Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-20
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By the Ex-CommItteeman

Headquarters of the campaign for
the election of national delegates
pledged to Governor Brumbaugh for
President will be opened tomorrow
morning in the Franklin building. in
this city. They will be in charge of
men said to be from Philadelphia and
vigorous campaign will be waged in
every district, according TO what is
stated here. Publicity will also be
used, including a special press service
which is being organized. The head
quarters will also be used for confer
ences. 1t is stated. Thousands of copies
of Governor Brumbaugh's letter will
be issued from the headquarters.
| These copies are now being printed.
The Governors campaign here will
be conducted under the auspices of Il
citizens committee, the size of which
has not yet been determined. head
quarters will be opened in Pittsburgh
after the State headquarters in Har-
risburg gets under way this week. An
other headquarters will be opened in
Philadelphia and the fight there will
probably be carried on by n citizens
committee. The petition will be made
up at once and sent out from the
headquarters. The blanks are now at
the Capitol.
The Governor and Senator Penrose
met in Pittsburgh Saturday at the lay
ing of the cornerstone of the new city
county building and shook hands, were
| photographed together, laughed and
chatted. The Senator started back to
Washington yesterday afternoon and
the Governor remained until to-day
because of numerous speaking engage
ments. He is expected here late to-
night and tomorrow will be here to
receive q number of men from various
parts of the State who are coming to
tender him support.
State officials here to-day denied
that any printing in behalf of the
Governors campaign was being done
at public expense or that orders had
been issued to any attaches of the
State departments to Line up" 1t was
declared that whatever aid was being
given was entirely voluntary. Many
rumors have been in circulation.
While the friends of the Governor,
marshaled by the Attorney General,
have been getting their headquarters
| prepared and campaign outlined, the
| senior Senator has not been idle. He
and his friends are working for the
| election of an uninstructed delegation
from the State. fatty against what the
| Governor and his friends desire, and
unless there is an agreement the con-
test will be under way very soon. The
| Pittsburgh Gazette-Times to-day says
that the Senator went back to Wash
/ ington after letting it be known that he
! favors an uninstructed delegation and
the nominations of Charles A. Snyder
1 for Auditor General and II. NJ. KEEP
| hart for State Treasurer. The Pitts
! burgh Dispatch says the Senator eX-
/ pressed satisfaction with what he had
| found in the western part of the State.
| The Dispatch also says: After Sen
ator Penrose left yesterday it was
/ learned that it is proposed, when the
| Statewide fight is properly opened up,
the Governor and his administration
are to be attacked. The Governors
promise of an administration free from
| politics, made during his campaign.
will be challenged throughout the
State. IT will be alleged that his pledge
10 insist upon efficiency has been for
gotten. Various departments of the
] State government will be aSSailed-
and so will individuals in them. The
local Penrose leaders will start in i'm
mediately upon the formulation of
their slate of national delegates. They
expect to have it completed by next
Saturday. A tentative agreement had
been made on a full slate, which was
submitted to the Senator while he was
| here. 1t is understood to have con-
tanned the name of Public Service
! Commissioner W. A. Magee for dele
gate from the Thirty-f1rst Congress
sional district. Penrose is said to have
suggested that Mr.. Magee should he a
delegate. But if the former Mayor
elects to run as a delegate in the in
| the presidency. he will likely be op-
posed by the Penrose-City admins
| tration forces. That Mr.. Magee will
be a candidate is generally accepted as
certain, though he has never indicated
his disposition in the matter. A. P.
Moore and Max G.. Leslie are under.
stood to have been the tentative or
sanitation selections in the event that
Mr.. Magee should elect to announce as
q Brumbaugh candidate. If Magee
goes into the fight and is opposed by
the city administration, one of the
most interesting contests in the entire
State will follow"
says: THE Citizens Republican
League, of which John c. Winston and
George d. Porter are officials, yester-
day attacked the city's $685., 800, 600
loan bill on the ground that it con-
tanned items inserted for the purpose
of increasing the value of private land
holdings in South. Philadelphia. The
league issued a statement in which IL
was charged that the Wares were re-
sponsible for many of the snakes in
the bill
The Philadelphia Inquirer to-day
hands out this jab at Mayor Smith
indicating that things are not lovely in
Philadelphia: "Oh, come along home
Mr.. Mayor. Golf will keep until an
other day. Come home and tell your
Director of Rapid Transit to quit his
fooling and accept the Taylor plans
precisely as the people of Philadel-
phia have already accepted them al
the polls. Let's get to work"
Republican county chairmen OF
Wayne, Susquehanna and Huntingdon
counties have pledged their support
to Governor Brumbaugh in his cam.
paign for a united party in Pennsyl.
vania. simultaneous with these in.
dorsements, General Charles NJ
Clement, of Sunbury, head of the
Pennsylvania National Guard, came
out for Governor Brumbaugh and pre-.
dicted his success at the May pri
maries. The general has been attend,
ing conferences here lately.
In Pittsburgh last night Governor
Brumbaugh declined to discuss the
State situation. He said he did no
see there was anything for him to say
at this time. The Brumbaugh force.
are waiting for a declaration from Mr.
Pcnrose before they make their mex
move. Last night Senator William
j. Burke of Pittsburgh declared fol
the presidential candidacy of Cover
nor Brumbaugh. Mr.. Burke said thi!
ipJnrsapnant did NOT naap that II.