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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-02

WI EST VIRGINIA has formally
M entered the list of Prohibit
Wv ton States. 1t went dry
last Fall by a majority of
$4,000 votes and yesterday the last
drop of liquor Thai ever will be sold
legally in that State passed over the
bars.
Prohibition leaders announced, on
the occasion of their rejoicing over
this latest victory, hat there are now
nine Prohibition States in the Union,
which, with the local no-license terri
tory, make up a total of 2,132,726
square miles in which reside 46, O29, $50
persons. If these figures are correct
the amazing fact is presented that
nearly so per cent. of the population
of the country resides in territory that
has forbidden the sale of liquor either
by constitutional amendment or offers
its people opportunity to rule liquor
out by means of local option laws.
The wav of temperance seems to be
rising. That this is so is due as much
to the recklessness and lawlessness
that have characterized the lower
order of liquor selling places as to the
efforts of the Prohibitionists and anti
drinking societies.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-02
THE PRESIDENTS TROUBLES

TT was no psychological situation in
which. President Wilson found him.
self when a delegation of women
s~uffragists demanded of him at the
White House what he Jos to do
at the present session of Congress for
m suffrage. Nor was it a cues
ton of mental attitude. They wanted
10 know just what the President was
going to do and after some heckline.
by the delegation he abruptly termi.
mated the interview and withdrew
from the room. leaving the 500 suf-
fragtsts alone.
Without regard to the particular
subject Of this interview 1t is at last
dawning upon most of the citizens of
the United States that President VIII.
son is still the pedagogue, easily irri.
tated by questions which are hard
TO answer and intolerant in his atti-
trde toward those who believe that
they have the right of petition at least.
especially when the President arro-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-02

It's attitude? Believing, as 1t does,
That the good of the State is bound
up with the success of the Republican
party; believing still, no doubt, that
Pinchots candidacy is a farce and
Paimer's a misfortune; recognizing
still the value of the public service,
experience, ability and integrity of
senator Penrose and believing that
such portion of the public who think
OF him in other terms are the victims
or ignorance and prejudice, where is
the clear, cold air of reason and truth
which should issue from the Public
Ledger blowing away those fogs of
misrepresentation? Where is the bold
strong support of the supporter of the
pennsylvania ideas, which Pennsylva-
mans have the right to expect from
the foremost paper of the State? And,
moreover. may not the Public Ledg-
er be mistaken in its estimate of the
hold that Senator Penrose has upon
public favor? True, he has never
been a demagogue: he has never gone
about slapping men on the back; he
does not beat people to a FRAGILE nor
do things usually strike him as bully;
and he has never bent the pregnant
hinges of the knee that thrift might
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-02
In Support Of
Senator Penrose
Correspondent Who Believes 1t
"Poor Sportsmanship" For DIM
mick Supporters Not to Support
Primary Nominee

In a letter to the Philadelphia Pub
lie Ledger this is what John Gordon
Gray says:
I'm the beginning of the primaries
campaign, the Public Ledger, in an
editorial, bore testimony to the pub
lie service of Senator P~enrose, his
value in Washington, his ability and
integrity. 1t pointed out the import
ance at this juncture of electing a Re-
publican to the Senate and 1t suggest
ed that Senator Penrose, of whom it
spoke thus highly. was unavailable
because of the public feeling about
same vague thing called "Penrose-
ism" What this is, I, who have voted
in Philadelphia some forty years and
may be supposed to have had access
to the ordinary sources of information
open to all men, do not know. 1t
might be said that if there was a false
conception of Senator Penrose in the
public mind it was the duty of the
Public Ledger, as a molder of public
opinion and an enlightener of the
public conscience, to do what lay in
its power to set Senator Penrose right
in the eyes of the people by dissipating
the mists of prejudice that enveloped
him.
But the Public Ledger. believing
that the vital interests of the Repub-
lican party and through 1t, of the
State, required a new mar I'm the Sen
ate and holding that the candidacy
of Pinchot was a farce and that Of
Palmer represented a misfortune, SUBJ
mitted tentatively a list of more or
less impossible names from which a
candidate might be selected and
amongst these was the name, hitherto
little known in Philadelphia, of j.
Benjamin Dimmick. In due time,
the encrusting names, as in a mass
of earthly conglomerate, were washed
away and Dimmick shone forth in the
pure metal of candidacy. AS was
natural, the Public Ledger, warming
to the support Of its candidate, as the
canvas went on, more and more for
got the high testimonial given to his
opponent in the beginning, and more
and nor found cause to ally itself
with what is believed to be the public
sentiment against Senator Penrose. But
Mr.. Dimmick was defeated and as in his
canvas ne had failed somewhat, in his
u~tterances and demeanor, to measure
up to the standard of the place to
which he aspired, so in his defeat he
showed something of poor sportsman
ship. He would not support the sue
cessful candidate on moral grounds
at hardly care to characterize that
sort of thing in it's fitting terms. And
the Public Ledger! Is there not some
thing also of poor craftsmanship in
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-02

