Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-31
LEAGUE" FORGOT
THE LITTLE BOSS
Only -Four Persons Turned Out to
Greet Mccormick in Ye An
eient Town of Dauphin
ONE MAN HUSTLED UP THREE
Candidate Said He Was Behind His
Schedule and Had to Hasten
Toward the North
ONE MAN HUSTLED UP THREE
Special 10 The TeIeRraeh


Dauphin, Pa, Aug. S1.-Vance c..
Mccormick. exuding his new thought
Democratic propaganda. and bound
for the Enterline picnic, held an en-
thusiastic reception here Saturday
morning His audience, all four of
them, were mighty pleased to see the
gubernatorial candidate. AS one of
them expressed 1t afterward lit isn't
every day YOU can see a guy who
spends $4,000 to get a nomination, at
least, not this side of Cameron and
Maclay Streets
1t had been widely heralded that
Mccormick would be in town at ex-
actly $40 o'clock Saturday morning.
Arrangements had been completed a
week earlier when Lewis NJ. Neffer.
E. Moeslein and Charles Rubendall
visited Dauphin and formed the
"McCormick-P Palmer League" The
$4,000 candidate Saturday. 1t was
pretty well formed. that league" as
Rubendall, one of the organizers, has
had plenty of experience in the Re-
publican and Keystone parties. He
would probably have had more expert
ence II there had been more political
parties.
Well. Mccormick arrived and looked
for the league" There was nothing
within a league or so that even re-
sembled it. After his car had stopped
in front of Stricker's store in Main
street one of the town residents
strolled up. Beaming a typical can
didate's smile, Mccormick arose. So
did e. Moeslein. county chairman.
who had even a more roster beam on
his countenance.
Il want YOU to meet our next Gov
ernor," he said to the crowd.
The crowd" walked over to the car
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candidate pumped 1t vigorously and
spoke chokingly.
This is splendid" he said. This
Is truly a wonderful ovation. You
can't realize how much 1 appre-
ciate''-
The crowd interrupted.
Hey, Harry" he called to another
resident, who was coming across the
street with two large pieces of paste
board under his arm, come on over
here and meet a friend of mine"
Wait a minute" said Harry. "I
want to fix these up first" He passed
on into the store and a minute later
placed two large photographs of Mar
tin G. Brumbaugh in the front win
dow. Then he came out and shook
hands with the other candidate, who
had by this time grown trifle frigid.
You stay here a minute and enter
tain the next Governor" said the first
resident; I've got friend down at
the power house. I'll go relieve him.
He always has wanted to shake hands
with celebrities. Says it's more luck
than finding a four-leaf clover"
The first resident departed. On his
way to the power house he passed a
man working in ditch. He explained
what was going on and the man threw
down his shovel
That's good. It's darn hot work.
ing here and the boss won't kick If l
have reason for laying off for a
quarter hour Besides. 1 can drop in
and buy cut plug at the store"
The workman Joined Harry" and
also shook hands. Pretty soon along
came the man from the power house.
McCormicks hand was pretty tired
by this time. He had shaken hands
four times in ten minutes. Besides
he was saving UP for the rush when
the "McCormick-Pa Palmer League" ar
rived.
The power house man excused him
self and departed. The other three
stood around and waited for something
to start. The candidate and Moeslein
consulted in whispers. Evidently 1t
was about the missing league" for
the county chairman was heard to
say: Il don't know where they can
be-"
Finally the $4,000 candidate deliv-
cred his address.
Gentlemen he said. "I regret that
I cannot stay longer. We are already
behind our schedule. If we wish to
reach Enterline on time. 1 greatly
appreciate your loyalty and shall al
ways be mindful of my Dauphin
friends. Good by"
Gee whiz.' said Harry, as the
Mccormick automobile dwindled out
of sight UP the hill, that's the same
line of stuff the barker for the last
medicine show handed out"