Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-05-20
.0FF|C|AL COUNT
WILL BE DELAYED
Big Ticket and Slow Methods will
Retard Forwarding Of Figures
to the State House
MlTTEES COME NEXT
Parade Last Night Headed by
Band Playing Hail. Hail.
the Gangs All Here"

Secretary of the Commonwealth say
that it will take a couple of weeks be-
fore anyone will be in position to
give exact figures on the results of the
primary election just held in this
State. This is due to the fact that the
returns to be filed at the Capitol must
be official and the county commission
ers or official returning boards will
have to count the votes cast for each
party. At general election count
the number of votes and candidates
are the only things considered. In
computing the primary results these
two factors must be considered for
each party and in addition for the
Inonpartisan ballot as well.
The law requires the results to be
filed at the Capitol where the COM
putation will be made. The first coun-
ties are generally Montour Perry,
Juniata, Snyder or one of the small
ones in this vicinity. 1t is not believed
that much over a dozen returns will
be filed before the end of the week.
The slowness of the computation of
the returns of the primary election
will probably hold up the holding of
State c m m t t es
the meetings of the
committees which are fixed for
Likely to June 3 or thereabouts
BE Held Up under the act. 1t is
believed that when the
time comes for the
call to go out that the chairmen will
designate later days when the returns
are complete and it can be ascertained
who has been elected. The Republi-
can State committee was held up last
year and the Democratic committee
would have been held up too if it had
been required to meet. 1t looks as
though the State committees would
meet in the middle of June. State
Chairman Crow is being doomed for
the place again although it is doubt
full if he wants it. Whether State
Chairman Morris is reelected will de-
pend upon which wing of the Democ-
racy controls the State committee of
the Democrats. A. Nevin DIETRICH will
be Washington chairman again.
In spite of the fuss made for months
over the primary elections the city
went to bed early last night and tran
GULLY. Republican and
Democratic parti-
Machinists sans swarmed around
Parade to h cir headquarters
Hail, hail." and a band which
footed away for hours
in front of the Pa
triot office kept the crowd from going
home until figures began to come in
which encouraged the machine. Then
, things frightened up and there was
talk of a parade. That was held off
until after l o'clock when enough was
in hand to make claims worth while.
And then with a bugle call the parti-
sans and the Panic Leaguers were
called together and a parade was
formed which marched to the home of
Mccormick and gave him a cheer. And
in the march what do you think the
band played? Our old friend, Hail.
hail, the Gangs All Here" 1t is now
the official air of the Democratic ma
chine.
Results in the various contests for
congressional nominations in this part
of the state may not be known for a
couple of days. Claims of
the most conflicting ma
ture were made to-day Congress
regarding the nomina- BATTLES
tions in the Seventeenth Uncertain.
and Twentieth districts.
In the former friends
of b. X. Focht and f. L. Dershem
claim their nominations to run against
each other as in 1912, although the
partisans of j. M. Yeager were in
clined to be sanguine too. In the York
Adams district it was claimed that
Brodbeck had won and had won
in his fight with Gitt. Congress-
man Lee was renominated in the
Schuylkill district and Arthur G. De-
walt, former Democratic state chair
man, is probably the Democratic con-
gressional nominee in the Berks-Le-
high district.
kilograms received here to-day indi
Gated the great interest in other states
IN the result of the primary and the
try out of the first state
wide primary. In Wash
National lngton and other cities
Interest they were eager TO find
is Shown. out how the Wilson
slate went through but
by far the greater inter-
est was taken in the fight of Senator
Penrose for denomination. The tre-
mendous vote for Penrose, which has
discouraged the Democrats already.
was asked about by New York papers
The general sweep for Brumbaugh has
attracted much attention because
everyone realizes that 1t means his
election in November.