Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-03-11
JUDGE TREXLER
To Be CANDIDATE
Allentown Jurist Announces That
He Will Stand For Renomina-
ton Next May
ON NONPA ARTISAN LINES
President Reported lncensed by
Antics of Democratic Con-
gressmen Last Night

Judge Frank NJ. Trexler. OF the Su-
by Governor Tener to succeed the late
, Judge James A. Beaver, last night an
nounced his candidacy for the nomi-
nation for the full term and his friends
will make an active campaign in his
behalf. The judge is very well known
throughout the eastern part of the
State, especially, and will be strongly
supported without any regard to
party.
The appointment OF Judge Trexler
by Governor Tener evoked very com
plimentary statements from many sec
tlons as the judges ability was wide
| ly recognized and the movement in
his behalf inaugurated in his home
county of Lehigh last night will be
taken up in other counties. His nomi-
mating petitions will be in circulation
within q day or so and will be filed
shortly.
| Judge Trexler did not issue any for
NAL statement. but simply said last
night, "I am a candidate for nomina-
| ton for the Superior Court at the May
primary. While l have always been a
Republican the election of judges has
been placed on a nonpartisan basis by
the act of the last legislature and my
campaign will be made along strictly
nonpartisan lines
One of the most surprising stories to
| be printed about the jugglery or ap-
pointments by congressman in years
| is Dublished TODAY in
the Philadelphia Led
ger under Washing President
! ton dateline about the Reported
m a amer in which Angered
schemes for division
of patronage have been
handled. The Ledgers dispatch came
! from staff correspondent and says:
Democratic congressman from East
ern Pennsylvania to-day balloted Sec
reilly on whom to recommend for the
| Eastern Pennsylvania judgship, the
majority Endorsement being for Fl. Q.
Bechtel, president judge of the Com
mon Pleas Court of SchuyllSill. The
unusual procedure was arranged by "A.
Mitchell Palmer to appease his asso-
ciates. 1t is reported President Will
son is incensed over what is termed u
political lottery, and will not accept
such recommendation by the congress
man, Those who participated in the
lottery were Mr., Palmer. Representa-
tives Lee, of Pottsville: j. Washing
ton Logue, of Philadelphia; Michael
Donohoe, OF Philadelphia; Robert Diff
enderfer, of Montgomery county, and
J. III. Rothermel, of Reading. Mr..
Palmer had hoped to control the situa-
ton and in the end obtain q solid dele
cation for William A. Carr, but he was
outwitted by Representative Lee, who
Is aspiring for leadership. President
Wilson, it is believed now, will not
consider either Carr, Mr.. Palmer's
preference; Webster Grim, supported
| by Representative Donohoe, or Judge
Bechtel, indorsed by Representative
Lee, for to do so would place the
judgeship on the level of political bar
gaining"
| Jesse Job-hunting Lybarger, defeat
ed for the House and defeated last
Fall FOR county controller, has been
slated for In o h +
| nomination for the
Lybarger House by the bosses of
| Pops From the Democratic ma
Forgettery chine and to-day pop
! ped out of the Forget
| terry to which, in an
lincautious moment the mourning or
gan of the regangsters had consigned
1
ocrats last Fall because of his per-
sistent office hunting and the fact that
i he made an opera bouffe play over
| one of the checks which he received
| for the fat job the machine secured
for him in a legislative department. as
consolation for defeat for the House,
helped it along. Lybarger's announce
ment failed to arouse enthusiasm even
| in Market Square to-day. John A.
/ Mo-. la..n nd a 1eR lln mo n re
already in the field for Democratic
nominations and the bosses are hunt
| ing victims in the county, 1t being re-
Iported that they are dubious about
the strength of H. b. Sassaman and j.
j. Newbaker who were on the first
slate.
| Word was passed along the Demo-
cratic line to-day that Secretary OF
Labor William B. Wilson has been
designated as the
speaker on b ehalf
LOT the admins Bill Wilson
tration for the Jersey Planning to
slate in the Pennsyl- Speak Here
vania primaries and
that he would come
into the State to make speeches with
in q month. This action of the ma
] tional administration will have the
lGlL6cL OIL Sltll 1Cllio-
Gratis who will not stand for presiden-
tial dictation of who shall run for
Democratic nominations in Pennsyl-
vania. The action of the Philadelphia
city Democratic committee in endors-
ing Ryan by u decisive majority after
an attempt had been made to swing it
for Mccormick is declared by reor-
ganizers to have been a piece of
strategy to tie Ryan up to that or
ganization.
The Philadelphia Inquirer to-day
says that O. conference to endeavor to
find q running mate for ]. Benjamin
Dimmick, of Scranton,
h at the coming primar-
Dimmiclk les, is expected to be
Candidacy held in Philadelphia
ILanguishes to-day, as Mr.. DIM
mick, who is an aspi-
rant for United States
Senator in opposition to Senator Pen
rose on the Republican ticket, thinks
he should have a candidate for COVER
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