Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-05-28
WILSON ASKED TO
Be BURDENBEARER
Palmer and Mccormick Already
Seeking Help in Their Fight
For Election This Fall
PRESIDENT RESIGNED TO IT
Republicans Will Make a Fight For
the Congressional Seats
in This State

Having run on a White House slate,
Palmer and Mccormick are now ask
ing that President Wilson kindly act
as their life preserver in the storm
that is coming in November. Wash
ngton advices are that the President,
alarmed as to the effect Democratic
defeat in Pennsylvania would mean
after his slate had won at the primary.
is willing to become the burden bearer.
In Washington administration Demo-
Gratis are pessimistic as to the out
come, having in mind the way Palmer
and Mccormick fell down in 1912
when they promised Pennsylvania to
Wilson and failed to get anywhere
even with the Republicans divided.
According to Washington folks,
there is a good bit of amusement
among the veteran politicians over the
way Palmer and Mccormick rushed
to Washington as soon as the pri-
maries were over to get promises of
help. The machine Democrats are
telling the administration people that
Palmer and Mccormick won a great
victory for the Wilson administration
in the Keystone State and that they
should be supported.
Wilson is said to be willing to make
a speech and to turn loose as many of
his cabinet officers as are not fighting
with each other by that time.
Clifford Pinchot was greeted by be-
tween 125 and $50 Bull Moosers of the
real militant type last night at the
party headquarters in
Market street. and
they S h W e d their Pinchot Puts
love for him and the Wilson Tag
cause by waiting for On Mccormick
an hour and half.
Pinchot was in Cum
herlQn6 county NncfarHoN inSnantinD D
the crops and did not get here until
after o'clock. He had Congressman
Rupley and others with him and the
going was heavy. Mr.. Pinchot was
given a tumultuous greeting and after
giving a message" from the Colonel
proceeded to tell why Mccormick
should not be elected Governor. He
ignored Palmer, considering that it was
self-evident that he should be preferred
to the Monroe man. AS to Mccormick,
he said that he knew Vance and that
he was a nice man. but he should be
defeated because he was the Wilson
administration candidate.
The Philadelphia Public Ledger in
dispatch from Washington says:
Republicans of Pennsylvania are get
ting ready to make an
active campaign this fall,
Congress and one of their chief aims
Battles will be to increase the pres-
to Open ent Republican representa-
ton from the State in the
House. Representative Pat
ton, of Pennsylvania. member of the
congressional campaign committee, is
preparing to call a meeting at Harris
burg some time in June of all the
party congressional nominees for the
purpose of talking over the situation
and making plans for putting the
ticket through. Mr.. Patton to-day au-
thorized the following statement: The
Republican delegation from Pennsyl-
vania in the next House should be
thirty. We hope to reclaim number
of Democratic districts in the keystone
bring this about such a fight will be
waged. The tariff will be the big issue
in the State this fall'.'
According to the expense account
filed by j. Benjamin Dimmick, he
spent about half of his $12.0S4 in
Philadelphia. The Philadelphia citi-
zens committee got $4,000 and the
Philadelphia headquarters $2,450. The
Altoona headquarters received $500.
Dimmick found the campaign to be an
expensive affair.
The formal call for the Democratic
state committee went out to-day from
the state windmill. The meeting is to
be held at the Board of Trade on
June at o'clock in the afternoon.
The plan of the machine, which con-
trolls the committee, is to re-elect State
Chairman Morris and to adopt reso-
lutions prepared yesterday. Candidates
Palmer, Mccormick and Greasy are to
speak. Up to date nothing has been
said about McNair being here,
Senator Penrose is at Marietta to-
day attending the annual outing of
the Lancaster county people at Wild
Cat Falls. The senator has a number
of speaking dates through the eastern