Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-03-27
WILL NAME MEN IN
EVERY DISTRICT
The Democratic Machine Desperate
Over Prospects Of Losing
Fauphin County
NEW SCHEME TO SAVE THE DAY
Ryan-McCormick Controversy In
teresting- -Pinchot Rakes
the Democracy

Thoroughly ratified by the sentiment
against the Jersey ticket in Dauphin
county the bosses of the Democratic
machine have determined to name
candidates for the Democratic county
committee on a Palmer-M Mccormick
platform in every one of the districts
in the county, and the same plan is
said to be under consideration In Cum
berland and Perry counties. Lebanon
is reported as hopeless and when York
county is mentioned reorganizers look
the other way.
Tho scheme is to get some man
interested In behalf of the Interstate
ticket in each district by tying up his
interests with the machine. In several
boroughs of the county it has been
found by scouts that Mccormick is
anything but popular, and while many
are not in love with Ryan, the voters
are inclined to resent White House
slatemaking. In the city it means a
fight because the anti i-McCormick peo-
pie will not give up control of the city
committee without a battle.
The Philadelphia Ledger of to-day
says this about the warning Demo-
Gratis: philadelphia Democrats yes
terday were stirred by
City Solicitor Ryan's
Hensel ls call for an opponent
Mentioned to Representative A.
For Senate Mitchell Palmer as a
candidate for the
United States Senate
and discussed the possibilities Of the
situation. Reorganizers were of the
opinion that Mr.. Ryan's supporters
for the Democratic gubernatorial
nomination would back ex-Attorney
General w. u. Hensel, of Lancaster,
against Palmer. Ryan men would
say nothing on the subject However,
there was a general consensus of opin-
ion that the Ryan supporters would
select their candidate from among the
following: Mr.. Hensel; Henry c..
Niles, of York, former Keystoner;
Judge Charles b. Staples, of Strouds-
burg, Mr. Palmer's home town; Judge
John M. Garman, of Wilkes-Barre
Down in Lancaster county enthusi-
asm for DR.. Martin G. Brumbaugh,
Republican candidate for Governor, is
spreading every day.
From all parts of the
county have come in Brumbaugh
dorsements of his can Clubs Are
didacy and it Is pre- Organized
dicted he will poll
record vote in the
county. Many Bull Moosers and Pro-
gressives are coming out for the
"schoolmaster." The first development
of the campaign is the organization of
Brumbaugh clubs Epharata was the
first to fall In line and 1t is particularly
appropriate, for it was in Ephrata that
DR.. Brumbaugh won his wife. Sew
eral hundred persons have been en-
rolled and the following organization
was effected: President, DR.. e. r.
Miller; vice president, II. M. Sprecher;
secretary, Samuel Y. Wissler; treas
urer, II. L. Eitnier. Ward committees
have been named to enroll every voter
in the town. Similar clubs will be
organized at Elizabethtown. New Hol-
land and other places.
Clifford Pinchot said last night that
the factional warfare in the Demo-
cratic ranks, nationally and in the
State, is of kind
which cannot be
Pinchot Hits healed, and said:
Democrats '"The d m + s
Swift Thump stand for State rights,
for the little point of
view in national af-
fairs. Here in Pennsylvania the two
wings of the Democratic party are at
each others throats. The same thing
will shortly be true in the nation. The
split, so long foreseen, has come at
last. President Wilson was able to
carry through the tariff bill and the
currency bill because of a long accu-
mulated public sentiment behind
them. With the exception of con-
servation, he must now handle his
own problems without this well grown
public support. This is another way
of saying that the Democratic har-
| mony in national affairs, which has
| so impressed the unthinking, is sub
stantially at an end. These are the
two main reasons why the Democracy
cannot make good along progressive
lines. 1t is tied hand and foot by the
States rights doctrine, and it is divided
against iself"
| The Mulligan Guards have entered
| into the campaign for the aid of the
| boy scout faction which is struggling
with the Old Guard and
the mikeryans for the
party rosebuds. 1t was Mulligan
| announced yesterday Selected
| that Revenue Collector For Guard
Fritz Kirkendall had
named John Mulligan,
| of Carbon county, to a deputy collec-
| torship in the revenue mill at Ian
| caster. Mulligan comes from Carbon
county, where Mitchell Palmer's slat-
ed candidate, p G. Evans, is in dan
ger of being defeated for congressional
nomination by Fl. J.. Steele. Incl
dentally, his selection is interesting.
because most of the appointments
have been going to that section and
Dauphin and other counties have been
| ignored.
| Not in many long year has there
| been such shindy in the Democratic
party as is now on between Ryan,
! representing the old
regime, and McCor-
Michael Ryan mick, the reorganiza-
and Vance ton group of which
Mccormick Cons gres m an A.
Mitchell Palmer Is
| the head. Tn speech
at Wilkes Barre this is what Ryan