Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-30
MORRIS FUSION IS
ALL ON ONE SIDE
The Bull Moosers Have Been Given
Only Seven Very Uncertain
District Nominations
THE CHOICEST GOLD BRICK
Democratic Retreat in the Second
Dauphin Approved; Whisper
ing Rooms in Demand

cratic State committee adjourned their
council late yesterday afternoon it was
| found that the scheme to make the
Bull Moose in Pennsylvania jump
through hoop for the sole benefit of
Vance C. Mccormick had worked out
to a charm. The Washington party
withdrew its candidate for Governor
! and put on Mccormick and got moth
! ing in return. And the widely adver-
! tised plan of Democratic State Chair
man Roland S. Morris for Statewide
| fusion on congressional. senatorial and
| legislative nominations had resulted in
| the Washington party being given eX-
| actly seven places vacated by Demo-
! Gratis who were afraid they could not
/ make the jump in this troubled year.
There were a good many quiet
! smiles inside the Democratic State
/ windmill last night over the way the
| Bull Moose had been taken in, but
| some of the Bull Moosers outside were
| giggling as they thought what was
! going to happen when the remnant of
the party that clings to the name
| finds out the gold brick that has been
passed out and studies the returns
! from New Y ork, where the Bull Moose
| has become as emaciated as in New
Jersey.
When the State executive committee
| adjourned it was seen that the Wash
ington party had become a part of
the Democratic State machine and
that William Finn will be succeeded
as angel" by Mccormick.
State Chairman Grow before leaving
Pittsburgh last night said of the two
days work in Allegheny county:
I'VE find conditions
I in the western coun-
ties in excellent shape. Crow Says
All factions of the the OutI0olr
party are united for Is Splendid
November In Pitts
burgh and Allegheny
and in the surrounding counties the
different chairmen and workers are
active, hustling and giving fine ac-
an organization at work in every vot-
ing district in Western Pennsylvania,
and everywhere | find confidence in
victory. The western end of the State
will be in line with an old-time Re-
publican majority in November"
The time for filing nomination pa
pers at the Capitol expired last night
and bale was entered by George w.
Allen. of Allen & Coll,
Pittsburgh, for various
Personal candidates on the Per-
Liberty sonal Liberty party ticket.
Nominees T h e w h o e Republican
together with a number
of Democratic candidates for various
offices, among them Arthur G.. Dewalt,
Democratic candidate for Congress in
the Berks-Lehigh district; Sassaman
and Shanaman. Democratic legislative
candidates in Reading; Ira T. Erd-
man, Democratic legislative candidate
in Allentown. and Democratic legis-
latiVe candidates GeiSer Benninger
and Trach, in Northampton county.
One of the funniest things about the
Democratic State windmill is the OBJ
sessed state of the officials. They are as
full of their campaign
las is Mccormick him
self. In years gone by. Whispering
after t h pre- n I Rooms Now
Democratic mach n e Freely Used
got into power Uncle
George" Guthrie made
lit a point of having every meeting
with the doors wide open. He said
that the people were interested and
that there was nothing to conceal.
Newspapermen used to be invited to
sit through meetings. Now all is
changed, the Mccormick Morris style
of doing business with doors locked,
blinds drawn and voices lowered is in
vogue. The meetings are held behind
the doors of a suite of offices on the
fourth floor which no one not having
the pass word or golden key is per-
mitted to approach and which are
now known as the whispering rooms.
People on Capitol Hill are of the
opinion that there will be a test in
court of the right to use the name of
the Nonpart san party at the coming
election because of its similarity to the
nonpartisan ballot in name and the
possibility of it confusing voters. The
name of the Nonpartisan party was
used to file nominations for Congress-
man M. Clyde Kelley and some legis-
lative candidates in Allegheny and
Philadelphia counties. The name has
been pre-empted by some people in
other counties.
The Democratic State committee
Yesterday afternoon put the seal of
its approval on the surrender to the
Bull Moosers in the Second Legisla-
tive district and for the first time in
many years the Democrats of that
portion of Dauphin county are de-
prived of the opportunity to vote for
men of their own political faith for
the Legislature. The substitutions of
Lenker and Martin for Hurry Back
ward Sassaman and Don't Wantit
Shaffner will be filed in a few days
and then the county Democrats will
vote for Nissley and Young,
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