Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-05

M. Clyde Kelly, the enfant terrible of
the Progressives who insists on run
ming as a candidate for Governor
Kelly is being doomed by a select
band of Allegheny eountians and by
men from Lancaster and few other
places. but the elder statesmen shake
their heads at the pranks of the boy
as they term him, and will endeayor
to admonish him to accept second
place on the ticket.
When the council meets it is the
plan to call upon the leaders to tell
in an impersonal manner Just how
they find sentiment and this is ex-
pected to present such a mass of SEN
tlment for Lewis as the candidate that
Kelly Will be forced to lie down. If he
does not abandon his aspirations he
Will be told that he can make his
tight alone and that the plain people
are for Lewis and Pinchot. Then Lex
n. Mitchell. of PunXsutawney, the
chairman of the conference. will be
put forward for Lteutenant-G G overnor
The rest of the ticket will be Major
l.. b. Brown, of Cory, for Secretary
OF Internal Affairs, and possibly
eX-Judge James NJ. Galbreath, of But
Ter, will be urged as available for the
nonpartisan ballot for Supreme judge.
Just who will be doomed for the Su-
perior Court will also be settled to-
day.
Wilhelm a Possibility
The coming of William wilhelm, of
Pottsville. who started the fuss against
the Flinn-Van Valkenburg domination
at the conference, was awaited with
some anxiety, but Wilhelm appeared
mild when he walked in at noon and
asked what was doing. Prominent
Bull Moosers say that Wilhelm will
not fight Lewis. but he Is an uncertain
quantity and may start something.
State Chairman A. Nevin DIETRICH
said that the conference was to hear
reports on sentiment, not to draft bills,
and denied that it was the intention
to back track on the liquor issue. The
of1cers of the conference. members of
legislative and executive committees,
chairmen of groups and leaders gem
orally are the constituents of the con-
ference, according to DIETRICH.
Kelly Meek as a Lamb
The conference was started as soon
as William Finn arrived and Con-
gresham Kelly went into the meet
ing as meek as a lamb. In addition
to Kelly, there were present Con-
gressmen Rupley, ,<Lewis, Walters and
Hulings. Lewis who was talked of
for Lieutenant Governor did not seem
to be much impressed with any
chances for it. The idea prevails that
1t will be a western man for second
place.
Wilhelm did not manifest any signs
of disturbance and it was rumored
that he might be given favorable men
ton for the Superior Court nomina-
ton. ..
Dean Lewis and, Pinchot were the
center Of an admiring group for half
an hour before the conference. Pin
chot will remain over night to at
tend meeting of the Pennsylvania
Conservation Commission tomorrow.
Finn refused to talk about the
situation, saying those at the confer
ence would decide, but his friends
were all talking Lewis. st
State Treasurer Young is said to
have told friends he did not care to
be considered. He sat with e. A.
VanValkenburg during the meeting.
Auditor General Powell was conspicu-
ously absent.
The conference was held in a room
with locked doors and no one was ad-
mitted unless his name was on a type
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