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

the Republican party to allow events
to shape the next state ticket. certain
of the men aligned with the state
administration would like to force
the fighting by a declaration. Some
of them are looking for the Gov
ernor to give inklings of the policy
of his side at the speeches he is ex-
pected to make at Scranton, York or
other places where he is to talk in
the next few weeks.
The unanimous election of Senator
William G. Sproul as president of the
Union League, of Philadelphia, is
likely to be followed by some au-
thoritative statement either by the
Senator or his friends. but it is be-
lieved that no matter what the Della
ware Senator may decide that High
way Commissioner ]. Denny O'Neil
will stay in the field into which he
really entered some months ago. Gif-
ford Pinchot is also likely to star.
Democrats are going to wait and
are artfully switching from man to
man every day.
In spite of the Governors re-
mark that no one has asked him to
call an extra session of the Legisla-
ture it is the general impression at
the Capitol that the subject has been
and will be much discussed. The vis-
its of Attorney General Brown to
various parts of the state and the
pilgimages of men lined up with the
administration to this city, have al
ways been followed by reports that
sentiment was being sounded out
According to these reports the
main question is what to include in
the call in the event that Congress
passes the dry" amendment before
summer begins and signs are right
for an extra session.
According to an arrangement
made yesterday afternoon the ques-
tion of reinstatement of Thomas d.
Beidleman in the service of the
Bbard of Public Grounds and Build |
ings will be taken up Tomorrow
Governor Brumbaugh desires to dis |
cuss with the Attorney General the
powers of the Governor in relation to
appointments, it is said. |
The Philadelphia North Ameri- |
can to-day indicated that it believes |
the election of Congressman John V.
Lesher, of the Sunbury district, as
the Pennsylvania member of the |
Democratic congressional campaign !
committee, means harmony. LeSher |
had no opposition and the meeting of !
the keystone Democratic congress-
man, generally stormy, was very |
peaceful.
The North American says in
part: THE split in Republican ranks |
is widening daily, while the appoint
ment of Mitchell Palmer as custodian
of enemy property seems to have
narrowed down the probable Demo-
cratic nominees to Guffey and Nc |
Cormick, with accent on Mccormick. |
The Democrats are hopeful that once
they have agreed upon n candidate,
they may defeat a Republican vote
split between the nominees of Pen |
rose and the Wares. Guy Campbell, |
reorganization Democrat, from Allie |
gheny, is working for Guffey, as also
is Earl Beshlin, the new member
from Warren county. Mr.. Lesher has |
announced himself for Mccormick, |
unwilling to run because of war |
duties, it is believed he will line up
for Guffey also"
A sensational attack upon the |
judiciary of Philadelphia, in connec- |
ton with the levying of an alleged |
eXorbitant bond for the contest of the
Town Meeting party of the last cleo
ton in this city was made last night |
by Judge Eugene C. Bonniwell, of the
Municipal Court, says the Philadel- |
phia Inquirer. Just as Germany now
looks to a corrupted Russia to over
throw the cause of the allies" cried |
Judge Bonniwell, 80 now do the or
ganization candidates look to a par
tisan-controlled bench of common
pleas judges to save them from de- |
struction. The people of Philadelphia
never ought to forget the spectacle !
set by these men in their subser-
viency to the Wares" Judge Bonni- |
we'll declared that the action of two
representatives of the board of
Judges that it will cost $225,000 in |
bonds before they will permit JUS
tice to be done in this election is
"prohibitive to honest men and is q
judicial approval of crime and fraud
in the debauchery of Philadelphia's s
government"
Physicians believe the crisis has
been reached in the illness of SEN
ator William E. Crow, Republican
state chairman, confined to his resi-
dence at Uniontown, with malig-
nant carbuncle. Senator Crow was
taken i'll ten days ago while on an
inspection tour of coal and coke
operations. Specialists summoned by
DR.. Arthur f. Crow, a brother of the
Senator, pronounced the growth to
be a dangerous type and, sald that
immediate surgical relief was inn
perative. Senator Crow has Cancelled
all of his engagements for the COM
ing week.
state Senator Horace w.
Schantz, who is Lehighs Republican
county chairman, will be a candidate
for reelection. Lehigh is nominally
Democratic, but the two best court
house offices fell into Republican
hands, Charles II. Schoenly being
elected Clerk of Quarter Sessions,
and Robert II. Norgang Clerk of the
Orphans Court. Senator Schantz is
confident that he will win again.
Mayor Reichenbach holds over, and
Councilman ]. Herbert Kohler was
reelected, while new seats in Coun-
Gil were secured by G. ID. Strauss,
John Allen and Fl. j. Wheeler. -Four
wears ago Wheeler was elected as a
Socialist and he occupies much the
same position in Allentown that
James II. Maurer does in Reading.
The selection of Fl. G.. Hinkle
for city manager to manage Altoona
affairs under the direction of the
commissioners-elect and Mayor
Charles E. Rhodes has met with
popular approval He has for sew
eral years been Road Commissioner
for Blair county. There Is no ques-
ton but what he is considered a
competent man, says a dispatch.
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