Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-09
PENNA. DELEGATES
OUT FOR PALMER
Post-Mortem Gathering in Guf-
fey's Hotel Suite Held to
Adjust Perspectives
OTHERS SEE SAME LIGHT


Washington. Jan. Swell, it was
a great show"
That about covers the conclusions Of
those Pennsylvania Democrats who were
still here today and most of them were.
They did not get to bed until 3 or 4
o'clock and it was some hours later
before they got wide enough awake to
get up and take nourishment. Then
they limbared up their vocal artillery
and Went at it again.
They thrashed it all over, for they
were all either at the Washington or
Willard. They looked and listened last
night in common with some hundreds of
other Democrats.
Today it wasn't SO much Bryan as
Palmer that they talked. for the Penn
sylvania crowd seems convinced that
the attorney general. whom Joseph f.
| cratic votes from Pennsylvania. is head
ed straight for the Democratic nomina-
ton and election. They are not down
hearted. e.
Guffy Holds Post Mortem
\ few of the regulars flocked to Guf-
fey's suite in the Shoreham about = 30
O'Clock this morning, and devoted an
hour or two thereafter to q post NOR
TEN. They have worked it out that
| Palmer is the logical man for the nomi-
nation and are sticking to it. Their
argument is that he has kept out of
the treaty entanglements and other con
troversics. is right on prohibition, suf-
frage and Americanism and has made
a record in dealing with the problems
of capital and labor and their relation
to the government that cannot be dupli
Gated or criticized.
Robert s. Bright. of Philadelnha. is
one of the most ardent and outspoken
of the Palmer Pennsylvanians. He
circulated continually yesterday and to-
day, always talking Palmer, and found
ready listeners when fellow Pennsylva-
mans were not trying to tell him the
same thing.
Jim Blakslee was one of the inner
circle who foregathcred with Guffey in
the small hours to adjust their per-
spectives. Another was Lawrence
Rupp, of Allentown. Democratic state
chairman. Senator MrAvoy. of Norris
town, was there. w. Wayne Hind
man, former senator, and now prohibi.
ton commissioner. was another.
In addition there We're Joseph
Q Bricn, of Scranton; Fred Obley, of
West Newton; David l.. Lawrence, of
Pittsburgh. and one or two more. 1t
was an alright Palmer crowd, with not
Bryan or McAdoo man on the horizon.
No Anti Palmer Men
In fact, the anti Palmer Democrats
from the state, if there are any, or
were any, have not been in evidence
conversationally or otherwise. 1t looks
unanimous here. although reports have
sifted through that all is not peaceful
fer Palmer in the baliwicks of Messrs.
Bonniwcll, Dewalt and one or two other
Pennsylvanians who claim some connec-
tion with Democratic affairs.
Yesterday, at the Guffey luncheon,
as. Charlie" Donnelly, of Philadelphia :;
Billy" Bremen, Of Pittsburgh, and
others who have not always been of
their present frame of mind with re-
spect to the state organization and
without exception all of them swore in
for Palmer for President.
That was before the speech making
at night, and after that-ask any of
them-there was only one figure in
sight.
Some of the things they are saying
of Palmer today are that he made the
best speech and best impression and got
the greatest ovation of any of the dozen
Democrats who GRATED at their fellow
partisans.
On that score they got an agreement
from a good many Democrats who are
not from Pennsylvania, for there is no
controversy over the abilities of the
attorney general as Il stump speaker.
His speech last night is declared by
his admirers to have been the best he
ever made.
They figure that if it hadn't been
| for Bryan's tender treatment of men
and matters, there would have been
considerably more Palmer for President
talk today outside of the Pennsylvanla
delegation. AS it is, Bryan's bid for
the big headlines seems for the mo-
ment TO have sidetracked everything
else.