Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-01
WAY PAVED To WIPE
OUT "OLDG GUARD"
Philadelphia Reorganizers Appeal
to the Inside Ring to Erect
the Guillotine
MORRIS TALKING LOUDLY
Democratic Bosses Whistling to
Keep Up Courage in the Dark
and Gloomy Days

The first move in the scheme to rip
out OF ONCE the members OF the Demo-
cratic city committee elected by the
people of Philadelphia over the men
favored by the acknowledgements
Morris faction was taken in Philaael-
phia last night and it will work out at
the meeting of the State executive
committee In this city next Tuesday.
Briefly, h plan is to carry out what
Mccormick and Morris have been itch
ing for over a long period. They have
never been able to elect their city COM
mitteemen in Philadelphia and now on
charges of various coIors they will be
in a position to do some ripping along
the same lines that gave McCormick
and Palmer power in state AFFAIRS.
A petition contestIng the election of
two members of the Democratic city
committee from the For~ty-tourth ward
was yesterday filed with Morris as
chairman of the Democratic State
committee preliminary to a demand
for a complete reorganization of the
city and the expulsion OF
men declared to be inimical to the
bosses. Sworn allegations of irregu-
larity and fraud In the seating of
Frank Scullen and Charles Lynch, Jr.,
are made in the petition filed by John
NJ. Hill and James Gaghan, Palmer
ties. who claim to have been legally
elected to the city committee from the
Forty-fourth ward .
A talkfest to keep up courage was
held in Pittsburgh last night, when
Democrats from every county in West
ern Pennsylvania C o n =
ferred with State Chair
Morris in a Morris. Chairman
TalkfeSt Morris in his comment was
On Plans Enthusiastically optimis-
tic over the outlook for
hamnRrnfin ottnoaCG- liz
said the Democratic congressional dele
cation from Pennsylvania can be in
creased, as ne is of the opinion that
the policies of Woodrow Wilson will
receive strong Endorsement at the
hands of voters. He was accompanied
by Warren VanDyke. secretary of the
State committee.
Others on hand at the conference
were William 7. Greasy. of Columbia,
Democratic nominee tor Lieutenant
Governor; Bruce +. Sterling, chairman
of Fayette county; James Iams, chair
man of Greene county, and lesser
bosses and lights.
A Wilkes-Barre dispatch to the
Philadelphia Inquirer says: Now that
most of the federal pap has been dis
tributed Kirkendall and the
Palmer = Mccormick m "a
chine are up against it good Luzerne
and hard, for the reason Has Me-
that the faithful in the for Jobs
ranks want to know what
they get fer their loyalty.
While K~irkendall and Mclean
stand ready to hand III promises, the
faithful refuse to accept promises any
more in view of the fact that they
have been forced to stand with their
hands tied while the favorites were
getting the jobs.
nArI kLat xr~u
to the detriment of the Democratic
State ticket in the ranks of the party
here.
"Palmer-McCormick stock is below
par to-day"
h Philadelphia Record OF to-day
says: CITY Solicitor Michael ]. Ryan
week in Atlantic City. He said he had
been out of touch with
politics entirely and had
Ryan Out no comment to make upon
OF Touch the threatened effort on
just Now the part of the Democratic
State committee to rip the
city committee, composed
mainly OF his supporters in the recent
primary, u of office. Rumors of
this intention persist among the minor
politicians, although the leaders pro-
Tess ignorance of II knowledge of IL.
1t Is believed that a number of sub
leaders are urging UGH action, but
that Palmer and Morris are h~esitating
as to the e~xpediency of making fur
Their trouble within the party ranks.
II addition to the shake-up in the
post office, which Is expected in a. few
days, there will probably be a new
lineup in the United States marshals
office, at least two Democrats taking
the places of Republicans who are
slated for dismissal"