Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-30

pletely or only working from 80 to As
per cent. of their capacity. He can
see an army of half a million unem-
ployed men,"
Big Men Presided
John c. Winston, notable independ-
ent, presided at the big Germantown
rally and William T. Tilden at the
Academy rally. Other men equally
well known held the gavels at other
meetings.
Thedore Roosevelt was hammered
| by speakers at both meetings and
| Vance c. Mccormick came in for his
share of comment, which must have
made the young mans ears burn.
General Thomas j. Stewart declared
that McCormick's position in de-
inouncing as robbers, grafters and
looters of the public treasury the men
holding public offices was ''unmanly,
unjust, un-Christian-like and cow
ardly.'
Nowhere is there a citizenship like
that in Pennsylvania" he said, no
where a State like this one, yet we
hear vilification that would lead many
! in other States to believe that this
State is not fit to live in.
I'VE are going to elect as Governor
a man who will see that the highest
and lowest, rich and poor, are pro-
tected. We want one to occupy that
place who has not bought it, who has
not found it lying on the bargain
counter of debauched politics"
Stuart Speaker
Ex-Governor Edwin S. Stuart came
out firmly for the whole ticket. This
is the way the man so much admired
| in Harrisburg put 1t:
THE issue is: Will Pennsylvania
elect a United States Senator who
will vote for protection, and a man
who will use every effort to protect
the American workmen, or will they
send to the Senate a man who is so
near to being a free trader that he is
dangerous to the interests of work
ers?
| "Brumbaugh is a man who never
knew any boss but duty; a man who
would not accept nomination or cleo
tion unless he thought that it was in
the interests of the people, in the in
iterests of good government"
DR.. Brumbaugh. who spoke on home
rule for cities, made q great impress
sion. He said in part:
"It is a pleasure to be able to say to
you that after eight weeks rather
strenuous campaigning throughout
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
have met everywhere with the great
est courtesy and consideration, and
confidently look forward to November
I complish this end in a positive and
decisive way with a majority that will
be so convincing as to stop much of
| the mean, narrow, selfish, petty bick-
erings of life in this Commonwealth
I ask you gentlemen of Philadelphia
to give such a vote on the third of
i November as will say to the whole
! Commonwealth of Pennsylvania the
people are united for a clean, decent
! efficient government of the affairs of
this splendid Commonwealth
Away With Opportunists
1.-TWO years ago, with a voice that
was clamorous and an insistence that
would not be denied, we were told
that by direct primaries, by suffrage
amendments, by the introduction of
| the referendum and the Initiative, and
! by the establishment of the recall, we
would solve our municipal ills and in
| deed all our political ills If these
were vital principles of government
then, and demanded at that time such
: unusual prominence, where are the
advocates of these movements now
and why is there such a great vacuum
on the initiative, the referendum and
| the recall, where once the political
world was filled with the clamor of
| reformers for the inauguration of
these measures for the relief of an
OppICSSSu anu buIuGliSu
indeed, the recall has been recalled
and amended into an impersonal form
ula; but | submit that 1t is scarcely
| just and right for men simply with a
greed to hold office and an Unsuitable
thirst for prestige and popularity to
! drop suddenly what they once con-
sidered to be enduring principles of
government
Undoubtedly this change has been
due to the fact that the American
public's Ills were found not to be cor
rective by this species of innoculation,
and the quick doctors who proposed
these remedies have suddenly sought
new nostrums, for they are mere OPP
portunists clamoring for the public
approval and not patriotic and high
minded leaders willing to stand or fall
with their convictions and their un-
changed conservation to the public well
fare. / hate an opportunist as much
as hate boss, and | denounoe both
with all the righteous vehemence of
my spirit, and shall have nothing to
do with either"