Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-12
CHARGES PALMER
SOLD OUT PARTY
Got $500 for Part in 1910
Campaign, Says Reply
of Bonniwell
WON'T HEED COMMITTEE
Democratic "Wet" Candidate
Will Ignore Summons of
Body

Judge Eugene Bonniwell. Democratic
gubernatorial candidate, will not appear
before the Democratic State Committee
in Harrisburg Saturday.
He intimated this yesterday in n reply
to the attacks made upon him recently
by A. Mitchell Palmer. Federal allen
property custodian. The committee
meeting in Harrisburg will consider the
matter of repudiating Judge Bonniwell
as the Democratic candidate for Gov
ernor.
! Judge Bonniwell's statement was
bitter denunciation of Mr.. Palmer and
| Vance c. Mccormick. He declared both
are ''discredited, selfish leaders"
Z Accusing Palmer of having falsifed
| campaign expense accounts and of
having betrayed the Democratic party
and Democratic candidates, Judge Bon
| niwell denied every accusation made
| against him by the alien property GUS
todian. He l1sld Mccormick up as an
"implacable foe of labor and domineer-
ing and selfish capitalist
| Mentions Senator Underwood
Senator Oscar w. Underwood. of Ala
hbama, was named by Judge Bonn,well
as the man who arranged the meeting
between Mr.. Palmer and John Sinnott.
/ out of which grew Palmer's charges
! against Bonniwell.
{ why, when this purist was smirching
| the character of Michael ]. Rya,, and
| every other person in his pretended con-
! versation, did he conceal the name of
Senator Underwood? Why does he
cloak it behind "A prominent statesman
not from Pennsylvania except that
even in his cowardice he dare not tell
all the truth?" said Bonniwell.
Judge Bonniwell prefaced his state
| ment with his reasons for entering the
| fight for the Democratic nomination
! against Joseph NJ. Guffey. of Pittsburgh,
who was the Palmer Mccormick candi-
date.
Regarding Saturdays meeting in Har-
risburg, Judge Bonniwell said
"A servile committee seeks to indorse
his (Palmer's) action and has the eff
frontery to summon me to appear before
! a packed and prejudiced body to answer
charges which, when read. fall Of their
own weight"
1.-The whole knowledge that I possess
of the Sinnott-Palmer meeting" said
Judge Bonniwell, Consists of state.
ment by John Sinnott to me. following
this meeting which he declared was ar
ranged for by Senator Oscar Underwood
of Alabama. Palmer's personal friend
"a man unknown to me except by rep.
utation.
Mr.. Sinnott anne to me and stated
that he had had this meeting. and that
Palmer desired to meet me in New York
the following week to discuss the ques
ton of the State committee and the man.
agement of the campaign. and had re-
quested him (Sinnott) to arrange fol
such a meeting. This request I fatty
refused, for 1 have never trusted A
Mitchell Palmer in any matter
THE charge of my being on the Re.
publican payroll is absolutely false.
have not met, heard from or cpmmuni
Gated with Senator Penrose in any
shape or form since the great Towr
Meeting battle of last fall. when he
united with the other independent citi.
, zens of Philadelphia in an attempt tc
overthrow the corrupt local machine"
Blames Palmer for 1910
Near the conclusion Of his state
! ment Palmer says: 1T is 1910 ovel
again, only more boldly conceived ant
more cleverly executed Truly 1t Il
1910 over again; and on that memor
able occasion when he declares tina
the Republican boss. with the help o
his tools who masquerade as Demo
Gratis, nullified the will of the voters
he speaks of his own personal and init
mate knowledge. A. Mitchell Paine
was one of the tools and conspirators
He met with Senator J. X. p. Hall Il
r the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel. Philadel
phia, ten days before the Allentowl
convention. at which time the slaughte
!. of Munson was determined upon an
the degradation of the party brough
. about. For his servility he receive
from ]. X. p. Hall check to the orde
I of the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel Compan
!, in the sum of $500-a check which h
! subsequently. under date of June II
. 1910, requested Senator Halls per1nis
: sion to use in the fall campaign to al
: in his election. The money SO paid t
him was never accounted for. The &C
count which he filed contained no state
ment of this sum of money.
mot only did he falsify his expens
account in 1910, but he falsified it agai
, in 1912. The account Of Samuel Kunle
- treasurer of the Democratic State com
mittee, shows a payment to Harry I
e Kutz Of $3.50 on November 81, 1912. a
d chairman of the Twenty-sixth Congress
!. sional District of Pennsylvania. Kut
: did not account for this money. Upo
n challenge, he asserted he had paid tn
D money to A. Mitchell Palmer Th
: declaration Of Palmer. when cornereG
d was: 1T was not accounted for by m
: In my account for the simple reason tina
r 1t was received after my account wa
filed. although filed my account a
Washington on the last day allowed b
law"
Judge Bonniwell asserts that the at
tack upon him was launched because h
,, has refused to bend his knee befor,
this arrogant, selfish boss and also be