The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-10-17
None of the Democrats
Requested to With
draw Had Done So by
Noon To-day
DEWALT ONE OF
THOSECONCERNED
Appeal of Democratic State Executive
COMMITTEES, Made in Session Here
Yesterday. Affects Candidates For
Legislature AS Well as Congress

All Democratic candidates for Con-
gress, State Senate and Assembly who
have been endorsed by the Personal
Liberty party and placed on the ticket
of the latter party by nomination
papers, have been requested by the
Democratic State executive committee
to repudiate the nomination of the lat
ter party and at once withdraw the
nomination from the State Depart
ment, 90 for the good of the Democratic
State ticket
This action on the part of the ex-
eeutive committee was taken in this
city yesterday afternoon before ad-
Journment. The committee at first
adopted resolution requesting the
candidates for Congress to withdraw
from the Personal Liberty ticket and
then, after discussion, decided that it
would be unwise to discriminate in the
matter of Congressional candidates,
and supplemental resolution was
adopted to include candidates for Sen.
ate and Assembly.
There are but two candidates for
Congress on the Democratic ticket who
have been endorsed by the Personal
Liberty party, which is understood to
be party opposed to local option,
and they are Arthur G.. Dewalt, of the
Thirteenth or Berks-Lehigh district,
and Harry j. Steel, of the Twenty
Sixth or CarbonM roe Northampton
Pike district. Mr. DeWalt was one of
the leaders of the Old Guard Demo
cracy, served two terms as Senator
from Lehigh, and was for two terms
chairman of the Democratic State com
mittee. He defeated Congressman
Rothermel, of Berks, for the nomina-
tion. Mr.. Steel has been nominated on
the Democratic ticket to succeed Con-
gresham A. Mitchell Palmer, but he
was not supported by Mr.. Palmer, and
was nominated despite the latter IS ef-
forts to nominate another candidate.
No Withdrawals By Noon
Of the Democratic nominees for the
Senate asked to get off the Personal
Liberty ticket one is Senator Charles
W. Kline, of the Thirty Eighth district
Allegheny county, who is also the reg
ular Republican and Washington party
nominee, and is the Allegheny county
Republican chairman. The other is w.
Clayton Hackett, of Northampton, who
is understood to be opposed to local
option.
Of the candidates on the Democratic
ticket for Assembly requested to get
off the Personal Liberty ticket one of
the most prominent is John NJ. FLYNN,
of Elk, one of the Democratic leaders
of the House for several sessions, and
an avowed member of the Old Guard
Democracy, being credited with being
the personal representative of Sen.
ator James X. P. Hall, in the House.
Mr.. Flynn had personal tilt with
James |. Blakeslee, Fourth Assistant
Postmaster General. and one of the
organizers of the Reorganizer Demo
Gratis, at the last meeting of the Dem
a resolution declaring for local option
to which Mr. Flynn was very much op-
posed.
The following is the entire list of
Democratic nominees who have been
endorsed by the Personal Liberty party
as on file at the State Department, and
none of whom had withdrawn up to
noon to-day:
Those Asked to Withdraw
ongress-Thirteenth district. Ar
thur G. DeWalt, Berks and Lehigh:
Twenty y-sixth, Henry J. Steele, Carbon.
Monroe, Northumberland and Pike.
Senate-Eighteenth, W. CLAYTON
Hackett, Northampton; Thirty-eighth
Charles H. Kline, Allegheny, who is
also the Republican and Washington
nominee; Fortieth, Charles NJ. Guenth
er, Allegheny.
Assembly-Allegheny, First district
Thomas Pane Geary; Second, John c.
Sullivan; Tenth, w. R. Shoemaker;
Twelfth, William Haberman and Pat.
rick Collins; Berks, First district.
George w. Sassaman; Lehigh, First dis
trict, Ira 7. Erdman; Luzerne, Second
uASeiiNes iotOi -hui PhY, -NOItHdHpIOu.
Frederick E. Geiser, William M. Ben.
ninger and Reuben H. Track; West
moreland, First district, Edgar R.
Shuey and Robert M. Doty; Elk, John
NJ. Flynn.
Finn Departs in Bad Humor
William Finn, the Washington party
leader, was in Harrisburg yesterday aft
ernoon, but did not meet with the
Democratic executive committee. He
is said to have had a conference with
Democratic State Chairman Morris in
last effort to have Congressman A.
Mitchell Palmer withdraw as a candi-
date in favor of Clifford Pinchot for
United States Senator, which, Chair
man Morris informed him, was impossi-
BILE. Finn is said to have departed
from Harrisburg in very bad humor.
scarcely acknowledging the salutations
of friends who met him as he hurried
to the station.