Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-22
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Men high in the councils of the
! reorganization faction of the Demo-
committee and have a majority of
the seven statewide candidates with
them, are by no means disposed to
pass up unheeded the challenge of
their sincerity as party leaders by
Judge Eugene C. Bonniwell, the
Democratic nominee for governor.
They have recovered from the un-
! deniable shock of the nominees re-
fusal to address the state committee
and his attack upon the official heads
of the party organization and in
! tend to take steps to place the judge
in position of refusing an offer of
participation In the campaign.
State Chairman George r. Nc
Lean, who has been in Washington
the last few days, has been in con-
ference with leaders and it is ex-
pected that some men friendly to
the judge and the dominant faction
chiefs will be busy in the next ten
days. The call for the meeting of the
candidates to select a campaign COM
mittee will be deferred until the
| judges temper is ascertained and
there are hopes expressed here that
he will "cool off," as one of the
speakers at the Democratic state
committee phrased it. In the event
that he refuses the candidates will
be called to meet and representa-
tive Democrats from all parts of the
state will be asked here at the same
time so that the meeting will be
more or less of high party council
and the judge by absenting himself
will be in the position of twice f1out-
ing his party leaders and the man
| chosen as chairman by the state
committeeman elected by the Demo-
cratic voters at the primary where
he won his own victory. If the
judge declines to attend this impress
sive meeting there will be another
opportunity given for him to pre-
sent his platform ideas to the reso-
lutions committee. If he refuses 10
accept then the state leaders will
submit their cause to the voters and
wage campaign in behalf of the
state ticket.
Congressman BENJAMIN K.
Focht, of Lewisburg, who is always
vigorous in his Republicanism, has
written a letter full of ginger to a
Waynesboro constituent. who had in
quired of him as to some signs of
the times. The congressman says
in his letter: IT wish to say that
1 am in hearty accord with your
view as to the objects and purposes
of the Democratic party, and that
the only way to Illustrate this de-
sign is to elect Republicans who can
be depended upon to look out for the
business interests of the people who
do business, conserve their earnings
and pay the war bill. The Repub-
lican party must come into power in
1920 as the country's only salvation
covering the reconstruction period.
Broadly speaking, America must be
virtually remade in an economic
way, and to do it right and in a sub
stantial and enduring way, the Re-
publican party, respecting as 1t does
business, vested rights and protec-
ton to labor and all industry, must
be the architect of this new struc-
ture."
The bulk of the newspapers of
Pennsylvania simply regard the row
between Judge Bonniwell and his
break of the perennial Democratic
illness and are inclined to offer
thanks that it has occurred at this
time. The Pittsburgh GaZette-Times
says mo consideration of common
wealth welfare actuated any of those
who engaged in the contest for con-
troll of the party machinery" and
the Philadelphia Public Ledger in a
Washington dispatch says there is
growing impression that the general
policy of the Democratic party this
fall may be wet" which is illumi-
mating when this weeks events are
considered. The Wilkes-Bar Rec
ord declares that Bonniwell's state
ments are of character mot
equaled in all the vicarious fiuctua-
tions of Pennsylvania politics" The
Scranton Republican says the chasm
is mot likely to be bridged over by
any diplomatic negotiations" The
Philadelphia Press has some fun
with the Democrats in its good old
fashioned Republican way and says
Bonniwell will have ito put up with"
Logue, with whom he is reported to
have refused to shake hands. Erie
and Williamsport papers look for a
guerilla warfare all fall and the
Altoona Tribune remarks: And so
Bonniwell wouldn't play with the
reorganizers of his party. What will
you bet that the reorganizers do not
surrender, after all?"
The Philadelphia city commit
tee being bent upon re-electing City
Chairman Lank as desired by Charles
p. Donnelly, Judge Bonniwell will
| ignore that committee as represent
ing Democracy and name his own.
The judge will be in Philadelphia to-
day to arrange for his new state
committee.
The newspapers of the state
which are now Democratically in
clined, are giving thanks to the Re-
publicans for nominating Sproul.
From an American Port
The cautious blue pencil of the CEN
sor is perhaps reflected in the report
of a celebration by the American
colony at Shanghai of the seven
tieth anniversary of the founding of
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