Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-01-30
FLL RIP UP STATE"
SAYSCANDDATEO'NEL
Sits Peacefully at Dinner With
His Rival, Sproul, Then
Explodes
NO MERCY FOR PENROSE
Declares He May Be Beaten. but
He'll Make it Interesting for
Party Leaders

With only toastmaster between them
at banquet, william c. Sproul and ].
Denny O'Neil, the only candidates who
have announced their intention of rae
Ing for the Republican guberuatorial
nomination next spring, exchanged few
words and glances last night but there
was no battle spirit shown.
1t had been expected that when the
two met j. Denny might be taken to
task by Senator Sproul for some of the
things he has said about the Delaware
Countian, but their meeting was at the
dinner and smoker of the Keystone Au-
tomoble Club at Lu Lu Temple, and
the subject of the evening was good
roads, in which both are deeply inter-
ested, Senator Sproul having fathered n
number of road bills in the Legislature.
and O'Neil being the present state High
way Commissioner.
O'Neil attacked Senator Penrose and
his followers in the peppery tone he
has recently adopted when he granted
an interview after the dinner, but in
his address he stuck strictly To roads.
So did Senator Sproul.
In his after-the banquet Interview
O'Nel attacked United States Senator
Penrosc. his leadership in the state and
all of his henchmen and all that he
stands for
why, man. the slave mark Of PEN
rose is on him as plain as IL you'd
wired him with electrics,"
No QUARTER FOR PENROSE
This remark referred to Senator
Sproul. O'Nel then proceeded to
'blister' the Penrose organization and
declared that he will give every person
connected with it clustering" from
now to the end of the campaign. He
virtually said he would make his cam
paign one of the Billy" Sunday va
riety
I'm alone" said Mr O'Neil. so far
as the leaders are concerned. I've had
no whisper OF n word from the Wares.
none from the Governor. But | feel that
n mighty host Of silent people all over
the State will back me up. And even
n I lose. I'll win. I'm going to make
that kind of fight"
I'm not only after Penrose" he said
'Tm after his crowd. You know there's
a light abroad in the minds of people.
For instance. / never knew what was
meant in the Bible where it SAYS a
camel will go through the eye of a needle
before rich man can enter the king
dom until | saw what some of the rich
men in Pittsburgh-the brewers and the
manufacturers and the distillers-uscd
to do to help the Penrose ticket. |
broke with Penrose in 1911. when he
told me that in making up the county
STATE in Allegheny l should have to con-
suit the German Allance--the German
Alliance was the saloonkeepers, I'd al
ways supposed that they had to do what
we told them. Peniose wanted me 20
take orders from them and | quit
WILL MAKE STATE RING
"Sure | may lose. but look at the time
I'll have. I'll make this State ring. be-
lieve me. I'll tell what | know. Why
at this time more than at any other >
I'll tell you. It's because | think the
silent people, the people who, don't vote.
are waking up. Even Penrose's old
friends have turned against him. not be
cause they are any better-hearted than
they used to be, but because they have
come to realize that this sort Of thing
doesn't pay
If your neighDorhood is poor and
degraded, you will be poor and degraded.
You can't be much better off in this
world than the people about you
1--WE talked from the same platform
with Billy Sunday many a time. | like
his method of delivery. He's got way
of making the truth go over in very
simple words, He makes 'em under
stand. That's all you've got to do
make them understand--and they're
with you. I mean the ordinary folk.
Because all people-eNcept some poll
ticians | could name IN this State-are
good at heart.
I'm going TO riI this State up. I'm
going to talk from one enl of it 10 the
other, If | haven't a promise from any
leader If the Wares will help me I'll be
glad. And I'll be glad if | get the Gov
ernor's help. ! have had no promises
from anybody. All | know is that the