Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-21
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BY the Ex-Commirteeman

Harrisburg will in all probability
be selected for the meeting of the
Republican State Committee at the
conference of the leaders to be held
in Philadelphia this week. 1t is un-
derstood that State Chairman Crow
has been ironing out some differences
on dates and places and that he is
planning for a meeting of the COM
mittee which will be essentially a
national campaign opening and which
will bring together the leading Re-
publicans of the State.
This meeting will probably be held
here some time in the early part of
October. The week of October 2 is
generally favored for the session as
the Saturday of that week Candidate
Hughes will be in Philadelphia
Regarding the platform it is likely
that 1t will be purely national in
scope, just as was that adopted by
the Democrats at their organization
meeting. This platform so far met
all desires that there was no further
action taken here last week.
Reports from York are that the
meeting of the State League of Re-
publican Clubs will likely break rec
ords. President Fred w. Willard has
completed the arrangements for the
big demonstration. About 500 dele
gates alone, Mr.. Willard said, would be
present at the Tuesday night mass
meeting and at the following sessions.
Among Republican candidates and
officials who will speak at the mass
meeting besides State Chairman Crow
will be Congressmen-at at-large John r.
K. Scott and Thomas S. Crago, Charles
A. Snyder, candidate for auditor gen.
eral; Harmon E. Kephart, candidate
for State Treasurer; Daniel ]. Shern,
Samuel K. Mccall, Republican candi-
date for Congress from the Twentieth
baugh. Governor Brumbaugh will
likely change the itinerary of his
farm inspection tour in order to ad-
dress the mass meeting.
Two Philadelphia councilmen
have been accused of frauds in cleo
tions in the latest list of prosecutions
started in that city.
Pittsburgh Republicans are or
ganizing in every ward to make sure
of a sweeping vote for Hughes and
the election of Republican council
men. In Allegheny county the Re-
publicans have gotten together
results.
According to what is said at
Chester less than half of the voters
of the city registered at the two regis
trations.
Philadelphia Republicans are
making big preparations for the re-
ception to Charles E. Hughes, who
will likely visit that city on October
Z. Senator Penrose was in New York
yesterday making arrangements for
the visit which is to be the opening of
the campaign in that city.
Pittsburgh registration is reported
as heavy on the second registration
day. Scranton also had a heavy
registration.
Governor Brumbaugh's declara-
ton that there are too many laws on
| the books now Is taken to mean that
there will be an effort to hold down
| legislation next winter and that the
repeater of useless legislation will go
give the subject of legislation much
attention in November and his mes
sage is expected to be one of prime
interest.
Penn, writing in the Philadelphia
Evening Bulletin, has this to say about
Pennsylvania, which is being claimed
pretty vigorously by some of our
Democratic brethren: I'm the pres
ent campaign there is no thought IN
the mind of even the most ardent
Democrat that his party will carry
Pennsylvania. 1t would be as much
out of the question for him to suppose
that Wilson would capture this State
as it would be for a Republican to
suppose that Hughes might capture
Alabama. Here in Philadelphia it is
as certain as anything in the future
can be, that Hughes will have a ma
jority in every ward, with a single ex-
ception, and that he may perhaps
carry that. In fact, no Democratic
citizen who is under sixty years of age
can remember that he went to the
polls in the midst of an atmosphere
of expectation in his party that Penn
sylvania would give it a majority. The
nearest approach to such an eXpecta-
ton since he became a voter was that
Wilson, instead of Roosevelt, would
have a plurality in the State. AS for
either the city or the State at large
such citizen would need to turn his
mind back to time when he had not
| yet been born when one or the other
cast a majority for a Democratic Presf-
Dental candidate; that is, to the year
when Pennsylvania gave its electoral
vote to James Buchanan"