Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-27
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BY the Exr Committeeman

The entertaining discussion of men
who might become candidates for
Republican and Democratic guber-
Material nominations and for whom
| the state administration leaders will
! finally declare for the successor to
DR.. Brumbaugh, which has been so
much in the air the last few days,
| has been overshadowed by the events
| in Philadelphia. The decision of the
! courts to open ballotboxes and the
rulings expected to be made in that
city regarding the soldier vote will
have such far reaching consequences
in the state that eyes of men who
follow politics, within and without
party organizations, are turned to-
| ward Philadelphia.
The prediction was made at the
capitol to-day that it would be
many months before the results of
the contests would be known and
that those started in Philadelphia
by the Town Meeting people and in
Harrisburg by the Democratic ma
chine would result in many more
springing up. Naturally the con-
ference of the Penrose leaders in re-
gard to next years campaign and
the discussion of whether the state
administration will not declare for
Attorney General Francis Skunk
Brown for Governor will be put
aside as topics for while.
The attitude of the Philadel-
phia courts is interesting in the light
of what has been done by the coun-
sci for the Ware organization to pre-
vent opening of ballotboxes. Judge
Finletter said as far back as he could
remember the judges of the election
court had never f1esitated to open
ballotboXeS, but had done so in
numerous instances for one reason
or another. In order for the court |
to make a just return it was OBJ |
Nious that the contents of the bal |
lotboxes were intended to be legally
accessible to the judges. This view
had been sustained repeatedly in
decisions by Judge Hare, Ludlow
and Pierce. as far back as 1851, and
later by Judges Sulzberger and Won
Moschzisker, and in 1917 by Justice :
Stewart, of the Supreme Court.
Further commenting on the law,
Judge Finletter said: 1T is good
for election officers and all other
parties concerned to know that
frauds can be easily uncovered by
the court, and that they cannot be
hidden and protected by any false
notion of the sanctity of a ballot
box"
Officials of the State Highway
Department to-day declared that
they had no information that the
road foremen of the state highways
in Chester county had quit their
work as reported from West Ches-
Ter. The only statement that anyone
would make was that nothing was
known about the matter. The Phila-
1elphia Ledger to-day says: mot a
man now working on the state high
ways in Chester county is likely to
after tomorrow. The road
foremen have ali. it is understood.
rendered their designations to the
Rev. Thomas r. Mcdowell, of Elk
view, county superintendent of
roads, recently deposed by State
Highway Commissioner O'Neil. A
meeting of the foremen who have
worked under Mr.. Mcdowell was
held at the Swan Hotel, Downing
town, and they decided to quit to-
morrow night. The road foremen
will give Mr.. Mcdowell a banquet
In Downingtown. This leaves about
800 miles of state roads in the coun-
way from Strafford TO Mount Ver-
non, without n single road patrol
man. 1t is said that these road fore
men have automobiles and have been
the laborers from one
point to another without any charge.
William Clark. of Pocopson, sue
cessor to Mr.. Mcdowell, will imme-
tliately commence to organize, and
although there is little to be done in
the winter he promises to have ev-
erything in good shape when work
is to be DONE"
Not much newspaper comment
has followed Michael j. Ryan's boom
Of Vance C. Mccormick for the
nomination for Gov
ernor. In the absence of Mccormick
everyone in his faction seems afraid
TO speak and some of the men who
backed Ryan are not keen about
either Mccormick or Ryan now.
One effect of the gubernatorial
talk has been to bring Senator c.
w. Sones to the front again.
Mayor Jermyn, of Scranton, has
Indictment for condition of
streets. The case was nolle pressed.
Auditor General Snyder is to de-
liver n lecture in Pottsville church
OF Thanksgiving evening on THE
Liberty Bell"
William f. Rumberger. former
treasurer of Butler, and
prominent in affairs in that county,
is dead.
The Scranton Republican says,
John S. Courtright, OF Susquehanna
county, is receiving congratulations
from his friends on his seventh ap-
pointment as referee in bankruptcy
for the Middle District of Pennsyl-
vania. Judge Wilmer made this ap-
Because of his official
duties Mr.. Courtright is compelled to
spend must time in Scranton and
residents of this city have found
him very courteous and pleasant. In
fact he has made visits to this city
almost every week since the time
that John f. Allen was proprietor of
the old Wyoming House. There are
few more entertaining story-tellers
in Northeastern Pennsylvania than
John s. Courtright."
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