The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1914-03-18


Pennsylvania since the days Of VIII
liam Penn. BY birth, education, tenn
permanent, environment and practical
training, he is pre-eminently the best
fitted man in the commonwealth for
the post he now occupies.
An honor graduate of Harvard, he
rose instantly in the practice of law
and later in the counsels of the state
legislature at Harrisburg. His election
to the United States senate at the age
of thirty-six years was a recognition
Of political ability and natural leader
ship which seldom comes to men of
that age.
During his novitiate as the junior
member from this state in the upper
branch of congress, his intelligence,
his indomitable energy and his re-
markable grasp of big national prob
lens, coupled with his still more re-
markable understanding of the multi
tudinous details which enter into
those problems, made him the most
useful and influential junior member
in the senate.
Entering the halls of congress on
the same day that William Mckinley
took possession of the White House,
Mr.. Penrose was impressed at the
very outset of his senatorial career
by the necessity of making our indus
trial protection real and effective.
In the drafting of the Dingley tariff
bill which transformed the United
States from a commercial slough OF
despond into the busiest and most
prosperous nation on the globe, 1t was
Senator Penrose who looked after the
industries of the Keystone State. To
his patient Investigations and indefati-
gable energy were largely due those
favorable conditions which doubled the
industries of Pennsylvania in single
decade, increasing wages and the num-
ber of wage earners in like proportion
and greatly augmenting our popula-
tion.
His record is stirring story OF
achievement for the people Of his
state and nation. He has been Of In
estimable service to his vast constit-
uency through his mastery direction
of the committee on postofIices and
post roads and of the still more i'm
portant committee on finance, of
which he was chairman and is now
the ranking Republican member.
Too much cannot be said of the i'm
portance of this committee member
ship. Tariff laws are approved or dis
approved in the finance committee
All matters touching the revenues OF
the country are finally disposed OF
there.
As chairman of that committee
and in the event of the Republican
party's return to power, no other
chairman could be elected under the
established rules-Senator Penrose
would WELD for Pennsylvania the de-
cisive influence in every economic
question to be submitted to congress.
Such influence is nof exercised by
senators from comparatively unim-
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recognized the advantage of retaining
in the upper branch able men who
might augment ability with the tre-
mendous power of seniority.
If, as has been announced as a set
tied fact, Senator Oliver should retire
at the expiration of his present term,
and If that retirement were to be ac-
companied by the withdrawal of our
senior senator, Pennsylvania's voice
in the senate would be hushed for
years to come. No new Republican,
however able, could fight our battles,
and no new Democrat, regardless Of
intellectual qualifications, could break
through the barriers of procedure be-
hind which the veteran Democrats OF
the south are entrenched, even though
he were sufficiently in sympathy with
Pennsylvania's long-established and
oft.reiterated policies to wish to do so.
There is a special fitness in the an
nouncement of Senator Penrose that
he will become a candidate before the
voters of his party under the provis-
ions of the new popular primary act.
This law, revolutionizing our method
of choosing United States senators as
we'll as state candidates, was cheer
fully acquiesced in by him and is one
of many proofs Of his undiminished
aggressiveness in behalf of good gov
ernment and of his desire to safe
guard the supremacy of the electo'
rate.
His is a record not of words but Of
deeds; an honest record; brilliant
record; faithful record; a record for
industry; a record for courteous at
tention to all those who have needed
assistance in Washington, whether
high or low, rich or poor; a record for
constant and easy accessibility to his
record for patriotism; a record for
the broadest and best craftsmanship
which has been exemplifed by any
representative of the commonwealth in
half a century.
On behalf of stiled enterprise,
throttled industry, halting business
and an apprehensive public, we pledge
ourselves to the support of Senator
Penrose, believing his reelection to
be the best possible method of under
writing the continued industrial pre-.
eninence of Pennsylvania and the fu.
ture prosperity of her 100000 inhab-
itants.
(SignedD
JAMES DOBSON,
John & James Dobson Inc.
CHARLEMAGNE TOWER,
NATHAN r. FOLWELL,
Folwell Bro. & Co., Inc.