Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-23
REORCAN|zERS IN
4 DESPERATE PLAY
Trying to Attract Attention to Leg
islation to Cover Up Their
Own Blundering
WANT A COMMISSIONER, TOO
James Gay Gordon May Oppose
Mccormick For the National
Committeemanship

Democratic State Chairman Roland |
S. Morris and the rest of the discredited
| bosses of the Democratic State ma
| chine are starting a great play in the
| Legislature this week with the hope
of reviving interest among the dis
gusted adherents of their party and
also in the belief that they can win
the appointment of Philadelphia regis
tration commissioner. Morris is loudly
preclaiming his desire to secure pas
sage of a local option law, although
he realizes that nothing he can say or
do will change single Democratic
vote and that all the noise he makes is
to attract attention to his machine.
| Morris has arranged to have q room
open in the windmill so that such
| Democratic members as desire can sit
around when it rains. He will visit
this room occasionally, but he will do
most of his business from the throne
room at Third and Market streets
The indications are that men op-
posed to the machine wing of the State
| Democracy will rally behind EX-JudRe
James Gay Gordon as candidate for
national committeeman in case it
comes to showdown at a State COM
mittee meeting to select a successor to
A. Mitchell Palmer. The reorganiZa-
tion gangsters are in hopes that some
way will be found to avoid a meeting
and are talking as though Morris could
act for the present. Although Pal
mer will be on federal bench he will
probably have a good bit to say about
! the federal patronage in Pennsylvania
as long as Blakslee is in the Post Office
| Department.
In addition to Robert S. Bright,
! defeated candidate for congress-at-
large on the Mccormick ticket last
| Fall; Councilman j. E. Fabian, b. II.
Renshaw and A. l.. Mulhearn are can
didates for the Democratic registration
commissionship in Philadelphia. 1t
pays $4,000.
| Representative Bill Adams bios
somed out as speechmaker last night
in advocating the militia bill. He got
all the votes for il.
The Umbel resignation removed
another cause for any prolongation of
the session.
The bill to repeal the moving pic
ture censorship law is to be given Il
hearing on March 80 in the House.
Governor Brumbaugh and Attorney
General Brown have declared in favor
of retaining the censorship.
| Representative Dell last night in
troduced a bill for a new State high
way from Bellefonte to Greenwood
furnace.
Elk Representative L. f. Donally,
| of Perry county was a House Visi-
tor.
Samuel b. Scott, who represented
the Germantown district for several
terms in the House, was among legis
lative visitors last night.
| DR.. j. 7. Rothrock, long forestry
commissioner, is to make an address
on forestry in Pennsylvania in the
House tonight.
John Townley, of the Pittsburgh
Press, was at the Capitol.
The State Department of Health
lopened the eyes of good many peo-
pie as to what ii is doing at its sani-
toria and what the big establishments
at Cresson, Mont Alto and Hamburg
are like by a moving picture exhibit
ton in the hall of the House last
night. The exhibition lasted over an
hour and attracted general attention
and many compliments.
| james Mckee, Pittsburgh assessor,
lis legislative visitor
FIX Representative G. w. Allen
and Frank Halferty, of Pittsburgh
were at the Capitol.
A Pittsburgh dispatch says: "Wil-
liam Finn. the Bull Moose leader, has
returned to Pittsburgh, and it was
persistently rumored is here to CO.
operate in any move toward helping
| GONeTHOT bTuln nDduSH III MS lOSdl Op-
ton fight in the Legislature.
| films sudden return in the midst
| of warm political happenings at Har-
risburg and here at homein Pittsburgh
started rumors that he is planning to
break back irto the Republican ranks.
Films replies to-day lodged direct
answers to the question, Are you going
back into the Republican party?'
| II am not back in the Republican
party yet" he said, smilingly.
| "The Progressive leader met a num-
| Der of his lieutenants of the late Pin
chot- Mccormick fight to-day, and to-
night, aside from setting at rest re-
ports that he was going to Harrisburg
to take hand in legislative matters,
said he had nothing to say in politics.
The former Senator's voice, which was
giving him considerable trouble, is
strong again.
! The Northumberland County Bar
Association has endorsed the candi-
dacy of John b. Head and George b.
Orlady for the Superior court 1t re-
! gretted the decision of Justice Charles
| Il. Rice to retire and hoped he would
reconsider this decision. Resolutions
Icondemning the Snyder and the Tomp-
kns acts in the Senate, which call for
the abolition of the board of eXamin-
| ers, were passed.
MACHINE KEEPS GIRL ALIVE
UNDER WATER FOR HOUR