Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-13
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BY the E.x-Oounmitteeman

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house on Saturday night is any fair
sample of the gatherings the var
ious candidates for gubernatorial
honors have been addressing about
the state, the assertions that the
people of Pennsylvania are not as
much interested as the politicians in
the primary this year are we'll found
ed. No less a parsonage than the
| Democratic national chairman
pleaded with the men at the meet
ing here on Saturday to overcome
the apathy of the voters and get out
a big vote for the nomination or the
man who is the chairman OF the
Democratic state committee.
The meetings held last week
where they were not formal, affairs
such as banquets or gatherings with
a purpose other than politics, are ad-
mitted by friends of candidates in
both Republican and Democratic
parties to have been small. In some
| instances they were styled confer
ences of workers. The fact remains
| that unless there was some occasion
outside of the visit of candidates, the
assemblages were small. One of the
largest of the week seems to have
been the reception given by Senator
! a. L. bdlX at HIS west L IHlldoSlpAlb
home in honor of Senator II. II.
Beidleman on Saturday night. Phila-
delphia papers say that several
| thousand persons attended and the
Dauphin Senator made a ringing
| speech from the porch, in which he
said that Sproul would make the
| best of governors.
The often repeated story that
j. Denny O'Neil once held stock in
| brewery was put out in Philadelphia
Saturday and denied. Mr.. O'Neil ad-
mitted he was once interested in an
ice company which got mixed up
with a brewery, but that he quickly
retired. He also denied some other
stories about owning a building IN
which a saloon was located and that
| he had given out cups inscribed
! Take one on Denny His brother
owned the building and the only
cups were paper ones for a picnic.
The usual flock of statements is pc
| ing made in the campaign by friends
of all candidates, those of Mr.. O'Neil
being sizzling as usual.
Judge McCarrell's decision in
| ruling out Chauffeur Woodward
senatorial papers and his comment
upon the fidelity with which the Of
flee of the Secretary of the Common
wealth is administered has been we'll
received all over the state. The
Dauphin judicial decisions in cleo
ton cases this year have attracted
much attention, although one in
Cured Senator Wares displeasure al
most to the point of defiance.
-Lycoming county commissioners
and auditors are in grand old row
over the way the county finances are
run.
Clinton county is claimed for
Sproul and Beidleman these days.
Judge II. o. Bechtel, of Sehuyl-
kill county, is being urged as the
Democratic candidate for supreme
court justice. The Governor has
given no signs of his intention in the
supreme court vacancies.
ALL York legislative vandtdates
are out on a dry" basis except two
Democrats, one being Senator Was
bers.
-Wilkes-Barre news stories are
to the effect that the friends OF
Joseph Lord have taken umbrage at
the way the O'Neil campaign has
been run in Luzerne county by the
GoVefffor's close friends and that
the whole campaign of the state ad-
ministration has to be changed.
Declaring that as long as ne
was made a target by the Governor
and O'Neil without being an issue
in the present campaign Senator
Boies Penrose yesterday added to the
literary features of the campaign by
terrific assault upon Governor
Brumbaugh. Fhe statement taxes
up a couple of columns in the Phila-
Senator SAYS: Governor Brumbaugh
has failed in every pledge and en-
tirely forfeited the respect and the
confidence of the state. He attempts
to name as his successor a person
whose conduct Of the Highway De-
nartment during the short time he
has been at the head of 1t, gives
ample assurance that things will be
no better than they were before ana
may be worse, should he be elected
governor"
The Philadelphia Inquirer COM
mentk upon the fact that Senator
Sproul is endorsed by two former
attorneys general. Hampton l.. Car
son and NJ. Hampton Todd, ex-judge
Dinner Beeber, John Gribbel, George
| Wharton Pepper and other proml-
nent Philadelphians.
Discussing the situation OF the
Wares. who had a meeting OF the
! Philadelphia City Republican COM
mittee on Saturday, the Philadelphia
Record saws: Several weeks ago
Ware declared that he would be guild
ed entirely by the action to be taken
nv the leaders of the wards, and II
! that statement still holds good, he
learned Yesterday that it is up to him
to support Sproul for the nomination.
| ON the other hand, O'Neil hackers
| declared that the Wares would make
No public announcement OF their
choice for the nomination, and would
hermit the ward leaders to support
| either candidate
The Pittsburgh Post gives much
attention to Joseph F. Guffey and
claims that he will win out in the
urinary contest with ease.
According to the Philadelphia
North American John r. X. Scott
has "thrown down" O'Neil and will
not speak with him at Reading this
week.
4 Court is the theme of an editorial in
/ the Philadelphia Ledger and dis
I cussion of the situation by James S.
l Cham hers, in which he points out
that the court is in deed of imme-
i diate appointments.
Three Berks ounty legislative
candidates are out on dry" plat
forms.
Prominent men of Allentown,
among them Colonel Harry b. Trek
Ter and Claude T. Reno. are out in