Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-29
HOPE FOR PEACE
GROWS STRONGER

Continued From First pagc1
TO he Indifferent to the precise method
OF bringing about party unity and close
friends declare that he has been mis-
represented regarding his alleged as
pirations in the matter of the presi
dency. What he particularly desires,
according to well informed persons, is
= reunion of the stalwart and progress
sive elements upon some reasonable
basis.
The Hope of the Factionists
There are people in Pennsylvania.
as in every other State in this broad
land, who live on factional fights, but
Republicans in this comm monweath
went through one four years ago and
do not want to repeat it, The proper
place to fight out party differences is
in the State committee, and the hopes
of many are that the whole rumpus
viii narrow down to a fight for control
of that body and not be made gem
eral warfare that will affect everyone
and every place and leave sore spots
that will take years to heal.
Numerous nomination petitions are
being circulated for State committee
men in both Republican and Demo-
cratic parties and there will be plenty
doing when the committees meet.
Capitol Hill was still marking time
to-day and listening for the rustlinSs
of the wings of the dove of peace, but
the weather appeared TO be bad for
flying. There were reports in circu-
lation to-day that GoVeronr Brum-
bauEh had assured friends that he was
not committed to any candidates for
Auditor General and State Treasurer
Notwithstanding things which were be-
ing said in his name.
WaSSOn Goes Away
National Committeeman III. G. Was
son. who spent most of yesterday and
l.. r -. .a-I.4 30 ftgt-
burgh in belligerent frame of mind
and there were traces of his visit in
few places at the Capitol. The
preparation of the nomination pc
titions for national delegate and State
committee members in the interest of
the State administration went ahead
all day despite the harmony talk and
the favor with which harmony sugges-
tions were received in various quarters.
II. Nj. Kephart. whose retirement
| from the State treasurership contest in
the interest of n transfer of Speaker
Amber from the Auditor General con-
test to the Treasury nomination was
much rumored, said that he had not
| heard about it.
Insurance Commissioner Charles
johnson remained at his desk in busi-
nesslike silence.
Friends of the Governor are look
ing for some basis for the stories that
N
gates and men on the other side are
not joyous over the prospect of going
on the ballot with refusal to promise
to support popular choice for nomi-
nation.
The Brumbaugh headquarters to-
day gave out the following:
Reports of preponderance of sem
timent in Pennsylvania labor circles
faVorng Governor Brumbaugh's presi-
dental candidacy and campaign to re-
store unity in the State ranks of the
Republican party have reached the
| Campaign Committee for Reunited
Republican Party through State Sem
ator William j. Burke, of Pittsburgh,
and from other sources. Every day
sees the situation shaping up more
and more to the satisfaction of the
Governors hackers. This allegiance of
la Dor to the Governors cause is par
tiCularly marked among the mine
workers and railroad men of the State
At Wilkes Barre this Saturday. for
instance. the United Mine Workers of
America of District No. l will give
Governor Brumbaugh welcome when
he goes there as chief speaker al big
mass meeting.
Every member of the organization
is urgently requested to be present and
make 100 per cent showing on this
occasion and hear one of the greatest
friends of labor in the State of Penn
sylvania,' is the way John T. Demp-
sey and John NJ Mack, respectively
president and secretary treasurer of
District No. /, doomed the Governors
reception in the official announcement.
And it is with similar enthusiasm
that the railroad men up and down the
State are falling in line behind the
Governor in their desire to create har-
mony in the party. Senator Burke
called at headquarters here and de-
clared that he found the railroaders
flocking into the Brumbaugh camp
and whoopinG things up in the Gov
ernors behalf everywhere. He is in
close touch with them through his
connections as a member of the rail-
road mems grievance committee.
Senator Burke is recognized as
master hand in handling railroaders
and all other organized labor. He has
spoken at a number of meetings about
the State in the last week or so, and
he brought glowing account of how
readily the laboring classes of the
State took up Governor Brumbaughs
battle cry. In his opinion, no other
Governor in years has so worked him
self into the hearts of workers gen.
orally.
AT a big mass meeting of organ
lied labor in Rochester, Beaver county,
last Sunday, Senator Burke's laudatory
allusion to the Governor took the
crowd by storm He said the men
were swept off their feet in the en-
thusiasm and literally quivered the
roof after his every tribute 10 the
Governor. He said it was the most
simon-pure limbaugh throng he has
yet faced.
The burden of Senator Burkes ad-
dress to the workers was an appeal to
them-Republicans Democrats. Social
lists and all others-to go to the polls
at the primaries in May and by casting
their vote for the Governor and for
the candidates for delegates to the ma
tional convention aligned with him
seek to repay the Governor for what
/ he had been instrumental in accom-
nlishin np for II ON -