Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-27
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By the Ex-Committeeman

| afloat have received their official
appointments and with exception of
those who cannot be here will as
semble at the Capitol Tuesday after
noon for instruction. The men will
be addressed by the Governor and
Secretary of the Commonwealth and
Attorney General Brown will be
present to answer any questions re-
garding the law.
The supplies will be taken charge
of on that day and sent to the camps
as directed by the Commissioners
who will be responsible for them
from the time they are received. The
commissioners will travel in parties
where they are assigned to the same
camp. Twenty-siX will go to Camp
Hancock
The Commissioners will be al
lowed ten cents a mile travelled, but
nothing else.
1t is estimated that over 5000
more drafted men from Pennsyl-
Vania will be in the three mobiliza-
ton camps to which this state is
tributary by election day. Commenc-
ing to-day over 1000 colored men
will begin to move. To-day 230 are
expected to go to Camp Meade, 129
to Camp Sherman and 790 to Camp
Lee; tomorrow 9S1 will go to Camp
Meade and Monday 1888 will go to
Camp Meade and 80 to Camp Sher-
man. while on Tuesday 544 will go to
Camp Lee. Commencing November
and extending over four or five
days 5000 men will be moved to
Camp Meade. When this movement
is finished only about ten per cent of
the men called for the three camps
will be at home. Some districts will
have less than five per cent at home.
Since the filing of the cards
asked by Auditor General Sny-
der for the card index of the Capitol,
have been studying the manner IN
which some people are paid. The
card index cards asked that it be
set forth out of what funds or ap-
propriations attaches are paid and
how much. Some people are paid
out of several funds and afford proof
of the contention made when the
First Economy and Efficiency Com
mission was named that all places
and salaries should be set out.
Auditor General Snyder says
that developments in the Northamp-
ton register of wills office will
rather substantiate what he has been
saying about the importance of state
clerks or examiners being named in
various counties to act in the inter-
ests of the Commonwealth in inheri-
tance tax settlements and collec-
tions. 1t is likely that he will sug-
gest n change in the system of hav-
ing court appointees audit accounts
of registers and that because such
officers report largely to the state
that a state official be named.
Frederick ]. Shoyer, Republican
candidate for city treasurer of Phil
adelphia, seems to have run afoul of
the newspapers of that city. He dis.
cussed the unanimity with which the
! Philadelphia papers are supporting
the Town Meeting movement and
intimated that department stores and
transit were behind it. The Philadel-
phia Evening Bulletin comes back
with the inquiry whether Mr.. Shoyer
would take fees or stick to a salary.
| In letter to Philadelphia
newspaper Frederick Boyer, one of
the candidates for judge, discussing
! the judicial election in that city and
the sole nominee" decision says:
THE decision of Judge Kunkel re-
! fusing to give such judges a special
privilege was perfectly proper, and
the judges now in office knew the law
| to be just what he said it was. The
| act of 1913 was clear enough. 1t
established the nonpartisan law and
| provided the method of nomination,
by distinctly recognizing as nominees
! those who received in relative order
the highest votes cast for the office.
If one was to be elected at the gem
eral election. then two were to be
nominated-if two were to be elect
ed then four were to be nominated
but If any one of these candidates
at the primary received more than
half of the entire vote for the office
for which he was running, then, of
course, he had run his race and
thereby gained a pre-emption and be-
comes the sole nominee at the gen.
eral election
Mayor Thomas b. Smith, of
Philadelphia, was given another
warning last night, similar to that
served upon him prior to the pri-
mary and was told that unless he inn
mediately directed that the one thou
sand policemen, which, it is alleged,
are being used to promote the inter-
ests of the Wares and the so-called
Fifty fifty ticket, shall be halted
in campaign of intimidation of the
citizenship of Philadelphia, crime as
grave as that resulting from his Of
llCldl ueInQuenCy III Ine j. lItn Waru
may be repeated. Mayor Smith was
given this notice from the chairman
of the Town Meeting party general
committee, Max Herzberg, leading
member of the Philadelphia bar and
president of the United Hebrew
Charities organization of Pennsylva-
MIA.
The Pittsburgh mayoralty cam
paign has gotten to the stage of hav-
ing meetings morning, noon and
night.
The American party, formed by
Republicans and Democrats at Read
ing to fight the Socialists, is making
appeals to the people to stand against
the Socialistic movement.
Judge Davis sat until nearly
midnight last night in an endeavor
to conclude the hearing of testimony
in the attack on the legality of the
Philadelphia Town Meeting party
nomination papers. There were num-
erous clashes between counsel during
the day session and evidence was
submitted to the court showing the
methods employed by the police to
intimidate signers Several legal tilts
as to the scope of the hearing were
generally decided in favor of those
attacking the papers, and the court