Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-20
BULL MOOSERS To
MAKE TICKET HERE
Philadelphia Conference Does Not
Select the Candidates For
the Primaries
DEMOCRATIC MILL IS BUSY
Sends Out McCormick's Platform
Stuart Now Said to Be Out
of the Race
DEMOCRATIC MILL IS BUSY

The Washington party's council of
war will be reconvened here next
Thursday to decide whether it will go
before its voters with a Suggested"
ticket or whether there shall be an
open fight at the primaries. There
are riffs within the organization of
the Bull Moosers, although the rivalry
Is nothing like the bitter warfare that
prevails within the ranks of the State $
Democracy.
Owing to death in the family of
William Draper Lewis, suggested as a
candidate for the gubernatorial nomi-
nation. the conference held yesterday
at Philadelphia did not carry out its
instructions, but decided to leave the
selection of a ticket to the coming con-
ference. State Treasurer Robert K.
Young doomed up strongly as the man
most favored, but the partisans of
Lewis were 80 strong that the talk of
II. u. w. English, of Pittsburgh as a
compromise candidate was renewed.
William Finn, who dominates the sit
uation, Is in Florida, and the confer
ence will probably hear from him be-
fore acting next week. Finn wants
Young because of political ability and
acquaintance. Lewis because of his
intellectual strength, and English be-
cause he Is a personal adherent.
In addition to the row in the State
organization of the Progressives be-
| cause OF local option, which has been
intensified by Clyde
kelly's assault upon
Progressiyes the straddling resolu-
Torn by Men ton and by declara-
OF Ambitions tions of dissatisfaction
over jobs among the
rank and file and the
crusaders who joined the movement
because of Roosevelt, there are breaks
In the Progressive ranks in Luzerne,
Montgomery, Philadelphia and Le-
high. In Luzerne the factions have
! broken out in open warfare like that
which prevails eternally among the
Luzerne Democrats. In Lehigh the
slate has been assailed by the younger
Progressives. In Montgomery personal
ambitions have caused a return to
Republican ranks. Even in Allegheny
there is schism which will soon be
wide enough for all men to see.
Talk of DR.. Martin G. Brumbaugh
as the probable candidate for the Re-
publican nomination for Governor
CdIIle u the ITOnt yes
| terday stronger than
ever, in spite of the Brumbauph
pronounced movement FOrges TO
for eX-State Treasurer the Front
John o. Sheath, who
d e ar d yesterday
that he did not represent any faction
or leader. Brum baugh is now being
doomed in various counties, where he
has many friends. The silence of ex-
Governor Edwin S. Stuart in regard
to the demand that he head the party
is preventing declarations by leaders.
The ex-Governor's friends say that he
Will run and then that he won't. The
Democrats are hoping that he will
not
| The Philadelphia Press of to-day.
in an article on the Democratic war
in the State, says: "City Solicitor
| Ryan, candidate for
the Democratic guber-
Ryan Makes material nomination
savage Go against Vance c. Nc
at Palmer Cormick, who is back
ed by Congressman A.
Mitchell Palmer, made
| specific charges that neither Palmer.
Mccormick nor Roland S. Morris.
State chairman, had contributed to the
funds for the last campaign, but that
-
aried Democratic Federal officeholders
in this city, and that while the Demo-
cratic State committee ran into debt.
Congressman Palmer drew $SO.37 for
travelling expenses and $24 for tele-
phone charges. Ryan also charges
that in November, 1912, Palmer drew
$3.50 from the State committee, for
which he never accounted. From the
personal bitterness shown by the two
factions thus early in the political con-
test, it is certain that Democracy will
be split asunder before the primaries
in May, and that there is little proba-
bility that the wounds will be healed
by the November elections"
George E. Alter, Speaker of the
House of Representatives, said al
Pittsburgh yesterday that he had
heard of Mr.. Dim
mick's candidacy, and
was glad to know that Alter Say.
he had actively en- He Favor,
tered the race for the Mr.. Dimmicl
prize at the May pri-
maries. "Mr. Dim
mick Is very estimable gentleman
said Mr.. Alter, ''and I am inclined tc
think that he will give Mr.. Penrose :
foremost a businessman, and he ha.
made an enviable reputation for him.
self in business circles of the East.
am about the State great deal and
must confess that heard very little
talk or opinion favoring Mr.. Penrose.'
\ Friends of Michael j. Ryan, riva
of Vance c. Mccormick for the Demo.
cratic nomination for Governor, had
mixed emotions last
night when they heard
tnat the chairman OF the Ryanites
nrst DIVISION or the Emotions
democratic State ma Are Mixed