Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-16
WASHINGTON PARTY
MEN CONFER ON
LEWIS RETIREMENT
State Committee Meets at
Harrisburg to Name Can
didate for Governor =.
Judge Brumm Against.
Surrender.

HARRISBURG, Sept. 49, 49, vupsu
Draper Lewis withdrawal from IN.
Washington party's ticket as its cs,a,.
date for Governor attracted n compars.
lively small number of the State Com.
mittee to this city today, In response /,
Chairman A. Nevin Detrlchs call for !.
conference as TO what should be done
Tho chairman reached here about noon
accompanied by most OF the menber,
from Philadelphia and adjacent countie,
while National Committeeman William
Flinn and a portion of the western con.
tinsent arrived a short while later.
Although the withdrawal of Mr.. Levi,
met with the approval OF the recent con.
ference in Philadelphia, committeeman
from Schuylkill County VINO favored
Judge Brumm for the nomination are in.
clhed to be somewhat mutinous. Thsy
are not favorable to the idea OF making
changes in the midst of the campaign.
and some of them believe that the Judge
ought to be substituted for Dean Lewis
on the ticket.
Some of the committeeman believe that
William n. Greasy, Democratic candi-
date for Lieutenant Governor, should step
down for a Washington Party man.
When Judge Brumm arrived he said in
reply to inquiries:
~ am opposed to unconditional sur
render" He would add nothing TO this.
Judge Brumm's friends expect him to
make strong fight in the COMMITTEES
meeting against substituting Mccormick
for Lewis, basing his argument on the
fact that Brumm himself ran second to
Lewis at the primaries and ought to have
the nomination.
The meeting of the committee was set
for D. m. and sll members assembled ]
at Chestnut Street Hall at that hour.
A telegram was read from Dean Lewis
that he had missed connections at Phila.
dclphia enroute from Maine, and would
not arrive until 2.S5. The 600 or so com.
mtteemen and spectators present accord.
ingly marked time until his arrival.
AS soon as DR.. Lewis reached the city
he went direct to the Capitol and formally
withdrew as 4 candidate. Then went be.
fore the committee and made formal an.
nouncemcnt of his course. lie laid three
letters before the Committee-hs own
withdrawal and letters exchanged by him
and Mccormick last month.
Dr.. Lewis said lie believed his with
dIawal was approved by an ''overwhclm.
ing majority" Of his followers. Ee asked
the substitution OF Mccormick but said
there mus be no deal whatever about
tho other places on the ticket.
Lewis letter to Mccormick was writ.
ten August IS. In it he said he felt Nc.
Cormicli and himself to he in accord on
"thc destruction of the corrupt political
machine" in control Of tho State govern.
ment and that a the forces OF evil are
united the forces for regeneration
ought not be divided Lewis. in his letter
did not definitely offer to withdraw, nor
did McCormck's reply specify WHO
should quit.
Mccormick replied that he felt he was
in hearty accord with. Lewis views, and
said that "the progressive forces Of our
State should be united, but any such
union must have behind it the cnthusi-
aStic endorsement of the rank and file
OF both parties.
Mccormick instead OF touring through
Centre and adjacent counties today with
the Democratic campaigning party, lcft E
his colleagues on the ticket at Lewis
town last night and came to Harrisburg
to be on hand for the Washington meet
ing today. Rumors were flying that Nc
Cormick would attend the Washington
meeting. but these were denied With the
qualification that he would be- Witnin 1
reach in case tho Committee asked him /
to appear and speak.
1t was rumorcd in political circles In .
Philadelphia that the Washington party /
leaders who are directing the meeting OF
tho Washington party State committee |
ut Harris burg this afternoon are pre-
pairing an ultimatum to the Democrats
to the effect that unless Palmer With
draws in favor Of Clifford Pinchot as the
fusion candidate for United States sem
ator, they will not support McCormick i
the Democratic candidate for Governor /
In whose favor William Draper Lewis
tho Washington party nominee, Win
drew a week ago.
This ultmatum, il was said, will Be
made public after the meeting Of the
state committee in Harrisburg this after
noon, which was called to act upon me
withdrawal of Lewis and to name his
successor on the Washington party
ticket