Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-28
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By the Ex-Committeeman

In the midst of the contests for cleo
tion of city and county officers on
partisan tickets which are stirring
Up Pennsylvania from end to end this
week and the interesting battle over
the woman suffrage amendment the
judicial contests appear to be holding
their own and in five counties of the
State battles for the associate judge
that are comparable only to the bat
ties in the cities.
This Fall there are two, side"
judges to be elected in Adams lcounty
and one each in Forest, Bedford, Perry
and Snyder. These elections are not
partisan and that in Adams county is
one of the hottest in the State. The
nominees are n. r. Beamer, S. Gray
Bigham, w. Howard Dicks and E. Z.
Miller. In Perry Harry l.. Jones and
| William A. Meiser are contending.
while the Snyder battle is between
John Fields and Charles NJ. Ingram.
| The Bedford contest is between John
w. Houff and A. /. Lyon. In Perry
| the battle is more or less about the
| liquor issue which figured in the re-
cent judicial election.
| Considerable stir has been caused
! in Allegheny county by the work of
the committee of 1000 to clear the
voters lists. This committee has been
| busy and will keep up its activities
| until next summer. The Allegheny
and Lackawanna campaigns will
probably lead to improved conditions
in those counties as the movements for
| better things are being undertaken as
| a matter of civic duty and not as part
of political propaganda to get people
back on the map.
in Adams county an assault on
the managers of the judicial campaign
OF Donald P. Mcpherson has resulted
in warrants being issued for n num-
Der of arrests. The informations were
made by John d. Kieth against men
whose names appear at the bottom of
a letter issued in behalf of ]. L. Butt,
who is making a losing fight against
Mcpherson, on the ground that they
make unwarranted statements. 1t is
son will carry both Adams and Fulton
counties without difficulty.
Tho Philadelphia campaign has
gotten heated up about as hot as any
mayoralty contest in a generation.
Mayor Blankenburg is kept busy an
swering questions and there are at
tacks on his administration from al
most every quarter. The Republicans
are finding sentiment very strong for
Smith and he is making friends among
the Democrats and Bull Moosers.
Considerable amusement has been
caused in other counties by the pop
! fire of the Dauphin County Law and
Order League. which according to
rumors spread out from this city in
tended TO make sweep of all sorts of
things. Compared to the way things
have been done in similar crusades in
Philadelphia and Pittsburgh the move
ments here are as myst erious as the
hackers of the league who have not
been announced, but who may be
guessed.
senator Penrose and Congress
man Ware spoke from the same plat
form for Thomas B. Smith in Phila-
delphia last night and caused great
| pain among the reformers who have
not reformed. They spoke at several
places.
Rabbi Krauskopf has Joined
| James Gay Gordon and John C. Bell
as an advocate of suffrage.
Another bunch of phantoms has
been dug up in Schuylkill county and
! list purging appears to be general.
| The Philadelphia ballot will be
! A by 81 inches in size.
A Wilkes-Ba dispatch to the
Philadelphia Ledger says: Methods
/ VI tilltl NdllliIS TIE IrlenQS or
| the Luzerne County Democratic
| League have brought that organiza-
tion into the hands of the law To-
day, upon various buildings and tele-
graph poles, are to be found notices
of constable's sale to satisfy claim
which Hugh Sweeney. a bother and
wholesale liquor dealer of the West
Side, says he holds against the league.
| The sale is advertised for Nobember
l, and among the articles to be dis
posed of are desks, typewriters and
other office fixtures. the property of
the league. Sweeney says that in the
campaign four years ago he furnished
whisky, beer and soft drinks to the
value of $425 at the order of the
! Luzerne County Democratic League"
! while there is temporary pros
perity in spots in this country and
| Chester happens to be one of these
spots" Congressman ]. Hampton
Moore, of Philadelphia. told $50 men
at the Chester Young Mems Republi-
can Club banquet, "God help Chester
and the other cities similarly situated
when the European war stops" Mr.
! Moore was the chief speaker at the
banquet which was the 32d annual
dinner of the club and which was
marked with record attendance. He
urged a good Republican majority ut
the coming election as a forerunner
to the national contest next year.