Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-28
WILSON RESPONDS
TO CRY FOR HELP
President Will Come Into Pennsyl-
vania to Foist His Ticket
on the Voters
c CONGRESSMEN REVOLT
Philadelphia's Democratic Club
Has Hollow Treasury and
May Have to Move
CONGRESSMEN REVOLT

President Woodrow Wilson will lay
aside the duties and dignities of his
office this Fall and come into Penn
sylvania to plead for the election of
the Democratic machine candidates
and for the election of Democratic
congressman, according to dispatches
from Washington published in this
mornings papers, In other words the
President is going to submit to the
voters of Pennsylvania whether his
policies and his personally selected
ticket for the Democrats of the Key
stone State shall be endorsed. In ad-
dition to the concern of the Jerseyman
over the selection of the ticket whicn
he framed up for Pennsylvania he has
been importuned by Democratic con-
gressmen who see the disgust of the
voters rising to come and help them.
Democratic State headquarters was
not aware to-day except from the
newspapers that Wilson really con-
templated responding to its cries for
help, but has arranged, tentatively
for speech making tours by Secretar-
les Bryan, Daniels, Wilson and others
who Will be expected to come here in
order to prevent occurrences in Penn
sylvania similar to what happened in
that Jersey congressional district
where Wilson's policies were bumped.
The Philadelphia Press of to-day
says regarding Wilson's campaign
stunt: President Wilson has grown
seriously alarmed over
Democratic polit C Il
conditions throughout President
the country and indi- VIII Go
cations of the loss of a Into Fight
Democratic House. Be
ginning early in Octo-
Der he is to take the stump in aid of
Democratic nominees. The President
is expected to devote much of his at
tention to Pennsylvania and New Jer-
sey, but pressing demands are being
made on him to hurry into Ohio, Illi-
nois and New York. Lack of time
will cut short the Presidents activities
even should his health permit. The
situation in Pennsylvania especially is
interesting to the President. He wants
his friend, A. Mitchell Palmer, to win
in the senatorial fight over Senator
Penrose, and hopes by his activities to
arouse the Democrats to vigorous and
united support of Palmer. With such
a backing he hopes for victory for
Palmer because of the loss to Penrose
of the Roosevelt followers. The Pres
ident is interested, also, in the fight
for election being made by Vance Nc
Cormick.
A Washington dispatch says: PRO
tests against the arbitrary course of
the present Democratic State organi-
cation in Pennsylva-
mia, which have been
Wilson Gets voiced in the Congress
Hot Protest sional delegation as
From Logue we'll as by the workers
in all counties, finally
reached President Will
son himself to-day in
an appeal for intervention made by
Representative J. Washington Logue
of Philadelphia. The fact that the
Democratic party in Pennsylvania is
torn into two distinct factions, indi-
eating defeat in November. was at
tributed by Congressman Logue to
an apparent desire by the present
leaders to build up a personal or
ganization without regard to party sue
cess. Mr.. Logue did not indulge in
personalities in his talk with the Pres
ident at the White House to-day, but
he made it clear that there could be
no hope of party success unless some
thing were done to bring about a spirit
of compromise in the present factional
warfare. AS a result of the growing
dissatisfaction in the Pennsylvania
delegation with regard to the leader
ship of National Committeeman Pal
mer and State Chairman Morris, the
with regard to the distribution of pat
ronage."
Things are not moving as smoothly
in Philadelphia as the Democratic
bosses would have the world believe.
The efforts to secure a peace parley
in the Philadelphia city contests have
fallen through and now the Demo-
cratic Club which was all heated up
over the Philadelphia mint superinten-
dency, may have to move because its
quarters are too expensive. 1t ought
to get connected with the Palmer
Mccormick league.
The Columbia Independent publish
ed by w. Hayes Grier, former super
intendent of public printing, makes a
claim for the collec-
torship of the Ninth
district for Lancaster Lancaster
county. Fritz Ktrken- Lines Upl
dali is going back to For Pie
his home district and
fat job is loose for
the Democrats. This is the gentle way
in which Colonel Brier calls attention
to the claims of Lancaster for the
place: Roland S. Morris. chairman
of the Democratic State committee,
should remember that Lancaster
county has three votes in the COM
mittee. Does he want them for a re-
election. If he does the way is now
open for him to recommend a collec-
tor of iaternal revenue for the Ninth
district, who is a Lancaster county
DeHocrat OF course, since Con-
grnssman Palmer abdicated and placed
the matter. of appointments solely in
the hands of Chairman Morris, it is
up to Morris to do the square thing,
and stand all responsibility. We have
no choice in the matter. All we ask
is that the new collector be a Lancas-