Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-11
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BY the Ex-Committeeman

Democratic leaders throughout the
| State are sending suggestions for cleo
| toral candidates in the interest OF
President Wilson TO the national and
state committee headquarters by the
/ bale. 1t is understood that the number
already suggested is enough TO fill the
list six times over and, as is usual,
there will be some heartburnings.
President Wilson has left the busi-
ness of picking electors to National
Committeeman A. Mitchell Palmer and
| his pals and 1t is said that they are
trying to match the high class list of
the Republicans filed yesterday and at
the same time TO satisfy some of the
Democrats who prefer honors to pelf.
| The list will be made UP within day
or so and after being scanned by Ma
tional Chairman Mccormick will be
submitted to the President for his for
NAL approval II will then be put into
/ the hands of Secretary keenan,, who
will bring it here to file before next
/ Monday evening.
| State Chairman Mclean is finding
/ that the job of quieting down Demo-
/ Gratis is not an easy one. The chair
man has been touring the State and is
| finding that the Palmer method of dis
tributing the spoils had anything but a
peaceful tendency. He has now ar
ranged that he and Palmer should at
tend the meeting of the Democratic
/ city committee in Philadelphia next
week to make peace talk"
! Senator Penrose will go to New
/ York TO confer with National Chair
man Wilcox and other Republican
! leaders and arrange for the big Re-
! publican ratification meeting which is
I being planned as a feature of the for
NAL notification of the presidential and
e-presidential nominees of their Sc
/ lection as the party's standard bear
ers. In discussing the situation SEN
ator Penrose waxed optimistic in
Philadelphia Il have frequently
stated" said the Senator, that the
/ Republican nominees for President
and Vice-President would be elected
/ in November" The Senator declared
/ that Mr.. Hughes was the man of the
! hour and that under wise and generous
/ leadership and with concessions on all
sides the breach of 1912 in the Repub-
lican party had been healed in a way
that would have seemed impossible six
months ago.
From what is heard in Philadel-
phia, it does not look like much peace
between the Ware and McNichol fac
tions. The Wares are said to be bent
upon putting the McNichol men out of
the county offices, having established a
pretty firm grip on the city. Mayor
| Smith is said to be disinclined to take
much further part in factional fighting
and to be insisting that the hatchet be
buried and that everyone turn in for
the Republican ticket.
| The fact that no Pennsylvanians
were named on the campaign commit
tee by the Republican national COM
nittee last night has not escaped COM
ment here and there are all sorts of
surmises being put forth. The anti
Penrose men ars claiming that they
did it, but the indications are that
the nominee concluded not to name
anyone from this State as a hint to the
factions to get together.
DIR. G. A. Dillinger, Pittsburgh
councilman and major in the First
Artillery, has developed a full-fedged
boom for mayor of that city since he
went to the border. His friends are
very active in his behalf. The doctor
! has declined to leave the service and
his interests are being handled from
Pittsburgh.
-Philadelphia papers figure that
; Paul \. Furman, chief of the Bureau
of Statistics, has pretty good look
in" for the managership of the State
Insurance Fund. Albert L. Allen, as
: sistant manager, and William J. Roney,
examiner in chief of the Insurance De-
. partment, are also in the running.
The Phlladelphia Record to-day
says: Mayor Smith held out the olive
branch to ward leaders and council
men yesterday and as evidence of good
faith promised that the spoils system is
about to reach it's maximum of oppor-
tunities by filling. at their dictation
and with his approval, of hundreds of
places that will be created in connec-
ton with the public Improvements for
which s114.525.000 in loans have just
been authorized The Mayor an
nounced as a peace offering that is ex-
pected to guarantee a united Repub-
lican party in this city that hereafter
no appointments will be made to city
|. positions unless with the approval of
the members hf the Republican city
committee from the ward in which the
applicant resides"