Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-21
BOSSES STRIVING
To De PLEASANT NOW
Morris Sets Receiving Day at the
State Windmill and Palmer
Asks Support
CONGRESSMEN CODDLED
Northumberland County Demo
Gratis in Row-How the Age
Limit Worked Backwards

While Candidate Mccormick is rest
ing for the arduous labors of appear |
ing at country fairs and swinging
around the circle, Congressman Pal
mer is sweltering in Washington try
ing to placate the Democratic Con- |
gressmen who have been ignored in
Federal appointments in their home
districts, and State Boss Morris is |
rushing about endeavoring to put out
the fires of revolt that are appearing |
in almost every county.
Mccormick plans to LAY low" dur |
ing the next month so as to avoid |
being pulled into the rows which are
occurring over patronage, although |
everyone knows that he has as big a |
finger in the distribution of offices as
Palmer or Morris. According to the !
morning dispatches from Washington, |
Palmer is trying to get Democratic |
congressman to sign a paper stating
that they are in accord with the State |
machine and its aims and purposes
and desire party success. In this re-
markable effort to save his face with
the President and the Democrats at
large he has the support of just one
man, Congressman Warren Worth
Bailey. of Johnstown. Other Congress |
men have not vet signed the paper in
which it is set forth that they are
all for the machine. OF course, they
will eventually be dubbed into line
through Federal patronage and the
use of the name of the State ticket,
but Just now they are making Palmer
run around in rings in his effort to Sc
cure written evidence of harmony"
Thursday will be receiving day at
the Democratic State Windmill in Mar
ket Square. This day has been off,
cially set by State Boss
Morris to meet the Dem
Thursday ocrats who want jobs
the Day and who come here to
to Receive seek the aid of the ma
chine in smoothing out
kinks in the county or
ganizations. 1t was selected for the
pink tea of the Fourth division last
Thursday and will be the rule. Mol
special requirements of dress will be
made for Thursdays at the Windmill.
State Chairman Morris plans to have
working and to be ready with sugges-
his best smile and warmest hand clasp
working and to be ready with sugges-
tions as to the best means of killing
off the insurgent and pulling the teeth
ofthe backbiter.
The Philadelphia Press in an article
on Philadelphia politics to-day, shows
up the Democratic fuss this way:
while the split between
the Old Guard and the Re-
organizer factions ofNthe Hoslxins
Democratic party is grow After
ing wider, there is also Morris
division now in the ranks
of the Reorganizers them
selves, and on Thursday, when the di-
rectors of the Democratic Club, Reor-
ganiZer headquarters, meet to act on
the resignation of tie president Dr.
w. Horace Hoskins, the separation, it
is believed, will be complete.
Nothing less than the retirement
from the State craftsmanship of Ro-
land S. Morris and descent from the
pedestal on which, 1t is charged, Con-
gresham A. Mitchell Palmer took a
position when he became distributor
of Federal jobs among the hungry in
Pennsylvania, will satisfy the friends
of DR.. Hoskins."
The Northumberland county Demo-
cratic committee fell into line with
other Democratic committees of the
State yesterday and in
dulged in a fight at Sun
Fuss in bury The fuss was
Sunbury whether Edward thinner
Meeting man, who was elected
county chairman, could
act as State committee
man as well. After a rumpus the
rules committee was directed to look
into the matter Zimmerman sue
ceeded Edward Weidenheimer, of Mil
ton, where the Godcharles Nail Works
has closed up for good, and all because
of the Wilson depression in business
Weidenheimer is a division boss and
l. IL
fight. Zimmerman defeated Charles
Moran, Shamokin, by n to s. Two of
the Democratic candidates for the |
Legislature did not turn up and moth |
ing was said that could be noticed |
about the Democratic State platform |
One of the Sunbury papers very ap-
propriately runs a story Of the closing |
of the nail mill under the meeting of |
the Democrats.
Members of the Central and West
End Democratic Clubs, as we'll as pros |
pective Federal jobholders, will meet
in Market Square tomorrow night
and go to Mechanicsburg where Doc
Dougherty has planned a reception to
Secretary Bryan, who will be the
chautauqua speaker.
Every time an unfair trick is played
III DOlltlcS IL comes Dack TO plague
those who play it and this is being
strilSingly illustrated in the
case of the appointment
When the of the federal judge for
Age Limit w S ern Pennsylvania
Went Bad Readers of the Telegraph
are familiar with the very
proper campaigns waged
by a number of eminent attorneys for
the place. According to the story just |
told, when the pressure became too
great Congressman Palmer, Candidate |
Mccormick and Division Boss Joe Cuff |
fey got their heads together and at the |
reported suggestion of Guffey decided !
to frame an age limit. Two of the |