Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-01
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
a NoNPARTIsAN VIEW

10 tne EDITOR OF The Telegraph
Some times when 1 read the Patriot
wonder II al Republicans are
crooked. When a man comes out for
office on the Republican ticket he is
a gangster. If it is before the pri-
maries he is either a Beidleman or
McIlhenny gangster, and then at the
general election he is just a common
gangster and all men who vote for
them / guess must be gangsters.
am nonpartisan voter registered non
partisan, but l cannot believe that all
man runs for office on the Republican
lican ticket are crooked and rotten.
1t looks to me that just as soon as a
man runs for Il ce on the Republican
ticket, though he never run for office
before and he might be a clean, up
right, honest Christian man, just so
soon do they cry out "Gangster,"
Rotten" Corrupt" Crooked" and
they will not leave one little thing un-
turned to blacken his character And
these same people who stir up pre-
judice, hate and contempt amongst
their fellow men parade around as Re-
formers and Christian men. If that
is the kind of Christians they are look
ing for, l don't think 1 shall want any
of that 1 think they should try to
carry out some of the teachings of our
| Blessed Savior while He was on this
| earth. Love one another, and as a
nonpartisan and great believer in
the Clark act for third class cities
| believe that our City Council gave
us the best we ever had. Let us take
Mr.. Bowman. Any property owner
who pays water rent knows that he
pays one dollar less since Mr.. Bow
man is in office and gets more water
and there are other numerous things
that Mr.. Bowman did. Mr.. Taxpayer,
isn't it a fact that under Mr.. Lynch
our streets are better than ever? I'm
der the old city government the High
way Commissioner was appointed by
the mayor and many times the most
incompetent man was appointed to fill
the Job, just because he had a political
pull. In Mr.. Lynch we have a good
man who understands the department
thoroughly and | believe the people
would make grave mistake by de-
feating him. Our Park Commissioner
Mr.. Taylor, II did not vote for the
first time, but I think that his DEPART
ment has been better than ever before
and l think that the great number of
people that go to the parks can testify
to that. I believe that the biggest
knock on Mr.. Taylor is that he is a
poor man, out of the ranks of the wage
earners and therefore think that every
wage Garner Snould support him. And
now for Mr.. Gorgas I have been a
reader of your Telegraph for two years
and in that time I think the TELEGRAPH
was very fair to Mr.. Gorgas. II
never knocked on him. Therefore I
think he must have been a good and
efficient office holder and believe that
he should be returned to office. And
now for Mr.. Royal. Personally I be-
lieve him to be good clean man but
he, with the aid of the Harrisburg
Morning Patriot has continually in
jected partisan politics into our CITY
Council. Also I do not think that our
police department has anything to brag
about under Royal. 1t will be remem-
bered that when Walter Quigley was
shot i'm the legs out in the vicinity of
Herr street, the Police department
claims it did not know who did n.
Then / think that the head of the de-
part was not on the job. Also 1t will
be remembered that when q certain
house was pulled on South Fourth
street, the department refused to give
out the names of those caught in that
raid Hutchison's statement in that raid
is still fresh in the minds of MANY
people. Should they have been moor
people the chief would have thrown
out his chest and made a big noise
and say. see how l cleared the place
up"
Signed. j.
NoNPARTIsAN VOTER.