Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-05-06

away travelling men at the association
headquarters who were unable to fin
quarters elsewhere, they were no,
turning away the men in search O
Jobs.
"These are the conditions whicl
Senator Penrose predicted as resul
of the Democratic tariff law, an
which he strove manfully to prevent
Let us put him back in Washingto
to help repair the damage. 1t is tn
one thing every busin essman, ever
farmer, every wage-earner is thinkin
of-the wooing back of a prosperit
we thought could not be killed"
Secretary Steward made a brie
statement of conditions in the staine
glass industry, which, he said, wa
almost totally paralyzed by the Demo
cratic cut in duty.
Following is the declaration whic
was given out after the meeting, to
gether with the names of individual
and firms appended to 1T:
The time has come when all
sober minded businessmen must
admit that the results which have
followed the enactment of Demo-
cratic legislation In Washington
are anything but satisfactory.
While we are not in the midst of
tdldlillty ana SlnCoTSiy tldI
we may never be, it Is undoubtedly
true that the supreme and buoy
ant confidence which a few years
ago coined the phrase. politics
can have no effect upon Ameri-
can business" is entirely lacking.
We, the undersigned manufac-
turers of Dauphin county, are
! convinced that the policy Of pro-
! lection whereby we were enabled
| to pay our wage-earners and sal
/ aried employees more money than
our competitors in Europe and
! Asia and at the same time be as
/ sured of disposing of our products
| at a reasonable profit. was more
| than a political fetch. We be-
leve, and we think that develop
ments corroborate us, that the
| protection which the American
producer, industrial or agricul-
tural. and the American laborer,
have enjoyed almost uninterrupt-
| edly for the last half century
prior to the advent of the Wilson
administration was at the very
| foundation of the business fabric
which we have reared to the adj
miration of the whole world
! Careful analysis of the situation
| confirms us in the belief that any
.
I means an interference with our
business prosperity and with wage
scales in every line of trade.
! Therefore. we take this means of
urging upon the people of Dau-
| phin county that importance at
this juncture of the strictest fidel-
ity to the Republican principle of
protective tariff.
And In conjunction Herewith,
we desire to call attention to the
sterling services of the Hon. Boies
Penrose in the United States Sen
ate. After nearly eighteen years
of service there, his third term is
i expiring. The voters of the Re-
| publican party have the option of
returning him to the Senate or of
choosing some new man who dur
ing his first term, at least, would
be obliged to devote more time
! and attention to learning the rules
( and traditions of the Senate, the
| methods of operation in Congress
! in other words, to the best way
| of getting a foothold-than to the
| serious and pressing needs of the
eight million people of Pennsyl-
vania.
We submit that however the
voters may feel in regard to or
ganization policies or any other
! kind of politics in the State of
| Pennsylvania, the issue in choos-
ing a candidate for United States
Senator is the senatorship and
nothing else. We endorse the
senatorial record of Boies Penrose
without reservation, believing him
to be by all odds the fittest man
in the Keystone State to succeed
himself
/ Therefore, each and all of the
undersigned pledge themselves to
the candidacy of Senator Penrose
for denomination and reelection