Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-11
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BY the Ex-Committeeman


MA Democracy again. This time 1t is
an effort to dethrone ex-Congressman
A. Mitchell Palmer as boss of the
machine, the Wilkes Barre postmas-
tership appointment having precipitat-
ed the row. Meanwhile the president
mas held up the commission of DIR. ID.
I. Mebane as postmaster pending an
inquiry into charges of unpatrlotic
remarks and i'm an effort to pacify
congressman Casey, who wants his
own brother named and who is stand
ing for the right of congressmen to
name men in their own districts. For
weeks the fight against Palmer has
peen brewing and the Philadelphia In
qulrer and Ledger intimate that the
other bulk of the Democratic congress-
men from Pennsylvania are lined up
against Palmer and are seeking a way
to defeat him if he runs again.
a nSht against Palmer would pre-
clpltate battle against the control of
the state machine by Palmer, McCor-
mick, Morris and others and make the
primary where delegates will be elect
ed TO renominate Wilson the scene of
bitter contest for control of the
State committee and the Democratic
machine.
The Philadelphia Ledger says that
the Washington and Franklin parties
are on the rocks i'm that city and/inti-
mates that it is the same way through
out the State.
-Justus Shroedel has been appoint
| ed superintendent of county buildings
in Allegheny county.
DIR. j. P. Kerr. the now president
of Pittsburgh council is not only
president but chairman of the eight
~ mi fane
the greatest centralizer of power in
the State from all accounts
The fight over the Cambria coun-
ty controllership will be heard by the
Supreme court.
The Pittsburgh Gazette-Times of
to-day says: News drifts back from
Philadelphia that there is still a pos
slbllity of fight over the election of
Republican national delegates be-
tween Governor Martin G. Brumbaugh
and the Ware brothers and United
States Senator Boies Penrose. This
situation is occasioning delay in the
framing of State ticket and the pick
ping of candidates for the &c national
delegates to be elected in the primar-
les of May 16. Some OF the friends of
senator Penrose are urging him to
name ticket and place 1t before the
voters of the State, thus putting it up
to the Brumbaugh-Vare combination
to accept the candidates or fight, Other
advisors are counseling him TO endea-
vor to harmonize the differences and
try TO prevent a factional fight in a
presidential year"
The Philadelphia Ledger in n dis
patch from it's Washington bureau,
says: President Wilson will seek re-
nomination, and in doing so win abide
by his views of the one-term plank in
the Baltimore platform, as expressed
by him in a letter to A. Mitchell
Palmer, in February, 1918. His posi-
tion then and now is that he would
| abide by public opinion, and the ac-
ton OF his party. In a word he
held that the plank was not binding
unless the Federal Constitution had
been amended to that effect"
Lancaster had q notable banquet
last night 1t was given by the Cham
Der of Commerce and presided over
speakers were former Senator Phil
ander c. Knox, Lieutenant Governor
Frank b. McClain and Calvin b.
Brown, Washington, d. c., of the
Chamber of Commerce of the United
States The nearest approach to poll
tics was made by Mr. McClain in
eulogizing Senator Knox, when he
said he believed a large element of
the citizenship of Pennsylvania was
hoping Mr.. Knox would return to
the Senate.
There was no excitement in
political circles in Philadelphia YES
| terday for a wonder. The mayor ad-
ministered the oath to the new civil
| service board and Joseph L. Baldwin,
the new assistant director of works,
and former State fire marshal, ap-
peared in the limelight as the politi-
cal end of the administration by maxi
ing census of all city employees
This has been a Democratic custom,
but now that Republican is doing
| it, it is dreadful. A number of
BlankenburS appointees are being
dropped, which is also being classed
| by the Democrats as dreadful.
The Jackson day banquet is still
| raging among the Democrats and
| there is some pretty stiff boosting of
Wilson these days. In Wiiliamsport
| last night everyone cheered Wilson
and there was nothing doing on the
| Bryan objections to the defense pro-
gram. Secretary of Labor Wilson
was the chief speaker.
-Judge Channel, of Tioga, will
call in O. Judge from another county
to decide license cases.
Director William IT. Wilson is
SOiHS aHead organizing MS work as
| head of the safety department of
Philadelphia in spite of threats to
test his right He declared Yesterday
| that policemen guilty of incivility
will be punished.
--EX-Congressman r. E. Diffen-
derfer, one of the Democratic acci-
dents and n noisy reorganizer for
while, wants to run again in the
Montgomery Bucks district
Representative Isadore Stern was
yesterday appointed a member of the
Philadelphia law examining board.
j. Il. TreVoskis, of around Turtle
Creek, has announced his candidacy
for Republican national delegate. He
says he has been voting for Republi-
cans for thirty-seven years.
-Johnstown will have aldermen
act as committing magistrates and
thus take the burden off the mayor.
A general probe of the workings
of Pittsburgh's civil service commits
sion in the last two years seems to be
the motive for the councilmanic action
i'm cutting the appropriation in half
for 1916. Attorney George r. Wal
| lace, who helped build the present
charter, will act as counsel for the
| councilmen in the court proceedings
| brought by the commission. but that is
| expected to be only start. Council
men and City Controller e. s. Morrow
| have been receiving many complaints
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