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

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Officials of the Governors office
and of the State Department of
Labor and Industry to-day professed
entire ignorance of the appointment
of William b. Smith, son of a Ware
ward leader in Philadelphia. to the
$4,000 post of chief of the bureau
of statistics and information made
vacant by the resignation of Paul N.
Furman, of Wayne, and in the abb
sence of any official announcement
friends of the numerous other as
pirants for the place redoubled their
efforts. William II. Ball, secretary
to the Governor. Who was outS0f the
city to-day. said yesterday that he
had no knowledge of the appoint
ment and Commissioner John Price
Jackson, of the Department of Labor
and Industry, who is the man to
make the appointment under the
law, is away on a months vacation.
He started week ago.
At the office of the bureau there
is no information about Mr.. Smith
and no instructions have been given
anywhere about him. The bureau
is splendidly organized and the sys-
tenn is carrying it on as usual Mr..
Smith will not have much to do
when he does arrive.
Payment of acquisitions for sal
aries or expenses of James w. Leech,
member of the State Compensation
Board, who has been serving ever
since reappointed by Governor
Brumbaugh on July 8, and for Rob-
ert X. Young, who was sworn in as
Public Service Commissioner yester-
day in a hospital at Blossburg, will
be held up at the Auditor Generals
department the same as the requi-
sitions on behalf of the four state
officials who embarked in the man
damus proceedings against the
Auditor General. Auditor General
Snyder takes the position that they
are in the same position, and whether
any will pe filed for the present Is
not known. Mr.. Snyder is working
on his answer to the proceedings
and says the rejection by the Senate
will be brought out.
Mayor Smiths endorsement of
Register Sheehan at Philadelphia is
generally accepted throughout the
State as an effort to bring about
Statewide peace among Republicans,
but 1t has not been followed up. A
good many men in politics are wait
ing to see what the mayor does about
Samuel p. Rotan, candidate for re-
election as district attorney. Mr..
Rotan is personal friend of Sena-
tor Penrose
The Philadelphia vice and tran
sit situations continue to heat up
the city.
-Lackawanna Democrats are in a
h fu
Rutherford does not propose to be
stood aside for the nomlnation for
district attorney. The Lackawanna
bosses have been trying to get the
belligerent major to accept a nomina-
tion for something else so that they
can put Leon NJ. Levy into the dis
trict attorney nomination, but
Rutherford is bucking.
The Warner act relative to cleo
ton of poor directors in the middle
coal district seems to have a fine
breeder for candidates. They are
rather numerous.
-Hazleton's police are going un-
der civil service this week Some
or the Hazleton people wonder what
police up there will be like when out
of politics.
A dispatch from Chester tells
tnlS entertaining tale: Evidently
smarting under the unexpected de-
feat for the newly created Civil Ser
vice Board, T. Woodward Trainer,
secretary of the Chester Board of
Trade and Chamber of Commerce,
this morning sent his resignation
from the City Planning Commission
to Mayor Wesley S. Mcdowell. The
resignation read as follows: Please
accept my resignation as n member
of the City Planning Commission.
same to take effect +his date. I don't
mind being the goat occasionally, but
do mind being made al. ass of in
the open
Members of the PHILADELPHIA
Democratic City Committee held a
conference last night at the head
quarters fLI slatc-malli Ig plrm,ses
in accordance with the program an
nuunced at the rece 1t meeting of the
con mittee. Repres santGt,Nes of vart-
ouS wards We're Present to confer
WIN Chairman La * and others and
the subject of councilmanic candi-
oates was discussed. No ccnsidera-
ion was given to naming candidates
Tor the major offices and heal of
the ticket and no announcements
We're made. An eft 1T will be made
TO set up councilmanic tickets in
every ward, and the committee ex-
poets to elect several members.
Whry Ca,I C,a-I CAfa