The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-09-23
GREAT CROWDS
Greet TENER
Candidate For Governor Gets
Fine OVdtiOnS.
MAKES BIG HIT WITH VOTERS
Republican Standard Bearer Frankly
Meets Live Issues and Is Assured Of
Splendid Victory.

Splendid Victory.
John X. Tener and his associates on
the Republican state ticket are being
given splendid receptions and ovations
on their trip through the state.
The meetings have in almost every
instance been even larger than those
witnessed in the triumphal tour of
Edwin s. Stuart four years ago.
Keen interest In the success of the
campaign and enthusiasm for the
nominees, manifested in every county
that has been visited, must fore
shadow a great victory in November.
Pennsylvania Republicans are har.
monious and aggressive, and with the
Democracy divided between Grim and
Berry, the indications are that the ma.
jority for John K Tener for governor
will be the largest given to any nomi-
nee for that office in this state in re-
cent years.
Believes In Education.
For his clean-cut, manly and frank
discussions of the issues of the cam.
paign, Candidate Tener has been COM
mended upon every hand. He does not
hesitate to express himself freely upon
all questions and is taking the people
into his confidence as he goes from
place to place, meeting the voters face
to face, and grasping them by the hand
and impressing all with his candor
and sincerity.
In chatting with we'll known edu-
Gator the other day, Mr.. Tener said:
81 firmly believe that education,
coupled with good sound common
sense, will do more to obliterate the
thought of anticipated and imaginary
dangers in the future than any other
agency that can be invoked. l am a
firm and everlasting believer in the
cause of education. 1t has served
where modern equipment in the hands
of a well-drilled militant force would
have been without avail and has done
more to make the United States the
wonderful nation that she is than any.
thing we have ever known.
Build school houses, have compe-
tent instructors, interest the youthful
minds, and happiness and clean, godly
lives can be the only result"
At Home Among Wage Farmers.
During the course of an address to
coal miners of Schuylkill county, Mr..
Tener said:
"It has been my misfortune that
have never visited this section of
Pennsylvania before, and while | am
not a stranger in a community of this
kind, because / come from the soft
coal region of the Monongahela river.
| live with and associate with men
who work in the mines and in the
shops of that great industrial district.
On the river that flows past my door
more than 5000, 600 tons of coal are
fioated every year, so that in coming
here and seeing you, the same kind of
people that we have at home, in the
same line of work, | feel quite at
home. l know that your lives and
your thoughts and your aims are very
much like ours at home and your po-
litical belief ought to be like ours al
home. We are Republicans there be.
cause we believe that through the Re
publican party we receive the greatest
benefit.
My neighbOrs are the wOrkmen OF
the United Mine Workers Union, and
out there every man that works in the
mine is a union man. The United
Mine Workers Union has set a high
standard for themselves and for all
union labor in my opinion, because
whenever they sign a contract with
the operators they see to it that 1t is
kept so that we live in harmony and
peace"
The farmers Ct the stae know they
have a friend in John x. Tener
While q member Of congress he was
stout champion of every measure
that came before that body designed
TO advance the interests of the gran
ger and dairyman.
Party Organization Essential.
Candidate Tener's firm belief in the
importance OF maintaining a party or
ganization through which to promote
policies and fix responsibilities OF gov
ernment has been expressed on more
than one occasion since the canvass
was inaugurated,
Upon this question a few days age
he said:
81 believe in government in this
country by political parties. | believe
that the best results are secured wheI
there are two great parties divided or
civic and economic questions.
81 have not in the past nor do l now
believe that any permanent good car
be accomplished by those spasmodiC
movements resulting in the organiza
tion of additional parties, whose ca
reers are but temporary and which
have signally failed to accomplish thu
purposes for which they we're ostensi
bly, brought into existence.
81 do not only believe In government
by political parties. but l believe IL
party regularity. Each voter shoulC
take an active interest in the manage
ment of his own party in the selection
of ticket and in the writing of thu
platform. Should conditions arise with
IN his party which do not appeal Il
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