Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-05
NJ M'CORM|CK ENTERS
GOVERNOR RACE
Will Oppose Michael J. Ryan For
the Democratic Nomination
This Spring
PALM Err ANNOUNCES 1T
National Committeeman Manages
to Get Into Running For
Senatorial Toga

Congressman A. Mitchell Palmer.
Democratic national committeeman
from Pennsylvania last night an
nounced that he would be a candidate
for the Democratic nomination for the
United States Senate and that Vance
c. Mccormick, former Mayor of Har-
risburg and chairman of the first di-
vision of the Democratic State COM
mittee. would be the candidate of the
reorganization faction for the Demo-
cratic nomination for Governor
against Michael j. Ryan, city solicit
tor of Philadelphia.
This announcement was made af-
ter o'clock last night and came as
surprise. Early in the day Palmer
had intimated strongly that he would
, be candidate for Governor and Jus
tice S. Leslie Mestrezat for Senator
considerable carrying and fetching
went on between the Shoreham hotel
and the White House and 1t was given
out finally that Palmer would run for
Senator. Mccormick being selected as
the candidate for Governor
The selections are believed in Wash
lngton to have been with the approval
| of President Wilson, who is stated
to have objected to having William B.
Wilson, secretary of labor, leaving the
cabinet. Palmer is believed also to
nave schemed all along to get the
| nomination for Senator
The Washington dispatches show
that the two men were slated at a
conference attended by Palmer, ma
| tional committeeman; Mccormick di-
vision chairman; Morris, Democratic
state chairman, and Blakslee, fourth
| assistant postmaster general and for
mer secretary of the Democratic State
committee.
| The announcement of the intention
of Palmer and Mccormick to make
their fight together surprised this city
last night, and means that
there will be one of the
campaigns that make his Bitter
tory. The Old Guard ele- Warfare
nent, displaced from con- Ahead
troll OF the party machin-
cry, by the reorganizers,
Will support Michael j. Ryan. Palmer
and Mccormick will take the stump
and will make campaign of the State
that Will be met by Ryan and his
friends. When the nominations are
made there will be party bitterness
that will not be effaced in a decade.
That Ryan is not one whit deferred
by the entry of Palmer and McCor-
mick into the field is shown by his
statement issued at Washington last
night. This is what he said:
1 am candidate before the people
of Pennsylvania and l am going into
the primaries to win. | have never
received any office, any money or any
favors from what Mr.. Palmer calls
the old Guard of the State. The
| purpose of the primary election law
was to give full and free opportunity
to any citizen to go before the people,
and l ask for nomination and election.
and l am exercising that right.
Il have not made up any ticket and
am not going to do so. l am appeal
ing to all the people of the State, re-
gardless of faction, for support, and
will continue to do so. This Is mat
ter for the people of Pennsylvania to
decide at the primaries, and l have
no doubt how they will decide it.
believe l will win
Palmers statment sounds as
though he had been making a slate.
He remarked in discussing the situa-
tion: I'VE are going to
put the ticket over"
Palmer When asked for a formal
Predicts statement he said: II had
Victory expected to be a candi-
GATE Tor Governor and so
announced to many of my
friends. We had hoped that Secre-
tary Wilson would be candidate for
Senator, but, having sought the Presi-
dents counsel, we find that he is
averse to Mr.. Wilson's leaving the
Cabinet. 1t is the Presidents judg-
ment that l should make the race for
Senator and / have decided to do so.
In the gubernatorial contest the line
will be drawn just as effectively as ii
| were candidate, for | understand
that Vance C. Mccormick, who from
the beginning has been leader in our
movement in Pennsylvania, will be a
candidate for Governor"
i McCormick's candidacy is an
nounced in his newspaper to-day as
follows: Vance c. Mccormick
whose candidacy for
the Democratic nomi-
nation for Governor Mccormick e
! was announced in Candidacy
Washington yesterday Announced
after several White
House conferences,
returned to his home in this city last
night. Upon his arrival. he issued a
statement covering the situation:
Il have been most reluctant to be
a candidate for any State office only
because I have felt that others could
better represent the progressive
movement within the Democratic
party in the State, in which / have
been so deeply interested Recently
however, friends whose judgment ]
value have decided that my place Is
on the firing line as a candidate fol
Governor, where those opposed to the
; present organization of the Demo.
cratic party in Pennsylvania can test
the issue fairly and squarely. l bow
to this decision and welcome the op.
portunity to submit the last two
|, years of Democratic leadership te
the decision of the Democratic voter.
at the primaries, and, If nominated
my own position on important public
policies in the State to all the electors
lin November"
The Philadelphia Public Ledger to-
day says about the contest: 'The lint
3 has now been decisively drawn be
tween the Old Guard,
which to-day Is repre-
How Fight sented by James Ga,
Is Viewed Gordon, Charles P
in East Donnelly and Senato
; ]. X. P. Hall. Thes,
men, the first Of whom
has only recently returned to activ,
S Allentown convention in 1910, will
. probably be aided by Colonel Guffey
Reports from Pittsburgh are to tn,
+. effect that Mr.. Guffey has recovered
Z his fortune and will throw his re
n sources into the coming primaries t,
a defeat the two men who were respon
Q sible for his overthrow.
"Pennsylvania will be the scene O
!, the bitterest Democratic contest in tn