Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-13
GREAT FUTURE
FOR HARRISBURG
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IFOH
experience Since that time 1 have
been ambitious to be Mayor of what
I regard as one of the most up-to-
date and progressive cities in all
America. l have abiding faith in
Harrisburg and look forward to the
no distant day when it will be the
third city of the Commonwealth in
population, as l believe it is now in
the Importance of it's Industries and
great things ahead in the immediate
future for the city. We have come
out of the war and into the recon-
struction period with an increased
population, made up of people who
came here merely for the war period
and have liked us so we'll they have
decided to remain. And | know that
our industrial capacity and our fame
as a manufacturing city both haye
been materially increased by ouc/%ar
activities"
I'VE have now come to the time
when we must take another step
ahead, or endeavor to mark time
which means going back, for no city
can stand still. 1t is forward or back
ward with us, and l am frank to say
in the making of the bigger and bet
ter Harrisburg which l think | see
just around the clrner if men of pur-
pose ana vision are entrusted with
the government of the municipality in
the critical period just ahead"
No Experiments . Try
Il have no new theories to work
out, no costly experiments to try" the
alderman said in response to q query
as to his platform. I'VE in the United
States have been spending all too
much of the peoples money for per-
sonal whims and hazy notions of gov
eminent. What we want, 1 think, is
to get down to solid business prin-
ciples. Always ready to forge ahead,
keen at all times to give the people
the best form of Government possible
and all the public improvements and
conveniences that the tax paying ca
pacity of the city can reasonably af-
ford. We should stand guard at all
times against expenditures OF a
doubtful nature. Economy is the
watchward of the hour. Harrisburg,
during the next four years must prac-
tice thrift. BY thrift l mean its
Mayor and Council must save every
cent it is possible to save in order
that we may have money to go for
ward without unnecessarily burden
ing the taxpayers. l am vain enough
to believe that l can see ways where
by l can aid in that direction.
Hold His Own Hearings
For example, my long experience
as alderman of the Ninth ward, | feel
amply fits me for the police duties
the office of mayor involves. And
want to say this, positively and with
out any reservations-that # l am
elected Mayor of Harrisburg, l, per-
sonally, will conduct the police hear
ings. I feel that the taxpayers should
have the $4,000 or $1,000 1 can save
in that way and I mean that they
shall have it.
MY councilmanic experience, l be-
lieve, also has fitted me for partici-
patton in the activities of the com
missioners sitting as a deliberatiVe
and Legislative body, and deeply in
terested as l am in the future welfare
of the city and the interests of the
taxpayers, of whom 1 am proud te
count myself one, l come before the
voters at this time we'll equipped fol
the office l seek. | am much gratiheo
over the manner in which have beer
received wherever l have gone during
the campaign and 1 can only promise
in return a fair, honest, progressive
administration of the office of Mayor
il I am elected, as l fully expect tc
be-"