Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-10-01

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of RepubIicansm.
Especial Correspondence.l
New York. Sept. 20.
| PENNSYLVANIA is becoming daily
more prominent in the national Re
publican campaign. if one is to judge
from the activity of Pennsylvanians
about the national committee head
quarters. and the consideration that is
being paid to the claims of the state
and her party leaders.
Since Senator Penrose was called to
the assistance Of Chairman Hitchcock
as a member of the executive commit
tee of the national committee, and was
urged to make his headquarters in the
Offices fitted up for him in the ma
! tional committees building he has
had to make many appointments with
! Pennsylvanians about both state and
national campaign matters to meet
him here. He VIII have little time to
give to personal or local matters until
after the national election shall be
over. The direction OF The campaigns
| in a number of duublful states has
been left TO Senator Penrose, and he
is called into consultations daily upon
! questions affecting the management Of
the general canvass.
Tariff Issue Made Prominent.
Bryan's attitude. particularly upon
the tariff issue, has been of special
concern to Pennsylvanians, who are
so vitally interested in the mainte-
nance of a tariff which shall protect
the workingmen and the farmers of
the Keystone state from foreign com
petition.
Senator Penrose, in all of his
| speeches this year. and in eXerting
whatever influence he may have in
shaping the policy of the other cam
paign managers, has made the tariff
an issue of special prominence. and
| he does this as a particular champion
! sf the industries and the other inter
ests of his native state which he be-
| lieves would be jeopardized by the
election of Bryan and an inauguration
of the free trade doctrines of the
| Democracy.
Pennsylvania Interests Concerned.
Many of the great Pennsylvania
concerns, the carpet manufacturers of
Philadelphia, the steel mills in west
ern and northeastern Pennsylvania,
| the coal companies OF the bituminous
and anthracite regions, the great coke
and cement interests, and the many
other industrial enterprises which
have millions OF Pennsylvania capital
invested. and which employ hundreds
Of thousands of men and women, have
Offices in this city.
The officials of these companies are
pleased to see the interest taken in
the national campaign by Senator Pen.
rose, as they recognize the import
ance OF the outcome of the election
not only to those who have money in
vested in their plants, but to those
who look to the successful operation
of those firms and companies for EN-
ployment.
! The great granger and dairy inter
ests of Pennsylvania, which find
ready markets for their products
right at home when these industrial
plants are running and their en-
ployes are getting remunerative
wages, are just as much concerned
and are cvincing just as much inter-
est in the efforts to elect the Bepubli-
can national ticket
Farmers Are For Taft.
Reports from the farming districts
of not only Pennsylvania. but New
Jersey, Ohio. Indiana and like states,
which have large manufacturing in
! terests, show that the trend of senti-
ment is very strongly toward the Re-
| publican party this year.
Taft and Sherman are as popular
with the farmers as they are with the
wage earners. who realize the import
ance of a continuance of the policy of
a protective tariff under which Ameri.
can industries have been built up and
developed
There are marshallng in the vari-
Gus industrial centers great armies OF
American workngmen who viii
march to the polls in November ana
vote the full Republican ticket.
A Great Army Lining Up.
Reports received at the national
committee headquarters show that in
Pennsylvania the steel workers, the
miners, the cOkers. the furnace men.
the weayers, the cement workers. the
mill men, the railway employs and
other workingmen employed by tribu-
tary interests, are going to vote with
the Republican party
RCs.ness men realize the dtsasta
that would come to them with Bry.n
in the White House and Democrats in
control of the lower house of congress,
and with some of the so-called Repub-
lican senators not to 0e depended
upon in tariff legislation. They are also
lined up for Taft,
All reports to the contrary, there is
absolute harmony among the man
ayers of the Republican national com.
mittee and all information points to
the election of Taft and Sherman by
good majority in the electoral col.
lege.