Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-28
PaLmer's Machine
Is Carefully oiled
Continued from PAGE Ono

played politics, according to Hoyle, in
the way that ought to throw the per-
centage in their favor, other things be-
ing equal.
For example, at the caucus of the
Pennsylvania delegation there was an
array of Pennsylvania federal oficehold-
efg truly imposing. Not all of them
sat formally in at the session, but they
hovered around the anterooms, urbane
and smiling. watchful and alert in the
interest of the best dispenser of patron
age the Keystone Democracy has had
since the Civil War.
Among them might be mentioned Ro-
land s. Morris, ambassador to japan,
who is explaining to every one that he
Is not here officially but only on a va
cation. There were two United States
marshals, a collector of the port. an
assistant postmaster general, a federal
attorney, a bunch of deputies of various
sorts and many lesser lights on Uncle
Sans payroll who are not Chary about
showing their gratitude to the man who
got them or kept them their jobs. This
is playing at safe politics.
True Admirers Of Palmer
Men like Mr.. Morris. Vance McCor-
mick and Robert 5. Bright are not to be
accused of acting solely in a personal,
selfish way : they are true admirers and
friends of Mr.. Palmer. With him they
fought the good fight in the reorganza =
tion days back in 10l0-1l-l2, when
they succeeded in wrestling the Demo
cratic organization from the hands of
leaders who were dcbaSing it into an
annex of the Republican machine.
But they are not all of this style.
looking large rs ever in the heyday OF
the Colonel James VI. Guffcy days were
some of the shrcwd and two fisted gen
tlemen who are in the game for more
than their health. Some of them sat
In front seats and seemed to be in quite
as high favor as the high minded Nc
Cormfrks. Morriscs and their like. II
made one ,hink Of trying to mix oil
and watrr-U,Scl oil and water to be
more aCc'uR!o.
TnIs orlrgS US to the matter Of liquor
IA point of couvrrgPnce at this con
vcntion---just AS in those others in the
past with the difference that all are
now talking about rum instead Of drink
ins It.
The fare up at the caucus of tn,
Pennsylvania delegation showed clearly
how incongruous a following Palmer ha,
been building for himself. 4 canvas,
Of the delegation by one of the mos
trusted members showed thirty thre,
who admitted that they were drippin.
wet and that their constituents expected
them to take determined stand accord
ingly. This sentiment is registered
strongly from districts in such cOuntie
as Philadelphia, Allegheny, Chester
Schuy kill. Dauphin. Luzerne, Lacka
wanna, Cambria, Blair, Erie, Craw
ford, Elk. BcrkS. Lehigh and West
moreland. Four of the delegates at -larg
are wet also. Yet when it came to
question of declaring fatty for modif
cation OF the Nolstead act by givin
binding instructions to Vance McCOr
mick as representative from Pennsylva
mia only thirteen men voted favOrabl
20 liquor.
Ofi6ially and formally Palmer ha
generally been regarded as a dry. other
wise he would be out of accord wit
his chief friend and supporter, Nj
Mccormick, who is so dry that he or
dered prosperous bars out OF his hotC
property in Harrisburg when he can
into his inheritance some years baCl
McCormick's well-knOwn sentiment
We're tue Ithsou lOI lht outspphtH VI
position Of men like Frank Slattery
OF Wilkes Barre; Thomas II. Greevy
OF Altoona, aud Joseph O'Brien, {
Scranton, to the selection of McCOrmic
for the resolutions committee, althoug
Mccormick. as national chairman !
1916, a member of the war industrit
board and one of the Presidents ad
yisers at Paris during the making Q
the peace treaty, is far and away tn
most distinguished Democrat in Penn
Sylyania today. with the possible excep
tion ot the attorney general, who
probably better known popularity now
lt Ii in holding discordant ana la