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


federacy.
1t is madness to yoke a great economic
program to any mans ambition, and 1t Is
suicidal to burden such q program with the
onus OF shameless political crew. 1t is a
fact that protection has become a byword
through Just such tactics. Men believe, and
they have a right to believe that leaders
who bartered and traded and trafficSed in
votes bartered and traded and trafflcked In
tariff schedules also. The country will never
again trust men who, 1t is convinced, be-
trayed an essential economic policy by maxi
ing It the medium Of their immoral transac-
tions
Once before the mistake was made of
Identifying an economic principle with
political career, and so complete was the ruin
that to this day a central United States
Bank cannot be established
We stand for Doctor Brumbaugh. He is
a colossus among the pigmies who imagine
they can use him. He is not their nominee.
Public opinion forced him on the ticket. He
is the greatest menace the venal machine
has ever encountered He will sweep aside
corruption, drive out the grafters purify the
political atmosphere, give q new tone to
affairs, and, better still, he will substitute
for make believe Republicansm real Repub-
licanism His candidacy is an inspiration to
all good citizens. They can prove their party
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 rejection of
Penrose. BY this means only can the nation
he convinced that Republicanism is one
thing 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
great body of citizens OF the crisis which
they face. 1t is the duty of an honest news.
paper TO expose the pretension that an or
ganizaton notably devoid OF principle is
fighting for a principle An unfortunate
conjunction of circumstances has made It
necessary to apply an heroic remedy, to de-
feat the ostensible protagonist of the States
economic ideals in order to assure the sue
cess Of those ideals in the nation and in the
interest Of ordinary morality. 1t is neces-
sary for the Republican voters to treat Pen
roseism as Republican President. Mr.. Taft
treated the Cox machine which had waxed
fat on the misdeeds it had perpetrated in
Cincinnati The time has come for Penn
sylvanIa to act on Senator Roots cbarac-
teri2ation Of the Philadelphia Organization
as a criminal conspiracy. Common sense
public necessity, fundamental morality make
such course requisite. The duty Of every
honorable citizen is plain. Pennsylvania will
vtndtcate her prestige and her honor hv p
steadfast allegiance to the dictates NJ cor-
science.