Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-03-19
|DR. DRUMBAUGH|S
STRONG IN COUNTY
Enrolment Of Republicans Heavy
and He Is Being Much
Commended Here
DEMOCRATIC WAR GROWS
Bitterness Between Factions Is
Going to Make Reconcillia-
ton Impossible

| RepuDl1CdHS ITOfn Ilio pOTOuSHS duC
townships of Dauphin county who are
coming to the city with stories of big
enrolment of Republicans and of re-
turn Of Bull Moosers to their former
party allegiance say that the candi-
dacy of DR.. Martin q. Brumbaugh hai
struck responsive chord all over the
county and that he will secure a big
vote in November. Ordinarily, predic-
| tions in March about what will happen
| in November are to be taken eau
tiously, but men who are in touch with
the situation in the county say that
beyond all question DR.. Brumbaugh
has strength that will stick by him
through thick and thin.
The Brumbaugh letter with its
straightforward, progressive state
ments has taken away the last chance
the Democrats had of doing anything
In the county. To begin with, the
Democrats are in q sad way over the
factional contest which will make diff
ferences which cannot be reconciled
and friends OF Mccormick hoped that
he would make headway among Re-
publicans and Washingtonians by his
platform, although they realized the
grievous mistake of his threat to re-
wise the rules of the Legislature II
elected executive. Brumbaugh's letter
is so much more progressive and con-
tains so much more common sense
that 1t is accepted not only by Repub-
| licans, but by Democrats and Pro-
gressives as we'll, as the right kind of
IAN utterance.
The Philadelphia Inquirer Of to-day
says: "A crisis was yesterday reached
in the Democratic fight for the nomi-
nation for Governor.
Michael j. Ryan, the
Democratic city solicitor, upon his
Warfare is return from Scranton
Getting Hot yesterday had scarcely
finished telling of the
ovation given him in
that city before the telegraph wires
from the Electric City of Northeastern
Pennsylvania were flashing a hot
message from Congressman A. Mitchell
Palmer, leader Of the anti-Ryan move
ment, in which he characterized Mr..
Ryan's candidacy as a Democratic
danger -.
"The bitterness that has been en-
gendered in the combat for this nomi-
nation between Mr.. Ryan and former
Mayor Vance Mccormick, of Harris
burg, has split the State Democracy In
twain and threatens to result in a
condition of Democratic disorgan-
ization that will make 1t impossible for
the factions to get together after the
primary elections on May 49,"
Senator Penrose started on his first
trip into the State as an avowed
yesterday, going to AL
toona from Philadel-
phia, and will visit sew Penrose On
eral points in Blair and Visit to
Jefferson counties and the Center
then go into Clearfield
county. He will remain
In the central section of the State
until next Saturday night.
Senator Penrose was met at the sta
ton on his arrival at Altoona by a
delegation of nearly one hundred citi-
zens. who escorted him to the Logan
House, where a reception in his honor
had been arranged. His callers in
cluded well-known business men and
active Republicans of Altoona and
he was busy receiving visitors. To-day
the senator Is at Punxsutawney.
Democratic affairs in the city and
county are not going we'll. Herr Noes
lein is not the magnetic campaigner
that he used to be in
years when he was not a
candidate and some of Democratic
the old-timers and the Affairs In
first voters are inclined Snarl Here
to buck against voting
for men who grab off
nominations for themselves on pleas OF
reorganizing the party. The citizens
committee which has been using Demo-
cratic State headquarters as a meeting
place to plan out each days securing
of the city for signatures to McCor-
mick petitions is having trouble and
last night formed man to a block
club to help bear the burden. This
| club was appropriately organized in
the Office building where Mccormick
does business. Many Democrats are
in revolt against Mccormick in Steel
ton and while they are not for Ryan
they are against bosses. In the Lykens
Valley Democratic bosses have been
unable to line up many men. The
| legislative nominations has made a
number of friends of Marshall and
Shammo sore.
"The selection of Fisk Goodyear for
the Carlisle postmastership was the
dumbest piece ofpolitics the Democratic
bosses have been guilty
of in long time," was
Post Office the way a Cumberland
Makes Split county observer COM
in Carlisle mented upon the ap-
po n t m n t to- day
Goodyear" said he, "is
not popular and his selection will SIM
ply start a Ryan movement. Up to
date the county has been for McCor-
mick There has been no Disgusting
that. And now they've got lot OF
influential men up in the air over the
post office" Goodyear's appointment
had been expected after the primaries
Joe Totten. the State committeeman
had been mentioned for the place.