Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-01
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By the Ex-Committeeman


the opening speech of his campaign at
Altoona on Saturday night to the effect
that he was not a candidate in The
sense of seeking an office. but before
the people solely with the object of
reun1ting the party in the State, ap-
pears TO have evoked no end of discus
sion and to have started criticism
again. Senator Penrose seized upon
this remark to reiterate his statement
that the people of Pennsylvania do
not consider the Governor as a can
didate and added that they are giving
him silent treatment, while the Phila-
delphia Ledger takes occasion to print
an editorial on when candidate is not
a candidate
The Governor in his speech placed
the responsibility for a factional row
In the Republican party on his oppo-
nents, saying that he had first sug-
gested harmony ticket with which ii
seemed possible to avert any contest
in the matter of delegates" but that
the other side refused to accept it and
must therefore take the responsibility.
The Governor then said: I'VE have
never sought personal preferment. /
am not a candidate for any Office"
The Governor urged his hearers to
support the position he had taken and
closed with a hearty plea for local
option.
The Governors declaration that he
was not candidate when his name is
on the ballot for presidential prefer
ence and he is running for delegate-at-
large was taken up by Senator Pen
rose He said that the Governor
campaign had collapsed and pointed
out that he had previously declared
that the Governor was not candidate
in good faith. Then he repeated the
Governors own words in support of
his position.
In this connection the Philadelphia
Ledger says: Comment on the Gov
ernor's Altoona speech, in which he
took himself out of the race as a real
candidate for the presidency, was
varied, though both politicians and
business men were reluctant to discuss
the matter for publication. Their
point was that the Governors Ian
guage needed no Interpretation. In
saying he was not candidate and at
the same time appealing for support
for instructed candidates, it was ar
gued, the Governor presented himself
as the forefront of a purely factional
fight, as the public leader of the Ware
ana Flinn-Van Valkenburg forces"
The Citizens Republican League
of Philadelphia last night issued a
blisterinS attack upon Speaker Amber
as candidate for the nomination for
Auditor General 1t referred to him
as interested in contractors and as
the candidate of contractors and
talked about county bridge contract
near PhoeniXville, which, it was as
serted, was going to go more than bar
gained for.
Attorney General Brown coun-
tered yesterday on Senator Penrose's
declaration that the Governors cam
paign had gone to smash by saying
that the Senator was a false prophet
and citing some erroneous prognosti-
cations of the Senator in 1912, when
Roosevelt got 10 delegates and Taft
in Pennsylvania. Mr.. Brown appeared
TO be in fine form and handled with
out gloves the Senator's predictions
in other campaigns which had not
turned out right.
The real anti -Brumbaugh cam
paign is to start this week in Phila-
delphia. 1t is intimated that some
severe arrangements are to be made.
Senator Penrose while here Saturday
said that he would speak Thursday in
Philadelphia The Philadelphia In
quirer says he will then present "the
real issues" of this campaign.
Nightly meetings are to be held in
Philadelphia and the McNichol men
will invade Ware wards. The rest of
the State will sit back and watch the
Philadelphians. who started all the
trouble. nSnt II OUT.
-Belligerency seems to have spread
to the Luzerne and Delaware county
Democrats. They are lighting over
every place on the list.
Lebanon Republicans registered
2.625 of $3.50 voters
&C. ]. Buckman and ]. A. Ander-
son, uninstructed delegates, were
doomed at q meeting of Montgomery
manufacturers on Saturday.
Harry A. Mackey, chairman of
the State Workmen's Compensation
Board, whose ward in Philadelphia
has been invaded by the Penrose men,
is getting on the warpath. In letters
issued yesterday he attacked those
who had been assailing him.
More charges of activity of police
in politics against the expressed pur-
pose of Mayor Smith are being made
in Philadelphia.
Judge Eugene c. Bonniwell,
candidate for the Democratic Sena-
torial nomination has been visiting
York county.
-Railroad men in meeting at
Wilkes-Barre yesterday adopted reso-
lutions praising Governor Brumbaugh
for his legislative course. Similar
action was taken at other railroad
meetings.
Former achuylkill countians living
in Philadelphia held a meeting and
endorsed Charles A. Snyder for the
Republican nomination for Auditor
/ General.
The Philadelphia Ledger to-day
calls attention to the fact that the
Wares are being opposed and sup
ported by liquor dealers in their
/ operations in Philadelphia 4tt-re-
marks that it is the first time that
they have heen between two fires
Senator Franklin Martin will be
unable to take up his campaign work
for several days, maybe not for two
weeks. An injured foot is the cause.
Committeeman A. Mitchell Pal
mer will be here for the Central
Clubs Jefferson dinner on May IS.
Congressman Michael Liebel did
not let the weekend go by without
hurling a brick at Palmer. Taking
up some remarks by the harassed ma
tional committeeman he issued this
statement: MY opponent, Mr.. Pal
mer, seems to believe that he. and not
the Democratic voters of the great
State of Pennsylvania. is to determine
who shall and who shall not be elected
to office. And in persisting in this
obsession he goes much further in
his dictatorial attitude than was ever
dreamed OF in the history of Pennsyl-
vania politics. Mr.. Palmer says that
even should I be elected to member
eIin in fha Dam opratio National C0n1