The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-11-11

only big local fight in the September
primaries or in the November election
of 1915. Many offices are TO be filed
and much interest will be centered i'll
the City Commissioners and the County
Commissioners. In the City Commission
ership fight, according TO the present in
cumbents, the principal issue will be
the question of erecting municipal
hall.
Two of the County Commissioners,
at least, say they will be in the field
for reelection. The City Commission
ers, save the Mayor, all say they will
be in the field and Mayor Royal s
friends believe he too may become a
candidate.
County Commissioners Isaac s. Hoff-
man and Samuel S. Miller, without hesi-
fancy. say they again will seek election,
and while John H. Eby, of Lykens, the
present minority member of the board,
is mentioned by his friends as a candi-
date. it also is said that he has an am
bitiou to succeed Harry {. Wells as
Sheriff
The commissioners of both the city
and the county all agree that the mu-
nicipal hall question will be a big is
sue of the campaign. Harrisburg poll
ticians now are saying that to get a
new court house, at least two of the
members of the County Commission
should be Harrisburgers and that the
fight will he made along those lines.
Forrer to Run for Commissioner
Many of the candidates for City
Commissioner, aside from the present
incumbents, think the time is not yet
ripe to announce their candidates. al
though a few have done so. Among them
is V. Grant Forrer, for number of
years superintendent of the Harrisburg
Park Department. and who was deposed
by City Commissioner NJ. Harvey Tay-
lor, shortly after the Clark commission
form of government bill went into eff
feet in December, last. Forrer s friends
say politics was behind his loss of the
park superintendency.
With John H. Eby, of Lykens, a
possible candidate for reelection to the
Board of County Commissioners and the
majority members, Miller and Hoffman,
having declared their candidates., there
also is in the field for that Office Ed
Commissioners, and Charles Bowerman,
of Baskerville.
District Attorney Michael E. Stroup
will be candidate for reelection. As
yet no lawyer has come out in opposi-
tion. Neither has opposition been men
toned to Henry w. Cough for the
County Controllership. Mr.. Cough took
over his present position with the coun-
ty after many years service in similar
work with the city and he will be a
candidate to succeed himself.
The City Treasurership
A successor to the City Treasurer,
under the Clark act, be appointed by
the City Commissioners, so that that of
flee no longer will be voted for by the
electors. A City Controller will be
elected, however, his term to be for
four years Harry T. Owes, chairman
of the Republican City Committee, was
mentioned for this Office shortly after
Mr.. Cough retired to take up the eoun-
ty work, although there has been no
formal announcement that Owes is a
candidate.
Roy c. Danner, Register of Wills.
has confirmed the report that he will be
a candidate for reelection. Charles
W. Rubendall, Deputy Register, it is
said, may be a candidate for Recorder
of Deeds and Clerk of the Orphans
Court. There will be two vacancies in
the Board of Directors of the Poor, by
reason of the expiration of the terms
of Charles L. Boyer and Thomas S.
Manning. Both, it is said, will seek
reelection.
The Office of City Assessor, after the
term of the present incumbent, W. H.
H. Buckley, expires, becomes appointive
under the Clark third class city act, SO
that that office will not be voted for
hereafter.
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