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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-13
OUR AGRICULTURAL NEEDS

We ought to see to it that a larger
sum from our common treasury is
used to build up our agricultural in
terests in this Commonwealth We
are great people here. Eas, of the
Blue mountains we have the finest soil
in America. Here we can grow almost
any crop. We are not receiving from
the soil of our Commonwealth one
half of the products that it is able 10
produce and carry to our markets.
The State of Pennsylvania must turn
its serious thought and attention to
improving the quality and increasing
the quantity of food that grows in the
soil of this Commonwealth, and all
through the organization of your
State service, economy, science and
skill must apply themselves to that
important task, for if we do not do
that in the very near future we will
find ourselves with great city, town
and village population consuming
food from a decreased food supply
and gradually we will be dependent
in Pennsylvania not upon our home
markets, but upon foreign markets
for the food that we eat in Pennsyl-
vania.
DIR. MARTIN G. BRUMBAUGH.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-13
POLITICAL SIDELICHTS

State Chairman Morris appears to
have been about as wrong on his state
ment regarding Williamsport Demo-
cratic registration as he was on that
in Harrisburg.
BY the way, Mccormick has not
been saying much about the Harris
burg Democratic registration.
DR.. Brumbaugh will follow up his
meetings here on October 2S by two
days of meetings in Philadelphia
State Chairman DIETRICH ought to
realize by this time that no one be-
lieves that Kolb residence conference
story he is so fond of telling.
Mccormick desperation is shown
by his appeal to ministers to consider
him as the only upright man.
Incidentally, McCormick's letter
to the preachers is going to be the
worst boomerang he ever started.
-McCormick's letter is a direct bid
for the injection of politics into the
church and yet Brumbaugh is a min
lister who has refrained from making
political speeches in churches
Contrast the addresses of McCor-
mick and Brumbaugh in Fifth Street
Church. Then you get the measure of
the men.
The Colonel has but three days to
spend in Pennsylvania this month.
Jim Watson appears to have
Wonder if Oscar w. Underwood is
going to keep that ways and means
committee clerk in this city during the
whole of Palmer's campaign?
Senator Penrose- will be in Berks
county on Thursday.
Mccormick found that a good
many Democrats in Northumberland
county had not forgotten his abuse of
Michael J. Ryan.
The Philadelphia Democratic city
committee appears to be going it
alone.
The Democratic State executive
committee has been called for Friday.
Why call it?
State Chairman Crows statement
appears to have drawn blood.
Palmer says he has no apology to
make for the Democratic tariff. He
can't.
Mccormick overlooked one yes
terday. He did not say anything about
Columbus having been a reorganizer
Governor Sulzer. recently hailed
as great Progressive find is now
asking who Is financing Colonel Roose-
Welt.
Someone might ask Democratic
State headquarters IL Mccormick
money rs going to finance the Colonel's
tour of PENNSYLVANIA.
Tho Philadelphia Republican city
committee yesterday started a move
ment to scan registration lists
Bryan does not seem to have the
same one-term ideas as Wilson.
Who is Colquitt anyway?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-13
REAL PENRosE-PALMER ISSUE
[Philadelphia Bulletin.l ]

Ph1ladelpnla BulletlQ.
NJ. Hampton Todd, who, as a MEM
ber of the administration of Governor
Stuart, was one of the best Attorneys
General that Pennsylvania has had in
the course of many years, expresses,
in substance, the opinion that Senator
Penrose not only possesses the knowl-
edge and capacity which entitle him to
reelection. but that his Identification
they have been and as they are, gives
him distinctive position in the eye of
the State.
Mr. Todd goes to the nub of the
paramount and essential question in
the campaign of 1914 when he says:
Indeed, the contest between MIR.
Penrose and Mr.. Palmer should be
narrowed down to party lines, and
every citizen should make his align
ment as he favors the principles of
these respective parties.
MIR. Palmer stands for relative free
trade.
"Mr. Penrose stands for protection
for American industries and American
wages with the incident of American
ways of living and American COM
Portable homes"
The ex-Attorney- General is an ex-
cellent representative of the quiet,
thoughtful and conservative men in
his party, and when he bases the
Pennsylvania issue of this year on
broad national ground as fight be-
tween parties, and not between lead
ers or persons, he voices the con-
trolling thought to-day in the minds
of vast majority of Pennsylvanians
of his own type.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-13
DIR. sCHAEFFER,s VIEWS

