Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-07
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BY the Ex-Committeeman

Q quarters of a million were under the
a Republican party name. The might OF
: the Republican party was never more
strongly manifested than yesterday
and now the great ques ton is wheth-
/ er the strength assembled can be
q utilized next year to elect the state
ticket by one of the old-time ma
Jorities or whether it will be vitiated
i'll facuonal fights. The great Repub-
llcan vote marshalled yesterday can
be held together and thrown against
the Democracy with such force as
to scatter the already weakened mi
nority TO the four winds and not only
insure election of Republican state
I ticket and Legislature, but of 4 con-
gressional delegation overwhelming
" Republican and make certain Re-
publican success in the county and
municipal contests of 1919.
Judging from what has been re-
ported to-day, no leaders of the Re-
publican party have much to brag of.
The Vare-controlled Republican or
ganization in Philadelphia has been
given terrific jolt if not defeated,
and the bulk of the Penrose men
have aligned themselves under the
Town Meeting banner. In Pittsburgh
/ the PenroSe forces seem to have sue
| ceeded in downing the candidacy of
William \. Magee, backed by the
state administration, by 4 smaller
majority than expected. In this city,
which attained first rank interest be-
cause. of the state administration
activity in the mayoralty contest
there will be few laurels for anybody
il the differences are not adjusted.
In Scranton a bitter partisan fight de-
iveloped in a nonpartisan election and
| stiffened up both Republican and
Democratic organizations. In a dozen
other places the contests for control
have made return sheets fat and
pointed the way to mobilize strength
for next year.
| -Eagerness with which Demo-
Gratis throughout the state were
studying figures to-day was plain
evidence that they expect TO fish up
something from the troubled Re-
publican waters. The really sorry
state of the Democratic organization
in Pennsylvania was however reveal
ed yesterday and that Republicans
should fail to take advantage of it
instead of allowing advantage TO be
| taken of their own differences is al
most incomprehensible.
Except in Scranton and a few
other places the Democrats trailed.
In Philadelphia they were tail to the
| Town Meeting kite. In the Pittsburgh
| contest the machine Democrats lined
up with the Brumbaugh administra-
ton men. as did some of the same
kind of Democrats here. In various
| third class city contests they scatter
ed their strength. In almost every
county and city they We're without
men of their faith in prominent
places on tickets. What was true in
| Harrisburg was the condition in a
number of cities. And in n score or
so of counties they ran far behind
claims and much less than expecta-
tons on county tickets. In Scranton
| the Democracy was militant and
showed leadership.
Votes of Pennsylvania soldiers
at the various camps and canton
ments to which commissioners were
sent by the state authorities will be
returned TO the prothonotaries of the
counties wherein the soldiers reside
and will be computed at county seats
along with returns from the regular
election districts.
| L lie returns VI lAlt SOlNlei NoNt
| will be sent to the county officials
Just as though they were voters in a
district instead of soldiers in a camp
many miles away" said n state Of
fetal this morning. The returns of
soldier votes. however, will be made
out in duplicate. One copy goes to the
prothonotary of the county where the
J soldiers are voters when in ordinary
life and the other is sent to the Sec
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| record and for reference in case the
other should be lost in transmission"
The State Department was in
formed to-day that the commission
ers sent to Camp Meade had dis
| patched their official returns to the
counties last night and n few were
| received here and will be held for
verification in case of dispute. Some
OF the commissioners arrived here to-
day and arranged for payment of
their mileage.
| The law allows each commits
Gsioner ten cents a mile for each mile
| actually travelled. but nothing else
/ The Legislature made an appropria
ton of $4,000 to the Auditor Cen
erals Department to cover the eX-
penses of taking the vote. The ac-
counts will be audited by the Auditor
btHeIdl do dA e'4A ONiASA t-NP NPSA4SS AZ
counts.
| Results in counties where liquor
was an issue appear to have been
more or less definitely dry. The as
sociate judge battles were mostly won
by the dry" men. In cities liquor
men in spite of assertions that they
were on one side or the other seem
to have played both ends against the
middle as usual and things are being
: said about them as of yore.
The serious turn of the illness of
Senator James p. McNichol in Phil
, adelphia, was a matter of grave con-
Germ to his friends here.
From all accounts Insurance
; Commissioner Charles A. Amber has
started the firing" of men by the
state administration. One man says
that he was asked to quit because
they wanted the place for some one
else.
The congressional election in the
Twenty eighth district to fill the va
cancy caused by the resignation of
o. d. Bleakley before he could take
his seat, resulted in a Republican
being chosen so there is no change
in the strength of the state delega-
ton. L. G.. Lyons. the man elected,
lives in Warren. Bleakley lived in
Venango, which also had candi-
date in General Willis ]. Hulings, of
Oil City, who got tangled up i'm the
requirements of the primary law and
ran on his own hook. This is the first