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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-06
TAXING LIFE INSURANCE

\ TOT satisfied with taxing about
IN everything else in sight the
1 Democratic administration now
proposes for the second time
within year to place a tax amounting
to more than $4,000 900 upon the life
insurance policies held in this coun-
try. Strong protests are being made
to the tax gatherers at Washington and
the insurance men are pointing out
that no foreign government in the seat
of war has gone to this extreme of
taxation.
It is bad enough to increase the
burdens of the people in the United
States by the imposition of a war tax
in time of peace, but the proposition
to make life insurance an even greater
burden for those who are struggling
to provide for the support of their
families is indefensible.
Americas workers will have their
heavy share to contribute to the
waste Of war without the government
increasing the cost of life insurance.
The president of the Equitable Life
Assurance Society pleads with the
trainers of the proposed tax bill not
to think OF penalizing working people
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-06

A LBA B. JOHNSON, president of
N the Baldwin Locomotive Works,
4 = and one of the best posted men
in the United States on indus
trial conditions and economic prob
lens. told the members of the Cham
ber of Commerce last evening that the
new tariff law and the hostility Of the
Interstate Commerce Commission to
the railroads and the unfriendly atti-
tude of the administration to business
activities in general are responsible
to a very large degree for the hard
times the country has been expert
encing for the past two years. Mr..
Johnson's speech was in no sense po-
litical. He was speaking purely as a
business man, one, he said, who had
accepted the Underwood tariff in good
faith and had tried to give it fair
trial The speaker did not once men,
ton the name of political party, nor
did he condemn the actions of any
man or set of men. But his deductions
were so clear that not a man in the
audience could escape the conviction
that the broken promises of the Will
son administration have been prime
causes Of the current business depres-
sion.
The Baltimore platform recognized
that our system of tariff taxation is
intimately connected with the business
of the country" and favored the ulti-
mate attainment of the principles we
advocate by legislation that will not
injure or destroy legitimate industry"
The trainers of the Underwood bill
absolutely ignored the efforts of
business men to prove that the pro-
posed schedules would do precisely
what the Democratic party promised
not to do. 1t threatened to arrest
some compliments as "insidious lob
byists" and it brutally told others that
while there was no doubt their indus
tries would be placed under a handi-
cap by the new law. the men engaged
in them should have little difficulty in
finding other occupations.
This is the record of the promises
and performances of the Democrats
at Washington. Business men cannot
longer tolerate such insolent contempt
for pledges and such reckless assaults
upon every form of industry as have
characterized President Wilson's ad-
ministration.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-06
POLITICAL SIDELICHTS

The frost appears to have been
severe in Altoona last night.
The registration figures are the
saddest news yet for the Democratic
gangsters.
The alliance with the Bull Moos-
ers does not appear to have been
worth the fuss it kicked up among the
Democrats.
Mccormick is thinking that per-
haps he should have been a little cour-
teous to Ryan before he got into deep
water.
Considering the fact that the
Panama stuff was all ventilated by the
North American some months ago, it
would appear that a certain hard
pressed candidate is employing used
goods
The Patriot says one Little gave
inside stuff" 1t certainly was STUFF
and mighty poor junk at that.
Little is the man who supports
Palmer and Mccormick and makes
unemployed when at home.
-Dimmick does not intend to be
used as a catspaw by Finn.
Some Progressives started n meet
ing at Hummelstown last night, but
before they got very far they were
talking to themselves.
They are now estimating on a
ma jority for Brumbaugh in Philadel-
phia of $1,000. Another spasm is
due in Market Square.
Mccormick is speaking in Lam
caster county to-day. He might as
we'll skip that.
Montgomery has formed Brum-
baugh committee.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-06
ROOSEVELT'S SILENCE ON DR-
HRCMBAUGH FULL OF ELO-
QUENCE

