Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-24
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By the Ex-Committccman

From all accounts quite formid-
able movement is being started by
the Bonniwell faction of the Penn
sylvania Democracy to take from
Attorney General A. Mitchell Pal
mer his peacock feathers of leader
snip in the party and the prelimi
nary bouts in the big contest will
be staged in number of the coun
ties this fall. Already candidates
Tor county nominations which the
machine element thought that they
mad all arranged have appeared and
: there will be struggles Sr control
OF most of the county committees
and the city committee of the DEM
ocracy in the State.
! Bonniwells partisans, with whom
are allied number of men who fell
out with Palmer. Mccormick, Joe
Gufey and other leaders of the re-
organization faction, disappointed
othceseekers and others who have
no love for the men who are in
power nave the advantage of a good
organization built up in the primary
campaign last year when Guffev
was defeated for the nomination for
governor. The first move was the
can by Bonniwell for all Federal
ofilceholders and Democrats gener-
aliy to refuse to contribute to the
democratic State Committee.
Another situation which bids fair
TO make trouble in the Democracy
is aoolltion of the Lancaster revenue
district and the retention of the
scranton district which was put
PACK on earth a few years after
haNlng been suspended because it
was not needed. The Lancaster
aoolltlon has resulted in a storm of
protests from almost every county
IN the affected district, some of
them being sent to Palmer, McCor-
mick and other leaders asking them
TO use their influence to restore the
dlstrlct and in other instances con-
abolished.
Revenue Collector Ben Davis, a
faithful bat carrier for the Palmer
Mccormick element in years gone
ny, is indignant at the summary
aoolltlon of the Office and in a state
neht confirms the story printed in
TINS column some months ago that
thefe was an effort under way to
move the headquarters to York. At
that time the machine organs and
the Lancaster Democrats said that
such a thing could not be possible. |
Davis says that il was attempted. |
out mat he blocked it.
The Philadelphia Evening Bull
letln Is viewing the Democratic row
with much amusement. 1t saws
edltorially: ''As there is no State |
campaign in PENNSYLVANIA this wear
1t does look as if the organization |
end of the Democratic party is ex-
hloiting much more than an ordi- |
nary amount of nerve in passing |
around the hat, although its most |
lnTuehtlal managers are usually dis !
posed to insist that assessments are |
vices of which they mean to rid |
politics in these days of the uplift !
and the new freedom. But how
ever that may be, it is plain enough |
that the Democratic party No. 1, un- |
der Palmer and Mccormick, and |
Democratic party No. 2, under Bon |
nlwell' are still as many miles apart |
from each other as they were last |
year, and that Bonniwell, at least.
mas lost none of his skill with the |
brick-bat"
The editorial from the South
Bend newspaper quoted elsewhere
shows that the nonpartisanfetish has
waned even in the Middls West
where it was hailed as the great
remedy for all ills. Experience in
Indiana seems to have been much
the same as in Pennsylvania.
The Philadelphia mayoralty is
commanding much attention in the
newspapers of that city. The Eve
ming Bulletin says editorially: mo |
heroes or geniuses are needed-only
a eVel-headed man of experience
and character who will have a fee
simple in the ownership of himself"
The Ledger and the Press devotes
space to much of the same kind of
thought, using the refusal of Frank
lin Spencer Edmunds TO be a can
didate and his statement of qualif-
cations mayor should have as a
text. The Inquirer says that there
is a possibility of Congressman ].
Hampton Moore being a candidate
and that David Martin and David
H. Lane will likely swing in for him
II he does decide to run. The In
qulrer says that the Ware people
are split between w. Freeland Kend-
rick and Judge John NJ. Patterson.
Indiana, Latrobe and Greenville
are now first class post Offices.
The Scranton Times says: 1.-TWO
physicians Drs. viii
liam Nealon, of Archibald. and
George Edmunds, with Offices in
Mayfeld. and in this city, are to
make the run for the Democratic
for Coroner. DR.. Nealon
who is blind, took out his petition
y yesterday. He made a great fight
for tho Democratic nomination for
representative in the Fifth district
several years ago, losing by but a
few votes"
Two contestants with Mayor
Kits for the Democratic nomina-
ton We're mentioned yesterday.
Frank d. Schultz, ex-assemblyman.
was reported to have been offered
the support of an anti-Kitts faction.
Edward j. Davy, former resident of
Cleveland, obtained petitions which
he Will file for the Democratic sun
port. Davy, says the Erie Dispatch.
lives in Erie, and is employed in
Cleveland. 1t also says: II c,
Williams, clerk to the county com
and former city treasurer
and candidate for mayor, was men
toned as a Republican candidate
This suggestion was not taken SER
iously."