Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-26
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By the Ex-Comnitteeman

| Republican nomination for the speak
ership of the Lower House of the Leg
islature will move from Philadelphia
to this city in the next As hours. The
headquarters of the rival candidates
will be opened here tonight and the
leaders will follow within day or so.
Members from all over the State will
be coming in and many will be here
days earlier than usual because of the
intense interest displayed by men in
politics and the Importance of the re-
suit to people who have ambitions for
the campaigns of 1917 and 1918.
Death of Governor Brumbaugh's
father has removed him from the con-
test for several days. The Governor
feels the death of his aged parent
! keenly and his bitterest opponents
have expressed their sympathy for
| him.
There was little of the Christmas
| sentiment in political circles in Phila-
delphia the last three days. Governor
| Brumbaugh on Saturday afternoon is
sued statement referring to the
| charges made against him by Senator'S
snyder and Sproul in which he said he
was merely a target and that the real
tight was the people against reaction
ary interests, Senator Sproul came
back with a tart reiteration of every
thing he had said and Attorney Cen
| eral Brown then opened up, declaring
that if the saying of hard things went
on he would have some things to hand
out which would create heart burn
ings, This challenge was promptly
met by Senator Sproul who issued a
statement last night that Mr.. Brown
had been Democrat and had done
well financially since he became n Re-
| publican. Friends of Mr. Brown re-
torted with other sharp things. 1t is
expected that there will be continued
| interchanges which will interest few
/ people outside of those attacking and
attacked and those who are in politics.
The great bulk of the people of the
| State are wishing the fight over the
! speakership had never begun.
The Friday editorial in the Pitts
burg Dispatch deploring the row
among the Republicans and the edi-
torials in the Philadelphia Ledger de-
! nauncing the politics in the speaker
ship have stirred up no end of COM
ment all over the State. Numerous
dailies are calling for cessation of the
| fuss before it goes so far as to endan-
ger county and municipal elections
next year and creates breach which
will be hard to heal in 1918. The
! w eliSbOEO -A6lIdlOT, one or Ine Ola
weeklies and an influence in the north
ern tier, voices the general upstate
sentiment in an editorial which OBJ
! Jects to Philadelphia and Pittsburgh
| rows being taken as the real politics
| OF Pennsylvania.
News columns of the big news
| papers print some interesting side
| lights on the battle. The North Amer
lean says that Mr.. Brown has forced
Senator Penrose to go through with
| his threatened Investigations and the
| Pittsburgh Gazette-Times intimates
| that they would have gone through
anyway. The Democratic Philadel-
phia Record helps on the row all it
can and says that Baldwin people
have some letters from members in
| which it is charged that offers in re-
turn for support for Cox were made.
1t is also said here that York coun-
ty member wrote a letter pledging
| support to Baldwin and "dopped," be-
cause appointees in his district were
threatened with dismissal by the State
| administrations The Baldwin people
will make the mans name known and
declare they will brand him as a
| pledge breaker"
The Philadelphia Press says:
| While the lieutenants both of Cox
and Richard J. Baldwin, the opposing
candidate, who has the backing of
| Senator PenroSe, claim enough actual
| pledges to assure the caucus nomina-
ton; it is known that in number of
cases both the Cox and the Baldwin
| lists contain the same names. The
balance of power which will decide
the result is held by a comparatively
few representatives, who have refused
TO indicate how they will vote
Auditor General A. w. Powell,
who has been mentioned once in a
IxN-l, Z Il, l.. Lii L
night that he was not in it, but only
an interested spectator. The Auditor
General said some things nowadays
! remind him of third reader days in the
public schools at home.
| Representative Nelson McVicar,
of Allegheny, will likely not vote for
either Cox or Baldwin. The North
American says there will be eleven in
Allegheny for Cox. The Baldwin peo-
pie say the claim is absurd.
The Philadelphia Ledger this
morning prints the following relative
to some laws which were enacted in
1918 and which have figured much in
Browns charge that Mr.. Grundy was
the chief lobbyist against humanitar-
ian legislation, Henry w. Moore, coun-
sci for the Pennsylvania Manufacture
ers' Association, of which Mr.. Grundy
is president. said: First, That a work
men compensation Dill Drawn uD Dy
the association had been appropriated
by the Governor as an original pro-
duct: second, that the association al
ways advocated a child labor bill, but
that the Governor. for political purposes
made farce out of the legislation;
and, third, that the women's employ
ment law now in force is precisely the
same as that fought for by the asso-
citation four years ago."
John T. Lenahan, of Wilkes
Barre. and NJ. A. Kilker, a former as
sistant district attorney, of Girards-
Vile, have been engaged to bring al
Pottsville custer proceedings against
NJ. J. Brennan, of Pottsville; p, c.
Fenton. OF Mahanoy City; Archie b
Lamb, of Shenandoah. and Evar
Evans, of Coaldale, mine inspectors
elected. when these officials take office
next week. Although the law require:
the same qualifications for candidate
at the primaries as at the general cleo.
ton, IL is alleged all these men were
nominated before the examining board
acted on their applications for qualifi.
cation. 1t is also charged that the
county commissioners violated the Law
in printing the name on the ballot oi
Martin Nash as candidate, as he had
never qualified, was not a candidate
and did not know until three days be.
fore the election that his name was or
the ticket.