Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-14
Scranton's Reform Mayor Says
That the Senior Senator Will
Be Elected Again
MORRIS MAKES RE MARKS
Says That There Will Be No With
drawal by Mccormick Lee
Is Being Doomed

senator against Boies Penrose, E. B.
Jermyn, the nonpartisan reform mayor
! Of Scranton, was announcing that he
was for Penrose for reelection on the
ground that the State needs him.
Mr.. Jermyn Is a wealthy man, Of
collegiate training, leader in reform
movements in Lackawanna county for
years, and his recent activities in
cleaning up Scranton have attracted
national attention. He is one of the
keenest observers of politics in the
State and his declaration for Penrose
at the same time that Dimmick. who
will attract the support of J. Denny
| O'Neil and men opposed to the PEN
rose domination. is the most significant
thing that has occurred in State poll
| tics since Palmer and Mccormick
| threw off the mask and slated them
selves for Democratic nominations.
Mayor Jermyn, in statement de-
fning his attitude on the United States
senatorship, said:
! IL am for Boies Pen
rose for recollection to
the United States SEN Why Jermyn
ate. I believe that the Will Help
material welfare Oh tne uiC oChdUoI
yUople of Pennsylvania
demands that he be
returned to that body, where he
wields great influence. have no
doubt that he will be elected.
| "Those Republicans who left the
! Republican fold and supported the
Bull Moose ticket in 1912 are coming
home" declared Mayor Jermyn. "The
present Bull Moose party in Lacka-
wanna county is like the Bull Moose
party nearly everywhere else, full of
| sound and fury but without the votes
| The third party men made the mis-
| take of believing that it was the Bull
Moose party that carried Lackawanna
county. 1t was Colonel Roosevelt,
whose great popularity with the
| miners generally was recognized. The
miners gave him credit for settling the
coal strike and nearly all of them
voted for him. But Roosevelt is not a
candidate this year and there is little
| left of the Bull Moose organization in
| any of the counties of the hard coal
| country. The bulk of the Roosevelt
vote next Fall will be cast for the Re-
publican ticket. The Republicans of
Lackawanna and other counties of
Northeastern Pennsylvania as a rule
are for Penrose and / have no doubt
that he will carry Lackawanna county
and receive big vote throughout the
anthracite country"
T.. l.. Guss, who defeated the re-
| organizers candidate for member of
the Democratic State committee last
| year, much to the dis
| may of the bosses, who
Juniata had set up another can
Democrats didate, has taken the no.
Are Busy ton that ne will be a
| candidate for reelection
| as the member from
| Juniata and his friends will become
active in his behalf after next week.
Mr.. Guss is well-known resident of
the county. Representative 1. d. Mus
ser. who was elected on the Demo-
cratic wave in 1912. will be a candi-
date for reelection. Candidates men,
toned on the Republican side are
James Bergey and DR.. w. A. Rogers,
of Miffiin, and A. j. Sausman, Of
Walker township.
Revenue Collector Fritz Kirkendall
has arranged that Representative John
7. Matt, of Bedford, shall not suffer
during his candidacy for
the senatorial seat from
the district in which he KirkendalI
lives and has just named Helps John
him as district deputy Matt Along
tct enue collector. Just
what Congressman War
rem Worth Bailey, whom Matt
thrashed for the division chairman
ship, has to say on the matter is not
given out to-day. Bailey's thoughts,
like those of Justice Mestrezat, are to
| be preserved for the future Fritz also
named N. r. White as deputy at Wells,
boro; w. c. Myton, at Altoona, and
Thomas A. Ruddy, of Scranton, all
| being good reorganiZers William
l.amtz, Chambersburg, and William
| V. Davis, Edwardsville, have been
named to places in the Lancaster
office. The manner in which Harris
burg Is being ignored is worth noting.
Scoutmaster Roland S. Morris felt
called upon last night to announce
from his headquarters in Philadelphia
that Vance c. McCor.
mick would not retire
Mccormick from the race for Gov.
to Remain ernor. There have beer
In Fight rumors afloat in Phila.
delphia and Pittsburgh
to the effect that fears
that the Ryan-McCormick fight would
so damage the ship as to cause a
wreck might result in a compromise
No one knowing Mccormick ever ex.
pected him to quit, but the rumors
made entertaining reading and seen
to have disturbed Morris. The Phila.
delphia Record says of the matter to.
day: while Mr.. Morris and his
friends are opposed to Mccormick
withdrawing, this view is not shared
by many upstate Palmer lieutenants
who are urging the national commit.
teeman to use his influence to have the
Harrisburg man quit in the interest OF
his own leadership. Numerous letters
from prominent Democrats have been
sent to Palmer urging him to back
Ryan for Governor and thus strengthen
his own candidacy for senator. Palmer
has been informed of the weakness OF
McCormick's candidacy and has been
urged to declare for Ryan in advance
OF the primaries"
Congressman Robert e. Lees promi.
nence in the PHILADELPHIA dock and
larity have caused num-
her of Eastern Pennsyl
vania Democrats to Sug- SchuyIIxill
gest him as q compromise Democrat
candidate for the guber- Suggested
natorial nomination. They
recognize that with McCor-
mick and Ryan as candidates there
will be a fight that will not be
forgotten for q decade and which may
smash the party organization so that
Woodrow Wilson would not care to
even inspect the remains. Lee has
been spoken of from time to time, but
he has always insisted that he wanted
to remain in Congress. However
A. Mitchell Palmer insisted the same
thing until the time was ripe for him
to get busy in another direction.
The Philadelphia Record. Demo
lcratic, of to-day says: ENCOURAGED