Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-04
KALBFUS NAILS LIES OF
DEMOCRATIC OPPONENT OF
"DRY" LEGISLATIVE NOMINEES

these ends to come from some other
source than hat provided by the bill.
They wanted a big state appropria-
ton. l heard one of these gentle
men say before the Game Committee
of the House that the Legislature
had just as much right to make an
appropriation to the benefit of hunt
ers as it had to appropriate moneys
to public schools. The Legislature
thought schools. and hospitals, M
good roads, and charities should be
considered before sport. hence the
Act. Mr.. Shearer on more than one
occasion has expressed to me the
thought that a bounty should be paid
for the killing of crows n hawks.
meaning, of course, to have the bill
paid by the other fellow. He was
and is so fixed in his desire to destroy
hawks that only a few days ago was
compelled to write him to be careful
not to kill protected birds, that in
a newspaper article he said were mi
grating along the North Mountain in
Cumberland county, and offered in
said article to guide hunters to places
where they could, shoot these birds.
We have twelve species of hawks in
Pennsylvania, two ~ which are pro-
tected. Mr.. Shearer also called spe-
cial attention to the presence of bald
eagles in the same locality n that
these birds made excellent targets,
+. apparently forgetting that the eagle
is absolutely protected in Pennsyl-
vania.
"BuId-Faced FalsehOOd"
Mr.. Shearer says VIM. c. Bowman
is the candidate of the Game Com
mission. 1 do not believe there is
more than possibly n member of
the Game Commission, John NJ. Phil
lips. of Pittsburgh, who ever met or
spoke to Mr.. Bowman, or who has
heard he was a candidate. In so
far as l am concerned, 1 say without
fear of successful contradiction that
Mr.. Bowman was a candidate for
weeks before 1 learned that he
thought of such a thing. l was real
ly out of the city when Mr.. Bowman
announced his determination and l
had not even heard of the matter be-
| fore thai time. l do not know Mr..
, Beckley, and never saw him that l
know of. so Mr.. Shearer's claim in
this respect is a .bald-faced falsehood.
Mr.. Shearer says representatives
of the Game Commission are spend
ing the sportsmen's money running
up and down the state doing political
work. Poor Shearer perhaps knows
his own disposition to handle trusts
in this way, and thinks others are
built along the same lines. If Mr..
Shearer knows of one instance of this
kind l would be glad to have him
give me the facts concerning it. /, of
course, do not know what truth there
may be in that part of his statement
regarding what Mr.. Bowman may
have said to him, but 1 do know that
4 If his statements regarding Mr.. Bow
man are no more truthful than are
those made concerning me there is
nothing at all to it. The adage that
: a liar in one thing a liar in all
holds good every time, and the same
applies to deceit. The one who tries
to deceive in one thing will deceive
in other things If he can.
Nails Shearer Again
LET us look at MI. Shearer's state
ment regarding the expenditure of
this money in question. He says but
Z per cent. of the money received
from the Resident Hunters License
Act have been spent for game, and
intimates the rest was ~squandered.
That is surely the idea he intends to
convey. Mr.. Shearer speaks of a new
Game Commission. There is no new
Game Commission; this is the same
Commission created at the instance
of sportsmen away back in 1895, but
this is deceit No. l. Again, he adds
the collections made for each year,
including 1917, whereas as a bust
nessman, If he knows anything, he
must know that the greater part OF
this fund collected in 1917 must still
be in the State. Treasury. as 1T is. The
statement as made was supposed to
cover the purpose, and is deceit No
2. Again. when he stated through in
ference thai the Game Commission
had not complied with the law re-
garding reports to h Governor he
made another misstatement deliberate
and wilful, for we have never failed