Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-21
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BY the Ex-Committeeman

Judging from what newspapers
say, there is general relief through
out Republican circles in Pennsylva-
MIA that Mayor Thomas b. Smith has
| succeeded in getting the warning fac
tions in Philadelphia to forget their
| points of difference and TO unite upon
candidates fer the important offices.
1t is generally believed that the
mayor has also won an agreement
in regard to councilmanic and COM
mittee places and that there will
radiate from the City of Brotherly
Love such peace influences as will
! bring about composing of contro-
versies in other parts of the State.
The effect of the protocol reached
| in Philadelphia will be watched with
interest in other parts of the State
and 1t is believed that if things have
not gone too far in the mayoralty
contests in Pittsburgh and Scranton
that something may be done which
will put the party into better shape
| for the gubernatorial campaign next
year.
While Senator w. C. Sproul con-
| tinues to be the man most talked of
as the possible Republican on whom
! the leaders will unite for Governor.
dered lightning rods. The Democ-
racy, true to form is quarreling about
| loaves and fishes and whether the
scholar in the White House picks
Vance c. Mccormick national chair
man or William B. Wilson Secretary
of Labor to be the Pennsylvania
Democrats candidate, there will be
row.
The Philadelphia Public Ledger
gives this version of the conference
held yesterday in Philadelphia to at
tain the harmony program and says
details will be completed to-day:
Mayor NTH, Senator Ware and Sem
ator McNichol held a conference yes
terday and ratified the harmony city
and county ticket at the coming pri-
maries agreed upon at Atlantic City
and arranged to devote to-day to
framing a harmony councilmanic and
magisterial ticket. While the mayor
and the senators were confirming
the results of the talks at the shore,
Senator Penrose was in the offing, as
il were. He remained in his office in
| this city, but so soon as word came
that everything was all right he
sped to Washington. Yesterdays
conference was about the last of the
series of maneuvers that have
marked the progress or the harmony
| program. When it was all over no
! body had anything to say. Senator
! Ware announced, however, so soon
as all the nomination papers had
| been filed he would issue a state
ment. Interesting in this connection
! is the fact the papers for the renomi-
nation of District Attorney Rotan
were filed yesterday with the county
| commissioners by William E. Fin
| ley, executive director of the Repub-
! lican city committee. Mr.. Finley is
| Senator Vare's right-hand lieuten,
ant. Mr.. Rotan is Senator Penroses
personal ally
! Pittsburgh dispatches tell of
more men filing petitions for council
and general battle opened for the
/ mayoralty.
Mayor Smith says A. Merritt
! Taylor is playing politics in the
Philadelphia transit squabble. Sep
tember is the date for the new
hearing.
AT Easton yesterday Judge Stew
art appointed new school board for
the city of Bethlehem. The con-
solidation of Bethlehem and South
Bethlehem gave the new city a pop
ulation of no ore than 10000 and it
| therefore became a school district
of the second class and entitled to
nine directors. The new board is to
serve until the first Monday of De-
Cember when the directors, who are
to be elected at the November cleo
ton, will take office. The appointees
are: William R. Coyle, the Rev. w.
NJ. Schwarz, Edgar w. Speck, Stew
art Sinner, Lawrence J. Broughal,
Dr. Robert j. Yost, Mahlon Ritter,
Harry w. Lewis and Dennis McCarty.
The Ncnpartisan Committee, a
Philadelphia Democratic sideshow,
(which unsuccessfully sought to have
IWilliam A. Glasgow become a candi-
meeting yesterday and decided to in
crease the scope of the movement.
Overtures may be made to the Demo-
cratic city committee for a fusion
ticket, with the Democrats naming
two of the candidates for county
offices.
City Solicitor Connolly, of Phila-
delphia, yesterday appointed John c.
Bell, Jr., son of former Attorney
General John c. Bell, an assistant
city solicitor. at a salary of 81, 400 a
year. Young Bell recently was op-
Grated upon for appendicitis. and will
not assume the duties of the Office
until he RECEIVERS.
| -BerkS Dem OcratS nave avoided
a fight by stating w. G. Hintz for
prothonotary namination.
York coGnty has one of the larg-
cts flocks of candidates in years.
-Connellsville. one of the new
cities has a three-cornered fight for
mayor.
Mayor Smith has taken the wind
out of Congressman John r. K. Scott
by turning in for the councilman
whom Scott is opposing in his ward
in Philadelphia.
The Pittsburgh mayoralty con-
test has reached the statement MAX
ing stage.
Senator Horace w. Schantz
who is also Lehigh's Republican
! County Chairman is making ar
rangements for the Republican
county meeting. to be held next
Saturday at Levan's, near Allentown
He has the promises of Lieutenant
Governor Frank B. McClain and
, Auditor General Charles A. Snyder
to make the principal speeches and