8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH 'A XEWBPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 ■ Published evenings except Sunday by ; THE) TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. ! Telegraph Building, Federal Square E. J. STACKTOLE President and Editor-in-Chief T. R. OYSTER, Business Manager OUB M. STEINMETZ. Managing Editor A. R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager Executive Board 7. P. McCULLOUGH, BOYD M. OGELSBT. 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 nih-s published herein. iAll rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. Member American Newspaper Pub |g| {j |g| M Eastern off Ice. 88 Avenue Building Mntsred at the Post Office In Harrls burg. Pa-, as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a UvLiL -r-A. week: bv mail. 15.00 a year in advance. TUESDAY, OOCTOBER 29, 1918 Religion's in file heart, not in the knee. — Douglas Jerbold. CAMPAIGN SIDELIGHTS SECRETART DANIELS said at Hartford last night that the Republicans of the United States are "seeking to drive a wedge between the Allies." When he says that Secretary Dan iels lies. He lies wilfully, maliciously and stupidly. If anybody is driving wedges it Is Wilson. He started this Congressional argument and what ever the results the responsibility will be on his head. The public knows that Republicans had made no active campaign up .to the time the President challenged them. Politics was "reconvened" by the Democrats. They forced the Re publican leaders into a whirlwind finish of what had been a most quiet campaign. • •*••• Senator Knox struck the nail on the head yesterday when he said the American people want the Senate to have a voice in the discussion of the peace treaties about to be drawn, as the Constitution provides. Pres ident Wilson wants to have the only voice in those proceedings. He is not entitled to it and Republicans mean to see that while he enjoys avery right the Constitution provides and full support of Congress in avery worthy war measure, he shall lot have one iota of autocratic power more than he now possesses. • • • • > • The President is now explaining the "third point" in his peace terms, an obscure paragraph into which eny meanings might be read. He lays it does not mean free trade for America. But let nobody be de ceived. It will mean free trade for the United States If Woodrow Wil ton has his way in Congress, be cause the President is a radical free trader and he will see to it that we Pave that kind of a tariff law if we sleet Democrats to House and Sen- Ite. And free trade would bring the tame hard times that we suffered in Cleveland's day and which were on he way in 1914 when the war with Its big munition contracts turned panic into prosperity. Of all the American casualties re ptrted by the War Department from Hay 4 to October 24 inclusive the twelve Southern states contributed (.671 against 6.752 from Pennsyl rania. And yet the partisan sup porters of President Wilson are yell ng for Democratic members in Con p-ass from this state, which has been loing everything to win the war—in irder that the President may have Ittpport for his war program. Is bis part of a plan to make the United Itates safe for the Democratic party? REPUBLICAN ANSWER BINCE the President has thrown down the gauntlet on partisan lines and at a time when by Htnmon consent of men of all parties politics had been adjourned there lias been such an upheaval of po lUcal activity as would not have peen possible under ordinary condi tions. Here In Pennsylvania the peo ple of a great patriotic Common, realth bad taken the President at lis word and were conducting the punpalgn with the soft pedal, but fee man in the White House having Misted on double forte he should lot be surprised when the blast of lepubllcan harmony arouses the lehoes along the Potomac. He started something politically phlch he can't finish; that will be be Job of the voters, and Pennsyl. nla will give her answer next fuesday, Of course, we are warned that lonnlwell, the repudiated Demo vatic candidate, and hie wet cohorts, ire going to upset the Republican AJculationa la this Bute; that cores and thousands of people are ©ing to visit upon Senator Bproul, ■he admirable Republica^^Ablate TUESDAY EVENING, for Governor, all the grouch of those who have been protesting against the closing of drinking places under the edict of the State health author ities, but again we venture the pre diction that notwithstanding these noisy statements Senator Sproul will lead the van with more majority than Bonniwell will have votes. Only the other day two potential political leaders in Philadelphia an swered a defiance of the liquor inter ests with declarations that these in terests are not so important from the political standpoint as they , would have the voter believe and every threat of retaliation against Senator Sproul on this issue will mean an increase of his vote on elec | tion day. Beating of tom-toms and eleventh- j hour stampeding tactics will fool j only those who like to be fooled. It appears that Colonel Edward' Mysterious House is an accredited j plenipotentiary of the United States after all. although it was first an nounced that he was President Wil son's personal representative in Eu rope only. Speaking of his last