Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-19

Dispatch in the following Ian
guage:
After william Draper Lewis re-
vealed that his withdrawal from
the Washington party ticket was
the result of various influences and
an understanding reached through
correspondence with Vance McCor-
mick, it was suggested by other
members of the Washington party
meeting at Harrisburg that if the
Democratic candidate for Governor
were placed on the Washington
party ticket the Democrats should
be asked to withdraw Mitchell Pal
mer as candidate for Senator. Finn g
then said that ito go to the Demo-
Gratis with any such proposition
would be to enter into Just such a
dicker as the Washington party
opposed" In other words, the
Washington party could endorse a
dicker between Lewis and McCor-
mick but not between Pinchot and
Palmer. This did not strike Judge
Brumm and other ,protestants to
the arrangement for having a
Democrat head the Washington
party ticket as precisely consistent,
and they expressed their view with
prophecies of disaster. Lewis was
quite frank about his correspon-
dence with Mccormick. When
Lewis first let it be known that the
third party movement in the State
was hopeless without some measure
of fusion with the Democrats,
Vance Mccormick rushed madly in
to the channels of publicity and
declared that the action of Lewis
was without his knowledge. Nc
Cormick may have been right tech
nically, but not practically, as the
point showed The two men had
discussed this question. Mccormick
had right to expect Lewis to
withdraw, even if he did not actu-
ally know that Lewis would get off
the ticket. In this Mccormick dis
closed a lack of sincerity which
surprised his most Intimate asso-
ciates. Even Mitchell Palmer pro-
fesses to be ignorant of the letters
which passed between Lewis and
Mccormick.
And now Mccormick is trying t.
complete his deal by endeavoring t.
force Palmer into the discard McCor
mick owned the men who sat in thu
local option convention that met her,
during the past week and "Bul" Film
wrote the resolution endorsing McCor
mick and Pinchot. Mccormick coult
have had Palmer endorsed along witt
himself, but he did not want to.
Here we have a fine picture of tn,
man who aspires to he Goveronr o.
Pennsylvania. First, for his own per
sonal advancement. he enters into :
secret political dicker with Finn anC
Lewis. That accomplished, for hi,
own selfish purposes also. he plots the
removal of Palmer. the man whose
political brains were responsible fol
McCormicks rise to party boss-ship
Traitor to party Mccormick has beer
when the whim seized him. money,
bag politician, dealer and petty trick,
ster whenever 1t has paid. Now III
places himself in the light of trying
to sell out his own best friend. How
much longer will Palmer be fooled?
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