Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-08
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BY the Ex-Committeeman

hearing by the Daupnln county court
| of the motion OF Auditor General
Charles A. Snyder to quash the pc
| tiuons for mandamus brought by
| four State officials loomed up to-day
when 1t became known that the
court had designated Tuesday, Sep
tember IL, as the day upon which
motions to postpone the date of the
argument would be heard.
Thursday, September 13, was the
date fixed for hearing the case, but
| 1t is understood that it will inter-
tere with some plans of persons in
terested in the case and the court
VIII listen to motions to postpone
the date until later in the month.
The question of how to take the
soldier vote at the November cleo
ton Will be given consideration by
State legal and military authorities
during the coming week. The indi-
cations are that Pennsylvania or
ganizations will not only be widely
scattered but that there will be men
in every arm of the service. Just
how to take the vote of all the Penn
sylvanians, many of whom will be in
France, is the question which is in
teresting the Capitol. Last year when
the Pennsylvania troops were all to-
gether at Ell Paso it was an easy
matter to send commissioners.
Democratic State headquarters
sleuths who have been sounding out
sentiment in regard to preferences
for tie next Democratic candidate
for Governor throughout the State
have let it be known that the ma
tional administration, which took
such an interest in making up a slate
for the Democratic primaries of 1914
will save the voters the trouble again
this year. The State headquarters
shoe men seem to be more or less
desirous of knowing how voters
stand between William b. Wilson,
the Secretary of Labor, and Vance
c. Mccormick, the National Chair
man, and also late candidate for
Governor. In a number of counties
Wilson does not arouse much en-
thusiaSm and in his home district
where he was thoroughly trimmed
by Congressman Edgar r. Kiess
there is no cheering. Some of the
sleuths have found sentiment for
General Richard Coulter, Jr., of
Greensburg, former commander of
the Tenth PENNSYLVANIA and assign
ed to a camp in California, as far
away as the national administration
could send him. Little interest is
being shown in United States Dis
trict Attorney E. Lowry Humes, of
Meadville. or Ambassador Roland S.
Morris. The latter is regarded as
taking himself out of the way of
any call to immediate himself on the
party pyre. A. Mitchell Palmer
seems to have a fair following, but
it fluctuates according to the way
he interviews himself.
Capitol Hill is looking for Gov
ernor Martin G.. Brumbaugh to re-
turn to Harrisburg during the COM
ing week, although the Governors
office has not made any announce
ment of the date. The Governor
planned some time ago to be back
in Harrisburg on or about Septem-
Der Is and the Executive mansion
is in readiness for his return. The
return of the Governor will bring to
the city Attorney General Francis
Skunk Brown, Secretary of the Com
monwealth, Cyrus E. Woods and
other officials who have been taking
vacations the last few weeks and
there will also be meetings of several
boards and commissions of which
the Governor is a member. One of
them will be the Board of Public
Grounds and Buildings, which will
have charge of the Capitol Park eX-
tension district work. Most of all in
importance will be the meeting of
the Governor and his political ad-
Visers who will go over the situation
in regard to appointments and any
further changes which are very
much in the winds about the Capitol.
Highway Commissioner Denny
O'Neil will be back in Harrisburg
Monday and Charles A. Amber will
come here to take charge of the
Insurance Department. No changes
of moment are looked for in either
department.
The Philadelphia transit situa-
ton has resolved itself into a place
where the Mayor and DR.. Lewis have
agreed to redraft the lease If a hid
den grab is shown.
-Luzerne county grand jurors
have criticised the condition of State
highways in that county and Judge
Woodward said that money spent in
that county had been wasted.
The appointment of the success
sor to Senator w. NJ. Lynch on the
Farview board has attracted atten-
ton to the fact that he is holding a
place in a State institution.
Registration in Pittsburgh al
most reached a record this week.
The interest IN the mayOralty sum-
ulated things, In Philadelphia it
was rather light but heavy in Scran-
ton.
Close of the week shows strenu-
Gus ward contests waging in Phila-
delphia and mayoralty and other
fights that are worth while watching
in Pittsburgh and Scranton. In
many cities and counties conditions
are heating up.
"A Pittsburgh dispatch says: "a
threatened lawsuit against David p.
Johns, president of the Board of AS
SCISSORS, by Babcock adherents was
a development in the three-cornered
mayoralty fight between William A.
Magee, former mayor; T.. V. Bah
cock and DR.. ]. p. Kerr, president of
City Council. The threatened suit
was the result of alleged failure of
Johns, who is q Magee man, to as
sess persons in certain city districts
said to favor Babcock. Babcock'
leaders claimed a victory saying
Johns backed down on his refusal
to assess these persons, with the re-
suit that several thousand more
names will go on the voting list"
The Dessert
An official said at dinner, apropos