Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-18
NJ 'CORM|CK SHY ON
KNOWLEDGE Of STATE
Didn't Know What He Was Talk
ing About at Blain
Picnic
PENNA. is NO LAGGARD
Soil Conservation Has Been Given
Careful Study by the
State

Pennsylvania had Jagged behind the
other progressive Commonwealths' in
enactment of legislation for the gen.
eral welfare, but it is apparent that
he has not been we'll informed about
what the government of the Key
stone State has been doing for con-
servation of agriculture. The Tele-
graph has shown what a really mag
nificent work this State is doing for it's
farmers, how the educational work
has been brought right to the farmers
dooryard, how hundreds of thousands
of dollars of value have been added
to orchards. how pests have been con-
trolled, how cattle diseases have been
stamped out and how in numerous
other ways the State government has
been aiding the farmer and all through
| legislation enacted during Republican
administration.
One of McCormick's stock addresses
is on agricultural conservation and
while posing as a farmer because of
residence on a country estate half a
year, he has glibly discussed the ne
cessity for conservation of the soil and
Iinferentially attacked the State gov
ernment as tagging behind.
AS matter of fact the study of soil
conservation occupied the attention of
experts of the department of agricul-
ture long bef OIL @
Mccormick was out of
college and for several
Whole Book years the soils have
on Soils been studied and men
Coming Out have lectured a b u t
what should be done
with various soils to
retain their fertility, while the States
demopstrators have made soils their
theme at all kinds of meetings, even
carting samples of various soils around
with them to show what they are good
| for. And in spite of the Mccormick
criticisms there is even now on the
press a State report on the soils of
Pennsylvania which will show the
character of soils in each county, the
geology. the chemical constituents
with statements as to what soils are
best adapted for potatoes, corn, wheat
and the rest. The study of the soils
was undertaken a few years ago at the
direction of Secretary of Agriculture
n. B. Critchfield because he saw the
necessity of placing within reach of
people who could not hear the lectur-
ers comprehensive statement regard
| ing the soils of Pennsylvania so that
! they might know where certain soils
were located and what would grow
best upon them. This book will show
the limestone soils of Oauphin county,
the sandstone soils and other soils and
tell farmers of what they are compos-
| ed. And the study of 1t was actually
begun when Mccormick was 'reor-
ganizing" the Democratic party. Yet
| he has no more to say about it than
| has Farmer" Greasy to tell about the
| failure of the national administration
to force through the oleo bill which
the Changers have endorsed and which
is one of the things a Democratic ad-
ministration has not done for the
farmer.
The Telegraph showed the other
night how crassly ignorant of what
Pennsylvania has done for the general
welfare along with the
other prog essiVe
Commonwealths t h Mccormick
| Democratic candidate in Bad All
| for governor appears Along Line
to be- The charitable
view to take is that he
| did not know just as he was not aware
that DR.. Dixon was working out the
| plan for organizing the great Bureau
of Housing when he made his speech
at Blain. AS to the long list of what
successive Republican administrations
and legislatures have done for the
farmers of Pennsylvania, the Demo-
cratic candidate prefers to go and
speak his piece regardless of what the
statute books and State reports, the
official documents, contain for the in
formation of the public.
! A Wilkes Barre dispatch says, War
! has been declared between rival fac
tions of the Democratic party in Lu-
zerne county and an
open break between the
Luzerne followers of Congress-
Democrats man John ]. Casey and
Fighting A. Mitchell Palmer
| promises to be. carried
on to a finish in the No
vember elections.
Trouble between these factions has
| long been brewing. Casey is an out
and out Garmanite and is really in
debted to the judge for the opportun-
ity which made him a Congressman.
| But Casey has been trying to carry
water on both shoulders. He has al
lied himself with the Garman forces
and he has likewise been trying to get
into the good graces of the Mclean
Kirkendall wing, despite the fact that
he beat Mclean for the Democratic
nomination two years ago.
1.-The hackers of Palmer dared not
| come out openly and oppose Casey, for
| it would have been considered po-
| litical suicide to draw swords po-
! litically with the Congressman. How
| ever, there has been no great desire
| to get together and a real political
| Wdl 10 OGiiE IOuEhb CONGI.
The Indianapolis News in a review
of political conditions in Pennsylva-
mia says that the Washington party
is going to pieces and
remarks: There seems
Indiana Man to be little doubt at
Says It's DIR. this time that the Re-
Brumbaugh publicans will e t
| their State I'll C e t.,
| which is headed by Dr.
Martin G.. Brumbaugh, and that they
will also hold their Congressman and
invade the Bull Moose's delegation of
six members and the Democratic dele
cation of twelve members. num-
Der of sets of surveys indicate a gain
of at least four Republican Congress
men, and some estimates go up to six
or seven.
'"The Democrats here have their
troubles. There are factional splits and
there have been delays in dispensing
| federal patronage from Washington
that have made trouble-as in New
York. The "old gang" Democrats also
insist that President Wilson forced
Palmer as a candidate for senator, and
Vance C. Mccormick as a candidate
for governor. on the party. McCor-
mick. after a bitter fight, defeated
Michael ]. Ryan for the nomination.
This was not only defeat for the old