Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-28
HOME FOLKS GREET
MART" BRUMBAUCH
Notable Reception Given by Hunt
ingdon COuntians to the Re-
publican Nominee Today
BACK TO THE HOME GROUND
Montgomery County Democrats
Engage in Brawl; Bull Moos-
ers Stand by Lewis

uOH county ana the nome IOlkS are
gong TO give greeting to the Repub-
lican nominee for Governor that will
show to the whole State that the Juni-
alta valley, which has been leader in
Independent movements for years, Is
soltdly behind its distinguished son.
Reports from Huntingdon county in
dicate that not only the people of that
strenuously active county are going
TO greet the man whose fame as an
educator is national, but that folks
from Blair, Bedford. Juniata, Centre,
Miftiin and even from Perry are going
TO unite with them in attesting in
terest in DR.. Brumbaugh.
DR.. Brum baugh is expected to meet
his relatives at the Brumbaugh fam
lily reunion to-day and tonight will
go to the county seat, where there
will be reception in the public
square. 1t had been planned for the
opera house, but that is too small.
Tomorrow the doctor will go to Le-
high county to address the voters
DR.. Brumbaugh will be here next
week to attend the Grangers' picnic,
as he is to be one of the speakers on
Republican Day. This
is to be the big day
Brumbaugh of the picnic and
Coming to many people who
Grangers have heard DR.. Brum-
baugh speak in the
educational meetings
which he has addressed will want to
hear him again. A record breaking
crowd is expected on the day he
speaks. Senator Penrose is also to be
a speaker on Republican Day. The
senator, who is due in Harrisburg to-
night, Will meet a number of his
| friends here and go tomorrow to Le-
high county, where he is to speak.
Frank B. McClain and DIR. Henry
Houck were here to-day and are plan
ming to go to Lehigh where a great
Republican gathering will be held.
His strong and straight -from-the-
shoulder declaration that he will
stand firmly upon his primary plat
| form, upon which he
made his appeal for
Nomination, has de- Brumbaugh's
| lighted his legion of Platform
admirers and discom- PIeases
| fited the opposition.
DR.. Brumbaugh ad-
dressed himself exclusively to State
questions, ignoring the party platform
to the extent of declaring that he
would continue to abide by the prom
ises he made to the voters in advance
of the primary election last May, in
cluding an endorsement of local op-
tion. What have you to say of the
| local option omission in the plat
| form?" DR.. Brumbaugh was asked
His reply was: ''It was not omitted. :"
This was construed as notice that he
would not regard the State platform
as binding upon him in matters upon
which he had taken his stand before
the primary election.
This was a keen disappoint ntment to
the opponents of the Republican State
ticket. who had declared that DR.
| Brumbaugh would not longer be
able to evade either endorsing or re-
pudiating Penroseism."
No reference is made in the party
platform to Colonel Roosevelt, but DR.
Brumbaugh, in his speech, invited
the thousands of good people in the
Progressive party to join me in an
earnest and effective effort to make
the people of the Commonwealth
happy, prosperous and contented."
Considerable entertainment is being
afforded to the people of Dauphin
county by way of a curtain raiser for
the Fall campaign by the
organization of a line of
Leagues Palmer Mccormick lea
Adding CUES. The parent league
Pleasure has been moved from
one of the Mccormick
properties in NJ a k t
Square to another and concentrated in
the Patriot building. Meanwhile lea
gues are being organized in every
place where enough men can be found
to fill the impressive list of officers.
All persons enrolled as members are
given pictures of Candidate McCor-
mick before the primary campaign
began. Thus far four leagues have
been formed and the returns from
Manada Hill, Stoneglen, Hecks and
Mahantongo are not in yet and the re-
port from Bindnaugles Church is
hourly expected. People attending the
Enterline picnic tomorrow will be in
vited to become members of the lea
que and to help bear the campaign ex-
penses.
According to dispatches from Nor
ristown the reorganization gangsters
were baked in their effort to get hold
of the Montgo cry
county machine. By
the very narrow mar Old Guard
gin of two votes Har- Wins Out
vey Christman, of Lin in Fight
field, was reelected
chairman of the Dem
ocratic county committee over Wallace
Keely, of Norristown. The vote was
So to so Mr.. Christman was the NOM
inee of the "Old Guard" wing of the
Democracy, while Mr.. Keely repre-
sented the Palmerites. The "Old
| Guard" also carried all of the other
officers, the ballot resulting thus: Vice.
chairman, Frank Clark, Norristown,
46; F. J. Harrigan, of Lower Merton,
"A; secretaries, DR.. ]. J. Kane, Norris
town, so; Charles O'Neill, Norristown,
81; Irving Heiltlebeitle, Pottstown, As;
f. ]. Weider, Pennsburg, Al. The lat
ter two represented the reorganiza-
tion. BY virtue of his office as county
chairman Mr.. Christman was also
nominated for the office of treasurer.
There was much bitterness shown in
the contest. Charles D. McAvoy, an
"Old Guard" leader. in seeking to d.
vide two combatants, was roughly
handled.
The Dauphin county Bull Mooser.
last evening emphasized their adher.
ence to William Draper Lewis as their
candidate for COVER
nor by arranging for g
Bull Moose re e p { on for him
To Stick BY when he comes to thi:
Dean Lewis city next week. The
following account of
their prapar 1 S,
which shows they mean business, is
taken from the Patriot: THE Dau-
phin County Progressive League last
night appointed ]. w. Davis, George
F, Potts, D. e. Taylor, DR.. B. Frank
Smith, County Chairman Mosey and
City Chairman Dunlap on the reception
committee to meet Clifford Pinchot
and William Draper Lewis next
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