follow fawning.' Serene and imper-
t~urbable, he has gone his way, speak
ing when he had to speak, in wise,
strong words; always ready to take
up the cause of a constituent, Repub-
lican or Democrat, not sparing of
himself when service was required of
him, so that a man, whose sons re-
mains he had had rescued and
brought back from the Philippines,
in despite of official indifference, said.
1 would travel on my hands and
knees for Senator Penrose.'
Rooted in an Americanism that
reaches back to the Revolution, cher
ishing American ideals and believing
in that American system of govern
ment which the Fathers founded, SEN
ator Penrose represents the American
sentiment, which is the animating
principle of the people. And the loud
applause which greets him when he
appears in public is not, as some
might think the voice of the ma
chine but the spontaneous expression
of the respect, admiration and affec-
ton which men come to feel for a
man.
Can we afford to thrust this public
servant out of public life ?"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-02

gates to himself the powers and func-
lions of the legislative branch of the
government.
Under the circumstances, he must
expect to be asked all kinds of ques-
tions. pertinent and impertinent. He
cannot hide behind party platforms or
any other subterfuge. He must as
sumo the responsibility when he takes
over the functions and powers of a
and presumes to say what shall and
what shall not be enacted into law.
What probably 1rritated the Presi-
dent more than anything else during
his interview with the delegation of
suffrag ettes was a reminder by one of
the bright women who quizzed him that
he had initiated and carried through
Congress m other important piece of
legislation without waiting for party
instruction-in fact, in the face of
positive Instructions to the contrary
written in the platform on which he
was elected.
They couldn't understand why he
wa Sihi' mans 90 I pAt iSspoh
sibility in one case, where 1t didn't
please him to do the thing that was
wanted. and override the will of the
party in another case when it suited
his purpose.
1t is little wonder that the Demo-
cratic leaders are frenzied over the
Presidents many Inconsistencies and
his frequent political and party short.
Jennings. They see the finish, if he
does not. but judging from his more
or less frequent outbursts Of irri-
liability he Is also beginning to appre-
ciate what the people are goins to do
in November.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-02
HIS SIEsTA
tFrom the New York SUM-

[From the New York SUM-
The inical mollycoddles who COM
plain that Colonel Roosevelt lacks re-
pose must be frog eyed with wonder as
they watch him in his present lethargy.
Up with the lark yesterday; on to Pitts
burgh and the Progressives; dollar
inner, speech. speech, palaver, deep re-
yolving long consultation, h~andshakes.
frenzy IF the faithful, puiverizing Of
Penrose; back to New York to-day,
verifes collections in Museum of Nat
ural History, conference with Progress
sive sages, ct cetera. too numerous to
mention. A light days work, as near
doing nothing as the Colonel can come
without reaching a l~aziness almost
equal to that Of another celebrated and
salient parsonage in a gale of wind
Meanwhile oyster Bay is windy with
the signs and flooded with the tears of
the Progressive flock ~yearning mex
Bleat, bleat, We orphan lambsl The
shepherd is worthy of his ~siesta, and
he's taking it.. AS Perpetual Motion
said to Stable Equilibrium, MY doctor
tells me to rest and I'm doing it."
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-02
PARTNERS I!

