Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-20
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By the Ex-oommitseeman

The first nominating petition for
congressional candidate in the oath
district, whore a special election will
be held to select a successor to the
late William NJ. Brown, was filed to-
day by Henry w. Temple, of Washing
ton county. Mr.. Temple was elected
to congress in 1912 as Progressive.
The petition filed to-day is for the Re-
publican nomination. The district is
composed of Beaver, Lawrence and
Washington counties.
Judicial nominating petitions were
filed to-day in behalf of Judge S. J.
Telford, Indiana who seeks renomin-
alton, and for the following judicial
candidates: U. P. Rossiter. Erie F.
H. Wilkinson, Greene; Clement B. Nc
Carter, Beaver; William T. Dare, JEFF
ferson; Samuel H. Sell, Bedford, and
James A. McLaughrey, Mercer.
Late yesterday a big paper was
filed for Judge Joseph S. Woods, con-
tanning names of many prominent men
in Miff1in, Huntingdon and Bedford
counties. The judge, who is a former
senator, will be backed by a strong
citizens committee.
Judge r. S. Holt, Beaver, and Ar
thur T. Park, Chester, filed judicial
nominating papers late yesterday, both
being good sized documents.
yesterday reiterated his desire to re-
main In congress rather than become
mixed up in a mayoralty row.
Mayor Ira w. Stratton, of Read
ing, and Samuel l. Spyker, of Hunting
don, are being mentioned as possible
appointees to places in the State gov
ernment soon. Spyker Is likely to be-
come counsel for the Workmen's Com
pensation Board. ..
Philadelphia Democrats are scrap
ping gorgeously over magistrate nomi-
nations. The Democracy can always
be depended upon to fuss when there
is no occasion for it.
Lieutenant Governor Frank B.
McClain, State Treasurer Young and
Secretary of Internal Affairs Henry
Houck will be in the Panama-Pacific
Exposition party.
Apparently fusion schemes are not
taken very seriously very far from
Market Square.
Pittsburgh dispatches say that the
Penrose influence will be thrown
against P. c. Knox for senator. Knox
has been strongly boosted by some of
the Pittsburgh newspapers.
Harry d. Schaeffer, who is out for
orphans court in Berks. was q former
candidate for the bench. He will op-
pose Judge Bushong, who was named
Erie is facing a lively contest for
nominations for city council in the
midst of the recovery from the flood.
Excitement is not hard to find in Erie
at any time.
Commissioners Smith said in Phila-
delphia last night that he was giving
attention to his new job and nothing
else.
4 From all accounts, the responses
TO State Chairman Morris efforts to
lift the burden of debt from the Demo-
cratic State committee have not been
very liberal. He found 1t as hard to
get many answers in this community
the Wetzel and Biddle wings in Cum
berland county.
The Philadelphia Record a few
days ago contained this interesting
editorial comment, which might be
Record said: THE truth will out.
Our esteemed contemporary, Warren
Worth Bailey, who hates political
bosses and who has been trying to
make himself believe there is a Demo-
cratic organization in Pennsylvania
now protests that there was no Demo-
cratic platform in this State last year
and that the squeak of one lone indi-
Vidual was masqueraded as a Demo-
cratic platform"
The Philadelphia Record SAYS to-
day of the Philadelphia mayoralty:
"A new situation arose in the Repub-
lican mayoralty tangle yesterday when
City Chairman David II. Lane, who is
now in Atlantic City, was quoted as
saying that Thomas b. Smith had at
one time been agreed upon as a COM
promise candidate for mayor, and
when both Senator McNichol and SEN
ator Ware promptly denied this report
making their first public utterance on
the Smith boom. The statements of
McNichol and Ware practically give
the lie to Lane. The whole matter
the Smith candidacy and it was agreed
that there probably had been some
thing to the Smith boom in the first
place. but that it was now abso-
lutely dead"
The Philadelphia Inquirer says to-
day of Governor Brumbaugh: THE
Governor is much tanned and looks as
he says he feels-in tip-top physical
condition. His good roads program is
occupying considerable. of his .atten-
ton, he said, and so far as 1t has been
worked out has been highly graft
flying. In coming through .Pennsyl-
vania,' he said, 7 traversed probably
$50 miles of country in which the
patrol system is now in force, and the
effects of it are apparent to any OBJ
server. I believe 1t will become one
of the most important factors in pre-
serving good highways over Pennsyl-
vania. once they are established"