Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-06
DEMOCRATS TO
FINISH STATES
Prominent Bosses Will An
nounce Candidates For
Congress-at-Large

Democratic state bosses. while dis
appointed at the very lukewarm re-
ception given TO the announcement
of the Observation-Disclosures can
didacy of Acting State Chairman
Joseph r. Guffey for the Democratic
nomination for Governor intend to
lose no time in framing the rest of
the state slate. The fact that the
wet" Democrats, the Old Guard,
the perennially insurgent Democrats
and the fellowship of disappointed
office seekers have not shown signs.
of taking to the warpath against
Guffey is regarded throughout the
state with mingled suspicion and de-
rision. incidentally. some unbiased
observers say that it is a comph-
ment to the thoroughness of the re-
organized machine. While the ma
chine may start to squeak in some
joints and some of the cogs get out
of whack during the campaign the
preliminaries seem to have been run
by the bosses in the most approved
manner.
Guffeys candidacy was framed up
at Washington. although the bosses
learned their lesson from 1914 and
did not announce their meeting. They
held a talkfest at Philadelphia and
barring some strategic silence fol-
lowing the demand for Mccormick
and the disregard of Guffey as big
timber have managed things pretty
we'll thus far. They did the work at
! Washington with wartime secrecy
and then told the rank and file about
it. The rest of the Democratic slate
is about due. 1t now includes j.
Washington Logue, Philadelphia, for
Lieutenant Governor; Asher K.
Johnson, Mexican, for Secretary of
Internal Affanrs; ]. Calvin Strayer,
York, and S. r. Tarner, Allegheny,
for Congress-a Large. Two more
are to be slated.
The Prohibitionists having framed
their slate in February, the Repub-
licans are the only ones left and
| they must go to the primaries. Ow-
ing to the row in Philadelphia over
| the vice conditions and attacks the
Independents are making on the city
administration, it looks as though
the Wares were going to be busy al
home and will not attempt to en-
! dorse a state ticket right away.
( The Philadelphia Record says to-
| day: THE Republican City Commit
! tee will hold a meeting Monday
afternoon at o'clock in the head
quarters at Eleventh and Chestnut
streets, at which it is likely that a
complete Congressional. Senatorial
and legislative ticket for the entire
city will be indorsed. The state
! ticket will not be discussed, accord
| ing to leaders of the Ware faction
but will be taken up at a subsequent
meeting. The committee, it was said
yesterday, would indorse the entire
present Congressional delegation
| from Philadelphia for reelection
| There had been rumors that the
Ware forces would oppose Congress
man George S. Graham in the Sec
ond district, but it was announced
yesterday that petitions for Mr.
Graham's candidacy were being cir.
culated by the City Committee"
Concerning the Kunkel decision oi
yesterday the Philadelphia Pres
says: The Town Meeting leader
had not made up their minds las
night exactly what the decision
meant to them. On the one hant
there was the belief that, in estab
fishing them as a party, the decision
would keep them out of any. othel
j party, which would mean that the,
could not vote in the primaries a
i Republicans. On the other hanC
there were those who said tina
though the decision created the righ
to their own primary, it did not es
tablish the necessity of their holding
such primary This was apparent,
the majority view, backed up by th
assertion that as the Town Meetinl
party was established after the las
primary election, it's voters were al
enrolled as Republicans and ther
was nobody enrolled as Town Meet
ing party adherent.'