Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-01
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Pe~noqlania
By the Ex-Committeemanf


Ing here to-day to get their supplies
and to mobilize for their special car,
which will leave for FL Paso about
O'Clock tonight. General C. B.
Dougherty, of Wilkes-Barre is in
charge of the arrangements. The
party expects to reach FL Paso next
Monday. Many OF the commissioners
called upon the Governor.
Whether General j. B. Coryell and
Herbert w. Salus. named to take the
votes of the Philadelphia and Scranton
engineers, now on their way home
VIII so is a matter to be determined
Opinion is that they will not except as
visitors. The State will not be able to
pay them.
The Republican State candidates
will be in Allentown tonight for a big
meeting. Tomorrow they will be in
Norristown. where Philander C. Knox
will also speak. The State candidates
nave been well received every place
ana nave especially found Republican
strength on visits to Juniata Valley
counties, which are also strong for the
reelection of Senator Franklin Martin.
John r. K. Scott. of Philadel-
phia, congressman at large. seeking
reelection. was the principal speaker
at q big Republican rally at Hanover
last night under the auspices of the
York County Republican Club. 1t was
the largest Republican demonstration
ever held in the borough and much en-
thusiasm was displayed. Other promi-
nent speakers were Congressman
Large Daniel F. Lafean, Congressman
Ihomas F. aCrago. Judge Virgil K.
Kellogg. of New York. and Charles e.
Carpenter, of Philadelphia.
Democratic National Chairman
Mccormick yesterday said the Repub-
licans might carry Vermont and one
or two other States. Sounds like 1914.
Mayor Smith, of Philadelphia, in
thoughtful speech yesterday in the
mill district of that city called upon
workers to remember the days of
Democratic depression, when there
was no war business.
To-day was Senator Penrose's
birthday and a number of people here
wired their congratulations.
Predictions of a big Socialist vote
in the State are being heard in many
counties. The Philadelphia Socialist
vote is going to be large and so will
that in Luzerne.
Convinced that the nation faces a
crisis greater than any since the Civil
war and that as a result the presiden-
tlal campaign this year is of the most
vital importance to the people, John
Wanamaker took action at New York
Yesterday to aid in the election of
Charles Evans Hughes. First, he
Joined with prominent men of various
sections of the country in the request
TO Theodore Roosevelt to make his
final and greatest effort of the cam
paign in New York at Cooper Union
next Friday night. suggesting as his
subject THE Crisis of the Nation"
Second, he prepared a series of twelve
full-page advertisements appealing to
Z q fr1DV V11f fNT1e @f I, a.
port Hughes.
Governor Brumbaugh, who will
leave here tomorrow for the William
Penn Highway extension road dedi-
cation ceremony, in which he will par
ticipate, will make speeches the rest
of the campaign in New Jersey and in
speak with P. C. Knox at Philadelphia
Friday.
Figures compiled by w. Harry
Baker, secretary of the Republican
state committee, showing the regis
tration in the State to be simply i'm
been widely discussed all over the
country. In many counties this is
taken to mean that the Hughes vote
will be a surprise.
Friends. of Congressman c. H.
Rowland, who was elected two years
aso in spite of a Democratic drive and
some attempts to strike him in the
back in his home district, say he will
win this year in spite of the fight being
put up against him. Reports are cur
rent of people who ought to be out
helping sulking in their tents. Row.
land fills the chair of the Twenty first
district.
A letter to business men of the
State in the interest of industrial
of Pennsylvania and the
country at large" has been sent out by
United States Senator Boies Penrose
upon the stationery of the Republican
national committee, upon the heading
of which are printed the names viii
liam r. Wilcox, chairman; Cornelius
\. Bliss. treasurer; James B. Reyn-
olds secretary; William f. Stone, ser
geant-at-arms, and Boies Penrose, as
member from Pennsylvania The
communication contains an arraign-
ment of the extravaganza of the Demo-
cratic national administration and the
Democratic Congress which appro-
priated larger amount than ever was
appropriated or authorized by any
Congress in the history of the country.
That the tide throughout the
is swinging in the last hours
Of the campaign away from Wilson
dIt lOWdIu I1uSicS was Iiit StdlclheHI
made last night by George D. Porter,
secretary of the Hughes Alliance in
Pennsylvania, after he returned from
i trip to New York. where he spent
the day ir consultation with leaders
Of the National Hughes Alliance and
The national Republican campaign
He said this was the thing
he learned everywhere he went during
the day in New York. Reports re-
feive in New York at the various
headquarters tend to show a monster
last hour shift of sentiment to Gov
arnor Hughes" said Mr.. Porter. |
There seems now little doubt of n Re-
publican victory next week. l found
Chairman Wilcox and
President Forbes. of the Alliance. and
heir lieutenants in the most optimistic |
frame of mind"
Alderman George D. Herbert, |
candidate of the Democratic masses
md not of the Democratic bosses, for |
senator, won the fence in the race |
With the candidate of the Democratic |
posses but not of the voters in the |
ace for morning publicity to-day. The !
alderman got on the first page. AS
I. X. VanDyke would say Democrats |
ire bound to be recognized some time. |
The Democratic State windmill |
rave signs to-day of making another |
,laim in regard to Pennsylvania. The |
1uffs of wind from New York about |
he rest of the country are causing |
he chalmers at the mill to grow ex-