Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-31
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Philadelphia Democratic city
committeeman broke out in open re-
volt against the Democratic State
posses at a meeting of the city COM
mlttee last evening and their action
may be signal all over the State
Tor Democratic workers opposed to
the machine methods of National
Committeeman A. Mitchell Palmer
and his pals. For some time there
have been mutterings among Demo-
Gratis over peculiar selections made
by the bosses for federal places. Men
or no experience in politics were put
into high places and workers
ignored. There have been outbursts
in half a dozen counties, but Phila-
delphia seems to have started some
thing.
According to the PHILADELPHIA
ing last night was as hot as the
weather. There We're open protests
against appointment of Republicans
TO places in the mint, the arsenals
and other places where Democrats
naturally thought they would be
given the preference. Chairman
Edgar W. Lank declared that it had
come to fine pass when deserving
Democrats" could not get jobs and
Republicans could. Several members
charged that the officers of the
party sang loyalty during campaigns
and forgot the workers afterwards.
EX-Congressman Michael Donahoe
charged that Democrats were for
gotten and Chairman Lank, seeing
that fight was in prospect over the
Democracy of superintendent of the
Mint Joyce, adjourned the meeting.
A committee will be sent to Wash
ington to demand of Palmer and his
pals jobs with salaries for deserving
Democrats"
Governor Brumbaugh will take
his time about naming a county
controller for Chester county to sue
ceed Isaac Y. Ash, deceased. He will
consult with friends. The Republi-
can organization is backing G. w.
Devices.
Mayor Smith is having a hot
summer. He has taken charge of
the antivice move and is also han
ding the transit negotiations.
Some of the Philadelphia news
papers profess to think that the
Governors appointment of Mayor
and tunnel commission opens the
way for nice place for the mayor
when his term ends.
-EX- EX-Representative John Robert
Jones is out for judge in Schuylkill
county. Mr.. Jones has been regard
ed as an administration man and the
fact that he has entered the field
when the Governors appointee is a
candidate for the full term is being
commented upon with interest. Mr..
Jones is a man of independent
thought and followed the Brum-
baugh flag for long time in Schuyl-
kill.
Governor Brumbaugh will be in
Maine the greater part of August.
He will keep in touch with his office
by mail and handle considerable ac-
cumulated business that way.
There are signs of a rearup
among Allegheny Democrats over
the same thing as has been agitating
the Philadelphia faithful. The west
ern' Pennsylvania Democrats have
been mad over the way jobs were
given out for months and now when
war is on and there are many new
places they are disposed to make 1t
warm for some one because there
have been no recognition appoint
ments.
This is the open season for Dem
ocratic county committee meetings
and it bids fair to be worth while
noticing.
The Philadelphia and Pittsburgh
newspapers have very little to say
editorially about legislation. The last
General Assembly appears to have
been forgotten.
The Philadelphia Press in dis
cussing the rush to file petitions for
associate judges says editorially:
That they are still maintained is an
other demonstration of the familiar
experience that once an office is Gre
ated it is hard to get rid of it, even
when its possible usefulness to the
public has ceased. The abolition of
these places not required in the ju-
dicial machinery of the State, is one
argument for revising and modern
izing the Constitution of the Com
monwealth."