Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-23
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1t is probable that some efforts to
elect candidates for judge who fell
on the ballot as sole nominees will be
made by means of stickers in several
counties. Movements in favor of some
aspirants have been started by their
! friends and By organizations which bid
fair to make the closing week of the
campaign lively.
In Franklin county an attempt is
! being made to have d. Z. Longs name
] put on the ballot by stickers for judge
/ and several similar movements are
under way in interior counties. The
manner in which judges were elected
| two years ago in couple of districts
and the way some legislative states
were overturned last year has started
people to thinking about the same
plan.
The name of the old Citizens par
| ty is being trotted out for use in a
! local fight in Schuylkill county. The
county will likely go Republican this
year.
Montgomery county Republican
leaders says that indications are for a
big old-fashioned Republican major
Iity. The candidates are making tours
of all districts.
Congressman Dewalt in a speech
at Allentown vigorously defended
President Wilson against an attack
made by Philadelphia minister
named Hess. Dewalt said that the
minister was preaching dangerous doc
trines.
The shortcomings of the Blanken-
burg administration are being shown
up in the Philadelphia campaign, and
some unpleasant things which indicate
hof sFrxNs I. Fer
their own political advantage are be-
ing revealed.
ID. Clarence Gibboney has taken
the stump against the Franklin party
ticket in Philadelphia.
The Supreme Courts decision that
Kirker is the nominee for prothono
tary in Allegheny county and not
the row. Johns has lined up for the
ticket.
Senator Warren G. Harding said
yesterday in Philadelphia that he eX-
poets to see Republicans sweep the
country.
Bishop Berry, the head of the
Methodist Church in this section, is
out in a statement in which he de-
clares that it is a mistake to allow can
didates for political offices to occupy
pulpits. He says that members of
churches and Bible classes should take
an interest in politics, but that it
should be as individuals.
Pittsburgh suffragists will have n
parade again to show how they feel
about the matter. They have had a
series and this is to be a wind-up.
The Philadelphia demonstration for
suffrage last night included 10000
persons, while 100. 900 looked on.
AT the State headquarters of the
suffragists here very little is being
said, but the increased activity of the
workers in itself is significant of the
Nigor and enthusiasm with which
they are preparing for the last stages
OF the campaign. Their whole atti-
tude may be summed up in the terse
reply which Miss Hannah ]. Patter-
son. State chairman. of the Woman
Suffrage party, made to a newspaper
man who asked her if PENNSYLVANIA
women were discouraged by the Jersey
defeat. There are two words which
are not included in the vocabulary of
Pennsylvania suffragists," she said.
They are encouragement and de
feat We have substituted for them
work and victory"
State officials here have been voic-
ing surprise that the consti-
tionality of the judicial nonpartisan
act was not attacked on other grounds
than those invoked in the court No. 2 |
case from Philadelphia as it provides
not only for nominations of judges of
courts of record, but of second class
city officers as well. Whether these
are two subjects no one has arisen to
question, although the act is two and
a half years old. 1t is the general be.
lief that either the attorney general
VIII be asked to prepare some new acts
or else that there will be a movement
Tor commission to draft election
laws more generally based on prac- |
tlcal experience and less theory. I'm |
der an act passed by the last Legisla-
lure the attorney general may ar
range with the State Legislative Refer
enee Bureau for the drafting of any
codes which may be needed. The Bu- |
reau is now working on several codes
and could, If asked, draft some cleo
ton or ballot bills which could be
sent out for discussion in advance of
the Legislature as was done with the
borough and other codes last year.