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Milford chronicle., 1914-09-18
AUSTRIANSATBAY
ESCAPE BLOCKED
The Russian Forces Surround
Fleeing Enemy
CLAIM VICTORY IN PRUSSIA
March on Berlin Is Proceeding Ra-
pidly, According to Statement CT
War Ministry.

a dispatch to the Exchange Tele
graph company in London, Eng. from
PetrOgrad says that alter the captur
( Of Opole and Tourobine, the Russi p
/ forces have hemmed the enemy into
I the angle formed by the junction OF
! the River Eistula and the River San.
The message continues: 1T is i'm
possible for the Austrians to escape.
The general STAFF has issued an an
nouncement as follows.
Russian troops are progressing
along the lower stretches of the San
river without meeting resistance from
the enemy
after having occupied Grodek rs
miles west of Lemberg) and reached
Mosciska (37 miles south by west OF
/ Lemberg). the Russians find them.
/ selves within a single days march OF
Przemysl.
There was no fighting on Monday
in eastern Prussia.
Emperor Nicholas has conferre !
the decoration Of the order Of st
George on Lieutenant General Radkc
AfAAAAAAA lNllf LAE DuAe ell AdlAs AOA HIS Gill
nent service in the field"
The destruction OF the Austrian sup
plies was one of the most heroic eX .
ploits yet undertaken by the Russian
troops. A company Of Cossacks swan
the Nistula under the cover of dark
ness and blew up or set fire to two
steamboats,, seventeen pOntoOns and
ofnhHaar
number Of smaller boats and RATS.
The greater part of the supplies
had not been unlOaded. but the Cos
sacks completed their task by burning
all the military equipment they cout
find ashore.
General Ruszky has reported to the
war Office that among the troops r.
firing from Przemysl are about $500.
Germans, who we're sent to help the
Austrians. He declares that they viii
be unable to take active part in tie
after entering Przemysl, as he
will completely invest that stror S1a@
and prevent any sc-.-s
Il was officially announced that Gen.
eTai Rennenkampf had defeated the
Prussia and driven them back toward
with heavy losses. The
battle took place near Goldap. eighty
miles southeast Of Konigsberg. and
was fiercely contested. a
The official statement follows r
after a steady withdrawal for sew
eral DAYS before superior forces of the c
Germans, the Russians received heavy S
and drove the enemy Z
back. Reforming, they again took the {
offensive and attacked our position all {
1oldap. They stormed our positions o
with bayonet charges in the face Of S
fire. but repeatedly We're re c
pulsed.
FINALLY, after a bloody conflict that u
asted ten hours. the enemy retreated "
)ur troops are in hot pursuit. e
AS a result Of rumors that the Rus s.
ian campaign called for the capture t.
f Budapest and Vienna, as well as a
berlin, the following statement was ts
lade by Minister OF War Sukhomli n
off:
"Our objective is Berlin. We have in
o intention of taking either Vienna b,
r Budapest 1t was out plan to re T
love the Au'trians as a source OF st
anger. That has been accomplished bi
nd the southern army will merely be te
sed to hold the Austro-Hungariau
)rces in check"
Milford chronicle., 1914-09-18
German Cruiser HeIa sunk

An official report from Berlin statef
that a British submorine on Sunday
sank the German cruiser Hela. A ma
jority Of the crew was rescued, &C
csFding to the Berlin report.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-11-02
A SOUND RULING ON FUSION
tPhiladelphia Bulletin.l

Judge McCarrell's decision denying
the right of the Democratic State eX-
ecutive committee to make nomi-
nations filling vacancies on legislative
district tickets, to the exclusion of
county or district committees of the
party, serves to clear the air somewhat
on the question of fusion deals die
tated from State headquarters regard
less of local opinion.
If there is any excuse, short of
death, for setting aside the nomina-
tionS of the voters at the primaries, 1t
is certainly clear that this power ought
not to ,be exercised by little coterie
or group of leaders who are not
directly responsible and responsive to
these same electors of the party as
their representatives in the district or
ganization.
In the abstract. the idea of sub
stitutions after the primaries is an
tagonistic to the direct nomination
theory which considers the election to
be inviolable for mere purposes of
dickers and deal by the elimination of
stalking horses and the setting up of
nominees possibly opposed to the
opinion of the rank and file of the
party. But, because of the unavoid-
able shortcomings of any law that
must perforce leave loopholes for sub
Stitutions in order to meet emergen-
cies, there is always a chance for such
trading. Yet Judge McCarrell's action
in the Seventeenth Philadelphia dis
trict case properly delimits the au-
thority to the party committee most
nearly representatives of the voters
concerned, and this despite formally
adopted party rules to the contrary.
The decision is of Importance not SO
much for it's effect in the present cam
paign as a guide to the future. 1t is
now too late for the dissatisfied party
workers to use it effectively as an
obstacle to the Harrisburg made kind
of fusion on the legislative tickets
throughout the State before the cleo
ton a week hence, but it sets the law
against such tactics as the Palmer
Mccormick "reorganizers" have en-
ployed in ruling every segment of the
marty from "the front"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-11-02

