Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-05-18
MACHINE RATIFIED
AS CAMPAIGN ENDS
Plain Little Claim of Victory Fol
Ryan Sends the Reorganiza-
lion Organ Into Air
THE SLATE MAY BE BEATEN
Philadelphia Public Ledger Admits
Ryan Has a Chance; McCor-
mick Men Busy Here

mick Men Busy Here
Probably the most strenuous cam
paign. and certainly the noisiest, ever
waged for Democratic nominations
will close in Pennsylvania late tonight
and, true to its traditions, the Demo
cracy will celebrate the coming OF
Statewide primaries by fighting al
most to the time the polls open to re-
ceive the ballots. The remarkable
campaign of 'vilification and abuse
in which both the Mccormick and
Ryan factions have indulged, was in
full swing to-day and desperate ef-
forts were being made by adherents
of the former mayor of Harrisburg to
hold this city and county in line. These
attempts We're being watched with in
terest in view of the well-known po-
sition taken by Mccormick and his
newspaper against the use of money
in politics.
AS far as claims go the Mccormick
people had the better of it in this
y
loud claims being made that McCor-
mick would carry Harrisburg and
1000 was the very lowest figure given
AS to the county some of the claims
made for the Little Boss were for ma
jorities considerably in excess of the
Democratic enrolment in all Dauphiu
county and the whole Democratic reg
istration in Harrisburg. But little
thing like that did not matter. The
Ryan people were also doing a few
stunts in the claiming line. but did not
soar to the heights of the gay and
giddy partisans of Mccormick. The
Democrats in this city to-day showed
that they realized that the eyes OF
the State were on the State Capital
and were in fine fettle.
That singular inability to recognize
that any one else has right to think
or to express thoughts which has
characterized the Nc
Cormick campaign and
Green Gets it's bugle blower from
a Goat On the day the White
the Square House slate was
launched was striking
ly manifested to-day
when the Mccormick people bubbled
over with wrath over plain ordinary
campaign claim made by John ].
Green the campaign manager for
Ryan. Green simply went Palmer s
claim of $4,000 majority 10000 better
and asserted that Ryan would carry
all but a few rural counties. He gave
Dauphin and Cumberland to Ryan
and the touchy mourning newspaper
of the reorganization cause proceeded
to berate him as though it feared
everyone would take what Green said
~ nd 1iSln ite. o1o G0l, n
wei devoted to-day to refuting
claims of various opponents of the
machine about certain counties and
tucked away in an obscure corner was
a dispatch which said that Secretary
of State Bryan, who had found time
to leave his desk in the crisis with
Mexico to butt into Pennsylvania poll
tics in behalf of the machine slate, was
unable to go to New York yesterday to
address a peace meeting.
1t is interesting in view of the
claims made by the Mccormick peo-
pie to read what is said by the Phila-
delphia Public Ledger
in a roundup article
on the Democratic cam Ledger
paign. The Ledger has Expresses
been advocating Nc Doubts
Cormick in it's editorial
columns and playing
up his campaign. Yet it has this to
say about the Harrisburger's chances
to-day and in a dispatch sent from
Harrisburg: "On the Democratic side
Vance Mccormick is believed to have
more than q shade the best of the
running outside of Philadelphia and
Pittsburgh where the bulk of the
Democratic vote is cast. 1t may be
said, however, that the Ryan strength
is not confined wholly to the cities
named. The Public Ledger corre-
spondent has Travelled through more
than forty counties since the opening
of the primary campaign, and he has
discovered not few Ryan partisans in
such cities as Lancaster, Allentown,
Reading, Altoona, Wilkes-Barre and
Scranton. On the other hand, he has
found many reorganization Democrats
in these same centers. And a pre-
ponderating Mccormick element in
rural counties. The Budd strength for
United States Senator does not run
parallel with the Ryan strength for
governor. Ryan has chance; Budd,
unless there are unseen silent forces
at work in his behalf, has none"
The contending Democratic. faction
lists ended their speech making Satur-
day. The Mccormick caravan wound
up in the Ryan strong
hold of Mahanoy City
Campaign and marked the end of
Thunder tour of flfty-nine
Laid Away counties. Why h e
other eigh were
sighted does not ap-
pear. Congressman Palmer took oc-
casion before he said farewell to make
a singing reply to the attacks upon
him and to say that search of his af-
fairs failed to show him guilty of any
thing which would make him ashamed
Farmer" Greasy did not bother to
reply to what was said about him.
The Ryan aggregation stumped Phil
adelphia and made speeches in which
Mccormick was frizzled. Some of
their speeches sounded like Patriot
editorials with the records reversed.
Washington dispatches speak high
ly of the speech of Michael j. Ryan
at the unveiling of the Barry statue
on Saturday. One story says: Pres
ident Wilson applauded vigorously the
speech of City Solicitor Ryan, whose
eloquence won loud applause from the
great crowd. The Presidents ap-
plause was conspicuous because of the
fact that it was so much more spirited
than that he had accorded any of the
other speakers"
Manifestly there Is a difference of
opinion among Democrats as to Presi-
dent Wilson's real friends in Pennsyl
vania. Ryerson w. Jen-
nings, a cousin of Secretary
Bryan. in a letter to the Machine.
Philadelphia Public Ledger Tactics