Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-17
PeeIica i~
Psa~4yesa~ia
By the Ex-Committecman

There have been few stranger
situations created in Philadelphia
politics of recent years than that
brought about by the death of J..
II. Gay, just elected county commits
sioner to succeed the late r. J.
Moore week or ten days ago. Mr..
Gay was known to quite few Har-
risburgers.
Speaking about the low regis
tration in Pittsburgh the Gazette
Times says editorislly: When
Americans fail to exercise the most
sacred right they possess are they
not inviting the erection of auto
cracy in our own country? There
should have been relatively greater
registration this fall than ever be-
fore. There would have been had
the people of Pittsburgh learned the
primary lesson which this war
breaches so emphatically. The peo-
pie must do their duty at the polls II
they are to preserve their govern
ments and their own rights. a nor
NAL political year ought TO be one
in which everybody votes because he
is interested in doing his part as a
citizen"
Over in Lehigh county the Dem
ocratic row is taken to mean seri-
Gus split in that bastion OF Demo-
cracy. A dispatch from Allentown
says: 1T is possible Judge Bonni-
we'll will not be able to muster half
the registered Democratic vote in
Lehigh, and political prognosticators
look for a fine plurality for Senator
Sproul in the gubernatorial contest.
with the probability that Congress
man Arthur G. Dewalt will also lose
the anti-Bonniwell Democratic vote
because of his alleged alliance with
the booze ticket nominees"
State Chairman B. Z. p. Prugh
says that reports of DR.. E. J. Fithian,
Prohibition candidate for governor,
being on campaign tour last week
or this week are erroneous. DR.. Fifth
ian's cold water auto band wagon
has been engaged on Liberty Loan
work, he says. Just what DR.. Filth
ian is doing in this campaign is
puzzling people here. Every vote
taken away from Sproul, an avowed
advocate of the prohibition amend
ment. will help Judge Bonniwell,
who is enphatically wet. Dr.
Prugh insists that saloonmen are
for Sproul and displaying his PIC
ture. when everyone knows that the
liquor element Is for Bonniwell and
increasingly vocal against Sproul be-
cause of his stand. II is not hard
to understand some things about the
Prohibition vote in Pennsylvania in
recent years.
Judge Eugene c. BonniweU,
Democratic nominee for Governor
dnli d.
dresses in Lebanon county. During
the afternoon he was in Myerstown'
and from there he went TO Lebanon,
where he was the guest at recep-
ton held last night in the Weimer
House. Among those in charge OF the
affair were DIR. John Walters. VIII
liam E. Schaak and DR.. A. c.
Hersh. W. L. Pace, chairman OF the
Democratic committee in Wilkes
Barre, has extended an invitation to
Judge Bonniwell to meet Luzerne
county voters. Judge Bonniwell yes
terday announced that he would be
in Lackawanna county on october
%, and in LuZerne on the following
day.
Senator Edwin H. Ware yester-
day called up the members of the
Republican city committee in Phil
TO work as hard in the in
terest of the Fourth Liberty Loan as
they will TO get out the vote on No
5. IF you do this" Senator
Ware said. there will be nothing to
il and the loan will so across with
ease" Emphasizing the ease with
which subscriptions can be procur-
ed for the loan. Senator Ware said
that on Tuesday night two of his
canvassed only one block
in the Thirty ninth ward and pro-
cured $4,000 in subscriptions.