Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-03-06
PALMER FAILED
TO SECURE PEACE
Congressman Said to Be Disap-
pointed a. a Result Of West
ern Invasion
CONGRESSMAN LEE Is HIT
Fight Among the Democrats Be-
coming Very Bitter in Every
Part of State

The Pittsburgh Dispatch, which oc-
cupies about the same position in re-
gard to independent politics as is oc-
cupied by the Public Ledger In Phila-
delphia, and which has been. IL any
thing. favorable to the Democratic
State machine. gives the following In
side story of the invasion of Western
Pennsylvania which turned into a re-
treat from Moscow:
Congressman A. Mitchell Palmer
found the Democratic situation here
so involved and the feeling SO bitter
| that he refused before departing for
the East to make any comment on
existing conditions. Whatever efforts
he may have put forth to harmonize
the warning factions In Allegheny
county were unavailing and 1t is prob
able that his efforts to heal up the
differences in the Erie-Crawford Con-
gressional district were quite as un-
avaiiing. In the Northwest a big
Democratic row was precipitated by
the appointment of Assemblyman E.
Lowry Humes as United States prose-
cutor in the western district here. The
county organization in Crawford gave
notice of its displeasure by defeating
the Palmer-McCormick candidate for
county chairman by an overwhelming
vote. The Humes faction is now be-
hind the candidacy of S. 8. Bryan. of
Titusville. for the congressional nomi-
nation, and the opposition is prepared
to line up behind ex-Mayor Liebel, OF
Erie. The fight will go on down the
line into the legislative and other
battles and will have q direct effect
upon the county fights of next year.
Federal patronage will probably be
showed out to help the Bryan-Humes
cause, as number of Post Office
appointments are now being held up
in the district.
congressman Palmer left Western
pennsylvania convinced that the chal-
lenges shot out from the rival county
committee meetings in this county last
weef were not mere flashes in the pan.
1t Is to be bitter battle to the finish.
for even now the rival leaders are con-
lerring with their followers, and each
SIDE Will have complete set of can
didates for every nomination to be
made in the county"
According to Philadelphia news
papers, Speaker Alter has not vet
decided what he will do about the in
vitation of the
Dimmick boomers
ssuDef1atorfai to become can
situation is didate for the Re-
interesting Now publican nomina-
tion for Governor
on an anti-Pen-
rose platform. The Speaker Is com
mitted to the Dimmick candidacy and
is being urged to stand, but does not
appear to be anxious to make the fight
for personal reasons. In Philadel-
phia Senator Penrose let loose a
broadside at ]. Denny O'Neil yester-
| day, declaring him an opportunist
DR.. Martin G. Brumbaugh Is getting
hundreds of letters and kilograms urg-
| ing him to be candidate for the Re-
publican nomination for Governor.
but he will not announce himself until
he is formally requested by people in
his home county of Huntingdon,
where big movement for him has
started. When Penrose was asked
about DR.. Brumbaugh he said that he
would be glad to see him and anyone
else In the race, as a lot of candidates
would express the spirit of the State
wide primary. This attitude, needless
to say, Is in sharp contrast to the saw
age resentment shown by the reor-
ganiZation Democrats against Michael
j. Ryan for daring to run against the
Jersey slate. The Bull Moosers are
expecting Brumm to get into the fight
against Lewis and will welcome the
chance for a fight.
The troubles of the REORGANIZATION
bosses of the State Democracy in the
Montgomery district have been inten-
sified by the refusal
of Henry Wilson
Bergey, member Bergey Will
of the last House, Not PLAY the
to lie down. Ber- Dead Man Part
gey is natural
born kicker, and
the story goes that when he said he
wanted to be senatorial choice of the
Ireorganizers they responded by stating
Edward lngersoll, close friend of
Congressman r. e. Diefenderfer, who
wants to be reelected. This did not
deter Bergey a bit and yesterday he
announced his candidacy from the
metropolis of Lansdale. Senator Jo-
seph Heacock will probably be can
didate for denomination, and thus the
Democrats are split right off the reel.
E. w. Patton will run for the Repuh-
lican nomination to succeed John O..
Sheath In Philadelphia, and Sam Scott
yesterday announced that he was
ready to be promoted from the House
to the Senate If the Germantown peo-
pie wanted him. Representative c. C.
Hoover, good, strong member from
Cleart1eld, will be a candidate for the
Republican nomination in that dis
trict.
| The Philadelphia Record of to-day
makes this statement In regard to a
situation recently given attention here:
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