Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-14

burgh Dispatch to-day. He insists
there is no legal obstacle to candidacy
for delegate while serving as public
service commissioner, and says things
about the senator. The Pittsburgh
Gazette Times comes back and calls
the Magee candidacy brazen and rakes
him as boss. The Allegheny fight is
on.
Senator w. j. Burke is out on the
stump for Brumbaugh in Pittsburgh.
The Philadelphia North American
makes great fuss over the Fleitz can
didacy for national delegate in the
Brumbaugh interest in Lackawanna
county saying Penrose man has gone
away from him. The North American
handles the Gribbel. johnson and
Wanamaker delegate candidates
with care.
The Pennypacker commendation
of the Governor is much commented
upon although some Philadelphia pa
pers let it go by.
The Pittsburgh Gazette-Times to-
day says: There is doubt even among
the men, who are looking after the
interests of the Brumbaugh- Ware COM
bine in this county, about Governor
Martin G. Brumbaugh filing papers as
a preferential candidate for president.
Attorney General Francis Skunk
Brown says his name will go on the
ballot but in a conference of the
Governors supporters held yesterday
in Pittsburgh the opinion was eX-
pressed that he would retire. The
plan discussed is to get the Cover
nor out of the running and endeavor
to put Theodore Roosevelt to the front
in Pennsylvania. This is what Will
liam Finn has been trying to bring
about since before Mr.. Brumbaugh Of
fered himself as a probable candidate.
The scheme is to make Senator Boies
Penrose the target. This was tried
without success in 1914"
p. c. Knox received an ovation at
Scranton when he spoke on national
affairs last night. Lieutenant Cover
nor McClain was also a speaker and
we'll received.
Philadelphia and Pittsburgh reg
istration was not heavy. Probably the
voters are not as much heated up
as politicians think.
The Philadelphia Record insists
that the Governors silence in regard
to the Oliver check worries his friends.
The Governor left last night without
breaking silence and neither he nor
his friends appeared to be disturbed.
The Ware majority in the Phila-
delphia county commissioner board
dismissed a $1,000 McNichol clerk in
the opening skirmish of the fight.
Amber headquarters have been
opened at Norristown with Theodore
Lane Bean in charge. The Montgom-
cry men say that Johnson is for Am
bier after all. Johnson has not talked
lately.
The Philadelphia Press to-day
says: "Unpledged national delegates.
whose election at the May primaries is
being urged by Senator Penrose may
defeat the whole purpose of the Pres
idential preference clause of the uni
form primary act. For the first time
in the history of Pennsylvania the
electorate will be given an opportun-
ity on May 16 to express itself on its
favorite for President of the United
States. For years public sentiment
had demanded such an opportunity:
but only after prolonged agitation did
the Legislature pass a State law, which
expressly permitted the voter to regis
ter his choice. The attitude taken by
Senator Penrose in advocating the
election of delegates. who will not
agree, as provided by the uniform pri-
mary law, to support the expression
of the popular will, is construed there
fore, as a direct attempt to thwart the
popular will"
Guy Mayo, of McKean,- an active
Bull MooSer in 1914, is running as a
Republican delegate for Brumbaugh.
The startling news came over the
river last night that Scott S. Leiby,
Marysville lawyer, with Offices here,
had joined II. B. Saussaman, of Pax
tang, in the sacrifice class. Leiby will
run for Democratic senatorial nomin-
alton against Senator Franklin Mar
tin. of Cumberland, and Saussaman
plans to get in the way of Congress-
man Kreider.
james r. Wilson. of Landisburg,
is a candidate for Democratic national
committeeman in Perry.
Congressman Crago's denial that
he was behind the Hartman campaign
for State Treasurer produced some
what of an impression here. The
Hartman papers, however, are going
around briskly.
Probably Big Bill' Adams, Lu-
zerne member, was dropped from the
state pay roll in the Insurance Fund
to allow him to look after his cam
paign for denomination. He has op-
position.
DIR. G. A. Dillinger, the Pittsburgh
councilman, who was here at the local
option meeting, has aspirations to be
mayor of Pittsburgh
The Franklin adams Democrats
have decided to present the name of
Thomas j. Brereton, Chambersburg,
for Senator in that district. This
means that ex-senator Martin, of Get
tysburg, and Parker r. Skinner. of
Franklin county. will not run.