Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-29
EVENING CHAT

| The phrase going home to vote" is
SO commonly associated with Capitol
Hill that the average person probably
never realizes that there are far more
| persons who transact business or have
employment in Harrisburg who go
back to their homes to cast ballots in
| November than there are people on
Capitol Hill. counting in those who live
in this city. To begin with, there are
many people who work in this city
whose homes are in nearby counties
| ana who go home on Sundays and on
! holidays, considering that the old
home is the place and keeping 1t as
| their voting residence. There are also
many travelling men who have head
| quarters here who vote in other parts
! OF Pennsylvania and altogether it
! would be surprising the number of
| men who are apparently part of the
| daily life of Harrisburg and who are
| yet legal residents of other places. 1t
is well known that large proportion
| of the people on Capitol Hill are resi-
dents of this city. that is, the male
officials and attaches of the State gov
ernment. There are many more who
happen to be women and who do not
vote. but there is goodly number
| who live and vote here.
Chestnut Street Hail. which ten
years ago was never thought of for
political meetings. has come into its
own as the place for big gatherings
and the Courthouse and the Board
of Trade are now back numbers. The
hall is said to be the largest in this
part of the State and the chances are
that this week it will have three of the
largest crowds ever assembled under
its wide girders. The Republicans last
n 10 hf IA
held in the place and the Progressives
are holding forth to-day with Theo-
dore Roosevelt as their drawing card.
Saturday night the Democrats will
have their time.
The decision of Judge McCarrell in
the nomination cases had funny side
light. 1t scared candidates in half
the legislative districts in the State
and the way kilograms night letters,
day letters. ordinary letters, notes and
missives. to say nothing of telephone
messages, have been pouring into the
Capitol asking if everyone will have
to get off the ticket has been astonish-
ing. One man said that he did not
want to be ugly. but felt that he ought
to get official notice to get off, as the
printers would not take off his name
without judicial action. He was told
that he had not been contested.
The percentage of people fooled by
carefully wrapped package on side
walk is very small after all. A couple
of messengers boys figured that out
last evening when they put a shoe box,
filled with waste paper and fruit skins,
on the pavement in Third street near
Market. The box was wrapped and
tied as though it had just come from
store. Nine out of every ten people
simply looked at it and passed 1t by.
The one stopped and fingered it and
one man out of twenty-five gave 1t
kick. The box stayed on the pave
ment for fifteen minutes and no one
picked 1t up.
Penn" writing in the Philadelphia
Bulletin on the profuse and indiscrimi-
nate use of titles. especially in cam
paigns, says: General Thomas J.
Stewart, one of the best men, in flt-
ness. that have ever held his Office at
Harrisburg, as Acknowledgement. is
nevertheless slightly suggestive, in his
| title, of the practice of some people
who are fond of such things when they
invest an encouragement or post
master-general with the rank of gem
eral, as if they were military officers.
General Stewart. however. does bear
an active and regular relation to the
military life of the State. AS usual,
"a title which came to him legiti-
mately in his degrees. But as used by
men who are not either physicians or
clergymen. 1t is so often misnomer,
and sometimes so ridiculous, too, as
compared with the paucity of their
moral and intellectual status or their
public achievement. that some men on
whom it has been conferred pigeon
hole 1t, or, when proffered to them,
decline 1t altogether. Governor Tener,
for instance, has shown good sense in
refusing 1t three or four times when
informed by colleges that IL would be
bestowed upon him; in that regard he
manifested more of sense of the fit
ness of things than they did. But in
the case of Brumbaugh, if he shall be-
come Governor. the Doctor will prob
ably drop gradually from his name in
both popular speech and the newspa-
pers, as 1t has almost entirely in the
past year or two-save some facetious
little twist here and there-from the
name of Woodrow Wilson"