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THE COAL TRADE BULLETIN. 31
MINERS AND FARMERS ENDORSE THE HON. GEORGE F.
FOR GOVERNOR OF PENNSYLVANIA.
HUFF
Without waiting for announcement from Con- Society, expressed with fitting enthusiasm engressman
George F. Huff of Greensburg, that he couragement of such a candidacy. The latter
might or would be a candidate for the guberna- declare that if Colonel Huff does not act on their
torial chair of Pennsylvania, the representatives appeal to become a candidate that they will call
of 8,000 miners of his home constituency at a upon the farmers at large throughout Pennsyl-
recent meeting passed resolutions urging such candidacy
and tendering a broad endorsement of the
man. Subsequently the farmers of Colonel Huff's
section, at a meeting presided over by Frank D.
Barnhart, president of the Western Agricultural
THE HON GEORGE FRANKLIN HUFF,
vania to unite in demanding his nomination. The
reported declaration of Justice John P. Elkin of
the Supreme court of Pennsylvania, that he will
not be a candidate, greatly encourages Colonel
Huff's friends in urging that he permit the use