Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-20
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BY the Ex-Committceman

Ties ItaNlnS electlOnS Tor various OIL
fees to be commissioned by the state
return blanks for official results.
These blanks call for the returns
with the soldier vote included.
! A number of counties filed returns
of elections for judges and associate
judges without the soldier vote and
they were returned. 1t is said that
over a dozen counties made these
premature reports. The infoI
tion is given at the Capitol that
there are no more returns of votes
taken at camps to come in.
A number of inquiries have been
I made here the last few days which
indicate that some contests may be
made of soldier votes where they
will have bearing upon close fights
for election. The poll books and
duplicate returns of the election are
being held here for reference.
| Senator Penrose yesterday held
| the first of a series of conferences
with leaders from Various coun-
ties and discussed the organization of
the fight against the Ware Influences.
| Gubernatorial matters were also
| touched upon and it is said that the
name of Judge George Kunkel, of
this city, was mentioned by some Of
| the men as available timber. Much
interest is attached to the forth
coming statement by Senator Sproul
and the tours of ]. Denny O'Neil are
exciting much speculation. "A con-
test of the November election in
every ward and division in the city
was decided upon yesterday by lead
ers of the Town Meeting party. They
will have the active cooperation Of
Republican ward leaders, who have
lined up with Senator Penrose
against Ware domination" says the
Philadelphia North American. "The
determination to carry the election
returns into the quarter sessions
court was reached after a series of
conferences, during which every
scrap of evidence produced in the
election court or dug up since No
vember by the Town Meeting party
and the Committee of Seventy was
subjected to the closest scrutiny. 1t
was the opinion of the leaders of
the bar allied with both the Town
Meeting party and the anti-Vare Re-
publicans, after studying this proof
of wholesale fraud and illegal count
ing-out of votes, that the entire
Town Meeting county ticket was
elected on November g."
The Philadelphia Record re-
marks that Leaders of the Town
Meeting party say that they have
ample time to start contest proceed
| ings and do not desire haste. Pledges
| of financial support to raise the
| 100000 bond which must be given
! in starting a contest to guarantee
costs are said to have been made at
| the meeting in Senator Penrose's Of
| flee. A subcommittee to cooperate
with the Town Meeting party in OBJ
tanning evidences of fraud and a
subcommittee on law to look after
! the legal end of the matter was
agreed on by Senator Penrose and
| his followers"
Another phase of the compli-
Gated litigation over the fees of the
Philadelphia register of wills office
was yesterday decided in favor of
| James B. Sheehan when few ques-
Ii Ons of ftct involved were submitted
| TO a jury before Judge Audenried.
The case is now ready for another
| appeal 10 the Supreme Court when
! the constitutionality of the act of
! 1913 will be finally decided. The
amount Of fees involved is already
over 100000 and should Sheehan
finally wir those of his second term
! would amount to even more, so that
| the total amount at issue is really
|
| by the Commonwealth for the collec-
| tion OF the collateral inheritance and
were G ii abolished by the act of 1913
| which increased the registers salary
| to $4,000 q year and directed that
all fees be paid into the county
treasury
Notwithstanding a dispatch to
the Public Ledger from Harrisburg
to the effect that Governor Brum-
baugh will reappoint William A.
Magee as Public Service Commits
slOner, the Pittsburgh Gazette Times
says that there is a probability that
! Mr.. Magee may be elected to a place
in City Council of Pittsburgh. This
is confirmed in a dispatch from
Pittsburgh to the Philadelphia In
quirer, which says: William A. Ma
gee. Brumbaugh-Vare candidate who
was defeated recently for the Mayor
atty of this city, has arisen from the
dead and is now working his forces
to obtain a seat in Council. in case
DR.. j. p. Kerr, president of City
| Council, accepts a commission as
major in the United States Army.
A deal is on with Representative
Guy r.. Campbell, Congressman of
the Thirty-second district. whereby
| DR.. G. A. Dillinger, one of the pres
ent Councilmen who is now at Camp
Hancock with the National Army,
viii be prevented from coming to
this city to cast his vote for Kerr's
successor, through Campbell's infiu-
ence at Washington, Campbell being
assured of the Magee support in the
next campaign for Congress, in re-
turn for this work. 1t is also report
ed that Campbell will use his influ-
ence to prevent DR.. Kerr from being
commissioned until after January /,
when Dillir gers term of office eX-
pircs. thus avoiding the criticism that
Is bound TO follow. if Dillinger is pre-
vented from coming to the city to
vote. Magee, in this case. would
control enough votes to be elected to
Council"
The Wares gained yesterday in
the official count in Philadelphia.
The District Attorney of Mont
gomery county has started a moral
cleanup of that county in a way that
is attracting attention.
Prominent women are, ATTENDING
the suffrage meetings this week and
the leaders of the Democratic and
. Republican parties admit that the
women are going to be a factor in
the. election of legislators next No
vember because of their insistence
upon passage of a suffrage amend.
nIent.
Thomas ]. McGinnis only Dem.
ocrat In Philadelphia's Select Coun.
Gil and the political legatee OF
, Thomas J. Ryan, died yesterday ir
Philadelphia. He was well known
; here.
deputy recorder of deeds of North.