philadelphia Public Ledger.1
If all the saints are in any particular
party, no one knows it. Those who
express such horror of Doctor Brum-
baugh because he heads the Repub-
liean State ticket can point to no un-
spotted record. nor do we observe that
these purists are committing hari-kari
rather than support the nominees of
Tammany Hall in New York State. A
character such as q long public life
has given Martin G. Brumbaugh does
not evaporate because he is on the
ticket of one party. AS he has been
fearlessly honest in public affairs here
tofore, SO Will he continue to be. AS
he has fought for the public good dur
ing preceding decades heretofore. so
Will he be on the firing line during the
succeeding four years. Members of the
Cabinet of the arch-Democrat himself
President Wilson, are stumping Illinois
for Roger Sullivan, and New York for
Tammany nominees, yet no one SuS-
poets that Woodrow Wilson would
stoop to ignoble traffic against the pub
lie good, or trouble with politicians for
personal advantage.
Colonel Roosevelt strongly argued
for Mr.. Pinchot on the ground that
he is q safe protectionist, and in the
same sentences he denounced the
Democratic tariff and Democratic poll.
cies, sneered at the Wilson admins
tration, but actually gave his indorse-
ment to Mr.. Mccormick, who was
President Wilson's personal choice for
the nomination for Governor on the
Democratic ticket. and would not have
been nominated except for that in
dorsement. Consistency, thou art A
jewel!
Doctor Brumbaugh is moral to the
core. He is efficient: he is energetic;
he is able. and he has the heart of the
Samaritan who stoops by the way
What he says he will do as Governor,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-11-02

these supervisors mean we'll enough
and perform their duties to the best of
their ability. But few of them un-
derstand the fundamentals of road
construction and road repair They
need instruction and help.
We talk very glibly about the i'm
provement of our roads, but few of us
realize the immensity of the task that
confronts those in charge of the
work. 1t is not within the bounds of
possibility for the State Highway De-
partment of itself to accomplish all
that is to be done. But by making the
supervisors understand that the State
is back of them with its expert advice
and financial assistance wherever that
assistance can be legally given will go
long way to make the dirt roads of
the State much better than they are
to-day.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-11-02
SETTING BACK THE CAUSE

~ ERSISTING in it's unfair and ut
- terly inexcusable attitude toward
1 DR.. Martin G. Brumbaugh to the
last, the latest publication of the
Pennsylvania edition of the American
ISSUE the organ of the Anti-Saloon
League, continues in it's misrepresen-
tation of the Republican candidate for
Governor.
We still believe that the local option
cause must triumph, but we just as
earnestly believe that it has been dealt
a serious blow by the unscrupulous
men now in control of the Pennsylva-
MIA organization. Instead of giving
their attention to the election of men,
bers of the Legislature favorable to
local option, these men have devoted
their entire attention and energy to
promoting the candidacy of the Demo-
cratic nominee for Governor, notwith-
standing the fact that DR.. Brumbaugh
has over and over again declared his
purpose to aid in the passage and to
approve the local option measure.
Yet these men continue to appeal to
the religious and temperance COM
munities of the State to turn their
backs upon DR.. Brumbaugh in favor of
a candidate who. should he be elected,
will be infinitely weaker as a pillar
than the Republican candidate, whose
party is altogether likely to be in the
majority in the Legislature.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-11-02
THOSE AWFUL PosTNIAsTERs

