Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-12
Dares Dean Lewis to Say That He
Has No Promise From Nc
Cormick For Any Reward

lnStOn party campaign.
Men in authority in both parties are
commencing to hear from the rank
and file in no uncertain terms and the
printing of interviews with men who
are in politics for revenge or for what
Jobs they can get does not disguise
the fact that away down among the
men who vote there is pronounced
objection.
y. Nevin DIETRICH, Washington party
State chairman. said Yesterday that
there had been no deal. Then he began
| to say how much stronger was Pinchot
| than Palmer for senator.
1t begins to look as though McCor-
mick will he on a mule ticket and
| that lot OF machine Democrats will
swing in for Pinchot 1t will be in
| teresting to watch the disparity be-
! tween votes for Mccormick on the
Democratic ticket and for Palmer.
The Philadelphia Evening Bulletin,
which was favorable to Berry in 1910,
| but which does not see much in the
fusion movement this
| year, in an article last
tuSlon Head night made fun of the
GelS Little a | IN e r. Mccormick
Approval tour in the vicinity of
Philadelphia, saying
| that the crowds were
so small as not to warrant the eX-
penditure of gasoline and wear and
| tear on machines. 1t also intimated
| that no one appeared to be much
! interested and wound up by calling
| the party the Linen Duster squad
| ron. Pittsburgh papers fail to COM
mend fusion and the Philadelphia Rec
ord, Democratic, plays up the state
| ments by the boosters of fusion that
| there was no deal. The PHILADELPHIA
Ledger to-day says that Dean Lewis
Kicked the Washington party in the
| face and says that the Bull Moose
| party is a screaming farce" Other
independent newspapers voice disgust
| with the retirement of Lewis and the
readiness of Mccormick to accept
fusion with party whose chief and
! whose platforms denounce President
| Wilson, for whom Mccormick says he
stands.
Senator Boies Penrose added to the
dlsmay In the camps of the Democrats
and Bun Moosers yesterday when he
reiterated his charge
that the fusion move
ment was made in pur- Penrose in
suance of deal. his Challenge
/ statement being more or to Lewis
less OF direct challenge
| to Dean Lewis. The SEN
ator issued the statement at Philadel-
| phla and 1t attracted much attention,
| but was carefully left alone by the
mule ticket candidate and the apollo
| SlStS Tor Dean Lewis. In his state
ment the senator says
| Il see that Mr.. Lewis denies with
fervor the statement that there was any
| deal in his withdrawal as a candidate
| for Governor, particularly any corrupt
arrangement as to his appointment as
Attorney General.
II would like to ask Mr. Lewis
whether the rumor is correct that he
has discovered it absolutely impossible
to finance his campaign even for neces-
stiles, because he has been abandoned
by William Finn, who is unwilling to
repeat the lavish expenditures made by
him in the last campaign in this State
admitted to be over $15O,O00 from his
individual pocket.
The only conclusion that can be
reached is that new paymaster was
necessary, and that Mccormick, the
Democratic candidate for Governor. was
the only one in sight. Mccormick is a
young aristocrat and plutocrat, who
never has mingled in the public affairs
of the Commonwealth, and who will
find to his cost that he has no relation
TO the aspirations of the wage -earners
and plain people of the State. He had
better give his money to charity than
to keep on spending 1t in this cam
paign. He has conceived the thought
that the election can be purchased. His
ineXperience leads him to this conclu-
sion, and he Will awaken on election
day to find how grossly he has been
deceived. 1t will doubtless be consol-
ing, however, to Mr.. Lewis and his
friends to feel that. while abandoned
by Finn, they may still find a warm
nesting place in the vicinity of Mr.. Nc
Cormicks bank.
"I make the statement deliberately
and challenge contradiction that part
of this deal Is an arrangement by which
Lewis is to be appointed Attorney Cen
eral in the event of Mr.. Mccormick s
election. OF course. Mccormick will not
be elected, but as the times are hard /
suppose the promise is attractive"
To Frank B. McClain, Mayor of
Lancaster and Republican candidate
for Lieutenant Governor, fell the po-
litical honors at a Pitts
burgh gathering yester-
McCIain i'm day. McClain's humorous
Humorous handling of the situation
! Mood Now of political candidates
competing with the war
of Europe for the atten-
ton of the people won him a warm
welcome and this grew into a storm
when McClain declared:
1--WE should have no fault to find,
however, that our eloquence finds no
display in printers ink when even Ar
mageddon has been forgotten
William, the War Lord. has taken
the place of Theodore the Restless"
new development in the fusion
situation in the Democratic and Wash
ington parties yesterday presented
: itself when it was an
nounced that a conven-
: tion of all the anti Anu-LiquoI
liquor forces in Penn Convention
sylvania would be held Next Week
) here next Thursday,
September II, for the
purpose of concentrating the temper
: ance vote behind complete fusion
ticket.
Concerning this meeting the Phila-
delphia Public Ledger says to-day:
DIR. Lewis having set an example
local option leaders say that the thing
to do now is to concentrate anti-liquor
strength behind one candidate for
United States senator opposed to SEN
ator Penrose The choice will be
made between Clifford Pinchot, Wash
ington nominee. and A. Mitchell Pal
mer Democratic nominee. The gov
ernorship virtually is settled 1t is
believed by the leaders that next
Thursdays conference will indorse
Mccormick The convention also will
consider who should he its choice of
the several candidates for Lieutenant
Governor, Secretary of Internal Affairs
and Congressman-a at-large.
The call for the convention was
signed by number of men who have
been urging Lewis and Mccormick K
land some not active in politics.
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