had an in
dustrial and manufacturing revival In
the last two years such as it never ex
perienced beforo. And when men im
agine that this is due to the trade cre
ated by the war, they are merelv Imag
ining It, because they have not read the
facts."
Also said Wilson—and In the same
speech:
"If the war goes on another year, we
shall probably bnve half the gold sup
ply of the world."
A collision on the "Single Track
Mind" Railroad!— Philadelphia Inquirer.
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&ARRISBURG ftfljift* TEUBQRAPH
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I 'POLIKW IK I
C-kko if Cccuvta |
By the Ex-Committeeman j
Republican State Chairman Crow
predicts that Pennsylvania will (five
Hughes at least 200,000 majority Dem
ocratic State Chairman Guffey has quit
claiming the State for Wilson and lias
been caught wiring postmasters to get
out and hustle. The Hughes Alliance,
made up of progressives, says Penn
sylvania Is strong for Hughes. Prohi
bition State Chairman Prugh expects
a big vote for Hanly.
State Chairman Crow is the only
one to give figures and the confidence
he displays is in marked contrast to
the bragging of the Democrats the last
three months. The Republican State
ticket will win by big majorities and
Justice Walling will be re-elected.
The enrollment of voters of Penn
sylvania as compiled by W. Harry
Baker, secretary of the Republican
State committee, is as follows: Re
publican, 96 2,44 3; Democratic, 416,-
111; Prohibition, 17,558; Washington,
20,744; Socialist, 26,068; not enrolled,
201,257.
—State Chairman Crow made this
statement on the State:
"Pennsylvania will go Republican
by not less than 200,000 plurality, and
if weather conditions are such as to
make possible a heavy vote, the lead
of Mr. Hughes over President Wilson
may reach even over the 300,000
mark.
"Philadelphia will stand by the Re
publicans in Its usual satisfactory
manner. X expect the returns from
that city will show at leaflt 100,000 ma
jority. The situation in Allegheny is
such as to justify the claim of not less
than 30,000 Republican majority,while*
other Republican counties will main
tain the high standard for majorities
they set in past Elections. Our State
candidates will win by overwhelming
majorities, which will not fall far be
low that given Mr. Hughes, the candi
date for President. Pennsylvania will
surely send to the next congress 31
Republican members, possibly 33, with
a fighting chance for one additional.
Of the 25 vacancies In the State Senate
to be filled at the coming election, the
Republicans will surely elect 22, with
two doubtful and one conceded to the
Democrats. The next House at Har
risburg will be controlled by the Re
publican party by an overwhelming
majority. I base my prediction upon
estimates sent to Republican State
committee headquarters from every
county in the State. There is a pro
nounced Hughes wave sweeping Penn
sylvania, and hourly It seems to be
gathering momentum and strength."
—Governor Brumbaugh spoke at
the closing rally of the Republican
city campaign in Philadelphia on Sat
urday night and received an ovation.
The meeting was one of the largest
held in Philadelphia in years. In ad
dition to the Governor, ex-Governor
Edwin S. Stuart, Governor Vessey, of
South Dakota; Mayor Smith and Con
gressmen Yare and Graham were
speakers.
—Philander C. Knox arraigned Wil
son for his failure to keep pledges and
to ptand for American honor In inter
national affairs at a big closing meet
ing in Pittsburgh. Allegheny county
will give Hughes a fine majority, claim
men in that section.
—The Hughes Alliance of Pennsyl
vania has issued the closing state
ment; "To-morrfcw .thousands *of
Pennsylvania Democrats will vote for
Governor Hughes. We might cite as
examples such influential Democrats
as Edwin O. Lewis, O. Hopkinson
Baird, Walter George Smith, R. Loper
Balrd. Francis Ralston Welsh, William
A. Law and many others. Moreover,
the Progressives of Pennsylvania, led
hy such men as Gifford Pinchot. Wil
liam Draper Lewis, Richard R. Quay,
H. D. W. English and others, are
solidly with Hughes. In addition the
rank and file of so-called 'independ
ents,' including such leaders as J. Ben
jamin Dimmick, Lewis Emory, Jr., and
others, are working hard for Hughes.
Having conducted an aggressive cam
paign in every county of the State, the
Hughes Alliance in this State rests its
case in the most sanguine expectation
of a Republican vote that will place
a solid delegation of thirty-seven mem
bers from Pennsylvania in the next
electoral college."
