Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-01-02
HEADQUARTERS ARE
FRIENDLY PLACES
Candidates For Speaker Fraternize
and Talk Over Chances
For Success
NO BITTER STATEMENTS MADE
Marked Contrast to the Conditions
Prevailing Last Session
Before Meeting >

BY sundown the headquarters of
four candidates for speaker of the
next House will be open in the Com
monwealth Hotel and a fifth man
may decide to open headquarters. too.
The Commonwealth is the center of
| the activity connected with the con-
! test for the Republican nomination
for speaker which means victory and
everyone to-day remarked the friendly
spirit of the campaign for the honors.
/ 1t is in sharp contrast to the fight
two years ago when some of the
candidates issued sharp statements
about each other.
Richard ]. Baldwin, Delaware,
and Henry l. Wilson, Jefferson, opened
their headquarters last night and this
morning r. p. Hahgood. Mexican. es-
tablished himself. expecting Charles
A. Amber, Montgomery, later in the
day. Baldwin said he was going to
win, Wilson said he had the qualih-
cations and Babgood said he would
stay until the nomination was made
Each one said that the contest was
| friendly and greeted his rivals with
assurances of support IL any of the
three won. 1t was a regular lovefest
and everyone appeared to be happy,
although predicting a contest.
MIR. Baldwin was in very happy
mood and seemed very confident.
| When asked as to the outlook he said:
I'm the last twenty-four hours, have
been in touch with pretty nearly every
county In the State, and l have every
reason to feel as confident now as
have at any time since the start of the
campaign. Unless the unexpected and
unforeseen happens, l have a. good
J 0rerft, Khata Mt n n
jority of Nthe members of the House
will cast their ballots for me. Yes,
we are going to have q fight, lively
fight, but to my mind the outcome is
assured
In the Wilson headquarters Mr..
North smiled broadly, and said MIR.
Wilson is candidate to the finish,
and he is going to show some people
something" Mr.. Wilson issued a state
ment in which he said: Il have come
| here to meet the members and to
present my arguments. l have been
member OF the bar for twenty-five
years, and have served as member
of the House and have filled import
ant clerksships. I come from a CEN
trally located county. 1T seems that
everyone agrees that the speakership
should come from the country. Phila-
delphia has the Governor and Allie
|
Court, and will have the President pro
TEN of the Senate. The speakership
should not go to either of the two big
counties or to counties near them.
1t should go to the country in fact as
well as name. Now l have only the
most kindly feeling for my friend
| from Montgomery and my friend from
/ Delaware, but they come from coun-
ties that are really suburbs of Phil
adelphia. | hail from a real interior
county"
The Philadelphia Record of to-
day says: Charles A. Amber is eX-
Ipected to he indorsed for speaker by
| the Philadelphia delegation to the
House of Representatives at a special
meeting at the Republican city COM
mittee rooms this evening. and thus
practically assured of the nomination
of the party caucus at Harrisburg on
Monday night. A call for the caucus
was issued last evening and was
signed by Max Aron, John Reynolds,
Harry T. Bauerle. John f. Arthur and
a number of other local legislators,
who have not been strictly identified
| with the Ware faction, openly support
| ing Amber. With the caucus held in
the absence of Senator McNichol in
the South, it is understood in politi-
cal circles that he is in accord with the
program of lhe other leaders to sup
port the candidate favored by Gov
ernor Brumbaugh and that Amber
is now practically certain to win the
speakership."
Among the new members to ar
| rive early were Miles A. Milliron, of
Armstrong county. who registered at
the Bolton and who was first on the
ground, and II. H. Arnold, of Clar-
ion, Republican from a Democratic
stronghold. Mr.. Arnold is the eighth
Republican to be elected from that
county in its whole history.
big Bill" Adams. of HEAVIER
Meadows, the man who heads the
House list, arrived last night and an
nounced, Il am for my old pal, Dick"
Adams says it is o personal matter.
+ Senator T. M. Kurtz. of Jefferson
was the first senator to arrive. He
helped Congressman-elect S. Taylor
North bring the Wilson boom to town
Philadelphia papers say that Am
bier and Baldwin met by accident in
Broad street station yesterday and
invited each other to call at head
quarters.
The Allegheny county delegation
will have a caucus here on Monday
afternoon at A o'clock 1t is said that
Amber has some strength, although
Baldwin is said to have some pledges.
w. A. Ostrander. colleague of
Habgood, won out by nine votes. Butt
they were enough.
The Central Democratic Club last
night received from DIR. Brumbaugh
an Acknowledgement of its resolutions
discussing the ballot laws In the
answer DR.. Brumbaugh says: "The
safeguarding the ballot is one of the
most fundamental problems of demo-
cracy and you can rest assured that
1 will give the whole problem my
most careful consideration" The club
began the new year with the inaugu-
ration of Edward Moeslein as presi-
dent and the other new officers elect
ed recently. T. X. VanDyke offered O
resolution thanking the old officers
for their services and wishing the
members prosperous new year
State Chairman Crow is in Phil
adelphia to-day TO discuss the speak
ership.