Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-27
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BY the Ex-Committeeman

Admirable as is the German press
has nothing on the A. Mitchell Palmer
bureau. The latter seems to have
ramifications to any point where the
patronage dispensing power of the ma
ton happens to be. The other day
when the President was in Washing
ton for few hours on very important
| business place had to be made on the
press wires for stories from that city
regarding A. Mitchell Palmer and the
! job in the State Department which
A. Mitchell Palmer himself says he
has asked no one for. The President
/ is now back in Cornish and from that
| ouiet New England point the A. Mitchell
| Palmer stories continue to come. And
| they are always the same. The Presi-
| dent has not made up his mind about
| the counSelorship in the Department
, of State. but "A. Mitchell Palmer, of
! pennsylvania, is expected to get the
| position" A. Mitchell Palmer may not
| have asked either the President nor
Secretary Lansing for this appoint
ment, but 1t is fair assumption that
he will be very much disappointed If
he does not get it. And a great many
people, including eminent members of
A4io OWll party, VIII HCdNG Il DTOulSlOuS
sigh of relief when A. Mitchell Palmer
is finally taken care of in a way salts
factory to himself. There are times
when doling out the pie must bore
MIR. Wilson almost to distraction.
II is beginning to be generally ac-
cepted in Philadelphia that Governor
Brumbaugh really will not take hand
in the mayoralty muddle. II is pointed
out that his vacation in Maine, which
will be broken by a brief visit to the
camp OF the Second Brigade of the
state guard, will last until August "a,
and that it will be followed immedi-
ately by the trip to the Panama
Pacifc Exposition, which will keep the
Governor out of the State until the eve
OF the primaries on September 81.
Pittsburgh is keeping tabs on the
talk about calling into existence the
investigating commission authorized by
the last Legislature to inquire into
municipal conditions even though Gov
ernor Brum baugh did veto the appro-
priation to pay for its expenses. 1t is
felt in the big town at the other end
OF the State that if this commission
actually gets going its broad powers
and the state of politics out there make
1t almost certain that 1t will take a
lcok at Pittsburgh before it closes its
career.
Senator Penrose was accorded a
most cordial reception during his visit
yesterday to Watsontown, where he
made an address last evening at the
armory of the Patriotic Order Sons OF
America. No reference was made to
politics in the address, which was a
plea for adequate national defenses.
The Senator went to Watsontown in
his new automobile and passed through
this city, although he did not stop.
Al Sunbury he was met by a party
consisting of State Senator w. c.
Mcconnell, Judge Fred B. Moser, Judge
L. H. Walter, of Mount Carmel, and
w, +. Shay, of Watsontown. At a re-
ceptlon which was held at the Man.
sion House hundreds of citizens from
every part of the upper end of North
umberland county called to pay their
respects.
The slump in the Washington party
enrolment has not discouraged the
faithful who hold forth in Bucks
county, and it has been decided to put
a full ticket in the field this Fall.
tugh b. Eastburn, Jr., of Bristol, has
been elected county chairman; S. B.
Denlinger, Doylestown. secretary, and
Walter Cogan, Doylestown, treasurer.
Up to the present nothing has been
heard from Pike county. the home of
Clifford Pinchot, on the question of
plans for this years election.
Wilson A. Deily, for a long time an
examiner of the Philadelphia Civil
Service Commission, and at present
acting chief examiner. has been given
permanent appointment to the latter
position. He stood fourth among those
who took the examination for the
place, but in view of his familiarity
with the duties and the fact that the
three who stood above him were not
! residents of Philadelphia, the commits
sion decided to give him the place.
Yesterday was an off day in the
Philadelphia mayoralty situation. None
| OF the leaders had anything to say.
so the gossips made a great deal out
of the fact that Senator Penrose has
| accepted an invitation to attend a din
ner to be given in the furtherance of
tho boom for Representative ]. Hamp-
ton Moore at the Rittenhouse. Au-
gust s.. There does not seem to be
much significance in that, however
The political dinners in Philadelphia
so far this year have been almost fatal
to the candidates. they were organized
to boom and the absence of political
speechmaking has been their most
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