8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 18S1 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. Telegraph Building, Federal Square E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-inrChief V. R. OYSTER. Business Manager OUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor A. R. MICHENER,- Circulation Manager Executive Board J. P. McCULLOUGH, BOYD M. OGEL.SBY, F. R. OYSTER, GUS. M. STEINMETZ. 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. A Member American Newspaper Pub lishers' Assocla 3KA Bureau of Circu- ISKQIEC'IpSr lation and Penn syl Associ- Cfflj £} Jj Eastern office, Pt?* jffi #SS J3I Story, Brooks & .Elf 63 IBS njf - A - Venu ®. Building, Finley, People's / s Building, Entered at the Post Office In Harrls burg. Pa., as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a * > week; by mail, $5.00 a year in advance. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1918 There is a home for weary souls By sin and sorrow driven, When tossed on life's tempestuous shoals, Where storms arise and ocean rolls, And all is drear but heaven. —WILLIAM B. TAPPAN. OUR BOYS IN BATTLE LIEUTENANT LONG and Lieu tenant Swartz, the Harrisburg officers first to arrive home after participation in the fighting along the Marne, bring back to the home folks the thrilling atmosphere of that wonderful series of battles in which the Keystone troops turned the tide and sent the Hun hordes reeling back toward Germany. When the whole story of that wonderful achievement shall have been told the people of th United States will realize as never before the fighting qualities of the average American soldier and the high morale of those who are making the stand for lib erty and decency three thousand miles away. In the preparation of a housing code for Harrisburg the City Commis sioners will doubtless keep in mind the necessity for remodeling many old and tumble-down buildings which are not fit for human habitation. It-is not only a question of better buildings for the future, but also an improvement of conditions in those congested sec tions of the city to which the Tele graph has called frequent attention. HOPELESS DEMOCRATS THE hopelessness of the Demo cratic party in Pennsylvania and the utter inability of its self-proclaimed leaders to lead, were never better illustrated than by the present total disruption of the or ganization. With President Wilson at Washington solemnly declaring that "politics is adjourned." his two spokesmen in this State, Palmer and McCormick, came to Harrisburg playing old-time machine politics with bassdrum and cymbals to say nothing of a fine .display of redilre and rockets. It is a sordid story, with a humor ous side, this Palmer-Bonnlwell-Mc- Cormick incident, and not all of it by any manner of means is told in Palmer's charges against his party's candidate for Governor. In synopsis it is this. Bonniwell decides to run for Governor in the Democratic pri maries. The Palmer-McCormick machine sets out to beat him. Bon niwell beats the machine and is nominated. McCormick sulks in his tent, hesitating between the shame of supporting a candidate whose af filiations with the booze in Pennsylvania are his proudest boast,, and the humiliation of being com pelled as National Democratic Chair man to bolt his own State ticket. So he remains silent and lets Palmer do the talking. PeJatier does, with out consulting McCormick, and like the real, dyed-in-the-wool machine politician he is, asserts that the choice of the party is good enough for film and he will support Bon niwell. Thereupon he undertakes to lead Bonniwell into the Democratic Pal mer-McCormick machine camp, and Bonniwell declines to be led to the slaughter. When it becomes clear that he cannot control the fire-eat ing nominee for Governor, Mr. Pal mer digs up a series of charges that sound very much as though, if true, he must have had considerable knowledge of them before he first aligned himself with Bonniwell fol lowing the primaries, and the stage is set ready for the Bonniwell com edy, September 14, with a big hook in the wings awaiting the moment deemed best for the summary re THURSDAY EVENING, SABBISBURG TELEGRAPH! ' , ' SEPTEMBER 5, 1918. moval or tne ODnoxious canuiuaio ao the central figure in the play. So the situation resolves itself down to this —Bonniwell won't play with Palmer, so Palmer repudiates Bonniwell, seconded by a meek "me too" from the national chairman. No body doubts the unfitness of Bonni well for the Governorship. Nobody has imagined—not even Palmer or McCormick —that a Democrat ever had any show of election as Gov ernor of Pennsylvania this year. The present row, therefore, is not in the interests of the people, but is for the control of the Democratic party ma chinery. If Bonniwell polls more votes on the Fair Play ticket than on the Democratic ticket, the Demo crats would be in a bad way, unless they had repudiated his candidacy and they are playing safe. That is all. As to the allegations that Senator Sproul is not a sincerely "dry" can didate, why should the liquor inter ests put a "wet" man like Bonniwell in the field if the Chester Senator is not favorable to the enactment of the prohibition amendment? And as to his not daring to make any declara tions on the temperance ✓ question following the primaries, he has dis proved that allegation before it was uttered, having repeatedly made his position clear on prohibition since he was nominated and has freely ex pressed the hope that the Republican platform will contain a "dry" plank. The Palmer incident has had the intended effect. It has eliminated the Bonniwell candidacy utterly from the race and has added thou sands of votes to the majority by which Senator Sproul will be elected. But