Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-29
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Pe~~Oqe0o~ia
BY the Ex-Committecman

The contest over the Republican
nomination for the speakership of the
next House of Representatives gave
signs to-day of a fresh outbreak of
typewriter warfare and stenoEraphers
were rafting away ut an early hour
preparing fresh ammunition to be
hurled into the opposing trenches.
Notwithstanding the fact that the Cox
headquarters last night issued more
statements in two hours than are ordi-
narily put out in a gubernatorial cam
paign, new messages to the people
were being made ready and the Bald
win people were stacking up pro-
jectiles of their own.
At the Cox headquarters It was
claimed this morning that the fight
was over and that Cox was as good as
nominated, but the same unwillingness
to give figures was noticed. Congress
man John r. K. Scott advised in
quirers to stop worrying about what
the figures would be and to rest as
sured that the South Philadelphia
would WELD the gavel next week. The
Cox boomers were basing their pre-
dictions upon reports from Luzerne
and Allegheny counties.
The Cox reports from Allegheny
county were that through the influence
of organized labor all but three or
four of the mem mbers from that county
! had agreed not to vote for Baldwin.
They claimed 20 of the "a. Richard
j. Baldwin said this morning that his
reports were that he would have at
| least II in Allegheny and that as far
as Western Pennsylvania Is concerned
| he has gained three in the last forty
eight hours.
Probably twenty members of the
! House are in the city and the hun
| dreds OF school teachers, directors,
grangers and others here for conven-
/ 4 -
out of the numerous statements.
In chronological order the state
ments issued In the speakership row
were about as follows: One by Will
liam Finn. who was not in Harris
burg at all and who assailed Penrose
and said that he should do like Knox
and stay out of the brawl: George B.
| Rowand, representative of organized
railroadmen, who assailed Baldwin
with bitterness; James II. Maurer
president of the State Federation of
Labor who used gall and wormwood
in attacking Baldwin; Representative
John Mckay, of Luzerne, and Con-
gressman Scott, who devoted 900
words to whanging Senator Penrose.
Tho Cox headquarters also put out a
statement in which Conrad Miller,
member from Hazleton, declared he
had not pledged himself to anyone,
and by II. j. Morgan, Nanticoke, de-
clarins he was for Cox and not for
Baldwin.
The Baldwin side was represented
by the remark from Baldwin that the
enemy could roar and be troubled and
by statement by Representative w.
r. Ramsey. Delaware, declaring Bald
win had 100 men pledged to him and
would have more and protesting
against the campaign of abuse against
Baldwin.
In Philadelphia Senator Penrose
made a fresh statement, f1aying vari-
Gus state officials and promising In
vestigations of charges of bribery and
coercion. He also paid his respects to
Attorney General Brown, who replied
that the charges were not true.
Many newspapers of the state ore
protesting against the lengths to which
the campaign of abuse and villification
is going and ob1ecting to the perennial
Philadelphia row being dragged into
State politics. For years there were
snorts of indignation when Allegheny
countians wanted to get the state
mixed up in their recurring rumpuses
and now the upstate newspapers and
men active in politics are objecting