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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-06
Lest We Forget

Writing to the New York Sun on
the importance of the campaign, a
correspondent says:
Certainly the manufacturing people
and the laborers of the country have
not forgotten the effects of the Under
wood law during the time it was op-
erative before the European war
goods of foreign countries which oc-
cupied the markets of home produc-
ton; that 1t took off the payroll
500, 900 American laborers and placed
them on the idle roll; thai itsbrought
the country face to face with a panic
which was averted only by the Secre-
tary of the Treasury assuring the
banks of the country that $500, 900, 600
emergency currency already in the
Treasury was available to their use on
required security as provided by the
Aldrich- h-Vreeland act of May 80, 1908,
law passed by Republican Congress
10 meet emergencies of contracted
credit and panicky conditions of the
country, such as. prevailed in June,
1913.
''The people will not forget. either,
that the effect of the Underwood law
was the monthly curtailment of our
expectations from the date the Under
wood law took effect until in April,
1914, the balance of trade went against
us to an amount above $11 900, 900,
and continued against us each month
to and including August. 1914, when
the war orders of the European war
shifted the balance of trade in our
favor. They will not forget that the
present prosperity of the country is
bat partial. and is based on the. alb
normal orders and demands for war
supplies in Europe. and when the war
Is over and peace reigns normal con-
.ditions will return of competition
under the Underwood law. mills will
close and labor be idle again. Nor
will they overlook the fact that the
present boasted prosperity of the
country Is but partial and not general.
and that there have been more COM
mercial failures during the Wilson ad-
ministration than ever before in the
same length of time"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-06
DON'T FORGET IT

'"OUR vote tomorrow will not he
p i complete until you have mark
ed the high school loan ticket
at the bottom of the official ballot,
The high school loan space occupies
g separate place on the official ballot
The man who votes n straight party
ticket is apt to miss it, unless he paws
close attention. to his marking. You
will lose your high school vote and
your vote for Supreme court judge un-
less you mark an X in the squares
provided for those purposes,
Of course you will vote for the high
school loan, Good citizenship and
good business both demand 1t, You
want Harrisburg to keep pace with
other cities in every line, including
school facilities. You want the bows
and girls of this city to have the best
education that money can buy. You
want to keep down the tax rate to a
reasonable level.
The passage of the loan will insure
all these things, for If the loan is not
approved the school board will have
to build the high schools out of cur
rent revenues and that will mean a big
jump in the tax rate and higher rents.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-06
LABOR LEADERS TELL WHY THEY
FAVOR HUGHES FOR PRESIDENT

preme Court of the United States. The
hatters' case had already been de-
cided in its essentials two years be-
fore his appointment. The opinion in
which he took part was merely upon
the technical point of whether the jury
trial and assessments against the
union had been made in proper form
questions of legal evidence and
bookkeeping, which had nothing to
do with the right or wrong of the
contention that the hatters were sub
ject to the Sherman antitrust law.
He has opposed the Adamson wage
law, recently placed on the statute
books by the present Democratic ad-
ministration, because enacted without
the thorough investigation which he
has so consistently stood for and be-
cause of the REIMBURSEMENT of the
principle of arbitration which we can
not give up. That law ooes not limit
the work of day to eight hours. 1t
provides that the standard of COM
pensation shall be eight hours instead
of ten hours. 1t therefore merely in
creases the pay Of the men twenty
per cent. Less than one-half of one
per cent. of the entire population
benefits-about 400, 900 in the brother
hoods. The 100000 who work in the
shops and freight houses and on the
tracks receive no advantage. Without
looking into the justice or necessity
of the advance in wages at this time,
which might have been ascertained
by arbitration, the law was enacted at
the expense of the clerks, small busi-
nessmen, farmers and the entire re-
mainder of the people. To refuse in
vestigation and arbitration opens the
way for such refusal in the future on
the part of capital, which is better
organized than labor. Government
should be the means of providing for
the maintenance of the just rights or
TCOntinucsI on Page 141
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-06
UP TO THE VOTER

