Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-31
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BY the Ex-Committeeman.


camps will receive their election sup
plies from Secretary of the Com
monwealth Woods ,the latter part of
the week. The supplies will include
the ballots, lists of candidates, poll
books and other paraphernalia, in
cludlng considerable material which
was not required last year, but which
has been provided this year because
OF the different conditions. AS each
of the commissioners who took the
oath yesterday is personally respon-
sible for the supplies, the Secretary
has arranged to hold them until the
vote takers are ready to start
MIR. Woods said to-day that all
questions seemed to have been dis
posed of and that the commissioners
would all be at their camps at least u
day before election day.
Governor Brumbaugh, who is
speaking at Carlisle to-day, leaves
late to-day for New York and will go
thence to Philadelphia, remaining in
that vicinity until after election day.
The plans for the Governor are for
him to leave Philadelphia the day
following election to visit in the
camps in the South. Members of
the Governors staff will accompany
him.
Officials and attaches of the
State Capitol departments began to
start for their homes yesterday and
to-day to take part in the election,
although some of the Philadelphians
left earlier in the week. The Capitol
departments will practically close
Friday until after election in ac-
cordance with custom.
Philadelphia and Harrisburg are
not the only places on the Pennsyl-
vania political map where there are
lively fights and where the state ad-
ministration is taking a hand. Ini
Pittsburgh the lines are closely
drawn and the battle between Bah
cock and Magee is raging fiercely
with friends of the Governor aiding
Magee, although one or two men
high up in the state administration
have refused to help. In Scranton
there is a battle royal on for mayor
between Connell and Durkan which
has developed into a straight party
fight. Altoona is in the thick of the
hottest fight in years with city man
as the burning issue. Erie, |
Johnstown and York have strenu-
Gus councilmanic battles, too.
In Pittsburgh Magee has been
assaihng Babcock's business plans
and his supporters have been attack
ing Babcock with a virulence that is
attracting national attention. In a
speech City Solicitor Charles A.
O'Brien called attention to some eX-
travagant statements Magee has been
making and gave the public correctI
information, says the Gazette-Times
He also reminded the taxpayers of
Pittsburgh that if Mr.. Magee is elect
ed mayor he will try to put through
a big bond issue for his Lake Erie
ship canal.
Senator Charles H. Kline has
withdrawn as a candidate for Com
mon Pleas Court judge, in Allegheny.
This leaves the five sitting judges
with but three opponents, James B.
Drew, w. A. Griffith and N r.
Daugherty, as John n. Dunn, the
other nominee, took himself out of
the contest some time ago and isl
working hard for the reelection of
the present judges. Mr.. Kline last
night issued this statement: After
canvassing the political situation
since the primaries, have decided to
discontinue my campaign for judge.
1 desire to thank my many thousands
of friends who have supported and
assisted me up to the present time.
I keenly appreciate their confidence
in me, and in the future shall con-
tinue to serve them as l have in the
past" There were fifteen candi-
dates in the primaries for the ten
nominations for Common Pleas
Court Judge. The aspirants elimi-
mated in the primaries were James
II. Harrison, Stephen H. Huselton,
Charles P. Lang, Albert 7. Morgan
ands Edwin ]. Small. With the eX-
ception of Mr.. Morgan, these men
have declared in favor of the cleo
ton of the five sitting judges.
The election fight in Philadel-
phia, which is of statewide import
ance, Is being fought in the courts
and in the wards. The Ware organ
ization was never doing better work,
declare men who have observed the
way the division workers are at It
and the Town Meeting party has its
Job cut out to win. The Town Meet
ing leaders, on the other hand, say
chat public sentiment was never 80
aroused as by recent events and
that the attempt TO strike down the
new party's ticket will cost the
Wares thousands of votes. Phila-
delphia newspapers are still standing
together against the Ware organiza-
ton, whose speakers continue to at
tack the papers as strenuously az
they ~ooed them some months ago.
Amendments to nomination pa
Iers for Town Meeting county can
didates were sufficiently completed
last night TO assure the ticket of a
place on the official ballot. An
to this effect was made
by Robert S. Bright, n member of
the committee of twelve
This is the way the Philadel-
phia Inquirer. rock ribbed Republi-
can organ, discusses the latest at
tack in the courts on the Town
Meeting party ticket: Determined
to stop at nothing in their efforts to
prevent the Town Meeting party
ticket from appearing on the ballot,
the Smith-Vare machine yesterday
to steam-roller the legal
decision handed down by Judge
Davis permitting sixty eight nomina-
ton petitions to be amended. The
intimidation, which began with the
Ware controlled police and detective
bureaus, by their midnight visits to
the homes of signers, yesterday con-
tinued in the office of the County
Commissioners, where, according to
the ruling of Judge Davis, the petit
tions were to be amended before
three notaries commissioned by the
court. Two of these, Louis Trefz
and ]. II. Schofield, are clerks in the
office of the Prothonotary, while the
third is John L. Bnrns. clerk in