Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-29
BRUMBAUGH WARMLY
GREETED BY VOTERS
OF DAUPHTN COUNTY
Home of His Fusion Oppo-
nent Receives the Republi-
can Candidate for Governor
With Enthusiasm.


HERSHEY, Pa, oct. 9.-Dauphin
County, the home OF Vance C. McCor-
mick, fusion nominee for Governor. this
morning gave It's warmest welcome to
Dr. Martin @. Brumbaugh Men of all
political creeds assured Doctor Brum-
baugh today that he would carry the
county by fair majority.
Speaking to the employees Of the Her
shey chocolate factory here, Doctor
Brumbaugh paid a high tribute to Milton
Hershey, owner Of the factories. for his
efforts to aid his employees socially, men
tally and morally When the importance
of cooperation between brain, capital
and toll is understood in all parts Of the
state as It is here, Pennsylvania will be
a different place for the workingmen,
said Doctor Brumbaugh.
At Highspire Doctor Brumbaugh was
introduced to the employees Of the Penn
sylvania Steel Company by G. 8. Vickery.
superintendent Of the company. Doctor
Brumbaugh laid special emphasis upon
the need for remedial legislation to aid
the laboring men. workingmen's COM
pensation law, shorter hours for women
workers and better child labor regula-
tions, he said. were the important points
in his program for labor legislation.
The public schools at Middletown ad
journed to pay honor to Doctor Brum-
baugh, the educator forgetting politics for
a time. The Republican nominee for Gov
ernor told the school children Of his own
work for the schools os Pennsylvania and
also what he further hopes to achieve
when elected Governor.
Fourteen towns through the southern
part of Dauphin County will be covered
by Doctor Brumbaugh in the course of a
75-mile automobile trip today, returning
to Harrisburg about o'clock. This after
noon he will leave for Philadelphia to
address the Republican rally and mass
meeting in the Academy Of Music. Doctor
Brumbaugh expressed his intention of
making there a further reply to the at
tacks which Colonel Roosevelt has been
making upon him.
while l do not intend to deal in per-
sonalities" he said, 81 certainly resist
Misrepresentation Of facts, and such
things | shall answer"
Hundreds of workingmen from the iron
and steel mills at Steelton heard Doctor
Brumbaugh declare that one of his most
solemn obligations, when elected Gov
ernor, would be to secure the passage
of legislation directly benedting the la
boring man. a WOrklnBnan COmpenSa-
tion act, better child-labor laws and diff
ferent regulations for the hours of wo-
men workers were included in the pro-
gram OF remedial legislation outlined by
Doctor Brumbaugh.
Business depression, which now is
Weighing so heavily upon the laboring
classes, Doctor Brumbaugh attributed
largely TO the tariff. The election of the
Republican candidates, he prophesied,
would be the signal for the return of
prosperity all over the land.
Some of us will have to go to school
again" he declared, "and learn the A
B Cs of the tariff question. Then we
will understand why the Republican party
means so much to the prosperity of the
whole country"
Doctor Brumbaugh with his campaign
party arrived at Harrisburg early today
from Lancaster. where last night grent
meeting was held. Although no addresses
were scheduled for Harrisburg. a large
reception committee led by William H.
Horner. Republican County Chairman,
met the party al the station.
At Swatara station, hamlet where no
stop had been scheduled about 80 Italian
laborcrs marched in from the brownstone
quarries a mile from the station and
stood in the road waving American flags.
Doctor Brumbaugh's remarks were in
terpreted to the men by Peter GhinelIl
sentence by sentence and at their con-
clusion the demonstrative Italians rended
the air with viva Brumbaugh."