T>HE campaign of 1916 is at an end.
i The mind of the nation is de-
cided. All that remains is to
cast the ballot. The final argument
has been made; the last appeal utter
ed. Politicians have schemed and
planned. Candidates have pleaded
and ragged But it is the voter who
is the deciding factor. The great vot-
Ing population of the country will reg
ister its will tomorrow. Make no mis-
take about that. Let nobody deceive
you. practical politicians of all par
ties will do some vote-buying and some
bribing. but none has q monopoly on
that sort of thing and the one offsets
the other. 1t is the honest, straight
thinking citizen whose vote counts
most in these United States. He holds
the balance of power and he is nearly
always right in his conclusions.
1t was devotion to conviction that
split the Republican party four years
ago. 1t was power to think clearly
and Freedom from prejudice that
brought the two wings of the party to-
gether again this year. There was
never time when the American voter
has been more thoughtful of the issues
ut stake than during this campaign.
Fhifsnder g. Knox, in his speech here
two weeks ago, remarked this serious
attitude of the voters toward their re-
spohsibilities, They have refused to
be stampeded, They have listened and
read and said little. They have made
up their own minds as the facts in the
case presented themselves, The i'm
passioned speech, the torch light pro-
cession, the party newspaper organ
have had little weight with them, The
newspaper that dares print the truth
and the public school have been get
ting in their work, The yeters-the
great ranh and file of them-are
thinking for themselves, Canned po-
Iiticai opinion is no longer popular,
IT is because this is SOL because men
now moro than ever before read and
reason for themselves that those who
have been praying that the nation be
rescued from the errors, the delusions,
fhe weaknesses and the extravagances
jnte which it has fallen in recent years
ga to bed Tonight calm in the belief
that tomorrow the voters will correct
the mistake of 1912 and set us right
again with ourselves and before the
world,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-06
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Senator Martin Praised
'itor of the Telegraph:

10 fhs Editor of the Telegraph:
The Patriot of the I'd instant con-
tanned bitter attack against State
Senator Franklin Martin. the Repub-
iican candidate to succeed himself in
the Thirty-f1rst district. 1t makes silly
charges OF subserviency to Penrose-
the great bugaboo of Vance McCor-
mick In particular and Democracy in
general.
That Senator Martins course during
his term has been satisfactory to his
constituents is evidenced from the fact
that there was not the slightest oppo-
sltion 10 his denomination. In fact. SO
popular was he recognized to be that
the Democrats found great difficulty
IN IN nnaing anyone to run against him.
Scotty Leiby was finally induced per-
sonaily by Vance Mccormick to be-
come the sacrifice with the under
standing that the Harrisburg plutocrat
would put up all the "dough"-and
I-eioy Is now using 1t as corruption
1und. Leiby is of the hand-picked
variety and If elected-and he hasn't
the ghost of chance-will be the
subservient tool of Mccormick.
BUT Mr. Leiby is not having all plain
sallnG in his own party, some of whose
members have political aspirations as
weii as he. This is especially notice.
able in Perry county. where, truth is.
the Leibys have had about all the DO,
iltlcai plums worth while in their re-
spective localities during Democratic
administrations. Under Cleveland one
OF Scottys uncles was postmaster at
Newport, and during the present ad-
min1stration q cousin has the excellent
job. At Marysville, Scotty's home. un-
DER Cleveland his uncle had the most
mastershfp, and now his father has it.
All other worthy aspirants have been
pushed aside from the pie counter to
make room for the Leibys and very
noticeably there is much discomfort
and dissatisfaction in Democratic
ranks. What's the use of fighting for
democracy If the Leibys alone receive
substa ntial recognition?
Leiby has employed contemplate
campaign methodS playing good Lord
ana good deviP' as seems best suited.
70 a temperance man he is a Pro-
nlpltlonist; to whisky man, let him
nave MS rum. To the farmer he is a
hony%handed son Of toil-delyine.
probably, on McCormick's farms To
the city sport<he is in favor of hunters
Incense; to the rural hunters he's dead
set against 1t. He is in favor of fish,
ermen's license and then he isn't. Any
thing to secure votes Is Scottys motto.
However, as election day approaches
1t is growing more evident that McCor
mlcks puppet will be permitted to sit
IN MS off1ce. next door to the windmill
In Market Square, from which he
draws his inspiration. there to reflect
upon the mutations of politics-like
unto his political master did after the
1914 fiasco.
FAIR PLAY.
Marysvfile. Pa. Nov. 8. 1915.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-06
The Better Road
New York Sun1

