Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-03-07
SPEAKER ALTER IS
NOT A CANDIDATE
Says That He viii Not Enter the
Contest For Republican
Gubernatorial Job
GIVES HIS PERSONAL REASON
Brumm Will Enter the Race For
the Bull Moosers Nomination
Very Speedily
GIVES HIS PERSONAL REASON

Speaker George e. Alter, of the
State House of Representatives, last
night announced in Pittsburgh that
he would not be a candidate for the
Republican nomination for governor
The speaker said that personal rea-
sons impelled him to this decision, but
he intimates pretty strongly that he
/ intends to continue in politics, but Is
not now candidate for anything.
The speakers announcement has
been awaited with much interest as
ihe has many friends in this commun-
Iity, who would have been glad to take
off their coats in his behalf
| In his statement the speaker says:
| 1T Is we'll known to my friends who
have talked to me about the matter
that the suggestion Of my being a can
didate for governor at the coming
election has never appealed strongly
to me. / have now decided definitely
that I will not be a candidate. The
very strong tenders of support which
come to me have been extremely
gratifying and many of my friends
have suggested reasons for my candi-
dacy, to all of which / have listened
and given full consideration, but l can
| not agree to be a candidate at this
time. Reasons of a personal nature,
apart from public or political con-
siderationS, have all along weighed
against the thought of my candidacy
and mainly control this final decision.
have deferred this announcement
because of my reluctance to disappoint
some Of my friends who have been
most kind in their advocacy of my
candidacy and who insisted on my
giving the question further considera-
ton.
while about it l might as we'll
say that I am not a candidate for
anything. / have always advocated
the duty of taking an active part in
political affairs, and shall continue to
take such a part, but continuous hold
ing Of public Office is not essential to
public usefulness"
Judging from appearances, the
miieryans are going to make a con-
test with the reo-gangsters for control
| of the Democratic State
| committee at the COM
To Contest ing primary and in ad-
Control of dition to the fight over
| the Machine the nomination for Gov
ernor the opponents of
the bosses will face a
| fight all along the line. Five hundred
nominating petitions have been taken
| faction opposed to the reo-bosses and
they will be filed in due season, say
| the leaders of the other crowd. In
addition it is said that a candidate to
oppose A. Mitchell Palmer for the
| senatorial nomination is to be uncov-
| cred and men will be named to oppose
| the stating of Greasy for Lieutenant
| Governor, Mechling for Secretary of
! Internal Affairs and Bright and the
rest of the Jersey slate for the con-
gressional posts.
| According to information from
Philadelphia, nominating petitions in
| w a S h n on party
nomination for Gov
ernor will be started Bull Moosers
out within a few days Split Over
| by friends of the the Stating
Schuylkill judge and
around him will rally
! all of those opposed to the Finn
Van Valkenburg domination of the
remnants of the organization. State
Chairman A. Nevin DIETRICH is now
sitting as chairman at Philadelphia
and is making a valiant effort to keep
up courage by whistling and slamming
Penrose. There are so many inside
| fights in the Bull Moose organization
J that 1t is almost in the same class as
the faction-rent Democracy of Penn
! sylvania.
The Philadelphia Ledger says to-
day: superintendent Brumbaugh,
whose candidacy for the Republican
| gubernatorial nomina-
! ton will be announced
Brumbaugh next week. will declare
! Favorable in favor of local option.
! to Option This was clearly indi-
| Gated yesterday when
| friends said that DR..
Brumbaugh will be sky high and true
blue on every moral question: Fur
ther impetus to the Brumbaugh boom
was received yesterday when friends
of the 'schoolmaster, attorneys in
Blair and Cambria counties, came here
| to call upon him and to offer their
support. These friends were J. Banks
Kurtz, former school teacher and an
exdistrict attorney of Altoona, Blair
county. and ]. w. Leech, of Ebens-
burg, an ex-superintendent of schools
of Cambria county and an ex-district
attorney. They came to the city to
tell DR.. Brumbaugh that the people of
their counties, regardless of party ties,
were for him for Governor"