Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-20
HOPELESS DEMOCRATS

mony of treatment in the Capltol
Park zone as it affects the city.
HOPELESS DEMOCRATS
"HE Democratic State Commit
tee having been repudiated by
Judge Bonniwell. the Demo-
cratic candidate for Governor. after
it had used every Establishment pos
sible to induce the nominee to ac-
cept its leadership, is now in the po-
sition of being political machine
in an important campaign without
a leading candidate.
This is a very sad state Of affairs
for the Palmer Mccormick crowd,
who had gone even to the length of
stultifying themselves by taking their
| pet prohibition plank out of the
State platform in order to make
peace with Bonniwell, who licked
them hands down, with points to
spare, at the May primaries. This
is going to reflect on the Palmer
Mccormick combination later, DEM
ONIdIS Ii lOII ali VI lhO 0ldISt
commenting upon the lack of cour-
age displayed by the discredited Ma
tional Chairman, who, they said, had
he been truly in favor of prohibi-
ton, would have attended the meet
ing and at least made a fight in IA
vor of dry" recommendation to
candidates not so pronouncedly
wet" as is Bonniwell. Instead, he
stayed away and let Palmer do the
dirty work" of trying to bring the
lilly white" reform element of the
party into close alliance with what
the reorganizers used to call the
"disreputable old Guard"
1t was a fine political scheme, but
how far it missed attainment may
be judged from the statement issued
by Bonniwell shortly after he had
most brusquely declined Palmer's
suave invitation to address the meet
ing at the Board of Trade, where, it
was hoped, he would doff his war
bonnet before the Mccormick throne.
He said:
am not deceived by false
smiles, nor to be betrayed by
hypocritical professions. Il shall
neither deal with nor trust the
committee so controlled. From
the Judas leadership that has de-
feated John J. Casey. Charles N.
Crosby, Robert e. Cresweu and
other distinguished Democrats
and has sought to destroy the
great Democratic districts of Ar
DAN VOL nd Il
Steele, I appeal to the loyal,
honest Democratic workers to re-
organize their counties and once
for all end this vicious, contempt
ible leadership that has fastened
itself like a parasite upon the
fair name of President Wilson,
and whose sole concern is the
peddling of patronage ! seek In
this campaign to fortity the hands
Congressional elections. These
men, by their petty malignity.
have imperiled every Democratic
district in Pennsylvania.
Here we have a candidate willing
to go along without a State Com
mittee and n State Committee with
out a candidate. Mccormick is placed
in the peculiar position of National
Chairman repudiated by the regu-
larly nominated gubernatorial cam
didate in his own State and accused
of conspiring against the success of
the head of the ticket in November
and of jeopardizing the chances of
Democratic Congressional candidates
in this State by the row he has
kicked up over an attempt to main
Af HA
in the face of sharp rebuke at the
polls. He must either come out and
urge the election of the man as Gov
ernor whose candidacy he pro-
nounced IAN insult" to the voters,
stand ready to suffer the conse-
quences nationally of a Democratic
chairman who urges the defeat of a
regularly nominated Democratic can
didate, or skulk silently in his tent
while the battle RACES. Up to this
time he has not had the courage to
take a stand, his personally-con-
Quoted newspaper not even daring to
venture a comment to-day upon the
doings of the State Committee and
Mr.. Bonniwell yesterday.
It's a fine muddle in which the
Democratic bosses of the State find
themselves, and Republicans may be
excused for indulging in laugh or
two at their expense. but the situa-
ton is tragic commentary upon the
self-assumed leadership of the Pal
mer-McCormick crowd and sad re-
Election upon the sincerity of their
prohibition views
Those above recruiting age who
are anxious to do something to helm
end the war in the right way should
get into touch with the recruiting