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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-09-20
KEISTER AND HOVERTER
IN HARRISBURG RACE

HARRISBURG, Sept. 2O-Interference Of
,he Brumbaugh administration in the nom
nartisan primary elections of Harrisburg
has resulted in the nomination for Mayor OF
ex.Representative Daniel l.. Keister. His
opponent will be Alderman George \. Ho-
verter a friend of Senator f. Il. Beidleman
whom William II. Ball, the Governors pri-
vate secretary, set out to defeat. Despite
promises to keep hands off," Ball, at the
last minute had distributed slips to all State
employes giving the administration slate
headed by Keister. and the surprise resulted
in the Beidleman forces. which had kept
out of the ,local Councilmanic fight, being
swept off their feet with regard to the head
OF the nonpartisan ticket.
w. L. Gorgas, at present acting Mayor,
a Democrat was poor third in the mayor
atty race. Keister and Hoverter are Re
pubcans. The administration tried to re-
peat its tactics in the county race, backing
Alderman f. j. Hilton against Coroner
Jacob Eckinger for Coroner, but failed.
Eckinger winning out by decisive vote.
Throughout the county and in the Re
publican race in the city the Beidelman slate
went through by large majorities. The re-
suit of the mayoralty primary will be one
Of the hottest in years, as it is the evident
intention of the administration to attempt
To- unhorse Beidleman as city leader.
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CLOSE VOTE IN LEHIGH
FOR COURT CLERKS

ALLENTOWN, Pa, Sept. 20,-Although
the vote at yesterdays primaries was light
some Of the rural districts as usual are
and several of the big contests are still in
doubt There are hinges OH the Democratic
nominations for Clerk of Quarter Sessions
and Clerk Of the Orphans Court. For the
former the candidates are William II.
Bregenzer and Anthony Ebertz and for the
latter Howard J. Laudenslager and James
7. Brady, With ten districts not heard
from less than fifty votes separate the
contestants for these two Offices. Bregen-
ger and Laudensager were the organlza-
ton favorites. 1t may take the official
count TO decide the successful competitor
Tor each of these nominations.
Edward NJ. Roth won the Democratic
nomination for Poor Director and Edwin
Habenold for Jury Commissioner. The Re-
publicans had only one contest, which was
ior Jury Commissioner, in which Adam F.
Noll seems a winner by a narrow margin
over A. S. Meyer.
The eight nominees for City Council from
among field of twenty are S. ]. Min
nlnger John Allen, William B. Bartholo-
new C. d. Strauss, Thomas j, Roth, Harry
~ schelden, r. ]. Wheeler and ]. Herbert
hohler Bartholomew, Roth and Kohler
are renomnated.. There was hot fight for
echool Board, which administers finances
amounting to almost a million a year. The
republican nominees are Wilson Arbogast
marry Eddinger and E d. Krause, and
he Democratic Aliver T. Weaber, Hugh T.
Sriiiy and William ]. Dietrich.
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PITTSBURGH VOTE
SHOWS EVEN SPLIT
Penrose and Brumbaugh-
Ware Factions Divide
Primary Honors
BABCOCK WELL IN LEAD
Polls 5277 More Votes Than Ma
gee for Mayoralty
Nomination
p1TTsRuRGH. Sent 20.

