Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-24
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by the Ex-Committeeman


Philadelphia in which the Wares are
supreme The Senator was informed
that the Attorney General was in
Vestlgating the primary election in six
congressional districts in the State be-
cause OF reports of fraud in the cleo
tlon OF national delegates. He replied
by saying that the probe ought to be
inserted in the Ware citadel. The Sem
atof S statement drew an angry retort
from Congressman w. S. Ware, who
declared that the primaries were a
victory Tor the Governor and that not
only had the Governor cinched forty
-FOUR delegates, but that he had be-
come the new leader of Pennsylvania
Republicans. Senator e. II. Ware de-
cnned TO reply to the statement, but
1t is said that the Penrose charges
have caused futter in Philadelphia
ana are believed to indicate that the
Senator is getting ready to start his
move Tor change of government in
Phlladelphia and possibly a probe of
the state administration along various
lines.
LAS far as am concerned" Senator
Penrose said, Il welcome any investi-
gatlon of the election in Pennsylvania,
not only in connection with the cleo
uon OF delegates, but of the nomination
Oh congressman and other officers.
am not Informed of the violation of
the law anywhere in PENNSYLVANIA ex-
trlct great deal of data has been
accumulated in the form of affidaVits
or hlgh-handed methods and illegal
practices, which will be promptly fol-
lowed up and made the basis of legal
proceedings. The State will be startled
by the publication of the facts in South
Philadelphia. The Ware influence in
that section of the city is based on
practices which will not be tolerated
by decent Republicans of the State"
Congressman Ware came back this
way: AS result of the recent pri-
maries in Pennsylvania L believe that
there Will be different kind of lead
ership at Chicago this year than was
noted in 1912. Governor Brumbaugh
was given great vote of confidence
by the people of Pennsylvania at the
recent primaries, leading Penrose by
dO'00O. He also led Senator Oliver by
10000, and If it had not been for a
cheap political trick played by the
leutenantS of Penrose in Pittsburgh
10000 more votes would have been
added to the Brumbaugh lead. Those
who managed the State campaign for
the reorganization and reuniting of
the Republican party from headquar-
ters in Harrisburg are confident that
the official returns will show total of
torty-four anti-Penrose delegates out
of possible seVenty-siX. The char
acter of the delegates is sufficient proof
that they will not submit to such lead
ership as brought about the wrecking
of Republican chances in 1912. There
will be new spirit, a new leadership
at Chicago this year, with the welfare
of the Republican fparty, and not the
selfish purposes of certain special in
terests, as the goal"
The manner in which one William
Henry Baker, of Harrisburg, some
times known as Harry Baker, ran in
the Lancaster county primaries is
causing comment Mr.. Baker led the
field in the Republican delegate-at-
large contest just as he did in Dauphin
and Perry counties. The Lancaster
New Era says that Baker got $500
votes, while the nearest man to him
was Mayor Armstrong, of Pittsburgh
The Governor got 6,318 votes and Pen
rose 6,190.
B. f. Davis, who was yesterday
reappointed collector of internal reve-
nue. for the Ninth district, which em-
braces this part of the State, is a
Democratic war horse of Lancaster.
He has been county chairman and
member of the state committee and
was a member of the Democratic re-
organization committee which used
the ak.
Bucks county, where the Grundy
and Swartley forces have been doing
some "scrapping," had an interesting
Republican primary. Snyder got 1857
votes and Amber go.
Speaker Amber, If named as In
surance Commissioner, could not take
the place until December, when his
term would expire.
Senator McNichol gives it as his
opinion that Hughes is in the lead.
Representative John w. Wicker
man, of Bellevue, Allegheny county,
who was here to-day to see the Gov
I,saftN
fine vote given to him for renomi-
nation to the House. Mr.. VickerInan
was the high man in his district. He
will play a prominent part in the next
House.
B. Frank Ruth, prominent Read
both Penrose and Brumbaugh will
wind up by being for Roosevelt.
The Wilkes Barre Record says
editorially that the bulk of the voters
are either too Indifferent or too igno-
rant to pay proper attention to The
primary system and that it is but nat
ural that there should be heard de-
mands for return to the convention
system, which the Record, however,
! opposes.
General Charles Miller, former
commander of the National Guard, ap-
pears to have cantered away from the
rest of the field for Republican dele
.
| The general is uninstructed.
The Reading Eagle has Joined
many other newspapers throughout
the State in opposition to the present
| primary law and demands for a change
in the system which will simplify
matters.
| Governor Brumbaugh stood sec
ond on the list in the Luzerne primary
and Senator Penrose was fourteenth.
Gossip is that Representative
Fred C. Ehrhardt, of Scranton, is to
be put forward as a speakership can
didate next winter.
1t looks as though David Martin
would land the vacancy in the Phila-
delphia commissionership for one of
| his henchmen.
-Lackawanna county gave Brum-
baugh 5,279 votes and Penrose 4.341.
| George d. Porter is out with q
new statement in which he scores SEN
ator Ware. The battle of the state
ments is waging tiercely in Philadel-
phia.
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