Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-06
BIC REGISTRATION
PAINS DEMOCRATS
But They Are Whistling to Keep
Up Their Courage in the
Face of the Disaster
REPUBLICANS ARE REJOICING
Getting Expensive to Run Cam
paign Here; Democrats to
Parade in a Short Time

some mlsnIN strenuous WnlStlluE Is
being done by the folks around the
Democratic State windmill and its
newspaper annex to keep up courage
in the face of the tremendous Repub-
lican registration in every city in the
Commonwealth and claims and claims
about how gratifying the registration
is to the Democrats are being issued.
! 1t is true the ProgressiVes, who ap-
pear to have been lost in the shuttle,
are not saying much, but that only
increases the Democratic task.
The men around the machine shop
in Market Square are kecnly dis
appointed at the failure of more than
$4,000 Democrats in Philadelphia to
register in view of the fact that Will
son and Marshall had &C. 900 votes in
that city and the terrific slump in the
Democratic and Washington regis
tration in Pittsburgh has also made
the gangsters blue.
Lebanon city, which has been hard
hit by the Palmer metal schedule. is a
fair indication of the way registrations
go in the State. 1t registered 3,570
persons. of whom 2,0S2 are Repub-
licans, 921 Democrats and 270 Wash
ington.
1t is nonsensical for Democratic pa
pers to say that Republicans who in
tend to vote the Democratic ticket are
registering as Republicans so that they
will not be bothered
Some of the money which might
have been expended on the trip of the
Central Democratic Club to the wake
Iat the home of Con-
gresham A. Mitchell
Palmer, but which was Democrats
ii n n | ly figured out to Parade
IS h u d be used at This Month
home, is to be burned
up by the Democratic
machine this month in a parade. 1t
is the idea to have the Central Demo-
cratic Club appear with its new high
hats as escort to the various branches
of the Palmer Mccormick League. An
effort will be made to have Cumber-
land county make a display and Perry
county will send at least one dozen
men. The leagues organized at vari-
Gus post offices and cross roads by
Scott Rubendall before the money
gave out will have banners. at least.
A Philadelphia dispatch on politics
says of fusion: Men regardless of
party affiliation. boldly assert that the
Washington party went
out with the retirement
Expensive of Dean Lewis. The one
Days For sentiment seems to pre-
Candidates vail that party which
is not big enough to
have its own candidate
for Governor is no longer a real
party. For instance. the Philadelphia
Bulletin, noted for its fairness and
lack of bias. said: lit was a day of
confessions at Harrisburg. DIR. Lewis
confessed that his candidacy was hope
less. Mr.. Mccormick confessed that
his party alone could not accomplish
its purpose in the overturn of the
State. Mr.. Finn confessed that ninety
per cent. of the business corporations
the industries that afford labor and
pay wages to the working population
were supporting the Republican
ticket. In view of such admissions
from such eminent authority, the
dicker in candidates. which has been
negotiated, whatever it's terms, need
cause little worry to the Republican
nominees who stand four square on
the principles and policies with which
the prosperity of Pennsylvania has
been linked. Inasmuch as Finn will
no longer put up for the Washington
party it looks very much as if the So
called fusion deal was made in order
to shake down Mccormick. For be it
known that the Washington party
leaders are an expensive bunch"
Philadelphia people are laughing at
the manner in which the friends of
Vance c. Mccormick have attempted
to corral the inde-
dendent Republ an
vote and the Dimmick Scheme to
strength by for m / ng Fool Men
the Independent Re- Is Broken
p u b / can League.
This organization has
headquarters sta fl
and an office large enough for two
desks and two people in the Kunkel
building. When the man in charge is
not at the Kunkel building he is some
times to be found at the Democratic
State windmill The demands for
names of the men on the committee
and other information have been met
by evasions. Out in Pittsburgh the
scheme went to smash. The Pitts
burgh Dispatch says:
The effort to organize an Anti
Penrose Republican League in Allie
gheny county seems to have fallen
through. When a similar organiza-
ton was born in Philadelphia several
weeks ago, announcement was made
that Immediately organizations would
be formed in Pittsburgh, Harrisburg,
Scranton, Erie and in other populous
centers The Philadelphia. or parent
organization, selected it's general Off
GERS from the State at large and ne
gotiations looking to the establish
ment of a committee here were under
taken"