Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-07
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By the Ex-Committeeman

look upon the appointment OF ware
men to places in the cabinet of Ma
yor-elect Smith, of Philadelphia, as
the beginning of the campaign of
Brumbaugh- -Magee-Vare alliance to
unhorse Senator Penrose from the
State leadership there are some who
look for no contest but who believe
that eventually the Governor will be
given the national delegates from
Pennsylvania for his presidential boom
and that the leadership of the senator
will be conceded. Yesterday at Wash
ington Senator Penrose entered upon
his new term of six years. His term
will not end until 1921 by which time
the terms of the Governor the mayors
of the cities of the State and of many
men now in Congress and the legis-
lature and in city and county offices
will have expired.
The Philadelphia Record and the
Pittsburgh Dispatch see in the ap-
poin -ments the beginning of war. The
| Philadelphia Inquirer in a discussion
| of the situation said: Among conser-
vative Republicans the opinion pre-
vailed yesterday that there will be no
| factional fight at the May primaries
| in this city. 1t was pointed out that
the mayor elect would have no cause
to involve his administration at the
| outset of his official career in a politi-
cal fight over party leadership and
that he has given no intimation of
| any such intention"
| The Philadelphia Ledger, which
/ loses no occasion to talk fight among
| Republicans, intimates that there will
| be a contest. The Ledger said to-
! day: Ware predominance in Mayor
elect Smiths cabinet yesterday re-
vived reports that the Wares, with the
! assistance of the Governor and that
of the Magee-Flinn faction in Allie
gheny county and possibly even with
the direct aid of Colonel Roosevelt,
would wage a State wide battle in the
Spring primaries to defeat Senator
Penrose's plan to control the Penn
sylvania delegation to the Republt- |
can national convention. That it was
admitted, was the big phase of the |
situation as it was discussed by poll !
ticians. The other, said to be or hard |
ly less Importance, was that the wares, |
having revenged themselves for Con- |
gresham Wares defeat for the may |
orally nomination in 1911, now would |
set about attempting to eliminate |
Senators Penrose and McNichol as po- |
litical factors of consequence in the |
Philadelphia organization. In short, !
1t was asserted Ware activities were
working toward the establishment of |
a new State and city leadership, which |
would combine the Progressives-or |
some of them-and the other anti
Penrose elements throughout the
State" |
An interesting sidelight was
thrown upon the situation in new
statement by William A Magee, Pub |
lie Service Commissioner and former |
Mayor of Pittsburgh, anti-Penrose man |
and champion of the Governor, in the
opinion of many. He said: II am not |
concerned about Philadelphia politics
nearly so much as l am concerned
about industrial conditions in the State, |
and l am desirouS of business getting
away from the throttling interests
holding it back Regarding the Wares,
believe they are friends of Governor
Brumbaugh. But, you know, the Gov
ernor is more of an educator than
politician, and as / cannot see any
political fight on the horizon of the
State at present l fail to see where
the appointments have anything to do
with either Mr.. Penrose or the Gov
ernor."
The Philadelphia Record to-day
gave this detail of an inside fight at
Philadelphia, which may have state
bearing: There was an impression
! that if there is to be war of the fac
tions it will start with the reorSan-
ization of councils and the naming OF
committees. The Wares insist that
Common Councilman Joseph P. GAIT
ney. of the Twenty-siXth ward, shah
succeed John p. Connolly as chairman
of the all-important finance commit
tee, while McNichol has favored
Charles f. Kelley, of the Seventeenth
ward As DR.. +. B. Gleason, caucus
nominee for president of Common
Council will name the committee
members from that chamber, and he
/ is aligned with the McNichol faction,
it is difficult to see how Gaffney can
win the chairmanship unless McNtchol
shall decide to lay down in the belief
that local peace will help the cause of
Penrose."
In the midst of all the fussing
even Pittsburgh has quieted down and
only the activity of the district attor-
ney in getting after election frauds
seems to disturb that usually tumul-
tuous center of politics.
William II. Wilson, the legisla-
| tive floor leader of last session and
| the new director Of safety in Phila-
delphia, indirectly replied to criti-
| cism of his appointment by the Phil
/ adelphia Bulletin by declaring that he
meant to attend to business and to
keep out of politics. Wilson is re-
membered here as one of the most
| forceful men on the floor of the
House and his friends here look for
| him to maintain an energetic admins
! tration.
Mayor John r. Lafean, relin-
! uuished his Office as mayor of York
! Yesterday on a decision of City So
| licitor John L. Rouse that he could
/ not continue legally in the office after
the first Monday in December, which
marked the expiration of his term.
Superintendent F. u. Stauffer of the
Department of Accounts and Finance,
will fill the vacancy until the term
of Mayor e. S. Hugentugler be-
/ gins on the first Monday of next jan
/ uary. The lapse of a month between
the two terms is due to the recent
election having been the first in York
for mayor under the new Clark act.
Elk Governor William A. Stone,
of Pittsburgh, who spent yesterday
here on legal business, declined to
! talk politics, but intimated that he
was enjoying the developments.
1t is understood that f. f. Heff-
ner, prominent Lock Haven business
man and mentioned for public service
commissioner, may have legislative
aspirations in the event that he is not
Iappointed.
! Ex-Representatives Burnett and
Barner, of Cumberland, who went
down last year, are said to harbor
aspirations for denomination by the
Democrats.
| -Coatesville's mayoralty contest
| has been continued again.
Secretary Patton has been at
Washington the last few days look