Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-03
WILSON L|FE-SAvER
FOR RE0RCANZERS
Believed That He viii Come to
Rescue Of Palmer in Fight
With Ryan
PROGRESSIvES TO MEET HERE
Coming Thursday to Discuss Pos
sibiGties For Gubernatorial
Nomination

President Woodrow Wilson is to be
the life saver for the Democratic State
machine. The President has been ap-
pealed to for the striking of the key
note of the campaign and will make
speech at Easton in June, when the
nominations have been made and the
issues are to be defined.
The announcement of the candidacy
Of Michael ]. Ryan has provoked
fresh outburst of scolding from the
Democratic newspapers lined UP with
the reorganization bosses, but they are
tho Philadelphia in the field. They
count on the influence of the Presi-
dent to defeat him and believe that
when Congressman Palmer finally
makes up his mind to run that the
orders will go out from Washington
that Palmer must be supported.
The Democratic State committees
rules committee is busy to-day poring
over the rule dope sheets gotten out
for 1T by the bosses. This
committee will solemnly
Democrats ratify what has been laid
Tinkering out for it and the execu-
With Rules tive committee, which
laid 1t out. will then
meet to ratify the rati-
fication and the State committee will
be called to ratify the ratification of
the ratification. This meeting of the
State committee will be held late this
month and 1t will then be determined
whether the Democratic State ma
chine is to be bound by the State pri-
mary law. The rank and file of the
party believe that chairman must be
elected in June and Scoutmaster Nor
ris may have to accept this view, al
though 1t may mean his defeat.
It's rather amusing to read the
mourning organ of the reorganization
gangsters pleading for the defeat of
Michael J. Ryan on
the ground that he is
trying to disrupt the Patriot Now
Organization" 1t is Defender of
only q short time ago Organization
that the Mccormick
paper was denouncing
everything in the shape of an organ
ization. To-day 1t is out as the staunch
defender of the machine and for once
in its scolding career it is seen in its
true colors Any organization not in
accord with it must be cut down and
cast out to wither. The organization
with which it is connected is the one
to be protected at all hazards and
kept up by contribution of federal
Office holders.
Democrats in the Northum berland-
Snyder Union district are not very
anxious to get into the senatorial fight,
according to some of the
st q e m n t s that are
Democrats brought down the river.
Fuss Over 1t seems to be generally
the Toga believed that ex-senator
william Calder McCon-
nell. of Shamokin, will
be the candidate of the Republicans
for the remainder of the term of the
late Senator John T. Fisher. The
Democrats are all shot to pieces up
that way over the way patronage has
been handed out in that part of the
State and no one seems to want to be
a target. George B. Reimensnyder, of
Sunbury. who has been urged to be a
candidate, is quoted as saying that he
will not enter the race unless he gets
the nomination without opposition.
Prominent Republicans from the
eastern section of the State will attend
the dinner of the Lincoln Club of
Bethlehem on February
IL at Bethlehem. This
dinner is one of the Bethlehem
events of the winter in VIII Have
PENNSYLVANIA politics, es- Big Dinner
pecially among Repub-
licans. for it is generally
at this gathering that keynote