Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-19
TELLS FARMERS To
ELECT REPUBLICANS
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try, and as result of it the people of
the country. the farmers, the producers
of all sorts of commodities. and the
consumers likewise. realize that our
great need is the restoration of Re-
publican control at Washington.
Il maintain that it is is the especial
duty of the farmers to take the lead
in the movements of public opinion aud
political action which are necessary to
guide the country from distress into
prosperity and to keep it there. Agri-
culture is really the basis of the well
fare of the whole country. The farmers
labor unremittingly in their industry
which provides this basis, and their
labors and investments are to a great
extent made fruitlesS if the country as
a whole is not prosperous. The farmers,
therefore, have an especial reason for
insisting upon reasonable and moderate
legislation and upon control at Wash
ington and elsewhere by the party
which provides legislation of that sort
and whose success brings general con-
fidence.
THE election in Pennsylvania this
year is of national Importance TO the
farmers of every state, and of course
of even more importance to the farmers
of Pennsylvania. This is because
Pennsylvania Will elect United States
Senator this year. and because the man
chosen by popular vote at the primaries
to be the candidate of the Republican
party for this high office, and whose
name will be before all the voters at
the popular election in November, is
man who both in himself and by yir-
tue of the leadership he has won has
-served the farmers of the whole United
States, as well as those of Pennsylvania,
with the most devoted and valuable
service; and who at this time, both be-
cause of his rare personal ability and
the powerful influence he has acquired,
Let lafF 4 talN gfVNW.E
to render to the American farmers in
the months to come the greatest SER
vice. of which they now stand in need.
| senator Boies Penrose is to-day the
ranking Republican member of the
committee on finance of the United
leading committee of the Senate 1t is
the committee TO which are referred
all tariff and revenue matters and the
most important questions of national
public policy that come before the Sem
ate. He reached this position as a re-
suit of effective service on this COM
mittee during many years. The leader
ship on this committee which he holds
can be won only by such faithful and
way. This leadership is determined by
seniority, and this means the steady,
continuous service of years until the
top is reached.
Senator Penrose has reached this
position by such service. and his SER
vice on this committee has been distin-
guished by hard work and great abil-
ty as his colleagues and associates
know And this leadership which he
has fairly won makes him the .Republi-
can leader of the Senate to-day. This
is his position now when he comes be-
fore the voters of his State for re-
election. This is why his candidacy
his election-is of national Importance.
He is the leader of the Republican party
in Congress now. He is. theCefore, the
this YEAR for the national work Of 5' the
party this year is entirely in the legls-
lative field. It has to do solely with
the present and proposed work of Con-
gress. for it will he two years hence
before we can make any contest in
Nolving the national administration,
! that is, the Presidency and the entire
| executive department of our national
Government.
probably every American voter re-
members that wise saying of Abraham
Lincoln that IL is dangerous to swap
horses when crossing a stream. 1t
would be not only dangerous but also
ridiculous to swap from a good, strong,
. tested and thoroughly capable horse to
one of unknown strength and endur-
ance. And it would be much more
capable horse when there is no other
horse whatever at hand to take his
; place and carry us through the stream.
And that is what Pennsylvania
would be doing If she should give up
Senator Penroses at this time, which
am sure she could not by any means
be persuaded to do. For in Senator
Penrose Pennsylvania has the Republi-
can leadership in the Senate and in
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, else who If elected to the Senate at
. this time, could possibly become a
years, either of the Republican party
or of any other party. AS to the
Democratic candida who is opposing
Senator Penrose, I shall not say any
thing about his free trade principles
| and practices. but. Notwithstanding his
principles. which have never been un-
derstood to be the PRINCIPLES of Penn
sylvania, If a political miracle should
happen and he should be elected to the
Senate he would be a new member and
he would have to go through many
years of service before he could ac-
quire influence, and leadership. The
political miracle of electing free
have to he repeated over and over again
to enable him to become a Senatorial
leader. As to the candidate Of the
Washington or Progressive party. his
, situation is even worse. for the third
party he represents is disintegrating so
, rapidly that to elect him would be to
have Pennsylvania standing practically
alone in the Senate and negligible
quantity.
: His knowledge of Penrose
ut is fundamentally because of this
great Republican national necessity for
the reelection of Senator Penrose that
I feel it my duty to come into Penn
ers on this subject I feel keenly that
the welfare of our farming interests
requires the re-establishment of the
Republican protective policy. of which
? tional champion And 1 have an es-
pecial personal satisfaction in being
able to speak in behalf of Senator PEN
rose, because l have had personal
knowledge and experience of his devo-
ton to his work in Washington, of his
great ability and resourcefulness, of his
fidelity in every way to the protective
} principle and the other accepted Re-
, publican principles. and to his par
ticular and friendly interest in every
matter that relates to the welfare of
, the American farmers.
"In speaking IS l am of Senator Pen
roses leadership and ability at Wash
! ington, and of his work for the well
: fare of farmers, | am not speaking
from hearsay knowledge, but from my
own personal knowledge 1t was my
: good fortune to be for a number Of
: years the Master of the National
I Grange, and as such the chairman Of
T the legislative committee of that great
Y organization. AS such II was my duty
| to take an active part in expressing the
. views of the farmers on various sub
jects that came fore Congress, and |
had occasion to go to Washington at
. various times with delegations of
I farmers from many States, and to ap-
4 pear with them at hearings before com b
I mittees and otherwise. In the course
} of such work I took part in hearings
before the finance committee of the
Senate and there came to know Sena-
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