The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1896-11-17

anu MS heTulc actlon IN leading the great
| battle for the overthrow Of the building
| commission demonstrates that he has suf-
/ flcient courage to grapple with wronp even
| when it is intrenched within his n,vn mo-
! litical household.
straightforward and Clean Handed.
/ From Taggart's Times.
| Senator penrose we believe is a STRAIGHT.
| forward and clean handed young man
! who is in sympathy with liberal and broad
minded ideas Although he Is well edu-
oated and comes of well known family
there is nothing dudish or namby-pamby
or aristocratic in his makeup. He is
party man, with no fnical nonsense in his
notions of politics, but he is one Of the
kind who can think for themselves, and
we are very much mistaken in him if he
would become the slave of the combine or
OF any man or set of men.
He Is Progressive and Pushing.
From the Daily News
Senator Penrose has great ability. and
his ten years of public life has been snlen-
did training for him But above ali tbia
he is progressive and pushing. Thatist the
kind of nan we want, and that is tf.,
kind we will get with Penrose
Courage to Fight Corporations.
From the Philadelphia Record.
In his present position Senator Penroso
has as great opportunities to serve the
public as he would have had In the office
of the mayor of Philadelphia. BY helping
to curb the corporation lobby in the state
senate he can do much to promote honest
and wholesome legislation in Pennsyl
vania He has the ability and the courage
to confront the corporation lobbyists, while
he has no longer any temptation to con-
ciliate them, He can serve the public now
withOutRny trammels. The building COM
mission did what little it could to help the
corporation combine and the contract
ors to defeat him for the mayoralty, but
he is still where his enemies may haveth
most cause to fear him.
Well versed In Public Affairs.
From the Evening Call.
Senator Penrose, although young man,
has had large and successful experience in
public business He Is u Philadelphia by
birth, education and affiliations and IS
well versed in the affairs Of his own city.
Good Intention Put Into Action.
From the Item.
Penrose will not only mean we'll, but
this meaning will be emphasized by action,
prompt and needful. We've had enough
soft blather; let us have horse sense ac-
ton, and proper aggressiveness, with no
quarter to lobbyists, corruptlonists and
civic and eco" bandits, whose pockets
get filled with public pelf, part of which
is returned to the worthy patriots who
permit and further the grabs and steals.
Honorable Public Purpose.
From the Philadelphia Press
The future of Senator Penrose lies in
his own hands He has only to go for
ward and do his public duty in an honor
able, straightforward way, as here to fore
md he is secure He has just entered
upon IA four years term in the senate. 1t
is large arena for fine public service
senator Penrose can, if he pleases, con-
quer his antagonists and win the people,
Such assiduous and intrepid devotion TO
good public work as evinced in his heroic
warfare on the building commission will
assure his position,
Intelligent Zeal and Public Spirit.
From the Public Ledger.
Governor Pattison showed his apprecia-
ton of the strength and sincerity of the
demand of his fellow citizens for the abo-
lition of the public buildings commission
by signing the Penrose bill. Governor
PatJison has been daily informed for
long before it passed either house of the
general assembly that it was practically
the unanimous demand of the public
spirited and disinterested part of this
great community that it should pass, and
that the discredited commission should be
abolished; ne knew that the reasons for
its abolition Were irrefutable and conclu-
sive, and that after the protracted strug-
gle over it in senate and house the gov
ernor had all the information he needed
to more than Justify his prompt approval
of the Penrose bill.
The contest in the legislature was one
of the most extraordinary of this or many
sessions. There was never at any time
| prior TO the passage of the bill the positive
assurance thatit would pass. "All' S we'll,
that ends well, and this struggle be-
tween the citizens of Philadelphia upon
the one side and the building cots1nission
and their dependents upon the other
ended when the governor signed the PEN
rose bill, just us it should have ended.
Senator Penrose deserves the hearty
| commendation of his fellow citizens for
| the intelligence, zeal and public spirit
with which no contended for the abolition
/ of the public buildings commission. His
service was one of great public impor-
/
nized,
As y Canpaigner.
During the campaign which closed on
Nov. 3, this year, so gloriously for Penn
! sylvania and the nation, Senator Penrose
bore IA brilliant part He rendered his SER
vices to the Republican state committee,
and was assigned for duty in the western
end of the state. No man since the days
of James q Blaine has drawn such mag
nitloent gatherings of the people and no
man ever aroused more genuine enthu-
siasm. His campaign was brilliant sue
cess, and the returns from the sections he
visited bear abundant evidence of his
magnetic powers to sway the masses and
convince the most exactng.
Senator Penrose as an old and exber-
fenced statesman recently remarkeN, is
cast in giant mould, and is desti9ed to
play conspicuous part in the fuYGre his
tory of his country.