'You ask what road / propose to
travel" Mr.. Hughes said to his audience
in Boston. Then he described the road
he will take.
Were the way stations of Watchful
Humanity in Mexico. Executive Sur
render. Bryan, Daniels and Baker on
the route?
No. Mr.. Hughes. not having a One
Track Mind. will be able to run a few
has no curves. no open switches, no
broken block signals; and. besides be-
ing straight, 1t is rock ballasted.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-06
WEST SHORES OPPORTUNITY

TIME West Shore will have an op-
portunity tomorrow that does
not come to any group Of COM
munities more than once in gener-
alton. When East Pennsboro town
ship, Washington Heights, Enola.
Camp Hill, Wormleysburg, West Fair
view and Lemoyne vote on the central
high school loan they will say whether
or not they stand for public education
or against it. for the Improvement of
their communities or against their de-
velopment, for community co-opera-
ton or against it, for an economical
administration of the school system or
for an ineffective and extravagant ad-
ministration.
1t must be evident to everybody that
the towns and the township in ques-
ton can maintain one high school
more cheaply that they can run half
dozen schools and that the :. central
high school will be much better than
the little high schools now operated
by the various towns. 1t must be evil
dent also that even If the new high
school cost more in taxes, which 1t will
not, that it will produce q building
growth on the West Shore that will
greatly increase school revenues. 1t
must be apparent, too. that unless bet
ter school facilities are provided the
West Shore that district is not going
to grow as rapidly as otherwise.
The central high school proposed
will put all the West Shore towns on
an equal footing. The little town and
the big town, the township and the
boroughs will all have the same high
school advantages.
The West Shore has everything to
gain and nothing to lose by adopting
the loan. 1t is difficult to see why
there should be single vote against
it.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-06
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Charles p. Hunt. who retires 81
lieutenant-colonel of the First InfalA
Try. has served forty years in tins
Guard.
judge John B. Mcpherson was
birthday.
Judge John M Garman. of
Wilkes-Barre, has placed big Ameri
can flag in his courtroom to teach ap-
plicants for citizenship some patri-
otism.
captain j. w. Good, of one of the
Philadelphia cavalry troops, came
home to be married. He is back with
his troop.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-06
PROTECTING PAVED STREETS

L Ef ERENCE mas already been
IN made to the commendable effort
of City Commissioner Lynch to
protect the paved streets of the city
from the onslaughts of corporations
and others. We trust that he will not
cease his efforts in this direction until
there shall have been enacted by the
City Council an ordinance placing
heavy penalties upon all persons re-
sponsible for damage to the paved
streets.
OF course. 1t is out of the question
10 expect that no street surface shall
be opened for the installation of proper
service connections. but there has been
entirely too much latitude in this
direction, and what was tolerated in n
good-natured way has become an
abuse. Under present conditions it is
quite the usual thing for contractors
to slash into the paved streets when
ever they feel so disposed and there is
o growing suspicion that the cost to
the city is far and away beyond the
actual municipal charge for the repair
of such openings.
1t isn't fair that the people at
largo should pay directly or indirectly
for the misuse of the highways and
strict regulation as to the opening of
streets, with heavy penalties for failure
to install pipes and connections before
the highways shall have been paved,
would do much to correct this abuse.
Commissioner Lynch is a practical
highway builder. and. realizing the
conditions, he should take such steps
as will tend to correct the difficulties
and protect the streets.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-06

