Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-01-15
"DAVE" LANE DINNER
PUZZLES POLITICIANS
Aside From Assault on Re-
formers, Sage Maintains ST.
lence on Present Situation
WARE HOST TO FAITHFUL
WIT AND WISDOM
FROM DAVE LANES LIP

FROM DAVE LANES LIPS
Always the major characteristics Of
reform, movements have been an excess
OF emotion.
Many of us are credulous and
emotional and the demagogue takes ad-
vantage of this condition.
The political reformer believes any
thing that Is told often enough.
He believes he can lie down at night
an ensiayed man and rise in the morn
ing a freeman.
Locality expresses emotion In dif-
ferent terms. In the North IL Is political
reform aud in the South II IL lynching.
Assertion. assurances and dogmatic
statement are always successful with
emotional mdnds.
A period Of boundless activity, q
period of depression, period Of
normaIity and a period OF indifference.
These periods last but n short time
and are always followed by Iethargy.
I might say, In passing. that the
professional reformer Is always making
a bid for u pedestal.
Many of the gentiemcne of the Town
Meeting party contributed to the fund
TO carry New York and Indiana for
Harrison In "ss.
In the course of that bitter fight two
men were killed. And vet they called
our local organization political
murd~rbund.
Consistency, thou art a jewel"
Today the David n. Lane dinner is
the main topic of discussion in political
circles II was absolutely sphynxlike
as regards the tonic .u which every ear
Is TO the ground--the gubernatorial fight.
And that was the very thing politicians
hoped would come from IL. Now the
query is whether the silence means a
halt is being called on the guberratoriaI
controversy
II 10 ,r,ta ,bat ,.D,ro" a,, ,..,., ,,,.,
reformers ne failures ,.ho,, &. os,,,as, -
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to.ts, na,,,ai,r e SUI, ,' ,"-
.'t.. ,.n a,,palsI u true Ihat DIS
~ ~ H.'oI "ss i'o,'n' q s'shctl fehrose
"t Naie pichic' ueclared that
a." oi the ruptures III i'epubilcan franks
~. '"e pas, hlisht nave peeh aNoided had
pave Lane advice alwaye been
tahen' put that had nothing to do with
the 'hrea'eheo rupture over the present
gubefhdtOrial contest. II is true that
"JIfnmi." Sheehan the Papistar ,f u-,t,,
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VINO mas aWaNS peen PenroSe-Mc-
Nichol leader until the fight OF last fall,
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sco,,'s serious ana ha..,,'. s,,no,' "o,'" ~ N,
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- ~ '"e s'"i,u en-
,o'. CIV tne are so'hs 10 take
80 80 cn "s"' i'' '"e i'''"'i'"''"h
VI q 'o'er"oi
ne man 'yhor Oh .he olhner' when
was gwen AT hugiers oy senator Edwin
r. rsre 10 lane ana the members OF
!he nepupiHah executive committee OF
,ne Mentle'n "aro III hohor OF Lane
ions !" we party ana 10 com
,neinorate ,he faet mat the twentieth
,n,. 80 80 artu' az neu ene plsses. shsJorlty OF
ans "aiu ~ ,ie e.iy iast IalL was Il
s,,oh a IT, pu,e spI, r,'a eoia'noil OF Dave Lane
a,a , nis MoIN /. Iere were many speakers
Nv No,,. IN ,ac' iohin'e
Isae So,,,s n'I.. eM.n ward singer or
~ go ,a,'s,,, stIeeI; was Tue
U,s , ume VIZ 'oSNneu o' .he Nare-reH,
90, .,,a,, ,,',,h ~ as',,,' ~ ~ u, song anu
innurria., ,r So st,,Ha 'a an" "''h"ul
''' l"e ''0m"' "' 'o''o"s
yood voS a., ~ pon. penf"se neIl1; Ware;
In Nosember' you remember.
Freelsnd kendrlek on the lead.
s,ood S"'ans1, pesros. 100 h.,o Va.
q, o. r., we're true 10 you.
Senator Ware started the oratorial ball
rolling when he expressed his apprecia-
tion Of the results obtained by the men