We are finding out what sort of
men the Republicans have made
postmasters out of. Two of them
have withheld-and one is said to
have destroyed-large numbers of
nostal cards bearing an appeal
from Mr.. Roosevelt for the defeat
Of Senator Penrose and the election
of MIR Pinchot. These poStmasters
felt that they owed their jobs to
Penrose, and therefore they must
use them in his interest
The foregoing from the Philadelphia
Record is interesting as showing the
political viewpoint. But our esteemed
metropolitan contemporary overlooked
a dispatch in the same issue of the
Record telling of the holding up of
some political matter sent out by the
chairman of the Republican county
committee in Bucks county by the post
master at Newtown. The Record states
that the postmaster, recent Demo-
cratic appointee, fatty refused to re-
ceive the letters and told the carrier
not to bring them inside the office.
The postmaster's action, according to
the Records correspondent, compelled
the carrier to take the letters to an
other post office. 1t matters a good
deal whose OK is gored.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-11-02
RIVER FRONT CHANGES

@ITY COMMISSIONER TAYLOR
head of the Department of Parks
~ and City Property, has a mans
job in the final grading and
planting of the slope along the entire
River Front of the city. With the
practical completion of the reinforced
concrete wall and steps the burden of
making the finest water front in the
world now rests upon the Department
of Parks.
So much depends upon the manner
of doing this important work that
Commissioner Taylor is wisely con-
sulting from time to time the distin-
guished landscape designer, Warren
II. Manning, who is so enthusiastic
over the future of Harrisburg that he
sings the praises of this city far and
wide.
The head of the park system has
been enlarging the South Harrisburg
park in the extreme southern section
of the city, and when the area be-
tween Paxton street and Iron avenue
shall have been graded and planted,
as will be done this Fall, the people
down town will have every reason to
be proud of their fresh-air resort.
Harris Park between Paxton and
Mulberry streets has also been consid-
erably widened by filling out toward
the river, and here, likewise, there
should be planted many trees of the
proper size and variety.
But it is along the slope and between
the base of the slope and the Front
Steps of Harrisburg" as most people
call the wall. that the Park Depart
ment will find the greatest opportun-
ity for immediate activity. There is
much to be done in the way of grad
ing and planting before the winter is
too far advanced, not only in the sec
tion south of the Market street bridge,
but, from that point northward to
Maclay street.
It has been wisely decided to con-
struct depressed walk along the top
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-11-02
POLITICAL SIDE[ICHTS

Up to date Mccormick has not
made any comments on the Morris
letter to Bonner.
Neither letters to Bonner nor
Shelley figured at the Chestnut Street
Auditorium.
The frost was early on Saturday
night and it was noticeable when the
Mccormick automobile went up Mar
ket street.
-Blakslee is not predicting very
much on Mccormick. Jim was always
rather far-seeing.
DIR. Brumbaugh's Endorsement by
John Wanamaker is the kind that he
who runs may not only read, but be-
lieve.
The persistence of the big news
papers in predicting that Brumbaugh
and Penrose will win is not understood
in Market Square.
One of the strong features of the
campaign has been the modesty of the
Democratic nominee for Governor.
Mccormick will make a last ap-
peal in Northampton county tonight.
Something must be wrong in that
Democratic stronghold to have a can
didate speak there at a quarter to
twelve.
The Philadelphia Press shows that
1t is nearly right when its second poll
on Brumbaugh shows him a winner
by figures that differ but 100 in a
week.
That 1000 men that Doc Dough-
erty was going to bring from Mechan-
icsburg numbered just 80.
Take out Mechanicsburg and Mid
dletown and other places and the
Mccormick parade was a pretty skinny
local demonstration. Harrisburg did
not turn out very strong.
Of course, the crowd on Saturday
night was out to see Mccormick, not
the mummers.
The Rev. John G.. Wilson, promi-
nent Philadelphia Methodist pastor, is
out for Brumbaugh in a strong let
ter.
Colonel Roosevelt did not refer to
his telegram to Brumbaugh while in
the State.
Doc Kreider appears to have
beaten Kaufman several miles in get
ting publicity in the Patriot Wonder
why?
Ben Focht will show his Demo-
cratic detractors a few things to-mor-
row.
Watch the Brumbaugh vote in the
Juniata Valley.
Lebanon Chairman Noll says that
Penrose and Brumbaugh will sweep
Lebanon county.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-11-02
CONVINCING TESTIMONY
IPhiln 4 elnhin L adnnr.

