Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-16
|DAUPH|N MOOSERS
| ARE IN A QUA|VDRY
Do Not Know Whether to Com,
Out For Lewis or Young or
English Nowadays
LOOKING FOR AN ANGEL
Ryan Denies He Is Mixed Up in
Liquor Business and Will
Speak in Monroe

Dauphin county Washington party
men are trying to figure out which
way the gubernatorial nomination cat
is going to jump, and preference in
regard to Lewis or Young or Enghsh
is as hard to extract as dandeiions
from a Capitol Hill snowbank. The
Dauphin Bull Moosers suffered con-
siderably when William Finn an
nounced that the rank and hle was
going to finance the campaign this
year and intimated that his days as
the cheerful giver were over.
a week ago the local Washington
ians were all for William Draper
Lewis. but they have evidently heard
something, because some of them are
now asserting that Robert X. Young
and H. d. w. English are we'll quail
field. Young has a lot of friends here,
most of whom turned in. for Lewis
when the recent conference was held
in this city, but they are now on the
back track.
The same situation prevails all over
the State and between now and the
conference here on the 26th there will
be some tall fencing. 1t may even be
possible that faction might go into
the conference opposed to the Stating
of any candidate for Governor, as re-
quireu ny lhe IeSoiutioi auoP'Su iSie
recently.
City Solicitor Michael j. Ryan, cam
didate for the Democratic nomination
for Governor, yesterday issued a
sweeping denial of
the charge that his
candidacy Is in the Ryan Makes
interest of the liquor Hot Retort
interests and de- to Chalfant
nunciation of those
responsible for the
allegation. He links reorSanlIers
with the attack.
Mr.. Ryan's statement reads There
has been sent into every newspaper
office in Pennsylvania q statement by
Harry M. Chalfant, editor of the
American Issue, in which 1 am held up
as the candidate of the liquor inter-
ests of Pennsylvania and in which 1t
is declared that the liquor interests
have decided to stake their future on
the hope of winning o. battle under
my leadership. l would not lead such
"a battle. denounce the charge as
absolutely destitute of truth, and
assert that it's falsity was known to
tho writer of the attack and to those
who inspired it's writing. The news
papers of Philadelphia, on Wednes-
day last reported a meeting of the
day before at the Bellevue-Stratford
attended not only by the men who
claim to own absolutely the Demo-
CRATES party in Pennsylvania, but also
by this Harry M. Chalfant At that
meeting this scheme of attack was
concocted, and it's execution is now
in progress. / repeat that so far as 1t
relates to me 1t is, in its entirety and
in its details, wicked and malicious
falsehood. I have no relations-per-
sonal, professional or political-wlth
the liquor interests of Philadelphia
or PENNSYLVANIA, and L never did have.
Surely my opponents must be hard
driven when they are compelled to
resort to such despicable tactics
A pretty kettle of fish has been
found in Monroe county, the home
of Congressman A. Mitchell Palmer
and the county where
the candidacy of Vance
Ryan Will C. Mccormick was
Speak i'm endorsed Tor the DEM
Old Monroe ocratic nomination for
Governor. Right on
top of the endorse
ment the East Streudsburg Board of
Trade, composed of some of the big
gest men in the county, invited Pal-
mer to speak at its annual dinner ana
also invited Michael J. Ryan. Ryan
has accepted the invitation and the
friends of Palmer are filling the air
with protests, claiming that 1t would
look us though Monroe was not solid
for Mccormick after all. 1t is eX-
pected that within fortnight q big
meeting will be held at Clearfield, at
which Ryan will be the chief speaker.
This county is one in which the re-
organization clique has been unable
to secure anything but noise.
The Philadelphia Press Of to-day
says: Failure of potential Republf-
can State leaders to agree on any one
as the candidate for
Governor has result
ed in reviving booms Sproul and
for Senator Will Dixon Once
liam C. Sp7oul, of More Doomed
Delaware county,
and DIR. Samuel G..
Dixon, of Montgomery. One week ago
indications pointed strongly to the
nomination of Ex-Governor Edwin 5.
Stuart. But. his known disinclination
to again seek the office, together with
the launching of the Brumbaugh can
didacy, tended to broaden out the field
of possibilities. Senator Sproul is not
disposed to run, though it is believed
he could be prevailed upon to do so.
Four years ago the Delaware Senator
was far more ambitious for guberna-
torial honors than he is at present. In
fact, two weeks ago he positively an
nounced that he would not be candi-
date. That declaration was made,
however, at a time when everything
indicated the nomination of Stuart.
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