10 fIARRISBDRG TELEGRAPH A VBWSPAPBR FOR THB HOiiß Foundtd jtjl Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELBXSRAPI! PRINTING CO, Tchcrifh Building, Federal Square. ®. J. STACK POLE, Prts't & Bditor-tn-Chirf F. R. OYSTER, Biuintss Manater. OUS M. STEINMETZ. Managing Editor. Member of the Associated Press—The Associated Press Is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. * 'All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. Member American Newspaper Pub t llshers' Assocla latton and Penn- Eastern office. Avenue F.ulldlng, Entered at the Post Office In Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, ten cents a -, y *• week; by mall. $5.00 a year in ad vane*. THURSDAY, MAY 23, 1918 Selfishness is that detestable vice ■which no one will forgive in others and no one is icithovt in himself. — H. W. Beecher. THE BEIDLEMAN VOTE THE nomination of Senator E. E. Beidleman, for Lieutenant Governor of the State in the Re publican primaries, on the same ticket with Senator Sproul for Gov ernor, is significant of the desire of Republicans in Philadelphia and the State at large to rid the party of the factional quarreling that has dis turbed it for the past few years. The big vote piled up for the Dau phin county Senator, even in Con gressman Scott's own city, is an evi dence of this. Senator Beidleman represented the State as a whole. Scott was the candidate of a fac tion. The same conditions prevailed ■with relation to the head of the ticket and the success of Sproul and Beidleman is such an assurance of Republican success in November that the people will now be permitted to lay aeide thoughts of politics and turn their attention fully and whole heartedly to the winning of the war. undistracted by purely local affairs. The nominations made on Tuesday are equivalent to an election, as Senator Sproul in his statement fol lowing the primaries clearly inti mates he believes. Senator Beidleman made a run most gratifying to his friends, his showing in Philadelphia and throughout the coal regions indi cating his popularity in a personal •way and his strength in Industrial centers to which his friendliness to labor legislation justly entitles him. His almost unanimous vote at home, he having carried all the districts of the city and county, is a great com pliment, especially in view of the pe culiar corfditions surrounding the contest, in which he was opposed not only by a strong candidate but by forces determined to unhorse him as a political leader. Commissioner Gross is wisely com ing to the conclusion that the pres ent system of policing "the parks must be abandoned. Most people ap preciate official kindness and consid eration for old men. but the destruc tive gangs are becoming a serious nuisance and cannot be handled by the old park guards. These hoodlums destroy trees and shrubbery without fear of arrest or punishment. Young officers on motorcycles would cost the city no more than the present in adequate force and the results would be satisfactory. A VOTE OF CONFIDENCE SENATQR SPROUL'S statement to the Republican voters of Pennsylvania In appreciation of his nomination as the candidate of his party for Governor has still fur ther demonstrated his fitness for the high office to which he aspires. It is the utterance of a public man of large experience who understands men and who is without rancor or vanity or any of the small weak nesses which too often rise to the surface in the moment of victory. He regards his tremendous plu- rallty in the primary vote as an If expression of the confidence of the people and a definite response to j his pledge of service for the Com monwealth. The statement Is gen erous to his opponents and avoids even a suggestion of resentment toward or criticism of those who In dulged In attacks upon him during the preliminary campaign. What will gratify his friends throughout Pennsylvania as much as anything else that he says In this| expression of appreciation is ills fur ther intimation that his administra tion will seek to crush out the fac tional controversies which have dis turbed the Republican party for sev. eral years by a broad and fair attl tude toward all party Interests. Senator Sproul feels a sense of deep responsibility and declares that he will give himself over to the W working out of the comprehensive and constructive policies which were enunciated In the formal announce ment of his candidacy some weeks ago. He declares, with a firmness that will commend him still further to the favor of the people, that, he THURSDAY EVENIN "has no grudges to pay, no enemies to punish, no debts to discharge— only a desire to lead a united party to victory In November" that de voted serlvce may be rendered to the nation and to the people of Pennsylvania. Those Republicans who supported Mr. O'Neil, Mr. Habgood and other candidates will unanimously rally to the colors of the chosen standard bearer and it is a safe prophecy that the election of Senator Sproul will be overwhelming and without fac tional disturbance of any sort. Fac tional activities were emphatically rebuked In the balloting of Tuesday. As was expected, his big vote in this