Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-30
Uphold Brumbaugh

TIME issue of local option so far as DOC
i tor BrumbauRh's attitude is concerned,
is fictitious and unreal. He was for tenn
peranCe when some men now espousing II
were on the milk bottle, and through long
period of active life he has never wavered
in his advocacy Of this form of public de-
cency. And he has piled upon this cor
roboratory record of his purpose his definite
announcements that between him and rum
there has not been, is not now and never
can be any alliance whatever. He is against
it, against its contributions, against Its ma
llcious efforts to corrupt Pennsylvania,
against it's insidous debauchery of citizen
ship and commonwealth And just earn
estlv he is for local option. No man with
more than a grain of brain in his head con
doubt that
It is a time when no citizen can afford to
ignore the issue. Here is a great Repub-
lican who, almost by a miracle, outmaneu-
vered the politicians, fought his way into
the very citades of their machine and
wrenched from them the party nomination.
He is none of their making Their platform
he has thrust aside. He has made one Of
his own and on It he has stood undaunted
and unafraid. Where the masqueradng Re-
publicans have rejoiced in secret and shame
less alliances, he has stood firm on his own
feet. He has repudiated their cruel dsre-
gard of the great masses He has houted
their bartering promises of enforcement
of the law. He has disassoCiated himself,
financially and otherwise. from the bucca-
neers who control some other nominations.
a bitter pill he is for them and a corre-
spondingly splendid opportunity for good
Republicans.
1t is through Doctor Brumbaugh that Re-
,,,IiI ha obi to DO
and smash 1t the more effectively because
they can vlndcate their party regularity by
electing Republican Governor at the very
they are overwhelming the nominal
Republican candidate for the Senate. It is
through Doctor Brumbaugh that they can
inject honesty into the very head of State
government. They strengthen his arm
in his battle to reform the party from within,
where 1t ought to be reformed. II is their
boundeu duty to lend their succor to this
anti -gangster who has bearded the gang
sters in their own den and intends to drive
them out.
on the one side a gubernatorial candidate
who measures UP to the high standards Of
on the other senatorial
candidate who measures up to the maximum
demands Of whatever destructive elements
afflict the Commonwealth and nation
the one candidate Republicans can
expose, humiiate and overwhelm the other.
They can elect Brumbaugh and prove that
Pennsylvania is Republican at the Same
time that they defeat Penrose and prove
that Pennsylvania is done with Penroseism.
Vital to the prestige of the party is the
election of Brumbaugh. He offers Repub-
licans an easy duty. 1t Is through him that
they can purge their party OF PenroseIsm
and at the same time maintain at Harris
burg true Republican control Pennsylvania
in this crisis must see to it that the Brum-
baugh vote exceeds by tens Of thousands
that given to Penrose. 1t is a time to prove
by ballots what a dead weight about the
neck of the party Penrose Is; it is the ripe
period to show the invincibility Of Penn
sylvania's Repuhlicanism when honestly led
and not betrayed