Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-03-20
DEMOCRATS STATE
COMMITTEE CALL
Will Meet Here on Tuesday, April
IA, to Revise the Rules and
Maybe to Fight
DEPENDS ON THE PHRASES
Billy Bremen Takes His Shillalah
in Hand and Bangs a Few
Bosses Heads

Members of the Democratic State
committee will be summoned to meet
lin this city on Tuesday, April IA, to
act on the report of the committee in
charge of revision of the rules and 1t
Twill be strange IL something does not
break loose.
For months a committee in charge
! of rule revision has been working and
the bosses have been reluctant to call
I a meeting of the committee, feeling
that II it should be held, men identi-
fled with one faction or another would
make an effort to jam through an en-
dorsement of candidate. great
deal will depend upon the manner In
which State Chairman Morris words
the call. II he restricts it to action on
rules there will be smooth sailing, but
liz he leaves the way open there will
be something doing.
| Commodore w. j. Bremen has an
nounced his candidacy for chairman
of the Allegheny county Democrats
! with snappy state
ment in which he
Billy Bremen says that Vance Nc
What ks BOSSES CormicI is a Prohi-
in Statement bitionist and not a
Democrat and in the
..E language of one of
the Pittsburgh newspapers uses his
Shillalah on his antagonists" Bren-
men says that while he acted as chair
man In the past the party In no in
stance suffered such disastrous defeats
as have characterized its management
| in the last two years" Bremen COM
pares the 1908 campaign with the 1912
| fight handled by Joseph f. Guffey. In
1908, 1866 votes were polled for Will
! liam j. Bryan and in 1912 Woodrow
Wilson received 81, AIT in the county,
and Bremen says at least 5000 of
these votes were cast by Republi-
cans. In this merry war Bremen says:
THE Guffey-M Martin executive commit
| tee refused to indorse the, Democratic
candidates for judge of the Superior
Court, the Hon. Webster Grim, and
mailed cards of direction to the voters
of this county omitting his name. This
was political treachery. | am against
| the nomination of Vance c. McCor
mick because he represents opposi-
ton to the principle of personal liberty;
| because he wants to turn over to the
Republicans of Pennsylvania the pub
/ lie charities. l am against Vance G.
Mccormick because as mayor of Har-
risburg he not only failed as Demo-
crat, but as a mayor. / am against
| Vance c. Mccormick because he
fought, bolted and betrayed the Demo-
cratic party in 1910, as well as Will
liam ]. Bryan in all his campaigns,
and turned in his newspaper against
Democratic candidates"
| AS to b. B. McGinnis, lately in the
| limelight, Bremen says: 81 charge
that he was q candidate for appoint
ment by Governor John K. Tener as
registration commissioner of Pitts
hurgh. / charge the alleged chairman,
Joseph r. Guffey, tried to have him
appointed by Governor Tener as reg
! istration commissioner"
| The game of grabbing endorsements
| by Democratic committees in the
wards of Philadelphia goes merrily on.
Last night Ryan
bagged four, max
ling his score about Endorsements
80 and Mccormick and Votes I'm
got one, making his Big Campaign
score about 10. The
one ward COZ littee
which was counted for Mccormick was
claimed to be loaded and that only
Mccormick men got notices. The
membership is ninety and less than
forty were on hand. This ward voted
I2,1SO Democrats in 1912. Ryan got
endorsements of these ward commit
tees: First, 004 Democratic votes In
1912; Twenty-sixth, 2,251 votes; Thr-
ty-fifth SAT votes and Forty-sixth, g.
3SS votes. The 1912 Democratic votes
of counties lately in the limelight were
as follows: Tioga, 1901; Potter L.
445; Mexican, 2,362, and Bradford, g.
900.
In view of the activities of Collector
of the Port William H. Berry In the
Democratic campaign, the following
article from the Phil
! adelphia Record is in
Kick ON teresting: "As a pro-
Berry on test against the parti-
n /, Stump san activities of Col
! lector of the Port Will
liam H. Berry in MAX
ling q stumping tour through the State,
Frederick H. MacIntire, of this city,
wrote yesterday to Secretary of the
Treasury McAdoo, calling his atten-
ton to the Civil Service regulations
concerning Federal otficeholders in
politics. Mr.. MacIntire, who has been
identified with the Keystone party
since It's inception, was an ardent sup
porter of Berry when he was candi-
date for governor In 1870"