Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-05

In his best style, William Perrine,
otherwise Penn" the brilliant editor
of the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin,
f1ays Congressman-at-Lar Rupley,
the Cumberland county statesman,
who is about to return to private life
with the aid of the voters. Here are
few extracts:
Arthur r. Rupley is member of
the House of Representatives at Wash
ington who was elected on the con-
gressional ticket at large in Penn
sylvania two years ago, and who is
now a candidate for reelection. The
fact that he is a candidate, or his
political opinions, do not however,
furnish a motive for considering
delinquency in which he bears part
as a member of Congress. Mr.. Rupley
is a lawyer, a resident of Carlisle, in
Cumberland county, and, according to
his autobiographical statement in the
Congressional Directory, was nomi-
mated in 1912 "by the Republican
State convention as q representative
at-large on an advanced progressive
platform, and afterwards by the Wash
ington, Bull Moose and Roosevelt
gressiVe parties, and was elected to the
SiXty-third Congress, receiving a total
of 606,709 votes to 343,163 for the
Democratic candidate" Since that
time he has been known for his per-
sistent support of what he calls "ad-
Vanced progressive" notions; he has
sharply criticised men who differ with
him in that respect, and his zeal has
appeared to be inspired, according to
his own utteranccs, by stern and exact
conception of the public welfare.
"A few days ago a candidate for
Congress received. as doubtless others
did here and there in the rest of the
State, a communication from Mr.. Rup-
ley, saying that
i am enclosing you copy of speech
which / made in the House of Repre-
"a Great New Party" This speech
contains a history of the Progressive
party in State and nation; the plat
form of the Republican State conven-
tion of 1912; the Progressive conven-
ton, together with names of commit
tee comprising eastern, middle and
western divisions; history of the legis-
lation of 1913. with measures that
were promised, but not enacted into
law; town meetings and conferences
for organization for the future; the
Washington platform; Clifford Pinchots
platform; and under paragraph en-
titled "a Patriotic Act" the with
drawal of william Draper Lewis and
Endorsement of Vance G. Mccormick
for Governor; and under paragraph,
Mobilization" the united efforts of
all candidates to clean the State of
Penrose and PenroSeiSm.
"All, or nearly all, of this infor-
nation has been set forth in the
newspapers, as well as in other pub
lications, on the occasions when these
things were new; some of them have
often been reproduced in print, and
at this late day they have lost all
freshness. In that regard they are not
unlike a political almanac of 1912 and
1913, enliVened though they may be
by the exegetical remarks of Mr.. Rup-
| ley in the light of the present cam
paign in Pennsylvania.
The congressman, however, is eX-
tremely anxious that this dellverance
shall be put into circulation in every
part of Pennsylvania and into other
parts of the Union. IF you can sent
1t out he goes on to say in the course
of his communication, L can have it
! printed for you at the rate of SO a
| thousand. and l will furnish franked
| envelopes so that 1t can go out under
my frank. j can have the
plates at the Government Printing
Office kept set UP for few days.
How extensively he would seem to eX-
| pect that this operation may be per-
| formed in Pennsylvania may be
| judged from his observation that one
| hundred thousand copies will be sent
out to Illinois alone! OF course, there
is nothing that is especially new in
| this sort of recourse to the mailing
and printing facilities of the United
States government for either the free
| or the very cheap dissemination of
| political literature or useful infor-
nation 1t has been done time and
| again by the members of all parties,
but it is loose, illegitimate and some
times INSCRIPTIONS misuse of the
privileges which a congressman re-
ceives in good faith and which, es-
pecially, a man who declaimS so en-
phatically as the Hon Arthur r. Rup-
| ley does on moral principles and on
the need, of conscientious interest in
the affairs of the government, might
be supposed to employ only with care
and honor.
"The speech in question takes up, /
| find, sixteen pages over the imprint
| Washington: Government Printing