Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-10
PoeiEca i~
Pen~o4eSo~ia
BY the Ex-Committeenan


of the Secretary of the Common
wealth opened. The papers on file
indicate that there will be lively con-
tests for the nominations in Allie
gheny and Philadelphia counties.
One of the interesting features of
the filing to-day was that papers
were recorded to enter as candidates
! for Common Pleas Court nomina-
tions in Philadelphia six men not
learned in the law. Another inter-
esting condition was that there IS
scarcely a county in which associate
! judges are to be nominated that pc
tftions have not been filed.
The petitions filed for Philadel-
phia include papers for the follow
ing lawyers: Richard T. McSorley,
court No. 4 John N. Landberg and
John Parker, Crittenden, court No.
3; and for the following not learned
in the law: John Lyman, carpenter,
and Roy Harold Sherman, machin-
list, court No. 8; Walter V. Chew,
machinist, court No. L; Julius d.
Love, physician, court No. s. Will
liam j. Higgins, Jr., compositor,
| court No. 4; George Ulrich, cigar
makerI and Emanuel Kline, notary,
Orphans Court.
A petition was filed for George R.
bOOIn IOT JuuB6
Petitions for associate judges were
filed as follows: William T. Speiser,
Simon K. Hoffman, James l.. Bran
nen, Montour; Dalton e. Bard, Clin-
ton; Frank Mason, J. Clayton Hix-
son, Fulton; John s. Hershberger, s.
Albert Cessna Bedford; Henry Au-
chu, Cameron; George zuendal, For
est; David Gardner, Warren.
The nominations in the Twenty
| eighth Congressional district, COM
posed of Warren, Mercer, Elk, Cam
| eron and Forest counties, where a
special election will be held to Sc
| lect a successor to o. d. Bleakley,
of Franklin, must be made at the
| primary election next month instead
of under party rules. This decis-
ion was made at the Department of
the Secretary of the Commonwealth
and plans for a Republican party
conference and for a meeting of the
Democratic state committee have
been abandoned. The first nominat-
ing petitions to arrive were received
to-day. They were for u. G. Lyons,
Republican, Warren, and e. II.
Beshlin, Democrat, Warren.
Attaches of the Department of
the Secretary of the Commonwealth
were given a surprise to-day when
a Cameron county man appeared
with nominating petition at III
a. m. The department opens for
business at Q o'clock, which is the
rule in most departments at the
Capitol. Charles r. Willetts, clerk
in charge of the recording of petit
tions, who had gone to the office for
an early start on the last day, re-
ceiVed the paper which has the rec
! ord for early filing.
Legality of the Act of 1917 that
| extended the terms of commissioners
in Hanover township is to be tested
in the Luzerne courts. John Camp
bell, who believes the act Illegal, has
| filed a petition with the county COM
missioners as a candidate. The COM
missioners refuse to consider the pc
tition, saying there are no offices to
| fill. Campbell has obtained writ
of mandamus, demanding that the
commissioners receive his petition.
The writ is returnable Wednesday.
Newspapers refer to the stories
that the candidacy of Senator Will
| liam c. Sproul for the Republican
| nomination for Governor would be
announced after the fall elections as
| a matter of course. The senator is
prominently mentioned as expert
enced in governmental and business
affairs. Judging from the vehemence
with which he is assailed in certain
Democratic machine newspapers, his
appearance as n candidate must be
| interfering with some plans.
The Sproul announcement has
revived talk that Attorney General
Francis Skunk Brown might have
| been a candidate. The friends of
Colonel Harry c. Trexler. of Allen
town; ex-senator John S. Fisher. of
indiana; Louis A. Watres, of Scran-
ton and Lieutenant Governor Frank
B. McClain, all of whom have been
much mentioned. continue to talk
about them. There are several other
| availables, too.
On the Democratic side the poll
| ticians say it is a toss up whether
the President wants to run Vance c.
Mccormick. A. Mitchell Palmer. Sec
retary William B. Wilson or District
| Attorney E. Lowry Humes.
The entrance of the nonpartisan
committee into the field of Phila-
delphia politics with the nomination
of William Glasgow for district at
torney and Ira ID. Garman for re-
| ceiver of taxes caused Edgar w.
Lank. chairman of the Democratic
city committee. yesterday to criticise
| the Democratic members who. he
said, went outside of the party to
place a reform ticket in the field.
| ''If this committee has organized, to
start a fight within the Democratic
party here, it will have one" Lank
said. 'I do not understand the pur-
pose of placing separate ticket in
the field at this time. We were sup
posed to have got together, and con-
ferred on n ticket to place in the
field against the organization slate.
This has not been done. but this So
called committee has come ahead
and taken steps to name q ticket"
Members of the Philadelphia city
committee from the various wards
conferred last night on states for the
respective wards and tickets will be
set up in practically every ward. Mr.
Lank did not attend the meeting, but
conferred with A. Mitchell Palmer,
national committeeman. who spent
| the day In the city. Mr.. Palmer de-
clared that he was in the city on per-
sonal business, but before leaving he
saw Chairman Lank and the situa-
ton was discussed, but so far as
| could be learned no agreement on
federal patronage was reached.
The Sf,nAr'c DAafh