Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-01-27
RUPLEY WANTS To
Be CONGRESSMAN
Would Like to Represent District,
But District Does Not Seem
to Be Willing
BRODBECK PLAYS A GAME
Makes Washers Postmaster at
York-Focht Enjoys Start of
His Campaign
BRODBEcK PLAYS A GAME


His Campaign
Congressman-a at-large Arthur r.
Ripley, of Carlisle, who is booked for
the shelf by the leaders Of the domi-
nant faction of the Washington party,
is said to be willing to run as the
candidate of the party in the Eigh-
teenth Congressional district, but the
men active in the affairs of the or
ganization in the three counties would
prefer that he run for Congress-at-
large again. The suspicion is gaining
ground that the State leaders would
like to wish him on the district and
the district folks are busy getting
ready booms for several favorite sons
Rupley is said to enjoy congress
very much and when he can get any
one to talk to he shows a grasp of af-
fairs that accords very much with
what appears in the daily newspapers
His speech at the recent conference of
the progressives in this city was pre-
faced by cry of help" from the
audience and he cut 1t short, although
in fine voice when folks started to
leave the hall for lunch.
1t Is said that Cumberland county
Washingtonians will claim the nomi-
nation this time and will put up some
one who will down Rupley If he runs
in the district. The Democrats are
grooming d. L. kaufman for another
round.
Congressman Aaron S. Kreider's re-
nomination by the Republicans and
his reelection in the district are fore
gone conclusions.
Ex-Congressman B. X. Focht, of
LewiSburg, who is a candidate for the
Republican nomination, is entirely
cheerful over the
outlook in his dis
Seventeenth Is trict and says the
Teeming With more candidates
Booms Nowadays the merrier. The
former congress
m a n has started
his campaign and it looks like a merry
fight for the nomination between him
and ex-Marshal James NJ. Yeager, of
Miff1in county with possibly Jerry"
Light, of Greencastle, as third candi-
date. Charles T. Aiken, Selinsgrove:
John Ritter, Liverpool, and DR.. w.
Frank Skinner, Chambersburg, do not
lications to that effect. The Bull
Moosers are trying to keep William
H. Sponsler, of New Bloomfield, divi-
sion chairman, from being a candidate
for congress and are trying to side
track Frank B. Clayton, the angel of
1912, because State Chairman A.
Nevin DIETRICH would like to run w.
s. Hoerner, of Chambersburg, who
is his personal appointee on the Bull
Moose legislative program committee.
The Democrats have promised to run
Congressman Frank l.. Dershem
again, but the lower end of the dis
trict wants a show. There are eight
counties, all boiling with insurgency
In the district and the race is going to
be well worth watching.
Congressman A. r. Brodbeck, who
is facing all kinds of trouble for re-
nomination in the York-Adams dis
trict, yesterday at
tempted to straighten
BrOdbeck out things by recon-
Plays Some mending Senator Hen
Big Cards ry Washers, well
known in this city,
for the York postmas-
tership. Washers has been a candi-
date for denomination and it is said
that Brodbeck figured out that he
might shunt some of the opposition to
him into a senatorial hunt by getting
Washers out of the running. The
names of George S. Kroll, backed by
the Peeling faction of the Democracy;
ex-senator David Klinedinst and c. A.
Geesey had been mentioned for post
master. There will be flock of can
didates for Senator, among them
w. III. Eppley, Newberry; w. HI. Long,
Hanover; w. w. Van Baman, j. G.
Strayer and J. B. Kain. of York.
William N. McNair. the former Mid
dletown man, single taxer, reorganizer
until he could not stand for boss
methods any longer
and chairman of one
of the big divisions of McNair Is
the Democratic State Worrying
machine, is said to Reo-bosses
have gotten into the
way of the peace pro-
gram designed by the reo- bosses in
the western end of the State. The
appointment of Humes, Wilson and
others to fat Federal places in the
western counties, the fight between
Bailey and Matt and the return to the
Guffey fold of many of the men who
gathered under the reorganization
banner last year, has caused trepida-
ton at the Market Square windmill.
and it was planned to hold meeting
to pass some more of the typewriter
resolutions used in the East McNair,
it seems, would not stand for It,. Nc
Nair went to Washington few days
ago and finding the meeting of Single
Takers in that city loaded" in the in
terest of the reo-bosses, withdrew
This is being strongly played up in
Market Square as a great defeat for
ha DitfGhIIr0har Ao q
anyone plays the reo-bosses' game he
is a fine man. But when he asserts
his independence a slap on the wrist is
coming.
State Chairman William e. Crow
yesterday started things moving at the
Republican State headquarters in
Philadelphia and
arranged for a
Crow Opens meeting of the
Headquarters rules committee
For Campaign this week. The
State chairman
says that sentiment
throughout the State is for Stuart and
that the former Governor is the logi-
cal man. Mr.. Crow said that in his
opinion fusion is not to be thought Of
and that he Is preparing for a straight
out three-cornered fight. Reports
made to him indicate that the Demo-
Gratis are embroiled in factional fights
and that there are clouds on the
Washington party horizon over the
candidacy of State Treasurer Robert
K. Young for Governor.
To-day's issue of the Philadelphia
Public Ledger has this to say about
the candidacy of Ex-Governor Edwin
S. Stuart, who seems