IN his annual report showing the
progress of education in Pennsyl-
I vania, DR.. Nathan c. Schaeffer, the
State Superintendent of Public In
struction, very properly protests
against unloading upon the schools
every problem that needs solution.
There has been too much of that sort
of thing during recent years Instead
of our schools furnishing the funda-
mentals of an education for thousands
of boys and girls who do not get be-
yond the high school, there has been
too much flub-dub in the average cur
riculum. 1t is a shame that the hard
worked teacher who is earnestly de-
voting himself and herself to the
building up of a solid foundation in
the education of the girl and boy
should be burdened with lot of fads
which are catapulted upon the school
system in the same way that fool laws
are imposed upon a helpless people.
What this State needs, and what
other States need, is a rapid getting
back to something like sanity and
common sense in our way of living
and doing.
We have in the present campaign
certain individuals who imagine that
they have discovered lot of new
things which ought to be Incorporated
into law and placed upon the statute
books to harrass an unsuspecting
people. Less so-called reform and
more solid consideration for the things
that count would do much to relieve
present conditions of their intoler-
able phases.
DIR. Schaeffer has a level head and
we say more power to his voice in the
protest against ruination of splendid
school system through the barnacles
that are attaching themselves to our
program of education. Political clap
trap and innovation and bogus reform
have SO overshadowed the important
things of everyday life that the
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-13
THE rEMPERANCE VOTE

LII pretenSe of observing DELL
~ mite and fixed rule of the Anti
"A Saloon League in Pennsylvania
to avoid partisanship In the
promotion of the local option cause
has been thrown aside by the indivi-
duals now at the head of that organi-
zation in this State. They have Vio-
lated every principle of decency ana
fair play in an endorsement OF the
Democratic candidate for Governor,
Notwithstanding the fact that he has
been even less emphatic in his dec
Iaration in favor of local option than
DR.. Martin G. Brumbaugh, whose life
has been an example of temperance
and Christian living.
One of the rank statements of the
last issue of the official organ of the
league is that DR.. Brumbaugh re-
ceived his nomination from consti-
tuency which is at least eighty per
cent. wet" If these zealots imagine
that they are going to succeed in their
efforts to deceive the people of Penn
sylvaniav they are due for most un-
pleasant surprise on election day.
AS a matter of fact the weekly or
gan of the local option organization
has practically thrown down all the
bars of nonpartisanship and 1t is now
4 more rampant Democratic organ
than most of the newspapers of that
party.
Fortunately for the honest temper
ance sentiment of the State and the
sincere advocates of local option, the
tactics of those who are entrusted with
the management of the local option
campaign have been revealed to most
of the voters of Pennsylvania. They
can hardly hope to accomplish more
than further aggravation of large
multitude which has heretofore hon
estly supported the local option move
ment in the belief that its managers
were consecrated to cause and whose
Judgment was not to be swayed in any
manner whatever. They will discover
that instead of 1.-The temperance forces
of the State" being practically unit
for Mccormick, that these forces are
likely to be lined up almost solidly
behind DR.. Brumbaugh. whose manly
and independent attitude is winning
the support of thousands upon thou
sands of voters without regard to party
affiliations.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-13
A PROGRAM OF SERVICE

| want to see Pennsylvania so splen-
didly administered that no man, even
in the heat of controversy, will dare
to speak i'll of this great State of ours
and lie about it and besmirch its fair
name. / want the State in its whole
administration of its affairs to reflect
the finest quality of the best people
of Pennsylvania, so that it must be
said of us that we have learned the
fine art of choosing our best men to
serve us in our public affairs. That
will come about, gentlemen, just as
soon as all of us, regardless of our
party affiliations, whether Democrats,
Progressives or Republicans, stand to-
gether like men for Pennsylvania. 1t
is with that thought, and that thought
alone that l speak to you tonight,
and it is to that program of service
that | plead for your support in the
election next November.
DIR. MARTIN G. BRUMBAUGH.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-13
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

