Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-11
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BY the Ex-Committeeman

Now that Republican legislative
leaders are about to fix either June
Ia or Fl as the date for adjournment
of the General Assembly of 1917,
probably the former, the Democratic
minority, which has made such a
sorry showing in the House all ses-
sion, Is about to break forth for the
sake of advertising. The Democratic
leadership this session has been such
a surprise to everyone about the Cap
itol that the failure has even been
impressed upon the bosses and the
ringmasters and they have planned a
demonstration. Due and proper no.
tice Will be given by the Market
Square windmill and the results will
be taken down in shorthand and filed
away for future use.
Democratic Leader Sarig, who has
never been sure of n majority of his
colleagues on the Democratic side,
will be chosen to start the sideshow.
He will arrange for hearings on the
bills which the Democratic leaders
bring here session after session to be
buried so that the Democrats may
have something to wall about. All
of the big Democratic chiefs will
come here to join in the lamentations
over the failure to recognize in these
bills the means to save the common
wealth.
In order that e. Lowry Humes. once
in while trotted out as a stalking
horse in the Democratic gubernatorial
warming-up heats, may be put into
the limelight, it is announced in the
mourning organ of the machine that
the Democrats will put the state to
the expense of printing a resolution
to be offered by some deserving Dem
ocrat. This will call attention to
the services of Mr.. Humes as United
States District Attorney for Western
Pennsylvania in the crusade against
the brewers.
After the bosses and ringmasters
appear here and Humes is properly
brought into the limelight again. the
Democratic members will give atten-
tion to getting all the appropriations
possible for their districts, as usual
Republican legislative leaders will
have weekend conferences in Phila-
delphia on the closing up of the ses-
sion. 1t is expected that the June
II resolution will be presented Mon
day night and be held up so that if
it is found to be impossible to close
on that date June 81 may be substi-
tuted.
committees are closing up their in
spections and things are being rap
idly put into. shape to wind up the
heavy work of the session. The time
is at hand.
Speaker Baldwin's comments upon
legislative absentees has attracted
much attention about the state. Tne
speaker said that men who had been
making the most noise about want
4 d,
away when the House was to go into
session for that very purpose.
The new borough of Dupont has
just indulged in it's first election and
Albert Struck, the candidate. of a fac
tion headed by ministers, won the Of
fee of burgess.
Men connected with the admins
tration were inclined to-day to re-
mark that the action of Banking
Commissioner Lafean in appointing TO
Office one of the eX-Powell men was
not to be taken as a precedent when
others left the Auditor Generals Of
flee.
Though the mentioned candi-
dates" for Governor comprise long
list of well-known Republicans and a
few Democrats, the anthracite region
has come forward with a boom FOR
a favorite son. He is none other than
William r. Butler, of Carbon county,
a director of the Lehigh Valley Rail-
road, the big man in East Mauch
Chunk, and one of the leading figures
in that region of Pennsylvania known
as the Switzerland of America. But
Ter has been a quiet but energetic Re-
publican, one who never sought Of
flee and probably will not now, though
he is In danger of the gubernatorial
honor being forced upon him-if Car
bon county G.. o. z. has dominant
voice in the next stating conclave.
The Lansford Record is out with a
strong editorial for Butler. 1t says
that he has carved his way from the
bottom up and that if you comb the
Commonwealth over you will not find
a cleaner character, nor will you dis
cover a man who deserves more or
has achieved more than Carbon's ia
vorite son. Mr.. Butler is frequent Wis
itor to Harrisburg, where he has
friends who will feel elated at the
coupling of his name with the po-
sition of chief executive of Pennsyl-
vania.