Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-01-09
DIR. DOUCHERTY IN A
REAL POST OFFICE
Cumberland CO. Democrat Draws
the Home Postmastership
Instead Of Collector
AMBLER is MAKING UP LIST
Speaker Will Consult With Brum-
baugh Next Week; Slate Com
mitteemen Are Busy

Democratic politicians in this city
were sitting up and taking notice to-
day because of the appointment Of
DR.. NJ. NJ, Dougherty to be postmaster
ed last winter when Doc Dougherty.
as he is known over the river, got on
board the Mccormick band wagon.
What interests the Democrats, how
ever. is the belief that more pie is to
be passed around in this section, and
they are wondering who will get the
slices. over a score of nice fat Jobs
are to be given by the Post Off1ce
Department and there are some Re-
Ipublicans in Office who can be thrown
out
Doc Dougherty has been figuring
as subboss among the Cumberland
Democrats for years. He ran for
some local offices and burst into full
flower in the presidential delegate
campaign of 1912, and, with some
help here, smashed the reorganizers'
slate. When he got to Baltimore he
lined up and soon became an active
support of the machine. After the
election he developed boom for in
ternal revenue collector. He has
drawn post office.
Two Jackson Day dinners were
held in the State last evening. and at
neither one did the reorganization
Democrats have much to say. In
fact, only at the Philadelphia dinner
did one of them get look-in, and he
was Director of Docks George w.
Norris. who fiayed the Old Guard. AS
most of the people at the dinner were
members of the Old Guard, they just
laughed and applauded the other
mems panegyrics on Jackson. At
Easton the Jackson Day dinner was
not addressed by Congressman Pal
mer.
Speaker Charles A. Amber, of the
State House of Representatives, has
arranged to confer with Governor
elect Brumbaugh early next week in
Philadelphia regarding appointments
on committees and upon other mat
ters. The joint committee of the SEN
ate and House, named to cooperate
with the Governor-elect regarding the
fulfilment of campaign pledges con-
cerning legislation will also call on
DIR. Brumbaugh next week Chairmen
William E. Crow and James f. Wood
ward, of the slate committees of the
Senate and House of Representatives,
respectively, are also expected to go
to Philadelphia next week to talk over
the matter of the allotment of pa
tronage of the Legislature.
The slate committee of the House
will meet in Philadelphia next Wed
nesday to agree upon the distribution
of the patronage of the chamber. The
committee is headed by James f.
Woodward. Mr. Woodward had n
candidate of his own for assistant chief
clerk of the House, but he was bowled
aside prior to the caucus of last Mon
day night to make way for Frank w.
Morrison. a worker for Congressman
elect John r. X. Scott.
Farmer" w. r. Greasy, late
Democratic candidate for Governor
and late master of the State Grange,
has landed a job. He is national sec
retary of the State Dairy Union and
will have his headquarters in Wash
ington.
Congressman A. Mitchell Palmer
is overrun at Washington by friends
of candidates for post offices in this
State. They all want to get in before
the storm breaks and the manner in
which claims are being pressed is
something awful.
According to rumors Joe Guffey is
planning to land his brother as post
master at Pittsburgh. The scheme is
to freeze out other applicants and to
take care of those close ones before
Billy Brennan takes the organization
away from Guffey.
1t is believed that it will not be
long until the national adminstra-
tion gives some sign that it is weary
OF the present Democratic bosses in
Pennsylvania. They have been told
plainly that the results last November
in Pennsylvania, were not in accord
with what Washington had been led
to expect from the way patronage had
been handed out.