Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-10
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By the Ex-Committeeman

While National Committeeman \.
Mitchell Palmer was in Pittsburgh Sat
! urday patching up peace protocol
with the Allegheny county Democratic
bosses the Philadelphia Old Guards
men were planning their campaign to
defeat him for reelection. Palmer
and his pals are facing the fight of
their lives TO maintain their control OF
the party organization and the chances
are that the Democratic ruction win
be every ,bit as interesting as the Re-
publican contest.
Palmer announced. according to
the newspapers. that Ellis l.. Orvis,
defeated for reelection for the Center
county bench, would be the ring can
didate for United States Senator. II
had been supposed that ex-JudSe Al
| lison O. Smith, of Cleartield, would
run. The Pittsburgh papers say: Pal
mer announced: Judge Ellis l.. Orvis,
! of Center county, for United States
Senator: Samuel b. Filson, banker of
Meyerdale, State Treasurer; Mayor
James B. Murrin, of Carbonate.
| Auditor General. Said Mr.. Palmer:
"AlI the delegates to the st. Louis con-
vention from Pennsylvania will sup
port President Wilson and his policies
I The coming campaign will be clean
! cut. There will be but one issue, and
! that will be Wilson and peace or
| Roosevelt and war
former Congressman A. Mitchell Pal
mer for national committeeman, and
with the other national deleSates-at-
/ large. The national delegates
candidates, who represent the move
ment to keep the party clean in man
: agement. free from Penrose connec-
I tions and loyal to President Wilson
are: Judge Noris Auten, of Mount Car
mel; Jere S. Black, of York; William
/ \. Glasgow, Jr., of Philadelphia; Z.
/ Hart Given. of Pittsburgh: Senator
| Wayne Hindman, of Clarion; former
/ Congressman John T. Lenahan, Wilkes
/ Barre: Harry S Dun, of Reading: +. j.
/ Lynett. of Scranton: eX- Congressman
/ Robert +. Lee, of Pottsville; William
s. Mcintyre, of Sharon; Charles ID.
| McAvoy. of Norristown, and State
\ Chairman Roland S. Morris, Philadel-
/ phia.
Chairman b. C. Bromley. of the
| Philadelphia city Democratic commit
/ tee. yesterday came out for the cleo
/ tion of Congressman Michael Liebel,
of Erie, as member of the Democratic
national committee, to succeed former
| Congressman A. Mitchell Palmer, of
| Northampton. This is taken as a
declaration of war by the Philadelphia
contingent of the Old Guard Democracy
against the continuance of the domi-
nation of the reorganized element. Mr..
| Bromley is affiliated with the Charles
! p. Donnelly element in the local
! Democracy and has for years been an
active Democrat.
! Senator Penrose, Commissioner
/ Ainey, Lieutenant nt-Governor McClain
| and other men prominent in Repub-
/ lican affairs will speak at the Lam
caster Republicans dinner tomorrow
night.
ID. Edward Edmondson, of Dan
willie, is out for the Legislature.
A. V. Dively, for years prominent
in Democratic affairs in Blair and a
national delegate in 1908, IS out for
Democratic state committeeman from
Blair.
THE Philadelphia Inquirer in some
! comments on Republican affairs to-
day says: Both sides in the political
warfare in the Republican party in
! Pennsylvania yesterday insisted that
it is to be a fight to a finish and that
no quarter will be shown. While SEN
ator Penrose, himself, adhered to his
determination to refrain from making
any comment on the political situation
for the present. at least, some of his
| close supporters, who had been con-
ferring with him during the day, last
night declared that he will refuse to
| consider any compromise and Will
make n fight in every congressional
district for the election of uninstructed
delegates to the national convention
and for the election of members of the
Republican State committee. Attor-
ney General Francis Skunk Brown was
pressed for a statement at his home,
where he had been busy on legal mat
ters throughout the day. I don't talk
politics on Sunday. he began, and then
| launched forth into a defense of the
Governor. saying: I will say once and
for all and absolutely that any and all
attempts to blackmail or drive the
Governor from the position he has
taken will fail. You may brand all
stories or rumors about the Governor
withdrawal or compromise as palpable
fakes from his enemies"
An Altoona dispatch TO the Phila-
delphia Ledger says: "a contest is be
ing waged in the Nineteenth district
for the Republican congressional
) nomination. The candidate are ]
Banks Kurtz and John w. Blake. boil
Of Altoona, and John NJ. Rose, o1
JohnStown. Kurtz and Rose are at
torneys; Blake is Pennsylvania Rail.