Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-26
LEWIS WILL LEAD
THE BULL MOOSERS
Selected to Be Nominee For Gov
ernor at Secret Conference
in City Hotel
MCCORMICK GETS BUMPED
Philadelphia Big Democratic Club
Fails to Endorse Him For
Governor
MCCORMICK GETS BUMPED

II looks as though a compromise
was reached last night between the
Finn and Van ,Valkenburg factions
of the Washington party. William
Draper Lewis, the scholarly West
Philadeiphian who has been much in
the public eye since the Roosevelt
movement began, was selected as can
didate for Governor. He got FL votes
to IT for State Treasurer Robert X.
| Young. Young is close to VanValken-
burg and probably could have been
nominated II he had gone out after
the prize and taken the chances of a
factional fight. Finn backed III. D. w.
English up to the last week and went
away, leaving English so high and dry
that he did not think 1t worth while
to come here.
The Bull Moosers picked a slate in
the fashion approved by President
! Wilson, only. for the sake of appear
ances, they had more people present
| than at the recent Democratic White
| House primaries. Fifty members or
various committees met behind closed
doors in the Commonwealth Hotel and
with much oratory invited" various
men to become candidates 1t was all
very amusing because when the last
conference was broken up in a snarl
the men suggested for Governor were
told to meet and eliminate, reporting
one man. Yesterday the aforesaid
suggested ones reported back, asking
the conference to do it. Then the
| conference did. In addition to the
votes for Lewis and Young, English,
Wilhelm and Cauffiel got few. Some
| one wanted to have a second ballot
because some late members arrived,
| but it was defeated "a to 22.
| The ticket as slated by the WASH
| ingtonians Is as follows: Governor,
Dean Lewis, of the law school of the
University of Penn
| sylvania; Lieuten-
ant Governor. Percy Slate Made
/ f. Smith, jury COM Up For the
missioner of Allie May Primary
,neny county and
old time reformer;
Secretary of Internal Affairs, Con-
gresham Fred e. Lewis, Allentown,
switched from Congress-at-large, and
for Congress-at-large. in addition to
Rupley and Walters, bidden to be
candidates again some time ago, Rep
| resentative c. f. Swift, Beaver, a
member of the Anti-Saloon League
staff, and Lex n. Mitchell, the Punk
| stawney lawyer. Pinchot was invited
some time ago and is about ready
with his declaration.
DR.. j. III. Kreider yesterday di-
vorced himself from the county chair
manship of the Washington party in
this county, but con-
tinued to hold fast to
kreider to his lucrative job in the
Hold to Il Auditor Generals De-
| Capitol job partment and to his
ambitions and hopes
| to be nominee for Con-
gress. The Doc was the only one of
all the valiant Bull Moosers in this
county to grab off nice place when
! places were to be given out, and when
he also wanted to run for Congress it
i was suggested that he let go of some
| thing. Charles Il. Landis who has
been on the hopeful list for some
years, will likely succeed the canny
doctor as chairman. The Docs papers
for Congress are to be on exhibition
soon.
The sorrows of the Democratic
bosses are multiplying and the man.
ner in which organizations through
out the State are re-
| fusing to play the
selfish game of the Philadelphia
Palmer Mccormick Club Refuses
| faction, is one of the Endorsements
most striking things
/ that have occurred
since the Jersey slate was made for
Pennsylvania at the White House. The
1 Democratic Club of Philadelphia,
| heretofore bossed by the reorganiza-
ton chiefs, last night actually declined
| to endorse Mccormick as a candidate
| for Governor. This is the club which
| has been held UP by reorganlzers as
the greatest organization of it's kind
| in the State. The West End Demo-
cratic Club Of this city has thrown
into the waste basket a similar resolu-
| tion, and efforts to have representa-
| tive Democratic clubs in Pittsburgh,
| Scranton and elsewhere go on record
| in favor of Mccormick have been
Knocked higher than a kite on the
ground that clubs should not take
such action in advance of primaries.
The Central Democratic Club stands
almost alone in endorsing the fac
tional candidate before the primaries.
! Tho election of a Republican to
succeed Enos M. Jones as Senator
from the Huntingdon-Blair district is
said to be assured by
| prominent residents of
Huntington that district because
Democrats of the bitter factional
Are Wary fight which has broken
| out among the Demo-
Gratis. Efforts have
been made to heal 1t, but the follow
ers of Ryan and Mccormick are at
daggers' points. and the state of mind
of Democratic workers in Huntington
county was indicated yesterday when
meeting of men friendly to the Nc
! Cormick candidacy held at Hunting
don failed to adopt resolution en-
dorsing the Harrisburg man. The
best that could be done was to en-
dorse II. j. McAleer for the Demo-
cratic nomination for Senator, which
will have the effect of irritating a lot
of Blair county Democrats. The Re-
publicans will nominate either George
/ c.. Irwin or Samuel Stoner and elect
| him to the Senate.