PITTSBURGH, sept. ~.
Penrose and Brumbaugh-Nare wings of
the Republican party split even on primary
honors, according to nearly complete re-
turns az noon today. The Varieties, II any
thing, had slightly the better of the prelim-
mary contest Several of their candidates
won the nominations by such margins as
10 insure election in November
william S. Haddock independent Repub-
lcan candidate for Sheriff, supported by
the Varieties was nominated by vote
larger than that polled by his three leading
opponents including Franklin 4. Booth. ac-
cording TO returns from 592 out of SIS dis
tricts i'm the county. Booth was supported
by the Penrose Republicans
Haddock ran far ahead Of Booth In the
city and carried the county by an esti-
mated plurality Of 10000
f. " Rabcock. Penrose candidate for
Mayor Of Pittsburgh, led William A. Magee
by 5277 Magee. Ware wing candidate. was
the other nominee. The decision will rest
with 1900 here VINO cast their ballot for
DR. Kerr. independent, and soldiers who
were not permitted to vote in the primary.
Harry Rowand won the Republican nom
ination for District Attorney, Coroner
Tamson was nominated by the Penrose Re-
publicans to succeed himself. For five
county judgships the incumbents each
poled moro than any new candidate on
the face Of returns at noon. Several others
assured places on the ballot were running
strongly, however, indicating sharp con-
tests in November
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Arrivals Of vessels from foreign o,pn'tl..
at ports on the Atlantic coast and Qulf ~
Mexico for twenty-four hours ending n1n
tember IS, as posted in the United slnlss
Custom House:
Annie W.. British ehooner; Alcaea. Arer,
lean schooner Anglo Canadian. British. Al
miral. British. Aurania. Italian; Atiantide rtal'
lam Areinia, British schooner Brilliant Amsri.
can; Bowdoin. Amerioan: Cherry Leaf. Britiah
Cottesmore. British; Caloric, Norwegian; CnaI.
mette. American; City OF Augusta. AmsrIcan.
Clan MacNiel, British: Canton. American, nI.
rector. British; Dalrazan. British; Eeypuan.
British; George a. Henry. American; oIcnochr.
British; Gypsum King. American; Guiana. HfIi-
isht Hovai British; Helmsloch. British; Hunrff|
ford. British; Hasbek, Begian JomsborR. Dan.
ish Kiugfisher, American; Kwaslnd, Antricnn
schooner; knight Templar. British: Kromborn
Danish; Lord Strathcona. British; Lorna, Nor
wegian: Mexico, Mexican: Mupdelta, American,
Mielero. American. Monsinevro. italian; Mel,
lissa Trask, American schooner Niceto nt
Larrinaga, British: Nordhavet, Danish: Pouherl
anian, British; Pluto, Dutch Peninsula Porftf-
guese; Republica Argentlna. Begian Ranella.
British; Rio Sorocaba. British; San Jose. Amer
lean; Toba Maru. Japan; .Verun. American:
Vildfugi Norwegian; Vinland. Norwegian: wa,
pitt. British schooner. and War Knight. British.
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MAYOR mitchell WINS
in NEW YORK BY 100
Barely Squeezes Through for
Republican Nomination Over
Ex-senator Bennett
NEW YORK. Sept. 90


Mayor John Purroy Mitchell won the Re
publican mayoralty nomination in yester-
days primaries by a plurality of approx
mately 100 votes over William NJ. Ben
nett
With only two districts missing out of
2O6O Mayor Mitchels vote was 36646 and
Benefits 35,527.
Bennett this afternoon declared he would
force a recount, saying that he had been
counted out" and that fair count would
show that he had been nominated.
Mayor Mitchell declared that If there was
any fraud It should he exposed.
Morris Hillquit was nominated by the
Socialists No estimate of the Socialist
vote cast was available early this afternoon
The primary vote was generally light
| throughout the city, and the Mitchell vote
| in the Republican primaries fell below eX-
| pectations in most of the borOughs. APP
| parently many Fusion voters failed to go to
| the polls Former Senator William Il. Ben
| nett, the straight Republican candidate for
| Mayor ran we'll ahead of the Mayor In
| Kings County in the Republican ranks. but
| the Mitchell vote in Manhattan was suffi-
! ciently large to offset the Brooklyn loss and
| the Bennett vote in the other boroughs and
| give the Mayor the Republican nomination.
Controller william A. Prendergast and Fire
| Commissioner Robert Adamson, the Fusion
| candidates for Controller and president OF
| the Board of Aldermen, respectively, were
| both nominated over their opponents on the
Bennett ticket, Judson q. Wall and Frank
| d. Wilsey.
The only Tammany contest of interest
between John V. McAvoy, the Murphy or
| ganzation candidate for the Supreme Court
and Surveyor Thomas f. Rush. who bolted
| Tammany to run against McAvoy, was a
walkover for McAvoy. The McAvoy vote
was satisfactory to the Tammany leaders
| as indicative OF no serious revolts In the
| Tigers forces
Judge John F. Hylan was nominated ior
| Mayor on the Tammany ticket.
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HOAGLAND TO REMAIN
WILLIAMSPORT MAYOR

