Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-18
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BY the Ex-Comn1ittecman

! Governor-elect, will leave this week
| for the wilds of Pike county to take
a rest and get away from the people
who want to cinch appointments or
| to give advice on what he should 90.
! Meanwhile, things will be allowed to
shape themselves up in regard to the
| organization of the legislature and
the belief is general that the dry"
sentiment of the state will tend to
make Representative George w. Will
| liams, of Tioga, the presiding officer
of the House.
The North American expresses the
/ belief that the "drys" can organize
the House without much trouble and
says that the suggestion of the Pitts
burghers that the Speakership so to
! Allegheny has not been received with
much enthusiasm. The Pittsburgh
GaZette-Times says it is highly
! probable" that a dry" member can
! be made Speaker and notes the trend
! to Williams.
Governor-elect Sproul is in favor
! of a short session. 1t is probable
that the Republican caucuses of the
! House and Senate to be held the
| night of January 6 will adopt resolu-
| tions fixing the date of final adjourn
ment either April II or "a.
Senator William c.. Sproul con-
tinues to be the object of most news
paper comment of a political char
aCter these days. The Senator is
planning to go away for brief rest,
but the Philadelphia newspapers in
sist that he is going TO plan his cab
met. All seem to agree upon Will
liam /. Schaffer for Attorney General
and the list oe Brunhaugh ap-
pC:ntees to he replaced Is being
heightened daily.
The Philadelphia Press, which
has declined 20 set eXcrted over sea
shore confer ancSs " SAYS IN its re-
elect Sproul having refused last
week to attend secret sessions of
leaders at the, shore at which the
running of the state for the next
year was to be decided upon. that
was pure fancy. A group of poll
ticians arrived here, sure enough,
hut most of them came for an outing
at a New Jersey resort where the
PCurose men traditionally seek le-
taxation after a hard campaign.
There was no session and never any
question of inviting Senator Sproul.
Therefore he did not refuse to meet
them in any 'holier-than-thou atti-
tude.'
"A Chester dispatch to the Pub
lie Ledger discussing the vacancy
| that will occur in the senatorship,
says: THE positive assurance of
| Governor-elect Sproul that his son
would not be a candidate leaves the
matter of Delaware county's next
representative in the Senate an open
issue. The public believes Mr.
| Sproul, in recognition of his twenty
six years in public service in one
office, should name his successor.
| Speculation is rife as to whom he
will name. 1t is believed whoever
MIR. Sproul names will be elected.
| Three candidates stand most promi-
nently in the field, each a supporter
of Mr.. Sproul, and are said to en-
| JOY his close friendship. They are
j. Lord Rigby, of Media; Captain
Samuel d. Clyde, of Chester, and
| Richard j. Baldwin, the Speaker of
! the House in the last session. The
county districts are divided on Rigby
and Baldwin, while strong Clyde
sentiment is noticeable in Chester.
The report that William 7. Ramsey
was a candidate for next Speaker of
the House was branded by Mr.. RAM
| sey as a wild rumor.
! General w. G.. Price will be the
next mayor of Chester. predict news
paper dispatches from that city.
| Reading Republicans believe
that the showing made by Compen-
sation Referee Thomas G. Seidle, the
state administration leader, may
cause incoming people to feel more
kindly disposed toward him.
Ananrlinur fn Sara n q
| pers a new agreement in regard to
mine caves is to be worked out. Il
it is successful the next legislature
Emay be spared the usual controversy
on the subject.
| Pittsburgh newspapers just now
are buZzing on the problem whether
Senator Charles II. Kline will get the
! Kephart place on the superior court
bench. The chances are that the va
cancy will not occur for some weeks
to come.
Representative Robert S. Span
gler, of York, is being doomed for
Speaker by his people, who point
to three Republican members and
a Republican senator from Demo-
cratic York.
The Lackawanna congressional
contest is sure to get into the courts
from. recent charges that are 60
ing around. The LuZerne county
soldiers vote will be challenged be-
yond question.
Senator Boies Penrose is once
more the center of the news. Righ
on top of series of stories sent out
from Washington that there was q
coalition plan to deprive him of the
chairmanship of the Senate Finance
| y Nf lit 81, l.. l. 4,
senior member, the Senator declar.
ed in an interview in the Public
Ledger that it is simply a Demo.
cratic scheme to make trouble in the
organization of Congress. The Sen.
ator says he will be chairman of the
Finance Committee, the most power.
full position in Congress.
The senior Senator also came
out last night with a letter to Johr
C. Winston, chairman of the Phjla,
delphia Committee of Seventy, il
which he declared for new charter
for Philadelphia. The letter is a very
strong one and the Inquirer says
Senator Penrose pointed out tha
under the powers conferred upon the
Mayor by the Bullitt bill, a system
J of scandalous political control ha.
been intrenched." AS a remedy, h,
suggested that the police. firemeT
and municipal ofieeholders be en-
tirely removed from politics anC
pledged himself against 'politica
control based upon municipal con
tracts and municipal Jobs.
William L. McCullagh, member
of the Pittsburgh board of registra
ton commissioners and a member o.
the Legislature in 1907, is dead a
the age of tifty-nine. The registration
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