Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-22
BRUMBAUCH WINS
LYCOM|NC F OLKS
Candidate Demonstrates His Abil-
ity and Responsibility Before
Large Audiences
DOWN AMONG THE PEOPLE
Notable Welcome For the Republi-
can Gubernatorial Candidate
in Lumber City

piceS of tha Republlcan state coHl-
mittee was opened yesterday at Will
Transport by DIR. Martin G. Brum-
baugh, who was greeted by thousands
of people in the vicinity of Williams
port and who demonstrated that he
was { man of the plain people and
that he meant what he said. The
campaign opening was one of the most
auspicious in a generation and Lycom-
ing, which has many Democrats, rose
in a nonpartisan fashion and gave the
Republican candidate and his col
leagues a great welcome.
Dr. Brumbaugh's reception by the
workmen of four large plants was par
ticularly enthusiastic, two shops shut
ting down completely at the request
of the men that they might have an
opportunity of hearing the Repubh-
can gubernatorial candidate. ON ms
arrival DR.. Brumbaugh was met by
a committee of 100 prominent citizens,
headed by County Chairman watson
and Congressman Edgar X. keiss
After an impromptu reception in the
Park Hotel, the candidates, Who' IN
addition to DIR. Brumbaugh, lncluded
Secretary of Internal Affairs Henry
Houck and Daniel f. Lafean, of York,
Republican nominee for Congressman
at-large, visited the Central Pennsyl-
Nania Lumber Company, which en-
ploys about 500 men. DR.. Brumbaugh,
who in his boyhood days labored in
sawmil, helped to operate one OF
the large band saws and showed
finger which had been hacked by the
teeth of a saw in his youth. He, Mr..
1.afean and Secretary of Internal At
fairs Houck urged the workers to
have pride in their State and support
the party which has always striven
to help the laboring men by tariff
which protects them from destructive
foreign competition.
Votes Count
Congressman Keiss urged the men
to register declaring that sentiment
would not put their candidates in Of
flee, but votes and votes alone would.
His candidacy for re-election to Con-
gress was thoroughly indorsed by DIR.
Brumbaugh and Secretary HouCk.
An enthusiastic greeting welcomed
DIR. Brumbaugh and the other Candi-
dates at the J. X. Rishel Furniture
Company and J. X. Mosser Tannery.
AT the Sweets Steel Company, on the
approach of DR. Brum baugh and the
rest of the party, the big works, at the
request of the men, suspended opera
tionS for half an hour. Wearing the
marks of their hard toll, in overalls.
and some from the furnaces. stripped
to the waist, the workers passed in
line DeIOTe 1T bIulllpduBHs WHO ndu
greeting and hearty handshake for
each.
The meeting in the courthouse was
the largest ever held in the Lumber
City.
When DR.. Brumbaugh arose he was
accorded a great ovation. He spoke
for better social conditions in the city
and county and for good roads and
made the promise that if elected he
would see to it that Pennsylvania got
good roads. He said that he would
never have entered the contest for the
nomination except through a primary.
81 carry the brief of the $50 900
legally qualified voters who supported
me at the primaries" he said. The
time has come for a new deal and a
clean deal in Pennsylvania; if you
elect me you may expect a clean new
deal. for that is what you are going
to get
Back TO the Farm
LAS recently as ten years ago." he
said, as per cent of the people of
- Pennsylvania lived on farms; now
only 80 per cent. are engaged in agri-
culture.
when I go to Pittsburgh" said DR..
Brumbaugh, Il find hundreds of
young men whose parents titled the
soil of Central Pennsylvania 1t is
well known fact that there is con-
Btant procession of our best young
men and women from the farm to the
city. | assure you that it is a solemn
obligation of your Commonwealth
through its Legislature and its eXeCu-
tive to stop that procession and make
life in the country more tolerable to
our people, so that we shall still have
a larger and larger group of pro-
ducers instead of a growing group
of consumers.
What can we do to promote this
rural interest? First of all we can so
arrange the order of instruction in
our public schools that children shall
be educated not only in the liberal arts
which make them scholars, but also in
vocation which makes them work
ers in Pennsylvania, and that change
is one of the important methods of
restoring to our agricultural life it's
virility, its promise and its outlook"
Dr. Brumbaugh referred to his ex-
perience as an educator in Philadel-
phia and said he was told when he
first went to that city he could not get
the people interested in the school
house. 1t was country method. But
he and his associates succeeded in
introducing the method in the city,
despite urban prejudice and TODAY
the schoolhouse is something of a So
cial center in Philadelphia. as it was
in the rural districts when he was
boy.
Knows the Problems
I'm our social order this and other
equally significant measures, parts of
a great propaganda looking to the
social betterment of the race, are inn
portant matters, and those of us who
are here to-day speaking to you in
the interests of our candidacy upon
the Republican ticket are conscious
OF the meaning of all these problems
I'VE made a mistake in the last
Legislature There is no question
about 1t. We dug over hundreds of
miles of roads and called them State
roads and left them go to the dogs.
They are worse now than when the
township supervisor gave them his
attention. Now you know that, don't
YOU? The result is that the roads
that at one time were the important
roads and therefore kept in the best
repair, are now in many cases your
worst roads.
DO you think for minute that
am going to stand for that sort of
thing, or that we will not turn our
immediate attention the moment the
Legislature goes into power and or
EaniZes for work to the rectifying of
that mistake and the building of good.
sensible roads that will carry a maxi
mum of product at a minimum of cost
to the markets of the world? Let me
assure you, so far as I shall be able
to determine, 1t shall be so pledged
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