Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-03
EARLY CAMPAIGN
SHOWS WEAKNESS
Mccormick Tour in Up State Coun.
ties Hardly Likely to Har-
monte the Factions
PALMER DID NOT GO ALONG
Paxtang Will Hold Its First Elec-
ton For the New Borough.
Officers Tomorrow

Vance e. McCormick's Inauguration
of his campaign tour before the end
of July and the announcement that
during August numerous speaking
dates are to be filled by the nominee
for Governor and such of his col
leagues on the Democratic ticket as he
can drag around with him, is consid-
cred as the most tell-tale sign of weak
ness vet given by the Pennsylvania
Democracy. Men ~conversant with po-
~litiical conditions in the State fail to
see where Mccormick can be the
gamer by swinging around the circle
when the plans of the machine are to
have him go around again in the Fall.
Some say that 1t is either because Nc
Cormick likes the limelight or because
he fancies he can cure the party dis
temper caused by the primary n in
tensified by the distribution of patron
age.
1t is regarded as significant that he
visited Clearfield county first. This
county will be against him in the Fall,
as 1t was in the primary, and no man
of the temperament of Mccormick can
reconcile the generation-old animosl-
ties that have prevailed in the DEM
ocracy of that county. In Clinton
county the campaign methods of Nc
Cormick and the post office appoint
ments have put him out of the run
ming, and as for Center, that is going
to Brumbaugh. Palmer's 'indiges-
tion," which prevented him from tour
ing with Mccormick, saved him a lot
of useless travelling.
The Lancaster county Democracy,
which is demanding the revenue col
%lector to be named when Fritz Kir-
kendall gets the new
Scranton revenue district
Lancaster running, has declined to
Wants the accept subordinate places
Big Prize and a noisy effort to and
the plum is being made
in spite of the tip that
Mccormick plans to hand 1t to some
one in the Cumberland Valley. The
Lancaster fellows figure out that it is
going to be a long time before Demo-
Gratis get into owe again, and they
want to enjoy the prizes. The Davis
and Nauman factions of the party are
nominally at peace, but the manner in
which the Davis men are getting the
subordinate places is mo- conducive to
large Democratic votes. Three more
men were put into places of Repub-
lican revenue men who a resigned
on Saturday.
In many respects the campaign for
election of the first officers of the baby
borough of PaXtang, which will take
place tomorrow, is one
of the most remarkable
in the history of the Paxtang
county. Party lines have Election
been wiped out and there Tomorrow
are no nominations. The
1877 voters of the new
borough will write in the of
the candidates for office and the can
| didates are all running on a nonparti-
Some of the best-known men in the
borough are candidates for council
and there is a lively contest or for the
seven places. Thomas w. Smallwood,
who is running for burgess, is the only
man who has no opposition. The polls
will be opened in the schoolhouse
tomorrow morning at z o'clock and
will be open all day.
The Union county Republican COM
mittee got started on its work for a
victorious campaign on Saturday at a
rousing meeting in Lew
isburg. The committee
Committee is one of the strongest
Starts It's elected in the county in
Campaign a long time and the out
look is excellent, es-
pecially as the Democrats
in the county are all stirred up over
the manner in which post offices have
been handed out. DR.. r. Thornton was
elected chairman and S. B. Wolfe sec
rotary. B. K. Focht. candidate for
Congress, and other candidates made
speeches and the work for the cam
paign was marked out.