Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1908-09-03
PARTY IN FIGHTING TRIM
Pennsylvania Will Try to Excel Her
Glorious Majority of Half Million
For Theodore Roosevelt at Next NO.
vember Election, With Taft and
Sherman as the Standard Bearers
The Party Organization Was Never
In More Harmonious Condi-
ton.
Especial Correspondence
Philadelphia, Sept. l

Especial Correspondence
Philadelphia, Sept. 1.
With the opening of the state head
quarters in this city yesterday the Re
publican campaign in Pennsylvania is
now fairly under way.
Colonel Wesley r. Andrews, chair
man of the Republican state commit
tee, was busily engaged all summer in
arranging the preliminaries for the
state canvass. SO that everything was
in good shape to begin the aggressive
work which will be carried on until
the polls close on election day. Tues
day, Nov. 8.
While even the Democrats concede
Pennsylvania to Judge Taft and the en-
tire Republican ticket. it will be the
aim of the Republicans of the Key
stone state to maintain the prestige
which they have long enjoyed of be-
ing the banner Republican state of the
Union.
1t may be difficult to surpass the glo-
rious record of half million plural
ity given by Pennsylvania to President
Roosevelt, but it is the purpose of the
sturdy Republicans of this splendid
commonwealth to endeavor to excel
even that accomplishment at the com
ing election.
Organization In Splendid Shape.
During the last two months Chair
man Andrews has been working untir
ingly to perfect the various county
organizations, and he has succeeded
Z in whipping matters into excellent
trim for the starting of the more ser
ious business of the canvass.
There are 5000 county committee
nen already upon the firing line. and
they are alert and active in promot
ing the cause of the party nominees
The county chairman are now engag
ed in compiling their list of vigilantes
who will comprise an army of 10000
wide-awake and patriotic Pennsyiva
mans enlisted under the banner of
Republicanism, and determined to
rout the enemy at every point.
Every school district will be thor
oughly canvassed, and early reports
regarding popular sentiment in var
ious parts of the state are most graft
flying.
The Republican organization of
Pennsylvania was never more harmC
nious, nor was there ever evinced {.
more pronounced spirit Of loyalty to
the party standard bearers.
Walton Heads Speakers Bureau.
The announcements by Chairman An.
drews of his appointment OF former
Speaker Henry F. Walton to be chief
of the bureau OF speakers was every.
where accepted as an assurance tEat
this feature Of the campaign will re-
ceive competent and careful attention.
Mr. Walton is familiar with the inter.
estS of the several counties. and he
has a wide acquaintance among Eub
lie men of the different localities II
is in q position to enroll a formidable
corps of spellbindcrs. and it is pre-
dicted that in arranging for meetings
and providing them with speakers he
will make an exceptional record
Mr. Walton has already been in
touch with Chairman Hitchcock, of
the Republican national committee,
and he has been promised some of the
most forceful and eloquent men, who
will be on the stump this fall for as
signment to meetings to be held in
the debatable congressional districts.
National Committee Support.
The fact that Senator Penrose has
been appointed on the executive com
mittee of the Republican national com
mite, and that private offices have
been assigned to him in the national
committee headquarters in New York.
where he will spend much of the time
during the campaign, will be of ma
terial assistance to Chairman An
drews and Mr. Walton in their efforts
to have the committee send to Penn
sylvania strong assignment of speak
ers, and to otherwise assist the state
organization in it's ambition to sur
pass the Roosevelt plurality of four
years ago.
Andrews Is Sanguine.
Republicans of Pennsylvania" said
Colonel Adrews today. will be true
to their party at the coming election
There is no good reason why any Re-
publican should desert his colors in
this campaign, and we can fairly look
for many gains from among the ranks
cf the first voters and the thousands