Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-10
PENROSE PREDICTS
BIG G. O. P. VICTORY
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Washington by representatives of the
Treasury and Commerce Departments
to the effect that the country was
sweeping forward to prosperity and
permanent trade betterment, as evil
denced in the reports of national bank
examiners, Senator Penrose attacked
the Wilson administration for pros
perity based on European war or
ders," and entered a general denial of
the data compiled by Secretaries Nc
Adoo and Redfield.
The Republicans and ProgressiVes
will get together again, said the Sena-
tor, because of Widespread disgust
with business conditions and with the
Wilson administration and in the
joining of forces the mistakes and
misunderstanding of the past will be
forgotten" Talking of presidential
possibilities, Mr.. Penrose thought the
next Republican bearer
would not be revealed until the ma
tional convention met.
Harmony Prediction
Asked to comment on reports from
Washington that eN-Secretary of State
Knox was a likely candidate, Senator
Penrose merely said Mr.. Knox was the
choice of the Pennsylvania delegation
at the last convention. Then he
harmony would again be restored be
tween the Republicans and the Bull
Moosers. He haid
1T is very evident that the Progress
ives, so called, are coming back to the
/ Pennsylvania and elsewhere demon
Republican, party. The last election IN
strated that they would continue to
come back in increasing numbers. The
mistakes ana misunderstanding of the
past will be forgotten and the party
! will again be harmonious and re-
united.
"The binding basis of cohesion will
| be the widespread disgust with busi-
ness conditions and with the Wilson
administration. We will witness an
old-fashioned Republican year in 1916,
and during the intervening period con-
tinued and increasing Republican sue
| cesses.
Criticiscs Business Reports
| Asserting that trade reports from
| Washington were without foundation
Senator Pcnrose said business would
continue to grow worse as long as the
Underwood tariff stood, and that the
only business relief hinged on the cleo
tion next year. With a newspaper ac-
count of the Washington officials
statements before him, Senator Pen
rose said:
| THE press agent reports from time
to time by heads of the Treasury and
| Commerce Departments about inn
Iprovement in business conditions are
absolutely without foundation. About
| the only actual facts that can be
given in these statements are contracts
| for munitions of war by foreign gov
ernments. A business prosperity based
/ upon such foundations surely does not
constitute a very valid argument in
favor of Democratic policies.
"A party that can only Vindicate it.
self because a war is going on in Eu-
| rope will have to readjust its issues
when that war ceases. The fact OF
the matter is. if free trade policies OF
the government had not been miti-
gated by war in its effects the indus
! trial depression in the United States
would be many times greater than il
is and the Republican tidal wave
would have fairly swept over the coun-
! try last November, submerging every
| vestige of Democracy.
These war orders are, of course