Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-31
WHOLE TICKET
SAYS PENROSE
Senator Also Says That Re-
publicans Will. Gain Con-
gressmen in Penna.

United States Senator Boies Pen
rose issued a statement in Philadel-
phia last night after conferences
with State Chairman William +,
Grow and Secretary ", Harry Baker
and meeting leaders from many sec
tions in which he declared that
PENNSYLVANIA would elect the whole
Republican state ticket by fine
majority and rebuke the President S
attempt to make political capital out
of the war by electing more Repuoh-
can congressman. ...
Senator Penrose said:
Senator Sproul and'the whole Re-
publican ticket in Pennsylvania is GO
ing TO be elected in PennsylNania ny
a very large majority. The usual de-
tailed estimates have not yet oeeh
sent by the county chatrmen TO the
state committee. OF course. over
S00.0 900 voters are absent, which Will
diminish the normal vote, not count
ing those who are absent in Nolun-
teer work in the Red Cross and in
the Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton in France and places outside OF
PENNSYLVANIA.
There never was a campaign IN
which better opportunity present
ed itself for discussion and argument
This is particularly the case since
the Presidents ill-advised statement
of last week. calling on the country
10 elect only Democrats to Congress
This statement is an insult ana an
affront TO many thousand Repubh-
cans who have devoted their services
20 the government without reward
and who are now informed that they
4 in 80 n
tions with the administration.
"Up TO the present the war has
been conducted by the administra-
ton on q strictly partisan alignment.
The r lblican leaders have not
been co ted nor conferred with.
Yet they ve furnished the bulk
of support the administration mas
received in legislation requested.
Hits at Wilson'S Demand
Wilson's demand is without pre-
cedent in the history of American
politics In the Civil War and in
the Spanish War the Democrats were
generally opposed TO all policies or
the administration, and there might
have been some preteNt for partisan
appeal Yet neither Lincoln nor Nc
Kinley ever appealed to their fell
lovcountrymen on partisan basis.
1t is entirely different for leaders
Of the Democratic party in this in
stance to make such an appeal. They
are party leaders, and may do so.
But the President, as chief maGls-
trate OF the nation, in doing so has
created a gross breach of tact. fair
ness and political decency. General
PcrshinE might as well issue an or
der in France that none but Demo
Gratis could go over the top during
the rest of the war.
Wilson'S statement has driven
many neutral Republicans, and by
neutral Republicans I mean. Repuo-
licans who might have voted the
Democratic ticket on account of the
war. back into the Republican fold.
There will be no Republicans voting
the Democratic ticket at the ap-
preaching election. Moreover, many
Democratic voters feel Inundated
and incensed. The Presidents Of
fense becomes more reprehensible
because of the vast autocratic powers
which have been given to him largely
by Republican votes in Congress,
which he now cowardly tries to use
for partisan purposes.
If he had had Republican House
OF Representative at the present
time the airplane investigation would
nave DGen DlduG hS tuS IlpnsG VI
Representatives and not by the At
torney General appointed by the
President. The result OF the inves-
tigation would not have been sup
pressed, as it now is. until after the
election 10 save Ford in Michigan
from the charge of profiteering and
20 avoid the scandalous exposures of
the waste of several hundred mill
lions of dollars.
Pennsylvania will contribute
fair quota toward the redemption of
the House. The Republican state
committee has information that all
districts now represented by Republi-
cans will retain such representation.
The following districts now repre-
Sented by Democrats, will elect Re
publicans: The Twenty-eighth, COM
posed OF Elk, Mercer, Forest, We
mango and Warren counties; the
Iwenty-third, composed of Somer-