Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-26
NJ 'CORM|CK GETS
ST|NC|NC RETORT
Philadelphia Public Ledger Takes
Up His Challenge" and
Hands One in Return
ASKED WHERE HE STANDS
Fusion in the State Declared to Be
Impossible. Says Another
Independent Paper

Vance C. Mccormick whose mock
heroic efforts to attract attention by
challenges" have been played to the
limit by his own newspaper and hardly
anywhere else. got a stiff reply from
a challenge" he hurled at the Phila-
delphia Public Ledger. Nothing has
caused more chagrin to the wealthy
Harrisburg candidate than his failure
to get the support of the great inde-
pendent morning newspaper of Phila-
delphia, and angered by its advocacy
of DR.. Brumbaugh as the best fitted
man for the Governors chair, he un-
dertook to play Ajax the other day up
the State. In this case the lightning
appears to have hit him.
Mccormick challenged the Ledger
to tell where Brumbaugh stands The
Ledger replied to-day that Brum-
baugh stands Embossed and that 25S.-
600 Republicans, or more than all
the Democratic vote cast, supported
him at the primary. The Ledger says
that he stands for local option, for
square labor laws, protection of la
borers in hazardous occupations, for
safeguarding public health, for good
roads for woman suffrage and for
The gospel of the splendor of our
commonwealth and not making its
fair name a target for mud.
Then the Ledger adds: And there
are other things he stands against,
which are just as important as his
positive declarations. He is opposed
to those who traduce and villify Penn
Sylvania by deed or word, and he does
not believe in robbing a man of his
good name by defaming him, even
though he is a candidate for office.
There is no doubt where Brumbaugh
stands.
May the Public Ledger ask Mr..
Mccormick where he now stands on
cratic ring, which for twenty years
was in secret alliance with Penrose
and Penroseism?"
Another very significant thing in
Philadelphia newspaper appeared last
night when the Philadelphia Evening
Bulletin, the biggest in
dependent even n 9
Bulletin newspaper in the east
Nentilates ern part of the country
the Fusion outside OF New York,
declared that fusion be-
tween the Democrats
and Washingtonians was an impossi-
bility. The Bulletin, which is noted
Tor its sane editorials and for its very
independent stand, makes this quota
tion from the speech of Colonel Roose-
welt at Sprin gtield, Ill: "Our policy
and our practices are as far as the
poles from the policies and practices
in their essence entirely bourbon
and reactionary-that the Democratic
party organization at Washington has
advocated and partially put into eff
PttlI
Mr.. Roosevelt comes into Pennsylva-
mia to advocate Progressive support
for the Democratic candidate for Gov
ernor, he Will he giving succor to the
very party and policies and practices
which he thus denounces as being as
far removed as the poles from the
desires and purposes of the Progress
i've party. A vote for the Democratic
candidate for Governor is a direct vote
for the party which he describes as
bourbon and reactionary," and a
vote for Mr.. Pinchot for Senator is a
half vote for Mr.. Palmer, who wants
to go to the Senate to aid the Demo-
cratic Administration at its vital point
of need in putting these Objectionable
policies into effect. Fusion between
two parties, as far removed as the
poles from one another is an impos-
sibility. Nor can the State and ma
tional candidates. on the ticket be
separated and distinguished as ex-
pressions of the voters will. In fact
Mr.. Roosevelt comes into Pennsylva-
MIA solely on the ground that great
national issues are at stake and are
of paramount Importance in the cam
paign. His interference in purely
State affairs would be resented He
comes as sponsor for the national pro-
gram of the Progressive party and
consistently cannot espouse Demo-
- n aia fnr
One of the most interesting and en-
tertaining features of the campaign
is the manner in which sentiment is
being famed in the
home town" by the
Expensive partisans of Vance C.
to- Hold Mccormick. You do
Home Town not hear so much
about Palmer as you
do about Mccormick
and as folks here are pretty we'll ac-
quainted with Farmer" Greasy he
is left out and 1t is not good form to
mention the name of McNair In GER
tain Democratic quarters. AS for the
Democratic nominees for Congress-at-
large no one seems to know who they
are around some OF the Democratic
district posts" The meetings being
held cost some dollars each night, the
bands running into money and the
men in charge do not appear to be
bothered about the cash necessary to
run the show.
In an open letter to ex-senator Will
liam Finn and his associates in the
fusion deal with Mccormick, who is
now the head of the mule
ticket, c. Tyson Kratz.
OF Montgomery coun- Kratz
ty. says: Hundreds of Raps
thousands of his sup Finn
porters in this State in
common with nj SCI
hoped that events would so shape
themselves. and that he and his re-
sponsible leaders in this State would
so act that we could in 1916 make
a united representation to the Repub-
lican party that Colonel Roosevelt was
the only man that could win over
President Wilson, well knowing that
as the candidate of the Progressive
party alone he had no chance of sue
cess. 1 had already determined to
assist in putting his name on the Re-
publican ballot for the primary OF
that year, and If necessary, under the
law of the State, to stand as a delegate
in his interest. Manifestly 1t was the
part of wisdom in this gubernatoria
lcontest for you gentlemen to follow
the wishes of at least 10 per cent. oil
!; his supporters in 1912 and put Doctor
J Brumbaugh, whose cause these 75 pei
cent. early espoused, on the Washing
ton ticket for Governor and make thu
lcontest on senator alone. Colone
Rooeave1f and his friends had No case