Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-09
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should have been conditions ap-
preaching panic among Republicans
in some sections of the state week
ago, There were places in Pennsyl-
vania which were covered with a
blue haze seven or eight days ago.
Some Republican leaders of long ex-
perience were depressed over the
situation and inclined to give ear to
the extravagant claims of Demo-
Gratis and to disregard the predic-
tions from the Republican state
headquarters,
A week ago State Chairman Will
liam E. Crow calmly stated that the
Republican majority for the state
ticket was going to go close to 2OO'-
1000, but observers, accustomed TO
the vagaries of Pennsylvania politics,
took O different view and talked of
$4,000. The truth of the matter Is
that between the noise made by the
Democrats in their inststence that
Democratic Congressman had to be
elected to win the war and other re-
markable prediction statements
and the din made by the liquor in
terests and the "experinced boost
rs' about Judge Bonniwell many
men were led astray.
The result has shown that State
Chairman Crow and the people at
Republican headquarters had their
ears to the ground a week ago and
got it right. Incidentally, Senator
Sproul, who made 10000 as his
mark, received a very pleasant sur
prise in a majority which distanced
even his record vote over and above
his opponent at the primary.
The conclusions to be drawn are
that the Republicans were united and
did not realize how much the Presi-
dents appeal had damaged his own
party, already rent by the row be-
tween Mccormick and Palmer on
the one hand and Bonniwell on the
other.
Men who have followed politics
will regret the death of Samuel E.
Hudson, dean of political writer's in
Pennsylvania. Sam" Hudson, as he
was known to every man who ever
got anywhere in state or Philadel-
phia affairs in the last forty years,
entered newspaper work early in the
seventies and became noted as a
washington correspondent for the
Philadelphia Bulletin and as legis-
lative correspondent. He was a varied
and prolific writer, most entertain
ing and with a fund of reminiscence
which he had lately been writing for
the North Americans Sunday issue.
Mr.. Hudson was connected with most
of the Philadelphia newspapers in
his day and was a figure at many
legislative sessions.
1t will. take the soldier vote to
decide the LuZerne county Congress
sional contest. Lackawanna's result
4Hrfll n q NJ
vote and it looks as though the Dem
ocrats had won the seat.
Mayor Smith is out for a lower
tax rate in Philadelphia.
Pittsburgh people will demand
creation of a State Health Commits
sion to review acts of the Commits
sioner of Health as a result of the
influenza controversy.
james M. Hamilton, a figure in
the battles against the Mcclure peo-
pie in Delaware county, has retired
from politics, it is said. He was some
fighter and cost the McClures wake
full nights and large expenditures.
The manner in which every
northern tier county went Republi-
can is somewhat interesting because
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the perennial Philadelphia row does
try to break out again.
The boom for Representative
Aaron B. Hess, of Lancaster city,
for speaker is said to be now in the
finishing shop. 1t will appear soon.
The general impression is that
there will be very little opposition
to the nomination of Frank A. Smith,
former Republican county chairman,
for Senator to succeed Lieutenant
Governor Edward e. Beidleman.
There will be a special election in
the winter. Mr.. Smith is favored
by many Republicans in city and
county.
All expense accounts of the 1876
commissioners dispatched to camps
and stations of the army and navy
and marine corps in this country
to take the votes in the national
service will be audited by the Dep
uty Secretary of the Commonwealth
and paid by the Auditor Generals
Department without question, ac-
cording to a statement heard to-day.
The appointment of commissioners
was matter in the discretion of the
Governor and there. is over $4,000
in the State Treasury to pay the ex-
penses The state allows ten cents a
mile travelled. The state will be call
ed upon to pay pretty penny for
expenses of some of the commission
ers who were sent as far as Salt
Lake, Fort Sill, Fort Russell and
other places in the Far West where
| few Pennsylvanians were reported,
while the cost of the six or eight
sent to Pacific coast states will run
high considering the number of
votes polled.
The Philadelphia and Pitts
burgh newspapers print considerable
interesting speculation from Wash
ington about the figure Pennsylvania
will cut in the next Congress. The
Inquirer, for instance, says: "In
the House, where the latest returns
show a net gain of two Republi-
cans in the Pennsylvania delega-
ton, Representative Thomas S. But.
Ter, of Pennsylvania, doubtless will
be made chairman of the committee
on naval affairs. representative
Benjamin X. Focht, of sthe Seven
teenth Pennsylvania district, is
ranking Republican of the wal
claims committee, which will in
crease in importance. Representative
j. Hampton Moore, of PHILADELPHIA
will loom large in the investigation
which the Republicans will launch tc
see how the war appropriations have
been expended. He has tried both
in the ways and means committee
and on the floor of the House to Sc
cure legislation looking toward the
creation of a joint committee on
expenditures, and has invariably
been BACKED by the Democratic ma
jority. With control in the hands
of the Republicans the lid will be OFF
for a thorough accounting of the