Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-22
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By the Ex-Committeeman

Woods, upon whom will devolve the
task of arranging for the voting of tho
soldiers, is already making prepa-
rations and Chief Clerk Thorn has
been looking up what was done in
other wars. The commissioners will
be named. one to each 1000 men, by
the Secretary and the Attorney Cen
eral and Auditor General will figure
out where to get the money to pay
mileage and allowances.
AS outlined in the Telegraph, tho
soldiers will establish their residences
on official records and will be given
forms for sending powers of attorney
to friends or relatives to pay their
taxes. The voting will be according
to districts, which will mean a ire
mendous lot of work. For instance.
men serving in a York IDS will
vote in their camp for legislative can
didates in Dauphin county, senatorial
or assembly, according to district. 1t
may be that there will be a man from
the Fifth Allegheny district in q Phila-
deIphla regiment, and he must be
given a set of the ballots for his con
gressional, senatorial and assembly
districts, probably a dozen or more,
TO exercise his freeman's will. And so
1t will go.
The whole matter is one of much
interest and the interesting thing
about it is that the preparations will
be twenty times as much work as
assessing, enrolling or registering d
man.
Commenting upon the probability
that the ways and mean for the vot-
ing of h soldiers will soon be an
nounced by the Attorney General and
that there will be no bar to votes be-
cause of the registration, enrolment
and assessment laws, a man con-
versant with election matters for years
recalled the fact hat in the Spanish
and Philippine wars voting there was
not a single challenge of a soldier.
There is no reason why there should
be as a matter of fact. The men are
all known. Their service is official
record, and they can be found. which,
after all, is what the law intends by
registration n other laws. Mr..
Browns decision has been pretty we'll
forecast and will be based on the COM
mo sense view of the matter.
Mayor Rhodes, of Altoona, is
making the blue laws about as un-
popular as anyone in the State. Sun
day after Sunday ice cream dealers
are arrested and fined as regularly as
Monday comes around. The mayor
says the laws are there n hat they
will be enforced.
Friends of Mayor Fischer, of Will
Transport, whose citizenship is chal-
lenged, say that he is really in poor
health and that with the coming of
cool weather he will be better able to
contest the case.
-Mavor Ncnovau oP Cbas+or is
starting things moving in his crusade
against 'boatless lighthouses" along
the Delaware. He says that they are
vicious and that they are only a cloak
for gambling and worse.
Western Pennsylvanians are lin
ing up in style in the organization of
the Hughes campaign. 1t is expected
that there will be plenty of strength
given by former Progressives.
Curtis H. Gregg, former Demo-
cratic congressman from Westmore-
land, was here to-day. He is not both
ering so much with politics now.
Magistrate Joe Call, who was in
dicted by the Philadelphia grand Jury
yesterday on charges of alleged COM
plicity in the straw bail matters, IS
well known to many here. He used to
be in the Legislature.
The automobile of State Senator
Elmer Warner, of Carbon, struck a
lad near White Haven yesterday while
rounding a sharp curve. The boy was
fatally urt.
-York's judges have Joined those
who criticise the parole act and who
are of the opinion that often it does
not act as a deterrent of crime. The
ats are due for a thorough discussion
when the Legislature meets next
winter.
-Sunbury is going through another
of its periodical outbreaks over con-
ditior of streets. Now the town au-
thorities have been hailed before n
magistrate. This form Of discipline
has been found pretty effective in the
coal regions. In Eastern Pennsylva-
mia towns h authorities are getting
to be pretty strict about highway mat
ters. Two councilmen of Palmerton.
for instance. were arrested for failing
to put lights on distractions at night
and in another place a councilman
was arrested for blocking a street with
his car.
The Philadelphia Public Ledger
appears to be getting after the Gov
ernor. Attorney General and the sec
| rotary to the Governor over matters
connected with the coming Fall
housekeeping" at the Capitol. 1t re-
fers to them as the Three BIS" and
promises further discussions.
Mayor Smith says that he is to be
the sole boss in the Philadelphia vice
inquiry. AS the mayors administra-
ton must take the rocks when dis
closures come, it is only natural that
he should prefer to run the probe.
Chester county Democrats are
commencing to warm up some of their
factional fights. They are now after
the scalp of Norris B. Black, who rode
into power on the reorganization wave
and las insisted on. staying there ever
since.
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