Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-01
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Although the State campaign pre-
hminaries are quiet and the men who
are interested in Republican delegate
elections are busy on study, the local
conditions in the various districts in
dfcattons are not wanting that there
is quite a pronounced sentiment
throughout the State in favor of al
lowing the Democrats to furnish the
sideshow this year. The Democrats
In all districts are just spelling for a
night, the feeling among the Old
Guard element being that this is a
good time, especially when resent
ment over appointments is hot. to
make battle for control of the State
machine. The starting of the war in
this county will be the signal for trou-
Bile in other counties.
The news that a fight was planned
all along the line against the reorgani-
zaton machine has stirred up q good
many latent animosities and the petit
tons will soon be flying for the rival
candidates.
The Pittsburgh Gazette-Times says:
State Chairman Grow and Congress
man Ernest will be with the Cover
nor in a State fight. 1t declares friends
of the Governor will not enter his
name as a preferred candidate for
president unless such action is deem
ed necessary as u strategic move to
bring strength to his forces. In the
forthcoming statement the Governor
Is expected to announce that he stands
by the slate of II national delegate
at-larGe candidates put before the
public some time ago by Mayor Thom-
as E. Smith of Philadelphia. The
men associated with the Governor be-
lieve that United States Senator Boies
Penrose will remain silent until Mr..
Brumbaugh has spoken and are eX-
pecting him to accept the challenge to
fight. They look for him to put out
another slate of national delegate
candidates to be elected at large in
the State. The delegate fight is eX-
pected to spread into the 32 congress
sional districts of Pennsylvania with
two sets of candidates in practically
every district"
Considerable interest was shown
here to-day in the announcement
that Miles b. Kits, a member of the
terms and q pronounced foe of the re-
organization element in the State
Democracy, had been elected mayor of
Erie at the special election. Kits
was a stormy petrol in two sessions
and as rabid against local option as
against the Democratic bosses. He
won out for the term to which the
elected and will serve almost four
years. He defeated ex-Mayor w. J.
Stern by over 1000 majority. 1t was
one of the hottest political fights ever
known in the State and was marked
by all sorts of advertising methods
while the partisans of the two men
came TO blows in some of the districts
of the city yesterday. Because of the
bitterness of the contest and Kits
prominence in the liquor fight the
election attracted wide attention.
A Williamsport dispatch says:
Congressional politics boiled over to-
day when Archibald NJ. Hoagland,
former district attorney of Lycoming
county, announced that he would be a
candidate for the Republican nomin-
alton for Congress His opponents
will be Congressman Edgar r. Kiess,
of this city, and w. b. Champaign, of
Wellsboro. The appearance of Hoag-
land in the race will split the vote in
LycominG and Clinton counties but
friends of Congressman Kiess say it
will not harm him."
j. c. Dickerman, head of the bu-
reau of gas of the city of Philadel-
phia and we'll known to many here,
has been notified of his dismissal. The
action was taken yesterday.
u. IL. OSt, VINO Is q CanQluaLe
for the House in the Second York
district, is a shoe manufacturer living
near York Haven.
r. l.. Roth. former county audi
tor of Lehigh, is a candidate for the
House.
Howard G. MCGOWAN. former
legislator from Berks, who harbored a
senatorial bee, has decided to with
draw from the race. He is the Berks
county member of the State Board of
Agriculture.
The antisuffragists are starting to
get busy in Philadelphia and will
make an effort to offset the Suffrage
rally i'm this city next week.
The Lackawanna judges refused
all new licenses yesterday, granting
only the 9S9 old ones.
&C. f. Berkemeyer, who was the
original reorganiZer in Lehigh county,
has taken it into his head to be a can
didate for the Democratic congress
sional nomination against Congress-
man Dewalt. Dewalt does not seem
to mind it.
Its dollars to doughnuts, say
Democrats, that the Palmyra and
Halifax post office appointments will
go to men VINO voted for Berry in
1910 and not to old line Democrats at
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