Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-12
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Per'.oqeSa~io
BY the Ex-Committeeman

With most of the counties of the
state trying to forget the election,
Philadelphia will to-day have two
very interesting events. One will be
the attempt of the regular organiza-
ton to have ballot boxes opened AS a
counter move to the demand of the
Town Meeting party that boxes be
taken into court, and the other will
be the Maloney hearing into which it
is planned to take Congressman
Ware.
Senator Penrose, who passed
through this city late Saturday on his
return to Philadelphia from hunt
ing trip in Snyder county, is expected
to meet prominent Republican lead
ers this week in Philadelphia. State
Chairman w. Il. Crow went to Phil
adelphia yesterday.
Numerous close contests will have
to be settled by the soldiers votes
and there have been outbreaks of
charges that commissioners election
eered at camps, which are denied.
Some of the commissioners say that
Town. Meeting party agents fairly
buZzed with political activity at
CdinpS' I1OWeNeTs the lOWh MSSt-
ing men were not commissioners.
The commissioners say that their
talks to give instructions were dis
torted.
Edwin Wolf. prominent Phila-
delphia banker, is to succeed Henry
r. Edmunds as president of the
Philadelphia School Board. Incl
dentaliy, there is a row on because
it is proposed to drop John c. Fra
zee, director of vocational education,'
on the score of economy.
w. III. Hoffa, coroner and acting
sheriff of Columbia county, is dead
and the county has neither sheriff
nor coroner. Unless the Governor
appoints there will be vacancies un-
til January 1 when newly-elected
men will take charge.
Among other things that Demo-
cratic state machine leaders are
about is that the Demo-
cratic candidate for sheriff of Berks |
was elected by greatly reduced ma
jority. |
1t will take the official count to
settle who has been elected county |
treasurer of Mercer. The Governor
made an appointment in that county
last winter and there was hot cam
paign.
The Philadelphia North Amer
ican comments upon the fact that
Democrats out of the Schuylkill
county offices.
There is mourning in the streets
Of Stroudsburg and the hills of Mon
roe are echoing with the Indignation
of A. Mitchell Palmer, Democratic
state machine boss. Samuel e. Shull,
appointed Judge of Monroe county,
is the leader of the Monroe county
Democratic faction that has earnest
" fought Palmer and the handsome
boss" as he is called here, in fay
ing the Governor with bitter words
and wailing over the slight put upon
him. Mr.. Shull was a candidate FOR
on the Democratic
ticket in 1914 and made his night
with Palmer as an issue. And what
he said is we'll remembered here.
Mr.. Palmer is writing pieces about
the Governors selection that read
like the book of lamentations.
The Philadelphia Record calls
for the police because the Johnstown |
Democrat takes Senator Edwin III.
Ware seriously as a political factor.
IT also is inclined to make merry
over reports that Senator Ware is be-
hind the boom for Highway Commits
sioner ]. Denny O'Neil for governor.
Politics has been pretty we'll
crowded off the first page by the war
and the Y. NJ. c. A. and Y. w. {. A.
drive and even at Scranton they have |
quit fussing and are trying to take
the mine cave problem out of poll
ties.
"A Pittsburgh dispatch to the
Philadelphia Inquirer sums up the
situation in that city as follows: !
with the election of mayor and |
five members of city council now
a matter of political history, political |
leaders of this city are now con-
cerned with the prospects OF CO.
operation between the chief eXecu-
tive and council in the future con-
due. OF the affairs of tho city, Pen
rose lieutenants look for complete
control of the Republican party or
ganization in both the city and
county. Despite the fact that, in the
election of f. V. Babcock as mayor.
the incoming administration failed
to elect the full councilmanic ticket
or enough councilmen to give it a
majority in that body, political
leaders are predicting that the
ttldN I-tltCL VIII nave llllle UT hO
difficulty in getting the council to
cooperate with him. Another thing
that seems to portend a council in
harmony with the mayor-elect, al
though four of the reorganized
council have been elected as Magee
candidates. is the desire expressed
by W. Y. English, Magee candidate,
who was reelected, that Mayor
elect Babcock sit in with the pres
ent council in the consideration of
the appropriations for the various
departments of city government at
the councilmanic budget sessions
which will convene shortly"
Carbon county. Republican
leaders are jubilant over the fact
that Carbon county is safely back in
the Republican column as is shown
by last Tuesdays election, when the
entire Republican ticket was elected.
Elmer S. Levan, of Lehighton, the
Republican candidate for sheriff,
had n walkover. His Democratic
opponent was John Hartneady,
brother of Carbon countys present
sheriff, Michael Hartneady. Mr..
Levan's majority is nearly 1900
votes, the largest majority received
by any recent candidate for office
in Jim Blakslee's county.
The Philadelphia Ledger saws