Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-14

the help rendered by so Infamous con-
federacy.
lt is madness to yoke great economic
program to any mans ambition, and 1t is
suicidal to burden such program with the
onus Of a shameless political crew. 1t is a
fact that protection has become a byword
/ through Just such tactics. Men believe, and
they have right to believe, that leaders
who bartered and traded and traff1cked in
votes bartered and traded and trafIicked in
/ tariff schedules also. The country will never
again trust men who it is convinced, be-
trayed an essential economic policy by maxi
ing it the medium of their immoral transact
tions.
Once before the mistake was made OF
identifying an economic principle with a
political career. and SO complete was the ruin
! that to this day a central United states
Baul, cannot be established
We stand for Doctor Brumbaush. lie is
colossus among the pgmies who imagine
they can use him. He is not their nominee.
Public opinion forced him OH the ticket. He
is the greatest menace the venal machine
has ever encountered. lie will sweep aside
corruption. drive out the grafters, purify the
political atmosphere, give new tone to
affairs. and better still. he will substitute
for make believe Republicanism real Repub-
ltcanism. His candidacy is an inspiration to
fealty through sending him to Harrisburg
by an overwhelming majority. and, at the
same time, stamping with their condemna-
tion Penroseism and all that it portends
There is nothing that could so hearten Re
publicans the nation over and invigorate the
party as the emphatic Endorsement of Brum-
baugh and the equally emphatic re SECTION of
Penrose. BY this means only can the nation
he convinced that Republcansm is one
thins and Penroseism another
We stand for Mr.. Palmer not because Of,
but in spite of, his economic principles. We
stand for him because he towers above his
chief opponent in the morality of his per-
spective. We stand for him because he is
the one instrument through which Penn
sylvania may set itself right before the ma
tion, because the one hope of national Re-
publicanism lies in the election Of this Demo-
crat. We are for him because his success
would deprive the Republican party of only
one vote in the Senate, and the defeat Of Mr..
Penrose would probably give it ten.
1t is memorable campaign which the
state enters, a campaign vital to its indus
trial interests. 1t behooves an independent
Republican newspaper solemnly to warn the
great body Of citizens of the crisis which
they face 1t is the duty Of an honest news.
paper to expose the pfetension that an Or
ganization notably devoid Of principle is
fighting FOR q principle. An unfortunate
conjunction of circumstances has made II
necessary to apply an heroic remedy. to de-
feat the ostensble protagonist Of the States
economic ideals in order TO assure the syc
cess Of those ideals in the nation and in the
interest of ordinary morality. Il is neces-
sary for the Republican voters to treat Pen
roseism as Republican President Mr. Taft.
treated the Cox machine. which had waved
fat on the misdeeds it had perpetrated in
Cincinnati. The time has come for Penn
sylvania to act on Senator Roots charac-
terI2ation Of the Philadelphia Organization
as criminal conspiracy. Common sense
public necessity. fundamental morality make
such course requisite The duty Of evorv
honorable citizen is plain. PENNSYLVANIA will
vindicate her prestige and her honor h,
steadfast allegiance to the dictates Of con-