BON NIWELL BRANDS PALMER FA ATTACKS McCORMICK L Says They Betrayed Democratic Party and That National Chairman and National Committeemen Have Stooped to All Manner of Disreputable and Dishonor able Practices in Politics; Denies Charges In a vitriolic, but lengthy state ment, Judge Eugene C. Bonniwell, Democratic candidate for Governor, yesterday made reply to A. Mitchell Palmer, the Democratic national committeeman from Pennsylvania, who at the recent meeting of the state committee labeled Bonniwell as the choice of the liquor interests and repudiated his candidacy and called upon his colleagues to do likewise. Bonniwell brands Palmer as a liar, "a malignant corporate and Presi dential parasite," "a falsifier of cam paign expense accounts," and Pal mer's political partner, Vance C. McCormick, the Democratic national chairman, he accuses of traitorous action toward Democratic nominees and of being a beneficiary of a great corruption fund when he ran for mayor of Harrisburg. He styles the two patronage "peddlers" and di rectly charges that "the vindictive Palmer and the arrogant McCor mick" determined "to attempt my destruction, regardless of party suc cess or of the wanton assault upon character." . Welcomes the "Repudiation Judge Bonniwell concludes his statement with these words: "I welcome the repudiation. I have no desire for the support of two such men. I have always believed in Amer icanism—the rights of the individual. These men believe in no man s rights save their own. I have believed that this country offered equal oppor tunity to all men, no matter what their faith or race might be. But when I am attacked by a man who himself suported the treason of 1910, who accepted money from J., K. P. Hall and failed to account for| it; who took the money of Harry D. Kurtz and again falsified his account: j who has capitalized his associations j with our great President into fees of many thousands of dollars: whose conduct in the International Lum ber case was a matter gravely reflecting upon the administration of justice; who does not hesitate to-day to represent oil interests, white slavers, or any other thing that comes within his purview; and who has never kept faith with friend or foe in politics—l am justified in sub mitting these facts for the consider ation of fair men. "I shall not again answer or refer to the slimy attacks of these men who wish to destroy this chance for the redemption of Pennsylvania. Let them go forth to join hands with the Prohibition candidate on the Repub lican tacket; they belong there. "The Democratic party, relieved of the incubus of the arrogant, selfish incompetents that have wrecked its chances of success in two President ial campaigns and a great state cam paign. can now align itself in the great issue of whether the masses of the people of Pennsylvania are to be ruled by fanatics and their per sona! liberty taken away from them at a time when they are bending their energies, sacrificing their efforts and devoting their savings to the making of the word safe for demo cracy." , , Judge Bonniwell prefaces his state ment with a decaration that he had hoped to have a campaign free from "the scurrilous and undignfied meth ods that have characterized so many campaigns in Pennsylvania and in his candidacy he ignored all collateral issues and appealed for the nomina tion upon "the fundamental prin ciple of opposition to sumptuary leg islation." „ "The Democracy of Pennsylvania, he continues, "rejecting my oppo nent —who supported national pro hibition and who was supported by all of the power of the federal pat ronage in the state —by a decisive majority designated me to hold their standard. It had been :ny desire to conduct the general campaign upon the same plane as marked the pri mary. Facing an opponent of high personal character and ability, there should be no occason for villification, abuse or slander." Continuing, he says the issue be fore the people is one of the rights of the states and of personal liberty, but "a discredited leader repudiated at the primaries by his own ward, county and Congressional district, seized upon an opportunity afforded by a state committee, a large number of whose members have persistently engaged with him since my nomina tion in an attempt to thwart the choice of a majority of Democrats of the state and promulgated an alleged conversation which he says he had with John Sinnott, president of the Wholesale Liquor Dealers' Associa tion of Pennsylvania, and based upon what he (Palmer) says Sinnott said to him, repudiates my nomination. "A servile committee seeks to en dorse this action and has the ef frontery to summon me to appear before a packed and prejudiced body to answer charges, wheh, when read, fall of their own weight." Judge Bonniwell then reviews the Palmer allegations and says they are "not only absurd, but do not even remotely approach the truth." Denies Story of Sinnott He then enters a sweeping denial that Sinnott had any authority to represent him as to the statement that Sinnot promised to finance his campaign and that he did so, he says, "is absolutely false in all of its de tails." All he knows about the Sinnott- Palmer interview, the Judge declares, he learned from Sinnott following the meeting which he had with Pal mer which he says was arranged by United States Senator Underwood, of Alabama. Sinnott told him that Pal mer wanted to see him in New York. "This request," says Bonniwell, "I flatly refused, for I have never trust ed A. Mitchell Palmer in any mat- Use McNeil's Pain Exterminator—Ad. CTndigesiton CJ Gas ? gives surprising relief in from five to ten minutes in most case*. Your money re funded if it doesn't. 27c at Croll Keller. G. A. Gorgas, J. Nel son Clark, Clark's Medicine Store. THURSDAY EVENING. HARHISBURG TELEGRAPH. SEPTEMBER 12, 1918. "Why when this purist was smirch ing Michael J. Ryan." he continues, "and every other person in his pre tended conversation, did he conceal the name of Senator Underwood? Why does he cloak it behind 'a prominent statesman not from Penn sylvania,' except that even in his cowardice he dare not tell all the truth ? "The charge of my being on the Republican payroll is absolutely false. I have not met, heard from or communicated with Senator Penrose in any shape or form since the great Town Meeting battle of