Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-06-20
PIE CUTTING NOW
DEMOCRATIC PLAN
Big Bosses Will Meet in Philadel.
phia Next Week to Divide Up
Some Of the Spoils
NAMING THE POSTMASTERS
Penrose Makes Statement Regard
ing the Platform-Says Demo-
Gratis Are For Him

Gratis Are For Him
| State Boss A. Mitchell Palmer, Can
didate Vance C..McCormick and Chief
Engineer Roland S. Morris, Of the
state machine, will meet in Philadel-
pnla on Monday to apportion more
| slices of federal patronage pie. Those
VINO nave not renewed and reinforced
their applications had better get busy.
The meeting Is not announced in the
machine newspapers and when in
| formation was asked about it it was
stated that matters pertaining to the
fall campaign were to be discussed.
AS the financing of the Fall cam
paign Is very simple matter with
mccormick as candidate, only pat
ronage remains to be discussed.
Yesterday 1t was announced that
Robert M. Foster, former legislator,
nao been given the post office at State
College; M. e. Brown, once candidate
for State Treasurer and lately a re-
organizer the Blairsville office; John
A. Stief, we'll known in Schuylkill af-
| fafrs, the job at Ashland; William III.
hartman. reorganization shouter, the
place at Bentleyville, Washington
county; B. N. Defrance, one Of the
MERCER machine men, Ellwood City,
| and b. w. McCracken, prominent in
Democratic factional fights, the job at
Meharey, In Clearfield county. Con-
gressman Palmer finally put over the
appointment of Charley Knecht for
Nazareth. Each one of these appoint
ments means some sore Democratic
patriots.
There are some federal Jobs around
mere hanging fire and Herr Moeslein
and President Chairman Jones will
submit list of eligibles to the Little
Boss.
Dean William Draper Lewis yester-
day resigned as dean of the law school
OF the University of Pennsylvania so
that he can devote all of
his time to the strenu-
osltles of the campaign, Lewis Gets
which. owing to the Ready for
Colonefs larynx and the Hard Work
idiosyncracies of the
Pinchot brothers. is 60
ing to be very severe on him. The
dean plans a short rest and will then
undertake his speaking tour. He in
tends to speak here and to devote some
time to western counties after the
progressive conference at Pittsburgh
on June 80.
When asked regarding the propo-
sltlon to postpone the meeting of the
Republican State committee until Au-
gust 26 Senator Penrose
yesterday said
Ienrose Il was not consulted in
Ialks On the matter, but possibly a
Campaign deferring of the framing
of the platform until the
latter part of August may
be good Idea The campaign will
not open before September /, although
the Republican party organization
through the State will be busy mean
while preparing for the contest in ar
ranging for the qualification of the
voters and in other ways actively lin
| ing up the forces in the various
counties.
'It would appear that the State
committee intends that the party plat
form shall be the result of careful
| thought and an exchange of views of
representative Republicans of the en-
tire State. AS far as l can learn there
has been no agreement upon any par
ticular plank, nor will there be until
the subcommittee of which former
chairman shall submit its report to
| the general committee.
AT Sunbury yesterday, where there
was probably the largest crowd that
has assembled there in recent years,
, heard on every hand predictions of a
sweeping Republican victory in the
| Fall. Many Democrats are publicly
| announcing their determination to vote
the Republican ticket as they are sick
and tired of the Wilson-Palmer free
| trade tactics and the disastrous indus
| trial and business depression resulting
therefrom."
Clifford Pinchot, who is campaigning
in Philadelphia, refuses to believe that
the Colonel will not make speeches in
this State and declares
he will talk in Pitts
burgh and throughout G. Pinchot
the campaign. In Phila- VIII Not Be
delphia yesterday Mr.. Comforted
Pinchot upheld the con-
tention of his brother,
Amos Pinchot, that the Progressives
of New York should drop George w.
Perkins.
my brother is right" declared Mr..
Pinchot II am in hearty agreement
with his desire that the Progressive
party should be free from the burden
of Perkins Craftsmanship. Perkins has
had and will have nothing whatever
| to do with my fight against Penrose in
Pennsylvania. In general the people
| of our State appear to take little in
terest in Perkins
There is fun ahead in the Diffen-
derfer-Grim congressional nomination
row and Bucks Democrats are IN in
the air. At Doylestown
yesterday ge Ryan
Democrats made an order directing
Warning in the county commissioners
Old Bucks to open the ballot box Of
Trumbauersville on June
29 and recount the votes
| cast by members of the Democratic
party for the nomination of repre-
| sentative in Congress. Signers of the
Trumbauersville petition allege that at
| least three men not enrolled as men,
bers of the Democratic party in that
district were allowed to vote. 1t is
alleged by the Diffenderfer supporters
that the election generally in upper
Bucks county was conducted in loose
manner. 1t is alleged that no fewer
than twenty Democrats voted in Sell
lersville who were not entitled under
/ the law.
Senator Grim, however, smiles over
the situation and says he knows a dis
trict where ten votes were cast with
out authority and that his brother
Harry only received six votes In the
whole district. so that not all the
| illegal votes could have been cast for
him. but that Diffenderfer also must
1 =.