Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-17
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BY the Ex-Committeeman

More signs of the disintegration of
the washington party came yesterday.
According to statements from western
counties. the enrolment showed the
Bull Moosers to be only shadow and
IN other counties beside Fayette and
Westmoreland they are lower than the
Prohibitionists.
One of the most significant of the
actions taken since the Montgomery
and Clearfield Bull Moosers decided to
go back in body to the Republican
party was taken yesterday when Percy
E. Smith, Western Pennsylvania $
original Roosevelt man" and candI-
date of the Washington party for
lieutenant-Governor year ago. re-
turned to the Republican party and
hled nomination papers as Republican
candidate for county commissioner.
a Pittsburgh dispatch quotes Mr..
smith as saying: Under Governor
Brumbaugh everything has been ac-
compished except local option, to bat
tie for which the Progressive party
came into existence in PENNSYLVANIA
There is no longer an excuse for q
third party's existence. Besides, there
are critical reasons why people in COM
munities dependent for prosperity upon
high tariff should sink small, indi-
Vidual differences and unite for pro-
gressive Republican victory in 1915. as
l propose to do"
One of the Pittsburgh papers says:
William Finn, State leader of the
Progressives. let it be known some
time ago that he was going back into
the Republican party"
Nominating petitions for the re-
nomination of Judge George B. Orlady,
OF the Superior Court, were filed at
the Capitol to-day. The petitions for
the Huntingdon county jurist were fled
trcm a number of the counties of the
state. Additional petitions were also
MED to-day for the denomination of
Judge John B. Head, of the same
court, whose original papers were en-
tered late yesterday. These common
pleas petitions were filed to-day: J.
Frank E. Hause. Chester; James A.
Chambers, Lawrence; A. D. McCon-
nell, Westmoreland; E. NJ. Biddle. Jr..
Cumberland. Walter B. Craig, Berks,
MED a petition to be a candidate for
orphans court judge in that county,
Nominating petitions for associate
Judge We're filed as follows: John w.
Hun, Bedford; A. Y. Lyon, Bedford.
and George I. Rice, Adams.
Congressman w. S. Ware continues
TO be coy about the mayoralty. He is
not going on the San Francisco trip
with the Governor and Senator Ware
dld not bid on the transit contracts,
The Philadelphia Inquirer says to-day:
Former Postmaster Thomas B. Smith
continued Yesterday to be regarded as
the most likely nominee of the Repub-
lican party for mayor. Opinion among
usually well-informed Republicans was
to the effect that Congressman Ware
would finally decide not to be a can
didate and that his friends would sup
port Mr.. Smith. In that event there is
reason to believe that the Penrose-
McNlchol element will unite in advo-
eating Mr.. Smiths nomination" The
Philadelphia Press says Congressman
moore and George H. Earle are being
mentioned as likely candidates, too.
The committee of the Republican
city committee in charge of the con-
slceration of the proposition for non
partsan nominations for school di-
rector will have.a meeting in day or
two.
August 26 and August so are dates
which the Republican city committee
men are reminding people of. They
are the nrst two days for registration.
George d. Porter, Philadelphia di-
rector OF pubic safety, is an out-and-
out candidate for mayor of Philadel-
phia. He is being doomed by men Of
all parties without much strength in
any of them.
Maurice Leahy, candidate for pro-
monetary of Schuylkill. filed a petition
containing the names of fifty-six
Leahys, all relatives.
State officials are looking for the
usual rush of nominating petitions
next Tuesday when the time for filing
judicial papers for the September pri-
mary Will expire and it is a matter of
comment at the Capitol that but two
nomination papers for the Superior
court have been put on record andthat
the number of aspirants for associate
Judgeships who have filed nominating
petitions is almost as great as the
number of candidates for the
common pleas places. Judges
are to be elected in twenty-six dis
trlcts four in Philadelphia alone. and
IN addition two orphans court Judges
ana one municipal court judge in
Philadelphia are to be chosen. Six
associate judges will be elected. two
being in Adams county. The candi-
dates for associate judge in SNYDER
and Forest counties are greater than
known in those counties and the con-
tests for the honors are very keen. as
sharp as in the larger districts. where
judges learned in the law are to be
chosen.