Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-01-23
GUTHRIE TALKED Of
FOR FORLORN HOPE
Democratic Bosses, Who Got Him
Sent Abroad, Now Said to
Want Him Back
MACHINE RUNS ON THE ROCKS
John Matt's Performance Makes
Democratic Legislators
See Bright Red

George w. Guthrie, former mayor
of Pittsburgh and chairman of the
Democratic State committee. the man
who was made ambassador to Japan
to get him out of the way of am
bilious Democratic bosses, may be
brought back from Toxic to lead the
forlorn hope as candidate for Gov
ernor this Fall. The men who were
interested in having the scholarly
Pittsburgher sent to the other side of
the globe have found that the task of
steering party for themselves is too
great and are said to have sounded
friends OF Guthrie. Just what Guthrie
thinks about 1t is not known as yet
According to people conversant with
the affairs of the Democratic State
machine, Congressman A. Mitchell
Palmer has been keeping in camphor
his answer to the Democratic con-
gressmen who demanded that he run
for Governor and encouraging talk of
other candidates on the reorganization
ticket until Guthrie can be heard
from. This is said to be the reason
not only for Palmer's silence, which is
irritating his colleagues, but the push
ing forward of Secretary Wilson, who
declined after proper interval; the
boosting of Berry for Governor by e.
j. Lynett, and the noisy talk of vari-
Gus favorite sons as the men to oppose
the aspirations of Michael j. Ryan.
Palmer wants to be United States
senator and, knowing that he would
be dead weight if he ran without
some eminently respectable man As
head of the ticket, he is said to be
eager to have Guthrie come back as
the leader of the forlorn hope.
Folks at the Democratic State wind
mill in Market Square are still dazed
over the performance of John T.
Matt's division commit
fee in passing reso-
lutions condemning the Matt's Stunt
Legislature for enact DaZes Folks
ment of the public ser at Windmill
vice company law with
its uncertain clause rel
ative to passes for wives of employees
of railroads. when in so doing the COM
mittee smote all of the big Democrats
of the reorganization cult and inciden-
tally raped its own division chair
man. 1t was one of the silliest at
tempts to make political capital that
the present bosses of the Democratic
machine have been guilty of and that
the action should have been taken
while State Chairman Roland S. Nor
ris, who knows what is in the Legis-
lative Journal, was present makes it
pie here. People who want to know
how Democrats voted can find the roll
in the Legislative Journal for June 26.
The subcommittee on rules of the
Democratic State executive committee
of the Democratic State central COM
mittee, as is its official title,
will meet at the windmill
in this city about Feb Rules to
ruary to act upon the Be Given
typewriter changes to the Airings
rules prepared by the
bosses. The Democratic
State machine has been struggling for
a long time to avoid a meeting, but
the demands that the bosses comply
with the law have become SO insistent
that Scoutmaster Morris cannot stave
off meeting much longer. When the
State committee meets the bosses will
try to make it appear that Morris is
not under the primary law and can
serve to the end of this year.
Clyde Kelly-Clyde, as some of the
Bull Moosers in the eastern end of the
State are calling him, appears to be
determined not to let
the nomination of
State Treasurer Rob- Kelly Bound
ert *. Young as the to Be Heard
Bull Moose candidate From Anyway
for Governor be made
without getting in the
road. The verbose Braddock congress
man is reported in Washington as de-
termined to announce his own candi-
dacy for Governor. Kelly was one of
those who came here last week look
ing for trouble and he made it for a.
bunch of congressman. Friends of
these congressman called him down
and he is now determined to start
ft,.e yxNlIt - frxx-r
didate for Governor last Fall, but
some of the Bull Moosers said that
they doubted if Colonel Roosevelt
would grow enthusiastic over him.