Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-29
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BY the Ex-Cornmitteeman

ms toT Two Things growing out Ol
the Philadelphia situation and they
are expected to have big effect not
only upon the election of next week
in the Quaker City but upon the
making of state tickets next year
There are other developments oi
statewide interest in that city as q
result of the primary but these two
are the greatest.
The matters referred to are the
decision of Judge H. A. Davis on the
nominating petitions of the Towr
Meeting party, which is due to-day
and the request of the leaders OF
the Town Meeting to the Governor to
detail state police to Philadelphia for
election day.
In the nominating petition battle
in the court on Saturday things were
rather favorable to the Town Meet
ing party and its lawyers claim that
It's candidates will be on the ticket
The request for state police is
made in letter which denounces the
Philadelphia city police and puts up
to the Governor for the first time
whether state police should be used
in city elections.
While there are many interest
ing things going on in Philadelphia
and there are signs that citizens are
aroused there have been so many
crusadeS undertaken in that city
lately that 1T will take great work to
overcome the regular ticket. The
Ware organization is on it's mettle
and working day and night. Dis
trict Attorney Rotan has started an
investigation into the operations of
magistrates and has issued a de-
mand on the mayor that police be
taken out of politics, pledging him
self to ask the next Legislature for q
law which will place the force on n
basis as that in London or the state
police of Pennsylvania. Senator Pen
rose has endorsed Rotan's stand, as
have the Philadelphia newspapers.
The Town Meeting party has
named candidates for council and
prominent men such as A. Merritt
Taylor have taken the stump for it.
1t is recognized that it is going to
istration in Philadelphia.
Congressman w. S. Ware and
other Philadelphians are making an
energetic protest to Secretary Baker
against the ACKNOWLEDGMENT of the
First and Second City troops of the
First Cavalry. They are also pro-
testing against the dismemberment
of the Third Regiment.
People here read with much in
terest the merging of newspapers in
HaZleton. That city now has one
morning and one evening newspaper.
The morning paper will be the
Standard-Sentinel and the evening
paper the Plain Speaker.
The Philadelphia Press has this
interesting editorial reference to the
proposition to impeach Mayor Smith:
There is some merit in the recall
and its powers can be invoked under
our present law by impeachment. If
the people of Philadelphia realize as
they should the enormity of Mayor
Smiths action and shake off the un-
intelligent superstition that asso-
ciates national issues and local elec-
tions and will vote in sufficiently
large numbers for the Town Meet
ing candidates government by thug
gerry and murder will secure a much
deserved rebuke in this city"
Chief Clerk George D. Thorn,
of the Department of the Secretary
of the Commonwealth, has been COM
PEELED to have a reprinting of the
list of city and countrywide nominees
in the state for the use of the SOL
diers on election day owing to late
reports made. 1t is expected to have
the new lists ready to deliver to the
commissioners to take the votes who
will meet here tomorrow afternoon
for instruction and to receive their
supplies from Secretary Woods. Gov
ernor Brumbaugh will address the
commissioners.
Designation of Captain George
c. Lumb, deputy superintendent OF
state police, is expected to be made
shortly as acting superintendent dur
ing the leave of absence given Colo
mel John G. Groome, the superinten-
dent. The names of several men
have been heard as possible selec-
tions, but it is said to be the inten-
ton of the Governor to maintain the
traditions of the force.
The mayoralty campaigns in
Pittsburgh and Scranton, where the
state administration people are TAX
ing as big an interest in the results
as in Harrisburg will enter upon the
final week with lines tightened. The
candidates and their orators are
scheduled to make many speeches
and various charges are being made
already about the nominees.
THE Insider" in the Philadel-
phia Press has this to say: my old
friend Jimmy Sheehan, he of the
funny stories, is likely to receive the
swiftest calldown of his gay life one
of these nights when he tells a crowd
that Senator McNichol will surely
support the entire Republican tick
ct with all his resources. Jimmy
alleges that he has full authority
from the Senator for his statement
/ have heard men who are closer to
McNichol than Sheehan is declare
that he has never made any such
statement and, as for authorizing
any one to speak for him, all who
know Jim McNichol will agree that
he has always talked for himself and
never has delegated any person to
speak for him politically.
"A Philadelphia dispatch from
Wilkes-Barre says: Judge Fuller
and his friends have made it per-
fectly plain to the rank and file OF
the Republican party that Shea,
Emanski and Gallagher have lined
up as a Democratic ticket, making
the nonpartisan judgeship campaign
nonpartisan in name only. Repub-
licans have taken notice of this and
Judge Fuller is now very properly
linked as a candidate of the Repub-
licans, carried along by all the lead
ers and supporters of the party"
-Anent the Schuylkill judgeship,
Pottsville dispatch says: "Non-
partisan though the office may be,
nevertheless there will be some par
tisanship thrown into the campaign.
1t is conglomeration. Judge H. o.
Bechtel is a Democrat. Judge C. E.