Harry A. Mackey, chairman of the
Workmen's Compensation Board, in a
pre-election statement issued last
night, declared Pennsylvania workers
have not been fooled by arguments set
forth by Democratic congressmen from
the South, and that they have been
more amused than concerned with
Democratic efforts to win their sup
port. He asserted Pennsylvania work
ers refuse to accept the theories of
congressmen from the Cotton Belt
States.
"Hughes will have a substantial Re
publican majority in this usually
Democratic region next Tuesday," said
T. Clinton Kline, who is a candidate
for Congress on the Republican ticket,
as he arrived at his home in Sunbury
troni a strenuous campaign in various
portions of the Sixteenth district. "In
lact," continued Mr. Kline, "the entire
G. O. P. ticket will win out. I have
been assured of the fact after a most
careful canvass. The change In senti
ment for the success of Hughes In Co
lumbia, Sullivan. Montour and North
umberland counties is most gratifying,
and the Republican majority will be
larpe."
—John Wanamaker's denunciation
of the orders of State Chairman Guf
fey to postmasters to work for Wilson
does not get much notice In Demo
cratic newspapers. Suppose the shoe
had been On the other foot.
—George D. Herbert, candidate of
the Democratic voters but not of the
bosses for senator, Is again running
ne<?k and neck with the candidate of
the Democratic bosses but not of the
Democratic voters for publicity in the
Democratic national chairman's news
paper.
—ln Northampton county election
board members have refused to serve
to-morrow because of the amount of
work required and the failure to get
more pay.
—Squire F. J. Parrish, one of the
Democratic landmarks of Blair county,
will vote for Hughes. The squire is a
justice at Gallitzin. is 84 years of age
and has been vo®ng the Democratic
ticket for sixty-two years.
—Ex-State Treasurer Berry, who
has been spending much time away
from his desk In the Philadelphia col
lector's office, to which the Wilson
administration named him. has been
brought to book by T. Larry Eyre,
Republican candidate for senator in
Chester county, for his charges about
him. Berry has been revamping the
Capitol furnishing scandal and Eyre
dares him to write out his charges.
—Altoona had a great Republican
finish on Saturday. William Draper
Lewis and Emerson Collins, Deputy
Attorney General, made addresses. Dr.
Lewis referred at the conclusion of his
address to the importance of defeating
Worren W. Bailey, a free trader, and
electing J. M. Rose, a protectionist, to
Congress. The meetings gave conclu
sive proof that the work of Bryan in
coming to this district on behalf of
re-electing Bailey, the Democratic con
gressional candidate, has gone for
naught.
In a review of the situation in
Rlalr county Republican Chairman
Hicks says: "The Republicans and
Progressives are again united and it is
a pufe forecast that Hughes and Falr-
Aanks will carry Blair county by 5,000
majority. The Republican State
ticket will run along with the national
DEMOCRATIC PROSPERITY IN 1914.
fie law is of the tort of news that was appearing (n the
papers during the months when Mr. Wilson and his party were try
ing to produce prosperity without the assistance of munitions con
tracts. The date is January 1, 1914
• MARCHING IDLE ARMY
I CRIED FOR FOOD UPON
1 STROKE OF NEW YEAR
'! ?lve Hundred Men Parided JXI 11 ft 11 I" ft ""
tb atmw OHIMO. I*l ||^tf4r
'You Are Drunk and We Are 'II U U I *
,-;i Hungry,'' They Shouted. j|" | | |
!' Broke Windows and Punc-1 r II
tured Tires of Automobiles. J J | |
tASIOCtATCO PUIS* DV*TtH.> • jfl I "*
I; CHICAGO. January- 1. Eatermt gj |
| mtnu'ranti and demanding- foo'd, J r
<! breaking window . and puncUirlni;, M"
JJ automobile tire*,' a crowd of nearjy> ,
500 unemployed thin Ynorn-j# a
" Ids 1 riiarchctMliroitfh Chiengo'4 bual- j U
meaa'dlatt'lil. They nir&Miecf.il strnaitu j a |
J! com rust to Now .'War revelers ho 8 J
" pVr* leaving "fyfi? Ciifra and rcttJur-1 B
•. •attts. j
T'.ie S(atf"yair*et. j
•• foiii-nbro.nt e darryitifi.ft banltrr which |
rtad \Ve .-Alfmrtnd work no;,'
"" rh.intsv,".-,'Viic , ;atteiKir'haHed stroHVari
pti<l to 'iMnWimora that they
f' Kvie\Wiv<vorii. At Van Euren atreet the
" ■polJciTjUaltcd the mrclier. 'out ha>
!: \o<fn jjllormrd jUtjjJf Uni'.'/aDher down
(hi! street
"•'Hey. you rvaat'a up T ' -ahout- <
" ed n pedestraw from the curb . j
"You orodrutiknnd we aro hungry*
•• replied'on* of the luadera. The baoi
" broke up Into atrial* groups.
