Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-25
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BY tho Ex-Committeeman

| Ior superior court Judge Johh W.
Kephart of Ebensburg for Govern
: orship honors has stirred up much
talk among men active in State poll
tics, and while everyone is nervous
over what may be the effect of the
present Legislature the men who
plan things are already looking over
the field. The Democrats are about
as badly split on the subject as the
Republicans and are believed to have
considerably less chance or gettlns
together.
The men talked of among Repub-
licans are: Senator w. c. Sproul, OF
Delaware, who has been given a good
many cheers, but has never MADE q
definite statement; State Chairman
William e. Crow, who is said not 10
wish the honor, although widely Ia
Vored; Governor FRANK
b. McClain; ex-Lieutenant-GoVer
L. A. Watres, of Scranton; eX-Sena-
tor John S. Fisher, or Indiana; Col.
H. c. Trexler the Allentown busi-
ness magnate; ex-Auditor General A.
E. Sisson, of Erie; ex-Speaker
George E. Alter. of Allegheny; Sec
retary of the Commonwealth cyrus
E. Woods, of Westm moreland, who has
not seemed very much interested up
to date; Congressman Edgar K.
Kiess, of Lycoming; e. V. Bapcock,
| who is now thinking of running Tor
Mayor of Pittsburgh; ex-State Treas
urer Robert K. Young, of Wellsboro,
who is much talked of as an olive
branch possibility, and others.
On the Democratic side, in addl-
| ton to the perennial talk or vance
c. Mccormick, Roland S. Morris and
A. Mitchell Palmer, there is mention
| of Senator c. w. Sones, of Lycomlng.
| A Pottsville dispatch to the Philadel-
phia Record, the big Democratic or
| ganization newspaper of eastern
| Pennsylvania, says: conditions IN
| Pennsylvania are ripe for Democrat
| ic success, according to leading DEM
| ocrats, who held q conference here
| this week. If a broad-gauge man OF
| the type of eX-Judge Gordon is nonl-
| mated for Governor, with eX-Con-
| gressman Michael Donohue or j. L.
Lenahan, of Wilkes-Barre for sec
! ond place, and leading Progressive
| from Pittsburg for Secretary of In
| ternal Affairs, the prospect OF Demo-
cratic success will be bright, they de-
| clare"
The mine cave" fight seems to
| be about to start all over again. In
| Scranton people have refused to ac-
cept the proposition for settlement
| of the question and charges that it
| is being made to block legislation
are heard. The anthracite legislators
will likely have a conference tonight
| to discuss it.
The Philadelphia Ledger COM
mends the Governors veto OF the
| cold storage bill, but rnere was some
| talk about the Capitol to-day that 1t
might cause some feeling among leg
islators, especially from the farming
| a. n c
friends have heretofore found hay
making good.
The Legislature, which expects
! to adjourn Thursday, is the second
| longest as far as limit goes since the
| constitution of 1878 became effective.
| The longest session was that of 1897,
the year of the fire. The sessions of
1901 and 1897 ran until June II.
This year it is planned to adjourn
June 2S.
The Philadelphia Inquirer rises
to predict that This will be stormy
week on the HILL"
The Woman Suffragists are get
ting even with the political powers
in Pennsylvania for the defeat of
their measures in the Legislature.
They have issued an amusing com
munication to the legislators, which
il STYLED IAN ante-mortem" in which
they twit them about the sorrows OF
the going home days" The bulk of
the STORY" is in fable style.
1t is understood that quite a
number of boroughs of the State
will take UP the creation OF the
place of borough manager, provided
for in the bill approved by the Gov
ernor on Saturday. The subject has
been much discussed ever since the
4o4 nf tho hill which |
drawn by men active in the State |
League of Boroughs, who had been |
to Dayton and other places TO study |
the system. The result or their |
studies was incorporated in the bill
to adapt the plan to boroughs. In
case it works we'll it is likely that
a bill to fit the system to cities of
the third class will be presented in
1919.
The Graeff bill to increase SAL
aries of justices will be laid before
the House tonight in the form of
conference report which has been
reconsidered and friends of the !
measure say that it will pass.
Philadelphia politicians have
been again stirred up by the abrupt
manner in which Mayor Smith has
shifter Ware magistrate from the
nice city hall post and put Nc
Nichol man in his place. 1t is said
that the Mayor did not like the way
the Ware man acted in recent ward
fight. 3
--One of the new moves among
philadelphia Italians is a plan to
remove c. G. A. Baldi as the leader
of the Italians in that city. 1t grows
out of the recent visit of the italian
mission which seems to have left
some heartburnings.
Mayor Smiths taking to the
war path in Philadelphia on the
treatment accorded to the transit
bills may have wide effect on the
close of the session. 1t is not be-
lieved that the Mayor will go to the
extent of breaking anything, but his
example is likely to stir up some
men who are natural insurgents or
who are aggrieved at the way the
legislative situation has developed.
The Mayor is due here tonight.
Stories were going to-day that
the Governors appointments would
ne sent to the Senate tomorrow and
Wednesday and that with few ex-
ceptions there would be little objec-
| ton to them. Opposition to most of
the officials seems to have faded and
in the case of one or two men they
will likely be confirmed. because, as
one well-posted man said to-day. to
keep them from being put into some
place where they might make still
more trouble.
The second class city nonpar-
tisan repeater is due to be disposed
of tomorrow. 1t will mean a merry
| fight as the men opposed to 1t have
| kAA hN.ax nd ole at oiC C1n