Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-10
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By the Ex-Con1naitteeman

count Tor $4,000 OF campaign contri-
buttons in 1914, the announcement
that Governor Brumbaugh intended
to continue his campaign tour and to
denodnce the campaign waged against
him and the statement that Senator
Penrose would make another speech
on the issues of the campaign as he
sees them on Friday night in Phila-
delphia, have turned the center of in
terest of the primary campaign to
Philadelphia again. Pittsburgh has
quieted down and from all accounts
there will not be as bitter a fight in
that county as anticipated and in
Lackawanna county 1t is claimed that
the administration will not have much
trouble.
The Democratic factions are furn-
ishing as much music as the Repub-
licans and statements are being made
so rapidly by the rivals for the empty
leadership that they are getting in
each others way.
The Brumbaugh people have app8r-
emily determined to ignore charges
made regarding the governors ex-
pense accounts and that State officials
are cutting meetings of commissions
and boards and hours at their desks
to tour the State or to work for the
governor and his delegates. There
| have been no orders issued at the Cap
itol, but the administration naturally
counts upon the personal loyalty of
the persons holding office. 1t is well
understood that highway or other de-
partment employees who engage in
political activity will be called down"
ii oweVer, there are q good many peo-
! pie at the Capitol who are aiding the
! brumbaugh campaign managers by in
n n hnrnA n
or giving names of persons TO whom
campaign matter, letters and the like
may be sent, as has been done many
times before. The Capitol is taking a
great interest in the fight, but the
measures used have been less drastic
than expected up to date.
Senator Penrose Is to be followed
on the stump by City Solicitor Con-
nelly, who will attack the Ware COM
bination, while Senator McNichol who
called the Ware e-Brumbaugh-Sm Smith
ticket "a mongrel Republican" ticket
is expected to keep at it. Senator Pen
rose is going to invade the ward of
Harry A. Mackey, chairman of the
Compensation Board and on Saturday
to enter the mayors home district.
Senator Ware says that Representa-
tive Stern is "a blatheI skite" and that
the charges about The Kolb matter are
untrue.
Democratic reorganizers are getting
scared about the reelection of State
Chairman Morris and are making des-
perate efforts TO get committeeman
who will support him.
Philadelphia school authorities
are having time because they refused
to let Mayor Smith have the use of a
school house for a meeting.
York citizens have formed a
] I of faa,, t,,ft fna ha.- h,,a
up to date raising campaign funds
and putting out statements attacking
Senator Penrose.
Pittsburgh is having some of the
most exciting Legislative contests in
years Some well-known men are fig-
uring in the battles
! Friends of Congressman Edgar r.
Kiess say that he will win his contest
for Republican denomination in the
Fifteenth district
Efforts to arouse sentiment for
! Congressman John r. X. Scott are
being made. The city has been well
supplied with Scott placards.
Theodore L. Bean, chairman of
the Montgomery County Amber Cam
paign Committee, issued another state
ment yesterday just to reassure the
Amber followers. Charles A. Am
bier will win the Republican nomi-
I nallOn IOT AuulIOI teneTdl, lue state
meHt reads. From reports which we
have received from every county Of
the State, Speaker Amber should be
victorious by 115, 900 at least, though
| it would not surprise us should his
majority reach 10000. Montgomery,
his native county, will give Amber
1000 majority"
While the proposed loan bills in
Philadelphia which Mayor Smith is so
anxious TO have adopted are looming
large as one of the issues of the cam
paign, it is hardly likely that the Pen
rose McNichol speakers will attack
them very forcibly from the stump.
There was a report yesterday that SEN
on the stump, but one of the Senator'S S
chief lieutenants said that he did not
! believe so. Senator Penrose has al
ready gone on record as favoring the
carrying out Of the transit plan.
After stirring up the animals and
making a great deal of excitement
about probe of the campaign expense
accounts of the Pennsylvania Pro-
| tectiVe Union. which was active in
1914, United States District Attorney
| e. Lowry Humes abruptly ended mat
| ters at Pittsburgh until after the pri-
maries. 1t is understood that some of
| the Democratic leaders have been so
/
had time to look after their fences and
| have troubles at home. Joseph r.
Grundy was not even subpenaed.
In Philadelphia council yesterday
! the Philadelphia electric rate case
| bobbed up and intimation of politics
were heard. Chairman Gaffney charged
that Councilman Trainer was trying
to make someone "a goat"
A. Mitchell Palmer made bitter
attack upon the candidacy of Michael
! Lebel. Jr., for Democratic national
committeeman yesterday. He made
the usual charges.
Ellis L. Orvis candidate for
United State senatorial nomination on
the Democratic ticket against Judge
Eugene c. Bonniwell. is making
speeches in Philadelphia.
The Supreme Court after hearing at
! Philadelphia Yesterday argument on
the appeal from the decision of the
Dauphin County Court ordering the
name of ]. WASHINGTON Logue to re-
main on the Republican primary bal
lot as a candidate for Congress in the
Sixth district sustained the decision OF
the lower court. Objection against
Logue's name being printed on the Re-
publican ballot was filed in the Dau-
phin County Court by Henry A. Yost
The objection was based on the fact
that the persons who made affidavit ia
the signatures on Logue's nominating
papers heiDp penuiOe did not know all