H. S. Swift and c. S. Mitchell.
two prominent Pittsburgh traction
men. will read papers at the street
railway convention of the United States
at Atlantic City.
Dan l.. Parsons, Johnstown at
torney, well known here, made the
English address at the Columbus Day
celebration in the Cambria metropolis.
Clark Boone, of Washington. has
returned from an extended trip to the
Pacific Coast.
Thomas Robins. prominent Phila-
delphian, has returned from New Eng
land after a summers visit.
John I'll. Mason, Philadelphia
banker, will read a paper at the ma
tional convention of bankers at Rich
mond.
DR.. Solis-Cohen. of PHILADELPHIA.
says that he does not believe i'm Edi-
sons prediction of sleepless man.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-13
DO YOU KNOW |
That Harrisburg is one of the
largest manufacturers of aprons
i'm the whole State?
TEDDY'S AWKWARD PREDICA-
MENT
philadelphia Record)

Mr.. Roosevelt is Swinging around
the circle" with Mr.. Davenport. his
candidate for Governor Mr.. Cali. his
candidate for State Treasurer. Is NOT
in the party. This relieves the Only
Honest Man and Sole Patriot 81 some
embarrassment His principal object
in making speeches is to compass The
defeat of Mr.. Whitman, and his main
Indictment of the District Attorney Is
that he accepted Tammanv nomina-
ton, being already the fu son candi-
date. This, in the opinion of MIR.
Roosevelt. put the Tammany brand
upon. him. But Mr.. Call was chosen
State Treasurer by deal between
the Democratic and Progressive Nom
bers of the Legislature. so that he
bears the same brand that MIR. Whit
man does With mastery strategy.
Mr.. Roosevelt ignores Mr. Gail while
denouncing Mr.. Whitman. and, cf
course. 1t would be lttsla mo-a awk-
ward for him to do this If MIR. Call
were sitting on the platform with him
than 1t is in Mr. Calls aosenee.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-13
OUR DAILY LAUGH
A SUDDEN
CURE.

ibid you mo-
tice how sadly
tha At b Q G g a r
linped when he
came in ?"
Eyes. I noticed.
also. how briskly
h o walked o u t
after ou h a d
given him { h 9
quarter"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-13

President Judge KunkePs friends all
over the State ere interesting them
selves in his behalf and from every
quarter come assurances of earnest
support. But the Democratic candidate
for Governor in Harrisburg, who is the
owner of a newspaper that is devoting
columns to HIS own adulation, has ap-
parently overlooked the fact that Judge
Kunkel is also a Harrisburg boy who
has risen to merited distinction in the
local jurisdiction, and who has been
chosen by thousands of his fellow-citi-
zens as proper. candidate for the Su-
preme Court.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-13
EsDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 1s
OUR PUBLIC LIBRARY

HARRISBURG has every reason
IL to he proud of the record of
i i the first nine months of its new
Public Library and every rea-
son to be thankful to the late Mrs.
Sara ]. -Haly for the be-
quests which made it possible for the
States Capital to possess a library
building in keeping with its standing
as a city. 1t should not be forgotten
that it is due to the liberal appropria-
ton by the Harrisburg School Board
that the library has been able to rem
der the efficient service to the public
that has characterized it. The people
of the city have not followed up by
individual donations for maintenance
or extension the bequests of Mrs.
Haldeman-Hal or the appropriation
of the School Board But they have
used the library.
When it is considered that there are
about IL, 900 books in the library
available for general circulation, and
that almost $4,000 books were circu-
lated in the 230 days during which the
'ip- his iisiS DSSh OPShCuB SOilG iutd
of the service rendered to the people
of Harrisburg and vicinity can be
gained And it is worth while to note
right here that of the books circu-
lated 21,00O were among school chill
dren.
The library building is an ornament
to Harrisburg. 1t did not cost the
people of this community one cent
The library's service is proved by the
circulation and its other activities. II
it were not for the School Board II
could not operate because it has only
a limited income from investments
and as the demands on the library
grow 1t will become more and more
a problem how to meet the expenses
1t deserves support.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-13
AN oLD-FAsHONED VIEW


