Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-04

DIR. kalbfus, secretary or the state
Game Commissioner, in a statement
issued to-day rebuked in no uncer-
tain terms the cowardly efforts OF
Democratic politicians to injure the
two dry" Democratic candidates for
the Legislature in Cumberland
county. The statement follows:
ITO whom it may concern; My at
tention has just been called to a
statement in circular form issued
over the signature of R. L. Shearer.
of Carlisle. and published in the Har-
risburg Evening News on Saturday,
November .. 1918. that is so far fetch
ed and foolish that were 1T not for
the fact that some harm might come
to another than myself l would not
waste time or paper in attempting
to reply. AS it is, VIM. c. Bowman
and Ross L. Beckley, as candidates
for the Legislature on the Republican
ticket in Cumberland county may be
hurt by Mr.. Shearer's falsehoods,
therefore this letter.
I'VE all understand the character
Of the man who tries to injure his
fellowman through false statements
issued during the last hours of a
political campaign. n too late, as he
thinks, for a reply from the other
side; a practice so offensive and nau-
seating TO most men that decent men,
fguratively speaking, hold their noses
as they go past the place where such
things originate. l need not dwell
upon this phase of the question, but
will get right down to facts.
False, Says KaIbfus
Mr.. Shearer says in this circular
hat l, Joseph Kalbfus. promised him
WHne ~ NAAr aA,NF Af tho nnAt nn1-
lected through the Resident Hunters
License should be used for the pur-
chase of game. l want to say plainly
that no such conversation ever took
place. What right or power did
possess to make a promise that was
directly contrary to the provisions of
the bill itself, which in Section II
provides specifically the purposes to
which the moneys thus collected shall
be applied. In this particular the
Act provides the moneys. collected
because of it's provisions shall be de-
posted in the State Treasury to be
held as "a und separate and apart,
solely for the purposes of wild bird
and game projection, and for the
purchase and propagation of game
under the direction of the Board OF
Game Commissioners, and the pay
ment of bounties under the provi-
sions of Law. The several purposes
to which the fund. so received by the
State Treasurer, shall be applied. to
be clearly designated by an act OF
the Legislature. either in the general
appropriation act or by separate APP
preparation for the payment of boun-
| ties. 1t being specifically provided
that fifty per centum of any fund
returned to the state through or be-
cause of the provisions of this act
or so much of said fifty per centum
as may be needed, shall be applied
by the Legislature at its biennial
! sessions to the payment of bounties.
Arguments before the committees
of both Senate and House were strict
ly along these lines, yet according
to Mr.. Shearer l assured him these
provisions would not be complied with
and he, brilliant business nan he is
supposed to be, believed uch a state
ment. In the face of this record II
seems to me those who may read both
sides of his controversy must con-
clude that Mr.. Shearer must be a
plain fool to have believed such a
statement, as he says l made, or he
has lied about the matter. l assert
no such statement was made or could
have been made. The purposes &c
which the moneys collected through
the Resident Hunters License Act
] are specifically provided for by the
I Act and l need not dwell further upor
that phase of the question, except tc
say thai the provisions of the Acr
and of the appropriation bills undel
the Act have been strictly complied
with by this office, and 1 am surely
proud of the record we have made
Shenrer's Attitude
MIR. Shearer, with others who op'
posed the passage of this bill, wa:
perfectly willing to have game anC
wild birds protected and purchased
and fed, and to have bounties paid
but wanted the cash necessary t