Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-28
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and. this time the men who rode in
to power on a demand for purifica-
ton of their party would furnish the
reorganizing material. 1t is seven
years since A. Mitchell Palmer and
the coterie lined up with him got
control OF the party machinery on
representation from group of DEM
ocratic congressman who were afraid
OF getting defeated when the next
election came around and the meth
ods they adopted furnished talk
among the party leaders for many a
oay And now the same leaders
nave been repudiated at a primary
election by the methods which are
recognized as final the world over.
from all accounts partisans of
Judge Eugene c. Bonniwell are just
waiting until the returns are all IN
on the nomination for lieutenant
governor to start something and all
signs are that National Committee
man Palmer, who ''swore in for
Bonniwell on Sunday, is trying 20
head off something. The situation
is that the reorganization bosses have
control OF the party machinery, the
state committee and the headqua--
sefs, all of the things of which they
dispossessed the old Guffey-Dewalt
regime in 1911 and to which they
got title in the last Democratic state
convention in 1912. but Judge Bon.
niwell is the party standard-bearer
ny virtue of a thorough trouncing
by the Democratic rank and file of
the candidate of the reorganizers, Jo-
seph F. Guffey. Under such condi-
tions a man chosen by the people ma
turally may insist upon the party
machinery being handled by men in
sympathy with him.
The Democratic state committee
meets in June and it will be interest
ing to see who follows Palmer into
the Bonniwell triumphal procession.
The signs are that Judge Bonni-
Wen Will inaugurate his campaign
Tor purihcation of the Democracy
py throwing out the present Phila-
delphla Democratic city committee
posses. He will probably ask that
B. Gordon Bromley the old city
chairman, who was so distasteful TO
the Palmer Mccormick regime, be
put in charge of the organization
again. The Philadelphia Record, the
plg Democratic organ OF the state,
mas this to say about the matter:
me city situation, from Democra-
TIC point of view, is strikingly similar
TO the predicament in which the Sc
called state leaders ind themselves.
NO effort was made to wrest control
or the state committee from the Pal
mer-McCormick outfit, but already
Judge Bonniwell has been urged to
also take up the Pennsylvania lead
ership and procure the selection of
an active state chairman who could
lead a united party. Disguised over
the miserable showing made by the
Palmer Mccormick candidate, the
rank and file of the party favors a
bonnlwell man 10 succeed Joseph f
Gutey, acting chairman of the state
committee. 1t is planned to open a
state headquarters branch in this
city and an active Democrat will be
placed in charge. 1t is regarded as
highly significant that hundreds of
democrats who supported Guffey last
tuesday are now working in the
interest OF complete reorganizations
OF the city and state committees"
The Democratic bosses are meet
ing at Washington this week on a
hunt for convenient place to aIight
a1ter soaring around with many
promises to the President and much
work by the Market Square wind
mill calling attention to the wonder
tul nature of their exploits-before
the recent primary. The Philadel-
phia committee will meet next week.
On the other hand the results
OF the Republican primary were so
decisive in the majority of cases that
very little is being heard. Senator
Sproui Is going away for a rest and |
me O'Neil committee is paying its
bills. The Governor has not spoken
and men aligned with his faction are
lining up for the ticket.
Sheriff H. c. Ransley will heal
the Republican committee in Phil |
adelphia again.
-Forest county went dry" yes
tterday, making fourteen dry" coun-
ties.
Representative bill" Davis. of
Cambria county, one of the wet" /
leaders, not only got Republican re-
but took a Democratic /
as well.
Friends of Judge w. D. Porter
say that he will have opposition on
the Superior Court ticket unless Ste
phen H. Huselton files a formal with
drawal. Huselton's vote in spite of |
his retirement from the race is so !
large due to failure to properly in |
form the people that he had quit. |
that Judge Porter may not be the
sole nominee. In Perry county, for
instance, Huselton carried the coun- !
ty.
Some nervousness is being mani |
tested on Capitol Hill over reports
that Justice Alexander Simpson, Jr..
may be opposed for election to the |
supreme Court for the full term in |
and this may cause Gov |
ernor Brumbaugh to find out how
Democrats feel in regard to the sue
cessor to Justice Mestrezat instead of
a Western Pennsylvania Re-
publican. There have been reports
persistent here that Judge George
of Harrisburg, c. LaRue
Munson, of Williamsport, and Judge
Gustave A. Endlish, of Reading, are
being urged by friends to run and
Munson nomination papers are rum
ored in circulation. What is also dis
turbing the state administration men
is the report that Superior Court
Judge John w. Kephart will be a
candidate. The judge is keeping his
own counsel and worrying Capitol
Hill by doing it.
The Philadelphia Ledger to-day
says: "olitical circles were eagerly
debating yesterday report that Will
liam j. McNichol, who was named at
the primary election to succeed his
father, the late Senator James F.
McNichol, would withdraw and that
Representative John r. K. Scott
would be substituted to give the
Wares a floor leader in the Senate.
The nominee denied there was any
thing to the story. He said he had
heard nothing about it, and added:
Mr.. Ware has never spoken to me
about anything of the sort. I don't