Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-03
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By the Ex-Committeeman

have occurred IN Pennsylvania politics
in the last twenty-four hours. Both
will be far-reaching in effect. One
was the announcement in Blair coun-
lty by Governor Brumbaugh last night
that he meant to start his campaign
for local option Legislature right
away and would go into the counties
to fight for men. The other was the
announcement by Senator George I.
Oliver that he was done with politics.
/ The Governor spoke at the Brum-
haugh reunion and reiterated what he
has said several times about being in.
deadly earnest for local option and
that he would fight at the primary
election next year for local option
members.
In his announcement that he has
retired from politics. Senator Oliver
says in the Pittsburgh Gazette-Times
In part: 1T has always been Senator
| divers expectation to relinqufsh ac-
tive participation in politics at the
earliest day that he could consistently
| do so, regardless of Incidental condi-
tions or the particular campaign that
might be on. The time has now ar
rived. For fifteen years 1t has been
his good fortune, if not to dominate
| in Republican Councils or to lead in
matters affecting that great party and
the public, at least to be intimately
consulted, to enjoy the confidence of
many loyal ieutenants and party men,
and to have the cordial cooperation
| of thousands of excellent citizens in all
walks of life. But ne feels that the re-
qutrements of continued relation with
the stress of politics are necessarily
and unavoidably of such nature that,
at the age of 81 and with two years of
arduous duties still ahead of him in
| the Senate, he is entitled to be re-
lieved from the position of the leader
and to take a place In the ranks
Senator Oliver wishes it understood,
therefore, that hereafter his part in
| politics viii be confined to that which
properly pertains to the duties and re-
sponsibilities of citizen, taxpayer and
businessman interested in the welfare
of his city, his county, his State and
his country, as distinguished from
problems that are essentially of the
party and its destinies."
| Regarding the Allegheny situation
a Pittsburgh dispatch to-day says
There has been something of revo-
luton in the politics of this county
within the last few months and deveI-
opments are looked for which may
have Statewide influence upon the
general political situation. success
sor to Senator Oliver will be chosen at
the election in November, 1916. Can
didates of the several parties will be
named at the popular primaries in
May next. Philander Chase Knox has
many friends who are urging him to
be a candidate, but up to date he has
not indicated a purpose to enter the
contest. Senator William E. Grow,
lof Fayette county, chairman of the
Republican State committee has been
assured of the backing of potential
republicans in every county in the
State and is expected to become a can
didate. Justice John P. Elkin of the
ISupreme Court, has also been proposed
for this honor, but has so far given
no ENCOURAGEMENT to the activities of
his friends"
The Philadelphia Press says of
the situation created by the Senator S
retirement: This also means that
campaign plans already made are
smashed to pieces, and that Oliver and
Mayor Armstrong have broken. Coro-
ner Jamison, one of the mayors clos
est lieutenants, was excoriated in the
Oliver farewell address, as we'll as
Max Leslie, another Armstrong lieu
tenant. Denny O'Neil, the present
county commissioner who is out for
election, chiefly will be affected by this
break, as he always has been support
ed by the Oliver faction, and the local
|, option proclivities of O-Neil have split
several political families
james r. Butler, a Tioga county
lawyer, to-day filed the first petition
to have his name placed on judicial
primary ballot. He will be a candi-
ty where there is a, lively contest with
David Cameron a candidate for re-
nomination, and Thomas A. Crichton,
cashier of the State Treasury, and
William Channel, of Wellsboro, as
Icontenders.
NJ.
lieve that there will be no meeting of
the State committee before late in
August or in September if then. They
say there is no necessity for it,
With judicial contests raging in
three of the districts in the Cumber-
land Valley that portion of the State
will attract widespread attention from
many people interested in politics this
Fall. The judges of the districts are
men known throughout the State.
Mayor Blankenburg's claims that
he was the means of saving millions
| of dollars to the people of Philadel-
phia in his administration has been
They point to numerous things which
! he did not do.
The Philadelphia mayor has also
gotten into the State limelight in the
last "a hours by approving the jitney
bill This is the first bill to be passed
unQer the authority conferred by the
recent act of assembly and will prob
ably be followed by some suits as
There is much opposition to it,
Start of the period for circulating
. petitions for county and municipal
nominations to-day attracted some at
tention among men active in politics
here. but there was. a disposition to
} let the other fellows get busy The
usual first day activity was absent In
many other cities of the third class the
candidates all appeared to be waiting,
; too.
The Philadelphia Inquirer to-day
says: THE initial move among inde-
pendents in this city in the mayoralty
canvass according to the active men
in recent contests will be the pre-
emption of the title for an entirely
Inew party. All alliances with former
organizations of this character will be
ignored and a name will be selected
under which all who shall be opposed
to the nominee of the Republican
party for mayor may unite without re-
gard to past affiliations politically.
The Municipal party is one of the IT,
ties suggested"