Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-17
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By the Ex-Committeeman

Several of the men nominated for
places on the Washington Party State
ticket are expected to file their with
drawals before August l according to
word which reached Capitol Hill to-
day Inquiries have been made by
some of the nominees as to what
course to pursue and ]. Werner Clark.
of Washington, candidate for State
Treasurer, has informed friends here
that he will withdraw. Two OF the
candidates for Congress- are
said to contemplate immediate action
and Mahlon H. Myers, of Johnstown,
nominee for United States Senator, has
been consulting friends and is said to
have made up his mind to file with
drawal at an early day.
Reports reaching this city are to the
effect that continuance of men on dis
trict tickets will depend upon members
of the third party. In some counties
the committees are continuing their
organizations and claiming the pro-
gressive name. If the men nominated
on Washington tickets want to be
progressive candidates they must file
new papers.
Central Pennsylvania delegates to
the Prohibition national convention at
St. Paul will leave to-day, but will go
unpledged to any one for the presiden-
tial nomination. They have refused to
discuss possibilities. The Rev. DR..
Silas c. Swallow, of Camp Hill, candi-
date for President against Roosevelt, is
one of the delegates-a at-large.
Democratic bosses are meeting in
Philadelphia to-day to go over the list
of presidential electors again and If
they are approved they will be filed
here at once. incidentally representa-
tives of the various factions will gath
er at Philadelphia this afternoon to
listen to some "salve" talk by National
Committeeman Palmer. The Phila-
delphia Record says to-day: THE
campaign of the reunited Democrats
of Pennsylvania will practically be in
augurated in this city tonight when
National Committeeman A. Mitchell
Palmer, State Chairman William S.
Mclean, ex-Judge Ellis L. Orvis, can
didate for United States Senator;
James NJ. Cramer, candidate for State
Treasurer, and Thomas Ross, candi-
date for at-large, will at
tend a meeting of the Democratic City
committee at Tenth and Walnut
streets. In making their preliminary
plans for what promises to be an au-
spicious gathering, the members of the
city committee have been studying
applied psychology, and the assembly
rooms which have for years been the
scene of many deliberations have
been renovated to provide a new at
mosphere. The walls have been re-
papered, the furnishings cleaned and
frightened and everything put in spic
and span shape, while new flags have
been purchased which will be flung
to the breeze from the headquarters
windows to-day"
Senator Penrose in a Washington
interview says the fight will be for
Senate control. These are his views:
THE battle-ground of this campaign
will be in the Middle West. Mr..
Hughes is without question one of the
ablest carnpaigners of our time and his
Western trip will go fartoward crystal
liZing sentiment and bringing success
in November. The campaign will be
aggressive and thorough. An oppor-
tunity will be offered in the Senate for
weeks to come to inform the country
of the lamentable condition to which
the Democratic party has brought the
country. Extravaganza has run riot
and the treasury, to all practical pur-
poses, is bankrupt. Our national hon
or has been easily defied and our for
eign policy has been wavering and fu-
tile. Inc penang EeNouuS JILL Will pS
carefully scrutinized by the Republi-
cans and its defects exposed. Already
the Democrats are confronted with Sc
rious> difficulties over the measure and
are trying to change the bill so as to
save Democratic Senator'S. Several
Republican Senators were lost two
years ago by reason of neglect and
local complications, such as in the
case of California and South Dakota.
Great work will be necessary to over
come the election of a Democratic ma
1ority in the Senate"
w. L. Stevenson, the new chief of
the Pottsville Fire department, has
been sworn in but the firemen have
not struck as threatened.
Director w. H. Wilson yesterday
started a cleanup of the ''tenderloin"
in Philadelphia which is said to be
only the first movement toward chang
ing things. Gamblers are to be next.
The Dauphin county Washington
Party committee has decided to stay
on the map although the Washington
Party State committee has disappeared
and Colonel Roosevelt, William Finn
and all the big progressives which the
Dauphin men followed have gone back
to the Republican party. e. S. McFar-
land was on Saturday handed the job
of keeping the organization alive. 1t
is not known what the legislative can
didates will do without an angel"