Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-03-12
PENROSE PAPERS
ARE FREELY SIGNED
Senator's Nomination Favored by
People Throughout Cumber-
land and Dauphin
DEMOCRATS ROW AFRESH
Scrapping Over Spoils Growing
Worse as the Days
Go Along
DEMOCRATS ROW AFRESH

| pet1tlOnS are DelnS 1reely SlSHeo
throughout Dauphin and Cumberland
counties and many men active in po-
litical affairs and in business life have
appended their names to the papers.
A number of the petitions were sent
through the railroad shops and steel
works, where men have been feeling
the pinch lately, and the signatures
have been offered to those who have
had charge of the papers.
A number of the petitions are in cir
culation in this city and at Steelton,
Middletown, Lykens, Dauphin, Hum
melstown and Millersburg, in this
county. and the reports from those
| places show that people are inclined
to line up behind the senator very
strongly because of his Mexican and
tariff stands.
In the West Shore boroughs the
Penrose papers are being freely signed.
Papers for Secretary Houck and
| Congressman Kreider are in circu-
/ lation in this county and many names
are being offered.
The fight in the Democratic State
| machine over judgeships as spoils of
office appears to be waging at both
ends of the State and
bids fair to split the
Democrats congressional delegation.
in Serious In the western end there
Row To-day is q battle royal on be-
| tween partisans OF w.
! H. S. Thompson, Paul
III. Gather and w. A. Griffith for
Judge Young's place, with an element
| trying to smooth down the ruff1ed
| feathers of Robert E. Cresswell, of
Johnstown. In the east there is a
/ struggle under way which may in
volve the President and which will
make trouble no matter what is done.
The Philadelphia Ledger says in a
dispatch from its staff correspondent
at Washington: The squabble over
| the federal judgeship for Eastern
| Pennsylvania has caused split among
| Democrats in Congress from that sec
ton of the State and has also laid
them open to the charge of dragging
the bench down to the level of petty
politics. Incidentally, Representative
Palmer's leadership has been repudi-
ated by Representatives Lee, Rother-
mel and Donohue by their indorse-
ment of Judge Bechtel, of Pottsville.
| in opposition to William A. Carr, of
Philadelphia, who is supported by Mr..
Palmer and Mr.. Logue. AS a result
of yesterdays conference over the
judgeship it has been charged in cer-
tain quarters that Mr.. Palmer was a
gain the support of Lee. Donohue and
Rothermel in his candidacy for the
| United States Senate. Mr., Palmer
! to-day indignantly denied this charge
He said he called his colleagues to-
gether in the hope that all would
agree upon a candidate to be recon-
mended for the federal judgeship."
The reorganization gangSterS rallied
in force at the Democratic Club of
| Philadelphia last night and evened up
for their defeat in
the p h a d lphia
D m o cr at i C city McCOrmickfteS
committee by de- Lick Ryan i'm
Ioaung the Ryan Club Squabble
men in a battle
over the endorse
ment of State candidates. Some time
ago the club, which is a reorganization
gang stronghold, voted not to endorse
any candidates in advance of the pri-
maries. The Mccormick people, smart
ing under this defeat. tried to get the
city committee to endorse Mccormick,
and that ended in Ryan being en-
dorsed. Then the bosses rang the bells
and got in every one that could be
reached and jammed through an en-
dorsement for Mccormick last night.
This action was taken against protests
by number of members, who gave
warning that it would make the club
| divided house.
The Democratic warriors will start
campaigning in earnest next week.
Mccormick will go into the northern
counties and the Pitts
burgh Dispatch says:
Rivals Will "City Solicitor Michael
BE Busy All j. Ryan, of Philadel-
of Next Week phia, Democratic can
didate for Governor,
will make his first
campaign appearance in Pittsburgh on
March 81 at dollar dinner to be
given for him. The reception and din
ner that will be rendered Mr.. Ryan
will likely be held in the kaufman
& Baer Co. dining hall. This has not
been definitely decided on and many
of the details of the dinner remain
incomplete. The speakers who have
consented to address the diners are
Mr.. Ryan, Judge Eugene c. Bonniwell,
Philadelphia, and Thomas III. Greevey,
Altoona. Ex-Councilman William Alb
bot Whitman, of Reading, who is a
candidate for the United States Sen
ate, Is expected to reach Pittsburgh
some day this week and will be the
guest of William J. Bremen"
The New York Sun prints an inter-
esting If unconvincing story of the
political situation in Pennsylvania to
the effect that Supreme
Justice John P. Elkin may
be a Republican candi- New York
date for United States Talks of
SENATOR that the indi- Mr.. Eikin
, cations are the filing of
nomination papers for all
the big offices will be delayed until the
last day fixed by lazy. LAS matters
stand to-day" says the Sun writer, mo
; change is apparent in the standing OF
: candidates for Governor and senator.
: 1t is high compliment to DR.. Martin
/ G. Brumbaugh, the schoolmaster of
Philadelphia, that he is without oppo-
) sition as the Republican candidate for
Governor"
/ Continuing, the Sun story runs on
as follows: For the Bull Moose nomi-
| nation for Governor. William Draper
: Lewis has been slated by Bill Finn,
of Pittsburgh, and a protest is looming
S up from every section of the State
e that will manifest itself at the May
primary elections against Lewis.
ut is not unlikely that with, or
even without. Colonel Elkin's consent
e nomination papers may be taken out
: for him so that he may be put in the
running by having his name placed
: upon the ballot for the primary elec-
e ton.
s ''And as Colonel Roosevelt could mo-
under any pretext come into Pennsyl
d vania to proclaim against the election
e of such candidates as Brumbaugh ant
r Elkin. Pinchot would be compelled t,
| withdraw W and the contest W0uld fha,