Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-01-31
B. PENROSE SAYS
EVERYONE KNOWS
No Need Of Any Formal Statement
About His Candidacy For
the Senatorship
Fred Reynolds May Be a Candidate
For Congress in the Belle
fonte District


marked in Pittsburgh that it was not
necessary for him to announce that he
was candidate. as everyone knew 1t.
This significant statement was made
after couple of days in conference
with the big men of the western end
of the State. especially Mayor J. G..
Armstrong. of Pittsburgh. The sena-
tor received good reports and his cam
lpaign will go forward. When asked
If he would run he said:
What do you mean by a formal
statement? Everybody knows that l
am candidate. 1t is not necessary to
shout it from the house tops"
He continued:
After being here for two days
can say that l have found strong
aggressive sentiment among the Re-
publicans of Southwestern Pennsylva-
mia. l am told by the Republican
leaders that there are a few rough
edges to be smoothed off, but they
are confident that Allegheny county
and the other Republican counties of
this end of the State will give big
majorities for the Republican ticket
this year
Senator Penrose disposed of an in
lquiry as to what he thought would be
the effect of speaking tour in Penn
sylvania by Colonel Roosevelt by say
ling:
There is no certainty that Roose-
Welt will come into the State" He
refused to make further comment re-
igarding Roosevelt.
The report that he and Senator Oil
yer no longer were working together
in politics was again emphatically de-
MED by Mr.. Penrose.
Supreme Court Justice Mestrezat is
being trotted out again as candidate
for the Democratic gubernatorial
nomination and it is
d that prominent
bosses in the party Mestrezat
have been urging him Is Doomed
to announce himself, Once More
espe ecially since Guth-
rie does not show much
linclination to help pull the reo-bosses
out of the hole. The Uniontown jur-
ist is said to have a boom all ready tc
launch. In fact for some time he Is
said to have been on the brink OF
making an announcement. Mestrezat
Is strong, but whether he can COM
mand the united support of the Dem
ocrats, which will be necessary to gel
anywhere, is doubted. Another thing
he would not take orders.
John Alladay, of Franklin county
has refused to be shunted off the
track for the Democratic congress
sional nomination in
the Seventeenth dis
Alladay trict in spite of p r
Develops tests by the friends oi
Thoughts Congressman + ra n Il
! ID r m and the
snorting of the reor-
ganization bosses of the first division
He seems to think that this is a free
country and that any man can enter g
race for any nomination regardless oi
what tin gods in Harrisburg, Lewisburg
New Bloomfield or any other place
may think to the contrary. If he stays
in the fight under the mistaken belief
that things are free for all in the
Pennsylvania Democratic party he
may find the national administration
taking a hand to convince him that
Democrats hereabouts must have their
thinking done for them.
Congressman c. E. Patton, of Clear
field, may not be a candidate for re-
election from the Twenty-first district
and has so announced
to his personal friends.
He has opp o 81 t on Reynolds
from two sources. The May Succeed
w h t on party G. f.. Patton
members gave him a
larger vote than the
regulars, but they will support their
own ticket this year. Patton's recent
demand that Penrose retire from pub
lie life for the good of the party has
incensed Republicans. The Republi-
} cans in Center county are now groom
ing Colonel w. F. Reynolds for the
place, and j. Linn Harris, of the State
Forestry Commission, is also likely to
seek the nomination. This situation
has awakened the Democrats and a
movement has been organized to nom-
mate the Rev. John M. Hewitt, rector
of the Bellefonte Episcopal Church
for Congress on the Democratic ticket
, The reo-bosses have not yet made ur
their minds.