Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-18
.FL|NV NOT LIKELY
TO VISIT CONFERENCE
Will Stay in Florida and Let Bull
Moosers Fight 1t Out
Next Week
RYAN IS THUMPlNG PALMER
Says Sharp Things About the
Veracity of the National
Committee Member

W1lII6nl vi tlic GA
ecutive committee of the washington
party, will not attend the second con-
ference of the State committeeman
and county leaders to be held here on
February &c for the purpose of MAX
ing a State ticket and there is a possi-
bility that big fight may be made by
the advocates of an open field instead
of an agreement upon any candidates.
The men mentioned for Governor at
the conference. with the exception of
Congressman M. Clyde Kelly, who has
quit, and possibly Judge Charles n.
Brumm, of PottSville, who won't run,
are expected to meet in Philadelphia
within a few days to discuss the sit
uation as they were directed to do by
the resolution of the conference. This
meeting is for elimination purposes
and things will narrow down to three
candidates, Lewis, Young and Eng
lish. While Young says emphatically
that he never has sought and Will not
seek the nomination, his friends are
mighty active in the central portion
of the State. English Is regarded here
as compromise candidate in the
event of the rivalry between the parti-
sans of Young and Lewis getting too
hot and he has Films blessing. Kelly
has been persuaded" by Finn to run
for Congress again.
Finn is at Palm Beach, where he
plans to stay until March.
Michael ]. Ryan, candidate for the
Democratic nomination for Governor
in his own right, as his friends put 1t,
intensified the row in the
"nocratic camp yester-
day by going to East Ryan Hits
Stroudsburg, Palmer's Palmer On
home community, and Car Fare
manlng a speech. He
had the good taste not to
talk politics, but he did some tall
mixing among the Democrats in that
district where Palmer failed to get
across his candidate for Judge last
year. Mr.. Ryan also challenged Pal
mers veracity, saying that in spite of
the national committeeman the Demo-
cratic textbook of 1912 showed him a
member of the advisory committee,
that his name was used widely and
that he did what he could do to carry
Pennsylvania for Wilson, which Pal
mer, in spite of speeches, failed to do
Mr.. Ryan also said he considered 1t
improper for the national admins
tration to butt into Pennsylvania
Democratic affairs and added: II con-
tributed to the Democratic committee
for the election of Woodrow Wilson
$500, but / never collected from a
Democratic national committee, a
Democratic State committee or a
Democratic city committee railroad
fares or telephone bills and if 7 were
intrusted with the leadership of my
party | would not further deplete a
bankrupt State committee by so do.
ing"
Miles B. Kits, who aroused the ire
or the ringmasters committee of the
Democratic State machine last year
because of his refusal to
to take orders, has an
klttS in nounced that he will be
right i'm candidate for renomi-
Erie City nation to the House from
the Second Erie district,
comprising a part of the
city of Erie. Kits says that he is a
democrat and proposes to run on a
Democratic platform. He has started
on his campaign and thus far the re-
organization gangsters have not put
up anyone against him. The Erie
campaign bids fair to be hot as the
Democrats are split between Ryan
and Mccormick. Ryan's hackers have
gotten busy and formed a committee.
Lebanon county people without re-
gard to politics appear to be encour-
aging the candidacy of Grant w.
Nitrauer, the Lebanon
attorney, for the Leg
islature and he is said Legislators
to be assured of con- i'm Sight I'm
siderable support in Old Lebanon
advance of the pri-
maries as everyone
comedies that he will be nominated.
Mr.. Nitrauer, who is a member of
the Panama Pacific Exposition Com
mission, comes of an old Lebanon
family and Is widely known through
out the county by reason of his law
practice and ability. e. e. McCurdy,
former district attorney, who an
nounced himself as O candidate some
time ago, and DR.. l. X. Urich, of Ann
vile, are making a campaign for the
other nomination. The county is en-
titled to two members. The Democrats
are up in the air as their strongest
man, Henry c. Snavely, member for
two terms, is i'll. The Bull Moosers
have Harvey K. Bomberger, livestock
man. G. A. Bowman, college profess
sor, and +. S. kaufman, physician, as
their candidates thus far Kaufman
is a former member and wants to
come back.
Up in Clearfield county, where the
Democrats would like to take each
other out and run a ducking stool,
steps are being taken by
men active in the Re-
publican and Washing Clearfield
ton parties to get to- Democrats
gether. For years the Wide Apart
county has been de-
batable and last Fall
the Democrats profiting by the con-