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SOCIAL REFORMS
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mothers of the childhood of the future
of Pennsylvania.
II have also said not only in my
platform but elsewhere in Pennsylva-
MIA IN my discussion of these issues
that | think the coming Legislature
should pass again the amendment which
1t passed at its last session ohligating
to the people the question as to whether
or not women should vote in Pennsyl-
vania, and also. in exactly the same
way, have stood up and taken a stand
for local option, county by county, in
Pennsylvania, and | would be false to
the statement of my principles if | did
not make myself plain on that aud
every other morau proposition to the
people of Pennsylvania.
"These things which have Just
enumerated comprehend in general
Way what We call the program of So
cial reform in legislation, and | want
to say right now and right here to
every man in this room that nobody
can offer n more reasonable program of
reform social legislation than that TO
! which | am committed, as n matter of
prmeiple anu as a matter of duty to
the people of Pennsylvania, and if my
progressive friends have any desire to
see the things they have wrought for
enacted into law and administered in
! this Commonwealth, l invite them to
Join with me in this fight Tor clean,
capable, conscientious government in
Pennsylvania.
Promises Good Road System
"A word in regard TO your public
roads. Have you got the kind of roads
you wantf Let me tell you what
think about them. | think it is a
shame that this great, splendid Com
monwealth of ours has not roads com.
mensurate with its dignity and worth
of its people, and if | am chosen to
the office for which my party has nomi
mated me, | shall turn my attention to
such reorganization of the road prob
lem of Pennsylvania as to give to the
people quickly and promptly good earth
and solid built, drained and crowned.
roads from the farms to the markets of
Pennsylvania, and without in any way
rejecting upon any past administration
OF that proposition. | shall guarantee
to you dollars worth of roads for
every hundred cents of your money put
into roads, and | shall also labor zeal
ousiy TO see that somebody capable as
road builder is put in charge of each
section of that road-hed to keep it daily
in as good repair as it was the dav it
was built. | want YOU to understand
that We are all eommitted-every can
dldate on this State tieket-absomtelv
to the working out of good transpor
tatlon system for the people of Penn
sylvania, and it won t be done. let me
assure you, by politicians. but bv men
who know how to make good on the
lob,
Some very Interesting writer's. who
/ think they understand more about me
than l understand about myself, and
who for motives unworthy of decent
people, have undertaken to make peo.
pie believe that somehow or other if
were elected Governor of Pennsvlva
MA somebody, or some group of people
would control my actions. Let us yet
straight on that here tonight. | never
knew boss in all my life, and | never
VIII. If You elect me to that office. YOU
eject me Governor, and will serve in
that ofhee as my conscience and nv
rather in Heaven give me wisdom to
serve vou.
Mccormick Makes IL Speeches
Coudersport, Oct. 15.-Nanee C.
Mccormick, Democratic candidate for
Governor, broke all speed records for
campaigning and under the most try
ing weather conditions yesterday. but
III spite of the breakneck expedition
and the hazardous driving, the Demo
cratic standard-be bearer had traversed
lSS miles of mountain country by
nightfall and when he spoke in the
court house here last night he made the
seventeenth speech which he had given
during the day.
In his speech here, Mr.. Palmer took
up the 34th count in his Indictment of
Senator Penrose, charging him with
favoring, as far as the Republican Sen,
( ator dared, a condition "next to Slav-
cry for the workingman and pointing