Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-18
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BY she Ex-Comnitteernan

| not want harmony. They desire the
schism which has existed from the
days when the Palmer-McCormicl
| leadership got control of the ma
chine to continue as more advan-
tageous to both sides than the united
and harmonious party which the
Democratic poets write of and
which nobody believes in.
In the first place the reorganiza-
! ton bosses have control of the state
! committee and are said to have it
| padlocked. They want to keep this
organization and to be able to say
that bold, wicked men are trying to
| take it away and use it for personal
and selfish ends, a tune which has
| proved very remunerative when used
as trumpet call. On the other hand
the Bonniwell faction, which landed
one of the six places on the state
| ticket by means of surprise attack
when the Palmer er-McCormick lead
ers were complacently looking out
of the window, insists that the vote
| by which Bonniwell was nominated
| shows that the Democracy is tired
| OF the reorganization bosses and that
it is popular demand for surren-
der of the control to the judge. AS
| the bosses have a different view of
the situation they will refuse to play
dead and the Old Guard will be re-
vived as the corps which is trying to
right the peoples wrongs and to
| chastise the men who are using the
Democracy as a stepladder to Fed
eral patronage and power.
Officers at Democratic state
headquarters who have been engag-
ed for the last two days going over
the reports regarding claims of the
Bonniwell faction to-day reiterated
their contention that it would not
be possible for the gubernatorial
nominee and his friends to make a
dent in the state organizations lines.
Warren VanDyke, secretary of the
state committee, declared to-day
that at least eighty and maybe more
of the state committeeman would be
found to be stalwarts.
The arrival of Judge Bonniwell,
who was at Shamokin last night, is
being awaited with interest as it is
expected that he will have a confer
ence of his friends and arrange
about the meeting in the courthouse
at which he is to present his plat
form. This platform is understood
to have been remodeled in the last
twenty-four hours. William ]. Bren-
nen, the veteran Pittsburgh leader,
was one of the early arrivals and re-
marked that things looked favorable
for IAN old-time Democratic gather
ing" Mr.. Brennan has figured in
many interesting Democratic events.
State Chairman Joseph +. Cuff
fey will not be here until Z o'clock
tonight and National Committed
man A. Mitchell Palmer will not ar
rive until 10 o'clock tonight. No
one seems to know whether National
Chairman Vance c. Mccormick will
be here tonight or tomorrow. The
general attitude of the leaders of
the reorganization faction appears
to be let the other side make a
showing tonight.
Close to a score of men elected
members of the Prohibition state
committee without their knowledge
and in spite of the fact that they
have been active in affairs of Re-
publican or Democratic parties have
withdrawn as members, declining to
accept the elections. When the re-
turns for election of state commit
teemen were entered in the records
of the Secretary of the Common
wealth it was found that a number
of men had been elected to the
Prohibition and Socialist commit
tees by the scattering votes. In many
cases they had less than ten votes.
Oldl6 ClldlI lldil d. II. L. IIuSH, VI
the Prohibition state committee,
wrote letters to the men elected to
his committee who were not mem
bers of the party asking that they
forward Withdrawals Where the
Withdrawals were filed the members
of the party in the proper districts
will elect successors.
From all accounts the appoint
ment of Edward j. Fox, the noted
Eastern lawyer and banker as JUS
tice of the Supreme Court of Penn
sylvania to succeed the late Justice
S. Leslie Mestrezat seems to have
won general approval, except, of
course, among Western Pennsylva-
mans who can hardly be expected
to see two seats held by jurists from
west of the mountains conferred
upon men who live by the Delaware.
Some of the well-posted men say
that they consider Mr.. Fox as a man
upon whom all factions of the DEM
ocrats can unite, rather unusually
qualified citizen. The Governor was
not bound to name Democrat, al
though there is fiction to that eff
| feet, but he chose to follow the ira
dition and named a man from the
Democratic citadel or Northampton
regions, which were formerly Demo-
cratic. If the Democratic factions
support Justice Fox he may be elect
ed to the full term of twenty one
years in November. There will be
| two justices to be elected. Each
voter may vote for only one.
| 1T seems to be taken for granted
that there will be opposition to JUS
tice Alexander Simpson. Jr. The
name of Superior Court Judge John
w. Kephart has been heard as a
/ likely opponent as well as Judge
George Kunkel, of this county The
Democrats have half a dozen candi-
dates in the field.
Meetings of Republican county
committees throughout the state ap-
pear to have been as harmonious as
the meeting of the state committee
in Philadelphia. Reports indicate
general satisfaction with the ticket
and preparations for an active cam
paign in the fall.
The Lawrence County Republi.
can committee was re-organized at
a harmonious meeting on Saturday
at New Castle. S. Elmer Crawford
county prothonotary and clerk of
courts, was elected to succeed w. A
Eakin, who has been chairman for
the last two years. Attorney Harvey
f. Martin was elected secretary. and
A. C. Hyde, treasurer. The "drys"
control the committee. All Repub-
lican candidates were indorsed. The
immediate ratification of the Pro-
hibition amendment was also asked