Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-09
EARLY START PLAN
FOR CANDIDATES
Palmer, Pinchot, Ainey and Ryan
Will Start Making Speeches
Without Delays

Congressman A. Mitchell Palmer
and Clifford Pinchot evidently believe
in the early start in politics, and al
though the primaries are not until
May 10, they have already planned
their speechmaking campaigns. Pin
chot got under way at Bloomsbury
on Saturday and Palmer plans to make
a series of speeches commencing to-
morrow at Easton and running
through most of next week. From
that time on he will be busy on the
stump and will only go to Washington
to see that the right kind of appoint
ments are made.
Congressman w. D. B. Ainey, who
is a candidate for the Republican
nomination, will start his campaign
by a speech at Williamsport on Feb
ruary II. when a big Republican din
ner will be held.
Michael j. Ryan's campaign COM
mittee announced yesterday that he
would canvass the whole State, and
that his itinerary would shortly be
made public. 1t includes meetings in
every county in the State, including
Harrisburg, Lebanon and Carlisle.
Vance c. Mccormick will so to Phila-
delphia tonight or tomorrow to talk
over campaign plans with Palmer and
State Chairman Morris. 1t is not an
nounced whether he will take the
stump.
Charles S. Duncan, who was a ma
tional delegate, has been slated for
the postmastership of Gettysburg, and
1t Is expected that his
appointment will be
announced within nItnrorp For.
very short time. Dun Gettysburg
can is a man well Post Office
known in A dams
county and the Pal
mer crowd expects the candidates. of
the slate to be aided by his selection,
although there are about fourteen
people who wanted the Office and who
The appointment of the Carlisle post
master is expected to be arranged very
soon and then others in this district
will be put through. The Washers
confirmation for York has not come
along as yet, but is looked for. Mean
while the list of people seeking places
In the revenue service Is being
scanned, it being the idea to name
men who can deliver the goods.
Wellington Hartman, stalwart
Democrat of Schuylkill Haven, is out
in public letter scoring President
Wilson for interfer-
ence in the Democratic
Wilson Has politics of Pennsylva-
Aroused MIA. He says: "Presi-
Antagonism dent Wilson denounced
bossism until he got
into position in
which he can be boss, and Immediate
ly starts to dictate who shall hold all
offices CT fch in,
the township of his own county to
that of Governor of Pennsylvania.
His lieutenants in this county no
doubt will take their orders and shout
throughout the length and breadth of
the county, o. X. Amen.
But let me tell you that many of
Schuylkilrs Democrats have opinions
of their own and can no longer be
bossed and driven by orders from one
who presumes to be bigger boss than
we ever had in Pennsylvania.
While Mr.. Ryan is not known to
myself or many Democrats in Schuyl-
kill county, the fact that he announces
his candidacy and asks the peoples
support, and not the bosses, should
cause every Democrat who is free and
uncontrolled to rally to his support
and once for all teach such q lesson
to upstart Democrat bosses that will
never be forgotten"
Congressman Palmer, who was one
of those who put through the bill re-
quiring President Taft to abolish four
internal revenue
districts on the
Democratic econ Palmer Changes
omy policy, is now Front When He
urging. Congress- Sees Patronage
men, In and out
of committee, to
restore the Scranton or Twelfth dis
trict. on the plea that business de-
mands it. When Palmer helped put
through the bill abolishing it he
secuted the business idea. Now the
Democrats are in power and he is q
candidate with hungry job-hunters
barking at his heels. Hence, he
changes his tune Just like a certain
mourning Democratic newspaper,
which used to inveigh against every
thing called organization, now furious
ly assails those who would disrupt
the organization" Whether Palmer
can get away with his scheme to make
more Jobs for Democrats at public ex-
pense to help him win the senatorial
prize remains to be seen. Incident
ally, Palmer is facing a tremendous
row in his own district over his ef-
fort to slate Penn c. Evans, a ma
tional delegate in 1912, for the Demo-
cratic nomination for Congress. Last
fall the voters Of the Monroe-Pike
judicial district slaughtered r. l..
Burnett, whom Palmer sought to
make judge in place of Judge C. B.
Staples, and Palmer had to put Bur-
nett into the Federal attorneyship to
keep him quiet. This made fuss
and the bald-faced effort to slate
Evans, who comes from Carbon, has
started up ]. Davis Brodhead, of las
ton, and Horace D. Lentz, of Mauch
Chunk, and all the other foes of Pal
m ar. 1ulo r,ill lInita tn dorrr, hia r,,l,