Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-06
.PAXTANG OFFICERS
ASSUMING OFFICE
No Time Lost by the New Borough
Fathers in Taking the Oath
as Required by Law
TO ORGANIZE PROMPTLY
State Chairman Morris Has Receiv.
ing Day; Mccormick Wastes
Time in Lycoming

The officers elected by the freemen
election on Tuesday have not lost any
time in getting on the job. To-day
| 1t was hard to find one who had not
taken the oath of office. BErgomeister
Thomas w. Smallwood was sworn in
about noon yesterday, the noon blast
at the quarries around PaXtang being
considered as fitting salute to tbs
momentous event in borough history.
Mr.. Smallwood administered the
oath to a number of councilmen dur
ing the day and then took UP the
school directors. But one lone coun-
Gilman remained to be sworn in to-
day. The council will organize within.
a few days and the school board on
Saturday night.
Justice of the Peace Howard c. Fry
is having an ornate shingle for the
dispensary of justice prepared and 1t
Will be put into place with due cere-
monies.
To-day was a receiving day at the
Democratic State windmill. but State
Chairman Morris did not have many
visitors. Probably the
state of war existing in
Morris Has Europe diverted the
Receiving attention of the warning
Day Too Pennsylvania d m o :
Gratis to such an extent
that they did not find
| time to get around. Maybe they were
| saving up money because of the hard
times coming and did not care to
spend money for car fare. Some were
also inclined to be saving owing to
rumors that Mccormick does not in
tend to unbelt as literally as hoped.
| But it was real pleasant social occa-
| sion and some Democrats did come in.
OF course, they did not talk patronage.
A dispatch from Williamsport re-
celVed here to-day says: Strenuous
efforts were made yesterday at the
Young Mems Democratic
! Club picnic by Vance G.
| Mccormick. candidate for Lycoming
Governor. and Roland S. Was Not
Morris, Democratic State Excited
| Chairman, to heal the
breach in the Lycoming
county Democracy. but without sue
cess. The two Democratic leaders
went away disgusted with the manner
in which their overtures were received
by some men. The occasion was the
annual picnic of the club and about
! 400 men were present during the day.
Mccormick made a speech which Gre
ated much quiet amusement. He
| ferociously attacked Republican lead
ers for Stating" candidates in years
gene by and entirely overlooked the
fact that his own appearance on the
| Democratic ticket was one of the
known to PENNSYLVANIA. the slate be-
ing made by three men and approved
by Jerseyman."
The Palmer Mccormick League of
Philadelphia, with which Palmer,
Mccormick and Morris plan to run
around the Democratic
city committee if they
League Only find they cannot rip it
Annex to out of office, yesterday
Big Machine announced its board of
"'s directors. the m g
having been selected
by the bosses. The list contains all
reorganizers except one Old Guard
man, who was put on for Appearances
sa ke. The league is one of those funny
things that Mccormick and his crowd
get up for the purpose of fooling
themselves, as they fool no one else
The leagues creation has caused a lot
of indignation among the Democrats
In Philadelphia.
Governor Tener is going to take his
time about making appointments to
important places and vacant judge
ships, according to
what has been learned
Governor at the State Capitol to-
to Take day. The fact that the
His Time courts are on vacation
will not require imme-
diate appointments of
judges for the Montgomery county
courts and the Philadelphia municipal
court bench. The appointment of a
public service commissioner to sue
ceed the late Judge Ewing will also be
allowed to go for a while. The names
of Messrs. Gilbert Fox and John Fa-
Der Miller are being mentioned for the
Montgomery county courts.
State Chairman Roland S. Morris
is having troubles of his own with the
warning Democrats in his native city
and W h e h e the
Thursday receiving
days at the State Summer Days
windmill in Market Not Pleasant
Square will be con- For Chairman
tinued is not known.
The State chairman
is now besieged by every man who
wants a job Palmer and Mccormick
having made him the titular hold of
the rubber stamp on appointments to
federal places. In Philadelphia the
Old Guard and Boy Scout factions of
the Democracy are making faces at
each other and listening to the fuss
being made in Berry's city of Chester
over the manner in which the Demo-
cratic city committee was organized
In Huntingdon, Luzerne, Susquehanna
and Allegheny counties the Democrats
Lancaster they are demanding the
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