lFrom the Philadelphia Public Ledger. !
Colonel Roosevelt came to Philadel-
phia presumably to aid Vance McCor-
mick IN his campaign for Governor. But
single word to say why DIR. Brumbaugh
should not be elected. Colonel Roose-
velts silence in regard to Doctor Brum-
baugh was far more eloquent than any
thing he did say concerning any other
candidate.
Whatever else may be said of the ex-
President. he certainly knows the
value of men and of service. He re-
members that when the United States
TO DIX Porto Rico from Spain, and our
country searched for a man to inaugu-
rate a modern school system upon that
island, 1t was this same Doctor Brum-
taugh who was chosen.
The eN-President was officially
aware that the record achieved by Doc
tor Brumbaugh at Porto Rico is one of
the most notable of any colonial work
ever Performed by an American 1t
was a responsible task ably perform
ed, which merited and received the
unanimous endorsement of our country
and tho Coloners heartiest approval.
Doctor Brumbaugh's administrative
labors for the Philadelphia and Penn
sylvania schools re,of the very highest
order, Knowing these facts. Colonel
Roosevelts silence on Doctor Brum-
baugh is a most eloquent tribute to a
public servant who, whenever called to
an important task. has done his full
duty.
A political trade compelled Colonel
Roosevelt to support the Democratic
candidate for Governor but not even
tie eSigencies of such doubtful cam
paign could wiring from him syllable
of condemnation, reproach or objection
to Doctor Brumbaugh.
In this instance. Rooseveltian silence
is far more significant and effective
than any other endorsement he might
contribute.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-06
DO YOU KNOW ?
That Harrisburg used to build fire
apparatus and that it has plants
that can turn out good chemical
wagons?
PRESIDENTIAL CONTENDERS
Washington Post. /

Withdrawal of the Progressive
party's candidate for Governor in
Pennsylvania and the Endorsement of
the Democratic candidate herald the
complete collapse of the third party
movement in the Keystone State.
1t is not unlikely however, that the
elections in November will produce
contenders for the presidential nomf-
nation on the Republican ticket, and
if the great plurality of 177.OO0 scor-
ed by Colonel Roosevelt over the Re-
publican candidate in 1912 is wiped
out altogether this year in Pennsyl-
vania. DR.. Brumbaugh will doubtless
be among the Republican presidential
possibilities.
The overwhelming character of Re-
publican victories in PENNSYLVANIA
prior to 1912 had always removed the
State from consideration when presi-
Dental candidates were selected but
since 1912 it has been part of the
doubtful territory. For this reason
DR.. Brumbaugh's candidacy has taken
on a significance broader than a mere
State fight.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-06
THE MAN FROM YOUR HOME TOWN
by Wing DinEer

Lieutenants for Mccormick
Arc hustlinE round these days,
Soliciting the voters
In many different ways,
But one thing that they're talking
The hardest up and down
Is. Vote for Vance because he's
man from your home town.
But, gee. that's two for Vancie
And none for sentiment:
For II for pride in home folks
They really cared cent.
They'd work a bit for Kunkel,
Who wears no party crown:
Most worthy of the title
THE man from your home town."
So give a boost for Kunkel,
Keep at it every day,
Let every voter help him
On next election day:
When on the Supreme Court Bench,
His Honor sits him down.
You'll have cause to be proud OF
This man from your home town"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-06
IDEAL CANDIDATE
SAYS HAMPTON l.. CARSON

In a speech at Philadelphia this
week, Hampton L. Carson, ex-attorney
general of Pennsylvania, said:
Just about 20 minutes before 1
came down here 1 happened to open
an envelope that was on my table and
found a circular from the Palmer
Mccormick College Mems League, with
headquarters in this city, requesting
the cooperation of all college men in
this campaign. They say they want
we'll educated men. and / suppose 1t is
a bid for the vote of these college men
in deciding the campaign. Could we
have a more educated man as our
candidate than the one who is run
ming on the Republican ticket?
Gould we have broader man than
Brumbaugh? Don't you think he is
an educated man and a man of the
highest type of education which can
be produced by this Commonwealth?
The system of our common school has
his whole-souled affection and sym
pathy and l know that he is deeply
Interested in the ambitious boy when
he starts forth to face the great re-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-06
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

