Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-15
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Ps~'toqesa~io
BY the Ex-Committeeman

! II BY the Ex-CommitfeenaR
Influential Democratic members in
Congress have aligned themselves
with Congressman John J. Casey, of
! Wilkes-Barre, in his campaign to
| destroy the scheme of A. Mitchell
Palmer and his pals in the PennsyI-
Vania Democratic machine to have
postmasters named in districts with
out consent of the Congressman. This
is a vital principle with many of the
democratic congressman and 1t is
understood that some of the biggest
Democrats in the House have taken
up Caseys fight
According to reports reaching here
from Washington there Is consider
able resentment outside of the Demo-
cratic delegation from Pennsylvania
against Palmer's assumption of pie
cutting. The Congressman hold that
as national committeeman he has
+ enough to do to get the Democrats
ilned up together and to heal the
/ breaches in the State organization
without going out and making trouble
FOR congressman who were reelected
when he was routed in his "siege of
Penrose."
The upshot will probably be the
destruction of Palmer influence in ap-
pointments and then a united effort
the political shadows where he chased
the men who ran the Democratic ma
chine in Pennsylvania before he
wriggled in as ''reorganizer."
| Mayor Smith has given a chill to
some men in Philadelphia by declin-
ing to agree to creation of more
offices.
The men who sign nomination
J papers before February is may be
/ getting their friends into trouble as
the date must follow every signature.
Democratic candidates for State
committeeman pledged to overthrow
the Palmer machine are said to be
| springing up about the State.
Allentown Democrats will cele-
brate Jackson day to-day.
-Ex-Speaker George e. Alter was
the big speaker at the Bellevue meet
ing in the interest of Representative
John w. Vickerman's candidacy for
reelection and prominent Allegheny
men urged that both Mr. Vickerman
and his colleague. Nelson McVicar, of
Tarentum, be returned. Governor
Martin G. Brumbaugh sent the fol-
| lowing letter to the chairman of the
meeting: II am advised that you are
about to select a candidate for the
| General Assembly from your district.
May 1 call your attention to j. w.
| Vlckerman, your present member
from Bellevue, whose record here was
q credit to you and to Pennsylvania
He enjoyed the fullest confidence of
| his colleagues and was one of the
| most useful men in the House. In
character, industry, capacity and
| loyalty / found him always four
square, and / think if / may make
the suggestion his return would be
fitting recognition of q worthy and
high-minded Official"
The Philadelphia Ledger to-day
says: In Pennsylvania, political har-
mony, as indicated by the Knox can
didacy, is felt to be a closed incident,
at least as far as the national delegate
situation is concerned. Skirmishes,
and possibly a real fight, may develop
over the naming of the Republican
State ticket for congressman, State
Treasurer and Auditor General. Sem
ator Penrose's friends had no fault to
find with the fifteen possibilities for
delegate at large announced by Mayor
baugh conference. Both sides were
satisfied"
Auditor General Powell will
probably ask the attorney generals de-
lpartment for advice in regard to the
conflicting claims of S. j. Toole and
Louis Alpern to be the legal mercan-
tile appraiser in Allegheny county. A
similar situation exists in Dauphin
county and according to reports re-
ceiVed here the same conditions may
arise in other counties where new
iboards of county commissioners re-
called selections of appraisers by pre-
decessors and elected men OF their
own preference. The auditor general
has been getting information the last
flew days regarding the situation in
| Pittsburgh, Deputy Auditor General C.
E. Wilcox being now in that city look
ing up matters.
r. l.. Myers. former member of
the House from Cumberland county,
denies reports that ne will run for the
Democratic nomination for senator in
THAT district
Organized railroad men in the
Pittsburgh district are demanding that
John C. Kaiser. member of the House
i'll the last session and who voted
against the full crew bill, be forced to
leave the Allegheny county tax revision
Hoard TO which he was recently ap-
lpointed. Tt is charged that he is not
eligible. Kaiser is sitting tight.
Mayor Smith yesterday picked a
site for the convention hall for Phila-
delphia.
The Plymouth school board has
asked the Luzerne court to settle it's
deadlock.
The new Republican Board OF
lCounty Commissioners yesterday de-
Iclared the election of Milton Weller, a
Democrat, as mercantile appraiser, TO
have been illegal and instructed Coun-
try Treasurer Meyers not to furnish
him with any supplies to do the work.
1.-THE Commissioners will elect his sue
icessor on Monday. Weller was q
member of the retiring Board of Com
missioners and at Its final meeting OBJ
tanned the appraisers job by entering
Into a deal with Charles Bercaw, the
Republican member. Bercaw and
lWeller supported Bercaw's choice for
Isealer of weights and measures. Noah
Dietrich, q Republican.