Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-11-04
ACCOUNTS
ARE NEXT IN ORDER
Some Interesting Statements Are
Expected to Be Filed at the
Capitol Very Soon

Now that the election is over the
next thing in order will be the filing
Of expense accounts and they must
be put on record by the evening of
December 3. In case no expense ac-
count is filed the person offending can
be stopped from taking the oath of
office and If q defeated candidate
should fail to file and should be elect
ed to an office in years to come pro-
ceedings to stop him taking the oath
car be taken. There Is no way of
avoiding the expense account
Under the law the expense accounts
must be filed by candidates and poll
tical committees within thirty days
and there is general interest in what
the candidates will return. Men run
ming for State offices must file their ac-
counts at the Capitol and district cam
didates must file in the office of the
clerk of the courts of their home
county.
The mer-McCormick League
which did not file expense accounts
from all of the counties receiving con-
tributIcns from the boss league in be-
half Of Mccormick in the primary,
must file expense accounts this time.
In the next few days there will prob
ably be a bunch of preemptions of
party names for next years elections.
The fact that there will
De no state election
next Fall, but only the Preemptions
county and municipal Will Blossom
elections, will make no Very Shortly
difference. There will
be some enterprising
citizens who will preempt names of
various kinds and there will be the
usual rivalry to see how quickly names
likely to be catchy will be clamped
down. Last year a dozen or more
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fortnight of the election. Incl
| dentally none of them appears to have
been used this year.
The Democrats will continue to hold
| first place on the ballot forms issued
the election for Presi-
dent in 1916. Under the
Ballot law the party winning
Order out in a presidential cleo
Stands ton has the right to lead
| the ballot and that is
why the Democrats led
the ballot this year. The Washington
party was second for the same reason
and the Republicans third. This posi-
tion is believed to be worth hundreds,
maybe more, votes and has been a
feature of the law now governing the
printing of ballots. On the nonparti-
san ballots the. names are arranged in
IalpnaDeIlCal OTQeT.
The extent of the disorganization
prevailing in the Democracy was
strongly illustrated yesterday in Phila-
delphia. On Monday
night for the first time
in many years the Democrats
Democratic city COM Shattered
mittee did not have a in Phila
meeting and many of
the. Palmer M Cor
mick leagues failed utterly to meet
When the polls opened there were no
! Democratic watchers in some districts
! the Democratic machine having relied
on volunteers, who of course, fell
down at the start and who were dis
concerted by the tremendous Repub-
lican vote in the early hours. Then
the Old Guard Democrats came out
| and proceeded to vote the Republican
! ticket. In no place was the disorgan-
lied condition of the Democratic party
under the Palmer Norris -McC cCormick
leadership so apparent
Some of the results in the counties
of the State paralyzed the folks at the
| Democratic State windmill and they
| were gasping to-day
Most of the people
Results frankly admitted thai
DaZe the it was a landslide and
Losers laughed at the plight
of the remnant of the
! Washington party. The
Central Democratic Club will now pro-
ceed to get down to earth and the
Palmer Mccormick league will fade
away, taking with it the hopes of some
folks of landing in nice fat berths on
Capitol Hill. The gloom at the Wash
ington party headquarters was so thick
this morning that no one could get
through 1t to open the door. The few
followers of Teddy the Terrible in this
city will commence to ask how they
came to be fooled by Mccormick