Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-01-29
INNER CIRCLE Of
BOSSES WILL MEET
Democratic Affairs will Be Talked
Over if McNair Does Not
Boil Over
PALMER IS WORRIED OVER IT
Casey Said to Have Developed
Ambitions to Be a Candi-
date For Governor

The Democratic State executive
committee, or inner circle, as 1t Is
known among the Democrats of the
State, will meet here the second week
in February, according to reports in
circulation. The meeting is ostensibly
to act upon the report of the COM
mittee on rules. which was furnished
to the rulemakers for ratification, but
is really to hear how the situation
s. 'nds
The meeting is also likely to develop
something in the nature of a row, as
William N. McNair, who has defied
the reo-bosses, Is chairman of the
Pittsburgh division and is said to have
some allies on the committee who are
not In sympathy with the ruling
clique.
| Mayor William Ward, Jr., of Ches-
ter, we'll known here because of his
service as a member Of the House. is
candidate for the Re-
publican nomination
for Congress in the Ward Will
Delaware-Chester dis Run For
trict and will make an Congress
earnest campaign. Con-
gresham Butler Is not
yet sure whether he will run again
and Captain Isaac Johnson, Of Media,
has boom. Butler has been Con-
gresham for a long time and is one
of the longest in point of service in
Congress. Indications are that there
will be a fight to the finish at the polls
in order to settle the situation in the
district.
Clifford Pinchot went to Philadel-
phia yesterday for conference with
the Washington party chiefs about his
senatorial candidacy and
appeared to be little
Pinchot miffed when 1t was sug-
Panied at gested that everything
Prospects was cut and dried for
him for Senator. He said
that in his party states
were unknown, although everyone ap-
pears to think that it will be Young
for Governor, Pinchot for Senator and
Galbreath for Supreme Court justice.
Pinchot had a talk with State Chair
man DIETRICH, who is winging his way
about the State trying to calm down
the insurgents who fear that there
will be no warchest opened. Detrich's
great trouble Is to find party men who
are willing to contribute. They all
seem to think that Finn should do it.
United States Marshal Jim Magee
and Revenue Collector Fritz Kirken-
dali are expected to announce the
names of compare
lively few lucky ones
for jobs in their offices Appointees
before the primaries. to Be Held
They have been told Until May
by the bosses that
things are risky and
that 1t will not do to antagonize too
many men who may be useful at the
primaries. The states have all been
made up and the slatees will be told
SO as to keep them in a good humor,
but they will be told to keep quiet.
The ruction over the stating of Voll-
mer in this city and the disturbances
annoyed the local bosses very much
and they do not want any more trou-
BILE than necessary.
Congressman John J. Casey, the
authenticated who was candidate for
Secretary of Internal Affairs once and
who is now Congress
man from Luzerne
Casey Now county, is the latest
listed For man to be put forward
Governor as possible Demo-
cratic nominee for
Governor. Casey is
being urged because of his labor af-
filiationS and because he had charge
of the employers liability bill of 1907.
Casey is candidate for reelection in
his district, but things are always un-
certain in LuZerne and he may take
notion to be a candidate for State
office, too. The announcement about
him Is interesting, because Judge John
NJ. Garman, of the same county, is
said to harbor senatorial nomination
aspirations against State Boss Palmer.
Senator Boies Penrose, who went to
Pittsburgh yesterday for conference
to-day with Republican leaders and
to make a speech at the
Tariff Club dinner,
found the southwestern Sentiment
part of the State very For Stuart
keen about the candi- Is Strong
dacy of Ex-Governor
Edwin s. Stuart for Governor This
Is all the more significant because this
is the home section of ex-Secretary
Philadender c. Knox. Senator Pen
rose plans to visit number of towns
in that part of the State. He has
found the Stuart sentiment strong /
everywhere Meanwhile, the ex-Gov- |
ernor is sitting tight and saying moth
ing.
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