Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-02
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BY the Ex-Committeeman

party both in the Philadelphia COM
mon pleas court in regard to its city
nominations and in the Supreme
Court where the councilmanic nom
= nations were upheld, is the subject
e OF considerable congratulatory com
ment in Philadelphia newspapers to-
day. incidentally, the Evening Bull
letin says editorially that the people
S behind the fifty-fity ticket and theiI
supporters ought soon to be i'm
pressed by the fact that there is not
a newspaper with them in Philadel-
. phia that amounts to anything.
The Inquirer says the Supreme
, Court gave "a legal Knockout" to
the opponents of the Town Meeting
movement and says that it opens the
way for victory and the Press says
that it marks the beginning of the
/ defeat of the Vare-Smith combina-
ton. The Ledger calls the Supreme
Court decision "a decisive victory
for the Town Meeting party and says
, editorially: by this time it might be
thought that the Ware combination
would realize that the courts of Phil
adelphia and of Pennsylvania, with
some trifiing exceptions, were incap-
able of permitting themselves to be-
come the tools for unscrupulous
trickery or for the suppression of the
nominations for public Office"
The Democratic Record makes
this comment THE integrity of the
| judiciary of Pennsylvania as a whole
was more than vindicated yesterday
by the Supreme Court of this state.
The full enormity of the injustice
sought to be done by another branch
of the judiciary was also strikingly
demonstrated. The North American
calls it popular victory and rejoices
with many words.
Mayor Smith will be formally
asked, says the. Philadelphia Press,
by heads of the Town Meeting party
| to transmit to Governor Brumbaugh
q formal request that members of the
State Police be assigned for
duty in Philadelphia on election day,
November 6. Governor Brumbaugh
was asked Monday night by the Town
Meeting party to provide the protec-
ton of the police, and in his
reply he answered that the request
had not reached him through the
proper channels, having been ad-
dressed to him directly, instead of
through the Sheriff or the Mayor
While people all over Pennsylva-
mia are watching the developments
in the Philadelphia fight ard good
many are noting the strenuous char
acter of the Pittsburgh contest, there
are many other battles under way in
the thirty-five cities which are elect
ing mayors and councilmen and eX-
cept in twelve or fourteen instances,
there are judicial contests worth
while. This is great political year
and the developments in 1913 were
not more eagerly awaited than those
in advancement of the gubernatorial
year of 1918.
"A good many people all over
Pennsylvania are waiting to hear
what Senator McNichol has to say
about the fifty-fifty ticket in Phila-
delphia. The Philadelphia Bulletin
says that the Senator is for the fifty
fifty, but he refused 20 make any
statement.
The Pittsburgh Gazette-Times
says that Magee won't try to inn
prove" and the Pittsburgh Dispatch
says that businessmen familiar with
city government are sure that he will
give the city an efficient admins
tration.
i John f. Short, Clearfield editor,
4 is candidate for burgess of Clearfield.
And it is some campaign, we are told.
l Charges that Philadelphia city
employees are being used for political
\ purposes and counter-charges that
county court officials were doing the
same thing, and that the tentative
fixing of the tax rate was being used
with the same object, enlivened the
opening of yesterdays session OF
ComAon Council in Philadelphia.
Robert f. Lemberton, of the Twen-
ty-second ward, ended a series of
n aGtinnc ff TnGanh ID Csaffna,~ al "a in
man of the Finance Committee with
an attack on the administration for
using employees to further political
! planss Mr.. Gaffney replied that he
was reliably informed that the same
is true of certainN judge OF one OF
the courts" lie addeu that Mr.. Lam
berton and his friends were using the
tax rate issue for the same purpose.
Stephen c. Hartman, Recorder
of Deeds in LuZerne county, was ar
rested on a warrant issued from the
office of Alderman j. Frank Reinig
charging him with misappropriating
$2,417 entrusted to his care as treas
urer of the general committee for the
state convention of the p. o. S. of A.
held a few months ago. The warrant
was issued on information of j. Ar
thur Bolender, a member of the COM
mittee.
! President Judge Henry C. Quig-
ley, of the courts of Center county,
has issued an order which upsets
the precedent of years in the rules
} governing the holding of court in
this county; the most sweeping
change being to abolish the present
system of holding court two separate
weeks and summoning two sets of
traverse jurors. Hereafter, as di-
rected in the official order of the
Court. the jurors will be summoned
for the regular term and will serve
until the business of the court is
finished. The effect will be greatly
to expedite the business coming up
at any one session. Whereas it has
required parts of two weeks to COM
plete any regular term. the new or
der will in most cases result in COM
pleting court within one week.
Governor Brumbaugh's refusal
! to send State Police to Philadel-
phia for election day is declared by
the Philadelphia Ledger to be what
1t expected.
Senator Penrose was 81 years
old yesterday and was congratulated
not only by his Philadelphia friends
but by many from UP the state.
An investigation of the actions
of Magistrate Harry ]. Imber, who
is alleged to have discharged l LOO
prisoners from the county prison
during the last thirteen months. is
being conducted by District Attorney
Rotan, of Philadelphia, according to
his statement yesterday These pris-
oners were committed by the Mag