wILLIAMSPORT, Pa, Sept. 20.-Archi-
bald NJ. Hoagland was renominated for
Mayor of Williamsport yesterday by a vote
that insures his election, as his name Will
be the only one to appear on the ticket at
the general election. Although there were
fve candidates in the field Hoagland re-
ceived 1880 of the total of 1901 votes cast.
William A. Hall, who was given the sup
port Of the Socialist party, received only
2S4 votes
The eight nominees for City Council are
g. ]. Webster, George X. Harris, Harry
Speaker j. j. Heintz, Reno l.. Gage, Robert
Settler George w Harder and Malcolm
Macmillan. Harris and Settler are mem
bers Of the present Council. The other two
members, Harry Meyer and Perry Haman,
were defeated for denomination. Meyer,
who had the support of former Mayor
Jonas Fischer, received only 54S votes.
Every candidate whose nomination was ad-
vocated by Fischer, who resigned as Mayor
few months ago when a test of his citizen
ship was begun in court, was defeated.
o. NJ Keefer, Scott r. Mexican and John
A. Shoemaker were nominated for mem.
bers of the school board.
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BEfHLEHEM PICKS
IT'S FIRST MAYOR
Honor to Go to Archibald
Johnston, Who Scores Run
away in Primary
T1CE TO BE CONTROLLER
Judge Stewart Reelected Over
Booth, Home Candidate, by
Vote of Eight to One
rrcE TO BE CONTROLLER
BETHLEHEM, Pa, Sept 20.

ETHIEHEM, "a, sept w.
III. hrst Mayor Of Bethlehem will be
.-cbibald Johnston, who at the primary
.,..,,or held in the combined boroughs yes
,..A.v received, unofficially. seNenty'srx
~ cent of the total vote cast, With but
80 rrecincts to hear from the vote cast
:.io. of which 1859 were received by
, tobnston. DR.. J. Mitchell walters, the
-a.osing candidate, received 43l votes. The
oiro districts still out will add about zoo
votes to the result -.. ,. =
VIZ the councilmanic contest, James r.
,,a,hews and Thomas Rowan both are des-
ea.sa 20 be members of the city's Council.
~ having received more than htty-one
s cent of tile total votes. The figures
pp.,ong the nine highest Councilmen were as
io'tom lanes r. Mathews. 203s Thomas Rowan,
,sy=. Stanley Weaver, 1925; Alex b.
cc.ahau 1872; A. w. Schaich, 14l1; Harry
Dietrich. 1912; John c. Morgan, 1855
wmjam ]. Heller 1857. and Edward Me-
Elagery, 962. =, MI
FOR city Controller Victor r. Tice re-
.oivsd 1853 votes and Edward u. Mills. 144
Judge Stewart, the present Judge OF tht
Courts of Northampton, led by TO l over
psthlehem's home candidate, Attorney
George r. Booth.
one of the hardest fights occurred in the
Fourth Ward in the aldermanic contest The
vote was as follows:
Michael Mcnamara, 167 Michael Ryan
t2b and william MCConlogue, 80.
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UPPER DARBY PRIMARY
DEVELOPS CLOSE FIGHTS
H. S. Love Is Renominated for
Township Treasurer by
Close Margin

