Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-08
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Chicago, June S.-Pennsylvanians
are now fully mobilized in Chicago.
The last of the contingents got in last
night and the caucus last night show
ed probably 800 from the Keystone
State here. They are not as noisy as
they were four years ago and the
general feeling is that hostilities
should be postponed until after the
Ohio line is repassed The State head
quarters was so peaceful that when
Jim Corbett, who is seeing the sights,
peeked in he stepped back and looked
at the sign Pennsylvania" to make
sure that he was in the right place.
You coal miners and steel workers are
tame this year was his comment.
Next to the Governor and the senior
Senator the man who attracts most
attention among the Pennsylvanians is
John Wanamaker. He was busy shak-
ing hands with admirers from all over
the country when he arrived and was
the center of quite a group. Chicago
businessmen have been calling upon
him. Alba b. Johnson is another man
who attracts attention and he is some
mixer
Senator w. C. Sproul. who got in on
Monday, seems to have quite a few
men who think that he would make
good candidate for governor two years
hence. The Senator came over the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad accom-
panied by Chief Clerk Thomas II. Gar
vim and a number of Delaware men.
Charles Johnson. former commits
sioner and Mayor Armstrong, of Pitts
burgh, were two men who did not take
kindly to the suggestion of compli
mentary votes for the Governor. THE
issue was clean-cut one in my coun-
ty. l went to it on the Brumbaugh
question and you know the result" said
Mr.. Johnson The Johnson district is
composed of Montgomery and Bucks
counties. Senator Clarence J. Buck
man, of Bucks. is another man who is
not very keen about the compliment
to the Governor.
Harry K. Daugherty, former member
from Mercer county and one of the
delegates counted upon for Roosevelt,
was late getting here, but he soon got
into the thick of things and appeared
to be as much at home in the Penn
sylvania pink tea room as in the Pro-
gressive headquarters,
j. Denny O'Neil, the Western Penn
sylvania leader of the local option
forces, turned up in the crowds yes
was inclined to be a bit belligerent
and some of the Brumbaugh people
think that If he had arrived earlier
there might have been more stir at
the Monday night conference.
Attorney General Brown and Com
missioner Magee have been working as
hard as newspaper reporters since they
got here. Mr.. Brown got an idea that
he wanted to get down to bed rock
and visited all of the headquarters,
asking questions in his direct way and
by noon yesterday had his mind made
up. The Attorney General is being
considerably sought by folks who have
friends on Capitol Hill and who want
to know what he is going to start
when he gets back home Chances are
that his office will be a buster place
than it has been for the last three or
four months.
Private Secretary William H. Ball,
he of good roads day work fame, re-
GREETED to-day that he could not show
some of the Chicago street men how
to operate their machines. After
qualifying with road drags and tract
ors in Perry county Mr.. Ball became
an expert.
c. A Barron, Republican delegate
and w. H Unger Progressive dele
gate from the Shamokin district, fur
nished some midnight entertainment
Unger was a Roosevelt delegate four
years ago and is a dyed in the-wool
follower of the Colonel. He and Bar
ron are old political rivals and they
met up on the sidewalk. And what
they said about each other and the
issues was worth listening to. Unfor-
tunately a Swede cop with no sense of
humor chased us all away.
Alexander P. Moore, who is dele
gate, a Roosevelt man and the hus-
band of Lillian Russell, is the humor-
ist of the Pennsylvania crowd. Moore
used to be a legislative correspondent
at Harrisburg. He is passing out
Roosevelt cards. one of which reads
| No wise man ever buys a bell until
he hears it ring" Hughes men tore up
the cards. He also put out card for
Roosevelt, the man who dares and
does"
Emerson Collins nominating speech
| is being awaited with eagerness He
has been working hard on it and the
storied Blue Ridge and the wide
branching Susquehanna are going to
get show along side of the pillar of
smoke by day from Pittsburgh and the
pillar of fire by night from Bethlehem.
The deputy attorney general is a noted
talker and his friends predict laurels,
The "old home county" of Hunting
don is represented here by Samuel l.
| Spyker, associate counsel of the Com
pensation Board, and Captain G. Chal
Port.
| r. L. O'Donnell, general manager of
the Pennsylvania lines, was among the
spectators of the Pennsylvania meet
| ing He and a number OF railroad
officials came by private cars to see the
sights.
Senator Charles Fl. Kline, late presi-
dent pro tenn of the Senate, is here with
the latest attire. The Senator entered
the lists for honors with Senator Sny-
der and Senator-to-be Eyre.
Andrew Hourigan, former assistant
United States district attorney, George
Llewellyn, William p. Gallagher, d. r.
Reese and Frank p. Lenahan are here
from Luzerne. John r. Halsey, one of
the Luzerne delegates, is one of the
younger men who is attracting notice
He is a son of former Judge Halsey and
a conner in State affairs.
George ]. Brennan, of the Philadel-
phia Inquirer, displayed a Knox 1905