Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-29
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The name of the Progressive party
has been taken for the State cleo
tions this year by two different sets of
pre-empters, one from Philadelphia
and the other from Lancaster county.
The first set took the name in the
winter, but as yet there has been no
contest inaugurated to test the right
to use it.
The name has also been pre-empted
for the 9Th, 18th, 18th and 30th con-
gressional districts and the 18th,
18th, 18th, 29th, S1st and 35th sena-
torial districts.
The same name has also been taken
for the First and Second Dauphin and
First and Second Lancaster legisla-
tive districts.
The name of the Local Option party
has been taken for most of the dis
tricts in the State wherein congress
men and senators Will be elected and
also in many legislative districts.
In the last week there have been a
number of requests made at the State
Capitol for information as to forms
to be used in withdrawing and it is
believed on the Hill that there will
be number of changes in the dis
trict tickets before they are certi-
fed for printing.
-Einar BaTfod, correspondent of
the Philadelphia North American at
FL Paso, charges in an article to-day
that there was politics in the organ
ization of the First Artillery Regiment
by the appointment of infantry officers,
not skilled in artillery matters. as he
points out, to command it. He also
charges that there was politics in the
matter, as Senator w. S. Mckee, COM
mander of the Fourteenth Infantry,
which went out OF existence, turned up
as colonel of the First Artillery. Incl
hn 70. aY.f,n nnt.ia
in which Adjutant General Stewart
took a big interest, went through. The
charges attracted considerable atten-
tion at the Capitol to-day
j. w. Allison, former county treas
urer of Mercer and well known in Re-
publican circles, died yesterday at the
age of 10.
District Attorney Rotan says of
the Philadelphia vice probe that he
proposes to go to the bottom of all
the charges and to get facts and
then act.
The Philadelphia Republican lead
ers yesterday congratulated David H.
Lane, the city chairman, upon his
seventy birthday.
The subcommittee of the Commit
tee on the Revision of the Philadel-
phia City Charter, following a meeting
yesterday, issued a statement to the
i
made would be in harmony with
the scheme of tic present charter. In
fact, it was stated that no such drastic
changes as were at first suggested
would be approved by the committee.
Among the matters called to the atten-
ton of the committee was the COM
munication from William Hancock,
president of the United Business Mems
Association and city representative on
the Rapid Transit board, in which it
was stated that the United Business
Men would not support the proposition
to make a small council of sixteen
members-two from each senatorial
district-with paid city manager, as
suggested by Clinton Rogers Woodruff
in a plan made public at the last
meeting.
A Wilkes Barre dispatch says:
! Daniel L. Hart who was removed as
city treasurer at the reorganization of
council and subsequently elected coll
lector of school taxes. has lost title to
| the school board job through a de-
cision of the county judges here to-
day. James Mundy, who was elected
| treasurer of the city, started man
damus proceedings against the school
| board TO compel the directors to turn
their tax books over to him. He con-
| tended that as the lawfully elected
| treasurer of the city. by virtue of that
Office ne has the right to collect school
taxes. The court, with the exception
| of Judge Garman, who dissents, up
| holds the contention of Mundy and
/ decides that the law makes him coll
| lector of school taxes inasmuch as he
is the lawfully elected treasurer"