Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-26
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By the Ex-Committeeman

1t is announced that an attempt will
be made this week to get Governor
Brumbaugh to declare in favor of the
woman suffrage movement. Miss
mary Winsor, president of the Limited
Equal Suffrage League, and Miss Julia
Lewis vice-chairman of the Suffrage
committee, are preparing letters which
lwiil be sent TO the Governor asking
him to publicly place himself on rec
ORD II the letters are anything like
me interviews given out in Philadel-
u'pioinatlc suggestion that sympathy
Lor the suffrage movement might
prove helpful in making Governor
bluihoauSh candidate for the Re-
pupncan Presidential nomination.
SAID Miss Lewis. THE attitude OF Gov
eInor Brumbaugh at this particular
time is or great Importance The wo-
men who are working for suffrage in
PehnsylVania will, of course, want to
support man for President who has
openly espoused the cause. The wo-
men OF the West also will want TO sup
port such man. There are 1000, 600
VINO vote in the West"
This is the week in which the people
OF Philadelphia hope something defin-
lte VIII be arrived at in the matter of
selecting the Republican mayoralty
candidate. 1t is understood that with
IN few days a conference of the
leaders will be held at Atlantic City
at which the matter will be taken up.
1t is hoped that the Wares will in the
meantime make definite announce
ment of their intentions.
The other day congressman Dewalt
While in Reading issued a pressing in
Vitation 70 the Berks county Demo-
crats 10 attend the annual meeting of
their Lehigh county brethren 1t now
develops that there was something
more than mere hospitality in that
Tor me principal event of the gather
ing thls year will be an announcement
OF Dewalt's candidacy for renomina-
| uon. The date for the meeting is Au-
gust 4 and the place is Breinngsville
ms usually is great event in the
eastern section of the State, for il is
an actual survival of the days when
oaroecues and huge mass meetings
were the big features of every political
campaign.
civic patriotism is at a low ebb in
Hazleton. The office of councilman
pays $3.50 in that town, but so far
there is an actual dearth of candidates
( for the places that are to be filed this
Fall.
Nowhere in the State is the Wash
ington party slump and the Republi-
can gain as shown by the party en-
rollment more pronounced than in
Cumberland county. According to fig-
ures compiled at the office of the
county commissioners the Republican
enrolment is $3.50 as against 500 last
| year. Last year the Washington en-
rollment was 750; this year it is 225.
Three years ago Roosevelt polled $500
| votes in Cumberland. The total regis
tration was 5,591. OF this number
! 1880 refused to name a party prefer
ence. The Democratic enrolment is
$40, Prohibition 129, Socialist 147.
The plant of the Scranton Daily
! News which was started to boom the
! Bull Moose cause in the upper anthra-
| cite region was sold by the sheriff
/ of Lackawanna county last week for
Sl02. The purchase was made by the
George B. Markle estate and is sub
ject to leases that aggregate nearly
| $4,000. 1t is estimated that the
Markles dropped s150,000 into the
! News venture. They are buying up all
the claims and it is said that they will
b. back of a new newspaper to be
started in the near future.