Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-06-18
$4,000 LOAN IN
EXPENSE ACCOUNT
Interesting Item Reported on by
the Palmer-Mc Cormick State
Campaign Committee
COMMITTEE HAD S2l, 900
That Market Street Banner Cost
$3.50 to Paint and Swing
Over the Asphalt
COMMITTEE HAD $4,000

campaign under the recent State acts.
This is by means of a loan. The sup
position is that men who make loans
expect to be reimbursed
Vance G. McCormick's expense ac-
count showed that he spent S3S,0Oo or
so. the bulk coming from his personal
funds, The expense account OF the
Palmer Mccormick State campaign
committee. filed at the Capitol late
last night, shows that the committee
collected S21. .69S.15. Candidate McCor-
| mick is credited with contributing
$1,000 to the fund, although if we re-
member Alright his expense account
showed that he had given $4,000. This
may be an error in transcribinS Di-
vision Boss Henry B. Mccormick con-
tributed $1,000, but also turns up as
one of the eight men who loaned
$4,000 to the state committee.
The Mccormick campaign, which
had Palmer hitched to it, is thus stated
to have cost $4,000. And the bulk of
it was put up by Mccormick or those
close to him. So much for money in
politics.
A loan of $4,000 made by E. L.
Humes. United States district attorney
for Western Pennsylvania; Henry Is.
Mccormick, +. NJ. Sc
man, Jr., Joseph +. Cuff
fey, James l. Blakslee, Details of
Third Assistant Postmas- Interesting
ter General; Bruce Ster- statement
ing, Democratic leader
of Fayette; Roland S.
Morris, Democratic State chairman,
and Warren Van Dyke, secretary of
the Democratic State committee, fig
ureS among the 21,6SS.15 of receipts
of the Palmer Mccormick State cam
paign committee, put on file at the
Capitol late yesterday. Where the
loan was negotiated is not set forth
and neither is it said whether it has
been paid. The committee spent
21,155.12. About forty men are con-
tributors. Mccormick and his brother
and Samuel S. Fels each gave $1,000;
George w. Norris of Philadelphia,
gave $500. and a. Mitchell Palmer
S400. John Welker and T. j. keenan,
gave $500. A. NJ. Thompson and Cor
nelius Haggerty $3.50, while the $500
II. Given and H. II. McClintic, the fol-
lowing having given 500 each: d. w.
Pearsall NJ. w. O'Boyle, p. j. keenan,,
w. D. George, Lawrence c. Wadds, W.
j. Crittenden, George Heard, r. +.
Devine, w. Casson. f. +. Kane (who
had his returned to him), w. A.
Glasgow, Jr., H. Buhl. Jr., P. R. Dill
Mccormick. S. f. Laucks, Harrison
Nesbit. Robert Toland, W. H. S.
Thompson. The $3.50 class was COM
posed of Robert Mccormick. II. S.
Bright, b. G.. Stewart, d. G. Stewart,
W. H. Thompson, while Walter X.
Sharpe gave S125. There were num-
ber of smaller givers.
The travelling expenses We're ST.
171.70; Palmer drew $2,0SO.17 for his
campaign and Wilson Bailey, the ifs
cal agent" about $500 for various
expenses. Lackawanna got $1,000 for
its Palmer Mccormick committee and
Philadelphia was split into wards.
The Panic League of Harrisburg
spent $50 for the banner swinging
over Market street and bearing the
pictures of Candidates Pal
mer and NJ or m C k
Banners painted on a day when
Cost Is they were not feeling we'll
Revealed There has been much curl
osity about the city as to
what remuneration the
future Rembrandt who executed ths
medallionS received for his work and
also by what mental processes he con-
cluded to put Mccormick s name above
that of Palmer on a banner dedicated
to the Palmer Mccormick League. The
funds of the committee are accounted
for in a statement filed in the Capitol
last night. The league got $56359
and spent every copper. Vance C.
Mccormick gave 5000 and the obliging
treasurer of the Palmer Mccormick
State committee sent S355.14. Division
Boss Mccormick gave SS.45, presum-
ably to meet deficit. The bulk of
the money went for watchers who
were paid from So to So. The Cum
berland rate is said to have been SO
and up in Clinton county they paid a
man Sc for hiring watchers"
There was gloom in the camp of the
Washington party in this city to-day
over the news that the Colonel's
throat would not per-
nit him taking part in
Bull Moosers the campaign this year.
gloomy over 1t was taken to mean
the Coionei by the leading Bull
NJ e r that there
would be no Roosevelt
speeches in Pennsylvania this Fall and
that consequently there would he a
lack of interest on the part of the men
who have been bolstering up the party.
The local Progressives are now Won
dering whether the Colonel will get to
the. Pittsburgh conference on June 40
A meeting of the committeeman to se-
lect city chairman will be held soon
Mutter1ngS over the manner in which
complete harmony" was secured at
the meeting of the Democratic citv
committee on Tuesday
were heard among the
Democrats in the city Werner ts
to-day ana there were Wondering
some who were inclined How He Eel
TO be critical of what
[ h Y termed letting
Fritchey and Sucker put one over" in
the election of Jones' School Director
werner is reported to be not exactly
clear yet about the way he happened
to be taken out of the race for CITY
chairman when he thought that his
friends had corralled 33 votes. Jones
friends are jubilant and are declaring
that it was victory fer the liberal
minded Democrats and that 1t gave
the bosses OF the machine just the kind
of lesson they needed to show that
they may be at the throttle but cannot