Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1914-07-09

porters of the present nationai admin
istration. For the high honor and Wit
al interest OF both nation and state,
the citizens of Pennsylvania should
put into Office those staunch, fearless
and able public servants, clifford Pin
chot, Dean Lewis, and their assoei-
ases.
We ask that you consider specin-
cally the performances of the Prog
ressive Party here in Pennsylvania
and in the nation.
The Progressive Party is party OF
performance. Two years ago, in our
national and state platforms, which
We designated contracts with the
people" we pledged ourselves to GER
tain definite reforms. Even before
the Presidential campaign of 1912
was over in this and other states,
our committees were at work prepar-
ing bills to carry out the pledges of
our state platforms In this respect,
you in Pennsylvania were leaders.
You controlled the Republican State
Convention of May, 1912. After draw
! ing the first Progressive state plat
form, the convention took the then
unprecedented step Of appointing
committee, known as its executive and
legislative committee, to prepare bills
to carry out its platform pledges.
| This committee presented to your
| legislature of 1918 number OF meas
ures all of which passed your House
OF Representatives.
The Pennsylvania Progressive legis-
| lative program is one of which you
may well be proud. 1t included laws,
to provide non-partisan nominations
and elections for all local offices, as
well as for judges, and to prevent cor
rupt practices at primary and regular
elections. Had this last bill become
law, no candidate for United States
Senator or Gov ernor could have ex-
pended at both the prLrary and resu-
lar elections combined more than ten
thousand dollars. The expenditure
by candidate for Governor. in a pri-
mary contest OK nearly forty thousand
dollars would have been impossible.
There were also bills carrying out
our pledge to pfe2mote social and iu-
dustrial justice-a BILL preventing the
employment of women infnslanufactur-
ing establishments NOR than adfty
hours per week, or moe than niMSs
hours per day, Minimum Wage Bill,
and Child Labor Bill obtaining the
provisions advocated b. the National
Child Labor Associatin and by all
persons interested in Ihild welfare
a bill which would lave prevented
the present exploitation of child labor
in this state, including the disgrace
full labor of children hnder sixteen In
glass factories at niiht; bill which
would have been the first step in CIV
ing to all the childrtn of Pennsylvan-
ia what every child + entitled to have,
namely, right to a time for play,
to the opportunity to grow up strong
in body, and to mental and physical
training adequate ID enable it to meet
the duties and responsibilities of man.
hood or womanhood. The restrictions
on the labor of women and children
which the Pennsylvania Progressives
advocated are now on the statute
books of a majority of the states, and
a number Of western states last year
enacted minimum wage laws.
Finally there were bills calling a
Constitutional Convention to readjust
your constitution to your existing
needs, a matter of present and press
ing Importance. l am informed th"t
lie nff
signed to meet with efficiency q Pob-
lem of state administration ASz1ocai
government that does not rug. E>ter
to some clause of your c. Ion.
drawn as At was over fGvt ago
to meet then-existing, but "a resent
conditions.
The Progressive Legislative and Ex-
ecutive Committee also endorsed the
Workmen's Compensation Bill prepar
ed by the State Industrial Accident
Commission, measure representing |
reform of vital importance. which |
has been very generally adopted In
all parts of the country and by all the i
great industrial states bordering on !
Pennsylvania.
Thus you, the Progressive Party Of |
Pennsylvania. did your utmost to full
fill to che letter all pledges made
prior TO the last election. The bills
carrying out those pledges are not
law today because the State Senate
and the Executive are still in the con-
troll of the Penrose organization. For,
remember, the organization controlled
by the forces for which Senator Pen
rose and the candidates on the Re-
publican state ticket stand-the same
forces which we fought at Chicago
Is solely responsible for defeating this
legislation.
The Progressives have also taken
every possible step to fulfill the pied
ges made In respect to National
Legislation in their first National Pro-
gressive Platform.
hold In my hand pamphlet eh-
titled, Progressive Congressional
Program" 1t contains some twelve
measures prepared by a joint commit
ZEE of the Progressive members of
Congress and of the National Legisla-
i've Reference Committee of the Pro-
yressive Party.
commend it, of course, to Pro-
sressives, but especially to those who
ire trying to make it appear that the