Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-30
ROOSEVELT FAILS
To AID NJ 'CORM|CK
Took Votes Away From Palmer,
but Mccormick Benefited
Very Little by His Speech
PEOPLE RESENT BUTTINC In
'Nonpartisan" Meeting Drew Only
400 People by the Most
Charitable of Counting

Theodore Roosevelt took lot of
votes away from A. Mitchell Palmer
as a result of his two speeches in
Harrisburg yesterday. but beyond
rounding up some disgruntled Bull
Moosers who were roaming around
growing over the McCormick-Lewis
deal and the failure of McCormick's
friend, Palmer, to withdraw, the
doughty Colonel had little effect on
the gubernatorial election. There were
some of the militant Bull Moosers who
had been proclaiming that they would
not stand for Mccormick, but their
injured feelings have been assuaged
and last night they were in line. The
Colonel had shaken hands with some
of them and the Democrats had rea-
soned with the rest.
The truth of the matter is that Dau-
phin county has had such a tremen-
dous lot of politics poured into it that
almost every man made up his mind
weeks ago what he was going to do.
Those who were wavering were Bull
Moosers, who were sore at the Re-
publican party and who having de-
cided not to return to the fold were
uncertain where they would land and
other Bull Moosers who thought that
Palmer did not treat Pinchot right.
Roosevelt herded these wanderers. He
never touched the Republicans or the
Democrats who defy bossism. The eff
feet of his visit was more or less
noise and few votes
Democrats were going around last
night pretending to be tremendously
pleased at the 100-word reference to
Mccormick, but much interested in
the weather when attention was called
to the slams given Palmer.
The Democrats here are, however
far more interested in their own
troubles than in the Bull Moose chief
tain. To begin with
the machine men are
Democrats finding many Demo-
Worried Gratis in open revolt
at Home and that the bulk of
the Ryan men will not
even give a semblance
of regularity, while the proclamation
about vote buying and the numerous
Straight tips" that there will be no
golden flood have caused some Demo-
Gratis to wonder If what they had ex-
pected is not to be turned over to the
Bull Moose machine. Herr Moeslein,
the genial chairman, is suffering from
sore throat and Chairman President
Jones is running around in rings try
ing to drum up great crowd to meet
the Little Boss when he comes home
tomorrow night. The bosses are busy
trying to pacify Democrats who insist
that the stories that there will be no
slush fund is a bluff to keep them
from getting some of the "kale."
Next to the terrific jabs given to
A. Mitchell Palmer yesterday by Theo-
dore Roosevelt in this city, Vance c.
Mccormick and Palmer
got the worst surprise of
their lives last night in Franklin
Franklin county. The two Gives Chill
W a n d er er had gone to Bosses
through the Cumberland
Valley and landed in
Franklin without knowing what Roose-
welt had said about Palmer. They
were told just before they began to
speak at the meetings After they had
spoken several times they were in
formed that hundreds of men who
ordinarily take no part in State cleo
tions were going out on Tuesday to
vote for Brumbaugh and that the in
dustrial depression had caused many
Democrats and Bull Moosers to openly
espouse the Republican cause. Men
who came to the city late last night
said that the reception to the candi-
dates in Franklin county was plain
frost.
A charitable count gives about 400
as the sum total of the attendance at
the 'nonpartisan mass meeting" in
Chestnut Street Hall last
night. 1t was one of those
Partisan affairs whose nonpartisan-
Meeting ship is about as pronounce
Got 400 edly Democratic as the at
titude of Mayor John K
Royal in city affairs. All
of the speakers were advocates of
Boss Mccormick, the chairman being
none other than State Treasurer r. K.
Young, who had refused to vote for
Mccormick when the Bull Moosers'
State committee pasted him over
Lewis name on the ballot Mr.. Young
was the only one who was not noisily
'nonpartisan" last night. He was plain
partisan. "Nonpartisans" were DR.. r.
Nj. Little, the soup house boss of
Philadelphia; Art Rupley, Jim Strana-
han and a Georgia importation named
Austin. All the men in the crowd
were for Mccormick, all the speeches
were for Mccormick and all the hand
clapping was for Mccormick. Poor
Palmer didn't have no friends" as
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