Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-24
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the right of the soldiers to vote. The
returns from the camps were the
big thing in state politics yesterday
as they were opened in the sixty
seven courts and in many instances
surprises were found. Incidentally.
there appears to be- more or less
complaint about the way the re-
turns were made.
The Dauphin county court is the
court wherein ballot laws are tested
and Is naturally the place where a
move TO question legality of the vot-
ing by the soldiers would be taken.
what is done here will have state
Wlde erect and the developments
were closely watched to-day.
At the State Capitol it is declared
that the state will not take part
In any proceedings unless made a
party to the test when the ATTORNEY
Generafs Department would natur-
ally detend the procedure which was
worked out after careful considera-
tlon or the act of 1864 under whose
provisions the soldiers voted in
1898 and 1899 and at the Mexican
border last year.
I'm Philadelphia to-day the SOL
dier vote was brought into question
because of the manner in which
men voted. There were claims that
things did not look well, especiallv
Where some negro regiments voted
almost solidly, for the Ware candi-
dates. In reply it was stated that
TINS was the result of crystallized
sentiment.
-Rumors of a general shake-up
IN the State Highway Department
torce Oh engineers and superinten-
9ehts' were rife on Capitol Hill to-
oay and reports were current that
ten or twelve men carried over from
the FORMER administration of the
department were to be LET po on
december 1. Men connected with
the department refused to discuss
the reports, saying that they were
under orders not to talk to any one
IN the absence of the commissioner.
VINO mas been away most of the
week on a tour of roads in western
ana northwestern counties. For n
couple or weeks prior to the cleo
lton there We're reports that Mr..
O'Nell, who is generally considered
candidate for Governor. would
make a sweeping change in his de-
partment and since he is agent it is
generally believed that things will
start and he will not be around IN
receive the indignant hackers of
placeholders.
THE name of the American
party was To-day pre-empted for the
nomination of a complete state ticket
IN pennsylvania for next year to-
DAY by l.. l.. Coyle. w. Il. Roden-
naVer, Z. n. Spots, ]. ID. Moreland.
W. IL. Mowry, NJ. l.. Hay and c, r..
Burd, of this city. The same mon
also pre-empted the name for the
eighteenth congressional district.
Inc name was pre-empted a counle
OF days ago for the First Dauphin
oistrlct ana to-day pre-emption was
also hled for the second Daupbin
-Governor Brumbaugh's visit to-
day to Pittsburgh will probably have
considerable effect. The Governor is
10 meet there men from Washing
ton county who will urge appoint-
ment OF Norman Clark, II. B. Hughes
ana others and will also meet VIII
liam A. Magee, former public service
commissioner, and the Western
FenhsylVanla element that was
aligned with William Finn in the
Bull Moose campaigns. This ele-
ment is hostile to Highway Com
missioner O'Neil, who has been maxi
ing rather triumphaI tour of coun-
Ties While inspecting roads and meet
ing local officials.
State administration men are
commencing to voice the belief that
clifford Pinchot will not be a candi-
GATE Tor governor and that when the
! nomination time comes around Ma
Jor John Price jackson will be awav
OH in France. 1t is notable that
there has been a recurrence of talk
| booming Attorney General Francis
Skunk Brown lately. Mr.. Brown, if
he should become a candidate, would
be backed to the limit by the state
administration.
The Philadelphia Ledger says
regarding the death of eX-Mayor
Smith, well known here: "William
b: smith was prominent exponent
OF the atter-dinner speech. Almost
every night while he was in office
I he was the honored guest at one or
more banquets, always making an
address that took the crowd" But
while his popularity was still on the
rising tide charges were made
against him and his administration,
chiefly founded, it was admitted by
the publication Under his sanction of
history of the police department.
The charges finally led Councils to
! make an investigation and the
| mayor was impeached. After he re-
tired from office, at the end of his
term, he began suit against the
Philadelphia Times for $4,000 for
| alleged libel. The judge instructed
the jury to bring in a verdict for
the plaintiff for $4,000, and the case
II was said, was subsequently set
tied for $4,000. Mr.. Smith won his
name of Dandy Mayorp at the and
ing of a twenty-year controversy
with the lats Co mel Alexander Nc
Clure. At a celebration by the Glover
/ Club Colonel Mcclure proclaimed
him, after all, as a dandy mayor,"
and the name continued. During the
! Spanish american war he became
colonel of provisional regiment of
| volunteers and in 1901 was ap-
| pointed assistant fire marshal of this
city, which office he held until his
| DEATH"
j. Denny O'Neil, State Highway
| Commissioner directed q letter to
the Rev. Thomas r. Mcdowell, su-
| pervisor of the highways in Chester
county, requesting his resignation to
take effect December 1, ION account
| of changes that the State Commits
! sioner desired to make" says a West
Chester dispatch. O'Neil's action oc-
casioned considerable comment, for
1t was believed here that Mcdowell
was doing good work, as he was en-
dorsed by the Road Supervisors AS
sociation of Chester County, of
which he has been president for
eleven years. For some years he
was supervisor in Upper Oxford
| township, has been a member of the
Legislature and road supervisor OF