Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-10
NJ 'CORM|CK WILL
TOP MULE TICKET
Dean Lewis Shifts the Burden of
Approaching Defeat to the
Wealthy Harrisburger
PENNYPACKER HITS BACK
Former Governor Says That the
Monroe Congressman Does
Not Tell the Truth

Not Tell the Truth
William Draper Lewis. Washington
party candidate for Governor, an
nounced last night in Philadelphia
that he would retire from the party
ticket to enable Vance c. Mccormick
to become the nominee of the Wash
ingtonians as we'll as of the Demo-
Gratis. No fusion will be effected on
United States Senator and William N.
McNair, the Democratic candidate for
Secretary of Internal Affairs. refused
to quit in favor of any deal to help
Mccormick. Nothing seems to have
been done about fusing on Lieutenant
Governor. 1t does not matter, any
way.
/ For months the Democrats have
been working through Western Penn
sylvania adherents of the Washing
ton party to create sentiment in favor
of fusion. Lewis in going about
the State to ascertain feeling found
two things in addition to favor fusion
in order to hide the lamentable
falling off in the so-called Progressive
party strength. They were: a de-
mand for funds to keep alive the or
Sanization Of the Bull Moosers, with
diSinclination on the part of William
tllnn to act as paymaSter any longer,
and tremendous increase in Repub-
lican registration, indicating a return
to the party. incidentally, he found
sentiment in Pennsylvania nightly in
favor of protection. So, under the
guise of fusion to beat Penrose, the
dean shifted the burden to the stur-
der shoulders of the wealthy McCor-
mick. incidentally no fusion has been
effected on United States Senator, al
though fusion is being worked osten-
sibly to beat Penrose.
In this city the news of fusion was
hailed by the machine Democrats, be-
cause it will enable Mccormick to
tighten the burden of
the defeat which is
coming to him, but the Fusion Not
Bull Moosers took it Popular in
with mixed emotions. This City
Many of them felt as
did State Treasurer r.
Is. Young and other prominent Wash
ington men, who declared that fusion
was a bad move. The reasons they
gave were that the Washington party
would become the mere tail to the
Democratic kite and that the Wash
ington leaders were sacrificing the
party organization, built up on ma
tional issues, to help men posing as
upholders of the Administration which
Roosevelt attacks Bull MooserS said
going to make contributions to any
Mccormick campaign fund and that
they could not understand how fusion
to beat Penrose was helped by fusing
on an office for which Penrose was not
a candidate. They regarded it all as a
selfish move on the part of McCor-
mick and of Lewis, the former to help
himself regardless of consistency and
the latter to save himself from being
"A terribly beaten candidate. The fact
that fusion has not been effected on
any candidate except Mccormick has
caused the men advocating fusion on
legislative tickets to slow up.
Senator Boies Penrose made terse
comment upon the fusion deal when
told of ii at the Byberry fair yesterday.
The senator was the
guest on Textile Day
PeRrOse Says and $4,000 p op e
Finn WeaTied gathered at the fair
OF Giving Up grounds cheered him,
many of the Philadel-
phia factories shut
ting down to enable their operatives to
enjoy the day. The senator made a
speech which was heartily cheered for
it's protection sentiments. When asked
for his opinion on the fusion deal the
senator said:
1T is a pure machine deal without
absolutely any regard for the primary
election system, which the independ-
ents have advocated with view to the
elimination of bossism.
Theirs could be no more fragrant or
&c -tstx,
than is shown in this elimination of
the expression of choice of the voters
at the primaries for the selected favor
ite of a boss as the result of a deal
with the bosses of an opposition party.
MIR. Finn, who has been bossing
the Bull Moose convention, has evil
IDENTITY not been disposed to open his
barrel again and indulge in the lavish
and extravagant expenditure of money
that characterized his last campaign.
Being without paymaster, the
Bull Moosers were obliged to fall back
upon plutocrat who is engaged in a
deliberate attempt to purchase the
governorship of Pennsylvania"
Samuel w. Pennypacker, former
Governor of PENNSYLVANIA. in a letter
sent to a Philadelphia newspaper last
night said that Con-
gresham A. Mitchell
dlIlltI ulu llut IietNt HtuIly IldtkeT
a high regard for Calls Palmer
truth in making Prevaricator
statement in which
he referred to the
former Governor. In fact, he not only
said that he was unveracious, but
lacked the instincts of q gentleman.
The former Governors letter said
The nineteenth accusation of the
Hon. A. Mitchell Palmer against the
Hon. Boies Penrose Is as follows: He
compelled his Governor, Pennypacker,
to veto labor legislation earnestly ad-
vocated by the United Mine Workers
of America after he, Penrose, had
given his solemn promise that such
legislation would be passed
This statement Is a plain, unVar-
nished, concocted untruth. My inter-
views while Governor with Senator
Penrose were comparatively few and
he never. in the whole course of his
life, either by letter or verbally, said
one word to me on the subject of labor
legislation. All of my vetoes were
written by myself, the reasons were
given at the time, and they are in
print and accessible. 1t is to be hoped
that the people of Pennsylvania have
too much self-respect to send to the
United States Senate a man without
regard for veracity and who appears
to be lacking in the instincts of a gem
tleman."
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