Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-05-02
.D|MM|CK PLANS
VISIT ON MONDAY
Candidate For Senator Will Be in
Harrisburg to Meet the
Republican Voters
DEMOCRATS HAVE LIVELY WAR
Berry Reported as Intimating
There May Be Bolt; McCor-
mick Bunch Ratified

J. Benjamin Dimmick, candidate for
the Republican nomination for United
States senator. sent word to the city
last night that he would be in Harris
burg to meet the Republican voters on
Monday and would give an informal
reception at the Senate Hotel Monday
night. Mr.. Dimmick has been making
tour of the State, in which he COW
cred over two-thirds of the counties,
and plans to go through this section
next week.
The Scranton man will arrive about
the middle of the afternoon and make
tour of the city, after which he will
spend the evening at the hotel and
many Republicans will greet him.
Friends of the candidate were busy
to-day passing along the word that he
would be in the city.
Tuesday Mr.. Dimmick will go to
Carlisle and visit other Cumberland
valley towns, going to Gettysburg and
YORK county on Wednesday.
The Democratic war over the guber-
natorlal nomination was heated un a
few additional pegs last night by
speeches made at Scran-
ton and Allentown. The
democratic Mccormick caravan en-
Breach is tered Allentown after
Much Worse an automobile tour of
parts of Berks and Le-
high and William II.
Berry, who was beaten for the nomi-
nation for Governor in 1910 in that
city and who bolted. was paraded as
the real Democratic exhibit. Accord
ing TO reports, Berry practically threat
ened to bolt again if Little Boss McCor-
mick was not nominated. 1t was eX-
pected that Berry would rip up
eX-Chairman Dewalt. but he never
squeaked. and it is noticed that friends
of Big Boss Palmer and Dewalt are
pretty thick. In Scranton the Ryan
aggregation held big meeting and
the walls of wrath were poured out on
Mccormick, Mr.. Ryan addressing a.
few pertinent queries.
The Central Democratic Club had
war scare for time last night be-
an annex to the Panic
League. Harry Vollmer,
who is slated for one of the Central
federal jobs in this district Has War
after the primary, came Spasms
INTO the club with reports
that everyone was red hot
FOR Mccormick up in couple of town
peen doing some gumshoe work Mem
bers We're little astonished to learn
that the bosses had found it necessary
TO send anyone out on sleuth duty. as
reports have been all along that things
were lovely. When Vollmer got
through the report there was a lot of
handclapping, whereupon some of the
members who are Democrats after as
Well as before primaries asked why
the club was taking such a dip into
tactlonal matters, The Mccormick
gangsters were thrown into a panic
and helped out President How Jones
efort to explain by prolonged cheers
In the midst of which a motion to
adjourn was skidded through.
The Democratic State windmill last
night revolved eight times and gave
forth letter the Secretary of Labor
In President Wilson's
Cabinet, BILLY" Wilson,
n"mocratic had written to a man up
campaign in Clearfleld county saw
Day by Day ing Vance Mccormick
had never been unfair
to labor. The charge
that the union label had been taken
from the paper the day Mccormick
got control was not referred to by the
Hon. Billy.
In an effort to overcome the uproar
caused in the York-Adams district Inv
the post office scandal and to start a
oackhre on the Ryan sentiment re-
sultlng from the Philadelphian's tour
the Mccormick caravan, with such aid
as can be given from Washington will
tour York and Adams counties newt
Thursday and Friday. The caravan is
SAID to have bad case of rattles.
state hscal officers are commencing
TO FEAR that the appropriation of sS3O.-
uUo made by the last Legislature to
reimburse counties for
holding primary cleo
tions in the two years PRIMARY
commencing June /, Fund Nav
1918, will not reach Not Reach
and that the next Cen
eral assembly will be
calleo upon to make deficiency an
preparation. About twenty-five of the
counties have been paid for the pri-
mary elections held in 1918 and the
piiis OF others are now being audited.
A Few claims made by counties for
expenses charged in connection with
the primary in 1912 are also pending.
athough, payments have been made
on account. 1t is expected to clear
up the counties remaining unpaid for
last year before many weeks GO bv.
The cost is running so heavy that not
much will be left for the elections of
1914. VI
No Withdrawals from primary tick
cts Will be authorized by State OFF,
ciais IN advance of the primaries to be
held on May 19, ac-
cording to a statement
Time FOR all made at the Capitol to-
M1thorawals day. The official lists
Has Gone by of names of persons
for whom nominating
petitions were fl e d
nave been certified to the counties by
the Secretary of the Commonwealth
and only such amendments as are
required, such as correction of mi
tials, VIII be permitted Withdrawals
received in the last few days have
been returned to the senders with in
formation that the time for withdraw
Ing has gone by. Nominating petitions
f.ed for the House are In excess of