The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-10-26
Call on Advocates of
Local Option to Sup
port Republican Can
didate for Governor
PALMER REBUKES
CLIFFORD PINCHOT
Congressman Resents Bull Mooser's Re-
cent Attacks-oiver Declares He
viii Not Again Seek ofice-Pen-
rose Is Optimistic

oNer"heimlng hepuDllcan victory III
pennsylvania at next weeks election,
the leading Republican State eandi.
oates addressed ten meetings in Allie
sheny county Saturday ending the day
with great rally in the Fourteenth
| Regiment Armory.
Senator Boies Penrose discussed the
tariff and declared that the industries
of the State have been paralyzed by the
| operation of the tariff for or-revenue-only
policy of the Wilson administration.
DIR. Martin G. Brumbaugh, candidate
for the Governorship, in his speeches
indicated the line of his activities in
| the event of his election and outlined
| the sort of legislation he would advo-
cate in the General Assembly and the
sort he would sign and veto. He de-
elared strongly for workman's CON-
| pensatlon act, county local option, strict
| enforcement of the law for honest
weights and measures, adequate child
and woman S labor laws and other hu-
manitarian legislation.
Oliver Out of Politics
At O'Clock the candidates hustled
over to the Northside Carnegie hall,
where they discussed the campaign is
sues with the Republican county com.
mittee, after which they held recep-
tion and got into personal touch with
/ the party workers. A feature of this
meeting was the promise of Senator
| George I. Oliver that he will never
again be candidate for any political
I Office.
Philadelphia, Oct. 26.-Churehmen
both of the clergy and laity, leaders in
religious work and social movements
have issued a call for sincere believers
in local option to rally around DR.. Mar
/ tin 6. Brumbaugh for Governor.
Coincident with the issuance of this
/ call came the announcement from DR..
| Brumbaugh that he was investigating
the Personal Liberty party, and if he
found the party was the agent of the
/ liquor traffic, would at once issue a
formal statement repudiating its en-
/ dorsement of him.
Equally significant with the call of
the local option advocates and DR..
Brumbaugh s statement on the Personal
Liberty party was the publishing of a
list of candidates to be supported by
the liquor interests. And this list does
not contain the name of DR.. Brum-
baugh
Churchmen for Brumbaugh
Men whs signed the statement in
every case volunteered. All signers are
known for achievements in the cause
of temperance. As churchmen, they are
endorsing a llow-ehurehman, for Dr..
Brumbaugh is not only one of the ma
tion S foremost educators, but he is also
a minister of the Gospel. As Sunday
school worker he represented the Unit
ed States at the world conference held
in Geneva last year.
In the public statement issued by
churchmen attention is drawn to the
fact that DR.. Brumbaugh's personal
pledge to support local option legsla-
tion carries even more weight than
"any political platform which could
be framed, and his record, as public
man and private citizen, is cited to
show that, as Governor he will be a
tower of strength, not only to local op-
tion, but to every moral REFORM
The concluding paragraph of the
statement calls attention to the fact
that the really vital problem before the
friends of local option in Pennsylva-
MIA this year is the election of State
Senators and Representatives who win
pass local option BILL and declares
that this important point has apparent.
ly been overlooked in a great measure.
Palmer Attacks Pinchot
Resenting the belligerent methods
employed by the Bull Moose organiza-
tion to cripple his candidacy, Congress-
man A. Mitchell Palmer, who has for
several weeks been passive under criti-
cisms from Roosevelt sources, issued a
statement last night, severely rebuk-
ing Clifford Pinchot for his recent at
tacks. The action of Congressman Pal
mer in taking Pinchot to task on the
very eve of the actual entry of Colo
mel Roosevelt into the State campaign
is regarded as significant
For several weeks the relations be-
tween the Democrats and the Washing
ton party, formerly most friendly, have
been considered on the verge of a
break. Mr. Palmer s candidacy has
been belittled by the Bull Moose men
ever since lie declined TO withdraw in
favor of Pinchot and continuous fire
mas been waged against him from this
direction.