Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-06-23
IN
VERY ANGRY MOOD
City Committee Refuses to Pay
Any Attention to Mccormick
Platform
JONES WILL NOT BE DENIED
He Says He Intends to Show City
What Real Chairman
Looks Like

| LOOho LlhC
The Democratic city committee of
Philadelphia last night gave an illus
trstion of the divisions, schisms and
| factions that exist within the Demo-
cracy of Pennsylvania in most strik-
ing manner. And it did 1t when the
big Four" was right in it's midst.
Here is a resume of the way the
Democracy of Philadelphia showed its
| lack of sympathy with the State ma
chine:
Endorsed the State tickets. but did
not invite the candidates. who were
| within few blocks. to address It,
Refused to even consider a reso-
| luton endorsing the platform thereby
repudiating that document.
Reelected B. Gordon Bromley, the
| city chairman who had worked for
| Ryan's nomination.
Decided against contests brought by
| four Palmer men, including one of
Thornton's ward leaders.
Jeered when a Mccormick man
threatened to have the bosses name
a new city committee for Philadelphia.
The Bull Moosers are all fused up
| over the Colonel. In Philadelphia and
Pittsburgh the bosses are proclaiming
that there is no doubt
whatsoever about the
""I' Noosers Colonel being on hand
Are Greatly at the conference next
Disturbed week and that his
larynx will permit OF
many speeches. George
F. Holmes said in Philadelphia last
night that the Colonel would give the
keynote for the campaign and that he
would be in the campaign for fair.
State Chairman DIETRICH. who has been
racing with a bunch of baby firecrack-
ers for honors as a noise maker, was
given a bat yesterday by Senator
McNichol. who said that DIETRICH
should go to Pittsburgh to find out
how he thinks. DIETRICH has assailed
everyone from PenroseA and Brum-
baugh down the ticket and every head
of department on Capitol Hill.
President Chairman Howard Jones
does not intend to be a figurehead this
Fall. He is president of the leading
Democratic club and
chairman of the city
committee and was he Jones Says
not treasurer of the citi- He Will Be
zens committee in the Chairman
late primary campaign?
He regards his office as
of significance and indeed of vital im-
portance," Notwithstanding the re-
| marks of one of the drummer boys of
the Panic League. The president
! chairman is said to have remarked
the other evening that he proposed to
| be a factor in the campaign no matter
what the leaguers thought about it and
| that he would show the Democrats
what real live chairman looks like
| The virus of fighting appears to have
| taken a new lease of life among Demo-
| Gratis here.
The Philadelphia Ledger to-day
| says: 1.-THE official tabular statement
in the primaries of May
10 is not an encouraging
| document for the con- No Comfort
t e m p a tion of Demo- for Machine
Gratis. No question of Democracy
| Penroseism is involved,
| and the man who leads
the Republicans in the number of votes
cast was as a member of the 1918
Legislature recognized as the most
conspicuous and assertive of anti
| machine representatives. There were
ten Republican candidates for the
nomination, and as the vote was dis
tributed among these according to no
rule, it is hard to say just how many
Republicans voted for particular fa-
vorites, each having a right to desig-
nate four. The figures reveal one
thing, however, very forcefully, and
that is that approximately the same
| number of Republicans voted for can
didates for the nomination for Con-
| gress- at-1arge that voted for candidates
for the nomination for United States
| senator; and 1t reveals something
more. 1t shows that thousands of
voters who refused to accept Penrose
did not recognize any of the aspirants
for the House as identified with him
and his cause to any decided extent"
An election unique in PENNSYLVANIA
in that it will be the first time that the
referendum permitted by the new law
regulating the commits
sion government of third
Referendum class cities will have
is Operated been taken advantage
I'm Reading in Reading. The voters
in Reading. The votes
will decide whether to
abolish the volunteer fire department.
142 years old, and replace 1t with a
paid system.
A paid fire department for Reading
has been agitated for several years
After 1t had been recommended by in
surance underwriters and New York
municipal research experts, city coun-
Gil passed an ordinance providing for
change to a paid system. Then the
members of the 'city's thirteen volun-
teer companies and their friends, about
1000 of them. signed the required pc.
tition to have the question submitted
IN a vote of the Deonle