Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-04-22
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ufacturers unless Governor Brumbaugh
Shows signs OF being an Organization
man from now on" as one Senator said
today.
The situation Is tense. and Ia full of
possibilities OF a new Republican leader
ship that would rejuyenate the party IN
Pennsylvania and remove from II the
stigma that its alliance with the liquor
ring in the past has given II. This cit
uation Is being kept tense by the wave
OF insurgency against the Governor that
has swept over the LEGISLATURE following
the defeat of local option.
WANT TO CoERcE GOVERNOR.
The legislative leaders today, with the
exception OF Senators Ware and McNchoi,
who have pledged themselves TO support
the Governors child labor and workmen's
compensation measures, said that they
are "willing to be friendly to the Gov
crnor If he shows himself to be an organ
ization man from now on
Being IAN Organization man" with them
means that he should name men selected
! by the Republican Organization leaders
/ for the appointments which he Is expect
! ed to make shortly, as we'll as discontinue
| his fight for local option. In other words.
!
| served with notice that he must clay
! down" or there will be n fight.
The patronage club and the campaign
! next year against the members who voted
! against local option yesterday which
| Governor Brumbaugh threatened during
| his fight for the passage of the Williams
| bill are feared by the members OF the
! Pcnrose- Crow faction.
! The Public Service Commission APP
! pointments are causing more worry than
| any other patronage. The Senate Com
| mittee on Executive Nominations, which
! had promised to send back the Tener
nominations this week, has not done so,
| and the Senate has adjourned until next
| week As a matter OF fact however, the
! opinion Is general here that the recall Of
the nominations by the Governor took
them out of the hands of the Senate en-
! tirely.
! GOVERNOR HOLDS CONFERENCE.
Governor Brumbaugh told the members,
who led tho fight for local option In tho
House, and who conferred with him to-
day, that he intended to carry the fight
| next year into the districts of the mem
bers who voted against the Williams
! bill
lie will make an especially hard fight
! against the 30 members who pledged their
votes for the bill and then voted against
it, Before the bill came up for vote,
| the Governor told the local optionsts he
! felt certain OF 1OS votes for the meas
| ure
He also intmated at the conference
that he would remember, in the way OF
! appointments, any members who voted
for the bill who might be defeated for
reelection next year
The Governor, after the conference
| made the announcement that the fight
would be carried on to n finish. He said
| ne would stand behind the statement ne
issued last night, in which he said he
was in the fight to finish.
CONFERENCE TODAY.
| The Governor. however, is not giving
| the recalctrant members OF the Legis-
lature much opportunity to conjecture
about his intentions Tho Williams bill
had scarcely been defeated yesterday
when he started to call in the local op-
tion leaders in the House and discuss with
them plans for carrying on the fight Last
| night he called a conference of the lead
ers in the local option movement for to-
! day.
! Governor Brumbaugh is certain OF hav-
! ing the entire Independent strength of
the voters of Pennsylvania behind him
in the event of n fight for the rejuvcna-
tton of the party. These forces include
the Washington party members. accord
Ing to Washington party State leader
today. 1t also includes the men who
| supported ]. Benjamin Dimmicll for the
! Republican nomination for United States
Senator a year ago. Altogether the
voters upon whose support the Governor
Is assured of at the start number more
than 25OOOO.
PENROSE MAY TAKE PART.
Meanwhile, while the situation Is shap-
ing Itself, the Republican Organization
leaders are cndeavorlng to obtain every
| advantage they can One of the moves
to take advantage of Governor Brum-
baughs defeat in the first stage of his
fight for local option that has been
talked Of is the expected arrival of Sena-
tor Penrose, to discuss legislation" with
the Organization leaders I'm the I.egisla-
ture, The Senator has not openly taken
any hand in the affairs of the Legislature
thus far.
The child labor bill Is also being held
in committee in the Senate as another
move. 1t was said last night that the
bill, by a vote of TO &. had been amended
in the Judiciary Special Committee of the
Senate, so as 10 provide for a 54-hour
week, and so as to reduce the age limit
for newsboys from II to 10 years This
is not true, 1t was said on good authority
today The committee will meet next
Monday night and take action on the
bill