last fall, when he united with the other inde pendent citizens of Philadelphia in an attempt to overthrow the corrupt local machine." Bonniwell says his refusal to ad dress the state committee followed its "contemptuous election of a chairman unfriendly to me, the lead er of a faction, who had assisted in the defeat of John J. Casey, Demo cratic congressman from Luzerne. The sole purpose of that election was to make sure that no aggressive cam paign would be waged in my be half. All this was taken as notice to me that Palmer meant to be treacherous, as he has since proved himself to be " Bonniwell then denies that the third party movement which brought forth the Fair Play party was to defeat Congressmen friendly to the national' administration, and says every candidate was invited to have his name on the ticket excepting Lo gue, the nominee for lieutenant gov ernor, .and Asher, the candidate tor secretary of internal affairs, who declined to co-operate with him. Bonniwell next reopens the scan dals of the gubernatorial campaign of 1910 and says Palmer was one of the tools of the Republican bosses; that he met with J. K. P. Hall and others in the Bellevue-Stratford Ho tel ten days before the Allentown convention when the "slaughter" of C. La Rue Munson, candidate for governor, was determined upon, and "the degradation of the party brought about." "For his servility," says Bonniwell, "he received from J- K. P. Hall a check to the order of the Bellevue- Stratford Hotel Company in the sum of $5O0 —a check which he subse quently. under date of June 17, 1910, requested Senator Hall's per mission to use in the fall campaign to aid in his election. The money so paid to him was never accounted for." He also accuses Palmer of falsify ing his expense accounts in 1912 when he failed to report a contribu tion of $450 when he ran for Con gress. "That he has deceived a host of his own supporters throughout Pennsyl vania," declares Bonniwell, "every committeeman can bear witness to, and this attack, wanton, treacher ous and base as it is, was not ful minated because of anything that Sinnott said to him, but is because of the facts: "(1) That I have never bent my knee to this arrogant, selfish boss. "(2) That I interferred with his patronage distribution." Bonniwell then recites the story of the recent removal of Joseph W. Howley, U. S. marshal for Western Pennsylvania, who supported his candidacy for governor, and who was ousted from office although he had the backing of many of the in fluential men in that section of the state. "(3) Because McCormick, multi millionaire, not, indeed by his own brains, but by inheritance and Pal mer subservient agent of the cor porations, have an interest in com mon with the capitalistic and corpo rate combinations that have domi nated Pennsylvania. On the floor of Congress A. Mitchell Palmer was publicly denounced by the Hon. John R. Farr, of Lackawanna county, as a tool of the corporations. He has represented corporations all his life wherever he could; and his co-part ner. McCormick, domineering and selfish, has both the instincts and (be brutality of great capital. Mc- Cormick, when mayor of Harrisburg, vetoed a petty raise of one and two thirds cents an hour to the laborers of Harrisburg. declaring that 'fifteen I cents per hour was higher than the average wage paid by other employ ers,' and that 'the wages now paid seem to be perfectly satisfactory." He removed the union label from the Harrisburg Patriot the day he bought it. He has been an enemy of labor all his life, and Palmer the tool of corporations. "I have allied myself with the peo ple from whom I sprung, with the people who toil, and have committed myself, without invocation, to the full crew and to the other measures of social justice that labor is Justly entitled to. These two allies of capi talistic greed find it necessary to make a common interest with the Republican manufacturers of Penn sylvania, in order to defeat my candi dacy and re-establish the reign of corporate control in this great state. The treachery of these two men is no novelty in their record. McCor mick has never supported any Demo crat in all his life, unless he selected him, and his paper has been the scurrilous critic of all men who incur the displeasure of this petty tyrant "He was publicly pilloried in the Senate of Pennsylvania on Wednes day, May 21, 1913, by Edward E. Beidleman, state senator from his own district, and T quote his lan guage: T have in my possession copies of the affidavits which were made to support every contention that T am now asserting on the floor of this Senate. He (Vance C. Mc- Cormick) went to that man's office for the purpose of ascertaining how many purchasable votes there were in this city, in order that the finan cial arrangements might be made to buy up the voters of this dictrict: and later on he attended a meeting in his own office in Market street of this city, which meeting was called for the purpose of raising a corrup tion fund to buy up the election of Vance C. McCormick as mayor of the city of Harrisburg.' Further on in the same address. Senator Beidleman declared: "There was raised in that meeting that night a sum which netted $32,000, which war carried to the Mayor's office a few days before the election, and at the Mayor' 3 office they had so much money there to buy tip the election of Vance C. McCormick that they couldn't use it all, and the day fol lowing the election two men carried it back in a waste paper basket to thc'Dauphln Deposit Trust Company, of which he was one of the trustees, and which bank kept its doors open the whole day long on that election Aav ttiot tf the $32,000 were not. sufficient a clerk was there to hand out more money to corrupt the peo ple of the city of Harrisburg." A. complete report of this address may be found on pages 3240-3241 of the Legislative Journal of the Senate under date of May 21, 1913." British Troopship Sunk; Was on Way to America New York, Sept. 12.—The British passenger steamship Missanabie, 12,- 469 tons gross register, and in the service of the British admiralty as a troop transport, has been sunk by a submarine in European waters, ac cording to information brought here by passengers on a ship which re cently sailed from a British port. 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