T has been charged that the rail-
roads are making hard times" in
order to force the Interstate Com
merce Commission to grant the
. per cent. advance in freight rates
for which they have asked. AS we'll
say that the owner of a department
store, as an example, would lay off
most of his clerks, destroy a working
organization that had been years in
the building and ruin his business for
a whole ear in order to force his
customers to pay more for their goods.
The railroad managers are not throw
ing away millions of profits and let
ting their equipment deteriorate AL
most to the point of danger in order
that they may advance rates. They
are not reducing their gross business
80 per cent. in order to add 5 per
cent. to their earnings. The folly of
such a policy is self evident and quite
in line with the ill-tempered man who
cut off his W nose to spite his face.
The railroad and the public are part
ners. When the railroads are busy at
fair rates the business of the country
is generally good. Why? Well, for
one reason there are on the payrolls
of the railroads of the country when
times are good more than a million
and a half employees. When they are
working full time their purchasing
power is high and the money they
keep in circulation adds materially to
the prosperity of the nation. Then,
too, the railroads are large purchasers
of a vast number of manufactured
products and coal, and when they are
off the market times are slack in hun
dreds of lines of trade.
A well-known businessman once
said:
Let any merchant look over his
records for years; let him note the
fat years and the lean years; let
him then mark the years of rail-
road extension and railroad i'm
provements-of railroad spending.
Let him mark on the other side the
years OF railroad retrenchment, and
he will find that the years when his
prosperity has waned have been
the years when the railroads were
not progressing.
Fit this to your own individual case.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-02
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

James Willard, new assessor in
Philadelphia, is a select councilman
and active in Republican affairs.
Adam e. Bittner is the new re-
ceiver of taxes for Allentown. He is
well known throughout the State.
General Gregg will take part In
h Reading Fourth of July celebration
despite his advanced age
Commander William s. Whitfield,
on duty at Cramps, was one of the
naval officers ''plucked" by the retir-
ing board.
President Voorhees,, of the Read
ing, is taking an automobile trip,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-02

for a fish was IS cents a pound, and
the average price of all fish was 10
cents a pound.
Butter fish are sold in Harrisburg in
large quantities. The price is 20 to Is
cents a pound. Last year the price
was the same. but in 1913 butter fish
brought Is to IL cents a pound.
Haddock. sea trout, and white fish
can be had for ten and twelve cents a
pound. 1t is the only fish that has not
increased in price. The average in
crease in the price of fish since 1918
is estimated at 20 per cen
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-02
NO HOPE IN DIVIDED OPPOSITION

[From the Philadelphia Public Ledger. I
The attack on Penrose. Barnes and
an excoriation. He charges them, and
the leaders OF their type, as Others do,
with having betrayed the nation into
nomination from him. is his reasoning,
and that is their chief sin. I'VE are
fighting the battle of the honest Re-
for such a conflict were not within the
party tent. Indeed. the method of the
attack on the Republican party. so far
enough that Mr.. Roosevelt sees no hope
in a divided opposition: and 1t requires
no imagination to read into his lines a
hope that somehow there Is to be a re-
guiding star.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-02
THAT CARTOON
BY Wing Dinger

That was a funny cartoon that
Was published yesterday
Upon The Patriots first page,
Depicting in a way
How that star speech that Roosevelt
The other night left fly
Smashed one G. o. P. elephant,
To quote, Right in the Eye"
I say twas funny. cause I can't
See how they overlooked
The way the Democratic mules
Both eyes of sight were hooked.
Because for every left he rave
Z The G.. o. P. that night
He gave the Democratic bunch
A left hand jab. then right.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-02
adays
AN EMF oUG

Self is the only prison that can
ever bind the soul;
Love is the only angel who can
bid the gate unroll;
And when He comes to call thee,
arise and follow fast
His way may be through darkness
but 1t leads to life at last.
Henry Van Dyke.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-02
Fish Goes IN. Too