President Mckinley borrowed Doc
tor Brumbaugh from the University
of Pennsylvania to organize an educa-
tional system in Porto Rico. McKin-
ley had to borrow" him because the
University could not dispense with his
services as a professor.
President Roosevelt telegraphed to
Doctor Brumbaugh to stay and con-
tinue his great creative and admins
trative work in Porto Rico. 1t was
impossible for Brumbaugh to remain,
even though President Roosevelt ask
ed him to do so in the name of the
federal government. His time was
up and he must return to the univer-
sity.
Louisiana borrowed Doctor Brum-
baugh to organize the Institutes of
that State, and thus standardize edu-
cation in the South. When the task
was accomplished, although Louisiana
wanted him to remain, be must per-
force turn his face again toward
PENNSYLVANIA - the Commonwealth
wherein his ancestors had done
pioneer work, in which he was born
and which he knew and loved with q
true patriots devotion.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-11-02
MIR. BONNER UNDERSTANDS

. Neil Bonner, the nrst Nlce-preSl-
q dent of the National Liquor
League, has been on the Roll of
- Honor" of the Democratic ma
chine supporters.
We have been under the impression
that the ambitious clique now in con-
troll of the Democratic organization
had turned their backs on Mr.. Bonner
and. his associates in the liquor busi-
ness, according to their own state
ments, but the appeal of Roland S.
Morris, chairman of the Democratic
State Committee. to Mr.. Bonner for
help forces the conclusion that the
reputation of the liquor interests by
the McCormick-Palm aggregation is
not intended to be taken seriously by
the liquor men. 1t is only to be used
as bait for such gudgeons as will swal-
low it.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-11-02
MONDAY EVENING,

of the slope from "Hardscrabble"
northward. and this double terrace ef-
feet will not only be pleasing from q
landscape point of view; it will be
more economical and decidedly at
tractive. 1t might be we'll to consider
whether similar treatment should not
be adopted from Herr street to the
city's pumping station at North street,
between which points the slope is
high and abrupt.
All in all the Department of Parks
has at least two months of grading
and filling and planting ahead of it
and plenty of work for idle hands un-
der competent supervision. Commits
sioner Taylor is having the effective
cooperation of the other councilmen
in this great finishing feature of an
important municipal undertaking.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-11-02
RESTING ON THEIR ARMS
"HE last word has been said, the
final orders issued and the mo-
I bilization of the forces engaged


final orders issued and the mo-
= bilization of the forces engaged
in the most remarkable cam
paign in the history of the State is now
complete.
Tomorrow morning the greatest
battle of. the year-the battle of the
ballots of a sovereign people-will
engage the interest and attention of
hundreds of thousands of freemen.
And not until long after the sun shall
have gone down will the conflict cease.
Upon the result will rest the ap-
proval or disapproval of the Demo-
cratic Administrator with it's long
program of experiment and disaster.
In this State the issue is clear and
unmistakable. Palmer and McCor-
mick are the personally selected can
didates of President Wilson. They
have asked support for themselves as
an endorsement of the free trade act
which has caused such widespread
disaster and other policies of the
National Administration. If the voters
of Pennsylvania are satisfied that
these policies should be approved,
then they ought to vote for McCor-
mick and Palmer. But unless they
want to place the stamp of their ap-
proval upon the breaking down or
the pro- ective tariff system, the impo-
sition of enormous direct taxes upon
the people, violation of solemn pledges
to the people and general incompe-
tency the voters of Pennsylvania will
vote for the Republican ticket and
thus indicate their reputation of the
party in power at Washington and all
its works.
Here in our own State the Demo-
cratic machine has done it's utmost
to divert attention from the national
Issues by a campaign of personal
abuse and misrepresentation of Re-
publican candidates. Pennsylvania
has been held up as all that is mean
and contemplate and low, while the
little men seeking place and power
have rolled their eyes toward heaven
and thanked the Lord that they are
not as other men.
Dripping with their own venom and
meanness they now sit in SNUG COR
tent waiting the verdict of the people.
1t will not be long coming. Hypoc-
risy is not popular in Pennsylvania.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-11-02
THE LOSING GAME
BY Wing Dlnger