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LABOR LEADERS TELL WHY THEY
FA VOR HUGHES FOR PRESIDENT
L . j
WE earnestly urge every organ
ized worker to cast his vote In
the coming election for Charles
E. Hughes, the Republican nominee
for President. Because of his de
mand for systematic and reasoned re
form and his strict .adherence to
principle, our welfare would be Bafer
in his hands. We may realize Jußt
how much the former Governor of
New York sought to accomplish for
our benefit while in executive office
when it Is remembered that during
his nearly four years at Albany he-
Asked for a commission to in
quire into questions relating to
employers' liability and compen
sation for the workmen's Injuries
—the first step in that direction
In America.
Reorganized and extended the
powers of the labor department.
Restricted the hours of labor of
children.
Promoted the health and safety
of employes In mercantile es
tablishments. .
Appointed a commission to In
vestigate the condition, welfare
and industrial opportunities of
allpns in the State.
Compelled the railroads to pay
their men semimonthly, instead
of monthly.
Signed a law defining more
clearly the application of the
eight-hour law to certain kinds
of work.
Prevented abuses of persona
out of work by employment
agencies.
Sought to bring about a six-day
working week.
Based Improvement In condi
tions upon full and fair inquiry
into the facts before action.
Nor was he less sympathetic with
our alms while a Justice of the Su
ticket, while John M. Rose, Repub
lican. for Congress, is sure to carry the
countv overwhelmingly and sweep the
district by 7,000 to 8,000 majority.
Atlee Brumbaugh, Samuel McCurdy
and J. 13. Rininger will be returned to
the Stale Legislature. It is certain,
from the expressions heard coming
from (he rank and file, that the voters
nre through with Democracy and in
tend to restore the Republican party
to power."
—Luzerne county is claimed for the
Republican ticket and it is also de
clared that T. W. Templeton will be
elected to Congress.
—Friends of Congressman C. H.
■Rowland predict his re-election in the
Clearfield district in spite of claims to
the contrary.
—Congressman Dewalt says he will
be re-elected by 5,000 majority. Re
publicans expect to give him an awful
contest. <
Senator Snyder, candidate for
Auditor General, spoke at big rallies
in Philadelphia on Saturday and is
working in his homo county to-day.
nrcriini.lCAN TICKET
For President.
Charles Evans Hughes, of New York
For Vlcp-Presldent.
Charles Warren Fairbanks, of Indiana
For Auditor General.
Charles A. Sr.yder, of Pottsvllle
For State Treasurer.
Harmon M. Kephart, of Connellsville
For Congress-at-Large,
Thomas S. Crago, of Waynesburg
M. M. Garland, of Pittsburgh
Joseph McLaughlin, of Philadelphia
John R. K. Scott, of Philadelphia
For Congress—lßth District
Aaron S. ICrelder, of Annvllle
For Senator,
Edward E. Beldleman. of Harrisburgr
For Representative,
Flrat District
Augustus Wildtnan and J. W. Swarta
Second District,
Ira E. Ulsh and David J. Bechtold
For Mine Inspector,
Charles J, Price, of Lykens
Nonpartisan Ticket,
Suprema Court,
Emory A. Walling, of Erie
The Better Road
[New York Sun]
"You ask what road I propose to
travel," Mr. Hughes sold to bis audience
In Boston. Then he described the road
he will take.
Were the way stations of Watchful
Waiting, Too Proud to Fight, Serving
Humanity in Mexico. Executive Sur
render, Bryan, Daniels and Baker on
the route?
No. Mr. Hughes, not having a One-
Track Mind, will be able to run a few
express trains. The road he will travel
has no curves, no open switches, no
broken block signals: and, besides be
ins straight, it is rock ballasted.
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NOVEMBERS, 1916.
preme Court of the United States. The
hatters' case had already been de
cided In Its essentials two years be
fore his appointment. The opinion In
which he took part was merely up<)n
the technical point of whether the ji*.v
trial and assessments against tlie
union had been made In proper form
—questions of legal evidence and
bookkeeping, which had nothing to
do with the right or wrong of the
contention that the hatters were sub
ject to the Sherman anti-trust law.
