Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-14
CAMPAIGN START
IS AHEAD Of TINE
Candidates Except Brumbaugh and
Few Others Are Out on
the Stump Now
MC0RMICK'S NEW BREAKS
He and Greasy Add to the Amuse-
ments of the Late Summer
Season Days
M'CoRMICK'S NEW BREAKS

Notwithstanding the disinclination
of candidates to enter actively upon
! the campaign until September. the
I struggle for victory at the polls in
| November is on in Pennsylvania with
the middle of August not yet reached.
The aspirants on every ticket are out
on the stump, not on formal tours, it
is true, but making speeches.
The political interest of the State
centers now on eastern counties. Sem
ator Penrose is in Franklin county
| to-day and Vance G. Mccormick is in
York. William Draper Lewis is in
Carbon. In every district congress
sional and legislative candidates are
addressing meetings. Tomorrow Pen
rose and Mccormick will meet on the
same platform at Dry Run and sparks
may fly If Mccormick continues his
| reckless generalizing and wholesale
denunciation. Lewis will speak in
Dehigh county. 1t does not look like
fusion. 1t looks like a three -cornered
fight.
The Democratic campaign has thus
far been a series of comical events
Palmer has been away from the tours
OF Mccormick, whose original style of
campaigning has caused his friends
jecting himself and politics into every
| gathering, while Farmer" Greasy is
seriously threatening James l. Blakslee
for the honors as buffoon of the Penn
! sylvania Democracy. The Democratic
windmill is Tapping its arms wildly
and the mourning beagle of Market
| Square Is wailing over the refusal of
| the people to take Mccormick at his
own estimate.
Vance G. Mccormick and William
7. Greasy, the machine candidates for
Governor and Lieutenant Governor,
continued their tour
without William N.
Mccormick McNair, candidate for
and Greasy Secretary of Internal
Make Breaks Affairs nominated in
spite of them, yester-
day and made speeches
which for inconsistency outplayed even
any of the previous efforts of McCor-
mick. The Little Boss got inside of a
whole ring of glass houses, among
the remarks he made being denun-
clation of bosses. One of the jewels
was: 1T is no longer possible for
few bosses to meet in a back room
and decide what men shall be the can
didates for State Offices" OF course,
the Little Boss had not in mind the
meeting of Palmer, Mccormick, Blaks-
lee and Morris at which he was slated
If he had he probably realized that
| the people will not stand for it and
that he is going to get beaten to prove
it. Mr.. Mccormick in discussing the
war said unwittingly that conditions
| IN Europe were much like those in the
| Democratic party in Pennsylvania
the revolt against king rule" is grow
ing daily. Greasy forgot that McCor-
mick had been screaming for con
servation and denounced the State
Water Supply Commission for its su-
| perVision of water courses and dams
This is the third break Greasy has
made. He denounced the failure to
nle expense accounts and got lot of
Palmer-McCormick committees in bad
and he said that the national admin
| istration had given all the Grange
asked when the oleo bill which he
advocated has not even been put to a
vote.
DR.. Martin G. Brumbaugh will visit
his home county of Huntingdon and
make speech in the theater at Hunt
ingdon in the formal
opening of his cam
paign. This will be Brumbaugh
done IN the neighbor- Will Speak
hood where he grew up in County
and a Huntingdon dis
D C h says: From
| indications Huntingdon county will
give DR.. Brumbaugh a gloriously
hearty reception when he steps from
the train bringing him here from a
meeting of the State Republican COM
mittee at Pittsburgh There is not a,
man, woman or child within the con-
tines of the county but who is familiar
with the educators name and fame,
and practically. every voter in this
county, irrespective of party, will turn
out to receive Huntingdon county's
noted son. The Republican county
committee is arranging a special pro
gram in connection with DR.. Brun-
baugh's visit. There will be a parade
band concert and a reception by local
committees, together with many other
features that will make the event
memorable. Special excursion rates
will be inaugurated by the railroads
to handle the large crowds from all
parts of the county"