President Pressures Candidate To End Campaign
The campaign persists amid protests over the president's refusal to retire to private life and allow the rival to run as a civilian candidate.
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Newspaper
Harrisburg Telegraph
Location
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1919
Page
11
The campaign persists amid protests over the president's refusal to retire to private life and allow the rival to run as a civilian candidate.
Ambassador Ygnacio Bonillas reportedly accepts the Mexican National Civilian party presidential nomination and seeks the party platform. General Pablo Gonzales also accepts the Democratic league nomination and plans to retire from the army to run as a civilian candidate. Obregon faction critics attack Carranza ally Nogales amid a bitter political contest. Americans released from a Mazatlan arrest are not yet confirmed.
Weather exposure wasted over 35 million dollars of automobile tires at the Verneuil motor transport corps base in France. About 3,500 motorcycles were left in the elements, decaying into junk, while officers faced charges of neglect at Bourge and Verneuil. A separate incident describes influenza deaths tied to hospital quarantine and a hospital trip from Tobyhanna. Odd Fellows banquet announced for Harrisburg.
Copenhagen December 19 negotiations between James O Grady for Britain and Maxim Litvinoff for Soviet Russia over repatriation of British prisoners in Russia have been broken off without agreement reached.
London reports Premier Lloyd George announced in the House of Commons that the Allies will seek peace with Turkey at the earliest moment. Italy's Nitti and possibly an American envoy may meet in Paris, as talks cover Fiume Russia and future actions versus Bolshevik advances.
Nelson B. Gaskill of New Jersey was confirmed by the Senate to succeed Governor J Franklin Tort on the Federal Trade Commission. The action follows Tort’s resignation and occurred late last night in Washington.
The Manchester Hero reached St. John New Brunswick last night but anchored offshore due to a blinding snow storm that left the harbor out of control and inaccessible.
Middletown A G Banks reports 1977.50 raised for the Third Red Cross roll call with ward totals listed. The town saw a new Rescue Hose auto truck debut on Pine Street as fires were fought at a hosiery mill. Obituaries note deaths of Caroline Crutson and Charles A White, with services led by Rev Kraybill.
Plans for the 300th anniversary of the Pilgrim Fathers span England Holland and the United States with a four day program in Leyden Amsterdam and Rotterdam starting August 30 1920. Also includes ceremonies in Cambridge London and Plymouth Boston and a November 24 Thanksgiving observance across three nations.
More than 300 members of the New Jersey Society of Pennsylvania gathered in Philadelphia for a banquet at the Bellevue Stratford Hotel marking the 132nd anniversary of New Jersey ratification of the U S Constitution by the New Jersey Legislature. Mayor elect J Hampton Moore was toastmaster and principal speaker. Other speakers included W G Brantley former Congressman from Georgia and former New Jersey Governors Edwin Stokes and David O Watkins and Thomas I Armstrong of Philadelphia.
Keystone Lodge No. 1070 of the International Association of Machinists discussed a Christmas relief drive to help the city’s poor. A committee has gathered a list of donors and collection points at homes and business addresses across Harrisburg, Enola, Camp Hill, and West Fairview.
Helsingfors reports Estonia will return arms to the Northwestern Russian army and join an assault on Petrograd if the Allies and Admiral Kolchak recognize Estonia's independence. The pact is said to be in a reply to a recent Allied note.
Samuel Grier, a colored resident of Swaynesburg, Ga., reported being robbed of 17.50 on Aberdeen street after being lured from a station for a cigar before a Baltimore train. A second man held him at knife point while a third helped the attacker remove the money. The incident followed a trip from Clearfield to Georgia.
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