Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-10
HOW NONPA ARTISAN
VOTE FATTENED
Instance From Third Precinct of
the First Ward Points the
Way For the City
VOTER FELL INTO A TRAP

Central Democratic Club Amazes
Friends OF, Democratic Candi-
dates For Congressman
Ever since the registration figures
were announced Democrats about the
city have been taking comfort from
the size of the nonpartisan registra-
ton. 1t is the only thing from which
they can extract any comfort and 1t
does not amount to much for it is no
more reasonable to say that the men
who enrolled as nonpartisans are go
ing to vote for Mccormick than to say
that they VIII vote for Brum baugh.
Both will get some of them
/ But the inside of that nonpartisan
registration is coming out and an in
stance in the third precinct of the
First ward serves as an illustration.
That precinct showed a surprisingly
heavy nonpartisan registration and
about o'clock Republicans who were
watching 1t grow suddenly found the
Ecause.
! The Democratic registrar was ask
ing most of the questions and instead
of asking What are your politics."
| it is stated that he was saying to vot-
ers suggestively: You do not want to
declare your politics, do you?"
| Naturally, man unless an ardent
partisan would reply in the negative
land many did.
The registrar was called" and
thereafter straight party registration
was the feature.
| Friends of the Democratic nominees
for Congress at large in this section
are wondering which one of the four
candidates nominated
at the same primary
as Mccormick is to be Democratic
dumped by the Nc Inconsistency
ICormick machine in Shown Again.
| favor of Art Rupley,
the Washington can
didate for another term in Congress.
And the same people are wondering
what was the meaning of the Central
/ Democratic Club having a man nomi-
mated by Bull Moosers and opposing
! Democratic candidates for Congress-
lat-large speak in the club rooms.
Aside from the fact that Rupley's de-
nunciation of anything cannot be
taken as more than one of his fleeting
| thoughts, the propriety of having
candidate of an opposing party speak
in the rooms Of a club supposed to he
devoted to simon pure Democracy is
hard for friends of Democratic candi-
dates for Congress Large to stand
| Rupley processes adherence to the
principles of Roosevelt, who denounces
|
failed and who should be repudiated
Last night Rupley praised Wilson, ac-
lcording to Vance McCormick's news
paper. Naturally no one takes what
Rupley says seriously, but why a
Democratic club should invite foe TO
its midst is puzzling Democrats.
Friends of the Republican candi-
dates for the Legislature in the city
say that the action of Jesse ]. Ly-
| bargerin taking advan-
tage of the firemen's
Lybarger parade to advertise his
Automobile candidacy by means of
Criticised an automobile when
the firemen had de-
sired that politics be
kept out of their gathering, even to
the extent of removal of political ban
ners from the street, has cost the am
bilious Jesse many votes. Lybarger
is regarded in some parts of the city
as having gone to the we'll pretty
often and his grandstand play while
serving in a legislative employees Job
is not forgotten. 1t is said that Ly-
barger's automobile advertisement
went over the whole line of parade
and as even Mccormick refrained
from advertising himself on that oc-
cation the break of Lybarger is all
the more glaring.
A good story is coming from the in
dustrial establishments of Allegheny
county about the way they heckled
Vance C. Mccormick.
The men out there
are pretty keen in siz- Mccormick
ing up candidate and Roasted
when they strike ~ Workers
man who has only
abuse of his opponent
and glorification of his own boom as
his themes they are not likely to take
him at his own appraisal. 1t seems
that Mccormick was telling of the ills
OF Pennsylvania and was asked in a
rather abrupt way what he was going
TO do to cure them. He said that he
would clean out everyone on Capitol
Hill. This caused a mild-mannered
man up front to ask if there were
no honest men on Capitol Hill. Nc
Cormick got red in the face and sput-
tered, finally saying there were some,
but they were victims of the machine,
etc. The men went back to work.
From all accounts a good many of
the men just appointed to post Offices
and other federal positions in Penn
sylvania are showing
anything but eagerness
Democrats to contribute to the
Object TO Democratic State slush
the Devies fund to pull through
Palmer and Mccormick
and some of them have
had to be addressed a second time
Many of these men gave literally for
the primary campaign and the second
assessment, for that is what it is falls
heavily on them. Men here for the
firemen's convention said that in every
county there are Democrats mad clean
through at the machine made appoint
ments and that the men who got
them are being laughed at because of
the leVies being made on them by the
State machine. For men who have
reviled the Republican party for get
ting campaign contributions the Demo-
Gratis have not only shown themselves
to be inconsistent, but from all stories
have gone them better. Some of the
contributions were little more than
hold-ups.
A. Mitchell Palmer, Senatorial can
ldidat in Pennsylvania, is not so
anxious to have members of, President
Wilson's cabinet stump