Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-04
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BY the Ex-Committeeman

Brumbaugh campaign committee
managers plan to place in every cleo
ton district in Pennsylvania lists
showing the names of candidates ia
vored by the Governors faction so
that there will be no mistakes at the
poIls. In many districts ii has been
found that the men active in behalf
OF the Governor had gotten twisted
on the candidates and a directory"
VIII De issued. The official list of
candidates for all offices is being scan
ned to see that there are mo ring
ters' and. warning has been issued that
Dallas Bumbaugh, a retired police
man of Pittsburgh. is a candidate for
national delegate-at-large and that he
should not be confused with the Gov
ernor, who is also a candidate for
delegate t-large.
The appearance of Bumbaugh,
whose name by the way, will appear
under that of the Governor, has been
blamed by the Brumbaugh head
quarters on Senator Penrose and some
T4nments I,3ind nus upon employment of a po-
1lcal trick which is held to have
originated in the Garden of Eden are
made: Senator Penrose's friends say
thaC MS shoulders are broad and that
one more thing which he did not
know of being blamed on him will not
stem the tide. The Brumbaugh peo-
pie retort that the Penrose men are
mixed on the way the tide is going.
The Philadelphia Evening Bulletin
last night added to the excitement in
tnls extraordinary campaign by de-
claring that the mayor of that city,
Thomas B. Smith. who is on the
Brumbaugh slate, is not eligible to
election as delegate-at-large. The
Bulletin suggests that the mayor, who
has been more or less in the limelight,
should withdraw.
Governor Brumbaugh has declined
TO take any notice of the statement
made by John w. Frazier, of Phila-
delphia, to the effect that he could
produce the David B. Oliver letter if
he wanted to.
Senators S. w. Salus, of Philadel-
phla, yesterday called Representative
Stern liar and exchanged remarks
about his political ability, in the pro-
ceeding to have the Senator declared
nonresident of the ward which he
are well known to many here and the
verbal battle was very diverting
Judge Eugene G. Bonniwell yester-
day made sharp attack on A. Mitch
ell Palmer. his old rival in Demo-
cratic affairs. The judge is can
didate for the Senatorial nomination
against the Palmer slate and he hands
the bosses the usual ante primary
words dressed up with adjectives.
Philadelphia city politics are get
ting to the boiling point in both par
ties and the rest of the State will be
promised some interesting things next
week.
| The anu-Penrose men and Demo-
Gratis are having a fine time to-day
over the announcement from Phila-
delphia that the federal government
proposes to probe the Penrose ac-
count for 1914. taking up the Penn
sylvania Protective Union first F.
Lowery Humes, Democratic district at
torney, is said to be the mover. The
| Unions accounts have furnished much
material for Democrats.
Speaker Ambler's arrest of George
d. Porter yesterday will offer chance
for test of the law about furnish
ing false material to newspapers. The
preliminary hearing is to-day.
Allegheny Democrats have gotten
into a fight almost as bitter as that
among the Republicans in Philadel-
phia.
The Philadelphia Inquirer to-day
editorially calls on Mayor Smith to
stop factional politics and to adhere
to his declarations.
Chester county records are said to
show that Speaker Ambler's bridge
building firm was lowest in the dis
puted contract.
-Riegelsville has been incorporated
as a borough.
The mayor and counciImen of
Pottsville have been cited into court
on charge of maintaining a nuisance.
The Pittsburgh Dispatch quotes
Senator oliver as making this stat
ment regarding the Oliver check tran
saction: Governor Brumbaugh in his
authorized statement said that John
ii. Killing had called upon me in my
office here, that I had locked the door
and exhibited Photographic copies of
the check and the correspondence. Now,
the facts are Just as they were pre-
sented by me to the public at the time
The check was never photographed un-
til after it had been deposited by Gov
ernor Brumbaugh, paid by the bank,
cancelled and returned to David b. Oil
yer. As to the other charges, Mr.,
| Killing talked with me a few DAYS ago
and stated that he never told the Gov
ernor that / had locked the door of
my office during our interview. and
that I did not exhibit photographs of
the check and papers. The Governors
memory concerning Mr. Killings report
of our meeting must have been very
inaccurate. AS a matter of fact, I did
not know there was a lock on the
door of my office, and I could not have
shown Mr., Killing photographs of the
papers because our Interview took
place on March 16, and the photo
graphs were not made until March 1S."
Passing of Harper's
Harpers Weekly, through which
Curtis and Mast and Colonel Har-
vey were wont in the years gone
to fire their political broadsides. is
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