Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-24
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By the Ex-Committeeman

The whole state is watching the
outcome of the attack on the nom
ination papers of the Town Meeting
party candidates in the Philadelphia
courts and the outcome may be of
considerable influence upon the CUB
ernauorial campaign next year. The
proceedings started yesterday in
Judge H. A. Davis court and at
tracted many people. The hearing
was as lively as have been other
moves in the Philadelphia situation.
IL is expected that the hearings
VIII close to-day and the Republican
CITY organization is making plans to
launch a strenuous campaign as soon
as the decision is given. 1t is con-
tended that the effort is nothing more
or less than campaign to throttle
an Independent movement in the
| nope that 1t can be used as n prece-
dent next year. On the other hand
the Philadelphia Republican city
committee officials claim that there
has been fraud under the name of
reform.
The newspapers are filled with at
tacks and counterattacks in the form
OIL interviews.
From all accounts contributions
are as slow in going from the at
taches of the Philadelphia city gov
ernment to the Republican city COM
mittee war chest in Philadelphia, as
have donations from Capitol attaches
to the Republican state committee
funds. 1t is officially denied at the
Capitol that any move to prevent
contributions was made by the Gov
ernor and in Philadelphia newspa-
pers say that the city administra-
uon can not get its people to give. A
thlrd call is reported in Philadelphia
by the city committee.
The Committee of Seventy in
Philadelphia charges that there are
5000 "phantoms" registered in that
city. In Pittsburgh the charge is
made that accusations of false regis
tration are being unjustly made
against citizens in an effort to keep
them from voting.
Asher V. Stauffer, the North |
amption county register of wills, who |
committed suicide in Easton court |
house yesterday was we'll known here. |
He had rapid rise in Democratic |
politics in Northampton county. AS
there are reports that he is away |
short in the money due the state
from collateral inheritance tax. Audi |
tor General Snyder says that it in |
dicates that he is right when he in |
sists that the state should have a |
Clerk in the office of every register |
promptly investigated and that the
state gets the money due it under the |
law. There has been a tremendous
fuss made about the course of SNYDER
In insisting upon appointing such
clerks, but it is not likely to be heard
much more. II
Fourteen men, including Isaac
Deutsch, one of the principal defend
ants in the Fifth ward murder con-
spiracy were held in 81, 600 bail each
for court yesterday in Philadelphia,
on charges arising from alleged cleo
ton irregularities on primary day
when Policeman George Eppley was
murdered by a New York gunman.
w. j. Elliott, representing the Com
mlttee OF Seventy, expressed a will
ingness to have the defendants held
in $500 each, but Magistrate Rem
shaw would not agree to such small
bail. The charges against these
men" said the magistrate, ARE far
too grave to let them off with such
light bail. These charges deal with
the very vitals of our government;
we are on the eve of an election and
feel it my solemn duty to impress
1t upon men who will be election Of
hcers at this election that they cam
not violate the law and override the
will of the voters with impunity."
Richard T. McSorley, nominee of
the Philadelphia Democratic party
for the office of District Attorney,
who refused to withdraw in the inter-
est of fusion with the Town Meeting
party, yesterday issued a statement
explaining his attitude. He expresses
himself as being in favor of the can
didates of the Town Meeting party
for the row" offices, but says he is
opposed to their action in declaring
for the candidacy of District Attorney
Rotan on the fusion ticket.
William Perrine. writing in the
Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, urges
judges to stick to the bench, as
might De added Is the custom in
Dauphin County. The Bulletin in
discussing some things says:
Judge John NJ. Patterson, of our
Common Pleas Court No. /, has ex-
| hibited an unusual activity for a
member OF the judiciary in his COM
ings and goings as a participant in
all sorts of public events. In the So
cial, the festive and the ceremonial
side of the general public life of the
town, he has become one of the most
! familiar figures. Still a young man,
and with an appearance which is en-
gaging, he is apparently disposed to
disregard the sort of personal de-
meanor or reserve which is often
held to be an essential to popular re-
spect for the judicial character. The
general opinion of level-headed men,
whether lawyers or laymen, is that it
is wiser for judges to keep at the
business which they were elected to
perform, rather than to yield to an
! impulse which, however honorable
or patriotic it may be, is somewhat
suggestive of a sort of knight err
rantry when it moves an occupant of
the bench to throw aside his gown
and buckle on the sword.
Things are lively in Pittsburgh,
too. The Pittsburgh Dispatch says
Mondays council meeting was fea-