Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-06
S|XTY-TWO CENTS
DAUPH|N'S RATE
Philadelphia Paper Analyses the
Expenditure of the Mccormick
Committees Here
DEWALT BUMPS PLATFORM
|Lehigh County Committee Lines
Up With Clearfield-Dr.
Brumbaugh Is Gaining

AAA0odS 40 ooiiiiil6
Sixty-two cents a vote was what it
cost to get out the votes for McCor-
mick in this county at the May pri-
mary, according to an article pub
lished in the Philadelphia Inquirer
yesterday morning. The article gives
figures from the accounts of the DEM
ocratic Citizens League and the Pal
mer = Mccormick League, which
handled the campaign work for the
Harrisburg candidate, and says:
The organizations, one known as
The Democratic Citizens Committee
of Dauphin county, and the other as
The Palmer-McCormick League of
Harrisburg acknowledge having eN-
pended $2,1S4.23 in the single county
of Dauphin. And there are siXty-siX
other counties in Pennsylvania.
"As Palmer and Mccormick polled
in round figures $500 votes in Dau-
phin county, the two committees alone
expended an average of 62 cents for
each vote recorded for these candi-
dates, aside from any other eXpendi-
lures that may a been made for a
like purpose and not reported.
"Dauphin has never been distin-
| guished as a cheap county for candi-
doNSo ~ iiOSS SiieS Z was O'iSA
cred necessary to make a money CAM
paign, but the heavy cost of the Pal
mer-McCormick campaign last month,
and in a primary election at that, is
| still the talk of the county.
The omission of the names of the
watchers practically makes the eX-
pense account of little value. The
publication of the anne of the
/ watchers in Clinton county, where
the expense of polling the Palmer
Mccormick primary votes was about
! $1.47 each, was a revelation to the
citizens who did not share in the dis
tribution of the reorganizers' cam
paign funds"
A statement issued by the Dimmick
campaign committee last night strik-
ingly shows the strength of Or. Mar
tin G. Brumbaugh, the
Republican candidate
Brumbaugh for Governor. The
Strength statement gives a COM
Is Shown pilation of the vote for
the doctor in various
counties. 1t says in
part: Or. Brumbaugh polled 253,7SS
votes out of 500, 097 cast for Republic
can gubernatorial candidates and
Senator Penrose 219,S71 out of 332,-
265 cost for senatorial candidates. In
| L HllduGlpIlld the NOlC Wdo
S7,075. In Allegheny county, the
Brumbaugh vote was 47,1S0. Brum-
baugh carried every county carried by
Dimmick, including Cambria, the
home county of Mayor Cauffiel, of
Johnstown, who was B~rumbaugh's
leading opponent. Brumbaugh had
1859 votes in Cambria and his vote
in Lackawanna county, the home
county of Dimmick, was SPAS"
Democrats all over the State are
rubbing their eyes over the perform
ance of the Democratic county com
mittee of Lehigh on
Saturday. Coming so
soon after the thrash Dewalt Hits
ing given to the friends Platform of
of the State candi- Mccormick
dates in Clearfield
county, and the public
d~enunciation of the activity of the
Mccormick postmasters, the Lehigh
action has furnished fresh indication
of the divisions among the Democrats.
Ex-senator Arthur G. Dewalt, the
nominee for Congress, who was guillo-
tined by the reorganization commit
tee headed by Mccormick, controlled
the committee and slated all of the
officers. His supporters got out of
hand, incidentally, and jeered n
hooted the supporters of Congress
imam Rothermel, who was defeated by
Dewalt and then refused the mint SUI
perintendency. Attention was called
to the industrial depression in the
region and her Dewalt made a speech
that was ripped to pieces by the Roth
ermel men in the meeting. He plead
ed for support for the National and
State platforms, and for the State
ticket from Palmer and Mccormick
down to Congress and Assembly. He
then turned around and in spite of the
fact hat the platform of Mccormick
as a candidate for Governor declares
for local option and woman's suffrage,
announced hat such declarations are
Iundemocratic.
Two speeches and four receptions is
the record made by Senator Boies
Penrose on Independence Day at
Ephrata. One of the
speeches and two of the
Penrose Is receptions were purely
Greeted in political, while the
Ephrata principal address of
the day, delivered on
historic ground, was a
historical review, punctuated with pa
triotic sentiment. He spoke from a
grandstand in Ephrata Park, and tina
interest had been stimulated to an
acute pitch is shown by the fact that
more thar 5000 persons, men and
women, paid % cents admission each
to sit under him" and hear what he
had to say of the development and
glory of the American Republic. 1t
was evident that Senator Penrose did
not know an admission was to be
charged until he reached the gate, and
there was some foreboding mons his
retinue lest the audience would be
small. This uneasiness was not we'll
founded. A constant stream of people
flowed through the gate and they were
still arriving when he was introduced
by the Rev.. DR.. Zerfass, a public
school teocher, a Seventh Day Bap-
fist and, as he expressed it, "a Repub-
lican stump speaker ever since he was
in his teens"
{ Democrats throughout the State are
: manifesting considerable ~uneasiness
, over the meeting of the executive
committee at the State
I Windmill in Market
! Square on Wednesday. Democrats
1t is feared that the Uneasy at
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