Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-11-02

Vanced employers liability act better
child labor laws. and more humane
provisions for women to toll in our
industries. 1t also includes the en-
actment of u law permitting the peo-
pie in each county to decide for them
selves whether or not licenses shall be
issued for the sale of Intoxicating
liquors, corrupt practice act. the
submission of the question of woman ;
suffrage to the people In the form OF
an amendment to our Constitution,
and such added clements of remedial
legislation as will adequately and
safely conserve the welfare of our
army of tollers-whether men. women
or children.
Il have also advocated larger sup
port to our great school system and
the extension of its curricull to in
clude practical training in the great
industries OF our State, including agri-
culture.
I'VE must have better conditions on
our farms. We must make it pay in
dollars and in social and educational
service to stay on the soil. We need
many more food growers in Pennsyl-
Nania. We cannot do too much to
conserve the rural life OF the State
Good roads, honestly built. Well
graded, crowned and drained, and
placed under the constant care OF men
trained for the purpose, are vital
need of the State. l shall assuredly
so handle this problem as to meet the
needs of our people and to satisfy all
reasonable persons that the road
probleniN of Pennsylvania Is in the care
of men entirely competent and salts
factory not only TO me but to the
people at large.
I'VE must be generous to our char
tiles; we must also be just to them.
Hasty and unscientific appropriations
q not EAA NAfn mn he
understood now, not later on, that l
stand for absolutely fair. just and i'm
partial use of the public funds and
will brook no dictation or suggestion
that will in any degree change my
firm resolution to manage the affairs
of the State in a way that will reflect
the best business capacity and the
highest personal character of our
people.
Il hold the feelings and aspirations
of the common people IN my heart.
TO work for them will be a pleasure
more than duty. They are good
people and their welfare shall always
he my prime concern. 1t is my firm
purpose to manage the affairs of the
State in an open, honest. capable way.
/ have no respect for opportunists or
for bosses. j shall never be bossed
by anyone. l have never been bossed.
Pennsylvania ought to be so governed
as to make it impossible for bosses to
exist in the State. l shall do my full
duty in helping to make this State
clean and wholesome and worthy of
her finest traditions and loftiest char
acter.
The precepts taught me by my
good father and my sainted mother
are sacred guidances. These l shall
humbly observe as long as / live. 1t
has been a pleasure to observe the
1la ffNit a. finyN
Thou shalt not bear false witness
against thy neighbor.' / am frankly
Il firm believer in the institutions or
our religious life and am panied that
some who ought TO know better have
so far forgotten their sacred obliga-
tions as to bear false witness. Verify
they shall have their reward
"I have no hunger for office. It's
honors do not appeal to me. l do not
care for the power that arises from
patronage cunningly bestowed. 1t
would be better if one in executive
responsibility were relieved of much,
very much. of the duty of appointing
people to office. \ wise and just and
reasonable civil service could we'll re-
place the importunings of candidates
and their friends. The executive
should have time to administer the
laws and interpret the will of the
people.
1T remains to add that having
lived as I have talked, having done
no uncharitable deed to any one
in PENNSYLVANIA. having given my
life gladly and freely for the
intellectual and moral uplift of
the people OF Pennsylvania, I
pledge myself to a clean, capa-
ble.> and conscientious perform
ance of my public duties and ask each
voter to put his conscience into his
ballot on Tuesday and I shall be salts
fled with the result"