McCormick's hustled bout the State
Proclaiming against booze
In league with liquor interests
Other folks he would accuse.
But If he's so sincere in
His statements bout himself,
Why did his party-workers
From hotel-men seek pelf?
Saloon keepers were asked to
Contribute to the fund,
And some few firm believers"
Were then but slightly stunned,
But when they wrote Neil Bonner
To come across with coin
And join the Roll of Honor
To help Vance to purloin
The Governors Chair, and Palmer
To cop a Senate seat.
The crow was far too sickening
For stalwart friends to eat
And when elections over
They'll realize that loss
Is sure to come from trying
To work the double cross.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-11-02
THE BULLDozER ABROAD
[From the ALTOONA Trlbune. l

From the Altoona Tribune.l
Every American citizen has the right
to form, cherish and express his own
opinions concerning the various prob
lens of the day. He goes beyond the
bounds of rational freedom when he
assumes that nobody is honest who
does not share his opinions and he be-
comes a menace to freedom when he
undertakes by harsh expressions, BIT
ter criticism or positive threats to
bring others into subsection to his
will The bulldozer is a fair Judge of
human nature. He knows he can
individual by threats and harsh eX-
pressions. There's a considerable
amount of cowardlce in the world.
Many persons would do almost any
thing to avoid a controversy. And
this gives the bu1ldozer his oppor-
tunity. He calls his turbulence and
coarseness frank speech and he uses
1t a great deal because he finds 1t
pays in divers ways. Yet he should
be resisted to the utmost.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-11-02
WHY :?

wv HEN the Anti-Saloon League
M bosses in their official organ
w ask the voters-referring to
DR.. Brumbaugh - whether
they Twill accept the .eleventh-hour
statement of a man who has no past
record on this question, who has wab-
bled and straddled until he became
ridiculous" they discount the intelli-
gence of the Pennsylvania voter They
must have known that DR.. Brumbaugh
has a temperance record running
back over a generation. Any inquiry
whatever would have disclosed the
fact that he was secretary of the or
ganization in Huntingdon county in
1889 when that county was carried by
700 majority for the amendment to
the Constitution prohibiting the man
ufacture and sale of intoXicants in
Pennsylvania. During that remark
able contest he made speeches in favor
of prohibition all over the county
and furnished most of the temperance
articles in the county newspapers. DIR.
Brumbaugh was one of the first local
optionists in the State, yet we have
such men as Moore, the present head
of the Anti-Saloon League in Penn
sylvania, outrageously misrepresenting
the Republican candidate. Why?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-11-02
we'll KNOWN PEOPLE

Judge John l.. Kinsey, of Phila-
delphia, is very i'll at his summer
home.
Judge c. A. Reed, of Jefferson
county, is an ardent hunter.
-EX-G Governor Pennypacker saws it's
all nonsense to say that people in the
West are more patriotic than those in
the East.
The Rev. Edgar Vincent Loucks,
dean of the Allentown College for
Women, will accept a pastorate in
Ohio.
A. c. Dinkey, president of the Car
negie Steel Company, is great patron
of sports.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-11-02
GOT 1T AND DON'T WANT 1T

[From the Waynesboro Independent
For several years the Democrats
have been bowling for direct primary
for Pennsylvania. Now that 1t. has
been secured they refuse to be satisfied
with it and are the first to aid In set
ting. it aside. The first direct act in
doing away with the direct primary
was the fusion of the Bull Moose and
Democratic candidates for Governor
which was accomplished by pushing
Dean Lewis overheard. Now they are
attempting a fusion on the Senatorial
aspirants However. candor compels us
to give the Democrats credit for one
thing. They seem to want the Bull
Nnnse to do all the fuSinR.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-11-02

we believe he will do. When he tells
us that in all his public acts he will
be his own master. the servant of no
man or faction of men, loyal to his ma
tive State. we believe he is speaking
flexible will to execute his purposes.
He has not fooled up by vague prom
ises. He says: II shall never know
boss 1 hate boss as much as you"
The campaign that has been directed
against him is slanderous, but instead
of doing him harm it has made him
new supporters, as will be evidenced
by the overwhelming victory he will
achieve next Tuesday
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-11-02

Wonder what would have happened
had some Republican leader attempted
such an assault upon, say President
Wilson, through the medium of post
card, as Roosevelt made upon Penrose
Would the Democratic administration of
the Post Office Department at Wash
ington have directed the delivery of the
cards when held up by postmaster In
pursuance of simple construction of
the regulation against the transmission
of mail matter containing defamatory
statements? 1t matters muchly whose
interest is at stake.