The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-02-13
Contest for U. S. Senatorship Will
Be Warmest in the Key
stone State
THREE ARE SEEKING T0GA
FsctionaI Strife in Both Parties
Ranks Creates A No.
vel Situation

Philadelphia, Pa. Feb lS.-The past
,,crE has seen the completion of the
Enc-up for the coming campaign in
ponnsy vania. and the people are ready
fer one Of the greatest political battles
I'm the states history. The chief con-
lost viii be over the Cnited States SEN
aiorship. Some bitter factiunaI dchts
are coming over the governorship and
the control of the state administrations
hui these Wi, he mere skrmshcs as
compared wit. The terrific battle that
win be vaecG over the choice Of u
successor To Boies Penrose, whose term
In the United states Senate VIII expire
on March .. Isis.
The candidates Nill be named by the
several PARTIES i'm the general primary
I'm MAY From that time on there will
hc q battle royal until the election n
Nrlcmher. It will bc triangular
fight between Penrose, the Republican
candidate; \. Mitchell Palmer Demo-
,rat and Clifford Pinchot. the choice Df
thr Washington party which is the
rsmc under which the Prorrcssivcs do
their lighting in Peunsylvania. As rs
well known, the Republicans Of Penn
gNluia have long been split into two
utterly hostile factions, one Of which
kf0r Penrose and the other opposed to
him II is expected therefore that the
senator will have opposition within his
o"u party when il comes to rrcm iny
the rcn0minatiOn Representative Will
ham h. B. AincI is said To he the man
selected 10y the opposition 10 make the
fgh, against Pcnrosc IN the primaries.
Few We'll Informed politicians can ne
found, however. who venture to predict
thai Pcnrose will not bc the Republican
uomnec
All To Oppose Penrose.
a similar situation exists within the
D.m,oratic ranks, though the factional
differences concern the govclnorship
and state offices more than the senator
ship. Recognized as the personal
choice of President Wilson. y. Mitchell
Palmer, representative in Congress and
the pennsS lvania representative on the
National Democratic committee, is con
tdentlS expected to be the Democratic
candidate for the senatorship.
Clifford Pinchot, former chief forester
of the United States, intimate friend of
Col. Roosevelt, ana one of the charter
members of the Progressive party, has
no opposition for the Washington party
nomination for senator. He was formal
h invited To become candidate in a
resolution unanimously adopted at q
conference of Washin ton party lead
erS, group charmcn, committeemen
and officials, held in Harrisburg last
week.
Many elements will enter into the
choice of United States senator but
IN the main 1t will lac fight for and
against Pcnrose. Ii is this fact which
Will make the contest one Of nation-
wide interest Few candidates for high
office in this or any other state have
faced opposition apparently more for
midable than that now mastering %
bring about the defeat of senator PEN
rose and his retirement from public
life
u is said that Mr.. Palmer was in
du,cd to become a candidate for the
Democratic nomination solely upon the
lcprcscntation that President Wilson
believed him to he the man with the
post chance of defeating Senator Pen
rose. The president is reported to have
'"iJ him that the supreme issue of the
fransylvania campaign this year
should be the defeat of Penrose, who
represents the old system of reaction,
and Tor which he stands almost alone
"a the Senate as the last notable rep
r'senjativc.
Fear Hostile Progressives.
The hostility of the progressive wing