Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-30

CAMPAIGN HAS
GONE TO SMASH
Cutting and Slashing by Can
didates Has It's Inevitable
Effect
EBY KNIFES WELLS
Rubendall Deserts All but Dan
ner; McCormicks Pass Up
Fritchey

With the election only a few days
off the whole Democratic campaign
in Dauphin county has gone to smash.
The effects of weeks of cutting and
slashing by individual candidates has
had its inevitable effect. The Demo-
cratic organization is not for the whole
ticket and the various little bosses are
each working for their own favorite
little combinations.
For instance, there is Eby, candi-
date for reelection as county COM
missioner, who is playing a lone
hand" going it alone in his own be-
half and letting the remainder of the
to be his colleague on the ticket for
county commissioner. but Eby has
been doing all in his power to take
votes away from Wells. and on the
other hand Wells has been just rs
active in his own behalf, with the
effect that the Democratic strength
is divided over these two offices.
Knife Each Other
Wells has admitted in a number of
instances that only one county COM
missioner can he elected by the Demo-
Gratis this year and he is urging his
own record as sheriff as a reason why
he should he the man. One Demo-
cratic newspaper is urging Wells
openly and doing its best to defeat
Eby. Another is boosting Eby and is
silent on Wells. So it goes in the
commissionership fight
Rubendan, viCe-county chairman of
the Democratic party. whose official
position should require him to be for
the whole ticket has openly deserted
all the nominees but Danner, the
Democratic candidate for register eN-
cept in districts where the personal
popularity of other. candidates might
help Danner. He has made all sorts
of combinations and is ready to make
more. Ruhendall wants Danner re-
elected because the Democratic bosses
have thrown him down for the post
mastership of Halifax and he is
anxious to retain his position as
deputy register in case Danner goes
back to that office.
McCormicks Pass Up FritchCy
DIR. c. Albert Fritchey is another
candidate who is getting no support
from the wing of the Democratic party
which is in control of the local organ
ization. Fritchey will be knitted by
the Mccormick faction for the reason
that in Mccormick circles no oppor-
tunity for the F'ritcheys to get back
into power is looked on with favor.
That this is true may be recalled
from the fact that Mccormick refused
to stand for Fritchey as postmaster of
Harrisburg when Fritchey could have
had the job If he had been able to
get the Mccormick endorsement.
The KunkcI Ghost
The early endorsement of Michael
F. Stroup as district attorney by the
Patriot. recognized as the mouthpiece
of the Democratic organization here,
and that newspapers subsequent sup
port of Kunkel at the polls is also
coming back to haunt the Democrats,
many voters wanting to know If
Stroup was in such high favor two
years ago why he is now being op-
posed for reelection.
Another irritating feature of the
campaign from the Democratic view
point in the fall-down of the Demo-
cratic poor board. which yesterday
admitted that it had already exhausted
its appropriation for the year and had
to have $4,000 to keep it out of debt
for the remainder of 1915. The Demo-
cratic candidates are sore over the
blunder that caused this deficit to be
made public just on the eve of the
election. asserting that it will lose
hundreds of voters for the fusion
gangs candidates next Tuesday.
on the other hand, the Republican
candidates are campaigning together
and all is harmony within the Re-
publican ranks. Last night the
nominees spoke at big meeting in
the Capital City Republican Club and
this evening they will be in the upper
end of the county, attending rallies
at Millersburg, Killinger and Gratz.
Monday evening they will go as a
party to Williamstown where the cam
paign will be brought to a close with
a big meeting.
All of them were confident to-day
of bigger majority for the whole
ticket than was piled up last year,
when the county went Republican by
nearly 5000.