The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1914-09-30
Candidate Pinchot Passed Through.

Clifford Pinchot, who claims a "yoting
residence" in Pike county, and wants to
be Senator from Pennsylvania, made his
much heralded trip through this section
last week. Saturday he reached To
nesta, where he gave short street talk To
the small Saturday afternoon crowd that
is usual to our town at the corner of Elm
and Bridge streets, the burden OF which
was his anxiety to lick Senator Penrose,
His car arrived about three o'clock froul
Tdioute and one of the men bers OF the
party was our old friend Geo. Mum oi
Warren, a very strong advocate of pure
politics. Mr. Pinchot was met at Tidi'
cute and escorted to our city by a num-
ber Of our townsmen, among whom were
K. w. Bowman, A. NJ. Doutt, j. @. Geisi,
F. r. Lanson, w. ]. Campbell, Harry
Watson and William Wolcott.
In somewhat ex tended speech Judge
Irwin introduced candidate Pinchot, and
among other things he made the rather
startling statement that Senator Penrose
had said "he owned the voters of this
state" The Judge sfterward admitted
that he had only heard some one else say
this.
Candidate Pinchots speech was almost
wholly devoted to abuse of Senator Pen
rose, whose job he freely admitted be
would like to beat him out OF. With him
it WAS "anythiDg to beat Penrose," tie
swfully bad boss. He charged the Sen
stor with favoring every bad law and OPP
posing every good one. When he came
to specialize his most serious charge was
that Senator Penrose had voted for the
Canadian reciprocity law, but he forgot
TO say that one of the strongest advocates
of that bill, while 1t was under considers
ton in Congress, was Col. Roosevelt,
who made speeches in its favor and
recommended it as a splendid measure
for the people of the United States, es-
pecislly the working man. He further
more forgot to state that his Democratic
opponent, A. Mitchell Palmer, who also
wants Penrose's job so bad that he can
taste it, was one of the main leaders in the
passage of the free trade law now in force
and that allows Canada to export her
goods into this country duty free, but
gives the Uuited States no chance to ex-
act the same privilege from the Canadians,
But it isn't Pslmer's scalp that Clifford Is
after. He rather hopes to draw enough
Republicans to himself to let the big
Democratic boss. Palmer.
Another of Mr.. Pinchot's complaints
was of the manner in which the state
highways were handled under Commls-
sioner Bigelow, knowing full we'll that
Auditor General Powell held up the road
fund for year so that no work could be
done on the roads during that period, ard
knowing that this course would bring
odium upon the highway department.
Could Senator Penrose or Mr.. Bigelow
have had their way of it the state high
ways would today be in the very finest
cond ition, and that without one penny's
cost to the taxpayers of the country.
Mr.. Pinchot, it should be remembered,
is a very wealthy man, perhaps no
weslthier man ever sspiied to the Senst'
orship from Pennsylvania. After being
pried loose from his job as chief forester
at Washington in 1910, he established 4
"voting residence" to use his own words
in this state, and if he has been the gooc
"house- cleaning" citizen that hepretendI
to be, and has not been absent at his
"resl residence" on election day, he hai
voted at just four general elections IL
Pennsylvania. This should entitle hin
to be elected as our representative iu tn
U. s. Senate, by all means! 1t would b.
an easy job for him, and he wouldn't b
bothered but once year, when of cours
he would have to hunt up his "VOtin
residence" and cast his ballot.