visit overseas, a few months ago when things looked dark, the Colonel, in a cabled story, says: From that hour the clouds be gan to lift, and we could see. dimly at first, the stars of hope and victory which to-day are shining with such a steady and effulgent glow. Some gloom dispeller is our Texas friend, but we can't help wondering what Lloyd George. Clemenceau and others think. NO GERMAN TOYS FOR US THE New Tork Tribune reports that "400 tons of German toys have arrived in New Tork." But who trants to buy a German toy? Is any American so cold of heart that he would willingly place in the hands of his little daughter a doll 1 made, possibly, by one of the fiends > who chopped off the hands of Bel- i gian babies? Or who would want; his son to play with an automatic i toy devised by that same devilish j ingenuity that invented poison gas and the flame thrower? How do we know that in these toys do not link some of the devilish infernal machines that have blown to pieces Allied soldiers picking up apparently innocent objects on the j battlefields of France? The firm to which the toys were consigned has refused to accept : j them, and very properly so. We used to love the German Noah's arks and the long rows of little wooden animals that came with them. They brought us dreams; of the kindly old toymakers who passed away with the coming of the new at*d brutal Germany of Kaiser- j ism and the Junkers. A German: ark now would remind us only of i the flooded lowlands of Belgium j and France, with the glassy-eyed corpses of drowned soldiers staring j at us from their watery graves. "Made in Germany" used to be a j legend to delight the childish heart. : It was a part of the Christmas sea-j son and decorated half the toys old j Santa Claus tucked away in youth- ! ful stockings or tied to the Christ- j mas tree. Then "Made in Germany" ' meant merely that the bauble had I j come from overseas. Now "Made j |in Germany" means made in hell. ! ; German toys are blood-stained, j around them linger the dark shad- • i ows of ra\age and murder and on ' them is the stamp of the most devil- i j ish nation God ever permitted to; | prepare on earth for their everlast- : | ing punishment hereafter. They ; reek of the charnel house and the | pit. We want none of them. I Prince Max's speech indicates that j Germans want a German peace or no ; i peace. Let the war go on. MIND OUR OWN BUSINESS IN a remarkable analysis of the ! President's notes and the Ger- j man tergiversations George; I Trumbull Ladd, professor Emeritus j 1 of Philosophy at Tale, observes: Now we cannot maintain our | "face," or our character for dis- ' • interestedness, if we put in our oar to save the German boat from { sinking, or even to keep it steady by inflating it with bubbles of hope in matters affecting the return of the colonies or the nature of the economic regulations to be con cluded at the end of the war, between the separate nations now i engaged in it. Doubtless our Allies will not tell us to mind I our own business about these matters, and that they and their colonies will look after that as* | they deem best fitting their eco nomic and political interests. But i they might without essential in justice do exactly that. Neither will they remind us that trade adjustments byway of tariffs i and concessions may be well enough left, without interference, to the individual nations. But should they do this, our mouths woul(*be pretty effectually closed j by remembering our own policy • in such matters for the last quar ter century and more. At the end of the war trade arrange ments will be fixed by acts of Congress and not by Presidential proclamations. Let us then confine ourselves, when It comes even to suggesting ! terms of peace among ourselves, j to matters about which we have a right of decisive opinion, if not | a right to pose as arbitrators or peacemakers In any special way. ; And let the Government at Wash ! ington show the modesty and re serve which characterize Pershing | and our armies. For in the • Judgment of those on whom we must most rely to bring the horrid war to a successful end, there is Just now nothing so menacing to the attainment of that end as the public and diplo matic talk about peace, especially when the discussion is called out in answers to notes from Ger many or Austria. May we not hope, adopting the language of the White House, that our government and our President will preserve the equilibrium that should be maintained by one and all associated in a common cause. In short, let's be modest and stead fast In co-operating with war-time Allies. Above all else, we must not rock the boat or throw a life-line to the Hun pirates. In the British Parliament a day or two ago Bonar Law, Chancellor of the Exchequer and Spokesman of the war cabfnet In the House, de clared "he had not in the least changed his view that nothing could be more foolish than to have a dis cussion of peace terms at this mo ment." and this sentiment was in dorsed by an emphatic cheer. Obviously we are out to win the the war, but not for a moment must we forget that we have allies who will have something to say about the terms of peace. , Owing to the influenza epidemic and the Liberty Loan drive, the attention of the voters has been largely di verted from the issues of the impend