Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-15
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BY the Ex.Oomnnitseeman

dressed a letter to each of the candi-
dates for Superior Court judge ask
ing their position with relation to the
granting of injunctions against labor
unions, organizations or leaders. The
letter, which also sets forth the
views of the Federation on the sub
Ject. is as follows: Your name is to
be presented to the coming primaries
as a candidate for judge Of the su-
perlor court; therefore, will you be
KIND enough to give the Pennsylvania
tederation of Labor an expression of
your opinion rs to the exercising of
that prerogative of the court, the in
junction, so frequently used against
labor organizations in labor disputes =?
Our position is that no person should
be either enjoined from, indicted,
prosecuted. or tried for entering into,
or carrying on any arrangement
agreement or combination between
themselves, made with a view to les
sening the hours of labor, or increas-
ing wages, or lettering the condition
OF workinsmen, or for any act done
in pursuance thereof, unless such act
! is in itself forbidden by law, If done
by single individual"
County Commissioner j. Denny
O'Neil did not mince words last night
IN replying to the charge of Senator
Boies Penrose that he had aided IN
the defeat of Congressman John Dali
zell. This was Mr.. O'Neil's answer
delivered by him from the stump:
senator Penrose says that l dealt u
severe blow to protection by opposing
Mr.. Dalzel l never made a fight
against Mr.. Dalzell, and practically
all my friends holding county posi-
tions supported Mr.. Dalzell."
Although the Wares have slated
Judge Raymond MacNeille for re-elec-
ton in the Philadelphia Municipal
! court, nearly a dozen candidates are
in the field. plugging away in the hope
that lightning will strike them. Chief
among them is S. Walter Foulkrod.
| who has a committee working for
him. Yesterday William c. Stoever,
Jr, another aspirant, got his commit
tee together and the members are get
tins out cards and circulars for him.
! Eastern Pennsylvania counties are
now being flooded with circulars and
advertisements boosting the candidacy
of William D. Wallace, of New Castle,
Lawrence county. for judge of the
superior court.
Following his arrest on a charge
| OF disorderly conduct preferred by
Burgess A. A. Purman of Waynesburg,
Attorney Jesse Wise, candidate for
judge in Greene county has filed suit
to recover 100000 for alleged false
arrest. The defendants named are
Burgess Purman, Police Chief NJ. D.
Wood. George White, courthouse
janitor and the borough of Waynes-
burg. Attorney Wise alleges that he
spent two hours in Jail and that he
was fined $40 and costs by Burgess
| Purman. The evidence in the case
did not bear out the verdict, says At
torney Wise. His arrest followed
some difficulty over the ownership of
an automobile Saturday,
while there are 149,60O Republi-
cans qualified to vote in Allegheny
county, says the Pittsburgh Gazette
Times, they will not all turn out at the
! primaries. Four years ago in the
primaries there were S6,245 votes cast
for candidates for prothonotary. This
vote no doubt will be exceeded this
time, and some guesses are being made
that within 20 per cent. of the enroll
ment will be polled.
Charles l.. Huston, the Coatesville
iron and steel manufacturer, is a can
! didate for director of the poor in
/ Chester county. His candidacy is at
tracing much attention because of his
| State prominence.
Major William Ward, Jr., former
member of the House from Chester, is
candidate for denomination as mayor
OF his city.
-JOnI ~.
treasurer is back from Mexico where
he investigated the affairs of a planta-
tion company which had secured con-
siderable Pennsylvania money.
David NJ. Johnson, former mayor
of Chester is dead at his home. He
was a notable figure in the affairs of
Delaware county for years.
Allentown g S t r d 1925.
Democrats were in the usual proper
| ton.
Thomas B. Smith, candidate for
mayor of Philadelphia, has been elect
ed president of the Sons of Veterans
club. He is busy swinging around the
circle.
Congressman Dewalt is to be the
chief speaker at the fifteenth anniver-
sary dinner of the Lehigh Democratic
club
Scranton papers intimate that
| Congressman John r. Farr and John
! Won Bergen have made an alliance for
this year. Farr was endorsed for Con-
gress in 1912 largely through the aid
| of Won Bergen who was a heap Big
| Bull Moose at that time.
Speaking at Pittsburgh Represen-
tative A. C. Stein told Allegheny
Liquor Dealers that each saloon keeper
should be good for ten votes. He
asked for the defeat of j. Denny
O'Neil.