The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-09-24
Republicans Making an Aggres-
SiVe Canvass.
STRONG TICKET WELL BACKED
Rank and File of the Party Through
out Pennsylvania Appreciate the
Importance of the Coming Election
and Its Bearing Upon Local and Ma
tiona Conditions.
Especial Correspondence
Philadelphia, Sept. 81.

Especial Correspondence
Philadelphia, Sept. 81.
With the reopening of activities this
week the campaign for the election OF
the Republican ticket In Pennsylvania
can be said to be we'll under way.
Having an exceptionally strong tick
ct in Judge Robert Won Moschzisker
for justice of the supreme court, Sena-
tor A. E. Sisson for auditor general
and former Senator jeremiah A. Stober
for state treasurer, and with every de-
partment of the state government un'
der Republican control and admins
tered with exceptional fidelity to pub
lie interest, and after the splendid
record made in the successful fight for
a protective tariff by Pennsylvania
Republican representatives in con-
gress. the Republican party managers
look with confidence for a great popu
lar victory at the polls in November.
While every issue and every condi-
tion should foreshadow large ma
jority at the election, Colonel Wesley
IL. .,
can state committee, has sounded a
warning against the dangers of over
confidence. He is urging each commit
teeman to work as though success de-
pended upon the polling Of every vote
in his election district,
Judge Won Moschzisker is taking no
part in the campaign, as he holds that
should not participate in political
canvass, and he is continuing to dis
charge his duties as a Judge in the
common pleas court
His colleagues on the state ticket,
however, are out meeting the people
face to face and discussing the issues
State League Convention.
Candidates Sisson and Stober were
yesterday in Erie, today they are due
in Meadville in the morning and Frank
lin in the afternoon tomorrow they
are scheduled to visit Mercer in the
: forenoon and Newcastle later in the
day, and on Thursday they are booked
to address a mass meeting to be helt
in Altoona under the auspices of the
: State League of Republican Clubs
: which will hold its convention there OF
r Wednesday, Thursday and Friday O
this week.
l United States Senators Penrose ant
Y Oliver and practically all of the Re
3 publican congressman from Penn
e vania are expected at this convention
v which it is predicted will be one of tn
= most important gatherings in the his
d tory of the league.
Besides the two United States sena
e tors, among the speakers at the mas
l. meeting will be former Secretary @
e the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw.
r If his duties as chairman shall nc
l. interfere, Colonel Andrews will ais
2 attend the convention.
n Various organizations have met n
o Gently, among them the War Veterans
4 club, of Philadelphia, and cordially II
T. dorsed the full Republican ticket an
resolved to work industriously to ge
c. out the vote.
The influence Of large Republica
10 majority at the coming election
Of Pennsylvania, both upon national an
i local conditions, will be far-reaching.
N Should Pennsylvania falter. 1t woul
n. be heralded from one end Of the Unio
te to the other that Protection Pennsy
3. vania" had repudiated the tariff bi
H. which would mean a calamitous cond
Ia ton for Industrial and trade condition
IN possible until after the congression
re elactiona next year.