Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-23
BRUMBAUGH ASKS
ABOUT THE WAR TAX
Demands to Know What Is the
Necessity For the Additional
Burden Upon People

DR.. Martin G. Brumbaugh, Repub-
lican nominee for Governor, last night
at rousing meeting in Lock Haven
answered the puffs given to the ma
tional Democratic administration and
its tariff law by Vance G. Mccormick,
candidate on the mule ticket. by ask
ing if the country was faring so we'll
why it was necessary to. impose
hundred million dollar new tax and
why the mills and furnaces did not
start up. The address was the cul-
mination of a great day in Clinton
county and caused widespread COM
ment throughout the west branch val
ley to-day. Nothing has struck home
better than the educators pertinent
query and the effect was shown to-day
by the interest shown in his candi-
dacy in the upper part of Northum-
berland county.
To-day the campaign party Will be
at Watsontown. Milton and Sunbury,
winding up tonight with a big meet
ing at Sunbury. Tomorrow Union,
Snyder and Miflin counties will be
visited.
The meeting last night was the
largest attended political rally of any
party held in Lock Haven during the
last twenty years. The Garden The
ater which seats 1900, was filled half
an hour before the meeting began and
hundreds filled the aisles and thronged
the doors, cheering every point made
by the speakers.
Why the War Tax?
mot at war with any country" DR..
Brumbaugh said in the course of his
remarks, "and with no prospects of
being involved. American workers will
be forced to pay $10O,0OO,000 in taxes
which should have come from import
duties now lost through the Under
wood tariff bill.
would it not be infinitely better
for the welfare of all our people, "
asked DIR. Brumbaugh. ito re-establish
a protective policy adequate to the
needs of our government and to the
needs of our working people so that
we shall have resources of our own
with which to maintain our govern
ment and conduct all its different
affairs and not to resort to the spe-
cious subterfuge of .imbosing a burden
of 800. 100000 taxes upon peaceful
people in the name of war taX?"
DIR. Brumbaugh was particularly
sharp in his criticism of 'the cry of
the hungry pack for position and pat
ronage" which assails the fair name
of Pennsylvania.
"wiIl the people hear them in this
crisis?" he aslSed. "Have thev not
by long years of disappointment found
them to he folso. sordid spirits, seek
ing to eXrloit the public for their own
selfish ends?
LET us by our votes bury them
faces down, so that If they try to dig
out to beat the public once again they
will only bury themselves the deeper.
AS to Administration
"I do not claim. never have. that
the affairs of Pennsylvania are per-
fectly administered. I do assert that
they have been administered generally
by ADLER and nobler men than those
who, in their greed, would have you
regard all officials as rogues and
scoundrelS
Moreover, I am here to assure you
in no vague or indefinite way that If
you elect me Governor of Pennsylva-
mia there shall be a thorough and
effective reorganization of the public
service. Incompetency and incapaclty
shall go, as surely as shall go dis
honesty. There shall be new day of
open. honest, effective service inaugu-
rated for the people of Pennsylvania
Let no man doubt the full mean
ing of this declaration"
The SIdeshow
But sinai CroWuS Breeteu tne llln-
Grants of the Palmer Mccormick party
in Schuylkill county last night in
Pottsville. There were less than two
hundred who occupied seats in the
Academy, Notwithstanding that the
coming of these candidates for these
high offices had been heralded days
before their coming in the press of
the city and county
Judge II. o. Bechtel presided, who,
after a brief speech introducing Con-
gresham Robert e. Lee. invited the
laggards at the rear of the academy
circle to come forward and occupy
seats in the orchestra chairs. He told
the audience that he would not occupy
their time in a speech. but later on,
in the month of October. he would
would then discuss the issues of the
campaign.