it has done more than that. It has so split up the Democratic party as to insure the election of an almost solid Republican Congressional dele gation from Pennsylvania this fall. This despite the plea of National Chairman McCormick for Democratic Congressmen to "support the Presi dent," in his speech before the com mittee yesterday. Republicans of Pennsylvania know that the President has looked to the Republican side of Congress on every critical occasion since the declara tion of war and that many of his most important war policies would have gone by the board but for Re publican votes. Instead, then, of choosing doubtful Democrats, Penn sylvania Republicans will send to Congress to support the President in his war aims sturdy Republicans, who, while giving the administration every assistance within their power in the prosecution of the war, will also have minds and convictions of their own when Republican princi ples are at stake. The kindest thing Pennsylvania can do this Fall for the President is to send him a solid Re publican delegation, and the pros pects are bright for just such an event. The happenings of yesterday prove beyond question that the Dem ocratic leadership is virtuous only when it suits its purpose, and since it has long been known that Bonni well and his pals are interested only in obtaining the reins of Democratic power in Pennsylvania, there remains only one hope for a decent adminis tration of public affairs in Pennsyl vania the next four years, and that lies within the Republican party and with its candidate for Governor, Sen ator Sproul. The Wotan line had a fine, mouth filling sound, but it takes more than that to stop the British. THE M'ADOO ORDER SECRETARY McADOO'S order to railroad men to get out of poli tics or out of the railroad serv ice has caused all manner of discus sion wherever railroad men fore gather. For the most part the rail roaders disapprove the order as an unnecessary infringement upon the rights of the American citizen. They believe as administrator of the rail road systems of the country in the war period the Secretary of the Treasury is justified in enforcing any regulation which may have to do with efficiency and the achievement of the utmost limit of service in the prosecution of the war. But they re fuse to accept as necessary or ad visable in a country whose govern ment is for the people, by the people and of the people the elimination of a large and intelligent element cf the population from participation in that government. It must be apparent to the aver age thoughtful person that this dis crimination against thousands of men will inevitably lead to indiffer ence to the important duties of citi zenship and a possible attitude of re sentment toward governmental reg ulation in other directions. So long as the people of the United States are encouraged to take part in the making of its laws and the adminis tration of its affairs there can be no real danger of failure in any feature of our governmental activities or de cay of our free institutions, but the shutting out of a large class of citi zens from participation in these ac tivities may lead to serious conse quences. It is quite conceivable that Secre tary McAdoo had in mind a useful purpose- in divorcing the railroad men from political but it is an open question whether the drastic order compelling these men to aban don all thought of participation in government save as they may cast a ballot is not likely to lead to worse evils than those which the order may be designed to cure. Under our system of government It would seem to be fundamentally necessary to encourage the citizens of all classes to take an active part not only in the intelligent exercise of the franchise, but in seeking to serve in public office. It is probable that the railroad men who are now candidates for office will submit to anything and everything which may seem to be necessary to win the war, but the time must come when the pendulum will swing back and nor mal conditions be restored. "PO UTCCI IK By the Ex-Committeeman While the election of Senator Wil liam C. Sproul as the next Governor of Pennsylvania has never been in douot irom the day of the primary in May, the events of yesterday in the Democratic State Committee have made certain an. immense ma idriiy for him and the choosing of an almost solid congressional dele gation from Pennsylvania. Until A. Mitchell Palmer, the Democratic national committeeman from Penn sylvania, made his sensational charges before the party's highest official body yesterday against Judge Eugene C. Bonniwell, the nominee of the Democratic voters at the pri mary for Governor, there were some who thought that the liquor men and others behind the Judge might engineer a combination which con tained possibilities of cutting into the Republican vote in Pennsylva nia in war time. But not now. There is no occasion in the tem pestuous history of the Pennsylva nia Democracy in the last forty years that is comparable to what occurred yesterday in the hall where the pres ent bosses of the Democratic ma chine won control in 1911. The Re publican party in its most strenuous days never had anything like it and it would seem that a prediction that the Democracy is due for more years of wandering would be well founded. The men who are leading the rival factions of the Democracy of which such rosy things were printed after reorganization set in do not care who is elected Governor. They want to destroy each other. —ln dramatic intensity the meet ing yesterday afternoon was rare. The Democratic national committee man from Pennsylvania speaking with the Democratic national chair man presiding as the direct repre sentative of the President of the United States