Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-01-23
WINDMILL FAILS
To ATTRACT MEN
Democratic Bosses Allowing Leg
islatiOn to Go Its Own Way
During This Session
BIG ROW IS BREWING NOW
Lee Suggested For Subtreasurer
Against the Wishes of
Machine Bosses

Men connected with the Democratic
State headquarters in years gone by
are remarking upon the lack of inter-
est being shown in Democratic leg
islative program by the men who were
in charge of the machine during the
last disastrous campaign and of the
equal indifference toward the bosses
of the Democracy by the Democratic
members of the Legislature. The con-
dition is so radically different from
what is was at the start of the last ses-
sion that some people are voicing be-
liefs that all of the shouting about the
betterment of man and the uplift of
the poor working girl that came from
Market Square last session was for
political effect.
1T is said that although the Demo-
cratic State windmill in Market Square
was opened day or so before the in
auguration for the use of the Demo-
cratic members and it's availab bility
urged as q meeting place, that less
than half dozen men have visited
1t. State Chairman Roland S. Morris
has not even been here to take up
legislative matters.
According to reports there will be
some Democratic bills presented but
they will be put in more or less per-
functorily and just enough notice given
them to furnish peg on which to
hang a wall.
The state of the Democrats in the
House and also the interesting fact
! that insurgency is at its lowest ebb is
well illustrated by Wednesdays fight
over reading clerk. 1t offered q chance
right at the start of the session to
make things diverting. Yet all that
could be done was to muster less than
forty votes, thirty-five TO be exact. And
they represented not only the friends
! of the defeated candidates among the
regulars, but few collected by an
| Allegheny countian who is out in the
cold because of factionalism, dis
gruntled Democrats and a few who
| just wanted to be nasty or to start
something. The Democratic bosses
missed an opportunity that had wide
possibilities.
A Washington dispatch to the
Philadelphia Inquirer says: Whether
1t is to be harmony in the Democratic
party in Pennsylvania or complete dis
ruption of the already broken ranks
depends largely upon the outcome of a
visit to the White House made by Rep
resentatives Lesher and Casey, of
pennsylvania, to-day. LeSher and Ca
sey two of the most influential Demo-
Gratis in the Pennsylvania delegation,
went to the White House to urge di-
rectly upon President Wilson the ap-
VI SOilS INObGlL
Lee, of Pottsville, as subtreasurer of
the United States at Philadelphia.
Representative A, Mitchell Palmer,
Democratic national committeeman
from Pennsylvania, according to his
usual custom, has recomm ended a man
for the office of SubtreaSurer in Phila-
delphia without consulting the MEM
bers of the delegation in Congress, all
of whom with a single exception have
warmly indorsed Mr.. Lee"
"A Pittsburgh news dispatch says:
Representative A. c. Stein, of this
city, will next week introduce in the
House of Representatives a worlmen's
compensation bill, which, it was said
here, will receive the approval of
Governor B>umbaugh. The Stein BILL
1t was said, was prepared under the
advice of the Industrial Accidents
Commission of the State, and in many
particulars is similar to the measure
passed in the House last session and
defeated in the Senate. AS explained
by Mr. Stein, the theory of the propos-
ed act is that all production shall bear
the cost of accident and injury to the
employe the same as any other item of
cost"
The State threshermen will hold
another convention here during the
legislative session and the bill to re-
peal the act of 1913 will be submitted
e. E. McCurdy, of Lebanon; c. c.
Morrow, Pittsburgh; George Sellers
Gap; Frank George, Homer City, will
be the committee in charge.
The Loyal Temperance Legion of
this city plans to personally interest
members of the legislature in the con-
test for local option. They claim two
members from Fayette county.
Professor Franklin Menges has
been endorsed for secretary of agri-
culture by York county school drec-
tors.