Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-12
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By the Ex-Committeesnan

Nniie senator Charles A. Snyder
ana Speaker Charles A. Amber, the
aspirants for the Republican nomin-
ation for auditor general. are out in
the State meeting leaders and prepar-
ing for their campaigns men infiuen-
'lai In Republican party affairs are
making an effort to secure an agree
ment on the nominations to be made
IN May. If this attempt fails it will be
the last.
Governor Brumbaugh expected to
meet a number of his political friends
IN Philadelphia to-day before going
TO Bethlehem and Senator Penrose
mad busy day marked out for him.
lnumations that statements were
coming from both men were abundant
to-day but they declared they had
nothing prepared. The Governor re-
FUSED to talk politics while here.
Newspapers throughout the State
continue to regret the possibilities of
republican factional fight and are
urging that an agreement be made
hnoWlng the manner in which pre-
Nlous situations have been saved by
Fhiladeiphians getting their heads to-
gether and settling troubles without
consulting the rest of the State it
might be said that anything is possi-
BILE.
Major George w. Merrick, one of
the Dig hgures in Pennsylvania poll
Ics died yesterday at his home at
Wellsboro. He was rs years of age
and the law partner and brother-in-
law of State Treasurer Robert X.
Young. He was the candidate for
secretary of internal affairs in 1882
on the Union ticket and had a vast
influence in northern counties. Born
In Wellsboro he served in the Civil
war and lost leg in battle. He read
law with Henry w. Williams, later a
justice of the supreme court of Penn
sylvania. In 1869 he was admitted
to the bar, where he won an enviable
position among the master minds
which dominated it. In 1869 he was
appointed postmaster at Wellsboro,
holding thei office for thirteen years.
In 1882 he resigned to accept the in
secretary of internal affairs on a
ticket headed by John Stewart for
Governor
The Philadelphia Record to-day
says: Acting along different lines
from the Civil Service Reform Asso-
citation, the Committee of Seventy, it
is understood, will institute court pro-
ceedings to test the right of Mayor
Smith, the board of judges and City
Solicitor Connolly in appointing mem
Ders of the Legislature, whose terms
have not yet expired, to municipal
and county offices. Among the cases
which will be involved in these pro-
ceedings are the appointment of Di-
rector Wilson, State representative,
by Mayor Smith, and of Fred w. Will
lard, also State representative, to
the board of viewers by the board of
judges. City Solicitor Connolly has
also appointed legislators to his staff
of assistants.
Lycoming county Republicans at
tended the Lincoln Day banquet of
the Young Mems Republican Club at
Wllliamsport last night. The toast
Abraham Lincoln" was responded
to by DR.. John Howard Harris, presi-
dent of Bucknell University. Fred
eric w. Fleitz, of Scranton, former
deputy attorney general, talked of
THE Republican Party" and Senator
Charles A. Snyder. of Schuylkill coun-
ty, responded to The Next Legisla-
ture."
Daniel T. McKelvey, Hazleton
city councilman, has announced him
self as a candidate for Democratic
national delegate in the Luzerne coun-
ty district.
1t is expected that Representative
e. e. Jones, OF Susquehanna county,
will announce himself as a candidate
for Republican nomination for Sen
ator in his district. Senator Mills will
be a candidate to succeed himself and
the two will lock horns
Yesterday was a good day for the
Gordon family in Philadelphia. The
former judge was named master in
one of the biggest cases in a long
time and his son was named an as
slstant district attorney. NJ. j. Nc
Cullough was also appointed as as
sistant district attorney.
People of Lehighton are getting
ready to vote on the question of a
municipal water plant
Harry G.. Louser is making an
early start to his campaign for men,
Der of the Legislature from Lebanon
county.
Henry d. Green is encounterjne
some opposition in his campaign for
the Democratic senatorial nomina-
ton in Berks county. RI. G.. McGowan
a Democratic wheelhorse and George
w. Sassaman, Reading businessman
both former members of the House
are candidates and there is talk of II
U. kistner taking a shy at the place
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