Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-05-01
REGISTRATION IS
GENERALLY LIGHT 7
Republicans Appear to Be the
Gamers, According to Incom-
plete Reports Made
DEMOCRATIC WAR RACES
Orators Bang Each. Other; Spatz
Quits Congressional Race
For Peace

thing like accurate figures can be OBJ
tanned relative to the registration of
voters on Wednesday, none of the
counties having any system whereby
prompt returns can be assured. Indi-
cations in over two-thirds Of the third
class cities, however, indicate that
there has been a marked increase in
Republican enrolment, many men who
had been entered as Washington party
followers having entered as Repub-
| licans
| 1t appears to be generally reported
that the registration was light and that
it favored the Republicans in several
cities which have been inclined toward
the Bull Moosers.
| Democrats made strenuous efforts
to increase registration in Erie and
other cities where there are contests
for control of party machinery. In
Pottsville, where trouble occurred over
the registration, many men did not
go to the polls. Republicans gained
largely in Wilkes-Barre.
Dem ocratic rivals campaigned in
four counties in this part of the State
yesterday. The Palmer Mccormick
caravan started out in
northeastern Lancaster
|county and found things Democrats
|
but found better condi- Many Words
tons in rural Berks.
The tour covered a
good part Of Berks county, which is
inclined to follow the headquarters
flag anyway, but in Reading the party
ran up against pronounced opposition.
Less than 500 attended the McCor-
mick meeting. The speakers talked
from hotel porches most of the day.
! The Ryan aggregation stumped York
and Adams counties and the resent
ment against the Palmer Mccormick
machine because of the post office
scandals was found to be strong.
Everywhere it was found that the ma
chine had been losing ground. Ryan
went from York to Scranton, where
he speaks to-day. Mccormick headed
for Allentown.
The Democratic party is not the
only one that is torn by factional fight
ing. In Philadelphia there is pro-
nounced factionalsm
in Bull Moose circles
Bull Moosers and many of the
in a Family party workers are
Brawl Now declining to get out
on the firing line.
Judge Brum m S
| friends are working hard and the
! Pottsvville man is addressing frequent
meetings. Dean Lewis is being hustled
about to make speeches and his latest
ideas are being exploited. Inside
lquarrels, such as have made the Phil
adelphia reformers ridiculous from
time to time, are breaking out between
the men who have been reformers and
| the practical politicians who dominate
the Washington party.
| Herr Spatz quit the Democratic
| congressional race yesterday in the
midst of the Mccormick tour of Berks
county, thereby adding
to the troubles of the
reorganization bosses. Spatz to
Spatz got into the fight Watch the
as protest against Scrapping
Congressman Rother-
mel, who opposed Pal
mer in some appointments, notably
the effort to put Doc Kremp into the
Reading post office. Spatz thought
he was going to cut some ice, but sud-
denly ex-senator Arthur G. Dewalt
got into the race. Dewalt promptly
| extended the olive branch to Palmer,
and although it is only a few years
since Palmer and Dewalt were at
swords points, they are not throwing
bricks. 1t is even limited that the
State machine is against Rothermel
for daring to be independent. Herr
Spatz evidently figured out that such
u fight was no place for a country
editor loving peace and preferring
quiet to the mudslinging of reor-
ganization campaign.
Berks county manufacturers in
dprsed the candidacy of Boies Pen
rose for denomination and reelection
to the United States Sen
ate at big meeting in
PenrOse Reading yesterday. The
Endorsed chief speech was made
in Berks by Charles e. Leippe,
proprietor of the Read
ing Knitting Mills. He
said that under the present tariff i'm
ports of hosiery, cotton cloth, knit
goods and other products similar to
those made in Berks county mills had
increased anywhere from 40 to GIT
per cent. He identified the cause of a
protective tariff with the Penrose can
didacy, and his hearers unanimously
voted to publish resolution signed
by eighty BerlSs county manufacturers.
The resolution contained an indorse-
ment of the Penrose candidacy and a
declaration for protective tariff.
The Democratic bosses, who failed
to patch up a harmony scheme in the
city legislative nomination fight, are
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