Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-29
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By the Ex-Committeeman

Pennsylvania's campaign, which will
close within the next four days, has
contained more of the picturesque
than any campaign known in an "off
year in decade. To begin with the
purely State election for superior court
judges brought some unusual features
and proved the workableness of some
portions OF the nonpartisan judicial
! nomination act with the result that
three men who received far more
votes than their opponents must go
b., through the whole process again.
Ihen, too there are about thirty stiff
judicial contests and the wisdom of
IproViding for such elections in years
when there is no State contest is be-
coming apparent daily.
/ But the most interesting of all has
been the woman suffrage campaign,
Iwaged by the suffragists with a vigor
and sincerity that has attracted ma
tlonal attention and by the antisuffra-
glsts In an occasional manner which
seems TO nave been a bit enlivened as
the campaign nears the close.
Beyond all doubt this will be a Re
publican year in Pennsylvania and in
every county the back to the party"
movement has resulted in the align
ment OF voters in strength apppoXi-
mating that of dozen years ago. The
lively contests for municipal and
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strength and that the party will be in
flne shape for 1858 big fight.
As to the Philadelphia campaign the
most interesting of all in the State the
Philadelphia Inquirer of to-day says:
on the last lap of one of the most
spirited campaigns in the history of
Philadelphia, Thomas B. Smith, Re
publican nominee for Mayor, and his
colleagues on the ticket, accompanied
| by United States Senator Boies Pen
rose and number of other prominent
supporters of the Republican ticket,
last night invaded Kensington, Brides
burg West Philadelphia and the north
west section of the city. receiving from
many thousand enthusiastic voters
ovations which surpassed any they had
previously been rendered. Although
Mr.. Smith in his addresses continued
to maintain his policy of not attacking
the present administration and it's can
didate, George D. Porter, others in his
party were even more emphatic in
their charges that the Franklin Party
choice for the Mayoralty was not only
incompetent as Director of Public
Safety, but also lacks the ability to fill
the office which he is seeking"
Judge David Cameron, of Tioga
county, who is making a fight for re-
election with the license issue very
mum " lHS IIOill, has Deen COM
PEELED to face a canard that he had
granted license to social club. The
story has attracted much attention,
but friends of the judge are having no
trouble to refute it.
John ]. Crout. who was chair
man of the Washington party city
committee in Philadelphia, is reported
back in the Republican ranks. Crout
used to be In the Legislature and was
a picturesque chairman, if nothing
more.
d. Clarence Gibboney is keeping
up his attacks on Candidate Porter in
Philadelphia and in addition there
have been almost daily defections from
the ranks OF Franklin party men. The
reformers who did not reform are hav-
ing their own troubles these days.
County Commissioner ]. Denny
O'Neil reduced by 20 per cent, or 500
votes, the $500 plurality returned
against him and in favor OF Frank j.
Harris in the Republican primary con-
test for commissioner, when common
pleas court in Pittsburgh yesterday,
ordered thrown out the entire vote in
the first ward, Braddock. The vote
had been previously thrown. out simply
in the prothonotary contest between
David B. Johns and William B. Kirker,
resulting in the nomination of Kir-
ker.
The State Prohibition committees
car has been doing some invading the
last two weeks and this week it has
appeared at several Cumberland
county towns in the liveliest sort of
a campaign. State Chairman B. E. p.
Prugh has been going into various
places and backing up Col o. O..
Wyard in his campaign work. The
Carlisle meeting was one of the most
N a h11 ~ "a TN,Yt,, N,.la "a
Valley by the Prohibitionists.
The Perry county campaign, which
will determine whether the county is
to be wet or dry, is nearing a close.
The two candidates are both residents
of Newport. H. l.. Jones and w. A..
Meiser. Judge Seibert is counted as
a dry and the associate judges have
considerable to say in licenses.
Election officials of Luzerne
county face a term in Jail as result
of disclosures made before Judge
John NJ. Garman in court at Wilkes
Barre. After hearing testimony bear
ing on alleged election frauds in the
first and the fifth districts of Plains
township, Judge Garman called upon
some public-spirited citizen to bring
prosecutions, which, he declared
would result in high county officials
going to prison. 1t has been shown
that a fraudulent registration list had
been stolen from the courthouse after
being turned into the office of the
County Commissioners, and that
names had been added to another list
after it had left the hands of the
register assessor.
Senator Penrose and Congressman
John j. Casey have been asked to use
their influence to prevent the closing
of the West Hazleton post office on
January 1. 1916, when the postal au-
thorities have announced that West
Hazleton's mail will be handled from
HaZleton.
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