Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-20
PALMER ROASTED
BY THE GOVERNOR
Put in the Fool Glass and Told
to Get Better Information
About Finances

A. Mitchell Palmer, boss of the
Democratic machine in Pennsylvania.
was placed in the fool class and told
to get his facts straight before he
started to make speeches by Governor
Martin G. Brumbaugh yesterday in a
couple of the speeches he made on the
second of the farming tours. The
Governor continued his talks on the
square deal in government which made
such an impression last week and on
the occasion of the stop at Baumstown,
the first place visited during the day
the Governor went after Palmer.
I'VE have enough money for all our
needs now. When some fools talk
about our State being bankrupt, they
are mistaken" said the Governor. I'VE
have all the money we need for cur
rent expenses and the taxes are just be-
ginning to come in. There will be be-
tween s60,000.000 and $70,000,0 900 to
appropriate during the next session
of the Legislature, and If you people
will see to it that the right kind of
men are sent to the Legislature we
will use the money right so that you
will get good highways"
Speaking at Saratoga on highway
Improvement the Governor said:
THE farmers of the State do not
seem to know that the automobile Ii
cense money was not set aside for use
on the roads by the last LEGISLATURE.
1t was merged in the general funds,
something that had never happened IN
the history of the Highway Department
before.
Because of this we have lost s2,-
100000 which could have been put on
the roads last year. Make up your
minds when you vote that you will not
vote for any man for the Legislature
who won't give you the automobile IL
cense money for highways. Don't send
men to the Legislature who do not
carry out your will. but who defeat the
expressed wishes of the people at every
turn.
I'VE want no scoundrels of this type
in the Legislature. 1 say this to you
because it will be the purpose of this
administration to give you the best
in the future.
1T cannot achieve its purpose If 1t
must be surrounded by a Legislature
that makes a catspaw out of the peo-
Pies will. We all know that there |
was chicanery in the last Legislature
and that you were robbed in the last
hours OF the session of the funds that
should now be going into the roads. |
You have your chance now.
want each one of you to deter |
mine. I want the farmers of every |
part of the State to settle this ques-
ton rightly--not to vote for any man
who has betrayed them in the past |
and who is an aid and hireling of the |
invisible government that too long |
has ruled our State"
In talk at the Allentown fair the |
Governor had big audience
You people in the Lehigh Valley
must see to 1t. with the rest of the |
state, that no mean, sordid, low. sell |
fish men shall be exalted to high offce
in Pennsylvania" he declared. and
then appealed for the election of men
who would support the administration |
measures for agricultural development
and~ good results
Five toll roads were traversed on the
way to Sellersville, and at that place
Governor Brumbaugh said:
For the past Is or 20 miles we
have been passing through toll gates.
They are nuisance, wrong and If |
we do what we want to we will knock
them out in year or two" He then
referred to the fact that one of the
stockholders of a toll road was in the
car with him and he had told the lat
ter what he thought of the miserable
condition that allowed toll roads to ex-
ist. He referred to Colonel Louis ].
kolb, of Philadelphia. who with Mrs.
Kolb. are guests of Governor Brum-
baugh this week. Pennsylvania is rich
enough to build free highways and one
of these days we will do it." he as
serted This trip is taken to let you
know that we have an administration
that is clean and capable" he asserted. I
and concluded with the statement, this
State has not yet reached its limit in
developing its agricultural resources"
Governor and Mrs. Brumbaugh gave a
L. H.
hotel in Easton.
This morning the party left for
Stroudsburg and will be In Wilkes
Barre tonight.