part of Pennsylvania serves to •show the personal popularity of the Republican candidate in this city, and his connection with many im portant enterprises In this section have made him more than a mere official visitor. He will be gladly welcomed to Harrisburg as an old friend when he comes to take up the duties of a great office. That was quite a fine compliment which was paid the Harrisburg park system by a moving picture star this week. Sometimes we are almost forced to conclude that the occasion al visitor has a better appreciation ! of the picturesque beauty of the city and Its environment than many of our own people. These accept as a matter of course the beautiful Sus quehanna River basin, the park strips along the noble stream and the large j park areas 'which constitute so fine an asset of the city's residential quarters. "NOT TO BE HURRIED" f yOU cannot hurry the Presi- Y dent into issuing that procla matlon," declared Congress man Chandler in Congress the other day, when an amendement to the food appropriation bill requiring the President to forbid the use of food stuffs for the manufacture of in toxicants was before the House. And why not? Is Congress, which placed this power of declaring the country "dry" In the hands of the i President, powerless to provide for the enforcement of the law In view of the fact that the executive has failed to do what the lawmaking body obviously intended him to do In the event of a food shortage? The Idea is absurd. There is a rapidly increasing ele ment in the country impatient with the administration's policy of per mitting the breweries to use up im mense quantities of coal and food stuffs. while the home consumption of sugar and grain is restricted and coal Is at a premium. Wheatless days and beer nights do not form a very popular combination. It is not unlikely, also, that the President's failure to enforce pro hibition had Its effect on the Demo cratic vote in this State on Tuesday and was a potent factor in leading many wavering Democrats to vote for Bonniwell, the "wet" candidate. Kerensky is said to be on his way to this country, and the Czar is going to Switzerland and only the Bolshe vik! remain to welcome the Germans to Petrograd. Wilhelm will have no body to do him homage but the rag tag and the bob-tail. OUR FOREIGN-BORN THE Americanization plans of the Chamber of Commerce of the ( United States aire taking defi nite form in many cities and there is a work to do—an important work along similar lines—in our own community. Foreign-born residents who want to become real Americana have a right to their chances. The Telegraph finds, in a little investiga tion. that hundreds of those who first saw the light in other lands want to live among us as fellow citi zens. They should be encouraged in every proper way—through the public schools, in our civic organi zations and churches and by indi vidual effort. Show these aliens sympathy and a disposition to help them. We can do much to make the world safe for democracy by starting right here in America. Let us give these seekers after liberty a welcoming hand when they come to us in the right spirit. In Cincinnati recently the Chamber of Commerce of that city, in 'co operation with other societies, held a Patriot's Day celebration at which the Governor and other speakers ad dressed the foreign-bom. More than five thousand were present and the police turned hundreds away. News papers entered into the campaign to make the meeting a success, and cards were printed in the press everywhere like the following: You will be serving your coun- try if you will go to the foreign born resident of your neighbor hood or who is employed in your home or your business and say: •'I want you as mv guest at Fri day night's meeting; my per sonal guest. It is for you and for me." That is Just what the foreign-born man and woman have been waiting for, or better, hoping for, saVs the American ization Committee. There has not been enough of the sympa thetic attitude and good will ex tended to these folks, who. per force. can not but feel that they are without the pale of Amer icanism when they are regarded, as too often they are. with little interest by those they had hoped to know some day as fellow- Americans. the Committee adds. The Harrlsburg Chamber of Com merce can do much In promoting an Americanization movement here and the field Is waiting. Factlonism in the Republican party was bound to run Its course and like a boil it had to come to a head. Perhaps the body of the O. O. P. will be all the better for the lancing of the primary. It Is going to be a difficult thing for the bttsses of the Democratic party to explain to our friends, the enemy, how they failed to control a primary electton with all the power of a national administration at their beck and calL fo title* LK *Ptn,KOi{Crtuua By the Ex-Committeeman | ' " The plight of the men at the head. of the Democratic state machine, | who were given everything that Pres ident Wilson could hand them and who were on the right side of a STeat issue and yet were routed in a straight stand up fight by an oppo nent whom they declined to take se riously is