Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-13
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Organization of the campaign for
Hughes and Fairbanks and the cleo
tion of United States Senator, Con-
gressmen and Legislature firmly Re-
publican, will be undertaken by Sem
ator Penrose and State Chairman
Grow in Philadelphia in a short time
and it is planned to make it very ef-
fective throughout the State. The
Democratic campaign will be started
as soon as National Committeeman
Palmer and State Chairman Mclean
return from st. Louis. The Progress
sive or Washington campaign is de-
pendent upon the decision of the Sage
of oyster Bay. The bulk of the Pro-
gressives throughout the State, not
withstanding some local efforts here
and there to show otherwise, are in
clined to follow the Roosevelt lead,
although many will vote for Hughes
and work for him regardless of what
may come from Sycamore Hill. Will
liam Finn has put the brakes on the
Progressive organization until he gets
word from the Colonel.
The general endorsement of the
Chicago ticket and platform is being
interrupted by some typical Philadel-
| phia claiming of credit for swinging
the State delegation for Hughes. The
Penrose men say that the Senator did
1t, but the Wares claim the flag. The
continual claims are becoming tire
some to the rest of the State, which
is satisfied with the ticket and in
cllned to praise every Pennsylvania
who had hand in it. The great bulk
| OF the State Republicans are not in
terested in what this or that man
aid to hold the Roosevelt strength or
to line up the delegation for Hughes
any more than they are in what date
state Chairman A. Nevin DIETRICH may
| pick for the Bull Moose State COM
/ mittee to meet.
Bedford county's Republican
county committee held its annual
meeting yesterday at Bedford and re-
elected County Chairman Harry c.
James, of Bedford. over Samuel Null
lin, who was rated as an antiPenrose
man. The meeting was very largely
attended and the Penrose men were
IN big majority. The committee
ADOPTED resolutions endorsing the
ticket and platform.
The Philadelphia Democratic
committee last night named Edgar c.
Lank as temporary chairman and ad-
Journed to fight out some contests.
Morning papers say that betting
IN New York is favorable to Hughes
and that George Won L. Never is ont
| for the former justice.
= senator Penrose went to New
York yesterday from Chicago and will
be back in Philadelphia to-day to take
up local matters.
pr Samuel Crothers, Philadelphia
! Sun Moose chairman, is said to favor
coming out for Hughes.
"A number of eastern Democrats
passed through this city last night ON
thelr way to st. Louis to attend the
SonEentlon' in the trains being Phila-
n a xKrl,.N
| mittee.
Pennsylvania seems to have at
ITacted attention early in st. Louis
| The delegation is at the Plaza, which
mas no bar, but has headquarters at
the Jefferson. which is noted for its
tacllities for allaying thirst.
j. Denny ONeil, former county
commissioner of Allegheny county, is
| giving his fifteenth annual picnic 10
the children of Mckeesport to-day.
Last year the attendance was $4,000
and this year it will break records.
me Inc picnic Is the greatest affair of it's
kind in the State.
-Philadelphians and Pittsburghers
OF all walks of life are quoted in the
newspapers as endorsing Hughes and
alrpanks. The ticket seems to have
been generally acceptable.
| Webster Grim seems to have been
lineup of the delegation at ST. Louis,
Mr.. Grim was the Democratic candi-
date for Governor in 1910, when some
noted Democrats bolted the party, and
ran ior deIegate-at-large without per-
mission. The roller is rolling again.
! walter j. Christy, writing from
81. Louis in the Pittsburgh Gazette
Times, says: Mrs. Frank NJ. Roessing.
OF Pittsburgh, first vice-president of
the National American Woman Suf
frage Association and chairman of the
NATIONAL Congressional Committee. is
here directing the fight for a suffrage
plank in the Democratic platform She
is being assisted by Miss Hanna ]
Patterson, of Pittsburgh, national sec
rotary. and a number of prominent
women from all sections of the coun-
try. Mrs. Roessing says delegation
of Pittsburgh women will arrive here
Wednesday morning. Following is the
plank the women want the Democrats
to adopt: Believing that governments
derive their just powers from the con-
sent of the governed, we acknowledge
the right of women to participate in
government and favor their enfran-
chisement'."
The Butler Citizen. the leading
Progressive party paper in Butler
county and a strong supporter. Eof
Colonel Roosevelt, in its leading edi-
torial yesterday morning declared for
Hughes and Fairbanks. the Repub-
lican nominees for President and Vice
President. The editorial says of
Hughes: THE platform, the man and
his declarations are broad enough, big
enough and fair enough and American
enough to satisfy all; and any men
who ever laid claim to the proud title
of the party of Lincoln, Grant or
Mckinley can all get together and
make an appressiye dphf fOr Da1rI,
lican principles and Americanism."
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