Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-15

ceived only about 10000 votes-at a
personal expense of some thirty cents
head-and asking where he expects
to get additional strength sufficient to
win-and at what cost-let us look
for a moment at some other matters
that bear strongly on the situation.
The attitude of many prominent
Democrats in refusing to enthuse over
the Democratic ticket is causing much
concern in the camp of the so-called
reorganizers. Members of the Pal
mer- Mccormick faction must now be
convinced that it did not pay to go
up and down the State slandering men
who believed it their right to run
for public office. In many sections
the slogan, Remember Michael J..
Ryan," has been coined and is up
permost in the minds of the followers
of the fighting Philadelphian. AL
ready a movement has taken form to
avenge his defeat, not because he was
defeated, but by reason of the das-
tardly methods resorted to in order
to bring it about.
Unlike the customary preliminary
contest, the recent primary cannot
be forgotten by the Michael ]. Ryan
people. If the Palmer Mccormick
faction had carried on its fight in the
usual political way, without STOPPING
to un-American schemes, the victor
and the vanquished afterwards would
no doubt have gotten together,
clasped hands-and meant it. But
when the personal character OF men
is attacked, when their lives are held
up to ridicule and when efforts are
put forth to convince the public that
they are professional plunderers ready
TO loot the public treasury-when
such an unfair warfare as this is car
ried on in a primary the citizens thus
abused can neither forgive nor forget.
There is less harmony in the Demo-
cratic party to-day than at any time
during the past thirty years. In or
binary populous Democratic communi-
ties, such as Berks, Lackawanna,
Schuylkill, Luzerne and Northampton,
leading Democrats are openly opposed
to the Palmer Mccormick ticket.
Judge John NJ. Garman, of Luzerne,
former Democratic State chairman,
says that whatever of support the
candidates may receive will be given
by three elements-first, the political
Bedouins, who have for the time be-
ing obtained possession of the Demo-
cratic camp; second, the receptive
hyenas that hang round the outskirts
to revel in the offal of the camp, and,
third, the few honest ironclad Demo-
Gratis who fail to distinguish the
marauding occupants of the tents and
who see only the Democratic banner
over the camp"
In a recent canvass, of fifty Demo-
Gratis IN a Schuylkill county borough
it was shown that thirty-one intend
to vote the straight Republican State
ticket, nine the Democratic, four the
Progressive, four the Socialist and the
remaining two no State ticket at all.
There is no better political straw as
to the result in November than this
canvass. 1t indicates that Senator
Penrose's prediction of 100000 Demo-
Gratis voting the straight Republican
ticket is no eXaggeration.
The Patriot will have more than it
can do if it confines itself to figuring
out how pitiful Democratic show
inc a. tho nrirn ries can he inflated tn
winning proportions in November.
The Republicans are quite able to do
their own estimating.
The Democratic county commission