Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-11
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By the Ex-Committceman

Only four of the common pleas
judges of Pennsylvania who are cam
didates for denomination this year
have no nominating petitions filed in
opposition TO them at the Capitol.
The time for filing nominating pc
titions expired last night at midnight
and 169 were placed on record for
places to be filled this year. There
were rs petitions filed for 26 COM
mon pleas places; 3 for three or
phans court seats, and S3 for twenty
two associate judgeships, while three
seem to have heen entered for Con-
gress in tho Twenty eighth district,
where there is vacancy. with one
paper in dispute.
The judges who do not have pc
titions filed by opposing candidate
for nominations are S. j. NJ. McCar-
rell, Dauphin; j. A. MacIlvaine,
Washington; William Butler, Ches-
ter, and A. S. Swartz, Montgomery
In the Clinton Elk Cameron district
but one petition has been filed, that
of Robert B. Mccormick. Judge
Harry Alvin Hall has not filed a pc
tition for denomination.
Five of the judges appointed by
the Governor in the last year or so
will face opposition in Philadelphia,
Erie, SusQuehanna or Schuylkill
counties.
Some of the best-known judges in
the state face opposition, notably in
Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. In AL
legheny county five judges are cam
dtdates for denomination, with ten
others in the field. In court No. 8,
Philadelphia, there are eight men
running against the two judges who
seek denominations; court No. has
four candidates. including one judge
who seeks denomination, and in
court No. there are five candidates
against two judges who ask renomi-
nation. Philadelphia has two or
phans court judges who seek re-
nomination with four men opposing
them. Philadelphia is the only city
where men not learned in the law
are candidates for common pleas
"A remarkable feature is the large
entering of candidates for associate
dry" fights in counties where the
LAY" judges still sit. Juniata county |
has twelve candidates for the two |
place; Miffiin seven, with one to be |
Union ten, with two to be
Montour six, with two to be |
chosen, and Clinton seven, with two |
to be elected. The associate judge !
include the following avo- |
cations: Street car conductor, farmer, |
painter, merchant, justice of the |
peace, hotel keeper, laborer, hose |
filter, undertaken, contractor, cement |
retired farmer, retired rail-
roader, lumberman. insurance agent, !
superintendent, land agent. soft drink |
and physician.
The largest petition filed contained |
over 21,000 names and was entered |
for Judge Eugene G. Bonniwen of |
the municipal court of Philadelphia, !
who seeks a place on the common |
pleas bench.
Notwithstanding Mayor Smiths |
efforts to secure harmony in Phila-
delphia politics and the tacit agree |
ment upon certain candidates for the |
big local Offices there continues to be |
more or less stir up in that city. Yes |
terday Harry ]. Stone. clerk to the |
county commissioners, resigned his |
job. He was named at the instance |
Oh the A1dNOE S6N OIdl years dBO anu
was regarded as a personal friend. |
He accuses Commissioner Kuenzle of |
getting him." but Commissioner |
Holmes says his resignation was
never asked for.
Tomorrow will be gathering |
day for men in State politics at |
Atlantic City and it Is probable that |
there will be more gossip about the |
next state campaign started. 1t is |
said that Secretary of Internal At
fairs Paul w. Houck has been as
sured of denomination next year. |
This may be part of the general |
agreement which seems to have been |
made for harmony on a state ticket.
-Sproul talk is growing all over |
the state since the stories were
printed in Philadelphia that the sem
ator was in earnest. Some of the |
ro-administration men continue to |
talk of Attorney General Francis |
Skunk Brown, while others favor |
Commissioner William A. Magee in |
case he should win the mayoralty of |
Commission Chairman |
w. D. b. Ainey or Insurance Com |
missioner ]. Denny O'Neil. Others |
who know the relations between the |
Wares and Sproul are saying pleasant
things about the senator. No an
from Sproul is expected |
until after the fall elections.
The Pittsburgh Gazette-Times |
says that attempts are being made |
to hold fake mass meetings to give |
semblance of enthusiasm for Mr.. |
Magee for mayor of that city. The |
of DR.. ]. P. Kerr, presi- |
dent of council, for mayor worries |
the Magee men, asserts the news
paper.
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