Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-12
STATE COMMITTEE
Prize OF CONTEST
Democrats in Furious Factional
Quarrel Already Over the
Machine Control
OUTBREAK AT PHILADELPHIA
Ryan Says That He Will Support
Nominee of Democrats No
Matter Who

control of the Democratic State ma
chine has been started in Philadelphia
with a. bitterness that promises to
make the contest the most interesting
In many years. In every district In
Philadelphia candidates have been set
up by opponents of the present bosses
for the committee seats and the re-
organization gangsters have retaliated
by having charges brought against
Democratic congressman and senators
in the Democratic Club of Philadel-
phia This club, by the way, occupies
even less of a position in Philadelphia
Democratic affairs than does the Gen.
trail Club here.
Senator Richard V. Farley an
nounced himself as a candidate for
tho State committee on an anti-boss
platform, defying the present bosses
by name and then a Democrat who
got a federal job proceeded to put
congressman Donahue and Logue on
the grill.
City Chairman B. G.. Bromley has
also decided to run for the State COM
mittee in spite of the frowns of the
BOSSES, just as the Democrats who
Will not bow the knee are doing in
Luzerne and other counties. In Allie
gheny county a whole set of candi-
dates for the State committee will be
set up against the reorganization
bosses.
Whichever faction controls the State
committee will throw out the other on
contests, just as the reorganization
crowd did the Brennan people on a
dizzy contest year or so ago.
While people of the State were
reading Vance c. McCormick's dec
laration that he would not support
Ryan IL he thought
there had been a deal,
Ryan Says Mr.. Ryan was saying
He Will Be he would stand by the
A Democrat ticket The Philadel-
phia Inquirer says re-
...... garding it: This is
what City Solicitor Ryan said: I am
a Democrat. The Democratic party
believes in the rule Of the people; the
voice of the majority upon all issues.
When / consented to have my name
go before the Democratic voters at the
coming primaries l did so with an
absolute and abiding faith in my fellow
Democrats of Pennsylvania. am pre-
pared to concur in any decision they
may make as to the most available
az shall support the nominees of
my party. While l am confident that
I shall win this nomination, no mat
ter what shall be the will of my as
sociates In the great Democratic party
in our State, I shall Loyalty and ar
IDENTIFY support the choice of the Dem
ocratic voters
The Philadelphia Record Of to-day
contained the following:
Reports that Vance C. Mccormick
might withdraw as a
candidate before the
primary election gain Reports Tha,
ed considerable local V. Mccormick
circulation yesterd ay. Might Qui,
III u n r eds of letters
from prominent Dem
ocrats of all sections of the State are
reported to have been sent to Con.
gresham A. Mitchell Palmer protest.
ing against his support of Mccormick
for the nomination for governor anG
thus dividing the party into factions
on the eve of its great opportunity tc
carry Pennsylvania. Many Of these
letters are said to call to Palmer's at
tention the hopelessness of the Nc.
Cormick candidacy and to urge hin
to use his influence with the ex-Yalt
football player to have him quit the
race. Local reorganization leader.
were downcast yesterday over the
rapid progress of the Ryan movement
and apparently realized that McCor.
mick would be up against a hard bat
tie should he continue in the race
The reorganizers had expected that
complete slate for the State ticke
would have been framed at the con
ference of Palmer, Mccormick ant
Norris In this city last Tuesday, bu
this plan was abandoned, 1t has beer
Explained, in consequence of the gen
eral protest against the fight on Ryan
Another conference is now being plan
ned to take place in this city eithe,
next Saturday or Monday
Senator Boies Penrose received
notable reception at Altoona yester
day, having gone there to speak OF
Lincoln before the p. Q
S. of A. The Senator wa
Penrose rendered q reception O
Speaks ut Jaffa Temple by the 10
Altoona cal camp of the Patrio
tic Order of America, tn
women's branch of tn
p. o. S. of A., and made brief ad
dress, in which he commended the ac
tivity of the women members alon;
Ipatriotic lines. A gathering tina
packed the hall assembled to hear th,
Senator's address last night. Befor,
the meeting there was a parade ii
which hundreds of members of th,
p. o. S. of A. from Blair, Cambria ant
other counties of this section march