George S. Kroll, president of the
State firemen, is alderman of the
Tenth ward of York.
Richard L. Austin named as a
director of the federal reserve bank
for Philadelphia, is head of the Girard
Trust Company.
Bishop Regis Canevin, of Pitts
burgh, broke his ankle by a fall.
r. Z. Wilbur has been named to
an important place with the Beth
lehem Foundry and Machine Works.
DIR. j. William White. the Phila-
delphia surgeon, is arranging to spend
the winter on his farm near Philadel-
phia.
j. H. Cummings. head of the
Stetson firm, is out with a strong en-
dorsement of DR.. Brumbaugh.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-06
A HORRIBLE MESS AND A PRovERB

From the New York Sun.1
The classic text OF the Republicans
in Congress in their sermons on the
failure of the Democrats to keep their
platform vows of econ"~ is the Hon.
]. ]. Fitzgerald's confession in April;
I'm a few months I shall be
called upon. in the discharge of my
official duties, to review the record
that the Democratic House shall
have made in its discharge of the
expenditures of the public money.
whenever I think of the horrible
mess I shall be called upon to pre-
sent to the country in behalf of the
Democratic party I am tempted to
1t is no fault of Mr.. Fitzgerald that
he is now in this horrible mess" He
has tried to restrain the fury of his
result of that fury the appropriations
for 1915. leaving out the river and
harbor bill. which was shorn of it's
preposterous extravagances only by
the tenacity of a Republican Senator.
are a hundred millions in excess of
those in 1918. the last year of "Republi-
can eXtrava gance." As for the "abo-
lition of useless Offices hear Senator
Reed Smoot, of Utah;
when the administration came
into power there We're 3,1S3 en-
at Washington. Instead of reduc-
ing the number, this administra-
tion increased it to 3,541. This ad
undeT tRe oan9 Of he ed rreas ease
ury of 1.4O7 persons, mostly civil
service employees. A Democratic
Congress removed these positions
from the classified service. destroy
ed the merit system in the field
force to make place for Democratic
spoilsmen and increased that field
force 2,0S5 persons. Instead of
reduction. as promised we find that
In single year there is an increase
of 1,036 officers and agents in a
single department of the Govern
ment Democratic economy in this
instance alone cost the taxpayers
S1.750,000 annually
you absolutely failed to reduce
the number of officials. but. on the
contrary, you increased them all
along the line"
What but certain defeat could the
Democratic party look for from the
voters this Fall after such cynical
breaking of its promises?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-06
PAGEANT AND CARNIVAL

VERY Harrisburger will join in
r. commencing the resolution pass
IL ed by the Chamber of Commerce
last evening for the appointment
of a general committee to arrange for
historical pageant and water carni-
val next summer to celebrate the COM
pletion of the public improvement
campaign that will be brought to a
highly successful conclusion with the
and the identification of the river
bank.
1t was highly fitting that this reso-
luton should have been presented by
William Jennings, former councilman
and member of the Board of Public
Works, since it was Mr.. Jennings who
introduced in Common Council the
preliminary legislation leading up 10
the placing of the first municipal loan
before the people. Ever since Mr.
Jennings has been prominent in the
promotion and direction of the work
that has made this one of the most
talked Of cities in the nation.
Harrisburg is rich in historical in
terest Through this place has fow-
ed constantly since the very earliest
days the traffic between the East and
the West. The first settlers followed
the old Indian trail that crossed the
river at what later became Harris
Ferry. Then came the long lines of
Conestoga wagons that trafticked be-
tween Philadelphia and Pittsburgh
with their loads of precious freight
and the stage coaches with their pas
sengers, many of them distinguished
personages of the nation and the world
at large. Here was the scene of the
attempted burning of John Harris and
hither came Lafayette, Washington,
and Lincoln to pause and address the
people assembled from all the country
roundabout. Here, too, was old Camp
Curtin, and in later days nearby
Camp Meade. Just across the river
the high tide of rebellion rolled up its
farthest wave at Oysters Point and
then began to ebb.
Harrisburg, as a central point in the
great system of interstate transporta-
ton, has seen the packhorse succeeded
by the wagon, the wagon by the canal
and the canal by the railroad. 1t has
been the very hub of these transporta-
tion developments in the East, and, as
the seat of State government, it has
witnessed every important move in
the long march of progress that has
made the Keystone State one of the
most advanced in the union.
Out of this wealth of incident at our
command can be organized such a
varied. picturesque and educational
pageant as the State has never seen.
The Chamber of Commerce has un-
dertaken a very excellent piece of
work and deserves the hearty Coop
Grafton of the public, which it will no
doubt receive.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-06

