The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-10-28
HARRISBURG LETTER
The State Campaign Progressing
Ss.is:s,;,:ily to All Concerned.
SENATOR QUAY Is COMING HOME
scarcity OF Money at Headquarters.
Tho Capitol Building Mes. stili In
Court-The Business Mems League

Court-The Business Mems League
at Work on Plans for Next Year.
From Our Own Correspondent)
Harrisburg. Oct. Ex-senator Quay is
on his way home from Florida TO con-
fer with the state leaders on the sit
uation. There is not straw in the way
cf the success OF the state ticket as far
as can be seen from this city. Every
thing in the way Of political news that
reaches here from all parts Of the state
IL good news 80 far as the state ticket
In concerned.
II is an open secret. however. that
the state committee is in need of funds.
and that the usual requests for assist
ance made by the state chairman for
help are more urgent this year than
they have been for some time. Much Of
this condition Ia due to the depressed
financial position Of many men who
have heretofore been very liberal with
campaign contributions. All Of the
state officials and employees have re-
sponded with slacrity TO the request
but there IL still necessity for more
money. according to reports from head
quarters
COMING TO RAISE MONEY
The home coming Of Senator Quay
is partly due to this state Of affairs
Senator Quay is one Of the most sue
cessful of men in raising campaign
funds. and he has been appealed to.
II is understood. to answer the Mace
DOMAIN cry for help which the state
committee has been putting up.
n the Republican state committee Is
feeling the pinch ~ the late depression.
the Democratic COMMITTEES Is in a far
worse position. Nobody apparently
wants to contribute to a Democratic
campaign fund this year r. is given
out quietly that funds are 40 low with
the demoral'zed Democracy that the
bulk NJ the money for the payment u
bills is coming out Of the pockets ~
the candidates, and that these gentle
men, Messrs. Ritter and Brown, are
making the most vigorous kind Of a
kick against paying FOR their own
slaughter
As FOR the Prohibition campaign. il
Ia the most active one In sight This
IL owing 10 the vitality or Or swallow
who has entered into rha campaign
with az much yigOr as though he had
a sure call on the office The campaign
of William r. Thompson, the Pitts
burg banker who Is running as
strictly Independent Republican. has
reached Philadelphia But II does not
appear to he making any headway
there. The fact Ia that the Thompson
boom Is confined exclusively 10 AlIe-
gheny county. and the reason FOR this
Is that II Is an Allegheny county move
ment.
THOMPSONS PHILADELPHIA
HEADQUARTERS
Those who have visited the Thomp-
son headquarters in Philadelphia tell
some strange stories about IT, Mr..
Thompson has engaged four rooms On
south Broad street which he has FUR
nished IN the most luxurious manner.
His Office force consists II man and
boy. His callers are very few. and
the hnpelessness II his making any m
roads in Philadelphia 3 Indicated hy
the fact thar even the ward healers
and strikers who usually make ife
miserable for the politician with money.
have carefully avoided the Thomson
headquarters.
The action u Judge Simonton n lis
solving The injunction obtained by he
architects 20 prevent the four mem
bers Il The capitol commission from
violating the agreement which they an
tered INTO, TO give every architect and
builder L ralr show. has placed he
capitol building scheme Just n he Do
Sitiuu which these four men. Messrs
Haywood. Mytiu. MCCarrpu md Bower
apparently iesire Unless he supramr
court reverses The lower court rhese
men an 90 ahead lnd select the PrIla-
ielphll lrch.test whom they had lr,l,l
naIly IN mind.
CAPITOL BUILDING MuSS.
But there viii be still delays ana aw
SUITS FOR the architects Interested IRE
going 70 carry the matter TO The su-
prene court. No lue VINO mas watched
this subject has any ldea 1T me amount
OF condemnation which has been visited
upon The commission for rs lnfllrrIpsy .
and It's taithiesuess. The Architectural
Review In IN editorial On this subject .
denounces the four members of tho rpp- f.
itOi commission IN unmgasured terms.
'rhls journal IS the leading architectural |
newspaper in the United States. anu .t .
is painful 10 respectable Pennsviva- /
mans to read this ienunciation, know .
ing that Il viii be read IN every state .
and territory Of the Union. The Review .
says.
The competition established by the
state capitol commission of Pennsyi-
vania under conditions IN which me
rights OF competitors we're protected
with unusual care and guaranteed with
more than usual edruestness by the
promoters has, after passing through
all the prescribed stages ~ the point OF
iinal acceptance Jf the results by IN,
commission, been annulled by that
body.
The outcome does not appear 70 diff
fer from that OK countless competitions
which have been subject solely to arbi-
trary political control. Yet the Harris
burg affair seemed to give such un-
questionable assurance Of fair decision
upon the basis Of professional merit.
and upon this alone, and It's pledges
met with such frank and implicit ac-
,eptance by architects OF the highest
that 4 review OF its history
na llaI fnv tn, h., t,.t