Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-09
GOVERNOR URGES
LOCAL OPTION LAW
Makes Strong Speech in It's Be-
half in Crawford and in
Erie Counties

Governor Martin G. Brumbaugh
made local option speeches principal
ly in his tour of Crawford and Erie
counties yestedya and last night, leav-
ing to w. ID. b. Ainey, chairman of
the Public Service Commission, and
IE:;T,Deputy Attorney General +. w;
tleltzz, of Scranton, his political
speech making. The governor was
well received in what has been con-
sidered territory Indifferent to his can
didacy and members of his speaking
party undertook to rap those oppos-
ing the governor with severity.
Speaking at Erie at the close of the
day, the governor said:
"Our menace is not from within"
he said, for we are a peaceable peo-
pie. We need forts and great guns
ana armies and naVies for a menace
from without And we should by a
protective tariff make that outside
menace bear the freight for our Sc
curity against war.
we must have a reunited Repub-
lican party to do these great things
for the safety of the nation. But we
cannot be united under the leader
ship that lead us to defeat in 1912.
Il want you men to think before
you vote next Tuesday" he concluded.
Decide if it isn't wise for you to send
to Chicago men untrambled and free,
or the selfish commands of so-called
leaders"
Mr.. Ainey called the flight against
Penroseism a finish fight" And the
governor, speaking after them cli-
NAKED their declarations by saying:
Il feel that it is a fair and reason
able obligation to you that l make
this fight. And l so believe in it, that
am willing to stay in this struggle for
party that will serve your will until
Pennsylvania stands forth as clean
and as fair commonwealth as there
is in the world"
Mr.. Fleitz, who has organized nine
counties in northeastern Pennsyl-
vania for Governor Brumbaugh after
severing his connection with the
Penrose crowd, said: ANY man that
thinks this temporary gust that will
blow over tomorrow is under delusion
We must have a reunited party and a
higher standard of Republicanism. We
need a housecleaning from top to bot
tom, and l, for one, am enlisted to
take my part in this job until it is
finished
I'VE don't want a leadership in
Pennsylvania that is based on an al
lance of special interests. 1t is not
one that l will follow This is not a
factional fight; it is a fight to see if a
decent, fair-playing, honest Repubh-
can party cannot be brought about in
Pennsylvania under the leadership of
a man yho typifies that sort of leader
ship, Martin G. Brumbaugh."
Mr.. Ainey was just as clear in his
statement of the permanency of this
fight. The Republican party still has
a destiny. but it has been hampered
and hindered. But such a fight as is
now being made is the kind that will
clear it of this hindrance and allow
ii to fulfll that destiny. The men who
are opposing has fight to reunite this
party are the men who fought his
program of social legislation, the same
men who were responsible for the dis
aster at Chicago in 1912"
At Meadville Mayor John f. Rey-
nolds, former Congressman Arthur f.
Bates. and w. w. Kincaid, a big man
ufacturer, who is a candidate for Con-
gress on the Republican and Wash
ington tickets, joined the party
John A. Bolard, candidate for the
legislature from Crawford county. was
with the governor during the after
noon.
At Cambridge Springs former Dep
uty Attorney General Frederic W.
Fleitzz, of Scranton, and former Con-
gresham Milton w. Shreve, who is in
charge of the governors campaign for
a reunited party in Erie county; f. S.
Phelps, editor of the Erie Times and
Arthur Mitchell. OF Erie, an ex-assem-
blyman, Joined the party.