Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-18
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Announcement by Senator Boies
Penrose that he will be a candidate
for the Republican nomination for
President of the United States recalls
the action of Senator NJ. S. Quay back
in 1896 when he announced that he
4 was candidate and won the dele
| cation. Senator p. c. Knox was a can
didate in 1908 and he had the dele
| CATION.
The announcement from the South
that the senator intends to be candi-
| date, coupled with the general belief
that Governor Brumbaugh would be
willing to be nominated IL the lightning
| should strike him, makes the situation
one OF intense interest six months be-
fore the time for the primaries to be
held. If the friends of the Governor
decide to make a fight for him it would
mean lively contest. while with the
senator in the field as a candidate any
| opposition would mean fight for con-
troll.
| Events will move pretty fast after
! the senator returns to this State with
the Liberty Bell. BY that time the
Penrose plans will be announced and
| the rumored combinations against him
VIII take shape or vanish.
| The senatorial situation will prob
| ably come to head later on. Friends
or p {. Knox are getting very busy all
over the State. while. the f. V. BabcoclS
| NNhOitS are NdttinR TO see WnaJ nap
pens after Penrose comes home. That
Public Service Commissioner Magee
will get into the running as a compro-
mise candidate is doubted here.
-Blair county friends of Dairy and
| Food commissioner James Foust last
night wired him their CONGRATULATIONS
on his reappointment. Mr.. Foust has
long been active in Republican affairs
in that county.
Forty judges of election have been
haled into court in Philadelphia to ex-
plain election blunders.
Legal steps were decided upon at a
meeting at Chester yesterday to pre-
vent Mayor-elect w. s. Mcdowell from
taking his seat. The parties inter-
ested say it was decided to file papers
with the courts setting forth the rea-
sons for their action, based on the
ground that the act of 1915 under
which Mcdowell was elected is uncon-
sututlonal, as it deprived any other
candidate having his name printed on
the official ballot. The right of the
four Chester councilmen elect, b. d.
Wright Joseph Messick. Charles B.
Mould Ld John II. Mirkil, to take
their seats will also be contested, the
allegation being that they were elected
pE fraudulent means and contrary to
law. Prominent attorneys have been
engaged to combat the issue in both
instances. and il necessary. it was stat
ed by one of the men interested, it will
be taken to higher court. Mayor
William Ward. defeated candidate for
council and former legislator, and
NllI1am L. Fowden, defeated candi-
date for mayor on the nonpartisan
ticket, are active in the movement
-The FRANKLIN party appears to be
doing very much as the keystone and
other parties of protest in Philadel-
phia used to do by pre-empting the
name of the party for national and
congressional elections. These ALWAYS
look as though the organization was
a real strong one and from now on
there Will be stream of pre-emptions.
yesterday more were recorded and
there will be more tomorrow with
much noise by the boosters.
CONGRESSMAN a. S. Kreider an
pears to be getting around his district
good bit and his fences would seem
at TINS distance to be mighty well put
together. He has spoken in all three
counties of his district the last few
months.
The Scranton Republican in a re-
view OF conditions in the legislative
tield in Lackawanna county deals with
some well-known men this way: Sen
ator w. NJ. Lynch holds over for an
other two years. but the terms of the
representatives expire next December,
before the convening of the next ses-
SION. Hugh A. Dawson will be can
dldate to succeed himself in the Sec
ond district. William Luxemberger.
democrat incumbent. will have a hard
hght for reelection. as there are sew
eral prospective Republicans after the
Job in this Republican district. among
Iil Inem being Captain Jack Jones.
Ihomas Hart, Republican. of Winton,
is one or the men mentioned as a sue
cessor TO William Haggerty, deceased.
IN the Fourth district In the Fifth
W. w. Jones will be opposed for the
Repunhcan nomination by George
Powell. of Blakely, and in the sixth
John Cook. of Old Forge, and David
r. Davis. of Taylor. are already out for
the Republican nomination. 1t is
thought that Frederic C. Ehrhardt
representative in the Third district
VIII not seek reelection. Mr.. Ehr,
nardt mas been mentioned as a prob
able candidate for sheriff two wears
hence. The sheriff's contest may also
nnd County Treasurer Jacob r
Schlager in it