Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-27
REGISTRATION IS
DUE ON WEDNESDAY
1t Will Be the Last Chance to List
Names For the Coming
Election
DEMOCRATS STILL FIGHT
Ryan Says He Has no Bagman to
Gather Up Cash For Him
Registration Grows

ing the results of the registration in
the third class cities of the State on
Wednesday and believe that it will
show that the movement for return
to the Republican party is stronger
among the men who followed Roose-
velt in 1912 in the cities than in the
rural districts. The figures for the
first and second class cities are strik-
ing and men who have been observing
events are of the opinion that the
third class cities will show the same
thing.
The registration will take place
Wednesday in everyone of the score or
have changed their residence, who
were not registered last year, who are
just of age or who desire to change
party enrolment are eligible to reg
lister. Those who registered last Fall
need not bother about it except to
see that they are correctly enrolled.
The most striking feature in the re-
cent registration of voters for the May
primaries in Pittsburgh, the tabula-
tion of which has been
complete d, is the
Pittsburgh marked increase in the
SHOWS Big straight Repub / i C n
Changes vote. In 1912 there
| were but $4,000 avow-
! ed Republicans. I h e
| Democrats had $1,000 while all those
parties known under the general head
of Bull Moose" mustered $4,000. This
| r'S iSfr shows II l.
can count to be 127,041, the Demo-
crat 19,452, while the Bull Moosers'
tally a scant 10000.
| Besides the surprise furnished by
the unexpectedly largely increase in
the Republican vote, the Socialist
growth and the meager showing made
by the Prohibitionists have also at
tracted the attention of the political
lanalySts.
| Washington dispatches say C. P.
Reing, a Democrat, is to be recon-
mended by Postmaster General Burle-
son to the President
, for p m S t e r at
Mahanoy City. Mr.. Lee Names
Reing is the choice of Democrat
Il p sentative Lee, For Office
who was asked to rec
ommend a man for the
vacancy created by the withdrawal of
Republican Postmaster Graham, as a
result of the charges filed with the
President by Mr.. Lee.
Following close upon announcement
of the selection of Reing came dis
closures of the evidence in the rec
ords of the Post Office Department
which had caused Representative Lee
to charge that Graham had been re-
tanned in office through the bipartisan
activities of Fourth Assistant Post
master General James l. Blakslee. 1t
was this evidence which Representa-
tive Lee relied upon to substantiate
his sensational charges against Blaks-
lee should that official have shown a
determination to fight back.
To-day's Philadelphia Record says:
Returning to the city, yesterday af-
ter attending numerous receptions of
Democratic voters in
the northern tier OF
Ryan Says counties, last We k
He Has No City Solicitor Ryan de-
"Bagman' clared that h c wa
| more certain of victory
| at the primaries next
month than ever before. Mr.. Ryan
stated that he had been greeted with
unusual cordiality in the country dis
tricts, which the Mccormick leaders
had claimed as their strongholds, and
predicted that he would sweep many
rural counties, counted upon by his
Iopponents, in addition to easily win
ming the densely populated sections OF
the State. Mr.. Ryan, in a statement
declared that the charges of Fourth
Assistant Postmaster General Blaks-
lee, who has been exhibiting himself
on the stump, in contempt of the regu.
lations regarding Federal officehold-
ers, that his candidacy had been ar.
ranged by Republican organization
and old guard Democratic leaders al
a conference, were 'inane twaddle.
Mr.. Ryan likewise poured fresh fire
into the ranks of the Palmer leader
ship, and declared that there was nc
'bagman' levying toll for him nor any
licensed agent making Federal office.
holders organize and pay for his meet
ings."
The warning Democratic factions
will go at 1t again this week. The
Mccormick caravan, which has beer
riding the circuit in the strongholds
of South Philadelphia will visit the
counties around Philadelphia, Lancas.
ter and Berks and then go into the
. Lehigh Valley. The partisans of Mich.
ael ]. Ryan will greet him in Lehigh
Luzerne, Lackawanna and other coun.
! ties. Both sides will have mass meet.
lings in Allentown this week.
II POLITICAL SIDEucHTS