Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-12
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Ex-Congressman Jesse l.. Hartman.
of Hollidaysourg. to-day announced
his candidacy for the Republican
nomination for State Treasurer and his
petitions were put into circulation on
Capitol Hill and in this city, the plan
being TO file them before the end of
the week. Hartman is considered to
be the State administrators candi-
date against Harmon NJ. Kephart, of
Greensburg, and J. Werner Clark, of
Washington. who was endorsed by the
| Bull Moosers and who has filed a Re
publican nominating petition.
1t is believed that the circulation of
the petitions for Mr.. Hartman is the
outcome of recent conferences and it
is said that his candidacy is largely
sponsored by his former associates in
Congress who include such men as
eX-Congressmen Ainey. Patton. Reyn-
olds and others and Congressman Ware.
Lafean, Griest and Crago.
Mr.. Hartman served in Congress
from the Blair Bedford Cambria dis
trict from 1910 TO 1912 and is promi-
nent in banking and other interests in
Central Pennsylvania.
Senator Penroses speech at Lam
caster. in which he said that Repub-
/ licans should unite and not quarrel
and that the next President should he
man trained in executive affairs, was
the theme of conversation on Capitol
Hin TO the exclusion of almost every
thing else. Some of the men who
heard the speech got the idea that the
senator was referring to Theodore
Roosevelt and in view of the gossip
that he has been paying attention to
what people are saying about the
Colonel it caused some perturbation
among the State administration forces.
1t will be recalled that L. A. Van Val
kenburg and \. p. Moore, two staunch
Roosevelt men, have been making in
| teresting statements about the Colonel
and PENNSYLVANIA lately.
The Philadelphia North Ameri-
can, which yesterday printed a story
about the Governors presidential pa
pers having been filed at the Capitol
when they had not been put on record,
/ to-day says that the Governor is going
to stump the State. This information
was also put out Immediately after the
. letter 10 Wasson was issued and also
the day after the Governor issued his
version of the Oliver 81. 900 check.
Walter n Gemmil. a Carlisle
brakeman. has filed a petition to run
for Republican legislative nomination
in Cumberland. So has John II.
Brandt. Newville merchant.
The Socialists of the Second Dau-
phin district have put forward G. w.
Troxell. Lykens. and John Hosgood,
Wiconisco. for Second Dauphin legis-
lative nominations. and ]. P. Shless-
man and S. Roden, Steelton, for State
committeeman.
John ]. Coyle. former senator
from Schuylkill, is a candidate for
Republican congressional honors In
Philadelphia.
-Brumbaugh headquarters last
night gave out the names of a dozen
or more men who had endorsed the
Governor They included DIR. f. L.
Kemp. head OF the East Stroudsburg
State Normal School.
D. \. McGough was yesterday
named as postmaster for Ebensburg.
He is said to be a reorganizer.
The Philadelphia loan bill was ap-
proved by councils last night and the
fight appears 10 be on in that city.
With Representative W. Q. Wal
ton and W. d. Craig, both from Law
renee county. in the field against him,
Senator J. II. Thompson. of Beaver,
has lively contest in sight.
The nominating petitions of II. j.
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Pittsburgh. for Democratic delegates
at large. were filed last evening.
George w. Sassaman, former
Reading legislator. is out for Demo-
cratic nomination for senator in Berks.
The manner in which registration
is being looked after in the cities indi-
Gates that there is some fight ahead.
The Philadelphia Public Ledger
in review of the Republican situation
to-day comes to the conclusion that
there is no chance of averting fac
tional fight and that the Governors
friends are disposed TO put the issue to
the supreme test,
The Philadelphia Record to-day
prints this interesting story of the
campaign: Attorney General Francis
Skunk Brown. who returned to Harris
burg on Monday from Philadelphia. is
now more than ever regarded at the
capital as the chief political asset of
the Brumbaugh administration. He is
gwen credit everywhere as the man
who, up to the present time. has de-
feated the effort of the Penrose crowd
TO drive the Governor into political
oblivion. Little by little the inside de-
tails of the movements of the past few
weeks leading up to the sensation
growing out of the Oliver check cpl
sode are becoming public property,
and il is now pretty well known that
Attorney General Brown saved the day
for the Ware forces. That Governor
Brumbaugh, pressed by the threaten
ing Oliver exposure, had made up his
mind 10 get out of the political game
and had indicated this determination
to several of those in his confidence
| is no longer a secret In fact, 1t is
asserted that he had prepared a state
ment giving his reasons for withdraw
/ ing as a candidate for the presidential
nomination. and that assurances of
this had been conveyed to the Penrose
! people"
Pittsburgh dispatches indicate that
Henry G.. Wasson, Republican national
committeeman, is having much to do
with the management of the campaign
| in behalf of the Governor in Allegheny
and adjoining counties. He was in
consultation last evening at Pittsburgh
with Commissioner w. A. Magee.
Dudley Field Malone, collector of
the port of New York. has informed
the managers of the Central Demo-
cratic Club Jefferson dinner that he
will be unable to speak. The club has
some big speakers on the way, how
ever.
Tomorrow
[F'rom the Silent Partnerl
The word morrow" to most men
means the remote future. 1t is not
measure of time to them: il is an eX-