Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-11-16
MACH|N|STS ARE
SITTING TIGHT
No Disposition About Democratic
Windmill to Let Anyone Else
Come in to Boss
PALMER HAS NOT RETIRED
More Candidates For the Speaker
ship Are Being Brought Into
the Field Now

No disposition to extend olive
branches or to receive overtures for
peace appears to be shown about the
headquarters of the Democratic state
committee in this city and notwith-
standing the terrifis defeat given to
the party after a widely hearalded
Reorganization" the men in control of
the machine are inclined to ''sit
tight" and build up in the hope of get
ting somewhere during the presidential
election.
The present management of the
party is secure until another State
committee is elected, which will not
be until 1915, and therefore State
Chairman Roland S. Morris will re-
main in office until that time unless
/ he should resign or the party be re
J organized" by the aid of the guillotine
again. At the State headquarters it is
not admitted that there is any possi-
bility of Morris resigning and no signs
of any one appearing with enough
money to finance reorganization
are above the horizon. The people
at the State headquarters claim that
Morris can not be disturbed for eigh-
! teen months or so and intimate that
| If the Ryan or Guffey men want to
come back into the fold they can do
so, but that there is no chance of
them being given any of the high
seats.
J At State headquarters it was declar-
ed to-day that the report that Con-
gresham A. Mitchell Palmer would re-
tire from the State leadership or re-
sign as national committeeman was
| news" The story is that Palmer is
%. or o..xyN Nf Inn Infn ri or
Lane or else be appointed to the dis
trict bench, which has been out some
time, and that he will quit and allow
some one else to assume the sorrows
of patronage distributor among the
hungry Pennsylvania Democrats.
The Philadelphia organization plans
a single paid council instead of the
present two bodies. In some respects
| it will be like the second class city
councils.
Congressman w. N. Carr, defeated
for reelection in the Fayette district,
| is threatening O contest. He is the
only one who seems to feel badly about
| the result. The others are content to
| take their medicine.
D. Clarence Gibboney is being
groomed for mayor of Philadelphia.
Republican leaders have determined
cluding workmen's compensation, agri.
cultural conservation, good roads,
\ economy and efficiency, labor laws and
other things, an amendment to the
| uniform primary act which will pre-
vent a man from running on more
| than one ticket. Candidates. of vari-
Gus parties have been gobbled up reg
ularly by men of opposite faiths in
some places and fusion movements
! forced by ambitious leaders because of
the manner in which nominations have
1 been taken.
| 1t is said that an amendment is be-
| ing considered which will force fights
into party lines so that the issues will
| be we'll defined and the voter also re-
| lieved of the burden of having to scan
several squares behind the name of a
| candidate.
| Some of the candidates for State
offices this month appear to be find
ing difficulty in getting their sworn
statements in form. They have been
| sending them to the Capitol half conN-
pleted and in one instance not attested
by oath.
Big Bill' Adams, the Luzerne legis-
i lator. says he is not candidate for
Speaker except that he would like a
complimentary vote.
State Chairman William e. Crow in
| q signed statement maze lOr Jne gnlld-
delphia Ledger says that there is no
danger of the Republican party going
on any spree now that it has won a
great victory, but that the State can
look forward to good legislation and a
fine administration.
/ Gossip that w. II. Connell, chief of
the highways in Philadelphia, may be-
come Highway Commissioner is going
the rounds again.
It would be interesting to obtain the
comments of one George w. Guthrie,
aforetime chairman of the Democratic
State committee and spoken of as a
! candidate for Governor many times
before he was shunted into the am
bassadorship at Toxic, anent the re-
cent election in Pennsylvania. At the
time he was named there was gossip
in political circles that he was being
gotten "out of the road" before the
Il 1912 campaign started.
Resident Clerk William S. Leib will
not have to be elected to his place in
the House as much this coming session
as he was last year. For time elect
ing Leib resident clerk was a popular
Monday night diversion, as those
familiar with it's details recall
Chester county Bull Moosers are
said to be arranging matters so that
they will be taken back into the Re.
publican fold and get share of the
nominations for county offices this next
Fall. A similar situation exists in
other counties.
Horace w. Schantz the first Repub.
lican senator ever elected from Le-
high, was the original Brumbaugh man
in that county; has six children goes
to church regularly and was Repub-
lican county chairman when no one
else in Lehigh would have the job. He
was defeated four years ago by Sem
ator Miller. whom he defeated this
month.
Walter J. Christy. writing in the
Pittsburgh Gazette-Times mentions
Representative A. c. Stein, of Pitts
burgh. as a speakership asDirant, and
intimates that James +. Woodward is
not very keen about it. He says that
Henry I. Wilson. who came back in
Jefferson. also has aspirations. That
makes six in the field. the others be.
ing W. IT. Wilson. Of Philadelphia; r.
J. Baldwin. Delaware; r. p. Habgood
Mexican, and George w. Williams
Tioga.