Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-31
CAMPAIGN BECOMES
VERY ENTERTAINING
All Sorts of Stunts Have Been Used
For Publicity During the
Closing Weeks
PALMER TO GET A SOFT SNAP
When Beaten For Senator He Will
Be Given Washington Place;
College Mems Break

In many respects the campaign
which will wend its way to some
what tumultuous close next Tuesday
night about midnight has been one
of the most unique ever known in Har-
risburg. 1t has been marked by eX-
penditure of wind and ink and the
adoption of many methods not ordi-
narily employed to boom and boost
| candidates. The partisan candidates
have gone to some lengths and the
Democrats have gone to extremes, the
antics in Market Square rather en-
phasizing the dignified manner in
which the friends of President Judge
George Kunkel have conducted the
nonpartisan campaign.
Here are some of the agencies en-
ployed to impress the voter with the
merits or candidates. aside from sun
dry acres of display advertising. The
stereopticon in the old opera house
cellar; circulars, personal letters, post
cards from home and Oyster Bay;
handbills, banners, transparencies, the
Palmer er-McCormick League. child la
Dor plaoard bearers in which the ju-
venile bearers worked long after time
to be in bed; show window placards,
billboards, street car advertising. let
ter heads, stickers for envelopes, past
ers and folders.
The list would be incomplete with
out mention of Jesse Lybarger's ad-
vertising automobile which with be-
coming modesty he has driven most
of the time himself, in and out of
place, and which makes almost as
much noise as its owner.
According to the Philadelphia Press
to-day everything is arranged for the
dropping of A. Mitchell Palmer in a
soft place at Washing
ton when the Demo-
cratic balloon blows up Places For
next Tuesday. This Democrats
place is a $4,000 job to Get on
with the new Federal
Trade Commission. The
President is said to have made 1t all
| right and comfy for Palmer to alight
probably feeling that he owes him
something for getting into the fight
in this State. AS for the rest of the
Democrats who will be sacrificed,
Farmer" Greasy will go back to his
farm and take up some late spraying
and grating in his orchard, and "Bill'
McNair will take up law. McCor-
mick will be unable to go abroad be-
cause OF the war, but will have time
after his defeat to see America first.
People in this city who have been
unable to go to college, and many men
| who have received degrees, are re-
senting with a good
bit of vigor letter
silly Work sent out from Phila-
For Vance delphia by a Demo-
Mccormick cratic annex styling
itself the Palmer
Mccormick College
| Mems League" 1t is not the forma-
tion of a college mems league that is
making people mad, but 1t is the as
sumption of superiority which the
league makes. This is in line with
everything that Mccormick does. He
goes on the assumption that he is
better and stronger than other men.
The college league starts off it's cir
culiar with this decidedly Grass re-
mark YOU are college man and
as such represent the best elements
in our Commonwealth.
The Philadelphia Inquirer says: "a
campaign circular put out in the in
terest of the candidacy of A. Mitchell
Palmer, Democrat,
for the United States
Senate, and addressed Palmer Puts
to members of fra His Foot
ternal and other So Into 1t Hard
cieties, some of
which, it is declared,
he is not affiliated with, has raised a
storm of protest from representative
men in these organizations. Politi-
cal workers, it is charged, have OBJ
tanned possession of mailing lists of
various lodges and societies and the
circular, which bears rubber
stamped signature of A. Mitchell Pal
mer, is being mailed broadcast to
such voters. The letter is addressed
Dear Sir and Brother and among
other things says: TT has been sug-
gested from various quarters that l
should appeal to my fellow lodge
members for support in the present
grave political crisis in Pennsylvania.
This l cannot do on the ground of
our fellowship in the order without
grave impropriety, but 1 feel that 1
am justified in using our common
aims as my reason for asking your
interest-whatever may be your de-
cision-in the present political condi-
ltionS of our State"