The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-02-21

party regardless OF personal sacriflce.'
in the session of 1915 | withdrew as
candidate for speaker OF the house
in favor of Charley Amber, in the
spirit of harmony and seconded MS
nomination. AS a member or that
session | voted for all the new leg
islation styled as progressive and hu-
name sponsored by Governor Brum-
baugh, including the workmen's COM
pensation bills, the child labor law.
the womans suffrage referendum, etc,
yet during the same session | did
not hesitate to oppose the governor
on the floor of the house on other
legislation and secured a majority or
all the members elected to the lower
house TO vote against his veto.
las president of the Republican
State League OF clubs, with organized
clubs in every county in the state,
took an active part with Congress
man James Francis Burke in behalf
Of the candidacy of the Hon. Phil
ander G. Knox for the presidency,
at which time the distinguished honor
was unanimously accorded me by the
Republican state convention as one
of the four delegates at Large to the
Republican national convention at
Chicago in June, 1908, with Governor
Stuart, Col. James Elverson OF Phil
adelphia and Col. Charles Rook or
Pittsburgh as associates therein, and
in which capacity we all zealously
endeavored to secure the maximum
harmony and the minimum factional-
ism through the nomination at that
time of Senator Knox, whose career
is synonym for harmony within our
party and who has always refused
to aid any faction.
Consistent with my answering,
open and constant approval during
the past twelve years, OF a nation
wide basis, | am ready for and favor
the national amendments for prohi-
bition and woman's suffrage, and my
newspaper, the Bradford Evening
Star and Record, will support local
candidates in Mexican county at the
primaries favoring those amend
menJs. The next governor, however,
will not have an opportunity to ap-
prove or veto any action thereon
taken by the coming session of the
general assembly, therefore the re-
suit then must be decided by the
nomination and election OF members
and senators this year.
"The Republicans up state, year
in and year out, have voted and work
ed for candidates residing or select
ed in Philadelphia and Allegheny
counties, and more than once have
thereby saved those candidates from
defeat, and now my candidacy will
enable all Republicans, both upstate
and in the dominant cities, to vote
for and support candidate not q
resident of nor selected in nor by
Philadelphia or Allegheny counties.
Il am not the candidate OF any
faction, committee, organization, lead
er or boss, and none of them knows
of my candidacy, the decision to is
sue this statement or the statement
itself. | am, and always have been
a plain, every day, loyal Republican
In my newspaper, on the stump and
personally, / have always freely sup
ported the entire Republican ticket
whether that ticket cost me my de-
feat or that of my favorite in the
preceding primaries.
Neither quarrelsome nor meddle-
some motives prompt my candidacy
Just the opposite. The achievement:
and principles Of the Republican
party are broad enough, strong
enough, glorious enough and potent
enough to appeal to every Republican
to put Republicanism above faction
alism and to put party harmony abov,
the personal ambition or the persona
vengeance Of any man. There 1!
nothing to be gained by campaign
of revenge, pickering and slander
The rank and file OF the Republican
party will control the primaries thi
year and they are awake and think
ing for themselves.
Fellow Republicans, will you per
NIT your party to be split and tori
by factionalism in the primarie
when you know full well victor.
then by any faction would contribute
only to the satisfaction and success
CT the opposition in November?"