Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-20


electors-at-large.
1t all came as the climax to a
controversy over control of the
party machinery which has been
under way ever since Judge Bonni-
well ambushed the Palmer McCor-
rick faction and won first place
honors from Joseph F. Guffey. Judge
Bonniwell has insisted that the
gubernatorial candidate has always
been allowed to name the men to
run the campaign and declare the
issues. The State Committee leaders
held that the judge was but one of
seven state candidates. And when
the gubernatorial candidate angrily
refused to speak before the as
sembled committeeman who came
with credentials from the people
who had nominated him, there was
an uneasy pause, then words and
the nominee for second place, ].
Washington Logue, of Philadelphia,
ascended the rostrum amid cheers
and made real Democratic speech.
filled with patriotic fervor and gar
landed with praise of his party.
Got Early Start
The squirrels in Capitol Park had
scarcely started TO forage for break
fast when some emissaries of the
warning factions undertook to re-
new the negotiations TO get Judge
Bonniwell and Mr.. Palmer together
At l o'clock in the morning the
judge was in his hotel and Mr.. Pal
mer at state headquarters half a
block away. And they never got
any nearer in spite of the foot work
of volunteers and mutual friends and
thermometers except for a few mo-
ments at the entrance of the hall
where the meeting was held. Then,
under the spell of olive branch wav-
ing by William ]. Bremen. of Pitts
burgh, they withdrew into a corner
and chatted while Acting State
Chairman Guffey held off the start
of the meeting for fifteen minutes
And when Palmer came slowly into
the hall he chased expectant looks
from faces of 400 Democrats by
shaking his head and saying that
mo progress had been made"
From that time on il was a fight
but no one expected that the judge
would adopt the amazing course he
pursued
The judge never entered the COM
mittee hall. When he finished talk
ing to Palmer he went straight back
10 his hotel. mad clear through.
according to friends. while Palmer.
suave and alert, took a seat right up
on the front row and went into the
meeting on proxy from Monroe
county. Only once did the feelings
of the factions crop out and that
was when Jury Commissioner Pat
rick F. Brennan, of Mckees Rocks.
Allegheny county. but native of
Schuylkill and filed with its fight
ing spirit, made a stump speech
George r. Mclean. of Wilkes Barre,
had been named by the Palmer-Mc-
Cormick men, for state chairman
end Henry c. Niles. of York, put
forward as the hope of the Bonni-
well people
Needed Some pen"
Mr.. Brennan did not consider that
there had been enough said for Niles
and he proceeded to make a speech
Chairman Guffey called him to order:
committeeman yelled at him: voices
demanded that he sit down and
Nerturbed gentlemen raised points
r + order. hut he flowed on. Mclean
Ton 80 to q for Niles. which Mr.
"ennan accepted by remarking "All
hit then"
The only other ripple occurred
tier the State Committee by a rather
'ticesble unanimity of desire con-
led the drafting of the party plat -
-rm for 1918 to a committee of
wen to report later in the summer
nd when committee of fourteen
ad been provided to run the cam
1ign the candidates TO do the pick
= and Judge Bonniwell to name
'airman. Parke H. Davis. of Eas-
II. caused the stir of the otherwise
'acidly moving session. He had a
esolution sorrowing over the death
Justice S. Leslie Mestrezat. prais-
lg the Governors appointment of
Edward j. Fox. of his home city as
CStice and calling on all other Dem
0crats harboring ambitions to run
FOR the supreme bench to lay them
aside so that the minority could
preserve representation on the
bench. a. V. Dively, of Altoona.
suspected of ideas in that direction
thought the resolution a triple load
ed affair and Luzerne friends of
Charles B. McLenahan. of Wilkes
Barre, who is a candidate, declared
II too "adroitly worded' to pass.
The resolution was sent to the com.
mittee in charge of such papers by
invocation of the without debate"
rule and. later on the justice was de-
corously mourned.
The drafting of a platform was
left TO the resolutions committee as
a matter of Chairman L. H. Rupp.
who presented a resolution that the
document required consultation with
state candidates and suggesting that
the committee be given further time.
a report to be made to the state COM
mittee before September 1.
Almost Overlooked
BY adoption of another resolution
from man on the jon the state
ticket was endorsed.
Messrs. Palmer, Moore and Dively
were appointed to escort Judge Bon
niwell to the hall and the trouble
was soon underway.
Mr.. Dively made the report to the
committee. saying, Il dislike very
much to make a report. We called
on the Judge and he declined to come
here. | do not wish to repeat what
he said. II is not necessary"
Shouts of tell us what he said
were heard in the hall.
Il do not care to. The man has
been badly advised and perhaps he
will" said Mr.. Dively. II have never
been kicker and when the people
decide l go along. / repeat he de-
clines to come here
Motions were made 10 discharge
the committee, but c. II. Aiken,
Lawrence, moved an amendment to
continue the committee so that at a
future meeting the judge may de-
eide to appear.
He will get over ii in time. It's
a beautiful situation we're in" said
Col. Spangler. ITS some party"