Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-27
"SMASH PENROSE,"
ROOSEVELT SAYS
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ROOSEHELI SAYS
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the support of the local Progressive
ticket he continued his attacks upon
Penroseism as blot upon national
politics.
! The Colonel returned TO Uniontown in
! time for meeting at 2:30 this after
| noon.
Roosevelt started to celebrate his
! birthday at s o'clock by repeating his
/ vicious attacks upon Penrose to 1000
workmen, who stood on box cars and
in the square on 5th avenue in Mc<ees-
port the heart OF ex-Congressman Dali
zells famous district
William Finn. OF Pittsburgh, Joined the
party at MCkeesport and rode with Roosc-
Welt on the special train for the rest OF
the day. r. II. Quay is not with the
party
At Monongahela City 1900 school chill
dren greeted the chief Bull Moose, and at
bonora loco were at the station when the
Colonels campaign train pulled in.
81 have come into Pennsylvania" said
the Colonel, in Charleroi. ito ask you men
TO be true to yourselves, TO your wives
and to the children who come after you
by finishing the work started two years
ago We then started to throw out Pen
rose We must finish the work and smash
the whole PenrOse machine"
Fully $500 persons thronged the station
platform to hear him.
Fifteen hundred school children who
wished 10 see the Colonel at California,
arrived just as the train was pulling
cut. Roosevelt expressed his regrets and
went to his window to wave to them.
In thrCe-minute speech at California
the Colonel said:
"T want YOU to help us in smashing
Penrose and the whole Penrose machine.
l want you. with the little citizens In
YOUR arms, to make this State better for
YOUR children and your chidrens chill
dren, one way you can do that is by
supporting Clifford Pinchot."
ONE ISSUE IN CAMPAIGN.
At each of his stops today Roosevelt
plainly told the people that the issue in
this campaign was Penrose
I'VE must get ride of Penrose and the
bipartisan liquor-controlled machine that
puts across the things for which Pen
rose stands" he said.
The effect of Roosevelt's invasion was
clearly shown yesterday and this morn
ing. 1t disclosed an anti Penrose sent-
ment that has been greatly underesti-
mated
1t has also shown that Roosevelt can
swing a big vote against Penrose, but
cannot arouse much enthusiasm for the
Washington party.
Roosevelt himself gave the following
estimate of the effect of his first days
trip after 1900 persons stood in the rain
and cheered him when he visited Will
Transport last night.
STRONGER THAN IN 1912.
'I am perfectly astounded at what
have seen today. / was prepared after
my visit to Erie to see things going we'll
but tits is bigger than ii was two years
ago, In my judgment we are going to
do better than we did two years ago, and
really believe that Clifford Pinchot will |
do better than did in Pennsylvania two |
years ago.
Pinchot's strength is apparent in this |
section of the state. but in Palmer's dis |
trict Roosevelt made votes for Palmer. In |
the Schuyll5il region. where Roosevelt is |
personally very popular, PinChot is little !
known. Anti-Penrose strength there is |
tremendous. but whether it will go for
Palmer or Pinchot is still a matter of
conjecture
y wonderful personal ovation has been
paid Roosevelt all along the route. AL |
though the Progressive party organization |
Is apparently stronger in all the counties |
ne has So far invaded than it was in |
1912 the party leaders themselves have I
estimated that fully half the crowds have |
gathered out of curiosity 70 see Roosevelt. |
In three meetings at Willamsport last |
night held in the Opera House, the |
Court House and in the square in front |
Of the Park Hotel, Roosevelt for the first |
time during his invasion abandoned his |
attacks upon Penrose. the man, and upon |
the PrnrnSe machine in Pennsylvania, and |
into a discussion Of the tariff.
The Penrose tariff is a tariff which |
.avOrs almost entirely the manufacturer
and excludes the employe from its bene-
its" he summed up.
PENROSE HALTs PROGRESS.
He then discussed the workmen's conf
bill. "Penrose does not dare"
,e said, ITO place upon the statute books
If either state or nation just compen-
ation law because his masters and en-
,Ioyers who helped him with their money
90 break into the United States Senate
viii not permit him to do SO. The PEN
ose system OF protection means privilege
md graft, and their revulslon against the
Whole system which produces privilege
md graft"