Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-06
FIGHT SLATE FOR
STATE COMMITTEE
Democrats in County Go Up in Air
Because They Are Not Repre-
sented on List

Sented on List
| Opposition to the stating of Mayor
John X. Royal and County Chairman
Edward Moeslein as the members OF
the Democratic State committee from
Dauphin county was started last night
as soon as the announcement was
made from Market Square that the
Mayor intended to drag his office into
factional politics and that Herr Noes
lein hoped to Grown" his career by
election to the party's high council in
this State.
Moeslein has been a candidate for
weeks and has been trying to placate
those turned down for federal ap-
pointments. but has not succeeded
owing to the fact that people have re-
called his holding of an office him.
self. The Mayor. according to ru-
NOR. was inclined to be slow about
getting into the race, fearing that he
would be made a. target in a campaign
when he would have no one to tie to,
but when Mccormick announced that
| he would run for the gubernatorial
nomination the executive qualms were
chased away and he fastened into the
limelight.
The chief point of complaint with
Democrats not consulted in the slat-
ing of these two candidates for State
committee was that the county out
side of the city which has been loyal
to the reorganization element was
ignored and County Commissioner
John Fl. Eby and other bosses in the
borough and rural districts are re-
ported to have been daZed when they
found what they We're up against.
The names of William K. Meyers,
Edwin M. Winters and others not
identified with the slate makers were
suggested as opponents to the Royal
Moeslein rubber stamped cndidacies.
William Fl. Sponsler, of New Bloom
field, made the significant statement
last night when the recess was taken
in the Null Moose con-
ference that the drop
Sponsler ping of the effort to
Report on jam through endorse
Sentiment ment of one candidate
for governor was the
best thing that could
be done. Mr.. Sponsler made the re-
port on the situation in this part of
condition of the Democrats and CIV
ing as his opinion that Lewis was the
most favored hereabouts for the Bull
Moose nomination for governor and
State Treasurer Robert K. Young was
second choice. DR.. J. Ii. Kreider, of
the Auditor Generals Department,
made the report for Dauphin county
much along the same lines and then
tended door while John Digit went to
supper. The Cumberland report was
by Colonel w. H. Pascoe and inclined
toward Lewis. In fact, the reports
made by the Bull Moose chieftains
hereabouts were very much as pre-
ferred by Finn.
Now that the gubernatorial fight in
the Democratic party Is in full swing,
attention is to be given to placating
the warning factions
of the Cumberland
Cumberland Democracy in the hope
Democracy that they will cease
on Warpath from troubling the
sleep of the reo-bosses
and lend a hand for a
pull in the right direction in May.
According to rumors, DR.. M. M.
Daugherty, the national delegate in
1912, is not a candidate for the post
office in Mechanicsburg, but is bend
ing his efforts to secure harmony and
a working organization in the future
when factionalism is a thing of the
past. The reo- bosses have slated Fisk
Goodyear for the Carlisle post office
and Fred Mumma for Mechanicsburg.
State Committeeman Joe Totten is to
be dumped in his aspirations for the
Carlisle stamp window and possibly
placated by Federal job if Fritz Kirk
endal and Jim Magee can find
enough to go around. The trouble is
that there are more patriotic Demo-
Gratis in Cumberland county than can
be found in any similar area in the
State.
be called upon tonight to line up
for Vance c. Mccormick, and it is just
possible that hackers
of Michael J. Ryan
will object, although Van Is For
1t is said that the Vance, Say
friends of the Phila- Democrats
delphian here have
urged that nothing be
done against Mccormick in the club
with which he is now actively con-
nected. Incidentally, it is of interest
to note that among the Democrats
for Mccormick for the Democratic
nomination is T. X. VanDyke. Van
Dyke is one of the real Democrats in
Harrisburg, and although some think
that his treatment at the hands of
the present bosses of the machine has
been contemplate, everyone admires
him as a Democrat who does not seek
Office because he is a Democrat.
William J. Brennan is candidate
for the craftsmanship of the Allegheny
Democratic county committee. He
made the announce
ment last night in the
Brennan following words: "Fa-
After the voring the nomination
Chair Now of Michael J. Ryan for
Governor, and having
been solicited by a large
number of active Democrats to be a
candidate for chairman of the Demo-
cratic county committee, I have de-
cided to become such candidate in
the interest of party u-'ty and sue
cess. Believing that united party
in Allegheny county would be the best
ratification of the achievements of the
Democratic Congress and the splen-
did service in the interest of the peo-
pie of one of the greatest of Demo-
cratic Presidents. Woodrow Wilson, /
submit my candidacy to the DEM
ocracy of Allegheny county"
At present the chairman of the
county committee is elected by the
members of the committee. The
chairman recognized by the Demo-
cratic State committee is Joseph f.
Guffey, but the followers of Brennan
never admitted his status and have
considered John ]. McKelvey as the
chairman. McKelvey is now the di-
rector of the Department of Charities.