Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-30
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BY the Ex-Corumitteeman

The platform on which the Repub-
lican party in Pennsylvania will go to
the voters and will be drafted at
Philadelphia on the morning Of the
meeting of the Republican State COM
mittee, Monday, October 8. Calls were
issued last night for meetings of the
| committees on platform and revision
of the rules to be held on that morn
| ing and their reports will be submit
ted to the State committee in the aft
ernoon. Immediately after the busi-
ness session, the State commi ;tee and
party leaders w,ll be addressed by
Charles F.. Hughes, candidate for
President, who will be in Philadelphia
TO speak at the big meetings arranged
in his honor. Many Republicans from
eastern Pennsylvania will attend as
will Progressives and Independents
who have aligned themselves with the
Republicans because of the Wilson
| policies.
Former Lieutenant Governor Wal
ter Lyon, of Pittsburgh, is chairman
of the subcommittee on platform. He
was also chairman in the campaign
when Brumbaugh was the nominee
| for Governor and Penrose aspire! to
succeed himself in the United States
Senate. Many of the State leaders are
y
/ ply endorsing the platform of the Re-
/ publican national convention which
placed Hughes and Fairbanks in the
| field and making the contest squarely
upon TIL, national issues as therein
presented. Local option and other
/ left to the voters of the respective
Senatorial and State representative
districts TO pass upon.
The local option committee OF
Eastern Pennsylvania yesterday ar
ranged at a meeting in Philadelphia
to urge the Republican State commit
tee platform trainers to include local
option The committee made no ef-
| fort prior to the recent meeting OF
the Democratic State committee in
| this city this month. 1t has drafted a
strong declaration in support of local
option quoting Governor Brumbaugh
and Senator Oliver.
| The statement issued by the COM
mittee. which will be forwarded to
! Walter Lyon is as follows:
THE Local Option League of Phila-
delphia calls upon the platform COM
mittee of the Republican State COM
mittee to recommend in its report tc
the State committee at the meeting in
Philadelphia October that local op-
ton plank be included in the State
platform.
This appeal comes from a sub.
stantial group of representative citi-
zens of Philadelphia ard is founded
/ on incontrovertible arguments in favor
of the local option principle, among
which the league recites the follow
ing:
"First-Local option is a thoroughly
American principle. The enactment OF
a county local option law will not leg
islate dry single county in Pennsyl-
vania; such a law will simply give to
the voters of the respective counties
the privilege of saying at the ballot
box whether or not they want saloons
in that county. In support of this
es of two Republican leaders at the
local option rally in Harrisburg April
g. 1916. as follows:
IF majority of the people in any
county of this Commonwealth want to
prohibit the traffic in liquor within
their borders. it is preposterous in the
Legislature to deny them the right to
give expression to their wishes and to
see that they are carried outt-United
States Senator George T. Oliver, Pitts
burgh.
"If you believe in the rule of the
people, IL you trust the people, IL you
| are a real American, you cannot DENY
the fairness of this proposition.
am confident we should be free
enough. brave enough, to enact this
law and give the people the oppor-
tunity to act for themselves on this
matter. They can settle it and settle
1t right Martin G. Brumbaugh
lGovernor of Pennsylvania.
''Second-Local option in sasand