Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-23
Wyoming County Democratic Leg
islator Files Petition For His
denomination
DEMOCRATIC WAR is BITTER
Palmer and Ryan Call Each Other
Names Again-Biggest Fight
in Years Is On

fore the Democrats of Wyoming coun-
and was signed up and mailed Satur-
day night.
Herman was q breezy member of
the last House and refused on u cou-
pie of occasions to take orders from
the bosses. He will make his cam
paign for the nomination vigorously
and hopes to scare off rivals for the
nomination.
The signing OF papers for Secretary
of Internal Affairs Henry Houck went
ahead in the city to-day. In Lebanon
a paper for him was signed by hun
dreds in few hours. There was a
rush to honor the Lebanon man in his
home town that attracted much COM
ment.
Congressman A. Mitchell Palmer
and Michael j. Ryan indulged in an
other wordy war on Saturday, adding
to the bitterness of the
Democratic campaign.
Wordy War Il have disposed of
Between Ryan," said Mr.. Pal
Leaders mer, talking about the
tack on his old allie
glance to Guffey. His
statement is twaddle. He cannot
make charges of that kind and expect
the Democrats of the State to take
them seriously. The Democrats know
too we'll how / fought Guffcy and
Hall. When l was young man 1 was
with the organization of that time.
but when the leadership became so
bad left it. They never did anything
for me. The Democrats will laugh at
the charge that l was the recipient
of their bounty. 1t is too ridiculous
to discuss. / will not dignity it with
reply. Mr.. Ryan's reference to me
as Sam Slick is in the nature of
compliment"
To this Ryan replied: Mr. Palmer
knows as little of the fight now going
on as he did of that of 1912. He lost
Pennsylvania then for Wilson. He per-
mitted the loss of Il Superior Court
judge in 1913, even though he charged
for his travelling expenses and his
petty telephone charges He knows
as little of this contest as he knew of
the condition of affairs in his own
county when he failed, although he
tried his utmost, to defeat Judge Sta
pies, the honest jurist who convicted
Director Clay in our Philadelphia
Quarter Sessions Courts after a three
weeks trial in this city, and who was,
decreed to be beaten because of his
honesty. He will lose his battle for
Mccormick, for the State is now weary
of his strutting, arrogant, insulting
bossism, coupled as it is with his petty
meanness. He was q Guffey man when
Guffey was rich. He. served on the
Guffey-Hall executive committee for
years. He is what he is now because
he thinks there lies fame and profit
and his alleged poverty is rank
hypocrisy. Such leadership as his
cannot endure. 1t is repulsive to every
ideal of honest Pennsylvania DEM
ocracy."
Friends of Michael ]. Ryan opened
his headquarters in Philadelphia to-
day and arrangements have been
made for him to
open his campaign
with a speech in his Headquarters
home ward to-mor- Opening Now
row night. 1t is ex- the Interest
pected that Vance
c. Mccormick will
open the campaign very soon by ap-
pearfng at meetings of his supporters,
although it is reported to be his plan
to get out among the voters by trips
through the State, the way William
II. Berry did in his last Falls un-
successful campaign for State Treas
urer. Friends of DR.. Martin G.. Brum-
baugh have begun an active circular
campaign in his behalf and many let
ters are being sent out giving sketches
of his career. The Dimmick sena-
torial campaign headquarters will be
opened in Philadelphia and Scranton
tonight. John ]. Green, Ryan's cam
paign manager, is quoted in the Phila-
delpha Record to-day as follows:
while we have always been conf
dent that Mr. Ryan would win easily
at the primaries, we did not look for
such demonstrations of interest in his
campaign at this early stage" declared
Mr.. Green. Our reports are of the
most optimistic nature, and Mr.. Ryan
should sweep the State. In the sec
tions near this city, where he is par
ticularly well known, Mr.. Ryan is a
popular favorite among the Demo-
Gratis. In Chester, Delaware, Mont
gomery and Bucks counties, there is a
sentiment for him that cannot be hon
estly questioned. In the coal regions,
he is running far ahead of McCor-
mick. and will fairly sweep Lacka-
wanna and Luzerne counties. Other
counties, from which we have re-
ceived heavy enrollments of active
workers during the past week, include
Columbia, Northampton, York, Ly-
coming, Dauphin, Erie, Centre, Clear
field, Fayette, Allegheny, Berks. Lam
caster, Wyoming and Blair"
Petitions for the nomination of var
ious candidates have commenced to
fly and the machine Democrats have
the first in the field in
this city. On Saturday,
Democrats the very first day for
b Isy With circulating petitions, the
Petitions Democratic State wind
mill ground out a big
bunch and faithful
henchmen of Palmer and Mccormick
promptly began to get signatures.
They went chiefly to the people who
were known to be fright" not running
any risks of turndowns at this time.
Friends of d. L. Kaufman will start
his Democratic congressional hope pa
pers at once The Democrats appear
to be thoroughly saturated with RI
valry that they are rushing to get pa
pers signed up quickly. The papers
of Congressman A. S. Kreider will be
started very shortly. Representatives
Lenker and Martin will start Bull
Moose papers this week.
! Democratic bosses in the eastern
half of the State are making wry
faces over what may be fresh dose
of Jersey treatment for
Pennsylvania. Accord,
| ing to advice from Jerseyman
Washington the Presi- May Get a
dent is said to have in Big Place
mind the appointment
of Harry Wescott, son
of the Attorney General of New Jer-
sey for the new federal judgeship in
Philadelphia. Both sides in the State
Democracy have been trying TO land