Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-29
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BY the Ex-Committeeman

From all accounts Judge Eugene
c. Bonniwell, Democratic candidate
for Governor. does not intend to
merely rest upon the letter issued on
behalf of his ambitions to dominate
the Democratic organization as we'll
as run for Governor and will make
a series of visits during August to
counties where he believes that he
can make tronble for the bosses OF
the machine. The judge has been sit
ting back awaiting action from the
call to arms, which thus far has
failed to elicit any response from
the national committeeman from
Pennsylvania or his partner in the
machine, the national chairman.
Democratic state headquarters has
no word as yet about dates for COM
mittee meetings and is awaiting fur
ther instructions about who is to be
the acting chairman while State
Chairman George R. Mclean is at
war.
Discussing the row in the Penn
sylvania democracy, now so dis
united and inharmonious, The In
slider" says in the Philadelphia
| Press: In the Democratic ranks
| opposed to Judge Bonniwell there is
an apparent disposition to let the
coming campaign go by default
Some of the important men will not
be active in the state at all. Vance
| c. Mccormick and A. Mitchell Pal
mer, the titular leaders of the party,
are engaged in very important war
work in Washington-in fact, this
state of affairs was largely respons-
ible for Judge BonniwelIs victory in
i'the primaries. Only recently. as
mentioned above, Joseph f. Guffey
withdrew from the scene and State
Chairman Mclean went into the
Army. Other men of prominence in
the party are about to enter various
| phases of war work. The result will
be a free field for Judge Bonniwell
to great extent If these adminis-
tration men had had their way, he
| never woud have been the candidate.
but now that he is at the head of the
ticket and they feel pretty sure he
has been defeated in an attempt
they impute to him of getting con-
troll of the party machinery, they
have little additional interest in the
situation, because they cannot sin
cerely go out on the stump and ad-
vocate his election
The Philadelphia Record has
this from Norristown: so confident
are the Montgomery county support
srs of Judge Bonniwell, candidate
| for Governor, of an independent
party movement throughout the
state looking to the selection of a
Lieutenant Governor nominee in
harmony with the judges views on
sumptuary legislation, that -hey
have begun the preliminaries rela-
tive to the new entity here. The
| plan is to place in the field a ticket
of which the judge shall be the head
| and well-known Democrat who en-
| tertains the ideas of Jeffersonian
| doctrine with regard to the issues of
| liquor license and prohibition as his
| running mate" The Inquirer and
7 other papers look for a concerted ef-
| fort to drive j. Washington Logue
off the ticket as second place can
| didate.
A Pottsville dispatch to the In
| quirer says: Some Democrats are
| deserting Bonniwell because of his
| independent course in the selection
of a state chairman. The leaders of
the county Democrats are made UP
| of postmasters and revenue officers
and other appointees of the federal
| administration, and they generally
! follow the dictation of the Palmer
Guffey wing of the party, who hold
| the reins of the state organization.
Bonniwell's stand is antagonizing the
Democrats of this county in which
that party is dominated by the regu-
lars, and they are deserting him by
| the scores. Schuylkill will poll a
record-breaking vote for Sproul."
To-day the racket over regis
trars will start in Philadelphia and
1t seems that Penrose men are wait
ing to see what action will be taken
I,nsv I.,A
visions registrars before they make
another move for a report upon
their claims by the city committed
The proposition to have the Repub-
lican state committee petitioned to
intervene in the interest of the can
| 0idates on the Republican state
| ticket is still under consideration and
may be acted upon before the end
of this week. No date has been fixed
! for the meeting of the committees
| of the Republican state committee
the committee.
| Lee Ellmaker, former Iegisla-
| tive correspondent, connected with
the Philadelphia Press, and for the
past two or three years Congressman
| Vare's secretary here and in Wash
ington. enlisted in the Navy as an
| apprentice seaman in the radio SER
vice. Mr.. Ellmaker was busy yes
| terday explaining how he did it and
only satisfied his friends when he
made it known that the surgeon gen.
eral had granted him a waiver on
weight, which is above the figure set
by regulations.
Illness of State Chairman Will
liam +. Crow has demonstrated how
popular he is in the state. From
every county there have been in
quiries about him and general graft
fication that he is on the way to re-
| covery.
Senator william c. Sproul will
return from Virginia this week. He
has met Senator Penrose and q num-
ber of prominent Republicans at the
resort the last few days.
The Smith administration seems
| to have put r. r. Gudehus into the
place in the recreation department
in Philadelphia in spite of protests.
The storm is not over, however.
Ships to Stdgger Imagination
Mr.. schwab is back from the
West. In. short time. says he, the
ship tonnage output will reach 500,-
| 900 or 500, 900 tons a month When