Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-16
SAYS FL|NN DEALT
OUT BULL MOOSERS
Richard R. Quay Says That Four
fifths of Progressives Will
Vote Republican Now
REPUTATION FOR DICKERS
Mccormick Orders Men to Get Off
Tickets; Lively Days Among
the Campaigners
REPUTATION FOR DICKERS

Charges that William Finn. the
"angel" of the Progressive cause in
Pennsylvania in 1912 and boss there
after betrayed the Bull Moosers by a
deal with the machine Democrats were
reiterated in Philadelphia last night
by Richard r. Quay, one of the Roose-
welt delegates in the last national con-
lventTon and an ardent follower of the
Colonel.
Quays statement is the most en-
phatic of any he has issued up to date
and is said to represent the feeling of
many Progressives. He said in part:
1T is our opinion that the Repub-
lican ticket this Fall Will poll four
| fifths of the votes that were cast for
Roosevelt in 1912. Within the last
few weeks and since the consumma-
ton of this infamous deal with the
Democracy at Harrisburg, the express
sion from sincere Progressives in every
county in the state, one and all, is
that We are a party betrayed
| In 1912, even under adverse con-
ditions and with the onus of two
faced fight for State officers, we poll
ed 450, 900 votes. Last year our total
enrolled was about $4,000. We we're
the dominant party in the State then,
What has happened to us? There is
but one answer-Mr. Finn.
Mr.. Finn says the Progressive
party is not a party, but movement
We claim that out of this great move
ment in 1912 came a healthy party,
whose future promised unparalleled
greatness to this country and unlimited
good to the cause it represented, and
we arraign and condemn Mr.. Finn
and his traitorous associates for
strangling this party almost at it's
birth.
1T is a sad thing to think that at
! the end of this period we find it kneel-
| ing at the feet of the Democratic
| party in a deal for political patronage
and plunder in utter abasement of all
its principles"
After the meeting in Philadelphia,
when Mr.. Lewis decided to withdraw"
said Quay, Il wired Colonel Roosevelt
telling him 1t was
cowardly deal, for
Finn and which we would not
His Frequent stand, and l could not
Makeshifts believe that it met
with his approval. l
asked him to write me
at Pittsburgh so that l might have
his views at the earliest possible mo-
ment. He did so, and l am sorry to
say l have not his permission to pub
lish the answer.
THE great mass of people in Penn
sylvania believes in Theodore Roose-
welt.
THE great mass of people in Penn
Isylvania do not believe in this new
party as represented by Mr.. Finn and
his political puppets.
THE name of Theodore Roosevelt
has been made to cover a multitude
of sins, but even his name in this cam
paign is not big enough, broad enough
and great enough to cover democracy,
hypocrisy, political prostitution and
William Finn.
THE real Progressives of Pennsyl-
vania," continues Mr.. Quay, believe
in Pennsylvania made products. They
are not in favor of candidates import
ed from the Democracy of New York,
Connecticut, the District of Columbia
or other States.
I'VE hail Mr.. Finn as the new boss
of the Democratic party.
I'VE congratulate it on this acquisi-
ton and we say: Let God speed it
to the same fate-ignominious defeat
that the keystone, the Lincoln and
Mr.. Films other makeshift parties
have always met with in the past
The Dauphin County Republican
League held an enthusiastic meeting
at the party headquarters in the
Wyeth building last
evening. Reports were
received of the or Leagues
ganization of branches Branches
of the league in Swa- Growing
tara township and
EliZabethville. Others
will be located in Steelton and
throughout the county. The organiza-
tion is to be made permanent and in
future campaigns will act as in the
present, as an auxiliary to the city and
county committees. City Chairman
Owes presided at the rally last night
Next Thursday evening a meeting of
the league together with members of
the city committee and the county
committee in the city will be held at
headquarters.
Members of the Washington party
in A. Nevin Detrich's county got
shock yesterday from the publication
of a letter from w.
Scott Fleming, one of
Franklin the most prominent
County Man men of Greencastle
Disg1Isted and leading Progress
sive, in which he re-
nounced the Washing
ton party of this State and its candi-
dates on the ground that they had be-
trayed the Washington party by the
substitution of a Democrat and free
trader on the ticket as a candidate for
Governor. Mr.. Fleming lived in Mis-
souri, several years, where he was a
very successful business man. He was
mayor of Webster Grove, the Repub-
lican candidate for State treasurer of
Missouri and very influential in Re-
publican politics in this State. He
has resided in Greencastle twelve
years.