Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-23
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BY the Ex-Committeeman

Hundreds of blank petitions for
placing the names on ballots for the
May primary have been mailed from
the department of the secretary of
the commonwealth in the last ten
days, the number being in excess of
what it was thought would be asked
at this stage of the preliminary cam
paign. The petitions can not be cir
culated for one week, the period in
which names may be secured be-
ginning on March 2. Generally the
rush for petitions starts within three
weeks of the filing time which will
be on April IL.
Several hundred petitions for leg
| islature candidates have been issu-
ed and papers have also been issued
FLOR congressional and other nomi-
nations to the Republican Alliance
of Philadelphia and Town Meeting
committees in various parts of the
State. Socialists have sent for pap
ers for State candidates and inquir-
les have been made by friends of
men mentioned for governor in both
the Republican and Democratic par
ties.
Parties which must make nomina-
ton at the primary are Republican,
Democratic, Socialist, Prohibition,
Washington and Roosevelt Progress
sive.
State officers are impressing upon
people getting papers the import
ance of filing before the last day so
that mistakes can be corrected and
papers not be inValidated
Judging from what is printed in
the Philadelphia and Pittsburgh
newspapers and what is not printed
by the Democratic newspapers here
the bosses of the Pennsylvania
Democracy are in control at the con-
ference in Philadelphia on a state
ticket and a hand-picked list of
candidates will be offered again to
the Keystone State. Two things
stand out very prominently in the
gathering of bosses at Philadelphia
to-day. One is that it is realized
that this is not going to be a Demo-
cratic year in Pennsylvania because
if it was either Mccormick or Pal
mer would be found at the head of
the ticket, and the other is that Act
ing State Chairman Joseph +. Guf-
few, embodiment of machine poll
tics, is the man favored for the
Democratic nomination for governor.
The meek manner in which United
States District Attorney n. Lowry
Humes appears to have abandoned
his gubernatorial nomination aspira-
tions, after his flamboyant state
ment, is also interesting.
No one seems to have a good
word for the extra session idea. The
Of hn ia,4
David H. Lane, says that he would
discuss it for publication if he
thought there was any possibility
of it; Robert S. Bright, termed "a
militant Democrat" slams it hard
and prominent dry leaders say
it would be a mistake. Yet, the
Philadelphia Record says Democratic
leaders are concerned over it as q
possibility.
One of the interesting things
about the Lackawanna county con-
gressional situation is that in spite
of all that has been printed and said
Congressman John r. Farr Is the
candidate announced.
Highway Commissioner O'Neil's
friends are claiming the Cambria
county vote for him. The commits
sioner spoke there yesterday and is
having a weekend conference in
Pittsburgh.
Senator Sproul is home from
Pittsburgh well pleased with his re-
ception at the banquet. The absence
of Messrs. Mackey and Scott does
not appear to be bothering him.
-Twenty-four Ware men were put
on the city hall payroll in Phila-
delphia yesterday, most of them re-
placing Penrose men.
The subcommittee in charge of
the drafting of the platform for the
State Grange and State Federation
of Labor alliance worked until late
yesterday on it's eighteen or twenty
planks and will send them to mem
bers for approval. Ten candidates
will he quizzed. The declaration on
prohibition and conscription of la
Dor for farming will be awaited with
interest.
1t is significant that every local
election held this week in Allegheny
county boroughs or townships un-
DER the special local option acts for
that county resulted in an increase
of dry majorities."
Insurance Commissioner Charles
A. Amber will be a candidate for
the Republican nomination for the
senate III montgomery county
against Repr Sentative James S.
Boyd, say his friends.
w. II. Martin, Williamsburg; S. J..
McKim, Swissvale, and w. N. Will
son, Elizabeth, have been endorsed
by the Tenth Allegheny Legislative
district organization of the Anti-Sa-
loon League of America for the Re-
publican nomination for State Rep
resentatives. The same meeting un-
animously put itself behind the can
didacy of j. Ren Wylie of Wilkins
burg for the Republican nomination
for State Senator in the Forty fourth
Senatorial district. The men are
pledged, if elected to vote in the
Pennsylvania General Assembly for
the ratification of the prohibition
amendment to the Federal Constitu-
tion.
-Johnstown councilmen have or
dered a codification of all it's ordi-
nances, being tired of grouping
through volumes.
Director Charles b. Prichard, oil
the Department of Public Safety of
Pittsburgh, has placed the ban on
policemen and firemen drinking
while in uniform, and in the future
any member of either department
caught violating this order will be
| immediately dismissed. In the po-
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