Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-19
Pee;tica IT.
Ps~~aqesa~in
BY the Ex-Committeeman

state windmill are going through
the motions commonly associated
with the conduct of a real live party
organization II is generally believed
! that there is not going to be much
OF campaign made in Pennsylva-
mia by the machine. Virtually moth
ing will be done about a campaign
until after the executive commit
tee has its freeze out" meeting on
! Supreme Court nominations at Phil
adelphia next week.
Judge Eugene c. Bonniwell. TIE
nominee of the Democrats of the
state for governor in spite of the
| bosses. is making good on his asse--
ton that he would not pay any at
| tention TO the machine and is run
ming an active campaign of his own.
| The Judge is at Center Hall to-day
where he is making a speech which
is indicative of his policy. He says
that the people of Arizona and New
Mexico have no right to force their
policy in regard to prohibition and
the like on Pennsylvania.
Senator Sproul is due to pass
| through here to-day on his way to
Pittsburgh and tonight Senator Pen
rose will be here. He will start in the
morning with Auditor General Sny-
der and Senator Beidleman for Pitts
burgh.
-"Babcock's buttermilk party"
which Senators Penrose, Sproul,
Beidleman and Crow will attend, is
a yearly event in Western Pennsyl-
vania politics and this year is to be
in the form of a reception to the
nominee for Governor. AN infor-
NAL farm party" is the official des-
ignation and the host, "the poor lum-
herman" as he styled himself at the
recent state committee meeting. f.
| V. Babcock, Mayor of Pittsburgh,
accompanies his invitations with a
map showing the roads leading to his
place, Rosemary" which is an
hours ride by automobile from
Pittsburgh. Mayor Babcock's out
ings have been styled "buttermilk"
parties because he departs from the
custom of political gatherings and
confines all liquid refreshments to
milk from his herd of Holsteins. IA
nous among the prize cattle of the
country. Babcock ignores factional
lines in making up his list of guests,
which always number five hundred
| or more, and the gatherings afford
an opportunity for men in political
life to exchange notes and to greet
candidates, present and prospective,
for Offices high and low.
II am afraid my old friend,
Judge Bonniwell, is degenerating
into a common scold," said the new
ly-elected Democratic State Chair
man, when asked if he had anything
to say about the berating the Demo-
cratic candidate for Governor gave
him in his latest effusion. Mr.. Rupp
said Judge Bonniwell based his
TRADE at him from a single sentence
in a letter and thereby twisted the
context. Judge Bonniwell insists that
A. Mitchell Palmer has showered IA
vors on Mr.. Rupp, who asserts he
never in his life asked Mr.. Palmer
for anything for himself. Mr. Rupp'
chairman of the committee on reso-
lutions of the state committee,
which was entrusted with the draft
ling of the platform, as we'll as State
4 Chairman, indicated he would ignore
! the Bonniwell blast" at him and not
i dignity it with reply.
According to an announcement
made the Americus Republican
Club. Will H. Hays, chairman OF the
i Republican national committee
United States Senators P. {. knox
and Roies Penrose and Senator VIII
liam c. Sproul, Republican nominee
for Governor, will be in Pittsburgh
: October 9. All of them are to make
an address at a banquet to be given
the night of that date by the Ameri-
Gus Club. Invitations have been sent
TO Republican leaders Throughout
Western Pennsylvania. and the clut
expects every county to be represent
ed. 4 conference on the political sit
!. uation in Pennsylvania is TO precede
the banquet.
Senator Frank Z. Baldwin, o,
Potter county, and Representative
John Siggins. Jr., of Warren, whC
were here to-day on business at the
/ Capitol, say that everything looks
| favorable to a big Republican vote II
the northern counties.
Senator Sproul is to speak il
= Somerset county next week. Senator
= Beidleman will accompany him.
Representative L. F. Benchoff
| OF Franklin county, is helping out II
his home school district as teacher
| He was a former county school su
l ! perintendent.
Ex-Representative P. F. Enright
Bethlehem has been chosen one o
: the school directors of that city.
D According to Washington people
there are chances that the Senat'
may not COHliIHl OOllH n DuSL4SI "a
{ postmaster at Columbia.
Northampton Heights council Il
. about ready to pass the ordinance t
O annex that borough to Bethlehem.
4 Walter Willard, the Philadelphia
= who attracted much attention by TIL
I way he handled the business of dis
trict appeal board No. 2 of whicl
he was named chairman through ad
ministration influences, is again |
target in the Philadelphia Recort
to-day. Mr.. Willard was indicted b,
the Federal Grand Jury after hi
board had been abolished and ha
been interviewing himself lately. Thi
morning the Record say he is tryini
to make sympathy" play ant
: scores him to the extent of almos
half a column. John P. Dwyer, of tn
Record, who made the fight agains
5 Willard and his board, is now pro
ceeding after United States Attorne,
, Francis Fisher Kane.