attracting considerably more attention In Pennsylvania just now than the mounting majority of Senator William C. Sproul in the Republican party for Governor. There are many who believe that the protest of the great majority of the Republican voters of Pennsylvania against factionalism, the course of the state administration in backing J. Denny O'Neil for Governor ard threats to run independently, will reach the amazing figure of a quar ter million. The Republican contests are now a matter of figures with the honors with Sproul, Penrose and other men who were made targets by Mr. O'Neil and his backers. Commissioner O'Neil, who intends to spend the remainder of the week at his home in Allegheny county and on some road tours, will prob ably make some statement to-day. It is believed that he will accept the decision of the voters as final and give his attention to the election of "dry" legislators. Friends of O'Neil were to-day declaring that he was too good a sport to buck the verdict of the Republicans and that they would be greatly disappointed if he went into any combination with Democrats or others to defeat Sproul. These men said that Sproul stands squarely by the "dry" amendment and woman suffrage, while Judge Bonniwell is as firmly <rpposed to them. Hence any third nomination movement, argue these men, would be simply dividing "dry" forces. —The position of National Chair man Vance C. McCormick. National Committeeman A. Mitchell Palmer, Assistant Postmaster General James I. Blakslee and other men who are high up in the clique that runs the Democratic party in Pennsylvania to suit themselves is the most unen viable that can be imagined. The man who was their chief critic for four years is the leader of the party in Pennsylvania at a primary in which he won in spite of their whole organization backed by the Presi dent of the United States and a horde of federal officeholders. They have either got to accept Judge Bon niwell. not only personally obnoxious to them, but standing for everything in Democratic family affairs and on the liquor question for exactly the opposite of what they shout upon all occasions. The general opinion of newspapers is that there was too much dictation and too little think ing on the part of the leaders. —This is the way the Philadel phia North American sizes up the situation in the Democratic party: "The Palmer-McCormick group, par ticularly the Palmer end of it, is credited with having shoved aside United States Attorney E. Lowry Humes, a dry of personal political strength, naturally available for the Governorship, in order to create the artificial candidacy of Guffey, a man of no wide acquaintance, who had to be led around and introduced to the Democrats at large. Guffey pro claimed himself a dry. but he was without pulling power. The Palmer- McCormicks couldn't boost him enough to make him a success, and Bonniwell, better known and with solid liquor and 'old guard' backing, got the larger count at the polls. There seems little for Palmer, Mc- Cormick and their associates who I represent the Wilson administration in the state to do but go along for Bonniwell. As the nominee, Bonni well Is the pacemaker for the Dem ocratic campaign, just as Sproul, pledged for prohibition, is the man to set the pace on the Republican side. —Senator Sprout's declaration to; end factionalism seems to meet j with much newspaper approval, the! Philadelphia Bulletin especially! commenting his r.tand. The Phil adelphia Press devotes a few shots j to Governor Brumbaugh whom it 1 can now decide "whether to dfg himself ir. or dig himself out." | The Philadelphia Record remarks that O'Nell did not even do as well as expected in the boroughs and townships of Allegheny, while the Inquirer says that the elecMon means the beginning of the end of the Vare control in Philadelphia. —The general opinion in Phila delphia newspapers is that Penrose has downed the Vares who made an issue of John R. K. Scott in a way that can not be misunderstood and won, in the language of the Philadel phia Press, "most decisively" over the state administration and that if the "wet" forces are to be downed in November It will mean united work and getting every man to the polls. —The carrying of Allegheny coun ty for Sproul by over 1 2.000 is a vic tory for ex-Senator Oliver and his friends. They not only had to down O'Neil, but the forces of William A. Magee and his friends backed by the state administration. In Scranton Mayor Connell goes down and in Luzerne. Berks and other counties where the state administration has devoted so much time to building up an organization the Penros* peo ple won. —Another thing that stands out IB the repudiation by people in Phil adelphia of the trick to have a chauffeur run to camouflage Dr. George Woodward, which has been tried in other instances which need not be mentioned now. The recent hearings in the Dauphin county court are fresh in the public mind. —Charles Johnson, former state insurance commissioner, is the un disputed leader of Montgomery coun ty. He went into the fight on that issue which was raised by Insur ance Commissioner Charles A. Am bler and the state