in party affairs charged that the nominee of the Democrats for the highest office in Pennsylvania was a political crook. And then the state committeemen, elected at the same primary at which the state ticket was named, formally summoned the candidate for Governor to appear before them on September 14 to show xtause why he "should not withdraw from the ticket." As the nominee is not an swerable to the committee and there is no way of recalling his nomina tion he can either come here and have a Bonnybrook fair or he can stand off and thunder. —The Democracy of Pennsylvania is going to continue the entertain ment it has furnished for many years and the participation of the liquor men in politics will be marked by another shining example of bone headedness. —lmmediately after the adjourn ment of the Democratic state com mittee yesterday afternoon the Pal mer charges, which had been made in typewritten form, were sent to the state headquarters and to-day will be mailed to Judge Bonniwell with notice to appear before the commit tee in this city at noon of Saturday, September 14. Friends of the Demo cratic nominee here said that the judge would speak for himself and not only predicted that he would continue on the ticket in defiance of the leaders oY the rival faction, but challenged the Palmer-McCormick men to start either a new ticket or bolt him. —Before leaving for Washington, Palmer and McCormick said that the charges made spoke for themselves. Palmer professed only mild interest when informed that Sinnott had plead%d abuse of confidence. Warren VanDyke, secretary of the state com mittee, who will send the notice to Bonniwell, declined to make any comment beyond advising that the Palmer charges be read carefully. The general opinion among ob servers here is that it is a straight fight for control of the Democratic organization and that the develop ments of yesterday headed off a de mand for a reorganization after the November election which would have been made by the Bonniwell people. It is also the opinion here that the campaign against the ratification of the prohibition amendment has been given a terrific jolt and that men who had been active in efforts to get a big registration to-day will suffer some disappointments and that in terest in the Fair Play party will languish. It is interesting to note that to-day no pre-emptions of the name were filed. It is the first day since last Friday that none has ap peared. The nominations on the Fair Play ticket must all be filed before to-morrow night. If any additional party is going to be launched by anybody it will have to appear by that time. —ln addition to the Interesting spectacle of Palmer and McCormick standing up and professing to be purifiers of the party because Mc- Cormick as cheer leader for Palmer demonstrated that he was with the righteous, the people at the state committee meeting heard the na tional chairman call demand, for getting of politics in one breath ar.d the election cf a Democratic Con gress as an essential in the next. It is very evident from what was seen and heard at the Board of Trade building yesterday that there is no intention cf adjourning Democratic politics, state or national, for a while. The only persons who should adjourn that pastime according to the view expressed by the chairman, are Re publicans, whose recovery .of con gressional seats in Pennsylvania ap pear to bo causing Mr. McCormick irritating dreams. —Another thing that is bothering the leaders of the reorganized dis organized Democracy of Pennsylva nia is that railroad men have been forced by the order of Director Gen eral McAdoo, highest Democratic authority next to the President, to get out of every political connection from precinct registrar to candidacy for the Legislature. For years rail road men have been striving to get direct representation, as pointed out by this newspaper a few days ago, and now it is all wiped away by the Democratic national administration. Railroad men who came here yester day to see the national leaders got little satisfaction. LABOR NOTES The Union Pacific Railroad will shortly try an experiment by using women to load freight cars. Women employed in the munitions factories of Great Britain are com pelled to wear a khaki uniform. The Railway Mall Association is composed of 120 locals and has a total membership of 13,011. Several women in the State of Washington are working as station agents on the various railroads In that state. AIN'T IT A GRAND AND GLORIOUS FEELIN'? By BR/GGS j WHEN This Precious _ and Yoj hurry along ~ 7hinkn< op that lom^ # Pass with its all too ~^ q .station counting hot stuffy ride To tvie fevn hours of leave, all -p_, e loose Chan ee, "BIG Towni " Fl IN ALLY "REACHES You. DUCT/nG Fa ß.£ -an® UL with The welcome WAR CAMP AakeO if You're going To The. £smfotabl E cias hi on E ETR for community SGRvice SIGN City X regular ride. onvlH' EDITORIAL COMMENT Since the expulsion of Prince Llch nowsky from the Prussian House of Lords for telling the truth, it is doubtful if there are ten righteous men left in Sodom.