Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-01-26
DON'T
ELECT A SENATOR
The People Will Nominate and
Elect Just the Same as They
Will a Governor
JUST SCHEME TO BECLOUD
Democrats Face Fight For State
Committee-Matt and Bailey
in a Snarl

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forts of men identified with the inner
councils of the Bull Moose party and
the bare-faced attempts of the reo-
bosses in the Democratic ranks to
make it appear that the election of
Senator Boies Penrose is an issue in
the election of members of the next
Senate and House the fact is that the
| legislators have nothing to do with it.
The nomination and election of the
United States senators are in the
hands of the people just as they are in
oregon or Kansas or any other State
which has been perched high up on
the Progressive ladder - and talked
about.
The injection of the senatorial cleo
ton bugaboo into the campaign for
the Legislature is nothing more than
an attempt on the part of the REQ
bosses to hide their own weakness
and plain scheme on the part of the
Films and that type to get control of
the lawmakers.
Candidates for United States senator
Will be nominated at the primaries in
May by parties, just as will be the
candidates for governor, lieutenant
governor, secretary of internal affairs,
and four congressmenat-larg The
candidates for supreme justice will be
nominated on a nonpartisan ballot and
the two men getting the highest num-
ber of votes will be placed on the bal
lot. In all other respects the nomi-
nations will be on the same principle
as the nomination of a congressman
in a district, a purely partisan af-
fair. The State ticket will be nomi-
mated for the first time by direct pri-
mary and Republicans, Democrats,
Washingtonians and the rest will all
name their tickets. And. speaking of
senatorial nominations, the only man
who appears to be slated and sure is
none other than the opponent of
bosses-in other parties-Gifford Pin
chot, the Progressive of Washington,
New York and Pike county, Pa.
The committee named on Friday to
invite President Wilson to be the ora
tor of the clubs Jefferson day dinner
has begun to stir
around and it is
Reorganizers said that if the
Hope Wilson assurance of the
Will Come Here Pr e ident to be
here can be Sc
cured the dinner
will be served at the Chestnut street
market hall, where the club held its
dinner last year and where. by the
way, President Wilson spoke when
here in 1911. On that occasion he
and Champ Clark, rivals for the
presidential nomination, were the ora
tors. The committee has started to
sound out the President and will make
an earnest effort to get him here as
the day will be just about a month
before the primaries and for reor-
ganizers to secure some of the presi-
dental smiles would be worth a lot
to bosses like Palmer. Mccormick.
Norris and the like. If they win the
nominations they expect to have Will
son butt into this State as he did in
New Jersey and in order to get the
nominations they are planning to use
him as well.
Dauphin county will not be the only
county in this section where a lively
fight will be waged for members of
the Democratic State
committee be use,
according to current Committee
rumor, Joe Totten Seats Worry
plans to run for State Reo-bosses
committeeman aga n.
Totten thrashed the
Mccormick candidate at the primary
last September and is getting ready
to do it in May. He wants to be the
postmaster of Carlisle and if he does
not get it he and some others will
start things. In York men connected
with the reorganization cause are ar
ranging to run again and will have a
hot fight. In Lancaster the element
which clings to orthodoxy in Demo-
cratic affairs is going to make an effort
to unseat the Davis crowd and to get
the State committee seats. In Perry
the reorganizers rely on Jim Magee to
hold things level, but the fact that he
has a fat and soft office does not
make him any stronger. Lebanon is
said to be already counted as lost by
the reorganization gangsters. Bert
Fritchey's candidacy for the State
committee will be strongly supported
all over Dauphin county.
Democratic State bosses are COM
mencing to get concerned over the
fight being waged in one Of the divi-
sions of the State ma
chine between the par
Bailey and tisans of Congressman
Matt Scrap Warren Worth Bailey
Over Jobs and Represen a t 1 e
John T. Matt, of pass
b boom erang fame.
Matt, it will be recalled, defeated
Bailey for division chairman when the
divisions were organized here last
year and has been keeping it up. The
recent Altoona conference was marked
by no end of scrapping over the man
agement of affairs and it is said that
notice was served or Bailey that he
had better take orders or his road to
Congress next Fall would be blocked.
The reo-bosses favor Bailey because
he owns a newspaper, but they are
afraid to antagonize Matt's following
Bailey wants to run again, but there
are hints that he may be opposed
Lynn Brua will be the Washington
candidate and ex-Congressman Jesse
l.. Hartman will be the Republican
nominee in all probability.