Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-24

could vote in cold blood for an enemy
of union labor such as this mans acts
show him to be?
His partner on the ticket, A.
Mitchell Palmer, he must be beaten
If the Democracy of Pennsylvania is
not to be disgraced. 1 am tempted
to say of him as Grafton did of Cory:
He found the house of the rich man
a convenient way to honor and place,
and that it was easier for a statesman
with midling talents to sell his friends
than it was for lawyer with no talent
to sell his clients! This man has been
the protege of every boss in turn in
his district Mutchler found him, Hall
financed him, and he did Guffey's bid
ding while Guffey had power and
pocketbook.
Blast for Palmer
Palmer said last night that he was
opposing Ryan because the men be-
hind him are using his candidacy to
strike down the State organization
Mr.. Palmer ought to know who
sold out at Allentown. He was part
OF the crowd that sold. He sat In
their conference. if, indeed, it was held
i'll the back room of a saloon. They
offered him the nomination for Gov
ernor; he was too cowardly to take it.
He had the opportunity that comes
rarely to men, the next day on the
stage at Allentown, when he was in
troduced to speak, and he talked of
the tariff; but he had no word of
condemnation for his then masters
who were paying his bills; no word
then of the betrayal of which he now
so glibly talks. And even in Sep
tember of 1910 he publicly declared,
at a meeting of the congressional can
didates in Harrisburg, that the action
of the Allentown convention was hon
est decent and justifiable politics.
Morris is Flayed
Now, as for Mr.. Morris, charge
him with being disloyal to the Demo-
cratic ticket. 1 propose to show his
incompetence-or worse. There are
sixteen registered Democrats in the
Twentieth division of the Seventh
ward of Philadelphia, where the State
chairman lives They are mostly of
his own class and society-exclusiv
and sillk-stockinged. 1 find, according
to the official election returns, that he
has not supported any Democrat in
that division at any primary election.
In 1911, when Michael ]. Ryan was
the Democratic-Key candidate,
against the gang city solicitor. he re-
ceived but one vote in this mans
division, while his Republican opuo-
nent received two in 1912 His init
mate friend, the new United States
district attorney-by grace of Palmer,
Mccormick and Morris--Francis Fisher.
Kane, running for State delegate.
polled the enormous total of one vote.
But the returns of the general cleo
tion of 1918 show more clearly than
any others do the total unfitness of
this man to be the chairman of a po-
litical party. While Robert S. Bright
his personal friend and slated candi.
date for congressman t-large, re-
ceived 26 votes in Morris division OF,
November 4 1913, D. Webster Grim.
the Democratic nominee for Superior
Court, received but 5, showing that
not only did he not support Senator
Grim. but that he made every effor,
! possible to prevent him from havine
any vote whatever in his division. AND
| yet, while he Is to-day perverting the
office of chairman and misusing the
offices of the State committee in a wa,
scandalous in its openness agains
Democratic candidates, he has tn,
effrontery to call upon decent citizens
to support such highhanded methods.