Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-08
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BY the Ex-Committeeman

tiOH are UelnS prepared at the u0-
partment of the secretary of the
commonwealth for issue the latter
part of this month so that they may
qualify the first Monday in Janu-
airy. Some of the judges will also
be commissioned president judges
and in the case of Robert B. McCor-
mick, judge elect of the Clinton
Cameron Elk district, he will get an
other as he has been appointed to
fill out twenty-five days of the term
of tho late Judge Harry Alvan Hall.
Commissions will be issued to
twenty-six common pleas judges,
twenty-five associate judges and
three orphans court judges. This is
the largest number of judicial off,
GERS to be commissioned for some
time.
County officers will be commission
ed as follows: ProthonotarieS 90:
registers of wills 10; recorders of
deeds IL: sheriffs 23 and coroners
10. There are one or two vacan-
cies among such officers and they
may be filed in addition. while COM
missions as dedimus potestatum will
be issued to recorders. The COM
missions for the three classes of
court clerks will be issued as fol-
lows: Quarter sessions 16; oyer and
terminer II and orphans court II.
Some nj the county returns sent
here for the making out of commits
sions have been returned as incom-
plete.
Filing of expense accounts con-
tinues to attract attention generally.
The Philadelphia and Scranton state
ments being recorded, Pittsburgh is
now to the front. A dispatch from
that city says: "E. V. Babcock. elected
Mayor of Pittsburgh spent $122.-
421.60. and former Mayor William A.
Magee, defeated candidate, spent
$57,S31.39, in the November election
campaign, according to the expense
accounts of the treasurers of their
campaigns, filed here. Babcock's ac-t
count, showing ontributions of ST.
$50, indicates a deficit of S44,971.60
to be made up. Magees account, list
ing contributions of S35, 5,06S.4S with
a balance from the primary cam
paign of $4,023.40, shows a deficit of
SlS.733.51. Large as the Babcock ac-
count appears, the multimillionaire
lumber baron who will serve Pitts
burgh the next four years as mayor,
probably will find it one of the
cheapest of his many investments,
for his own contribution to the cam
paign is listed at $4,000. Other large
were: Former Senator
George T. Oliver, $1,500: Henry Rea,
$4,000; +. r. Babcock, brother of the
Mayor elect, $2.700; B. f. Jones, Jr.,
head of the Jones & Laughlin Steel
Company, $4,000. There were thirty
six contributors of over $500. Will
liam Finn, chief contributor to the
Magee campaign, gave $500 in two
contributions"
The Philadelphia Record to-day
charges that the move by counsel
for the Ware organization in Phila-
delphia courts to have the bond to
by the Town Meeting
party, is an effort to hamper and de-
lay. The North American also
charges a holdup. The Inquirer says
it is an attempt to block"
The Philadelphia Ledger is Civ
ing considerable space to the move in
behalf of Highway Commissioner
O'Neil for Governor. 1t thinks that he
may make an announcement soon.
Presence of Ex-Speaker George
f. Alter. of Allegheny, here yester-
day on business at the Capitol stimu-
lated talk of the former Speaker as
an available man for Governor. Mr.
Alter is being much spoken of among
men because of the position
he took in the public service law en-
actment and in hearings on ii. There
is considerable quiet sentiment for
him about the state.
Philadelphia politics have been
further affected by the arrangement
made to end free trolley transfers
and by the police protest against Di-
rector Wilson and conditions in the
of the force in that city.
James A. Carey says he
will champion the cause of the police
in council.
Prof. Eugene Fellows, we'll
known to many here, is stirring up
things as a candidate for county
schools superintendent in Lacka-
wanna.
-Coatesville has cut down it's po-
lice force from thirteen to eight and
raised the pay OF the eight retained.
Altoona city fathers are strug-
Cling with demands for increase of
salaries.
The "Insider" writing in the
Philadelphia Press yesterday made
this observation: The chance of
peace in the Republican party in
Philadelphia is ended. The prof
fers for an armistice or even for a
permanent agreement were consid-
cred by leaders on either side in the
last week, and even insisted upon
by some as a necessity for the safety
of the party in Pennsylvania. Sem
ator Penrose and the circle of Town
Meeting and Republican Alliance
leaders surrounding him considered
the terms and turned them down.
They had the alternative suggested
to them of leaving Philadelphia en-
tirely to the Wares and doing what
they pleased throughout the state,
or of going into desperate battle in
this city, and they chose the latter
course. Action, of course, was de-
cided on Friday at the two meetings.
one of the Republican Alliance, in
the office of Senator Penrose, and
the other a secret session of the real
leaders of the anti-Vare movement
on that night. The decision of
those meetings was: Contest the
election and organize everywhere in
the city to wipe out Ware control.
The plans of these leaders do not
even end with the borders of Ware
ville," that south of South street ter
ritory regarded as the Ware citidal
of strength. Men have been named
to make the fight in every ward, or
else will be decided upon shortly,
and they will gather forces to go on
the firing line imm ediately."
Representative William Ramsey
is anxious to return to the Legisla
ture from Chester, says the Ledger.
He is a follower of the McClures,
and he will naturally be opposed by
potential forces. His opponent will
probably be William Ward, Jr., who
was recently defeated for City Coun-
ell by twenty-seven votes. 1t looks
as though Isaac Sharpless, presi-
dent of Haverford College, and ".
Gilpin Robinson. of Clifton Heights,
will be candidates to oppose Speak
er Richard i. Baldwin and Harry
Heyburn. Henry II. Miller, of Up