The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-11-03
MAGIC TAL|SMAN
USED IS GRAF 7"
1T MAY OPEN THE WAY OF RE.
FORMERS TO OFFICE IN
PENNSYLVANIA.
CAMPAIGN NEARS END
in Sight to the Friends Of Re-
form-Fouaht With Car
toms and Charges.

Harrisburg Pa, Nov 2--The las
week OF what has been one Of tn
most extraordinary political can
paigns Pennsy lvania has ever see
finds the situation unchanged from
what ii was when the great cost O
the trimmings" on the new stat
capital was first exposed Up to tha
lime the regular Republican ticke
was making headway against grea
odds, and although its chances 0
winning We're very meagre. it had ;
fighting chance and it was takint
that chance gallantly.
Then came the expose regardinf
/ the immense cost Of the new capitol
which the people were originally let
to believe would be but $4.000,00O, bui
which ! now admitted by those who
had its adornment and furnishing tc
be at least $I3.000,000, and with this
came a Ieyulsion of feeling that
meant disaster to the Republican
ticket. And the antimachine people
have taken advantage Of it. Their
campaign spelbinders have gone up
and down the state ringing the
changes on the difference between
$4000,0O0 or honest expenditure for a
new capitol and the real, or graft
cost of $4,000 900
The antimachine newspapers have
hammered away at the subject from
dad TO day. calling attention to the
manneI in which the people were
sought to be fooled, and the busy car.
tooni / has injected vitrol into his
pencil and made pictures that have
either excited anger or derision-or
both against the machine leaders ''.H~
tried 10 nT1nd the people while placing
material in the capitol and furnishing
ii at a cost that was far beyond that
any person ever dreamed of. And that
is the main issue today.
Old Cries Were Useless.
In vain have the machini'ts
shouted, stand by Roosevelt" In
vain have they shrieked: THE tariff
is dangerous! DO you want to go back
to the old souphouse days." These
cries are no longer potent They are
met with the answer that this cam
paign is being fought out on state
issue, and it will be time enough to
look after tariff matters when they
come up. Penn-y -ylvania is a tariff, If
it i, ANYTHING s,nce it has been domi
mated by a ring. but the old cry Of
stand by the president and tariff pro,
te ton no longer catches the masses.
State Treasurer Berry who lifted
the lid and let loose the new capitol
cXposu. es. says that the state will
give Lewis Emery, Jr., the Democrat
icImcoln party candidate for COVER
nor at least 250,000 majority and
that bears out what was said in the
Evening Post from here several
weeks ago The majority is growing
end Berry is nearly right as any
guess can be But he has been all
over the state, knows public enti-
ment hears expressions of feelings
on the part of men who never before
voted any thing but the Republican
ticket. and he with anybody else
who has been over The state, , is
placing the majority at colossal
figures.
There never wa such strong
sentiment in favor of turn the ras
calls out" That is the slogan and
men are shouting it who never be.
fore tcok an interest in politics.
Tn ,ir pocketboOks have been touched
and their sense of righteousness and
honesty has been offended beyond
telling. Berry now claims that he
will shortly expose the theft of ST.
00O.oo0 whi.h should have been in
the state treasury when he took
charge last spring.
Nh Real steal.
Il + not thought however. that he
has discov ared a downright steal. but
refers to the money that was hurried
" paid out for the new capitol just
before he took Office. II is a tact that
there was a scurrying when Berry
was eIecte1. and from election day
to the time he assumed the state
treaurysh'p every eff was made
to pay the bills for the new capitol
and the architect who designed the
furniture. % that about s4o5o.000
was passed ont to them. and this sum
Berry believes should have been kept
in the treasury until he took charge.
Tn machine is claiming 5o.o2o ma
foritv for Edwin :. Stuart. the Re
publican cand date fo- governor. in
Philadelphia. It is true that Mr.
stuart is a ve-y reputable Philadel-
phia citizen. but the people Of that
city will hardly seiye him that mu-h
major ". and even if they Dc. it will
not ave him The sentiment in the
state outside Of Philadelphia is over
wbelminglv for Emery. and Philadel-