Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-11-03
DAY Of RECKONING
FOR DEMOCRATS
Belief That There Will Be an Ex.
plosion That viii Blow Pres
ent Bosses High as Sky
RESENT THE FUSION DEALS
Penrose Satisfied With the Out
look; Democrats Yank Blaks-
lee Out For Speeches

Mutterings from counties where
Democratic candidates for Congress
and the Legislature thought they had a
chance for victory until Vance c. Nc
Cormick began his dickering with the
Bull Moosers indicate that no matter
how the election goes to-day there is
going to be day of accounting in the
Democratic State organization that
will make the famed reorganization of
few years ago look like sham bat
| tie. 1t will be recalled that McCor-
mick and his fellow bosses got into
power by the specious arguments that
! the Democracy had been betrayed for
selfish ends.
J The acceptance by Mccormick of
the Washington party nomination at
the hands of Bill Finn and the at
! tacks made upon Palmer by Colonel
| Roosevelt at the same time he was
bespeaking aid for Mccormick have
caused considerable resentment
among Democrats of the rank and file,
| while Roosevelt's demand that the
| Bull Moosers vote the straight WASH
ington party ticket has stirred up can
didates and their friends to a remark
able degree. Some of these men are
declaring that the whole Democratic
party has simply been used as trad
ing post for Mccormick and are de-
| nouncing the whole fusion deal. The
indications are that the dealing of
| Mccormick and the visit of Roose-
welt took many votes away from Pal
mer and when the people who are
mad at the dicker for McCormick's
| benefit and the Ryan Democrats get
| together after the election there is 60
| ing to be a new demand for a reor-
Iganization. Even If Mccormick should
be elected the fuss in the Democracy
will split 1t from stem to stern. AS he
| is not going to be the Democratic party
in Pennsylvania will be blown to bits
in less than a year and a new leader
will arise, probably one with less cash
but more conscience than Mccormick.
People on Capitol Hill to-day and
| many around town were laughing at
the clout the Mccormick newspaper
gave McCormick's Bull
| Moose allies, Auditor
| General p o well and Tangled Web
State Treasurer Young, Woven BY
to-day. For some time Deccivers
| past the m u n / nj
newspaper has been
batting blindly and has fetched Greasy
and Palmer and others swift thumps
! in it's rage. To-day 1t plays up the
| dreadful fact that some of the Capitol
guides were not on duty yesterday,
the inference being that they were off
| duty playing politics, as is being done
| by James /. Blakslee, Fourth Assistant
Postmaster General, here in Harris
burg. But the funniest thing is that
! the Patriot tries to give the impression
that the guides We're deserting their
| posts when the chiefs, ofiiC- ais and at
| taches of the Auditor Generals and
State Treasurer's departments left the
Hill last Friday and those depart
ments have been closed ever since.
The Patriot is respectfully referred to
those lines of Scott:
"Oh, what tangled web we weave
When first we practice to deceive"
The desperate Democratic candidates
kept going to the very end. Yesterday
they alighted at Portland and after
speaking there addressed
meetings at Bangor, Pen
Desperate Argyll, Wind Gap, Naza-
Campaign reth, Bath and North
To the End ampton borough. At each
place they predicted the
triumph of the Demo
cratic candidates for something to say
There were plenty of idle men in the
slate and cement belts who had moth
ing else to do and they turned out to
greet the speakers.
Harry ]. Steel, of Easton, president
of the Pennsylvania Bar Association
and candidate in the district to sue
ceed Palmer, presided at the meeting
in Easton at night. The speakers
were James ]. Blakslee, Fourth AS
sistant Postmaster General; McCor'
mick and Palmer. Blakslee told thai
while holding down his Washington
job he had heard so much of "Wha
was going on up in Pennsylvania" tha
he came up and toured the State t.
find out what the sentiment was anC
! fsfnllV convinced
: Senator Boies Penrose and DR., Mar
| tin G. Brumbaugh, running equally
: will have a plurality in Alleghen!
i county of 10000 over
) their nearest opponents.
Y This is an estimate made Alleghen
j Saturday night. which. is Ffrml
5 developments over Sun Republican
day and to-day do not.
change one iota." Chair
o man Walter ]. Christy, of the Repub
q lican county committee, after a da
n spent in receiving chairmen and work
6 ers from the entire 70S districts in tn
o county, gave out the above as his las
o word on the campaign.
Those in charge of campaigns wage
individually for Senator Penrose an
!, DR.. Brumbaugh were similarly opti
+ mistic. e. V. Babcock. chairman o
: the Penrose Protective League of tn
: Pittsburgh district, said that complet
: | reports received from manufacturer
d and industrial men show strong senti
ment for Penrose in the big mill cen
E, ters, in many of which the workin
j men have been on half time since tn
Underwood tariff law was signed b
President Wilson.
Senator Penrose spent part Of yes
terday in his offices in the Arcad
building, Philadelphia. He took a
g automobile run to Essing
n ton in the morning an
Penrose was busy later answerin
g Gives His messages from Repuh
q Opinion licans in the interior c
the State and in meetin
some of his principal locs
: supporters.
; II estimate" he said, that I hav
shaken hands with no less than 900, 90
O. men of Pennsylvania in my eightee
e months campaigning throughout tn
. State. / have in that time travele
many thousands of miles by train, at
e tomobile and wagon, getting in touc
e with the voters.
% "I think the result of the electio
is going to surprise every one by tn
u size of the Republican majority"
| IN HARRI SBURC Fifty
] YEARS AGO TODAY