Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-03-03
SHEATH TALKING
Of ENTERING RACE
Ex-State Treasurer Liable to Be-
come Candidate For Republi-
can Tickets Head
ALTER DECLINES TO TALK
Speaker Here Today on Business
at Capitol-Brumm May
Make Trouble
ALTER DECLINES TO TALK

Senator John Q. Sheatz, former
State Treasurer, may decide to get
into the contest for the Republican
nomination for Governor. for which
DR.. Martin G. Brumbaugh, Philadel-
phia school superintendent, Is being
actively doomed, and for which
Speaker George Il. Alter, of Allegheny,
has been urged to stand.
Mr.. Sheath has been endorsed by a
couple of ward organizations In Ph1ia-
delphia and urged to stand by Key
stoners and last night in Philadelphia
said that he would be more than
pleased to hear Statewide demand
that he. stand for Governor. Il will
give my answer In due course. Should
/ decide to be q candidate, my plat
form will be broad in its scope, but at
the same time sane and conservative
said the former Treasurer.
Speaker Alter was here to-day to
attend hearing before the Public
Service Commission. but declined to
make any comment on the demand
that he run for Governor. The
Speaker has endorsed the candidacy of
Dimmick for senator. but whether he
will accede to the wishes Of Dimmick
and run for Governor he is not saying.
DIR. Brumbaugh is expected to make
eN'
Friends are circulating his petitions in
many parts of the State.
Senator Penrose yesterday gave
Pinchot a broadside on the former
New Workers. announcement of his
candidacy for the senatorial
'mination of the Wash
ington party which has Penrose
been cinched for him. In Thulnps
cidentally the senator gave Pinchot
the Democrats a slap by
saying that IL any biparti-
san alliance existed it was between
Bull Moosers and Democrats. PEN
rose said when asked for a statement
on the Pinchot announcement: THE
use of such threadbare campaign ar
guments as Mr.. Pinchot has dragged
into his announcement will not satisfy
the electorate. His use of the term
bipartisan machine is meaningless
now for If there was a bipartisan alli-
ance it certainly was exhibited in the
last campaign, when the Washington
and Democratic parties effected COM
plete fusion on the ticket. dividing up
the offices as so many loaveS and
fishes. But perhaps such bipartisan
ship was in the view of those who
thought to benefit through it. In the
present campaign the only suggestion
of bipartisanship is in the desultory
exchanges between Progessives and
Democrats. At this time the people
are demanding of candidates not
threadbare phraseology, but consist
ency, truth and logic. 1t is the inten-
ton of Republicans to nominate a
ticket without factional or personal in
reference, but through the personal
appeal of as many candidates as
choose to announce themselves. That
is the spirit of the Statewide primary
act and that is the spirit of Repub-
licans. Republican issues will be pre-
sented directly, squareiy and in a
manly, straightforward way The
effort will be to win victory on plainly
stated issues; on their intrinsic value
and on the worth of the nominees. 1t
is apparent everywhere that the peo-
pie are wearied of the antics of the
POLITICAL faker."
Congressman Palmer and his train
of Democratic bosses encamped in
Pittsburgh last night and assisted some
hundreds of other DEM
ocrats in hearing the
Palmer and campaign keynote. To-
His Train day the crusaders hre In
i'm West Butler. There was quite
dinner in Pittsburgh
the result of weeks of
careful effort, and the lack of Allie
by delegation from Fayette county
which figured extensively in the last
Legislature. Palmer made q speech,
Mccormick made a speech and some
others made speeches, and a number
of still others made overtures for fed
eral jobs John III. Wilson, l.. w. Doty,
Lowry Humes and w. III. s. Thompson
were suggested for the place of the
late Judge Young. M. M. Cochran, of
| Uniontown, was doomed for Congress-
at-large in place of Bruce Sterling,
who evidently does not think this is
his year, and Captain Hasson trotted
out again to scare off other candi-
dates. j. n. Crosby of Crawford, and
w. III. Mechling, Butler, were fiirted
with for State nominations. Palmer
tried to settle some of the fights over
prospective nominations, but gave up
| in disgust.
An interesting story comes from
| Sehuylkill county about possibilities in
tho Bull Moose campaign to-day. II
seems that friends of
j u d & e C harl S n.
Brumm are not at all Brunim Now
pleased with the stating Figuring
of Dean Lewis for Gov In Gossip
ernor and are inclined
to buck In the name of
the bird of freedom. 1t will be re-
called that when the men mentioned
for the Progressives states top place
| were called into the room at the con-
ference last week to ''swear in" Judge
Brumm did not swear to support the
ticket, but predicted victory for It,
Brumm is one of the wiliest politicians
in the whole Bull Moose corral and
IL he should take a notion to lead the
militants there would be disturb
ance.
EX-Representative James NJ. Yeager
of Miffiin county who is a candidate
for the Republican nomination for
Congress in the Seventeenth district,
| to-day issued a statement. in which he
said that he voted and spoke for local
option away back in the Legislature of
| 1907, of which he was a member, and
that il a prohibitory amendment to
the Constitution were submitted to
him, in the event of his nomination
and election to Congress, he would
vote for it on the ground of it's final
submission to the American people
He added: Let the people rule"
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