Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-20
FUSION REGARDED
As A DEAD DUCKL|NC
Democratic Scheme to Help McCOr-
mick Swatted on the Head
in Philadelphia
LEWIS OUT ON THE STUMP
Kirkendall Getting Ready to Take
His Headquarters to Place
Nearer Home

chine and the Bull MooSerS on the
gubernatorial nomination is now re-
garded as dead as a door nail, although
folks conversant with Mccormick cam
paign methods expect to hear of some
new proposition being broached in or
der to bolster up his campaign.
The Progressive confab in Phila-
delphia on Saturday showed conclu-
sively that the Bull Moosers regarded
the Democratic idea as not feasible,
and the fact that Lewis and Pinchot
have started their campaign off vigor-
ously and will keep going shows that
there is nothing doing. The Demo-
cratic plans will now be made on a
basis of going it alone into the peace
full twilight"
Clifford Pinchot and William Draper
Lewis will show that there is nothing
doing in the fusion line as hoped by
the Mccormick wing
of the Democrats by
making a campaign Bull MOoSerS
tour right through Emphasize No
the home county of Fusion Now
Mccormick his
week. The two can
didates will spend tomorrow and next
day stamping around in the interest of
their own candidates. in Dauphin, Leb-
anon and Lancaster counties. They
will be up in Schuylkill county to-day
emphasizing the fact that fusion talk
is nonsense and will enter Williams
town tomorrow morning, going to
various points in the upper end of the
county, especially those places where
Mccormick workers have been active.
They will spend tomorrow night here.
Next day they will tour the lower end
of the county. County Chairman Ira
Mosey will accompany them.
Just as an illustration of how the
| Democratic brethren are dwelling to-
gether in unity in Philadelphia 1t may
be stated that the reg
ular Democratic city
Democratic committee insists that
Unity in it will conduct the
! Quaker City campaign in that city
| whether the State
bosses like it or not, and
that 1t does not propose to surrender
any of its authority to the newly organ
ized Palmer Mccormick League which
the bosses devised to set aside the
committee elected by the people. The
| league insists that it will be purely
4
| Club "a hotbed of reorganizers. w
Horace Hoskins has resigned the presi-
dency in a huff because he did not get
the mint superintendency, and there is
talk of putting Magistrate Eisen brown
Ryan man, at the head.
The same delightful state of affairs
exists among the Democrats in ALE.
gheny, and in Lancaster county there
are factions almost in
open warfare, and in the
lnorth branch valley Democrats
counties there is a we'll dangling
organized movement to In State
demand a change of
conditions in the State
machine The situation in LuzernC
county is such as to cause much anx-
| iety among the bosses at the State
| Windmill. The collapse of the fusior
movement, which many of the Demo.
cratic county bosses thought was goine
to work out. has made the atmosphere
about the Democratic headquarters
very blue.
If reports from Washington are cor,
! rect Revenue Collector Fritz Kirken.
dali will soon be relieved from the
snarling of the Demo
cratic place hunters II
Kirkendall the Ninth revenue dis
| VIII Go trict and If other re,
Home Again ports are correct HI
will be glad of it. HI
has had some expert
ence in politics. but he really aged IL
the Ninth. Through the approval b!
the President this week of the amend
ment of the revenue bill, the ole
Scranton revenue district will be re
established. The district now com
prises thirty-five counties and wa
consolidated by President Taft fo
economy The Democrats need job
to. hold their people in line. So tn
economy program was forgotten
Kirkendall will boss the new distric
with headquarters at Scranton and h,
will be happy near home with no Ions
trips to make. 1t will mean that {
new collector will he named by Candi
date Mccormick to help along tn,
cause, which needs it.
Comparatively few preemptions o
party names for the coming election
have been made at the Capitol, tn
contrast to. the last
three or four cam
ipaigns being very Campaign
striking Two years Names No
lago scores of party Being Flee
names were pre-emp-
ted for various con-
gressional and legislative districts be
fore August l., but this year not more
than dozen have been taken up. TIL,
time will expire within the next si7
weeks. All registrations for elections
have expired under the new act of as
sembly and the men who want to vot,
at the November election must regis
ter. The registration days in all cite
will be the same this year, being Sep
tember 3 and 15 and October 8.