Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-18
NOMINATIONS IN
LAST HOUR RUSH
Holding Back Has Complicated
Matters and There Will Be
Trouble at Finish

The final day for filing nominating
petitions at the office of the Secretary
of the Commonwealth for the May
primary started with a rush at
O'Clock this morning when several hum
dred pieces of mail which had ac-
cumulated over night and n number
of persons who had brought petitions
here on night trains arrived at the
Capitol about the same time.
The petition to place the name of
Governor Brumbaugh on the presi-
dental ballot and the petition for the
! Brumbaugh delegates-at-large and
Misunderstanding which were filed
last night were added to during the
morning, thousands of additional
names being filed.
The Washington and Socialist
parties State tickets were filed last
night with many other papers.
1t is expected that the rush will
keep up until late tonight. The office
will close at midnight.
Petitions filed to-day included:
Congress: Frank f. Wood, Wash
ington. Fourteenth; Peter Z. Costello,
Republican, Fifth; Joseph II. Browell,
Republican. Twenty Winfred D.
Lewis. Republican, Twenty sixth; w.
X. Ramsey, Socialist, Twenty-fourth;
Earl Z. Hustled, Socialist, Eleventh.
State Senate: George w. Allen,
/ Republican, Forty fifth.
National Delegate: F. S. Stevenson,
Washington, Fourteenth; Morgan o.
| Morgan, Republican, Thomas NJ.
! Whildin, Republican, Twenty sixth
j. Earnest Scott, Washington. Eighth;
James P. Greene, Democrat, Nine
teenth; f. c. Newcomb, Democrat,
| Ach FNVRntV-
sixth.
Justice of the Supreme Court
Charles Palmer. Chester.
United States Senator-Charles Err
| vim, Socialist, Philadelphia: Mahlon II.
Meyers, Washington, Ferndale, Cam
| bria county
President of the United States
Allen L. Benson, Socialist, Yonkers,
| y. Y.
State treasurer. V. Clark, Wash
| inston, Washington; Charles Sehl, So
cialist, Philadelphia.
Auditor General-1saac 3. Brown,
Washington, Cory; Walter V. Tyler,
Socialist, New Castle.
Mine Inspector-A. b. Lamb, Demo-
crat, Shenandoah; Evan q. Evans, Re
publican. Coaldale; Hugh A. Wilson,
| Republican, Ashland; keran Donahue,
| Republican, Pottsville; Frank ].
| Dewey, Republican. Ashland: Michael
/ J. f1TeHudlt
Pottsville, Fourth district: Thomas j.
| Williams, Democrat. Willes-B Barre;
John j. Suckler. Democrat Repub-
! lican. Hazleton; David T. Davis, Demo-
! crat- Republican. Wilkes Barre; Frank
Kettle, Republican-Demo Nanti-
coke: John B. Coogan. Republican
/ Democrat, Kingston; Joseph ]. Walsh,
Republican Democrat, Wilkes Barre,
First district; Isaac NJ. Davies, Repub-
I liCan-Democrat, Lansford, Third dis
! trict.
Congress-Joseph Heacock. Demo
crat. Wyncote. Eighth district: Samuel
! X. Mccall, Republican, York, Twen-
tieth; j. Banks Kurtz, Republican, AL
! toona. Nineteenth; Aaron S. Kreider,
Republican, Annville, Eighteenth;
Charles Cunningham, Socialist, Youngs-
| town, Twenty-second.
Congress-at-large - d. f. Lafean,
| Republican, York; Robert c. Bair,
! York; Fred Brenckman, Packer town
/ ship, Carbon county; Arthur c. Gra-
| ham, Philadelphia, and S. Jarvis Ad-
ans, Jr., Pittsburgh, Washington
| party.
District elegates-Frank L. Stew
art Huntingdon, and r. w. Thompson,
Lewisburg, Seventeenth district;
| Charles f. lands, Harrisburg, and
Harry Hertzler, Carlisle, Eighteenth,
| Washington; William l.. Gorgas. Har-
risburg, Eighteenth (pledged); Walter
| F. Enfield. Bedford, Nineteenth
| (pledged); John c. Fassold, New Ber-
lin, Seventeenth; John j. Gallagher.
| Ardmore, Pittsburgh, and E. n. Gay
! Cpledged), Williamsburg, Thirtieth,
| Democratic; b. Dawson Coleman, Leb-
anon, and A. Carson Stamm, Harris
| burg, Eighteenth; William o. Morrow,
| Union City. Twenty-fifth (pledged) :;
! James S. Beacon, Greensburg, Twenty
/ second: Harry K. Dougherty, Grove
| City and William Looser, Greenville,
/ Twenty eighth Republican; S. W.
| McLarren. Osceola Mills, and Elisha
Kent Kane, Kushequa, Twenty first,
Prohibition.