Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-09
ALL IS NOT EASY
FOR FUSION PLAN
Denunciation of Democratic Party
by Washington Platform
Thorn in Flesh
DR.. BRUMBAUGH IS CHEERED
Great Outpourings in Luzerne to
Welcome Republican
Candidate
DR.. BRUMBAUGH is CHEERED

ton party. which is discussing the
possibilities of fusion. has risen to
plague the party leaders. The Demo-
Gratis are eager for Washington party
support. to make some showing for
Vance c. Mccormick for Governor.
/ The Washington party leaders are de-
! sirous of fusion because their treasury
| is depleted. for William Finn, who
| hitherto has been liberal, is reported
! to be unwilling Ito throw good money
after bad" and Mr.. Mccormick is re-
ported to be generous in making con-
| tributions.
In the rank and file of the party,
however. opposition to fusion has
arisen, reflected in the recent state
ment by William Draper Lewis that he
would not retire from the race until
convinced that a considerable majority
of the electors who cast their votes for
| him at the direct primaries desired
| that he step out. In the western part
| of the State movement has been
| started in the Washington party ranks
to support Brumbaugh for Governor
| because of the favorable attitude of
the leaders toward fusion on Demo-
| crat.
In these circumstances opponents of
fusion are quoting, from the Washing
ton party platform itself, these for
NAL statements:
I'VE condemn the declared policy of
the Democratic party-tarlff for reve-
nue. only. Confessedly, the present
| Democratic tariff is only the first step
in a program of reduction meant
eventually to wipe out every Vestige of
the protection principle from our
tariff. This policy we regard as a
grave menace.
We condemn the Democratic ad-
ministration for surrcnderiuE the eff
cheney of the civil and diplomatic serv-
| ices to the clamor of Democrats
| hungry for party spoils. We particu-
! larly condemn the use of the federal
| patronage in PENNSYLVANIA to build up
| a Democratic machine in this State.
| We condemn the proposal of the
| Democratic administration to surren-
| der right or wrong and without ar
| hitration our treaty rights in the
Panama canal"
| Republicans of LuZerne county ten
| dered DIR. Martin q. Brumbaugh. can
| didate for Governor, a royal welcome
on the second day of
| his tour of that sec
/ tion Yesterday. II Big Reception
was busy day that For BrumbaugII
the candidate put in in LuZerne
I before mis- departure
! for Scranton, i'm
| tour of Wilkes Barre. He met hun
| dreds of voters, many of whom hailed
| him as Governor Brumbaugh" and
| openly gave him promise of their sup
| port.
From the time he breakfasted until
| he left for LaCkawanna county DIR.
| Brumbaugh was as busy as the pro-
verbal bee. Starting in the morning
with a visit to the Wilkes-B Barre high
school, he next went to the city hall.
| the big office buildings, the department
J stores and newspaper offices, reaching
! the courthouse shortly before noon.
Tlfs l~ttp
| in the temple of justice and shook
! hands with all the officials and their
! clerks on his rounds he met Judges
! II. a Fuller, John NJ. Garman and A.
! NJ. Freas. He was alone with Judge
! Garman in the judges chambers for
J ten minutes and when he went to the
/ chamber of Judge Fuller the turist,
who was on the bench, declared a re-
cess in order that he might meet the
| candidate and shake his hand.
At the high school DR. Brumbaugh
was introduced to the several hundred
! students, who gathered for the open
| ing of the new school term, by Pro-
! ferred to the candidate as the next
| Governor of Pennsylvania" DIR.
| Brumbaugh addressed the students
speaking for fully half hour. His
| address was nonpolitical and dealt with
! his experiences in Porto Rico when he
Richard d. Ward, president of the
| city school board, spoke after Dr.
! Brumbaugh and Mr.. Ward said that
he had always been
| stalwart Democrat
Democrat He declared that he
/ Admits His came to the building
| conversion to sec what sort of a
candidate the oppo-
sition had put up.
| After hearing him speak," said Mr..
Ward, 81 am willing to admit that the
chances are bright for me becoming a
| partial Republican at the next cleo
| ton"
At the city hall DR.. Brumbaugh con-
| ferred with Chief of Police John r.
| Roberts, who openly declared that he
was going to vote for the Republican
| candidate and do all in his power to
| help elect him. David Thomas, who
| served at the last session of the House
and is certain of being returned at the
next session, also met DR.. Brumbaugh.
After visiting several of the banks
| the office buildings and the stores DIR.
| limbaugh was taken to the court
| house by County Chairman John r.
Halsey and Secretary James IT. Evans,
was hurried off to the Sheldon axle
works. where a big meeting had been
| announced for the luncheon hour.
| George w. Wall, general manager
of the Sheldon Axle Company intro
| duced DR.. Brumbaugh, and in his
| speech the candidate said:
Politics is a new experience for me.
have spent my life in school work.
| but I am now turning to the field of
politics and Offering my
self to the people with
! the promise of serving Business
J them in the same faith Depression
/ full way that ] have as I'm Lebanon
an educator. ! have a
| b US / ness experience
which believe fits me for the office of
| Governor. | am standing, however,
on my record in the public school
system"
Referring to depressed business con-
! ditions, DIR. Brumbaugh said:
| Down in.Lebanon Valley six out of
every seven rolling mills are idle. Out
| in Braddock the steel mills are run
ming with only 40 per cent. of their
capacity. Thousands are idle Mr..
| Wall. general manager of the Sheldon
axle works here, has just told me that
there are now only 1900 men on the
payrolls here. and that when the Shell
don plant is working under normal
conditions 2,200 men are given en-
| ployment