Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-11
OLIVER LETTER
NOT YET FOUND
BY GOVERNOR
Hunt for $1,000 Check Mis-
sive Has Been Futile,
] Friends Say
PENRosE EN- ALERT
Browns Plan to Make Them
Aid Brumbaugh Candidacy
Hits Snag, They Assert

HARRISBURG, April 1t.-That Gov
ernor Brumbaughs search for the David
3. Oliver letter was futile, is the belief
of the few persons on Capitol Hill who
are willing to discuss the $1,000 check in
cident.i
The Governor, Attorney General Brown
and Secretary Ball only shrugged their
shoulders today when nterrogated, but it
has become known that Mrs. Brumbaugh
and the Attorney General assisted the
Governor in hunting for the missing let
ter in the Governors Germantown home
on Sunday. The fact that 1t has not
been made public is taken here to mean
that IL was not found.
Most of the state employees maintained
the same sort of silence as the Governor
and his advisers. The State employees who
owe their appointment to Penrose, how
ever, were making considerable noise, and
were losing no time in making 1t known
that Attorney General Browns plan to
force the State jobholders to work for the
Governors candidacy had struck a snag,
CLERK REFUNDS DAYS PAY.
The most sensational turn of yesterday
was the announcement that Professor j.
Louis Sewers. of Gettysburg, clerk in
the Workmen's Compensation Board,
which is under the Department of Labor
and Industry. had been forced to circu-
late petition much against his Will. In
order to get signatures, he said, he had
to take a days time and so he refunded
TO the State Treasurer the amount of
S2.7S, that representing one days pay
Professor Sewers for years was a school
teacher in Adams County before he came
here During the last week in March, he
says, he was Informed by n superior of
the Department of Labor and Industry
that he would be expected to circulate n
petition for signers for C. L. Lamotte. of
York County. which is In Sewers congress
sional district, as a candidate for alter
nate delegate to the Republican National
Convention.
1t is said that Sewers demurred and
even went to see Commissioner John Price
Jackson of the Department of Labor and
Industry He agreed to hire somebody to
get the signatures and this proposition was
agreed to- but evidently he could not find
suitable person. and he was then in.
structed to take the petition out himself
through Adams County.
FEARED WRATH OF sUPERIoRs.
Fearing to provoke the wrath of his SUI.
perior, he agreed to take "A day off, and
ceived his check for March he declined to
accept 1t as a whole, and he made out O
check for one days pay and sent his letter
to the State Treasurer.
Paul N. Furman. statistician in the De-
partment of Labor and Industry, has been
NONoNAhb ithtiir VI llfIle TO tne cam
paign of the Governor. Professor Sewers
would not say 1t was he who got him to
obtain the signatures. 1t is said few others
in the Department, show the same interest i
in the Governors campaign.
AnotrSf cflicehjider the Brumbaugh
hackers did not land is Josiah w. Kline,
Republican County Chairman hGeHfTfbefGlI
land. who is an assistant cataloguer in the
State Library He was calleaLffo his
desk to the Attorney Generals Department
several days ago and there found Henry
G. WATSON, Republican National Commit
teeman, who, it is said desired that he |
turn in to help elect a Brumbaugh delegate
from the hin-Cumberland-L Lebanon
district to the Republican National Con,
vention. '."
WORKING FOR DELEGATES.
According to the Organization version
of the story, Wasson, who has been here |
a considerable part of his time making up
list of Brumbaugh delegates, wanted |
Kline to turn over the Republican Organi.
zation in Cumberland County. This Kline
said he could not do. Kline was asked to
become national delegate himself, it is
claimed. but he declined. |
The Brumbaugh headquarters last night |
Issued statement, which, like others
made during the last few days, Is said |
to have been indorsed by the Governor |
before being given out. This statement |
contains extracts of letters and tele. |
grams received from friends since the /
Oliver check episode was given publicly |