The primary elections in Upper Darby
township developed several close contests on
the Republican ticket This section Is over
whelmingly Republican. and the mlin In
terest centered on these nominations.
The most bitter fight was for Township
Treasurer. Howard S. Love, the incumbent,
was renominated by plurality of less than
one hundred votes. lie was opposed by W
S Moore. who had the backing Of the Town
ship Commissioners and ran a close second .
by George f. Hill, formerly secretary to
Speaker Baldwin of the state Legislature,
who ran third. and by William V. Manley'
who ran fourth.
Another close contest developed between
John wolfenden. present member of the
school board. and George w. Jacoby, seek
ing to depuse him. The Love faction op-
posed the reelection Of Wolfenden, with
returns in from eight of the nine precincts
Jacoby was leading by four votes. II Is
predicted, however, that the missing pre-
clnct will save the day for Wolfenden. j.
Milton Lutz, for many years secretary TO
the school board, and William II Jones'
president of the board. were nominated.
In the contest for the Delaware County
iudgeship the present Judge, William Il
Broomall, ran ahead of A. n. MacDade
although the latter registered a good vote
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COUNCILMANIC CONTEST
EXCITING AT CHESTER
Fight Only Eclipsed in Interest by Race
for Judge and Sheriff
Nominations

CHESTER, Pa, Sept. 2o-In this city
the principal interest aside from the con-
tests for the nomination of Judge and
Sheriff. was centered upon Council, Coun-
Gilman Joseph Messick, an Organization
man. led the ticket with Charles G, Worri-
low another Organization man, second T.
woodward Trainer independent CANDIDATE
third. Councilman c, B, Mould and D. D
Miller. Organization men, are next Former
Mayor Ward, James NJ. Hamilton and VIII
liam Provost, Jr, independent candidates.
follow in order mentioned. All these men
will have their names appear on the ballot
at the general election; four are TO be
s'TSIr TnofIicial returns for Council are as fol-
lows: ,, o,, -
worrilow, 32s5; T. woodward Trainer
a937: Charles B. Mould, 1871; John s.
Miller 2s92; William Ward, Jr,, 1000
lanes NJ. Hamilton. 24l5; William Provost
Jr. 1879 William J. Farley, l442 william
r Fowden. 134O Harry S. Mccoy 1885
Iohn II MIrlSiI, $50; Howard T. Chandler
668: Noble Dunn, 564 Thomas j. Ross, Ses
Albert r. Granger leads f. f. White IN
this city for the Republican nomination oi
Sheriff by 500 votes.
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BECHTEL AND BERGER
WIN IN SCHUYLKILL

louisville, Pa, Sept 2O.--while
judges A. O BeChtel and Charles +. Berger
who were allied together in the fight for
the nomination of Judges Of the Court Of
Common Pleas are far in the lead over
John Robert Jones and James ]. Bell.
neither had a vote that is 81 per cent
OF the entire vote. hence the four candi-
oates VIII be the nominees at the general
election.
For Sheriff Joseph Wyatt. OF Mahanoy
city. Is the Republican nominee, and 2. ]
Murphy OF Shenandoah, former Sheriff is
the Democratic nominee.
For Jury Commissioners, there being so
many candidates for the nominations on
the Republican and Democratic tickets
tho result cannot be determined at this
time. Either nominee will be elected
The contest in this city resulted in the
overwhelming nomination of F Pierce
Mortimer the present Mayor. over George
h, IeaSdale. Mortimer has a percentage Of
seventy-four of the entire vote and this
means his reelection.
For controller H. X. Portz, the incumbent,
defeated Charles II. Ramsey by a vote of
over So per cent and this result makes
his election sure
There were fifteen candidates for the
nonpartisan nomination for City Council
| Inc vote shows that the eight whose names
| will go on the ballot from which four are
| to be chosen at the general election, will
| be in this order: Joseph H. Nichter, who
| received 1873 votes George w. Jungkurth.
an incumbent 1860 votes; George J. Smith.
| 1856; Hiram S. Davies incumbent. l24O;
| DR.. j. Oren Beartsler, incumbent 1910; @.
| w. Bower. il24; James NJ. Shellhammer,
9O6, and Thomas j. Brennan $40
| Nichter and Shellhammer were former
| Councilmen. Jacob b. Sheen, a present
| Councilman. came I'm eleventh in the race
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LANCASTER COUNTY
POLLS SMALL VOTE
Republican Ticket Named Without Con.
test-Democrats Pick Jeffries for
Jury Commissioner

