Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-29
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BY the Ex-Committeeman


thought that they had things all
'sewed up in some of the congress
sional districts for Wilson national
delegates, are said TO be feeling some
what uneasy over the announced in
| tention of Old Guard leaders to fight
FOR the same honors and the signs
that adherents of Bryan are not in
clined to go along with the machine.
The leaders who had a confab here
| last week in the same secretive, locked
door manner that they used to de-
| nounce on the part of the old-time
bosses whom they dethroned are said
to have found that while the Demo-
Gratis were generally for Wilson, the
| reorganizers" would have to fight to
| represent him.
Much will depend upon the way
things start off in Congress With the
| bulk of the Democratic members of
Congress opposed to the machine and
the Democrats of the nation split on
! the defense program of the President,
1t is feared that much will be reflected
on the Pennsylvania fight The po-
sition of Palmer, Mccormick and their
| ilk is that they insist that they are the
Presidents own men, but they not only
| have to fight to prove 1t against the
old Guardsmen, but have also to down
the Bryanites who were formerly their
allies.
philadelphia last night got re-
currence of the story printed in the
Pittsburgh Gazette Times on Novem-
ber Is that Governor Brumbaugh
might run for United States senator.
1t was suggested that this would be
graceful way of getting out of any
national delegate contest. The Gov
ernor, as was stated before, might run
as n resident of Huntingdon county,
which is in the center of the state.
Allegheny county has two receptive
candidates for senator. p. c. Knox and
L. V. Babcock. The latter may decide
to run for Governor instead of SEN
ator, say Philadelphia papers, revamp-
ing story some weeks old.
The Philadelphia Ledger of yes
terday expressed the opinion that the
Penrose men had been digging trenches
and that they were already in such
strong position as to cause serious
misgivings whether the Brumbaugh
movement could go very far. The
Philadelphia Evening Bulletin de-
clared that the Governor could not
hope to elect national delegates any
where i'll the state or even in Phila-
delphia without a bitter fight
The Ledger also gives this gossip
regarding possible candidates for dele
gate: Meanwhile State leaders were
preparing their tickets in the various
districts for national delegates. Phila-
delphians were suggesting as candi-
dates such men as Congressman
George S. Graham, Congressman Will
liam S. Ware. John Wanamaker who
was a delegate to the national conven-
ton of 1912: E. T.. Stotesbury and
others representative of the city's COM
mercial and industrial interests.
Friends of Congressman Lafean, of
York have already agreed on regular
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Former State Treasurer Wright is a
candidate from Susquehanna county,
and c. r. Dorfiinger, a glass manu-
facturer, is a candidate from Wayne.
Joseph r. Grundy, president of the
Pennsylvania Manufacturers Associa-
ton and a political opponent of the
Governor. will be supported from
Bucks county. Former Auditor Gen
eral Sisson will be a candidate from
Erie. Coroner Jamison and Mayor
Armstrong. together with some of the
officers just elected under Penrose aus
pices, will be candidates from Allie
gheny county. Similar conditions will
prevail in the other counties. such as
Lackawanna, where Mayor JerVyn, of
Scranton, will rum"
The Wilkes-Barre Record says
that friends of General c. B. Daugh-
erty, former commander of the Ma
tlOndl d,
Wilkes-Bar meeting for Palmer
and Mccormick last year, is being
urged as a compromise candidate for
the Wilkes Barre post office. Con-
gressman j. ]. Casey, the anti-Palmer
leader of the county, is boosting his
brother, and DR.. B. C. Mebane, boy
hood friend of the President. is work
ing an old friendship pull. Palmer is
said to be behind Daugherty, who
wants to stay in the limelight.
According to the Philadelphia In
quirer, there will be bitter fight over
national delegates between the Demo-
cratic factions in Montgomery county
and the differences of ten years will be
fought out.
Mayor elect Smith will be MEM
Der of the committee which will en-
deavor to secure the next Republican
national convention for Philadelphia.
1t is said that the new mayor has in
vited John r. Windrim to become di-
rector of works. but that he may not
name John c. Groome for head of the
safety department.
The Philadelphia Record prints
this interesting story regarding the
delayed appointment to the Supreme
Court vacancy: "In answer to one
persistent caller, he (the Governor) is
reported to have drawn a line from
Pittsburgh to Philadelphia on a map
of Pennsylvania and to have shown
that all of the six sitting justices live
in counties south of that line, a con-
dition which, he argued, was not fair
to the rest of the State. This gave rise
to the belief that Judge Walling, of
Erie, whose friends have been active
in his behalf, was being given favor
able consideration by the Chief Ex-
ecutive. How Judge Walling would
stand up on the prothonotaryship is
matter of conjecture. Judges Martin,
of this city. and Kunkel, of Harris
burg, also have active supporters"
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