Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-18
PALMER | INVITED
To GET OFF EARTH
Pinchot and Mccormick Sentiment
Swept Through the Anti
Liquor Gatherings
STEAM ROLLER CHARGES
Mccormick Gets Endorsement
After Some Very Harsh
Things Are Spoken

Congressman A. Mitchell Palmer
was invited to get off the Democratic
! ticket and allow his place as candidate
for United States Senator to be taken
| by Clifford Pinchot, the Washington
party candidate. as square deal for
the action of William Faintheart Lewis
| in stepping aside for Vance G. McCor-
mick, at yesterdays conference of
anti-liquor forces. Thus one more
turn is given to the pressing machine
| that has been erected to create senti
ment for fusion.
Yesterdays meeting was composed
of some splendid men, men who have
been in the forefront of reform and
temperance battles and the whole
thing would have been impressive if
there had not been such remarkable
| unanimity of sentiment for McCor-
mick and Pinchot. Only C. Tyson
Kratz and Jacob Snyder, of Blair
county, stood out for Brumbaugh and
they only made themselves trouble
some without affecting the result. b.
Stiles Duncan. Democratic county
chairman of Perry; John T. Matt, of
| Bedford, revenue collector; DR.. r.
Nj. Little, Philadelphia Democrat,
and John Brooke, who is helping
Frank Rhodes run the Delaware
county Democratic machine, were the
OHlS DdCkeTS OF 1alIneT anu Iney ulu
not work at it very hard.
G. Tyson Kratz openly charged
that the delegates appeared at the
| meeting set up for Mccormick and
E. r. Buckalew, formerly of this city.
and now secretary of the Scranton
Y. NJ. G. A, who presided, always had
the iron hand behind the velvet glove.
Buckalew is a new rival for the czars
of the gavel. He wore n sad smile
and had the appearance of endeavor-
ing to make the unfortunates realize
that he was hitting them over the
head with the same feelings that ami
mate a father when he takes his erring
son into the woodshed.
With such a lineup it was not as
tonishing that the very excellent peo-
pie comprising the conference forgot
the way they COM
ported themselves at
home and howled in a Acted Like
manner more BETTING a Mccormick
a session of the Nc Committee
Cormick IN a C h inc
Democratic State COM
mittee than a sober conference of
earnest thoughtful men with their
minds and hearts bent on county local
option. KratZ said that they ran the
steam roller over him and that he
was given a dose of gag law" Ger
tain it is that the meeting was very,
very disorderly and that some pillars
of propriety acted like ward heelers
and shocked the good gentlemen of
the Anti-Saloon League and various
other organizations who appeared to
be so eager to help Mccormick. The
conference endorsed Mccormick and
Pinchot, told Palmer he was a dandy
local optionist but should get off the
ticket and let there be union on Pin
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Democrats and the four Bull Moose
Congressman. including Arthur r.
Rupley. The Rev. ]. H. Daugherty
tried to get the conference to endorse
]. c. Clark who is a candidate for Su-
perior Court judge, but there was such
a rising of the friends of Judge F. M.
Trexler all over the hall that Daugh-
ertys seconder withdrew his second
and the suggestion was dropped like
hot poker. The conference declaration
was silent on the judgeships.
The Democratic and Washington
party State committees will handle
many of the details of their campaign
work together in the
next six weeks and the
Bi-Party spectacle may be pre-
Bosses i'm sented of Theodore
Agreement Roosevelt speaking in
Pennsylvania on an
itinerary arranged in
the Democratic State headquarters and
possibly with the Democratic-Was
ington party gubernatorial candidate
by his side. State Chairman Roland
S. Morris and A. Nevin DIETRICH have
completed the series of conferences
commenced yesterday morning by
William Finn and it was stated to-
day that a thorough understanding
now exists regarding the campaign,
although when finances are mentioned
the folks at the State headquarters
say they do not know anything about
it. Dean Lewis will be sent out
through the State as an auxiliary to
the Mccormick campaign party and
Clifford Pinchot will be entrusted with
the job of getting the dates from the
Colonel. Lewis will keep going
through the campaign on a separate
trail from the Democratic and Wash
ington candidates unless a complete
fusion should be effected. Things are
stated to have been pretty we'll plan
ned out whether Palmer gets off the
ticket or not the Democrats and Bull