Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-01
PETITIONS ARE
NOT FILLED UP
Some Capitol Attaches De-
clare Inability to Get
O'Neil Signers

torial candidacy of Highway Com
missioner ]. Denny ONeil given to
them to circulate fortnight ago
and scores of papers were handed to
heads of departments or others who
had been designated to take charge
of the work. However, many of the
petitions were not filled up, the men
saying that they had been unable to
obtain enough signers. The cases of
these men, together with those who
refused to circulate petitions at all,
Will be settled at q high council of
war this week. There are rumors
that the state administration intends
to make some more examples and that
"disloyalty, charges will be pre-
ferred.
An interesting feature of the situ-
alton is that certain heads of de-
partments, among them one of the
standard bearers, refused to allow his
men to circulate petitions on orders,
insisting that he would not ask any
one to do it. AS result, no papers
were circulated by his men. In an
other department the petitions were
locked up on orders from the chief
himself. who is understood to have
said that he would not allow any
one to act unless the Governor per-
sonally requested him to do So
AS rule. the petitions have been
generally circulated by the depart
ments under the Governor, although
most of the men in charge have de-
clared they We're up against Sprouf
petitions everywhere. There must be
something like sixty Sproul petitions
circulating in Harrisburg alone.
The Beidleman petitions have been
signed everywhere and the few Scott
papers which have come here are
rather mournfully lacking in signers.
There are many Woodward and
Houck petitions flying about, too,
Woodward men being very active.
congressman atLarge Crago, Gar
land and Mclaughlin are to be sup
ported by the Penrose men for re-
nomination, while fourth place lies
with the Progressives. 1t will be
either Thomas Robins, of Philadel-
phia, or Anderson II. Walters, of
Johnstown. In addition, Isador So
bel, of Erie, and General C. NJ. Glenn
yent, of Sunbury, are candidates. On
the Brumbaugh side the avowed can
6idates are Lex n. Mitchell. of
T'unXsutawney, and NJ. B. Rich, of
Clinton, although O'Neil headquarters
people insist that O'Neil is a candi-
date for Governor and that there is
no slate. Activity of men connected
with the Administration for John r.
X. Scott for Lieutenant-Govern and
Paul w. Houck for Secretary of In
ternal Affairs and for Mitchell is
pronounced.
Mr.. O'Neil is in Washington county
to-day and is due here tomorrow to
take up highway matters and to at
tend an Administration war council
Senator Sproul will make some
visits to counties near Philadelphia.
On Saturday he had many upstate
visitors at his headquarters in the
Bellevue Court Building. A delega-
tion of manufacturers from Erie
came to look him over" They were
evidently we'll satisfied with him, for
they promised Sproul their support
and went away wearing Sproul but
tons. Among the members of the
delegation were Paul d. Wright,
Lyle w. Orr. Alex Jarecki, Hays
Clement, William Hamilton, Hunter
Willis, Marvin Griswold, F. B. Nc
Brier and T. r. Palmer.
In the delegation of labor men who
visited Senator Beidleman at Phila-
delphia were: Frank Feeney, presi-
ueHL .lHItTHdllOIdA Shioh VI EiSNaNOA
Constructors; +. j. Schneider. secre-
tary-treasurer International Union of
Elevator Constructors; James Meade,
representative Electrical Workers;
George Simmonds, representative
Printing Pressmen's Union; Benjamin
Harrison, representative Theatrical
Stage Employees Union; John Walsh,
representative Granite Cutters I'm
ion; Edward Mcmahon, president
Building Trades Council of Phila-
delphia; Leonard Kraft, Building
Trades Council of Philadelphia;
Alex. Mcguire, representative Taxi
cab Drivers Union; John McDevitt,
vice-president Central Labor Union
of Philadelphia; Royd Morrison, edi-
tor Progressive Labor World, of Phil
adelphia: Frank McKosky, secretary
Central Labor Union of Philadelphia;
Louis Fisher representative Tile
Settlers Union; Harry Weinstock,
representative Walters Union; John
Watt, Patternmakers' Union; Robert
Smith, Elevator Constructors Union;
Jim Berry, Hatters' Union; Con.
Dougherty, circulation manager Pro-
g1 essive Labor World; William Cum
ningham, Typographical Union; Pete
Conners, representative Transfers
District Council; Joseph Axiom, Rig
gers and Machinery Movers Union;
William Morgan. Wood, Wire and
Metal Lathers' Union; Charles Dough-
erty, Sprinkler Filters Union; Will
liam Masterson, Molders' Union of
Philadelphia; David Moore. Press AS
sitants' Union; James Macdonald,
brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen;
Charles Cooney, Calcium Operators;
Lewis Krouse, Moving Picture Opera
tors; Joseph McHugh, Brotherhood
Locomotive Firemen and Engineers;
James Carvin, Theatrical Stage Em-
ployes; John Scanlan, representative
Plasterers' Helpers Union; John
Clark, representative Composition
Roofers; John Prendergast, secretary
treasurer Railroad Mems Political
Alliance; Martin Davis, vice-president
Railroad Mems Political Alliance;
John Purtell, representative Boiler
makers and Iron Shipbuilders' I'm
ion; Frank McCurdy, representative
international Alliance Stage Clear
ers; Robert Speakman, representative
International Alliance Stage Clear
ers: William Weller, representative
international Alliance Stage Clearers.
BRITTSHERS TO RALLY
With the situation more intense