Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-27

Tor SnerlI unless was dSNSpNSh
by the Mccormick element.
Governor Keeping Out
Not only has the Governor shown
that he is not waging the campaign on
tho Republican organization alleged
by the Democratic dust throwerS, but
he declared to friends before leaving
for San Francisco on Monday that the
editorial in the Telegraph on Saturday
20 the effect that he did not propose
10 mix in Republican primary contests
and did not want to be harasSed by
contending leaders met his views
exactly.
Senator Beidleman was congratu-
lated to-day on his reappointment. In
addition to the senator the Governor
reappointed Joseph l. Lemberger, of
Lebanon, and Thomas Polk Merritt, of
Reading. to the Wernersville board,
and reappointed ]. c. Hall, West Ches-
ter; John o. Gilmore, Philadelphia,
and S. R. Crothers, Chester, to the
Spring City Hospital board.
Democrats Annoyed
The registration yesterday gave the
Democratic bosses a nightmare last
night and they got up this morning in
a state of mind that was aggravated
by the Beidleman reappointment. The
mourning yarn spinner endeavored to
explain the big Republican regis
tretion by SAYING il was due to some
publican party. This was another
clumsy effort, because everyone knows
that the Democratic party in Harris
burg is split up the back worse than
any locust ever found clinging to a
river front park tree and yet the
Democratic registration was away
down.
In spite of the yarn mills state
ment that the Democratic registra-
ton was normal" men active in the
Democratic machine were giving fits
TO ward and precinct bosses because
they failed to make a showing yester-
day equal to the Democratic regis
tration on the first registration last
year. It might have been said that
last year there was the pleasurable
anticipation of a fat campaign fund to
stimulate Democratic registration.
Harrisburg Democrats are disguised
with the chicanery in the management
OF their party affairs here and sore
over the scheme to make an alliance
with the Washington party remnant
1t will be recalled that many Demo
Gratis repudiated by their votes in the
Fourth ward and other wards in Har-
risburg last year the alliance OF
hopes" with the Roosevelt men last
year. They are also indignant at the
scheme to throw nominations out OF
the party to the corporals guard ol
the Washingtonians.
The Fading Regiment
The Washington party regiment has
pretty nearly passed, judging from the
registration. The militant organization
that turned things upside down here
a couple of years ago has disappeared
from the trenches of party activity
and the wagons of the supply train
stand empty. There is nothing for the
Washingtonians because everything
that could be promised has beer
sewed up by a couple of lieutenant
eolonels who are trafficking with the
machine wing of the Democracy.
In some precincts, according to the
Democratic returns. there were nC
Washington men enrolled, and in dis.
trtcts which were bastions in 1912
they could not even get color guard.
These may be fighting days in poll.
tics, but the real fighting is going tc
be in November. and the Democrat:
and Bull Moosers. whether they enter
the battle singly or in a new alliance
of hopes" are going to be chased
into the marshes of despair before q
solid Republican front.