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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
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By the Ex-Committeeman |
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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.
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Offer tta Taj®
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"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.
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other day or
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: ' 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,