Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-06-27
2|vD LANCASTER IS
POLITICAL POINT
Has Twenty Candidates For the
Four Legislative Seats to Be
Filled in Autumn
CAMPAIGN GETTING HOT
Republicans Will Meet in Pitts
burgh in August Morris
Between Two Fires
CAMPAIGN GETTING HO

Records of the May primary pub
| lished at the State Capitol show that
the Second Lancaster legislative dis
trict. which elects four members of
the House, leads in the number or
| candidates who will go before the
people at the November election, hav-
ing an even score of men on the ticket.
The Seventeenth Philadelphia district
| is next with eighteen, followed by the
Eleventh Allegheny with sixteen and
| the Second Westmoreland with fifteen.
Many other districts have ten or a
| dozen candidates In some of these
| districts the same men are on two and
three tickets, so that If every separate
| nomination was set out the number
would actually be higher. In five dis
tricts there are but two candidates for
the legislative seat. These districts
are the Eleventh Philadelphia. Mon
roe, Montour, First and Fifth Lu-
| zerne, one of the two in the last dis
trict being on five tickets. There are
three candidates for the seat in each
of the following districts: Cameron,
Clarion. Forest, Fulton, Juniata, Fifth
Lackawanna, Fourth Luzerne. Second
Montgomery, Pike. First and Second
Schuylkill, Snyder, Sullivan, Union,
Wayne and Fourth York.
In the senatorial list the Sixth dis
trict leads with six candidates, while
the Twentieth district, part of Luzerne
county, has two candidates.
Most of the congressional districts
have five candidates. the Thirtieth dis.
trict, the McKeesport district has but
three candidates, one man being on
six tickets. There are twenty-four
| candidates for Congress-at-large.
There are six candidates for Gov
ernor and six for United States sem
ator and five each for Lieutenant
Governor and Secretary of Internal
Affairs.
Under the nonpartisan law there are
but two candidates for the Supreme
and Superior Courts.
State Chairman Crow announced
yesterday that as a result of the refer
endum vote on the postponement of
the State committee
meeting from Phila-
Meeting to delphia on July Is to
BE Held ut Pittsburgh on August
Pittsburgh 26, enough members
had answered in the
affirmative to author
ize the change. The notices will be
sent to the committee members. The
platform committee will meet next
week for another conference and the
committee on changes of rules will
also have a session. Prominent Re-
publicans are keeping in close touch
with the State headquarters to an un-
usual extent this year.
State Chairman Roland S. Morris,
of the Democratic State machine is
in a bad state of mind just now. On
one side he has the
Thornton men who
were turned down by Democratic
the city committee in Bosses Will
Philadelphia demand Talk 1t Over
ing that the whole
Democratic committee
elected by the people be electrocuted,
and on the other he is hearing from
practical politicians who demand that
any further split be prevented in the
party. Mccormick is said to be de-
termined to get revenge, but some
other candidates are not so keen.
Next week the bosses will get together
in Philadelphia to discuss the ques-
tion of inquiring into the legitimacy
of the Philadelphia city committee"
Apparently the right of the people to
elect a city committee does not weigh
with the Democratic ruling clique.
Senator Penrose will start late to-
day on an automobile tour across the
State to Pittsburgh, where he has a |
number of engage
ments. He will be ac-
Penrose to companied by hisI
Be in City brother, DR.. Charles B. |
tomorrow Penrose, president of
the Board of Game |
Commissioners. The !
n rrtt o.
about noon tomorrow for dinner with
the Governor at the Executive Man
sion. Monday the trip west will be |
resumed. On Tuesday, the Senator
will deliver an address in Pittsburgh
before the State Sportsmen's Associa-
ton. On that same day, Colonel
Roosevelt will be in Pittsburgh to
speak at the second annual confer
ence of the Progressives. The follow
ing day, Wednesday, the Senator will
attend outdoor festivities to be con-
Quoted by the Sportsmen, and on July
2, Thursday, he will be the guest at |
reception to be given by E. V. Bah
cock at his country home near Pitts
burgh. July will find the Senator in
Ephrata, Lancaster county where he |
will deliver the independence Day
address.
The Philadelphia Ledger in politi- |
cal review by Frank J. Price to-day
says: "The more closely primary re-
turns, now being tabu-
lated in the office of
the Secretary of the Democratic
Commonwealth, are Cause Now
studied, tne gloomer Hopeless |
the outlook grows for
those Democrats who
believed year ago that this was to be
a Wilson year in Pennsylvania. The
President himself, the Democratic
delegation in Congress and the party
at large had conceived the notion that
because the Taft electors were reject
ed at the polls the Keystone State was
getting ready to swing into the Demo-
cratic column; and yet, the Wilson
electors had polled fewer votes by
more than $4,000 than the Bryan
electors had received only four years
previously; fewer by 10000 than
Bryan received in 1900; fewer by
nearly 100000 than Bryan received as
result of the free silver hysteria of
1896: fewer by nearly $4,000 than
Cleveland received in 1892. Even in
1888, when Cleveland was defeated by
Benjamin Harrison, he received 44s.- |
633 votes, while Wilson. in 1912. re- |