Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-26
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By the Ex-Conamitteeman

will win in the cities appears to be
conceded and in most of the counties
the conditions are as favorable to Re-
publican success as they are in Dau-
phin.
Throughout the State the machine
methods of the dominant faction OF
the Democracy have caused disgust
ana the feeling caused by the dis
covery that some eminent reformers
Il were men of clay after all has made
many independents determine to vote
Republican. Democrats are quarrel
ing among themselves over the spoils
and every post Office appointment
seems to make trouble.
The constitutional amendments are
commencing to attract attention. The
} woman suffrage campaign has kept q
good many people busy, but now the
other amendments are arousing in
terest.
Here is one of the funniest political
stories in the State. 1t comes from
Schuylkill county and says: PRO
hibition voters of Schuylkill county
were stirred to day by the news that
| Lewis Helm, of Cressona, a saloon
keeper, has won place on the ballot
as Prohibition candidate for county
commissioner. Helm was a candidate
Tor the Democratic nomination for
commissioner. He is as much sur
! prised as the Prohibitionists to find
| himself their nominee. 1t was not
until to-day, after the ballots partly
were printed, that Helms candidacy
became known"
Harry A. Mackey. chairman of the
| Compensation Board, in a speech at
| Philadelphia last night characterized
| George ID. Porter as q "deSecrator of
pulpits" and a "defamer of God s
houses" He said that such issues had
| been injected into the campaign as
should make every man with good,
red blood register himself under the
Republican banner" He said that
Thomas B. Smith would have as large
majority as Porter has votes.
George Greer. Il. I Phillips and T.
r. Moorhead, capftansrs of New Castle,
have been chosen by the Board of
! Trade to cooperate with the National
Board of Trade in framing a law pro-
Viding for n tariff commission. The
appointments were made at the re.
Guest of the national organization,
which asked that men acquainted with
tariff necessities of the country be ap-
pointed to represent Lawrence county.
The Lawrence county appointees will
| secure the cooperation of DIR. Henry
| w. Temple, Republican nominee for
Congress considered certain of cleo
ton from the Twenty-fourth district.
The PHILADELPHIA Inquirer to-day
says: Voters of the northwestern and
northeastern sections of Philadelphia
last night welcomed the invasion of
Thomas B. Smith and other nominees
on the Republican ticket into their
neighborhoods with demonstrations
seldom rendered candidates for local
once. Parades in which thousands
cheered the prospects of the victory of
Republicanism at the November cleo
| tion and four mass meetings held in
| nails lilled to overcrowding were part
OF the program for the evening. SEN
ator Boies Penrose. accompanying the
local nominees on the tour, made two
speeches, calling for a sweeping Re-
publican victory in Philadeiphia. NOT
only for the benefit of the city, but for
the country at large"
John c. Bell, a former district attor-
ney and Attorney General under Gov
ernor Tener, yesterday publicly stepped
INTO the suffrage ranks. Affirming his
belief in democracy-in its spirit and
its dominion" Mr.. Bell, in his first
public statement on the question. de-
clared that woman should be given the
sunrage, that her influence and vote
VIII be for the uplift and betterment
OF our civil government-in city,
State and nation"
uNTRAINED MEN IN OUR WARS
| . Ihe Philadelphia Branch of the Ma
tional Security League, having opened
a military and naval exhibit has addeS
10 that exhibit cards showing how the
nation has suffered through lack OF
preparedness in wars this country has
| engaged In. The cards show that fine
nation used greater force than its
adVersaries, and by reason of the fact
OF our unpreparedness made IL neces-
sary that we rush many unframed men
into the ranks. Here are the figures
on the wars:
Reyolutionarry- 3s5.S5S;
War Of 1S12zzaAmericans. 527, 652; Brit.
lsh, 10000. despite small opposine
force, the Capitol at Washington was
burned by the British).
| Creek Indian War Americans. "a
OIL; Indians. 1000. - -
Indians 1000.
Mexicans, $4,000. Omitted States wss
better prepared for this war than any
Civil War-Union, 2672,341; Confed-
crate, 10000 900.
| Spanish american - Americans 2S1
503; Spanish, 100000
| BY these statistics the league homes
10 impress upon the public that an ade-
quately equipped and trained army and
navy before war, would be better
tnan TO call on a great force in ar
emergency; 1t is proven that a trained
army IN advance of war will save mil
lions OF dollars of unnecessary ex-
pense and also national honor and in.
teSrity. -'