Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-07
PseiticA in
Pe~'soqeco~io
BY the Ex-Committeeman

I
cussion of possible candidates for
nominations at the May primary will
| be held. There will be three and pes
sibly four war councils so that within
a month the aspirants for places on
the state tickets will be starting work
on their nomination petitions which
Will have to go into circulation in
March. The Democrats mean to hold
off as long as possible in order to
\ take advantage of any Republican
| diSSensions, although there are signs
that there may be some internal dis
turbances for the bosses of the Key
stone Democracy to doctor up.
Senator Penrose, who was in con-
Sultation with friends at Philadelphia
over the weekend will go to Pitts
/ bursh Wednesday and remain in that
/ city until Saturday. He will attend
the dinner to retiring Mayor Joseph
! G.. Armstrong. which is to be attend
| ed by Senator Sproul and many
prominent Republicans and be fol-
/ lowed by a sort of Penrose war coun-
ell. Many eastern men have been
invited to attend and the chances are
that something may be done by Sem
ator Sproul about his boom. The
talk is that the Senator will declare
| himself and that booms Will be
launched for Senator T.. e. Bidleman
for lieutenant governor, and James +.
| Woodward. chairman of the House
appropriations committee, for Secre-
tary of Internal Affairs. Auditor
| General Snyder, State Chairman
Crow and other prominent leaders
will attend the dinner and meetings.
The state administration people
will have some scouts at the gather
ing and the end of the week will have
a meeting on their own account.
Meanwhile Commissioner O'Neil Will
be pretty busy and may have some
thing to say about gubernatorial
booms. The administration people
will get together in Philadelphia and
as there are some good appointments
to be made they have several good
cards to play. one of the administra-
ton plans is reelection of Congress
man-at-large John r. X. Scott, who |
will be opposed by the Penrose peo-
pie to the limit. Many administration |
men believe that Attorney General
Brown will become their candidate
and look for a strenuous primary.
While the Penrose people are
gathering in the west, there Will be
some conferences of men active in or
ganized labor, railroad brotherhoods
and State Grange circles in Harris-
burg, of which advantages Will be
taken by men who have hopes. Clifford |
Pinchot, who is playing close to the
farmers and has considera1Ae fol-
lowing among the tillers of ~ soil
and the labor people, notwithstand-
ing his inherited wealth, will be here
to talk over the things with ms
friends. He is said to be aiming to
make a drive among the railroad |
men. whom the Democrats have
marked off as their special care and |
whom the state administration has
been claiming because of full crew |
legislation and enforcement.
Democratic councils are being !!
held every now and then, but
the meeting to make up the
ticket will be staged one or
these days on the banks of the |
Potomac and the word passed along |
that it is all attended to for the peo- |
pie who dwell between Lake Erie
and the Delaware and that all the |
folks on the banks of the Susquehan- !
need to do is to hurrah. The only
things that seem likely to upset TINS
program are dissatisfaction with the |
way some of the Wilsonian ap- |
vointees are conducting their branch |
es of the war; the liquor issue on
which Democrats always split and
the demand for a convention TO dis |
cuss candidates before the primary |
instead of taking orders from Wash
ington. The Philadelphia Press says
that government control OF mines
may make this state Democratic and |
that the scheme is to nominate Sec
retarv Wilson. Other newspapers
say that National Chairman Vance |
c. Mccormick is slated already and |
that statewide movements to finance |
his campaign are soon to be uncoV-
cred.
The Philadelphia Press says of the |
Republican situation: The guberna-
torial situation insofar as the Repuo-
lican party is concerned has taken on
at least one definite angle. There had
been some question as TO whether
Senator William c. Sproul, of Della
ware county. would consent to be-
come a candidate for the party NOM
ination. Senator Sproul has dispelled
this doubt, and now it is a case OF
some political leaders of the Sets
which are at loggerheads, eating
crow. 1t requires a. stretch OF the inn
agination to conceive of Senator Pen
rose and Senator Ware emerging arm
i'm arm from a peace parley, but there
is now more necessity than ever for
the leaders to arrange a common
perch as a resting place for the dove
of peace
The organization of Philadel-
nhia city council in which the PEN
rose men will have big hand, is de-
clared by the Philadelphia Inquirer
to be part of a harmony program.
The Public Ledger says that Trainer
for chairman of the finance commit
tee looks like a cessation of>hostiliies
for a time. =,
in an elaborate article on AL
toona's plan for city manager gov
ernment the Philadelphia Ledger
says students of municipal affairs
need not go beyond the railroad city
in the mountains. 1t says that cities
outside of the state await the result
with hope.
According to the Philadelphia
| Tnouirer things are due for a shake
nm in Pottsville government to-day.
Judge II. A. Denney, the Govern
or's appointee to the Susquehanna
county bench. celebrated his last day
as Judge by refusing the sole remain
| ing license in Montrose.
-Mauch Chunk dispatches say
that Democrats will run Senator Ell
| mer E. Warner again and that Re-
publicans will run Representative
! Harry Zanders, the last man on the
House roll, for another term.
FRANCIS Fisher Kane. United
states District Attorney for Philadel-
mia was reappointed Saturday. He
| is Democratic reorganizer and
seems to have beaten a cabal to have
him turned down. Tt may be said he
| is a Princeton man and personal
/ friend of the President in other days.
| stephen ]. Hughes, veteran city