Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-06-11
REPUBLICANS FAR
IN LEAD IN STATE
PoIled $4,000 of the Total Vote
Cast For Governor in the
State Last Month

Ofnc1al HgureS show that there We're
just 571,734 votes polled on the nom-
ination of candidates for Governor at
the first Statewide primary ever held
in PENNSYLVANIA for the selection of
candidates for the executive Office, and
of this total 320,097 were polled for
the four candidates for the Republi-
can nomination. Just 200,S54 were
polled in the Democratic contest.
However, comparison between the
contests is not to be made. The Demo-
Gratis engaged in one of the most furi-
Gus struggles that has marked the
Keystone State, and every effort was
made to get the enrolled voters to the
polls, as the statements of the Palmer
Mccormick committees show. And
yet they polled but 100000 votes in
contest in which the national admins
| tration took a hand and which ex-
| tended over months. The contest in
| side the Republican ranks was
hardly ripple and yet DR.. Brum-
baugh polled 25S,7SS votes. In other
| words he got quarter of million
votes without making much of a cam
the contending Democrats got out only
100000 votes. The Brumbaugh vote
was the second highest cast at the
primary. Henry Houck having 274,000
votes. Joseph Cauffiel, who ran high
| est against Brumbaugh, got 32,1S by
| dint of considerable campaigning and
expenditure of $4,000, while Edward
R. Wood got 21,397 in Philadelphia
on a local campaign. The Bull Moose
total vote on Governor was 4S.3S6.
One of the interesting things about
! the campaign is that Brumbaugh is
also keystone nominee.
According to word from Washing
| ton, p asident Wilson has become
scared over the situation, in Pennsyl-
vania and has promised to
make at least two speeches
in behalf of the White Wilson
House Twins. The rubber Coming
stamp ticket was accepted to Help
by the voters of the State
by dint of expenditure of
lavish amount of money and the Presi-
dent is now going to show that he
approves OF all that was done, no
matter what other people may think.
Just where he will speak is not
known, but that he is coming in an eff
fort to line up Democrats who have
turned with disgust from Mccormick
is evident.
The Philadelphia Ledger in review
of the primary expense account says:
AN erroneous impression has gone
abroad, which. in a
way, does Mr.. Nc
Remarks on Cormick an injustice.
Primaries 1t detracts from
just Past reputation he has
honestly acquired as
| the greatest political
spendthrift since the time of Addicks
and the Delaware episode. 1t must not
be understood that the cost of Mr.
| McCormick's nomination was a paltry
| $33,274.73. That is the amount re-
turned-itemized-a having been ex-
| pended by the candidate himself, aided
| only by a member of his family, who
| contributed $1,000. 1t is fund wholly
separate and apart from the expendi-
| lures by the Palmer and Mccormick
| committees in the various counties, ex-
cept that the candidate contributed
$4,000 to the Palmer and Mccormick
League. The watchers, the work ers,
the patriots who charged from SO to
$25 a day for getting out the vote,
We're paid by the Palmer and McCor-
mick League. 1t is not known what
this league invested and will not be
this week, as the committees have
thirty days in which to report, and
only twenty-four of them have been
heard from. If those already filed are
to be taken as a criterion of cost, then
at low estimate $4,000 more must
be added to the sum confessedly neces.
sary to insure the nomination of a re-
former and reorganizer at direct
primary in which the majesty an6
sovereignty of the people were to be
revealed in a peculiar way"
Dauphin county Progressives, who
have been considerably disturbed BY
the persistent reports that Colone
Roosevelt did not in
tend to give more
than four days to Progressives
speechmaking i n Worried Over
Pennsylvania, and Pinchot Ac,
that there is little
chance of him TAX
ing much hand in matters in this sec
ton, were rather downcast last nigh,
when the news got about that Amos
Pinchot had demanded the retirement
of Perkins. Perkins has always beer
: considered a most valuable member o1
the party's high council by the Dau
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