Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-13
DOCTOR KRE|DER
SAID To BE WEARY
Bull Moose Candidate For Congress
Not Hurting Himself in the
Campaign Now
DEMOCRATS ARE H0PING G
Fusion Reports Do Not Appear to
Have Brought About Any
thing Very Definite
DEMOCRATS ARE HOPING


around among politicians these Au-
gust deys is that DIR. j. II. Kreider,
clerk in the Auditor Generals De-
partment and Washington party can
didate for Congress, may see his way
clear to retiring as candidate before
long. Friends of the doctor are cross
ing their hearts and saying 1t is not
so, but rumor persists that Kreider,
seeing no earthly show of defeating
Congressman Aaron S. Kreider for
reelection, is not inclined to hurt
himself running this fall.
| One of the stories going in connec-
tion with this highly interesting rumor
about one of the few men able to hold
job in the Capitol and run for Con-
gress at the same time is that bosses
of the Mccormick machine are hopins
that D. l.. Kaufman will take it into
| his head to retire as Democratic can
didate and that Kreider will quit about
the same time and thus enable the
machine to name the Democratic can
didate for Congress and get the Bull
| MooserS to endorse him. 1t will be
| recalled, however, that the McCor-
| illith llltitiilllt was lIltible To uOllllIdl6
c. II. Prizer for Congress when it went
before the people, Prizer being de-
| feated by kaufman, who ran his own
Icampaign, unfettered and unfinanced.
Whether kaufman will retire is as
| problematical as whether the bulk of
the Democrats would stand for
| trafficking with followers of Roosevelt
who denounced the national admins
tration.
| Democrats of the machine stripe
are expressing the hope in Philadel-
phia that fusion will be accomplished
and a lot of under
| ground work is being
Fusion Still done by emissaries of
! Up in the the badly ratified McCor-
| Blue Skies mick Democrats and the
scared Bull Moosers to
get some kind of a COM
| binatton that will save Mccormick
| from a frightful defeat and prevent
| the showing up of the weakness of the
| Washington party in PENNSYLVANIA.
| Dean Lewis visit to oyster Bay yes
terday evidently did not lead to much
because he is to speak tomorrow in
| Carbon and Saturday in Lehigh coun-
| ty. What Mccormick wants is to get
| on both tickets and his cotere is will
| ing to let him have the high place
and pay the bills, the scheme being to
| put Bull Moosers on the rest of the
regarded
| as unlikely because Democrats and
| Bull Moosers are at odds on national
policies Mccormick is willing to put
up literally for campaign fund and
that sounds attractive. But Just how
| Democrats can unite with adherents
| of Roosevelt. who slams the national
administration, is hard to understand.
| On the subject of fusion the Phila-
| delphla Public Ledger has this to say
in a Washington dispatch:
Il do not see that
| there is any possibility Washington
OF fusion on United Story Puts
| States senator and the Doubt On 1t
State ticket" said Will
| liam Finn in response
| to a question. Our politics differ so
widely that it would be impossible for
us to accept a Democrat to lead our
| ticket We believe in the protective
policy, and there can be no compro-
mise on this principle. This gulf sepa-
rates the Democrats and Progressives. +"
What about all this talk?" he was
asked.
1T has been more of a hope than a
serious talk" he replied.
Then you say there will be no
fusion?"
That is my belief"
Won't there be fusion on congress
men in certain districts?"
40 not see Wnere, but there will
be fusion on candidates for the State
Legislature"
Representative A. Mitchell Palmer
returned to-day after a weeks alb
sence due to illness. He, too, ex-
| pressed the same view on fusion as
did the Progressive leader. saying:
''As have said so often before, it will
be fight to the finish. The only way
there can be fusion is by the Progress
sives accepting myself as their candi-
date for United States senator" said
Mr.. Palmer.
An Oyster Bay dispatch about the
| visit of the Dean to Sycamore Hill
reads this way in part: Just what
passed between Colonel
Roosevelt and Mr.. Lewis
Lewis VIII could not be learned,
Speak to but 1t is understood that
His Friends definite decision on
| the course to be fol-
lowed will be reached
soon after Mr.. Lewis returns to Phila-
| delphia and has a chance to talk over
| leaders. 1t can be stated. however.
| that no matter what advice may be
given by the leaders. Colonel Roose-
welt will take no drastic step to force
| Lewis off the ticket, and that if fusion
| is arranged 1t will be because, Lewis
consents after the situation has been
carefully canvassed. If fusion comes,
as now seems likely. nothing will in
duce the Progressives to indorse A.
! Mitchell Palmer, the Democratic nomi-