Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-05-05
RYAN GOES AFTER
| SINGLE TAX PR|zER
Candidate For Democratic Con
gressional Nomination Gets a
Rap From Candidate

Mlchael j. Ryan. city solicitor of
Philadelphia, last night took fall
out OF Charles S. Prizer. the Middle
town single taXer who is one of the
candidates for the Democratic nomina-
lon Tor Congress in this district, in
MS speech at Hazleton last night. 1t
was MIR. Ryan's first visit to LuZerne
county and he received an ovation.
This county is admitted even by reor-
ganlzers to be sure for Ryan and Fritz
hlrkendall. the revenue collector, is
simply working to hold down the size
OF the majority and not having q good
time with it, either.
The Philadelphia Ledger says that
Mr. Ryan was in the House of his
friends yesterday and that he received
a wonderful greeting.
In the course of his speech Mr..
Ryan, who had propounded four
questions as yet unanswered by Vance
I. Mccormick, had the following to
say about another Dauphin countian:
Prizer Gets Hit
In the columns of the Harrisburg
Patriot. the newspaper which in viola
ton of postal regulations, is being cir
culated through the State of Pennsyl-
vania, there appears an editorial state
ment based upon n speech of A. Nit
chell Palmer and declaration of Mr..
! Prlzer that some employees of my
| once have said that l could not be
elected If nominated and that L so
declared to Mr.. Palmer
SO far as / have been able to ascer-
tain there are but two employees of my
Office who know Mr.. Prizer and they
are Paul Demoll and Haines D. AL
bright. Both of these men deny that
! they ever made any such statement
to Mr.. PriZer and both of them have
heard Mr.. PriZer declare that L was
the only man who could be elected.
AS to the statement attributed to Mr..
Palmer. l doubt whether he really
could have made any such, but if he
| did | declare 1T to be absolutely un-
true l never made such a declaration
to any one, at any time or in any
place
Mr.. Palmer, however. has made
such declaration and he has assigned
a cause, which l believe is without
reason and will not be supported by
the voters of Pennsylvania"
Ryan Wakes Hot
In meeting largely attended by
miners at Carbondale a red-hot speech
was made by Ryan in which he threat
ord of Mccormick.
Speaking of the published state
ments of Secretary of Labor Wilson
relative to the support Mccormick
would get from organized labor, Mr..
Ryan said that it indicated the des-
perate straits to which the reorganiz-
ers had been driven when they were
obliged to have Secretary Wilson give
Mccormick a certificate of character
In this respect.
''At best" he said, sit is but Secre-
tary Wilson's opinion of the matter.
Mr.. Mccormick made this record and
l fail to see how Secretary Wilson can
alter the situation. After all, it will
be made clear in the next two weeks
that the taking of the union label off
McCormick's paper, the Harrisburg
Patriot, and the veto message of the
workingmen's wage increase ordinance
are only small part of the offenses
committed by Mccormick against or
ganized labor in Pennsylvania"
The Ryan campaigning party OBJ
tanned an acquisition to it's list of
speakers in the person of John t.
Dempsey, president of District No. l,
United Mine Workers of America, who
is the official head of an organization
embracing $1,000 men.
Dempsey is a candidate for State
senator on the Ryan ticket. The min
ers cheered him. He asked them to
give Ryan their whole-hearted sup
port, many of them yelled that they
would. Dempsey said he could not
support Mccormick because of his la
Dor record.
Such a man." said he, 'is not en-
titled to the support of the hard coal
field miner vote and he won't get it,
and I don't think he will get the sup
port of union men anywhere in the
State because of his labor record. II
have estimated that the hard coal
counties will give Ryan a majority of
25.000"