He has opposed the Adamson wage
law. recently placed on the statute
books by the present Democratic ad
ministration, because enacted without
the thorough investigation which he
has so consistently stood for and be
cause of the relinquishment of the
principle of arbitration which we can
not give up. That law ioes not limit
the work of a day to eight hours. It
provides that the standard of com
pensation shal be eight hours instead
of ten hours. It therefore merely in
creases the pay of the men twenty
per cent. Less than one-half of one
per cent, of the entire population
benefits—about 400,000 In the brother
hoods. The 1,400,000 who work in the
shops and freight houses and on the
tracks receive no advantage. Without
looking into the justice or necessity
of the advance In wages at this time,
which might have been ascertained
by arbitration, the law was enacted at
the expense of the clerks, small busi
nessmen, farmers and the entire re
mainder of the people. To refuse in
vestigation and arbitration opens the
way for such refusal in the future on
the part of capital, wnlch is tfetter
organized than labor. Government
should be the means of providing for
the maintenance of the just rights of
[Continued on Page 14]
What Charleston Learned
[Kansas City Times]
The brewers are flooding the mails
with circulars to voters in Kansas City
warning them that prohibition will in
crease taxe3. One way to judge
whether it will or not is by looking
at the experience of other cities.
Charleston, S. C., used to receive
$53,000 license revenue from fifty
three saloons. It closed them July 1,
1914, and has been dry ever since.
Mayor G. E. Bruce of that city writes:
"Now, as to the financial condition.
The city has forged ahead and has
built in the last two years forty miles
of streets and kept pace with all im
provements, kept the streets clean afid
the city in good, sanitary condition.
This was done without increasing the
taxes, but instead wo have been able
to reduce the levy from seventy-nine
cents to fifty-five cents for the run
njng expenses of the city, or in other
words, we have reduced the levy
twenty-four cents and have emple
cash on hand to pay all obligations.
This comes about by a large reduc
tion in the police department, a large
reduction in the court expenses and
a largo reduction in the poor fund.
These reductions greatly exceed the
$53,000 wo received from the fifty
three saloons in the city. Real estate
is much more valuable and the clos
ing of the saloon has Increased the
merchandise and food consumption."
Will Not Be Quiet
[lndianapolis Star.]
Women who have had tho right to
vote in a Western State lose that privi
lege when they move East. They do
not like the sensation of being dis
franchised and It Is happening in n
good many places, especially In New
England, that they are asking to be
registered. They base their demands
on article 14 section 1 of the Consti
tution, which reads: "No State shall
make or enforce any law which shall
abridge the privileges or Immunities
of citizens of the United States."
Of course, no registration officer
permits them to register. He turns
them away rudely or civilly or with
alarm, according to his upbringing
and his private sentiments. But It
looks a 4 if a woman who has
voted in one State of the Union has es
tablished herself as a citizen of the
United States and that logically the
section of the Constitution quoted
might apply to her case.
It seems probable that the demands
for registration are guilefully Intro
duced as a preliminary to logal pro
ceedings to test their rights and that
we shall presently hear of more than
one such suit.
It Is quite certain that women thus
disfranchised are not likely to rest
contented under this disability and as
their number Increases the troubles
of opposing powers will multiply.
letting <2U;at |
Harrisburg will •be only one of
twenty or so cities and boroughs of
the State which will vote on loan
propositions to-morrow, although as
far as can be ascertained our high
fcchool bond issue is the largest
amount to bo put up to the people
at the polls anywhere in Pennsyl
vania. Chester is voting on a half
million dollar loan for the same pur
pose and some of the boroughs in the
western part of the State which are
really cities in point of population
are to give their verdict on school
building loans varying from $50,000
to $200,000. Indeed, there has not
been an election in years in which so
many school districts were submitting
to their voters the financial end of A
better schools. It appears to be a %
part of a general move g.ll over Penn
sylvania for improvement of existing
school conditions or, as in the case of
Harrisburg and its sister shipbuilding
city on the Delaware, of taking care
of those who can not, but. vrtio are,
entitled to be accommodated. Owing
to the hearings at the Capitol and
other matters affecting various parts
of the Commonwealth Harrisburg is
visited by men from every section and
there is, from the conversations of
these visitors, a very general Interest
in the outcome of J:he loan vote to
morrow for two reasons. The first is
that Harrisburg has gone ahead so
fast in the way of municipal improve
ments and made such excellent pro
vision for extinguishing its debt that
•J 16 State is waiting to see if the cap
ital city will be as progressive in the
matter of education as in material
things. The second is that previous
loans for the same object were voted
down without much consideration.
