Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-17
PROGRESS|VES TO
BUCK MCCORMICK
Fact That Prominent Bull Moosers
Were Not Here Is Very
Significant Now
DIVIDING THE CASH TODAY
Finn Gets Rid of Burden Through
Naming Mccormick, but Will
Have Some Say

Signs multiplied to-day that many
progressives will refuse to follow Will
liam Finn in his turning of the WASH
ington party organization over to the
use of Vance c. Mccormick in his
campaign for the governorship and
care to employ II. Judge Brumm and
other men who had given the silent
protest to the nomination of McCor-
mick went home refusing to say more
than they had said in the meeting;
Richard r. Quay, one of the big Bull
Mousers of 1912, reiterated his repu-
diation of Finn and charged that a
deal had been made with Mccormick
and Ii was commented upon that Au-
ditor General Powell was not at the
meeting of the State committee yes
terday and that Paul S. Ache, Alex
ander Moore and other men who had
been with Finn at various Washing
ton meetings and who are loud Roose-
Welt men, were conspicuously absent.
The absence of these men is about as
significant a thing as can be imagined
Mccormick told Finn yesterday af-
ternoon when the candidate was
escorted into Chestnut street hall by a
crowd of yelling Democrats that he
was glad to see him. Finn said he
was glad to see Mccormick and there
was no doubt of 1t.
Why Finn Is Glad
Finn, by yesterdays action, passed
over the financial burden of the cam
paign and was not slow last night in
following 1t up. He was in touch with
James l. Blakslee. fourth assistant
postmaster general, who finds much
time to devote to Pennsylvania poll
tics; State Chairman Roland S. Nor
ris and others, and it is currently re-
ported that apportionment of the Nc
Cormick cash was discussed.
Mccormick was greeted by the Bull
Moosers of a practical turn of mind
with a tremendous yell yesterday when
he said that IL elected he would con-
slider that he had been elected by
Washington party men as well as
Democrats. 1t is currently reported
that Finn seized upon this policy and
applied it to campaign funds for the
campaign with much earnestness last
night
The upshot will be division of cam
paign cash and prospective spoils to
| Bull. Moosers instead of only to DEM
ocrats.
Flinn's cold blooded dumping OF
further fusion made some of the Bull
| Moosers made last night and they were
fairly frothing to-day when they
| learned that the plans for the cam
paign which were outlined by the field
marshals last night and worked on to-
| day contemplate broadside attack on
Penrose with Pinchot and Palmer
both in the field and a joint effort to
elect Mccormick. 1t is thought that
Finn with his usual adroitness gets
out of putting up the cash for the
fight, but manages to dictate to Nc
Cormick how the Harrisburger's cash
is to be spent.
Quay Hits Hard
The Philadelphia Public Ledger
and this is what it says in the leader
of dispatch from Pittsburgh:
"Indicting William Finn, multi
millionaire Pittsburgh contractor, and
E. A. Van Valkenburg, the Philadel-
phia editor, operating Jointly with
Finn, of so Juggling with the Wash
ington party that what started out as
a great protest promising early sue
cess, has been reduced to the sort of
dealing of which even a ward politi
clan might be ashamed, Richard r.
Quay son of the late Senator M. S.
Quay voicing the sentiments of thou
sands of Progressives in Western
Pennsylvania, said to-day, rather sad
ly, that he guessed he had been mis-
taken in placing confidence in Finn
and Van Valkenburg.
"Mr. Quay, who has always been of
an independent turn of mind, left the
Republican party in 1912 and allied
himself with the Washington party
because of his admiration for Colonel
Roosevelt. He was prominent in the
party councils and was heralded as a
great catch by the Washington party
because of his prominence and being
At h. aII
leader
Finn After Highways
MIR. Quay said to-day at his office
in the Farmers Bank Building that he
made his announcement yesterday in
which he said he would vote the Re-
publican ticket in November without
consulting any one. Modestly, he said
he believed he must be just one of
many Progressives who simply are un-
able to stand the deal by which Finn
and Van Valkenburg thrust McCor-
mick into the Progressives, not to ad-
vance Progressive principles, but in
order that Finn might control the
State Highway Department for rea-
sons purely selfish to Finn and his
contracting company of Booth d
Finn, Ltd. and that Finn and. Van
Valkenburg might divide other spoils
of office in case Mccormick won.
party in Pennsylvania q party afraid
of itself" said Mr.. Quay. I'm 1912
we fought a towards fight with
two-faced ticket and with candidates
going over the State with padlocked
lips at time when every red -blooded
Progressive was out with colors flying.
The only reason Mr.. Finn and Mr..
Van Valkenburg ran a straight cleo
toral ticket then was because they
were clubbed into 1t by Colonel Roose-
Welt. The two-faced position taken
at that time held thousands of men
who were good Progressives within
the Republican ranks. Fusion is one
of Flinns old, bad habits, and one
from which he seems unable to break
away. The gank and file of the Pro-
gressive party of Pennsylvania are for
protection, and there are thousands
of them who refuse, as l do, to be
delivered to the common enemy en-
masse.
II know that a few weeks ago the
Progressive candidates on the State
ticket told Colonel Roosevelt that they
proposed to stand out to the end. l
know that he was then against any
fusion, just as l know he is against
1t now.
THE decent Progressives of Penn