Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-16
RYAN MEN PLAN TO
BEAT THE BANQUET
Ryan Demonstration to Be Held
on Saturday Night Is Ex-
pected to Be Big
B. F. MEYERS WILL PRESIDE
Prominent Men Named to Act as
a Reception Committee For
the Candidate

Partisans of Michael j. Ryan, can
didate for the Democratic nomination
for governor, to-day opened their
headquarters in the Wyeth building
and announcing that the new Dauphin
County Democratic League had over
500 members, stated that a demon
stration that would throw the McCor-
mlck-Palmer banquet and meeting In
to the shade would De held on Satur-
day night at Chestnut street auditor
ium.
Announcement was made that Is. +.
Meyers, former congressman and vet
eran leader of the Democrats in the
days when 1t took courage to be a Dem
ocrat, would preside and that men
were coming from nearby counties to
attest their admiration for the Phila-
oelphlan who Is exercising his right to
run for office aaginst national and
State slate making. Its to be a pro-
test against bossism and slate making
in the Democratic party in Pennsyl-
vania. If the national administration
does not think it should interfere with
the internal affairs in Mexico, by what
right does 1t butt into the internal af-
fairs of the Democracy of Pennsylva-
MIA? That's what we want to en-
phasize on Saturday night" said one
Of the ardent partisans of Ryan to-
day.
The Democratic factional warfare
was carried on in half dozen counties
yesterday and the demonstration con-
Quoted here on Mon
day night in the in
terest of the machine fractional
candidates for the pri- Warfare in
mary appars to have the State
put the Ryan men on
their mettle. Yester-
day Secretary of Labor BILLY" Will
son, the labor representative in the
cabinet, Joined Mccormick at Scran-
ton and endeavored to overcome the
effect of the Farley speech about the
Mccormick veto of the municipal la
Dor ordinance in Harrisburg. The re-
organizers declared that the demon
stration for their candidates in Scran-
ton and vicinity yesterday was one of
the most remarkable in years. The
Ryan people held meetings in the vi
cinity of Philadelphia and Ryan will
go into Cleartield and Center counties
to-day to follow up the mccormick
trail.
Mr.. Ryan will arrive from Williams
port on Saturday evening at $40 in
company with the members of his
speaking party an d
will be escorted to the
Committee Bolton House where a
Will Tender reception will be held
Big Reception In the parlors from
$50 to 7.S0. Th e
meeting will begin at
and 1t Is expected to be a sizZler.
The speakers will include Mr.. Ryan,
Henry Budd. candidate for United
States senator; John F. Jenkins, can
didate for lieutenant governor; w. X.
Meyers, of this city, candidate for con-
gress- -at-large, and others, including
Judge Eugene c. Bonniwell, the off,
cial thorn in the side of the federal
nation for governor. The reception
committee was to-day announced as
follows:
Thomas Anderson, ex-Councilman
William H. Bricker, William Butler.
j. B. Buggy, Israel Brenner, Levi
Brown, Patrick Craven, Harry Dett-
ling, w. j. Doyle, George w. Deiker,
Jacob Hummel, William Chubb, John
G.. Elliott. Eugene Fogarty. DR.. j.
Albert Fritchey, DR.. John A. Fritchey,
Walter F. Fisher. William L. Frick,
James Finnegan, DR.. V. Hummel Fa-
ger, DR.. L. K. Graber, William Good
man, George D. Herbert, Charles H.
Higgins, David Hershey, Thomas Hol-
lohan. H. George Hess, Howard Hol-
stein, Henry Hare. Irwin Johnson.
Augustus H. Kreidler, Andrew
Kerwin, Milton b. Knoderer, E.
l.. Kennedy, Thomas Leibrit~, Harry
Maths, John Mater, B. F. Meyers, w.
K. Meyers, Charles w. Meyers, George
Minich, John Morgan, B. H. Reishert,
Milton T. Robinson, j. Edgar Roden-
haver. B. T. Putt, Charles Peisle, Da-
vid Fl. Reigle. George Seachrist, Rob-
ert Sucker, George Sourbeer, William
Seel, George Sucker, Charles D.
Sucker, George S. Sides, Frank Stew
art, Bartram Shelley, John Shelley,
Kirk Shelley, Henry Shope, p T. Sui
livan, A. Sylvia, ]. w. Urich, Peter
Vanderloo, w. w. Wallower, Milton
Yetter. Solomon Zimmerman, William
Poorman.
Congressman A. Mitchell Palmer,
who says he has over $4,000 signers
on his petitions and who Is the White
House candidate for
the Democratic nomi-
nation for United Palmer Puts
States senator at the His PAPERS
first senatorial pri- on Record
mary to be held in
Pennsylvania filed his
petitions at the Capitol late yester-
day. Papers from only twenty-five
counties containing almost 1000
names, were put on record.
Seven other candidates for State
wide nominations entered their papers
as follows:
Supreme court justice, Judge EN-
ory A. Walling, of the Erie county
bench, papers from Erie, Venango,
Lawrence, Potter, Mercer, Blair, Nc
Kean, Clinton, Butler and Crawford.
each containing over 100 names being
entered.
Governor, Joseph B. Allen, Bryn
Mawr Socialist, 657 signers
Lieutenant governor. William T. |
Greasy, Catawissa. Democrat 1,4O0l
signers, and e. D. Powell, West Mid
dlesex, Republican. 600 signers.
Congress-at-large, Robert S. Bright,
Philadelphia, Democrat; w. S. G. I
King, Linesville, and Dennis O'Brien !
Coughlin, Wilkes Barre, Socialists.
other petitions filed included:
Congress, Charles Z. Aikens, Selins-
grove, Republican. Seventeenth Guy
E. Campbell, Grafton. Democrat, Thir-
ty-second; Robert f. Hopwood, I'm
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