The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-09-21
COUNTY.
TENER is COMING SATURDAY.
Representative,
II. c. JACKSON.

TENER is COMING SATURDAY..
1t is desirable that every good Re-
publican in Honesdale, and as many
good Republicans from Wayne coun-
ty as can arrange to be with the
Honesdale Republicans that day, plan
to be on hand Saturday, when the
partys candidate for that guberna-
torial seat at Harrisburg, the Hon.
JOHN KINLEY TENER, comes
around to look us over.
Mr. TENER, from the present
plans of the candidate, has only a
few hours to shake the hands of his
Honesdale and Wayne county sup
porters; but in that short space of
time he will, beyond all question,
discover that old Wayne county, the
beauty spot of the northeastern Penn
sylvania hills and the home of some
of the staunchest party men that
ever voted a ticket, is still safe and
sane on the absorbing question of
Pennsylvania politics and proposes
to contribute its mite to the very
comfortable majority of 100000 or
more that Mr.. TENER is absolute
ly certain to receive in November.
There is something wonderfully
attractive, something irresistably
compelling, in the personality and
career of this man TENER. He
started poor He commenced life
with health and brains and ambition
and pluck and industry, but with
mighty little money to boast him to-
ward his goal. When he began to
play ball and worked himself up to
tidy salary as we'll as to an enviable
reputation for diamond efficiency, he
was for the first time in his life
drawing income enough to live on
Easy street. JOHN TENER, the old
boys that were with him in those
glad days of sticks and strikes and
uniforms will tell you, was a pitcher
who pitched clean ball; in business
life and in political life the morals
of the honest sportsman have stuck
by him, and no carping critic of
TENER in Chaleroi or TENER in
Washington or TENER in Harris
burg can ever have occasion to vera
ciously picture him in any dubious
connection with dollar.
The ball field in time gave way to
business, as the ballfeld of every
ambitious player eventually must,
and JOHN X. TENER became a
builder and a banker-builder of
the pretty little town of Chaleroi,
where every man, woman and child
will tell you that they count him
their friend; and a banker because he
ran the bank that financed the pro-
jects from time to time introduced
by Mr.. TENER and his associates to
develop the splendid waterpower and
other prime industrial facilities of
that naturally rich Monongahela
Valley country and incidentally to
give employment to needy thousands
in Washington county Today
Chaleroi thanks to the TENER in
fiuence and the TENER bank work
ing together for good to all the peo-
pie of that fruitful section, is one
of the model towns of the East for
homes and roads and schools and a
contented, industrious population.
In Washington, where for 10
years Mr.. TENER has served his
constituents and his country well in
the same session. performance to
which not all Congressman can con-
scientiously claim credit-the man
from Chaleroi has been a worker
and producer. He has given par
ticularly efficient service to the gi-
gantic scheme for an inland water
way system that shall start at Cape
Cod, the seamost tip of Massachu-
setts, and go clear down the coast to
the st. Johns river at Jacksonville
and thence directly across the penin-
sula Of Florida to the Mississippi be-
low New Orleans project that
must ultimately multiply Atlantic
coast trade and bring benefit to every
state between Portland and Texas.
He has been an energetic supporter
of the measures advocated by
THEODORE ROOSEVELT for strict
er government supervision of rail-
roads and other corporations that
operate over a wide territory, and,