The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-10-29
self preservation, by returning him six

self-preservation, by returning him six
years more.
GA few words now as to our State
government and the administration
about to close. We have nothing to
conceal, and there is nothing for which
we seek to apologize. The past four
years will compare favorably with
those of any other State and with any
other four years in this State. The rec
ords have the truth and the facts are
ascertainable of all men.
Introduces Penrose
"There is not a department for
which | am responsible that | am not
prepared to defend, including the High
way Department, the management of
which will be justified by time and the
tests and developments of time.
Sc am glad to have been of dong
and honored line of Pennsylvania S Re-
publican Governors, and / can look ev-
cry man in the face frankly and tell
him he is at liberty to measure the ad-
ministration of which | have been the
chief, by its work and results
Then Governor Tener introduced
Senator Penrose and the big Senator
was greeted with three hearty cheers
as he came forward From the first it
was seen that continued campaigning
had worn out his voice and at first his
remarks could hardly he heard in the
rear of the big hall. Gradually, how
ever, as he warmed up, his voice be-
came stronger and before he had closed
he was in fine voice, hurting defiance at
his political foes and taking shot at
the most prominent of them.
He began by paying high tribute to
Harrisburg, tracing its growth from
thirty years ago. when he first came
here, to the present time and referring
to it as one of the great metropolitan
cities of the State. Then Senator Pen
rose took up the main subject of his dis
course. what he called the prosperity
under Republican rule and the depres'
sion and distress under Democratic
rule.
He traced the tariff idea from the
time of Alexander Hamilton and made
contrasts between Republican protection
and Democratic free trade to the great
disparagement of the latter. He rdi-
culed the war tax which he said af-
fected the pocketbook of every citizen
in his everyday purchases from gasoline
to threatre tickets. and took fall out
of President Wilson who, he said,
doesn t consider that being professor
at Princeton doesn't qualify man to
Judge what a Middletown working man
needs.
Penrose Assails Mccormick
Secretary Bryan s interest in tariff
matters, he said, must have been ac-
quired on the chautauqua circuit "along
with snake chaymers and German, yod-
lers.' And the crowd hOwled. Then he
turned his attention to MIR. Pinchot, his
Washington party rival for United
States Senator, who, ne said, "knows
as much about tariff as a bulldog knows
about astronomy" and again the crowd
shouted in glee.
Turning his shafts on Mr.. McCor-
mick, Senator Penrose referred to the
Democratic candidate for Governor as
"a man who never earned a dollar in
his life and inherited millions and
has an idea that he can purchase the
election for Governor
He may spend every dollar he is
worth and he won t land in sight of the
Governor s chair shouted Penrose,
and then added "they are getting ready
to knife Palmer now'
Colonel Roosevelt next came in for a
hot one, when Senator Penrose said:
"Mr. Roosevelt comes into this State
to attack me, Notwithstanding that for
years he called me his dear friend. Now
he calls me a boss. He has been hand
and glove with political boss in Pitts
burgh whom the Republican party threw
out and spewed out years ago-I refer
to Bill Finn. Finn must have opened
up his money chest and is probably
paying for the special train in which
Roosevelt is traversing the State Wilt
flying me. Finn is Democrat and
even now is working ON contracts In
New York City given him by Tammany.