Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-02
GLOOMS ROOST IN
THE WINDMILL
Democratic State Headquarters
Has Very Little Over Which
to Smile These Days
ROOSEVELT SPEECH HURT
Knocked Morris Fusion Plans Into
a Cooked Hat-Clearfield
Bumps Postmasters

These are unhappy days at the
Democratic State windmill in Market
Square and instead of the gladstone
joys which perched on the caves and
window stills during 1912 there is a
flock of glooms roosting on top of the
desks, on the safe and on the pictures
of the people who promised Pennsyl-
vania IL they got Wilson in 1912 and
could not max good.
Colonel Roosevelt's speech at Pitts
burgh has not only smashed the pet
project of State Chairman Morris of
getting fusion between Democratic and
Bull Moose candidates for Congress
and the Legislature. but 1t has made
the boss machinists dizzy by it's ter
rihc assault on President Wilson. 1t is
now recognized In Market Square that
any chance of fusion on congressman
between Democrats and Washing
~tonians is impossible because of the
Colonels attitude and his hostility to
the Democratic machine Is something
totally unexpected.
The bosses are commencing to hear
the yowling of the $4,000 kitty from
various parts of the State and fear
that something nay be started which
VIII only make more apparent the
blunder in allowing the contest on the
old Guard committee in Philadelphia
TO be started.
The Philadelphia Inquirer has this
to say about Democratic affairs: The
revelations of the lavish use of money
in the campaign for
the nomination of
the Palmer = McCor- MAY Let Light
mick ticket, 1t was On Mccormick
minated yesterday, Campaign Fund
may be the subject
of a communication
to h meeting of the executive COM
mittee of the Democratic State COM
mittee to be held on July s. The
Ryanites of the Democratic city COM
mittee anticipate hat an attack will
be made upon them before this COM
mittee meeting as the result of their
failure to indorse the State platform
and their refusal to admit TO member
ship in their committee certain Pal
merites. There is a suggestion that
this might be a good opportunity for
the filing of counter-charges alleging
that h nominations of Palmer and
Mccormick were brought about by
profiigate use of money. The sensa-
tional revelations in Clinton county,
where S1,371 was spent in the polling
OF $50 Palmer-McCormick votes, are
cited in this connection. Serious con-
sideration is being given to a propo-
sition to demand the insertion of a
plank in the State platform calling for
legislation to rigidly limit the amount
of money that may be lawfully spent
by or for a candidate before the uni
form primaries"
One by one the reports of election of
county chairmen by Democratic COM
mittees throughout the State are COM
ing in and they indicate
that the party is any
Clearheld thing but united behind
Democrats Palmer and Mccormick.
Bat Bosses The Delaware and Hunt
lngdon county machines
are creaking in several
places and now word comes that the
friends of ex-senator George M. Dime
ling thrashed the State bosses in the
organization of the Clearfield county
Democratic committee. The committee
elected ". 1. Belts chairman by 50
votes to % for II. w. Buckingham in
a straight-out contest in which the
party breach was intensified. The most
significant thing, however, was the
resolution adopted by the committee
condemning the pernicious activity
displayed by postmasters recently APP
pointed to office, as the same is a
violation OF the civil service law"
This was taken to be the worst Sian
given to the State machine in years.
The resolution wen through with few
dissenting votes and shows the way
the Clearfield Democrats regard the
men appointed by grace of Palmer
anu NlCCOTHnlCk.
Colonel Roosevelt's speech has had
q YER funny effect in this city, which
has been more or less of a Roosevelt
center for the followers
of the Colonel in this
section. The Bull Moos- Roosevelt
ers are rather surprised Puzzled
at the lack of ginger Them Here
in the speech and do
not quite understand
why Lewis and Pinchot got such
merely formal mention. There will be
q meeting in the neXt few days to talk
over the situation and it is pretty
broadly intimated that the meeting
may have a good bit of effect on the
future of the party here. The Demo-
Gratis who follow the machine are won
dering what ever led them to believe
that the Colonel would deal kindly
with them. Any hope of fusion has
been thrown into the river.