Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-06-22
SNYDER ASSA|[S
M 'CORM|CK'S WAYS
Says That 1t Cost Him $lOO, 900
to Put Him Over as a Candi-
date For Covernorship
YORK DEMOCRATS BRAWL
Act Just Like Those Did in Dela-
ware County-Pinchot Gets
Trouble in Throat

/ lrouDle IN throat
The Mccormick primary expense
accounts, which have been attracting
much attention as they turn up on
Capitol Hill from day to day. fur
nished theme for an interesting ad-
dress by Senator Charles A. Snyder
at Pottsville on Saturday. The SEN
ator, who Is a frequent visitor to this
city, followed the primary campaign
with interest and on Saturday in a
speech before the Republican county
committee charged that Mccormick
spent 100000, first and last to be
nominated for Governor. The Sem
ator ala not go into details, but con-
tented himself with that statement.
ne also went into the Mccormick
| tnat so5,O00 was raised for McCor-
mlck's election and that a lot was left
over.
| senator Snyder will be one of the
| Repuoilcan speakers In the campaign
TO begin about September /.
Clifford Pinchot's voice went out in
| sympathy with that of the Colonel on
saturday. He was to have spoken to
the p. o. S. of A. at
Doylestown, but when he
got under way he found Pinchot's
that making 29 speeches Voice Is
| in one day was too much FrazzIed
for him. Then he made
some remarks about his
| larynX and gave it up. However, Pin
chot and Lewis will be at it again
to-day as they begin their tour of
northern counties. Lewis will leave
the stump to meet the Colonel on his
ARRIVAL in New York and. Pinchot will
follow the trail laid out by Nevin
DIETRICH. Pinchot has not been meet
ing with much success as a drawing
card and is inclined to be testy about
1t.
York county Democrats indulged in
a good time row when the county
committee met for reorganization on
Saturday and the
Peeling faction put
YORK County 1t all over the Love
democrats III fac On, w h | C h
Row Again backed Ryan in the
late unpleasantness.
The fuss was so pro-
nounced that Democrats at the State
windmill are wondering what the ef-
feet will be in the Fall and will ask
the pie cutting" conferees at Phila-
delphia to-day to straighten things
out. ]. I. Atkins, the new chairman,
is reorganizer. The York county Re-
publicans held meeting which was
in sharp contrast to the warning
Democrats. They elected DR.. r. II.
Stable as chairman and adopted reso-
lutions blasting Wilson and his policies
all over the map. York is feeling the
industrial depression and the resolu-
tions went home to many.
William S. Leib, resident clerk of
the House, was elected as chairman
of the Schuylkill county Republican
committee again at the
annual meeting in
PottSville on Saturday Leib Again
and G. 7. Straughan, of Pilot In
Shenandoah, secretary. Schuylkill
The committee heard
several speakers. in
Guiding Senator Snyder, and adopted
resolutions. The Republicans have an
excellent working organization and
the Democrats are divided. The Bull
Moosers of Schuylkill also met on Sat-
urday and elected c. E. Gangloff, Of
Schuylkill Haven, as chairman and
heard speeches by Judge Brumm and
Representative John Robert Jones.
Some interesting facts are presented
about the appellate courts by Frank
J. Price, correspondent of the Phila-
delphia Ledger, in an ar
ticle sent from here. He
Western says: "Since Pennsyl-
End Well vania became a State
Cared For there have been fifty
three judges of the Su-
preme and seventeen
judges of the Superior Court. OF
these, Philadelphia county has had
twelve and Allegheny county six. Dau-
phin, in which is situated the capital
of the State, has never had Supreme
or a Superior Court judge. Allegheny
county has been represented on the
Supreme bench continuously for per-
iod of forty-six years. Attention has
been called to the fact that more than
half the population of the State-4.-
800, 900 to be executives east of the
Susquehanna river, and yet there are
already nine judges of the two appel
late courts selected from counties west
of the Susquehanna, seven of them
from far west to five from east of that
river. Geography does count, as was
shown in the primaries. AS has been
said. each candidate carried his own
county, Kunkel getting virtually IA
unanimous vote of Dauphin."
Pittsburgh is to be the political
storm center Of the State again, be-
ginning about the last week or this
month. Senator Boies
Penrose will probably
go there on June 26 and Pittsburgh
move around in the Again the
western counties for High Spot
week or more looking
over the fences thrown
up in his behalf for the Fall cam
paign. He expects to be there through
out .he visit of Colonel Roosevelt and
the Washington party leaders of the
Commonwealth. They will be in ses-
sion for several days. June 20 Gif-
ford Pinchot and W. Draper Lewis,
Washington party candidates for
United States Senator and Governor,
will arrive in Pittsburgh to remain
during the Progressive reunion festivi-
ties that Roosevelt is hurrying home
from Europe to attend. william Finn
will Arrive day or two in advance
of the State candidates of the party
he issbig chief in Pennsylvania. He
is in California now.