NoSS Up IOO
Fish is also sold at an increased
price of from five to ten cents a pound.
Porgies, the pool mans fish. Is now
sold at Is cents a pound. Last year
the price was 10 cents and two years
9 Porsies sold as low as five cents
a pound.
Fancy fish, salmon, mackerel, rock
hsh, black bass and blue fish, sell at
30 cents a pound. One year ago these
hsh were five cents a pound cheaper.
During 1913 the highest price asked
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-02
NEWS PIE eeTSHEt Var

[From the Telegraph of July @, 1891
Rebels on Move
Near Petersburg, June 2S, IL p. NJ
A large body of rebel cavalry which
moved around on our left, is now at
Ream's Station, on the Petersburg and
Weldon Railroad.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-02
Vegetables For Army

Albany, July 1.-Governor Seymour
has authorized the general agent of
the State to expend $4,000 in the pur-
chase of vegetables for the Army of the
Potomac.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-02
Not Sufficient

HNOt SuhuCteuI
Porcupine-Did
those mustard
plasters that 1
left seem to re-
lieve the pains in
your chest to any
considerable de-
gree?
Ostrich (apolo-
geticany) = Well,
no; l can't say
that they have;
but I've eaten
only hve of them.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-02
Close Post ONCE on Fourth

Close Post ONCE on Fourth
July 4 the Post Office will be open
in the morning between the hours of
6 and s o'clock, and in the afternoon
between the hours of 2 and 3 o'clock.
The mails will close and depart at the
usual hours. George Bergner, P. M.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-02
IN HARRISBURG FIFN
YEARS acc TODAY

From the Telegraph of July 2, 1851
Colonel Curtin Here
Colonel Curtin, of the Forty-fifth
P. V. l., was in town yes
and left last night for his home
in Centre county.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-02
OUR DAILY LAUGH

4 Jungle Debu-
tante
Leo Africanus -
81 saw you talk
ing to Miss Stripes
Ter there. She be-
longs to the
Laughing Hyena
family, does she
not?"
Jim Pansy, the
Monk ~ es, but
she's still very
young a mere
giggler."
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-02

Bat-You seem
somewhat per-
turbed, Mr.. Owl?
Owl - Yes: /
heard a couple of
men standing by
yon car tracks say
that they we're
waiting to catch
the "owl."
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-02

At the HOrse
Show
First Horse -
I'm sick OF being
a prize winner.
Second Horse -
Why?
First Horse - l
haven't seen my
old home in over
q wear.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-02
silly Horse

Delay in rates Notwithstanding.
While the grass grew. the silly horse
he died."-New York Sun.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-02
PUBLISHED BY

Published every evening Except sum
day.. at the Telegraph Building zlo
Federal Square.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-02
ANOTHER DRY" STATE

w EST VIRGINIA has formally
M entered the list of Prohibit
w ton States. 1t went dry"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-02
thursday EVENING, JULY 2
BROKEN PROMISES

TRANTIC over the impending hor-
ror of an Wilson avalanche
i of popular disfavor, organs of the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-04-02
SAYS BATTLESHIP FLEET
is DEFENSE OF NATION
Assistant Secretary Roosevelt De-
clares Also That Navy Is Pre-
pared for Anything.

The United States Navy is prepared
for any emergency, in the opinion of
Franklin D. Roosevelt, assistant secre-
tary of the navy. AS an offensive arm
of the navy. the battleship fleet is every
thing he holds: without it, defense of the
harbors will be the only measures to re-
sst invasion.
The navy is prepared for anythins,"
was his assertion. You may have con-
fidence in that.
I'VE could only hope to defend our
harbors in case of emergency without
the battleship fleet" he continued I'VE
would soon lose control of the seas and
with that all our foreign possessions
would he wrested from US. Also We
would be unable to carry out a foreign
policy
Experiments which Secretary Daniels
originated to give officers and enlisted
men more opportunity to develop their
mental resources are working out very
we'll. Mr.. Roosevelt said. Sending officers
to the War College is part of this plan
The assistant secretary pointed to the
greatly increased number of naval en-
listrnents. proof Of the value of the ex-
pcriments in the ranks.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-04-02
THIRTY SEEK MYSTERIES
OF YELLED PROPHETS
Fred Albrecht of Orient Comman-
derry Leads Host at Cere-
monial Session.