ing campaign which concludes with the election on November E. Cen tral Pennsylvania is especially inter ested in the making of permanent highways, and it should not be for gotten that the ballot will contain a blank for an affirmative or negative vote on the proposition to make a loan of $50,000,000 to begin the con struction of a great highway system after the war. Unless this loan is au thorized at the coming session of the Legislature it may be years before the great road-making program can be put into effect || Zk By the Ex-Committeeman The Democracy of Pennsylvania, reorganized and disorganized, is Just now affordng the people of the coun try a spectacle as interesting as any to be found in the Union. The offi cial party machine is carefully avoiding any reference whatsoever, even derogatory, to the candidate | nominated by the voters of the party for governor and is scarcely show ing any indication that there are any other candidates on the state ticket, but whirling away at a great rate in an effort to make good on the President's partisan plea for Demo cratic Congressmen. The antagonism between Judge Eugene C. Bonniwell, the party candidate for governor, and the proprietors of the party windmill is so great that some of the candidates for Congress are ask ing that they should not be identi fied with either faction so that they will not be made tomahawk posts. And in the midst of it all the party stands an excellent chance of losing its sole representative on the state supreme court bench. The general attitude of the Re publican state candidates, headed by Senator William C. Sprout, in re fraining from campaigning, is much cofnmended. On the other hand, the course of Judge Bonniwell is meet ing much criticism because of his tours of influenza-afflicted districts. One of the oddities of the cam paign is a protest from some miners in the anthracite region that they are being kept at work in the mines to prevent them from campaigning for Bonniwell, when the national authorities have been calling for every miner to stay at his post and make up the shortage of coal due to men having gone to war and the ter rible effects of the influenza epi demic in the coal regions. —The general Impression created by the substitution of Congressman John R. K. Scott for his law partner, W. T. Connor, as Republican legis lative candidate for the House in the Eighth Philadelphia district, is that Scott has a speakership bee buzzing around. In addition to desiring to be on the floor of the House as the Vare watchdog, the adroit Philadel phian is said to seek a greater meas ure of prominence following his ca reer in Congress and encounter with Senator Beidleman at the primary. —There are some people who be lieve that the course of the Governor in dismissing Lew R, Palmer as acting chief of the Department of Labor and Industry and chief of fac tory inspection Is to maintain peace in his official family the closing months of his term as it is a matter of common knowledge that Private Secretary William H. Ball and Mr. Palmer did not agree. This view is generally held by Philadelphia news papers in commenting upon the matter. There are also some people who think thht the dismissal of Palmer, noted as a safety expert all over the country, will react on the Governor's Supreme Court appoint ees. —The Philadelphia Municipal Court appointment is going to be in teresting to observe. The selection will show where the Vares stand with the Governor after having re fused to follow him in the O'Neil campaign. The latest man to ap pear in the ring beside Representa tive "Tom" McXichol is ex-Repre sentative and Assistant City Solicitor H. T. Baurle, a partisan of "Uncle Dave" Martirv —Senator vare and his followers are out making a real campaign for Sproul in Philadelphia and defying the liquor men. who are lambasted again to-day by the Philadelphia North American. —The Pittsburgh Gazette-Times says that the election of Samuel A. Kendall for Congress in the Twen ty-Third district over Bruce F. Sterling. Democratic boss, and of General Willis J. Hillings over Congressman E. H. Beshlin, an acci dent in the Twenty-Eighth district, seems to be certain. Similarly the President's appeal seems to have sealed the fate of Congressman John V. Lesher, Sixteenth, and A. R. Brodbeck, Twentieth, both Demo cratic machine men. —Reports from Washington are that McCormick and other Demo cratic bosses are "lending" money to the Democratic national com mittee for its Congressional strug gles .this year. —Judge James B. Drew of Pitts burgh has been commissioned a cap tain in the Army Service Corps and assigned tp field duty with the. Amer ican expeditionary forces in France under General Pershing. Tim ap pointment was made by Adjutant General Harris on recommendation by Provost Marshal General Crow der. The Pittsburgh Dispatch says, "When Judge Drew leaves the bench he will be the first jurist in Pennsyl vania, perhaps in the United States, to enter the active service of the country with the army in the field." There will be another judicial place for the Governor to fill, the others being Westmoreland county, held up for the present, and the Philadel phia Municipal Court place of the late Judge Gilpin. —Ex-Auditor General A. E. 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