Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-10
Poeitic4 in
Pe~~oqesa~io
BY the Ex-Committeeman


than 1877 papers filed in the Dauphin
county court and the State Depart
ment claiming the exclusive use Of
the name for the elections of 1918.
1t has been pre- -empted by five sets
of signers for the state at large.
Eighty of the legislative districts
have been covered by the. pre-emp-
tions, practically every district in
Philadelphia, Montgomery, Delaware
and other southeastern counties be-
ing so covered. In addition the
name has been taken for districts
in Luzerne, Lackawanna and north
eastern counties and also for the
counties of Allegheny, Dauphin,
Blair and Lycoming.
There have been -emptions filed
on twenty-seven congressional and
twenty-five senatorial districts.
The Philadelphia judicial election
official returns, the last of such
papers to be filed at the State Cap
itol, has been put on record and the
commissions for the judges will be
signed by Governor Brumbaugh be-
tween now and Christmas. The
judges will take office the first Mon
day of January.
The story of the division among
labor leaders aligned with the state
Price Jackson and Clifford Pinchot
which seemed to irritate some news
papers when printed in this column,
is confirmed by the Philadelphia
Press. The Press says Pinchot Is
acting like candidate. 1t also
prints the following:
"There is a story about a proposal
on which q permanent peace might
be effected within Republican ranks,
l. ;n1 %
genuine and which not a few wish
were already an accomplished fact.
This story followed closely upon
the statement of n Penrose leader,
published early in the week, that the
Republican organization has offered
a highly profitable peace to the PEN
rose leaders who make up the Re-
publican Alliance. According to the
leader quoted, Penrose and old Nc
Nichol jobholders were to continue
in office while others who had been
fired recently were to be taken care
of. Also the Wares were not to in
terfere with the ward leadership of
any more of Senator Penrose's
friends and were to abandon the
contests now being waged in such
wards. 1t was said that this offer
had been turned down as promptly
as it was received.
Following this report of a peace
offer. the second story was started on
it's rounds via the whispering gal
1ery" along the rialto.
THE whisperers in this case, how
ever, happened to be among the
leaders with large followingS and
their report was highly cimcumstan-
trial
A Philadelphia Inquirer Dis
patch from Pottsville says: John
Reber, of this city, a well-known
manufacturer, has been agreed upon
by the potential Republican leaders
of Schuylkill county for the nomin-
alton for State Senator to succeed
Charles A. Snyder. who has been ele-
waited to the office of Auditor Cen
eral of Pennsylvania. Mr.. Reber has
been active in the Republican or
ganization of this county, although
he has held no more prominent
place than that of deputy treasurer,
which he occupied under the admin |
itsration of the late A. S. Faust, of
this city, Democrat of the old
school. There will be an interesting
contest for Congress in the Schuyl-
kill district next year"
The entire police force of Darby, |
composed of six policemen and a i
chief have requested a raise in wages |
and have issued an ultimatum to the |
borough councils that unless this in |
crease was forthcoming they would |
resign from the force in body at
the end of this month.
The patrolmen are asking to have |
their salaries increased to $50 per
month and that of their chief to
500 a month.
AnRnrflinB n haAD
earned here, five Congressman in !
districts in Central Pennsylvania, |
have already determined to run
again. They are Congressman w. w. |
iriest, of Lancaster, who is certain !
r. ID. Heaton, of Schuyl- |
kill, who is reasonably sure, as he |
has no opposition in his own party |
Congressman Edgar r. Kiess, of Ly- |
who is after n fourth term |
and who is declared by the. North |
American to have abandoned guber- |
aspirations; Congressman |
Tohn V. Lesher, Northumberland, |
who will have a fight, and Congress- |
man Il. X. Focht, of Union, who will |
ne reelected in spite of the grumb- !
ing and growing of a lot of kickers |
and the noise made by men aligned |
with the national administration. |
John NJ. Rose, of Cam |
oria, will probably run again and |
voices from the tomb are that War |
rem Worth Bailey may try again.
The Philadelphia North Ameri- |
,an in a Scranton dispatch takes this |
vhack at law which is pointed to |
with considerable pride by state ad-
men here: Believing |
hat to accept the Burke salary-rais- |
ng act as imposed upon second class |
cities by the Legislature means a |
perpetual raising of salaries until |
every man on the city payrolls re- |
,eives no less than 81, $50 n year, |
council may refuse to |
with the act until mandam- |
used and ordered by court to provide |
for the increases. The act, as coun- |
I'll reads it, provides not only that
every salaried employe now receiving |
s1.5OO or less shall receive $50 in |
but it provides that the $3.50 |
boost shall be an annual perform |
lnce, regardless of the position or the |
of the holder benefited |
by the act"
-"Outrageous," Henry ]. Scott, |
attorney for the Town Meeting party, |
characterized the action of
counsel for the Republican organiza- |
ton in demanding the independents |
be compelled to furnish a S750,0OO
bond to insure the costs or the pro- !
posed election contests. "The demand
Of the counsel for the Republican or
for s750,000 bond is
Mr.. Scott declared. 1T
Is done for no other purpose than that
of preventing a contest. The maxi |
mum cost for the re-opening of all of
the ballotboxes would not exceed
S25, 900"
The report that City Treasurer