Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-15

DR. Martin G. Brumbaugh used the
above words in a speech at Butler,
which closed a tour of Bull Moose
stronghold yesterday. All through a.
big tour the candidate and his party
were greeted by big crowds. In the
course of his speeches DR.. Brumbaugh
said that he was interested in a con-
structive policy in the campaign and
had no time to pay to noise. In his
remarks DR.. Brumbaugh said:
Il think 1 may safely say that 1
am not stranger to administrative
problems that attach themselves to
the high Office for which / have been
nominated. For many years, as u
teacher and as superintendent of
schools, my work having had largely
to do with the administrative affairs
of public schools on a large scale, met
with the approval of certain people,
and they were good enough to say
here and there, well, he does that
pretty WE'LL
Now simply because I happen to
be for the first time q candidate for an
office at the hands of the people of
this State, these sane people find that
am a very bad man.
What is the trouble? 1t is a shame
that men who aspire to Office must
be branded as mean men, not to be
trusted, simply because they wish to
serve in a decent way the welfare of
their Commonwealth. l have gone
into this for the purpose of leading
the Republican party to the most ad-
vanced remedial legislation that any
body dare offer you in Pennsylvania.
1 make the suggestion here now that
all this besmirching of Pennsylvania
and befouling Of her fame name Is
urged upon you now for the purpose
of securing your vote and it is the
sordid greed that ought to be resented
in Pennsylvania.
"You will never get me to say that
every man in Office Is IA rascal, or that
every man out of Office is a gentle
man. I know better, SO do you.
II believe that the day is coming
when we must be frankly honest and
honestly frank with the people of this
State. I want you to understand that
never would be hand-picked can
didate no matter whose hand would
reach out to pick me.
THE State candidates on the Re-
publican ticket were chosen in an
open primary, in honest competition
of fair men, and the people of this
| State gave their Endorsement and we
are the candidates of the hundreds of
thousands of men everywhere in Penn
sylvania who said by their vote, you're
good enough for me-
| AnOIHeT InliB. IL IIl6Te are any
people now with the public service
who are not rendering honest service
to the Commonwealth, if you choose
me for Governor, they will have to go,
and we will put that money into
roads.
There are no strings to my candi-
| dacy, and / want you to understand
that no man will ever boss me. nor
control me in any public act. I wish
to add that the man who is paid for
a service in this State will do that
service or he gets out, and that no.
body holds sinecure in Pennsylvania.
l want to work for my salary, and
want every other man to do the same
from Dan to Bersheba, whatever that
is. EVERY MAN MUST GIVE SER
VICE AND NOT BE MERE POLITI-
CAL TRUCK"
AS to Good Roads
On the subject of good roads he
said:
IT think it is shame that this
great, splendid Commonwealth of ours
has not roads commensurate with its
dignity and worthy of its people, and
If am chosen to the Office for which
my party has nominated me I shall
turn my attention to such reorgani-
Zation of the road problem of Penn
sylvania 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. Without in any way re-
flecting upon any past administration
of that proposition, 1 shall guarantee
to you a dollars worth of roads for
every hundred cents of your money
put into the roads, and ! shall also
l1obar zealously to see that somebody
capable as a roadbuilder is put in
charge of each section of that road
bed to keep it daily in as good repair
| do IN1tflf T .
lyou to understand that we are all COM
mitted-every candidates on the State
Iticket-absolutely to the working out
of a good transportation system for
the people of Pennsylvania, and it
won't be done, let me assure you, by
politicians, but by men who know how
to make good on the job.
"I am interested in such a reorgan-
| iZation of the legislation relating to
| the employment of women who toll in
| Pennsylvania as to make it absolutely
as whole some and as clean and as
comfortable as the pride and chivalry
4 of our people can make their employ
Iment It is an unfortunate thing that
women anywhere should have to toll
in our industries, but If toll they must,
shall see to it that they shall be
protected in that toll so that they
can reasonably continue to be what
they are by the will of Almighty God
the mothers of the next generation,
unimpaired by their toll, to be good
mothers of the childhood of the fu-
ture of Pennsylvania.
81 have also said, not only in my
platform but elsewhere in Pennsylva-
MIA in my discussions of these issues,
that the coming Legislature should
pass again the amendment which it
passed at it's last session submitting
to the people the question as to
whether or not women should vote in
Pennsylvania, and 1 also, in exactly the
same way, have taken a stand for local
| option, county by county, in Pennsyl-
vania, and 1 would be false to the
statement of my principles if did not
make myself plain on that and every
other moral proposition to the people
| of Pennsylvania"