Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-11-17
FLYNN WILL LEAD
HOUSE DEMOCRATS
Elk Veteran VIII Be the Chief of
the Minority in the Coming
Legislative Session
RING MASTERS GET BUSY
Plan to Push Lot of Legislation
That They Want and to Call
1t the Peoples

Representative John M. Flynn. of
Elk county, the senior Democratic
member of the House, will be the
Democratic nominee for the speaker
ship, If he wants it. The member
ship of the Democratic lineup in the
next House will not have any John
T. Mats, e. Lowry Humes or e. r.
Bensons to disturb it with reorganiZ-
ers' schemes and will probably get
more accomplished. Mr.. Flynn has
served since 1906 and has been good
strong legislator with no time for
frills. 1t will develop upon him to call
the caucus.
Representative Richard ]. Baldwin
claims to be making considerable hay
in his campaign for the speakership
and says that he has strong support
in the country and in the two large
counties. Baldwin is a hard worker
and always optimistic. His friends
say that the fact that Thomas II.
Garvin, the chief clerk, comes from
Delaware, too. will not initiate against
him because Garvin is a fixture in the
House and is needed to run 1t right.
Up to date the Republicans men,
toned for the honor are:
Allegheny-J. f. Woodward and
A. C.. Stein.
Delaware-R. J. Baldwin.
Jefferson-H. |. Wilson.
Lackawanna-F. G. Ehrhardt.
McKean-R. p. Habgood.
Philadelphia--W. II. Wilson and
S. j. Cans.
Tioga-G. w. Williams.
The Washington party strength will
consist of one Senator j. L. Smith,
Crawford Mercer, and one member,
T. b. II. Brownlee, Washington. The
Socialist strength will be the same as
in 1911 and one more than in 1913,
consisting of James H. Maurer
A good bit Of quiet smiling is going
on in the western part of the State
over the efforts being made to create
the impression that there is going to
be battle organized at once against
the Penrose leadership. When the
Senator was reelected the last time
the center of the campaign to unhorse
him was shifted from Philadelphia,
where it was virulent about 1900, to
Scranton. Now it is supposed to be
strongly. entrenched than ever and
elected by direct vote of the people
1t does not seem very plausible that
men with whom he has been aligned
would be apt to start anything, and
now, especially.
Western Pennsylvania Democrats
are commencing to snarl at each
other over the appraisership at Pitts
burgh. Secretary Bryan has been
trying to put over George w. AclSlin,
one of the faithful ones who did not
get any pie. Some of the Democrats
are boasting of H. c.. Staggers, a
Greene county reorganizer, while one
wing of the Westmoreland Democ-
racy, which is shot to pieces about
as bad as that of any county in the
State is yelling for G. w. Deeds, of
Ligonier.
In spite of the fact that they have
less than half company of members
the Democratic State ringmasters
committee, which tried to jam
through a lot of legislation last year,
is going up to demand the adoption
of certain bills in the name of the
people. This game, which is planned
to make capital for 1916, will serve
to keep the Democratic machine in
the public eye and to furnish some
of the disorganized reorganizers' news
papers with topics. Just how they are
going to demand the legislation in
the name of the people in view of the
recent vote is hard to see. The Wash
ington party, which has two mem
bers in the whole General Assembly,
will also solemnly introduce some
bills for the purpose of keeping itself
alive.
Reports that DIR. ]. II. Kreider
Washington party nominee for Con-
gress. has been reappointed to a job
in the Auditor Generals Department
are untrue.
The Philadelphia Record to-day
says: "Close friends of Mr.. Palmer de-
clared that he was in no sense a seeker
| after a Job from President Wilson, and
was particularly disinclined to retire
| from politics by entering the District
of Columbia judiciary. On behalf OF
| Mr.. Morris. it was declared that he
was equally unwilling to resign as
State chairman, and thus desert hi:
allies in the reorganization movement
While the Palmer Morris leadership
only recently provided fresh sorrow
| for the Democrats of the State, the
reorganizers plan to retain their grasI
on the party machinery until 1916 a
least, with the intention of controlling
the Pennsylvania delegation to tn,
next national convention. 1t is gen
orally expected, however, that the!
will at the time face the opposition o.
| a Democracy interested in party sue
cess instead of faction triumphs. A
the present time the reorganizers are
we'll in control of the State committee
and no serious effort to dislodge either
Palmer or Morris is regarded al
feasible"
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