Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-11
FUSION D|CKER IS
GIVEN SOME RAPS
Lancaster County Bull Moosers De
nounce the Action of Lewis
as Abject Surrender

To say that the fusion deal, whereby
Vance c. Mccormick is to be the nom
inee for Governor on mule ticket,
is popular with the Democrats and
Washington party men of the State
is going far afield. The general i'm
brought it about have provided for
division of spoils in case II is success
full and that many Washington party
men will vote for Brumbaugh as re-
buke to the tricksters and that many
Democrats will repudiate Mccormick
because he is willing for his personal
advantage to huckster with those
whose chief is continually assailing
President Wilson.
The failure to fuse against Senator
Penrose when it is proclaimed by
Lewis and Mccormick that their
deal is to beat the Senator is what
the people cannot understand. 1t is
probable that the omission of this
lVery important part of sincere fusion
will receive some attention at the
meeting of the Washington party
State committee here next Wednes-
day, and that there may also be some
Questions asked as to what the WASH
ington party is going to get out OF
fusion in the way of other nomlna-
ltions.
Congressman Palmer says he is not
going to quit, and so does McNair.
Farmer Greasy has said he is willing
to quit, but no one appears to be even
thinking of taking him up. The whole
fusion is on Mccormick to help him
out. And he needs it and more.
The attitude of the leading news
papers of the State on fusion is inter-
esting. The Philadelphia North
American has not
word to say editori-
ally on the subject, Newspapers
but does remark that Rather Leary
Mr.. Pennypacker ap- OF Fusion
pears to have an
swered one of the
Palmer statements. The Philadelphia
bulletin. the great independent even
ing newspaper of Eastern PennsylVa-
mia, says fusion will not work because
of the Roosevelt speeches. The Phila-
: delphia Ledger says Lewis action will
: help Brumbaugh. In an editorial that
pre-eminently independent newspaper
hands the Dean rap. The Phila.
delphia Inquirer says Lewis turned
: tail and his action is confession that
the Washingto party is without hope
: The Philadelphia Record. Democratic
? organ of the rock-ribbed type, asks
: why, if the object is to defeat Pen
rose, there is no fusion agains
him, and the Pittsburgh Post, the
! great Democratic paper of Western
l Pennsylvani, doesn't say word edi
S torially. Neither does the independ
e ent Pittsburgh Dispatch. In Scran
S ton, Altoona and other places the par
tisan lines are sharply drawn, but NJ
Democratic paper goes as far in com
t mending the anything-to- polio!
5 as the Mccormick newspaper pub
3 lished in Market Square.
e Notwithstanding the manifest effor
d of the Harrisburg Patriot to make i
a appear that the Dauphin count
|. Washington men ar
It united for fusion, the
S Dauphin's are as divided on tina
d MOosers subject as are the Dem
e Divided ocrats in regard to Nc
s Cormick, which is goin
r some. Last night at tn
u Washington party headquarters ther
/. was some very outspoken talk abou
5 the failure to fuse on United State
Senator, when it is contended tina
fusion is being worked to beat Pen
S rose. Others think that McCormic
: is the very antithesis of the Roosevelt
/ propaganda and consider that a can
= didate whose sole claim to recognition
e is the favor of Woodrow Wilson is nc
y a very good man for Bull Moosers I
= follow. AS matter of fact, tn
) Washington county men of Dauphi
). county are not any more united o
u the mule nominee than are the Demo
II Gratis. If fusion is effected on legisla
tive candidates, it is because tn
Washington men see that they hav
no chance themselves and can ge
Vt somewhere with a liberal allowanc
: from the plethoric Mccormick cam
= paign fund.
Here are some expressions of opin
= ion on the mule ticket that the Har
! risburg Patriot did not print to-day
NJ. P. Miller, chair
. man of the Bu
Bull Moosers Moose party of Ian
Oppose the caster county. say
d Fusion Deal Lewis withdrawal i
. "abject surrender
:. pure and simple.
y Orvil Snively. Blair county, said tina
Z there would be no favorable commen
= unless Palmer got off the ticket. Johl
. IN. Hetrick, Bull Moose nominee 70
= Congress in Lancaster, does not Sc
u how fusion on Mccormick will he'll
beat Penrose. The. Patriot says thi
a Moore approve the act. AS a matte
= of fact it quotes but five congress
: linen. three of them Bull Moosers in
Guiding Art Rupley. and one Demo
h crat The Washington chairman a
= Williamsport says he cannot speal
. for other Washington party men, bu
= only for himself.
= B. Gordon Bromley, the Demo
cratic chairman of Philadelphia, say
:, fusion has never helped the Demo
cratic party, but that he will go along