Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-01-07
BERRY MEN BOB UP
WITH HIS BOOM
Want Ex-Treasurer and Defeated
Candidate to Be Standard
Bearer Again
PALMER Is STILL VERY COY
Pinchot Afraid That Fusion Will
Be Worked Out Without
Himself in 1t
PALMER is STILL VERY COY

William III. Berry. although planted
in an $4,000 job with little to do in
Philadelphia, is said to have a banker
ing after the gubernatorial chair, and
some of his friends throughout the
State are commencing to put up their
heads and howl for him as the man
best fitted to head the Democratic
ticket next Fall. The bosses put Berry
in his present berth in the hope that
he would cease from having ambitions
and are said to have told him that
he Jared we'll after the beating he had
received for State Treasurer.
Berry's friends aver that he would
heal the division In the party, although
exactly how they do not say They
claim he is less unpopular than Pal
mer and that he has friends among
the Old Guard who would never stand
for Palmer even If he was nominated
The foxy movement in favor of Jo-
seph O'Brien, of Scranton, for a place
on the State ticket in the hope of
splitting the Ryan strength is attract
ing much notice. 1t is as cute a trick
as Palmer has ever started.
The announcement by ex-Congress-
man B. K. Focht, of Lewisburg, that
he will be candidate for Republican
nomination in the Sew
CIltSSItD ulStTlCt, anu
that he proposes to Candidates
win, started things in Are Making
the "shoestring" dis Lines Ready
trict and there will be
some lively politics in
that section. Senator G. w. Sones, OF
Wjlliamsport, is candidate for re-
nomination on the Democratic ticket
and will not be opposed, although he
VIII have a stiff fight at the polls ir
November. Representative Ansel Ul-
man, Wi1liamsport: Charles A. Shaffer
Connellsburg, all Democrats, will be
candidates for reelection.
Democratic State bosses are discour-
aging the booms of a. number of ambi-
tious followers of the reorganization
banner to become nomi-
nees for Congressman
Democrats at-large, and there are
Bothered already rumblings being
by BOomS heard against continu-
ance of the rubber
stamp regime in the
party. Half a dozen men are said to
have been throwing out lines to see
how they would be taken fofr the four
places on the State ticket, but have
been rebuffed and told to wait 1t Is
understood that the bosses want to
hold off the selection of their slate
until the last minute and to attract
some men of wealth to the ticket.
Clifford Pinchot, who is now in Pitts
burg discussing matters with the
leading lights of the Washington party
is being quoted as say
ing that there is no hope
or prospect of fusion be- Clifford
tween the Republicans Gives an
and the Bull Moosers. Opinion
The wish, of course, is
father to the thought
with Clifford. He says the Progress
ives will not and the Republicans dc
not want to effect fusion. However
in number of counties in the State
leaders of the two parties are gettinr
together and there is a disposition tc
plainly disregard the orders from the
generals. If there should be fusion ii
would end Pinchot's ambitions in the
direction of the United States sena.
torial nomination.