Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-01
REPUBLICANS To
HAVE BIG LEAGUE
Enthusiastic Meeting Held at the
East End Republican Club
to Organize 1t
Breezy Stenographer at Bull Moose
Headquarters Wanted to
Know His Business

Republicans of the Hill started
things moving for the formation of
a Penrose- -Brumbaugh League at a big
meeting held in the rooms of the East
End Republican Club last night, and
it will be one of the big forces of the
campaign this Fall. The meeting was
attended by voters from all over the
East Harrisburg district and to-day
the men in charge received telephone
requests for membership blanks.
After the preliminary organization
had been effected Augustus Wildman,
! legislative candidate, who was cam
paigning on the Hill, was escorted to
the meeting and declared that the
efforts of the Hunters and Anglers
Association to in1ure him had Demo-
cratic inspiration.
James Sweeney addressed the meet
ing on tariff issues, showing that the
mismanagement of the Democratic
Administration has resulted in the in
dustrial depression, as well as the
necessity for a further tax on the
people. He also called attention to
the mud-slinging campaign of those
who are interested in the election of
the Democratic ticket, and further
stated that the election of the Demo-
cratic candidates for Senator and Gov
ernor would be an endorsement of the
present Administration, and would
dent in 1916.
Edward Doehne, attorney-at-law
and prominent Hill resident, stated
that while he had been born in Har-
risburg, he was away from the city
for period of eight years, during
which time he was ward committee
chairman in the ward adjoining that
of Senator Penrose and became very
we'll acquainted with him He said
that the genial Senator has always
been able to carry his ward by a hand
some majority, and that this was not
done by brow-beating, ETC.. as his
enemies have often declared but be-
cause the people in his immediate
neighborhood knew him and believed
in him. Mr.. Doehne told many inter
esting details of the Senator's charac-
ter and his speech was well received.
Colonel Roosevelt will speak in
Philadelphia tonight, but Vance c.
Mccormick will not be on the stage
with him. The Demo-
cratic leaders are in
fear and ire m b ing Roosevelt
for what the Colonel Prepared
will say in his speech For Now
a d are wondering
whether he will take
a bat at the Democratic tariff tinker
ing and party untrustworthiness as he
did in the West. incidentally, the Re-
publicans have gotten ready for the
Colonel and Senator Penrose said last
night that if he made any fancy re-
marks about him he proposed to hit
back as he did after the Pittsburgh
speech. EX-Secretary of State p. C.
Knox, who was in Roosevelt's cabinet,
is also preparing a comeback.
A funny story came out of Phila-
delphia last night. Vance C. McCor-
mick went to that city yesterday to
see about some of the
to ttery fences and
Mccormick went to the Washing
Needs an ton party headquart-
1ntrOducer ers. 1t was in lone
ly place and when he
walked in and asked
to see Chief Cook A. Nevin DIETRICH
the pretty stenographer asked him
crisply what his business was and
whether she could not look after it as
Mr.. DIETRICH was attending to the chief
business of the day-luncheon. The
Democratic candidate made his de-
sires known and DIETRICH was dragged
from the table. AS a result Mccormick
and Morris met him and Dean Lewis
and Mccormick will speak together
twice.
An auxiliary committee for Phila-
delphia and vicinity was named yes
terday by state Chairman Crow. 1t
consists of twenty prominent men,
among them Ex-Governor Edwin S.
Stuart. John Gribbe1, John p. Grocer,
Alba b. johnson, DIR. John b. DeaVer
and other prominent men.
Senator Penrose says that the
Democrats and Progressives will lose
heavily in the congressional elections.
He says that Focht will be elected and
that other districts which went Demo-
cratic will swing back into line. Con-
gresham Kreider will be reelected
hands down.
Clifford Pinchot's bride took up his
campaign work yesterday when he
was taken i'll at Erie. The candidate
is better but may not be able to do any
speaking for day or so. While Pin
chOt was suffering at Erie A. Mitchell
Palmer was making himself ridicu-
lous at Clarion by declaring that the
mills had not been shut down and
saying that things were doing well in
dustrially. Palmer seems as blind to
conditions like those at Steelton and
South Harrisburg as he is to the split
condition of the Democracy.
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