Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-21
Candidate Closes Day With Speech
in the Y. M. c. A. at Ches-
ter and Pledges Service
RECEIVED WITH ACCLAIM
Senator Sproul Presides at Meet
ing; Candidate Goes Into
Schuylkill Today

DR.. Martin G. Brumbaugh closed a
very successful and gratifying tour of
Delaware county last evening at
meeting in the Y. M. c. A. at Chester
at which Senator w. c. Sproul pre-
sided and men from all parts of the
county were present. Some of the
most representative men of the district,
ministers and laymen, gathered to pay
tribute to the doctor. The visits to
Media and other places were a con-
tinuous ovation. Delaware will be for
Brumbaugh good and strong, as will
Chester. Montgomery and other coun-
ties in that section.
To-day DIR. Brumbaugh is in Schuyl-
kill county and he goes into West
moreland tomorrow.
In his Chester speech DR.. Brum-
| baugh said:
won't Change a Bit"
'I submit that to you tonight as I
| do to all my fellow citizens in Penn
| sylvania as my platform and my
! pledge of service to you. In other
| words 1 have lived too long and have
worked too steadily at one thing in
| one way ever to change my methods
or my purposes, and precisely the
| same quality of service that l have
| given to the people of this Common
wealth for a generation is the kind of
| service you can expect from me If you
elect me Governor of your Common
| wealth.
I'VE live just now in a very fortu-.
nate time. All the traditions of our
| parties have been broken in the last
two years. Every party has felt the
| shift of public sentiment and the chas-
| tening of the public will
THE Republican party comes from
that experience just as virile, just as
earnest and just as strong as any
| party dare come from 1t and offers
now through its candidates here be-
! fore you tonight as fine a program of
| social. educational and moral reform
| as any party in this Commonwealth
| dare offer to you.
| I'VE offer it with this peculiar diff.
| ference. that instead of dreaming
about it and theorizing about it we
have the practical judgment and power
to make good in our party. / there
fore appeal in no apologetic mood or
attitude, as we have no apologies to
/ make.
I'VE are an aggressive and virile
| people, fighting for the rights of the
| Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
81 want you to understand that and
! help us to put before the people of
! this State with some degree of definite
ness and clearness and force the fact
| that If elected to the Office of Governor
of this State l will pledge to you, and
l will pledge to the party, that 1 will
1 go into the office with my views on
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| advance legislation and an admins
| tration as progressive as any reason
| able people in this Commonwealth
| can ask for.
Those who have known me in my
| school work and those of you who
| have been my pupils or my associates:
| those with whom I have touched
| elbows in the work of my life, know
very well this one thing, that l never
was bossed and never will be bossed;
that if elected Chief Executive of this
Commonwealth, under my own con-
| science and the will of the people,
| shall endeavor to deal justly and
righteously by all who live in this
Commonwealth.
Il spoke a moment ago of the social
program now facing the people of
this Commonwealth. We are begin, |
ming largely because of the advances |
made in our public education to build |
here in America homogeneous peo-
ple-that is to say people who think |
together, who work together, who live |
together, who legislate together and |
who in their common knowledge and |
common ideals constitute the very
power of this government of ours |
This social program of legislation |
which faces the people of Pennsylva- |
mia is the definite outgrowth of that |
solidarity of feeling in the hearts of |
our people and worked out in its detail |
it comprehends many important legis- |
lative enactments. all of which at their |
heart have tosdo with this fundamen-
tai fact: that the Commonwealth !
through its law and through its ad- |
miniStration more than any other |
thing must conserve the lives of the |!
people who toll in Pennsylvania.
For Compensation Law
Therefore. am anxious to see en- |
acted in this Commonwealth our
worlImen's compensation law; I am
interested also in an advance employ !
ers liability act, and certainly there is |
not n man in this room who will not |
Join me In the thought that not only |
the justice of this Commonwealth, out |
its chivalry, should be pledged to make |;
conditions under which women work
in Pennsylvania as kind and as reme-
dial as our laws can possibly make !
them. /
These are the potential mothers of |
generation that Is to come and the. |
very life of our Commonwealth de- |
mands that we should conserve and |
care for these women who under our |
society and domestic conditions are
| obliged to labor in Pennsylvania. T
| wish it might be so that we would not
need that kind of labor"