Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-24
FALL CAMPAIGN WILL
OPEN ON WEDNESDAY
Great Gathering of Republicans at
Pittsburgh; DR.. Brum-
baugh to Speak
ZIG RALLY AT HUNTINGDON
Republican Candidate For Cover
nor viii Be the Guest of
His Neighbors

=. Word was received at the Repub-
! 1can State headquarters from Pitts
| burgh to-day that all arrangements
have been completed for the meeting
| or the state committee, which is to be
| held on Wednesday and for the mass
meeting on the evening of the same
day which will mark the formal open
| ing of the Republican campaign in
| Western PENNSYLVANIA.
All of the candidates on the Repub-
| llcan state ticket are expected to ad-
| dress this mass meeting, which will be
! held in the Fort Pitt Theater.
! City Chairman Charles II. Kline and
! County Chairman Walter H. Christy
| are cooperating with State Chairman
! Nllllam h. Crow in planning for the
meetings.
Senator Penrose will 60 to Pitts
ourgh by automobile from Scranton
and DR.. Martin G.. Brumbaugh, nomi--
nee for Governor. is expected to re-
turn from his vacation in time to
make his initial address at this gath
ering. 1t is understood that Senator
! Penrose's remarks will be confined
mainly to national topics and that DIR.
Brumbaugh will devote his address
largely to State issues.
The Republican platform will be
adopted at the meeting of the State
! COMMITTEE IL Is likely that the sub
committee, of which
eN- Lieutenant Governor
Sommttee Walter Lyon, of Pitts
VIII ADOPT burgh, Is chairman, will
Flatiorm make its report to the
general platform COM
mittee, of which John ~
Halsey, of Wilkes-Barre, is chairman,
on wednesday morning and the mat
ter Will be passed upon by the full
state committee at the afternoon ses-
sion.
Candidates for Congress and for
other offices on the Republican ticket
county chairmen and others active in
these gatherings.
senator Penrose has arranged to re-
turn east by automobile, stopping at
the Greene County Fair at Waynes-
burg on Thursday, at Harrisburg on
fFlaay and at Fogelsville, Lehigh
county, on Saturday.
The Fogelsville meeting, which will
De great Republican rally, will vir-
tually mark the opening of the cam
paign east of the Alleghenies.
Dr. Brumbaugh, following his ad-
dress in Pittsburgh, will be the guest
OF his former neighbors in his old
home in Huntingdon, where elaborate
arrangements are being made to honor
him on Friday, August 2S
Ihls occasion promises to be a men,
orable one in the history of Hunting
don county.
DR.. Brumbaugh is expected to ex-
press himself freely upon the vital
questions affecting the citizens of the
state and to emphasize his attitude
upon such issues.
Colonel Howard E. Butz. editor of
the Huntingdon Globe, according to a
special dispatch from Huntingdon. has
issued an address to
MS fellow-citizens in
which he says: Great Welcome
Don't forget the For Brumbauph
big b + Il m b a ug h in Home Town
meeting in the Grand
Theater on Friday
evening, August IS, at 7.45 O'clock
Inc doctor wants to see all his old
friends. the ones with whom he went
to school, his fellow-teachers his
pupils, school directors and all others
| with whom he worked in Huntingdon
county years ago. This also Includes
farmers laborers and lumbermen
whose wants and needs the doctor
tully understands. for he was one of
them IN his early life in Penn town
ship, this county.
Several bands will be here at the
meeting. There will be parade with
the usual illuminations, and at the
Grand Theater DR.. Brumbaugh will
nave the floor all to himself, where his
political attitude will be declared,
where his position on current events
VIII be fully made known. and where
all people, no matter where they
present. W
This is the first time in the history
OF Huntington county that one of her
native sons has been the standard
bearer of one of the great parties for
the office Of Governor Of the ConoI
. nOllWeAlth fe
that this meeting be made a mem
| orable one.
Come on foot in hay wagons. hug
gles ana automobiles, or come by
tram. Facilities for getting home after
the meeting are first class Trsin
No, 10 for the east at 1907 makes a,ii aI,
local stops, as we'll as the one for the
| west at 1899. A special train on the
| Broad Top all the way to Riddlesburp
Come! Come! Gomez"
DR.. Brumbaugh is scheduled To go
from Huntingdon to the FogeIsviIle
meeting, which will be adressed bv ali
OF the candidates on the Republican n
state ticket, as we'll as the local Re
publican nominees.
At meeting at Allentown the chief
speech was made by A. Mitchell Pal
mer' VINO wants to be United States
senator. He engaged in
%SteeI Senator Penrosa h,,t - "
workers considerably fabbergasted
Frotest when delegation of Beth
lehem steel workers, who
formed part of the. audi
ence: varied the demonstration bv
bcoing Palmer when he declared
himself the friend of the Bethlehem
steel Company. These hostile nritics
or the senatorial candidate remem.
bered that for three years in success
sion al Lehigh county meetings he
had denounced Charles NJ. Schwah ard
asserted that he was doing his best to
destroy an industry that he called a
machine of destruction" 1t was re-
called by the steel workers that Pal
mer had protested against the award
OF the contract for armor plate to
Bethlehem for battleship No. 80 and
that the industry did not get any of
the work in consequence of which ao6
men lost their jobs in a week.
Evidences of that overwhelming
harmony Of which xua no. =