Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-29
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By the Ex-Committeeman

| tSuiSlioliS are UOI
the meeting of the Democratic State
Committee here next Wednesday will
be in line with the traditions of the
party in Pennsylvania. Every sign Is
! that there will be a clash of con-
tending cliques and Philadelphia and
Pittsburgh newspapers say that the
ruling faction plans to retaliate upon
Judge Eugene c. Bonniwell for his
attacks upon the men at the head of
his party's official organization. 1t
is intimated in one newspaper that
even his standing as a Democrat may
/ be impugned.
are giving all of their time to the
war inside their own party and
there is more scheming and backing
and filing going on than has been
known in the last half dozen years.
| The federal jobholding coterie which
has been running the party machine
in Pennsylvania. is face to face with
the biggest fight it has had since it
dethroned the old Guffey-Dewalt
crowd by a bare majority. Singu-
larly enough. the place where that
historic Democratic event occurred
will be the scene of next weeks
meeting.
Philadelphia and Pittsburgh
newspapers say that it is apparent
that the reorganization group pro-
poses to have all of the big timber
here for the meeting so that the
showing may be as impressive as pos
sible. 1t is not the intention of Judge
Bonniwell to ignore the meeting. He
will not attend it, but his friends will
be there and the Judge, If he does
not come to Harrisburg, will be
within telephone distance and will
have some of his. trustiest and most
resourceful lieutenants on the
ground They will be ready to fight
at the drop of hat, too.
The scheme of, the bosses is to
call the Judge to account for filing
papers to create a third party when
he is the nominee of the Democratic
party at direct primary for the
most important office in the state.
The fact that some con- D; ,uous
Democrats, the national cla trman,
for instance INDUCED in The pastime
of boiling in 1917 does net matter.
This is 1918. In addition the wind
mill forces intend to turn on the
Judge some of his own ammunition.
He has been demanding that J. Wash
tenant Governor, withdraw because
he is dry" and therefore out of
tune with the Judge, who is wet"
The Judge argues that as he won
over Joe Guffey at the primary on
a distinctly wet" platform that the
Democratic party by expression of
a majority of it's voters is therefore
wet and Mr.. Logue being dry
must get off
Although i'll at his home in Union
town State Chairman William r.
Crow has been getting into touch
with the Republican county chair
men throughout the state, urging
that they get the voters qualified. The
chairman has sent letter to each
county chairman asking him to at
once get in touch with all his COM
mitteemen, and with assessors and
tax collectors, to see that as many
Republicans as possible are quail
fed to vote in November. Voters,
in order to cast their ballots, must
be assessed. pay their taxes and be
properly registered. Assessors will
be in the polling places on Tuesday
and Wednesday, September 3 and 4,
the last days to be assessed. The last
tax day is Saturday, October 5. The
registration days are September s,
September II and October 5. 1t is
important that voters understand
that registration at the spring reg
istration does not qualify them 10
vote at the November election. The
spring registration merely permitted
voters, who had not registered pre-
viously, to qualify for the spring
primary.
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state office have accepted invitations
to attend a Montgomery county Re-
publican mass meeting on Robin
sons Meadow, Collegeville, Saturday,
September Z. In addition to Will
liam C. Sproul, for Governor; Ed
ward E. Beidleman, for Lieutenant
Governor; James F. Woodward, for
Secretary of Internal Affairs, the
candidates for Representative in
Congress-at-Larg and Congressman
Watson, United States Senator Pen
rose, Auditor General Snyder. and
Gabriel H. Meyer. of Lebanon, have
signified their intention of being
present.
The plan of the reorganization
or ruling clique is to adopt a plat
form which will sidestep prohibition,
glorify Democratic regularity and re-
bound with patriotic utterance and
when the Judge does not subscribe
to it, to declare he is without the
fold and should retire as Democratic
candidate for Governor and run on
his own party track.
The discussion of these various
positions will not be ope sided when
the state committee meets.
The Philadelphia Record says
that an effort may be made to 'in-
duce" the Palmer er-McCormick ele-
ment to accept the Bonniwell plat
form, which means that an attempt
to put a wet plank in the plat
form will be made at the state COM
mittee meeting.
The Bonniwell people will pre-
empt their party name here to-
morrow and will likewise get some
of their nominations on file. 1t is
said that Strayer and Tarner, can
didates for Congress-at-Large will
be with Bonniwell. Both were claim
ed to be reorganizers.
Superior Court Judge John N
Kephart sat on the bench with Judge
Ross at York this week. The Judge
was in York and Lebanon counties
seeing friends and went to Ebens-
burg last night.
Judge Bonniwell is at the Wash
ington county fair to-day and also
has a meeting of friends scheduled
for Pittsburgh.
Senator Penrose is due here to-
morrow night on his way to Union