Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-03-23
BULL MOOSERS ARE
GOING IT ALONE
Dershem will Not Get Any Help
From Them, But Will Be Fought
Good and Hard
MCCORMICK ON THE WING
Going Up to Elk County to Add to
the Joy of the Nation
This Spring
MCCORMICK ON THE WING

the Joy OF the Nation
This Spring
| Bull Moosers of the Seventeenth
congressional district have declined to
| fall for the scheme of friends of Con-
gresham Frank L. Dershem, of the
Lewisburg Democrat. who is in
trouble. and instead of endorsing him
as the machinists had hoped will run
their own candidate. 1t is probable
/ that George w. Wagenseller, who
| achieved fame when the Roosevelt
electors met here. will be doomed as
| the Washington party candidate. He
is understood to have the blessing and
consent Of State Chairman A. Nevin
DIETRICH.
The Bull Moosers of the district,
which is the home of DIETRICH, will
name complete legislative candidates
no matter how small the army may
| be. In Perry, w. G. Lebo, New Bloom
/ field, is being put forward, and in
| Snyder, j. Il. Woodruff will be boosted.
DIETRICH has candidates which he will
uncover in Franklin and Fulton coun-
| ties, but he is having trouble to find
them in Cumberland.
| The Harrisburg Washington party
| men will have q meeting at their Mar
ket street headquarters tonight to or
| ganize a city commit.
tee and will plan their
Bull Moosers activities for the CAM
Will Form paign. Most of the
Committee members of the county
committee are baching
DIR. j. H. Kreider for
the congressional nomination and il
| there is any effort on the part of
! friends of Charles e. Lands to go
after that dubious prize it has not
shown up. The Bull Moosers will
nave George i. Reed for one of their
| legislative candidates and might be
willing to let Lands run for member
Lenker and Martin have things
sewed up.
| Vance c. Mccormick, candidate for
| the Democratic nomination for Gov
ernor, will go into "the enemy's coun-
| try this week. as he
| plans to invade Elk
! county, the stronghold Mccormick
of Senator J. K. P. Hall, Going Up TO
one of the men he has Elk County
so sharply attacked. The
| former mayor will leave
| to-day and spend tomorrow i'll Clear
| field county, where there is strong
opposition to him, and then go into
Elk and Cameron on Wednesday, fol-
Ils
ren and Erie counties.
Mccormick is planning q series of
visits to southern counties in April,
| the arrangements being now under
way. He will be here on April IA,
when the Democratic State committee
meets, but whether any effort will be
made to endorse him or not is not un-
covered. Ii 1t is attempted there will
be big row. President Wilson is said
to be watching the Developments very
| closely and not to be bit pleased at
the doubtful outcome.
Elated over the rousing receptions
rendered to him on his tour Of the
western and central counties. Senator
| Penrose, who is per-
| Sonally campaigning
PenrOSe Is the State in the inter-
Going Out On ests of his candidacy
Trail Again for reelection, said
We t er d a that he
would go Wednesday
to Lock Haven. From Lock Haven
he will follow an itinerary which
will bring him before many Repub-
| licans in that section of PENNSYLVANIA
He will probably return to Philadel-
phia late this week.
Representative ID. E. Ainey, OF Mont
rose, who Is opposing Senator Boies
Penrose for the Republican senatorial
nomination, in statement given out
last night answers queries relative to
rumors Of his withdrawal from the
contest In view of the fact that J. Ben.
jamin Dimmick. of Scranton, the other
republican opposing Senator Penrose,
is but dividing the opposition to Pen
rose. Alr. Ainey says Pennsylvania
Republicans, in his opinion, are deter
mined to return Republican to the
Senate. He is planning for campaign
tour that will take him into every sec
tion of the State, and will wage an
} active campaign against both Penrose
and Dimmick. On March rs he will
speak at Dubois and on March 20 at
Troy. He expects to announce other
dates within week.
The Philadelphia Inquirer says to-
DAY on subject of local interest.
| Palmer Mccormick boomers who have
been led to believe that
Secretary of the Navy
JosephusS. S. Daniels would Daniels to
interest himself in the Keen Out
cause of their chieftains of the Row
!, by speaking at a Jeffer-
sonian dinner to be held
in Harrisburg on April 13 learned
otherwise yesterday.
After his arrival here yesterday for
the purpose of taking part in the cere-
monies attending the launching of the
dreadnought Oklahoma to-day Secre-
tary Daniels took occasion to remark
that under no circumstances would he
discuss factional fights
, If 1t is my pleasure to speak in
Pennsylvania at any time he said, I
may speak of Democratic policies, but
never factional politics."
: With each succeeding day the fight
, in the Democratic party in Pennsyl-
vania becomes more bitter and per-
sonal. Eugene C. Bonni-
we'll. erstwhile leader of
, the reorganization forces Bonniwel]
under the Palmer McCor- Hits Vance
mick whip, predicted in a Mccormick
, speech at Johnstown, as
reported by the Pitts
burgh GaZette-Times, that ''if Vance
Mccormick is nominated by the Demo.
Gratis Of Pennsylvania he will not be
elected Governor. He declared that
Mccormick made the statement in
1900 that he would not vote for Bryan
and said he has an affidavit to produce
State organization. under Mccormick
in 1918. betrayed Grim in the latter's
: campaign for the Superior Court. He
3 declared that Mccormick, as mayor OF
Harrisburg in 1906, vetoed an ordi.
| nance passed by council to make the
Y wages of the city laborers $1.50 pei
' day on the grounds that it was toe
much and there were plenty of men te
9 be obtained at a lower price"
, |.lriheRRlSBuR& FIFTY
ell Years. S.ARO.fOlSAy. |