The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-11-05
Admitted. However,
Official Count Will
Be Needed to Decide
Supreme Court Race
HE RUNS 1000
AHEAD IN BERKS
Late Returns Indicate Election Of Trek.
Ter for Superior Court-Brum.
baugh's Lead Placed at 139,O41-
Penrose 236, ,493 Ahead of Pinchot

1t will take the official count of tho
ballots cast throughout the State ON
Tuesday to determine whether Geor.e
hunkel, president judge of Dauphin
county, has beaten Judge Frazer, OF
pittsburgh, for Judge Of the Supreme
Court. This was admitted by mem.
pers OF the Kunkel campaign commit
tee in this city this afternoon.
While the Kunkel committee would
issue no official statement it was learn
ed that at noon unofficial returns re.
eelved by the committee from 64 OF
the 6l counties of the State gave
hunkel a slight lead. The committee
declined to state the size of the ma.
JorIty indicated at that time.
One encouraging bit of news for
the many friends of Judge Kunkel IN
TINS, his home county, was containet.
In an Associated Press dispatch re.
celved this morning from Reading.
which said the complete but unoficia
returns in Berks county gave Kunke
a majority there of 1909 over Frazer.
Earlier returns had indicated smaller
lead for Kunkel in Berks.
1t was, of course, expected that
Judge Kunkel would run behind in
Philadelphia and Allegheny counties,
the latter being the home county nj
Judge Frazer. The complete unofficial
returns from Philadelphia, according
to the Associated Press, gave Frazer
a majority of 1885 over Kunkel.
This was offset almost entirely by the
handsome majority of 2O,167, unof.
hclal, that Kunkel got in Dauphin.
AS was expected Allegheny county
gave Frazer lead of probably be-
tween 10000 and 10000, which the
friends of Judge Kunkel are hoping
will be wiped out by the returns from
the other counties of the State, it le-
ing admitted that Kunkel has carried
a majority of the counties outside of
Philadelphia and Allegheny.
What Associated Press Says
The Associated Press, at 1876 O CLOCK
this afternoon, sent the following dis.
patch from Philadelphia:
Additional returns received TODAY
show that the vote for Supreme Court
on the non-partisan ballot was close.
Practically complete but unofficial fig
ures from 81 of the 67 counties show
the following: Robert s. Frazer, $40.
156; Gorge Kunkel, 319,S99,
These figures include all of Ale
gheny county, the home of Judge Fraz-
er, with the exception Of "a districts.
They also include the vote of Dauphin
county, the home of Judge Kunkel.
The missing Allegheny districts
will raise Frazer g total about 5000.
but this gain will be offset by Delaware
county, which is believed to have given
Kunkel a majority of about 5000.
HThe missing counties include Clar.
ion, Crawford, Erie, Fayette, Lawrence,
Mercer and Warren, which, taken as a
whole, are expected to help the western
candidate, and Bradford, Columbia.
Juniata, Northumberland Sullivan and
Wyoming which are expected to in
crease Kunkel 8 vote.''
The Philadelphia "Ledger 50 fp.
ures, compiled at last midnight and
therefore not as recent as those avail.
able to the Kunkel campaign commit.
tee, showed that 90 of the 67 coun.
ties gave Frazer a majority of 26,147.
These figures included both Philadel,
phia and Allegheny counties. The
Ledger" did not claim that Frazer
was elected, but admitted that the re.
suit was in doubt.
Trexler Surely Elected
For Judge of the Superior Court.
Judge Trexler, appointed to that bench
by Governor Tener to fll vacancy. is
apparently having walkover. Returns
from AZ counties give Judge Trexler
3S7,225, against 171,173 for his OF.
ponent, Clark, or a majority of 216..
052 for Trexler. The missing counties
are likely to increase Judge Trexler &
lead.
The latest returns available indicate
that Brumbaugh 8 majority over Me
Cormick for Governor will be 1904.
and that Penrose has beaten Pinchot.
his nearest rival for the Senatorship. bv
236,493 in the State. Palmer appears
to have run slightly below Pinchot.
McClain, Republican, for Lieutenant
Governor, and Houck, Republican, for
Secretary of Internal Affairs, have
been elected by big majorities.