Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-25
|CLUB DINNER WILL
Be GREAT AFFAIR
The Harrisburg Republicans Will
Have Celebration on Even
ing Of May Is
DEMOCRATS ARE BRAWLING
Finding Fault Over State Com.
mittee; Henry Meyer Drops
Out of the Race

r.
Cluo Tor the dinner of the club IN
honor of the twelfth anniversary OF
the incorporation of the organizat tiou
winch Is one of the best known in this
part OF the State, and the date was
irHeo r, Tor Monday evening. May 1S.
ms date is the night before the pri-
mary election and is expected to be a
district.
President L. r. Metzger will preside
at the club meeting. which will pre-
Gede the dinner, and Senator e. E.
BeldIeman will be the POSTMASTER al
Ihe dinner Senator Penrose, Governor
Iener, Congressman Kreider and other
prominent Republicans will be among
the speakers.
The committee in charge is COM
posed or prominent members of the
ciup' VINO have been assured of strong
support.
senator Boies Penrose, returnins
lrom Washington yesterday, where he
voted with the national Administra-
tion in support of the war
resolution, made this
neIirose statement in reply to an
Treuicts Inquiry regarding the
i1aioshde political situation: "The
indications point to a
isCpupHCdu ldnuSllQG IN
november. There has been a ten
dency In this direction all winter and
IL mas increased with remarkable mo-
mentum during the last two or three
weeks.
TOO much of the lecture circuit
and too little craftsmanship has pre-
vailed. While every patriotic Amer
lcan VIII be back of the government
ana we VIII be united now that we are
IN trouble. yet the war will be looked
upon as unnecessary and will he nm
popular. If it should be prolonged in
an interminable effort at pacification
IL Will impose heavy financial burdens
on our government which will have
10 be met by increased taxes. In
creased taxes were cheerfully paid in
the Spanish War because of the ey.
traCrdlnary prosperity abounding in
every direction. AT the present time
conditions are steadily growing worse
and the country is in no position
dens."
Democrats have already begun to
quarrel over the election of the mem
pers OF the State committee, for wh ose
control the machine is
contending as earnestly
as 1t Is for the guber- Cameron
material nomination. Democrats
ana contest has begun Warning
against the qualifica-
tions of John w. Nor
IT'S 10 stand as a candidate for State
committeeman in Cameron county II
is charged that Norris has no right on
earth. Norris and Bernard Eean filed
petitions to be candidate for State
committeeman from Cameron. which
mas about as much population as Mid
oietown and Highspire together. Egan
claims that he has 224 of the 900
Democrats enrolled in the county and
that the other fellow can't get the
requisite number to qualify as a can
didate.
Things are not going peacefully
in the Washington party either.
Yesterday there were fresh out
breaks inside of the
Philadelphia organiza-
pun Moosefs ton and the friends
DeNcloping of Dean Lewis, wor-
f"hhiy HOW ried over the spread
OF Brumm sentiment,
named a committee
to take charge of his canvass for the
nomination Lewis is out on the stump
ana has found that Brumm is very
popular. The row inside the Phila
delphia end led to this DEVELOPMENT
according to- the Public Ledger: "Ex-
State Senator John Tilden Murphy.
county committeeman of the Roose
Velt followers of the Washington partv
In the Forty-third Ward, replied yes
terday to the resolutions adopted by
the Independence Club of that ward
requiring that he be ousted from the
Washington party city committee. He
described the club as IAN aggregation
oi heystoners, sham progressives and
Penrose machine followers" and said
he was going to fight to the end tbe
attempt to force him out of the wash
ington party"
Henry Meyer, of Pittsburgh, one of
the Democratic candidates for Com
gress- -at-large, filed his withdrawal as
a candidate at the
Capitol late last
night. Mr.. Meyer was Never Not
one of the four men To Mako th.,
put forward py the Campaign
of the Ryan
campaign, and no
reason is given for his retirement
There are still eleven candidates for
the four nominations by the Demo-
Gratis IN the field. Mr. Never is tho
nrst person to withdraw as a candi-
date for Statewide nomination. The
time Tor withdrawing expired last
night.
Other candidates who withdrew
were:
Senate-John r. Dierst Allegheny:
Republican and Washington, Forty
fourth
Representative-Madison A. Garvin.
Adams; j. A. Fl. Bleistein. Republican.
Lebanon; Thomas Curtis. James nj
Jones, w. c. Steff, Luzerne: Wallace
Bromley. Republican, Philadelphia: !:
Joseph e. Greenwood, Republican.
philadelphia; Frank r. Petry, Repub,
1can, Somerset; Nathan l.. Jones. Re-
publican, Philadelphia; Frank r.
kIumpp, Washington and Renuhlican