Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-27
BRUMBAUCH SAYS
STUDY THE ISSUES
Tells Montgomery County People
to Think About the Allega-
tions in the Campaign
STRIKES HOME In SPEECHES
Roosevelt Great Drawing Card.
but Fails to Swing Many
Voters in His Tour

DR.. Martin G. Brumbaugh Republi-
can candidate for Governor, urged
people who heard him in Montgomery
county yesterday to study the issues
of the campaign. For the first time
the doctor showed some feeling to-
ward the Democratic candidates who
are maligning him and said with con-
siderable force at Norristown:
81 want no man to challenge my
stand on the moral issues of this cam
paign. No matter what he may say
about me otherwise the people of the
State know me, and know my record.
have always kept my word"
DIR. Brumbaugh also In his speech
told how Pennsylvania had developed
under the Republican party until 1t
had become one of the best governed
and most prosperous Commonwealths
in America. To change now, he de-
clared. would leave a blank page in
her history of progress and make easy
the way for the organization of an
alien Democratic machine. the object
Of which was to secure the patronage
Of office.
Il have lived cleanly and openly all
my life and with the help of God will
do so to my dying day." he declared
with emphasis.
While DR.. Brumbaugh devoted the
most Of his talks in Montgomery coun-
ty to State issues. he also took up ma
tional questions. placing particular
stress on the necessity of the election
Of men to office who will make possible
the return of prosperity through a
tariff that protects the interests of the
American workingman. This part of
his talk was received with great en-
thusiasm in the various Industrial CEN
ters of Montgomery county which
have felt keenly the effect of the I'm
derwood tariff bill.
Norristown's Night
Last night was Norristown's big
political night. While DR. Brumbaugh
and the other Republican candidates
were talking in City Hall. Vance Nc
Cormick and the Democratic nominees
were addressing gathering in "a skat-
ing rink
More than 1900 heard DIR. Brum-
baugh and 400 more men in an over
flow meeting in another part of the
building. During the day in his tour
Of the county, DIR. Brumbaugh spoke
to total of about 1000 persons.
Rpb I'M IA h S.,i In,
81 ask only this one thing of the
good people of Montgomery county:
Study the issues of this campaign and
be sure to vote your conscience on
election day. for ii is my desire, and
/ speak 1t with very great earnest
ness. that we should stand together
in this Commonwealth for the clean
est and best government which II is
possible to give to our people, and only
those should be voted into office who
the people of PENNSYLVANIA
and who have the conscience and the
capacity to serve them earnestly and
well, and ii you vote in harmony with
that thought, | shall certainly be sat
istied with the outcome on the third
of November
Il have no entangling alliances with
any human soul, and | am just hand
free and heart-free TO do the decent
right things for the people of Pennsyl-
vania, and l am Dutch enough to do
II. In your road proposition one or
two things are to he kept in mind. You
are living here in Il great agricultural
county, one of the richest in the
world. Surely the State of PennsyI-
vania ought to see to it that good.
well drained. well-crowned, we'll
graded roads are built from the farms
of the people to the markets OF the
people, so that the farmer who grows
food for our Commonwealth may be
able to haul a maximum load at a
minimum cost to the markets of the
world, and for that thing / stand alb
before you this morning and
before all the people, with their fur
ther stipulation and understanding
that every dollar OF the peoples taxes
used to build roads must build one
cents worth OF good honest
roads for the people of PENNSYLVANIA.
and the further stipulation that when
a road Is built 1t must not be turned
over to the war of the elements and
the traffic OF the, people and forgotten,
TO become in two or three years a
worse road than II was when put into
proper condition. Good Judgment and
good executive ability should REQUIRE
that someone competent to care for a
road should be put in charge of that
road so that it will always be a good
highway ioi the people OF the COM
There is another thing which lies
very close to that and in which / am
interested: l want the whole ma
chinery of this Commonwealth to help
increase the output of the farms OF
this State for this reason. We are los
ing, constantly losing, large numbers
OF our farming community and our
people are moving into our villages.
into our towns and into our cities In
the last ten years we have lost 20 per
cen. of the farming life of the Com
and gained 20 per cent.
Of the consuming life of the Common
wealth. We mean that there are only
four people now in PENNSYLVANIA
growing food where five grew food ten
years ago, and that there are now six
people eating food In Pennsylvania
where ten years ago only five ate food.
1t takes only child to figure out how
long 1t will be until we shall be de-
pendent on long hauIs by the railroads
and foreign markets to supply food
Tor poor people. That will not only add
to the cost of food for our people in
pennsylvania. but it will break down
he rural life of our people and the
very strength and power of this Com
has come from It's rural
life. I want to see the farm so con-
served and developed that il will be
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