Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-19
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People about the Capitol are recall
ing the fact that tomorrow will be just
ono year since the General Assembly
of 1915 adjourned and the State is
Just launching a campaign for the
election of a new one to meet next
January The nominations for the
20 senatorial vacancies and the sOT
seats in the House are just now being
made and the State is pretty thor
ouRhly stirred up over politics The
chances are that there will be more or
less attention bestowed at the next
| convention on the subject of con-
! stitutional convention. A good many
people are of the opinion that the
state needs a new foundation for It's
| laws, but the confusion that would
follow such a proceeding would he
worse than the present trouble. Hence
| 1t is likely that there will be number
of amendments suggested and from
| what we hear there will be reintro-
! duction of the proposed amendment to
| nave the inauguration of the Governor
! take place at some other time than
| January, Just about the time a new
Legislature is getting under way, and
this time in May is being mentioned in
some of the gossip. Everyone knows
/ what the quadrennial coincidence OF
a new administration and new l4egts-
/ lature means. IT is also suggested that
/ the Legislature should meet every four
years as acts are not given time to be
! thoroughly tried out in less time, but
this suggestion will hardly get very
| far. 1t took almost 100 years for the
State to do away with annual sessions
and any idea of abolishing biennial in
| favor of triennial or even less frequent
] "a mi n 10
the election.
Penn" writing in the Philadelphia
| Evening Bulletin, makes some OBJ
servations on the recent primary Gam
| paign which will appeal to every
thoughtful man. lie says: I'm the
recent campaign there was good deal
of turbulence and abuse, some OF IT
gross But ii came chiefly from the
principals in the factions; there was
comparatively little of II among the
rank and file outside of a few wards.
The campaign had not lasted long
enough to breed violence of temper in
the mass and body of either faction. II
it had lasted a month longer, 1t would
have been pretty certain to have oe-
veloped a much fiercer eruption OF
rancor and scandal. The sewer rats
were held in leash for the most part;
at least no such use was made of them
as there was in one campaign dItef
another in the period of hostilities be-
tween the Quay and the anli-QuaN
factionists. Throughout the city there
has been thus far much less, FOO, OF
the rupturing of personal friendships
than there was in the upheaVals and
uproars that attended the warwick
administration. Half of the ward lead
ers seemed to go into the contest This
year not because their fighting blood
was really up. but because they could
not escape the tests and demands that
were put upon their loyalty TO the
chiefs of one or the other of the fac
tons"
Uncle Henry" Houck is still able TO
take care of himself Yesterday he
/. was accused of "ducking" speeches
and of sending the committees which
sought oratory to DIR. j. George Bechl:
the secretary of the State Board or
, Education. DR.. Becht is some speech
, maker, but he has been kept busy with
the requests
, "Oh, have I been doing that" in
, quired Uncle Henry" innocently.
Yes. you have" 1t was charged.
We'll I'm not going to do that any
more. Do you know, the last time
that man Becht and I were on the
| same program he made better speech
than did"
Among the nominees for the Legis-
lature is Flick Sites, who was cap
, tain and third baseman of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania baseball team
) for a couple OF years and who is well
) known here. Officially he is Flckinger
w Sites, physician. Narberth, Re
publican legislative candidate in tho
First Montgomery district, heretofore
represented by Speaker Charles A.
: Amber.
Col. L. V Rausch, who is directing
the preparation of the Mt Gretna
camp ground for the encampments of
the National Guardsmen this year. is
r deputy quartermaster general of the
@ Guard and superintendent of the State
; arsenal. He succeeded the late Col.
= w. F.. Richardson and has the details
D of the supply depot at his fingers
q ends Col Rausch has prepared the
+ camp for several years.
DR.. Alfred Stengel, the medical man
here for Yesterdays conference. has
o the reputation of being one of the
!, most expert diagnosticians in the City
!, of Brotherly Love. He has most of
the prominent men of that city.