Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-26
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Official announcement of the
political calendar" of Pennsylvania
for 1918 was issued to-day by George
ID. Thorn, chief clerk of the depart
ment of the Secretary of the Com
monwealth, in pamphlet form giving
the following list OF parties which
are entitled to nominate candidates
at the May primary: Republican
Democratic, Socialist, Prohibition
Washington and Roosevelt Progress
established for Pennsylvania at the
presidential election of 1916.
| The spring primary is announced
for May 81 and the general election
| for November 8. Registration days
for the general election are given as
| follows: September 8, September II
and October 8. All previous regis
trations have expired.
The primary registration days are
| first and second class cities, April
| II; third class, May 1 boroughs and
townships, under enrolment act,
March 10 and 20.
The voters will nominate candi-
dates for governor, lieutenant gov
ernor, secretary of internal affairs
and congressman at large; thirty-two
district congressman; twenty five
senators for four-year terms and
three to fill vacancies and 207 repre-
sentatives on party tickets and one
| judge of the superior court on the
non-partisan ticket. Petitions can
not be circulated before March and
must be filed in the Office of the sec
retary of the Commonwealth April
IL. The last day to file nomination
papers by independent bodies is Sep
| tember 8.
Candidates may withdraw peti-
tons until April IL. The last day
for fling expense accounts for the
primary is June and for the gen.
eral election December 8.
while highway Commissioners
J: Denny O'Neil conferred with
friends in Western Pennsylvania
about pushing his gubernatorial
boom after the big dinner in Pitts
burgh, which all agree was notable
event and made a great impression,
Attorney General Brown, Insurance
Commissioners Amber and other ad-
ministration men who attended hast
ened to Philadelphia to urge upon
Senator-Vare that the lineup for the
McKeesport man. Governor Brum-
baugh Is in Philadelphia to-day and
| 1t is said will seek to have the Wares
make an alignment. However, there
are many Ware men in Philadelphia
and some in the counties nearby
who oppose O'Neil for various rea-
sons.
| The Penrose men are having a
weekend meeting in Philadelphia to
discuss the situation, which they say
they have discounted and that there
will be no change in plans because
of the dinner. State Chairman Will
liam Il. Crow, of Uniontown, who
is much mentioned as a possible
harmony candidate and who is
strong among certain elements in
the western counties, is In Philadel-
phia and there has been a revival OF
Crow talk. Many say he would suit
everyone. Whether ONeii would
quit for Crow is debatable. He will
fight If the whole administration
force leaves him, say his friends.
Friends of Chairman w. D. B
! Ainey, in the nortk eastern counties
have declined to accept the appear
ance of Attorney General Brown
at the O'Neil dinner as any evidence
that the state administration is ire
vocably hitched to O'Neil. They be-
lieve that O'Neil's style of campaign
will make things so unpleasant that
n man lined up with the administra-
ton, but not offensive 10 the other
side, will be demanded. And the
chairman is to be kept in the pub.
lie eye as the available candidate
Meanwhile he is industriously saw.
ing wood, but maintaining silence
as profound as the northern tiel
woods at this season.
The mourning Democratic organs
which have been very busy boostint
O'Neil as a means of helping on an,
scrap in the Republican party ar,
LhaVing "a hard time to explain VIII,
Pinchot and Lewis have failed t,
declare for O'Neil as they claimed
they would do. O'Neil has not claim
ed either of them but would like t.
have them. The Democratic wine
TANNERS here predicted Pincho
; would go to the O'Neil dinner. II
/ did not. They predicted he would de
clare for O'Neil here. He did not
They declared he would get into tn
; fight for O'Neil at once. He did MOI
Now they say that Lewis stateRen
against factionalism is a sign tina
he is for O'Neil. Anything to attrac
attention to fight in another fel
lows house when they are brealSin
up the furniture in your own, ap
pears to be the Democratic machin
attitude.
What is really giving the ONE
men concern is not the former pro
gressive element, but the refusal @
William A. Magee to come under tn
tent. Magee went away from Pitts
burgh when the O'Neil dinner wa
being held and has been boostin
Ainey. It is believed that he has NOR
of the inside of the Ware plans tina
some other men.
-O'Neil's friends are busy send
ing letters to the Wares and othe
big men in that wing to get them {
come out for O'Neil. The same pla
was successful with the Governor an
Attorney General.
Belief Is that Congressman Joh
II. X. Scott's boom for Lieutenar
Governor is in reality for renomins
tion for Congress -at-large, and ths
1t is ali part of Ware plan whic