Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-29

can yield a much larger return to the
farmer 1t is my conviction that the
State can and must in every way at
its command assist the farmer in the
wise treatment of soil, the proper Sc
lection of seeds and the best method
of marketing his products.
This means that we must and shall
have good roads. 1t will require much
money to do this. The State can and
should do its full share in assisting all
sections of the State to construct good
dirt roads and should construct trunk
line roads from one important center
to another. We have much to learn
and little time in which to do this
greatly needed road reform.
"As a country boy I know conditions
in this county. 1 now know the con-
ditions throughout the State and am
prepared to guarantee to the people
as large measure of relief as the
resources of the Commonwealth will
permit. I also pledge you that 1t shall
be my determined purpose to keep
these roads, by constant treatment, in
good condition for all times.
Next to good schools, I count good
roads the peoples necessity.
This is a great center of natural
resources. Here water powers, forests,
mineral deposits, native rocks and ex-
tended reaches of soil combine to pro-
vide the means of support for a very
large industrial group. These should
be fostered and protected by law.
What has been wasted should be
! restored. What has been left un-
touched should be developed. Let US
combine to make the most of the gifts
of God and the industry and genius of
our people. This is practical conser-
walton.
I'VE have done much, as much as
any State, in this great work We
shall do more. I should assist in all
this fully and gladly. A wise people
will leave to the succeeding generation
| heritage of possible good greatly in
excess of that which it enjoys. In this
laudable enterprise l have always
given my full assistance. AS your
Governor I can serve you in a much
more effective way, and you know L
will do so.
This is the center of a great terri
tory in which are many boys and girls
! who crave with a holy hunger the
best food for their minds. They need
and must have every educational ad-
vantage given to any other youths of
the State.
II submit that in all that makes for
a sane and sensible education my
training and experience warrant the
claim that I can in this vast field of
public service satisfactorily serve the
people of this community and the en-
tire Commonwealth. Whatever of
strength l have it will be my JOY to
give.
I'VE must find a wiser and better
way of making appropriations to our
worthy charities. Whatever funds the
Legislature may appropriate shall go
only to those agencies and institutions
that need it and that. in turn, serve
well the people whose assistance they
enjoy.
the State shall not exceed it's re-
sources. I also declare that wherever
the money of the Commonwealth goes
its supervision must follow.
I'VE must be humane and generous
but we must also be sensible and just
"I have been frankly honest with
YOU all my life. l have been tonight
I shall always be. To you who know
me best and to whom 1 now turn con-
fidently / appeal for a united support
You know that l shall stand for every
advanced legislative provision that
anyone can sanely stand for. have
an abiding conviction that the State
needs as Governor a man of the com
mon people who will regard his af-
firmation of office as a sacred thing to
be kept in its spirit as fully as in its
letter and who from long contact and
participation in the struggles and en-
deavors of a great people knows their
needs and has the courage and ca
pacity to give to the people a clean,
capable and conscientious admins
tration of its affairs.
Il ask you, regardless of past party
affiliation, to support me in the No
vember election.
You may safely count that the
NJ. G.. you have so. long known will be
the same NJ. G.. in any position your
votes may place him.
Let us forget the petty things that
weak men clamor for in order to win
preferment and patronage and unite
to bring about new day of hope and
help for the people of this great Com
monwealth of Pennsylvania"