Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-29
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BY the Ex-Committecman

reorganized and disorganized. is JUS
now affordng the people of the coun,
try a spectacle as interesting as any
to be found in the Union. The Off.
cial party machine is carefully
avoiding any reference whatsoever
even derogatory. to the candidate
nominated by the voters of the party
for governor and is scarcely show.
ing any indication that there are any
other candidates on the state ticket
put whlrllng away at a great rate
! IN an effort to make good on the
PRESIDENTS partisan plea for Demo
cratic congressman. The antagonism
between Judge Eugene C. Bonniwell
the party candidate for governor
and the proprietors of the party
windmill is so great that some OF
the candidates for Congress are ask
ing that they should not be identi-
ned with either faction so that they
Will not be made tomahawk posts.
And in the midst of it all the party
stands an excellent chance of losing
its sole representative on the state
supreme court bench.
The general attitude of the Re-
publican state candidates, headed by
Senator William c. Sproul, in re-
training from campaigning, is much
commended. On the other hand, the
course of Judge Bonniwell is meet
ing much criticism because of his
tours OF influenza-afflicted districts.
One of the oddities of the cam
paign is protest from some miners
in the anthracite region that they
are being kept at work in the mines
TO prevent them from campaigning
for Bonniwell, when the national
authorities have been calling for
every miner to stay at his post and
make up the shortage of coal due to
men having gone to war and the ter
rible effects of the influenza epi-
demic in the coal regions.
The general impression created
by the substitution of CONGRESSMAN
John R. K. Scott for his law partner,
W. T. Connor. as Republican legis-
lative candidate for the House in the
Eighth Philadelphia district, is that
Scott has a speakership bee buzzing
around. In addition to desiring to
be on the floor of the House as the
ware watchdog, the adroit Philadel-
phian is said to seek a greater meas
ure of prominence following his ca
reer in Congress and encounter with
Senator Beidleman at the primary.
There are some people who be-
lieve that the course of the Governor
in dismissing Lew r. Palmer as
acting chief of the Department of
Labor and Industry and chief of fac
tory inspection is to maintain peace
in his official family the closing
months of his term as it is a matter
of common knowledge that Private
Secretary William H. Ball and Mr..
Palmer did not agree. This view is
generally held by Philadelphia news
papers in commenting upon the
matter. There are also some people
who think that the dismissal of
Palmer, noted as safety expert all
over the country. will react on the
Governors Supreme Court appoint
ees.
The Philadelphia Municipal
Court appointment is going to be in
teresting to observe. The selection
will show where the Wares stand
with the Governor after having re-
fused to follow him in the O'Neil
campaign. The latest man to ap-
pear in the ring beside Representa-
tive tom" McNichol is ex-Repre-
sentative and Assistant City Solicitor
H. T. Baurle, a partisan Of Uncle
Dave" Martin.
Senator Ware and his followers
are out making a real campaign for
Sproul in Philadelphia and defying
the liquor men, who are lambasted
" Al III
North American.
The Pittsburgh Gazette Times
says that the election of Samuel A.
Kendall for Congress in the Twen-
ty-Third district over CONGRESSMAN
Bruce F. Sterling. Democratic boss.
and of General Willis ]. Hulings over
Congressman f. II. Beshlin, an acci-
dent in the Twenty Eighth district,
seems to be certain. Similarly the
Presidents appeal seems to have
sealed the fate of Congressman John
V. Lesher, Sixteenth, and A. r.
Brodbeck, Twentieth, both Demo-
cratic machine men.
Reports from Washington are
that Mccormick and other Demo-
cratic bosses are lending" money
to the Democratic national COM
mittee for its Congressional strug-
gleS ttnlS year.
Judge James B. Drew of Pitts
burgh has been commissioned a cap
tain in the Army Service Corps and
assigned to field duty with the. Amer
lean expeditionary forces in France
under General Pershing. The ap-
pointment was made by Adjutant
General Harris on recommendation
by Provost Marshal General Crow
der. The Pittsburgh Dispatch saws.
when Judge Drew leaves the bench
he will be the first jurist in Pennsyl-
vania, perhaps in the United States,
to enter the active service of the
country with the army in the field. -
There will be another judicial place
for the Governor to fill, the others
being Westmoreland county, held up
for the present, and the Philadei-
phia Municipal Court place of the
late Judge Gilpin.
-Ex-Auditor General A. E. Sisson,
of Erie, was among the visitors to
the city after spending the weekend
in Philadelphia. General Sisson says
that Erie county will be good and
solid for the Republican ticket this
mill be xaz.-kt. .-.s.t.