Fred Albrecht of Orient Commandery.
No. 5. Knights Templar. led host of
thirty seekers after the mysteries of the
Mystic Order of Yelled Prophets of the
Enchanted Realm at the ceremonial ses-
sion of kallipolis Grotto, No. 10. in the
auditorium of Odd Fellows Hall last
night Monarch Peter +. Pullman was
at the head of the degree squadron, with
Past Monarch John Shreve as his right
arm when the fight that is supposed
to purify the .'profane' began. kallipo-
lis Grotto brass band, under the leader
ship of Prof. julius Hamper. furnished
the musical effects: Meyer Hanlein led
the orchestra: Charles Stevens, the glee
club; Theodore Picard governed the
feast and the entire membership of
the grotto contributed in more ways than
may be published to the fun of the occa-
sion.
A big delesa ton from SAINTS Grotto Of
Richmond, headed by Monarch L. J..
Rostrup and including Prophets Aaron
Jacobs. H. II. Hester. George Emig,
George W. Harrington, c. II. Semi. G. T..
Guvernater. w. l.. Bernstein. w. A.
Ifolzappel Archibald Q. Boschen, J. c.
Davis. r. II. Schmidt. Robert Watt.
A. Fl. Flourney, M. T.. Johns. c. NJ.
Davenport. C. K. Cook, Charles T..
Frschkom, Past Monarch Craig Pelouze
and others, We're interested onlookers and
participants in the revcls. Prophets from
Colonial Beach, Baltimore and other
places were also guests of the evening.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-04-02
QUESTIONS AUTHORITY
OF PRESIDENT WILSON
Malcolm Hufty, Attorney, Discusses
Disapproval Of Union Station
Plaza Awards.

Malcolm Hufty,sa Washington attorney,
announced today that he questions the
authority which President Wilson has
exercised in disappearing the Union sta
ton plaza awards.
Congress passed law appropriatins
money for the specific purpose of pay
ing these awards Mr.. Hufty said. land
the President gave all the approval he
had the right to give when he signed the
bill.
There is nothing in this entire legisa-
ton which confers upon the President
any supervisory power over the amount
Of the awards, either separately or in
bulk. or to revoke judicial action. The
condemnation proceedings in the Union
station plaza cases were to be in accord
ance with the condemnation proceedings
as provided for in the government print
ing Office site.
The plaza act. by its express terms re-
ferred the condemnation proceedings as
the course to be pursued under it,, and
it made no provisions comforting power
upon the President to withhold payment
of the awards as was provided for in the
printing office site awards
Mr.. Hufty said he thinks it "a strange
construction, and equivalent to importing
words into the plaza act not therein to
be found, to give the President the power
of disappearing the awards after he had
approved the appropriation to pay them
passed by Congress-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-04-02
MORE "DRY" TERRITORY
IN MARYLAND PROPOSED
Bills Pending Before the Legisla-
ture Affect Sections of Near
by Counties.

Members of the Washington Anti Sa
loon League are interested in the out
come of several temperance bills pending
in the Maryland legislature. Several of
the measures are intended to increase
the area of dry territory in Prince
Georges county. others provide for local
option elections in St. Marys and Charles
counties. and one provides that liquor
shall not hereafter be sold in Knoxville,
Frederick county.
Delegate Addison of Prince Georges
county offered a bill which provides that
liquor shall no longer be sold in the
twelfth election district of the county.
The twelfth district includes the terri
tory to the southeast of the District line.
and the enactment Of the bill into law
will close several liquor saloons. An
Other bill is intended to prohibit the sale
of liquor in the Riverdale district
Much interest is shown in the effort to
make Knoxville, Frederick county. dry
territory. The town is only short dis
lance from Brunswick. where several
thousand railroad employees reside, and
it is contended that the railroad employees
are constantly subjected to temptation.
The temperance committee of the house
has reported favorably the bill of Speaker
Trippe. which imposes more drastic pen
alties for liquor law violations in Balti-
more. a prison sentence is made impera-
tive by the provisions of the bill.
Opposition to the bill providing for a
local option in Charles county was voiced
in petition signed by 1.75O names. The
bill was passed to the third reading.