Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-17
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James M. Beck's attack upon the
Wilson administration policies before
the Union League in Philadelphia last
night, following so closely upon the
terrlhc assault made by Elihu Root in
new York, has had a notable effect
upon republicans in Pennsylvania for
u has pointed out the weakness of the
democracy and the opportunity for
S Hnl,eu republicans to swing the State
PACK into the column.
Not the least significant result of
the speeches has been the revival of
roosevelt sentiment. The progress
sives are insisting that the Root
speech accepted the Roosevelt doc
trlnes and the applause given to
roosevelt during the Beck speech has
not been lost upon many people. Poll
tlcians throughout the State were to-
uay looking for an announcement of
the candidacy of Governor Brum-
oaush for President, while there were
rumors that more men might come
OUT as candidates for delegate in the
interest of p. c. Knox. The boosters
OF senator Cumnlins, of Iowa, who is
a native of this State, are waiting to
see what the Governor does before
acting.
Ever since his return to the city
the Governor has been holding con-
terences with heads OF departments
and others in touch with the political
situation and in Washington Congress-
man Ware has been throwing out hints
that there will be something doing in
the Brumbaugh line.
Tomorrow is the first day for cir
culating petitions for nominations to
be placed on the primary ballot and
the blanks are going out from the
capitol at lively rate. Dozens were
sent out to-day and many men promi-
nent in politics got papers The
blanks for candidates for auditor gem
eral and other State officers are eX-
pected to go out later in the day. To-
morrow there will be busy times in
every district because papers will be
started promptly.
-Ex- Representative Eugene Bur-
nett, of Mechanicsburg, is out with
an announcement of intention to be a |
candidate for the Democratic nomin-
alton for the House this year.
Lex n. Mitchell, of Punxsutaw-
ney, candidate for congress at-large
on the Washington ticket four years
ago, will be a candidate for the House |
on the Republican and Progressive |
tickets this year.
Jacob A Lesher is a candidate |
for the House in Reading.
Selalor CHaIleS a. Snyder, OF |
Pottsville, candidate for the Re-
publican nomination for auditor gem
eral, is making hay in the western |
counties, while his rival, Speaker |
Charles A. Amber, is working along |
the Delaware and Schuylkill. A |
pittsburgh dispatch says that yester- |
day the Senator spent the day in COM
pany with Mayor Armstrong, Coroner
Jamison and Robert McAfee, and dur
ing the afternoon the Mayors office |
was used as a reception room for the /
local Penrose workers to pledge them
selves to do their best for the ad-
ministration ticket During the day |
Mr. snyder met many Republican |
leaders from Washington, Lawrence,
Beaver and Westmoreland counties |
and tonight, when seen at the Fort /
Pitt Hotel professed to be satisfied /
that he will be the choice of the Re- |
publicans in the primaries. He said: |
i came on here for heart-to- heart !
talk with the leaders in the party and |
to appeal for their support. |
have been doing this for three |
weeks and have been wonderfully en-
couraged by expressions of good /
wishes, so much so that 1 am confident |
of staying in the fight to the finish.
OF course, I hope everything is going |
to go along peacefully. If so, 1 will /
be peaceable; but if fight is forced /
on me l will be in the thick of it.
simply cannot be pulled out of the
running by any circumstances. I de-
serve the support of the Allegheny |
county delegation, for 1 voted for all |
the changes in your city charter which
your citizens seemed to want, and I
voted for bill to let cities make
heir own charter which Governor
Tener vetoed. That ought to please
he home rulers here. While I have
10 right to say where Senator Penrose
stands on the Auditor General con-
est, l am confident that he will throw
intends to stay in the western end of
he State few days and fix up all the
political fences necessary to assure his
at the primaries.
City Solicitor ]. H. Bigelow, of
dazleton, has rendered an opinion
hat notes from parents giving their
children permission to attend amuse-
nents or be in the streets after
)'clock at night would not save BOYS
md girls from prosecution under the
Curfew law, which is being rigidly en-
'orced. Police are stationed every
hight at theaters and other places.
lnder the age of sixteen.
In Lehigh and Berks counties a
of the Progressives have /
registered as Republicans, but in II
Lehigh Fred E. Lewis, former mayor
IF Allentown and former Congress
nan-at-large, has already announced
1is candidacy for Republican national
delegates as a Progressive Republi-
ean." The Democratic horizon in the
Berks-Lehigh district at present looks
rosy for Congressman Arthur G.. De-
walt and his forces. The only candi-
dates for Democratic national dele
gates announced so far are County
Chairman Jonathan E. Frederic, of
Lehigh and j. Edgar Wanner, of /
Reading. Dewalt is sure of renomina-
ton, say his friends.
The Pittsburgh Gazette-Times to-
day says of the Allegheny county stu
alton: Two State senators are to