Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-01
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The interesting thing about the
meetings of the official party organi-
cations of the Republicans and Demo-
Gratis yesterday was the decisive char
acter of the deliberations. AS pointed
out by the Philadelphia and Pittsburgh
newspapers this morning there is now
no longer any question of the leader
ship of Senator Penrose in the Repub-
lican party and the unanimous action
of the Democratic State committee in
carrying through the program of A.
Mitchell Palmer shows that the re-
organization wing is firmly in power.
The only speculation about yester-
day is what the antiPenrose people
intend to do. They have not given
any signs as yet and the Governor and
his advisers have refused to talk
about the matter. In any event, the
scene is now shifted to Chicago where
the clans will begin to gather to-
morrow.
The Prohibition State committee
yesterday named Chairman B. E. p.
Prugh to take charge of it's affairs
again. He has been chairman for
three years and got an increase of sal
ary. David B. McCalmont and DR..
PruSh were elected members of the
national committee; Charles l.. Rum
mel, of Shippensburg, was elected Sec
retary. and Thomas II. Hamilton, this
city, was reelected treasurer. The
following were elected members of the
State executive committee: George
w. Haine. Evans City; ]. G. Hosick,
Springdale; Isaac Mondereau, Mead
vile; Harry w. Brown, Osceola Mills;
f. e. Whittlesey, Cory; Albert Cad
dis, Uniontown; William Repp, Old
Forge; d. S. Won Media, Ephrata; !;
d. B. McCalmont, Franklin; George l..
Pennock, Lansdowne; Elisha K. Kane,
kushequa, and E. B. Lacey, Warren.
Elisha K. Kane was chairman of the
meeting and Charles l.. Rummel,
Cumberland county, secretary. The
treasurer's report showed receipts of
S1,O71,23, and expenditures of $6,-
6OI71, leaving a balance of S463.23.
The floating~ Indebtedness of the
committee amounting to s10,427.25,
had been reduced by S1,4O0. The
remainder, it was announced, will be
wiped out soon.
Just what became of the Bull
Moosers yesterday no one seems to
know. State Chairman DIETRICH was in
the city, but no one knew whether he
had forgotten to call meeting of his
committee or whether he was the
whole committee himself. DIETRICH
was noncommittal and the impression
gained ground that there would be
nothing doing until after Chicago.
The meeting of the Republican
State committee. held at Philadelphia
yesterday morning, was attended by
ITO of the 113 members. Other than
the election of Senator Penrose as the
national committeeman, the principal
business was the unanimous re-elec-
| ton of Senator Crow as chairman, OF
| Charles johnson as treasurer and OF
w. Harry Baker as secretary. Senator
Crow then reappointed w. p. Gal
lagher of Wilkes-Barre, as director OF
publicity. Harmony speeches were de-
livered by Senator Oliver, Senator
Snyder, nominee for Auditor General
and Joseph Mclaughlin, nominee fol
! ConGressman-a at-Large. The commit
tee will meet later in the summer, pos.
sibly in Pittsburgh.
Several belated expense accounts
were filed at the Capitol to-day. ]. V
! Clark, candidate for the State Treas.
urer nomination on the Republican
and Washington tickets entering his
| napers. His Republican account shows
SASS. Others filing to-day were Eu.
| gene c. Bonniwell, S. ]. Adams Jr.
! William Repp and r. A. Phillips, al
under $50 and d. NJ. Wertz, $117.3S
Delaware county was the only
county which had not filed it's officia
/ returns to-day. The only official pa
| pers from Delaware are the return,
| on one representative district and or
district delegates.
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