Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-25
Yeesbsea S~
Psn~eygsaaia
BY the Ex-Committecman

BY the Ex- Committeeman
People who follow politics in
pennsylvania will be struck with the
coincidence between the announce
ment by Democratic National Com
mittee officers in New York that
the party needs presidential cam
paign war fund of S5,000,000 and
by the Harrisburg postmaster that
the annual convention of the post
masters of Pennsylvania will be held
in Harrisburg the first week in
September. The last convention of
the postmasters of Pennsylvania to
be held in Harrisburg was just be-
fore another presidential election
and some Federal officials were not
at all backward in airing their
opinions of the men who engineered
the gathering and the way that the
postmasters were made to feel they
were the backbone of the financial
end OF the campaign. AT the time
the postmasters' convention was
styled a clearing house for fractional
politics.
1t is only short time ago that
the Democratic State Committee
was caught, and denounced, by the
Philadelphia Public Ledger for send
ing letters calling upon Federal em-
| ployeS in Pennsylvania for contribu-
tons. This practice, which various
| Democratic newspapers calle d
assessment" when Republican or
| carnations did it, was until recently
a handy subject of editorial criticism
! i'll this city.
/ The Philadelphia North Ameri-
can, which has also commented upon
! tho vIgor with which certain Demo-
cratic newspapers used to denounce
! various practices which have become
more or less common in the handling
| of the present Democratic State ma
| chine, says that Congressman w.
| d. Jameson, director of finance of
the Democratic National Committee,
wants $5,000,000 and will take as
| low as $5. incidentally, 1t stated
| that the greatest fund the Demo
Gratis ever had was $2,500,000, con-
tributed in 1916. This is national
| fund. The North American says
/ that Congressman Jameson men
toned as presidential candidates:
President Wilson, in case the League
of Nations is defeated; William G..
McAdoo, Attorney General A. Mitch
ell Palmer, Vice President Thomas
! r. Marshall, Governor Cox, of Ohio;
Senator Davis, of West Virginia, and
others, scattering the preliminary
compliment around pretty gener-
ously. Mr. Palmer is one of those
billed to address the postmasters
here.
The Jameson announcement
will be rather dismal reading for
the postmasters on the eve of their
convention.
1t is also probable that there
will be some sleuthing of the post
masters by men who are studying
the feeling of the Democrats toward
the present bosses of the State ma
chine. The postmasters' convention
will afford Il fine chance to get a
line on how the postmasters feel
toward a third term for Wilson and
whether they like McAdoo or Pal
mer for his successor. For months
the Palmer boom has been on ex-
hibition and some TRUSTEES have been
out sounding sentiment and seeing
what inroads had been made by the
Bonnlwell people. Some of the
postmasters are suspected of Bon
niwell leanings and the postrnasters'
convention will thus give opportu-
| nifty not only for the broaching of
the financial plan for the campaign,
but also to secure feeling of the
people on a third term and whether
Bonniwell has gained much since he
smashed the Palmer Mccormick
! Guffey plans at the primary of 1918.
The Philadelphia Record is out
with statement that Governor Will
liam {. Sproul, who appointed Judge
Joseph P. McCullen, a prominent
Philadelphia Democrat as a Judge,
has given notice that he wants Nc
Cullen elected for the full term. The
Record says that the Wares and in
dependents have both been told of
the Governors desire and that any /
leader who does not turn in for him
will not be welcome visitor at
Harrisburg the remainder of the
! Sproul administration" The Gov
ernor has also let it be known that
| he is not mixing in the mayoralty
fight and that State officials will not
reflect the attitude of the State ad-
ministration.
Politics is warming up both in
Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, where
! the two battles of Statewide impor-
tance are being waged. Congress
man j. Hampton Moore, anti-Vare
candidate for mayor issued state
| ment saturday IN which he attack
ed the business relations of Mayor
Thomas B. Smith and Senator Ed
win II. Ware, pointing out the eX-
tensive bonding business of the
Mayor and the growth of the Ware
business with Philadelphia's CITY
government. 1t was a continuation
of what he had been saying regard
ing Ware and contracts The Phil
adelphia Bulletin devotes an edi-
torial to pointing out that Ware had
McNichol and Porter faded" when
| 1t comes to contracts. The Public
Ledger prints a story that joseph
S. MacLaughlin, the director of sup
plies of Philadelphia, says that
Senator Ware demanded that lucra-
tive fire hose contracts be awarded
to a company headed by Ware lieu
| tenant.
The chances of the Wares hold |
ing back registration in PHILADELPHIA
| tomorrow, which is the first day for
registering, in order to trick their
opponents, is pointed out by the
Philadelphia Press. Other Philadel-
| phia newspapers call attention to
the importance of registration.
Everyone of the PHILADELPHIA ma
! pers is against the Ware ticket.
Congressman P. G. Costello.
who lives in Northeastern Phila.
| delphia, is said to be threatening to
swing in for Moore because of the
refusal of the Wares to slate Rem
resentative James A. Dunn for conn