Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-26
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The conference of the adherents of
the Washington party here yesterday
is likely to be the last of the political
meetings here until after the pri-
maries In May and 1t seems rather
strange not to have State conventions
IN a gubernatorial year and to have
meetings of committees instead of the
oid-time, picturesque gatherings of
leaders and men who want to lead.
Under the direct primary law the con-
ventions were made a thing, of the
pas. anu 1t was contemplated that
Such things as states should be for
gotten along with the conventions. But
pohtical methods do not change with
| laws and some OF the advocates of the
| chahse are rather busy nullifving its
provisions The next meetings of any
poiitical significance will be held here
III June. Under the primary law the
contFoi or state committees was taken
| OUT OF the hands of parties and placed
under the law just as the primaries
| We're some years ago taken from con-
! trci or partisan bodies. Now tho Law,
hNes the number of members of State
committees, prescribes when they shall
meet and almost what they shall dc.
When the committees meet after the
I
tne adoption of declarations of prin-
| ciples The successful candidates will
De summoned to address the commit
teemen and when it Is all over the
resemblance to a convention will be
| marked
!, ahese are tournament days in club
lahu. IN practically every club in the
| city there are pool or billiard tourna-
| lnents under way Some have rather
eiaporate events and hare prizes
me engineers Club probably leads m
IN IN the number of the diversions
mere are eleven kinds of tournaments
uiiuer way from chess to kelly pool.
A couple of men were tallSpp cold
weather in the Commonwealth Hotel
its' night and commercial man said
.nat the greatest suffering he had ever
khoWn was right in PENNSYLVANIA when
the mercury was one degree below
zero. Il have been in Canada and in
western states when it went ten be-
low; put never knew cold as pene-
ra,.ihg ','g as right here in Central Penn
sylVania. This week / have encoun.
tered zero weather on three mornings
ana think l hit it twice last week"
man sitting near him spoke up and
saio. wen, this time last week I was
III new orleans. Such a difference"
Among visitors here yesterday was
masoI 1oseph Cauffiel, the stormy ex-
ecutiVe or Johnstown. CauffieI is one
OF the most interesting MAYORS the
rIood CITY ever had and is Just now
lHe center of some lawsuits. The
mayor is SIX feet tall, broad in pro-
poruon and ready for a controversy at
.he crop of hat. He decided yes
.erday that he was gubernatorial tim
oel ana was ready to start campaign
at once If he had been picked.
The fact that this city is shortly
20 Te-equip its fire department with
motor tre apparatus has caused peo-
PIE VINO sell that kind of material To
turn their eyes in this direction and
the opening of bids for the machines
MI Mn oe some occasion. The compe-
1lllon IN such apparatus is keen and
III, IA many smaller communities the old
st9le nose wagons and trucks are be-
ing replaced rapidly. In another year
i1afrlsburSs fire department will he
largely without horses.
. Iroiieymen say that the introduce
tlon OF the electric buttons to signal
cars When to stop has not caused as
iIuch annoyance as feared at the
start some of the cars lost the eo,lip
nent couple of years ago because
people played with them. Now the
man or child who proceeds to buzz
lhe motorman is not only ant to he
calied down by the conductor. but to
oe frowned on by other passengers.
u. NJ; johnson has written for the
n!ladelphla Evening Bulletin an
article on political conditions in 1880
recalled TO his mind by the death of
General Beaver in the course of which
ne writes of people well known to
harrlsDurgers. He says in part: Re
gardlng some of the personnel of some
oi the working forces In the campaign.
David Martin was member of the
republican State committee: and Ed
gar Plnchot represented Pike county.
| thlnk the present Mr.. Pinchot claims
70 nan from Pike county. Perhaps the
county committeeman of 1892 was
Cne 1ather of the gentleman who now
Wlshes 10 appear in the United States
senatorial toga, and Senator Penrose
may need to revise his assertion that
ofother Pinchot did not know Penn
sylVanla was on the map six months
aSo, In that same year Daniel Fl.
hastings was chairman of the Center
county Republican committee. A.
l.. Shields represented PHILADELPHIA.
ana William L. Hensel was chairman
TIC Denocratlc state committee.
James Gay Gordon was elected sena-
tor from the Third Philadelphia dis
trict and John e. Reyburn, from the
Firth; and Senator Lewis b. Emery.
VINO many years afterward made the
pattle for governor and against Edwin
5. Stuart, was elected as a regular Re-
publican from the Twenty-first dis
trlct, comprising the counties of
Iloga, Potter and Mexican. John w.
Morrison, who is now deputy banking
commissioner, and is at present a resi-
dent OF Delaware county, was that
year elected to the State House of
representatives from the Fifth ALLIE
gheny district Among the indepen-
dent Republican candidates for the
Legislature was A. Lewis Smith. the
venerable and distinguished lawyer,
who resides in Media, and still prac-
tices law, with Offices in Philadelphia.
More remarkable, however, is It that
Samuel w. Pennypacker ran for the
Legislature rs the Independent Re-
publican candidate against the regular
Republican candidate in the Twenty
eighth Philadelphia district"
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