administration and he beat.them all clong the line. Am bler was defeated by James S. {!oyd for the senatorial nomination and Johnson elected every man he back ed. Ambler did not even get the vote conceded to him, savg the Press. —The Philadelphia Inquirer aays to-day regarding an incident of pri mary day: "The man who pave Vance McCormick i Republican bal lot to vote in the primaries at TTnr rishurc evidently knew better what wns good for V. M. than he did him self." County commissioners throughout the state will sit to-morrow at noon as a returning board for the com putation of the vote cast at. Tues day's primary, but it is not expected to the official totals in many of the counties of Pennsylvania until next week. As soon as the nomi nations are certified to the State Department by the county commis sioners men chosen to state com mittee seats will be glvetr notice and arrangement* will then be made for calls of the state committees. It is believed that the official count will be needed to determine some of the cloee contests for legislative nominations, while It la understood HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH ■'-•■' I ■ 1 1 --J THE DAYS OF REAL SPORT BY BRIGGS WHEN • You FIRST TIPPED YOUR- CAP TO A L*DY. that sticker activity placed men upon a number of tickets. Where no nominations have been made the facts will be officially brought to attention of pa.rty com mittees in the districts affected so that if they desire they may fill the tickets. /■ Offer tta Taj® LK ""peiuuu j "There is no sleepier sound than the" "susurrus" of the Spanish moss as the strong afternoon wind Irom; the river through It," writes a correspondent, and an ed-1 itor comments that this word is one we ought to mix up wkh irftimately. j "What better could one desire," hej opines, "oifa cold March day up north j than to linger on the bank of aj sleepy Florida river and listen to the | susurration of the susurrus as it su-: surringly responds to the susurrant| influence of the afternoon breeze?" j "You say, madame, that the de- 1 fendant is a sort of a relation of, yours. Please tell the court justj how you are related." "Well, it's t just like this: His first wife's cousin; and my second's husband's first! wife's aunt married brothers, named! Jones, and they were own cousins to j my mother's own aunt. Then, again, { his grandfathers on my mother's side were second cousins, and his step mother married my husband's step father after his father and my mother died, and his brother Joe and my husband's brother Henry married i twin sister*. I ain't never figured | out just how close related we were, | but I've always looked on 'im as a sort of cousin." Here's the way the editors of Boy's Life juggle with names of countries in the news to-day: "Two British soldiers went into a restau rant in sHlonica and asked for Tur key in Greece. The waiter said. "I'm sorry, gentlemen, but I can't Servia. Whereupon the Tommies shouted, "Fetch the Bosphorous!" When the manager arrived, he said, "I'm sorry, gentlemen, I don't want to Russia, but you can't Rumania." And so the Tommies went away Hungary." WHOLESALE CONFESSION [Philadelphia Evening Ledger] The deaislon of Mr. McAdoo, Di rector General of Railroads, to per mit the railroad companies to have about fa billion dollars this year for 'improvements is a confession of past governmental mistakes which conditions should make unnecessary in the future. • The railroads have been starved for several years. They have sought permission to increase their rates in order that they might have In come enough to justify capitalists in lending them the money needed to buy new rolling stock, relay their rails and bring their lines Into con dition to meet the demands of in creasing business. But they have been treated most cavalierly. And now the Government, when It at tempts to run them, finds Itself handicapped by conditions produced by its own blind demagogic policy. The billion dollars to be spent this year will do no more than nut the roads in the condition they should have reached several years ago.. They will need another billion next year If they are to keep up with the times. SATIJNG HOME Written By Allen Samrrec (Copyrighted, May, 1918.) When duty called, I answered, And left my country dear: 'T was summer In the morning. And the bugle sounded clear. My mother bade me linger— No longer could I stay! i For a Voice called to me "You must come over!" Chorus Salllifg home! Sailing home! Sailing home across the sea. Take me back to dear Columbia, To Columbia, the beautiful, the / free. The sun was shining brightly, As I left my native shore: . There was no war's commotion, I There was no cannon's roar. • The qolet hills and valleys, I The home and friendships dear— . They all said to me, Boy, "You must go over!" And now I'm happy thinking 1 The time will surely come; p We'll lay aside our bayonet. We'll pack our fife and drum, t We'll hie across the ocean— f We'll stand upon that land ; Where joy waits' for us I Who have "come over!" THE PEOPLE'S FORUM PEXX-H ARRIS Camp Hill. May 20, 1918. To the Editor of the Telegraph: Glad to see the Telegraph try to put