Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-12
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By ts,e Ex-Comuitteeman

| conference in Pittsburgh to-day over
! ways and means to make the battle
! for control of the Democratic state
] committee when it meets in Harris
burg a week from to-day. In Phila-
delphia and Washington meetings
are also being held to prevent Judge
Bonniwell from making much head
way.
All signs are that there will be a
big clash at the meeting of the state
committee as the Palmer
| leadership is determined to maintain
| it's grip on the works and while will
! ing to extend Judge Bonniwell the
courtesy of naming his own state
chairman and the right to select his
special committee to collect the cash
for the campaign, is not willing to
let him get hold of the real organ
ization or to dictate the platform.
The Palmer Mccormick crowd is
kbelieved to have control of the new
organization. There are 115 mem
bers of the state committee and fifty
four of the old members, all organ
iZation men, were elected, while In
the comparatively few districts in
which the Bonniwell men had the
foresight to make contests for seats
| there was an even break. With the
force of federal patronage it is be-
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people can hold their grip, unless the
President gets tired of them and
throws some influence to the winner.
The first signs OF the row in
Philadelphia were very apparent yes
terday when Charles p. Donnelly an
nounced that the Philadelphia DEM
ocratic city committee would reor-
ganize favorable to the reelection
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who has been ordered by Bonniwell
to play dead, but who refuses. Bon
niwell is said to be insistent upon j.
j. Breen, his campaign manager, be-
ing chosen city chairman.
The Philadelphia contest may be
followed by one in Allegheny where
the new Guffey machine controls
things and is inclined to resent the
demand of the old Guffey machine
that it get out of business.
The reorganization crowd wants
to maintain the organization head
quarters here and to keep Secretary
Warren VanDyke in office. Mr.. Van
Dyke is one of the original reorgan-
izers and If the job OF secretary
would get into the hands of the Bon
niwell men there would be nothing
else to it but surrender everything.
The position is that while the re-
organization bosses will concede the
chairman they insist on keeping the
rest because as has been pointed out
by some of their leaders, Bonniwell
is only one on a ticket of six, the
signs being that the other five are
reorganizers. The real battle, how
ever, will be on the platform, which
it is said Bonniwell and his partisans
are determined to make wet" and
which Mccormick insists shall not
be wet"
General hopes are expressed
among Republicans that the Repub-
lican factions in Philadelphia will get
their differences composed so that
the state committee can meet in
Philadelphia on Flag Day without
having to stop to clear up a battlez
field first. The Ware committee and
the Alliance are getting almost as
bad as the Democrats.
+ The fact that so many Scranton
people were here yesterday is taken
on Capitol Hill to mean that there
are efforts to collect everything in
sight before next January being
new administration is coming soon
and that the Senate may be leery
about some combinations is making
certain folks stand aloof.
The row between Wilkinsburg's
burgess and the police head will
likely get into court this week.
BY vote of 60 to 16, William
]. Coulter, of Lancaster, was chosen
chairman of the Democratic county
committee. Edward Clark is the de-
feated candidate. The committee,
by an unanimous vote, endorsed the
state and county tickets nominated in
ATorr aN,I oil naF- Of l,A al
administration in waging the war.
They also endorsed the movement
of the Ministerial Association for
a thorough probe of the local prison
conditions.
Moses K. Ely, of Doyl estown,
chief field inspector of the State De-
partment of Health, has been given
notice of his dismissal. Mr.. Ely is
understood to be a friend of Joseph
r. Grundy, the Republican leader of
Bucks county, whose name is enough
to cause harsh words in administra-
ton circles on Capitol Hill, and while
DR.. B. F. Roger, the acting health
commissioner, declared that his dis
missal was for the good of the SER
vice" and that it was carrying out
a request for a resignation asked
by DR.. Dixon over year ago." it is
believed on Capitol Hill that it is
the first of a series of reprisals be-
cause of the rout of the state ad-
ministration forces which backed J.
Denny O'Neil. DR.. Roger declared
to-day that the Governors office
knew nothing about the Ely matter
and that he had acted himself for
the reasons given. However, it was
recalled to-day that the Governor
carved the appropriation for the in
spection service of which Ely is chief
when he acted on bills a year ago
and ever since the Hill has been
waiting for Ely to be dismissed. AS
he has never been active in poll
tics this attitude has always been
ascribed to the antagonism of the
Governor and his partisans to
Grundy.
There are reports to-day that
other men are to go in the Capitol,
including some of the so-called "pi-
vot" men who were to swing the
state for O'Neil and whose reports
are now a cause of irritation in the
Governors Department. These men
were chosen by the state administra-
ton managers for confidential re-
ports. The parade of martyrs from
Capitol Hill is about to begin and
some of them will be marching back
again when certain ones now active
are leaving about the end of next
January.
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