Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-13
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By the Ex-CoIumitteenian

Officials Of the Department of the
Secretary of the Commonwealth to-
day announced that they had received
the first official returns from counties
and tabulation was Immediately start
ed. 1t is expected that the whole
State will be completed within three
weeks The counties filing returns in
official form were Adams, Cameron,
Fulton, Juniata, Monroe, Montour,
Snyder. Sullivan and Wyoming.
The votes of the National Guards
men except the First Artillery have
been received at the department and
will be used for comparison with off,
cial returns from counties where there
are soldier votes. Meanwhile they are
being kept under lock and key.
The time for filing expense accounts
for the election will expire on De-
cember Z.
Vance c. Mccormick, the Democ-
cratic national chairman, who arrived
homo Saturday, resumed his private
business to-day. He declared there
was nothing to reports that he was
likely to go into the Cabinet as sue
cessor to Secretary of War Baker.
Mr.. Mccormick has been invited to go
to Atlanta to attend the big Democra-
tic celebration.
philadelphia newspapers to-day
revamp the stories circulated before
the election to the effect that in the
event of the election of Wilson the
Observation-Disclosures forces would
unite in an attack to drive Senator
Penrose from a dominating place in
the State organization on the ground
that he had failed in the election. The
control of the Legislature Is said to be
the preliminary test with the Cover
norship In 1919 as the goal. Newspa-
pers unfriendly to the Republican
party are giving much space to the
possibilities of factional fighting.
"A fresh outburst of honorable
mention" of men as candidates for
gubernatorial honors in 1918 has oc-
Cured. Some of the men mentioned
have been listed every time anyone has
started to speculate in the last year
and half.
Tho election of Senator e. E. Bel
dleman, of Dauphin county, as presi-
dent pro tenn. again being settled there
Is now much talk about the speaker
ship of the next House. which is ex-
pected to be, if anything more strong
ly Republican than the last lower
branch Richard j. Baldwin. OF Della
ware, who started out before the elec-
ton on a campaign. is working hard
and to offset him some Philadelphians
have been trotted out, including
Thomas +. McNichol. Edwin r.. Cox
and Herman J.. Hecht. Governor
Brumbaugh and some of his friends
are said to be favorable to George w.
Williams. of Tioga. chairman of the
law and order committee last session.
The belief Is that the speaker will not
come from either Philadelphia or AL
legheny. The Democratic candidate
will not matter as there are but thirty
seven Democrats in the House list as
far as known.
Democratic State headquarters
here will be maintained for a while.
The wheels of the windmill did not get
hot this campaign as 1t was maintain
ed as mere annex by the Democratic
state machine. tho main HEADQUARTERS
being in Philadelphia, despite the fact
that this condition was considered TO
be terrible offense by the reorganiz-
ers before they got into power. l,he
windmill bosses having gotten Wilson
but failed to give Pennsylvania will
probably maintain the State heauuar-
ters as smoking room for some of the
thirty-sev Democrats in the next
House.
These Democratic bosses being
confronted with many applicants and
not enough places, are going to have a
fine time preventing raids on post
masters, In Allentown Postmaster
Martin Klingier, of brass band and
Wilson forever fame. is threatened
with a fight by County Chairman