Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-18
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their primary election next Tuesday
for the eleventh time under the uni=
form primary system established at
the special legislative session of 1906
and there will be nominated COM
plete state tickets and candidates for
Increases or enrolment have been
reported from many of the boroughs
and the registration in the larger
cities has shown a gain.
There will be nominated candi-
dates for Governor, Lieutenant Gov
ernor, Secretary of Internal Affairs
and four Congressmen-at-Lar on
party tickets and one person for
Superior Court judge on the non
partisan ticket. Withdrawal of the
only other candidate who had filed
! paper leaves Judge w. d. Porter un-
opposed for denomination. No candi-
dates for the two vacancies on the
| Supreme Court will be nominated,
as aspirants will have to file nomi-
mating papers prior to the Novem-
Der election, the vacancies occurring
after the time for filing petitions for
the primary had expired.
| Candidates will be nominated for
thirty-two district congressional seats
and twenty-eight senatorial togas.
Twenty-Five senators will be elected
this year by expiration of term and
vacancies caused by deaths of SEN
ators j. p. McNichol and C. J. Ma
gee and resignation of Charles A.
Snyder, now Auditor General, are to
be filled. Candidates will be nomi-
mated for 207 seats in the State
House of representatives.
Members of all party state COM
mittees will be elected, although in
some instances there are no petitions
filed for member of committee.
Just exactly how the public is
regarding this campaign can be
| realized from the attention given to
it by the newspapers. None of the
| candidates has been first page
stuff" for more than day and it is
| hard to find any candidates getting
display heads. The bulk of the Phil
adelphia and Pittsburgh newspapers
are for Sproul. The Pittsburgh Ga
zette-Times is for him as the best
equipped and because he agrees to
stand by the decision of the primary.
, The Philadelphia Press and Inquirer
call for Sprouts nomination and
the Evening Bulletin prays to be
delivered from administrations like
the present.
Mr.. O'Neil spoke to a great audi
! ence at McKeesport last night and
charged that his opponents We're
! trying to practice fraud and that
! they should be watched. Senator
| Sproul made several speeches IN
Eastern counties in a more tenn
| perate vein. He has not abused -.
Denny" as he calls him, but rather
| twitted him upon the vigor of his
remarks.
Senator Penrose and Attorney
General Brown have made up for
the lack of variety by a series of red
hot statements about each other
which recall the night before the
organization of the last Legislature.
The Pittsburgh Gazette-Times
comments upon the fact that while
O'Neil was denouncing Mayor Bah
cock as an autocrat who was forcing
men in Pittsburgh to line up for
Sproul, the Governor was telling
heads of departments in a meeting at
! the Capitol to line up for O'Neil.
The Rev. DIR. John Royal Har-
ris, active spirit of the Dry Fedora
ton, which has been suspected of
being a personally conducted O'Neil
organization, said in McKeesport last
night that there is little doubt that
I'VE" will nominate O'Neil.
The Rev. Billy Sunday last night
telegraphed Mr.. O'Neil that he hoped
he would win. Mr.. Sunday was ad-
vertised as one of the men coming
here to speak for O'Neil. He is busy
in Chicago, but sends his blessing
and best wishes for O'NeiPs success
in the battle against the wet" peo-
pie. UP to date there had been no
signs that ONeil considered Weimer
dangerous.
The Ware registration board is
having quite a hard time in Phila-
| delphia. The courts raped their
practices.
-Luzerne and Montgomery, no less
than Dauphin. are backgrounds for
mastery of organizations.
Tonight the machine Democrats
will dine in honor of Guffey and
listen to A. Mitchell Palmer in Pitts
burgh, and the Bonniwell men will
fold their tents in Philadelphia
Ex-Representative Robert B.
Habgood is conducting a vigorous
Governor on the general platform of
nonfactionalism. He declares: my
candidacy for Governor in the Re-
publican primaries will crystalline
the sentiment throughout the state
in our party against factionalism in
the nomination of Governor. / am
not and will not be the candidate OF
any faction or clique. The national
amendments for prohibition and
woman suffrage are endorsed by both
the factional candidates and by me-
consistent with my approval of a
nationwide basis for the past twelve
years, but only my candidacy stands
upon the platform of Republicanism
over and above factionalism." Mr.
Habgood believes in publicity and
has been using newspaper advertis-
ing in his appeal to the voters.
George j. Brennan, writing in
the Philadelphia Inquirer, gives
some interesting facts regarding the
election on the prohibition amend
ment held in Pennsylvania on June
Is, 1886. At that time the results
were different from what would hap.
pen now. He says: "Philadelphia
gave a surprise to the Prohibition.
lists. When the votes in the Quaker
City were finally tabulated it was
found that while 26,468 had voted
for the proposed amendment, there
were 11S,963 recorded against it, g
majority in the city of 92,494 for the
"wets." The total vote in the state
| including Philadelnhia was 2Q6 81