Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-25
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BY the Ex-Connitteeman

ioISsWOEH dllidHceS. Inc Governor
adopted a similar attitude after the
presidential convention of 1916 and
refused to make examples of some
| people connected with the state
government 1t is now believed that
he will avoid criticism, which was
heaped upon him because of the way
the recent campaign was conducted
on Capitol Hill, and not disturb Of
ficials or attaches suspected of dis
| loyalty" The fervor with which
| some men at the Capitol have es-
! poused the cause of Senator William
G. Sproul and become party "regu-
| lars" Is quite in line with similar
| occurrences in previous years. In
| fact there are few places in the
state where there are now more
| enthusiastic supporters of the regu-
| larry nominated Republican ticket
than on Capitol Hill where a week
ago there was talk of insurgency.
The Capitol is always regular when
a new administration looms on the
| horizon.
| The Governor is understood to
have let it be known that he does
not intend to turn things upside
| down in the matter OF places at the
Capitol, but that he will consult his
own preferences more than hereto
fore in the matter of appointment
1t is quite we'll realized at the Capt.
toll that appointments made now
must either go before the people in
November or the Senate in Janu-
airy. Almost half of the Senate will
be composed of men who sat in that
body during the historic rejection
of appointments.
MI yU...o,
which has been conducting an eX-
haustive study of the primary, says
the next Legislature may be wet"
quite the contrary of the claims of
men identified with the "dry" in
terests. The big Pittsburgh paper
says: '"The result of the primary of
Tuesday shows that the Pennsyl-
vania Legislature at it's session next
winter will not ratify the Sheppard
prohibition amendment to the Fed
eral constitution unless a large num-
ber of nominees for state Repre-
sentatives and Senators, who have
not pledged themselves on the ques-
tion, decide to vote dry" Returns
at hand indicate that 5S Republi-
can candidates for Representatives
pledged to vote for the ratification
of the amendment have been an
nounced, "A in Western Pennsyl-
vdk1ia and IA in the East. Demo-
cratic Representative nominees,
pledged dry" total, 40, % in the
West and l 3 in the East. In the
Senate there will be at least 10 Re-
publican nominees favorable to the
amendment. from the West and 8
from the East. Complete returns
may increase this a couple more"
Highway Commissioner O'Neil
carried the following counties in
which high officials of the state
government are factors: Westmore-
land, Blair, Huntingdon, Mercer,
Blair, Washington and Northumber-
land. Among counties he lost were
the following wherein reside men
prominent in the state adminiStra-
ton: Allegheny, Philadelphia, Mont
gomery, Lehigh, Lycoming, York,
Franklin, Clearfield. Lancaster,
Lackawanna, Luzerne, Schuylkill,
Erie and others.
1t will take the official count to
determine who is Republican NOM
inee for the House in Center county.
Pittsburgh papers declare that
Col ]. M. Guffey, unhorsed by the
Palmer Mccormick machine in 1911,
was the man who planned the de-
feat of Joseph F. Guffey. the hand
picked candidate of Palmer and
his pals. One newspaper says: "It
happened when the scuttlers of the
old Guffey machine started to work
one of their recruits was Joseph r.
Guffey, nephew of the colonel. This
young man decided to fight his uncle.
For over six years the colonel has
been biding his time. He saw the
opportunity when Joseph F. Guffey
announced his candidacy for Gov
ernor on a dry platform" The
colonel, it may be said. had some
thing to do with defeating McCor-
mick in 1914.
The war situation is declared to
have pulled through sereval of the
western Pennsylvania congressman.
The appointment of George
Henderson to be judge seems to have
angered some of the Philadelphia
leaders, notably Register Sheehan
and Solicitor Connolly. but the Phila-
delphia Ledger says editorially:
THE appointment of George Hender-
son to the vacancy on the bench of
the Orphans court IS wholly COM
mendable, and If Governor Brum-
baugh can do as we'll in filling the
vacant seats in the Supreme court
the people of Pennsylvania will be
given all dSlCCdblC SUI PRISE.
|, The fact that Butch" McDevitt
got 290 votes in the Democratic
column in Columbia county is being
much commented upon. Guffey got
'S51.
Some of the Allegheny men had
narrow squeaks. Senator w. H.
Semmens was only renominated by
81 votes.
Senator Edwin II. Ware, who was
keenly interested in the nomination
of Congressman John r. K. Scott,
has come out for the whole Republic
an ticket and is not making any
bones about it. Scott himself declar-
ed for Beidleman and practically
every Ware man is regular. The same
thing is being heard from other men
who opposed Sproul and a declara-
tion from the State Capitol is being
awaited with much interest.
Senator Eyre says he will frame
the one-cent awarded to him in the
Berry trial.
Asa A. Weimer says he has no
intention of running independent.
Late Schuylkill returns indicate
that George f. Brumm may not be
the Republican Congressional nomi-
nee after all. Leaders in that county
claimed that John Reber had won.
ANTT-LOAFING LAW