Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-21

M. bryan is ConSluereu as real any
| longer.
Notwithstanding the conference held
yesterday between Mayor Smith and
| Senator McNichol there are no more
| prospects of peace in the Republican
| party over the State ticket and ma
tlonal delegates than Wednesday night.
| The signs are all the other way The
Penrose forces are lining UP for a con-
test which they plan shall be thorough
! and the Nare-Brumbaugh forces are
/ declared by Attorney General Brown,
the field marshal, to be ready for the
| fray Mayor Smith declined to discuss
| the McNichol visit, but the senator
| was more talkative. This is the way
/ the Philadelphia Record prints the
story:
Has any agreement been reached
| between you and the Mayor Senator
McNichol was asked last night.
his reply.
Is it true. as reported the SEN
ator was asked, that you were au-
/ thoriZed to make a proposition for the
withdrawal of State Senator Snyder
| from the Auditor General race in the
! interest of a general harmony deal?'
That Is absolutely untrue he de-
clared. Senator Penrose has taken a
pronounced stand on that issue. He
will unquestionably not interfere in
any way with his friends who are sup
porting Senator Snyder, and that issue
must be decided by the Republican
voters at the primaries
In reply to the query whether or
not there was hope of harmony, SEN
ator McNichol said he always had
hope and would not cease to work for
harmony until the end. Mayor Smith
declined last night to talk about the
conference, beyond admitting that it
had taken place without tangible re-
suit"
Congressman John r. K. Scott,
/ whose congressional place is threat
ened by the Penrose people, plans to
accompany the Governor on his tour.
/ Scott is chiefly notable for bitter
| speeches and this means that the ad-
ministration forces will not mince
words. The scholarly end of the
speech making will be in the hands
of Deputy Attorney General Emerson
/ Collins.
Out in Pittsburgh the newspapers
tako the Fleitz statement of yester-
day as indicating something in the
campaign and comment upon the
activity shown to keep the Governor
in the campaign by the very men who
tried hardest to defeat him in 1914.
Senator Penrose is to make a
campaign keynote speech in Pitts
burgh Thursday night. This will be
followed by speeches in other parts
of the State.
-Penrose men say that there are
enough members of the State COM
ton as national committeeman a
cinch.
The Ware forces lost a skirmish
in Philadelphia council yesterday and
the morning newspapers comment
upon it.
bonding activities in Philadelphia
seems to be engineered mostly by
! Democrats.
Calvin Greene, of Lewistown, has
withdrawn his declaration on his petit
tion for Republican national delegate
He is a candidate for delegate and
very much in the fight unpledged.
The Philadelphia Inquirer to-day
sums up the situation in the Re-
publican camp as follows: "All hope
for harmony at the coming Republi-
can primaries was dispelled yesterday
following another conference at the
Mayors office. Penrose lieutenants not
only ridiculed the stories emanating
from the Ware camp that Charles A.
Snyder would withdraw as a candi-
date for Auditor General, but conf
IDENTIFY predicted his nomination
Senator Penrose 1t was announced
] last HlBlI, Is 10 enter lne arena early
next week and make a number of
speeches advocating the election of
an uninstructed delegation to the Re-
publican National Convention"
Attorney General Brown, who
went II Philadelphia last evening, ap-
pears to be quite belligerent. He de-
clared that talk of the Governor
with drawing was nonsense and said
that the Governor would start out on
a tour of the State next week. The
Governors Office yesterday said that
the Governor would go to Boston and
| Altoona and announced that he would
visit the mountain top county The
| Philadelphia North American, which
i is close to the Wares and the Attorney
General at present, says that the
Governor is going out on the stump
and will cover practically every
county. The plans, which are credited
to the Attorney General, certainly do
not sound like those made for a sick
man. The campaign, said Mr.. Brown,
will open either in Blair or Hunting
don county. The party will swing
west toward Pittsburgh. northward
toward the Crawford district and
then start east through the northern
tier counties. After talking In the
coal regions in the northeast, the
party will proceed south through the
principal river counties and then back
toward Harrisburg. The trip prob
ably will be made mostly by auto
mobile.