Minority Leader Mann is quite old
fastened in his views on business and
national prosperity. He lives under
the old delusion that it was the open
field and freedom of individual enter
prise that peopled the wilds, built the
cities, bound the country together
with railroads and filled the banks and
the savings banks with the money of
millionaires and day laborers. He has
not caught the new evangel of prog
ress which proclaims that prosperity
can only be achieved by those who
have their hands and feet tied, that
individual enterprise is national
peril and that wealth can be created
by the suppression of profits, Mr..
Mann is out of fashion. Perhaps if
he could go to sleep for twenty five
years he might find people, educated
by experience, more ready to hearken
to him.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-13
IETERSI0THE Editor
NOT A POLITICAL SPEECH

To the Editor of the Telegraph:
DIR. Martin G. Brumbaugh. Republican
candidate for Governor of PennsylVa-
MIA, and allow me to say very en-
phatically, a man of Gods Word, de-
livered a sermon long to be remember
ed in Fifth Street Methodist Church
Sunday morning. Permit me to say
his sermon was not political speech. d"
as heard in the afternoon, but the eX-
the character of an honest, upright,
Christian man, his plain. kindly man
ner reaching the hearts of man, woman
and child.
Let the name of DR.. Martin G. Brum-
baugh be first in every mans thoughts
when he casts his vote for Governor OF
Pennsylvania on the Sd day of Novem-
ber' 1914. urAppp
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-13

DR.. Martin G. Brumbaugh, who is in
creasing in favor throughout the State,
observed the proprieties in his admir-
able address at the Fifth Street Metho-
dist Episcopal Church on Sunday. but
while the Harrisburg Patriot intro
duced a two-column talk by its owner,
the Democratic candidate for Governor,
with statement that all the speakers
refrained from discussing politics.
those who read the speech and who
heard it are still wondering what con-
ception Mccormick has of political
talk. He not only failed to observe the
proprieties of the occasion, but made
his usual cut and dried campaign
speech.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-13
IT'S NO USE TRYING
by Wing Dinger

viii someone kindly tell me
Why two teams will play baseball
For inning after inning
And no runs be made at all,
And then one side make two runs,
Which seem to cinch the game,
When up will come the other
And promptly do the same?
Gee. when that bunch of Comics
Got busy yesterday
And scored two in the tenth block
1 thought they'd stored away
The third game, but when Boston
Came in and had their fun.
said, How can you beat them?
By Jove, ii can't be done"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-13
IN HARRI RISBURC Fifty
YEARS AGO TODAY

From the Telegraph of Oct. 13, 1851
Demand For Houses
The demand for houses to sell or
rent increases.
Rev. jackson to Speak
The Rev. j. Walker Jackson, of the
Locust Street Nj. u. Church will ad-
dress the people at the courthouse to-
morrow evening.
Storing Up For Winter
Farmers near here are bIsily en-
gagged housing winter supplies.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-13

There could be no better center for
pure food exposition than Harrisburg,
and the live wires. Frank A. Smith, Carl
X Dean and others like them. who are
at the forefront of the exposition, merit
the support which has been given them
far and wide by the manufacturers OF
pure food products. 1t is a fine thing
for the producers and consumers, and
the show ought to be attended by thou
sands of the people of Central Pennsyl-
Yania.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-13

people must arouse themselves in
order to get back to solid ground.
Only the other day DIR. Martin G.
Brumbaugh, himself leader in sane
education, declared that Pennsylvania
would do well to start in repeating
lot of foolish legislation instead of
further adding to the burdens of the
people in this respect
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-13
NtWGaf s. fRH5fIRSTSEESAR
From the Telegraph of Oct. 13, 1851
Quiet at Front

Washington, Oct. 12.-Dispatches
from Generals Grant, Sherman and
Sheridan, report no new military
movements
Enemy Gone
Shenandoah Valley. Oct. 12.--Noth-
ing has been seen of the enemy since
the ninth, when they were defeated in
q cavalry battle
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-13

