Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-28
MACHINE GETS IN
TROUBLE AGAIN
Selection Of Poor Board Physician
at Elizabethville Stirs Up
Botheration
No One Appears to Understand
Why 1t Did Not Go to DR..
Calvin Stroup

| DeliioCIdtS WHO HdNe DeeH ODSciNihS
matters in the upper end of Dauphin
lcounty declare that the machine is
/ due for a jolt in the Lykens Valley at
the coming primary in spite of the
holding back of the Williamstown and
other post offices in the hope of keep
ing men in line for the gangsters tick
ct. The Williamstown row threatens
to break out at any moment and there
| is also trouble brewing at Elizabeth
Vile. The Elizabethville sore spot is
because of the effort to play politics
with the appointment Of physician by
the poor directors. 1t was generally
expected that DR.. Calvin Stroup, who
had served as physician in the Berrys-
burg district and who was once post
master of Elizabethville, would be
named for the place. DR.. Stroup was
| Democratic leader in the town and to
the amazement of everyone DR.. c. S.
Martyr, a Bull Mooser, was given
the position. Martyr is hand In
glove with one of the factions of the
Washington party and it is thought
that he was counted upon to
lead some Of the Roosevelt men into
the machine ranks The fact that he
did not accomplish much at the en-
rollment and that DR.. j. III. Kreider,
eX-county chairman, has been up to
see him, has caused some Democrats
to wonder why he was picked. Stroup's
friends are strong and resent Martyrs s
selection.
A good bit of amusement was Great
ed here last night by the triumphant
announcement from Philadelphia that
Elmer E. Greenawalt.
of l. O. a S g r, had
b e n confirmed as Greenawalt
commissioner of i'm Lands in Fat
migration for Phila- Federal Job
delphia. Greenawa It
has been seeking pub
lie oce for some time and lately align
ed himself with the machine. He was
beaten for member of the House from
Lancaster city and for Congress-at-
large, but has been so noisy that the
machine had to take care of him. His
confirmation has been held up for
months and it is whispered that he
threatened to make q row unless he
got the job before the primaries. He
lands fine fat federal Job and need
not worry much about the market bas-
ket for a while.
The question as to whether the Pro-
gressives or the Republicans are en-
titled to the appointment of registrars
in the city of Pottsville
led to a sensational
Brumm Goes episode at the opening
Of Bench of the argument, when
After Row Senator Snyder, coun-
sci for the commission
ers, objected to Judge
Brumm sitting with Judges Bechtel
and Koch in hearing the case. Sny-
der said that as Brumm was candi-
date for Washington party nomina-
| tion, and his name would be on the
ticket, he thought Brumm disqualified.
| Judges Bechtel and Koch declared
that this was a question they would
| not decide, and that it was up to
Judge Brumm himself to say what he
would do. Judge Brumm then called
| for a stenographer and dictated q
statement in which he declared his
candidacy was in no way affected by
the question at issue. which was simply
as to which political party is entitled
to name the registrars. But as the
question has now been raised by Sny-
der I will retire from the case" de-
| clared the judge, who thereupon left
the bench and allowed the two re-
naming judges to hear the argu-
ment.
| The candidacy of Senator Boies
| Penrose for reelection to the Senate
J received a strong impetus at the din
ner of the Americus
fClub, the leading Re-
publican organizati on Penrose
in Western Pennsylva- Given Big
mia, in Pittsburgh last Greeting
night When presented
by eX-Mayor William
A. Magee, the POSTMASTER the diners
to the number of more than five hun
dred arose and accorded the Senator
the most enthusiastic greeting he has
ever received in Pittsburgh. When re-
ferred to by other speakers as the Re-
! publican leader in the United States
Senate who had rendered a remark
able service for Pennsylvania and the
country, Senator Penrose was wildly
cheered as a candidate who was GER
tain to be reelected.
The war among the Democrats over
the control of the machine went on
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