Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-10
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Pep~eqeSo~io
BY the Ex-Committeeman

Decision of the Philadelphia courts
that If necessary every ballotbox
4! VIII be opened to establish who won
the election in Philadelphia, charges
that commissioners named by the
Governor to take votes of soldiers
electioneered among the men in
knaki and announcement that Sem
atoF FenroSe, now hunting bear in
| snyder county, will have a war
council in Philadelphia next week to
START Digger hunt for his oppo-
menus are among the interesting de-
Veiopments of the last twenty-four
| hours.
| The Philadelphia Inquirer says
that the Penrose war council will
De held the middle of the week, add
lhs' In order to assure his follow
ers that he is in the fight to a finish
the Senator has asked them to be
ready TO respond to a call to resume
tne war against the Smith-Vare
combination at any moment. While
the candidates for city and county
oInces have not been declared elect
ed' owing to a dispute over the
marking and counting of the ballots.
Senator Penrose has told his friends
their fight upon the Smith-Vare
complnation and to be prepared to
increase their activities when the
candidates for Governor and other
state offices, including members of
the next Legislature and members of
Congress shall be canvassing their
respective constituencies for the May
primaries"
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is claimed it will be state wide. The
Public Ledger expresses this view of
the days happenings: Counsel for
the Town Meeting party won a legal
victory, which may have a decisive
effect on the vote for the city and
county ticket, before Judges Martin
and Finletter in the election court
yesterday, when Judge Finletter
pointed out that the court proposed
to open ballotboxes if that were
necessary to get an honest count of
the election returns. The Ware
Smith attorneys, headed by John r.
X. Scott, failed in a determined at
tempt to block. in the election court
at least, full investigation of ballots
which had been rejected by election
officers, because they contained a
mark for District Attorney Rotan in
addition to the straight party mark |
for the Town Meeting ticket"
1t is the contention of Town |
Meeting leaders that if all such re- !
jected ballots are officially counted,
the result will be the election of the |
independent ticket and the defeat of |
the Smith-Vare ticket. Judge Fin
letters observation from the bench !
as to the Town Meeting Rotan ball
lots, in the opinion of the counsel for
the independents, marked the turn
ing of the tide in favor of the new
party in opinion of observers.
There will be some thing of in
terest to Harrisburg in Philadelphia
next week. The Philadelphia Record
says: when Congressman Ware
takes the witness stand on Monday
he will be asked to explain the trans
actions referred to by Maloney. In
the event he fails to tell what he
knows of the activities of Maloney's
men at Harrisburg and in the down.
town wards, it is, declared, the de-
fendant will exercise his right to take
the stand in his own behalf and tell
the whole story Since the arrest of
Mayor Smith and the gunmen in con-
nection with the murder of Detective
Eppley on the day of the primaries,
the Wares have claimed that they had
no dealings with Maloney, and in sew
eral statements issued by Brother
Ed the public was led to believe
that the two leaders never had bust
ness dealings with the local head of
the Val O'Farrell Detective Agency.
1t is now known, however, that dur
ing the bitter fight in Harrisburg last
winter between the Penrose- McNich-
oil forces and the Wares to elect a
Speaker, strong-arm men were taken
TO the Capitol by Maloney in the in
terest of a well-known attorney and
Ware ward leader. 1t is even init
mated that the men sent to Harris
burg by Maloney were instructed to
rough-house the caucus on the night
before the election of the Speaker
but that the plan miscarried when
the presence of the strOng-arm men
became known"
appointment by Governor Brum-
baugh of Samuel Il. Shull, Democrat,
Stroudsburg lawyer, to be judge of
the Monroe-Pike district, seems to
have made a big fuss. A Strouds-
burg dispatch says: "The Democratic
faction led by former Congressman
A. Mitchell Palmer openly denounces
Shulls appointment and alleges that
Brumbaugh was led to appoint Shull
to get even with Palmer, who assert
ed several months ago that the Gov
ernor was. playing dirty politics in his
manipulation of the draft exemption
boards personnel. The anti Palmer
faction is iubilant over Shull's ap-
pointment and says that the Gov
ernor is a big man, and the natural
thing for him to do was to appoint
a Democrat in such a strong Demo-
cratic county as Monroe.
1t is well known that the Monroe
county Republican organization and
the Brumbaugh followers in the
county urged the Governor to ap-
point former Judge Wilton A. Erd-
man. William w. Lhommedieu, the
Brumbaugh leader, openly supported
Erdman in letters sent here and now
says he cannot account for the Gov
ernor's action.
Judge Henry A. Fuller was re-
elected Judge by a majority of T.
663 votes over Thomas d. Shea. ac-
cording to the official count, which
was completed at Wilkes Barre yes
terday. Fuller received a total of
2S,SS2 and Shea 21,219. Evan j.
Williams, with Republican. Socialist
and Prohibition nominations, re-
ceiVad 27.104 votes against 21 4A7