— DIFFERENT. Can you keep a But will you? • 1 Oh, that's dif- TBlfc? ferent. I don't > 1 A bpsbtw his dr ®am. 1 the matter ' a wonderful 91, 'lf -mSm dreamed you I were suing me for , FAMILIAR SAY ING ILLUS -1 He hung on fuf VI Hanging (Eljat There will not be so much interest In the next draft numbers drawn fol lowing the new registration as there was when the first big lottery tools place at Washington, for the reason that the draft numbers will be sec ondary, to deferred classification. For example, the first man drawn may, by reason of having dependants or being physically disqualified be the _ very last to be called if he ever On the other hand it might chance that the man who is the 125 th to be drawn might be the first to be callel if the one hundred and twenty-foiw before him happened to be entltl< to deferred classification. Nobody will be able to tell with anything like accuracy his place on the actual draft list by consulting his number as drawn at Washington. At best any such guess can be but approximate and ip many cases would be so far in error as to be absolutely without meaning, so far as possible date of call or order of being called is concerned. The only way for the Class 1 registrant to find his true place in the draft will be to wait until the questionnaires are all filed, the various classifications re corded by the draft board and then to count the number from the first name down to his own, as listed with his local board. • • • Some of the lads who are being called into the Army are getting a mighty short time to prepare. One of them, a Cumberland county resi dent just turned 21, desired to be in ducted into the service and called on his local draft board to make ar rangements. "No use said the secre tary, you leave for camp on Thurs day." That was on Monday. Pretty short shrift, even for a man who knew his time was drawing nigh. • • The Telegraph loses another of its reporters to-day—Paul D. Fettrow, who leaves to go into military train ing at Camp Greenleaf, Ga. Mr. Fettrow has been connected with tho Telegraph staff for several years, act ing as Steelton reporter and "cover ing" the West Shore territory. He is a hard-working, cheerful, studious young man who will succeed any where he may go, if application and industry count for anything. His friends on tho paper presented him with a silver wristwatch upon his going and hope to have him asso ciated with them again after the war. • • • A thoughtful young lieutenant who deserved better stubbed his toes hard Sunday morning against a bonehead ed individual in the Harrisburg po lice department and left the city with a very poor opinion of the town. He was in charge of a big truck train coming down the Carlisle pike and headed for the Atlantic coast and on the West Shore paused to ask his way through Harrisburg, saying "our trucks make considerable noise and I want to go through the city so that there will be as little disturb ance of church services as possible." "Ask the police department for a pilot," suggested a bystander, which the young officer did, and with This result: "We have no time to be piloting soldiers around Harrisburg; find your own way through-" For the good name of the town and to save the face of the officer a West Shore man volunteered for the service and under his guidance tli® train was piloted through the city. The Harrisburg. Rotary Club has endorsed the nation-wide movement for a "war angelus," meaning there by a period of two minutes set apart at 11 o'clock each day for prayer for the success of the allied arms and the attainment of the aims set forth by President Wilson in his war speech. Just how the subject will be taken up here is not known but it is likely that a committee will be named to take up the subject. Ro tary clubs everywhere are support ing the idea, which is already in op eration in a large number of cities, the notification to the people of the hour of prayer coming in the form of whistle-blowing and bell-ringing. G. W. Ensign, the well-known con tractor of this city, is not one of those who believes that the Susque hanna cannot be deepened at com paratively small expense. Within a few days he will complete the dam ming of that section of the stream between the big island and the east ern shore above Falmouth. Fur thermore, has has done his work on the bare bottom of the river, with out interference by the stream. Thi3 he accomplished by a temporary dam a half mile to the north, dumping sufficient fill into the water to di vert the current to the west of the island. "The possibility of high wa ter worried me, but not nearly so much as the labor problem," he said the other day. "The river behaved itself, but in one week I sent to the job 76 workmen and at the end of the week had 26 men on the dam." The new dam will do much to give the York Haven Power Company additional power for the Harrisburg district as it will add tremendously to the stovage capacity back of the big turbines which operate the plant. • • ♦ The meeting of the Democratic state committee yesterday brought to Harrisburg many men of long prominence in Democratic affairs. Charles P. Donnelly, one of the Phil adelphia leaders, said that it was thirty years since he had come to this city for a Democratic meeting and that yesterday's events were his toric. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Adjutant General Beary will be one of the speakers at the discus sion of care for disabled soldiers to be held by the American Academy of Social and Political Science in Philadelphia this fall. —Commissioner of Health Royer used to be a physician in the Phila delphia municipal hospital. —Secretary of Agriculture Patton has taken to sheepraising at his farm in Chester county. y —Bromley Wharton, secretary of the Board of Public Charities, serv ed for years in the First Troop, Phil adelphia City Cavalry. —State Treasurer Kephart still • keeps up his connection with the railroad brotherhoods. x —Fred Godcharles, deputy secre tary of the commonwealth, served for years in the Old Twelfth Penn sylvania. i —lnsurance Commissioner Am blpr's first public office was postmas ter of his home town. DO YOU KNOW —That Harrisburg Is making valuable mechanical appliances or munitions for almost every one of tlio Allies? HISTORIC HARRISBURG One hundred years ago Harris burg got much of its winter store of provisions from the northern tier by flat boats.