Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-17
REPUBLICANS
ENDORSE TICKET
Continued From First Pagel


pressed the belief that the future pros
perity OF their times lay entirely with
the return of the Republicans TO
-Sower and thea enactment of pro-
tec4ive tariff laU.
w, Harry Baker, member of the
committee on rules. presented re-
vised SET of by-lVws with the explain
alton that amend ments had been nee
essitated by chan ges in election laws
of the State. The most important
change is that col nmitteemen hereaf-
ter will be elected for two years in
stead of one. Fine new rules were
adopted and will be published and
distributed by the county committee.
The rules may be changed either at a
meeting of the committee or by mail,
If fifteerf members of the committee
sign the proposed amendments and
three-fourths of the committee vote
in favor thereof. This provision is TO
avoid unnecessary meetings OF the
committee in case members desire
change
William Horner Reelected
William H. Horner, Swat ara town.
ship, was re-nominated for county
chairman by DIR. NJ. l.. Hershey. of
Hershey, and seconded by Max
Hines, Of Middle Paxton township.
He was elected by acciannation and
escorted to the chair by Dr. Hershey
and Mr.. Hines.
Charles Shope, of the Halifax Ga
zette, nominated James E. Lentz, OF
Elizabethville, county recorder, and
a we'll known upper end leader for re-
election as vice county chairman, ana
". E. Weaver named County Treas
urer Mark Mumma, of Steelton, for
another term as vice chairman in the
lower end, where he is prominent.
Both were reelected by reclamation.
John NJ. Brinton nominated c. c.
Cumbler. county commissioner, of
Highspire, for treasurer of the COM
mittee, and Edwin NJ. Householder
named AL S. Cooper, of Harrisburg,
for secretary, a place he has held for
many years. Both were reelected
without opposition. William T. Evans
and Albert Shenk were also chosenH
for two years more as assistant secre-y
taries with the unanimous support OIL
their home communities and the CONF
mittee as a whole.
Flowers For Mayor Meals
On motion of Senator E. E. Beidle-
man the committee sent to Mayor
Meals its regrets that he is i'll and its
hopes for his recovery and the letter
will be accompanied by huge bunch
of roses with the compliments of the
committeeman.
Resolutions strongly endorsing the
party's candidates and pledging the
efforts of the committee to the success
of the ticket at the coming elections
were presented by Committeeman
Harry Hooker, of the lower end, and
adopted with cheers.
The Resolutions
These resolutions follow:
WHEREAS, The Republican party
has always stood for constructive
craftsmanship; for a tariff TO proper
ly regulate American industries and
adequately protect American working
men: for the practical instead of an
experimental solution of governmental
problems; for unselfsh patriotism; for
undiluted Americanism; for the safety
of her citizens; and for the honor of the
flag both at home and abroad; and
WHEREAS, Under the administra-
tion of the Democratic party during
the past four years, our people have
escaped a most terrible panic only
through the intervention Of war in
Europe. which has for the present
nullifed the disastrous effects of the
iniquitous Underwood tariff law; we
have been brought to the brink of war
by the ''watchful waiting" policy of
dragged in the dust of American men,
women and children have been mur-
dered on the high seas and in Mexico
as a result Of this ,spineless and un-
WHEREAS. To correct these evils.
TO restore the flag to its once proud
tions, TO enact tariff law that will en-
able American employers to maintain
a high wage scale and at the same time
compete with the cheap products of
Europe. TO pass such legislation as will
place in the hands of the government
weapons on land and sea as will safe
guard this country from the fate OF
Belgium and Poland, and to secure the
return of the party of Lincoln to the
helm of the nation at this crisis in
our affairs, the Republican party has
meets every demand of the Situation
and in the nomination of Charles Evans
Hughes and Charles Warren Fairbanks
mas mas given TO the country candidates for
the highest type. whose probity is un-
questioned, whose abilities have been
tired and proved in the hard school of
experience, and who represent the best
thought and the highest devotion of
American manhood: therefore. be il
RESOLVED, That the Republican
its hearty endorsement OF the RepubH-
can platform adopted and the Repub-
llcan candidates nominated by the Chi
our unremitting efforts of untirine zeal
throughout the campaign; and, be it
.nsas n%sRaEsoLvED. That this committee
endorse and recommend to the voters
OF al parties the State and county
candidates nominated by the RepubU-
can party r at the May primaries: Phil
tor; Thomas H. Crago, John r. K.
scott. Joseph Mclaughlin, and Mahlon
a, Sarland Tor Congress
Harmon NJ Kephart for State TreasIr-
er, CHARLES A. Snyder for Auditor Cen
eraI, Aaron S. Kreider for Congress.
EDWARD Z. Beidleman for state Sena
TOT; joshua W. Swartz and Augustus
MlIdman for the Legislature in the
FIRST District; David J. Bechtold and
Ira F. Ulsh for the LEGISLATURE in The
Second District: and Charles ]. Price
for Mine Inspector.
senator Beidleman Speaks
Ihat closed the formal order of
business before the commit
Tee and for more than an hour the
committeeman listened TO and cheer
eu the addresses of many men prom
lnent IN the party, called upon by
county Chairman Horner. Senator
Beidleman. as the standard-bearer in
Dauphin county, led off with an elo-
quent portrayal of the accom- nIisb-
ments of the Republican party in the
past. of its objects for the future and
the Importance of electing in Noyem-
Der the candidates nominated at Chi
cago He said that even bigger than
the so-called plea for preparedness.
which Americans of all parties he
leVe, is the necessity for preparing to
protect Americans after the Euro
pean war is over. He said that after
the wilson admiristrs ton had gotten
under way and before the war came to
nullify the effects of the Underwood
tariff from so to 10 men called at his
once daily seeking his aid in procur-
ing work, and he predicted q return m