Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-06-24
CU|LLOT|NE WILL.
Be PUT INTO SERVICE
Reorganization Bosses Will Chop
Off the Heads of the Phila-
delphia Committee
ONLY ELECTED BY PEOPLE
The City Committee Declines to
Stand For the Hand
Smoothed Platform

| Philadelphia Democratic city commit
tee, which has refused to accept the
platform put out by the bosses with
out the State committee having passed
upon it, This action Is contemplated
Notwithstanding the fact that the city
| committee was elected by the Demo-
cratic voters of Philadelphia.
| Rumors that the guillotine was to be
| erected within few days. perhaps for
a Fourth of July celebration, reached
the city to-day. The Democratic wind
mill in Market Square was futtering
over the report that the State execu-
| tive committee would be called to con-
slider charges by John M. Hill, who
| lost his fight for seat on the COM
| mittee, to act on request that new
| city committee be organized for Phila-
delphia. Just how the State execu-
| tive committee, which processes to be
guided by the will of the people, can
decapitate a city committee elected by
| the people is one of the things which
| does not bother the bosses.
State Chairman Morris, who is angry
at the rejection of the platform by the
Philadelphia men, is quoted as saying:
THE Endorsement of the
State ticket was to be
expected from a Demo- How Bosses
cratic committee. l re- Will Chop
gret, however, that the OFF Heads
city committee did not
see fit to approve the
party platform indorsed by large
majority of the Democratic voters of
the State. but judging from the pub
lished reports the matter is still open
and l have every confidence that a
Democratic organization will without
doubt indorse fully the Democratic
platform"
Reorganization leaders in discussing
CT a
would be possible for the State COM
mittee, under It's new rules, to utilize
the failure of the local organization to
approve the platform before the cleo
tions as an excuse for removing Old
Guard members from their seats in
the Philadelphia committee. They
contended that charges of "disloyalty"
could be submitted to the executive
committee, consisting of Chairman
Morris. ex officio, and the twelve di-
vision chairmen of the State. Under
tho rules, it was further claimed, the
executive committee would have power
to act. The fact that the State COM
mittee authorized" it's special COM
mittee of nine to cooperate with the
candidates in preparing the platform,
they declared, made the issue of prin-
ciples the official party declaration.
The Philadelphia Press of to-day
says: Expulsion from the party coun-
ellis of the Democratic city committee,
in which the Old Guard
faction is dominant,
may be the answer of What Papers
the Democratic State Say About
committee, in which the Ruction
the ReorganizerS are
supreme, to a move
ment which has local announcement
for the organization of an independent
Democratic party. fractional feeling
has grown so among Democrats that
each side looks on the other as trail
tors to simon-pure Democracy. Har-
mony at the polls in November is
practically impossible
The Ledger says: Despite the re-
fusal of Democratic leaders in Phila-
delphia to predict the outcome of the
trouble between the so-called Old
Guard faction and the Palmer McCor-
mick following, there was general
feeling yesterday that the party would
be split wide open in the coming cam
paign by the local option plank in the
State platform.
Speaking at Washington, Senator
Penrose said about the prospective
campaign in the State: II propose to
fill as many speaking en-
gagements during July
and August as 1 am able Penrose
to. l have great many Talks of
invitations and it will not Campaign
be possible for me to ac-
cept them all. When the
campaign opens in September, after
the meeting of the State committee
and the adoption of the platform,
county chairmen will be arranging
with the State chairman for speakers,
and all the candidates will be out upon
the stump. DR.. Brumbaugh and I will
appear together at number of meet
ings, and the other candidates will
form campaigning parties that will ad-
dress the voters in all parts of the
State.
1T is yet too early to make definite
plans for the battle, but you can take
Il for granted that there will be no dull
moments. The Republicans will have
speakers out all over the State, ready
to meet every issue and to make issues
OF. our own
The resignation of ex-senator John
II. Lands as superintendent of the
Philadelphia mint has stirred up the
animals in the reorgan-
ization menagerie and there
are q number of patriots Everyone
demanding that the $4,000 Sits I'm
job be given to them. NOWADAYS
DR.. Horace Hoskins, who
had some adventures as
member of a State board, is believed
to be the high card" but the friends
Of Senator ]. T. Nulty and w. H.
Belcher are insisting that they be rec
ognized. 1t is expected that the ap-
pointment will be announced very
soon, as the big Four" considered II
at the conference this week. Whoever
gets the appointment will make the
others mad and add to the fuss in
Philadelphia.
Ira j. Mosey, the Bull Moose county
chairman. will lead brave little band
Of Progressives to the conference at
Pittsburgh the latter
part of the month.
The Moosers For while there was
Won't Have talk of chartering a
Special Car special car, but when
1t was learned that the
Colonel was not going
to take an active part in the campaign
and would only appear at the confer
ence for one speech this scheme was
given up. DR.. j. III. Kreider, the can
didate for Congress, plans to attend
and there will be a handful of others.
Colonel w. F. Pascoe will be in charge
of the Cumberland delegation and the
men from York. Lebanon, Berks and
other counties will gather here. They
will not go in as much state as they
went to Chicago two years ago. Victor
Murdoch, Bull Moose leader in Con-
gress, has declined to attend the con-
ference.
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