Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-21
ALLIANCE FORMS
BOOST HUGHES
Important Organization of In
fluential Republicans With
in Pennsylvania

Organization of the Hughes ALI
ance in the State of Pennsylvania as
a State unit in the National Hughes
Alliance, which is to enlist nation
wide support for the Republican
ticket this Fall by organizing the vot-
ers of all parties who are opposed to
the continuation of the Wilson ad-
ministration. has been set up in Penn
s%ylvania OF a comprehensive scale.
Leading Progressives, Democrats,
Independents and regular Republi-
cans are rallying to the support of
the Hughes Alliance in the State of
Pennsylvania in a way that augurs
the development of one of the most
thorough independent organizations in
behalf of a presidential candidate that
nsylN has ever known. In re-
Spouse to a recent letter from w.
Cameron Forbes, former Governor
General of the Philippines, and now
president of the National Hughes AL
lance, authorizing the organization
of the Pennsylvania Alliance, as we'll
as a letter from Republican National
Chairman Wilcox conveying the sane
ton of Governor Hughes and the ma
tional committee for the work now
being done in Pennsylvania, the or
g~anization of a General State Com
mittee to supervise the campaign for
Justice Hughes in this State in con
junction with the National Hughes
Alliance has been undertaken n is
now being successfully accomplished.
Ninety messages of acceptance al
ready have been received at the head
quarters of the Pennsylvania ALI
ance, which have been established at
1924 Chestnut street, Philadelphia.
These acceptances are from men who
in tho met haxrA LAAN rAnafNANfl x-
identified with the affairs of the
Washington party, and with the Dem
ocratic party, and from Republicans
who have participated in strong in
dependent political movements, and
regular Republicans as well.
Notable among Progressives who
have aligned themselves with the
Hughes movement are William Ora
per Lewis, former Progressive can
didate for Governor; H. d. w. Eng
lish of Pittsburgh, who in 1912 was
a Progressive elector; Lewis Emery,
Jr., of Bradford, former Independent
candidate for Governor; Edward B.
Smith, the Philadelphia banker;
Thomas Robins, close associate OF
Colonel Roosevelt; Colonel Sheldon
Potter and others.
Notable among Republicans who
have enrolled as members of the com
mittee are J.. Benjamin Dimmick OF
VINO was a Candldate Tor
the Republican nomination for United
States Senate two years ago; James
Scarlet of Danville, prominent in the
Capitol graft expose; Ira W. Stratton,
Mayor of Reading; Alba B. Johnson,
president Baldwin Locomotive Works;
Alexander p. Moore, the Pittsburgh
publisher; Francis B. Reeves, chair
man of the board of the Girard Ma
tional Bank; Jasper Yates Brinton,
former assistant to the United States
District Attorney and others.
In accordance with these views, the
Pennsylvania Alliance is being organ
lied without distinction as to politi-
cal alignments within any party, but
with an eye single to the union OF
voters of every faith who perceive in
the continuation of wisconsin a peril
to our future American welfare, both
in foreign and domestic relations, and
particularly our economic status after
the European war is concluded.