Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-16
DEMOCRATS NOT
ALL FOR FUSION
Morris Finds That Many Do Not
Favor the Alliance With the
Bull Moosers
OLD LINERS GETTING MAD
York County Democrats Angered
Over Post Office-Secretary
at the Windmill
OLD LINERS GETTING MAD

secret conferences with Democratic
and leaders in hotels and offices about
the city yesterday afternoon and last
night developed the fact that senti-
ment, even among Democrats who bow
to the bosses in pretty nearly every
thing, is by no means in favor of
fusing with the Washington party on
the basis of the Bull Moosers accepting
Mccormick and letting the Progress
ives take all the rest, including Con-
gressmen-at-large There is fear of
arousing the old line, thick and thin
Democrats, who prefer a straight
ticket because of Roosevelt's attacks
on President Wilson instead of a
donko-moose for the sake of giving
Mccormick an improvement in his
chances.
Several of the men who talked to
Morris appeared to have an idea that
there was somebody to elect beside
Mccormick, and there appeared to be
considerable opinion among the lead
ers that Mccormick with his financial
resources could look after his cam
paign and that obstacles should not
be thrown in the way of congressional
and legislative campaigns. Incident
ally, it developed that while Palmer
Pinchot in consideration of a job at
Washington, and Greasy might be will
ing to avoid a licking for the sake of
future support from Mccormick, there
is doubt whether McNair would re-
tire, and at least two of the nominees
for Congress- large will decline to
surrender to the Bull Moose to help
out Mccormick.
Despite Palmer's denials, it is be-
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some of the Bull Moosers. Palmer
knows he cannot win and wants to
help Mccormick, who thinks he can.
The conferences held yesterday
were in secret and so welded have the
cogs in the State machine become to
the policy of silence in
place of the open door
Secrecy that Morris declined to
the New give the names of the men
Policy who were here. He in
sisted that the confer
ences were on district
campaign affairs only. and denied that
fusion was even mentioned or that
any proposition was under way, not
withstanding widespread publicity in
the matter. 1t Is known that post
office squabbles were discussed, and
that outside of the conferences the
Democrats were sounded as to their
views on fusion. There were here
James I. Blakslee. Fourth Assistant
Postmaster General: C. r. Kurtz, sur
veyor of the port; John T. Matt, who
is in the revenue service; Arthur Nc
Kean, Beaver boss; C. R. Geesey, of
York. who did not get the post office,
and others.
The Philadelphia Palmer -McCor-
mick League got into immediate ac-
ton yesterday. 1t was not twenty
four hours old before Pal
mer was around to give it
aid and encouragement. 1t Palmer
was stated that the league Boosts
would not antagonize the League
regular city committee,
but the truth is that it is to
be an unofficial city committee, that
being the machine way of getting
around having an. thing to do with a
committee composed of men elected
by the people. To make the Illusion
better the leaguers asked Old Guards
men to join knowing they would not.
Wilkes-Barre is being strongly
doomed for the meeting of the Re-
publican league of clubs which is
scheduled to take place
in the latter part of
Wilkes Barre September. The Lu-
Will Get the zerne county peo p
Clubs Meet are urging the claims
of the city and it is
expected that the exc
cutive committee, which will meet in
Pittsburgh when the State committee
meets will select it. Fred w. Will
lard, of Philadelphia, is president and
has been comforting with representa-
tive Republicans regarding plans for
the meeting. The Harrisburg, West
End and East End Republican Clubs
will send representatives from this
city. The State candidates will speak
at the club meeting.
A dispatch from York regarding
Democratic politics in that erstwhile
stronghold of Democracy says: Ed
ward c. Peeling will be
Yorks new postmas-
ter. He heads the re- York Again
organized Democracy Faction Torn
of this county, and Over Jobs
his faction gained the
upper hand at the re-
cent meeting of the county committee
when the Peeling candidate for county
chairman was elected. The old stand
pat faction of the party is headed by
Lemon Love and John w. Heller, and
they have been making things inter-
eSting for all the Democrats for some
time past. They tried to defeat An
drew r. Brodbeck for a denomination
as congressman, and although they
failed. they threw a good scare into
the reorganizers. Then they sought to
capture the county chairmanship and
wanted John Throne elected. urging
as one of their claims that Brodbeck
had not been able to have a postmas-
ter appointed for York. But here
again the Love-Heller men were de-
feated, but not dismayed."
The meeting of the chairmen of the
new Fourth division of the Demo-
cratic State committee which is be-
ing held at the coun-
try home of Division
All Divisions Boss II. B. Mccormick
to Be Looked to-day in the first of
at by Morris a series to be attended
by State Boss Roland
S. Morris. Mr.. Morris
plans to make visits to almost every
county and will attend meetings of
the division. The Fourth division is
the first of the divisions to hold a
meeting since the new arrangement
was made by the State committee, and
it is composed of Dauphin. Cumber-
land, Lebanon, Berks and Lehigh. The
Injecting of the division was attended
by a number of prominent Democrats
of those counties and plans for active
and early campaign work were dis