Harrisburg on the map of the Seven seas by having a ship named in her honor. Glad that name is so popular, and have two already called by that name—but "don't give up the ship." Suggest "Penn-Har ris." Yours, 1 y C. H. LINDE PLEADS FOR EQUALITY To the Editor of-the Telegraph: In this day of storm and stress, when men of all colors and creeds are rallying to their Nation's call, it seems hardly proper that any word should be spoken which does not by its mere utterance inspire in the hearts of those who have been making these sacrifices a greater love of country than they had be i fore. It Is therefore with hesitancy I that I take it upon myself to give | public utterance to a condition of : affairs the fires of which have for ( some time smouldered in the hearts of all true and patriotic Afro-Ameri. cans. It happened that on Monday af ternoon, May 20th, the writer, an employe of the Selective Service i Headquarters had an occasion to i step into a Market street shop. | After having been so courteously waited upon by the young lady in charge of the candy department, -I stepped to the fountain to purchase a glass of soda water. It was then | that I was informed by the dispenser that he was not permitted to serve LABOR NOTES The total membership in Canadian labor unions at the close of 1917 was 204,360, Waiters and waitresses in Calgary, Can., demand better working con ditions. , Special efforts will be made to or ganize the farmers of New Bruns wick, Can. Winnipeg (Can.) bricklayers had their wages increased to*Bo cents an hour, with 44 hours a week. Toronto will have a conference board between th 6 Electrical Work ers' Union and their employers. An effort will be made to organize the pipe and steamfltters now work ing in the shipyards In the Province of Ontario, Can. Canadian unions want a labor rep resentative on the committee to aid vocational training among returned soldiers. English agricultural laborers In tend to put forward a demand for a minimum wages of $7.50 a week. What He Got From the }far A soldier sa'ys, In the June Amerl can Magazine: "People ask me what I have got out of the war; what, If anything t I have gained from all the expert, ences I went through. I hadn't ana lyzed It at first, but now I think I know. All of us who have been over there have come back with a more serious outlook on life than we used to have. I was what I suppose you would call an individualist —and I was the individual! I thought chief ly of my fun, my happiness, my pleasures. "But I've learned that life Is something more than a happy-go lucky adventure. Perhaps going through some hardships of my own has made me more sensitive to suf fering in others. I know what It Is to be hungry, to be lonely, to be In physical pain. Seeing men's lives snuffed out in a moment can't help affecting your own attitude toward life and death. "The boys who have been over there have a new feeling about re ligion. even, though they may not talk much about It. I know I see fellows ttoing to church now who, I am certain, never used to go there. Someone asked me the other day If X ever thought of praying when I was In a fight In the air. Yea. I did! It is so Instinctive that It seems to me pretty good proof that there la a Supreme Being to whom we na iturally turn." people of my color. To verify Ws statement, I Immediately stepped to the phone and called up the pro prieter, Mr. Falrlamb. Imagine my surprise when he informed me that he had not been in the habit of serving people of my hue of skin; But—if I chose to take my soda water outside and drink it, I could be served, (or words to that effect). If the above had taken place in Georgia or some other southern state equally bitter against Negroes in general, no protest would you have heard from me. I would_ have taken such treatment as a matter of course. But for such an affair to happen in Pennsylvania, and at a time like this, it hardly' seems credible. If the conflict in which we are engaged is for the betterment lof humanity in general, "for the equal rights of nations," does it seem reasonable that such condi tions should exist here at home. It is reasonable to think that the mote of prejudice should be removed from our own eye, before attempt ing to remove the beam of oppres sion of the Hun from the eyes of the civilized world. In conclusion I would make one suggestion. Let all those owners or proprietors who for any reason whatever no not care to cater to people of color so publish the fact. They will, by so doing, save them selves the trouble of refusing any whom they do not wish to serve, and at the same time relieve re spejtable, intelligent and sensitive people of my race any needless em barrassment. , Hoping that I may be neither mis interpreted nor misunderstood, I re main, A TRUE AMERICAN. WAKING UP TO US [Literary Digest] A complete revulsion of feeling with regard to America can now be ; noticed in the German press. After pouring scorn and contempt upon America and her Army, the German papers are now for the first time In dicating 'the magnitude of American war preparations. For example, Karl ( Rosner, the correspondent of the Berlin Lokal Anzeiger