Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-28
BRUMBAUGH READY
TO ANSWER CALL.
The Superintendent Says He Will
Run if the Plain People Ask
Him to Stand
ALTER MAY ENTER THE RACE
Governor Again Backs Brumbaugh
Democrats in Pepperjig
Over the Judgeships

DIR. Martin G. Brumbaugh, the Phila-
delphia superintendent of schools, who
is being strongly urged to enter the
race for the Republican nomination
for Governor. said last night in Phila
delphia that he would not be a candi-
date of any politicians, and added
The only call l would listen to would
be the call of the common people, the
people who work with their hands.
My people are upstate, not only here
| in Philadelphia. I would not let the
politicians make me a candidate be-
fore the people, but / would listen to
the call of the people themselves
1t is believed that because of the
strong endorsements being given to
DR.. Brumbaugh all over the State that
he will consent to be u candidate.
Governor Tener in Philadelphia last
night reiterated his approval of the
candidacy OF DR.. Brumbaugh, saying:
Il consider DR.. Brumbaugh a splendid
candidate and one who is sure to lead
to victory. He is honest, firm, sensi-
BILE, really an ideal candidate"
Speaker George f.. Alter, who has
under consideration the urging of
friends that he become candidate
for Governor on the same platform
as j. Benjamin Dmmick for Senator
has not indicated what he will do. He
says he has the matter under consid-
Grafton and is expected in Philadel-
phia to-day with j. Denny O'Neil to
go over the matter. Dimmick has
been in Pittsburgh for several days
and has been endorsed by the Speaker
The Democratic fight is getting very
bitter. The Ryan people have start
ed hundreds of petitions throughout
the State and the Mccormick people
have them out by the thousand. it be-
ing the reorganiZers game to get to
people first, to get their names down
and then demand that they vote as
they sign.
The Lewisburg Saturday News, the
newspaper of B. K. Focht gives DIR.
Martin G. Brumbaugh strong en-
dorsement for Cover
nor. The eX-Congress-
Ben Focht man knows Hunting
Strong For don just as he knows
Brumbau9h his own county and he
comes out strong for
DR.. Brumbaugh. The
article says in part: The week ends
with every likelihood that he will
enter the race If he does, and wins
the nomination, he will give the rich
city Mccormick chap, who will likely
be the Democratic nominee, a run for
his millions. AS fortunes are recl1-
oned these days, Brumbaugh is a poor
man and working hard at his profess
sion every day, but he is an intellec-
tual colossus. and in a contest such as
is promised, the Democrats may mar
shall their best talent to forensic bat
tie only to be vanquished. Hunting
don county, where Brumbaugh was
born and reared, and the counties of
the Juniata Valley, in fact the entire
State, for he is known far and wide,
will respond to the appeal of this
great man once country lad. And
if elected it may be expected that he
will follow in the footsteps of Stuart
and Tener and give the people a clean,
wise and progressive administration"
These are busy times for the Demo-
cratic bosses who are trying to keep
their machine from being taken away
from them, and who
are trying to use the
machine while they Democratic
have it to put over the Bosses Hit
Jersey ticket for the Trail Hard
Pennsylvania Demo-
Gratis. To-day Scout
master Roland S. Morris and the rest
of the bosses went to Wilkes Barre
to engineer an endorsement of the
presidential interference ticket
through meeting of Democrats of
that division of the State machine.
The resolutions were prepared at the
State windmill in Market Square dur
ing visit Norris paid yesterday to
see how the Federal officeholders were
coming up with their contributions in
response to the second edition of duns.
Out in Pittsburgh the Brennan wing
of the Democratic county committee
had a meeting and this afternoon the
reorganization wing will flap. Judge
E. c. Bonniwell, the official thorn in
the reorganization side, has been in
Pittsburgh for a couple of days, and
Monday Palmer and Mccormick will
open a series of receptions and ban
quets for advertising purposes.
The distractions of the Democratic
State machine with a Jersey made
ticket to put over on Pennsylvania
Democrats and Fed
eral judgeships open
Both Ends at both ends are some
Are Making thing rather trying
Big Bother these days. The pro-
position to prevent a
further breach in the
eastern end of the State by naming a
Jerseyman for the place, has aroused
such storm of protest that Congress-
man Palmer, who was inclined to see
the claims of Jersey for Federal
job in Pennsylvania, has got a new
pair of glasses. Now friends of half
a dozen men are pulling and hauling
to get the place. In the western end
of the State friends OF G. B. Shaw, of
Westmoreland, who got licked for
Congressman at-large when Wilson
did not carry Pennsylvania, are de-
manding that he be put on the bench.
Allegheny has several candidates and
every other county will have at least
one by Monday when Palmer ar
rives