This campaign has been better con
ducted and the ravings which char
acterized previous school loan votes
have been less violent than hereto
fore, while no one has injected parti
san politics into the proposition. The
city has the reputation among edu
cators of almost as far behind in the
matter of educational establishments
as it is ahead in those improvements
which are classed as municipal.
Therefore, the outcome of the loan
which will make possible an ambitious
plan, in keeping with the standing of
the city, will be watched with in
terest l'rom I.ako Erie to the Dela
ware. This is little realized by the
average voter, but it is a fact that
Harrisburg has taken an advanced
position in the matter of civic affairs
and everything it does attracts at
tention.
• •
Another thing about this election
to-morrow which is out of the ordin
ary and which will also attract State
wide, if not national, attention, is the
first real test of the initiative and
referendum feature of the 1913 third
class city commission government act.
There have been numerous questions
submitted to the voters of Pennsyl
vania municipalities lately, but it is
said by students of city affairs that the
vote on the so-called jitney ordinance
amendment will be the first test in a
good-sized Pennsylvania city of this
proposition. Hence, what is dono
here will be observed and studied in
other towns. The third class city act
is about due for some changes and
owing to the growing size and multi
plicity of ballots the voter is called
upon to handle, what happens here
may have wide effect. Some months
ago attention was called in this col
umn to a ballot containing 114 propo
sitions put before a voter in another
State, over one-half being matters of
moment. This year Harrisburg will
have two ballots.
• • •
Simplification of the ballot has been
urged upon Governor Brumbaugh bv
many students of elections and bv
some judges who were asked for their
opinions last Spring and with the
tendency to®submit this and that to
the voters it must seem that some-H
thing would be needed. There aro
no county, city, ward or precinct of
ficel-* to be voted for here to-morrow,
but there is a list of names printed
in the ballot which is appalling when
I,*) thinks of '*• The main ballot,
which also contains the supreme court
nominees by good chance, offers manv
subjects for study to say nothing of
consideration of the questions on the
other voting sheet. It will be inter
esting to compare the votes on the
high school loan and the ordinance
amendment with the total of the votes
cast in Harrisburg for the presidency.
The truth is that while there is a
continual demand to ask the will of
the voters on propositions the voters
r-* 6 ''"* tired of having things put
up to them. The method of obtaining '
the judgment is so complicated that
the average man is^ growing disgusted.
As has been said, Harrisburg be
came famous because it secured popu
lar approval of loans for improve
ments and the manner in which the
, a , ffa T i connection therewith
has attracted much favorable com
ment But the questions have beTn
T I. . M®. V ? ters , every y, ' ar or so.
nio!fL Vil ..J' 0 opinion in other
places that the State laws should bo
so changed that it should not be
necessary to KO to all the expense
/Tf ?„ S0 • often - A greater meas
ure of authority should be given it
Is argued, to the men elected by tho
same people who vote on loans* and
mo* ! t w . P rovisi °n Should be
made when there is pronounced popu
lar disapproval evidenced by a remon
strance with a certain number of sign
ers, for instance, to obtain voters'
Jt Is pretty certain that a
novl ♦ T S B P', nK to b0 he ard in tho
next two Legislatures about balloting
y i 0 voters shown a dispo
sition to ignore names when a ballot is
,*? but t° Pass up entirely propo
sitions when on separate ballots.
Then again frequent changes because
of refusal of election officers to serve
on hoards which have to count two
for Be w? of ballots ot make
for that efficiency which we expect
In conduct of elections. In the last
naif dozen years many men of valu
able experience on Harrisburg election
boar'lH and possessing fine working
J ot election laws have de
to have anything to <lo with
elections because of the doubling, and
in some cases, trebling of the work.
tw al^ n nll to ??ther it would seem
that Governor Brumbaugh will have
a fruitful field in which to make
recommendations for tho next Legis
lature in regard to the ballot laws
mon n S nH bta L" ed ,he °P |nlor >B of many
men and what has happened in the
Z* y n el ? y 2 ,n official counts duo
hinn balloting since he has
been Governor Is a matter of record.
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE 1
—Charles P. Hunt, who retires *
lieutenant-colonel of the First Infaii.
try. has served forty years in tn> *
Guard.
Judge John B. McPherson was
congratulated yesterday upon his
birthday.
Judge Join M. Garman, of
Wilkes-Barre, has placed a big Ameri
can flag in his courtroom to teach ap
plicants for citizenship some patri
otism.
—Captain J. W. Good, of one of the
Philadelphia cavalry troops, came
home to be married. He Is back with
his troop.
| DO YOU KNOW t J
That Harrisburg is the distributing
point for tons of crackers and
cakes every twenty-four hours?