Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-11-06
MAJORITY REALLY
PICKED PENROSE
Results of Election Show That the
Senator Was the Choice Of
the People
DEMOCRATS ARE STILL DAZED
But Laugh at the Piffle of Josephus
Daniels; Windmill Folks
Guessing Now

NuCooHiS lNOW
Although the official count will be
required to show just how great the
plurality of Senator Boies Penrose
really is and whether it will approx
mate the quarter million which he
predicted for himself some months
ago, the returns printed this morning
demonstrate that the Senator, who
was the target of the most virulent
abuse ever poured out in the State, is
actually the choice of almost a ma
iority of the voters of the State. When
one considers that for four years the
mud batteries of the Democratic and
Progressive papers and orators and
candidates have been working twenty
hours day against the Philadelphia
leader, and that yards and yards were
Market Square windmill about the
Siege of Penrose, his vote is astonish-
ing. The latest figures show that
l 1,026, ,569 persons voted for Senator
and of this number 506,1 135 voted fol-
PenroSe. 1t is certainly the express
sion of the voice of the people in a
direct primary which was conceived
to defeat him, and which men pre-
dicted would prove his AppomattoX
pie gave Pinchot 260,602 and Palmer
259,SS2.
Senator Charles II. Kline, OF
Pittsburgh, president pro tenn, of the
Senate, will be reelected when the
Senate meets. The Senate is heavily
Republican and no one yet knows how
big the Republican vote in the next
House will be. Anyhow, it's not going
to be any long session! 1t will be
short and active. G. j. Roney has
been added to those who have been
talked of for Speaker. Philadelphians
now talked of are w. II. Wilson, T. f,
McNichol, John Reynolds and Roney
James +. Woodward, of McKeesport
who was chairman of appropriations
committee under Cox, wants it; Fred
c. Ehrhart, of Scranton, oldest Re-
publican member, is after it, and r. p
1abgood is also out for it. Had r. 5.
Frey, of Wrightsville. been elected, he
would have been a contender.
Down in Congressman Palmer's
county of Monroe a spirited woman
elected a Temperance candidate for the
Legislature by the free use of stickers
Old-time politicians of both Republi-
can and Democratic parties looked on
and laughed, but she won out.
John NJ. Flynn will come back tC
the Legislature from Elk county
Representative Flynn is "the Father oi
the House and had a tremendous ma.
jority this year.
Among the new members of tho
House will be Fred T. Fruit, who
comes from Mercer county and who
was a boy in Harrisburg when hi.
! father Senator James Fruit, repre-
sented the Mercer district in the
Senate.
&C. William Beales, eX-Postmastel
! of Gettysburg, will take the place o.
Congressman Brodbeck in the Yorl
district.
Robert p. Habgood will come
| back to the Legislature after serving
a term as postmaster at Bradford. He
has been secretary of the State Edi
torial Association for ten years and i!
widely known among newspapermen
He was strongly urged as Speaker o.
the House about the time he retired
from the Legislature in 1907. Mr.
Habgood is also chairman of the eX.
ecutiVe committee of the Pennsylvania
Associated Dailies and was one of foul
delegates -at-large to the Republican
national convention in 1908. One oi
the points urged in his favor for the
speakership is the fact it has beer
y
tier has had the chair.
William S. Leib resident clerk o.
the House, was given a good many
congratulations on the way Schuylkil
behaved in the election and members
elect are pledging him their support
for reelection. This is the way
ISchuylkill voted: Brumbaugh 1921
Mccormick 13,103. Heaton won ovel
Lee for Congress, receiving 1921;
4 A
candidate, getting only SIG, Will,
Thomas, Socialist, got 1913 McClaiI
got 1926 and Houck 1868. Their,
will be only one Democrat in the leg
islative delegation, the members elec
being A. c. Schaeffer, A. b. Garner
Christ Becker, G. M. Palmer and ]. L
Sones. Becker is a Democrat, VIII,
was abused by the Patriot last session
John Robert Jones lost by 600.
Senator William e. Crow, VIII,
was defeated regularly by the Demo
Gratis and Bull Moosers before th
election, won in the Fayette district
Lreceiving 9,903 to S,539 for the hand
| picked fusion candidate. Represen
tative C. c. Goss, Democrat, was de
feated.
| -Ansel Ulman, Democrat, lost il
| lLycoming county. For the first tim,
in years both members from tha
county will be Republicans.
| Democrats who heard Secretar,
of the Navy Josephus Daniels speal
here last Spring are commencing t.
laugh at the efforts of the pifflinl
North Carolina man, who tried to tel
| Pennsylvania how to vote. Now h
says that the effects of the war de
feated the Democrats.
People who noted the activitie
of the Rev. DR.. c. +. Swift, tn
preacher lecturer representative o
Beaver county, at the snap temperanc
meeting here last September, will b
interested to know that he was de
feated for reelection as member from
Beaver county. Beaver is one of ou
leading insurgents, too.
Late returns confirm early report
that Penrose and Brumbaugh carrie,
every ward in Philadelphia.
MISSIONARY OFFICERS CHOSEN