Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-11-04

And even Whitman is a Pennsy1-
vania boy, having gone to New York
from Washington county.
-Armageddon seems to have slipped
"a cog.
As soon as the results were reason
ably certain the entire Telegraph Build
ing was illuminated from top to bottom
and as the crowds of jubilant Republt-
cans passed the building the air was
rent with deafening cheers. ... s,n,,
the evening in automobiIes and were
deeply interested in the demonstrations
I'VE did out part" was the shout
of the sturdy colored voters as they
marched past the Telegraph building.
They certainly did. ,,4oo,0 ;,
was the declaration of DIR. Martin u.
Brumbaugh in Pittsburgh on August
26, when he issued his address to the
speech he said: The people of Penn
sylvania will care for the fame and
name of the, great Commonwealth
Just 10 days after his election the
new Governor of the State and the re-
tiring Governor will go to state Col
Day celebration. Plans are being per-
fected for the largest and most inter-
esting observance of the day that Penn
State has ever attempted.
Late this afternoon 1t was an
nounced that no special cars would be
necessary to remove from Capital Hlll
were denounced in dastardly. cam
paign by the Democratic machine as
crooks and loafers.
at the very outset of this move
ment. which has gone far beyond mere
party lines, | hoped that some other
one than myself, better equipped and
better PREPARED might f ;, haye aye, been se1
Cormick's speech at Chestnut Street
Hall, Saturday night They have
" NToiooneI IRooseveIt is s-nrohabIv aware
at this moment that Pennsylvania is
quite competent to determine for her
self who shall administer the affairs
of the Commonwealth.
Thousands of men heretofore iden-
titled with the Washington party voted
directly, fol-, DR.; Brumbaugh. as the re-
be stampeded or driven like cattle by
selfish bosses.
Those Ryan men. hard fighters for
| Democracy in other years, broke the
center and destroyed the wings of the
Palmer Mccormick line.
Pennsylvania has again served no.
| tice that 1t will not permit any oc-
cupant of the White House to dictate
who shall conduct it's State affairs.
Mr.. Budd, the distinguished Phila-
delphia Democrat who had the tenn
Gritty according to the viewpoint of the
Palmer Mccormick machine, to enter
the list for United States Senator de-
clared last Spring in his last shot:
"It was most unfortunate that the
Secretary of State was brought into
this campaign. His bringing here was
an assault on the great Democratic
principle of the right of a sovereign
State of the Union to manage Its own
affairs without interference from out
house of its friends. It was the blow
of Brutus. but it will not have the
same fatal effect; for the Democracy
of Pennsylvania;, Notwithstanding their
earnest desire to uphold the Admins
tration of Mr.. Wilson. will remember
that their first duty is the mainten-
ance of the rights of the people, and
one of their greatest rights, as well as
their greatest duty, is the independent
exercise of their right to select for
| themselves their own officers.
President Wilson will doubtless
give Mr.. Palmer a consolation prize of
some sort, but how about the other lit
Evidently the. plain people We're out
in force yesterday. They hunted rab-
bits on Monday; but they hunted bigger
s@S mAt oI Miiford square. toward the
close of the primary campaign, A. Nit
chell Palmer said: Il am not abusing
anybody or berating anybody" He
then proceeded to lambast Mr.. Budd, his
Democratic opponent, and concluded
with this choice gem: "I want to be
COMES governor. There will he a pa :
rade of political crooks marching off
Capitol Hill that will fill three cars"
DIR, Brumbaugh's splendid speeches
and his sincerity won thousands of
voters to his support and these will
rejoice that campaign of vilification
has been so strikingly repudiated.
Hundreds of good men and true of
the Democratic faith aligned them
selves with the Republicans in the cam
paign against the stupidity and incom-
party for their own benefit and self
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
"A striking picture tonight would
show DIR. Brumbaugh. the governor
elect sitting in the household of his
friends in Philadelphia, surrounded hy
some hundreds of thousands of warm
show his rival sitting in Harrisburg
Just sitting.
Referring to the statement of the
defeated Democratic candidate for gov
ernor that his discontinue was due to
the European war, most of those who