VXTE earnestly urge every organ
wv lied worker to cast his vote in
the coming election for Charles
E. Hughes, the Republican nominee
for President. Because of his de-
mand for systematic and reasoned re-
form and his strict adherence to
principle, our welfare would be safer
in his hands. We may realize just
how much the former Governor of
New, York sought to accomplish for
our benefit while in executive office
when it Is remembered that during
his nearly four years at Albany he
Asked for O commission to in
quire into questions relating to
employers liability and compen-
sation for the workmen's injuries
the first step in that direction
in America.
Reorganized and extended the
powers of the labor department.
Restricted the hours of labor of
children.
Promoted the health and safety
of employees In mercantile es-
adjustments.
Appointed a commission to in
vestigate the condition, welfare
and industrial opportunities of
aliens in the State.
Compelled the railroads to pay
their men semimonthly, instead
of monthly
Signed law defining more
clearly the application of the
eight-hour law to certain kinds
of work.
Prevented abuses of persons
out of work by employment
agencies.
Sought to bring about six-day
working week.
a. Based improvement in condi-
tions upon full and fair inquiry
into the facts before action.
Nor was he less sympathetic with
our aims while q Justice of the SUI
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-06
Workings of Single Track Mind

Said President Wilson in his Cincin-
natl speech:
"The United States has had an in
dustrial and manufacturing revival in
the last two years such as it never ex-
perienced before. And when men i'm
agine that this is due to the trade cre-
ated by the war. they are merely imag-
facts"
Also said wilson--and I'm the same
speech:
"If the war goes on another year. we
shall probably have half the gold sup
ply of the world"
A collision on the "single Track
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-06
MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER o

Not aUhdt a man has or aohdt hap
pens to him.; not aoealth, nor noble
blood, nor croWnS, nor titles. but the
things that are in him and shinino
through hin,-hiS thoughts, motiueS,
springs of action: these constitute the
mdn.-D. ]. BURRELL.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-06
AFTER THE WAR

TIME London Chamber of Conn
merce is loking to the end Of the
war. In a recent report on Brit
ish industries the Chamber recon-
mends that, as the first step toward
coping with conditions when peace is
declared, all commercial treaties now
existing between Great Britain and
that the ira additional doctrine of Cob
denism, or free trade. shall be aban-
doned. There shall then he set up a.
series of tariff requirements which ap-
ply to nations in groups and in accord
ance with their friendliness to British
duties shall range to a very high per-
centage for the purpose of keeping
out of the British market goods from
highly competitive nations who do not
recognize the superior merit of doing
business with England on her own
terms.
These proposals seem to meet with
favor in the governing circles in Eng
land; and If they are to be adopted the
will present problem of de-
vexatious nature for Ameri-
cans.
The economic fallacies upon which
the Democratic party takes its stand
and the tariff legislation which the
Wilson administration and the Wilson
Congress have already adopted are
proof that the Democratic party is in
capable of dealing with any such q
problem as is involved in the proper
protection of American commercial in
terests in the face of conditions such
as the London Chamber of Commerce
proposes.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-06
MARCHING IDLE ARMY
CRIED FOR FOOD UPON
STROKE OF NEW Year
five Hundred Men Paraded
ths Streets pf, Chiesgo.
You Are Drunk and We Are
Hungry, They Shouted.
Broke Windows and Pune.
tured Tires of Automobiles.
ASSOCIATED PAsss p.spavcH.,

CHICAGO. Jaaaary r. Entering
restaurants and demanding food.
breaking windpws. and puDcmring
automobile tires crowd OF nearly
500 unemployed men >eariy this morn
Ing marched through chlcaso's bust
ness'distrir,. They furntshcd d strange
contrast 30 New Year rcvclers who
mrre leaving Iks cafes and rcstaur-
pnis
Tac msr.tnarched. IN state>.s,rtet.
fout-abreasts carrying "a BANNER which
read We..t,dfnand work. no;
rharns,.".. ,rhc;ats,iH. halted s,rnrt Ears
Ynd ,slscd' TO passengers that they
M,sifnl, work. At Van Euren street the
pollccyhaited the Rarchers. bit thay
lodR pfIorined .uheir iiut .faGher down
lhe gtrcci
'."Hcy. you betny. gaats up~' shout
cd n pcdcstrafn from the curb.
"You nro drunk and We are hungry
rcplsd op~ OF the issders. The band
finally broke up into small groups.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-06

