Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-14
STATE COMMITTEE
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States Senator and Vance C. McCor-
mick aspirant for the gubernatorial
nomination. No effort to endorse was
| made however.
These actions were the answer of
the men now in control of the State
machine committee to the platform
announced by Henry Budd Palmers
| rival for the senatorial nomination,
last night answers too the criticisms
| hurled at the committee officers. Pal
mer said that he might have some-
thing to say about Budd's platform,
but contented himself with an oblique
attack in a general way against critics
of the President. Mccormick did not
attend the meeting.
| The session was attended by IS of
the SO members. All of the Phila-
delphians, most of whom are for
Ryan, were present except Charles P.
part in the discussions. Allegheny
had a solid delegation and the only
absentees were from Clearfield Law
renee Lebanon, Westmoreland, North
ampton, Sullivan, Somerset. Wayne
and York. Many federal office holders
were present, several sitting as prox-
les. James I. Blakslee, assistant post
master general, took part in discus
sion, but declined to talk about the
charges against him. Others on hand
were Collector Kirkendall District At
torney Humes Marshal Magee and
Howley and several postmasters. DR..
M. NJ. Dougherty, of Mechanicshurg,
and Mayor Royal contributed to the
setting. DR.. Tomb, of Indiana, was
not there.
"MalSe' Wins the Day.
The committee got into a wrangle
over phrases in the draft of changes
of rules. one point of difference being
whether the executive committee
should make" or suggest changes
in rules of county committees. FL
nally some one shouted Make Is good
Anglo-SaXon" and make" won the
day. Then John A. Martin, of Alle-
Il gheny, where the vote count takes a
fortnight, had the rule on notice made
elastic and after a fight in which Ben
f. Davis, the stormy petrol from
Lancaster, made the first of nineteen
speechlets, the committee decided not
to allow the State committee to be
bothered by appeals from decisions
of the executive committee on party
| fights in counties. The executive COM
mittee, by the way, is the old Guffey
plan of division chairman, which used
to be denounced as something awful,
just like the furnishing of free trans
portation used to be considered of
fensive-before the reorganizers got
control.
+. b. McGinnis and James l. Biak-
slee engineered the repeal of a phrase
which they thought would interfere
with committee rights in throwing
out men not deemed faithful. Chair
man Morris said it did not matter
much but as McGinnis has been
willing worker on the stump they let
him have 1t. Rules Chairman, Ar
thur Mexican backed up by Bruce
Sterling, of Fayette, and Ben Davis
then had few more passages at
arms and after Mr.. Davis had been de-
! feated again the rules were adopted.
Mr.. Morris then made his state
ment from the chair about the use of
money collected. but he did not men
ton the activities of one Wilson
Bailey. the collector" of the State
committee whose name has been
mixed up with some things printed in
the newspapers lately about postmas-
ters and contributions. Mr.. Bailey
did not appear on the platform, al
though several members asked what
he looked like.
The Red. White and Blue.
Palmer's speech was right after Jo-
seph Balentine had presented the
resolution to endorse Wilson. Balen-
tine comes from Easton, which is in
Palmer's district. and the. resolution
endorsing Wilson was written on