Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-27
GOVERNOR FAVDRS
THE CIVIL SERVICE
Makes an Address at Reading
Which Gives His Viewpoint on
Many Propositions
FOR LATE INAUGURATION
Does Not Think Much of Taking
Office When the Legislature
Is in Session

People on Capitol Hill and a good
many throughout the State read with
interest the remarks of Governor
Brumbaugh at the banquet of the
chamber of Commerce at Reading last
night. The Governor has made sew
eral speeches in Philadelphia, but last
night at Reading he gave moro atten-
ton to State matters than in any of
previous addresses. Incidentally the
Governor told how it felt to be chief
magistrate and endorsed from his
own experience the recommendation
that the Governor should not be forced
to take office right at the start of a
legislative session.
The chief features of his address
were:
All that makes for the progress
OIL pennsylvania depends on you
men. You cannot legislate right
eousness into the people. You
can only legislate righteousness
into the law and If you want good
laws you must send good men to
the Legislature. over q month
ago you changed the chief execu-
tive of your Commonwealth and
also your Houses. think 1t would
be better for this Commonwealth
II the Governor could be in office
year before this Legislature
takes office so the chief executive
could study the problems of the
people before the laws are
changed. You ought to stand
with me for a civil service in the
State so that a good man will be
protected against political fac
tions. should not be allowed to
remove these men just because a
number of you voted for me.
A number of Philadelphia ward
leaders have Joined Senators McNichol
and Ware in Florida and the political
program is now being made up.
-Refutation of the story emanat-
ing from Scranton on February 20, to
the effect that Representative Farr
was forced to put up $1,000 to the
Lackawanna Republican County Cam
paign Committee, after he had de-
clared for Roosevelt in 1912, is given
in the official expense account filed at
Washington. Mr.. Farr's expenses
amounted to $2,135.55. Under the law.
a Congressman cannot eXpend more
than $4,000 in his primary and general
election campaigns. The Scranton
story went on to say that A. Mitchell
Palmer had knowledge of the large
contribution and was compelled by
Lackawanna Railroad influences to de-
sist from using it against Mr.. Farr in
the campaign. Mr.. Palmer denied most
emphatically that he ever knew of
such a contribution. He said the
Lackawanna railroad had never in
fiuenced him in political matters.
Governor Brumbaugh has re-
ceived a letter from j. B. Carruthers.
State Secretary, stating that at the
forty-Seventh annual convention of the
Young Mems Christian Association,
held at Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Feb
ruary 10 to %, the following resolu-
ion NTn l. IL Nr~n
extend our heartiest congratulations
to our Governor, Martin G. Brum-
baugh, on his splendid efforts in be-
half of the young manhood of the
State to deliver it from the evils Of
the legalized saloon, an agency which
is doing so much to demoraliZe and
destroy them. We assure him that In
this he will have our hearty sympathy
and active cooperation and we call
upon the members of the Senate and
House of Representatives of our State
to second his efforts to give the citi-
zens of Pennsylvania the opportunity
to redeem their several communities
from the manifold evils of the liquor
traffic. by passing speedily local op-
ton bill which will be satisfactory to
the Governor and which will be in
harmony With the temperance senti-
ment of the State
Berks county, is out with a statement
in which he attacks the management
of the Democratic party. He says that
in the Legislature the Democrats cut
no ice. Mr.. Sarig is a new member
and is learning.
Montgomery county farmers have
declined to endorse the proposed agri-
cultural commission until they learn
more about it.
The names of w. T. Greasy, John
G. McSparren, John p. Kester T.. S.
Bayard, w. c. Norton, e. A. Weimer
and others active in agricultural and
political matters are being mentioned
as possible members of the commits
sion to have charge of the Department
of Agriculture.
A dinner to have been given by
Lackawanna brewers to legislators has
been called off. 1t is said that it was
dropped because newspapers printed
something about it.
Francis Feehan is quoted in Pitts
burgh as saying the Brumbaugh COM
pensation plan is eminently fair.
The councilmen of West Hazleton
have been sued by a taxpayer on the
ground that improvement money was
not properly spent.