Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-15
EVENING CHAT

officlals elected by minority. The
plurahty OF DR.. Brumbaugh over Vance
C.McCormick was 1888 and the ma
Jority over the whole six candidates
against him was by a singular circum-
stance Just half of the plurality. The
total vote cast for Governor was con-
siderably larger than that cast at any
other gubernatorial election in years,
amounting to 1,112,207. or this total
DR.. Brumbaugh got 59O,7O1. The re-
suits of the election have been rather
hard to obtain, as there has been an
unusual number of errors turned up in
the reports of various counties, some
of them of the ineXcusable variety.
The State will have to reprint it's Off
oial statement of the vote as the result
| of some of them
Another interesting reference to a
man much in public life is contributed
by William Perrine in the Philadelphia
bulletin. 1t is about Senator Penrose
whom, it Will be recalled, predicted
while in this city last winter that he
would win by hundreds of thousands.
This is what Mr.. Perrine writes: "On
a quiet and rainy Sunday evening last
in the lobby of the Union League. He
had Just come in from a journey to
some inland part of the State while
carrying on his canvass against Dim
mick for the Republican nomination
at the primary election in May. What
he said in response to a question con-
cerning the general outlook in politics
is now not unworthy of reproduction
as an instance of u forecast that has
| been pretty closely verified. L want
to say, he said, that l have every
reason for believing that / will be
| nominated. | also am entirely conf
| dent that if / am nominated, | can
be elected When he was pressed for
the reasons on which he based his
Judgment. he went on to say that they
were national, as well as local, in heir
character L think that you will find
next Fall, he explained, that this is
going to be great Republican year,
There will be an end to the Progress
I've party not only in our State, but
elsewhere. You are likely to see a
reVulsion all over the country on ac-
count of the tariff and the disaffection
| OF businessmen over the meddling in
Washington with their affairs, and in
Pennsylvania there will be enough
lworkingmen out of employment to
II AXE the change even if there were
no other causes of discomfort. Don't
| he surprised next November If Uncle
Joe and he added with q facetious
grin, all the rest of the bad men OF
1912 shall float back, or if there should
be Republican House of Representa-
| tives once more This was said about
seven months ago, with all the out
ward form of the wholly easy assur-
ance that a man might feel If he had
| been examining next years almanac
for the exact time of the sunrises and
the tides; and the facts to-day are GER
ltainly in accord, substantially or foI
the most part, with the forecast
whether Penrose made it instinctively
or conjecturally, or as a matter oi
reasoning from causes to effects 1t is
curious now-when it is recalled that
! at this time year ago, and in fact
| through most of the early part of this
year, the prevailing feeling even
among Penrose's friends was that II
was highly doubtful whether he could
be elected-that he should be the
most conspicuously successful of al
the candidates for the United States
Senate"
A. L. Buchanan, division passenger
agent of the Pennsylvania Railroad
with headquarters in Harrisburg, is
responsible for the following tongue
twister, which he was passing out in
| typewriter copies to friends yester-
day:
Sister Suse's sewing shirts for soldiers
Such skill at sewing shirts our sly
young sister Susie shows,
Some soldiers send epistles,
Say they'd sooner sleep on thistles
Than the saucy, soft, short shirts foi
soldiers sister Susie sews.
One of the veteran conductors oil
the Steelton lines of the HARRISBURG
Railways Company has readily solved
the problem of "cold feet" Durins
the severe weather of the last coupl,
of days the conductor put his inven
ton into effect and the result attracted
the attention of regular passengers
Ills plan for keeping his feet warn
was very simple: He got a piece o
lcarPet, placed it over the car radiator
until it became heated; then he tool
the bit OF warm carpet to the vesti
bule of the car, made a little pocke
for his feet to stand in. When tn,
carpet grew cold at the end of a trip
he ung it over the radiator awhile
rept lting the performance whenevel
necessary.