Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-26


ties. desire to make this brief state
ment:
I'VE sincerely deplore any action
that may divide the real friends of
temperance or cause any radical de-
parture from the fundamental position
of the Anti-Saloon League, which was
designed to be 'unsectarian' and 'omnl-
partisan in it's character.
THE attempt to array the temper
ance forces of this State against DR..
Martin G. Brumbaugh, the candidate
for Governor on one of the three great
party tickets now before the people,
we regard not only as most unwise,
but also grossly unjust. Doctor Brum-
baugh, in his platform announcing his
candidacy for Governor of Pennsylva-
MIA, under date of March IA, 1914,
said:
have no entangling alliances of
any sort l am. under no promise, no
agreement, made or implied. 1 shall
never be a party to any such thing. If
elected, 1t must be with the definite
understanding that I shall be entirely
free to perform my official duties solely
and steadily for the people as whole.
l shall reVerently and humbly en-
deavor to do my duty in harmony with
my conscience and under the guidance
OF the Divine. The problem of the
liquor traffic is vital one facing the
people and the Legislature to-day. In
harmony with many thoughtful per-
sons, / submit that local option is a
practical solution Any legislative
measure looking to an improvement
of the conditions regulating this traffic
will receive my approval
Under date of March 27, 1914. in a
letter addressed to DR.. E. j. Moore,
superintendent of the Anti-Saloon
League, he said:
"I beg to acknowledge your letter
OF March 26. and to say that in har-
mony with the statement in my plat
form / should feel it my duty to do
what l honorably could to promote the
passage in the next General Assembly
of county local option bill. 1 think
/ may safely add that my whole life
would give you complete understand
ing of my attitude on the question sub
mitted to me-
''In order to make it impossible for
any honest man to question his real
attitude, Doctor Brumbaugh has re-
Gently declared in an address widely
circulated:
" The great corporations, employ
ing thousands of our toilers, are in
creasingly insisting that their employees
shall live soberly and economically.
They have added to the moral the eco
nomic argument for such regulation of
the liquor traffic as will secure the
highest efficiency of our workers. For
that reason, and because of its moral
meaning. / have declared for local
option in the matter of the sale of
Intoxicating liquors. Furthermore, 1
will use every honorable means at my
disposal to secure the enactment of
such law. in order that the people
may, in the several counties of the
Commonwealth. determine for them
selves whether or not licenses shall be
granted for the sale of intoxicating
liquors.
I wish particularly to state that I
stand absolutely square and resolute
and unchanged in the position l have
taken in this matter. and / invite the
sympathy and support of all fair
minded people. No candidate who is
honest can do more and no candidate
who is sincere can offer from his own
record a better guarantee to the people
of this Commonwealth of his honest
intention and determination to further
this important measure. In this / am
confident of the support of all fair
minded citizens
'In view of the above clear and en-
phatic expressions of Doctor Brum-
baugh concerning his attitude toward
the temperance cause, and knowing
the personal characteristics of the
man, which make his personal word
better than any political platform that
could be framed, we believe that the
temperance voters of Pennsylvania, in
voting for Doctor Brumbaugh, will be
placing in the executive chamber at
Harrisburg a man who will be a per-
feet Gibraltar of strength, not alone
to the great local option movement,
but to every other moral reform as
well.
I'VE desire to emphasize the fact
that seems to have been partially lost
sight of that, with both of the candi-
dates of the two great parties out
n Of
measure, the really vital problem be-
fore the voters this fall is to elect a
egislature-irrespecti of party
who shall be pledged to enact a local
option measure, so that our next Gov
ernor may be able to sign such a
measure"
The Philadelphia signers are:
THE REV. PERRY S. ALLEN, D. D.,
President Presbyterian fund.
DIR. GEORGE w. BAILEY,
President Worlds Sunday School AS
ISOLATION.
THE REV. j. GRAY BOLTON, D. D.,
THE REV. RUSSELL H. CON-
WELL, d. D.,
President Temple University.
CYRUS II. K. CURTIS,
Publisher.
THE REV. JOHN r. DAVIES. D. D.,
Pastor of Bethlehem Presbyterian
Church.
CHARLES w. ERvIEN.
Manufacturer.
THOMAS r. FORT, JR.,
Wholesale paper.
EDWARD NEWTON HAAG,
Lawyer.
ALVAH S. HOBART.
President of Grocer Theological
Seminary.
CHARLES F. JENKINS.
Publisher.
]. LEvERING JONES.
Lawyer.
THE REV. RUFUS w. MILLER. D. D..
Secretary Publication and Sunday
School Board of the Reformed
Church.
THE REV. JOHN GRANT NEW
MAN. D. D..
Pastor Chambers-W -Wylie Presbyterian
Church.
ARTHUR r. PARKE.
Lawyer, West Chester. Pa.
THE REV. FRANK P. PARKIN. d. D.,
Superintendent Central District,
Methodist Episcopal Church.
FRANCIS b. REEVES.
Banker.
WILLIAM II. SCOTT,
Printer.
JOSEPH SWAIN.
President Swarthmore College.
THE REV, FLOYD w. TOMKINS,
D. D..
Rector Holy Trinity Church.
ALBERT e. TURNER,