Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-25

one-half interest in the Chester Daily
Times. Elected to. Senate of Penn
sylvania, 1896; reelected, 1900 and
1904, and elected president pro tenn
pore of the Senate 1903; reelected
1905. Became vice president of
Roach's shipyard, 1898; president of
Seaboard Steel Casting Company
and Chester Shipping Company,
1900; president Coal River Railway
of West Virginia, 1905; director in
several banks, railroads and other
corporations. Married, 1899, Eme-
line Wallace Roach, of Chester. Two
children; Dorothy Wallace, b. 1898;
and John Roach, b. 1895. Address
Chester, Pa; business address, AIS
Market street, Chester. Pa.
In the thirteen years since DIR.
Magill wrote the aobev, Senator
Sproul has continued to grow in
power and service to his county and
state so that no one is able even to
summarize his career and the scope
of his labor and achievements in a
single paragraph, or in many para
graphs.
\ Versatile Candidate
The Governor of Pennsylvania
shauld be familiar with the complex
business interests of the state. Sem
ator Sproul is pre-eminently a busi-
nessman of great diversity of in
terests. He is a publicist and jour-
nalist, a manufacturer and farmer,
and has organized and conducted
many lines of industry, being a large
factor in the promotion of the busi-
ness welfare of Pennsylvania. He
has at the present time, various lines
of industry which he owns in whole
or in part in twenty counties of this
state. He was a prime mover in the
establishment of the shipyards and
other industrial developments for
several miles above and below Ches-
ter on the Delaware river front.
In word then, with ripe exper-
ience and still in the prime of life,
with unqestioned patriotism illus
trated by his approval of the desires
of his only son to go ''over there" and
who is now in France as a first lieu
tenant of the regular army, with an
unusual combination of attainments
and qualities for leadership and an
abiding love for his native state l
| believe Senator Sproul is not only
the type of man, but THE man for
! Governor; not only to lead his own
party, but to be the chief executive in
this trying period of the whole peo-
pie of the state of Pennsylvania"
McClain Approves Record
Lieutenant Governor McClain
| said:
The man you honor tonight de-
| serves your unstinted praises. For a
| quarter of a century he has gone
about among the people of this COM
munity doing all the good he could
! and making no fuss about it. He
! has helped upbuild and make great
the industrial enterprises that have
added to the fame of his home town
and furnished employment to thou
! sands of its people. Ever looking
| forward and never a 'pull-back,' he
| has given enthusiastic encourage
ment and support to every civil
movement and betterment that has
| carried the city of Chester and the
town of Delaware county forward.
Il make no exaggeration when ]
say that there has been no men,
! ber of either branch of the Assem-
| bly, who has displayed greater capa-
city, and but very few equal capa-
city, than the guest of the evening
in dealing with subjects vital to the
welfare of the people of the Key
| stone State.
! During the more than twenty
years of his service as a legislator he
has done nothing for which he need
apologize, and his record in that re-
! spect stands out almost unique in
Pennsylvania politics. In public life
the same high conception of honor
has marked his course that has
marked his course in private life.
from time to time statements
have appeared in the newspapers
that he had an ambition to be GOV
ernor of Pennsylvania, but as yet nc
official declaration to that effect mas
come from him. and his friends
whose number is legion, throughout
the Commonwealth are hoping and
waiting to hear him express him
self unequfvocally and in the affirm
! ative. The need OF the time i'm Penn
sylvania is for a governor of the
type of William c. Sproul.