Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-18
PotiHcA IN
Pe't~pqeOo"in
By the Ex-Committecman

been here this week on business at the
Capitol and attending various meet
| ings are of the opinion that the vote
! to be cast at the primary in Pennsyl-
vania on Tuesday will be one of the
| largest at any primary in years. This
! is due TO the unusual combination OF
| a contest for State appellate court
{ nominations, numerous 1udgeship nights
! in counties and the usual county and
. municipal nomination contests. The
| last real big primary was in 1912,
when the presidential nomination
! stirred up everyone. Now with the
return to the party" movement under
way in full force there should be some
| interesting figures after the primary is
| over.
Some idea of the extent of the pri-
mary may be stated that not only Will
| there be State court nominations, but
! thirty-five judicial districts of various
| kinds will nominate, and in every
one of the siXty-seven counties, the
forty cities of various classes, in the
$50 boroughs and 1 800 townships there
will be nominations made, to say
nothing of the thousands of precinct
/ nominations. Five-sixths of the cities
will elect mayors
Troubles over registration appear
to be going on all over the State.
| In Schuylkill county 100 at Shenan-
ern counties the courts have been ap-
pealed to. To-day is the last day in
many counties to get names on lists.
One of the judicial contests inter-
! esting Harrisburgers is in Tioga
county, where Thomas A. Crichton,
cashier Of the State Treasury, is a can
didate. State Treasurer Young has
gone home to help him along.
Director Porter. one of the Phila-
delpbia mayoralty candidates, has
teen drawn for jury duty.
Socialists plan to have candidates
in every county and they will write in
names next Tuesday.
President Judge Charles E. Rice,
of the Superior Court, is out with an
appeal to the voters of his home
county of Luzerne to support Judges
Orlady and Head. The Judge says in
his statement: ITO the voters of Lu-
zerne county: At the coming election
each voter will be entitled to vote for
three judges of the Superior Court on
the nonpartisan ballot. Hon. George
B. Orlady and Hon. John B. Head are
at present members of the court and
are candidates for reelection. From
my long association with them on the
! bench of the Superior Court Gone of
| them for twenty years and the other
Tor ten years) 1 am able to en-
! phatically declare that they are able,
| high-minded. honest and fearless
judges. They are good for ten more
/ years work. and are deserving of re-
election. 1 appeal to the voters of
Luzerne county to give them earnest
and united support"
The Philadelphia Record says of
the row among the "reformers' in
Philadelphia: Colonel Sheldon Potter
won signal victory yesterday, when
tho Public Service Committee of One
Hundred, by resolution. expressed con-
fidence in the suitability of both him
and Director Porter for Mayor. The
committee failed to indorse the action
OF its executive committee, which re-
Gently picked Porter as its candidate
and publicly repudiated reports that
the general reform body had given the
Director its support. The general
committee authorized John Walton to
send a letter to Colonel Potter inform
ing him of it's attitude of neutrality
and assuring him of its high estimate
of him., Colonel Potter had asked
Chairman Walton for an explanation
of the reports circulated that the COM
mittee had indorsed Porter"
This extract from the Philadel-
phia Bulletin may interest some Har-
risburgers: city Solicitor Ryan de-
serves full credit for his declinatior
of the opportunity to grab 100000 oi
|
his four years of office. according to
the Supreme Court decision in a Pitts
burgh case. The action squares with
the principle of common honesty that
a contract made shall be honored ac-
cording to the original understanding
of its terms.
Primary elections will be held al
| the expense of Pennsylvania coun-
| 1a e1a f,tY
having relieved the Commonwealth OF
the cost of such elections, thereby
placing the expenses in the same class
as the general elections. 1t is esti-
mated that the change will save the
State from $350000 to $400, 900 a
year. The cost of primary elections
was party matter until eight year:
ago each party taking care of the cost
of everything from precinct or division
meetings to State conventions. In
1906 the State took charge of the pri.
maries and there has been more oil
less controversy between the fiscal of
ficers and county commissioners ovel
items for holding the primaries, the
charges not being uniform in variou.
counties and some of the statement.
filed by counties being sharply re-
duced. Some of the bills for Phila
delphia were not settled for as Ions
as two years. Almost every Legisla
ture was compelled to make an ap
preparation for deficit and there arr
to-day number of accounts still dut
for the primaries of 1914, which wer,
held earlier in the year than the pres
ent primary period.
The Department of the Secretar.
of the Commonwealth has mailed Il
each of the candidates for superior
common pleas and other courts 70
which candidates will be named mex
Tuesday copies of the accounts re
quired by the State under the corrup
practice law. These accounts are t,
be filed within short time of tn
primary.