Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-14
SENATOR PENROSE FOR
MERCHANT MARINE
Delivers Strong Address to Big
Crowd at Boiling Springs
Picnic
IS GREETED BY HUNDREDS
Well-known Cumberland County
Men Present; Senator
Felt at Home"
IS GREETED BY HUNDREDS

Declaring that the United States
should not only take advantage of
the opportunity of the hour and make
the Stars and Stripes again the domi-
mating flag In the commerce of the
world, but secure now the great trade
of South America and establish it's
business independent of the erratic
politics of Europe, Senator Boies
Penrose yesterday afternoon stirred
the people at the Farmers Indus
trial Picnic at Boiling Springs to ap-
plause and created pronounced SEN
timent in favor of immediate building
up of the American merchant marine.
The Senator's speech was one of the
strongest he has ever delivered in
this part of. the State and he showed
himself complete master of his sub
Ject, bringing home to the farmers
and businessmen who thronged about
the stand where he spoke just what it
meant to have no shipping of our
own when that of other nations was
driven from the seven seas by war.
In addition to the Senator, the
speakers of the day We're ex-State
Treasurer William H. Berry. now
collector of the port of Philadelphia;
DIR. M. e. Connard State cattle eX-
pert, and DR.. H. A. Surface. State
zoologist All the speakers eschewed
4 politics, Mr.. Berry only getting into
the State for returning Penrose to
the Senate, and he did not mention
him by name. The Senator's speech
was devoid of any reference to poll
tics and a call for Pennsylvanians to
help in recovering the great trade
which was American before the Civil
War.
| Greeted by Hundreds
The Senator was heard by hun
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grouped about the bandstand, and
shook hands with hundreds more, who
fiocked about him in a manner that
was in striking contrast to the little
interest displayed in Mr.. Berry. The
picnic is an annual agricultural affair
ana attracts many people from all
over the Cumberland valley, and was
in charge of H. B. Markley, superin-
tendent of the park, and a commit
tee composed of T. Elliott Middleton,
with Messrs. Ployer, Diller, Spangler,
Gates, May, Muntorff and others.
When the Senator arrived he was
met by many prominent men. Berry
was escorted by DR.. M. M. Dough-
erty, H. H. Mercer and others. Judge
George Kunkel, who stopped on a mo-
toring trip, was accompanied by John
r. Yeyer, Senator E. E. Beidleman,
City Commissioner w. II. Lynch and
other friends. He was greeted on all
sides.
On the stand when Senator Penrose
spoke were Judge w. F. Sadler, Syl-
Yester b. Sadler, John Lindner, l.. S.
Sadler, William A. Mullin, Major j.
G. Kirk, Caleb S. Brinton, Morris Mil
ler, County Chairman j. H. Kline, Guy
III. Davies Samuel Bentz, George
Frey, Fl. B. Walters and others. The
| Lemoyne band was on hand and
played patriotic music.
Berry RambIes
Mr.. Berry, presented by H. H. Mer-
Ger, of Mechanicsburg, was evidently
| impressed by the criticism of Vance
@. Mccormick for injecting politics
into the farmers picnic at Blain last
week and spared around for a time
before getting started on an address
which urged his hearers to make the
most of their divinely bestowed oppor-
/ tunities. Mr.. Berry is a good, con-
vincing talker and he discussed hu-
man life and its responsibilities in a
way that reached everyone. He
brought in the Darwinian theory, the
ruthlessness of the rhinoceros, the
circumambient ether, BENJAMIN
Franklin and the cataclysm in Eo-
rope.
The only time Mr.. Berry got near
politics, and 1t was only cursory, be-
cause he was busy impressing people
with their accountability for their
|
men in charge at Washington were
men who would not be rushed into
unjust war and who were actuated
by the highest motives. Then he
said: Il note among those present
to-day a United States senator. There
are those who accuse him of all the
ills in Pennsylvania That is a mis-
take. He is no more responsible than
you are. You sent him to Washing
ton and he is doing what you want
him there TO do
| While Mr.. Berry was getting to-
ward his peroration the relocated
band came up escorting the Senator,
and the ex-State Treasurer paused to
let it blow itself out. When he fin-
ished he went over and shook hands
with Senator Penrose, who had taken
his place on the stand shortly before
Mr.. Berry scattered his final rhetori-
cal gems.
Senator Felt at Home
DR.. E. A. Noble ex-president of
Dickinson, presented the Senator as
one who knew Pennsylvania and its
interests and who would talk of those
things which make for patriotism and
the glory of America. And the Sena-
| tor did. The crowd took what he
said most heartily and applauded it.
Senator Penrose said that he felt
at home in the Cumberland valley be-
cause his father and uncles had been
born in Carlisle and his kin lived
there. His grandfather had married
in the Colonial town and he himself
often visited it and enjoyed seeing it
and meeting its people. He referred
to the fact that his grandfather had
been Senator from the Cumberland
Adams district and had sat beside
and worked as chief aid to the great
Thaddeus Stevens in establishing the
public school system of Pennsylvania,
O fact which the Senator said he
pride. Later on the Senator referred
to his feeling at home and spoke for
a time of the part the Cum berland
valley had played in Pennsylvania
history and its wealth and importance