;; Ham Lewis has been SO busy
stumping for President Wilson that
he forgot to register, However, he
is feeling better now, He has dis
covered Republican who has
promised to vote the straight Demo-
cratic ticket.-Patriot bulletin,
So busy stumping he forgot to regis
ter and found only one Republican who
will vote for Wilson, Only ONE!
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-06

Some of the Democratic newspapers
are actually going to spend large sums
to gather the returns tomorrow night
Something like paying $3.50 for "col-
lect" telegram telling you that you've
lost your job.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-06
REPUBLICAN TICKET

REPUBLICAN TICKET
For President.
Charles Evans Hughes, of New York
For Vice-President.
Charles Warren Fairbanks. of Indiana
For Auditor General.
Charles A. Snyder of Pottsville
For State Treasurer.
Harmon M. Kephart. of Connellsville
For Congress Large.
Thomas s. Crago. of Waynesburg
M. NJ. Garland. of Pittsburgh
Joseph Mclaughlin. of Philadelphia
John r. K. Scott, of Philadelphia
For Congress-1Sth District
Aaron S. Kreider. of Annville
For Senator,
Edward e. Beidleman. of Harrisburg
For Representative.
First District
Augustus Wildman and J. w. Swartz
Second District,
Ira e. Ulsh and David J. Bechtold
For Mine Inspector.
Charles j. Price, of Lykens
Nonpartisan Ticket,
Supreme Court,
Emory A. walling, of Erie
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-06

ticket, while John M. Rose Repub-
lican. for Congress. is sure to carry the
county overwhelmingly and sweep the
district by 1000 to 5000 majority.
Atlee Brumbaugh, Samuel McCurdy
and J. e. Rininger will be returned to
the State Legislature. 1t is certain.
from the expressions heard coming
from the rank and file. that the voters
are through with Democracy and in
tend to restore the Republican party
to power"
-Luzerne county is claimed for the
Republican ticket and it is also de-
clared that r. w. Templeton will be
elected to Congress.
Friends of Congressman c. II.
Rowland predict his reelection in the
Clearfield district in spite of claims to
the contrary.
Congressman Dewalt says he will
lie reelected by 5000 majority. Re-
nublicans expect to give him an awful
contest.
--Senator Snyder. candidate for
Auditor General. spoke at big rallies
In philadelphia on Saturday and is
working in his home county to-day
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-06
peated this charge In Philadelphia
Pittsburgh and other places.


Pittsburgh and other places.
The transcontinental railroad sys-
tenn most interested in preventing traf-
fic going through the canal and In
making it as expensive as possible. so
that the railroad would hold some of
the business 1t handled before the
canal was put in operation. is the still
called Hartman system. The big link
in that system is the Southern Pacific
railroad.
The morning newspaper owned by
the Democratic national chairman to-
day gives first page prominence to the
endorsement of Woodrow Wilson for
reelection by Robert S. Lovett, chair
man of the board of directors of the
Southern Pacific Railroad.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-06

The illustration editor has just re-
ceived orders to look UP the picture of
that Same old Coon" for the paper to-
morrow.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-06

Secretary Baker has decided that he
didn't say it. But he hasn't decided for
the public.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-06

"He kept us out of war"-except in
Nicaragua. Haiti, Vera Cruz, Carrizal
and Mexico at-large. ..
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-06
THE PUDDING AND THE PROOF
VXTHEN Philander c. Knox made

wv his notable speech here he
charged that the President of
the United States had broken the
pledge made in the platform of the
party convention which nominated
him four years ago by agreeing to
charge toll on American ships passing
through the canal Mr.. Knox has re-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-06
DO YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg is the distributing
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-06

y. J.STACKPOLE.P Prest and Editor-in-C Chief
.. r. OYSTER. Business Manager.
SuS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor.