Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-09
rSPROUL TALKS
| PLAIN BUSINESS
State to Give All 1t Can to Ma
ton and to Get Best of Ad-
ministrations From Him

of Pennsylvania could do to win the
war and TO give the Keystone State
a business administration were made
at the Montgomery county Republi-
can rally Saturday by Senator Will
liam C. Sproul.
The Senator spoke to 1,500 Repub-
licans at the first big meeting of the
Montgomery campaign. Men promi-
nent in the affairs of Montgomery
county and large delegation from
the Eighth Congressional district
heard the declaration of Senator
Sproul, United States Senator Pen
rose, Auditor General Charles A.
Watson, William l. Shaeffer, of Della
ware county; Edward e. Beidleman,
candidate for the Lieutenant. Cover
norship; Gabriel S. Meyer, of Leba-
non county, and Freas Styer, CHAIR
man of Montgomery county.
Republicans and Republican
principles will be needed to handle
the important question of peace and
the questions which follow with
peace We don't want and won't
have 'watchful waiting peace nor
too proud to fight peace but a
real, substantial peace, one which
will carry all it's blessings to all peu-
ple," said Senator Sproul.
With the return to normal CON-
ditions 1T will be necessary to give
back to the people much of the
power which has been vested in the
Federal Government. The Repub-
lican party has been the party which
has made this country powerful and
has made Pennsylvania 100 per cent.
efficient industrially, the greatest in
dustrial state in the nation. My
platform IS we'll known and in my
campaign for the governorship I'm
standing on that platform.
Had the German people controlled
their government, they would never
have been misled into this most ter
rible of wars
The fidelity of Pennsylvanians has
never been questioned. They're liz
tensely loyal to their government,
and everyone is doing his part
THE real 100 per cent. Americans
are to. be found among the Repub-
licans, despite the claim of the
sent broadcast recently, in which it
was emphasized that the Democrats
were 100 pet cent. American.
IF elected Governor my admins
tration will be purely business ad-
ministration, with always the point
of making the Keystone State greater
industrially and from every other
viewpoint, as my primary thought.
The Philadelphia Inquirer discuss
ing the meeting, says: There was
nothing but the keenest intention 20
support this administration in its
war plans evidenced, but it was
strikingly apparent that the Repub-
licans believe and mean to have, in
Pennsylvania at least, a voice in af-
fairs after the war. Speakers en-
phasized their belief that the Sixty
sixth Congress will be strongly Re-
publican and emphasized the condi-
ton that in the conduct of economic
affairs after the war, the same pol
icy of Republicanism, declared to he
responsible for the splendid develop
ment of the entire country, must be
the prevailing policy"
Senator Penrose particularly made
this point strong when he declared:
The importance of consideration of
things as they will be after the war
cannot be underestimated. / refer
particularly to economic conditions.
We must have adequate protective
measures to absolutely overcome any
menace of Oriental or European in
reference in economic affairs after
the war. Well have to provide work,
at the right wage, to the thousands
of soldiers when they come march
ing home.
1.-The Republican party has more
than shown it's ability to legislate
successfully on the matters of shis
type; while, by contrast, the Demo-
Gratis have made lamentable failures.
For our essential protection after
x,,sI or,f k,nf
will mean our protection in every
way. American blood is being shed
and the American people are deter
mined to have a peace in which
they'll dictate their own terms and
| those terms will mean the absolute
destroying of that thing called mill
tarism-a peace which will last fer
many, many years.
THE present administration has
been vacillating in it's frequent
change of foreign policy. It has ad-
vanced very far from it's early stages
when it was too proud to fight and
wanted peace without victory The
Republicans can most certainly be
| counted upon to carry a far more
| patriotic, consistent, logical policy in
all things applied to considerations
| of this type"
After paying a marked to Sen.
ator Sproul, as the one man In the
state best fitted to give this state a
real business administration" Ed
| ward e. Beidleman, candidate for
Lieutenant Governor, declared:
pennsylvania, New York, Massachu-
sets and Illinois are leading this na-
tion in this war. No fewer than
1885, 900 Pennsylvania boys had been
sent overseas August first-more
than had been sent from all the
southern states combined. At least
sixty per cent. of all the munitions
are made in this state. We're in this
war to win for Pennsylvania and all
| the states, and all the people. The
one mistake was that war wasn't
declared when the Lusitania was
sunk; politics should have been ad-
| journed and war declared. A Repuo-
! lican Congress must be a certainty
as the result of the next election
We want the war over and done with
and our boys home again."
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