Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-05-19
FROM FRYING PAN
INTO GREAT FIRE
Pennsylvania Democracy Ends Its
Primary Campaign Only to
Find Worse Split
NOW FUSSING OVER TOLLS
Roland Morris Credited With Re-
markable Statement About
the Baltimore Platform
NOW FUSSINC OVER TOLL!

The Pennsylvania Democracy
bounds gracefully to-day from the
frying pan into the fire. To-day it set
ties the dispute of months over who
shall be boss of the State machine
and no matter who is nominated for
governor the followers of the other
faction will refuse to support him in
November. The frying Of the last ten
weeks will be a-blazing on and after
tomorrow.
And right on top of this unpleasant
family situation the Democrats or
the nation are getting into a snarl. 1T is
about the canal tolls situation and af-
ter to-day it will not be whether this
or that Democrat is going to support
the administration, but whether he
thinks the administration has given
in to the railroads. They swallowed
the Baltimore platform without look
ing at 1t, believing that because old
DR.. Bryan fixed it up that it must be
all right and now there are signs OF
cleavage into two factions-one believ-
ing that the President is right in re-
pudiating the plank of the platform
on which he stands and the other de-
claring that he is hauling down the
! flag.
Incidentally, it is of interest to many
Harrisburgers, in whose midst Bryan
made that speech to the Legislature in
which he said that pledge breakers
should be aligned with traitors, etc,
to note that there are some Democrats
who think that Wilson has right to
run again if he wants to and that he
is big enough to rip off from the Bal
| timore platform even q plank written
| by Bryan himself.
The Pennsylvania Democracy could
always be depended upon to furnish
prize shows and there is assurance of
an endless variety.
One of the Pittsburgh papers quotes
Chairman Roland S. Morris as max
ing this astounding statement: II am
unqualifedly in favor
of the Pre- d nt's
Morris Says policy and feel that
Plank Was the platform declara-
Big Mistake tion was adopted with
out adequate kpowl-
edge of the facts of the
case A poll has been made of men
who sat in the Baltimore convention
| by some people at Washington and
many of the delegates have declared
that the plank should not have been
in the platform. Then there are some
who insist that it should stay and that
there should be no surrender to rail-
roads or anyone else.
In view of the noisy campaign of
the Democrats for the party honors
this year the following dispatch from
Washington to t h
Philadelphia Record is
| of interest to Pennsyl- just How
vanians: "Presid n t Bryan Came
| Wilson did not author Into State
lize Secretary of State
Bryan's visit to Penn
sylvania in the interest of the Palmer
wi cCormick candidacy, and the speech
which Mr.. Bryan made at Wilkes
Barre Wednesday, committing the ma
tional Administration to Palmer and
Mccormick was not sanctioned by the
President. 1t was learned to-day from
the highest authority that Mr.. Bryan
made his campaign into Pennsylvania
with Representative A. Mitchell Pal
mer on his own responsibility, and
that his utterances to the effect that
the Democrats of the Keystone State
should support Palmer and McCor-
mick, out of loyalty to the Wilson Ad-
ministration, were made without hav-
ing obtained in advance the approval
of President Wilson,