Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-27
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obtainable is that many of the men
who have been running the Pennsyl-
vania democracy had better be seek
ing cyclone cellars as the soldiers
have some thoughts of their own.
/ One or two letters that have come
| from abroad show n lively interest
in the way things political have been
going and the course of the bosses
of the Democratic machine has not
met with all the approval which the
wind mill crew anticipated.
One story is that many OF the SOL
diers think that with the Pennsyl-
Vania Democratic machine bosses all
in high places at Washington or else
where they were rather lax in look
Ing after the interests of other Penn
! sylvanians, who were not gifted
with political pull, while the failure
of some Democrats of wide influence
TO look after complaints and their
Iinsistence on formalities and in seek
! ing the limelight caused much ad-
verse comment.
The fact that the Democratic
state machine bosses who boasted of
their swing with the President and
1 got what they wanted in the way
! OF appointments let the First Troop,
Philadelphia Cavalry and the Cover
tnor's Troop be sliced to pieces and
| identity lost is apparently not go
ing to be forgotten either.
The Pittsburgh Gazette Times,
in the course of an editorial well
coming home General Richard l..
Coulter, Jr. of Greensburg, former
head of the Tenth Pennsylvania,
says: The ways of a great military
organization are past understand
ing; it operates theoretically to put
the right man in the right place
and the people accept the disposal
of their favorites philosophically,
believing it impossible always to
assign officers in n popular manner.
Major General Leonard Wood was
kept out of the war. General Rich
ard Coulter did not see service with
the PENNSYLVANIA troops, section
of whom he had a right to command
in battle"
A strong appeal for the men,
orlals of the war to be made some
thing worth while in accordance
with the suggestion of the Governor
elect is made by the Wilkes-B Barre
Record. Luzerne county has decided
to build memorial bridge to it's
soldier and sailor sons and the Rec
ord says: THE next important step
after deciding upon the character
and location of the memorial is to
come to a rational decision from an
artistic point of view. and along this
line II will be we'll to give heed to
what Governor-elect Sproul says
a hnf h1
exhibited in so many of the COM
memorative conceptions in Pennsyl-
vania and other states. The tawdry,
amateurish, often repulsive, designs
are perpetual nightmare instead of
what they should be-something to
be admired not only for its beauty
OF outline but for its spiritual appeal
as we'll"
The tax levy for 1919, in Pitts
burgh, has been made. The levy on
land is 1871 mills and on buildings
1929 mills. The 1918 tax on land
is 14.5 mills; on buildings 11.6 mills.
The 1918 building tax is 20 per cent.
less than on land. Next year it will
be thirty per cent. less. Council
man Robert Garland presented to
the finance committee a clear expo-
sition of the effect of a tax levy of
] 5.S on land, with tax on buildings
thirty per cent. lower.
Newspapers throughout the state
arc commenting upon the fact that
Robert S. Spangler, of York, is liable
to be chosen as the Republican can
didate for Speaker of the House
without opposition in caucus, which
means election, as the Republican
majority is greater tE;,n ever known
since the reorganization of the Penn
lsylvania Democracy. The Pittsburgh
newspapers appear to be thankful
that the battles which have marked
organ cation of the House in recent
years will not have To he repeated.
United States Senator Boies PEN
rose stirred up the animals yesterday
in Philadelphia by an out-and-out
demand for revision of the city char
tier ano the Philadelphia Record
comments upon the fact that the
Senator thinks there should be a
"curtailment of the powers of the
Mayor" The Public Ledger says the
Senator again pledged himself 10
use every means at his command 10
aiG the charter revision bill" and ia
Nors taking the police cut of politics.
Down at Washington they have
at last realized that Senator Penrose
| is going TO be chairman of the Sem
! ate finance commIttec and some of
; the men who have been arranging
tho political funeral services of tho
Senator for years VIII have to seek n
new occupation. In speaking abuut
| washington affairs Senator Panroeo
said at Philadelphia ttat the retire
ment CT George Creel would De a
'conSunmation to be wished"
Scranton firemen are threaten
ing to strike unless they get the
promised increase of pay on Janu-
airy /.
The famous old Quay farm at
Mountville, Lancaster county. has
been sold by John f. Brimmer its
owner in recent years, to B. M. Now
Trey.
Now school board clerks
throughout the state are organizinp
20 get Il share of the proposed IN.
creased pay for teachers, clai1,ins
that they are entitled TO it.
Men active in Republican poli.
tics from various sections are i'm phi.
adelphia to meet Senator Penros
and discuss affairs.
The Philadelphia registra ior
clerks have gotten their DELAYED oay
and all is now lovely.
All Things to All People
IFrom Impressions of the Kaiser