1t is not surprising that many honest
and sincere men, including preachers
and others. are beginning to voice their
protests against the effort to drag re-
ligious denominations and temperance
organizations into the field of partisan
politics. Perhaps the worst offenders
in this respect are certain bosses of the
Anti-Saloon League. This association
was built upon nonpartisan platform
and notwithstanding the fact that
thousands of supporters of the local
option movement are aiding the cam
paign of DR.. Brumbaugh. the RepubIi-
can candidate for Governor. these same
indiscreet and thoughtless leaders are
striving TO round un the temperance
folk for his Democratic rival We very
much fear that the local option cause is
seriously menaced by the unfair tao
tics of thoughtless men.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-06

Isn't IL about time for the Mccormick
shouters to have an endorsement from
the Boy Scouts? They have endeavored
to capture in one way or another about
all the other organizations and societies
so that 1T would seem to be entirely
consistent for them to invoke the aid
of the Boy Scouts. These manly little
fellows. however. may not be so easily
taken into camp as some of their
elders. who have figured as the
gudgeons OF a grasping political ma
chine.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-06
MCCORMICK AND THE CLUBS
tCarlisle Herald

Vance c. Mccormick, the Demo
cratic nominee for governor, favor
local option and is an active membe
of at least six clubs which dispens
liquor to their members. He oppose
the sale of liquor over the bar unde
"a license fee and yet holds activ
membership in clubs where liquor
sold without a license. not only o
secular days, but also on Sunday.
Christmas. New Years day, Good Fri
day, Decoration day, election day an
all legal holidays-on days when tn
sale of liquor by hotel and saloo
keepers is illegal
If Mr.. Mccormick, the local option
list. wants TO make a clean sweep q
liquor, he should get out of the 81
clubs to which he belongs.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-06

sponsibilities of life; and that he is
a man whose every utterance and
whose entire life has been devoted to
helping the young men and young wo-
men of this city and State.
Can the other side show as pure
and lofty purpose to help the COM
ing generation as has our candidate,
Mr.. Brumbaugh? Has the other cam
didate one tithe of his experience
along the lines which would fit a man
for such a high Officer"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-06
Heavy Storm at Nashville

Nashville, oct. 6.-0wing to the
heavy storm last night the telegraph
lines are down on the Chattanooga
railroad, and we have no reports from
General Rousseau's command. The
rain storm of last night continued all
day. The water is five feet deep on
the shoals and rising.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-06
OF THE ClWLWAR
From the Telegraph. Oct. 9, 1864.
Train Robbed by GuerrilIaS

st. Louis. Oct. 5.-The train which
left yesterday morning for the West
ran off at the track seventeen miles
from Palmyra, and soon afterwards
was visited by a band of guerrillas
who searched the train for Union sol
diers and seized the express company S
safe containing about 100000. They
took three revolvers from passengers
and compelled them to burn the cars
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-06

