Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-21
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party. but IL possible to give the
Palmer Mccormick reorganization
faction a dose of its own medicine.
He is getting ready to lay the blame
for his own impending defeat and
the slaughter of Democratic candi-
dates for Congress and the Legis-
lature upon the banded bosses who
have been running the party ma
chine and dividing the federal
patronage pie the last half dozen
years.
| About every four years, generally
two years in advance of a Presi-
| dental election, there is an upheaval
in the Democratic party in Pennsyl-
Nania This is due to the fact that
| men see a chance to get patronage.
1t was what impelled Colonel ]. NJ.
Guffey to plan the rout of the Har-
rity machine whereby he became
leader for years and was likewise
| behind the 1911 schemes of A.
Mitchell Palmer and Vance c. Nc
Cormick, now national committee
man and national chairman of the
Democracy respectively. Now Bonni-
well and Bremen and other leaders
are working to overthrow the present
| bosses so as to be in good shape for
1920. Men with a machine can al
ways make deals with Democrats at
Washington and without an effective
home organization the influence OF
Palmer and Mccormick will soon
wane in national councils.
And it would seem as though Pal
mer and his pals are right in the po-
sition where their enemies have been
trying for four years to get them.
Mccormick bolted the nominee of
his party for Mayor of Harrisburg
and Governor of Pennsylvania when
without official position in his party.
Now he is national chairman and the
man nominated by the Democratic
voters of Pennsylvania for Governor
is not the candidate he wanted.
Moreover, this candidate openly de-
clares his distrust and right on the
eve of a campaign in which defeat
is certain and in which there will
be plenty of opportunities to make
capital.
The manner in which newspa-
pers controlled by or in sympathy
with the Mccormick machine treat
Judge Bonniweu's f1outing of his
party's highest council and his asser-
ton that TO be safe he must run his
own campaign for governor is indiea-
tive of the hole in which they are
placed. They have been uncomfort-
able ever since the morning of May
% when they realized that the
Democrats of the state had refused
TO accept the candidate of the Pal
mer-McCormick machine for COVER
nor and now they have a first class
row on IN their party in the face
- y ~
Republicans, whom they have been
doing their best to split. The Har-
risburg Patriot praises the Dauphin
county state committeeman for re-
fusing to heed the formal request
of the Dauphin county Democratic
committee and the Harrisburg city
committee to support the candidate
for governor in his desire for con-
troll of the works. and sidesteps in
characteristic fashion the situation
in the state-at-large. The Phila-
delphia Record attacks the Palmer
Mccormick leadership as destruc-
tive and the Pittsburgh Post and
ether Democratic papers are taking
their medicine like regular party
organs.
The Bonniwell plans are outlin-
ed in the Record, which calls the
presence of ]. Washington Logue on
the ticket as lieutenant governor "a
liability" and indicates that Henry
C. Niles, rejected in the state COM
mittee for chairman may run the
BonniweH campaign.
The Philadelphia Inquirer says
to-day: "A new one hundred per
cent wet" state ticket, headed by
Judge Eugene c. Bonniwell. who
won the nomination of the Demo-
cratic party at the primaries for the
governorship, is the inevitable out
come of the situation resulting from
the clash of the factions at the Demo-
cratic state committee meeting, ac-
cording to active supporters of Bon
ntwell who returned yesterday from
Harrisburg, where the state COM
mitteemen wrangled and parted in
anger the day before. Bonniwell's
wet supporters had in mind a COM
bination ticket with Senator Edward
E. Beidleman and James F. Wood
ward. the Republican nominees for
lieutenant governor and secretary of
internal affairs, respectively, on a
Personal Liberty ticket, headed by
the Philadelphia judge. but the idea
had to be abandoned when both
Beidleman and Woodward made It
known that they would not allow
their names to appear upon any
ticket which was not headed by Will
liam c. Sproul for governor"
The Record does not talk of
third ticket, but of a committee to
run the Bonniwell campaign without
regard to the state committee. It
says: Friends of Judge Eugene c.
Bonniwell, Democratic nominee for
Governor, began yesterday the pre-
paration of plans for the organiza-
ton of a committee of prominent
state Democrats who will take en-
tire charge of the campaign of the
municipal court judge to be waged
in Pennsylvania from now until No
vember. The Donnelly-PalmerD Dem
ocratic state committee which cast
aside all harmony plans and at
tempted to wreck the party in the
state at the meeting in Harrisburg
on Wednesday, will be ignored Not
only will the Bonniwell campaign
committee ignore the Donnelly-Pal-
mer wrecking crew, but efforts will
be made to reorganize live-wire
county committees in every section.
A state chairman will be selected.
IL was announced yesterday, who will
have the entire confidence os Penn
sylvania Democracy and other men
will be identified with the Bonniwell
campaign who for years have been
leaders of their party"
Leaders of the Democratic state
committee will await movements of
Judge Eugene C. Bonniwell and de-
velopments of his announced plan to
0re ~ l.