Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-12
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BY the Ex-Committecman

Democratic and Republican chief
talns who have been figuring in the
primary contests will make their final
moves tomorrow. Dozens of meet
ings will be held in various parts of
the State and candidates for nomina-
tions will close what is generally ad-
mitted to be the most surprising cam
paign held in this State in twenty
years.
Senator Boies Penrose has ex-
pressed confidence in the outcome of
the contest for delegates and the Re-
publican State committee and in the
next day or so it is expected that
some statement of the claims of the
State administration side will be
issued.
In the Democratic camp there have
been interchanges of the bitterest
words and the scrap of the reorgan-
ization and rehabilitation factions has
been thoroughly enjoyable. The
friends of A. Mitchell Palmer insist
that he will win hands down in the
contest at the polls for national COM
mitteeman, but Michael Liebel, Jr., the
candidate of the opponents of Palmer
and his pals, says that their hour has
struck.
The Brumbaugh campaign head
quarters has been silent for several
days, but it is understood that it has
been issuing tons of literature and
that some eleventh hour stories will
be sprung which will be worth read
ing. The last move of the headquar-
ters in announcing a Dimmick COM
mittee after Dimmick had declared
for PenroSe appears to have caused
considerable smiling.
Senator Penrose will make
speech in Philadelphia tonight and
lg hob IL, 1Ns.
remarks of rather heated character
to make. The anti-Penrose men say
that he is only saying what he thinks
without regard to what the great mass
of the people think. However, the
Senator was never more confident
than he appears to be this year.
The Scranton Times of few days
ago contained this interesting item:
IF. w. Fleitz, Brumbaugh leader
Hue, has given his endorsement to
State tr, NJ. Kephart, candidate for
candidate yer, and Charles A. Snyder,
of whom are auditor General, both
slate Fleitz is als6Senator Penrose's
to support Colonel r. A.ng his friends
rose candidate for alternatHps, Pen
Congressman B. h. Fochtrge.
Lewtsburg, seems to have stirred III
the animals by a resolution in Con-
gress prohibiting the production of
the Birth of a Nation" in Washing
ton.
John r. X. Scotts friends have
been getting busy in this city and
| vicinity and are placarding many
| places. Scott has sent word to friends
here that his campaign engagements
| prevent him from visiting Harrisburg.
District Attorney Rotan has called
a pubic meeting in Philadelphia to
discuss the charges that police are un-
duly active in politics and it is gen.
orally regarded al a big move by the
/ Penrose-McNichol forces. Mayor
Smith last night defled his enemies to
do their worst.
Candidates for Congress in this sec
ton of the State do not seem to have
been bothered about preliminary eX-
penses. Very few of them returned
payments of any kind.
Philadelphia is the city of politi-
cal meetings these days. The loans
were urged at big meetings last night,
while in other sections of the city
Brumbaugh partisans and Ware men
urged votes for their candidates.
Senator J. p. McNichol at a meet
ing called the Governors slate "a
mongrel ticket" and said that he
would not say anything about the Gov
ernor because 'he has troubles enough
already"
The Philadelphia Inquirer to-day
calls upon the Governor to clear him
self of charges by asking the men in
charge of the bank where the alleged
/ Kolb loan for him is said to have
been made to make a statement.
Judge Charles l.. Brown, who was
attacked in a petition Max Kaufman
handed to the Governor, said yester-
day that it was malicious" The Gov
ernor has turned the papers over to
Attorney General Brown.
The Pittsburgh GaZette-Times of
to-day says: Postcards signed by
Henry G. Wasson, Republican ma
. tional committeeman, are being cir
culated in Allegheny county and
probably all over the State. The card
shows for whom to vote as State
Treasurer, Auditor General, Repre-
sentatiVes in Congress at-large, dele
gates-at-large and district national
delegates, but no attention is called
to the fact that Governor Martin G.
Brumbaugh is trying to get the in
dorsement of Pennsylvania for Presi-
dent. Pictures of Theodore Roosevelt
are printed on both sides of the card
and effort is being made to show the
fight is in his interest and not in that
of the Governor. The fact that there
is an absence of any instruction of
how to vote for Governor Brumbaugh
for President is an indication that his
managers at least have abandoned
his candidacy.
Make Raiding Unhealthy
tEvening Ledger, Phila.