Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-12

| ing Michael ]. Ryan," he continues,
"and every other person in his pre-
tended conversation, did he conceal
the name of Senator Underwood!
Why does he cloak it behind a
prominent statesman not from Penn
sylvania, except that even in his
cowardice he dare not tell all the
| truth?
"The charge of my being on the
Republican payroll is absolutely
false. 1 have not met, heard from or
communicated with Senator PenroSe
in any shape or form since the great
Town Meeting battle of last fall,
when he united with the other inde-
pendent citizens of Philadelphia in
an attempt to overthrow the corrupt
local machine"
Bonniwell says his refusal to ad-
dress the state committee followed
it's "contemptuous election of a
chairman unfriendly to me, the lead
er of a faction, who had assisted in
the defeat of John ]. Casey, Demo-
cratic congressman from Luzerne.
The sole purpose of that election was
to make sure that no aggressive cam
paign would be waged in my be-
half. All this was taken as notice
to me that Palmer meant to be
treacherous, as he has since proved
himself to be"
Bonniwell then denies that the
third party movement which brought
forth the Fair Play party was to
defeat Congressman friendly to the
national administration. and says
every candidate was invited to have
his name on the ticket excepting Lo-
que, the nominee for lieutenant gov
ernor, and Asher, the candidate Tor
lnfarnll
declined to cooperate with him.
Bonniwell next reopens the scan
dals of the gubernatorial campaign
of 1910 and says Palmer was one of
the tools of the Republican bosses;
that he met with ]. K. P. Hall and
others in the Bellevue-Stratford Ho-
tel ten days before the Allentown
convention when the slaughter of
c. La Rue Munson, candidate for
governor, was determined upon, and
the degradation of the party
brought about"
For his servility," says Bonniwell,
"he received from j. K. P. Hall a
check to the order of the Bellevue
Stratford Hotel Company in the sum
of S500-a check which he subse-
quently, under date of June II,
1910, requested Senator Halls per-
mission to use in the fall campaign
to aid in his election. The money
so paid to him was never accounted
for"
He also accuses Palmer of falsify-
ing his expense accounts in 1912
when he failed to report a contribu-
ton of $3.50 when he ran for Con-
gress.
That he has deceived a host of his
own supporters throughout Pennsyl-
vania," declares Bonniwell, every
committeeman can bear witness to,
and this attack, wanton, treacher-
Gus and base as it is, was not full
minated because of anything that
Sinnott said to him, but is because
of the facts:
"G) That I have never bent my
knee to this arrogant, selfish boss.
"(2) That I interferred with his
patronage distribution"
Bonniwell then recites the story
of the recent removal of Joseph w.
Howley, U. S. marshal for Western
Pennsylvania, who supported his
candidacy for governor, and who
was ousted from office although he
had the backing of many of the in
fluential men in that section of the
state.
"(3) Because Mccormick, multi
millionaire, not, indeed by his own
brains, but by inheritance and Pal
mer subserVient agent of the cor
porations, have an interest in COM
mon with the capitalistic and corpo-
rate combinations that have domi-
mated Pennsylvania. On the floor of
Congress A. Mitchell Palmer was
publicly denounced by the Hon. John
R. Farr, of Lackawanna county, as
a tool of the corporations. He has
represented corporations all his life
wherever he could; and his co-part-
ner, Mccormick, domineering and
selfish, has both the instincts and
the brutality of great capital. Nc
Cormick, when mayor of Harrisburg,
vetoed a petty raise of one and two
thirds cents an hour to the laborers
of Harrisburg, declaring that fifteen
cents per hour was higher than the
average wage paid by other employ
ers,' and that the wages now paid
seem to be perfectly satisfactory"
He removed the union label from
the Harrisburg Patriot the day he
bought it. He has been an enemy of
labor all his life, and Palmer the tool
of corporations.
"I have allied myself with the peo-
pie from whom I sprung, with the
people who toll, and have committed d
myself, without invocation, to the
tull crew ana TO the OIner measures
of social justice that labor is justly
entitled to. These two allies of capt.
talistic greed find it necessary to
make a common interest with the
Republican manufacturers of Penn
sylvania, in order to defeat my candi-
dacy and re-establish the reign of
corporate control in this great state.
The treachery of these two men is
no novelty in their record. McCor-
mick has never supported any Demo
crat in all his life, unless he selected
him, and his paper has been the
scurrilous critic of all men who incur
the displeasure of this petty tyrant
"He was publicly pilloried in the
Senate of Pennsylvania on Wednes-
day, May 21. 1918, by Edward e
Beidleman, state senator from his
own district. and I quote his Ian
guage: 7 have in my possession
copies of the aff1davits which were
made to support every contention
that I am now asserting on the floor
of this Senate. He (Vance c. Nc
Cormick) went to that mans Office
for the purpose of ascertaining how
many purchasable votes there were
in this city, in order that the finan-