Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-21

Democrats around the State wind
mill were mad clean through to-day at
the laundering that had forced them
to allow the name of William Draper
Lewis to remain on the ballot when
they thought they had it all fixed, and
what they were saying about Judge
Brumm's failure to swear to his with
drawal as Bull Moose candidate for
Governor cannot be printed here.
Day after day, men high in the
councils of the Democratic and Wash
ington parties have pored over the
records at the Capitol where Lewis
name remained on the books and only
by scouts of the fusion machine. The
fact that they overlooked ii. that Dean
Lewis forgot all about it and that the
managers of the campaign in behalf
of Mccormick never dreamed of ii
constitute one of the funny things of
the campaign.
When the news that Lewis and
Brumm Would be on the official ballot
reached the windmill yesterday after
noon there was gathering of bosses
for one of Chairman Morris "reCeiv-
ing days" and James /. Blakslee,
fourth assistant postmaster general
who has so much time to run around
Pennsylvania this year, was also pres
ent again. At first the gangsters would
mot believe it and then they said things
that must have made Lewis ears burn.
The fact that their own stupidity was
to blame never occurred to them.
The discovery that Lewis name
would be on the ballot took all the
pleasure out of the realization that
Palmer had put one over on the Bull
MooSers when he refused to withdraw
as senatorial candidate. 1t looks as
though fortune had slipped the gold
brickerS a gold brick, too.
The official announcement of the
visit to Harrisburg of Colonel Theodore
Roosevelt during his swing around the
State shows that the
Colonel will be in the
Roosevelt home city of the Dem
Stop just ocratic candidate for
30 Minutes Governor on october
20 for exactly one hour
| and a half. He will
| get here at 10, coming from Tyrone;
will speak at Chestnut Street Hall al
1915 and at 11.30 will be on his way
back to New York with his promise ia
ennsylvanians kept and his troubles
with the waning Progressives here
ended. The Colonel will be here on
the fourth day of his tour and Harris
| burg will be the last stop. The official
announcement put out last night in
Philadelphia says: Clifford Pinchot
LOT WnOm COlOnel Roosevelt VIII speak
will accompany the Roosevelt train
and will speak with Roosevelt" The
Colonels train will make stops al
| Lewistown, Mitflin, Newport and Dun
cannon. Democrats and Bull Moosers
here are making big efforts to get a
crowd and no one who lives within
! fifty miles of Harrisburg and who
wants to hear the Colonel need miss
if it he knows the ropes. A crowd is
. be secured.
| The contest of the nomination pa
pers filed by the Democratic State
committees inside committee for Wal
/ nut and Robinson in
philadelphia has de-
Iveloped into a fight Bucking the
| against the rules of Machine SET
t h e State committee. of Rules
| The principal point of
contention is that the
| executive committee has usurped the
power of local committees and put the
two men on the ticket without con-
sulting the ward or district commit
tees. The Democratic State executive
committee will fight the contest, con-
tending that under the act of 1913 Its
rules are strictly legal and in accord
with the letter and spirit of the law
| If the objections are sustained, down
will go the whole set of rules of the
State committee, and the whole bunch
of nominations made by it in the fu-
| sion scheme for Congress and Legisla-
ture will be thrown out