Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-28
PUBLIC LEDGER
BACKS BRUMBAUCH
CONTINUED From First Paee1

whole record of service and pledge my
life work as an earnest of the service
to be expected of me as Governor The
form OF service can change the quail
lty never. / am, therefore, asking the
people to support me upon the quality
OF my well-known work In the edu-
cauonal interests of this State and
nation
DIR. Brumbaugh's record is his plat
form, the kind of platform that is GER
tain to be translated into achievement
IL permits of no broken pledges The
character of candidate. itself an evo-
luton determined by long years of
sacrlhce and conspicuous devotion To
pupllc necessities, in sphere of
human endeavor that too often brings
no recognition, Is a warranty of future
performance far more acceptable than
a text of phrases and a declaration of
intention. A platform has no meaning
that the character of the men stand
ing on 1t does not give.
DR.. Brumbaugh Interpreted his
own Republicanism before the pri-
mary, and his nomination he construes
TO mean his dedication to the prin-
ciples then enunciated. irrespective of
any other program. No advocate of
local option need fear that the cause
will suffer If DIR. Brumbaugh Is Gov
efnor. I shall not hesitate to en-
courage legislation of the most ad-
vanced practical kind he declared in
the personal platform which he has
new reaffirmed. The problem of the
liquor traffic. is vital one facing the
people and the Legislature TODAY In
harmony with many thoughtful per-
sons, L submit that local option is a
practical solution. Any legislative
measure looking to an Improvement of
the conditions regulating this traffic
VIII receive my approval
The utterances of DIR. Brumbaurh
are so impregnated with pure Repub.
licanism. the vital. militant Repub-
licanism that saved the Union and
ripened industry, that no man who
believes in Republican PRINCIPLES can
fail to support him. His candidacy
bring1. too, new hope and inspiration
to the rank and file. who SO often
heretofore have been traded out of
their rights
have no entangling alliances of
any sort. ! am under no promise. no
agreement, made or implied I shall
never be party to any such thing.
III elected, IL must he with the definite
understanding that shall be entirely
free to perform my official duties solely
and steadily for the people as whole
DR.. Brumbaugh is no mans man
but his own. Unreservedly and whole
heartedly before the primary he made
this plain and he is reiterating that
purpose now. before the election. He
does not want the goveFnorship unless
1t comes strtng-loose. He can admit
no experjmenters into the camps of
service and he will not himself enter
them with bis hands shackled. He
must be free to do the work he has
set out to do, and he proposes to be
free. His position is unequivocal; 1t
admits of no compromise.
The candidacy of this man marks
an epoch in political progress. In con-
trast to those men who sought to
rescue Republicanism in this State by
disemboweling 1t, here is a champion
who proposes to clean house from
within. by independent administration.
He does not imagine that he can sweep
floors by blowing at the windows. Re-
publican in principle, independent in
attitude. his muscles taut for service
DIR. Brumbaugh is an ideal candidate
and one about whom all the forces of
good government can rally with full
confidence. He should go to Harris
burg with an enormous majority"