Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-20
BOSSES WORRYING
ABOUT THE SLATE
Democrats Unable to Get II
Patched Up and Eleventh Hour
Work Is Necessary
BULL MOOSERS ARE DISTURBED
Philadelphia Contingent Threatens
to Take Party Row to Col.
Roosevelt Soon

to lake Party Row to Col.
Roosevelt Soon
Bosses OF the Democratic State ma
chine have been SO worried by the
unexpected strength of the Ryan fac
tion in its campaign against the Nc
Cormick faction for the Democratic
have been unable to get their slate for
the primaries completed now that
there Is no further hope of inducing
men who have lined up against the
gang to desert upon promise OF sup
port for Congress- at-largc. The re-
organization crew played what was
believed to be a sharp scheme on the
crowd opposing it when the Congress
at-large slate was announced as con-
tanning only the names of Bobby
Bright, of Philadelphia, and c. n.
Crosby, of Crawford county. 1t was
thought that possibly w. X. Meyers,
Arthur B. Clark or some other man on
the list of the Ryanites would flop or
at least be so neutral that he could be
supported. But this failed. The issues
have been squarely drawn between the
two factions of the Pennsylvania DEM
ocracy and not even pacific counsels
lFolH WdSninStol couio sup INC row
to- day.
1t is expected that by tonight the
reorganization gangsters will have
their slate completed. Crosby, who
comes from the same county as Judge
Prather, the Democratic candidate for
Superior Court, is not very strong and
there are said to be some opposed to
him. j. G. Shirley, of Clarion, will
run anyway.
In addition to having a whole line
up to fight against for the nomina-
tions, the reorganization gangsters
have a row in their own
ranks for the empty
Fighting honor of being defeated
All Along by Secretary of Internal
the Line Affairs Henry Houck.
some time ago Colonel
w. T. Mechling, of But
Ter. was smiled upon and given to
understand that he could command
strength. Now he has been thrown
over for George II. Rowley, Of Mercer
county, but he Is running just the
same. Palmer is being opposed by
Henry Budd, Mccormick by Ryan,
Greasy for Lieutenant-Govern by
John f. Jenkins, one of the active
Democrats of the northeast, and there
is a. three-cornered fight between
Rowley, Mechling and w. n. McNair,
of Allegheny county, formerly q re-
organization chieftain, for Secretary
of Internal Affairs.
One of the most singular of the in
consistencies of the machine faction
of the Democrats is the manner in
which the officers
and men of the State
committee, from NOnDarfisan
chairman to "bag- Act Trampled
man." are going BY the Gang
about boosting the
Mccormick game.
Chairman Morris denies that any COM
mittee money is being used to further
the interests of the candidates of his
faction, but no one has yet explained
where all the cash for the tours is
coming from or where Palmer, who
admits he is poor, thought he could
get the money to pay for the special
car he offered to McCormick's oppo.
nents, which, by the way, Judge Gar
man has taken up. But the strangest
of all, in view of the many and vocif-
erous protestations of Mccormick an6
his newspaper about npartisanshir
is the way the candidates. of Judge
Endlich, of Reading, for Supreme
Court, and Judge Prather, of Mead
made party matters. Almost as much
effort was made to boom Endlich a
| the Central Democratic Club dinner
as Mccormick or Palmer or Greasy
and as for Prather, the machinery o.
| the party is being openly employed IL
| his interest and people are beini
tipped off that he is "the Democratic
candidate in a campaign being wage(
with the nonpartisan act, so long de
manded by the reformers, not yet ;
year old. Nonpartisanship has beer
cast to the four winds and blown ava!
by the men at the Market Squar,
windmill. The Ryan faction speaker
have not yet shown any interest what
soever in these booms as a party mat
ter, q course which Is IN sharp con
trast to the distressed faction which
pleads White House approval of it
slate as the reason for votes.
/! Dauphin county Bull Moosers wer,
considerably disturbed to-day over tn,
fight under way in the State organiza
tion and the charges,
being made against the
Van Valkenburg lead Roosevelt
ership. The men here to Be Toll
have been ardent Iol- About Row
lowers of Finn, but If
| it comes to a show
down in the fight for control it is hare
to say what they will do now that tn
financing of the campaign is to be
matter for local people. A movemen
has been started to have a committe,
meet Colonel Roosevelt when he land
in New York and to tell him just wha
has been going on in the Pennsylvania
organization. The fact that Clyd
Kelly and other rampant Bull Mooser
have been fling Republican petition
is regarded as significant by many.
Clarence r. Akers. a well-knowl
Republican of Fulton county. has de
cided to go into the race for senate
in the Thirty-sixth dis
| trict and the Democrat
Petitions who counted on Georg
Roll Into Harris, the Fulton coun
Capitol ty banker, to be the bur
den bearer, are looking
down their noses becaus
the role does not appeal to him. w
J. Egleman, of Lebanon, has filed
| natifion IN he candidate for Cop