Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-06
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By tue Ex-Commitsecman

Senator Boies Penrose, who spent
Saturday night here on his way to
Somerset to attend the encampment
of the P. o. S. of A, appeared to be
very confident Of Republican victory
not only in Philadelphia, but through
out the State this Fall The Senator
said that Republicans were confident
everywhere and that the registration
and enrolment showed the trend of
the popular mind. The Senator has a
number of engagements to speak this
month and will tour a dozen or more
counties.
The Philadelphia and Pittsburgh
registration is of a kind to cause many
Democrats and inveterate reformers
and independents to wall. In Phila-
delphia the registration of the Repub-
licans was tremendous and the Bull
Moose movement appears to have
dwindled away down. In Pittsburgh
the situation was the same and no one
appeared to take the Democrats SER
tously.
james I. Blakslee, assistant post
master general, and one of the main
cogs in the Democratic machine, dis
appointed lot of York county Demo-
Gratis on Saturday when he failed to
d
cratic pow-wow. Blakslee, who had
been very assiduous in attention to
York Democrats when he needed their
aid in pulling over the reorganization,
sent no word why he did not appear.
Secretary Wilson made a speech.
Senator Ware says of the Phila-
delphia situation: There is nothing
to it but a clear Republican sweep"
An Allentown dispatch says:
Charles F. Berkemeyer, the original
reorganization Democrat of the
county, and chief booster here of A
Mitchell Palmer, has resigned as spe-
cial census enumerator at a compen-
sation said to have been 81 a day.
When Palmer started reorganization,
Berkemeyer took up his cause, and
was named chairman for this con-
gressional district. The Old Guard
here got on the Palmer band wagon
and its leaders showed Berkemeyer
aside. He said: The reason I re-
signed is owing to the fact that on
account of the deficit in the National
Treasury I was not paid for three
months. and that salary is still due
me. If they run the government into
debt so they can't pay an honest
worker. why, I don't care for one of
their jobs.
To-day is the second registration
day in first and second class cities and
Saturday is the last chance in third
class.
An Atlantic City dispatch to the
Philadelphia Ledger says: "Organi-
zation leaders buried the hatchet and
got behind Thomas B. Smith for
Mayor of Philadelphia in real earnest
here to-day. This was singularly fit
ting, for it was here, on the porch
of City Chairman Lanes hotel head
quarters, that the plan to make Smith
the harmony choice of all the factions
was worked out and many believe
consummated hours before that his
torical session in Philadelphia on last
Tuesday"
Here is an interesting story from
Sharon: Candidates for political Of
flee throughout Mercer county are
aroused over the receipt of a letter
from the election officers of the North
precinct of the borough of Farrell in
which they have been invited to con-
tribute extra compensation for their
services at the polls. Generally speak
ing, the candidates have taken the
letter as a piece of effrontery. on the
part of the election board. It is said
that some of them have sent in their
contributions. The reason assigned
in the letter for the request is that
the polling of 700 votes will require
the board to put in two days work.
1t is hinted that the work will keep
the election board away from their
regular duties, thereby causing a
! loss"