Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-03-24
LEWIS ISSUES HIS
NEWEST PLATFORM
Takes Stand For the Subjects
Which Have Been Favored
by. Progressives
JUDGESHIP TANGLE IS BAD
Criticism Of the Dillydallying Is
Heard in a Good Many Parts
Of State
JUDGESHIP TANGLE IS BAD

William Draper Lewis last night in
Philadelphia made public the plat
form upon which he seeks the nofnf-
nation of the Progressive party for
Governor of Pennsylvania. 1t is large
ly made up of the exploitation of is
sues advanced at conferences of the
Bull Moose leaders before Judge
Brumm got into the fight for the NOM
ination. He refers to his having been
chairman of the Washington party
committee on legislation, and charges
that measures were defeated by BIZ
partisan machine"
He alleges that an alliance exists
between the political leaders and spe-
cial interests to control legislation.
"That the solution of large social
and governmental problems demands
CONSTRUCTION, legislation and improv-
ed administration" he declares, only
emphasizes the urgent necessity of
ridding Pennsylvania of Penroselsm.
Among other things Mr.. Lewis calls
for good election laws, corrupt prac-
tices act to limit the amount of money
that may be expended at primaries,
and general elections, and legislation
to make it impossible ito assist the
voter unless it is proved that he is ply
sically incapable of seeing or marking
his ballot" He calls on the next Leg
islature to provide for a convention to
revise the State Constitution.
From the headquarters of the J.
BENJAMIN Dimmick United States
Senatorial candidacy a statement was
issued yesterday e
claring that a large
Cumberland propor t on of the
Enro,,i,icut heavy Republican en-
Figures cut rollment on March II
and 1S was a direct
result of Mr.. DIM
mick's candidacy. These figures are
gwen from Cumberland county to
show how the Bull Moosers have fall
len away in their enrolment Repub-
lican enrolment in 15l4, 5,O1O; Taft
vote in 1912, 2,566; Washington enroll
ment in 1914, 693; Roosevelt vote on
all tickets in 1912, 3,507; Democratic
enrolment in 1914, S, ga; Wilson vote
in 1912. 5,023.
The Philadelphia Record says: Re
viewing local political history to show
some of the present Mccormick lead
ers were not SO prone
in the past TO attack
the former Donnelly- Henry Budd
Ryan combination in Mnaclks the
Philadelphia, Fl n ry New Bosses
Budd, in letter to
ROBERT >. brlSnt, nlduS
public yesterday, told of previous per-
formances of State Chairman Roland
S. Morris, DIR. w. Horace Hoskins,
president of the Democratic Club, and
other "reorganizers. Mr.. Sudd told
how, in 1908, these men were active in
endeavoring to defeat movement to
attack the Tenth and Walnut streets
organization of that period, and de-
clared that while they roar fiercely
enough now,' they carefully abstained
from any action of the kind at that
time. The letter was sent as infor-
nation to Mr.. Bright, who, while he
accepted the aid of Michael ]. Ryan
on the stump while running for regis
ter of wills las fall, recently expressed
fears that the city solicitor was tied
up with a so-called bipartisan ma
chine. Mr.. Budd, who is a veteran
opponent of machine politics, ridiculed
these intimations as absurd"
Notwithstanding the declaration of
the State conferences of the Bull
Moosers in favor of naming their own
legislative tickets, Ly
coming county Wash
Bull Moosers ington party men will
Fuse With join with the Repub-
Republicans licans. Yesterday it
was announced t h /
Ralph Gibson, Repub-
lican, would also be the candidate of
the Washington party, and that James
l.. Richardson, Washington candidate
for the State Senate, would circulate a
Republican petition. A dispatch says:
This get-together movement is be-
lieved to have been decided upon dur
ing the recent Washington party con-
ference in this city. 1t Is thought that
this will also result in the naming of
Congressman Edgar r. Kiess, who is
a candidate for reelection, on both
tickets"
Nominating petitions for the House
were filed to-day as follows: James A.
Stringer, Republican, Eighteenth Phil
adelphia; William S. Greene, Pitts
burgh, Republican, Eighth Allegheny;
Francis S. Brong, .Saylorsburg. DEM
ocrat, Monroe county. William 1.
Swoope, Clearfield, filed petition to
run for Republican State committee In