M Democratic machine to take
i over the Progressive party was
foredoomed to failure. There
is no point of contact between the two
organizations. Even the influential
Philadelphia Record. the mouthpiece
of the Democrats of Pennsylvania, is
out of patience with the Finn McCor-
mick fusion deal. 1t calls attention
to what it terms the 'ranting of the
Progressives" against the Presidents
policies and concludes:
1t shows how absurd it would be
for the Democrats and the Progress
sives to fuse. The Progressives are
giving no support to the Admins
tration. On the contrary. they
ep9 eo1stanty nagfnS NTH a! s@% fe% eSesptons
they are just as rabid Protection
lists as the Republicans are, and
Democrats and Republicans against
the Progressives would be at least
as logical and sensible as a combl-
nation of Democrats and Progress
sives against the Republicans. The
very fact that the Democrats and
the Progressives aim at many or
the same things explains the bitter
ness of ProgressiveS toward the
Democrats.
most forceful of the Democratic news
papers Of the State and will not serve
to increase the love of the protesting
Washington party men against the
outrageous deal of the bosses of the
two parties. Further along the Rec
ord says:
OF course. the Democrats do not
go so far as the Progressives, for
they do not go beyond what is safe
and sane, and the ProEressives are
deeply imbued with the impracu-
cable notions of the Populists, and
some OF them are not free from
Socialism. But all the reforms that
are practicable. and in the interest
of all classes of the community, are
being effected by the Democrats,
and Progressives recognize that the
wind is taken out of their sails
that as third party they have no
hatred of the Democrats is proper
tionately great
They know, as we'll as anybody
else, that the President has not
yielded a point to the corporation
and financial interests, and prob
ably they know that their own wild
notions, If reduced to the form of
statutes, would destroy business.
The Democratic success is remov-
ing all reason for the existence of
the Progressive party, and enough
into the @. Q. P. to destroy any
chances the Progressives can have
imagined that they had of carrying
the country, and therefore they
rage at Woodrow Wilson and i'm
agine vain things.
1t must be said for the Record that
IL is entirely frank in its statement
of the alleged conditions. 1t has been
consistently against the fusion dicker
and the collapse of the Washington
party, following the Finn Mccormick
intrigue, has justified the predictions
of those Democrats who realize how
impossible such a proposed fusion was
under the circumstances. 1t is for
this reason that Colonel Roosevelt,
adept as he is in political ground and
lofty tumbling, has found it extremely
difficult to support Pinchot and Nc
Cormick in the same breath.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-06
OUR DAILY LAUGH
DANGEROUS.

Mr.. Fly. Look
out for that fell
low, my dear. l
he .rd him say
he knocked out
two b e a u I / full
dies yesterday.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-06
Capitol Extension

Proposals will be received at th
executive chamber until noon Octobe
Is, for the erection of the propose,
extension of the Capitol building.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-06
IN 1ARRI SBURC Fifty
YEARS AGO TO-DAY

lFrom the Telegraph. Oct. 6, 1864.
Police Court Quiet
There is but little doing in the po
lice court. One or two drunks wer
before the Mayor this morning, ant
after paying the usual fine departed
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-06

forts to protect their dependents from
becoming public charges.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-06
MIR. JoHNsoN's SPEECH

a LBA B. JOHNSON, president of
"A the Baldwin Locomotive Works,
4 = and one of the best posted men
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-06
a FUSION FAILURE

n HANIFESTLY the effort of the
M Democratic machine to take
v i over the Progressive party was
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-21
Help Wanted--Male and Female

ters. $40 to S25 a week readily made
by following our practical objections
Send self-addressed envelope Tor par
ticulars. Brooks Copying Co, 9Iu,
Pennsylvania avenue, Washington, -. Z.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-21
FREIGHT RATES CASE
INFLUENCES MARKETS
Speculation Slow and Price Movements Narrow EXCEPT at
Periods in Wall Street During Week

New York, Feb. 21-The freight
rates case was the main influence In
the stock market this week. Specula-
tion was slow and price movements
We're narrow except at periods when
the market was responding to news
regarding the probable course of ac-
tion by the Interstate Commerce Com
mission. Suspension of the per cent.
advance of Eastern freight rates until
September IL gave stocks "a severe set
back at the opening of the week, but
when it became known that President
Wilson desired an early settlement of
the case, and that the commerce COM
mission expected to make it's decision
within three months, the market rose
sharply.
Except for the freight rate case
there were no important changes in
the speculative situation. Further
slow improvement was indicated in
the chief industries. which was re-
f1ected in the good demand for stocks
of steel end steel products companies.
The expected outpouring OF new
capital issues, in response to improved
conditions in the investment market,
came this week. Several large issues
of bonds, stocks and notes were ar
ranged. New offerings of high grade
securities were readily absorbed.
Furnished by II. w. SNAVELN,
nv.SIA