on the western front, admits that we are "making preparations on an extraordinary scale," and the good man tries hard to minimize their importance. He writes: "The coming of American forces for the spring campaign brings im portant and timely aid to our enemies just when the liberation of our fresh German forces from the East gives unrestrained freedom of movement to our whole military organization. Henceforth American help must be looked upon as of first-rate import ance in the decisions which are Im pending. It is of course of more vital interest to the Entente than to us, as the Entente expects America to .make up for the loss of Russia and Roumanla. The German High Com mand has a pretty good idea b<jth-6f the number 4nd of the effectiveness of all the American troops now on the Continent ready for fighting or in training. It does not fear any up setting of the situation even from the entry of this latest enemy, nor does it contemplate any material in terference in Us plans for final deci sive victory." Dr. Rosner gives a long account obtained from French prisoners of pur activities behind the lines, and he says that "the Americans are building their own railroad lines, telegraph and telephone systems, and even their own stations, warehouses, and 'barracks, and In every respect conducting themselves as If they In tended remaining In France for years yet." Even more emphatic is the well known naval critic, Captain Perslus, of the tlerlin Tageblatt, who says: "We were at first rather Inclined to underestimate the participation of America In the war. We begin now to note a change of opinion. It Is be yond doubt that it will be well to curb at the present time the more or less fantastic vagaries of persons dis cussing the submarine war. We can jiot for the moment estimate when the United States will have ready the millions of men which her popu lation will permit her to raise, but it is certain that America will in the very near future, succeed in amass ing armies whtch In any case will constitute a very valuable aid to our enemies." MAY 23 M9lB. EDITORIAL COMMENT Hemp for traitors and spies would not be giving them any too much rope.—Los Angeles Times. The worst thing about our war office's big announcement is that Get many believed them and got busy. —Boston Herald. Whatever may be the Kaiser's ultimate aim in this war, we are pretty well convinced that it is not popularity he is after.—Houston Post. The Kaiser has raised $200,000,000 to build merchant ships. Where is he going to sail them—up and down the Rhine? —Cleveland Plain Dealer. A number of good reasons why Germany will be defeated in the end are advanced, but the main one is that there's a God In Heaven. — Ohio State Journal. Having struck a church and a foundling-asylum, the German Tong range gun will now .presumably ba decorated with an iron cross.— Indianapolis News. We have \reat hopes of the Rus sian people as we lobk forward 2,- 000 years or so, but at present we favor changing the name of Petro grad to Boobville. —Ohio State Jour nal. Photographs of those British cruisers sunk at Zeebrugge will probably be displayed in the Ger man papers as ocular evidence of another great naval victory.—Nash ville Southern Lumberman. 1 OUR DAILY LAUGH A TEST. think two can (f| ] u\ live as cheaply \f| i as one let'B try |BS{ja|Njj jjjtfH —'You name one JB woman and I'll men and lay | s j-JQ&JS I you two to one I' 11 on the men. 1 NOTHING BUT J girls. fc/CF B' ad they ■k P" 4 Portraits i our great men on our P oßta S miTni 11 tan>s. WK// v JI What are you li driving at 7 UH;',. \ \k Ever ywher# else you seo jfl nothing hut por -41 traits of girl*. MORE POWEp TO 'EM. For husbandry the Thrift I """I Stamp can't The cause is big, It will buy and pants rj J L ♦ For the boys J j who go to / I France, And enough of 'em will p make the Huns re- |fll phi treat Dobbe Is a j~ puzzle to me. 1 - j guess he's a puzzle to others, < too. I overheard M n - Dobbs the other day or [ _ derlng him to : ' explain himself. 3-bentttg (Hljat In event that Senator William C. Sproul becomes tho next governor of Pennsylvania, and It seems very pos sible that he will, the distinguished Delaware countian will be the first governor in a third of a century or more to go in the gubernatorial chair with legislative experience. It is a.i very interesting fact that the meai chosen to the executive office lately have been without the first intimate' knowledge of legislation only to be I obtained by service in one of the two' branches of the general assembly. To be sure there have been gover nors, like Edwin S. Stuart, for in stance, who used to get after th legislators in a quiet way and get what he wanted, and others who lik- -k, ed to talk back to them like John K. Tener and still others, like the late Samuel W. Pennypacker who delight ed to sit in review of tftie acts of the commonwealth's lawmakers and veto a goodly part of the product in his own peculiar way. Except for the the congressional service of William A. Stone and the big man from Charleroi and the activities of Stuart in Philadelphia: city councils none of the governors from the early seven ties