Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-09
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BY the Ex-Committeeman

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National Committeeman A. Mitchell
Palmer and State Chairman Roland
5. Morris are said to be as busy now
trying TO straighten out kinks in the
Pennsylvania Democracy in Western
Pennsylvania as they were in putting
them in four years ago Democrats
of the State will elect national and
state committeeman in May and the
issue may be the continued domina-
ton Of Palmer and his pals.
Palmer's recent speech in Philadel-
phia in which he said there would be
no factional fighting and no states on
anything, is taken to mean that he is
hunting harmony and willing to go
any length to placate his enemies. lie
has even agreed to go TO Pittsburgh
to make a speech next month in the
hope that the Old Guard may be in
duced to agree with him.
In Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, it
is said that only two more names re-
main to be added to the slate for
Democratic national delegates-at-
large and then it will be given out as
the cloice of the people. Thus far
the list includes: Judge Voris Auten,
Northumberland, eX = Congressman;
John II. Lenahan, Luzerne; jeremiah
Black, York: 7. Hart Given, Allie
gheny; Senator w. Wayne Hindman,
Clarion: William Mcintyre, Mercer;
j.. j. Lynett, Lackawanna; A. Mitchell
Palmer, Monroe; Roland S. Morris
and William A. Glasgow, Philadel-
plIid. .
Representative James L. Wood
ward of McKeesport, chairman of the
Appropriation Committee in the last
House, yesterday announced that he
would be candidate in the primaries
to succeed himself. j. ID. Foster has
been announced as the opponent of
Mr., Woodward and is" credited with
having the support of the O'Neil fac
ton. There were intimations yesterday
that the right of Mr. Foster to hold
the seat, if elected, might be ques-
toned on the ground that over a year
ago he went to Florida to make that
State his permanent home and re-
turned to McKeesport recently.
Philadelphia city politics are all
stirred up now over the transit stu-
alton in which Mayor Smith insists
that the people shall have what they
want and that there is no occasion to
get excited over the matter and by
me discovery that in the loan bill for
$S3, 100000 there were items to pay
for certain contracts in which Sena-
tor Ware had been interested.
Two Shamokin councilmen who
had failed to file expense accounts
were ousted last night and then re-
elected for two-year terms.
The Pittsburgh Gazette-Times
says: There are prospects of a fight
for the Republican nomination for
Senator, in the forty-fifth senatorial
district, between Representative Nor
man a. Whitten of Munhall and
Ill. mn
latter candidate has the backing OF
David Il. Johns, who is credited with
putting him in the field in the inter
est of the Brumbaugh- Ware combina-
ton, while Mr.. Whitten is being
urged to get into the contest by the
Penrose forces.
are going to take hand in the COM
ing congressional primary elections
for the first time and plans were COM
pleted at the party headquarters in
this city to-day to get every aspirant
FOR congressional nominations on rec
ord 'as regards woman suffrage be-
fore the primary and then to clinch
the matter by interviewing the men
who may be nominated. AS fast as
nominating petitions are filed at the
Capitol by the candidates they will
be listed and the suffrage workers
will hunt up the candidates and get
definite statements of their stand. The
same will be done with Legislators
later on in the campaign, but for the
present the efforts will be concentrated
on the congressional nominees. The
suffrage resolution will be up in the
next session, but will not be voted
upon finally in the general assembly
until 1919.
The Fayette county grand jury
yesterday approved a proposition for
a loan of 100000 for good roads.
Only one grand jury voted against the
plan.
--Lititz voted $4,000 for a new
school.
been indicted on charges of grating
in q firehose contract.
The campaign of Germantown
residents against the renewal of
saloon licenses in the Twenty second
ward will be lost unless proof of
specific violations of the liquor laws
is placed before the License Court,
according to statements made yester-
day in Philadelphia by Judges Bar
ratt and Davis. Remonstrances were
filed against 81 of the So applications
for wholesale and retail liquor licenses
in the ward. They assert that the
places are not necessary, DuI no
specific violation of the liquor laws is
charged in any of them. When Judge
Barratt realized this he said: "It al
ways has been the rule of the court in
granting a license to consider the
question of necessity, and, if the Ii
cense is granted that question is de-
cided and the holder is entitled to
"a renewal, unless there is specific
remonstrance for a violation of the
law"
George Washington Goethals is
n great man and I would like to see
him elected President of the United
States" said Mayor Thomas B. Smith
after visit from the general at the
Mayors office which occurred yester-
day morning in Philadelphia. The
Mayor was delighted to see his old
time friend and mentioned the pleas
ure it had been to call upon him many
times in New York. He would not
admit that the call of General
Goethals had any other significance
than sociability.