Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-14
GREAT BRUMBAUCH
OVATION IN BLAIR
Thousands of Voters Turn Out
to Pledge Him Their
Support
SPEAKS ON GOOD ROADS
Very Firm in His Ideas About Con-
structing and Maintain
ing Highways

Williamsburg, Pa. Oct 14.-ThouSh
DR.. Martin C. Brumbaugh, Republican
nominee for Governor, has made good
roads an important issue of his cam
paign, here yesterday he launched into
the severest criticism of their present
condition, declaring that if he is elect
ed any man or group of men who
stood in the way of progress would
have to go.
This statement was made after DR.
Brumbaugh had completed a sixty mile
tour of Blair county over roads which
at nearly every point were sharply
criticised by him. Here more than in
any other county visited did DR.. Brum-
baugh confine his speeches to road
conditions. Though at every meeting
he also explained his program for the
social, business and moral develop
ment of the State and presented him
self as his own candidate, Embossed
and unpledged to any man except to
the Commonwealth as a whole.
Rain failed to dampen the ardor of
Blair county residents to-see their
former neighbor. At every place where
meetings were scheduled good crowds
awaited his arrival and listened to his
addresses.
At williamsburg nearly five hundred
persons assembled in Central Square
of town to hear DIR. Brumbaugh. Sec
retary of Internal Affairs Houck and
Mahlon NJ. Garland, candidate for
congressman-at large.
Two miles outside of the town the
Brumbaugh party was met by a dele
cation of thirty automobiles, headed
by John B. Strout, superintendent of
the large paper mill there. Behind
brass band the party paraded to the
school, where the pupils, each carry
ing an American flag, welcomed the
candidates. After DR.. Brumbaugh had
made a short address to the children
the party paraded through the streets
of the town and then went to the Cen
tral Square, where the meeting was
opened by Attorney George G. Pat
tersOn.
DR.. BrumbauGh was at home in
Blair county, just as much at home as
in Huntingdon, across the mountain,
where he was born and reared. Every
one knew him, in fact ne has in Blair
county one thousand relatives, every
one named Brumbaugh. One-half of
the residents of Fredericksburg claim
blood relationship to the Republican
nominee.
The sentiment of the people was eX-
pressed at every meeting in the fol-
lowing verse, which seemed to be
known to very one in the county:
'Hurrah, hurrah, for Martin G.,
Hurrah, hurrah, a winner he will be-
Mccormick and his money do not
count
With you and me-
While we are voting for our NJ G."
There was a refreshing informality
about the meetings that made them
unique in a political campaign. Some
were held at country stores where Dr.
Brumbaugh was ING" and nearly
every man was called by his first name
by the Republican nominee.
In part DR.. Brumbaugh said:
The pious ancestry merits at the
hands of the people of this State a
pious and gOodly administration of it's
public affairs, and such an adminis-
tration j pledge to you that you win
get If l am chosen Governor of your
Commonwealth.
1T is the business of the Common
Tealth through its administrative ma
chinery, to so improve the quality of
the land on which farmers raise crops
and put it in such condition that will
pay in a larger way than now to the
farmers in Pennsylvania.
The Good Roads Issue
Another thing growing out of that
is the question of seeing to it that we
have good roads in Pennsylvania
reaching from the farms to the mar
kets of the world.
II don't like the road from Roaring
Springs to Martinsburg. I know that
you do not want to bump out your
brains and wear out your equipment
and your horses on such miserable
roads as you have here and as there
are in other sections of the State
IF I am chosen Governor of your
Commonwealth, I shall see to it that
the Legislature makes ample appropri-
alton and that we make the dirt fly
on those roads and make them decent
all the way to the city of Altoona.
There are two things about the road
problem in Pennsylvania that stand
for:
First of all, every dollar of taxes