Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-29

lumber camp. You have seen me at
sixteen teaching school at Center
Union, a year later at Marklesburg,
and at twenty-five you elected me to
the superintendency of your county
schools. You saw me build my home
and rear my family. You have been
in my classes at Juniata or have heard
me in your schoolhouses and churches.
We have hailed each other on the
streets, on the highways and upon the
threshold of your homes. You have
always given me warmth and well
come to your fireside and family. God
bless all of you.
My later work in Philadelphia,
Porto Rico and the State and country
at large you have followed as a father
follows the career of his son. You
know the families whence 1 came.
You know the struggle I had to earn
livelihood and to secure an edu-
cation. You know that before I was
president of your college 1 swept its
classrooms for my tuition and rang its
bell for my food. l am glad now that
these things are so.
do you wonder therefore, that my
chief concern was to have you decide
for me whether or not 1 should lay
aside my work as a teacher and offer
my services to the people of this
mighty Commonwealth as its Gov
ernor?"
He then outlined his platform as he
submitted to the voters last Spring
and said. in part:
Two hundred and fifty-three thou
sand good men of Pennsylvania in
May indorsed that decision, and 1 am
ances of triumphant election, and
that, too, upon my own platform,
written by myself and widely circu-
lated before the primaries.
You know best of all our people
that my platform is consistent state
ment of the things for which 1 have
always steadily stood.
You will be glad to know that the
party in its platform at Pittsburgh two
days ago cordially indorsed my candi-
dacy and commended to the favor of
the people of Pennsylvania the state
ments contained in my platform.
I'VE thus have the fortunate sit
uation of a united party supporting
its candidate upon a platform of his
own, and which embodies principles
you have helped to set in my spirit.
We face the people upon a Juniata
Valley declaration, consonant in every
detail with our best thought and our
highest character.
I'm my platform 1 have declared
for those things which you know to be
right. which are progressive, but not
rash, or reactionary, which will bring,
when enacted into law, peace, pros
perity and happiness to our people.
II wish to think of Huntingdon as
a typical center of agriculture and
industrial endeavor in this Common
wealth.
What is good here will be good in
a large way in rural Pennsylvania.
Having this in mind, l wish to declare
to you my conviction that the first
duty of your officials is to conserve the
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must by law, maintain in the highest
efficiency the quality of our citizens
moral. intellectual and physical
Whatever holds In its bosom the
promise of help to our workers, men,
women or children, whether that help
be the increase of wages, their better
education, their safety in toll, their
protection and that of their loved ones
from accident or sudden death, the in
creased comfort of their home life
shorter hours of toll and provision for
wholesome, happy recreation, or any
other comfort or help that any effect
i've legislation can secure, shall have
my sympathy and support.
Firm for Local Option
The great corporations employing
thousands of our toilers, are increas-
ingly insisting that their employees
shall live soberly and economically.
nomic argument for such regulation of
the liquor traffic as will secure the
highest efficiency of our workers.
For that reason and because of its
moral meaning, I have declared for
local option.
THE people of this county have by
a special law the privilege l would ex-
tend to the entire State. Let the en-
tire issue be freely and fully met by
the people, and let the issue rest with
them.
This is fundamental in the spirit
of our institutions. In this stand 1
that of all fair minded citizens
The soil of Pennsylvania ought ant