Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-27
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By the Ex-oommitseeman

The whole State is taking an in
terest in the contest over the Re-
publican nominations for county off,
ces in Allegheny and the court pro-
ceedings over the ballot boxes. Friends
or Prothonotary w. E. Kirker claim
that the official count will show he
has been nominated over Ex-Rep-
sentative d. b. Johns. The court
Will act this week in the matter and
also in charges that the ballot box in
one Pittsburgh district had been rified
and its contents burned. District At
torney Jackson is making an investi-
cation.
An Altoona dispatch says: Charles
70. Rhoades, a young Republican, who
has served acceptably in city councils,
is named as one of the candidates on
the nonpartisan ballot for mayor of
Altoona. His nomination meets with
popular favor and is considered a
recognition shown to the. younger ele-
ment of the voters. Richard Smith,
the present city treasurer, is his Demo-
cratic opponent. The three other
mayoralty candidates in the prelimin-
airy race polled a large vote. The most
of their supporters are registered as
Republicans and the opinion is ex-
pressed that most of them will sup
POlL IAhOQCS dl IIiS ELECTION.
1t is predicted that he will be un-
doubtedly elected"
|. County Commissioner P. ]. Boyle,
of Schuylkill, has been renominated
for his fourth term.
1t is possible that the official
count may show that Judge John
Faber Miller will have opposition for
judge of Montgomery county after
all. Democrats are insisting that one
OF their party goes on the ballot, too.
Robert d. Dripps, the new Phila-
delphia director of safety, observed his
first Sunday in office, by an address in
church.
George D. Porter will make his
campaign for mayor of Philadelphia
on local issues.
Senator Penrose visited Chester
county picnics last week and con-
graduated Republican candidates upon
the clean fight they had made.
The Philadelphia Record to-day
says regarding the proposed new party
in Philadelphia: "As the purpose of
the Committee of One Hundred in or
ganiSing a new party is to divorce its
fight from outside political considera-
tions and to confine its issues to purely
local affairs, the name City party is
considered quite probable of selection
as 1t was the first of the independent
parties to really give the Organiza-
ton a serious reverse. The Keystone
party made its first entry into the
political arena as a distinctly State
organization. 1t was organized in the
summer of 1910 and with Berry as it's
candidate came very close to winning
the Gubernatoria1 election of that
year. In 1911, the Keystoners effected
fusion with the Democrats and Blank
enburg and Ryan were victorious.
While the Keystone party still has a
column on the ballot, the organization
is Gibboney-controlled and the inde-
pendents will not touch it. The Wash
ington party was organized in 1912 in
the interest of Colonel Roosevelt for
President, and has been more or less
active since that time as State party.
While the majority of the Washing
ton party nominees are to be named as
yet the independent leaders seek 20
discard this party as too closely identi-
fed with Rooseveltism to serve in q
purely local fight"
Northumberland county Republi-
cans have nominated John II. Glass,
the Shamokin leader, for county treas
urer and he will win in canter, say
his friends.
South Bethlehem, which is cele-
brating the fiftieth anniversary of its
organization, will make another try
for cltyhood this Fall.
ID. P. Finkenbinder, the new
Democratic chairman of Cumberland,
is being doomed as a man not con-
nected with any faction. This is q
new deal for Cumberland whose ma
chine has been used by the reorgan-
izers from the start of that personally
conducted movement.
&C. K. Morganroth, the Shamokiu
lawyer nominated by the Republicans
of Northumberland for district at
torney. has no opposition.
The official count may be disputed
in the battle between S. p. Emery w.
E. Porter and ]. A. Chambers for
Lawrence judgeship honors.
William Draper Lewis has re-
sumed his law lectures at the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania.
i. P. Rogers right to be on the