has served in either branch of the Legislature. Pattisou came to the Capitol from a Philadelphia city of fice, Beaver from his law office uC did Hastings. Stone was promoted from Washington and Pennypacker from the bench, while Edwin S. Stuart was persuaded to give up his beloved business. Tener came from Congress and Dr. Brumbaugh left his congenial post of head of the Phila delphia schools to endure the strenu ous life of a Pennsylvania Governor. Senator Sproul has served continu ously in the State Senate since 1896, when he was elected in defiance of Quay, and he is now the "Father of the Senate." His experience as a leg islator has been In the forefront of pretty nearly everything and there are precious few things about leg islative processes, ways and means that he is not familiar with. "It is my Tionest belief that many persons voted tor Paul Houck yes terday under the impression they were voting for the late 'Uncle Hen ry' Houck, the ciindidate's distin guished father," said an election of ficer of a Cumberland county board to-day. "I base my conclusions on the fact that while we were registering the votes Tuesday and during the time they were being counted no less than four persons remarked to me or other members of the board that they were surprised to see Mr. Houck's name on the ticket, as they thought he had died." No man in political life was so well known or so well beloved as Henry Houck, and while Paul Houok is also well known it is not unlikely that the simiiiarty of names may have added to the strength of the son at the polls Tuesday. No matter how close a contest at an election may be there are always people who aro willing to throw a vote away on some freak candidate or some one who has. not a ghost of a show and whose name just cumbers up the ballot. This was rather strikingly illustrated by the fact that "Butch" McDevitt, a Luzerne count ian who has grown in the public eye through printing ink, actually drew forty-five votes in Harrishurg as a candidate for a gubernatorial nomination. 4nd the fact that so many Democrats threw votes away on him when there was a fight on in their party is also a curious fact. • • • Another matter connected with tho primary which can not escape notice from any one who studies returns is that so many votes are cast for men whose candidates have been k known all along as of the "hot house" variety. For instance, there was a man named Aarons put on the ballot for lieutenant governor and another named Bateson, neither of whom stood any chance whatever of being nominated and they received almost 300 votes between them and that in the face of a fight. The size of the votes may be explained away by ig norance or haste or excitement be cause some people get all fussed up when they go to vote and are apt to make unpleasant discoveries when they come out of the polling place and think over what they did. A good story is to be told of a life long Democrat who always stir red up when he went to exercise his prerogative as an American freeman. There was a big presidential election on in the eighties and this citizen had an argument with a friend on tho pavement in front of the polling place. And he got so worked up that he went right In and voted for Blaine. And he did not know it until later in the day when he was going over a simple ballot and found what he had put into the box. • • • "Port holes for guns to shoot the kaiser!" That's tho answer Harry Gilbert gives to curious people who want to know why there are so many small holes in the brickwork of the new Penn-Harrte hotel. Gilbert is in charge of the brickwork construction of the hotel. He is intensely patrio tic and says he is preparing for the worst. "To be serious a moment," he toid a Telegraph reporter, "the reason those small holes are seen is because we had to have some sup port for the scaffolding, and we used small spots in the district. Of course the holes will be filled in sometime in the near future." In the mean time, the exterior brickwork on the huge million-dollar structure is al most finished. Another Interesting fact In con nection with the election; is that both Senators Sproul and Beidlemaa have two years coming to them at their terms. When they resign a* legislators special elections will hav to 1m? held an ere to b9 held In thrM districts this year. [ WELL KNOWN PEOPLE j —Judge John D. Evans, mention*)* for supreme court, is one of the leaA. ing Red Cross speakers in Pittsburgh, —Richard S. Quigley, captain of the Lock Haven organization of the Reserve Militia, is a legislative can didate. —W. F. Rorke, Philadelphia legis lative candidate is an assistant city solicitor. —R. W. Hafbison, prominent Plttsburgher, Is home from a tour of the battlefront. —Luther Keller, prominent Scran ton man, has been chosen an officer of the Baptist Publication BoarC —W. I. Schaffer, mentioned as possible attorney general, used to a reporter. DO YOU KNOW —That Hnrrisbnrg Is Rolling large quantities of stockings for sol<fkrs? HISTORIC HARRISRI'RG • Thad Stevens spent two years ter vlng as a legislator before going to | Congress,
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