Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-01-24
.PENROSE To HAVE
BIG HEADQUARTERS
Arrangements Made in PhiladeI-
/ phia For a Start Of His Cam
paign Very Soon
SENATOR GIVES SOME VIEWS
Central Democrats Will Have Will
son Come Here to Offset
Colonels Speeches

son SOlNc IleTe 10 OIISeI
Colonel's Speeches
According to the Philadelphia Pub
lie Ledger Of to-day. arrangements
have been made for the opening of
the headquarters Of Senator Boies
Penrose in his campaign for re-elec-
ton, and his friends have authorized
the definite statement that he will be
a candidate, although it has been gen.
orally expected there would be no an
nouncement until the Pittsburgh Tariff
Club dinner next week.
Dhe Ledger of to-day says:
"Boies Penrose will be candidate
to succeed himself as United States
Senator All doubt as to his candidacy
was finally dissipated yesterday, when
definite plans were made for the open
ing of Penrose campaign headquarters
on February 2. These headquarters.
campaign will be conducted in the
Senator's interests by his friends
among the manufacturers and busi-
nessmen, will be in the Real Estate
Trust Company Building. Represen-
tatives Of commercial and industrial
plants, rather than the Republican
State committee, will be the chief
sponsors for the Senator's candidacy"
Regarding the attitude of the Sena-
tor on other candidates, the Phila-
delphia Inquirer of to-day has this to
say: while maintain
ing that he will continue
to preserve absolute neu-. PenrOse
trality in the canvass for Defines
the governorship, Senator Attitude
Penrose, in reply to que
ries, yesterday comment
ed upon the general political situa-
ton. When reference was made to a
report that some of his friends would
oppose Edwin s. Stuart for Governor
because they feared the senatorship
and the governorship could not both
come to Philadelphia, the Senator re-
piled:
Geographical consideration is an
element in the selection of a candi-
date, but it is by no means a para
mount issue, as against the personal
popularity and strength of the indi-
vidual. The Statewide primary law
has done away with many of the ar
guments for geographical considera-
tion in the selection of candidates.
The Central Democratic Club last
night decided to invite no less a per-
sonage than President Wilson to be
the orator at its Jeffer-
son Day dinner on
Central to April 13, and the men,
Invite the bers are in hopes that
President the Presidents who has
been eulogized several
times in resolutions Of
fered in the club, will accept. AS a
matter of fact, the President has q
warm side toward the Central, as was
shown by the fact that Secretaries
Bryan and Wilson came here last year
for the big dinner when the President
could not. Mr.. Wilson was a guest of
the club when here for the formation
of that wandering ghost known as the
State Federation Of Democratic Clubs,
and in fact this city was the place
where he made his keynote speech on
the money power. A committee COM
posed of Henry Opperman, chairman;
II. K. VanDyke, the real Democrat; !;
Postmaster Frank G. Sites, Vance c..
Mccormick, division chairman, and
Herr Moeslein, the county chairman,
was named to attend to the invitation
end.
Our optimistic friend, State Chair
man DIETRICH, of the Bull Moose, is
having a fine time in Washington and
his statments read like
the pronouncements of
a Progressive confer DIETRICH
ence. His latest is a Talks in
notice to congressman Boss Way
who do not train with
Clyde Kelly to go back
and hide their hopes for reelection.
In short, Mr.. DIETRICH is developing
into a regular boss of the Palmer
machine type. He says that the
Progressives are going to "can" Con-
gressmen Edmonds, Farr, Ainey,
Burke, Kiess, Patton, Shreve, Lang
ham and Kiester He does not say
much about "Steve" Porter or Barch-
field. However, the various Congress-
men named by DIETRICH will run any,
way.
Representatives Wildman and Dick
inson are expected to announce their
candidates. for denomination in the
city district in a
short time and
Representative have already re-
SlirmisheS to ceived q number
Begin in Month of assurances of
support at the
coming election.
Both have been looking over the field
pretty closely. The Democrats are
having one of their usual pre-primary
fights over who shall run the party,
and Jesse j. Larbarger is having con-
siderable trouble to Chamber out of the
Forgettery into which he was so un-
tremendously thrust by the Patriot q
few years ago. George l.. Reed is
said to have hankering after the
Bull Moose nomination in the city, In
Cum berland county Democratic bosses
plan to renominate representatives
Burnett and Barner.
REPUBLICAN PRINCIPLES
The Republican of to-day need have
not the slightest fear that the time