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-
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"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. The
Missanabie, which had been carrying
American soldiers and army supplies,
was returning to an American port.
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RESERVES PLAN
i SCHOOL DRILLS
William Jennings Compli
ments Organization on
What It Has Done
William Jennings, president of the
Harrisburg Reserves, presided last
evening at a meeting of all officers
of the Home Defense organization
at the courthouse, at which pre
liminary plans for drilling the high
school students were discussed. Ma
jor Henry M. Stine announced that
the students would be divided into
probably six companies and each
company have an hour of drill a
week. The schedule of hours is be
ing worked out by school officials
and the details for the drills will
be announced ln a few days.
Mr. Jennings stated that he had
received reports from all over the
county expressing appreciation of
what the Reserves had done in
drilling draftees and highly com
plimented the men who had been
giving up Saturdays and evenings
to this instruction work for those
going to camp. The organization, he
said, had not only met the purposes
for which -it was formed, but
through the spirit of its members
had done valuable work in the com
munity. Major Stine also spoke on
what was under way and brought
the compliments of Captain P. H.
W. Harm, of Company I, in whose
command are a number of former
members of the Reserves. A num
ber of men active last winter have
expressed a desire to return and aid
the reserves in the instruction and
drills of men in the new draft lim
its. Whether another company will
be formed or not depends upon ap
plications received in jhe next few
weeks.
L. V. Harvey, Simon Hirsch and
Benjamin Strouse were appointed a
committee to secure prices for com
pletion of the uniform and W. N.
Kepford and J. N. Hobart to work
out plans for practice by the shot
gun squads.
To-night drills will be held at
Hunimelstown, but it was stated
that the Hershey contingent is now
self-sustaining under the Home De
fense organization formed by Major
H. M. Stine a few days ago and
on Saturday details will be sent to
Halifax, Penbrook and Hunimels
town.
The weekly drill of the Reserves
will be held at the armory, not
the island, to-morrow night, and
will be important as special training
for the drilling of high school men
will be outlined. Company officers
to-day requested all men on the ac.
tive list or all desiring to be on
the active list to report to-morrow
night. Men of draft age wishing
instruction will also report at the
armory at 7.30.
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Flag Seen in Sky
Baltimore.—A striking likeness of
the American Flag formed of clouds
in the western sky during a storm
here. It was hailed as a good omen.
During the late afternoon heavy
clouds formed in the west and, to-!
gether with thunder, indicated the
approach of a storm. A dark cloud
formed in the midst of a great light
one and took the instantly recogniz
able design of the American Flag. It
had the appearance of a flag flying.
It was rectangular, in one upper cor
ner was a particularly dark square
similar to the blue field of the Amer
ican Fag, and the remainder of the
cloud was slightly ribbed horizontal
ly, in appearance similar to the
stripes.
Another singular coincidence was
that the apparition of the flag was in
the west—as the "west front" is
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apparition lasted about five minutea.
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