Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-21
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BY the Ex-Committeeman

According to Pittsburgh papers
auditor General A. w. Powell, VINO
was among those mentioned as a pos
slple candidate for United States
senator, is being seriously mentioned
as Judicial timber in Allegheny coun-
". The auditor general is at his home
IN Glassport this week and it is stated
that he has admitted that some of his
friends have been talking about him
as candidate.
Three Allegheny judges are to re-
tlre and the Pittsburgh Gazette Times
says; There was a story in circula-
tion yesterday that William Finn is
SWING some attention to the ,judgeship
contest OF next year and is making
up a slate. According to the report,
three of his candidates are Mr.
Powell, Lee c. Beatty and Judge
James B. Drew of the county court
This may be some political dopester's
dream or the real thing. If Mr.. Finn
is interested in putting through a
slate OF judges, he would hardly ad-
NIT this length of time ahead of the
contest. Mr.. Powell was asked about
his candidacy, and replied that if he
ever aspired to another office 1t would
be a Judgeship that he would seek
1t is laudable ambition to want to
go on the bench said Mr. Powell
Some of my friends have talked to
me about the possibility of my be-
coming candidate next year and
when the time comes l may decide to
do so. AT present l do not consider
myself candidate Mr.. Powell's
successor as Auditor General will be
elected this FAN and will take office
next May. This would give him time
TO make campaign for judge.
A Pittsburgh dispatch says regard
ing conference held here on We'd
nesday and referred to last night N
this column: u. Denny O'Neil, the
Rev. George w. Shelton, Assembly
man John w. Nickerman and Council
man DR.. G. A. Dillinger returned from
Harrisburg to-day, where they took
up the matter of the local option fight
with Governor Brumbaugh. The lat
ter assured them, they said tonight
that he would stump the State for
every member of the Legislature
seeking reelection who voted for the
local option measure at the last ses-
sion. He will also personally super
intend the fight against the men who
opposed the measure. Two headquar-
ters will be opened soon, at Pitts
burgh and Philadelphia, from which
the Statewide campaign will be di-
rected. The Governor said, of the
II delegates-at-large for the National
Convention, five of them should be
Smith, of Philadelphia, Mayor Arm
strong of Pittsburgh, and himself.
Things are all heated up in Phila-
delphia again as a result of a move
ment on the part of the Penrose and
Porter people to get together. Con-
gresham Ware is quoted in the Phila-
delphia Record as making some tart
comments and the Philadelphia Press
sees all sorts of possibilities. The
Press says in part: Possibilities OF
a Penrose-Porter alliance Immediately
to take an active part in the election
of delegates to the Republican Ma
tional Convention and members of the
Republican State Committee were dis
cussed with avidity yesterday by poll
ticians. Slumbering consideration OF
such a deal which has been given for
some time, broke out openly when il
became known that within a week
former Director of Public Safety
Porter, defeated Mayoralty candidate
had, with a group of his partisans in
the November fight, held a conference
with Senator Penrose in his office, in
the Arcade Building, and the even
more sensational supplemental de-
velopment announced in an interview
with Senator Ware, that the arrange
ments for the conference were made
at conferences which Mr.. Porter held
with Senator McNtchol in the office OF
the Clerk of Quarter Sessions Gun
ningham in City Hall. Finally the
political whisperers who are on the
inside add that Oscar E. Noll, leader
of the Thirty-sev Ward, and Rolla
Dance, of the Tenth Ward, were the
instrumentalities in bringing about
the Porter-Penrose conference after
Mr.. Porter failed to secure a seat or
the Public Service Commission which
it is said he sought"
Congressman Henry w Watson
who redeemed the ks-Montgomery
district and sent r. E. Diffenderfer tc
the scrap heap, is a candidate fol
reelection. He is out on the tariff
issue.
Proceedings to oust A. II. Ellis, q
West Pittston councilman on the
ground that he is not a citizen have
been started at Wilkes-Barre.
The movement to annex West
HaZleton to Hazleton has been revived
1t was defeated in 1910.
-Bryn Athyn is the latest addition
to the list of boroughs. 1t is in Mont
gomery county.
William l.. Hankey, a Wilmerdine
banker, is out for Democratic ma.
tional delegate.
&C. K. Morganroth is the new soli-
citor of Northumberland county.