Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-19
ONE Of VANDYKES
WILL GET A PLUM
Revenue COllectorship Likely to
Be Settled by President Within
a Short Time
KIRKENDALL MOVES ALONG
Bryan Beats Out Palmer and
Morris in the Selection of
Western Officeholder


The appointment of Fred c.
lktrkendall, of Wilkes-Barre collector
of internal revenue in the Ninth dis
| trict for some time by grace of the
| Democratic machine, to be collector of
the reconstructed Twelfth district, is
taken to mean that within Il few days
President Wilson will decide what to
do about the collectorship of the Ninth !
as now made up. The leading candi- !
dates are Warren Van Dyke, secretary |
! of the Democratic State committee, |
and candidate of the bosses, and T. *. |
| Van Dyke, old-time Democrat and can |
didate of the plain people. There are
lsome others but it is intimated that |
they need not come around Palmer is |
| said to be insistent on Warren and
| Bryan is said to see many good points |
IN L. K. No matter who is chosen, u |
lot of people will be mad
--Kirkendall was named as collec- |
tor of the district as President Taft
made 1t when he consolidated it for
\ economy. Palmer needed more jobs
and got the President to agree to split |
| ting 1t up again. Thus Kirkendall is
able to be near home by having head
quarters in Scranton and Lancaster
will be the seat of the new collector
For the present Kirkendall will prob
ably run both jobs. His appointment
never was popular one for the Demo
crats in this district who wanted the
| job.
One of the interesting stories is that
Palmer did not consult Congressman
casey, OF LuZerne county, kirkendall's
home county, about the appointment
at all, but just went over his head in
revenge for Casey's defeat of Palmer's
man for the ways and means commit
ltee.
The city of Lancaster is preparing
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and IT is of interest to people at the
Capitol because Lancaster still oper-
ates under its old 1918 charter. The
amount of the loan is $S95,000 for inn
Iprovements.
The usual crop of candidates for
the Superior Court is being heard of
and men prominent in the law are be-
| ing told that their friends are active
in their behalf. The general opinion
appears to be that the successor to
Judge Rice will come from the anthra-
cite region and Judge II. a. Fuller is
prominently mentioned
| The selection of the postmaster at
Huntingdon is keeping a good many
Democrats about the State amused. No
matter how the appointment finally
goes there Will be bitter fight among
the Democrats in that county. The
situation is typical of the Palmer lead
ership.
|
500 postmasters will be named in this
State and Congressman Palmer will
| have his hands full trying to keep the
peace in the machine ranks.
Local Democrats are wondering
whether the selection of Grover Cleve-
land Buser to be postmaster at Hum
melstown means that the Williams
town muddle will be settled and
whether it does not foreshadow the
selection of C. w. Rubendall for Mill
| lersburg.
Judging from Washington dis
patches Secretary William J. Bryan |
has won his fight with Representative |
\. Mitchell Palmer to name the next !
Collector of Customs at the port of
Pittsburgh to succeed NJ. NJ. Garland, |
whose resignation is on file at the |
Treasury Department. 1t was official |
ly stated last night that Mr.. Acklin, |
Mr.. Bryan's personal and political |
friend, would be named by President |
Wilson before the adjournment of |
Congress on March 4. William c. Nc |
Adoo, Secretary of the Treasury. has
decided finally that Mr.. Bryan's wishes |
in this particular case will be re- |
spected and he will send Mr.. Acklin's |
name to the President within a few
days. The collectorship, which has
been held by Mr. Garland for sixteen |
years, has been one of the most sought
after offices in the State. Representa-
tive Palmer and Democratic State
Chairman Roland S. Morris indorsed |
George w. Deeds, of Ligonier, West
moreland county. Then came along
Nice-President Thomas +. Marshall |
and suggested that the quarrel be end
ed by the appointment of John p.
Bracken, of Carnegie, delegate from
Allegheny countyto the Baltimore con-
Vention. Secretary Bryan refused to
have Acklin sidetracked and Messrs
Palmer and Morris stood by Mr.. Deeds.
When Secretary McAdoo received COL
lector Garland's resignation and found |
his cabinet colleague standing firmly
by the man who had befriended him
as far back as 1896, he decided that |
Mr.. Acklin should have the place.
Senator James p. McNichol in the
first formal statement of the present
legislative session, yesterday. announc-
ed that the Workmens compensation
and child labor bills presented by Gov
ernor Brumbaugh would have the full
support of the Republican Organize
ton. The statement was issued by the
Senator q half-hour before his depar-
ture for Florida, where, in company |
with State Chairman Crow and Sena-
tor Edwin H. Ware, he will spend ten |
days. Governor Brumbaugh will have
the hearty support of the Republican |
majorfties in the House and Senate in |
and of his Workmen's Compensation |
and Child Labor bills" said the Tenth |
ward Senator. 81 cannot speak with re-
gard to the details because the Cover |
nor has not yet set these forth speci- |
fically, but / feel satisfied that in the |
essentials they will meet with the ap-
proval of all parties concerned. The
Governor has clearly indicated that he !
| is constructionist in this Legislative
program and that his purpose is to get
actual results for the public He is an
\ iupbuilder rather than a destruction
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