LANCASTER, Pa, Sept 2O.-The vote
polled yesterday in Lancaster County was
very light Only a small percentage of
the Republicans came out and there were
no contests, the Organization slate having
no opposition The biggest office to be filled
is that Of County Recorder, and A. {,
welchans, Lancaster was nominated.
A lively tilt took place among the Demo
Gratis. as four candidates were after n $500
Job, that of Jury Commissioner, the only
political place a Lancaster County Demo
crat can get, and that because the law
provides a member Of the minority party on
the Board of pry Commissioners. James
b. Jeffries. Of Quarryville. was nominated
by about 200 majority. Thomas a. Good
hart Lancaster, had the next highest num-
ber of votes.
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JUDGES RENOMINATED
IN FAYETTE COUNTY
UNIONTOwN, Pa. Sept. 90.

Almost complete returns on the two judi
cial contests in Fayette county indicate
that Judge John Q. Van Swcaringen has
been renomnated for the Common Pleas
bench and that Judge James Clark Work
has been renomnated for the Orphans
Court bench. THE denomination of the
judges Is epochal in Fayette county polit
ical history, no other judges ever having
been elected to succeed themselves With
only fifteen precincts missing in the county,
Judge Van Swearingen has a majority Of
6l53 votes over James r. Cray.
The vote in ninety of the 105 districts
was Van Swearlngeh. II l,42S Cray, 500.
Twenty districts are missing in the Orphans
Court contest, but Judge Work has ma
jority of 1857 over Horatio S. Dunbauld.
The vote in eighty-five districts was: Work,
9044 Dunbauld, 644S7.
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"STICKER VOTE" FAILS
TO BEAT JUDGE BUTLER

WEST CHESTER, Pa. Sept 20-The
vote in Chester county up to noon yesterday
was one Of the largest polled for some
years, but after that hour II fell off. and
at the close of the polls It showed but
about two-thirds Of the usual vote. In some
of the country precincts little interest was
taken and the vote was exceedingly small.
, The battle-royal was for the Controller
ship between George S, Devices of the
Chester County bar, and George D. Baldwin
a West Chester business man, Devices was
the choice of Congressman Thomas s. But
Ter and T. l.. Eyre, the stalwart Republi.
can leader, and from returns so far re-
ceived the machine man should win by a
large majority.
In the judgship fight many mysterious
stickers were found on ballots for Walter
S. Talbot, of the Chester County Bar
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years OF continuous service on the Mont
gomery county bench
There were only three other county
offices to be hlled. that Of Prothonotary,
Poor Director and Jury Commissioners.
Harvey S. Fredericks. OF Souderton, in
cumbert had walkovor with Joseph
Woodward, OF Norristown, for Prothono-
tary. Woodward ran ahead OF Fredericks
in Norristown but was lost In the swirl Of
votes for Fredericks in the county. For
Director Of the Poor j Horace Hiegler. Of
Stafford, nosed out Samuel l.. Borton and O.
S. Meyer. Of Norristown. and Elmer r.
Oberholtzer. of Stafford, with Oberholtzer
his nearest competitor for the Republican
nomination. Walter II. Jenkins Of Gwynedd.
won the Republican nomination for Jury
Commissioner over Philip Eckhart, Of Con.
shohocken.
There was no opposition on the Demo-
cratic ticket except for Jury Commissioner.
William Schall, of Norristown, appears by
early returns TO have won over Francis
Fryer, Ephraim Hartenstein and Erwin II.
Hiltebeitel, all from the upper end Of the
county. II he wins he will be the only
Norristown man TO get place on the county
ticket this fall, although there were a
number Of candidates
The principal interest Of Norristown GEN.
tered In the selection Of the Republican
nominees for Burgess and school board
, For Burgess, Samuel n. Crawford an as
sistant fire chief, defeated Irwin GotwaIls
secretary of the Hancock Fire Company. by
vote Of 992 to GA.
To fill three vacancies in the board and
seven school directors selected from ali
| over the borough, Harry Atkins Anson
Evans and DR. Herbert BostoclS were chosen
Atkins only defeating Atmore Dowln by tive
| votes
Burgess Saul, for school director, received
| as votes.
a. The Democratic county ticket will be An.
thony Horan, of Jenkintown for Prothono.
! tary; Hiram wickert, Of Pennsburg. 70,
Ioor Director. and the nomination for
! jury Commissioner is in doubt George
Ashenfelter was nominated for burgess oi
| Norristown
FOR the Republican nomination for tar
| collector OF Norristown, William Clark wor
| over Ezra Brown George II. Alker. incun,
pent' Is the Democratic nominee.
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SOCIALISTS WIN IN READING
Four Nominated for City Council a
Primary

