The desecration and profanation of the Pennsylvania capitol . s constituted the cohorts,and the object sought to be secured was thecontrol of a great Commonwealth. The beau-ties and expenses of the Capitol, the candidacyof Stuart, and the fate of Snyder were onlyincidents which marked the course of the con-test. The attack opened up over a very trivialmiatter. The great bronze doors, the most im-pressive in America, were ornamented with anumber of human heads, each of them ratherlarger than a walnut and smaller than a base-ball. Ingenuity can discover among them thefaces of Dickens, Grant, Sha
The desecration and profanation of the Pennsylvania capitol . s constituted the cohorts,and the object sought to be secured was thecontrol of a great Commonwealth. The beau-ties and expenses of the Capitol, the candidacyof Stuart, and the fate of Snyder were onlyincidents which marked the course of the con-test. The attack opened up over a very trivialmiatter. The great bronze doors, the most im-pressive in America, were ornamented with anumber of human heads, each of them ratherlarger than a walnut and smaller than a base-ball. Ingenuity can discover among them thefaces of Dickens, Grant, Shakespeare and thedeath mask of Napoleon. A like ingenuitydid discover a resemblance to certain officialsand men active in aflfairs. and for weeks theselittle heads were the only material availableand were made to do full duty. With the ad-vent of Berry they were abandoned, the scopewas widened, and the winds were let that irresponsible and disciplinedguile could originate in an effort to belittletlie achievement and to increase the expense38. was published broadcast. The figures wereperverted. Double-leaded editorials were putforth day after day condemning the secrecywith which the work had been undertaken, innewspapers whose own affidavits to the cor-rectness of their receipted bills for advertisingit, lay in the Treasury, and although duringits progress the representatives of the entirepress had come to the Board of Public Groundsand Buildings and prevailed on them to changethe arrangements for correspondents in theSenate and House. Berry, instead of attend-ing to the duties of his office, went around theState brandishing the leg of a chair which hehad secured somehow, somewhere, and talkedviolently about imposture, although when thecases came later to be tried counsel concededof record that the material and labor were inevery way in accord with the specifications ofthe contract. On one occasion while Berrywas out on the stump assailing his colleagueswho were
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