Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-29
Tener Discusses the
Career of Brumboueh
and the Lou Tariff

Governor Tener in accepting the
gavei had to wait until the applause
that broke out spontaneously ali over
the hall had subsidized. Then he made
snort speech in which he set forth
wnat the campaign means. The Gov
ernor said:
Governor Tenef's Speech
Governor Tener said:
t Is not my purpose tonight to
undertake comprehensive review of
TINS campaign and its issues, nor at
tempt to discuss the relative merits
OF the several candidates on the vari-
GUS tickets
There are just two nominations
that l propose to consider and there
is put one general statement that I in
tend to make.
The first thing have to say is with
respect to the next Governor of Penn
sylVan1a-Martin G.. Brumbaugh MY
successor Is about 81 years of age.
During more than thirty years of that
time he has been instructing, molding
the character and fashioning the ideals
Oh the rising young men and women of
this Commonwealth and this nation.
Ihat has been his one conservation
and delight
| The word conservation has come
INTO our Industrial, mineral, agricul-
tural, State and national problems.
and 1t has transformed, If not elevat-
ed our politics and possibly some of
our politicians, but whether we be
Iconservationfsts or not, when they say
to us that the paramount conservation
Is the conservation of our youth which
comes through education, we all agree,
and such has been Martin G.. Brum-
baugh's contribution to the cause of
conservation.
Man of Achievement
He comes of that sturdy stock
which is representative of the highest
| type of solid citizenship. stout patriot
ism and everyday, Woodworking
MANHOOD. He is a product of the
common schools. with a university fin
lsh, self-earned. He has been a teach
er and superintendent of public in
struction in his native county. He was
the organizer of the American school
system in Porto Rico, to which island
he was sent by another school teacher
named William Mckinley, and since
then he has been at the head of the
educational system in Philadelphia,
This has been his record for more
than thirty years, nor has anyone
found single flaw in that record,
nor is there aught in his whole life
or LIES work to be explained away
or CLOSED over in this campaign.
They say, however, that DIR. Brum-
baugh is supported by men more or
less tanned with party regularity. Ad-
mitting that he is, since when, may ]
ask, has it been called strange for a
blameless man, man of rectitude and
| righteous instincts and orderly incli-
nations. to inspire the admiration and
enlist the sympathy and support of the
regular Republicans. as well as OF
those who have thought differently.
Safe in Brumbaugh
Look over Martin G. Brumbaugh's
career and you will find only great
achievements and great goodness;
and 1 am persuaded that good man
does not become a bad man by the
mere fact of his election to the COVER
norship of Pennsylvania. Your inter-
| ests Will be safe in the hands of Mar
tin @. Brumbaugh.
ITO the Governor we look for the
disposition of purely domestic matters
and such of our affairs as are within
State control. To our United States
senators we have confided our repre-
sentation in the settlement of those af-
fairs which concern the whole nation.
The Congress of the United States
deals legislatively with the great prob
lens of revenue, protection and super
vision, touching the most vital ques-
tions of our national prosperity. I'M
less we prosper as people, we cannot
prosper as a State. We go up as
forty-eight States or we go down as
one union. When iron and steel, coal
and coke are not enjoying normal de-
mand the East, South and West must
share in our misfortunes; and is it
not fact that the disaster which
has overtaken the cotton of our South
ers states has helped to paralyZe the
energies of the North.
These, however, are minor conside-
rations alongside the nation wide
problem of a protective tariff which
preserves the opportunity for pros
perity for the whole country alike.
while the Democratic low tariff either
minimizes or destroys the opportunity.
Protection renders prosperity possible,
while we know of bitter truth, en-
countered more than once. that the
sort of tariff written by the Demo-
cratic party makes prosperity impos-
sible. even where the bounty of the
Almighty as expressed in extraordin-
ary harvests is record-breaking.
Mr.. Penrose represents the protec-
tive tariff principle, and therefore the
opportunity for prosperity, and warn
you that without prosperity there is
not much use fussing about advance in
education, progress in the care of our
workingmen, enlightened adjustment
charities, the good roads problem, or
any of these things, for ifrthere is no
prosperity there will be no funds; and
If our corporations and people are not
making money the State cannot keep
up its revenues.
Democrats and Prosperity
Reform, progress, Improvement
and the instrumentalities for the beau
ties, comforts and uplifting influences
of life are to be desired, and they will
some day come, but it isn't in the
wood for the Democrats to produce
the prosperity necessary to realize
them unless that party changes it's
policies and revises its principles. So
that having in mind the years of Boies
Penrose's public life, his remarkable
range of experience in legislation. his
fidelity to his State and its people, his
Republicanism, his high rank in the
United States Senate, and above all.
the position he will be in, if reelected.
to aid in the restoration of that gem
eral prosperity which we all hope and
pray for, 1t becomes our duty in Penn
sylvania to follow the first law of ma
ture, which is self-preservation, by re-
turning him six more years.
"A few words now as to our State
government and the administration
about to terminate. We have nothing
to conceal, and there is nothing for
which we seek to apologize. The past
four years will compare favorably with
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