READING, Pa, Sept 20.--Four Social
lists were nominated for city Council at
the primary election held here yesterday.
The eight men named for the $4,000 Jobs,
of which four will be elected at the general
election In November are; J. Henry stump
Socialist, 1891 l.. Birch Wilson, Socialist
3O59; Charles Sands, Socialist, 1850
George w Wagner, Socialist, 2964 Jacob
H. Mcconnell, Democrat, 4195; Peter S
Holl, Democrat 39S1 B. Frank Ruth
Republican, APPS, and John X. Stauffer, Re
publican, 2605.
From the latest returns 1t is apparent
that DR.. +. +. White won the nomination
for Coroner over DR.. s. r. Schmehl.
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LEHIGH

ALLENTOWN. Sept 2O.--Returns from
twenty-four out Of thrty-one districts indi-
cate the nomination for City Council OF
s. j. Minninger, John Allen c. D. Strauss.
John 7, Scheirer, Thomas J. Roth, Harry
c. Scheden, r. ]. Wheeler and ], Herbert
Kohler. Schreirer. Roth and Kohlcr are re-
nominations.
Democratic nominees for school directors
are oliver T. Weaver, Hugh +. Crilly and
william J. Dietrich, and the Republican
nominees. Wilson Arbogast, Harry Eddinger
and f. A. Krause. Former Councilman
Adam =. Noll captured the Republican
nomination for jury. commissioner from
a field of four The successful Democra tic
nominees for county Offices are W. II.
Bregenzer clerk of Quarter Sessions; James
T. Brady clerk of Orphans Court; Edwin
Roth, poor director; Edwin Rabenod, jury
commissioner
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against Judge william Butler. but they
were not in sufficient numbers 10 prevent
the nomination Of the Judge. who has occu-
pied the bench for twenty-four years In
succession.
In this place ]. Paul MacElree is re,
elected burgess and the old school board
seems to have a safe majority. All nomi.
mated on the Republican ticket are as goou
as elected.
Returns late this afternoon indicate Una.
Devices is elected controller by about 2boo
votes. In Bingham township the stcker
vote prevailed against Judge Butler rms
was the only precinct carried by the myS
terous scheme launched a few days ago
In this place two new members Of Councll
are elected, j. Lewis Meredith, Jr, ana
Joseph Oat being the successful ones.
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Jacob II Mcconnell Frank A. Tyson and
p. r. Gerber, Democrats; J. X Stauffer
and V. Frank Ruth, Republicans; l.. Birch
Wilson. Jr.. and J. Henry Stump. Socialists
There was little interest shown in the
county contest William O.. Hintz, Dem
ocratic candidate for Prothonotary, was the
winner. The fight between DR.. S. T.
Schmehl and Or. f. +. White for coroner Is
a neck-and-neck race. The winner will not
have big majority. Jacob A. Neck, who
made a vigorous fight four years ago, had
opposition for the Democratic nomination
Of Recorder of Deeds
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LIGHT VOTE IS POLLED
IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY

NORRISTOwN, Pa, Sept. 2O.-Maxwell
Strawbrldge, a young Norristown attorney,
received thirteen votes for Judge OF the
Courts in the West District Of Whtemarsh
township at yesterdays primaries, The
voting was light all over the county, slight
ly over half Of the 5000 enrolled Repub.
lican vote being poled. All the other
votes cast on the non-partisan ballot were
for Judge Swartz, who was without oppo-
sition, and is practically chosen to add
another link of ten years to his thirty