Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-08
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Pe~~oqe0a~ia
by the Ex- Committeeman

Leaders of the victorious wing of
the Republican party will meet this
week with the presiding officers of
the two houses of the Legislature to
discuss tie appointment of commit
tees and there will be little said in re-
gard to the course to be pursued
against the State administration be-
cause Senator Penrose and his friends
desire to sound out public opinion.
The numerous statements of what
ought to be done, in the opinion of
the Senator and his friends, have
given the people of the State a pretty
fair idea of what the Penrose peo-
pie think of the Governor and his ad-
visers and it is possible that when the
leaders of the various counties find
out the trend of public opinion they
will advise against q drastic course
unless it is provoked by the Governor.
Governor Brumbaugh is expected
to make some appointments to State
offices shortly. He and his friends are
convinced that there are not enough
men in the Legislature to put through
any impeachment proceedings and
that if there are no more decapitations
on Capitol Hill that things may go
along without serious outbreaks.
The Governor has ,half a dozen
major appointments vacant in the
State Government and a long list of
minor placeholders who have been in
formed against as being "disloyaP'
and whose removal is demanded by
some of his henchmen, more or less
for their own purposes. He also has
a number of county office vacancies to
fill throughout the State.
R. D. Brown, a professor in the
University of pennsylvania, has added
to the joy of nations by q speech in
which he declares that all State judges
l. hxyA ~
as the federal judges are named by
the President. He says the national
system is best. In the present political
situation any lawmaker who would ad-
vocate such plan in the Legislature
would be apt to have harsh things said
about him.
The Philadelphia city legislation
is to be put into shape at once. 1t is
chiefly to give the city more revenue
for improvements. simultaneously
bills to clip the wings of the mayor
and the city commissioners because
of political activity are also to be pre-
pared Pittsburgh will have some
bills and it's administration measures
stand a far better chance of getting
somewhere than those from the
Philadelphia City Hall.
The supreme court to-day took up
the argument in the contest of Con-
election of Guy l.. Campbell in Allie
gheny county.
The Media Republican club has
changed It's name to the w. G. Sproul
Club of Delaware county.
H. A. Bomberger of Pennsylvania
is a member of the National Progress
sive Party committee which has OPEN
ed headquarters in New York.
1t is said that Representative
Hibschman, of Lancaster, will head
the House Committee on Agriculture.
Delaware county Democrats are
celebrating Jackson Day at Media with
q banquet and all the big bosses will
speak.
A b. Clark, son-in-law of Thomas
Fl. Greevy, and Democratic candidate
for Congress- -at-large in 1914, is O.
candidate for postmaster at Altoona
So are Barney Clark, the ex-chief OF
police and C. w. Greer, a newspaper
man.
Speaker Baldwin in a formal
statement on prospects for the session
and his own ideas speaks for rural
legislation first of all. He says: II
have been a member of the Legislature
since 1897. In 1896 the revenues of
the State amounted to little more than
S12, 900. 900. OF that amount $4,000, 900
was appropriated for the schools of
the State. To-day, when the annual
income of the State Is more than
30,000,000 and the State Is relieved
of the burden of taking care of the
Philadelphia school system. less money
is actually appropriated for the coun-
try schools than in 1896"
The Philadelphia Press in the
course of a discussion of State politics
says: "Of course, calm and disin-
terested observers arc pretty nearly of
ann mt0d--Hhara will ha M var{1,,.
| effort within the party lines to fm-
! peach the Governor, even If there was
| power enough to accomplish the pur.
pose, Over in New York, Tammany
lmpeached the one-time follower who
| broke with It, and n Republican Gov
/ ernor had little difficulty In going to
l Alhanv. As mnttar of fact howavar