Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-04
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| Fainer-McCormick clique in control
OF the party machine in the Key
stone state by the. popular will ex-
pressed at the primary, are planning
to take complete charge of affairs
this year and will likely make it so
unpleasant for candidates supported
by the reorganizers' faction who
may have won places that they will
withdraw. At the same time it is
likely that the new Democracy will
put candidate for Supreme Court
in the field and make an earnest
fight.
The first move to be made by the
new bosses of the Democracy will
be trial heat in Philadelphia where
they will throw out Edgar w. Lank.
the Democratic city chairman, giving
Fthe reorganizers a dose of their own
medicine. John j. Breen. the Bon
niwell campaign manager, who out
generated the Democratic national
| chairman, state chairman and ma
tional committeeman. will be named
in his place. When the state COM
mittee meets here on June IS or
19. as the reorganizers have had to
defer to Bonniwell about the date
there will be other steps taken and
Palmer, Mccormick and others will
have to go along or get out.
The Philadelphia Record, which
is now the official Democratic organ,
as ii has been the Democratic popu-
lar organ for long time, has this to
say: LAS soon as the official vote is
| announced, ]. Washington Logue
will withdraw from the ticket. His
place will be filed by the State Com
mittee at the Harrisburg meeting on
June 10. Logue also won the nom-
ination for Congress from the Sixth
| district, and IL is said he is eager
to devote all his time to contesting
for a seat at Washington. 1t is be-
lieved a Democrat from the western
end of the state will be selected as
running mate for Judge Bonniwell.
Henry Budd, well-known attor-
ney and former chancellor or the
| Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania,
| is expected to be a candidate for one
of the vacancies on the Supreme
Court bench. Mr.. Budd was one OF
Judge Bonniwelrs earnest support
ers, and he is expected to have the
| loyal support of many of the NOM
| inee's friends next November. Under
the constitution, an elector can vote
for only one candidate for the Su-
preme Court, and Mr.. Budd's friends
are confident he will be chosen. They
declared yesterday that Superior
Court Judge John W. Kephart. of
Ebensburg, and Supreme Court JUS
tice Alexander Simpson, Jr., viii
also be candidates and they argued
that the Republicans of the state
would divide their votes between the
| two men,"
Friends of Governor limbaugh
| in the western part of the state are
urging him to name a justice to sue
ceed the late Judge Mestrezat from
that section, pointing out that JUS
tice Simpson succeeded Pittsburgh
man. The name of Judge John ID.
Evans has been urged in Pittsburgh
very strongly. 1t is believed that
| Commissioner Magee will be con-
suited about the appointment and
that it will go either to the central
or western section.
Writing in the Philadelphia In
quirer George ]. Brennan has this
to say about a man we'll known in
state politics: THE Old Guard OF
the Republicans of the Twenty-third
district which is composed of
Greene, Fayette and Somers coun-
ties, will rally to the support OF for
mer State Representative Samuel
| Austin Kendall, of Somerset, who
has been given the Congressional
nomination. 1t is recalled that when
in the House at Harrisburg, Kendall
stood Loyalty by the colors of the
! late Matthew Stanley Quay and
voted for his return to the United
States Senate against the bitter fire
of the old-time insurgents. Kendall,
who is a former schoolmaster. is ex-
tensively engaged IN the lumber
business, both in his home county
and in Fayette and is known
throughout the district by all of the
active Republicans"
I'm an order handed down by
Judge H. NJ. Edwards. at Scranton,
| the Lackawanna county commits
sioners are directed to recount the
vote cast for State Senator on the
Republican ticket in twelve districts
| in which Albert Davis. defeated on
the face of the official returns for
| the Senatorial nomination by 234
votes, charges that the baliotboxes
were stuffed" in the interest of
David w. Phillips. The County Com
missioners are to make the recount
! forthwith and are also to take an
| inventory of the contents OF the
boxes and the return envelopes in
each district attacked. They are di-
rected to report back to court not
later than June TO-"
| Edward Il. beluleHldnt Cduul-
date for lieutenant governor, left
last night for Pittsburgh to attend
the convention of Pennsylvania bor-
oughs. He made an address at the
Allegheny Boroughs' Association
dinner and was invited because of
his interest in municipal legislation
to meet with the state organization.
The Republican committee of
| Montgomery county reorganized at
Norristown yesterday with no change
| in officers. The anti-Penrose fac
ton, led by Charles A. Amber as a
candidate for State Senator, did not
muster sufficient strength in COM
mitteemen at the primaries to make
a showing at the meeting, hence
went along with the program of
County Leader Charles Johnson,
who favored Freas Styer for chair
man, who has served for more than
a dozen years, and Walter F, Childs
and Aaron S. Swartz as secretaries
were elected. Resolutions were
adopted congratulating the voters
for the interest taken at the primar-
les and upon the men selected from
the Governor down. Styer made a
speech of thanks and James s.
i Boyd, nominee for State Senator
gave a HARMONY talk.
/ AT a meeting of the Pittsburgh
| Ministerial Association, resolutions
were adopted, submitting to Mayor
Babcock that further delay in max
ing new appointees as police magis-
trates is detrimental to the best in
terests of the country" calling upon
him to imm ediately send in five new