Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-11
BRUMBAUCH'S NOT
A FANCY POLITICIAN
Tells Crowds if They Want ''Plain
Pennsylvania Dutchman,"
He's the Man

Close to ten thousand persons heard
Martin q. Brumbaugh. Republican
candidate for Governor. state his po-
sition as a candidate at the Meyers
dale Fair, the big Somerset gathering
yesterday.
''I am not a politician. never was.
and never will be- said DR.. Brum-
baugh in stentortan tones as the Inn
mense throng surged around him on
the fair ground. But If the people
of Pennsylvania want a plain Pennsyl
vania Dutchman for Governor, / am
willing to accept the Job. and I assure
you that I will see that the State
government will be efficiently ana
honestly administered in the interest
of all the people"
DR.. Brumbaugh's speech electrified
his hearers, who enthusiastically ap-
plauded his clear statement of his po-
sition on the public questions that are
agttating the State. DR.. Brumbaugh
wac warmly greeted by hundreds OF
personal friends gathered from all sec
tions of the county who learned to
know him at church dedications and
other meetings.
The thousands of people at the fair
manifested an enthusiastic sentiment
for the entire Republican ticket, and
II their expressions are fair criterion
Somerset county will roll up fine
majority for the Republican candi-
dates in November.
Somerset county's mining interests
have felt the depression in the indus
trial world during the past year and
are clamoring for the return of the
Republican party to power to insure
another era of prosperity.
A reception for DIR. Brumbaugh was
held at the Colonial Hotel In Meyers
dale when thousands of people shook
him by the hand and rendered their
best wishes for his success. He was
compelled to make a brief address
from the hotel balcony before pro-
ceeding to the fair grounds.
Penrose at Towanda
Senator Boies Penrose on his first
visit to the northern tier on his cam
paign for reelection was assured of
strong support not only in Bradford
but throughout the tier of counties.
At the Towanda Fair the Senator was
greeted by a great throng. principally
farmers, many of whom voted the Bull
Moose ticket two years ago. but who
now are staunch Republicans on ma
tional issues, and eager for the resto-
ration of the policies of that party.
The sentiment of the people of Brad
ford on political issues is such that
Republican leaders of the county are
confident it will go for the Republican
ticket in November by a substantial
majority.
1 ne senator went TO IOWdn0d on IN
Nitation from the managers to attend
the fair. The crowd present was esti-
mated at more than twenty-thousand.
When he arrived voters were massed
about the tent where Republican
headquarters had been established.
lie was presented to them by C. H.
Jennings, chairman of the Republi-
can county committee. Among those
who greeted him we're many of the
former Bull Moosers of the county and
several Democrats. who declared their
intention of voting for him because of
the business and industrial depression.
The farmers of Bradford county are
especially disgruntled over Democratic
tariff legislation. They fear Canadian
competition in the sale of farm prod
ucts and they are anxious for a revi-
sion by the Republican party of the
agricultural schedule of the Under
wood law, therefore the Bradford
county farmers will fight shy of the
Bull Moose and Democratic tickets.
Farmers LegisI. ton
From a platform in front of the
Erandstand Senator Penrose addressed
the crowd. He was introduced by
Chairman Jennings, who referred to
the Senator's great influence in the
enactent of tariff legislation and
predicted that he would be returned
TO the Senate.
In his address Senator Penrose at
tackled the agricultural schedule. He
declared that while it had brought the
PENNSYLVANIA farmer into foreign
competition nobody had been benefited
because the cost to the consumer has
not been reduced. Just as the farmers
of this State were entering upon an
era of prosperity they found them
selves suddenly confronted with COM
petition from the Canadian farmers in
the markets for dairy and other farm
products, said Senator Penrose Cam
ada is as close to the New York and
other eastern markets as Bradford
county. The farmers of this section
of Pennsylvania must be brought to a
realization of the conditions that
threaten their welfare, which if not
corrected is certain to prove destruc-
tive. Every patriotic PENNSYLVANIA
join in the effort to send to Washing
ton men who will support legislation
that will restore prosperity to the peo-
pie. The difficulty now is the nation
is govLraed by men who are entirely
unfamiliar with the needs of Penn
sylvania.
The heads of the most important
committees of Congress are men from
the southern States, who have no
sympathy with our views regarding
the tariff and other fiscal policies The
Pennsylvania idea, however, is the
idea of New York, and of New Eng
land, it is the idea of Illinois, of In
diana and other western States In
fact the Pennsylvania idea is the idea
OF America for Americans and pros
perity for all.
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