Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-03
MANUFACTURERS|N IN
PEVROSE LETTER
Call Attention to the Importance Of
Returning Him to the
Federal Senate

Representatives of extensive manu-
featuring interests in Philadelphia and
vicinity yesterday made public a call
for the reelection of United States
! Senator Boies Penrose.
BY authority of the executive conf
mitee of the Cloth Manufacturers As
sociation of Philadelphia statement
was issued over the signatures OF
eighteen well-known firms. This state
ment read:
THE citizens of Pennsylvania have
this year to elect United States SEN
ator. during whose term of office the
tariff will undoubtedly be revised in
accordance with the principles of pro-
lection.
in the framing of this new tariff IL
is of paramount importance to all who
are employed or otherwise interested
III the industries of Pennsylvania or
dependent upon their prosperity that
the State shall be represented in the
Senate by one who is a loyal advocate
of the protective system, who, besides
possessing ability of a high order. has
also a thorough familiarity with the
legislative needs of the many and
varied industries of the Common
wealth: and who, through ability and
seniority, has attained such an emf
nence in the Senate as will give pres
tige and sanction to his views.
These qualifications are possessed
in pre-eminent degree by the Hon.
Boies Penrose.
I'm point of service he Is one of the
senior members of the entire Senate;
and by reason of this long service. to-
gether with natural aptitude for the
work, and unremitting attention to
its duties, he has become the ranking
member of the committee on finance,
the most important of the committees
of the Senate. and the one to which
all tariff measures are referred. By
reason of this seniority alone he will
be better able to serve his constituents
than any new incumbent, however
able. could do until after a tenure of
such length as would. at the least, ex-
tend we'll beyond the time of the new
tariff revision.
the past seventeen years of five long
periods of tariff discussion and legis-
lation, which have equipped him with
an intimate knowledge of the intri-
cacies of the subject and familiarized
him with the conditions requisite for
the continued development and pros
perity of our great industrial interests
standards of wages and living.
For these reasons of special fitness
to serve his constituents We. as bust
ness men, having no other interests in
politics but the promotion of good
government and the perpetuation of
those economic policies which make
for the prosperity and we'll being of
all the people of our State, advocate
the denomination and reelection of
Senator Penrose to the United States
Senate"
Appended were the following sigma
lures:
Folwen Brothers x Company
Mitchell Stead: William F. Read, Jr..
Shelbourne Mills. Willis Fleischer;
Greaves Bros. Arthur Greaves: Shack
amazon Mills. Girard Worsted Mills,
L. X. Bready; a. d. Irwin & Bro,
Robert S. Irwin; Griffon Company,
SaXonia Dress Goods Mills. Brighton
Worsted Company, PeQuea Mills, Louis
Walther Manufacturing Company, De-
laine Mills, Alexander Erskine, Fern
Rock Woolen Mills, Murphy & Bro,
Joseph d. Murphy; Andrew Mill Co..
Andrew Neluard; F. A. Bochmann
COmpany