Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-21
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BY the Ex-C Committeeman

opening meeting which brought to-
gether an assemblage of several thou
III men including more than a dozen
who are over se~venty-five years of age.
The vice-presidents were all men over
seventy.
Next Saturday the Republicans of
Lehigh county will open their CAM
paign, which will also be in accord
with custom, and there will be a gath
ering which will throw the Democratic
meeting into the shadows. Philander
c. Knox, candidate for senator, will be
the chief speaker, and there will be
present Senator Charles A. Snyder
candidate for auditor general, and
Harmon NJ. Kephart. candidate for
State treasurer, together with the con-
gressional nominees. The Republican
meeting will be notable for the first
guns will be fired IN the Democratic
Notifications whose ordinance is al
ready shooting wildly and at random.
The Lehigh Democrats were
much disappointed on Saturday when
National Chairman Mccormick and
National Committeeman Palmer fall
ed to show up and none of the state
candidates appeared. Although the
Democratic opening in this county is
the oldest Democratic function in the
State, having been started in the
eighteenth century, the big Democrats
/ A6 GU 1 NOA SNNAl
MCLEAN was present n James l.
Blakslee, although in a neighboring
county, was not among the speakers.
The result was that the grand open
ing was a local affair with Congress
man Arthur G. Dewalt and Henry J.
Steele, neither of whom brims with
love for the State machine bosses, as
chief speakers. The Democrats of that
region will probably bear the slight in
mind when the time comes to do some
roofing in the State committee stamp
ing ground.
1t is said that the Lehigh mana
gers had assurances that the top I'M
ers would forego a Saturdays fun to
attend the meeting. Now other DEM
ocrats are wondering what will hap
pen at places where the big bosses are
dated.
Republican State leaders have
won a strategic victory over the DEM
ocratic machine and Chairman Nc
Lean and the bosses are foundering
about trying to get a place to rest. 1t
seems that the Democrats decided at
their meeting here to have a formal
%sunburst about Labor day. The time
and place were left to the bosses. They
counted on having the meeting after
the Republican State committee met.
The Republican State committee has
not shown a disposition to oblige the
Democrats and the time of the meet
ing is in the future. 1t is likely that
it will be held late in September or
early in October. THE Democrats are
now trying to get out of holding a
meeting but are afraid to confess that
their reason for ~postponing is because
the Republicans have not set a
date. The job OF running the Pcnnsyl-
Vania Democracy is as thankless as
ever.
1t is said that the debt of the Re-
publican city committee of Philadel-
phia which is now controlled by the
Wares, is about $40, 600. Hence the
proposition to get contributions to
clear up the matter.
George F. Holmes, the new chair
man of the Philadelphia city commits
sioners, is going after the short weight
men. He says that they will be ar
rested and their names published if
he has to give out the names himself
to protect the public from the mean
est kind of grafters.
People at the Capitol, who have
noted the occasional outbursts between
State College and the State Depart
ment of Agriculture, are wondering
what is behind the name of Z. H. Had
ley, formerly of Cornell, to be entom-
ologist. This is a job which calls for
the same qualifications as those of
L wi u - NJ Od4AdSA D. AlAS ICY EOOlO6lSNs
Robert E. Lee, former Schuylkill
congressman, has decided to stay in
the race. He is Democratic candidate
against his old rival, Congressman
Heaton, and will make another try.
Incidentally, it is expected that
p. j. Graham, who is Democratic can
didate for senator in Schuylkill, will
become postmaster of Shenandoah.
This means that he will " to be re-
placed with some deserving Democrat.
In an interesting interview in the
Philadelphia Ledger yesterday Harry
S. McDevitt, solicitor of the new econ.
omy and efficiency commission, an
nounces that the well known State
Tax Commission bill is to be presented
! to the Legislature next year. This is
6 one of our choicest biennials and il
V gets very far. 1t will probably
I go as far as some of the older, but
none the less we'll known propositions
which the commission will reintroduce
| to a suffering general assembly, n q
wearied public, according to Mr.. Nc.
l Devitt's review of an expensive years
3 work.
=, -Coatesville is now said to be seek.
ing the county seat of Chester county
! 1t is a CITY and West Chester is &
e borough. Coatesville is aggressive
and West Chester contented
1t has been a long time since Penn.
= sylvania has been RECALLED by a fght
between towns for a county seat anc
S it will be we'll worth watching.
The Mayor of York appears to bt
coming through the rye in rather dis
NAL fashion. He welcomed the liquo
dealers convention recently in tn,
e name of some so, 900 citizens of York
. Some of the thousands have protested
t and in strong terms.
[ Our old friend, DR.. H. A. Surface
e late zoologist, says that they will fin
q nothing that will worry anyone. leas
, of all himself, in the thorough house
cleaning which is under way in hi
= former office. The big owls and tn
plaster of paris apples have been lief
to be an inspiration to his successor
who will also find some choice varie
e ties of hawks to contemplate.
BACK TO THE MINES
o BY Wing Dinger