Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-03
-EVENINC CHAT

Inc announcement last night that
the Democratic State headquarters
would be located in Philadelphia here
after and that next week the head
quarters would be closed and the flag
taken down, the Office force dismissed
ana the key given up marks the pass
| ing out OF Harrisburg as the site of the
council fre of the militant Democracy
untii the next outbreak occurs and the
headquarters are taken away from
Philadelphia. Harrisburg has been the
headquarters of the Democracy since
1897. IL was the seat of the party or
ganization here years and years ago
when the Democrats used to elect gov
ernors and legislators but went to
Philadelphia. occasionally going to
FittsDurgh or some other place as the
whim of the chairman served. In the
elshties the headquarters were located
IN Phlladelphia and James Kerr man
aged the second Pattison campaign
from there. Soon after headquarters
came to Harrisburg and the flag was
P,it,d put out IN & the old Mechanics Bank
DulIains. There John NJ. Garman,
Charles p. Donnelly. william t.
Greasy, James K. p. Hall, John s.
ltiiling, ID. j. Driscoll and others down
TO Arthur G. Dewalt conducted party
analrs and even after the insurrection
OF 1911 headquarters were maintain
ed while the reorganization faction
building, which is to be given up. The
old Guard" closed it's headquarters
when 1t was beaten in 1912 and George
w. Guthrie reigned as chairman alone
and undisputed in the Spooner build
ing. At the time much was made of
the Importance of maintaining the
headquarters at the Capital City, the
center of the State, where men would
not be influenced by large city politi-
clans and the like. State Chairman
Roland S. Morris has always main
tatned sort of headquarters at Phil
adelphia and now he has had his long
desire and the headquarters flag will
noat from South Broad street and
Democrats will no longer stumble up
three flights of stairs after the eleva-
tor has quit running. The city has not
even the Washington party headquar-
ters now and DIR. B. e. P. Prugh, who
runs the Prohibition State committee.
has the only real headquarters in Har-
risburg.
THESE are housecleaning days about
the legislative chambers and commit
tee rooms and things are commencing
TO assume an ante-session appearance
that attracts much attention from the
crowds of visitors who are continual
~ streaming through the building and
desiring to sit in the seat of their sena-
tor or their home member of the low
er house. An immense amount of
work has to be done to prepare for the
legislature. All of the rooms have to
be cleaned with machinery and the
furniture gone over. The latter item
Is well attended to, the carpenters
having been required to repair practi-
cally every desk in the House after the
session closed. Now the heavy cur
tains have been taken down and are
being scrubbed" by vacuum brushes
and floors are being fairly polished by
heavy cleaners. All of the furniture
is being rubbed down and the brass
work and ornaments are shining like
gold. By the time the lawmakers as
semble everything will be in spic and
span shape. The committee rooms will
be moved around bit and some of the
committees will have to double up,
the rooms having been taken for
branches of the State government.
Some of these will be moved into
storerooms in the attic" and others
Will go into rented offices or into build
ings in the Capitol Park extension
which have been made available for
use until they have to be torn down
Superintendent Sampel B. Rambo has
provided tons of supplies for the solons
ard things have all been prepared for
a prompt opening of the session and
a short period of work.
Talking about the legislature. there
will be no Committees on commit
tees" in the coming session, such as
there was last year. In the 1913 ses-
sion's opening days the members
names were handed to a committee,
which was named by the chambers
right after the presiding officers were
chosen. These committees struggled
with the problems for two weeks and
the members were anything but pleas
ed with what was done. Its back to
ways of former days.
Among visitors to the city yesterday
was Senator-ele Plymouth w. Sny-
der, of Hollidaysburg Mr.. SNYDER was
a member of the House for several
sessions and took an active part in
debates, especially in the local option
battles. He will represent the Hunt
ingdon-Blair district, having been
elected to succeed Senator Enos A.
Jones.
An official police docket from the
Pittsburgh police department was sent
to Harrisburg yesterday. 1t is in
charge of Captain of Police Joseph
p. Thompson, and will be used in the
trial of Edward Smith charged with
murder, now in progress. The police
docket shows that Smith, who said he
was from BalJlmOre. was arrested at
the Pennsylvania railroad station at
Pittsburgh on the morning of Decem-
Der 81. 1913, at 2 o'clock by Special
officer Joseph Thompson. Smith had
in his possession $2,S27.15. Smith was
subsequently turned over to County
Detective James Walters and returned
to Harrisburg.
Ex-Judge James NJ Shull, of New
Bloomfield. was one of the Juniata
Valley people in the city yesterday.
He was here on business at the Capt.
tol.
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
Captain w. II. Gibson, treasurer
at Philadelphia, says that the Phila-
delphia mint turned out five million
pieces in November.
Barney Dreyfuss. the Pittsburgh
baseball magnate, plans to take a
southern trip.
George C. Hetzell, the Chester
manufacturer, Is at Virginia Hot
Springs.
Major j. P. Tracy, U. S. A., we'll
lrnnur1 hara has haan ordarad