According to Democratic press bureau
dope, Palmer and Mccormick are head
ing the flying squadron" in this cam
paign. And they'll keep right on head
ing IL after election.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-13
AN EVENING THOUGHT

No, the Bush League was not named
in honor of the pitcher of the Athletics.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-13

If good face is a letter OF
recommendation a good heart is
a letter of oredit.-Bulwer- -Lytton.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-13

Jupiter Pluvius has been most con-
siderate of the contractors on the out
door undertakings of Harrisburg this
year. Just at the time when Fall rains
are in order the east wind blows and
still there is no rain. all of which is
distinctly a benefit to those who are
pushing the various Improvement con-
tracts. week or two of this sort of
weather will probably save the contrac-
tors on the River Front from any in
terference through the rising Susque-
hanna.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-13

Now the Bull Moose leaders are call
ing upon Palmer to quit the race for
United States Senator in the interest
of Pinchot They accuse Palmer of
selfshness and intimate that he is aid
ing Penrose by being the Webster
Grim of 1914" 1t is fine little fam
lily row between what is left of the
Bull Moose party and the Palmer-Mc-
Cormick wing of the Democracy. But
how could it have been anything else
under the peculiar conditions? With
insincerity and hypocrisy as the con-
spicuous elements of fusion deal the
fruitage was bound to be controversy
and disintegration.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-13

Next year Europe will be back or
the job Turing American tourists with
the very latest style in modern, up
to-date ruins.-Boston Transcript.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-13

Many prominent preachers are all
ready denouncing the bosses of the
Anti-Saloon League for their foolish
course in striving to pull the league
into the support of partisan candi-
date for Governor. 1t was inevitable
that this would happen and it is some
what remarkable that the individuals
who have assumed to tie the temper
ance forces of the state into a partisan
knot have not been checked in their
game before now
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-13

As the tree planting season ap-
proaches it is to be hoped some definite
steps will be taken for an increase in
the number of shade trees in Harris
burg. OF course. City Commissioner
Taylor, the head of the parks and play
grounds will set out few thousand
trees in the parks, but private property
owners should also arrange to keep
step in this important work for their
own day and the years to come.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-13

1t will be a thin bread-line of heroes
when the smoke is cleared away
New York American.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-13

Nothing so impressed the thousands
of visitors in Harrisburg last week as
the cleanliness of the city. First were
the fine decorations on public and pri-
vate buildings and offices. then the
streets were clean and above and over
all was the well-kept and up-to- date
appearance of the city as a whole.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-13

That $100,0O0,000 war tax gives
the neutrals a useful insight into what
war might be.-Wall Street Journal
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-13

Everybody is now learning what
strategists mean by an offensive
move" Shening a cathedral 700 years
old is a typical illustration.-Br
lyn Eagle.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-13
NO WONDER

Well, did you
spend an enjoya-
BILE SUMMER
Very, went up
to the wife's fa-
Tiers farm and
1t didn't cost .
cent.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-13

Turkey in still neutral She refuses
to join in the march of European
civilization.-Los Angeles Times.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-13

HARRISBURG has every reason
- to be proud of the record of
i i the first nine months of its new
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-13

State Librarian Thomas Lynch Mont.
gomery. Robert P. Bliss of the Free
Libraries, and Miss Alice r. Eaton, OF
the Harrisburg Public Library, will
attend the meeting of the keystone
state Library Association at Werners.
Vile this week. A number of promi.
nent librarians will attend and the
work of the new library here will be
reported on by Miss Eaton.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-13
EDITORIAL COMMENT

There are dumdum war correspond
ents, too.-Washingto Herald.
Safety first" is unable to gain a
foothold in Europe.-Chicago News
One result of the European war
probably Will be armored cathedrals
Chicago Post.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-13

Harrisburg cavalrymen will be in
terested to learn that Lieutenant w.
H.; Bell, who has been the Inspector
instructor of the cavalry of the Ma
uonal Guard for several years has
again been assigned to that work. He
mas been ordered to visit the various
troops in this State and New Jersey
once a month during the winter He
Is personally known to a number of
residents of this city.