Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-08
DEMOCRATS WILD
At REGISTRATION
Hunting Around For Some Way to
Attack 1t and Unable to
Explain Their Slump
HEN BERGEY WINGS THE BOSS
Montgomery County Reorganizer
Gets After Mccormick in
Most Approved Style

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Driven to desperation by the tre-
mendous Republican registration in
Harrisburg, the leaders of the McCor-
mick machine are spending more
money and time in efforts to pick
I flaws in ii in the hope of discovering
basis for an appeal to court to strike
off names. The announcement last
night that over so per cent of the
whole registration in the city was Re-
publican maddened the Democratic
machine men and they discarded the
| time -honored excuse that registration
did not mean anything and did not
even employ the Patriots favorite
declaration that people just registered
as Republicans so that they could
vote Democratic. Instead, they start
ed out to attack the registration, and
all sorts of charges were being dis
cussed in order to make ''grandstand
play"
Some of the leaders could not un-
derstand how only 3,l4S Democrats
registered, and were inclined to say
things about registrars, while others
were glum as they thought about the
explanations they would have to give
to Boss Mccormick when he gets back
to town looking for a huge Demo-
elaborate preparations.
In few days the Patriot will trum-
pet out that the registration is to be
probed and that it is intended to let
daylight percolate through the books.
The manner in which Henry Wilson
Bergey, one of the Democratic noise
makers in the last House of Repre-
sentatives and an ar
dent reorganiZer, is
smiling the Palmer Hen Bcr@ey
Mccormick m a Wings Vance
chine is attracting Mccormick
aJtention all over
the State. Bergey
jumped up and down and did what
the ringmasters wanted him to do in
the last House, but he has found that
the sterling Democrats whom he fol-
lowed are but men of clay. In a re-
cent issue of his Lansdale paper he
says his experience has convinced him
that the eNhortation of the State lead
ers of the Democratic party lin the
cause OF human rights is pure junk"
And this from man eXtOlled by Nc
Cormick last year. Then he says:
During the legislative session of 1913
the leaders of the Democratic minor
ity then are now the respective can
didates for United States Senator and
Governor He charges that they mu-
tilated bills to benefit the farmer and
worker for political effect, and says:
During the session the whole aim of
the Democratic leaders was not to
help secure legislation that would pro-
mote the welfare of the State, but to
promote the political ambitions of
Messrs. Palmer and Mccormick" Then
this Democratic reorganizer member
of the House says of Mccormick that
his particular qualification to be Gov
ernor of PENNSYLVANIA is that he has
the price to finance the cost to con-
duct a publicity bureau in a campaign
of villification.' He says il cost nearly
a quarter of million dollars to put
Mccormick and Palmer over and it is
Mccormick money that is being
dumped in to buy him, if possible,
the title of Governor. Then Bergey
winds up by saying that if the charge
that Penrose handled Standard Oil
campaign contributions makes him
unfit to hold public office, then the
million dollars to be paid by McCor-
mick to use the Democratic party for
his own personal ambition is the most
unclegn political sale conducted since
the downfall of the Roman empire"
And he signs his name to it.
A play only equaling in cheapness
the attempt of Fred +. Lewis, the
Bull Moose candidate for Secretary of
Internal Affairs to at
tract attention to his
Cheap Plays candidacy at the State
Fail TO Get Ffremen'S convention,
Any Result by attacking the State
Firemens convention
was made among the
crowds last night by display
of Keystone banners bearing Vari-
Gus legends intending to reflect on
Republicans. They came from the
Democratic State headquarter orig
;Y,n l,tYf s.n1,1
ing them through the crowds in
the hands OF lads who ought to have
been in bed seemed to be about the
size of the brains directing the Pal
mer- Mccormick League in this city
In both instances the efforts fell very
fiat and reacted on the originators,
especially as the Market street po-
litical banners had been removed from
the streets at the request of the fire
mems committee.
Some interesting polls have been
taken among men attending the State
Firemen's convention, and in almost
every instance they
have been favorable
to the Republican Polls Show
candidates. In cou- the Way the
pie of cases Demo- Wind Blows
Gratis were found to
be in a majority, but
they were not very militant. One
Berks county delegation turned out
to have a number of Penrose men
among it and they did not seem to
care who knew it. On a train coming
to the city from Pittsburgh yesterday
morning q poll of 800 firemen was
taken. All but IL were for Penrose
or Brumbaugh and considerably over
majority for both. A poll taken in
a lunch room last night when supper
was beinp served showed 07 for RruY, -
/ baugh and 5 for Mccormick
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