Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-14
DEMOCRATS START
ABUSE OF FL|NN
Rather Suspicious in the Vehe-
mence of Their Denials of
the Fusion Scheme
PALMER LOSES
SUAVITY
Machine Plans to Run Around In
stead of Over the Old Guard
in Philadelphia

'who threw the fusion proposition
into the waste basket?" is the topic
which has replaced who got the most
for serving as a Mccormick watcher 2"
Judging from the vehement man
ner in which Congressman A. Nit
chell Palmer and other Democratic
bosses are taking filings at William
Finn and the rest of the Bull Moos-
ers, 1t would seem that they are try
ing to create the impression that
fusion was a Washington party move.
They would have 1t appear as being de-
signed to save the Progressives from
the humiliation of a showing such as
| the keystone party made few years
after the last gubernatorial campaign,
in which, by the way, Candidate Nc
cormick did not support the Demo-
cratic candidate for Governor, but
Palmer did.
Spea king in Washington yesterday
Palmer said that there was mo chance"
| for a fusion deal with the Washing
| ton party, that Finn could not in
duce him to get out of the race and
! let Clifford Pinchot have plain sailing,
and that he did not know anything
about fusion. Congressman Warren
Worth Bailey, who sometimes upSets
| l1e apple cart Dy uelTB 100 DTlSht Sdlu
| that the only way Finn could show
| he was sincere was to accept the
whole Democratic ticket. Other Dem
ocratic congressman, who had hoped
that they could freeze out Bull Moose
candidates and get the Roosevelt men
to be the tails of their kites, are also
ldenouncing the idea of fusion now. 1t
will be recalled that some time ago
State Chairman Morris, of the Demo-
l T.. 4 IL
the value of effecting fusion, but the
damper was suddenly shut down as 1t
has been on the stacks of good many
iron mills in Pennsylvania lately.
In an article on the Democratic
situation in Allegheny county, staff
correspondent of the Philadelphia
Ledger says: THE Pub
lie Ledger representa-
Allegheny tive, after spending
Democrats nearly a week in Pitts
Are Angry burgh, is convinced
that whatever strength
Palmer and McCor-
mick may have had here has been
greatly weakened by the appointment
of Thomson. who was opposed by a
majority of the members of the Allie
gheny Bar Association.
"a canvass of the situation without
prejudice and with a desire merely to
get at the facts will convince any stu
dent of politics who is not prejudiced
that the backward swing of the pen
dulum toward regular Republicanism
has received an impetus so pro-
nounced that its initial velocity cannot
be overcome.
1.-The evidence is on every hand
that, so far as Allegheny county is
concerned, Palmer is out of it, and
it is equally certain that Mccormick
was never in it."
The Palmer machine
has decided to run around the Old
Guards city committee in Philadel-
phia instead of run
ming over it. Fearing
that If the State eX- Machine to
ecutive committee Run Around,
ripped out the city Not Over
committee in Phila-
delphia the courts
would overturn the action because
the committee was elected by the
Democrats of the Quaker City, the
bosses have decided to ignore the city
committee in the campaign and to
have a committee of their own. This
will be done by the formation of a
Palmer Mccormick league, which will
be recognized by the State committee
to the extent of being given financial,
literary, oratorical friendly and other
assistance, while the city committee
elected by the people will be ignored
as far as possible. The scheme is to
have the new league meet, endorse the
State platform, which the city COM
mittee declined to do, and then dra-
matically offer its services for the sal
walton of the State.
State Chairman William z. Crow,
who is in Philadelphia, said last night
that the Republican State platform
draft would be circulated
before the meeting of
Grow Is the State committee in
Planning Pittsburgh on August
Campaign 26, Notwithstanding at
tempts which are being
made by Democratic
bosses to have it appear that it will
be a secret affair. The plan is for
the subcommittee to finish it early in
August and then send copies to every
member of the State committee. The
Senator is spending the week in con-
ference with upstate leaders and per-
fecting plans for the meeting of the
State committee in Pittsburgh and for
the opening Republican rally in Le-
high county on August 20. Chairman
Crow said yesterday that stories that
Brumbaugh would run his own cam
paign tours were fakes
Clifford Pinchot spoke from the
steps of the county courthouse at
Norristown last night to an audience
which was not more than about one
tenth the size of that which heard him