Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-06
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By the Ex-Committeeman

BY the Ex-Committeeman
Pennsylvania soldiers who are at
their homes on September 10 will
nave an opportunity to vote at the
primary elections, but those who are
on trains or in environments will not
have any primary votes. The drafted
men will be in the same situation.
The law makes no provision for
taking the primary votes of soldiers.
Just what will be done about the
votes or the soldiers at the Novem-
Der election, is very grave question
and will be taken up by the Governor
and state officials this month. Last
year when the Pennsylvania soldiers
were at El PaSo commissioners were
sent for about each thousand men,
but this November no one can tell
what will be done. There are Penn
sylVanians scattered through every
branch of the Army and Navy and
whereas 1t would have been possible
under the old system of having Penn
ssylNanla troops in regimental organ
izations to get the votes all taken to-
gether the chances are that more
men will be detached from keystone
State Regiments and detailed to other
organizations as was done with a
battalion of the Fourth Infantry.
Where Pennsylvania troops are to-
gether in camp. such as Camp Han
cock, voting will not be difficult, but
the rest of the Pennsylvanians pre-
sent a problem.
Il -
didates for mayor in Pittsburgh, has
created a sensation by suggesting
that his rivals name committees to
scan names of men for appointments.
The big issue against w. A. Magee
on the part of DIR. Kerr is that he has
made deals in advance on appoint
ments, which the former mayor de-
MES. Mr.. Magee has said that he
Will name W. II. Stevenson, presi-
dent of the Chamber of Commerce
and president of the Inflated canal
board, as director of safety. DR.. Kerr
has offered in advertisements to post
a $4,000 bond that he will carry OUT
his committee plan. He has chal-
lenged f. V. Babcock and Mr.. Magee
to take him up. The campaign is rap
idly getting to a point in which per-
sonalties are heard more than argu-
ments. 1t is attracting attention all
over the country because of the ef-
feet it will have on State politics.
-Scranton's mayoralty contest,
which is strenuous enough. is mild
compared to that being waged in
Pittsburgh.
Philadelphia except for instances
where ward fights are on has tanned
down through Mayor Smiths vigor-
Gus action.
Practically no men went from
departments of the State government
to register in Philadelphia, Pitts
burgh or Scranton to-day as a State
law allows men absent on State or
federal business to make affidavits
and send them by mail.
The Philadelphia Record to-day
says: The muddle in the State Con-
stitution due to careless drafting of
the 1909 amendments, was yesterday
made the basis of a taxpayers suit
10 determine when a successor to the
late Judge Dallett, on the Orphans
Court bench, shall be chosen. Pro-
ceedings were brought in the name
of f. Pierce Buckley and the petition
asking that the county commission
ers be enjoined from printing on the
official ballot the name of any can
1 didate for the vacancy caused by the
| death of Judge Dallett was filed by
| William A. Hayes, of the office of
| Simpson, Brown & Williams. The
| petition and a formal answer were
both submitted to Judge Patterson
and after looking into the law bear
ing on the subject he formally dis
missed the petition, thereby clear
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| peal to the Supreme Court. The latter
tribunal is not scheduled to meet
until September "a, in Pittsburgh,
bu an effort may be made to have
the court hold a special session to
hear the appeal because of it's bear.
| ing on the coming election"
United States District Attorney
Francis Fisher Kane, one of the
principal reorganizers, seems to have
attracted national attention because
of his failure to move actively in
draft frauds in Philadelphia. He
summoned John P. Dwyer. the Phila-
delphia newspaperman who is serv-
| ing as a member of a draft board,
| before the Grand Jury very much as
| though Mr.. Dwyer was indicted. but
when the newspaperman got through
Mr.. Kane was clustering and whirl-
| ing about. The Philadelphia North
American scores Kane for his line
] of conduct.
Senator ]. P. McNichol has four
sons in the Army. All are plain pri-
vate soldiers.
-Wilkes-Barre is having one of
those old-fashioned fights for coun-
cilmen that you read about. But It
is nothing compared to the judicial
nomination contest between Judge
Fuller and his old rival.
judicial candidates in Delaware
county have taken to the stump.
| A Scranton dispatch says: aft
ernoon teas are the latest in political
circles here. The teas are being given
| by the Woman Suffrage party. in
support of the candidacy of Mrs. Will
liam Hill and Miss Mary Fay, for the
school board. Each afternoon meet
ings are held at headquarters, fol-
lowed by teas, at which men and
women are served. A speechmaking
tour of the city is also being made
in the interest of the women can
didates."
| The Philadelphia Press prints
this interesting sidelight on politics
| to-day: "A human side to factionaI
political squabbles was presented to
Judge Barratt yesterday when j.
Lee Patton, counsel for the Repub-
lican City Committee, granted per-
mission to F. b. FrankenfieId to
withdraw his name as candidate for
Select Council in the Forty-fourth
ward. His brother, David G. Frank