Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-24
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BY the Ex-Committeeman

J
on developments in State politics are
commencing to voice the belief that
most of the lighting in Pennsylvania
this year will be done within the Dem
ocratic party. The impression is
gaining ground that there will be lit
tie or no contest within the Republi-
can party and that national delegates
at large will oe selected without oppo-
sition and that even an agreement OH
nominees for State Offices and con-
gress at large is possible very soon.
The activity of friends Of pcn leading
various camps is having its effect and
| the belief is that an agreement will
| be made and an incursion by boomers
| of one or more of the favorite sons
/ from other States or of the Colonel
will be headed off.
The Democracy of the State is fac
ing row over who shall he boss. All
/ of the Democrats influential in State
politics appear to be for Wilson, but
very much divided as to who should
| be representatives of the administra-
ton in this State. The feeling against
Palmer and his pals is growing daily
and it looks like a good old-fashioned
Democratic fight to settle who should
! be in power at the Philadelphia ma
chine shop and at the windmill in this
I city.
Just why the Harrisburg siding
should be reopened by the Democrats
is puZzling a good many people be-
cause il there is any county in Penn
sylvania in which the Democracy is
split it is Dauphin. The recent post
office appointments have destroyed
chances of the Democrats amounting
to anything this Fall or next.
The Seventeenth district Repub-
licans will select Calvin Green, Of
Lewistown. and Harry w. Byron, of
Mercersburg, as national delegates and
they will go to Chicago uninstructed.
This was settled yesterday at a meet
ing in the office of A. Nev.n Pomeroy,
State superintendent of public instruc-
ton, and attended by men from each
of the eight counties. Mr.. Pomeroy
presided and Harry Ritter, Liverpool,
was secretary. William Hertzler,
former deputy secretary of the COM
monwealth, Port Royal, and c. l..
Darlington. New Bloomfield, were
picked for alternates and Samuel I.
Spyker, Huntingdon county Republi-
can chairman. for presidential cleo
! tor. The unanimity of the conference
was very displeasing to Democrats.
! City Commissioner w. l.. Gorgas
! is now being doomed for Democratic
national delegate from this district.
There are couple OF other Demo-
Gratis with the idea that they should
/ be chosen.
Nominating petitions for Repre-
sentaties Augustus Wildman and j.
/ w. SwartZ. of this city, are in cir
culation. The papers of Senator r. e.
Beidleman are being widely signed
His papers will be notable tribute to
him, say his friends.
Justice George II. Horning, of
Enola is out again as candidate for
the Legislature. He was an aspirant
a few years ago.
Representative j. W. Nickerman
/ of Allegheny county. who is handling
L the Governors local option legislative
campaign in Western Pennsylvania in
con niunction with j. Denny O'Neil will
I be here next week to talk over the
progress of the campaign. \ number
of candidates will be submitted 10 the
/ Governor for his approval.
Friends OF former Representative
George w. Allen are urging him to
come out as a candidate for the Re-
publican nomination for senator in the
| Forty-flfth District in Allegheny
county, but he has not reached de-
cision. Former Senator James l..
Adams is also being discussed. George
| G. Bradshaw, who has been put in the
race by David r. Johns, has started
/ to circulate his papers. Other prob
able candidates are W. Heber Dithrich
! of Coraopolis and William E. Sankey
of Carrick.
S. A. Barnum, of California. Wash
ington county, who was the Democra-
tic nominee for Congress in the Twen-
ty-fourth district, last Fall, has an
nounced himself as Democratic can
didate for national delegate in that
district.
4 sn,.
. Westmoreland county. to-day filed
petition to be a candidate for the
Republican nomination for the House
of representatives in the First West
moreland district.
Not only are there fewer ap-
plications for liquor licenses in Phila-
city ban. Mayor Smith added his pro-
test yesterday to retaining in the city
service any employe who brings
liquor to work with him or who drinks
IL while on duty. Rum and efficient
public service is impossible" said the
Mayor "My orders TO the heads of
departments is to suspend from duty
without pay at once any employe
found using liquor while at work or
found TO be under the influence of
liquor, or showing any evidence what
ever of having used liquor while on
duty. Thc suspension is eQulNdlcnl 10
dismissal where the facts will war
rant such action. No excuse will save
offending employees, no matter how
good the previous record" The Mayor
said that he wants to make as definite
as possible this policy as affecting all
employees of the city. Because for
NAL notice of the ban on liquor has
been issued in but a few instances by
departmental and bureau chiefs, the
Mayor said he regards it as neces-
sary to have the statement coming
from him that in every department,
bureau or division under the control
of the Mayor the warning against the
use of liquor is to apply.
Asserting their case proved, coun-
sci for the Rev. T. w. Mckinney, the
contestant. declared at Coatesville that
quo warranto proceedings would be
,ssued against w. l.. w. Jones in
Court next Monday, asking him to
, show cause why he should have quail
fed as Mayor, when the evidence in
the contest hearings proved that he
had paid State and county tax of men
in Contesville who testified that they
, had never authorized any one to pay
their tax.
The first Roosevelt boom in Phila-
: deiphia was sprung last night by q
, grouD of Independent Republicans in
the Forty-siXth ward, who organized
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