Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-11-21
EXPENSE ACCOUNT
LAW NOT OBSERVED
Some Candidates Have Failed to
File Oaths With State
ments They Have Sent
FLINN INSPECTS THE WRECK
Plans to Keep the Washington
Party Machine in Safety
After the Cold Winter

over half of the expense accounts
sent to the State Capitol for filing un-
der the act of 1906 requiring publicity
of campaign expenditures have been
returned so that they may be correct
ed and put into the form required by
law. The number found defective is
larger than ever noted before and 1t
has also been noticed that more in
quiries as to the manner of filing ac-
counts have been made than usual
In most instances where it was nee
essary to send back the statements of
expenditures the candidates had failed
to swear to them as required by law,
an apparent oversight, as the rest of
the accounts were generally found to
be In form. In other instances the re-
ceipts for sums of money were not at
tached and some reports were too gen.
eral to meet the requirements of the
act.
Only few of the reports filed have
been confined to contributions to State
committees. Most of the candidates
set out their expenditures in detail.
| IiS OulCldlS OIL the STATE COIIlIIlltlcSb
are now working out the statements
of their campaign expenditures and
they Will be filed within the next ten
days. The time for fling expense ac-
counts will expire on December 8 and
the candidate who fails to file may be
stopped from taking the oath of Of
flee.
Preparations for the session of the
Legislature which will begin on Janu-
ary 5 have been commenced at the
State Capitol and tons of supplies are
how being laid in for the printing
and business of the two houses. All
repairs and alterations have been
made In the legislative halls and COM
mittee rooms which have been used by
departmental offices since the last
general assembly will be vacated next
month. Governor Tener will prepare
his final message soon and officials
who report to the Legislature have
started to compile their statements.
William Finn, e. A. Van Valken-
burg and other Washington party men
held conference at Philadelphia last
night to devise ways and means to
| keep the party organization in cam
| phor until it is needed again. The
machine. like that of the Democrats,
is undergoing repairs for internal ex-
plosions and for the stopping up of
shot holes in its hull. 1t is Films
idea to have 1t ready to take out again
next year and to employ it as vlgor-
ously as its system will stand two
years hence.
In connection with the meeting of
| the Bull Moose chiefs at Philadelphia
yesterday 1t is stated that Clifford
Pinchot will file an expense account
! showing that he spent about $40, 900
of his patrimony for the campaign and
that Finn put in $4,000. The Wash
| ington party state committee did not
have much to spend except from these
| two generous souls.
the talk of the state is the speech
of eX-Judge James Gay Gordon at the
| Glover Club and it is freely predicted
| that it will not take much to start
something for reorganization of the
Democratic party and the throwing out
of the present bosses. 1t is the inten
ton of Palmer. Morris and the rest
to hang on so that they can flourish
! around in 1916.
In this connection it is interesting
to note that the Hoskins wing of the
| reorganized Democracy in Philadel-
| phia has named committees on
| Jackson day dinner and that the other
wing will also have dinner. Friends
of Michael ]. Ryan will give him a
| luncheon at which there will be some
| speeches that will probably intensity
the rent in the Democratic hulk,
Fred Ehrhardt, the ranking mem
Der of the Republicans in the House,
! took his boom for Speaker to Phila-
| delphia yesterday and made quite a
fuss over it. Ehrhardt plans to chase
Dick" Baldwin and r. P. Habgood
about the state in corralling Country"
members.
The Philadelphia Record of to-day
says: "The complete collapse of the
| Roosevelt party strength in this city
was further revealed yesterday when
| Deputy Prothonotary Sol. Rains in
| making public the completed details of
the local official count of the recent
| election showed that Mccormick had
polled fewer votes on the Washington
party ticket than he received in sup
| port from the faction-torn Democracy.
McCormick's vote was: Washington.
| 29,551; Democratic, 33,S29. The de-
tails also indicate that the Roosevelt
workers were not loyal to McCor-
mick's candidacy, for Pinchot polled
| "a, ,446 votes on the Washington party
! ticket. 4.515 in the Bull Moose column
/ and 1,483 as the Roosevelt Progress
sive ticket. William Draper Lewis was
given 514 votes as the Roosevelt Pro-
| gressive candidate for Governor, and
Judge Brumm had 229 votes as the
Bull Moose nominee"
Senator-elect Snyder, of Blair, spent
| $395.89, but his Democratic opponent
says he did not spend a cent.
II. ]. Dunn, Democratic chairman
of Berks, has given notice that he is
going to quit. When a Democratic
chairman quits In Democratic Berks
right after a campaign ends there is
something doing.
Luzerne Democrats left just three
Republicans remain in the county
Offices just filled at Wilkes Barre.
Montgomery Republicans spent $4,94s
| in the campaign, of which Insurance
Commissioner Charles johnson gave
$1,000.
DR.. Brumbaugh and Senator Pen
rose will be given a reception by the
Union League at Philadelphia next
month.
Colonel Sheldon Potter, active in re-
form matters In Philadelphia, will re,
tire from council and not even run fol
| mayor
The Democratic lineup for the nom
partisan ticket for councilmen next
year appears to be: For mayor, w. T.
Gorgas; for commissioners, John X.
Royal and Q. NJ. Copelin.
II lETERST0THE EDITOR