Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-19
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BY the Ex-CoInmitteeman

| III III
| Newspapers throughout the State
are adding new names to the list of
possible candidates for Governor which
was printed in this column three
weeks ago and some of them suggest
interesting angles. Democrats are also
lcommencfng to sit up and take notice
ana to discuss men who may be avail
able to fit in with the conditions which
Will follow the presidential election.
me Pittsburgh Dispatch says that
congressman Henry w. Temple of
washington county, q former Progress
| siVe ana recently elected to Congress
as Republican, is being very strongly
urged, while it also hints that while
many In Pittsburgh are suggesting
fuplc Service Commissioner William
"A. Magee for mayor of the city again
there is possibility that the Pitts
| purgh man may be asked to run for
| Governor. 1t issa new development in
the situation. The Philadelphia Ledger
says that Congressman John r. X.
Scott is candidate for gubernatorial
nonors and that Chairman w. d. B.
Alney, of the Public Service Commits
SION, is being supported UP State.
new names which have been turn
ing up in the list are State Chairman
Wllliam p. Crow. as harmony" can
didate; Congressman w. w. Griest of
| Attorney General.
| ON the Democratic side western
| democrats say that Vance c. McCor-
mlck, with the prestige of the Demo-
cratic national craftsmanship, plans to
run for Governor again in 1918 but
the Harrisburg man has not given anv
lntimation of the sort. Roland s. Nor
fls, former Democratic state chairman.
is regarded as the more likely choice
Oh the reorganization cult.
Samuel McCurdy, member of the
House from Blair county, was injured
In an automobile accident q few days
ago.
Delaware county's Jail has been
condemned. The people of the county,
however, are not inclined to spend
much money for a new one.
In spite of all the hot air the
arrangement of parties on the ballot
in November will be just as 1t was in
1914. The election OF 1912 settled that
for four years following.
Political clubs in eastern counties
are applying for licenses with stipu-
lation that there shall be no bars.
The convention of the State
League of Republican Clubs, the initial
session of which will be held in York
next Tuesday night, will not be fac
tlonal IN character, according to Fred
w. Willard, of Philadelphia, State
president, who visited York to discuss
arrangements. Senator William E.
Crow. the State chairman, will be on
hand,' declared Mr.. Willard. "Stories
OF an alleged meeting of the State
committee in Pittsburgh on September
II, which will require his presence
there, are without foundation. He has
accepted my invitation and has sent
out letters to members of the State
committee and county chairmen, ask
ing them tc be present also" Colonel
Roosevelt or Charles W. Fairbanks
Will deliver the speech opening the
campaign in the State. it was said.
Governor Brumbaugh will also be q
speaker at the meeting, to be held in
the. Biederwolf tabernacle Tuesday
night.
Democratic headquarters yester-
day admitted that William Jennings
Bryan will make a number of speeches
in this State, most of them, however,
to be in support of friends running for
Congress on the Democratic ticket
He is billed to speak in Johnstown on
October 16, where Warren Worth
Bailey, Democrat, is n candidate for
reelection.
According to messages coming
here to-day, there is brisk registration
in progress in Philadelphia and Pitts
burgh and presumably there will be
1nucn DONG IN the smaller municipali-
ties. The first days results We're not
satisfactory and there was a general
stirring up.
The Republican committee of the
Fourteenth ward of Philadelphia, of
which Congressman Scott is leader
last night endorsed the whole Repub-
lican ticket.
James B. Smarr. former clerk to
the mayor of Philadelphia, has sued
Mayor Smith, charging that he was
thrown out of office without cause.
OF $50 applications for civil serv-
ice jobs in Philadelphia over 25O were
from out of the city.
In a determined effort to purge
Philadelphia's voting list of all phan-
tom and illegal Names the Committee
of Seventy yesterday issued q general
appeal to citizens to come forward al
J this time and give information which
will aid in it's present campaign against
irregularities of the ballot. The Phila.
delphia Inquirer says: at also became
known that number of Philadelphia
most prominent professional men and
, bankers have been of aid to the COM
mttee in securing information or
| which action has been or will be
taken against alleged violators of elec-
, ton laws. Especially important evi-
dence of direct nature against elec.
ton boards has been furnished by one
well-Enown banker"