Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-08
M 'CORM|CK NEEDS
LITTLE MORE LIGHT
Anti-Suffrage Leader Shows Him
Error of Making Unsupported
Political Speeches

Vance C. Mccormick. Democratic
candidate for governor, has asked for
more light on the suffrage question,
| according to Miss M Emmilinne Pitt,
| field secretary of the PENNSYLVANIA
Association Opposed to Woman Suff-
rage, who met him at the Williams
| Grove Changers picnic.
Mr.. Mccormick in his speech at
Williams Grove, said he believed that
women should have the vote If eighty
million women workers demand the
ballot"
Miss Pitt. who was also on the plat
| form, asked Mr.. Mccormick where he
| had gotten his information. and as
sured him that eighty million was al
most twice the total female population
of the United States, and that there
are only S,O75,772 feminine workers
in America over ten years of age, ac-
oording to the census report of June
! 20. 1914.
Mr.. Mccormick flushed and replied
that he did not mean eighty million,
but eight million.
Miss Pitt said that the suffragists
themselves claim total national
membership of only $4,000, and ask
| ed why the eight million?"
Mr. Mccormick then raised a suff-
rage fan and remarked: We'll. they
say here that eight million women
workers demand the ballot.
| IF you were governor of Pennsyl-
vania, Mr.. Mccormick. asked Miss
| Pitt, would you decide vital policies
for the Commonwealth on the basis of
campaign figures on suffrage fan ?''
Mr. Mccormick smiled and aban-
doned the controversy by saying that
he would appreciate further informa-
tion, and Miss Pitt promised to give
! him full details of the suffrage issue
as regards wage-earning women
which recently have been published
Throughout the country.
The divisions existing among the
| Democrats in Philadelphia, Fayette.
! Blair, Huntingdon, Erie, Luzerne,
Montgomery, Susque-
t.hanna and other coun-
ties are annoying Can Unhappy
didate Mccormick and Day For
State Chairman Morris Bosses
very much. The McCor-
mick newspaper has
| cackled so much about a United and
harmonious" party being back of Nc
| Cormick that the reports of fights at
the start of the active campaign make
the gubernatorial candidate seem
rather ridiculous 1t will be noticed
| that the machines candidates have
nothing to say about the Marshall in
terview to the effect that Wilson will
be the candidate in 1916. They must
be sorely tried, for they are insisting
on being considered as the Presidents S
choice and at the same time are afraid
something will start old DR.. Bryan on
the warpath and force them to come
out openly against him.
The Philadelphia Inquirer to-day
confirms reports of the plans being
made to hold up Federal officeholders
to gather a huge
campaign fund to
Bailey Going supplement what Nc
To Help Get Cormick is expected
In the Cash to pour into the
Democratic machines
treasury. The In
quirer says to-day: Federal office
holders in this city and vicinity have
been provided with convenient place
at which to pay their campaign as
sessments for the Palmer Mccormick
ticket, through the courtesy of Ro-
land S. Morris, chairman of the Demo-
cratic State committee, who has for
this particular purpose reopened a
Philadelphia branch of the State COM
mittee. He has placed an expert
enced and affable collector in charge
of this delicate task in the person of
Wilson Bailey Mr.. Bailey will be re-
called as the industrious and highly
successful travelling agent of the State
committee whose duties brought him
into contact with Democratic post
masters and Democratic candidates
for postmasterships throughout Penn
sylvania."
According to the Philadelphia Press
of to-day, both factions of the Demo-
Gratis are planning meetings in that
city. The Press says:
william n. McNair,
of Pittsburgh, the Philadelphia
only Democratic Democracy in
candidate backed by Midst of War
the Old Guard fac
ton to obtain
place on the ticket at the primaries,
who was expected to step down in the
interests of fusion, but who has an
nounced that he will not do any such
thing, called yesterday on City Com
mittee Chairman B. Gordon Bromley.
1t is probable that Mr. McNair will
soon be invited to address the city
committee at a rally. McNair has
been speaking without recognition
from the Palmer Mccormick faction.
That wing of the party proposes to
bring it's speakers into the city. In
statement issued yesterday by State
Chairman Roland S. Morris attacking
Senator Penrose, he expressed the
hope that the Democratic spellbinders
could be induced to spend an entire
week in this city. Democratic SYM
pathizers in professional and CONNER
clal circles VINO last spring laid the
foundations for a Committee of One
Hundred to cooperate with the Pal
mer-M Mccormick League, will en-
deavor to perfect their organization
at meeting in this city tomorrow"
orders have gone out from the
Democratic State windmill that men
responsible for the registration in the
cities must brace up.
The semiofficial re-
Bosses Are turns from the first
Sore Over registration day have
Registration been very disappoint-
ing to the men who
have been running the
headquarters machine and better re-
suits have been demanded. It is said
that the folks at the machine head
quarters are disguised with the miser-
able showing made at Pittsburgh In
Reading. Allentown, Scranton and
other cities where 1t had been re-
ported that there were going to he
Democratic gains and Republican
slump. the opposite has been true. In
Harrisburg the registration on the first
day was so disappointing that the
mourning beagle of Market Square has
not had anything to say.