Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-10
KUNKEL IS DOOMED
BY LEBANON PAPER
Availability and Fitness as Supreme
Court Candidate Is Pointed
Out Today

| preme court suppiement1ng demands
that he run that have been on in Cum
berland and other counties.
The Report says:
| "The name of Hon. George Kunkel,
president judge of the courts of Dau-
| phin county Is being favorably men
| toned as a candidate for justice of
the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
Judge Kunkel is serving his second
| term upon the Dauphin County
bench to which he was recently
elected without opposition, after an
endorsement by all the political par
| ties. He Is we'll known throughout
| the State as a jurist Of unusual abil-
| ity through his decisions upon the
State cases brought before him, but
| he is best known to the people of
| the Commonwealth for the ability
and legal acumen displayed in the
| trial of the capitol graft cases which
resulted in the conviction of the Of
tenders and the recovery of large
portion of the misappropriated pub
lie funds.
| Should his name go before the peo-
| pie he will likely prove formidable
| candidate upon the nonpartisan pri-
mary ballot.
"The announcement by Judge Kun
kel that he would be a candidate for
the honor would be received here
with satisfaction as it Is felt that he
| is admirably fitted for the position.
Judge 'kunkel is well known in Leb
| anon and a high record is entertained
for his legal talents.
"The late Thomas III. Capp was as
.sociated with Judge Kunkel when he
occupied bench in the Dauphin
courts at Harrisburg and during the
past two weeks, in the enforced alb
sence through illness of Judge s. j..
M. McCarrel, Judge c. V. Henry has
been thrown constantly in touch
| with him. The Lebanon and Dau-
phin county jurists are close friends" !"
Harrisburg people will be interested
to know that there Is strong proba-
bility that William M. Brown, lieuten-
Iant-governor r m
1903 to 1907, may be
the Republican can Ex-Lieutenant
didate for Congress Governor May
in the district repre- Go to Congress
sented by Governor
Tener prior to his
election to the executive chair. Gov
ernor Brown, as he is known to many
here, served in the Senate for years
before his election to the second Of
flee in the State, and since his retire
ment has been actively engaged in
business at home, taking little part in
the political game. His neighbors
have urged him to be candidate.
Others talked of are Ex-Congressman
| C. N. Matthews, who succeeded the gov
ernor, and Recorder ]. G. Sutherland,
of Washington county. Henry w.
Temple, the present congressman, is
a Bull Mooser, and candidate for re-
election this year. The Democrats
may run a Washington county man.
The announcement of candidates
for governor and other offices has
started a flood of announcements all
over the State a n d
.. some figures well
Legislative known in legislative
Booms are life are reported to be
Starting seeking various places
John T. Matt, of Bed
ford who engineered
the boomerang on the pass question
at Altoona and hit not only himself
but other Democrats of the last legis-
flature is a candidate for senator with
the prospect that he will have to fight
Senator Endsley on the Republican
ticket. DR.. j. M. Martin will run fol
the House again in Mercer county af-
ter missing term. In Lebanon e. E
McCurdy, q candidate in 1912, will
run on the Republican ticket and DR.
Kaufman will try again. DR.. T. A
Steele of McKeesport, will be opposed
by A. H. List. who is blind. Henry
Wilson Bergey, of Montgomery, wht
GRATED when possible in the las
House, will try to be senator from
Montgomery on the Washington ant
Democratic tickets and may fall be-
tween them. Representative c. A
Amber will run for denomination il
Montgomery. Samuel B. Scott and r
r. Dearden, colleagues in three ses
sions, will be rivals for McIlhenny
toga in Germantown. E. j. Hart
Scranton newspaper correspondent il
the last session, may come here as {
legislator.
Just as an instance of the machine
politics being played by the bosses o
the Democratic State machine it ma,
be stated that Fedora
officeholders and thos
Machine who have places by virtu
Methods of their adherence to tn
/ i'm Use reorganization flag ar
now getting letters from
State Chairman Morri
begging for cash. Just what this cas-
will be used for is not very clear, bu
i, with the party machine in control o
: the Palmer Mccormick element, 81
, guesses are allowed to each person
According to Philadelphia newspapers
the bosses have already made up thei
: list for the new Federal judgeship fo
, this State, and it will be submitted t
: the President with the names of Davi
n Wallerstein, w. A. Carr, Frank F
Bracken and III. K. Fox. Ed McCaf
, frey, a Democratic politician at Eas
ton has been apDointed n deput
United States marshal.